skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I write bespoke software on this basis. There is a significant market for custom software in specialized industries. Security scopes, capitalisation rules, tax and privacy laws, etc., rule SaaS and subscriptions out for a lot of businesses.
Such compromises happen between companies as well when a particular app is popular. Facebook and Uber accessing private java apis which meant Google couldn't change the internals as these apps are popular.
You can print of an SD card without any special software or online services, the same as you can on Prusa printers. It's just the server/internet stuff that's locked down. Which I wish was open too, but it's still has fully unrestricted local printing functionality.
It’s shocking. Software engineers in the UK are treated like engineers in the US were in the 1960s. Low respect, low pay, while city boys strutting around in shiny suits snapping their fingers to get anything they want.
I've been told that acceptable software margins are around 75%. Hardware focused yields closer to 20%-40%. Hence why there is such a strong push towards software-only.
> I think those chickens just haven’t come home to roost yet.

People have been saying that about Trump's antics literally his entire life.
Yes, "winning" as in not being completely destroyed, occupied, and maybe even enslaved. Check out what Poland looked like in 1940 when it lost, or what Germany looked like in 1945, or, well, 1949.

USSR was also terribly battered by WWII, and its leadership was not highly competent either; I'd say both parameters were much worse than UK's. But it managed to remain a large empire with a high economic potential, and UK could not.
Many many of us did, but were powerless to stop it.
This only really makes sense to say, if the wildfire are a result of climate policy. Which this article doesn't seem to be claiming.

Also I don't think the stuff that burns in these would have otherwise ended up buried/fossilized, so maybe it shouldn't actually count at all?
> For example, which part of the Apple II was predatory?

How about the price?

A quick googling suggests that it cost ~6,500 USD (in today's money) to buy an Apple II when it launched. Obviously it was a different time, but that sort of price today would likely be called predatory by at least some people.
I agree- though I think the problem is more that the focus of attention is not on making personal computing better, so it's withered. And some programs you could get as a buy once works offline experience are now subscription based -as-a-service
you can use ACME DNS i.e. https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns which is supported by lego.
Yeah, that's exactly what we have in mind, the core source code is available to anyone to utilize for any commercial purposes except providing mass hosting for the source code without any substantial development/customization. Do you think this restriction will prevent people from using the software?
I paid ~$750 for my 350mm Voron 2.4 kit (and, sure, 40 hours of my time. But look, you want to do 3D printing, 40 hours are just a small initial investment).
You should look into the App Store Small Business Program to see if you qualify for reduced commissions.
So.. zero cost PR? or low marginal cost PR? Or is this some bizarre kind of "washing"

Or.. was this the reserve-price least-worst option to get out of "nobody wanted to buy it"
From the WSJ:

"Start with its environmental obsessions. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 2019 sought to widen a fire-access road and replace old wooden utility poles in the Topanga Canyon abutting the Palisades with steel ones to make power lines fire- and wind-resistant. In the process, crews removed an estimated 182 Braunton’s milkvetch plants, an endangered species.

The utility halted the project as state officials investigated the plant destruction. More than a year later, the California Coastal Commission issued a cease-and-desist order, fined the utility $2 million, and required “mitigation” for the project’s impact on the species.

Since the milkvetch requires wildfires to propagate, the only way to boost its numbers is to let the land burn. A cynic might wonder if environmentalists interfered with fire prevention in hope of evicting humans from what they view as the plant’s rightful habitat."
In water yes, but ancient shipwrecks are found all over the place because they've been buried under sediment. That is the case with this one, you'll notice in the article that they say, "the sand protection is leaving", which I take to mean that while it was discovered in 1993, it was covered up with sand and so protected from issues such as water movement, sun, and life forms. The sand is now eroding away and leaving the ship unprotected, hence the move, hence the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_of_shipwrecks
Every game released on the Nintendo Switch in a physical cartridge format would disagree with you.
I personally think the outrage I've seen on this issue is generally not justified.

In general people are just scared of change and on top of that are playing telephone on the details of the change, assuming the worst intentions from Bambu like they're trying to be the next HP.

I have seen a lot of misinformation on this topic, and I think that in that sense it's a good idea to read the actual announcement details to get a better read on Bambu's intentions: https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing-new-au...

A voice in Bambu's defense on this issue would say:

1. The new firmware isn't out, it's still in beta, and the new connect software is also in beta. This stuff isn't done and nobody has been forced to use it or even had it presented as an OTA update yet. The problems highlighted in this wiki page are very possibly problems that Bambu is aware of and intends to fix before release.

