skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does not require that; just some users install it for some reason.

I do have a LaserJet at home; all I did was to connect it to the network and it popped up in the printer dialogs on Linux and Mac machines. On Linux, standard cups+hplip that's in the default package set in most distributions does the job.
My best beach was Spiaggia di Is Arutas, Sardegna. It's a white pebble beach, grains arround half arborio rice size. Beach is soft to rest, umbrela still sticks well, wet or dry pebbles do not stick so your skin much. Just brush slighly and you're clean. Way better than sand.
I'm Czech and this revolutionary method of teaching came here in the 90's, when I entered my grammar school. Probably, it had a political “east vs. west” motivation among others, shortly after the velvet revolution...

The first thing I learned in the 1st year of schools were basic concepts of set theory. We were drawing circles, ellipses and Venn diagrams (even though we didn't call them like that) filled with images of apples, plums and cherries. Teachers explained to us what an intersection, union and set differences are and we were supposed to draw items into one set, but not in another set, etc.

I recall these exercises as funny and playful. They were similar to IQ tests in the sense that the exercise is logical, slightly entertaining, but highly abstract and loosely related to the world you know.

And I think this was the main issue. The 2nd topic we learned was simple arithmetics as in standard educational systems. However, at that time, I didn't see any relationship with the concepts of set theory.

Was the system any good? Hard to say. AFAIK, it was dropped after a few years. Eventually, I obtained a PhD in computer science, so at least, the system wasn't a complete disaster for me. :-)
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I think we need a third theory of conflict: political-religious extremism/propaganda/brainwashing.

Islamist terrorists and white supremacist terrorists derive some motivation (but not all) from their indoctrination. If the Quran and the Hadiths were a much more tame and apolitical document then we wouldn't get the extent and mode of fighting that we experience now.

Japan in WW2 fits into this third theory of conflict as well. Yes it was partly fear of the Soviets, partly resentment (and fear of missing out) over European colonialism, but the rabid belief in nationalism and race superiority was also a big causal factor as well. Their reasons for advancing so aggressively into China and South Asia have nothing to do with oppression and nothing to do with a rational theory of conflict. Many thought the war with US was impossible to win, their industrial production capacity was 1/20th that of the US for instance. Pearl Harbor was a suicidal all-in motivated by them running out of oil combined with their inability to surrender (rabid nationalism).

Very often these human drivers related to cognitive bias, fanatic belief, tribalism, are at the root.
So not definitive edition ? :(
To some people, the priority is the game and they couldn't care less about the borderline malware required to do so.
If I understand your implication correctly, I'll say:

Discussion becomes futile if we can't engage with good faith with those we disagree with. Assuming that someone's view is 'noise' is starting from a position of bad faith. If you take the position that you have an exclusive license on truthiness when debunking/disagreeing, then you're no better.
For what it's worth, most of these concepts directly map to radio as well.
So given 68 million USA twitter users, if this rate continues, it wouldn't take long to get half the USA switched over. I am assuming most of the new users are USA. I suspect a fair number will use both systems for awhile. There could also be events like say a famous person moving over or being forced to move over that could result in even higher switching rates.
Impossible standard??? Not collecting information users have not explicitly consented to is the fucking baseline.
Use arrow keys to navigate the slides in the presentation.
Note explanatory text at the bottom, demo is more interesting if you let it sample your microphone.
I sold Baremetrics
Not yet but it is definitely on my list.
P-Values, and Why “Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence” [pdf]
We do almost all of our internal legal documents paperless (or at least accept scans as equivalent).

Some of our legal documents in the Czech Republic have had to be wet ink on paper originals only, no scans or copies allowed. I’m not sure how much of that is superstition on the parts of lawyers/bankers and how much is genuine, but it’s the only jurisdiction where I frequently have to send originals.
I don't see an issue with the American democratic process so far in this Presidential election.

In some states a recount can be request if the result is very close. This is a feature and we cannot complain when a candidate uses this legal right.

Likewise, if a candidate alleges fraud there is a legal process and the relevant courts will assess the evidence.

Of course we can argue that Trump may be making unfounded allegations and that he is obstructing but we need to let the process plays out before judging if there is a problem with the American democratic process. So far it seems quite robust in dealing with disagreements.

We are not in a post-truth world on this matter. Evidence and facts, not allegations, will be used.
I wish there were a better bridge from spreadsheets to full-blown applications, though. I imagine some kind of tool where you have your prototype spreadsheet and click "Export to application", and a wizard walks you through naming your columns, which then get exported as named arrays/matrices in a declarative/functional dataflow language. You name your formulas, which become named functions. You mark some of the cells as inputs and others as outputs, which then kicks you over to a GUI wizard for laying out the end-user UI. Cells that aren't formulas, inputs, or outputs become named constants in your program. Maybe there's JSON REST, Protobuf gRPC, and Bloomberg market data API integration for inputs and outputs.

