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> There was a protest march in Mumbai against gun violence in the US. That was the only time I ever wanted to punch someone for expressing a political opinion in person.

Let me get this correct, because your comment is baffling to me. People often protest the actions of other countries, usually by protesting in their home country at the embassy of the other country that is doing something they want to protest. For example, people in countries around the world routinely protest against the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs by protesting in their country at the local Chinese embassy. Their goal is ostensibly to get the Chinese government to change their policies, or at least generate media coverage to raise awareness about the issue.

I'm assuming this is the event you're referring to in Mumbai, and I'll use a source that holds as cynical of a view as you do in covering it: https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/what-s-hot/story/mumbaik...

The protesters assembled at the US Consulate in Mumbai to protest policies by the US government that are directly leading to innocent people in the US being murdered almost every day in mass shootings. In the same way that Chinese government treatment of Uyghurs is not an issue outside of China, US government policies around guns is not an issue outside of the US (even though it actually is, because the US is a major supplier of guns around the world). How is this any different than protesting at the Chinese embassy over internal Chinese government policy?

I'll also say that if you felt an urge to use physical violence to respond to someone expressing a political opinion, then you need to get mental health treatment immediately.
That's the standard loop, but there are ways out.
> Where we agree / First, I want to get out of the way some things that I completely or mostly agree with. Josef's first key item is in regards to the GPL: The standard GNU GPL license under which our printers and software are available is very vague, written in a complicated way, and open to various interpretations. It was developed by academics for academic purposes.

This is just pure wrong. Now, I'm willing to grant that the GPL might not be suited to hardware--hardware is generally patented, not copyrighted--if given a substantive analysis, but I note that commercial firmware-in-hardware is covered by the same copyright law and licenses that GPL is meant to deal with, so right at the outset this critique seems like gibberish, and if pursued looks set to produce a new poorly thought out problematic license.

> music equipment, where one asshole with a big factory is cloning and undercutting every popular product he can, including those by small open hardware designers.

Behringer makes high quality, good sounding, inexpensive music gear that makes great sound available to young and barely-professional musicians. Most musicians are classic "starving artists", and Behringer is selling them more affordable stuff than anybody else. Seems a strange market to attack. (Behringer mostly clones and modernizes "classic" synths from (say) the 70's and 80's, most of whose original designers are dead, and who made good money off them back in the day before selling out to soulless corporations, and models that aren't even available any more, hardly the poster children for being ripped off.
My experience is the same. I was also surprised by the made up non-functional code that looks Ok on the surface.
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> are actively trying to export themselves to Europe

What are the evidence of this? Has there been an uptick in American right-wings activities in Europe?
This seems to be a scooter-tour-type thing. If you walk around the city, most of what you see is Lime, Tier and Dott, the ones the article talks about.
That article misrepresents what he said in the interview. He did not "later clarify" that Washington and London were supporting a peace deal. He insisted they were very cool to the whole idea. Also, in the interview, he said that the negotiations were killed at the 2-week point, and then Bucha happened at the 4-week point. He said that after Bucha, it was impossible to resume the negotiations (which had already been blocked).
But the mass of the extracted oxygen exceeds the mass of the ammonia used, and we're only talking about 250 PSI to liquify anhydrous ammonia at room temperature. A large pressure vessel's mass is going to be negligible compared to the mass of the ammonia it holds. So, the same displacement ship traveling at the same speed can supply the production of more steel if you ship the ammonia to the iron ore instead of the other way around.
I’m talking about the snide remarks towards InstankInk throughout the article. The GP says that because the author prints 10 pages a year it’s a bad deal. I’m arguing that InstantInk is a great deal for someone that prints 10 pages a year. The author should’ve said “yea, I followed principles here, but honestly I should’ve gotten InstankInk from the very beginning” instead of crapping on it
Yes, the training data comes from people, and people are corrupt, illogical, random, emotional, unmotivated, take shortcuts, cheat, lie, steal, invent new things, and lead boring lives as well as not so boring lives. Expect the same behaviors to be emulated by a LLM. Garbage in = garbage out is still true with AI.
Translation - SQLite is capable of 15K batch uniform inserts/s under some configuration. I have no clue what is so impressing here.

And what magical potion Rust adds to this result?
I first heard about Miegakure from xkcd. It's been just about 13 years exactly since that comic.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/721:_Flatland
Given ChatGpt lowers the entry to programming, I'd be worried about teenagers writing malware sooner than AI supremacy.
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I think I may have read it on here before, this thread just jogged my memory and I figured I'd ask.
I realized this rather spectacularly with MMORPGs.

