skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought the PO-35 Speak which has two mono tracks for a vocoder-based synth and a drum synth. The OP-1 originally piqued my interest but I wanted to test the waters of electronic instruments before jumping (only had guitar and piano experience before). At first glance it appears very limited and is often dismissed as such, but as I understood it better I found it had impressive depth and capability for making tracks. The true power is really the design, the entire time spent on the learning curve is fun, from out-of-the-box to building patterns and full tracks is a rewarding experience. There were times I thought I had hit its limitations and was disappointed to learn I couldn't do something I wanted to, only later to learn there in fact was - my initial approach was just wrong. The device almost has a game-like reward for discovering it's features.

That said the thing died 6 months in and the warranty process took about 3 months. In the mean time the OP-1 had its notorious production/price shenanigans climbing to $1300 from $800 so I picked up a Deluge instead. The OP-Z also looked interesting but I don't think I'll give TE any more money and certainly not for that something that I couldn't part with for months at time.
AI helps generate synthetic speech from brain recordings
"For a 2014 paper, Francisco Salamanca and colleagues at Arizona State University modeled the effects of air conditioning on surface air temps in Phoenix. They found a nighttime increase of about 2°F (and nothing much during the day)" [0].

That doesn't sound like a big issue to me.

[0]: https://www.popsci.com/ask-us-anything-does-using-ac-make-it...
>One of the big problems is paper thin walls of modern buildings and using materials and colors that absorb and retain heat. We have the technical solutions since centuries but there is no willing to do things properly in this crazy captalistic society that we live now.

The r-value of 16 inches of concrete is around 1.75. The r-value of 1 inch of top end insulating foam is 7.20. R-value is how resistive something is to transmitting heat.

Or in other words, the reason we don't have thick walls is because modern insulating material is well over an order of magnitude better at insulating than concrete/brick/etc.

edit: And they used dark materials because in most of Europe you used to be much more concerned about heating in winter versus cooling in summer. That's, obviously, changing now but acting as if it made no sense is just silly.
I have been using spaced repetition for roughly 3 years and have seen some amazing personal growth.

I was born in the US, and have now learned 2 languages (Italian B2/C1, French B1/B2, and I just started Spanish but it is so similar to italian its gonna be pretty easy to pick up ).

I remember almost every book I have read in the past three years by using kindle highlights and turning them into flash- cards. I use it for Math, Computer Science, papers, new english vocabulary etc. Starting using Polar Bookshelf for IR

Some general thoughts:

1. Anki is pretty complicate, it is really important to read the manual

2. Create all cards yourself. If possible, always include sounds and images.

3. Follow these steps when creating cards: https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/20ru...

4. Do your reviews every day

I'm actually looking forward to seeing what is possible in say 5-10 years, after i have read 250-700 more books and studied a few more languages. It is the single best learning hack i have ever come across.
I would agree with not using the http status codes to return a card processing error.

Specifically, you want to be able to easily distinguish between "your url is wrong" or "your authentication credentials are wrong" or "the API endpoint threw an exception" type errors and "credit card processing failed" errors.

It's easier long run to put business logic errors somewhere separate from protocol/routing layer (i.e. even a http header would be better) so that you can tell what is Rails/Flask/whatever failing vs. logic failing. This also gives you more flexibility to do stuff at the hardware layer (another commenter mentioned ELB) without interfering with the application layer.
If they can't target ads, what exactly can they do? That's their entire raison d'être surely.
I don't believe it's possible to be definitive about such matters. The way I interpret your "definitive" is "I very much believe this to be so." That is well and good, but I do not.
Ok... but like literally what does it mean even if it's misleading?
One of the projects i've daydreamed about is an app where you sign up for issues that you care about like water privitization or palm oil etc, and then you scan a barcode and get a report of whether the product is connected to any of those problems. You will then (hopefully) not buy the product and maybe hit a button in the app saying that you chose not to buy it.

