skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a HP small b&w office printer in 2005. I still am using the original toner I got with it then and it's still doing a fine job. I loved it so much I bought a few more to use in the office I was IT'ing for at the time, and saw them die glorious deaths after printing 10's of thousands of pages. Meanwhile I haven't seen or used a consumer inkjet printer that has lasted more than a few months.
I get that. But the interesting thing about dependencies is how they surface vulnerabilities that can hurt code that works perfectly well. Your current code probably doesn't have many bugs, but includes an unknown number of vulnerabilities from your dependencies. The bad people probably won't bother examining your code for vulnerabilities, but they will be informed of vulnerabilities in popular libs, and then looking for projects that use those versions of those libs is a lot easier than scanning all those projects individually. So you end up having to backport a bunch of fixes to other people's code because that code was popular and came under intense scrutiny.

But I guess you know this, and are OK with the compromises involved. I'll stop here ;)
Wow hot take watch out everyone.
>> Make sure you can buy cheap compatible cartridges

This is not always an option.

Some companies have DRM on their cartridges. My dad's Epson printer's DRM wasn't strictly enforced until a recent firmware update rendered third party cartridges useless. I had to find a way to downgrade the firmware (which wasn't easy, because Epson took down all their old downloads) before compatible cartridges would be recognized again.
It sounds like that makes you think the site accepts a link to a PDF/XLS/DOC and returns a PNG.

Actually, that is basically what happens in the original context for this service.

If you take a look at

https://free.cloudbrowser.xyz

open a remote browser, then search for a PDF/XLS/DOC etc and then click on it, you'll see a dialog which says the file is transferred.

What's happening is the remote browser downloads the file to a temp directory in the cloud, then some software does a POST request with that file to the service (Simple PDF to PNG Server) and gets the viewing link back immediately, before the conversion has completed.

It then sends the viewing link back to the remote browser which opens a tab. The client can then view the document as images securely without the file ever touching their device.

Originally, I didn't intend to release this viewer as a separate thing/product/service.

If you use the viewer (without the remote browser) you do have to submit the file. I didn't make it to fetch them. I made it as a "secure document viewer" for the remote browser product.
What a great printer! My 1020 finally died after my kids knocked it off its stand too many times. I replaced it with a "HP LaserJet Pro M15w Wireless Laser Printer" and am very happy with it. The included toner ran out quickly, but a 3rd party replacement cartridge from SwiftInk works just fine.
As an independent consultant, I do what the customer is doing. If they like TDD, then that's what I do. If they dislike it, then I do what they do. Most of my customers don't write tests first. I have one open source project where I always write tests first to make sure I don't get out of practice.
I kind of agree with you. If fold markers were universal, I'd say that they would have been the best of both worlds. Longer linear functions with logical blocks foldable.

Folds get a bad rap because they aren't that widespread, outside of Emacs/Vim and amusingly, the .NET world, and because some people abuse them to write God-classes and such.
Sure, done: https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/builds.sr.ht/251
Like anything else, social skills just takes practice. A lot of practice. I've read probably over a hundred books on self-help, sales, influence, social skills of all sorts. Ultimately the conclusion is that meeting people and socializing can be scary, but, it's an irrational fear it gets better and easier with practice. It's less about being right or saying the right thing all the time, and more about having a quick reaction to what to say and connect with people on an emotional level. It is all about practice. If you work at a company that has a sales team and you ever wonder how they're so good at being witty, funny, or being liked, just remember that it took them a lot of practice. They're probably on the phone all day long, and I can guarantee you that for most of them it was really hard at first too. Eventually you just get better with people because your brain will adapt, so just put yourself out there.
A counterpoint is that I've seen that people get appointed to handle those things and the recurring meeting happens but with additional overhead and people involved. Source: working in government
I think the poster may have meant "a waste of a good book" not "a waste of money".

It's like how throwing produce away at the grocery store is "a waste" but the system is cost-effective.
True, I can imagine circumstances where it would be preferable. I was just commenting about my own situation.

(BTW, I am nearly blind without my glasses, but that's never really bothered me. I just wear the glasses.)
I didn’t say what you alluded to in your last paragraph. Legally people can and do drink and drive, it’s illegal to consume drugs and drive in any amount (in my state).

My personal experiences in high school and college lead me to believe a lot of people think it’s ok to smoke and drive and to some extent do other things. While they will avoid drunk driving just because it’s much easier to detect alcohol.
Would this be more common if more parents were aware it was a possibility? At this risk of sounding arrogant, I'm fairly certain I could have kept up with at least the average college student by the time I was 12 or 13.

