skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is the "millimeter" precision noteworthy?

I think they wanted to highlight the unit they chose for their exported drawings.

> Isn't it just juggling numbers?

it is, until you have to hand your plans off to someone else to work with in their toolchain

every time I want my local laser cutting shop to cut my piece correctly, I have to export my drawing from my CAD suite as a DXF, open Inkscape, set the page size to something physical like A4, import the DXF, align it on the physical page, then print the result as a PDF. This is the only way that the laser shop reliably receives a properly scaled drawing. Any deviation from this procedure has led to wasted time and material.
Terracotta army style. I like it!
I've used PowerDNS at some point with MySQL backend. Rock stable with easy to replicate data.
Common Lisp. Not just the language, but the entire runtime: repl, debugger, system loading, quicklisp. It just works.
I haven’t used the Lomo one but I had the Harman version and it absolutely sucked. Definitely would not recommend it.
Very cool! I never managed to do anything in Deluxe Paint except for maybe a stick figure or something like that, or just random shapes/colors. Since then I’ve always been curious, what is the process to make an image like the one you made?
Also annoying if you use AirPods for Google Meet and Zoom. Half of the time when I put in my AirPods, here comes Apple Music, stealing focus from what I was trying to do.
Great products loved by customers don't seem to be what the free market rewards. It's almost looks like customer passion is an inefficiency which the market tends to eliminate and not as an accident but rather as a general rule.

Customers love your product? Great, here's a very attractive offer, we buy the company and make it "efficient" which somehow tends to make the product shitty and the customers unhappy.
People are constantly bombarded with seemingly unnecessary warnings. I frequently assume that these warnings are to insulate a company from legal trouble and not really to protect me. This might be an American perspective.
Honestly, shaming these people might be the only way things do change. Make it utterly embarassing to work for a company that does evil or questionable things, so that those who prioritise money and power over doing the right thing in life actually have to live with the consequences of that.

The fact is, too many awful things occur because people are happy to hide behind companies and organisations and say they "had no choice". The idea of "just following orders", which has been a sad human tendency for millennia.
Do you have backups now?
> Based on what I see in the videos from The Lockpocking Lawyer, that would be a massive improvement.

If you've watched his videos then surely you should know that lockpicking isn't even on the radar for thieves as there are much easier and faster methods such as breaking the door or breaking a window.
Congratulations, you’ve identified a misleading statement that has nothing to do with the present situation.
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Yes, it is me :)
I also released Mod Master XT recently that play .XM on XT computers.
> As for "doing something dumb", I've often seem fellow engineers do things like repeatedly insert into sorted data structures in a loop instead of just inserting into an unsorted structure and then sorting after the inserts. If you think about it for just a minute, it should be obvious why that's not smart (for most cases.) Stuff like that.

That's a great example that I've seen in the wild as well!

> Nobody's saying to pick suboptimal solutions at all.

No, I realize that. And most of my comment wasn't intended as some kind of direct disagreement to yours. It was mostly just some observations. One of which is that advice about writing efficient code is usually too vague to be useful, and the other is that people take the "don't optimize without measuring" advice to mean something ridiculous in the opposite extreme that reads more like "just write whatever garbage looks pretty to you because any forethought about what makes sense to the computer is premature optimization". I wasn't trying to say that's what you were advocating for, though.
I believe decision makers really need to understand 3 basic points:

1. End-to-end encryption does exist today (and it is deployed at scale). There is no going back.

2. There is no middle ground: either it is end-to-end encrypted, or it is not. "Sniffing" encrypted messages is not a thing, period.

3. Make all the laws you want, criminals will always be able to use end-to-end encryption. Those laws will only prevent honest people from protecting their communications.
Tangential and very late to the thread, but,

In the racing/track world, any time spent off the accelrator or brake is literally leaving time on the table.

The idea being; you are going at 10/10 until the exact point you know you need to go 4/10 at an apex and apply full braking. Then getting right back up to 10/10.

Similarly, I notice that i do a lot of this "sine wave" driving (IE , gas, brake, gas brake) when I'm heavily loaded with passengers or on a curvy road where I don't quite know the ratios. So I'm often not expecting to need to brake so heavily but, for safeety of course, need to.
You’d have to use some pretty extreme measures like permanent removing every thief and every person buying copper from thieves from society so they can never steal again.

Anything less isn’t going to stop it. See drugs… the death penalty for drug use is extremely effective. It’s also horrific but hasn’t stopped us before, so why should it stop us now?
This is a fun post, I appreciate the mentions. Matt missed my later piece from How-To Geek where I talked to Stan Honey and the Etak engineers again, then interviewed Asteroids designer Ed Logg, and he sent he his original sketch for the cursor. Indeed, his inspiration was Space War.

https://www.howtogeek.com/696738/did-you-know-the-gps-triang...
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Avoid syndicated content.

