skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have followed various open source projects to produce filament this way for a few years, starting from a facebook group.

It is called "pultrusion". A key property of PET plastic is that it is not infinitely re-meltable, it gets more brittle each time. If you melt bottles to form filament, then melt it again when printing, those two re-melts are too much.

But, you can heat it enough to soften it without truly melting it -- so it does not loose strength -- and pull it through a heated nozzle, that kind of wraps the little strip around into a tube, sometimes with a small hollow center like a straw.

There is then one full melt left in the plastic's life to allow a 3D printing.

You might have to adjust for the filament being hollow and extrude a bit more.

You also get a filament with a shorter length, just the plastic from one bottle, because joining the filaments is finicky and no one seems to have come up with a reliable way yet.

In spite of all this, it's really appealing because getting one more human use out of the vast volume of PET bottles that are thrown away seems really useful.

Note, that the strips that you cut the bottles into, are useful by themselves. There are a series of youtube videos by a Russian guy building a log cabin in the woods, and he utilizes those strips extensively -- if you use them to tie things together, you can pour hot water on them or heat them with a flame and they will shrink and stick to themselves, making a really strong joint.
> If I use the phrase, then typically it means I don't agree with the argument but I (in good faith) view it as the strongest counter-argument to my (and the person I'm talking too') position.

Ok, but why do so-called Devil's advocates always stop there? If you don't agree with the strongest counter-argument, then why would you present it without your own response? It's fine to present the strongest counter-argument and then go on to explain why that argument doesn't hold in the end, but a simple Devil's advocate comment, by itself, does give the impression that it's really your hidden opinion that you're afraid to embrace.

I think it's weird, and also somewhat hostile, to insincerely present an argument that's not your own and then implicitly place the burden of proof on everyone else to refute it.

Not to mention, there are surely some sincere defenders of Google out there? Why not let them do the arguing? Of course, if nobody is a sincere defender of Google, that seems to prove that Google doesn't actually have good reasons for its actions.

> Generally speaking) nobody worships the devil

Metaphorically speaking, current events prove this to be quite false.
> I'm being realistic, in the capitalist world we live in unless you have assets your worth nothing. You have no voice, no power, ever.

Describe a better (on average) world and let's try it.
Slightly different preprint variants:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13742

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13740v2
The 'they' in question are almost certainly users who are flagging this.
I grew up in Australia and taught in Australia and the UK; and yes, the word problems are ubiquitous in those countries too. But those word problems are always deeply inauthentic, and extracting the relevant information from them becomes just another arcane activity.

One that comes to mind involves a farmer with a given length of fencing, and the student has to find the area of the largest rectangular field the farmer can surround with that fencing. It's a good mathematical puzzle, but the actual real-world problem is how much fencing the farmer needs to surround a given field.

Coming up with genuine, real-world applications for every mathematics lesson is extremely time-consuming, and maths teachers simply don't have the time.
My understanding is that the use separation wasn't nearly as strict. Some of them have markets and daycares in them, which increases the amount of people there at times that would be dead for a plain residential area.

but also, it is an artifact of the political system: crime shot up after the dissolution of the USSR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_Soviet_Union
Correct, I should have specified it applies to more significant events. Simple paperwork is typically not an issue. Lived there for 10 years and was amazed at how even relatively small cases aren't handled honestly. For example when my vehicle was hit, the police registers the crash and and the driver afterwards flees, the courts determined that they cannot say who was driving. Absurd in any civilised country as then the vehicle owner is responsible or at least interviewed. This is my personal experience, one of quite a few, not hearsay.

I also had friends dealing with legal for multinationals, for things to work you needed to know the right people or pay the right people. Otherwise your licenses and approvals would mysteriously simply never be processed.
> My old Uni (Manchester) doubled down hard on the work of Geim and Novoselov by building a dedicated "Graphene Institute", after they got the Nobel Prize, but even 15 years after that award most people are still trying to figure out what does it all actually mean really? Not just in terms of the theory of physics, but how useful is this stuff, in real world usage?

That's the beauty of real research. There's no guarantees it'll pan out. But it's generally worth doing and spending (sometimes decades of) time exploring. Too many people have become infatuated with instant gratification. It's pervasive even in young, scientific minds. The real gratification is failing that same test 100 times until you finally land on a variation that might work. And then figuring out why it worked.

Edit: And if that success never comes, the gratification is graduating and moving on to more solvable problems, but bringing with you the scientific methods you learned along the way. Scientists might spend their whole lives working on something that won't work and that's okay. If that isn't for you, go into product dev.
Nothing stops you from downloading Ann’s archive and training a model on it, right? The likelihood that you, as an individual, get sued over is is virtually zero.

