skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest to anyone looking at code-CAD to look further afield than OpenSCAD, which is fun but, because it is a mesh modelling tool, quite limited.

Fillets and chamfers are bespoke each time, and any kind of reflection on the structure of the resulting model is essentially impossible because it is a declarative language as well as a mesh modeller, STEP export is impossible. With anything complex you will drown in variable declarations and various bodges, and there is essentially no help for multi-body projects or assemblies.

The Python/OpenCascade-based CadQuery and Build123D are bRep systems with many programmatic advantages, and because they are bRep you have generalised fillet and chamfer operations (within OpenCascade’s limitations). You also get face, wire and vertex operations on generated geometry, even some assembly support.

On the JS side of things, CascadeStudio and replicad both use the emscripten cross-compilation of OpenCascade.

Personally, I really like FreeCAD, and I’ve used it for complex things. But I am not going to suggest everyone should use it.
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Many thanks for this other cheek. I had no idea they maintained that until 2014!
A member of the Lee Kuan Yew fanclub milieu is a dickhead? I'm surprised.
Yeah! I was surprised myself when I sifted through the 800+ page manual and found that tidbit. Certainly good to know. Boy is manual a true coffee table book!
That's unfortunate. Good to know, though.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D
That reminds me of playing games like Gran Turismo, where I start leaning left and right depending on how I'm steering in the game. Interesting that you get a similar effect but with your breathing in Subnautica.
Actually, one may want to check the DistroWatch to see what the top rankings are:

https://distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile.php?resource=major
Are you claiming expertise in computing or non-computing topics? HN tends to be - as we might expect - quite good at computers and bad/average [0] at everything else.

I'd assume it is the same logic as comparative advantages in economics; it doesn't make sense for communities to become experts in everything. The only caveat is that people in the chattering communities (eg, journalists, influencers, celebrities) are some of the last to look to for informed opinions on reality since their speciality is attracting attention and telling stories rather than anything linked to success in the physical or academic worlds. They're often clever, just not involved in complex topics.

[0] average = bad. Goes to show how catastrophic dictatorships are that a democracy can consistently outperform one.
Your link is missing the trailing period so it goes to a non-existent page.

The correct link is:
<https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/R.A.L.F.>
The Russians dangerously mismanaging a Ukrainian nuclear power station? That’s a first.
If anyone doubts this. Recent (<100y) leaders of China and Russia internally displaced and caused the death of large % of their population, for essentially fanciful ideological reasons.
"Intelligence" as we know it is some combination of memory, logic, reason, instinct and creativity.

Of these, the easiest to mimic is memory. LLMs attempt to apply memory to compensate for the lack of the others.
But very very few North Koreans even have access to the internet. Regular people just have access to a local intranet with censored information.

That exercise that Russia did a few years ago to see if they could function cut off from the internet? For north Korea that's the regular self-imposed status quo. I don't think it will have had much impact on daily life there.
Given the topic, I assumed the quote was probably false the first time I read it. It pays to be a little paranoid about everything, and hold most of one’s beliefs only shallowly.
It would help if there were not multimillion dollar hacks and scams weekly.
Pretty much everywhere in the Caribbean, Mexico, and vast sections of Central America.
Pieces of the Action is excellent. A non-autobiography autobiography.

Many points in the book feature him being discreet about some name or some incident, even 20+ years on. For example, 'General Blank'early in the book, or this excerpt towards the end that is speculated on:

'...other incidents such as a moment where he [Truman] and Forrestal and I were talking about something, and Forrestal spoke about the political implications of the decision. President Truman said to him 'Look, Jim, when you take a thing as serious as this to the American public, you should forget political considerations." '

It's fun recognizing that sometimes VB must be read in a Straussian way. Even to his security-cleared peers, under wartime / atomic secrecy he has to write with implication rather than directly due to risk of security lapses. The nuclearsecrecy blog by Alex Wellerstein is a great source for this kind of thing.
> "a few weeks above"

Guessing you mean "a few weeks later", right?
It’s definitely a problem, and even splitting designs up into separate files so you don’t have so many complete duplications doesn’t help that much.

I would hope that better revision control options eventually arrive in core thanks to collaboration tools like Ondsel’s Lens, but the solution in this blog post might work in the meantime.

Another commenter suggested FreeCAD would be better if it just worked with rich directories natively. That would be nice.
> yes he fucked up, now give the guy a chance to build Bloom into something legit...

Oh hell no. He gets my empathy, sure. Empathy is good for a cup of hot cocoa and a hug if he shows up at my doorstep in tears. But give him more chances to perpetrate fraud after he's been so thoroughly exposed? Hellllll no.
The realm of the quantum does not care about the Amazonian wildlife and the converse is also true.

