skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how much money Xerox poured into UI research in 1970s it's quite amazing that copiers still have terrible user interfaces. They did all this research, all that work and the entire industry just forgot or decided that they didn't care.

To be fair: copiers are weird. They exist in a weird intersection of mechanical machinery and computers. I do feel like much could be fixed with better software, but that's not really interesting once the device have been shipped. E.g. we have an IPv6 only office network. The manufacturer of our copier/printer did claim to support IPv6, but it was ever only tested once, eight years earlier. No regression tests was ever performed. It's a little besides the point, but illustrates the indifference towards the actual software embed in these things.

For me the biggest issue is the lack of understanding of files and folders. Google Doc is used by I'd say most people under 25 today. It sucks, it teaches people to rely on search, and not even Google is good at finding stuff on that level. We use Google Docs at work, and as a result no one is able to find anything, partly because it's tricky to organize things in folders, unless everyone is onboard with that approach.
Maybe in California, but here on the east coast I've never seen anyone but me use them. You absolutely can plug in overnight.
I've honestly never tried demerara. That's an idea. Thanks.
Oh thanks a lot. PTP! I need to try this out. And thanks for the init from fly.io too! And... I think I know now why my vms would get stuck thanks for the tip!
You get sued - so what? The most they can risk is the ability to have a UK based payment processor bail on them - they can still have customers in the UK, but they'd have to pay via a VPN.
I have a great deal of sympathy for anything printer/scanner related. This Oatmeal comic comes to mind [1].

However, I have heard anecdotally that recent university class intakes for CS have been encountering the death of the desktop metaphor as a problem. I'm aware there are more instances of students (who have chosen to do CS) not knowing the first thing about hierarchical file management, folders, etc. It's definitely possible to get through secondary education using only a phone or perhaps a tablet. It's then totally unsurprising when people (other than PC gamers) have very little intuitive understanding of desktop computing.

I don't know how much of a problem this really is, as people are generally fast learners, but it's a weird thought as someone who has used a "desktop" (laptops mostly) computer every day since about age 12.

[1]: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8
This is my situation. I use sway for this reason and it’s just about okay if you’re not on Nvidia.

Screen sharing is the main gripe, it’s a pain to configure, involves a lot of different bits of software which have to be orchestrated and none of them are mature enough not to break occasionally in an unexpected fashion.
Canada bans TikTok on government devices over security risks
I mean... Apple will remove them from AppStore and that will be that. It's not like they have a choice of actually bypassing Apples store control.
Unless you’re pushing the limits of the supported screen size, there typically is some idle time in the TMDS links in an HDMI cable. What I’d wager she’s seeing is the transition from idle time back to transmitting on the links.

There’s some kind of sync mechanism in HDMI, too, but I don’t recall what it is. Or possibly data islanding?
They don't cause insulin spikes to nearly the same degree. Their insulin spikes are much smaller, almost negligible.
I avoided all of the big name companies for the same reason and it worked out well for me thus far. As a rule of thumb I stay away from companies that refer to employees as “workers” or “resources” regardless of their tempting offers. Midsize is perfect. You know, companies where you can establish eye to eye contact with colleagues regardless of title.
Quebec follows Canada in banning TikTok on government devices
> Printers are complicated because they never work, their UI leaves a lot of guess work, you have to have some office lingo training to use them, and who knows if what the menu offers will work.

Why is the 'office space printer scene' such a hit?

. . . We have all had experiences where we worked ourselves to the bone to complete a document/spreadsheet/presentation/program only to experience extreme stress when trying to deliver it because the crummy printer won't do its job. . .

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-office-space-printer-scene-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space
That's not true, at least for VirginMedia. I use Cloudflare DNS servers and I can't access ThePirateBay without a proxy or a VPN, it's more than just a blockage at the DNS level.
What do Kirchhoff, Cayley, and Carroll have in common? And who is Kahrimanian?
Quebec ban : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968699
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34965535
Canada ban : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968694
Off-topic, but one thing I wonder about Vinča is how its reactor incidents could have affected the dating of nearby archeology.
Where do you find them? I have many cracked pyrex lids.
That may be a very far secondary reason. The main reason is macroeconomics. There is uncertainty and there is obvious fat. If people can dilly dally and do those iconic TikTok tours showing how much nothing they do at work… it’s an indication of frothy hiring. A nice to have consultant or FTE or two per team and you end up with a lot of fat over time. They could sustain it or hide it under the rug previously, but not when budgets shrink in anticipation of macroeconomic slowdown.
58% of Americans live in a household with a garage or carport. So already "most" Americans can install easy access to overnight charging.
I donno about the UKs system but with South Korea they just check the host in the request header and block by that.
The yellowcake is a lie!
Ah yes thanks, I tried going down the absolute slimming down of the kernel rabbit hole, but couldn't find a write-up on the actual best practice on this for firecracker and micro/lightweight VMs, I found some things in the embedded/microcontroller side of things, but it still has lots of devices and features. Is there a minimal, canonical conf somewhere for this?
Isn't labeling still an important part of modern AI?
https://archive.is/V6wqf
> The first time he had to copy something in the office didn’t exactly go well. “It kept coming out as a blank page, and took me a couple times to realize that I had to place the paper upside-down in the machine for it to work.”

