skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I paid hundreds of dollars to smash a car flat with a big yellow excavator one time. [1] It was very worth it. Let me tell you the secret to smashing a car with an excavator: Command the bucket to hang above the car by a few feet, then suddenly drop it down into the car. This way, gravity will help the hydraulics to drag the mass of the bucket downwards through the car and you'll get a much more powerful strike and reduce wear on the hydraulics.

[1]: I did it here, 20 miles from Philadelphia: https://store.diggerlandusa.com/retail/modifiers/10470/
A knife is an extremely simple tool and you're making a very modest requirement of it (that it should cut cheese). There's no way that a 2023 smartphone is equivalently simple, nor that "Just access arbitrary remote stuff over the Internet" is a similarly modest requirement.

Lets try something appreciably more complex and do an equivalently tricky task. Lets use an 1873 steam train to travel from London to Derby.

We run into more or less the same problem. Functionally, this can work, you'll have to buy the coal from somewhere and hire tankers to move the water where it's needed since there is no longer provision for that- but much harder you'll need to secure an extraordinary amount of special case paperwork to make this happen, because obviously your 1873 steam train isn't authorized to use this route, you will need to retro-fit safety equipment that an 1873 steam train was never designed to work with, and you will need to re-train people to operate it.

Don't worry though, you have preserved the important part - your 150 year old train is still ludicrously unsafe compared to its modern equivalent like the phone. Relatively minor impacts will turn the passenger compartments into kindling, with passengers still inside, because they're basically just a wooden box resting on a simple metal platform, not a monocoque design and even after fitting mandatory safety equipment the train can't effectively stop anywhere close to fast as modern trains if things go wrong.
The article you linked doesn’t say they are.

Its title claims they are, but that appears to be clickbait.

In the body of the article, the author confuses the cancelled always on filter for illegal images that reports to authorities and an opt-in, on-device filter for unwanted adult images.
Quickly Expanding DuckDB's Functionality with Scalar Python UDFs
> I use FolderSync on my android phone

Genuinely curious, if you use Android can you truly de google your life?
They did put this to their audience in a poll back in 2017[1] and the results overwhelmingly said to accept the car manufacturers invitation. The fact they asked publicly and run with full disclosure makes them far better than their peers imo.

[1]https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/03/ars-asks-how-do-you-fee...
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
https://archive.ph/nVc3W
So it's the old adage about privatizing profits and socializing losses (or in this case, needed investments) all over again...
> One of the issues is that it's basically impossible to have competition on a single rail journey joining two large cities

Exactly, we just end up with a large number of micro-monopolies.
The Ostrich Algorithm
Once decoherence has occurred I don’t think it’s meaningful to say that the system exists in a superposition of states. The multiple decohered branches of the wave function can no longer interfere with each other and so there’s no way for them to affect each other, which is why we call them separate worlds. Within each decohered branch there’s an experimental apparatus and a human that sees one specific outcome. This was Everett’s main insight that each observer in each branch experiences what looks like a collapse but is really just their brain becoming entangled with one or other of the measurements.
> Carefully, the chief viticulture engineer of Iwanohara Vineyard, Japan’s oldest operating winery, inspects each of the 5,500 grape vines that make up Iwanohara’s six hectares in Kitagata, Niigata Prefecture.

> So far, Wada has found three bugs after two hours of work. The midday sun beats down, and beads of sweat pool on his neck. Iwanohara focuses on using as few pesticides as possible, an approach that means Wada is using a handmade tool to dig out any insects he finds.

Watching Drops of god on Apple TV I thought the way those wine nuts were portrayed was an exaggeration. Apparently, it wasn’t.
Ask HN: Hundred Year Software
How and what will last 100+ years? If I was to own a domain tied to a google email account today, it is very unlikely that it is going to last 100 years, but it would be interesting to be able to maintain such levels of continuity. How or what will last 100 years?
Unlikely those sequences would pass checksum

Padme meme with checksum
Yeah I keep telling people the universe played a joke on us with the crypto winter happening right before GPT-4 being released.