I've long been a fan of open world MMOs with basically next to no mandatory quests. Think Runescape, Ragnarok Online, MapleStory, etc. Loved them, and Ragnarok Online is to this day still among my top favorite games of all time.

One day, Guild Wars 2 dropped to great hype and fanfare and I bought it to try it out.

Good fucking god damn hell in a shit basket, I fucking hated it. Quests everywhere. Quests. Quests. Quests. Quests. Quests. Quests. Quests. Quests. Quests. Quests. Quests.

Walk around a bit? Here's a side quest! Pan the camera? Here please take this quest! No? How about this quest?!

It is still the worst use of $60 bucks that I've ever spent.
Military service people are killers first and foremost. They're put through grueling test and training processes. It doesn't matter what kind of world you wish this was, those people are primarily going to be aggressive men. When you target other groups of people with your advertising, when you make such an environment that those type of men aren't welcome in the military, the military suffers, it's that simple.
> Every season it seems like there's a new generation that discovers and abuses them to no end, endangering everybody around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September in meatspace.

Myspace went the other way around: spray paint was invented first.
Why restrict your kid's knowledge? I know about plenty of people in plenty of countries.
Sorry, $10/kg was what I was thinking of https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/09/28909310/elon-musk-calls...
I think short term rental lowers that risk by having more renters but none under contract. Air b&b is a terrible thing but also the local maximum for individuals
Are you saying that you don't suffer (or at least consciously feel the effects of) cognitive fatigue? If I am interested in something, I like to focus on it for quite a while, but after enough time passes, I just can't any more. I do think that there are some people who can naturally last much longer doing cognitive work than is the norm, though, much like some athletes are natural ultramarathoners. So perhaps you are one of those people.
Heavyside's vector notation compressed Maxwell's twenty-some component equations into four. Thats elegant for teaching and teeshirts. However when I want to compute them on a computer grid, I use something closer to Maxwell's original equations.
I make OSHW, and can see why Prusa would do this.

Black when he was a nobody, these clones were, if anything, free advertising for a product nobody would have otherwise heard of.

But now he's well known, the clones just make it harder to profit off of his work.

Sucks that it's like that, but not at all surprising.
Reverse-engineering Zyxel WX3401-B0 encryption and replicating in Python
How the early universe developed 'lumpy clumps of matter'
> Maybe one day journalism could be replaced with an immense surveillance state with a GPT-4 plug-in. Why would we want that?

For starters, it wouldn't try to tie surveillance and AI together with an presupposed, ridiculous hypothetical.
Our shipping department runs on brother machines, the 6200 something. I don't recall the model number offhand, but these printers are intended for a office, they really aren't true commercial spec machines. That being said, the oldest one has a page count of 1.5m last I had looked and the only real maintenance they have needed is occasional disassembly to dust them from paper fibers.

The off brand toner cartridges work OK, but they have much lower than advertised capacity. I had run the numbers 6 months ago, and the most economical option is the high capacity OEM brother units. However, my one real annoyance is the printer reports low toner well before it is actually low, we get ~500-1k pages after the low toner warning before the prints start getting faint.
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Kinda yes, in addition it was the language in which 3 of the most important Italian poets (Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio) wrote. To be honest, even if Florentine became the official Italian language soon after Italy was unified in 1861, it wasn't until 1960s that Italians started to speak it everyday thanks to radio and TV. In addition, I would argue that the use of dialects is still a thing here (and these dialects not only are very different languages from Florentine, but they drastically differ within a range of 10 km from one town to another)
Polandball means we all know what "kurwa" means.
While I tend to agree with you, this doesn't look like anything actionable.

I've even tried it by saying something like: "I get the impression you don't really enjoy your job" and getting a response something like "no, I hate it, I hate trying to manage people", and then suggesting the look at job ads.

Nothing has changed since.
I get you have two hands, but they just said exactly opposite things. If you don't need a preservation movement, then there's no need to worry about global cultural homogenisation. So which is it? Or did you just speak too soon on hand 1?
Is this a result of the machine-instead-of-human-reviewer/editor difference, or because of a sense that the writing is less a "pure" output of a singular author?
The Case Against Artificial Intelligence in Design
It's a general feeling that might be shared by lots of people. In the Classical era (think Mozart and early Beethoven), moving to the subdominant was seen as reducing tension.

The whole generation of tension in a Classical sonata form is by modulating to the dominant early on and gradually returning to tonic. Subdominant modulations would be used near the end to achieve a sense of resolution before a final, decisive dominant to tonic movement.

