skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blocking ads on YouTube doesn't affect anyone's bottom line except Google. Creators on YouTube only receive a small percentage of YouTube ad revinue, and most don't count it as stable income because YouTube loves to demonitize videos for no reason and you have almost no recourse once it does.

That's why every video now has embedded ads, which is something entirely different because it's controlled by and paid to the creator directly.

I don't mind giving creators money, and I'm fortunate enough that I can afford to subscribe to several of them every month. Because they deserve my money, not Google.
Any source on that? I find it hard to believe that something as commonplace as a printer, a technology that has been around for so many decades, is hard to manufacture profitably.

Maybe I'm wrong, since I have nothing to go by besides a gut feeling mixed with assumptions and a sprinkling of common sense, so I would love a source.

The only scenario I can think of which makes sense to me is that making printers is a patent minefield, making it difficult/impossible for a competitor to come in and disrupt anything (plus it's not a very attractive industry anyways). There's probably also a lot of anti-competitive stuff going on too, like supplier contracts that prohibit working with other printer companies, etc.
jpeg xl can power raw formats and raw-like lossless formats, and is super interesting in that domain

another format that is limited to three channels or has bit depth limitations would not be similarly interesting

another format that is for example 50 % worse in lossless compression would not be interesting in this space
So the main issues I've been able to gather are they weren't required to report the liabilities on the balance sheets which are where most formulas for policymakers get their data from, many are only reported only in the footnotes. Still working my way through it.

The obvious issue, and worry is financial contagion.

There are so many USD denominated swaps outstanding, that will need to be paid back in full plus interest in the same short time horizon with USDs (12 months), and the global amount of USDs available in circulation falls far short of the currency needed to fulfill the obligations.

Also, thanks to interest rate changes, you have it behaving in some respects like an underwater variable interest rate mortgage if they try to roll it forward, it acts in many respects similar to a naked options contract with exponential losses as we are already going into a global recession.

The worry, is the balance of payments crises that these will likely develop into if a default/liquidity issue occurs. Then there is also the matter of actually settling the issue as the amount exceeds what the dealers and swap banks would be able to absorb or cover.

The mechanics seem to be somewhat similar to what happened with the naked shorting on Gamestop above the float, you get a squeeze but on a much larger scale since its all US notes and dollars.

It can potentially lock the entire system up by depriving foreign markets of sufficient USDs needed to pay back their obligations in that time horizon (liquidity crisis).

The relative yield of the dollar to other currencies would skyrocket uncontrollably, and due to the energy sectors close ties with the petro-american dollar, those products would also likely skyrocket as well, unless OPEC nations decide to take a loss (they historically almost never have done that).

Exchange rates due to the shock would be un-affordable to most contries, and the USD for the global reserve currency could potentially be abandoned if rates become inequitable for an extended period for foreign trade.

Its a real knifes edge between maintaining the global reserve currency by printing enough to fulfill the obligations which could cause Weimar like inflation domestically, or abandoning the trade status, military bases, UN votes, and other leverage we commonly use which are largely derived from debt obligations after a unofficial default, which have been provided through various entities such as IMF and World bank investments.

I still have a lot more to dig into it, but just as a casual observation, it looks like some group of people are trying to create the economic factors described in Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged.
What about a car?

You probably shouldn't finance a vehicle you can afford with current interest rates, and you may not want to give your debit card to a secondhand dealer for processing.

While I do have fond memories of paying less than $10k for a beater, those days may not be coming back. In 10 years, high-end phones and computers could easily fall outside that limit too.
Oh god I am just looking at a piece of software written by some really untalented folk (who are no longer with the client's company) and it's an unholy mess of caches, Kafkas, Elastics.. because they prematurely decided that Postgres just won't cut it as they have almost a 100k items to keep track of! And since that mess of random arhitecture started generating millions of Kafka events their last act of engineering was to add kubernetes to the mix, because hey, more instances will solve the problem, right? I'm begging them to let me rewrite the whole thing just in Postgres, I think I'd rather quit than fix the original.
Same east EU countries that are net beneficiaries of EU funding that Austria is net contributor to? https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-...
Note it says "debts". Most retail situations have no debt because you must pay before you receive the item.
Regardless of what was advertised, I wish we had more "right to repair" laws that made this scummy corporate behavior illegal.

All this "smart" shit is just an excuse for corporations to have more tracking and more control.
You’re looking for someone to argue with, but your arguments are trivial and meritless. You’re not a scientist and never have been. The fact that you’re posting with a throwaway account created an hour ago says it all. HN should not allow people like you to post.
> The use of cash, if agreed upon by parties involved, is legal because it’s a government “backed”/“accepted” item of currency. Tendering cash in this transaction is legal.

