skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My TV occasionally turns on unexpectedly. I'm pretty sure it is the Xfinity Flex streaming box that is connected to it telling it to do so.

It used to happen between 3 and 4 am, if I remember correctly, and was very annoying because the TV is in the same room I sleep in.

I guessed that it might be the Flex box doing it after I remembered that the Flex box was scheduled do to automatic updates between 3 and 4 am. My guess was that sometimes when it reboots after an update it turned on the TV.

To check that I changed the update schedule to do them between 2 and 3 pm. Sure enough the unexpected turn ons then started happening between 2 and 3 pm which is pretty good evidence my guess about the Flex being responsible was right.
I love it! I'm the one who recreated Kung Fu Chess at kfchess.com. Very impressed at you bringing it to life -- definitely at least 100x harder to do :)
Yeah, I have a little battery jar as well. I basically only use coin batteries, so it looks kinda cool as it fills up.
The server side component aspect is a serious flaw with the directory. Updates, well, that has always been an issue with perpetual licenses and is quite often out of control of the software vendor. Just because the license is perpetual, I don't think it is reasonable to expect perpetual support.
In windows you can there is a api for windows titles, I knwo because I was building an app that needed it
Both Corel and Lindows tried this 25 years ago. People did not like it.
> Well now you're just quibbling about the amount;

Of course, the question was about how to estimate the amount. It's a nonsensical answer that doesn't attempt to answer or help answer the question. If they were funded $1, their answer would still be correct: non zero multiple of a non-zero number (their last round of funding). It's an answer with unreasonable bounds, on both ends, especially the lower (fraction of last round of funding, even though current revenue is an order of magnitude more). It also has no precedence. The value of a company is never estimated based on rounds of funding from years ago (last was 2023 for SpaceX). It's based on both the present and projected performance.

It's not a rational answer, by definition, since it wasn't made with logic or reason.
> If we're talking about yet undiscovered effects of something it seems equally plausible for those effects to be positive.

Where do you get this from? If you ingest a random chemical (or imagine licking random objects...), do you really expect the chances of it being beneficial vs. detrimental to your health to be remotely close to 50/50?
I know the culture has changed dramatically in the last ten years, so I'll take this as a sincere question coming from someone who missed out:

Back in the old days, before 2014, people used to make computers do things just for fun. We'd write code because writing code is enjoyable, and hack on projects just to see if we could. If it made something that other people wanted to use that was a bonus, but hacking and experimenting was an end in itself. (The same, incidentally, went for writing blogs and for making YouTube videos).

In the last ten years most of us have lost sight of that in favor of everything needing to have an "audience" or a "use case"—if there's no path to monetization then we struggle to see the point. But some of us still build things just because we can, so from time to time you'll see a project like this that hearkens back to the old school hacker spirit and has no point besides to see if we could.
Time to buy Brawndo shares
> The flip side to this is that just because an app is entirely local doesn't mean it will work as the software around it gets updated (OSes etc), so if a company decides to stop supporting it, that too is useless in a way.

This used to be less of a problem, when OS vendors gave more of a shit about backward compatibility. But still, even today, this doesn't seem like a major risk. OS platforms really don't change that fast. I would expect a Linux, Mac or Windows app purchased today to actually work unpatched (on a computer with the same CPU architecture) for 10, maybe 20 years. I mean, we have games from the 90s that still can be made to work on a modern Windows machine.

The most recent OS-driven rug-pull that broke software that I remember is Apple removing support for 32-bit apps. Which yes was a dick move.

The web as a platform is a different story. Browser APIs are all over the place and things get broken constantly. I honestly would not be willing to pay for a browser-based software, full stop. I just feel like web developers in general are way less serious about forward and backward compatibility, and making sure their software works on a browser that isn't "Bleeding Edge Chrome".
To the extent binary distribution is "unstable" on Linux, it's because users aren't expected to just download random binaries from wherever, as is normal on Windows (and Mac, for that matter). Users are expected to either obtain binaries from their distro, or compile them from source. In either case, all of the issues about binary distribution being "unstable" are invisible to users. Which is the point. People who want the broken Windows software model can just..run Windows. The last thing any sane Linux user wants is to make Linux into Windows. I run Linux to avoid Windows.
I don’t know, this feels like a runaway fever dream HN reply.

Look, they’re useful. They are really good at some things. Not everything! But they can absolutely read PDFs of arcane rules and structure them. I don’t know what to tell you, they reliably can. They can also use tools.

They’re pretty cool and good and getting better at a remarkable rate!

Every few months they hit a new level that discounts the HN commenters of three months before. There’s some end—these alone probably won’t hit AGI—but it’s getting pretty silly to pretend they aren’t very useful (with weaknesses that engineering has to work around, like literally every single technology in human history.)
Port is the operative word there.

