skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. The other problem I found with HP was software: Their drivers were ridiculous multi-gigabyte downloads and they would often be buggy and either bring my Mac to a crawl or just outright crash. This was several years ago; it might be better now, but I swore off HP because of it.
There is no contradiction, except that maybe you don't like the word "God."
https://frame.work?
I put a piece of black tape over the window on my Brother starter toner like 4 years ago. Print quality is still good enough for anything I print at home (which is obviously very little).
I don't think that's very accurate generally - the CORS Access-Control headers are pretty flexible, and can be locked down to only allow the specific weird thing you want to do. The part where that is kind of true is setting cookies with SameSite=None - it's needed for the CORS credentials to work, but it might cause security issues with other uses of your website.
> no funky drivers

Even on Linux?
Wow, I just use regular paper for school projects lol.

I think the disconnect here may be that most people rarely print glossy, so stopping by a store isn't a big deal for the vast majority.

If you're really printing glossy on short order demand then of course owning the machine might make sense.
Ahh, thanks Sotheby's for telling me the tastemakers in the NFT sphere are Steve Aoki and NFTGirl.

BTW:

>many of whom have been collecting long before NFTs became a common term and have helped build the ecosystem from the ground up

"My run up to the NFT space was summer 2020." - Steve Aoki[0]

Truly an early innovator, getting in 3 years after the crypto kitties was basically a top headline for crypto news

[0]https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2021/08/16...
It's your tone.
That is gross oversimplification of both American history and present. Can we not?
wanting access to the source code of an early Xerox laser printer (at MIT) is what got Richard Stallman ticked off enough to devote his life to free software.

when I saw the headline for this article I first read it as "Canon sued for disabling scammer when printers run out of ink" :)
The problem is printing photos that you want to keep private.
Good time as ever to plug Wendover's recent video about how the art world works.

https://youtu.be/ZZ3F3zWiEmc

Seeing Sotheby's attach its name to NFTs confirms every suspicion i ever had about NFTs.
I ran into this when going to scan paperwork for my taxes a few years back.

Then, a year later, the printer developed some sort of error on initialization of the print head... and it would refuse to scan on that basis, even though the scanner mechanism was completely separate and scanning UI still came up. It turned out there already was a class-action for this second issue, except my Canon hadn't manifested the issue earlier and so no settlement for me.

Got a B&W Brother Laser with a simple flatbed scanner built-in. Not perfect, but covers the occasional need to print something out short-notice, and scans well enough for the main needs I have there. Some folks say just use services for printing, and there is some validity to that, but it's nice to be able to quickly print up a reference sheet or label without planning ahead.
One technique I used in Outlook back when I was customer-facing was to have color rules, so an email with only me in the To: line would be green, me in the CC/BCC red. So you can glance at your unread/read inbox and get a signal as to what you might need to read first.

I’m sure you could do this with folders or tags in gmail, I found it useful to be able to see everything unread at a glance.

Never got to inbox zero consistently but archiving the “done” emails to stay as close as possible helps.

More important I think is having some system for managing your todos, which you need to be able to create in one click from an email. I ended up with an outlook task list, I think it’s useful to be able to trigger an email to be “due in 2 days” if you need to say check in on a thread.
She was watching it, and actually it makes sense to watch other people talking about their illness similar to yours and how they are coping with it. The problem I see is TikTok itself, instead of using YouTube with its long form videos, of published peer reviewed papers.
I actually did have to go uphill both ways to school! My parents house was next to a school at the top of a hill but there was a fence that blocked the most direct route through someone's yard. I had to go all the way down, around and back up.
Their whole post is wildly ironic on so many levels. They barely read the article which did specifically mention the chemicals they claim the article never mentions:

“ The car parts contain deposits like zinc oxide, platinum and rhodium. A laboratory in Antwerp, Belgium is taking a look at the effect of each individual component.”

And then their whole “how to read the news” leads you to absolutely useless information that provides no illumination.

Their entire post is like a replication of exactly what they think is wrong with the news but as a HN comment. Maybe it’s some kind of deeply clever parody…
Seems about right. People have already devalued the meaning of terms such as "racism", "feminism" and "depression" by severely abusing them, causing enormous damage to those who are victims of what those terms represent and now they've ganged up on ADHD. Globalised social networking truly is cancer of our societies.
There are a lot of people out there that haven’t figured out the scam yet, and new ones minted every day. And those brands will sell 5 of these rip-off inkjets to someone at high margin before they figure it out and buy a brother once - for 1/5 of the total profit to brother.
Yes, Surface devices have this problem. It was a frequent occurrence for me to put my Surface Book into my bag and later take it out completely dead or hot and drained.
He wrote it in German, did he not? So it wasn't "folly" or "stupidity."
If you need to print photos is cheaper to get them printed by a photograph shop or if you need a lot of them even order from a service that prints them and sends it to you. Not only it's cheaper, but it's a far better quality than the shitty quality of consumer inkjet printers.
Sometimes you need a forcing function.
There is a whole subreddit on reddit devoted to this called /r/fakedisordercringe Some of the people on tiktok faking these disorders are disgusting.
Maybe you should disclose your affiliation when you shamelessly plug yourself.
William Shatner's taking the gloves off after his trip to space
That teenagers seek self-confirmation etc is not new.

