skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the motion mechanisms; the tension bearings on the rail remind me of the V1 MPCNC designs and the rope gantry system reminds me of the Kralyn3d Positron.

Please consider throwing up your files on github entirely. OnShape has a login-wall, even if it has free account options. GitHub even supports native STL viewing!
I think of the difference between:

Tim Cook: "We think you'll love this."

vs.

Steve Jobs: "It's insanely great!"

Given Apple's massive success I think they can afford to be more Cook-like, but a bit of Jobs-style fire, egomania, overconfidence and iconoclasm might help out when you're trying to transform an industry like PCs (Macintosh, iMac), audio players (iPod), or smartphones (iPhone). Though Jobs also had the seemingly (but not actually) humble "one more thing..."

I don't see a lot of humility - intellectual or otherwise - in Elon Musk, for example. But Musk's arrogance, like Jobs', is also backed up by ability to actually do things. And the ability to change one's mind, especially in the face of evidence, seems to be important.

I have also observed that effective self-promotion moves some people ahead of their humbler but more qualified peers.
Does that mean China is actually better then the US in this circumstance?
That’s already happening.
Cf. "Da***t! Is that a Latin phrase or a binomial species name?"

And incidentally, ethnobotany if your curiosity was eating at you.
What parts of the UK are still under lockdown at the moment for such a large death count to be occurring? In the US, Covid is last year's news. Covid is still present, and results in a spectrum of nothing, cold, bad cold/flu and "damn, that's not good". The Health system is trying to recover from being overworked and underfunded which might also be a cause.
So sticks and carrots?
Five years later, Google is still all-in on Kotlin
Google isn't blocking this because it would be a silver bullet to FTC for aiding Youtube. Apple isn't blocking this because they are beholden to China.
Why blockchain? Why not an open export standard that you backup regularly either manually or via an API to a third-party cloud storage provider? Why does it need to live in the cloud? Why not your own server or local device? There isn't one valid usage scenario for blockchain that actually makes sense versus existing solutions.
debian-vote: Changing how we handle non-free firmware
Chromebooks are perfect, and it's unfortunate that the open source community remains in denial, still clutching their moribund "Linux Desktop" instead of stealing ChromeOS and putting a solid distro directly under it.
> So, I see this bandied about a lot, but I don't see the big deal in being spied on by a government that has 0 say in my entire hemisphere?

You idiot.
As much as I love Debian, I wish it had better documentation. Having said that I haven’t tried to contribute to it at all, so I guess I can’t complain.
When I used TikTok on Android, it was the most infuriating in-app browser experience because it had no way to open the URL in your real browser. Not even a way to copy the URL to your clipboard. I guess now I understand why
The GNU project does sell print copies of their texinfo manuals. But you could also download the manual and print it yourself. Buying the print is an optional way to support the development of the software.
If you use the platform, you've expressly agreed to this behavior. You can't create an account without affirming that you read and agreed to their policies and terms of use.

Instagram's privacy policy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/

>We call all of the things you can do on our Products "activity." We collect your activity across our Products and information you provide, such as: [...] Apps and features you use, and what actions you take in them.

Tiktok's USA privacy policy: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy-us

>We collect information when you create an account or use the Platform. We also collect information you share with us from third-party social network providers, and technical and behavioral information about your use of the Platform. [...]

>We may collect information about you from third-party services, such as advertising partners, data providers, and analytics providers.

Aren't EULAs fun?
Is this the exact type of security Apple is supposed to be protecting its customers from?
It doesn’t mean that, and the comment I was responding to wasn’t talking about that, but merely the fact that the app is Chinese.
Hello Alan! I wasn't expecting a response! An article talking about author burnout sounds like what I remember. DamnInteresting always appeared organically in Stumble Upon, reddit or digg for me, so there was never any reason to "subscribe," then it just kind of disappeared, exactly like you said many people experienced.

