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I worked at HP from 2014 to 2021, though not for the Instant Ink team.

The TL;DR is that I think Instant Ink is an absolutely fine program that's ruined by morons that either can't read or think they're devious and think they're going to be able to swindle HP out of ink for pennies.

The first thing you absolutely must know is that Instant Ink is an optional program. You still have the ability to buy and use normal ink cartridges. IMO, that alone should shrug most criticism of the Instant Ink program. You think it's a scam? Fine. Don't subscribe to it. Done.

Second, Instant Ink is not a subscription to ink cartridges, it's a subscription to printed pages. The ink is merely provided as a vehicle to provide the printed pages that you're paying for. That's why the Instant Ink subscription tiers are based on printed pages, and not based on ink used.

This means that if you subscribe to Instant Ink, get your cartridges, then cancel the plan, of course you don't get to keep printing with the cartridges! You didn't pay for the ink!

This is not scumbag behavior. You didn't pay for the ink. You paid for printed pages. You canceled your subscription, your quota ran out, so why would you think you get to keep printing with those cartridges?

But...people think they're geniuses! They rub their hands together while thinking "Heheh, I'll buy a month of Instant Ink, get my cartridges, then cancel, and I'll have received ink for only $3!" then go into an absolute rage against HP when they go through their quota and their printer won't print anymore. It's completely stupid.

If you print frequently and will actually use most of your quota, Instant Ink is a great program that actually does save you money on ink! But people misunderstand (likely deliberately) how it works, and think it's a scam and that HP is a shitty company for it.
Let me do something similar to you what you did with this comment: allowing Russia to develop nukes shouldn't have been tolerated, the morally correct course of action was to prevent it.
> Western values

Like killing women sheltering inside churches? https://www.timesofisrael.com/christian-mother-daughter-kill...
That only works if you are filling your side of the bargain. If you depend on the US and don't have your own army equipped, and the US depends on your army and isn't equipped to rescue you it all fails.
I like this refreshed model of the “eyeball” planet — perfect, endless beam reach sailing.
Let's do Armenia next.
I think that only affects Technology institutes that are run by the PLA? Like Beijing Institute of Technology or Harbin institute of technology, but they do not seem to be enforcing it for PKU, Shanghai Jiaotong, or Tsinghua.

The crazy thing is that these are generally lower tier universities in China. What a strange law. I can imagine this making those universities much less popular in future admittances.
Every MD employee I know (grand total of 2) left the company after the Boeing merger and thought Boeing ruined everything. The two people that I know were in the space sector however, so it could be different depending on where in the companies you were.
Would the US really risk its name and face ignoring their biggest and most powerful military alliance? Honour and keeping your word are very important in geopolitics, especially among countries that have been allied for almost a century, and you won't remain the top dog very long if you avoid your duties at the first difficulty.

So yes, if Russia attacks Latvia, you better believe the US is gonna send everything they have against Russia. That's the whole point of NATO.
Why did taxes go up? That seems to be separate from the issue of construction causing an inconvenience, but is apparently a decisive factor.

FWIW the Civic Center area of SF used to be the theater district before BART was built through there in an extremely invasive cut and cover way, which led to theaters shuttering and being replaced by ... seedier operations.[0]

[0] Source: I remember reading this somewhere like ten years ago
Hopefully someone will write a source code review to explain how this all worked!
While I want to be optimistic about competitors to big tech, I always fear that if your pitch is "it's not big tech" that won't be enough. This is 3 times more expensive than similar offerings from google and apple. Obviously I understand the economics of scale. Obviously I understand there might be other factors allowing big tech to sell this for cheaper. All I'm saying is I worry this app will not survive as I don't think most consumers believe "isn't big tech" is worth 3x more.
> even proving a function is total is hard.

It's best left to the compiler.