Those are massive generalizations, but that is kind of the point: the meaning of certain gestures changes with time, place, and culture. There are no hard rules in music, except when there are, but even then they're mostly relative.
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> You're throwing shit at the wall and hoping it sticks.

A more charitable description might be "You're employing the scientific method to extract value from GPT-like systems." Just like in science, with time you're developing intuition for how the underlying system works, but you still have to run the experiments.
And who trains it to find the problems? now your building scanning tools and if you've lucky you can get it to print out a commit to fix it if you have access to the code..
The FDA approves medical treatments, many of which are chemicals. They approve treatments based largely on how effective it is as treatment. It's safety profile is studied and considered in a broader context. Many drugs approved by the FDA are incredibly blatantly unsafe. The FDA spends non-trival amounts of effort communicating risks associated with chemicals to doctors and patients.

Outside of this example, proving a negative on this scale is a 1000x larger problem than proving there are no leprechauns. No one has proven there are no leprechauns. It is logically possible to prove a negative, but we simply cannot observe all of the places a leprechaun might be hiding at the same time. The best thing we can do is list off all the places we know there are no leprechauns. This is very different than "proof".
Gotta get those engagement metrics. Also it actually is nice having them all in a row in a tweet thread.
Indeed, it recognised that being "European" was more than a geographical concept.

Note that in 2014 it was "Euro-maiden" not NATO-maiden, or West-maiden.
This is exactly right.

Years ago, very early in my career, I rotated among a few teams at the company, and even then, one manager stood out as different from the others. I straight-up asked him if he had a philosophy or something, and this is what he said:

"Yeah, my job as a manager has three parts. First, get the right people for the job. Second, get them the resources they need. Third, get everything else out of their way."

Decades later, this still rings true. That team was the most productive I've ever seen.
I don't know Italian law, but it seems to set a very dangeorus precedent for freedom. What will they decide censor next? Are Italians now subject to the preferences of their government?
I’ve been that SRE senior manager in some longer-than-ideal outages.

One of my biggest roles was chasing off the lookie-loos and fending off the VPs and CIO (usually by telling them to GTFO of the war room but then going to give them an update away from the team with what we knew and what I thought).
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The article is not meant to show off how fast it is, but how easy it is to achieve a good-enough level of performance without anything special. It's meant to show that you don't need specialized "infinitely scalable" services.
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VLIW was really marooned in time: driven by overconfidence in the compiler (which had shown that you could actually expose pipeline hazards), and underestimates of the coming abundance of transistors (which make superscalar OoO really take off, along with giant onchip caches). well, and multicore to sop up even more available transistors.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_world_hypothesis
Right, circular logic. If I have to manage my manager, can I just manage myself?
Thank you so much Alex, welcome to Algora!! love the chess diagram in the Terrastruct D2 README ;) first Golang open source bounty, let's go!
Programming embedded systems using Atmel and similar low-cost SoC's is very much like working on computers in the 1980s and 1990s. But with PC hosted dev tools far easier and cheaper.

Since you mention an interest in this space, consider buying an Arduino kit and building some cool personal projects. Once you have some experience, look around your part of the world and identify any needs that you could solve with an embedded solution.
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> This sounds more like Josef and perhaps the author have a romantic idea about open source but now dislike the realities.

You think probably one of the most famous open source hardware designers has "romantic ideas about open source" and somehow you, dear random HN commenter, are wiser?

It's more like: Josef has been trying to carry the mantle of open source hardware and has finally had enough of manufacturers leeching off him, making piles of money, not contributing anything back, and worse: the 3d printing community not just tolerating it, but gleefully funding the people not contributing anything back.

People get riled up when Linksys or Netgear won't release source code, but Ender and others copy Prusa's designs and...everyone cheers and runs out to buy it.

Of course the poor man is fed up.
> This is reductive

> at the end of the day you either go super fast or it’s super scary

Ironically, I find this statement reductive and unnuanced, not the Jack Kornfield quote.

You have no idea how the people you observed screaming in fear lived and loved in their lives.
Does it make it stronger over time?

Is it like muscles- pain few days after exercise but over 6mos, significant difference?
I agree. I also wonder, given that chat logs were not published (and fair enough), how much influence the chatbot actually had on this fellow taking his life. I imagine a reasonable person would likely not be so easily persuaded to take their life, unless they were already in the depths. The idea that an AI manipulated someone into this act from start to finish is certainly great from a clicks POV right now; I would speculate that this article falls closer to that end of the spectrum and the truth closer to the other.

