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> why not use CSound for everything?

Because there are a ton of alternatives to CSound.

I use Max/MSP. But you could also use PureData, SuperCollider, Chuck, JUCE, etc.
Yeah, I’m not complaining about the state of the industry - it makes sense why you want people who can code!
My advice is more for people in DevOps who can code that because of this inundation of sysadmin applicants who can’t code, you need to make sure that you are distinguishable from the herd so that your application doesn’t get rejected immediately based on your title. That’s why the title really matters, and also why it’s important to actually write code as a DevOps. Any role where you don’t get to code is career-limiting, IMO.
It's true in every country. We are a global service, and our policy on backdoors is the same everywhere: we do not have them and we vigorously oppose them.

Sometimes this leads to us being blocked. We were blocked in Brazil, for example, but that block was overturned in the courts.
I love my Arrick analog (modular) synth because it is so easy to just reach out and tweak the sound to set the right timbre.

I believe bringing that flexibility to a digital synth is a good thing. I imagine that there could be ways to create a modular 'control panel' and with the help of an embedded compute (as suggested in the article) provide rapid mirroring to the synth. I am a bit surprised that isn't an 'addon' already :-)
Assuming a proper maintenance schedule, we can reasonably reduce that time window.
Ironically, the US and UK governments use the same exact encryption libraries (with the caveat that some use FIPS mode)....
Well, to be fair. Everyone on here just reads the headlines and then the comments.
DevOps is just a buzzword. Implementing it wrong is the deafult and only possibility.

For real it means that the devs and ops collaborate. Leaving aside that we don't need a term for that, it cannot be a strategy. It's something that evolves in years between decent people. You cannot hire devops. You cannot train devops. There is no such thing.
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> I am also a proponent of structural re-use of post consumer plastics.

Wouldn't the flammability of plastic make this a non-starter?
Bit-Blasting ACL2 Theorems (2011)
Donald Trump is selling out the Fourth Amendment to the UK and must be stopped
Everybody who matters already consider AGPL a free software licence, and that's not even because of an hypothetical evolution of any position.
I wonder does this also apply to services like Apple iMessage
I guess shell scripting and the standard commands are convenient interfaces to a lot more functionality. The interactive use (and pipes) tend to make the linear processing super terse and easy (but lots of other things become annoying).

In a type-safe language, it’s typically impossible to specify a function which can do as many things as (eg) sort can, and which doesn’t require specifying a huge amount of default arguments on every invocation. Therefore you end up with a limited function, a huge annoying function, or many small functions. In any case, changing from one kind of sort to another (eg how to sort things, what to sort, how to order them, whether to keep unique elements, whether to be stable, whether to take multiple inputs, whether to assume the inputs are sorted (so just merge), and so on) becomes difficult whereas with a tweak-in-many-ways command like sort it is easy. In a language like CL with optional arguments and no types, this problem can be less hard but whereas sort will likely work fone for a large dataset, your favourite library function may not. (In particular it almost definitely won’t use on-disk storage when needed or support parallelism. Partly note that storing objects from your favourite language to disk is probably hard but if you only work on lines of text it’s easy).

The other big difference is the data types. The data type of shell programs is basically a sequence of lines, each of which is sometimes broken up into one or more records by some other separator. In many languages the sequence operations are all about getting the nth element, or extending them, or changing elements, or deleting them, or splitting the sequence up into other sequences. And these operations typically identify the elements by the position. In shell scripts, many of these operations are unavailable or not used. One basically only iterates forwards, processing each element, and one almost never thinks about the position of the element in the sequence. (c)split exists but isn’t commonly used.

Lots of work in a typical language is converting one data type to another, or extracting bits of it, or doing data type-specific things. In shell these don’t really exist (eg you don’t sort as dates, you write your dates like 2019-09-28 and sort them like strings), and so data is simple, and because extraction is flexible (typically a field number or byte positions) lots of the bureaucracy of changing data types is omitted.

These things all often lead to shell scripts being unreliable. But also resilient, flexible and “sufficient”. By “sufficient” I mean that they can do things well enough that the cost for a long term, thorough, or “proper” solution isn’t justified.
I don't think I'm acting like a jerk. One benchmark I use when extracting "ground truth" from otherwise highly guarded candidates is whether they realize at all what techniques I've used to draw it out from them.
Nowadays, Patch Base is the way to go.

https://coffeeshopped.com/patch-base/editor/yamaha-dx7
Ask HN: Why do we still use paper receipts?
Isn't it a huge waste of paper? There's a push to use less plastic bags, less plastic bottles, but not much talk of reducing receipts. In my opinion if you pay by card or digitally, the receipt should be digital. If you pay cash, I guess you might need a paper receipt, but it should be optional to receive the receipt. I think the pos industry is outdated.
Minecraft Dungeons
How often are these particular frame components inspected for cracks or wear?
Why is the law terrible?
Intestinal microbiota programs diurnal rhythms in host via histone deacetylase 3
> Social media platforms based in the U.S. including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter.

