skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My black triangle was making Suzane (blender monkey) appear on the screen.
You should know you can't just compare specs and stats and say the K1 Max is better. Print quality and reliability isn't something that shows up on a spec sheet, and Creality struggles here. Bambu is certainly a credible competitor though.
To me, this sounds like an argument largely built around the idea that you don't want to learn how to use a new product. Many people have convinced themselves they can't adapt, and I think this follows from the marketing ploys described in the article.
While nih is ultimately dependent on multiple different aspects, I would argue that, ironically, it's more likely to create nih-qualifying product with your aproach.

Because when you write things from scratch, you actually have the space to innovate. But when building product with preexisting puzzles, there is much less space to actually make any usefull changes that would make your product actually standout from existing alternatives (which nih is all about)
I agree; there has been a sudden shift. It used to be that people were anti-nuclear because they seemed to be scared of it. Now, they just outright dismiss nuclear despite it being more necessary than ever.
You are ignoring the cost of laying millions of miles of natural gas pipes to each and every home. And the leaks through all these pipes, which is 9%.

Electricity is the first utility and all homes have it. Of course, you can be off grid and have no utilities, just have solar+batteries, electrification works perfectly in that scenario.
I recommend considering not just this paper but the dozens of others by the authors. Pubmed shows over 100 papers on legit-looking studies on reasonable journals on this and other topics.
The former is more meaningful still when you consider how it can integrate with other parts of the value-add, such as Creality's model database, which can take you from the model's detail page to the slicer in just a click or two -- no download, no import into Cura, no setting up Octoprint or whatever. For enthusiasts the value-add is not entirely necessary but for consumers it's massive.

Consumers? What use case are you imagining? Why is it better than a consumer going on amazon or to a physical store and buying a product?

3D printers are a manufacturing technology. At best it's suitable to hobbyists, DIYers, and enthusiasts.

If you can only print stuff, then you are limited to only what other people are willing to design for you. So you will learn CAD and other tools. At that point, you might as well invest in the effort in learning how to use a slicer. It's not really hard to use.

That said, I am all for making 3D printers more accessible and easier to use, but the magic of 3D printing isn't really in printing things but bringing to life stuff you designed, for your specific needs.
Sizing the fuse to be smaller means the fuse will blow faster at the short before the wires in the puddle of brake fluid get hot enough to start the fire. Chances are the fuze was oversized to begin with.
I don’t understand. How is it useful for Netflix to show me movies that they don’t have? And how hard is it to implement search over their catalog when they only seem to have about 100 movies?
Isn't that exactly his point? They open source "a ton of work", but not everything; thereby "not competing on code alone". The code of, say, Android or Google Web Toolkit is open source, but the products they build on top (App Store, Gmail/Maps/...) is closed. It only makes sense to open source the parts on which you're not competing.
I trust Apple's commitment to privacy as much as I do Google's, but when they both remove a product over a stupid patent rather than pay the patent holder (Sonos' sued Google with their multiroom audio patent), we can see that it's possible for corporations to hold principled views about things.
A little bit related, I wish web sites would stop hijacking the keys for my browser's search function.
It depends who "you" refers to. If you are a company offering a related product, then yes you have to start over and can't use any part of the existing ecosystem. If you are an end-user or a company wanting to use this internally (usually my situation), then the difference is very important.

Maybe it doesn't matter until there are more licenses of this kind though. For now, maybe "BUSL and FSL software" is simple enough, since it's just those two.
But the author isn't saying (only) "Prusa is losing the ultra-beginner market." That's moving the goal posts. The author is making sweeping claims beyond just that market, right?

When you're in the market for a new TV or phone or whatever, do you buy the absolute cheapest one you can find and then decry the other players in the market because their stuff is clearly low value because the ICO is higher? Maybe you do, that's your choice of course, but there are plenty of people who buy, for example, Apple because they see beyond the ICO.
Prusa was better positioned than anyone else in the market to do exactly what Bambu did, but actively chose not to out of a combination of stubborness and hubris.

Prusa had an established reputation for relatively low hassle, premium machines.

There legitimately isn't much in the Bambu machines that didn't already exist in some form in the high end hobbyist space. What Bambu did was take the best of what was out there and combine it into a single coherent, easy to use package. And, just as critically, they cost-engineered it for mass production.

Prusa has long resisted anything outside their own ecosystem. They invest crazy amounts of effort into reimplementing and reinventing things because NIH syndrome is deeply engrained into their company culture. They clung to using 8 bit controllers long past their expiration date. They spent years working and reworking their flagship $2000 XL which still isn't widely available and suffers fundamental design flaws that will result in it being slower and producing worse prints than its competitors when it is.

