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Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul: Netflix Bets Big on Live Boxing
So paradoxically, by NATO increasing in members, its non-MAD strength decreases.
This is the time on HN when people list alternatives.

I found a slightly older popular make&model of printer that does what I want, can be airgapped/datadioded, and I'd guess will have plentiful third-party supplies for many years. (Barring trade issues that would mean we have much bigger problems than printing.)

And I'm not going to tell you HN bastids which make&model that is. While I decide whether I can stockpile a few new-old-stock backup units.
There’s also minerals and grain.
I'm not sure I would trust this. I was at a party and ended up chatting to a researcher working with VA hospitals to develop psychedelic treatment for PTSD-- the VA doesn't fuck around with hippie shit, so his research was reasonably grounded in reliable, repeatable results-- and he emphasized that LSD is not being seriously considered as a possible treatment, because the emotional effects are pretty short-lived compared to psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, etc.

Which is not to say LSD trips can't be useful and transformative experiences, but both personal experience and scientific account confirm they tend to be "intellectual trips", whereas what you need to help anxiety are the "emotional trips" that other drugs are better-suited for.
Yes, Opera was sold to the Chinese. I am talking about the days when Opera was owned by the Europeans, and didn't use Chromium / Blink engine.
I remember this being the first executable that I ever downloaded from the Internet as a kid (around 1998?)!

I can still picture the Internet Exporer progress bar showing 4 KB/s while I waited almsot an hour for this to arrive. That moment of having new software on my computer without having to leave the house left a lasting impression on me.

The voice samples still float around in my backup files.
Do hand-dug berms planted with native and non-invasive plants count as technology?

And is increasing desertification one of earth's natural processes or is it an effect of technology, specifically technology we've used to pull massive amounts of carbon out of the ground and add it to the atmosphere?

Not trying to be hostile, just questioning some of your assumptions.
Tracking ads industry faces another body blow in the EU
> It seems to me that the US gains very little from being in NATO.

NATO is the only reason why the EU buys so much US weapons in the first place, the benefit to the US is enormous.
Not the OP, but in context, the US is a huge part of NATO's overall defense (and offense/force projection) capabilities. The EU on its own would have a harder time defending itself against aggression.
> Flipper Zero [169$]

Save the money friends and use an esp8266 for less then 2$

Or any literally any laptop
The non-US members of NATO combined are larger economically, demographically and geographically than the US is. If they all pulled their weight NATO would have (slightly) more contribution from non-US countries than from the US.
Thank you!
1. Nodes with custom logic, structure (inputs/outputs etc) and custom configuration editing are definitely possible.
But I assume you mean custom nodes as in nodes that render the data passing through them, like in litegraph.js, right?

If so, it's not possible, as IMO it's less of a value for "production" use-cases/application level layer. But if the community's interest will slide in that direction, I will consider going that route.

2. It can be used as a library, either Node.js (via an npm package) or the browser (using a custom webpack loader)
Actually it has no windows because it’s impossible to print overhangs with extrusion. The fact it’s a data center is because it’s one of the few use cases for 3D printing buildings right now.
Well yeah, there is that.

I love Taleb's writing (Black Swan was an important book) and observations (Power law distributions are the world globalization trends towards) but truth be told he does come off as a bit of an ass. I mean, he really just had the key observation and then somehow wrote a few thousand pages around it and more or less got lucky with a trade once.
Provenance and Censorship
Your premise denies your conclusion. If the company is "trying not to be racist," then it cannot "intentionally" be extremely racist because that's what intentional means.
Hewlett Packard has fallen a long way as a company. When you can't thrive, seek rent to survive.
Same as Hamas is fighting an asymmetrical warfare at a disadvantage by IDF, IDF is at the same disadvantage on the journalistic side. They have the monopoly on reporting their side while Hamas is every person with a camera creating whatever narrative they want.

So yeah I can see why you choose not to take their word when they say that they have evidence.

But trust me bro :-)

But seriously now, I don't really understand why it would be shocking to discover Hamas is operating from hospitals, mosques and schools. They are fighting a war and will do anything they can to gain an advantage.

It's very convenient to deploy your base under a hospital, for so many seasons, that I really don't understand why people find it hard to believe...
That is very true. If by "defending Western Europe" you really meant "defending Eastern Europe with US troops" then this would be a relevant data point.
A Plea for Simplicity [video]
I just buy refurbished /refilled eom ink cartridges on ebay, whats the problem?
Yup. There’s a reason putting credentials into url parameters is considered dangerous.
Dear God, we just gave them $20B in cash up front, supposedly to build a foundry in Ohio that will never open because it cannot be staffed -- what is even going on here?
Putin isn't even going to take Ukraine.

