skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ardour is easily extensible:

1. 3rd party plugin APIs (VST2, VST3, AudioUnit, LV2)
2. Lua scripting interface, covering very large chunks of the internal API, already used by many users to do some very clever and/or useful things.
3. C++ source, generally well reviewed by most newcomers

what is does not have, and which is how TFA originated, is a scripting system that lets you build new GUI components.
> you can eliminate these bugs by getting better at writing code.

No, the data doesn't show this. This is the "anger" response to being confronted with the reality of the inherent insecurity of C and C++. https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2021/presentation/ga...
In what ways does the rest of the world depend on Ethiopia's industrial production capacity?
I am writing the datasheet for the reconfigurable MPPT bidirectional buck/boost flyback invertor microcontroller SoC chips as we speak [1]. Do you have an email I can send it to?

The older white paper is very much related, it describes the large power router chips, the MPPT nano-invertor microcontroller chips for individual solar cells are just a recent adddition to our system of line chips.

The video presentation is about the wafer scale integration, a million core giant version of the same microprocessor as the tiny MPPT chips, so they are very much related.

[1] Morphle MNI003 datasheet:

input voltage: 0.01V-6.01V (solar cell or battery input)

output voltage: 0.6V-12V (aggregated or single output)

can power up from solar cell or battery, 0,02W

External inductor (30-100 μH) needed.

Builtin 8 opamps, 4 power mosfets, 3 capacitors, 3 diodes

Forms a programmable reconfigurable MPPT inverter or a Li-ion (all 6 chemistries) battery charger and discharger.

180 Mhz 64 Bit Microprocessor made from 8 bit ALU slices. Can be configured at runtime as 8 x 8b it, 4 x 16 bit, 2 x 32 bit and 1 x 64 bit processors.
Microcode processor executes X86-64, ArmV8, Risc-V instructions and Python and Squeak bytecodes natively.

4K OTP memory

16K SRAM

SPI interface to external flash

one-wire network over power input and output wire
two-wire 10baseT ethernet to wire all inverters into networks up to 10240 microcontrollers

networked MNI003 chips can aggregate output voltages up to 240V DC
Well said. It won Pulizer for a reason. It's not for learning facts, its for thinking. GEB ponders and it's masterfully written.

I can also recommend Metamagical Themas from Hofstadter. It's a collection of articles he wrote for Scientific American.
> with sufficiently advanced technology

Oh, you mean magic? :P
They will probably have better relationships with their wives, and certainly with their kids, if they spent more time with them.
The security problem of open platforms is the key.

Anything that is open enough to let someone who knows what they're doing customize the system to their liking, will also be abused by bad actors persuading people who don't know what they are doing to customize the system in ways that harm them.

The fact I can write my own custom keyboards on Android is great! But the fact someone can convince your grandparents to install a keyboard that includes an embedded key logger is not!

Browser extensions have always been a malware-rich ecosystem. Joking about removing all the toolbars from your parents' Internet Explorer whenever you went home for thanksgiving dates back to about 1999.
It's a long time since I last read the book but I remember that in a sense the book ends at about 50%, that is a meta discussion in the book says it ends now and the rest that's following is a redundant. Will have to re-read it to find that location again...
>For this to make sense, the soul has to in some way influence or be responsible for a person's character.

Why couldn't the influence go the other way, with a soul left behind that was shaped by physical events it had no effect on? Insofar as the idea of a soul can make sense, that seems the only way.
I hand coded asm demos and music trackers for Amiga since 1986, and there is no need to be rude on HN.. keep that to reddit :)

This was ages ago, but as far as I can recall, the main obvious limitation of the AGA chipset compared to the PC cards was 1 byte-per-pixel modes (I think they call it "chunky" modes now) so the simple texture-mapping 3D loops you could hand-code on the x86 were a pain on the Amiga. I'm sure now 30 years later people have figured out cool hacks to do this better but back then it didn't work, and adding to this was the fact that the PC cards were improved like every 6 months. Commodore went bankrupt 1 year after I bailed, and I didn't look back.. (though I did miss AmigaDOS real multitasking for some PC/Mac generations after :).

