skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before the 1980s long distance calls from AT&T landlines were very expensive. The FCC forced AT&T to allow competitors to use their infrastructure at a reasonable price. MCI and Sprint entered and the cost of long distance calls fell pretty quickly. Sadly, this may partially explain our terrible and expensive cell phone service. In many countries, the first competition to the national phone carrier were mobile services so the early mobile entrants were competing against massively inflated prices for long distance calling and quickly built high quality alternatives.
We have a federal election going on at home this month culminating today. What do you expect?
My university in the mid 90's had HP LaserJet 5 Si MX printers in the computer labs. When I got a job in 1997 I laughed at how bad the printers were in the office. I convinced my manager to buy the same HP LaserJet 5 Si MX. It was $3500 but everyone loved it.

It had a built in PostScript interpreter and was great for printing from our Sun and HP workstations.
Is there no an index of "unrecognized dead people" that can be matched to a list of "people seeking to find disappeared lost one"? I would imagine if a loved one asks for them, providing pictures, the authorities could the said matching?
I'm old enough to remember the US "color code" scheme after 9/11.

It was super weird. Any time they would announce some deeply unpopular unconstitutional measure (surveillance, war) they would bang the "CODE RED!" drum for the week running up to to the announcement.
Interesting to see more competitors to Heroku popup. Kind of amazing how the big cloud providers still haven't solved this problem.

Heroku still has one of the easiest setups of anyone on the market, and they've just been coasting in recent years. Poor container support, auto-scaling is naive, random routing (see rap genius), no health checks, pricey, etc.

Previously Deis built a Heroku like service on top of Kubernetes, but they got acquired by Microsoft, and the product has since atrophied.

Convox[0] seems similar to Qovery, with the added ability of self-hosting (UI is closed source though).

I think Qovery not having a UI is a deal breaking for many. Heroku's CLI, UI, and API is a killer combo.

[0]: https://convox.com
>$4m raised through employee led SPVs to date. So far, process has been seamless and relatively low time cost for all parties. Happy to go into more detail if helpful
Well, presumably the threat level is meant to apply to the UK specifically, none of which is all that far away from any other part.
There's bound to be some way to insert audio in an org-file at this point, surely?
But would also welcome and allow competition if any businessman wishes to enter a profitable market.
For isolated machines it's not uncommon.

The process to re-approve a machine after a bloody update is painful(to say the least).

Even for something as lousy as a BMS system of a reasonable size (100 bacnet controller) will still take 1 week or more to fully test and approve. Keep in midn that these are machine where the only things that you can plug in are those whitelisted at the end of the test.

Even the approval to replace a keyb+mouse set takes a few days and requires a sys admin to go to site.
Some European countries consider politicians a legally protected minorities, critiquing their speech that was broadcasted on national television on your own website/blog can get you in trouble if you are not considered a journalist (distinction here being freedom of press and freedom of speech). State aligned journalists could even hang you out for online harassment and hate speech if you don't choose your words carefully, satire is essentially dead in Europe. This kind of bs would never fly in the States, EU is becoming the new and capitalistic flipped mirrored version of Soviet Union, we just haven't had our Stalin yet.
Does it? Even the title says it is a third-party app.
My nearly a decade old hp laser printer is chugging along nicely and in addition to my work related printing, has handled multiple kids going through middle, high school and college including snapchat picture wall phases!! On first set of toner cartridges.
Making batteries hard to replace by gluing them in is obviously a conscious decision, not some sort of cost saving.
New low tech way to store hydrogen using boron compounds
In this case I wonder how well it handles big documents, that was always terrible for me in Atom, and only sort of workable in VS Code. Not that Excel can do really huge ones either, to be fair.
Is there anything preventing a phone from being completely wiped?
Is this actionable in any way? I guess you could just stay inside and be afraid but the silver lining is we were already doing that because of covid!
Anti-aging technology is a bit of a game changer; it would effectively create automatic oligarchies, because the rich and powerful would never die and pass on their power.

There is effectively no reward for the rich to make this technology broadly available. There's every incentive to keep their workforces and consumers ignorant and short-lived.
I think that’s largely valid criticism. I would say the fundamental problem of settings control fragmentation is the fundamental challenge at the heat of the windows project - it’s trying to be all things to all people. for example, the three examples you gave are each intended for different audiences (power users, non-power users, and the enterprise respectively).

I think my ideal would be for the new settings paradigm developed completely parallel to the classical settings interfaces. I don’t think it’s a good idea to deprecate classic settings, maybe not forever but absolutely not before you have parity.

