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Ask HN: What are you using for 4 axis CNC and laser?
Hi all,

I am working on a nano (pico, really) brewery project and need a bunch of custom aluminum and wood pieces for our tiny brewhouse and barroom build.

I have a large workspace and am considering a range of CNC machine and laser engravers. I would like a the option (or as a separate purchase) of a 4-axis tabletop rotary option to experiment with small scale laser-etching of cans as well.

I find my self in the modern internet dilemma of google search being almost unusable due to pages of SEO spam, while reddit is also relatively gamified in this product category as well. Youtube has a ton of content here, but it's also now mostly a proxy for sponsor-creator view battles, and it's tough to wade through the many, many hours of semi-honest use/reviews when I have the day job and fam. Hackaday is great...for hacks, but not really expert reviews, and Make magazine seems to have minimal coverage here as well.

Where should I go to figure out how to get what I need in this space? Are there any HN users with enough experience in this domain that you can offer recommendations, search terms, or major product pitfalls to avoid? I am willing to go into the mid 4 figures for a good product(s) that can help me with both bar furniture trim, aluminum fittings, and laser engraving. Would love to learn as efficiently as I can what may suit my use cases. Thanks!
In conjunction with 1Blocker, it slows things down a bit, and sometimes Duck Duck Go hangs. Otherwise, very happy with it
I'll give you a hint - the post was originally twice as long and _did_ go into detail about why I wanted to patch something, but a reviewer of the post pointed out that I could potentially have run afoul of one or more laws in one or more countries if I had succeeded in doing so.
The author is focusing on working class families, not middle class families (they are discuss as a comparison).

How does the gutting of the middle class harm stability of working class families?
> ...even without breathing for several hours.

Isn't brain damage inevitable after just a few minutes?
For me the biggest issue is not having history. That’s the value of the terminal - I can scroll up and see previous interactions, copy paste from them, etc.

That said I don’t think the point of this is to replace sed, or other unix-y tools where you’re having pipeline-oriented programs. It’s full blown apps inside of the terminal that might otherwise be in the browser or in a GUI. Something where you’re seeing things update or otherwise interacting such that you could never grab it’s out for a shell script nor would want to.. like running a REPL or top.
Still I will take it above no possibility at all.
Ah - I appreciate your intention to help, but that was a misunderstanding. Show HN is not for blogs - see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
But shouldn't we be paid for our time?
> I think that's what a lot of engineers get hung up on. Music is taught as rules.

That's not what I see (as the author of a cross-platform DAW for the last 22 years).

Engineers get hung up on the fact that despite the reality that almost all western (and, realistically) almost all of the world's musical tradition(s) are in fact rooted in clear rules and numerical relationships, music culture wants to use terminology and practice that pretend that it's not.

The simplest example: the major scale. Like all scales, it's just a pattern of intervals. What intervals? Why is the scale not named after the interval series, which would allow you to see how similar it is to the minor scale, and precisely how it differs (ditto for comparisons between any other scale).

Another example: ordinal naming of scale degrees, "the third" etc. These have no consistent meaning other than when you write out the notes of the scale, you count through them. But the third of a minor scale is a different interval from the root than the third of a major scale. If they were named by interval, you'd have consistent naming no matter what the scale is.

There are dozens more examples like this, where consistency in naming would ease many a musician-engineer's mind.
Ah, I missed that earlier. I've posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31146332 there. Thanks!
Logically, this take seems confusing.

Why wouldn't Disney have been advocating for having this special arrangement revoked themselves if it would have been a $100+ million subsidy for them?

From my admittedly limited understanding of this whole situation, I think local governments are thinking they can create Municipal Service Taxing Units (MSTU) that would pick up the revenue that would be going to pay for the debt.

If I were a betting person, I'd bet on Disney not coming out $100+ million ahead in all this. I would bet that local governments will create taxes for Disney to cover the debt/increased costs they would face.

This all makes for a great news story plot though that people love: "Baddies try to do bad thing, and they end up paying the price for it! Ha!"
It'd cost more to run it yourself on DigitalOcean, as far as I can tell.
(also posted in response to another comment)

I'll give you a hint - the post was originally twice as long and _did_ go into detail about why I wanted to patch something, but a reviewer of the post pointed out that I could potentially have run afoul of one or more laws in one or more countries if I had succeeded in doing so.
That's the trouble, they don't know what they're trying to explain. This thread is a reverberation chamber for irrational masculine fear. A bunch of people trying to pinpoint something that may not even exist, and choosing to look backward for familiarity. You can't engage with that. Not online.

Sometimes the healthy response is "This shit is nuts, I'm going to go talk to people in person and touch some grass."
The problem I have with the standard account of the history of Agile - and that's what this contains - is that it doesn't match my understanding of the history.

