skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inkjets are just not great printers, especially if you print infrequently. Laser printers used to be an expensive luxury but they’ve long since become a commodity. Get a half decent laser printer and it will work fine even if you only print once a month.
Expats have always had it tough, and it takes a special kind of person to continue at it long-term unless they have to.

Most people just want to settle down somewhere they feel comfortable, and not always be a stranger in a strange land, unless they feel exceptionally drawn to that place, in which case they might stay.
You probably won't get a dose until late 2021. This is because you are probably not in a high risk area where you can't isolate effectively. The first shots will go to doctors/nurses, moving down a risk scale. Next is up for debate.

I'm sure my company will do everything they can to ensure factory and retail workers will be next. Factory because shutting down our factory would be a disaster to our finances. Retail because all employees who are supposed to not go anywhere still get groceries, so protecting those workers reduces are contact. The the CEO is next, probably only slightly above the rest of us office workers who can stay home.
I predict that once it gets popular, in common usage it will be shortened to 'pij' (and derivatives).

EDIT : Oh crap :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Jihad_Movement_in_Pale...

Well, at least it didn't change the name to another (than 'Anu') ancient god : Isis !
> 90% efficiency reduces R so much

You’re assuming 100pct of the population takes the vaccine. I’d be surprised if it’s more than 50% the first year
> It seems to me like people are willing to jump to the opposite conclusion simply because he's "one of us".

Because many of us have our own collection of weird oddities. I literally have cannon fuse sitting on the shelf behind me, that I got to make my own smoke bombs/devices (just sugar and potassium nitrate, nothing insane or dangerous). I would take a hard look at the worst thing someone could accuse you of building using the materials you have in your house. If you have any metal piping sitting around, and a nail or screw, that could be turned into a primitive gun. If you have metal piping and anything that burns very quickly like gunpowder, that's a pipe bomb (or pressure cooker). If you have a propane grill and a gun (or anything that could be used as a detonator), that propane tank could cause some serious damage.

I'll grant you, ammonium nitrate isn't a terribly common substance to have around an apartment. I still don't think it's very compelling evidence that he was building a bomb, and weaker evidence that if he was building a bomb, it was to hurt people. Maybe he was just trying to make his own fireworks. He shouldn't be doing that in an apartment, cuz risk of accidental explosions, but it seems hasty to start painting him as a domestic terrorist.
There's that classic double joke about fad technology names being gibberish and hapless tech recruiters:

"I typically ask recruiters to point out which of these are pokemon" https://imgur.com/gallery/r0SEEoh
I'd be curious to hear your perspective as someone who is quite familiar with both Guix and Nix. What sort of companies do you know that are using Guix for Real Work (in some significant capacity)? What would be a rational reason for using Guix in production vs nix?

Nix is used by a couple of well known companies such as Pinterest and Target, I have used (and continue to use) nix myself professionally and I know several other places that use it. But even with nix, there needs to be a really good justification to use it in preference to some more standard solution. For example, if all you are working on is python webapp with fairly simple dependencies, I'd probably recommend sticking to poetry and maybe a docker container for your DB. If you need to deal with e.g. machine learning or video processing, or something else that involves a lot of gnarly C/C++/Fortran dependencies or if you've got non-trivial DB migrations or other dependencies which you can very conveniently deal with as a (correctly cached and therefore instantaneous) build artefacts with nix, nix can start to make sense, especially if you need to customize any aspect of the build. At the point where you have a bunch of different services written in several different languages, and your dev env needs to run a dozen plus different services together plus some DB(s) and other infrastructure, you can literally achieve two orders of magnitude improvements in key metrics compared to "industry best practice" cruft like docker or (barf) minikube (e.g. how long it takes to spin up all those services correctly, CI speed, deployment times or how long it takes to spin up a new developer, how much extra tooling infra you need to shepherd and so on). Even then you will still need at least two people with a good familiarity of nix and invest in some basic training for the rest of the company and you might periodically run into annoying speed bumps.

In summary, as a rule of thumb, I'd say even something as non-mainstream as nix only make sense if you think it'll buy you a 10x or greater improvement for something you really care about. I'm not deeply familiar with Guix, but my superficial impression is that it's a much more ideologically pure and not particularly inspired transliteration of nix to scheme that keeps a lot of the obvious flaws in nix (e.g. not using principle of least power; stuff like sha256, github urls and revs should reside in toml or similar and not be munged into the turing complete and non-machine editable nix/scheme code). It still has a significantly lower user base and the greater ideological purity means more stuff won't work compared to nix or mainstream solutions. This all matters less for personal use, where I agree it is indeed a matter of taste. But to me the aforementioned means there would need to be some massive benefit of Guix over nix to make it worth considering in a professional setting. Is there, in your opinion?
> Contract tracing hasn't worked at scale anywhere.

