skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually the device language is reported with the country attached, should be en_CA or fr_CA.
HP just straight locks you out of your printer unless you pay ransom every month..
> Yes we have many comments on HN talking about how harmful the US VCs attitude is because they force good businesses into choosing between being unicorns and not getting funding.

HN has a very wide range of economic opinions, and some people are extremely uninformed about what it takes to do hard things that can't be grown organically, and what it takes to maintain a business running when it's done the hard thing in the face of competition.
RFC 3339 isn't always UTC and doesn't mandate Z, in only removes some extra flexibility of ISO 8601, like comma separator or short syntax.
Bro is upset about Trump using a clause in a law, but has no problem with Biden and Kahmahlah declaring that something is part of the constitution based on absolutely nothing. Bro … after what Biden and Kahmahlah did, there is no valid criticism that any Democrat can have of Trump. Anything short of abolishing the constitution, as Biden and Kahmahlah tried, is less bad than what Biden and Kahmahlah did.
Act has limitations because GitHub Actions run via virtualization, while Act runs via containerization. This means that actions behave differently across the two platforms.
There is no such ban. Microsoft operates tons of services in China. Internet companies just need to host all Chinese in China using an approved provider. This is the exact same requirement extended to Tiktok, for ages US tiktok data is stored in Oracle cloud with full audit access by appointed American firms.
Mk4 or Mk4s would be the current one, or wait for the new core one
Yes but... the externalities are really expensive, and are going to be paid by somebody. It's a hidden cost
They don’t actually, the only British ‘social network’ is OnlyFans and it’s allowed in China.

As for the rest, what is the relevance?

US money influences our politics through shadowy think tanks and pushes it to the right. US-owned water utilities take on loans, use them to pay dividends and drive themselves into bankruptcy.

Being a US ally doesn’t buy us better treatment from US billionaires, they are still predatory vultures.
Topics only help to keep things organized and better than other chat systems if they are reusable and long-term identifiable. If people create a new topic like e.g. "Wednesday meeting" or "The printer does not work" every time they want to say something you end up with same mess as in other chat systems. Also it's quite human that discussions get offtopic. Zulip has nice support to continue in or move the discussion to the right place. But to my experience only a couple of geeks uses them.
> Corporate creatures are similar, they simply don't share our emotions. That doesn't mean they don't understand or wont cater to them.

I agree, in many ways corps exhibit the same behavior as psychopaths, after all, people is the thing they subside on.

I think their way of cognition is even more alien to a normal human than that of a psychopath is to a normal human.

They may share a fundamental, that we can't make them truly understand why something is wrong, but we may be able to come up with consequences that deter them from undesired behavior.

One difference though, is that we can't make it illegal to be a psychopath, only make some of the actions that only a psychopath would perform illegal.. We could make it illegal to be a corp (I'm not saying this is going to be a better idea.. But we could make it legal to kill corps, if only we can find out how to kill them so they actually die of it [1]).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H73L7M0xsnM
Correct, that was meant as an example. There's also "Existenzgründungszuschuss" for the unemployed and various other EU funds for craftsmen and others:

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/running-business/start...
There is no green light at the start - it's the lights going out they react to. There's also no minimum time, you can get moving after 1ms - it's legal. In fact, you can move before the lights go out, there's a tolerance before you're classed as moving.
To accumulate power for him and the people he likes
Tbf, very few Switch games "sustain themselves with in-app purchases and microtransactions". Especially relative to the number of games which is an order of magnitude greater.
The only thing that changed is that the people that were there are now grumpy middle aged people complaining that things have changed around them. Not realizing that it's they that have changed the most.

For technology optimism, look at younger generations. You are not going to find it in older generations. It's not a technical problem; it's a problem with aging. Young people are still expressing themselves online. Mostly not using any of the tools used by us older people. And good for them.

I grew up in the 1970s and 80s. I don't have a lot of patience for people of my own age these days. Not a lot of creativity there. Lovely people but just not very inspiring. Most of their great achievements are in the past. I try to keep some young people around me to keep me a bit more engaged. Much more fun. Young people haven't changed at all. I'm at risk of sliding into old age and being all grumpy about it. But I refuse to. Doesn't sound like a lot of fun.

It's not technology that's stopping people from expressing themselves but the fact that they no longer have the mental agility to make the most of what at the time were very primitive tools. If it was there (again) would you use it? Hint: it's still there and you are not using it like you used to! All the old tools still work. And there are some newer ones that work even better. The tools are there. But you aren't.
And I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s still the best language for teaching programming to a novice. At least for a little while.
theoretically we could also use https://just.systems/ or https://mise.jdx.dev/ instead of directly calling gh actions but I haven't tried gh actions personally yet , If its really the nightmare you are saying , then that's sad.
Man, the real ugliness is the comments hooting and hollering for this amoral cynicism:

Honesty is often overrated by geeks and it is very contextual

He didn't misrepresent anything. They were actually working there, just only for one day.

