skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The digital waveguide patents have now expired and a new group has just released a wind instrument software synthesizer based on this approach: https://www.imoxplus.com/site/

They are also developing a completely new type of multidimensional embouchure sensing mouthpiece with which to play the instruments. It should be easy to learn but offer deep potential for expressiveness.

Also note that the goal of these instruments is not to faithfully emulate the timbre of any existing instrument (for that use a sampler) but to emulate dynamic behavior with is where the true expressiveness of wind instruments comes from.

Disclosure: I am developing the mouthpiece.
>Except that, these people are now relegated to an echo chamber far from public discourse where they will only reinforce their views without challenge.

Reddit already provided these groups with an echo chamber that was public facing, and a platform that exposed them to other points of view. That didn't do anything though, people largely don't have their views changed just because they are around others with different view points.

>An echo chamber that is now suddenly more appealing, because it's forbidden.

If it's out of the public eye, people are less likely to know it exists right? Yes maybe people who do hear about such "secret places of discussion" are likely to be drawn to them, but the number of newcomers who are even exposed to such groups are significantly cut down by simply not being accessible.
Just get a line printer. Boarding passes work great, you can convert everything to ascii art.
No, not by default but if your organization uses IRC then it would be near guaranteed that whoever set up the IRC server will enable logging on all channels and then likely give you a web front end to it so you can easily read and search through all of the history.

In other words, yes, in any reasonable environment you would have access to everything ever said in any logged channel.
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We appear to be going through a surge of interest in synths. Maybe due to the those who were dancing back in the day now discovering how the sounds were made. I've become one of those fascinated with the tb303. Which, for all the misty eyes around the sound, is just a simple single transistor oscillator plus low pass filter with a sequencer. The huge amount of diverse info available makes studying the 303 a really fun intro to subtractive synthesis.
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The issue isn't unique to archaeology.

Another notorious example was the discovery of the bacteria that causes most ulcers - the person who discovered that was vilified for at least a decade or so.

The root problem is simple: most people treat what they learned during their initial education as a kind of gospel, which they defend with the same fervour as any faith. This defense relies on things like social shaming to repel ideas that challenge their faith. This means that for an individual, stepping outside the faith has consequences, which has the effect of keeping most people in line and part of the defense against significant change.

Max Planck recognized this when he wrote, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
> I also got reminded of the fact that, before Hitler got to power, Germany had hate speech laws that explecitly forbid nazi propaganda.

That's actually the law today in Germany. The Weimar Republic itself focused its censorship on limiting the distribution on what today we'd consider middlebrow pop-fiction and pornography, but generally excluded matters of politics and religion. It did have laws against anti-semitic speech, but anti-semitism itself as already extremely widespread so it was like a fan blowing against a hurricane.
this is what we do, we help our employees start their own businesses as the top of the career path. We will help them with marketing, HR, recruiting, finance, etc. Also they can run losses while getting started.

We havent had anyone get promoted to this level, but several are close.
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Yes, but "there's always somewhere" may stop being true if we enter that dystopia.

Competition for fringe discussion exists today so our society is healthy (thank goodness). If a true monopoly is allowed to form in these platforms, we will have a big problem. Thankfully we have anti-compete laws. Unfortunately it feels like we are flirting with monopolies when vertically integrated companies like Apple and Google have a very large market share (from Android to YouTube, as you mention).

My favourite Sci Fi that deals with that dystopian future is a little-known show called Continuum. The oligarchy begins when governments go bankrupt and get bailed out by corporations in exchange for political power in the form of a "corporate congress". Fantastic show. Still sticks with me.
This is completely backwards. I get free, undisturbed, superb quality communication with all my friends and family via WhatsApp. I used to pay a fortune for that and now it's FREE. So OP suggests I should be paid for the suffering of using a 100% free super useful service?
I don't see how moving from Boston to NYC or SF solves anything you're referring to. Boston is younger than both and while expensive to live still cheaper.

NYC is full of tinder box apartments. The dating pool in SF is way more lopsided than the east coast. Uber made the subway thing less relevant (though as someone who moved here and got older, the late hours also mean less to me now than earlier)

Also MA is allegedly top ranked for millennials https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/04/09/best-states-millennia...

Homes are expensive in MA but not cheaper in either SF or NY.

Boston also one of three US cities outside SV expected to be top 10 globally in tech for the foreseeable future https://boston.curbed.com/2019/2/26/18240310/boston-technolo...

As for families, I don't see how either NY or CA is better off for education.

There's plenty of reasons to leave Boston for either of those cities, but the ones you cite really don't make a whole lot of sense.
> What evidence has shown that engaging with them is more effective?

