skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brother laser printers are cheap and extremely reliable if you only need to print in black and white. Because they use toner, there's no ink to dry up so they can go months without printing and not clog. The catch is that Brother started putting chips in their toner cartridges a few years ago to keep track of toner usage (they previously used a mechanical gear system). You can still buy and use third-party toner but most third-party toner cartridges use small batteries on their chips and the toner will stop working if the battery runs out (this is the source of all the rumors about various firmware updates stopping third-party toner from working). However, even if you stick to official toner, the cost per page is still fairly low.

If you need to print in color, you can buy an inkjet printer that uses ink tanks instead of cartridges. However, you generally should be printing at least once per week as otherwise you'll need to waste a bunch of ink on head cleaning cycles. The other thing is that all inkjet printers (including ink tanks) clean their heads by spraying ink into a pad called the "waste ink reservoir". After a couple years of use, the pad will become saturated with ink and the printer will refuse to work. Most printers have the pad integrated into the printer, so you have to throw out the printer at this point. Look for a printer with a "maintenance box", which is really the waste ink pad in a user-replaceable plastic cartridge.
Well, that includes at least everyone using Python built with that compiler.
Indeed. When I tried to add LibRedirect (another extensions that are not possible under Manifest v3) to Vivaldi, DNS over HTTPS suddenly stopped working.

After checking the settings page, the settings to turn it on are completely disabled. Turn out this is one of few trap in all Chromioum browser that are hardcoded by Google.

Well after searching, you need to edit registry (yikes!) and add "DnsOverHttpsMode" and set it to "safe". Problem solved, right?

NO!!! Do that and suddenly your browser wouldn't load any page at all! Turn out you also need to set "DnsOverHttpsTemplates" too.

It just so happen, somehow, there is no documentation that mention this in "....Mode" help page.

Surely Google is not being evil in here, right? Right?
Reminds me of the scientists arguing a long time ago whether the egg or the sperm is more important for creating new life. They wasted lots of time that could be dedicated to learning more.
Thanks for your comment! I'm glad you're seeing the same thing :)
I re-implemented the linearised dithering in python and got similar results.
I checked and rechecked the colour profiles in GIMP, nothing...
At this point I can only hope for an expert to appear and tell me what exactly I am doing wrong.
Why? The company is insanely overvalued based on its fundamentals. Elon's hardcore investor fans are the only reason the stock is worth anything near what it is.
Huh, I didn't know that. But it seems incomplete, at least for Baden-Württemberg. Not sure if that's a bug, an outage, or if they didn't submit all the data. On unternehmensregister.de, you can usually view lots and lots of information, including annual reports (with increasing detail, depending on company size).

As far as I understand it, on unternehmensregister.de, you only have to pay for access to files (including annual reports) of small companies that make use of the § 326 Abs. 2 HGB exception: https://www.buzer.de/326_HGB.htm And maybe for formally authenticated copies? Everything else should be free of charge.
One of my hobby projects is to construct a new foundation of mathematics: mathematics is the art of predicting if a Turing machine will stop or not.
> is math invented or discovered?

Yes and yes. Or to put it another way, why does it have to be an "or" question?

To me some things in math are discovered, like prime numbers, pi, Euler's number.

Other things are more like an invention, like the Runge-Kutta methods[1] or the Finite Element Method[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runge%E2%80%93Kutta_methods

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method
(Re)-Read their story[1]-- they were fighting to publish the refutation as the first chapter of their dissertation. They wanted to publish no matter what.

Given that, choose your sword:

1. Grad Sword that must be approved by a dissertation committee

2. Master (well, PhD) Sword where you choose your own adventure

If you reply #1 then I'm logged in to a fake HN site.

1: https://www.theorgplumber.com/posts/statement/
Villifying normal people is more nefarious.

But who told you that there is a Fourth Estate? Was it the very “Fourth Estate”?
Sure, but the ToS wording states you need their permission. I'm guessing their permission wasn't acquired. To me it seems like this wording is to prevent witch-hunts. Which this effectively was. I don't know about you but a good old fashioned witch-hunt is shit behaviour for someone doing their job. I don't verbally abuse parking inspectors (as much as I want to). They are doing it to pay their bills and feed their family.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250304001202/https://help.x.co...
I'm still going with Brother. There was a recent claim that they disabled 3rd party toners but there were lots of anecdotal stories of people who had no such trouble with it.

If Brother ever truly loses the plot, my next printer will be the local FedEx store. Life's too short to fight hostile hardware.
The trend is the exact opposite way, a federation of smaller and smaller devolved regions.
Seeds of 19 African tree species added to Svalbard Global Seed Vault
But like if you say you refuse to believe the owner of the company and everyone who works there aren’t you ignoring basically all primary sources?

