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Updating this comment, because I just figured out the root cause, and it is as silly as it can get. Leaving the original comment below the horizontal line just in case.

TLDR: your website wasn’t at fault itself (well, i think the error handling could’ve been much better with an explicit failure, but that’s just nitpicking).

The issue was that the link to the website (the one in the OP) would lead me to `https://privatellm.app/%3C/p%3E` (with the extraneous part decoding to a closing tag </p>) instead of just `https://privatellm.app/`. Once I went down the rabbithole, I noticed the URL, manually changed it, and the website worked.

Decided to repro it by going back to the HN post, clicking the link, and yep, the website failed again. Looks like there was zero fault of your own, and it is a bug in the HN reader app I use does this for that specific URL.

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It was on iPhone 15 Max Pro, iOS 17.3.1. I rebooted the device just for posterity today, still reproducing the same behavior.

Seems like it might be JS-related, because I finally made out what the split-second flashing UI says. It is a giant “Oh no, you stumbled upon a rarity” message, with a purple “go back home” button.

After it flashes and i see the white screen, i check HTML and it is pretty much empty (aside from a bunch of script tags in the body), which is why I suspect it is JS related and not CSS.

The dev console is spewing errors, but it isnt super helpful due to the JS bundle being minified[0].

0. I use Web Inspector extension for mobile Safari to check on network calls/js console/inspect DOM. If someone is looking for something like chrome dev tools on mobile Safari, that’s what I use and can recommend. Maybe there is something better out there now, but that’s the one I discovered a few months ago and found the be a solid “all in one package” (e.g., there is an extension I’ve used prior that does a slightly better job of inspecting DOM, but it cannot do anything else like JS console/network requests/etcH
They are forcing these guardrails because the safety culture is being obliterated in the pursuit of cheap immigrant lavor.

Since the businesses won't implement it due to extra cost and the person harmed will be on Medicare and not any company health care plan. They will hide behind subcontractors etc like they do now.

So to avoid the govt being on the hook for medical care and permanent disability...
Pressure treated wood is electrically conductive enough for the saw to think skin is touching it
This is a pretty interesting problem. At what point of an ongoing tragedy does a relatively expensive mitigation become a mandate?

I'm grateful that SawStop is releasing their IP. This doesn't address the issue of added implementation cost, but does address the concern about rent-seeking. It would have been a better world if Ryobi and others had licensed the technology 20 years ago.

In a surprise move at February's CPSC hearing, TTS Tooltechnic Systems North America CEO Matt Howard announced that the company would "dedicate the 840 patent to the public" if a new safety standard were adopted. Howard says that this would free up rivals to pursue their own safety devices or simply copy SawStop's.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/02/1241148577/table-saw-injuries...

Steve Gass, a patent attorney and amateur woodworker with a doctorate in physics, came up with the idea for SawStop's braking system in 1999. It took Gass two weeks to complete the design, and a third week to build a prototype based on a "$200 secondhand table saw." After numerous tests using a hot dog as a finger-analog, in spring 2000, Gass conducted the first test with a real human finger: he applied Novocain to his left ring finger, and after two false starts, he placed his finger into the teeth of a whirring saw blade. The blade stopped as designed, and although it "hurt like the dickens and bled a lot," his finger remained intact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SawStop
I always open an image in a new tab. I can pan and zoom as much as I want there.
Unfortunately there are lots of materials run through a table saw which can trigger a sawstop. A false positive destroys the blade. Decent blades cost several hundred dollars, and are intended to be resharpened and last for many years.

I belong to a community hobbyist workshop. There are a lot of rules, lockouts and a key in place around the table saw usage, but they won't install a sawstop because they can't afford to keep up with the wasted blades.

Personally, I think I'd rather have one, but I can absolutely see why people would disable them if they were mandatory.
I begrudgingly use Firefox because I am trying to avoid Google's tracking, etc.
Yes, anything that can conduct electricity in the wood will trigger the safety device. Pressure treated wood is often so wet with copper based preservatives that it’ll trigger the safety circuit. Old nails in wood, your finger, hand, etc will also do this.

And yes in general the blade and brake are both trashed because of the wild deacceleration forces that happen instantly. Frustrating when pressure treated wood causes this, humbling when your hand caused it.
It can trigger it yes, and it is destructive to the saw blade and safety device, and can ruin the clean cut of the piece, though may or may not ruin it entirely. Good saw blades aren't cheap, and neither is the safety device. I'm unsure of what wear and tear it has on the motor itself, they can at least endure a few triggers for certain and I doubt it's "good for it" but unless you're doing it frequently I also doubt it likely to ruin the device itself but admittedly am not sure about that.