We have a lot of evidence that marginalising sufficiently large groups leads to tremendous backlash when they reach critical mass, e.g. almost every revolution in history. I think we can agree that doing exactly that which failed every time before is not a productive avenue.

> having hateful views

Let's not conflate hateful views with 'toxic' views. The term toxic refers to any unpopular view. In addition to hate speech, this includes various sexual preferences, political views, anti-science movements, mens rights groups, etc.
To be fair I've seen worse on /r/politics, a subreddit that has way more exposure than the D
In the "..." part you presumably meant to include writes to members of s, and those writes are allowed to change padding bytes and leak information.
> the disease requires treating them things at a lower level

I feel that the anti-vaccine movement had such a large resurgence because they had very public platforms. So, yeah, I agree with you.
By the way, it's "latter", not "later".
streamed through the atmosphere and fatally irradiated megafauna like the monster shark megalodon

...

They get to the ground, they hit you, and some of them will interact with you, and damage your DNA, Melott said. “They are in a sweet spot for affecting ground-based life.

Shark ... ground based life. Eh?

Are muons attenuated by water?
The danger here is this distinction between the wise protectors of "easily influenced people" and the dumb asses that need protection. Who decides who is who? I do not think this is always clear cut. People who seek the role of censor are almost always the wrong people to be entrusted with that power. And historically we have many examples of ideas that were thought to be ridiculous, dangerous, etc, that turned to be valuable, even accepted. Maybe its best to leave the nastiness in the sun, just mark it as such.
Who is more of an outlier, the author or I?

I'd say both.

Is it really within the reach of most people to be able to whip up figures like that in a few minutes?

I'd say no.

This is a question that goes directly to the core of my competence. In general we're living in a pioneers' era where demand trumps offer overwhelmingly.

The tools we have, we don't use them because they're the best possible tools, but because they're the only tools available.

We are in such a need of any tool that works somehow, that we're deceived to think that they're wonderful when they're just slightly better than the rest. The space for improvement is vast, including a tool that would make those diagrams easy for you.
Not to mention the pension bomb waiting to go off. That's one big thing that'll help reverse brain drain in most blue states at some point.

Source: grew up in NJ and lives in MA
All answers to this must be wrong as it's simply not possible to do it. You need to take endianness of each field into account, and you cannot do that by treating the struct as a single blob.
The only "relevant" platform where exceptions aren't zero cost nowadays is 32-bit windows - not even 64-bit one. so no, absolutely not "in most cases".
Someone I know would constantly leave a macbook unlocked, so I prepared a script that would turn down the volume, whisper the owner's name, open weird sfw pictures online and other mildly annoying things, but not very often (like once a week).

This was meant as a joke, and I never actually went through with it. I know the person very well but it still felt douchebaggy. But the idea was to make an app file, save it to some seemingly legitimate folder, and adding it to the autostart list.

The trick to hide the thing was to drag and drop Safari's logo onto it, and naming the app "Safan": it almost goes unnoticed when checking the Activity Monitor, thanks to the system font's proportions.
> And it turns out that yes, voat and gab.ai are both filled with the utter dregs of society

What does this say about the validity of the questionable study linked here that applauds "deplatforming" and only examines a few short-time consequences? Great success, sending more people from reddit to their own hate platform that will grow and exploit synergies among groups of particularly toxic people.
Not when it's built in to the protocol itself.
I understand why this was a problem in 1995, but honestly, in 2019, with image recognition technology as advanced as it is now – especially due to efforts by Google – why can't browsers detect this? Surely "does this rectangle look vaguely like a URL bar" is an easier problem to solve than "is this a photograph of a cat"?

Sure, image recognition is CPU intensive, but even just checking once every 5 seconds or so would be enough to prevent this sort of attack and pop up a big "you are being phished" warning. And 99.99% of what occupies that UI real estate looks sufficiently unlike a search bar that a low-cost recognizer should be able to rule out phishing for normal sites fairly quickly.

What am I missing? Has this approach been tried and rejected? Is image recognition of fairly static, flat, 2D, geometric shapes actually far more CPU-intensive than I imagine?
Churches provide a lot of charity and communal support in most places where they are still relevant.

Community masters, one of the reasons that SLC has the highest income mobility in the country
I agree that it would be rare for a memset() used for initialization to be removed, but this is a good recent paper that gives lots of examples of when stores are eliminated in practice:

Dead Store Elimination (Still) Considered Harmful

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~klevchen/yjoll-usesec17.pdf
> This is what most people seem to totally miss.