I am not sure this is true. At least some articles I read attribute the successes in many Asian countries to aggressive contact tracing and quarantining. You don't ask people kindly to self-isolate, you move them to hotels and quarantine them. You don't ask them to remember their contacts, you aggressively investigate them using every source of data available.

I think an argument can be made that Europe simply got it wrong in the details. In order to find less invasive means of controlling covid that respect privacy we ended up limiting freedoms much more and for longer.
> I know many HN commenters have a strong anti-public-service bent

Welcome to a community that powers a lot of open source software, which powers a lot of the world.

> if the government is providing your Internet service, then your service is protected by the constitution

Nope. Did you know the constitution is a document, and not "stuff the government currently pays for"?
> they aren't sure the rest of their system will remain secure, despite their claims

It may well be that, but it's also worth noting a company name will also be proliferated to many places outside of their systems.
Sure but how about the risk/damage due to lockdown?
Exactly why I left northern europe for the USA. I find real and metaphorocal gated communities unbearably suffocating.
I have his 6502 kit and the timer kit. They're both great!

The videos are well explained and the kits are a really easy way to follow along.
‽, What is this monstrosity‽
McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
This post has the (2019) tag on it, but just to note - I think the reason it was submitted today is that he just released a whole new part where he is hooking it up to his 6502 breadboard computer... and the "world's worst video card" is now also available as a kit!
Thank you for the detailed response. Interesting links I will work through over time.
Conservatives value personal stories more than liberals do in rating science
shouldnt they be focusing on older people? in fact if they are first to be vaccinated the fatality would drop very very significantly
>There's one there that's pretty close to a side project of mine - not even a grand.

I mean quite a few are significantly more than a grand, and there are a few that if I got that much for my side project I think it totally makes sense to go for it.
Was the military given this task?
This is a useless response that contributes nothing nor answers the question. You basically danced around the question and justified the plan based on some sort of appeal to emotion.
I've met a lot of people that would use it if they knew how. (It's so very common to work on things side-by-side and then want to split things out into more logical commits to describe things as individual changes.)

Coming from a darcs background where that was a natural and very easy part of the UX, I had reason to learn how to do it in git (because I was used to doing it quite often in darcs). When people watch me do it, they can't believe that magic exists in git.

I agree with the above poster that if graphical user interfaces prioritized it better, if the CLI had a bit fewer warts (I still often confuse when to use `git add --patch` and when to use `git add --interactive` though it isn't an awful confusion because you can get to one from the other when you remember how to use it), and if tutorials tried better to train people on the tools that already exist, a lot more people would presumably use them (daily in some cases). More awareness of tools like darcs and pijul does help in that by presenting UXes built around it, it does drive people to ask how to do equivalents in git.

(Why just the other week there was an HN headline where someone was really excited they hacked the email-focused `git format-patch` and a workflow akin to sending email to oneself to replicate `git add --patch` because they didn't realize `git add --patch` was also a built-in tool.)
> and our code quality wouldn't suffer from not having it

Your code quality is irrelevant. What matters is did it save you time, and what is that time worth to you and your business.
> And now this article makes it seem like they want our sympathy that there wasn't a pot of gold at the end of their rainbow?

This is exactly my point. A bunch of princesses complaining about the pea under their mattress.
Business meetings are explicitly allowed under ESTA rules. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/business...
I’ve had the same brother printer since college. Started in 2008. It still works great. Seconding brother as a cheap and reliable brand.
> Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that someone consuming this animal would benefit more than someone consuming the factory farmed pig?

No. This is the naturalistic fallacy [1] in new clothes.

We need the additional studies showing how stress and poor diet makes most factory-farmed meat less nutritionally dense than the pasture-raised stuff. Though even then, it isn’t anything inherent to the production method causing the variance.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
These databases already exist. How else do you think your government can determine whether or not you are allowed to vote, or whether or not you can be issued a passport.
Coming Soon to Xbox Game Pass: EA Play, Destiny 2: Beyond Light, Disney+
I found this book by the team of Basecamp (DHH et al) really inspiring: https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real
Our HP printer ran out of ink and we stopped printing at home. It's far easier / cost-effective to pay 19 cents at CVS in the rare event I need anything printed these days, than to mess around with paper jams, ink, a bulky printer on my desk or these ridiculous "pay as you go" printing plans.
Reuters calculated [1] that the average holding period for stocks is down to 5.5 months recently. See the chart on that page, it has been as high as 8 years in the past.

Because of day traders and HFT, it's hard to say how long your average investor holds a stock, but it's fair to say that some hold it for a long time and others "speculate" most of the time. The speculators probably have a greater impact on the movement of a stock, but over time it must move in line with the performance of the company.

