skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of bad stuff. But Capitalism, our one-and-only True God, is making sure that it's all for the Greater Profit - so we shouldn't worry about it. Or even think about it - to do so would both inefficient, and non-revenue-generating.

Meanwhile, back at the coalface - could the "Protect children from screens!" crusaders spare a thought or few for the non-0.01% parents, whose kids need healthy alternative to screen time? The great & unwashed 99.99% can't just order their 24/7 nannies to keep the kids busy without screens, or their security staff to drive the tykes to the park and supervise their play there.
Janice wasn't rude at all in their comment, suggesting that you have a distorted idea of what rude is, apparently confuing rudeness with meticulousness.
A lot of TVs only have wifi, no ethernet. Plus even if you plug it only once it's enough to phone home and download and cache some ads to show you later.
> never connected it up to anything other than a HDMI cable, so it can't phone home

Well, you're lucky that your equipment doesn't use the Ethernet channel in HDMI 1.4 then :) you can put a piece of Kapton tape over the HEC pin to make sure that doesn't happen.
Use any mac you want I'm sure we’re being fingerprinted other ways so it doesn’t matter. Security through obscurity isn’t security, after all.
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No reason to buy the cow when the milk is free. Pay or not, the end result is the same --- so why pay?

This is simple economic reality.

It's reality that Open Source struggles to deny. Reality can persist longer than you can deny. The proof --- despite endless articles like this one, reality hasn't changed.
You can't guarantee positive human rights as vague as walking, especially when public opinion is against you. It's unproductive and meaningless to people who aren't already on your side enough to know what something as bizarre as "walking should be a human right" means.
Why doesn't everyone have a room with perfect lighting, use special paint or buy a screen to project onto, buy external audio equipment, manage cables and mount the projector all for what is worse image quality than modern oleds. Gee guy, I really don't know. What a hot take you've got here.
>AI safety is moralism of the boring kind

It's not all boring - it makes for some great movies. Terminator 2, The Matrix etc.

It's also moving to practical engineering questions like how can we have AI controlled drones kill invading Russians but ensure they won't turn on us later, more than philosophical waffle.
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TV companies don't make $1k for the spyware, nowhere near that.

Vizio for exmaple in 2021 made 85% of its revenue from selling the TV, just 15% from the "platform". If the $400 TV was instead $470 they would make the same. These scam companies just see it as "free profit" on top of a captive audience.

PC manufacturers used to do this, with Microsoft's consent. Buy a laptop 20 years ago and you would get tons of shovelware from Dell which made them a few extra pennies. Nowadays I believe Microsoft themselves got into the game.

Companies aren't happy with making a product for $50 and selling it for $60 (or $200 or whatever), they have to make a little more by double-dipping. This is of course partly the consumer to blame -- they just look at the headline price. Buy the plane ticket for the lowest price on the middleman interface, but then it's $15 'check-in fee', $50 'landing-fee' etc, but that doesn't matter because look at the shiny advert for $9.99*
There was a brief period where it was fairly attainable to have a family supported by a single parent which meant one parent had the time, energy and head space to do those kinds of things for the children and also attend to other family affairs.
Excellent advice I also give! If your main passion is something other than making money (I know plenty of people whose primary passion that seems to be), I guess you can't really go wrong with trying to do something you're good at and passionate about for a living.

Back when I was 17, I enrolled into a CS focused high school (we have these trade specific ones in Germany). It was right after the dotcom bust. My class was rather empty. I got lots of comments about how "you can't get rich with computers anymore". For me, and the other folks in my class, "who cares?" was the answer. We'd been obsessed with computers since we could think, seemed odd that anybody would get into it just for the money.
If it takes the same direction as the controversial "unused vars are errors" feature, IDE integrations will take care of that. For instance in VSCode the unused-var-error has become a complete non-issue taken care of by autoformatting through the Zig language server by inserting or removing '_ = unused_var;' as needed.

But TBH, I'm using similar strict error settings in TS/ESLint for a long time now (as part of our company linter rules) without autoformatting and it's fine.
I suspect technology is a contributing factor, but much of this is coming from distracted and stressed parents. We need more data.
It's obviously bad that the TV is doing this, but the way Windows reacts to it is worse. Presumably any device on the LAN could trigger this exact same DoS failure mode (and much faster, if done deliberately). An annoyance on a home network, but could cause absolute mayhem in a corporate setting.
Here's the Austrian:
https://teletext.orf.at/

And it might be tempting to brush this off as just an anachronism to amuse ourselves with, but IMO this undervalues it quite a bit.

For example, the Austrian teletext still has almost a million daily users (in a country of 9 million) - let that sink in.

