skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you don't print frequently, the ink nozzles clog up...

This was true before, but my 10 year old Deskjet 4515 doesn't do that, even if you don't print for a couple of months.

Being an InkAdvantage(TM) printer, cartridges are not expensive either, and while its color inks are dye based (not pigmented), the colors hold up very well even when they are not stored properly (frame the photo up and leave it there).

B&W laser printers are nice, and they're cheap on the long run, but color laser printers polish the paper a lot (4 drums + baking), and reading long papers on that shiny copy is not very comfortable. Pens' handling on that paper also changes after that much heat and processing. Inkjets and B&W lasers doesn't have that problem.

I use my B&W laser for more disposable documents, but for code and papers which contains graphics, I prefer my Inkjet very much.

Lastly, people think that ink is just colored water. It's not. Same is true for toner. They're complex technologies. Yes, cartridges sent for some markup, but ink and toner quality varies. Esp. if you want archival prints.
The load time in Chrome Dev Tools
I think it'd be interesting to see the actual prompts that went with this.

I followed it through to the accompanying blog post[1] and I found the examples for "we close at 6pm on Friday" interesting because none of them work. They fail the stated problem (they don't test for Friday) and the unstated problem (when do we re-open? the examples re-open at midnight). And of course, without the prompts I can only guess whether the fault was in the answer or the question.

If the complex version worked and the simple version was naïve - or vice versa - it'd make for a much more interesting conclusion.

[1] https://koenvangilst.nl/blog/keeping-code-complexity-in-chec...
Cooking activates them. You have to eat your steak raw to avoid mind control.
Secure Voting Systems
Looking at either the long and inglorious trail of abandonware behind current-day Google, or at their "ideology trumps reality" Gemini product - I'd suggest* buying more NVIDIA stock on any short-term dips that this news might cause.

*No, I'm not a licensed securities professional, this is not personal investment advice, etc., etc.
Not mutually exclusive. Incompetence and authoritarianism are compatible.
Nobody can type up a GIF image, or Word document in a Notepad, yet files of both those formats exist. The answer obviously is tooling.
If a format with sane separators was common, so would editors that could edit that format be.
The original Panzer Dragoon games were remade for modern consoles a few years ago. Saga still hasn't been ported though.
The paper is not about absolutes and specifics:

> nuclear makes states more authoritarian

It is about relatives and the general:

> adopting tech X will make it societies more Y

So

> I find that the evidence that nuclear power plants lead to a weakening of democracy is flimsy at best.

I hear your evidence and conclusion, do you think that relative to nuclear adopting solar will have a stronger or weaker authoritarian effect?
Those are great for little boats like one of those superyachts. They become dominoes that hit before a boat like this: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9697428
The amount of arm chair quarterbacking here is astounding. Reddit has a more nuanced conversation than HN right now.

A bridge got hit by a container ship at speed and folks here are talking about this like the bridge was not up to standard, or why there was a bridge there at all when they know nothing about the locale. I am not a structural engineer, but I am going to go ahead and guess that not much would still be standing from a direct hit from a container ship. And from observation bridges like this exist all over the world and don’t regularly get struck by container ships.

It was a freak accident.

If we want to point fingers or question things, perhaps if anything the question is why the container ship lost power repeatedly? Was this a known issue before leaving port?
The Patapsco is much wider here than at the locations of the two tunnels. It would have been a much bigger and more expensive project to build a tunnel that long.
The Time-Traveling Developer: A DevOps Adventure from Floppies to the Cloud
Not inkjet music but dot-matrix, and quite beautiful: Man or Astro-Man? - A Simple Text File: https://youtu.be/o0QHY7S-OtU
Picture this: It's the 1990s. The internet is just taking off, floppy disks are a staple in data storage, and the sound of a dial-up modem is the overture to the World Wide Web. In this era, our software developer—Dave—is navigating the early days of software development, armed with his trusty CRT monitor, a stack of floppy disks, and a hefty dose of optimism.
It’s probably the same scientists who answer an email 2 years later
There’s a lot to like about Hello Tomorrow. What attracts me the most has to do with its tonality.
It’s not capitalistic per se, it’s economic in general.

Communists say things like “from each according to their abilities…” which acknowledges differences in cognition
If society invested in a system of tubes reaching from libraries to all homes, each tube containing a sequence of small mirrors and lenses capable of bouncing an image all the way down the tube, and eventually into a home that connected its viewer to that tube; and the libraries kept the physical books they owned in small, well-lighted spaces, with page-turning robots, so that the images of the book page could be bounced through the mirror-tubes, and the readers in their homes could signal to the page-turning robots what page to flip to, would it then be ok for people in their homes to read the books physically located in the library, without paying separate remote-viewing licensing fees above and beyond the purchase price of the book?

