skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since I have to deal with it (work related activity), I'd like to know how much of the above "things" I can change in the system settings. My experience is this:

win-left/right: an unresolved issue in KDE tracker that seems to remain so.

notifications: enter every program in a long list and change settings (most realistic to change).

focus issues: tried all levels (named "low" to "extreme" without any explanation, none work as intended.

start menu vs launchers: I don't find creating a launcher for every app I have reasonable. Fix the menu then call it "a daily driver".

vpn autoconnect: is on, doesn't work.

mangled fonts/dpi/geometry: I'm all ears how to fix that.

~[[A: would love to know.
Net neutrality, we hardly knew ye
It’s not a certain company, it’s a whole class of them (partially defined by POTUS’ whims)

Sure, the government can do that, and when doing so infringes on Americans’ speech or access to information, it introduces First Amendment questions that must be addressed.

“The government says CNN can’t post stories from BBC” isn’t immediately resolved by “it’s a foreign company.”
You know "optimizing" means different things for different people.

For example: France offers specific saving deposits with guaranteed interest rate and non-taxed. If a normal saving deposit would be taxed and has similar interest rate, "optimizing their tax" means just using the that specific deposit.

There are many other schemes that I can't believe they exist (example: in France if you create an investment account, after 5 years of the account existence you are not taxed on the gains! So what you can do is "create account with 100 euro", "wait 5 years", "invest more / potentially do gains" - and you will not be taxed!!!)

You will tell me "that is morally wrong!". I could agree with you, but I see nobody demanding better laws/regulations, probably because they don't know/care about details.
Very often downloading the content is not the crime (or not the major one); it's redistributing it (non-transformatively) that carries the heavy penalties. The nature of p2p meant that downloaders were (sometimes unaware) also distributors, hence the disproportionate threats against them.
shameful move by MIT
Celestial Navigation for Drones
Report Reviews CHIPS Act, Suggests Not All Needed Subsidies
The lithographic light source used in ASML EUV lithography systems is based on intellectual property developed by Cymer, a company that....drum roll...ASML acquired in 2013.
All HP printers still give you the option of paying full price for ink cartridges and owning the printer. The rental model is one they try very hard to steer you into, with lots of dark patterns, but you can still use HP printers with no account and no subscription ink model.
Unhappy to confirm that for any poor souls using Azure DevOps, it's even worse.
Just to add, they also got fined by the EU for doing so, so it was ruled to be illegal. Bambu's changes would fall into the same category of altering the product and degrading the experience after its been sold.
Bambu Labs printers are not cheap. Even their entry level A1 printer is twice the price of an Ender3.

Sure, it is a better printer, but it is clear that they are going for scale, and most of what makes them better is in the software rather than in using premium hardware.
Trump administration will back CHIPS and Science Act hints outgoing Commerce SEC
But why? The feature offers almost no benefit in TS at this point over other existing features, has no function in JS other than TS compatibility, and is increasingly flaky in TS itself. Adding more complexity to JS rather than simplifying TS by deprecating this old, janky foot gun and educating devs on better alternatives seems like moving in the wrong direction.
Germany's number one economic problem is energy costs. Blaming the increase on Russian gas hits only a tiny slice of the problem.

The real problem is a completely botched "energy transition", which deprecated very important energy sectors, which were still absolutely needed.

To be clear, I am in favor of renewables. One benefit is that they create independence from the whims of the US and Russia. Nevertheless the transition has been completely botched, driving up energy costs and making certain industries essentially non-viable.

The government focused on two things, increasing renewable peak production and deprecating nuclear. What they completely neglected is how to actually have a sustainable grid, which can cheaply deliver energy even with little sunshine and little wind. What was needed was easily regulated power (e.g. nuclear) and sufficient storage. Nuclear was completely abandoned and most government incentives were focused on increasing peak production, neglecting the storage of energy.

This is obviously harmful to the German industry, which is electricity heavy. This problem has also been consistently ignored and actively made worse in recent years, by continuing to shut down nuclear plants, even if it was clear that more energy production was needed.
China performs high altitude reusable rocket test with uncertain outcome
> Google's algorithms and page crawlers were not that revolutionary or different from anything the other search engines were doing;

Google was revolutionary when it launched. It was clean, super fast, and had way superior search results. It blew the competition away. Within weeks of Google's launch techies started scolding people for using AltaVista or Yahoo, when they should be using something better.
Search and filter have been the paradigm for a while, since the book index was invented.

What are the tools of thought that will help students now succeed and advance technology in 20 years?

Perhaps there is a market fit for a laggard GPT. Something useful but exhibits clear errors that a student could pick up on, and so recognize the risk of blindly accepting information like this. The same issues are associated with excess reliance on traditional publications, "the armchair scientist" and so on.

