skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
disclaimer, I am not an expert in patent litigation but have been involved in and hold several patents) also, hold my beer and watch this.

Having read the claims on both patents (US2023/11813789B2, US1997/5653925A) , it still seems pretty sus to me on both sides of the fence.

The basic concept of of the geometric layer pattern is identical in the claims and illustrations in both patents, but the expired patent mentions this in the context of "density" and "porosity", while the newer patent describes the identical process for for the effect of interlayer adhesion. This -might- be enough to make a meaningful distinction.

The new patent fills in a little bit more detail on the process, and is much more narrow in scope.
But...the expired patent claims -do- specifically mention strength in terms of density in claim 6: "the pressurizing Supply source is adjusted to provide a porosity in the article of between 1% and 9%, so as to form an article of a strength sufficient to maintain the integrity of the article."

Claim 6 refers to claim 3 which refers back to the primary claim of modifying density through the feed pressure and geometric distribution (specifically brick-like, as depicted in figure 2 - preferred embodiment) deposition of the filament.

In all, it is surprising to me that the patent was granted as is. I have had filings rejected for much weaker similarities to existing art when basing a patent on new applications of existing processes... and this is arguably not even a new application.

The described process (hexagonal or brick-like bead geometry) is identical to the process shown in figure 2 of the expired patent and described in the preferred embodiment.

What is missing from the expired patent is a specific claim on the geometry of the preferred embodiment given in figure 2. This could be construed in a sense to say that the preferred embodiment itself was not the subject of the patent, i guess?

In any rate, the 2023 patent clearly does not describe any actual innovation, but rather an attempt to lock down a competitive advantage by locking everyone else out of an invention that has been clearly documented since 1997 and released into the public domain for 6 years prior to this patent.

Although the patent holder appears to be using the patent in a proprietary, in house process, this still smacks a bit of troll dung.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that there was exactly zero innovation here, and the patent applicant was clearly aware of the prior art, perhaps even being inspired by ambitious nonspecificity of the expired patent. His figures 1 and 2 (the primary basis of the new patent) could just have well been lifted directly from the Stratasys patent.

This might be one for the courts. What we need is someanon to fork slic3r with this feature added and dump it on torrent.
By a wide margin: diapers. Little cloths for wiping up spit and drool a close second, though if you use cloth diapers they can catch the mess at both ends.

Car seat required, I always got the higher-end models with the best safety ratings. A good stroller as well, preferably the kind that work with the car seat.

Children mainly need your time, attention, and lots of patience. They generally don't need a lot of things until they get older, at which point they will tell you what they want.

Authority: I raised three children who started out as babies and toddlers and all lived to adulthood.
What makes the Mill build tool Unique
Any example of sources?
Once upon a time you could do this directly on google with things like “index of” and find candid things from people’s shared folders
Ah sorry, I wasn't very clear. I was talking about your second claim - that giving people lots of money would redistribute a fixed proportion of wealth from the rich to the poor. My point was that the rich have most of their wealth in stocks and the like, so the redistribution would only affect the cash portion of their wealth, which is quite small.
I have a problem with how procrastination and perfectionism, this sense of being 'not good enough', is almost universally phrased as not being good enough for others. For caring too much about others' opinions. And that the solution is to just Do Art For Yourself :tm:.

I've tried that. I've tried shunting out everyone else's opinions. But then of course, if you lock me in a room with me, myself, and I, you now have 3 of my biggest critics all in the same room.

I don't really care what others think, never really did, and none of these anti-procrastination or anti-perfectionism pieces help when it's my own standards that I'm not meeting.
That's exactly the advantage of sneakernet shopping, you can ask to see the product in operation.
It is basically the same as any cross platform language now. They even recommend Docker containers for deployment.
For personal stuff you don't have to care about patents anyway. If the slicer can be modded to include this feature then there's nothing stopping people from using it. I'm not sure if just adding the feature in slicers would violate the patent, or using the feature commercially.

