skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenSCAD has it's origins in 3d printing (specifically the reprap project IIRC). Most 3d printing slicers[0] and firmware don't do curves[1].

[0] Some will import them now but convert them to triangles, cura can use a plugin to convert those triangles back to G2-G3 arcs or circles.

[1] at least by default, marlin has optional support for arcs that can be enabled at compile time.
ATMs and banks (cash advances) supported cards and cards with chips, but not NFC.

My physical cards were lost together — which admittedly was dumb, but losing your wallet while still having your passport and phone/Apple Wallet shouldn’t result in “frozen out of banking”.
Do you guys know if `!isset()` is a good alternative ?
Or if it also has some shortcomings ?
I once had to reconstruct a client's website from Google's cache links. It was a small business that had payed for a backup service from their ISP, that turned out never to have existed.
Clearly because it is about the FIRST 14kB ;P.
Cool, I'll try it with some longer text

As a browser extension would be most usable (although I'd have to think about the privacy issues with that).
Assisted dying – where next for the UK?
I always thought this brand belonged to a big food company, but turns out they're not only independent but doing pretty well too: https://valustox.com/CPB
Not that I like these casinos, but what you are describing sounds like the definition of a video game.
It sounds like TCP is totally fucked and useless. It needs to be depreciated immediately and replaced with something better and more intuitive from a programming perspective. Maybe someone at Apple or Google is working on it lol.
Not sure what you mean by “successful” but our product isn’t a toy.
This entire post is dedicated to using the wrong tool for the job…

Use isset if you want to see if the variable is set, you should never be casting client input unless it’s coming from query params (or form post I guess but at that point use JSON).

“empty” is a useful tool, provided you take into account things like “is this allowed to be 0/empty-string/etc”.

Lastly:

> After a lengthy debugging session, we realized that empty() was treating 0 as "empty", causing our validation to fail unexpectedly.

Lengthy? To notice an empty check failing? Look, the codebase I work on has its warts, all older codebases do, but unless you have no XDebug, forgot how to log to file or echo to the client, and/or aren’t capable of searching a codebase for the error you got and tracing it back from there then I can’t believe that would be a “Lengthy” process to track down. Even if you are returning a generic error to the client, surely you are logging the real error to a log somewhere?
Every 4th visitor forgets to park properly and they excitedly watch their car fly off the side of the grand canyon.
Incredible. How does that work? I thought Nitter was completely neutered a while ago.
not "silicone" that's something else.

They were rolling their own north-bridge-ish chips at the same time for 2FX and later machines (all pre the power PC switch)
Change IDs for kernel patches (2019)
I think you’re doing so, so well. I have reservations about making close relationships too because of my past, so it’s a common pattern amongst people with traumatic experiences. I plan to try out a hobby group but time hasn’t been so flexible.

I’ve seen other people fall into the trap of thinking that their body is a meatbag for their brain. I’ve personally found that exercise helps me so much with both reducing depressive symptoms and maintaining focus.

Hope you find whatever it is which you think will make your life better, take care!
Does Excel have some reasonable way of unit testing of formulas?
Are you only interested in mainstream stuff that have been widely deployed and where textbooks have been published about them?

Or are you open to experimental stuff that are willing to 'break the mold' and try a whole new approach to how unstructured data (files) can be stored and managed?
This is great for game making! Thank you!
I bought into Plasticity in the hope that it would gain such facilities, but the dev said that that sort of thing was being pushed off to v3.

Tried Dune3D and was moderately successful, but couldn't see where in the U.I. such numeric/programmatic access would be afforded and it doesn't seem to be on the roadmap there either.

I suppose I should break down and buy Rhino 3D and use Grasshopper, or Moment of Inspiration and use its Node Editor, but for now, I've been using:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor
Show HN: P5lab – a canvas-style UI for p5.js
I made this as a more _serious_ playground for algorithmic design with p5.js after collecting some patterns/tools i've been using through my projects

It's basically a figma-style canvas but for running instances of p5.js code, with gui controllers and other utilities.

Been working on it for a couple of weeks, the code is messy, but it works ok for experimenting and I need to shift focus to other stuff for now.

Hope you find it interesting!
I see your point with Wikipedia, but the writing is on the wall for LLMs: since they are replacing search engines for some users, it's only a matter of time before that experience gets polluted with "data-driven" ad clutter too.
> There's nothing I've not managed to make with openscad yet, though the things I have made are embarrassingly simple (yet highly functional).

It is workable if you have an extremely solid grasp of mathematics, and you don't mind objects that ultimately retain the feel of the combination of a few CSG primitives.

