skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A hackable, OSS printer

Outside of our bubble nobody cares about that

There is always something you can do, we see it with phones, just add more gimmicks on top, the thing is smartphones are aimed at the general population and became a fashion/class/status symbol. Printers are just printers, they work just fine and most of them are used in pro environment (aka most people don't pay, maintain or replace printers).

> It tells me there’s a complacent market ripe for disruption.

Then let's disrupt coffee mugs, or the wheel... some techs are good enough that further """progress""" isn't required.

Most people who have issues with printers buy cheap ones and/or use them once every 6 months, they then proceed to complain that they don't work anymore and that all printers are bad. It's like buying a car and never doing any maintenance until it dies and then complain about reliability.
I've never quite understood why anyone would want to mod the front page subreddits, r/pics, r/funny, r/askreddit etc. It must be a lot of work and your reward for your efforts you get a non-stop stream of abuse from posters who are either pissed off because you're too lazy and let crap content through or pissed off because you're power-hungry and are only letting through posts that support your own personal agenda.
> If AI was found to be sentient

This will never happen because we cannot prove sentience.

Of course, that won't stop some people from considering them sentient and giving them rights. At that point, it will be just politics.
> Honestly, it seems you have the strange idea that a particular kind of urban living (that you probably prefer or idealize) is the only kind of good living, and therefore feel the need to take a piss on every other type.

That's odd I get the exact same vibe from you.
Land, sure, they aren't making more of it.

Energy? Is not scarce. I'm not even in the top 25% of travel for people who have been in an airplane one time, and I've done the equivalent of several circumnavigations.

Even the desperately poor can afford the energy budget to split a cell phone with the rest of their family, and lately they can have a small solar panel and light as well. That's not scarce energy.

It would be great if it was even less scarce, sure.
I wear one to advertise my Pro Wrestling promotion. Because it's my promotion. Why I would want to wear someone else's ads I have no clue.
I certainly agree that digital money is the use-case, but I don't think Bitcoin is it.

Transactions are far too expensive and has too poor privacy for that to be the case.
Muji has no markings or logo at all.
Link found between immune system and hair growth
People already use crypto for exactly the reason he gave despite it being illegal. See also buying/selling drugs.

Access to money is also quite important in fighting unjust laws, even if we'd wish otherwise.
Yeah but on the flip side what is stress relief for some becomes a thought looping panic attack for others
Each commit is hashed as a block that includes the hash of the previous commit, so, yes.

Though, to be more accurate, you would say thay each "repository" is a block chain rather than say that Git is "on" a block chain.
I don't know about Barley Swine, but Uchi is a good Japanese restaurant, likely in the top 3 in Austin, at least.
> it's highly efficient

Most definitely not. Japanese working culture is notorious for rigidity, lack of transparency, and slow decision-making. Workers are exploited, despite few possibilities for promotion, wildly unreasonable expectations are common. Many employees work for 80 or more hours each week, with many of those hours considered unpaid overtime. Even after the workday is over, workers are expected to spend their free time socializing with colleagues outside of work. Workers who take measures to improve their mental health are met with a level of stigma, and many are told to simply get some rest, while at the same time suffering constant pressure to always be working with no time to relax.

It's like end-stage America, if anything.
Do you believe that adults don’t like these flavors as well? Do you not remember the campaigns by adults when they banned flavored cartridges?
Of course this is only for the Netherlands...

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/trading-and-funding/se...
> is to learn to share like the toddlers we are

As in, taxation + inflation is not enough? We spend 27.9% through government (a "shared resource"). How much more should we disincentivize work?

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GC.XPN.TOTL.GD.ZS
Ask HN: Startups, what do you do for your IT needs?
I'm a co-founder at an early stage company and added a few employees recently. It got me thinking - there's got to be a better way to give them laptops, manage apps, support, etc.

What are your teams, employees, and companies doing to solve this issue?
Hay Ain't YAML – Custom Languages for Unix Systems
The day that the coat-hanger became a medical instrument (again).
>everyone who claimed this could be solved by technology like Tor and onion routing has been proven wrong,

Can you expand on this? Outside of theoretical attacks only possible by the largest nation state actors and attacks that rely on something other than Tor (e.g. bad opsec, enabling JS, etc.), are you saying Tor has been broken? Is there a paper?
So it sounds like a company like System76 should build a printer and partner with no-brand ink cartridge companies to supply ink.
100:80:100 model.

100% pay, 80% hours, 100% productivity.

> Doesn't this mean the Glasgow City Council is overstaffed and should layoff 20% of their workers?

Only if you think 100:100:100 for 40 hours a week is possible / realistic. Are you honestly operating at 100% effectiveness for every hour you work all week?
Yeah. It was not framed in a way useful to the discussion.