So how's he going to reign free over all of Eastern Europe?
The article doesn't misconstrue, but it also fails to mention that the attack can be done with any computer with a wifi chip. Not that surprising for a rag like Gizmodo.

Edit: they do mention that at the very end of the article
"Speak up now - before your government[...]"

Oops, bit of a Freudian slip there.
And delicious meatballs for the troops
100-125 should give you visual effects you'd expect based on your existing conception of hallucinogens.

If you don't care for visual hallucinations, anywhere from 50-75 will give you a lot of the usually pleasant mental effects: high sense of novelty, mood elevation, curiosity, sense of openness, etc.

Even a smaller dose of 25-50 will give you perceivable mental effects.

You should also spend the bit of extra money on a reagent testing kit to ensure you aren't taking random research chemicals being passed off as LSD. You can keep the reagents in the fridge pretty much indefinitely for future use as well.
The EU is independent of the US. There's a difference between alliance and dependency (and EU isn't coextensive with European NATO, but they are pretty close.)
One lesson: some things aren't technical problems that can be solved by software. They need to be resolved by people, sometimes collectively (in the form of governments), using imprecise means.
Did you read the "added context"?

"The author has later responded and apologized a flawed / biased methodology which led them to believe that Opus has no prior knowledge of Circassian (i.e. wasn't trained on it)

Apparently it was, and is able to speak Circassian just not perfectly"
Never is a pretty long time. One of my favorite authors: Doris Lessing, wrote a book called: "Mara and Dan" which has a very interesting take on climate change. I would recommend all of her books to anyone who wants to stretch their perception of our world.
Didn't realize it was NATO troops committing genocide in the Balkans and invading Georgia and Ukraine.
Don't use these six cinnamon products, FDA warns after concerning lead tests
No, it has already increased, but not due to Sweden and Finland joining. the increase was a direct response to Russia invading Ukraine.

https://www.uso.org/stories/3518-one-year-later-how-the-uso-...

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_136388.htm

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

But in same time European allies has also increased their NATO soldiers.
There’s a big difference. The latter requires information not contained in the URL to access the information.
> ...wants them to stay.

This may be true now, by a small margin, but until two years ago, the big majority of Germans wanted US troops to go away.

I can't even count how many times I saw or heard "Ami go home!"
I'm not sure what a professional estimator is, but I hope the implied precision in your estimates is reasonable. In this case it was not the act of estimating itself which was pissing people off - it was the ridiculous level of implied precision. As another commenter noted, presenting the estimate at "5 years" wouldn't be nearly as ridiculous as presenting the estimate at "5.5 years", as the latter implies a level of precision that is entirely unrealistic for non physical processes.

Have a great day as well!
I agree that there's substantial qualitative difference between sub-pixel antialiased text and the plain render. The former takes advantage of greater lateral resolution and perceptual differences between the primary colors. That said, I wouldn't consider the absence of that technique jarring. I intentionally change bright-on-dark text to greyscale antialiasing[1], to counter the halation[2]. All the links to images in the thread and the Reddit post you linked are dead, so I can't see how the text rendered for you. Did you by any chance experience this on a MacBook connected to an external monitor, where you had the system set up to render type better on the built in screen[3]? Your point holds though, they don't optimize for 3rd party hardware. I was a bit quick to jump in, thinking you were referring to the difference between their flavour of sub-pixel antialiasing and Microsoft's ClearType[4].

[1] https://srdjan.si
[2] https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/why-dark-mode-isnt-a-ux-panacea...
[3] https://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/font-smo...
[4] https://damieng.com/blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosoph...
Which is a valid business model.

But doesn't make sense when you've personally purchased the machine to do the printing. At this point you should be your own print shop.
Can anyone comment on what is the best quality color printing option at a moderate cost, and how much volume does it take to make it more economical than using a print shop?
This is kind of where I've been thinking lately. If I can speak of human bodies like computer hardware, there is a physical limit to our hardware and how much data it can process, and yet intelligence seems to be something beyond the hardware. Something that the living 'you' brings to your hardware.
> The fundamental issue is that links without any form of access control are presumed private, simply because there is no public index of the available identifiers.