I have a distinct memory of reading the sex life of bananas article (https://www.damninteresting.com/the-unfortunate-sex-life-of-...). After reading it, I have actively searched for unique types and varieties of fruits, particularly when traveling. It's habit formed after reading that article that has led me to novel experiences and made a small consistently positive impact on my life. Thank you for that! I remember reading the Galloping Gertie article and the Outer Space Exposure article and thinking "damn that was interesting!" afterwards too. Promises made were delivered.

My default hypothesis was that long form articles are harder and harder to read given the dopamine flood gate that is TikTok/Reddit/YouTube etc. Algorithms that optimize for quick attention would prefer content that requires less investment, resulting in migration to primarily video/gif content. My gauge was that reddit's algorithm (which I still believe is mostly organic) hasn't picked up articles, so it would make sense that Facebook hasn't either. When DamnInteresting was showing up on my social media, Randall Monroe of XKCD was still contributing directly to reddit, and I haven't seen xkcd comics or himself for a long time either. I was kind of expecting an Eternal September situation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September) for social media, resulting in optimization for lowest common denominator content, which is not what DamnInteresting is.

If it's happening to short form media as well, then it is sad to see that it appears to be direct extortion. If it's any small consolation, I have already quit Facebook myself and won't touch anything Meta, employment wise or otherwise.
Air travel is already quite efficient. If we break it down per passenger, the gas mileage is around 50mpg. Cutting total flight distance only cuts the amount of time that the aircraft is in it's most efficient travel regime (high level cruise). With no corresponding change to the amount of fuel used to climb up to cruising altitude.

Adding extra days to every trip is not cost free. Mode switching for travel is also not cost free. Creating gigantic airports at the nearest points between continents etc... Large scale, expensive and difficult to coordinate changes; which are trying to squeeze more efficiency out of an already optimized system.

Don't mean to sound overly critical, these are interesting ideas on systemic change.
For what it's worth, Google doesn't allow you to log into your Google Account in a in-app browser for this exact reason... unless you enable some "Insecure App" settings in Google Admin settings.
An investment bank has exposure to real estate - take that statement with the grain of salt it needs. Dude has competing interests and probably works from home himself. (One does wonder - are his children going to private school and that's where his COVID exposure risk lies, or are they privately educated and shielded?)
This comment belongs on reddit, not here.
I assure you Android is capable of the exact same thing.

A lot of apps use webviews to render HTML, often in ways where you wouldn't even notice it's web content. Apps shouldn't use webviews to render external web sites but nothing in the APIs restrict them from doing so (recent versions of iOS have made it seem like they're heading in that direction but nothing concrete).

Easiest thing would be for Apple and Google to enforce this via denying app approvals. Would be a very interesting fight against apps this popular, though.
I really doubt it. Credit is a fundamentally different system than debit with different use cases. US credit cards have all sorts of attractions for consumers, like cashback or frequent flyer miles. And they‘re still one of the most accessible ways to build credit score history.

Credit cards these days are pretty much usable as digital only; all of mine are addable to Apple or Google Pay, and usable at pretty much any contactless pay terminal.
Cast iron is low maintenance, just don't over think the seasoning thing and don't cook overly acidic things. Cook with oil, clean with soap and hot water (use a plastic scraper if you need to...), dry on the stove and once dry wipe with a paper towel you put a little drop of oil on. Wait until the oil just smokes and turn it off. Done. Takes 1min tops. You can use steel utensils, just don't go scratching at it when cleaning with a wire brush.

Just get used to the imperfect surface, its not going to be perfect, it may get to be smooth and black one day, but even my nearly hundred year old skillet I've gotten through my family sometimes gets a scratch or a flake off. Its self correcting the more you use it.

