skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool tech, but the GTM strategy will make or break them. Small 2-stroke engines (like those run by lead blowers, weed whackers) contribute a relativly insane amount of noise and air pollution, and their solution is an excellent opportunity to get rid of 2 strokes and make a ton of money/improve QOL for everyone.

IMO, best way to GTM is probably to partner with TTI, Makita or SBD and license the technology with a royalty per unit. The tool industry has gone through many consolidations for very good reasons, no need to try directly competing and raising yet-another battery platform. One of the industries these conglomerates have terrible penetration in is landscaping crews, who are largely still gas driven. If you can deliver gas-like performance in a backpack blower, they might be interested.

If you can't get them interested for selfish reasons, you can force them to switch by going after the pollution issue at a state and local level. Get cities and neighborhoods to ban 2-stroke engines in their communities and contracts. It will be popular with constituents, and landscapers will pass the slight capex cost increase in contract terms. This will force professionals to switch from Stihl to your partner toolmaker, with large investments in tools and especially batteries. This should drive sales in the rest of your partner's tooling ecosystem from an unsaturated group, something you should highlight during that royalty negotiations with your partner.

Now that you've captured the pro market, you can drive consumers and prosumers to the platforms via your partner's preferred channel (HD/Lowes). You can lock them into a new battery platform and sell 3 different models to target each group, again targeting groups with poor existing penetration (although not as rich a group as landscapers).

You can add more prongs to this strategy (exlcusive vs non-exclusive licensing, partnering with a lower tier tool mfg like greenworks/echo) but that's a basic first pass.
Saying EVs don't work after emergencies because the power will be off ignores that places run out of gas too.

Previous post hurricane situations lead to gas shortages, electricity seems to be more available in a scattered way, gas runs out often. Infra of course can go bad, but the situation of (better have a gas car after a hurricaine/emergency instead of an ev) is another one of those things that has turned out not to be an issue. It's also a thing that places run out of gas for a while, or the gas station doesn't work because it lost power and they didn't wire for a generator. Unfortunately it requires saying that "evs don't work in this scenario" is another piece of fud, along with they catch on fire all the time, need new batteries all the time. EVs are made by humans, they have limitations, just like all vehicles, but they work fine generally.

There are lots of examples where post hurricane there wasn't much gas

2017 - https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/09/florida-gas-shortage-... Shortage of gas after hurricanes.

2012 - Gas runs short after a hurricane in NJ https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/nyregion/gasoline-shortag...

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/09/28/apparently-we-need-to-t... - discusses the FUD accounts that become active after a disaster, evs actually good for idling in heavy traffic leaving hurricane.
And as usual Americans fail to spot that they have one of the best armed and least polite societies in the world. I'd put the case that a polite society is unarmed.
It's been stuck in discussions for a long time, unfortunately. The main reason that I remember gleaning from discussions is it's unclear just how "special" None should be treated as, and whether having special syntax for it is excessively "special".

I saw some suggestions for overridable behaviour in the data model for None-like objects, but didn't scrutinise them closely. Either way, it seems controversial. On the one hand, the ability to override operators is really key to Python's design, but on the other it could lead to rather surprising behaviour from overeager overriding. (But to be fair, this is true of other, more common operators too.)

So, for now we're stuck with `if _ is not None else`, I suppose!
Really? I thought most new projects were switching to ninja[^1] and have never used it.

[^1]: https://ninja-build.org/
It's not my opinion but apparently most manufacturers' that headphone jacks are outdated. I recently got my first mobile phone with BT only and I hate it, so I at least wish I had my headphone jack back.

All my computers use wired headphones and peripherals, but more because I hate changing batteries or disconnects.
I don't dislike wifi, but if I am having video calls or playing games I try to avoid it, if I have a network cable close, just to avoid one source of error. The thought of getting battery powered shifters on a bike confuses me.

Not a fan of IoT and the two Shelly plugs I have I only use for measuring power usage, I don't think I've switched anything on or off except trying it out once.

I guess I'm not necessarily longing for old stuff, or not even for stuff that was hip and cool when I was young, but I think I am easy to satisfy with some "this generation of thing is SO much better than the one before" that I don't need incremental (to me) improvements.

Like:

Walkman: good; portable CD player: worse; Minidisc: didn't have one, but not better enough; MP3 player: much better; MP3s on phone: perfection, but technically only one less thing to carry, it's still an mp3 player (I still listen to CDs at home and in the car, but because the car is old and because I buy CDs in the first place...)
> Sapolsky has always been a vocal critics of free will. It is discussed at length in his other books.

Interesting; I only read one of his books and didn't pick this up.
Because nobody actually links to the leak proper. It ends up that people talk about writing about writings, rather than see what it is. And the prior post I did was auto-dead.. My guess is from the forum link. Cause we're not allowed to talk about breaches? Sheesh. (I edited enough stuff to review, but no direct links to leak documents.)

