skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't just sign up as a mod though. The people who are mods are there because they were members of a select clique and when recruiting they're only going to choose similar people. The closest you can get to having an open process is starting your own sub but then: you've always been free to yell where no one can hear you.
I don’t know anything about Lobste.rs except what I read in this thread: from what I’ve read in one of the comments it sounds like it’s an online community with a membership approval process designed to appear selective in order to project an elite image.
The fact that you’d come to HN to ask for an invite to such a community, and get it in the third comment tells you just how awesome HN community actually is.
At the end it’s this. People who speculate have the money to pay lobbyists to encourage politicians to bring in regulation that drive prices higher.
A comparison would be to a kitchenaid stand mixer. Once you’ve perfected a gadget best to stop there and not try and add useless value.
I think above a certain threshold every company stops answering in person, and that threshold keeps being pushed down.
Pomodoros and Leverage Ratios
Yup, exact same situation here. There are some subreddits I miss but overall it has been a massive net positive.
While modern dishwashers take longer, they’re a heck of a lot quieter (especially if you get a Bosch).

Interesting reading about the hacks in the article, I suggest everyone here reads it.

Dunno where the longer to boil pasta part comes from in the article.

What I learned is that the turbo/quick cycles use a lot more energy and water. I guess that’s what’s needed to get the same end-state of cleanliness.
I have a Brother printer. Sometimes it just doesn't print, cancels the job with an error. Very annoying
We already have autonomous weapons: mines. The new ones will just come closer on their own. Like torpedoes already do.

I don’t understand what is the big deal, autonomous weapons are already used and obviously will be used later much more often. Like mines, they will be somewhat regulated; like with mines, regulations will often be ignored.
The HTML Viewport Mess
I get a 404 from that hyperlink.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231127074421/https://retro.soc...
Part of the FUD campaign against remote working...
Invalid `prisma.workflow.findMany()` invocation: Timed out fetching a new connection from the connection pool. More info: http://pris.ly/d/connection-pool (Current connection pool timeout: 10, connection limit: 5)

Not looking good
Are you an engineer by chance?
Trade schools, the armed forces, and jobs with educational assistance work for those who can’t swing student loans. There’s also not a single state whose state school isn’t worth the money.
Innovation....

I saw a fridge that had an app so you could control it from anywhere.

My requirements for a fridge are remarkably simple, to the point the only practical use I could think of an app was alarm that I'd left the door open or something.

(If this particular app did have a door-open alarm, it wasn't on the list of features. It did say you could adjust the temperature from your office. A location I'm often worrying about the fridge.)
> Backyard alligators

Is there any other kind ?
You realize Samsung keeps the best displays for itself and gives Apple second best ones? You can see it in things like resolution, peak brightness, refresh rate etc. I thought its only HW specs, maybe it also includes similar small defects, or Apple (and Google) has simply lower acceptance threshold for this
ublock origin and not ublock. there is a very important distinction. please fix this
Front yard.
What does a sustainable smartphone look like?
Yes, but also «after 15 years of practice, the keyboard just works”
I've been mulling over the idea of transitioning from Sysadmin/DevOps into technical writing for a while now.

To any technical writers listening :

- Can one make a living from it?

- Typically are you working on a consultant basis, or permanently for a company?

- The job seems like an ideal WFH gig, is this the case?

- Seems to me you will need a 'portfolio' to get work? I'm guessing starting with Open Source projects would be a good way to build up a body of work?

Cheers.

(edit - formatting)
Same. The article describes friction and reducing context switching - I agree with that too.

In practice: if, while in deep focus, I can e.g. navigate the project via muscle memory, this means I can keep thinking about the problem domain. As opposed to pausing to hunt and peck an icon or a token.
Color only hints to heat reflective properties. Most of the heat of the sun is not carried in by the visible spectrum. And concerning snow, it is not particularly good at reflecting IR (1).

More a conceptual objection to using blankets. Feels like overengineering. The Ice Stupa idea of Sonam Wangchuk is brilliant IMO and if this minimalist approach would work would be fantastic.

