skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more about what the company considers core business and what not. Most often they don't see the website as being important enough to the business so they don't invest in it.

We have gotten used to almost flawless experiences from amazon shopping. Google search finds (or used to) results sometimes almost like magic, etc. The thing is, that's the core business. These companies invent new technologies and have huge teams because doing this is so hard.

Now take a random supermarket chain. Their knowledge is about physical stores. Their core business has taught them where to open a store and how to arrange things in it so that they maximize their sales in that environment. It's very hard and it takes a very long time to shift to an online model. You have to find people with the right competencies and the right leadership to convince the company to do this and this is actually very hard to do.

Look at the categories example. That, to me, screams backend database. The company has invested a lot of money into building business intelligence on top of their physical stores. That organization screams "perfectly curated data warehouse" and I imagine suggesting something like "we need to reorganize the way we store data" is going to be met with blank stares if not full on outrage.
I used both Prusaslicer and Cura. They worked. Prusaslicer comes in with built in profile for my specific Prusa machine.

The generic profiles work well enough for my purposes.
>The real problem of the duck curve is that it's become a misunderstood meme that fools people into thinking "we've built too much solar, too fast, which will cause vague problems" when that is far from the case and the number one thing we need to do right now and for the forseeable future to improve the energy grid is build more solar PV.

Absolutely! Deploy solar, demand will shift.

If new solar deployment is vertical, it will do two things: (1) duck curve won't get deeper (2) duck curve gets wider.
> I honestly don't understand how some websites have such awful search

Good website search is hard. Funnily in some respects it's harder than web search, since there are no popularity signals a la pagerank. (There could be such signals, but you have to work hard to create them.)
You're downvoted because people who aren't enthusiasts just don't have the experience to understand.

It's like the EU ban[0] on lead paint. Fine artists said "wait but what about Flake white? It's a critical paint! Nothing else compares! We know how to use it safely!" And the response was "Just substitute Titanium white. It's brighter anyway!" But Ti is absolutely not a substitute. It's like telling sculptors to substitute plaster for marble.

[0]I can't recall if the ban was lifted. I live in the US.

EDIT: Don't take my word for it. Here's Michael Harding on the subject, he makes paints that are among the very very best available:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G1pXT06HXX0

https://www.lucillesmithson.com/single-post/2016/05/06/in-co...
I'm sorry you're sick of having to defend your baseless claims.

If you don't know about Prusaslicer, you download it, and in some cases click Next a few times to install it. You then select whatever printer(s) you have from a set of pre-populated profiles that include non-Prusa models, btw. You now have a highly tuned profile for your Prusa printer because -- and I can't stress this enough -- Prusa's QC... well exists! which means it's already better than the competition. Because they have QC, they're able to predict very well how the machine is going to behave and are able to release profiles that work very well for everyone.

Also, if you don't know about Prusaslicer -- it's the origin of Bamboo's slicer. They get to ride along for free while you chant "Innovation!"

Also, if you don't know about Prusaslicer, why do you feel so comfortable commenting on what Prusa has and hasn't done? Like when you say things like "comes with an ecosystem that Creality has invested in to a much greater extent than Prusa."

You don't what you're talking about.

> But that's the point: this product design locks it into the enthusiast market, and most consumers don't want to deal with that overhead.

What product design? Cura? Why are we talking about Cura again? Oh yea, you brought it up because you used it one time. Seriously though, what product design are you talking about?

I love it when people speak for "most consumers."
Over 95% of plants make mycorrhizal associations and many are actually completely dependent on mycorrhizae. Most plant roots aren't actually made for "sucking up nutrients" but rather for trading sugars for minerals and other nutrients with mycorrhizal fungi. It's not at all accurate to label these "parasites" in my opinion. Plants that have these associations produce larger fruit, are more resistant to pests, can withstand both droughts AND frosts better, and are generally significantly healthier.

These networks transfer more than just nutrients. It's also a communication network that allows plants across species to warn each other of pests. Recent research shows that even RNA might be being transmitted through mycorrhizal networks and we know that mother trees are able to identify their offspring and send specific nutrients to them and possibly even some sort of chemical, acquired memories.

HGT is not at all unique to mycorrhizal fungi. One interesting example is the dodder plant which is an obligate "parasite" that can affect many different species of plants. A very large portion of its DNA is now plant genes from various species its parasitized. Though it's not clear if these genes are used. It also turns out that dodder plants too can act as above-ground communication networks; allowing plants to warn each other of pests and other threats.

But more and more evidence is emerging that HGT is much more common than we would predict in even mammals and fish. The gene to produce a crucial antifreeze protein in smelt came from herrings for example:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/dna-jumps-between-animal-spec...

