skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are actually a fair number of indie games like that. Of course, a lot of them are only available via something like Steam, which is a networked platform that has some dubious aspects. GOG is somewhat better (e.g., you can download offline installers that are supposed to be self-contained and work even if GOG disappears). The harder part is finding out which such games are good. The best way I've found is finding communities of people who play them and recommend them to one another. Of course, those communities nowadays are often on a platform like Reddit or Discord which are themselves in the process of or ripe for enshittification. But for the games themselves, it's possible.
Some are good, some are bad, buyer beware.

No direct experience, but I recently read[1] Brother HL-L3220CW counts printed pages, and refuses to print after a set number of pages, even if there's still toner in the cartridge. Some models have a way to reset the page count but this one apparently does not.

[1] https://spicausis-lv.translate.goog/2025/01-brother/?_x_tr_s...

(I also use a Brother B/W laser printer, got it second hand for almost nothing, works fine)
Photography has C2PA to have a cryptographically verifiable chain of provenance for images. That way you can see what camera took the image and which edits were done.

It's fairly new, but with the mess around stock photo sites having undeclared AI images I wouldn't be surprised if it sites eventually showcase this information

https://c2pa.org/
Which we all wish we started before him ... I mean god damn it all it took was knowing a bit of php and throwing a few html pages.
They aren't proofs, they're just numbers. All the questions have numerical answers. That's how they're evaluated.
Thank you for sharing! It sounds like you’ve found a meaningful corner of TikTok! And your response helped me to realize those positive aspects
Well.. SAP could buy it. Or some other European tech company that could afford it..
Matrix has some promise, but it's also essentially VC-funded despite the way they try to present it.
"It’s basically a beautiful structure floating in mid air"

I didn’t expect a BioShock Infinite reference here! The game’s world is deeply influenced by Ayn Rand’s Objectivism, and the entire series serves as a powerful critique, showcasing why such a philosophy might not succeed in practice.
Computational geometry with probabilistically noisy primitive operations
From the White House Press Secretary:

“It is a stunt, and we see no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions in the next few days before the Trump Administration takes office on Monday. We have laid out our position clearly and straightforwardly: actions to implement this law will fall to the next administration. So TikTok and other companies should take up any concerns with them.”

Please do some research next time before accusing people of spreading lies.
It really depends upon the target market. That's fine for hobbyists. But I use the Bambu X1 for small-scale prototyping in a company, and it has to be usable out of the box. We can't justify an entire week of labour for each printer we buy.

The Bambu has been ideal for that reason. Every material pretty much just works, and the quality is excellent. The cloud integration and janky LAN mode is the downside, and this current topic even moreso.
I'm torn on this, though, because it's not really the companies blackmailing the countries. It's the companies telling their users, "hey, your country is doing this, and if you don't want them to do this, make some political noise".

Sure, if that message is dishonest or manipulative, that's dangerous, but TikTok telling their US users that they're going to lose access to TikTok if they don't "do something" seems like a pretty reasonable use of free speech.

But at the same time, I don't like that companies have the clout to influence politics to the degree they do. But they have far more (and IMO often better) levers they can pull than what TikTok has done here, and I think those levers (campaign contributions, for one) are much more dangerous to democracy than stuff like this.

(For the record, I am loosely in favor of a TikTok divestiture or ban, though not for the reasons touted by the US government.)
The Chinese strategy of forcibly keeping their financial sector depressed seems pretty sensible as a long term strategy.
Can we syop giving this guy attention? What a ridiculous post he is nothing but another VC that will
Write anything to support himself, his investments and other VCs and people here who praise him for his ‘insight’ are not helping.
What a ridiculous post that provides no value or insight.
Summarization model is crap, so it needs to be used for crap. Like Trump news, or latest office slack drama. I want the messages from my loved ones unabridged. Right now, Apple is unable to discern these use cases.
He's also a pretty decent amateur runner, broke 20 minutes for 5k which is nothing to sneeze at, I'm still not able to do it after 1.5 years of training 4-6 days a week.
Possibly the UK's worldwide military bases / islands to build bases on or mine the oil and some restricted technology. Maybe a 'Hong Kong' style outpost in Europe.

May be a bit of a stretch though.
Yeah I remember one of my friends working for a German auto company during the 2008 financial crisis and having insane stuff routinely happen like an auto manufacturer having to buy truckloads of sensors from a subcontractor that had nowhere to go as car manufacturing lines were stopped.

