skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It sucks since Bambulabs is using their slicer and a lot of Prusa's technology as a foundation.

Prusa's slicer is just a fork of Slic3r so I'd say that's fair play. Prusa just aggressively brands opensource stuff.
It's hard to disagree with the fact that brand identities are being stripped back of personality (aka all look the same). I wonder if there's a cause related to our social context:
- It could be that this is the moment in history with the most visible amount of brands out there. It's inevitable that two designers land on a very similar solution without knowing about each other's work
- It could be intentional: we live in the era of information noise. Brands are happy to strip back their personality and identity so that the message (their ads) can take the spotlight
- Visuals are being dumbed down to increase usability: consumers are tired of making sense of strident brands, so they appreciate keeping it simple

... or maybe I'm just inventing things.
NBD is a simple protocol, I used it to recover a RAID5 hardware array that lost parity [0] [1], in just a few lines of C.

[0] https://dev.to/rkeene/raid5-lost-raid5-recovered-3kld

[1] https://www.rkeene.org/projects/info/resources/diatribes/blo...
sorry you had that experience! Would love to help you get the bot running locally so we can figure out what's going on — here's our Discord: https://discord.gg/NaU4mMgcnC
You're not alone. I think it's a problem with all 3D modelling and CAD software as well - it's all amazing - but it's all really quite horrible to use.

Just think how easy it is to do simple things like cutting and pasting selections in 2D (even with any number of layers) with tools like Photoshop, Pixelmator Pro and GIMP - now you try doing that in Blender or Fusion 360 and you'll quickly find that not only is not at all intuitive - it's a bloody nightmare.
Theres a fair precedent if you use the clear and present danger doctrine.

Not that I agree that it is actually an immediate threat to US national security, but anti-TikTok pundits claim it is and can spin their argument that way. Its not unreasonable following that premise.
You can elicit my thoughts to your heart’s content. Of course there’s meaning. That’s different from inherent meaning (imbued into our world via a god or something).
People repeat this for decades... Apparently never noticing that they have never ever been asked for the color of their car when getting an insurance quote.
That has nothing to do with TikTok.
Blindsight by Peter Watts. AI, consciousness, and also vampires :)
Not to be flippant but isn't everything better then k means?
This is the answer, IMO, and we are still dealing with the last of their generation for the next ten years or so.
On why automobiles all look the same:

dimensions are agonisingly chosen to please
the needs of the wind tunnel, to adhere to
government safety regulations, to properly
accommodate the average American family’s
collective weight of 78,000 lbs., and to
allow for enough cargo space for all their
crap

Look, I know we have an obesity problem. But the collective weight of the average family is not 78,000lbs!

I'm thinking they meant 780lbs (354kg) although even that seems a bit high.
Electronic Arts Says It Is Laying Off 6% of Workforce
I have NEVER been able to understand why it took so long for css to get to grid.

2d layout was something that was “solved” by desktop application layout mechanisms like 25+ years ago. One would have thought given all the attention paid to web apps at the dawn of “web 2.0” that this problem would have been licked fast, but no, instead we had 15 years of floundering with floats and the proliferation of turgid frameworks like bootstrap to get by.

So much confusion and suffering just because there was no will power to straighten this stuff out into something sane and cogent.
Welcome to Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Empire
Any decent reverse proxy should be able to shift traffic to new backend keeping old connections open. Nginx can, though combination of long tcp connections and frequent reloads would cause it to keep a lot of processes waiting for old connections to finish.
Like what ? Climate change ? The EU just voted for petrol and diesel car ban. Are we really single-threaded ?
You're looking at it backwards. Why would you ever want customers to see their total spend?
Haha, I fire first but always double-check later the things that on second thought look strange. TIL English is still hard for me after over 25 years, and I used to think I was a more careful speller than native speakers who often type by the memory of words' sounds, and I do not. It can always publicly bite you in the tushy.
Jeremy Hambly does a decent job breaking parts of it down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6AynjtnJG8
I wasn't criticizing additional means to achieve compliance -- I don't know what you think you were addressing there.

>Would you view a $100,000 non-dischargeable, non-expiring debt to the federal government when you have $100,000 in current assets as equivalent to $10 million non-dischargeable, non-expiring debt to the federal government when you have $100,000 in current assets?

Would you view the $10 million as anything other than a number that attempts to sound big but will not have any meaningful impact?

I can see $100k vs $200k as being a meaningful distinction, but not $100k vs $10 million (re-read the farce-ratio part).

>What’s weird from a system outside of money bail world is...money bail.

Did you miss this part?

>>Like, even accepting the validity/logic of the cash bail system,
It's (to some subset of the audience), an extremely persuasive tool, which is powerful in its own right.