Can you even enroll in university without a high school diploma? I certainly might have if I had heard more stories like this.
I accept the reality of global warming (I'm almost a single-issue voter on the subject), but I look at it from a Bayesian point of view: if we compared two universes, one where AGW was real, and one where the scientific consensus was mistaken (not exactly unprecedented), popular opinion would probably vary by no more than 1% between the two.

Humans tend to start with moral intuitions and tribal affiliations, and then cherry-pick data to support them; that irrational force is at work even in the cases where tribal values-signaling happens to align perfectly with reality.
We're becoming an incredibly risk averse society. Not sure what that means for the future...
I got pissed off supporting my parents' non-stop issues with inkjet printers, and bought them a nice Brother laser printer with duplex printing about 15 years ago.

This year I replaced it with another Brother Laser, and in between then and now, I've only had to buy a toner cartridge about once every 3 years or so.

Zero other issues. Worth every penny.

At home I have a cheap Samsung M2820DW (duplex as well).

Both Brother and Samsung seem to have good Linux support.
So 2 + 2 = 5 because my god said so and therefore I'm right. And we wonder why Americans are considered so stupid. Many of them literally are.
There has been nothing I’ve spent money on that has been as useful and valuable to me as getting lasik 15 years ago. If I had known ho much it would change my life I would pay 10 times as much.
I agree. This will be expensive at first so we roll it out to luxury brands.
The problem here is not with bail though. The problem is with mandatory jail time for expired license.
On the contrary, there is another school of thought which says that the people who started going to school late in life are much more resilient to difficult situations in life.

When I look at earlier generation (I am 77 born), I notice that they are happier than others in tough times. And the generation younger than me feels irritated when the elders ask them to take it easy or ask them to ignore some comments etc.

The academic competition is taking lives out of people.
They certainly are content creators. Not really a fan of porn streams though. Prostitution is legal in my country but I wouldn't want to visit one. It is a large industry but it isn't ubiquitous because of legality.

So porn models would probably be a thing even if all payment providers stopped their service for porn. It would just be completely counter productive since this form of sex work is probably as safe as it can be. And any life style decision shouldn't be dependent on payment processors.
Could "Never" be defined as a time frame from year 2012 to at least 2019 ?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/21/18275837/facebook-plain-t...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/faceb...

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-passwords-plaintext-cha...
I had PRK a few years ago and 'miracle' is how I would describe it.
Eye drops do not treat the underlying cause of dry eye (unhealthy/insufficient tears, inflammation (e.g. blepharitis), or in rare cases neuropathic pain). They are just symptom relief.

For anyone reading this who manages their dry eye with eye drops, please do some reading or see a specialist. If all you do is use eye drops, your dry eye will likely get worse.

Eye drops bolster your tear film and help prevent desiccating stress to the eye surface, but they lack growth factors and other important compounds found in biological tears, and can even contribute to washing those away.

Last, whatever you do, don't use eye drops with preservatives (e.g. benzalkonium chloride).
You can do it in Photoshop with various color tweaks, blurs, and textures. It helps a lot to "stage" the original shots for background removal (or to look like they could already be in an underwater location).
This is only a mildly disturbing headline to see, literally a couple hours before my Lasik procedure...

But from what I see in the article, the negative experiences are few and far between, not to mention, they don't seem to take into account variation between different clinics. Is there a connection in quality to the doctor or their practice? Is there some problem with a piece of equipment?
Even a 1% failure rate is extremely high. This is incredibly bad.
Self-defense doesn't exist according to HN. The SFPD should be good enough for anybody, which means all private guns are just murder waiting to happen.
That's interesting, but when reading the book my takeaways weren't really whether some cancer risks doubles or so.

They were

* what are REM/NREM, light and deep NREM sleep for?

* some fascinating study about lucid dreaming

* effects of coffein and sleep medication

* sleep hygiene tips

* some other things I can't recall right now

Yes, you can read about these things elsewhere, too, but I still think the book is a tremendous introduction to the subject.

But I don't have an academic interest in the subject, so the criticisms in the article do not matter much to me (except for some uneasy feeling about accuracy in general). If you're a student of medicine, cognitive sciences or whatever, you should probably get your introduction elsewhere anyway.
me too! you know, that "flow" thing they talk about, nothing puts me quicker in the flow zone than washing the dishes. must have something to do with the sound of running water maybe...
It's not unusual to do this. Cloudflare has an open peering interface: https://www.cloudflare.com/partners/peering-portal/
Agreed, but I would say that chat channels (and especially 1:1 chat pings) typically have expectations closer to immediate mode compared to other mediums. Because they typically cause a notification and break in concentration, I label them as "synchronous." Any communication medium that does not have notifications and only works via me polling it is asynchronous.
It is the same.

If the only folks who can sell products are ones who have a deal with the rightholder and can prove they have the rights to sell - obviously the big players will be the ones able to do the deals with Nike, Apple, etc and little guys will not.

