skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait. Your printer has online DRM?! Does it work without an internet connection?

That's much worse than the situation in the article, which is just region locked cartridges.
So Germany, a country that is well behind other European countries on renewables, had an over-dependence on Russian gas and was forced to reopen some coal plants when the price spiked. And you came to the conclusion that this was somehow a fault with renewables?

How does that make sense to you?
If you chronically can’t meet demand for your critical patented technology, should you be forced to license on terms that allow demand to be met?
The same story could have been written about Oslo - my home - and the other major cities in Norway (Bergen, Stavanger, even Kristiansand).

It's not so bad in the country side, but there are very few jobs there. I have some friends (a couple with 1 kid) who moved to distant suburbs of Oslo for more affordable housing. But the long commutes destroyed their quality of life and put a strain on their marriage. They are now moving back to a tiny, very expensive rental in Oslo. Its a definitive step down from when they left.

We have outgrown our apartment -- the kids are getting bigger. So, we really need a 4 bedroom place (ideally 5 so we could have an office, but we'd settle for 4 and a desk in the living room). There are no apartments - which would be a lot more affordable than a house - that large here. The max bedroom count in apartments here that I have ever seen is 3, which we already have.

So we are planning to buy a 2-unit house ("tomannsbolig") with another couple with kids. It's the only way we can afford something with enough bedrooms, without a large inheritance or something like that. None of us have anything like that coming. We have 4 "good," stable jobs (programmers, researchers etc). Even with other couple in the mix, it feels impossible to find something in the same school district. We've been looking for over a year.

So, we are thinking about looking for a third friend or couple, since there are a few houses that have 3 units. It's just tricky to find someone you feel comfortable enough with to ask that. But we hope that 5-6 incomes will be enough in this market.

*Before anyone tells me my kids can keep sharing bedrooms, try telling that to them! The increasing need for privacy and lack of space is becoming a real problem here.
Interesting notation / digit grouping as well:

> It is written as 1,00,00,000 with the local 2,2,3 style of digit group separators (one lakh is equal to one hundred thousand, and is written as 1,00,000).[1]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system#Use_of...

> In the Indian system, the next powers of ten are called one lakh, ten lakh, one crore, ten crore, one arab (or one hundred crore), and so on; there are new words for every second power of ten (10^(5 + 2n)): lakh (10^5), crore (10^7), arab (10^9), kharab (10^11), etc. In the Western system, the next powers of ten are called one hundred thousand, one million, ten million, one hundred million, one billion (short scale)/one thousand million (long scale), and so on; in the short scale, there are new words for every third power of ten (10^3n): million (10^6), billion (10^9), trillion (10^12), etc.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system
I went with a brother black&white laser printer a couple years ago, and never had any issue while using aftermarket toners etc. Also, the setup under Linux using CUPS was pretty straightforward.
Generally the good jobs don't have "sprints".
I disagree with it not being easy to understand, on the contrary it makes perfect sense to me. We have the vast earth we live on as humanity and all the land was here long before us and will be here long after we are gone. Now we divide some of this land up and give people exclusive rights to it. How is it not absolutely intuitive to pay everyone else, who is not allowed to use this land, a fee, rent or tax or however you might want to call it, as compensation? In turn, if you use less land to reach the same goal, i.e. you make better, more efficient use, you pay less, just like with any other resource.

The more common "rebuttal" I hear is "well the land lords will just slap it onto the rent, so no use", to which I ask "then why don't they ask for more rent already if the rentors would be willing to pay?"

Then again, people I talk with are against a wealth tax as well, claiming that property would be impossible to account for and value, meanwhile France and Switzerland, two neighbours, have no issues in that regard. At the same time, both Germany and Austria had a wealth tax until very recently.
I'm still waiting for proper support in networking infrastructure (like Direct Server Return), firewalls, and load balancers.
The agricultural lobby puts this out a lot, but it’s not true. The pig farmers and the dairy farmers that are causing the most problems require vast imports of fodder grown elsewhere. The efficiency of a lot of greenhouse agriculture is questionable as well (which was made obvious when a not insignificant chunk of its production was wound down when supplies of cheap Russian gas dried up.
Thanks -- I really appreciate a detailed answer like that. :-)

I am no fan of Wayland either, but nobody seems willing to step up and bring us X11R8 or X12, sadly. I think the Linux world needs it.

Most of the world is little-endian now, rightly or not. x86-64, POWERLE, Arm64, they can all handle it.

So if the choice becomes "X dies" or "we have to brutally cut a lot of stuff to keep this alive", let's prune hard. No client font server support any more, only 24-bit colour or higher, no byte-swapped clients, etc. Gods, maybe even IPv6 only. :-)

> its all cheeky on my laptop

What does that mean? I don't recognise the word in that context. (To me "cheeky" means "slightly rude, mildly hostile and uncooperative".)

