skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly from the way you are describing your workflow, it sounds like you haven’t actually dipped into parametric design and you’re still creating your models very manually.

Let’s say you have a hole in a part and you need it to be a certain distance from an edge.

The rookie way is to pull out your calipers and actually measure that distance and put it into the design.

But let’s say you know the hole needs to be co-tangent to an invisible line between two other points. In a parametric modeling program, you would say it as it is: this hole is co-tangent to this invisible line which is defined by these two points.

…which gives you a HUGE advantage: let’s say you have to move one of the defining points… well because you defined it parametrically, the hole would just magically resize and reorient itself instantly. And let’s say you extended the hole parametrically to another surface… well that would update too.

But if you did it the rookie way, you would have to pull out your calipers and re-measure everything. Risky risky too. Have to double check all your measurements all over again.

In Blender, because shapes are not actually mathematical shapes, you aren’t going to be able to define co-tangents or constraints or derive any measurements.

That’s why, no matter whether you are a hobbyist or a large professional engineering firm, you might much prefer parametric design because it saves you so much time when drawing out or changing the part. It has nothing to do with the precision of your calipers or the precision of your final product.

(That said, not all tasks are fit for parametric design. I wouldn’t design a game model or rendered scene with parametric design. I would use Blender. Also to be said, I know there have been attempts to add parametric design to Blender but I’m not familiar with how far they are.)
OpenAI is a nonprofit

Do people really still believe this?
> There is no way to enable location services but disable WiFi triangulation in any mainstream browser.

An opportunity for alternative browsers?
The inability to update an app installed from a 3rd party appstore is clearly a threat to the platform integrity of iOS. If Apple believes its own convenient rhetoric [1] it must forcibly uninstall those apps or allow installed apps to continue updating.

[1]: as outlined in, e.g. https://developer.apple.com/security/complying-with-the-dma....
Your parent has been flagged to death, but they are simply wrong. All ceasefire agreements so far have called for the release of all hostages. By far the majority of released hostages got their freedom via a temporary ceasefire. A call for ceasefire is by extension a call for the release of hostages.

Hamas has always maintained that they are willing to release the hostages in exchange for a permanent ceasefire.

On the international stage it is actually the actors who are against ceasefire (primarily the USA) who have vetoed all resolutions which calls for the release of hostages.

It is actually the reverse, those against a ceasefire are those who are preventing the hostages from being freed.
Can you describe how it would be uncontrollable to us?

Everyone says this but no one has any details.

Also,

> What could ants invent to keep humans aligned with them?

I think humans aren't _not_ aligned with ants. I don't go out searching to destroy all ants, or really worry at all, we just kinda coexist.
[dupe]

Some more discussion a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39617531
I’m unclear if you’re genuinely asking why, or playing out rhetoric for show.
What's the benefit of a tent in a truck if you can't link the AC/heating of the truck to the tent?

Might as well just have a tent separately...
This is awesome! As a software person who dabbles in hardware, I cannot believe that HW folks put up with such arcane, slow, and cumbersome tools. I think anyone who’s critical of this idea has no idea how good they could be having it.
The Fyre Truck just keeps on delivering.
Depends on who is that that flew across the world and how much have they developed a trusted relationship with me..

Why should anyone trust every busybody's advice? If the volunteers have put their money and started a herd and proved that their herd is better managed, then it is possible to get others to follow. Giving management advice without doing it yourself is just bullshit.
Potentially but not yet. Tried Brave and a few others with no luck. I really didn't want to patch and compile myself so I abandoned this avenue.
Yes I should amend [1] to say "Pigweed has some CMake support". We're aware it's way too hard to do simple CMake stuff. Sorry if I / we oversold it. It's on our radar to do a lot better with CMake docs, examples, etc. and your comment might be just what was needed to light a fire under our butts

We wrote an explainer on facades, did you see that / did it help? I will comb through the docs and make sure any module that uses facades links to the explainer https://pigweed.dev/docs/facades.html

Thank you for trying it out and for the feedback, and sorry again for the pain

For my notes, did you just try it out right now or was this in the past?

[1] Just checked, I no longer have edit access to my previous comment
Obviously in no way comparable, but you reminded me that many, many years ago, when I was taking typing in high school, I'd sit in class "typing" in mid-air (hands at my side) transcribing what the teacher was saying.

It was a little annoying to people around me, but ended up being very effective.
Whenever my kids are debating whether or not to do something, I use exactly that line on them. I usually stop after the first sentence, but sometimes it's hard not to do the whole thing and leave them completely confused.
I'm asking why not have application-specific fees and policy, instead of both Apple and regulators dancing around the revenue issue, while using the rhetoric of generic business actors and app-neutral policy.

