skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you care about your work-product, and can find a way to be passionate about it, then everything else comes very easy. That includes being noticed, promoted, etc.

Passionate does not necessarily imply loving absolutely every aspect of the job, it just means you've found some aspect you really enjoy and are excited to spend some time on.

People who work solely to advance their careers are generally not awesome to work with, in my experience. The people who work passionately tend to have their careers advanced for them. YMMV...
It's worth noting, per the article:

> And in November 2021, we introduced the four-day workweek to our staff, cutting 3.5 hours off each employee’s workweek while leaving their pay unchanged.

I'm guessing they went from five 7.5 hour days per week (= 37.5 hours per week) to four 8.5 hour days per week (= 34 hours per week).
Popehat nailed it: breathless headlines proclaimed "up to" 67 years in federal prison, he ended up with 2 years of probation.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sushi-chef-whal...
samsung phones let you do this exactly.
EEVBlog is great, but... anybody just discovering the channel should be aware, Dave puts out content that fits into a number of different categories: educational, entertainment, edutainment, test equipment reviews / teardowns, mailbag, repairs, debunking, meta commentary about Youtube, career stuff, and "other". And purely educational stuff isn't a huge part of what he puts out these days. That said, he has put out some really good stuff, especially back when he was doing "Fundamentals Friday" as a routine thing. Just don't expect a steady stream of purely educational, "electronics fundamentals" stuff.
Cool to see it approaching upstreaming.

Does it support mountable subvolumes like btrfs?
I did the same, I think it is just crap at reversing sequences, as it cannot reorder them properly.
If you're a professional you're going to be using a professional tool, not an overpriced shiny looking toy.

In this case almost every person I know who's doing field recordings is using a zoom Hx series or something similar.
open ai has an embeddings api that ppl use for that https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings, though whether it's the best model to do that is congested.

Contriever is an example of a strong model to do that yourself. see their paper too to learn about the domain.
https://github.com/facebookresearch/contriever
This makes me so happy!

I use the Deluge to learn music theory, synthesis and a bit of composition and it's so much more fun making music in the garden than to spend another hour sitting in front of the computer.

Synthstrom Audio seems committed to support this device for years to come: they sell spare parts, organize upgrades to newer hardware versions (some more cosmetic, recently though a screen replacement from 7 segment LED to OLED display), offer "refreshment" (new silicon pads, potentiometer and encoders).

Things I hope can be implemented:

* Smooth scrolling: currently Deluge only scrolls in increments of a whole "screen", e.g. 16 steps with a step being anything from a few bars down to something like 256ths of a whole note. This makes it hard to follow and awkward to edit pieces that are not in 4/4 time signature.

* "Accidentals" in scale mode: currently every row displays notes of the same pitch. Deluge allows arbitrary subsets of the chromatic scale (as long as it's at least 7 notes) to form a scale, and in "scale mode" rows for notes not in that set remain hidden. To "escape" the scale one has to switch to "chromatic mode" (a row for every note on the chromatic scale) or to create a new scale by adding notes to rows not in the current scale in chromatic mode. With only 8 rows that means that not even a single octave fits on the screen any more. I hope that something like accidentals can be implemented where the sharpened/flattened notes would simply show up in a different color on the row of the scale note, akin to the use of accidentals on staff notation.

* Support for microtonal scales

* A master compressor

All in all the Deluge is a wonderful piece of gear and I wish Synthstrom Audio well. I really hope going Open Source will benefit their business as much as customers are going to benefit from this.
That’s the entire point of ADP, you don’t need Apple to side sorb or against you, they don’t have the keys. Google doesn’t offer that and Graphene isn’t a photo hosting service.
> “Up to” leads the reader to assume that the likely sentence is close to the stated amount.

Honestly, I think most readers will be more familiar with how “up to” doesn’t mean that it is likely to be close than with the meaning of “cannot exceed”, from experience (as “up to” is regularly used in this way commercially), but, yes, unfortunately given only one figure, even if clearly marked as an upper bound, people who aren’t actively critically reading are likely to fixate on it as if it was a prediction of the likely result rather than a bound.
That's all fine and dandy, but more often than not you get into the field and you discover your whole interest that got you into the field isn't really how the field works in practice. There's an old saying about not making a job out of something you love, because having to do it for money versus out of your own interest will make you grow to hate it before long.
that's not at all what I said
You don't get punished for murders you didn't commit even when drunk driving. Actually, you usually don't even go to prison for drunk driving if you haven't hurt anyone, so if anything it proves my point.

So the argument that I keep seeing in this thread that it could've led to death so he deserves to get his life ruined by a 20 years sentence or whatever doesn't make sense to me
I wrote a chapter in the book Trust, Surrender, Receive.

It’s a collection of 1st hand accounts from one of the countries longest running underground MDMA facilitators. “Anne Other”.

