skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From that link if you continue reading, commenters in the thread point out that LAN mode didn't even exist when the printer came out, and that it's more flexible now than when they first came out on the market.

My other comment on this thread contains the rest of my thoughts. Overall, I think this outrage is overblown.
That's a very cavalier attitude and shockingly removed from real life. Hey sorry we bombed and burned your place to the ground but I'm sure we can rebuild it. I know how to fix things, no problem!

You never grew up in post-WWII Japan I guess nor can you imagine the humanitarian dimension of the destruction.
I don't know if they're making money, but they're charging money and I'm paying it.

a) Audio Hijack [1] - software that should be part of macOS where you can route the audio output of any program to the audio input of any other program.

b) Eazy Draw [2] - I have clients with massive legacy libraries of commercial AppleWorks drawings, and EazyDraw is the only product I could find that would open/convert them.

I know I have many others, just brain dead atm.

[1] https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/

[2] https://eazydraw.com/
And the answer is to use `gmtime()`, which AIX doesn't have and which Windows calls something else, but, whatever, if you need to support AIX you can use an open source library.
WebApps (even though I hate most of them) absolutely can be as fast as native apps. E.g.: Linear, Slack.

But it requires very careful engineering.
The consumer doesn't choose what gets fed to them. Neither does the producer. Tiktok chooses who gets to see what. It's absolutely centralised, with crowd sourced content.
I was wondering if the cheating incident could be investigated by an NDA'd neutral 3rd party?
You cannot simultaneously complain about companies closing systems off and give Apple any credit at all for the past 20 years of operation. They are the absolute worst offender in the industry without exception.

And no, if the axis you are measuring on is openness versus locked down then Microsoft is not worse. You have simply been brainwashed.
If there are only two people on the call, sure.
I have taken a further step back and started using an electric typewriter for my thoughts and ideas. It’s been good for me since I can’t switch away to another task without having to stand up and go to my other desk. I have written more down in the last month than I have in the past two years.
Well Prusa was open and did compete.

But for 3D printers that worked out of the box under $1000, Prusa had no real competition itself.

The Mk3 came out in 2017 and I swear Prusa just sat on their laurels. I was a Mk3s+ owner (well, still am) and was pretty disappointed how little improved with the Mk4.

Bambu’s competition was Prusa and they clearly strived to improve over what Prusa had accomplished.
Really shows you just how valuable the application sandbox that is a web browser can be to many.
It's harder when not everybody is physically present, because there are 1 or 2 people either working from home, or from a different office, or who are external to the company and are working from their company's office.
Everybody knows the two hard things are timezones and unicode.
I agree that the US is going to the wrong direction. I was just saying that what China did is a bad example, not a justification for other governments.
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Yes I do that too but using VMs. I hope I'm just overthinking.
I think to be fair to them that's literally what they're doing? They're just announcing it ahead of time while it's in beta so we all know about it.

"Starting January 17th, users will have access to the beta firmware"

"Launching first for X Series printers, with P and A Series updates planned for future release"
And if you don’t want it open when you load the page?
I've been building a break reminder app for mac since slightly more than a year and it's been growing really well - mostly through word of mouth. It currently nets $5k a month.

I sell perpetual licenses but I charge for updates beyond the first year. I do get 2-3 emails every day reporting bugs and general feature requests.

I have some other apps for iOS as well but they are all subscription based.
You need updates these days or stuff stops working fast. Everyone at every stage is quite happy to make breaking changes without long term backwards compatibility other than a transition period because it’s understood that everything can be quickly updated.

Every time I updated macOS I find that some program stopped working and I just have to update it and it works again.

As well as the fact that most software these days has an online component that has an ongoing cost to provide.
Utterly pathetic like that whole "new" country and it's government.
The main problem with this approach is that there’s a normal distribution of quality of contribution for OS but the community of OS users only benefits from the highest quality contribution. This is normally best achieved by the continuous contribution of the original author(s) who created or maintain the project, as they were the ones capable of designing a project complete and correct enough to achieve traction.

Most projects will actually deteriorate in overall quality if they accept average level contributors work, and certainly face harsh consequences if they accept below average contributions. Highly competent contributors demand higher salaries for their work which can’t be met by the limited funds available to OS, hence most high quality work comes from company sponsored OS or from people who have other means of financing their lifestyle outside of open source.
Technologically literate people don't recommend Telegram or Discord.
> all previews replies are hidden, to them and everyone else.

