skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dynamic range compression is kind of the same thing as automatic gain control (well, automatic gain control is one way of describing how to implement dyanmic range compression). This github project implements a compressor, it says in the readme.
If you're too lazy to build something like this out but like the idea I highly recommend bright LED lighting for the day (explained here: https://www.benkuhn.net/lux/). I bought two ~7000 lumens LED corn bulbs and have noticed a huge shift in energy levels from having a brightly-lit room in dark PNW days. I put together a bunch of resources when I was researching buying some here: https://www.notion.so/vimota/LED-World-fce39f79710b42708b92a...
Self-hosting is great, however, I did learn the hard way when not only did my server crash, but the backup solution I had instilled stopped working as well.

As my future plan, I pretty much just type in a few Git commands and I have a copy on my server and in Github. Will be coming up with a few solutions to make backups of my databases.
Why NerdWallet Is Buying Fundera
>Tax handling is a big gaping hole

(Edwin from Stripe here.) I agree and we hear you—and we’re working on ways to fix this. If you’re interested, shoot an email to kmoriarty@stripe.com and me at edwin@stripe.com.
Yes, they are. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromanians_in_North_Macedonia
This is pretty nice. It's effectively working as a blocklist from top domains.

It would be interesting to see a curated version with an allowlist of domains as well, like how Angelfire and friends in the 90s used to be with a "web ring" of peer websites.
The only printer I've ever enjoyed was a short-lived Kodak pigment based printer.

That said, while it worked great and the pigments were reasonably priced, the unit experienced hardware failures every 6-12 months. Kodak support was above and beyond, and they must have shipped me 4 printers as replacements.

It's a shame consumer pigment printers didn't take off but I guess once Kodak realized the price wasn't going to move the needle on consumer habits, they might as well get their slice of the ink cartel pie.

My current HP is maybe the worse printer I've ever owned. It is constantly inaccessible on the network despite being connected and the only solution is to power cycle it. If I hold the power button to power it off, it sits and spins "Preparing to shut down" literally forever. I've left it overnight just so see. So I have to pull the plug every time just to turn it off. It's insane.
My color laser printer has been working well for years now! Each toner cartridge lasts at least 1000 pages (current winner in my printer is black with 1553 pages). It is a little slow to load big documents but I don't see any need to upgrade any time soon. Wifi was really the latest beneficial technology.

HP CP1525nw
Why would it be based in that? The USA is not the centre of the universe.
> But the issue is that theories we view as true (at least within their scope) often fail to predict observations. Which is fine: we modify them with ad hoc hypotheses to round off the rough edges.

This passage reminds me of how neural nets learn and often fail to generalise.
I'll be honest: the success of the initial release totally blew me away (both in a good way and a bad way). It took me a little over a month to adapt and develop ways to manage all of the threads (prs, community, dev work) without feeling burnt out.

Fortunately I've largely sorted out a workflow that works for my mental health, (i think) works for the community, and still leaves me plenty of time to do dev work. It helps that I can make this my full time job thanks to all of my awesome sponsors.

I am currently the only member of the Bevy organization that can merge prs, but a number of people have stepped up to review prs which helps a lot.

Eventually I do want to grant more people merge rights, but I'm holding off for as long as possible because I think having a single filter that ensures a cohesive vision is valuable.
Spot on. Have a laser printer since 2010 and the only thing apart from toner that I had to buy for it was a drum about 2-3 years ago. Not even buying branded toner. Only from Aliexpress.

One thing though - it's slow compared to new models.
From the readme

>An Upward Compressor is used to raise low level signals ...
Two words: Buffer overrun
My impression is that it's just guesswork, extrapolation from the already-dubious DRMed inkjet refills and toner cartridges.
How Do Millionaires Make Their Money?
If the text-only experience is good enough, then why bother with encoding and storing a video?
The minimum wage argument is a fair one. All the more reason to index that.
I take issue with your statement on divorce being fair and equitable. Even if that is the stated purpose, it's rarely the outcome. In most instances I feel that fair and equitable are often opposing outcomes in a divorce. Is it fair to split the assets 50/50? Is that equitable? How do you even measure the equity for non-monetary contributions? Now, how do you account for whether or not the person would have needed to perform the same tasks outside of the marriage (cooking for themself vs cooking for two)? Most of the court's solutions for this are either based on inflexible formulas or on the emotions and bias of the judge.

Your statement about credit for paying all the utilities is not how it works. In fact, that can work against you. Like I stated before, lifestyle can be a big part of the decision. The spouse paying all the bills may still be required to pay many of them because the other person has a lifestyle the court wants to preserve. Take for example the divorce in California where a man had a porn addiction and the wife was ordered to pay alimony to continue supporting that addiction.

Your example of a startup is not the same. A startup is property, which can be sold and has inherent value. Being acquired during the marriage, that makes it marital property.