Maybe, trained sequentially on the curriculum like a student, or something personally orthogonal so that the bot excels where the student is known to fail, create gaps where the student is known to succeed. It seems straightforward to fine-tune in this way since the corpus is smaller. For each grade level and setting A/B/C across the 4 subjects, maybe some 300 fine-tuning?
Try to hide the files on GNU/Linux.
His main policy seems to be to show the world that he's a big man with big genitalia. And in fairness, he is quite successful at that because much of the world thinks him a gigantic dick.

I'm not really joking, because that really does seem to be the underlying philosophy in what he does: it's whatever he thinks makes him the "big man tough guy". Trying to analyse things beyond that just doesn't make much sense.
The internet was never neutral. It was war the second it went online. First thing they put on a computer to talke to standford was "FU"
Navy to Simplify Drone Ship Plans, Focus on Containerized Payloads
> Australia pay wayyyy better

well having a relatively small population and bountiful natural resources do great wonder.
True but that reality applies to all your competitors. Your investors should care about your performance relative to the market.
That's not the same issue at all though.

A waiter from the early 19th century will have much the same productivity as now. Doctors (we would hope) could be more productive by, say, not using bloodletting and leeches to heal people.
I wonder if widespread recognition of "But the emperor is naked!" moment will be when the currencies drops to the floor and don't recover. But sigh, I fear there'll never be such an awakening, especially because a big fat and pale-bellied whale named Elon will just manipulate the market in the event of such a crash.
Dutch organizations, individuals quit X on day of Trump's inauguration
Market fragmentation is a measurable phenomenon, as far as a language goes. The language barrier is just the cost of a translator. Is that cost prohibitively high in Europe? I hear a lot of explanations of why Europe has fewer tech companies than America, but they are almost never backed by statistics. The most obvious answer continues to be the Bretton Woods system, by which large amounts of money are funnelled into America, seemingly without reason. China inverts this flow by debasing its currency, and Europe does not.
Especially silly because the HDCP master key got leaked back in 2010.
The problem is even with Prusas recent efforts to catch up with the Core One, it's expensive, and they still dont have a viable answer to the AMS. The MMU is still a hot mess, requires tinkering, isn't stable and overall just doesnt come close to an out of the box experience.

They still seem to be thinking the primary audience of 3d printers is people who tinker. It's not been that way for a long time. People just want to be able to unbox, plug it in and print. The second you add in the "oh just spend 5 hours tweaking this spaghetti mess of an MMU" you've lost them.
> no private properties

Private properties have been in the works for the last 7-8 years, and were officially added three years ago.
> what we have today in the west is definitely not democracy

On the metric of "people power", do you think people in the east have it any better?
Does any one know of switches similar to this but might be loadable with Linux? Maybe able to run with switchdev or similar?
I didn’t have the money for a DX7, but I did have it for a DX9 back then, so that’s what I got. It lacked velocity sensitivity but was still superior to other offerings in that price class, IMO at the time. It served me well for many years, so for some it did make sense.
It’s because the US National Laboratories developed all the initial technology to enable EUV. ASML just builds the machines.
An LLM is not an AI supercomputer. It will regularly give you information that is false, and if you do not know the subject well, you probably won't notice how wrong it is. We are still a very long way from Star Trek's computer being able to help you out.
Speaking the language helps. Also working in a highly specialized field.
Why KYC? The goal of crypto its the anonymity.
Did an AI write this? Anyways, the real philosophical questions are why AI is such a subversive weapon against humanity's purpose and reason, and who do we need to stop to save us, and how?
That's not iOS fault. Apps can store their files in a folder visible in the Files app, or can ask the user to open a file or folder from a file provider (also visible in Files app), or to save a file or folder in a file provider (always visible in the Files app).

It's not the 2011 iOS anymore, if an app today hides its video projects from the user, it's entirely the app fault.
> Nowadays internet is a daily tool for billions from all age

Which we expected

> It has been democratized.

Anything but. More people using it not democratising it. More people sharing control is democratising.

> It has empowered a lot of people

Not as much as it should have, not anywhere like as much.
How is it a grift?

If it's better than the competition (which others suggest) then it's no surprise that the sales of others might suffer.
> in a future where TypeScript code can be run with Node.js

FYI, this is now. Node 23.6 will just run typescript files than can have their types stripped https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v23.6.0#unflagging---expe....

There is a seperate --experimental-transform-types flag which'll also transform for enums, but no idea if they ever intend to make this not experimental or unflagged.
> but there isn't much of it.

The same way there isn't much people giving food to the homeless or clean up trash compared to the general population size.