If that's still too much "maintenance" try a nice enameled cast iron skillet or pot from le creuset. Don't cheap out. These are fantastic, aren't bothered by acidic foods, and still have the same nice heat holding properties of seasoned iron. Really love these. Don't use steel utensils or bang them around the edges with sticks and they last forever, or at least long enough you feel the cost was well worth it. My mother in law had hers, used, for nearly 25 years before the enamel flaked, and she didn't bother treating it nice (scrubbed, used metal utensils, etc).
I imagine most allegations are true since the “conspiracy by unrelated groups of people” is a pretty thin hope to hang on... but yes, agreed. Unfortunately people comfortable with adulation so rarely seem to deserve it.
Great question! I’ve not spent much time thinking about that but I imagine there are alternatives.
Do you really believe Facebook is circling the drain? Still quite literally 1.97bn daily active users, and they made $28.82bn per the most recent quarterly report.

I dislike Facebook as much as the next person, but this is just straight up disinformation.
Amazing accomplishment aside, I listened to him on Rogan and found him to be incredibly arrogant and self absorbed.
I was referring to the general complaint of the parent poster about how people feel enjoying pleasures is wrong.
I got all solid state drives so I can scream non-stop
There are tradeoffs to protectionism that are inherent disadvantages in the strategy itself that doesn’t need someone to make it a disadvantage. Otherwise all countries would be protectionist all the time.

Tik tok dominating is just good old outcompeting the competition.

Protectionist strategies create less domestic competition, resulting in underdeveloped industries that would die off in the face of real competition. So if Chinese companies are insulated from outside competition then in theory they should have a harder time developing globally competitive products. If we continue to allow TikTok and other Chinese products it is not without inherent benefits of increased competition driving better domestic competitiveness.

Of course it just all looks like we are getting screwed because TikTok is outcompeting despite all this, but banning or hobbling it will just make Facebook et al complacent and likely even less competitive in the global market.

We need the competition, basically, if for no other reason than the fact that a competitive market is what underpins healthy capitalism.

Plus, subsidies are simply another form of protectionism and the US heavily engages in this too. We can’t pick and choose when protectionist policies are applied because everyone is doing it in certain industries.
Oh yeah. The unsubscribe page is a minefield of dark patterns, with innocent links leading to continuing the membership. I was pissed enough by then to pay extra attention to get rid of it.
... Is that a trackpoint on it??

It's a "shut up and take my money" system for me; I've dream of a netbook/micropc with trackpoint and keyboard taking as much space as it can for about 12-13 years now. Thx!
Maybe now I'll stop seeing people on my LinkedIn feed virtue signaling by reposting his stuff.
Can you think of a photon as a localized magnetic wave, a tiny soliton, stable due to properties of the magnetic field?
That's true for a more mature business that already has monetization figured out and is trying to optimize its operation, but sounds like OP is running an early stage startup that isn't even monetized yet. If they can't find a way to make solid margins on his operating costs, then it's a real question if the opportunity cost of being distracted by stuff like how they're hosted is worthwhile vs doing work to materially make their product better/more marketable.
I’ve always wondered how Google enforces this as a technical level. Wouldn’t it be easy to spin up an in-app browser that looks and feels just like a regular browser? How does one detect via JS (or other means) if it’s an in-app browser?
All china has to do to have a serious negative impact on our society is give a slight boost to moronic, antisocial content (tide pod challenge or mass robbery anyone?), and a slight penalty to constructive, educational content. It would be basically impossible to detect this.

Remember that this is a country that regularly threatens a war that would likely involve the US.
What's the Real World Highway Range of Today's EVs? We Test to Find Out
Look, I'm no fan of the Chinese social construct, but in terms of investment and development in an area I've tried to work in for the past 20 years, namely high-tech renewable energy development, the USA has dropped the ball while China has run with it. The US response has been tariffs on Chinese monocrystalline silicon PV panels, in a rather pathetic attempt to prevent them from gaining market share, while promoting nonsense like CdTe panels and so on. GW Bush and Barak Obama blocked DOE money going to renewable R&D just like Reagan, Bush and Clinton did, because the USA is mostly a petro-state economy (just look at CVX and XOM profits recently FFS)..

