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> This is the future of printers...

Not if people refuse to buy from companies that do this
Conjoiner Drives come to mind...
The recommendation that I was taught when I took Chinese lessons btw is to stand either below a pillar or a door frame, and to open the doors so that once the initial shaking is over you can escape(for example the door frame might get stuck and then you cannot even escape in case of an emergency).

Most of the collapsed buildings however seem to have not collapsed directly, but rather the foundation seems to have given in, so that if you were above the second floor you would probably have been able to be rescued.

What I found most terrifying is that there are construction sites where material has flown to neighbouring buildings and destroyed parts of them. Imagine your building being up to code and then killing just because your apartment happened to be facing a highrise construction site.

I have a feeling that the injury and death toll will probably take a while to be assessed. This felt genuinely terrifying.
After reaching profitability, BlaBlaCar secures $108M debt line
25 years later, 'The Matrix' is less sci-fi than tech reality
> Why are you so negative towards this? It's just an Open source project... who cares how good it is. It's a great way to learn, and play, and experiment.

I did not mean to criticize a hobbyist project for existing.

I meant to say "There is a reason there is no standard hobbyist-grade robotic arm."
what do you think of binaural beats (cool edit pro did them the best, you could even use arbitrary audio) for helping with sleep?

I know it's probably a big ask to wear headphones prior to sleep but when i was younger i used binaural beats for a few years to try hacking my brain a bit. When it "clicks" the sensation is pretty noticeable and intense. I described the default "noise" binaural beats "activating" like the sound of a helicopter circling around you, but quietly and quickly.
Do you have any statistics on that?
Seems very student-friendly and accessible which is good. A quick browse shows that it covers Set Theory, Logic and Proofs i.e. the absolute basics for "Modern Mathematics". One of the biggest difficulties for the student i.e "Mathematical Notations" (which are merely a shorthand language) are explained from the ground up which is great.
> Now we are in 2024 and what actually happened is no one owns their movie or music libraries anymore...

This is a proper definition of disruption.
this is super valuable insight to me.
I would agree with you, i have experience in how it is done in large complex organisations and i had awareness that in less organised smaller orgs its not done with traceability etc.
One theme i notice is that people, especially creative people don't like doing it, but find it necessary as they see all the issues coming from not writing or having specs/reqs.
But this insight you gave is super useful for me.
Thank you!
>> There outta be a law against registering people to vote if they want nanny-states.

> hard pass

I apologize that my sarcasm did not come through.
This has nothing to do with market mechanisms. You can't look at and negotiate with the market to get to work cheaper.
Show HN: Zim Sync – Mobile Media Backup to S3-Compatible Storage
Hey Hacker News community!

I developed this app due to the lack of satisfactory alternatives for backing up photos and videos from my Android phone to my home storage. While numerous solutions and apps exist, after trying various options, I consistently encountered recurring issues:

- Some sort of state drift between device and server that broke at the most inconvenient time possible.

- Loss of metadata, including location data, during synchronization.

- Clunky UI/UX.

I try to address these challenges with the following:

- No state management: The difference between mobile device and remote storage is calculated on every synchronization.

- A simple filename-based algorithm for calculating the differences. Easy to reason about what's happening under the hood.

- Non-destructive actions: There are no deletions or overrides, both on your device and the server.

- Keeps your location data and other Exif metadata intact.

- Simplicity: Focus on doing one thing and doing it exceptionally well. There's room for improvement for sure :)

As someone relatively new to native app development, diving into Kotlin, Android development with Jetpack Compose, MVVM architecture, Flow API and state management has been quite the learning curve. The Play Store's publishing workflow and review cycles added another layer of complexity. The infamous "last 20%" to get it released felt considerably more.

Personally, I use Minio for S3 storage, which I like. For testing purposes, I also utilize AWS S3.

I'm happy about any kind of feedback and I'll gladly answer questions. If you have feedback on how to improve my Play Store listings that would be much appreciated - the app is basically in-existent in keyword searches.

I have no plans on monetizing the app at the moment. I am considering to open-source it, but I would like to gain a certain reach before doing so.
The TLDR tangible outcome appears to be:

1. Stop charging for audit logs for Exchange Online's MailItemsAccessed activity[1].

On this point, Microsoft announced in July 2023[2] and added it to their roadmap in October 2023[3] that they'll make this feature part of the "standard" feature level some time after June 2024.

The rest of the items give the impression of just being a bit angry, but nothing materially planned to be done about it. What other option realistically exists once 99% of businesses and government agencies are locked into using M365?

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/audit-solutions-ov...

[2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-ex...

