skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar (or the same) HL model. It lasted 10-12 years, not sure exactly what the failure mode was, but I think I paid $75 for it. Definitely paid more for drums and toner over the years and I never even bought 1st party drums and toner!

I replaced it a few years ago with a more recent HL model that is almost identical, but has wifi. Really happy with the quality and reliability of both printers so far.
For everybody that is hit by nostalgica and found themselves in a depressed state about the lost feature: https://github.com/vanillawc/wc-blink /s
Did you mean to say blackrock? Is this one still a conspiracy theory?

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/28/zelenskyy-blackrock-ceo-fink...
I think it's the LLM (GPT2) link that makes this interesting to most since it allows relatively high data rate hidden/deniable communication through text interfaces.
What’s the Result Type Everyone Is Using in .NET?
In my experience this tends to be an annoyance when you want to upsert against a table that has multiple unique constraints.

For example, let's say you're tracking GitHub repositories and have a table `repository(id, gh_id, gh_node_id, owner, name, description)` where `gh_id` and `gh_node_id` are both unique.

If you want to insert or update a repository you might want to do something like below, however, this is not a valid syntax and as you need to define a separate `DO UPDATE` for `gh_id` and `gh_node_id`:

INSERT INTO repository (gh_id, gh_node_id, owner, name, description)
VALUES (:id, :node_id, :owner, :name, :description)
ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE
SET name = excluded.name,
description = excluded.description;

------

To my knowledge there's no way to define a single constraint `UNIQUE(gh_id || gh_node_id)` instead of `UNIQUE(gh_id && gh_node_id)`.
Notice what? To block EU users because it's too risky? Lol
Remember S1m0ne? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/
This has been posted to Hacker News before. The terms are clear. Pay X per month for Y prints (and I provide the paper). When I have a problem, I like not having to buy expensive ink carts and hoping it fixes my printer. All that is on HP. I just provide the paper. I’m using a $60 printer and am totally happy with it. I also have a Brother B&W laser, which is great when color is mot needed.
You don't join a startup with the expectation that your base salary is going to explode from the related growth; that's the equity lottery. Your startup salary might go from somewhat below to market, that's not waht's happening here.
That's reasonable but it's a different notion of what a safe change is than I remember from using protobufs. I believe they just say adding or removing a required field isn't backward compatible.

The word "safe" seems worth clarifying. There are some changes that are always safe, like reordering fields, because they are also transitively safe.

Removing an optional field is safe as long as you remember not to reuse the index. Sometimes the next unused index is informally remembered using a counter in a comment.

Other changes, like converting asymmetric to required, seem like they're in a different category where it can be done safely but requires more caution. It's more like a database migration where you control all the code that accesses the database. There is a closed-world assumption.
As they shouldn't. It sucks for the parents. But a precedence needs to be set.
It's funny, isn't it? Coaxial is so finicky. They have to adjust the signal levels year-round because temperatures affect attenuation.

Then they keep coming up with new DOCSIS protocols to stay relevant and somehow manage. The latest can do full-duplex 10gb. I'm still gonna switch to local FTTP at the drop of a hat if it becomes available.
This is great in theory until the developers make it impossible e.g. Microsoft has a convenient bug (for at least the past 4 years) where Minecraft purchases are authenticated against your child's account PIN, not the adults account PIN that holds the card details. (I use a virtual credit card to protect against overcharges so this is annoying but I suspect many parents without this setup have been burned).
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. This is a specialized case for improving performance. 99% of applications you use every day will not benefit from io_uring in any measurable way.
> Move to Canada, Germany, Australia or wherever.

Your solution on how to cover a topic in a neutral fashion when there are more than 2 political parties is to move to a country where there are more than 2 political parties?

That doesn't seem like a productive comment.
Btw: Reminder that HN voting system is not reddit's agree style upvote. It's instead to function on the quality of argument and evidences presented.

Would love to hear a rebuttal to both the Professor's and Editorial content that demonstrates that Russia isn't the only one who should be demonized here.
Did they double blind all 4 combinations? K+A, K, A, and control?

IIRC, K is primarily useful for TRD when nothing else works.
Pretending the US has more than two political parties is a weird hobby. There are only two that matter, and it can't be any other way with the current federal election system. It's a problem worth fixing but Wikipedia is not relevant to any solutions.
Just giving it a glance, I hope that if someone might be interested in Common Lisp, they should take a look at this source base and how it isn't really that scary, or different, from most any other code base.

