skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we just remove all printing functionality from the OS?

Printers are mostly networked in today's world. And the OS usually isn't involved when an application wants to talk to another device on the network beyond TCP connections etc.

Just get the application to (using a library), connect directly to the printer, submit its job, show status, and disconnect when done.
My unifi controller runs in a VM, The APs have no access to anything but that VM. Wondering if I should limit outgoing traffic from my controller.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/snow-...
Stanisław Ulam was a great mathematician. Off topic, but I got the movie made from his book Adventures of a Mathematician from my local library and it was excellent.

Some personal history: Ulam was a good friend of my Dad and when I was a teenager (long time ago!) we rented his house for a summer while he was traveling and our family needed to be Bolder Colorado for some work my Dad was doing. I asked my Dad about Ulam last year and he started to laugh a bit and told me that Ulam used to flirt with my Mom, in a respectful way. Anyway, watch the movie Adventures of a Mathematition - excellent!
> Well yeah, you gotta grow the business, as any good visitor of this site knows

Well. You have to exist, which means you compete, which might mean you grow.
There was a period of time where the notion that everything would be archived was unfathomable to the average user. Sure, in theory it could be. But storage was expensive and the value of storing that stuff was low.

Unfortunately, when DejaNews came out it became clear that at least one person out there recorded everything. Many an embarrassing post of mine was unearthed. When one has tens of thousands of posts and is young & stupid, that was bound to happen. Of course now all these years later I can barely find any of my posts on the internet, embarrassing or otherwise.
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there's a good chance a m3 ultra will be competitive in that area and will be actually available to people
Feel free to submit interesting articles, other users do https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org

I recently found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_micronations
I don't think parent was trying to be clever. In my neck of the woods various reports have to be massaged hard to account for some of stupid data decisions in the old times.

You would be amazed how many issued we identified so far and our mgmt uncharacteristically wants us to bring up issues. Some companies kill their messengers.

So yeah.. I absolutely buy that a portion of business reports are of low quality.
Will they raise rates, or just stop offering the discounts for contract?

Right now the way it typically works is they have some monthly rate for service without a contract, say $100/month, and a discount monthly rate if you are on a contract, say $80/month but with a termination fee if you cancel service before the end of the contact (unless you are moving to somewhere where their service is not available).

Wouldn't their response to this be to simply stop offering the $80/month with a contract option so everyone has to go for the $100/month month to month service?

Speaking of contracts, I've realized from other comments that there are actually at least two kinds of contracts ISPs are using.

Apparently at some ISPs your contract is for N years of a specific plan. If you want to change to a different plan at that ISP you have to break the contract and can get hit with the early termination fee.

At others, such as Comcast, the contract is that you will maintain Comcast service for N years, and that if you keep the specific plan you are on they will not raise your price for N years. Changing Comcast plans does not break the contract. You just lose your price guarantee on your original plan, so if you later change back to it you will pay whatever the current price is.

For example, I canceled my Comcast "triple play" internet/voice/TV plan and replaced it with an internet-only plan a year into a two year contract with no problem and no termination fee.

I'm curious which of these approaches is more common.
Can someone explain what is the essential, practical difference between a library that implements package database/sql (such as mattn's) and one that does not (such as zombiezen or crawshaw) ?

Not using a standard interface (i.e. database/sql) sounds dodgy, but maybe there's really no problem.

Apologies if this is a stupid question.
Perhaps using something like:

http://flatfab.com
There is no such thing as a 'just a tool', because we have fundamnetal and basal instincts that cannot be stopped when we operate in a large group. Tools always interact with these basal instincts in predictable ways that cannot be stopped within our modern technological society that has an incredible amount of inertia.

To say that anyhting is 'just a tool' is exceptionally naive and only works in small group settings.

We will never find people who govern fairly or corporate leaders who refuse to priortise profit as long as we maintain and support a system that is conducive to their growth, just as we will never stop the growth of bacteria in a bacteria-rich medium.

Yes, a hammer can be used for good or bad, but it will always inevitably be used for bad in an environment that encourages such uses.
I should have mentioned it in my OP but another great example I've seen is KittyCAD[1]

[1] https://github.com/KittyCAD/modeling-app/blob/main/README.md
You're looking for the Minecraft sets. If you don't especially like Minecraft, throw away the one or two figures and enjoy the cool 2 by 4 bricks, just as they were in your childhood.

Bonus: every detail is printed, no stickers anywhere.
Agreed. It's very difficult, and sometimes impossible, to retrofit security, especially without a huge investment.

If you just don't even care enough, then you'll never get it right. Not saying that Ubiquiti is that way, but there's a reason why some companies never seem to have significant security concerns and others have an unrelenting stream of them.
Well imessage does the exact same thing. It doesn't seem to confuse the users. More basic protocols as a fallback mechanism can be a good idea, if you understand the risks (and of course, if you allow the recipient to use the better protocol!)