I've spent the past 10 years maintaining and improving a finance-centric lazily-evaluated dataflow language with integrated distributed NoSQL database for a Fortune 500 financial services company. My understanding is that most of our competitors use Excel where we use our language/database. Some of our competitors have hired away some of our developers to explicitly write more modern clones of our system. One competitor's clone uses Python with function decorators that inspect the function's AST and transform it into a reactive dataflow language, though I imagine it's very frustrating to write something that looks like Python with very non-Pythonic evaluation semantics. I think starting with something like Haskell or Prolog would be less jarring.

My wife does finance/accounting for another large multinational, and I see the appeal and power of both Excel and our system. I wish there were some easier way to migrate from spreadsheets to more scalable and maintainable systems. (And, I suppose, there's some utility in bidirectional migration.)
I use OPNsense. I love OpenBSD, but I love GUI more :))
Why have rulers?
Don’t buy HP. Problem solved. Brother printers are great.
Your willingness to entertain the thought that HP may be acting on behalf of their customer's best interests is certainly commendable, but I don't think HP deserves it.

It's common knowledge that ink cartridges are a racket and the real money maker for printer manufacturers. I have absolutely zero doubt that this move was only done in order to coerce their users into buying ridiculously overpriced first-party cartridges.
> I haven't noticed any fewer people using Zoom.

I think this probably varies a lot between social groups; I know of many people (including non-technical) who were motivated to explore alternatives after reading news articles about Zoom's behaviour. A bunch of non-technical friends subsequently started to use meet.jit.si for meeting up, playing board games, etc, for example.
The slides were really fun (I like the charm, and slides with moving images always reminds me of the good times in computer lab)

Can someone correct me, but isnt slide 22 replaced with the ability to just simply change the sheet to a table, and it will auto fill no matter what so you can just change the first cell's formula and it will change the rest of the column?
My guess is the variable was named the same as the command to avoid confusion.

What's $PWD? Same thing you get from `pwd` without forking.
This is a misunderstanding of what communications is.

The world works on information, if you don't take a seat at table, it will be taken by someone else.

The notion that 'communicating' and 'lab work' would be somehow 'competing time and/or resource pressures' overall at the company is nonsense. They are mostly separate activities.

Pfizer doesn't have to 'spin' anything, they are a legit partner in the deal, they can do the release in the US, they will have their brand up there, their name, do the interviews - and they don't have to do anything tricky, they can surely mention their 'no name partner' and win $1 Billion worth of free PR.

A tiny Germany company, knowing nothing about communications, will miss the opportunity to tell the world who they are, to tell their story, to make their name known to another generation of researchers and scientists who might want to work with them, to a generation of bankers, business people who will be 2x more likely to want to 'take the call and or do the deal' because of their reputation.

1/2 of business is communicating, the only successful businesses that don't understand this are the one's that hit on it accidentally.

Pfizer is already a global brand, this is the moment of a lifetime for 'the name of the company I already forget' (see what I mean?) - I had to re-look it up - 'BioNTech' - it's very much make-or-break. If this vaccine is legit they need to start talking about themselves now.
The way around this could be to have the printer validate new cartridges through a test print, with eventually internal sensors to raise errors as needed. That would be to me the cleanest way for HP to handle third party ink.
> Firefox is our best browser in this domain

Best is irrelevant - it's not good enough.
When You Hear the Margin of Error Is Plus or Minus 3 Percent, Think 7 Instead
The latency is dynamically set from the max latency of each audio output (reported by the OS or the WebAudio context) plus 200ms. I haven't tweaked this yet to find the best possible value so it's still quite high. In the future I want to observe the network quality (packets loss mainly, latency on the local network is not an issue in most cases) to use a custom latency for each network. As I use Opus for the audio encoding, I've enabled the packet loss concealer which is already helping in case of package loss.
OPNsense is FreeBSD
I can't quite tell, are you being sarcastic? If so, I'd just like to point out that there's nothing wrong with being proud of the place where you're from or of the accomplishments of the people of the community there.
My question and this truly is a question as I am not well read on UBI concepts and social theories is:

So it did not bring about nirvana and human nature is well human nature but did it eliminate suffering to a noticeable degree i.e homelessness, poverty, food security, healthcare?

It seems to me the two are not directly tied, people are always going to seek out the vices because they are the roots of pleasure but that does not mean that the other side of the equation is negative, if it does eliminate suffering then it would be a net positive. I am not advocating for UBI, I am completely ignorant on the subject, just trying to understand if it did produce positive results against suffering.
Benford's law only applies to numbers drawn from a distribution with a wide spread over multiple orders of magnitude. So, financial transactions in a big company would show this. Votes in US districts, not so much.

