skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently went back over this chip because I really want to love it. They overhauled the software so now there's no colorforth. I'm not sure that the newer software is easier to use, though! That said, the hard pill to swallow is the philosophy. Once you buy into the philosophy, the software is right in line with it. It's not a bad philosophy -- that is, that most software does more than it needs and one should just start from first principles and write the software that solves the problem and nothing else. It's just a hard one to adopt.

My objective was to make a low-cost lock-in amplifier for low temperature physics experiments. Usually you'd just buy a mid-range FPGA to do the signal processing but I was feeling spicy. We usually process signals up to 12 MHz or so, and to obey fs=fmax*4, you need to ingest 48 MSPS. I found that to multiply two words, you'd need 30 nanoseconds -- the multiply instruction implements one step of a multiply, so you need to run it in a loop. Anyway, that limits me to 1/(30 ns) = 33 MSPS of data ingestion, and almost surely it's less due to overhead. For an ICE40UP5K, a device that's $5.90 in qty 1, features DSP cells that can be clocked up to 50 MHz.

I think this may just not be the kind of problem that these processors work well on. It may be that they're optimized for instructions per joule or something. Either way, cool CPU/architecture, I love self-clocked stuff, but I just couldn't find a way to justify it for the kinds of problems I deal with.

The company itself I think is having trouble with funding. It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem -- if they could make the chip on a more modern process node, they might be able to develop something much faster, and thus more competitive with MPUs/MCUs/FPGAs. But, they admirably keep chugging along in their FORTH compound in Wyoming. I eagerly look forward to what they come up with next.
How is it immoral? He was paid a significant sum for it. IP is all about limiting information in exchange for money (generally).

I'm all in favour of reducing copyright power/length, but outside of mandatory licensing there are very few circumstances where locking IP up would be outside the scope.
> I don't really understand why anyone who claims to be a proponent of a free market economy has an issue with a private corporation deciding what type of content they want to broadcast.

People support the free market because they like freedom. People conspiring to deplatform legal content cuts against that freedom. And they see arguments like this one as rhetorical tricks to get them to disarm and be colonized.

This is just the GPL vs. BSD wars all over again, with people claiming that freedom only means BSD-style and not worrying about the freedom-preserving aspects of the GPL and that if you're pro-GPL you're anti-freedom.
I have loathed Adobe for this for years. Even worse, Adobe was supposed to make all of their products available under this single subscription, but now they want to charge users a separate additional subscription to access Substance Painter/Designer which they recently acquired.
Farmed gmails with aycd autosolve do this for you. Inject months of nose then use it and dump it. Just gotta use a proxy
I don't understand putting your whole life online, failing to appreciate trolls will try to get personal because 4chan was down, and then taking your toys and going home because you engaged them. Don't engage them, don't listen to them, and don't change what you're doing because of haters. It's not like they're blasting doom black metal at your house and burning a cross on your lawn. They're unshaven, overweight misanthropes who like tearing the wings off small animals, arguing with people online, and stalking digital personas. It's not victim-shaming to say it's a shame to make yourself a and play the victim is weak self-victimhood.
Until when you go apply for a mortgage and the underwriter makes you resolve all outstanding credit issues, which in many cases results in you paying the collection agency otherwise it could hold up your home purchase.

Theses systems were built by the creditors not the consumers.
>I really wonder what make git bash so much more popular than msys2 or cygwin

Not sure about cygwin, but I thought git bash was based on msys2?
FOSDEM organiser here. Same for me.
I am not familiar with bpftrace (though that does look extremely potent), but XSetSelectionOwner is called when an application wants to make data available via the clipboard, not access it. Also not sure if that would also catch stuff with Xlib, and I guess it won't if it's statically linked (this is why I pivoted hax11 from hooking library calls to MITM-ing the connection).
And it isnt in any of the places of what one might call "central europe" I'm familiar with, thus the question for details.
Wise (formerly Transferwise) also offers virtual debit cards. I don't think you can limit the amount or merchant, but it still works if all you need is to be able to cancel a card on-demand.
I like the deadpan ‘radix claims 1.4mm tps; in testing, transactions at more than 1/s can cause slowdowns’ - impressive lack of eye rolling.
Since many here on HN are developers, having more money go to the developer rather than the gatekeeper would be regarded as a good thing.
If the supermarkets share such a list: why not?
Yes. But the enjoyment is the result of your own programming education (otherwise you wouldn't even be able to recognize the art in it). It does not apply to everyone, it is not built into the human kernel.

I definitely believe that computer programming can be art!!

