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> it is impossible to be informed if you don't read the news

being informed is not as valuable when there's more content out than you could consume in several lifetimes

what's valuable is how to derive any value from it

just an opinion
Crash Dump, or How to Defragment the World. A SciFi Dark Comedy about a Computer
> So what? Awful lot of racists also like to say "hello" and "breakfast" and "cat" and "good evening".

sigh

this is the second time you've said essentially, "racists say a lot of other things too, so clearly 'illegals' isn't racist". that's not a particularly helpful or clever point.

are there non-racist people who say "illegals"? sure. do most people understand the racist connotations of the term, "illegals"? yeah, most do. does the original commenter probably understand the connotations? yeah, good bet they do.

do you? I honestly don't care.

I pose this question for you: are there other, non racially charged ways to describe someone's immigration status?

think hard.

anyway, like I said, elucidating the point only works if you have an open mind. I guess yours isn't.

cheers.
I have a large number of multitrack recordings of contra dances if anyone wants to try training this on them.
Elon Musk and Wall Street's Innovators Brain Drain
Yet another study where humans are "resources" to be "efficiently" "exploited" by business. No thanks.
Show HN: CodeSandbox for VSCode
My toddler provides a whole security suite- she will set your critical files to readonly (by pulling all the keys of your keyboard), airgap your network (by playing with the power strip its connected to), and virus detection (by beginning to emit screams and snot as soon as she catches one) :)
Often times people will upvote the topic / headline as something interesting or noteworthy or because the discussion in the comments is interesting. I’m sure a double digit percentage of people are not even clicking over to TFA, and then another double digit percentage click and then bounce back to the comments (after hitting the paywall) for the discussion and may still upvote.
Your raspberry needs a case, a SD, etc. Cost add up.

Price of a used cellphone: generally nothing, as we all have extra as spares (and family members do the same). It is self contained.

If you need a brand new one, a ulefone with 6' screen costs as little as $57 all included: https://www.banggood.com/Ulefone-Note-7-6_1-inch-Triple-Rear...

It is ready to be rooted with mediatek exploit.

You get wifi + bluetooth + cellular, a screen (always useful for debug). Spend more if you want more ram, more processing power. $80 for a IP68/IP69K one, that's good.

I just can not see how spending more on an elaborate raspberry setup, to have an overall worse solution in the end can be a better idea.
Is there something like a KVM switch for laptop keyboards? I think on some models they are attached by USB so it should be possible, if there’s room in the case (and you poke a hole for a cable to the external device :)
But in 2019 you need to compare Intel’s R&D with AMD + TSMC. What’s different this time is that Intel has lost its process node advantage.
that's either a lie, or that's because the owner doesn't care about saving costs.

I've hosted more dynamic webpages with large amount of traffic on servers that were costing me 20$/month.
Isn't Redux FRP? You can easily do the basics in React as well. I would say it's the dominant paradigm in UI development and most don't know they're using it.
I assume you mean because of the social engineering aspect of incentivizing "CNR workers" to move to big cities and discouraging other kinds of workers from being there.

If so, I agree. It's this idea of nationwide economic efficiency being the be-all and end-all goal of social policy, which completely ignores the actual "social" aspect of gutting small towns even more than already happens, not to mention instituting systems of effective apartheid that attempt to exclude people from important economic hubs.

Edit: ironically, Princeton itself is a pretty small town - 17,487 people in Princeton proper. Of course it's probably not what the study had in mind, and it's about 1.5 hours from NYC and an hour from Philadelphia, making it part of the Northeast megalopolis. Still, "small town" may not be the right term for what they're getting at.
That's sounds pretty nice! Anyone know an Android version? I just checked Yamaha Chord Tracker and MyChord, but both don't seem to be able to use the microphone.
Blood quantum and Native American tribal membership
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Dtas – duct tape audio suite for *nix
I'll be impressed when they can make a car that can drive thru a foot of snow in minnesota.
Firefox to hide notification popups (spam) by default starting next year
The App Is the Killer
That's got to be some of the biggest nonsense I've ever read, and that from an institute with such a pedigree. Surprising. No, if you are short of workers of a certain skillset the idea is not to hover them up for the high density population centers to monopolize them, they have all the advantages anyway. The solutions are (1) ensure more of these people are educated and (2) that the pay disparity between the high density centers and the more remote location gets leveled to the point that money alone will not cause a brain drain.

