skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a well-worn topic, but FDM has many potential issues that make food-safe printing significantly challenging.

It is alas not enough to use a food-safe filament; you need a food-safe extruder drive and nozzle, and almost certainly will need print post-processing to make the printed item physically food-safe.

The issue with a lunchbox is acute because it has potential contact with individual items of food for hours at a time, on a regular basis. It's the perfect setup for bacterial growth in the layer lines -- close to the worst-case scenario.

There would be ways to mitigate that (liners etc.) but arguably even a food-safe filament would need considerable vapour smoothing or coating.

Hard TPUs up at the Shore 75D range would be tough enough for the job but they would scuff up while cleaning, and are resistant to coatings etc.

(Side note being that 75D TPU is quite capricious to print.)
Nowadays they seem to broadcast legally on medium wave (aka AM to Americans), but I doubt I could receive their 1 kW here.

Less traditionally on

https://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/radioplayer4/index.html
Obesity stats in Japan are aggregated across Japan not just Tokyo. It's true that outside of Tokyo, most of Japan drives, and is a lot less transit centric. But it's also true that most Japanese cities and towns are smaller and there's a larger culture of walking to a corner store, the local grocery store, the drugstore, a soba-ya, the shrine, the park, or other places, unless you're out in the boonies. And adults often move to Tokyo for work which means they stay fit until they become old enough to move back to the burbs to have kids. It's also very common for rural Japanese to walk along the side of the road to get places and get picked up by a friend/family with a car if the bus is taking forever to take them back.

I agree too many non-Japanese who just visit judge the whole country by Tokyo which is a mistake. But there's a much bigger culture of walking and standing in Japan than there is in the US. Heck, the US has a culture of parking as close to the store/restaurant as possible in the parking lot of any commercial area to minimize walking. It's hard to beat culture. Of course Japan is also a culture where obesity is a lot more frowned upon, the doctors chastise you much harder for it, and as a collective society people feel much more pressured to stay skinny. Japanese also eat much smaller portions and find that acceptable. And Japanese in rural, more car centric, areas often are heavier than urban Japanese.

I really don't think the small lot sizes are causal for Japanese not having kids, rather I think it's the other way around. Fewer folks in urban areas are having kids, dropping demand for anything larger than a 2LDK, so the market is responding in kind.
I considered a startup after university in the UK. The talent arbitrage is absurd, physics grads with 1sts from top Russell Group unis fighting to be paid £30k/yr. For me it came down to security, life is expensive, rent is expensive. I didn't have a spare parental garage to setup five computers - I barely had room in my flat for one desk. I barely had money for that flat let alone internet, and food. I had zero capital, as in literally zero. The plan was to get an entry level job to provide some base line, but that base line never really provided enough life security that I felt comfortable leaving the system once I was inside it.
"Some commenters on Hacker News claim that a post regarding Annie's claims that Sam sexually assaulted her at age 4 has been being repeatedly removed."

Whelp. Let us see if this one sticks.
Bankruptcy laws and social mores massively different.

In the UK to go bankrupt is to be painted with indelible red shame dye. In America... going bankrupt means you are closing out the book on one failure to try another.
"then developers would have multiple systems and namespaces to deal with in order to query on transactions."

Yes, which they already had as DynamoDB only held 8 weeks of data. Presumably all payments to drivers were calculated monthly and turned into invoices. Any corrections would end up as adjustments on future invoices. Seems pretty normal.
It's not symbol soup, it's projective coordinates. Did you claim to be a mathematician? I merely have a PhD in Mathematics and a few papers in peer-review journals, so, unlike you, not a real mathematician, and I immediately understood the point.
Right. And a lunchbox would have to be close to the worst-case scenario for an item where 3D printing would actually be used.
The easiest answer is military tech.

More complex answers involve having an allied county in an area with a lot of Russian influence.

The history is long and complex, but keep in mind Israel ran all by itself for decades, and defended itself in multiple wars, without any US help. It was when Russia started helping Egypt that the US recruited Israel. It was not the other way around.

For a while when Russia seemed powerless people started questioning the relationship, but after Ukraine it was re-energized.

Other answers are cultural: Israel is very similar to the US and Europe, same equal rights for citzens, same democracy, same culture of freedom. And the US is allied with all countries that are similar to it.
Why bother starting anything in the uk, the taxman will just take any proceeds. The moment I get an opportunity to move to the USA I’m heading over there to continue my business.
You're reading my statements as defending OpenAI. Put on your "I'm the PR department hat" and figure out what you'd do if you were OpenAI given various permutations of the possible facts here.

That's what I'm discussing.

Edit: which is to say, I think Sam Altman may have been a god damn idiot about this, but it's also wild anyone thought that ScarJo or anyone in Hollywood would agree - AI is currently the hot button issue there and you'd find yourself the much more local target of their ire.
Yeah, even if you can only enable one of the ISAs at any given time, it saves on SKUs and chip mask and design and validation etc costs.