I'm a creator too and I benefit from the protection of intellectual property I create. But I also recognize that my freedom ends where others' begins and that the benefit of society overall must also be weighed, since I didn't just grow up and survive all on my own in the wilds but rather relied on all the other good people that happen to be around me...
"Has collapsed" isn't passive voice; it's a compound past tense.
Michiganders will also know the "Z Bridge", completed in 1988

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilwaukee_Bridge

Sticking with the mid-western therme, the Chicago Skyway was built in 1958
You call them issues but I prefer to think of them as a filter that keeps blog content high value exactly because it discourages those who are not primarily interested in sharing information but are after some other goal.
Found a clip that shows how this robot works:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UwrXj4as6LA&t=18

It's very cool. The machine is basically a very big overhead scanner that slowly moves over hills.

Seems that this design is pretty much applicable to other crops (such as potatoes...) as well.
Blog author (and dav1d/ffmpeg dev) here. My talk at VDD 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4DS3jiZhfo&t=9290s) did a comparison like the ones asked above. I compared an intrinsics implementation of the AV1 inverse transform with the hand-written assembly one found in dav1d. I analyzed the compiler-generated version (from intrinsics) versus the hand-written one in terms of instruction count (and cycle runtime, too) for different types of things a compiler does (data loads, stack spills, constant loading, actual multiply/add math, addition of result to predictor, etc.). Conclusion: modern compilers still can't do what we can do by hand, the difference is up to 2x - this is a huge difference. It's partially because compilers are not as clever as everyone likes to think, but also because humans are more clever and can choose to violate ABI rules if it's helpful, which a compiler cannot do. Is this hard? Yes. But at some scale, this is worth it. dav1d/FFmpeg are examples of such scale.
Show HN: Zero Sign Up QR Code Maker That Exports SVG
I'm pretty sure I've come across piezos on inkjet printers too. Can't remember the make, but resistive heating is only one way to get the ink to go splat.
Multi hype cycle drifting!
>In actual reality, this is a search engine’s primary job: to get you to a website.

That's because they turned the address bar into a search bar.

Auto complete would be enough in most cases.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=system+wide+mixer
A Flower in Each Musical Genre
Wasn't the thing you put in the slot infront of the cart a ram extension slot?

I think you can play Rogue Squadron with and without if you want to compare.

Or do youe mean some lower cache level?
The ps3 cell processor with the 8 "synergistic processing element" co-processors was definitely weird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor)
> It’s surprising that ships capable of doing this damage were probably regularly driving past it, and its safety as a thoroughfare depended entirely on those collisions not happening.

There are cities with skyscrapers near airports, which depend on the airplanes not hitting the skyscrapers.
> No, you said that you expect someone saying that solar and wind is not that bad to be working IN SOLAR AND WIND

> you ASSUMED that if I say renewable is good, then I HAVE TO be in renewable.

Wow. Let me quote what I said:

"I would assume that people working in solar and wind believe in it... could it be a bubble?"

If you can draw the above conclusions from this sentence, then there is no need to talk further. And I have to assume that you apply the same kind of logic to everything. No wonder you think Jancovici is wrong.
It has a lot to do with it: Since Telegram is not encrypted and additionally stores all chat history server-side, a compromised login process has a much higher impact since it also compromises past message content, not just those received after the breach.
Why would you explicitly ask google to only include the low value blog hosts?
Just make sure to screen any donors for Eldian ancestry.
In addition to Gimp there are:

- Paint.net

- Pixen

- Inkscape --- straight-forward vector editing

- Seashore --- this is Mac OS UI overlay for GIMP

- Krita --- vector editing with painting features

- Scribus --- page layout

- TeX/LaTeX --- batch/markup driven page layout which can do anything one can put together a TeX macro to achieve (I use it a lot and have written articles for TUGboat on it: https://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-2/tb77adams.pdf

- Blender -- 3D modeling

- GraviT --- another vector editor, this is likely the one most like to Affinity Designer (since they were both modeled on Freehand)

- FontForge
>Past a certain age if someone vividly wishes to end themselves and sees no hope whatsoever ..

There's innumerable people who have fit that criteria, didn't do it, and are thankful they didn't.

I sincerely hope you will be one of them.
When Florida's Sunshine Skyway bridge was partly collapsed by a similar incident in 1980, the replacement bridge was built with a series of "structural dolphins" and concrete barriers to protect against ship strikes. You can see them in the image linked below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge#/media/...
> > not sure why you're taking that as a counterpoint to my distress.

Do not fear becoming irrelevant and replaceable due the fact that the age of AI is (allegedly, stock-pump-promotionally) looming.

You already are.

And your parents before you and your grandparents etc.

To reach some sort of individual human relevancy and irrepleacibility you need to go back to the point in time when there were about 10,000 humans.

