skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trade wars have already begun with the Inflation Reduction Act - the US is already turning protectionist and subsidising its own industry to the detriment of its allies' industry. I wouldn't put it past a future government to take more drastic action, whether or not the EU takes a hard stance on US tech.

The US is still a vital ally of Europe and I'm optimistic that this relationship will continue. But Trump and the alignment of factions of the Republican Party with Russian interests have demonstrated that this relationship is no longer rock-solid. Even the Democrats are shakier than they used to be, and orienting for a more self-reliant US.

The US is preparing itself for the end of the post-Cold War liberal global order. The European-American alliance may survive this shift or it may not. Drastic action against US tech is absolutely still premature, but we should be prepared for European interests to no longer necessarily be the same as American interests.
Yes, I've been happy with the Brother HL-L3230CDW. Seems to work fine with Linux, Android, iOS and Chromebook clients on the same network as well, which is nice.
The sellers on AliExpress tend to cheer for and sell to both teams.
This is why I never buy ink jet printers, and I also usually buy thoroughly-used office printers.

I have a 14 year old HP office laser printer (P4515x). After replacing the main cartridge (with a third party one!) and upgrading the RAM, it works fine, and it plugs into my ethernet. MacOS recognized the bonjour protocol using the generic PostScript driver. It works fine plugged into my 10 gigabit ethernet switch with a cat 6 cable.

I mean, it's 2d printing; this is something we've more or less nailed since the 90s (more or less with the advent of PostScript I think?); as long as the computers in my network can speak the protocol, I don't really see what I'm missing out on by not having a new printer...except subscription fees.
Any interest in workers coops given that realization? I too realized I don’t want to manage/own workers nor be managed but there is a third way
You can load non subscription inks into the printer just fine.
Are VSCode users really that much more diligent? Are you auditing the source code for every extension you install? Do you even know if the github source is the same as whats hosted on the plugins repo?

The only real solution I can see is only installing plugins from large trusted entities.
What? This is not even the slightest bit related to the submission.
Yes, that's been a thing since 9.5, which was released in early 2016.
And as long as you never rename the departments.
As of a while ago, this was a very good discussion of the situation with research on this topic:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-y...
This is your time to channel that anger into dumping the firmware and firing up Ghidra.

With a few small tweaks, you can probably even trick it into telling HP that every cartridge is immediately empty and get them to send you hundreds of cartridges all for $0.99/month.
To be fair if you don't print much (10 pages a month), it's not such a bad offer. ~1$ a month for a worry-free printing experience? Sign me up.
I would argue that the 'Instant Ink' service as a whole is somewhat shady and an environmental disaster, but I agree that this particular part is an obvious outcome that shouldn't really be controversial.
A great example of why I'll always read a post over watching a video.
Yaml has terrible type enforcement. If you have "no" as the value, sometimes it will be a boolean and sometimes a string.
It does. You need an OPEN_AI key .
Exactly. So when they’re getting high they say it works but when you look at actual mechanisms there’s no difference. Aka the “patient wants opiates instead of physiotherapy” model of treatment
My PhD was based on molecular dynamics simulations of novel battery anodes. I remember thinking back in 2016 that machine learning would probably be used to create much more effective MD potentials than the ad-hoc, rule-based force fields in use at the time, with ReaxFF being state-of-the-art for certain types of potentials that account for chemical reactions. My thinking was that you would just train some symmetry-invariant NNs on various molecular environments that had chemical properties computed using something higher quality like DFT or other QC approaches. A brief literature search seems to indicate this hasn't really happened for some reason — does anyone in the field know why? I know ReaxFF computations were dead simple to perform at massive scale in LAMMPS, perhaps NNs are more difficult to scale up for longer-range potentials?
‘There’s no reason to say humans have more worth or moral status than animals’
The effect of SSRIs on depression is moderate but statistically significant:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5667359/

I suspect the response varies greatly by individuals: some respond a lot and some don't respond at all.

My experience with SSRIs was very positive. I took a low dose for depression for a few years and it helped significantly. I went off it a few years ago and my depression hasn't returned.
Ad when logging SSH into Ubuntu?
I'm not sure if this is new or not, but it is the first time I have noticed it. When I ssh into an ubuntu workstation I now see:

Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications is not enabled.

Enable ESM Apps to receive additional future security updates.

See https://ubuntu.com/esm or run: sudo pro status

Is this ad a new thing or have I just not been paying attention?
I believe it's symmetric AES256, and you load the keys into the radios with a wired/dedicated keyloader device. The Russians must have some hack into wherever the keys are being stored centrally before they get into the keyloader.

Or, more mundanely, they don't rotate the keys often, and the Russians just have some number of stolen radios. You can find videos of both sides picking up radios with drones too.
> The real shady shit is rejecting third-party cartridges, that should be illegal. It's your printer and you should be able to decide what ink you use.

