skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fundamentally most video games are bullshit. They won't improve you, they won't build you any capability. A lot of them are designed to be as addictive as poker machines and they will waste your finite time. They won't do you much good.

The exceptions are high quality educational games (or utilities, if you like) that actually teach a skill like piano playing or touch typing or spelling or arithmetic, etc.
2.5x what a larger municipality paid for a system that was newer at the time seems pretty unreasonable to me. It’s not like the NYPD is field testing something cutting-edge here.
> You can’t resize a VM below 1 vCPU.

There's also shared vs dedicated and burstable options if you need to go lower. Which clouds don't (in practice) offer 1 vCPU?
While it depends on brand, the detergents and other additives are often better in higher-octane fuels. They help keep fuel injectors and other parts of the fuel system clean, which reduces potential problems down the road (ha ha).
> my router can only do one at a time, and there's no way I'm switching as needed

That's abysmal! Every 5GHz Wifi AP I've ever come across lets you run both PHYs at the same time.

Please, on my behalf, sternly talk down to your router.

Even ignoring the massive issue of device compatibility: 5GHz and its protocols do not have anywhere the range and penetrating power of 2.4GHz. When I walk outside my house I can keep watching videos, but my laptop does this by transitioning to the 2GHz radio link modes.
Where do I find this email?
Application Security Program Handbook
Almost completely freezes my browse/phone on Android when I try to change the prompt. I can basically type one letter and then have to kill the browser.

On the plus side it remembers the letter. But typing by killing & restarting the browser for every letter kinda ... sucks. :]
We distribute libre fonts and we have a new website
Agree, same here
I'm going to guess the reason for this is you would be pretty annoyed if you get ads on music videos watch on YouTube even if you are paying for YouTube premium, and if you aren't 99% of users would.

You can't have your cake and eat it, Google neither and they will get what's coming but this is not the battle to pick, they do far worse than put ads on a video sharing platform
added some of the ways people have tried to protect their GPTs here https://andrei.fyi/blog/reverse-engineering-gpts
digital grey goo.

enjoy the ride.
It's build into Firefox. If you're on a page not in your default language, a translate icon will appear in the URL bar. Click, done :)
Rich people cashing out of higher value markets and/or investing in lower value markets is what drives the price up though.

Someone in Orlando who bought a house at $200k might feel excited that their house is worth $400k but it’s irrelevant because if they wanted to move house then wherever they might like to move has also increased in price.
I already answered your question in the post you're replying to.
Bless you hardware people in your dealings with high voltage wizardry. I have worked with hardware engineers in both high wattage POE++ and high voltage pace maker applications and feel like dealing with these effects are the nearest thing I have ever seen to a dark art that no one truly understands. They appear to have the most confidence in a board design one spin, and despair filled agony the next when some resonance builds and blows away our EMF testing. I'm not sure I've ever witnessed such engineering frustration. At least to some degree software issues are based on something you can grasp and see. I feel like these types of hardware issues are like staring into a crystal ball. My opinion as an outsider of course.
I've been noticing this type of bullshit with Netflix recently. Every time I watch something I'm prompted to rate it. Every. Single. Time. And it's not like a gentle suggestion, it's a pop-up that has to he dismissed to be able to interact with the rest of the interface.
We should just ban ads so the customers are the customers and not the product. This entire construct should be illegal.
Narwhal 2 is not bad, IMHO. It’s almost as nice as Apollo on the iPhone, and much better than Apollo on the iPad.
> Windows.

You should have put that in your first comment, I've removed my downvote!
I tried to do things like this in my home. It turns out for washers, dryers and dishwashers you should just set a timer to start at noon.

Once you've started an appliance on a cycle it's going to keep running, even if the sun goes behind a cloud. So you don't need to start it when the instantaneous solar power is at its highest, you need to start it when the predicted next two hours of solar power are at their highest.

