skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From "The Milagro Beanfield War", https://archive.org/details/milagrobeanfield0000nich_o3a0/pa...

> With that, Shorty said, “Say, Ladd, why don’t you have Floyd and Carl here set a forest fire?”

> “Hey, just a minute!” Carl Abeyta stiffened self-righteously and stifled an urge to lunge across the room at Shorty. “What the fuck are you talking about?”

> “Setting a fire,” Shorty said calmly. “Christ, that’s one of the few ways those men down there have earned a living around here. I know of a dozen guys from town, the past twenty years, who've gone up and set the trees on fire. For crissakes, man, it’s—what is the pay now? Two-fifty an hour around the clock? Three dollars? And the Forest Service—God bless Smokey the Bear!—packs in potatoes and all the fresh-killed beef you can eat. You want to get this town’s mind off that beanfield, light the forest and hire all the heavies to put it out. And keep lighting little fires here and there—”
The first two-thirds of this tutorial seems to be focused on breaking down the components of a standard subtractive synthesizer (essentially the synthesis process itself). However, it doesn’t really delve into how these components are interconnected or how they operate as a cohesive system. The latter part of the tutorial is more aligned with what you're referring to.
That said, the knowledge gained here isn’t universally applicable to all synthesizers, it's only applicable to Subtractive Synths. If the tutorial took just one additional step, it could provide a more complete foundation, but as it stands, it leaves you wanting more (or worse, not know you need to know more).
For a more versatile pointed approach, I suggested using something like VCV Rack, because Its modular interface allows you to import only the modules you need to explore or explain a specific synthesis method. This hands-on method enables you to experiment and internalize the concepts, which can then be applied to the synthesizers you have on hand.

Most tutorial videos are 5-10 minutes long, and completely reproducible and it's very clear the signal flow from one part to the next.
Every reddit community (same goes for HN) will only accept posts/opinions pushing their agenda or do not go to far away from it.

How would you expect something else?
Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep
You folks might like the work being done at turso :D
https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite...
Why didn't this happen in this region (over the last half a millennium) ?

No goat equivalent in the Americas ?

Population density too low ?
> seeing how nobody pronounces Pokémon as Pokémon

I say (and usually hear, from English speakers) "poker mon" (non-rhotically). Isn't that roughly correct, allowing for differences between English and Japanese vowels?
Grew up in LA. I don't recall wildfires in the winter, generally. There were Santa Ana Winds this past week though, and I'm pretty sure that's the cause. In the mountains near me, wind speeds were said to be 80-100 mph. They were probably lower where I am, but my neighbor's backyard canopy blew over the wall to my backyard. I helped them hoist it back over the wall today and we estimated it was about 100 lbs.

These are gusty and dry winds coming from the desert, so I assume these fires spread from some manmade source.

> Does this suggest even bigger fires are to be expected in the summer this year when it is actually hot?

I would assume so, yes. Some insurers have been pulling out of CA in 2024.
Actually it is very simple to communicate with the modern hardware (both x86 and ARM). All you need to do is read/write the hardware memory. This called Memory-mapped I/O (or MMIO in short). Of course you cannot do this from the application that run on the OS since it is a job of the kernel to prevent the application to direct access the hardware memory. Here are the roughly steps if you want to get into this field:

1. You need a programming language that capable of output the machine code for your target CPU. Better to be a language that does not have GC or runtime like Rust/C++/C/Zig. If you are not familiar with low-level language I recommend C as a first step since it is easy to find examples on the internet.

2. Learn the basic of assembly language of your target CPU. You need this because the above language may not provide the intrinsic functions for some instructions.

3. Start writing a hello world kernel. You can find a bunch of tutorial on the internet, especially for x86.

4. With step 3 you should already learned how the CPU start your kernel and how many mode and privilege level available on the CPU. Usually the CPU will give you the highest privilege level when jumping into your code.

5. Now you need to setup the CPU into whatever you want. For example, you likely need to switch the CPU to long mode on x86 so you can use 64-bits instructions. In this step you likely need to setup a virtual memory. You can find a reference for your CPU from their website.

6. If you have reached this step then congratulations! You should already have some idea how the CPU is working with the OS and how to enumerate available devices to discover its memory location. There are a ton of works that need to be done once you are here like implementing filesystem, scheduler, etc.

Remember that the only different between the software that run on the OS and the OS kernel is mode of the CPU currently executing its code. With highest privilege level you can use some instructions that are not available to the normal application.
I am not saying they won’t. I am saying they carry responsibility for their actions and are free not to engage in dangerous activities, especially if they result in damages to another human. There are gazillion ways to engage in sexual activity that do not require genitals to touch each other, and you are not a victim of your animalistic desires. You are in control and as such responsible. This is a fact and not an interpretation. Regardless of whether humans find creative ways to avoid responsibility and prefer to make themselves small, eg by inventing concepts such as Gods and fate.

