skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to what the two (at this time) sibling posts mentioned, even for hobbyist level 3d printing:

* Openscad is unitless (lengths are like "1", not "1mm").

* Even simple fillets (rounded edges) are so annoying in openscad people leave them out. In Freecad you click the edge and click fillet, and it works even in complicated cases (e.g. multiple fillets overlapping).

* Freecad's constraint solving based approach tends to make your models easier to change than Openscad's scripting approach. In theory, openscad's approach is superior. But you would have to derive and write down the formulas for every parameter of every part, and so in practice you'll end up with too many hardcoded numbers, and your model won't be that easy to change. Changing where the constraints are (e.g. tube inner/outer diameter vs inner & thickness) is also easier in Freecad - especially when parts depend on each other.

* Freecad makes it easy to go back and forth between 2D and 3D drawings. Super useful.

It's like comparing Notepad++ to VS Code. They're both quality text editors. That's missing the point.

For hobby 3d printing (realistically that's 90% of why hobbyists are interested in CAD now, right?) I would recommend to learn both. OpenScad is very very fast to learn (like 1 hour for the concepts for someone who is already a programmer in any language, then you are good with the official cheatsheet) and nothing beats it for simple geometric one off models that you can write down in a few minutes. Freecad for anything beyond.

Also, if you need a simple but nice, easy and free 2D only CAD (e.g. for CNC milling or laser cutting - the type of work people abuse Inkscape for), check out Librecad. (Also check out qcad, the now commercial again product it's forked from. Credit where it's due and such.)

Freecad also aims to eventually become a complete suite. Qcad and Openscad only handle the CAD part. Freecad for example has a finite element method simulation that can be used to analyze stress. Freecad also has a CAM module (CAD is how the finished part should be, CAM is how you machine it. Like when you CNC mill, which tools, at what RPM, feed rate and turn direction, along which paths. Obviously for 3D printing it doesn't matter what Freecad has because you'll use a specialized tool like Cura (free) or Simplify3D (commercial) anyway.)
It's not that I'm opposed to priorities, it's just that I think it's unreasonably hard to see the typos here:

(3) Exp -> Exp2
(4) Exp2 -> Exp2 * Exp3
(5) Exp3 -> Exp2 / Exp2
(6) Exp2 -> Exp3

There are reasons why we usually give variables more meaningful names than var1, var2, var3.

(Obviously I agree that if the parser can be expanded dynamically with operators with numeric priorities, then you need numeric priorities. But that is a very different case.)
Not really on-topic, but I have to say that I really enjoy the audio narration :)

It's well recorded and the music is not too loud either.
We Could Build Mars Shelters Out of Insect Polymers and Martian Soil
9 Years of my homelab history in pictures (Updated from 6 year history)
You're absolutely right. New entrants, new technologies, and new people in a space are critical for the health of a market.

I just think it's possible that when procuring a tool for a given purpose, a company's chief concern might be about the safety of the tool and vendor rather than the health of the overall market. Your experience may well differ!

Also, I feel the need to clarify my remarks. I, someone advising on whether or not my employer should buy something, do not prioritize the health of the market or cool new technology or a good experience for the vendor over the safety of the tool and the vendor when advising on the purchasing decision. In other circumstances, I can and sometimes do make decisions different. I hope this is removes any misunderstanding that I may have engendered by failing to write clearly.
Correct, but I do not believe that is the case.

I think both pay has gone up over time and tracked with inflation. I also think the things people are buying better and more expensive products than they did before.
Hopefully this is interesting to some

This is how I made changes to my lab over the years and where I am now. I'll have to make a post detailing the current specs and uses too, ill link it at the end soon

I had one that showed 6 years, but a lot of changes have been made

Some of you have probably seen the first set of images from the 6 year update
I think we can assume that if they are restricting things as the article describes they also disabled port forwarding.
A near impossible guessing game of tech through the decades
>So far, I personally think most people would say they've been mostly benevolent.

They're denying access to no-JS users to many sites.
Great comment. Cloudflare is not a CDN. They are an edge computing platform that happens to offer CDN services. Could Akamai grow into that market faster than Cloudflare can consume it? TBD.
Why not to migrate to another one? There are plenty of them nowadays
> Never have wood in contact with concrete.

If you have wood above concrete this can be hard to avoid entirely, and outdoors even a metal bracket can collect water.

Wood is not a sponge. It’s a directional sponge. Water wicks from the end much faster (farther) than the sides. Some of the best deck designs carry the cross beams directly on the supports, which means no end grain sits where water can collect. The wooden sill on a concrete foundation you can’t usually avoid, but the fact that the wood is lengthwise is, I suspect, the only reason we get away with it. It provides a little protection, but I think code most places may be pressure treated lumber for that as well, since a 50+ year house can still end up needing the sills replaced otherwise.