Netplan... ahaa!

Some of the people on the Ubuntu Users mailing list kept complaining about this. I told them not to fight it: let everything DHCP, get your router resolving names however it wants. They wouldn't have it. They wanted old-school fixed IPs and DNS.

I let networking do its thing and don't fight it. I find it makes life much easier.
London is basically one big urban circle. Everything in London is directed towards the centre of the city. Zone 1-6 is roughly a measure your distance from the centre of London, which is also the centre of economic activity with many international HQs, banks, insurance markets, government departments, and startup offices based there. Its also where all of the major entertainment and tourist locations are.

Zone 1 is typically very expensive. Typically, with some variation, it gets less expensive as you go to outer zones. Zone 5/6 is getting to the outer reaches of the city, and historically was much more affordable at the cost of >60 minute commutes into zone 1 and higher fare costs.

You also need to keep in mind that the marginal tax rate can be very high. This is esp true for UK university graduates that typically are repaying what is technically a "student loan", but even the government's statisticians call a tax because almost nobody will pay it off in their lifetime given the repayment terms. Many graduates have marginal tax rates in excess of 50% on incomes above roughly 40k.
It did not work in the history of isolated submissive societies, it will not work in the period of highly interacting and highly conscious global societies.

For their sake I hope the title of one Aerosmith song will not become reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK__9UIN5gk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
Big questions. How? Where do I find the second gigs? You should start a blog.
No. This is external combusion of cryogenic fuels at low pressures. There is no crossover beyond the fact that both involve rapid oxidation.
El Salvador Eliminates All Taxes on Technology Innovations
Our old friend Singleton looks up from the bench, hope in their eyes.
We're talking about BASIC here. A beginners' training language. And it's 2023.

Who ever needs to refactor BASIC!?
Keep in mind those are people who purposefully moved to Australia. I know plenty of Aussies here in London who left Australia, usually due to poor job opportunities or culture.
You should set up 1-1 with everyone on your team with a regular cadence. Even if you are fully remote, face time is important, but make it short. 20-25 minutes to go over your materials, give people 5 minutes back so they can prep for their next meeting.

Here are some of the things you can to do:

1. Show improvement each time, whether that's your understanding of the systems, team culture, expectations or needs. This shows your team that you are learning.

2. Produce notes, documents or graphs, this tend to validate your standing amongst the team especially the team lack comprehension documentation. For example, I produce a lot of Miro/whiteboards on system interaction as well as business flow. Every team I've worked with love those graphs and notes. I still get questions from teams that I've moved on for years.
Yes - I agree I was just trying to find my way towards

"the human economy is a whole, even within countries seeing government as a cost to be minimised, taxes to be avoided and private investment as somehow privileged"

is a poor analysis.

I mean such a huge amount of private spending is trying to alter "predominant cultural norms" - advertising etc. yet breakout successful companies tend to break at just the right time that their PMFit barely needs advertising.

Less dinosaurs trying to look cool and more evolved companies would help - and it would help in that we have constant turn over of companies would mean we were measuring actual productivity better - very useful in MMT terms.

Somehow I am feeling towards our tournament style approach of allocating the power to allocate resources is false. We have young democracies, but work in dictatorships - and invest in similar ways.

I think basically we need to find better ways of "doing democracy". imagine voting on internal projects? it will hurt but if we think democracy works then open discussion and decision making actually will result in stronger companies - or just a return of capital !
This was the promise originally but it turned out to be impossible. As it turns out, data center waste water is nowhere near warm enough to use for heating.
Siri's Wife response
What I mean by that is using a deduction, not a credit. You aren’t paying people to have kids but rather incentivizing people that are financially independent by lowering their current tax burden while they have kids <18. Their surplus of kids will more than make up the tax revenue down the road.

For poor people you continue to focus on helping with basics (food and shelter), family planning measures, and up-skilling towards becoming independent. Since a deduction probably isn’t helpful in these cases, a tax credit would continue to exist.
this comment should be higher.

atomic move semantics are the single thing that makes writing basic filesystem interactions plausibly deterministic. anything else is just pretending that errors never happen.
Why don't you declare yours?
Sounds like you need to purchase the laserjet 1020 maintenance kit. It has these replacement pickup rollers that are supposed to be replaced after x number of years/x number of prints.
Any recommendations on travel routers that support VPNs, specifically either wireguard or openvpn?
I add some:

It's behind you, the making of a computer game
(https://bizzley.42web.io/?i=1)

Rebel Code
(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/289947.Rebel_Code)

Just for Fun
(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160171.Just_for_Fun?from...)

