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Makerbot ran into the very problem that Prusa is facing right now. Shortly after the release of the Replicator , there was IIRC a guy out of Utah who was selling essentially a Replicator with new badging on it (FlashForge). They had been open source for a long time, but ended up going proprietary when they were being pushed out of the market by competitors repackaging their work. They also ended up being a bad community member by seeking patents for designs that were already in the community.

In my opinion, Prusa is what Makerbot was supposed to be. But it now seems that Prusa is struggling under the same trials that Makerbot faced before it.
Another example. Someone has yet another new programming language. Expected infrastructure was github, website with docs, editor/IDE integration, community repo, slack/mailinglist, etc. "Now" it's also a "chatoverflow" capable of answering "how do I ...?" and "translate this <code in popular language>". What does a MVP training set for this look like? Can translation be pushed to permit assimilating "batteries" from similar languages? What does the infrastructure for that look like? Does this mean a half century of agonizingly slow language evolution is about to state change?
This may be a legacy of kuro5hin.
This is a pure Anglo view, there is such a thing as L'Académie française which has done its thing related to the preservation of the French language and it has done a pretty good job at it.

Also, language is different compared to cuisine. Not saying that cuisine isn't important in defining a nation's "character", because it is, but language is quintessential when it comes to nation-building.
Yep. You can get a $10 AM radio with a 3.5mm plug, a $10-20 bluetooth transmitter, and a 3.5mm male to male cable and that'll do it.

Still though, AM radio is something you don't plan to use until you're in trouble usually. Most people tend to not plan ahead like that.
I am curious at what point concentrated wealth would allow an oligarch to dictate Fed policy through specific company policies. Want the fed to print more money? Lay off a bunch of workers and move a little too much money between banks. Want prices to rise? go on a hiring binge.
Originally from Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, March 1995
It's quite easy, the biggest question is whether it's worthwhile.

Important: IANAL!!!

You can open what's called a "Cayman Islands exempt" company, which can exist here in Cayman jurisdiction but which cannot do business in Cayman (basically don't compete with Caymanians in Cayman). This is generally how holding and investment companies are structured. _However_, this doesn't shield you from either personal taxes or visibility. Cayman is much more transparent than, say, Delaware. And if the book value of investments grows and you're American the IRS will find you quickly (if you have any assets in Caymanian banks they'll report your activity to US authorities regularly, even without a warrant or request.). KYC here is no joke, it took me a month to open a bank account here and I'm a permanent resident with Cayman parents.

Since this is HN though, you may be interested in a "fully remote" company with no real home - that works quite well here. You can pay contractors anywhere without holdbacks or forms and let them be responsible for their taxes (be aware of Nexus rules though, it's not foolproof.) You'll generally be responsible for taxes in the countries where you book income from that country, but (consult a lawyer) not always for SaaS. The biggest advantage IMO is that you'll be able to cut your paperwork down enormously because Cayman just doesn't care about the flows of money (so long as it's documented for laundering/tax avoidance reasons). Nothing to file, nothing to pay.

Finally, let me plug the good folks at Cayman Enterprise City. https://www.caymanenterprisecity.com/. They will set you up to actually have an office and presence here (in a really nice building downtown!), they can give some light legal advice and guidance, and if you have employees anywhere in the world who want to relocate to paradise they can get them a visa in a day or two to move here.

So yeah, it's "easy", it's not terribly useful for tax mitigation directly, it's (in my admittedly biased opinion) one of the best places in the world to anchor a truly global startup.

If you can share more context I can try to be more helpful? But likely the next step is an actual professional accountant/lawyer.
remember, at USD ~350k, minicomputers cost as much as houses.
The most telling thing about the state-of-the-art currently is that somewhere between all the marketecture in no-code and low-code, we can essentially create a recursive crawler on-the-fly on par with a large cloud provider (because it is) and ask it to do recursive crawls that at least begin to approach a sensemaking machine, i.e. it can provide consensus for subjective truth agreed upon by experts above and beyond simple objective truth. To me, that's the great innovation that truly embraces and extends average intelligence by providing a prosthetic device for the brain to make inferences that would have only been approachable by high functioning individuals previously, i.e. the kind of argument about consciousness that you see from low latency inhibition researchers like Peterson. What any individual does with this is really where prompt engineering becomes the human-computer agent collaboration that should be our default mode in computing - a kind of tortoise wins the race story where we lost our minds in the race to interaction via javascript. It's not terribly interesting to watch a computer type. There's a place for batch mode (queuing, etc) , if the tools built up around it handle long running job management well. Sadly, that seems rarer to me now than 30 years ago.
One of the most beautiful things about the open source / Linux world is that you rarely have to learn a new way of doing things, unless you want to. Prefer Gnome 2? Fork it. Not flippant advice -- enough people preferred it that a new community project started. So you can still run the desktop environment you did 15 years ago. That's simply not an option - no matter how many users might want it - with Windows should Microsoft make a decision about the direction of Windows. You will spend time and effort relearning after forced changes.
It's not a statute, but this IRS guidance clearly discusses deducting the combined interest.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p936
Writing X86 assembly is painful, writing aarch64 or RISC-V assembly is easy and fun. That, and everything is fast nowadays. Even microcontrollers are hundreds of MHz with huge memories. There's very little pressure to increase high-end performance, a lot of pressure to make more software.
A lot of effort is spent to reduce the size of structs in the Rust compiler

