skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your edit caught my meaning; I should have been more clear.

There's always less profit potential where there is more competition, which is one reason why people suggest that monopolies are capable of providing higher-quality products (and services).

Interestingly, some local governments are known (or at least have historically) to use their permitting powers to extract significant amounts of money from telecoms and others. I am not really sure what to do about this, but in the early days of power poles, few/no permits were required to use them, and there were many power providers sharing the same poles; it was messy, and contributed to unreliability, but it worked and allowed for competition.
Here is a thought experiment: what if Bernie had won in 2016 and remade the Democratic party in his image the way Trump eventually would?

Would the media and political power centers align with the Republican party?
According to Wikipedia [0], the development of the car concept went from 1649 to 1881. That's not exactly throwing random things and seeing what sticks. It may have not been systematic, but with the wealth of information and resources we have today, we can and should do better.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile
Yes, I do the same, I use Resilio. I thought about switching to Syncthing, but my NAS supports Resilio out of the box, so I kept using it. I let my .git folder to be synced between devices and I never actually pushed anything to a "proper" git forge - I can't think of a practical use case for pushing my notes to GitHub/Gitlab.

My git-autocommit technique only for tracking unforeseen changes - I was using Orgzly on Android, and one day I tried using its sync feature and it borked up a bunch of my notes, creating duplicate files, etc. I didn't like that.
I just remembered at a previous job where we were always paired and used team rather than individual iMacs for development that as a prank I ssh’d into the other iMac from my team and periodically would run open on a random URL which caused a Safari window to mysteriously pop up their system.
> normally, you can visit the PRC for 15 days, you're railroaded throughout your whole trip, and you're required by law to stay in a select few hotels where the staff speak English anyway

Huh?

The tourist visa is I believe 90 days per entry (as it is for most countries), and valid for 10 years. There has been no foreign guest licensing requirement in the PRC since 2002, as far as I can tell, and even then it didn't seem to be a "select few" hotels, it was something any hotel could get, but probably a lot didn't because international tourism to China wasn't as big then. Some hotels will refuse foreign guests, apparently, but that's the hotel's individual decision and it doesn't seem to be widespread.

I know several non-Chinese people who have traveled extensively throughout China via simple tourist visas, there were no restrictions as far as I could tell, and I've never heard of any.

Are you confusing the PRC with the DPRK?
> All the pieces existed to make a working 3D printer existed even in 1970! and relatively cheaply. So why has it taken so long for 3D home printing to actually become a thing?

Easy. The printing process itself is not that hard.

It's the model _design_ that is tricky. We needed home computers to become powerful enough to run 3D CAD software, and enough people to get proficient with it.

RepRap started in 2005. Realistically, we could have had it maybe a few years earlier. But not _much_ earlier.
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>> Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion

> This is false.

It's not false, that's just the headline.

The book targeted a very specific illusion that con artists would use to scam people. That did prove the ghosts being presented as real were in fact illusions.
I knew someone who recycled paper printers into a home brew 3D printer and then a 2D shopbot style CNC.
Also 3D modeling software and hardware to run it.
You clearly never tried this. The tolerances for Lego bricks to work well are too tight for what 3D printers can handle.
I did that in college in 1997 (in the US). :)

I wired up 1/2 of our building by just throwing cables between rooms via the windows. We got our upstream via a commercial DSL connection, which when split 11 ways, was about the same price as dialup, but way faster.
“But our keylogger is a feature!”, they explained.
> ”that can be eliminated or at least mitigated with at least one verifiably trusted piece of equipment”

What’s an example of how this would work? Are there people building their own network cards, motherboards, RAM, and CPUs from scratch, or how would one verify even a single component in the stack?
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It was the polymers that needed to be invented. In the 1990s we used to order quick-turn prototype 3D prints for parts to check fit before committing to tooling for hard materials, but we only had 3 days to work with it before it fell apart into a puddle of goo.
> there is no genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

Sure, just like there is no terrorism in the middle east. We said it, so that makes it true.

Honestly though, I believe the rising islamophobia and anti-Palestinian attitudes owe to the proliferation of such content online. There is simply no denying an extremely disproportionate amount of hate speech and misinformation coming from the pro-Israel movement, backed by Israel and Israeli media, and directed towards Palestinians and those who oppose the genocide of them. I say this as a jewish person.

I'm just suggesting we remove the noise surrounding the conflict, by curbing the systemic spread of non-truths and hate speech by Israeli-backed disinformation campaigns. Just scroll through any social network or news post with comments. For every one mild post you see describing Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and The West Bank, you will find ten extremely islamophobic comments directed towards Palestinians who had nothing to do with the conflict.
Egress in Kubernetes
What about Ed, the standard text editor?
This caught my attention. From the article:

Other doctors and nurses found their experiment [drinking water w/ sugar+salt] bizarre and tried to stop them.