And to be clear, it's well worth it IMO. Of all the tools I have in my shop, the Table Saw is easily the most dangerous. If I had long hair the Lathe would give it a good run for it's money though. I refuse to use a table saw without a sawstop (or similar safety break). The one I have and others I've used all have a key to insert to disable the safety device If need be.
> Several informants described great software engineers as hardworking: willing to work more than 8 hours days to deliver the product. This typically meant working longer days, during weekends, and/or during other free time in order to accomplish goals. Informants believed that, at a minimum, software engineers needed to be willing to work beyond normal hours immediately prior to ship dates in order for the team to successfully deliver the product

What I'm getting from this is that Microsoft is a terrible place to work.

Schedule failure is a management fuckup. Expecting the line engineers to fix it is completely backwards.
Play Conway's Game of Life Through Time
It's been brought up that people who do the hiring or serve on the hiring committee would not be hired themselves based on their own hiring criteria and bar.
> I think the process is backwards: the substitutes (superficially better but not really) are usually what cause people to leave local communities. It's video games which take people out of clubs and cause the clubs to close, not a lack of clubs which drive them to video games.

Yes, that's what I meant. Sorry, I was not clear. I do mean that we have a process of substitute > leaving community > more substitute. I just isolated two steps from this, but I see how that was confusing.
> A safer design must be enforced

They won't. Bajaj Automotive lobbied for this as a Hail Mary to save them after Egypt, Thailand, and other markets began the process of phasing out 3 wheelers, and all political parties agree that it helps undercut the goondagiri Auto Rickshaw unions (eg. Maharashtra's CM Eknath Shinde started his career as an auto rickshaw goonda)
https://archive.ph/tPauO
There were electric typewriters that would repeat if you pressed a key beyond its normal bottom.
More than 200 chemical plants must reduce toxic emissions under new EPA rule
It's not expensive to replace, the brake is like 100$ and it sure beats a 10,000$ hospital bill and a couple digit amputations.
A good test for what a community is is: "Who will vouch for you?" You can have a machine pretend to talk the talk and parrot it back to you for "training," but you're still an unknown outsider at the end of the day.

I don't think HN is a community in that sense. There's no "knowing" one another. There's no real accountability or shame of getting kicked out. We're all just text-generators.
Really? it sounds super tinny and digital, more like when Neo is first pulled out of the matrix.
If you thought it was weird that they went to video with MP4, imagine my shock that the next generation they got into firearms.
The linked article is a bit sparse on detail but you can read the actual paper as well (not paywalled to my surprise):

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.24923
I'm totally onboard with universal service fees if the companies finally start being regulated like utilities and be mandated to provide service to everyone. They want the benefit without the responsibilities.
> All well before radio stars and TV, let alone the internet and AI.

All true, which is why I think we should be cautious of ALL technology, and try and vigorously decide which ones we should use in a process similar to that of the Amish (but without the religion, perhaps). Any discussion would be better than the ZERO discussion that we have today.
I have come to believe that select * should only be used in exploratory SQL and never in application code.

I know a lot of devs treat database schemas as sacrosanct and try not to modify the schema much once created. However, I do like being able to iterate on schema quite a bit during early stages of application and in case of dot-star queries I often end up with either run time errors or type errors that are quite far from the query itself. So now I have settled on ensuring that all columns are always specified in queries originating from application code.
The deposit is like 5-10 cents right? Might be too small for most people to notice. The car battery fee is like 15-30$ and is charged as a separate line item at the point of sale. Also the batteries are large and contain acid and are only taken out of the car once its time to buy a new battery and given straight to the shop that sells the new battery, all these incentives line up to make recycling essentially zero friction.
The UX trend of mapping all functionality of small devices into a single weird morse code hybrid button is pretty much this, but yeah, it's horrifying.
Non intuitive syntax is a nogo.
Tired of countries who think they get to impose their standards on American social media companies (because they cannot make their own) throwing tantrums that they will act in line with American values. You think you have a right to regulate what someone can and cannot say - America does not. Block twitter and make your own then.
Good - we should not use fees and fines to pay for government services we wish to provide. It creates a situation where gov't agencies begin to exist for their own sake, and to levy such fees/fines to fund themselves, past the point at which they are serving their desired purpose.