As a person who only uses original cartridges (w/o subscription, I buy and use them until they finish), I completely agree. However, ink chemistry is not some straightforward mixing and the risks are largely downplayed by 3rd party ink manufacturers.

This is even before going into ink pH, pigment vs. dyes, and print longevity discussions.
For most people running to the mall/office store when they need to print is a better deal. Yes the costs per page are high, but how often do you really print - between ink going dry, and cheap printers not having a long lifespan, the actual cost per page of a printer you own is probably a lot higher than you think. Plus keeping paper in the printer, and all the other issues are not your problem.

I still own my own laser printer because the convenience of not having to leave when I want to print is worth it, but I'm not pretending this is something worth doing.
There are plenty of balanced and perceptive people in the mainstream. For example, Fukuyama recently argued for Ukraine to let Donbas go, focus on retaking Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, then use NATO membership and their position around Crimea to disincentivize further Russian attacks [1]. (Viscerally I would prefer a sweeping Ukrainian victory retaking all occupied territory, but retaking Donbas and Crimea would be "hugging a hornet's nest" even if it could be done.)

I think predictive success is more down to the person sorting the info than the source. I ignore most of the war of words and focus on the territory changes. Maps are more honest.

[1] https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/nato-membership-for...
Thanks! Looked back at the results and that's about what I'd expect. Erlang/Elixir isn't a silver bullet, but amazing in its own way for other reasons. Ultimate max performance and memory efficiency definitely isn't one of them :).
I've never gotten into DISTINCT ON and it's always confused me, I'd rather see the query with MAX and GROUP BY if I'm looking for "the highest X in groups of Y". For the same reason I don't prefer RSA-in-three-lines.
Anecdotally true: when my non-technically-inclined parents ask me why I'm working on my personal projects, I vaguely mumble something about "it'll be good for my resume" and try to change the topic.

I definitely do not think these will benefit my resume in any way.
I completely agree with you on this, though I couldn't find a great way to do it. It was suggested to me to put an outline around the allocation or free that just happened, but I struggled to get the box to look good when the allocation was split across 2 lines.

I've started writing my next post and have learnt a bit more about PixiJS/GSAP3, and think I know a way to do it that would work nicely but would require changing some of the underlying code. I can't promise I'll revisit this soon, but I would like to in future.
I highly recommend a documented walkthrough rather than a scripted setup. As you note: with a scripted setup if it breaks you're left debugging it and trying to work out what on earth it has done to your machine. I think 1-2 days of setup is entirely reasonable, but it shouldn't be taking an entire week.
I find I very quickly tire of having to think about this. You think "A theme shouldn't require file storage access" and then spend an hour looking up why it does and find out there is actually some strange but totally legitimate reason for it. And every time that happens, you lose a little bit of will to care about what permissions something requested.

There used to be a period where many android apps would explain in the description why they needed certain permissions. Those days are over.
Thirteen second cut in Nix expr evaluation time thanks to rust rewrite of Nix
> Friends don't let friends buy HP consumer printers.

A while ago, pre-subscription era, I bought their cheapest inkjet printer in a store because I needed to print/sign/scan a bunch of documents.

I fully expected to hate it... and to my surprise it is actually decent. I have it for seven years now and unlike all other inkjet printers I used in the past, its ink does not run dry. It never let me down when I needed to print something in a hurry.
why is it mind you?
Crimean War was lost. Russian-Japanese War was lost the same way. WWI way lost by Germany, but Russians lost even to Germans. WWII was won as part of the Allies by sacrificing Ukraine and using the extensive support from the US. Looks like a pattern to me.
Seems likely to me. I can't recall Facebook acting in good faith at any point in time. If there's a bunch of money to be made assisting well-funded politicians, then I'd fully expect Facebook to be wanting a piece of that pie when their business model is generally to act against the users of the site by selling their data to manipulators.
Sounds to me like you’re friend is the sucker at this particular poker table. Seems like you’ve got this one in the bag, regardless of where he gets his news.

Congrats on the favorable terms of your best, I guess.
Or different pricing when there’s an actual need to conserve, which isn’t always seasonal.
I still like to think that those inkjets using tanks you fill up yourself are better in that regard. More expensive to buy, but cheaper per page and, I hope, more tolerant to 3rd party ink (unless I miss clever way to verify the liquid itself comes from the OEM once the bottle was opened. Come think of it, I am sure there are some stupidly complex ways to do just that...). But you actually never know, do you?
If Dracula Dark's telemetry is malicious, VSCode itself also malicious XDDDDD
For folks who have tried celery, and were dissatisfied with that, what did you switch to? What else is there for python task queues?
It may look crass, but putting money on the line means there is price for hot air, thus hopefully the people involved will do more research and think a bit more deeply. If you're not willing to put serious cash down on a position, you are in some sense implying little confidence in that position.
This! I have a Brother B&W laser printer/scanner that does exactly what it's supposed to do -- print and scan. It works with CUPS drivers, macOS detects it fine, even Windows. No bloated drivers to install that send a bunch of telemetry shit over to the manufacturer.