This is false. You immediately provide an example that shows it's false:

> (You’re not trading a car for $value in meth or guns..)

The fact that cash may be provided to settle a debt, even when the creditor doesn't want it, does not mean that it's legal to transact in cash. Meth could be legal tender too, and in that case it would remain illegal to transact in meth.

> I’m sorry my use of the word “legal” in the context of “legally acceptable tender” triggered this response. You’ll have to forgive me: English is my first language.

As another native speaker, I'm sure you're aware that the phrase "legal tender" has no colloquial meaning or use, and while "tender" does, the colloquial meanings are restricted to senses having to do with gentleness or sensitivity to touch.
Well they get some KOH loss, true, but that's why it's called industrial process development, those kinds of things can often be solved.

> "When air was bubbled through potassium hydroxide dissolved in ethylene glycol and the CO2-loaded solution subsequently hydrogenated in the presence of H2 and a metal catalyst, complete conversion to methanol was observed at 140 °C. Moreover, regeneration of the hydroxide base occurred at mild temperatures of 100-140 °C. Notably, a fraction of the base was deactivated in an unwanted side reaction. Currently, the researchers are aiming to minimize the side reactions to efficiently recycle the potassium hydroxide."

Having to use large volumes of ethylene glycol might be an issue, however. There's a whole literature on this particular reaction, for example, as of 2019:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2019.0008...

> "The methanol production from direct CO2 (using pure sources of CO2 and H2) has several advantages over the conventional process—it results in significantly less byproducts, and requires less energy in product purification (Marlin et al., 2018). However, the methanol production cost via direct CO2 hydrogenation is 2–2.5 times higher than the cost of conventional process (Atsonics et al., 2015)."
and AVIF
Could not agree more. I'm completely flabbergasted by the amount of people on HN that seem so blind to this observation.
Isn’t it easy enough to just disprove that a system isn’t cognitive rather than proving that is? Otherwise…cognition is not a claim that can be evaluated by science at all.

Also, you can simply ask ChatGPT “A story about pyramids of Giza being built by aliens”, and it comes up with a reasonable story. This stuff is scary.
Sure but how exactly Germany and France are making Latvia impose 10K limit when Latvia already has 8K limit and what makes you think that abolishment of EU would make Latvia allow over 10K?
Is "The Resistance" still a thing? I remember that being somewhat popular relatively recently.
Why do (extremely) simple concepts like this need a 3rd party to support them?

The kind of "evidence" that is normally presented is typically provided by 3rd-rate activist researchers, attracted to dogma, and who simply come to whatever conclusion perpetuates that dogma.
USA doesn't even have a standard way of normal humans transferring money electronically to each other, leading to a plethora of competing apps that try to solve this.
Will be interesting to see how this interacts with the ecology. Normally a complete shading like this would kill off everything underneath, which will mean it’ll produce loose soil and dust. In some hot environments it may produce a bunch of condensation overnight and if the panels aren’t raked at all that’ll be a challenge to deal with.
I like new Reddit’s cards layout when scrolling, but I don’t enjoy its poorer performance and new thread view.

The good bits from new reddit could have been added without heavy JS, since those are just CSS+HTML.
That delay makes it look like a drip campaign?

Not happy that this strategy is expanding to hardware.
Ya most fun workplace due to it being basically 15 best friends who've worked together for many years. Even the CEO was their buddy from college.

Now I'm in big tech and while it's astronomically better for my career, I absolutely loathe it socially. Not sure it's worth it (holistically), and look forward to someday joining a local medium sized company with average achievers + personalities.
I just checked and this is true for the Node.js REPL (Tried in v12, v14, v16, and v18) as well, which I'm also just learning for the first time (and I had the same workflow as you before this). Neat!
... for $12.00 per hour. Maybe some areas are seeing this degree of desperation to fill jobs that pay a living wage, but I haven't.
> It's unfortunate that printers turned from being based on standard protocols that were documented in the manual they came with (ASCII, ESC/P2, PCL, PostScript, etc.) to these proprietary closed systems. None of the printer manufacturers, including HP, used to be like this.

The subsidized models were always like this. I used to sell this stuff - the HP/Canon/Epson consumer devices were always subsidized by ink sales and sold below margin. The business devices were always different. I still have a LaserJet 6MP that I bought when I was a retail employee of a computer store in 1997 off the floor. The thing is a tank - it also cost $700 1998 dollars. HP still makes similar devices at similar price points.