The same is happening on an international level and the effect is terrible. It causes local shortages of just about all important experts including doctors, IT specialists and so on.
Can someone provide a demo link of source music vs. output?
They say the characters come from a record, not generated in real time. Could be just a FIFO file.
Don't bother reading through the responses -- it's mostly others arguing about what GDPR is or isn't. Ubiquiti's official response [0] is near the bottom of the thread:

> We have started to gather crashes and other critical events strictly for the purpose of improving our products. Any data collected is completely anonymized, GDPR compliant, transmitted using end-to-end encryption and encrypted at rest. There is no on/off switch but there also are no penalties for blocking Internet access to the device, dropping traffic to this host, and/or blocking it via DNS.

> ...

> The memory leak that you reference above was a bug specific to release 4.0.60 which was fixed as of 4.0.61.

[0]: https://community.ui.com/questions/UI-official-urgent-please...
It's not only institutionalizing the social divide between 'rural' and 'city', it is effectively deepening that divide.
"Here's an algorithm, translate it to opcodes for this machine" used to be a full-time job for human beings. They weren't designing software the way we do, they were compiling what someone else had already designed. Our role is automating rote work, but we have to accept that we're ending the demand for certain jobs. Not every programmer became a systems analyst.
Is there anything like this for images? Meaning essentially trying to decompose back into photoshop layers. Wouldn't be feasible for lots of stuff that is completely opaquely covering something, but I'm thinking for things like recoloring a screen print, etc.
I truly wonder how many people this affected but didn't think to open an issue on GitHub https://github.com/mjackson/unpkg/issues/229
As an electrical engineer, I am honestly astounded by how well spectrum has been allocated/shared. It's one of the greatest miracles of the modern era that tens of thousands of antennas can simultaneously jam into a stadium and still have cell service, radio, TV, wifi, walkie talkies, and

Bandwidth is scarce because it's limited by physics. There's some minor inefficiencies, but it's generally pretty good, in terms of bits per second per Hertz.
Worth mentioning Termux too, which works without rooting. As such it won’t give full control over the phone, but worth sharing the knowledge that you can install a working Linux environment on Android straight from the Play Store.

I use mine to run youtube-dl to download audio only versions of YouTube (I like long interviews, talks etc), save data and can listen with screen off.
Interesting timing for this article.

I'm in Canada, and for the first time in over a decade, I decided I couldn't pay the premium of $3200 (taxes included) for a Macbook Pro with 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAM.

I bought a Lenovo 2 in 1 touch laptop with lots of ports, and an AMD Ryzen 3700U with RX Vega 10 graphics, for $700 (taxes included).

The AMD Ryzen 3700U is just as good as the 8th Gen i5. Plenty for me at home. And with the money I saved, I can upgrade my NAS.

This combination of AMD + Windows + Lenovo has finally pushed me to try the world outside of Apple.
They had me until they included "managers" in their list...
RISC-V already has more accomplished people than Keller working on it, and I don't think his presence is required for it to continue to get better.

What RISC-V needs at this point is marketing and a company with a dedicated sales team, not technical competency.
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An Instagram Marketing Plan That Works
I'd be ok with that if it's not unaccountable bureaucrats deciding which artists and journalists get paid. Some variant of "liberal radicalism" might work out well:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/09/li...
OEMs don't list all configurations they sell on their sites, but they certainly want your money. We've asked for some ridiculous shit over the years (including sTR4 and SP3), and Dell has never failed to deliver a quote.
Is the paper, "Spleeter: A Fast And State-of-the Art Music Source Separation Tool With Pre-trained Models", available yet? What is the methodology?
I’ve gotten good results from MetaUML: https://github.com/ogheorghies/MetaUML. It is TeX-oriented, though.
> Is that true in a post-AWS world with storage getting cheaper faster than you can consume it?

This might be true of "storage" as in disk space, but it definitely isn't true of "storage" as in RAM. If your phone kept an in-memory log of every single click event, you'd run out of RAM pretty fast.
This article immediately lead to the mental image of Patrick Star from SpongeBob saying “We’ll take the poors, and move them over there” .
I've been trying to do more work on my iPad Pro recently. Mostly I work over SSH but I do miss having a full desktop environment. Can you add any more details about how people use this?

I assume the Pi broadcasts a WiFi hotspot and then they use some Remote Desktop software, but I'd love to know specifics of what people have found works!
All of Ubiquiti's changelogs consist exclusively of short one-liners such as this -- and pretty much useless.