But it might not make it into an all-accepted major art form. The audience for this art as well as the emotional impact are too small.
The "left" is no more immune to controlling thought than the right -- just look at China or the USSR

The danger is authoritarianism and centralisation, and in terms of centralisation big tech companies like Spotify have in spades. You could also feasibly argue they're authoritarian as no-one outside the company can influence policy outside of free market forces, but centralisation can make these companies somewhat immune to said forces, for instance Spotify being the exclusive distributor of Joe Rogan podcasts means those interested in his content have no choice but to continue using Spotify, even though some of his podcasts have been removed.
Agree. It is a constant wonderment why Adobe is not called out ‘evil’ more often like its other SV brethren.

They are not even good at software engineering and UX.
This shows the importance of mental gut checks.

If indeed 1% break after 15 years, then 10% (ignoring compounding) break after 150 years, and 50% after 750 years. That doesn’t square with a half life of 10,000.
He admitted in this instance, so what? The issue is that he spent tens of episodes speaking about this crap with the fervor of someone who did actual research and his yes men (guests, team) just nodded their heads in agreement. Or he nodded his head as con men said total bullshit. The damage is already done.
Did you link the correct comment? To be clear, I have no idea what objective audience he has, but I would like to know.
The reason for the syntax is that HVM aims to be a low level compile target, which sounds confusing because closures make it look very high level, but it should be seen as LLVM IR. It isn't meant for direct human use on the long term. Ideally it will be the compile target of languages like Haskell, Lean, Idris, Agda, Kind (my language) and others. As such, I just went for a syntax that simplifies and speeds up parsing, while still keeping it usable if you need to manually edit: there is no backtracking on this syntax.
For now the claim is for possible DNA fragments from the cartilage of a dinosaur, with a length of at least 6 nucleotides, but there is no evidence yet that the fragments are long enough to have preserved any useful information. It is likely that fragments with a length of at least a few hundred nucleotides would be needed.

The paper that started this thread was not about the decomposition of the individual nucleotides, which might be preserved even from dinosaurs, but about the speed of the fragmentation of the DNA molecule, which causes a continuous loss of information until the fragments are so short that no useful information remains.

I certainly hope that we will find cases of extremely lucky preservation of long DNA fragments that are more ancient than what was found until today.

Until now, the oldest DNA that was preserved well enough to allow sequencing of significant parts of it had an age of up to a few tens of thousands of years, e.g. from mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, cave bears, cave lions, Neanderthal humans etc.
Ask HN: Do you consider moving into lower paying field?
Very cool. My daughter has a brain shunt due to complications of spina bifida and so we’re thinking of cerebrospinal fluid on a regular basis. As a layman I guess there’s a particular cerebrospinal fluid pressure you want, and that being too high or too low causes issues? Apparently the shunt just drains into her belly so I also found that interesting. Too high and she’ll have terrible headaches and an “alien” head (sorry, don’t mean offense by that but it’s what I’m trying to avoid for my child) and I don’t know what would happen with too little, maybe someone could tell me. Probably not good I’m assuming.

I frequent some FB groups for parents of children with SB and am shocked at how large some people let their kids heads get without consulting with or complaining to a doctor.
We do have "elegant," which to me means "intellectually ergonomic." Something can be "beautiful" while being totally intimidating and impossible for a human to work with, it can be "easy" despite wasteful complexity because it you can confidently work through the cruft, but "elegant" implies both beauty and ease, fitting naturally to our human mental capabilities without unnecessary detail.
https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/matrix_metaverse/
I reject the idea that everyone should know from these words that they will be subject to an enormous early cancellation fee if they forget to cancel before the 7 day trial period is over.

Adobe has a moral obligation to explain that up-front, so that consumers who cannot easily pay the fee are adequately warned of the danger they are getting themselves into.
I've long been intrigued by Forth[1], and this chip. The $500 price for the dev board, and the $200 minimum to get the chip have long been a no-go. It's a shame that they didn't have something affordable to the average hobbyist.

[1] - I wrote Forth/2 for OS/2 long, long ago. Brian Mathewson wrote a great manual to go with it, and helped extend it.
Technically but enforcement’s another matter. Many subscription services are just going to cancel your plan and paywall you
Please explain how open sourcing code causes increased maintenance burden?
Reminds me of a disagreement with a friend when I was 12. I was learning machine code because eh? programming is the future?? He disagreed completely. He said you want to be using software not writing it. Writing it is like making tools. Tools are things you use. A tool maker solves a very limited problem set and is always under instructions from those who need the tool.

My counter argument was that I was making my own tools and modifying existing ones (which was normal/expected at the time) I make tools but I'm the user of my tools! He corrected predicted that each of those applications would have winning good-enough versions that everyone would use.

He went on into technical drawing. Oddly the problem scope programmers run into seems much more diverse and we make lots of things just for fun while technical drawers are mostly tools marrying product designers to industries.
> I wonder if these are the same people who show different faces.

I would be very surprised if the cringey people on LinkedIn are the same as the based people on TeamBlind.