What is new is unrestricted access to a world wide forum where they post videos and pictures of themselves without supervision (not just tiktok).

I think it's well worth the attention it is getting in the news and more importantly study of how it affects them.
A bunch of these are Pepe The Frog[1] derivations. It’s not clear that they have anything to do with the original artist, Matt Furie. I know that art remixes culture and modern art sometimes pushes the bounds of IP law, but this just feels like appropriating another artist’s work.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe_the_Frog
Sounds like something that would be pretty trivial to solve by a ever so slight application of advance planning?
Since SHA-1 is known to be broken, could this be adapted to create collisions on demand? How much training would be required to break SHA256?
Were all in the zeppelin when it caught fire?
Problem is with the drivers, many devices don't support resuming after hibernate.
I think that’s the “You simply model the PRNG in Z3” part.

Whether that’s simple depends is debatable, but for example would be if somebody open-sourced the server-side of their poker dealing site.
Let's not throw the baby with the bathwater. Injket printers have advantages and can be cheap if we dismantle the highway robbery of inks. Just because inks are expensive does not mean that we should get rid of inkjet technology.

> I really don't see a reason for inkjet printers to exist, I hope they will disappear from the market.

Perhaps you should investigate why they exist. Seems too naive to wish for their disappearance due to lack of knowledge.

https://www.precisioncolors.com/

I've been using these for years for Photo printing. Can vouch for excellent quality and affordable price. You need a color calibrator to calibrate these inks + paper.
If im understanding GP correctly, I think what's happening for them is that the extended quiet daily makes their hearing a bit more sensitive (as their brain and ears work in tandem to amplify the sound and be more receptive to it, respectively). Now when they take off the headphones, since their hearing is more sensitive, they pick up more of the actual background noise that exists around them.
Hollywood movies go out of the way to make violence look and feel unrealistic. It is effectively cartoon violence that makes you chill, but never makes you feel bad.

Hollywood in particular is not even interested in gruesome or realistic or effective depiction of violence.
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That's why I buy hardware that starts with "i" in its name. That way, I know that "I" am the owner and "I" am in complete control.
If you print many of those, there are pro grade inkjets that are dramatically less scammy, or color laser printers that aren’t bad either.
Sex work is still work. It's not enough or even necessary to be conventionally attractive. If you have to put in the work anyway, it might as well be something you want to do, and not everyone wants to do sex work.
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I can't seem to find the report that is referenced in this article. Anyone got a link?
It’s has historically proven difficult to sustain that model because the consumer printer market for the past 20 years has been race to the bottom. It’s hard to compete when competitors are selling their printers at or below cost.

Consumers mostly tend to make their purchase decisions on the margin, and so the razors-and-blades model works well.

I guess there may be a few recent exceptions to this like the Epson Ecotank, although I don’t know how profitable that has been for them.
There's plenty of jurisdictions where "pasting a scanned signature into a pdf" doesn't produce a legally valid signature.

Germany requires some signing software for pdfs - though printed-signed-scanned documents are also legally valid signatures
There's a cute feature of Outlook these days, where if you get @named in the body of the email, you are added to the To: field, if you are already on the CC: field you get moved to the To: field. You also get an @ icon in your inbox next to the email showing that you've been directly referenced.

Once people know about this feature it works quite well pulling you into a conversation that you may be ignoring as you were only CC'd up to that point.
> I just don't understand how people can be that mad about something that _they've clearly not watched_. It's beyond me. Perhaps I lack some fundamental cultural context.

