skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure why the article purports that "two white men" (I'm not white) were the "problem" here, and not that the problem was her inability to stand by her convictions.

She didn’t stand by her convictions because she had a history of being told to defer to white men.

There was a whole section about her background to go into why she felt this way.

The story is more about the woman, her situation and her desire for justice after decades so I can see why they left her reasoning in.

Otherwise we would be clueless as to why she decided to vote guilty after feeling the guy wasn’t guilty then immediately change her mind again once the trial was over.
I feel silly saying it, but they’re not designed to run without a controller. He has been fighting this for two blog posts now.
Great… We can’t even buy printers from HP anymore. What is the best other brand to switch to?
When did we start calling software updates recalls?
Information Society: 300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode Or Ascii Download) [video]
Decoded (part 1 of 2)

So we're supposed to play in Curitiba in 18 hours, but our bus is being held hostage by the local promoters. They've formed some unholy alliance with the Brazilian counterpart of ASCAP; the PRS. apparently the PRS has the legal power to arrest people, and they want a piece of the national tour promoter's money. the local security force, "Gang Mexicana", has been bought out for 1800 cruzados and a carton of Marlboros each. The only faction still operating in our defense is "Big John", our personal security man, and he's hiding in his room because a local gang is out for his blood because of a 1982 knifing incident in which he was involved. Our 345-pound road manager, Rick only had this to say: "You wanted the life of a rock star!". Paul, Jim and I realized that this was one situation we were going to have to get out of ourselves

We convened a hasty conference in the Novotel lobby. Paul suggested contacting our national tour promoter in São Paulo, but we remembered that he was in Recife with Faith No More, who had just arrived for their Brazilian tour. We thought about contacting our Brazilian record company in Rio, but they weren't home. Our ever-diligent American manager was arranging help of numerous forms, but he was in New York, and just too far away to get anything moving in time

And there were 6000 kids in Curitiba who just wouldn't understand

We knew it was time for action. Paul went up to the PRS guys and invited them into the bar to discuss it like civilized men over a few Brazilian drinks, offering each of them a cigar on his way. The amused PRS heavies seemed to like the idea of a few free drinks, even if they knew they would never give us our bus back. When Paul winked at Jim and I on his way in, we went into action

I stole off to my room to prepare while Jim went into action. Creeping carefully through a service duct, he managed to gain a vantage point some three meters above the bus, and dropped carefully onto the roof. After using his all-purpose Swiss army knife (affectionately known as the "skit knife") to jimmy open the roof hatch, he went through the darkened inside of the bus and removed the inside engine service panel. Using some spare electronic parts he found while on an island in the Amazon, he wired the entire bus for remote control, not unlike a remote control toy car

At this point, he asked himself "Now how shall i get out of here?!?"

Paul was having difficulties of his own

"Couldn't you see your way clear to letting us fulfill our contractual obligations in Curitiba? Think of the kids!"

Through our translator, Fabio, the PRS man, Aldo, said;

"No. You Americans think you own the world. Hah! We'll burn down our rain forest if we damn well please. We need room for cows!! We want a McDonald's on every... Oh, sorry, yes anyway, no. We need 40% of your concert receipts to give to David Bowie." he said, winking to the local promoter, Phillipe
Yesterday they turned on a UX overhaul on the website and it is an absolute trash fire of a release. Perf is insanely bad and they broke a LOT of functionality on the desktop web and mobile web experiences. My guess is the mobile app problems are related to perf. I tried to log in on the web several minutes ago and it's still trying to load my notifications. My dev tools show dozens of 50x errors on every page load. I'm also getting the download popup for every sub or thread I click on on mobile, so the site is basically unusable.

My company has a "roll back at the first sign of trouble" policy and I've seen half a dozen problems that would have immediately triggered a rollback by themselves. I don't miss working at a place that has an "all hands on deck, power through it" attitude. I need to remember this in the "do you have any questions for us?" section of my future interviews.
Stephen Wolfram's agent on line 2...
the pdf of the researcher's paper: https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-0042%2823%2902...

Essentially, carefully managing the path that air takes into the building and out allows for heat to be recovered (like a counter-current heat exchanger, or radiator). This is similar to how heat boxes for efficient chimneys work - make the path for hot air to escape necessarily impart the heat into the surrounding brickwork.

TFA:
> Further analysis shows significant heating savings
are possible in mildly cold seasons compared to natural displacement (74%) and natural mixing (60%) ventilation.

The 'ducting' for the airflow was hollow cavities in the various masonry walls in the building, forming a circuitous route long enough to recover the heat while maintaining good airflow for ventilation.
The DEC Rainbow and the NEC APC also offered the "MS-DOS but not IBM PC compatible" experience.