No, they don't 'miss' it. I think what you're missing is that is perfectly possible to 'get' optionals and be as, if not more, productive than in ObjC. Not all people get the Swift model and for them it may be unintuitive, but many do get it.

I find it distressing that some developers just want to bang out code as fast as possible and any tool that tries to impose a bit of good software engineering in between that is seen as 'evil'.

I've seen similar sentiments expressed about Rust i.e. 'I'd rather take my memory leaks and data races over the borrow checker'. That's fine, but please be aware that I'll try my best to not let you execute any code on my machine if that's how you approach the craft.
It sounds like you're not a very good manager, unfortunately. One of the most important things a manager does is understand how to communicate productively with each of their reports. If you have reports whom you believe cannot "follow simple instructions", your first response should be to re-evaluate the way that you provide guidance to that person, not to decide that they're "an insubordinate ass".
Yep, and the latest unstable TeaVM versions are showing huge improvements over the figures shown in that blog post: https://github.com/renatoathaydes/jvm-alternatives-to-js/iss...
This has nothing to do with whether the Romans arrived here in ancient times or not.

We're in a deep polarized state right now and there's a popular urge to infuse any discussion with these political overtones. This might be needed for current themes like education and economy, but it has no stake whatsoever in ancient human expeditions across the atlantic.
Collective response to those who claim that it pushed those users to other platforms:

Only marginally.

If you read the paper (http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf), you can see that ~20% of the users of the banned subreddits became inactive vs 10-15% in control communities. The difference for users that deleted their account is of the same magnitude.

The users that stayed had a dramatic drop in hate speech.

Also, people end up believing disinformation that is often repeated. Silencing those opinions probably has a net positive effect on society.
Meyers-Briggs personality type:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTP
Why do you need to print boarding passes? All of the domestic airlines in Australia either have mobile apps or SMS you a link that displays a QR code that can be scanned at the terminal gates.
No, you're constantly rebuilding.

Like a hedge fund.

It is smart to be doing this now, as it'll only get harder as the large financial firms get better at it over time.
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Nothing is ever clear cut, but a lack of perfect knowledge and the possibility of unintended consequences are poor reasons to refrain from acting when the consequences of not acting are dire.
So instead of going into management because you don’t like management and want to stay an individual contributor, you now become not only the manager of your own company, now you have to worry about marketing, finances, etc.

I go to bed every night not worrying about whether my company remains sustainable. If they don’t, as long as it is a microeconomic issue (company failed) and not a macroeconomic issue (economy is in the toilet), I reach out to my network and get another job relatively quickly.

The same amount of money appears in my account every other week whether I go on vacation, call in sick, etc.

And I’m 45. Ageism is way overblown if you keep your skills current with the market and your network strong.
It resonated with me deeply too, which I guess is what often happens when you are at the just the right time in some intellectual development -- you've read the right things, and you already think or believe (is there a difference?) some or even most of the things that the essay will be telling you.

Then the essay comes, builds some new connections, and drives home one or more new points that you were building up to unknowingly. The whole structure is strengthened, and some parts of it even get something resembling a final shape.

We sometimes then just call it an enjoyable read and move on, until the next time. But regardless of the outcome the process itself is one of the best things in the human experience.
Ask HN: What are best practice approaches for cross-platform projects?
I am interested in starting a project that runs on desktop (Linux, MacOS, Windows) and mobile (Android, iOS, mainly aiming and tablets). The final application has a GUI with standard components (ListViews, Buttons, etc) and maybe some less standard components (NodeView / TreeView). It will need to access local storage.

Are there good technology stacks to accomplish this, offering maximal code-reuse and minimal overhead?

The programming language doesn’t matter at all (C++, Haxe, Kotlin, JS, Python...) productivity is what I am looking for.

tldr:
A while ago I wanted to do something similar and ended up using Electron + React (with a library for components). While web-technologies are platform-independent in principle, setting up the project to run on different devices was no fun at all. Also, the library for components wasn’t stable and my code was super hard to maintain. I am getting the impression that web technology libraries (offering basic components such as drop-down menus) come and go and don’t provide a reliable base for applications. I have limited time to work on open-source projects, so if setting up the applications requires an investment of a week already, then I’ll rather ditch the project completely.
Note they're not saying much in protest of this mandate, though...

Wonder if they're this quiet about Chinese relations?
This is a great essay. It's lengthy but it uses its bulk to great effect.

It may be the best articulation I have seen of the Christian idea that the world is fallen.