Every month, the app collects the data from its users and produces a report:
"Dear Nestle, this month you lost $X of revenue on account of people boycotting you because of this or that."

I think it's important to send some kind of negative feedback to companies.
It's not true. Monitoring is not required.
Keeping Up with Coding Ecosystem
Okay, this is very much a general discussion topic, but it's something I've long discussed with other engineers and I'd really appreciate HN's input. It seems like a vast amount of extremely hyped up new frameworks quickly fall off for use in real production applications. For example, Vue was extremely hyped up but React quickly won out for most real world applications. Same goes for numerous new frameworks and libraries, as I'm sure you all know. My question is if we could come up with some sort of a framework of criteria to help us determine if and when we should start trying to apply the 'next big thing' in our real projects. It's so important to keep our skill sets up-to-date, but obviously we can stay current with everything to a substantial level of expertise and actual understanding without trying it in a real world application. Looking forward to hearing how everyone approaches this.
Yeah because ARM sells the complete implementation for the ARM core. But with Risc-V there may be hundreds of different implementations, you can‘t really add optimizations for everyone.
Despite my quibble, I find the sentiment to be very poetic and inspiring.
If only people didn't have families.
I have clicked on my last X for the day. This is getting to be worse than the X10 camera pop up ads from years ago. I’m a person, not a conversion or an eyeball, and if someone offers me a document I expect to be able to read it without being harassed. It’s a sad state of affairs when even MIT, an apparently esteemed university is only publishing information for the sake of the grift, rather than to stimulate the public intellect.
They meant that they promised X dollars (X = "the whole amount owed for the service provided). DoorDash then assumed that a consumer would tip (x-y) dollars, and they would provide the balance. This allows them to pay their employees, because that's what they fucking are, even less.

Both consumers and Dashers assumed that the equation was instead X promised dollars PLUS Y tip dollars.

(e.g. A dasher is promised 5 dollars for a delivery. DD assumes that the customer will pay 4 dollars in tip, meaning the cost for DD should be 1 dollar. If the customer tips 2 dollars, they will "make whole" the Dasher by paying them 3 dollars in addition to the tip. This is all horse shit and people were pissed by this deception.)
Humans have a terrible tendency to underestimate the complexity of reality, and the same stroke - diminish its beauty. The fact that we can look at a tree, or look into the sky with boredom is a great testament to this. With this same mentality, we've looked at a human brain and oversimplified it, and underestimated it. We're continually finding that reality is more complex than we thought.
The next release of Chrome will break the method that NYT and other sites use to detect incognito mode (file access): https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-ini...
Happens to Teheran and many Indian cities. Viewable via satellite.
The bad press from NYT kind of forced their hand here: why would anyone keep tipping on DoorDash once word is out that it's not a tip, it's a donation to DoorDash Inc.? And if people stop tipping once they know their tips don't matter, it leaves DoorDash more on the hook for guaranteed delivery fees.

So, glad they are doing the right thing I guess, but I'm not giving them any points for waiting until they had no other option.
It's worth noting that apparently (as I learned lately) RNNs are going slightly out of fashion because they are hard to parallelize and have trouble remembering important stuff at larger distances. Transformers are proposed as a possible solution - very roughly speaking, they use attention mechanisms instead of recurrent memory and can run in parallel.

I have to say that while I understand the problems with recurrent nets (which I've used many times), I haven't yet grokked the alternatives. Here are some decently looking search results for you as starting points. Warning, these can be longer and heavier reads probably not for beginners.

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-fall-of-rnn-lstm-2d1594c7... (there's some sensationalism here to be fair)

https://mchromiak.github.io/articles/2017/Sep/12/Transformer...

