skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That, and every good name for a software project has already been used.
The article explicitly mentions needing to support writes with a globally distributed user base. This is not a static website.
You're oversimplifying the problem into a binary one where either wealth goes untaxed, or communism prevails. Evidence to the contrary abounds all over the world.
The core of this technique is the use of beeswax to act as both a filler/smoothing agent and mould release. A clever hack - but I'm confused by some things:

- the assertion that 3d printed materials are not body safe; PLA (the most common 3d printing material) is nontoxic and used for utensils (although agreed that the layer lines are a hygiene hazard)

- the description of the "traditional" method as printing a positive shape, then casting a negative in silicone, and then casting a positive also in silicone (with release agent, presumably because silicone bonds to itself). Why would you not just print a negative directly - as indeed she later does? Is it because she considers the concave surface difficult to sand smooth?

- Why is release agent "$$$"? There are a variety of extremely cheap household items that work as release agent, notably dish soap.

- Pouring 100C beeswax into a print. This is well above the glass point of PLA. She doesn't say what material she's printing with, which may explain the earlier remark about not being body safe.

- The need for any sort of release agent. Silicone does not bond to thermoplastic, at all. She's not casting silicone in silicone, so what's the problem?
I agree with you if we're talking about analogies, but not if we're talking about actual historical precedent.
The part of this that is actually worrying to me is this also includes gas, diesel, and propane powered electric generators.

My parents live multiple hours north of the bay in the woods along the border of Jackson state forest and rely on their generator a few times a year. Their property is heavily wooded (lots of coastal redwoods) and on the north facing side of a mountain (it’s in the shade most of the day for most of the year), making both home solar and wind impractical.

With PG&E doing power cuts, they need some way to power the fridge, furnace, and sump pump. They had their power cut for two weeks at the beginning of this year because of a winter storm, and had to run the generator a bunch. It’s one thing to have backup batteries to cover a day or two without power, but they’d need half a megawatt hour of batteries to cover the multiple week outages they’ve already experienced.

It’s one thing to convert equipment from gas to electric where it makes sense, a wholesale ban on fuel powered equipment regardless of the situation is a bit asinine.
I stand corrected. Now it makes sense that only 1 side-effect in his circle.

Thanks.
Nah, we're still at the "gradual repression" stage of Star Trek's future history. WW3 starts in 2026, lasts twenty years, and kills a minimum of 800 million.
Old enough to notice skin elasticity. My reading glasses were +1.5. I still use them for extra-fine print, so there are limits.
Anecdata, but when starting a web forum years and years ago, I had to post regularly as a dozen sock puppet users to kick start it. Nobody wants to be the first, and 99 percent of people just lurk.
It's hill climbing with lots of local minima.

Technological reverse salients litter the landscape, making it harder to push forward with what we have and already know.

People have to spend time traversing high risk, low-payoff fields to unlock new slopes that will take us higher. It certainly isn't always obvious.
Yet Ruby and JS manage to do it somehow. To me it seems natural that join should be a method on the iterable, and I always have to pause to remember Python is different.
I don't understand why I should care if someone else takes HCQ, Ivermectin or shoots bleach into their veins.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7e8dy/doctors-are-injecting...
It may have had something to do with allowing wealth inequality to soar.
From the Guidelines : https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
Facebook plans to reduce the presence of politics on people's feeds, Nick Clegg
Can't edit on mobile. Looks like they don't Filter "sextoy" but other obvious words.
Quite clearly Greg Lukianoff who is with FIRE and wrote The Coddling of the American Mind
Apologies, I don’t think I can easily find the talk. I did some cursory looking based on what I could remember of the talk before posting. I like to link to things when I can.

Worse, is the topic is a current lightning rod for alt-right, so there’s a lot of garbage to sift through. I will see if I can get lucky and find the talk again.

Edit:
mrosett answered this. Yes it was a lecture by Greg Lukianoff of FIRE. I might have been click-baited to watch it, but he seemed credible enough to quote, and seemed to genuinely care about actual free speech.
It's like any tax haven, a law firm is the trustee and the lawyers need to live in SD half the year.
Sea of words was being generous. At about the first mention of satanism, my tolerance dropped to zero.
The "JSON prettifier" example is exactly what compromised my browser once, long ago. I only found out because I noticed the "this extension is no longer available on the Chrome store" mention on the chrome://extensions page or something of the sort.

It was silently ex-filtering list of all URLs I visited against a unique identifier.
Two wrongs don't make a right? I would agree that a free enterprise system
tends to grossly overcompensate its assignation of capital, but you don't cure
it with an even more inefficient system like taxes (which, if you've taken
econ 101, results in something more sinister called "dead weight loss").

