skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found Solvespace to be a very nice OSS alternative to Sketchup for 3D printing. Perhaps it's good for woodworking, too.

http://solvespace.com/index.pl

Here's a good tutorial:

https://www.farwire.net/SolveSpace-LearningGuide.htm
I would say morality is knowing right from wrong. Having conviction and holding to your principles would be integrity. It is admirable.
Only eclipsed by:

"The Advanced User Guide for the BBC Microcomputer"

http://stardot.org.uk/mirrors/www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/essen...
> Here is a list of 100 environmental protections that are being rolled back, 66 of which are already complete.

That's horrible news, I just don't think attributing it to a single administration does anything but distract from the real concern. Hating Trump is not just sensible given his myopic and senseless presidency, its become entirely blase and often just an knee-jerk reaction to the REAL CATASTROPHE Megacorps have inflicted on the Earth, unabated by any administration. I remember when water sources near fracking sites under Obama were catching on fire:

https://reason.com/2013/07/05/the-top-5-lies-about-fracking/

No to mention all the water tables being depleted in Central California, which not just feeds the majority of the US, but also a lot of the rest of the World with food exports.

I think what needs to be implemented is what was proposed with Ecocide legislation and Law and to have it be enforced with the full arsenal of not just lawyers (as most Megacorps can skirt around this and pay a settlement and continue with business as usual) but actually make them lose business licenses and have their Insurances rates balloon 1000X for every infraction and eventually taking their Market Share:

https://ecocidelaw.com/

People who argue against this as some anti0business apologist need only see the devastation one single pandemic has caused to the World's economy; thank god we're not at Water War levels that have been spoken about since I did my Undergrad in Biology in the late 2000s.

We have them in earnest in Colorado, and have had it in California since I was born in the mid 80s so I know what its like nearly all of my Life. But if the whole World had this going on simultaneously because we polluted all of the potable water I'm convinced we'd be looking at outright genocides of entire continents by Warlords and the re-introduction of slavery to build and run make-shift desalination plants.

And I honestly don't think that's hyperbole, slavery returned to Libya after the fall of Gadaffi and Libya was the richest nation in Africa and often referred to the Switzerland of Africa.
Try running firefox on a a53 based phone.

Its miserable, you can't quite see how badly optimized it is on a high end phone because the page load time is 1/4 second instead of 1/10 of a second. On a low end phone that becomes 2-3 seconds rather than 1/2 a second.
Um Firefox not only has uBlock origin, it's way better than Chrome's version. FF is definitely way better.
Stingrays tend to capture both IMEI and IMSI. This is GSM, which is used by 99% of the world.

IMSI then can be taken to the carrier and the account holder details will be released by a warrant.

An IMEI (which in most countries it will be illegal to change/clone) only identifies the hardware.

So swapping SIMs between phones don’t help to do anything apart from identifying a number of phones that you have access to.

3/4/5G phones will always drop back to 2G if it sees a 2G service whilst 3/4/5G frequencies are jammed.

So you need to realise that phones by design are tracking devices, and stock up on those burner phones and never switch them on near your home :)
That’s not a bad sub genre to create ‘integrated graphics only’ 3D games.

Constraint based creativity needed!
For artists who can't afford ZBrush, I believe this is a gamechanger.
You must be really new to Linux. I mean, wow.
Very cool to see an ex-monk here. I've had a regular 2hr/day practice for a decade now but no retreats yet. What kind of meditation did you practice? Would you say that you achieved some level of Awakening, and that any of these insights/benefits have improved the quality of your consciousness in a permanent sense?
Prefer using named tuples over enums in Python.
My wife sells lasagna. It makes really good money, could potentially make more than a good job, but I'm not sure if we'd like to commit to that. Profit margins are pretty good, but it's still poor $ per effort. COVID makes it a bad time too.
Those are a special kind of evil.
I always made sure to properly mark them to not spend time debugging non-working USB connections.
I also got a refund from Verizon as a debit card, and thought about the easiest way to extract every cent of it. My solution was to use the debit card to buy an Amazon.com gift certificate for myself for the exact amount that was on the debit card. Amazon makes it easy to pay for all or part of any transaction using a gift certificate.
In my experience, Sketchup consistently produces poor STL meshes. The only solutions I've found are to import the meshes into Blender and repair them manually, or redesign the project in a different CAD program. (I've settled on Solvespace for my personal use.)
https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-right...

> Mirian G, a mother from Honduras, came to the U.S. with her young son on Feb. 20, 2018. She presented herself to immigration authorities and sought asylum, committing no crime. During her interview, Mirian provided immigration officers with several identification documents for her child which listed her as his mother. The next morning, Border Patrol agents took away her 18-month-old son with no explanation. She did not see him again for two months.