The Computer - My Life
(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/594610.The_Computer_My_L...)

Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18699137-cataloging-the-...)
"The Boss of it All" takes place in some kind of IT software firm. I'm pretty sure "automavision" is inspired by the kind of online meeting camera which tries (and often fails) to focus on the person talking.

While most of the satire in the movie is unrelated to IT, there are some in-jokes. In one scene, a developer is getting suspicious towards the boss of it all (who is really a hired actor with no understanding of the business) and asks "do you even know what agile development means?" The actor who is trained in improvisational theater cleverly retorts "Well, can you explain what agile development is?", which shuts up the developer.
The Netherlands are the second largest exporter of agricultural products in the world. They can severely reduce farming without endangering domestic food supplies.

Of course these products that are consumed would have to be produced somewhere else, but since the pollution (nitrogen) is a local problem, this would still be a net win, and not just moving the problem around.
OK. It definitely looks like you are someone who won't be reasoned with on this.

APT as a set of tools is ancient. `apt` as a command isn't. It is handy, it's simpler and easier, it eliminates the nonsensical split between apt-get and apt-cache and aptitude and so on... and you can tell, because Debian adopted it.

I like it. I use it all the time. The upstream project adopted it, but to you, that's bad, because it falsifies your angry claim.

Yeah, no. End of thread.
Sometimes the slowness is due to using a distributed cloud architecture in the first place.
How would you expect global number portability to work when each country more or less has their own country code and unique numbering plan?

A US to Canada or vice versa move would work since they’re on the same system, but a UK number, for instance, doesn’t even have the same digits of numbers necessarily, and even if they’re both 10, they’re completely different formats.
It was a combination of factors such as very specific problems being solved in an industry I was clueless about, a tech stack I had never worked with, etc. In that kind of situation I would rather take an IC role initially and step up later on.
Fun times when you have to use "probably" there to be accurate.
> You say Indians are inefficient and not intelligent enough to have their own problems solved.

No, I never said that. I didn't even imply it. You just decided to 'hear' that and then strike back.

It's so incredibly ironic that you are accusing me of having a closed mind in this thread.
> Replacing over a billion ICE cars seems with EV’s is going to be so much more work, for example.

Instead we could replace ICE cars with no cars and get much more bang for our buck. A few changes to how we build so that you can walk/bike within 15 minutes for many daily needs would reduce energy consumption, save families money, still allow for a car, and everyone would be much happier and healthier.

Cars for all transit is a bad solution regardless of ICE or EV.
Thank you! It's ridiculous to accuse anyone who does so of being racist or ignorant IMO.
Because this isnt a private company. This person first needs the skills to integrate and exist within a government structure. Management of public employees within a government is very different than at will employees within a private organization. Working under politically appointed or elected adminstrators is also very different than working for a CEO.
"More revenue solves all known problems" -- Eric Schmidt

"The only thing that matters is product-market fit" -- Marc Andreesen

Being in a good market with the first product that can satisfy that market solves all sorts of management sins. Look at Twitter, Zenefits, Uber, WeWork, Zynga, Digg, etc. Or for that matter - how do you think Boeing, Lockheed, and NASA started looking like jokers?

Dominance in a market is usually an anti-signal for management quality, because it means you can get away with stuff that you couldn't in more competitive markets.
Why did you think its Germany alone ? It's Austria, France and the Netherlands as well. France and Austria both re-opened coal power plants. Even the Netherlands removed their cap on coal power.

How does that make sense to you ?
I didn't know he also made calibre. That's awesome.
Either I don't understand what AGI is or openai doesn't understand what AGI is. Because of the way gpt 3,4,5 or even 1000 works it can't be possible for AGI to be achieved. How could we say that we've got AGI when the "intelligence" is a synthesis of existing knowledge, without even ever understanding what it means?

If real AGI is to be achieved it can only be through a completely different paradigm (don't ask me which) definitely not through machine learning.

My opinion is that this whole machine learning thing will make achieving AGI even more difficult since most resources have switched their focus on that instead of trying to achieve real artificial intelligence (if that's even possible anyway).
At Proxmox we use HTTP/2 (h2) in our backup project to asynchronously stream chunked data to the server, works great for that and wouldn't be really possible with HTTP 1.1; at least not with major headache and extra overhead.

We also plan to closer evaluate HTTP/3 (h3) soon, mainly to see how the promised improvements, like no head of line blocking, turn out in practice for our use case.

