skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, because they (or whoever) don't make it.

Many printers, especially the MFC ones, support Linux. For instance, Brother has drivers: https://help.brother-usa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/52188/~...

WRT corporations, they can do what they like with their own hardware and software. And yes, a lot are short-sighted. Most won't be using Mac any time soon, because they've locked themselves in quite effectively.
Yeah, I'm not trying to argue that what's being proposed is bad, just trying to clarify what he said. The licensing part does make it more like ITAR and less like GDPR, HIPPA, etc. Those sorts of laws don't have active government activity to certify and license beforehand, though there are 3rd party orgs that will do that sort of thing if you want.
This. The original comment mentioned "tone and level of entitlement", not "constructive criticism"
That only provides value if you have knowledge of how the diploma-issuing organisation is working.

If not, it's just a diploma from some random organisation off the street.

So, wake me up when you know how OpenAI and Google are cooking their models.
I have a printer I like but my experience is that the minute I print something the ink cartridge announces it’s low. It’ll run for a long time, but it’s like having a neighbor who’s fire alarm is going off at all times. It sours the ownership experience, even if I buy and keep a bucketful of spare ink cartridges handy.
I see the Falcon 9 as the new Boeing 747.

The origin of the 747 is fascinating. It went from an agreement between the Pan Am CEO and Boeing CEO at a golf game to a prototype in 2.5 years at a time before computer-aided engineering (slide rules all the way). It was also meant to be a holdover until the SST came online (which never happened of course).

But the 747 was so succcessful and dominant for 40+ years that it was a massive profit-center for Boeing. The R&D had long since been paid for and the profit margin was huge. The dominance only really broke because engines became so efficient that 4 engine planes no longer made sense, especially with the lower speed modern passenger aircraft go (the 747 would go Mach ~0.9, a 787 or A350 will top out at Mach ~0.8 for efficiency reasons).

The Falcon 9 is in that same class of industry dominance. The profit margin on a reusable launch must be massive. It's also incredibly reliable. Even when competitors build a reusable rocket, it'll take time to have a proven track record. Until then, it's a license to print money.
They also have soooo many good articles (which are helpful not just to RHEL) behind a subscription wall. If you do a lot of work in the rpm ecosystem, they're like the Experts Exchange of Google search, with how many times you see an exact bug report, then you get to the page with a tease of your exact answer, but it fades into the login required bit.
Asus Zenfone 10 is 5.9", released last week (the mini is 5.42”)
They should indicate the nature of the deal in front of every car article, so that people aren't mislead into thinking they are reading a neutral review. Approximately no current reader knows about a six year old article. The way they are currently doing it is deceptive.
I see misunderstanding.

Do you play games? Do you know strategies, like HMM or Starcraft?
You don't need to do an scientific experiment to tell why your BST doesn't work. "Computer Science" is a misnomer because most of its contents and methodologies are from mathematics (which is used in science but is not a science in itself).

CS uses mathematical proofs. You don't need a computer to execute your code to tell why the BST doesn't work. You can introspect your code and figure out why it works or does not work. If it's correct, CS methodology says you can "prove" that it works (without executing it).

Working with large AI models is like working with an artificial brain. It's as scientific as neuroscience in this sense. You make some hypotheses, tweak some hyperparameters, and get a result, which may or may not invalidate your hypotheses. Nobody knows why. Science is not necessarily about knowing the fundamental "whys" (amateurs think humanity has figured all the "whys" out, but that's a lie). It's about establishing some useful model of how things work.

But it's definitely possible to know why your BST does not work, even without a computer, without empirical testing. That's why CS is not a science.
Training data quality and quantity is the bottleneck.