So there, we've spoken about it.

(I think the technical term for the distribution is scale-free but I could be wrong. The law follows reasonably intuitively from thinking about the fractional part of logarithms.)
Most of what was purchased was delivered.
> This seems like HP is acting anti-competitively

I believe that they are and that it's not just a feeling. Some of their printers also used to tell your cartridges were empty before they were.

Printer breaks very fast and support don't really help you: https://sebsauvage.net/streisand.me/matronix/index.php?20200... (french).

Their policy on recurring payment is also pretty damning: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-b...
Then void the warranty if the device is used with unsupported cartridges.
I agree.

Example: The famous photo of Anderson Cooper standing in a ditch, pretending as if there was a catstrophic flood. (Really, the water was only a few inches deep.) Would Twitter flag that one?

It's a given they'd flag Trump a bunch. How about Joe Biden saying he would not ban fracking? Would Twitter flag that one?

Twitter is going to have a very hard time making anybody happy with this idea.
I have a genuine question: why is it that left-leaning companies dominate media and/or nearly all other walks-of-life? I hear this all the time, but I’d like to know how it came about. I would guess, knowing nothing else, that companies would tend to lean right.
That proprietary plugin for scanning provides WSD and eSCL (AirScan) support. However, your distro might use recent enough sane and sane-airscan, that does support these protocols.

Due to recommendation here on HN, I've been checking Brother laser printers. They also require installing a proprietary package from the manufacturer, and a proprietary tool for the print queue setup.
UK Treasury Shed Its Lights on Stablecoins
> for the first few hours
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Technically that's not an upgrade, it's a downgrade.
So it seems to me that they are accusing Amazon for something that is common practice for all big retailers: private label products.

At this point, it is hard to believe EU is attacking big tech companies for anything else rather than the fact that they are American...
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I have had nothing but problems with HP LaserJet CP1025nw color on Ubuntu in the last five years or so (and on Arch I could not make it print anything). Bought it based on similar comments, so buyer beware.

The only thing that has worked (at all) has been the instructions and software from http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/, even if the site looks way too sketchy to my liking. Recently, though, even those drivers have started misbehaving and do not print the last centimeter or two on the page---the solution is to select upside down printing in the print settings.
Nice article. Running your own router is a nice way to learn a bit of networking, has a better track record of security updates, and helps you act as a part on the Internet.

I run NixOS on a https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2e2.htm .
> We can already see hints of this in the fact that their terms of service prohibit inciting terrorism or acts of violence – issues that 4chan/etc deal with by allowing it, reducing their reach, and Twitter (attempt) to deal with by banning it, increasing their reach as they provide a "safe space".

Inciting terrorism or acts of violence are typically crimes. If Parler's position is to disallow criminal activity in its TOS, that's one hell of a limiting principle, especially compared to Twitter.

In my (right-wing) experience, Twitter became a toxic place after the "trust and safety" moderation was adopted. Before that, when it was "the free speech wing of the free speech party," users with ill intent could not attempt to get others deplatformed. Today, we still have harassment on Twitter, but with the added threat of user mobs brigading those who have the wrong opinions.

The one point I think is important is that the "blue checkmarks" indeed demand protection from the unwashed masses, and that is why the rules are so selectively enforced and biased. Journalists and public figures are typically of one political persuasion (in the US at least), and sometimes perceived alternative ideas as "violence" or just wrongthink no matter what.

Parler had to avoid being beholden to its highest-value users in this way. If Twitter were not so intolerant, I might use it more. But these days, it feels like you need to walk on eggshells to avoid a shadowban.
The "trust no-one" mantra would still apply to your own team, and unless you're putting tons of money into this project a free software platform us probably more trustworthy. There's more risk of outside infiltration but also far more bug checking and security testing.
I've got a tablet so can actually sign PDFs with a proper signature.

None the less, a company the other day insisted that I print out a form, sign it, take a picture of the signed form and send them that. It was almost enough to bin them off, but unfortunately I was deep enough in the bureaucracy by that point that sucking it up was less hassle.
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I didn't know they had manufacturing capabilities. Looking at their manufacturing page, they do have GMP manufacturing facilities, but it looks like they were built around their oncology pipeline, which would be customized for each patient and low volume (as you mentioned).

https://biontech.de/how-we-translate/manufacturing

And unless I'm mistaken, they don't have any approved products on market? No doubt they have experts in house, but when you're racing to get a product to market, it can be very helpful having someone like Pfizer helping out who has successfully gotten 70+ products approved by the FDA (including several vaccines).