There has long been a rumour that the Allwinner D1s/F133 are the same chip as one of their Arm designs, and maybe the D1-H too.
The Tom Waits case had a payout of 2.6 million for services with fair market cost of 100k. What would it cost openai to train chatgpt using her voice? Is she also going to get a payout 26 times that? That GPU budget is starting to look inexpensive...
Obligatory Mitchell & Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
Learning well requires two circumstances for me.

1. I need a goal.

2. The time I need to practice to reach that goal needs to be reasonable.

This makes endeavours like learning to speak a language, to play an instrument, or getting buff unsustainable for me.
Easy to say in hindsight, but using stock to pay for a merger is common. Most companies are not carrying a big chunk of their value in cash (it’s not capital-efficient). Therefore buying anything sizable for cash will require the combined company to take on debt. So a stock-for-stock merger can result in a combined company that has a safer balance sheet. If the acquiree believes the merger is a good idea, they might consider owning stock in the merged entity to be a good thing. If nobody is offering them a competitive offer in cash, they don’t have much leverage to ask for it anyway. Even if you value the stock offer with some discount for risk, it can still be attractive.
Build an economy that outcompetes them, and is technologically more advanced and then build, carrier strike groups conventional forces, and nuclear weapons.
Fucking hell, this is good.
Isn't this politics and therefore off topic? Or is it something I missed.
Constructability: Designing safe-by-design AI systems from scratch
> Well, Notebooks main use case is a different purpose, not for trying one-off stuff or checking if some syntax is valid.

I know, but that's what I had used it for too. Like posting some code, for example in a HN post ;)
As I've said, I still use it mainly for documentation.
Counter-anecdata: I read git history extremely frequently, across a variety of projects. Useless commit messages suck.
The UK is a class society much closer in nature to East Asia than the United States. Wealth accumulation is still to a great extent occurs along the stratified classes and they ain't sending their kids to engineering schools.
Midler vs Ford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Not to mention how useful his software tools are as well! The MacOS patchers (and now work on OpenCore (Legacy)) have saved thousands of machines from an early retirement.
I was in that flight. Amazing that the airline states there were no injuries and its taken as fact by almost all newspapers. Some landed from the chute on all fours and some had a few people fall on them. I tried to slow down to avoid an elderly lady at the bottom. Some people got skinned at the elbows and ankles. Pro tip: wear jeans and shoes and hold your elbows in.

We were stranded at arrival terminal for 14 hours on the cold floor/plastic chairs. This includes the ones with injured backs. We got snacks in early morning but had a final "fast" between 5 am and 12 pm which were bad for the elderly (we assume diabetic by default), pregnant and kids.

We had to fight employees in 3-4 shifts, and each heard nothing of promises made by employees of earlier employees. Later I heard Indians on Lufthansa flights face the same crap. Pro tip: always record interactions with airport staff. They got our names for a new flight and assigned some kids away from their parents.

My fellow passenger offers his perspective: https://x.com/Sajal_K_S_/status/1792244080187252931?t=lbLPoe...
Wealth in the UK is in the hands of the landed gentry and getting investment is about who you know and who your parents were. I worked for a number of London startups and the CEOs were surprisingly often public school/Oxbridge trust-fund grads (you learn to recognise them after a while) and always part-funded through some gov grant, one even openly admitted that his startup doesn't need to make money, because his dad is an investor in the startup incubator they were a part of. The HR lady was married to a City lawyer and spent more time collecting artworks for their house than dealing with pesky distractions like paying people on time. London is great if you are of the right pedigree and want to set up a bank, an insurance company, or a payment processor. Not so great if you want to copy Silicon Valley. I tried to get people interested in projects I worked on and there is zero of the US enthusiasm or trying to connect you with the people who might be able to help you.
The post is about the UK but I suspect it is the same in most European countries. Startups just don't make sense financially.
> I don’t think it’s any longer about access to capital

The link provided as proof for this comment is Wayve receiving a $1bn injection from Microsoft and Nvidia [1].

The $1bn raise is not the concern of a budding 23 year old graduate leaving Imperial/Cambridge/Oxford. They're looking at the first £100k capital to see them through the first few months. In the UK, the scene for the first capital injection is far weaker than in the US, which has an inevitable downstream impact.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgypzg4edvo
They serve different purposes, and yeah, you can go without (either commit messages or comments, or even source code), but it just makes certain investigations more difficult, sometimes many times so.
May I ask which countries in east Europe would you consider to be good and convenient, esp for foreigners (non-EU)? When I visited Budapest I like it there, but don’t know much about the tech scene.
> For the the US, Israel is optional.