I had never thought about it until now, but from a UX perspective would a copier be better if you could scan face-up instead of face-down? Regardless, I can imagine the disappointment of not being able to scan a butt.
Refusing to comply and threatening to walk are just two different approaches to protesting this and it's not clear to me which is the most effective.

But I think I trust Signal to know the better approach (whichever they ultimately take - they actually said they'd walk "if the alternative meant undermining our privacy commitments".

I don't think it is practical to just refuse to comply with a government like this - especially if you need to charge money (which Tutanota do) and especially if you're nearby, legally speaking (Are Tutanota in Germany?).

And given that Signal has "walked" from other authoritarian regimes but people in those countries still have ways to use Signal, I'm still betting on Signal.
> With his version you have to add a new `case` to every switch statement and hope you didn't miss one with a default case, because the compiler won't catch it.

The compiler not catching it is a limitation of the language he uses, not the limitation of the general concept of switch / pattern matching. Scala, Haskell, Rust do catch those.

> If you follow the principle "switch statements over [X]", try to add a new shape down the line and see how quickly you run into problems.

And who said you'd ever need to add a new shape? Maybe you will need to add a new operation? Try to add a new operation `calculateWhatever` and see how many places of the code you need to chnage instead of just adding one new function with a switch.

Often you really don't know in which direction the code will evolve. Most often you can't guess the coming change, so don't make the code more complex now in order to make it simpler in the future (which may never come).
Wasn't there a law passed that you need to provide ID before your ISP will serve porn sites? Or was that just a proposal? Either way, the powers that be are thirsting for a Great Firewall, an end to net neutrality, and backdoors to encryption.
Curse:

- An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something.

- Evil or misfortune that comes as if in response to such an appeal.

- A source or cause of evil; a scourge.

And who or what put this "curse" on you?

True story: It - whatever it may be - is all in *your* head. Life is too short to...curse yourself.

Sure, pray the cancel culture cancels aging. But until then, suck it up cupcake and deal with it (and your self imposed "curse").
Finally the Metaverse is taking shape. Those human friends on Facebook can now be replaced with Metafriends
> You get sued - so what?

Would I be right in assuming that you’ve never been on the receiving end of a government-scale lawsuit?
There is a problem in the tech industry where people's pattern matching isn't terribly good. They will have worked for a big company, or have read literature produced by people working for big companies, and concluded that "microservices" (to pick one pattern) are the best practice, because it worked for $BIGCORP, or they expect to be $BIGCORP 2.0 at some point, so why not be ready for that?

But, as you point out, microservices are the result of Conway's Law and shipping your org chart, not necessarily the best way to build software all other things being equal. If your org chart fits comfortably inside a broom closet, then maybe you're not quite ready yet for microservices.
Wikipedia states her blood mercury level at 4 mg/L with 0.2mg/L in the urine (i.e. getting excreted at a decent rate) five months after the alleged incident.

Ignoring exponential decay, in five months at one liter a day she would have shed 30mg (so actual numbers were way higher).

Is it a typo/error or does this actually mean she was killed by way more mercury than a few drops through the glove?
It’s cost cutting, but the fact that others are doing it does provide PR cover.

A variety of factors, including higher interest rates, create an environment where the tolerance for a lack of profit or productivity from certain operations becomes much more limited. In some cases that impacts entire companies, where stuff like “we’re pre-revenue” is now coming under far more scrutiny. In other cases company are taking a harder look at unprofitable divisions or teams without a hard link to the bottom line and trimming some previous excesses.
> A quick search for "IR cut security camera" on Amazon returns hundreds of results. Some cost as little as $20 [1], so not uncommon at all from what I can tell.

https://www.amazon.com/Tonton-Outdoor-Infrared-Suitable-Secu...