2. Bambu in their blog article stated that they are working on integration code so that third party slicers like Orca Slicer can more directly interface with Bambu Connect (see the FAQ section)

3. There are multiple statements on this blog page where Bambu acknowledges the workflow disruption and emphasizes the things they intend to do and do not intend to do, such as "It’s important to note that this update is not intended to restrict third-party software use. In fact, we’ve actively collaborated with third-party print farm management software providers in the past and continue to support such partnerships. To further improve the user experience, we are introducing a new software solution that will address these limitations and enhance overall print farm management capabilities."

4. People who don't run huge print farms don't seem to be impacted by this. Remember that Bambu claims to be a consumer tech company, right there in the "About Us" section. They are trying to make printers that are easy to use and require minimal tinkering. For a normal person, sending a slice file from Orca Slicer to a separate app (adding literally one step) is not a big deal, you're doing that once per print in a world where typical prints take hours to complete. And with that in mind, Bambu is still saying they intend to provide an integration solution to Orca Slicer in the future to streamline that process.

Whether not the software design is a good architecture is an entirely different issue, and as a beta product I'm not sure we can judge that quite yet. Perhaps they should have hardened their network API more rather than introducing a new app? Perhaps they shouldn't have announced this so publicly before they had a solution for third-party integrations ready?
Goodbye Salesforce, Hello Socket
I don't think it's unfair to China, I think it's unfair to European countries, Canada, Australia, and the rest of the world that uses TikTok who are watching the U.S. demand it is entitled to run and control TikTok.

This would be like the U.S. forcing Spotify's Swedish headquarters to accept U.S. ownership.
>The Communications Act of 1934 primarily targets traditional media (e.g., television, radio), while TikTok is an algorithm-driven social media platform where content is user-generated. Its operational model is fundamentally different from traditional media. Directly equating the two is unreasonable and does not align with the realities of the modern digital economy.

I don't understand your point. Yes, TikTok and traditional media are different. But there are similarities. And you haven't pointed out any difference between them that would make a law restricting traditional media reasonable but a law restricting TikTok unreasonable.

>A More Reasonable Solution Is Strengthening Regulation, Not an Outright Ban

Why capitalize every letter of the sentence? This feels like it was generated by an LLM.
Damn that's cheap! What vendor did you use?
Oh, I'm upset and traumatized indeed, and even getting professional help for it, but over someone other than this guy. Anytime one of a dozen narcissistic celebrities comes up I mention the same thing, but I can't think of a single politician or celebrity I care enough about to even dislike.
As Nietzsche said, one must have reverence for their enemies, and none of them make the grade.

Maybe I just need to talk about it, but I'd like to think I learned something that might help someone else.
Castlevania AGA – Castlevania for the Commodore Amiga
Google’s not pulling it up but I swear I read about police visitations for immigration criticism that didn’t involve calls for murder or arson.

The UK arrests people for writing the n-word on Twitter https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/black-twitter-ra... or praying silently near abortion clinics. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9kp7r00vo so it’s not exactly a stretch.
I think an eBay grenade would negate the eBay strength of my items and it would cancel out, obliterating my stuff.
Basically when assholes like Paul Graham got involved and dumped absolute mountains of money into applications like Reddit and Dropbox that take concepts that exist in open protocols but implement them in closed moneytisable ways.
Not sure! They have a system set up for porting drivers from Linux into userspace components so it bats above its size.

From their description: "It is tested best on laptops of the Lenovo X and T series (X220, X250, X260, T430, T460, T470, T490)",
200 isn't on the list but you'd probably have about as good a time as you can
https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/1i548m9/this_is_p...

Looks like it's not true?
Understood.
It is no doubt the maintenance and the time to build.
However, it does take some efforts to build Oracle forms that requires a good amount of development time in PL/SQL and for customization of forms screens.
I've suspected that they have evidence that China is using the platform for social manipulation, but we're using the same techniques on other countries and possibly domestically and the government doesn't want to make the general public aware of it. Or it could be that they don't have evidence of actual wrongdoing, but feel that the risk is too large to allow it to exist.

Whatever it is, this has gone off the rails and the public is going to need a real explanation if they decide to move forward with the ban.
> Do people actually think OpenAI is gaming benchmarks?

I was blown away by chatgpt release and generally have admired OpenAI however I wouldn't put it past them

At this point their entire marketing strategy seems to be to do vague posting on X/Twitter and keep hyping the models so that investors always feel there is something around the corner

And I don't think they need to do that. Most investors will be throwing money at them either way but maybe when you are looking to raise _billions_ that's not enough
Always interesting to see the latest out of the Amiga community, and even 35 years later things are still happening.
There's a middle ground between the Apple model and assembling everything yourself.
I'm very well-versed in the field, what DAW(s) are you referring to? Cubase, Ableton, FL Studio, Logic Pro X, Bitwig, Reaper, etc. are all flat fees. Studio one has a subscription model but it's tied to access to splice assets and it's completely separate from their one time fee model.
The bambu cloud service has a very low value-add and they are trying to make it mandatory. the speculation is that they are trying to add a subscription model for print farms, which 3rd party slicers enable.
Possibly Balkans themselves were not important. The trade routes in Mediterranean likely were.

