skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the hobby CNC level (what’s being discussed in this article), the rigidity of the machine is far more of an issue.

I think your advice is spot-on if someone was designing a 5000lb vertical mill out of steel, but hobbyists building DIY bench top machines face a different set of problems.

Hobby level machines are almost always limited by rigidity, not movement motor torque.
Yes, you are right it is worth than before. But this is a phenomenon that I correlate with the rise of Trump and hopefully it will sink away again as well.
communities is the key word. Neither have one company behind them whose income they are eating.
The interaction between organized crime and formal law, nation to nation, is absolutely fascinating. The more I learn about it, the more fascinating it gets.

I'm adding this story to what I've learned about the history of the yakuza in Japan and the various US mafia, gangs, and crime families.
Because no American company wants to touch it with a 10 foot pole.

People get confused about the difference between free expression, and compelling companies to support that expression.
I think that is an uncharitable reading of the comment you were responding to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Intel's fate predicted in 2014: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErrFtv0UwAA4JaW?format=png
> We've got more than enough resources to ensure a good and happy baseline existence

What is this supposed to mean?

What is 'enough' is relative. Present-day Western society would have looked like the literal garden of Eden to the average human from 2000 BC. There have never been, nor there will ever be, 'enough' resources for everyone: resources are limited, human desires are (thankfully) not.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Infamous strategy of Microsoft esp in the 90s.
I regularly see the BBC criticised by both sides for being one sided. I’m not saying that’s a get out of jail free card but from your comment I genuinely don’t know which side you come down on, which surely says something.

I don't mean to dismiss the complaint. Public media news is weird: it's funded by the government, but it should criticise the government. There's a tension there. But looking at the US news landscape I see that for-profit news is just as if not more compromised.
I agree with that... except the last part. You can be guilty of violating the spirit of a law. See for example Wickard v Filburn that forced Filburn to pay a fine for violating limits on wheat.

Luckily most of these go the other way.. like in Jacobellis v Ohio where the judge says "I'll know it when I see it" to describe his threshold for obscenity... overturning his conviction. [Edit: On the other hand, obscenity is only illegal because it was ruled it's not covered by the first amendment (even though the exception isn't listed in the first amendment)... allowing the legislature to pass laws restricting it.]

The Constitution is filled with more examples: Point to where in the Constitution it says you have a right to privacy, which is the basis for Row v Wade. Or point to where it says "beyond a reasonable doubt", a standard set in Winship.
Rights are only as good as what your peers are willing to accept. I am sure everyone in the US would agree you have the right to speak your ideas aloud, practice whatever religion you want, and vote for your favorite candidate. Beyond that, which is the first amendment, you are venturing into a gray zone where precedence and common law rule. There is no amendment that says your vendors must continue doing business with you so that you can have the maximum reach for your ideas.
Solution Four: Is it even possible that Intel and AMD merge ?! With ARM based chips clearly accelerating and poised to take a big market share (Apple, Nvidia, Amazon, Qualcomm becoming major players) there is less of an antitrust issue ?
I agree with your definition of secure for this topic. I don't agree that a primary residence qualifies as secure under that definition. Fire, flood, earthquake, etc all put you at risk of losing both keys, as does a search by law enforcement.

I _really_ don't agree that if one of those things happen I will no longer care about accessing my digital possessions/accounts. If anything I need that access more than I did before it happened.

And home isn't really convenient enough for many people: I, for one, frequently create accounts at work and when traveling. This subset of people are going to be doing either #2 or #3.

For the folks that are still using the same password everywhere I think a password manager is a better recommendation than a security key. For one it helps them everywhere, not just the small number of sites that currently support U2F/Webauthn. For another, such a person is probably at high risk of making mistake #2.
Ask HN: What is your experience with complexity vs. time based estimations?
Yes, Switzerland also had roving vans with equipment with which they could detect a switched on TV. I know because I got caught about 40 years back and had to pay a fine. The person that came to the door could tell us exactly where the TV was in the living room. So, those vans - or something like it - did exist!
> To me, public TV, especially BBC, shouldn’t be one-sided as it is now.

I don’t think it is, and it’s certainly not meant to be. The law in the UK is quite clear and there is a framework and regulatory body to enforce it.

From https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-co...

“To ensure that news, in whatever form, is reported with due accuracy and presented with due impartiality.”

Personally I occasionally find that the BBC news website misses the mark, more often on quality than bias but they have a very transparent and available complaints process online that I suggest you use if you have noticed specific instances of bias.
meh, it's time mankind grew up, anyone stating to be "proud to be a/an `nationality`" is just another simpleton, it's the belief that someone, because they just so happened to be born where they did, are inherently better or more than someone who arbitrarily was born somewhere outside some geographical area.