But if you're considering doing it, don't imagine yourself taking an existing function like qsort and trying to prove it's total. Instead try building up a new function and only build it out of other total functions.
Wow, thanks for both links! From Alan's HN/u comment, it does still appear that Dealers of Lightning is a worthwhile read ("nowhere near the bottom"—A.Kay), just confusing (chronologically) at times [I agree].

I've added Dream Machine to my reading list (but will wait a year, as I just finished Dealer's Lightning early 2024).
Why should Arab countries fix a problem they haven't created?

This looks to me as a proxy war led by the US, Israel went too far with killing civilians, and now the US needs some PR to look good in the books of history.
Thank you for drawing our attention to this! Our blog content surpassed the RSS limit awhile ago, we are working on paginating the feed so new content fits.
I love these types of improvements - I figure they don't really have a practical application (except for shaving a few milliseconds off ultra large matrices), but they're a testament to human ingenuity and the desire to strive for perfection no matter how far out of reach.
Anecdotally, it actually kind of exacerbated anxiety for weeks afterward. But overall I think it is a positive experience.
I think a lot of paid parking has a lot of additional stress

* trying to figure out if you are being ripped off, so you keep driving around to make sure there isn’t some much cheaper option

* in some spots, worrying about having to go back and pay additional money if you are taking too long

* worrying about leaving your car overnight

My favorite paid parking area is downtown Pomona, California where there are a ton of city-run parking lots with easy payment with very affordable prices and even an option to extend your time until the morning just in case (and it’s like $2). Zero parking stress whenever I go to see a concert there.
Hospital Radio
It's only piracy if it's private individual doing it, otherwise it's just “ask for forgiveness not for permission”-type Capitalism.
In my opinion a tristate solution is the best approach. If you want democracy and coexistence you go to the good place, if you want that not you goto the bad place.

Judgment not on group basis, but individual basis with massive surveillance as basis for review..

Could send the extremists of both sides to the bad place for bonus points.
> You won't find a specific link, but at some point if you generate millions of urls the 1024 bits will start to return values pretty quick through bruteforce.

Not even close. 1024 bits is a really, really big address space.

For the sake of argument and round numbers, let's say that there are 4.2 billion (2^32) valid URLs. That means that one out of every 2^992 randomly generated URLs is valid. Even if you guessed billions of URLs every second, the expected time to come up with a valid one (~2^960 seconds) is still many orders of magnitude greater than the age of the universe (~2^59 seconds).
I mean we have laws that regulate cable networks so I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
For the 1990s, that Sony demo video looks amazing. The colors pop, skin pores are visible, brush strokes are visible! The colors and styles are very 90s, but it was the 90s so things are expected to look that way.
There is the American–Japanese–Korean trilateral pact signed in 2023. The US and South Korea, Philippines, and Japan have bilateral defense treaties.

The US used to have treaty with Taiwan. There was proposed NEATO in the 50s, but Korea wasn't over WW2, and Japan is defense-only in constitution.

The big problem is that signing defense treaty with Taiwan would require change to the status quo and probably kick off a war.
Can you provide a source for this? This has not been my experience, nor have I heard this anywhere before, and I am quite involved in the psychedelic community.
Hand-dug berms are certainly technology, but perhaps not “high technology”.

And desertification is a natural process, see the Middle East or the Sahara itself, but perhaps accelerated by human impact.
The humans should definitely be responsible for making their world a better place
This happened to me. After one particularly intense trip I couldn't even look at a television for 6 months without having really jarring visual hallucinations. A few years of panic attacks too.

I quit taking LSD after that one and all psychoactives not much longer after.
Boa release v0.18: A JavaScript engine written in Rust
Proverbs (ie some advice on coding)
Ask HN: How can my startup break a monopoly?
Hi. I'm a co-founder of a startup focused on anti-money laundering in crypto.

There is a big company in the space called Chainalysis. 70% of the governments that care about these things use them. The other 30% are divided between Elliptic and TRM Labs.