Also, there was a complex web of international treaties and alliances that eventually pulled the UK into the war.
Billionaires keep their massive wealth invested in assets rather than cash in their checking account. We had significant inflation in '24 and with that dollars got smaller. The resulting impact is that the billionaire who was worth $10B now had $12B as the valuations of their owned assets changed with inflation.

So "Billionaires kept pace with inflation in 2024" is probably a more accurate headline.
I mean a reasonable ask would be why can't they push this off until all of that is taken care of?
Exact same story for Korea. Dollar-term salaries similar to the EU, but when you compare to CoL it's a much better deal.
Photoshop hasn't been a one time fee for over a decade at this point. The last traditional single cost purchase was Photoshop CS6 which I still use and refuse to ever give up.
My X experience has become scrolling through the 2/3 of posts I never asked for, including: 1) Elon's posts, though I never interact with him as a subject, 2) Ads from Trump-supporting PACs seeking donations, 3) Ads for hunting games with graphic depictions of animals being shot. Everything else is insultingly basic clickbait. These aren't topics I interact with, they are just representative of baseline content on X right now.
This was the play all along - roll up the competition and then shore up all the profit once dominant enough.

I bet there are plans for new firmware $-unlocked pay-to-play features, making the AMS "more compatible" with Bambu filament (or eventually only Bambu filament for the next round or two of printers) and facilitating a lot more paid transactions and model purchases on Makerworld and taking the customary 30% cut.
Msvcrt.lib Generator
The general attitude that manufacturing is only for people who suck at school is the driving force behind this decline. You are indeed left with mostly not-that-bright guys who don't even consider themselves skilled workers, and definitely don't go the extra mile to produce quality stuff. A guy half-assing his work earns just as much as the guy who puts his heart to it, that's the harsh reality of modern industrial work. If anything the guy who cares too much is ridiculed and considered weird.

The exceptional craftsmen still exist but they mostly work for themselves, for obvious reasons. They really don't want to be "managed" and bossed around like cattle.
Future of RedNote is not so bright
Conveniently left out that the Prusa definitely cannot do a lot of things that the popular Bambu models can do quite well, like filaments beyond PETG and PLA, multimaterial printing, etc.
Maybe bamboo printers were too cheap which lead them towards their subscription based model.

Everyone complains about enshittification (YouTube ads, subscription models etc..), but then refuse to pay the real price premium goods and services cost. You get what you pay for.
Thank you for making your article's text available. This seems to be the key quote people were looking for:

"Many homeowners with heat pumps are likely on the wrong rate plan and paying more than they should. The right plan can make the difference between saving money and spending more money with the exact same equipment."
That's actually one of the reasons the president has a veto. If the president doesn't want the law to pass, then there isn't much point in passing it unless Congress makes a show of force with the 2/3rds majority, which is also the majority needed to remove him from office.

Similarly, one of the reasons the president has a pardon power is because he doesn't have to enforce those federal offenses. E.g. imagine that a president without pardon power instead offers "plea deals"/settlements for a $1 fine or concocts vacuously lenient house arrest enforcement.

The original constitution basically accepts that there is very little you can make a president do, and it instead formalizes what would otherwise be a gray area (it does have plenty about what he can't do). Some of this has changed over time especially as the judicial branch has granted itself more power.
It would only take 38% of Republicans in the Senate to vote with Democrats to remove Trump from office to get him out of politics for good.

Defying the literal law on a matter of national security certainly qualifies as treason, or at least a vague "high crime and misdemeanor."

Now that he's done his job for the Republicans (delivered a red wave), is there any benefit to keeping a kleptocratic monster in power?

Should Congress just remove him from office and let JD Vance be president?

Edit: Not sure why being downvoted. China bots?
Those techbros have to be railed against though. Also when talking about the US election one must say that however disappointing and removed Democrats may be or appear to be to many people—Trump still got 65% of the votes in Springfield, Ohio, which is clearly a case of the cattle electing their slaughterer.
Intel can match or outperform Zen 5 in many benchmarks (X3D still trashes them in games) and are trading blows now, they just have to use double the power envelope to do it.

Arc and Battlemage are not very competitive designs with AMD going off die size and transistor count compared to the performance numbers they're posting. Battlemage pricing however is quite good on price to performance, but again suffers from efficiency where AMD has them beat by quite a margin.
To avoid confusion, the Mercedes cars are from 80s or 90s. Not new ones, which are completely unaffordable by most locals.
> spend their lives inside a big factory in a low-wage country

Some gladly would if paid handsomely by the local standards, that is, adequately by the US standards.