A lot of this is Prusa refusing to move past their hobbyist roots. Their printers are still made largely out of aluminum extrusion and printed parts -- this is a great way for a hobbyist to prototype one-off designs, but it's an abysmal way to mass produce a machine.

Bambu's great innovation is the fact that the machine is largely stamped sheet metal and injection molded parts. This results in a machine that is sturdier, higher quality, and cheaper than the way Prusa insists on doing things. It requires a significant investment in tooling upfront -- this was the great tell that Bambu wasn't some scrappy startup when they launched their Kickstarter; they were easily deep into six if not seven figures in tooling costs before the X1 was ever publicly announced.

Prusa was one of the few players in the industry who had the resources and could have done all of this. They actively chose not to. They were stagnant and seemed to think they could continue selling $1000 bed slingers forever. The market finally moved on.
Intellectually, I knew this was common but I never stopped to consider how fortunate I am to work for a company who understands things like search are difficult.

It helps we have two internal departments whose primary jobs are data management and analysis. (Real statistics, not “AI”.)
No? Where did you get such a ridiculous idea?
Just defending Herr Gödel as I see his and Leibniz names being bandied about. His proof said nothing on existence. It only said if god did exist god _must_ be perfect. That’s a very different argument.

You’d still have to accept the axioms though, one of which is kinda that god even exists. And Gödel certainly believed in a God of sorts so to him this logical system was a proof.
> anyone with experience in writing shell scripts knows about these things

Who wants to have to be an expert in shell scripts to have to write them? In any case you're still wrong. Experts aren't immune to footguns. Post a complex shell script you've written. Let's see.

> Obviously there will be badly written programs that don't handle paths properly.

Like GNU Make?

> It's absolutely trivial to do

Trivial to do so that it works for you. Absolutely not trivial to do so that it always works.

The types of people who know the difference between those are referred to as "senior" instead of "junior". (Source: I personally parsed /proc entries too without third party libraries and there were plenty of footguns that a junior developer would skip over.)
I figured about as much, but I guess my point was: shouldn't they be fixing the leak?! Would people even know about the leak otherwise? Or is this going to silently surprise/kill people when their ABS fails?
there's a world of difference between 'the crc handbook says pentamethonium frangonide has a specific heat of 2951 kilojoules per mole per kelvin, but its molar mass is only 502 grams per mole, so that would give a surprisingly high specific heat of 5.9 kilojoules per gram per kelvin, so i'd better check the nist webbook and google scholar, but probably this grammatical-error-filled paper i found in google scholar from three researchers i've never heard of published in a journal i've never heard of isn't a very reliable source and they were probably just copying the crc handbook' and 'scientists say there's a missing link'

being able to, in principle, rederive things from scratch gives you a lot of information about who to trust
Google doesn't do business in China because they won't agree to the privacy violating terms of doing so, that is at least a $1T principle if you compare it to the amount of hardware and services that Apple sells there.
How are any of those examples predatory? If you're in a hurry and want something they just remove friction.
And they often do.

Apple of all companies certainly could've afforded to pay.
From experience in the 3D printing space, it's too early to say Bambu out-Prusa'd Prusa, because there hasn't been enough time to know whether the Bambu printers will outlast a Prusa printer. The business model the author is discussing is not unlike the business model for Glowforge, and based on my wife's experience in that industry I'm not sure that business model is working out so well.

I've been printing continuously on a pair of Mk3s for 4+ years, minimal maintenance. (That is, wear and tear on print plates and nozzles, and one thermistor replacement.) Maintenance is important once you venture beyond hobbyist needs.

I did buy a Bambu P1S instead of a Mk4 this year when it was time to add a another printer for my wife's side gig. It's a great machine, except when it has problems. The software is bad at diagnosing the problem, and the UI gets really confused on status messages, and the software wants nothing more than to hold your hand down the wrong path to fix the problem. There's a veneer to everything Bambu that makes it look good as long as you don't look too closely. I'll see where this printer is at after 4+ years of continuous printing, but based on my present experience I'd be surprised if my P1S is still running in 2 years. (And no, its not lost on me that as a Prusa purchaser I bought from their competitor this time around.)

I expect Bambu to push Prusa to compete on features - I am fine as a non-hobbyist paying a higher premium for reliability.
I’m holding judgement until the case is investigated further. It’s my understanding that so far everyone has basically said, “there’s enough evidence to proceed in court.”

Patent reform is something that is sorely needed (and more funding for the USPTO).

Take for example this patent on an anti gravity device: https://www.nature.com/articles/438139a#:~:text=The%20US%20p....

