skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been following along with a lot of this, because having picked up one of their printers about a month ago, I was immediately very nonplussed with the security. It took some work to get it running isolated on an IoT VLAN, yet still usable from my main machine.

Thus, on first blush, I welcome security improvements from them, but I'm also anxious to see what they hold.

I do wonder where this is going with the keys, because I've seen a lot of "OH LOOK WE HAVE THE KEYS" but nothing about what the keys are used for or how they are useful. Or if they are even useful.

Hopefully there'll be more interesting news about this soon and some solid, technical info.
I'm saying that it is curious that Oracle would be acting before the FTC began enforcement, if this sourcing is actually accurate.
For what it's worth, I've had quite a bit of success using ACME for devices that don't natively support it by using a sidecar service.

Basically, running the ACME flow on a Linux system and then having it programmatically update the cert/key for the service that needs it. Have done this for my NAS, printer, router, etc.
Most of the world's gold was in the US by the end of the war.

The flow of gold into the US starting in 1933 is thought to be why the Great Depression was moderating so much there and then: the money supply was inflating.
Raw Dump of Skyvern's navigations and decisions while evaluating WebVoyager
Here’s the law: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...

No, Trump can’t legally postpone or give reprieve to TikTok. The time has passed for that.

Once Congress has enacted a statute and the President has signed it into law, the executive branch must enforce it. An executive order cannot override or suspend a duly passed law unless Congress included an explicit waiver or suspension provision in that law. Nothing in the text of this act appears to grant the President such discretion, so there is no straightforward way for the President to “undo” or pause the ban by executive order. The only way to alter or lift the ban would be through new legislation or a valid constitutional challenge in court.

That seems unlikely considering the Supreme Court already rules on the matter.
Or maybe he’s just tired of a specific kind of life which might be fun in your early twenties but is less appealing when you’ve got kids and can’t enjoy the nightlife and culture anyway.
"The rationalists" don't own rationality. I don't think the specific community of people I'm talking about that call themselves rationalists have a monopoly on actually teaching practical rational thinking, although they do have some very good materials that explain a lot of valuable ideas and concepts, which I am grateful for.

From their own philosophy, they claim that "rationality is systematized winning" and everyone I've known that decided to focus their life around any of the 3 things you mentioned above, had consequences that were close to the exact opposite of "systematized winning."
Starting from timestamp A, how do I find the Unix timestamp B corresponding to exactly 6 months in the future from timestamp B?
It’s exhausting trying to explain this to American leftists. They believe the UK / EU is rich, their healthcare is amazing and “free”, and no one has to work more than 35 hours a week. They visit London and Paris once in 10 years for vacation and think they understand the economic order.
Thanks, this is a very cool game by first glance. It reminds me of the moon landing game people used to play on mini computers.
See my comment above. This is a misunderstanding of how the executive branch works. Once Congress has enacted a statute and the _President_ has signed it into law, the executive branch MUST enforce it. An executive order cannot override or suspend a duly passed law unless Congress included an explicit waiver or suspension provision in that law. Nothing in the text of this act appears to grant the President such discretion, so there is no straightforward way for the President to “undo” or pause the ban by executive order. The only way to alter or lift the ban would be through new legislation or a valid constitutional challenge in court.

In essence, the executive branch already had a chance to veto the law, but didn’t do so. The signature of the President (whomever that is at the time) seals the fate of the law.
Note that this article is 2 years old, and therefore predates iOS 18.1, which allows applications to directly access the NFC hardware: https://developer.apple.com/support/nfc-se-platform/
My understanding is that if I want to print via LAN, I have to auth against Bambu's internet servers, which is most definitely something I don't want.

Actually for my use case this doesn't work at all -- my printers are region locked to China, but I'm not currently in China so I can't connect to those servers -- meaning (I think!) if I upgrade their firmware, I can't print via LAN on my own local network... which just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

These are great printers, but there's no need for that.
Heads up that this is from October 2022 and is not considering the recent urban fires.
> There is no way this isn’t being looked at closely.

Who's going to look at it? Whichever sycophant ends up being AG?
I love the "which part of.." examples of companies and services that the author lists, along with the screenshots. I know that nostalgic feelings tend to not be an accurate representation of the past, but I do know that I used to look at a lot of those companies and products with some admiration. No, things were not perfect back then, but a lot of these products had a level of innocence, goodwill or benevolence that does not exist today. They seemed more rooted in innovation than value extraction at all costs.

Today, I look at those same companies with absolute derision over their completely unethical and hostile approaches to the world, the economy and dealing with the people that use or rely on them.

Worse, my ability to get excited about new companies, products, services and innovations has been completely blunted by the expectation that anyone working on something I think is "cool" will inevitably be co-opted by people who have the worst instincts: those who actually have no respect for technology or computing and view people as less than human, simply entities from which maximum value must be extracted at any cost.
If you exclude "not sure," it's 52% support banning. Also, the survey was not limited to voters.

