skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly all R&D is funded by "rich" people. The fact that this is too tells you nothing about how democratized it will be down the road. That entirely depends on the method of action the end product and whether or not it's scalable. If it is, money can be made selling it to everyone. If it isn't, then only people that can afford it will get it. That's how limited resources work.
Yeah if it is true I want to read how they recovered so fast. That's an engineering feat.
I work in IT. Can confirm that this is a problem for small businesses.
Me too. The other argument, of course, is that instead of spending 10x on (taxpaying) staff and employees within the UK, in order to create a new technology that may be useful and solve other problems, they are spending 1x on Amazon. Amazon will not pay any tax within the UK, and, moreover, have motives that are arguably aligned to the detriment of the BBC.

I'm slightly sad to read about the change. In many ways, I'd rather the perl duck tape & php approach, running on real computers that the BBC owns. Maybe that officially makes me old.
I mean you could say the same for vim, but I still learned it and am now reaping the benefits.
Yeah it does click when in standby / low power mode. I do the same and just power it down when its not in use. These days its only used once in a blue moon so its not really a bother to me. But yeah if someone was going to have it on 24/7 so its ready to go at a moments notice, I would recommend rigging up some kind of remote power management for the power supply (Not that I recommend any buying a 17 year old printer model).
Europe gave the world Enlightenment values and then performed a scientific experiment on itself to see what happens when you take those values to an extreme. Thank you, Europe, for everything you gave to civilization and the concept of a rights-based government. Catch ya on the flip side.
Maybe brothers or closely related.
I recently hooked a raspberry pi (as a print server) to my older monochrome laser printer and it's been pretty great.
The cool part was that all of the extra JS Protractor used (sometimes for native WebDriver tasks) made things _less_ reliable.
More chance of getting run over by a fucking bus. car. bike. But yes sometimes you win the lottery
Agreed that this is bad move regardless of scope, but I've read that _most_ users, when asked about the value provided by Spotify that they can't get elsewhere, point to their weekly algorithmic playlists.

I'm also a big fan of "<Artist> Radio" or of just making a playlist with 3-4 songs in it and then letting Spotify take over afterwards...

If I start seeing the same junk pushed into those playlists over and over, I will definitely reconsider my membership.
TIL that ink is treated like television shows for the purposes of geography.
A Field Study in Recreational Horror
I also recommend your version. Had it for years. Changed the toner once. It’s been in storage for a year in hot Houston, moved cross country three times in a uhaul and gone months between prints. Just used it the other day to print a pumpkin stencil, prior to that printed immigration docs, 100+ pages in March.

No colors, single side scan, does everything else on macOS.
Definitely several similar characteristics. Could be a brother.
I find the planned fault business model near conspiracy theory. It makes sense but I find it hard that it was a bullet point on a chart:

- failure rate: 50% per year to ensure sales

what's next ?

- > 300MB driver install with at least 5 annoying 3rd party crap

Now I can be wrong ..
Or simply abandon the smartphone duopoly completely and consider Pinephone or Librem 5.
I think that capitalism's endgame may be a post-scarcity society, where technology allows us to have almost free energy, and very cheap everything that we may require for survival, with minimum human work.
Even in fullscreen, this is barely readable. This video is prime example of why using videos is probably a bad idea when the focus is on text. It is so frustrating to see a screen where most of the content is impossible to make out.

Pro-tip: don't record your demos on a 4k monitor setup or whatever this is. I just measured, and your IDE's font shows characters as 6 pixels high on my 1920x1080 monitor. Did you watch your recording?
I extremely do not want the situation where the state owns and operates the communications infrastructure of the general population.

That's turnkey tyranny, censorship both ways (what you can send, what you can read). Right now it's just expensive, but you can still use a few different (overpriced and anti-competitive) providers.

If the state decides you're a threat and unplugs you, it could be months or years before you can invoke your legal rights to get reinstated.
> There's every incentive to keep their workforces and consumers ignorant and short-lived.

This was also the attitude in the 1700s and 1800s there were several revolutionary wars to fix it.

Anti-aging treatments won't stop bullets.
The rich and powerful create oligarchies now. Even if the problem would be worse with anti-aging I'd trade not-dying for more powerful oligarchs.

I think it might make things more egalitarian. A hard working genius born to poverty only has 80 years to work their way into the upper echelons. Removing senescence means such people will have more time to rise to elite positions and demonstrate track records of competence and merit.

