skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never understood why nobody ever created a universal standard for talking to printers over any connection (USB or Wi-Fi). We've standardized most other USB peripherals, from mice to webcams to thumb drives, so why can't we standardize printers to require zero drivers?

As a Linux user, I benefit from CUPS for printing, but I still have occasion to manage printers on Windows, and it's a nightmare.
I think that’s the cover story (because I agree it’s extremely valid).
I'm well aware of the joys of optimization, I just haven't come across someone building multi-GB executables at a pace where milliseconds spent linking mattered.

To me that's an exotic workload which sounds interesting, hence why I'm curious.
Both require people to care enough about others they’ll never meet enough to significantly self-sacrifice to be successful.

I can cut my carbon footprint to the bone, and my neighbor will run their two-stroke leaf blower all day because they like the noise it makes.
> In particular, for marginalized teens, social media represents a unique avenue to connect with teens in similar situations, which provides a significant support network.

Thank you for bringing this up. I was one of those 'marginalised' kids who didn't relate to my real life surroundings so much. The internet was like an escape for me, where I was able to meet many close friends with similar interests on social medias like Twitter and Discord. Not to mention, free internet access in general taught so much about the world, developed my passions and helped determine what I'm now studying and planning to pursue as a career.

If social media was banned when I was younger, it would have made me worse off for sure. And if there were internet/device restrictions more broadly, like I'm often seeing suggested, it would have been absolutely devastating for me. My life would have turned out completely different, in a bad way.

On a site like HN, I would have expected there to be much more people who also had the same experience as younger me with the internet and social media. But for some reason, most of the dominant sentiment here seems to consider social media as a cancer, with no nuance. I'm not sure why they do, but I wish that these people would consider the experiences of people like me.
Roughly, life is carbon based because carbon has interesting properties for biochemistry and is the cheapest way to make a range of complex molecules. If life somewhere were not to be carbon based, there’d need to be some reason why carbon based life didn’t take off instead.
As I made the comment, I can't really imagine anything that's not so absurd that has a more than zero chance of happening.

Seriously, what can anybody do about random hacker Joe publishing under the name XoX? Even if they burn GitHub and friends to the ground, if something is useful it will be really really hard to get rid of it. Remember youtube-dl? It's now https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

If they make anything that cripples open source development they will feel it quite soon when they realize that it also cripples their world as much of the tooling and infrastructure also depends on it.

Killing open source is like killing the internet itself.
Well, we know for a fact it wasn't your mic being recorded. Maybe you walked by WiFi networks where people purchase dog food.
And it disproportionately hit the poorest in society the most. My kid had his own room to work in, his own computer to work on, and WFH parents to help him out. He was not, massively, negatively impacted.

In my work, I was in touch with families with multiple children at home, no computers, maybe one or two phones, and no broadband connection. The kids, for all intents and purposes, just lost two years of education.
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Is this an alternative to team-viewer?
Do you have a source for the 50/50 chirality?
No I dont, I am done feeding the trolls. Feel free to retort whatever makes you feel most superior.
Things like this are why I keep throwing sidelong glances at Synology instead of QNAP I currently use. Sure, the QNAP is only behind my LAN, and it's job is exclusively to manage hard drives and give a warning when one gives out (or is about to) - and it does that well.

But being able to have it closer to the WAN (even if just to share photos to others without Google Photos or similar), and the attention to security that enables that, is something I keep half-wishing I'd gone with Synology for.

Maybe Immitch (or similar for sharing photos with friends) will improve to the point I can use that on my Debian server instead, and treat the QNAP as bulk storage and nothing more. And if there are suggestions for something better (for photo sharing outside the LAN), I'm all ears!
They're going to launch a paid subscription model
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24278666/bluesky-working...
No. Not going to buy any phone with an OS controlled by Apple or Google.
Can't Alibaba use a Singapore based cloud provider? For Nvidia as long as GPUs don't move to China or maybe directly owned by Chinese company it is clear. For SG based non US data center there aren't any sanctions.
Trolls feed off engagement and bluesky makes it easy to nuclear block so trolls don't like that very much.
Scanning 200 issues of the Computer Shopper magazine (2023)
I'm not sure I would describe that as a problem, just something people using federated networks should be aware of. It is inherent to any system that sends messages to a bunch of other peoples' computers unless it implements some sort of DRM, which is effectively incompatible with open source software.
Not sure calling this "new" pays enough homage to the literal 40+ years we've been doing experiments like this already, but it's still neat.
> On initial setup, a big ugly warning about being permanently locked out, and that I should ideally add recovery options to the new account, and be careful in choosing the PIN

Phones and computers should come with a USB-C HSM that can reset and unlock them. This should be in addition to all the existing mechanisms to reset any kind of activation-lock.