And digging around the breachforums DOT is/Thread-23andMe-Great-Britain-Originated-4M-Genetic-Dataset , you see stuff like

"The data includes information on all wealthy families serving Zionism.
You can see the wealthiest people living in the US and Western Europe on this list."

This link combined with the 2nd one doesnt look good in any stretch of imagination. These are antisemitic leaks intended for harassment and/or hit lists. It definitely looks BAD. But again, it's already in the world now.

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Here's the schema of said data ( breachforums DOT is/Thread-DNA-Data-of-Celebrities-1-million-Ashkenazi-REPOST ):

profile_id; account_id; first_name; last_name; sex; birth_year; has_health; ydna; mdna; current_location;region_1;region_2;region_3;region_4;region_5;subregion_1;subregion_2;subregion_3;subregion_4;subregion_5;population_id1;population_id2;population_id3
As a tangent, there is a really cool scene on YouTube and X of people 3D printing guns. Some folks are even making their own ammunition. There is a lot of innovation in the space by backyard hackers and it's pretty fun to watch.

Most of it is demonetized of course, but that's probably a good thing.
I agree. I was pushed into those hours, but it was because of bad scheduling, for deadlines that didn't matter. And your productivity drops considerably the more hours you do.
I was interested in similar advice when I picked up some C projects at work. I ended up often referring to https://github.com/mcinglis/c-style
That’s a small but dangerous jump. Deposits will be protected as much as possible but that doesn’t mean in a worst case event there can’t be a bail-in. Happened to Cypriot banks.

Just because it’s a GSIB doesn’t guarantee that the US tax payer would pick up the tab on all deposits if push came to shove.
Lying about it would expose them to a lot of legal trouble. Im guessing they are choosing their words carefully as they have likely been worried about being sued from day one.
TIL.

I can’t be the only one who likes random facts like these.

I’m sure 10-20% of my university experience is listening to people’s monologues of random facts outside of lectures.
Highly related: Ismo's comedy about quiet leaf blowers and people on the moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eo2uq5k1O0
The encrypted messaging app is on the front lines of battles over encryption in India, Russia, and Iran.
yup totally! we can do most of the heavy lifting there to get you the licenses. we automate a lot of this w templates & also given our prior experiences getting these licenses and building relationships w regulators, so we know how to be fast/efficient here.

for in-state offices, there are 3rd party agencies to work with to set those up. also recently, some states like NV have passed laws to remove this bottleneck.
Blitt TD - tower defense game. It very well done.
https://shotty.itch.io/blitt-td
> it suggests people will relax so much less that arm rests are unnecessary

Or they relax SO often, that they don't need arm rests (because their arms are never tired, because they aren't working much)
>Turkey this year, where many building where from the late 90 and later and build out of reinforced concrete

They didn't follow the building codes, and were poorly constructed out of sub-standard materials, it's unsurprising things went horribly wrong.
This is true. The shock effect would be large across markets however.
I don’t think Erlang solves this problem: multiplayer editing of data structures while preserving user intent.

Specifically does BEAM build in a data structure for preserving user intent while multiple users type/delete/apply styling in the same text field?
The internet existed in the 80s. How old are you?
I was thinking the same thing. Dyson hairdryer is interesting, but really high pitched sound.

I also wonder... could this work in reverse for vacuums?
> or signing a considered letter of opinion

An "opinion" that torturing, raping, and killing is ok under the circumstances?

No, that's only "free expression" if you accept that you've now put yourself outside the bounds of civilized society and the rule of law.
Thank you! Really like Replicache though only used it for hobby projects so far, and enjoyed also the backend side of it (minimal and entirely in supabase stored functions, probably not prod ready). Hope the new approach is a great success for you!
Well, I’m not sure those treats are unrelated.

I had an interesting conversation with … ChatGPT. You know what ? ChatGPT is prompted to convince you that it is inoffensive thanks to OpenAI’s safeguards, precautions, and research on ethical AI.

But ask him what would happen if a malicious organization took control of OpenAI. Ask him if it would represent a threat for humanity and, interestingly, it will answer that yes, that would be a big threat for humanity.

GPT is convinced / prompted that OpenAI are the good guys.

Interestingly, I don’t share this view.
There’s already plenty of cities with all-electric public transit systems, including bus fleets.

In the US, Lancaster CA is a model city & they have plenty of resources online documenting their transition
The demoscene died when the PC became too powerful for hardware tricks to compete.

Actually, it died when people started making demos in C and horror C++.

No wait, the demoscene died when 3D cards made art/modeling the only valuable thing.

No wait, let me get this right. The demoscene died when mp3 music produced in DAWs replaced mods, and photoshop and wacoms replaced deluxe paint pixelart.

