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> I think then that it depends on the kind of software

I agree completely. I never want to pay more than once for Photoshop/Illustrator/etc. -- and the fact that Adobe has turned those into SaaS products really annoys me.

But products like an OS, browser, cloud-synced password manager, mail client, online git hosting, etc. -- for those, I would prefer to pay a subscription fee (to a company I trust to use it well).
Would love to have some of these, but I have no tools to make one.
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> Confidence that the code I'm writing does what it's supposed to. With the added benefit that I can easily add more tests if I'm not confident about some behaviors of the feature or easily add a test when a bug shows up.

Isn't this just the benefit of tests, not necessarily TDD?
Perhaps you should have a public transparency log for all mod-determined transgressions.

Might allay some of the accusations we're seeing here of accused abuses.
Happy birthday Sourcehut!

I'm curious about the builds API. I'm currently writing a terminal client that, given a git repository, will list recent builds across multiple CI providers, give access to build logs, etc. I'm interested in integrating with Sourcehut.

Most CI providers have a REST API that allows listing the builds related to a repository. The API reference for builds.sr.ht [1] does not list such a functionality, however the website offers it (e.g. [2]). Did I miss something, or is this not possible via the API? Are there plans to add this feature?

[1] https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/api.md

[2] https://builds.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/builds.sr.ht
That doesn't seem to track with the latest USGS numbers here. https://prd-wret.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium...

Bolivia doesn't even chart for reserves (i.e., extractable right now). Have they brought significant capacity online in the last year since this report was collected?

For resources (extractable in principle) there are 62 million tons of identified resources worldwide, of which Bolivia has 9 million tons. That is a lot, about 15%, but certainly no where near 50-70%. Notably Argentina has 14.8 million tons.

I guess I'm just curious if there are better sources or if I'm misunderstanding the USGS report.
Show HN: Flash is dead? Here is a stab at a replacement
I agree. I have a very simple base model Laserjet that supports postscript. Regular black and white, the simplest possible model and no extra paper tray or anything that can go wrong. I've had mine for 15 years (replaced the toner cartridge once in that time), we bought roughly the same model at work 8 years ago (on my insistence). Both of them have worked flawlessly.

(Meanwhile at work, the other teams bought huge, complex beasts with lots of features and they are regularly down, offline, broken etc. I think they are on the fourth or fifth iteration of fancy printers).

Laserjet, simple, postscript, low price.
It would be nice if we could "trust" some group about the social impact of policy changes, but people have a terrible track record at that. Running an experiment is the ideal, and not always possible, but here's an experiment and you're choosing to discard the results.

It's not as if this is the only data point. There are both countries that never had bail, and ones that similarly curtailed it. No disaster is apparent in either case.
Maybe I am a bit sentimental here but I found the low-level tinkering I did with computers during school much more interesting than the high-level things I learned to do later. Things like toggling the keyboards LEDs for the very first time felt just great. That reminds me how easy (QBasic!) it was to get started with it. I think it was the lack of abstraction and the verbosity and 'speaking' names of some statements (select case, goto) that made it so accessible for someone with no teacher and without any prior experience with programming. Even gotos themselves might have helped on that journey as they made the control flow much more comprehensible. Stuff happens in your program and IF you want it to happen again THEN GOTO the beginning. That it worked out of the box and didn't require any setup might have contributed as well.
You’re right on an observational level, but I don’t think we should normalize breaking promises because of money
HN has been growing at the same rate for many years. There was an initial spike and since then it's been linear, with up and down swings along the way.
Thanks for sharing those kind words :) can I quote you on that?
This paints a great picture, thank you. You're not arguing whether she deserves it, but whether the law actually ties the two together properly. My point here however was to not only fix the algorithms but the laws too. Idealistic, I know.
DDG uses bing's API to get those results. They don't have their own search algorithm
Hibernation induces widespread transcriptional remodeling in the grizzly bear
As long as the sub-procedure don't need 10+ input parameters and 3+ output parameters/return values I can agree. Otherwise it's a sign that the code/logic simply too interrelated to be broken up well.
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Many of the examples proposed sound similar to other devices and things used in - for example - flash memory, DRAM, and other similar technologies.

Based on what I could see from the patent, it looks like an exploration of using such elements in place of (then) vacuum tubes; it also seems like it might also use non-linear properties; somewhat of an "analog computer" in a way.

There also seem to be hints at these elements being used in an "artificial neuron" manner (hardware-based artificial neural networks and neurons were a topic of interest at the time).

Strangely (I may have missed it - I only skimmed the patent) the use of the transistor seems to be missing (again, not sure)...but if this is true, it may be because again - it seems to be exploring non-linear storage and response as memory and computational elements.