That's BS to such a degree that it's amazing we're not actively making an effort to denationalize peoples of the world. There's nothing more damaging than having such beliefs (religion maybe, but I think I'll fold religion and nationalism into one since nationalists are often the ones to insist that a true scotsman has some specific religion).

Sure, there are differences, but they are differences that are taught and indoctrinated, not something we're born with, and we can "simply" stop doing that.
One of the things Microsoft got anti-trusted for back in the day
number 3 for me, amazon not far behind, USA result
> Amazon came in and took a bunch of that money while not giving anything back

Amazon took no money from them; they competed on potential revenues.

I think people are upset, not because they don't clearly understand Elastic's motivations, but because Elastic is trying to paint Amazon as the bad guy for using the license Elastic offered. Amazon benefited from Elastic's open license, but so did Elastic. Being open source has greatly benefited Elastic's own business and growth.

That isn't to say that Amazon's size and practices around open source aren't cause for concern, just that Elastic come across as very disingenuous when they try to lay all the blame on Amazon while proclaiming how dedicated they are to "openness".
Revelio: A MimbleWimble Proof of Reserves Protocol
"We reveal Revelio, a new privacy-preserving proof of reserves protocol for Grin exchanges. By design, Revelio allows the detection of collusion between exchanges while hiding the identities of the outputs owned by the exchange in a larger anonymity set of outputs."
We have MBPs on our desks but our cloud are Centos Xeon machines. The problems I run into are not squeezing every last ms of performance, since it's vastly cheaper to just add more instances. The problems I care about is that some script I wrote suddenly doesn't work in production because of BSDisms, or Python incompatibilities, or old packages in brew, etc. Would be nice if Apple waved a magic wand and replaced its BSD subsystem with Centos* but I won't be holding my breath :)

* yes I know Centos is done, substitute as needed.
How to Channel Boredom
Sure, but as a counter example Docker performance on Mac has historically been abysmal[0][1], but everyone on Mac I know still develops using it. We ignore the performance hit on dev machines, knowing it won't affect prod (Linux servers).

I don't see why this pattern would fail to hold, but am open to new perspectives.

[0] https://dev.to/ericnograles/why-is-docker-on-macos-so-much-w...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/bh8rpf/docker_perfo...
That's plenty of time to integrate a third party technology.
In the unlikely event that your post isn't immediately removed by the moderators, I just want to add that it is obvious that nobody on the left actually honestly believe the over-the-top hysterical nonsense they have been spouting the past 2 weeks.

Ask them to explain, if these were organized far right militants trying to overthrow the government in the most heavily guarded city in the world, in a building that has it's own heavily armed police force, how come they didn't bring guns?

The left are the ones actually carrying out a coup against democracy, by using the chaos and confusion caused by a pointless protest that spiraled out of control.
Italy has lèse-majesté laws against the head of state and other institutions.
I'm a really big hiker, and I really understand what the author is saying when she says backpacking is mostly mental.

A cold, rainy day where you don't have enough layers, all your clothes are wet, and it's another 9 miles through mud and mountains to the nearest shelter is suffering and downright scary.

Looking up a 3000 foot rock scramble with a heavy pack when you've already covered too many miles and you're hungry is suffering.

But -- I don't think it's a good idea to ignore injury. That isn't the "Good" kind of suffering. If your skin is coming off your feet or your knees are swelling like crazy.. pushing through is kind of dumb.
Are they able to even do that legally? I'm pretty sure the licensing agreement for x86 with AMD explicitly prohibited this for both parties.
Yes, and while they never properly owned up to this, it seems (from this article and others) that they learned from it and are trying to avoid a repeat.

Though I haven't seen them post an article describing in detail how watermarks on color laser printers work, that would be a bit too on-the-nose.
I went on the same search. For those interest in formal definition: Commercial open source software projects are open source software projects that are owned by a single firm that derives a direct and significant revenue stream from the software (reference: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03132-8_...).
Notably, they are apparently considering that: https://www.elastic.co/blog/license-change-clarification
These traits are like salary. There's a level which meets your needs, a level which makes you happy, and a level that anything beyond is superfluous. And the levels aren't fixed either; more of one may make up for less of another, and different people have different needs.

I personally don't need a lot of mission; it's nice, and having a mission frame helps me accept an offer, but once I'm in the job, it's kind of whatever.

Autonomy can be picking your tasks from anything possible, or picking your tasks from a small menu, or just doing your assigned tasks in peace. Or having 'flexible' start times of 7-9 AM. Different people have different needs.

I love having global impact, but really all I need is for my code to actually make it out to users. I hate doing a bunch of work and it never ships. But if like one or two people use it, that's enough for me.

Creativity is relative too. Some people want to create totally new things. I just don't want to do the same thing every day for years. In software that's not too hard though; if it's the same every day, it's begging to be automated.