Signal always warned me very clearly if it was forced to send a message via SMS, and even pushed me to invite the recipient to Signal. It made sense to support it still, because it's the second most basic service in the Android world (after calls), and now that Signal doesn't offer it, it can't be the default service any longer.

Signal's task as I see it isn't just to protect your communication, but encourage widespread use of strong encryption so that you don't stand out for using it. For that, there are tradeoffs. I think being able to handle the forced insecure communication for the user, clearly marked as such, was a great tradeoff for the sake of wider adoption.
Wikipedia is full of nudes. From classic pictures with Venus to parts of the body, like labia.
I have an extremely hard time perceiving any difference on a 27" 4K monitor. I am not even sure I really see them.

The examples are just bad. If you want to show something, screenshot and enlarge it to show the artifacts.
CERN EMC lab's HNY 2024 (short video)
CERN EMC lab shows how to generate HNY text over a wide spectrum of frequencies. Find out more in the description of the video.
> Where's our OLED PC monitors?

https://www.displayninja.com/oled-monitor-list/

Mainly targeted towards the gaming market at the moment.
Stuff like this really highlights how far European countries have lagged in commercializing innovation.

Apple is just one of dozens (if not hundreds) of major tech companies in the US that have been on a rally. Having been in Europe a bunch for both work and extended family, it's crazy to see how horribly mismanaged the commercialization of innovation sectors like Software, Hardware, and Pharmaceuticals are compared to their equivalents in the US, Asia, and Israel. The European business community just doesn't respect technology, and acts like a bad parody of the Asset Baron archetype.

Fundamental research is strong in Europe, but commercialization sucks.
Ya I think most just would not notice between friends. But we’ve compared our iMessages and we aren’t doing anything weird like sharing apple IDs. Not a huge deal so it’s whatever, but if any Apple engineers read this: plz fix
Thanks!
I was somewhat expecting someone to actually drop into this thread to put links to many 100 million level programs... :)
The cloud is still just someone else's computer. (Or camera.)
Their main motivation seems to be CI, where people often lint the entire repo on every PR.
Try out Node-RED[0] it provides all the same functionality of Ypipes plus much more. And the best is, it uses jQuery for the Ui!

It's pitched as being for Iot but it's incredibly flexible that you can do anything with it.

[0]=https://nodered.org
And it's compatible (2:1). So if you want to fill something large in a color or do some vast ice landscape, just get Duplo blocks and build away.
Intel CEO: AI PC will be "the star of the show" in 2024
Ask HN: Best information sources to learn about VC
There are several really old posts on here about understanding fund raising; are there any good newer sources to learn about raising venture capital?
related "Ask HN: What prevents Google from having the leading LLM?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38617762 and "Ask HN: Do you think GPT-5 will release before Gemini Ultra? Will it be better?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38548841
What's the old saying? "It's easy to teach a pig to sing, once you've taught it to read music", or some such...
Pyright is neat but the CLI output makes me want to poke my eyes.
Reading this I realise Bartosz Ciechanowski's work has ruined my definition of "interactive" for blogs.
The article is about Microsoft 365 copilot. Copilot for power automate or power bi are separate products. This is probably poor marketing by MS. Additionally, they've rebranded their chatbots as copilots, too. If you're in IT, and your users are asking for "copilot", good luck.

In my experience with copilot for power automate, the demos you see are mostly smoke and mirrors. I tried to recreate the demo as exactly as I could, I couldn't. Maybe they can help absolute beginners, but if you know the first thing about power automate, you're better off with a web search than asking the copilot for help. This is still v1 though (if it's not still technically a "preview"), but it really should be marketed so hard because it is currently not delivering.
The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents
This is something archive really should put some resources towards. Its discoverability of items is really poor. Going thru archive to find things is like going to that one consignment shop where the owner bought all of the businesses around him going out of business for the past 30 years and he tossed it all in a warehouse. You know it is in there but finding anything is terrible.
The Rome project continued as Biome:

https://biomejs.dev/blog/annoucing-biome/
The spate of rewrites of JS tools in compiled languages continues. Here's my problems with them:

1. The need for a 50-100x perf bump is indicative of average projects reaching a level of complexity and abstraction that's statistically likely to be tech debt. This community needs complexity analysis tools (and performant alternative libraries) more than it needs accelerated parsers that sweep the complexity problem under a rug.

2. (more oft cited) The most commonly and deeply understood language in any language community is that language. By extension, any tools written in that language are going to be considerably more accessible for a broader range of would be contributors. Learning new languages is cool but diverging on language choices for core language tooling is a recipe for maintainer burnout.
I do not have much clue about chips but when AMD bought ATI I thought they will come out with some superchip that combines CPU and GPU into one.

