skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole thread has got to be among the most, shall we say, eyebrow-raising ones I've ever read on HN. It has everything from "just drive 20 minutes to 2 hours to the next town to print a couple pages" to "just don't be poor" and "why do you even print". ;-)

But disregarding the staggering amount of unwillingness to look any further than one's own nose, everyone considering printing on a public / shared printer should know one this:
I can guarantee you that a copy of anything you output there gets saved. Not just statistics & metadata (page coverage, timestamp, copies...) but an actual picture of the page (at least as a thumbnail), regardless of what anyone will tell you. Even if the feature is not turned on for compliance reasons and gets collected by a central server, it will be stored on the printer's internal hard drive at least until the next maintenance cycle and can be retrieved for a significant amount of time.

If you pay by card or connect to it with your phone and thus add another level of personal data, you might as well just put it up on your Facebook publicly and ask anyone to print & mail it to you.

Modern commercial printers (such as those you will find at larger offices or at Staples) are basically full-blown PCs with a scanner and laser unit attached to them and as such nothing you put through there is ephemeral by default. It also means they are vulnerable to all kinds of horrible exploits that pretty much never get patched.

Almost nothing stops you from refilling a $30 inkjet with generic ink cartridges at $5 a pop (even cheaper, although messier, if you refill yourself). Or, if you print more, by all means, get that $100 mono laser. But "just go for a drive and print at Staples" has got to go on that wall of worst HN ideas ever.
TL;DR SOAP is complex and REST is simple, people argue about which one is “best”
From the FBI's own definition:

International terrorism : Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored).

Struggling to see how the CIA isn't a terrorist organisation at this point.
Yeah, the application is definitely interesting.

> The idea of time-reversing Brownian motion is like saying that you're running thermodynamics backward--it only makes sense if you sample them forward, then move backwards along the forward sampled motion.

You are conceptually 100% correct on this matter.

...As for me, I usually solve SDEs using Markov chain Monte Carlo, using esoteric software known as WinBUGS/OpenBUGS/MultiBUGS. I use MultiBUGS [1] (don't bother installing it on Windows or Mac), which is integrated with BlackBox Component Builder [2]. It all runs on a really cool but esoteric language called Component Pascal. Anyways, developers over the years have kept BlackBox in particular alive. But, I always have to say, differential equations are awesome :-) But, Julia is where it is at for DiffEqs in open source.

[1] https://www.multibugs.org/

[2] https://blackbox.oberon.org/
Bigger van.
Who is the "we" who wants to keep "in sync" with the Earth's rotation to such high precision? Obviously having 3:30 pm suddenly become the middle of the night would be bad, but we're talking a delta of 18 seconds spread over
almost 50 years... hardly big enough to be called "out of sync" in any noticeable sense. Maybe in a millennium or two we'll lose the cultural context of what "it's 5:00 somewhere" meant, but I'm sure the historians could add a blurb.
Are they legal to ride in your country? And to you feel safe on it?
That is different type of future. For a while leap seconds would come at a rate of around one leap second every 18 months. It is safe to say that the current calendar will be with us the next couple of years.

Long term, who knows. But we would like to be able to do date calculations a couple of years into future.
> Blacks are disproportionally targeted because they're committing criminal acts at disproportionally higher levels compared to every other "marginalized" minority.