Flip the timeline and crypto from the start would have had this as a goal.
This right here is a sign of the times: Why shouldn't we expect hardware to last 15+ years? Why shouldn't we expect reasonably priced replacement parts? "Relying on things to break" is an insidious business model.

Yeah, things tend to break much sooner when they're made of moving parts made of flimsy plastic.

We've been conditioned to expect shoddy products sold at a high margin, with few viable options.

inb4 "ackshually printers are sold at a loss" - yeah, not really when you consider that you're actually being locked into high margin [1] ink cartridges.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/sfm7e/til_pr...
> 150 years in the future I don't want to use something from 150 years ago that "still works", I want something that is new with more capabilities

In 150 years you could as well not have anything new on par with the currently available devices.
Try editing the pre style so it has `white-space: pre-wrap`. That works for me. -- This uses `pre` whitespace formatting but wraps to the next line if it is too long, unlike the default `pre` element behaviour.
They didn't need to go that far, and they gaslit people about it. Elon is not responsible for either of those.

And was their existing money pile actually not enough?
This just quickly descends into a "no true Scotsman" argument.

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

It's a Linux kernel and a Linux userland on top of `glibc`. It's not a weird libc, like Bionic in Android. You can run a Debian container and Debian apps; my own ChromeOS Flex machine runs Firefox and DOSemu.

It's a Linux. It's the most successful desktop Linux there is, and so of course all the advocates decry it as not being a True Linux, but then again the Fedora lot think Ubuntu is junk, and the Debian lot think everything is junk, and the Arch folk think they're more cutting-edge, and the NixOS folk think all the rest are still in the stone age somewhere...
PhotoPrism is under AGPL, how is that not fully open source?

https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/blob/develop/LICENS...

https://opensource.org/license/agpl-v3/
Copyrighting AI Model Weights
I discovered SDCD recently. There are many albums mastered in 5.1 channels and they are a joy to listen to.
Then how do you decide who gets a bachelors, masters or PhD? What if I want to have a PhD in computer science but work a normal job? Will the gov pay for it or force me into research? What if I want to be an MD? Will the government pay for that MD while denying others that want a PhD? What happens when someone fails out of school? How do you avoid people using school to avoid the selective service?
C, F77
Thanks for sharing. Its Design looks relatively more clean.
all quantities in virtual worlds are always quantized.
Amidst beauty, shadows may loom,
Zucc's empire, where darkness consumes.
But we navigate, in this digital spree,
Words set minds free, embracing connectivity.
do not leave upload public-open for even minutes
> it'd have huge consequences for businesses and consumers world wide. Short term it'd almost certainly be a net loss for consumers.

I think this would pretty much only be a net loss for EU consumers and businesses. Maybe no longer having access to American tech companies' services would be beneficial long-term but only if EU entrepreneurs build domestic alternatives, which we know is pretty unlikely. I think the reality is that they'll just loosen their laws so they don't get shut out. As we're seeing them do here.
I am fairly confident that the best days of the linux desktop are ahead of us. 3% might become 30% in a few years.

Technology adoption takes strange paths but the history of linux is one of remarkable resilience and capability which augurs well for the future.

My guess is that a key driver of growth will come from power users that will make best use of local AI and data science tools, preserving privacy and commercial secrecy.

While many many casual users will continue using thin clients, effectively outsourcing their digital lives to the "cloud", this is unlikely to continue being the 97%.

The opportunity is, e.g., for all the apps of the linux desktop to start making use of the python ML tools to empower users with unprecedented functionality. There is no reason that all of that new universe must be ceded to a small number of actors.

This opportunity was there for a long time now, ML is not new, but the broader FOSS community is quite reactive. Emulating proprietary / closed tools to a fault (eg the libreoffice suite) rather than exploring the unique opportunities of alternative paths has been the norm.

