skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also paste the X link into https://threadreaderapp.com/. The link for this is https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1750952860131729544.html
This talks about accuracy, which is about positioning accuracy, but not repeatability, without which accuracy is mostly worthless. They are also often giving unidirectional accuracy numbers, which doesn't account for backlash in positioning (let alone repeatability).

Think of it as (this is not perfectly right but good enough for this explanation):

unidirectional accuracy - I command a position from 0. Where am I?

bidirectional accuracy - I command a position from 0. Where am I? I command a position in the opposite direction. Where am I?

repeatability - I command a position from 0. Where am I? I command us back to zero. Where am I? Repeat. Compare results.

It is true that, given a single directional commanded position from 0, the accuracy is likely to be 0.1mm or better.

But one missing factor in whether that will be true repeatedly is not just how it is driven, but what is being driven. Is it lead screws? ball screws? gears on rack + pinion?
Nothing?

If it's nothing, you will have repeatability issues, because both stepper motors alone, and stepper motors + belts, accumulate error through backlash.

It is possible to get a lot of the backlash out using the right types of belts or gearboxes or what have you.

But even at this price point, you probably want some mechanism (helical rack + pinion, ballscrew, etc) that ensures repeatability, to ensure your accuracy will be worthless.
If it were like a military thing. They'd likely be an officer, maybe even a chief of some kind.
A few things with regards to safety that aren't mentioned in the article.

Get laser safety goggles that are appropriate for the wavelength of your laser, and get them from a reputable source. Always wear them whenever the machine is powered.

Make sure to have a way to easily and quickly de-energize the laser for when stuff catches on fire, be it an e-stop button or using an outlet with a switch.

And don't ever cut PVC. It'll generate chlorine gas, which will either injure/kill you or corrode your machine.
Ultimately, there's a need for customer-specific real-time pricing that's responded to by behind-the-meter "power control systems"... managing flexible loads, in a way that doesn't negatively affect occupants.
i didn't "defend bullies." i just expressed my annoyance at the second order effects of the EU's diktats, which are a bunch of annoyances to me personally. i guess i should be glad i have the "freedom" to see useless cookie banners all over the net, and the "freedom" to not use my perfectly functional cables.

in my view, you’re the one defending bullies. wielding the power of the state to control free enterprise is like pointing a gun at somebody to get your way. "do what i say, or else" is what a bully does.

> noone force you to use the alternative store

i get the strong feeling you didn't really read what i wrote
Not by the powers that be, no. Making a division between public criminals and private ones is amusing to say the least.
I'm pretty sure we proletariat lost on all fronts. I advocate we give up on change via text official routes (which tends to absorb as much energy as anyone can throw at the project while producing epsilon results, barring the odd tournament-market victor [Britney Spears, Neil deGrasse Tyson for examples]), and teach our children and each other the importance of undermining and subverting the dominant control structures at every turn.
you might be interested in https://restic.net :)
Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal"
Well, acording to wikipedia gasoline has an energy density of 46.4 MJ/Kg and LiPo batteries have an energy density of 0.36–0.875 MJ/Kg. So if your electric drivetrain has a 100% efficiency and your gas drivetrain has a 30% efficiency then the gasoline car would be able to do 16 times more work per unit of fuel.
> Ruining people's lives with criminal records is wildly disproportionate to the harm.

If I understand the article correctly, it's a misdemeanor and a small fine for nicotine vapes. This is far from ruining someone's life, I know people who got misdemeanors for more serious actions and they didn't have their lives ruined. In the vast majority of cases it does not seem that this is the issue you think it is. If a student is both an adult and is using flagrantly using marijuana in a school, and likely exposing their young friends' developing brains to the substance, then it is completely on them.
The process has been broken forever and needs to be reformed. I don't blame any workers either, but just right/left infighting. I have no idea about solving the problem, but if I had to say without giving it thought, I think the US needs a salary/wage database for industry workers that is based on US Citizens and US dollars, and companies shouldn't be allowed to pay less to foreign workers, regardless of if they work here or elsewhere. In exchange, said company should be allowed to hire as many foreign workers as they want and ship them over here.