Coming back to your previous comment, do you really think that is a fair split at 50/50 even though one person provided the intellectual capital and work? That would be devastating to most people to have their "baby" of a company ripped from them to the point where they no longer have majority ownership.
Every year, 2-4 times a year, according to another comment’s historical data.
In the lower left of the Zoom conference window is a mute button. If you look closely, you'll see an arrow there, which, when clicked, causes a drop down menu to appear, where you can pick your audio input and output devices.

TYL! Today You Learned!
Wouldn’t it be cheaper and easier to just use a serverless option like AWS Aurora?
Yes very much so
> Macedonian is just a dialect of Bulgarian language.

Yeah no.
There's a lot going on these days..
This is not a great article. It leaves out Dr. Sinclairs work, further developing discoveries by Dr. Yamanaka specifically around the four transcription factors (Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-myc), turning any cells back into pluripotent stem cells. More important, leaving c-myc disabled, the cell reverts to a younger age. This is what Dr. Sinclair has been working on recently, to completely reverse macular degeneration. He has been able to regrow damaged optic nerves all the way from the eye back to the brain.

Here is a talk he did at Google [1] He briefly talks about the ethics of this here [2].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nXop2lLDa4

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4tsELrQfFQ
Usually when using Java streams, I’m mid-thought and the IDE cannot offer suggestions on my not-yet-syntactically-valid code. I end up typing the whole Collectors part by sheer muscle memory. I think this makes sense.
Thanks for the response. [edit, removed question]
I don't understand why the author took the approach he did.

He creates a classifier with 5 label,s and gets 50% accuracy on the cross-val (This may be ok, may be terrible, we don't know), but then only uses the labels for one of those classes. What's the precision/recall on that class?

Also, he's taken a multi-class classification approach to what is essentially a regression task. He's trying to predict the # of upvotes a post will get, and there are approaches that'll do that, but this isn't one of them.

It's fun to see NLP applied to these sort of problems, but this isn't a good example of how to do it well.
I think people underestimate just how difficult it is to design and manufacture a printer! Paper isn't easy to work with, especially when it comes with all sorts of thicknesses and finishes. We expect extreme accuracy and reliability, with no maintenance. It is amazing they work as well as they do!
Laser all the way, baby!

... although I was disappointed recently by my usual go-to of the Brother brand. Their Linux/CUPS drivers are some sort of bizarre concoction of Perl scripts and x32 binaries... and still cannot print in duplex :/.

(I believe the duplex problem is probably a typo somewhere in the PPD or Perl script, but I don't know enough about PPDs and/or Perl scripts to be sure. I do know programming, hence my suspicion.)

Lesson is: Research if the EXACT printer you're purchasing is supported by the usual Gutenprint or whatever.
So what you are saying you are anti-progress? Almost everything is first paid for by the rich. That's not a bad thing.
I like to read on paper...
Ditto, I picked up a Samsung CLP-620ND in 2010 and it's still going strong. I get about 5000 pages on a black cartridge, about half that on the colors, and it's time for a transfer belt but I think I can probably clean the old one and get a few more years out of it.

Screw. Inkjets.
No, that's kind of my point that they are not the same - I won't translate my local laws, but that's pretty much a general principle, if you're in USA then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_privacy#United_Sta... would be relevant.

If I somehow legally obtain your diary and publish juicy exerpts and facts from it (publishing all of it would be restricted by copyright), then you may have grounds to sue me for violations of your privacy. If you're dead, your heirs can't do that, they can protect their rights (e.g. the inherited copyright), but not your privacy. It's similar for defamation; after you're dead, defaming you does not violate the rights of anyone - anyone living, that is.
it's a good service to users, but frankly demanding it of each app separately is folly & ruin. computing should be more useful, you should be able to depend on your OS to provide you basic services like this.

ditto for tools like virtual background.

coupling our services to the consuming apps is a big mistake, leading to users facing inconsistent offerings & each app needing it's own configuration wizards. this serves no one & is not how competing within computing should happen, in siloes.
I bought a Brother HLL2300D over 5 years ago. I only print about 10 pages a month but it has never jammed and I just put in my third toner cartridge.

It's monochrome but I almost never need to print in color. For photos I just upload to Walgreens and pick them up a mile away.

I went through 2 HP Inkjets and I don't print very much and the ink always went dry after a few months and I know there was still ink in them.
Stop “Doomscrolling” on Twitter and use A.I. to improve your timeline's mood
You comment was good without the last paragraph. It’s needlessly condescending and sees a defensiveness that isn’t really there.
OTOH, I bought an HP 3600N networked color laser printer in Nov 2006. Cost me $574.39 delivered and gives reliable and excellent quality output for about $41/year so far in capex. 3rd party toner cartridges run around $110 for all 4 (they're about half the fill of the genuine HP article for about 1/8th the price).

