skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basically, you pay $3 a month and can print up to 50 pages. HP remotely monitors your ink levels and sends you replacement cartridges automatically when the cartridges need to be replaced.

Ugh dollar shave club for printers or something?

I refuse to engage in thing-as-a-service. The only reason companies do this is because they know if they bleed a little bit out of you each month you're more likely to say "it's only a couple of dollars". It all adds up costing huge amounts in your monthly expenses.

They then also know there's a huge portion of customers paying for this who aren't using their '50 sheets', so wow, they've just built a model where customers pay for a thing they don't use and they don't have to provision for.

> Please stop supporting that. That business model really needs to die.

I would up vote you more than once if I could.
not a typo;
when you design for the typical x86 cluster it's a cluster - you expect components to die and you can throw away whole machines (i.e. expect failure). mainframes on the other hand keep chugging along no matter what.

the usual comparison is a cluster of cheap nodes vs a mainframe
Cats, dolphins and one smart raven: the CIA's animal spies
ibm was ctr in 1911. 108 years old company. That may make it a different firm that most others. Especially computer one.
I never considered them as such. I had previously put their writing in the same realm as The New Yorker or Harpers, maybe not quite that good. McCleans or der Speigel from other regions.
there's still quite a bit of different on the interconnect side + replaceability side
I also like to describe sandstorm as a bit closer to native mobile app development: the developer building the app has to think harder about what permissions (capabilities) their app needs, and in exchange a non-developer can install the app safely and have more confidence that the app isn’t full of security holes or leaking their data, intentionally or unintentionally.
"Then a biostatistician at Cambridge, Spiegelhalter found that Shipman’s excess mortality—the number of his older patients who had died in the course of his career over the number that would be expected of an average doctor’s—was a hundred and seventy-four women and forty-nine men at the time of his arrest."
The problem isn't so much the feedback, it's that there's a lack of a barrier to stop you from pushing further (making the maximum finger movement minimal) and to a lesser extent that there's no spring mechanism to push the key and your finger back up.
Antibiotic resistance rising among dolphins, study reveals
as an alternative, cloudron.io is a good way to run apps on your own server. I think one of the main differences is that the app packages are regularly updated and maintained. And it uses docker, so a bit easier to sort out problems.
Big fan of the concept, a bit more mindfulness in this click-and-buy culture couldn’t hurt! Hope this gets traction
As an aside, I added vim and vi to the trends, which dwarf the others, but show a long and slow decline for `vi`, but a fairly steady state for `vim`. As a vim user that at times wishes he learned emacs instead of vim, emacs is an interesting trend to see: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q="...
1-2 years ago, I commented on HN in a random Lego thread and Jacques sent my son (we're in Australia) some bulk Technic pieces. As with all Lego, they've been played with over and over and I always remember that generosity.

Thanks Jacques.
It's still confusing. How expensive is it to setup a Shopify site and a third-party logistics company to send out orders?

I guess the question is: how much of the loss is one-time capital costs, and how much is ongoing.

Should Ontarians look forward to more losses, or to a more profitable system overall?
How about China?
Former HP employee here. HP made and still makes great hardware products. Ink is the cash-cow and this won't change in the near future. The thing I always hated though was the bloatware. I remember that everyone I was buying a HP laptop, I would back-up the drivers (.inf), then remove all the JUNK, and then reinstall all the drivers. JUST the drivers.

Fortunately for me I have the skills to do so. Unfortunately the majority of users have to suffer the bloatware and weep for the lost CPU and RAM that garbage wastes.
Pine64 has email, irc, discord, telegram and matrix

I only know it's #pinetime:matrix.org
My landline, if I had one, would cost three times more than my voice/text only phone plan.

For median household income it would cost 1.5% of after tax income for just the landline
My parents are past 65, and my mom is still easily able to spend a full day taking care of our 1 year old, and my dad spent the last few weeks cutting down trees on his property. (They spent the first 40 years of their life in Bangladesh, so your point about healthcare probably isn’t correct either.) Only a small fraction of people work hard physical labor that someone 65-75 could not do. And of course some people won’t be able to do even a normal service job, but you don’t need everyone to keep working, just most people.

As to the societal failure—its a self-engineered one. Maybe some day we’ll have robots doing all the work, but we’re not there yet. Singapore’s GDP per capita is $90,000 per working person. Enough where you can have a functional retirement system, but not so much that doubling the number of retirees per worker won’t seriously be painful.
> Please read the full comments in the original ACM article. Or at least a sample.

I've read the comments and I'm a bit surprised you suggest it because a) there are far more supportive comments and praises than criticism, b) the complains in general are entirely oblivious to the content and are more outraged by the perceived tone than the actual finding regarding real-world performance.

