skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dash Charging = Tesla Supercharger, same idea?
I don’t think they are relying GPS for any indoor stuff. They are using WiFi triangulation, including a WiFi survey you can upload where you walk around with an app and say where you are on the map. WiFi triangulation should be able to pick out your floor pretty accurately.
You'd need to record the elevation of the floors as well relative to your RF reference frame though, otherwise you will know the phone elevation but not what floor it corresponds to. I would guess pico-cells assigned to particular floors in larger buildings.
I think you'll see something akin to the Joel Test [1], but for how companies manage remote. What equipment are they providing? Are you getting a one time allowance to buy your home office setup (desk, external monitor, etc)? Are you getting a stipend towards your internet connection? Are they providing a corporate managed mobile device (why are you using your personal device for work!?)? Do they provide you with a support contact within the org if you need technical support or are you left to flail on your own? Do you have the option of a coworking space allowance so you're not always having to work from your home? How enjoyable and well put together is your onboarding process?

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
Because they cost nothing to buy.
I've got a current model monochrome laser printer and I'm very satisfied with it.
I know it does. It was a response to this:

> There is no such thing as almost free speech in a free society except perhaps for clear cut physical threats.
Can't wait for the 2AM knock on my door, and finding an armed group on my front porch demanding to know how I voted in the last election (I'm surprised people are still putting campaign signs on their lawns or stickers on their cars).
Essentially, the international scope of the communications tools online has allowed for free-speech absolutism to be hacked by the propaganda methods refined via the Cold War.

the NYT isn't highly likely to publish things that source to Russian propaganda ops, because they employ fact-checkers, care about pedigree of information, and change their editorial process in light of system failures. They get tripped from time-to-time, but the same trick doesn't usually work twice.

My relatives on Facebook? Not so much. Nor did Facebook (until recently) care to put an editorial eye to advertising as long as the money was green.

It is not a guarantee that a system structured like this is healthy for democracy, nor is it a guarantee that a democracy doesn't destabilize under it.
Catch is, would it still work next week. Humidity changes, or the wireless situation changes, like someone turns their hotspot on. More people walking around. The carpet is vacuumed.

I can't find anyone using it IRL. I don't think the hardware supports it in an usable fashion.

The one reason you might look at all this now is for Covid-19 they have turned on some Bluetooth features, but I think they are still not available for non Covid-19 apps anyway.
See about replacing the network card on the printer, or updating its firmware. Newer firmwares frequently support Bonjour, and have various security updates.

Replaceable NIC in printers are pretty great, especially when you can buy them for 1/10th of original cost on the used market.
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This is something I've noticed on a lot of older statues. Not just Egyptian ones.

This is pretty far from the standard narrative, but I think something happened 300 years ago. A different group moved in, and destroyed the more beautiful creations of the older group. Where there were statues on churches, these were replaced with gargoyles.

I think the nose destruction you raise is a part of that - its a simple way to 'uglify' a thing of beauty. Those Egyptian statues are representation of people that were in perfect proportions and display idealised geometry.

https://www.emotions.64g.ru/prof3/pro04en.htm

So, I think they were beautiful and destroyed intentionally by whoever conquered or moved in over the preceding group.
To a member of one of the tribes, that tribe's beliefs are obviously the correct ones. To an outside observer, you have to evaluate the individual beliefs.

Is the best policy to combat climate change a carbon tax which is refunded to the population, or a WPA-style "Green New Deal"? According to most economists it's the former, according to AOC it's the latter.

School choice programs have a strong record of giving low income families with children in failing public schools a better alternative, but public school teachers unions are a large Democratic voting block and major campaign donors, so they have a perverse incentive to oppose such programs even when they're succeeding, e.g. by shutting down the popular one in D.C.

Immigration has a multifaceted economic effect. High skill immigration tends to bring domestic economic benefits, because the immigrants spend much of the money in the domestic economy and pay more in taxes than they consume in services. Low skill immigration tends to have the opposite effect, and to suppress wages for unskilled labor or increase unskilled domestic unemployment. If you combine the two the total effect is positive, because the former effect is larger. But the Democratic party has a stronger incentive to promote the latter, because unskilled immigrants from socialist-leaning countries are more likely to vote for Democrats, so they regularly conflate the two and adopt policies that promote the latter, even if it harms the domestic population.

You can undoubtedly find some Republican to argue that all immigration is bad and some Democrat to argue that a carbon tax would be a good answer to climate change, but there remains much wrongness on both sides. The filter bubbles show people who live on one side or the other the reasons why some subset of the other side is wrong and not the reasons why some subset of their side is wrong. It creates an impression that isn't true.

