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When I search for programming topics (in my case, Swift related) I see lots of links from sites like xspdf.com and others that clearly just scraped stack overflow and other legit sites, crammed the content in a useless format that makes Google think it is original and adds tons of ads. Since it looks legit in Google search results you click on it and then realize how useless the content is. Often the sites appear earlier that the original content did.

So I don't click on them now that I know this. Google of course seems not to care or is incapable of noticing.
I've been using Instant Ink for a couple years now and quite like it. No more late night runs to the store hoping they have the one random cartridge I need. And I have only once run through ink so fast that I found myself without a waiting cartridge that had been previously shipped.

We do a lot of printing in the home right now with virtual schooling for my youngers. Watching them try to complete math assignments (this is early elementary, mind you) on a tablet interface is a frustrating experience, and in my opinion hinders their ability to actually learn the relevant skills. Printing the assignments out on paper and having them use a pencil is both faster and gets them into a learning mode better.
I always liked these

- Pool of Radiance

- Civilization I & II

- Age of Empires II & III
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>Do you remember printing in 2000? Literally every printer was suffering from constant paper jams and other mechanical malfunctions. In 2020 a top consumer or business printer will not jam on you.
The business printers in 2000 had slow processors and more ram. It was significantly bad that printing PDFs spent more time processing the file than putting toner on page.

All of that, including the interfacing are not related to patents.

It's not like there's some patent issue for using USB or wifi in your printer over whatever interface used in 2000 compared.

Or like there's a patent on using faster processor or more RAM in your printer (two things you've mentioned also).
Open source Pen Plotters/ Pick and Place machines all already exist and are common in the Maker world
Python 3.9 standard library (explorable)
Not parent but if 1% of the people who use my FOSS software [1] did pay for it, I'd be making a pretty good salary. I'm just a datapoint but my contributions don't cover the server cost alone and out of the many companies who did contact me, I've refused almost all of them as I'd be making more money flipping burgers than what they were willing to offer considering the time involvement

[1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
I think she just focused on narcissism for a whole month, as well as it being somewhat of a specialty of hers. It's also a pretty big Youtube niche. If you watch the Med Circle content she is pretty succinct and well versed on other mental health issues as well.
>Everything we do is politics in some form.

No. When you go to MacDonald's to get a Happy Meal, what politics do you engage in? When you contract a plumber, do you interrogate him on his political affiliation?

Don't twist language.
> The almost free speech on the other side of the ocean seems to be working pretty well. You get to say anything that isn’t actively harmful to others, but you won’t be able to advertise bleach as a way to get Corona out of your system.

Alternatively, you don't go to jail for suggesting that anybody actually implied injection of bleach as a treatment for coronavirus.
I am not disagreeing with that, just saying the weight of twigs deposited by rivers behind dams is significantly more than the weight of trees that where drowned by the dam formation. Visually trees are very striking, but chemically even tiny fragments of leaves are important.
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well consider the laws mandating equality of coverage in broadcasting in some jurisdictions if you like — those apply directly to the publishers, not the content creators.

The core point is the same: the platforms want to avoid enforced regulation, so they're self-regulating in ways that free-speech proponents don't like
You also can buy Tyvek-like paper if you're so inclined. If I'm doing any serious hiking, I'd never depend solely on electronics.
Would that mean that videos like this [0] which question the claims of Chinese vaccine manufacturers will be censored?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GirhNWy9yXY
Ask HN: Do what you're passionate about”
It's often said that "you should only do a startup in something you're passionate about", but I sometimes wonder if that applies to many of the successful people and startups.

Can someone really be passionate about CRMs? About payment solutions? About mobile games funded by "whales"? Even something like Uber.

Maybe these apparent contradictions have solutions like: the founders like having a business, making money, etc.
Maybe they have motivations that are fairly different from my own.
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That should help with something at least
Rings is not an event in women's gymnastics, as rhythm is not an event in men's, except for a few countries.
PSA: For those on macOS, the Preview app has taken this exact concept and built it in for a while now, and I use it all the time. Clicking and dragging on my signature has saved me countless times.
HP Laserjet were pretty good even pre-2000. I spent some time in publishing. And I'd compare it to nowadays paper feed on a $100-250 ink jet, that has couple of springs (id 3mm, L=15mm) that would just fail and the printer won't take paper any longer. Virtually no printer in that price range has replaceable rubber paper rollers.
That was my first thought as well. But it might be actually reasonable. They have to start somewhere.

If they’ll deliver, and sell enough of these, and unless they’ll be acquired by Apple and shut down, pretty sure we’ll see gender neutral models to follow.
It depends, sure.

