skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which further increases the distance for a pedestrian to walk, even if it’s literally next door

Rotate your thoughts 90 degrees. As you rightfully point out, there is no need to lengthen the crosswalk nore is there any need to increase the distance between sidewalks, which would be counterproductive. Increasing the width of the entrance and exit points of the crosswalk increases the visibility of cars and pedestrians to each other. This space prevents pedestrians from popping out from behind cars. This widening usually means removing 3-4 parking spaces "upstream" from the crosswalk.

> As mostly a pedestrian, I appreciate what you do.

As a favor to this drives-like-an-old-man, could you set an example for others and use something that makes you more visible at night? A black hoodie with black pants on a black road at night makes it hard to see you at enough distance to give you safe clearance.

True story: I was traveling at 11 p.m. on 89, a few miles south of Burlington, Vermont, when I saw a faint flicker of white in the distance. My lizard brain started slow braking until I could see the white flicker was a doe standing in the right lane. Then I braked hard. It was a happy ending for all as the deer stood still as I slowly passed it.

If I hadn't seen the white, it could have been disastrous for all.
You are forgetting that merely the fact that your product is open source doesn't mean you won't go bankrupt because you are going to compete with HP, Brother, Samsung, Lexmark, etc. 99.9% of people don't care that your gizmo is open source, they want to print - and ideally cheaper and better than elsewhere. If the only thing in your favor is open source then you will fail in the market. Also any low quantity, boutique production is by definition going to be more expensive that mass produced models.

And don't get me started on the patent minefield that covers many aspects of printer technology. You will have to license those - or be sued into oblivion.

Good luck!

People calling for "someone" to make open source this or that are usually completely ignoring elementary economics of the endeavor. It really has zero to do with any sort of government tracking dots conspiracy (not all printers do that) or that there is supposedly no demand to print at home (if that was true then HP etc. would have been bankrupt already and not making more crappy consumer printers).

Oh and that completely ignores the elephant in the room - do you think that the fact the printer firmware is by some hypothetical magic open source now will prevent the OEM from DRMing the toner/inks? The DRM is not meant to prevent dedicated individuals to bypass it - only to keep 99% of people who barely know how to put new consumables in from using competitor's supplies. Those are certainly not going to flash firmware without the DRM into their printers en masse.

Most people don't unlock/jailbreak their phones either - they want to use them as phones, not to hack this or that. They don't have the technical skills required either - and won't pay others to do it in any significant quantity. Heck, if you want to hack your DRMed printer you could do that even today already, there are hacks and DRM bypasses for many of those DRMed printers online ...

An open source printer is a mirage and a complete red herring.
What practical difference would joining NATO make in the short term though?

Ukraines problems are logistical and attrition and they have very strong NATO support. The red lines about prodding Russia will still exist and the supply shortages across the EU will as well.

Joining NATO makes sense in peace time and so diplomats can hang out at conferences and get formally connected to intelligence data. But how different is that to the data feeds Ukraine gets today?
There is a legal blocker and that is the war. Nato can not admit a member that is at war with Russia without starting a huge war.
> Looking at their cheapest plan which is $7 a month for 20 pages.

And if you cancel within a year you pay a $120 fee ($60 if more than a year and less than two years). Meanwhile, you could get an identical-except-the-serial-number printer model (ENVY 6065e) from Best Buy for $71.

What if I want to cancel my printer plan?

You can cancel anytime. However, if you cancel after the first 30 days but still within the first two years, there is a cancellation fee.

Printer
HP ENVY 6020e

After 30 days and up to 12 months from enrollment date
$120

After 12 months and up to 24 months from enrollment date
$60
Cars are the suburban denizen's power armor. They are not a tool, they are an extension of the self. Walk up to a person in a car and lay your hand on the hood - they will likely react as if they felt a stranger's caress on the small of their back
Well hopefully we can continue actually studying benefits of psychedelic treatment in a medical setting because for about 30-40 years it was a dead field thanks to the government being oh-noesies in the late 60s. Maybe they should have put more money into understanding the drug from a medicinal perspective and not as a chemical agent against enemy troops or covert assassination through hyperdosing.
I think the argument is, if its okay for eastern European nations to run to NATO (and we defend it as self determination), it should be fine when countries decided to run the opposite way (toward the USSR in this case). I will be honest, I agree.I believe Ukraine has the right to self determine their own relationships on the international stage, and I also believe Cuba does too. Although to me, the biggest fuck is, we didn't have like Cuba, we just needed a relationship sufficient enough for Cuba to side with us instead of the USSR. And I think that was a mistake. We do this Saudi Arabia, we should not be on as good of terms with Saudi Arabia as we are. But the reality is, if we are not, some other heavily influential country on the international stage will.
I'm in favor of more bike lane infrastructure, but I think the evidence being cited here doesn't line up with the claims.

