skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also do something caled "vapor smoothing".

You can also use "adaptive layer height" in the slicer settings to greatly reduce it.
> certainly saying shit I’d never think about saying when I was their age, so with that we are on a treadmill of constantly seeing, mocking, relearning etc past mistakes.

Your post reminded me of that “ten thousand” xkcd about how mathematically not “everyone knows” something that feels like everybody should know. Not even close.

You said “treadmill of mistakes”… well there are a lot of people and eventually they all become one of the “lucky ten thousand”. I wonder if your frustration is watching yet another batch of 10,000 learn those “same mistakes”.

I dunno, it feels like a less cynical interpretation to me.
They'll call it "hustle" because other similarly-bored/don't-want-to-do-the-work people will look at it and comment, believing it to be the same as real work.
Did you even try reading the README?

- TTPoE is designed to be implemented at hardware level unlike UDP

- UDP cannot guarantee transmission whereas this does

- TTPoE is built for distributed resilience
Did they also use that time machine to go back and invent replaceable batteries in mobile phones?
I think they're right though. When I sit down on the couch and turn on my Roku or Apple TV, the question is whether we want to open Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, Peakcock, etc. They absolutely are competitors even if they have different video content.

So much so that once I got Youtube Premium, I cancelled two streaming services after realizing how much we watch it.
> If nothing else, so far we basically have a more versatile form of IntelliSense, even if it's not always going to output correct code.

That's the real issue for me. I remember learning programming and I either had not so good intelligence (Codeblocks, IDLE, Netbeans) or none at all (notepad++,...). This forces me to either follow the book attentively (and hunting down errata) or read the manual and getting explanations from forums or friends. When you're a beginner, uou need a good source of truth, not something that can be subtly wrong.
New method to break down forever chemicals uses nanoparticles and ultrasound
If you want something that just prints, and want to spend absolutely no time fettling or upgrading the printer, then either Prusa (which I can speak to) or Bambu. Bambu has leapt ahead of Prusa in terms of features, though. They’re more expensive than some competition, but you’re paying for the simplicity.
Can our stockpiles of Tamiflu protect against a bird flu pandemic?
Yeah, there's a lot of confusion between AI training and AI agent access, and it's dangerous.

Training embeds the data into the model and has copyright implications that aren't yet fully resolved. But an AI agent using a website to do something for a user is not substantially different than any other application doing the same. Why does it matter to you, the company, if I use a local LLaMA to process your website vs an algorithm I wrote by hand? And if there is no difference, are we really comfortable saying that website owners get a say in what kinds of algorithms a user can run to preprocess their content?
> overheated discussion detector

First time hearing of this - it might explain (at least part of) what had been observed.
On a technical note, I'd love to see more data-driven approaches to nutritional science. Maybe we could leverage machine learning and big data to better understand the long-term effects of different diets?
How often are the bots indexing it?
If I wanted to learn a language, I would want to read original content in that language. So I'd try the reverse. If I see a website in the language that I want to learn, it translates everything but the simplest.
Yes, we really have arrived in the time where CAPTCHAs only exclude people.
In 2024, Facebook feels like a defunct shopping mall that’s slowly falling apart, but still houses one or two businesses you depend on.
I used to joke that my favorite tv show was just spinning a model around and around that I was working on in freecad or kicad or openscad. It's honestly still my favorite tv show.
Is the "Ultra Deep" analysis worth it over the standard "Deep" analysis?
You could use my (rather silly) extension called "pbrain," which adds procedures to brainfuck.

https://parkscomputing.com/page/pbrain

In hindsight, I think it's aptly named.

(EDIT: Gosh, I really need to update the .NET compiler to .NET 8.)
It beeps. The transducer is efficient at monophonic simple waveforms but it would choke on a complex waveform as commonly encoded via MP3. Presumably the beeper was used only for critical UX until this most recent update which includes a programmed sequence of beeps that play this tune.
Admins using Windows Server Update Services up in arms as Microsoft deprecates
I have a cable that'll charge all of my battery-operated devices, except my work phone. My work phone needs a special cable. Is that a middling annoyance, unreasonably annoying or… both?
Robots.txt is for crawlers. It's explicitly not meant to say one-off requests from user agents can't access the site, because that would break the open web.
Ups supplier's password policy flip-flops from unlimited, to 32, then 64 chars
I've heard people claim this but never seen any actual evidence of license violations.

Everything seems perfectly in order with both the Linux-based firmware on the X1C[0] and their slicer[1] which is a fork of Prusaslicer.

[0] https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/knowledge-sharing/open-source-s...

[1] https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio
How to make programming fun with sounds
When used together with auto-editor will make something like https://youtu.be/ouUkyeA0Ls8?si=ddCcf7M5BU6nP77C

auto-editor command: auto-editor file.mp4 --video-codec h264 --margin 0.05s,0.05s

My understanding is auto-editor doesn't add key frames, so the output is un-seekable, so run it through ffmpeg...

ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -c:v libx264 -c:a aac file.mp4_reencoded.mp4
That is a funny was of explaining that they scrape google.
Outer Wilds is an unforgettable game, I have no problem calling it a classic. It already has a community developed to the point that it has a modus opperandi - never spoil anything for anyone.

Its a magical game and the community protects the experience for future players, as its impossible to 'rediscover it' again.
That’s unfortunate. I consider SoC 2 compliance as a negative indicator of security (I’ve been on the vendor side of it, and have seen it have significant negative impacts on security and reliability in multiple organizations).

Ideally, there’d be locked doors, and the data center wouldn’t be subsidizing performative checkboxing.
NHS drops another billion on tech in the hope of going digital
This takes a huge amount of energy and complexity to solve a barely there problem that is largely already solved.
> But an AI agent using a website to do something for a user is not substantially different than any other application doing the same.

If the website is ad-supported then it is substantially different - one produces ad impressions and the other doesn't. Adblocking isn't unique to AI agents of course but I can see why site owners wouldn't want to normalize a new means of accessing their content which will inherently never give them any revenue in return.
The dubious claims made were about how aggressive and effective internal filtration was, not about actual fresh air circulation.
Either puzzle 4 has a bug in it or I'm losing my mind. (Possible answer to solution below, so don't read if you want to go in fresh)

# FILL ME IN (roughly 2 lines)
if local_i < size and local_j < size:
out[local_i][local_j] = a[local_i][local_j] + 10

Results in a failed assertion:

AssertionError: Wrong number of indices

But the test cell beneath it will still pass?
From the repo[0]:

> The project aims to provide a way to easily use Rust libraries in .NET. It comes with a Rust/.NET interop layer, which allows you to easily interact with .NET code from Rust

Are there some standout Rust libraries out there? Very curious about the motivation and use cases.

[0] https://github.com/FractalFir/rustc_codegen_clr
It's not as simple: if you accessed something simply because it was badly protected yet you were obviously not supposed to access it, it's more of a grey area. I mean, imagine an uber-hacker for whom many a network is trivial to break in: they can always argue how it was insufficiently protected.

You accidentally stumbling on something unprotected generally clears you from any liability as long as you stop as soon as you notice it.

Code of conduct for white hat hackers is to explore but not abuse, and report as soon as they have enough clarity on the issue. But there is no legal basis for this avoiding any liability except if a company runs an official bounty program.

In that sense, the OP author could face hacking charges if India has similar laws to the rest of the developed world, and the author doesn't even have the "well intentioned" for their defence since they never reached out: the only defence they have is they did not attempt to profit off it.

IANAL, though :)
ai companion in the form of plush toys?
Another guess - just comparing Linode and OVHCloud quickly, my guess is that Linode focuses more on multi-VPS systems, while OVHCloud has a larger fleet of dedicated servers. If you have limited rack space and an existing fleet of servers, my guess it would be easier to provide multi-VPS systems than dedicated; that's assuming and implying a _lot_ of history on how Linode has developed (and apparently been bought by Akamai back in 2022...), but could be one "practical" explanation for the different pricing for dedicated servers - VPS pricing between Linode and OVHCloud is much closer.
Count this among discoveries that should have been obvious.
Yep. 60+ have their free public transport subsidised by working people anyway.
It's weird. Usually when a company announces an ethical stance to avoid doing business in ways that support unjust wars, we applaud it, but when a company actually stops doing business in a way that would send money to continue unjust wars, we suddenly decry it.
With a powerful enough microwave beam, you could lift and propel the thing through surface ablation and wouldn't need the propellers at all.
A bunch of similar claims earlier in the year like this one:

https://latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-0...
I don't believe that companies have the right to say that my user agent must run their ads. They can politely request that it does and I can tell my agent whether to show them or not.
For traditional search indexing the interests of the aggregator and the content creator were aligned. AIs on the other hand are adversarial to the interest of content creators, a sufficiently advanced AI can replace the creator of the content it was trained on.
If it works and it's cheaper, this is a very reasonable thing to do.
> The only real difference this will make is further entrenching big players

It's the opposite. Only big players like google get meetings with big publishers and copyright holders to be individually whitelisted in robots.txt. Whereas a marketplace is accessible to any startup or university.
Determine if a random string sounds like English?
Try, Catch, but Don't Throw
No, it's not possible to do in a legal fashion I don't think. The existing methods require a browser-based portal that requires you to be logged in with your university proxy.

As an alumnus I could do this by showing up in person to my university and accessing that way. But I'm not going to.
Netflix vs. YouTube: The Post-Streaming Wars Era's Archrivalry
Maybe you’re right. Or maybe people aren’t brainwashed and instead are buying what they want.