And it turns out you don't need complex monitoring to figure that out.
If you want a fridge that’s really efficient, you can’t beat a chest/bunker freezer with a thermostat. Refrigerators lose all their efficiency from the vertically mounted doors which allow all the cold air to fall out instantly when you open the door. A chest freezer door is mounted horizontally so the cold air stays trapped inside, even when you open the door. This makes all the difference in the world!
Indeed. I wrote that post, and I must say, I currently use Firefox, but I have a love-hate relationship with it.

I can list many things I dislike about Firefox, and I understand if people don't like it. But overall, yes, it's a good alternative for most people.
So after losing 90 lbs you lost 300 more and found 5 other romantic pattners and 3 more jobs?
Does the Canon not dry up?
But that wasn't an objective analysis, that's just your highly opinionated opinion with which I found some flaws in, as in you're wrong about several statements.

>Google's Chrome does not do this, and searching on google.com only asks for sharing of data with Google itself.

You mean sharing your data with Google THE ad-company which then shares your data to advertisers? How is that any more private?

>And in true Microsoft spirit, it also has telemetry, which you can't turn off.

Same as Chrome on this front.

>And Edge is hard-coded to use Bing.

No it's not, you can change it. https://www.google.com/homepage/search/sp-edge-p.html

Nothing wrong with having a strong opininated opinion on a matter, but you can't just sell it as objective facts.
That would be true if demand for development in general would remain static. My opinion is that software demand has a lot of room to grow.

If cars become cheaper, car infrastructure gets better people will use more cars, not the same amount. Except I believe there is a lower limit in the amount of cars a person can use vs the amount of automation (through software) a person can use.
Creating artistic collages using reinforcement learning
The unspoken secret here is that ads distort markets, suck up resources, and thereby make economies less efficient. Banning them would be an economic boon.

There. I said the quiet part outloud.
But that already happens with property taxes - just look at all the people in California who can only afford to live where they do because their property taxes are fixed at their original rate, and so they cannot afford to move anywhere else within the same area.
Details like these go through extensive A/B testing. Clearly, Meta has found that gating their content behind a login prompt leads to greater engagement and revenue growth. For what it's worth, I eventually created an Instagram account because of these prompts. The strategy works.
Oh heavens whatever caused you to believe this? The momentum p of a photon is given by p=h/λ where h is the Plank Constant and λ is the wavelength. Compton won a Nobel prize for this.
You don't need profiles in Firefox, there's a much better solution called Container Tabs. If you're using profiles to keep things like work and play separate, check it out and thank me later ;)
So is this basically a fork of https://github.com/SawyerHood/draw-a-ui ?
I'm assuming once that site got even remotely popular, it would be smacked with a cease & desist

But that's just the pessimist in me complaining about bigCo.

Sites exist like "CanIStreamIt?" for years and haven't been shut down by Netflix/Amazon, so maybe there's a legal way to go about it?
I just Assume they'll just "human-gap" decision mAking, like car companies pretend humans are a safe fall back when self driving runs into problems.

it'll still end up with AI making more and more complicated system and users trying to QAQC on the fly.

will not result in long term benefits and will most certainly be just a phase until the human-gap has aged out of the necessary real world training.
i prefer https://www.onlinemictest.com/, it shows a waveform which i feel is more helpful
A Timeline of Large Transformer Models for Speech
You need to buy from China, e.g. via AliExpress[1]. Xiaomi Europe only sells the Intel variants.

They have Ryzen APUs and additionally GPUs (the 2022 model had Nvidia, this year's has AMD).

I have the 2022 15" Pro version and its a beast.

[1] https://a.aliexpress.com/_msuA71Q
Companies don't spend $1000 a year to advertise to you unless they get a decent rate of return.
In my mind, big corporates tend to be large corporations of wealth controlled by few people. And shareholders on average are the same. And therefore neither ought to be considered likely to be particularly effective.
Try Container Tabs instead, it solves that use-case in a much nicer way.
Limits for quantum computers: Perfect clocks are impossible, research finds
Can somebody enlighten me why the above statement was sarcastic and why it was downvoted?