Tucker Max published it, and subsequently had a session with Anne.

This was all years before psychedelics were in the mainstream.

I went on to be mentored by Anne and ran an underground clinic for a few years - PBS even featured me in a docuseries “the mysteries of mental illness episode 4” where I allowed them to come in my apt and film me openly sitting for a woman with PTSD.
> if the commute is no more than 15 minutes

If the commute is no more than 15 minutes, you are losing 30 minutes there and back every day, which is 10 hours every month, almost a waking day every month. Its still lost time. This is without counting the time lost in preparing for getting out of the house, settling in at work, and then doing the exact opposite when commuting back. Make each 10 minutes if you are someone who gets up and going very fast. You are now up to 1 hour lost every day, 20 hours every month. Almost and entire day or two waking days...
I think the latter -- I encountered the same thing.
Someone is welling webassembly.com for $200k
Not with ADP enabled, which is new.
How can they write an article like this without mentioning Aleister Crowley? Can't go past exoticism-obsessed philosopher-hedonists caretaking cults with ceremonial magic and pornographic poetry.
It is a shame there isn't more creative discussion around ideas for regulation. Perhaps something as simple as "corporate tax rate should scale with revenue" might have prevented the walmarts of the world from eating the mom-and-pops.
You have a certain amount of time (read: very little) to reach the catch if you want to maintain a high stroke rate.

Assuming a fixed time “pulling” in a given stroke, and given two options:

- Row 35 spm and reach the catch slower

- Row 40 spm and have to go faster to reach the catch

I’m pretty sure the latter would win a race. Even though you’re “rushing” the slide and robbing the boat of momentum.

The problem is that the coaches were so adamant about crawling up to the catch, that something has to give, and stroke rate suffers. I know this because after being taught by said coaches, I rowed the stroke seat in my first race, keeping everything in mind the coaches had taught me. I ended up rowing an average of 27 spm and we got absolutely trounced.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Workbenches/ --> not all "electronics" workbenches of course. But there are some.

https://www.reddit.com/r/electronicslab/ --> more specifically about electronics, but pretty low volume.

And if you're interested, here are a bunch of "couple of year old" pictures of where I re-worked my lab-bench.

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPgDAGeRSqI5KVcqioLAAcI...

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNwJR3k2BWbG7UTuYxwD7iU...
all games distort reality in some form in order to be playable
Out of control immigration. 10x per capita what's allowed in the US, all going to three major cities.

Not only that, but when filing out immigration petitions, most firms will actually file in Canada and the US. Workers who can't meet the higher bar for US immigration will be sent to Canada.
I get the impression its been design specifically for the kitchen..

which is exactly what I think I want it for
> the entire javascript ecosystem in general. The trend-based, article-driven development, the new framework/pattern you have to learn/unlearn every six months

Maybe it’s worth logging off Twitter for a while and understand that you can just not pay attention to these ‘trends’ and learn a new pattern every six months and you’ll be absolutely fine. Yes, ecosystems and communities can encourage this, but individuals also have got to take some responsibility for opting themselves out (or into) this hamster wheel.

I’ve seen this React Server Components stuff on the periphery for a while now, but I don’t really understand it and I don’t intend to for a while. I’ll let the twitter us hype beasts sort out what they want to do with it and I’ll circle back and check out what it’s like in a few years.
> Desktop resolution is 72 ppi

You have to assume _both_ their screen size and resolution to come up with ppi, so not sure where you're getting 72 from.

Speaking for my personal devices, my laptop is 201 ppi and my desktop is a little over half that at 109 (27" 1440p).
You can earn money from practically any business. Why do you want to earn money from this business? What about it makes you more interested to spend your time here than somewhere else? Lots of places pay well, after all.
Probably didn’t want to make a radio call that would raise more suspicions, or try land a fully functional the plane on a road…

But then the result was even more unrealistic / suspicious.
Try "Mellon".
I would listen to what this guy has to say. It looks like he knows something.
If "good" is an accurate assessment, then "It's only great because of lack of competitors" seems like a fair statement to me, and far from "big whoop". The list of problems they put in the post is real and meaningful, and they didn't say it was bad, they implied something more like big fish in a small pond.

> this review would make more sense coming from someone who wrote a "great" filesystem

That's not a reasonable standard for reviewers.
I have an SE, two 13 minis, and a Pixel 7. The SE is by far the best deal, no contest. I’ve also owned pixel 6, 5, and 4a.
I'm right there with you - I don't like the muted pastel color palette choices, the structural design, etc.

I also think at that price point, there is a sunken cost fallacy that contractually obligates people to defend the visual design to the death.
You can make a Python-ish language that can run fast (or at least, a lot faster) but it cannot be Python: the dynamic nature of the language means many optimizing techniques just aren't available.