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/06/understanding-t...

https://www.tensorflow.org/beta/tutorials/text/transformer

That being said, I think that understanding RNNs is very beneficial conceptually and nowadays there are relatively easy to use implementations that should be pretty good for many use cases.
Propellerheads Reason software if you wanna spend some money. Slightly older versions of Traktion from Native Instruments are free and open source (up to v7 I think) if you just want to use the computer for recording & plugins. Otherwise use your iPad as a MIDI sequencer/tape recorder.

Hardware...Get a Volca DX-7 clone for $150, a Behringer analog synth clone for $300, and a nice reverb/delay pedal. Protip: older and cheap mixers will give you some 'secret sauce' in terms of lightly distorting and compressing your signals. Get Mackie if you like a rough sound, Tascam if you like it a little tinny, Spirit or Allen & Heath if you want warm.
Yeah, not sure why you're downvoted. Hitting 100 F in July is a pretty regular occurrence here, and in the suburb I grew up in (west of Chicago), the average is usually high 80s, not mid 70s as the article says about London.
This is the first time I've seen cash vs. the useless credit monitoring as a compensation offer.
Might I add that some countries are especially known for liking their internal temperatures more in the tropical range even when outside temperatures are around 10C/15C and just natural heat from people would be enough to make it comfortable.

AC is not a waste of electricity, quite the contrary, if it can be inverted (that is, pumping hot air in instead of out) then it's more efficient than electric heating.
Distortos: Object-oriented C++ RTOS for microcontrollers
Connecting information is orthogonal to remembering it. Same with digesting information: you don't need to use something like spaced-repetition to commit knowledge to long term memory in order to digest it, you just need to spend some time understanding the info. In fact, I'd argue that spaced-repetition runs somewhat counter to deeply understanding information. It's easy to repetitively memorize and recall info without actually understanding it.
Nice! I like that the author wrote the code by hand rather than leaning on some framework. It makes it a lot easier to connect the math to the code. :)

As a meta-comment on these "Introduction to _____ neural network" articles (not just this one), I wish people would spend more time talking about when their neural net isn't the right tool for the job. SVMs, kNN, even basic regression techniques aren't any less effective than they were 20 years ago. They're easier to interpret and debug, require many fewer parameters, and potentially (you may need to apply some tricks here or there) faster at both training and evaluation time.
This is just sad. I feel for all my open source developers in these countries.

I feel for all my peers who I spent my undergrad with in Iran.

These archaic laws need to be deleted. America needs to be shamed for making it so hard for people to gain skills in these countries. Companies need to be shamed for not challenging these laws.
Does there exist a descent app to create YouTube playlist without logging in?
You assume that it's obvious that we can't consume 7 orders of magnitude more energy than now.

We already grew our energy consumption 4 orders of magnitude in 300 years.

http://bwp.io/blog/2014/thermodynamic-limits-of-human-energy...
Aisler.net, a German boardhouse, makes a donation to kicad for every kicad designed pcb you order there and it's my favourite way to pay for open source.

They literally get paid the moment value is created from using their software. It's beautiful.
I don't want money. I don't want free service. I don't want any compensation.

I want Equifax as a company to be dissolved for incompetency with private data, and I want a way to legally opt out of other such companies collecting and aggregating private data about me.
My anti-virus software flags the "File a Claim" page as a phishing site.
Verizon FIOS TV has a YouTube widget that can't be disabled. I was really surprised when we switched from cable. In the past we would let our kids on youtube to watch something on rare occasion but suddenly the TV has youtube built-in with no way to disable. You can set an age restriction but when you try to go to something that is age restricted it prompts you to go to settings to change it. There is no way to just block the widget like you can a channel. I think the work around is to setup a YT account just for this purpose, set age restrictions and then sign-in to it on the FIOS box but we haven't felt like we have had to go there yet. I see discussions and complaints to Verizon for years with customers wanting to block widget or restrict kids from changing the age restriction setting with a pin.
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https://medium.com/@Tigerwoodslive/ver-espanyol-stjarnan-en-vivo-online-25-07-2019-4e457a5c8af0