"Chinchilla showed that we need to be using 11× more data during training than that used for GPT-3 and similar models. This means that we need to source, clean, and filter to around 33TB of text data for a 1T-parameter model." https://lifearchitect.ai/chinchilla/

GPT4 has been trained on images exactly for this reason (it might not have been worth it separately from multi-modality, but together these two advantages seem decisive).
I was a big proponent of privatization in my South American country and I'm reversing some of that position. But I still don't regret or recant the underlying theories that made me a proponent in first place. People are going all Ken Loach on this like this has been obvious all the time, but it wasn't; privatization arose as an approach to paralyzing problems (here, a phone number was an asset, like a car; you could rent it and there was an income tax law for that) and there's no outstanding alternative approach to address them.

More broadly and less strongly, the same is true of globalization. The fact that these haven't lived up to promise means we are frakked. The witch was right, there is no alternative.
They deleted their comment about you being a troll for this response, but I agree with you. I’d like to know what their response is.
Japan's obsession with tradition gives me real Europe vibes.

The people selling it praise it, the people nearby have pride.

I eat it and after all the hype, am disappointed. If I try really really hard, I can trick my brain into thinking its worthwhile. (I did just spend a bunch of money, traveled across the world, I should be able to enjoy this more than something I grow in my garden.. right?)

I'd love blind taste tests with children(or adults if you deem them better).
I have an HP 1200 laserjet (b&w) that's 24 years old. The biggest problem is the parallel port interface but it's still the family printer. Not sure what we'll do when it dies...
Should be noted that this isn't an editorial from The Economist but an opinion piece from a contributor that was run side by side with a counterpoint: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/07/06/thames-wa...
Why government websites and online services are so bad
Back in 2012, this was the topic of a very popular German comedy (Stenkelfeld Computerwutcenter), acted out in the style of a mock interview:

Mr Pötter:

Well, Mr Öldrup, are things a little better now? Otherwise, take a couple of printers and then off to the shooting range.

Reporter:

In Stenkelfeld, you don't have to succumb to troubles with modern computer technology anymore. After a total crash or file loss, PC users were only able to weep, pray in silence or use the good old gas oven ... but the newly established rage center in Annex 2 of the Jürgen Koppelin Training Center offers frustrated computer users the opportunity to appropriately express their desperation. Next to me is institute director Friedhelm Pötter. Mr Pötter, just a quick question, what solutions do you offer?

Mr Pötter:

Well, uh, in the large field of word processing, we offer in our hammer chamber the opportunity here to take revenge on the device itself. We use a few decommissioned computers and monitors here, on which one can express one's displeasure. Right?

Reporter:

And this is being used right now in front of our eyes...

Mr Pötter:

Yes, here at the 20-kilo hammer, that's the well-known writer Ludwig Ölldrup, uh, who spent four years working on the computer to write his historical homeland novel "Das Große Buchboelken in der Rössnitzer Senke". Finally he wanted to print out the whole thing and now the system tells him "Fatal exception error in drive C:. Path and file name unknown. All saved data will be lost." So he was off straight away to the canal bridge with a calf rope, but luckily we were able to catch him just in time. And now he's given his rage some breathing room, right Mr Ölldrup?

Reporter:

In addition to all sorts of bite-proof table edges for inconsistencies with Windows 95, a soundproof padded cell for the hapless Macintosh user, and a set of heavy baseball bats for various printer problems, I see a soaked life-size doll with burn marks and strangulation marks...

Mr Pötter:

Well, this is a faithful recreation of Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, available to be hanged, drowned, or burned. Yesterday, Mr. Öllrich from the Wittmann architects' office tampered with it. After completing all the calculations and drawings for the new district hospital with the MS Statik Pro 5.0 software, the computer accused him of a general protection violation of the graphics card. Afterwards, only small yellow balls could be seen on the monitor. And the message to contact the manufacturer with this problem. And that's what Mr. Öllrich did, as you can see here. Right?

Reporter:

Yes. Finally let's take a look at the shooting range - a sprawling 50m facility that is getting very busy. Mr Pötter, what is that all about?