The brilliant minds that believe we are indeed in a simulation have extrapolated this concept from the weirdness that is found within the realm of quantum, the realm of the sub micro and nano.

Religious folk believe we live in some sort of simulation as well: "You are travelers and sojourners here. This is not your home. God is of spirit not of flesh."

Don't know what 'spirit' is, but it's not carbon-based matter. Don't know what home is, but it's evidently not here. The Bible suggests that nothing here is real and the only real things are found in the spiritual realm.

Simulation, or manufactured space, it doesn't really matter to us. Like Mr. Friedman pointed out, we have to deal with the space around us and whether the space around us is simulation or not is irrelevant.
That's what ctrl-alt-backspace was for: To exit X and get back to a BIOS-based text terminal (ideally, one set to some absurd tinytext mode with SVGATextMode), so the modeline could be adjusted.
Especially since it's free to redistribute with attribution.
This is very interesting work; I need to dig in on it. Thank you!
I agree that the definitions are slippery and evolving.

But I cannot make the leap from "super intelligent" to "has access to all the levers of social and physical systems control" without the explicit, costly, and ongoing, effort of humans.

I also struggle with the conflation of "intelligent" and "has free will". Intelligent humans will argue that not even humans have free will. But assuming we do, when our free will contradicts the social structure, society reacts.

I see no reason to believe that the emergent properties of a highly complex system will include free will. Or curiosity, or a sense of humor. Or a soul. Or goals, or a concept of pleasure or pain, etc. And I think it's possible to be "intelligent" and even "sentient" (whatever that means) without those traits.

Honestly -- and I'm not making an accusation here(!) -- this fear of AI reminds me of the fear of replacement / status loss. We humans are at the top of the food chain on all scales we can measure, and we don't want to be replaced, or subjugated in the way that we presently subjugate other species.

This is a reasonable fear! Humans are often difficult to share a planet with. But I don't think it survives rational investigation.

If I'm wrong, I'll be very very wrong. I don't think it matters though, there is no getting off this train, and maybe there never was. There's a solid argument for being in the engine vs the caboose.
My first test is to ask the expert to explain a complicated concept in their field, which I know a little bit about, in plain language that anyone can understand. Asking a few follow-up questions can usually separate the true experts from the fakes.
Thanks! Go for it or contact Keysight to see if they will cover it. Good luck!
Why improve the product when you can coast on your brand's previously earned credibility until you sell again?!

(/s, just in case)
This is an aside, but I don’t really think donning and doffing an N95 mask requires expert knowledge. It is easy to screw up if you don’t know to be careful, and the stakes are sort of high. But you can learn to do it by, like, reading the material that comes with the mask and watching a YouTube or something.

Rather, I thought the anti-mask advice came before it was known that masks helped. At the time this was the prudent advice: what they don’t want is people acting like the masks will fully protect them.
Unfortunately, the topic of ADHD and brain imaging has been full of bad research and grifters. At the extreme end, people like Dr. Amen were writing books about how ADHD and neuroimaging were correlated, which turned into attempts to sell SPECT imaging for ADHD purposes through his clinics.

Using brain imaging to push questionable psychiatry premises was very popular for a while, and you need to take a lot of research from that era with a huge grain of salt. Remember that with the right settings, neuroscientists can even produce images showing activity in brain regions of completely dead salmon: https://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon/
We don't know if that superintelligence will be safe or not. But as long as we are in the mix, the combination is unsafe. At the very least, because it will expand the inequality. But probably there are deeper reasons, things that make that combination of words an absurd. Or it will be abused, or the reason that it is not is that it wasn't so unsafe after all.
Thanks! It was well worth it :D
A blockchain is a distributed public ledger of immutable information. The use cases for that seem clear and obvious: consider all repositories of public information that are either not distributed, and therfore subject to single points of failure, or allow extant data to be modified, and therefore subject to reliability and trust issues. Consider how blockchains might improve all such use cases.
I'm don't think the author didn't literally went farming. But I have a story to share...

Many moons ago, I also romanticized the idea of doing something completely unrelated to computers, and started my own bakery. We hired a chef and someone to manage the operations. Started exclusively for deliveries, and we shortly opened it to dine-in orders too.

My contribution was mostly money, ideas, some logistics, and... marketing. I still had a knack for programming, so I spent hours setting up order delivery software (we deliver cakes to parties, etc), automatic Uber Eats orders to KOTs, and of course social media, Facebook ads, etc. Apart from social media and ads, the rest felt fun.

It was tedious work and we simply had competitors that had years of experience, good connections, and great suppliers. We were nearly breaking even, and I think I was more stressed than I was ever at programming related work.