https://medium.com/@Tigerwoodslive/live-tv-izle-rcd-espanyol-stjarnan-en-vivo-online-25-07-2019-82f15c66a40c

https://medium.com/@Tigerwoodslive/live-tv-izle-rcd-espanyol-stjarnan-en-vivo-online-25-07-2019-82f15c66a40c

https://medium.com/@mostak1920/direto-espanyol-stjarnan-en-vivo-online-25-07-2019-2daf90a1bfe0

https://qiita.com/Gameofthrone49/items/23379f495112d40b2244

https://qiita.com/Gameofthrone49/items/d27f90c73fb263b5d78f

https://qiita.com/Gameofthrone49/items/9c0c407afe3ed5d7481f

https://qiita.com/Gameofthrone49/items/a30c8cf079b40583dfe6
https://qiita.com/Gameofthrone49/items/77a395b5ec582cd78ea4
Generally in my experience it's been bundled schema changes. As an (dumb) example in an SQL-like pseudocode (I've been doing EE work recently; apologies for imperfect syntax):

ALTER TABLE user ADD COLUMN country; -- oops
CREATE TABLE user_email (blah blah);
-- process here to move data from user.email column to user_email table. This blows up because someone has a 256-byte long email address and the user_email table has a smaller varchar()
ALTER TABLE user ADD state_province;

Yes, this is sloppy and should be cleaner. The net result is still the same though; you have the user_email table and country column created, and due to MySQL DDL auto-commit, they're persisted even though the data copy process failed. The state_province table does not exist, and now if you want to re-run this migration after fixing the problem, you need to go drop the user_email table and country column.

With e.g. Postgres, you wrap the whole thing in a transaction and be done with it. It gets committed if it succeeds, or gets rolled back if it fails.
You can actually get more than $125 if you prove that you suffered a loss, or spent time fighting fraud on your account to the tune of $25/hr
BTW, could we all please stop creating Electron apps and spend time to properly code native, resource-efficient software instead of shipping a full browser engine in every single application?
This is official, but remember what happened when we assumed that links from official sources were official.

Healthy paranoia :)
Do you care about saving petrol?
Yes, the Red Bull one was supposed to be $10 but so many people joined that class my check ended up being ~$2.50 instead.
Debugging foreign Go code without a debugger
Disagreed on that. It's more of a cultural thing really.

Having lived in south France, where temperature was always over 30C in summer for long period of time. There simply wasn't air conditioning in homes or offices. It's not that it isn't needed. It's just not there. If you want to change job to an office job with AC, good luck finding one.

You're just burning down in summer? being completely unproductive at work? People just live with it. Dress in short tshirt and drink a lot of water. There can be 50 employees asking to get a AC unit for the floor, doesn't matter, management is just nope.

It's evolving slowly as new office constructions have air conditioning and it's being retrofitted to some places.
Yeah, those baby boomers never protested against anything!
You can only claim the $125 cash if you affirm that you're already paying for credit monitoring. While I don't expect anyone to confirm your claim, you do have to sign your name to a legal document stating as much. You can make additional compensation claims if you suffered actual damage or spent time dealing with the breach, but as I could not honestly claim such, I don't know what that part of the process entails.
The site didn't ask for my social
I visited CERN once in my role at GitLab. The scale of CERN and the level of people there is really impressive.

Many teams had implemented very complicated pipelines doing all sorts of things. Including using GitLab to design, validate and eventually produce hardware that was used in ATLAS.
Grammar and Name Correctors
In deviantart, there are a LOT of grammar and name correctors who are being extremely rude and prejudice towards owners. This can cause mental illness and suicide attempt.
Another thing is Facebook provided options for selecting what to display -- just status, just photos, and something else before this was stripped away. I definitely used to use Facebook similarly to how I use Instagram today.

They could increase engagement if they simply put this back -- providing filters for original content versus external.