Take for instance the absurd and entirely oblivious jab asking how the proposed algorithm performs on a Turing machine (?!) to, from there, criticising the author for pointing a major flaw in CS education.

As the author stated in the comments section:

> The response to my article broadly falls in two camps, which can be paraphrased as: Physisists arguing that bridges and buildings is simply not their job vs. people who try to build bridges and buildings, asking "whos job is it then ?"

>The obvious answer would be "The Software Engineers".

>Maybe we ought to educate some of those...
Simple Web Proxy, but with Tor Support – Right in Web Browser
They do use a hyphen, the domain you linked is for rent.
Wow I started to implement essentially the same thing for small businesses, I did not know about Sandstorm. Does this means this is a bad idea?
Give me an old HP 32S calculator or LaserJet III. Not this post Fiorina crap.
"Signal failure" encompasses a broader variety of problems than most people probably realise.

These are "fail safe" systems, so for example suppose that a mechanical sensor that is supposed to detect that the points have locked firmly into place so that a train passing over them can't possibly derail has been jammed by a piece of gravel - the system won't go "Huh, that's probably fine though, everything else seems OK" it will mark that junction as unsafe to move any traffic over because something is wrong with the points.

Perhaps a track worker can go examine the points machine, discover a cover wasn't fitted correctly after maintenance allowing gravel to slip into the sensor, remove the gravel, replace the cover and it's back to normal. But if that took them 15 minutes and we're running trains every 90 seconds that's 10 trains out of position, good chance you'll see "Signal failure" reported as the reason trains on that line or a considerable section of the line are delayed for an hour or so later.
We need a new science of safety (2016)
> Why didn't the author sign it?

Discussed here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup.rs/issues/1568

It boils down to that the authors have not gotten around to it and are not experts on Authenticode. Apparently the macOS binary is also not signed, so at least Windows isn't being singled out.

To validate your binary you can use the SHA256 checksum that someone posted in the issue two days ago.
I bought a cheapish Samsung laser printer.

I literally print about two pages per month, and it stopped being able to suck the paper up within the first three months. It can still print pages individually if you push the paper into it manually by sticking your hands into it.

It managed to print probably six pages before it stopped working properly.

Fail.
How much of that is just users searching "how to exit vim" though? :)

Half-joking, but I think it is actually over-estimating the vim user base because there are so many things to search when learning to use vim, whereas the others are much closer to a traditional word processors.
There is a commonly heard 'waiting for the signal' if the train is held up, e.g. before a station. You can conflate that into thinking the signalling is the problem when it can be just doing its job. For example if the police have been called to a train and it is held in the station then the signal on the line will stay red and trains will be held up by the signal. 'Just waiting for the signal' is easy on the ears compared to 'the police have been called along with a team of paramedics to deal with a group of drunken crack-heads on the train currently at the station'.

It is the same with 'signalling system failure', there can be good reasons why it has 'failed'. If someone has stolen the wiring or some rodents chewed through the insulation then has it 'failed'? If a train is in the wrong place for some reason then that still means a 'signalling system failure'. Even if this cause has been determined then passengers don't need to know the full details.

There are other euphemisms used for when someone ends their life on the rails, normally you get told that the transport police are attending the scene.
But how about a printer that just doesn’t have a hard disk? What is it used for anyway?
Lets see how far he gets
There's different ways of setting up these monopolies. In ON, the province has a monopoly on distribution and retail sales of liquor.

In Alberta, the province has a monopoly on distribution, but lets (almost) anyone set up their own liquor store. So the government can still get the benefits of high prices, but without spending money on an expensive retail network.

Ontario is (sorta) going with the Alberta model for cannabis, but being slow and inefficient on private retail licenses.
We are so much better at adding complexity than removing it. There are tons of incentives that drive that: the difficulty of upgrading old stuff, the need for companies to invent reasons to exist, bureaucracy, job safety and creating reasons for employment (the personal version of corporate self promotion), featurism and comparison on features, etc. There are almost no incentives pointing the other way.
Ipodlinux? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPodLinux
The government is only running the online shopping site. Retail stores are all privately owned/operated, and the government is being slow on issuing licenses.
I have similar experiences with the range-v3 library. Being a huge fan of LINQ I really wanted to love it. But it was just too limiting. The big advantage of something like ranges is that you should be able to quickly write something declarative. But it's just frustration after frustration.

The "ugly" code at least works the first time with easily predictable performance characteristics.
Yep same here, it misrepresents and understates the actual thing to the point that I wouldn't have even clicked on it if the 3D part of the title didn't confuse me.
We do quiet time too, but each by themselves. Putting them together is a recipe for yelling and conflict.
Ok I agree the "doctors, nursing, housework" part would probably always need to be covered by the person needing the care or their family.