Actual article: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40365681)
I regularly find myself on the internet archive hoping to find a working copy of a page created ten-plus years ago. Page rot, SEO spam, walled gardens, and AI generated nonsense are all converging to suck the value out of the WWW.

Projects like this give me a little hope that blogging can make a comeback. NIP-13 [1] also has the ability to use POW to limit bot activity. Thanks for sharing!

[1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/13.md
Skill issue.

Source: Played AoE2 for decades way back when. Dodging arrows is a skill to be practiced and honed.
reall really really good. I know what it takes to do that !
If you have a laser, you can print an optical neural network using a consumer 3D printer. The present barrier to adoption, as the article describes, is the cost of transitioning from the optical space to the electronic space.
> If China can pull that off they could perhaps make Taiwans government give up without a fight

Ironically, the easiest way to pacify the whole region is for China to let Taiwan gain sovereign independence and fully support it; get Taiwan integrated into the world.

Then what purpose does Taiwan have for arming up? What purpose does Taiwan have for needing to lean towards Japan and the West? It removes China as a threat and changes the entire political dynamics in Taiwan with really minimal change for China. If anything, it may be a big step towards normalizing relations between China and the West.

Taiwan and the surrounding waters is not so rich in resources that conquering it makes a material difference to China -- it's a tiny island with just 20 million people. Destroying Taiwan's infrastructure destroys Taiwan's value from a technological perspective. Simply normalizing relations with Taiwan would seemingly offer China much greater gains by taking away this point of conflict; there is very little for China to lose and a lot to gain by simply letting Taiwan go.
Playing with the quality options with Gifski can yield a significant drop in size sometimes without much drop in quality (sometimes no noticeable drop in quality unless you really look). Perhaps gifs.com are using the same (or similar) algorithm with more size-optimised defaults?
It's not the place of news aggregators (especially crowd-sourced ones) to cater to media outlets. It's the other way around. These companies aren't publishing news out of some moral code, they're commercial entities.

I can get most breaking news from the general dispersion of information on the net. I can read various primary sources on pretty much anything that happens, with more reliable factuality, from a small bunch of people who aren't monetizing the information. If you're a journalist who actually provides a unique perspective, and has an insightful analysis of what's going on, then you deserve money. If you're just collating a bunch of information from other, freely available sources, and then spinning some click-bait / appeal to the masses for engagement story on top, you deserve something very different to money. If you're actively promoting and profiting off the latter style of news distribution, you deserve something different again.

Ads are a completely different beast that deserves to die. Every time this debate comes up it seems like people want to argue for the industry they feel kicks them in the teeth the least.

Independent journalism exists (across the entire socio-political spectrum). Find some, preferably spanning a wide gamut of opinion, and support it. Even if you don't agree with it.

It's better than supporting either the lazy, corporate regurgitation of freely available information which defines most large press organizations, or the monetization and manipulation of people that defines the advertising industry.
Gifski does two things that most video-to-gif tools generally don't do:

1. It uses a unique color palette for each frame rather than using one global color palette for all frames.

2. It takes advantage of the fact that pixels from previous frames can be retained and used as part of the next frame even if the colors from those pixels are no longer part of the color palette. This is the main trick gifski uses to get more than 256 colors in a frame.

On top of that gifski uses pngquant for color quantization (converting to 256 colors) which is extremely good at its job in its own right.
Do you fly over the tropics? To me it's not so uncommon to experience heavier turbulence when crossing the equator to the tropic of Capricorn, haven't experienced turbulence bad enough to see people pushed straight through the cover of the oxygen masks but I've been in a couple of flights where I experienced big drops in a split second, thankfully never seen anyone badly injured just some poor soggy bastard that was thrown around in the bathroom and people hitting their heads on the overhead bins.

I just always wear my seatbelt per the flight attendants' instructions, "keep your seatbelts fastened while seated" is a recommendation in every flight I've ever taken in my life.
ICE vehicles are getting larger because they're exempt from fuel economy requirements.
If you send another person’s money to a different person, they effectively came from the same account and are therefore commingled. Your money is fungible, other people’s is not (unless you are a bank).

Some states have laws against floating, some do not.
Midler vs. Ford Motor Company
which shows how bad puritan culture is, most people don't care about your puritanism in their room, they want to play a game, see a hot char, and be able to do stuff with them in the game. it's the harsh truth that people seem to get mad at.

Especially now with ever increasing rates of ADHD and other stuff, having an old school genre like an RPG have that type of stuff as a "reward" for beating a level or whatever reinvigorates a genre that felt outdated due to a lack of a proper reward structure.