Mr Pötter:

Yes, this one is popular. Here we enable targeted retaliatory measures for disappointments with hardware and peripheral devices - or their compatibility.
Oxide has described some stuff around their Root of Trust implementation:
https://oxide.computer/blog/exploiting-undocumented-hardware...
20 years ago would be accurate.
As always, science advances one funeral at a time
Yes because the EU is very concerned about the US snooping on private data. It wants to be the only place where they can snoop on their own citizens

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-violation-priv...
I'm not on the up-and-up with Intel. I know they're building a fab in Ohio... generally, does anyone know what their next moves are meant to be? I'm curious to hear about their business plan -- I know they've been lagging some other producers in recent years.
The basic S23 is half a centimeter larger in every dimension (except thickness) and is a very, very good phone. If that's too large, there's also the Xperia 5 IV and the Asus Zenfone.
Claude 2
Are you me? This is literally my setup. The one addition is rclone, which I used to back up my (encrypted) restic repos to Drive.
Managers manage the team direction and prioritization and alignment with other teams, not supervise the people working.

10 people working individually well but at cross purposes or unimportant but technically challenging work are a bad team.

Even the best elite burger flipper needs to switch to making fries if that's what the customer needs.
It all depends on how often I'm interacting with an area of code. Is it library code I'm using all the time or some obscure private internal that I visit once a year at most?

If I'm only reading that code like ... 1 time ever, I'm never going to add to memory all the dozens of random 2-line private functions someone broke up their 100 line procedural function into. I'm going to be annoyed and mentally 'inline' it all into one linear block of code and then forget all about it.

Therefore I'll never remember or trust the private function names and will never know what the module does at a glance. I would be better off with it just inlined into one big procedure in the first place. Don't pollute my mental function cache.

The more some code gets touched and read and updated the more I can justify adding an internal vocabulary to it. Again, something like Ruby on Rails has a huge API surface area compared to plain Ruby, but that's fine, because after using it for a decade I know most of it and it was worth learning the vocabulary since I'm constantly using it.

It's like... commonly reused library or std lib or framework code is useful jargon used and reused by a community of people. But that pattern doesn't downscale. Applying it and creating my own jargon for an obscure module in a code base is a bit like someone inventing slang all on their own and whining when people ask them to explain what they mean in plain english. I don't want to read Finnegan's Wake for my job, just give me some boring realist prose suitable for a 5th grade reading level.
Twitter hasn't lost any place as the global town square. But sure WP can run its agenda.

Twitter is going through a transition and an important one at that. Shifting an entire company from left to the center is not an easy task. It will require short term ups and downs. They are quick to rectify their mistakes.

Its hard for new kid on the block to have that engagement for long. Twitter isnt going anywhere.
How is that now extracting profit for the shareholders exactly?
Unlike a tax bracket, adulthood is not an arbitrary limit i reality.
> Or to put it another way, the rich were subsidised by the poor.

I agree with most of what you've said but I don't agree that this conclusion follows. If anything when I was less well off I was far more inclined to put up with the hassle of changing providers every few months to minimise the costs than I am now.

I do think there were some efficiencies generated, it's just hard to figure out if a nationalised entity would have gotten there eventually. The online only account management for example probably saves a bunch over call centre staff and sending people around to read the meter.
It's true but also older people are addicted to destroying the economy here, constantly demanding decisions that impair the ability of the country to build houses, build businesses, build new infrastructure, etc, all while expecting high living standards. The only way it could be financed was by selling off the country's wealth.
Our Code Editor is open source
CODE? You said "CODE" again? C'mon! :-D

The fact that you store something in a VCS, that you pipe it through some "lint, test, deploy" pipeline doesn't make it "code".

Nowadays they call anything "code" just because you do VCS + pipeline.
Most of the time it is (complex) configuration text files (like cloudformation and terraform) or some sort of documentation (like markdown).

When you can implement a generic Touring machine with whatever you call "code", then you can really call it "code", IMHO.