Is there a difference between a private link containing a password and a link taking you to a site where you input the password? Bitwarden Send gives a link that you can hand out to others. It has # followed by a long random string. I'd like to know if there are security issues, because I use it regularly. At least with the link, I can kill it, and I can automatically have it die after a few days. Passwords generally don't work that way.
How about we just stop giving Israel more bombs until they agree to let aid in the normal way? I guess this pier is to avoid “putting conditions” on US support for Israel, but it’s literally admitting that Israel is a rogue state that cant be reasoned with. Why is the US giving this country weapons at all?
Do you have sources showing the ineffectiveness of microdosing? I don’t not believe you, but that is news to me. I believed microdosing is effective.
In Afghanistan yes. Sweden has also been in Mali with France, presumably for strategic "partnership and networking" reasons (because it was pre-NATO).
Do you imply that if you're attacked by an army mixed with civilians you're just supposed to surrender and not make a single shot? Luckily people who wrote the Geneva and other conventions understood that it made zero sense.
Are there any open source printers? I know that 3d printers have many open source designs and they perform ok.
> IMO private messages (as opposed to public posts, blogs, etc) are supposed to be temporary

Why? Privacy and permanency are orthogonal axes. You've never kept a cherished letter or re-read a thoughtful text message?
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Can you explain what project is unwinding? It looks to me like Europe is still coming together to resist the danger of Russian invasion. For Nuland, it looks like she had a long career, she had many good roles, she championed protecting Ukraine and there was only one other position for to be promoted to and they promoted someone else. So that seems like a perfect time to leave after a successful career.
Is this still available somewhere? I attempted to download it several months ago and saw the download link 404ing, seems it is still like that.
You can get a Canon that supports 12 colors, but you have spend $800+ every time you need a new set of inks.
The DRM in my Brother printer (HL-L2350DW) is quite limited: it write non genuine toner somewhere in the print dialog properties and that's it. Nothing is disabled and the print quality is not degraded.
Putin is attacking Ukraine as hard as he can. We don't need to worry about provoking more aggression out of him.
Like humans, they have physical bodies and the breath of life in them. For the sake of what this person was talking about it seems like it would apply to their intelligence as well.
I get that we've decided 'NATO Good' now -- but are people really so sure that it's sphere of influence is geopolitically stabilizing?

I don't see how it could be. If I were Russia, or an ally of Russia, an expansionist NATO would be galvanizing for me and would accelerate a counterbalance alliance. Creating a potentially entrenched conflict in countries that have surface-to-surface access to Moscow would be in my benefit. Ukraine falls into that category.
Having Self-Control Leads to Power
> Brother is far behind the competition when it comes to color inkjet/inktank printing

Because inkjet printing for consumers generally sucks. It's just an awful technology for consumers who may go days/weeks/months between needing to print something. I tell any non-tech friends that I can to avoid inkjet printers like the plague - they always have a tendency to break down and be non functional at the moment you need them the most.
Not the person you responded to, but I agree that the EU needs a bit more independence from the US.

To me, it's mostly about being able to stand up for ourselves on a world stage - ideally through a common EU military that is strong enough to deter adversaries even without US support.

My main reason is the instability of the American political climate and the way every four years there's an election between a centrist and an extremist. Trump has already threatened to invite Putin to invade other NATO countries [0]. We can't risk being dependent on this madman.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68266447
Because no member wants to be seen as unreliable, risking their own security in the future, so everyone will in practice assist in any way they can.
Thanks! this means a lot, as I've been through many iterations with this one. Each affected some other revelation in my journey with Flyde.

PS: Here's an older one - https://web.archive.org/web/20230313081811/https://www.flyde...
Snacks if thats your vibe, plenty of fluids, a safe space and 2-3 easy/actionable game plans if the vibe changes. For a personal anecdote, it’s being mentally aware/prepared that “I’m tripping on LSD and this too shall end” when things go awry.
FWIW I recently got a color Laser brother printer (MFC-L3740CDW) that's been working well. My needs aren't for super high resolution or anything but it does the basics well enough, and doesn't appear to have any subscription nonsense attached to it.
No particular schedule, I can feel when I need to. Usually something triggers my depression or anxiety, and then I sit with it for some period of time till I feel I'm ready to make peace with it. Last year 3 times, this year once so far. I should also note, I use psilocybin now, however I started with lysergic acid.
While Apple banned Epic for trying to provide an alternative app marketplace for users, the Apple Review team just approved this scam app that is simply copied and impersonating Google just to scam Apple users.
I never made the claim that there were no solutions to the problems outlined above. In fact, I implemented exactly what you've linked long ago. This doesn't, of course, change the fact that no such easy procedure exists on unrooted Android devices and that Windows, by default, has inaccurate timekeeping. Requiring extensive configuration for something as simple as accurate time is what irks me. Time sync is neither expensive nor complicated, so why is Windows so reluctant to do it often enough to keep the time?