You are looking for a unicorn imho. Having said that hobbyist developers, regardless if they do FOSS or freeware, are likely to make stuff that is in line with your particular needs because more often than not people have common needs. They may not agree or have time to implement every single feature you want but in a sense this is use-focused if not user-focused.
Typically, this means scaling application servers and can be done easily with platforms like Elastic BeanStalk or Cloud Run to scale your app servers based on selected metrics.

Database server nodes can be swapped for larger ones if needed using a different strategy. (Many folks underestimate how well a well-designed relational DB can scale on bigger CPU/RAM/storage throughput and better indexes).

The author's suggestion does not mean to increase the number of database instances since it would not make sense to remove them dynamically.
They don't want you to use disposable emails, so they make whatever check they find reasonable to prevent it.

I hate it, of course, but that's what they do.
> There is though, because it gives you the price that it's worth to the buyers

It does not. It gives you what it’s worth to the last buyer, sure. All of the buyers before that value it higher than that price, and all of the people that don’t buy it value it lower than that price. In the end, all you’ve really found is the price the company expects will maximize profit.

This may tell you a little bit about what the company believes the demand function is, but it doesn’t confirm or deny their correctness.
I don't think it's any worse than any other form of media (like reading comments on hacker news instead of reading the article)
lanaotek.com has something similar but use a command line ability.
> The real case for microservices is to support going fast in highly competitive markets. Microservices support functionally highly independent teams with an architecture style that provides them with complete independence from other teams all along the IT value chain.

This was in part 7 and seems to cover your point.
Yes, the timing is random.
> The challenge is that the people who live in an area use the rules in such a way as to make building new homes very expensive or outright impossible. The people who would like to live in that area have no say, and lack representation.

Okay so what? I think that is perfectly fine. It isn't necessary for everyplace to cater for everyone.

> The bigger picture here is that it means even two rational people can inadvertently make the situation worse for themselves.
>
> Person A lives in City A, but wants to move to City B
>
> Person B lives in City B, but wants to move to City A
>
> Person A votes to make it hard to build new homes in city A, because it makes their own home worth more.
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> Person B votes to make it hard to build new homes in City B, because it makes their own home worth more.
>
> It makes sense in a self-interested way but both wind up worse off.

These seems like a fantasy scenario to me. Typically people are either moving to a particular area, or out of a particular area, not swapping one nice affluent area for another equally affluent area (which is somewhat assumed in your scenario).

The reason btw housing is expensive is because housing became an investment vehicle isn't because of nimby's and we have about 600,000 (net) people entering the UK every year.
I built a Tetris game with Next.js in 8 hours using Cursor AI
Hey HN! I wanted to see how far AI coding assistants have come, so I challenged myself to build a Tetris game using Cursor AI. The whole project took about 8 hours from start to finish.

Tech stack:
- Next.js + TypeScript
- Works great on both desktop and mobile
- Clean code structure (thanks to Cursor AI's suggestions!)

Would love to hear your thoughts on AI-assisted development. Feel free to try it out and let me know if you spot any bugs!

The code is open source, and you're welcome to check out how AI helped shape the development process. Pretty cool to see how far we've come with AI coding assistants!
Go and look at the Ghost website. They offer a proprietary solution where they host your blog, and they offer a self hosted solution. If this uses your own domain, then you are right and it is the exact solution I was suggesting.

I will insist that it is possible to make a solution where it's easy for people to host and publish without having to make a big effort and still retaining ownership. Why does no web host offer this as an app for example? Download an app to my iPad, pay for the subscription and domain, start writing. No setting up DNS or SSL, etc.

In the old days, hosting would be included with your ISP, and even if it wasn't super user friendly, it was much easier than it is today: Here's your folder, here's your username and password, use an FTP app to upload files to the folder.
Things weren’t set in stone - Yugoslavia in the 1950s (agrarian reforms, Goli Otok, and similar events) was quite different from the Yugoslavia of the 1980s. In the 1950s, many people escaped to Italy in small boats on stormy nights. Ten to fifteen years later, a significant number of people emigrated legally to Germany as unemployment was high, and the state realized it was better to receive hard currency from gastarbeiters than to deal with their discontent at home.

And Tito was no ordinary dictator, it would be interesting to see how he would navigate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Serializing Ruby Datatypes in JSON
At that point, you'd get a ton more value from doing Property Testing (+ get up and running faster, with less costs).

If I'd had to have either code or tests generated by a LLM, I'd manually write the test cases with a well-thought out API for whatever I test, then have the LLM write tests that implements what I thought up, rather than the opposite which sounds like a slow and painful death.
The source study: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775

There is something very uncomfortable that Nature paywalls an article that is a summary of an arXiv paper that is itself a study of papers posted to the arXiv.
With that very same prompt, I get this response:

"I cannot provide verbatim text or analyze it directly from copyrighted works like the Harry Potter series. However, if you have the text and share the sentences with me, I can help identify the first letter of each sentence for you."
So everyone fully admits that these countries are in fact "worse" in every way?
Reportedly it's Sunlu who's supplying filament for Bambu. But Bambu's version still has RFID tags which make it much easier to work with multicolor.