Ultimately, it's not a question of how deserving billionaires are (they
obviously aren't). It's more a question of how to best advance the interests
of our species as a whole.
Rich people as a class just throw their money where the returns our at. But if everyone else's purchasing power hasn't kept up with productivity gains, increasing productive capacity yet further isn't profitable, no matter how altruistic each rich person investor is.
Clickable link: https://github.com/pallavJha/chaakoo#introduction
I think it's a reference to bilirubin[1], a compound used in the liver for breaking down red blood cells.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilirubin
Maybe we should instead tax CO2/fossil fuels, and let people decide how they change their behaviour?

(In particular, there is a usecase for artificially made fuel from air-captured CO2 - superior energy density and durability compared to batteries.)
> “A pervasive lack of backbone among individuals in institutions is key to this.”

the raison d'être of most organizations, particularly bureaucracies, is to hide decisions behind a shield of indirection, to deflect individual responsibility elsewhere, which selects for and conditions the spineless. that those folks, when the spotlight shines on them, will cave, is thoroughly unsurprising.
As it has been throughout history? What is your point besides stating obvious, self-evident truths that have existed throughout history? History has always been written about the rich and powerful and privileged. You sound a little defensive, perhaps because you were not born into such privilege. But tell me, what have YOU done with your life that is so worth of note in history books? Because so far you are just a complaining pissant.
I have a times added 1/2 tsp of dextrose ("corn sugar") before I tighten down the bottle lid, to boost fizz. (Beer brewing trick.)
There's no escape from physical reality - real wealth is energy and matter, not bits*. There's only one true development metric - the Kardashev's scale.
Why - because no matter what any individual civilization values, once two civilizations meet, one that's sufficiently higher on the Kardashev's scale can effortlessly destroy the other, making it an objective value metric in the universe.

Bits are of course necessary for organizing large-scale energy and matter manipulation - but efficiency can never go above 100%. Transport switched from manually planned transport routes to optimally solving the traveling salesman problem (NP completeness doesn't mean it can't be solved efficiently for real world problems, see eg. Gurobi) - significant gains from planning are over.

Right now, global energy shortage is directly visible: coal shortage and electricity rationing in China. Total blackout in Lebanon. Gas shortage in Europe. Coal shortage in India.

Without a massive increase in energy production, rest of 21st century is going to return to the pre-industrial norm of ~zero economic growth per capita.

https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/108875635/hew020f... from "Six centuries of British economic growth: a time-series perspective" https://academic.oup.com/ereh/article/21/2/141/3044162

* - without going into fundamentals of physics that make them all, eventually, equivalent
This all is in good faith, just sharing my ever-evolving thoughts on the topic to answer the question:

For better or worse meritocracies are exclusive in nature when you take systemic societal issues into consideration like wealth gaps. In America, we've historically done so much to hurt minorities I believe we've arguably held religions/ethnicities/classes/genders back from the same opportunities that I have as a straight middleclass white guy.

Is it the fault of the meritocracy that it is exclusive in this arguably unfair way? Nope - and I don't think that we should get away with meritocracies at all. But I do think we have to take into account external societal conditions when implementing one and I see affirmative action as this measure.

Schools are unique in society that they're a ladder up - my time in college was huge. Arguably, education is one of the most fair ways to lift people out of the non-ideal societal crap I was discussing in the first paragraph... so things like affirmative action are implemented to enhance marginalized people's access to opportunities I often take for granted.

This issue for me is a hard one as I can't exclude the reality of history and systemic societal problems along side a school's unique position to be the ladder up for people who have been crapped on like I haven't.

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> decisions shouldn't primarily be based on merit anymore?

I think we still need to make decisions based on merit absolutely - and I think we need to strive for the ideals of meritocracy as a society. I just think that active measures are taken to try to balance things out - affirmative action being one of those... for better or worse.

Affirmative action is just a really complex issue. Anecdotally, I admit I am glad that I am in California now where it's illegal in regards to employment - and honestly... selfishly so. In Iowa affirmative action was a thing.

Man I really hope the Diablo 2 auth servers are back online....
That's not a shallow dismissal. I don't understand some of these choices and I want to know why they were made. I want to know why I'm wrong.
Did we do that? Where are my infinite dollars then? My bank only shows a few thousand.

Care to elaborate?
The cheaper you go, the more the manufacturer needs to add crap and tracking and ads to make up the margins ( e.g. that's what Xiaomi do).
I’m sure facebook’s politics will get all the attention they need.
Other than the post recommendation, using a secure "blank" iFrame hosted on their own domain might have worked as well, depending on their threat-model.
Good thing then that the UK is a parliamentary monarchy. Having a noble class is kind of built into that system.
Searching python on HackerNews readings (a site I built): https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-t...
The results include Fluent Python recommended by tusharsadhwani
But the path from "we found a correlation" to "we have good evidence of causation" is a very long path where 99% of hypotheses drop off. And this one is especially suspect. It's possible that early life happiness is protective against dementia but mid and late life less so, but our model of biology says that's less likely because almost all similar findings that we have found to be casual recency increases the effect. For instances what you eat and how you exercise this year impacts your current health more than what you ate and how you exercised 2/5/10/15/20 years ago.