Luckily the AI hype will work as a kick in the butt. The future is for linux to lose.
Other than being unbelievably slow and of extremely low quality, sure. It so bad and slow that you really have to consider it a different class of product.

Additionally, any ink ribbon printer (or typewriter) will suffer from dry ribbons in occasional service.

Really there's nothing wrong with laser printers. If you want a trouble-free model you need to spend maybe $50 more than the absolute lowest price you can find. If you think about what they do, it's sort of incredible.
I rely on iCloud for sync, but every few months I like to do a full backup of iCloud:

- Go to https://privacy.apple.com
- Choose "Request a copy of your data"
- Select iCloud Photos

After a few days you'll receive a download link to the full iCloud Photos library. Perhaps only available in EU (it's a GDPR-mandated feature).
> But to put it politely - your article comes across as "neurodivergent legalism". [...] That could both be useful to people "neurotypical enough" to want a non-crappy printer,

I think the attempt at politeness here made an oops.
System76 won't make MFC drivers for every MFC there is or make Linux clients for wacky corporate VPNs and Wifi appear.
The big difference I can see is that getlocalcert.net does not require the user to run a DNS server.
I think your framing is wrong here. It’s not so much about what it can and cannot do, of which there are plenty (continuity camera is the best example for me, and that works right out of the box).

It’s more about how well the two phones do similar things. Yes a 200$ phone takes photos and videos, but the image quality is worse and the files ironically tend to be bigger.

Yes it will run all my apps, but they’ll be sluggish cause of bloat in the software stack.

Same idea, but repeat it for everything else.

Now, this may simply not matter to someone, and that’s great they get to save 800$. But to many others, myself included, it does matter.
A fundamental property of theft is that the action deprives someone of something they had. Piracy is not theft-adjacent. It has nothing do to with theft. It's a completely different concept.
> A recent definition of the German authorities clarifies that with „cookies“, they don’t interpret it narrowly as the specific browser technology but any kind of beacon or mechanism for tracking[:] LocalStorage, Web Storage, reading of any kind of serial numbers, ETags, TLS Session IDs (if used for tracking), and any other method for fingerprinting such as font profiling.

To be fair, even the original wording[1] isn’t specific to cookies, only to client-side storage or code—which is also not the precise cause of the problem, but includes all the things you’ve listed:

> (24) Terminal equipment of users of electronic communications networks and any information stored on such equipment are part of the private sphere of the users requiring protection under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. So-called spyware, web bugs, hidden identifiers and other similar devices can enter the user's terminal without their knowledge in order to gain access to information, to store hidden information or to trace the activities of the user and may seriously intrude upon the privacy of these users. The use of such devices should be allowed only for legitimate purposes, with the knowledge of the users concerned.

> (25) However, such devices, for instance so-called "cookies", can be a legitimate and useful tool, for example, in analysing the effectiveness of website design and advertising, and in verifying the identity of users engaged in on-line transactions. [...] Access to specific website content may still be made conditional on the well-informed acceptance of a cookie or similar device, if it is used for a legitimate purpose.

(Emphasis mine.)

Interesting that this also uses the phrase “legitimate purpose”, but in a much broader sense to what the GDPR will eventually use. I did not realize that.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX...
Key is how it compares to competitors like SLS or Ariane 6. At least in terms of launch volume they are crushing competitors
Laser printers still have shitty drivers that decide to not find printers when they're in a mood, or to change your default printer to the networked printer on the other side of the planet because it's the first one alphabetically.
I believe OP meant some features of PhotoPrism is paid.
Oddly, for video games, it’s easier to get older windows games to run under linux than windows.

It’s annoying that this isn’t true for modern Linux desktop software.
> There never going to fully "leave" Xorg (Debian still ships token ring software FFS so the idea that they'll stop shipping X is just a weird fantasy some people have for some reason)

Obviously we're talking about using it as the default display server, and to that end they are and will. X will stay around for compatibility for quite a while of course.

