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Have you seen MOLLE panels? Any particular opinion on those?

Seems like there's a huge range of accessories available for them, 24*36" panels available for $35, and a lot of devices could be held on by weaving a buckle strap, screwing on a pocket clip, or even just attaching a zipper pouch.

There's also strap pad eyes that could also be used to run the straps through, for smaller things where you don't want a whole panel. It seems like there should be some kind of system you could build with soft attachments, at least for low cost DIY type stuff.
Not sure I understand. Software (which is a mathematical function) runs on a processor and that is arguably a mechanism, or allows them to emerge, such as a button or input field.
Code generation is also pretty prevalent, some languages/ecosystems more than others
I agree - I was expecting to see components like the NE555, CD4047, etc [1] featured

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQu1REgWnmUO...
Visual Studio had a built-in migration utility which could get you 80-90% there. However if the original VB6 was spaghetti code written without Option Strict and Option Explicit enabled you had much bigger problems.

The biggest breaking change was the removal of the global Printer Object so any printing code needed a complete rewrite.
Thanks for explaining! Honestly, if this was the intended meaning, I don't really see a connection - this isn't a fee to skip the line directly, but kind of a "doing part of your security clearance before arriving" thing.

I don't think it's worth it for me as I barely ever visit the US, but for Canadians it's even cheaper at $50/5 years, so I might look into that if I ever need to cross the border often.
If people start using dynamic IPs as if they are static, when they really aren't, they're just setting themselves up for failure the next time the devices reboots or resets. It's better to either use static addressing if you want static addressing, or use DNS if you don't know what the IP is going to be.
Why is this on HN? This violates a lot of the guidelines.

- Not the original source
- It’s on national news, one of the biggest newspapers
- Off topic
I have a lot of good memories of neopets. I didn't go on the boards like a lot of people, but I loved clicking around, getting items, and playing the arcade games for money.

(thank goodness for the giant omelette in dino land because my pet would have starved otherwise)

Having gone into webdev and software, I wish I could go back to then and pop the hood of the site. Maybe even generate some free neo points from the arcade games...
Honestly, its like the best iPhone. Can't understand this obsession with phablets and phones you can use as a ski hill because their cameras are so freakishly large.
If they are using cash I know exactly what's going on by looking any balance sheet or income statement. If they are accrual I have no idea what lies beneath the surface. Everyone is on accrual. For a public company you get a balance sheet and income statement. Good luck. You have to audit them and all of their subsidiaries. But you can't because you don't have access to any of the books. It just leaves everything open to "creative accounting." It has been a proven vector of corruption and high crimes.

Recently (pre-pandemic) the guy that cracked Madoff released an analysis of GE claiming that they have been cooking their books for years--outright accusing them of fraud. GE and their media sycophants denied it adamantly. Story goes away without any proof whatsoever. Maybe the guy is nuts? I'm suspicious. Day traders LOVE GE for the ups and downs. They bought at $9 and now the stock is $132. In that case no one cares if the books are cooked as long as they can ride the wave.

Feel free to read about Enron on Wikipedia. There are plenty of case studies and the world will keep producing more.
It would be the equivalent of doing an EMP strike by detonating a nuke above a city, but worldwide... it would be bad, lots of casualties from lack of energy.

I do believe we are in urgent need to have some way of printing all code, including legacy of basically any consumer and industrial program, because were it to hit, even with everyone today surviving and writing in plain text what they know, we'd be lacking decades of software, that most modern day programmers would have very little idea on how to emulate, at least quickly enough.
F# started out as integrating much better and being very selective of features, whereas Scala has been happy to add all sorts of features, to my understanding. F# has been feature complete for a while, mainly getting quality of life improvements and updating to maintain C# compatibility.
> trying to prevent misinformation

An unsubstantiated and highly arguable claim.

> that was actively leading to the spread of a contagious virus

Again, so you claim.