That seems like a pretty closed minded and bigoted way of thinking.
Somebody gave us that when our child was born. I donated it somewhere pretty quickly, not interested in reading a smartphone training guide to a 6 month old.
If California were to secede I guess by that logic you could claim the future independent Californistan had always had advanced rocket industry. After all, look at all the Lockheed Martin and NASA facilities. This statement would of course completely ignore who funded this work, when, and why.
I very very reluctantly moved from Eclipse IDE to IntelliJ IDEA. I still feel like the migration was three steps forward two steps back. (edit) IDEA is a perfectly nice IDE, don't get me wrong, I just don't really see why it got all the love back in the day.

On a similar note I vastly prefer Maven for my own Java based projects; I despise Gradle as being strictly inferior.
32 megabytes!

Even HDDs were smaller back then.
Time to set up Pi-Hole on my Rapsberry Pi 4

https://pi-hole.net/
Well I asked him to provide any evidence at all to back up why his brain came to conclusion that it did. In the absence of any evidence, the natural conclusion is that he just made it up.
Arianespace is essentially assured launch leadership for SpaceX. It denies Europe economies of scale in launch. At the end of the day, if Europe is happy having a small fraction of its own launch market, whatever, Arianespace keeps people employed.
Sony also announced the end of recordable blu-rays: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24350993/sony-recordable-...

Obviously that's not necessarily reflective of commercial movies or TV shows, but it does signal to me that Sony is planning on winding it down.
If your only reason for not breaking up a megacorp is that you want it it to compete with another megacorp...

¿Por qué no los dos?
highly recommend porter if you are a startup who doesn't wanna think about things like this
Has anyone work on decoding over-the-air TV digital signal in software? I remember way back there were some cards that can decode OTA signals to be recorded into DVR.
Aren’t you confusing that with DVD?
Agreed on the second part. Correcting for bias this way might average out the scores but not in a way that correctly evaluates the HN comments.

The LLM isn't performing the desired task.

It sounds possible to cancel out the comments where reversing the labels swaps the outcome because of bias. That will leave the more "extreme" HN comments that it consistently scored regardless of the label. But that may not solve for the intended task still.
You're not mistaken. They had a default enabled whitelist of advertisers that were paying them to be there. Basically a racket.
Sorry, but you are just talking. The problem with video game preservation is that the IA isn't able to get the same library exemption that they got from the Library of Congress for archiving. The LoC doesn't yet consider video games an artform that can be preserved in the same way as books and other media.

There are thousands of folks that both want and want to do this work.
Doable, but not at a playable framerate without hardware.
Yeah, "You can't do <thing we've been doing successfully for a thousand years>" is a weird claim.

Secondly, I imagine Taoism would like to have a word on the subject of whether one can lead students towards something that cannot be defined.
As the maintainer of several popular open source projects (e.g. https://chezmoi.io), the forms of help I appreciate the most are:

* User support. Answering questions in discussions, social media, and GitHub issues. This helps on multiple levels: it saves me time that I would otherwise have to spend, and builds a community around the project.

* Documentation improvements. Better documentation means less user support work and helps everybody.

* Issue reports with a clear, minimal, way to reproduce the problem.

* Pull requests that follow the contributing guidelines of the project. This means that they follow the project's conventions, include tests, don't break any existing tests, and so on.

I don't write open source software to make money. I write open source software because I enjoy building high-quality software and I get a buzz from helping people.
Slightly relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43306435 (“A Post Mortem on the Gino Case”: “Committing fraud is, right now, a viable career strategy that can propel you at the top of the academic world.”)
There are only two business models on the web: either you pay for your browser, or someone else does. This is why Orion is entirely user-funded, and can continue serving users by prioritizing privacy, control, and features like powerful, built-in ad-blocking. Not third party deals, ads, or any other incentive to corrupt the user experience and overall quality.

(Disclosure, I work for Kagi, creator of the Orion browser.)
I was going to recommend you look for a Haskell shop and the saw that user markus_zhang mentioned the same thing in this thread.

I'm actually just starting my own company using Haskell so I can think deeply about what I want while making the product how I want.
Tautologically, but also pedantically.
Probabilism and Determinism in AI
If I go to buy something, I switch off ad blocking on that page, at the very least, on the checkout page. Ads can even be actually relevant there.

If the page is too ad-ridden to tolerate, I may consider to just close that page, and go search for other options.

I use Firefox + uBlock Origin, because going to the wide commercial internet without some form of ad blocking is like going out without an umbrella when it's raining heavily.
You're behind with the times, words have new meanings

Organizations I don't like = Monopoly!

Organizations I like = ...
Shark neonates attack each other in the womb. Hyena cubs kill each other.