Yes, accidents happen. You are quite likely to eventually get hit by a car if you decide to cross the highway on foot every day for recreational purposes. Fate, bad luck, or choice?
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It is probably not the full answer. I think they are just willing to go the extra mile for what we here in the west would consider "not much money".

Just few weeks ago I ordered my first design from pcbway. (Both first order from them, and the first PCB I ever designed.)

Turns out I was a muppet and made multiple mistakes with my component footprints/selection. One of the connectors just simply didn't fit, the other connector was colliding with a resistor and an IC next to it. Complete shambles and absolutely my mistake.

They were super nice about it. Sent a detailed excel sheet with photos and arrows on the photos illustrating the problems. The sheet had detailed english description of what is wrong and they even had suggestion how they could "bodge" things to still get it working as well as they can given my design mistakes.

We exchanged emails about options and eventually figured out the best way to do it. They did as good a job as they could with my faulty design and now I'm a happy owner of the assembled PCBs.

The whole thing cost $85 for my five boards, components, and assembly. (I think shipping was not included in that price.) Which is "not a lot of money" where I am , and I would certainly not go to this much trouble for that much.

What I'm saying with this story is that "industrial robot and some custom software" doesn't get you this part of the service. Where someone messages you back and forth to figure out how to salvage the poxy design sent by someone incompetent like me.
This is abut literary agencies, but the fake business scam is growing and can be in any industry.
> athletes can participate in other competitions besides the Olympics

They can, but almost none of them are even remotely as popular as the Olympics. The only exceptions are in massive sports (football, in the US american football, hockey, basketball; in countries like India cricket; tennis, F1). For every other sport, the Olympics are the pinnacle and nothing is even remotely comparable.
> I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum.

Never do this.

You are on the right, they are on the wrong. This makes sound like you are doing something wrong.

Standing your ground on what you believe is right - technically, legally, ethically, ideology - would be what make you very successful in the long term.
Is it possible that it is the environment you are in? For me it was quite eye opening moving cities and suddenly seeing that people were a lot more interested in what I had to say. Sometimes it’s not you, and it really is everybody else.
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How does this trend cope with the inevitable commoditization of AI? I mean, when having the best software engineers doesn't make the difference anymore because every company can afford the AI doing their job, presumably at comparable efficiency?
It would no doubt have an effect, but availability of firearms is probably the biggest factor. School shootings in my country (where gun ownership is strictly controlled) are almost non-existent, but definitely reported on when they occur — probably more so for the very reason they are so infrequent.
The Way We Listen to Music Changed Forever When Apple Launched iTunes in 2001
>I like it because there are no software issues anymore

I keep saying this despite being somewhat a fan of ARM. If x86 or subset of x86 opens up it will still be able to compete in many areas.

Oh well. Pat is gone now I need to remind myself I shouldn't care about Intel.
I once lived in a sharehouse with blue paisley carpets and dark wood trim in the living room. It had a lot of natural light and honestly wasn't too bad.
> Why do i (in EU) need to know that a child killed its schoolmates in US ?

To remind yourself why it's such a good idea to keep voting in politicians in favour of strict gun controls?
I've been saying this for almost 2 years now. The raspberry pi was awesome when it first appeared. But given the competition today, especially the Intel mini PCs from one million vendors on Amazon, it became a relic of the past for all but a handful of applications - and these wouldn't need the 16gb model.

What makes me sad is the relative failure of the 400/500 concept. I miss the portable all-in-ones from the 80s. But the difficulty in putting a SSD inside and the infuriating mini HDMI were the nail in the coffin.
And no one can say what exactly.

What has broken about using any of o365?
Plus, when I last checked they are very inefficient in terms of heat isolation. The energy required to keep them at comfortable temperatures are way higher when compared to traditional building techniques.

I recently saw a special glass which is warmer to touch and has way less thermal conductivity, but even with that, the savings are ~20% at most. A brick wall with isolation adds minimum of 25% savings when compared to the same wall provides without isolation, which is way better than the glass to begin with.
I agree it would be ideal to have a mini m2 slot, sata port or similar. You can at least now buy HATs.

Lets be honest many people will have old/spare/extra phone/laptop chargers that they can use to power a Pi. SD cards are cheap, a few dollars.
Release of OCaml 5.3.0
The problem is my blog is not so popular. I will have to relay on any of these channels to have some visibility and engagement.
Caltrans uses goats to create fire breaks around highways: https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-popular-li...
If I recall correctly from the previous threads on this subject, the bugs were just one factor. The more important, and more culpable, was the Post leadership that knowingly covered up the bugs, and lied about not having received any bug reports.

Bugs were just the excuse - the cause was criminally hostile and deceitful post leadership.

