skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what a subtle misunderstanding of risk and probability looks like. "It has not affected me so it probably doesnt affect anyone"
Recently excavated my early 2008 inkjet printer from the basement. Works fine. Even the color cartridges still work.
Ask HN: Inspired by the 90 day Fin program, are there others or DIY options?
With the recent HN post about trying Helsinki for 90 days (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25003999) I was wondering if there are any other programs like this.

Or even if not like this, is there a way to do it yourself and try out another country before fully committing to a move? I get that you can take a vacation to anywhere, but 90 days seems much more substantial. Not to mention this one happens during the school year which is big if you have kids.
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> It’s the easiest way to promise low taxes today and shift expenses onto future generations who have no say.

I can say the same about cities borrowing money to finance infrastructure projects, but I've yet to see a political comment grousing about how a city's budget woes come solely from billions of dollars of 10-year old debt that has to be serviced.

King county just voted to take on 1.7 billion dollars in debt to renovate a county-owned hospital. Ten years from now, nobody will be talking about defaulting on it, but I fully expect them to be talking about defaulting on pensions.
he's done 143/230 according to https://trudeaumetre.polimeter.org/
One important example is eBPF. I think we will see many interesting turning incomplete eBPF kernel space programs in the future.
I remember Marak from the very early days of Node.js on IRC. He was extremely active answering tons of people's questions. I don't know him personally, although he helped me a lot on IRC back in the day. I was excited watching Nodejitsu startup and sad to see it kind of disappear. In a lot of ways people like Marak and TJ Holowaychuk have done so much for the community that it wouldn't look the same without them.

Let's not forget about the infamous node.js rap https://soundcloud.com/marak/marak-the-node-js-rap

We often talk about the responsibilities of companies to pay open source engineers. I think this would be great but in my experience companies are very often looking for ways to cut costs to meet goals. Giving money to open source is likely one of the first things that would get cut in these situations. I'm not saying that is a good thing but a reality. That being said if the donations are so small that they aren't going to move the needle for a goal either way then it is unlikely to be cut. I don't know what the sweet spot is but it would be cool if it became standard for software companies to expect to give some portion of their budget to open source.

This also leaves the question open for what the responsibility for individuals are. I'm not proud to say it but I haven't given very much money to open source developers. However, I have a list of about 10 that have had a very positive influence on my career. I would bet I'm not alone. I do feel conviction over this and posts like this are helping me re-evaluate this.
Funny that you mention that, since most backdoors found so far were in silicon from US companies, not the Chinese :-)
I've participated in a project using Bountysource some years ago; in total I received something on the order of 1500-2000 $. Which is nice. I assume a lot of people did a lot more work than I did back then and never saw any money for it. So I probably have no right to complain or lament about these transactions in any way. But, in a way, it is very hard to not think about dollar per time, especially with Bountysource being attached to solving specific issues. I believe this contributed to my mentality souring over time, because in the back of my head I never got rid of the idea that I'm sort-of at work here, but at about 2 $/hr average wage. I stopped contributing to that project completely after about just two years or so.
If you're using his work, pay him something. Everything else is just excuses.
> Way back around 2010, Mozilla was frustrated by the state of development in Firefox, a massive software project written mostly in C++. Despite best practices

> Even so, manual memory manipulation is easy to get wrong,

Even predating C++11, you should not have been doing manual memory management. I don’t think Mozilla was following best practices. IIRC, there were pointers everywhere. Even before C++11 best practices for C++ were to try for value semantics as much as possible. Mozilla code base was more like C with Classes than best practice C++.
If Zuckerberg said that because myspace existed, where would he be?
Fort Collins just started rolling our broadband out and we voted on it three years ago. It's been a little bit of a boondoggle, behind schedule and over budget, like most of these kind of projects tend to be I guess. It's been just within the last quarter that Fort Collins is finally getting the number of paying customers into the thousands which should help the financials some. They pulled the fiber throughout my neighborhood a couple of months ago but then it seemed to stall. Occasionally I see a work truck doing something at one of the boxes, but we haven't heard anything as far as being able to get hooked up yet. Our cost is $59.95/month for gigabit up and down so there are many of us chomping at the bit. For anyone interested in the rollout of a municipal broadband program, the quarterly financial reports Fort Collins has been releasing during their rollout are kind of interesting:

https://www.fcgov.com/connexion/quarterly-reports
> Looks like for $20/month, xfinity will do 25Mbps at the same address.

I live in Denver (and a poorer neighborhood at that), I had this plan before coronavirus sent us all home. This is the price for the first year, after that, they charge $60/month. Switched to century link for 1Gbps up/down for $65.
>if everyone did stay home for 14 days you may well eradicate the virus

This would not be possible. There are at least several species of animals (mikes, civets, and bats) than can transmit this virus. We would need to quarantine and test, or kill, each and every one of these animals to be sure we eliminate this virus, or else it will eventually make its way back to humans.