Fact of the matter is, if you as a game dev want to make money, better lose your inhibitions real fast, because the consumers, want more choices in their game, even if it's just romance for the most part.

Look at stardew valley, I would never have played it if I hadn't found out you could literally date and marry a girl in the game, it just added a layer of reward to the gameplay.
or basket case
> This makes endeavours like learning to speak a language, to play an instrument, or getting buff unsustainable for me.

I think your goals are just far too abstract, you're thinking years into the future instead of something more immediate. Here's how I'd "atomize" them:

- Learning to speak a language → Being able to answer some basic everyday questions: What time is it? What's the weather like outside? How am I feeling? When's my birthday?

- Playing an instrument → Being able to play one popular song of my choice to a reasonable degree.

- Getting buff → Being able to look myself in the mirror and see progress.

Suddenly all of them are very achieveable within a month or two. I then either lose interest or set myself some "higher" goal. Can I up that to three songs? Can I describe my work or hobbies in $targetLanguage? Is there a body part I'm especially interested in improving? Then that becomes my new "project" for the next couple of months.

Rinse and repeat, all the way until I can speak German (not quite, but I can point to my A2 certificate and call myself an advanced beginner), or play a piano (not quite, but enough to easily impress anyone that never tried), or until I feel good about the way I look (not quite, but it is an indisputable fact that I look better than ever before).
Microsoft Copilot with Justin Harris
It is not just about marketing though. There is this belief, especially among fledgling indies that if they make a game that they think is good, and if they are able to market it well, it will be a success, even a hit.

A hit in gamedev is not easier than creating a hit in the music industry really. Even the veteran composers are not able to replicate (or even achieve) creating a hit. Possibility of success depends on many factors which change constantly, and success hinges on your ability to "read the room" which is the sound palette and the persona (for the artist that "performs" the music) millions of people are likely to find interesting at any point in time.

If you are a beginner composer creating a hit, it is an extreme fluke. Same is with gamedev. Your passion project most probably is not the thing most people want at this point in time. No amount of marketing will solve that problem. Your efforts at marketing are doomed to have negative ROI. Maybe you are a year too late? A decade too late? Maybe a couple years too early? Maybe what you think is fun is not really fun in the general sense and will never be?

I'd honestly struggle to find any good games (right for their time and audience) that failed because of a lack of suitable marketing. In the same vein, I'd struggle to find a hit game that succeeded because of marketing. No amount of marketing effort can beat thousands of people finding what you do interesting and sharing their opinion in person, on social media, youtube etc. If you have pockets as deep as Coca Cola, you may influence the culture through your marketing efforts, influence what "should" be popular - but if you are not that, you need to be an expert at reading culture of your target audience and cater to that. When you do that, "marketing" will be a walk in the park. Or else, even if you spend enormous efforts in marketing, it will only generate negative ROI.
>Recall won’t take snapshots of InPrivate web browsing sessions in Microsoft Edge and DRM-protected content, either, says Microsoft

Of course, we can't violate the rights of those poor poor content providers. The rights of the users though, who gives a damn?

I also noticed they're singling out Edge. Does that mean they won't let you have privacy in competing browsers?
> I would totally accept an argument that this button is a silly example to care deeply about.

I'm not trying to make an argument about that feature. I think it's a good, overt example of Microsoft's attitude towards Windows users. There are many others like it and many are more and less offensive.

> I mean, why not?

You seem to have missed my point here (my bad). In the hypothetical scenario (the key points of which you are repeating) the imaginary UX team did their job well, by making the outcome of each choice more clear than they would/could have been and possibly even giving the user more than zero choice in the first place.

> Of course they are! [responsible for the company that employs them]

Of course they're not!
It's obviously not that simple.

You seem to be making/repeating a "no one is holding a gun to their head" argument.
There's not really any way to argue with that, because it's such an extreme point of view to hold.
So I'll just say:

Yes, people make choices. I thought we all knew that.
I also thought that we all knew that there are any number of complicating factors involved in any one of those choices.
I think you should consider that not everyone has the power or opportunity to do whatever they want to at any point in time.
Is anything in the article actionable by me personally? Nope. Okay moving on.

This works for so many things, you won't believe how many things I can not think about or have an opinion on.
Humans only have one language center. You can only process one stream of words at a time. That needs engaging to really concentrate on something.
It's not "constant fear" to just leave the seatbelt buckled. It literally requires less thought and effort to just leave it buckled, because you'll inevitably be re-buckling it when the plane encounters turbulence or lands.

Using PPE is not about living in fear, it's about taking appropriate precautions.
I'm not clear on how this works if the transport over which the kill command is issued is degraded or interrupted.