This is what Meta tried to do, quietly download and use the data, to do research and advance their LLMs, without trying to establish any legal precedents or pick up fights.
Because iCloud in China is complete separate from the rest of the world.

China is not asking to see other countries’ iCloud data.
Who defines what is mean? Oh yes, some unelected bureaucrat
> Nobody has responded to me with anything about how authors are harmed

i imagine if books can be published to some e-book provider through an API to extract a few dollars per book generated (mulitiplied by hundreds), then eventually it'll be borderline impossible to discover an actual author's book. breaking through for newbie writers will be even harder because of all of the noise. it'll be up to providers like Amazon to limit it, but then we're then reliant on the benevolence of a corporation and most act in self interest, and if that means AI slop pervading every corner of the e-book market, then that's what we'll have.

kind of reminds me of solana memecoins and how there are hundreds generated everyday because it's a simple script to launch one. memecoins/slop has certainly lowered the trust in crypto. can definitely draw some parallels here.
Comment history certainly living up to your name.
You are correct. Prosecutors don’t consider whether charging a perp will upset them and stress them out. Nor should they.

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
SoftBank set to invest $40B in OpenAI at $260B valuation
>Sweet32: Birthday attacks on 64-bit block ciphers in TLS and OpenVPN

>CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-6329

>[...] short block size makes a block cipher vulnerable to birthday attacks, even if there are no cryptographic attacks against the block cipher itself. We observe that such attacks have now become practical for the common usage of 64-bit block ciphers

>We show that a network attacker who can monitor a long-lived Triple-DES HTTPS connection between a web browser and a website can recover secure HTTP cookies

https://sweet32.info/
Sometimes the VP gets surprised with budget or headcount constraints. Or maybe they were expecting the IC to perform a bit better this quarter, but other people involved in the promo process do not feel that the IC has met the bar, and block the promo.

And yeah, it's always possible that the VP is just saying what's necessary to keep the IC on the team and productive, but there's plenty of cases where the VP is trying for your promo, and we cannot tell from OPs comment exactly what's going on here.
> seed your RNG with "random" values like the current time

Good point. srand(time(NULL)) is a common, yet nondeterministic, seed. The caller clearly doesn't expect rand() to generate a particular sequence of numbers, so srand() could check whether the given seed looks like a time_t close to the current time() and, if it does, then use a proper CSPRNG instead.
I dont think that is actually true in those cases.

Relations with China were pretty cosy till they did a 180 around the second Bush administration and started all that Wolf Warrior diplomacy, 9 dotted line stuff, Hongkong crackdowns.......

Regarding Russia, nobody really cared at all till it was absolutely impossible to ignore. Putin seems to think that he needs the west as an enemy to bolster his standing and power. Just remember after starting the full scale invasion he proudly declared "I hope I will now be heard" or something to that effect. In Russian mass media the imperial project has long been clear and accepted.
The polish on this page is insane.
What about his family and friends? Do you blame them as well?
“The revolution will be incorporated.”
> (apparently it's not worth to show you ads if you still appear to be using iphone 6)

Why not adwall the user instead, showing only ads until they upgrade the device or buy premium?
I think you'll find that the majority of UK's citizens believe its government should be able to access data with a warrant. Whether the dēmos agree with your particular values is another matter, but this is not obviously undemocratic, unlike royal assent.
> There are a series of youtube videos by a Russian guy building a log cabin in the woods, and he utilizes those strips extensively

Advoko? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSBh77bjz_Q
Google Scholar explicitly made direct deals with publishers to scrape their content, with the constraint that while they can use the content to serve search results in Scholar, but cannot show the content of the papers on the site- just titles and short fragments that match. the deals were tenuous and I had to step carefully around my plan to use that database to implement large-scale scientific search over the literature (this was a long time before anybody was seriously considering using LLMs on research data).

I've spoken to several very wealthy/powerful people and tried to get them to negotiate a large-scale content license with the various publishers that would allow researchers and individuals to access more research in lower-friction ways. None of them (NIH, Schmidt, etc) were really interested.
As long as Apple has a business presence in the UK, they are subject to the laws the UK imposes on them even if they're vastly overreaching and impose on other government's citizens. Not supporting cloud services wouldn't be sufficient to avoid the compliance requirement, they would have to formerly stop doing business in the UK.

Looking at the market size that might be a decision that Apple is willing to make as it would most likely be a temporary stick. The government can spin it anyway they want, but Apple devices do not work basically at all without the deep integration of their services. A geoblock would effectively mean UK citizens would be left with unusable devices and I can't see the resulting outrage being directed exclusively at Apple.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out for sure.
"He's never actually faced good old-fashioned market competition."

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/03/scaling-waymo-one-safely-acro...