Even if she had crossed illegally, separating an infant from its mother like this for two hours is unacceptable to me, much less two months - and I would hope it would also be unacceptable to you.
What makes you think brave is better for privacy and transparency in the first place?

Everything I've seen about brave sounds like something that can be done better with extensions within firefox, just with some added crypto/privacy hype BS added on top.
Not a fan of people sneaking referral links here. You could have easily recommended the book without the referral link and if you were going to link it, be open about it being a referral link.
Hyperbitcoinization
Have you checked for windows resonating? It would be surprising if walls were acting as a high-pass filter.

Could also be electronic noise. I wonder what the machine is.
Methinks you need to see this: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep14914/

Biologically, there's big difference between man-made and natural EMR.
> they got caught doing some stuff involving predatory short-term loans to the impoverished in African countries, not to mention their CEO was also involved in an entirely different Chinese conglomerate that was also involved with fraud and some lending thing

Ooh juicy. Any links to read on this?
The HP-71b handheld BASIC computer
This is driven by the shift toward valuing companies entirely on recurrent revenue. I've been told that non-recurrent revenue is meaningless and is often ignored.

Its just the latest business fad.
> how much both Apple and credit card providers have a chilling effect on freedom of nudity in entertainment - it's appalling

As in good or bad? they're blocking/enabling?
In my opinion, they should implement this by removing the feature that combines two lines without a newline. Most people type entire paragraphs out on a single line (since web browsers word wrap inside <textarea> tags), so I don't really see the point in having this feature anymore.
Simplicity has a bunch of Coq proofs actually. And Cardano probably has some formal stuff too, but I am not into proof-of-stake.
Named tuples and enums do entirely different things (loosely-speaking: the former are product types, the latter are sum types).

You also probably want dataclasses [1] instead of named tuples.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html
Or for that matter even knowing which ports on a device are which. I have a tablet that has two usb-c ports. Only one will charge the device.
Even better: as people start returning to work, they are afraid to take public transit or stand next to each other on the sidewalk, so there is an uptick in personal vehicle miles driven to above pre-COVID levels
"You can buy the necessary equipment to start a fiber ISP with a credit card"

That sounds really interesting. Care to list stuff needed to bootstrap a fiber ISP?
It’s especially fun with the switch where third party chargers reportedly will break the device.
Although afaik that only applies to docked mode.
> watch ads to send sms

hmm... interesting though, it does work haha

that's so interesting, I mean I remember when I didn't have a phone, not even a burner, sometimes you have to deal with those "get code texted" and use those online sites that allow free sms... interesting being able to make that stuff now vs. using them
Probably the quality of their product will increase because they will not have the pressure to engage the yearly upgrade circus, adding dubious features just to justify upgrading and competing with themselves.

Also they will be more likely to stay in business due to the recurring business so you will not have to fear a mature yet useful product going away because their demand dries up.

Subscription aligns objectives. They want your continued business and you want that a product that does something you need is not abandoned when you reach a point where upgrades do more harm than good.
Lists:

- like

- this?
Ask HN: Good books on Hardware Startups?
Yep this is pretty similar to my experience
This is writing 102 - instead of a cookie cutter Hero With Desires and an Evil Antagonist everyone is morally ambiguous, and struggling with it to varying degrees. As is the reader.

It's much more involving, much harder to write, and much less common in genre fiction. But when it's done well it's a whole other level of writing.
It just goes read-only. You can still access and export bookmarks.
Didn’t mean to, sorry. I just copied and pasted it from the blog post (which is labeled). I’ve removed it.
No, but Brave has adblocking built in.
It's just a matter of age .... I remember back in 1990 99% of C++ users loved it, as it was kool.
So one hack that forks a project and just changes the name on everything to call it their own, talking about a browser fork that did the same thing. Do these people actually contribute any useful code?
BBC Basic is a work of art. It exposes its underlying API for you to use in assembly so you can, for instance, use its floating point routines and data areas. And it's a very well thought out API.
He was a brilliant professor with very distinctive humour, always dishing out the memorable stories. He will be missed by the quantum optics community.
Agree. It's almost as if using vocabulary is wrong. I've been watching how our conversations deteriorate by gratuitous use of emoji.
It seems that some seem to think that emoji can cut through all language barriers, because they're universally understood. Unfortunately, the effect I see is newspeak to the detriment of all, as we lose the nuances of language itself, and indeed we become more 'visual only' in our language.
> You can subscribe for a year, skip a year, renew every year — it’s up to you. Whatever you choose, you’ll always have the latest version with the newest features

They may want to rework those sentences to be less absurdist. Those lines are more akin to "Cancel your subscription? - we'll still always give you the latest version! All bits must go!!"
It's more than that even. They lobbied governments to mandate use of this technology such that whenever you buy any device (e.g TV, Phone etc) you have to pay a tax for something even if you don't use it
> 33 bits of entropy

For the clueless (including myself--I just looked this up), if doing a brute-force search to identify or reidentify someone using "anonymized" data (which is what this poster is referring to), it only takes 2^33 attempts, or 8,589,934,592 attempts (on a bit scale--binary--0 or 1), to exhaust all other possibilities (such as other people--when reidentifying people via health data that was "anonymized"), when tracing to find a person via data in general.