I assume those cringey "agree?" posts on LinkedIn are written by "influencers" as opposed to the engineers we see on Blind. Hard to be an influencer when everyone's anonymous.
Don’t we have highly durable generational spaceships already? They’re called asteroids. If we find an asteroid that’s large enough to have internal geothermal activity, you could put a bunch of people in an underground system and nudge it into a trajectory towards another star system.

As long as it can support crops, oxygen generation, etc the passengers just proceed to live a “normal” life for the next couple generations until they arrive in orbit around a brand new star.

The hardest part would be maintaining culture to still identify with the purpose of the mission after there’s no one of the original passengers left over
Of course if an app asks for some very dangerous permissions somebody will grant them to it even if they don't belong to the app's advertised functionality.

Naming and description could help a little: Full access to copy and paste (maybe somebody doesn't know what clipboard means), it allows this app to access everything is selected and copied including passwords, private data, etc. Only keyboards and clipboard managers should get this permission.
The discontinuity is silliest part. What's the point of a bike lane that just... ends?
This post has so much insight in it, that I felt empowered when I read it.
Aycd and kylin will search popular terms with your Google profile. It’s called farming usally too increase capcha score but it’s also useful to improve the noise floor to make it hard to target ads.
This reads a bit like that LinkedIn inspiration porn from yesterday[1], honestly. These people may have other qualifications not listed here but working at a company where this is the path to being CTO sounds a bit like my nightmare :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30215183
There is a typo in their title. If intentional please instead consider words like block reject and deny for the people that do not speak English as a first language.

I've dealt with real time blocklists as long as they have existed. They are not going away any time soon. I agree that the paid exception lists are a bit shady but I also see the validity of their methods of temporarily punishing everyone on a hosts network to put pressure on the ISP/platform provider to police it's own network and remove spammers. The best one can do today aside from securing ones own server is to research an ISP's IP space ahead of time to see how dirty they are. There are plenty of providers that cleaned up their act some time ago. Linode is a great example of change. New accounts can't even send email unless they open a ticket and prove they made some effort to comply with can-spam. More providers need to follow that example so that we don't run into this problem of dirty networks that real time block-lists like UceProtect have listed. It's an imperfect solution to an old ugly problem.
Not a week has gone by without a news article about some 'leak' for this game over the last 10 years, yet all of it has been bullshit. Many people have built careers speculating on it.
Sounds like you need to get laid.
This is why I sail the high seas.
The tech hiring market is strong but if you can self employ and are a US citizen the Dutch American Friendship Treaty is interesting.
The immune system isn't happy to let EBV dormant. EBV infects the immune system in order to lie dormant. It hides inside long-lived B-cells in a way that is impossible for your immune system to see from the outside, so there is no way to mount an efficient response at that point.

Again, we knew about side effects for antibiotics from the get-go. It's link to autoimmune diseases specifically is recent because autoimmune diseases were misunderstood. We knew that bacteria could be beneficial and necessary from before we had the first antibiotic.

If we can't tell if eggs or coffee are bad for you, it's because there just isn't a strong correlation either way, and diet studies are not very good at deriving signal.

Thankfully, simply comparing people that are and aren't infected is a much clearer signal.

Again, this isn't hard. We've been able to associate dozens of negative outcomes to EBV infection. We would be able to figure out a positive outcome.

The idea that "the body keeps it around" just completely flies in the face of reality. The fact is, the body doesn't really have a way of preventing it from staying there.
The most fully featured free and open source alternative to Adobe InDesign is Scribus. It's available for Linux, macOS, and Windows:

- Website: https://www.scribus.net

- Download ("Development Candidates" recommended): https://www.scribus.net/downloads/unstable-branch/

- Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.scribus.Scribus

- Source: https://www.scribus.net/websvn/listing.php?repname=Scribus
> I don't really understand why anyone who claims to be a proponent of a free market economy has an issue with a private corporation deciding (...)

As a proponent of Net Neutrality, I recognize that there are instances where corporations should not have the last say in any matter.

A free market with unbounded rights for corporations is not a good idea.
Plenty of low-income people do their best to follow the law out of conscientiousness. I know some of them personally.

I object passionately to the idea that, when people misunderstand communication that's designed to be maximally misleading, subject only to the constraint of legal defensibility, they are entirely to blame for falling into the trap.

Adobe should be very clear and upfront about their early cancellation fees.
> They even have an Indesign alternative (Publisher) and at reasonable prices.