The price of a stock is thought to be a "risk adjusted present value" of the underlying company. Even if you could be 100% sure a company would make X dollars per year in perpetuity, the price would not be infinite. Instead each year of earnings is "discounted" by risk, inflation rate, the cost of borrowing money, the value of competing investments, and other factors.

If it was assumed by investors that Zoom would make lots of money for the next 5 years, and then make very little money, and this news meant they would only make lots of money for the next 3 years, then that will have an impact of 2 years worth of discounted earnings immediately.

(of course it's not like Zoom pays or is planning to pay a dividends but there's still an underlying value, for instance they could be purchased by a larger company that does pay dividends.)

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-short-...
They'd have to raise prices just to keep the margins the same.
One great use-case for git patches is moving files between repos without losing their history. I've done this many times, e.g. solving a problem in an application, then later wanting to move that code into a library so it can be used elsewhere.

I do this so infrequently that I never remember the commands, but frequently enough that I remember which StackOverflow answer to Google for: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11426261/884682
Yes. This is all real data. No false data.
All data taken from various sources like their stripe, paddle, baremtrics data.

Only thing to note is - this is before expenditure deduction.

Its revenue. Not profit. But with most of these typically sass and lean startups, I would say 80%-90% would be profits, may be.
To be fair, it would be nice if he explicitly expressed such a stance rather than tacitly implying it, but otherwise that sounds about right.
I don't think it does.

It differentiates between 'normal' carts and 'instant ink' carts. I've just signed up, but plan only starts when I put the instant ink carts in. When these run low, they send replacements.

If I swapped back to regular carts, then prints wouldn't come off my plan.
There's infinite nuance and meta game to referendums, but that aside...

(1) Referendums seem able to produce highly decisive vote counts on otherwise controversial political issues. Interesting, in itself.

(2) Issues that parties are at odds about aren't necessarily 50-50 issues.

(3) Referendums can (sometimes) produce democratic legitimacy in ways that representative politics cannot.

All interesting, in terms of enabling decision making. Referendums seem to be gaining a little momentum. I think one hidden advantage is the fact that referendums structurally enforce a separation of idea and execution.
Just to clarify, what you're saying is with respect to an actual infection, and not the vaccine, right?
Precious little about your comment makes sense from that first sentence to the rest of it.

> Of course, everyone is free to say what they wish. First amendment. Freedom of speech. Freedom of thought. Freedom is the basic human right.

I'm not even going to bother falling into the tangential tarpit of acting like someone is a bomb maker without them having gone to trial is a "1st amendment right". After all, if your best defense of a statement is "I'm legally allowed to say it", it's probably not worth much consideration.

> Notice that this covers the rights of someone "who has been charged with an offence" in "a public trial".

No it doesn't. It covers the rights of a person. Period. That's literally the point of a universal declaration of human rights

You're trying to play word sashimi to make a point that isn't made. The definition of guilt is specific to a public trial exactly because a "trial" of public opinions is so easy to manipulate.

Sure it can't force the general public to be decent people and understand that people should be presumed innocent until proven guilty... but it's also not endorsing the public not do so. It's not limiting presumption of innocence to trials.
Modern inkjet printers use ink at almost the same rate whether you are printing or not, with innovations like daily self-cleaning routines that just spray ink into a receptacle inside the machine.
Not operating a business around it makes it seem a little more trustworthy than say Glassdoor to me personally. Then again, you still rely entirely on whatever people enter.
Europe is adopting stricter rules on surveillance tech
It's not a distraction. The EC needs urgent reform and the UK was one of it's corrupting influences.
> I would be outraged if I didn't know what cookies were, but since I do, I think it's entirely reasonable, any half modern browser provides a mechanism to allow or disallow, and otherwise manage cookies…

Unfortunately that mechanism doesn't exist.

> I'd much prefer that we abandon these idiotic "we value your privacy" nag-screens and bars

There's an easy way of fixing this, and that's to just not send the cookies. See basecamp.com or amazon.co.uk (from the UK). No cookie popups, and (respectively) 0 and 3 (seemingly essential) cookies.

> let it be up to the browser and user settings.

That ship has sailed. You now require user consent before you set all but essential cookies https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

> Even the smallest change to the Set-Cookie header could have made it trivial to implement a browser-side UI for this:

Set-Cookie: <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>; Max-Age=<non-zero-digit>; Description=<LANGUAGE:User readable description,...>; Importance=<Required|Recommended|Noncritical>

That ship has, as I said above, sailed.

> If people don't want cookies, they can disable them in their browser.

Ditto. But, seriously, do you know how ridiculous that argument sounds? Don't like people speeding? Don't drive! You are unlikely to be so thick to think that turning cookies off on a web browser will make the web anything other than completely unusable.