But I make 3D-printed things that for a variety of reasons are little more than rings, plates, discs, and helixes, and I've already very clearly run into situations where the face/vertex/wire model of a proper CAD package is more or less the only way to keep control over a design.
Not an expert here, so I'll quote one from the highlights I have reading the following book:

“Harsh as this sounds, if you’re not in the right job—a job that is moving you toward where you want to be in life—then you’re wasting almost all the time you’re spending at work.”
“First, “you should do what you love” means finding work that “matches well with your expertise, your creative thinking skills, and your strongest intrinsic motivations.” Intrinsic motivation means liking the substance of the work for its own sake. The second part, “you should love what you do,” means “finding a work environment that will allow you to retain that intrinsic motivational focus, while supporting your exploration of new ideas.”

Excerpt From
168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
Laura Vanderkam
I'll consider it :)
LLMs don't know what they are talking about
Is that supposed to be anywhere in the world?
Stephen Hawking Was Wrong–Extremal Black Holes Are Possible
As mentioned, it's just claude prompt wrapper
Crow's brains are very good at what they do because their version of human's neocortex is in the center of the brain. And this is the reason why crow's brains can't scale up, there no enough space to grow "thinking" part of brain
So you only approve of VCs that fund companies you like? Or do you disapprove of the VC culture in general?

It's kind of ironic we're discussing this here, considering YC is following the same model, and has made similar investments. And yet both firms have also funded many companies outside of the sectors you dislike. Invoking ad hominems doesn't change the impact that both YC and a16z have had on the industry.
The European privacy regulators would love to know about the impersonation at Facebook, if it's still happening or if there's any evidence.

Facebook should consider this a business risk — one disgruntled employee could report it.
Was able to read right through the bullshit of Cathie Wood, put "As a result, our trading-related capital tax losses should offset trading-related capital tax gains for years, an under-appreciated asset associated with our strategies." and got "We lost a ton of money trading, but hey, at least we won't pay taxes for a while. Silver lining!"
This article is from February. Since then, the IA partnership did materialize, and the "on its way out" `cache:` search workaround (which is still wholly necessary imho) still works.

https://blog.archive.org/2024/09/11/new-feature-alert-access...
No, the claim is much stronger than that: that the zygote itself encodes necessary information that isn’t captured in DNA. Put another way, long after humans are extinct, the claim is that if aliens could download our DNA source code somehow, they still wouldn’t be able to build humans without replicating the zygote’s internal structures exactly. We’d come out as super deformed or something.

The claim is biological, not sociological.
Yes, this allows ifixit's iron reach maximum power the supply can provide (usually requesting maximum supported voltage and sinking up to maximum allowed current), regardless of current temperature and/or tip model.

Most of casual users of usb-c irons do not care about it, but if you ever used professional stuff, these usb toys appear to be deficient in comparison.
That doesn't sound like the original was the Agile manifesto?
The new Manifold library is blindingly fast for most things --- even things which bring the previous renderer to its knees complete in a reasonable timeframe for Preview(ing), though Render(ing) can require a measurably long wait.
This looks right up my alley. I am experimenting to see how much I can strip systemd from my every day laptop as an exercise in futility and to understand how embedded a distribution like Debian has become.
None of the people I’m noting are even aware of HN’s existence

It’s what happens when scammers run amok (like now) and they are the ones that have to clean up the mess.

We’ll get another generation like that soon.
The only reasonable and practical response to inherently hostile corporations to return their hostility in kind.

Just say "no" to anything with their name on it --- until they repent, apologize and change their behavior.

My personal list includes HP, Google, Meta and X. Turnabout is fair play, don't you think?

The US auto industry alienated half their customer base with their inherently hostile tactics. I haven't bought an automobile from a US manufacturer in 40 years. And others now step up to insist on treading this same path.
If true, alien first contact scenarios get a lot more interesting.

Someone should write a short story about that.
I most commonly run into this issue when the search keyword was found in some dynamically retrieved non-body text - maybe it was on a site's "most recent comments" panel or something.
I like this book, but am curious if you've seen any third-party case studies written about using her framework?

I tried to use it a while back but found it a bit bureaucratic for a startup. Felt better-placed for large orgs with distinct product management teams.
And living above ground. Whales and octopuses might be geniuses but they'll never have a tech tree because they can't melt metal
The engineer that stole the data should have needed to collaborate with at least one peer to exfiltrate it. There should be no way for any individual to take this data and clear himself from the audit logs. Segregation of duties in this instance should have made it possible to detect the event quicker and attribute it to this particular employee.
https://archive.ph/tnGvN
It may be a bit shallow, but as a Dane, I take some pride in the number of languages created by my countrymen, considering our modest population.

