skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the usual advice is optimized for buildings that stay upright. But this [1] happens, too, surprisingly often with reinforced concrete buildings. A table turned sideways isn't going to stop the fridge that's hurtling toward you.

Ships roll all the time in heavy seas but don't have the problem of loose fridges, because everything is anchored much more strongly than on land. Perhaps that's the kind of standard we should aim for, at least for concrete buildings in earthquake zones with a certain width to height ratio.

[1] First photo in https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/01/02/japan/noto-peni...
It's stepper motor drive. Limited force feedback, so no doing "cobot" stuff.

Motors remain a headache in low-cost robotics. The good ones with good encoders and controllers cost too much. Steppers don't provide force feedback. Actuators based on R/C servos are too wimpy, usually lack good bearings, and have too much gear reduction.

This isn't fundamental. Brushless drone motors are really good 3-phase motors with good controllers and great power to weight ratios, and don't cost too much. But there's more volume in drones than in low-cost robot arms.

Take a look at what you can get on Alibaba for $3000 to $6000. The Annin thing costs somewhere about $3000, when you add up all the parts kits and consider the cost of 3D printing.
"HP TouchPoint Assistant" and the printer-stories around is totally enough for me to never ever buy any HP product. At work, I accidentally got a laptop with bloat-ware, last time. Practices like these have eroded (default) trust I had in them.
Uh, really? I was certain that the aftermath of WWII was responsible for establishing a form of global governance (by consensus) via the UN, and then there’s the benefits of free trade agreements that drove economic globalization.
https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/ 256 bytes
the mp3 is 2.1MB ;-)
Don't "Both-Sides" the Impoverishment of Political Discourse
US Gov blames Microsoft for Chinese hack of government emails
The Canon professional line is one of those too.
>visit hp.com/plus-support for additional setup help

My guess is that the person in question bought a model/sku that operates not as a typical printer (ie. you pay for the machine and its consumables), but as a printer as a service model[1] (ie. you pay per pages printed). In that case it does make sense that you need to install the app (presumably to connect the printer to the internet and to connect to your account) for the service model to work. I don't see the issue with this as long as this was clearly disclosed on the box when the printer was purchased.

[1] https://www.hp.com/us-en/printers/hp-plus.html
It's a common and fun way to make a noob angry that you're breaking the rules before you google it in front of them. I've had tough times "proving" it before Google though!
Does that warrant a warning? That's just a natural occuring discussion, and selecting threads to follow is basic forum-reading skill. The rare gems of surprising insight are often found in the depths of slightly off-topic discussions.

Previously I've noticed another kind of meta-comment, the top level complaint by a self-appointed moderators about the overall shape of the discussion elsewhere, instead of engaging directly with the actual posts in question.
Editing your images with DALL·E
For f*cks sake. YES!
Didn't know this shipped in ios 17.
The comment mentions "JSONDecoder", do you know if it's only the decoder, or the encoder too ?

Problem with iOS is this constant need for objc compatibility and transparent bridging, which really messes things up a lot..
A member of our warehouse team contacted me.

Here's how the conversation unfolded at work:

Warehouse Team Member: "Could you log into the App Store and download an app for the printer to work?"

Me: "That doesn't sound right." I remotely accessed the warehouse computer, opened a random PDF document, and hit 'Print'. The printer queue looked normal to me.

Me: "It seems to be printing just fine."

Warehouse Team Member: "No, it actually prints a message that says you need to install the app."

Me: "What really? Can you send me a photo of it?"

Warehouse Team Member: Sends the photo in Slack.

Me: "This is something I have to Tweet..."

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Edit: Imagine being the product manager who made this decision...
Do you own a USB-C thumb drive?

…

Me neither :-/
What's a "Printer Claim Code"?
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Hey there HN!
I believe the future of AI communication will be more voice and less text.
Low-latency realistic voice interactions are finally becoming feasible.

I've built a few voice-first apps on Retell AI using Elevenlabs voices.
This one uses Claude Haiku for responses and Mixtral to switch between posts and comments.

The AI knows about the top 30 posts and their comments on Hacker News right now.

After a Google sign-in you can try it free for 10 minutes.
I'd love to hear your thoughts!
I sometimes write a detailed bug reports but not a PR when there are different ways to address the problem (and all look bad to me) or the fix can introduce new problems. But I would expect LLM to ignore tradeoffs and choose an option which not necessarily the best for the same reason I hesitate - luck of understanding of this specific project.
A famous Super Smash Bros player, when asked for advice, would always respond with "Don't get hit". Seems this principle of not blundering has wide-reaching applications!
Author of the original article here.

If you have some customers that rely on GitHub-specific features and some others that rely on GitLab-specific features then you will have to support both set of APIs.
He relished challenging readers' thinking and preconceptions.