If we want to provide "programs such as Lifeline discounts and Rural Digital Opportunity Fund deployment grants for ISPs," then we should just do that right out of the general fund. And as long as that cost sits there on the books we can continue to evaluate if we want to grow, shrink, or let it alone.
Artificial Intelligence's 'Insatiable' Energy Needs Not Sustainable
To this day, still one of the best RTS games of all time.
If only I hadn’t included the word “episode” I could have claimed to have been talking about a failed coup attempt in Sri Lanka.
Silk Road Bitcoin Worth $2B Moved by U.S. Government: On-Chain Data
There's some amount of altruism, but no one is cutting their own throats either. At least some corporations are run by humans.

A patent expires, but forcing competitors to adopt a technology you already incorporate raises everyone else's costs, so it's not always bad for business.
I have no trouble at all with libraries like this for Electron apps. In fact, I'd go a step further and say I concede the argument for Chrome Extensions and the like. It's content-controlled code that's problematic here.
Show HN: Digest Storefronts of Bangkok Newsletter
... and yet you've heard of Adam Osborne.
Which KDE 3 fiasco? Are you thinking of the first releases of KDE 4 which were buggy?

It appears to me it's not the fact that KDE is configurable that you dislike, but the design and default configuration choices or the bugs. Or its differences with what you are used to.

I 100% agree with you that the desktop environment should come with good defaults and you shouldn't need to mess with the settings. Life is too short for pointless configuration.

But you are not actually pointing to anything specific so it would be hard to discuss in details or (dis)agree. Not that it's actually an issue, of course. But we can't take any particular insight from your comments other than "this person doesn't like KDE for some reason". If you pointed us at some actual dumb defaults that you shouldn't need to configure but need to, we could actually get your point. The only example you gave is for Gnome, actually. I don't remember struggling with the terminal size on Gnome but then again, I pretty much always maximize all my windows or put them on a side of the screen with a keyboard shortcut, and use tabs so I don't actually create a new terminal window too often.
I built a retro arcade game for my wedding
It's a release announcement of an existing product, so obviously it's tailored to people who are anticipating an update and want to know whats in it.
This is a pretty exaggerated take.

Technology is a tool, it can be used to increase your social interactions (e.g. finding like-minded groups online to meet up with in-person) or to decrease your social interactions.

You say technology is "destroying communities", but don't acknowledge all of the communities technology has helped build.
Electric cars are a viable product because they are a direct replacement for the kinds of cars people in the developed world have been driving for decades. But, in order to be that direct 1:1 replacement they have to be heavy and expensive because they have a big battery.

This is both another evolutionary path for EVs and it shows that EVs can be lighter, cheaper, and have a different sweet spot than electric cars.
I'm very sorry for any inconvenience caused! I will accelerate the development pace and implement restrictions.

User-generated images will, by default, not be made public or won't be displayed on the homepage. They will only be made public after meeting certain criteria, and of course, this will primarily depend on whether the user wants them to be public.

Thank you for your feedback and for your understanding and support!
Very cool. Adding the old clickwheel clicks while scrolling would be a nice touch as well.
It would be interesting to see a map of traffic by state, or even better by county, compared to normal traffic the morning of the eclipse and the evening before the eclipse.

A heck of a lot of people travelled to the eclipse and so their normal Sunday evening/Monday morning internet use should be missing from where they came from. At their destination they will be using internet to find things like food or to pass the time waiting for the eclipse so should be adding to the normal Sunday evening/Monday morning internet traffic there.
> Slightly above ‘average’ inflation-levels, compounded over time, creating an intrinsic tax on wealth

Inflation is great for asset owners to be fair... If you own property or stocks inflation is very welcome thing. Inflation sucks if you earn a fixed wage with little bargaining power. Small businesses may also struggle to pass on the inflation on to consumers.
tbf its more about training rather than social skills
>It creates a situation where gov't agencies begin to exist for their own sake, and to levy such fees/fines to fund themselves, past the point at which they are serving their desired purpose.

Would you have examples of this in the US?
PC hardware (and hardware in general) has never been particularly open. We simply seem to move from one dominant player to the next. I don't think AWS/GCP using custom chip for their cloud offering changes much of the situation (well at least before they start having weird custom instructions).
The sawstop triggers when the blade contacts something conductive (like a finger), and needs to stop fast enough that when that happens the finger isn’t removed first.

It manages to do that within a few teeth, which is quite impressive at 1000+ RPM.

It does this by firing an explosive charge which shoves an aluminum block into the spinning blade, while dropping the blade below the level of the saw deck.

Essentially a type of airbag like braking action.

That is how it can turn s situation which would guaranteed an amputation into a minor scratch.