1/10000.

Nominator/Denominator, these are the basics son.
I also do not condone copyright violation. But I don't think there is a separate "digital lending right" that automatically accrues to a publisher or the author, beyond the purchase price of the book. A library should be able to lend out its legally acquired copy of the book, whether there's an internet or a fancy system of mirrors in the middle, or not.
How is he not an expat of Australia?
That's all well and good but I'd have preferred they keep some of the story points from the book like the emphasis on Blackthorn learning Japanese, and the theming overall of the book being how Blackthorn perceives the Japanese vs what it is now where it's more of how the Japanese perceive Blackthorn. Still a good show.
> It seems like you are disappointed in yourself for things that you are projecting upon your own reality based upon anxieties of the future and you are incorrectly predicting that all of those things have to do with AI because that is your current fear...

It seems that to you. It actually doesn't have anything to do with what you've just said.

> You are being incredibly naive and selfish.

Thanks.

> You need to have a heart-to-heart with the humans in your life that depend on you right now. You need to tell them these thoughts that you are having.

To what end would I do something like that? To make them live in an hell of their own waiting for the inevitable? Just so that maybe they can convince me out of guilt that no, this life is actually worth something the direction the world is going AND people want it to go?

> Do you base your worth in life only on your ability to be employed and have a job?

Yes, and you'll find many others can only feel like me. Call me slave, I don't care. My existence finds its worth only in relation to what consequences my actions have on others; otherwise, it becomes pointless hedonism.

> Where is your passion?

Do I have to have one? Which passion? For what? For things that I do outside my job or anything unrelated to providing for others? Which passion are you talking about? What passes for someone's passion? Is finding value in things that come out of struggle, and willing to die because the CERTAIN future inability to do so not a passion? Do I necessarily have to pluck some strings and post it on twitter to have a passion? Are my thought and the violence I'm willing to do on myself not a sign of an internal passion? Is not going out with a bang sign of a passion?

> Where is your creativity?

Evidently, I don't have one.

> What if in the future you just get money because you exist and were born and you get to have a fulfilling life taking care of your family being with loved ones and pursuing passion?

See point above about "passion", and apply that to "fulfillment". Not everybody finds fulfillment in the same things, and I sure do not find mine in being catered for. Not that I ever felt fulfilled, but that was okay since not too long ago.

> You just want to throw it all away right now because... What exactly?

"All" what? My life? If so, I want to throw it away because I don't belong in a world nor in a future where my life will be defined by principles and a meaning that would've never been enough/the right one to define myself in the first place.
I love projects like this, but why S-expressions? Optimizing your frontend for the computer to parse (instead of the human) is the wrong tradeoff IMO unless you really really need an ultra-powerful macro language.

Also, I'd call it "C runtime" not "C-like" of you're not going to have C-like syntax

Just my 2c
The sad thing is that much of what was really nice in AD came from copying Aldus/Altsys/Macromedia Freehand.

I wish Adobe had at least put all of Freehand's capabilities into InDesign --- I might still be using it if that were the case.
What a catastrophe.

This is the ultimate evidence that there is no such thing as a free press;
People are only allowed to report what their masters allow them to. The day you cross a line and in Assange's case, the day you report the crimes commited by The Empire, they crush you.
Show HN: KGL, a query language for knowledge graphs
I am fascinated by different ways to explore corpora of texts. A few months ago, I built an index for my blog [1], inspired by physical book indices, which lets you explore blog posts by key word.

With this spirit of exploring text data in different ways in mind, I have been working on KGL, a query language for knowledge graphs. Using GPT, I ingested my personal website into semantic ("subject, predicate, object") triples. I then turned these into a graph that I could query.

KGL is designed for unstructured data, whereas RDF was designed for explicitly structured data (and thus suffers from significant verbosity that is not necessary for my application). SPARQL, which is used to query RDF, is similarly complex. SPARQL as conducive to play, the intent for this language.

The language is processed as pointers between concepts, like:

{ taylor swift -> created }!

Retrieves information about all albums that Taylor Swift created. The ! is the expansion operator to explore the graph by one degree. [2]

You can create queries of arbitrary length, like:

{ taylor swift -> created -> have }

KGL is implemented in Python and works on an in-memory graph. Data can be imported to and exported from a KGL graph in CSV, TSV, and JSON.