That's not really true. The reason are complicated and involve the cold war. I touched on some of the highlights here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40425327

> well, you know what would happen.

Nothing would happen. Israel has defended itself from multiple wars without US help, if anything Israel's enemies are weaker than they were in the past.

Weirdly enough it's actually Israel's enemies that benefit from the US - without the US Israel would just do what it needed to to stay safe, and never mind if the other country is hurt. Israel would not care, because their own security comes first.

With the US Israel is like "fine, we'll do the bare minimum".

This is also why all those people who what the US to stop helping Israel are so incredibly foolish. If Israel felt less secure they would fight with even greater ferocity. If you want Israel to stand down make them feel very very secure.
> Along with UCL, these British universities represent 4 of the top 10 universities in the world.

... according to QS Global Surveys. A disreputable organization who won't open their data and whose rankings are based at least 50% on reputation surveys (!!), of which only 2% or so are responded to. Is it worth mentioning that it's based in England?

I'm not saying the US should have more institutions. I'm saying that it's highly unlikely that four of the top 10 institutions worldwide are British.
Yes, but what have you done for me lately?

Certainly Britain’s imperial history speaks for itself. However the last 25+ years of tech startups has shown us the psyche has changed.
This is it exactly, it's the cost of capital and living that is the problem.

If our countries had control over their own capital and provided utility at cost the economic development would be easy. Instead we're charged monopoly rents for everything from water to electricity, taxed to oblivion and charged horrendous usary on all capital.
The solution is to punish and prevent theft, not to give up.
So was Royal Dutch Shell. They actually did trade shells in the beginning.
Take a look at https://80.lv/
There's a lot of game dev stuff on there, I'm subscribed to their Telegram chat feed and it's one of my favourites

https://t.me/LevelEightyNews
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Realpolitik is a defense. The ICC issues a verdict that your committing war crimes, and are to be put to death. Your 10 carrier strike group, says you aren't, therefore you are not put to death. Proving that the court of the carrier strike group is superior to the court of the ICC.

Maybe your court of carrier strike group says the ICC judges are committing war crimes, issues a warrant for their arrest, the SEAL team executes the warrant against the fugitives from justice, and tries, convicts and executes them.

If you still think realpolitik isn't a defense, look at a practitioner of it like Kissinger, ask yourself why Pinochet, et al, were tried, but say Kissinger was not for Operation Condor.
Because we've ran out of ARMs...
Ironic, right? Given that the web once was touted as the place of meritocracy where you don’t have any of those evil gatekeepers as you had in print or television. Now those gatekeepers are algorithms deployed by monopolies. Gatekeeper Hell 2.0.
That's just storing the information in a commit message in a separate database. Fine so long as you maintain the cross-links.
I think this misses a big mentality difference between the US and most other developed countries.

In the US, people like to exaggerate and boast. Everything is the best, biggest, etc.

In the US, "new is always better". Doesn't matter if the new is just the old with an app (coworking, food delivery, taxi, hotels), or just a worse iteration of an already existing thing (all the crappy companies trying to reinvent worse trains with "pods") it's celebrated for being new and innovative. Reminder that bloody Juicero got millions of dollars of investment.

In the US, there's a big celebrity culture. People genuinely worship celebrities, including successful business people (Steve Jobs, Elon Musk to name two popular examples). There's always the assumption that they were successful because they were smart and hard working (which is of course, at best, half the story).

None of those exist to such an extent in other developed countries. Hell, in France being a billionaire is seen as a negative thing in many social circles. Even entirely self-made billionaires such as Xavier Niel who dropped out of middle/high school to start a business over Minitel (a French precursor to the Internet) that have had a very positive impact on French society (by one, creating a telecom that brought extremely affordable internet and mobile phone plans to the general public, and two, creating a free and brilliant tech school, 42) aren't really seen as "good" or considered a celebrity worthy of respect/veneration.

Also, in many other developed countries people "work to live" instead of "live to work". Getting a stable good paying job that will get you plenty of time off to do things you genuinely enjoy, be they pottery, gardening, travelling, lego, rock climbing or whatever, is considered a good deal for many. Why waste your early years when you have the most energy hustling so that maybe you can make it big? People's ambitions usually revolve around personal things such as bucket lists of travel destinations, family, hobbies, etc., and often but not always, being successful at work, but to the extent of being able to calmly afford all the aforementioned and mostly enjoy/tolerate it, not necessarily becoming billionaire businesspeople.
The US is still actively pursuing one of the well known people (Assange) who dared publishing evidence, further destroying their own reputation. :(
I’ve noticed the risk appetite of investors in the Uk is much worse. They want a much larger slice of the pie early on, so there’s much less incentive to do a risky startup, rather than a sure thing like GS / Google. There’s nearly no risk in working at GS - you will work hard and you will be paid exceptionally well for it.
It wasn't an amount determined by Google. It was the entire amount claimed by DoJ, tripled, and with interest.
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For me it's not the online-only or closed nature of the thing, so much as the fact the canvas isn't high-DPI, which I find unreasonably maddening (I am unreasonably snobbish in this regard).