Proprietary binaries may work but there's no guarantee depending upon how the software was written.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Rust feels like a Python developer’s idea of a high-performance computing language. It’s a great language for many kinds of applications — just not when you need to squeeze out every bit of performance from advanced hardware.

Even before getting into SIMD, try using Rust for concurrent, succinct, or external-memory data structures. It quickly becomes clear where the friction is.

Cargo is fantastic — clean, ergonomic, and a joy compared to many toolchains. But it’s much easier to keep things simple when you don’t have to support dozens of AVX-512 variants, AMX, SME, different CUDA generations, ROCm, or any of the other modern hardware capabilities.

Standardising SIMD in the standard library — in Rust or C++ — has always been a questionable idea. Most of these APIs cater to operations that compilers already auto-vectorize reasonably well, and they barely touch the recent capabilities of SIMD. Just consider how hard it is to build any meaningful abstraction over the predicate/register models across AVX-512, SVE, and RVV.

RVV aside, this should illustrate the point: https://www.modular.com/blog/understanding-simd-infinite-com...
Just remember that while you are watching the ad, the ad is watching you.

Actually anything you do on your internet connected Smart TV is being collected and sold by the TV manufacturer.

Smart TVs should be called Surveillance TVs at this point.
"DHS + ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas" — a high ranking government official https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/1904982944474648587

Her op-ed never mentioned Hamas by name. This seems to be the closest it came: "systemic changes that the collective voice of the student body is calling for are for the University to end its complicity with Israel insofar as it is oppressing the Palestinian people and denying their right to self-determination" — https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj

Despite the headline, the author admits they don't actually know that the op-ed was a reason for the arrest — "She was disappeared without due process or explanation — only later did we learn she had been renditioned to a detention center in Louisiana."
The difference is, rational liberal people who vote Democrat (and don't confuse liberals with leftists) understand that bad actors in a system that is generally resulting in positive US economic growth due to investment in people doesn't mean that we have to tear everything down. Historical data is all there, its undeniable, and not just in the stock market.

The whole reason Democrats are seen as weak is that there are plenty of criticisms of Democrats by other Democrats. Which is a sign of a well functioning party since it keeps is self in check. Of course the clueless idiots in US see this as weakness, but thats just how it is.

Meanwhile Republicans fall unilaterally behind their daddies Trump and Musk, which is why people like you switch up the subject about billionaires instead of pointing out that a guy who does Nazi salutes is in charge of government spending cuts, and managed to accidentally leak national secrets, the same thing that was a major campaign issue when Trump was running against Hillary.

Just to be ultra clear in case you wanna reply with some random talking point about Democrats being bad - there is absolutely nothing that you can say at this point that will ever make the democrats look as bad as Trump or Musk, which is impressive since its only been like 2 months. If you find yourself talking to people that are agreeing with you, just know that you are in an echo chamber, which is something that your side was making fun of people being in.
For a starter many large Chinese software develop their own in-house tools, including chat, planning and office. It is usually a complete suite so that everything interacts with everything else pretty well. For example you can directly open a file shared by someone else in a chat in office locally -- this was my experience in Tiktok.

And you probably already know Wechat and QQ.

And since China provides a lot of embedded devices to the world, there is a big chance that your doorbell or cleaning robot uses code written by a Chinese company.
Do you have a link or something that goes into how to do this?
Zorin OS: Linux Distro with Built-In Windows App Support
Silicon Valley vs. San Francisco Socialists
There's also flatpak and friends
I don't think Apple makes any content that isn't for Americans do they?

I guess Slow Horses is British but very little of what they air has any real appeal in Asia so no one is going to pay for it.
Well see, but at this point crazy is full on the table and has a definite chance of happening. I legit would not put it past Trump to institute martial law during any elections.
> Honestly, arguing seems futile when it comes to opinions like GP. Those opinions resemble religious zealotry to me in that they take for granted that only humans can think. Any determinism of any kind in a non-human is seized upon as proof its mere clockwork, yet they can’t explain how humans think in order to contrast it.

Putting aside the ad hominems, projections, and judgements, here is a question for you:

If I made a program where a NPC[0] used the A-star[1] algorithm to navigate a game map, including avoiding obstacles and using the shortest available path to reach its goal, along with identifying secondary goal(s) should there be no route to the primary goal, does that qualify to you as the NPC "thinking"?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-player_character

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm
the last time there was a Queen of England was in 1702

quite a long time before the internet
That's cool but I think the proper solution is to write a Linux kernel module that can reserve GPU RAM via DRM to create ramdisks, not create a userspace filesystem using OpenCL.

That would give proper caching, direct mmap support if desired, a reliable, correct and concurrent filesystem (as opposed to this author's "all of the FUSE callbacks share a mutex to ensure that only one thread is mutating the file system at a time"), etc.
>NSA dragnet
Can you tell me more? What specifically, are they collecting? The porn I've looked at on /s/?