The ideas of using - say - capacitive and inductive elements for memory elements (at a minimum) was known back then; it was also known how to use inductive-only elements for amplification and switching purposes (google "magnetic amplifiers" - the tech goes back a long way). But this patent seems to be using both in a different manner for a combination computation and memory (again, similar to an artificial neuron).

It's a very interesting patent; in a similar scope as to Turing's writings on neural network systems. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
I was at a company that employed thousands of people.

They did a company wide training on effective meetings.

Set agendas, notes, and etc were all part of their training. It was great.

I never saw a single person do those things... not the VPs, not the CEO, nobody. I did it for my meetings as a sort of invisible act of defiance, but nobody ever read them before the meeting and most didn't know meeting invites came with anything other than the time, date, location info :(
That sure is a compact laser printer! And it only draws 210 watts while printing! Unfortunately, I was disappointed by this part of the description:

> Dynamic security enabled printer. Only intended to be used with cartridges using an HP original chip. Cartridges using a non-HP chip may not work, and those that work today may not work in the future.

DRMed toner cartridges with OTA "security" improvements? That sounds like a major anti-feature.
True. But the point of the article was hoping it doesn't happen to regular folk.
Looks like there's no "list jobs" endpoint, seems to have been an oversight. Can you file a ticket?

https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/builds.sr.ht
It does exist but it's a much more invasive procedure, and I think it's used only for much higher prescriptions (+/-10d and above) - not sure it's approved by the FDA though.
Sounds like a pretty ordinary bug, combined with people not knowing what "experiment" means in the context of Chrome.

When new functionality is added to Chrome (or Firefox, or most other large software projects with automatic updates), you don't add it for everyone at once; if you did that, and it turned out to be buggy, everyone would be exposed to the buggy version. Instead you roll it out for a few users, and gradually expand the subset of the userbase which has the feature, while watching for both automatic and manual bug reports. If the bug reports don't come in, you enable the feature for everyone. While the feature is turned on for some people but not for everyone, it's called an "experiment".
We dont need another centralized social network.. the future must be distributed.
Bitbucket's version of this is still my favourite. I love that it's just right there in the all commits view:

https://bitbucket.org/osrf/gazebo/commits/all

Vs Github and GitLab where you have to go to a special separate network/graph page to see it, eg:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/sidecar/-/network/devel...
Crime is no big deal.

Just ask our president.
Looks like other people are saying it but inkjets are a scam, not only the ink is useless but the printers themselves just break, I used to go through them like paper towels. Brother MFC 9560 CDW here, I'm sure there are newer models now but definitely the color laser thing is vastly cheaper to just buy it once rather than buying new ink/printers every few months.
Yes, we monitor that.

Could you please stop complaining about downvotes in HN comments? As the guidelines say, it never does any good and it makes boring reading. It's a perennial weed of offtopicness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Read the article and watch the video and find out that you are wrong.
It might not be "just color fixing", but to my eye at least, the results appear similar to if you were to simlpy white balance in lightroom (which doesn't always require a color chart either).

Example: https://imgur.com/a/h3uFu4z
If you’re talking about scopes of variables then if language supports it, the best of both worlds would be to have an inlined version where each block has its own scope so that you can easily track which variables are actually shared among those scopes and which only belong to certain scopes.
There are lots of alternatives for each category of products - Zappos for shoes/clothes, Mouser for electrical components, etc. though there is no one competitor to Amazon that is as comprehensive as it is.

Edit: Turns out Zappos is owned by Amazon. But my point still stands if we replace it with something else.
What alternatives do you all use? I like DuckDuckGo but it still depends on existing engines behind the scenes. There is also Quant and SearX but I haven’t used either much.

Surely there is some foss project that has been promising, somewhere?
I just wanted to point out that HP printers had official, open source drivers for years and are probably the most gnu/linux-compatible printers you could fine.

Many others named Brother, but afaik their gnu/linux support is not on-par with HP.
Yes, agreed. I don't think Nix nor Guix are there yet, in terms of usability (not that most current alternatives are much better, mind). But I could see a wrapping layer on top of either of them working quite well. It's difficult to come up with abstractions for the kind of complexities we're dealing with nowadays. I'm hopeful someone will eventually, though...
Brother mono laser printer which explicitly has an ethernet port, duplex, and PostScript (BRScript).

Right now, Newegg is selling a new HL-L5100DN for $180 with free shipping. It should last for five to ten years of low-volume printing.
Start with SSL: https://letsencrypt.org

Creating an account, and then giving feedback is asking a bit much imho. Why not have anonymous login for now? I know I wont be creating an account.