I agree, but just because blacks commit more crimes, it is NOT valid to harass innocent blacks. When you harass innocent blacks, you have more resentment from general populace. It is easy to see all blacks as criminals when all you see every day are black criminals, because you are a cop in black criminal neighbourhood, but such stances will make all black people hate police. It's not "EITHER blacks are disproportionally targetted OR blacks commit more crimes". It's both and it makes for vicious cycle of violence. Someone has to stop it. Because police doesn't or can't stop it, blacks are trying to do what they can, which is to protest. Then when people protest and no one listens, they are too angry (too many various reasons to specify), they resort to violence and you have riots.
One hypothesis is this is due to schools closing for the summer holidays. The month long UK lockdown in November last year where schools remained open did not slow the rate of cases as much as the April 2020 and January 2021 lockdowns where schools were closed. Perhaps schools closing is the key to slowing the spread of the virus, especially now that the only significantly unvaccinated part of the population is under-18s.
Many countries set the example of taking precautions before risk and gamble. They've done well handling the pandemic and there's not much economic difference in the end.
In Star Trek TNG there was a story arc that culminated in the reveal of a precursor humanoid race that had seeded their genome around the galaxy so that they ultimately resulted in the “big” races like humans, Klingons, Vulcans, Cardassians and so on.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27944776
How to write an ecxellent research paper
darknet diaries has a few episodes with similar stories. Check this one out https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/97/ not about a company targeting people, but similar pathological behaviour
Vue3's composition api is literally a better version of hooks. Which actually answers vue2's pain points. And is strictly better than mixins.

In fact, many Vue projects are using composition Api in Vue2 via a plugin because it is so good.
>>I'm also confused... who reads blogs but doesn't read the docs?

Most docs are hard to read- dense text, millions of options, and not a single example of a use case. Same with most man pages.

90% of the time, I just want to do something simple, and its easier to read thru blogs than trudge thru a dense hard to read official document.

And with Python-- you are guranteed to get out of date docs in Google search. Not just for Python 2, but older unsupported versions of libraries

Sometimes, the page even helpfully tells you it is out of date, and invites you to go to the home page and start searching again (rather than, you know, just link to the latest page)
If You Don’t Trust A.I. Yet, You’re Not Wrong
because more people vote for them
Location: Portugal

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JVM ecossystem (java, Kotlin, scala), Python, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (Jenkins), ELK

Résumé/CV: https://1drv.ms/b/s!Avy-hbC9JsVIwGzp9vyDNUsepWW-

Email: ricardo . frsimoes at gmail . com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfsimoes/
Subtitles/Sections I think are HN worthy/interesting:

Subtitle D—Climate Change

Subtitle B—Cybersecurity

TITLE II—SUPPLY CHAINS FOR CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
Includes:

Sec. 40205. Rare earth elements demonstration facility

Sec. 40207. Battery processing and manufacturing

Sec. 40208. Electric drive vehicle battery recycling and second-life applications
program

TITLE III—FUELS AND TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS

Which includes:

Subtitle A—Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage, and Transportation Infrastructure

Subtitle B—Hydrogen Research and Development

Subtitle C—Nuclear Energy Infrastructure

Subtitle D—Hydropower

Sec. 40341. Solar energy technologies on current and former mine land.

Sec. 40342. Clean energy demonstration program on current and former mine
land.

TITLE IX—WESTERN WATER INFRASTRUCTURE

(going to stop there for now - this is a long bill, lots to digest)
Reddit link, but sources included here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/owtmn1/cryptocu...
DNS is used to figure out initial point of contact over SMTP, nothing stops said SMTP server to recognize recipient as transferred account and forward message to SMTP server account was transferred to.
Please look at Briar or the XMPP ecosystem if you want something with better privacy and not controlled by some company.
> Those could be installed everywhere from .. water heaters .. to scavenge some of the 65% of fossil fuel energy that winds up as waste heat.

Modern condensing gas boilers for domestic use are better than 90% efficient, the exhaust gas is very cool so I don't think that thermoelectric devices have much to offer there.
Eric Seufert- Twitter thread on why Facebook can't be constrained
Yeah me too. And deep neural nets. And quantum computing. And 4k TV. And smart phones. And drones. Cause nuthin but trouble. Give me my horse and buggy !

/s

Seriously, it's both pointless to play Luddite (in general) and there's plenty of legit and exciting applications for crypto, from wildly faster and easier capital allocation to sophisticated artistic rights contracts replacing junky and expensive legal contracts.
I am working on a Lego block finder - like Brickit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693560). I have not yet incorporated - but I am close to doing that. Funding is secured because I have liquidated some of my crypto. I am looking for someone experienced with Tensorflow in Python and object detection (ideally mobile dev as well).