This might mean "...must share messages that are otherwise encrypted", it's not completely clear from the language used.
I was saying this 20 years ago,when I was at school,and I'd say it today again:screw them.If someone isn't interested in education,transfer them to some sort of special needs class,where he/she would match the rest,as there's absolutely no point of dragging the entire class because of a few rotten apples. Of course, social services should work closely with school in case there are issues in the family that may be causing it.Same applies at work,where you get 20 people on the same salary,yet a couple require 20 times more attention because of x,y,z...
>> We're told this is very much an ongoing investigation, and that it's unclear whether or not this is a widespread issue.

TL;DR: a crack in a critical part was found in one plane during a routine inspection. But you wouldn't know that unless you read all the way to the middle of the article. This is a non-story engineered to create outrage and clicks.
I signed up to try it, but it really doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for.

The first problem is that they seem to have decided based on my IP that I only want to read news in the Dutch language. No setting to change that. They also seem to act as a portal that I need to go through to read the articles that they are suggesting to me.

There's a search function (only in the app, not on the website), but I'm not sure which news sources it searches. I can find articles from a big Flemish newspaper, but not the ones currently on that newspaper's homepage.

Paying for Blendle also doesn't seem to help me to get past the paywalls of bloomberg or the new york times.
Low density and magnetization of galaxy halo exposed by fast radio burst
The Madrid-Barcelona "air shuttle" by Iberia has up to 26 flights a day in each direction https://www.iberia.com/es/news-updates/relaunched-the-air-sh... but they use more than one plane. Still, a lot of cycles! In the peak hours there can be a plane leaving each 15 min. You don't need to book a specific one, just a ticket for the shuttle service and then you just turn up at any time.
What would runtime dependent types be? As I understand, they are a tool for statically proving properties of some code. What use are they at runtime? For code that came up as a result of the working system? I believe properties of generated programs can also be proven statically. For user-provided code? Why not just run the compiler/interpreter on it?
I'm an organizer for one of the (many) DevOpsDays Conferences held around the world. Speaking only for myself, I struggle with making sure that DevOps is about Dev and Ops working together, not just Ops / SysAdmins using a different, more marketable job title. When Operations Engineers become DevOps Engineers, it subconsciously says to Developers that they don't belong.

I'd encourage all of you that feel excluded, or feel like these are just SysAdmin conferences in sheeps clothing, to go to your local DevOps Meetup and start there. Demand that DevOps continues to stand for a community and cultural way of making software development suck less and not just "the next Agile". /rant over
You don't understand. Encryption is necessary because on the internet, there is no distance. Any web service today must be built with the knowledge that everyone, everywhere is attacking it all the time. The only defense against that kind of attack is an encryption that nobody can break.

When a weakness is introduced into that defense, even if it's a secret key held only by trusted governments and only (they promise) to be used in emergencies, that key is a method of attack that anyone, anywhere can use against everyone. The only defense is that the secret key remain secret, and there are an endless number of ways it could be comprimised, ranging from human error, phishing, or plain old brute forcing. A single key for all Whatsapp conversations is a valuable enough prize for criminals all over the world to invest serious money in custom hardware to crack it.

Currently, encryption schemes like Whatsapp's rely on generation of new keys for every message, making the value of attacking any one message limited. Without this defense, Whatsapp will be cracked, sooner or later. And once someone publicly reveals that key, every single message sent before that point becomes compromised. Maybe even publicly exposed. Would you be okay with that? Exposing your private message history to the internet because governments wanted to snoop?
> Isn't it what all those Gertas of the world want?

You can defend a position without snidely representing other positions, similar or opposite to yours, but if you choose to make so, make sure you've correctly named your target.
Why not? If the parents over-react it's a problem with the parent that should be addressed.

I'd agree if it was about student's private life but as long as it's about classes - why should anything be hidden?
Thanks for mentioning CSound, hadn't heard of it before and it looks interesting. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csound
Ask HN: Were you born outside US and got paid help to apply to US colleges?
Looking to understand how prevalent it is for international students to pay for assistance in applying to US colleges. It seems common, was that your experience? Mind sharing how you did it? (question from SUS2019 graduate)
Roland perhaps deserve some credit for the JP-8000 which, while sporting a two line display, was also accompanies by knobs, buttons, and sliders to control pretty much everything.

