MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?
by lucideng | 2025-09-15 16:24:38+00:00
At least a 256x256x256mm print volume. Needs to be enclosed or enclosable. Need to be able to print with more durable, temperature/chemical resistant materials such as PC/Nylon/ABS or infused materials. I do not need to print multi material models. I would prefer something that doesn't phone home and can work offline. Opensource firmware/software and repairability are important.

I am ok assembling the machine and learning how to dial it in. I can do CAD work and make models by hand; I was a machinist in a past life. But, I am not very familiar with 'slicer' software yet.
by BHSPitMonkey | 2025-09-15 16:24:48+00:00
Then you're throwing out a lot of babies with your bathwater: https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo...

I'm not prolific enough to rank on this leaderboard, but I often use the em dash in comments/posts/texts and have for years—especially on my phone, since it's easiest to reach from a mobile keyboard.
by dismalaf | 2025-09-15 16:25:15+00:00
"Abandoning" standards was done because X11 was the standard and it was too complicated for even the X11 maintainers to want to deal with. Wayland, for better or worse, splits up a lot of responsibilities and even offloads some to the app developer...

Linux has nothing to do with cooperation. It's a survival of the fittest scenario. People make things, then other people either adopt them or don't.

Gnome has a working screen reader on Wayland. They have APIs for accessibility on Gnome. Should RH/Gnome be responsible for all the Wayland compositors and DEs that haven't implemented it? Should they be responsible for a proprietary app that chooses not to work with what they're given?

Again, X11 exists, works, and no one is forcing it to go away. Devs can ignore Gnome/Red Hat things and do whatever they want. Or they can make their own thing work. Blaming others for not doing work they're too lazy to do is wild...
by DaveZale | 2025-09-15 16:25:18+00:00
May I spice up your argument with some sensory science trivia?

First, scent and taste are strongly interrelated:

https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/taste-smell-connection/

Also, odor receptors aren't only in nasal passages. They are also distributed throughout the body: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/aging-neuroscience/arti...

So sure, our sensory information- our sense of the world- is full of data that is so richly complicated, even the best achievable computational power may never fully grasp. And sure, each of us lives in a different reality based on very individual sensory responses.

:-)
by philjohn | 2025-09-15 16:25:18+00:00
If you just want to come out cost neutral, the battery required is far smaller when paired with a large enough array, and a time-of-use tariff.

With 3 EV's in the house, and a 12.8kWp array, with a 10kWh battery, charging overnight in the winter on the cheap EV tariff (7p per kWh vs 27p per kWh) and exporting during the spring, summer and autumn at 15p per kWh I'm seeing an electricity bill of below 0.

Of course, with a shift in energy production to renewables, all of that maths may get upended, but for now, I'm going to break even far before my original estimates.
by jhallenworld | 2025-09-15 16:25:24+00:00
Another way to look at this: how much solar do you need to synthesize 1 MWh of methanol ("e-methanol") from water, which is only ~54 gallons (200 liters)? Actually you need 135 gallons since the generator is likely 40% efficient (or less..). This is not much fuel, I used to have two 275 gallon oil tanks in my basement.

I think e-methanol synthesis is ~%50% efficient, so double the solar. Doesn't sound so bad.

Now if you could synthesize methane you could push it into the gas grid and run the meters backwards, thereby avoiding the need for storage... actually methane synthesis is even more efficient, >70%.
by TheGRS | 2025-09-15 16:25:25+00:00
Anyone in law enforcement for long enough, and I'd probably say something like 5-10 years on the beat, is enough to make many apathetic to rights and dignities. A sad reality unfortunately. Its the same vein of salespeople who get so caught-up in the hustle they that see everyone and every relationship as a potential transaction. And if I'm being introspective, my own flaw of seeing most systems/laws/social contracts as problems that can be solved with tinkering (they can't).
by orionsbelt | 2025-09-15 16:25:55+00:00
His point is not that black people are less capable but that DEI policies causing looser standards causes people to question whether a particular black person they encounter in a role is sufficiently qualified given those well known looser standards, and that this is bad for everyone, black people included. You can argue he’s still wrong, but it’s quite clear from the various clips that this is what he is arguing. In another clip, for example, he cited United’s goal of having 50% of pilots being of color or women, as compared to 13% of the population being black and women having less of an interest in careers like being a pilot; ie he has no prejudice against black peoples capabilities but has an issue with lowering hiring standards for any group of people.
by gingerBill | 2025-09-15 16:25:56+00:00
If you want single pass, then you have to do it on a per block basis at the most (e.g. C89).