My opinion, based on what I read, is that this will be a bit of a scourge until such time as enough people have immunity from either catching it or getting vaccinated.

Over time, as this new coronavirus makes its way through the human population, the experts it to become less virulent in general and/or appear less often. [0]

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/04/two-scenarios-if-new-cor...
Memes are helping people in the DRC to laugh at those in power
Even works with a microcell from T-Mobile, so StarLink can provide IP and LTE coverage for your home (when properly equipped).
Scientists Just Found a New Way to Search for Habitable Exoplanets
I don't get the gender backlash here, personification has been a thing for a long time and there doesn't seem to be any malfeasance (intended or otherwise) here. It's not lewd, doesn't play to stereotypes, etc.

To me, a basic litmus test is whether you could easily swap the gender without reworking anything. If you can't, it's probably offensive, if you can it's practically gender neutral (naming aside). It's not a catch all, obviously, as it's no replacement for awareness of history, culture, stereotypes etc.

It's easy enough to maintain a rebranded mirror synced to upstream. Instead people seem to want to take offense just for the sake of virtue signaling.
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Our Brother printer (inkjet circa 2014) doesn't use ink when we're not printing because we unplug it when we're not using it, as we do with all of our corded electronics. If it's been more than 2 months since we've printed a page, it only takes two minutes for the printer to run the "ink > clean" cycle, and then it prints just fine. We've had the same black cartridge for three years, no problems, and we're still using the color cartridges that came with the printer when we got it secondhand.
"Almost none"? https://trudeaumetre.polimeter.org/

143 out of 230 kept with 20 out of 230 in progress.

Political discourse can be difficult enough without hyperbole making things worse.
When i first got my rm2, i was looking for that latency, but noticed little. After ten min i forgot all about it
See also: "Let them eat cake."
I Git
Just my 2 cents on this as a long time slingbox user. There was no need for it to be this way. They could make each device work without needing their servers, but they won't. Their customer service has for the longest time been antagonistic to their customers.
Canada infamously has some of the most corrupt and expensive telecom in the entire world. I seriously doubt this article is accurate. It looks like Trudeau is preparing for an election with empty promises.
Brother Monochrome Laser Printer, HL-L2320D
$100 USD + tax, but you get a starter cartridge, so you don't need to pay for toner immediately. AND it has a duplexer so 2-sided printing is included. Toner is $40 for 1,200 pages.

https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/733081/Brother-Monoch...

I have not yet hit the drum-replacement point on my Brother color printer yet so we'll see where that goes.
Let me tell you a story about adelphia cable in 1999. The government paid them to install fiber optic networking in my rural neighborhood we were told we were near a backbone so we were going to be a test bed for extremely fast internet 99. 2001 rolls around these trucks are everywhere installing glass in the ground. 2003ish Adelphia cable goes through a legal battle with the larger cable companies they're accusing them of all kinds of stuff. Adelphia cable is bought out by Time Warner Cable the fiber optic network is never turned on even to this day every once in awhile I'm digging in a flower bed and I un Earth the glass wire that's been there for 20 years. Fastest internet available here is from former TWC which is now spectrum $80 30/10mbps.
B-b-but nothing bad ever happens in The Free Market (TM), so the problem is therefore somewhere else!
Maybe things have changed drastically in the 8 years since I left, but I doubt it.

I think they have. I've also seen more gun stores opening, with provocative names.

I've no problem with firearms used responsibly for hunting or recreation, but in the very few cases I've seen someone open carrying a handgun (once at a very crowded national park, and once at a residential picnic area, both just this year) it was clear they didn't have a gun to defend themselves (if that were the case you don't need to show it off), but to threaten others. And for defending yourself against wild animals, bear spray is far more effective.
It's called an interrobang. It's essentially a way to ask a question emphatically.
It's an interrobang[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang
Innovation By Design – A complexity-based understanding and provocation
totally fine, but I really believe he would see 10x the job offers if he had phrased it more politely. 6 figures should be easy for his skill level.

i am afraid many super cool bosses will avoid him because he reminds them of people who are pissed off and cause issues.
I tried “Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind” experiment, here's what I've found
Final regulatory approval happened on Friday. Previously Elon had tweeted that was the only thing holding up the beta, so hopefully it rolls out this week.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/elon-musk-s-spacex-closer-to...
Interesting. That really stinks that Cook County can block. It seems like there needs to be a change where the 3 referendum with the most signatures is what is on the ballot.
This is my first time hearing that Randall Munroe of xkcd writes for the New York Times!
Read a Paper: Not Dead yet the Role of the OS in a Kernel-Bypass Era
When I voted in the UK I didn't feel like it was very secure at all. At the most, you only have to show a proof of address IIRC, but anyone can snatch a bill from your mailbox and vote in your place. Or you can take your grandma's and vote for her etc.
Where is the misunderstanding ?