> This is still one of the most idiotic laws the EU has made so far.

The butthurt from people about this is amazing. We've had companies playing fast and loose with our data for 20+ years and they had all this time to sort themselves out, and they didn't. They kept on abusing the system to attempt to squeeze out ever more marginal gains from users personal data.

This is on them.
Okay, I think lasers > inkjets for most people. But its dangerous to generalize.

Inkjets consistently make higher-resolution photos than lasers at the same price point. As you approach photo-quality, you can probably get very good photos from a $500 inkjet, and commercial quality photos from a $1000 inkjet.

I don't know of any laserjet that approaches that quality. Instead, laserjets main advantage is the simpler and cheaper to use toner. At the $300 price point, laser jets are just cheaper to maintain and use over ink.

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Now there's a bunch of $100 to $200 ink printers (and laser printers) which have even worse attributes. Since most $100 printers seem to be inkjet, I think people rightfully give them a bad reputation.

But at higher price points, a 11-ink printer is the only way you're going to get anything near photo-quality. (Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000).
83 points with zero comments

Looks like no one has actually read the book, but the topic looks interesting :)
Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta Is Not yet Ready for Lombard Street
They also did not take $ from Operation Speed Warp so I think they waited till now to keep this apolitical.
Ada's tasks are interesting from this perspective. There's more on it here (I had trouble finding good online tutorials/examples, this one is part of a larger set of Ada learning materials): https://learn.adacore.com/courses/Ada_For_The_CPP_Java_Devel...
Drugs help too.
Are you suggesting that the signal of the markets today has zero corellation with the promise of this vaccine? That seems like quite the position to take.

Or are you lamenting that much attention is given to something that is primarily driven by wealthy organizations? I guess I might sympathize with you there.
lol thanks... should have had more coffee before writing. Was thinking $1/year.
It is cool, but now that it's on HN, it may get enough visibility to attract the Big Apple's attention.
Yea, I've done this several times. My brother printer finally wore out at 3 years of pretty heavy use.
if it's before though, then how would isolation after symptoms prevent the spread? I think the original post stand if perhaps overstated.
Hmmm that onyx one almost had me, was gonna say it's both a pokemon and a language...but the Pokemon's spelled Onix.
If the extra details simplify the contents, go for it. Why should simplicity be conflated with conciseness?
I decided to have no (client side) tracking at all, for both usually it requires JS and cookies. And honestly I don't like to have both on my site if not strictly necessary (as a European citizen I'm also quite aware of all the shenanigans one has to do wrt privacy and consent).
To be fair, you get paid $1500 a day regardless. If you write the thing yourself, you'll get paid $1500 a day for a bit longer.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. Other countries have maintained a robust federalism. (Canada has 80% of total spending at the provincial level, versus our 50%.) Some countries like Sweden which are unitary reformed to push more decisions and spending down to the provincial level. Some unitary countries like Spain are exploring it: https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/resource/federalism-...
For comparison, Waymo in 2009: https://youtu.be/4V2bcbJZuPQ
Right, money can bring in the top quality. But media/gaming still needs that wow factor.
Huh, I see two replacement toner cartridges AND a drum for my Brother printer for $40. (Not Brother branded, but that's the point: you can use competing products because Brother doesn't stop you.) You should shop around.
You should read the other comments made after yours... apparently that was just a misunderstanding and not what the author intended.
Whenever I read articles like this I wonder about the economics of behavior like this. Are the profits gained by these kinds if behaviors enough to offset the loss of customers, either directly by people swearing to never buy HP products again, or indirectly by bad word of mouth or by articles like this warning potential customers of HP's bad behavior.

Hewlett-Packard used to be a trusted brand. The HP brand seems to be losing more trust with every action like this that they take.
Asia results are from strict compliance to protocols across the population.
Microbiome study explains how sugar hijacks an essential part of health
What will be the monthly fee and/or per gb price?

Giving telecoms money for infrastructure with no strings attached seems like a bad idea.
"Hey siri, turn on Voiceover."
My first hand experience shows that corporations aren't always rational. Especially if they're big - it's really easy to get a discrepancy between what smaller unit/team managers want (push their own team product) vs. what's benefical for the whole corporation in the long run.

This is how you get a lot of seemingly dumb corporate decisions.
It depends on which courts we are talking about. For example, a court in NJ may ignore a case but federal courts may take it up. You can even have split circuits depending on the part of the country the cases were filed in. This leads to one court stating that something is a federally protected right, while a different circuit may rule th opposite. In some of these cases, SCOTUS may decline the case. In that event, you have part of the country being guaranteed a right while the other part might not be, and I believe that would violate equal protection under the law. Not settling the matter in this sort of scenario would in my eyes be "not caring".