And there's a good reason: Conceptually, Teletext (at least when it's well maintained) is the antithesis to modern information media. There's neither room nor want for clickbait headlines, padded videos, tracking libraries, SEO and so on. You get a curated condensation of current affairs in a tiny package - a few hundred pages, each 40x25 7-Bit characters. The SNR is orders of magnitude above anything else out there.
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Indeed. I never played it on Windows 95, but I spent a lot of time playing it on Windows 3.1 (and probably 3.0). This looks essentially like the Windows 3.x version.
MAC randomization prevents the local network from trivially tracking you based on access point logs. Of course, if your device runs software that broadcasts some unique identifier, the network may deploy some collector service to query/capture these but that's already extra effort. On iOS I don't believe apps can run a persistent network server in the background, so background tracking would actually be quite tricky even if you had a cooperating app.

Fingerprinting is absolutely an issue for device-based trackers (whether apps or websites), but from the perspective of a passive network observer they're usually quite airtight and don't leak the collected data over insecure channels.
Zig is, I think the only language, that at first didn't catch my attention, but slowly grew on me. It started off by finding out zig cc.
Why would you use this for anything else than a joke given that Certbot exists, and is even in most repositories? (asking seriously)
More to the point, in Terry's case, we don't know.

It is possible, that without schizophrenia, he would never have been racist. (At least if we define "racism" in terms of explicit statements/actions, as opposed to unconscious biases.)

It is possible that he always was racist, and would have been even without schizophrenia, but schizophrenia took away his ability to hide it from others, or made him not care about doing that.

Nobody can really know.
Surely Dylan won the Nobel Prize for his work as a songwriter and in particular as a lyricist. That is, someone who works with words and language. It would be out of the question to give the award to someone known for being a great drummer or composer of orchestral music.

Similarly, Beckett and Shaw were awarded for their work as playwrights. Nobody thinks the Academy overlooked the actors who brought their work to life, or the stage manager at the Abbey Theatre, or their literary agents. They simply didn't contribute to that part of the work that is considered literary.

In the same way, I submit that someone could be considered to have made a Nobel-worthy contribution to literature through screenwriting or writing video games, but not for their camera work or their innovative 3D engine.
"Do things that don't scale" (https://paulgraham.com/ds.html) is probably also fine in the idea finding stage. At least then you are quicker to pivot than if you spend a lot of time optimizing the process and it still allows you to do a more personal approach instead of a copy paste outreach.
Somebody should invent a drug to strengthen willpower.

That would certainly also have interesting social side effects.
On the other hand, about a decade ago I sent them a feature patch to support multipage tiff images and they sent me a Christmas card for a couple of years, so my impression of them is pretty god.
Caching is a pretty reasonable thing for software to do. Windows could have done a better job with cache invalidation (if it’s even doing any at all) but retaining a cache of available devices via UPnP is a perfectly reasonable expectation. For one thing, it massively speeds up device discovery. However having a device randomise their UUID isn’t a reasonable expectation.

This why I said in a different comment that both Windows and Hisense are at fault. Windows could have handled this kind of edge case much better but that doesn’t absolve Hisense TVs responsibility for behaving badly too.
I've written a lot of Zig, including a somewhat popular http framework, a driver for PostgreSQL and one for DuckDB.

Personally, I feel that if you want to grow as a programmer, no matter what you're doing, there's little that offers more bang for your buck than learning C. You can pick up C relatively quickly, and that knowledge will serve you (maybe mostly indirectly) throughout your entire career.

Learning Zig is a much better option. Too many quality of life improvements over C, and you still learn the same fundamentals. If you're interested, I wrote something that might help (1).

As for _using_ Zig. I think it's a good idea to take a conservative view and assume the ecosystem is hostile. The quality of test coverage of the standard library varies. Breaking changes are frequent and aren't always trivial. 3rd party libraries are often abandoned and many are written by people learning Zig (including my own!). It's really great for learning/side/fun project because you can get distracted for weeks writing something you never intended to.

It's not actively hostile, but I think approaching it that way will help manage expectations.

I would strongly consider tracking the master branch. If you write anything substantial in Zig, you will 100% run into a must-have bug-fix or feature in the stdlib or 3rd party library that depends on on 0.13.x development commit.

(1) - https://www.openmymind.net/learning_zig/
I'd be interested if you could point to some examples.
> In one specific linguistic context.

No, in all of them, including the 12 hour time default places. That’s what the “AM” or “PM” is for; if it isn’t there then it indicates it is 24 hour time regardless of the number displayed.
I suggest we fix the system we have by making paid lobbying illegal, campaign finance reform, same day primaries, robust anti-trust, etc.
Blaming random things on "capitalism" is neither helpful nor interesting. No, this isn't the fault of capitalism. Any social system would suffer from young people too invested in an online world.