Also, if you're printing commercially, I would just go ahead and violate the patent. They are not going to find out, and if they do then just stop using the feature or negotiate a license for the patent.
These are all variants of Kent Beck’s saying: “Make it work, make it right, make it fast.”

https://wiki.c2.com/?MakeItWorkMakeItRightMakeItFast
Hm, so the point of adding this additional hop (which is also a JSON under the .well-known/ prefix), is that I can always put the domain of my homepage into WebFinger aware OIDC login boxes, no need to remember the domain of my OIDC provider?
When this happens don’t you typically also see the track registered at the bottom? ContentID took them a long time to develop if I’m remembering right.
Same. I've so often done a nice improvisation that's then lost forever. Time to find out if there's something in them.
This is so wholesome.
> He says it himself: self-driving cars are just cheaper taxis.

Which can lead to more traffic (@21:07). Which can encourage more resources to be moved from people to vehicles (@32:37). More traffic can increase pollution (@38:05), both particle and noise, even with EVs because tire wear, road wear, and brake wear (even with re-gen) generally increase with higher vehicle weights/masses.

He then contrasts London (Ontario) and Utrecht (@43:28), and how even given their similar beginnings and similar populations, the decisions each made on how to design things made one more human-habitable and the other one less.
AI GitHub Issue Resolving
Worked for me once so far for a single github issue which had a solution that involved a read and write to my supabase, seemed to have a big upgrade from the codeact 2.1
- Syncthing
- UltraVNC as host on windows, bVNC as client on android
- Moonlight + Sunshine
- p2p.mirotalk.com
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Decades ago? The country was started by people who left the old country,
sometimes bring wives and children with them, sometimes later, sometimes never. The Oregon trail featured entire families that moved. Moving is an integral part of America's history.
Oh yeah, the exact same way roller coasters got banned as soon as one failed and killed some people.
Australia's New Firewall IMEI Blocked 516,875 Active Phones Overnight [video]
Last minute change, and leaving it up to the carriers. Bad to the power of bad.

I tend to buy grey import handsets because they offer a better value proposition - by a long margin - than locally sold handsets. Allowing the carriers to define the block list only plays into their greedy little hands.

I know that "band 28" support is something useful to Australians who, like me, buy handsets from overseas. The support of handsets should be based on capabilities of the device, not a seemingly arbitrary list that's under the control of the carriers. But that's what happens when last minute decisions are made.
Despite Apple's polished WWDC presentations promising seamless development experiences, the reality often involves navigating buggy frameworks that aren't ready for practical use—even after the official release.
It's sad that those outside America think negatively of us (while in Iceland I met Europeans who felt the same) because of horrid media that a lot of it is made up crap and lies especially in politics (on all sides). I am sure to get downvoted and by other Americans for saying this as I've said many times here for years and it gets downvoted. Yet one argument that other Americans are feeling the same is via who the 47th US president will be. A president who I never voted for but has been strung up left/right/sideways by his opposition yet all that mattered zero and was ignored. Their political games got tiresome and didn't work yet more importantly though is inflation and no doubt people were paying less for things when the idiot was in office. Wages skyrocketed during covid to get ppl back to work causing things to get more expensive to pay for higher wages is one reason things are more expensive.
> What people also don’t understand is that these compatibility issues with VoLTE Calling and Emergency Calling are Software Problems, not hardware issues.

> […]

> This Industry has tried to pretend that 4G devices that rely on 3G for 000 are ‘hardwired’ this way and the only solution is to buy new devices, when that could not be further from the truth.

> […]

> Blocking handsets is to entirely sweep the compatibility problem under the rug.
>
> By making this change, the industry and regulators are entirely absolved of any responsibility or accountability for failing to properly address the issues with Calling and Emergency Calling over 4G.

Industry has captured government and policy throughout capitalist countries. We're at the end-stages of capitalism having any veneer of good for society. It'll just keep getting worse and worse as we pay more and corporations deliver less.

Remember when you could go to the bank and there was an adequate number of tellers? Maybe that's still the case where you live. Not where I am.

Remember when you could call customer service and get help within a reasonable wait time? Good luck getting to a human being without mashing the numpad and repeatedly telling the robot you want a human / operator / other.

Remember when wages rose with inflation? I don't. I wasn't born early enough to experience that. But I've seen the graphs.

Remember when unions had collective bargaining power? That's been true more or less for the first time in my life in recent years. It's about the only shred of hope I've got for this system.

