skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been a handful of products that have tried to be an FPGA for analog circuits, but unfortunately those applications are far, far more sensitive to signal integrity issues, so it's harder to just abstract away all the intermediate fabric that connects up your function blocks the way you can with a digital circuit.

This post explains further: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/25529

Here's an example [0] of some of the many considerations that come into play when laying out even a conventional PCB that handles analog signals, from which it's not hard to imagine how much more of issue basically all of that stuff would be when happening inside a single chip package— particularly when part of the point of analog circuits for audio processing is often to achieve the aesthetically interesting effects that happen when components are overdriven, oscillating or feeding back, in breakdown, etc. Not hard to see why modern programmable effects pedals just have a high speed DAC and do everything in discretized space.

[0]: https://resources.altium.com/p/pcb-design-rules-analog-circu...
Yes- this is exactly what I’m afraid of.
I'll also point out Laravel as a wonderful PHP alternative to Rails for people who dislike Ruby. And if you prefer Python, Django isn't terrible.
Sir, this quality of moderation is worth some multiple of what you are paid.

Imagine what Bernays would do if he were in control of a strife-monetising social media product.

Cheers!
App store is full of scam right now so wouldnt be a big change xD
This all rings true for me.

Frankly, if I am doing things on the old computer, that's one scenario. My young one wants to get involved and do stuff with me.

Doing stuff on their own? Not gonna happen.
Thanks for this! Will you be dissecting the M1? ;)
Thanks for the font name and the explanation!
> it is a matter of principle, does the movement occur in discrete steps or does it occur by continuous movement through a magnetic field?

motor typology is not well defined, so we're arguing a moot point. That said, I think this is a poor criterion for stepping. BLDCs, SRMs, and doubly-wound machines are all steppers by this definition. IMO it is not useful.

All motors which are called stepper motors have one unique thing in common: they take multiple electrical rotations per mechanical rotation. This motor does not do that.
Sounds like you're in agreement then? I don't see how it's backwards. The quoted text says nothing about decision-making or weighing pros and cons.
Nonsense. Most of those businesses only exist because of the App Store. Apple can ask whatever they want as users can buy whatever they want. There is no need for whining.
This is fascinating but to read the series is it $8/mo? I’m confused, that is more than most magazine subscriptions.
> I get moderation is hard, but this makes it too easy. What if someone was evil but then saw the error of their ways? Should they be forced to make a new account? Or what if they were trying to start debates (as unlikely as that is) in said evil subreddit?

This is a great point, and it's a problem that's created by these extensions. I'd argue that it's a lesser problem than the original one, and so it's a pill I'm willing to swallow (and subsequently tackle).

In general, I think that anonymized reputation and vouching systems are the way forwards for online communities. Vouching solves the "blacklisting" problem: if we incentivize high-reputation people to vouch for good-faith accounts, then people who fall into the categories you've mentioned can be correctly exempted from the filter. But that's awfully hard to do.
Improving the Elo Ranking System
NYT Story About a “Self-Driving Road Trip” Full of Dangerous Misunderstandings
This thread is incomplete without a link to Defender of the Favicon (Defender-linke game in the favicon)

http://www.p01.org/defender_of_the_favicon/
This. It makes no sense, and insurance contract is merely a transfer of risk, and potentially ownership of any claims. It does not in itself create any claims
I'll tell you honestly why. It's because if they charged 5% or 10% it wouldn't be worth Apples time.

If they can't make 30% on the app store they'll go do something else which will make them 30%+ and leave it to rot. Because 5% or 10% is a commodity business and they can do better than that.
Personally I'm warming up to where we assume COVID is endemic and we resume most of our older tendencies. Face masks probably become more normal on public transit. But I do agree there's a number where the virus remains but we're comfortable with it.

The whole idea originally was that the virus could be more or less deadly than we knew and would lock up hospital services. Even with this less deadly variant, the hospital bed shortage is a reality for many communities, which has downstream effects.
This misses the crucial question: Whose books were burnt?

If this guy bought a copy of Harry Potter and then burned it, that's just a somewhat over-the-top way of saying he doesn't like the book. Which is an opinion he's completely free to have.

The problem with book burning comes when people (or the state) burns books owned by people who don't want them burned.
I think the issue is not with the challenge but with the format. It's fine if a course is challenging. But if you're stuck in a 500 person class where no one gives a shit about you or knows your name, and you just came from a typical high school where the average class size is relatively small, it can come as quite a shock.
> They're nuts.

They aren't nuts. It's a middle finger to the legislators.
At least to me, of the best things about this attitude is that the working culture starts to matter a lot when you search for jobs. That's what you care about. You look for places where relationship building is important and people try to get along and support each other. Other stuff starts to matter less. Lots of places basically put so much pressure on you to deliver that being a decent human being becomes impossible.

