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Lisp in Small Pieces: Table of Contents and Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8600048 - Nov 2014 (40 comments)

Comments over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Graeber*
I wonder if mixed electric vehicles will help. An e-bike is a totally different cost factor than a full fledged car. Just zip around on an electric scooter, bike, or moped for delivery and it is cheap.

I don't think delivery is necessarily "extra". It must be cannibalizing some people that come to the restaurant, and that means they don't order the most profitable items on the menu: drinks.

A delivery service that uses those modes of transport might actually be cheaper and superior to all involved than the current ones in sufficient density areas. A scooter, blade, or moped can quick-park on a sidewalk a lot more easily.

My wife is one of the people that sometimes orders $20 McDs when I'm on the road for my job. It drives me nuts. Twenty fucking dollars for some of the worst food in America.
Shouldn't travel be optimized for the traveler than the airline?
So much repetition in the airline services, and yet travel is a nightmare with overbooked flights. Every gate has announcements for volunteers to take airline voucher and take another flight, so the rest can travel! When a flight is delayed the overworked ground staff are clueless (they only know how to scan boarding pass) and stressed, are unable to provide any reasonable help, other than advice to call an 800 number.
Could airports function better, completely doing away with custom airline kiosks. Private airlines own the shuttles between airports. Airports provide users a single view from the source, including the ability to redirect between routes out of that airport, and give passengers a reasonable chance to get to their destination with their bags. We have solved tougher problems at much larger scale, why do we accept this technology failure?

Airports have become malls rather than a travel provider, with airlines each providing subpar duplicated services with no change in sight, spawning industry of travel insurance (for passengers to pay and compensate bad service).
I'm sure there are plenty of bad ones. But I haven't participated in groups where those have been a problem.

I was banned from all field-recording-related subs because I asked a question about microphones, and the lack of a particular kind in the market. More people piled in, and eventually we contacted the CEO of a mic company who engaged with us and said he'd make a modified version of a product if enough people expressed interest.

Everyone involved with the thread was banned and it was deleted, with no excuse. I never raised the topic again, but was immediately banned from another recording-related sub when I answered a question about a recorder... as if my account had been flagged by some inbred cabal to auto-ban if I ever showed up.

This behavior utterly defeated the purpose of the forums and stole from users. Yes, stole. It's time that people took stock of the fact that the time we spend to compose questions and answers on forums is not free, and those who deliberately steal it should be called out every time.
I bought the bike, finally, in 2019 right before the pando. A beautiful Cannondale, CF everything. Since then, I've learned I have arthritic degredation in my back and really shouldn't ride it for any extended period of time.

No regrets, but damn, what a waste of a stallion! Still have the bike, it just hasn't been ridden to it's potential.

At least it's an inanimate object :-)
Those choir dolls are pretty cool! The evolution of the first project TE's founders worked on together even before they decided to start the company and focus on OP-1.
I also suffered for a long time with an apparently long circadian rhythm. My experience with how that intersected with fixed schedules went much worse: poor sleep in school descended into insomnia, and absolute terror of the alarm clock. Insomnia persisted and worsened into my 30s. This all fed quite a bit into a whole lot of chronic mental health problems. And I’m not exaggerating, this all did very nearly get me dead.

The things which really helped:

1. Diagnosis and treatment of ADHD. Before which, I never would’ve imagined that a daily dose of amphetamines would help me get anything resembling consistent sleep and rest. Since then, my internal clock has been much more consistent with earth days.

2. Getting my pup. Partly for the reason you describe: she has needs that don’t care about my internal schedule, and my schedule has to accommodate her. Also in large part because she’s been singularly the best sleep aid I’ve ever had or could have imagined. We wake together, do our daily routine, play, wind down, then we snuggle... and it’s the best rest I’ve ever gotten.

Edit: I should add another thing that helped, for anyone who struggles with sleep. I stopped using alarms to wake, almost entirely, except for extraordinary circumstances. My sleep schedule does drift a bit and I have to consciously keep it in check when it does, but I get much more comfortable with the actual act of resting when there isn’t a hard time limit attached to it.
Brotli and ZSTD are both a bunch better (~20% file size while being faster to decompress). Brotli does especially well on javascript/html because they hard-code some of the keywords in the spec.
The Chinese split from north Vietnam is just a consequence of the sino-Soviet split that began under kruschev. However, the Vietnamese did help with Soviet tech to preserve and display Mao’s body, at least.
Ironically, journalists feel that they deeply need privacy while denying it to anyone they see fit.
I count all those as parts of the above!

