skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
InkJet printers are a scam. And not [only] because of the "genuine" cartridge lock in, but because they are trash devices.

I had 2 "low-end" HP printers that would die after 2 years (warranty period). The way they would die is very interesting: The printer would receive the document to print, pull in paper, start priting but not pull the paper so everything would get printed on one line. Then, when it is done printing, it would move the paper properly, in steps, without printing anything, until it's "done", when it would eject the paper. That is a software problem, because 1. it can pull the paper precisely, and 2. it can print. It just desynchronizes the pulling of paper with the printing.

After that, I got another HP printer that was 3 times the price, which works right now, but it's absolutely trash quality. It cost 100€, and I'm comparing it's color print quality to a color laser printer at work, from Konica Minolta, which is actually 5 times the price, the but the quality, speed of printing, reliability and cost of maintenance (and the fact it's been printing hundreds of pages per day for 5 years without duying yet).

InkJet printers are awful in quality, cost more to own, require regular maintenance, break or pause in critical moments ("Please wait while the printer performs head alingment", "The printer is priting a test page. When done, please scan the page and click OK to continue. ", "The printer is cleaning the head surface. Please wait. This may use up a large amount of ink. ") and slower than laser printers.

This is not mentioning the fact that print quality in black is atrocious on cheaper InkJets, which specify a huge resolution but in reality the dots are misaligned and fuzzy.

Basically, awful devices. Printers in general are awful devices, but consumer InkJets are a whole different level.

Edit: I just checked, Konica Minolta in Belgrade (Serbia), represented by Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH, literally only does "Industrial InkJet printers" now, and has subscription models for whole printers, where a company pays a monthly subscription for a printer, and has that printer maintained on-premise, replaced with no downtime, refilled and has some level of additional support. I'm not sure that's what my workplace uses.
Stockfish 11 released, strongest chess player in the known universe
Author here. The blog post contains a clear explanation of Bayesian Inference and provides careful arguments about its potential benefits and limitations. Further, Bayes rule was typed correctly when it was being used to show that the posterior q(f^*|D) \approx q(f_\theta|D).

We understand Bayes rule... just had a typo and when proof reading the article we didn't check the first equation because: Who would mess up Bayes rule?
2 movies last year. Is the website dead or is the 3D fad dead?
Btw, from my research, the New Yorker article is a little sensationalized.

These videos are a better source of information IMO:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2CLEFocYVw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzFYO1EU6rs
Depends how much they cared, I'd wager. GCHQ operate a "full take" surveillance apparatus, so the data is certainly there.
> Is go played anywhere else in the universe, and was it discovered by chance there?

> What openings do aliens play?

I love these questions about if anyone else in the universe is playing Go. My gut response would be yes -- it's a simple enough game (regular game grid of any size roughly 5x5 on up, one type of piece, two players take turns alternating placing pieces, and any that are surrounded are removed). I suspect other simple enough games that likely exist elsewhere in the universe would be tic-tac-toe, connect-N, dots and boxes, and Othello/Reversi -- any others?

Contrast with, say, Chess, which has too many different types of pieces, all with specific movement rules, and with a specific initial layout. I wouldn't be surprised if Chess only existed here, though I also would expect plenty of games similar to Chess to exist out there in the universe, i.e. a game on a regular board with multiple types of pieces and different rules for moving the different pieces. If Shogi, Checkers, or Stratego weren't human games I wouldn't be surprised to learn them from aliens.

It's a great question -- what is the most universal board game? What board game has been independently invented the most times throughout the universe? What if it's a game that we haven't even come up with?
How is competition between males a consequence of sexual dimorphism?

Note that males in species with low sexual dimorphism compete for mates as fiercely as males in species with high sexual dimorphism.