I don't agree that anti-aging would be restricted to the richest. One simple reason is that anyone with the know-how could make vast wealth by making anti-aging available to the masses.
Books are pretty good, why bother with movies?
I had the impression macros are used to make code less verbose.
anti aging is probably going to have a lot of unknowns and surprises along the long road. In the mean time, brain-machine interfaces and the transfer of conscious processes outside the brain seem like a more feasible road to immortality
Lol, Flash 3d is built on OpenGL and DirectX, which are still here. What “progress” was delayed? Adobe chose to kill flash because of WebGL.
> This is using several buzzwords some database vendors are already using to promote their fully managed solutions, yet the "autonomy" of this dbms appears to be limited to SQL tuning.

This is incorrect. Where did you get this impression? We are trying to support automated physical design, knob configuration tuning, SQL tuning, and capacity planning/scaling.

Please refer to our vision paper: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2017/p42-pavlo-cidr17.pdf
Is that effective though? Does infrastructure terrorism happen any more in western countries? All terrorist threats I can think of off the top of my head involve attempts at killing citizens.
Sounds very interesting - i am currently in Europe and can see that the price is about 350 usd, and you can get versions from 3000 (warm) to 6400 kelvin (sunlight?).

What kelvin did you choose, and how large is your room? Did you put something in front of the lamp to diffuse?

Looking forward to get out of the lockdown slump! :)
I like the suggestion. For most people I think laser printers probably are a huge win.

As someone who mainly wants to print some photos now & then, sometimes in large-ish sizes, I'm not sure if there are offerings that will suit me here. Where-as, when they are running well, there are some very nice many color inkjets.

There have been some neat attempts to make economical better inkjet printers. Epson make a L1800 wide format printer with 6 refillable "ecotank" ink tanks, but it was targeted for non-primary markets & vanished with no replacement. Whether it was any more reliable than the other notoriously finnicky inkjets, and what, exactly, it's quality was, are unknown. But I think it's an interesting example of a product that was willing to break product segmentation boundaries that have been long standing, and deliver a lot of great capabilities- tank based rather than cartridges, many colors, wide format, good specs- at a very competitive price point, many times less expensive than what one would normally have to pay for such a printer. To me, it seems like strong evidence that the problem is markets, markets that don't want to compete, & that are reluctant to deliver better capabilities. Companies would rather raise the limbo bar, allow a little more fat; pushing for better is hard, but also, why do it, if you don't have to? Sell & compete at the next tier up.
An older relative’s oncologist told him these machines were probably behind an increase in thyroid cancers of kids from the 50s.

Hard to prove the causation decades later, but that was the working assumption.
It’s kind of like the exposure on a photograph where there are some extremely bright spots, as bright as the sun. If you set the exposure to not clip those bright spots, you won’t be able to see the rest of the photo. Due to not being able to find a scale that faithfully reproduced the entire dynamic range (without visually equating population mountains to population plains), some clipping had to occur; a compromise. We could clip the few outliers using a standard statistical convention and retain the highs, mids, and lows that make up the rest of the image, or keep the statistical outliers and end up clipping pretty much everything else as a result. I included both renditions.

You’re correct that I didn’t say the overexposed graph is misleading. Neither graph is wrong, they both tell truths.

An article could probably be written about the one you’re inquiring about, that discusses how Los Angeles County, Cook County, and ~eight other counties are unlike any other county in the US in terms of population. Completely in a league of their own. As distant as they are, they may be more alike with each other than the counties surrounding them.

But there is also a lot of information to be gleaned from the photograph with the upper fence that leaves the non-outliers within gamut.
And the threat level is for 'when'
> It seems like "Self-Driving" to the authors means simply that it has a query optimizer using ML.

Nope. Please see this article for my definition of self-driving: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2018/04/what-is-a-self-dri...
Looking at the fertility rate data, at some point they’ll just have to leave it at “Severe.”
> There were basically world wars in antiquity

World War I saw the advent of chemical warfare with mustard gas. World War II saw European cities razed by carpet-bombing, even leaving atoms aside.
Lattice seems to do quite well in the small and affordable market segment. There are lots of interesting products using them at astoundingly cheap price points. https://hackaday.com/2020/01/24/new-part-day-led-driver-is-f... is probably the most affordable FPGA board that has been fully reverse engineered with 2 x gigabit ethernet ports and SDRAM.
That's pretty presumptuous for something that is obviously a cautious joke
>I'm more inclined to think that under a completely unregulated free market a monopoly today would instead be more likely to turn into a de-facto nation state over the course of decades

Based on recent experience this does appear possible, that some monopolies have gotten savvy enough to become long-running nation-state-like entities if left unregulated.