The effectiveness of deception is not mitigated by your opinions of its likability.

Gross.
Is the UK more in line with the norm though and the US is the outlier? I would say the UK, Europe, and Japan all have similar wages (although Japan has worse benefits and on the whole a larger expectation of workers so it's not like for like.)
> The solution is file sharing (via BitTorrent & co), which is very much not capitalism.

You'd be surprised, how many laissez faire capitalists regard "intellectual property" to be an anti-capitalist artificiality.

The whole raison d'etre for private property is that two people cannot use the same good for different purposes at the same time, it is rivalrous. Property ownership is the mechanism that resolves any potential conflicts arising from this rivalrousness. The owner gets to decide what to do with the good.

The same is not true for information, because we can both e.g. watch the same movie at the same time without interfering with each other, therefore there is no conflict that needs resolving. Therefore "intellectual property" is not a thing. (The reasoning goes further, but that is the simplest version of the most important argument I think.)
> All Li-ion batteries degrade over time

So they know this yet they refuse to let users swap the battery?
Why do you equate civil servants with people receiving benefits? What a load of nonsense.
Thanks! First time hearing about drop.
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I tried, I'd need to crank the font size up to 14+ to discern the difference ;)
They're just 9 clowns in robes these days
It's less about control and more about unhindered capitilism. Something a lot of people have blinders on about this is about capitilism and the world is fast moving towards a big fracture between the haves and have nots.
Selling them out to the Iranians? Pardoned and the person involved got a job on Fox News (Oliver North).

Selling them out to the Russians? Well, it worked fine last time, a bunch of minor figures went to jail, but the boss remained untouched.

So why not sell out to the Chinese? Remember, it's only illegal when a Democrat does it.
> there's zero good reason IMHO that there isn't a 2D-plotter retrofit which allows someone to attach one or more [colored] pencils or pens

This is a thing. Obviously.

https://urish.medium.com/how-to-turn-your-3d-printer-into-a-...

Only a randomly selected tutorial.

> I'm really shocked the overpriced ink monopolies weren't attacked in this manner,

Inkjet and laser printers easily print whole page 300 DPI raster images in seconds. Plotters need vectorial data and their printing speed depends on how complicated what you are printing. These things simply don’t serve the same use case. You can do nice art and heart warming cards with a plotter, but you can’t hit print on your boarding card / dhl label / word document and expect your plotter to give you what you see on your screen.

> None of this is remotely new.

I agree that none of this is remotely new. Plenty of people tinker with plotters for fun and profit. There are even pre-packaged consumer centric solutions where you pay the price of convenience with lack of freedoms. (See the similar debacle around the Cricut plotters.)
I came to make the thread safe comment. Got bit by that myself formatting is8601, would get wrong output... Sometimes.

I won't believe anyone who tells me that handling time in c/c++ isn't perilous.
"Take a load" = perform mechanically and or structurally at levels of force, temperatures, etc. at levels higher than the properties of PLA allow for.

Don't get me wrong here. PLA is a great polymer, However you can't really expect parts made with it to hold up when compared to other "engineering grade" polymers.
"Popular" isn't quite the right word—"significant" might be a bit closer? In my country, at least, Twitter was adopted by the political, celebrity, and media class far more than Facebook ever was.
Where do those undergraduate divisibility problems come from?
like your conspiracy theory, lots of entertainments in it.
Governments can talk to corps. But corporations corrupt politicians and poison the public opinion to prevent that.
A tour of safe tracing GC designs in Rust
I think a lot of this is exactly right - but one tiny caveat I'd add is that comparing the UK to the USA is sometimes a misnomer. On a size basic, the UK is much more comparible to a US state that the USA as a whole, and a lot of the observations made here are probably equally true of some US states like Colorado where talent is moved out to California.
Snarf packets now. Keep the dump. When pqc hits, decode the session. Since session key secrecy depends on the rsa alg key exchanges subsequent rekey is not protective. Each session will require a fresh rsa key exchange, but if the algorithm is broken under pqc, this isn't very special.

Disk is cheap.
There's "popular", then there's "every conference talk has @name in it instead of an email" and then there's "heads of state publish stuff there first instead of POSSE".

I'm not saying it wasn't popular, but it was not ubiquitous.
What about in the case of a township offering "natural gas"/methane that would ordinarily be lost to the atmosphere anyway? Isn't it better to burn it rather than leave it as is? Methane is pretty awful stuff in terms of the greenhouse effect.
> Why would you skip having 1 billion Euros just because you could have had 2 Billion but the government took the rest?

