skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The novation launchpad is in pretty much every studio and it's only $400 or so. Teenage Engineering makes some really cool stuff and they charge boutique prices for it.
Also the ITV series "The Adventure of English" with Melvyn Bragg. They're all on YT.
Thanks to AMD, it's actually a little better than that (for one specific year, though the entire ryzen line has been roughly similar)

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-5-5600X-vs-AM...
Probably hyperbole, but I assume OP is implying they lose the cable between charges due to infrequent use.
1000s of satellites are irrelevant to atmospheric pollution. The numbers are so small compared to the vast size of the atmosphere it isn’t really a concern to worry about.

Atmospheric pollution from earth based sources is different because it’s something that is being done in the scale of billions of people, not 1000s, and CO2 doesn’t naturally disappear from the atmosphere over time and is growing decade after decade.
And ban the use of PDF's - which is another way this could be avoided.

Oh and mandate clean links no funky javascipt links that search crawlers don't follow.
In the same way that the bitcoin ledger is decentralized because nodes keep copies, you can similarly have people keep copies of this central chain.

It's no different than when the NYT changes their article. People have screenshots and can show the discrepancies.
There seems to be a hive mind attitude that bashing big tech is the "right thing" to do. And sensation ofcourse.
"a typical example of what happens when companies don’t think about abusive relationships when they’re making their design decisions.".
I'm annoyed about making assumptions and exposing them as truth.
Who said they didn't? I'm not defending the creepy abuse of those people at all, but I feel the focus is aimed at the wrong creator here.
Peter Schiff is a hero.
Did you delete all the extra events that have been created already?
Complaining about externalities of PoW cryptocurrencies is like complaining about the fastest function that exists in your code and is magnitudes more efficient than anything else.

Externalities that pollute the ocean, air, rivers and cities are not present in crypto at all in the amounts that other industries and human activities produce.

There will be more people jumping on carnivorous and meat heavy diets than there will be people using electricity powered cryptocurrencies. Keto is trending more than cryptocurrencies.

The amount of destruction that factory farming will inflict on this world and is inflicting will never be reached by cryptocurrencies. There will be no deforestation, no waste mismanagement, no fertilizer drain, nothing.
Will.i.am Debuts Innovative Face Technology Concept, Xupermask
Why would people want this? With the recent concerns of censorship and getting locked out of platforms this just feels like handing even more power to some central authority that can suddenly decide who can and cannot browse the web.
I remember trying to grok Sussman's pattern matching code for 6.001. IIRC this was written in CPS or CPS-like way. It seemed very foreign at the time, but when I finally thought I got it, it made sense. I don't find search & backtracking easy no matter what one does, but as you say, continuations + good discipline makes it easier to focus on one thing at a time.
Does anybody have a link to the actual draft this article is based on?

In my limited experience the proposals by the EU commission are often readable and interesting. I might not agree with them, but I do appreciate that the thought process is made public years before ideas become laws. (As the article states, that is also very much the expectation here.)
Most things in programming are human conventions that you have to learn. There is rarely a way to guess or figure things out. Keywords, scoping, byte order... It's all arbitrary, understanding the English meaning of the world "yield" in English will do little to help you understand generators.

No, the real problem is the reading material. If you need to debug/read doc/google stuff, anything worth something (except a few exceptions like samemax.com and so on) will be in English.

I've seen French professionals being perfectly capable programmers, but because their English sucked, their struggled to solve some problems that were a Stackoverflow post away.
At first, I thought this meant languages where the programming symbols were limited in size to a single letter. I was simultaneously disappointed and relieved.

Edit: and then I got to "O".
One thing I absolute hate about magic in code is that it's often done at runtime. Considering the idiomatic way for go is actually have code generated and checked into git makes a huge difference.
Isn't the YT audio quality tied to the video quality? IIRC, if you tier one down, you do the same to the other.
Writing as a Public Good
I guess this got hugged, the audio was jerky and stuttering.
Which are incomparable due to a vast amount of variables ( culture, population density, population spread in housing, temperatures, weather, etc.)
How does the number of parameters scale with resolution?

Specifically, how much slower this would be if the audio was, say, 10 bits?

I recall a lab exercise in college where we were supposed to increase the resolution of a quantizer until we reached a decent tone and 10 bits were the point at which we reached satisfying quality.
Likert Scale Questions: Definition, Examples and Use Cases
setxkbmap us -variant intl -option compose:rwin]

Press altgr or right win key + [aeiou] or n.
Well, I posted a copy on my PeerTube instance and without a court order it ain't getting deleted.
I wonder what status your contacts see if you have WhatsApp Web open...