The Rainbow might have had a chance if it had beaten the IBM PC to market, but personal computing might have gone in an entirely different direction if they hadn't dismissed home computers in 1975.

I'm not so sure how the NEC would have fared, given its 8" floppy drives. Those were already going out of style by 1981.
Which means that requests to your website might randomly return HTTP 403. At the moment, this is such a common issue I just ignore HTTP 403 errors when there's a Server: Cloudflare header (and a handful of others).

That said, Cloudflare has a process to register as a "good bot" [1], which I believe we are (we respect robots.txt, keep a single connection alive per host, etc.), so it's possible that once I set that up, the gods that control the Internet might let us through.

In general though, Bernard follows the HTTP spec but cannot do miracles. If your webserver is trigger-happy or very strict, it is your responsibility to let us through if you want to use the service.

1: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/verified-bots
YMMV, but have had pretty good experiences with HP developer and gaming laptops.
You don't have to wonder. Read like 5 more lines beyond the title and figure it out for yourself.
Decoded (part 2 of 2)

As Paul continued this elaborate distraction, Jim effected an escape from the heavily guarded bus by crawling down into the cargo bay, cutting a hole in the floor with the Swiss army knife's arc-welder, slipping into the manhole cover situated under the bus, and walking up into the hotel's basement from there. Jim called up to me in my room and gave the signal. We were now to meet at the back entrance, with our tech guys. But first, Paul would need some help getting away from his unwelcome guests, as things were getting ugly

"He says he has lost his patience, and that he can think of other ways of exacting payment from you Kurt and Jim physically." our trembling interpreter said

The moment had come. Jim began operating the bus from his back entrance vantage point. As the remote-controlled bus lurched towards the parking lot exit, the superstitious security youths fled in terror. Paul was pulling anxiously on his collar as the PRS man began describing his collection of World War II Nazi ceremonial knives when a sudden crash split the tableau

Jim had purchased me the gift of a complete black ninja stealth assassin outfit in Aracaju. I had been gearing up and crawling through the air conditioning ducts all this time. As I crashed through the cheap imitation-Styrofoam hung ceiling tiles, skates first, I flashed ninja stars all about me. In the ensuing panic, Paul escaped to the prearranged bus pick-up point. Unfortunately, my skates were a poor choice of foot gear for escaping over the broken glass. Of the table I had landed on. Were it not for the confusion and the ninja-star-inflicted wounds delivered to the bad guys, I would have been set upon while foundering on the glass-strewn carpet. As it happened, however, I leapt through the open door of the careening bus as it departed the city of Maringá forever

If only we had managed to get our equipment in the bus, too

Every word of this story is true
- Kurt Harland
I think part of the problem is that people in general have a very poor understanding of what science is, or how to evaluate evidence, so they regard it as received wisdom, handed down by a special caste, and not to be questioned.

So they trust experts without even knowing what questions to ask, or how to assess evidence, or evaluate certainty, or when they should get more opinions.

Not unlike the Post Office convictions. Then there were the Roy Meadows convictions. Many others, and I am sure many other people who have not been able to prove their innocence.
Considering they literally had to latch onto the specific canbus to do that it means that you can’t just hack the head unit and expect to cutoff the engine. Not saying it can’t be done, but many manufacturers put in gateways to prevent that kind of thing.
> especially in an open-access journal where money has to change hands

It's hilarious that in an article about scientific publishing, this inanity is merely mentioned in passing and not questioned.
That's a shame, because Github actions is IME the worst productivity killer since you can't test locally- which makes iterating painfully long.
Reading fanon today, the main thing I get from him that the colonized will lead the struggle for freedom. If we aren't going to help them we should at least get out of the way. Standing in safety and scolding them about their methods is nothing. Just nothing.
No one who uses The Science in political arguments cares to refer to specific published papers.
I use an Epson ECOTank printer. Refills come in a bottle. No DRM. Very low price ink compared to the alternatives. I previously used Brother printers which are also pretty good, they didn't use cart DRM either last time I used them.

They both have their flaws, but nothing approaching the BS that HP pulls.
This is very nice, I hope we have a windows version soon. And this might encourage Sublime Text to do the same, it's one of the most responsive editor for now, let's see.
There could be worse.. Jimmy Savile here in the UK. /shudders
"Those with an AGI over the limit can still file their return for free using Free File Fillable Forms."
I think we lost that battle with motion interpolation on consumer TVs
Yes, because they're mounted up high.
This isn't surprising to anyone who has used an HP printer in the last decade. They're total crap being sold by a company that actively hates its customers.

There a better options. Friends don't let friends by HP printers.
> Would we be "better served" by acting differently?

We would be "better served" by actually scrutinizing [all] the parties that need scrutinizing, not latching on to one scapegoat out of fear and sensationalism as opposed to actual safety consciousness.