To my ear, it never quite had the smooth richness of sound that, for example, the SH-101 had (manually tweaking the cutoff always seemed to generate some aliasing clicks), but it still gave great tweakability.
For the same reason that inter-agency secrecy contributed to the success (for the terrorists) of the 9/11 attacks.
A gear is equivalent to a wheel with a large coefficient of friction. Is there a particular reason you consider it to be a separate invention?
>“We’re colleagues, but we can also laugh as friends!”

It doesn't even take time. Statements like the above are invariably lies. Seeing friends and acquantances or their friends and acquantances harassed or fired for innocuous or misunderstood comments has reinforced to me that the least amount of contact with your coworkers is desireable. I was told this long ago but did not initially believe.

It has also changed how I see other cultures. Most are intolerant in their own way. In particular the adage that Europeans are more open about politics is not really true -- they're more willing to discuss policy not found elsewhere, but react similarly poorly to other cultures to foreign ideas.
But they were always able to opt-out of the snippets quite easily. What they wanted was to have the snippets AND to get paid on top of that.
https://sci-hub.tw
AES is far and away the most heavily scrutinized encryption algorithm in history. Of course that doesn't make it flawless, but the level of genius that the authors would need to hide a backdoor in it for all these years boggles the mind.

The implementation of AES in popular CPUs? Yeah, who knows.
No. It is free: the end user can do whatever they want with the software. It’s restricting the rights of the developer to give the user more freedom.
Ask HN: What are some good blog posts you’ve read lately?
Would the 5th grader get or lose points if he were to have an "accident" in class?
I can encode hidden meaningd in poetry. If you outlaw poetry, our US experiment is over.
People will absolutely switch if another search engine is substantially better. But that's hard to do because Google isn't a lazy incumbent, their search is being continually worked on and improved.

Mostly other search engines seem to try to compete based on privacy or something, and while that's nice, it's not as tangible as superior core search functionality.

Like, DuckDuckGo isn't a bad search engine, and for a lot of things it seems about equally good. But "comparably good most of the time" doesn't make for a very compelling case to switch.
500MP camera that can identify every face in a crowd of tens of thousands
To expand on the CYA reason why blaming causes problems, people who want to avoid blame want to say there's nothing they could have done that would have prevented the incident. In a blameless environment people are more likely to figure out a way they can contribute to prevention.
Well we know these actions look good from a public relations point of view. We only need ask if they had any other motivations or if it was only for PR.
You are not "born" with any of these. You are born with a genetic predisposition, for example with genetic variants that increase the risk of schizophrenia, but there are no certainties. It is an interplay between genetics and the environment, both genetic and environmental factors play a role in the development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia#Causes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics_of_schizophrenia#S...

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A good way to reduce demand is to both vastly increase the amount of identity reported in real estate (especially for out of country buyers) as well as to have foreign ownership taxes.

it would crash the BC economy hard though.
There's very little left there that isn't driven by foreign purchases. (quite a lot of it illegal in their home countries, eg the USA)
You mean those that enter a country illegally? As an American if I were to do that in any 1st world country I would be detained and deported. What this article and conversation is about is that a non-human has essentially been given “basic” rights.
There was a podcast or a book?can't rember, but they talked about the high performer teams and they had one thing in common : the devops mentality, work together, solve together (swarming) deeply together, learn and move on etc etc etc. Not Tools or processes..
It is optional in most places in the US. They normally ask if you want the receipt. Lots of people say no. I only say yes when I need to report expenses.
I first saw this little gem in a stats test in my second year at university. I must say it was a lot more fun deriving it without the time pressure
We don't necessarily need more police on the streets ( depends on the area,as always), however there's a genuine need for more,who can solve cases.I've got endless list of examples, including my own situations,where police do either nothing,because the matter is deemed not serious enough or simply don't have resources to deal with it,unless it's an attempt to murder, political threats or terrorism.
That does not demonstrate that people “hate the work it takes to learn”. It only demonstrates that someone’s passively stated desire to learn some particular thing does not immediately grant them the intrinsic motivation, time, and external support to follow through.

Just because someone doesn’t spend every waking moment on deliberately practicing specific new skills does not mean that they hate putting effort into anything.

Most “free resources for self-study” are crap, and only work for people with unusual amounts of motivation and focus. This doesn’t mean that everyone else is just lazy. People lead busy lives and have many distractions competing for their attention.