Location: Warsaw Poland or REMOTE

My email: zzbbyy@gmail.com
Believe it or not it's possible to support tax enforcement, and still not want the core functions necessary for cryptocurrency to be made illegal.
Correlating financial time series with micro-blogging activity (2012) [pdf]
To be fair, people were creating piles of overengineered bullshit for React long before hooks were a thing.
Well, almost Libre! The SAAS needs to be replaced. But at least it's using a libre model from EleutherAI.
It’s telling that local law enforcement frequently receives money from confiscated items but the IRS doesn’t. On one hand that’s great from a conflict of interest standpoint, but when IRS funding pays for it’s self via taxes collected it’s an interesting argument to starve them of funds.
Major news outlets carry a small ranking penalty on HN (it's in the software), since loads of uninteresting articles from major news outlets are constantly submitted.

The URL can always be changed if there's a better source. Just email them.
I didn't realise anyone preferred Soap, even 4 years ago.
Ah yes, for people who want to support leap seconds, but who can happily ignore a clock error of 0.5 seconds :)
Ask HN: What to Do at a Stagnant Startup?
I have worked as a tech lead at a startup for just over 2 years now. The product is targeting the enterprise space and we've been in talks with clients since I joined but haven't had a paid pilot project yet. Clients put us through their preferred supplier programs and audits, but nothing comes of it. We've won lots of awards, we've been on accelerators/incubators run by potential clients, we're "in the process" with pretty much all the big players.

We've recently raised more funds and are growing the team. Investors seem to have faith, even though we're pre-revenue, but frankly I'm less optimistic.

I feel like we're building something no one may ever use. We don't have users for the product we're monetising and there isn't much in-house industry knowledge, so we may be building something no one wants. We could remain in the sales process forever. This is really demotivating and I'm not the only one who feels so. After the fundraising, we're trying to grow the team but it feels surreal building and growing this system that no one is using.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? I am thinking about jumping ship, but I feel some guilt as my leaving would be a big blow to the company. The equity I have would barely compensate me for the reduced startup salary over 3-4 years and that's if we exit.
^THIS^
I am happy that worked for you but there is a huge difference between a 24 x 4tb pool and a single 2tb drive.

2tb is not a lot of data you would need to fill the drive 4 times a day before you would get close to hitting the single bit error rate, a pool of my size is guaranteed to hit that error rate just because of the volume of data.

If we are talking about running zfs on a desktop then yea you are right you don't need ECC, but if you are running a storage server for data you want to keep then you absolutely do.
It was undercut by supermarkets. In the transitional years when milk float services were still around, they were the more expensive option.

Refrigeration makes sense as the underlying driver - freshness and locality became less important. Then the supermarkets didn't have the cost of the distribution network, and exercised more centralised buying power on the suppliers.
This is simply false. Maybe economists models of an optimal market somehow shows that. But on the ground facts refute it without a shadow of a doubt. One cause of this is usually that government involvement in the production of housing is assumed to be out of the question by those economists.

People are not stupid. Why do you think there's so much resistance in Europe towards market based rents if they think it will actually lower their rents? Should people be thrown out of their apartment they've lived in their whole life just because the property owner can find someone wealthier that's willing to pay more? How is that a desired outcome for the common man? People would rather want that the housing is created by the state than have that crazily class based stratification of our cities.
+1 to the wifi. But without it, I've got a Google Wifi extender puck that has an ethernet port on it that can act as a wifi bridge. The puck is velcro'd to the laser printer so it will always be on the network. This has worked well for us for a few years.
Still waiting for the adsense money Google owes me from 13 years ago... they conveniently banned me pretending I was clicking on my own ads... I never did that... and again, they 100% know it's bullshit, they send me a 50€ voucher for ad-word to my physical address, like it was any sort of fair compensation...
I don’t think that’s right.