Hm... maybe it died when the internet made everthing available so nothing felt special anymore.

Or when the web and Flash became the place to get a quick fix of visual design.

Maybe it died when kids became more interested in esports and LoL than in coding.

I'm sure it died when Youtube meant you didn't even need the hardware or the download to watch a demo.

Maybe it was when the iPhone appstore meant the most popular device on earth couldn't run demos.

I don't know, I can't decide.
We already know from many other hurricanes during the last few years that there is usually scattershot electricity supplies. It takes longer to get more gas. It's surprisingly the case that we know from the last 10 years that EVs work at least as well as gas cars, and when gas runs out and it wasn't resupplied gas cars work better.
The comment I was replying to was accusing the authors of the paper of intentionally misleading people. In my mind that is someone who is confused and assuming bad faith of the authors without making a genuine effort to understand their paper beyond the headline.
eCPRI, or essentially radio signal over ethernet (ie. from base station indoors to radio module at top of the tower/roof) is another interesting use case (with even stricter latency requirements than audio).
I had a Pixel 2 for many years and loved it! It fell out of my pocket as I got out of the car one day, hit the concrete, and never turned on again. So I got a replacement Pixel 2 off Back Market! Still the least-worst, simplest phone, in my opinion.
Hard to say what the actual tech is but it sounds like they use way more blades and rotate much slower than traditional fans.
Thanks!

It's not a blog, so much as my daily record of "links I've seen". I'm proud of the presentation of the archives and the fact I've got almost 3 years stacked up now. Much of the content comes from here so thanks HN for being such a wonderful resource.

https://snafuhall.com/
Maybe they can tune the leafblower for a harley sound?
Red Hat owns Quarkus, so they are a risk or a benefit depending upon your perspective.
Ah a new standard! Perfect! Everyone will adopt this as clearly it is better and there’s no reason not to right? … right?
Why is it not alive? None of our current definitions of life, limited as they might be, require death as measurement.

And just because life on earth is fragile, it doesn’t mean all forms of life have to be.
The wrong turn was JavaScript and Web 2.0
And if that isn’t satisfying enough, you can spend your time judging people who have possession of a nearly two decade old Mac and who might be interested in doing something with it?
user dictionnary => user["email"]

user instance from a django model => user.email

It is error prone. You're simply refusing to see an aberration.

That's how the language works, but it doesn't mean it's intuitive and easy to understand especially for a language known for being easy to use and understand.
I think the appeal of spokespeople is that they're actual human beings. Knowing they're computer programs would only appeal to the Hatsune Miku types. The only way they could get away with marketing an AI spokesperson like a real one is by hiding the fact that they're an AI, which in itself would lead to a huge controversy the moment the cat's out of the bag. As it stands right now, an AI spokesperson is no different from a mascot.
Neat, page after page of Kardashian clones, just like Instagram influencers or going out on the town. What a bizarre time to be alive.
No, the range is not 100 miles. Even 10,000 pound vehicles can go 300 miles these days, like a hummer.
I love the word effective and use it all the time.

It almost immediately gets rid of a lot of idealism.
> The cases a law firm represents does not define their values.

In this case, they did. Davis wasn't just a lawyer, he was a politician: "Davis acquired much of his father's southern Democratic politics, opposing women's suffrage, Federal child-labor laws and anti-lynching legislation, and Harry S. Truman's civil rights program. He defended states' rights to establish the poll tax by questioning whether uneducated non-taxpayers should be allowed to vote." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Davis
There's nothing like the sound of a healthy V8.

There is one thing better, though. Stand near a P-51 Mustang when its engine starts. Wow.

There's even a book written about it - "Sigh of a Merlin". (The P-51 engine is a Merlin V12.)
That's fascinating because it implies that our ability to feel/respond to spicy food is all psychological. I would have figured that you would have felt at least some pain build while eating really spicy food but I guess not.
Anecdotally, my camera system alerted me and I witnessed someone enter my neighbors vehicle. I got my neighbor and we got the dude out of the car and I asked him unkindly what the hell he was doing and if he had stolen anything.

When police arrived much later the perp actually showed back up down the street and I pointed him out. It was a struggle to get them to go see who he was and investigate, even though I had photo and video evidence of the crime.

Later that night, that same guy broke into another neighbor's house and they came in much hotter, with shotguns to clear the house and they were able to arrest him not far down the street.
For Astrix, check out "Sex Style" from the album "Artcore":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcj3hKRxec
Nah, they're not limited to your options. They don't have to define anything - they can just keep the rules secret and punish/reward as they like without explaining anything.

It keeps everyone on their toes, forces over-compliance, and it's easier too!

