skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did that, but at least at the time when I was trying to make that work, the Pi wasn't up to it. The short version was that the drivers available at that time couldn't translate from the AirPrint-wrapped format to the one that the HP expected, on a Raspberry Pi, in realtime. It was worth it to me to replace the printer so that I didn't have to listen to my wife hate on the poor HP every time she tried to print and had to wait a minute or two for it to start.
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State mandated filtering will affect you regardless of physical medium. Running radio will not make it especially harder. If they want to get you, they'll either impose laws, or send people knocking down your door. They don't need to jam or cut anything.
GNU Octave appears to have some commercial support vendors listed, that probably wouldn't mind receiving $13k/year in exchange for answering the phone: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/commercial-support.html
> How would I plug it into my phone?

Not to discount your experience at all, but my immediate reaction to this was to think "Why would I ever want to print from my phone?" I think the answer to both of our questions is that other people have very different workflows, so something that might be a show-stopper or a killer feature for one person could be an afterthought for another.
> The Signal group has an uncompromising commitment to user privacy

Would you say that outing people who are signal users and putting them in signal contact lists without their permission is 'uncompromising commitment to user privacy?'
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No it's not. "Know your customer".
this comic in a way is backed by science

https://www.tidalequality.com/blog/dont-do-unconscious-bias-...
Funny thing is, I've seen a lot of people complain about Mumble's audio quality.

But I think the reason Mumble has a reputation for poor audio quality is a lot of cheap Mumble server providers. With Mumble, the maximum audio bitrate is set by the server, and many servers set it low to save money on bandwidth, which sometimes ends up being as low as telephone quality. I used to run a Mumble server and had the bitrate set to maximum (I think 128 kbit/sec?), which is absolute overkill for simple voice communications, but it's not like a single server uses much bandwidth. I ran it on a Raspberry Pi for a couple years.

As for latency, not sure how low you expect latency to be. I haven't measured Discord's latency, but I can't imagine it being much more than 100 ms.
> The disconnect must be that - you're plugging them in!

Right when Apple switch to having the only plug on MacBooks be USB-C, I was talking with an (older) friend who I often end up as tech-support for. He'd just upgraded his iPhone and his MacBook, so I repeated the popular-on-HN-at-the-time line about how it was bone-headed that you could buy a top-of-the-line iPhone and a top-of-the-line MacBook, and you couldn't plug one in to the other without buying a separate adapter. He said it had been years and years since he'd wanted to actually plug his phone in to his computer; he uses WiFi.

I recently bought a new printer. I plugged an ethernet cable in to it and the router. And yet, its menus still tried to get me to go through WiFi setup, I had to press "back" and go through some hoops to tell it "no, just use the Ethernet plug". That's not a great design--it should have just detected that I'd plugged something in to the Ethernet port, but it helps show:

Somewhere along the way, WiFi absolutely became the expectation, wires became an oddity, and a lot of us techies missed it.
Maybe not easily in 2017, though there were other successful attempts to fool FaceID at the time [1], there are also successful and easier attempts to fool FaceID today [0] that can successfully bypass it.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/29/905599/how-coron...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/08/10/apples-i...
"IIHS researchers found that e-scooter riders sustained more injuries per mile than bicyclists and were twice as likely to be injured because of potholes, pavement cracks, lampposts, and signposts, although bicyclists were three times as likely to be hit by a motor vehicle."

https://www.consumerreports.org/electric-scooters/safety-ris...

Boosted Rev has both regenerative and mechanical disc brakes.

"The typical 15 mph stopping distance for mechanical systems is 20 feet, with the absolute best stopping power being under 10 feet."

https://electric-scooter.guide/guides/electric-scooter-brake...

If you put two people on a scooter, the stopping distance increases.

I searched online and found no data on the risk of double-riding an electric scooter. Intuitively, I expect double-riders to be 10 times more likely to get injured than single-riders. I worry for you and your wife and the people I see double-riding in SF.

Someday, US cities may be safe for scooter riding. I doubt they will ever be safe for double-riding.
Not sure if your last sentence is sarcasm or otherwise, but radio jamming is trivial for state actors if they really tried. It's been matter of fact since radio was invented and the cold war has plenty of episodes of broadcasts being jammed by both sides.
It's almost as if we're all individuals, generalizations be damned.
I am sure that his bank did collect a lot of information upon account creation; that has nothing to do with their app login process though. Every bank adheres to 'Know Your Customer'.
Yes, but I would opt for the newly released HC4 if two drives were fine. If you are looking for four to five drives, I'm sure someone will make a PCB at some point that uses A PCIe connected SATA controller.