And then there’s the patent troll problem. As a small shop, I am particularly afraid of trolls shutting us down overnight with basically no recourse.
I've passed through the other end of this. I spent a few hundred hours scanning my father's and grandfather's slides, negatives, and prints on high-end scanners in 2010. There were thousands of images, and since then that number has probably increased several orders of magnitude with digital cameras and then phones. The sheer number is beyond human comprehension. Now that images are so trivial to make, I value curation much more than shear number. I suppose it's always a quantity vs quality thing.
It helps to know that under the hood almost every serious game is a complete more-or-less real time operating system with its own IO, scheduler, memory management and various sub-processes relating to output generation and so on.

It was only after I wrote a couple of games that I realized that extracting this OS component would be worth the effort and after that making new games went substantially quicker.
Tesla's manufacturing has come a long way in the past few years. In 2018, Sandy Munro famously tore down the new Model 3 with a lot of criticism for things like their excess of parts, fasteners, and welds. They made a lot of changes, including some he suggested, and now Munro tends to rave about how well they're engineered for ease of manufacture. This is a guy who gets paid by Big 3 auto companies to help improve their manufacturing.

A great visual is this video of someone snapping together much of a Model Y like legos, in ten minutes by himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawGMl8sHzc

Another fun one is Munro's comparison of the thermal management systems for a Model Y and Ford Mach-E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1kHsd3Ocxc
Reading the comments, it seems that absolutely no one is happy about this. It is either a lie, insufficient or a pointless response to a non-problem.

But it’s a clear achievement. An achievement with lots of nuance. And one that runs counter to many strongly held and arguably ideological positions on all sides of the political spectrum.

Reading responses to it here and on Twitter has been rather depressing.
Queen sized static mat: Max $200 and 60 minutes for all review-reading. ordering, unboxing, installation. Possible outcome: healing, better sleep, reduced pain. Reward/risk ratio is great here.
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There are no trees ;)
I think what he's actually misinterpreted are complaints that the Mk4 controller board isn't open source.

Prusa has long bragged about their hardware being open source and they've made an about face on that over the last couple of years.
I like this for making eggs too. And lots of things.
> do something the extra-hard way

indeed

> just try

I did say "please" try, the nuance is quite important :-)

You know, I think the views differ because we have two problems:

1. How can I create a profitable company

2. How can I make my open source work sustainable

If you only target 1, open source might not be the more immediately easy solution.

I'm aiming at 2, and 1 is one way to do it: given I want to live from open source work (because of my convictions), can I do it by building a company?

The answer is: it might be harder, but yes.

If you don't care about open source, my comments here are just mostly annoying.
PDF is a container format and yoy can just shove files in there. pdftk supports this with attach_files, and at the very least the linux pdf readers I’ve used know how to deal with them.
I like such projects. They're the programming equivalent of making jewelry. Is your code public?
I mean, in that case I'd see that as a company which makes its money in other ways, throwing their scraps at the open source public. (Which, let's be honest, has been greatly beneficial for the public - it's given us Kubernetes, TensorFlow, etc.) But I wouldn't call it a business model onto itself.
Microdot: Yet Another Python Web Framework
Ask HN: Can LLMs "invent" life hacks?
If given a problem with everyday objects are they capable of at least rarely responding with useful novel solutions? Even rare anecdotal evidence might be interesting if it gives better chances than the monkey typing
> principled views about things.

Selfishly* principled. There's no exclusively abstract benefit here the way there is with e.g privacy rights; there's both the benefit of not having to pay royalties if they prevail as well as the second order benefit of deterring others from submitting patent litigation because other plaintiffs will know that Apple would rather burn cash reserves on litigation than on paying.

It's precisely for that reason that Apple should lose.
The product is bad. Shifting the blame around doesn't magically make the product better.
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"We all live with a growing sense that everything around us is fraudulent."

I predict that we will eventually only trust the internet as we know it today for fabricated stories (port 443 and 80 anyway), and will value live interactions more as a result.
I'll probably just use an app, rather than real paper, but I'll definitely keep this in mind next time I'm doing something experimental and not just "Stuff copilot could probably do".

Preserving a record in detail seems like a natural fit, we're used to doing the same for our source code, I'm surprised it's not more common to do the same for the source of the source code.
Prusa is floundering so much that I am about to order my second printer from them.
> If you're against industrial farming of them, fine, but there are plenty of eggs you can buy from certified ethical farms.

The parent notes that they are willing to compromise on being vegan for convenience, so presumably they are not against ethically produced animal products, but would forgo animal products altogether as a matter of convenience as well. Ethically produced animal products may not be verifiably accessible for someone for many reasons.
But it always is...
That’s what I mean: given fertilizer dependence, relying on this shouldn’t be uncomfy, but it feels different somehow.
On the other hand, people that don't watch any content are at the highest risk of cancelling their membership.
Is this even really news-worthy at this point?