Note that a majority/plutority becomes more skewed when aggregating constituencies.

Granted 52% -> 87% is still a big increase, but there you have it.
The article is 2 years old, and predates any of the iOS 18.1 changes.
I was not aware of this! That's kinda fun.

I did an entropy test on my Pi5 (according to https://rob-turner.net/post/raspberrypi-hwrng), and it (7.999832 bits per byte) has about the same entropy as /dev/urandom (7.999831 bits per byte).

However, when using it directly, it's pretty slow. /dev/hwrng is 200 KB/s, /dev/urandom is 40 MB/s.

Though, maybe that doesn't matter if it's just intended to be used to add entropy to the system entropy pool.
OpenAI's benchmark results looking like Musk's Path of Exile character..
Linux exists.

I know the usual comments will crop up but, now if ever is the best chance to give it a try, at least as a semi daily driver if you still want to play games or such.
Well I don't really get angry about socials. Just don't use them.

> The techie web isn't coming back and wishing it so won't do so. You can always just drop into an IRC network or Mastodon server with other nerds, but the days that everyone on the web was a techie nerd with general-purpose computing interests is long gone.

Well in that way it's still there. It lives on here on HN and the other places you mention. Probably as big as it was in those days. I don't think it's really gone. Just the internet grew around it with all the commercial BS and big tech companies viewing users as products.

Also, us techies manage to avoid the worst of that with adblockers, pay wall blockers, pirate video downloads, self hosted services etc. I probably see only a handful of ads every day. Even my phone blocks most of them. I also have custom scripts for the sites I frequent the most to make them more info dense like hacker news (and remove most of the big photos)
I love Albania, for reasons related to my job I used to travel there multiple times a year until around 2010.

Those bunkers are absolutely everywhere, even right in the middle of nowhere (I guess that's useful if you happen to get lost in the wilderness while hiking).

In towns and cities they have been sometimes repurposed, e.g. I remember seeing that someone created a small cafe on the beach using one of the larger bunkers.

The problem with reusing them is that the vast majority of the bunkers are of the smaller type (mostly below ground level, and on the inside there is barely enough room for a couple of people) and it's hard to find a new purpose for those.
I can't understand the thinking in the boardrooms of these companies.

You're making a good product, but by no means something unique and irreplaceable. And then you pull nonsense like this one. Why? Don't they understand that they're just shooting themselves in the foot?
Plank Reloaded: Still Stupidly Simple
The scathing, self-righteous arrogance, coupled with the evident genuine insight and talent, is why I have to either laugh or cry when he goes down the route of building yet another image viewer that will very clearly come with its own share of issues, rather than putting in the legwork to actually improve the situation.
Hard disagree.

macOS has been very conservative in redesigning the user experience; it's aging slowly like fine wine. There are a few hiccups occasionally but I feel it's a lot more polished and elegant compared to the quirkiness of earlier versions. I don't get this common sentiment that it was better in Snow Leopard etc.

Stability is great, power consumption is awesome since the introduction of the M-series chips and I can still do everything (and more) that I did on my mac 20 years ago. Yes there are some more hoops here and there but overall you have to keep in mind that macOS never fell into the quagmire Windows did with bloatware, malware and all the viruses (although I think the situation is much better today).

macOS has been walking a fine balance between lockdown and freedom, there is no reason to be alarmist about it and there are still projects like OpenCore Legacy Patcher that prove you can still hack macOS plenty to make it work on older macs.

We're eating good as mac users in 2025, I don't buy the slippery slope fallacy.
I don't meant to give them a pass - you are, by not doing anything about it. They love to hear that you won't do anything, that you'll just complain. So what?
Reading all this negativity about the UK made me wonder: is it possible that the UK throwing in the towel and asking to become part of the US could actually become reality? It's an admittedly outlandish idea, but suddenly it didn't seem entirely preposterous.
If you mean because they used the term "President Trump", that honorific is for life. See, for instance, the recent passing of President Carter for a million examples. If you mean because he couldn't have executed legal actions yet - he could have offered private and legally binding statements to all the major players - Oracle, Apple, and Google.
I'm sure the SCOTUS that said "your crimes are legal" will stand up to him now
Did the supreme court examine government as to, if this was the only path available to achieve what it wanted?

Was it established that existing provisions of law is not sufficient to deal with the issue(perhaps not so easily as by fiat as in the new law, but requiring stricter standards of trial and evidence), necessitating this new law?
A web browser that has all the shit the big tech companies added to make it hard to create a good web browser would be a good start. A web browser does not need webgl or wasm. I want to log into my bank to see how much money I have.
One thing I dislike about the compact style is how adding/removing a let block causes a diff line that is just adding/removing a parent.
Wealth of billionaires grew by $2T in 2024, report finds
Not everything on the internet has to be a binary argument.
> On a big site that attracts millions of small time spammers along with commercial and nation state level scammers, you've already lost.