The class division doesn't even make senses, previously "anti-capitalist" we're protesting about poorer children having less access to information technology, now that capitalism has largely fixed this and nearly everyone has access to a phone, the "anti-capitalist" complain that only the rich can afford not to give their kids phones. This is literal nonsense. Capitalism isn't preventing kids from spending time outside, it even sells them what they need to do so.
> what yesterday was acceptable is today unacceptable.

This is how society works to make progress, yes.
For those living in London, one of the Mayoral Candidates is promising to bring back ceefax. Not sure how he'll do it, technically I believe DTT can carry teletext data, although I'm not sure if modern TVs will process it.

Back in the day I believe ceefax used to be generated out of a couple of beige tower PCs in a BBC office somewhere.
Monitor/soundbar and Apple TV works for me
Certbot is a massive pile of dependencies that you need to care and feed and update. You should not need 100s of megs of nonsense for something that can be done with a shell script.
> I don't mean to offend, and I'm happy for you that you've been so successful, but the advice does not make sense for people whose interest is not in popular demand.

That argument comes up often enough, but it's built on an assumption that "interest" is singular. Most everyone is interested in a wide range of things, and they'd be happy doing any of them at a high level. Some of those are likely to pay enough to cover the bills.
Does Feynman say that? If an electron absorbs a photon, why would it create another one of the same frequency, and with polarization perfectly rotated by 90°?
After 50 years and two generations growing up with computers, we need more data? When exactly would you have enough data to make a conclusion?
To clarify the claims: The main problem with time windowing is in the effectiveness calculations. That claim isn't specific to England or the ONS, it shows up in many studies and countries.

The main problem with UK-specific death statistics is that they (the ONS) don't know the true size of the denominator.

Regardless of the above, due to widespread intellectual corruption in academia and public health, virtually no data on the topic of COVID or COVID vaccines can be taken at face value.

> Fenton is in HART, and HART are off their collective rockers

Your link says those messages came from a public chat room that literally anyone could sign up for. So Fenton has published things on a website that hosts a chat room where other people said things you disagree with. If that's your best counter to Fenton, and not some issue with his methodologies, then it's safe to assume you concede his points are correct.
Everyone here is saying cul de sac suburbs do not give kids freedom, but they do for kids younger than 12. We moved to this "mc same" neighborhood when my daughter was 5 and she's been able to leave in the morning on her bike and be back by dinner, playing with friends around the neighborhood. Now that she's 8 she can take her 3 y.o. brother to the park down the street. If we lived in a denser, walkable neighborhood I wouldn't allow any of that to happen until she was in middle school. (the is east coast US for context)
Even in the suburb suburbs, a lot of households had kids, and they would get together and bike around, play basketball in the cul-de-sac, or just go to each other's houses and hang out. I lived way out in the bush comparatively speaking where the nearest neighbor was like a quarter mile away, and I used to envy those suburban kids.

Then I guess some time ago that all stopped, and the late millennial/zoomer /r/fuckcars bughive lovers are all like "it's the suburbs, man, the suburbs killed childhood".
Again, this is not rude at all. You should get a dictionary and search for the meaning of the words you intend to say before you type them (this last sentence was deliberately rude so you can see the difference between the comments)
1950s?
> I don’t do on-call rotation.

What's the nature of your work that this is acceptable?
There are definitely dumb TVs out there. I picked up a Sceptre from Amazon. It's not fantastic, but the price was right, has inputs plenty and varied, and zero "smart" features.
This is dumb. Of course anything can happen. You could die from tripping on the stairs. Certainly someone has died very young by falling down the stairs. But it's obviously stupid to suggest to people that they avoid stairs, and it's obviously alarmist to phrase this as, "taking the stairs could take 30-40 years off your life."
I'm old enough to have gone through this about the internet and literate enough to have read about every other time this happened back to the invention of writing which was meant to turn us all into imbeciles according to Socrates.

Leave the kids alone. They will figure it out.
No, we cannot agree to disagree. 3 of your 4 statements are verifiably false. Notably, 33000 dead over 6 months is roughly a 9/11 every 2.5 weeks (if you're going to say, "I said 2 weeks," I said 2.5 weeks). You are wrong. You should ask yourself why you cling so hard to that. It is your duty as a human being to recognize and denounce the genocide that is taking place.
Could you please elaborate on Moldova? I am russian, and I am sincerely curious, what does it look like from your point of view. What exactly were russian actions that you classify as an aggression?
Regulation is definitely necessary to protect low-income residents. Areas that understand this and implement it well will be rewarded for it.
I am letting people know of permissive alternatives (https://github.com/paulocoutinhox/pdfium-lib) and their usage in web components (PDFium.wasm + PDF.js).

My comment also serves as a promise to open-source my components under the same permissive license.

