skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
James Baldwin was both a genius and probably my favorite american of all time. Another Country is one of my favorite novels, and his observation of race, gender, and american culture was razor sharp, but formed through a sincere dedication to the power of empathy, love, and kindness.

Which is not to say he would soften his tongue in his critique. Honest to the point that it is still verboten to admit in professional circles the extent to which his critiques still apply today.

He would have turned 100 this past week. I miss him every day and it was a devastating blow to american culture when he died.
I am not a fan of Teenage Engineering (Disclaimer: I make audio products too).

The reason is, they set a standard for useless gimmicks which are far, far too expensive, designed to appeal to style over substance.

The OP1 is one of the most over-rated 'instruments' out there. It has a fancy, expensive OLED, a fancy, expensive casing, and useless gimmicks. The OLED never really shows you anything useful to the act of music-making. This is true of their Pocket Operators as well - its nearly all stylistic whimsy over functionality.

Save yourself the hassle and frustration of using a Teenage Engineering product and either buy the parts and make yourself an LMN3[0], or invest in devices that don't take the piss out of the user, such as the 1010Music Bluebox or Synthstrom Deluge.

The musical-instrument industry is rife with people who want to rip off the punters, who they know for a fact are easily afflicted with GAS (gear acquisition syndrome), resulting in customers across the globe who end up stashing their expensive, sexy-looking (but functionally retarded) toys in the drawer after a period of glib usage.

[0] - https://github.com/FundamentalFrequency

[1] - https://1010music.com/

[2] - https://synthstrom.com/
Could Wikipedia or Archive.org offer references-as-a-service to book publishers for a small fee? They already have the infrastructure and legal cover.
there genuinely isn't, it's all overpriced shit.
> When I make a change to some code or config, I'll run it locally to make sure that the change has the effect that I want.

It's not uncommon for devs to be working against outdated databases / config dumps. Certainly bad practice but when devs have the option of being lazy vs doing chores, they will pick the path of less resistance.

> But what I can't understand is that the human who initiated this change decided not to see if it actually did what they wanted it to do.

We're assuming that the person who changed the code also made the choice to initiate the rollout. They are 2 separate actions which can be made by separate individuals and could also involve many multiple steps in between, each undertaken by a separate individual as well.

Distance from Prod does introduce a sense of malaise and complacency, I've found.
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Getting Started with Flutter GPU
The major difference is between a device powered by the TV vs an always on device.

Targeted use vs constant home inhabitants monitoring.
Your personal opinion, if I'd be interested in what his companies does I'd go work there asap.
I have a friend who is on the grounds crew at an urban university who has a few handfuls of Stihl models at work and close to as many at home. The only one I've ever seen him use is the electric one.

I'm not a chainsaw guy myself, but it was quite nice to use when I've borrowed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_wnCkhi9b0
Not much of a friend then eh
I posit that there are multiple disparate teams involved.

--

Team 1 tells Team 2 that the schema is updating.

Team 2 updates their schema.

Team 2 tests against updated schema (which would be a test file)

All green in test.

Team 1 doesn't actually follow the schema.

Deployment fails.
Conclusion is opposite of the headline:

> While the article may sound a bit pessimistic about dedicating extra time to tech initiatives, I believe it’s a good idea.

But the article mentions some things to watch out for and consider.
I don’t see why space should be required for a change to occur. Now, particle spin may be associated with a physical direction, but I don’t see why it needs to be. Why not say “we have a unit vector in C^n evolving unitarily” (Where C^n is n-tuples of complex number) ?
Oh wow .. did they get Pil and Galia Kollectiv to do that marketing video?

https://www.kollectiv.co.uk/TheImmigrants/index.html
Oof, never become a farmer. Farming is generally something you (reluctantly?) inherit along with the farm. It's insanely expensive to buy your way in. Even if you inherit the land, the cost of buying and upkeep of machinery is extremely expensive. Everything you invest after that point (in livestock, seed, fuel, time) is a risk. Bad luck or bad weather can ruin a crop. The hours are long. The stress is monumental - suddenly you really care about the weather. And unlike some small tech startups you absolutely have to employ people, but the people who end up working as farm labourers "fall" into it because they can't do anything else (kinda like the building trade). Not that you'll be complaining when you have to pay their wages. No you'll complain when the umpteenth stupid costly mistake is made.

Unless you're thinking about larping as a farm labourer, runaway.
I've been robbed before, too. I prefer that to the sterile antisocialness of the wealthy.
Well I guess I should post the obligatory

> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think

> “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.”

> Now they have two problems.
Novel ADHD intervention: peripheral visual stimulation ["Neuro-glasses”](2023)
Yes, fun is the key value. It is fun to play with a music toy, with a near-useless interface, and still get 'something' out of it. That is a key factor in their design principles - make some expensive whimsical toy that GAS-afflicted punters will invest in.