No one's making that choice. Most businesses fail, even in somewhere entrepreneur-friendly like America. Why not just work for someone else, given the rewards are capped even at relatively low level of success? Why take the risk, when taxation has failed to price risk into reward?
I wouldn't say he was completely wrong. He was right about "Curiously, the fact that the founders of Twitter have been slow to monetize it may in the long run prove to be an advantage."

Twitter / X punches above its weight (in terms of regular metrics like MAUs and revenue) in terms of cultural impact. One can argue that it was responsible for delivering the 2024 election to Trump. This may have never happened if its original founders had tried to control and monetize it too soon.
> So now they have locked it down so the printer can verify prints came from the actual account owner.

This is inaccurate, the printer already required authentication using an 8 digit code. What they're trying to do now is verify that the print has been started using official Bambu software, i.e. software-only DRM.
Can you elaborate on why it was so bad?
I think you’re right that was way worse before.

But on the bureaucracy: I don’t think that’s the real cause it’s rather a symptome.

The cause must be something related to expected rewards and opportunity costs.
I suspect it's more about the way many people experience "scrum".

The basic building blocks can actually work great, it's often how they are executed and how many places go very much micromanagement wrapped in agile's skin while also instituting lots and lots of meetings - total opposite of what both Agile and XP advocated.

Some of the best agile/scrum I ever worked under came from "Scrum master" who explicitly stated that one of his jobs was to see what approaches work and change what doesn't work for the team.
If the profits move out, the opportunity cost is that this money isn't spent in the UK which hits GDP which is how growth is calculated.
This is true but there are many policies that the UK could copy from other countries like Singapore that would work much better than what they are currently doing
Yep. Bring Musk aboard. /s
Plus the current state of North Korea owes a lot of its conditions to the Americans. Before someone accuses me of being a Tankie I do think the Kim dynasty is absolutely deranged and I obviously think that the average North Korean would be better off if they were toppled and I am an anarchist not an auth-communist.

But let's not forget that the Americans completely levelled the territory, including destroying dams that provided people's drinking water (a war crime then and now), and then gloated about it, and have then proceeded to consistently act in bad faith.

So when the comment above talks about "liberating" I do wonder exactly what they mean and how it would be different to the first time they tried it and how might the average North Korean react.

Maybe they would install a new dictator more amenable to the "rules-based international order" (i.e. the US and people who agree with them) like they did in South Korea or countless other countries across Latin America.
I definitely agree! But why is this different in the US?
> it seems that the culture in America is that wealth is virtuous

I don't think I've ever seen this claimed anywhere except as a criticism.
My Hypothetical TikTok Algorithm: How Foreign Platforms Could Influence Users
And LAN-only mode should work without any external connections yet it looks like it'll require it for authentication. That defeats the whole idea of LAN-only!
Billionaire wealth rises $3T in 2024, a rate 3 times faster than 2023
At this point someone please explain to me how finance doesn't exist to extract wealth from the rest of us.
ActivityPub is today what Paul thought he saw in Twitter in 2009. Except AP it is not owned by a private company, which in hindsight, seems like a critical factor if a protocol should be able to survive and thrive for decades.
This should make prescribed forest burns a high priority- they burn the forest floor but spare the large trees- smoothing out carbon release.

There’s evidence that prescribed burns may lead to less carbon emissions [1].

In chaparral regions like the LA fires, prescribed burns might not help with carbon emissions. And for fire suppression I suspect there’s only so much that can be done to be responsive enough to recent hydrology changes.

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116626
Coventry is hardly the middle of nowhere
Caustic Clock
I agree with the article but it's a shame it just ends with some call for legislation.

The government is not going to save you.

If you want that better future, you need to build it. Look at the Steam Deck for example that goes against the grain on all these matters (right to repair, mostly FOSS, unrestricted, etc.) and it's been a huge success.

We need a mobile platform like PinePhone / Librem to have the same level of success and reliability.
I see they don't want to review more apps but I'd like to see someone's take on Wire, which seems to have all the things people like about Signal (axolotl-based protocol, open-source, modern) without the things people don't (closed platforms only, weird vibes).
You also get your defence and healthcare advancements mostly paid for by Americans, either as taxes or healthcare costs that funnel into R&D spend. It's easy to give things away when you mostly only have maintenance costs to bear, and not very much risk.

(Not an American.)
> it looks like you'd need to log-in to the cloud account to print on the LAN

The text you quoted directly contradicts what you are saying. It says login OR discover to find LAN mode printers.
Most of the issues here relate to scale and actual quality of the idea/business in the first place. Hard things can really be split into, challenging but a problem to solve, or this never should have become a business. The former will work well with the right sort of investors. The latter will eventually sink, the investors simply provide money and poor ideas such as trying to incorporate AI into every business model.
it’s more about wealth. You need a functioning welfare state to allow people to take risks
Well my East European perspective is this:

When management decides to launch a new product, they bring in an UK-based 'analyst' who usually does a piss poor job of gathering requirements/docs/building up the project, so you have to step in and 'shadow manage' the whole thing, from producing architecture diagrams to talking to customers, writing specs, writing Jira tickets, besides actually doing the job you're supposed to do.