The unfortunate thing is that the vast majority of Python code in use today doesn't need all those super-dynamic features. So it would run just fine on a cut-down JITed interpreter. But there's always the corner cases.

In retrospect, Python 3 was a lost opportunity here: it could have broken more compatibility, enabled multi-core and JITs, and then the 10 year transition pain would actually have been worth it. But that's hindsight, of course.
I got from 4 to level 7 with:

> Local echo on

> Login: Gandalf

But now I'm api throttled at 7...
It seems like the DoJ and basically every other executive office disagrees with you, given that they get to write the reports, and they've spent years saying "up to" in press releases designed to imply that the listed number is accurate and scare the subject of the investigation.
Interesting that internally it’s much closer to a database than file systems generally are.
Docker Init
Controversial opinion rant below:

I think the weirdness is a cycle kicked off and perpetuated by how accessible web development it.

It's a good thing that it doesn't take a comp sci degree to build a completely functional, professional looking and/or profitable JavaScript powered application.

In addition to the exclusivity of JS in the browser - the ease of becoming productive has been a large driving force of its widespread adoption. The cost effective nature (cross platform, ease-of-development, abundance of skill) has played a large part in its ubiquity.

This large number of developers has resulted in a large market for tool makers.

Tools are difficult to profit from, so toolmakers adjust their business models and marketing to suit.

As a result, a lot of developers write self promotional blog posts sharing "best practices" and plenty of impressionable decision makers dive head first into well marketed trendy tools/technologies that _may_ offer a benefit but often not proportional to their cost (vendor buy-in, additional complexity/reduction in project maintainability).

For example, front end projects tend to prematurely optimise with huge foundational features like SSR - without considering their use case, the performance trade offs (caching, amongst others) and other more ergonomic/cheaper/more effective, optimisations.

Despite not requiring it, developers tend to highly _highly_ couple their presentation logic to their application logic to the point where throwing away and rewriting an application is not an unreasonable sounding endeavour. People don't write an application that uses React, Vue, Angular - they write a React/Vue/Angular application.

The current meta has moved away from boring obvious procedural circuits to dense, clever, fancy functional circuits which I (controversially) find difficult to grok, modify, and debug. I certainly use functional code (like functional components are nice for simple use cases and .filter/.find are nice shortcuts), my feeling is that deep functional chains are perhaps overemphasised now and difficult to mentally simulate when reading (which you must do inside-out, holding each step in your head).

Testing is also a huge pain point. Developers tend to make extensive use of features like module mocking (`jest.mock('./filename')`) and avoid any form of dependency injection (not talking about DI frameworks, just simple property injection). If there is a hell, module mocks were sent to us from there. So many times I have made changes to a file where module mocks prevented tests that would otherwise have failed from failing. They are hard to track down, fail at runtime and... cries

Today, when I consider joining a new company and hear a project uses React, NGRX, Redux, Next.js, SSR, and a few others - I can almost immediately assume it's going to be a contribution and maintenance nightmare.

I still love front end even though it is an endless source of headache-inducing eye rolls watching people shoot themselves in the feet while confidently claiming it's the best way to run faster.
It's funny that this won't get you hired considering an employee motivated purely by money would do all the corporate malarky to try and run up that compensation ladder. HR should be preferring candidates with these tendencies if they want someone who will actually hit all their metrics.
My Motorola Android (Edge+, Android 12) will charge up to 80% when I plug it in at night and then back-mark against the morning alarm so that it is just getting to 100% when the alarm fires.
>The humanities are broadly trying to answer “what does it mean to be a human, and how should we live?”

That's quite condescending. Scientists must not know how to live, or what it means to be human, since they don't have an English degree.

Look, the humanities is where people who say things like "I'm not good with numbers" go. That's it.
UK value-added tax is 20%. $499 * 1,20 = $598.8, which is about £478. Selling it for £499 would have more than covered the tax difference at current exchange rate, so where do the other £100 come from?
Nothing interesting here. Squatters gonna squat.
ReAct LLM Pattern in Golang
I can't imagine the government agreeing to a plea where this guy does not spend at least symbolic time in the pokey. The offense was too obnoxious and high profile to let him walk.
That will be a miserable job. The new CEO will be constantly micromanaged by Musk and routinely undermined by his latest antics.
> - people who have the skills to create startups in France tend to do it outside of France because they will have access to better capital/labor markets

There are a lot of French people here in the bay area.

From what they told me, it's actually easier to come to the bay area, navigate through the US immigration system and get funded than get funded at home. Not only that, some startups got funding from VC funds with LPs... from France!
Most of the SF Bay Area gets its power from PG&E, which is an investor-owned utility. Palo Alto and Santa Clara are exceptions; they have municipal power companies.
That's a terrible analogy.