I think "may protect" is misleading because while it might be the case that if you increase someone's happiness in early adulthood it will decrease their risk of dementia, it's certainly not likely. For instance if you found some depression RCT from 50 years ago in 20 somethings, what are the chances the control group and the intervention group are going to have significantly different dementia outcomes?

So while it's technically true that it "may protect against dementia", it was also technically true before someone did this study. And honestly studies like this have so many degrees of freedom they are almost always unintentionally p-hacked.
Do you need links of BLM riot footage? Millions of people rallying to raise their fists and yell and chant against "racism" "white supremacy" which are transparent euphemisms for their outgroup and scapegoat?

Surely the parallels are obvious, even if you agree with the cause, no? Or perhaps you didn't see such imagery without "fiery but mostly peaceful" disclaimers?

Edit: here's one of the first search results for "blm struggle session" but I have about a hundred gb of similar footage, including literal communist recruitment via megaphone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMtvgNfdyMo. I'd be happy to upload a torrent since so much of the footage has literally been wiped from the internet.

Edit: oh, and how could I forget the "diversity [re]education" camps that white male (and only white male) employees have been coerced into attending, including executives at a diverse assortment of companies like Lockheed Martin and Coca Cola, where participants are
asked to list all the ways in which their whiteness is problematic. If that isn't a struggle session, I don't know what is.
This should not have to be a discussion...

Personally, I'm viewing all this with a very jaded eye. General purpose computing is one of the things keeping the Internet as open as it currently is. It's obvious Win 11 is the release intended for others to trust you, and that trust will be based on things you can't do.
Most drone propellors are extremely lightweight, meaning that the damage they can inflict is very limited.
Yes, the idea is to give them privacy even though they aren't asking for privacy, just "cheap".
"avoid making copies" dors not always equal "performance". Depending on your access patterns, having the data colocated can be more important.

But immutability sure is nice when you can have it.
oh thank god. i had ben looking for this extension for ios. just bought it, and it works great — thank you
You'll admit that the category of 'anyone who has compared mainstream American politics to Nazism in a published article' is a pretty wide net though?

Although we find it distasteful it seems to be a pretty common refrain/analogy of those in politics & media.
There is an obvious gain when agriculture gets 1000x more productive, but there has to be a point where it becomes diminishing returns. How many more times will making agriculture 10x more productive noticeably improve people’s lives? At some point productivity has to stop being the only metric. I have a feeling productivity gains have already hit that point and the primary benefactor to further improvement is the producers.
It can't, they mentioned that.

Agree with your assessment that is a drone with useless legs.
And what about twitter mobs that point out legitimate fireable offenses (like police brutality )? Would the fact that a twitter mob raised the issue help prevent the legitimatw firing?
That isn't a shallow dismissal.
Check out Tailscale. It's magic and free.

https://tailscale.com/
I don’t think it’s the pay but the budget they can work with. If NASA had kept the same percentage of the federal budget it had during Apollo things would be much further.
The banks operate under a laundry list of laws outside of a criminal conviction, such as the Terrorist watch list as well as whole countries that are under US sanctions. US sanctions are a particularly large bite because the US will sanction you from the US financial system for working with the above, even if you are not under US jurisdiction.

This, of course, doesn't mention the all the reporting used for detecting tax evasion or money laundering.

US banks are absolutely a wing of the court by operating under the given rule of law, and through the US banks' worldwide influence this 'rule of law' gains a global prominence.
How would that not give you the worst of both worlds? You would be tracked by the weakest aspect of both devices.
Seems like a nice cloud provider that I could see myself using over RDS/Cloud SQL, but the pricing is really not friendly for smaller projects that still need an high availability setup.
The smaller standard plan starts at ~300USD/month for 2 core, 8GB RAM HA.
This is such a good write up for someone like myself still trying to get their head around Python.

I can appreciate this must have taken considerable effort, It reads really well. Thank you!
Very cool.

The take-any-webpage-offline need is also common in the education space (teachers want to save a webpage and send it to their students as part of a lesson and don't want to worry about availability or ads etc).

I used to work on tools for this https://github.com/learningequality/ricecooker/blob/develop/... and https://github.com/learningequality/BasicCrawler/blob/master...
which worked quite well for most sites, but still very far from a general-purpose solution.