Also note that the human species has very low sexual dimorphism relative to other species. E.g. our females are not many times the size of males, as they are in Black Widow spiders, our males don't have different colours of body coverage, like many species of birds do, etc etc. And of course many humans can easily pass for the other sex by changing their hair-style and clothing as evidenced by numerous cases in history where females passed as males by cutting their hair short and wearing pantaloons etc.
Wow, that's the epitome of ungraceful failure right there! :D
Printers at my work place are network only, and the server keeps copies of everything scanned and printed. Every user logs in to the printer with a 6 or 9 digit PIN and chooses which document to print or where to store the scanned file. You can encrypt the file and decrypt on the printer, I'm not sure if the printer returns the key to the server for later analysis.
Ryanair, the largest supplier of such flights, has never had a fatal accident, and is quite proud about that. They’re sticking by Boeing for now, but if the ultimate fix is questionable, who knows.
How about the zwave alliance systems?
Google Kills the Cookie, Leaving Digital Media Companies Craving a New Way Forwa
Slightly out of topic. I'm actually looking into smart home devices for an apartment I have that will be rented half of the year on airbnb when I'm not there. Specifically, I want to be able to control lights, the air conditioner, the heating and rolling shutters remotely.

I mostly want to do thzt because I want to be able to turn off heating and air conditioner remotely, but I would also like to have a master button to turn off all the lights when people live the apartment, a button to turn of lights on a path to the toilets in the bedroom and an alarm that automatically opens the shutters in the morning at the scheduled time (always found that waking up by sunlight is better)

Does anyone here have any recommendation of which devices I can control directly with something like a raspberry pi that's always on? I've read that Z-Wave's specifications avoid the Zigbee specifications pitfall that make them to vendor dependent..
That question only makes sense in reference to the model of the universe you choose and you estimate parameters. It's not a precise argument, it's a warning about theories that make life too improbable.

And of course probability doesn't matter for events that occur only once in the universe. This isn't a scientific theory.
Reminds me of this [0], no offense :D

The study only investigates problematic internet use and it was conducted in Italy though. So yes, that generalized title statement is bullshit.

[0] https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2159
Microsoft rightfully decided not to push a garbage app platform. It couldn't know someone else would do so later.
I am waiting for a government that puts together all the tech we are developing right now and creates the perfect surveillance state. Even in the worst governments like Russia under Stalin, the Nazis or North Korea citizens still have/had the possibility to move around and do things without anyone knowing. That soon may be over.
A car can declare delivery during a fixed time range.
Really? Are the regulation requirements for non-passenger-service really that much more lax? A 737 MAX crashing into a city somewhere could easily kill a lot of people in addition to the two pilots onboard.
Because a leftist government knows what is better for you than you do. Sometimes you will need to be monitored so you can keep in line.
You don't need any personal data in the UK. They're 50p in the shops. You do need to activate them with an over the counter top up though. They accept cash.
The paragraph beginning with "Let’s consider how we might apply the Bayesian framework..." where he introduces the notation is a great example of everything I hate about mathematical notation. We have big-F, small-f, f-of-x, f-sub-x, f-star, big-F-star... and then he decides to abbreviate what he just introduced. If I didn't know what's happening and I was trying to understand this for the first time, I would have no chance and would just give up right there.
How long could you think for if you were dumped in the vacuum of space?
Agreed. And asking the question “what can I do locally/ in my state”?

It seems the EFF has some play in this area: https://www.eff.org/pages/face-recognition

But it’s hard to identify what efforts I could support with my time where I am. The right to repair movement has done a good job of communicating state by state proposed laws that can be advocated for. Is there anyone doing the same thing for privacy?
Seems to me there are two related problems:

1. IoT device stops working when the vendor drops support.

2. IoT device stops getting security updates and ends up on an DDOS botnet when the vendor drops support.

If you want to solve 2, whoever takes over support needs control of the auto-update mechanism, something to deter them from abusing that control, and no unpopular devices or cheapskate customers to fall through the cracks.
Using `nix` I have an alias called `serve` that runs `nix run nixpkgs.caddy -c caddy -host 0.0.0.0 -port 8000 browse` which will download Caddy if it is not in my cache and then run it. It's one of my favorite aliases and I use it way more frequently than I'd expect.
I think this is the first case the Supreme Court heard: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engblom_v._Carey