[3] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filter...
Table or bed? What they teach here locally is to get under a door frame or a pillar. I guess that recommendation has something to do with construction codes. When your walls are made out of light wood a sturdy table might protect you from fractured pieces I guess.
The ownership structure for ships used in international shipping is anything but straightforward. For instance, for the the MV Dali (the ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge) you might think we can go after Maersk, but in reality they're only chartering it. It was actually built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea for a Greek company but later sold to a Singaporean company, operated by a different Singaporean company, and crewed by 20 Indians and 1 Sri Lankan. In this complex web of ownership/relationships how do you exactly "enforce regulation from the ship building side "?
A few years ago a friend and I made something similar to universe sandbox, though only with the gravitational simulation part: https://github.com/fayalalebrun/Astraria

Surprisingly enough the jar still runs without issue. Something which probably would not be the case for linux binaries, but maybe for windows.
The linked Arxiv paper also says humans could tell they were talking to AI 3/4 of the time.

It would be interesting to do a follow up study to translate all human responses to "sound like AI" in order to eliminate the possibility that humans are finding themselves more easily convinced by GPT-4 because it is GPT-4.

Page 31 is a super interesting page too.
That looks great! I‘ve been playing around with Aframe and OSM building footprints, but this looks so much better. Will have a look at aframe-loader-3dtiles-component.
The trick is that people would use LLM to write very long and detailed bug reports :p
I recently picked up an old dot matrix printer for $1 at the Electronics Flea Market, and the manual for it has fucking control flowcharts and timing diagrams for the signalling. It's so fucking depressing to read it in comparison to anything modern. It's so nice and it feels like it was made for me by people who actually cared about me as a human experiencing their product. It's like a warm fucking hug.

I've written a driver for it and have it hooked up to my router with a little web interface and my partner and I have been using it to print out todo lists and cute little notes. I even wrote some dithering tools to get it printing images, gameboy printer style.
"Product Market Fit" that's it - #4 in the article.

Few startups fail due to #1-3 after achieving #4. So many startups blame #1-3 because they couldn't find #4. If you don't have PMF, you're burning cash, pivoting, arguing (founder disputes) to figure out your way there. All #1-3.

PMF is incredibly hard and don't let anyone fool you.
> Game libraries such as Monogame, Heaps, Raylib, Love2D, etc just wouldn't be that popular if Unity and Unreal are the be all and end all.

Just because it happens, doesn't mean it makes sense.

Anyway, people write their own game engines, and programming languages for game engines, because it is intellectually stimulating to do so, and something you spend 100h/wk to yield 1h of gameplay is still giving you more gameplay than something boring you spend 0h/wk on.

Then, the people who use those engines you are naming, they end up porting to Unity anyway. If you want to deploy on iOS and Switch with one codebase, it is the only game in town. And that's sometimes 60% of revenue.

> Don't underestimate what an individual or small teams can produce if they are operating on a solid platform that facilitates a rich ecosystem of tools.

Unity fits this bill exactly. I too want more competition. But in the real world I live in, if someone were to ask me, "what solid platform should I choose to make my multimedia application, as a small team, that also has a rich ecosystem of tools, and will enable me to make pretty much anything I can think of?" I would say, use Unity. Because I want them to succeed.
> Iomega Zip Drives

Were those ever open to manufacturing by companies other than Iomega?

I don't know much about the history of Iomega Zip Drives, but I find it interesting that in Japan MO Drives [1] were the winning format for that storage capacity bracket, and MO disks and drives were manufactured by a number of companies, much like floppy disks, not just one. I wonder why the same didn't happen in the West.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive
Except this is automated, so you could get multiples orders of magnitude more bug filled, so you need to have a very low false positive ratio to avoid being overwhelmed by automatically generated crap (which is basically spam).
IFUNC was probably chosen because most systems run glibc anyway so that is enough for the widespread vulnerability. The exploit would have used other mechanism tailored for musl if it was a majority instead.
My crude understanding and associated mental imagery is that tsunami waves are more like tide than "usual" waves: your typical 3m wave is mostly "surface-ish" in comparison, while 3m tsunami has both greater wavelength and "depth", which is what makes the "usual" wave break quickly when it reaches shore, whereas tsunami waves continue pushing real hard for real long because of all the length * undersurface water you don't see.

Gently shaking a glass of water sideways or blowing upon it won't make much water spill out, but jolt it vertically and most of it goes out real quick.

This is all probably very incorrect physics but it helps drive my intuitive understanding that 3m wave and 3m tsunami are quite different, the former being scary but the latter being muuuuch scarier.
It doesn’t take a phd to make a coffee, no matter how fancy the cinnamon/cocoa heart is.