Price becomes a real problem though. The Pi foundation carrier board is dirt cheap, everyone else's boards seem to be a lot of money. Probably due to low volume.
The median salary for a SW developer is a lot lower than $150K. It's about $108K. If you earn $165K or more, you are in the top 10% of SW developers.
This Sojwal is obviously a bully and a racist; as bad as anyone covered with Aryan Nation tattoos. But she didn’t destroy anyone’s career. No one bully can do that. That was done by a mob of cowards.
I think this has something to do with the sense of ownership behind the software.

An open source software is owned (literally and figuratively) by the people writing it, hence they will take care of it as they take care of their own.

On the other hand, propitary software is owned by some company (and its stockholders); it is written by employees payed to do so.

The employees will come and go, only the company will remain; naturally this reduces the sense of ownership any programmer may have over the code and with it, the quality of the software.

this is, of course, a very broad generalization riddled with exceptions and special cases. Not all software is alike.
I guess it should, given that my hot-spot settings has a "allow devices to use VPN" option. Not sure if it's the custom rom, I'm on Android 11.
Is this a storm in a teacup?"

It's a storm within the academic liberal arts community. See [1].

That community has big problems. Once they ran education. Now they're not very influential. Many small liberal arts colleges are going out of business.[1] This sort of thing is a cry for attention.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/colleges-...
Not to mention that in a centralized system only a single entity has to be manipulated to turn over the data, whether it's through court orders, laws, extortion, corruption (as e.g. happened with Skype), or a combination of the above. In a decentralized system, the job of the centralization has to be done by the people who want access to the data in the first place. Have to ring more bells, creates more people who know about the spying. A much harder job and there isn't any "easy" access to almost all data any more.
Commercial software has a more obvious reason to avoid breaking your stuff and to try and track down bugs.i

Commercial software has an incentive to pump out new features to get more customers. Also, if someone is only working on something for a paycheck they may not be as thorough as someone working to solve their own problems, or satisfying their passions.

Commercial software has an advantage when it comes to documentation, and being user friendly because they're the things no one wants to do.
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This article is clickbait, and it's full of... Nonsense? I like Discord as software and I like them as a company, but a lot of what's beining attributed to Discord isn't true here.

Firstly: won what?

Discord was born _years_ (over a decade for some) after some of the "competitors" mentioned became defunct, while others are still thriwing, and is built on top of the foundations and groundwork laid by that same competition.

For casual or small parties, Discord is great. For large scale multi-squad coordination Discord is the worst out of all the competition (priority speaker feature does not solve this on its own).
That sounds great! Why can't both proprietary software and open source software co-exist? For startups and small companies, open source software is great. For large enterprises, the cost of the software is a vanishingly small % of the cost, and in fact they don't care as much - a lot of large enterprises are continuing to open source their own internal tools.

MATLAB has over 2 dozen toolboxes, with insanely detailed documentation. We are actually very happy to have MATLAB and our engineers are trained to use it for decades. We gladly pay for it. It would be a massive undertaking to go GNU Octave even if it did everything MATLAB did. I think we are getting stuck in the weeds, the point is:

We are engineers. Software is a tool to get the job done.

There are many other packages that cannot compete with anything open source - ANSYS Mechanical for example.
Perhaps not, but I've had performance issues far, far more often on Windows than on Linux (or MacOS). I mean, you typically can't even go a week without rebooting Windows, or you suffer severe degradation of performance.

Also, I personally have never had my sound just stop working or my Wifi break on Ubuntu since probably 2013 or 2014.
> Aside, I really wish Google hadn't removed the Print options from Android/Chrome. Being able to buy tickets and send them to my printer from my phone was awesome... having to save/share links and go to my desktop to print something, less so. I know I can often show a code on my phone, but there are times and places where wifi and mobile connections aren't reliable.

I generally just print to a PDF on my phone (or download them directly that way, if that's an option). That way, I can get them scanned even if I don't have internet. That said, I did use to worry about my phone running out of battery or something, but at this point I haven't had my phone run out of battery while I'm out for several years now, so it isn't much of a factor for me.
Don't really think that the chances are as high as 50%. As long as short term profits will be more important than long term ones as long there will be not enough momentum to achieve it in 20 years
Yeah that's what I kinda figured. It's interesting but doesn't make sense from a financial standpoint.
Does that mean you support the Alliance Party? They are officially proponents of Ranked Choice Voting, which would hopefully prevent the "better of two evils" problem if widely adopted.

https://www.theallianceparty.com/positions
the question is how to connect this in a circular economy and not just through some random company's optional light touch corporate social responsibility cum virtue signaling marcoms program.

