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There are too many cheap clones. Too much stealing of the open source work. This isn't remotely shocking, just look at Redis, Elastic and many many others... Open Source works until it doesn't.

I don't buy Prusa because they are OSH, I buy them because they are great printers. They are an open platform, if not open source. Which is good enough for my needs. If these changes they are making will allow Prusa to keep producing world class devices at reasonable prices, then more power to them.

And yes, I know some people hate Prusa or have had major issues. But they do a lot to move 3D printing forward, rising tide lifts all boats and all that jazz. We want all respectable and reputable 3D printer companies to succeed - because then everyone wins.

I used one of those recently at home since my wife can't see my screen, she's not sure if I'm on a call, listening to music or just there. The built in software sucks, but there are some good open source options https://github.com/JnyJny/busylight also works together with https://mutedeck.com/ for supporting things like Zoom.

The local storage operation I use has exactly that. If you do not "badge in" and open a door - the alarm goes off. When the manager was showing me the unit he said "Hey, an alarm is going to go off when I open this door - don't be surprised" and explained the system.

While I really really hope no one would be that stupid as to risk a Kessler syndrome... I think it's really likely in a very specific situation:

A non-space-dominant power (so not Russia/China/USA) gets into a tiff with someone using satellites. This player does have access to at least the vaguest concept of a ballistic missile. They take said missile and program it to fly into space (as most beyond the tactical level do), and detonate.

Nuclear or not, they don't even have to hit the satellite, they just have to throw up shrapnel. Hell, you can replace most of the explosive warhead with ball bearings. It may not immediately take down a specific satellite but it's almost assured to fuck space up.

And in case it's not obvious, this seems like a very North Korean type thing to do. Their missiles aren't terribly reliable or accurate (so far), but good enough to get into space and ruin everyones day for a very long time there after. They have, what, a single satellite? [1] when everyone else has hundreds? Why not level the playing field and assure no one can use any of them - given enough time.

I'd be willing to be its in someones MAD playbook as well. It only takes a few hundred nukes to effectively end all life on earth, permanently. There are still 5,000 plus in both Russia and the US's stockpile [2], not to mention China, France and the UK has a couple hundred each. What do you do with some of those few thousand extra nukes? Detonate them in air and orbit to take out your Doomsday planes [3] and any potential orbital capabilities - just in case you survive.

But honestly, the Kessler Syndrome wouldn't really be a concern at that point since everything, including the roaches, would be a radioactive pile of glass.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/north-koreas-first-...

[2] https://fas.org/initiative/status-world-nuclear-forces/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_plane

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> Between certain hours, we allow them to watch TV. They can watch any movie they like. They can even switch between movies. But the timeframe is fixed. They can watch a good chunk of one movie, or they can watch a tiny bit of 10 different movies. It's completely up to them.

IANAL but this change doesn't seem to make sense from any sort of "sanctions" perspective. Sure, block sanctioned countries from accessing your website or registry, etc - that makes sense. But removing providers? That doesn't seem to be related.

The thing that makes this *super* f'd up is the fact that #1 - There is no commentary from the group members explaining this or what the policy change is (the few linked TSC documents are just about registry, not about providers). #2 - There is no explanation in the PR and no linked bugs. #3 - The super vague "remove some providers" title.

It's clear OpenTofu devs were trying to slide this change in under the cover of darkness and hope no one noticed. Which makes zero sense for an OPEN source project.

You don't have to like the providers, you don't have to support them. You can even say they are actively deprecated due to the inability to test/support said providers (which totally would make sense). But just to straight out remove functional code with zero warning, notice or explanation? Super scummy.

That's exactly it though, these CEO's are so divorced from reality that they forget. Schmidt knows how silicon valley really operates. Because he's probably been involved in a lot of this shitty corporate behavior.

This is really not a shock. If you wanted one, you bought one already. But the number of people who wanted one is fairly minimal: Super early adopters, those with more money than sense, and developers.

It's too expensive for the every-person to buy, too early for even most early adopters, has very little practical uses so far. And those who know, know this device is effectively a devkit in retail clothing.

The first iPhone sucked. The first Apple watch wasn't great (and quickly lost support). The first iPod was probably one of the better "firsts" because it was better than what was out there, same with the iPad. But it generally takes even Apple a couple generations before their products really get going. Just wait till the AVP2 or 3.