*Many have migrated to the US on their way, but still…
I guess from time to time it's hitting Anthropic rate limits
Read “The ultimate sales letter”. This is an older book by a very successful copywriter. It has made me so much money and provided so much success (still does). I read it every year.
s/boot process/initial boot phase/

A few seconds is still very long - in automotive you’re dealing with a few hundred milliseconds from power is applied till the system is presenting an interactive GUI.
This. A friend recommended it and it was SUPER insightful
I prefer the clearer term "bullshit"
Expected response time is around 1-2 seconds. If you're waiting much more, please reload a page and try once again.
Well they didn’t ‘take off’ enough for me. I talked with TBL one time about the success of the Semantic Web, and I don’t want to misquote him, but I felt like he shared my view: great tech, but not used enough.

I personally use WikiData and DBPedia, and I have for years.
Where such laws exist they are to prevent abuse in one-sided transactions such as a power company jacking up prices over christmas when there is nobody in the office to process service cancelations, or a cellphone company charging triple during a hurricane evac when everyone is on the move. I cannot see how a video game would rise to that level. One can always just play a different game.
I think a better question is, “have you ever HAND soldered this close?”

I’ve pulled BGAs with a heat gun and attached leads to individual balls without contacting the next one(s) … which you really want to get good at because de-soldering between balls sucks !

Oh, and I don’t cheat with no magnifying glass
I think Prince proved the Unicode assertion. He had to distribute his own custom font so news outlets could continue to write about him.
Let's not forget that people themselves changed and what is popular. Look at any top show hn post and you'll see all this talk about the market fit, the competitors, and how much money that product can make.

The hackers have disappeared and we're apart of the prohlem.

Should really have a tag rule to prevent any boring business start up bogus discussions when the poster wants.
7

I’d say the biggest struggle hasn’t been financial independence, overcoming a rough childhood, or getting out of rural hell - it’s been dating. That was set in stone by my genetics being such trash. I’m 34 and only ever had one partner who would only stay with me on the condition that I paid for everything and would receive no emotional support.

By most measures, I am far more successful than most people you’d meet but I consider myself one of the least successful people because all I’ve ever wanted is for someone to love me and to build a loving family. Life is cruel.
> So the $200m of the Lazarus group, compared to $9 billion in $100 USD bills: cry me a river.

I don't think the US cares about a $200m, whatever that $200m belong to. Their issue is that this money is enabling a regime they want to see inert (since the nuclear shield means that the DPRK is not going anywhere anytime soon).
The evidence is in the company choosing scrum then sticking with it. They believe it helped.

> I've yet to see scrum not completely destroying every metric of development achievement, whether it's throughput, latency or iteration speed.

It is too hard to argue from vague anecdotes, so I am resisting the urge to try. However, I will say that if that is a demonstrable thing and there was no upside then it would be surprising that scrum sticks as well as it does.
Does it have a maximum fan-out of the gates, like real gates do?
Same here, I found this submission really odd since I haven’t seen them in years. Maybe they did some slow roll by country?
No, as far as I know. And I have been thinking of ways to that fir the better part of the last decade.
I think bringing modern programming practices into Excel might make huge differences. But I don't know how to do that in an Excel user friendly way
Terrible onboarding: Why do I need to create an external account even before seeing what the app has to offer for me? Immediately uninstalled the app.
Apologies for going further off topic, but

> IIRC Amazon fees/taxes/something like that which would actually lose him money from having it for sale there.

Holy hell, I've heard of Amazon effectively pocketing something like 45% off of each sale, but if true, this is next-level ridiculous.

I avoid shopping there whenever I can, but I also live in a city of 2mil and still often won't find something particular locally.

Is Amazon our era's BOFH?
I have to say - it wasn’t exactly “accidentally” that this occurred
I didn't know it, thanks for link :d
I feel like WMs should provide an api to position windows, so you do not have to write an entire WM to just place the windows a little differently.
Is Email Dead? (2023)
Canvas – fitting styled multiline text into a shape
Mini-lm is a better embedding model. This model does not perform attention calculations, or use a deep learning framework after training. You won’t get the contextual benefits of transformer models in this one.

It’s not meant to be a state of the art model though. I’ve put in pretty limiting constraints in order to keep dependencies, size and hardware requirements low, and speed high.

Even for a word embedding model it’s quite lightweight, as those have much larger vocabularies are are typically a few gigabytes.
I was extremely excited about Fornjot for both personal and professional reasons, but the author has shared important updates that would deter me from using it outside of hobbyist contexts:

May 2023
https://www.fornjot.app/blog/a-new-direction/

I don't know how things will shake out long-term, but for now, I'm going to reduce my effort to one day per week...

As of now, the goal of Fornjot is no longer to build a CAD application. From now on, Fornjot is a CAD kernel...

Last week:
https://www.fornjot.app/blog/changes-to-the-development-proc...

There will be no more releases for the time being.

