skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are excellent points.

I think, these are sort of problems after you "level up". Lasers and 3d printers both have pretty light toolheads and no resistance. So you can get away with being pretty half assed with your stepper control, and still get results.

You're not wrong. But there's a big mountain of stuff to learn when starting with CNC stuff. Getting a cheap machine, figuring it out, tinkering with it, improving repeatability, these things are all part of how you get better. This is sort of a hobbyist diy mindset. Even if it's not a very good machine, you can still get results out of fusion360, or scad or whatever toolchain you work through.

Now, you're absolutely right, if you've got some cash burning a hole in your pocket, you can skip a lot of that machine tinkering hassle. pro level gear is absolutely magical. I'm more of a dabbler kinda guy, try it out, learn about it, if it seems cool 10x my investment in the hobby.

Anybody who wants to turn a laser cutter into a business is going to know all the stuff you've addressed. A hobbyist, they're going to need to not die from toxic gas from tanned leather. they're going to need to work out if they want to make stuff or if they want to tinker with the machine (both are totally valid).

To be super clear, I agree with all of your points. And it would be good to indicate the suffering you'll go through with a cheap machine. But, I'd argue a cheap machine can still be really fun. It all depends on what you're after.
Well, the "and"s are all English... :)
Yeah, I donked it. I think there was some serious drama around Reply-All - they both float in the same shallow pool
The obvious take out is that big pharma wants to sell you nutritional supplements...

More realistically, we've been breeding our crops to produce more without regards to the nutritional content being produced. More will always involve a trade off.
Hormonal basis of sex differences in anesthetic sensitivity
Yep. I loaded the app, looked at the name, and screwed it up.
This is the same government that was just months prior going to quit the ICC so they could host Putin. They have no credibility, and frankly, no fucking power for most of the day. Utterly failed state.
Market solutions based on price signals?!? It’ll never work in California!
"Taylor Swift" is being banned on X/Twitter
In the past few hours, users have expressed concerns about encountering difficulties when attempting to accurately use hashtags for Taylor Swift or even searching for her name on the platform. This issue arises amidst the controversy surrounding the dissemination of AI-generated images depicting the renowned singer in a compromising manner.
I'm not a diligent fact checker at all. I just think that disinformation is already all over the place, and essentially always has been, that I don't think AI will have as much effect here as much as people are saying. The gullible will continue to be gulled, the unconvinceable will continue to be set in their ways, the general population will recalibrate their BS meters to account, and life will go on as it always has. Including reporters continuing to say we've never been more divided than <insert date of report here>.
I love this comment! It exposes all the hate. I wish I had the ability to respond like you. Good writing! (oh and if I wasn't clear, I agree with you. OP needs to back it up, examine himself, and stop trying to control or hate others)
Says that Apple doesn't provide a public web API for it.

There's a ticket covering everything you might ever want to know:

https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/1778

Seems like rclone would support it if Apple ever created an official way to do so.
You don’t need to be the US while applying for a green card. You can be living in, like, France, and apply for an EB1 green card with USCIS and then when it’s approved go to the US Embassy for a EB1 visa stamp and move to the US. This is what I meant.

In this case you don’t need a non immigrant visa because you don’t live in the US while it’s processing.
Yep, if costs are a concern (which for any personal backup plan they should be) then stay away from AWS. Backblaze is IMHO the best option
This would be an even further step. Reminds me of how Cable /Xfinity won't let you cancel sports package over chat....they send you a link to your phone that you must click, log in (password verification, captcha etc...) and than change the terms of your account.

Even on phone they make you respond to a text to confirm. Of anything happens (internet is not working, whatever, your bill will not be reduced).

Every extra link you must click to a third party source will remove half of your people.

It's an egregious step, imo
One thing that comes to mind for web developers outside of Europe, how can they even properly test that their website operates and renders correctly if they can't even run the version with their own rendering engines on their iOS devices?

If an issue arises, how can they even troubleshoot it adequately if they cannot reproduce the problem reliably?
> But also, isn’t this a sort of victimless crime?

Smoking in buildings is not victimless compared to drinking alcohol or even smoking outside away from entrances. Secondhand smoke [1] is more dangerous than it might seem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_smoking
But you can only buy it as a cloud service, yes? So presumably:

* Whether something 'beats' something else is actually a question of price/performance and...

* Whether or not the vendor in question is famous for dropping people in the shit.
Click a method to go directly to the definition, themes, debugger.
It doesn't need to be developed... An int isn't going to store a String in Java because of a bug, that doesn't require further development.
We know it will because we remember what life was like before. Sucky platforms that were never good enough, always some weird piece of software that you thought was benign gunking up your system. It really did suck. And then…most of the problems were gone and things just worked.