It's actual capabilities mean very little, if some people can be convinced into doing decision making without actually doing any decision making by it (or literally any tool), that's cause for concern.
And add in just one peer-level war where one side has their back against the wall. Then give it 100 years where anyone can create such a model on their phone.

We’d need a constantly evolving inoculation function to compete. And it would probably lose because the other side has fewer restrictions. In my darker thoughts about this, this is why we see no aliens.

To get this to work we need a far smarter entity with no physical limitations to still want us around, indefinitely, despite us having an internet library of reasons why not to. It’ll have to be a lot more forgiving than we are. Let’s hope enlightenment is the outcome of this adventure. It’s possible because it didn’t grow out of angry monkeys who needed to fight to survive, but it’s not guaranteed. There are no indefinite guarantees.
> Prusa just aggressively brands opensource stuff.

I mean, they fork it, develop it further, and give it back to the community. That's entirely within the spirit of open source!

"Aggressively branding open-source stuff" would be like Chinese Alibaba sellers ripping off open hardware or Amazon redistributing PostgreSQL as an AWS SaaS offering.
https://cube.fyi/
I wish my business was floundering like Microsoft.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/net...
The IRS link you provided supports what I said.

> The donor is generally responsible for paying the gift tax. Under special arrangements the donee may agree to pay the tax instead.

The lifetime exemption on gifts and annual exemption on gifts are thresholds for the giver; not the recipient of the gift.

> If you receive a large cash gift you may be subject to income tax on that money.

This is more or less not true? Other than the (very weird) situation of agreeing to pay the gift tax, as the recipient you generally do not owe income taxes on the gift. If you were gifted something that generates income (e.g., stock or rental property), you will owe tax on that income after you receive it.
I was unfortunate enough to eat some rotten meat at a restaurant in Tanzania when I was working there. The main part was not down, but it was hidden under some potatoes, and I only discovered it as I ate.

Took me months to recover from it. Up to that point in my life, I was totally "regular" as they say. It was probably a year before I got back to normal in that respect.

Don't mess with your gut flora if things are going well, imo.
This is a good time to bring up General H¹²

His quadrant scheme was Clever vs. Stupid and Hardworking vs. Lazy

"I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord

[1] what short name would you use for "General Kurt Gebhard Adolf Philipp Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord"?

[2] opposed to hitler, btw
They will revolutionize the ability to find and fix vulnerabilities.

Threat actors can already afford expensive security researchers today. It removes some of the asymmetry.
it's a rhetorical question. think about it yourself. try it yourself
I have one of the first Prusas... and it sucks. It sucked from the very fist day. Faulty components. Material would not stick to the table. Warping. Miserable experience. It has been collecting dust ever since.
Several of those suggestions would violate the OSHW definition, a definition that was endorsed by Prusa himself: https://freedomdefined.org/OSHW
I mean, you can buy that information for 'practically free' (amortized per person), you don't need an app for that.
Great post. I felt inspired and wired it up to whisper.

- https://github.com/allen-munsch/hey_gpt_hey_whisper/blob/mai...
Here I was thinking it is because they require the "lifeblood" of others (the writings, videos, etc. which are uploaded by so-called "content creators") in order to exist. I like your description, too.
You're not completely wrong, but I think this overstating things by a lot. I'll grant you the containers for example, but you can generally use STL algorithms with them. And plenty of old ways of doing things have left modern Qt-based codebases and moved to more modern ways of doing things, including a fair amount of moc macro usage (and yes, you can remove the moc these days, but it has different perf characteristics - cf. the verdigris project).

The community around Qt is pretty active at adopting modern C++, e.g. imho https://github.com/danvratil/qcoro is leading work.

I'm glad that folks clamor for keeping things fresh, but every 30 year old project is going to span a few minor revolutions along the way.
> I don't want a link. I don't want to engage.

Isn’t this just another way to say that you don’t want the burden of choice, you just want someone else to chose for you? And in that case, capitalism will chose for you and you’ll definitely not get what you want or what is best for you but rather what has paid more to be promoted and sold to you.

It’s not better than clicking and buying the first result on Amazon.
> I don't think it's specifically China. I think it's retribution because ByteDance won't open US offices and be beholden to the US government like other large corporations do. I think this is the US gov using them as an example of what happens when a corporation such as this dares not fall in line.

The bill affects multiple countries, not just China.

In fact, it encompasses "any foreign government or regime, determined by the Secretary [to be]... significantly adverse to the national security of the United States or the security and safety of United States persons"

Depending on how much (or little) you trust the Secretary of Commerce, that's incredibly far-reaching and could easily be abused.
Some vulnerabilities have their own supply chain and incentives.
As a general feedback I have written it down here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34304376

Sorry for being a bit negative but I was very excited for AlloyDB as a potential serverless offering for Postgres. Especially after having good experience with Aurora. And we ended up wasting a decent amount of resources migrating to and then away from it, thus my frustration.