If my choice is between working at a boring job where I can support my colleagues, and an exciting job with cool tech where people are having mental breakdowns and nobody has the mental space to support them, I'll take the boring job where people don't care about stupid directives and dealines from above.
> Twitter without downvotes is, after all, famously not a single train of thought under a Tweet!

In my experience, it really isn't! Whenever I see a bad take on Twitter, I generally see some sort of rebuttal within the first dozen or so replies. If you expand that rebuttal, you start to see some argumentation, which to me is the interesting part of Twitter.

I think part of what makes HN's downvote system viable is that it's a well-defined community, you need a lot of karma relatively speaking to unlock the downvote privilege, and in practice comments are only downvoted if they are off-topic or poorly articulated.

In that same vein Stack Exchange's downvote system works well too, because karma (rep) is tracked individually per-community and you likewise need a certain amount of it to unlock the downvote privilege. This makes it so that on SE and HN alike, the people with some seniority in the community are the ones to help dictate what should be surfaced by the site.

On Twitter though, it's liable to turn into the same mess Reddit has. Because there is no hard line between different communities, you can't have a meaningful per-community karma limit for the downvote privilege. This eventually devolves into a free-for-all where users brigade other subreddits (and on Twitter, other users' feeds) to mass downvote opinions they disagree with, no matter how articulate or well-sourced they are.
This may be the best discussion of the fundamental problem with Level 2 self-driving systems.
I’ve heard Go program’s execution performance is near Java.

Is this true because I can’t think of anything more useless than that.
The point you are so reluctantly refusing to see is that it is about options and the long tail. Yeah, the majority of business and people are fine with the status quo. It doesn't mean that the rest should just conform.

> Other than that, unless you use Nano, every crypto transaction comes with a fee (...) slower than normal transactions

- https://raiden.network (near-zero fee transfers, akin to Lightning Network, running on Ethereum)

- https://aztec.network/ (private payments, running on Ethereum)

- https://loopring.io (super fast roll-up based on Ethereum, transfers are instant and cost less than 20 cents)

> The other two industries mentioned are good examples

No, I said the EXACT opposite. These are PERFECTLY LEGAL businesses that banks do not want to provide services either because of stigma and or because they are seen as too risky.

> And if you're running your bank, there's zero support.

Again, either you haven't read the links or you don't understand what I am doing with Hub20. I'm guessing you didn't really read, because if you did you'd see that it's not a business, but merely an open source project.

Anyway, the point of Hub20 is EXACTLY to address the issues (UX/technical/social) from the "fully decentralized" wallets. It abstracts away the complexity from crypto for the users and puts this burden on the hub operators. It avoids the cost of decentralized/"trustless" operations when they a more "conventional" token transfer/exchange can be done. I went as far as writing in the docs Do not open an account on a hub20 instance if you can not personally knock on the door of its operator. It is part of its design to sacrifice some of the decentralization in favor of established social bonds. It's not meant for those making 6-digit transfers, it's meant for someone who wants to run a mini-checking account.
This and my sibling nailed it. Defaulting to a SPA is a terrible way to start web projects you would like to complete on time. But wait! Now your company has "front end devs" who you can't trust to touch your back end - better use React again to give these people something to do since JS is all they know.
No worries! I forgot about that too so my efforts are futile. Take care.
Google wants schools to teach Chromebook repair classes
I'm not new to Ruby but I don't know how to write a C-style for loop in Ruby either.

Ruby has iterators, so you don't need for loops.

list_of_things.each {|thing| thing.dostuff }
There was a lot of progress in the 1910's, iirc. It's possible that enough people will become frustrated enough to lobby for effective change. Generally that requires a few leaders capable of capturing the angst in a useful way.
You're forgetting Craig Federighi!

One wonders if he's in line for succession after Cook. And how he'd do in the captain's seat.
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Those links don’t address the fact they you’ve been lying up until now about your knowledge of iOS security.

Nobody said app store curation is perfect, just that it is necessary in addition to OS security.

It’s not clear what you are trying to do now other than to distract from being caught in a lie.
Blue light doesn't suppress melatonin production? Got a reference for that? This was afaik a reproducible result.
Paralinguistic mechanisms of production in human “beatboxing” (2013)
> the statistical truth that the worst 10% probably are negative value employees.

Why is this a statistical truth? In a large, Gaussian distributed population MAYBE this is true (but hiring isn’t random, is it?). But the thresholds are not applied to large populations anywhere I’ve worked. It’s pressure applied to management at all levels.
Yours is a mindset that I'll never understand. You appear to believe that the price of a thing should be related to the marginal cost of the seller. Whereas, in reality, it's only a question of what a buyer will pay and what a seller will accept.