Right, that's the problem.

> your posts will not be visible to the people blocking you but everyone else can still see them.

They can see them if they go digging for them, but they can't see them in any reasonable place.
They need to burn their coal to get out of their poverty, like we did.
The world is more than just China and the United States. That was the point of my original comment. The United States here feels entitled to own and run an app used on every continent of the world. No other country could get away with demanding this.
Photoshop 6 does everything I ever want Photoshop to do. I wish Adobe would continue to sell a one time purchase copy of PS6 instead of forcing everyone to SaaS. Fortunately I own a physical copy of the PS6 disks that I purchased years ago, so I don’t have a problem acquiring PS6 on any new machines by various means.
Ask HN: What's your hot take about AI Agents
I think that is only a partly correct way to think about it. I live up in the Sierra foothills in a very rural area, and based on what I see, I think the effects of wildfires are indeed negating climate policy. Allow me to explain.

For people who have never lived in an area that is both rural and wildfire prone, pile burning to eliminate yard waste is an activity that is entirely foreign. You see, out here, most people believe that the primary method of eliminating yard waste is by burning it in a pile. I happen to live in town where there is trash pickup service available, but I opt to simply take stuff to the dump myself. Most people don't want to pay or don't have such service available. Burning yard waste is almost always extremely polluting. One burn pile full of leaves and pine needles can often smoke out my entire town. Fortunately, pile burning is only allowed on certain days (when the weather is such that wildfire risk is reduced). That is not to say that pile burning is always so bad; it has to be done properly. If the pile is hot enough, there is little smoke. But most people do not burn them hot enough with enough long-burning materials (i.e. wood).

So why did I bring this up, since a wildfire is just this on a massive scale? Well, I do not personally believe that properly managed fuel management would result in as much smoke and particulate pollution, for two reasons. One, indigenous peoples here used to regularly set fire to the forest to manage the fuel load. This was done regularly enough that there simply wasn't as much material to burn, and done when weather was cooperative (e.g. before rains). A modern wildfire can burn with such ferocity that most trees end up burning, instead of just the undergrowth. This represents a much greater release of long-captured CO2. And second, there is now a culture of placing responsibility on individual residents to maintain "defensible space", asking them to perform pile burning regularly. As I mentioned above, this results in what feels like disproportionately dense particulate pollution, with annoying regularity throughout the cooler times of year.
> Android has supported HCE-based card emulation and provided access to any app developer out there for a decade now. No special entitlement, certification, or licensing fee required.

but Apple doesn't do it for "privacy and security" reasons (read: they want iron grip on their closed ecosystem).
I wonder if one can build maze webpages to trap these AI crawlers. So if it's a human it doesn't bother, but once identified as a crawler it dynamically generates webpages after webpages of garbage. It doesn't need to save all those garbage but the crawler has to.
Development cycles are getting faster making this less viable. You can’t afford to hold on to finished features waiting to bundle them in to a major release. Your competitor just released a feature, you have it finished, but you’re holding it for a release. Users will get frustrated and move to the software that’s always ahead.
Buddy “I only buy things that I am convinced I need when I’m convinced I need to buy them” isn’t the demonstration that you’re immune to advertising that you seem to be trying to make.

Let me guess, when you are convinced that it is time to buy something that you need, you tend to buy from brands that you trust are of high quality or value — in a way that’s totally disconnected from and unrelated to any advertising or marketing efforts though?
> it's not any harder to unbox or operate

I agree with this

> and more reliable

I emphatically disagree with this.

> while generally achieving somewhat better results

I agree with this.

I'd also like to add that my Prusa Mk3s+ is significantly slower than my P1S. Also, without the MMU it still cost more than my P1S with AMS. Choosing a Prusa is making a philosophical choice, because it's certainly not about convenience, speed, versatility (considering you need to buy a separate enclosure and pricey MMU), bed size, or price. It's a choice you make because you're okay with spending a lot more to support an open platform where you can flash your own firmware without voiding your warranty, not because you want a better experience.
Is it? Back when I was commuting from Boise -> Nampa (a suburb where a lot of folks live) leaving at rush hour it'd easily take me a minimum of 45 minutes to get home. They've done some upgrades since so it might be better now, (I blessedly don't have a reason to find out). Plenty of folks were going to Caldwell (even further out).