It's quite readable, doesn't go off in the weeds with all those fears that CAN be done in CL. Just a few macros, which seem straightforward. Some CLOS classes.

But, really, it's just code.

Take a look at it.
I know it is the standard nomenclature, but I object to it being called string theory, as it is at best a hypothesis, if not even just philosophical speculation with more math.

It can make no predictions, it is not falsifiable, it meets none of the constraints that allow something to be science.
Ughh, people do that? I hate to victim-blame here, but come on people. This really is an own-goal.
Using the Jitsi website has worked well enough for me for years, and the calls are P2P as far as I'm aware. What's the advantage of hosting your own? Just preventing jitsi.org from seeing call metadata?
I think real estate was also a large part of the financial model of the the "railroad barons" of the late 1800s in the US.
Solid strategy, a variant worked for Zapp Brannigan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF3g4Ua5e7k
Feature suggestion: a countdown so you know how many more times you and someone can reply to each other before you hit the limit and have to start repeatedly editing your last comment to carry on the conversation.
I think it’s pretty clear now why they wanted to join NATO, the same reason Finland, Estonia, Lithuania etc wanted to join, Russia hasn’t given up on restoring the Russian Empire.
Being apes, I guess.
Wait til you hear about the software industry.
Fake Bloomberg Twitter account with Blue checkmark caused market dip
Couldn't you highlight each block being referred to as you mouse over / click on relevant text? (The latter might not be terribly hard to do with <a> and CSS :target, if you can give the blocks ids.)
> let num : u8 = 5; <-- auto converts to u8;

Can we please knock it off with reinventing different ways to declare a variable? This also irritates me about Rust. There’s nothing wrong with having syntax that looks like languages that have existed before. How about

[modifiers] [type] [variable name] = [initial value];

What I want in a programming language is not arbitrary new grammars, I want drop-in improvements to languages that already exist. C++ but with better dependency management. Python but statically typed (Mojo where you at?). PHP but standardize all the weirdness.

(Some or all of these rants could be out of date as my knowledge cutoff for languages ends at various times in the last 15 years.)
If you’re required to have it on you at all times outside of your own property then it is effectively no different to an arm tattoo.
Makes a lot of sense to me.

So the Ukrainians took heavy losses. For the Russians it was much worse. The Ukrainians has managed to build up an enormous defense around the city and the Russian offense has been effectively halted, and for what? So they can rule the ruins of Bakhmut, for a little while?

The Ukrainians will push back now. My bet is they will encircle what's left of Bakhmut, forcing the Russians to surrender the city(or whats left of it).
Dithering is very, very freaking cool.

You can do it with any discretely-binned parameter/value/thingie-ma-bobber that must represent a continuous value.

This includes machine learning parameters!

This is something that I've been trying to get the word out about. A rule of thumb that's worked really well for me is "Almost never use a fully discrete approximation of a continuous process if you can get as close to the continuous process as possible."

One very pertinent case is in virtually-continuous batchsizes. You can trivially dither back and forth between the nearest rounded X microbatch (or full minibatch) size using a simple Bernoulli (i.e. a 0-1 weighted coinflip) distribution when doing batchsize growing, which oftentimes happens during LLM training. This averages out temporally (which you'd see if you took, for example, the running exponentially-averaged mean of the value, for example) if you run it for a really long time and seems to be strongly superior to just staying hard-locked at the nearest quantized bin (which sorta makes sense to me).

If you look at it from an information-theoretic perspective, you're communicating more information via discretely-emitted tokens with the dithering process about the underlying continuous variables and thus trivially we can deduce that it must have a higher inherent performance ceiling to it.

I use this in one of the projects that I've worked on that's out in the public, but I really need to tighten it up as dynamic batchsize growing is still a new subdiscipline that is still very much in its infancy and strongly looked-over IMO by a number of folx. Take a look into this method please if you're interested and ping me if you ever have any questions, please!

Happy to answer any questions and to talk more in detail about this topic, this is an interesting topic to me and hoping to get more people to use dithering in more places (not just in Machine Learning, I feel/hope/etc!!!)! Just sort of reminded me of this.