Failing to do so would have meant these manufacturers would go under, (along with their own subcontractors) and once demand shot back up, cars would be literally impossible to manufacture as key suppliers went out of business.
My brother was a consultant and is an extraordinary networker (and salesman) in the shipping space. He knew of this tool, was looking for a challenge, cultivated a relationship with the owner and then made an offer.
It's vendor lock-in (or DRM), not security. Security would be a protocol based on a user specific secret that doesn't inherently require locking down anything to Bambu Lab only software (think username/password). Vendor lock-in is about locking the user into using Bambu Lab software, which is what we see here.

You would never allow your bank account to be secured with something akin to Bambu Lab's "security fix".
Losing TikTok for a few hours or a day is perhaps going to make TikTok users more angry at the government than TikTok.

Losing electricity or phone service for a day is going to make people more angry at the utility or phone company, regardless of why the shutdown has happened.

And if a utility threatened to shut down service instead of complying with a new government regulation, you can bet the government would immediately jail anyone involved in that decision.
It is. I have no interest in messing around with 3D printers and was annoyed by the fact that Bambu lab lied about the 15 minute setup time. It was more like 45 minutes, but after that I never touched the printer again and started printing instead.

Also, subtractive manufacturing is much harder than additive manufacturing, because you need to position the machine around an existing piece of stock and sequence your operations manually, instead of letting a generic slicing algorithm slice from bottom to top with an offset vs the intended printing location only being a problem if you accidentally print over the edge of the build plate, which is usually not possible mechanically.
i do not believe you. it is mostly a material issue not a printer issue
You seem to overestimate the engineering supply in Des Moines.
The density of these things needs to be seen to truly grasp the scale.

Assuming they were actually all manned and able to provide interlocking fire as designed (a large assumption) - there would be no moving left or right. There would simply be another bunker or three in your next chosen path.
as i said to another reply, it is a material issue.
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Is this confined to the AI/ML group? Or across the software org at large?

I feel like every large company has a former employee who can say "there's a lot of people there doing nothing, there's people playing politics, and there's too much bureaucracy to get things done." It's hard to tell just from comments if it's better, worse, or the same at Apple versus the other behemoths.

Despite these kinds of comments, every year, Apple ships quite a lot of software. Even brand new entire operating systems like vision OS -- even if that's of course to some extent reusing a lot of other components from macOS, iPadOS, etc. But even re-use can carry still carry significant overhead.

Idk I guess at the end of the day I'm still pretty impressed at Apple's ability to ship well-integrated features at scale that work across watches, phones, and laptops--AI notification slop aside.
I agree with you; all of those needed vastly more computing than was available in a PC. If anything, the power of modern hardware has made a lot of it more available in personal workstations. Though it is true that hyped-for-the-masses personal computing devices are not optimized in that direction. You get what you buy.
Never thought of it this way... It truly is a marketplace where opinions can be "bought"
Bambu Connect is explicitly about allowing you to continue to use your favorite slicer. They make it less convenient (instead of pressing print you now have to save, load the file in Bambu Connect and then press print), but they don't prevent you from doing it.

Once the update actually rolls out to the P1S obviously. Which may not even happen with the current backlash
In Python you have the wonderful https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz

from toolz import pipe
pipe('hello',lambda w: ( "foo", w ), lambda y: [ 0, y, 1 ])

[0, ('foo', 'hello'), 1]

You can used named functions, but they would need to be define above in upper scope

def h(x):
return ( "foo", x )

def g(x):
return [ 0, x, 1]

pipe('hello', h, g)
Notes from Ukraine
I actually took you up on this, and best I was able to get was about 250ms when I was really concentrating. Average was around 320!
Yeah, I'm surprised the article doesn't address this obvious case. It's pretty much my default indentation scheme for any language, and while I see a lot of lispers here complain about the wasted vertical space, it's undeniably easy to see which parentheses match and what the block structure is.

I'll happily tolerate some wasted space in that trade-off.
Even if you did. It’s very likely that I or someone else wouldn’t a agree with your reasoning and argument. In fact the more time you spent developing your reasoning and arguments the more stuff there would be for us to disagree on.

Which is the problem. You can’t just impose your understanding of “critical thinking” (based on your personal context, experience, ethical/moral/social views, prejudices and biases) on everyone and expect it to solve anything. In fact if you did it would likely lead to something truly terrible..
Both liberal and conservative presidents have made choices about whether or not they will enforce particular laws passed by Congress. This is nothing new. It's just getting a lot more media attention than most instances of this have gotten.