There is a very simple explanation for this type of outrage: many religious people get offended when what they consider to be sacred gets criticised or denied. This is even more true for new converts who often fail to see the nuances in their religion and take religious dogma as absolute truth. Religious extremism is incompatible with rational discourse, as is proven time and time again - it does not matter whether the extremists follow a theistic religion like Islam or Christianity or a secular one like "Wokeness", the "new religion of the left" or whatever name you want to give it. Now add this this a faith without atonement or salvation and the seeds have been sown for a life of outrage.
Pretty clearly the poster was referring to the consumer grade ones which 99% of folks are going to buy no?
I’m always skeptical of these types of explanations of human behavior. What is the thought process exactly? Do people think to themselves “Hmm, I need a quirk that makes me different”? I can’t imagine having such a thought. Why things appeal to people is probably much more complex.
Since you’ve updated your comment, I think the key difference is that most people try to stick to B&W laser printers as those seem to be rock solid. Rather than going for new printers or printers that have an insane sale like a $450 for $150, look for reviews from forums for people who have been using the printer model for years (or join and ask on such forums if you can’t find anything). It sounds like the printer you happened to pick had a known design/manufacturing flaw and whose service life wasn’t up to snuff, which probably explains the huge discount. Remember. Laser printers make money on the printer, not the toner so much. That means if a printer is getting a huge discount, it probably has some kind of problem.
I wish there was an equivalent of this for iOS. I know - paid ecosystem,etc. But, I wish it existed.
Are the new ones with refill bottles instead of ink cartridges any better?
We need an economic collapse so baaaadly. I love California but this shit is out of hand.
> someone apparently decided consumers would tolerate the inconvenience of no filtered water

What kind of person makes decisions like this? When handed a good product, who decides to make it worse on purpose?
(Disclaimer: Guix developer and former NixOS developer here.)

The OS configuration of Guix is declarative, like that of NixOS:

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Using-the-Configura...

However, it was designed to be more hackable and easy to inspect, which is facilitated by the fact that it's integrated in a general-purpose language.

As an example, that allows the `guix system` to verify properties before you deploy a system: that the config does not refer to non-existing file systems, that the initrd doesn't lack modules needed to mount the root file system, that there are no references to undefined system services, etc.

Inspectability is best illustrated here:

https://notabug.org/civodul/guix-explorer

Another big difference is that the relation between services in Guix is explicit, as can be seen above. Conversely, a NixOS service can modify anything in the whole system config, which can make it harder for users to understand how the final config came to be.

Side effect (NixOS users will understand): someone writing a Guix service doesn't have to worry about `mkIf` and other contrived constructs, they won't even have to care about fixed points and infinite recursion. :-)
I am happy that finally somebody is suing a printer manufacturer.
But between Consumer Reports, Wirecutter, the 18 million review websites, Costco, I feel like such an obviously superior brand and product should have had its reputation widely known by now, like Toyota/Honda.
Also an exception: printing transparencies for screen-printing masks. Laser-toner does not get the opaque blacks you get with ink.
Yes, clearly this is just a bug that will be fixed as soon as they are made aware of it in 2016
Dunno, I have the same cheap HP DeskJet 6940 for 14 years, just buy non-brand b/w ink[head] every 2 years or so and it works fine for occasional home use.

I had a laser printer before at home before, and it's slow to warm up, tonner is 10x as expensive as refilled ink head and I kinda fear the tonner particles getting into the air and I breathing them. Page output is similar for much higher price.

Quality is better, but for home use I'd only consider laser printer if I was still making PCBs at home.
Caskading Failures
Since it doesn't seem to be listed often in this thread: noise and heat management

I have a Dell Latitude 7300 and it gets incredibly hot. They tried to optimize for size, so it has tiny fans that are incredibly loud when it spins up and they designed the aluminum body to act as a heat sink.

The problem is that when I close the laptop when it's docked, the screen traps the heat and the fans start to whine like a jet engine. Even when it's idling it's loud, so I have to leave the laptop open and on its side when docked to allow for proper heat dissipation.
At least in Nordic countries, interests of elderly are over-represented. There are more old people than young, they vote more, and they elect older representatives.

The problem is that there are so many boomers and their pensions are inflation adjusted while younger generations are smaller and their burden just grows.

The burden is just too high.
> nothing gets judged as legally obscene in the US as nobody wants the actual decisive court case

There are a lot of court cases on obscenity, some of which hold decisively [1].

> a man was sued under copyright laws for pirating pornography and their defense was that because the work was obscene it could not be have any copyright restrictions…since the law firms suing over piracy are just spraying and praying, they don't want an actual trial

Nonsense. Porn companies regularly go to court to protect their IP [2]. (To your example, in which venue was your defendant defending himself if not in a court?)

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/prosecut...

[2] https://abovethelaw.com/2017/12/porn-piracy-forbidden-to-set...
I guess they could rent printers.
I would like the literal opposite of this:

We donate the party funds to a Zero Hunger program, take half a day off to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, and then come back and swap feel good stories.
The complaint was not that the firmware notification existed or was urgent, but that it stole input focus.
“Never let a crisis go to waste.” I too see this pattern over and over again.
Show me someone who can tell the difference between pasting a signature in a pdf vs printed-signed-scanned?

There was a legislature in America that tried to define pi as 3 so irrational laws are not surprising.
Gave it some thought a while ago!

I'm still struggling with the customs end of getting one though.