I was thinking more about the time between retirement and getting to the point you need aged care.
They didn't set up their own system. They outsourced the website to Shopify and the logistics to another 3rd party company.
Deep learning enables rapid identification of potent DDR1 kinase inhibitors[pdf]
There are large portions of the world where you could walk your bike to work ~1km away and still arrive quite sweaty, cycling simply isn’t a viable option in a lot of cases if that’s the concern.
Why is that important? For me and my projects the important thing is that they solve my problems, and maybe help some other people. The number of other people they help is not something I care about, or can actually know.
Up to 28 tph (so almost every 2 minutes) at say Stockwell, because it has 24tph from the Bank branch and a few extras from the Charing Cross branch all going South. Most Charing Cross trains come out of service at Kennington (otherwise it would be 48 tph which would be entirely crazy) but not all of them.
Correction - s/chuck/chunk

I mean that in x86 you design so that the workload has parts, app server, db, web server etc. in order to spread the workload around. This is not really required on a mainframe as you can just run it all in the same instance (you do not have to nor do you really want to).

This is a very SIMPLE view. I am trying to point out that the HW/OS on a mainframe is design for a very different thing then how people today think of "cloud" design.
Guess I might as well keep running my old HP printer which uses a parallel interface.
Rajneeshees did mass poisoning, and not as "environmental terrorism".
Non-state actor sarin gas attacks happen. As do ricin, anthrax, etc. There's no shortage of terrible people that want to do terrible things with terrible stuff.
A year or so ago, I started reading a Cormac McCarthy book (The Crossing, I think) to my 4-5 yo. We got 100 pages in before life got in the way. I'd modify sequences on the fly if they were inappropriate, but the main thing was stopping after each sentence or two to define words or act out the action. e.g., if a horse had been hobbled, or the wolf was being tied up in a certain way, we'd get ribbon and pretend to tie something up. Sounds tediously slow but it wasn't too bad.

He was enthralled but I think at some point the story becomes more grim. Plus, it'd be hard to resume now because he's old enough to read over my shoulder and there'd be no way of hiding violent bits then.
I hope sublime doesn't die off (or fade into obscurity)
> Very few people can do 40 hours of physical labor when they get to be 65 years old

I don't believe, from what I've seen, this to be remotely true. Most (not al) of the tradies & labourers I know in their 60s and 70s are very clearly more physically capable than most (not all) office workers i know in their 30s. I guess that's my experience against yours, with neither worth much.

There's probably some real world data out there, though I suspect it would be incredibly geographically dependent. In my country (Aus) in little redneck towns like Bundaberg, you hardly see anyone in public who isn't obese, and they will largely be functionally disabled by the time they hit 50. OTOH middle-class hippies around my rural area are surfing, building houses, and running up and down hills at 80. Perhaps your perception of the capacities of older folk derives from living in disabling urban environments?

None of this bears much on the question of whether people should be mandated to work at jobs they don't choose into their 60s and 70s. I personally think the main fruit of increased productivity should be liberation as far as possible from meaningless & unchosen activity, for all.
But that is the complaint: Ontario decided to go with tight control over wholesaling and retail sales, instead of letting just about anyone set up a retail store and using high taxes to make money.
Keep in mind that "vi" has meaning outside of text editors.
Also have a look at Sci-Hub.
Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks
> In an unclear situation (i.e. any busy city), doing 30 km/h is way too fast.

Yet drivers of motor vehicles can go that speed without too many issues between intersections. If one rides a bike in the middle of the general purpose traffic lane, then going 25 mph is safe.

> It also explains why people complain about getting to work sweaty -- they're going way too fast!

Depending on the distance one must cover during the commute, going "fast" is necessary if you want to complete your trip in a reasonable period of time. If I wanted to go at walking speed, then I would just walk.
I would love to do this, but cannot in my location. Both because it would be too easy to step into fast moving traffic (age specific issue), and because people have been known to have CPS called on them for letting their child play unattended.
For anyone else looking to quickly block internet access from their printers (note this is IPv4 only):

iptables -t filter -I FORWARD -m mac --mac-source "${macaddr}" \! -d "192.168.0.0/16" -j REJECT

Replace 192.168.0.0/16 with your subnet. You may also want to manipulate chains besides FORWARD as necessary.
Would Ken Burns have some input into whether his name is used for this?
the whole european region (+ schengen) does not use swift at all (at least not since 2018)
>especially for new employees looking to compare the value of a promotion / offer versus what the company is paying somebody 2-3 years their senior.

If you want to compare what you are given to what someone else is given, isn't grant price better than number of shares? Grant price is what the company gives people.

>If a company drops the number of shares much faster than the stock appreciates, then that can signal they over-value their stock.

Maybe. Or maybe the company is simply paying employees less. Or maybe they're migrating to provide more compensation via salary or bonus instead of stock.