For my kids, I have a little MFP with instant ink - total cost of $150 for the printer + $180 in ink over 3 years. It’s a good value. Our need for color doesn’t justify a Epson ink tank printer or HP commercial inkjet.
I wouldn’t even say it’s all pejorative mockery. Setting aside the negative connotation, I think we all know what ideas and movements the term “woke” refers to, and the people on that side of the discussion haven’t, to my knowledge, agreed to any other nomenclature they would prefer, which means the only people using the term are the ones criticizing the underlying group of ideas and movements, which is where the negative connotation comes from. (And then some of those critics unfairly overgeneralize, similarly with the term “socialist”.)
I asked this question, because I do have doubts they exist.
Especially, any modern one.

These architectures were introduced around 20 years ago to address technical shortcomings of enterprise systems at that time.

Quoting the original article on Hexagonal architecture (https://web.archive.org/web/20090327032122/http://alistair.c...), the motivation was to address those 3 problems:

> - First, the system can’t neatly be tested with automated test suites because part of the logic needing to be tested is dependent on oft-changing visual details such as field size and button placement;

> - For the exact same reason, it becomes impossible to shift from a human-driven use of the system to a batch-run system;

> - For still the same reason, it becomes difficult or impossible to allow the program to be driven by another program when that becomes attractive.

Is any of the above a real pain in the project that you are building in 2022?

I very much doubt it is. And if it's not, then introducing such an architecture will bring more harm than benefit.

There were some interesting discussions on that topic lead by Martin Fowler few years ago: https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/badri-hexagonal/
I have xerox phaser 6510 color laser, which I like. Built like a rock, works great on third party cartridges.

It does add watermarking (feels like USSR, where KGB took fingerprints of all typewriters), which is despicable, but I think all modern printers do that.
>Once the government has control what's to stop them doing like China has proposed, and make your virtual currency have velocity, meaning if you spend it today, it's worth $1, next week .9, and next month .5?

Isn't this literally what inflation is?
I only print around once/month (or less), and I've given up on having my own printer.

I get stuff printed at the local library now. Yeah, the per-page costs are relatively high, but I'm not amortising the cost of a printer, I don't have to worry about any kind of ink/toner/printhead/other mechanical issues, and any "profit" that's being made goes towards my local library - which I'm totally fine with.
Thank-you. Glad to hear you got better. After reading this, a recent combo monitor helped ease my doubts.
This seems a bit harsh. Nobody really says that about the participants in the Milgram experiment[1], but the psychologist in the ABC article says that this is probably why the caller targeted fast food restaurants

>"Everything is by the book," he explained. "This is how you serve it. This is exactly how you do it. You follow the book — you're OK. I believe he picked fast food restaurants because he knew, once you got them away from that book, once it was something outside the manual or the procedures, they would be lost."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
That's a poor argument because prostitute and beggar have similar social levels.

A better argument is if you stop patronizing a child prostitute so instead the child dies. What's better?

Also bringing in prostitute, especially underage, brings in a ton of unrelated baggage that messes up your argument. There is no such baggage with gig work vs employment.

Basically you need a better argument.
Given the research, why are so few classes taught this way?
Train yourself to argue all sides of political - religious questions with equal fervor. However, as the author notes, it's not wise to over-identify with the various different positions (that way lies schizophrenia).

This used to be something people were trained in as a matter of course, wasn't it? There were debate clubs, things like that. Now people are often just trained to regurgitate stale talking points, off the offically approved list provided by the appropriate authority figure.
Ig Nobel prize

OP please don't change headlines in such a deceptive manner
What if the underlying mechanism causing Alzheimer's is responsible for the deterioration in sleep quality in the first place? If you put it simply like "bad sleep causes Alzheimer's" you make almost exactly the same mistake as the researchers who came up with Beta-Amyloid thesis: there are plaques, they must be responsible for destroying the cells. But as time has shown, the real causality is much more complex.

I agree that all directions should be explored. I wonder if there's already a database of Alzheimer patients that includes sleep quality measurements?
OCaml :: https://v2.ocaml.org/api/Stdlib.html#1_Compositionoperators, it has `|>` for (unary) pipelines and `@@`.
Exactly, it's the same as "if you have nothing to hide". No, sometimes I need to hide things for legitimate reasons, and sometimes I want to buy weed and I should be allowed to.
More info:

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
Would you want the internet to be banned, because people are using it to get away with committing a crime?
And, very quickly its style will be recognizable and uninteresting.

Folks might want to keep in mind that the application they have in mind for this customer service and tech support automated assistants. Think, "Calling the cable company to ask about your bill." For this kind of stuff, it will be fantastic, especially if it is trained on real documents from the company who plans to offer it as a chat. There, too, accuracy is not a problem if the answers come from official sources.