And, yes, it was "fundamentally flawed" either way because it involved government exercising powers it has no right to exercise.
20% Conversion Lift and $Millions for Sir Richard Branson's Company
while setting aside the genuineness of the problem, it was a rather poor decision on the dev's part. there was no need to rub it in the faces. if they were so unawares of what they were doing, then it makes me wonder what other facets they were playing fast and loose with. when making a thing that you know is going to cause ripples, then it just seems much smarter to avoid handing someone else the rocks to cause the ripples.
Electr..HEY...[gets beaten to a bloody pulp]
They use the ADEXP to determine which part of the route is in the UK. Because the auto generated points are ATC area handover points. So this data is the best way so see which part of the route is within the UK airspace.

Then it needs to find the ICAO part that corresponds, because the controller needs to use the ICAO plan that the pilot has.

If the controller sees other (auto generated) waypoints that the pilots don't have you get problems during operation. A simple example is that controllers can tell pilots to fly in a straight line to a specific point on their filed route (and do so quite often). The pilot is expected to continue the filed route from that point onwards.

They can also tell a pilot to fly direct to some random other point (this also happens but less often). The pilot is then not expected to pick up a route after that point.

The radio instruction for both is exactly the same, the only difference is whether the point is part of the planned route or not. So the controller needs to see the exact same route as the pilots have, not one with additional waypoints added by the IFPS system.
I can’t believe the author wrote an entire article about neopets and refused to install a free browser downloaded in seconds that would work with it.
This would be a move on the right direction, but

>This framework improves reliability and performance by moving customization from the Win32 framework to the UWP software development framework.

I can't trust Microsoft to do anything right anymore.
>> Except that you can't be sure this bad flight plan doesn't contain information that will lead to a collision.

Flight plans don't contain any information relevant for collision avoidance. They only say when and where the plane is expected to be. There is not enough specificity to ensure no collisions. Things change all the time, from late departures, to diverting around bad weather. On 9/11 they didn't have every plane in the sky file a new flight plan carefully checked against every other...
> HyperCard

I would argue HyperCard of this decade is alive and well as Notion. (And other similar apps)
While I've never used Neopets before, it seems like the kind of game that has a relatively small, but very dedicated community that's willing to come back year after year.
>Has he though?

Yes. ROM-booting was something Apple supported in the Mac Classic and no other model. The ROM adds new functionality that wasn't available to the SE/30 (and others). It also adds the ability to boot of a modifiable RAM disk, which is new. Also it's 32 bit clean, unlike Apple's ROMs. So this fixes Apple's bugs as well as adding new abilities to a few models of Macs that they never had. The ROM-booting is facilitated by compression, but putting together a bootable ROM for hardware that's never done it before to ROM-boot off the compressed system image is the hard part, not the compression. Much of that is based on the hard work of Rob Braun, Doug Brown, and others who are credited.

He put a lot of work into this, the thing he made wasn't an existent thing in the world until he did the labor and he documented how to do it for those who want to burn their own. He ships a ROM SIMM with the new image burned on it for $45, given that the ROM SIMM itself isn't free, the whole deal seems fair to me.

The creator has also been involved in Floppy Emu. He's done a ton to help revitalize retrocomputing. Begrudging him selling a ROM image he worked to make is an incredibly toxic take on a person doing really excellent things and sharing the technical details for anyone who want to build the stuff themselves.
I think there are already plenty of lightweight options for small projects. A static site can be written in HTML + CSS, hosted on GitHub, bundled with Jekyll, and deployed with GitHub actions. Django is super lightweight for small projects that need interactivity.