You can make up your own mind - there's a collection of his Astounding/Analog editorials in this book: https://archive.org/details/collectededitori0000john

And then there's this, Jeannette Ng's acceptance speech for the John W Campbell Best New Writer Award: https://youtu.be/sQ58zf0vzB0?feature=shared

(She began by calling him "Joseph Campbell", with the audience cheering the rest of her increasingly incoherent speech... Derision from people who really don't understand science fiction.)
GitHub switched to Docker Compose v2, action needed
may it save you some time ...
Sure. But the reputable multinational corporations that dominate the industry are easy to recognize and they’re headquartered in developed countries
I believe it's also a regulatory problem. Plankalkül on a German site makes perfect sense, because that is a German word. But then there would be millions of ways to form domains that serve no other purpose than misleading the users. So registrars would need to make sure that all letters belong to the same script and make sense i the language(s) native to the domain.

But then this is the internet and greedy and incompetent registrars are a fact, so I am not sure this will ever happen.

As for the UX, maybe displaying a little flag or similar emoji indicating what script it is. And showing a big warning or completely blocking the site of the user has not accepted the script in question. That is for the whole domain, mixing scripts in a single domain should be massively limited and requires other indicators in foreground or background. Also a problem for the color blind.
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Note that I am also French so working with EU is also possible (but timezone is obviously an issue).
How has this company managed to survived wall gardening their printers?

Apple got away with it because they started from that position creating a niche for themselves and a "reality distortion field' that sets their products apart (for some people) based on perceived quality.

HP has no such brand recognition, if anything it's products' quality is worse than its competitors' products.

I suspect it's trying to do a Samsung who did the same, but without any advertising or headlining products (which started with Samsung's S3/S4 phones years ago), so their marketing is completely balls-ing up the company's position.
That's padding strings of known length at the demarcation points, not inserting a separator to demarcate strings of unknown length.
I'm pretty happy with our setup, though we use flags mostly for feature releases and only have a few long-lived ones.

State kept in a database table indexed on customer. One row per customer/flag name, only there when the flag is set.

We keep active flags names as constants and put into an array for easy looping in our admin ux. This makes it easy to find usage and clean them up after launch.

These are passed to the browser so the frontend can check flags, and via grpc context to any downstream services.
Ok ... just let's boycott HP Pr0n!
Agreed, my HL-110 has worked like a charm since I bought it a few years back. No messing around, dark patterns or apps... it just works.
from osmosifying printer recommendations on HN the last few years, aren't brother printers becoming enshittened too? Nowadays they might try to lock out third party ink and toner cartridges, for example? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
Interesting.

Tesla in Norway is all JIT sales. Cars are ordered and come straight from the docks to the customer. I did not expect Tesla showrooms in the us to carry stock.

Maybe walkin purchases are more common across the pond
In this thread someone mentioned photosift which does the 1 thing i miss about graphicconverter - sorting while watching a slideshow and pressing buttons to copy to specified, arbitrary folders. downloaded, and testing soon.

Long gone are the days where people would come to me asking if i could open some file, so the other uses i had for graphicconverter are gone too.
I’d argue that every language is loaded full of foot guns. If you’re encountering those foot guns on a regular basis, it’s an issue with the author.

That said, what can help drastically here are well-defined best practices and conventions built into the language which, admittedly, bash really doesn’t have.
Failure was never alright despite what people claim.
Everything they do is a joke. They also passed into law net neutrality. But you can't see anything that indicates that this is actually a law.

And let's not talk about cookies.
Can you a bit more slowly highlight the signs of error you noticed in his argument please?
Some of my super smart colleagues solved real time inventory with big data within a small enough margin of error that Walmart scrapped the shelf scanning robots that were being deployed.

EAS is a purely psychological deterrent, for liability reasons stores can't really do much when it goes off. As more and more shrink is the result of ORC, RFID will have a place but money is better spent on alternative technologies like facial recognition and ALPR.
Don't build this in-house if you can help it.

I worked at an adtech company that had our own feature flag system built. Absolute pain to work with. To be fair, it had been built 6 years prior, and I worked there 4 years ago, so there were less off the shelve solutions at the time.

Switched to a company that used an off the shelve solution and it was 100x easier to work with.
I think the joke is that they would let you download a car for full price, and then kill it after a few years because it is too expensive to run their vehicle database server (and also because they have a new model out, but no one says that part out loud).

In 2050 Hacker News software engineers will claim that it is lunacy to imagine buying a car and owning it forever. How can that even possibly work?
You can always detour the API calls, or even ASM-patch the code.
"These are surely not true when you're at a high level"

I don't know what you mean by high level, but I suspect that avoiding mistakes continues to be very important regardless of level in most things.