But this is not meant to be a fully fledged language, it's meant to be a teaching tool. If you want a fully fledged language that allows for out of order declarations, try Odin!

Also, the syntax of Oberon/Pascal doesn't really allow for it in a nice way. It kind of looks really weird when you allow for it out of order.
by incomingpain | 2025-09-15 16:25:57+00:00
This article was a good read but having been written in 1992, it completely misses the 2009 inflection point and subsequent polarization. Which has more recently resulted in becoming extremely violent for politics. Now the definitions are even worse than the article proposes. It's clear that the definitions are being abused intentionally.

This is the death of a political definition, I cant give it a label, see OP. It will become a religion after this; only then will we have the violence end in our politics.

I would say the EU pact from 1997 was brilliant. They had to have known of the human costs; but it's over now. We've seen the end. Mind you, yes, there's stillpain to come; but it's too big.

I'm predicting, since history is repeating for like the 6th time, we're still about 10 years out on the end of political violence.
by jtc-hn | 2025-09-15 16:26:06+00:00
We use a collapsible (plastic) shopping basket/tub-with-handles for wet produce, the stuff the grocery store insists on spraying periodically, and things like tomatoes where we don't care if they get wet. The store clerks are used to it now and prefer it because they don't have to scan through bags and just put the produce back in the basket afterwards.

If you go this route, keep onions and garlic separate. They last longer if they stay dry.
by didntwhrton | 2025-09-15 16:26:50+00:00
Reminder: actual Trump accidentally suffered 6 bankruptcies and couldn't get a loan from anyone but a foreign bank in 2016: he had to underwrite his own loans and would be bankrupt without the celebrity of the presidency.

Deutsche Bank will no longer do business with Trump.

When Carl Icahn bought the Trump Taj Mahal, Trump later sued because he had sold the business and its name and felt that Carl owed him money for use of his name in New Jersey. Then, Trump hired Icahn as a presidential advisor.

Why did Icahn (Texas) buy a failing casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey?

Are these people that you should take financial advice from? Are these people that you should take corporate financial reporting advice from?
by kriops | 2025-09-15 16:26:54+00:00
It is easy to ban what are currently the most popular apps for encrypted messaging. But the math is more or less trivial, to the point that this will simply kick off a cat-and-mouse game the government cannot win. And that is before steganography comes into play.

At the absolute worst, OTPs are trivially uncrackable and relatively foolproof, assuming you can exchange keys out of band. Furthermore, it is trivial to generate keys that decode captured ciphertext into decoy cleartext, should the government try to coerce the keys from you.

I'm not saying OTP is practical for regular people in everyday chats (though it certainly can be for text, in my opinion). However, it is apparent to me that if RSA+AES becomes unviable, for example, then it will have nearly no impact on any criminal operation that cares about security.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-15 16:26:58+00:00
Don’t call me dumb just because I disagree with your point. Keep the conversation civil and stop acting like an immature child or find another place to voice your opinion without insulting other people.

Common sense says many things about genetics. In fact it’s the basis behind my entire premise which you didn’t even address. Genetics plays a role in the physicality and even temperament of a race (testosterone is measurably different across races). What black magic makes intelligence the only factor that is independent of race? Common sense says it’s a factor.