At least then it becomes about talent rather than money, which also helps with the shitshow IT security at many companies that we have now.

...most politicians would never vote for it even though it'd be one of the most competitive laws in the world. Don't want your citizen to leave? get good.
As a supplement to this excellent breakdown of laser cutting, can I recommend the Guerrilla Guide to CNC [0]. To this day, it's the best reference I've ever read on small volume fabrication with a CNC machine and/or 3D printer. If you enjoyed the original post, you may enjoy this as well.

[0] https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/
bureaucrats don’t understand second order effects. it's in their interest not to. indeed, a lot of people seem to struggle with the concept based on the comments here.
If you had an inkling of a genocide going on and a chance to act, obviously you'd immediately do anything in your power to stop it? Despite the judges being appointed by their own countries*, I'm sure they have humanity. So this is an acquittal in all but name.

Oh, they'll keep monitoring and the case will take years, but the result is obvious even now.

* e.g. It's obvious the Russian judge has strong incentives to vote as Putin tells them to, otherwise they'd have to move to a windowless basement where the only access is by an elevator...
You might run afoul of your ISP's terms of service, regardless of which country you wish to flex your hacking skills on.
BPA has been shown to be absorbed transdermally [1]. Patagonia was recently found to have high levels of BPA, along with other brands [2].

Bluesign and Oeko-tex certifications test for BPA. You can find recycled polyester without this (if you have kids, Hanna Andersson's polyester lines claim to be BPA and PFAS free, most Cat and Jack clothing is Oeko-tex certified and Mamavation puts out good information on PFAS in things like children's clothing, backpacks, lunch kits [3]).

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33313651/

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2023/05/18/worri...

3. https://www.mamavation.com/product-investigations
Confirmation of ancient lake on Mars
Taylor Swift Shows Us What's Coming Next in Gender and Tech
The American "justice" system operates as a de facto vengeance and punishment system. Thirty days in the alternative school for a student council president taking a smoke break is a ludicrous exercise of discipline and punishment merely for the sake of it.

Come on, mandatory minimum sentences for high schoolers? System of a Down was railing against this paradigm when I was a wee misanthrope and it wasn't even novel back then.
I say this as a huge Apple fan: the iPad strategy is ridiculously frustrating (for my purposes).

The crux of the issue is that the latest Pros have one of the most awesome and powerful processors on the market for traditional computing purposes, but all that power is locked behind a toy OS that you can’t do much with.

There are few meaningful differences in the underlying hardware between this and a MacBook Air, but I can take my MBA anywhere to code, work offline, easily multitask by switching between numerous project windows, install all sorts of open source software as needed, etc.

With the iPad, I can watch some videos, and download some popular games with gacha mechanics. Cool?

I picked up a cheap refurbed Surface Pro X. While no means perfect, having an actual usable OS that I can do whatever I want with is so nice. Come on, Apple. Just let us run MacOS on these things.
We live in America. We have an old house (>100 yrs). One bathroom had a tub. We renovated the bathroom to incorporate a shower head. Turns out we couldn't purchase a new tub that fit the old dimensions, as new tubs are smaller, reportedly to meet new efficiency standards. So we had to frame in a smaller recess to fit the new, smaller tub. Wah wah, I guess the answer is, old tubs used to be more adult sized, and new ones aren't because of efficiency / climate change trends? As others have pointed out, you can still get big tubs but they're more like jacuzzi or whirlpool types that take up more space.
Yeah, he looks really friendly.

According to that page, he has defended both a "landlord in a million dollar lead paint claim" and an "oil delivery company against a million dollar pollution claim".

I'm sure he's a lovely person though.
The thread is about an object in our solar system, called 2002 VE. Its motion under the influence of gravity isn't clearly "an orbit", but (for now) it sort of follows closed loops when viewed from the moving frame of Venus, so people call it a quasi-moon of Venus.