> so in that sense they won't "go back".

No, so they won't switch to some other Xorg system, they'll just keep using what they have.

> Void is already working on packaging Xenocara and I doubt they'll be the last one; OpenBSD will just become the team that provides both a display server and a secure remote shell for lots of the Linux ecosystem.

I'm not sure about every last esoteric Linux distro, but the big ones. To that end, they are the ones actually paying people to develop Xorg and have been for many years. I don't see why they would move to something else even if they did go back to X, which they won't.
Afaik, AWS is still vulnerable to this too for all CloudWatch alerts. Go ahead and spoof a CloudWatch email as there is no way to ensure its authenticity.
Why are people paying for that?

HP just released an auto-update to block my printer (without my consent), I’m going to smash it in front of their offices soon for free.
That’s life.

I can’t count the number of times some rando Microsoft patch has boned a massive global infrastructure.
I think most of HN has only tried ChatGPT with GPT-3.5 in December 2022 when the OpenAI servers were getting hammered. That is why they're impressed by these slow and low quality local models and mistakenly think they're on par with OpenAI's offerings.

Honestly even reddit and teenagers on TikTok have a more accurate view on OpenAI vs. local LLMs than HN.
Interesting. I could have sworn in older macOS that it could be disabled entirely. In Ventura, via settings, I can adjust it from taking 11 frames, 23, or 29 frames (manually counted in a screen recording), but I can't seem to completely eliminate the animation. TIL.
Chrome started enabling download manager icon
Since the last update of the Google Chrome, the downloads are not indicated via bottom panel anymore. Instead there is a small icon in the top-rigth toolbar. It reveals a list of downloads when clicked.
> By introducing a profit maximisation goal you

You never invest in infrastructure - in 30 years since privatisation, water companies in Britain haven’t built a single reservoir, lose 30% of water to leaks and dump raw sewage on the beach where children swim
The (US) government strives to keep the price of gasoline artificially low (as compared to other comparable countries), and then at the same time offers tax incentives to encourage the adoption of EVs.

Certainly, there's got to be a relationship between the price at the pump and how attractive EV become to car buyers. Instead, we get a solution(s) that's good for politicians but not so good for citizens?
The rules governing Ready-to-fly airframes have been in effect for a year, with the burden on the manufacturer. This new milestone coming up is for the Operators of any unmanned platform.

It requires that any vehicle, even scratch-built fixed wing, be equipped with validated transmitter sending position and identification information, including the position of the operator.

There has been some legal dispute over the nature of the terms, but the resolution of the interpretation seems to be as above. The full FAA CRF is linked below.

https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2021-08/RemoteID_Fin...
$2400 is like 25 years of Spotify subscription. I sure as hell can listen to way more that 600 songs during that time. With no ads. Available on any device. And with discovery service included. I don't even listen to most stuff that I listened to 10-20 years ago.
> It might be relatively common for low income to get full rides or near full rides, but anyone in mid-income is getting saddled with tons of debt.

Because the government has determined that you or your parents make enough to pay for school on your own should you prioritize it financially. The low income people could not. For reference, my families household income was near $25k/yr and I got the first two years covered by a Pell. For $95k/yr you could certainly afford college.
Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM
Business's will have infinite money and time to influence Countries to eventually incorporate some form of privatization so they can make even more money. Were literally paying them to eventually screw us over.
Ok, you prefer to deal with entire classes of bugs in order to keep using objects because you incorrectly think that objects model the world better. I used to have the same perspective, and all I can say is that you'll either grow out of it or you won't.
Same i've no clue how to solve FOSS funding

> "i don't think the clones themselves are the problem, but the commercial support available for clones is taking away business from red hat, and that is where the conflict lies."

exactly what i mean when I say 0-value-added-clones because they then turn around and sell support on the clones which seems seemingly unethical to me somehow -- though i am still working through that thought process.