There is also more powerful/general-purpose scraper that generates a ZIM file here: https://github.com/openzim/zimit

It would be really nice to a "common" scraper code base that takes care of scraping (possibly with a real headless browser) and outputs all assets as files + info as JSON. This common code base could then be used by all kinds of programs to package the content as standalone HTML zip files, ePub, ZIM, or even PDF for crazy people like me who like to print things ;)
In a way, learning Python is harder for people experienced with another language because so much of the content you find is for first-time programmers.

That said, I think I had good luck with Writing Idiomatic Python.
I think you are missing the point that affirmative action, which I am for, is done a disservice when we descend to PR games. Knee jerk reactions serve no one.
1. Not all silicones are equal

2. Different 3d modeling programs are better at different things. Meshmixer is really good at some organic shape manipulations. Tinkercad is very limiting.

3. Not all slicing programs will give you the volume

4. Just because it isn't a default in your printers config doesn't mean it won't work.

5. Clone a willy kits have limitations, may not suit your needs or be available, or you may want more control of the process.
Both Kafka and David Graeber would like a word with you.
Maybe you perceive, correctly, that the kind of people who shop at Whole Foods are more likely to attack you, socially, than are the kind of people who shop at 99 Ranch.
Photos from NASA's Perseverance rover indicate ancient flash floods on Mars
Serious question, what is wrong with a noble class? If the family line squanders that wealth, then they weren’t noble. If they are wise with it and good stewards, then it seems like it makes sense that they would become part of the nobility.

It isn’t some zero sum game, where there is some limited amount of wealth, and by them having it others must be destitute.

I’d be curious if those with several children feel differently than those with none. I love the idea of my sacrifices today one day benefitting my grandchildren’s’ grandchildren in a material way. I feel like if more people lived with the thoughts of how they can improve their own descendants lives over improving their own the world would be a better place.
A lot of the world's best and brightest built nuclear bombs for decades.
>...much intellectually deeper and ideologically broader than those supporting racial preferences. A medieval Catholic...

Sure, if you narrow the topic of racial preferences down to the literal instantiation of exactly that mechanism, then broaden the topic of the Vietnam War out to historical philosophies of War in general, then of course the latter reads "intellectually deeper" and "broader".

But, these are all just discussions about what is morally just and, when society fails to provide justice, what we consider appropriate remedies.
It is still a thing, at least in Brazil afaik. My cousin went to one these retreats the other day, he tried to convince me to go with him but I don't like those. He said it was really intense and very "close to god".
that's right. I didn't mean to make it sound fancy. The same term exists in my native tongue and it's the preferred term in the context of economics.
Yikes, I would much rather have anonymous credit cards than having my identity validated through the government. Lots of talk about "decentralized technologies" to what seems to me like a centralized government-signed digital ID
> you can have the best of both worlds and own an Android phone and an i0S device

If you truly need privacy and control then the right approach is to have neither of them and consider a GNU/Linux phone (Librem 5 or Pinephone).
Interesting take - you're not far off the mark.

There is at least one other factor, though. At Whole Foods, at least the one near me, a large fraction of the conversation snippets I overhear are complaints, expressions of anxiety, and generally expressions of unhappiness. At 99 Ranch I generally can't understand what people are saying, but on average people's emotions seem to range from neutral to positive. My perceptions may not be a complete picture of reality, but I think they're also not completely detached from reality.
“ The experts argue that a conservative death rate of 1% would therefore make COVID-19 at least 10 times as deadly as the flu, and therefore “significantly more lethal” than the common cold.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-cold-idUSKCN26D...
Well, yes, of course it does.

I'm willing to limit what apps I use and carefully consider what I install. I'm not yet willing to abandon my smartphone.

Choosing the lesser of N evils is a pretty common and often rational choice, in life and in engineering. May be not in this case, and it's good to be unsatisfied, but disregarding the debate just because neither option is great makes no sense.
I wouldn't fear a PLA thing first use; but cleaning it thoroughly enough to re-use is going to be a challenge without special effort applied to finishing it after printing.

Beeswax temp: Thermal mass of the print is probably high enough that it sucks the heat out of the wax before melting much surface feature. in this case, smoothing bumps is beneficial.
I don't think its hard to determine.

Broadly: Political gridlock, defunding of science endeavors, the Forever War on Terror, etc.

Economically: increasing wealth disparity

More specifically: brightest minds being thrown at the most profitable, versus the most socially beneficial, outcomes.
There is some coverage within the gcloud sdk:

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/beta/emulators

The firebase stack can run 100% local as well.
If you work by yourself this can be true. But it’s not that different from saying you don’t need to write tests because you don’t have trouble with bugs! That might be true but it doesn’t make it a good idea.

I’ve worked with NodeJS for over 10 years now and have ported many codebases from JS to TS and have never found one that didn’t contain a bug that the TS compiler found immediately, even my own carefully crafted solo projects.

Plus every type definition and annotation is basically a free self-maintaining unit test!