skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the US Secret Service went to printer and copier manufacturers, and convinced them all to make forensic markings, that's not collusion by the manufacturers.
I don't think he's sick tbh. He looks like a lot of guys that I know within CS -- interested in video games and smaller, more technical subjects, very skinny because he forgets to eat, the beard/long hair because he doesn't care to shave, and these big solitary adventures. I know like 10 young men who all fit this profile.
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If you're still working on this in a couple years, I'd be happy to help out.

I'm still a few years out from being able to commit to anything though.
Tangential:

Is this official BBC tech blog?

If yes, I am surprised they are using medium. I would think that an org of this reputation, history & size would host their own blogs.
delve (through vscode-go) has worked fine from my perspective
I recently bought a dirt cheap Brother B+W printer to replace a Canon inktjet printer and am very happy with the decision. It is a small printer, Windows/Linux network printing is easy to setup and just works. My only gripe with it is that it only supports 2.4GHz WiFi. It has been a pleasure to use the printer again.
I’m in Massachusetts and I think two things played out here -

#1 - Most people I’ve spoken to understand the principle behind right to repair, they know it is in the best interests of consumers, and that there are well funded interests in opposition to it. For this reason, they are skeptical of anything that smells like a rollback attempt and quick to react.

#2 - The No on 1 ads (in opposition, funded by the auto industry) were downright offensively bad. Imagery of a woman being stalked and raped in a parking garage, or of a hacker taking a car over from afar because of some repair data they got their hands on was insulting to a lot of people I know, who easily saw through the argument.
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This demonstrates the amazing power of social media.

It only took 2-3 hours for one of the largest, most powerful corporations, to reverse their decision.
I would expect the efficiency would be severely compromised by these maneuvers.

Sort of like fly 20 minutes or take off vertically for 30 seconds.

For efficiency, I think the best bet might be to take off from the top of a downhill slope gaining momentum and flying. To land, return facing up the slope killing momentum.

sort of like this: https://youtu.be/vscvM8ysAwM
Voter registration is another place they could possibly find this data.
The article says the iceberg is 4200 sq km. That's about the size of Rhode Island.

I don't think a few H-bombs are going to do much.
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The last house I lived in was torn down and rebuilt. The address changed from 311 to 313 in the process. I've always wondered if it was because they were tired of receiving my junkmail.
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Gaming consoles with WebKit: Switch, PS4, iPhone/iPad (if you count), PS5(not confirmed but should be)

Gaming consoles with Blink: Many Android devices (including phones/tablets if you count, and console-like devices like Oculus Quest), Xbox Series X/S (Maybe? Fun to see.)
Back in the 80s there was a strong "don't waste it" vibe for devices in general. This one took very specific pens. I was writing a fortran printer driver for it, I had reasons to use it but the overall sense was "stop wasting ink"

When the wet process laser came along, we got a lot of love using it at first, but then it went to the same place. it was a continuous roll feed (bit like a fax in some ways) and consumed some kind of chemical. I can relate to them rationing it. (it also had NROFF/TBL cut marks to show where to slice it to make the effective page size)

The colour printers they got on trial from textronix we got to keep the demo sheets doing various DECUS tape 3D graphic drawings, but it was way too expensive to buy. I have no idea who bought those things then. probably big physics, not compsci schools.

The giant LPT up front which took 132 column papper? go for your life, but you had to be in the freemasons to break the feed sheet, and if you printed the 'Star Trek' overhit ascii art you were banned for months. (it burned through the ribbon)

Ops duty cycle included walking out front, breaking the feed, tearing various peoples printouts into discrete chunks, putting it into the pigeon hole.

Those stories about accidental form-feed shooting paper ribbons across the room? They are true.
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Aging is just another disease. Seen in that way it will be a choice, much like dying of tuberculosis or hepatitis c is. There are cures for them now. There is no reason to think aging and cancer (which seem related), are any different. Progress will give us the options.
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No. Stubbing out the database does not turn a test into a unit test , it turns it into a stubbed-out integration test. (Mocking is something different)

And since the point of an integration test is to test the integration, having a stubbed out version of that is fairly pointless, as you have discovered.

If you create actual unit tests, and allow those to drive your design, you will find much more joy.
On the higher end, I've been pretty happy with an Eve Light Strip [1]. However that's HomeKit-only. The key option we're looking for is RGBWW (with 2 different "temperature" whites) for a wider range and more natural lighting. We've been considering various more flexible light strip arrangements, but as GP noted, the market is flooded with low-reliability options.