So I'd disagree that h2 or h3 is useless "unless you're a web browser"; but sure if you use HTTP only to provide a simple text (e.g., JSON) based API it might not be _that_ relevant.
But some benefits like faster TLS setup might even make a difference there, e.g., faster initial startup, fewer packets transmitted, IIRC even packet sniffing should be a bit harder to do with h3.
If those benefits are worth it on its own, depends then probably on how easy it's to integrate in your project, iow., if your framework/standard lib/ecosystem/... already supports h3 nicely.
We use the rust hyper crate for most of our HTTP* communication, and their h3 implementation is still marked as experimental; and as we're not in a rush we'll just wait until the hyper project stabilizes h3.
>The private sector's interest aligns with the market, at least on the average, as long as they are not allowed to illegally obtain a monopoly

This is the basic capitalist lie - Do you think Norfolk Southern's interests align with the "market" of Palestine? On what planet do Amazon drivers have the same incentive alignment a Amazon shareholders? No, the argument is "tough shit" go find some place that does, it's a "free market" just move your entire life any abandon community to follow around making money for a private dictator.

Unfortunately the entire profit or bust ethos isn't constrained to one company - any company that has profit as it's primary driver, aka any public company or VC backed company, MUST pursue profits over all things OR THEY WILL BE KILLED BY THEIR OWN INVESTORS. Further, now it's every individual that is required to pursue profit at all costs or - go broke and die - without healthcare because the "market" of healthcare isn't aligned with you the customer.

This lie is so pervasive that the entire field of Economics ASSUMES capitalism as the only possible economic system today (Economics was my field of study!) and anything other than it is "heterodox."

So no, you're simply describing the devastatingly broken system as though it's the only suitable option

In fact, all of the economists that wrote originally about the "market" described precisely how it would be corrupted into what it is today

Go read Veblen from 1899: Theory of the Leisure class then read chapter three of the wealth of nations and then come talk with me
> But then one could also argue that we are having to dumb ourselves down to hold a conversation with an AI that is nothing more than an inquisitive child.

If you can’t explain it to a LLM, quite possibly you don’t actually understand it.

If you feel it is dumbing yourself down to explain something to a child, especially an inquisitive one, perhaps you aren’t all that inquisitive or mature yourself.
Space archaeologists are charting humanity’s furthest frontier
Correct. Legislation to disincentive rooftop solar works until battery economics improve sufficiently, at which point the install velocity accelerates because you can sidestep unfavorable net metering or time of day pricing. You’ll then consume your own solar during production, consume it from batteries when not producing, and relying on the grid for shortfall. The next fight will be the legal ability to disconnect from the grid and be self sufficient when they attempt to make connection charges onerous and mandatory.

Tangentially, at scale, this is referred to as a utility death spiral.

https://eepower.com/news/71-of-u-s-utilities-see-the-utility...
It's because I have to express concepts in a certain way, and it doesn't usually flow very naturally. It usually sounds really serious or insensitive. When writing articles, my perceived tone is just really boring, because of the way I have to explain things. My words come out weird and the "sorry, I'm a native speaker" is real.
Chicha: The Banned Drink of Colombia
This is super amazing stuff and I am still in awe.
Corporations with regulatory capture
Was this created before or after Konqueror, the KDE web browser (which coincidentally is the source for the WebKit/Chromium browsers)?
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
Along these lines. I collect Autonetics artifacts which contain a large number of first principal equations for inertial guidance.

Here is a link to some RECOMP-III which is a repurposed ICBM guidance computer being used as a general interactive computer.

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_autoneticstingMan1963_...

I need to get my act together and get this collection on-line but here is a link that has images pre-microprocessor computers. There are 3 images of books one has some a picture of a "Typical Midcourse Navigation-Guidance Profile"

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0YGI9HKKGuamw1
This poses a bit if an interesting quandary for society.

Which society paid for Musk to be educated? He grew up in South Africa. How much tax does he pay there relative to where he built his stuff? Where should he pay his taxes?

What about other people who grow up elsewhere and move? Is it ok to hire a load of doctors from other countries?
Full hotels, busy ski resorts: Why Ukraine’s tourism sector is having a busy war
My brother dcp-1512 laser printer/scanner is a tank and was cheaper than buying the ink for the hp inkjet it replaced. Toner costs $15 and I’ve only gone through two cartridges during the printers lifetime (6 years and counting). It works well with Linux although it has no wireless - I hooked it up to an old laptop to share the printer.
> Why is this any different for a trans person?

The main difference is that the person calling you female likely doesn't have an honest belief that you are female, they're just trying to be a dick.
> Having to balance domestic recruitment PR to be politically correct while also wanting to reach tough young men and entice them is an impossible task.

Can you explain what you mean by this? I feel like you're referring to something obliquely but I don't have the context.
Actually, was a manger in the private sector (legal) and am now in the public sector (military). I have seen both sides and have seen managers succeed and fail in both transitions.
Breakingviews: Google giggles at China tech’s shrinking act
https://archive.is/RhAyM
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