(1) https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADP000147.pdf
Yes, I also hope that.

Should be very simple:

ssh user@rsync.net rclone sync dropbox:rsynctest rsynctestdirectory

... or something like that[1].

Oh, you meant rsync the command ...

[1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html
The Unexpected Winner in the Craziest Week in AI
Maybe will no one will read my reply here, but getting downvoted for sharing stuff like this is lame. The community is awesome, the algorithm generally works, but I'm looking forward to something better when we need community.
Also Transcendence is worth playing in this genre.
I have some basic laser printer (I think its 5500D) from them and it works like a charm. also added rpi with printer server so that I can print wirelessly from all macs, iphones, windows pc and from my toaster and I couldnt be more happy.
KitchenAid used their advantage into cutting costs, changing pieces into plastic though.
Agreed, you craft a good sentence.
> if a Kagi search takes me there

Same and mainly because Kagi let's me rewrite the url to a private libreddit instance. Otherwise I'd have downranked it.
It's the old philosophical impossibility of DRM to ever succeed. As long as the consumer is able to see the media, or the player able to play the game, it can be recorded given enough time and resources, same for cheating.
This is a strawman, they never said “the vast majority” or “used”.

They said “guns are made for killing people” which is absolutely a true statement, many guns are specifically made for killing people.
I have a Dell 1350cnw, which is a rebranded Brother CMYK laser. I bought it in 2009 and it still works perfectly today (except for the fact I have to keep an old computer around as a print server because Dell refuse to release 64 bit drivers for it). I will almost certainly replace it with another Brother printer. I mostly only use it these days to print colouring pages for my kids and the very rare physical letter.
Exactly this.

Who decided to call useless ideas an "innovation" is beyond my understanding.
Mine has a camera that shows you the contents of the fridge. It's been useful on many occasions.
I don't think the bar is very high to be a good printing company. Brother is at the top, but that doesn't mean they're excelling, they're maybe not as visibly trying to actively screw their user base.
If you're obsessed with ensuring others can't make money running something like Reddit then sure
This is true. But we are also up in terms of page views per month, unique visitors, etc., etc. reddit has probably been getting gradually bigger each year for as long as I can remember, and it doesn’t look like that trend has peaked off yet. At least not the subs I have access to.
I switched to Lemmy as a result of third party apps being killed.
Brother printers also happen to have pretty good Linux support which is amazingly rare for Japanese manufacturers (Epson and Canon never do that)
I have a Brother printer, which supports plugging in a USB stick with a PDF to print the PDF.

Its PDF parser doesn't seem to support all PDFs, and for some PDFs it will PRINT, on paper, an error message from the PDF parser.

So not only did it not print a perfectly valid PDF, it also wasted paper and ink for it.

You can't know beforehand which PDFs it'll support or not from looking at them, any computer / phone PDF viewer supports those. It could be as simple as a PDF sent by an airline.

They should:

1) use a proper PDF library, not some half baked one

2) if something is wrong with the PDF, show the error on screen, not waste paper for it
This article made me think - I haven't printed anything in about 5 years now for personal use (for business, its still mandatory.)

Contrast to 10-15 years ago, feels like I would've been needing a printer on a weekly basis, at least.
Western culture no longer seems to appreciate the commitment that is required to raise children. Personally I think people are too self-centered and are too eager to seek hedonism. Whether or not it will be OK long term is to be seen.

I have no doubt that if you were to ask the people without kids on their death bed if they wished they had had them, they would say yes.
My Brother printer is one of my better purchases to be honest. I sound like a complete shill, but it's connected to wifi (and it just happily connects even if it's been off for a month or two), and all devices can just connect to it and print. Never need to reconnect or do anything with it. It's a printer that prints. I love it.
Helpful to save you three steps and a lift of a hand to see whats inside?
I think it's not desirable to spend time fixing these elaborate scenarios. The same sort of kids trolling kids will happen via other means. At the end of the day, if a kiddo sees some porn, it's not the end of the world. Plenty of kids hear their parents having sex or will open a door they shouldn't have and see people in action. Making everything completely aseptic is only pandering to prude adults' discomfort.