And the grid-oriented working method isn't ideal for me, though I confess I've not gone back to look at TinkerCAD much since learning OpenSCAD and FreeCAD; it may be that a better-informed visit would show me where I was judging it too hardly.

But it is amazing what people do with it, and while I have my issues with AutoCAD, it's clear that TinkerCAD is a truly liberating tool for an enormous number of people, and my criticisms may be getting into gift-horse-examination territory.
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Financially, the UK is heavily centred around London, one of the most expensive cities in the world, so it's not altogether surprising that university students feel like they need a paying job that keeps a roof over their heads. Worse, the competition for rental property in London is ridiculous, which is the only choice in town for an ex-student.

And London is where the VC people are.

Also, in the USA 'bricks and mortar' businesses have far cheaper shipping costs, and 342 million people, without going international, that DHL or FedEx will ship across the entire US with a cheaper price than we can ship from SE England to NW Scotland. Then again, we both speak English, which is why the UK is always the second target for a US firm once they're up and running, and vice versa.

The UK is 4th in the count of 'unicorns' after USA, China, and India, and has not quite double that of it's closest European neighbour, so we're not doing that badly. It's just a shame everything is skewed towards London in the UK.
> As many people point out, the CEO has some level of fiduciary duty to investors. If you refuse an offer with a 40% or so premium, you are going to be facing down lawsuits.

I think a simple way to avoid this is to ask for a all-cash offer. Naturally it will be either non-existant or much smaller value. If the offer is still good, it is not a problem to accept it.

The problem here was that the sellers were accepting stock as a payment, which was garbage.
I'm sure Magit is lovely. But I can't resist sharing the story of my bad experience with it over a decade ago (which has left me scared away).

It was maybe early 2012, and I was excited to try Magit. I got it set up, and called 'M-x magit-init' from a source file I was editing. My understanding was that this would create a new git repo in that source file's directory, ending up with something like "/home/beautron/myproject/.git".

But something else happened. The git repo was put here instead: "/home/beautron/myproject/~/myproject/.git". Note the peculiar "~" directory, created inside the project directory.

Huh. Weird. Well, let's get rid of this mess and try again. I went to the project directory in my bash shell, typed "rm -r ~", and hit enter. Somewhere between my mind firing the signal to hit enter, and enter actually being hit, I realized with horror what this command would do. But it was too late to cancel the brain signal.

I didn't lose everything, because I had not typed something worse like "rm -rf ~", and somewhere in my home directory tree was a read-only file. So the command only deleted so far as that file, and then paused to ask for confirmation.

I estimated I lost about half of everything (the first half of the alphabet was gone from my home directory). The most frustrating thing was not even being sure what all I had lost. On the plus side, this experience improved my regimen around backups.

As I was trying to salvage the wreck of my system, I had a separate laptop out on the side, where I was trying to get some help, or maybe just some sympathy, from the #archlinux irc channel on freenode. But the two people who responded to me on the channel were very snarky to me. I felt they thought I was clearly an idiot for having run that command.

The irc people refused to believe that Magit created the "~" directory. They were convinced I had done that myself, with some other series of stupid commands. (If you had to guess the source of weird "~", who would you choose: the established Magit project, or the guy who just deleted half his home directory?)

But a short time later I was vindicated! From Magit's github issue 383, Feb 29, 2012:

> So if you're editing "~/Temp/foobar/boo.txt" and call "M-x magit-init" which defaults to "~/Temp/foobar", instead of creating a git repo in "/Users/jimeh/Temp/foobar" it creates it in "/Users/jimeh/Temp/foobar/~/Temp/foobar".

Source: https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/383

It was a long night (and I had to leave on a trip the next morning). Now it's fun memory, perhaps with a number of lessons in it.
> they can hold their own people accountable

Except when they can't, as in the case of senior government figures.
Something that was not really approached in this article is the underlying assumption that "entrepreneurship is good" and the difference of culture towards that.

Start-ups can be seen as the things that bring society forward, or the things that create useless junk and enshitification from bullshit-talkers who just want to make money.
It's not 100% the first in US and 100% the second in Europe, but the balance is just different.

I think that one aspect is just that US is more ok with bullshitters and con artists: they consider it's part of the game. In Europe, it's seen as immoral, and there is a fine line between "being optimistic while raising money" and "being misleading while raising money".

Inversely, Europe does not have so much prejudice against institutions. Maybe it is again due to the fact that in US, they consider bullshitters and con artists as part of the game: they are expected to be either the exploited or the exploiter, so, of course, you don't want to put yourself in a situation where you can be exploited.