This is just for AI? So not for gaming PCs?
I've purchased a lot of Lego Duplo for my nephew, really fun sets.

Duplo come from the latin word "duplus", which means double.

Duplo bricks are double the size of lego bricks. This make the sets compatible.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...

https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/6m4wsm/mind_blown_30_...
> From the top of my head, I'd wager the cost of transmitting that data is not worth it for how low-quality the input would be.

Why is that? If the data is good enough to make an inference, will it not be good enough for transcription?

I am curious what makes it low quality?
Meta in Myanmar (Full Series)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35937637

Just a reminder that there was online Usenet discussion for the fall of Berlin wall, in real time.

Amazing
True, but eslint energy use would be one of the last things I worry about if I am looking for a longer battery life. Chances are that TypeScript service used for Intellisense costs more electricity.
There's also Deno:

https://deno.com/
I post this one occasionally, for the pure joy of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compre...

"it doesn't have to work for very long" design doesn't get much shorter time scale than that. (Barring fusion / fission but you shouldn't do that in the garage)

In a way it's the inverse of: https://www.capturedlightning.com/frames/shrinker.html
Care to elaborate on what are you using it for? Mine is collecting dust, but the recent cyberpunk vr mod looked fun enough for me to undust it.

Is there any value in the productivity "sector", or it's still mostly entertainment?
I might be missing something because I never delved into it, but my problem with WebP is I can't save images this way from my browser. Well, I can save them, but they don't show up when I try to view them on my system (Ubuntu Mate 20.04 on RPi4).
LGPL is perfectly usable IMO.
There has never been more money riding on eliminating the CUDA monopoly than now.
I do this as well for most of my sites, and I stopped using analytics. I just want to write what I want to write...to hell with maximizing views.
The cloud is like those portable toilets in public. They are private, but there are also people around you at all times. Sometimes you forget to lock the door and someone else opens it.
rustc gives you astonishingly good error messages though which helps get through the borrow checking hurdles. And all the toolchain you need is cargo.

I don’t know C++. Does it have tooling that makes figuring things out similarly easy?
Perhaps I'm missing something. Why is this the same content as https://shreyans.org/google, word for word?

As far as I can see, they are not the same authors
The scrolling makes me feel uneasy; in my head the columns are all offset by the scroll amount and I'm reading some weird zig-zag layout.
UniFi APs can be set up in standalone mode with the help of the UniFi Network mobile apps. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/12594679474071-Standal...
> I do think google gave sufficient time to move off.

The account was given 60 days grace on May 11, 2023.

It’s currently December 15, 2023.

Google Enterprise (Unlimited) accounts are subject to the same 750GB/day limits (I have one of these accounts, my account has also gone RO).

As of today, it’s been 218 days since the notice that the account was over quota and in grace period.

In 218 days, you can download (assuming 100% efficiency) 163TB.

The user has >200TB stored in their drive.

The math doesn’t check out.

EDIT: > As of today, it’s been 218 days since the notice that the account was over quota and in grace period.

Up until that point, the user was still contracted to, and paying for, an unlimited storage solution. Any suggestions that the onus is on the user to be migrating their data out while still paying for a working solution is insane. The onus is on the provider to give the user time to migrate after the terms have changed. Unless we consider Google to be the Sith, in which case, yes, pray they don’t change the terms of the deal any more.
Your definition of non-negligible is my definition of insignificant or irrelevant.

I'm still on X, and despite the people I follow declaring they're leaving, it's still the place to be. They all still post.

> Why? Don't give me arguments based on circumstances.

You're the one claiming it's an improvement, the onus is on you to convince me why it's an improved experience. That said, I'm happy to give you my perspective.

Centralised services collect and colocate the information. If I follow the mavericks, i likelt want to be kept up to date with other stuff going with the NBA. Twitter, Instagram, tiktok do that in a way that hundreds of millions of people find valuable. If I want a source of news owned by mavericks, I can visit their website already. That exists, right now, for me to go and look at.

There's the question of "which mark Cuban" - is markcuban@mavs the right one, or markcuban@nba or markcuban@cuban (which has no affiliation to either the NBA, Mark Cuban or the mavericks). X has this (well, it had it and then fucked it), tiktok has this, threads has this solved. If I go and register markcuban@threads, and start posting impersonating mark Cuban, meta will step in (I imagine). You may not want that, but he does, meta does, and millions of people who use their services do.

For services like YouTube, they provide an Audience for NBA fans to show similar content to - you think the NBA doesn't want to get eyeballs from people who are interested in NFL?

