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CNC machines for under $5k? Where might we find some of these?

Misleading title.

In this study (in mice), a high-fat diet led to diabetes, and diabetes led to Alzheimer's.

It doesn't state that a high-fat diet will lead to Alzheimer's in humans.

Sounds like common sense.

There isn't much scope for gluten-free beer drinkers in New Zealand... Two brands of beer, about 4 different choices. Gluten-free beer drinkers in other countries: what are some actually nice gluten-free beers?

Do you genuinely believe that dividing net wealth by total employees gives a meaningful figure?

If Amazon employed me tomorrow, would their revenue immediately and automatically increase by $100k?

When the first deals started closing again, who would have won the deals?

The company that stayed home for 12 months? or the company that continued working for 12 months?

Imagine swimming hard against a strong current. You get nowhere (or maybe even go backwards slightly!), but when the current changes you make a lot of progress.

If you don't swim at all, you go backwards. When the current changes, you may get to where you were at the start.

Note that in part of the process, Copilot was the one asking complex questions when the human programmer didn't know how to proceed.

Copilot adds tremendous value for someone who knows what they want, but not how to do it.

For example, I'm not a great programmer. I'm also a lazy programmer. I had to convert a time to a specific format, in a specific timezone in JS, and I couldn't be bothered looking up documentation for Date.toLocaleTimeString (or is that Date.toLocaleString?).

I wrote a comment outlining exactly what I wanted: // given a date in ISO format (and UTC timezone), return the time in hh:mm AM/PM format (and x timezone) and immediately Copilot generated the code I was after.

Making something easier can definitely mean the difference between doing and not doing — I've taken on a lot of projects I wouldn't have attempted without Copilot.

You're aware that plants fill both those criteria: (a) capable of suffering, and (b) a preference to live?

What do you eat?

Dogs and pigs can be trained.

Cats can, to a certain degree.

Cows? Not so much. I wouldn't rate them at the same level as cats, dogs and pigs (source: farming background).

Distinct personalities and intelligence are quite different things!

Talk to a grower and they'll tell you that plants have personalities (this one doesn't like the shade, this one sulks after being repotted, etc).

You may also have seen Vessel Health?

The co-founder gave a speech at the 2022 Advanced Lateral Flow Conference.

https://vesselhealth.com/

Ignorance of the law is no excuse (in most/all jurisdictions).

Australia's recourse would be to deny him entry.

Yes, exactly!

The 90% can't live isolated forever because of the 0.2% who can't have vaccines for medical reasons. (The remainder is made up of those who've made anti-vaxx part of their identity).

Put that money and resources into protecting the vulnerable, not into isolating New Zealand and severely impacting the economy in a vain attempt to keep a virus, which will be with us together, out.

Human lives aren't infinitely valuable. As an example, there were 318 road deaths in New Zealand in 2020, which could all have been avoided by lowering the speed limit to 10kmh.

This isn't a solution that would ever be considered seriously, because it's evident that the financial and flow-on social harm caused by such a rule would greatly outweigh the current death toll.

It's becoming increasingly evident that 'protecting those who can't be vaccinated by stifling New Zealand in draconian restrictions' is the same.

So you're against the lightning network because it can't be scaled infinitely?

The overall system is just software, and it can be improved.

L1 is capable of 4.6 transactions per second.

L2 is capable of 25 million per second currently.

L3 will be in existence long before getting a channel to every human on Earth becomes a problem (please note that this is something the traditional financial system has also failed to do, despite hundreds of years and legislative support).

No, a market maker makes (adds to) the market by placing orders.

A market taker takes orders away from the market by completing transactions, thinning the order books.

This is entirely unrelated, but it's unusual to see "black" used in a positive sense... Just thinking about all the phrases it's been used negatively in (eg "black sheep of the family").

I'm entirely uninvested in the US culture war, but it's good to see something on the positive side of the ledger.

> NASA satellites have been observing increased green cover on land, which is thought to be due to intensive agriculture to feed growing populations and ambitious tree-planting programs – for example, the so-called “Green Great Wall” in China.