The A1000 I had was a great machine in 1987-1990 but somewhere after that the whole Amiga concept started to feel dated (IMO). The PC architecture won because it was essentially hardware open-source, and hundreds of vendors could add features to the platform together. Commodore would have had to do every single decision spot on correct for years in order to stay competitive as a single company. Look at what happened when IBM tried to tame the beast and released the PS/2 that was "closed source"..
My experience is that when faced with what seems at first like pseudo-intellectual nonsense, it's usually more productive to either explicitly say I don't feel like discussing the topic, or else try to get someone into a serious conversation about the details, instead of trying to insult or shame the other person. Sometimes people are just bad at smalltalk / earnestly oblivious to the impression they leave / trying hard to impress for whatever reason, and aren't really trying to be pretentious even if they initially come across that way. YMMV.
> There is a difference between making a DAW and publishing its complete source code, and making a DAW, whether open source or not, and making it automatable/scriptable which is what these users seem to be looking for.

It is already automatable/scriptable, to a huge degree.

What you cannot do is use the scripting to create new GUI elements. That's how/why TFA was originally written.
Google Drive used to, maybe still does keep versioning metadata in file names
In some ways the west is still remarkably feudal but to the direct chain of managers not just directly to your “liege lord”. I regularly see people say no to big bosses who are outside the direct management even if they have high ranks.
If you are using software at all you already "depend on" developers. The question is whether you can choose them or not.
I would suggest against an epub. I tried finding one too, only to realize the formatting of the book is ill-suited for anything but its original printed format (it’s far too particular for the epub format). Maybe give your local library a try?
>good for techies to read

To be sure, you certainly didn't mean it this way, but for the sake of the poor guy who has seen GEB touted as one of these books that "every programmer/computer scientist/CS major has to read" and sees your post in the same light:

You don't have to read GEB. You will be a fine techie without reading it. And you'll be a fine person in general without reading it. There is no spiritual revelation you can only get from GEB or some important technical knowledge that you'll get that you wouldn't get from a normal CS degree program. Try it out and see if you enjoy Hofstadter's writing - if you do, you might be in for a really enlightening and enjoyable experience. If you don't, no worries - your time is better spent elsewhere - there is no need to put yourself through the pain of slogging through a >700 page book that you don't enjoy. There are many other perfectly fine entry points for learning about topics in computer science, cognitive science, or philosophy of mind.
Skyfly, AeroVolt: UK's First Airfield-to-Airfield EVTOL Flight with Recharging
My reaction would be simpler: Anything that's identified as risky? Show the user. Extension is making an HTTP request? Show the body in a toast. Extension is reading the keyboard? Same thing. Extension is looking at the page? Little icon in the corner showing the name of the extension and that it looked. Can't be turned off. So extensions can still do all that crazy stuff, but they're noisy about it.
Cramming ChatGPT into everything
The glorious 6502 had a flag to perform all arithmetic operations in BCD.
I think we're talking past each other a bit. The person you first responded to said that some problems exist, you said they don't, and I expanded a bit, agreeing with them.

Your position seems actually to be though that you can make smart devices acceptable if you're careful enough. That's probably true. However, I've seen the code people write, and I still personally wouldn't want a smart oven or any number of other such devices.

> Your repudiation appears to be about centralized services, not about “smart” devices as a general concept.

There's some truth to that. I focused on that point just because smart devices usually have a markup for their extra features, even though you don't really own the product, manufacturers have a habit of shutting them down, and most of the "smarts" are just figuring out how to generate extra ad revenue. That's not _all_ smart devices, but it's a lot of them. Contrast that with a centralized service like Overleaf, where I know I'm renting server time and disk space, and it's obvious what the threat models are (they can read anything sensitive, and I should probably make sure everything is backed up). Selling living room audio recordings on a device you paid more than fair market value for just feels a bit slimy, and I thought that might be a good touchpoint to illustrate what sorts of things can go wrong.
I think Apple got themselves in that position. Features many people relied on did go away lots of times before. Basic things are broken and Apple doesn't care. (dtrace is broken in latest 2 major versions of the system, same for system settings search) At this point, if some functionality disappears, it's not totally unreasonable to expect that it's Apple being Apple.
Hey - you did the right thing, and IMHO no amount of money is worth doing otherwise, and I agree with your assesment of the others. This is no trivial debate of a theoretical principle; I hate to say everything is at stake, but we can't hide from it.