In home use, I've replaced the cartridges twice, so I'm around $800 plus paper for 14 years of convenient printing at home.
Back when I used to do IT work, close to ten years ago, the HP LaserJet 4 and I want to say both the 3000 and 4000 were always the printers I was happiest to see when I walked into a new client’s office. They seemed to last forever, they broke the least frequently, their drivers were the easiest to install and the most stable. It’s both wild to me and not totally unsurprising that so many people have fond memories for them. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people were still squeezing life out of theirs!
Saw some comments about scanners here. Anyone else just take a photo of the document, then Photoshop it to be flat and monochrome?
Don't they use PON there? Seems expensive to have to run an individual fiber line to every household, rather than sharing a single fiber (with branches).
Wow this situation escalated quite quickly.
> but the scope does seem to be limited for now.

Basically all I do on Spotify is to browse through song / artists radios to discover new music.

TFA isn't really news to you if that matches your usage pattern. It's immediately obvious how Spotify will REPEATEDLY suggest the same song. But I am glad to have my impression validated

And no, this isn't because "humans are bad at randomness and you don't actually want a random playlist of related artists"
A friend in London says it's because they're going into lockdown Thursday, so terrorists will use the last day everyone will be out and about.
Seconding this, although I only bought one giant 14k lumen corn cob, since I didn't have a good spot to put the second. Anecdotally, they've been great at staving off my usual post-lunch slump.
Right around the same time as I got it, though, I started waking up much earlier naturally, without an alarm clock (shifting from ~9AM natural wake up to more like ~6AM). I'm careful about turning the corncob off no later than 6PM, and the earlier wake up time might be unrelated, but I was wondering if others had experienced a similar phenomenon with extended, consistent exposure to super bright lights during the day.
Last time I moved I gave USPS a change of address to a PO Box. Then, after updating all the important ones I forgot, I let it expire six months later. I'm still getting junk mail at my new address, but some of the more annoying ones have lost track of me.
Is it 1GB of text + source code? I can't imagine that much plaintext from one person unless binaries, images music, or video is involved. Github Pages is probably fine for most people even with the 1GB limit.

Btw, cool website. I didn't realize there's an N64 homebrew game development scene until looking at your blog.
Rationalizing one’s behavior “because they deserve it” is the basis of bullying and antithetical to respectful dialogue. Finding one’s self in situations where utter fallaciousness is perceived and arguing in its face requires a lot of deliberate choice. The arguing not least among them.

To be fallacious, reasoning must draw an incorrect conclusion from undisputed premises. For example

x -> y
x
ergo k

Fallacious reasoning doesn’t require point by point rebuttal. It’s all at the truth table. Fallacious reasoning is the application of the wrong truth table.

Facts in dispute are orthogonal to fallacy. Incorrect conclusions based upon suspect premises are not fallacious. They are simply normal human fallibility.

The pick apart requires deliberate incharitable interpretation and great effort to avoid common ground. The “utterly” in “utterly fallacious” belies the veracity of any claim to respectfulness.
wow xD you're adding to the stereotype of the American who has no clue about what's happening in the world
Government indecision shows the fourth fifth wave is no surprise
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/alexis-carrels-immortal-chick-h...

It seems that in perfect conditions cells can live forever.

Obviously a few cells are very different than an entire organism where a small thing going wrong can compound exponentialy over time.

But in theory it does seem that cells can live forever if you remove contaminants and provide required nutrition.
IMO it depends especially if your coming from C# - sometimes yes, sometimes no for existing code bases.

On the features you mention while some of those features are being added to C# (and not all of them are planned to) from what I've seen they often aren't as powerful/useful as the F# version, are not as consistent/concise due to legacy syntax or don't interact with other features as well. F# is also taking C# features so its not like you will be left behind either (e.g. Span). For me more importantly the underlying defaults are a feature that can't be ported which IMO F# wins here.

C# is a fine OO language having worked with both extensively, just F# IMO is slightly better with less ceremony than typical C# code. Is it worth switching? It depends on your problem and where your starting from. In this case they are switching from OCAml so F# probably makes more sense. If your starting from a clean state it all depends tbh what you find easier to learn - IMO many JS/Python/Go/etc programmers if trying .NET Core might find F# easier than moving to C#/Java from their own personal preferences - its often called a "typed Python" by users. For C# users probably less so; but learning it might change your C# code style for the better.
The funny thing is that all of the lefties I know just adapted to the right-side mouse (likely just because that is how it was setup at school/office).