We in tech, myself certainly included, often have an idea of what people should want or prioritize rather than what they do.
That bit about trademarks not applying to people’s names is probably universal, and the staff who handled the case in TFA screwed up in the same way the ones in the Khaleesi case originally did and alter corrected themselves in the same way.

So the biggest nothingburger here is likely to be... The paper's sly implication that it was their email that did it for young Skywalker.
Implementing and Detecting Anti-Debugging with Fork()
School run traffic in Z1-3 does my absolute head in. It's so stupid on so many levels.
True, but by the same measure your user agent can politely request a webpage and the server has the right to say 403 Forbidden. Nobody is required to play by the other parties rules here.
This is the guy whose browser requires an account to even try and which had a major and incredibly stupid security issue last week.

You do need a better browser than Chrome, but it's not this.
https://archive.ph/FeAy9
Unfortunately, this is true with most LLMs.
Oh man you gave me flashbacks. The TRS-80 Model II's OS, TRSDOS-II, had a built-in debugger that was little more than a monitor. You could step through instructions, examine and write to memory, set breakpoints to absolute memory locations, and that was it. I remember hand-assembling tiny Z80 programs in that thing and jumping into them, just to test my understanding of how machine code programs worked and how the computer executed them, and being super thrilled when I could get an A to appear somewhere on the screen or something.

The machine had a much more complete assembly language programming toolkit which I also used to write more sophisticated programs, employing this debugger to examine them. But I felt like I'd "cracked the code" of the computer when I plugged hex numbers into RAM and then ran them straight from there.

Most CPU ISA documentation should give you the opcodes that correspond to instruction mnemonics. You may have to plug in your own operands (registers, etc.) into bit fields in the instruction encoding. If you're serious about hand-assembling to begin with this should be no problem.
Interesting, as my theory for why cynicism is so common nowadays is that it's a coping mechanism for people who understand perfectly well what's happening in the modern world
In my observation kids with older siblings tend to develop faster. As in they walk at an earlier age. I guess they get fed up with watching the older kids running around and being left behind. Older kids also often act as deputy parents. So I don't think kids from large families surfer from attention deficit. I am a single dad and often struggle to keep my child attention right through the day.
The current collector also takes up relatively more volume, on top of the packaging (the wall thickness would be the same, and it's not a trivial part of the volume of small cell batteries).
I feel like at this point they can probably do better than me. Increasingly I get CAPTCHA's that are blurry pictures of unidentifiable crap with "find all the frames with motorcycles" and I'm left wondering whether that slightly rounder protuberance at the edge of the frame is a motorcycle tire or not, and then have to do another, and another, and another.

At this point given the development and progress of multimodal LLMs, we can now call it that a completely automated Turing Test is no longer technically feasible.
Just make sure your employer is okay with you sharing the codebase with an external agent, so ask first, you don't want this to cost your job..
Related today:

Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41625903
There is no objective black and white is or is not in this situation.

There is litigation of multiple cases and a judge making a judgement on each one.

Until then, and even after then, publishers can set the terms and enforce those terms using technical means like this.
There's still plenty of different beers available at the bar in FOSDEM itself.

There's no longer an official beer event. Lots of alternative beer events and social popped up on Friday evening.

On Saturday evening there's quite some community dinners and also a nice party at the hackerspace HSBXL.

It's probably not online yet but the event is called bytenight.
One of those is flagged, the other two are not. (At least as of right now.) You cannot downvote posts, so that isn't a concern.

So sure, there may be some people flagging things... but if the post is not deserving of such treatment, other people typically vouch for it. And it is always possible that HN is doing something more behind the scenes, but odds are it is just the community doing their own self-moderation, with all the pros and cons that come with self-moderation.
Why would the FDA have a role in this?
Not dissing any company; just pointing out a real concern to be considered, in this freshly disrupted and rapidly evolving environment.

We all know that someone is going to try to slip one past the regulators, and they're probably on HN, and we know from the past that this can pay off hugely for them.

Maybe, this time, the HN people who grumble about past exploiters and abusers in retrospect, can be more proactive, and help inform lawmakers and regulators in time.