You're saying alot of right things here, and on your site but the fact you dont have SSL makes me cringe. This a scam? Sites go up and disappear everyday. Why should anyone trust you?

Please have a lawyer and someone go through your pages.. Walls of text that dont make sense, bad english etc.
Of course this device is probably legal while the WiFi setup would be definitely illegal (in the US).
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> The answer to getting cars off the street (whether private or shared) is to build other options that people can use

I think we agree completely on this, and the best other options in cities are all mass transit, not individual cars.

> Taxis are cars too by the way. How did all those taxi regulations improve externalities?

Taxis didn't impose nearly the same congestion externalities as ride shares (or single occupancy cars) simply because there just weren't as many of them, due to the controversial medallion system. They were never a form of mass transit.

And as anyone who waited hours for a taxi before the ride share era knows, the lack of supply was the primary frustration with taxis. Ride share simply multiplies out the taxi technology of low occupancy cars, which while it solves the taxi supply problem increases the existing congestion problem wrought by low occupancy cars in general. Therefore it is not the way to achieve scalable transit in even somewhat dense environments.

But to your question, maybe congestion taxes on single passenger ride sharing pushes us toward a form of dispatchable mass transit which shares many of the conveniences of ride-share with the social benefits of mass transit i.e. a fleet of dispatchable municipal minibuses that work like a larger Uber Pool.

That would be especially helpful for last-mile connectivity for mass transit like commuter trains, whose parking lots are today overwhelmed by single occupancy cars.
Saw this yesterday on Twitter. Love the concept/premise.
Go for it.
I'm [redacted] in case that matters.
Very neat, when I was writing my thesis I used zotero and its firefox downloader plugin which was a heck of a lot better than dealing with the biography process manually but still fairly manual (then again, so is the process of finding references... I don't understand why, in 2019, people don't include a DOI in their references) but this seems better still.
That said, this implementation in particular would not have worked well for me since, at least for the journals I frequent, availability on scihub is patchy and even for the journals which do have good coverage it takes a while for articles to show up. Zotero has connectors for those journals and the auto-downloader works pretty well until the journal rate limits you and requires a captcha for each download.
Hooks, yeah! What are they good for?
Also had PRK about 10 years ago, cost me $3k. Best money I've ever spent, my vision is still around 20/20-20/30, and was recently offered a super cheap "touch up" to correct back towards 20/10-20/20 with topo mapping of the cornea.
Open-sourcing Clusterman, a cluster autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos
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The gravy train of systematic reviews
Yea Slack really is the worst. My job has plenty of meetings, but still uses Slack a lot: I'll never understand how companies can be productive with a heavily Slack-based workflow.

The fact that my coworkers don't seem to understand the value of keeping a distinction between async and sync communication caused me to recently turn off my Slack notifications, and it's been incredible. I'm much, much more productive than I was before, and the amount of people who actually needed a synchronous response from me was a small fraction of the pings I get (I use DnD so people can click an option to notify me if necessary).

I've started turning down meetings too, or at least gating them with a request for a specific agenda: it turns out half the time, I can point them to some docs or answer them directly without needing to interrupt my routine for half an hour+.

The difference in my productivity is truly insane, and it's come at an extremely minor cost of the teams and teammates that work with me having to be more thoughtful about what they need. (and of course, I still take plenty of meetings, since sometimes conversations need to be open-ended)
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Kind of, I write my code then test it via unit tests. Then I focus on achieving 100% code coverage by tuning the code and beat the devil out of it.

I have found that beating code is a great way to preserve my sleep and save the next person a headache.
I always answer this honestly in interviews and I've always had my interviewers say they feel the same way.

I think maybe it's a thing where you're not supposed to say it, but once you do, it frees the interviewer up to admit it as well and they're happy.
I think the best language to solve this problem is Excel. It says "circular dependency".
The one crux to my argument. Thanks for knocking me back down from my high horse
Any commercially-viable asteroid would need to be at least a mile in some dimension or another to have enough minable material. Let's assume 3200 Phaethon was our target - three mile wide asteroid, mass of 140 x 10^12 Kg.

I'll let you do the math, but just the 10^12 kg along should tell you that the idea is quite infeasible before you ever get to doing the actual calculation.

