skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> refund

Ha, good one.
100%

It's tempting to think of Teenage Engineering as a frustrating synthesizer manufacturer, but they're really a design studio. They're much more interested in exploring new ways to integrate sound, life and technology than excelling at a particular product segment.

It's pretty much the opposite of what Behringer is doing. That company is totally focused on scale, reducing consumer prices, and bringing synths to the mass market. (with all the ethical corner cutting that brings with it)
Apple will never have "enough" money and will do practically anything do get more money.
Is HN being subjected to some astroturf marketing techniques here?

Seems rather suspicious to see so many commenters enthusiastically salivating over an advert for a very expensive radio.

And also for said advert to hit the #1 spot on this site, despite not fitting into the usual categories for a compelling post.
As much as I like this is the complexity science actually beating the traffic jams or just discussing his unfulfilled desire to do so which is currently blocked by politics
Hm, the Symfonisk are much smaller than the Eneby 30.

The volume of the Eneby gives it surprising bass extension (40 Hz) but it's a bit lumpy on the way down there. I've never dared to test max volume at the risk of disturbing my neighbors…
Everything I have heard about consulting is the hours and the travel are brutal if you have a family. Gone 6-9 months of every 12 would be a long time to be away from my children. Is that your experience?
Replying from my 6 year old Macbook pro, I would definitely consider buying a new one (space on my 256 GB SSD is getting tight, and it seems a bit of a waste to just upgrade that), but I am hesitant about the newer models.
I never said they were equally likely. I said it is just as silly to promise something you can't possibly promise as it is to suggest it is a state-sponsored attack. They easily could have said, "it is much more likely programmer error", and I would have 100% agreed.

> Either you think the world is a much more perilous place than it is or you give programmers much more credit than they deserve

It generally isn't a good idea to make this many assumptions like this about people you don't know. I think neither of those things.
Wow, tiktok.com steadily ranking at #3, more popular than facebook.com, amazon.com, apple.com and netflix.com, only behind google.com and microsoft.com. Really curious to see detailed stats.
"Luck" is what happens when the prepared are given opportunity.
> In all honesty google should just shutdown for 1,..2, ...3,... 7 days and extort the gov to actually operate in a legal manner.

Just speaking logically... considering how rarely another government doesn't suffer consequences for such shenanigans... how do you think that would go for a corporation? Long term, probably not well.
Yeah it’s a weird situation where I feel like a lot of the people who the OP-1 is aimed at either can’t afford it, period or aren’t going to pay $1300 on a “toy”. Because of its market positioning it ends up being this unattainable luxury item that only professional/ established musicians use, instead of a MPC-esque everyman’s tool. The “toy” design positioning and huge price tag work in tandem to keep it unattainable- it’s not that people can’t afford it (although a lot of people can’t afford it) but at the high price tag, people start seriously min-maxing what they’re getting for their money. People are really reticent to spend an entire paycheck on something that’s even somewhat limited, and possibly the best “feature” (the high level of polish in design and UX) is sort of invisible and not looked at as a utilitarian “feature”.
I think it would be better to share card details over a voice call or using stripe in a form.
Paternity Leave
Filter by your country. The US for example has 57% bot activity.
Is there any brand of wrist sensor that doesn't require you to upload your data to their servers by any chance?

I love the fitbit sensor, but I wish I could opt out of the server side of the things
oops, Ghost fail; fixed now :)
The radio mixing feature seems similar to what this guy "Radio Wonderland" does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr2wK3jvUhc

I've seen his performances at HOPE conferences and it's pretty cool. See a full set here: https://archive.org/details/hopeconf2020/20200730_0000_RADIO...
Autodesk keeps STEP file export in free version of Fusion360
LOL, what happened then?
None of the things you listed have any downside. This shortcuts workaround makes opening apps a horrible experience.
Book Review: Age of Em (Slate Star Codex) (2016)
I ran through the Michel Thomas 8 hour audio course, then 3 semesters of evening class at my university (run by the language dept). That was about 60 hours of class time, 2 hours a week. By the end I would have been comfortable going for B1 with a bit of study. In terms of course level I finished up working on B2 level material. If I was doing it again I'd look at the Instituto Cervantes. I had access to grad student pricing, but even so it cost about 200 a semester.

At the time I was also dating a native speaker and we would watch Spanish TV with English subs as well as English TV with Spanish subs. I still have a lot of friends who are native Spanish speakers which helps.

No idea about Fluenz, sorry. One of my friends used Lingoda for German and seemed to have a decent time with it. They also do language marathons where you get a significant discount if you do daily lessons, but it's easy to miss one and then you don't get a refund.
What a terrible article. Really damaging.

Yes, economic inequality is a major issue and ‘intersects’ with everything.