I will no longer submit pull requests for my own work.
I get what you’re saying, but knowing other people had similar experiences and found some measure of life satisfaction is helpful to me, and I hope it’s also helpful to someone else.
Ask HN: Dev/Ops/DevOps tools you use and more people should
I'm looking for useful, working but less known tools that I can introduce my clients too. Either commercial (hopefully, which I can partner with and sell) or free (that I can implement for my customers benefit).

I'm extra interested in tools that can be used on-prem, in disconnected environments, but don't limit yourself to those only.

Tell us about any tool or service that is useful for you, that we may not be familiar with and that we should. Thanks!
No. At least not because of that. But if they drone bomb Seoul, would you continue the escalation? Because the escalation can lead to that.

Also DPRK is threatening Seoul and Japan, not the USA.
-g kB Remove old log lines when the in-memory database crosses x kB

Seems like garbage collection is only implemented for in-memory database (by reading SQLITE_DBSTATUS_CACHE_USED). Maybe logrotate could be set up to do it instead, but nothing in documentation indicates so.

Otherwise looks like a great project.
The problem is not of technology. The problem is that we are working to apply technology solutions with no regard to the scale and trade-offs involved.

- Automation is good. Striving for "100% robotic warehouses" is a recipe to further concentrate wealth around the handful of corporations that can deploy it.

- Electric engines are good. Thinking that we would be better off by giving one car to every adult person instead of simply redesigning the overall transit network is a horrible idea.

- Finding new sources for rare earths is good. Jumping to the conclusion that this means we can then extract them is absurdly naive. We don't even recycle plastic properly, what do you think is going to happen with all those metals in the failing car batteries 20 years from now?

- Improved drones are good. Arguing that progress is "getting VIPs out of congested areas" is absolutely dystopian.

- Having drugs to treat diabetes is good. But having these drugs under the control of pharma corporations who worry more about their bottom line than actual health of the population is outright cruel.

I am all for developing technology. I am not a Luddite. But we got to ask ourselves "cui buono?". Whenever we see somebody pushing some technology or project to solve "humanity problems", the immediate check should be "if this problem is so important to solve, would you still work on it even if you gained nothing from it?"
And that worked fine for decades (well, as long as your definition of fine includes traffic jams) using regular cars which cost and polluted considerably less. SUVs are bulky but as anyone who’s ever packed one knows they don’t have more usable cargo space unless you’re stacking stuff up to the ceiling since most of the volume is directed vertically to make them look tougher.

I notice this whenever we go to IKEA or Costco where our sub-$30k Subaru is loaded faster and with less hassle than vehicles costing twice as much.
Except for occasionally using a small embedded Scheme in C++ when I worked at Angel Studios, I haven’t much experience using Lisp languages for games.

That said I have a question: is it a common pattern when using Lisp languages for games to use a flyweight object reuse pattern? This would minimize the need for GC.
I just tried this out. I'm using office 2021 and when I first opened excel, this setting was there just like in the link and it seemed to work when I entered a few strings in. 'Fantastic!' I thought.

Then I closed it and thought of a few other date-like strings to try and this time the option had disappeared! Every date-looking string was instantly turned into date! I tried a few other times and this setting is gone. WTF is that about?
You got it correctly, there isn't anything more there.
> Studies indicate that hospitals led by doctors, sports teams by star players, and universities by researchers outperform those led by non-experts

This is a bold point with only a vague reference to studies. I’m more familiar with sports teams than the other domains but star players who manage successful teams is an exception, not a rule. A few famous examples are Michael Jordan and Derek Jeter - both were legends playing their sports and have yet to participate in building successful teams at the management level.
And if you lose the third key you are now beholden to the third party with no recourse
SpaceX capsule splashes down after history-making Polaris Dawn mission
I think "The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It" is a good book for the mindset and some of the processes around how to build the engine that is your business.
They are a sophisticated money siphoning program. Socialize the cost of war (taxes), but privatize the gains (corporate profit).
how do those companies gauge that what those contractors are writing isnt AI-generated?
chemical gradients?
U.S. Defense Investor Joe Lonsdale Has Links to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
Nice! Great to see (Open)PythonSCAD listed! (I know this sort of thing is hard to keep up with --- I was trying for a long while on the old Shapeoko wiki (see link elsethread)).

(below has been edited to reflect my reading the entire page)

A tool which I didn't find and thought wasn't included is:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

(which I was expecting would fall under "GUI", but is instead near the end under "Wrappers")
Seems weird to attribute Haskell to Microsoft. Simon Peyton Jones joined MSR Cambridge in '98 (about a decade after the name "Haskell" was chosen), Erik Meijer joined Microsoft in 2000, and nobody else linked from the Wikipedia page for Haskell has obvious affiliations with Microsoft.

As far as I can tell, Haskell was an academic collaboration mostly between Jones (UCL briefly, mostly University of Glasgow), Wadler (University of Edinburgh), and Hudak (Yale).