The headline is "Bike lane are good for business" and immediately below it says "Study after study proves it" but:

(regarding an SF study)

> The results were mixed.

> In the other district, sales tanked relative to the number of people a shop employed

> “The takeaway is that it’s probably a minimal effect on businesses when you put in a bike lane,”

(regarding another study)

> Once again, the results were mixed.

(regarding "the most definitive study"):

> Like Poirier, Liu and Shi found that in many cases, only certain kinds of businesses benefited from the bike lanes and street improvements.

The top-line the article is trying to draw is that there's some unambiguous evidence that it's "good for business", but really some businesses benefit, some don't, and some projects have little effect. The reports they're drawing on themselves seem biased or sloppy in how they handle evidence. One of the studies cited showed that businesses on the "road diet" being studied had a _lower_ percentage growth in revenue than the "Non-road diet" group (table 4), but the text of the report then decides that absolute sum of revenue growth is more important ... even the road-diet group was substantially larger both in terms of starting revenue and number of businesses.

This kind of deceptive summarizing isn't going to help the bike-infrastructure cause, because the opponents to this kind of project can easily pick it apart.

https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/yorkblvd_mccormick.pdf
NATO could even allow Ukraine to join as a indirect declaration of war. If Russia attacks Finland (or any NATO country) today, Ukraine will probably be invited to join instantly - NATO would already be at war and expanding the scope help NATO (giving some place else to attack from) far more than the need to defend an additional country would hurt.
To be fair, abandoning our Kurdish allies (and before them, our Hmong allies) is an ongoing American theme.

I had a good Kurdish friend who came over on a US carrier after we abandoned them after the Gulf War...
Twitter/X, especially for an issue like this one, is not at all a credible source IMHO. Disinformation and misinformation on Twitter is a cliche; it's overwhelming.
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Ohh. Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
If you haven't noticed, Russia is actively reclaiming territory it claims as historically Russian. Why does it stop at Ukraine?
A mile or two? A typical rider can comfortably cover 10km in 30 minutes without very much exertion if it's not particularly hilly.
We'd all be happy perforce users :)

(For a long time, before git and subversion, even though the official freebsd repo was in CVS, a lot of development happened in perforce)
Thank you.

That rhymes with the sentiment I gauged (anecdotally) from (West) Ukrainians, Belarusians and even some folk in St Petersburg.
Man Who Laundered Billions in Bitcoins Says Bitcoin Fog Was a Help: Bloomberg
A lot of Asian schools have that. State tier board exams that are standardized for every year of high school.
In the UK, I’ve had a cheap HP printer for several years, with their subscription, which delivers ink cartridges when needed. It’s free up to 15 pages per month, at which point I believe it’s £1 per 10 pages, ad-hoc. I very very rarely print anything so virtually every month is free. And the couple of times I’ve had to print more than 15 pages, I’ve paid the £1 and that was it.

It works perfectly for me, but if they tried to pull this same $7/mo minimum here, I’d ditch it immediately. I’m not paying $84/year just for the few times a year I need to print something.
London UK and a bunch of other European cities have this. Not sure where you got this idea.
I really never understood how this statement and "NATO expanded to aggressively" were seen as contradictory. Putin's government wants to put the boot on Russia's neighbors, and NATO was in the process of taking that option away from them, and that's why they committed to war. They're not lying about their motivations, they are phrasing them in head-of-state speak. The same goes for denazification, which is thinly veiled code for intervening in who's allowed to govern Ukraine.
It's not a number - each person's history is unique so its a lot more nuanced than that.

When hiring we're looking for someone who'll fit, someone who will add to the whole. Hiring people is expensive, each new person is a lot of time invested. We want to feel like you'll want to stay for a while.

Getting that feeling is hard, and of course there are no guarantees in life, but we don't treat people as fungible. You are you, and we can't just go down to the supermarket and replace you.

History is no predictor of the future, but it can be a signal.
> All organizations and citizens shall support, assist, and cooperate with national intelligence efforts in accordance with law, and shall protect national intelligence work secrets they are aware of.

That's as vague as it can be. Does any country not have similar laws?
I love it. Just sitting here daydreaming how nice transit in San Diego could be if the trolley had just one or two officers per station and one on the train. The residents of mega apartments built on the stations would actually use them. The parking situation downtown could improve. The evening congestion would lighten. People would rather struggle with parking and traffic even if they live at a transit station with the trains in their current unpoliced state.
Applause for Lunar Failure Follows Decades of Space Program Cheerleading
And it is, actually, a pretty decent game!