It's like they just copy and paste the 50-character commit messages or something.
A response to people who ask: “How do I get into Movies?”
How's the trackpad? I have heard people say that they've found an apple comparable trackpad, but I have yet to encounter one.
Quoting from the article that quotes the paper: "Furthermore, their productivity is tremendously enhanced by living with other CNR workers." Where "CNR" workers includes "computer programmers".

I really take issue with that. I think it is blatantly untrue. I've worked in small towns and I've worked in large metropolises (London, for example). I am not more productive in a metropolis. It's handy to go to meetups occasionally, but I have to say that with the internet I learn more by watching interesting talks and emailing people occasionally than I ever did going to the pub and chatting with super famous people in person.

I mean, I enjoy going to the pub and chatting with people in person and I really miss that about London, but I'm way more productive in my current rural setting.

It is, however, instructive to note that I am a remote worker. As a business, if you want to have people who are local, then it helps tremendously to be able to select from a large pool. That's obvious. As an individual it's much easier to network in person and so it's easier to get a job. But, when you are actually on the job? I really don't see this increase in "productivity" at all.
No way to opt out? Seriously? This kind of telemetry BS where you have to set up firewalls is really getting on my nerves, after microsoft started doing it it seems like every company considers this behavior acceptable.

I guess hiring real testers isn't cool anymore.
A Raspberry Pi Zero W with case and SD card is ~20€ and smaller than a smartphone. Usefulness of the additional phone features really depends on what you're doing. The Pi has features the phone doesn't (i.e. GPIOs) - but again only useful if happen to match what you need.
Ask HN: How do I work on my portfolio without a laptop?
Hey HackerNews,

I'm a programmer by trade but I've recently lost my laptop so right now the only computer access I have is a public library computer.

I set up an AWS EC2 instance to work on my Github portfolio but I can't log in to it. How do I get an SSH client on a public computer? Any ideas?

Thanks,
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As far as I’m concerned, Musk has earned the right to be incorrect about previous assumptions because he’s already accomplished so much.

I never understood critiquing Elon Musk of all people.

Aren’t there other people that are better targets for criticism?
What? How far back in time are you going? As far as I remember, it went Ant to Maven to Gradle? With some less popular offshoots like SBT and Ivy.

All of those build tools are pretty complicated. I honestly prefer python and virtual environment. Simple requirements.txt file.
Dialing 911 Without a Phone
What can you point to that demonstrates a correlation between spending a lot of time consuming mainstream media news, and undertaking actions that improve the lives of the downtrodden?

Is it not possible that by spending less time/energy on the sensationalism of corporate news, we can spend more time and energy observing, contemplating and addressing the actual problems in the world?
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/53845538e0f518f99afe53bd...

So nothing major is detected. That doesn't necessarily mean it's safe. Just... a data point.
I gave it a test using the project audio sample. Neat stuff. https://soundcloud.com/thomas-roderick-836298141/sets/spleet...
I gave it a quick test using their audio sample file:

https://soundcloud.com/thomas-roderick-836298141/sets/spleet...
This is a great resource. There were also some other useful links in the comments last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17054419
According to Ubiquiti:

> There is no on/off switch but there also are no penalties for blocking Internet access to the device, dropping traffic to this host, and/or blocking it via DNS.

---

> I guess hiring real testers isn't cool anymore.

Have you used any Ubiquiti products? I'm not sure that they ever hired "real testers".
Well if he’s getting 6 million a day that’s a little over 2 billion hits a year. Maybe he’s overprovisioned an AWS instance or something.
The expression has been a military phrase from time immemorial. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that Roman Centurions used it.
My actual point is that Yandex hasn't yet shown an attempt to solve that case (unless there are other videos), and therefore we can't gauge if they are even ready to attempt it.
Your raspberry needs a case, a SD, etc. Cost add up.

A Pi Zero with WiFi costs about $10, case costs another $10, a name brand 32 GB SD card runs $10, and a 3.5" screen runs about $20 for a grand total of $50. A screen won't fit in the stock zero case but the zero does have a micro HDMI port.

I just can not see how spending more on an elaborate raspberry setup, to have an overall worse solution in the end can be a better idea.