The issue is: when a company is buying AML software, the only real law besides doing KYC is that you must "known-your-transactions".

The only companies that the central banks of each country trust for doing KYT are the three I mentioned earlier because they're the ones working with the banks.

We can't get a central bank to give us the OK because there are no written rules, it's just: "you have to be a trusted source". FYI - the people they rely on to judge the trusted sources are the investors of these three big companies. It's a full-on lobbying effort to keep out any competition.

We can't get a big company to trust us because the central bank of the country they're in hasn't given us the OK.

So where do we even begin?

We have, in my opinion, a very good product that can outperform the competition in a lot of cases, and we've tested it. We've done a few B2C sales and have traction but it doesn't move the needle.

Any advice?
They released a cell to cpp compiler last year: https://www.cell-lang.net/version-0.7.html

GitHub: https://github.com/cell-lang/c-cpp/tree/master/src/compiler
Yeah. We should thank people that put him there. Checks notes - The United States. Huh?!

Wait. Putin got voted person of the year 2007?
I believe some part of it is that this is led by the governor, and the governor can’t deploy NYPD on her own. The subway is also a state system, so deploying a state system (National Guard) to another state system makes sense to me.
Rivian R2
"ive been in the industry 15 years, doing this shit is an immediate no!"

then you try to get them to explain TCP/IP or fix a for-loop and they're stumped.
> I know Ukraine will not and cannot do this, but writing off it's East and Crimea would enable NATO membership and EU ascension.

No, it wouldn't.

NATO deciding it was willing to piss off Russia (which is why, without those active conflicts, Ukraine and Georgia were denied MAPs in 2008) would allow NATO membership. There's no actual rule that would prevent Ukraine from joining during the invasion (and even if there was, any NATO rule can be changed, either in a general way or to add a sui generis exception, by the same group -- all NATO members agreeing together -- required to admit a new member under the existing rule, so the rule would not actually be an additional barrier.)

"But," you might object, "even if there is not a rule preventing it, Ukraine joining while the Russian invasion continues would be impractical because it would immediately trigger Article 5, as long as Russian forces were engaging Ukrainian forces anywhere in the country, or even occupying any part of the country."

That could be managed, though, by admitting Ukraine while adopting either a general (for later review) or temporary with explicit time limits or other terminating conditions exclusion of some parts of its territory from Article 5 (not all the territory of all NATO members is covered by Article 5 now.)
the US believes Russia invading more of Europe is not in their interest. I'm not sure why that is hard to understand.
They'll just let their ai do it over lunch.
Expanding on this; I believe the issue we face in America regarding this "re-integration" of people who held these views back into society at large is due to our fixation and cultural views on punishment.

Colonial settlers were (largely) Protestants, and up until 2012, they were the religious majority in America. Protestantism provides overwhelming support for punishment due to the ideas of biblical literalism, inherent sin, and the belief that physical punishment can be a spiritual lesson. I mean, people are called bad parents because they don't spank their kids.

Obviously, this permeates a lot of American culture and viewpoints when it comes to non-familial punishment. I think even if we do see a large shift in religious views in America, these views will stay because they're so ingrained in the culture.
HMD Fusion could bring modular add-ons to smartphones (again)
Local bikeshare has been a godsend for me. I own like 5 bikes but they're all either fancy or broken, but I can walk a couple blocks, almost always grab a bike immediately, and ride off.
> Ah, I see. You've changed from talking about concepts and conceptual understanding to talking about computations.

No, or at least I did not mean to: I said "know how to compute", not "compute". One typically uses the Schrodinger equation to do so (although Pauli did not need it), but this starting point is nowhere to be found here.

> I agree that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is important, but it certainly be derived from Aaronson's point of view (e.g. the standard Robertson-Schrödinger inequality is easily obtained).

