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I've been burned with enough (temporarily) 'free' CAD software that I've finally made the permanent switch to FreeCAD.

I am a huge fan and can easily recommend it.

Maybe in the past, FreeCAD wasnt good, but today its just CAD software. Sure it might not have a wire harness tool that gives you a report about different wires, but I've used enough CATIA to know that CATIA doesnt work either. (maybe hyperbole, but basically Catia tools were so bad, my company ended up writing our own checks).

Bonus points that there is already google indexed support for every question you can imagine. Can't say that about niche Catia stuff.
They already effectively killed EAGLE as I knew it, so this isn't really a surprise. What a wonderful piece of software. I'm sad to see it go.
Small, rural towns are pretty much the same everywhere - America, Germany, wherever. They don't like modernity too much, they tend to be very conservative, they tend to keep to themselves and they don't like outsiders.

Maybe she's never been stationed near a small town in the United States? I used to be stationed at Camp Lejeune, which is located in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The locals are downright hostile to the Marines. One day I lost it on a shop owner who treated me like dirt and muttered some comment about those goddamned marines upon which I spun around on my heel and pointed out he sure doesn't mind taking their money! When I got back to base I told the NCO authorizing leave passes about it and they put up a sign warning Marines to not visit that store. After losing a substantial amount of business the guy started singing a different tune.

Anyway, all that is to say small towns are different and they're not as accepting of outsiders. Even in the United States.
> the issue is an absolute lack of systems and personnel in government to meter and observe

Ah yes, a bloated bureaucracy has always been the recipe for a flourishing economy. The US is still probably the most solid, wealthy and - compared to its peers - fast growing economy in the world. The lack of administrative meddling is what made the US the dream destination for all the most ambitious people around the world. A radical shift to jeopardize that is a terrible idea.

I'm not from the US, but I'm glad different systems with different strengths exist. Even if only so we can compare how differences in e.g. amount of regulation etc affect a country overall.
I feel the same way when threads come up where I know the area very well. The ignorance and strong opinions from people that don't know what they're talking about can be maddening.

But, the small signal to noise (maybe 1/10 or 1/20) that I often find on HN makes it worth it. I for one appreciate attempts!
> I also use flash cards where I put the problem description on the card and the algorithm to solve it on the back.

Have you used space repetition software (SRS) before? You’re 90%+ there already. You build up a deck of cards with a “memory prompt” on the front and the “memory” on the back.

The software tests you on the deck and passes your results through an SRS algorithm that estimates your “forgetting curve” that predicts when you’ll forget a memory.

Then, right before you forget, it’ll reprompt you to refresh the memory.

I use Anki off-and-on and love it.
Because it isn't mildly long. It's either very long or infinite, anywhere where gas is ~ 1/3 the cost of electricity per kWh. COP of 3 at a 3:1 price ratio for electricity to gas = 1.

Which itself makes sense if you use gas as the RELIABLE source of kWh. You need to burn ~ 3kWh of primary energy in gas to deliver 1 kWh to the household, so 3:1 makes sense, and the RELIABLE source of kWh is the price setter because a failure of the grid is literally an existential crisis, something the "agile" private sector companies aren't liable for.

An auxiliary annoyance in the UK is that reversible pumps aren't renewable for government grants. This is ostensibly to discourage aircon, but rather silly, since there are few easier green power problems today than "satisfy a demand that is almost perfectly correlated with high insolation".

FYI as a type the largest suppliers are gas, solar, then nuclear - of which nearly half is being pulled from France, an amount that for some reason isn't always counted by some people.
Yes and no. If you own a factory operating at design capacity, and a supply shock bumps prices up enough to incentivize you to increase supply, your marginal cost is probably going to go up to get from %100 to 120%. (Overtime, more expensive downtime, increased duty cycles on equipment, more expensive rush repair, etc.
Interesting take, I love it. That said - do people play piano for 6-8h a day? Or, knowing piano players and their … let’s say “determination”: after how many hours do your arms get tired?
"If you're looking for some good content to learn more about this"
I can also recommend the book How To Change Your mind by Michael Pollan.
1: Publicly saying one thing and then turning out to have been doing something different when someone blows the whistle or it comes out in a lawsuit would be far more damaging to them than just not making the commitment. (Also, I worked at Google until a little over a year ago and if we'd been using fingerprinting for ad targeting I would have seen it.)

2: Detecting fraud and abuse, which is generally interpreted as not requiring consent under the GDPR (though I think that may not be correct: https://www.jefftk.com/p/can-ads-be-gdpr-compliant).
Good question. For the sake of appearances ? Ya don't necessarily want to become known as a haven for copyright violation.
Actually, he doesnt even exist.
He is a fantasy made by someone who has a very very pessimistic view of humanity. There are not very many Lesters out there. Sure, maybe a few, but he is writing about something that is not at all relatable. Hes singled out some fucked up abscess in the human race and tried to make him sympathetic.
I found the “Royale” theme from Windows Media Center far superior.

https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Windows_XP_themes#Royale
>But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule.