BTW it's easier to just do (KE) = 1/2mv^2 as your calculating formula.
Isn't the autocomplete feature a sort of search in its own right? I agree there is a distinction between the two tools, but deliberately steering autocomplete carries the same potential for abuse as deliberately curating search results

Your jews example is a positive use case but not all conspiracy theories are created equal. Before Epstein killed himself, google's autocomplete steered you away from any negative searches involving Prince Andrew, despite the fact that it was public knowledge at that point that one of Epstein's victims had named the prince as an abuser
For the people it works for, LASIK is great. For those who experience complications (the corneal flap needed for LASIK never heals entirely, therefore it can become displaced, causing much discomfort and possible permanent damage under the right circumstances), it can be long road of chronic issues because they wanted to save some recovery time over PRK. My recommendation (having had PRK done a decade ago) is to prefer PRK over LASIK, and take the recovery time needed. You're going to have your eyes for a lifetime. Take shortcuts elsewhere.
I have a Samsung ML-3710 or similar that I've had for about 10 years now. Only ever used with USB. It's always been fantastic and I love it, because as a former dot matrix owner the idea of printing out pristine documents in seconds at home is still a bit magical. It's only ever had light use, but for my needs it's perfect. I can switch it on for the first time in months and it's up and printing in seconds.
What they did ? I guess you haven't read many criminal or (even worse) juvenile criminal records. Actual dangerous criminals exist but they're very rare, and yes, also in prison they're very rare.

People are in prison or "juvie" because they got caught with drugs, ran away (juvenile, although being perceived to run away from the police can land you in jail as an adult too), were caught outside while a crime happened "nearby", helped another kid run away, ...

Violent or fatal crimes are very rare. Not 10%. And even from those, the big category of "violence" is breaking and entering.

I feel like while these statistics differ from state to state, everywhere reality is very different from what people think it is.
Exactly, and structural and functional constraints over properties and rules.

I understand the need to reinvent the wheel, but most of these efforts feel to me like customizations that most declarative languages can provide, albeit possibly in a non-intuitive syntax.
From the FTC complaint:

"... stored consumers’ personal information, including consumers’ SSNs, payment card information (including full or partial credit card and debit card numbers, CVVs, and expiration dates), bank account information (including account and routing numbers), and authentication credentials such as user IDs and passwords, in clear, readable text on InfoTrax’s network."
I've used Ortho-k for 16 years, and I've absolutely loved them. I still confuse the heck out of people when I show or tell them I wear rigid contact lenses while sleeping. I've used glasses and dailies, and I without a doubt prefer Ortho-k. I do find it really weird that insurance doesn't cover it though - probably explains why they haven't become too widespread.
The market opportunity is already occupied by Target! Great products, shipped to you or delivered to your car in the parking lot. I’ve shifted at least 50% of my Amazon spend to Target. I won’t buy anything that I eat, that touches my children’s skin, that plugs in, or that has a Li-Ion battery from Amazon.
> The old web is dead

I don't think so, and that s thanks to people who keep writing blogs, tutorials, make thoughtful videos, posting thoughtful comments etc. The "Old web" had a high technical barrier to entry and that acted as a selection filter. The "new web" is the former TV audience, which moved to facebook/instagram and mobile apps. It's big audience, and marketers are after it, but that didnt make the "old web" disappear. I ve never read anything interesting inside facebook except from Yann Lecun's posts (which he keeps there out of courtesy to his employer).

I just hope people stop thinking the old web should also move inside those because that's where their crowd is. It's not true, that's a different crowd.
1) You're sharing a funnel page.

2) You start talking about 10 ways to upgrade your resume without listing any of them.

Sounds like your Virtual Assistant just posted headlines instead of any actual content.
The cynical part in me would find that funny. But this also poses the question what the responsibilities of web-search are. In some sense the most qualitative output (including autocomplete) is also conventionally responsible. I‘m not sure if this is always the case.
Some data here [1]:

A recent clinical trial [2] by the F.D.A. suggests that the complications experienced by Mr. Ramirez are not uncommon.

Nearly half of all people who had healthy eyes before Lasik developed visual aberrations for the first time after the procedure, the trial found. Nearly one-third developed dry eyes, a complication that can cause serious discomfort, for the first time.

The authors wrote that “patients undergoing Lasik surgery should be adequately counseled about the possibility of developing new visual symptoms after surgery before undergoing this elective procedure.”

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/well/lasik-complications-...

[2] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullartic...
Can't see any confounding variables here! /s

> Hard work is deliberate practice. It’s not fun while you’re doing it, but you don’t have to do too much of it in any one day (the elite players spent, on average, 3.5 hours per day engaged in deliberate practice, broken into two sessions)

Let's not pretend like 3.5 hours a day of practice is not a lot. I completely agree that this is what it takes to be good, but try doing anything for 3.5 hours a day and then say that you "didn't have to do too much of it".
Why would you pay money for this? Literally just sit down and let your mind empty in a calm place. Just sit and be. Why does everybody groupthink and recommend a stupid app?