Having to set registry values to get sane syncing behavior is just nuts when, again, my cheap Casio watch - which possesses a miniscule fraction of the features of a modern computing device - can deliver sub 500ms accuracy with absolutely zero fuss.
Oldest siblings tend to make more money. Researchers have a new theory why
The EU is not a military alliance, NATO is. There is a substantial difference between countries being in the EU only and being in NATO (either only or along with the EU.)
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Lots of discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39556325
I personally keep in my daily backpack a reusable Baggu that packs down nicely and doesn’t take up much space. As long as you have a daily bag/purse/whatever and you’re not strapped for space, it’s pretty easily solved, yeah. I live in not-NYC so I also keep a bag in the car.

I have some sympathy if you find yourself on a weekend out and about and needing to spontaneously buy some victuals and don’t have any bag on you - but that’s the cost of us having less litter.
For the 'CPU to GPU Copy Bandwidth' section the more likely reason GPU -> CPU copy is slow is there's no reason to do it. Adreno is unified memory, you can just mmap that GPU buffer on the CPU. This is done on Android via the "gralloc" HAL, also called (A)HardwareBuffer.

CPU->GPU is still valuable in that it's where texture swizzling happens to optimize the data for non-linear access, and vendors are all cagey about documenting these formats. But I don't think there's a copy engine for it at all, i think it's just CPU code. If you run a perfetto trace you can see adreno actually using multiple threads for this, likely why CPU->GPU is then so much faster than the reverse. But you almost never need non-linear output, so since vendor-specific swizzling isn't helpful you just don't bother and use shared memory between the two.
Alan thinks [0] "The Dream Machine" book [1] is the only accurate and good book on Xerox PARC.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22379275

[1] The Dream Machine" by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Hey, author here.
Does this happen in the playground, home page or extension? Will look into it!
PTSD and generalized anxiety disorder are very different scenarios, so it wouldn't be surprising that treatments for one wouldn't be effective for the other.

The initial data looks promising in this case, so it'll be interesting to see how the studies develop.
I ran into this in Zork before seeing it in real life. I feel seen that it's mentioned in the article.
Well-chosen passwords stored properly are always private. Passwords also tend to have much longer lifetimes than links.
Be aware that Nintendo will eventually DMCA this and potentially sue them. Nintendo is a mega corp of lawyers.
Wikipedia would suggest that the Kingdom of Sweden has involved itself in multiple military conflicts in the past century or so, including NATO ops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Sweden#...
Ah, so mythology.

Most of the European nations with F-35 currently either joined the program from the beginning decades ago, or want to participate in nuclear deterrent and have no other option (unless France decides to share their nukes, but that hasn't happened yet, and you can bet they'll want you to buy Rafale for the privilege if they do), or want stealth capabilities which nobody else can offer right now, or want greater compatibility with the US munitions stockpile which is vastly larger than what Europe has available... etc.

Jets take a long time to develop, the time for Europe to get serious about "strategic autonomy" in that respect was 2 decades ago. That didn't happen, so now the F-35 is the only option if they want the capability to penetrate Russian ground-based air defenses and consistently beat the Su-57 (cough all 8 of them, but it's possible they scale up eventually).
Between Walgreens and Fedex the have made it crazy convenient to upload my images to get them printed in high quality format in any size I want for a fairly cheap price. If you don't have one nearby the library offers decent priced alternative. A b/w printer is all I need and will definitely be avoiding subscriptions however possible
FWIW, most games before early 2000s built all their tooling from scratch as there wasn't off the shelf engines to use. Unreal engine came out in 98 and Source in 2004
Everyone is responsible for making the world a better place.
> potentially involving itself in conflicts regardless if Swedes want to be involved or not

The Riksdag voted 269–37 to pass the NATO accession bill, and my understanding is that this is representative of the majority of the Swedish population.

Since NATO’s rules regarding military conflict are a rather conspicuous part of NATO membership, I’d hazard to say the Swedes are being quite explicit about the sort of involvement they desire.
My company is currently being acquired, but the signs were there for over a year:

- A lack of guiding objectives and growth plans (which are vital in this particular industry)

- Major personnel change on the executive team. New exec had lead CIC events at several prior orgs.

- Complete re-organization of the development side of the business, with a focus on cost cutting and separation into separate divisions.

- Entirely new HR dept hired. More red tape and internal scrutiny.

- Increased political power consolidation within legal department, with several odd (politically motivated?) high level promotions there.

- Lack of internal promotion and compensation. Not replacing personnel who left because of this environment.

Any one of these wouldn’t be a red flag by itself, but all combined were a fairly clear indication.
How about

“Tesla cars vulnerable to takeover attack with cheap hardware” instead of making it seem like the tool is to blame? Tesla is entirely to blame for security mistakes, not the tools