skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even using printers is a pain

Ever since I learned that something like 98% of printers sold in the past 5 years or so support driverless printing with IPP, my printer woes have largely gone away. Its still more of a pain than would be ideal, but at least you dont have to track down some 32-bit only driver that was only ever released for Red Hat or something in order to print.
I've done a similar setup at home with a full Unifi setup, PiHole, DNS over TLS, Let's Encrypt certs for internal devices, multiple wifi networks and other "It's COVID and I'm bored" goodness.

I've had to turn most of it off.

PiHole means every single web site issue for any user on the WiFi ends up on my plate immediately. Wifi network segments mean Minecraft doesn't "Just work" for the kids and their friends. IOT networks means Airplay doesn't find devices. SDDP doesn't work, etc.

Having a functional home network turns out to be more important than having a secure home network.
Generally open-access charges the author. $1000-$2000 an article is typical. Research grant applications include modest conference and publication costs.
> The update will allow developers of “reader” apps to include an in-app link to their website for users to set up or manage an account…. Reader apps provide previously purchased content or content subscriptions for digital magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, and video.
These comments frighten me. Seems like we are on the verge of a woke cultural revolution. No, violence is not the answer for poor personal decisions.
I’ve lived in the US for my entire life and do lots of music production. I never use half step or whole step. I tend to refer to things in terms of semitones or intervals (3rd, 5th, octave, etc).

I thought half step, whole step was a grade school thing mostly. But I really wouldn’t blink at either style, it’s all the same to me.
.... you know that leeches are used in modern medicine, right? Not for bloodletting, but many of the contexts that leeches were used for have enough overlap with bloodletting that it's actually best to assume that folks actually did use leeches to good effect.

The core of this ongoing debate is mainly about some regions, like Alu, which appear to truly have no function, and have little to no functional effect. I think scientists could still make a good faith experimental effort at attempting to salvage this idea, see Eddy's proposal about a "neutral genome" here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/comments/S0960-9822(13)...

The fairest way to describe it is that scientists continually find that more and more DNA that was neglected as having zero functional (no observable, measurable, directed activity that is under evolutionary selection pressure) effect, does indeed affect the fitness of organisms in ways that are not accomodated by existing theories of gene expression or regulation. It seems unlikely, however, that we will ever truly be able to point to every single base pair in teh genome and say "it's under functional pressure", and if that's the case, it's easy to make the argument that some of it is "junk".

However, complex information processing systems like life don't really fall into simple classification, "junk" is really a subjective term, we should focus instead of measurable scientific phenomena like fitness.
Agreed but can a utopia without a scummy authoritarian government exist? There are worse scummy authoritarian governments out there and I'm glad that our scummy authoritarian government is still better than those.
This is good advice, it really is. But I'm not jesus and on top of that, I really don't care about anybody plotting against me because I don't work in a corporate environment where I have to pander to anybody. I'm old and I'm done pandering. I sympathise with the idea that there are people who are insane to deal with that should be treated with empathy to steer them towards the right path. I don't see that as my job - it just encourages people to behave worse in my experience. Give them an inch, they'll take a mile as the old saying goes. The best thing to do for your fellow man is protect them from the world's arseholes as much as you can, which is going to leave a few narcissistic casualties along the way. It's a trade off like anything.
Should be switched to the source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/mcdonalds-mcflurry-machine-is-b...
Ask HN: Non-Reddit place to discuss hobby related interests?
I'm getting really tired of all the fluff on Reddit.

I've tried honestly to remove all non-relevant subreddits etc from my feed.

Even on the subreddits specific to my niche interests or hobbies, most of the top posts are cheeky jokes that dont really apply to the hobby or are a regurgitated popular opinion on the site.

I just want a place where the time I spend doesn't feel like its wasted or that I get sucked into it for hours with no memory of why I originally came there.

Is there another site/IRC/Chat/Channel/Any-other-medium that has a good collection of hobbyists for things like fermenting foods, coding, network security, sports science, Combat Sports, or other niche interests?
Seems like they're trying to get back a piece of the Patreon pie, similar to Twitch with all its (now) built-in sponsorship options.
* TL;DR Vaccines vs. Ivermectin, in two pictures. Vaccines work, Ivermectin weakly moves the needle (maybe).

https://twitter.com/andrewdouglass/status/133633600349835264...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2021/01/06/202...