In my view, It's beyond absurd that Apple/Google/whoever can sell devices that only they can decide are permanently bricked in extenuating circumstances.

If I have the device, its box, and everything that came in the box, I shouldn't be locked out of it forever.
France is simultaneously one of the most populated countries in the EU and the of the top transitioned countries, it does make a difference
Consumer GPUs don't have Nvlink so they don't work very well in cluster.
I'm still holding out for something that can monitor my bank account and automatically register transactions instead of me having to manually enter them. https://maybe.co/ is working on a solution for American banks.

I understand that Europeans already have protocols in place for this sort of thing. Why must the EU always get the nice things?
> In the future I expect a party, perhaps an insurance firm, or reinsurance firm sue oil companies for their role in accelerating climate change to pay for the cost of natural disasters.

Why make something legal and build your entire society around it and then turn around and retroactively blame them for providing legal goods? Seems insane to me.
Thats why the more decentralized the more resilient. No single point of failure, redundancy in routing. Ahh, yes. just like the internet used to be :-)
The result speaks for themselves, Germany still hasn't reached France 90s levels of emissions.
Never tried Tidal. What makes it better?

I refuse to use anything Apple out of principle.
Really depends on the country (I did my PhD in the UK), but I don't know of any PhD student writing grants, and TAing doesn't generally take up more than a day a week (I think I did no more than a couple of hours a week). In the US, you sometimes need to take classes for PhD study (I think this is terrible, BTW, but that's a somewhat separate thing), but for me, I did research, I'd say, 75% of the time.

A PhD is a waste of time if you're in terms of improving your income. It's just an apprenticeship in research, so it's only good if you want to do that as a career. In terms of enjoyment, I think a PhD is really tied to how much joy you can derive from research, much of which is months and months of work to just prove one or two incredibly minor things (which, honestly, are going to be of little interest to anyone and basically will serve only to show you can do research, not that what you were researching was in any way noteworthy). For me, I loved my time as a PhD student because what I was researching involved learning and using a lot of cool stuff, and I really liked the academic community "feel" and culture (for all its many, many faults).
Totally.

> I can cut my carbon footprint to the bone, and my neighbor will run their two-stroke leaf blower all day because they like the noise it makes.

Personally I reduced our currently measurable monthly CO2 emissions from ~350kg/month to ~15kg/month. They need a lot of (gas powered) leaf blowers to offset that. If thousands or millions of people do it, it'll make a difference. I'm aware of course that not everyone is in the financial position to do what we did. For a lot of people though it's a choice they could make if they're open to changing their lifestyle a little bit.

(I'm not saying our emissions are down to 15kg/month, but that's based on what I can currently measure, transportation, LNG, electricity, etc. Likely they are much higher of course but I gotta start somewhere)
> When you get sucked into reels, you go from "here" to "there," and in the process, while you are "there," your entire whole self is destroyed.

I think many can personally attest that either your use of "you" is waaaaay too presumptive or that your use of sucked into represents a mode of engagement that only certain people experience at certain times.

Your rhetorical flourish of making it all sound universal and damning is pretty, but it doesn't really hold.

Most people, most of the time, even if they are heavy total consumers, are just idly filling bits of time the way they might nervously chew on their lip or pick at a finger. They may get regularly caught up in the behavior without conscious intent but are far from "obliterated" and easily escape it when other concerns arise. That's a long long way from the addictions you compare it to.
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- A virtual piano, or drum set. This would be fun. Even better if one can record the pattern and beats and replay them.

- A DVD logo bouncing effect across the screen (like in the Office). Fun little gimmick.

- Windows XP type Pinball game.
Hetzner had these good prices for decades now.

They are still dirt cheap for cloud and dedicated
I can't imagine a projector being more practical than AR glasses.
If I’m reading the article correctly they need parliament’s permission (“private bill”).

Write your MP.
This is outstanding. Kudos.

I'm curious about your setup - which 3D printer are you using? Looking at your pictures, it seems you might be printing in an apartment space. I'm particularly interested in how you manage ventilation and fumes, as that's something many apartment-based makers struggle with. Have you implemented any specific solutions for handling the emissions?
I'm not saying Leica is profiting directly, just that the brand's cameras soak up an inordinate amount of revenue in the used market.

And yes, the used market in general has been in a rising tide lately (especially for perennial niches like rangefinders) but you can still get into very high quality vintage gear for peanuts if you shop around a bit. Hopefully the surge in demand will get more manufacturers looking at making film bodies again so we're not sifting through the dwindling supply of used gear.
> The social hierarchy of hyenas is even more rigid and predictable, with a depth of more than 100 layers

I would like to read more about this. The largest known hyena pack [0] is about 130, with most being smaller. So we can say this claim is almost equivalent to saying there's a total ordering of the hyena pack, where between any two animals the seniority is clear. Reading the article supports this interpretation.