I, too, only want to see original content from people I actually care about. However, "care about" is very loose here, because for people with few connections, this probably doesn't matter much, but for users that have many connections and pages, etc, it makes sense to condense and perhaps rank content that a user likes from their connections higher.

Facebook is more of a visual Twitter for me -- people post articles and we have discussions as Twitter's format doesn't facilitate discussions nearly as well.
AArch64, and RISC-V. POWER is a monoculture, and MIPS never really got out of it's gate count niche.
Of course they do, they have to verify you're a member of the class.
Don't YouTube have a special kids app for showing videos from YouTube to kids, I've heard they do?

Ah, they do, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

Or maybe YouTube isn't a trademark?
Episode IV - A New Hope

Han Solo is the lovable "scoundrel" who shows up at the last minute at the first battle of the Death Star. He's an important yet minor factor in the battle which the Rebels have been preparing for, for years.

Naming the victory after him is kinda silly.

The metaphor lands "on many levels." Then Torvalds shows a distinct lack of class by doing the best he can to undermine RMS speech. I realize RMS is annoying most of the time, still it was pretty disappointing and unprofessional of him.
The only real solution will be for wealthy nations paying Brazil to not exploit their natural resources, which seems like a very very high ask for all parties involved.

Otherwise we'll see the continued destruction for at least another 30-40 years until there's a global demographic peak.

We're also going to see the destruction of the Canadian Boreal forest as temperatures rise makes such land viable for industrial farming.
ah right. the point still stands, though. i was also under the impression that many of the device drivers that ship with with modern android phones are closed source. see the step in building lineage "Extract proprietary blobs"[0]

[0] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/payton/build#extract-prop...
I don't see "personal interests" in the linked article, unless you just mean keeping ORDA afloat, which is 100% in the state's interest.

Calling it out the way you did is disingenuous because you're hiding the context that ORDA is also a state agency. It's robbing Peter to pay Paul, it's dumb and inefficient, but it's not exactly the crime of the century.
An AC (and a Fridge) are all heatpumps (in the broad sense)

The issue is that most ACs (for hot weather places) are built to not allow the reverse cycle. But several models do allow cooling (pumping heat out) and also heating (pumping heat in)
Does anyone actually know if this benefits workers? Given how little most people seem to tip it seems that doordash delivery drivers were likely making more on average with the model they just moved away from. It is more of a redistribution of tips across workers. I also didn't hear much complaint about this from employees but from customers instead and I regularly visit the gig economy subreddits for workers to see what their complaints are.
>If it's introducing a whole bunch of people to music production who would otherwise find it too intimidating or expensive

Yeah, that's what Ableton Live / FL studio / etc have been doing for decades.

Don't get me wrong, I love my Pocket Operator, but using a drum machine in a DAW or even a cell phone app is far easier. Just a bit less fun.

I'd say Teenage Engineering was never aimed at beginners. If you are just starting up in the synth world, Korg Monologue is a fantastic piece of equipment.
Yeees - but whilst this might cause most of the world to "tut-tut", in the US this obfuscation between wage and tipping already exists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage

I was shocked when I realized why the US comparatively tips so well, is because it's entirely likely you're contributing more to your server's income, than the restaurant you've just bought the meal from.
Similar to https://www.buycott.com/?
It is true. You have to certify that you have credit monitoring if you choose to take the $125.
I'm starting this, we should chat
80% (and counting)
> If someone commits murder and we say it was only a product of their environment and they have no agency, therefore we shouldn't punish them, well, that's the sort of "choice" that, on a systemic level, causes more people to commit murder.

I agree with the direction of your analysis, but I don't think this part is true. Recidivism is really high, especially in more 'punishment' oriented criminal justice systems. I think if you took your argument to its conclusion, you would probably look at systemic causes of murder, since agent-oriented approaches are so demonstrably ineffective.
I can't sing enough praises to Korg Monologue.

Got it for my 6-year-old niece as her first synth. Thought a bit, and got one for myself too.