skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People like analog synths because they have a very simple programming model that only makes a relatively small range of sounds, most of which sound good more or less by default. You trade immediacy against sophistication.

Well and they sound completely different.

The UI differences don't come down to number of controls but the fact that most analog designs have a 1:1 relationship with the sound, every knob you turn has a very distinct impact on the sound and usually, applying that to any input generates more or less the same impact on the output. It's extremely intuitive to learn how changing a knob changes the sound.

FM is completely different, where altering simple things like the operator ratios and modulation index have massive changes on the sound and don't create the same effect on different sounds - it's naturally non-intuitive. Most FM wizards get there through tons of experimentation, not through established fundamentals.

Imagine playing a wind instrument and changing your embouchure alters the pitch of the differently depending on what note you finger. That's what programming an FM synth is like.

iPad synths are a dime a dozen these days. Lack of a physical interface is as big a problem on them as with larger synths. They are hardly tactile.

A corollary here is the success of wavetable synths compared to granular, additive, and FM in the softsynth space. Wavetables have the same subtractive model as traditional analogs, and incorporate many of the same features as semi-modular synths. But they are extremely versatile because of how their interface is intuitive even for first time users - it's stupid easy to change the sound, the only additional dimension is the wavetable but that's quick to pick up. Compared to say, granular synths which are possibly the most versatile paradigm, but whose controls are extremely divorced from the timbre of the sound you design.
Could it be easier compared to other rockets/shuttle since the space ship is made out of steel?
With VTOL you only need enough energy to propel you to a high enough distance. Then you can glide. The higher up you go the farther you can travel.
> My feeling about Stallman is that he is that rare creature, a fundamentalist lefty.

Fundamentalist lefties aren't uncommon, but Stallman isn't
really typical for that group, as he's a fundamentalist of a particularly niche ideology that, while on the left in a broad sense, isn't typical of leftism (fundamentalist or otherwise.)
Compiling from source (sh make.sh --fancy; sh install.sh, it’s really that simple) gives you something up to date and stable on OS X.
I’ve certainly noticed an abundance of vitriol against anyone who mentions the misdeeds of the British Empire, of which there are many. There are also a bunch of Empire apologists that will pop up every now and then.
Couldn’t resist a dig at Apple in a totally unrelated thread, eh?

You know you can use any monitor you like. You don’t have to buy their $6,000 monitor. I’ve used Macs happily for years and have yet to spend that much on a monitor or a stand.
Perhaps the ClassDojo developers should remove the points from negative notes.
Maybe buy a model that's couple of years old, update the firmware and disconnect from internet?
What is the profit driver behind this?
Bah, she can be grateful for the system later if and when she survives, her fingernails have grown back and she can button up her own shirt. Meanwhile, I found the insight into her situation educational and heartrending.

If you step on a lego piece, do you immediately yell 'what a valuable and well-crafted toy product', or 'fuck that hurts'?
The point being made is that systems existed for the manufacture of consumer goods required by millions of people without the need for modern fossil fuel based technologies that are wrecking the planet. On a first glance, it seems like a valid point to me.
Ross is a Jew. That’s all you need to know.
Pop_os! has done a lot for user experience (install and use), trending closer to macOS.

I do see efforts being made towards capturing desktop users.
Probably because, despite all the bullshit, everything we love is here too.
Windows remains the most convenient OS for video games

Steam's Proton is amazingly good. I recently switched from an iMac to a PC, and was expecting to use Windows for games and Linux for development, but Proton has run everything I've tried with excellent performance and stability.
I've made a personal pledge to never, ever give out numerical ratings for people or service any longer.

Because you know that if I give out a number from 1 to 10, that number is getting attached to he customer service rep I happened to be interacting with, and go into a bullshit statistical system that tells management which reps are "good" and which reps are "bad".

It's de-humanizing, lazy, and nothing good will come of it.
We use NixOS for everything and have no dedicated ops.
In a reasonable country, the prosecutors office and the police are supposed to prioritize crimes that cause the greater danger to people, and/or to the society.
If prosecuting is unlikely to increase safety and well being, the resources are better used where such positive effects can be achieved.

Prosecutors and police alike certainly doesn't have a perfect track record in this regard, there's still quite some room for improvement.
> I don't want to cut my nose off to spite my face

I have trouble understanding this perspective since it's hard to see what critical functionality Windows provides, that you can't get with Mac OS or Linux. If they wouldn't be materially different experiences, the metaphor doesn't hold water.
There are more efficient propellants than hydrolox, but extremely toxic [1]. With a bigger planet, we would have been forced to use either those or nuclear propulsion to get to space.