Mother-in-law needed one too last Christmas, and we ended up getting her a Brother as well, even if the cost was a bit higher than the HP equivalent, purely because of their practices.

Vote with your wallet.
Do you even need a printer? Often there is a local print shop that you can print to. A lot more expensive if you print a lot, but most people don't print very much and $.25/page works out to $5/year - is it really worth it?
This issue is EW is wreaking havoc on these GPS guided systems (as are S-400 & BUK interceptions). Not to mention munition supplies for them are dwindling.

- https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/himars-less-effect...

- https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2023/05/03/commentary/w...
As someone who studied programming in the 90's, I can tell you that I was surprised about how many students were not passionated like myself. And this was already before the wave of scientist coming from other fields (physics, chemistry, biology) to computing in early 2000s.
Either you're saying that something has to benefit you personally for it to have "real world use" (which is a misuse of the phrase) or you're saying you haven't done any research, including the two real world uses I posted in my previous comment. I'm guessing I'm interpreting what you're saying wrong, but I'm failing to come up with any other way to read your comment.

Also the highest trading volume of NYSE is close to 300 billion in a day. The highest trading volume of crypto is something like 500 billion with some estimates saying 51% of all crypto volume is artificial. That still puts crypto's trading volume peak only ~40 billion off from NYSE trading volume peak. So by that metric alone crypto as a financial instrument is successful.
Really good post and great example of how someone can incorporate these tools into their work. Maybe there will be a new resurgence of proc gen games that finally manage to get past the same-ness problem with more diverse, interesting generated environments.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." — Pablo Picasso

* https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/05/computers-useless/
The decision goes further than a fine, though. It orders Meta to stop transferring personal data of people in the EU to the US.
This isn't new for Russian Army. You win wars with staying power and quick adaptation.

The funiest millitary book I have ever read was Decision in the Ukraine written form the Western (German) perspective... It is basically accusing Russian army of not fighting "fair" - digging with defense in depth, using well places artillery and minefields to blunt the offensive of elite German SS Panzer corps.

Russia Against Napoleon is also well worth reading to realize to what lengths Russia can go to win the war... This small Russian, hungry army in rags in Lower Silesia in 1813 who still had the spirit to carry the war to Paris by 1814...

https://www.amazon.com/Decision-Ukraine-Operations-Stackpole...

https://www.amazon.com/Russia-Against-Napoleon-Story-Campaig...
It depends on the cartridge. If you buy the subscription, you get special subscription cartridges that will stop working if you cancel, but they are included in the subscription price.
If you buy normal cartridges, they will work until they are empty.

If you paid money for a cartridge that doesn't work without a subscription, you got scammed by the seller, not by HP.
I tried MDMA a while back and it was great.

On one side it showed me (after a long time) how you can be very empathic for all people around you and also reminded me or showed me how really good happiness feels.

And while the effects lasted a little bit for 1-2 weeks, it also is something I know I could do again if I like to.

This definitely gave me an additional/new viewpoint.
If you print a lot, get a laser one. If you don't print a lot ideally don't get any at all... Photos are cheaper to just print professionally, and documents you could maybe print at work?
Because generally swimming pools, lawns etc. are an incredible waste of water for absolutely no productive reason. Like lawns are pretty much a useless thing, to which toilet flushes don't compare.
Psychiatry, having failed to measurably solve any "mental health" problem is so desperate to find a solution that it's sampling the recreational drug cabinet. This isn't science. This isn't medicine. This is rolling back the clock to witch doctors and medicine men.

Can't be depressed if your mind has been chemically lobotomized.
The annihilation of Ukraine and the violent expansion of a nuclear armed dictatorship is not a risk in your eyes?
No, that's the approach in South America. In Europe it would be a bit more subtle.
Most of the companies I worked with/for won't even have the security credentials set up in a week to have access to anything. VPN, keys etc. So not much you can do the first week accept sit with others to get tours of the codebase, frameworks, best practices etc.
School would probably also have noted that 80% of the USSR's copper, 1/3 of its explosives, fuel, trucks, etc. came from the US and UK via Lend-Lease. At a fairly critical time in the war.

Zhukov: "People say that the allies didn't help us. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. And how much steel! Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? And now they are saying that we had plenty of everything on our own."

School might also have noted the complicated history of the USSR and the Nazis; things like the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
Fortunately, we can count on FB to move fast and break this hazard much faster than that.
Red hook's mesh network today
Wouldn't it be nice if that were true?