I don't know if the evidence of this paper is good, but it's plausible to me that human children attempt to damage each other for evolutionary benefit. It's not a very optimistic viewpoint, because it means the parents of bullies have a strong motivation to prevent the rooting out of this behavior.
What kind of problems can it solve better than traditional software and hardware?
What’s your point? I’m past the point of caring about freeloading on/off Google of all companies.

I might care about the lesser cut that creators get. But not YouTube.
Canada's border service sent her back to the US. At that point, the US can't exactly tell her to go back to Canada, and have her walk back and forth until the problem solves itself.

Immigration detention pending a return to the country of origin seems reasonable at that point. 10 days of detention to figure out transportation to the country of origin doesn't seem reasonable though.
Yes, years ago. People haven't used it solely to mean permanently broken for a long time, it now also means "temporarily inoperable" or "broken beyond the skill of one particular user to fix it". Much like how "literally" now gets used to mean "figuratively" the use of hyperbole has turned "bricked" into meaning "not actually bricked".
> if Japan is the harbinger for the rest of the world, there will be no more "always up" markets to flee to.

There is a Dutch saying that says:

Trees do not grow to heaven

The nonsense will have to stop one day.
For anyone interested in these LLM pairwise sorting problems, check out this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17563

The authors discuss the person 1 / doc 1 bias and the need to always evaluate each pair of items twice.

If you want to play around with this method there is a nice python tool here: https://github.com/vagos/llm-sort
Presumably this for now has only been seen for a specific tv client API that yt-dlp use and not all youtube videos (well, https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/issues/4444 also saw it for "members-only" videos but again not all videos).

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Also I suppose you make a reference to software DRM like Widevine L3 vs L1 (same thing for PlayReady SL2000 vs SL3000) which is not exactly Firefox vs Chrome. Firefox has even be known to work on the availability of hardware DRM on windows right now, (through the Media Foundation API I think?).

In the worst scenarios seen right now for example seen on services like Netflix, would be to only have lower qualities (e.g. 480p max) on browsers with only Software DRM available (like firefox) and encrypt better qualities with keys only available when there is hardware DRM available.
Though I'm not sure YouTube would go that far for now? Netflix, Amazon and such have contracts with right-holders stating those protections as a requirement, but YouTube does not have (IMO thankfully) the same kind of relation and contract with "Youtubers".

I think that what YouTube wants to do for now is to greatly lower the amount of people not watching contents through its website/app (and thus not seeing ads). I would even think that this is mostly not about yt-dlp users, but more the huge amount of people relying on some Youtube-to-mp3 website or similar accessible tools.
Here enforcing software DRM would be enough to at least temporarily break all those tools and force those users to go back on the platform I guess, and maybe you can also sue some tools' developers once there is an "encryption breaking"-mechanism embedded in it (IANAL)?
This is the US, not Israel. Attacking freedom of speech is hardly "fitting in".
On Testing
Related:

VPRI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27722969 - July 2021 (1 comment)

Viewpoints Research Institute concluded its operations at the beginning of 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26926660 - April 2021 (36 comments)

Final “STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming” Paper [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11686325 - May 2016 (64 comments)

A computer system in less than 20k LOC progress report - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1942204 - Nov 2010 (3 comments)

A compiler made only from PEG-based transformations for all stages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1819779 - Oct 2010 (2 comments)

Steps Toward The Reinvention of Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=141492 - March 2008 (12 comments)

I feel certain that there were other HN threads related to this project if anyone wants to dig around for some!
It's a small but confusing point that in academic demography, "low/high fertility" just means something like "how many children does a typical woman have" rather than how easy/hard it is to conceive them (which is what it means in everyday language). See the definitions of these rates for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography#Common_rates_and_...
On the off chance that Google is truly benevolent and was just worried about users' security, then they could have easily hidden the required network-reading functionality behind a flag or "developer mode", or only allowed it for a small set of manually-audited extensions like uBlock Origin.

The fact that they provided absolutely none of these alternatives isn't a coincidence. Google is a for-profit company with 300+ billion of annual revenue, a giant chunk of which comes from their advertisement services. It's a blatant conflict of interest and there's no good reason to believe that they're acting in good faith here.
Hello, I was one of the people who contributed to this interpreter change. Thank you Nelson for the excellent write-up and for going to such lengths to get to the bottom of this. That said, I wanted to defend Ken a bit. :-)

Ken Jin is a volunteer who's been tirelessly working to make CPython faster over the past couple of years for not enough credit. IMHO, Ken did nothing wrong here, and there's really nothing to be embarrassed about. The fact that it took a month (more if you consider the folks helping to reproduce the original results) for anyone to notice anything wrong shows how complicated the situation was! Put yourself in Ken's shoes -- having updated to LLVM-19 to enable the preserve_none flag, would you then hypothesize that LLVM-19 may have introduced an unrelated performance regression that no one noticed for five months? Lots of people underestimate how hard benchmarking is IMO.