There's a reason that only gaming companies have taken Apple to court.

Why should the economics of low-volume and low-profit medical or security applications be subject to the business mechanics of addictive games, which generate billions of revenue for Apple and gaming app developers?
> what basis do you have to say that their "level of ignorance" is, indeed, "appalling"?

Um, the fact that they did not know the rules of their own institution?

If you don't find that appalling, I gotta ask, why not? These are the people who run Congress. It's their job to know these things.

> Circular logic at its finest.

Not at all. Just applying common sense to what people who run an institution ought to know as part of their jobs. See above.

> based on zero experience in subject matter.

Um, actually, no, I have considerable experience in the construction industry. That's why I picked that particular analogy to run with: beacuse I do know what people whose job it is to do things like structural engineering calculations are expected to know, and I can compare that with what my common sense would expect people whose job it is to run Congress would be expected to know.

> nobody should be convinced by your argument

It seems to me that if anyone here is making arguments based on unwarranted assumptions and zero actual information, it's you.
Exactly. MSFT is who won here. I highly recommend you all watch OpenAI section of the new ALL-IN Podcast. Sam and OpenAI is in a very bad situation if Elon gets heard by a fair judge.
This is kind of funny because you’re fighting hubris with hubris, and a large part of what you’re saying is based on a huge misunderstanding of the industry’s dislike of the term “full stack developer”.

I’ve never worked with a self-proclaimed “full stack” developer that does what they say they can. On my teams I always have an expectation, even if unwritten, that a developer will naturally end up specialising in front end or back end technologies. It’s always the case. And honestly in my experience it’s usually front end developers that have vastly miscalculated the complexities of the back end.

The argument has never been that nobody can be a mediocre front end developer and a mediocre back and developer at the same time. The argument has always been against the allure of ‘full stack’ developers in the eyes of management and PMs. Suddenly all your team balance concerns go out the window. Communication overhead between front and back end developers goes out the window. Yada yada. The reality is that full stack developers only really work when the bar is low or the team/org is big enough that ‘Jack of all trades’ types can sustain themselves with a workload whilst leaving some other stuff up to specialists.

My speciality is in back end development. I also know a bit of client-side JS and can put together a sorta-decent HTML/CSS interface. I’d never self-identify as “full stack” because I know what expectation that sets.
It hasn't been a nonprofit in years.

https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp
>Agreed, though that certainly _feels_ orthogonal to unlocking the bootloader?

Unlocking the bootloader is what makes it possible. The security model protects against hackers installing malware on the device otherwise.

>If I modify the hardware some other way (a la a modchip) and achieve the same thing

Good luck opening up the SoC and trying to modify it that way. This is not a concern as the security is good enough where this isn't a big concern.
a 2k program, 128 bytes of ram... and 4 megabits of flash! still super cool

i really appreciate the filesystem design notes

i've been wanting to do something like this without the 4 megabits of flash; wondering if i can use lpc-10 on an atmega328, since it has a hardware multiplier (unlike the attiny45 and attiny2313s i have)

i've been thinking that it would be nice to get a speaker driver circuit that eliminates the dc bias from the speaker current that this transistor-switch driver is providing. you can't just put an ac-coupling capacitor in series with the speaker like you normally would because the cap charges up to 3 volts and stays there, with no way to ever discharge. you could of course ground the emitter through an inductor or resistor, but is there a better way?
When I was testing the language capacities of LLM, Claude 2 was the only one to speak Georgian almost at a native level, better than Google translate and way better than GPT-4 (GPT-3.5 was just gibberish).

I'm curious if Claude models (now the version 3 has been released) work really well with Chinese too (beyond Microsoft Translator). Also there are several good open source bilingual models like Qwen.
Let's face it: In the FE, we are using the wrong technology in the wrong places.

Frameworks with total DOM manipulation capabilities in React et al are not needed by almost the entirety of the web. They were built for the needs of services like social networks, stock/finance sites etc, which need to send constant updates to the remote client. Facebooks sends likes, shares, friend requests, messages, other numbers. Financial sites run tickers, statistics that are needed live.

But the rest of the internet doesnt need those. The last thing you want to have in an ecommerce checkout page is to send any kind of update to the customer and confuse them. For that reason these pages are as simple as possible. We also keep any kind of conversion flow extremely simple for that reason. In fact, even in almost all the other applications outside of social networks, finance sites and the like, we keep everything extremely simple.