Luckily, we've stumbled upon Sowilo [2], which advertises powerful RGBWW LED strips with appropriate specs (with per-meter max brightness and power consumption listed), provide all the components you need for powering and driving the strips you need, and best of all provide a Hue-integrated controller! (likely from scavenging an actual Hue LED strip controller!). We've ordered a kit last week, and are eagerly anticipating testing out the ~13000lm of purported light.

[1] https://www.evehome.com/en-us/eve-light-strip
[2] https://sowilodesign.com/collections/led-strips

Tangentially, we've picked up 4x GE Ultra Bright [3] at Lowes for $10 each to test out the brightness, and those have been great too.

[3] https://www.lowes.com/pd/GE-Ultra-Bright-150-Watt-EQ-A23-Sof...
What you're describing is the actual state of the law regarding DMCA 1201. DRM only gets legal force when it has the effect of controlling access to a copyrighted work. This has been court-tested: Lexmark v. Static Control Components proves that you cannot legally enforce DRM that does not control access to copyrighted works. You can't copyright ink, ergo you can't argue that ink DRM is protected by DMCA 1201.

That's probably the only reason why DMCA 1201 would pass a strict scrutiny test at all - it's evidence of narrow tailoring.

BTW, what you're describing with treaties has a name: it's called policy laundering.
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>It leaves out Dr. Sinclairs work

Off a tangent, but that's an unfortunate coincidence with another Sinclair from The Mystery of the Druids.
There's so much low-hanging fruit in math education that this kind of article almost seems pointless.

With just a decent curriculum and attentive teachers, we can do much better than today.

I studied math in USSR until 5th grade. After moving to the U.S. and going to 6th grade, I coasted for three years.

Think about it! Three whole fucking years that my math education was at a complete standstill, because I had already covered that material by the time I was 10!

I was not a star student in the USSR! I want to an average city school and got decent grades.

The biggest challenge of math education in the U.S. is unified material designed for the 99%.

If you are not tutoring and home-schooling, you're doing your child disservice and setting them up for a huge disadvantage.

(Russian education is nowhere near as good anymore, but most of the world is not sitting still.)
What if we train a team of experienced oil drillers to become sailors, and have them blow it up? Or maybe it would be easier to train sailors to become oil drillers...

Either way, I think we can just pull it off. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ahtp0sjA5U)
> Bonus points if there are zero replies too.

This frustrates me to no end. If someone can type out a long comment explaining their position, the least you can do is reply with why you disagree, in addition/instead of hitting the downvote.
There's at least some evidence that LEDs can be more effective than sunlight at synthesizing D. There's a specific wavelength of light that triggers it and I'm not sure if a standard tanning bed emits it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11362-2
I used to use graph paper too. Had to transcribe everything to a teletype that only had 72 columns.
Being an entrepreneur is risky? What risk does an entrepreneur take? That they'll lose all their capital, right? Well, that just puts them on even footing with workers, who are people who have no way to make money other than selling their labor.

The majority of people are workers. You're telling me the "risk" an entrepreneur takes is being on equal footing with their (former) employees? Man, you're making a great argument against capitalism, if that's what you're saying.
Multiple sets of wires going to every building is feasible and perhaps even reasonable when we're talking about an apartment building. But digging multiple trenches along suburban and rural roads and driveways leading to single-family homes is very wasteful. It's usually prohibitively expensive for the second company that wants to come into town, and is basically guaranteed to be a negative ROI for the third company that tries to lay fiber to customers who already have two incumbent options.

In the US, Google Fiber has had limited success entering a handful of carefully-picked markets where the incumbent options are rotting copper POTS wires vs coax that can only compete on downstream bandwidth. In some of those markets, the incumbent phone companies have replaced some of their copper with fiber, but a third residential fiber option is still unheard-of. That may not fit the strictest definition of natural monopoly, but it's pretty close: in areas where both Google Fiber and eg. AT&T fiber are competing against coax, it would not be surprising to see one of the two fiber ISPs give up. We've already seen Google give up on bundling TV service, and both Google and AT&T are very reserved about further expansions.
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What Racket needs is some decent non-academic books that aren't just for beginners. It's a great language, but the options for learning it for real world use are bizarrely thin.
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This is probably significant enough to make the front page.
I watched this and I have somehow the feeling that it solves the broblem that does not even exists ?

documenting code - do not use video! Do you even document it while writing, that does not make sense because the video will be invalid and old in 2 hours

teaching -nope, just give us the working code
they restored it after getting ashamed by public. Apple really sucks.
> I've seen fixed-wing drones, made of really cheap parts, just act like helicopters.