>always-on backdoors embedded in consumer routers and CPUs
Are we talking about IME? That's more of a 'theoretically it could execute code, but they'd need a crazy amount of software engineering to really use it to monitor you'. Besides, you can MITM your network traffic and see if it's phoning home. And I'm sure people do, and I've read no cases of it actually being used that way.

Not that I'm okay with this or happy about it. It's just less dire than could be since, although the infra is there, it's not being used.
Answer: because. And as it says "misnomer or not" which admits the idea we enter with: it's a bit cooked. BTW we're not laughing at you, we're just a bit bemused, likewise why your 1st floor is what we call ground: we count from zero.
That's crazy of you to sacrifice your sleep enough nights to notice a pattern. The extent of my patience would be

1st night - disable CEC on the TV

2nd night - to hell with you, into the garbage it goes
I have! A more conventional story, but it too bears basically no resemblance to this ad whatsoever.
My mum was using it as a daily-driver for all your average user PC stuff. It was decent, easily to use and more user-friendly than Mint, IMO – until an update borked it completely, after two years of running. Unfortunately post-update-breakages is something that's typical of Ubuntu and most Ubuntu-based distros, so it's not really surprising [1]. I've since switched her to an immutable distro (Aurora [2]) and it's been rock solid.

[1] https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/02/05/done-with-ubuntu/
[2] https://getaurora.dev/en
Yeah, looks like all they’re saying is that you can’t use scenic mode without ads. They even promise it won’t turn itself back on after an update, which is a surprising yet refreshing thing to see.
You should take a look at the Frictionless data library https://framework.frictionlessdata.io/docs/guides/validating...
Steam is just about the only 'DRM' I'm willing to accept in this area. Both because I suspect there won't be an issue within my lifetime, and that if there IS an issue within my lifetime the outcry will be so huge that anything I wanted to get off of it will have 'alternative work arounds'. E.G. either at that point Steam allows a close-out download that doesn't have the DRM, or similarly freed versions would exist.

For everything else, I prefer free to license and use forever where possible. Like Linux and LibreOffice.
They also overwrote the EEPROM of the satellite computer before shutting it, because apparently they were concerned that the satellite would reawake, because it has multiple autonomous recovery modes.
https://archive.today/qwwIS

https://www.aba.org/victor-emanuel-a-tribute-not-a-eulogy/

https://texaslegacy.org/narrator/victor-emanuel/

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2025/03/12/victor...

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2016/09/24/victor-emanu...
Out of curiosity, do you simply not use streaming services, or do you get them on the TV some other way?
Probably Miranda. Brings back a lot of memories from the flint/flame/inferno days. I remember buying a tezro for ~150k USD in 2005/6. We also were "gifted" an Inferno around that time which I heard originally cost multiple hundreds of thousands. When it showed up it was the size of a refrigerator and took dual 30A power feeds. Sounded like a jet and didn't last long.

Teradici came on the scene and started running everything over IP. Hardware at first (old EVGA pyramids were everywhere) where you had to route the video out into a custom card that then put out the signal via IP.

Now it's all software with the leaders being teradici (merged with HP anywhere which came from IBM), nicedcv (Amazon), parsec, and a few others.

The big advantage in content production over something like vcn/rdp was color fidelity, local cursor termination, and support for hardware like Wacom tablets. You can even do 7.1 audio and multiple monitors. Turns out when you are an artist having a local like feel is incredibly important. 60fps is 16ms per frame. So even with virtual workstations on AWS you want to deploy them in a region that is relatively close to the end user.
I don't buy this. Google has this information on their backend, they don't need to query any local state. Indeed, when I visit a play.google.com URL, google checks if my browser is logged in or not. If it is not, the default is "Install" no matter what. If I do have a session, then it's either "Install" if I don't have it installed, or "Install on more devices" if I do have it installed.
Preroll ads when playing videos or streams are normal. If you don't want to see them then don't use streaming services that do so. In this case it's the WatchFree+ streaming service.

Scenic mode is an optional feature that will open up a WatchFree+ channel from the Mood and Ambience category when the TV is idling.
The recommendation from doctors is to use a small amount of toothpaste with fluoride. Apparently even if they cant spit yet. I was surprised to be told that, even though there are a ton of fluoride free toothpastes available.
Can you share what properties you set?
Fluoridated water was already a plot point in Kubrick's Strangelove from 1964.
yeah, that's where all the top level production places want to store their pre release.
Great. Another company to avoid and I'm going to spread the news to every friend and every colleague and every Internet forum. I'll just them frankly that Vizio steals and sells users' data -- maybe not 100% true but whatever.
I’m pretty sure you can buy “industrial” TVs from standard vendors which might fit the bill for you. They’re much pricier though, if I’m remembering correctly.
6502 as a Service
There was a code coverage tool for node called Istanbul. When they did a new front end for it they called it nyc.
It's technically still "smart" in the sense that it can be connected to the internet, but the samsung digital signage TVs don't have weird shit or ads.
> A lot of companies have policies for US travels for a few years now.