Wake me when someone's doing something about it besides uneventfully retiring off the ill-gotten gains.
it's as easy as

start -> run -> "ms-settings:display" -> enter

what?
Implementing search correctly would solve the problem too, without requiring a square kilometer of GPUs.
There are actually plenty of non-ES products that are way easier to integrate and tune (and get better results with less effort).

- Typesense (https://github.com/typesense/typesense)

- Algolia

- Google Programmable Search Engine (https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/)
There is a lot of wisdom in your comment. Sometimes things don’t make sense - don’t yield results despite all your best work because you bit more than you can chew
Pretty much this ^^^. Some people just want to _use_ tools and some people want to build/hack/tinker with them. Voron and Bambu seem to cover both use cases. Annex Engineering has some cool stuff in the 'build' category as well.
> And yet, they can't make printers fast enough.

I generally agree with your comments but I think you've accidentally brought up a really good point. Prusa would do well do improve on getting their new models out the door faster. The Mk3S was getting fairly long in the tooth before the Mk4 came out. The printer they introduced before that also suffered from a very long development cycle. This leads to lost sales in a competitive market.
The tutorial starts with

cout << "Hello, World!" << '\n';

But the most "modern" way to write to the console is:

std::println("Hello World!");
I like that, eventually-open source software (EOSS) (or deferred open source maybe? or delayed open source?).
Are you worried about wires? Wait until I tell you about invisible electromagnetic radiation.
Hey, no worries. 'Employe' is not a typo; it is a word that carries the same meaning [1].

AIEmployee.com is not available, so I purchased something similar.

1: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/264834/employee-...
bclones were only one way to trigger the corruption. This is not a good way to check.

It's also not worth checking for because this bug has existed for many years. Your data probably wasn't affected. None of the massive ZFS storage companies out there ran into it by now either.

Your data is fine. Sleep easy.
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I don't remember the specifics about that situation. Something melted and slowly leaked and eventually caught fire. I don't think whatever happened in that case rose to become a recall. It was a relatively new Cadillac in the mid 1990s IIRC. I was a kid at the time it happened.

But yeah, vehicle fires happen to parked cars all the time. As mentioned I've had multiple cars have "don't park in the garage" kind of recalls, one car has even had multiple (Hyundai). In the article posted above it opens with:

> WHILE SOME FIRES in motor vehicles occur as a result of collisions, most occur in motor vehicles not involved in collisions. These non-crash-induced fires are relatively frequent (one for every 1,000 registered vehicles) but in general are less hazardous to occupants and bystanders than crash induced fires.

It later states:

> They occur on an average of one out of every 1,000 registered vehicles and can result in significant property damage

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44631649
Having previously worked for a company with this problem, sometimes you need to start pulling other people’s teeth to get them to stop putting data in random fields.

We just told our customers to google the part number. I don’t know how these places stay in business.
The U.S. is also the world’s leading oil producing country. With the U.S. producing 40% more oil than Saudi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ...
Got it. Thank you. I thought you had delivered consumer facing applications when i read that comment.
If you're sick of arguing maybe you shouldn't be starting arguments?

What you say makes very little sense. Prusa has an audience, you are not that audience. So go buy something else and write about how great your experience is instead of kicking Prusa, especially if you haven't bothered using their slicer, which is absolutely fantastic, runs locally and supports linux.
How did you get "sending it to Google" from

> A few KiloBytes native program like PDFtk
Even if your electricity is generated from gas, induction is more efficient: https://www.treehugger.com/which-more-energy-efficient-cooki...

(And the above even generously assumes the generation is not CHP which would make induction look better still, and ignores the extra energy needed for chilling your house)

The low efficiency of transferring heat from gas to the cooking vessel kills the odds for the gas range in the competition, most of energy goes to heating air instead of the kettle.

(But we shouldn't generate electricity from gas of course, fossils need to be left in the ground to avert worst of the climate disaster)
Gas cars spontaneously igniting are rare, but flammable liquids like solvents or gasoline for lawn equipment catching fire and causing massive destruction is fairly common. People often do things like store solvents in basements where fumes can get loose and get near furnaces and other equipment and ignite.

Stored energy is stored energy.

You do have a bit of a point about large lithium power bricks. I trust those things less than I trust an EV, especially if they are the weird ChinaCorp off brand type from Amazon.
BS patents are bad, and patents lasting 20+ years are bad, but if someone's gonna get maimed by them… I can hardly think of a more deserving victim than Apple.
The black triangles are also a lot more fulfilling than other problems. When you get the foundation of your project finished, it feels so good. And you know that you can start doing the fun stuff with relative ease now that the hard part is over.