And ultimately these LLM are tools. People are responsible for what they do with the tool. My Dewalt drill shouldn't try to decide which holes to cut, it's up to me. If I drill holes in the pattern of a dick shape, it's my fault. We don't hold back drill development because of their potential ability to create obscene art or depict gruesome situations.
I just use a fraction of the recommended laundry detergent. Helps prolong clothing and colours too. Spot spray any actual stains.

But I also fear automotive durability is being lost in the name of fuel economy by using excessively thin oils. Not just in the motor (easy to change yourself, just ignore the label where they can’t recommend thicker oils), but also CV joints, bearings, transmissions and differentials.

I put 87 (US octane system) instead of the “required” 91 because the fuel mileage loss doesn’t make up for the added premium. But of course the manufacturer will never say you can do that because they’ll lose their fuel economy record.

It might actually matter with a turbo, but I don’t have one.
Some games that I feel like have honest monetisation and that actually make sense on a mobile device:

PinOut! (few hours of futuristic pinball obstacle course, banger soundtrack!!)
Smash Hit (futuristic glass-breaking obstacle course, great on iPad, nice soundtrack)
Human Resource Machine and 7 Billion Humans (human-powered assembler with a story)
Little Inferno (burning stuff with a story, great on iPad)
Machinarium (cute hand-drawn adventure with robots)
Alto's Adventure (surprisingly relaxing one-button game, nice in the winter)
World of Goo (bit like those bridge-building games, but cute and with a story)
This feels like the workflow for a 3dprinter without Octoprint. I get the feature is there, but why on earth would you use it?
is the american "i need to move out of my parents house by 18 or i will forever be labelled "living in my mom's basement"? kind of ideology that is forcing people to rent rather than just stay at their parents house?

i wonder how many societies around the world practice this phenomenon ?
In reality, the institution was set up to assert dominance of power, wasn't it? justice is a fluke for powerless
You don’t have children, do you? With kids, printer is a necessity.
Brother (printers and sewing machines) feels like Zoom (audio recorders): a bit conservative but they are very well made and long lasting. And consistent. A USP in today's world of crap-loaded, buggy short living throw away products.
It struck me as an interesting puzzle; was this a curious locale spelling variation, a typo, a speech to text artifact, etc?

The above is a best guess and the first time I'd come across that keyboard layout.
Isnt Firefox trying to copy EXACTLY what Chrome is doing with extensions?
Profiles will help on the domains where C++ is going to stay for a long time, like HPC, GPUs, game development, GCC/LLVM.

However it is kind of late in domains where Rust, or other safer languages are already being used. They won't rewrite back into C++.
Still running X11 here, Wayland is just a major annoyance.

Justifying breaking so many use cases for so-called security reasons is imo a major design flaw.
A Guide to Managing the First Fallacy of Distributed Computing
Demolition costs can be very expensive. You don't want that to be taxpayer responsibility.
Some could argue that Brother printers adhere to the POSIX / UNIX philosophy: Solve one problem only, and solve it well.

In the end it somewhat boils down to pure greed. Instead of stabilizing production costs and/or reusing generic components to ease up manufacturing and repair - HP, Epson, Canon, Dell, Samsung, Kyocera and others try to hype their products with whatever tech stack is currently in trend. "growth hacking" is literally their job description.

There eventually will be a ChatGPT printer on the market. It's inevitable due to what kind of people manage a printer business: It's not the type of people that know how to build printers anymore.
May I ask how the cartridge replacement works with Brother, and Laser printers in General?