My two cents if that if you feel like being a carpenter or farmer or to live in a small village running a cozy homestay, they all come with significant challenges. Starting from zero isn't that easy.
Vterm: A cross-platform, Vulkan terminal emulator written in Rust
>professors had a rule that all programming assignment submissions must compile and run on their servers running Solaris

This is what made me learn Linux, my universities comp sci also ran Solaris and required the assignments run under that environment. This was in early 2000's I hated the university computer labs they were full of Sun Hardware they all ran CDE desktop environment which I thought was ugly as all sin (it looked incredibly dated by 2000's).

Someone in my class told me about SSH and that you could work from home. He gave me a stack of burnt cd's (with Mandrake - an old Linux distribution, which ran KDE) I was able to remotely work on my assignments from comfort of my home and I've been a Linux user ever since.
> the thing I'm confused about the origin of, which is not why do we only greatly distinguish between the first few derivatives of position, but why do we only greatly distinguish between the first few derivatives of most functions?

Because higher derivatives are insignificant. That's the entire concept of Taylor series approximation. If you change a high derivative of a function, the value of the function won't noticeably change - why would you care?
I've only disputed a credit card charge once in my entire life (which I won) and it really was a fraudulent charge.

Other than that, the only credit card purchases I had issues with were done on online marketplaces (eBay and AliExpress) and in 100% of cases I was able to resolve it with the marketplace's own resolution system. In many cases, the vendor themselves refunded me without the need to have the marketplace arbitrate.
No, but I also don't think this moron should have done what he did. Any retaliation now rests solely on his shoulders.
How many jobs have you actually applied for? Do you not get any response at all? If you've applied for more than 20 jobs or so and have had no response, I would ask folks to review your resume here.
That is right. Listen to multiple experts and see what is the cluster/mean of an answer they are crystallizing around. And if they all have different answers, then it means that there is no clear answer for your question (yet).
It'd bad to rely on a small selection-biased sample of anything as an indicator of the general case, regardless of whether the sample data is acquired firsthand or secondhand.
Correct. Docker adds minimal isolation, basically what Linux provides through cgroups, which is quite porous and lacking hard resource limits. It's definitely not even close to the security and resource isolation guarantees provided by virtualization. If one wanted manageability and isolation, then they could run k8s and Kata Containers which uses virtualization instead of containerd. If it were me running 1 little app on a pair of HA boxes on the world wild web, I would probably use FreeBSD and jails or runj.
"In theory" being the key word here. For whatever reason, it's a pita to use raw images with both virtualbox and VMware. You have to resort to third party command line tools to convert the image (qemu-img).
cost and convenience: Time is money.

Whatever works for you is more important than 5 euro.
An Heiress Let Strangers Give Away Her $27M Fortune
> Imagine if this money was put into education or healthcare or transit. We’d actually have a net benefit!

Based on the evidence, it's hard to imagine that lack of money is the problem with those three things.

K-12 education in particular has seen more and more money spent over the decades while the number of students, teachers, and student outcomes have stayed more or less constant (the extra money mostly goes to administrators to administrate the extra money). Higher ed has gotten famously more expensive while delivering a poorer product, with grade inflation and recently a focus on worthless social activism diluting what it means to have a college degree at all.

On healthcare, the US already spends close to one-fifth of its GDP on it. Its per capita spend is over 50% higher than the next-highest country, Switzerland. And what do we have to show for this, other than an obesity rate exceeding one-third the population and diminishing life expectancies? I don't know how more money could possibly help this situation.

Transit only makes sense in a few cities (largely due to idiotic zoning that prevents the kind of densities that would enable transit) and even then, if you look at things like NYC's East Side Access project, it would be hard-pressed for a public works project to spend taxpayer money less efficiently. And to truly improve the transit experience would require a concomitant improvement in the social fabric, which is its own set of problems.
This is interesting because it's like saying I would rather be oppressed by my government than by foreign governments. But if that's true for you, why is not true for the citizens of other countries? Taking this to the logical conclusion, all foreign influence should be prevented for being potentially destructive and all the history's isolationism would be justified.
My experience working at Apple on both Music and Maps: anything that I had worked on that was reported on was usually wildly inaccurate. Mainstream news, bloggers, HN comments... so much assumption and usually way off.
Not really a fresh idea; this is instead a Windows NT clone, but certainly something different from the usual *nix OS projects.
To be fair my analogy works if you want to object to ChatGPT being called a glorified token prediction machine. I just don’t agree with hyperbolic statements about AGI.
We've got to get out of the business of these pairwise language interop solutions.
Typically someone who has spent their life working/researching/teaching in that sliver of a domain. It is also important to remember that experts start losing their expertise once they have retired or no longer actively working in that domain.