Note the date. Tesla still doesn't have a taxi.
What they're not getting at is that this isn't particularly a Tory thing.
Ye Olde Beautiful Web: Ramblings about the Web that's gone
Part of the reason Airbnb got a pass must be how profitable it was to people who own many properties, despite the harm it does to the communities of people who only own one property.
this isn't apple weighing ethics against revenue. this is apple being forced to decide how much their pro-privacy marketing is really getting them in the market.
NWS Public Weather API
I wanted to upvote your other comment because it caught a detail of "how much" that may have slipped past the other commenter's or other reader's minds but...

0. The Kardashians

The distance between 0 and 1 is vast compared to the distance between 1 and 2. Feynman was a professor and also beloved for his ability to bridge across the academic to pragmatic divide that is the subject of this paper.
I agree that the video I shared should have included those words. But the words do not change the meaning of the gesture, which is very uniquely recognizable and important historically. Doing this gesture during WW2 in the U.S. would’ve led to Elon getting arrested at a minimum, or maybe just shot on the spot based on what I know of this time period. (I would love to hear the opinions of actual historians though.)

Then Elon did not apologize or make any attempt to explain it away, and in fact made jokes about it.

Imagine that you were a neo-Nazi. Would you take this gesture and his lack of apology as a sign that Elon is on your side?

This is also not the first time that Elon has done something like this. His Twitter history is not something I would be proud of.

Anybody who thinks it was accidental seems extremely gullible to me. Nobody does a Nazi salute by accident. A “my heart goes out to you” gesture looks absolutely nothing like this gesture for normal folks.
Okay, but what did you reasonably expect?
> Shouldn't allocation strategy be decided by the caller, not type definiton?

This is how C++ is designed. Unfortunately, it precludes types from taking dependencies on their own address, which is critical for e.g. atomics. As far as I know, there is no way to actually force a C++ class to be heap allocated. I’ve tried.

Newer languages like Swift give the type designer the ability to say “the address of this object in memory is important and must remain stable for the lifetime of this object.” This decays to heap allocation.
Because russia is a bag guy? (Idk about China, but considering they support russia...)

Have you been living under a rock?
I'm not talking about a fantasy future world but the world we have today.

Chrome Web Store reviewers have been letting malicious extensions slide for years, and Manifest V3 did nothing to change that.
Saying AI will replace engineers is “innovation”, because if you say you’re offshoring, you’re just another MBA.

> “Do we need to hire everybody in San Francisco?” Millham, who is stepping down from the exec role, reportedly said. “Or can we think about other locations that are cheaper where we can get really incredible labor like India and Mexico City.”
Learned to code, built a SaaS, now have paid customers from 40 countries
6 months ago I first had the idea for my latest project.

I wanted to create a platform where founders get everything they need to build their products. The core of it would be an AI that learns about their project as they build.

Now I’m proud to say that we have 4000+ founders on our platform.

But let’s back up a bit so you can see how I got here.

Here’s a high level overview of my story:

- Ran a successful SaaS with two friends but had serious issues scaling it further than $30k/month

- I had 0 coding skills at this point and got tired of the whole project being so dependent on our developer. Things weren’t moving fast enough

- July of 2023 I finally decided to take things into my own hands and learned to code

- Spent 5 months going through the App Academy course

- December of 2023 I had a decent foundation and I started building the first project on my own as practice. Was super exciting.

- February of 2024 the project was done. I felt it had some commercial potential but I wasn’t sure how to market it yet

- The same month I get a call from my brother. It was a Friday afternoon. He was looking for a career change and I had briefly suggested us working together so he followed me up on that.

- March of 2024 my brother moves from Sweden (our home country) to join me in Budapest.

- We work our asses of trying to market the product I had built

- We remained hopeful for a long time but in July of 2024 we finally throw in the towel. No one wanted the product. Stressful times…

- We took that failure and my previous experience and tried to learn everything we could. What had gone wrong? What could we do better?

- The mistakes we had made were clear, and we realized tons of other entrepreneurs were making the same mistakes. So we built a product around that.

- Actually, we didn’t start by building, that was one of the mistakes we had made before. We started by validating our idea.

And that’s how we got here.

Now we have paying customers (recurring) from 40+ countries and I’m loving the grind of improving the product. Being the developer of the project fits me much better as it gives me full control of how fast we can make improvements.

Just thought I’d share my story for people that are considering learning to code or becoming an entrepreneur.

If you’re interested in the product it's called Buildpad.
No, it started with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), passed under Tony Blair's Labour government.

I'll skip the same extreme partisan rant, but replacing Musk with Soros or whoever.
Less convenience, more care. More respect, less extreme actions. Effective penalities issued to those who break the rules.

A fine to a $multinational company isn't punishment. Strip their assets from.