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* The Pierre Kory paper that started it all: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088823. Pierre is a front-line clinician that fights to figure out how to treat symptomatic patients, thus he has understandable biases.

* The Tess Lowrie metastudy claiming clinical properties: https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/... The effects mostly vanished when an Egyptian study was proven to use false data.

* There is a pre-covid body of work documenting anti-viral properties of Ivermectin.

* There is a pre-covid body of work documenting anti-inflammatory properties of Ivermectin.

* There is a wide body of work documenting safety of Ivermectin in humans. The 2015 Nobel prize in medicine was awarded for the discovery of Ivermectin.

* There is some credible work that documents Ivermectin have some small effect in decreasing covid severity. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28351973 for some links. But there is other credible work that says it has no effect.

* There are some claims that introducing Ivermectin in a geographical area (some Indian states) correlates with a rapid decline of a covid epidemic outbreak. Alas, covid epidemic outbursts are spike shaped, so it is hard to say if Ivermectin had an effect or the outburst flamed out naturally.

* Some tropical countries where Ivermectin is routinely prescribed had low rates of sever covid outbreaks. This led some to believe Ivermectin has a hand in it. Alas, the age pyramid in those countries is leans young vs. age pyramid in the rest of the world leaning old. Given that covid is orders of magnitudes less dangerous for young people, this by itself explains disparities in covid severity outbreaks.

* There is a number of bulls**t websites that do 'meta-analyses' from low credibility poorly cited sources. Ignore.

* There is a ridiculously acrimonious Twitter fight between 'Ivermectin is a horse medicine that kills grandma' and 'Ivermectin is a covid-erasing magic wand' camps. I shudder at the hell a poor soul that wants to research 'there appears to be a weak signal in Ivermectin against covid, let's investigate deeper' must go through.
I just ordered one of these the other day. I currently have an M1 MacBook Air and the laptop is just magical. In light of Apple's recent privacy decisions, I've decided to give Linux another go since Framework seems to be so open to it. It's not coming for a few weeks but I'm really looking forward to giving it a whirl, and I hope to sell the MacBook as a result.
If I’m reading this right, it’ll be possible for “reader” apps to link to an off-app signup page directly from the launch screen (correct me if I’m wrong). Which means that you’ll be able to compare the friction of multi screen payment versus one-touch TouchID/FaceID payments to determine what makes you more money (because sometimes those conversion drop-off rates will be greater than the 30% Apple fee).

If this is accurate, this is an incremental move toward sanity. Still not enough, though; I’d like to run my own App Store, and I think my $2000 payment to buy my iPhone was more than enough of a fee to make this possible.
Intel Ice Lake-SP, AMD Epyc or Threadripper Pro, or Ampere Altra have the highest memory bandwidth but in theory they're the same as the Graviton2 you're already using. If you can handle NUMA, maybe try a 2-socket m6i.32xlarge.
Gizmodo's title though...
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It's just the next level of "to big to fail".

We're accelerating into a new feudal age. The aristocracy becomes, or is already, unimpeachable.
The appendix is vestigial, not useless. It's fair to say it's vestigial, because you can remove it from large numbers of people and they don't die, which is very different from organs like the liver, heart, or lungs.
FYI: ventile clothing is produced by a variety of companies still. A more common brand name of the fabric (treat with DWR) is Etaproof.
Even in that strawman version of the argument, competing publishers would not be able to "steal" all the profit because they also could only sell the books more or less at cost. The price floor for physical books in such a world would, I imagine, be set by some chinese on-demand printing factories. Business models for authors would shift towards patreon supporters, subscription fees for periodical releases, signed collectors editions of books, live book tours, etc. etc.

Some people also manage to extract millions of profit from Youtube and Instagram channels, despite all of the content being free. Books are not that different from any other medium.
You're correct.