Ironically this makes me more likely to buy one. If I can make the smart thing local and/or home assistant controlled, and kill their internet connectivity... I'm thinking that isn't so bad.

Don't get me wrong $2-4k is steep, but if it's a one-time for a decade or so, that's reasonable. But $4k plus you want $25/mo? Just fluff right off.

This is happening in a lot of places, just a few days ago I went to a restaurant (California) that had a sign up front saying "We are now Cashless" and touting why this is better for the staff.

https://imgur.com/a/uDA8E4A

I predominately use credit for everything because its easier, faster, etc. But the 3% fees since time immemorial is screwed up. We need a better standard for payment that is digital but cash equivalent, aka not paying for the payment convenience.

It's a shame this has to happen. I always hope that something could be salvaged and used for Lunar Gateway, or... something. It's still my hope that NASA uses the remaining return trips to bring back as many "souvenirs" as possible. The unfortunate reality is that it probably doesn't make sense to do anything with the station other than de-orbit, with the declining costs and the age of whats up there.

When ISS was lofted the cost to get into space was crazy high. 1981 Space Shuttle was $65k per KG to LEO. Falcon 9 is somewhere in the range of $2500 per KG to LEO. Falcon Heavy is even less than that at around $1000 per KG to LEO. It wouldn't surprise me if Starship is even cheaper.

So why spend millions of dollars trying to "save a buck" on components when you can launch newer/better/stronger/lighter (ex: Sierra Space's LIFE Hab) for orders of magnitude cheaper than you could "back in the day".

No one expects Elon timelines to actually happen. Also, the other option is... Boeing? And they're doing SPECTACULARLY well right now. In Space, on a plane. If it's Boeing, you're better off not going.

You don't need a lot, just something lined up on the correct axis with enough engines and fuel to slow the station down enough to fall out of orbit. The station has its own propulsion (on Zvezda & Zarya, I believe) even with most of its station keeping being down by Progress etc. There's no reason they couldn't loft something with an F9 (23t to LEO) or maybe FH (64t to LEO). With the fact that it's going to burn up in atmo anyways, you can strip a lot out of the existing cargo dragon.

You can slowly deorbit anything with enough time/fuel. It's just a matter of how fast NASA wants to make it happen to assure it lands in a specific spot and doesn't breakup too much while still in "orbit" (see also: atmo + solar panels).

According to https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=dlattach;... (PDF)

> The deorbit vehicle will need to provide at least 3236 N thrust to hit the target delta-v within a 60-minute time period.

Each Draco on Dragon can deliver 400N, there are 16, that's 6400N. So unless I've missed some math somewhere, a Dragon could do the deorbit. Ignoring the fact that they probably haven't burned those engines for an hour. Also fuel required for that manuver.

Saw this at OpenSauce this weekend. Very cool concept. Obviously the price per unit (card) of the DevKit is a bit...steep. But at mass production scales it could be very reasonable. Especially if there were a dozen or more card games you could plan on it?

I hate "lets make it electronic just for the sake of electronics" because ewaste. But if you can take something and make it into "buy once, use forever(ish)"... that's awesome.

Man. Tonight is a harsh crowd on HN.

I agree, the headline is... misleading. Yes, ChatGPT made a mistake, but the issue is multiple. Perhaps it would be better if the headline was something like "A ChatGPT mistake taught us a $10k lesson".

I love using ChatGPT as much as the next person, but I also have run into more than a few circumstances on simple code where it's simply... made shit up. Like AWS (Boto3) functions that don't exist at all. So any code that comes out of it gets tested and understood by me. I'll ask it to explain and dig into the docs when it does things I don't understand.

That being said, the valuable lesson is in QA, debugging, logging and alerting. It's something that isn't a surprise a small (couple person, few months) startup would have done well. Often the developers of these projects are DEVELOPERS and not DevOps/SysAdmins/DBAs. The code gets written like developers do and not instrumented like a DevOps engineer would. Most get away with this for a long time (honestly, most companies get away with this for far too long).

So great write up, good lesson.