I don't have firsthand knowledge but it would surprise me to learn the big tech hubs are better.
Then Europe should grows some balls and ban TikTok. China is literally a foreign invader not just a foreign adversary, aiding in Russia’s conquest of Europe. And trying to destroy Europe’s car industry via state subsidized EVs

India literally banned TikTok overnight when China killed Indian soldiers in 2020
Albania is definitely worth visiting. BUNK'ART in Tirana is an easy way to see the bunkers for yourself.

Somewhat related: Famous Russian urbex photographer Lana Sator is still stuck in Albania, after being arrested for espionage while documenting Albania's abandoned cold war military infrastructure: https://archive.is/o7rgB

For what it's worth, she is a well known photographer. I've been following her work since the early 2010s.
this is the sane comment here. the parent comment this comment replies to is the insane one. and yet this one is downvoted and the other is not

a reply on this comment even accuse the commenter of being Hasbara

HN is the world-upside down. a lot of people here really should just stick to tech
Ask HN: Which Flash FS on Linux: F2FS or NILFS2?
I have been using F2FS for quite a few years, both on SATA SSD and M.2 PCIe stick. Worked great.

But I wonder how it compares to NILFS2. I tried that one a decade ago to make a bootable USB stick and it also worked great, eta least compared to ext4.

I know both are log-based and deep down NILFS2 makes different tradeoffs, which makes NILFS2 make longer for initial mount IIRC, but IIRC it
was friendlier WRT wear&tear.

I wonder how do they compare now. I can't find anything even remotely current on the subject...
It’s kind of a joke they think they’re ready to roll out a print farm subscription when they can’t even keep basic filament in stock, or like you said even provide basic support. They’ve grown far too quickly.
One thing to be said for Prusa is that their support is actually knowledgeable and experienced. You're not going to get a tier 1 support person who has never touched a printer and is just reading from a script.
Which mean that it is a messaging problem, considering that Democrats are more progressive economically...
I'm a big fan of LLMs generally, but does anyone even want incoming texts summarized like this? Like even if they were accurate summaries, seeing "Wife expresses frustration with her husband's messiness" is a lot less fun than "Clean up your clothes, dipshit".
Point 1 tends to fall apart when the government can't control its own coffers and after a few decades of mismanagement decides that privatisation is the main way to reduce their debt burden. So I think this one ebbs and flows over time generally.

See South Africa for an example. Power production is slowly opening up to market forces as an alleviation to the extreme mismanagement and corruption of the last 2-3 decades.

On the other hand, there are also some alternatives, like "devolution" of state services to the provincial or municipal level. The local Cape Town government is busy trying to gain control over the city's train lines from the government org that owns them, to provide better service.
I fear a lot of people are happy to look the other way when “my guy” is doing something, especially when it seems to be directed at whatever they fear.

That and I fear most people really don’t have any principles when push comes to shove.
PDFs support j2k, so every PDF renderer includes a j2k decoder. I used this fact for a while because j2k significantly outperforms most JPEG encoders on line-art (e.g. comics). I switched back to JPEG recently though as there is now a JPEG encounter that targets high bpp only uses, and is only like 15% larger, while being fire and forget (as opposed to open JPEG, where I needed to adjust the quality factor depending on the source material).
How is an electron app that just adds another step solving the problem? They should have just secured their api properly instead of using security as an excuse to cut out third party software that will get around an inevitable subscription.
The problem isn’t that discs can’t hold enough storage, it’s that in the weeks/months between the physical media being produced and you plugging it in, there have been enough updates to mostly invalidate the stored data and require a large update.
Eh, only one hard thing then, because as hard as Unicode is timezones is way harder.
A new behavior scheduler with Cron-style scheduling, Org-mode timestamp integration, and dynamic template variables. Automatic sync and conflict detection enhance task management and productivity.
They’re not. Why are you making that assumption? The US is saying that in order to access the US market they have to divest. They’re free to sell at a fair market price - including to European buyers. They can also choose not to and leave the US market and keep operating elsewhere. They can also just sell the US business and keep everything else the way it is.
I just found another one from an HN post https://www.johnwalker.nl/posts/escape-the-walled-garden-wit...

The site is https://podcastindex.org/
There’s a bit of a “live by the sword, die by the sword” situation going on here.

Presidents can’t just ignore a law categorically (although they regularly do, e.g. DACA, DOMA, etc.) On the other hand, presidents can certainly decide not to prosecute a particular entity under a particular law. That’s the heart of the executive power versus the legislative power.