I would prefer them to try and tackle whole host of issues before unified settings. Transition to a CoW fs (rip refs), separating configuration and state from the registry and more robust display scaling for starters. That said, I think settings fragmentation as-is is needlessly complex. And there have been real improvements in my opinion in some of the new settings ui/ux, for example the new per-application audio I/O control menu. The classic network properties and settings are truly awful, something as simple setting a static IP requires a series of dependant and uncloseable property panes that can’t be used (or even visible in some cases) while you are using a child of the previous pane. It’s been largely unchanged since windows 95, and in the past couple years I’ve liked where they are headed. I think that if they really can achieve their goal of a central, monolithic settings control interface then that would be a real value.
The 5 color US equivalent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Terrorism_Advisory_Sy... has never been on the lowest levels either, "high threat level is now considered as the "baseline.""
Not my experience at all. When my girlfriend's HP 4L died we looked for a replacement and we both wanted to print color images so I bought a Canon MX870 ("multifunction", inkjet) in 2010.

I still have it and it still impresses me with how robust it is - the fact it's a good document scanner and a fax is gravy. On its strength I bought a PRO-100 and the European analog of the MX870 whose model number I forget.

The PRO-100 sat unused for several years, and when I tried it again, it picked up and worked as though for the first time.

The assertion that inkjet is garbage sure isn't borne out by my three Canon inkjets.
Seems a bit redundant to store an audio file in version control which essentially represents a comment...

Why not just use a "speech-to-text" software to add documentation?
There's code comments and commit messages. I was referring to code comments, not messages. I am on some projects where others are really strict about "no superfluous comments". Yet... the thing that's helped most when looking at 5-10 year old code is someone's multi-line comment about what decision led to something (sometimes with decision maker names, dates, etc) and some reasoning. None of that is remotely discoverable in things like confluence (at least in any project I've worked on in the last 10 years or so).
I do the separate-email thing too and my spambox is chock full of emails to leaked addresses. The leaks seem mostly from large, upstanding companies that have had data breaches (Adobe, Myspace, ...), rather than from deliberate email address sales. It's still very handy to be able to just disable an email address... can't do that if you've used the same registration email on 1000 sites.
> Yes, I've contacted Lattice support, no response from them in a long time. ECP5 is pretty dated at this point, so I'm wondering if any of the development team is left to support it.

I wonder what the remaining life of the ECP5-5G is then. It would be really cool to have PCIe support on one of the reverse engineered FPGAs. I suppose project x-ray (Xilinx Series 7 reverse engineering) is coming along nicely, but at least ECP5 support is complete, even if everything about the SERDES isn't quite stable yet.

As far as designing a board goes, it's a bit hard to choose. While the Lattice parts with PCIe are close to being made to work with open tools, the official Lattice development tools for the parts with SERDES have no free tier (beyond the 1 year license you get by purchasing that versa board), whereas everything in the Xilinx Artix-7 series for instance supports the free tier WEBPACK tools.
Recorded this yesterday pretty quickly and submitted it here not thinking much of it. Turned the iframe into a CTA.
I always found it fascinating how different people see faces very differently. I think the dead giveaway here is the nose. I remember actually seeing a video where an expert in facial recognition talks about how you can practice telling faces apart by looking at very specific things. I know ears and nose are definitely key.

I wonder what ClearviewAI has to say about this :)
> Capitalism, all other things disregarded, would just keep the price high so long as the demand is high and the supply low.

You're confusing capitalism the system with individual businesses.
Scientists do not write the headlines for the articles that try to communicate their research.
Different nose, I don't think so.
Agree! I need to find the video I used to rewire my bedroom light switch. The guys who painted my bedroom somehow connected it so my alarm clock would short out half the house. I watched some handyman’s video 10 times going bayand forth to the outlet!
Default mutability like practically every large language? I’ll admit, both have their uses, but if you’re striving for less runtime errors, default immutability makes more sense.
A mere 4-5 years ago every video service hosted the same videos they host. But opinions that dissent from that of the megacorps and media conglomerates are no longer allowed.
He's not supporting his point by invoking his time in China. He's directly using it to deflate the other comment which _did_ use it as support for their claim.

It's appealing to an authority to say (or, to demonstrate from experience) that it is false authority.
Specifically login.gov implements WebAuthn.

So this should mean you can use the built-in biometric security of an iPhone or high end Android since those can also be used with WebAuthn in the built-in browser or with Firefox, or any security key, not just a Yubikey.

WebAuthn is easier (one tap login), it cannot be phished, it's privacy preserving, and yet somehow here we are in 2020 and most sites are like "Hmm, maybe we should add SMS 2FA?"
>Well, yes, this is true I guess. However, this drone is advertised not for those things, but for long range predominantly.

It is implied. Costumers shopping for $20,000+ industrial drones already know the tradeoffs between fixed wing and quadcopters.
In this thread, we've already discussed how California, basically, taxes all bottles - plastic bottles too - and how it's had nearly zero impact on people's behavior.