>It has not affected me so it probably doesnt affect anyone

I didn't say it won't affect me or it won't affect anyone.
This isn't a great example since dropping a new release is pretty trivial, but consider the counterfactual where you're having trouble paying rent and you do know that ptzz is a highly placed engineer at a Fortune 500 company.

A little compensation starts to sound like a good idea.
If you are on the Concordia Station you can just leave it at the windowsill and it will be just fine. One of the perks of living in Antarctica. :)
I started leaning the piano 4 months ago with a remote tutor and it’s been such a pleasant experience. I absolutely love learning new systems, and music is a fascinating system with such interesting tangible results, it reminds me of my first experiences with web dev where I got to see this thing I myself created come to life. I agree that music practice is such a transferable skill. There are no shortcuts, but there are tricks of the trade that make absolutely no sense at first but you keep and it and pieces start clicking. I’m glad I started a side project around the same time, because I find I am applying similar discipline to both and it’s a really fun cycle to be living through at the moment :)
Chinese hacking competition cracks Chrome, ESXi, Windows 10, iOS 14, and more
VMware has taken the unusual step of warning about an imminent security advisory after a Chinese team successfully popped its flagship product.

(Sorry, this was not meant to be posted as a comment of my own, it was the heading of the article)
Can people here critique the assertions made in this piece?
I often find these HP ink plan headlines clickbaity.

They make it sound like your printer stops working unless you pay a monthly fee. In reality, you can still buy standalone ink cartridges as normal, no one is forcing you to go for a monthly ink plan.
I'm sorry, I honestly didn't know that opening up iDevices to run arbitrary, unsigned code would be a security win. Can you elaborate on that?
People who shop the dollar menu are a different customer than someone who will pay a premium for a meat substitute.
If I give you a large number of scratch tickets (such that expected value is > $0), could it be considered compensation?
Starting and contributing to a side project often has EROI > 0 and for many _that_ is their compensation. Now, as for Marak who is facing homelessness etc, that's just dumb (for society to treat such a beneficial member in such a manner) .
Hypothesis: The average printer buyer is not reading eff.org or having conversations with friends about friends' printer experiences. They go to a store and buy what the salesperson recommends. After purchase, they think of the restrictions as an annoyance, not a freedom issue to talk with their friends about.
Doesn't Chicago have a large violent crime problem? I wonder how saying "there's going to be less policing" would play with voters
I agree with your vitamin vs painkiller analogy.

There are successful products that started catering to a finite set of audience and still making a lot of money.

For example, one from my list is ChurchCo making $45K/month just by doing websites for Churches. Can you believe?

So, just by picking unique features and niching down the audience, you can still place a safe bet without spending a few years and hundreds of dollars.
For the "rudderless" and "self discipline is hard" parts, that is one reason I am glad our team is doing Agile/Scrum. Just the daily stand ups give you enough accountability to have a goal to shoot for.
Why do you find print better than an electronic version of the same thing? Having never tried it, I would assume your method is worse because it lacks features like easy editing and search.
Because it’s more cost-effective to lie to the population about their internet quality and hire lobbyists to manipulate politics than it is to actually upgrade the network.
I've never been to Canada but I've heard tons of stories about low data caps and high overage fees.

I'm on a cheap cell phone plan that toutes that it includes 5G access for no extra charge. It so cool that I can blow through my monthly data allocation in 30 seconds :D
McDonald's already has the omnivore market. It's trying to bring in the herbivores, so McPlant makes it obvious.
This article makes no sense. It's someone who has no idea at all asking extremely superficial questions. How do companies from country X operate in other country Y? They setup a local company in country Y wholly owned by the parent. Suddenly, all of the FUD around "how will this ever work across borders!" in this article goes away.
$1k MRR is nothing to brag about. Seriously, we need to start aiming much higher. If this was "My 1hr a day side project hitting $1kMRR in 12months", then it's impressive. But I often see these non side projects and I just want to voice that it's absolutely not impressive.

If you started a business mowing lawn, cutting hair, you better be way past $1K revenue in 6 months. If you're fully committed to building a startup and 100% vested in it, even $10k a month isn't impressive after 24 months. MY OPINION. If you're that skilled and can't figure out how to make money fast, you really might be better of leetcoding and getting a job at one of the FAANGs or well paying SV companies.
I'm curious, which country is this?

In the UK, the NHS are generally on top of things like this, so it should not happen in most cases.
Why would I, as a citizen, give two figs about fair competition?

All I want is good service, on the cheap.