So you are looking for someone with many years of work experience in being an IC or lead or CEO or a researcher with a lab or PhD in that domain with lots of papers in highly respected/ranked conferences/journals. In domains you have no idea about, you might need to first read a book or general article which links back to such experts/sources and then it is easy to find the cluster of those experts in that domain.
"Averages" is doing heavy lifting in GP's statement. It's a vast state, after all, and how meaningful is an average between the climates of Houston and El Paso?
A perfect example of this, is stock market reporting. On a daily basis, stocks move, sometimes a lot - but apart from the people who make them move (and even then, it can be impossible for them to know it's them !), nobody knows why.

But a lot of people, without knowledge of finance or economics, want to know *why* stocks moved. And so, we have an entire industry reporting on a daily basis, without any direct knowledge about the thing they are reporting about !

As the author said, there are few penalties for bullshit, and many rewards !
Absolutely true, but also people who know about a subject often can't see the forest for the trees and an outside perspective brings new detail you haven't seen before.
I can assure that among the many millions using ChatGPT, only a small minority can make that distinction. Most people draw a straight line from LLMs to AGI, but can't tell you how we're supposed to get there.

For them, CGPT is sufficiently advanced (opaque) enough to be indistinguishable from magic. And for them, going from CGPT to robot servants and auto-driving cars is but a mere extension of said magic.
> A blockchain is a distributed public ledger of immutable information.

Is it immutable? Forks, 51% attacks, bugs. It it only immutable until consensus decides it isn't immutable, right? If something is immutable, but can be made immutable, is it ever really immutable?
The Part Design wall thickness tool works but is not good.

But in 0.22-dev there is a good sketch offset/sketch frame tool that would let you make an outline wall in 2D that you can then pocket.

Another approach is to make a SubshapeBinder of a face, offset that and pocket it directly.

Fillets and chamfers work but they have OCC bugs and limitations; there are ways to work around them but whereas in Fusion360 you might place geometry on a chamfer, with anything built around OCC it is better to treat chamfers and fillets as “dress-up” only, and do them last. Anything structural is definitely better done in a sketch or with a subtractive sweep on an edge.

Bosses: you can taper pads/extrudes easily enough, and there are some tricks involving copying external geometry of sketches and face/shape binders that can help you match them up across bodies.

None of this is to suggest that FreeCAD is easier than Fusion360. It’s not, and it’s definitely something of a lifestyle choice. (You won’t hear me telling you that you should use GIMP over Photoshop, though).

But it also doesn’t have Fusion360’s limitations: ten or five projects or whatever at a time, reapplying for the license every year, STEP support that could get taken away from you again when Autodesk decides to reassess the free tier, etc.; and I can share FreeCAD as easily as I can share my designs.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Fusion360 is bad or Autodesk is a particularly unusually bad actor. I just don’t want to be dependent on the whims of closed source free tiers in cloud software until I absolutely have to be.

So far, my limitations in CAD have nothing to do with FreeCAD, and my 3D printer isn’t the slowest part of the puzzle. In both cases the issue is me.

The problem of the “right way” is definitely FreeCAD’s primary issue; it’s not as easy to mix the guided flow of Part Design with the more generalised tools in the other workbenches as it should be. (Sketches on curved surfaces are a classic example of this.)

But there is an increasingly broad range of tutorial materials out there now, and the major changes around Ondsel and FreeCAD 1.0 will only improve things.
Arch is complicated. It doesn't even come with man pages or documentation. "Hi! Here's a Linux box with a getty and a shell, and you're lucky we even included that much. Good luck!"

At least when configuring XFree86 on Slackware in nineteen-ninety-something, I had local man pages and documentation to refer to out-of-the-box.
Well, you'd install the Syslinux boot sector onto a removable drive, then copy your ISOs onto that drive, then set up a config file to set up menu options and point them at your ISOs, then you'd boot off of that drive.
You still have to trust whatever things you rely on upstreams, plus, if the consensus is against you, there's nothing you can do anyway? For example, you got scammed, its written to the ledger. The transaction is immutable and actually, actually did happen. What can you do now?
Because a lot of niche OSS has very little commercial value to even try and be revenue neutral.

Even take ReactOS, why in the world would a org use it when you could just license Windows properly with PCs pre built and have the accountants depreciate them into taxes as they are capital equipment.

If someone needs an old Windows kernel for compat, they'll just keep using that old Windows version they have on a box and not waste engineering labor to migrate it.

Combining a bunch of projects like that under a halfway house increases revenue but does not mean it will be revenue neutral. It'll still be in the red.

End of the day, there are reasons why some OSS stays completely free while others have commerical and free operations ran in parallel. Either it can bring in money or it can't.