> I'd bet you could find the absolute right frequency based on plant species

There's two major types of mycorrhizal fungi: arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal (there's also endo- but these, by definition, aren't soil fungi). Arbuscular fungi seem to have very low host specificity and are kinda "generalists". One species found in Australia was found to improve crop yields amongst almost every single crop they tested it on. The complex handshake that goes on between plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi seems to be very ancient (fungi made it on to the land first and plants likely wouldn't have survived without their help).

I would guess that most plant species evolved to support this ancient language and there isn't enough variation to differentiate anything at the species level. Perhaps you'd have more luck with ectomycorrhizal fungi, but even then I would assume the frequency is much more likely to be associated with fungi species than plant species.
Microsoft Copilot is now available as a ChatGPT-like app on Android
The whole system is rigged. Both my doctors office (chain) and walk in clinic will charge 2x the cost for insured... Its better to tell them my insurance lapsed and I'm paying cash.

So I always tell them I'm uninsured and pay with my HSA.
Dedekinds paper is I believe 1872 actually and this is more in line with the set theory research explosion as cantor had published his results by this point. Plus him and Dedekind were close friends so they would have known of eachother’s research.

Russell’s paradox is not until like 1900 in response to I believe Frege’s own publication. This is why Hilbert then includes questions around the foundations of mathematics in his list because of these issues with sets and logic, while also offering up the famous phrase “we shall not be chased from the paradise cantor has created for us”.
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There are many problems with software patents and patents that are "_____ but on a phone/watch" but I'm curious of what your solution is? What is a better system?
I get a white or black or any monochrome triangle whenever I try a new graphics stack. Every. Single. Time.
And encourage innovation it does.

Most initiatives are not purely good without any downsides. A principle to consider is: Just because there are some negative aspects sometimes, do those outweigh the good? In this case, how many negatives actually come from patent law? (Btw, a monopoly most often is not the result - there are often many solutions to a similar problem/need.). And consider the side of the creator (which I’ve been finding is surprisingly rare in hn) - creating a company and product is already incredibly hard, how much harder do we want to make that? What and who are we sacrificing?

Maybe we just adjust the patent law some. Decrease the number of years? I’m sure it could be better.
> Similarly, a GPU manufacturer can open source their drivers because this won't prevent them from selling their hardware

I agree with your broader point, but GPU manufacturers can't, because then we'll see just how much is done in software which makes their cards better than their competitors, which means their competitors can adopt those software techniques in their drivers. Also the manufacturer may not have the rights to the code in the driver's to release them as open source.
Why doesn't Apple enter into a deal with Masimo for a small percentage of the watch? Unless I missed it, the news article didn't go into more detail on why a deal couldn't be made.
I just bounce random showerthoughts I periodically have about various topics and it offers different perspectives I did not previously consider and helps connect dots in my head.

It's excellent at Socratic dialogue.

I sometimes use it to solve actual problems I'm having otherwise, usually software design related, and more recently involving Stable Diffusion since its April 2023 update.
The fuse swap is a temporary fix to make the cars safer until a full fix can be rolled out. I imagine truly "fixing" the leak means redesigning the ABS module, something that takes time. They need to investigate what makes the leak happen, redesign the actual part, validate that new part doesn't have some other issue, call the new part out for manufacturing (and make millions of them), get them in the hands of dealers, and then actually start replacing the part.

In the mean time, swap the fuze, and while the car is going to become immobilized or throw ABS warnings when the leak happens its not going to burn someone's house down.
Heh, movemask keeps coming back. Rather than emulating it, it appears to be more efficient to separately handle IndexOfMatch, LastIndexOfMatch and GetMatchCount scenarios it is used for most of the time:

- https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/94472/files#diff-5824... (it's closed for now but I'm hoping to get back to it at some point)

- https://github.com/jprochazk/tmi-rs/blob/ac3ce6aee8bbe038a98...

It can account for good 30% performance variance depending on the use case (on Apple's M-series cores).
Fine analogy. Plenty of people liked the Sega Genesis more than the SNES. (I think a more apt analogy is more contemporary consoles, where the lowly-spec’d Nintendo competes just fine against the competition’s higher performance units. People like Nintendo for reasons other than the spec sheet.)

I enjoy writing Ruby a heck of a lot more than I do writing JavaScript. I like the object model. I like Ruby’s standard library. I like the Ruby community. I like the tooling: irb is fantastic. Bundler is still one of the best package managers around—makes npm and yarn look silly by comparison.

The spec sheet just does not matter for virtually any of my work. Switching to a less enjoyable, more performant, language might make a 60ms response time average become 55ms. Who cares? That performance difference was even bigger 15 years ago, and it didn’t matter then. It matters less today.