If the government can provide good service, and have zero-profit margin, that's fantastic. That's actually the best possible outcome. If the government service sucks, then their zero-profit margin should not be a significant enough competitive advantage to drive out competitors.

In addition to all that, all the criticisms of the zero-profit margin model fall apart in a world where VCs and conglomerates frequently operate local services at a loss, in an effort to capture market share (So that they can later raise prices).
What are they going to do, vote him out, lol
The bigger issue here is that HP basically did a bait-and-switch promising free printing (x number of sheets a month) for life then saying you have to pay us 99 cents a month or you can't use your printer at all.
Indeed, I was very much impressed with the software that came with my Brother label printer. The included P-touch Editor[1] is Windows-98-good, and if that's not enough, they also offer b-PAC SDK[2] to programmatically access the printer and templates made with the Editor.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdU9geyCyac

[2] https://www.brother.co.jp/eng/dev/bpac/index.aspx
I'm a big promoter of open source software. However, I do see a fine line between getting open source and charging. In general if something is generic enough like Kernel of an OS or MVC framework for web dev, then yes open sources it.

However, it if it becomes specific and company clearly are benefiting and/profiting from it, then yeah charge for it!!
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By my understanding, in the US, if you solicit donations and say you will do something specific with them (e.g., use them to pay yourself to work on a project), then those aren't really donations. They're payment for a service. You may not think that you entered into a contract with the "donors" by accepting the "donations," but you did. You made an offer to perform an action in exchange for money and someone accepted that offer by paying you. That's a contract and anyone who donated could take you to court to get the money back.
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I don't think it is talking about free stuff.

Like many farms have no access to decent broadband, as in you can't readily buy it for any money. I am not sure what's the deal in Chicago.
The constitution.

You think private companies are bound by the same constraints the federal govt is??
A Breath of Fresh Air
Another anecdote. I was at one point working in the US and had applied for status renewal. I was at a point where if I did not get the approval in 20 days I would have to stop working (after waiting for 5 months already). I reached out to my local congressperson - doubtful they might help me, a non citizen. Lo and behold, I got a letter back from the congress person and renewal in 2 weeks.
(Nitpick: It's ScanSnap. It took me a while to remember the word order, too.)

That's an excellent point about the convenience, and another reason I'm a huge fan of lasers. I have a tiny special-purpose photo printer for when I really want/need the pretty brightness that inkjets can have over laser, but for sheer convenience of "I know it's going to work this time" lasers reign supreme.
It's a good point too.

Rewriting applications in rust, needed or not, has become something of a trope.

like the "Vegan | Cross Fit | ARch Linux | Ski Instructor , they will tell you", trope.

I must admit, however, I would be nice to build an LFS system by doing a `cargo install lfs`, i mean...that would be sex-on-a-stick.
I don't think you should write FOSS software if you want to get paid for copies of it or the use of copies of it. That kind of defeats the whole point[1].

Either: 1) Be comfortable being extremely poor. This was the route I initially took: I was homeless during the time I learned UNIX and Python, etc. and had plenty of free time to work on writing code.

2) Be wealthy already. The easiest is to be born to wealth, but if that didn't work out for you you'll have to acquire wealth yourself. There is a wealth (pun intended) of information on this already, and it's beyond the scope of this comment, but I'll recommend "The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money" by P. T. Barnum (Yes, that P. T. Barnum!) esp. the last chapter: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8581/8581-h/8581-h.htm and "The Richest Man in Babylon" which "remains in print almost a century after the parables were originally published, and is regarded as a classic of personal financial advice." ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Richest_Man_in_Babylon_%28...

3) Get paid for the writing itself (which is hopefully solving someone's immediate problem, eh?) (This is what RMS himself does, FWIW.) (Can be combined with option #2 to bootstrap wealth.)

[1] The "whole point" being something like, "Let's accelerate the techno-singularity and go live in Star Trek with cool aliens who like us." yeah?
Fiber has diminishing returns after you eat a certain amount per day. You can easily get your fiber from whole grains, and pound for pound whole grains will be a richer source of carbohydrates than vegetables.
If you’re a foreigner attempting to visit the US, you do not have a representative to contact.
Soy based?
Still waiting for that electoral reform ...
Honestly? I think if you're not sure, you probably don't need it. I'm young, work from home, healthy. I have friends who are nurses -- they yearn for a vaccine. My grandparents and my parents know that they are at risk and would line up for one. I have a friend with diabetes who would feel like his life was back. I'd gladly take a vaccine if it became available -- would love to not worry about giving it to my parents, and contribute to herd immunity -- but for me personally the virus has never really scared me on a personal health level.
Certainly, but it looks like Apple has done well enough in that segment, ~20% marketshare.

Spotify will always dominate marketshare - it has a free tier.
This doesn't work numerically if each crime averages more than one suspect.