All you're saying here is that you've failed to see the value in customer service, hospitality, speed, accuracy, politeness, etc that go with a retail coffeeshop job. The coffee is the same in pretty much every Starbucks, but the experience can vary wildly depending on how good the baristas are at everything else besides making coffee. Those skills take years to master.
The distinction I suppose is that what you really mean is "the difference in [necessary] skill level between a burger flipper and an accountant".
Your philosophy on how to live life seems to be very different than most others'. You could at try to accept that and acknowledge the difference is on your side, instead of straight faced telling us that society doesn't exist and we're all wrong but you. The way you muddle through concepts doesn't really seem consistent and it might be worth your time examining your beliefs more closely in relation to one another.
At the late stage Sony floppies were better quality and they had better data retention. No bad sectors ever.
I was heavily-involved with an off-grid, pop-up DJ event at a race a few weeks ago.

We didn't have a plan. I mean: We hoped to make people (race fans, in a somewhat debaucherous campground/festival environment) happy, and we hoped that the music we brought with us would make them happy, but that was all of the planning we did on that end.

I was able to keep our Internet connection standing up and working very well all week (without using Starlink, which it seems isn't quite easily-rentable yet), which was a big improvement over the previous year when our bandwidth dropped to around zero once the great heaping throngs of spectators broadly showed up for the main race.

And that was a very good thing, because these flagrant drunks loved singing.

Our actual-DJ-dude was able to download tracks to sing as-requested. And it was a lot of work, but it was fun for everyone and fit the vibe. I'm glad we had the network available to let this happen.

We left the crates of vinyl at the DJ's place, since there wasn't room to transport it. And we were prepped for regular-ass DJing of just about any genre with the MP3s and FLACs we brought with us (via CDJs), but we did not anticipate that we would be doing karaoke (which is obviously a very different world from mixing jungle).

But back to your point: We were able to explore karaoke because we had good Internet, and I'm glad we were able to get there, but we also had a plethora of other options that existed on physical media that we could actually-touch.

I can't imagine showing up to a DJ gig without...any music at all, and just trusting that the greater network would behave itself for the duration and allow clean streaming to happen.

That just seems like madness to me, since the Internet sometimes fails -- and it seems to prefer failing when there's an unusual influx of people in a locality. It is unfathomable to me that someone would rely on having a fat-enough network connection to keep people moving in a place where there is a large crowd.

(But yet: People actually do that?)
Clickjacking's slicker cousin, gesture jacking
I got an HP laser a couple years ago that has behaved properly, but at this point I would think twice and thrice before even getting one of those.
"per clock" is IPC, which was the entire point of my comment.

If AMD were running at 4GHz they might have had comparable IPC, or they might not because they could use the headroom to target something else. But they aren't at 4GHz. Nor are they ARM. It's all Apple marketing speak (others aren't innocent of this nonsense either).

Comparing IPC across the same chip line does make sense, to get a rough idea if how far the envelope is being pushed. Even comparing M3 to A17 would be extremely questionable.
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They likely meant that onboarding takes three days. As there is no meaningful metric for competence beyond that (or at least no metric that is measured and used) "good" doesn't apply.

There are of course tons of ways a good, seasoned barista distinguishes themselves from a trainee with 3 days of onboarding but those are externalities. The difference between skilled and unskilled labor is not whether competence and experience can make a difference but whether that difference is measured as performance or only affects externalities.

I.e. "unskilled labor" is not about the worker but about the company. Notably these often do involve skill that directly contributes to performance but because the job is considered unskilled, it's instead treated as some nebulous a priori form of intelligence and personal aptitude. What's more, beyond a certain point skill is often actively punished (e.g. by raising quotas to take advantage of higher productivity, resulting in more work for the same pay).
The Doroni H1X: A Unique 2 Seater Evtol [video]
In many places, congestion pricing is dynamic and tries to keep roads at the highest throughput capacity.

Here, it's a pseudo-static value chosen to try and push the roads to the highest throughput capacity. (There is some variation by time of day, but not by actual demand).

It has a lot to do with market mechanisms. This is stuff that's within the capability of a high school student to perform a reasonable analysis about after a semester-long class.
surely people who were stuffing their face at MCD are not going to switch to fresh cilantro and belpeppers and cooking every day. More like TV dinners and frozen hash browns. At any rate, slime mold had tons of links to how people are actually eating healthier and exercising more for many years now, but obesity is still trending up and even accelerating.
Hermetic Docker images with Hugging Face machine learning models
Good job for the open source survey form app!
Flipping burgers will be automated long before AI fixes any relevant number of bug reports.
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

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How can you tell that it's wasteful? Seems to me that pointing at activities and saying they're wasteful is exactly the central planning you mentioned. Everything "decadent" looks suspiciously wasteful. Stage shows, exotic fruit, ball games, wedding photography, hats, flowers, songs, pets, tourism, novels, hobbies, diamonds ... it often puzzles me how economic activity makes a country wealthy when only a tiny part of it is efficiently providing health, nutrients and shelter. And in fact maybe 90% of it is wasteful, but nobody has the magic ability to identify exactly which 90%, and that's why central planning wrecks wealth, and VC funding apparently thrown down the toilet may in some mysterious way be beneficial to us.
> What (...) happened to easily sending data, over the Internet