I am quite annoyed after "breaking" two Inkjet printers in 5-6 years and want to buy a laser one this time, but am not sure how is the cartridge issue different between laser and inkjet. Do laser cartridges last longer? Is it less problematic to use non-original cartridges?
> In the "bag of bytes that's probably UTF-8" world, you can safely concatenate strings, compare them for equality, search for substrings, evaluate regular expressions,

No you can't (except byte -level-equality). If your regex is "abc" and the last byte of an emoji is the same as 'a' and the emoji is followed by "bc" it does the wrong thing.
Nice, can you share info on the rpi setup?
systemd is a hundred tiny programs packaged as one big package by your distro. People don't seem to understand that.
It's likely useful when you're at the grocery store and can't remember if you need to buy eggs or not.
Agree. This is important! Hope someone will fix the title.
So your answer is no, you're not willing to forgo the abundance your parents and grandparents never knew at the same age. Asking how is relevant is just a deflection.

Have 1 phone per family, get married at a young age, have 1 TV that's small or maybe no TV, no computer, no game console, 1 crappy car that you know how to fix, cook cheap food at home, then buy your crappy starter home of 2-3 bedroom with 1 bathroom.

Somethings cost more some cost drastically less. At 22 you probably owned more clothes than your parents did at that age. You probably owned more if everything than they did. We live in a land of abundance of trivial trash that no one is willing to give up to get that house they go on and on about. This is trash the previous generations never had as an option or they would have fallen prey to it as well. So apparently we have much more disposable income than prior generations even if we don't have the same income levels.
>You realize Samsung keeps the best displays for itself and gives Apple second best ones?

You are kidding right? Do you have any sources for this?

Samsung Displays is a different company than Samsung Electronics, and just like TSMC, they build displays to order for any customers to their specs, since they're in the business of selling as many displays as possible, not catering exclusively to their sister company making phones.

They have no interest to intentionally make lower quality displays for non-Samsung customers, especially due to increased competition from the likes of BOE. Otherwise how do you explain the existence of Chinese phones like OnePlus which traditionally shipped with bleeding edge Samsung panels that had even higher brightness than Samsung's own flagships?

So if Apple's displays seem inferior in specs to the cutting edge ones in Samsung's flagship phones, it's because those are the specs Apple ordered Samsung to make knowing full well the compromises (most likely cost and other potentially unknown risky teething issues of bleeding edge OLED tech)
I imagine the use case is more one of “I’m in the supermarket and I need to know if I have enough xyz left”
Don't name your EKS Managed NodeGroups (unless you want to trigger an incident)
Sort of, yes! Not "solved" in the academic sense of actually finding the mathematically correct/ideal way to play, but rather using neural nets to learn to play and beat humans.
> It's safe money that Reddit will now be a zombie platform

That's just not the reality. I'm surprised and pleased to see that big subreddits suffered a significant decline, but I notice the number of subscribers continues to grow. Also, after the the dust settled, Lemmy activity really took a downturn. Small communities just can't survive the migration en masse. Whenever I need to look up something I still eventually need to check reddit, and most communities seem alive and healthy... The truth is, major subreddits are not what keeps reddit alive.
I'm an impulsive shopper, so I often end up at a grocery store with no idea if, for example, I need to buy more eggs, or butter, or...

I'd love to be able to see/know what I have at home while I'm shopping.

But yeah, it's a minor convenience
to be fair, we are saying this on yet another centralized platform. It's just that HN doesn't pretend to be "my/your" community.The upside is that at least the mods here are paid ones who won't ban you based on their particular mood that day.

I do browse the fediverse and am somewhat ambivalent so far. It's definitely at a crossroad point where the next 2-3 years will determine whether it's the next Blender, or the next Gimp. And my biggest fears is that usability won't be prioritized in order to ensure that it won't be the next GIMP. There's a lot of core UX to rework to make it more intuitive.
haha yes, that's it. Shoot me a note at hello <at> phaseai <dot> com and I'd love to connect!
> I put 87 (US octane system) instead of the “required” 91 because the fuel mileage loss doesn’t make up for the added premium.

Octane isn’t about gas mileage. It’s about compression. Lower octane gas is prone to auto-ignition at lower compression ratios. Running lower octane gas in an engine designed for higher risks catastrophic engine damage, as ignition can happen before the piston has reached peak compression.
And Renoise: https://www.renoise.com
Yes, except for the parts that stops adblockers.
You are right, I think I must have mistaken MTU with UDP, thus mistakenly assumed 1500 bytes.
A lot of people have forgotten that you can actually call companies and they do/will assist.