;-)
> However, ink chemistry is not some straightforward mixing and the risks are largely downplayed by 3rd party ink manufacturers.

I'd be willing to accept that for systems where the ink cartridges and printheads are separate and third-party ink not up to spec can actually cause serious damage (e.g. clogged ink pipes, replacing or flushing these is a serious amount of work), but HP's consumer printers are almost exclusively made with combined inkhead/cartridges.
Thanks for sharing that sentiment. I don't quite take the same view on it but understand the approach can be effective. I stopped using slack at some point and it meant I did not speak to the specific group of friends who only communicated through slack. It turned out to be a so-so thing. In some ways I don't know whether it had more negative or positive impact. By taking a stance on it, maybe it was only detrimental to myself or beneficial, whichever way you see it.

On the family front, there's a WhatsApp group and people have learned to use it for that activity, so I can't see that behaviour changing especially when 60+ year olds are in it too. It just became the defacto mode of communication somehow. Yet funnily 10 years ago, I was not a WhatsApp user. A friend of mine dragged me on there. It reminds me of 2006 when people kept asking "Are you on Facebook", like a bunch of drug addicts.

I personally want to move some of my private content and conversations off public servers and on to one I control. Off public networks and on one I know I've secured. That to me as an engineer now makes a lot of sense. But there's also a significant burden to that and I don't think anyone else can do it. Also I don't imagine anyone will setup VPN across my extended family. So there's some things to think through before trying anything.
You can purchase the Blurays. You don't need Netflix to watch Stranger Things.
I think the winds have shifted for tech companies. They are no longer plucky young startups, but they are billion dollar companies raking in profits.

Facebook did pay 725 million out of the original 5 billion to the FTC over Cambridge Analytica's scandal. That is a hefty fine still. [1]

Another $122 million out of $276 million over Whatsapp merger [2]

Granted, it does get negotiated down, but it really is the most they can do.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64075067

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-facebook-antitrust-idU...
> try getting firmware from Dell without a subscription

https://linux.dell.com/ not only publishing firmware, they're also members of fwupd / LVFS.

> Sadly HP isn't any different than anybody else

Don't give in. There are less shitty companies and at least in the tech business there's many of us who have extra money that we can vote with, or can make recommendations to others (don't buy HP, maybe don't buy an inkjet in general).
Many distros with many approaches, yet not a single one with a convenient security feature that comment is mentioning

So it's not "up to me" if the good choice is not practical
Great to see competition and improvements in this field.
I use a LaserJet 1012 that was thrown out at a local law firm. It's almost 20 years old, and still prints great. I used it through high school, college, and now grad school, and haven't once changed the toner. It's plug and play on Linux, but is a pain to get working on Windows >7.

I don't know who still makes decent printers today -- I see a lot of people recommend Brother -- but why buy new when there are tons of cheap old laser printers from the days before they all became anti-consumer garbage?
> It should be obvious to China that what is currently happening to Russia is also slated to happen to them

What, the US has scheduled the Chinese invasion of Taiwan for the convenience in destroying China?

> it is astonishingly rare for the US military to get involved and leave a country better off than when they entered

I think you need to distinguish between a hostile occupation and a liberation. Which is what went wrong in Iraq, of course; it was astonishingly naive to assume that the US would be greeted as liberators there. But remember, Ukraine is being liberated by fellow Ukranians on the ground.

> The Poles are wise to be rapidly militarising.

The Poles are militarizing in case Ukraine loses and they have to fight the same war. It's extremely in Poland's interest for the Ukranians to win.
Every single post about printers turns into that and the answer is mostly Brother.
Kyocera seems to have some decent laser printers.
There's a pretty good writeup here that might be helpful - https://dev.to/livecycle/how-to-host-your-side-projects-for-...
it isn't controversial that a company would rather destroy a resource than let someone have it, but some of us strongly oppose this
That's pretty good. Some people are energetic and I like it.
From a money and business perspective. I agree, this isn't the end of the world. From an environmental view, this is disgusting and should be illegal. Bricking a perfectly functional printer and ink is not acceptable.
> as long as the computers in my network can speak the protocol, I don't really see what I'm missing out on by not having a new printer

Borderless printing, color accuracy, the ability to use high-quality photo paper come to my mind.
25 years of bcrypt password hashing: a retrospective on password security
I have a Dell 1350cnw (which is a rebranded Brother laser). I bought it in 2010 and the damn thing is still trooping along today!
I'm gonna end the conversation here and let you have the last word, because I don't even feel comfortable talking about compounding pharmas.

From what I've read, sites like the above are really dangerous, because people are ordering from them and like you said, are NOT for human consumption.

Compound pharmacies, from what I understand, are meant for human consumption. From the healthcare people I know personally, including my own doctor, they have been used for ages and are totally legit. But folks should just talk to their doctor before taking anything.