I don't want people exposed to unnecessary stress.
1) try to use 2 or more usb ports in your tv to draw power

2) IR learning remote
Beware, amazon link. This is just an example, not a quality product
https://tinyurl.com/yks7kmxv

3) I dont have a non-smart solution to that

I have one of those tvs (kdl##w####) and yes, the youtube app is becoming unusable. I am quite sure someone might be telling us the party is over (that they want us to use a new tv)
I agree. The parents, who also are constantly on their phones are the bigger problem here.

Social alienation is always universal. I remember when I was young, without a phone, I didn't have anything to do but either play alone or play with friends. So if we wanted social interaction we had to meet up after school and tell our parents we were coming in the afternoon. Only later video games came in and we spent our evenings playing those.
A quality, high-performance UI can be done on a 200MHz MCU. Add a few advertisements, three different telemetry systems, etc. and things change.
And this brief period happened right after the government was heavily involved in managing the economy, bypassing normal market conventions, and building huge amounts of infrastructure to support the war effort.
Not sure how "it's the guns" is supposed to be an opinion challenging herd mentality, but The Onion said (says) it better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...
There is no privacy to be gained from buying Samsung products. They're just as bad as every other data harvesting company.
Apparently not because you just got that wrong bucko.

The store that I worked at liked earning money. We didn't turn customers away because they wanted to pay in cash.
I’ve been really impressed with Llama3. I’m deeply sceptical of benchmarks and just tend to go on gut feeling and this is the only chatbot I’ve talked to besides gpt4 (I haven’t tried opus yet) that feels like another intelligence on the other end of the line.
Well then, I’m glad that if war breaks out and lots of humans are dying that corporations had enough brain cells to ensure profit margins don’t take a hit. Thanks for explaining things.
Thank you for this, perfect read for a weekend morning, reminds me of Ilf and Petrov’s chronicle of their drive across the USA around the same time- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-storied_America
Boring by Default (2020)
Apparently the same issue has been reported with Philips TV [1] and Fritz!Box [2] as well.

[1] https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/73643#issuecom...

[2] https://forum.openwrt.org/t/minidlna-creates-new-media-serve...
Article's got some good links, but is kinda thin on content itself.
> I tried to open the system settings, (start ms-settings: Access is denied." despite admin mode)

> I manually backed up everything important from my main PC drive (as I could not access the windows backup program because it lived in settings!!!!!!!!)

Son #3 hates that System Settings is restricted to ≤1 instance by design. Windows only unchanging feature is that it is impossible to work with 2 Settings Windows simultaneously.

Working with multiple windows was kind of the point of Windows in the first place.

MS doubles down on that problem by continually pruning-away legacy settings options. Their end game seems to be limiting all system option access to just one app - an app that can be downed by janky TV firmware.

#3 is right.
I believe this hasn't been the case since they revamped the notification tiles in android 12. It for sure doesn't work like that for me on 14 on a pixel.
I actually tend to agree. Characterizing it as a terrorist attack was a mea culpa; it is absolutely better categorized as a counterattck/insurgency against an occupying force.
If I ask a question out of curiosity and the developer makes baseless assumptions of criminal conduct and forwards me to some clueless assistant instead, it's very, extremely, utterly rude!

No one needs to put up with such treatment.
We have alternatives that are leagues ahead.
Ah, to be capable of being that optimistic/irresponsible

Money doesn't solve all of life's problems... But it does solve a lot of them, and just paying the bills is a safety factor of approximately 1
I would question if that has changed in a significant way since. I also don't know that a single anecdote suffices. I've seen enough just on this site to be confident in my wager. You're going to find more tech workers who are hopping mad about DEI than ones who would risk their employment or perception of their own safety for the safety of black people.
One of PG's blogs talk about being fundable. For a founder, there is always a transition from being a builder to being an entrepreneur (business owner) where you must be able to access whether you are fundable and know what you need to do to get capital. I think it's the same thing with YC. There is an investor who says they like it as early as possible, but fundamentally you know if you are investible. It's sensible to only do fundraising activity when you have some confidence you are fundable.
Snark aside, your point is valid.

If a parent has time to take their child to the local park regularly (i.e., at the same phase of a periodic cycle, e.g. from 13:00 to 14:00 on Wednesdays), that can act as a Schelling point for other parents in the area.

In places that are not large cities and do not have stroads, it can be safe for children to play outside in groups, largely unsupervised. However, I don't think this will be common again (per capita) for at least another 50 years: even just cars are getting more dangerous for children.
I’m guessing generations. Were way above expected sea level rise, so the biggest worry is about erosion removing soil under the foundation until it collapses. The waves don’t hit the ridge directly because there’s a beach between us and the water. But rain will do it eventually. The property has 70 year old concrete retaining walls (partly to hold up the foundation, partly to create some terraces) and the one nearest to the beach has collapsed completely.
The quality of news peaked about 20 years ago after search killed monetization. There is no going back.
AKASH seems pretty interesting, thanks for the link!
These are not OSI protocols.