Robertson-Schrödinger is fairly trivial, at least in Aaronson's finite-dimensional world. But you conveniently forgot how to "derive" the part of QM that actually gives you the value of the commutator sitting on the right-hand side. So will you just postulate it? That sounds pretty terrible pedagogically, and it might be better to provide at least some general discussion. And that discussion is exactly what I am advocating as a necessary ingredient in any self-respecting introduction to (let alone derivation of) QM.

> I also think that self-adjoint operators and the correspondence principle are a fairly terrible way to think about observables in quantum mechanics.

No teacher of QM should introduce POVMs before talking about positions and momenta.
I agree entirely with your assessment.

My phrasing was specific to the Oct 7 attack because that event was the provication of the current conflict.

Despite policies like "mowing the grass" being catalysts for the Oct 7 attack, my point is that Isreal has stated a clear objective: elimination of Hamas. Their terror tactics are described in the Wiki link you provided appear to be supportive of that goal too.

Hamas has also stated a clear objective so far as I know: destruction of the Isreal state (potentially also of all Jews, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say just the state).

I'm undereducated on the issue, but to me it seems that there is no reconciliation of these goals. They are not simultaneously achievable.

My estimate is this conflict could end today if Hamas conceded. What would become of Palestine is a different matter. Their current authority, the PA, seems to have a policy of paying familes for insurgent deaths. Isreal probably won't want them running the show,and they definitely won't want Hamas running it. Other bordering countries like Jordan and Egypt seem to want nothing to do with Palestinians. The Palestinian children appear to be raised to hate Isrealies and are taught to murder, perhaps justifiably (and maybe this is wrong and only propaganda).

I want this fixed, and I can see a path forward where Palestine embraces sovereignty and becomes a mecca of the world by operating as a tax haven for businesses. But in order to do that they need to determine their goal is peace, and ally with other countries for protection against Isrealie aggression. But that is a hard path forward when starting at current state, including the world view held by Palestinians.

And maybe I'm entirely wrong in this post. But my GP post was specific to my perceived, orthogonal objectives of both sides.
Militarily the USA has always had the need to keep stockpiles: it's been in many, many wars or performing larger military maneuvers for the past 70+ years.

European militaries didn't have to consider a large production capacity, neither stockpiling weapons since mostly weren't involved in large military actions (exceptions probably are France and the UK). In terms of efficiency that is what is expected, why waste taxes for stockpiling unused weapons?

Europe dropped the ball after 2014 on not taking note that Russia was going in a new direction, Georgia 2008 was an early warning but Ukraine 2014 should've been a massive alarm that at least some production capacity was needed. Still, it wasn't at all politically viable at the time, it'd be political suicide for any politician outside of Eastern Europe to spend more money on the military and its industry rather than education, healthcare, etc.

Since 2022 everything has changed, the change is slow but steady and will only keep happening, Rheinmetall is steadily growing production, and many other military industries are expanding across the continent, Putin made politically viable for Europe to spend on its military again.
> asking everyone to take on that responsibility just because I'd like more freedom, isn't as good as you think it is.

That's news to me. I haven't yet told my mom how to enable developer settings on her Android device, but apparently she's at risk because an optional setting exists on her phone.

While we're at it, let's remove all the potential scam-vectors on iOS. Like you said, it's just not good to ask people to accept the responsibility for more freedom. First we have to remove the App Store, to prevent stuff like fake LastPass apps from being accidentally installed on your phone. Next we have to remove SMS and calling capabilities - both are hot-spots for social engineering attacks, and cannot be trusted without direct supervision. Gotta axe Safari too, can't have people randomly sharing information over the internet without exposing them to risk. Apple Music too, can you imagine how dangerous it is letting your child use a platform filled with expletives and free speech?

Soon enough we'll have it, the perfect phone. It's featureset? Oh, I though we were designing jewelry.
There will always be crazies, should that prevent us form discussing issues?
The increase in the number of administrators has also infected US healthcare and government agencies.
Maybe you could use something like GPT 4 vision To include a text description of the image in the transcript
When is the print book coming ?
> Says who?