> I think it's mostly just a matter of power-to-weigh ratio, which small aircraft have in spades.

Yeah! These small aircraft parts actually provide a respectable amount of thrust. The low weight of drones and model aircraft usually means they have massive thrust-to-weight ratio. T/W > 1 means the engine alone is able to propel it straight up. The larger the ratio, the more it acts like a rocket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust-to-weight_ratio
Imagine how many small time developers with just a couple hundred downloads have had their apps destroyed by apple, who couldn't call upon the twitter ion cannon to have someone important at apple see if the removal was actually warranted.
In Rust a task which is started on a given executor never leaves it. It can not switch executors like it can in C# where the continuations could be called on an arbitrary thread. In Rust, wakeups for an async task essentially just schedule it for running again, but the execution happens on the previous executor.

Anyway, in both models you can have deadlocks. And even if there is no deadlock, blocking the eventloop is still an antipattern, since it prevents other tasks which might be able to make progress from running.
I fear I will jinx my 20-yr-old hp 1200 laser jet that's on maybe it's 4(?) toner and hooked up to our home network via a parallel port to usb adapter. It's yellower than an 8-bit computer but still prints great and fast. One of my best tech purchases ever; I'm glad I resisted the lure of color inkjet and spent 3x much for a b&w laser.
As the famous Glengarry Glen Ross quote goes: "You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is".

I'd say take the call. If they sollicited you, listen to their offer. If you sollicited them, do your pitch. Acknowledge and clarify that you understand their position; communicate yours. Courtesy doesn't hurt.

I'd focus your pitch on what you need and want. You may think you don't want something but quite often it's just because you don't know much, and vice versa. That is unless you know exactly what you want and what you don't, but that certitude is too common to mean anything except for those who toute it as one of the important traits of great founders in a continual pattern recognition that glosses over serveral biases (survivor, selection, salience).
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Excellent. Let's hope that California will follow. They are one of the few states that don't even allow spores.
Agreed if you just took some of the parts where he has the window setup, you'd have a hard time telling the difference.
I had the pleasure to visit South Georgia at the start of the year and it is one of the most wonderful experiences I've ever had. The island is beautiful and just teeming with life.

There has been a tremendous effort to help the ecosystem recover from the damage done by whaling. I don't know what can be done but I really hope the best for the island. It'd be a shame to lose it, both for a wildlife and for future generations.
I personally hate sunlight for indoor activity. It's just too intense for anything involves vision, reading, writing, looking at screen, etc.
You simply can't do that, Yuan is nowhere near a freely convertible currency, it's a fundamental difference.

Once foreign money enters China, it's very hard to get it out, the CCP has a ministry dedicated to the control of it. Most of the people don't have the need for it.

What you are saying is irrelevant to Ant and banks in general. Ant doesn't care about foreign markets or your dollars, it's a Yuan-only payment tool operates inside mainland China for Chinese people, simple as that.
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You can get it from his books too. I listened to his audio book which was good. Learned quite a bit.
No, no it's not. It's treating economics as some bastardized version of philosophy, not math. Mathematical axioms are based on the principle that you cannot imagine an alternative axiomatic system, I can easily imagine a different axiomatic system for economics, and that the axioms cannot be empirically contradicted. And I can actually justify it empirically.
I am a right hander but use my mouse with my left hand. Why? “Saving my right hand to play tabla (Indian hand drums)”.

In any case, over the years I have become very comfortable using mouse with left hand as a right hander.
This is very interesting. Not being in Oregon, I hadn't seen this.
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I've got some bad news:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadable_aircraft

It's been done. It's a stupid idea.
It depends completely on how many of your neighbors have the same idea in a few dozen mile radius, and perhaps if you have a tree blocking a large part of the sky nearby.
Thank you! this is what I was looking for!
Not on South Georgia. No one lives there.
The idea of linking to the raw urls of images (or other external media) feels refreshing. No Markdown needed.
Other than the CoeLux I haven't seen anything like it
I've heard about the app when it started just for parking tickets. I didn't know it expanded to other legal issues including small claims court filings, asylum, visas, green cards, and housing for homeless. Amazing.
LEDs as you can see in the video aren't as efficient as you might think, since he has a HUGE heat sink / water pump system in place
Because relatively few use them.
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jml7c5 posted in this thread about this from his notebook pages:

> 16: "BLL", a programming/scripting language, probably short for "B... L... Language".