Find a way to proportionally link production with disposal and you will see a 5 pack of undies from Kmart change into a durable good that's built to last.
> Hardware backdoors have been mandated by the U.S. and now the Chinese governments

hmm -- the US source here is from 2015 about 'plans' and the the china source is about a discredited bloomberg article
Because the "doesn't accept articles from white women" is just a clickbait statement -- the group she posted to is "Asian American Writers Workshop".

It's not "anti-white" -- its just an Asian targetted group.
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>You can do that, of course many of us do. But can the average user?

Isn't that the point? To make the average user aware. Every little bit helps when spreading awareness.

The other thing is that if you allow those cookies by default then a site that doesn't care about EU law can still track you whenever they want.

>You don't need the banners if you're not doing this stuff.

And yet even the EU commission's own site has one: https://www.europa.eu
Everyone thinks options trading/advisory services/trading roooms are snake oil.
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This is a pretty weak argument and one that is obviously biased from the start given the source.

I'm generally pretty hard on most software being much less reliable than you'd think or want it to be, close or open source.

But in my personal experience, I've had plenty of closed source, proprietary software bugs fixed by the company that makes the software. In fact, I'd say the great majority of bugs were fixed if not all. I've never had a bug fixed in open source software I've submitted bugs for, and I've even had trouble getting them even assessed as bugs in the first place.
There’s no way this is true in 5-10 years. I’m in a $20/person/hour campaign now. A future celebrity/influencer/streamer/professional improv comedian GM could easily be pulling in 6 or 7 figures.
In my experience you have to forced to learn most things until they 'click'.

Some things click instantly and others take longer. While I was good at highschool math, matrices never clicked for me until almost 3rd year of university, when a good prof took the efforts to make it 'click'. I never felt like cooking until I began staying alone, gave it an honest (an necessary) try due to monetary requirements, and now it is my main hobby that I can't live without.

I understand that this argument can be use like the great filter, where if you don't like something it hasn't clicked yet, so keep going and it will click. But, for most things, we know 'click' checkpoints. For musical instruments, it tends to be the first song. For programming, it is your first repository. For math, it tends to be your first moment when a group of seemingly unrelated things fall into place to give you a neat derivation or when you find a visualization that works as an analogy 100% of the time.

The first few weeks of a lot of things are straight up miserable. (new Musical instruments and new languages being major examples of it). It is only after you have understood the basics can you start enjoying them.

> The problem is school forces it on kids, without investing in showing the kid why they would want to learn it in the first place

Absolutely. That investment is key to making forced learning work. Much like training wheels, once they can balance the topic on their own, you can stop trying to make it click, and the student will sustain their interest on their own.

> having to follow the classroom's pace

This is incredibly annoying. I remember binging the whole English textbook in the summer before the year started, then impatiently fidgeting or reading fantasy fiction novels under the table because the class felt that it went too slowly.
I would recommend citing legal scholars instead of YouTube personalities. The person you are quoting its a Canadian lawyer of no meaningful repute who gave up his legal career of a paltry decade to become a YouTube influencer. He has never even been licensed to practice law in the United States.

His opinion is out of sync with what legal scholars and indeed an what an author of the law says the law means.

Just on a laymans reading of the text good faith isn't given in some universal context of fairness or fair play it is given in the sentence.

> any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected;

Good faith herein means actually because they found it objectionable not for some ulterior motive.

In order to assert that the removal wasn't protected under 230 you would be asked to prove the contents of the minds of the decision makers that the removal was NOT because they found it objectionable. They could literally argue that they found the effort to influence the election itself objectionable and suppressed it therefore and be safe within the boundaries of the law.

In fact good faith .... otherwise objectionable is so broad as to encompass virtually any removal for any reason

Furthermore finding that one removal wasn't protected under 230 wouldn't magically dispel all legal protection it would mean for the purpose of THAT removal someone could sue them if they had just legal grounds.

I don't believe your source provided one.
You've clearly thought about this, and certainly begrudging use is better than none. My first thought would have been to go with Signal, if GChat through your school doesn't work. I've had no issues with group chats on there.

"Perfect is the enemy of good" -- you're making the right decision by focusing on good mentorship offering instead of blocking on the perfect chat solution. Good luck!
Get him into sports or other after school group activities. Much healthier social environment than school anyway.

Lookup two sigma problem. Kids with a 1 on 1 tutor do two standard deviations better than school. That's an insane advantage if you can find a way to make it work.
Now make a "White Writers Workshop" and see how long that lasts.