Figure 4 in this paper shows the object's trajectory in the frame of Venus:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.4444.pdf
Let alone a contract with payments involved. Too bad they weren't hit with tortious interference.
>> And now the car stereo doesn't work through a wire to my phone any longer.

> Remember 30 pin?

I’ll do you one better: The first 30pin was widely deployed to all sorts of cars, and the majority of those hardwired the end that plugged in to the car. Then Apple changed the 30pin wiring while keeping the actual connector the same. The 30pin still plugged in, but it no longer charged the device nor passed audio through to the stereo.
Their borders were restored.
Nobody forces you to install apps outside of the App Store. On Android I don't know of any large-scale app that is not available on the Play Store despite 3rd party stores being supported.
> another is to pull photos into $Archive from my Google account

I assume you are pulling from Google photos? If so, then I think the only way to get original quality is to use takeout?
Yep. It's not noise on the MIDI signal, obviously, it's crosstalk induced by USB circuitry. It gets worse when bus power is involved; USB-powered instruments are notorious for it.
I've said it before and I will continue to say it. America's "justice" system serves only to effect vengeance against those the rulemakers deem punishment-worthy.
> "I'd expect the legal team were employees, too."

The article actually says this:

> "Despite Facebook hiring several law firms to defend their case, Soldati, representing himself, was able to successfully argue Meta/Facebook committed a breach of contract and that they were not immune under the Communications Decency Act"

(edited out how I originally wrongly introduced this quote)
The FCC Is Taking Steps to Wind Down the Affordable Connectivity Program
It's a wrapper around a bunch of API's. If that makes you nervous then wait until you hear about how the rest of the modern web is strung together. It's been working reliably for me for a decade.
Do other chemistry prizes predict the Nobels?
Regardless of theorical efficiency or not of the energy, in practice the ICE gets the torque needed by the vehicle for driving on all types of slopes (and speed, by transforming part of that high torque with the gearbox).

This is why electric and combustion vehicles have such different ranges at even the same weight. Nowadays.

Such high torque is needed at the same moment the vehicle doesn't circulate on a flat terrain, or when have to reach highway speeds.

For to get at least the same ranges, the electric vehicle must reduce the energy consumption for the generation of the required torque (and speed), or needs to increase the energy density of the battery in companion of increasing the recharge cycles.

will be possible to achieve this? of course.

(The losses cooling or heating the battery and avoid the self-discharge should get the same advances, as it's counted as stored energy but it's not used for motion)
Editing Polymer Backbones
Egress costs are significant by the time you want to use your backup, around $1800 to download the 18TB, which is around 10 years of storage cost. If you assume 5 years of HDD data lifetime, you need to roughly triple that monthly cost, which is not too bad, but you can buy an enterprise 20TB drive per year for that cost. Personally I would only use AWS in a way that I would almost never have to pay for egress for the entire dataset except when my house gets burned, as a last-resort backup instead of a main one.
Danaher completes $5.7B Abcam acquisition
https://archive.ph/hzQsK
In general:

The typical 60” bathtub is 60” because 60” is a common width for bathrooms.

60” is common because a reasonable size of door can swing past a reasonable size of sink cabinet when door jambs are reasonably sized.

Sure bathrooms could be larger, and on-suite bathrooms often are when the bedroom is large.

But mostly, larger tubs are not something typical homebuyers will pay premium for. Bathrooms are small for the same reasons garages are small and second and third bedrooms are small…they are unprofitable square footage.
Thanks for sharing. Just watched the whole thing. Incredibly revealing (/confirming).
Is modern food lower in nutrients?
https://archive.ph/loM1c
Mosul had 40k civilian causalties (more than Hamas totals), the coalition just lied about it:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mosul-m...
I can’t speak to Rust, but these past 6 months I’ve had a very interesting adventure diving into Ruby on Rails. My background is full stack JS dev with Typescript. So I like my shit explicit written out, no magic. I like my shit strongly-typed. And I like my shit running primarily on the front-end.