(A very common example: many people in the US can walk into a store and buy marijuana without fear of prosecution because the last several presidents -- from both parties -- have chosen not to enforce that particular federal law.)

Certainly the courts can (and sometimes do) get involved, but the only thing that can force the executive branch to act is for the House to impeach the president, and for the Senate to convict. And the House is not going to impeach Trump over this, or pretty much anything.
Depends on the bankruptcy. Nobody is going to shed tears over investors losing out. Speculate to accumulate, risk and reward.

But IDK how it works in other countries, UK bankruptcies also means customers, unsecured creditors (often other small businesses), and the State (payroll taxes) also lose out.

And it leaves a bad taste when a company run at high risk of bankruptcy ("oh but we're a Start Up") screws over their suppliers which are often more traditional businesses (whether that's print designers, lawyers or tradespeople) by carrying on trading far into insolvency.

That implies a kind of arrogance ("You just have a business which pays it's bills, I have a vision) which UK culture is allergic to.
Exactly. He’s a convicted felon, and so what? It doesn’t matter. What’s an investigation into a meme coin going to do, other than cost taxpayer money and give Trump the chance to say more sound bites?
Only guessing, but since the language is for scripting then maybe all garbage could be collected when the script finishes?
> it is mostly a material issue not a printer issue

Tell me you don’t anything about 3d printing without telling me you don’t know anything about 3d printing.
Let's Make: Dangerous Dave (2017)
The executive branch has a clear history of selectively not enforcing laws, so there is clear precedent. The most notable recent example is that the last three presidents have all chosen to not enforce federal law on marijuana in states that have chosen to legalize it.
> Bambu is patching a security issue.

This isn't a security fix. As a security protocol, it wouldn't pass any kind of security audit. A security fix would be something based on a per user credential, not on obscurity.

> Personally I don't want any device or application to send any old G-code to my printer.

Username/password over TLS would do that better than what Bambu Lab is proposing, as an extremely simplistic example.
This all resonates very strongly with me. We have tons of automation - the proverbial "economies of scale", but we haven't managed to solve the last mile.

Auto assembly seems like a poster child. There's wild automation going on, but the typical plant still requires thousands of employees doing things by hand. Musk tried to automate a lot more of this away with newer/better robotics, but failed. (Tesla has still achieved a lot here, but it's been more towards creating designs that are more amenable to the current state of robotics).

IMO, this problem should be solvable now. I.E. we don't need "new physics" to reach another step-function in automation. We need more investment. We're still largely in the mindset of "special-purpose" automation.
Because Adobe photoshop is what people are tought how to use. It is the same thing with excel. It isn't enough to have a superior product, you also have to overcome the momentum of the prevailing software. That's not to say it is impossible, but Photoshop has a significant advantage.
> I insist on this all the time in code reviews. Variables must have units in their names if there's any ambiguity. For example, `int timeout` becomes `int timeout_msec`.

Personally I flag any such use of int in code reviews, and instead recommend using value classes to properly convey the unit (think Second(2) or Millisecond(2000)).

This of course depends on the language, it's capabilities and norms.
In Germany, you can typically finance the first 1-3 years of your start-up through government gifts like "EXIST". That's why you don't need early seed investors.
Closely by whom? Tomorrow, Trump and his sycophants will control the DoJ.

If you're talking about a future administration, we've already seen what happens when Trump leaves office and people try to hold him accountable: absolutely nothing.
There's no substitute for competence and integrity, but private entities are just as capable of being inept and corrupt. Look at companies like Enron or Comcast.
Slightly tangential but perhaps somebody could answer this question:

So having decided that rather than trade as a fictitious company and go the "personal brand" route, I'm interested to know who has successfully sold their own desktop apps from a website with their personal domain eg. JoeBloggs.com.
Do buyers really care so long as the software meets their requirements, or does the psychology of a trading entity really affect peoples' appetites to purchase?

Reasons include authenticity, the ability to self brand for freelance dev work, and being able to list ad-hoc products as I develop them without having to market each one separately.

Comments welcome, as well as success stories, or otherwise.
> I see it as an interesting thought exercise on how to get someone running around with what is usually a marvel of computing in their pocket to try and imagine that is not the apex of computing, whether to explore what other means of computing offer or what comes next besides a slightly better version of what we have now.