Like the little-known console sequels to Far Cry, you later get infected with the gunk you're dealing with and it opens up the game a bit by adding extra abilities.
Not if Azeri bribes have anything to say about it
> Absolutely massive own-goal.

never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake
No. NYC crime is lower than almost every major city.

It's always fun when finding out someone who lives in a rural area has a higher per capita crime rate than NYC while they complain about how NYC is a crime shithole.
Xerox made a ROI of 20000% on the laser printer alone [1]. A better version lecture Alan did for Ycombinator startups [2] but doesn't focus on the return of investment.

Xerox did shrink a bit since then.

[1] https://youtu.be/NdSD07U5uBs?t=1828
[2] https://youtu.be/1e8VZlPBx_0?t=975
A find like this will get more interesting in the future when the artifacts are from the era of git. Imagine you find a single developer's git clone, and suddenly you have the full source history of the project.
The largest country on Earth murders people for merely expression an opinion and a massive chunk of our planet's geological wealth is funneled to fund wars of aggression.

This sovereign decision is in perfect alignment with Sweden's value and security needs. Yet, that the decision involved kissing the rings of other no-good men (Erdogan and Orban) tells me we need a paradigm shift.

Is it legal to crowdfund Putin's early retirement? I'm sure there's a number that will guarantee getting him out of office. Asking for a friend. ;-)
You can still buy their printers though.

I am comparing this to going out and getting prints from staples. because thats what this is, this is a subscription service meant to target infrequent (but consistent) printing that people may just go to staples for.

People that may not want to think about wether their printer works (this includes a warranty btw), what their ink level is and not need to drop a decent amount of money on ink when they run out, etc.

The simple fact is, this is cheaper going to those stores to print. That alone means it is competitively priced.

If it isn't for you, thats fine. But it would not be hard to justify this compared going to staples on a regular basis. Especially if you don't already have a printer.
You find it so obvious to be almost snarky about it. Almost no one in my city thinks like that, most see bikes only as recreational vehicle, or as the last resort for deviants and DUI-convicts. For these people, shopkeepers included, a bikelane is an assault on parking and therefore common sense.
Are we coming to the point where it might be cheaper to handout e-ink displays with embedded PDF of your document, than printing a few pages?
ChatGPT Plugins are being replaced by GPTs. Here's why – and what it means
It is much more crispy for general graphics, with much less problem handling rounding errors and getting lost in antialiasing and fractions that you don't have a place to put into, since hardware does that for you globally for the entire framebuffer. It uses the same amount of battery power when done right (i.e. not using GPU, like GTK did, but the output encoder, like Apple does) and for games, compositors nowadays support overlays with exact virtual resolution and scaling, as the game needs.
Parking on a sidewalk is a violation of many rules and norms, but the one that matters the most to me is that people in wheelchairs cannot maneuver around these. I tried reporting some in my local neighborhood via 311 but it's pretty much useless (I'm fairly confident the car was an unmarked cop car anyway).

I have yelled (successfully) at ebike riders that go on the sidewalk; they ended up apologizing to me even though I speak no Spanish and they spoke little English. There are tons of kids in my neighborhood and it takes a village etc.
I have such limited knowledge of this stuff it's all just gut, but I'd be aligned with you when pushed to comment. The best solution is probably no solution, it's going to happen and that's that.
I just have this vague sense of dread about the tens of thousands of style rules trying to match on each element.
I'm told by maps that Crimea, Donbas and Donetsk regions are part of a nation called Ukraine, and Russia sent tanks, jets and bombs to destroy cities against the wishes of the government of Ukraine.

That's what is known in international diplomacy as a "dick move".
If you're interested in biological cell programming, you'll need a VR/AR biological cell editor and simulator, of course!

LifeBrush - Constructing an interactive cytoskeleton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CsxADBpal0

>comment: I didn't realize that Bob Ross had gotten into bio-molecular organelle simulations.

Timothy Davidson's videos:

https://www.youtube.com/@TimothyDavison/videos

Timothy Davison:

https://timd.ca/

CellWalk for Apple Vision Pro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8DOAPPjMw0

CellWalk:

https://cellwalk.ca/

Building Structural Models of a Whole Mycoplasma Cell:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00222...
You're confused. The US doesn't control the EU in any way.

Or maybe you're not confused and you just object to the US and/or EU, but that's your problem, not theirs.