Scribus also looks like an interesting open-source solution. (Anybody here have an "InDesign vs. Scribus" perspective?)
I now obsess over cancellation policies before subscribing. Yesterday I signed up for Peacock premium so we could watch the Winter Olympics and beforehand made sure I’d be able to cancel anytime. $10 per month and I can cancel easily whenever I like - but they still go out of their way to extract every cent of worth by selling all your personal information, and had to go through a rats nest to opt out.
I don't think there is any conflict here, people aren't criticizing how the free market works, they're criticizing Spotify for what they see as caving. The "free market" allows companies to do whatever they want with their IP, and it also allows people who are unhappy with that company's actions to criticize them. There's nothing that's not "free market" about that.

If you are trying to make the distinction that "censorship" is a term with a specific definition that applies to government censorship, I don't think people really disagree with that either, they're just using the phrase loosely because nobody's provided a better concept to apply. Call it corpo-sensorship, or corpoship, or whatever, but until there's a better word people will just keep using the more digestible one in a lazy way.
I used a virtual card (and froze it) for adobe. They haven't gone to collections.

I get emails from them making offers to get me back on creative cloud. Nothing about the unpaid cancelled account.
Convenience link: https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

I also loved this bit from their FAQ:

Does Acorn use a subscription?

Nope! We have a simple philosophy- you buy a thing, you get a thing.

I have no affiliation with them (not even a user yet).
You can buy a wide range of UV resin materials (with a range of refractive index) as a hobbyist.

I can think of any number of alternative ways to deal with this, for example you can project a series of colored images and measure the response, then use that to back-correct images. We're in an era of fast computers and powerful software, which can correct for things that are normally corrected by expensive techniques.
Ah, yeah, I cross by that in my route from the West End to Seaport (I think it's Winter/Summer Street?). About as much paint as grade seperated spots and a share row on Cambridge St. is the fairest spot until you get to South Station.
The worst part of this stuff is you can bet the PMs and others working on this feature have some BS terminology that helps them feel like this is not actively hostile toward their customers.
As a legal matter, no, though copyright terms should be shorter.

As a civil society matter, I think we should agree that making a secret album so that it ends up in the hands of a hedge fund criminal is uncool. It’s appropriate and even good for us to say that while that’s something allowed by the rules, we accord it no honor.

The tech didn’t exist at the time, but honestly wouldn’t it be better for the world if Wu-Tang had issued a single exclusive NFT of the album, and then made the actual music freely available?

I mean maybe not, maybe the songs actually suck, but I would certainly like to hear them.
Oh, you can write addition as repeated increment, and you get the efficiency of addition in binary?

Wow; that certainly is impressive.
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The main reason why I used Netflix (despite not having most of the content I want to watch) is how straightforward the cancelling is!!
I think the goal here is to be notified when an application accesses the clipboard, not modifies it. You need to be the owner to do that (excluding some system-wide hack like patching the X server or MITM-ing all X11 connections).
It's one of the reasons for why I intentionally avoid Adobe, despite often contemplating using their products. I wonder if these kind of tactics are really worth their while, leaving stung customers from ever coming back.
I mean summer temps when they're in their 40's and possibly raising their own kids, assuming we don't address carbon emissions.

Portland's temps last summer have me spooked and I'd be even more worried about Phoenix.
Gold has several properties that make it useful as a store of value.

- Gold is a naturally occurring substance and, while not abundant, exists in many parts of the world.

- Gold is inert.

- Gold is not radioactive

- Gold is durable, but malleable.
They are welcome to sue, but they'd have to justify their shenanigans to the court, which I'm sure would take a very dim view of intentionally tricking the user into signing up to something they didn't understand.

The business model relies on most people not escalating it there and making noise about it. If they start getting hit by chargebacks or start clogging the legal system with these cases it will end pretty badly for them.
That doesn't seem to be nearly what has happened, though.
Very low energy consuption is one of the advertized features and as I understood the primary reason for no clock. When the chip is waiting for input and executes no instructions, no energy is spent, except for transistor leakage, acoording to Chuck Moore.

In his talk about this chip, he said said the future of computing is very small, very energy devices. "Computing dust", I think he said.
A great argument for separated infra :-)
AutoDesk (CAD/BIM/etc) is also getting like this. Maybe not totally Adobe yet, but they too also basically have a lock on their industry. Just like with Adobe, some alternatives exist and a few might be good enough, but AutoDesk bought so many competitors and/or companies that most of the time they are the only game in town.

Bentley (not cars) is another company I loathe, but I've already gotten off topic.

The professional software industry is a cesspool across all industries.
The source is an over-engineered mess of nested abstractions. So yes, you can do this, and I have, but it's not a lot of fun.
I think this is a question of fact, but isn't consistent with OP. Either Adobe tricked them and they genuinely didn't know and it's a dark pattern.... or it isn't a trick/dark pattern and they did know.

But if the part of the agreement that talks about canceling is above the fold and the part that says there are liquidated damages of half the remaining annual payments is hidden behind invisible scroll bars, I know which way I would be likely to rule if I were the judge.