As another commenter has pointed out, this is a more comforting and maybe also more realistic stance when it comes to professional/scientific achievement. Unfortunately, however, early specialisation is definitely the rule nowadays in professional football ("soccer"). I'm assuming it's the same for Basketball/Football/Baseball/... in the US and elsewhere.

Pretty much every player who's playing in the top leagues now grew up in an academy, where their education and social lives revolved around their football practice routine, not the other way around. That is not only the top leagues like Premier League or La Liga, but also the leagues that come below it. Players like Brinkmann, Scholl, Bernd Schneider, ... are celebrated as the exception to the rule.

I used to "play" in the fifth league in Germany (Oberliga BaWü) for 2 seasons (barely got any time on the pitch) and even there, almost every player was in some sort of specialised training since they were 5 or 6, either in the youth programmes of local clubs or private academies their parents paid a lot of money for. Everyone is dreaming of playing in the Bundesliga and the academy owners know that. Players coming from a different sport later in their childhood were the exception.
Shame, too; that was a really fun language.
titles certainly matter and some fields have very specific definitions as to roles and levels of responsibility. medical workers come to mind.
“ I wonder what will be next or are we going to stick with heartless, cold metal designs forever”

If any design folks have an opinion on which way the winds are blowing, I’d love to see an example.
Stepping aside from the question of whether or not any city that is not a city-state, can be a failed state, the answer is still no. San Francisco is fully able to govern its populace. It may not be choosing to take action on, for example, homeless people using illegal drugs in public view, or shoplifting, or what-have-you, but that's not because it does not have the ability to.

If San Francisco elected a law-and-order type government tomorrow, it still has the wherewithal to do this. As a question of values, etc. it may be that it has chosen, for example, to tolerate the mentally-ill or drug-addicted homeless being in public view rather than shut away somewhere. One could even hold the plausible opinion that they have gone too far in this direction. But, it still holds the ability to do so if those in charge of the government decided to, so it does not resemble places like Somalia or Afghanistan that have had recent periods in which they were failed states.

Also, if they did truly begin to resemble a failed state, either the California or the US government, or both, could step in to regain control. At some level, the awareness of this (as well as the knowledge that any given individual can always drive to another town whenever they want) is part of why current policies remain in place.
Based on the interview here, it sounds like it's not just about the money at this point. He sounds emotionally done, and Reddit's horrid support throughout this was the nail in the coffin. There certainly are ways he can keep the app running (maybe not popular ways, but ways), but when it comes to dealing with someone who's CEO basically slandered you behind your back: yeah, I can see why he'd want to move on.
This is a myth in production environments I feel. It's a security risk to import the library on the fly from a source you don't control, and the caching is per user, so you are banking on each specific user having visited a site that happens to have the same version of some library you use from the same domain that you included it from, so that it's cached.

You're also now fighting for response time and bandwidth from a public resource you don't control. You are beholden to their traffic spikes, their downtime and their security incidents.

Just send it from your servers, or your edge nodes. They already have the DNS hit cached, they are already getting everything else from there. Chances are high you're sending image data that far exceeds the JS library anyway. This is especially prudent if you serve users in your own country, and that country isn't the US. Chances are very high your site's largest response delays are US CDN resources if you use them.
Recursive training of generative models degenerates into reinforcement learning with random feedback. You need strong feedback signal in the loop to survive recursive training. The feedback does not have to come from humans though. You can use anything that grounds the model in reality.
this is a well known fact that he trumpets all the time. founders getting out of touch with their products isn't anything new.
FreeCAD? What does FreeCAD need next?

Maybe Assembly, but I can always download the Assembly3 plugin.

Outside of having to download a plugin, FreeCAD has never limited me.
Another vote for Purelymail. Pricing is great. Easy to setup. It just works. Plus they have a mail migration tool.
You don't retain copyright if you explicitly assign it to someone else, otherwise contracts for doing exactly that would be useless.

Besides, someone can retain copyright and still have granted an irrevocable license to use the content.

Agree about reddit taking things too far, but that's a matter for the courts.
FYI, you have to sign in to try out Vrite (easiest through GitHub) but, for the purpose of this post, you can use the following credentials for a quick demo (at https://app.vrite.io):

Email: hello@vrite.io

Password: Hello_2023

Please keep it safe and sane there :)
The account will be reset every few hours.

You'll likely also want to read the usage guide before jumping in: https://docs.vrite.io/getting-started
>> provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations

I did not read your paper, but believe parent is making a different claim: it is not lowered serotonin levels or reduced activity, but an increase in receptors (perhaps a proxy for expected serotonin levels) that is causing the problem.