It can (and does) get easily triggered by things like conductive wood (pressure treated), nails or metal in the wood, metal coated plastic, etc.

Every workshop I’ve been at that has one has a collection of triggered/destroyed blades hanging on the wall.

It could undoubtably be done cheaper than it currently is ($30 a brake?) but as designed it’s destructive - and it’s hard to
imagine a effective way to do what it does that isn’t destructive.
Just for the record: has anyone already tried an equivalent of the mirror test to current AI models? And if so: results?

Something like: video stream -> AI model -> robot control, place robot in front of mirror, see if AI model 'knows' (plz. define) it's itself that moves robot's arms / head / wheels etc.
Enjoy that style ? Go play Beyond All Reason, its free and open-source spiritual heir - https://www.beyondallreason.info
I agree with Stumpy Nubs on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxKkuDduYLk

He is opposed to this but expects it to pass. His best argument is that it would effectively outlaw affordable low end "contractor" portable job-site style table saws. I have one of those, a cheap $150 Ryobi. It would be more like $450 with the SawStop feature and I would not have been able to afford it.

I'd be using a circular saw instead. Maybe that is a bit safer, and at least it's more affordable until they require the same tech in circular saws. But shouldn't I be the one to weigh the value of a risk to only myself against the value of my fingers?
I really want to see an analysis of the impact on the power grid. A friend shared their solar panel numbers and it was pretty cool
Man, I did not think there were von Neumann truthers out there (seems like a particularly small hill to die on), but you live and you learn, I guess.
I've encoded xHE-AAC at 6 kbit/s mono, which is the closest match I could get. It performs much better and is widely supported (Android 9/iOS 13/macOS 10.15/Windows 11), although there are no free low bitrate encoders available yet. I used the Fraunhofer IIS Pro with EZ CD Audio Converter. It would be great if you could add it: https://filebin.net/x46m1x7n6d2t7e6b
Would like to add the colloquial expression for writing bad code and in general writing something without due diligence: "hinrotzen"
Maybe get some certificates for Azure or AWS? I heard good things about them like AWS Solutions Architect, lots of job positions on glassdoor and indeed for that.
https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2023/

You might notice it doesnt look like a pyramid and china will have significant population decline. Hence their rapid about turn on the 1 child policy and now mandatory masculinity training.

This aging population isn't the main problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_infanticide_in_China

There has been significant census updates as well indicating their historical numbers are bad news.

The problem isnt fertility but the major problem of 100million to 300 million incels. Simply because there arent enough women, by default creating incels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel

But what's behind this or the consequence is that these incels become far more risk taking, extremely aggressive, and violent. Often even socially withdrawing and giving up on that traditional family structure.

We know from history as well, every time this happens. You cant keep these incels back home. So the government/ruler sends them abroad as part of a war. If they can take land, awesome, but for the most part the goal is to get them out of your neighbourhoods. China has to go to war and it looks like India will be the target.
What’s unfortunate about them running those freight trains? It’s a greener way to transport freight than a bunch of trucks.

(I used to live not far from a crossing in Palo Alto and they had to toot their horn as they went past at 2 am but I can hardly call it burdensome)
The vast majority of tablesaw users don't lose fingers. How much is avoiding a 1/100000 chance of losing a finger to you? Probably a lot less than $500.
No, it's not a magical form of extended address space. It's a magical (clever) way of extending the networking without extending the address space.
It destroys the blade too.

The replacement parts are often more expensive than an entire cheap table saw.

If it saved your finger? Worth it.

If you forgot to disable the feature and cut some wet or pressure treated wood and triggered it? Very irritating,
The absolute numbers are irrelevant. It's almost bizarre to me that you don't see that. But even though I haven't experienced it myself, I do have plenty of anecdotal evidence against your statement, e.g. I watched serpentza's Youtube channel for a long time and heard many other first-hand accounts of people working in China. A colleague of mine is also working in China. Some have no troubles, others have to report to a police station every week for no reason. It's overall not good for immigrants in China, especially for black people. In any case, contrary to what you insinuated the duties for foreigners and how easy it is to live as an immigrant differ vastly from city to city.

Now even if I was completely wrong about this assessment (which I'm sure you think I am), it wouldn't make sense to presume that anyone would just take your word for it and allow themselves to be called pretentious when they disagree with you. That rude behavior is not increasing your credibility.
According to Mozzila four lawyers, three privacy experts, and two campaigners looked at Microsoft's new Service Agreement, and none could tell if Microsoft plans on using your personal data...

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/microsoft-ai/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37347528
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