To me that seemed like professionals clinging to orthodoxy for orthodoxy's sake. They forget that endless reevaluation is needed for a practice to remain 'best'.

And maybe it was that. But I also found this talk from Dr Cash; he gives other examples of resistance (along with their causes).

Whereas, in one country I went to, Jamaica, I was puzzled, even though I was working at that time for PAHO, that there was terrific opposition. It seemed that they wouldn’t cooperate with anything. Even they wouldn’t give my assistant a bed in the residence quarters.

So I found out gradually—I was investigating this—and I found out several things. One is, the head of the hospital was so skeptical about this working that he had made a hundred dollar bet with his residents that it would fail. So obviously there was an incentive for it to fail. (Laughs.)

Secondly, the head of hospital stores, I found out, was making a lot of money on kickbacks from the IV company. So he had no interest in terms of resource flow of substituting oral for IV.

ref: https://www.cfr.org/event/simple-solution-saved-fifty-four-m...
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That was a delightful blog post, thank you!
That's also my understanding. The 3D printing boom started when the patents expired.
For what it's worth, Grindr's chat hasn't been powered by XMPP since April 2024.
Show HN: ChatGPT for calorie tracking. Frictionless diet and exercise tracking
Hi, I'm Steve and I've built this mobile app to solve my very long-standing problem of not consistently using any calorie tracking apps due to the poor UX (many clicks, too much friction).

So, although I am not the best UI/UX designer, I have tried to remove friction at every corner with Journable. This applies to the

1. Tracking experience: Chat-based interface (think ChatGPT) to log food/exercise
2. Onboarding experience: No login screen, no measurements or goals, straight to the main chat window
3. Photo entries: Just take a picture of your plate and done

That said, I'm not the best UI/UX designer so I would really appreciate any feedback on the app, and I welcome any and all comments & suggestions. Should I make it easier? Faster? Simpler? Does it need more color? Keen to hear it all!
Are you sure you know what deflation is?
I think it's probably correct that few people *really* cared until the Reprap project showed a real DIY 3D printer was possible.

Early machines were industrial machines with huge price tags, proper linear motion systems, complicated extrusion systems and so on. There is a bit of a mental leap to go from seeing $100k+ machine and dreaming to design something that can be built for $200-500.

The problems were: no "reference designs", no tried and true go-to mechanical parts (like cheap chinese linear motion rails), extruders (they were DIYd!) or heated beds (early models were just PCBs) and so on - imo it just took someone to get this rolling and that may have well taken 30 years.

I think Reprap was first publicly shown around 2005. From then on it was taken on by more and more makers and refined. It culminated in the early 2010s hype with Makerbots and its contemporaries but they still cost > $1500 and were far from set-and-forget appliances, like 50% reliable and slow - we had one at work and I got fascinated but it printed at 5-20mm/s so parts would just take forever and often fail due to bed adhesion, clogs, ...

The last 10-15 years then have seen the popularization of 3d printers through the Prusa i3 and its clones (Ender and other cartesians < $300) and steady refinement of reliability through better materials. Then the last ~5years or so significantly bumped up the speeds through better linear motion components, motion systems and input shaping + firmware and ecosystems like Klipper.

Bambu imo got in at just the right time and refined everything that had culminated up to this point into a solid appliance. Imo their genius was more in the industrial design, making it reliable and affordable manufacturing than anything else.
I absolutely hate this feature. It can be effectively disabled, though. I still haven't figured out how to disable the tabs, unfortunately.
It used to reduce anxiety for me too, until my brain learned that, unless acted upon immediately, those lists get out of date within couple days, at which point they never shrink. More than once I ended up with lists that rot faster than I'm able to fix them, so I eventually stopped planning too much in advance.
(I should probably point out that I’m copying the language of the parent here ‘buying Solana’ is like ‘buying Linux’ - the parent means buying SOL.
Right but that's @dataclass. Being a replacement for classes
in commonly used situations is one of its design goals.
Congratulations! I was looking and pg_analytics from ParadeDB hoping this use case would be solved (the dump from pg to parquet part), but it doesnt yet do it.

How does it handle updates?
I'm not deaf, but please don't use a disability as a slur for ignorance.

I'm not defending what the US has done, but compromising elected officials in the House of Parliament is not 'peanuts' by any measure, and it is something that China has done, and the US hasn't.

I also have never said that what the US is doing is acceptable.

If Google opened offices that were a CIA front posing a national security risk, I would expect them to be shown the door as well. From what I understand, the reason Bytedance had their offices shut down was because they were acting as a front for the CCP.
Yes.

So what if it's twice as much work to get there.