Aren't RFID tags on all groceries a viable solution to make product info available to a fridge?
I was confused too, but I'm stubborn, eventually figured out:

Clicking "Draw Fast" creates a box with the label "a city skyline"—drawing in that box will render an image to the right as you draw.

Double-clicking the box that "Draw Fast" produces allows you to edit the tag which says "city skyline" by default—allowing you to change what it renders as you sketch.
Have had the HL-L2340DW since 2016. Still on the original tonner. Only really use it to print my resume to bring to interviews. Still works like a charm.
In theory AI should be eliminating low skill developer jobs because it can already fully replace those people. By low skill I mean pattern memorizing framework monkeys who fear writing original solutions because doing so is beyond their capabilities.

In practice however the only people being eliminated are more experienced senior developers, because they cost more and their added value is often either not realized or not wanted. This is especially true in web development which has been racing towards commodity copy/paste skills for over a decade. In my case, as well as other cases I have observed, senior developers will continue to do this work for as long as they can until terminated at which point they don’t come back.

This is hastening the problem that was already present. Nobody is training web development as a competency which makes employers more reliant upon tools as a solution, which in turn drives increased complexity to compensate for declining availability of talent. It will be interesting to see what happens when employers stop over paying for candidates sufficiently lacking expected talent and instead turn to AI, which can already perform that low skill work.
Hehe. I actually did.
My last project was all in Rust.

I'm very ambivalent about it.
The latest Firefox now has that functionality. Firefox translations also have the added benefit of being 100% on-device, your data doesn't have to go to a Google server somewhere.
The Lower Sioux in Minnesota need homes – so they are building them from hemp
> Win32 has been Win32 since Win95

You are 2 years too late.

NT 3.1 was the first OS with Win32 as its standard API, in 1993.
> Ads do work excellently for their intended purpose.

But this is the problem, because their intended purpose is not the user experience. A lot of people block the ads because they find them distracting, and actually part of the intended purpose of ads is to distract your attention to them.

There is no "users of Ad blockers" vs "technical users", using an ad blocker is not some sort of purpose of why I use a browser.
I wish "new tab" could show me all my bookmarks instead because I have already plenty interesting pages bookmarked to read, but I never use them.
Like a drop hurts an ocean.
Maintained my weight and found an even better job :)
Makes sense, yes the growth mindset makes sense until you or a company get product market fit. When stagnation sets in and things stop working then a growth mindset makes sense again. Of course you also need to make sure that you don’t get blindsided by new changes in society or tech, but those things just need you to be open minded to new things
I use over-ear headphones, intentionally without a microphone for multiple reasons: it is confusing for me to have both hardware and software mute, and more often than not I find myself in a situation where I think I am unmuted, but I'm not. Since I only have a software mute now, it's easier for me. I have a shortcut for it and it works perfectly fine. The second issue is my breath; I somehow tend to breathe into the microphone when it's near my mouth, which causes an annoying sound. Additionally, I prefer ultra-lightweight headsets, microphones add a bit of extra weight. As you can see, I believe I'm one of those instances where a high-quality standalone microphone actually makes sense, I suppose.
It’s kind of a bummer that Brother are going down the DRM’d cartridge route too. Maybe enshittification is inevitable for Brother too, they are just taking longer to get there.
Government is making your life worse with its insane "environmental" policies. Just fucking turn on a few nuke plants!

God I need to buy a top-loader. I wonder if they even exist in europe anymore. Only comically small ones by the look of it. Front-loaders struggle to even wash a bath towel.