Look for enough of these things to make you happy, not to find the maximum available. And yeah, some jobs won't have enough to meet your needs; they might meet other people's needs though.
Why the Electoral College Will Be Banished
Mens rea doesn't require that you know that the thing you are doing is illegal. It only requires that you know you are doing the thing.
Yes, they wanted cars before the cars got invented. The wanted greater speed, more comfort, less trouble. People didn't care whether it took the shape of a "car" or of a "sdflkjsdkj". As long as the invention satisfied their needs, people were willing to pay for it. This stands true always.
Driving door to door is insane for me. They'd be much better off if they funded BBC from tax directly. People should pay for it to exist whether they have TV or not becuse everybody benefits(?) from culture creatd by BBC.
> By presenting the issue the way she did, people moved the conversation away from the issue

By HER doing A, OTHERS did B? That doesn't even parse as English, and betrays doublethink.
>This just means their CTO was sloppy, Amazon legal department would have never allowed that tweet.

Surely the legal department would have issued some sort of retraction. Can you find it?

>Definitely an abuse of power by Amazon

Yeah, that's what we're saying.

>people were scared of using proprietary code without knowing...I'm not surprised they missed some as it was really hard to tell.

Amazon is a trillion dollar company that has every capability of doing their due diligence. Sloppy communication, abuse of trademarks and stealing proprietary code are all inexcusable behaviors by a company with the size and power that Amazon has.

You're describing the problem as if it were the excuse. Amazon abused their power, stole proprietary code, abused a trademark, and violated the culture of the open source community whose code they were leveraging for profit. There's no excuse for it, even if it was somehow legal - and I don't suspect it was. I suspect that Amazon knows it's not legal - they just figure they can get away with it.
>The only comparable data point says that this is a terrible idea.

Huh, I would say completely opposite thing. AMD wouldn't have survived if it kept trying to improve their own process instead of going to TSMC.
> There aren't simple clear answers to these questions, only a slowly evolving discussion.

Certainly, and I think that if we want OSS to thrive we need to move towards a future where it's easy for companies to make a return on their investment by releasing OSS. I think Amazon and all the "I provide your software as a service" providers eat into that and hinder that future.

Yes, GPLv3 was meant to fight Tivoization, but it never anticipated providers providing services on an OSS product without contributing significantly, in combination with the companies that develop the OSS hoping to make money off the same hosted service that the former undercuts.

Basically, monetization strategies for OSS are few, and one that is beneficial for both the company and the consumer is providing hosted services. A third company that doesn't have to develop the software is usually a good enough competitor, but since the developer has the obvious support/knowledge advantage, they can still compete. This breaks down when Amazon comes in with its lock-in advantage and sucsk all the money away from the developer.

This is why we're seeing these new licenses, because there's no way currently to be "OSS except Amazon". I think we do need to figure out some way.
So I have been looking for something like this, and in fact the closest thing might be Highland 2. What I have been using is VScode with some scripts and other features. Really want an alternative to scrivener that keeps everything in markdown.

The key thing I miss in all the other versions is something that will:

1. Count the words in a chapter/scene/section

2. Give me a total based on the "in work" chapters/scenes/sections

For example suppose I am writing Chapter 1-9. I don't like Chapter 8 so I am rewriting an alternate. I want to know what the old chapter 8 word count is, what the new one is, and what the total word count is (and I can select which chapters or sections to include in the "total").

Looks like this does something like that so long as I put all the relevant chapters together in the same folder. (Good enough if I get to use Markdown.)

Only issue is, if I go into the folders, I don't see the Markdown files. Isn't that the point?
I never understood why they do that - especially for something like this that's offered for free. What's the point of even including the exercises if there's no way to check the answers?
Elastic’s arguments are problematic considering the history of the codebase.

They didn’t invent “elasticsearch” from scratch, rather they took someone else’s codebase (Lucene) and made it better. Fundamentally that’s what AWS did too... they took open source code and improved on it to offer a very popular managed service. Elastic seems annoyed that AWS has executed better on the managed service front but aren’t offering up strong reasons for this being “NOT OK”. Elastic was happy to use code and concepts from others to build their product but seem annoyed when others did the same to them. I don’t get it.

The brand name thing might have more weight but it will come down to if they were truly enforcing the name the whole time they owned it or are just annoyed with AWS. If the name fell into common use they they likely won’t have much luck protecting it.
> companies are formed, invest a whole lot of resources into creating a product, open-source it, and then have Amazon eat into their profits by just installing and maintaining that product as a service?

Why should we be mad at Amazon for adhering to the terms of the license that the ES developers chose?

Software isn't born under the terms of Apache 2/MIT/BSD/a similarly permissive license. The people who developed it chose that license.
That's not really 'fairer' in any absolute sense, and a tax needn't be a rate, nevermind one w.r.t. income, but it could be, or even progressive.