If someone really needs a workaround, a hack would be to have a browser instance somewhere connected to WA Web and if necessary some sort of virtual mouse randomly clicking contacts so WA thinks you're actually active. That way you'll always appear online to your contacts, and they won't know what your real status is.
Sentry claims open source projects by ex-employee are theirs
I'm not sure what I'm more amazed at: The foresight of Coinbase's founder starting the company so early on, or my personal total lack of foresight having read with interest about Bitcoin from the beginning and yet not bothering to buy a single coin at any point over the past decade.
> Do professionals use the OP-1?

Of course, you can find lots of "boutique" instruments being used by a range of creators. I don't think there are a lot of them only using a OP-1 for full tracks though, although I have seen some live performances made with it together with other instruments at the same time.

Actually this submission seems to be about a few pages, one of them being "made on OP-1" where you can see just that, artists using the OP-1 in different scenarios: https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1/anniversary/made-o...

Edit: one specific example: Diplo claims the OP-1 is one of the ten "essential" items he owns, has to count for something at least :)

> not willing to do any significant part of their job on a device the size of a chocolate bar

Heh, tons of people fiddle with modular synths and I can imagine that being even worse sizes (or "smaller" rather).
This question gets asked a lot on HN. Rather than rehash, I'll point you to Google:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
The lingua-franca of EU is EuroEnglish, for obvious reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English
I wonder if that’s your training. I do math for fun and don’t think in words. I often struggle to express my reasoning to others as a result.
Unfinished lesson from Spanish flu and connection to Covid-19 pandemic [audio]
I don't know what BTC will do, but this is a banality and mostly wrong in any way that's important.

"The number has gone up" for Google almost since it has gone public.

If you bought BTC at $1 and it went to $10 - is $10 too late? The number went up.

The hard part is it's hard to know the underlying value of things and a lot of value is socially determined by how others value something.

Why is gold traded as an expensive commodity? It has some tiny practical uses, but is that why the price fluctuates? People trade it because they think other people will trade it and use it as a store of value when other stuff is volatile.

Some people think BTC's scarcity guarantees provide a similar digital version of that. It's volatile now because it's still early and uncertain, but if that's true then BTC's price could be very high and it's hard to know if you're too late.

For other Non-BTC coins unlikely to get the same level of social buy-in their value is a lot more questionable imo. ETH has some real underlying applications (uniswap decentralized exchange, powering contracts, other tokens etc.). The privacy coins maybe can leverage that for a reason for people to use them. The others seem like even more fringe bets and more likely to be FOMO bubbles.
> don't ban technology itself

The EU isn't planning to ban underlying AI technologies, but instead to control its use in applications such as credit worthiness assessment
> if you don't think that's absolutely crazy, and I don't know what to tell you, man

> to adjudicate such things instead of leaving things up to a hate-filled lynch mob

See the duality of your own post.

If I try to be impartial, I can hardly see the point to any sentence larger than a couple decades. When you get to those levels of sentencing where you basically decimate the total useful lifetime of someone, you might as well kill the person.

... and I guess I understand something now.
Certainly some governments have attempted to criminalize extramarital sex. However 1) limited efficacy 2) creates an extremely regressive society I think few Americans would welcome
This has got to be satire, right? If not, I find the focus on pageantry to be really rather odd.
Yes. All I'm trying to say is it's opt-in, not opt out. I don't find this particularly interesting or important so this is the last comment I'll make here.
> Fines are just the cost of doing business.

Isn’t that just because the fines aren’t high enough?

I think we should make more fines based on an individual’s (or company’s) net worth.
Is that the book where aliens forget to fold some dimensions while engineering something and it then rains superstrings onto a planet or something like that?
Oh man then it should be careful! He was sentenced to 20 years in 2016
In China, "hate speech" includes anything that is critical of the government. I'm very happy that the U.S. has a very high bar for free speech, otherwise we would have been in a very bad spot all throughout the previous presidential administration.
I'm a musician but I honestly don't really understand this thing. I even tried playing around with one for a while. It just didn't click at all. You could have convinced me that it was a children's toy and I probably would have believed you.

Obviously I'm missing something. I've seen some YouTube tutorials but they all seem to produce the same kind of music and honestly I don't find it super impressive.

Maybe it'll click one day
Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26810425
There's just so many!

Korg Mini/Monologue and Volcas, any Behringer analog stuff, Arturia Mini/Micro Brute/Freak, Roland Boutique, Yamaha Reface CS/DX, Modal Electronics Skulpt, Waldorf Rocket....

And Teenage Engineering has a more affordable OP-Z, and not to mention their Pocket Operators that are wonderful machines for $60 or so (I use PO-12 as a drum sequencer for jamming).

And that's not even going into the old/used gear market. I got a Soviet analog polysynth for under $500 off Reverb last week. However, I feel like getting started, the newer stuff is both cheaper and better. We are living in the synthesizer renaissance era.