The solid state methods can sustain a temperature differential with a given power/heat flow. If the hot side is cooler, the cold side can be cooler, or less power is required.
At EDITED (https://edited.com/) we are looking to hire a Senior Front End Engineer. Please follow the link below to apply. We are global leader in Retail Market Intelligence. We help retailers increase margins, generate more sales and drive better outcomes through AI-driven market data, analytics and research.

Senior Front End Engineer - https://apply.workable.com/edited-1/j/4C8FD84920/
If you trust NYT, still, You're wrong.
This is the worst change in my opinion. People assume the worst if you don't answer the phone. This also ruined instant messaging for me. Some people get angry or interpret something weird into it if you don't reply within 30 seconds.

It really depends on the crowd, some people don't mind and get on with their lives and don't answer until next week. I love these people.
Here is what we have found based on the 7,305 events we’ve collected. The overall levels of violence and property destruction were low, and most of the violence that did take place was, in fact, directed against the BLM protesters.

First, police made arrests in 5% of the protest events, with over 8,500 reported arrests (or possibly more). Police used tear gas or related chemical substances in 2.5% of these events.

Protesters or bystanders were reported injured in 1.6 percent of the protests. In total, at least three Black Lives Matter protesters and one other person were killed while protesting in Omaha, Austin and Kenosha, Wis. One anti-fascist protester killed a far-right group member during a confrontation in Portland, Ore.; law enforcement killed the alleged assailant several days later.

Police were reported injured in 1% of the protests. A law enforcement officer killed in California was allegedly shot by supporters of the far-right “boogaloo” movement, not anti-racism protesters.

The killings in the line of duty of other law enforcement officers during this period were not related to the protests.

Only 3.7% of the protests involved property damage or vandalism. Some portion of these involved neither police nor protesters, but people engaging in vandalism or looting alongside the protests.

In short, our data suggest that 96.3% of events involved no property damage or police injuries, and in 97.7% of events, no injuries were reported among participants, bystanders or police.

These figures should correct the narrative that the protests were overtaken by rioting and vandalism or violence.

Such claims are false. Incidents in which there was protester violence or property destruction should be regarded as exceptional – and not representative of the uprising as a whole.

In many instances, police reportedly began or escalated the violence, but some observers nevertheless blame the protesters.

https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/black-lives...
"Targeted" implies they are a poor defenceless victim. What a weird choice of word.
No way, to replace software engineers one would have to have GAI, which we are lightyears away from.

The hard part of code writing is not the “transform this logic to code”, but to come up with the logic in the first place, which is pretty much transform this and that requirement into logic first. Which does often need domain specific knowledge, and possibly interaction with the client.
> Text inside script tags is parsed as JavaScript by default. It can be other languages too

It can be, but usually isn't.

> Again, it’s all just text in different syntax.

Again, it's not. And the reason is simple: the browser literally knows nothing about other syntaxes but Javascript [1]

So, no, "text in Vue" is literally not the same as "text in script tags". It is a mish-mash of:

- Vue's own DSL (see v-for)

- JS expressions that are wrapped in some scope (see v-if)

- JS-like DSL where function cals are not function calls, there are magic vars, but objects are also fine (see v-on)

- Maybe JS expressions in v-bind? But depends on the attribute name? Can use string concatenation, but anything else?

- Actual JS expressions in {{}} which can't be used just anywhere... but then these expressions can have pipes into filters in them? And filters once again are JS-like, but are not

None of this has any coherent specification, and we rely on Vue to properly parse and break it down into actual Javascript code that can then be included in a <script> tag.

Edit: I had the same laundry list of things for Svelte before Svelte 2, but Svelte 3 is significantly more consistent and coherent in what it expects in a template.

[1] There are ways to make it know other syntaxes, but that is rare and has largely fallen out of favor.
I think it certainly could happen anywhere else in the world.