Because of the lack of any prior Third Amendment jurisprudence, this decision established three important holdings not previously articulated: (1) that the National Guardsmen qualify as soldiers under the Third Amendment; (2) that the Third Amendment applies to state as well as federal authorities, i.e., is incorporated against the states; and (3), that the protection of the Third Amendment extends beyond home owners, that is, those only with a fee simple arrangement, but includes anyone who, within their residence, has a legal expectation of privacy and a legal right to exclude others from entry into the premises.[1] The majority held that the correctional officers' occupancy in the rooms was covered under the legal rules of "tenancy" and was therefore protected under the Third Amendment.

Basically, the state kicked striking prison guards out of their employee benefit housing for national guard troops to use while the national guard was used for overseeing the prison.

Nixon started “the war on drugs”, and it looks like they didn’t try to use that as a defense.
Light rail can work; many European tram systems are very effective. Needs proper planning, tho. I was amazed by the article saying that a station is under 1k passengers per day. Dublin doesn’t exactly have a well-regarded transport system, but I don’t think any of our tram stops do that few.
Yeah it's a state persistence issue. Your worker literally times out and state is lost. So maybe a central repository (database) or hand-off to a new worker. Then there's the whole idea of security and trust.

Like I said, it's a dumb idea. Which is why I expect to see an SV startup try it.
Sounds like a dog whistle for censoring dissenters. All these people that disagree with us were bots ..... Ban hammer.
My personal rule: Ignore any news story that uses the word "might".

Sure, something might happen. Anything might happen. The news is supposed to tell us things that did happen.
Not to take away from your point, but music purchased from iTunes is your music. Purchased iTunes music is completely DRM free and can be played anyway you want by just copying the files. I'm pretty sure Amazon digital music purchases are DRM free as well.
And at the recent 100-year anniversary of same, and in just about every article talking about the yearly flu. A quick glance shows me that I have three books about it on my kindle right now; it is ever-present. What you actually don’t hear much about is the 1968 flu pandemic, which was recent-enough to be relevant to any modern discussion of the topic and which killed millions.
Ruin your own UX to spend less time on social media
My conclusion is that unless you're printing 50+ large photos or hundreds of 4"x6" pics per year, the total cost of just ordering prints from a print shop is much lower than owning an inkjet.
A trip to the east bay also yields all of those things, but traffic is brutal so VCs stay in SF & the peninsula.
We use Trello and GDocs (slack only for shallow stuff). Curious how Basecamp is different in terms of discussion threads. trello seems fine, but something is a bit weird when discussions are deeper or longer. I can’t exactly put my finger on it, that’s why I wonder how it compares to Basecamp
"In August 1967, the UK Electric Vehicle Association put out a press release stating that Britain had more battery-electric vehicles on its roads than the rest of the world put together... closer inspection disclosed that almost all of the battery driven vehicles licensed for UK road use were milk floats."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
Given that rifles are involved in such a small number of murders, why go to all the effort of including rifles in the ban? Seems like a big logistical challenge and you'd make a lot of your fellow citizens unhappy.

If your proposal is to ban all semi-auto pistols (including from police) but allow all semi-auto rifles (without allowing state/local restrictions), you might get some traction. Such a plan would be better supported by numbers, better supported by the Constitution (which is talking about militia weapons), and more politically palatable (nobody will say "over my dead body" because they have to change their little gun for a big gun).
Where did they get your photo? Did they get it from Facebook? You probably agreed to let Facebook share it with whoever they want when you uploaded it there. Is it a photo of you in a public place? People are not usually entitled to compensation for that.
The fact it works makes it more dangerous.
Could the Equal Rights Amendment Become a Reality?
We'll, I guess I'm easy to please because I loved Dr. Strange in 3D even though it's on the fake page.
While I think it’s exaggerated, the concerns are valid. If something like what hit Alaska in the ‘60s hits a more densely populated are there will be damage and things will be off line for a while. But also it’s not a catastrophic event that wipes out the economy of the area.