> a commercial dishwasher [...] takes about 90 seconds to clean a load of dishes instead of hours

Imagine a world in which all machines were this good.
> Yes but that doesn't help for domains that I use for both profiles

Why not? Since Google's multiple-account handling is awful, I use Container Tabs for keeping my accounts separate. In this case I'm asked if I want to use the container profile I've explicitly set for Google (my work account), or the one I'm currently in.
It can be more efficent on Windows where Edge is first class passenger similar to how Safari is more efficient on MacOS. Try looking at battery life. You can easily squeeze more juice on Edge than on FF/Chrome.
Where is where is OpenCV 5?
Wish can see more of these from mainstream/corporate medias, so I can just share them on Facebook/iMessage/Whatsapp with Friends & Family.
Afaik they do have an official offline translation extension Forefox Translations that would cover your usecase(maybe)
Ff also does have a Translations setting in their settings page(not sure if it's by default or appears when you install the extension) and you can predownload some offline language packs.
also which MFC (scanner) model? historically drivers have been an issue is this solved?
Because unlike some other providers, AWS understands the value of backward compatibility. They were the first to make the concept of simultaneously deployed versioned public HTTP APIs work seamlessly at scale, and the number of actually impactful API deprecations they have done is tiny. This is one of them.

Prior to this change, IMDSv2 could be enforced on an account, machine image, and launch API call level.

If you're interested in this topic, you might enjoy reading https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
When I evaluated my transition from bash to something else over the years, I found fish to be more cost-effective to maintain. Many times, I only need to install the distro package to feel comfortable, instead of loading all my dotfiles and things like oh-my-zsh.

Out of the box, effortlessly, I have autocompletion for commands; puts tabs/indentation automatically whenever I start an ad-hoc multiline command inside a for/if statement; a color prompt; etc.

I use fisher for plugins and now have more functions in my dotfiles, but it has far fewer dependencies — like 3 or 4 plugins. When I tried zsh, I immediately added several plugins with oh-my-zsh to feel comfortable.

I'm evaluating zellij instead tmux for the same reason. Some extra batteries included for free, but staying simple enough to keep.
Dividends are better because you don't have to sell to realize the gains. I'd love to own Google and Facebook and get dividends regularly.
ask and you shall receive (as of firefox 118)

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation

if you need a language they haven't developed a production model for yet, you can install the beta version of the add-on, which supports more languages

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-translations-ad...
You don't even need Darling or Wine if you just want to cross-compile since Clang can target any platform irrespective of the platform you are running it on (as long as your Clang is not built with support for that target disabled). All you need is the system libraries/headers and a linker (Apple's ld64 is open source, no idea if lld is usable for Mach-O yet). See e.g. OpenTTD's old how-to: http://web.archive.org/web/20200917010945/http://devs.opentt...

The only thing making this hard for targeting OS X is that a) too few people care for ready-made cross-compilers to be available so you have to piece this together yourself and b) there is no open-source reimplementation of the OS X system headers and stub libraries to link against so you have to extract the official ones from Xcode but that again is only a matter of people not caring.

For MinGW that is all there because Windows is a much more popular target - many Linux distros have MinGW packages that you can simply install and start cross-compiling. The same could be done for OS X.
> hidpi percentage scaling is amazing and a godsend (and the reason I switched originally)

Fractional scaling is quite new (first introduced Nov 2022) in Wayland and still pretty experimental, I tried it last year with Fedora and couldn't get satisfactory text rendering. In X I've set fractional scaling with .Xresources Xft.dpi for over 10 years with great results. I'm having a hard time understanding how you switched for this.
Nope definitely not.

Besides it reusing the engine supporting Google's monopoly I also don't like the BAT token concept.
Appears to be here:

https://opencv.org/blog/where-is-opencv-5/
Afaik it's better in some ways, worse in others(addon management for example)
It seems that nobody knows of ecotank... It should be the top reference in this thread.
Sounds like a good idea until I think about our fridge. After the weekly shop the fridge is packed to the brim so much that the light barely makes it into some corners. How would a camera help here?
Towards the end of the week the fridge is empty and I know I need to buy the usual.
Use case dead in my head.
TBH my Brother multifunction colour inkjet/scanner is also better than any I've used from any other printer manufacturer. No activation junk or "genuine cartridge" nonsense, it just prints.
Is anyone else having issues logging in, via username & password, to OpenAI.com with Firefox? That is the only reason I'm launching Chrome these days, OpenAI's login gives an error saying I refreshed while logging in, don't do that and try again... in a loop.
Definitely consider the outlay for a colour laser printer. I've had one for around 5 years and it has been no trouble and is always ready to print, scan and copy.
Ask HN: EU Based Alternatives to Cloudflare
I'm looking to move our business site and webshop to a strictly EU based provider for several reasons (GDPR, supporting local businesses, “because I'm told to”, etc). Right now it is hosted in the EU, but it is behind Cloudflare. I'm looking for an alternative to Cloudflare that is EU based and owned. I have looked at a few, however while finding a CDN is easy, finding out which is a good fit is not. Basically, I'm looking for an alternative that is:

1. EU based and owned

2. Fast in the EU (more specifically in Scandinavia. Elsewhere is unimportant for this site)

3. Has good options to help secure a WordPress site. CF WAF blocks a lot

I have of course looked at some CDN provider sites and also some “Alternative to” sites. But I find it pretty hard to find unbiased comparisons. Especially around the security features.
I guess you could also use a small battery to help smooth things out.
Yes, addons are shared, along with their configuration. Not an issue for me, since that's what I want, but I've heard others complain about that.
Nah, this requires hardware that makes the fridge more expensive.
I remember something similar being the case with HP Laserjets a decade ago or so.

People were buying second-hand 1995-era Laserjets in 2010 because they were simply better than anything you could buy new. They... Just Worked.
I have nothing to provide. It was all trial and effort on hobby code refactoring the architecture of a personal application and writing an original WebSocket client/server.

I did spend a lot of time trying to make sense of RFC6455. I also spent a lot of time trying to get self-signed localhost TLS certificates working cross-OS and this is a continuous struggle.
> The theory is nice but does this actually happen?

All the time, that's what dividends are. Not something that happens much in growth tech stocks but real common in the rest of the economy.
> Just because something works, doesn't mean you should do it.

That reminds me of that chinese restaurant that sold opium-laced noodles, to keep customers loyal: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-29312562
Zhongzhi Enterprise Group: China investigates major shadow bank for 'crimes'
Spanish spelling is so regular that my mom, a first and second year middle and high school Spanish teacher, promised on the first day that you’d be able to read out just about anything within two weeks. Your accent would be atrocious, and of course you wouldn’t actually understand what you were saying, but an attentive native speaker would understand what you read out.
> All the traditional distribution methods have barely even figured out how to uninstall a piece of software.

The most traditional way is to compile under /usr/local/application_name, and symlinking to /usr/local/(s)bin. Remove the folder and the links, and you're done.

> `apt remove` will often leave other things lying around.

"remove" is designed to leave config and database files in place, assuming that you might want to install it later without losing data. apt has "purge" option for the last decade which removes anything and everything completely.

> Whats the alternative to running a big project like say Sourcegraph through a docker compose instance? You have to get set up ~10 services yourself including Redis, Postgres, some logging thing blah blah. I do not believe this is ever easier than `docker compose up -d`.

Install in a single or on a couple of pet servers. Configure them, forget them. If you fancy, spawn a couple of VMs, and snapshot them daily. While it takes a bit more time, for a single time job, I won't mind.

Docker's biggest curse is it enables many bad practices and advertises as best practices. Why enable SSL on a service while I can add a SSL terminating container? Why tune a piece of software if I can spawn five more copies of that for scaling?, etc.

Docker is nice when it's packaged and documented well, and good for packaging stable meta-utilities (e.g.: A documenting pipeline which runs daily and terminates), but using it as a silver bullet and accepting its bad practices as gold standards is wasting resources, space, time; and creating security problems at the same time.

Basically you are okay with installing containers blindly but not installing services and learning apt purge. it just comes down to familiarity.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1988/