1 - https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/19852/where-is-the...
why do you hate minorities?
NERVA XE was damn near ready to fly during the Apollo era for Mars missions. Would've made a hell of 2nd stage engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
I don't have a TV. I'm not into sports, and there's not much else that I care enough about. What I have is a huge display, attached to a Linux NAS/server with a decent graphics card. With a couple TB of video, from various sources. And even it is offline, except when I need to update stuff.
Ask your manager what they think of your performance, where you could grow, how you're doing compared to what they expected.

You'll likely be pleasantly surprised. Just like people with general insecurities frequently underestimate their likable attributes, it seems you're doing the same, but with your level of competence.
In the context of their jobs, they are a meat-based chatbot.

This is no reflection on them personally, this is by design of their job role. They have metrics hanging over them to close calls as quickly as possible, without escalating. They are expected to handle dozens or hundreds of calls a day. There is no slack to actually try to resolve the user's problems in any way that requires more creativity than sticking to the SOP script, and moreover, they are usually mandated to stick to a very standardized procedure, with defined suggestions and language that they have to use, in a specific order. A good first-level support person would spoon-feed you the right incantations to get escalated, in a way that their cutthroat metrics aren't negatively impacted.

It's a fucked up system, but this is how call-centers work.
On the contrary. I provided the most useful information there is (_T_I_N_Y_), even if I didn't hold your hand, either (although I wasn't really answering anyone's question, but rather commenting on it).

But we can't all be geniuses. I'm not one, either, but I don't feel attacked by anyone for pointing that out, and you shouldn't, either.
If you love features, KDE Plasma is fantastic, the environment with Kubuntu or KDE Neon. I think it has more features than Windows.
And then there is like antiX or MX Linux where it runs so quick and smooth, using minimal resources, like Windows 2000 with its services disabled.
Linux is great and everyone can find the distro that suits them well.. even if it might take a few tries to find it, ha.
I suppose you would extend this same line of reasoning to white business owners in the civil rights era not wanting to associate with black people?

Freedom of association has its limits, and this case is clearly one of them. It's bad for society if minor transgressions lose people their livelihood.
> DevOps generally means developers doing sub-standard operations work.

Mainly because ops cannot be bothered to.

Telling me something is going to take a month when it should take only a few minutes if you’d done your job right the first time means I’m going to be doing substandard operations work.

But if that’s the case, is it really sub-standard?
Why has it taken so long to get people on-board the Dragon Crew Capsule? Isn't it mostly because of all the safety testing that has to be done? Didn't get the chance today to hear about Starship's safety mechanisms.
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I have a similar personal pledge. When companies ask for numerical ratings, I do one of two things:

1. Put the highest number in every field.
2. Write up an official complaint.

IMO there's no morally justifiable middle ground; non-perfect ratings are a de-facto punishment. If someone's behavior was so reprehensible to warrant that, you should be airing some kind of grievance and going through an official process.
That is certainly correct. The name of the blog is "futility closet", so...
As one that has never, ever written a single program in Rust, am I part of a "Rust community"?

But I agree, I'm not nice at all, indeed.
Roku has a setting to disable tracking data.
> One of the issues that came to mind is how limited and overloaded the Linux error codes are, and EPERM might be one of the worst offenders.

Funnily enough, EPERM is awful for another reason -- the vast majority of EPERM returns for kernel APIs should really be EACCES. The problem is that EPERM reads as though it means "Permission denied" when in reality it means "Operation not permitted".
Can you clarify? What makes it so easy abs painless?
Even so, hevy duty vehicles make up a majority of pollution caused by motor vehicles, which will most likely not be electric in the near future. Additionally, vehicles in general account for a relatively small percentage of all air pollution.
When I was an undergrad Prof. Joe Traub (famous for applying Quasi Monte Carlo to derivatives) passed away and they had a whole lecture series in memorium. David Shaw showed up and, having bailed on Columbia CS because they didn’t want to fund his ideas on algorithmic trading, was straight up like fuck this department y’all are dumb and could have been billionaires. It was pretty crazy, I don’t think I’ve ever seen more uncomfortable squirming in an audience!
"TV watches you" was discovered at least 6 years ago, here's some discussions from that time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759426

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778397
Generating a kernel stacktrace for every syscall error return seems like it would be needlessly wasteful on the return path (not to mention that it would change between kernel releases, and wouldn't be useful to most developers).