Of course that’s of no comfort to the people who will perish n such an event.

It’s just that it’s not going to be like a 1920s Tokyo or SF 1906 since we should have better handle on fire and emergency response in general.
If you piece together everything happening in the world and NOT cheer on your political party, it seems like the crazy conspiracy people, gun nuts, and those outside of the box type thinkers have a point.

We are being divided and then being asked to restrict other people's freedom because we don't understand it.
Zigbee lights are generally not vendor dependent. You can buy Ikea lights and they will interoperate with a Philips hub just fine.

To use a Raspberry Pi as the hub, you can use Home Assistant and a USB or GPIO Zigbee adapter such as the Conbee or Raspbee. Home Assistant generally requires a Pi 3. Automations are all defined within Home Assistant so they do not depend on having homogeneous vendors.
Disgusting. Free speech is a human right.
Completely vulnerable to systemic risk. As soon as a wave of companies go out of business, your revenue disappears and your costs skyrocket.
I have a similar experience, but precisely because of this I am very careful to check the formula each time I have to type it. Mistakes in the formulas are not "just typos", they are a very annoying and potentially harmful kind of typos, and we must take great care in order to avoid them.
Code escrow doesn't guarantee maintenance either, that would be yet another committment for the company and might increase their operating costs over time as the accumulate more and more zombie products to maintain, potentially leading to failure too.
Yeah, people who aren't in perfect running form don't deserve help.
Considering you usually have better salary with 2-4 years extra experience there is more to it than that. I guess universal daycare is a non starter in the US, and even though we have that here in Sweden women still opt to stay at home more than men, but that difference getting smaller every year. One of the measures says 30% of childcare days are used by fathers, but that is only paid time. The statistics for the unpaid time is usually a lot worse.
> That’s because Facebook and other social media sites prohibit people from scraping users’ images — Clearview is violating the sites’ terms of service. “A lot of people are doing it,” Mr. Ton-That shrugged. “Facebook knows.”

The last kind of person on Earth I want making an app like this is someone that doesn't care about terms of service, morality, contracts, or upholding the law. It seems like he just got into it for the money, and has no compunction about unethical behaviour. "Everybody's doing it" is a cliche, and idiotic, response. Don't take any wooden nickels when you sell your soul...
I've had similar thoughts, but wouldn't giant companies like Amazon be taking this into consideration if it were really an issue?
I was thinking of adding some other services as well as all people (expats) were looking for those; buying stuff for you and putting it into suitcases for instance.

I have a room full with crap; even at $1/day per case (which I would pay long term), I can put enough cases in there and easily get them out to pay triple the mortgage on the entire house every month... All my chinese and thai friends (where I store stuff now) would gladly long term store cases in their houses: 20-30 of them for sure.

Short term they would not but 2 weeks or more; many people working abroad would jump at that.
The cost of electrical infrastructure is peanuts in comparison to roads or rail. Yes, the cost of a road in front of a 1,000 apartment skyscraper is more than that if in front of a suburban condo, but not 1,000x as much. Most importantly the commute past time even at walking speed is dramatically less.

On top of this the most valuable infrastructure is things like hospitals, restaurants, etc where proximity is a huge deal. NYC has 2,581,170 apartments picture replacing them with single family homes on one acre and the city dies as that’s over 3,900 square miles excluding roads. It’s a classic tragedy of the commons where everyone wants more space, but that does not result in a city.
One of the greatest faults of Linux was sticking to the GPLv2, GPLv3 actively sought to deny "tivoization" as they called it, as Tivo used Linux and provided the code, but required signed software to boot, rendering the access to the code effectively pointless
This is/was inevitable.