Well I had several sour run-ins with Ruby on Rails and I had decided that it was the worst thing ever and I hated it. And I valiantly defended that position for many years. However, recently I’ve had several roles that required me to use Rails in various ways and I managed to find one or two things that I found… interesting… about it.

So I decided I was going to learn Ruby on Rails just so I could see what all the fuss was about and then I could _know_ I was right and throw it in all those smug Ruby-ist’s faces!

Long story short, I’ve learned a great deal and I’ve come to appreciate many of the design decisions that Rails has made over the years. It’s very opinionated which can go either way, but what it sets out to do, it does very well. I am actually building a Rails application using turbo and it’s been mind-expanding and a total joy to use.

To that end, I can only recommend going in to “prove yourself right” and you may find that you prove yourself wrong.

I still hate Ruby as a duck-typed, dynamic language. I will jump ship at the first full stack web framework that is as comprehensive as Rails but has full-stack, native Typescript runtime. (Hoping for some deno project to fill that void!)

But until then, I’ve come to appreciate and even enjoy Rails.
They meant Radiolab https://radiolab.org/podcast/zoozve
Makes sense.

EU: “You need to respect PII”

The market: malicious compliance and obvious dark patterns

EU: sigh Ok, we’ll also have to tell you how you’re allowed to ask. drafts new legislation
Zilliz Vector Search Algorithm Dominates All Four Tracks of BigANN
Nevermind bloated, the entire chat workflow experiance is awful.
That's probably genuinely the intent considering that ad breaks are often an excuse to go to the bathroom/kitchen and thus are less eyes on the screen.
Why is my showerhead only like 5 feet up the wall?
I'm assuming you just missed the previous comments where I agreed that the Palestinians have a powerful moral argument about Gaza and the West Bank. If you read the thread, I think you'll see we might not have much to disagree about.
To be fair, for most of history, food didn't have cancer risks attached.
The problem is tribalism. The primary goal is exclusive dominion, but a distant secondary goal of political and militaristic domination will suffice in the meantime. These aren’t my thoughts or conclusions but the stated goals of several of Israel’s most senior politicians, saying something to the effect of removing the inhabitants so that they can make the desert blossom.

The problems here can be solved peacefully and permanently if the dominant faction so wished. The most durable solution is to tear down the walls, annex the occupied territories, and make the Palestinian residents full and equal citizens of Israel. Israel has stated as much directly but refuses that solution because they fear their tribal identity will not longer be a numerical majority. Another less durable solution is a two state solution in opposition to military dominance, but Israel does not want that either. Tribalism. The parallels to the conflict in the Balkans, which was ruled a genocide, are many.
https://archive.ph/ujdf8
I think you’ve shown the flaw in your own reasoning then. “Ongoing investments in tools, technologies, and services…”

It’s not just the SDK.
Anyone else think “necessary cookies” should only be asked when do you something that actually requires them (such as on the login screen)?
We are still working with yes/no questions. While perhaps a landlord may reply with more information, I would phrase them as open-ended: "What can you tell me regarding dog ownership in your community?" That is an invitation to describe pet deposit, size/breed limitations, places to walk them, etc.
The person eating the banana is more radioactive than the banana being eaten.

Not sure why bananas became the benchmark! Banana for scale?
What makes you think it'll be easier to get away with using private APIs by selling through a different storefront? Isn't Apple is still requiring all apps to be submitted for notarization?
Revisiting My Mobile Workflow (2022)
You mean an oppertunity to not have to use teams.
They killed 1200 people, most of them civilians, raped dozens (at least), filmed murders and posted those videos to the victims Facebook pages. I am, in this one instance, comfortable with the application of Cancel Culture.