My experience procuring SaaS (or even just self-hosted software licenses) is that there's a very different process for those than there is for sandwiches or janitorial staff. The engineers are always involved, but the negotiation process is arduous _every time_, and requires looping in the procurement team, who is essentially paid by how much of a discount they get off of sticker. So there I am, trying to run a suite of services for the company I work for, and every renewal is an existential crisis where the procurement team plays chicken with the vendor to see who will crack first in the negotiation, all the while the license expiration for my service is creeping ever closer. I've suffered large production outages because of this dynamic, and I'm tired of it: it's a totally avoidable risk, and I view part of my value to my employer as helping them avoid totally avoidable risks.

So, I tend to go for open source or "bundled" solutions (like AWS) where I can avoid this process. I suspect this is what GP was getting at.
Robocop 2, high on Oxys.
> all for the inflated ego of one man.

Well, no.

All for the best marketing position for the near-space tourism business that Virgin (and, in competition, Blue Origin) is launching and each promoting with the media frenzy around their respective founder-on-board demo launch.
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The DRM on blurays has been broken for over a decade now. The newer 4K blurays are a pain though, there are only a few drives that work and you will probably need to reflash the drive firmware.
There is going to be a rough transition. Suppose I live in Oklahoma, which accepts driver's licenses in Apply Wallet. So I leave my physical driver's license at home. Later my friend in Texas calls, so I cross state lines and the police pull me over. Now I don't have a license the police will accept?
>someone can get up to 5 years or more

I have a feeling it will be much more in this case. For example...

"The case is being prosecuted by the Office’s Violent and Organized Crime Unit."

I imagine they will find a way to file RICO charges too. Those are good for 20 years each.
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Ask HN: What are some examples of purposely bad UX
Specifically within the context of a company trying to discourage certain behavior. For example, it seems to be purposefully difficult on most tech platforms to edit your data privacy settings
> I definitely strongly recommend against using anything UniFi based

As a counter point, mine works beautifully. UDM Pro, multiple Access Points, access point roaming, 2.4 and 5ghz networks, and all the goodness. Everything works flawlessly and it's been quite reliable.

They seem to really enjoy spending money moving my cheese on the web site admin interface, and a few unexpected features seem to have vanished, but overall... there's nothing as good or centrally integrated. Everything else is a collection of point solutions, which is more than many (including myself) have the time for...
> I don't want to hand an unlocked phone over to someone just to show ID.

this reminds me of a time when i traveled to Canada from U.S and the customs dude wanted to see my return flight ticket. I handed over my phone without thinking much and i can see from the glare on his eyeglasses that he opened my Messages app and scrolled through them and also went inside my conversation with my Dad. it was a learning experience.
Perhapes a crowd funded subscription model. Where television and cinema lovers pay a service to create films and showes based on the interests of their subscribers. while we are at it perhapes we could stream then to those subscribers so they don't have to store them locally where storage is limited. Oh look we recreated modern netflix.
90 Seconds to Emotional Resilience (2019)
> Independent Judiciary means independent of the executive and legislative branches. It doesn't mean immunity to public rebuke.

This seems to be confirmed by the first sentence of the wikipedia article on "Judicial independence", but the second sentence also mentions not being subject to influence from "private or partisan interests".

>Plenty of judges have to renew their mandate by standing for election.

this is mostly a US thing, and only in certain states. Federal judges are appointed AFAIK.
They even use Git (that's made for developing Linux kernel) for developing Windows!
Where is the "individual responsibility" from the Sackler family?
> My partition became unusable and fsck.f2fs didn't help.

How long ago was that? I read that some distributions were unable to mount/repair f2fs filesystems if they were created with newer f2fs-utils (I infer that the filesystem evolved and their kernel didn't keep up with the developments - but that must have been a long time ago, as f2fs is officially supported in the kernel now, no module necessary)
This isn't on par with the process. Amazon don't want Spacex's application to even reach the public's commenting phase. From the article:

> Amazon's request would prevent the commission from seeking public comment on SpaceX's application, SpaceX said. "The commission should recognize this gambit for the obstructionist tactic that it is, reject Amazon's request, and quickly put the amendment out for public comment," SpaceX said. The public-comment process will allow "any issues [to] be fully vetted," SpaceX said.
For reference, here's a video of a Boing 727 landing in the desert: https://youtu.be/kJZ1eHU_JZg?t=51

It doesn't go terribly well.
I’m not saying the vaccines do this, just that it’s theoretically possible to make a gene therapy that does modify DNA.
They should completely switch machine vendors and/or just blend the ice cream with the toppings (a la Dairy Queen).