These two solutions can address all of these examples I can think of for a "simple" site:

- static blog site

- interaction with a database

- interaction with external APIs

- simple games (Django is based in Python)

- more complicated interactivity (pick a language that's compatible with Wasm)
I think it's comparable in the sense of what I was pointing out: Microsoft only truly cares about C# and only keeps F# and VB.NET going just enough.
It's already a thing [1]. They also have a project website [2] with some nice videos, although the code hasn't yet been released.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09713

[2] https://dynamic3dgaussians.github.io/
> What about Brother?

that didn't appear to be an exhaustive list. Looking at the Mopria site, I see Brother along with 9 other brands not mentioned.

https://mopria.org/certified-products/
Rising THC Concentrations in Cannabis Can Pose Devastating Health Risks
Corporate capture in California is WAY bigger than just the DMV.

Just do some scroogling on CPUC (California Public Utility Commision) and their treatment of net metering and other utility reforms.

California is a very rich state, and if you want to find corruption, just follow the money...
But how many lives were saved by the reduced carbon emissions that were not produced by the cancelled flights?
That definition is nonsense for a number of reasons.

The first is that all human behaviour is discriminatory by design: every time you make a choice of any kind, you're discriminating against all the options you didn't select. And the same applies to speech: the expression of any preference represents "hate" against the alternatives.

The second is that it's so generic that virtually any pronouncement can be classified as hate speech. So it's a good legal foundation for censorship.

Best to stick to prosecuting actual crimes, rather than thought- and speech- crimes. Let people say what they will. Sticks and stones...
This is an oral presentation by a medical student at a meeting. I wouldn't change your life or approach to ASCVD risk reduction based on it.
It is not mentioned on the project to-do list: https://www.wireguard.com/todo/

But I do seem to recall reading something about it when browsing the wireguard website a few days ago. Something to do with the underlying Noise framework not supporting it, and that being a blocker, I think. Looking through the repositories now, none of the recent activities (most recently active are wireguard-{freebsd,android}) are PQ-related

Edit: found it again on https://www.wireguard.com/known-limitations/

> Post-Quantum Secrecy

> WireGuard is not, by default, post-quantum secure. However, the pre-shared key parameter can be used to add a layer of post-quantum secrecy. It could be post-quantum secure were the public keys hashed instead of sent directly, but this is not part of the Noise Protocol Framework, on which WireGuard's handshake is based, and this hashing technique wouldn't enable forward-secure post-quantum secrecy either. The best bet for post-quantum security is to run a truly post-quantum handshake on top of WireGuard, and then insert that key into WireGuard's pre-shared key slot.
i'll accept that. so the grandstanding is with Googs/YT in only providing the higher quality in those formats. there's no compelling reason other than pushing the other formats and trying to throw shade on the others. they are already using h.264, so just up the quality and not force a totally different codec.
Vercel now supports Bun install
That's their job. Police exist as armed enforcement of the status quo, and the status quo is that rich people make the rules and everybody else suffers the consequences.
I think the main reason they Bavarian government is doing this is because we have an election this fall. They government parties would otherwise lose a lot of votes as the majority of the population disagrees with those „protesters“.
Ask HN: Websites that offer embeding an IDE with test cases to a website?
We are working on a platform that teaches programming. We want to give students the ability to solve assignments on our website, where they see a question, write the code, and compile it directly from our website. If there is an error, compiler messages should be shown. If it compiles correctly, the output will be tested against a few test cases to determine if the answer is correct. Basically like HackerRank, but embed-able.

We've been searching for a few hours for what we thought would be an easy find, but no luck finding something that checks all the boxes. Creating our own solution isn't something we are looking forward to.

Thanks.
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IFTT is such a great tool, use it a lot along with F5Bot
Is retrieval necessary/sufficient to solve “hallucinations”?
Hi everyone,

"Hallucinations" seem to be one of the major blockers to the adoption of LLMs, especially in enterprise settings where seemingly plausible but false information/decisions can be disastrous.

I am wondering whether or not current LLMs, like GPT4 or Llama 2 70b have reached the reasoning capabilities to be able not to hallucinate when fed the proper information.