If the federal government actually cared they can ALREADY intercept and even destroy imported counterfeit products - they do not because it's a bit time consuming and hard and they also don't care.
It depends on the specific situation whether or not I write tests before, during or after feature development. But having experienced the benefits of having a reliable test suite, I can now never go back to not having one. Gives so much more confidence of things working and especially not breaking.
Okay I think I buy it. Great proof, thanks!
That’s Schrödinger's unit test, I guess.
yandex is better for image search

and bing is not that far behind for web.

Right now search engines are not a hot topic. But if people smell that google is starting to lose it, you bet they 'll go after his market share like rabid dogs
I own a biography of von Neumann called "John von Neumann", by Norman Macrae. It is serviceable and gives you a feeling for von Neumann's life, but it is not particularly deep. It does contain examples of the sort of anecdotes you mentioned, however.
Yeah it’s weird how easy it is to really screw yourself by doing things out of the ordinary.
64GB will cost you $800 now. When you need it, it may cost half that, or less. And Apple was notorious for underspec'ing the maximum amount of RAM a machine could take - it was common for a machine to take double the Apple official maximum because the DIMM densities increased with time. Since the integration of the memory controller into the CPU this is less of an issue, but the soldered RAM means you're limited to the amount that Apple is prepared to give you, which until this model has been far less than the CPU actually supports - the 15" i9 could be spec'd to 32GB, but the CPU could address 64GB.

Apple's attitude to upgrading is to replace the entire machine. It's both expensive and absurd. I bought a 2008 MBP back in uni in 2010. I later upgraded the RAM and disk when I could afford to, and when I had reached the limits of what it had. That machine served me well for 5 years. There's nothing else on the market today I'd trust to be a daily use machine for 5 years straight.
I started college at 9. Didn't actually graduate at the time, basically started doing computer projects on my own, then went back to school at 22 in the PhD program at Berkeley. I haven't made a huge deal about this, but am more open to talking about it now, especially if the experience helps other people. Feel free to AMA.
Sellers are fleeing eBay in droves because eBay and PayPal always side with the customer, even in blatantly fraudulent cases.

More than half of the orders I've placed on eBay in the past year have been cancelled by eBay or PayPal because they detected fraud from the seller. I can't be bothered to keep wasting my time and money on a site that is hardly even a shadow of what it used to be.

Amazon suffers the same,but slightly different problems.

As such I've had no choice but to revert back to shopping in person, or in many cars simply skip out on purchasing things I could have readily found on eBay or Amazon five years ago for good prices without hassle. Somewhere eBay and Amazon have completely dropped the ball. I hope it effects their bottom line soon because the second hand stores near me are junk.
Anecdotal, obviously, but the only person I know that has had Lasik now has terrible, chronic dry eyes. I took stats with her; she said it never even crossed her mind that it might actually be pretty risky.
I'll try them, though I just did some searches for some random categories like sailboat products and got nothing back. We have switched a lot of our home goods shopping to them (in person).
It's also possible that the greatest minds of our time aren't engaged in furthering our understanding of the universe, but instead devising more efficient ways of displaying internet advertising or faster stock trading algorithms.
Thanks for speaking out.
I think you're missing the key part:

>hard to get back in

It's been discussed to death, by overseas sellers simply have a massive advantage in starting new seller accounts on Amazon.
I just imagine a meeting bot, who takes care of bringing my points to those slack meetings, and sums up the results.
Interesting side note about LASIK, it’s caused problems for the navy: it’s getting harder and harder to fill submarine crews. It used to be that for top-qualified recruits, the ones with perfect vision became pilots and the rest got stuffed into subs. Then the military started providing LASIK, and suddenly no one’s dq’ed from flying because of their vision. The submarine force is a tough sell to begin with, but when the alternative is Top Gun forget about it.
It's the same as Wish and all the other "third-party" online marketplaces. They don't give a shit because they're making so much money from the "unsuspecting consumer" segment.
FWIW, speaking as a seller, the conventional wisdom is that number of separate orders for a given item as a result of a given search term is the primary driver of search result ranking. Not revenue maximization, in other words.
It's going to be used to allow homeschooling to accept answers that are purely based on religion. It's just going to harm Ohio as their schools lose accreditation due to religion replacing science, after all you can't penalize someone if they legitimately believe that the Earth was made by Xenu. It's a legitimate concern after all. In fact how do we know what a legitimate concern is and who dictates that? If this were as innocent as you say then there would be no reason to create it as that's the status quo. You're not reading this correctly through religious lenses. It also does nothing to protect atheists unless there's some other part of the bill that covers it as atheism isn't a religion.
I use YouTube Vanced on Android. It's essentially a modded YouTube that you can install alongside the real one without issues (it doesn't replace the standard app).