Even the premise is basically nonsense. If one Republican says we should have a carbon tax and another says that climate change is a hoax, does that mean Republicans are right because we should have a carbon tax or wrong because it is real? We know which one will be on CNN. If one Democrat says we should have a carbon tax and another says that climate change will cause human extinction in twelve years without a Green New Deal, does that mean Democrats are right because we should have a carbon tax or wrong because humans won't go extinct if we don't immediately raise taxes to 75% and spend the money on government windmills? You know which one will be on Fox.
I agree. That's why when Facebook bought Oculus back in 2014 I decided to buy the open platform HMD instead, the Vive. It was obvious even then what Facebook would do. What they always do. And the way to get around it is to not use Facebook products or services.
In the steady state your point is right, but transiently a lot of companies are holding the bag right now. Dropbox specifically just built a 770000-square-foot headquarters in San Francisco which, let's face it, they didn't need in the first place (they were already trying to sublease 100k sq ft before COVID). Now they're marketing 1/3rd of that space into a massive glut of unwanted SF office space.

Graph of SF office space availability: https://socketsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/San-Franci...
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what a nasty thing to say
No no, this requires an app! More specifically an SaaS app that come with a monthly plan, yet crowd source to unpaid user the data input. My startup is currently rising series A so we can expand fast and took this market that will have an incredible impact on people’s life.
As someone who has worked from home for a decade, I predict a mental health apocalypse in the near future. Working from home permanently requires support infrastructure not everyone has access to. It also requires a different approach to work altogether which, again, not everyone is capable of adopting.

If you have family, work from home is great. But if you're single, staying cooped up alone at home can be a disaster.
A hate crime is defined as 'Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility....

A hate incident is any incident which the victim, or anyone else, thinks is based on someone’s prejudice towards them because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or because they are transgender.

Evidence of the hate element is not a requirement. You do not need to personally perceive the incident to be hate related. It would be enough if another person, a witness or even a police officer thought that the incident was hate related.

https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/hco/...

Some truly terrifying sentences in there. All based on the perception of someone else.
Curious, what makes this move (and all the rest of the WFH companies) permanent? Won't in the future when things go back to normal the cities will pressure the companies to have their employees go back into offices to make the economy moving? You know, coffee shops, restaurants, etc need to survive.
That’s literally how all civil rights are enforced.
Those are small outliers, when it comes to actual public donations that the company, it's board, and it's employees make they all swing heavily to Democrats, not Republicans. Eric Schmidt was helping the Obama campaign while he was a Google board member. Out of all the companies, Facebook has handled this all the best, and you can tell because they are getting flack from both sides.

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close...
To be clear (if you only read the headline :)), not entirely remote. Solo work at home, collaborative work in "studios", basically reimagining the offices into collaborative/convening spaces that you go into from ~once/week to once a quarter depending on team/role.

Remote-only cuts out the in-person experience entirely, which is problematic for building teams and culture; and ad hoc "WFH whenever you feel like it" gets a sort of worst-of-both-worlds situation where you neither get the same kind of flexibility nor the sense of community you typically get from an office (since a large percentage of the team isn't there on any given day, and folks that come in the office less tend to be at a disadvantage in terms of visibility & recognition).
> With the same sort of issues that SSN has

Only if knowledge of one's "GUID" was regarded as sufficient to authenticate as them surely?
Emphasis on "feeling", because there's seldom any thinking going on.
I had never made a bet with Betfair at that point. It could be that they just have a policy of banning people who apply for jobs with them. Shame in any case.
An FDM printer can absolutely do the job. My kids are always breaking the battery covers, which I recreate via a FDM printer without issue.

He needs to realign how the part is printed, the layer height, and possibly nozzle size. He can also anneal the parts for added strength.
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It's been 12 days since our last confession, but this Verge review of the Xbox Series X touches on this notion of whether people notice or 'feel' input lag, tied to frame rates (and the interval between them):

This is where the Xbox Series X really started to feel even more PC-like to me. I play at 165Hz with frame rates that exceed 200fps in games like Destiny 2, Valorant, Call of Duty: Warzone, and CS:GO on my gaming PC. I do this a lot of the time by dropping a lot of the quality settings lower because I personally value frame rates over visual quality. Running around the versus multiplayer mode in Gears 5 in 120Hz felt like I was playing on my PC. With frame rates hitting 120fps, input lag is reduced, and the experience was suddenly so much smoother than what I’ve ever experienced on an Xbox One X.