You're the first person I've found who has given me an inside view and some explanation. How hearbreaking. But our ideas are better ideas - there is no comparison; theirs are almost childish. Look at the societies built by them and by ignorance. We have the power, we just need to use it.

If you don't mind me asking, a related issue weighs heavily: What happened to postmodernism in academia? I know it was politicized in the broader world (by people not knowing what it meant and using postmodern arguments), but I assumed enough in academia would know better. But it doesn't seem that way. Several years ago I ate lunch with a few faculty from various schools and was talking to one whose dissertation had been on an iconic postmodern writer. I mentioned reading one of that writer's books recently; my friend formed an embarassed expression and said quietly to me, 'I don't read that kind of thing anymore'. :o (Nothing of that writer could offend contemporary sensibilities.)

It's important to me because, it seems to me, postmodernism provides almost everything needed for these contemporary problems - distrust of power, ultimate distrust of ego and megalomania, the tools, etc. I've made an effort to remove myself from the madness and, using those tools, it all seems straightforward and transparent to me. Yet even postmodernism's strongest proponants seem to have abandoned it; why? They have unilaterially disarmed - and what have they replaced it with? Have we simply laid down our arms, as encouraged by an enemy as they march forward?

Edit: I should say that I am reaching just a little in my knowledge of postmodernism, which I never specifically studied (I never read a History of Postmodern Thought, etc.). So hopefully I'm not misapplying it in places.
You are a low level grunt. Directors and executives are not using sage for a lot of things.
I don't think we need to ban private jets. It should just be more expensive to use them.

Take Taylor Swift as an example. Is she meant to fly commercial? How would that work exactly? She'd get mobbed at the airport, at security, at the gate, on the plane. Just look at what happened when Taylor Swift went to a friend's rehearsal diner in New Jersey recently [1].

It would be a legitimate security issue too. The last one is why many executives of large companies (eg Tim Cook) are banned by their boards from flying commercial.

So, stop making private jets any form of legitimate tax deduction. Give them absolutely no tax advantageous treatment whatsoever. Increase the fuel excises, landing fees, parking fees, you name it. When the amortized flying cost of that jet jumps from $10k/hour to $30k/hour, we'll see who still needs to fly private.

Oh and as for working 4 days a week. Yes. Most jobs are bullshit. Most work is bullshit. Work less, get paid more.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUjXdKEVoBg
Rented e-scooters cleared from Paris streets on eve of ban (2023)
WPF and Xamarin dev here who wrote a new (not ported) codebase on Avalonia.

- Avalonia has a guide just for people like you and me [1].

- Avalonia's flavor of XAML has small divergences from WPF that will have you hitting their docs often. There are some nice quality-of-life improvements, for example you can bind a Button click handler directly to a method without ICommand. The major concepts are the same e.g. data binding, dependency properties.

- Coming from WPF, it's possible you've used MVVM and dependency injection. You'd be going against a strong cultural grain to not use them in Avalonia. But I would be surprised if your WinForms app is architected like that, so it may be a design challenge extracting coherent ViewModels and properties from the ball of mud that many WinForms apps become.

- For macOS, read up on notarization [2] and, if you're publishing to the Mac App Store, the review process.

- I recommend starting with example apps (look in the Showcase) or with the Avalonia template solution which just runs out of the box.

- The Avalonia team iterates quickly. Expect to upgrade NuGets frequently, and don't get too far behind. There was recently a big jump from version 10 to 11. Good for you for starting after that.