Common sense also says environment is the greater factor. If a person lacks practice or education vs. a person who practices math puzzles everyday. Obviously that is the bigger causal factor by common sense.

Both are factors by common sense. Environment is the bigger factor also by common sense but by that same reasoning genetics is not insignificant. The best way to put it is that environment influences IQ but genetics influences potential.

Why appeal to common sense? Because there’s lack of solid causal evidence. Evidence exists, but the replication crisis and the lack of causal experimentation makes all the tests not as solid as the correlative tests.

The stupidest thing here is that we are not in disagreement on what the evidence points too. It’s just I’m able to rely on induction and logic to predict conclusions where scientific evidence is lacking while you’re entire model of the world is essentially “if the science doesn’t exist then it must not be true“

If the science doesn’t exist, it means it’s unknown. I hope this was educational for you.

I’ll point to some resources when I have time. Im currently not able to cite them atm.
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-15 16:27:05+00:00
It's quite a twist of events. While some people, notably immigrants and foreign visitors, are being kept out, some people apparently are (would be) getting kept in.

It's an unusual form of punishment. Not prison or money or community service, or ban from performing actions or duties, like with most crimes. No - you cannot leave the country. I can't think of any other crime for which this is the ultimate punishment (it can be a temporary one, but usually just to make sure people don't run away before a final judgment is made).

And I suppose for this to make any sense, this must apply only to actions that fall short of incitement to violence or terrorism - because for those you go to o prison. It must be things that, applied to not-Israel, are not crimes at all - else the law would be redundant. So I'm picturing something like, someone attensing a peaceful pro-Palestinian rally, and being told they cannot leave the country. Maybe even less, since people are already being prosecuted for that, with existing laws.

Most punishments involve some element of separating the perpetrator from the society. States pay money for prisons to keep criminals away, people are banned from professions where they screwed up. But here people are forced, at the expense of the US budget, to remain in the US among Americans.
by gnabgib | 2025-09-15 16:27:22+00:00
Less clickbait coverage from ghacks: Copilot App will install automatically on Windows for many users, but there are exceptions https://www.ghacks.net/2025/09/15/copilot-app-will-install-a... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45249782)

Notably:

- You can opt out (Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot > Enable the "Turn off Windows Copilot" policy)

- You won't get it if you're in the EU

- You'll only get it if you have an M365 app installed (not all windows users)
by dlenski | 2025-09-15 16:27:33+00:00
> I still don't think CRLs are remotely a perfect solution (nor do I think OCSP was unfixable)

> The privacy concerns could have been solved through adoption of Must-Staple

Agreed. I haven't followed every bit of the play-by-play here, but OCSP (multi-)stapling appeared to me to be a good solution to both the end-user privacy concerns and to the performance concerns.
by Balgair | 2025-09-15 16:27:46+00:00
The Amish do eat a lot of unpasteurized stuff, at least the ones near me did. But they also have the benefits of modern medicine when things get really dicey, as far as I know. I'd ask for an Amish voice here to chime in, but, you know...

It's like the raw milk people but for everything. If you ever tried milking a cow, with the udders machine that close to its' rear, then you'd never drink the stuff raw when you have another option. Cross contamination? Wy I hardly know her!

Years ago when I used to live near them, I'd go to the markets and get their deserts. Best cheesecake I've ever had. Totally unpasteurized stuff, tastes amazing. I'd never let my kids go near it now though. E. Coli is very nasty on the littles.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-15 16:27:49+00:00
Fine. Then how about Japan-domiciled Panasonic [0][1] and Toyota [2], as well as (South Korean) Samsung and Stellantis' gigafactory [3]?

You didn't see similar persistent flouting of labor and immigration laws despite all 3 being lead by Asian (and in some cases Korean) companies with similar organizational structures.

Hyundai played it fast and loose. If Samsung SDI can open a gigafactory in the US while following US laws, why can't Hyundai?

Just because ICE was extremely heavy-handed does NOT absolve or give Hyundai-LG the right to break American labor or immigration laws, or ask for special treatment.