When you look at an airline that's about to fly a plane with twenty empty seats, do you say "sheesh, it's totally unreasonable that seat is selling for anything more than zero, it costs the airline nothing to have someone sit in it, the greed is mind-blowing"?

Maybe you do?
Yellow light is horrible though. It seems to make everything really dark in my neighborhood. Most parts of the city are switching to white LED lights here and they feel much better.
If they cared about the economy, they'd be screaming at everyone to get vaccinated so that life could go back to business as usual. The economic cost of millions of people requiring life-saving, high-intervention healthcare is crippling.

They don't actually care about the economy, though. They care about two things - fighting a culture war, and bending over backwards for businesses, at the expense of literally anything else. It doesn't matter that millions of people are racking up billions in preventable medical bills, so long as the Mar-o-Lago can stay open as if nothing happened.

They aren't making a 'trade-off' between the economy and human life. They are utterly failing at protecting both. If you want to see a trade-off between the economy and human life, look at how China handled the pandemic. Harsh lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and as a result[1] - strong economic growth through the pandemic.

[1] Also only 4,000 dead, as opposed to 900,000, but who's counting?
thats a good observation, yes, an antagonistic audience is likely to derail your point by focusing on the ways in which the things compared are dissimilar, even though analogies only compare the ways they are similar and requires the listener to figure out which ways those are, while ignoring the dissimilarities.

I often just mention that definition. I actually get really far by avoiding certain polarizing words and just saying the definition of the word. Flies right under the radar.
There’s nothing more frustrating than debugging some ruby module with 10 different mixins defining functions with generic ungreppable names like “user”. Then it turns out the mixins have mixins.

The common refrain is well, don’t write shitty code then, but all code starts off looking good to the person who wrote it. I guarantee if you have 400 engineers working on a Rails app it will end up in this state because it (ironically) lacks sane guardrails
> This is a ludicrous approach for most.

there are about 35 guides in the rails guide list and half of those are digging deep into the framework... reading the first 10 of them would get you about 95% of what you really need to know in rails so that you can look up stuff later. hell even just doing the getting started guide walks you through a fairly complete rails application.

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/
Anti Color Blind Poster
>When you're hurting, your body doesn't want you to start weighing the pros and cons of various courses of action, it wants you to deal with the injury right now.

This is called instinct. It is evolutionary mechanism so you don't have to think what to do when you are getting hurt and your life is in danger. You react instantaneously.
If my math checks out, it comes out to...? Trust-busting an Abusive Rent-Seeking Monopoly?!?
what about Processing?

It runs on a lot of computers, its fun to make graphics and games. The online version is "javascript" and lets you code online and share off. And if you have a machine with a browser you can run it.

https://p5js.org

"The coding train" series has some tutorials, from very basic to pretty complex.

https://thecodingtrain.com/beginners/p5js/
TJ's is OK but it's no substitute for a full supermarket.
The point of making competitive mobile hardware is to make sure users stick to it so you can extract values from left and right.
You're right. It doesn't. But it's a matter of degree, not kind. Knowledge work has many times the variability of manufacturing (by design: if you remove variability from knowledge work, you're no longer producing anything new each time.)

In other words, this applies even more severely to knowledge work.

More concretely: in manufacturing you can have a process that yields 9–14 % defective or whatever. The variation is relatively small; say a CV of 10 %. In knowledge work, you'll be looking at processes that generate somewhere between 0.1 and 100 defective ideas for every really good idea. This variation is enormous: 1000 % or so.
Part 2: Improving crypto code in Rust using LLVM’s optnone
There is no 3rd-party toolchain that you can use for a complete iOS (or even MacOS) build. Even if you cross-compile the majority of your code, you will need to transfer the binaries to a Mac for code signing. Everywhere I've worked that has produced Mac builds has had at least a small cluster of Mac machines to perform code signing. (But usually at this point, you just give up and perform the entire build on the Mac cluster.)
So your complaint is that too much regulation is oriented around protecting large incumbent players instead of the public at large?
Can anyone link to a photo of the sky taken from such a location which doesn't have HDR cranked to an 11.
Webgpt: Improving the factual accuracy of language models through web browsing
>Second, virtually nothing consumers require is inherently ghg-emitting, it’s just the cheapest way to satisfy the need, which is why trying to satisfy in a less ghg-intensive way is economically unviable until you start punishing ghg-intensive processes.

You could say the same for corporations. There's nothing about an incorporated legal entity that requires the emission of greenhouse gasses.

>There is zero blame on consumers as I see it - they want something inherently ghg-intensive, they’ll have to pay higher price.