(Counting owned items can get entirely silly).
Good suggestions! What do you love about the PO's?
I’m fond of the conspiracy theory that the rise of minimalism is actually propaganda to placate Millennials who can’t afford the same level of material comfort as their parents and other earlier generations enjoyed.
To scratch that itch get this App instead:

Korg iDS-10

There’s also the iMS-10 but haven’t tried it.
Yet.
Will the notebook feature allow branching out from the linear chain of chats or even reverting the chain to an earlier point? It wasn't clear from the post
Leaving aside the thorny gender issues, ~6,000 in a population of > 300 million is literally a small minority.
FIRE is less about wanting to stop working and more about having the option to decide how to spend your time: work, travel, volunteer, whatever.

> and will rather burn themselves out at 32 to do so?

This is a big assumption. Obviously doability will vary with individual circumstances but there are various settings to tweak: primarily time, income, and expenses.
Thank you, to the bravest man I know.
Well, there is lots of evidence that movement and exercise is excellent for your brain physiologically and psychologically.

https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-...
or if throwing it away makes you feel bad, give it away.

either it finds its way to somebody who will value it, or somebody will throw it out for you. either way is a win.
You know it is REALLY HARD to figure out if a non-stick coating is free of teflon-and-friends. Lots of things called "ceramic" might not be free of pfoa/pfte/etc

(this is a pain when you have parrots, because one overheated pan, and all birds in the house - big and small - will die)

As one example, I bought some hexclad pans. They had very strong wording about their use of teflon:

https://hexclad.com/blogs/posts/pfoa-free

when you try to figure out what their coating is, you are told:

"We’ve used a high-grade non-toxic Japanese coating infused with diamond dust for extra toughness." (https://hexclad.com/pages/hexclad-science)

and... well keep digging.

Finally you can find this:

Q: Are your pans free of PTFE?

A: Our pans are PFOA free but contain some PTFE. PTFE is in over 95% of all nonstick cookware including our ceramic-based nonstick. PTFE is safe and inert. In fact, it is used in surgical matches meshes, dental implants and heart stents which are all implanted in the body. We do not use PFOA chemicals and other chemicals that gave many other nonstick pans a bad name. Why do we use some PTFE? Sadly, non-PTFE nonstick cookware does not work well for long periods of time. In fact, in our tests, the largest non-PTFE nonstick in the world only held up for 45 minutes of consecutive use.

https://hexcladcommercial.com/pages/frequently-asked-questio...

What's especially ridiculous is that the "good" hexclad sets you can get at costco also put this coating on the BOTTOM of the pan, against the flame or burner! High temperature is the achilles heel for these chemicals.

took them back.

EDIT: also https://www.consumerreports.org/toxic-chemicals-substances/y...
No one asked but the MacIvory genera world could also interoperate with HyperCard.
No one likes the current design of subway systems. Therefore it won't see any expansions. The new expansions currently in play are real deep and real expensive. Again no one likes this new design either. No one likes the system of elevated rails. No one likes the bussing system.

What do people like? The expanding ferry line. The trolley on 3rd Ave Brooklyn. The air train. Cheaper fares.

Until there is some new tech that can get people excited about public transportation again, we won't be seeing any new investments.
Travel is optimized for you if you pay first class. Anytime changes with no fee, lounges, etc.

Most don’t value it enough to do it.
There's designated months of the year when burns are allowed, but something like a forestry controlled burn is the kind of thing that would be done in collaboration with local forest service / fire departments / etc. Smaller burns are more at the discretion of the landowner, and things like agricultural burns are pretty common during the wet months in the Pacific Northwest. People build piles, let them dry out, and wait until a designated burn day. We haven't done anything on the scale of letting a whole field or forest floor burn deliberately – far too much liability and overhead. If you could get it to a state where it could be done regularly, I think it'd be ideal. But, as things are now, there's just too much that can go wrong, and so that's a big part of the situation we're all in now.
I've also heard "I'm too poor to be cheap."
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I think you can take it the other way as well...

> Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence

If anything, an advanced malicious actor might even be counting on you thinking they're incompetent.
> to the ubiquitous software utility PKZip

Huh? Ubiquitous?
I was hoping to do something like this for adventure game hotspots after a hand injury. Even experimented with AutoIt and its OCR, before giving up.

Now there is another niche project with the goal of translation: translate.net

With more capable models it's going to be fun to see what folks come up with!

Still, I hope internal efforts get some attention as they don't need to rely on hacks and awkward workarounds.
One of the sources of researchers for Xerox PARC, mentioned in "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age"

- Bob Taylor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_(computer_scient...
- while at ARPA, Taylor issued a US$5M grant to the University of Utah/Dale Evans to setup the doctoral program

- Alan Kay - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay

- John Warnock - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warnock

- also mentioned in the book from UofUtah, Bob Flegal and Jim Curry, who worked on Superpaint - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpaint
My relationship to stuff is at a weird point. I've watched a bit too many documentaries about impact of overproduction on our world to a level where I tend to over analyze and over scrutinize every purchase, probably to unhealthy levels. I tend to use objects i have to the point they become unusable, trying to get their full worth.