I did want to separate out the fact that it was needlessly offensive (true) from the truth of the underlying claim about the distribution (which probably true).
Adobe and Meta Decry Misuse of User Studies in Computer Vision Research
In addition to the use of still photos, this study has a problem in that dress is indicated to the subjects before they make a choice that is distilled down to trust, and the choice game is known to test trust by a substantial portion of the public. While it makes some intuitive sense to appear disarming to win the trust of strangers in some real-life contexts, I wouldn’t rely on this study to corroborate that.
This has the advantage, relative to geopolymers and the Chinese sulfate cement, that the existing cement industry won't fight it.
Is this link to the whole article or just a summary? I can't seem to find the rest of it.
"Houston, we have a problem!"
The game theory behind it that makes the whole thing work.
I mean, before accusing someone of looking at this politically, please read the comment fully.

You’re taking pains to explain why GDPR is a compromise? Why? If it’s bad law, it’s bad law.

Nothing you said invalidates the assertions I’ve made. Unless you’ve directly experienced the onerous system of regulations in places like Germany, I’d urge you to do more research before the armchair dismissal.
> In the 1990s, when Russia was in a very bad economic situation, there was a lot of support for Russia from the EU

From my experience you greatly overplay it. There was "some support" maybe, but definitely not "lots" of it.

In 2000s Russia no longer was in a very bad economic situation. But there was no integration. Yes there were all kinds of bells and whistles, such as academic exchange this, international program that; but you know, you can have these with any country in the world. They're not life changing - they are just some peer things. Russian life was affected very little by its neighbourhood with the EU and no real integration took place.

> Chechnya was turned into a slaughterhouse

I don't think it is true (what would you compare it to, Bosnia or Yemen?). However, it does show the attitude which got us where we are now.
Please read:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That changes nothing. They will just tell the miners to block those transactions, and threaten to confiscate their equipment if they don't.
> But if you come to austin and go to The Domain expecting it to be a crowd from the move Slackers and then complain that Austin isn't what it used to be then you are not getting it.

Yeah but no one in their right mind would do that. That's verging on a straw man argument.

edit: I stand corrected. People are stupid.
Intel Raptor Lake CPUs Could Be the First x86 Chips to Offer 6 GHz Clock
"Shielded" transactions on networks such as Zerocash are private. There's an increasing trend in this direction as "zero knowledge" layer 2 networks come online, since they have the same underlying mechanisms which makes private transfers easy to implement (or to even have as the default).
Cornell alum here who took CS 3110. This course made me a better programmer, made me gain a sense of respect for OCaml and functional languages in general, and made me fall in love with CS. The textbook and professor are both phenomenal.
Liberty wins landmark Snoopers’ Charter case
I have no problem with him taking out a loan. I have a problem with him avoiding taxes by taking out a loan.
I'm pointing out that if you're hoping for stuff to happen after you die, you can kill yourself before it happens. I don't see why you think I was making a death threat, but feel free to notify anyone you like.
I shouldn’t be focused on the printer market when commenting on a post about printers?

The printer market is a commodity market - the very opposite of a monopoly.
Some of the more 'successful' of those people end up turning the internet clout into being an influencer which can end up making them a decent amount of money.. but you are right, in the vast majority of cases people won't get anything for the content they contribute to Twitter's platform beyond internet clout
>> I would buy clothes with no distinctive marks if I could find them. Just plain material and colors.

The irony being that actual "high-class" clothing is exactly what you're describing, at least since I've been a lucid adult. Seems like there is a bit of an inverse correlation between a person's income and the amount of logos they'll tolerate on their clothing.
They introduced this idea that you're paying for a certain amount of concurrent streams, it's not that surprising that people see password sharing as a fair way of getting your money's worth rather than taking advantage.

The initial premise seems slightly manipulative to me I guess, if you paid by the hour or something, no password sharing problem but less profits
> We live in a post-scarcity society now.

Not if you include the population of the world outside of a few rich western countries.
Maximise the waste and minimise the cost, yay !
That's pretty cool. Will try!
I think there's this thread of people who live (and want to live) in very high CoL cities feeling the need to justify it to themselves and others on the grounds that they have no choice if they want to have a successful career.
Kind of like how "Crypto" now means gamblinging on speculative assets rather than the study of cryptography?
As expected, the 5 justices on the leaked Alito opinion constitute the majority, Chief Justice Roberts filed a concurring opinion (in which he argues that the principle of judicial restraint requires merely upholding the law in question, not overturning Roe), and the 3 liberal justices dissented.

In total, the opinions are 217 pages long.

Anyone able to quickly run a diff on the leaked majority opinion and the official one?
No, this is not an accurate assessment of what is at stake here.