Could "BLL" be related to Ben Bellamy?
I get what this guy is driving at. Back in the day, there was large step changes in desktop capabilities that are just a gradient of capabilities now.

For me, it's about my home lab. There I build capability that's not quite as common in desktops (10/40Gbe networks, object storage arrays, clusters etc...) And it's not that expensive with all the second life kit as long as you don't count the power costs!
> Try go on the country side or in another industry and suddenly you are looked upon as some sort of god - it's almost cringy they way they treat you when you spend 5 minutes fixing something that half the village tried to fix it in past year and then they gave up.

Related to this I was recently a bit saddened after helping some family members getting their new WiFi and Apple TV set up because, after I was done setting it up one of them was like, “you should work in tech support, you are so good at this”.

Now the reason that it saddened me was because while I appreciated that they appreciated the help, and that she ment nothing but to compliment by saying that, but the thing is that doing tech support would literally kill my soul. And I realized that to a lot of people there is no discernible difference between doing software development and doing tech support. It’s all just working with computers right? And they know that I like to work with computers.

But where I actually derive joy from computers is in creating things. Writing code, optimizing my algorithms and data structures, improving the speed and robustness of software that I write, making software that is as ergonomic and sensible as I can. Both when it’s APIs that other developers will use or I myself will use and when it is user interface stuff that end users will use. Those kinds of things are what gives me satisfaction.

To sit on a phone line and guide someone through a thousand steps of troubleshooting and finally in 90% of cases having them reboot a machine, that’s just.. not even close to being enjoyable.

I always like to help people, and if someone asks me, whether they be friends or family or others I will help them. But when I do that, I do it for a different reason. I do it because it is easy and I know it helps them. Not because I enjoy doing that in its own.

And I don’t mean to talk down at people doing tech support or anything. Nor do I want to seem arrogant. What I am getting at is just that it’s not the same. Not at all the same.

I didn’t want to get into all of that then and there of course, so I just carefully said that tech support wouldn’t really be for me because what I like most is to create stuff.

But yeah.
Not to mention your sister's picking up the phone booting you off the Internet.
I posted the article on the screeps subreddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/screeps/comments/jngr0b/a_nameless_...
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Okay then, the IP is 10.1.5.12 and the port is 80. Go for it.

Do you even know what NAT is?
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> DRM only gets legal force when it has the effect of controlling access to a copyrighted work.

But that's not what DMCA 1201 is about though, it's just a trick it's using. It's about forbidding DRM breaking [on a copyrighted work]. What if breaking DRM has no bearing on the copyright itself? I.e. it doesn't affect it because nothing is infringed. DMCA 1201 still forbids it. So it's clear that it's wider than simply being about copyright and that's exactly the problem with it - being overreaching and forbidding perfectly legal things that copyright should have no business touching.

DRM proponents realize it very well, and they abuse DMCA 1201 to extend copyright law into any area they want, as long as they can slap any kind of copyright + DRM on it. It basically gives them a rogue lawmaking tool that doesn't need to involve actual legislators.

Like for example forbidding one to switch mobile carriers because it involves breaking DRM. Nothing really to do with copyright - it's about controlling the market. But they use DCMA 1201 for it.

So DMCA 1201 is utter garbage and it's not only corrupt, it's clearly easily abused.

> BTW, what you're describing with treaties has a name: it's called policy laundering.

Yep, that's exactly the origins of DMCA 1201, so I'm always surprised when anyone tries to defend such clearly corrupt law. That's basically being proponents of corruption.
The Indigo and Indigo² also came in purple.
> And I'm not talking about politicians being bought. It baffles me why voters aren't writing letters to their city councils, their mayors, their state reps, their governors. If voters actually care, politicians do respond.

Concentrated benefits, disparate costs. Paying $20/month too much for internet is a pain in the ass, but it's a pretty minor issue for most people compared to (say) healthcare.
bookshop.org is a fantastic initiative. One of the issues these smaller sites/services face is recall. News like this helps raise awareness, but it's difficult for people to remember and actually start using this habitually. We included bookshop.org prices in our browser plugin ( https://www.bbboookkksss.com/) so you can actually see the price (and buy) on bookshop, even if you happen to be browsing on amazon (which I imagine is the most common default)
Alternatively it might have been SGI Indigo 2?