- Not Avalonia specifically but if you're not used to .NET Core check out #nullable enable. Can't live without it now, but was confusing at first.

- Be sure to check out all of the official and community libraries [3]. I bet my design big on `ReactiveUI` and it's gone well.

[1] https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/get-started/wpf/

[2] https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/deployment/macOS

[3] https://github.com/AvaloniaCommunity/awesome-avalonia
That doco was an amazing spiral, from "let's try doping as an amateur athlete" to "here's how Russia organised doping for the Winter Olympics."
Fwiw I haven't seen a plastic bag stuck in a tree for years either. I live in the UK where they're legal but there's a (mandated) 10p or something fee for them. (Personally I have a few of the slightly more expensive but much less disposable ones that I can reuse indefinitely.)

Weirdly I did see cassette tape stuck in a tree recently though!
I can slog through hard-to-read novels. I can decrypt your linguistic puzzles. I sometimes write in a hard-to-read way, but never on purpose. The only people who write that way on purpose are imposters, who camouflage their lack of ideas in infinitely-interpretable word salads. I truly don't believe there is any idea, thinkable by any human mind, that can't be communicated in simple writing. It might take more words, since you aren't taking jargon shortcuts, but it forces you bring your ideas into the full sunlight to face judgement. In all that re-drafting work to communicate simply, entertainingly, and smoothly, the author is forced to improve their ideas.
> I know many men for whom work is a way to escape home with the nagging wife and the kids who don't respect them.

Imagine sharing chores, the horror.
Here is the reddit link, https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/1aezqmg/comment/ko8...
I think nursing is one sector I could see directly translating shorter work weeks to higher costs. Something like bus drivers you could remove part of services. With factories labour should not be significant part of cost compared to raw materials.

In many areas you could just provide less hours of services, thus lower costs. But in some this is just not possible and those will cost more.
> Private jets since they are a little minority does not count except for PR/emotions (no, I do not have one).

They do count. It's incredibly important that elites/leaders have skin in the game, and live by the same rules as those they govern.
Yes, quite clearly it’s easy to measure nitrogen dioxide as well. A well ventilated stove has no problem with the nitrogen dioxide produced.

So it’s an example of illogic to push for banning gas stoves rather than incentivizing proper ventilation.
Wait, I got it:

A 3-day work week AND banning private jets!

> That’s the radical vision proposed by philosophy professor and Marxist scholar Kohei Saito

I find it ironic that his book is still available for purchase on a half dozen "capitalist" websites. Why not it give it away for free once his labor has been "fairly" compensated for?

Why apply degrowth/slowdown in his own life and show us?
I have not read Ulysses but I have read other works from Joyce and cannot imagine comparing him to Hofstadter. I put GEB in the same mental box as Sophie's World or the Mr. Tompkins books, where story is used as a means to the end of teaching something to an audience that would otherwise find the material unpalatable.
Pre 95? 16-bit?
Here is a link to a user on reddit claiming to work at Microsoft going into more detail, https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/1aezqmg/comment/ko8...
There's an important point here, which somehow got lost in that article. For Rust, it's important that unsuccessful compiles be fast. Development usually involves far more failed compiles than successful ones, as you satisfy all the consistency conditions which Rust enforces. When the program finally compiles, there's a good chance it will work.

So it's important to benchmark compiles with errors, and make sure those are fast.

One-minute incremental release compiles seem typical. There have been some problems with the optimizer in the linker taking huge amounts of memory if you turn on all the optimizations. A 32GB or larger machine may be needed for some programs.
> We are chip designers and made a 1 dollar cent 64 bit 8 core microprocessor with MPPT and bidirectional buck/boost flyback inverters built-in.

Attaching an MCU to an inverter isn’t exactly new technology. It’s not clear why you need a bidirectional buck/boost for solar, let alone an 8-core 64-bit MCU on every cell.

Do you have any technology that couldn’t be replicated by another chip designer company by combining their IP blocks and sending it through their fab queue?