A richer error system could be as simple as giving some more information about why a syscall returned -EINVAL (because checking all possible flag bits to see which one is not supported is really not a fun exercise).
How is this contributing to a flame war? It’s facts relevant to the topic as well as to the parents comments claim and it took me a long time to research thoughtfully.

It is inconvenient and unfortunate facts. I also wish they were not true.
The details of what it’s like to live with that disease are insightful. I have a more raw understanding of what that is like now.

But intertwined with the article is a critique of every single bit of the system, and larger society, that is fantastically successful at keeping an ever increasing number of such patients alive. The author critiques the economic system, the hospitals, the doctors, the genders of the care staff, the drugs themselves, whether she even deserves to live given the potential to harm the environment, and on and on.

I’m an optimist, and in her position I would be so thankful that I have the opportunity to survive. My brother beat a horrible kidney disease at 6 years old that necessitated a 12 month hospital stay, and his memory from that period has been wiped. I do not hate the capitalist system that saved his life, I am very very grateful for the doctors, researchers, and support staff that saved him - as is he.
Thanks! Can I hit you with some follow up questions? dan@alltheprep.com
I'm not reading it this way, illustrated by:

> explaining to him why he shouldn't press the button won't prevent anyone else from making the same mistake.

How I interpret the point is: don't fix people, fix tool.

You can't tell someone not to break the system, you need to make the system less easy to break, labels on buttons, confirmation dialogs, no double negatives, approvals if need be.

Reminds me of a deployment with a customer (some 15y ago), I wasn't allowed to "touch prod" myself so I was sitting next to a button pusher doing what I was telling him to do (irony...). At some point there was some trickery involved to reboot HA instances one at a time rather than simultaneously, and you had to press "No" when prompted if you wanted to reboot. Before the dialog showed up, I pre-conditioned the guy, telling him "it's going to ask if you want to reboot, say no. Whatever you do, do not click on yes". This wasn't the first time he deployed. He said "oh, ok" then sure enough clicked on yes, and the IT police was in our room 2 minutes later because of a prod outage we just caused.

I have thought many times of what could have prevented that - allowing me to deploy myself, doing more training to that guy, finding a competent replacement to him, more documentation. There is no process that would have worked better to fix the issue than finding a way to remove this dialog box - today that would be done through automation.
I work (and have worked for nine years) at a company with a dedicated DevOps team. As a developer, I have never been on call, but I do have to be there for deployment of my code to production (which, due to the nature of the code, happens around 2:00 am my time) to ensure everything is working as expected (and only once was a roll back required).
It's not really clear to me what people are asking for. If cancer pays a visit, you have two main options:

1 - Don't treat the disease and either do nothing or basic palliative care. The cancer is unlikely to go away on its own and will begin to spread to your lungs and liver and brain and mutilate your body until it doesn't function and you die. Less up front pain, possibly less area under the painful waking hours curve, but almost certainly an early death.

2 - Treat using standard of care chemo/surgery/radiation. Doctors do the mutilating and poisoning a bit more selectively, you lose dignity, bodily functions, jobs, relationships and gain a stigma and a curse of uncertainty. Maybe they get the upper hand and you live a life with lower but possibly acceptable quality. Maybe they don't and you still die but possibly a bit more slowly.

There's no good option yet. People are stuck between a rock and a hard place right now. That's why you can't go more than a few hours without hearing about cancer on TV and see walks and fundraisers and ribbons and shaved heads.
If you use the term not knowing the types of people that use it, that’s on you. Either you are a member of the alt-right (99% chance) or you are profoundly ignorant. Either way, it’s in you.

Proof of my claim is simply being in the internet.
I'm sure every single man posting on this website has an example of a time when they shared how they were feeling, or were vulnerable, to some women, and had it blow up in their face. I have.

Yes, but you're not allowed to talk about it, lest you be branded some sort of MRA or incel terrorist. Best bet is to keep your head down and ignore reality. "Lived experience" is only a valid data point for them, not us. For us, citation is needed. And sociology departments won't bother investigating.

Put another way: The well-known and obvious phenomenon of women losing respect for a man who shows weakness is Broscience - true, accurate, correct, corroborated thoroughly through tens of thousands of stories and lived experience, but because there's no PubMed listing, your arguments are useless.
For comparison, the Infinity Fabric in EPYC used 2 pJ/bit, while EPYC Rome has "27% improved efficiency" so ~1.46 pJ/bit.
My thought is that it is because humans are prediction machines, and death is the most unpredictable event possible. Many cultures try to make death predictable by introducing concepts of heaven, which does seem to work for people who believe it.
I try to think long and hard before I buy any hardware which has an obvious tracking use case, other than a router and a smartphone, but so many friends and relatives try to one-up each other by filling their homes with Alexas and Ring doorbells, and all sorts of tracking technology.