Because I know some HN pedant will read this as "ai fine, man stupid " - that is not my point or thinking. Unfettered AI having access to vulnerable individuals is clearly a bad idea.
Goals at what level? I mean the goals for the CEO are so broad almost anything that is not going to land the board in court is a likely candidate. But for most middle management goals are highly restrictive.

I suspect that the guy who invented gmail (or rather linked ads to the text), had he asked his manager would have been told "hell no, fix the javascript bug that's assigned this week - that is putting us behind target for the month"

I generally think one should measure new or increased capability as opposed to most other metrics.

How is an interesting question
He may not get reciprocity but his platform absolutely benefits from it being open source. The number of mods this has enabled makes his printer better. It’s that simple in my mind.
Just tell us what to do never works
I'm a relatively new team lead (this is my second year with the title officially, though I did TL responsibilities prior) and my entire goal is to be the antithesis of the type of manager mentioned in the article. My best managers were ones that let me focus and removed roadblocks, so I try to do the same. Ideally, my team has zero to one meetings per day (stand-up inclusive); I'd rather them focus on development than get caught up in unnecessary meetings. As a result, I'm often in meetings instead (which is fine) and then can give my appropriate teammates the outcomes of those chats. Everything else should be offline / async where possible, and I try to prefix those slack messages with a priority level so they can tell at a glance whether a given message can be safely ignored until a break between work items.

So far my team seems to love this arrangement, but I'm curious if anyone has advice on the long term effects of this approach.
Yes! Thank you! This is why I am always irked when people make a big fuss about income inequality. It's like dude, WEALTH inequality is the problem! In fact people should be HAPPY about income inequality as it offers one the opportunity to try and bridge the gigantic wealth gap between themselves and the oh-so-holy historical "winner" families of capitalism. I'm sure the super-rich are laughing maniacally while bankrolling clueless youngsters who try and fight against high wages for the workers of the US.
I have an idea what skills are required to dynamicly generate HTML and how to measure quality.

Can you share something similar for "prompt engineering" ?
Try again with bun. It uses a baked-in SQLite silicate to better-sqlite3.

https://bun.sh
Something smells off about this. The author pulled an old laptop from under their desk and was able to install windows 11? Not likely in my experience.

How did the author even get a windows 11 install since they claim they have not used windows since version 8.

Will any win8 laptop even support an upgrade to 11? I doubt it.

Why not get linux running on the old laptop. Mint likely installs just fine.

I'm not saying win 11 is great and frankly none of the systems I have will even install it as they do not meet the requirements just that I find the set up to be sus.
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They do at the end, but using reddit is more annoying than any of those volume controls. Did you try navigating that thread? Over 400 replies and no way to conveniently filter, sort, or search. Not worth it.
Your perspective is correct but missing a critical fact. The hedge fund manager still pays taxes in his home country for his earnings abroad. So he still pays the taxes for those services.

Where it gets more crazy is if the hedge fund manager is a US citizen but hasn’t lived in the US for decades. The USG still requires he pays taxes, even though he isn’t using any services. That’s because taxes aren’t a free agreement to purchase services but are rather an exercise of force.
Yeah, the Navajo and Lakota are very noticably culturally distinct from each other, maybe even more so than people from Swabia and people from North Frisia.
IMO, Itanic was a doomed design from the start, the lesson to be learned is that "You can't statically schedule dynamic behavior." The VLIW/EPIC type designs like Itanium require you have a _very clever_ compiler to schedule well enough to extract even a tiny fraction of theoretical performance for both instruction packing and memory scheduling reasons. That turns out to be extremely difficult in the best case, and in a dynamic environment (with things like interrupts, a multitasking OS, bus contention, DRAM refresh timing, etc.) it's basically impossible. Doing much of the micro-scheduling dynamically in the instruction decoder (see: all modern x86 parts that decompose x86 instructions into whatever it is they run internally that vendor generation) nearly always wins in practice.

Intel spent decades trying to clean-room a user-visible high end architecture (iAPX432, then i860, then Itanium), while the x86 world found a cheat code for microprocessors with the dynamic translation of a standard ISA into whatever fancy modern core you run internally (microcode-on-top-of-a-RISC? Dynamic microcode? JIT instruction decoder? I don't think we really have a comprehensive name for it) thing. Arguably, NexGen were really the first to the trick in 1994, with their Nx586 design that later evolved into the AMD K6, but Intel's P6 - from which most i686 designs descend - is an even better implementation of the same trick less than a year later, and almost all subsequent designs work that way.