After years of living abroad, I've come to realize one thing about America and Americans. We're a bit more willing to risk it and fail. Sure, loads of people would rather have a secure job and not make risky decisions. Still, I think there's a higher concentration of those who will. Compared to lots of places on Earth.

Also, for many who immigrate here, there's kind of no choice but to risk it and try to do something bold and crazy to make it.
Because it's not designated as one, duh.
For me this interesting if i m interested in sending behavior to Arduino, but lets take the following scenario, sending the commands is too slow for your need and all you need is to remote control your Arduino, then in this case you can follow the same design, redefine new messages in Protobuf and a way of reacting to them in Arduino, apart from this Firmata seems much mature.
We share the work between the four of us so it is much less than an hour a day per person. I bake a large loaf every other day, it takes an elapsed time of 24 hours but only 15 minutes of that is actual work.
This has been the debate of templating systems for as long as I can remember. Do you want your looping construct to use the same syntax as your markup language (so all the tools you use that operate on the markup "just work", without any modifications)? Or do you want to use the same looping constructs as the language you are programming in (so there's no need to invent or learn a DSL built on top of a markup language)?

Both approaches are valid, and each comes with its own set of tradeoffs.
> If you know how the algorithm works (and this one must be open source)If you know how the algorithm works (and this one must be open source)

Hah, no chance any of the sources to these things will ever be public.
I like to think of it as UTC being off by 1s just before the leap second. :)
Verifiability. I have no source for this, but on a basic level it makes sense that a clean implementation will be easier to verify over an ad hoc spaghetti code doing the same thing.
Job Opportunity – Open-Source
HMH (https://hmhco.com) | Mid-level and Senior Software Engineers, DevOps | Full-Time | Montréal or Dublin | Partial Onsite

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ: HMHC) is a global learning company dedicated to changing people’s lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. As a leading provider of pre-K–12 education content, services, and cutting-edge technology solutions across a variety of media, HMH enables learning in a changing landscape.

For more information, visit https://careers.hmhco.com

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is committed to a comprehensive policy of Equal Opportunities and we aim to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees.

Tech stack: React, Java, NodeJS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Aurora, Postgres, AWS

Software Development at HMH is focused on building fantastic software to meet the challenges facing teachers and students, enabling and supporting a wide range of state-of-the-art learning experiences. We build applications used by millions! If you want to make a difference in the lives of students and teachers and understand what it takes to deliver high-quality software, we would love to talk to you. For direct inquiries contact damon.rand@hmhco.com

———

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ : HMHC) est une entreprise mondiale d’apprentissage dont la mission est de changer les vies en cultivant des esprits passionnés et curieux. En tant qu’entreprise d’apprentissage mondiale, HMH se spécialise dans le contenu éducatif du préscolaire à la fin du secondaire, ainsi que dans les services et les solutions technologiques de pointe sur divers supports adaptés à l’environnement changeant d’aujourd’hui.

Pour plus d’information, visitez http://careers.hmhco.com

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt s’est engagé dans une politique globale d’égalité des chances en matière d’emploi et a pour objectif de créer un milieu de travail garantissant l’égalité des chances pour tous les employés et employés potentiels.

Vous travaillerez avec les technologies suivantes: React, Java, NodeJS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Aurora, Postgres, AWS

Développer des logiciels extraordinaires pour supporter les défis que rencontrent chaque jour professeurs et élèves, c’est la mission des équipes de développement logiciel à HMH. Nous travaillons pour créer une vaste palette d’expériences d’apprentissage nouvelle génération. Nous concevons et développons à grande échelle des applications et des services utilisés par des millions d’utilisateurs. Pour plus d’information, contactez: damon.rand@hmhco.com
It's factually not equally despicable. I don't remember reading about some U.S/French company selling arms to Saudi Arabia as a major news story. Definitely not on Hacker News.
It kind of is though, even if nobody convicted Andrew Jackson.