skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how hard it would be to write a non-compliant SoundFont that uses Opus - Ogg Vorbis is very old at this point and not as good as newer codecs.

Edit: that was a fun rabbit hole

SF2.04, owned by Creative. http://freepats.zenvoid.org/sf2/sfspec24.pdf

SF3 is "just" Ogg compressed SF2, but there's no spec and it seems like it's only implemented in http://www.fluidsynth.org/

Edit edit: in the SF2.04 spec - "hydra - A. A nine-headed mythical beast. B. The nine “pdta” sub-chunks which make up the SoundFont articulation data."
It was an experiment on institutions.
Trilogy which was written before Xi became a dictator. None of the new books will.
Should link ProjectPoll in your post every-time you mention it, had to manually search :P
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It is usually automatic, with running one command: https://yoember.com/emberjs/how-to-keep-your-ember-js-projec...
Couldn't it have been parallel construction? They wanted convictions without revealing that Tor has been compromised.
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Universities hold themselves to a higher standard because they operate (or at least want to maintain the pretense of operating) for the benefit of the world, while businesses only care about benefiting their shareholders.
There's a lot of people who need to be dragged out into the sunlight to be disinfected.

The people that I imagine belong in that category almost certainly don't intersect much with the people who you imagine belong in that category.

This sword cuts both ways.
Strongly inspired by Metallica's No Remorse and/or Master of Puppets.

They also borrowed very heavily from Pantera and Slayer, amongst others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQbLSLAK2o
Again, very simplified. The design makes sure everyone knows about the same network. The network is being monitored by independent folks constantly, and you cannot just ramp up lots of capacity without anyone noticing. Not only the current state, all past states of the network are recorded.

You also make it sound like there would be an alternative design, like a closed set of operators. Now, that would obviously be worse than an open system. All you need is two non collaborating entities in your path.

Note how I am trying to convince you with facts, whereas you point to my preference of anonymity as something that makes them less worthwhile. Such ad hominem attacks should be avoided in serious discussions, thanks. I value my anonymity.
He perhaps had read the novelization of 2001, published a year earlier:

--begin quote--

There was plenty to occupy his time, even if he did nothing but sit and read. When he tired of
official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug his foolscap-sized Newspad into the
ship's information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth. One by one he would conjure up
the world's major electronic papers; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and
had no need to consult the list on the back of his pad. Switching to the display unit's short-term
memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items
that interested him.

Each had its own two-digit reference; when he punched that, the postage-stamp-sized rectangle
would expand until it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he had
finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed
examination.

Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last
word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from
Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any
newspaper he pleased. (That very word "newspaper," of course, was an anachronistic hangover into
the age of electronics.) The text was updated automatically on every hour; even if one read only the English versions, one could spend an entire lifetime doing nothing but absorbing the everchanging
flow of information from the news satellites.

It was hard to imagine how the system could be improved or made more convenient. But sooner or
later, Floyd guessed, it would pass away, to be replaced by something as unimaginable as the
Newspad itself would have been to Caxton or Gutenberg.

There was another thought which a scanning of those tiny electronic headlines often invoked.
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its
contents seemed to be. Accidents, crimes, natural and man-made disasters, threats of conflict,
gloomy editorials - these still seemed to be the main concern of the millions of words being
sprayed into the ether. Yet Floyd also wondered if this was altogether a bad thing; the newspapers
of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
Sounds like it'd be a useful benchmark to do + publish for people's reference. May also lead to some tuning choices upstream too, depending on the results. :)
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Yeah, I'd love to be able to do this, but I'm not sure my audio abilities are up to it. Do you know of any existing JS projects that do this? Or good pointers to any information about the basics of synthesis?
I think it’s fair to say that what you spend that income tax on is vastly more relevant. Yes, I agree, the very act of taxing people and then spending it on, say, NASA (or burning it) doesn’t change the gun murder rate but nobody’s every made that assertion. The assertion is you can spend it on evidence based programs like gun control to reduce the murder rate — and there’s plenty of evidence in other countries that it works. The lack of correlation you spoke of isn’t relevant to the topic per se because the taxation act is a means to solutions, not a solution.
Just a note: in the e-mail thread, it's only stated as a possibility that this patchset will be implemented in time for GCC 9. The only real news is that this patchset has been greenlit.

By the way; I'm confused trying to make sense of the effects of this patchset. In Andrew Stubbs' original e-mail, he states that the patchset which is discussed in this e-mail thread is for the "non-OpenACC/OpenMP portions" of the port. Not only that, but only C and Fortran are supported, C++ is explicitly unsupported, and everything else is untested.