Subpostmasters began reporting balancing errors within weeks of the Horizon system being installed, via the helpline the subpostmasters were instructed to use. The Post Office denied the subpostmasters' reports of faults in the system, insisted that the subpostmasters make up any shortfall of money, and in many cases untruthfully denied that any other subpostmasters had reported problems. In May 2002, shopkeeper Baljit Sethi raised concerns with the press that there were errors in Horizon, after his wife Anjana was notified that her subpostmaster contract would be terminated.[48] The Post Office responded that it "totally refuted" that the system was faulty, and that it had "sent experts ... to check it twice". - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
> As the article points out, the IOC makes an absolute fuckton of money from Olympic broadcast rights and sponsors, essentially none of which flows back to the actual athletes.

A lot of it flows back into the Olympic Committees of each country, who are in charge of spreading it, investing into infrastructure, youth development, etc.
It will be interesting to see what happens when they enter the enshitification stage and try to make a profit from Bluesky. Currently, it’s ad free and a nice experience.
That's a good point actually, especially when you're a beginner trying to follow a tutorial. Thanks for the input.
Fencing is hard to follow because its fast and movements are subtle.

For example, if you use your right hand, it's over to quickly.
Children can be the best they can be at something, and have that thing generate no value to anybody else around them

Except that the IOC generate billions in revenue so there obviously is value to a lot of people in it somewhere. The problem as stated is that the root source of that value, ie the athletes, see very little of that revenue.
Yeah, `while...else` in Python does the wrong thing. Executes `else` block when the loop finished normally (not through `break`).

Scala for example has a `breakable {}` block that lets you indicate where you should land after a `break`

breakable {
while condition {
// loop body
if otherCondition then break;
// rest of the body
}
// body of pythonic else block
} // you land here if you break

However I have no idea how to implement the kind of `else` I described in any language without checking the condition twice.
Yeah, and it's not really a big deal for them but looks good for Texas politicians. Well chosen pork, I guess.
In which Jerf longs for PHP.
Every single point has been in, and actively used, for a long while.
The __call() & friends is particularly nifty - simple mental model, broad applicability, in practice used sparingly to great effect.

All in all a very enjoyable post.
> Why is there a sudden increase of low quality articles on HN?

Low-quality punctuation too! :)
Not every one has a 303, Maybe they want to take that cheap Behringer mono synth and do acid on that?

one could argue what made it great was that it only has 5 parameters that affects it's sound and it's sequencer, (and it was a total flop financially for Roland and could bought 2nd hand for like 50 bucks in Detroit. and dance music is better for it!)

and as per the subtractive synth that change music the most...I'm going to go with Moog or mini-Moog, without them there's no 303, 101, Juno, Jupiter, etc.

I love me some good acid-house though, and much rather have a 303 then a mini-moog. :)
If you want cheaper (sort of) K8s nodes, with similar more compute power / RAM you can reuse old devices (smartphones, tablets) and run postmarketOS on them.

Shameless plug: https://blog.denv.it/posts/pmos-k3s-cluster/
I suspect you were downvoted because your comment sounded like it was generated by an LLM.
An interesting thought is how when devices couldn't auto-update, they had to work out the gate. I imagine this encouraged companies to do much better testing to reach a gold-plate before deploying.
And you don't think Kubernetes solves a lot more problems than it creates?
Very interesting, I wonder what you're comparing to.
Strikes against Tesla Sweden leave over 100 charging stalls waiting for power
This is a mail gun issue then isn’t it? Hosted email by Microsoft was one of the early SaaS products and the entire reason the original AJAX was created by Microsoft for IE
I tried melatonin. It gave me nightmares. Weird, but it was repeatable. So, my 0,02€.
Same here. Just spent €150 on something more powerful and versatile and more complete than this pi. IMHO the pi is tremendously overpriced.
Sadly in most of Europe this pattern is taking over too. There are just a few cities in between that seem like a colourful bastion against the boring mainstream.

And not in their architecture, it's seems to be more about the youth scene. Pilsen in Czech republic is a mostly grey boring city, but the people wear much more colorful clothes than in similar cities. The main difference I saw is more nature and a healthy pub culture.
The rise of nuclear powered batteries
It means running Linux or BSD comfortably on it.
Also a variant of rule 211: "Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them."
You are the one assuming things wrongly about me, you know absolutely nothing about what I know and don't.

Am I not allowed to say anything anymore? I know what SerenityOS is and what it's trying to do, I just think it's unreasonable and a waste of effort.

Andreas himself changed his mind about reusing third party libraries in Ladybird, SerenityOS should do the same.
Fair point.

I was slightly more getting at it being not a natural fit for a Unix-like OS but I accept your point.