And lastly, this is the nail in the coffin:

> The apps can be improved and content discovery mechanisms can be implemented. What is "fundamentally worse" about federated social media?

The fact that the apps are worse and the content discovery mechanisms aren't implemented. That's the magic and value in social media. You get it right, you win (see tiktok). You tweak it and get it wrong, people leave (see Facebook). You don't have it? People stay where they are, because I want to see videos of pandas, otters and frogs with knitted sweaters even though I didn't know I wanted the latter until I saw it.
Your comment about filters is important. These companies are so worried that someone will generate "evil" results that they disable whole swaths of potential queries.

All sorts of different people may genuinely need those results: Attorneys, doctors and nurses, law enforcement, private investigators. Individuals searching for advice. Doing background checks on other people. Heck, just high school students researching a topic.

I'm not sure what to do about the (legitimate) concerns of the AI providers. They don't want a shitstorm, because someone got their AI model to [whatever]. But [whatever] can genuinely be important.
You can always use the trick used to post into moderated alt.hackers. You don't need a server to manage approvals of your own postings.
pretty sure I'm actually a catamorphism
This is by Shreyans Bhansali, not Tom Jordell or whoever "John" is.
> -> reposting this since my previous one was flagged

You deserve a flag for this behaviour alone.
not everybody is a growing family?
peace + pinky finger is quite difficult for me to do, i would prefer a different gesture for erase if possible
> offering both fame and a small fortune — 1 percent of net sales — to anyone who can convince 10,000 peers and The Lego Group that their set deserves to exist

This isn't entirely true. Plenty of LEGO Ideas designs get to the 10k threshold, then LEGO vetoes them for one reason or another. The decision process is completely opaque; more often than not, they basically just say "the design didn't pass internal review." Never mind that most Ideas sets get a significant design overhaul before reaching production anyway.
The best way to buy Lego is just to buy bulk dumps from families that stopped playing with them. It's going to be piles of unsorted bricks of all kinds and that in itself is a stimulus for creativity.

Just go on ebay or the local equivalent and search for 'pounds lego' or 'kilo lego' and you should be all set.
How does xwayland help here? In order to see what xsnow is about look here [1]. From my understanding such a program is fundamentally against wayland design philosophy. I feed it will be just impossible with Wayland unless you implement it as part of the display server.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Mzg2i6t0I
The database/sql package serves as an intermediary abstraction layer (but still low-level) between the programmer's standardized API and the database. It's responsible for managing interactions with the database, such as communicating with a remote database server or accessing a local database like SQLite. Keep in mind that database/sql requires a compatible database driver (e.g., mattn/go-sqlite3) to facilitate this communication. In other programming environments, this concept is like ODBC or JDBC.

If you were using an ORM, usually the ORM would expect to be sitting on top of the lower-level database/sql. (It's turtles all the way down!)

Dropping the database/sql compatibility requirement allows for more direct (and possibly faster) interaction with the database. This approach can unlock database-specific features and potentially improve performance, but it clearly deviates from the standard API envisioned in database/sql. You might also end up losing the ability to use an ORM, but usually you don't really want to mix ORM and non-ORM in the same codebase anyway.

However, adhering to database/sql also brings significant benefits, such as simplifing switching between different database systems with only small code alterations. While schema changes might still be necessary, they are generally external to the core codebase.
It's more that, after years of programming in C++, when I run a program I'm still not confident it's not going to have major bugs, and if a bug shows up, I know I'll be in for a world of pain trying to track it down.

After a few months of coding in Rust, I stopped having that problem altogether. I still ran into bugs, mind you, but solving them usually became painless.
I did recieve some spam messages there, so Apple's claims about muh security etc. already is bogus
That’s why it says “and the Lego Group” - you have to do the 10k and pass internal design review.
Just a reminder, a scientific instrument is something that is primarily meant to be used to conduct science.

Just because something can be used for doing science or because science was used/necessary in creating it, does not make it a scientific instrument.

Otherwise we had to conclude that pretty much every manmade object in existence is a science instrument. (Dare me, show me an object and I can tell you how you can do science with it or how science was needed to create the object)

And calculating the date of Easter has absolutely nothing to do with science.

I know many people see couple of numbers and conclude science was being done, but that is not true. Science is about improving our understanding of the universe. Doing "sciency" stuff like observing the sky or calculating formulas or measuring time for some other reason IS NOT science.
Meta/Threads Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue Meeting
ollama is great for off-the-shelf models, but unless I missed the news I don't think it makes fine-tuning on a pile of PDFs any easier.
Is the creation of many unique and realistic looking human models often the bottleneck in game development? Personally, I'd think rules of play, quality of story, and the immersiveness and variety of settings available in the world make a game. Give me that and it can be text-based or have characters that all look like Pacman for all I care.