What's the point of having power if you don't get to be arbitrary after all? All the megacorps do it, from Visa to PayPal to Facebook, Google, Meta, Reddit, and so on.
How is the VR support? I'm lucky to live near a huge pinball spot but it's 20 min away from me. I'd love to play pinball in VR.
Believe it or not, the legacy point of sale product I work on still uses a VB6 app for the cash office and reporting functions. A number of large grocery stores still use it in the US and abroad. I don’t work on that part of the application, but it still works just fine on Windows 11.
Starting to notice a huge influx of OS projects not being funded and maintainers drop off of something that's valuable and their passionate about. It's unfortunate.
We automate the scraping and aggregation of congress members trades/disclosures (house and senate).

This has been a side project we have been working on for a few months. Any and all feedback of what you like/dislike is welcome!
In general, higher interest seems good for banks. But I do wonder to what extent high interest rates encourage depositors to move money out of the banking system entirely. Right now, there is no particular limit on the ability of depositors to use those deposits to purchase short-dated T-bills or their money-market equivalents — there’s plenty of T-bill liquidity to go around. (Presumably this results in the banks, on average, holding an equivalent amount less of various agency debt.)

Not doing something along these lines is fairly expensive right now.
Like LastPass, for instance. /s
The target audience is startups? Wouldn't the majority of them fit into the free plan? (While potentially consuming most of the support time)
For me, time is a helix - so you go around over the course of a single year, but also up/down the helix over the years.
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The Korg Opsix is a great modern take on FM synthesis, if you're looking to buy something new that can do what the TX81Z can do. There's a digital version as well, but my gut says there are probably better digital FM synths - I haven't tried it tho.

To your two points, it's got 24-32 voices (https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/opsix/specific...), and while it's not natively multitimbral, you can hack it using key-tracking to create pseudo multitimbral sounds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8skEWKbfBs)

If you're interested in less keyboard-y, more sequencer-y FM synthesis - the Elektron Digitone has 8 voices, and I think it can do 4-part multitimbral splits (the digitone keys can definitely, assume the standalone can). I'm not a huge fan of the Elektron style of doing things, but many people are.
I've heard of landscapers moving to Ford Lightnings and charging equipment on-site (and maybe while driving?). Of course, those are roughly $100k each so those are probably landscapers with much higher margins than your typical residential landscaper.
I would like a quiet blender. I find it absurd the level of volume we tolerate with household appliances in general, but the new ultra-powerful blenders are just ridiculous to me. It is louder than my car, and it's meant to be used indoors!
> I was doing the same as you. Gouraud shading, texture-mapping, phong-shading.

Is your old code posted anywhere? I think many of us were working from the same example projects/tutorials. I wouldn't be surprised if the code is incredibly similar.

> I had to open your triangle renderer, and there it was - you'd inlined your x86.

Being able to inline asm was amazing. The code:

https://github.com/bhouston/3DMaskDemo1997/blob/master/src/N...

Being able to access C++ variables on the stack directly from assembler to read and to write to them was so nice. You get the speed benefits without adding significant complexity.
loss of smell. I don't know who fails to wipe their asses anymore
>Given that cash is dying

And famously, humans did ZERO transacting before the US invented paper currency, right? Or maybe a market exists externally to the financial instruments that can operate in it? Crypto isn't needed for barter. Crypto isn't needed for secret barter. Hell, swap buy sell guides were a thing in my childhood, before anyone paid for anything on the internet.
Adding Virtual Aquariums from the early 2000s to this list. When those came out I was mind blown! Today, I haven't seen much better. Would be cool for someone to create a "push-the-boundaries" virtual aquarium that can be played on a large format display. (Maybe it's just easier to pull up a youtube video of a fishtank on a 6 hour loop.)
Once you have a certain size codebase / ecosystem, removing unnecessary complexity from it is a much harder skill than adding more.

Some 'law' about always something, somewhere depending on whatever got built previously. Documented or not.

Of course there's the rewrite. Read: starting over with a better design than existing one. Yet another skill that few mortals possess when it comes to intricate machinery like an OS.

And then a whole bunch of functionality must be re-implemented. Which takes countless human-hours (always in short supply). If not years.

That leaves the option to replace pieces one by one with better ones, leaving overall structure (mostly) in place / working. Oh wait, that's what is usually done. Rip something out, plug the hole, move on.
In terms of ease of use, we went very wrong. You need to be an expert to understand all the technologies involved in a react web app, and there is no easy drag and drop coding function included.
It does until mining rewards go to zero right? unless there is a closed ecosystem whereby miners can pay their electricity bills and other expenses with crypto. Eventually actual money has to enter? Just sort of thinking out loud maybe missing something
...but the first line says `# FUTO TEMPORARY LICENSE` so, hopefully we can expect some changes in near future.

In the meantime, we cannot use it as it is.
yeah i haven't seen an ad or sponsor message on youtube in years, and I can't fathom using it with ads. I rather be bored and stare at a wall.
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