And for mobile phones - without internet is similar, unnecessarily hard. The other day I was hiking with friends, and wanted to share a .gpx file with the route, at some spot with no cell coverage. I thought: "I 'member, bluetooth can send files". Well, we spent good 15 minutes trying and miserably failed, that's no longer possible in the name of "security". So I had to wait for cell signal to come back and send the file via whatsapp. To someone standing right in front of me.
This might be cold solace, but there now exists a plethora of cheapish e-Ink tablets that are running newer Android. I have a Boyue Likebook and love it for reading ebooks, much nicer than traditional screen and runs Libby etc. although I mostly use Z-lib.

Much like you I hate to see my old devices waste away in a drawer so hope you find a use for it.
Sounds like an individual experience then. It's a bit of a stretch to blame "the physicists" for this. All of my teachers were very open about the short comings of our assumptions and solutions, and while it may be true that not every one and sometimes even none of "the physicists" is able to handle the complexity of realistic scenarios, I see no shame in working your way up until you get stuck. I can't remember a teacher that was too proud to say that something was too complicated.
> Well, if the men want their stories, let them go and find them

She then goes on to mention the first(ish) man to do so, Robert Bly. The New York times, for his obiturary, wrote that Bly "started a controversial men’s movement with a best seller that called for a restoration of primal male audacity." Which underlines why most men don't want to do it and why actually it is better if women lead this study at this current time: even if your intentions are good, your statements may be misjudged by some. In Bly's case, it was misjudged by some anti-feminists to launch some actual misogynistic countercultures and misjudged by some feminists to blame Bly for some of this and prior misogyny.

Anyways, a round about way to say thank you, Dr. Sharon Blackie for writing this. As opposed to it being misplaced, I quite appreciate it and find it necessary.
If you read the article, it was powered by 1000 cashiers in India, no sensors.
IAMAP, but n-body problems result in non-linear partial differential equations, to which only a few special cases are known, and even that case its do to simplifications, e.g., treating planets as point masses and ignoring tidal forces, or ignoring the pull of the planets on the Sun, (or on each other).

One such case where a solution is known is the Lagrange point of the Earth-Moon-Sun system (and similiarly for other points) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point
But in reality, they exist only as an approximation. They aren't truly stable.

My understanding the way to calculate spacecraft, asteroid, etc. trajectories is just through a discrete simulation.

Like f you don't know how to solve the antiderivative of a given function, you can still calculate the integral since you know the value of the function.
You would have to admit that passing the "looks white to me" test helps a lot in being culturally accepted as an American. You don't have to go very far to find counter examples. Even in this comment section people talk about "Asians" driving Tesla's - regardless of the fact they maybe second or third generation Americans.
> These are surely not true when you're at a high level, but for most people it's the right focus.

It is trivially true at all levels - anything that leads you to lose a game can be construed as a mistake, so if you make no mistakes and you lose then the game has been solved (which Chess has not been) or was unwinnable. The mistakes just get smaller and fewer and fewer people can recognise them.
US Navy lets recruits use cell phones to call home in basic training
Internet Archive's mission is to provide universal access to all knowledge. Short-term, they could fold, and provide less access to knowledge. But long-term, a legal precedent that helps not only the Internet Archive, but others to provide more access to knowledge is surely a preferable outcome for everyone involved. The publishers literally don't sell these books anymore. Come on.
I don't see where they offered payment in that thread. This is low quality ragebait.
>the manual for it has fucking control flowcharts and timing diagrams for the signalling. It's so fucking depressing to read it in comparison to anything modern. It's so nice and it feels like it was made for me by people who actually cared about me as a human experiencing their product.

I don't know about you but the typical user just wants their printer to work, not spend hours figuring out "control flowcharts and timing diagrams". Even for a technical users I doubt you'll find many that want to geek out on how their printers and writing their own drivers. Also, despite how shitty it is to have to install an app and connect to the internet for a printer to work, if I have a report due tomorrow or a government form that needs to be filled in ASAP, I'd rather contend with the app than "control flowcharts and timing diagrams".
Is it limited to wasmtime or can it run in a web browser ?
Dali owner file petition to cap liability in Baltimore bridge collapse at $43.7M
Scale and complexity. Floppies were dying. And it might be that so was some equipment for making them. Tape is steady state demand with likely small but clear margin and demand also in future. So quite different future and production scenario.
"The Navy said the new policy is meant to help new sailors phase out heavy use of phones instead of going cold turkey to better prepare them for “a digitally austere operating environment at sea.”"