Why would a company cut down on the number of shares granted if they overvalue their stock? Another thing is that a company could do a simultaneous stock buyback, which wouldn't cause the number of shares in existence to increase, and would only cost the company market price for the stock.

If you are given the average number of shares that an employee has vest per year, how can you determine if a company is dropping the number of shares? Really what you would want is data on every single grant event each employee has been given. If you know the date of each grant event, it's then equivalent whether you know the number of stocks of each grant event or the dollar value at grant time of each grant event.
I got the crap grieved out of me (well mgmt and my teams) multiple times over work protection and “past practice” issues. Won most of them, but it’s a good example of how I can understand the theory, but how the practice doesn’t support a nimble work force, evolution of skills, responsiveness, etc. plus the union habit of eating their young during layoffs means the codgers are the ones sticking around. Like, the company has a mission and it will die if we do not do a good job at it. We don’t have time to wait for crap like finding the computer plug-in guy. I think much of that stuff can be put back on management for not being involved and educated enough in crafting equitable bargaining agreements. It takes a lot, lot, lot of management involvement to get a good one, and you can’t just rely on counsel and execs, but you often need a lot of middle managers providing input on daily operations to avoid situations like the one you describe. Most private companies, much less public sector organizations, don’t put that kind of forethought into their agreements.
Well besides not requiring you to solve for HA, sync between nodes, etc. Also the fact that the IO on mainframe is MASSIVE and they have their own IO controllers to sort for IO scheduling.

I have worked on, designed and built both type of systems. Distributed systems cloud style are hard and require the software to sort for everything. For the most part the HW/OS on the mainframe just handles it. It is just a different way to build.
Corey Quinn is my spirit animal. He calls himself a stand-up cloud comedian.
Victoria line is running at 36tph at peak times. I believe that's the most anywhere in the world (tied with a line in Moscow I believe?).
I'm doing a video slideshow for my niece's wedding in a couple weeks and would love to add this effect to a bunch of their photos (without spending a usual hours-and-hours in photoshop).

Hope you're able to release it ASAP!
Do you mean my To-Do list? I use Notes on iOS and macOS. I’ve tried a ton of apps, etc., and Notes works best for me. When I was in a Windows environment I used OneNote the same way.
I wonder if the snark well will run dry. Hope not.
Product-Market Crossfit, Using Concepts of Model-Data Fit for Product-Market Fit
Would be great seeing the community bringing Language Server Protocol[1] and other goodies to TextMate

[1]: https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
Oh my...this is hardly "making music".

Is paint-by-numbers making art? I sure don't think so, so neither is this.

What would have been way way better is a brief introduction to music keys, major and minor, then basic chords, then progressions, then melody, with each section having a few examples of each so that the person going through the article could have some understanding of how music is really made, and how musical concepts actually relate to each other.

Maybe I will shut up and, instead of bitching, actual do something useful and create such a tutorial, using my own beats, progressions, and melodies.
Uh American motorists have still not been made to account for a fifty-year-long crime wave that their leaded ways precipitated.
neighbor bought a wifi hp aio printer; 30eur, ink included. They must make money somewhere.. of course.
Cell meets robot in hybrid microbots
These are good suggestions but one of the better ways I think is to get on a call with the person that will be your manager or whoever you'll be reporting to. It cuts through a lot of cruft that you'd have to infer from the job ad and the company's online persona.
This is very far from a rediscovery. The program just rearrange the elements with some criteria in the plane.

The important part of the periodic table was that it is a regular arrangement. The elements in the same column and rows share some properties, you can somewhat guess the properties of an element looking at the properties of the nearby elements.

For example, all the elements in the first column are alkaline, they form salts with chloride like XCl. The solubility, density, ... of these salts are somewhat related. Some columns have a clear relation, some columns have more messy relations.

The relation in each row is less useful, only atomic weight, radius and electronegativity, but there may be some special cases an exceptions.

A clear grid arrangement by Mendeleev has two important properties:

* He first ordered the elements by atomic weight, but it has a few weird cases, so he decided to rearrange them. This rearrangement was later explained when the internal structure of the atoms was understood.

* Some slots in the grid were missing, so he predicted some new elements and their properties. These elements were discover later, with properties similar to the predicted.

It's not very clear how much insight these new representation provide. To make the task more clear: If these algorithm use only the data available to Mendeleev, can they discover germanium and gallium?
Yarn proxies requests through Facebook's servers. It doesn't have a privacy policy, but they were thoughtful enough to have a code of conduct. The Java package repo is in the In-Q-Tel portfolio, which does funding for a certain intelligence agency. Microsoft compiler used to add telemetry around main. If anything, Google is late to the party.
I can tell you that my UK printer has the same shit!

I went through it with a magnifying glass to make sure it didn't select anything.

In addition, I set up the IP stuff manually on the printer to ensure there was no gateway... can't get out without a gateway.