We all know that once technology allows a beneficial behavior you can easily get away with, nothing can stop it. See torrents, ad blocking, reverse-engineering, cracking, etc.

But even from a legal/moral perspective, it's not clear where the line is. The data is publicly available, uploaded voluntarily by the people themselves. The algorithms are freely available. People are allowed to take photos...
Sure, the end product is creepy, but where along the way did we go too far?
I think the answer is finding a way to transform data into a format that takes advantage of those brain centers. Visualization is a great example of this, but has a long way to go.
Potentially we are if an even more polluting investment becomes more profitable and they go for that. Gas, for instance, usually emits less CO2 but emits a lot more methane, which is ~90 times more warming. This is what coal is typically being replaced with.

I'd like to know what is the point of giving investors a pat on the back for engaging in selfish behavior? It's like thanking a full tiger for not eating you.
So, we must always be reactive rather proactive in our responses? I'm personally quite interested in what might be coming, particular ly if the article does a good job of describing driving forces and potential obstacles.
I've found pair programming to be very effective for mixing two non-overlapping senior-level skillsets. For example, one person with deep domain knowledge but little experience in a particular language can pair with a language expert with little knowledge of the specific domain, to quickly produce a high quality solution in a fraction of the time as either could manage alone.
This may be the best first large-scale use case for electric vehicles. Companies can better focus on total cost of ownership than with private light duty vehicles. The payback will also be better because of the greater utilization than with private cars. Lastly, there should not be large problems with charging infrastructure because all of these vehicles return to their depots at night.
> what's wrong with PHP?

There is a great deal of complexity on every single construct on the language, and there is not enough expressive power to create simple programs that do a lot of things.

At the late 90's and early 00's, there was a fashion of creating high level languages by adding very powerful framework into a very basic language. That makes for a beginner-only language that is easy to kinda-learn, but hard to create anything good. PHP is trying to evolve beyond this, but all the legacy does hold it back.
Honestly, I assumed you'd order the parts from a UK retailer.
Lots of reasons. Catching tax evasion. Stopping crime. Preventing themselves from getting overthrown by their own citizens.

The problem is there are good and bad reasons, but even the good reasons will be corrupted by bad people.
Iron products are supposed to be shipped with a mineral oil coating.
Schools 'converting toilet blocks into isolation booths'
Well whatever you do, don't start looking up Yellowstone.
The Fusion of Deep Learning and Combinatorics
The thing is, in such circumstances, a law should allow a judge to order to open source all software and protocols to the public.

You want to sink a ship? Cool. But we are taking what we paid for with us.
I imagine dice, or some other physical object that introduces randomness, is a sure thing if intelligent life exists elsewhere.
Also Naples, IT, also sits atop a “supervolcano”[1]. It’s one whose volcanoes have erupted rather recently.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegraean_Fields
It's not news, it's speculation and should be noted as such. The opinion section would be an appropriate place for it.

If some journalist wants the world to know what their crystal ball says the world is going to be like, they should publish a book, write a blog, whatever. Don't pretend it's journalism.

Humans are notoriously bad at predicting the future.
Likelihood of Autoregression in Stock Returns
~90% murders happen within the same ethnic group.

In a given year, there are about as many black bodies as white bodies, while the population ratio is 1 : 6.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-hom...

> Of the 13,455 cases from last year in which the FBI listed a victim's racial information, 7,039 victims – or 52.3 percent – were black. That compares with 5,854 cases – or 43.5 percent – in which the victim was white, an increase of about 8 percent from last year.

> It's a disparity that becomes more pronounced in the context of population, as 2015 Census estimates suggest that whites account for 77.1 percent of the overall U.S. population of roughly 321 million, while blacks comprise 13.3 percent.