GitHub, Shopify, Airbnb, Netflix (yes! Even Netflix!), Soundcloud, Kickstarter, etc. etc. all use Ruby today. It is a fantastic development environment when you’re more concerned with doing your job, and less concerned with performance pissing contests.
Is that a fair comparison? Apple sells devices, Google sells targeted advertising. Their business and constraints are different.
Thilmera: Windows general purpose multi-function system monitor (since 2001)
Nothing. And happy
Not necessarily. Their “we won’t pay, and will go scorched earth on your patent portfolio” may prevent a flood of others with BS patents showing up.
>If you give an absolute beginner an MK4 and an Ender 3, they're going to use the MK4 every time. It's vastly less effort to get started and the QC of one vs the other isn't even a competition.

The actual market isn't Ender 3 vs Mk4.

It's extremely hard to argue that Prusa printers represent a good value in any market segment in a post-Bambu world.

>What makes them "much, much better" ? Initial cost of ownership and what else?

They're cheaper and produce better prints faster without requiring any manual tuning by the user.

I'm a hobbyist. I own multiple high end printers that I've dumped $2k+ into. They're fantastic machines that I enjoy tinkering with.

But I've also got an X1 for when I just want a part and don't want to think about it. It's an appliance. It just works. That has massive value for people where printing is a means to an end rather than a hobbyist journey.

If you're a hobbyist that wants to tinker, there's nothing that justifies dropping 5x the cost of an E3 on a Mk4. $800 will go a long way toward making up any difference.

Or just go all-in and build any of the full hobbyist designs that will be a far better printer than a Mk4 anyway.

>And yet, they can't make printers fast enough.

Because they refuse to engineer their products for mass production. Which is, coincidentally, one of the reason why they're also failing to compete on price.
The same, only without giving money to Russia.
Like it or not (and I don't like it), that is the culture of this website. Positive comments are actively discouraged, and even if you want to make one they are difficult to write. To criticize you only need to find one thing wrong, but to substantively support you really need to understand the whole subject.
MK4 firmware is mostly free AFAIK, except for graphics and design.
What are the fundamental design flaws of XL?

I haven't looked into it in detail but the design appears from a glance to be really good.

If you ignore the cost, which is really hard to do in this case. But that is also somewhat justified by them targeting businesses. It just means they are lagging (which is evident by how delayed mk4 was, if it had been on time mk5 would be imminent by now).

I do feel that the XL is a good stepping stone for their consumer line though, and up until the mk4 launch that is what I thought mk4 would be all about.
Maybe Masimo isn’t offering a deal for an acceptably small amount.
> Note that none of this is material to the license of the product, be it free or non-free. It’s about building a brand, developing a customer relationship, and identifying and exploiting market opportunities.

Um... ok? But the product is what they are selling, and that is based on research on development, which is under a license. Other companies use this R&D, do not open it, and sell their product cheaper while having an completely opaque R&D process.

> Hackers and enthusiasts who found companies like Prusa tend to imagine that the product is everything, but it’s not. Maybe 10% of the work is developing the 3D printer itself – don’t abandon the other 90% of your business.

3D printers became accessible to consumers because of a focus on open source and engineering. It is no where near mature. To call it '10%' is ridiculous. You think they should spend 90% of their effort to heavily monetize something that isn't mainstream consumer ready? So they can choke the market while it is entirely filled with hobbyists and enthusiasts, who are probably the most notoriously picky consumers in the world when it comes to hardware?

> You need to deal with sales and marketing, chase down promising leads, identify and respond to risks, look for and exploit new market opportunities, and much more to be successful.

What does that even mean with regards to 3D printing?
The easiest terrorist attack is getting a few people to rent apartments with gas across a city, leave the gas open on the stove for a day or whatever, and then simultaneously ignite.

Piping an explosive gas all over cities just seems like a generally bad idea.

Why isn't this the discussion?
The biggest discoveries in math in 2023
I’ve lost track of where the goalposts are. The original author is all over the place.
Ignoring the disaster that was the Virtual Boy, they had a great run.
I find this dubious. Google is not known for respecting privacy, and large corporations in general are not known for voluntarily passing on trillion dollar markets on moral grounds. Is there perhaps an alternative explanation that isn't as far fetched?
I suspect there was a limit to how fast you can raster scan these and hence how many lines of resolution you can achieve. The next technological step with laser scanning was to move from straight lines to harmonic motion: your mirror has a resonant frequency and you vibrate one axis at a low frequency and the other at a much higher harmonic but now you need to draw your picture across a complex lissajous pattern with non uniform brightness, requiring a lot more dsp and timing precision I suppose. I was excited to see this progress but nothing commercial ever came of it. R&D was being done at Fraunhofer Institute.