I’m ok if this is actually all optional, but I don’t think the anti-Apple crowd is going to be content until iOS is just another Windows. That somehow it won’t just be an unlock that we have buy into and know what we’re are getting into.
I posted a related paper a couple of days ago [1] titled "Promotion of Scientific Publications on ArXiv and X Is on the Rise and Impacts Citations"

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39124309
Does the law force smartphone makers to allow me to write a “Malware-R’-Us” browser for their platform?
> Rclone can also mount cloud storage to local disk

It's not immediately apparent what this means—does it use FUSE, 9p, a driver, or some other mechanism to convert FS calls into API calls?

EDIT: it's FUSE.
> we don’t live in a big clockwork, we live in a dance club

These chaotic orbits remind me of the chaotic solar system in Liu Cixin's novel "The Three-Body Problem". And they give me the same sense of terror that we can't predict where these objects will go.
This is complete nonsense. There are a ton of environmental economists. It’s an active and vigorous field. There are “environmental and X” people for many other economics subfields, e.g., macro, development, structural, etc. There are a ton of people doing work on climate related topics.

By contrast I have never heard of this person. She’s not the first or the only or even an influential figure in the area of environmental economics.

Don’t assume the field doesn’t care about the environment just bc one article says so.
Lapce: Cross Platform Fast Code Editor in Rust
Nice, that's a great point and a good use case. I normally try to stay away from AWS (when I have to care about the cost) but I think you've found a case where it makes sense!

I've already got backblaze (behind rclone) set up for my backups so adding a glacier archive would be quite easy. Thanks!
She won the case. But it ain't over - the photographer says his side planned to appeal.

from https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kat-von-d-wins...:

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Jurors took less than three hours to unanimously decide her tattoo — as well as her planning sketch and four related social media posts — were not “substantially similar” to the copyrighted 1989 portrait of jazz legend Miles Davis at the center of the trial. The eight jurors also found that three other social media posts made to Von D’s personal and business accounts that also referenced the photo qualified as “fair use.”

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How to Be Strategic About Your Career in Games
An essay about recent layoffs in games and tech, and how to strategically navigate what comes next
Thanks -- good catch. I fixed the title.
rclone is so cool! https://pgs.sh is using similar tech but focusing on a managed service specifically for static sites.
Because it's a career achievement award. Look at the other people who have received it and when, in their lives, they received it. It's also a bit of a broader category of award than the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal he received 3 decades ago which is for the field of telecommunications. Vint Cerf only received it last year himself. It also looks like it's not awarded to more than one person at a time, and it's only awarded annually, so that limits the number of people who could ever possibly receive it quite a bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Medal_of_Honor
Thanks, this is a good distinction and a good point!
Software updates on Android and iPhones, and if you're one of the 100 people running a custom OS in your phone then you're fine who cares about you
> What cloud storage provider officially supports this tool or the protocol used by it?

Man I wish I lived in a universe where providers actually supported tooling. You're completely delusional tho.
> On the plus side that makes diode lasers moderately safer for use by people that haven’t been specifically trained: you can see the beam and if you can then you at least have a chance to block it.

I disagree with this. Both diode and tube lasers can instantly blind you. But diode lasers can be a pain to block - because they’re in the visible spectrum you need specialized blocking materials that are opaque in that very specific part of the visible spectrum. Worse still, many have leakage into other frequencies, making them even more difficult to block. On the flip side, a co2 tube is much simpler - some common and readily available plastics transparent to visible light are opaque to the IR wavelengths emitted by co2 tubes, dramatically simplifying blocking material selection.

You should never operate any sort of cutting laser without an enclosure and safety goggles, and it’s MUCH easier to do this for co2 lasers.
Why can’t iOS be more like MacOS instead of going all the way to being like Windows?
Seems akin to “to be a billionaire, start with a million”. Are there any decent resources out there related to growing a genuine audience? Shitposting on Twitter seems to be a skill I never picked up.
I run Phosh on a OnePlus 6. It is honestly pretty good these days. There are certainly bugs and missing functionality, but it works great for many tasks. I especially like having desktop Firefox with uBlock on a phone.

Unfortunately, without popular apps being readily available, there is zero chance this goes mainstream. Desktop Linux has a better chance of surpassing Windows.
1. They didn't say ANY refugees in the country is entitled thinking. They meant as MANY as possible is entitled. Wich is a reasonable take.