But, we are running entire stacks, infra and a codebases built on such frameworks. Worse, we are sending all of the resulting blob to the device of the user to be processed and displayed. Nobody thinks about the users who are using average devices. Nobody even thinks about the users who have high spec devices but who are temporarily in a low-connection-bandwidth location.

As a result, there is immense bloat both on the user side and organization side. Large fe epds are dealing with complex problems that stem from the complexity of the stack and the inappropriate frameworks that are used in inappropriate places.

What's worse is that programmers must program. Boredom causes engineers to start solving problems dont merit solutions. This is further exacerbated by organizations pushing 'productivity' on their epds by counting prs, or features shipped, changes done etc. These two phenomena amplify each other and you end up with complexity on the front end that solves problems nobody cares about. Of course, engineers also have to do this to keep their jobs - keep busy or the organization wont like it.

So the mainstream tech is digging its own complexity grave by its fad-driven, profit-maximizing, wrong-metric-optimizing behavior patterns.

A product, user oriented perspective must come back to the frontend. Users must come first. Organizations must stop pushing for false 'productivity' that only helps to complicate everything. Correct tech/stack/framework must be used in the correct place.
This is the version I remember!
> Apple is achieving per-eminance in the cross-device consumer OS market in the latop+tablet+smartphone

Only in the US and global high-end market. This is an extremely profitable market to be leading and I'm not trying to minimize Apple's achievement, but globally relatively few people use their phones and tablets, and ever fewer use their traditional computers.

Apple has a sizable lead, but I think the "idea" of what a smartphone is has been locked in essentially in the mind of consumers and their technological lead will only last so long as time passes. They are Microsoft but of smartphones and 20 years younger than windows desktop PCs. They know this, which is why they constantly make new things and try to develop new products (vr headsets, etc).
> Purpose-built rentals

Purpose-built rentals are purchased by big pension funds and other investors.

> Also, the need for rentals and rent prices in general would go down if most of the new builds weren't scooped up by investors and people could actually buy homes to live in.

Are you saying there will be more supply of home built per year if higher % of rental is built? If so, then logically, it will tend to lead to lower rent and lower home price, but I was under the impression that the industry cannot build any faster than it is now and that changing the mix does not help.
> "For me, I have greater admiration and respect for someone who has failed majestically at being great, than for someone who deals purely with median or below median expectations. The former will have amazing stories to tell, the latter usually don’t."

This helps give me words to understand my mixed feelings about an old post I found on a language learning forum recently, about a person who shared an ambitious goal that appeared unrealistic to achieve on their proposed timeline of six months. The person aimed to start studying as a complete beginner with a language and achieve a 'C1 level' certification by that time (this is an advanced exam that evaluates for fluency in a spoken debate on a scholarly topic, thorough comprehension of spoken debates on the radio, and the ability to write a timed persuasive essay with a limited number of flaws on a nuanced topic).

The responses to the post at the time were largely discouraging. On the one hand, I quietly agreed from personal experience with the other users that the goal simply wasn't feasible for most people: it would have been ambitious (but doable) to employ the same stretch of time to go from the B2 level (the level just below, which is sufficient for immigration to major countries that used the language officially) to the C1 level. But on the other hand, I did feel sympathetic toward the idea of the person setting an ambitious personal goal. The person even tried to make this concrete by including a plan of intense hours of tutoring and television watching per week. The post was a year old when I read it, so I checked the person's user profile to see if they reported the outcome. But the person never gave a written update (neither a post, nor a comment, nor an edit), though the account was active with recent unrelated comments.

My conclusion is that it's best to be supportive of people with ambitious goals to better themselves, but it's most practical to draw a distinction between goals in the short, medium, and long-term. Ambitious goals for self-betterment on any of these timelines ought to be celebrated. But there are risks with short-term goal that skirt too far outside of realism: this can cause someone to push themselves too much to the point of burnout and quitting (it's unclear, but possible, that this might have happened to that person). In my week-to-week life, I've personally seen beginner's burnout happen with overly-eager novices in martial arts.

A set of attainable short-term goals in service of ambitious goals over a longer timeline would be more sustainable. But if one wishes to pursue an ambitious goal in the short-term, that ought to be okay too—as long as the individual understands the burnout risks upfront, to lower the odds of abandoning their goal if they fall short.
It's improving...