That same feeling of PC-like smoothness plays out in Dirt 5 with the 120Hz mode enabled. Sure, the game drops to rendering at 1440p and some of the visual quality is lowered to achieve 120fps, but when I’m sliding around corners and the input latency is reduced, it’s far better than some mud and snow rendering just that little better on my 4K TV to the point I probably wouldn’t notice the difference.

It’s that feeling that’s really important with this new Xbox, and I can’t stress it enough.

-- https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/15/21515790/xbox-series-x-p...
You may not realize that the $500 chair, the ping pong table and the beer fridge effectively comes out of everyone's paycheck.
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I know you were just joking but I wanted to take it as an opportunity to expand my point. And for record I only have 3k.
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Another startup in this space is Aisle411: http://aisle411.com/
SSN has only issues when it is used as password.

Many other national id's are not used like that and do not have any issues.
on the rhetorical value of appeals to reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24697600
My vision insurance company (in the US) is awful about this. They use emails as usernames and when you log in, there's an option to change the email or password. The problem is if you change the email, it only updates where notifications go. The username is still the old email and that's where things like password reset emails are sent.

(And they don't support 2FA. Better keep the old email around indefinitely...)
This is a bad example. The layer heights are too high. Look at thingiverse.com for examples of what you can do with a 3D printer.
Most countries do, although there is a difference between immigrant and refugee. Immigrant can be you Saudi Prince with billions in the bank. Somehow they never have problems of not being let in anywhere.

Immigrant have no right to just live in another country, refugees fleeing war have that right as long as the danger remains.
Indeed- I only used 2000 as its now the last year for any patents to have been around. But all-in-ones, network printing, duplex, color-laser, were all around in 2000 and any fundamental patents on them should have expired. Wifi integration maybe not, but this seems pretty trivial to "clean room" in this day and age if this is somehow patented functionality.
> I've had my share of burnouts because of its lack of types and difficulties in refactoring big code-bases.

Nim is strongly, statically typed. Also, I agree and aside from performance it's why I started using Nim instead of Python for my gamedev hobby. Dynamic typing isn't good for large projects. Nim has great type inference though, so you get the readability of Python but with strong compile time type guarantees.

Eg;

type SpecialId = distinct int # This int is now type incompatible with other ints
proc handleId(id: SpecialId) =
# ... do something with id.
That’s a good review of the 28S. I had the same issues with mine, To the extent that I’m not sure where it is now!

I later got a 32Sii which is simpler, more focused, and better as a desk calculator. I had a 41cv for many years and loved it even more.
Disagree. The services that require a strict one-to-one mapping between accounts and a human individual is a very small subset of all services (mostly public services and legacy finance).

It would also be a privacy nightmare.
> Finally, the interfacing for printers today is fantastic.

Still in the year of our Lord 2020, once a document hits the Windows Printer Spooler, good luck trying to cancel/abort it.
I'm very interested in this. I read a lot of books that aren't from Amazon on my Kindle. I do a lot of highlighting, which I like to export to readwise.

In order to do this I have to plug in my Kindle. Mount it. Find the clippings file. Upload the file to readwise.

The best I came up with was a script that detects when I plug-in my Kindle and opens the finder window and opens the readwise page. Pretty lame.
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Yes it would make a lot of sense to allow various local coordinate reference systems. Large internal plans could look distorted in wgs84 and in some parts of the world more than others!
The article mentions specifically conspiracy theories saying covid vaccines will kill you or be used to implant tracking microchips. I don't think it takes a scientist to call that misinformation.
Censorship =|= free speech. Free speech is a right guaranteed by the state, what Youtube is doing is more resembling a news paper refusing to pick publish certain readers letters. Freedom of speech is not supposed to guarantee you the maximum possible reach or to protect you from the consequences of ehat you said, social and professional.
the "talk to an expert" button does nothing when pressed brave and safari browsers.
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I'm actively working on one of these right now.

What you are talking about I refer to as 2.5 axis machine vs the traditional 3 axis PLA/FDM printer. Aka a plotter. Using an inkjet cartridge or a laserjet toner on a piece of paper outside the context of the printer it was designed for seems foolhardy at best... but what about moving a pen up and down?

Shameless plug, I've been working on a project called Robot Draws You! (www.robotdrawsyou.com). I'm currently using an off-the-shelf machine and the software / cloud hoops it requires me to jump through were enough to convince me to build my own machine. For the proof of concept I'm using a Duet2 board, but eventually I want to write some code that will sit on a raspi and talk to the Duet to allow the machine a more granular drip-feed style control over the "printing" process". More on that later.