More respect for one another would uphold so much more positivity in this world, but no we must judge and align folk in to groups. We are still divided by diversity. It's 2025 and we still have issues over someone being black, white or in-between.
They became the thing they lamented.

This is the inevitable.
Latest jobs data shows decline in tech jobs over the last year
You also might be in the category of "those who don't know". The scammers here are absolutely nothing even remotely comparable to MLMs. Most MLMs are questionable, but AFAIK Herbalife isn't kidnapping people in Canada to keep as sales-slaves in Florida, and MLMs might try to ruin you financially if you attempt to leave, but they usually don't torture you to death. See the case of a Chinese celebrity kidnapped in Thailand and brought to Myanmar, who managed to get rescued largely due to being famous enough: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd606l1407no

Yes, there likely are things like that which do happen in the US, but it's the exception and not what Boca Raton is built on. The only group holding hundreds of thousands of people against their will to do unpaid labor here is the prison system.
If only we could tag thought threads for submissions. Funny to see this coming out of the Baltic disconnect comment section!
Completely unsurprising. (Former?) Math nerd and common core hater here; having watched myself and other kids go through all of this; beyond EARLY algebra, maybe earlier we literally should not teach any math that doesn't have an immediate and obvious use to children.

(My biggest pet peeve is how Common Core teaches fun -- but unnecessary for learning -- math nerd tricks. I LOVE math nerd tricks, but they should be discovered independently and entirely optional)

Now, the silver lining here is; we have a thing that does hit a lot of advanced high-school math easily. Just let them kids learn video game programming and be done with it.
>They were deceptive about why they removed static IPs and port forwarding.

What were they deceptive about? Their announcement is straight forward.

"Regrettably individuals have frequently used this feature to host undesirable content and malicious services from ports that are forwarded from our VPN servers. This has led to law enforcement contacting us, our IPs getting blacklisted, and hosting providers cancelling us.

The result is that it affects the majority of our users negatively, because they cannot use our service without having services being blocked."

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-the-support-for-forward...

I'm not saying you have to agree with the decision, but I don't see any deception. They even gave a months notice.
> The language is just about perfect

Yes totally lovely :- ) And the best std lib? (On shared 1st place I'd guess, Rust looks nice too)

I just miss better debugging of async code, so I could see the execution context in other threads earlier in the "async call stack".
> Did every single machine they used have the configuration for only leeching and no seeding?

I would certainly assume so. It's incredibly obvious that's what you would want to do from a legal standpoint.

> If only one employee was also seeding ... that could be a very interesting case.

The torrenting wouldn't be done casually by employees acting on their own. And it's not like multiple employees are doing it simultaneously, unsupervised, on their personal computers.

This is part of an official project. They'd spin up a machine just to download the torrent, being careful to disable seeding.

This is Meta. They have lawyers involved and advising. This isn't a teenager who doesn't fully understand how torrenting works.
I don't know how any of that would translate into a replacement for capitalism, except for capitalism with less plastic?
The complexity of kernel isn't relevant, unless your point is that the kernel is already so complex that maintainers shouldn't advocate against new and significant complexity?

As for less work, that is alternative two from my original post which states the maintainer now has to wait for someone else to do the work or risk his change being stalled (worse case: indefinitely). It doesn't matter if the R4L team promises that they are OK with broken Rust code since the only person whose decision matters is Linus. Until Linus clarifies his stance on broken Rust builds the promises of the R4L team are promises that they are literally incapable of delivering on.
The last time democrats wielded this much power they created the new deal.

The last time republicans wielded this much power we became a global power.

Both Roosevelts.

Both hated by their opposition.

History looks kindly on both.

Trump is not a Roosevelt, but in a way neither were they in their day.

I’m a centrist. I believe the greatest living president is Clinton and it’s not even close. I hope leftsts become pragmatic again and choose a Clintonesque nominee next time.
> The working theory to these observed structures is that this mammal a rare example of a warm blooded creature turning cold blooded.

I was so excited to read about this, but it turns out further research found that all ruminants possess these structures:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11264

> Our study supplies the strongest evidence so far that homeothermic endotherms arrest growth seasonally, which precludes the use of lines of arrested growth as an argument in support of ectothermy.

The neat thing about this goat is how it now is part of a body of evidence that dinosaurs were endotherms.
> YC was that it always felt like the aspirational version of what the tech industry could be

Which YC companies or actions indicated they were a indicator of public good or public progress?

Which YC leaders indicated they were actors for good as opposed to merely good actors? Altman? Tan?

Ultimately the demographic of HN needs to realize whose interests we’re serving by posting here. If it’s free you are the product.
This is interesting, it could do with some better scroll snapping (you can use css for this ;)), but still cool