That is a great way of thinking about it and I'm curious what you've come up with. I think it's a pretty hard sell for most people, especially for things like messaging that have become very central to daily life. Also, there's a big difference between convincing someone to try something a bit less mainstream and convincing them to reject the mainstream version. Like, you may be able to get someone to install LibreOffice but it's a lot harder to get them to uninstall Excel.

Anecdotally, I've found that people who have some other kind of retro/niche/subculture interest can be somewhat more receptive to the idea that the newest thing isn't necessarily the greatest. Like someone who's into hunting for vintage clothes, or woodworking, or whatever. Ironically such people are on average more tech-averse than a typical "normie", but they often understand the concept that it can be useful to actually put effort into getting something that's not just whatever's handed to you. In a way the insidious aspect of recent tech is the way it's conditioned people to expect that they shouldn't have to think much about how to do things, and to just want "smart" technology that reduces decisions.
I lived in Ireland for 10 years. It's not the same as the UK but there _is_ cultural overlap. Every time you shared a new idea with _anyone_, even things as simple as "I want to buy a site and build a house on it", the first thing you hear is how that's a bad idea, you will fail, it will never work, and you need to leave it to "professionals".

Not to mention the whole idea that trying to be successful is "notions" and should be sneered at.

Edit: To compare -

Me: "I want to build a house"

Irish friends: "That's a bad idea, you'll never make it work, you'll go bankrupt and it will kill you..."

California/Oregon friends: "Fuck yeah I'll bring a nailgun"
Ah, can trust HN to always derail the topic whenever EU is mentioned. This has literally nothing to do with the subject matter of the article.
Do you know any equivalent for the Netherlands by any chance? Everything I see is tiny amounts.
Just some of them:

- Battery Management (iPhone 6, 6s, and SE): In 2017, Apple introduced a battery management feature in iOS 10.2.1 to prevent unexpected shutdowns by throttling the performance of iPhones with degraded batteries. This led to slower device performance without informing users, which is a removal of expected performance functionality.

- 32-bit App Support: With the release of iOS 11 in 2017, Apple dropped support for 32-bit apps. This meant users could no longer use older apps that had not been updated to 64-bit, effectively removing access to those apps on updated devices = You want the new OS? -> you have less functionality.

- Pulse oximetry features were recently removed from new Apple Watches due to Masimo's patent infringement claim.
Wow that story is so grim and precinct
This is such a right write on the subject that it's already a classic manifesto.
Right, but that would mean not moving.
Extrapolating this point outward, I don't think there is really any community computing.

Most people I know literally still to use the lowest common denominator of communications because corporates have managed to screw up interoperability in their land grabs to build walled gardens. The lowest common denominator in my area is emailing word documents or PDFs around. Same as we have been doing for the last 30 years. The network effect there was Word being the first thing on the market.

All other attempts have been entirely transient and are focused in either social matters or some attempt at file storage with collaboration bolted on the top. The latter, OneDrive being a particularly funny one, generally results in people having millions of little pockets of exactly what they were doing before with no collaboration or community at all.

If we do anything now it's just personal computing with extra and annoying steps.

And no, 99% of the planet doesn't use github. They just email shitty documents around all day. Then they go back home and stare at their transient worthless social community garbage faucet endlessly until their eyes fall shut.
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Maybe I'm too cynical, but too many people in power directly benefit fom enshittification for anything about it to change. Even just the problem of fixing the housing market while the majority of politicians own several properties is an example of this. There's zero incentive for anything to change.
It's not illegal, nor a high crime. It is in fact established precedent that this is in the purview of presidential power. This is why FBI agents are not raiding every marijuana shop in DC or the states that legalized it: since Obama, every president has chosen to instruct the justice department not to enforce federal law in this matter in those states.
> See: the Aperture fiasco. And also: Jony Ive.

> When will it substantially harm the company, enough so that someone ("activist" investors?) raise a hue and cry?

For this specific example, their stock price went up from "basically bankrupt" to "company is now worth trillions of dollars" in Ive's time.

It would take a lot to upset the investors, given the overall win rate.
Anti communist or anti Stalinist? Or even anti Marxist-Leninist?

Homage is a complicated book to place because it's been interpreted so baby different ways across eras. But it's hard to imagine someone going and fighting for POUM and praising them post facto would ultimately be anti communist across all flavors of communism.