Obviously some data is more sensitive than others, but that has little relevance: it requires nearly no data (especially in terms of what is being hoarded about each and every one of us) and virtually no effort or computing power, to be found.

This also means that even the most mundane (and always sensitive, too--although some data is more sensitive!) data that has been hoarded about you will be used against you, in ways you would have never imagined. It will be used for processing and inferences (which you are unaware of) will be made on you.

You are already probably part of several unhealthy social experiments that you are unaware of, via correlations from mundane data, using things that are pervasive such as AI.
CES 2021 plans to be live in Las Vegas physically and digitally
This is useful feedback for building non browser uis. Instant feedback followed by a progressive loading rather than build it all then render.
The article repeatedly states that it's not about Lighthouse and that there's nothing wrong with Lighthouse. The point is that your website can be completely inaccessible and no amount of automated testing will detect it. You need user testing, that's all. The "practical examples" to take away are simple: for a start, make sure that your (human) testers can read and navigate your website. Seems practical enough.
I agree with cableshaft, it seems like a good idea. ~24 treats from the $9.99 mix container is also quite reasonable. The site is solid, loads fast. I like your box packaging, it's well done. Good luck with this venture.
Depends on the frequency used.
Agree on all points but I'd be surprised if sketch up had a captive audience? It's not like adobe that basically just had to put a fence around the herd, they basically just closed the doors with no one inside. Unless a lot has a changed I remember sketch up barely working much less being used by professionals? it's very weird to make their product less accessible at this stage.

Edit: to clarify I'm not saying you can't be professional and use sketchup, it's more that it's hard to really pull the subscription bait on switch on non corporate users on a niche product like this. Especially a niche that has alternatives.Maybe sketchup is actually used in business now though.
Very cool! I really like seeing you respond to all the questions in the thread. It's giving me a really eye-opening view into the nuts and bolts of bootstrapping a physical product company. Thank you so much for going into detail!
Security by obscurity gets knocked by some people, but it is a valid part of a defense in depth strategy. For example, I run SSH on a weird port, but I still secure SSH just the same as I would if it were on port 22. Running it on a weird port just decreases the amount of spam I have to filter through in the log files.
Do you mean H.264, H.265, or the older MPEG codecs?

I think H.264 hardware is pretty widespread. H.265 less-so. Anything older than H.264 has been dead in the water for years.
Solidworks is pretty much industry standard, for good reason.

Blender isn't really appropriate for engineering. It's destructive editing and all a bit...wishy washy. Solidworks, by contrast, maintains a complete feature tree so you can see (and manipulate) every step that produces the final result.
Ask HN: Posting to a personal blog vs submitting guest posts?
Posting to my personal blog can feel like shouting into the void, so I'm trying to figure out if there's a smarter way to go about this.

I have several draft blog posts written and I'm trying to decide whether to post them to my personal site or try to submit them as guest posts to an established blog with an audience. Has anyone had success (in terms of exposure/traffic not money) writing guest posts for a major dev blog, e.g. Hackernoon, CSS Tricks, freeCodeCamp? Any advice on how to think about this?
> Are you talking about the early-to-mid '80s

No. Microsoft didn't IPO until 1986. So after the mid 80s to the early 90s.

> when they were both microscopic compared to anything today?

Well, both apple and microsoft were "microscopic" in the 90s compared to what they are now. But still apple was the star tech company of the 80s and microsoft was the star tech company of the 90s.

> Not really a valid comparison.

It actually is if we are being honest. But that wasn't my point. Was just pointing out that once Apple was the big success compared to microsoft because microsoft became the big success. But you can cherrypick dates to fit whatever narrative you wish.
I recently got into 3D printing and found I often need to modify models to get better prints. This has lead me into learning some modeling basics.

Started with fusion 360 (because it’s free), but even as a new user the entire interface is clunky and hard to use.

I then switched over to Blender 2.8. To be honest, it’s not a simple set of tools for a beginner. However there are tons of great articles and videos about how to do things. After a few weeks of working through simple tasks and then on to more complex things, I’ve grown to love Blender.

Once you learn some concepts and get a handle on workflows, I can honestly say Blender is a much better tool than fusion 360. Not only is it more powerful and faster, the folks working on Blender have clearly put a lot of thought into usability. If you’re frustrated with Blender as a new user, just keep at it and you’ll pick it up quickly.