A 1-5% performance improvement is also pretty valuable, just not quite as spectacular as we thought originally :-)
Can you give me a reference in what year Ukraine said they were going to acquire nukes?
"Economically the savings for the use of open source ad blockers are potentially easier to understand. For example, in the United States, if all Internet users enabled Privacy Badger on their computers, they would expect to save more than 91 million dollars annually. Globally, if all Internet users used uBlock Origin, they would collectively save more than 1.8 billion U.S. dollars a year."

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18#:~:text=Economically%2...
I'm in the US, and the DMCA explicitly forbids it, but there's been some contrary rulings on this that make it a bit unclear. [1]

I am not a lawyer, so I'm not really sure how to interpret this stuff, but I don't know how tested the DRM parts of the DMCA have been tested .

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/07/court...
Stewardship over Ownership
Bypass the YT website entirely.

You can perform video search through DuckDuckGo, Invidious, or Piped.

The latter two are often blocked themselves, copy the video URL and feed to mpv to play through your preferred video player on the command-line:

<https://mpv.io/>
Suitably modified, they can. Bayesian neural networks provide uncertainty quantification. The challenge is calibrating the predictions, and deciding whether devoting model capacity to uncertainty quantification would not be better spent on a bigger, uncertain model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibration_(statistics)

Example: Efficient and Effective Uncertainty Quantification for LLMs (https://openreview.net/forum?id=QKRLH57ATT)
Right, OP is saying (and I came here to agree) that the writer's use of the word "regret" was just clickbait — there's no actual regret predicted to take place except to music historians and the few ordinary people who know what they missed out on. Even the historian quoted says he's using the word "regret" metaphorically:

> "They're going to regret it," Seubert predicted. "Not financially or anything, but just from a historical perspective."

Music execs are in the business of selling music. The less music is available in the wild, the better for them.
Only the Android version has uBlock just fyi. Also, I've never been able to watch movies on a plane with Firefox mobile.
I really wish someone would pick up ian piumarta’s object system
I'm not convinced it's the Americans responsibility to get her back to a suitable international airport as quickly as possible and put her in the next flight out. 10 days does seem excessive, but I don't see why she should be a priority either. I would imagine up to 5 working days fits within the realm of 'reasonable'.
> As a long time embedded programmer, I don't understand this

I think you both should define what your embedded systems look like. The range is vast after all. It ranges from 8 bit CPU [0] with a few dozen kilobytes of RAM to what almost is a full modern PC. Naturally, the incentives to program at a low level are very different across the embedded systems range.

[0] https://www.silabs.com/mcu/8-bit-microcontrollers/why-8-bit-...
> using yt-dlp to download my subscriptions, convert them to mp3 and host the podcast feeds inside my local network

Hey! I've just had the thought of doing this myself the other day.
Do you mind sharing what tools you're using, besides yt-dlp?
For example, what are you using to host and generate the rss feed (if that's what you're doing)?
i was following this on another site before it showed up here:

1)UK citizens dont need a visa perse coming into canada as a tourist

1b) electronic travel authorization form is not required for UK citizens coming to canada over land border.

2)she was staying at Workaway, which depending on how you interpret/misinterpret is "working" (which it possibly is, a little shady on what they are.)
so canada may have thought she was going to work... which a tourist visa doesnt cover

so my guess is canadian authorities felt she was coming here to work, which she didnt have the proper paperwork so got denied.

USA authorities upon re-entry attempt, probably felt she is scamming the ESTA 90 days being on a "4 month" trip, staying at workaway locations...
and playing devils advocate, there is no proof that this is NOT what she was trying to do... going to a short trip in canada before going back thinking it resets ESTA (they have to be gone from usa for a reasonable time)

so much unknowns.

i think they were right to detain her/deny her entry... but the length of detainment is at issue.

very first thing i think of when viewing their site is this is some lodging for volunteer/unpaid labour.
https://www.workaway.info/
The RTL-SDR was originally intended as a DVB-T receiver, using an app called "BlazeVideo."

Anyway, many, many open source implementations exist for this as it's a popular first/early SDR project. All you'll you need is the right keywords - for the US, ATSC, and for Europe, DVB-T2.
Exactly. When you want to use a program on the computer you want to make sure that the CEO of the company that makes it is very vocal about things completely unrelated to the computer. Like would you take your car to a mechanic who doesn’t post about the keto diet? Absolutely not. Would you buy a quiche from a man that does not have a dedicated page to perineum sunning? No one would, it would be insane to even consider such a purchase. Such a baker would be ostracized abd run out of business overnight