Meanwhile, you can spend the money on even more powerful devices and avoid the frustrating UI experience for which Teenage Engineering are infamous.

Sure, you can make music with a toy - thats the beauty of music, not the toy.
I'm not blaming them for the crime, just their lack of understanding how the world works. If you want to understand poverty in america the only place to look is capital and americans' commitment to individual material comfort over all other values.
Mac laptop keyboards had the lower enter key well into the 2000's. I'm not sure what model finally dropped it (Titanium PowerBook G4, maybe?)
Agreed there has to be a balance between simplicity and options.
An interesting way to think of time is that it's really a measure of change of position.

Even atomic clocks measure time by the change of position of particles.

We measure years by the positional change of the Earth relative to the sun.

Each human made clock measures time by some positional change which repeats in equal enough intervals to stay consistent.
They were developed by the database group at TU Munich.
They can inject that beat directly into my veins.
This blog is nonsense - the gas saw in the video is 100% for sale, you can buy it today from any Husky outfitter in CA.

What’s banned are much much smaller saws - 45cc and down - that are, just like the video shows, in the same ballpark as electric saws.

Rather than spreading anti-climate fear mongering, you can simply refer to the state website to see what implements are covered by the law: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/fact-sheets/sore-applicabil...
BART is, quite frankly, much grimmer and less safe than you seem to give it credit for.
Cool! Been working on some automation bots in golang lately, so could I use your program to monitor my screen on the go over the phone? cheers
I'm immune because I don't answer my phone if you're not in my limited contacts list, and if you're an unknown number, you automatically go straight to voicemail.

Drastic measures like this had to be taken because I had a DBA for awhile and foolishly listed my actual number with the business. Basically my number is forever 'on the list', so, I made my own list.

Of course, if you're on my list and you call asking for ten bucks, well, I'll probably give it to you.
Even if we've lost the separate enter key, at least we still have separate Meta and Control keys (Meta/CMD for keyboard shortcuts, CTRL for terminal control codes)...
Interesting. I don't know when that was implemented in Rust but clearly Go has had it for a long time, since that post is dated 2015.

While things like syntax are important, languages adding tooling like this (along with stuff like package managers) is so important to the continued evolution of the craft of software development.
So many cities outside the US manage to have this as the only redeeming quality. It's nice to not have to walk - it's not so great to have to walk because you can't afford a car and public transit does not cut it for everyone even in the best rated cities of the world. And it's not really interesting to have a dense train network if you can't afford the train ticket; then you're just angry your tax money is spent on it instead of you.

I'm from Europe but I would be very careful with claiming it's just a few cities or neighborhoods in the US. I made a list of places I could move to eventually, and it's at least two dozen, and that's just because I was focused on cities with significant tech/business scene.
> a mid-range gas-powered Husqvarna 562 XP, next to a top-of-the-line battery-powered Husqvarna 540i XP

Trying to find some context on energy-storage here, the store-page doesn't really reveal the information I want, but using other sources and some napkin-math:

1. Gasoline model has a 0.65L fuel tank, so with gasoline that's about ~20 mega-joules of chemical energy.

2. Electric model might (?) use a BLi300 battery, so 9.4 amps * 36 volts * (60*60) = ~1.2 mega-joules.

So I'm not too surprised that either runtime or performance is being sacrificed, if they're similar in weight and consumers don't plan to swap batteries 16 times in the time that would use one tank of gas.
I've found MDN and the Rust programming language docs to be pretty solid.
Nextcloud Talk is another option, but you probably need the Golang High-Performance backend [1] for more than three people simultaneously.

[1] https://github.com/strukturag/nextcloud-spreed-signaling
One takeaway here is that the university is mostly a theoretical course, that is targeted partly towards the apprentice partly towards the master paths.

Out of all the interns i've worked with and hired, it is evident that a university diploma does not guarantee someone to be at a journeyman level, and more likely than otherwise hints towards a mid-level apprentice
> Posting credentials and substantiating claims are two different things.

Are they, though? I mean, there are neither credentials nor claim substantiation.
Sams club I’ve found beats Costco in some areas but for some items Costco absolutely undercuts like crazy. Cat litter at sams is twice the price when not on sale.

I pretty much just exclusively shop at Aldi/Walmart as they have the best prices overall. Kroger owned stores and Albertsons owned are insanely overpriced. Target is a good middle ground but I can’t stand shopping there now with everything getting locked up.
cond isn't a trinary operator it is more of a switch statement.