Never let dirt touch your siding, and never slope your landscaping toward the house.

Termites really love wet wood.
Pray that you never have to enter domains where the security audits and assessments must be always done by an "approved supplier".

We have had to cancel engagements with suppliers who I have thoroughly enjoyed working with, and whose results were nothing short of spectacular.[ß] And all of this because certain regulators had their rules written by an established auditing firm who managed to make sure that only a select few (less than 5 globally) companies can ever perform their required assessments.

Regulatory capture through security auditing companies should deserve its own circle of Hell.

ß: Have you ever had a pentest report you could forward directly to your engineering teams and be certain that they understood the contents accurately? I have. But I can't use the supplier anymore, because they do not enjoy a royal charter.
Grand Theft Auto V is 7 years old today
Imagining this story from their perspective paints a pretty bad picture of you.
It's amazing to me that PG&E is allowed to use "We don't have any records" as an excuse for negligence. That's part of the same defense they tried to pull in Hinkley, CA where they were dumping hexavalent chromium into the ground and tried to destroy any records of it happening.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_groundwater_contaminat...
Side rant: Sure would be nice if the Wayback Machine showed actual snapshots of web pages, instead of "hybrid" snapshots where they combine old with new (maybe it's a setting?). I recently horked a website, and thought to check the Wayback Machine. Curiously, an edit I made that day was showing on snapshots dating back several years. Until I discovered how the WBM worked, I was pulling my hair out.
> I'll leave speculation of motivations behind on why more types of treatments haven't been tried. We're in a strange time when a lot of the institutions that have failed the public are still being weaponized against people who desperately want the best outcome for folks.

See, this is a complete misconception based on a conspiratorial mind. I'm not blaming you specifically for it - I used to think the same way myself - but it's something I've seen repeated over and over by people as if it's fact, when in reality there's plenty of proof it isn't.

For example, there's several trials being done on common anti-inflammatory drugs to prevent the cytokine storm [1]. Dexamethasone - a very cheap corticosteroid - has been found to be effective in reducing risk for people with severe cases [2]. There's a bunch of other almost over-the-counter drugs being trialed.

Are companies interested in making a ton of money by developing a new drug? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean the scientific community is just 'sitting this one out'.

[1] https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/04/417196/clinical-trial-test...

[2] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2021436
Doing some Marie-Kondo style cleaning, found a 12 year old Nintendo DS with Advance Wars 2 cartridge.

Hadn't been plugged in for years (I don't have a charger). Turned on and played a game. Amazing.
Yes! Don't forget you also get GameBoy Color and GameBoy games. IMO this massive library (N3DS, 3DS, DSi, DS, GBA, GBC, GB, SNES, NES) has at least 10 "must play before death" games in them (for people that care a lot about videogames, anyway).

Of course all of this can also be achieved on a PC with a simple 10$ amazon controller and free emulators, if you're comfortable pirating games.
Low quality drivers? At least two drivers released by games companies had privilege escalation as a feature:

https://securelist.com/elevation-of-privileges-in-namco-driv...

https://twitter.com/thewack0lian/status/779397840762245124

https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/545cjy/sfvs_new_pc_u...

https://github.com/tandasat/ExploitCapcom

I don't think I trust proprietary drivers anymore. Especially if they come from the gaming industry.
You are right. I have a hunch. In the local repo there is a file that was was probably produced by running wget github.com im the repo directory. Unsure what it was meant to achieve, but accidentally pushed, it may have flagged the repo down somehow. Maybe the HTML contained some secret token?

Still, the main issue was the process how they handled it. Your build breaks. This is how we found out.
on my apex pro I can do all of the above except rebind keys just by using the keyboard
A response is not immunity. Immunity is more than just a response to something. That difference is actually encoded in things like vaccine testing process: earlier tests ascertain whether or not the immune system responded in any way. Later tests focus on whether or not that response produced some level of immunity.
i like this idea. quick splash page with a nice faq and links out to organizations that help questioning people!
Then how much harm? How many cancers?
I see what you mean. Good point. Thanks!
> my point is there are individual smaller states in the US that do more prescribed burns by acreage than California

Then you should have said that.

And, to the extent you believe that's a problem, you should probably address the entity that controls most forest land in California (and directly owns and excludes from state control almost half of the total land of the state.) Their executive HQ can be contacted at:

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Yeah, I know President Trump likes to say the problem is California not “raking forests”, and his cult-like followers just echo his propaganda with some light editing of wording and interjection of random tangential factoids to give it a veneer of rationality, but the bottom line is that, like most of the West and unlike the US outside of the West, California land management, and even moreso California forest management, is predominantly a federal issue, from which the state is excluded from much of due to the Supremacy Clause.
I too am interested in seeing how that negotiation plays out.