What I meant was “if you want to build a great carrier”
Generally speaking by attempting to publish the result in a journal or conference proceedings. There’s a process in place where your unreleased manuscript is sent to other researchers in your field for review. After making corrections based on their feedback, you can be approved for publication, at which point the general public gets a chance to evaluate it.

Having done it, I don’t necessarily love the process and would love for the process to be more open and accessible, but it generally works ok.
I wonder if there’s any chance Apple upstreams the changes back into OS X.
I remain optimistic for the future of ReactOS. Kudos to the team for all their hard work so far.
> Taleb has deep insights about some things

I'll bite, what?

I know he's rich and successful, so he has deeper insights than most.

But it doesn't mean he teaches them, as far I can see he just uses them. For instance he's very good at doublespeak.
That is what happens with monolithic kernels.
While developer evangelism is important, the business strategies must converge otherwise there would be no value in the acquisition.
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I would say one of Nim's biggest strengths is the productivity of Python with the performance of C; it feels like scripting, but you have production ready performance.

Another productivity benefit is compiling to C, C++, and Javascript means you can natively use libraries from those languages.

If you want to go deeper, check out the extremely powerful metaprogramming capabilities that rival Lisp and I would argue are much more advanced than Rust. The end result of this is very nice syntax constructions which means easy to read code, and again translates to high productivity with no performance loss.
> It's increasingly easy to exploit some people's herd mentality and lack of education to rise movements that can have significant impact.

Everybody always says this about everyone else.
A 3D printer needs only a comparatively simple metal novel, and the rest of the printer is just moving that around, some other things like heating the pad to help things work smoothly, and processing a file into a set of movement instructions for the head.

A 2D printer needs to deal with four or more liquids (ink) or fine pieces of plastic (toner). Rather than just heating the ink up, a tiny electrical current is used to squeeze out a drop at a time. Everywhere the liquid touches can get dried up, and needs to be self-cleaned. And then you have to address the color mixing algorithm, calibration, ICC profiles, etc. There are waste ink absorbers, print heads, etc. many of which involve specialty materials that can only be made in a precision factory, which would not be available for open source development.
Make sure you print that note out.
There was a period of time when mask wearing was considered misinformation: https://youtu.be/RxbDhECanU8

There was a time when vitamin D correlation was also considered misinformation.

Maybe we shouldnt be looking to a group at YouTube to tell us what is true and what isn’t.
We might both think that giving the more authoritarian answer would be performing as if one were delusional, but the "high RWA" population he writes about evidently think it's correct.

A mean score of 90 doesn't imply nobody scores above 100, just that the ones below overbalance the ones above. I'd guess (it may be time to hit primary sources?) that when he says "high RWA" he doesn't mean as low as 110, either.

There are footnotes on pp.36-46 discussing the design of the scale. They include why he believes Adorno's design was flawed (it gave high scores to people who simply agreed with every statement), as well as:

(p.43) > "What is a “high RWA”? When I am writing a scientific report of my research I call the 25% of a sample who scored highest on the RWA scale “High RWAs” with a capital-H. Similarly I call the 25% who scored lowest “Low RWAs,” and my computer runs wondrous statistical tests comparing Highs with Lows. But in this book where I’m describing results, not documenting them, I’ll use “high RWAs” more loosely to simply mean the people in a study who score relatively highly on the RWA scale, and “low RWAs” will mean those who score relatively low on the test."
Specially that no one died from it. The story that got famous of the couple who did it was actually a murder. The wife never took the bleach, knew it was going to kill her husband, and hated Trump. She confessed to the police and now he is prison. But of course the media stopped talking about that story as soon as she confessed. Leaving people believing that a couple did try bleach to cure covid.
An "easy" solution then is for hearing aids to look like earbuds; that would normalize hearing aid; but then if you have to spend $5K on them, do you really want them to look like everyday earbuds? Quandary!
Dr Fauci has said their initial stance on masks was to ensure that masks were available for health care workers[0]. He did not say their stance changed due to new evidence.

[0] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/06/17/fauci...
Universally recognized human right? You must be 12 years old.
And yet everybody applauded the mac ad when they mocked Windows UAC. Apple are such hypocrites
TIL Richard Stallman's middle name is Matthew.
This remains to be seen. Good luck!
If creating another league increases interest and access, it's good to have another league.
CNIL says US cloud providers cannot host personal data under Schrems2
I don’t actually know if this is true. Do you have studies to back this claim up? I don’t trust that the medical system is more grounded in their thinking- the Public Health Service purposefully withheld medical treatment for syphilis for hundreds of black men for over 40 years. They willfully decided to target black men with this disease and then refused to treat them when a cure became available, going so far as to prevent the military from informing or treating these men during war time. Even at the time the experiment began, the ethical guidelines recommended syphilis be treated with what they had at the time, and the doctors knowing ignored this ethical recommendation, and continued on passing through the hands of multiple doctors working on preventing healthcare from being issued to black men for over 40 years. The medical community promoted people participating in this act and it was only after repeated whistleblower attempts was the extent of this horrific behavior uncovered. Indeed it was only when the media started to cover it that the full extent of the inhumane, unjustifiable behavior at the hands of doctors came to light.