It should not, however, be used as a substitute for your own human work. Anyone doing that is going to quickly look dumb, get people hurt, or get fired.
Doctrines != treaties. Please do not put words in my mouth; if you are confused, try asking.
SPAs very often have terrible accessibility. I think it's important for frameworks that help people build interactive applications (SPA or otherwise) to provide the best possible defaults, plus guidance as to how to use them to build accessible interfaces.
You might want to check out https://solokeys.com/ then. They're pretty new (shipping for about a year) but they do full FOSS firmware & software as well as most hardware being FOSS as well.
Not sure how CAD skills are relevant for a materials scientist, but the ability to put models into production is very relevant to data science.

If you always throw over the wall, you probably don't understand how results that look good in a Jupyter notebook can easily fall apart in the real world.
They tried adding 10 cents to the price of a large soda to make people drink less sugar and couldn’t even make that happen.
Finally someone else says this in public.

Thank you!
Generics had been defined, but it wasn’t uncommon to see compilers crash(!) when using them seriously. It took a while for them to support all of STL.
> great yet unfortunately directed

What a silly thing to say
Exactly what Theil is either rebelling against or resisting is very unclear to me: he has a lot of money and significant personal freedoms.

I suspect he resists paying tax. Apart from that, I think he just resents being disliked and typecast. I have significant sympathy for his anti gawker thing, they deserved it. But nothing else in his political flex feels to me like it is beneficial for wider society.
Shouldn't it be the other way around? Only say that they do those things once you can define them?
Is there a version of this that’s, like, a web page? That you can just scroll through in a couple of minutes, rather than clicking and waiting for a second or two after each tiny slide?
People underestimate how bad databases are at implementing queuing systems. I’ve helped replace such systems multiple times.

But it doesn’t need to require 10x the time or code. That just sounds like overengineering. Database-as-queue vs. 10x ultimate solution is a false dichotomy.
The problem is that the paper conflates legitimate implementation vulns (fixed back in Sept) which indeed allowed for practical attacks… with the “group membership controlled by server” issue, which is debatable. Hence folks writing off the remaining issues as ‘academic at best’.

It really would have been better to separate the legit vulns from the group membership question, as mixing them up just confuses people, as per this whole thread.
You don't need money if everyone has Moneros (which is not money, according to the US gov...)... does KYC still apply if money isn't involved?

I.E.: You got paid in Moneros, etc...
Yes, LM often get into loops that can't be terminated b/c of issues like this. I feel like you have not used them much and are only basing your opinion on what others have done with them. LM can't "think" and it is really obvious that this is the case after you interact with them.

My cat has more personality ...
Isn't this like saying your dog's poetry isn't very good?
Next.js is really bad, IMO and perpetuates more bad practices.

Both Target.com and Walmart.com are Next.js apps.

Both utilize SSR to render the pages (view the markup in the network tab).

Both then STILL send the full data model to the UI (check the `__NEXT_DATA__` on Walmart.com and `__TGT_DATA__` on Target.com) because Next.js doesn't quite offer the right amount of control over what to send back (compare this to Astro.js, which does offer control over which data is needed for the client-side binding).

Next.js handling of images is ugly. It creates tag soup for responsive images instead of using native HTML and CSS capabilities (again, compare it to Astro.js and it's night and day).

Their stunt and exaggerated numbers with Turbopack further contributes to fracturing the front-end community and introduces Yet Another Tool instead of plugging into Vite.
As the old saying goes: "We have a new framework that will make the existing ones obsolete." This makes n+1, not 1.

An agency usually deals with different customers, different settings.

What I achieved by migrating dozens of apps to a Angular only frontend, is a platform. Reusable components, devs that can easily switch projects. This is the one and only framework we use, monoculture.

This is a beast, we could abstract away certain processes and developed a No Code Editor on top of the component platform. This Editor handles alone 100+ apps.

No pain what so ever with migrating from Angular version to version.

Best decision ever, so many benefits, even in abstract logical terms, for example, we could simply compile into any other framework by rebuilding some of the components in another framework.

You won't get these benefits, if you fall for fad after fad. Monocultures help in certain settings.
UP already has legal obligations to this effect, the violation of which has been ignored by the government up until this point.
I would have done more work with Plan9, but the GUI is an acquired taste and I just can't make myself like it enough to work with it. If only Plan9 had been released as an "improved Unix" and retained the primarily tty console / CLI mode. DrawTerm, RIO, etc could have been released as an add-on instead of as an integral part.
The most common thing I print is return labels for Amazon packages.

Also coloring pages for kids.
The amount of land required to supply ample energy to some random region (bar Switzerland) is usually a small fraction of what is dedicated to agriculture / barren land.