TLDR: every deal with a corporation is designed for us to lose and it will only become more so with time.
I guess you could also use a long password and write it down in a different room
I was in a similar boat, and this book[1] helped me a lot. It deals with the roots of procrastination, which lie in poor mood management and the lack of self-compassion. If you want to go deeper into self-compassion, I found this book[2] very helpful.

[1] Procrastination - Fuschia M. Sirois PhD
[2] Radical Acceptance - Tara Brach
For real?

The older I get the more it is true.
It's been talked about here a bunch of times: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Typst
Let me plug LightDims: They're translucent stickers that keep LEDs from shining into the room, but still let you see the LED status.

Be sure to buy from the original family business, not the knockoffs.

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Yes, which is sort of my point, of course things didn't start this way. No trademark means no trademark policy, after all.

And more to the point, there was definitely a first time that an open source project instituted a trademark policy that says "You can use this name for unofficial events as long as it's clear its not official, but you must adhere to these additional rules when doing so." This sits somewhere between more and less restrictive trademark and brand policies that either allow it for a certain use case without much other consideration or disallow it without permission without much other consideration. It's hard to know exactly when it would even be considered enforceable, since referring to something by its name is usually not a violation of trademark in any case.
Uni. prof here/shameless plug: I developed a general education class for college students about the 'history of navigation' which includes the science behind navigation and why clocks and (accurate) timekeeping are needed for navigation. I wrote a book about it all I use for the class, if anyone's interested: https://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Time-Navigation-Tom-Bensky-.... I was inspired by Sobel's book, but I needed more math and science in the discussions.

Also, if you can find the book by Williams called "From Sails to Satellites: The Origin and Development of Navigational Science" you'll laugh out loud at his wit about navigation throughout the book.
Isn't this just another meta level of ego? Now you're elevated above everyone in the rat race because you "dilluted" your ego. But that's still the voice in your head controlling you, it just convinced you it doesn't anymore. Buddhist philosophy always failed to click for me because of this.
Tangent, but I miss that iPhone era. I remember holding an iPhone for the first time. Someone showed me a map app (maybe Google Maps) and it took me a second to realize I was looking at a map of where I was, and remember thinking "how does it know?", and just being so mesmerized by it.

And Angry Birds.
Again speaking generally, attempting to invalidate a patent is going to cost more than $10k, but $100k should be enough to do an ex partes review petition. If you want to do inter partes review, which is much more involved but may also have a higher chance of success, it's more expensive. The total cost will depend on what attorneys you use and how they go about it (which also impacts the likelihood of success).
Ha ha this is hilarious. When my daughter starts next year I guess I have something to look forward to?
My point stands.
Likewise. I also get more "in my head" if I'm actively recording, and it just isn't the same relaxing experience as improvising and noodling. Really excited for this.
> There's a couple Bambu Lab patents that probably should not have been granted with prior art in open source.

The open source world should come together and get them invalidated.
I've never had much of a fear of not being good enough for others but I've had a fear of not being good enough for myself. I don't know if this will get you over the hurdle but here's what really opened up my work and had me procrastinating less as an artist was:

The act and the process of creating art is what I enjoy. The outcome of that work and sense of accomplishment is fleeting, not that important, and a little out of my hands.

Once I realized this I just make more things, take more chances, and find myself making "better" work than I ever have. So just spend your time doing the thing you like doing. If you don't actually enjoy the process then you probably aren't meant to do it, regardless of the outcome or the accolades.
>3G is prime infrastructure, it has huge range

Nothing about 3G (UMTS/WCDMA) technologies mean that it has more range than 2G, 4G, or 5G networks on the same frequencies.

If anything, the opposite is true due to Cell Breathing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_breathing_(telephony)
What does cost structure look like? I'm sure wholesale power price is pretty similar in entire US. Californians are gouged by the distribution company, likely because overall labour cost in California.
> I was eventually kicked off

Woah, can you expand on that? Did you get IP banned from YouTube?
The fact that you have this grandiose idea about yourself that you transcended ego and are beyond basic judging of others or of yourself and so on doesn't give you pause to say that maybe that's a bit naive and ego-centered? How can someone declare themselves done with this? It's like someone telling me they achieved a state of never having a bad thought again, I know they are lying.
I think the mitigating factor is "slow is smooth, smooth is fast".