Uruguay where I now live isn't exactly amazing at managing electronic imports, although if one ever showed up on Amazon I'd be jumping on that right away as there are companies that helps make this process easier over here.
Ask HN: What's the fastest way to become employable in tech
Hello HN,

I have quite a few friends who didn't study CS and don't know anything about programming but they hate their fields and want to switch.

What's the best book, course, etc. that can take someone from zero knowledge to somewhat employable in tech? Employable is a vague term but when I think about most online college courses I imagine they teach more theory than practical skills used in most tech jobs to me.

I'd imagine learning web development is probably the fastest track to becoming employable today but I'm curious what your recommendations are for how to learn that in the fastest way.
First, in order to produce child porn you have to abuse real child. At least that is what I think you talk about.

Second, who exactly is cool with collection of child torture videos? Or collection of murders? Because when I came across discussion about such finding, the consensus was that people were horrified, scared, seen it as red flag and seeked to classify kid ones as child port (and hence call authoritirs). It was on reddit.
Kid can deal with regular paper
Can't speak for OPs printer but my brother just uses IPP and a PPD definition file, all supported out of the box with cups.
The author should have pointed out that the historical background of Mercia was much more in line with the Britons (I.e, original Britons like the Welsh as opposed to the Saxons) in their perception of the concept of female rule. Not that Mercia wasn’t Saxon, but they were influenced by their closer neighbors. Aethelflaed very ably built up Merician defenses and came to the aide of her brother, the Saxon King Edward, on a number of occasions. As the daughter of Alfred, she had a lot of legitimacy for her rule after Aethelred’s death. It’s not inconceivable to believe that her legitimate rule was downplayed by her brother and subsequent Saxon rulers for their own political purposes.
I mean, NIMBYs have made it impossible to live in Northern California unless you make a lot of money. 80k for a teacher sounds a lot until you realize that you have to have roommates to survive or have inherited a place.
Things really looked grim for them for a while but it looks like the anti-progress team will squeak out a win in the end. Congrats!
There is no contradiction here. An upsurge of religious power in the public sphere is not equivalent to an upsurge in the fear of God.
Yes and it works out if the box in any modern distro.
right or wrong, Python is hardly a niche language at this point. There's really nothing to cannibalize.

Also, making threading better is not necessarily a new feature if done well - it could be mostly transparent to users.
I think you can get going with little to no knowledge. Setup the system, choose a few cool options and packages, and go rebuild. Simple as that.

The difficulty comes from the advanced topics. Modularizing your setup, writing your own packages, generally going off the beaten path.

I did not do any of that (yet). I will in the future, but I am fine with my low-level setup. One machine, one user. A bit later I moved to Nix Flakes (which is just an additional wrapper file around the previously written config) and added a few overlays.

My trick: I downloaded every single public "NixOS" dotfile repository I could find, and then just used "ripgrep" to find anything I was interested in.

Another cool trick I read is setting up a VM to test a small config and get a feeling for it, and then decide if yo want to proceed.
This would be something useful, so the committee won't have it.
>Unfortunately I'm still keeping my worry alive. The reality is that we still can't move fully even to wasm, as ~6% of our players have incompatible browser and we have to support asm.js fallback

Well, if that's a pain, then 6% is small enough to drop/force to upgrade.
> You probably print a lot if an ink cartridge service is cost effective for you.

HP's service bills by page count, not by ink usage. So as you increase print volume, the unit economics get worse. I use it for photo print applications that don't require high quality or a print size greater than US letter. For that, which maximizes the ink-to-paper ratio, it works out splendidly.

(I suspect it works out as well for HP as for me, because the program also requires spent cartridges be returned in prepaid packaging. This allows them, and their expensively precision-manufactured print heads, to be refilled and reused.)
> I’m struggling mightily to see how most NFT...

There is intrinsic and then there is extrinsic valuation; it's no different than startup valuations. But since this is HN I don't want to dive into market psychology, I'll leave you with a 1-million-dollar example, with source code[0] to (one of) the OpenSea smart contracst[1] to determine the value for yourself.

[0] https://etherscan.io/address/0xbc4ca0eda7647a8ab7c2061c2e118...
[1] https://opensea.io/assets/0xbc4ca0eda7647a8ab7c2061c2e118a18...
Brother printers, from my experience, will just work automatically -- depending on your distro. If you need drivers, they do have a Linux installer as well. I've used the installer before and definitely not even a fraction as scummy as Canon/HP driver installs.
What’s the point of money if you can’t buy your way into a happier and more prosperous life with it, especially for your children?
UK to put nuclear power at heart of net zero emissions strategy
Kids, here's an example of what happens if you don't listen!
> Having free firmware

What good is free software when manufacturers can just require the firmware to be signed, thereby disallowing any and all modifications? We'll never be truly free until we can manufacture this hardware at home, just like we can make our own software at home.
>Of the JS engine which is now in C++; not sarcasm.

Not gonna happen.
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