Bluesky is not that site though? There used to be a lot of fake follows a few weeks ago, and many people posting about it, but I didn't have one in over a week. It may get to that, of course, as the site grows.

What I've actually seen a lot is people posting about lists they've been added to, and it's just silly. I've been added to one or two "MAGA" lists myself, heh.. I'm not even American, have no love for Trump, but I disagreed with "the people who are against MAGA" on something (I don't even know what it was), so now I'm "MAGA" according to that list, DNI haha.

Anyone interested, you can check what lists accounts are on here: https://clearsky.app/

It simmered down now, but people seemed positively obsessed with blocking and letting their enemies "whither in silence" etc. That's the main reason I care, because it fascinates me, because I find it kind of sad. But in practical terms, the people who use social media like that are no loss to me, and I'm no loss to them, so it's actually totally fair, I don't mind being put on block lists for petty reasons. But I know not everybody is that jaded. Some people probably do mind.

And it also seems kind of insidious how it makes people disappear from each other who never interacted, so they will never find out it was for a BS reason. It's not exactly Black Mirror, it's just Bluesky, no harm no foul, but still. How people (seemingly, maybe my perception is wrong) go "oh nice, this is useful thanks" and subscribe, without much discussion or concern, does rub me the wrong way a little.
> I just saw Sam Altman speak at YCNYC and I was impressed. I have never actually met him or heard him speak before Monday, but one of his stories really stuck out and went something like this:

> "We were trying to get a big client for weeks, and they said no and went with a competitor. The competitor already had a terms sheet from the company were we trying to sign up. It was real serious.

> We were devastated, but we decided to fly down and sit in their lobby until they would meet with us. So they finally let us talk to them after most of the day.

> We then had a few more meetings, and the company wanted to come visit our offices so they could make sure we were a 'real' company. At that time, we were only 5 guys. So we hired a bunch of our college friends to 'work' for us for the day so we could look larger than we actually were. It worked, and we got the contract."

> I think the reason why PG respects Sam so much is he is charismatic, resourceful, and just overall seems like a genuine person.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048944
I think it was more about economics than competency.

By the end of WW2 the UK was bankrupt and completely ruined economically, while the US had become the industrial powerhouse of the world thanks to abundant resources, manpower, and the fact that the war largely took place far from its borders (a few tiny islands notwithstanding). By the end of WW2 the US owned nearly all the gold that Europe previously owned which led to the US Dollar the worldwide reserve currency.
Why does everyone claim to have an hour commute? That’s a significant outlier.
>The salaries in Japan arent great honestly, but mine, the quality of life and how far my money goes is so much better than if I lived back at the UK.

In a similar situation to you apparently. Every couple of years I'll take a look at UK as well as NZ and Aus (all places I can legally work) and Japan is still the better option. Even with the yen situation and despite all the doom and gloom others write online, life is still pretty nice here.
Can you link to some specific detail on that, because I keep seeing that claim, but without any technical info.

I have a P1S which currently can print completely isolated from the internet. Unfortunately (or maybe not?) the new firmware isn't available for my printer, so I can't dig into it myself yet.

But I'd really like to see some sort of "when I try to do X it tries to connect to Y" or "I used to be able to do X, and now Y is required as demonstrated here".

Something more than the current hearsay and pitchforks echo chamber.
See https://media.ccc.de/c/DS2024 for inspiration and ideas.
Based on recommendations here a couple years ago I built a Prusa Mk3 from a kit (right before the mk4 came out). Building it took a while but I think was a worthwhile investment of my time and I think of it as a system I can understand rather than as a black box.

I had a little bit of trouble with it maybe six months ago (repeatedly tripped offline during prints from a thermal issue) but Prusa's online support talked me through recalibrating it and it's been trouble-free since then.
> the copyright holder’s tort would be with the source of the infringing distribution, not the people who read the material.

Someone who just reads the material doesn't infringe. But someone who copies it, or prepares works that are derivative of it (which can happen even if they don't copy a single word or phrase literally), does.

> would I then owe the authors of the books I learned from a fee to apply that knowledge?

Facts can't be copyrighted, so applying the facts you learned is free, but creative works are generally copyrighted. If you write your own book inspired by a book you read, that can be copyright infringement (see The Wind Done Gone). If you use even a tiny fragment of someone else's work in your own, even if not consciously, that can be copyright infringement (see My Sweet Lord).
> Variables must have units in their names if there's any ambiguity

Then you end up with something where you can write "TimoutSec=60" as well as "TimeoutSec=1min" in the case of systemd :)

I'd argue they'd been better of not putting the unit there. But yes, aside from that particular weirdness I fully agree.
"We should improve society somewhat..."

https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-we-sh...
CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
>whether its first section amounts to a bill of attainder, whether the forced divestiture would amount to a fifth amendment taking, whether it violated the broader freedom of the press under the first amendment

The petitioners made those challenges as well. 3 lower courts denied them, and SCOTUS chose not to overturns the law based on those challenges, thus upholding the constitutionality of the law.