If I were to pick just ONE synth to recommend, it would be Korg Monologue. It's a masterpiece with a lot of depth, but simple to get started on, and super hands-on. For other recommendations, see articles like [1].

[1] https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-best-cheap-synthesizers
Synthstrom Deluge (or any good DAW on the home computer you already have if you don't actually care about hardware).
There’s a survivorship bias here. If nuclear weapons did totally annihilate society we could not have this conversation.
I was under the impression that adenovirus vaccines have only been been approved in the past year or two - a few for Ebola and the new ones for Covid. Are there others that have been around before that?

It doesn't seem like it really matters if adenovirus vector vaccines is an "old idea" - after all, the idea of using MRNA has also been around for a long time. But if we've only started actually using them recently, how different is our knowledge of long-term effects?
This is the kind of info I'm interested in. It's hard to know how it compares from my POV because the whole digital music world seems overwhelming and I wouldn't even know where to begin. Thanks!
I — and I’d guess most Americans — got such messaging in health class. Can’t say it had much influence on my actual behavior.
So let’s say hypothetically that white people were low risk relative people of color. You would have white people not get vaccinated because the consequences for their group, alone, might be slightly better?

Does that not seem a bit ... immoral?

I assume you eschew all other medical advances that are less than 50 years old? Would you eschew remdesivir? Sorry for the questions but thinking such as yours intrigues me and I want to grasp the logic behind it. Why not avoid all new technology for 50 years? Getting vaccinated seems to me like the logical and moral thing to do, but maybe I’m overlooking something.
I don't know anything about OP-1, but if it's been for sale for 10 years then I would expect it to have high resale value. In which case you can sell it at some point and get some of the €1121 back.

Seems closer to a musical instrument than a gadget.

PlayStation and Switch and almost every other gadget imaginable will drop in value much more quickly than OP-1.
I should have read the article first. I touches on that exact question I raised above!
Your account has been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that—regardless of what ideology they're battling for or against—because it's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think the USA has a reasonable position on how much defamation should be tolerated.

Slander and libel are illegal, but the threshold at which the law takes effect depends on how public the target is.

As such care has to be taken when making statements about a private citizen, e.g. "Mr. X is [something horrible]", but one can say almost anything about a public figure like the president, or senators, without fear of legal trouble.
Phone companies know if it's spoofed or VOIP. They could just not forward spoofed numbers, or inform your cell phone that it's a spoofed number so you can silently block it on your end (or auto-respond with your own bot that pretends to be a person lol).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803498 seems like the FCC is doing something like this, how it will work is TBD I guess.
Yes, I hate it too. My boss doesn't need to know when I'm texting, and they can see this even if they don't use any cyberstalking software.
Parallels 16.5 Can Virtualize ARM Windows Natively on M1 Macs
That was during the first lockdown. More recently, they're closer to capacity:

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-digest-germany-icu-capacit...

> How do you know that it didn't help? We know from epidemiological studies that superspreader events were responsible for causing a surge of cases in a short amount of time.

It didn't help in the sense that hospitals are overcapacity and new cases, hospitalisation and death rates were still exploding until the recent pseudo-lockdown.
Our of perhaps 10 million people who were proficient with computers at the time, a couple thousand got rich... I wouldn't lose sleep about not being in that tiny group.
Well i use the term courts loosely here, as it is besides my point - my point was simply that humans _already_ interpret word as allowed or not.

We do not allow all english that isn't strictly defined as bad, i thought. I can threaten you in ways that will get me in trouble but are not, by themselves, a threat. English is not that simple.

So my point is merely that it seems to be the precedent is already set for humans to moderate human english. It is not a programming language to be parsed and verified.
It's live now (as of 1:40pm Eastern).
Wear noise-cancelling headphones for maximum immersion and don't take your eyes off the page to avoid losing your place. As a bonus, take your walks in high-traffic areas so that everyone can see how smart and productive you are!
Are we implying the battery life is so good that one only needs to be charged once every long often? Otherwise, how cluttered are you to lose a cable every time in between charges? Stick it in a drawer with all of the other ones. Just seems like a really weak strawman
Privately it was going for 540 earlier this week
The most interesting thing to me was that he was punished more than some murderers...
> If authorities were going to be lying about masks anyway,

Who said they ( as if all authorities across the world are a singular entity) are lying about it?
> Until Wolfram’s ideas come bundled with refutable predictions that deviate from the standard model, it’s a smoke without a fire.

I thought his goal was a sort of parallel reconstruction (to unnecessarily abuse a shady law enforcement term), and so I'm not sure the above captures goals well...?

Disclosure: biochemist and technologist who happens to get a kick out of Wolfram's meanderings.
In the first example, one of the

b OUTLINED_FUNCTION_0

jumps can be removed (in the code as presented, the last one. A sufficiently smart compiler would figure out which of the functions is called most often). If the outliner pass doesn’t do that, is there a LLVM pass that can do that kind of stuff?
Is YouTube embedded playlist broken?
Seems like iframe embedding youtube playlist is broken ?