I've pointed out before on HN that I've read accounts about software development at Apple, Be, Commodore, Data General, Infocom, Microsoft, VisiCorp and others during the pre-Agile era of the 1970s-1990s.

None of them used waterfall in any meaningful way.

As an example of the disconnect between the Agile story and my understanding of history, the author mentions:

> The typical picture of corporate programming in the 1990s is of the existentially bored twenty-somethings in Douglas Coupland’s novel Microserfs,

Microsoft wasn't structured around waterfall design, and was far from the typical picture of corporate programming of the era.

Here's what Steve McConnell wrote about Microsoft in "Rapid Development (1996) Page 271:

] In addition to providing explicit support for morale, Microsoft gladly trades other factors to keep morale high, sometimes trading theme in ways that would make other companies shudder (Zachary 1994). I've seen then trade methodological purity, programming discipline, control over the product specification, control over the schedule, management visibility -- almost anything to benefit morale.
A 6+6 notation can be used for any kind of scale, including diatonic ones. Just like a 7+5 notation can be used for non-diatonic scales.

A 6+6 system makes more sense in terms of fundamentals - there's the exact same distance between each "full" letter. That doesn't limit what kind of scales you can annotate with the letters at all.
For reference, the operating cost of such rescue helicopter
(including crew) is about 100 000 NOK per hour in Norway [1] or ~$11 000.

[1] https://ambulanseforum.no/artikler/redningsaksjonen-kostet-r...
Here's one from this morning: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1718

This one is a bit more involved: https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper/issues/18

There are a few good examples linked to at the very bottom of https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jan/12/how-i-build-a-feature/
Good headphones to me are ones which are comfy to wear over a long period
What the heck? He did reply to the argument. He didn't call anyone in the community names, and the beliefs and position held by the author absolutely DO matter in this context.

Dang you need to really revaluate your decisions on when to post or call people out for "rule violations".
Maybe you could share this evidence instead of sharing an anonymous assertion
Um yes, you can walk in and get flown to a city in the US on the govt's credit card.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, this has been said over and over for more than a century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
Maybe nix needs to organize docs around the users intention:

https://documentation.divio.com/

The big idea is that it separates types of documentation by its usefulness to a particular user that is approaching the docs with a clear goal. Here the goals are loosely organized along two 'axes': working-studying and theoretical-practical. Personally I think the model is missing a user-developer axis (especially for a developer tool like nix), but overall it's a great lens to view any documentation project through.
How about a 55k picture of a cat licking its ass?
Did you grow poor or have friends from poor backgrounds? I saw lots of drug use, stealing, petty vandalism and violence, and little if any of it had to do with their trying to survive in a material sense. There are different norms around which behaviors grant status, and this is the primary driver behind this kind of behavior in my experience.
To be fair, the advertising of the knob sounds like trolling to me, but honestly, it's hard to tell if serious or not.
There are also attempts to use 5G...

"5G as a wireless power grid":
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79500-x
Well, even old ears will still hear distortion.

Personally I don't like to assume that I will be the only person to listen to my hifi!
How does a “flat lining” of wages of cause family stability to go down? And how do you explain high levels of family stability in countries that are much poorer?
> I have never encountered an individual who claims to hate the "elite".

Go on reddit, the refrains of "eat the rich" are quite common. People there hate the rich and the elite.

That being said, poor people are not "stupid" or have "moral ineptitude." They're just poor, something that those who have never been poor will not understand. It's a victim blaming mentality.
Correct speakers and speaker placement is worth more than 100000 € in gold plated cables.
Am I the only one who looks at this and thinks money laundering?
At an organisational level, you have to make a decision on how much time you spend doing one or the other. It might be that some developers never do any refactoring but someone is always going to end up doing it. Or nobody does it, and the code slowly decays.

Unless you're saying that you don't have to do refactoring at all in the organisation, but the only way to do that surely is always get it right the first time, which isn't hugely practical. You may sometimes encounter a situation where the quickest way to build a feature is to fix some old ugly code, but that's certainly not the case every time.
Does anyone know the legend of Pythagoras? It is the best. First scientific experiment in history, too…
> JSON maps directly to language-native data structures, but XML does not.

So what? It is irrelevant. In all the problems we have ever faced when creating federated chat applications on various platforms, I can't recall a single time when stream format made any difference.

For example, making your messages appear in consistent order on all of your and your chat partner's devices is a real problem. The development of the efficient strategy to achieve this has nothing to do with format, yet, has a much more visible impact on user experience. In fairness, the debate of what is better suited for the protocol development, Message Sequence Charts [1] or Sequence Diagrams [2] has more sense than debating about XML vs JSON.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_sequence_chart

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_diagram
Italian city introduces social credit style system
It's not, and you're conflating the term incel with people whom lack a sexual partner. Incel is a label that people apply to themselves that carries a whole lot of baggage, anger and a mixture of racism/sexism.