If this paper is specifically addressing serotonin levels or movement I can’t see how it could address receptor density.
It's just strange to me because medium.com comes up as #4, but in recent years Substack links get posted very often.
Narrative dominates day to day, but it’s also very easy to overstate its importance. In a bound random walk the bounds and the randomness doesn’t have consistent impact. In the middle of the range randomness completely dominates what comes next, and at the edge the bounds completely dominates the randomness. That’s IMO a better model of these things.

Take say money, second by second the value of USD is determined by people’s perception. However, people in aggregate are required by law to pay a fraction of US GDP in taxes based on the value of stuff besides money, like millions of cars and cans of soup etc. That relationship means without printing new money the value of all USD in circulation must be enough to pay taxes with or you get the monetary equivalent of a short squeeze. Which then represents a bound unlike say cryptocurrency which can actually fall to zero even as the economy continues normally.

I bring up the tax angle specifically because it’s normally irrelevant but changes the behavior at extremes. People tend to think of economies as fragile things because even minor changes have large implications, yet Ukraine’s economy continued even in the middle of an invasion and massive migration etc. Stocks seem divorced from reality up until the point where fundamentals matter.
Anyone here have buttons in runbooks? We normally have links to Jenkins jobs in git runbooks, what are you using?
I don't think the GDPR is specifically about cookies, is it?

Any form of user tracking without opt in is not permitted.
A pimp's love is quite a different thing from a square's love
Since I just use it for forwarding aliases, is there any reason to get the more expensive mail plan? The Sieve support looks pretty nice.
Hmm what’s the alternative to touch typing? Are you saying that you look at your keyboard every time you create a bracket, or am i forgetting some middle ground?
you can sorta do that with discord, with either pinned messages in threads or just a thread that contains the intro posts and that's closed for further comments, so you can easily find what you look for
Apple Notes adds a hard-to-find way to link other notes, wiki style
So, you are saying, the most advanced tech out there, the on the EU wont have, is ad tech? Well, I don't really see the problem with that.
I had anesthesia once. Subjectively it’s about as close to being dead (or simply “not existing”) as I can imagine. One moment I was perfectly awake, and the next moment I was hearing the sounds of people talking around me and I groggily became aware of my doctor getting me to acknowledge him.

There is still the question though, was my subjective experience post-surgery accurate? It’s conceivable that consciousness is suppressed to varying degrees, while the creation of memories is more significantly impacted. I may have had some degree of consciousness but my subjective post-surgery experience has no knowledge of it.

And putting aside anesthesia altogether you have the phenomena of people that get blackout drunk. For some period of time they were up, senses receiving input and processing it even if their actions were high impaired, yet afterwards there is no memory. (There are of course degrees to this too, sometimes a person remembers the tiniest pieces, as if from a dream, sometimes not at all)

The entire topic invites the question: Is consciousness required for intelligent behavior? Unless you include consciousness as part of the definition of intelligent, it is not an easy question.

Somewhat on that topic I’d highly recommend the book Being no One by Thomas Metzinger
Any "commitment to providing best tools" is always about increasing the price, so nothing new.

The fact that it doubled is bad, but I guess everyone will vote with their wallet and market will regulate itself.
Bulky how? The mini splits are pretty small and you just pipe through a small hole in the wall.
This is an excellent addition to my post. Thank you to share.

I never thought about tourism this way. Hat tip! WTO says:

Tourism is an export sector. It is a source of foreign exchange earnings; it grows a countryʻs national output; it is subject to the rigours of the international marketplace.

You wrote: "that has doubled in size as a % of GDP"

To clarify this phrase: Do you mean: Tourism, as a share of GDP, has _recently_ doubled? Google tells me: 2014: 4.7% -> 2019: 11% (LGTM)

Or do you mean something else? (I promise: I am not nitpicking.)
I think the rationale is that it aggravates repetitive stress injury. I am not a doctor and lucky not to have an RSI, do not play the piano either, so I do not really have an opinion for this. The reason I avoid the remappings because it messes up my muscle memory when I have to move between computers.
It seems like that would require a semi-deliberate "breeding" program or a guaranteed wide diversity of models. At the moment there doesn't seem to be a large enough pool of high quality models. The internet is going to grow to be full of the content of a small number of proficient LLMs. Given that this content isn't being flagged as generated it guarantees the few models will train on their own output, or the output of other models who trained on their own output.