One can see a LLMs as college / high school students that have some basic reasoning and knowledge but might need to be nudged to answer business / scientific questions.

What is your opinion on the topic? Is there for instance, a database of hallucinations, so that one could test that if the model would have answered properly if the right context was fed in the prompt?
Except that just like the Air Force’s sunspot count, which is so blatantly false that NASA doesn’t even bother trying to get their own numbers to match up — the NOAA has been using statistical manipulation and outright fraud to create the appearance of global warming.
Humans can do these intersections, but we don’t do it by riffing off the top of our heads. We carefully develop and apply a formal system. LLMs are just (a very important) component.
Nice (the design is superb), but googling is far faster than using this -- finding the doc, opening it, and searching for the device, and finding the page which isn't entirely in alpha order.
If you're traveling as fast as voyager 1, it would take over 2 million years to get there.
like humans trying to determine how to survive on moon bases or Martian colonies?
Smucker’s Twinkie Deal Is an Indulgence
Need an LLM tool for that
>automatic food preparer/cooker machines

There are some companies out there in the restaurant automation space. Miso Robotics is one that comes to mind.

A "cheap" automatic food prep system would have huge public health benefits with people eating less processed **. Stretching the idea out further, you could probably save a lot of time and energy from saved/avoided trips to the grocery store.
Complete WSJ edition from 9/12/01 [pdf]
One thing is certain, my mortgage and visa bill will still be due.
This exact symptom literally happened to me a couple of months ago. It was the kinda pain that started in one shoulder and rounded itself up into my head and front temple, and it _always_ started in the early evening.

After doing a bit of research I got myself a monitor, and sure enough my readings one between 150-170/90ish. I'm also a type 1 diabetic to add to it.
https://www.neopets.com/help/html1.phtml

Neopets was how I learned HTML and CSS. As a kid I just thought that this weird language was how you make pages in Neopets, but then I learned that this stuff works all over the web! Fun times
It's also been speculated that the cancer was from his early days at HP soldering.

But that was only a doctors opinion based on the doubling rate of the cancer.
The Google groups expiration feature is interesting and useful
Early Unix switched contexts by writing the current process out to disk, loading the next runnable process, then jumping to it. Besides that overhead being far too slow in modern terms it also did not admit threads nor multiple concurrent cores. There was no need to consider atomic operations or even locks to a large degree.

Most people wouldn't appreciate minimalism if they had to use such software on a daily basis.
Brother is also a member

https://mopria.org/member-companies
Assuming that your users will have Flash is not a reasonable expectation to have in 2023. It's strange that the website didn't use one of the Flash emulators like Ruffle, instead relying on the users to install the very obscure Pale Moon browser and Flash itself. I agree that the author could've gone a bit further to test the Flash stuff, but really, this is representative of how 99% of other normal users would act as well.
Xojo is much better but costs $$$. I don't write software all day so I pay for a license every few years if there's new features I want.
Casino-based attacks aren't really because the casino has a lot of money around. 1) they have large, very detailed databases with extensive customer records (photos of drivers licenses, for example) that can are desirable on black markets 2) easy attack vector -- heavily dependent on a variety of vendor software and systems that are way out of date, run by weak, underpaid and often uninformed IT staffs unaware of some basic security vulnerabilities 3) being customer-facing and highly-regulated, casino companies are typically heavily incented to simply pay the ransom rather than face regulatory scrutiny and consumer distrust (and to restore cash flow, and because the soft IT teams probably didnt make comprehensive backups...)
By acting like a dick.

Baselessly accusing a hero rescuer of being a child molester for daring to call him out for showing up utterly unprepared and misinformed to an ongoing rescue attempt was the last straw for me. Then doubling down on the slander instead of apologizing just nails the coffin shut.

The thing is, you act like a dick often enough and that’s how people will think of you.

Refusing to admit when you’re clearly wrong. Being incapable of hearing criticism of your clearly incorrect behavior. Hypocrisy. Retaliation. Refusal to pay what you owe to your employees, your landlords, your business partners. Openly flaunting your violations of the law.