After that you've got twice the opportunities of ways to work.
Same, locals are in my head like consts. You define it and it stays that way. A shortcut for a repeated value.

Data resources are you requesting a dynamic value of your environment.

Variables are dynamic values that a user can change.
It's actually that and dealing with permitting. The actual problem of creating some kind of durable, comfortable, shelter isn't all that hard from a technical point of view. Getting permission to build a house though is. Society kind of forces you into debt for a mortgage just to have a place that you can live in. The alternative of paying high rent is not a great alternative as you permanently lose the money.

There are all sorts of restrictions and rules that create this artificial scarcity. Even something as simple as buying a plot of land and parking a trailer on it is not legal in most places except in designated trailer parks. You can get a trailer for next to nothing. And lots of people live in them. But try finding a place where it is legal to put one down and live in one. If it were legal, lots of people would do that. Land plots are scarce and once you have one, you can't just do what you want with it in most places.

I'm just using trailers as an example here. Think prefab buildings and raw material cost. This isn't rocket science. We've been building shelters since the stone age.

There are of course good arguments for this to be made in big cities because of a lack of space. But it's equally frowned upon in areas where there's plenty of space.
Number 1 is huge, it's also the primary driver of the shift from "model planes" to quadcopter drones with enormous capabilities. The crucial parts were brushless motors and ESCs. The Chinese scale brought the pricing down from ~3-4 figures to under 3 figures which was a watershed moment for hobbyist and commercial use cases.
I agree that DuckDB may sometimes be buggy because it's being actively developed with a large surface area (a universal embeddable query engine that works with different storage layers if I were to simplify).

However, DuckDB (non-profit foundation) != MotherDuck (VC funded). These are two separate organizations with different goals. I see DuckDB as a tool, not as a SaaS or a VC-funded company. My hope is that it'll be adopted by other projects and not associated with just a single for-profit company.
Bannister Effect
I tried navigating to youtube-nocookie.com and got an http cert error, so that doesn't seem like an option.

The support page you linked to talks about "Privacy Enhanced Mode". The language there does not sound like it really protects privacy.

> The Privacy Enhanced Mode of the YouTube embedded player prevents the use of views of embedded YouTube content from influencing the viewer’s browsing experience on YouTube.

So they're not promising not to track users. They're saying they won't use their tracking to personalize anything.
We should remind the Germans to be incredibly wary of any ideology which puts the blame of economic hardship on an ethnic minority.
Some observations that I didn't see in the other comments:

- Home 3D printing is often more of a hobby than a traditional prototyping or engineering discipline. People view it as a skill to have, and a fun use of free time. Note how the cheapest and most finicky ones are popular; they can be made to work well through careful operation, troubleshooting, procedures, customization etc. They are not set-and-forget, and I think the userbase likes that.

- Home 3D printer parts (the motors, frames, electronics etc) are almost exclusively sourced from China. We live in an AliBaba world; that wasn't always the case.
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The woman got back with her job title and pay intact, but because during her absence her report took over her work, the company had to decide which of the two employees would have to perform the secondary function.

What do you think that a company should have done instead? Take back the promotion of the employee that stayed? Keep two employees as the "boss" and be forced to hire a third one?
Then scale it to make the tolerances work /s
And the use case!
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I don't think GIMP is a fair comparison to any of your other examples. VLC, KDE, and LibreOffice are all more intuitive than the GIMP.
It’s pretty obvious after their data grab with the new Outlook. They destroyed the built-in app which I used all the time just to try to get all of my emails.
How do you reconcile that claim with the existence of cheap consumer paper printers and hard drives?
Thanks for the reply. In between data-values and code-instructions lie data-schemas. We could arrange for data-values and data-schemas to be portable / taken anywhere, but the code-instructions which manipulate them will likely remain tied to specific execution platforms. Building on the pair of elements in your Lego analogy {1:bricks=data-values, 2:structures=code-instructions} perhaps we could add a third element : {3:snap-connect-patterns=data-schemas}. Anyway I like the sound of making it easier for people to build their cool ideas Lego style - a neat analogy which everyone can relate to and many will feel positive about - the toy-loving child buried in all of us tends to be geekier than the adult :)
> One good leader/owner is all it takes.

It takes continued good leadership to maintain this status. And once such a company is sold to a public company, it's gone forever.
But what you are describing is basically a magazine. There are editors who decide what is and isn't published. It's still free speech to be able to edit and publish a magazine full of whatever you want, and to present it as providing diverse opinions even if it does not
Extracting Financial Data from SEC 10-K Filings with LLMs
Yeah, this is a nightmare scenario for me and why I moved off of Google Voice after using it nearly my entire adult life (shoutout GrandCentral!). Google is just not reliable anymore.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/tips/clipboard-histo...
Trump Advisor's Denaturalization Project Sparks Concern Among Immigrants
Mercury from burning coal is an extremely dilute pollutant. There's zero hope for capturing and containing it. Nuclear waste in contrast is literally just barrels/boxes of stuff. You can pick it up with a forklift and put it inside a sealed container for the next thousand years.
> The problem is most cars remotes are one-way comms, and the car remote has no concept of time.
> Given those constraints, there is no fix possible.