https://nnethercote.github.io/2023/03/24/how-to-speed-up-the...

3% and 6% of improvement doesn't seem like much, but at the level of rustc those big wins

Performance of Rustc must be continously tracked (here https://perf.rust-lang.org/) because if you don't proactively fight against bloat, the tendency is that the code will become slower over time (due to new features etc)
But, for insert, the CPU is not the bottleneck. It's I/O constrained.

Disk I/O has always been the bottleneck for writes.
Import Alignment: A Library-Based Approach to AI Alignment
Daniel Miessler suggests a way to help with the alignment problem.
Hindu - is someone who practices Hinduism and identifies as such, its not a language, that's Hindi.
Yup, that's a classic article.

My favorite is Chalmer's engine bit:

> What pops out of self-supervised predictive training is noticeably not a classical agent. Shortly after GPT-3’s release, David Chalmers lucidly observed that the policy’s relation to agents is like that of a “chameleon” or “engine”:

>> GPT-3 does not look much like an agent. It does not seem to have goals or preferences beyond completing text, for example. It is more like a chameleon that can take the shape of many different agents. Or perhaps it is an engine that can be used under the hood to drive many agents. But it is then perhaps these systems that we should assess for agency, consciousness, and so on.6
The problem is that VLIW has already proven not to work in the 90s with lots of companies investing money in it but not making it a product.

EPIC was basically VLIW++ with lots of added stuff that should overcome the issues with it, but not doing that successfully.

I don't think they underestimated the amount of transistors, they just thought that EPIC would be a better way to use them.

OoO had already proven itself in the 90s as well, so its not like this was unknown when they designed EPIC.
I didn't rant further, but Linux really is the best universal dev platform. I mean this in terms of examples, support, and tendency for developers to create tools, toolchains, and ecosystems from the commandline. This is because serious developers need CI/CD flows, and that is something that can only be done efficiently from the commandline, and the Mac POSIX system (with brew and macports) can emulate Linux almost sufficiently as a replacement, but not quite. There's a reason why everything in the backend ultimately lives on a Linux variant. It's just that powerful. Of course, if you're an iOS, Android, or Windows dev exclusively, my words mean nothing. :) There are plenty of CI/CD pipelines for those platforms, but they often tend toward ... Linux-like flows.
>but a falling tide grounds all boats.

More like the biggest piece of shit on the water is first to sink in the storm.

Tech was that POS. But other sectors are gonna feel the storm too. But they'll probably do better because smaller proportions of those industries are running on VC monopoly bucks that go tits up when the fed raises rates.
Obviously yes? You know what needs to be done to fix the issue, you simply need to communicate upwards that it’s in check. A certain amount of herding is to be expected.
Your objection boils down to

>What if you want to [do software engineering]?

Then you're a software engineer. Writing prompts isn't engineering. Building systems is engineering. Just because I use keyboards to program doesn't mean I'm a keyboard engineer, does it?
Not only ads but also lots of fluff. I just opened it for the first time in a while and it had to load a new EULA. it took almost 30s to get into a game. Once you’re in there is an XP system, and notifications to get a subscription or buy card designs. Ironically it costs $2.99 to get the windows xp card designs.

Thankfully it’s easy to find the windows xp versions which were the best, and they still work.
> Policing, as an institution, should be eliminated

What would you do about murderers?
Its my bad. As I re-read parent, I think you are right. It does not really apply. I would delete my comment, but it is too late at this point.
Agree. I know for Postgres, we are getting at least 50K / second sustained and not doing anything special - other than using bulk insert.
Depression is a function of idleness
Whatever arcane configuration is required to disable dynamic contrast seems to get regularly reset with Windows updates (although this may be a graphics card driver vendor issue -- nevertheless). No, Windows, I don't want you to turn the backlight down when I'm looking at a dark image.
This is it exactly. I've got clients I work with in two federally recognized under-served areas that ISPs have gotten government grants for supporting.