There is zero blame on corporations as I see it - if consumers don't want something inherently ghg-intensive, they’ll have to pay higher price.
Ada does them well. They have attributes that allow for converting to and from integers and strings [1], and case statements have to be exhaustive or use a default "others" clause.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types/Enumerat...
This guy was born to be a Nintendo hacker.
or: it's not a bubble but the next era of the web. they see the long term value of being a leading ecosystem and don't want to fumble their position.
If we swap it with Amazon, it sounds correct to say “where are Amazon’s warehouses?” But is it really incorrect to say, “where are Amazon warehouses?”
I guess I don't quite get this. What I'm seeing here is that a non obvious breaking change is being turned into an obvious one.

If something is handling A and B, but you add C, the code probably needs to make sure it's handling C correctly.

I use Java in my dayjob and the behavior you've outlined is how I always code things, but it's manual and doesn't happen at compile time: I provide default that throws a runtime exception.
FOSDEM: Free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate
Thanks. Yes, I hope life will be kind to you and you don't have to experience anything similar.
You are getting quite tiring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_competition_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_101_of_the_Treaty_on_t...

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/selling-in-eu/competit...
This is clearly bullshit. There was a software industry before Apple came along.
> … stdlib includes the former.

sync.Pool — binary-trees Go #6 program

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

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Go does provide GC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29323468
> train kids

Is this a slur for my kind?
Ads aren't inherently trying to make people unhappy (at least the good ones). Ads in the best case, are just informing a person about the existence of a thing. There have been many ads that I've found useful, not because of some evil mind games, but rather because i didn't know of a company providing such a service.

I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with expending money for things that are valuable. That kinda seems like the whole point of money.
The profit margins scream lack of competition. In a competitive market you'd have dozens of companies scrambling in the hope of shaving off even 1% of the App store's revenue.
I want more spaces that push out trolls, but where I can interact with non-like-minded individuals.

If I only interact with like-minded individuals, that means the internet has failed its use case for me, which is to broaden my world view by seeking out opinions that oppose my own.

Of course if by "like-minded" you mean "polite and rule-abiding," then I agree.
As matt says, you can pay for the truth or get lies for free ;) I've been a subscriber for two years and a paid one as soon as it was offered. Really recommend it! We also have open forums and a discord to talk about anything anti-monopoly.
Yep, and it seems like the pandemic largely showed that there are quite a few jobs out there that can be done remotely with decent success in many environments.

Well, at least as long as the culture fit is there etc., admittedly remote isn't for everyone, but on the flip side, geography/commute being less of an issue for the remainder of people is great!
On the outset I think the ability for it to spread and cause general mayhem in the population was good enough reason to shut things down. The main cause for concern was overwhelming emergency systems. We need to remember that death is only one statistic. You would still visit the hospital as an alive, infected individual and put a strain on that system even when you fully recover and go home.

Or to put it another way, even if the virus was not deadly at all, but it could take people out for a few weeks at a time, that would be reason enough to impose mask mandates, get a vaccine rolled out, tell people to work from home for awhile. Especially if people needed hospital services.
Yeah, this is fine for early stage startups, but eventually you don't want developers to deploy directly to production.
YOu can find many examples for that in the 3D tooling world (not sure about VC details though). Caligari trueSpace, for example.
App developers don't get to choose which platforms their users are on. There's a reason why things like react-native mainly target ios and android - that's where the users are. That is why people compare it to the mafia, you have to do business there, which means you have to pay them. Where are you finding users that aren't on android/ios?
don't take the adjustment in share price lead you to believe that something is fundamentally out of order with fb's businesses. they're still well positioned and are an essential service for many people worldwide. they seem to have been able to monetize fairly well, too. where do you get the idea that they are going to 'die?'
App Store curation is beneficial, but it is not absolutely necessary, and in many ways is lacking.

The fact that you cannot begin to imagine a world where Apple's engineering capabilities exists beyond the App Store, nor are aware of the many, many security features they have enabled on both iOS and MacOS [0], speaks of your own skepticism towards Apple's ability to get the job done beyond the App Store. I suggest you read up on Apple's work into system security [1] and elsewhere. It's quite fascinating!

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/app-security-overvi...

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/system-security-ove...
> It's a middle finger to the legislators.

I.e. they're nuts.
You attribute 0% of purchases to repeat loyal customers who just check in on what you're selling every now and again without needing to be reminded by a marketing campaign?
If Apple started arguing that the OS settings page is not a "function[] provided by the Covered Company" because "location data" is a special kind of thing that means the law shouldn't apply to that page, then the specialness of that thing would suddenly become a component of the lawsuit, yes.
If Apple lists an app on the app store and it does not sell, how much money does Apple lose?