AFAIK, sadly, Intel BiiN is lost to history now. A Register reader wrote in to me to tell me that he was one of the developers.
Model Merging and You
Thanks for clarifying. Interestingly, in the guidelines, there's an example of where you _add_ "How" instead of removing it: "E.g. translate '10 Ways To Do X' to 'How To Do X'". That tripped me.
For me it’s TrueNAS. Dell Optiplex Micro with 3x SSD. 2 mirrored ZFS drives storage for media, downloaded stuff etc.
I use /s at the end of comments I intend to be sarcastic rather than expecting the population to psychically read my mind. /s
I have kinda bad night sight, and recently went to some parties where more or less everyone was wearing black I couldn't tell where person a ends and person b begins most of the time.
On the spec sheet it shows "current consumption near 30 mA" which would seem to be how much current would be drawn by this converter?

On the next panel the "consumed current" is then listed as 10mA, 18mA, and 20mA at 200, 400, and 1200 VDC.

Maybe this is the amount of current that can be supplied at these high voltages?
This probably depends more on what hardware is being used rather than the SoC itself.

A bare RPi5 seems to idle around 3 W, which a bare N100 can absolutely (out)do (these are designed with S0ix/s2idle after all).

If you add gigabit ethernet, you'll add 0.5 - 2 W (depending on the controller).

If you add NVMe, you'll add 0-4 W - NVMe SSDs vary wildly in both their own power consumption and how they interact with CPU C-states and ASPM. Some SSDs prevent low C-states and thereby increase CPU power consumption a lot, for example (even in S0ix). This is generally true for every PCIe peripheral (including network controllers), but NVMe SSDs are popular troublemakers in this area.

I honestly don't believe any of the "N100 idles at 15 W" numbers. First of all, that substantially exceeds the power limits of the N100, by like a factor of three. So clearly the vast majority of that power isn't being dissipated by the N100. Seeing how N100 boards generally have only one heatsinked component, the power is dissipated elsewhere. Second, people rarely post their exact hardware and how they measured this. "Idles at 15W [because there's a spinning hard drive attached]" is not very interesting. Third, many of the N100 boards have ATX power connectors, and if you use any old ATX power supply, that alone can cause such a number. Fourth, if you're using a cheap power meter, many of them are still wildly inaccurate at the low end. And, fifth, as a reality check, even much older 1L PCs using actual desktop platforms, even with separate chipsets and all that jazz, don't idle at 15 W. Unless you're using Windows, then, maybe. But Windows can't and shouldn't be the yard stick for power efficiency.
Only in the sense that you seem to not understand how terrible big companies, big teams and big code bases are for efficiency and productivity. It pushes the bar for reaching desired results way up, and the time it takes to get there even more. No one should ever want to be part of organizations, teams or code bases like this, for their own sake.
Yep its a better deal. Counterintuitively, the N97 is newer and has higher performance than the N100, especially its built-in graphics. It does consume more power though (12W vs 6W).

Here is a comparison between the models: https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/05/04/intel-processor-n95-...
probably some times the api comes out with an empty string.
I run a couple of N100s with 32GBs of RAM. They're great machines, but they are actively cooled, so they have dust (and noise) issues, and they're bigger than a RPi 5.

On the other hand, I have an "armor case" for my RPi5 which has contacts for every major IC on the board, and it runs at most at 50 degrees C (if I saturate it to the point of choking).

Plus it's way smaller, and there's no performance or software problems. One of the hidden tricks is to get an A2 card like Kingston Canvas Go+, which completely removes SD card related lag from the system.
There's nothing special indeed : this shrub biome gets devastated by firestorms on a regularish 30 to 150 years clock (looking at the past 520 years), regardless of what humans do (at least so far, uncertainty over the last few decades is of course high).
Seriously, these days, running a few dozen containers requires so much ram, I'm running a Odroid with 32GB ram and finally feeling safe from memory exhaustion.
I was there six months in Dubai consulting for Al-Futtaim and quickly realized that female athletes are now doing way more than stripping and taking pictures.

The high level escort services use business jets to move good looking people into and out of Dubai. They must get paid a lot when it costs $5,000 and $8,000 per hour to move them around. Eastern European athletes are over-represented but there are many westerners as well.

Dubai is the Vegas for ultra rich "What happens in Dubai stays in Dubai."
Yes, instead of removing attribution and keeping the content, if Stack Overflow doesn't want to be associated with the user they should just delete all of it.

And pray Jon Skeet stays on the straight and narrow.
Great unless you need low power, ARM, small form factor, GPIO, or ability to load your software to a compute module.

Also not an argument for users buying 2GB/4GB models I suppose.
All of that is so wildly off base and off-topic from the argument at hand: People can do what they want unless you or someone else physically stops them.

> I can police English if I am as free as you say I am.

You can try. How is that working out for you? Your original comment attempting to police language was flagged and died, looks to me like you were politely shown the door.