And yes, when we say that, this is what we mean.
Yes I think serious practice is needed. There is something else that is a disadvantage: you need anyway to review your lecture notes; but since they are so beautiful you do not easily see mistakes; one way to avoid overly beautiful notes is to use a kind of draft font that deliberately looks a bit off. The drawings (with the keyholes ) are of path integrals with holomorphic functions (something I did around 1982)

But the whole idea and execution are phenomenal.

My feeling is that using emacs it could be possibly easier but I will not try to convert a vimmer
Interesting. I can relate to it 100%. This happened to me and I made my way back to programming exactly as described.
Followership
By too low to matter I mean the employee doesn't meaningfully change their situation.
If they need to work for a living anyway, earning 2% more doesn't make them retire earlier.

Inflation mostly affects people that can save significant amounts of money for longer periods of time, not wage earners.

The alternative to getting payed in fiat is some other value storage thing that is even harder to turn into rent and groceries. Unless it's actual groceries and corporate housing, or token for corporate shops, which is even more regressive.
I think it was that same article that inspired me to write an iOS app that displays your running average speed and notifies you if you deviate from it.

It's been years since I've last built and run that app, but the source is here if anyone wants to take a look:
https://github.com/robinmj/DeTrafficator
Have you talked to your manager about this? If your company has a non-terrible leadership, they should be able to tell you what specific qualities they look for in management and what you need to improve.
Not similar to haproxy, which works at the transport layer, while pichi works at application layer. I've not really understood what 'redirect' means. Yes if you meant acting as an HTTP proxy.
For a steady state analysis such first order black and white approach may hold. The metaphor is brilliant at that.

But punishment is a multifaceted thing. It serves for protection, but also virtue signaling and creating incentive. There's eye for an eye, too, the taliation principle, and that's what the grand parent comment lamments, I guess.

There are different theories of punishment. Satisfaction from reciprocating pain shouldn't be the goal, at any rate. Getting nevertheless to letting somebody have a taste of their own medicine as a way of irony, is much more difficult, but much more effective than selectively accepting the legitimacy of the method and forcing the taste.
Are the differences really anything more than capitalism vs. communism though?

Sure, the US gov is going to drop some fines on Facebook, but those companies cooperate with some US gov agencies too. Does the conflict get in the way of military contracts/capacity of the US gov? I doubt there's any significant impact. If so, then there's a problem. Most of the conflict seems consumer-focused though. I feel certain there is cooperative spying efforts going through FAANG+ just as much as China/BATH. China just indirectly advertises its cooperation with companies, while the US denies it completely.
If biological entities whose entire purpose is to have kids can't afford to have kids, that's an indictment of the system that charges so much to have kids, not of the organisms fulfilling their biological imperative.
I think what pisses me off the most about FB is they used to be legitimately good, then over time slowly boiled the frog, less and less privacy, more features people don't want, so people begrudgingly put up with it now rather than truly enjoy it. They can't leave, not that everyone they know is on FB due to the first mover phenomenon. And if they were honest with themselves or us, they'd admit that. And even if people get sick of FB and migrate to another platform, guess what, they own Instagram and Whatsapp.

Someone in Facebook at a high level is a psychopath, or maybe multiple people
Interesting -- I'm super rusty on my physics -- is there discussion of the exercises anywhere? It'd be fun to go through this and feel like I "got" it.
Libel and slander laws are only applicable in cases where specific persons can show that it caused them tangible and personal damage. My suggestion is to eliminate the above additional requirement.

If you're in favor of existing slander/libel laws, then you've already trusted the legal system to distinguish between merely unpopular opinions, and willful misinformation. This renders your previous objection moot.
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Javascript is disabled by default in my mobile browser shrugs
I don't think it is the "Business Stuff", though that can be troublesome. It is the hidden costs. You often have to be significantly more successful running your own business for the same "deal" to make sense, which is hard. Some people manage to find their own path, but that requires a lot of effort.
It sounds like you're not quite used to the political game that comes with getting ahead in the corporate world. If that is the case, do you honestly believe you would be happy in management?
My last work place did something similar, although using Justin Bieber photographs. I was Biebered a few times.
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Or they had very large plattforms, because it had a great resurgence? Both is true, if there's a feedback loop. GP notes that there are root causes that one should care about in favour of those already aching.
Presumably berries would be wine?

I always understood cider to be apples, Perry was made with pears, recent branding seems to have got rid of the differentiation though. There's mead which is honey. I've tried googling for potato based drinks, but I only get results for potato beer which suggests it's potentially palatable.
Do they separate causation from correlation, or is that not the point?
On the contrary, those are perfectly good reasons to refrain from acting.