Trinary is expressly

let x = condition ? truevalue : falsevalue

You can do shenanigans by having something along the lines of

let x = condition1 ? truevalue1 : (condition2 ? truevalue2 : falsevalue)
Corded chainsaws, hedge cutters, strimmers, wood chippers etc. are not really feasible for rural parcels or for professional gardeners, but in my opinion for a larger suburban plot they really hit the sweet spot and are often overlooked: not nearly as noisy as gas powered (work on Sundays without upsetting the neighbors!), lighter in weight, no maintenance, much more powerful than tools with batteries, you never run out of power, half the price of a cordless tool. Yeah, sure, rolling up a 50m extension cord is a pain in the ass, but in exchange you get tools that actually work.

It does look like the California law also applies to professionals (though see jakewins' comment), which probably sucks, but I'm seeing more and more 36V gardening tools pop up, so maybe the transition won't be as hard as it looks.
How Uber tests payments in production
Chromecast originally allowed to send a Chrome tab to your TV. The brand definitely made sense.
Teenage Engineering use a type of design that is intended to obfuscate the functionality of the device. For example, their Pocket Operator series use LCD displays which have very little utility to the experience of music-making. The OP1 has an OLED display which mostly displays non-sequitur nonsense.

Those of us who despise Teenage Engineering are reacting to a design ethos which devalues the users knowledge and understanding of what they are doing, over whimsical non-sequitur. You're not getting a musical instrument - you're getting a device, which despite itself, can nevertheless be used to make some kind of music.

That's the beauty of music, not the device. You can make music with anything.

So the feeling among those of us who also make musical instruments is that Teenage Engineering are packaging up an inherent feature of music and selling it to people in a fancy way - they don't really care about the music-making features, which are almost secondary to their effort to design aesthetically appealing, moderately functional, expensive toys.

And in that light, it makes complete sense that they would involve themselves in the Rabbit R1. The impression is that Teenage Engineering kind of despise their customers, who they think are dumb, and they therefore invest in non-sequitur aesthetics in lieu of smart design that pushes the industry forward. Teenage Engineering ship exploitation and ridicule - they don't make finely crafted instruments for musicians to hone their skills. Most great musicians who play with an OP1 and make music with it, do so despite the devices' many roadblocks to creativity.
Or when they change what unit to display so you can’t easily cross compare.
This seems like a no code platform for developing APIs. Although I am not sure if it supports all kind of data like Relational, NoSQL, Graph data etc. Also in cases where complex business logic is needed over the data, what would one implement them.
That seems like old advice. Why are we still hacking on Amazon Firesticks?

And the last Intel Compute Stick was released in 2021 -- the Compute Stick is just another consumer product that Intel has killed (along with their NUCs and their reliable/inexpensive desktop motherboards).

I mean, Kodi is wonderful, but the platforms to use it with seem to have moved on.

As an example: For years now, a Raspberry Pi 4 with LibreELEC is a fine way to watch local media on even convoluted AV rigs with its dual HDMI outputs. A Pi 5 also works. (And both can use CEC, so navigation can happen with the normal TV remote without additional fuckery.)
The intermittent use tools being battery powered makes a lot of sense to me. I am thinking about swapping to an electric trimmer this year.

The one that I can't help but laugh at a bit is the battery powered mower. I totally understand it works for some use cases, but for those it fails at it's really really bad. 30 minutes advertised runtime turns into 5 when you are dealing with a lawn in the gulf coast region during the summer.
> There are many. For example, you're leaving your home computer and going to work. Save a link and see what's going on there

On what, your primary desktop?

Maybe you are just a bit Windows-centric but I would guess many of us run virtual desktops and/or other means of remote access such as ssh.

For general monitoring, maybe have a look at state of the art solutions, like https://prometheus.io/
Why not AMD any more? Considering the Intel quality control problems with copper-plated vias on 13th and 14th gen processors, I am giving those a wide berth, and I’d want Zen 5 in a high-performance laptop anyway.

I live in the UK and considered getting the Starfighter, but was put off by the excessive lead times which meant it would be obsolete on arrival.
It seems the objective is to disincentive companies that have business outside the city borders.
UK – Don't let big tech firms use these riots to push for more surveillance
What really happens is people like my friend make their own ebike that is super powerful but looks like a normal bicycle, and while it is against the rules nobody ever questions it because it looks like a bicycle.
Why Telegram is the go-to app for those wanting to spread toxic information
Thats ok from the perspective of it making room for a more capable and expensive GPT5 model to compete with Opus 3.5 when that arrives this year. The significant price drops for a small loss in quality is a reasonable tradeoff. Then GTP4o becomes the mid tier and GTP4o-mini the low tier.

There was 100 days in between Claude 3.0 Opus and Claude 3.5 Sonnet being released which gave us similar capability at a 80% price reduction. When I was using Opus I was thinking this is nice, but the cost does add up. Having Sonnet 3.5 so soon after was a nice surprise.

