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The actual page announcing the contestants is terrible and missing the info I'm complaining about. The survey is arguably worse. It just ask people to choose among random bills. But that's not how the contest will work. They'll choose one artist's entire submission, not the most popular individual bills from the survey.

And the site! Is it 1996? Impossible to navigate. Tiny photos. Zero information about contest parameters or where the "birds and buildings" (all the same) came from.

There are only two types of thinkers: people who think people can be divided into types, and people who don't.

I watched the event live, and nothing about it was humorous, least of all the suggestion that the United States would even consider for a moment undoing one of our strongest Constitutional protections, term limits on the presidency.

The author seems surprised that the downloaded content is only "loosely connected," like a blog post about selling a house and a porn flick about a realtor. But that just proves that no humans were involved in scoping the content at all.

AI training data was vacuumed up without any consideration for the source or even the content itself. The fundamental way LLM models are built invites you to do just that. To get to the biggest "L" (for "large") you must suck up as much content as possible.

They brought it on themselves, by design, and are only now finding out what they actually ingested.

Like so many things in computing, we like to make up words and also reuse old ones for completely different things.

I'd say "hosting" means making something available to you in the cloud. Model makers don't offer that.

They sell "inference," which is a compute task with real hardware costs for them. The task runs against their model, which is not hosted for you.

The famous writer Umberto Eco grew up under Mussolini.

In an essay called Ur (Eternal) Fascism[0], he described how totalitarian systems are anti-scientific and instead promote religion, "the old ways," and gambling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

Thanks so much for the compliment!

When your window is wide enough (on desktop), you should be able to drag the split point between the TV display and the channel list.

Thank you so much for that!

It does only allow filtering by one language at a time, but you can build your hotbar of the stations you like that you find across any filters.

The scan works on the displayed results. If you change the filter, it starts with the new list -- but all the results are saved regardless.

Hope that makes it a bit bitter!

Thanks bro!

The pleasure is mine, and thank you for saying so!

Thank you, kindly!

I'm so honored that you feel that way, and thank you for saying so!

Thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry that happened. Because the data comes from a public GitHub list of channels, the app has no way to know what will be geoblocked for you (or not) or actually online at the moment (or not) until you try to tune it -- very much like an old analog TV.

But... TV Explorer does keep track of what's tunable (with status lights down the left column) and also lets you scan in the background to find the ones that are live for you right now.

https://tvexplorer.live/help/25-things-18

You can cast from a Chrome browser to an Android TV or Chromecast device:

https://tvexplorer.live/help/ways-to-watch

and...

https://tvexplorer.live/help/25-things-07

Thank you! That's so great to hear! I wrote a little bit about that here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969373

Thank you very much. I'm delighted that you like it!

It is a static site that doesn't require a server and can be hosted anywhere.

Thank you so much! Devs sometimes don't hear the good stuff about our work and I'm thrilled that you're enjoying it.

Thank you for noticing!

Very good point. Thank you, and I'll put a limit on it. 10?

Thank you so much! What a nice thing to hear.

The short version is that it uses my own engine, called Watson. I used to work for a small game studio inside a big company and my specialty was tooling. I had built my own before I started there and when they shutdown, it evolved into Watson[0].

It's lightweight because it's a static site with no server, it has no spying code or SDKs, and it puts the broadcasters HLS stream URL directly into a <video> element in your browser with minimal intervention.

[0] https://watsonengine.io

For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels.

https://tvexplorer.live

Wrong. Many Play Store apps are registered under corporations and give out their contact info. I feel you don't want to make the effort or pay the expense to register one, yet you want the benefits they bring.

Indeed it is, and that's why the Play Store doesn't allow it.

When you register a corporation, it is a legal person (in the US). That person is the person selling the goods or services and is legally responsible. That's different from the concept of which human people own a company, which can be obfuscated through many means.

The OP asked how to sell something without providing any identity information.

That's not what I said, and it's exactly why one makes a corporation.

No, and you shouldn't try. Its disingenuous and dishonest to try and sell something without identifying yourself. If the customer has a problem, should they... just give up? If you did something illegal should they... overlook it?

The usual way a business handles this is to register as a corporation, and that's what gives out its address and contact info, not your home. A registered business can have an address elsewhere, at least in the US.

There are many ways to collect money in an app without putting that app in the Play Store. Perhaps a web app without outside payment and an auth system would serve you better.

It was never "legal" but it wasn't specifically illegal either.

Space-based businesses are hoping to grandfather themselves in once laws are established about the use of space, and betting that by then whatever service they offer will be seen as indispensable.

Awesome! This is much more "X Files" and what we should have had all along. Thank you!

Affinity, mentioned in the article, was acquired by Canva and had its entire UI redone to work just like Photoshop. It's also entirely free with no gotchas.