The other problem with these laser projectors is the bright “sparkle” pattern they produce.
You can, but you can't get environmental damages corrected, liabilities and damages covered (if say, they caused a fire or disaster in a community), or debts re-paid (if greater than the value of the property). Lots of issues with this. Chinese firms have bought a significant amount of US infrastructure, so it's also a national security issue.

https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/20220906-u.s-infrastru...
But has it helped with living conditions like food and shelter? Sure it's made life easier, even for stuff like tractor positioning for field planting. But I don't see it having a real impact on those sorts of issues. I guess it has made many munitions more accurate and reduced collateral damage.
I don't consider it an OS if it needs an OS to run. Something like a "Ship can carry a boat, boat can't carry a ship" rule.
No one has ever done that. But I imagine if someone does we will all need licenses for gas stoves, or have to take our cast iron pans out of our luggage when traveling, or some other dumb thing.
The article mentions, but doesn't elaborate, on the purpose of the notebook as a legal document. This was much more important when notebooks could be used to show priority in patent disputes, but only if well kept. My parents were both research scientists. Where my dad worked, the company patent lawyer read and critiqued your notebooks, and maintained the discipline.

Many of those rules became unnecessary when the US patent system joined the rest of the world by adopting "first to file" priority. Rules such as: Always writing in pen, and crossing things with a single strike-through.

Notebooks are still a great way to preserve the little details of "what the hell was I thinking?" A colleague told me a good notebook prevents you from having to repeat a study because you can't figure out what you did the first time.

There are still industries that require legally defensible record management -- you'll know if you're in that boat. If not, you can DIY whatever method works for you. The success metric is if you actually use it. On paper, I write in pencil because I'm more concerned about readability than a precise narrative. On the computer, Jupyter, just because nothing else really lets me document "thinking in code."
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Unencumbered free markets. Same system that got us the unimaginable (just a few generations ago) wealth we live in right now.
Show HN: Chat with any GPT right from your desired text editor
I'm curious what some of the trade journals have been. What was the latest journal?
Essentially automating project boilerplate that is custom enough to need attention, but not quite custom enough where it's interesting. Some examples include creating dockerfiles, various database models and data parsers, openapi specs, etc.
It didn't sound like they were planning to do more than this, but I admittedly stopped reading the article fairly quickly after this part. I guess others pointed out the same thing so hopefully they'll have to follow up.
What you've said is true, but it assumes the goal is money. If that's the measurement, then yes they should do that. I'm not him so I can't say for certain, but money doesn't seem to be Jo's end-goal.
> It wasn’t just that we’d managed to get a triangle onto the screen. That could be done in about a day. It was the journey the triangle had taken to get up on the screen.

If anyone wants to experience something like that today, just follow an introductory tutorial on Vulkan programming. Vulkan is a programming model that gives so much low-level control directly to programmers. As a result, this "Hello Triangle" example became (in)famous for its need to implement a skeleton of a full 3D engine in thousands of lines of code before you can render a triangle on the screen.

https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Drawing_a_triangle/Setup/Base_co...
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>On the XL: the 0.6mm makes sense with the build volume, to significantly improve print times, but seems to really not work well with the 5 toolhead models, and introduces massive amounts of zits, stringing, cross-contamination, etc.

More fundamentally, the XL uses an open frame design specifically because Jo wanted to prioritize being able to easily see and remove prints.

The entire gantry sits on a cantilevered open frame -- that's a fundamental engineering failure that's going to mean the XL will always be slower and produce lower quality prints than closed frame designs.
Related, from two weeks ago: Walk and Talk – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38613170
So where a union is the concentrated collectivization of labor and talent, capitalization is the dissolution of concentrated collectivization of labor and talent.

I like it. It adequately puts goal posts at either end, and illustrates succinctly how anything good for your employer is probably a race to the bottom for the employee.
>I didn't "say" anything, I asked a question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtext
Decoding oldest known sentence written in first alphabet [video]
Some painting were aimed to be photorealistic though (but not all painting were)
I doubt this.

After the war, people would go back to tilling land with the same oxen and plough and go fishing in the same kinds of boats their parents and grandparents did.

The meals didn’t change, the beer didn’t change, the routine didn’t change. They didn’t get better ploughs or better boats, or better oxen. It was still about an acre per day before a war and after a war. Medicines and cures remained constant.

That’s not to say occasional improvements didn’t happen, they did, but there were long breaks between improvements.
I worked on a retail pricing system that had a sanity check for prices over 10.000. But once we moved to Japan, that sanity check silently stopped all sorts of items from being processed.
besides coding, data analysis and creating my presentations

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My Personal Doctor

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