Rigorous audits in technically savvy jurisdictions:
* San Francisco has a technical population that has passed numerous ordinances focused on protecting privacy of San Franciscans in balance with protecting safety. As such, the San Francisco city government has a Committee on Information Technology, which has a Privacy and Surveillance Advisory Board that evaluates and audits privacy-impacting technology used by the city. Here are their evaluations that cleared ShotSpotter for use in San Francisco. [0] [1]

Logic:
* Why would city government officials pay the very high cost for ShotSpotter (it's $73k per square mile here in my city, Chicago) if they couldn't audit the system or impost contractual, legally enforceable privacy protections?
* ShotSpotter has been a company for a long time, but the only evidence this article presents of ShotSpotter collecting verbal communications is from two courts cases where the verbal communication was incident to a shooting. At some point, absence of evidence becomes pretty plausible evidence of absence.

Economics:
* They have to pay for staff to review every loud noise to meet negotiated SLAs for alert response times (typically under 120s), so they have an incentive to not send audio samples off of sensor-devices unless there's a gunshot-like noise.
* They have no way to monitize loose bits of audio of unidentified people just walking around near sensors, but it would cost money to store this data and would cost a lot of money to organize it for search-ability.

Physics:
* These sensors are mounted high up on poles and buildings, and they are not directional. If sensors have high enough sensitivity to pick up street level voices, then there's a ton of other ambient noise that they'd pick up and the signal would be trash most of the time. It is just the distinct loudness of gunshots that trigger the audio to be written out + transmitted, and the loudness of people while they are in the excited emotional state [needed to shoot someone, or created by being shot or being near a shooting] that enable these recordings to capture audible vocals.

> The people behind these invasive systems who push back hard on the slightest attempt at basic accountability?

I get that that feels true to you, but it's not true. ShotSpotter is a company selling a product to city governments, who have constrained budgets and adequate legal departments and can cut ShotSpotter if they aren't happy with ShotSpotter (my city is dropping ShotSpotter service in September [2]). There are a ton of forces enforcing accountability.

[0] https://sfcoit.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/SFPD_ShotSpot...

[1] https://sfcoit.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/SFPD_ShotSpot...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2024/02/15/1231394334/shotspotter-gunfir...
I think the frustrating part is that if less people were driving there would be less traffic. Bike lanes won't change the equation as heavily but mass transit sure would.
In theory it shouldn't be. In practice, for the vast majority of people, it isn't. If one needs precise time, there are ways to do it. Most things don't need it that precisely. If the sync function requires precise time, then it should schedule syncs, or even use network time rather than system time (it needs a network to sync anyways).

Basically, if it's not an issue people have no incentive to fix it. For the vast majority of people, this is not an issue.
I don't see anyone calling you a NAFO shill, why do you feel entitled to calling others useful idiots?
Also when no working alternative is being offered. Just shutting down car access and offering a bike is difficult to swallow. Add to that a workable public transport network and we may talk. Some people love to drive but having the option to sip your coffee and read the news in a not-overcrowded bus going from across your street to the office building with say only one change in the same time driving requires, is an option quite difficult to beat.
Yeah, right. Study after study can prove whatever the author wants, but the facts of life are that nobody is going shopping on a bike. On a bus, sure, but a bike? I've lived in 2 cities with beautiful, wide bike lanes that nobody parks in (because of fear, not respect). In one they were never used, I've driven countless miles queuing in traffic next to them only to see 1 person per day (while seeing thousands of cars in the same period).

The only realistic use case was with part of the bike lane being next to a park, so it was used recreationally during weekends, mostly by spandex bros but also a wider audience when the weather was good.

People might say they want to bike more, and they would only if xyz, but actions speak louder than words, so perhaps it's time to accept we're wasting public space and money with all these projects that end up being good for nothing.