"Why is it hard?" The challenge starts with taking in a given SVG file, making sure it scales / fits within the bounds of a given writeable area, and then generating GCODE to send to the printer / plotter. Because there's no extruder, custom GCODE needs to get created to take advantage of the GPIO pins to move a servo up/down to control the pen. The software challenge is replacing the much-hated cloud interface I complain about. It may suck, but it does a lot and it actually works.

The more I use "the cloud", the more I am reminded it does not provide adequate controls/info on:

- The size of the rendered image relative to the writeable area

- The order in which the layers of the file get rendered

- Information about the progress / time left per layer

- Repeatability of failed layers without re-writing entire project

So crazy me decided "I'll make my own plotter UI and hardware!" It's slow going but it's really fun and I enjoy the challenge. The end solution is going to be a mix of hardware and software that allows you to upload an SVG / vector file to a web UI, start/stop/repeat layers and control the order of the rendering. I like to make drawings of people, and also want to use this to make gigantic maps as well.
Acetone will only work with ABS which has another set of issues. Reducing the layer height and a coat of paint will accomplish almost the same thing using PLA.
I wonder if the tax implications are more complex since the employee can presumably keep that equipment after clocking out (or quitting)
Does not work with PLA, only ABS.
Off the top of my head, that sounds like you're off in the pressure requirement by multiple orders of magnitude. The pressure used for the superconductor is enough to shatter diamond. Creating strain in a lattice like that would just shear the materials apart.
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It is kinda funny.
Europe has been living like this for centuries during Medieval times. Inquisition, witch hunts, heretic burning, wars, plague... African tribes have been at war with each other for as long as we know them. It's a human fallacy and not some evil plan hatched by U.S. billionaires.

Besides, the billionaires will be fine, it's the middle class that will find themselves living in ghettos.
Interesting.

A thing I had heard over the years is that noses were kind of phallic (which seems pretty obvious), so if you were interested in a symbolic neutering, taking the nose off was both physically simple to do and symbolically potent.
You can get a laser engraver or 3d printer for half the cost of those devices that's much more versatile.

These are based on the EBB board which uses a custom command set rather than the more common GCode command set which is the basis for most CNC machines.

If you're interested in CNC I'd recommend going with something that is based on GCode as it's much more transferable. GCode is used in everything from $100 PCB engravers up to multi-million dollar HAAS milling machines.
Youtube hasn't come preinstalled on iOS for like 8 years (removed in iOS 6).. so I really have no idea what you're getting at.
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Saying you want regulation is a classic of DC lobbying. Exxon wants “regulation” too. What it means in practice is that they want to be part of the conversation in choosing what regulations get passed, so actual serious regulations don’t make their way through.
This could be read as: "Dropbox shifts the cost of office space onto it's employees."
> In 2020 a top consumer or business printer will not jam on you.

That's just not accurate. I've personally dealt with truly unreasonable numbers of service calls for high end business models over the last 8 years, jams aren't frequent but they are definitely not rare.
Sounds like you didn't read the book. There's actually a section with the title "Message brokers compared to databases" with a detailed comparison.
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No. HN would be able to remove spam freely. A judge is only involved if the spammer wants to waste money on a lawsuit where they are likely to lose
It doesn't mean anything yet because it hasn't been decided :)

But it seems that an Oracle win would mean you couldn't implement any interfaces compatible with another piece of software without a license.
In your bubble. But in the bubble targeted by this story the censorship is going to accelerate everything.
On October 23, 2012, I paid $133.76 for a "Brother HL-2270DW Compact Laser Printer with Wireless Networking and Duplex" and I have only ever used $12-15 third-party toner cartridges with it.

I had to buy a replacement drum unit in 2016, that was $22.59 (third party, of course).

I find it unlikely that an open-source DIY printer is going to result in something better or cheaper than what I've got.
The worst part is that there is no market what-so-ever for FB or Google ads. The prices are not set by competition, or the market, they are set by the seller. They decide that something's baseline price is $10 per X, not the market. The market has no choice but adjust their ROI based not on actual market conditions, but on the whim of the seller.

And to top it off, almost all digital ads are money losers for the buyer. Its the few that work that get backed into their ROI calculations. Which are essentially a tax added to the purchase price of anything marketed and sold via these channels.

The business is a fraud.
GUID following something like rfc4122 would be definitely better than current national id implementations that tend leak personal information.

I have two national ids (from two different countries).

Both of them leak my birth date and the second one also leaks my gender and even birth place.

The main question is - who should be such authority that would actually provide such identifiers that are guaranteed to be globally unique without collisions.