I play Marvel Snap in the top 1000 and at that level most of the games comes down to whoever makes a mistake first loses.
I agree it's a weird world where Intel is our best hope for free, fair, and competitive markets. That's a really fucking weird world.

But Gelsinger looks at a cursory glance to be someone who knows how to build chips, has a pretty clear comeback story, and realizes that complacency in a monopoly is what made them uncompetitive in the end, and therefore desperate enough to put a qualified person in charge [1].

I think he might keep the pressure on even if they start winning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Gelsinger
They changed how a feature works and they communicated it via changelog I don't know what they should have done more. They have no service contract with ms.
I looked up the model M110w and found:

> This printer is intended to work only with cartridges that have a new or reused HP chip, and it uses dynamic security measures to block cartridges using a non-HP chip. Periodic firmware updates will maintain the effectiveness of these measures and block cartridges that previously worked. A reused HP chip enables the use of reused, remanufactured, and refilled cartridges.

This is the future of printers...
"There's an app for that!" has become "there's an app for that??"

It's the same thing with things like thermometers, scales, and other bluetooth accessories that really absolutely deserve no app. Similarly, the requirement to sign into cloud services to use 'smart' devices, as is the case with Philips Hue bulbs. Wish the EU would focus their efforts on this kind of nonsense.
They already made it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmiJ0OzFKd0
And it is BW laser... A cheap one, but stil...
More to the point, why isn’t there an open source printer operating system that fucks off all this malware?

I’ve long wondered if printers ship ‘samples’ of printed documents back to the vendors to ‘allow for an improved customer experience’.
Rickroll meme immortalized in custom ASIC that includes 164 hardcoded programs
Eventually it will be 90% fix rate and everyone cheering for the 12% will be flipping burgers instead.
I seriously wish Intel would pivot and stop being ultra worried about things like their atom or Celeron or whatever it's name is being competing with their own stuff and memory capping it. Lots of room for a really low power decently cored memory heavy CPU but they've always capped features and things like ecc memory away to the top skus which is really annoying.

Also not talked about but isn't Samsung and tsmcs fabs booked clear out the next 24 months?
N-body problems can't be analytically solved.
However, you can still compute integrals into the future (with some acceptable error), you just need to step through all the intermediate states along the way

In the case of the solar system, yes, it helps that the Sun is much more massive than everything else (and then Jupiter is 4 times more massive than Saturn, the next biggest) - you can go a long way to a "reasonable" solution by starting with the 2-body solution if only the Sun affected each planet, and then adding in the perturbation caused by Jupiter and Saturn.
(In fact, that's how we predicted the existence of Neptune, by noticing that there were extra perturbations on Uranus beyond those, and hence another massive planet must exist, far enough away from the sun to only significantly affect Uranus).
That's an improvement, but ultimately not enough, actually. The article hits at this, and you should definitely read it:

Being able to send xz patches to the Linux kernel would have been a nice point of leverage for Jia Tan's future work. We're not at trusting trust [1] levels yet, but it would be one step closer.

[1]: https://research.swtch.com/nih
All increases in the number of people doing work and creating things can increase GDP per capita (especially if you count the increase in the income of the person who immigrated, as you should). Inexpensive Indian IT guy makes IT cheaper, which is good for everyone except those who directly compete (and even for them it's not really that bad). This makes it so more things that are complementary to IT can be done. Broad-based benefit that outweighs a narrowly-experienced cost.
(Welcome to the HN, by the way! While I have also written my own compressor, I'm just a hobbyist compared to people in encode.su, to be sure :-)

> afaik, 7-zip filters can't have multiple inputs (at the encoding stage).

I don't know whether this is actually used or not, but py7zr's specification clearly mentions that complex coders have `NumInStreams` and `NumOutStreams` parameters specified.

> multiple outputs are necessary for filters that output multiple independent data streams such as bcj2. and they are equally useful for archivers and compressors.

Correct in principle, but those logical streams can still be framed and concatenated into a single physical stream. Any compressor that can handle non-stationary distributions would work well, it might be even possible to hint the logical stream boundary to guide compressors.

Several physical streams are absolutely necessary when those streams are going through different filters, but a lack of them doesn't harm too much either. Also I think xz was planning for "subblock" filters to address this use case anyway.
i have purchased 2 amazfits and they work fine for sleep records, they use the zepp app. I've had 2 other watches that had sleep tracking, but the amazfit seems better, then again, it is much newer.
Is Intel Back?
All printers are inherently shit, some are simply manufactured more evil than others.
I was astounded at how well the brother printer I got worked. As soon as I connected it to wifi, it just popped up on my macbook and worked perfectly.
Famous persons in each country's history based on street names (version 2.0)
I would use a baseball bat to fix it, that's so evil.
I have an Epson ink tank printer which keeps telling me that new firmware is available. I won't let it download, though. It would probably make the device worse.
He also thought that hiccups meant liver disorder and that eclipses affect human behavior.
The picture shows model number M110w, which has an optional "instant ink" (toner) add-on service. According to HP, only model numbers ending in "e" are Printing As A Service and have ink/toner subscriptions required.
https://twitter.com/rrichcord reminds me of this guy
Bishops have a worst branching factor of 9, while knights have only 8. And this difference is even larger on average; a bishop at b2 can move to 7 places, while the knight on the same location can move to just 4.