We know from the science of complex systems that one characteristic non-linear dynamic systems, like markets or national economies, is that the critical resources of the system tend to concentrate and consolidate over time.

We’ve witnessed this over the past several decades with the deregulation of the US banking industry, its subsequent concentration and consolidation.

Libertarians like to believe that such economic problems are self-correcting, that eventually such concentrations of wealth and economic power will either asymptotically collapse, or become ossified and be supplanted by something newer and innovative. Either way there’s a reset.

But I don’t think either is inevitable, in all domains. What we’ve actually observed with the banking system is that:

1) powerful monopolies/oligopolies use their resources to capture the actual government and regulators, and use those entities to shape favorable laws, and to bail out the monopolies when they collapse, preventing the reset, and

2) even if the collapse and reset occurs, it causes far more damage and misery to the rest of the economy and society than to the people responsible for causing it.

All else equal I’d rather live in a society that simply prevents those extreme cycles by making natural monopolies into well-regulated public utilities. Public utilities in the US have worked very well for a century, they’re a far more desirable economic arrangement for 99% of society.
I'm curious if many people who have lost their parents to COVID or believe they themselves are close to dying this way are more likely to become terrorists.
It really depends on the application. For most industrial applications, they are really apples and oranges, with planes being unsuitable for many missions.

There is no shortage of fixed wing drones and commercial operators are not idiots. They buy what they need for their application.
The copyright on the 750c manual is 1997. It was a different era. The printer market was in a different place. And HP was a different company. Occasional home use is not the market segment it was twenty plus years ago. My 550c didn’t clog either.

One of the the big changes is inks print and dry faster. Those early inkjet inks needed thirty seconds or so to dry and similar times to print...at best - a full page of color in the 1990’s was minutes per page.
If you print less than monthly, you are likely better just taking your print jobs to Kinkos, Costco, FedEx, etc... you'll likely get better quality prints too.
I'm not interested in reading an entire book about "cutting-edge science." That's too big a commitment to learn about a bunch of optimistic guesses that will mostly not pan out. Give me a book about stuff we have some real confidence about. Maybe I'm not the intended audience for this book any more? I feel like when I was younger I felt like I had all the time and energy in the world, and I devoured this stuff, but now I'm tired and stretched and for me this kind of writing falls into a no-man's land between "zero-effort entertainment" and "applicable to/stretching me for life."
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Seriously, the defense is "I wasn't calling him as part of my illegal scheme to call everybody with a phone number, I was calling him specifically because I hate him personally".

The offense is dialing someone using an automatic dialing system; the defense is perfectly plausible.
I think I got it on the same sale. It was at Staples, I think, right?

But mine didn’t have a good life. It still works, but has a super weird issue where if you sent it more than a few pages it’ll hang with an error message needing a restart. Sending many pages as individual jobs is fine though.
It doesn't necessarily mean the network is not technically capable, they probably just don't have a plan with faster speeds.

GPON is 2.4/1.2 Gbps and it's shared with multiple users so it's incredibly unlikely that any part if the core infrastructure is limited to Gigabit. Only the CPE is.

You can deploy 2 Gbps service on GPON though the quality will be low-ish, or you can run multiple versions of xPON standards on a single fiber network and offer > 1 Gbps to users who you switch to XGPON2. Others stay with existing CPE and plans and GPON as if nothing changed.
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Brother's Linux support is notoriously awful. HP are the only manufacturer who treats Linux as first-class; Epson comes close.
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> You risk over-producing at a higher cost and hurting your future results.

That was very obviously not going to be a risk with this pandemic.
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In reality they mean:

LOW (deprecated)

MODERATE (deprecated)

SUBSTANTIAL means an attack has not happened recently

SEVERE means an attack has happened recently

CRITICAL means an attack has happened very recently and may be ongoing
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Maybe because some places don't panic upon some random murder by a psychical person?
Whatever we "transfer" our "conscious processes" into isn't going to last forever, either.
Video at this resolution is a common use case, so feedback like this is helpful. No developer wants to reduce their screen resolution to record a screencast, it totally breaks flow.