And yet, when you try and talk to the ISP about problems with the 2.5-down-.4-up DSL line they provide their literal reply is "You're lucky you have a dialtone."

This is at a location 1.7 miles down the road from a school that has gigabit fiber.

The existing programs are a joke. Nothing short of competition is going to get the ISPs to fix their problems. Centurylink has lost about 7k/month on customers switching to StarLink just on this one road. Maybe someday they'll consider fiber, but until then Starlink is a godsend.
Git with OneDrive/Dropbox (2016)
Not to do with tonal quality, but in the ages of 4- and 8-track garage recording my music with semi-formed bands, the phrase I'm sure I was most guilty of using toward bassists was "drive it home". That always referred to a specific point in a song, though, and at least was something I could pick up a bass and demonstrate. It's that moment when the bass is supposed to deliver the satisfaction of answering and closing, resetting the rhythm and the melody at the same time, taking everything from noodly to clean again.
I think the balloon's just there to demonstrate it at a distance. The plate is not much larger than the balloon. The real amazing thing is hitting the plate at 200 yards! And with a snub nose. I mean this guy's a freak!

BTW - about your theory, I was thinking this too. But can we be sure? Is that an impact blemish on the left or something else? Was it already there?
The article shows orange space suit. Interesting to me cause an orange suit on mars is probably not a good idea. A while suit on moon is also not. If you want to tell objects apart then maybe you need a per planet colour for a space suit ?
I enjoyed reading this, and it matches some of the environments I've worked in the past.
I used to store a bare git repository in Dropbox as a student. It was why I got into git over subversion: I didn't need a running server up have source control.
This is similar to the classic might vs right debate.

Just because you're legally allowed to do something, doesn't mean that you can pretend it's ethical.

The law is not meant to regulate the entirety of human society and behavior, we're not robots, after all.
> A counter to this is the Académie Française

Which happens to be the laughing stock of the rest of the world, good call.
> As defined by the lecturer herself, "h(t) = h(t-1)", the very definition of hysteresis.

How is that a definition of hysteresis?

Hysteresis is when state is a function of previous state, not identical to previous state.
Ok, then it's not "prompt engineer", it's "researcher" or "analyst".
>I would go even further and say I don't like ideas like Firefox's/Brave's "Enhanced Tracking Protection" which blocks certain services with a handpick ruleset. Don't get me wrong, I block these trackers myself in uBlock Origin, but I don't like idea that a browser maintains an arbitrary list itself of what to block for the users.

The primary difference is in the messaging. Tracking protection is an opt-in feature, so the user is always aware of it. Additionally, at least in the forms I've encountered it, it doesn't outright prevent you from navigating to a website. At worst it breaks some sites, and you disable it, it's sitting right there in your browser navigation bar. Don't agree with some block? Overriding it is a click away.

Meanwhile, safebrowsing doesn't announce itself anywhere except when it hits you in the face with a giant red screen, specifically designed to inspire a sense of fear/dread. Override buttons are intentionally not outright presented to the user, and the toggles to completely disable the feature are tucked deep into advanced features where no muggle may reach.

It may sound stupid but this simple difference in optics radically changes the effect such a "manual blacklisting" feature has on its users. That said I agree it'd be nice to have more control over the tracking protection feature in firefox, e.g. by allowing custom lists, like uBlock does.
Right now, it is not possible to like tweets, to view threads, or to view someone’s activity. Most images don’t load.

This is not the news.

The news is that this is not an event deemed significant. This is the norm.
My inner ring trap is retirement. I can’t wait to get there.
Having not been around when Python gained in popularity, and having mostly been using Node.js and Swift, this is actually quite interesting.

Thanks!
Isn't that already happening?
And isn't that what caused all this mess in the economy.
Every time Fed wanted to end quantitative easing Wall St threw a hissy fit and they didn't dare to do it.
They will read a memoir that you write about them. For instance, if you have a child, write a memoir about his/her childhood years from your perspective.
Most of these games don't do a great job at preventing cheaters; for years all Riot did to deter cheaters in League was threaten legal action against the cheat creators (In particular Joduska.me which was a scripting framework that enabled automated performing actions perfectly), Blizzard dealt with cheats by threatening legal action against WOW botters, CS:GO has Overwatch because Valve only mass-bans cheaters once every few years (and only when that cheat developer has amassed tens of thousands of customers and has open signups), and personal anecdotes from friends suggest that Apex cheating is somewhat still a problem. For VRChat, what would cheating even be for? Epilepsy / bypassing model age rating?
There is already direct hydrogen reduction, why bother with ammonia?
At least hydrogen can be from solar electricity, not so much for ammonia.
Bungie is specifically and on-purpose making the game broken on Linux for no apparant reason. Other BattleEye titles work just fine. There's no technical reason why it doesn't work. All the technical work was done all the way in 2021.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4145017/view/31046...