But the dynamics of social networks are absolutely a problem independent of that, and it’s important for people to be able to reason about that without collapsing it into ‘capitalism bad’.
> but include in excruciating detail the description of every single instruction

well, at least the official ones with the officially supported operands. Sandsifter has a lot to say about how many undocumented instructions exist on just the "exposed" x86 part of the CPU, nevermind the ARM and other sub ring-0 stuff.
I'm massively rooting for this. I really wanted to use Gitter as the official chat for my projects, but the experience was just so painful that I ended up fragmenting the community across Discord and a gated Slack. I would love to have a forever home where I can feel comfortable getting everyone on board.
The Contributor of the 1Mth Linux Commit: Ricardo Neri
This will end up being a personal decision that each parent makes. Much like the previous commenter, my wife and I made a conscious decision to separate myth from fact.

Everything fictional is in "stories."

I never want to be in the position where I consciously lie to my son, so Santa Claus is very clearly a story. That said, we can do all sorts of fun imaginative things with story characters because we know they are not real.

This allows us to have the magic of Santa, without eventually having a large breach of trust.
Well, yeah. Science shows that racism is bogus (humans are just one race), sexism is bogus (human chromosomes have more than two arrangements), and many religious beliefs are bogus (stories of the Bronze Age are mythic, lacking historical evidence). It's understandable that they're uneasy about this stuff; as Colbert famously noted, reality has a liberal bias.
When one guy is hitting another one in the head, a "this is not my concern" stance tends to benefit the guy doing the hitting.
I think the point is more that your insurance will become more expensive because you haven't walked enough between the age of 20 and 40, and therefore you're more prone to a heart attack.

Or maybe your mortgage is more likely to be denied
I get that. std::fmax in C++ is not llvm.maximum. The question I was trying to ask was: so what in C++ is llvm.maximum? (Or what in some other LLVM front-end language instead of C++, e.g. Rust or Fortran, is llvm.maximum?)

And having answered that, when looking at that C++ code, would I expect it to be well defined even though this bug (if it is a bug) makes it undefined?
Then again a few taxi drivers I have talked to in the US admitted starting to drive for ride sharing companies after finishing their maximum allowed shift of 12 hours...

Also I've heard multiple reports that in most of the gig economy markets casual workers are de-prioritized, so that only those who put in at least 40 hours a week stay in the game...
>If Coinbase is going to be remote-first, as they recently announced, the company’s employees are certainly going to encounter a level of diversity they haven’t been exposed to in the Bay Area.

A lot of companies are going to get some serious culture shock if they increase their remote hiring.
I feel that the issue at heart consists of two parts (a) convenience and (b) cost.

The first example in the article shows this. A small publisher who wants to add commenting / discussion functionality on their website. They settle on a turn-key solution provided by Disqus. All they have to do is embed 5 lines of HTML and boom: fully fledged commenting. There's no need to invest time and money setting up and maintaining their own infrastructure to host comments.

The problem here is that the solution is that the publisher doesn't pay for the privilege of leveraging Disqus. Of course, there's no such thing as a free lunch and so Disqus will generate revenue by passing along trackers from partners who deal in advertising.

Most "solved problems" for small publishers work in similar ways, leveraging embed code and outsourcing hosting of content or complex functionality: YouTube, Instagram, Facebook widgets,... You want search on your website but you don't have time, expertise or budget? Google Site Search will give you what you need for free. The downside is that anytime you embed these third party widgets on your website, you also expose your visitors to the host of trackers that will invade their device through that embed code.

Now, imaging a Web where none of these convenient affordances existed and you will understand that small publishers would be hard pressed trying to build and deliver similar user experiences compared to what is possible today. Hosting video clips, or setting up a fully fledged search is prohibitively expensive if you don't have the resources and/or the expertise to do so.

You could also look at this from a different perspective: So many non-technical people are now able to publish content and provide rich user experiences to large audiences because of the widespread availability of these tools. Both the availability of "free" tools, and the influx of non-technical people over the past decade feed into one another.

Case in point: The wide-spread success of YouTube or TikTok where millions can just stream from their phone anytime anyplace, even though streaming video independently online (e.g. through a bespoke solution) is still very much prohibitively expensive.

People buy into these tools because they are convenient, and so easily accessible, and always available. As with most things, they don't consider the hidden but massive costs that come with it.

And so, I think that the amount of tracking only partly depends on how well funding covers the design, development and upkeep of a website. Plenty of massively expensive projects have this feature request "As a content manager, I want to be able to embed a YouTube Video in my copy." Boom. Trackers again.