The bigger problem is raising children away from your native culture.
Dyeing with woad – Salt extraction method
I _think_ that's browsing the SD card from Bambu Studio when the printer's set to LAN Mode, not printing from SD on the printer itself.
Kinda feel like TikTok CEO has not much to do with its success
decentralized twitter is just useless. i don’t understand the appeal.

when it comes to things like TOR they make sense and are sticky, or minecraft servers (if that counts). decentralization can be desirable, even something bitcoin like (distributing a ledger) can probably have something to offer if used to solve a problem.

I get what you’re saying, though. I think decentralization will be in vogue again, when it solves real problems.

In theory you could create a decentralized uber, possibly even something cash based, if anonymity ever becomes a concern again. Some services don’t necessarily need to be built by companies, they can be unnecessary middle men. It makes sense for drivers to run nodes themselves, be their own bosses, etc.

Kind of a neat idea now I want to build it.

Something like that may not get users immediately but something will inevitably happen that will get people interested in that kind of idea.
Private companies are not obligated to offer services, and in the US the government cannot compel private companies to do so (except rare circumstances). "We will stop offering services if X does not happen" is not coercive, it's an ultimatum. Companies should not be expected to operate in a market hostile to them.
Have not Excel and Photoshop gone subscription?
Adding or subtracting "months" is inherently difficult because months don't have set lengths, varying from 28 through 31 days. Thus adding one month to May 31 is weird: should that be June 30 or July 1 or some other date?

Try not to have to do this sort of thing. You might have to though, and then you'll have to figure out what adding months means for your app.
The judge actually summarized it in vastly more detail than you say there. Take a look at the jury instructions if you want to see exactly what the theory was: https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/People%20v.%2... (starting around page 29, or again around page 44)

Basically, the crime alleged was violating a NY election law saying that you can't try to influence an election through "unlawful means". They provided a sampling of said unlawful means: violating federal campaign contribution limits, falsifying other business records, and violating state tax laws about how the reimbursement to Cohen was handled. The jurors didn't have to unanimously agree about which of those things they think he actually did.

The reasons to not charge him for those separately would seem to be respectively: 1. that's the feds job, 2. statute of limitations expired for the non-felony falsifications during his presidency when he couldn't be charged with anything, and 3. Cohen directly committed the tax crime so all Trump's guilty of is conspiracy to commit a really niche bit of tax misrepresentation that didn't actually cost anything.

The unambiguous bit is that he definitely falsified business records, and so the squabble is over whether he's guilty of a misdemeanor or a felony. It was apparently persuasive to the jury that he did the felony version.
I admit that I did not RTFA, but for a while I've been thinking that with the ascendancy of dumbed-down, peck-to-get-your-reward touchscreen devices... computers are returning to the domain of computing enthusiasts.

I remember taking my Atari 400 on family vacations, reading Compute magazine by the pool and learning a shitload about programming just by reading. Oh and yes, I did ride my bike and have friends and play baseball and go to the beach. Computers were just another fun thing to do. And eventually I put what I learned to use at Apple and several other big-name companies.

Today, the dominant platform (Windows) is an execrable, intolerable shitshow of anti-user arrogance and aggression and abuse. Apple's platforms are better, but I have little confidence in how long that'll last. In the end, I guess we're going back to "nerds" using real computers running Linux, and pigeons pecking at big colored buttons on touchscreens to get their reward pellets.
I don't see why any of this must be so. Couldn't they just move or sell to any other country on the planet not on the adversary list?

Congress doesn't appear to care if TikTok survives or not. TikTok bans are not news.
I think most folks when say Capital they mean “Finance Capital” which UK is really good at. Even historically speaking UK was at the forefront of financial engineering which complimented their physical engineering and enabled to spread their empire and colonize so much.

But UK post WW-2 and specifically post Thatcher stopped investing in physical engineering and overindexed on financial services the results are for all to see now.

But you are right. I think the financial engineering has reached its limits and we see China’s investment in physical engineering over last couple of decades beginning to pay off.
> In economics, the Laffer curve illustrates a theoretical relationship between rates of taxation and the resulting levels of the government's tax revenue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

I would dispute the premise of the Laffer Curve: that the goal of setting a (high) taxation rate is to maximise government revenue. I think that reducing wealth inequality is a good in and of itself. And especially under a capitalist system that depends on it's citizens having vaguely equal purchasing power to function efficiently.

Assuming that our starting point is our current situation where wealth is very unequally distributed, that is. I would agree with the suggestion that things being too equal, and there being no reward for hard work and/or ingenuity also leads to problems.

Optimisation that tries to balance that trade-off would interest me greatly.