Even Biden bluntly told Hyundai leadership to "Hire American" [4] following pushback over this plant.

[0] - https://na.panasonic.com/news/panasonic-energy-begins-mass-p...

[1] - https://www.desotoks.us/394/Panasonic-Electric-Vehicle-Batte...

[2] - https://www.toyota.com/usa/operations/map/tbmnc

[3] - https://news.samsungsdi.com/global/articleView?seq=36

[4] - https://www.ft.com/content/c677b9aa-2e89-4feb-a56f-f3c8452b3...
by isr | 2025-09-15 16:27:52+00:00
Its not really a distro, nor does it pretend to be. What it really is, is an Arch Linux install, with a preconfigured set of apps & workflow, and a set of tools to easily allow the user to customise to their preferences - within the confines of the original config/workflow.

Basically, it's a "curated Arch linux"
by eqvinox | 2025-09-15 16:28:11+00:00
Sadly, the port is [a few cents] more expensive than the captive cable, especially with USB >= 3.0* on USB-C where a port must handle connector reversal. (And if course if you look at "final price" with including a cable in the box :/)

* e.g. keyboard with USB3 hub

(FWIW my mouse actually has a USB-C port, it's a dual wired/wireless Keychron M6. Really nice way of doing it IMHO.)

Btw, "port must handle reversal" is why USB-C -> USB-C + optional C-to-A adapter have the adapter fixed on so you can't rotate it. It's not just good UX, the adapter would also otherwise need to handle reversal.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-15 16:28:37+00:00
> Everybody complains about the 30% cut

Everybody complains about the lack of alternative. Apple could charge a 99% cut for all I care, but they have to compete with other iOS app providers to prove their cut is worthwhile.

> the Mac app store is the proof of that. It should be successful

The Mac App Store shouldn't be successful. It's the exact same situation as the iOS App Store, but with professional software and competitive third-party storefronts. The Mac is the closest thing Apple has to a healthy software ecosystem.
by radley | 2025-09-15 16:28:40+00:00
> Apple and the World itself would be so much better if Apple were significantly stricter on curation in the Mac App store.

The current App Store is already the result of Apple-quality curation. Do you use Apple's own software? Most apps are buggy & sloppy, including Finder, Calendar, Mail, Music, and Clock. I don't think I can name a single app that "just works" anymore. Maybe upsell subscription apps work as expected?
by wavemode | 2025-09-15 16:28:54+00:00
The article requires familiarity with Haskell, as well as the concept of Backpacks: https://blog.ezyang.com/2016/10/try-backpack-ghc-backpack/

The author then uses Backpacks to achieve ad-hoc polymorphism without typeclasses.

There is a well-known article from a long time ago which was conceptually similar: https://www.haskellforall.com/2012/05/scrap-your-type-classe...

Which highlighted the fact that typeclasses can basically be thought of as an additional vtable argument passed to every function that has typeclass constraints. (And, indeed, thinking about them this way often allows one to avoid typeclasses entirely and achieve the same kind of polymorphism in simpler and more flexible ways.)

Backpacks can achieve something similar, except by declaring an abstract "signature" for your dependency, rather than a function argument. (Backpacks can also be used to do a lot more than this, of course, but that's outside the scope of the OP article.)
by Muromec | 2025-09-15 16:29:08+00:00
>It all comes down to "the vendor can do things with your computer you can't do yourself" in the end.

It's not even that. A console vendor that locks down everything behind the TPM helps to not deal with cheaters is arguably fine. A console vendor that is also a game develop and caps the FPS of all games that aren't their own is abusing their monopoly position in one market to gain unfair advantage on a different market.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-15 16:29:18+00:00
this is really fascinating considering that they package it as a npm package which is then used by jsdelivr which is essentially a free really low latency sponsored/(essentially operated?) by cloudflare and fastly etc.