That's the very opposite. That's a camera that uses IR illumination to record at night. That's what all those LEDs around the lens are for. And due to this it lacks any IR filtering. This particular camera is more IR sensitive than most cameras like DSLRs or cell phones.

> Do you have a source for this? I've never tested it, so I can't say, but I would want to want to see some proof first.

You can test it by pointing a remote at a camera. Normal cameras like cell phones and DSLRs have IR filters. They still can see the blinking LED on an IR remote, because the filter isn't perfect.
Explanation of the Domino's Pizza tracker
At a prior job we pinned to 4.2.3 because after that version an internal change massively impacted high frame rates. With a 1080p mp4 file on disk, and that disc being an ssd, version 4.2.3 delivers 700-800 frames per second, while all the versions after that 4.2.3 release - no other app or library changes - that same file may reach 300 fps. I spent some time trying to find the cause of that 50% cut in efficiency, but never found enough time.

Curious to try this version.
The first time I had to fax something I put it in face down, like in a copier. And sent a blank page.
Their app is a thin wrapper to their mobile site. With Safari push notifications, they don’t need the App Store. I would guess the App Store isn’t a path of discoverability for them anyways. People find them very intentionally on the web.
I think you misunderstand, I was talking about a UK based company. If the Companies House decides to rescind your registration -- you are no longer a company. That is what you risk.

You don't actually need a real address in the UK to open a company there, an address at one of those virtual offices is enough, so you could conceivably avoid the criminal case (if you live in a country that won't extradite you!). What you couldn't avoid is the UK telling you that you are no longer allowed to be a UK registered company, which is obviously within their rights to do.
> Every building is grand. Every character is loyal and helpful. Every character is competent, respected, and wise.

> If you ask very explicitly for flaws you can get some. It’s very hard to get a truly despicable character.

This reminds me of one interesting tidbit in recently canceled Dilbert author Scott Adams's racist rant of a podcast.

Said something along the lines that it's absolutely irrelevant what kind of AI we can craft, nobody will want it. The state and industry wouldn't allow most of what such an AI would say or do. Extrapolating from this: crafting and training the AI is the "easy part", an even more complex task is to restrict the output in the end: make it dumb, simple, tailored and censored to the imagined end user, and profitable for the creator.
Oh? And all the joy and blessings prior? Just brushed aside?

Sounds like a case of one foot already in the perspective grave. Yeah, the years to follow could be punishing.

But alas, there is always hope.
Yeah that's not wrong, I mean in theory GPT can (and probably already does) write these padded-out articles, listicles and recipes for content farms, but it's probably indistinguishable from the hordes of low-cost paid-per-word content writers hired through Fiver and the likes.

I feel bad for being dismissive of their work, but... a lot of it is just low quality and predictable filler.
>since YUV420 really messes up red text in screen captures for example

Is there an detailed explanation why red is especially bad after chroma subsampling? Have been wondering about this for awhile.

I assume it's because red has low brightness/luminance (no idea if correct or not)?
> I'm a Stanford professor who's studied organizational behavior for decades

Insane how people locked up in institutions that resemble absolutely nothing like a workplace feel they can even comment on a workplace.

Hubris of academics is insane, living in a dreamworld.
Once hipsters discover something it’s all downhill.
Thing is bravado is dangerous unless you are in bed with the security apparatus. A nation state has millions of ways of making your life miserable. Are you 100% GDPR compliant for all pedantic interpretations? Even if you are, how much would an extensive audit and investigation cost you. Unless you are a 100 billion dollar multinational, you don’t really have the means to survive if they decide to target you, even if you are completely innocent.
I never cease to be amazed at how many people aren't aware that there are difficult children to raise. They seem to think that how you feel about life is determined entirely by how well you Jedi mind trick your attitude into always being positive.

Life is hard for some people! Sorry you have to hear about it in public, but if it's that annoying for you to just hear it, imagine living it!
Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again?
It’s an email service, the app isn’t really needed.
> 4. Wages don't go down. Not that they cannot, they just don't

One thing to consider is how companies lower wages by reclassifying the work. Converting staff jobs into “independent” contractors saves the company a lot of money in benefits even if the hourly rates appear to be stable or even increase slightly.
So like phrenology; but with a machine to take the blame for misdiagnoses.
I think I can put this duality in developer terms.

Technical debt.

When you're growing fast, you accrue technical debt because you prioritize milestones over quality. The same goes for the hiring process. You might need a big push for some deliverable so you hire more people. After that, you're stuck with the people and whatever structural growth your company went through.