So China ran away with renewable tech developement because greedy Wall Street executives didn't want competition to their lucrative fossil fuel investments. Fucking retards.
I'm fairly active on /r/mountaineering, and the opinion of him isn't very high on there. He's an impressive dude for sure, but his ego has really gone to his head.
I was on Sydney to LA and we diverted to Hawaii because a passenger died and was taken off. I found it curious that they wouldn’t just wait until LA as the person died in the air so it’s not like they needed immediate attention.

We all stayed on board and we’re maybe down for 20 minutes.
What's moribund about the linux desktop?

Millions of people use one, including myself. Is that not enough?
sml was the only one that shadowed lisp in my heart
I think this whole failed puzzle indicates that there are some problems that cannot be solved incrementally.

Peter Norvig's solution has one central precept that is not something that you would arrive at by an incremental approach.

But I wonder if this incrementalism is essential for TDD.
I'd love to read more about this!
Yeah, and both TikTok and DouYin are owned by ByteDance. In fact didn't Google on occasion create a crippled/censored version of its search for some time in mainland China or Hong Kong or something?
I think an organic vapor respirator is warranted but it's been a while since my training. Generally an N95 is for solid particle IIRC.
Maybe you don't realize how hot 500F is - your oven maxes out at 450. At 500 everything in the plan is black charcoal. Any oil in the pan caught fire.
I think it still applies even to "malware". It's just irrelevant. I don't understand GP's argument here either.

TikTok is not an American citizen. Nobody is preventing American citizens from printing the source code of TikTok on their tshirts so that people can compile it and use it. This is the only conceivable scenario where the 1st amendment would apply.

And even if that was happening, the US could rightfully ban use of Chinese owned servers in the US. Then we'd get what happens in China: a US-owned entity forms to run TikTok in the US. It is now subject to US rules and regulations etc.
I also got a significant speedup after the rewire (without looking at the prompt.)

OTOH, I was consciously visualizing the mirrored position of the target circle on screen and navigating toward that without looking at the mouse cursor, so mentally it's exactly the same movement as the pre-rewire step.
Make Boring Websites
To and from Hawaii
It’s basically a subsidy to their tech and AI industry. Same effect as US corn subsidies making American junk food exports endemic.
Trump tried to ban TikTok (and quite a lot more), but he’s orange and bad, so Biden repealed it. And tariffs are racist, so there’s that. America is not functioning well at this point and nothing indicates it will improve.
I like foreign key constraints as much as the next guy, but they are hardly the only difference between MySQL and DynamoDB. For example, you should be able to use Rails/Django/Laravel without foreign key constraints, you can use off the shelf SQL clients or BI clients, etc.
Teflon is not a biopersistent or accumulated compounds. Teflon goes out exactly as it went in, undigested, unabsorbed, utterly ignored by the body.
>they don't allow full ownership of local companies

That isn't completely true anymore.

"Foreign investors are now allowed to establish wholly foreign-owned enterprises for whole vehicle manufacturing, including special purpose vehicles, new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles and passenger vehicles."

https://www.iflr.com/article/2a647jipe3beiloc6xeyo/primer-ch...
Optimal Blog Post Length
pinboard is the spiritual successor. However, in general, bookmarking as a thing seems to have gone away from what it was back then when saving and sometimes sharing your bookmarks was an actual social sort of things/information pathway.
Those are all fair points.

Not paying large margin to Nvidia might also matters on the economics.

Sometimes the first version of something isn't strictly speaking worth it but its still important for the company and what it wants to do.

Its certainty risky, but Tesla has just decided that they are vertical integration is important for them. So far this strategy is working for them but any individual project can of course not work.
I'm not getting it. Why is HTTP so inadequate for gRPC?

A service app for example can open 1000 sockets with a server and simply multiplex that way.
It doesn't.