Demo video: https://jamesg.blog/assets/kgl-interpreter-demo.mp4

Playground with which you can experiment: https://jamesg.blog/kgl/

[1]: https://jamesg.blog/2023/06/03/website-index/

[2]: https://jamesg.blog/2024/03/22/kgl/
Especially if this ship had power issues, as seems to be the case.
I'd figure: bulb is dead ==>> plant cells in bulb are dead ==>> virii in the bulb can't reproduce (since that requires living cells). If (say) they know that the disease is infectious (to nearby tulips) mostly later in the course of infection, then "catch early, kill, leave in place" could make perfect sense.
I tend to agree for the base BTC case but the development and use trajectory of the Lightning protocol says otherwise.
Progressives and the left aren't so homogeneous either. The reductive, binary analysis buries some good points about trust and over reliance on appeals to authority.
Maybe there is an optional way to enable multifactor auth for Telegram, but in my experience it isn’t the default at least: Receiving and entering the SMS-OTP is everything I need for full account access, including to historic messages.
That's kind of the point. Assange wasn't acting on behalf of his country. If he was, there'd be much less of an issue.

I think it's a miscarriage of justice that Assange is just sitting in jail. At the same time, his defenders don't admit that he solicited and provided technical assistance to Americans who expressed interest in stealing secrets. Plus he's almost certainly a creep. The condom-removal allegations are very likely true. While not relevant to his crimes, this makes him much less sympathetic.
Not sure if bad link or deleted tweet. OP's post 1 hour ago at time of writing maybe lines up with this tweet dated 1 hr ago (8:37 am eastern usa time). This tweet is also pinned for @wikileaks

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1772585710903558200

>BREAKING: Julian Assange may still be extradited to the US in three weeks if US Gov provides "assurances" - previously deemed by Amnesty as "inherently unreliable" - including that he will not be prejudiced at trial by reason of his nationality and not receive the death penalty

A press conference will be convened at Doughty Street Chambers immediately, press are invited to attend
54 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LS
Ask HN: Does anyone remember a unique language learning tool featured here?
I recall seeing a unique language learning tool featured on HN awhile back. It stood out due to its innovative approach to demonstrating grammatical nuances between different languages. On the tool's homepage, translated sentences from a variety of languages are displayed. When you click on a sentence, a corresponding translation in another language is highlighted, showing how a sentence can be structured differently in languages. For instance, a sentence in Chinese may be represented by a sentence and some words in another sentence in English. it was stated to be in an early stage of development. By the time it appears on the top page, it is stated to still be in an early stage of development.

However, this tool seems to have slipped through my cyber grasp. Seeing Glossarie (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39807912)) today reminded me of this tool and I wanted to check its current status. However, I couldn't find it despite trying various search terms such as "language learning", "multilingual" and so on.

If this rings any bells for anyone, could you kindly jog my memory on the name of this website or product and leave it in the comments? I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!
Another trick, which I haven't really appreciated for a long time, is that it's VERY dark in the radio frequencies. Black bodies radiate barely any energy there. It's quiet so if you shout even moderately loudly you can be heard halfway across the globe. It's permanently night and even small lamp shines quite far.
Dell and Lenovo both sell laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed.

The fact that they aren't making those SKUs available at Best Buy says more about the lack of interest among regular consumers in anything besides Windows, MacOS, and (I guess) Chromebook.
Mikey Shulman: Suno and the Sound of AI Music

https://gosummarize.com/youtube/@lightspeedvp/mikey-shulman-...
I interviewed Martin Kleppe of JSFuck for the same blog: https://esoteric.codes/blog/interview-with-martin-kleppe
Came here to see this. Thank you.
This is basically an 8-paragraph opinion peace that says "i don't like crypto". I'm no cryptocurrency worshipper, but this is junk content.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak wins latest round in lawsuit vs. YouTube
For a large base on social media, harness the power of nearby influencers
I'm curious how much effort goes into the management of these LLM backed language tools? I'm learning a less popular language (Dutch) and almost none of them support the it out of the box. Is this a marketing decision? What is the overhead to add support for a new language?
Cwerg tries to hit a different sweet spot: It has an intentionally bigger LOC/complexity budget to allow for more features and better performance.

Instead of having the whole system be understandable by a single person, each major component should be.

In fact the 10kLOC applies to the frontend and each backend separately which I think is fair as most compiler writers use off the shelf backends like QBE, LLVM or even C.
I don't think it makes any sense to talk about all on-chip memory as a register set. In practice most uses of REP MOVS these days don't leave L3$ but because it's an instruction that runs for a highly variable amount of time while transferring data between different locations we consider it very CISCy. And the TPU also has instructions to transfer data over PCIe to and from the TPU's local DDR3 memory as well, which isn't on the chip and I hope you would agree that it's not like a register at that point.

If every instruction was always one 256 element unit maybe you could make the analogy stick. But it's working with 256*N element operations.
In the wide open. I'm blown away. Normally it's so quiet the average person wouldn't know about it or how it "works".

I've once placed a call from a dodgy VoIP service and my call terminated into a MetroPCS "your account has been suspended for nonpayment" recording instead of actually routing anywhere. I suspect that call was routed in similar way...