At this stage, the reality is that if you want to avoid trackers on your website, it inevitably needs to be a conscious choice or strategy.
I'm an Apple user since 2007. I didn't buy this icon pack.
It's crazy to me that people will run non-free software on something that is designed to capture biometrics... but then again I've been looking for a decent open source alternative and there is nothing out there.
The lede is that Gitter is going to natively federate with Matrix. The fact Element bought Gitter is there in the matrix blog post:

> In practice, the way this is happening is that Element (the company founded by the Matrix core team to fund Matrix development) is acquiring Gitter from GitLab.
What do you mean by 'the internet'? News sites, twitter and your facebook feed? I don't read the news, don't have a twitter account and only use my FB account for talking to people via Messenger and the desktop client Caprine. I don't visit their site, and I do not engage with the platform in any way. Ah yeah and reddit. I nuked all my comments&posts and deleted the account. Haven't been back since.

In many ways I'm untouched by the shit escapade that is going down in the world this year, and I'm glad for that. I only follow some niche bloggers and my webcomics in an rss reader, and that's my daily digest. How do I keep myself entertained? Books & all the other things you can do away from the computer, spiced with the occasional night of video gaming.
Try Apple Watch.

You can disable the iCloud backup of Health data: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/back-up-your-health-d...
It's ok that you are not privy to the hype around Teenage Engineering in general.

Musicians like their devices because the UX design is interesting and relatively smooth, and the devices have a lot of flexibility for making interesting music.
"People will lose their jobs!"

This has been said about every increase in worker benefits ever. Luckily things still work out.
Well, at least you learn that before paying for the book, not after, and it does not cost you a few hundred €.

Airlines know exactly what they're doing, and the governments are looking the other way. Sad.
I don't totally disagree, but you have to go a little further to really make the point. excess sugar seems to cause more deaths than guns, but how many years does it take off of people's lifespan? a poor diet killing someone at 65 instead of 78 is not quite as bad as a healthy 20yo being shot dead in an instant. to go even further, what's the cumulative impact to quality of life, even if one does live to a ripe old age?
There's far more people that make a living from the industry other than the airlines.

I am sorry for the people who worked there, and all in to give them another meaningful job

You can't. Some want that job. Some can't get other, e.g. countries living off tourism. It's a big, global industry feeding millions.

Easy to say working on a computer.
It's so common to open apps from the search bar (and the app drawer now, I imagine), that it probably becomes less of a burden. Might even make people use those other patterns more, who knows.
Fortunately, it appears we were both wrong:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/09/29/epic-games-unre...
Glad to know you have psychic abilities to know whether the photo op was the main motivation or not. Hope you use your abilities for good and not evil.
>The key to a success of this type is luck.

What an odd mentality.

No, the key to success is skill, with effort (grit?) thrown in there as well. Luck can sometimes play a significant factor, all else being equal. But the idea that everyone is equally "good" at things, or put in the same effort, and that it's mere chance that success happens to someone is...pessimistic to say the least.
Only because they have margins of more than 20 times the cost of manufacturing, the day they stop having success selling iphones and more at such huge margins is the same day they will use all that data to make money from targeted advertisement, some think that day will never come because they have loyal buyers but only time will tell.
We hope to get Gitter natively speaking Matrix in the coming months. It'll probably be a year or so before Element has feature parity with Gitter though :)
Really weird results, I have a popular site on Cloudflare and the domain popularity by visitor country shown on this public dashboard doesn't match traffic statistics I see in my account at all.
HN is fundamentally a community built around products and commodities (and especially tech startups). What discussion happens here about programming is a very market-centric view of the field. This post seems par for the course to me.
Awesome.
An attempt to create a lesson fails with:
"An error occured while creating the lesson
Network error: Failed to fetch"

So I retried.
Now I have two of the same lessons.
How can I delete?

Also, is the text-to-speech defined by the voices on the local machine? Because I'm getting the playback in native language only. (The target lang voice is installed...) (edit: had french/canada installed and I guess it doesn't count...)

Also, is there a more appropriate place for me to provide feedback/ask questions?
Show HN: Online backpacking permit applications for the Grand Canyon
If any of you have tried to backpack in the Grand Canyon National Park, you know how hard it is to get a permit. You must fill out a tax-form like application and fax it (yes, you read correctly) 4 months in advance. You must send the application within a 10-day window or it won't be processed. Finally, applying doesn't even guarantee a permit. A final lottery picks the lucky winners!

Unfortunately, National Parks are only accessible to those who have the right information and a lot of patience. 2 years ago, I created a National Parks visualization to help with that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20563745 That was a great overview. But you still had to do a lot of research to plan your trip.

Rim to Rim Permits allows you to apply for a permit online up to one year in advance. It takes care of filling out and sending the permit application on your behalf.

Please have a look and let me know what you think!
Even if it's 10x, if it goes away, it's 0 spent on the destination country.
Foster an environment where kids can practice asking (the right) questions: https://youtu.be/APVaTRNQmJc

Good activities are open-ended for more opportunity to question. Drop an egg, improve its survivability.
Traders crawl for financial information. Businesses (e.g. airlines) crawl for competitor pricing. Etc. etc.
Indeed, the choice to "be apolitical" is itself a political choice.
4,188 sales out of 6,200,000 impressions. That's a 0.0675% conversion rate. The exposure is what's driving the numbers.