So then, that means definite effects of implementing this patchset will be that the front-end which is non-OpenACC/OpenMP for C and Fortran will be operational, plus whatever the effects are of the patches with unspecified details for different areas (backend, config, and testsuite) which he mentioned briefly.

Given these definite effects, what are the noteworthy or most important effects of them? How much does this "power on" GCN?
AFAIK there is not so much enmity from people in more exact sciences, rather than indifference. At least in neuroscience i rarely see any interactions and whenever discourse occurs, it is parallel orthogonal monologues that have been shaped meticulously in the past few decades to avoid each other.
Oh, for fuck's sakes!

You damn well know that the kind of "criticism" in "critical theory" or "grievance studies" is normative polemic. It is not open to re-evaluating its normative conclusions, but instead to inventing and evaluating arguments for those conclusions. Moral norms are baked in, and should therefore be acknowledged as part of the intellectual foundations of those fields and subfields, open to question and disagreement.

This is really, genuinely different from both STEM fields and from "non-grievance" humanities fields. You are not expected to hold particular moral views, for instance, to be a moral philosopher -- in fact, the field is all about evaluating which such views can be supported without postulating them as beyond question. This applies all the more so in the famously "harder" fields of physics or mathematics, in which we are usually (not always) so far removed from needing to make morally deep decisions that we can pick up and put down ethical frameworks as appropriate to the particular application in mind (power plant, weaponry, civil engineering, etc), without ever needing to bake in moral or political goals as an intrinsic part of what it means for a paper or a textbook to be good physics, leaving good physics a matter of epistemic goals, which are explicated, evaluated, and questioned in the philosophy of science.
I don't know if you read the article, but the investment in science fiction is state sponsored:

> A big clue comes from the author Neil Gaiman’s collection of non-fiction essays, The View from the Cheap Seats, where he relates an anecdote from the time he attended the 2007 China SF/Fantasy Conference in Chengdu:

> “A few years ago, in 2007, I went to China for the first-ever, I believe, state-sponsored science fiction convention, and at some point I remember talking to a party official who was there and I said, ‘Up until now I have read in Locus that your lot disapprove of science fiction and you disapprove of science fiction conventions and these things have not been deliberately encouraged. What’s changed? Why did you permit this thing? Why are we here?’

> ‘And he said, ‘Oh you know for years, we’ve been making wonderful things. We make your iPods. We make phones. We make them better than anybody else, but we don’t come up with any of these ideas. So we went on a tour of America talking to people at Microsoft, at Google, at Apple, and we asked them a lot of questions about themselves, just the people working there. And we discovered they all read science fiction… so we think maybe it’s a good thing.”

> The more things change, the more they remain the same. Lu Xun in 1903 had written that ‘science fiction could play a crucial role in the advancement of the Chinese nation’ and 104 years later, the purpose of the 2007 Chengdu SF/F Conference seems to have been no different for it was described as ‘an ambitious Chinese effort designed to inspire public creativity toward future scientific and technological development as well as promote national insight for scientific exploration’. A laudable step towards sparking the imagination and fostering innovation, but the state support of science fiction is also about advancing China’s soft power. As the writer Chen Quifan said in a speech (co-written by the organisers) at the eighth Chinese Nebula Awards in November 2017, saying that the purpose of Chinese science fiction was to, “grasp what General Secretary Xi has put forward, and advance the establishment of the power of the international spread of the culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics, in order to tell the China story.”
I wonder if dark web markets will ever establish a comprehensive alternative parcel system... that seems like the natural, final extension of these ideas. The technical challenges to this would of course be significant (I'll refrain from listing them and suggesting potential workarounds since I don't really want to give anybody any specific ideas on this LOL)
As far as I know the Chinese book market is heavily censored.

I'd be curious about how this affects Chinese authors, and if and how they have to limit the topics and the creativity of their writing due to this.
>As interesting as it all is, it's also very concerning for Law Enforcement.

it seems better from their perspective than street gangs shooting each other over turf imo. an improvement for everyone involved, frankly.

>How do you make sure the product gets to your support layers?

through dead drops, of course ;)
Where can I get such an "anonymous" vpn? The VPN providers are selling the traffic logs and/or charging you in a traceable way, while Tor literally routes you through multiple VPN servers (aka Tor Relays) to mitigate this risk.
More than 100 stolen bank cards
Kind of interesting distribution is kind of like darknet geocaching. I wonder how much accidental discovery occurs.
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We have plenty of western books on that.