But at the same time, I've realized that buying the best of everything every time is not the best way to go. Sometimes your taste changes but the object still is in a great condition with no other takers. So you're stuck with something you don't like anymore.

A good compromise seems to be buying the cheap version of everything the first time around. That way if you don't use it as much, you haven't spent a lot of money on it. And if you do it use it, the cheap stuff will wear out sooner and you can replace it with better made stuff.
Why do you assume Redditors won’t just use the mainline mobile app? Honest question and I don’t mean personally why you won’t, but the average user that looks and clicks on ads on Reddit?

The long and repeated history of social media platforms shutting down 3rd party apps, despite lots of outrage, is not the best track record to bet on some mods closing down subs for weekend making a difference.

People might say Reddit is different because they like to get stirred up fighting authority like net neutrality but the next question is where will they go instead?

Betting against the network effect is a losing battle.

Whether Reddit should have acted differently and reformed their bottom feeding design/web/mobile teams long ago is a different question.
There's no denying the OP-1 looms large in the world of modern hardware synths. Everyone knows it, a lot of people have one despite the price tag. Its design aesthetic and portability have certainly been influential. How many people actually use it to make music? I have no idea, but it seems like a relatively controversial synth instrument when it comes to discussing its actual capabilities and usefulness (its successor, the OP-1F has done little to change that by doubling the price tag but not substantially changing its feature set). Personally I don't think I could ever got much done with it, but I could see myself at least having some fun with it.
It won't be us, it will be lab grown genetically modified versions of us to maximize for various functions, ala the end of Man after Man
There are a lot of datacenters in Iceland because it's cold and has cheap geothermal power.
>Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.

Why not both? This is the platform that literally built itself off of registering fake accounts and posting spam to make themselves look more active than they were, after all[0]. Reddit administration is a unique blend of malicious incompetence. I call it malicincompetence.

For example, spez in particular notably was caught editing the posts of /r/the_donald posters he was in a shouting match with. This is malicious, because the admins demonstrated that they're willing to fuck with historical records to defame their enemies. But it's also incompetent, because it turned a bunch of fascists[1] into martyrs. If he had just banned /r/TD then and there, or even just that poster, it would have been less malicious and less incompetent at the same time.

Going deeper, a lot of malicious behavior is itself inherently stupid. That's the idea behind the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma: betrayal is advantageous only when you don't think more than a step ahead. Once you do, then tit-for-tat[2] becomes better, possibly with some kind of forgiveness term if random or accidental betrayal is possible. None of Reddit's CxO suite[3] thinks this way. They think their users are resources to be taken for granted, except they're also really bad at doing that. And Reddit users have just gotten used to shouting down these kinds of stupid changes until the admins fold, which they usually do, because Reddit doesn't have the kind of user lock-in to make people just stick with it.

[0] Nobody noticed until the admins just outright admitted it a few years later. Although if /r/SRD and /r/de is to be believed, they're doing the same shit again in German: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/13p889x/red...

[1] Ok, I don't have citations for the victim of Spez's tomfoolery being a fascist, but /r/TD was notorious back then for banning anyone who wasn't enthusiastically riding the Trump train that hard.

[2] Do what the opponent did last round.

[3] Except maybe Ellen Pao, only because she wasn't around long enough for Reddit to rub off on her.
It's not the work itself that's undignified, it's having to work. The only way to maintain your dignity is to have enough fuck you money to tell anyone who would strip you of it to fuck off.
At least, I can't find the `reset sync` button now on version 114.
1: All interviews were group interviews with all three founders.

2: They all worked together for almost a decade, since college.

3: They never hired anyone more experienced than them.

4: My technical screening was with a consultant. In a decade they hadn't figured out how to screen.

5: Their stack was mostly "also ran" technology. (IE, they didn't know when to cut their losses and change over.)

6: Their "tech lead" didn't have the title of CTO.

When I showed up, this was what I figured out:

1: The manager kept up appearances of consensus driven decisions. (Which was why interviews were never 1-1.)

2: They generally hired inexperienced people so they could control them and not have their decisions challenged.

3: They were dangerously fixed in their ways. It was like they were using Betamax, Commodore, 8-track, ect after those technologies failed, and didn't understand why it was dangerous to bet their company on it.

4: There were glaring, unprofessional, security problems.

5: The "tech lead" really flubbed a lot due to inexperience, but it wasn't obvious due to everyone else inexperience. The "tech lead" needed serious mentoring; but was too used to calling the shots.
It's not tribal in my opinion.