A better one would be that my wife and I ran up a huge pile of debts and now even though I want to pay it she went off her meds and has changed the password on our banking app. This is putting us at risk of being foreclosed on.
1963?

The progress hasn't stopped since then though the comics seem even more relevant today.
It does if you remove the previous sentences that are quoted in another comment: "Consider that, as I noted elsewhere, the longtermist ideology inclines its adherents to take an insouciant attitude towards climate change. Why?"

That makes it obvious that it is not what author believes but what author is saying the longtermers believe.
I'm pretty sure the Juicero was a deadpan form of performance art, like Piero Manzoni's, ahem, crappy work.
> 'Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of "Have you read a work of Shakespare's?"'

It's right there in Yeats, which the author also references:

> "Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold /"

Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot image (14 February 1990) is rather deceptive when it comes to understanding the story of life on earth in the context of the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, but here it is:

https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot

Let's say we took that planet and dropped it out to the orbit of Pluto, which we also now have some great imagery of. Pluto is indeed chemically active, it turns out, in the subzero real of nitrogen ices and so on. Hence a better picture would be a transit of Earth across the Sun from say, the perspective of Mars:

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

> "No one has ever seen a transit of Earth from Mars, but the next transit will take place on November 10, 2084. The last such transit took place on May 11, 1984."

The only reason life developed on the 'pale blue dot' was that it was at a fairly optimal distance from our local star, which is pouring energy out into space at a ridiculous level relative to the amount captured by this tiny planet. That huge flood of energy is what allows life to swim upstream against the tide of entropy, aka the Second Law, by using that energy to create complex structures of only fleeting permanence, but eventually humans learned to use excess plant production to feed the literary geniuses who created the great works of imagination. Genetic information transfer was the imperfect mechanism (note all species go extinct over time) behind this story.

In literary-vs-science 'two-culture' terms, a return to sun-worship is a nice way of closing the gap. The Egyptians seem to have adopted the concept for ~150 human generations, maybe they were smarter than we are?
Whose desktop? 72 ppi would be a 1080p screen at 30". Or 1366x768 at 22". That's pretty low ppi even for your average Joe.

They also said their desktop. Though I don't know what resolution/size it would be to beat 266 ppi. I'm guessing a 4k laptop screen, as a 4k 24" monitor is only 183ppi.
I believe it was mostly seized by the FBI, and if they're anything like the CIA [0] (which they are), we won't know until shit hits the fan.

That is straight up someone else's money who was not part of any organized crime or any group really. And the charges did not claim the $ came from murder or horrible things like that. Next of kin should get 100% of that money.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair#Fir...
My prior understanding of the consequences was that he may or may not go to prison for an amount of time, and not a whole lot has changed. I guess I now know he won't go to prison for 40 years, but that's not exactly condensing the probability cloud.
I'm not sure any of this is exclusive to tech and so abandoning tech in hopes of something else isn't going to change much.

For instance, you bring up how much of it is about ads and how pervasive they are, this exists outside of tech as well. Billboards everywhere, posters on apartments and buses, this is what happens without strict regulations.

Another point you bring up is not trusting computers because of their complexity, but that's everything. We don't trust car engines because we understand them, we instead have regulations in which when things do fuck up (and then inevitably do), creators are punished for them and learn not to do it again. You might say car engines are tech, in which case let's talk food! You trust eating some place not because the chef is some talent blessed by god or your sixth sense, but because the restaurant would have shut down when health inspectors came around.

I don't have to talk about slave labor here, it's obvious.

Rushkoff doesn't even agree with the idea tech is rotted and we should try something different, but rather the primary focus of each innovation should be humans and not money. Which isn't happening currently in a majority of fields, tech is just one of these where it's exacerbated due to how little it's been regulated. Again something Rushkoff brings up in his potential solutions.
I mean the wirecutter is pretty good.
AFAIK it’s totally separate teams. Internally it’s well known that most Google apps work better on iPhone than Pixel.

I don’t think it’s intentional, it’s just harder to provide a consistent bug-free experience on Android, even for Google’s own flagship device.
Funny, I just replaced my perfectly acceptable, but canceled and unsupported Pixel Slate (2018) tablet with an iPad Pro. No regrets.
Interesting, considering he could have saved up to 7 billion lives through this act and been a real hero.
He is going to get so much content out of his trial and prison time!
679€ in Germany, which is about the same as the UK price. Or about $740. Even if you remove the taxes, that's still $622.
The buried lede is how launch consistency drove Starlink's massive success.
Why Pay More? (2013)
https://archive.is/XsxMn
Just read a non-sensationalised news outlet ? It’s pretty easy to find.
End-to-end encryption can only be trusted up to a point when Apple owns both ends.
Well, the ipad pro has pretty much the same internals so it's not surprising when you spec it to be similar to a laptop, it costs similarly.