Then on the software side, the project gets bloated and grids to a halt so some asshole proposes a refactor in rust. This is largely useless and will further complicate things. Same can happen for layoffs in bloated company. You wanted to streamline but you ended up disrupting the processes you had and losing talent, which leads you to bad performance and rehiring.
Proteins were made so words could happen
The apps that Gen Z is so stereotypically comfy with are created by programming teams that live or die by user friendliness.

Vs. where does "user friendly" appear to be in the priorities of the printer, scanner, etc. manufacturers?
There's a ton of BS out there on artificial sweeteners, so much so they are some of the most studied food supplements on the planet... but it doesn't stop the BS from spreading
I’ve read some related things, which said its the hdmi cable that radiates, but I understand any component might be.

Two questions:
- How many meters do we need to expect our lcd/ips monitors to radiate?
- Do we know about any monitor/cables that prevent the worst radiation and what to buy?

p.s. There are also papers that describe how to pickup keyboard strokes using the same method.
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To me it says their security is not up to par, and that employees were allowed to take secrets home. Which is fine to a point, but it has to be a company managed, remote-wipable and locked down system if it's people that hold the literal keys to the secure castle.

Same with the Canadian ban on Tik Tok, why are they even allowed to have phones where they can install any software on?

BYOD and personalization is fine to a point, but only if you don't have high level access.
Correction to (V) above: We should not treat them as irredeemable.
It's more about 'feeling' native than actually being native. I managed to reinstall VimFX and it doesn't quite scroll like the arrow keys, either. But its scrolling speed still feels more natural than either Vimium or Tridactyl, although it's a bit slow.

Tridactyl's huge jumps are annoying to me, as is Vimium's excess smoothness. In Vim, I hit j once to scroll one line, same as <down>.
But it's really not. About 85% of the entire public IPv4 range is currently announced.

Transfering IPv4 prefixes comes with a 2 year transfer restriction period.

IPv4 addresses currently cost about $50, and you have to buy an entire subnet at once, minimum /24.

It makes perfect sense to start charging for them if you're running out of them and don't want to buy additional prefixes.

Not to mention that there's also additional cost involved in case someone was using that particular address (or even worse multiple addresses from the same /24) for spam or malicious purposes, because that means that the entire prefix is currently trashed and there's some effort involved for it to be removed from all the independently maintained blacklists etc.
That article itself seems to throw doubt on whether that was really a "dogfight":

>EurAsian Times reached out to Aviation Analyst Prashant Prabhakar, who sounded a more skeptical note.

>According to Prabhakar, “Dogfights – a term used to describe close-quarter aerial combat between fighter jets has been a major component of aerial wars at least until the early 90s. Modern terminology for the same is air combat maneuvering (ACM).

>As significant as they are, such maneuvers are hardly routine in modern air combat, much less seen by civilians on the ground.

>From what is reported, a Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 Flanker fighter is said to be deploying infrared flares to spoof an infrared-guided air-to-air missile, or AAM, fired by a Russian fighter jet, which again isn’t clearly shown in the video.

>As fascinating as it looks, I’d still be more interested in a more, perhaps clear video of the said “dogfight” for a better conclusion. Dogfights in the 21st century? Sounds too good to be true? Perhaps it is. or maybe not”.
I looked at it and it mandated login with a big cloud provider like Google, which almost completely defeats the purpose by giving them access.
Its about time some engineers step up and build a modern, functional and repairable printer. I dont care that its not financially feasible. Just make it feasible. How are people still buying printers from companies that spend all their ink cartridge money on marketing and more obsolescence?
The problem with that is that there aren’t widespread indicators we are in or going to recession. The opposite is actually true, all the indicators for recession happened prior to the layoffs. At worst the current economic stats are mixed.

Similarly, consumer spending has remained incredibly high, and non-tech firms are ramping up still from the covid downturn.

It’s just as likely that tech companies just did a bad job forecasting future growth than they are preparing for a broad based downturn.
Do any of you know if this has Dolby AC-4 support? Ticket 8349 [1] has been open for years to add this, but it's not there yet. This would be very nice so we can watch ATSC 3.0 OTA broadcasts via FFmpeg-based things like Plex.

(Currently if one uses something like a SiliconDust HDHomeRun, viewing an ATSC 3.0 stream requires using their app/player, which uses a SiliconDust cloud service to do the decoding. It'd be really nice to have a not-network-dependent way to view/hear OTA broadcasts.)

[1] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8349