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLx0sYbCqOb8TBPRdmBHs5Iftvv9TPboYG

says Video unavailable for me
Private brand checks a.k.a. `#foo in obj`
With what earnings would they do this?
> The novation launchpad is in pretty much every studio

> it's only $400 or so

Sounds like you answered your own question :)

TE sure make some expensive gear, but they also make cheap gear, checkout the Pocket Operators. They are deceivingly good for the price (and aesthetics).

The OP-1 does have it's use case though, and it can definitely been seen in the wild, although cheaper gear can of course be even more popular.
Aren't their lifetimes so short because they will fall out of orbit? That's not really polluting orbit.
Decisions like these need to made slowly and societally and over time.

Tension between small-c conservatism that resists change and innovators who push for it before the results can be known is very important!

No one person or group needs to or will decide. Definitely not states. "Activists" both in favor of and opposed to changes will be part of it. The last few decades in tech the conservative impulse has been mostly missing (at least in terms of the application of technology to our society lol) and look where we are. A techno-dystopian greed powered corporate surveillance state.

We're not going to vote on it. Arguments like the one happening in this comments section _is_ the process for better or worse.
This. This is a really well put, well thought out, non polarizing piece of writing. I have had the pleasure of seeing a few of Michael Meeks’ presentations about LibreOffice (at a few FoSDEMs). Thanks for being you + thanks for writing something that bridges instead of divides, Michael!
The Roland MV-1 could be an intuitive, creative, flexible device, but a 16x2 LCD? How does that compare against the OP-1's beautiful, animated OLED display?
They discontinued it before... when they reintroduced it, it was way more expensive.
That complicated Java file is a stream of 1s and 0s. The “kinds of things” in a processor that interprets the Java file - also very simple.

There is a huge amount of complexity represented by very few distinct types of things.
This guy is reasonable. Kudos to making reasoned and nuanced observations regarding both sides of the argument.
Show HN: Hello Kitty
Sure, Dan Deacon comes to mind. Most of the instruments he uses in his performances are smaller than a computer keyboard.

Here's a picture he posted of his gear:

https://twitter.com/ebaynetflix/status/442078506655023104/ph...

In his NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, you can see an OP-1 on the near-right of his table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heFRwLfjVXI

edit: I found a website which catalogs musicians and the equipment they use. It lists 190 users of the OP-1.

https://equipboard.com/items/teenage-engineering-op-1-portab...
Proof of stake has no mining, no datacenters. If proof of stake ends up working it would probably be almost as effective as Visa currently is. Visa is always going to be more efficient due to it's centralized nature. Currently one bitcoin transaction uses the same amount of energy as driving a tesla 2000 miles, so POS is quite an improvement.
Their point is that anyone who can develop a nuclear weapon also is aware of this. It might be a survivorship bias, but it is also self-fulfilling.

The biggest threat, as I can see it, is a truly irrational actor. Luckily they're hard enough to build that this prerequisite has so far filtered out anyone truly irrational.
Are you trolling? Insurgence and indifference, that's what happened in Donbass and Crimea. From start to end it is RF controlled operation.

No one in their mind would ask for "Russian peace", yet they are going to kill us. It is not possible to separate Russian speaking Ukrainians, there are no borders. I speak Russian, Ukrainian, English. For sure my city would be destroyed.

RF claims basically every country with Russian speaking population. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus. Germany maybe? Their politicians claims dominance over the world. They blame West on every problem, and people believe.
There is a large generational gradient here which may be relevant. As of 2016 non-hispanic white is just slightly less than 50% of births [0]. The 1 in 3 number is a good estimate for the entire US population, but the school age population is trending toward the 1:1 we see in births.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/23/its-officia...
People always complain about Bitcoin's environmental effects.

What about Gold's, the current financial system's?

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/critics-claim-bitcoin-threa...
I completely agree; it's very oversimplified. Utility is not a scalar, and to the extent averagism is correct, the "average" is not a literal arithmetic mean.

As just one counterexample, I think there is some moral or at least aesthetic value in a breadth of life experiences existing. If the aforementioned one person or one million people were the only people in the universe, the million people would have a much wider breadth of experience, leading to a more interesting society. On the other hand, if we assume a total population of billions, I'd say the significance of this factor dwindles to near nil.

Also, I believe utility maximization is only one of many moral precepts in the first place.
It's the cost centric/money spent only mentality that pervades the minds of many. Agree completely with you.
The goal should not be to discourage consumption, the goal should be carbon neutrality.

Any industry such as fossil fuel power plants must buy carbon offset credits/tokens from industries or companies that sequester carbon. Then let the market solve the problem. The credits/tokens may turn out to be very cheap.