https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-yout...

https://www.xda-developers.com/youtube-vanced-apk/

Aside from a few additional options and interface tweaks, the main reason I use it is for playback with the screen off.
> For anyone reading this who manages their dry eye with eye drops, please do some reading or see a specialist

Good advice to check, of course, but my friend that has chronic dry eye from Lasik was basically told it's a lifetime of drops for her now.
I couldn't find any place to send in the issues with SourceHut. I like the UI, but can't use web-site at all, if i go anywhere outside of my profile it brings in - register or log-in button and link and if I click log-in it says:

> Error logging in
> Error occured retrieving account info. Try again.
> Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

--Michael Caine
I would argue, from a pure cost-benefit perspective that full legalization of drugs is desirable unless someone has another credible plan for eliminating the black market without unacceptable consequences (e.g. a police state).
So, you add a command to your debugger that lets you step over a "block" (a sequence of statements surrounded by braces -- the analog to Lisp's PROGN and Scheme's BEGIN) and before you debug the undifferentiated stream of many statements, you factor it into a handful of statements -- without introducing any new function names -- some of which are blocks.
I asked for LASIK but was turned down by the eye doctor / surgeon because my vision is -9.5 and he felt it was too high of a risk.
My optometrist also said to stay away - my eyes are very healthy, so why tamper with them?

I wear glasses every day as I can't seem to read and focus properly using contact lenses (tried about 5-6 times the last 15 years) and the quality is great. I use those high index glasses that are so thin you'd think they are -3.

I still think about some kind of surgery though - maybe ICL ?
Interestingly, this is one of the inspirations for Study Swami. I saw a lot of this- and even with less gifted students but who still didn't know how to live up to their "potential."
White rappers and hip hop culture (2017)
The Simplest Test of Cognitive Decline
Apart from inherent intellectual horsepower, what else during your formative years could have played a role in you being able to learn faster?
i mean if it blinded 1% of people and worked perfectly for 99% of people I would not want it approved
This is a bit disturbing of a headline to see, literally a couple hours before I'm scheduled for a Lasik procedure.

But after reading the article, I don't know how much weight there is to this. Seems to be a small sample and that report is heavily highlighting a couple negative items out of a largely happy pool of patients.

Was there any connection to the doctor or clinic? Did some clinics or equipment have a higher rate of complications? I'm getting mine performed at a well reviewed practice in San Jose.

This article isn't enough for me to cancel the procedure, but it was enough of a scare to put me on the edge for a second. Sensationalism? Maybe not quite, but it'd be great if these reports would work to remove their bias.
How did you manage to attend college at age 9? Was it your parents/home schooling?
If you’re chronically stressed and up late working, you’re doing something wrong.

Or you have an infant.
Modernizing our front-end with Angular
I had PRK and it left me with astigmatism in both eyes. Afterwards I had both eyes redone and the "touch up" made it better, but it was still bad enough that I needed glasses to correct my vision. I'm trying to decide whether it makes sense to try again a third time.

Whether or not a third time would work, my laser surgeon already told me it would be the last time he'd try to fix it (which is a different tune than he was singing originally).
Since my surgery, I've bumped into a number of other PRK patients who've had similar troubles.

Also, the procedure left me with "haloing", which means that when its dark outside and you see lights, they all have a white halo around them, which is super annoying.

Another word of warning to potential PRK patients: the recovery period for me was measured in weeks (over a month, for me), and during that time my vision was hampered enough to make it difficult or impossible to work on computer screen. All in all, I wish I never had PRK.
I ran into a lot of the complications this article mentions (halos, dry eyes, and for a few weeks afterwords a blurriness from cells dying called something like "superficial protein keratitis"). All of them were temporary though and cleared up after a few weeks/months. (Well, except the halos, but they're not that severe and I already had bad night vision and halos before this, it just made them a little more pronounced) I do think it's a procedure you should really think carefully about before you do it, but I wouldn't want the FDA to ban it or something. Overall I'm currently happy with it.

My suggestion would be, if you're thinking of doing it, make sure the eye doctor who checks out your candidacy is one you trust and hopefully have been with for a while. When it comes down to it, the procedure itself is pretty safe and automated so the part to optimize is screening people before the procedure happens.
I used to work for a WISP for a while, and it has been my experience that getting full 802.11g speeds on longer links in densely populated areas can be a real challenge due to spectrum congestion.
Same. Although I did end up migrating to a DO droplet so I could use it outside of home and share with family/friends. Absolutely can't live without it now.
Ted Kaczynski was a child prodigy who enrolled in Harvard at 16 and graduated in 3 years. He completed his post-grad at Michigan, won an award for his thesis, and became the youngest math professor ever at UC Berkeley. He later retired to a cabin in rural Montana and became the Unabomber.