I use to say to my students (with a large amount of semplification), if you can implement a sorting algorithm with that, then it's code. Otherwise it is not.
Just browsing the comments on this one, it struck me how users of this website, an incubator for new technologies and ostensibly private businesses, seems to not believe in the capacity of private businesses to provide the most socially-useful goods and services.

My basic woke laymen POV is that the in last 150+/- years, we figured out 100% of how to sustain humanity at scale and even offer some perks like efficiently traveling huge distances. Greed/nationalism/willpower get in the way from time to time, mucking up the works, but creating opportunity for well-timed industrialists on borrowed wealth to come in and provide "solutions."

This is all viewed through glorious, rose-tinted hindsight, but what even are we doing here?
I mean its still growing, not limited to 1.5 million people, and some of them also pay more then $150 per month. Ships, planes and the military.

If we assume cost of launch being 20-30million $ per Falcon 9 and an avg of 30-60 sats per launch. Launch is maybe 1 million per sat. Earlier Starlink 1 sats were likely less, the Starlink 2 might be higher.

Production 1 million per sat doesn't seem impossible given the vertical integration and large production numbers. Life time operation cost are likely below 1million given how few people SpaceX actually has to manage the whole fleet.

The economics will look much better once Starship is operational. If you can cut the cost of launch by 10x.

SpaceX is also doing a lot on the sat front. For example, switching from Kyropton to Argon. Next generation processors and so on.

SpaceX has set it up in way where their cost will continue to come down and their revenue will continue to grow as they sign up more people. And they have many more years before the competition Amazon will come online.

So I think this is a pretty good business for SpaceX. Building up a sales, distribution, regulation around the globe is a challenge but worth doing. Unlike Amazon they wont have such a structure already in place.
Funny — that cheap GPS module seems to be using u-blox NEO footprint. I knew there were knock-offs of those, guess now I have a part number. I wonder how it performs, compared to a genuine u-blox module…
Direct link to the game: https://sim.tigerbeetle.com/.

While TigerBeetle is open-source, the game isn't yet. But that may change. :)
Another great resource for me! Thanks!
Utility companies in Illinois are private & can only charge X% (10% for electrical) more than they invest. Frankly, the power & rail network here are amazing, in large part because that system incentivizes maximum reinvestment as they can then charge more money and return larger amounts to share holders.

Competitors who take large loans and fail to deliver are out competed by alternatives who went a more efficient route.

The profit margins are fixed, but everything is still competitive.
Surprised to find no mention of an asteroid/comet impact[1] ~12kya that would have destroyed almost all evidence of prior human habitation.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2019-03-geologic-evidence-theory-major...
The Rise and Fall of the Mail-Order Home
Ok. Lucy Cooke's book uses the existence in nature of certain sexual behaviors to make us reconsider our own norms. "If female lemurs can dominate males, then why shouldn't female humans dominate males? If there are same-sex couples of female albatrosses, then why not also of humans?" Etc.

Then --

What is this article, the one about the spiders, trying to say?
I’m quite happy that the always on firehose of ephemeral trash is dying. It only feels bad in the way that withdrawal sickness feels bad to a junkie. We need to kick this dopamine habit and focus on the important things.
Try adding censorship to that list.
'You are powerful': Missing and remembering Aaron Swartz [Jan '23]
It probably depends on what you mean by "de-google", but if you simply do not want to host your data at Google or depend on Google services, it's quite easy.

As far as I can tell, the only place you really need to be logged in to a Google account to get a "normal" Android experience is the Play Store, which makes sense.

I use Google Maps for example (Osmand when I can, but Google Maps is the only free app that has good traffic information) while not logged in, but my photos are hosted by Photoprism, my emails are not at Gmail, my backups are on my home server, etc.