So yeah, targeted ads and spooky tv sets are annoying at the least but the poing is that the infrastructure could easily support 1984 style monitors.

Regardless of the purpose of current usage, this is infrastructure for a surveillance society. That is the issue. The infrastructure is not going to go away unless we rip it down [down to and including transport layer] and rebuild with privacy and other human rights protections as a primary requirement of ubiquitous networking. DARPA was not concerned about these matters so all these fall under the 'operators discretion'.
> Finally, something that people might not think about: If he misses something someone said and asks you what it was, never say "it's nothing" or "it wasn't important" or "it was just a joke" no matter how minor the comment was. Just repeat it no matter what.

This is absolutely critical. It's hard enough to interrupt multiple times (especially when you need to ask about the same misheard thing multiple times) and being shut down makes it even harder.
The earliest documented ransomware dates to 1989. https://ransomware.org/blog/the-first-ransomware-attack-less...

EDIT: Sorry you don't like that history disagrees with your narrative
Yeah, this one is actually quite solid. I can't remember the few issues I had with it.
From a developer user's perspective:

- Nice to have
- Problem
- Don’t want it, will never allow it
- Nice to have
- Don’t want it, will never allow it

Of the five items you list, I only see one as a real problem. Two of them are privacy misfeatures that have no business being on the web platform. The other two are annoying and would be better to have than not.
I actually love being sore and tired. In my 20s I’d ride a bike until my legs fell off and would revel in just laying down in complete exhaustion. Not much has changed, 15 years later.

What has changed is my appetite- an all day bike ride used to be followed by a giant pizza; now it’s just a normal meal. My all day hikes are somewhat challenging even wanting to eat. A variety of tastes at my disposal (sweet, salty, sore, bitter, savory, Unami) helps.

I’m almost 190lbs these days and muscular. I started out much lighter.
I preferred early 2000s to mid 2010s Manhattan than now.
There are many flaws in this perspective, but I'll pick one: the argument that there is no problem being solved with blockchain. This is trivially falsifiable: blockchains are being used to facilitate illegal transactions.

Of course, from there, people often wince. But that wincing comes from an assumption: that a transaction is morally just if and only if it is legal. This is a fairly bad assumption (particularly with a brief skim of the history of the 20th century), but even if it were true, it is provably the case that blockchain technology is solving this problem in a way previous solutions have not been able to, given it is the chosen mechanism.
Our mechanisms for AI are (it would almost seem intentionally) biased against sentience. Glorified pattern recognition systems, no memory. The only "online learning" is re-training to a sample.

Sentient AI is a fun sci-fi idea, but economically, why bother with slaves when you can have glorified optic nerves that are good enough for everything you want. I think sentient AI is totally achievable with modern technology, there just is no incentive to make it happen and a lot of incentive to steer away from it.

The "Turing Test" is just the latest in a history of bad ideas of "human-ness" that we see in practice isn't accurate. The other reason sentient AI is unlikely to happen is that our "criteria" for it will flee the capacity of machines to satisfy them.
A long time ago in one of the first properties I rented the washing machine stopped working. My flatmate called the agency and a day later, I think it was a Saturday morning, a rough looking man turned up to repair it.
I remember he had a tattered pair of working jeans and a similarly tattered polo shirt on. He pulled the machine out, took it apart diagnosed the issue and popped out to his car get a part. While he was gone my flatmate clued me in to the fact that was the owner of the property, who also owned the agency, and in turn owned a awe-ful lot of property in the local area.
The guy had popped out to his brand new land rover to dig out a part from the back.
I was completely blown away at how humble and down to earth he was.

Years later I worked with a guy, a multi-millionaire, the guy lives in one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in London. Again dressed in a normal pair of jeans and t-shirt, nothing too noteworthy. I remember him telling me how dry and boring his neighbours are, too concerned with 'things'. When he wants to go for a pint rather than go to his local, he heads to the less well off area a few streets over to the pub there and enjoys the company of normal people.

From these and other experiences I've come to think that the more you look, and act, like you've 'got money' the less you actually have.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. What you're saying is exactly correct. That's what this ruling affirms: it is a state issue. Abortion is not in the US Constitution and many - even left-leaning - legal scholars have said Roe v Wade was ruled incorrectly.
People back then used to have (almost) free labor. That is one variable that also changed over time. All that pretty architectural features took a lot of effort and time. Usability is one factor, but many things past civilizations did were only possible because they only paid for food (and often, not enough)
various issues in this post, but to examine the central question:

> Someone, please show me an application where blockchain is essential. That is, a problem that could not have been solved without blockchain that can now be solved with it.