(This can be thought of dynamically as well. If a bishop moves one space closer to a corner, it loses three potential moves, but gains one move in the opposite corner. If a knight moves closer to a corner, it just loses moves, it never gains them.)
My hp printer works all right just by starting cups service. I must be really lucky.
Intel isn't using IFS exclusively anymore. Some Intel designs went to TSMC. Plus, they lost a lot of market share to AMD and Nvidia.
If the backdoor relies on IFUNC then it would not work on distributions using musl. Like the one I use. Always amusing when HN commenters try to belittle use of musl and promote use of glibc. I like musl. I like choice.
A 1991 Honda civic isn’t going to be outlawed.
this is the greatest article i ever read on HN in the past 12 years i been coming here
IFS isn't producing any silicon for Nvidia. That's in high demand.
It wont. I dont understand your point. Then buy a 1991 honda civic.
why on earth would majorities ever support doing that? lol
How can alcohol prohibition work perfectly if alcohol prohibition isn't working?

Either you don't know what a perfect ban is or you don't know what perfect means.
A while back I was in a partner channel meeting for hp and it was all enthusiastic cheers for this specific decision.
So they failed to charge enough from themselves? Is my take right or wrong?
Case in point: LLMs that only work because of armies of underpaid offshore workers assisting in training.
RonDB Upholds the Principles Redis Left Behind
What veterans in the field know that AI hasn’t tackled is that the majority of difficulty in development is dealing with complexity and ambiguity and a lot of it has to do with communication between people in natural language as well as reasoning in natural language about your system. These things are not solved by AI as it is now. If you can fully specify what you want with all of the detail and corner cases and situation handling then at some point AI might be able to make all of that for you. Great! Unfortunately, that’s the actual hard part! Not the implementation generally.
Brushless drone motors suffer from too high a kV (~operating RPM), needing a lot of gear reduction for this kind of application, but I take your point about volume.

Gimbal motors (also in drones) are closer to what is needed, and often come with encoders and centre pass through holes for cables.

Some manufacturers now make larger versions [1] with gearing and a built in motor controller, originally more for robot dogs than robot arms so backlash etc is worse, but the low gear ratio lends itself to cobot type.

For more conventional robot arms (high precision and stiffness) the harmonic drive gearbox patents have expired so there are some [2] of those coming out of china. This offers a really high reduction and very low backlash.

[1] https://www.myactuator.com/product-page/rmd-x8-pro

[2] https://www.myactuator.com/rh-14details
Like the ET-3750 from costco? In my experience the updates work fine.
They are cheap because they have no standards. Note they are not selling them in most of usa and europe that require safety testing.
You don't have to go that far. Depending on the topic, it's already very hard to use Gemini/ChatGPT in a corporate setting. Think: You're doing an FAQ for a child safety crisis/PA slide deck.

It's funny how sometimes the quality of associate work drops as the topics make text generators less useful.

The way forward for corporations is almost certainly either for very specific use cases or local/internal LLMs. Producers of these will probably be less afraid of being canceled by populists, hence introduce less censorship.
Its a log. When a log is that big, is it still use full?
Omitting it

No PR person would have included that line
The older used vehicles they buy aren’t going to be banned.
MyScaleDB utilizes approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) algorithms such as ScaNN, HNSW, and IVF. As a result, it may not achieve a 100% recall rate. However, depending on the search parameters used, it can attain recall rates of up to 95% or even 99%.

Considering that embedding vectors represent a lossy compression of the original text or images, is achieving a 100% recall necessary? I am interested in understanding its practical implications.

Disclaimer: I am an employee at MyScale.
Wouldn't the faster degradation be offset by the fact that the battery is smaller, and hence cheaper, to replace?

That leaves the fixed cost of labour for the replacement, but if the battery is designed as a planned-replacement item, that can be reduced to a minimum. It's a lot easier to swap out a few cells or battery modules than a full frame-integrated battery. And Tesla demonstrated doing the latter in under 60 seconds.

Again, the upside is not having a huge, and for once a correct usage of the term, massive battery pack you're lugging with you, accelerating, braking, and tire-wearing all the time.
@pg please fix