I'm not saying I'm perfect, like I said I have a phone and a router, and I understand at a point I can't hide certain things, i.e. my ISP can see what I'm pulling on the net and I find it's not worth the hit to convenience to try to scrub or obfuscate that info, but man, one guy I know has an Alexa in every room in his house! Another has IoT'd his place upside down with various Chinese equipment that is collecting who-knows-what data and sending it who-knows-where, and it's not that I have a problem with it, but they don't even think of the privacy implications when they buy these things.

I try to live my life as if I'd become president one day and the CIA/FBI/NSA would use everything in their power to find something heinous they could use to destroy my life, and also so that I don't have to worry about my future children having their entire life uploaded from birth to death because of mistakes I made in the technology I buy. It keeps me humble and skeptical of new hardware and I truly measure the impact it has on the privacy of myself and those around me, but I wonder sometimes if it has no affect because they could always build a profile based on how I've intereacted around others' technology
I have a similar policy for the rare occasions that I use a ride-share service; so far, I've always given 5 stars to every driver, because I've yet to have an experience so bad that I think that preventing other people from having it is worth hurting the livelihood of the driver. Sure, sometimes I might have a really good conversation with one driver or a boring one with another when I'd rather just listen to my headphones, but I've never had any significant issues (though granted, I don't ride often). If I ever had a serious issue, I doubt that I'd be satisfied with just filing a review into the void, so I kind of doubt I'll ever give anyone fewer than five stars and not take some additional action to report the issue.
That quote is from 2003. This quote is from 2019:

Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why.
That case was an odd one, for sure, but it was also so odd that one can't really use it as comparison. The only thing that's comparable was the pirate bay thing. I'm not going to say it was caused by innoffical, illegal, pressure from some influential country or person, but sometimes it feels like the only plausible explanation.

Not only did the prosecutor act strangely, but also, reading accounts of what Assanges lawyer or witnesses has said in court ( regarding the extradition request ) is ... cringy more often than not.
Human capriciousness is indeed hard to model, so one solution is not do it. In timetabling applications, the algorithm provides a level of impartiality so even if some constituents don't get what they want, you can always blame the algorithm -- "it tried, but it had to satisfy other constraints".

This removes some (but not all) of the politics behind timetabling. Influential persons may still try to wield their political power to bend the algorithm toward favoring them (e.g. in algorithmic terms, this could mean boosting their weight from 0.5 to 0.8 to beat out competition) but even in this compromised state, optimal timetabling is still better than doing it manually -- the optimization algorithm will at least try to maximize remaining preferences within the remainder degrees-of-freedom.

Timetabling is an inherently political process anywhere (if one has ever done timetable for high school teachers....), but optimization algorithms do bring a level of impartiality to the process. Also, if folks aren't explicit about their preferences, or change their minds, it's no fault of the algorithm.
I took it that they meant science in the very general sense. Of course, the right word should have been math or even “art”, but that word today is often just used to mean “fine art” rather than its more general traditional meaning. My guess is that “the art of functional programming” would make the less pedantic types more annoyed.
Because there is hope.
Long ago I was dissatisfied with the smart TVs sluggish smart features so I just gave up and never connect them to internet.

Seems like a good policy now.
This isn't news. We're linking to someone complaining on reddit. Maybe an actual link would be more useful. And even this is from July.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3409788/how-microsoft-made-i...
I'm not sure what you are referring to as "it".

What is tolerable or enjoyable work depends on what you are accustomed to and other factors. Would you rather clean toilets, deal with an irate customer, be on a rooftop in the summer sun, be on an open platform ten stories in the air, or wade in some unknown sludge? Some people have issues with a different subset of those than others, so there isn't a strict ordering.

My point was that it's odd to me to hold being a janitor up as some kind of extreme end of a spectrum. It's not what you do when all else fails. It's not the thing that people with no skills and no experience are automatically assigned to.

However, if a day labor place sends someone to sweep up a warehouse, I wouldn't call that being a janitor. Maybe some would.
What company are you talking about?
> but when the land under their home - let alone their home itself - doubles in value every 8 years and the rate doubles in eight years, they have to sell to get out or lose their house anyway.

I'm having trouble thinking of a realistic combination of numbers where the asset owner would exhaust the equity in their home under such a scenario, or is that "off limits" for some reason?
Based on my experience, most key requiring programs use public key crypto and pin their public key in the binary to verify the signature, which is the key.