Terminology note: 'independency' is an archaic form of 'independence' which in this context means a self-governing state as opposed to being controlled by another state. This might be confused with 'interdependence' which is a natural reality of almost everything on earth, but especially those who cooperate and work and trade together.
Nice post but “car lane” is automobile propaganda
This particular area has had very heavy bus coverage for years. It actually has fewer buses servicing it now, and to get out of the neighborhood you have to switch over to the light rail.
The German armed forcea are really capabale of doing, or fielding, anything in meaningfull numbers ever since the end of the cold war. No big surprise here.
The semantics of C don't allow for alias analysis. For some cases, the compiler can prove that there are no aliases, but it will have to be conservative and throw up its hands most of the time.

An ownership/borrowing system is able to implicitly fulfill the requirements of restrict.
Ah yes, it's NATO that wants war, it's certainly not NATO countries being reasonably concerned about a certain neighbor that keeps invading neighboring democracies.

I'm sure without being in NATO or the EU, Estonia and Latvia would be left completely alone and unharmed by Russia, just like Ukraine! They certainly wouldn't have been a smaller and easier target.
Apple is a monopolist on a service that is public.

Termination of developer account in this case merits FTC action.
> We should thank people that put him there. Checks notes - The United States. Huh?!

There's nothing inherently wrong with an administration exercising soft power to help a favoured politician in another country – even if they sometimes turn out to be dictators – but in this instance I think it's disingenuous to suggest that the United States "put [Putin into power]", assuming you're referring to the United States' inaction after the FSB apartment bombings?

> Wait. Putin got voted person of the year 2007?

Time's Person of the Year Award is specifically scoped to not be an endorsement or celebration of the winner. Think of it more as a measure of outsized impact on the world in a given year.
The article delivers what it promises. While it may not be concise, that doesn't make it clickbait.
I think it’s because automobile transportation defines an entire lifestyle.

The cost of vehicle ownership needs to be offset by suburban real estate to justify it.

When much our our auto infrastructure is operating over capacity at peak times, the idea of doing anything but doubling down on automobile infrastructure means these folks will be doomed to have suboptimal transit for the rest of their lives.

Transportation alternatives only help folks who haven’t built their lives around a car.
> if the US did then Russia would be destroyed

So would a lot of the US. I'm not sure Americans would want to die over this.
There was no debate because everyone was on board. I'm so sick and tired about people lying about this online. There was an election! And many, many polls! ALL OF THEM SHOWED LIKE 80% SUPPORT!

But the anti-Nato people are butthurt and feel the need to rewrite history to foreigners.

Din jävla fjant.
I edited my comment to clarify that I was talking about prosumer level printers. Agreed that the consumer ones are awful.
Rivian R2 revealed: a $45,000 electric off-roader for the masses
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Looking for reliable and privacy-conscious meeting transcribers.

I am in love with the idea of services like Otter.ai that transcribe a meeting for you, and give recommendations or insights. Has anyone found our used software for meetings like this?
Montréaler here. A surprising amount of people cycle all winter long; the days where you see no one cycling about are typically days where you wouldn't even want to be outside in a car due to the inclement weather.

Winter cycling is actually popular enough that our bike-share system has started to leave a portion of the sharing infrastructure out during the colder months. They put studded tires on the bikes, put the stations in locations where they aren't in the way of snow plows and the like, and people use them quite a bit! Something like 1,500-5,000 rides per day, just in the shared infrastructure. That doesn't count the even larger number of people here who have their own dedicated winter bike.
Filing a CVE used to be a dialog between the researcher, developers, and third-party domain experts. Accepting every random LLM-generated report and granting it a 9.8 score is not useful in any way.

I have to patch hundreds of CVEs in a month, and only a handful are actually valid. The vast majority is "CVSS 9.8: regex complexity explosion in $library" which my project only uses during build. But I've got to patch it, because it's definitely absolutely critical.

While the standard library bug that causes SSL connections to fall back to TLS1.1 instead of TLS1.3 by default is considered WONTFIX and gets REJECTED for a CVE.
I work in Oceanography.. The solar panels on individual buoys also get cleaned by rain, and can work ok vertically because of reflections. We have special diode bypass panels made so if 10% is covered in poop (SeaLion poop in our case) only 10% of the power is reduced.

Our biggest problem with small wind turbines on buoys is fishingpeople throwing line into them.

But yea, solar for power generation at sea is not realistic.. and you are stealing it from the tiny animals that make up our carbon sink.
https://twilightzone.whoi.edu/explore-the-otz/value-of-the-o...
... and they're angry, too.
More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628842
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39629271
- "Benjamin C. Pierce's category theory textbook contains a page with the sentence "This Page Intentionally No Longer Blank""
the person you're responding to also claims there is no 'credible evidence' of rape - they're a troll