To this day we know that the medical field is systematically unable to accurately treat black and female patients equivalently to white and male patients. (Unable for example to realize heart attacks in female patients represent differently for decades).

I don’t buy without formal study that the average deviation from basic opinions of reality deviate more in certain fields of study than others. Claiming it without any evidence is itself a form of deviating from observed reality.
I don't think this says what you think it says.

> The meta-analysis itself avoided drawing any conclusions at all, and would not even admit that N95 respirators worked.

I mean, either you believe the science or you don't. You don't get to complain that it didn't support your preconception.

> According to intention-to-treat, the studies unanimously found masks to be useless. But there were a lot of signs that intention-to-treat wasn’t the right choice here.

Not a great sign.

> In other words, respirators are better than masks are better than nothing. It would be wrong to genuinely conclude this, because it’s not statistically significant. But it would also be wrong to conclude the studies show masks don’t work, because they mostly show respirators don’t work, and we (hopefully) know they do.

He's a fucking idiot.
> Twitter said Thursday that it censored a New York Post article based on emails between Hunter Biden and a Burisma executive in accordance with its “hacked materials policy.”

This is a joke. Nothing was hacked. The laptop was left at a repair shop and not reclaimed. The repair shop almost certainly retains ownership of unclaimed machines after some period of time. The shop owns the laptop.

Maybe the emails were forged. Idk. But nothing was hacked.
I am more interested in having a great ecosystem and tooling. Probably I just want a better, faster and safer Java/C#/Go.
All of these seem to be quite true with Rust.
Whats wrong expressing your feelings on thread and writing about it? Humans are now jerks ironically laughing at things? Okay. :)
Canada has some good examples of this.
Because 2D printing is serious?
Real life has consequences.

Anonymous message boards have points, gotta post what people want to hear for upvotes that give that self-validating dopamine hit when you check your score and it's higher than ever.
Now this is interesting. I would love to see a working demo of the screenless office in action.
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He forgot to end with "to make the world a better place." How can I take this seriously?
I am curious if it actually works.

Do the people paying for the content get any net benefit?
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Dr Grande has a very good channel and it's hard to find a flaw in it. I guess it's relatively unexciting - until you hear him talk about guns.

In my opinion there's a narcissism epidemic going on. Charisma is seen not just as a trait but as a value. Everyone wants some. It's lumped together with good leadership, extroversion etc. Charismatic selfish people are praised as CEOs, celebrities, youtubers, politicians, actors. And enthralled people keep making excuses for them! And calling YOU crazy.

For many people it's true that narcissists are all around, and it's easy to explain! Kind, selfless, charitable people are narcissist magnets(They will keep making excuses). Also people from messed up families, who didn't develop healthy boundaries(Does fish know it's under water?). They are easy to impress and exploit. Narcissists and manipulators can sense weakness. By contrast, if you're assertive, you repel them without knowing and it may seem like the problem is overblown. Both earlier kinds of people end up being marginalized.

I have another issue with Dr Ramani and why she's not a complete source on narcissim. She's great for theory and the big picture but gives few examples of things narcissists actually say and how you might counteract it.
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I love those videos on Youtube that follow along with scores. I'm sure many of them are copyright violations, though...
OK, so assuming that free speech must remain inviolate, which I don't agree with, as free speech always has limits, do you see the current state of constant misinformation working as intended? Is the United States as the founding fathers intended it?
Excellent long-form popular technical(ish) article; well worth the read.
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"Democrats won the House with the largest midterms margin of all time" [1]

Dems did well in 2018, the issue was that the 1/3 of senators that happened to be up that year were in very bad states for dems geographically.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-elections-democrats-won-h...
I just need Apple to get out of the 80s and add an "always on top" option to their windows. Something so simple and useful and OSX just cant handle it.
Ah, spoolsv.exe my old friend.....
The WHO was arguing until February that covid-19 wasn’t transmissible person to person. They don’t know what they are doing.
>Google assumes its employees are mature adults and can discuss just about anything.