Based on your the argument, because SCOTUS didn't rule on the constitutionality of the ban with respect to the 2nd amendment, they didn't actually declare that it was legitimate.

So yes technically you are correct, but SCOTUS certainly choose not to declare the law illegitimate, which is the most legitimating thing they are ever going to do.

>So, by your way of thinking, if there was a chance that pooping on the floor myself might discourage my dog's bad behavior, I should go right ahead?

It's just a bad analogy. Come up with a better one.
You'd need to change the basis of JV and IPO in the UK, the nature of chartered engineering, and probably the laws on being declared bankrupt. America has a financial regulatory environment which is somewhat unique, and encourages this kind of innovation. The UK has a different view both of the financial risk management, and of the consequences of engineering.

The history of canals, bridges, roads, railroads and lighthouses in the UK is littered with people blowing wads of money up. Speculation was rife. I think it led to caution which has stayed with us across the victorian era into the modern day.

If you want an object lesson in "god, could we do this better" -I was told Australia had world-class optics industry, at the end of WWII due to the need to diversify the supply chain and get away from European sources now in the Axis. Russia and Japan seized the day, while Australia basically _shut itself down_ and gave away any market lead. People laugh at russian cameras but the glass was excellent, they got half of German tech at wars end.
From their blog post: https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing-new-au...

"Critical Operations That Require Authorization

The following printer operations will require authorization controls:

Binding and unbinding the printer.
Initiating remote video access.
Performing firmware upgrades.
Initiating a print job (via LAN or cloud mode).
Controlling motion system, temperature, fans, AMS settings, calibrations, etc."

Now, PERHAPS, I can do that authentication locally... but given the plugin required for OrcaSlicer it doesn't seem likely
Given that there is a PPD limit to human vision, I think this is useful for proving to yourself whether a given TV or monitor upgrade will actually be noticeable.

I bet a lot of people will be shocked to find that they’re not seeing any benefit of 4K over 1080, and almost no one will have a setup putting them close enough to a big enough TV to justify 8K.
TDD suffers from being inflexible when you don't fully understand the problem. Which on software is basically always.

Everytime I've tried it for something I make no progress at all compared to just banginf out the shape that works and then writing tests to interrogate my own design.
"Oh are you in? One minute, I'll come down and sit with you"

This is not a hard problem to solve if she wishes to.
Grrrr, this is such a bugbear for me. I was so excited to read "A Fire Upon The Deep" because hackers talked up the concept of "software archeology" that the book apparently introduced.

The concept is briefly alluded to in the prologue, and then...nada, not relevant to the rest of the plot at all (the _effects_ of the archeology are, but "software archeologists" are not meaningful characters in the narrative). I felt bait-and-switched.
I used the ICU packages when I needed to do something like this but it's been a decade since I coded in C++.

https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/datetime/
If you are talking about DC bias (as in, long term average of raw readings), then "unconnected audio input" is pretty likely to have it - it's easy to introduce via component tolerances, and there is no real reason to keep it exactly zero for audio purposes. But it's also pretty trivial to fix in software.

If you are talking bias in more general sense, then audio input noise is non-uniform in the frequency space, for example there is low-pass filter which filters out high input frequency, and it will affect noise values too. Good whitening algorithm is essential.

The good news however is there are many noise sources which are actually caused by quantum effects in electronic parts, and therefore completely unpredictable. Even if NSA recorded all RF noise, they still could not predict what the ADC will capture. (But they might be able to capture digital bits as they travel over the bus...)
Was just looking at your web page and really wish I had a copy of "Start Speaking Japanese Today" when I lived in a small town east of Fukuoka a couple decades ago.

#UnsolicitedTestimonial
Having recently driven through downtown Toronto at rush hour for an in person office visit, I could see how an hour would be easy to rack up, because I’ve done it. One day at the end of the workday, it took me 20 minutes to get from my parking garage, around a single city block, and to the highway on ramp. Never again.
I left the UK for the USA in 2020. It was only last week that another HN commenter finally opened my eyes to the fact that since I have left the UK, I have become someone with the ability to take things from 0 to 1.[1]

I do not believe I could have achieved what I have in the last half-decade if I had stayed in the UK. There is something deeply rooted in the UK's contemporary culture (which I cannot yet fully explain in words) that serves to crush the individual ambitions of the working and middle classes.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42705792