There is no advocacy one can pursue more antithetical to the cause of Palestinian human rights than to cheerlead for Hamas.
Yea it doesn't really follow. I think the idea is that the energy density being 50 times lower doesn't matter because the battery is efficient enough that you can make an EV with a 300 mile range which is good enough for most people. Of course if anyone wanted one, you could build a gas car with a 5,000 mile range if it had a gas tank as massive as an EV battery.
The West Bank and Gaza are two different locations. The West Bank is occupied and "open air prison" doesn't seem like a bad description of Gaza.
The likud is not far right, it’s just a right wing party.
There are other far right parties.
Can you link me to that part of the likud charter? Because the one I’ve read mentions none of that.
One of my favorite party tricks is using shell redirects to do this. Using coreutils ('cp') is a nice approach

I'm all for anything not 'dd' or cargo-culted like balenaEtcher

This all depends on a certain format of ISO that I can't recall

There's no magic. Checksum the drive and the file after
There are still a few of these cigarette vending machines around in bars and they were always fun to use back when I was a smoker 5-10 years ago. The ones I got to use had a pull style activation that was quite satisfying as it required a decent yank to dispense the pack.
PopOS or Fedora would be my choices
They generally use official APIs, of which most backends have.

I’ve been using rclone for 3 years without issues. Across many different backends.
>Hamas encouraged PLO to reach a political arrangement with Israel on 67 borders

And then to continue the war from these borders. Duh.

> ratified their charter again to make that point clear.

The one which opposes recognition of Israel and promises to continue the war?

>which almost happened only for Israel to not let East Jerusalem residents vote.

This isn't true at all. Israeli opposes PA polling stations there. There are other ways to vote (like having the stations inside the EU consulates, or by mail). Which they already used in 2006, so PA is actually fine with this. It's that Abbas will lose to Hamas and everyone knows it, so he needs an lie that uninformed people would swallow.

>Israel has razed Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nablus

These cities aren't razed by any normal definition of 'razed'. Some people wanted to start another front and got crushed.
so how does this worK? you take the video and extract captions from it? and feed it to GPT? i am sorry, can you clarify?
Hi, Mesh co-author here. The point of the work was to save memory by “virtual compaction”; we hoped to be able to do this while not degrading performance too much, since compaction typically is quite costly. Our empirical results found that Mesh saves memory by between 16% to 39%, while imposing very modest slowdowns, e.g. 1% for Firefox (see Section 6 of the paper - https://people.cs.umass.edu/~mcgregor/papers/19-pldi.pdf).
Good to know doxxing is okay so long as it's against someone you don't like because they insulted a celebrity people have an unhealthy attachment to.

Hard to see how this isn't "rules for thee but not for me" just applied to an act that ruins people's lives. But hey, they typed in a sentence or two into a chat prompt and posted the resulting image, they must deserve it.
99% of paid iPhone apps don’t have a million installs.
> lawyer’s answer to the actual legal requirements imposed on them, not the ones the EU were implying.

do you think that the regulators did that on purpose, or are they simply not competent enough to understand the implications?
That's exactly it, the wooden-knobbed pull cabinets. I remember begging my father to let me work the mechanism, but he had to help me.
This shows you have no idea how the US court system works.

Meta's defeat leads to a build up of case law, making it harder for meta and similar companies to win unlike class action lawsuits, which lead to nothing.

It does take time for these cases to build up the appeals process and such, but it does get there.

In short, he does win in the short term, but everyone wins in the long term.
Or a worse experience? I mean android phones and tablets are already something you can buy, people still buy Apple products despite that.

> It's not my intention to poison the well, but Apple feels like treating its customers like cattle

A lot of remember how the computing world was before, the Wild West that the EU is trying to make the only option. We aren’t eager to return to that, and would make different platform purchasing decisions if we did. The EU is simply taking away choice, not adding to it.

I get it, Apple has an unfair advantage because they lock down their platform, and the EU making it suck as much as the other platforms, Apple will compete with the other platforms more fairly.
It worked well 20 years ago if you had reasonably supported hardware and don't install stuff that got released 24 hours ago. The same is true now.
Cloudy with a Chance of Poaching