2. Also, just because a UNHCR convention says it, doesn't mean it isn't entitled. (I would say the UN is an exemplar of entitlement. The US provides the largest budget while countries like China get an equal vote in vetoing.)

3. Everyone coming illegally is either a) a refugee, b) an economic migrant or c) a threat. Every country has the right to a reasonable process to determine which bucket someone falls into. Even the 1951 convention you linked allows for that. The US's process is actually less onereous than the EU's. The EU won't grant you asylum if you come through a safe country. The US has no such concept. You can be a single military aged male from China but you will still be validly considered for asylum just like a child or 80 year old from Afghanistan.
It’s mainly on purpose.

The more specific they get and the more prescriptive they are in how a business should do business, the easier it is to get it overturned in court.

That’s also the reason why the DMA doesn’t contain price regulation, because the first question a judge will ask is why is necessary and how they landed in the price.

The inverse is also true though. By using vague terminology like “reasonable”, they have more wiggle room to argue one way or another once it gets before a court.

At that point you then have to cross your fingers that the court not only finds that your reading of the vague language is the one true reading, but also that the reading itself is in line with the rest of the laws.

Contrary to what people seem to think about the EU, it isn’t some benevolent dictatorship that can put a wishlist to paper and then it’s some law of nature that can’t be contested.

The makers of the DMA are legislative bodies and the EC that enforces it is an executive body. Both need to work within the limitations of the law and the European courts will be the arbiters of that.
They were trying to present a certain image, I would imagine they put the German terrorists in front of the German TV cameras, the French in front of the French cameras etc.
The threadreader link in this thread is also very good.

Too bad we have to devise technology to solve problems that technology in the wrong hands has created. I've been taking notes for years.
> My workplace has a "smoking area" dedicated to drug use, and allows "smoke breaks" for the sole purpose of consuming said drugs. We have places called "bars" that exist for the sole purpose of taking drugs in public.

My workplace does not, bans all drug use. All buildings and employee locations are smoke free zones, and if they catch you, actually does enforce it, leading up to termination if not outright upon discovery. See all of big tech' campus rules as the most relevant example, then further to quite literally more places than just "bars" where people also maintain an occupation.

> Are we actually giving these students equal opportunities to consume it legally, or are we saying "you're a prisoner for 8 hours, and we're going to abuse that authority to deny you any access to your perfectly legal recreational activities during that period"?

Legal adults can remove themselves from school by dropping out, an option they have had since the very second they turned 18. Until then, they are either the responsibility of a dedicated guardian, or the institution. Meaning parents or the school, they are not their own person. School is also, not a prison, so your hyperbole stops as soon as it starts.

> If we're going to crack down and say kids should go 8 hours without drugs, shouldn't we be OK enforcing that on the adults in the workplace, too?

See above. 8 hours truly is not long, I would bet a fair amount of legal adults do reach that length of time without touching drugs every single day, even the ones that do drugs recreationally.

> Why are we holding these students to a higher standard? Why are we spending thousands of dollars on enforcing the rules for students, and nothing on the rest of society?

See above. I don't think legal adults are as clueless as you make them out to be.

> I think it's perfectly reasonable to complain about unequal enforcement.

No idea what this means.
If anyone is interested I designed a 60 inch by 78 inch large format laser cutter that can be built for a couple hundred bucks, designed for cutting fabrics for sewing. It is an ultra low cost design, and it can be built in a way that essentially takes up no extra space in your apartment, because the gantry is removable and the bed is a thin sheet of plywood which you can cover with a rug when the system is not in use.
The concept works but in my case the gantry gets a bit sticky and I lose steps, so it needs to be refined. However I have basically abandoned the project. I would love for people to use it as inspiration for future versions:

https://github.com/tlalexander/large_format_laser_cutter

I never finished making the youtube video for it, but I have a partially completed video that lacks a voiceover or proper edits for the second half. However it shows the operation of the system and offers some additional detail:

https://github.com/tlalexander/large_format_laser_cutter/iss...

Notably the design includes a built in raspberry-pi based pattern scanner which can be used to scan in clothes to make copies (with some manual work in inkscape) and can be used to scan in paper sewing patterns.
What if a sufficient part of the population want an industry killed?
From the article

“ICANN has picked the TLD string that it will recommend for safe use behind corporate firewalls on the basis that it will never, ever be delegated.