The issue isn't this workshop being anti-White, it's the entirety of Western culture.
reputation and community trust sometimes counts for something? i get it but i also know that if the nerds find out no one would use Signal...
I was actively playing DCSS at that time, beat the game with every race and every class, did 15 rune and all and I don't think it was getting dumbed down. A lot of pointless stuff was removed but the tactical depth of the game was preserved quite well.

Hm, maybe I should boot it up again and see what's been changed.
It's been clear for years that Facebook is the website for your racist in-laws. I find this wildly unsurprising.
> Many of the security design flaws in signal have had little to no direct impact on usability.

By far the biggest complaint I read about Signal is "It uses phone numbers, and I don't like that". While I agree that I'd prefer to be able to make up my own unique/random identifier, there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that the downside of phone numbers was far far outweighed by the benefits of usability. Most of my friends use Signal, I seriously doubt I'd have been able to help make that come true if the contact discovery features - along with their side channel privacy leaks - didn't work as well as they do. In retrospect, if I were trying to kickstart a global-scale network of secure messenger users - I'd make exactly the same choice today as Moxie did back then.

> users aren't effectively notified that the contacts keys have changed

That's just not true. Its become a running joke amongst my friends that Signal Safety Numbers changing is how we know when people broke or upgraded their phones.
This is a vile and racist belief.
Gravitational attraction is a function of both objects, so the force between them is not a constant, same as for the electron.

Also, what if you have a charge so high that the electrical-escape velocity exceeds the speed of light? A strange kind of black hole?

I ask these things because I do not understand why gravity is called "not a force", while electromagnetism is, when I see no real difference between how particles act.
Senate Judiciary Committee Considers Subpoenas for Facebook, Twitter CEOs
Torture can extract an alphanumeric password.
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> An example is responding back to a message with "Ok.". I see many over, say, 50 do this much more often, but to many under, say 30, this is taken as very passive aggressive.

I can see how some might take a single "Ok." that way, but it probably really does depend a lot on context and the nature of the relationship. I tend to acknowledge most people's comments in a very mater-of-fact manner, but I feel adding a simple "thank you" (as in "Ok, thank you.") helps to dispel the raw bluntness of a plain "Ok."

"Please", "sorry", and "thank you"--these magic words can work wonders.
> But then, our sessions ( pre-covid ) have not been exactly a cheap affair ( between various manuals, accompanying pieces, dice, 3d printing/buying avatars, arranging babysitting and last, but certainly not least, food for the group it turned out to be oddly expensive hobby, though still cheaper than guns ).

Well, yeah, people need materials to play - that's just a given and it doesn't change if you're paying a DM or not. Realistically though, you're talking about playing in the single most expensive manner possible:

* D&D Beyond content sharing reduces the cost of manuals since they only need to be purchased once (no more fighting over the PHB or making everyone buy their own, plus associated splatbooks with character options)

* Dice are $20 for a 1lb bag, and while everybody having multiple sets is useful you technically only need a single d4, d6, d10, d12 and d20 per player (d100's are just d10, roll one twice)

* I don't get the obsession with mini's. But I also think if you're going to run grids you're better off buying a Foundry VTT license and throwing the map on your TV, which will set you back less than the cost of a single mini in most cases; I generally stick to theater of the mind for in-person sessions and use Sly Flourish's Zone-based Combat when there's an encounter that takes place outside of a 30x30 area

Babysitting if you're a single parent or have a spouse that plays and food don't have any good options to reduce cost, unfortunately.

Note I'm only trying to say D&D is as expensive as a hobby as you want it to be. To play anything other than the three box sets that include the core rules (Starter Kit, Essentials Kit, D&D vs Rick and Morty) you literally need the PHB, a bag of assorted dice and an adventure (published or your own). Hell, you can skimp on the PHB and play with the SRD5 document and need nothing but dice.

> I guess what I am saying is, when all those costs are considered, premium GM at $25 does not sound unreasonable. I am not sure if the market would accept more, but then.. DnD has become mainstream. I would not bet against it.

Except it's a premium DM at $125-150 per week, all players considered. For those that don't need babysitters (because they don't have children, have a spouse that will watch the children, or they play online) that's way more than buying pizza when it's your week. I'm not going to say the price is unreasonable given that's $6.25/hr (less, considering prep time), but it's not enough for anybody to make a living on without severe short-cuts being made in prep work (thus ruining the point of a paid DM in the first place, since anybody can do it if they get over whatever perceived problem is preventing them from doing so).
You can double or triple the lifespan of a mattress by covering it with an oil-proof cover. This also prevents dust mite infestation, a major source of allergens in homes and a major risk-factor for children developing asthma.