These all sound like villain behaviors. And not even cool villains, childish, petty and shallow villains.
10-12 years ago was a sea change for laptops. On the Apple side, the "Retina" MacBook pro was a drastic improvement over its predecessors because of the display as well as the fast flash storage, while preserving a thin(ish) form factor.

Unfortunately Apple followed up with some missteps like the awful "butterfly" keyboard, and the unpopular touch bar which initially removed a physical ESC key.
I can’t believe someone wrote an article about Neopets without mentioning the founder, Doug Dohring’s, ties with Scientology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Dohring
Also on fastmail. Good service.
it's always DNS

https://isitdns.com/
Dave Clark’s Last Days at Flexport
maybe they can borrow CUPS from Apple
I do have a concern with this. From the post it appears that this is zip-tied. How long can zip ties last with such weight? I’m afraid that it’ll fall down and cause havoc if I ever attempt a thing like this. Even with sff pcs
No validation, anddd this point from the article stood out to me:
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The programming style is very imperative. Furthermore, the description sounds like the procedure is working directly on the textual representation of the flight plan, rather than a data structure parsed from the text file. This would be quite worrying, but it might also just be how it is explained.
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Given that description, I'd be surprised if it wasn't just running a regex / substring matches against the text and there's no classes / objects / data structure involved. Bearing in mind this is likely decades old C code that can't be rewritten or replaced because the entirety of the UK's aviation runs on it.
Bonjour struggles to find printers much more than Windows. My Windows users just click add printer and it just works. And let's not talk about file shares. Macs literally can't connect to any file shares except Windows ones (since AFP is out of support), and then only with Samba, and only with Apple's botched implementation of Samba which crashes, because it needs to create metafile databases on said shares, if a share has too many files.
Try opening a file share with 20k+ images in the root from your latest Mac.
Seems to me, as a mixed OS business operator, that it's Apple that's behind the times.
Even out of service Chromecast devices and decades old Linux distros are better at network discovery than Bonjour.
Mopria And Airprint both use the RFC standard Internet Printing Protocol. Are they not compatible with each other?

> IPP is the basis of several printer logo certification programs including AirPrint, IPP Everywhere, and Mopria Alliance, and is supported by over 98% of printers sold today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol
Right, and Zen (I'm assuming you mean Zen) was great--but it succeeded only because Intel did nothing for years and put themselves in a position to fail. If Intel had tried to improve their products instead of firing their senior engineers and spending the R&D money on stock buybacks, it wouldn't have worked.

We can see this in action: RDNA has delivered Zen-level improvements (actually, more) to AMD's GPUs for several years and generations now. It's been a great turnaround technically, but it hasn't helped, because Nvidia isn't resting on their laurels and posted bigger improvements, every generation. That's what makes the situation difficult. There's nothing AMD can do to catch up unless Nvidia starts making mistakes.
Just put the ultrasonic actuators onto your sink basin, and have a dish rack built in to it as well.

Fill with water & soap, insert dirty dishes.

Then when you head out for work in the morning, turn it on. let it buzz for 30 minutes or so, and then have a separate actuator drain the dirty water, refill and drain a second time as a rinse, and then drain again to let dry.

That would be what, $1200 in parts and a season of testing to make work?
Ideally your printer advertises itself via Bonjour/Avahi/SLP or whatevs. Ideally Windows receives these adverts and connects you to your printer. One or the other gets it wrong, with monotonous regularity.

IPP is print anywhere and it sounds like its been branded "Mopria".

I ditched a thing called HPLIP at home at least five years ago which used to be the cutting edge for Linux printing on HP printers. The bloke that developed CUPS said it was a good idea and I went for it.

Now it just works - always. It sounds like Windows is catching up, finally.
The important commonality here being “not on iMessage”.