The string is .internal, and the choice is now open for public comment”

Saved you a click :)
yeah - I never had access to a 'real' unix. Closest I came was solaris and maybe Irix. Other then that, it's just been Linux. Keep meaning to give *BSD a try...

P.S. - oh! and I had friends that loved HP/UX - another one I never got to try
What Happened with the Web Monetization API?
I believe this is their third round of layoffs within a year?
yes there is a much more performant competitor that actually supports Nvidia GPUs [1] https://centml.ai/make-your-ml-models-run-faster-with-hidet/
This example was performed on the block-special device, so there is no filesystem.

dd uses a default block size of 512 bytes, according to the manual page: calling write(2) directly means you need to choose a buffer of some size.

"bs=" sets both input and output block sizes, which probably isn't the best idea in this case.

Block sizes are a tricky subject:

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/StatfsPeculiar...

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SSDsAnd4KSecto...
Huh, bemusing to note this is, with a VERY wide brush, Rome v Parthia all over again.
PyTorch has had an XLA backend for years. I don't know how performant it is though. https://pytorch.org/xla
> alignment of laws with our actual desires as a society.

The fact is, people desire different things from society. Some people want to have other people take control, because they believe it provides them with security. Others want total freedom and the two are completely incompatible. I think the only solution is to leave behind the old way of people staying in the nation they are born. Different nations should be allowed to have completely different policies and people should be allowed to choose which policy sets best fit with their ideology and be allowed to freely move to the nation that applies.
Many years would be an understatement.

From investigation to enforcement to adjudication all the way to the ECJ you’ll be looking at roughly 10 years.

Once all of that has played out, maybe some other jurisdiction might then decide to copy some parts.

We haven’t even entered the pre-investigation phase in which the EU will wag their fingers.
My house built in 2017 is the same. I still don't really use the tub. I asked my wife why she never uses it, and she said "it takes forever to fill."
Useful Models: The Barbell Strategy
I agree that it seems a bit much to try to design their own training supercomputer. But they seemingly did OK with their inference hardware, and they do have an awful lot of money these days. Anyway, even if it is literally only useful for a single task, and that task is training large transformers, there is a use case right now. People are desperate for hardware to train large transformers.
It's all about the work piece. If you have that kind of requirement you most likely aren't going to be making it out of wood anyway, after all wood is an organic material and things like moisture content and temperature and moisture related shrinkage and expansion are going to undo pretty much all of your efforts to achieve 100ths of mm worth of precision. It would cost a fortune and you'd end up with workpieces that are no better than what these cheap machines produce. If you were to improve on this I'd invest in a better laser head long before I'd start to worry about the final bits of precision because for that you are using the wrong material to begin with.

Woodwork to within 0.1 mm is insanely precise. You won't be making watches with this, but a mechanical clock with wooden gears is well within the realm of the possible and your accuracy will be much better than that of the best woodworker using non-CNC tooling.
The dead hand theory is almost certainly incorrect, because the transmission is fairly unreliable and regularly experiences technical faults or goes off the air entirely.
The US’s motivations are to maximize its power and profits, to think it is to keep the peace is naive. There are other, more economically valuable regions with conflicts in the world whose situations have higher probability of clean resolution than the Palestine conflict, so the US will focus on those instead until it is forced not to.

Anyway, there is no resolution to Israel/Palestine that won’t involve the probable demise of one of the two’s futures. Bloods being spilled and it will continue to be spilled.
This I'm not sure of. I also have a habit to use Takeout quarterly (but this blob is not merged). I think I should check these configs; I want the full fidelity.
Lots of answers already but the short answer is that sales sucks and people don’t do it without direct and immediate incentives.

So if you want sales you create those incentives.
If you imagine an Apple, is that Apple physically on some plane of existence?

If so, then consciousness is physical, if not, then it is non-physical.
Flexport bought Shopify Logistics from Shopify barely a year ago. And now they raised money from Shopify. Their ownership in Flexport should be pretty significant now.
To put the practicalities aside, what do you think are the causes behind the post-2021 slump? Are there any solid macro-economic and/or business explanations? And when I look at the revenue data, the market, including the labor market, doesn't look that bad yet, given that growth particularly in mobile has been quite extreme ever since circa 2000.
> And then to continue the war from these borders

Not a wise move.

> opposes recognition... promises war

I think you're confusing Likud's charter with Hamas'?

> uninformed people would swallow

Some say Egypt, Jordan, and Israel equally sabotaged the elections: https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/84509

> Some people wanted to start another front and got crushed

Truly crushed, or rather collective punishment / war crimes were the words you were looking for? https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/01/israel-opt-je...