Pearl-clutching at Boeing about an aircraft the company delivered in the _1990s_ does absolutely nothing to "get [someone] there alive". Where is your outrage at e.g. Delta for flying a 30+ year old plane that has clearly been poorly inspected/maintained?
I just don't see how this can happen unless you have global consensus. They are booked until what the next 8 years? Whats to stop non-american airlines desperate for slots on the new aircraft from snapping up those slots?
> Why is the profitable company chasing the business practices of the companies that are burning billions of dollars per year?

Peacock was an example of how a large group of people prefer ads to paying, which means it wasn't worse for them. This was in the context of my comment of Netflix potentially adding a "free" ad supported tier, which could make the content available to those people who couldn't/wouldn't pay.

But, as you point out, them not being profitable suggests that "free" with ads isn't sustainable, meaning a Netflix "free" tier probably wouldn't work either, assuming they were similar to the 15 minutes/hour of ads that Peacock has.
Just a caveat: in 2020, processing paper returns was considerably more delayed than digital submissions. If you want your return to be processed quickly, digital is almost always faster.

https://www.gao.gov/blog/more-delays-ahead-pandemic-continue...
I am looking forward to seeing Apple execute on Generative AI. While I think shoving it into every product you can think of (Google, Samsung) might have unforeseen consequences, I don’t think the other extreme is the right play either. This field is moving fast and they may not have time to do it the Apple way.
Good idea. For now, I advertise as "User-agent: bernard/1.0", but I might create a .well-known URL listing all the IPs we scan from. I already need to do that for Cloudflare.
I wish for at least one of the competitors to take notes and ultimately consider a response: "Our long-term objective is to make HP irrelevant by creating a product devoid of idiocies they have been committing"
Note: the fillable forms (which do some basic arithmetic for you but are still the general tax forms) don't seem to be available yet. These are the only "IRS Free File" option available if your AGI is over $79,000.

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
Any issues with ink getting clogged? I was hearing such cases for ecotank variants. My use-case is infrequent printing
As a PM, you unlock a lot of value by getting engineers out of a lot of these meetings, by being technically competent enough (for these contexts) to not need them 99% of the time. It isn't even just about the devs' time either. It is about their focus and reducing context switching too.
The Security Implications of Passwordless Authentication
Wasn't everyone he was with in pretrial detention? Hence none of them were guilty?

That said I think any jail or prison officials are failing just as badly if their inmates are raped regardless of their convictions.
Circuits Updates – January 2024
Seven Habits of Effective Data Managers
Yes, the difference between illegal and immoral is one I've myself tried to explain to HN people often enough (though more usually in the context of people trying to argue "It's not illegal, why are you complaining about it", when a company does something immoral). That is why I had the final paragraph:

> So immoral, and stuff many companies and institutions consequently have policies against, but doesn't seem illegal.
The business of non-Tesla chargers was to get paid to install them, not to get paid to keep them running.
Prolog is an inspired revelation of the equivalence of logical relationships and sequential computation. Expressiveness and meta-programming capabilities in its homoiconic syntax are off the charts. Caveats (of which there are many) aside, Prolog is an exemplary achievement of humankind.

miniKanren is an embedded logic language.

Now, practically speaking, if you need logical reasoning, you’ve got SWI-Prolog which is highly optimized, mature, actively developed, and has high-level concurrent predicates baked-in. Or (as I’ve done with less success) embed miniKanren in your language of choice and wish yourself luck while you try to get all your cores working on the same problem together.
Self-assembly of the smallest and tightest molecular trefoil knot
Exactly why I left academia with my Master's and didn't pursue a PhD. A few years into my professional life I met a PhD who had actually gotten tenure and gave it up to come work in industry. When I asked him whether he missed academia he said, "I miss the idea of it, but the idea isn't what it is."
I just submit a sitemap URL to Google Search Console Tools. Is this any different?
It's an exploration of a man's life and impact on the world. The length was fitting. Personally I didn't find it tortuous at all.
I must say this is indeed a fascinating threat vector.

"We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges. Through the cartridge, [the virus can] go to the printer, [and then] from the printer, go to the network."

I don't see any instances of this type of attack in the wild. Also, if you made your cartridge "dumb" then there would be no threat vector any more.... no?
I suggest they buy Brother color laser printers.
Hey, Akash from Zenfetch here. Fair question. As with any LLM based product, we can't guarantee there won't be any hallucinations. Empirically, we've seen very few instances. We have checkers in place to reduce the risk, and always cite the source material as an escape hatch so you can see where information came from
> Writing science fiction isn't about making realistic theories of how reality is

it's called "science" fiction because there is an attempt to extract scientific theory and thought, and it's implications.

Otherwise it's fantasy, space opera, or just plain ole magical fiction.
Are you European?

I'm European. I've lived in the US a couple of years.