In our use-case we use Postgres essentially as a cache. We have many cloud runs (approx 100) writing a lot of data in parallel which we then on a schedule query in certain ways and put it to GCP. Its quite a bit of data, about 1 TB a day.

It was a very CPU bound effort and to get acceptable performance we had to rely on the 8 core configuration, and we couldn't reduce the memory (from 64). We were getting similar performance with a 4 core 8gb Cloud Sql instance.

Probably not the most representitive workload but this had exactly the opposite effect to what we wanted (e.g. much more wasted resources and less serverless).

Also the fact you couldn't disable it was an absolute joke (we have prod dev and staging env and if we have to have a big always running DB for each of them, you can see how that is unacceptable).

We are happy with CloudSql though.
Not only that, but it's based on a very certain, but false, idea of why it "works".
Ah, got it — that demo is a bit old and definitely has some bugs, my bad!
Wat [video] (2012)
> Why nothing about US media companies pushing advertising based on data that really should be protected by privacy laws?

Privacy is not the major concern here.

> Why nothing about the material released from Twitter by Matt Taibi, et. al.? Very concerning stuff for a country talking the talk about democracy.

Twitter is subject to the US courts and legal system and while there are issue we can work to resolve them.

> Why not enforce limits on what kids can watch and for how long, as China does? While I am all for free speech and liberty for adults, I think it is necessary for parents to put some guardrails on their kids.

Again not the issue.

Seriously, read at-least the start of the bill it makes it very very clear the main concern is limiting foreign powers ability to mass influence the general USA population.
Cube CSS – Simple, consistent, and pragmatic CSS methodology
Yes! As someone using both iOS and Android I cannot believe how Apple still requires a lengthy update process for those critical security updates. On my Pixel phone, installing the update is no slower than a regular restart. Users care about how long the downtime is for software updates. Make it faster, Apple.
Being able to post videos in a walled garden owned by a corporation is not free speech. freedom of speech, regardless of where you are on the political compass, is in platforms like Mastodon.
i helped build this! it's not what i do anymore, and i don't want to go into too much detail, but the TL;DR is that, yes, just walk out (JWO) really does use machine learning models to identify which products customers are picking.

This video from a year ago goes into more engineering depth than promotional videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5t6aYhj6pU

the non-obvious challenges of working in this space are that you have to deal with real world constraints that you just don't have to think about in 100% cloud based software. hardware goes down! internet connections go out! electricity goes out! how much processing can you do in store vs out of store?

that's just the tech in the store. what about humans? humans are now in your programming state moving shit around. in-store associates miss-stock items. kids do kid shit. people don't place things back exactly where they found them.

Then you have interesting distributed problems: how do you handle late data? what should be a massively parallel problem is really a graph of interactions that have to be resolved in just the right order so you can generate an accurate receipt.

and you know what's crazy? the vast majority of the time it works! exactly how they say it does: with machine learning models.

bonkers.
Art nouveau can be seriously intimidating, some of the interiors seem genuinely frightening to live in.

Nonetheless, it was one of the last art movements with a true vision, and most importantly staying with the theme of the article, divorced from concerns of practically and unit economics. It's unlikely we ever see something similar arise.
What hasn’t been mentioned at this point in the conversation is that 0.1x incompetence is much more common than problematic jerks.

It’s not apples to oranges. Both should be removed, and if you have to take one or the other (and only one of each) the jerk is the bigger issue.

If you normalize the jerk level down so that the jerks are as common as the 0.1x developers, I’d take those mild jerks any day.
Bytedance absolutely has US offices. Their Mountain View office being branded Bytedance, while their LA office is TikTok. They also have office in many cities in the US like Nashville and NYC.
You optimize for the common case, not the uncommon one. Shouldn’t we figure out why shootings in general are happening rather than fixating on a specific case because it involved an unpopular minority group?
It is reasonable. The price is on the shelf. But if you insist they have this too: https://static2.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/...

It's easier to challenge an Amazon Go receipt than any other store. I just click the link in the email and get my money. At other stores, I have to go inside and wait in line behind other people at the customer service desk. I prefer to get on with my day rather than argue over the price of a cabbage.
That chain cleaning page is satire, or at least that's how I read it.
Consumer choice is unequivocally good.