There is a huge focus on text, which is why the full markdown transcript is included.
I agree that there are multiple angles. I think of them as different contexts. What I see is that, at the moment, we're designing, permitting, allowing, creating, constructing, & securing only for one angle, only for the pure-consumerism mode, the mode where we assume the user is in "don't care/don't know" mode.

This mode, however, is such a denigration to humanity. All the spirit of augmenting the human intellect, computing being servant to the human psyche, harnessed by human creativity... it's a way-more-than-tacit admission of defeat, a brazen retreat. It just seems... unaccounted for. We don't talk about this loss, this turning around. We trumpet security & chalk up wins for helping each other, but there's no mainstream dialogue that supports the deeply enriched angle, the immersive, expert computer user, the post-training-wheels life. Everything is centered around the dumb consumer, all of computing focused around a consumerized applicationized "just work" mentality.

I think we've been drinking poison.
This is almost exactly my reply. I don't print a ton anymore, but I've bought exactly 2 laser printers in the past 25 years, the first I think I replaced because it was less expensive to replace than buy toner. The second I still own. Ink jet never seems to last more than a year.
I second the feel of the keys. They were great.
I am not sure if there are any good areas for products with FPGAs for new players. I am working on one, but the single reason for that is that I am not good with Raspberry Pi. If I had cofounder with embedded Linux skills I would immediately ditch my FPGA design. 25$ price tag of Raspberry Pi compute module 4 is very attractive. I’ll end with ~100$ FPGA board making whole product more expensive.
You aren't kidding.

When I worked with old Xerox form printers, even the brand of paper made a difference. One brand would work well for multi-thousand page jobs while another would get occasionally stuck in the rollers.

While I'd think that things have improved since the era of tag/bus printing, I'd also think that the concern is still there.
> Does anybody know how you implement multiversion concurrency control?

I have lectures available on Youtube:

Intro DB Class:

* https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2019/schedule.html#nov-...

Advanced DB Class (with reading list):

* Design Decisions: https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/schedule.html#ja...

* Protocols: https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/schedule.html#ja...

* Garbage Collection: https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/schedule.html#ja...
Eh, okay, so technically not immortal because the sun will still die.

I'm happy to settle for a "only" a couple millennia of life. More than I get now.
HP Laserjet 4's were great--except that they could trip you local power substation offline when the powered up and the ozone was overbearing.

Great to use in a corporate environment with lots of ventilation and power--home environment, not so much.
I agree - this was my one minor nit-pick after reading the post as well.

I'd love to see muddy maps for other past presidential elections if you can get a hold of the data (and this one too, once all the votes have been counted).

Really cool work, and well-explained!
Reminds me of vigipirate (french equivalent alert level). France sends the army on patrol to mitigate the risk of terrorism. A friend in the army told me that when it is at the base level, the troops are patroling with empty rifles and no have bullet on them (basically just a display of force to make the population feel safer). When it is the medium level, they have bullets on them but none loaded in their rifles. When it is at the highest level their guns are loaded.
> The Phoebus cartel existed to control the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs. They appropriated market territories and fixed the useful life of such bulbs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
I want to know your honest feedback. Do you use this? Thanks.
I'm wondering what is the point of this threat level measurement (other than to say "see? we're doing something"). To me it doesn't seem actionable in any way, and if it was actionable (like significantly raising security), how would that help considering all the terrorists have to do is to wait for the level to go down (thus the security is lowered) before striking again?

Furthermore the threat level has never gone below "substantial" (which signifies that an attack is likely), so it's akin to "cry wolf" all the time - eventually everyone learns to ignore it and it stops being a useful metric (if it ever was one, that is).
That is another potential option but it currently takes more effort to use one of these as a "daily device" - too much effort for all but the most motivated. If you want to partake in the crusade against the duopoly these devices - or other devices running things like Sailfish or PostmarketOS - are interesting alternatives.
> In OCaml, it feels like people spend an awful lot of time discussing Functors.

I mean, if you want to use OCaml and not even bother to want to learn about functors, which are fundamental to the module system, then I don't know what to say. It would be somewhat like wanting to use Java and not learn how to use classes.
I think it’s relevant and it’s not a smear against the worker, but the job.

If you’re making minimum wage, how much do you really care about your job in general? You’re probably regarded as disposable.
I completely agree. I have a Samsung ML-2510 laser printer that's been going on at least 15 years now. It's old enough that it has a parallel port...