While yes, the BT mouse is going to be the better option, they're pushing the kit-included mouse.
It's worth noting that the level has literally never been below substantial or above severe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Threat_Levels
I am a Life-Long, grateful Google user who has some thoughts on AdSense that I've considered quite deeply. Adsense allows anyone of any economic standing to access some of the most refined and powerful tools for gathering, using, and sharing knowledge that humanity has ever built. Google's contribution to modern ad tech is, in that sense, an immensely laudable contribution to humankind.
The lack of the ability to choose where I spend my valuable attention amounts at some level to a nonconsensual interaction. I am willing to pay for both Google's services and those of the content creator (and I am sensitive to the fairness of that relationship as well), but not being able to choose how I pay has led me to make some personal use decisions that put me in conflict with Google's revenue model.
I have to use an ad blocker
Security concerns
Unhealthy child development
Anti-patterns showing in the development of the internet both technologically and socially
Google's anticompetitive ad-tech behavior leading to
unhealthy browser market share leading to
Reduction in diversity of thought in internet technology conversations
Centralization of power in ad selection has the unintended side effect of dragging content along with it. Ad personalization (for the sake of maximizing profits in ad sales) led to over-personalization of the types of ads we see (echo chamber effect).
Automatic content curation followed the ad-tech model, increasing profits by increasing "engagement." This led to a dangerous strengthening of the echo chamber effect.
We're all now used to the central artery of human information being "free" as in beer, but costing us our ability to have a balanced, more-or-less impartial information diet or at least forcing us to work very hard for it.
Google, please figure out how to give us another way to pay.
Next time I swing by the computer recycling place, I gotta see if they still have that Tektronix Phaser dye-sub printer up front. They've been trying to move it for years, and I think their clientele just doesn't recognize it.

Dye-sub is downright magical. I don't know what I'd do with it, but I just want to own one.
Bookshop.org is fantastic for sourcing physical books, but I would unfortunately heavily recommend against getting ebooks through it. The software of the company they partner with, "MyMustReads" is absolutely awful in my experience, and I've also not found a way yet to get the actual epub/mobi/etc files out of it and use them on my dedicated e-reader devices.
> It's only a monopoly when you're narrowly focused not on internet access, but on fiber specifically.

That's not actually what the highlighted quotes say.
> I downvoted you because it's perfectly possible to "believe" something because there is evidence for it. Plenty of scientists will say they "believe" in evolution, for example.

We don't "believe" in scientific concepts. Their being a fact has no precondition on whether (or how many) people believe in them. Evolution didn't begin when Darwin started studying it.

That being said, you're right. We have to start somewhere. For example, scientists just a hundred or so years ago believed in the existence of something called aether. I believe many (most?) scientists will change their opinion if we can provide them evidence contrary to their belief. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper...

On the other hand, scientists are just human as well and are subject to the same flaws and limitations as the rest of us. Facts are only facts, until they are not (that sounded weird, I am not actually against evidence based decision-making). I mean we make what we think is our best attempt at describing our world given the tools we have and the reality we live in. I wouldn't put too much weight that scientists believe aging is optional any more than I'd put weight on scientists saying technically it is possible for us to fly in a metal tube across the Atlantic Ocean or that technically we can put a man on the moon... until it happens.
TBH, I don't, on the rare occasions I need to print, I just order a print via Fedex and pick it up in the store.

It's usually stuff like an insurance card or temporary registration for my car.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an activist organisation which will label just about anything as "far right" which does not fit their narrative [1]. Using them as a reference for something being related to far-right individuals and conspiracy theorists, and for hosting hateful material makes the claim less believable. This does not mean BitChute does not harbour such material - given the fact that BitChute does not censor content it is likely to be present, just like it is likely for it to harbour far-left individuals and conspiracy theorists - but SPLC calling something bad just means they disagree with whatever the something does.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-southern-poverty...

There are many other sources, just search for them
BBC still has a frustrating bug on mobile:

1. Tap on Most Read
2. Tap on any story
3. Tap back in the browser

It'll go back to the Most Read tab, then after a second switch to the Latest Stories tab.
Totally agree. I loved Mint but once KDE was discontinued I switched to KDE Neon and haven't bothered looking at anything else.
I can't imagine not using KDE plasma. It is just so nice.
I'm fairly certain it's the efficiencies of scale, not capitalism, that makes previously experimental products affordable.

Capitalism, all other things disregarded, would just keep the price high so long as the demand is high and the supply low.
To be fair, a terrorist attack is more than highly likely to occur, it’s a certainty. The only question is when. Near? Distant? Remote? Eventually?
Simply part and parcel! /s
I say this only half-sarcastically, the Austrian school seems to start at their desired solution & worked backwards from there.

They similarly deny the existence of externalities- although depending on who you read the justification varies widely.
True, but what benefits those people varies a lot depending on timescale, and who those people are.

E.g. short term profits at the expense of harming an industry or art vs long term profits by investing in its health.

Both are different ways for the shareholders to benefit.