I was in Northern MN a couple years back when there was some decent aurora https://imgur.com/a/nBjdhZ9

What the camera caught was really impressive! Even with just a couple seconds exposure on a phone. But what the human eye saw was.... effectively a portion of the sky that was unusually bright and seemed to have some sort of movement. Like you stared at it and knew something was amiss, but nothing "impressive" to look at.

Andreas Spiess, the youtuber with a swiss accent, recently did a video on GNSS w/ RTK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc1LBFDj2MA

Goes into detail about how to setup your own, join existing networks, even using fairly inexpensive tooling for your own RTK adventures.

The iPad Pro plus keyboard folio was thicker and heavier than a MacBook Air. So honestly, this change is welcome. If they can get the keyboard+ipad combo into the same range as the MBA…I’d take the iPad instead. Today I’m at a conference and took my MBA because it’s the lightest option for all day carry.

The airs screen was good but not great. Not compared to the 13” pro.

As for peripheral, not at all. My iPad lives mostly in its keyboard folio. I also regularly use a USB-C dock with it for either Ethernet access, HDMI output to hotel TVs, or memory card reading (camera). I know a few people who carry around 8bitdo Bluetooth game controllers for use with all sorts of devices (steam deck, laptop, phone, iPad). If you’re a diehard gamer, it’s well worth it.

> 1. "Call us" pricing works because for big enterprise deals (4-7+ figures), there's often some serious negotiation involved and if you just show a sticker price up front, you risk a) scaring the buyer because the price is too high, b) losing the buyer because your competitor will just negotiate a better price than your listed price or b) leave yourself no room to negotiate if you really put your best price on the website.

I'd disagree and say this can go either way. As an enterprise buyer I know both MY budget and that all numbers are negotiable - to some extent. If you show me that this product costs $100k and my budget is $80k, I'll still talk to you. But if you list $100k and all I've got is $25k for the budget, yes, I'm going elsewhere.

Now you might argue "We can make something work" I'm concerned. You'll do 80% off deal? Clearly you don't think your product is worth what you list so... now I don't think so either. And the "But We've got a tier for that" then list it.

My time is way valuable to me. I do not want to go through 3 screening calls, a shit ton of hoops, and a 2 week wait... just to find out that your product is way too expensive for my budget. Especially when getting into those sales calls where the reps wanna play coy and say "Well whats your budget" or "Well it really depends, we want to get into a POC bla bla bla to understand your useless before providing a pricing". Ain't no one got time for that shit. Give me the MSRP up front (with the understanding that a deal may be reachable if it's a little much) or I'm walking.

Keep in mind that when I'm pricing your product I'm probably pricing 3 to 5 others. There is literally not enough hours left in my life to give each and every vendor a 5 hours of time in order to get a price.

Fortunately the world is shifting. You know who's pricing is available on their website? Salesforce. Okta. OneLogin. Ping. Slack. Github. Gitlab. AWS. Google. Microsoft (for some). Elastic. Tailscale. Adobe. Databricks. Datadog. Cloudflare. Zoom. ... The list goes on. In other words there are a lot of companies out there with their prices available on their website right this second. Sure, almost everyone of them has a "Enterprise call us for pricing" option and that's fine, as long as you've got something for me to start with.

If you're a software vendor and don't have some prices to start with, you're at a major disadvantage. Because your competitors often do. And price is not the only thing buyers are looking for. If it was, Okta would have no business. You can look at their prices and OneLogin and Ping's (and Azure AD and Google). The entire IAM/SSO space has their prices right out front and Okta is... the most expensive. Yet somehow they all still are selling.

That would be appreciated. I saw the homepage and my first thought was "Ansible is python. How are these things different?" Obviously pure python vs yaml is one thing. But beyond that it's not clear. Perhaps are specific use cases in your mind where one or the other is a better fit, and that would be helpful as well.

After a friend mentioned Arc to me today, I gave it a try. I'm a long time Brave user and have no love lost for Chrome these days (though I need to stick to Chromium browsers for plugin compatibility reasons).

* First launch is a full screen, loud ass, unskippable video. I literally Cmd+Q'd the browser right there and then. If it wasn't for my friends insistence I try it, that would have been the end of my Arc experiment right there.

* The "Login before you start" is stupid, I get it, but stupid. As a techy who uses lots of devices, something that has built in sync is actually appealing to me.