If that is happening then cases under those legislation would succeed. But those legislation don't somehow magically forbid practices that people on HN don't like.
I didn't defend the current product. I was just pointing out that from Tesla perspective the investment is worth it because they see a huge market potential, both in incremental level 2 updates and things beyond that.
Absolutely not. The NY Times would never run a story that wasn't fully vetted and bullet proof in terms of facts.
Who are you, Xi Jinping? You basically word for word translated their foreign social media policy. Luckily we live in a capitalist free market, free competition ideology and not a heavy protectionist centrally influenced market economy here in the US.
PG's Essay "Ideas for Startups" - A Hierarchical Reading
I summarized Paul Graham’s “Ideas For Startups” essay in an experimental reading format that I believe has a lot of potential.

The text starts out in an easy to skim, summarized format, and particular sections can be expanded from their base idea to get into more detail.
like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StS__tbuXnI
It's a good chunk of it, but is a lot more suitable for public consumption.
Ask HN: Where to host our engineering blog?
Our small team would like to start an engineering blog.

Requirements:
- we'd host on our website (blog.ourwebsite.com)
- multiple writers could submit to it
- looks decent
- not much effort to get up and running

I've looked briefly at Substack and Medium (not sure if they work well for this?) and Ghost (which is probably great, but is $2k/year and untested for us).

Anyone have a good experience with a blogging solution for a team?
that was really funny
I did the exact opposite with Facebook. The social feed is useless for me, but other features like the ability to browse local events, or the marketplace, drew me back.

I created a new account with a fake name and denied every friend suggestion, but I have joined some groups. The groups are great and don't have the same draw for endless scrolling.

But the events section, there's nothing like it. Lots of free, family events are only advertised through FB, and I will usually spend a few minutes a week finding interesting things to take my kids to over the weekend
This would be cool as a federated social media app. As in, I'd like to run my own server for this with my own users, but I'd also like to share and interact with others' servers and users, as well.
If you want to protect the privacy of users then protect the privacy of users. Protecting the privacy only when China is the one invading privacy is not protecting the privacy of users.
You also shouldn't test business logic. Your test code is more likely to be a liability than an asset when it isn't testing your codebase's core infrastructure.
Can they really though?

I mean, this is literally XSS. And it's not just Facebook and Tiktok, unless this is a private API scummy apps can and are (I guarantee) doing this to steal user passwords and bank credentials. Your average person already needs to know that they can't type in their credentials unless the URL says facebook.com, now they also need to check the app is Safari. And you may not even need to enter credentials, a malicious app could just load my-bank.com and extract the cookies or local storage or send API requests.

If true...wow. That's a massive security oversight. But it seems to massive I'm not 100% convinced. Especially because websites are tightly sandboxed from other websites and apps are tightly sandboxed from other apps. Yeah you could in theory re-implement your own web browser in your app which looks and acts like Safari, but in practice Apple technically forbids other web-views, and it's really hard to fully implement a web browser and not make it immediately apparent anyways.
I recently published a tool to automatically upgrade JSON Schema definitions across versions of the specification: https://alterschema.sourcemeta.com.

It is a nice little utility that didn't take much effort to build yet seems to provide real value and receives quite some visits every day.
Or at least retcon “nm” to stand for something other than nanometers.
Missed opportunity to rickroll everyone who installs it.
I was the same until recently. Nowadays I don't see a good reason for not using a credit card over a debit card. My bank charges me like $2 a month for a Visa. My Mastercard is free and has a tiny cashback. It's not gonna make me a millionaire, but so far I haven't experienced any downsides.
TikTok is not a browser and has zero obligation to provide private communications. What you do inside TikTok's app is quite literally TikTok's business.
Been using this for years, and it works well for me.
Have you considered a static site generator and self hosting?
Great now we just need to coat the earth in lye
Yeah, adding photolyase to humans is high on my genetic engineering wishlist.
How about with OPs post which said that big tobacco was claiming no cancer link in 2002?
How do you define what is processed