Which is why it's better to not rely on people's behavior for recycling programs. It should be automatic. Place whatever in a bin, and the garbage company sorts and recycles.
I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I'm using this to defend Prezi or something.

The parent comment I originally responded to was about jobs they found morally objectionable and an Upton Sinclair quote.

My reply was about how some people don't actually find those jobs objectionable.

Then the reply to that was about moral relativity (which okay, now we're getting into philosophy).

And now we're about to discuss the purpose of a web forum, but that seems even more meta than this conversation.

I guess in summary, I agree we have veered off of course (arguably the original comment had very little to do with this Prezi incident), but I also think these side discussions are interesting. If you don't want to chat about philosophy you don't have to and it's okay if some people are wrong on the internet.
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One merely has to look at speculative fiction to see that the upsides in letting this technology become available to everyone are non-existant to those who help fund its creation. A monopoly around this technology would form faster than DeBeers could say "Wow" - legal or not.

Human nature plus immortality is not a pretty thing to think about.
Site-Speed Topography
I think C# is becoming F# a lot faster than F# is becoming C#. I think people who really learn F# are setting themselves up to be productive for a long time.
Started to use Google Voice everywhere after telling my bank about it. They were OK, as long as they can call it from a landline. So I can slowly move away from SIMs.

Virtual numbers from providers like Twilio, Plivo or Signalwire help too. They have 2FA mostly and couldn't be SIM-swapped (I hope). Google account security is quite good too.
In 1992 I bought an HP Inkjet 550c. In 1994 HP sent me a roller cleaning kit and a floppy to run it. Basically a scotch pad scrubby for the paper pickup rollers.

It was the last great HP product I bought. The sound it made was magical. It was still well working after ten years when I gave it to a non profit administrator who lacked a printer. The 600 series printers I specked and bought for the office in 1995 banshee howled by comparison...though nothing like a dot matrix.
It's crazy that businesses that are built on top of code spend hours in meetings to come to a decision that isn't documented anywhere for people to see 2 years down the line. These are team leads who have worked for close to a decade. They must realize the value in documentation by this point.
What does "really use" actually mean? Perhaps putting on their power user face and scrolling real quick through twitter? Or is it those people who regularly set up a timed photo such that they get the perfect shot after throwing their phone over Victoria falls?
From the linked wikipedia page: 'It had been raised to "critical" following the Parsons Green bombing on 15 September.' (2017)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41288525
You haven't established the need.
Laser printers are better in so many ways. Just make sure that they are not placed too closely next to your desk or in rooms where you spend a lot of time in since they can emit toner dust and volatile compounds that could potentially be harmful to one’s health over a long period of time.
> They have a reasonable historic reason to be extra sensitive with xenophobia.
> I'm not saying its the correct ideological position, but it sure is understandable

It's not understandable, especially as Germany is pushing for harmonization of EU laws based on their prehistoric laws that still have the gestapo mentality.
Capitalism's endgame is a monopoly. Why do you believe that this technology would somehow be exempt from this?
There are also plenty of times when Trump has slurred his words in speeches.

I've also said things that don't make sense. Sometimes I change my mind about what I'm going to say in the middle of saying it. I'm sure this sort of thing happens to lots of people. Lucky for me I'm not talking in front of cameras so people can collect every time I've misspoken.
Termux has saved one of our projects literally tens of thousands of dollars in SMS fees from someone like Twilio.

We have a few areas where non urgent SMS reminders need to be sent to users. We literally just use a couple of cheap ($100) Android phones with termux on an unlimited message plan with a local provider (who approved us for commercial usage).

The actual process is a glorified bash script that pulls API jobs down with curl and then uses termux-sms to actually send the message.
I think your data might be wrong?

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

Seems to change every year or so. It was at severe a year ago, but was reduced to substantial, now it's back at severe.
Most of the darknet shops accept bitcoin just fine
If they have a mobile app, often looking at the requests that it makes can be enlightening, and the same story if the have a mobile version of the site, as it tends to have less "fluff" and more content

I also know they have a moderately public Nitro API for their media programming (the iPlayer offerings) so it's possible they have a similar one for their web content
I have a brother MFC-J6520DW scanner/printer. It is inexpensive and I bought it mainly for its large format scanning capability.

Problem #1: I don't use it much. But every night (or two?) it does a self cleaning cycle which uses up some ink apparently. Despite saying the ink cartridges saying "500 prints", I might actually make 50 pages before it runs out of ink after a few months.

Problem #2: I only ever need it for black and white, yet I have to buy expensive color cartridge sets as it refuses to print B&W pages if it is out of color. And it runs out of color despite my not using it because of problem #1 above.