Though it is still just potential value. There has to be some sort of payment for the early stages if you’re not planning on taking the same risks along with your client.

I have never worked on building any project like that so I’ve no idea but I guess the maintenance and future work could be tied to a percentage of the revenue generated for the company.
The contracts were not broken unlawfully because the government is allowed to break contracts at will.
The .io namespace is a lot shadier than Godaddy. It's for occupied territory and managed by a for-profit company of vague ownership. https://www.icb.co.uk/
I will send the repo URL in a few hours. Thanks for following up.
Could somebody in the know explain what this would change with respect to free speech in the UK, outside of just taking things a little upstream?

The country's government's already attempted to imprison a guy who taught a dog to perform the Nazi salute as a prank[0], sentenced a woman to community service for posting rap lyrics[1], visit your house for having the wrong opinions on the internet[2, 3, 4, 5]…

So exactly what is being preserved by taking things a little further, and just preventing the speech it doesn't like in the first place?

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/03...

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921

[2] https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/12/20/37275129/fightin...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-47638527

[4] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/24/man-investigated...

[5] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-arresting-nine-peo...
For me this kind of tool needs to provide a way to sync between devices to be useful, and ideally be available on mobile. As it's using sqlite3 to store documents, it's probably not trivial to sync with something like Dropbox.
> How am I going to run Solidworks on our Ubuntu home computers? How many hundreds of dollars does it cost?

I was looking at Solidworks back in 2015 and got a call back from sales. I heard: "For a personal license, the first year will be $39.95 and if you want support and upgrades with that, it's an additional $12.95 per year."

That sounded incredibly reasonable to me, much cheaper than I'd expected, and I was ready to buy until she continued, "so it'll be a little over 5 grand for the first year's license and support". ($39.95 and $3995 are commonly pronounced exactly the same.)
> that are taken seriously
Safest way? Have a budget to buy any domain immediately that is free and that might fit what you want.

Is this actually causing other problems? Probably.
Even if you like your family, I would be surprised if you didn't make compromises regarding noise levels during different times of day, cooking choices, having people over, etc. Not to mention cultural differences.

The above might not apply if you have a large enough space with sufficient sound proofing and multiple kitchens, but that's not the reality for most people. There are positives, but my observations suggest that the biggest factor in determining if you live in an intergenerational household is whether or not children and the parents can both afford to live in different houses.
From the bazel releases. It always starts with a binary.
Wow. Really puts it into perspective. That's equivalent to approx. the four smallest states all burned out.
Bazel is in Java...
If people can get fun stuff for free, without putting in work, they wouldnt bother to do the said work.
Hmm, someone beat me to it:

"Sorry, f___yougodaddyforstealingthesesearches.com is unavailable"
It always has. If your site is publicly available and you don't disallow bots through robots.txt, they can crawl it at any time. Even if the site is "pre-launch", because that doesn't mean anything on its own.
100 billion? That seems like a lot of businesses per capita!
I hope you charged back the money.
>The sun is a giant, free nuclear fusion plant in the sky. We can capture 1/5th of its output per square meter. For free!

From the surface of the Earth we can capture 1/100000000000000000000000000th of its output per square meter, for $100.

That's because it's not really in the sky, as a bird or plane might be. It's 93 million miles away.

As a result hardly any light makes it to Earth over a small area. You need like $1000+ of paneling and many square meters to capture enough of it to operate a hairdrier electrically. Which makes sense because a hairdrier uses a lot more energy than drying your hair by standing in daylight. On a cool morning you'd start sniffling from cold before the sun dried your hair. No animal gets its energy from photosynthesis, they wait for stationary plants to do it over months and years and then eat them. The sun is just not that energetic seen from Earth.

So yes it is a 384.6 yottawatt nuclear power plant. But we're so far away we can get a hundred watts of it for $100, on a good day.

Could be cool to send something there to collect and ship us electricity in bundled form though.
Yes that's a fair point agreed . If every platform were like that then Mozilla would never have even existed, but Chrome gaining even more market wouldn't be great either
The old Quest can play Steam games. The new Quest addresses Quest 1's performance issues. When Quest 2 is linked to PC, I doubt most people would notice any large differences from Quest 2 vs say WMR or older gen Vives and Rift.
I've used it many dozens of times for 3D printed parts which I expect will continue to work just fine to export STL files.

It wouldn't surprise me if there are more hobbyist users making STL files for 3D printed parts than all other hobbyist use cases combined. (If you add 2-and-a-half-D CAD/CAM [also still pretty well supported], I'd wager a large sum that it's still useful for more than half the current hobbyist user base.)
Do you happen to be Bill Hartzer, contributor for GoDaddy?