I would not want to be RedHat here actually. It's a tough situation.
No.

The things you mentioned aren't both microcontrollers, and they use C.

Why continue to double down when you clearly have no idea what you're talking about?
I'm potentially using this as a portfolio piece for my freelance consulting work [1]. Many clients require NDAs, so it can be tough to talk about specific, recent accomplishments.

Operational costs are low: around $40/year in domains and $20/month in servers. Soliciting donations could probably cover that (some similar free services work that way).

[1] https://www.robalexdev.com/
I've experienced this. My $500 MFC is a brick unless I go out and purchase a genuine Brother toner, despite having spent several hundred dollars on a stash of generics. At some point they just stopped working.

And just to be clear: they didn't just disable the printer; I can't even use the scanner on top unless I go and buy the Brother toners.

Screw Brother. I'm tired of reading that they're "the one good brand" out there. They are very not.
What’s strange is that people still make this ridiculous comparison. Unless they’re severely out of touch with how the general populace think and what they value.

Let’s talk phones, and just ignore the brand to start. Higher end devices often have better cameras, better support, better build quality. I’m sure you’ll find some random phone that competes with a flagship, but that’s irrelevant to the vast majority of users.

Now start introducing brands to the mix. Each brand has value adds like platform specific apps and ecosystem integration. Samsung and Apple have a big ecosystem of products that they work with that other brands don’t. Even if the other brands work with them, many people prefer to stick with the single brand for support reasons. You’ll likely suggest alternative apps and products. Users don’t want that, they want a product that does what they need without being technically competent.

Your problem is you’re looking at spec sheets and seeing equivalence in the things that matter to you. The things that matter to most people aren’t on the spec sheet. A spec sheet does not convey experience.

By your same argument, why do people buy nicer cars? A fiat 500 is most of what I get with a ford f150 and a Lamborghini Aventador.

Why do they buy nicer clothes? Fast fashion from H&M is the same from a utility perspective as a nice tailored suit from Armani.

If your arguments start with random value segments and don’t take into account experience, nothing will ever make sense. The experience of a $200 Android phone is not the experience of a $1000 Android phone, let alone a $1000 iPhone. The experience of a $10k car is not the experience of a $80k or $400k car. The experience of a $20 shirt is not the same as the experience of a $180 shirt.
Because people hate Ada, even on HN. Linus Torvalds himself hate Ada. People dislike its syntax so much they wont even try it.
If you play a few games of Reaper vs Empowered you’ll see that it’s very difficult for Reaper to win. Similarly, Realer is very strong against Nemesis. The tournament rules specify that the winner of a game can’t change their army, but the loser of the previous game has free choice.
Safety also might mean not providing a route/framework for an api loop to create a self destructing information virus that becomes the best worm in human history :)
Yeah you’ve obviously never been through college/university.
> The largest desktop OS on that list? Windows.... made by a company who makes more money off Linux than anything else, is the largest corp contributor to Linux

Citation needed, I think. Microsoft barely makes or doesn't even make the top 20 kernel contributors for current releases: 6.4 (#20): https://lwn.net/Articles/936113/, 6.3: https://lwn.net/Articles/929582/, 6.2: https://lwn.net/Articles/923410/, 6.1 (#19): https://lwn.net/Articles/915435/
That's a necessary but insufficient condition for something to be considered scientific.
Also a satisfied Brother laser printer user. I have the unit blocked in my router so it can't surreptitiously update its firmware and start doing this.

I always buy the Brother toner cartridges because they're the best quality, reasonably priced, and I want to support the business model of the only(?) decent printer manufacturer left.

All of this said, if I found out the printer was locking out third-party toner cartridges, I'd stop at nothing to defeat the lock, and would only use knockoff toner from then on.

It's an honor system through and through, I hope somebody in charge takes note.
Arch has excellent documentation. It definitely stands out.
Safari renderer is so bad though, every single complex smil animation I’ve ever built just broke into pieces on Safari.