Problem #3: After it gives the ink low warning, if I ignore it for a while until it actually starts making splotchy prints, when I put the new ink cartridges in, I have to literally print dozens of test pages before the quality is acceptable again. I have no idea what is going on there. By that time the B&W cartridge will report it is at 60% capacity.

Once this set runs out in a few months, I've already decided to get a monochrome laser printer, and regret not doing it long ago.
If the "free market" is not designed for such an outcome, then what is the expected outcome when hospitals need to purchase PPE, and enough others are willing to pay more than the hospitals?
I agree completely on the first point, but belief is also something people have about fairies and yetis. “Have compelling evidence that” seems like a good term to me.
So research is just random shots in the dark? Or is there insights that are then researched and determined to be true or false?
Windows 7 is objectively the best operating system MS ever done, the most stable, secure and having the most comfortable user experience. Highly promoted Windows 10 leaves rotten smell for every technically educated user. First thing you have to do is remove all crapware, preinstalled despite you paid for your OS. Then you probably should harden your privacy by disabling all telemetry features. When I forced to use Windows 10, first application I run is ShutUp10 [0], then I disable Cortana and block telemetry servers using simple script [1], which may be outdated, because I did not touch 10 for some time.

For personal purposes I use hardened Windows 7 inside Parallels, and hope to keep this configuration as long as possible. I suggested hardening guide post [2] (pdf) on HN, but few people were interested. Hope it would help someone though .

[0] https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

[1] https://github.com/yuchdev/windows_10_antispy

[2] https://www.cyber.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/PROTECT...
Yeah, there's a lot that needs to change in the system. Frankly, it's a terrifying joke at the moment.
Brother drivers are every bit as crap as every other brand.

I have one of their all-in-one office machines. It prints pretty well. The wireless scan is complete garbage. A known issue with their drivers, apparently.
I have GPON FTTH, as in I can see the fiber strand coming into my apartment. If I call providers and offer to buy beyond 1Gbps for ANY PRICE, even on enterprise plans, they can't do it.

The network is not technically capable of it.
You shouldn’t look up what they did in Haiti then
Why do these attacks seem concentrated in the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, but rarely or never occur in Czechia, Poland, Hungary?
> minimum wage

Seems unnecessary.
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.

I don't even see references to high availability configuration and how this would withstand transactional load and be resilient enough in comparison with more mature engines.
Anyone remember Sonique?
Hm.....
Though if you click through to the Wikipedia page for the previous alert scheme it replaced, apparently the lowest "white" no-alert level under that was "known to have been used for periods between the Good Friday Agreement and the 9th of September 2001". Really, it's just a reflection of the times we're in right now.
Made a solemn vow years ago to never ever buy another HP product again when I realised that the inkjet printer I bought in the UK from a major UK retailer was region-locked to US ink. No official HP ink cartridge bought in the UK would work with it and there was nothing official I could do to change it. Had to muck about with refills, blank chips and ink systems for years until the happy day when the thing broke and I threw it as hard as I could into the e-waste skip.

The rot set in with printers when the technology got good enough for there not to be any easy improvements and the mindset changed from building a tool to help people create, to seeing customers as a resource to be exploited.

Every user-hostile bit of nonsense from shoddy software to region-locked, staggeringly overpriced ink stems from there.
> The current level is "severe", which was set on 3 November 2020, due to a shooting in Vienna by a suspected "Islamist terrorist" in which four people died. It was raised by Home Secretary, Priti Patel, following recent attacks in Europe. It was previously held at 'substantial', set on 4 November 2019. Prior to that it was rasied to "severe" on 17 September 2017. It had been raised to "critical" following the Parsons Green bombing on 15 September. The previous threat level to that was "severe" having been reduced to that level following an increase to "critical" after the Manchester Arena bombing of 22 May 2017.

From the Wikipedia article, which features a Threat Levels Over Time chart that is genuinely funny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Threat_Levels#Changes_to_th...

Why is this a story?
Not at all, it’s based on the immigration policies of the European Union over the last 20+ years.
Yeah the LJ4s jammed a lot. And they were real ozone generators. And would hold up the queue every time someone specified the wrong paper type "INSERT LETTER"

But I loved them because you could send a message to their screen with a PCL command. Even many of the matter models can still do this. I had so much fun with that.
Interestingly I posted this 2 days ago but it dropped into the ether.

Ever since I seen it I've become convinced something similar will be part of a future garden office I'm planning. With a IR panel heater to add the warming effect. I was also wondering about whether UVB could be incorporated by but frankly I'd be too chicken to mess with that.
Larger target = bigger news story
It’s actionable to an extent. I once worked on an infrastructure project that increased all security controls based on threat levels, automatically.

A simple example would be cancelling badge access for a janitor to a sensitive area like an engine room, but allowing it if the threat level Was lower.
Do you believe that in a communist country something different would happen?