We're under pressure from the rich to attend their businesses in exchange for means to live and thrive. We need to attend in a timely manner or face consequences culminating in a "DCM".

Cyclists stand in the way of this endeavour by either holding individual cars up, or whole roads when a large vehicle is waiting to pass.

It's plainly frustration fostered by local governmental cycling pushes whose aim is to slow traffic and lower speed related deaths.

The Lycra clad speedhump is putting themselves voluntarily and with foreknowledge in a dangerous position whilst antagonising already angry and irate drivers who can regularly manage to perform so badly they hit walls, trucks, buses, and each other.

Who in their right mind would cycle?
We like pets because they trigger our natural nurturing instinct. An maximized ASI likely wouldn't have that.
I’ve been really curious about this device, glad to see the article
As an aside, I always thought that training spiders to make things would be really cool. Their silk is miraculously strong, they already make patterns with it, so how hard would it be to train them or breed them to, I don't know, make a shirt made out of spider silk? Or combine strands into ultra strong, unique rope? All it would cost would be some flies!
Yeah, I hear ya. I also share your frustration with their decision to push the new Field series products even higher into the luxury goods stratosphere.
Using C++ from Swift: The Vision Document
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I don't think so. If you actually look at the capabilities of their products, they're often nearly useless or incredibly under-provisioned compared to other instruments of the same type. And then there are their ridiculous price tags.

Professionals want and need to get stuff done, which (as several have noted here) is not what these products seem to excel at.
I used to be interested in minimalism, but I realised that they just obsess over objects in a different way.

I wanted to save money, avoid maintenance and reduce my mental load. I found people who keep spreadsheets of their stuff and debate whether it's okay to own tools or multiple coffee cups.
Human speech processes seem similar to how LLMs work. There are brain injuries (Korsakoff's syndrome) that cause confabulation, which is like ChatGPT hallucinating the answer to questions.
Can't even imagine. Surviving a plane crash plus 40 days in the jungle.
Han runs China with a strong majority. For western provinces where minorities are a majority, the symbolic governor will always be an ethnic minority (eg Tibet will have a Tibetan governor), but the real power will be held by the Han party secretary. Some of the party secretaries that have run Tibet and Xinjiang are famous hardliners that have probably created more problems than they’ve solved.
Yeah, that's the one, in Arizona. They paid someone relatively well to simply pay attention and the employee unsurprisingly failed at that. What they should have done is found someone who had demonstrated an ability to be relied upon. I never saw them realize that and make that change, and it seems likely it repeated with the dog.
Burning up in the atmosphere is different than hitching a ride in a comfortable environment
Funny that that's the one you mention, given its reference in the article:

> Alt-pop star Olivia Rodrigo was less than two months old when Elephant came out, but she grew up listening to the album and remembers falling in love with “The Hardest Button to Button.” “Meg’s drums really shine on that one, and from there I dove into all their other incredible albums and became a massive fan,” she says.
The OP-1 was a revolution in a space where previously there was nothing, but neither it nor TE in general have had a big impact on the broader hobbyist or professional communities.

Accessible, capable, portable, and cheap was accomplished for hobbyists by (1) the generation of synths just prior to the first Volcas and Behringer retro-ripoffs, starting a few years before the OP-1 came out, and (2) the iPad moment. Self-contained and highly flexible but still fun was accomplished for professionals by (1) Reason and (2) Octatrack. Quirky jams on the go in an expensive statement piece is accomplished by modular.

The Pocket Operator series suits some of the writer's arguments better, but those didn't pop off. The OPs and the modular starter kits are, more than anything, stunning design pieces that appeal to tech prosumers with an interest in music who lack experience outside the DAW. But even then, you can get more functional pieces with similar curb appeal from companies like Elektron and Critter & Guitari.

In my anecdotal experience, most everyone who buys a Teenage Engineering synth uses it for a month or two to record about an album's worth of demos then either leaves it on a shelf or sells it to get something else. Compare to something like the Volca Drum which has become a staple in the community as far more than a toy (for a great album heavily featuring it, check out Crush by Floating Points).
Out into the big blue room
What is the "secret sauce moat"'for a product line OP-1 that makes it hard for others to replicate?

Is it..

- The hardware? Because I thought low level hardware was a commodity in this day and age...
- The software?
- The industrial design of the actual unit?
- The cool hip design/marketing/brand?
This reminded me of the great story where Kissinger, on that trip, asks Zhou Enlai "What do you think of the French Revolution" and Zhou replies "It's too soon to tell." I love that, and it is what I say when people ask "how are you" too early in the morning.

But I've also been trained by a passion for too-good-to-be-true quotes and that one definitely sounds too good to be true. Guess what - it is. But for an interesting reason:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/06/it...

https://mediamythalert.com/2011/06/14/too-early-to-say-zhou-...
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