Even when McFlurries come out perfectly, they taste horrible.
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> Anything worth doing is worth doing badly

TIL - Thanks for sharing that kernel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBwepkVurCI This was fun from a while back. Love some charlie brooker
You mean the people who are like “I am an underwater basket weaver and my husband is a turtle dance instructor! Our budget is $800,000!”
Sure, if you want to extract the various proverbs, there's plenty of practical and related wisdom. But the stoics had nothing to do with Christ, who is the target of faith in the Bible. Further, the stoics hardly had disciples who were completely broke and yet carried their message far enough to end up sawn in two, tarred and lit on fire, crucified upside-down, beheaded, gutted by swords, etc.
So... things you do that harm other people are a special class of "poor personal decisions".

But I agree with you, violence is not the answer, or at least not a good answer, a very last resort answer -- but applies to sending people to prison too (prison is definitely a form of violence) for their "poor personal decisions" that harmed and killed others too, I hope you agree.

But yeah, it also applies to the billionairres.

On the other hand, the initial comment just said they "deserved" it, which is different than saying it should happen or we will make it happen. Although I'm reluctant to decide who "deserves" violence or not myself too. (And I hope you agree that this applies to deciding who "deserves" prison too...)

I think it's safe to say that at the minimum they deserve, and ought to lose all the money they made in profit from the scheme that ruined and ended lives. Like that's just the minimum starting point for what they ought to do to make restitution to the families, communities, and society that they hurt, and to make sure they don't do similar again. That this bare minimum starting point isn't being met is why people are so mad.
I believe there is a setting to stop Windows from attempting to download/install non-Windows updates (including thirdparty drivers). If you still want automatic WU but not the other stuff, then you can set that.

Many years ago I remember reading about Toshiba laptops doing the same thing --- silently updating BIOS in the background and failing, resulting in a brick --- although that was the manufacturer crapware doing it, not Windows itself.

Personally, I never update BIOS unless there is a very good reason to, like a fix for detecting RAM or similar.

Luckily the laptop was still in warranty and I got it "fixed" after 6 weeks,

In Shenzhen, you can get your laptop's BIOS reflashed while-you-wait/watch. I was there a few years ago with a friend who needed his laptop fixed. Of course it wasn't a warranty repair, but the difference in MTTR (and cost --- about $20USD, and negotiable if you really want to) is a stark contrast.
A whopping 0.3% of requests were using ssh-dss? That's quite a lot. Why did anyone ever make those keys?
I like this font.
The FAQ sounds reasonable, but there's a lot of shady-looking stuff in the actual terms. For instance:

> We may share revenue generated from the sale of Subscriptions to your Super Follows account with you at a rate which will depend, in Twitter’s discretion, on several factors, including the total number and price of Subscriptions purchased for your Super Follows account and the fees and taxes [...] that Apple, Google, Payment Processor, banks and/or credit card companies may assess in the purchase of Subscriptions and in processing payments to you. You understand this and should have no expectation that any particular revenue percentage will apply, or continue to apply, over time.

> We do not promise that the purchase of Subscriptions can be used to redeem any guaranteed sum of money, or any money at all. [...] You agree that we will not be liable to you, and you will not assert that we are liable to you, based on the sale of Subscriptions to your Super Follows account, including for any share of revenue generated from the sale of Subscriptions.

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> In addition, we reserve the rights, in our sole discretion, to [...] withhold, suspend, recoup or set-off Subscriptions revenue (including any earned balance that may have been generated from past or future Subscription sales to a Creator’s Super Follows account)

Also, this is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things, but I find it hilariously petty that legal notices to Twitter must be sent by both regular email and postal mail, and are only valid on receipt... but notices from Twitter only have to be emailed, and are presumed valid when sent. Just a straight-up "I'm big, you're little, and there's nothing you can do about it."

Compare to Patreon's TOS (https://www.patreon.com/policy/legal) which explicitly lays out the fees they charge. Twitter's version is more like "fuck you, we'll pay you if we feel like it."