Incestuous learning is pretty much guaranteed unless generated content starts being flagged or there is an explosion of entirely novel models.
Bloom actually lists Roth, Pynchon, McCarthy, and DeLillo
Finally an answer to the question why /r/anime_titties exists as one of those weird topic seems completely unrelated to the name subs.
It's a pre-oatmeal breakfast cereal. Invented by the Romans.
> your idea that DNA is like compiled code makes me think you should go read a book, and your self-medication is probably not scientifically founded

You're not wrong, but I think this goes against the hacker spirit on which HN is based. People who are curious, like to think, and like to make having a discussion. The theories may be unscientific, but the journey is worth something too. People should definitely maintain a huge dose of humility and socratic ignorance, but I think we'd lose something if we weren't able to throw out potentially dumb ideas and have other smart people shoot them down and tell us why we're wrong. The process in itself can be deeply intellectually satisfying.

I think of it much the way I do when I read philosophy. Go on this thought journey with somebody. Try to understand their position/arguments, try to refute them, then read the refutations of others and repeat.
I think one of the weirdest things to me is how unchanged OSX / MacOS is. As much as I like this specific paradigm of computing UI, I kind of see why they’ve been trying new things as of late. (Stage manager, new settings panel, iOS-y control centre)

Just because it’s old, doesn’t mean it NEEDS to change, but I can imagine the need to at least explore a bit if something stays mostly the same for 20 years.
That's a load of revisionist history.

FTX's schemes were only exposed AFTER they couldn't handle withdrawals.

Anyone who follows crypto closely knows that every crypto exchange is crooked. Even crypto bros will tell you that. I can say that Binance is shady and likely stealing from their customers and I'll more likely to be correct than not. Saying FTX was shady before they were exposed was not a bold statement.
I also moved to Germany and bailed after 6 months. Unlike this article, I didn't care about the people or language, I was there to make some money and move on, so it wasn't a place I wanted to integrate into to begin with. The people in Germany, on average, don't like foreigners and don't want them around. That's true in Europe in general and definitely true for Germany, so I'm not sure what the article's author is really surprised at. That said, what made me move after such a short time though is that I'm 100% sure the same bunch of old money that supported the Nazis is still there today running things. Once you meet a few of the rich ones and see how arrogant and stupid they are, you realize immediately that their society is structured so that these people will remain on top no matter what. And from this fact you know all you need to about who you are really working for, and by extension, who their grandparents supported.
Yes, I did. And I subscribe to Kagi right now (since Nov/2022) after Neeva, and will keep trying to find paid search solutions if Kagi ever goes belly up.
Appeal to authority is also a logical fallacy and this essentially what you're presenting.

The idea that everyone's arguments are wrong or should be scrutinized because they're not an authority on the subject is avoiding the actual argument.
> You can go somewhere else.

Yeah, right.
Really empathize with you! It does seem like you really want it, in that case, allow me to encourage you to start now. Literally 10-20 minutes of actual practice every day. You'll quickly improve.
I'm curious what input method you've found for unicode maths, most of it seems to be input via various TeX-like DSLs (e.g. mathjax), or people just take photos (or screenshots of the TeX and paste into powerpoint...)?

Also, (La)TeX gives you a good-enough environment (especially with something like overleaf for sharing) for maths+crossrefs+citations that I'm not sure you can go simpler (I've tried with markdown and rst, but both end up being more of a pain, and the more maths you have, the harder it is to go without macros). Modern word remains a issue as I found out today, and most other word processors have even less support for throwing something vaguely academic together (i.e. with LaTeX I can just start dumping in content and refs and maths just work).
Brain Responses to Nutrients Are Severely Impaired in Humans with Obesity
> The min.js will be cached if it’s a popular library.

No, it won't any more:
https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/say-goodbye-to-resource-ca...
I read Humphrey’s Executor and skimmed Selia v CFPB last night and now I feel somewhat less confident in my assertions. My takeaway is: the government is complicated.
OS X was a bet on the future, that double buffering everything was OK because graphic cards would get there eventually. They certainly did, but we suffered through menus taking a good fraction of a second to drop down for a few years. I can still feel the pain.

I would never have taken that bet. I want computers to be fast now. It was the right bet.
Huh? The main reason heat pumps are being pushed is because they are extremely efficient, not as some kind of sacrifice that we are doing to protect the grid. There is no better option if we are moving away from gas at home.

The only competitive alternative is gas powered heating. However, I believe it’s more energy efficient to use natural gas for electricity generation and use heat pumps for heating rather than piping gas to people’s homes and burning it there. The exception is when it’s so cold that heat pumps do not perform well (although modern heat pumps can work in very cold situations)
Due to security/privacy concerns, browser caching is now scoped to the origin of the website loading the content, so linking to popular libraries from CDNs provides no caching benefits when loading your site for the first time.
If you are doing locking to protect against writes occurring when reads occur, you get those barriers for free.

That said, they are using RCU to allow writers and readers to operate concurrently.
Depends on which perspective. On the firm perspective, it is stupid. On a "grasshopper leader" it is very clever, as they don't plan to be accountable for the long run anyway.