The thing is.... you're NOT charged to file your taxes. Filing your taxes is free. People have the option to pay a company that helps them file their taxes.

The peculiarity of the US isn't that you're charged but that the government's own system is shit (which is why many people choose to pay). This isn't uniquely American. I'm sure there's other countries where filing your taxes is a pain - though maybe not in Europe (?).
It would be really valuable to add a challenge rating to each problem. I am sure there are some criteria that could be used to auto score these. Then, viewers would be able to select a category and challenge rating so that they can focus on topics of interest at their level.
Because slow moving legal precedent and interpretation of constitutional documents is important. But sometimes, underlying facts change in ways that break the analogies used in past reasoning, and we need to catch up.

The problem has only been super significant for 15-20 years, which is a blink of an eye in this sense; not even enough time for the populace to really understand and appreciate the issue.

It is, of course, still broken.
He has published two papers in MDPI since 2018 so he doesn't look like a spammer.

I think the writing of that article is perfectly accessible but the formatting could be better.

Note MDPI has been accused of being a "predatory publisher" but those claims have been retracted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI

MDPI runs a lot of review articles which are important to readers (review papers get a lot of downloads and citations) but don't really fit the conventional model of peer review. (Who can write a review paper? I think in some cases I could do a literature search and write a decent review paper on a topic that I've never done any research on and the issue of "is this a new/important/relevant result" that applies to a regular paper doesn't really do so there.)
I think that is on the roadmap too, but possibly further down.
You want to critique the scientific method? Because it is flawed?

And not sure how to? Where to start?

Sure, scientific research has its issues.

Models aren't always as exact as 'reality'.

Testing methodologies could be flawed.

Various assumptions could be incorrect. And even proved wrong in future testing.

The point is, it is a process, and all results can be re-evaluated, re-tested.

But nobody is believing something that was proved false.
Something was proved false, but "I'm going to ignore the science and just believe what I want". Which is what a lot of Covid and Climate conspiracy theorist do.
netstat without netstat (2017)
Are capital returns taxed? if so, how?
At least 11 jurors, a little girls parents, the police force, the judge, the prosecutions office and the defendants own spouse all believed that he was guilty despite having a solod alibi of three unconnected perfect strangers saying he was elsewhere at the time.

It’s like everyone failed him.

Only his brother believed him.
Definitely not: https://www.achronix.com/
Energy Commodity prices are an unavoidable variable cost in most factories.

EVs push their true cost onto the entire grid, and thus every resident/business subsidizes the fleet operation with added service costs due to resource scarcity driven prices.

I do like the idea of EVs in many ways, but only when combined with distributed power generation infrastructure like standalone home solar arrays. EVs suck power in large cities and or locations the require battery temperature management... outside in cold <4'C climates a Tesla Lithium battery heater is like having a fuel tank that will leak out in a few days... thus, it is always leaking energy unless in a heated garage. Not an immediate problem, till you have millions of units commuting in -18'C weather.

Have a wonderful day, and lets admire the sycophantic idealism of EVs together. =)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX4PJDA4MQg
Their business-focused monitors are also good. (Though, the grumpy part of me thinks that perhaps it's worth avoiding everything they make because their printer scheme is so evil.)
Edsger Dijkstra carried computer science on his shoulders (2020)
I wish more people that wanted cameras would invest in systems that store all recordings locally. Video recordings can be very important, personal, and/or important in criminal investigations.

If you own the camera and put it on your property, please don't allow all recordings to be sent to a emote server you have no control over. And seriously please font leave the camera accessible to the public internet 24/7, it may be convenient but its also begging for trouble.
They use an Epson.
It's still a good heuristic. If you say have a search engine facing a flood of AI generated mush, would it be too disrespectful to a couple tabloids that use genuine third world labor to downrank 0.01% of them for being probably AI generated spam?

Humans shouldn't use simple heuristics like this to make such serious accusations either way.
You probably know more about these details than me, I was referencing Real Engineering's video [0] on the subject.

If the whistleblower's information is true, then it's an even bigger fuckup than expected. But I'm worried it could lead to the management throwing a random worker under the bus to cover their dangerous practices.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhT4M0UjJcg
Historically, forced religious confession has been used to get the subject to confess to heracy, and then the subject is executed as punishment. All in hopes that the subject will become a better person, I assume.
I seriously doubt it will look similar for the most part. I expect a lot more places like Target or malls to have chargers, and this is already happening around me. Once you're charging there, why not go in and do some shopping since you've got nowhere else to go? The incentives are strongly aligned on both ends to make this happen.

Yeah, there will be some charger parks that look like gas stations, but I would expect that to be a small fraction of them. People thinking about gas stations are stuck in an old mode of thinking. We already have a massive investment into electricity resulting in it being everywhere. Building on top of that makes much more sense vs limited special infrastructure.