Sorting 100 things is a difficult feat of computation! How does every hyena in the pack remember its relative place in the hierarchy? How do updates to the hierarchy (presumably it's not strict unchanging seniority order) happen, and how do they get propagated through the pack? If hyena A sees a lower-ranked hyena B exert dominance over a higher one C, how does it now update its place in the pecking order vs B or C?

Perhaps this is out of scope for the statistics paper, but it's one for the people who like to develop theories of computation inspired by the animal world.

[0] https://ideas.ted.com/everything-you-know-about-hyenas-is-wr...
https://archive.is/sFG6C
Discussion (73 points, 21 hours ago, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260074
The 'new' Vancouver Public Library also serves as the headquarters of an evil human cloning corporation in "The 6th Day", and is seen in Battlestar Galactica.
I actually did a few math exams recently (I was helping someone study for them), and they were really too easy. I had a hard time catching up with uni maths after breezing through secondary school, but if they nowadays enter with that level, it must be a nightmare.
Yeah, I like that too. Technically there’s a lot of really great design decisions that were made, but I’ve seen people take screenshots of the app and crying “censorship!” not understanding it’s a setting that can be changed or that a different client could be implemented against aproto.

I don’t think they’re wrong either based on past precedent and their mental model of how most social networks work.

I’d propose that Bsky instead asks the user if they want to view the content or block it, allowing them to change the setting right then and there (and not have to dig), instead of outright saying “Intolerant” and making them jump through hoops every time they want to view it.
Same here... back in 2011 or so. We needed something much more performant than WURFL. My efforts eventually became a feature/product at Akamai known as "Edge Device Characterization" (EDC) using algorithms not dissimilar to how LLMs are trained today.

I can't speak to how good the actual product is today (or even when it launched, but that's a whole 'nother story), but during development it was capable of processing 100K RPS in a footprint of ~30MB RAM with ~98% accuracy compared to WURFL as a baseline.
Not sure he buys from the market though.
> This pushed us onto newer mainline kernels, which led us toward Debian. On Debian 12 we could simply install the backport kernel and the performance issues were solved.

It's funny to think of moving from Ubuntu to Debian for newer kernels.
It always amuses me when people respond with some completely unrelated personal hobby horse like this. There’s nothing at all in my comment in any way related to driving or congestion fees, not even if you squint a whole lot, and no way in which this comment ties into anything at all I said, even if I squint a whole lot.
Argh, I'm so sorry, I linked to the wrong New England paper in my post above. (That is a different major achievement from the same institution, but the above was industry funded as others correctly pointed out).

The correct New England paper about this treatment is here:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2210233

This one is TIL therapy, where you basically take tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte from the patient, stimulate them ex vivo, and put them back.

The reason this is so impressive -- and highlighted by this article -- is that large phase III trials like this have now become so complicated due to various technical, financial, logistic, ethical, and above all regulatory challenges, that they are now mostly done by companies, or at least as joint ventures with companies (and often in jurisdictions with less of these issues, certainly not in the EU like this one). It is very, very impressive to pull off something like this as an academic institution (at least in Europe). What's more, the funding came from KWF (the Dutch cancer foundation), which is actually a public charity that mainly relies on donations.
Ah okay, you made it up :)
If/since the universe of human bad faith is finite, it does seem possible (and useful) to detect all such forms in transactions that are on the record.

This won't solve out-of-band corruption and might indeed increase its value, and hence increase the value of participating in a corruption network.

gosh darn unintended consequences...
Was this made with a visualization library? Or is this custom code on top of Mapbox?
Yes, the repo uses encoding/json from the standard library.
Subway "bread" had too much sugar to be classified as a bread in Ireland

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/03/919831116/irish-court-rules-s...
The King-in-Parliament can abrogate common law.
It's a bit difficult to tell from your comment what you meant by "Not that it matters much in a car-centric country". Do you mean that Austria is "car-centric"? Or that it isn't?

I grew up in America, Colorado to be more specific, and rode a bicycle all over my neighborhood (where there wasn't that much traffic) as a 7-12 year-old. Later, I biked to work in Chia-yi, Taiwan, where there was a bit more car traffic and then still later I did so from Mountain View to Palo Alto, when there was still more. In all cases, I found it very useful to be familiar with traffic rules!
You can also change the perspective by simultaneously holding the Ctrl key and moving the mouse.
Bluesky has a really neat approach to composable moderation. You can subscribe to one of the many labellers and decide how you want your feed to be moderated. e.g. to hide US Politics https://bsky.app/profile/uspol.bluesky.bot or spoilers https://bsky.app/profile/mod.shawn.party or transphobia https://bsky.app/profile/asukafield.xyz. I haven't used any of these, so I can't attest to their quality, but it's a unique approach. Personally, I subscribed to one that hides the engagement-farm follow bots that works.