And for those of us who don't want to be activists, but also don't want to be abusers -- just run honest businesses -- we're reminded to think twice about what we do and how we do it, when we're operating in what seems like novel space.
I understood your parent comment as thinking of it in terms of “spectacles” (i.e. glasses) rather than “specification”. Emphasis mine:

> it implies that you keep looking

As in “On first glance I was spectical the chair could hold enough weight, but the more I looked the more I noticed little details that improved its strength”.
we're still very far away from complete automation. one person now can do the work of 10 or 100 workmen in the past but people are still needed to transport and set up the feed stock, monitor, configure and service the machines, remove, inspect and assemble the finished products, on and on there are so many other tasks that only a general purpose agent like a human can do. you could construct an assembly line that is so completely integrated that it can almost run untended except for maintenance and recovery from failures but it will only ever produce exactly one model of one product and if you even need to change the weight of one of the parts it produces and then assembles you'll need to manually reconfigure a good deal of it creating significant down time.

it doesn't help that we impede the progress of automation by outsourcing labour overseas where the cost of labour makes manual processes still viable or by importing temporarily cheap labour until they realize they're getting a raw deal and move up the ladder with everyone else.

if we want to develop the technology needed to alleviate the burden of manual labour then we have to disallow these temporary quick fixes. if we do nothing they'll run their course in a few decades anyways, it'll just be a slow walk to the same destination giving the people who are acting in exploitative ways ample time to stuff their coffers with the fruits of their schemes while letting the rest of society rot on the vine mere steps away from the solution that would benefit everyone.
I can't imagine it's actually illegal. Maybe cost-prohibitive and a bit noisy, but plenty of people have UPS systems for their local devices and backup generators.
Easy text-to-SQL prototype with outlines
For anyone else who discovers they are a fast metabolizer of coffee: try eating a big breakfast before drinking coffee to slow absorption.

I wanted to be a coffee drinker for YEARS, but it made me really high, and I felt super tired later in the day. I don't know why I didn't connect the dots until I searched my genome, but once you know whether you are a fast or slow metabolizer you can play all sorts of games. I can now drink coffee before dinner, and the crash hits right at bedtime.
Most people doing rust don't see themselves as rust coders. They are experts in whatever field they work in, and use rust. I do network stuff - we don't hire rust devs, we hire network devs and if they don't know rust, we teach them.

Other groups here approach it the same way - hire for domain knowledge, not tool knowledge. This is pretty widespread IME.

I think for "rising" languages it's often this way. I remember back in the 00s people complaining that there were no python jobs, or ruby jobs, even as those languages were exploding in popularity - same with node in the 2010s. I didn't see the same phenomenon with go or C#, i think the difference was those two languages were released by big companies - in go's case it was "google released this, lets use it... it must be good", during a time google was still widely respected. In C#, it was "this is a first class citizen of .Net, and works nicely in our existing ecosystem with MS support". As rust usage continues to grow, I suspect you'll see more and more listings with rust as a keyword, that takes time though.
It looks like this is part of the Knuth Digital Archive Project: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don.... There's some fascinating stuff in there, like this "What a Programmer Does" (https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don...).
Adaptation to space conditions of novel bacterial species isolated from the ISS
GTP-derived bash scripts seem like a new kind of nightmare I never wanted to imagine.
It's interesting how the urge is always to build something "bigger". When you run the numbers on a revenue per employee basis, the indiehackers are the biggest kids on the block.

I'd prefer a legion of small businesses that generate great wealth for the people around them, than a single, venture funded, loss making, mega-corp concentrated in SF.

I await your downvotes :)
Literally re-inventing the wheel.
Its a bit tiring to read similar utopistic comments so often here. Completely unhinged in reality, utterly ignoring human nature, disregarding whole human history and so on.

No solution to anything in sight, just complains about unfairness. I know its an easy position in life, but its a lazy one.

But what about some concrete, achievable realistic steps to improve current situation even further? Or even better, what about bringing less fortunate parts of the world at least to this, apparently still miserable level? Now that would be an interesting discussion.
Exactly. The trouble is that companies want the benefits of being on the open web without the trade-offs. They're more than welcome to turn me down entirely, but they don't do that because that would have undesirable knock-on effects. So instead they try to make it sound like I have a moral obligation to render their ads.
Because when traffic spikes on your VPS, they don't black hole all the traffic like some other services lol
I have a cheap Ender 3. I’ve had it for about 5 years and it’s been just fine. I did do a few upgrades along the way that helped a lot (bed leveling probe l, direct drive extruder, and second z axis screw drive). Figuring out how to add those was part of the fun.

If you wanted something more production/out of the box ready, you can certainly find it. But it doesn’t have to be a big initial investment. You can start small and then upgrade as you go.
It's the only platform with content in every niche.

Netflix, on the other hand, has maybe three niches: documentaries, high production reality TV, high production fiction movies/shows. And that's after scrolling for 20min debating which one you want to watch lest it be a dud after you invested 30min of your time.

On Youtube, I consume everything from debates to conversations to the news to police body cam footage (guilty pleasure) to gaming reviews to "upcoming RPG games 2025" to Let's Plays to Starcraft 2 tournaments to video versions of podcasts to interviews with an expert about cardiovascular disease to old seasons of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares to scary story montages for falling asleep. And that's just from me scrolling my homepage while writing this. And I can consume most of that while running around the park with my phone in my pocket.

There's just no contest when it comes to which service I'd cancel first vs last.