Called Walmart and they got extra bike racks installed at my location. Have had to call eBay a number of times as a small-time seller. PayPal too. Got Google to replace my chromecast remote and they went through thorough troubleshooting steps before RMAing it.

Of course, there are plenty of exceptions but not worth pretending that paid (by the vendor) support doesn’t exist.
I worked a year as a contract technical writer between undergrad engineering and starting a dev job. It was mainly a lot of manufacturing process documentation and process time studies.

Technical writing can vary quite a lot.
Have people forgotten that Brother, too, has become enshittified?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
I've got an orca-3b GGML (koboldcpp) running on an RPi 4 and it sucks. It takes a few minutes just to process the prompt, then it's 1 token per second of output.

...which is usually crap (because it's only 3b) and needs to be regenerated anyway. It's not a viable solution for any generative use case. Mechanical Turk is faster and more reliable.

There are smaller models that I could try but 7b is already the lower limit of my patience. YMMV
Firefox is also supporting Manifest V3, like Chrome, but Firefox is not removing support for Manifest V2, unlike Chrome.
Opening the door wastes energy. And it seems, mindlessly going to the fridge to see what's inside even though you know exactly whats inside, is a thing many people are doing. So there is an argument to be made, that a camera in the fridge is a useful feature. I'm happy without it.
We were discussing the apps for the fridges, which naturally work well beyond physical proximity. One of the locations they work fine at is grocery stores.
The real convenience is to be able to collaborate on a document in real time with pretty much any of my clients anywhere in the world. If you can tell me how I can do this reliably myself for less than $100 a month using a frictionless browser based interface that is acceptable to my corporate clients I’m all ears.
Mostly because its design never took into consideration the needs of Unreal C++, C++/CLI, C++/CX, Bohem and Olipan.

So the major C++ GC implementations ignored what was there and kept using their own solutions.
Some years ago I was on a Lauder Air flight and somehow unintentionally crashed out the in-flight entertainment system when switching channels, fiddling with the buttons or such and ended up with the OS command prompt.

Not exactly life-threatening but it ought not to have happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_hell

Seems like I am not alone. If the problem does not affect you much, does not mean it does not exist.

Yeah, the usual "works for me" attitude has had never helped anyone. So, good for you.
Which means any model derived from llama2
Don’t each of the three specs listed cost battery life if you use them? Might Apple determine there is some point where they don’t want to pay for that tradeoff?
Many communities are also on Lemmy, though at a much smaller scale. https://mander.xyz/c/houseplants
No, there are some meaningful differences in the Manifest v3 implementation in Firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-fi...

One such difference (and not the least) is:

> Mozilla will maintain support for blocking WebRequest in MV3. To maximize compatibility with other browsers, we will also ship support for declarativeNetRequest.
An Open Source Hardware printer is sorely needed.

It would force companies that make printers to be honest, as otherwise we'd just get the open hardware one that doesn't force bullshit upon us.
Can you elaborate? Firefox had extensions before Chrome existed. Firefox has always been the most versatile and secure way to browse the web. The only reason Chrome is even in the discussion is because Google abused its monopoly to push it on people. And yes a lot of people will say it's faster, all that speed lead you straight into the claws of Google doing whatever they want with you.
I have a 14 year old Brother hl-2140 that still prints (like crap) but I am still nostalgic for since it got me through college.

Always works with no fancy drivers and aftermarket toner is cheap.

Part of the reason though is selection bias. I prefer the simplicity of a B&W laser printer and don't mind the "lo-fi" aesthetic.
Simple tree-search techniques for LLM token sampling
> Although the dumb thing is you can’t buy the games separately without subscribing

Sounds like BS to me.
They're not making Manifest V3 mandatory. They're implementing it, sure, but that makes sense to ensure compatibility with Chrome extensions.