This is one of those cases where you need to vote with your money and stop supporting studios that are hostile to Linux. I actively avoid all Bungie titles for this reason.
Nah, the WebAssembly version of Postgres got upvoted.

I'm waiting for someone to transpile MySQL to PHP to see what the limits of HN upvotes are, however.
> Language models don’t—if you run the same prompt through a LLM several times you’ll get a slightly different reply every time.

You can get deterministic output (on a given machine) by setting temperature=0. The Chatgpt interface doesn't let you do that, but the playground API does.
No that's r/castiron
I would say many Southern dialects are (or were, more exactly) proper languages, it's only with the advent of the Unification of Italy that the "florentine language" got the upper hand.

For example just this evening I was listening to this Neapolitan (I think it's Neapolitan, definitely Southern) song Brigante se more [1] and I needed to see the written down lyrics to get a hold of it [2], as I couldn't understand almost anything at a first hearing. I know Italian pretty well, but I just couldn't parse the song when hearing it directly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haF2sPzb63s

[2] https://theitaliansong.com/songs/brigante-se-more/
I'd love to know if anyone discovers what is goin on with PWAs. I got wake lock working in the browser but not with the PWA.
Some missing features: give access to terminal, bypass captchas, allow online payments, use a bank account, let it use a phone using TTS, let it generate photos and post on internet...
Quite nice, but by definition limited to the stacks it covers, isn’t it?
I quite enjoy using windows terminal + powershell + dotnet. I would probably use powershell even if I went back to Linux.
That's an insult to both engineers, and reverse engineering. "AI Monkey" is pretty good imo if all you're doing is copy pasting responses from an LLM
Depends on the person because I use both and prefer Windows 10 over MacOS.

The Windows 10 taskbar with "never combine taskbar buttons" is a lot more productive for me, especially when using multiple monitors.

I tried some apps that emulate this on MacOS, but there were always issues.

This is why I'm still on Windows 10 and not 11.

I also prefer the Windows Explorer view, where the left side are folders and the right side the contents of the folder.
I find both this comment and the original article super weird. Conventional wisdom has been against the use of document.write since before many of today's webdevs were even born.

It's still in the browser, of course—because it has to be. But it's not as if people are being taught to use document.write and then having the rug pulled out from under them in a "sike!" moment when it's revealed that this often used fixture of the programmer's toolbox is is actually problematic. What strikes me as odd about the article is that we've reached a point where not only are people not being taught to use document.write anymore, they're not being taught not to use it anymore, either. That's how much of a non-issue this is. So what's with the article belaboring the point?
Ah I forgot most people don't have "old reddit" turned on by default. The new UI is absolutely atrocious.
I feel I have the duty to express my protest with the following comment that, I'm sorry is difficult to translate, in the spirit more then in the form, not only in English but also in Italian for people don't live in Rome: "A Melo' ma vattela a pijar 'under cool' !!! ". My kind regards to al the Italians following Hacker News.
Can anyone find evidence that the startup "Chai" did in fact make a chatbot called Eliza? My Google searches so far only reveal repeated claims originating from the news article.
All the good managers I've ever encountered have the same skill:

They ask smart questions.

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At the beginning, they try to understand the situation by asking the very dumb questions - but they're not shy about it.

They'll say, "Let me pick your brain", "Sorry I'm an idiot, so let me ask this dumb question" - and so on.

No ego.

But in no time, their questions will become smarter.

Coupled with their big picture view / perspective, their understanding of the system and the business - they quickly became a very helpful assistant for us to understand the problem, and in many cases, even able to suggest the, best, solution.

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Bad managers gives no added value, and instead distract you from your job.

Any senior management should understand these, and should be able to pick the good ones.

Otherwise the company/institution will be mired with persistent problems in no time.
I think articles like this are written to gain some points for employment purpose. If I was hiring however this type of article would be a net negative as it leaves me with the impression that the author has no clue about real life situations.
Was this Brookline? I vaguely remember something like this
Huh? How would they get better without engineering? Why would it be a good idea to use them in all cases all of the time?
Building line breaks into your sentences every 80 characters makes for a terrible mobile experience
That link appears to be to a wrapper around the same, including the paywall.
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