And interestingly, you'll even see these partnerships across big pharma. I worked for one company who was interested in bringing a gene therapy in house until we did our due diligence and realized holy shit, we know nothing about gene therapies. And this was a top 5 pharma company.
"I want to kill you, but I want to do it nicely." - Humans to cows.
Joe Biden Could Reverse Parts of Trump H-1B Policies
> I can understand HP wanting to prevent their customers from being conned into buying false cartridges, or wanting to ensure the best possible experience for customers.

Nah, that's just the marketing PR blurb they attach to this stuff.

The real reason is $$$, nothing else.
Ask HN: What Defines a Tech Company?
For a course in university about mergers and acquisitions, we need a good definition for tech companies.
What defines a tech company in your opinion?
Is e-commerce tech?
Is it a prerequisite for a tech company to have built the tech itself?
Thanks!
If you could direct me to a how-to, I would appreciate it.
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Well, if we ever rewrite Unix, we can just go with "wd".

Because we know it's reading the current or present value, like any other command that reads a value.

And of course we're going to print it, that's the natural thing to do.
Great point, didn't think about that. A verification without disclosure mechanism would be required then, not sure if that is feasible though.
I did end up using VueScan, but not being impressed with it. My use case was scanning 1 or more pages into a PDF document. This was really easy to do with Apple's 'Capture' software. None of the alternatives (like VueScan) came close to the effectiveness of Capture.

I remember also being quite annoyed that I had to spend more money on a VueScan license, just because Brother refused to release a compatible driver for a scanner that was then still sold as new and 'MacOS compatible'. This was not a cheap scanner, the least they could have done was to compensate the license cost of the piece of software that made their product usable.
I have been to both generic and kosher slaughterhouses on two continents. I suggest you do the same, it is incredibly instructive.

In my anecdotal experience, if I had to be a cow or a chicken, I would MUCH rather be in a kosher slaughterhouse. Better terms before, and what appears to me (the observer) as a much less painful death - in one case I wasn't sure if the cow knew he was slaughtered.

Videos are generally posted by people with an axe to ground, and can never be taken in context. The process takes too long to make a good video.

Am I subjective? Well, yeah probably. So are you. But I suspect you would agree if you checked it out. (Note - slaughterhouses are dangerous places, and cameras are not welcome. If you do go, don't be an idiot.)
> But. Is it not enough to bring up a dialogue or warning telling the user it's false and they are breaking warranty, rather than outright disabling the cartridge?

Nope; their business model is cartridges and ink, not so much printers. 3rd party cartridges impacts their bottom line. There's a few companies who have consumables as their business model, Keurig is another that added "DRM"-like features to their stuff. Juicero tried it with an extremely overbuilt, but ultimately stupid device with overpriced bags of fruit as the consumables.
Welcome to any competitive multiplayer game in 2020.

My favorite example is PUBG and their insecure netcode (for the first 2 years it was entirely unencrypted). At one point the cheating was so predominant that they banned anyone running VirtualBox and the game at the same time. I was swept up in that because I had a background dev VM running that I forgot about.
What's weird to me is big enough offices tend to switch to a subscription paid by the page, where the maker is engaged in doing reasonably whatever it takes (ink replacement, parts replacement etc.) to keep the machine printing.

I heard of such arrangements with Canon, I heard for Xerox, and it seemed to be pretty standard. As long as there was no manipulation errors the company had no need to care about durability, maintenance etc.
How does it compare to the long-time existing Zoneminder?
Home printers are dead anyway. The one thing I did still need them for (printing labels for packages) is being taken over by QR codes
When a set of 4 toner cartridges is $800 from HP for a $600 printer and the high-quality, I’ve used before, 3rd party toners are $120 for the set, let’s just say that HP won’t be getting that purchase.
Thank you! That sounds about right. Must put Player Of Games on the re-read pile.

And yes, I remember not getting invited to parties is the ultimate sanction.
IBM released an open POWER core.

https://github.com/openpower-cores/a2o
I know what you mean. There’s some category of purchases for which I still look at Amazon—basically <30$ and doesn’t-matter-if-it’s-fake type items. Anything that doesn’t fit those criteria, and especially brand name electronic items, I’m buying elsewhere. Knowing it’s genuine is worth a higher price.

This has basically meant that I went from a Prime member making 5-10k$ worth of purchase per year a few years ago, to a non-prime member spending only a few hundred $ per year at Amazon. I suspect I’m not unique in the HN crowd, but I’m shocked at how often I see friends, family, and coworkers continue to trust this company with large, important purchases.
Even if you do, Brother still make great printers that work with aftermarket toners.

Build quality has gone down a little but so have all brands.