* The settings is a strange mix of UI/UX's. There is clearly some quasi-chrome settings in browser, but then a settings screen that is more traditional Mac pop-out style. Sometimes one links to the other and it's...disjointed.

* "Max" the AI tooling has potential. While I love ChatGPT, I don't need AI in everything and it really annoys me when AI is shoved into products unnecessarily... so far so good on Max. The "ask on page" feature works surprisingly well and the 5 second previews is cool on a site like HN.

* ChatGPT in the command bar. Cool, I guess. It's just a quick way to get to your existing chatgpt account. I'm glad it's my account and not yours - so win for that. Too bad Cmd+Opt+G is taken by Google Drive.

* It's tab management is ... fine? That's something that will clearly take some getting use to.

* Spaces & Profiles. I don't like that a new profile needs to have a new space create first. It's unintuitive for those of us who are used to profiles from Chrome. I get that Arc is trying to allow us to organize. But I want two VERY separate worlds. One work, one personal. Just allow me to create a new profile directly from the Profiles settings, and open that into a new window. Like every other chrome-clone

* The tiny stupid URL in the left bar is... tiny and useless and stupid. But you can View > Show Toolbar easily - so that's good. In a world in which the web is an ever more dangerous place, obfuscating the URL to the point in which I can't even read the domain... is poorly thought through.

* The import system seems to work extremely well. It imported all my plugins (which all work, awesome) and even my session cookies... so getting "up and running" is much easier.

* Sync only sync's open tabs. So it's effectively useless.

Brave would grow more if it stopped stuffing in every crypto blockchain feature it possibly could. I swear, every 3rd update adds some new annoying feature to turn off.

I've been daily driving Brave on every machine and device I have for a year or so now... and I really wish they would have just stuck with the "Privacy Focused Chromium" thing. They've wandered far down this path of "lets just add every feature that comes to mind" and it's really not helping it's usefulness.

This is cool, no doubt about that. And fascinating due to the sheer complexity and amount of fine detail work required. But. Uh. For all that work, Why not upgrade it to an amount of storage you couldn’t otherwise get? Or at least max it out?

Can you trust the advice of any random website? Can you trust the advice of someone here on Hacker News? Can I trust your commentary about their advice?

The the answer largely depends on what you're trusting the advice for. Is it medical advice? Trust none of it. Is it the advice going to cost you a lot of money? I'd ask an expert.

The site here is purely informational-use-at-your-own-risk. No different than anything else on the internet. It'll get you started on your research so you can have some basis upon which to ask/talk to each other. Hey, even links to a community discord where you can talk to like minded individuals and maybe get some more clarity.

Handspring Visor was THE BEST. The cartridge expansion ("Springboard" slot) was great. The unit was relatively affordable to begin with and was easy to tinker with. Once I had gotten it online by a series of like 3 or 4 cables and adapters from Handspring to my Motorola Startac, connecting to the GPRS network. It wasn't fast, but for simple text applications (email, AIM, etc) it worked.

Also I had an uber powerful IR Blaster (that could also learn any remote) that was great for terrorizing my father. Good times.

M5Stack has a lot of cool little "almost ready to go" modules, both core (esp32 based typically) and accessory (ex sensors). They're relatively inexpensive and great for hobby/prototyping.

One of the things that might be a bit different is that M5Stack has had decent Python support and Espressif has typically only done the core C-based stuff.

But I'm optimistic. Hopefully this just means more access to newer chips sooner for M5Stack.

This one of those things were the default reaction is to say "Cool! This will be super handy" but then realize your existing computer is still running PCIE4 and and PCIE5 devices are still rare. I didn't realize that PCIE6 was already done and "out".

That's great that DevOps (or whatever their title) owns both product and marketing sites. Far too many companies (and DevOps teams) think the www site is "not important" or "not their core job" and outsource it to either a less qualified team, or out of the company altogether.

From an external perspective no one cares if www going down isn't "your fault" or of "direct impact to the product". It's a corporate blackeye either way.

Provided you are broadcasting within bands you have license for, under the power limits for that band/license, and it's not encrypted... yea, you're good.

Historically the FCC hasn't care about modding radios, until people start doing illegal shit with them... like broadcasting FM on AM Airband freq's