I'm also very interested in the implications of structured dithering for discrete approximations of what is inherently a continuous parameter in an ML setting, as the implications are autoregressive, and I have this fear that randomness is really perhaps the only clean way to avoid some sort of stacking "echo effects" where (high dimensional I'd assume in this particular case) oscillations happen in a very unintentional kind of way (which happens surprisingly often when noise or truly random sampling is not used appropriately....).

In any case, curious to hear people's thoughts, this is an interesting topic to me.
It wasn’t particularly clever. Russian command was just particularly dumb.

The last Ukrainian counter offensive reclaimed vast swaths of lands. It’s not unreasonable to think they could get in range of shelling Crimea.
Very happy user of this app for a long time now. I have zero issues paying for it.
The snake game like in the old days written in Rust:D
What if black holes are a very thin shell and all the matter is just on the surface, orbiting so fast around a center that it cannot escape
If you are on 7.x stable, on May 19th they released a new point version 7.9.1 to fix this.
No, that would be a different story:) ended up not using dozens of plugins and libs stuff after a look at their dependencies and code though
"Silent Spring" is also a key theme in The Three-Body Problem. There's a Netflix adaptation coming later this year, but if you search around, there's a recent Chinese version (subtitles are available) that follows the book very closely: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20242042/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_...
My father was a plumber. A true trades/craftsman. Big new construction projects were deskilled with "installers" who were mostly under the table immigrants. The warranty claims on $800K became a cottage industry. Custom homes, commercial, and repairs still require skill and experience as far as I can tell.
Until one gets caught. Teaching at SNU in Korea -- my students among the brightest minds of their generation -- I was shocked to catch a rank plagiarist, who copied most of an essay out of a book s/he believed beyond easy checking. Suffice it to say that student will doubtless always regret being too lacking in academic integrity to complete a project fairly. Cheating is the hallmark of an inferior intellect.
It's even worse than that -- you'll get both opinions on the same fine. Can't please everybody.
This reminds me a bad experience.

I worked very hard day in and day out for a startup and then quit bcz of bad management and got no severance (not blaming anybody). At the same time not good engineers got fired, they all got severance packages.

It's a good life lesson though
Also there aren't many tech non profits - i imagine skillset is a little more specialized than your average non-profit.
Dynamic Tracing on OpenBSD 7.3
Not sure I still have the stage play to be honest, it was done in the late 90s, I'd have to really dig back into my old backups.

The whole idea was to use multimedia, video projection, computer animation and live video mixed up with live performance to really mess with the audience's sense of what was real or not.

We managed to pull it off quite nicely with Flow My Tears though. A nice bit was cutting from a live feed of an actress apparently cutting her arm, to a pre recorded close up of the arm being cut and lots of blood. Audience always thought they were seeing what was happening on stage at that point :)
>Why's it treated as being a "per page" subscription?

Because that's the business model. Consumers care about the ability to print pages. They don't actually care about ink. As a consumer it's easy to see a subscription plan of 10 pages a month rather than 0.01 gallons of ink a month. The people that are disadvantaged are people who buy more pages than they use. This is offset by having unused prints rollover into the next month, but if you never print them then you have wasted that money.
My advice:

1/ Find a company with EMs are also expected code. These companies have more EM's, smaller teams, and thus more opportunities for the EM title and less "competition".

2/ Find a company with high churn due to worklife balance and grind it for at least 2 years, but preferably 4.
Ethical, societal implications of genome-wide behavioral, brain-related traits
As a user, I've found utility in apps that offer all features and customizations for free, but reset your preferences every time you start the app. It's like a demo except it never stops working and you can see the maximum amount of value the app can provide you.
> We seem to be moving towards a future where not having a smartphone is just as unthinkable as not having a bank account or electricity.

When my current smartphone dies, I won't be replacing it with another smartphone. It will be interesting to see how much of an impact that will have on my ability to function in society.

My guess is that it won't be much of an impact beyond a decrease in convenience. Right now, it would only lock me out of using a few parking lots, my apartment building's laundromat, and a smattering of vending machines. I can live with that -- especially because I already do, since I will not install any app for that sort of nonsense.
> All my life, they've been hawking string theory

I see what you did there.