You might want to disclose your affiliation on these kinds of topics, especially when you're arguing the company's side.
$0.00 because even though the news has been telling me there were no N95 masks anywhere there were tons of them in NYC. They were just not at the "approved vendors".
1) "We have to destroy it in order to save it" syndrome. Urbit's central thesis is "the internet is broken because Google and Facebook" but Google and Facebook didn't exploit flaws in the internet itself, just flaws in the incentive structure of our society.

2) Like Mencius Moldbug, Urbit is an intellectual shellgame Yarvin is playing to obfuscate what he's really up to. In Moldbug's case it's the return of kings as legitimate absolute rulers. For Urbit, it's getting people to sign on to being serfs in his digital kingdom.
I'm honestly surprised Pokemon is still around. The first one came out in like 1996, and it was initially addictive because there were a fixed number of pokemon to try to collect (150). But each iteration was basically a carbon copy of the previous gen with some map and monster changes. 7(?) gens later and now there are what 500? 600? More? I just don't understand the motivation to collect something now that you can no longer "catch em all". Is it like Hearthstone or Magic where you just collect what you can knowing certain cards will forever be beyond your reach?
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> Since the market penetration of the NES was so high, many games in the early 90s were “dual-released” this way.

I don't remember games that were released on both systems, do you have any example ?
The post was alright but can we please stick with Alice, Bob, Eve and Mallory for our cryptographic discussions?

Each has a clear role and make obvious what the part each party plays in the scenario.
Back in March when this all started, the machines and fabric are all available, but without a contract that companies can guarantee a market on, the companies won't do it. Price may help with the Extreme part of your argument, but plenty of businesses did their due diligence and are not jumping in because they need to sell a lot of these at scale for a while to start making a profit. Ideally, once we found the ones in the national stock pile were being hoarded by Jared, and that they were falling a part due to age, it should have been a priority to offer businesses contracts to get the masks produced.
About 13 years ago I was hanging out with a high school friend who went on to be a math professor. At the time he had been researching elliptic curves and the math around them for a few years. Elliptic curve cryptography had just started to gain a lot of traction right around then, so I started talking to him about it.

The funny thing was, he was completely clueless about the application of his work. He was into such pure mathematics that he wasn't even aware that his work was a fundamental part of cryptography, nor did he seem to care much.

I found the complete disinterest in the application of his work both humorous and a bit disturbing.
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This is part of the problem.

No recourse for such decisions unless you make a stink about it on an orange website or get enough likes on the website with the blue bird logo.
Yes, yes, people are such snowflakes now, who would have been offended by for example being called a communist or gay in America in the 1950s?

There is absolutely a dynamic of status anxiety to some of this, but to claim that this is all that is happening amounts to asking some people to be bad bayesians.

So yes I don't want tribal society. But you can't privatise the public problem of people who are organizing to actually physically harm you, where they are, as a personal moral failing of being insufficiently stoic.

Political action rather than spiritual retreat is needed.
Yup, and there's a good breakdown here of the salary one must earn to be able to afford the median home: https://www.hsh.com/finance/mortgage/salary-home-buying-25-c...

There are a lot of options for everyone, regardless of which trade-off one chooses to make.
> You also might pay $5 for a hot dog at a stadium when you can buy them for $1 outside, so there's that.

Is that why the concession sales at the stadiums are hurting?
How would I use contravariants to improve the architecture of some code?

I geek out on articles like this, but I frequently struggle to see where I would actually apply it.
You may be right but they were already on my questionable list after using boobs during the Super Bowl to advertise for 5+ years straight rather than saying anything about their product or business.
For the benefit of others reading this: water management techniques are site specific and the optimum strategy will depend on how water is approaching a building.

Grading the ground to slope away from a house will work wonders if your problem is surface water, but different techniques will be required if your problem is ground water or roof run-off. Further, the degree of water protection required will depend heavily on both climate conditions and soil type. If you have fast-draining soil (e.g. sand) drainage will take care of itself regardless of how much rain you get. If you have non-draining soil (e.g. clay) you will need to go to a lot more trouble to keep water out even if it doesn't rain too much.

Further, most of the techniques people are discussing in this thread--surface grading, french drains, exterior foundation waterproofing, roof rainwater diversion--are building code requirements in most areas. Any house built in at least the last 20 years, by competent contractors and in a jurisdiction with adequate code enforcement, should have all of these features built in.

Older properties may, or may not, have water management features. Whether this is a problem will depend on local soil conditions and climate. If in doubt, consult a qualified engineer.
> This is something that you cannot do both a) this safely and b) this efficiently in any other language.

This is wrong. Pretty sure you could do this in ATS for example.
How do you handle robots.txt? The previous incarnation of Always Online didn't care about robots.txt, while archive.org does.
Thanks!! Let me know if you have any feedback! I know the color scheme might be a bit much but I'm working on a new one!