People that lack a partner are not incels, but incels lack a partner. Please spend a few minutes looking up what an incel actually is and what it means.
> Some events or even companies don't have a website, they just have a Facebook page that you have to be logged in to visit.

I really have not experienced this, but the several times I've had to interact with a company without a website, phone works wonders and is often quicker.

> Also, if your family uses Facebook, they will interact with each other on it whether you are there or not.

I really don't see the issue here unless you have a terribly unhealthy sense of FOMO.
Yeah this horse line is a stretch.
Poverty isn’t the cause of crime. People were objectively poorer in the 1950s, even in the lower classes, and people in developing countries are much poorer than even poor Americans.
macOS Noob: Fontconfig Alternative?
Is there an alternative of “fontconfig” for MacOS?

I have been a long time user of Linux and might want to switch to Apple.

I use fontconfig for my font replacements and OpenType font features (stylistic sets). I have been searching on this without any luck.

Any advice or option that I could have?
So they really need MS to give them a "hand" ;)
there is an outdoor knife company which mostly uses well tempered 1095 steel for their products.

People bombard them with requeata for Gucci steel like SV-30 which is ill suited for their applications.

Under description

https://eseeknives.com/product/esee-3-s35v
But the batteries!
Totally a tangent but as an Australian I'm amazed at how common eucalyptus trees are in California. They were introduced just 150 years ago and parts of California have denser eucalypt forest than Australia now. Which isn't good for California's bio diversity and given the flammability of eucalyptus is bad from a safety point of view too. There should be more of an effort to remove them.
As soon as you add a third party as a carbon-copy recipient, you lose the privacy privilege of the attorney-client communication.
I’m a Staff Software Engineer in a Fortune 500. I’ve delivered a multitude of complex projects to production. Trying to setup Nix made me feel dumb and incompetent.
This is the point.

No it is not if you combine it with low body temperature. It is pretty amazing when you read about it.

I think also some surgeons used this method, icing people before surgery. Not sure it is used anymore though since it may be a bit difficult to control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_hypothermic_circulatory_a...

(IIRC this kid suffered some brain damage though, but not severe enough to stopping him to continue going to school)
"a physical thing, which requires force to slide, and good light to see the details"

I wonder if a slide rule could be made with glow-in-the-dark materials, so it could be read even in poor light.
Another one: https://allthatsinteresting.com/jean-hilliard

> Her skin was so frozen that they couldn’t pierce it with hypodermic needles — the needles just broke on contact. Her body temperature was so low that it didn’t register on a thermometer. Her face was an ashen-gray color and her eyes didn’t respond to changes in light.
While Nix / NixOS is very clever, I think this video enumerates enough pain-points why you'd not want to dabble with it for your 1-2 hosts at home. Only the security point is enough to convince me it sadly do not belong to our production or office-LAN.

For most of us, it's a benefit/cost analysis. I've no doubt I can figure it out, but last time I tried, a package came with defaults that differed from just running a .jar file. I saw no way to change that config anywhere. Things like that make it not worthwhile unless you're doing something that makes it worthwhile.

I think docker / K8s probably fits better in those usecases anyways, though I do use nix / guix at times for packages that work properly.

I think requirements and plain ol' luck (or never needing anything fancy) can play a bigger role, for those of us who sometimes distro-hop a bit.
Jesus this is gross. If you like the soap so much sell it back the hotels.
It may make good business but it doesn't feel very moral to deceive people into spending money they don't need to.
I bet he has the same stare.
Yeah, everybody’s different. I thought my life was pretty pointless pre-illness. Much worse and I’ll have had enough.
> "A lot of the books I actually own physical copies because I bought them thinking I would read them, and then never got around to them and I now have many boxes of books in the garage."

Me, too. A couple years ago, right here on HN, I learned that there is a word for that: Tsundoku.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
Not if the brain is cool enough, but don't try this at home.

IIRC the trick is to restore oxygenation and circulation before restoring the temperature level.
everyone once in a while i think about getting an iPhone or iPad for one reason or another, maybe for the camera or some music making apps that you can't get anywhere else, but i quickly scrap that thought once i remember that i can't use syncthing

there's no way i could go back to manually transferring files, or being limited by ISP network speeds or "cloud" storage space, or most importantly, having to pay monthly fee for the rest of my life!
What are real wages like in lower middle class America compared to Asian or African countries that have a fraction of the rate of kids being raised without both parents?
Not enough volume and markets, I think.

Expensive watches and art definitely are.