To add another point, my experiences are specifically oriented towards modeling and modifications for 3D printing. You’ll still probably want to use tools like fusion if you’re doing other tasks like mechanical design.
Do you use SPF and DMARC for your domain? You could have received instant reports to take actions sooner.
The devtools really were ahead of any browser.

For the average person it was so much faster than ie 6,7,8,9 and google pushed it everywhere.

It comes default on android helps.
I use 1Blocker on iOS and MacOS safari, which is great but costs 5$ a year. There is no full port of uBlock to safari at this time.
Razor sharp and refreshingly honest. Touches on cultural issues that restrict supply side of a diversified candidate pool in "elite" professions, exploitation of diversity by culturally parasitic groups, and much more.

Blaming racism (an abstract bogeyman that can never be defeated) and focusing on equalizing outcomes (or meeting a diversity quota) is a problem because it sabotages the real efforts necessary to improve things that have very little to do with race: deeply dysfunctional governance, across justice, education, policing, and in policy-making.

It's easier to say "silent whites are complicit" than it is to ask how we can lift everyone up without tearing others down.
Ionizing RF not required for DNA damage. Think biology, not oldschool physics & see here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279863242_Oxidative...

TLDR; "Analysis of the currently available peer-reviewed scientific literature reveals molecular effects induced by low-intensity RFR in living cells; this includes significant activation of key pathways generating reactive oxygen species (ROS), activation of peroxidation, oxidative damage of DNA and changes in the activity of antioxidant enzymes. It indicates that among 100 currently available peer-reviewed studies dealing with oxidative effects of low-intensity RFR, in general, 93 confirmed that RFR induces oxidative
effects in biological systems."
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative scientists: FB’s practices ‘antithetical’ to mission
For those who have trouble with the link:

https://archive.st/archive/2020/6/www.washingtonpost.com/hwg...

Original title was too long. It was:

Scientists funded by Zuckerberg sent him a letter calling Facebook’s practices ‘antithetical’ to his philanthropic mission
It's worth considering Bazel instead which is much cleaner and easier to understand. Unfortunately its official support and platform adoption are limited
Only itself eclipsed by:

"The Advanced User Guide for the BBC Microcomputer" (remastered)

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=17242
Don’t Lose the Thread. The Economy Is Experiencing an Epic Collapse of Demand
With respect to legacy code, it's interesting: I work a bit with ERP systems, and 10-year old legacy code from them is often significantly slower than the 25/30-year old legacy code in a prior ERP version from the same vendor. I think it shows that when developers are forced to work within tighter operating limits, they figure it out.
Wow, great initiative. I think this is a perfect example of the market solving the problem fast. My main question is, how are you thinking about emissions and waste? Presumably, you've got to melt and extrude these things somewhere, and heating the plastic to its melting point to create decent sized quantities of this will result in harmful emissions of some kind. Do you have some sort of a scrubbing system? If so, how did you figure out what kind of system to set up and right size it for your production capacity?
I've done "First Articles of Inspection" (FAI) for Pixel phones at the factory where they're being made. Basically take the very first handful of devices off the line after software provisioning and run them through a litany of software checks, including that the IMEIs are unique. Then we do this for another bunch of random samples. The factories are unique experiences.

Hard to imagine for me how this could have happened. I don't know precisely how IMEIs are provisioned or stored, but I suspect they can be changed in software.

Trying to sell a used phone on line is tricky. Legitimate buyers may want the IMEI to check it's not a reported stolen phone. Illegitimate buyers may want a known good one to replace one on a reported stolen phone.

Carriers can blacklist IMEIs from their network (that's a threat they use for certification; they want to make sure families of devices are well behaved).

One of my phones was blacklisted from a carrier a few years ago. They said it was reported stolen. I brought them the receipt; I bought it new in box. They said it was reported stolen by a carrier in a foreign country. I'd been there, maybe ten years earlier, and never with that phone. The local carrier I was a customer of said they couldn't remove the block, since it was reported stolen by a foreign carrier. Seems fishy how carriers work together to ban IMEIs but do nothing to verify reports of stolen devices.

I'm not sure carriers would ban this IMEI if it's tied to 13.5k phones, but I'm sure they're not happy.
Flatpak and AppImage would like a word.
Huh? I'm just pointing out the facts here. I agree it would be nice if some children stayed with the parents, at the parents' discretion, and the border patrol had the resources and funding to make such stays comfortable.

Fortunately, today the mother would be told to stay in Mexico, and get to show up later at the port of entry for her asylum hearing. So we've fixed that problem.
yeah, where's their bridges?
One of the thing that has always amazed me with Blender is the sheer speed at which it saves and loads large and complex scenes to/from disk.

I believe none of the other 3D packages is anywhere near that.

I'd love to hear how they do it if anyone knows (or has pointer to an explanation).