The only thing they do do is act as an interface layer to upper management and giving each other reacharounds.

But when it comes to handshakes and glitzy product announcement galas, they're all over the place and you are not even invited, the best you can get is having your (usually misspelled) name show up in context of 5 other high-ranking ne-er-do-wells, who they want to suck up to.

Then they leave for a higher paying position to another UK company, and post on linkedin about leadership and inspiring teams.

You are forgotten, but not for long, since people actually start using the stuff you wrote and support tickets start rolling in.

Poor poor UK people having to sit in all those executive positions while contributing nothing.

It also doesn't help that for most West Europeans, places like Romania is synonimous with the Shadow Realm.

The funny thing is, having them spit in your face like this is actually a privileged position, since that means you're usually out of the trenches, where you only see the Jira tickets that you need to solve.
home assistant runs great on a raspberry pi. just write the image and go. could not have been easier.

this read like “ i got an apple watch, and i guess it needs an iphone to set it up but im an android guy”
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I'm kinda curious what will this lockdown do to the efforts to replace their controller and/or firmware with something more open. Something like [1]

It's nice to have a private key to their cloud authentication, but ultimately it's the printers firmware that's the issue. While Bambu owns and updates that, they can change the keys basically anytime they decide that they had enough of the alternative Bambu Connect servers that people will inevitably create with the current keys.

[1] https://github.com/ChazLayyd/Bambu-Lab-Klipper-Conversion
> ByteDance surprised almost everyone in choosing the stick.

shortly after Trump tried to force bytedance to sell its shares during his first term, the Chinese government passed laws to include the recommendation systems used in social media into the export control list. bytedance thus won't be able to sell tiktok without approval from the chinese government.
They seem committed to adopting MLS, which is a net-positive.

https://docs.wire.com/how-to/install/mls.html

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9420.html
I disagree very slightly. Mostly with this part:

>So, with hardware, the cost of the workforce plays a major role, while with software it does much less. To produce physical things, you need a lot of people who are not well-off, and for whom factory work is an upgrade of their financial and social standing. A "developing country", with huge swaths of population leaving rural life for a better city life and factory work, is best in this regard. Ideally you sell your product to richer folks, maybe outside the country of production.

You don't need a lot of people who are not well-off. You can automate the entire process. The problem with automation and labor saving technology is that it is capital intensive. The higher the capital investment per job (higher capital intensity), the bigger the chunk of money that flows to capital rather than labor.

This means that the cost of the workforce in a software company plays a bigger role than in a hardware company, where financing costs to pay for labor saving technology play a bigger role.

There are mining companies in Africa, who have nothing but an army of people equipped with shovels digging a small scale open pit mine. There is no way the labor cost here is the biggest constraint. An excavator and wheel loader could accomplish more with less people, but it would mean getting a USD loan to import foreign equipment and then selling for export to pay the foreign debts, rather than local production.
I've never personally known any "very rich" people so I can't comment on them.

But the perception I'm talking about applies even to "reasonably confortable" people. Think your random engineer making 100k a year (which is a "good" salary in these parts). Basically, someone with some form of STEM degree.

I doubt most of these people are doing anything shady. Plus, this kind of income doesn't really give them any kind of financial independence: they wouldn't be able to afford not having a job.
Any thoughts on the take over of ROS developers by Google/Intrinsic ?
Very cool. I'd probably use it if I was starting today, but my current setup (static hosted on Netlify, images on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as pseudo-CDN) it's working fine.
The study had only 20 people.
Why downvotes? This is my real world experience.
> When Europe was starting a 1000 year technological master-race, more measured minds had to extinguish that fire

A lot of the measured minds were saying eugenics was a good idea. It took the horror of seeing experiments and concentration camps to make it so deeply unfashionable the idea couldn't even survive in academia.
> This describes all websites everywhere

You can't "follow" websites and get a uniform chronological feed of updates. That's partly why RSS exists, though it also doesn't give you a uniform feed of updates. That has to be constructed client side by downloading all updates for all subscribed feeds.

> It also describes NNTP

Which also doesn't provide a uniform feed of updates.
I would say that is young people have different, and IMO lower, expectations.

People of our age group expected internet technologies to be democratising and empowering. Instead they have become centralised and controlled.

PG is is right that Twitter's advantage was that it did not feel like it was owned by a private company. The problem is, that that feeling was entirely incorrect. Unlike open protocols things controlled by private companies are inevitably enshittified.