One more round of 80% price cuts after that combined with building out the multi-step agentic workflows should provide some decent capabilities!
Thanks for sharing
https://chatgtpai.org
An ornate piece by B&H:

“Tales of the EP-1320: Medieval (teenage engineering)”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BaIx0KMOg5I
> The ideal currency has a constant, predictable 2-4% inflation to promote the velocity of money and prevent stagnation.

While a constant 1-2% inflation may be ideal for fiat currency, I think a cryptocurrency should have the simplest and fairest possible emission model of a fixed yearly supply. This gives an inflation rate after n years of 1/n, making the currency disinflationary. While it takes 50 years to get inflation down to 2% this avoids the wealth concentration seen in nearly all existing cryptocurrencies that vastly tip the emission to the first few years.
the advertisement from google where they use google ai to write a fan mail just gave me some feeling that i cant describe but it was really bad. the whole point of writing fan mails is to get a feeling of connecting with the athlete and if i was an athlete and i sense a bit of AI in the letter , i really dont think i would even read the thing.
Maybe plastics.
Whole terminology is pretty mixed up and messy. Moped is that, but then again speed limited scooters like Vespa without the pedals could also be moped. And so could speed and engine limited motorcycle of other style...

In general I understand moped as anything with limited speed/engine size.
Bingo, an extra 50 cents to 2 dollars per item in a grocery order adds up quick, sooner or later.

Also, in-store pricing can be cheaper or not advertised as a sale, but encouraging online shopping can often be a higher price, even if it's pickup and not delivery.

"In-Store Pricing" on websites/apps are an interesting thing to track as well, it feels the more a grocery store goes towards "In-Store pricing', the higher it is.

This would be great to see in other countries.
I have to agree with the author that battery powered chain saws are not for heavy forestry work.

But for a homeowner's odd chain saw jobs they beat gas powered chain saws hands down. Particularly if the use is infrequent, it starts when you press the button and no two stroke maintenance tools, space and knowledge required.

My small saw has scary amounts of torque, to the point where I am terrified of it. I don't think normal chain saw protectors will stop it in case of accident.

Chain saw protector clothing is filled with pockets of fibrous padding and when a chain breaks it, the fibers are supposed to clog the sprocket and stall the engine. Works with two strokes that have little torque at low rpm but electric motors have much more available.

I've cut much larger trunks of hardwood with the tiny saw than you would think possible.
You know, I'm with you. Yet - I once had an ISP rep (Sonic) show up at my door letting me know that they're setting up 10Gbps fiber in the neighborhood and if I'm interested in getting 10x speed (was already on 1Gbps fiber from AT&T) at less than half the cost. I signed up on the spot, and I'm no stranger to saying no. So I suppose it's all about playing the numbers game looking for the right customer for that pitch.
> Please understand the Windows toolchain is often broken

What is going on? The golang windows toolchain is absolutely not "often broken".
> wonder what the big PC makers do

Just some anecdotal evidence:

- Dell XPS 13 from 2014 was getting bios updates until 2019 when I sold it.

- Asus AM4 motherboard was getting updates for 4 years. Mainly for new CPU models.

- 1 year old AM5 motherboard from gigabyte has to be used with original firmware, newer is quite unstable.

- Minisforum miniPC gets about 1 year of updates. Firmware download is via Mediafire (file sharing service). There are no downloads for 3 years old device.

I do not thibg bios is too big issue, most things like CPU vulnerabilities are patched in linux.
The law applies to tiny chainsaws - 45cc or less - no professional fells a tree with a saw that small.

The saw they show in the video and claim is banned is well above 45cc and entirely legal to sell in CA.

In effect, they’ve banned the tiny saws that were equivalent in power to electrics, and kept the mid-size and up that are needed for professional work.
this is really great! i used to watch it on history tv 18 where they would turn the old pc's and break them in such a way that they could extract gold from CPU and other parts of the computer.
great to see they are doing it on large scale.
just wonder what would they do with the remaining waste?.
I would also say woman fear strangers much more than somebody they know.

Maybe what’s the reason they can avoid getting physically attacked by strangers better than men.
Thanks
https://chatgtpai.org
The article mentions microplastics as a potential cause that's being looked into, and that seems pretty reasonable, but are there any other suspicious potential causes?
Weil's Letter from Prison (2005)
On my phone, I've been using MS Edge for quite a long time, if not since it was released, which of course uses Bing and honestly, it never gets in my way, so I would say that, as far as I use the web, it's equally good to Google.
Honestly, given everything I have heard about working conditions there, yes they dont have much self respect. Regardless of what Musk personality is.
Especially since it’s just about perfect runtime with gas - so it would be irritatingly short with batteries.
The electric motor is at least four times more economical in converting the stored energy into motion, so make it four battery swaps. Still bad for many uses, but not quite 16-fold.