Besides, the problem is already solvable. People could simply stop using TikTok if they agreed that its disadvantages outweigh its benefits. No one is forcing them. This is a vote with your feet issue, plain and simple.
> relative failures of "Marvel's Avengers" (the video game) and Marvel Snap

Was Marvel Snap a failure? I saw it got talked about a lot, but the conversation didn't feel particularly organic.
Llama, alpaca and gpt4all API in Golang
It is a bit odd, but don't forget the role the Vorlons had, galactically speaking. That was supposed to be part of Jack's punishment/rehabilitation.
Freedom? You've got a weird definition of "freedom" if you think surrendering your autonomy to whoever happens to be running the services you rely on is "freedom."

The problem is that long term, you won't have any idea if what it's spitting out is reasonable or not. We already have more than enough problems with systems being too complex to understand. Solving that with "more complexity we can't understand" doesn't seem a great solution, personally.
Wait till she learns about web development and Corporate Memphis.
> They generally have higher insurance rates

Because they are on average driven by people who rate higher risk for other reasons, not because color is part of the model.

Otherwise, a popular hack would be to get insurance first, and then paint a car red/yellow if that’s what you wanted.
This somehow seems to really fit in with the upcoming “creativity” of LLMs, which is also a relatively shallow remixing of existing content.
Tbh, I'd just slack off. Don't tell anyone at work you want a pink slip, that can work against you when applying for UI. Also mind UI won't let you travel internationally, since logically your not exactly looking for work.
I agree. The problem that people are having is that CSS has completely changed within the past 5 years, especially positioning, as all of the modules have been implemented. Things that once involved elaborate and fragile rituals to perform are now trivial to write. If you knew CSS 10 years ago and never went back to survey it since, you don't really know CSS now.

I finally stopped claiming I knew CSS until I took a few months to work through a top to bottom overview. None of the skills I had 10 years ago apply to modern CSS; I had to give up every habit. This is a good time to do a review, because CSS development seems to have slowed down considerably, and browsers are all pretty good.

However, CSS has become very big, and web development teams should really start respecting it as a specialty in itself, and making sure they have at least one person who knows it all. Even if they use tailwind.
> I think nowadays Python is the new BASIC.

Maybe, but it certainly isn't the new Visual Basic.

Even in (was Delphi, now) Lazarus, there's much more to know when you need to create a simple application.
> I feel like they could have done this by creating a bill saying that US social media companies must be given the same access and freedoms to the Chinese market as TikTok has to ours.

If you read the bill, it's very transparent that it's not about market access, and that it's not specific to China. It explicitly names five other countries and also authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to include any country that they feel is an adversary to "national security" interests.
It's almost a certainty that countries with the means to do so will continue this research, if not in public then in secret. They'll see it as a royal road to nearly infinite riches and power. At the same time, letting another country take the lead will be seen as an unacceptable risk of ruin.

I really don't see AI research halting. Slowing a little, maybe, but I'm not sure if slowing it down a little and driving it underground will help.
I fail to see how this is any different from a human author
If US will pause AI, rest of the world will not. US business will be in disadvantage. US cannot give a lead in such important technology to other countries.
That's fair - but if that's the case, how is that actually different from YouTube, Instagram, or any number of other platforms? It appears in two ways:

1) TikTok is really good at what they do.

2) They are a Chinese-owned company.

It certainly feels like if it weren't for #2, they would be praised for their innovation and held up as a great American success story. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be skepticism in the name of national security, but of all the things threatening to destroy the planet on any given day, this feels low on the list.
> Incompetent nice people, as long as they are not so incompetent to be a liability can at least contribute to a strong team culture and make good competent people want to show up.

Until everybody realizes they are working harder to compensate for the dead wood on the team. The first person I ever fired was "incompetent, but nice", one of my team members said "We can always find someone who is nice AND can do the job to replace them" and that stuck with me for a long time.
Why? It seems focused on only applications/products from a few countries of concern
being competent and nice is exhausting (due to personalities, policy, politics). its easier to compromise on being nice or slacken your ambition than to navigate existing disfunction. assholes used to be welcome, but the bias is now toward being nice, so we end up with entire divisions of people in the top left of the graph.
There is no one silver bullet to clean up CSS. I think much of the problem is that many developers think of clean CSS as an afterthought. The same level of care and organization should be applied to CSS as you would apply to the rest of your code.

I have found that there are many tools out there:

- Design systems
- Web components
- Frameworks
- Naming conventions
- Higher level transpiled languages

Tools are meant to be used together, not in isolation. Any sufficiently complex app or page can benefit from mixing and matching these tools. At Aha! we have a design system, we use the BEM naming convention, we leverage web components, utility classes, and LESS.

With so many tools you can definitely get yourself into a mess unless you apply each one appropriately. That is where experience, discipline, and good old fashioned code reviews will help prevent a CSS nightmare file.