The problem with a “1 cent” chip (or $0.04 or a dollar depending on which comment I read) is that it’s a negligible part of the overall cost. The price of the packaging, magnetics, testing, and integration into the panel will eclipse that by orders of magnitude. If a single-founder company could do it with only $50K investment, then any of the big players could have done it years ago unless you’re in possession of some patents that can’t be worked around.

The above claims of producing “30% more” energy also don’t hold up, given that it would require current systems to be less than 77% efficient (a number that was surpassed long ago)
Everybody is cooking in France, not only housewives, it's a part of being French.
The problem with this analogy is that it presupposes that there actually are "repair shops" somewhere that could do whatever you need done.

For a DAW, that just turns out not to be very realistic. It's bit like owning some highly exotic, super-sophisticated vehicle without the hood welded shut: sure, in theory anyone could modify it/fix it for you, but in reality only the folks that made it understand it well enough to do so.
Presumably, some combination of measurable signals (e.g. heart rate, blood pressure, perspiration, certain movements, muscle tenseness, ....) could do the same thing, regardless of whether autism were present or not.

Patient cooperation may be a factor - or, "those durned prisoners keep taking their sensors off". And then when we take the next logical step - surgical implants - it does indeed start to feel a tad Minority Reporty.
LOL I surely did, it even explicitly says:

"I did not feel well throwing yet another Python packaging tool into the ring.

Yet it exists now and has user. (sic)"

TL;DR: I knew it was a bad idea, but I did it anyway.

But I wouldn't have had to, anyway. Because I know how names work: "Rye" is not in the set of current named tools. Doesn't matter that it wraps them. It becomes one by doing so, and now we have 15.
Whether or not the universe is (or, to split hairs, may be exactly expressed as) a formal axiomatic system, was very much an open question, one which Gödel helped answer conclusively in the negative.
> I can't think of anything that hasn't yet solved my problems

You might have several decades ahead where you'll need to search for suitable third-parties and then fill out the necessary forms in JIRA to get the formal blessing to actually make use of them (aka software engineering).

When, if not now, do you think will be the time to do something that tickles your curiosity without having to take economic motives into account?

Go nuts with re-inventing the wheel. Maybe try to not re-invent the square wheel, but if you happen to do, well you've learned something, which makes it useful for at least one person: you.
Really? I had heard that sometimes pilots would nudge them off course or shoot them down but nothing about artillery, I thought radar came along a bit too late to use it for targeting with regard to the V1
>So, stop making private jets any form of legitimate tax deduction. Give them absolutely no tax advantageous treatment whatsoever.

AFAIK there's no such "advantageous treatment" for private jets. They're are tax-deductible in the same way that plane tickets (or any other business expense, really) are tax deductible.
I’ve always wondered why that is. I’ve had both Android and iOS phones and I’ve spent far, far more on iOS apps. I don’t think I’ve ever paid for a web app. There’s something about the platforms themselves then encourage or discourage spending.
No, you did nothing. Why would you get anything?

Holding keys to a cache of goods isn’t a skill.

Even if you claim to have thought really really hard about when to open the vault, the simple act of hoarding less, does not transform the goods into value.

The fact of hoarding, crowds out others use of the resource (reducing monetary velocity) so that means for people who want to make more, the choices made for when to open the vault are solely dependent on an mathematically unequitable distribution of the resultant created goods, in effect stealing directly from the people making value.

To be clear I’m not making the Labor Theory of Value argument - I’m simply demonstrating that by capitals own standard (increase in value based on capital labor mix) capital should get no excess return.

In fact the only argument capitialists have left is the contract and this is the Mises style MaximumCapitalist like Hans Hoppe. The argument goes that as long as a contract is signed, there cannot be anything unethical.
I find Penrose's argument uncompelling: he doesn't see how ordinary physics could result in the sensation of beingness and experience, and we don't really understand quantum mechanics, therefore quantum mechanics is responsible for consciousness. (obviously, his book works on it for 500 pages so my summary is a parody, but that was the gist as far as I can remember)