By that reasoning, why have any policies at all - after all 'mature adults' should know how to handle themselves.

The reality is that even (and especially) with mature adults, it's perfectly reasonable to set policies and rules on conduct. Making it clear to not engage in emotionally-charged 'debates' about contentious topics is perfectly inline with good corporate governance. Your coworker next desk over may have wildly different views on abortion, politics, religion, but none of that should matter in getting the job done you're paid for. Ideally you shouldn't even know, or care what their personal views are on societal issues.
Interesting that this is built on geojson which always uses WGS84 (the GPS coordinate reference system) as its CRS. WGS84 is pretty correct for almost everywhere but is not typically used for local applications like this because physical locations drift relative to it and the WGS84 geoid (shape of the earth) won't give you a guaranteed locally flat surface that actually matches the elevation of the surface. It looks like they are just using ordinal levels relative to the the ground floor (defined as the lowest floor with level access to the outside) which is sensible but I wonder how they will use GPS signal to identify which floor a mobile user is on since GPS has poor vertical resolution and its not clear how much elevation data will be encoded in this format.
I think this is something that would be illegal in almost every country on earth. But there are probably more fun and cheaper things than getting Facebook in front of a judge.
1. Smiley face

ii. In schematics != in reality

c. Lots of things are within a useful margin of error of $impossible_standard

δ. This entire post is about superconductors
You might be surprised.

Cryptographic RNGs achieve their strength through large round-counts. ChaCha runs 20x quarter rounds of its algorithm, which means you're basically doing:

randomNumber = hash(hash(hash(hash...hash(seed)))))))))))

After 80-iterations of your hash function, you'd HOPE it was random looking!! In effect, cryptographic RNGs are built for safety, and have huge safety margins.

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The "natural" approach to making a non-secure (but faster) RNG is to reduce the hash rounds to a single cycle. IE: instead of running 80-quarter rounds of ChaCha, why not just run 1x quarter-round of ChaCha?

Well, it turns out that 1-round of ChaCha20 is utter crap. Completely crap, worse than a LCGRNG.

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AES is similarly designed for 8+ rounds. In my experiments, it took 4 or 5 rounds before AES would achieve a decent distribution of bits!!

It took a fair bit of effort for me to turn AES into a random number generator. I analyzed AES's bit-flow, and designed a "counter function" that worked well with AES's single-round weakness. Even then, I never accomplished a 1-round of AES RNG, I had to use 2-rounds of AES to make a decent bit distribution.

In particular: 1-round of AES is only designed to shuffle bits across a 32-bit DWORD. You need the 2nd round (or more) to shuffle the bits to the whole 128-bit group. (That is: the "MixColumns" and "ShiftRows" step of AES, which only really take effect on the 2nd round or later).

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If anyone could figure out a special "seed" function that can work with AES's single-round weakness, they probably can make a much faster RNG than what I accomplished. Or maybe, people can just be "happy" with 32-bits of well-shuffled bits? A 32-bit RNG (with 128-bit seed) is probably still useful to somebody.
There was a point in time when the CDC were saying that masks are innefective at controlling the spread. I assume that was to mitigate hoarding in an effort to keep medical professionals supplied.

If I had made a YouTube video explaining the effectiveness of masks during that time, whose video would have been removed, mine or the CDC's? Who would've made that decision and what method would they have used to reach their conclusion?
Machismo is latin, and latin machismo men dance.
Incidentally I went to a great Stripe talk where they talk how they homogenize the "incoming purchases" at some point early in their stack and then they can use the same API internally for any of them no matter the location in the world or the payment processor. I don't recall the specific examples but it was definitely like the Netherlands example you pointed out.
For those that care about how it came to be, and is still being used, Advent of Computing podcast did a session on it and how it traces back to the 8080.

https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-34-8080-vs-z80
Twitter locks Trump campaign’s account related to The Post’s Hunter Biden story
Is there any potential benefit for fb in having Section 230 reformed?
Are you sure they had a working prototype? I don't see how they could fit a circuit board and a battery and everything else in that form factor. Also the images don't look like product images.
>A ban on politics is not neutral.

Yes it is. Just because you set up a false choice of "you're with me or against me" doesn't mean the rest of us have to play your game. Yes there is such a thing as leaving politics out of the workplace.

>Talking about politics provides no liability to Google.

I don't know about that. Nevertheless, it also creates a toxic environment, because there are a lot of contentious cultural and political issues that elicit emotional reactions and the vast majority of people will have a a wide variety of nuanced opinions on those, so all you're doing is introducing strife and toxicity with no benefit to the business.
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could you also put it on a virtual credit card that can be canceled in the event this happens?
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