If you just said “many people claim they want to learn various specific skills and subjects but then never make time for it”, that would be an uncontroversial and easily factually supported claim.

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Motivation is pretty tricky. It would be beneficial to everyone if society spent more effort on teaching meta-skills like how to break large goals into small manageable chunks, how to manage time and focus, how to seek out resources, how to evaluate progress, etc., and more effort on offering people meaningful support for achieving their own goals.

From what I have seen most “educational software”, testing-focused pedagogy, de-professionalization of teachers, etc. are harming rather than helping.
One hour flights are fairly typical in most of the world. Yes, also in progressive Europe.
A paradox is any statement that appears to contradict itself. That includes both actual contradictions such as Russel's paradox and statements that appear to be invalid, but have non-obvious valid conclusions like the Monty Hall problem.

This problems falls into the second category. We are given what appears to be a well-defined problem, but when we solve it in different ways, we get different answers. The resolution to the paradox is the problem isn't well defined because your technique for generating randomness will produce different answers.
> The key is to have proper oversight.

Yes, but if you make it too easy, oversight fails or is worked around with legalese, and the powers are abused at scale.

> Bugging a phone really means illegal/covert operations these days

My view here is that it should be difficult - the security services should only be able to intercept someone's communications with a legally obtained warrant to do so (the oversight you mentioned); then powers are far more likely to only be used where the is a credible threat.
Have you considered Riot (Matrix) or Signal? Both are open source so it's possible to verify claims made on their website, which is a lot less possible with proprietary software like Threema.
I like Scott Alexander's Slate Star Codex (yep, it's an anagram of his name). He talks mostly about science, religion and social issues, often with a pleasant reading and a comment section filled with good discussions.

https://slatestarcodex.com/about/
Opting out is a trivial technical matter. You could even completely opt out of their search engine indexing if you so desire.
LightDock: The open-source macromolecular docking framework written in Python
I'm speaking from personal experience, but I'm guessing that most parents would talk to their child or impose consequences if they were told that they were misbehaving at school. Lowering the barrier for when this is reported to where it's covering issues that are minor and should be handled in the classroom does not sound like it would help.
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It's to make sure the cashier rings up the sale and isn't stealing from his employer.
Considering setting up pi-hole. Do you think it’s pretty effective against this kind of tracking or would I just be wasting time?
This was bound to happen though.

Everyone wants an engineer who can do everything competently, but few places are actually willing to compensate to recruit and keep the people who have those skills. Even worse, some of the places that can afford the right people - they have internal politics that prevent these people from being able to drive meaningful change once in the role. Good people will leave environments like that and they'll be left with people who are either under-utilized or who caused internal conflict in the first place.

Every executive loves to hear "ownership", "get rid of silos", "speed up release time", "repeatable deployments". They don't like hearing "increase salaries dramatically", "piss off some existing employees", and "hiring is going to be even harder".

So what happens instead? Middle-management types decide to train their existing teams to use tools that are associated with "DevOps", update some job titles, and tell the investors and executives they now have a DevOps team. The existing employees are now happy to learn new tools and feel appreciated, the migration to the new tools may or may not solve some old lingering pain points (while also introducing some new, un-predicted pain points that the new DevOps team will happily resolve and write RCAs about, allowing leadership to think that "dev culture" is taking hold).

The fact of the matter is, "doing it right" is very expensive and not necessarily going to save every company costs or increase their revenue in the long-run. Sometimes just using better tools and and adopting better processes is enough to see benefits, and that's ok. If running infrastructure is your company's core competency, then it makes sense to invest in extremely skilled people at all levels that touch infra. But those extremely skilled people are expensive, prone to turnover, and tend to be picky about where they work.

So I don't should shame companies and engineers for shallow adoption of DevOps tooling and imply they're subverting the DevOps "movement" or whatever. There is room for many roles under the DevOps umbrella, and just because some places aren't immediately restructuring everything, doesn't mean they aren't learning won't contribute back to the greater community at some point in the future.
I was asking what's the motive for the punishment. Is it to revenge the victim or is it to prevent future victims. I'm not advocating for no punishment at all. The parent was asking what's enough (30,15,10,5 years?). I'd choose a number of years sufficient to deter effectively.

Sociopaths are another matter entirely. It's not a question of deterance or revenge anymore. We may be forced to lock them away indefinitely.

But i see it's getting political and words are turned in my mouth. have a nice day
Have to agree with the comment below, DevOps folks/teams I've worked with seem to have both a superior attitude and an inferior knowledge of good practice and good habits when compared to developers.

They seem to have bought into their own myths.