I just checked and jsdelivr has had like 300 billion requests past month and over 16,813 TB

Really fascinating stuff. I will try to use this from now on! (earlier I was thinking of using something like coollabs.io but I checked its code and I see that the fonts are served through something like bunnycdn from coollabs side which is cool but still)

Honestly, what other things would be better off packaged as npm packages as I never thought that packaging fonts as npm package should make so much sense but here we are!

Bookmarked!!
by mjr00 | 2025-09-15 16:29:19+00:00
> How would one even market oneself in a world where this is what is most valued?

That's basically the job description of any senior software development role, at least at any place I've worked. As a senior pumping out straightforward features takes a backseat to problem analysis and architectural decisions, including being able to describe tradeoffs and how they impact the business.
by tomhow | 2025-09-15 16:29:20+00:00
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by int_19h | 2025-09-15 16:29:26+00:00
There are many discussions on this exact topic online.

TL;DR: while Dune has many references to various concepts coming from Islamic societies throughout, the Fremen are the obvious stand-in for Arabs specifically, and so get the most attention. And, in the context of the first book at least, Fremen are the "good guys" in many ways - if you reframe it in modern terms, they are the natives fighting against a colonial empire that subjugates them in order to extract a valuable resource from their lands, and then on top of that there's also the more subtle ecological angle.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-15 16:29:36+00:00
1. The links to Israel are made elsewhere in The Nation article, I already copy-pasted more than I wanted to.

2. The Cradle didn’t say “being a front”, they said “functions as a [front]” which is equivalent to “acting like a” front.

Honestly, the word “functions” was the hyperlink to The Nation article. So surely you saw it?
by michaelhoffman | 2025-09-15 16:29:40+00:00
When FASTA was invented in 1985, generally sequencing reads would be about half that.

The simplicity of FASTA seems like a dream compared to the GenBank flat file format used before then. And around the year 2000, less computationally-inclined scientists were storing sequence in Microsoft Word binary .doc files.

A lot of file formats (including bioinformatics formats!) have come and gone in that time period. I don't think many would design it this way today, but it has a lot of nice features like the ones you point out that led to its longevity.
by fweimer | 2025-09-15 16:29:55+00:00
Add the end of https://www.paypal.com/us/home there is a Hewsroom link to https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/ . They use https://about.pypl.com/about-us/default.aspx as well. At one point, employee email accounts used paypal-inc.com. It might not even be a SEO thing, it could just reflect their corporate structure and the different IT teams.

I agree that it is confusing.
by JimDabell | 2025-09-15 16:30:04+00:00
> AI/digital overuse causes "digital dementia" with impairments in memory, attention, and decision-making; multitasking and offloading reduce gray matter in key brain areas, worsening sustained focus and analytical abilities.

This seems like a very dishonest misrepresentation. I guess that’s why you didn’t link to your sources, in the hope people would take your word for it?

> "The impact of digital technology, social media, and artificial intelligence on cognitive functions: a review" (2023)

Here’s the link: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cognition/articles/10.3...

I took a look at what you cite as:

> AI/digital overuse causes "digital dementia"

It starts out:

> Digital dementia is a term used to describe the decline in cognitive abilities caused by excessive use of digital technology

It talks a lot about this, and has a lot of citations. All but one of them are pre-AI boom. This is the one that isn’t:

> Overview on brain function enhancement of Internet addicts through exercise intervention: Based on reward-execution-decision cycle

— https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36816421/

It has nothing whatsoever to do with AI.

The part of the review that talks about AI does actually mention dementia:

> Notably, there are AI technologies being developed to detect early signs of dementia through speech and language patterns analyzing short snippets of speech to predict and monitor cognitive decline (Kwak et al., 2021)

It also says things like this:

> AI also has profound implications for learning processes. Adaptive learning platforms like Carnegie Learning provide personalized learning experiences tailored to individual needs, which can enhance learning outcomes

This is not the “AI rots our brains” proof you make it out to be.