When the author said "charge more" that's correct when the initial price was $1. I wonder the conversion rate on this if it had been $7. Maybe at a quarter of the price there would have been five times or even ten times the sales. We don't know because no data was gathered. Clearly the conversions would have been higher at a notably lower price, but it's unclear where the crossover point for total profits would be. Alternately, some portion of those 4188 buyers would have purchased at $60 or even $80.

Something to remember here is while you can as a consultant make more money in 40 hours if you charge more per hour for your time rather than working extra hours or turning away excess work, the point the author made about leveraging digital distribution should prove it's not the same scenario. Once your development cost is sunk, distribution (outside of an app store) is nearly free. Selling fewer units at a higher price isn't necessarily any better than selling more units at a lower price. The total's the thing.
If transaction cost weren’t so high having daily rent deductions seems like a good way to go not only for UBI but for everyone.
Planck Keyboard Layout Iterations
Solar geoengineering may lead to excessive and strategic uncertainty
> Wouldn't this particular scenario be made more effective and efficient with asynchronous communication?

No way. My VP doesn't have time to read and respond to my carefully crafted email. He might be having 1500+ unread emails. Same with DMs.

> In fact, the more senior a person is, the less office face-time they seem to have.

This is so contrary to what I have seen. Most senior people (including ICs) are busier in meetings compared to more junior guys.

> Phone call?

Meh. No body language, no eye contact, less energy in the conversation.

> Meet at a cafe?

Sure. And once you reach middle management, you will have so many of these cafe meetings that going to the office would be scalable, where you meet everyone. Once a few people do that, everyone who needs these cafe meetings will start doing it because the office is where everyone is.

> I think people should be allowed to play the game as they see fit.

I mostly agree on this with one caveat. If your remote employees are going to suffer in their career trajectories because of an apparent disadvantage, a company has to be super careful that it won't become a New York Times front page story. Imagine if Microsoft allowed this and a majority of their remote employees are women and a majority of their remote employees are getting promoted at a slower rate than in-office people. It will be an unnecessary headache. Better to nip the problem in the bud.
> My work '17 MBP video driver crashes every time it resumes from sleep. The laptop kernel panics at least once a week.

This is not normal and will be fixed under warranty like any other hardware defect.

> mail.app is a flaky mess as always. I added a fastmail account and my laptop became unusable until I removed it. Still no idea what that's about.

This is similarly not normal - possibly file corruption due to those panics?
They both said they did what you note. But they have different data sets.

The companies included tips and not any delta associated with insurance.

Oddly the companies would not share their data set with the city but did share it with Cornell. Just on that count alone I tend to look more favorable to the city’s numbers.
> Forbidding debate is taking an implicit stance in favor of the status quo.

If the reformists are winning outside the company then the status quo is in the reformists favor and thus forbidding debate is pro change. For example now, Biden is favored to win so status quo is Biden wins, so a company forbidding political debate is liberal.

For Coinbase specifically, all their US locations are in blue states, making the status quo Democrat no matter how you see it.

Edit: Anyway, your argument doesn't make sense, you aren't in favor of the status quo unless you fight to bring it back after things change or you fight to keep it from changing. Also you aren't pro the status quo just because you prevent people you pay money to waste time arguing with each other instead of doing their job.
> You keep your political views private.

In nearly every case, the people who are claiming to encourage politics in the workplace are actually demanding allegiance - try supporting the other side and see how they feel.
Seattle has the authority to change the conditions of employment - how much less Uber pays in exchange for the flexibility. Uber/Lyft has a right to stop operating there if they don't like it.

Why would Uber/Lyft fight so hard to stay with unfavorable conditions?
Teenage Engineering is Swedish.
I see that you think there's a difference. But you've admitted that politics is a topic you discuss. In fact, lots of companies spend money to actively make said laws bend in their favor.

The difference is less straightforward than you make it out to be.
'Supply electricity to the other house' is the bit that you can't do.

I mean, by all means power everything from your car and stop using the mains supply to your house - but that sounds pretty inconvenient to me - you can't interfere with the supply as a DIYer, and I doubt there's any way to do it in a regulator-approved way short of completely disconnecting from the grid, not off and on based on price.
Yes, I find it very motivational
"Engineering challenges" means they already know the practical solutions, they just need to figure out how manufacture and assemble them.
It may well be that I only read things from the Alon Levy bubble, and so I discount the rare times I come across something else as a crackpot and don't look for others in that bubble... This wouldn't be surprising, Alon Levy has good arguments as to why he is right (and has changed my mind a few times), while the others are obviously not living in reality.