If you raise the quality of your codebase, you can implement those 1,000 things faster, and you reduce the odds of they'll have to be reworked.
The last few times I have tried Firefox, it has been a pretty bad experience.

Some websites are inexplicably slow. Sometimes the whole UI freezes up for half a second.

Some of it can be explained by Google and other giants not testing their stuff on Firefox. But it really does seem like they don't have enough development bandwidth to keep up with the modern web.
There is no real safe way to use lock hold timeouts. While a waiter can timeout and possibly handle failing to acquire the lock, there's no generic safe way to steal the lock from the holder after a timeout since the holder may still be accessing the protected resources/have left the resources in an inconsistent state. Adding a wait timeout which generates telemetry on a long wait may be useful for helping catch failures in production, but seizing the lock is almost always the wrong way to go about this.
One would think the fans wouldn't work as hard, but then again server fans might blast on full regardless. It's amazing that none of the machines / components overheated and failed.
So you were a "star developer" at some previous workplaces, but now you're not, and just produce at a "mediocre grind"? Why is that? And why work there now and not that the previous places?

I suspect this is the common tale of poor compensation: despite being a star developer, employers won't pay for properly for this, just a mediocre annual raise, so you move on after a couple of years to another place, which offers you a huge raise (new starting salary compared to the previous job's salary). And the new place, while giving you a poor environment that hampers your productivity, still pays much better than the previous places where your productivity was much higher. And because of this common workplace dynamic, it's usually not worth it to put in much effort to be a star employee, unless you find the rare employer that actually rewards you for it. Is my guess correct?
Background playback just works with Firefox on Android with no extensions required.
Addendum: some people might be curious about how it is with a time of usage rate as described above, so I'll give a short description of what it has been like for me after one year on it.

When invited to the trial I went over my past bills and calculated my potential savings. You can download PSE usage data that covers usage over 15-minute intervals so it was easy to write a program to look at my past bills and tell me (1) what they would have been if I had been under TOU but made no changes to usage, and (2) what they would have done if I could have moved any given percentage of my peak usage to off-peak.

That showed I'd save about 1% with no usage changes. If I could shift all my peak to off-peak I'd save about 30%.

Here's what I did to reduce peak usage.

• Turn off heating during peak.

• Turn water heater thermostat to the "vacation" setting during peak.

• Move things I use hot water for to non-peak. Most of my hot water use is laundry, dishwashing, and bathing. For laundry I moved laundry day from Friday to Saturday. For dishwashing if I need to use the dishwasher on a weekday I time it for non-peak. I didn't need to change bathing because that is in the morning, and even if it happens to be during morning peak it will be my first hot water use of the day. My water heater is well enough insulated that it can handle that fine.

• The move of laundry to Saturday took care of my biggest non-water heating appliance: the electric clothes dryer.

• I try to avoid using the oven during peak. Not a big deal because the main thing I use the oven for is bake-at-home pizza and I don't do that often.

Here are some things I did not change.

• Microwave and George Foreman grill. At first I did, but then put the grill on a Kill-a-Watt and found out that the difference between peak and off-peak in winter over the course of cooking a burger or a grilled cheese sandwich was something like $0.02.

• Computers, iPhone/iPad/Watch/Kindle charging, A/V system, lights.

In the year before TOU, 17.6% of my usage was during peak hours. In the first year of TOU it was 5.1%. That works out to a savings of $190. That's somewhere in the 15-20% savings range.
That's just trademarking a language with extra steps
Take a 2 week vacation. It gives you the chance to think about what you want to do with the rest of your life without work distractions.
Non linear slicing is also patent protected but there are some projects that modify slicers to do it.

I did some experiments with bricklaying using a macro in S3D and in all honesty it’s not worth it.

It doesn’t work all the time causes a lot of slicing edge cases on complex models and the cost in print time outweighs any strength gains.

For properly dried filament and a heated chamber the adhesion gains are within the margin of error.

I can also quite confidently say stratasys also currently does not implements it in GrabCAD* which is their slicers/CAM software and I’m not aware of any of their partner slicers/CAMs that do it either.

*There is a chance that they do it as a post processing step in their printers especially the super high end ones either globally or for select locations within the model but I’ve handled quite a few FDM prints on Stratasys machines and I’ve never actually seen it in a production model.
The title is utterly unparseable to me. What's the subject of the sentence?