> The only thing that really helps them make more money is wasteful multi-color printing.

They're slow to make improvements in this area, but they recently introduced some options to reduce the waste, like longer retraction before the color change. Plus as a user you can reduce the waste further by tuning flushing amounts, and you're left with the waste inherent to single-extruder multicolor printing.

Overall yes multicolor can be wasteful, but to me it's impressive that it exists in the first place
What defence remains against an autocratic government who will use that very freedom as an attack vector for their nefarious goals.
initially maybe but the way the printers are built makes for cheap mass production. Theres no special sauce in the hardware, it's all low cost off the shelf stuff, it's just optimised very well.
Get thousands of workers, to work thousandths of hours, to answer technical questions for free...In exchange for "Reputation". Sell for 1.8 Billion...The American Dream...
We want to make it absolutely clear that all of these claims are entirely false:
* Bambu Lab will remotely disable your printer ("brick" it).
* Firmware updates will block your printer’s ability to print.

I wonder why they added this to the TOS then:

Due to the importance of these updates, your product may block new print job [sic] before the updates is [sic] installed

Either way, I'm happy to see that they did listen and returned the original LAN mode (but under a new name).
Vivaldi ticks some of those boxes at least
Can I ask you if it's garbage?
Canaanite workers who went to Egypt to work in the mines saw these picture things used on walls. They had an idea to use it only instead of a picture per word the just used them for sounds. The Ox Head they saw they used for their Aleph sound. It was adjusted and rotated a bit then later on rotated again until we get our modern letter A.
Letting javascript manipulate the clipboard was a mistake. Yet another "feature" that's added for apps but absolutely useless for the web.
The supply chain for these machines is heavily dependent on the US and the Netherlands is heavily dependent on US security guarantees, just like the rest of Europe.
I think in general people tend to overdo TDD if they do TDD, aiming for a 100% test coverage which just ends up doing what you and parent mentions, solidifies a design and makes it harder to change.

If instead every test is well intentioned and focus on testing the public API of whatever you test, not making assumptions about the internal design, you can get well tested code that is also easy to change (assuming the public interface is still OK).
The problem is expectation management. In Eastern Germany and generally Eastern / South Eastern Europe, many envied the West, its lifestyle and wealth.

But once the various dictatorships, be it the USSR, Yugoslavia, Hoxha or whoever, fell... it became clear that it would take a long time until their life materially improved other than not having to be afraid of getting gulaged randomly. Corruption continued to exist on all levels from small (police "roadblocks" with made-up traffic violation tickets) over middle (building permits taking years if not "accelerated" with bakshish) to large (to this day, most government-owned companies are looted by the elites), cost of life expenses for everything not produced domestically can be on par with Western countries... it's not much in visible improvement over the "old days" where you could at least survive as long as you kept your mouth shut.
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering queries
Plant matter dies and rots and the carbon escapes to the atmosphere.

Ever since microorganisms evolved to eat dead plant matter the conditions to make coal on planet earth (and to create a carbon sink of buried coal) have been gone.
EUV is all about the laser. To create the small transistors of 4nm for example, either lithography or some other laser tech, you need to be able to shine a pure light on them of small enough wavelength. EUV is the smallest we can create thus far.
> "Normal people" should not be self hosting in the first place, not sure why you got the impression that they should be.

That's exactly my point, so I agree completely with what you say. The article as well as a lot of people on HN insist that normal people should self host their stuff instead of using social media and proprietary, and I say that it's really not possible or desirable for them.
Could you name one? Other than the X1. I think I might be in the market for a new printer, but I don’t want to lose quality.
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I really hate that browsers have started to just download shit without asking you where to save it. "Convenience" my ass.
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

> The choice they set up was an ingroup vs outgroup choice.

What I wanted to point out is that it really is a false choice because it assumes that US companies have the interest of the general public in mind.
I know young people who acknowledge this, but they do not see changing it as a realistic aim. They may be right.

I think that like many other things, this reflects political and cultural expectations at large. The west has become centralising and centrally controlled. Unlike the Soviet Union that control is shared between the government and big business, but it is still far more centralised and regulated than the west was a few decades ago.

This also relates to things like privacy, policing and security, education (the Act the British government wants to pass at the moment is a good example of the state taking more control, both from individuals and centralising its own institutions), economic policy, building infrastruture...... pretty much everything.