You give someone $50,000 Swiss watch. When they are in Geneva, they resell the watch for a good price for a reputable Swiss merchant, take the money and walk across the street to the Swiss bank. The same shop can resell the same watch again and again.
From the article:

"The Italian city of Bologna is set to launch a social credit score style system, dubbed the “smart citizen wallet.” Participating in the program is voluntary, for now.
According to Corriere di Bologna, users of the “smart citizen wallet” will receive “digital points” for “virtuous behavior,” like recycling."

"“The citizen will [get rewards] if he recycles; if he uses public transport; if he manages [energy consumption] well; if he does not receive sanctions from the municipal authority; if he actively uses the Culture Card,”"

"“Obviously, no one will be forced to participate, and whoever wants to give consent can download and use a special application, but I believe there will be many to join,” Bugani continued. “We want citizens to understand that they are not losers but that their behavior is rewarded.”"

Lovely. Government gets to decide what is good behaviour (and, hint, protesting government decisions won't win you prizes). Be a good citizen!

Now, SIT! Good boy! Have a 'good-boy' citizen point.
So let's just blame men for everything? True, historically men have been expected to bring home the bacon, protect their families from violence and disrespect and discipline sons who may otherwise get in trouble, and that is missing nowadays. But women ALSO had responsibilities - making home pleasant even on modest means, well behaved children that are a pleasure to come home to after a long day of work, encouraging good behavior and investment in family from a man through enthusiastic appreciation. The ideal of Western feminism is independence, but families work on healthy mutual interdependence in the face of statistically different - though individually variable - gender traits.
80,000. And imagine, QFT is even harder than percentages!
> You are a counter-example for sure, but this means that you don't have a group chat platform to plan coordinated events with your friends?

Signal, Text Message, and most importantly and most universal, E-mail. I've coordinated Secret Santa events purely by email for the past 5 years.
Not sure what you're asking; bare-bones font config on macOS is done in fontbook.app
David Bennet's music theory videos are so good! I'd already watched this, but thanks for posting the link.
Agreed, this version is better
Theres a lot of weird old stuff floating around, which might not be what you think of when you think "book" but were actually published as books.

For example, governments often publish tranacripts of votes.

It's great that these exist, and are being digitised for scholars and historians, but its not what you'd go to your local library for.

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL258109A/United_States._Arm....
The “community” in those countries enforces exactly the norms the author talks about.
I hope I never find myself popping out of trap doors to defend the status quo like they are.
Not having any todos works best for me. Just wake up as early as possible and do as much as possible and that is it.
Generalizing Folds in Haskell
I also use Obsidian, with a slightly different workflow. I create 3 different types of lists: week lists, sprint lists and ticket lists.

- Week lists are divided into days, with one sub-heading for each day, and a sub-sub-heading for a daily todo list and the day's events/meetings. Each one lets me take notes and prepare info for the day, with a general to-do list at the top of each day that organizes my general goals. It really helps structure everything for me in a meaningful way.

- Sprint lists are fairly specific to agile work, but I use them to set goals for each sprint and keep a "birds-eye view" of my work, so to speak.

- Ticket lists are specific to Jira tickets, and they're what I link to in the aforementioned two lists. I use these to store information that is specifically relevant to a task at hand. If the knowledge can be generalized, I'll usually try to make a page for it elsewhere in my notes and link to that instead.

It's a bit of a mess, but it really helps organize things for me. Being able to anticipate, react and record like that is an essential tool to not driving myself crazy in the workplace.
Gdpr article 7 says it should be as easy to withdraw consent as to give it.

The rules are pretty straightforward, really, it's just Google banking on the fines for not doing it correctly would be less than the profit made.
I believe Harvard did a study that showed that two parent households were more strongly correlated with child academic achievement than other factors. Granted that's not married couples or biological parents, but two parent households. And academic achievement is only one measure of success.
You can kind of see how these kind of things evolved, especially if you consider back to the very beginning of hi—fi when slight fluctuations in incoming power COULD affect things, such as slightly slowing down or speeding up a record player.
> it does run much faster than full-system emulation.

The opposite is true if you're virtualizing the same architecture as the host with hardware virtualization (KVM) enabled. Counter-intuitively, user emulation is much slower than full-system emulation in this specific case.
Former Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator, dies at 88
Yes but I could not find any references that show FontBook provides setting font features. Is that possible?
> Many people don't want to.

They'd like their kids to go to school without bad influences. You can't watch your kids 24/7 so choosing the kind of people they'll be around is one of the few levers you have as a parent.

Now, if we had a national ethos/culture which the government was empowered to enforce (like Denmark, Japan, etc) then it doesn't matter as much which neighborhood you live in. But living in North Philly is basically dooming your children, what we might call "intergenerational poverty".
Are you actually disagreeing with the author? Or are you just saying the author is forming these perceptions in his head?