I traveled a lot around 2010, long before Trump. Phone searches at the border were common even then. I had to give my passcode to Canada and European countries.

I can attest that this kind of frightening incident did not start with Trump. As a traveler, I heard horror stories back then, but not many people talked about them. I feel like most of the sudden interest in these stories has an obvious motive.
Bknd is great. Thank you for creating this, Dennis!
> the ads support the updated scenic content,

Ha, that's a good one!

Gotta have regular updates to my videos of forests, waterfalls, lapping waves and crackling log fires. You never know when they're going to launch a new version of trees.
I guess it comes down to application. If you don't attempt to find the most general solution, you can dodge those pitfalls. Case in point, abstracting over AVX-512, SVE, and RVV may be tough, but picking one is fine (On nightly only for now), can with the right abstractions can be almost as straightforward as using normal scalar values. I don't have a solution on the CUDA variants either; have been hard-coding that as well... (Cudarc lib with CUDA-version feature gates and GPU-series-specific code). Haven't hit a brick wall yet, but might... or might not.
Apply for a junior web developer role. Python and JavaScript are good things to know.

Is that JS on the backend or front end? If front end, do you know CSS and HTML5 well too?
Wasn't Vizio the company that sold a box letting you skip ads? What happened?
Particularly when traveling, I don't enjoy the taste of tap water. Filtered or (factory filtered then) bottled... and I'm not alone in that viewpoint.
there is also the earthquake issue where interior doors (badge access or no) can become jammed. thus god invented the crowbar. my Big Company emergency response team folks all had one. also good for head crabs.
Show HN: AI sales engineer
Non-technical salespeople don't understand their product and it's often a waste of time to hop on a call with just them.

I built something so that sellers can back up their claims with real product proof.

The demo agent uses Playwright + OpenAI structured outputs + LiveKit and acts like a sales engineer on a call.

It's voice-based so you'll have to allow mic access to interact. Would really appreciate any feedback!
Just don't connect it to the internet and use an Apple TV instead.
> and lots of water has natural flouride?

100% the treatment plant is adjusting for the natural amount of flouride to meet specific target PPM
Really good points. And worth considering.

However, I stand by what I wrote. Your argument about "wording" is, in my opinion, inappropriate for our situation. We need to be stand up people, to take a position one way or another.

Arguing that the issue of of pro-democracy and Twitter are not related is your stand. You down voting, whether in the guise of talking about "snubbing" or "wording" - is you taking a stand.

I stand against the things that Twitter has now come to represent. You stand in a different place.
What's up with all this "My 20 year old software still works!!!". Who actually runs unmaintained abandonware? I would rather prefer OS devs not wasting time maintaining legacy cruft and evolve with the times.
You sound concerned about the kids. We are on the same side. There is evidence that fluoridation level is correlated (dose dependent) with sleep problems, lower IQ scores, early onset puberty and bone cancer in children. There are specific areas outside blood brain barrier that it accumulates to the degree of fluoridation (100x to 200x levels of other tissues), all postmortem tests verify this.

It is true that many studies were at higher doses(2x to 4x), but that should not mean that it is acceptable to intentionally raise fluoride levels to half of harmful levels, because we want to protect teeth.

If you don't want cavities decrease sucrose, brush and floss. Can I brush my teeth with use baking soda, use whatever? Arent they are OUR teeth? What if we find some additive might help some other health issue? Should we add that to everyone's drinking water?
Looking at the past post, they help people that wants to move, so it looks like a single time payment.

@OP: What is the price? $10 per client?
Unless there is massive push back from consumers and people outright refuse to buy these TVs Vizio wont be the last company to do this. Roku also pushes less intrusive ads at you when the TV is idle depending on your settings.

As much as I complain a lot about roku for their spying and ads (they deserve it and I'll never buy one) I do give them some credit for not filling that fish show they have with ads. I know people who have had those fish (or some version of them) on their screens for many years and it's a decent little virtual fish tank.
I would love a little icon indicating Windows/Linux/Mac support
Pachinko was big in South Korea when both season 1 and 2 were released, and plenty of ad time was given to it in SK.

Arguably Tehran was in a similar position as well, but it was an already existing show on Kan 11 that Apple got the international licensing rights for - same way HBO Max got Sha'at Ne'ila/Valley of Tears.
> Just consider how hard it is to build any meaningful abstraction over the predicate/register models across AVX-512, SVE, and RVV.

Note that Highway mentioned in the post does take care of this, which is no easy feat but also a proof that it is doable.