Also, Sabine Hossenfelder was trained as a particle physicist and she doesn't like it either. She explains why it's like that and how it's bad and what they should be doing instead (like actively trying to reconcile the contradictory theories of gravity and quantum mechanics). She has changed career to professional youtuber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder
The problem is sometimes, ( 10-20% ) I need colour printing. And colour laser is still expensive. I know it is wishful thinking but I do hope someday we could have some innovation with Colour Laser.

Reposting What I wrote during COVID [1]

I had to install a new inkjet printer because kids now need to print out their homework during COVID.

I swear to god if I ever become wealthy the printer industry is what I intended to completely destroy. Not in it for profit. Not positive sum whatever startup thinking. It will be Zero Sum.

Edit: Lasers are fine. That will be left alone.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30553662
> Hence, it'll be a while before it permeates through various ecosystems.

this may take a while as it's a completely different IO model

it took us 30 odd years to get from select/epoll to async/coroutines being popular
> you'll never be a lead player, or be able to play in a college team, and you'll enter a NBA stadium only if you pay a ticket

Sounds like you're saying "If you aren't a prodigy from the start you're not going to amount to anything"

FAANG middle managers don't grow on trees. It's way easier to get into that space than the NBA IMO
it's all forked
Let's not do the whole wedge between renewables and nuclear. Both are good, end of discussion.
Sure, but wouldn't something need to be in the center for it to do that?
Yes.

"The Firefox Translations extension can automatically translate content from the web pages you visit. Unlike some cloud-based alternatives, this extension translates text locally in Firefox, so the content you’re translating doesn’t leave your machine."

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/firefox-trans...
Please cite your source with regards to the alleged US pipeline bombing; I currently am unaware of credible sources with any public knowledge of the event in question. I would love to know more, but, surprisingly(/s), not much info has been released.
I've had a Brother color laser for nearly 10 years at this point. Still on the original toner, because I don't print a lot. But it doesn't dry up like ink, and the printer just happily sits there waiting for the occasional page I need to print. Best money I ever spent on a printer.
Define "regular structure". So the center of the sun is as regular as my living room, but a black hole is a bit too much for someone. For whom though? And how did they decide this?
Are you talking about residuals? They can be extremely helpful for a variety of reasons.
> If you could keep the cartridges, canceling would potentially net you many hundreds of extra pages for free. And you could cancel again and again

Solution: non-refundable first month, make it greater than cost of first ink cartridge. Risk removed.
Well, here is one example. I use the cables that came with the portable monitor. When I use a miniHDMI cable, no problems. With USB-C the monitor drops the connection and blinks every so often.

Here is another example. A coworker came crying that her monitor is dropping connection. We’ve tried an HDMI cable (this is a full size monitor connected to a laptop), problem disappears.

It’s a difference between working reliably (like an HDMI cable) vs working sometimes, if you are lucky.
I've tinkered around with io_uring on and off for the last couple years. But I think it's really becoming quite cool (not that it wasn't cool before... :)). This was a really interesting post on what's new https://github.com/axboe/liburing/wiki/io_uring-and-networki.... The combination of ring-mapped buffers and multi-shot operations has some really interesting applications for high-performance networking. Hoping over the next year or two we can start to see really bleeding edge networking perf without having to resort to using DPDK :)
Not just any politician/legislator: He was deputy PM of the UK for 5 years.
Note the imprint, "Harvard business review classics." What I linked to is a 2008 republication of a book from 1975. The buggy-whip analogy also appears in a journal article of the same name by the same author in 1960. More info here: https://hbr.org/2016/08/a-refresher-on-marketing-myopia
Except that -- given Ukraine's history vis-a-vis Russia since the 19th century -- that's nowhere near an appropriate analogy.
The actual article linked has a better title and the abstract is probably sufficient for anyone interested in the subject: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.084042

The given title is just flat out misleading.
>No, the only reason Shinkansen exists is because of government subsidies, both direct and via interest-free "loans" without any repayment terms.

Can't you say that for many "successful" car companies too? They're only around because of government bailouts and because of indirect government subsidies like road construction.
A landing page that doesn't mention pages until you scroll halfway down to their pricing plans and see "10 pages/mo.", the details of the plan hidden behind a collapsed accordion, adding a subscription to all new printers to lock users in. _Definitely_ not misleading.
We had a trial run of "papers please" just a couple of years ago. You were forbidden from traveling more than 1km from your house lest you get fined 1500 euros.
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