Application:

User Alice and Bob want to swap domain names they own, but using an escrow to facilitate the trade safely and mitigate counterparty risk - and they want this exchange to settle in mere seconds or minutes, without the need to share private data with a third party, and without the need to pay a % commission to a rent-extracting centralized corporate entity*.

This application can and already is being achieved by recording these domain name properties and their records of ownership on a public distributed ledger - a blockchain.

The application of blockchain is as it always has been: creating a decentralized and permissionless ledger.

* most blockchains use transaction fee markets to mitigate spam. In this blockchain app, a small fixed transaction fee must be directed to all users upholding the protocol - which, importantly, may include Alice and Bob themselves as token holders, block producers, and/or delegators within the network.

Edit: lol at downvotes. author literally asked for an application - the downvotes end up hiding my comment and help to maintain the HN echo chamber.
Calm down sport I'm just trying to supply some options just in case someone else is in a bind. There are always options. Borrow an ethernet port at a hospital or something and use a VPN if you're super worried.
Have you ever encountered a project actually fundraising in this way?
> If a local council was a business there would be a fire in the basement one Sunday morning.

Sorry I've read this sentence a couple times and I cannot discern the meaning. Perhaps it is a British expression I do not know. Can you elaborate? Why would there be a fire in the basement? Why on one Sunday morning? Why once?
> It's also the main way I use HN - I probably click into more HN threads than news articles these days.

Seconded.

My personal setup is a tt-rss instance set up on my personal server, with a Fever plugin, which allows me to use it with other readers—currently ReadKit on my Mac, and Reeder on iOS. I very rarely access my tt-rss webpage directly; it's just there to provide centralized-under-my-control syncing of the feeds and their read status.
Ask HN: Do programming interviewers use first question to disarm candidates?
It might sound silly but in the last few days that I was searching for a job I noticed that I have been asked some strange questions which did not make sense at least to me and because it happened in a few of them I started to think it might be a pattern or some kind of technique.

For example one of them asked my "How can you print number 4 without using numbers or strings?" Turns out the answer was "Make array of 4 elements and print its length!

Just the other day I was shown a JSON file with a few objects then the interviewer asked me "How would you put this object into a mongoDB document"? The answer was that I should use the 'builder' pattern to do it.

Then I thought maybe those questions are being asked for other purposes than technical reasons or maybe I'm just hallucinating, Something like this ever happened to you?
13 states have "trigger laws"; pre-bans on abortion, dependent only on this ruling. A large swath of the country, as of this morning, bans abortion.
>I went through about 3 years of tickets (limited to only the bugs reported)

This statement is meaningless without any insight on how bugs were created. If the bug reports exclusively dealt with "happy-path" or "business logic QA", then of course you won't see any CVEs. Did the use of fuzzers or address sanitizers create bug reports? Were these tools even used? If not, the claim that only one of 1000 bugs were memory safety issues isn't credible; you weren't looking for them so of course you didn't find them.

I think it says a lot when almost every C++ developer claims to have a higher quality code base compared to say Linux or Chromium when it comes to memory safety errors.
No, Texas bans abortions from 6 weeks onwards (except when the mother's life is in danger). That's decidedly not more liberal than the majority of the world.
Anything with templates, type traits, especially when nested. (The kind of spew you get on an compilation error).
Even

template< typename T >
struct foo<T, std::void_t<decltype(++std::declval<T&>() )>>
: std::true_type { };

looks terrible and that's just basic.
For the first time in my life, it seems conceivable that in the next 10-20 years abortion will be fully outlawed in the United States.
Just send it to your node first. This is trivial to get around. Coinbase is for exchanging crypto and dollars not for a wallet, you should never use an exchange for a wallet.
Thank you. OP statement is at odds with basic facts. We have nothing like the technology from Star Trek that allows for easy generation of goods or even Transmetropolitan. We have some level of current population satisfied, but even that is at a pretty high cost.

I genuinely do not understand how people can claim 'post scarcity' ( unlimited ) access to resources on a, clearly, very limited resource that is Earth.
> This is trivially falsifiable: blockchains are being used to facilitate illegal transactions.

He literally makes this point in the article.
No, best would be to leave it up to the individual.
Understudy
I'm sure there is a ton of variance. I have done some Rust projects where I run into absolutely no safety complaints from Rust because it just isn't the kind of code that does anything the borrow checker cares about. For those development time ends up typically faster than C/C++ due to various syntax and tooling niceties.

Other projects will really get into domains where you have to work hard to satisfy the borrow checker and it can slow you down a lot. In a real application you won't be writing lockless thread queues for a big % of the time. But then for a real application the compile times will start to weigh on you more. (Though, C++ does not always compile fast either unless some care is taken to be sure it does)