...or maybe just fewer cars because of global recession...
It is hard not to look cool in a 1970 Stingray. Also, no need for ageism, etc.
I love this for some reason. However, I wonder if it would end up being more complicated than React in practice. I generally prefer pedantic/stricter usage guidelines/conventions.
Yes, you can run FSDP/QLoRA over multi-node. There's a slurm script in the repo showing how to do it.
As another commenter said, EMR have allowed Drs to dictate messages for some time now, filling in important details for them. I worked on a very popular one some 12 years ago. No, I wouldn't care if it takes them 30 seconds vs 10 min. as long as it is my Dr driving it.
I don't know, it just feels appropriate for people buying Cybertruck. Maybe Musk can sponsor a TV show Truck Dynasty about adventure of a family with their Cybertruck.
Probably not, regardless testing kits are cheap and you can get them online
Show HN: Memzy Remote Memory Caching for Node.js
Hello,

I've developed a tool designed for remote caching that features key/value storage, encryption, and publish/subscribe operations. I've been utilizing it sporadically over the past few months for fast prototyping purposes.
See also: “reverse racism”.
Point of sale. Although, if I'm getting into the weeds, I should probably use the terminology "consumer rights and guarantees" rather than warranty, since I believe that's how we make the distinction locally.

What's actually really interesting is the same guarantees apply even if the item is a gift[1].

[1] https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-servic...
Sorry, that looks too much like a Chinese coffin.
‘[...] 6 brackets that attach to the vault’s side rails and have specific spacing [...] and aligning the two T25 bolts that secure Basecamp’s frame to the truck. [...] Once you remove those two T25 bolts, you can take the zipped up Basecamp with frame out of the truck and store it at home. This is welcome news because it definitely cuts into the length of your bed/vault (a bit more than 1/3 closest to the cab of the truck) [...]’
I think that would count as loss aversion. As long as you hold TSLA, you get to hold out hope for a future payoff against the patent mistake of the switch.
the investment question is not whether they have great futures, but is whether the market (which agrees that they have great futures) is currently overvaluing their futures.

the answer is that the weight of the market cap of each company, measured against the market cap of the entire market, tells you how much weight these companies should have in your portfolio.

or just buy broadly diversified funds and achieve the same result.
That should work great, although we haven't tried it. Let us know what you find!
Why would I take it if I was in a bad mood or didn’t feel well?
NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography
> I don’t know a lot of iPhone owners who feel particularly stifled

The existence of iOS Unix shell emulators (iSH, aShell) suggests otherwise, at least on iPads.

Perhaps that will change with forthcoming iPad Pro + macOS-subset VMs.
Chaining one sole thought-logic all the waaaayyyyy...untiiiilllll zap

I think Apple may behave more creditably from here on out.
I’d still put that in the same bucket really. It’s implicitly “a back end for a front end”
>He is not sure if he can recommend it for $3,000

Oh for fuck's sake
These women are brave and just trying to live their authentic lives and you are calling it atrocious?
It's an interesting question. I'm not sure we really know yet what the right mix of RAG and fine tuning is. IMO small-scale fine tuning might be under-appreciated.
They've completely upended the original non-profit focused board and literally installed the former CEO of the Bill Gates Foundation.

MSFT is going all in, dropping all pretense of OpenAI ever being viewed as a non-profit.

It's insane how many people are seemingly forgetting Elon's lawsuit.
If we don’t solve alignment, then yeah it very well might be Terminator but really dumb and embarrassing while its happening and people deny its happening. I dont know if we are gonna have a robot apocalypse, but if we do I can guarantee its going to be incredibly fucking stupid.
BSSCO is superconducting at much higher temperatures. Why are they not using that?
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I don’t work for Apple or have any stake in the company. I don’t know why or how Apple chooses specs for their products. I don’t know if some conspiracy of planned obsolescence underpins Apple’s long-term plans.

I use Apple products. I upgrade every two or three years (taking advantage of the generally excellent resale value) because I use my laptop all day long for work (web development). Right now I have a 2022 M2 MacBook Air with 8gb RAM. I have never experienced any memory exhaustion or performance problems.

It’s possible your mother needs an M3 or 16gb RAM, I can’t say for sure, but I doubt it unless she has an intense workload like video editing, in which case the Macbook Pro will work better.

If you don’t like Apple’s specs, pricing, upgrade options, or think they engage in conspiracies against their customers you can find lots of alternatives. Chromebooks offer great value, for example, with lower prices and better upgrade options. I wonder if Google will still support ChromeOS in a decade, whereas I have more confidence in MacOS.

My parents struggled with Windows laptops for years. I switched them to iPads, which they have successfully used for more than four years now, including mobile banking and web browsing. Maybe look into that.
Yes you can use multiple computers in parallel with this script. And there's lots of GPU providers out there (the article links to an aggregator of providers and prices).
[dupe]

More discussion a week ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39552701

Official blog post: https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/29/defining-socially-resp...