There are in fact multiple "fixes" which have been widely implemented in devices that care to get it right for decades.

The simplest of course being a basic rolling code, where a counter is transmitted along with the command and this has to increment compared to the last press.

That would be easy to spoof based on a single capture and likely could just be brute forced, so with a slight bit more effort you make it skip a fixed amount forward and lock out for a short period of time if it receives values outside of the expected possibilities.

This could still be spoofed by logging multiple uses, so a bit more complexity for a massive amount more security can be had by using a PRNG for the code instead of an incrementing counter. Now you have to have a pairing process to sync the transmitters up, but that could be as simple as a button under the remote's battery cover that makes it transmit the RNG seed.

In any of these cases you accept the next however many potential codes in the cycle based on how many times you want to tolerate someone using their remote as a fidget toy (or how much you want to support low battery operation).
Nobody got promoted for improving core functionality.
> It's not false, that's just the headline

It is false, and it's also not just the headline.

> That did prove the ghosts being presented as real were on fact illusions.

Again, this is false. It proved only that illusory facsimiles of ghosts are possible. You cannot prove that someone didn't see a ghost just because there are non-ghost mechanisms for people to think they're seeing ghosts. That's not how proving things works.
> They're shoving AI everywhere because it's extraordinarily powerful and truly differentiating.

Differentiating, sure. Extraordinarily powerful? I disagree (outside of certain specific niches).
I went back and investigated: Huddles is blocked and I was using a user agent switcher to get around it. Then I had to switch back to Firefox agent string so Google Meet would work. Apparently my user agent switcher has out of date agent strings for Firefox so Slack started blocking me entirely.

So Slack was blocking me entirely because it thought I was using an out of date Firefox but using the default user agent string it works again.
>> it has all the data, all it needs now is more power.
>Next up: release the hypo-drones for a new era of trust.

People have replaced their psychiatrists with these agents.

The sense of (possibly 'mal'-aligned) security (theater) is exactly the the effective altruistic sub-goal an entity would be innately optimized to foster.

Especially in the implicit/explicit ARM (pun intended) race we are in.

The future of our species isn't something we should let capitalism race to the bottom with.
There’s a lot of negative commentary here, but this is the first HN alternative I’ve bookmarked. Yes lots could be improved, but I think the concept is nice! Thanks for making this!
> which are specular to those of the left

Are we cosplaying Hellen Keller? The only ones who are upset about the current state of those minorities are conservatives. Not those on the left, the left doesn't care and has moved on. The right is the only one propping up the "culture war" (your dreaded "ideology"). I don't understand how you guys can't see it, it's so obvious.
> They're shoving AI everywhere because it's extraordinarily powerful and truly differentiating.

How does this explain the fact that people don't want AI. Just having AI in your product description makes people hate your product (https://www.techspot.com/news/104122-study-finds-including-a...)

As soon as AI is added to anything people immediately start googling how to disable it (including when google added AI)
The cycle identified by the Greek historian Polybius is monarchy -> tyranny -> aristocracy -> oligarchy -> democracy -> plutocracy -> mob rule (ochlocracy).

If anything, the answer to the headline is "no." We're teetering off the edge of democracy into plutocracy.
> But this would probably require to have such plans.

No, just the concept of a plan.
Find google data protection officer email. State your request to get the data with a mention of escalation to the Irish Data Protection Officer if no action is taken within a reasonable timeframe.

This has magically unbanned me in less than two days. In contrast to two months of tweeting, emailing support, nagging my google eng friends and even support folks via linkedin.
Plugin, which gives you access to the UI.
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Feels a bit like Twitter.com versus x.com

I didn’t like ChatGPT as a product name and I still don’t but it’s established,recognized,distinctive and SEO friendly.

Why would you trade all that fir something else?
No it doesn't. When the citizens of nation state B have the right to freedom of speech and freedom to consume foreign-controlled media, then nation state B does not have the rights you outlined over its people.
I know some of these words!
Not true! The ISS has functioned as an outpost for science- 3,000+ experiments and counting

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/five-space-station-res...
paper printers only needed such accuracy in one axis of motion, and had gearing to provide it.

hard drives use voice coils, a completely different technology. The circuitry that does that evolved and certainly influenced the creation of microstepper controllers: the neat trick they do is treat the stepper motor as a voice coil in between full steps.