Of course the other part is Bluesky's PDS (the 'instance' hosting content for those who sign up on bsky.app) - they're free to moderate their infrastructure however they see fit. You might find yourself banned from there, but you can always host your own PDS and still be followable on bluesky.
I have an old iPhone 7 which has an audio IC issue and the microphone is physically disconnected. Calls don’t work, video records without sound etc. need to connect an external microphone to have one.

Apart from the inconvenience it was somehow liberating knowing there is no microphone physically active.
Yes, the original fish market building is an events dpace now I think.
Mostly agree, Londoners go to Borough if they're rich or the many local farmer's markets on the weekend. You'd have to admit, the not providing a new site thing is kind of shoddy though?
Ukraine has become a breeding ground for lethal drug-resistant bacteria
Watched video. The case is basically open and shut. This is why this ban came out of nowhere and why they hustled and sweated to get this of all things done in record time (for Australia).

Have to say, it is kind of genius of the legacy media and kind of chilling to see the naked face corruption like this.
Vite 6.0
Oh no, no such thing back then!
It could be seen as an alternative. Currently it only supports multi cursor mode and pinging with the participant's cursor on the host's screen. But taking over keyboard and mouse is planned.
> The other way to avoid it is to just respect everyone at your table, like Guru Nanak and those like him who have trod the road to universal compassion, and just keep things as simple as possible

Some people are not worthy of this

If you have me at a table with someone who volunteers at an orphanage and another who has ordered genocide, one of those people is getting more of my respect and kindness

There is nothing enlightened about treating both of these people as equivalent

Yes, there may be a baseline level of respect for someone being human, fundamental rights and freedoms

Most of the time when people talk about respect, they are talking about extra respect above the absolute baseline
Do you mean pre-Twitter buyout or pre-Twitter presence?

If you mean pre-buyout then I have bad news for you: Musk has been baselessly calling people pedophiles since at least 2018.

If you mean pre-presence then I have bad news for you: If you only liked someone before they were really expressing themselves, you probably never actually liked them.
It's not what happened, though. Fossil fuel companies had studies about the impact of AGW since 60s, and yet decided to fund climate change denial. That's criminal.
I am not sure you are familiar with what the term consumer responsibility means in this context. It doesnt mean to rely on consumer's "good hearts" and conscience. Its a mechanism to attribute impact to final consumption, so that the costs of that impact are also priced to influence these consumers. So your neighbor would somehow pay for their mindless blowing (rather than the manufacturer or the fuel provider).

The comment to which I responded implied that this is unfair, that the corporate beneficiaries / polluters should "pay".
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I think it’s pretty clear the GP (and others) believe this is pseudopsychology bunk supported by neither any available evidence nor by professionals in the field.

It takes 1,000x less time and energy to come up with a pet theory de novo and sans any evidence than it takes to debunk. Without backing evidence provided for an idea, it should be as easy to dismiss out of hand as it was to create it in the first place.
AKA "The Square Mile"
It's Smithfield and Billingsgate.
Yes, attack the mosquitos, not the people.
The `img` tag in HTML already supports that.
The Trouble with Openness
Py-cachify: Caching and locks in your Python apps with just a few lines
Same general reason why a lot of film/tv production is done in the state of GA now, which decided to compete with California, Vancouver and Toronto to attract productions.
Some vendors care about lock-in, some don't.

For laser printers pcl/ipp is pretty standard afaik. For inkjets it's different because it's consumer hardware and there's no driver.

Airprint is actually surprisingly standard now. There's even feature discovery.
Does anyone remember MIT's Sixth Sense? It won a massive amount of awards in 2009. It was going to change the world.

Wearable gestural interfaces that would free people from computers. Until the mass hallucination stopped and people realised projectors just don't work like that in the real world.
Yes. Imagine bath water but with the same amount of dirt that would be in 50 gallons in a bath in 5 gallons in this thing. It would be 10x grosser.
My guess is that BSDobelix was downvoted and flagged for implying that people supportive of LGBTQ rights are (in comparison to the rest of the population) significantly more likely to be pedophiles.
It must be stressful to write to LKML knowing that Phoronix is hiding behind a corner waiting to sensationalize every little thing that sounds like could give it free clicks you write even before any sensible discussion on what you wrote has a chance of happening.
Few things in this world can stop kids from finding a way to play their favorite video games.
Prot continuing to be thorough in his work, write clearly, and produce very useful stuff for Emacs operators. This guide looks very interesting (even for slightly-above-beginner Emacsers like myself).
Yeah I think they’re just wrong about this.
Ignoring mainstream js trends seems to be a safe bet in general.
Outage disrupts TDC mobile services, emergency calls affected