Hopefully Chinese SF can deal with some western neglected or taboo topics!
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Why is it named fine.sh? It’s not a shell script. I was kind of interested until I read npx. (Then looked it up and found out it’s some node thing). Now I’m disappointed. It’s just misleading.
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I didn't read that as evidence, simply a link to define the term "Plateau of Productivity".
A very long article with the only takeaway being... a better use of dead drops? Am I missing something bigger here?
Maybe that investor shouldn’t invest in bitcoin or Proof of Work based chains.

These systems are nothing like PayPal and Venmo and investing in ignorance is just asking for losses.
Developing in Android is like navigating where the streets have no name...and if you ask for directions to google you are slut shamed (pardon my usage of the term but since the article has profanity already ;-) ).
I ended up making this: https://github.com/gluster/piragua to make connecting glusterfs to kubes easier/scalable.
To be fair though, those numbers are the results of a single evaluation of the algorithm against a single group of human experts:

> In the setting of a challenge competition, some deep learning algorithms achieved better diagnostic performance than a panel of 11 pathologists participating in a simulation exercise designed to mimic routine pathology workflow; algorithm performance was comparable with an expert pathologist interpreting whole-slide images without time constraints. Whether this approach has clinical utility will require evaluation in a clinical setting.

Certainly an impressive feat of image recognition, but far from revolutionising cancer diagnosis. It's also not clear to me that this would actually diagnose cancer more accurately if you factor in the ability of experts to consider other things than just the scans.
Well this is one way to offset the cost of scooters and build some potential sense of ownership over the scooters that are deposited into the streets. Still seems kind of risky.
Without commenting on the design, I just want to say that I appreciate how well the information on the home page is laid out.

You addressed all of my questions in order and in a compelling way. Very solid melding of marketing and education.
> guy fabricated data to fool the editors

What is your source for this? My understanding was that the papers were written in a specific style, but they did not contain falsified data.

https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studi...

Regardless, in almost all cases, reviewers do eye-ball the data for obvious inconsistencies / irregularities.
> When is it a bug fix, and when is it a hard fork?

The simple answer is that this is a false dichotomy. A hard fork was necessary to fix this bug.
Reg d or s is still private. But there are limits to number of investors.
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> Fuck you for providing such a great security to my app that any fucking idiot can decompile it and do whatever he wants.

I haven't developed for Android in a while, but this passage deserves some counterweight. Security through obscurity is not (really) security, and there is nothing wrong with users having some control and insight in the software they are running on their own devices.
A first look at Twitter's new beta app
Google Maps incorrectly estimating Australian outback trip times
The SF2 spec implicitly expects the sample data to be one very large sample buffer, which are subsequently resampled and looped on each new note. So it's possible to reuse the same set of single-cycle waveforms in various combinations and have a very small file(and I've seen a few floating around that are like this) - but a lot of playback routines do not implement this use-case correctly.
Now that so many coins are doing private encrypted transaction amounts, I wonder if a bug like this could go undetected. If you could find an inflation-causing bug in a popular private coin and exploit it, you could easily make tens of millions of dollars within a few days. Possibly hundreds of millions if you played it right. And even if you were later found out, it's not clear to me that it would be illegal or whether you could be prosecuted for it. It's the biggest bug bounty ever.
Must be, I'm pretty old. :) Would have been 61A circa 2002.
The change that invalidated the transaction was not a hard fork. It was a soft fork.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident

A hard fork expands the range of valid transactions. A soft fork narrows that range.

Remember the book Javascript the good parts? It proposes that developers ignore certain language features that can cause trouble. The interesting thing about this approach is that all the code you write by following the book's guidelines will run on all existing runtimes. Your code is backward compatible.

Had the book advocated new language constructs, then those applying them would not be able to run their software on existing runtimes.

This difference is roughly comparable to the difference betweeen hard and soft forks.

Prior to the Bitcoin update, no check was made for overflow conditions. After the update, only transactions obeying a narrower set of rules involving an overflow check were considered valid.

A soft fork can be deployed by miners censoring blocks containing the transactions which are longer valid. Nodes that don't generate blocks need not update for they will never see the now invalid transactions. Miners need to update to avoid generating blocks that will be rejected by the network.

A hard fork requires even non-generating nodes to update, for they will need to determine the validity of blocks with transactions applying an expanded rule set.
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"Has anyone tried sending information into black holes using lasers yet?"

We would need one at a pretty uncomfortably close distance to perform this experiment in acceptable time and without needing insanely large amounts of energy.