I'd probably argue 'fair' would be per usage, or per television. The latter would even be easier to implement - just slap a duty on sales as with alcohol and tobacco.

(Actually, that would be great, the defining characteristic would presumably be the presence of a tuner (or network in today's age?), so it would create a market for television-like panels without tuners or consequently without being 'smart', I'd hope.)
In practice, hobby CNC machines use the closed-loop feedback systems to halt the machine and alert the operator that something has gone wrong.

Hobby-scale machines shouldn’t need closed-loop systems for positioning during cutting operations. Especially if they’re using a 300-400W (sustained) consumer router as their spindle as this article suggests.

Cutting forces at this scale are in the single-digit pounds. Nothing a common NEMA23 can’t handle with plenty of margin. Trying to push a low-powered spindle through the workpiece on a low-rigidity hobby machine causes more problems.
DVC: Git for Datasets and Models
Why does this read like a child wrote it?
Because large companies told them their requirements for ditching Webex and adopting Zoom and this was on the list?
> Also, many people will argue that if a market is subject to such taxes, then it is no longer a free market.

Well, yeah.

“Free market” doesn't mean “free of regulation of which I personally disapprove”. If government has a thumb on the scale deliberately skewing outcomes, it's not a free market.

> Perhaps you're not one of them and would consider such people misguided ideologues

What does ideology have to do with that? One can oppose l’aissez faire capitalism (which Info, heartily) and recognize that Pigovian taxes are contrary to it.
I've actually worked for decades in science and the last ten in a chemistry department as a scientist looking for new cancer drugs. Don't assume things. I'm not that afraid of thiomersal since it is given so rarely. That doesn't mean I would love to be around a new pigment made from mercury...
I think the reason I've been avoiding Powershell is specifically the pattern of `Verb-Noun -Option argument` the author brings up.

I'm not saying it's not "better" (however you measure that) but I think it's very wordy and that's always been a turn-off and barrier of entry for me.

some examples:

pwd --> Set-Location

ls --> Get-ChildItem

cp --> Copy-Item

I totally understand how bash's sometimes seemingly random shortcuts or acronyms can ALSO be a huge barrier of entry (just as it was for me!) and the straightforwardness of Powershell is a lot clearer, but personally now that I'm "in" on the short-hand of bash, it's been hard to start using Powershell.
Study: Fried food intake linked to heightened serious heart disease, stroke risk
The Arab Spring was partially catalyzed by the leak of the US State Department cables to Wikileaks. I think it's fair to claim the US has some responsibility in the set of causes (there's a reason State Department correspondence is private).

It turns out that while sunlight is a great disinfectant, it also sometimes starts unintended fires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cable...
This sounds awesome. Do you have a place somewhere where I could put in my email to receive updates? I'm sure you'll be posting it to HN but I sometimes go several months at a time avoiding all social media/news sites, and am worried I might miss this.
Makes me wonder if there might ever be support for standardizing a json input/output schema for all the typical Linux userland stuff, /proc structures, and so on. Then a "jq" like utility would have more value. Having it co-exist with the current "just a bunch of text" isn't ideal though, as you'd be stuck with something clunky like adding a switch to every command. Or an environment variable that changes everything. Or a "j-" version of each.
I think I have grown a rather hard stance on this over the years: putting an open source license on a product isn't a business model. It's, by and large, a part of a larger business model.

A license is a choice. It means you choose to not gain revenue by directly licensing the IP. Instead, you choose to put the code out there without any further legal obligations on your part as well as those who use that code.

It also means that you have to find alternate ways of making revenue e.g. by providing consultancy, building services or licensing the trademark (which is an entirely different ball game from open sourcing the code!).

The trouble isn't that Amazon decided to use ElasticSearch in their own offering. The trouble is that Amazon simply out-competes ElasticSearch with their own product when it comes to consultancy, services, etc.

To add insult to injury, Amazon made the mistake of leveraging the ElasticSearch brand a few times too many in ways that just rub the ElasticSearch people the wrong way.

Of course, the founders of ES could never predict how successful their product would become after a decade. There are plenty of open source products engineered by commercial companies that never catch the eye of behemoths like Amazon.
When reading through the Old Testament I came across something I hadn’t seen before, the Avenger of Blood. Essentially, a family member of a person who was murdered had every right to seek out the killer themselves. There were even rules around it.

If you watch the old Disney 3 Musketeers movie, that’s essentially what the man pursuing Countess de Winter for killing his brother is doing.

Just the first historical parallel that came to mind on reading this. Similar figures in a family were also responsible for helping other family members who couldn’t find work, gotten sick, etc.

The family unit structure historically accounts for a lot.
And why did you quit your job? Always validate the idea first and validate it only by making lots of people pay you for it. Not by asking your current boss.