> The cooling effect from greening is less significant in tropical forests with high leaf areas.

Does this mean that cutting down the Amazon rainforest to use the land for farming is net-beneficial for slowing down climate change?

From the biology perspective, monoclonal antibody production is hard, expensive and time-consuming. I don't think you'll see a rapid scale-up of these, as manufacturing at scale is so different to manufacturing in small batches.

Recombinant monoclonal antibodies seem like an interesting approach, these would speed up production by shortening the critical chain.

I agree with the sibling comments, I've never actually seen anyone go to the app store before Google/Amazon for simple purchases.

When it comes to these companies selling apps though, it doesn't matter what the market thinks... What matters is what the suppliers think the market thinks.

From the 2010 article:

> The current financial system is slow, and tedious, and old, and in many ways actually broken or flawed. But one thing we know is that it's resilient. One single mathematical error will not send the whole thing into a tailspin. With bitcoin, it will.

9 months later, this article was released, titled "The mathematical equation that caused the banks to crash".

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/12/black-schole...

Lol!

We use https://esignatures.io/ for a flat rate of $0.69 per sent contract.

Much easier than DocuSign (or HelloSign, which we were previously using). One feature to note is that with HelloSign, access to the API is prohibitively expensive.

I don't know why people think they need embedded PDF documents (rather than HTML) and hand-drawn signatures (rather than an auto-generated signature in a handwriting font) to make their agreements more legal.

EGreg's comment about the ESIGN Act sounds relatively simple, certainly less complex than the scope of problems that HNers would deal with every day.

Is this a symptom of "ooh, this looks legal. I better back away from it and/or surround it in increasing layers of disclaimers and waivers and/or adbdicate all responsibility to outsourced parties"?

It's also incredible how much understanding of the law, and how much fear of non-compliance can be assuaged, if you just RTFM. Legislation is available for free online and textbooks are relatively common.

Ender 3 V2.

Still new - I got the bed leveled once, now I just slice, insert SD card, and print. I've printed 20+ items across as many days without needing to re-level the bed.

No problems with print quality, it just works.

Setup was ok for an absolute beginner, after watching a few YouTube tutorials.

I had the same procedure on a lower eyelid, but the stye made the eyelid too thick to flip.

An attendant had to force the eyelid down while the stye was lanced with a scalpel.

For some reason, the anaesthetic didn't take effect.

Pain.

I wore contact lenses for 10 years, before getting lasik.

The first time, it took 30 minutes to get them in.

For the first few months, I really struggled. Eventually it got easier, and in a short time I could put them in first time, every time

We're taught from a young age to not put things in our eyes, and it does take time to overcome that. The thought of it might be extremely traumatic now, but if you did it every day, you'd find that disappearing quickly.

Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

(non-American) what does it mean to be "flawed by a factor of 4"?

Is he referring to being off by 4 or more orders of magnitude?

This has been updated to include a spiel about Kent Dahlgren.

I'm not aware of the story there — is there some sort of feud between the two parties?

In Windows 11 + WSL2 + Google Drive Sync, you can cd into Google Drive at /mnt/g and use it like a normal directory.

I'm not sure when this became the case; it wasn't possible 6 months ago with Windows 10 + WSL2 + Google Drive File Stream.

I noticed this today for the first time.

"meaning of [anything]" becomes "Webster's meaning of [anything]" in Chrome and Edge.

In Firefox, "meaning of [anything]" stays as "meaning of [anything]".

I've been signed up to The Sample for a few months now, getting one newsletter a day.

Each newsletter includes a link to rate it from 1 star to 5 stars.

I consistently rate the newsletters I receive at 1 star! About 5 good newsletters have been delivered over this time, these have been rated from 2 to 5 stars but I haven't received more of that type.

The recommendation system seems fairly ineffective, I just receive junk each day.

Or would this be reflective of the state of newsletters (98% junk, 2% good)?