Makes me wonder how close the next known black hole is. The center of the milky way?
Yep, I currently work at one and know of another in town. Both companies have thousands of employees. It will still be a while before we ever get off of it too. We're taking steps but it has been around for a long time and is pretty reliable.
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That's back in 2006. Now everything has changed.

Now China thrives on closing down churches, jailing pastors, censoring 'sensitive' materials in Hong Kong, indoctrinate muslims to eat pork and drink beer, etc etc etc.

Doubt any book of significance will arise in this environment
Harder to navigate, but great fun. Think searching through a record store by hand, not always knowing what you're looking for. Sometimes you're after that one album. Sometimes you're carefully parsing liner notes, sometimes you're just looking at the covers. And this record store gets all kinds of stuff in, from super mainstream, right through to limited run Split EPs of bands you've never heard of. And they're all mixed in together, but every record has instructions on how to find other records you might find interesting.

I just realised this is a terrible metaphor because you're probably too young to get this metaphor. Actually I'm arguably too young, but I tend to like physical releases.
I remember, from the early 90s, reading all sorts of text files, from Phrack to Cult of the Dead Cow to Anarchists Cookbook to the Jargon File and Hacker Purity Test type stuff. I remember one "phile" in particular about how to make a soda machine malfunction and dump its coins by pouring saltwater into the coin slot, to phreaking and "social engineering" tutorials in phrack, to drug use and hacking war stories from cDc. Many of these "philes" were indexed on FTP and Gopher servers, or available from BBS download areas.

Early websites.. I remember reading Dr. Fun which was pretty similar to Far Side and all online. Church of the Subgenius had some really excellent subversive humor online, lots of fun as a young subversive teenager to read it and imagine what the authors were like. I think that just hearing about that kind of culture was a big escape for me as a teen in a rural area.

Searching was terrible especially in the early days before the web. There was a tool called Archie to search for filenames on FTP servers, and it took hours to generate results. Yahoo made it easier to find good resources, Lycos, Hotbot, and eventually Altavista were rudimentary web search engines that were pretty low quality. Site admins linked their websites to other like-minded sites in "webrings" to help find similar content.

I think that the lack of discoverability, fragmentation, and ephemerality (because hosting space WAS expensive so things DID get deleted) led to a greater sense of freedom of expression. I remember the old saying "on the internet nobody knows that you're a dog." (I just looked that up and it's a New Yorker cartoon from 1993 - very apropos for the time). I feel like that's the biggest change over the last ~30 years I have been online, the fact that most popular forums either use your real identity or are barely pseudononymous, and the understanding that today everything you do online is tracked, stored forever, and analyzed by multiple government and commercial entities.

So yeah, it was pretty great when it was like the wild west, but it's a lot more "useful" today.
Yea, there are quite a number of useful nuggets in there. I also liked this bit on complexity from the third post[1]

> A second important theme for decentralized systems is a common lack of appreciation for just how complex these systems are and how finely balanced they need to be to operate correctly.

I originally joined Bittorrent in 2007 to work on a decentralized CDN which aimed to do something like “tie together all the unused storage and bandwidth on people’s PCs into a content delivery network which had zero operating costs (for us)”.

In time it proved there were a number of things wrong with this ambition (most of which I won’t touch on here), although perhaps the most important one which we discovered the hard way was the cost of complexity.

1. https://medium.com/@simonhmorris/intent-complexity-and-the-g...
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The example cited in the article is from Windorah to Birdsville (379km) - Google were estimating 11hrs. This has since been revised to 7hrs 47 however locals claim they do it in about 4hrs.
The sensor itself is great, but they come with budget lenses. Not just optically mediocre, but they're slow, usually starting at f/4, so you're throwing a lot of that sensor advantage away compared to a phone with f/1.8.

I have a 3 year old print on my wall of my kids, taken with an iPhone 5, cropped from a horizontal framing to vertical, and then printed at 11x14". I did a bit of post-processing on it to sharpen it up, and it looks fantastic (until you look at it from less than a foot away). I need to repeat the process with the X's camera. ;)
It was generic log aggregation used mostly for incident response and forensics as well as some offline metrics. There were a bunch of metrics that were being created (like 3 different ways) on box with parsing that we were looking at moving into the log processing stream. We had a chat bot that people could use to interact with common queries as well as standard SQL interaction via UI and API auth'd by Google IAM.
> The journal they tricked has an impact factor of 1.1, so im not impressed.

What are the high impact journals of their fields? My understanding is that Hypatia is a leading journal.
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Why do modern cameras use CMOS if CCD is more sensitive?

I guess the answer will be "because it's cheaper to manufacture", but is there any other reason?
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> Driving a miata in a torrential downpour