For example, if China decided to launch an action against Taiwan, it would destroy the latter's cellular network, cut all the fiber all the island, etc, and at that point no command is going to reach the machine.

There is also the fact that should China actually invade (gulp) they would, presumably, send a crack team of engineers, accompanied by soldiers, to these fabs to extract whatever tech they needed before the inevitable response from Taiwan and its allies. If (and this is speculation, of course) these machines are so exotic that even Huawei's brightest people cant reproduce them in house, and that they would be a game changer for China's military capability, then it would be worth a raid during the initial invasion attack even if the overall invasion is repulsed. Then they can pick apart the machine in their own time. Of course, a lot of people would die, but military planners might ignore that.

I rather suspect that this story is a kind of gentle psyop to the hawks inside China to remind them not to bother attacking Taiwan because what they think theyll get isnt what theyll get.
I dont think it is useful at all. They are categorically different. There is single plunishment for lives lost in the legal system either. It depends on many things like intent. A life lost could range from life in prison to no punishment at all. Same for financial crime, and each depend on like 10 factors.
This isn’t an Apple Music thing. It’s an app stealing audio focus and them requiring you to manually revert back to what you were listening to previously.
Whoa, really? What country is that?
Businesses want value-based pricing on their sales, cost plus (a small) margin on their expenses.
I’m not confused and my reply was not aggressive. I don’t think it will be a good use of time to continue this conversation because discussions should get more substantive as they go on and this was an irrelevant tangent to which I have no desire to get sucked in to.

Other people have commented to further explain the point in other words. I recommend you read those, perhaps it’ll make you understand.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428005

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428280
What else does a famous actor have but a likeness? What if their likeness is appropriated to support a cause they disagree with, or a job they declined for moral or ethical reasons? The public will still associate them first and they will bear the consequences.
SpaceX critics often forget (or more likely, never knew in the first place) that Bezos-backed Blue Origin was founded before SpaceX. The way they describe it, any rocket company backed by a very rich guy would have been destined for SpaceX's success, but that clearly just isn't true.
Compute-intensive cross-platform library, which language?
Suppose you were going to create a compute-intensive cross-platform library in 2024. What would you use? C, C++, Rust, or something else?
Show HN: Staff Eng builds kube infra-in-a-box
For the last 4 years I have been paid to develop the same stack for every client big and small: Infra as Code, network, Kubernetes, secrets, GitOps/CD, Istio, ingress, cert management, DNS, etc. I'm burned out! So, instead of charging a couple hundred bucks an hour to build your dream cloud... you can just have it all (with updates) for a couple hundred bucks.
> - These conditions are unpredictable and have little warning

Not true at all. The vast vast majority of turbulence incidents are very well predictable. It's not 1930 anymore.

> - The conditions that lead to uncomfortable or dangerous turbulence are not at all uncommon.

Except your flawed logic in the previous point flows to this point. The question isn't turbulence but unpredictable severe turbulence which is much rarer. About 1 per million flights I think which is far from common.

> A smart, independently minded person, would do the following risk analysis:

Given the flaws in the risks analysis I find this sentence hilarious.
Same question here. I suppose that it also hurts (maybe even more?) on the way down because once the wings gain lift, you experience g + lift + your momentum going down ?
For most people, reliable WiFi is more important than Apple Music not opening when you hit the play button.
"If I read, share, and discuss this article on social media, it'll all go away." is as much a trap as ignorance.
Tech giants pledge AI safety commitments – including a 'kill switch'
Microsoft confirms Windows 11 Recall AI hardware requirements
My understanding is that the Romans, generally, were under no such delusions. But lead was SO incredibly convenient, for so many things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning#History
Probably because there is significantly more nuance to be had than the blanket statements would indicate.
You have to have a smartphone these days. All 2FA use a smartphone and Authenticator apps. Companies actively deprioritize human agents in favor of automated ones. If this comes to pass, you will live with the risk of your information being leaked out by government incompetence - which they will try their best to cover up and blame you.

Edit: No power given to government rarely not become something grotesque. US social security cards were “only for benefits”, now they are some ubiquitous identity number. In recent times, Covid vaccination cards were supposed to “only a patient record” until everyone started demanding them. So if your information starts leaking out your “conformance” will follow one way or another.
> Finally! This is so annoying for Spotify users. Every time the system starts up, and Spotify is configured to start at startup, but you haven't interacted with the window yet, then press the physical play button on the keyboard—instead of starting playback as you'd expect, the system starts Apple Music. It drives me mad.

But you're in Apple's ecosystem, you're supposed to use Apple products, happily.

The obvious fix for that "bug" is to start using Apple Music.