Here, Congress wrote an extremely specific law that applies basically to one company. Which isn’t impermissible. But it’s also not clear to me that Congress can insist on immediate enforcement of that law without crossing effectively usurping the executive power and directing the President to prosecute a specific company at a specific time.
milkvetch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astragalus_brauntonii
The code has been available for years. Bytedance published their recommendation engine as an arxiv paper in 2021 and the code is available on Github, https://github.com/bytedance/monolith. The power is in the weights of the live-trained model.
And what are the other companies? Just GCP? Why separate those?
A little bit difficult to get the president elect who is to be inaugurated today (the 20th) when that same president elect in his own words reasonably believes that the 2020 election was stolen.

I think we're all very certain that a thorough investigation into the 2020 election will clear up any concerns about it.
No, you can't appreciate much his tremendous mathematical work on Process Algebras.

Thank you Robin, indeed.
Does the law said it has to be sold to a US entity? I think it just can't be run by "adversary"
My wife loves to carpet bomb messages and the summary is often useful to glance at to see how important they are. But the inaccuracy prevents it from being useful and I'll often open the entire stream of thought even though I don't have time between meetings.
it just works until it doesn't
"Better for you?"

Yes, absolutely.

"Better for discourse?"

Incredibly. You actually have conversations. You talk about topics. You replace all the meaningless arguing and yelling with actual conversation.

"Better for protecting your echo chamber from things that might challenge you?"

... The whole world is challenging right now.

It has been my entire life.

The only way to protect my echo chamber is to make the world better.
Yeah this is exactly how I see it. A one time price for a continuously delivered service is obviously unsustainable in the long term.

At some point adobe has sold photoshop to basically every person who wants to buy it.
Does anyone know what this key is actually used for, and what it enables?
> Because the drafters knew they wouldn't/couldn't/aren't allowed to/would only be able to do so to someone more under the thumb of the US government?

This is at best vacuously true. Since China is the most powerful adversary of the US, you'd say that literally anyone else is more under the thumb of the US government than they are.
Only tangentially-related anecdote: I took my camera to a Dodgers game. To get in, you have to go through metal detectors. No problems.

I was sitting in my seat with friends, looking through my camera when a security guy came up and told me that I couldn't take pictures and that I had to take the lens off my camera. Of course I thought this was a joke and laughed in his face.

But no, he (and his buddy who also showed up) were serious. They claimed that my lens was TOO LARGE and therefore couldn't be used. I said well I went through security and they obviously didn't have a problem with it, and no fucking way was I taking it off my camera and leaving the sensor exposed all afternoon.

They grudgingly let me keep the camera together but threatened me with punishment if I was seen using it. And they seriously loitered around in the grandstand eyeballing me for the rest of the game.

It's incredible what people are expected to (and, sadly, do) tolerate now. I, the taxpayer and admission-payer, am being berated and abused for simply enjoying what I paid for.
Maciej -- I disagree based on the conversations I've had IRL with normal users about Bluesky.

The scuttlebutt is that many people have heard that the index, the directory, and the signing keys are centralized.

The good news is the signing keys are not in the hands of the users so we could in theory rewrite all of the messages on the protocol.

If you had those keys would you choose to do this?
A lot of people in the U.S. are not happy with the corporation that was running a lot of local news stations. This isn't the 1990s, we have broadband internet now. Everybody knows.

https://rumble.com/v593bca-sinclairs-soldiers-in-trumps-war-on-media.html
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Yeah this looks to be the case. All of this change was prompted by the fact that malicious software was triggering prints over the network. So now they have locked it down so the printer can verify prints came from the actual account owner.

Printing directly from SD cards via the little touch screen is unchanged since networked computers can’t do that.
I wonder how long it will take for "guaranteed AI-free!" to become a serious marketing argument for some products or services.
Is the free thing really an issue? TV and Radio were free for decades and both still are. TV switched to cable, through broadcast still exists, but radio is still free. I'm not convinced advertising is insidious. Maybe because I grew up with it. I used to pay for ads. Magazines in the 80s and 90s had ads and we bought them not just for the article but to see what new products were being announced. You can go look through them on the archive. They're 70% ads and yet we loved them.

https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing

https://archive.org/details/BYTE_Vol_09-10_1984-09_Computer_...
The tug-of-war between AI and news publishers
> The United States here feels entitled to own and run

It doesn't have to be the United States. It just has to be anyone other than Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia.
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I’m going to go found a place I’ll call Galt’s Gulch for maximum irony.