I find myself largely independent from Google and if that's your goal, as opposed to trying to hide yourself from Google (which would be better, but I find it unrealistic for my needs), it's easy to achieve on an Android phone and certainly easier than independence from Apple on an iPhone.
A perfect storm is unfolding this summer and it’s supercharging the weather
Modern? According to gsmarena, literally the only Android phone with at least Android 12 with a height less than 135mm (the iPhone 13 mini is 131.5mm high, according to the same site) is the Cubot J20. Which looks adorable, but is a 60€ Aliexpress device and probably not what you seek.

If you are okay with older phones, there is the Sony Xperia XZ2 compact, which is even supported by several custom roms and would then run Android 13.

Or there are foldables of course, like the Samsung Flip. That's at least small some of the time, and there are some alternatives where the small screen on the outside is big enough to be usable, like the new razr+.
> It should be the best and cheapest.

You are not often going to find that combination.
"If you change every detail of both things they're the same thing!"

Labor and capital aren't the same concept no matter how much you scramble them. One is powerful enough that the entire system is named after it.
A good middle manager is a good manager of your managers. Unblocking them and coordinating with other teams. You wouldn't even know them, unless your manager was a bad apple and you needed middle manager's help.

A bad middle manager is out there thought leading and babbling distracting garbage to everyone.
Quite a lot of the nationalised water and sewage systems elsewhere in Europe don't even seem to be managing the bare minimum though, it's just that without the privatisation angle the media doesn't care so they appear better. For example, Ireland tried to privatise their water industry a good while back in order to fund necessary investments and gave up due to protests - this was widely seen as a success that protected them from the disaster that hit the UK. Except that they've still completely failed to build basic sewage treatment in a bunch of urban areas that was meant to be built a long time ago according to EU rules, and which the privatised English water companies did manage to build. Plus they have the same problems that British water companies do on top of that. It's just that no privatisation means that there's no easy target to blame that fits people's existing beliefs about the world, so it's not front-page news and most people don't realise it's happening and happily believe their sewage is so much better handled than in stinky Britain.
The second function bothers me because it has this arbitrary looking value, presumably as a sentinel, and that's a hidden requirement of the function. This function is actually minimum_odd_number_or_9999 for some reason, and chances are nobody actually wants that. Instead languages should encourage distinguishing None from actual answers - and then sure as an optimisation you'd consider using a sentinel to achieve that mechanically, but it doesn't alter the program meaning.

On the other hand, in this style the first program could have any amount of hidden traps.
Notable Efforts to Democratize AI/ML?
Over the past year, I've become increasingly convinced that the most important thing I could be working on right now is seizing the means of production of powerful ML. Joking aside, I'm interested in projects that are working to give more folks more control of modern AI tools. If you know of any efforts in this area I'd love to hear about them!

In particular, interested in ML companies whose business plan does not involve building a data moat or maintaining control of the model training process. I'd also be interested in open source efforts working to copy/outperform Big Corp's products. Ideal mission would be working on open models trained using open data on open hardware, but realistically looking to work on some subset of that.
For family photos shared on the LAN I use https://github.com/bpatrik/pigallery2 It is simple and FAST. I do the face recognition on Digikam.
Tell HN: OpenAI API – Hard Limit Reached
We are using OpenAI inside the Freeciv 3D version on www fciv.net. However, we reached the OpenAI API Hard Limit of 120 USD.

On Sunday the game got Slashdotted for real by the actual Slashdot, which spent all the API usage quota.

Now it's been two days, and they have't approved a larger quota.
Let this be a warning if you plan on using OpenAI for something important.
I just want to chime in and say that most "free market" ideologies have been engineered, spread and astroturfed by the robber baron classes to siphon as much money from the many to the few while distracting everyone with tension and circus - so much that this fact is hard to even find in the anglosphere.

It's an incredible feat of psychological engineering spanning over a century, and now people love to believe in the absolute fairy tales of rags to riches, ideologically instead of realpolitically or resource driven geopolitics and meritocracy instead of the realities of an ever increasing gini coefficient.
Would that affect the hosting?
Fight club.