Well none of that is true, so there's that. As an added bonus you don't have to exploit security vulns to get root on a Pi.
For the author - it's "Salon de Refusés" not refuge.

i.e. "exhibition of rejects"

https://2019.programming-conference.org/track/sdr-2019-paper...
> makes user interaction slower and less accurate

Does it? The windows flat UI gets continuous flak on HN and I'm wondering if there's any evidence for it being less usable, beyond opinion.
Mostly backwards compatible hack.
I don't know what they're doing with the site design but it's completely devoid of text for me even with my adblocker turned off. I thought that was part of the gimmick at first until I realized there is text displayed for a fraction of a second before it finishes loading.
ROCm doesn't completely suck with the Radeon VII, which is a Radeon Instinct MI50. Deep learning is not my day job and I'd like to avoid supporting NVidia's insane prices for DL-capable cards, so I've been dealing with the performance hit, and only using the R7 for DL tasks then switching it off when the power isn't needed. The XFX Radeon VII is actually on sale for Newegg for $569 so it's a lot of power (and 16 GB HBM2) for that price.
Thanks, I was able to see it by moving away from the screen a bit.
Gave this a go, it's an easy install with pip, and results are pretty quick even on an old macbook. Splits into 2stems (vocals/accompaniment) on some random songs I chose actually quite good using the pretrained models provided. Of course, ripping the vocals out of the accompaniment takes out a good chunk of the middle frequencies so some songs sound a bit wonky.
Worth a play if you are interested.
Thanks, I realised what the smaller portrait was after reading the helpful comments in this thread.
https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm

ROCM makes it possible to use consumer grade AMD GPUs for deep learning.
His point No. 5, 11, 12 are particularly important to people trading financial markets. It's such a common occurrence that when bad news hit the wire, market goes up afterward. The investing proverb says, buy on rumor and sell on news. That's exactly what this guy is saying.
Leaving the screen aside, does the PI also has a battery and 1G of RAM?

That's what the $57 new phone has.

EDIT: it was a rhetorical question. Never mind. Keep spending on Rapsberries, while I will keep spending on waterproof devices with a battery/screen/camera that are sold as 'phones'
Cheers, I managed to see it eventually.
I love game design videos:

Game Maker's Toolkit - 689K - https://www.youtube.com/user/McBacon1337/videos

Adam Millard - The Architect of Games - 153K - https://www.youtube.com/user/Thefearalcarrot/videos
The paper in question: "Cognitive Hubs and Spatial Redistribution", by Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (
Princeton University), Pierre-Daniel Sarte (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Felipe Schwartzman (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond). September 3, 2019

https://www.princeton.edu/~erossi/CHSR.pdf
GPS jamming would be more effective. The flight computer relies on it heavily.
> Yeah but you just kick the can to which python happens to be the system python or activated python referenced by “python”. It’s exactly the same problem.

Exactly right. And on any sane Linux system the pip command should get you a version compatible with the system Python, which means this is a pointless extra step. Unless these instructions are supposed to be for Windows, or MacOS, in which case it should probably say so. (And doesn't everyone on Windows use Conda anyway?)
Imagine you were trying to explain the temperature-conversion program's behavior in the simplest, clearest way possible. (That is, after all, what programmers fundamentally do: try to explain things to computers as simply and clearly as possible.) You'd probably say something like: "When the user changes the Celsius textbox, the computer changes the Fahrenheit textbox to the converted value." And indeed, that's the program most people would write:

celsiusTextbox.whenChanged do
fahrenheitTextbox.value = cToF(celsiusTextbox.value)
end

What you wouldn't say is something like: "The Fahrenheit textbox's value depends on whether the Fahrenheit textbox or the Celsius textbox was edited more recently. If the Fahrenheit textbox was edited more recently, its value is equal to the value the user entered into it most recently. If the Celsius textbox was edited more recently, the Fahrenheit textbox's value is equal to the converted value of the value the user entered into the Celsius textbox most recently." But that's the program you have to write in the "DCTP" approach proposed by the author.

I think this is true of a lot of UI programming: most people intuitively think about it in terms of "when X happens, do Y", so trying to cram it into another programming model is more trouble than it's worth.
As a parent of a threenager, In inclined to agree.
I don't really know what you mean by “more accomplished people than Keller” but I sure do share your overview.

My point was more that economies of scale happen with killer products (e.g. how CISC won over RISC back in the 90's, it wasn't about tech but about product, and as you say it falls down to sales and marketing). Somehow a guy like Jim got involved in some of the best scalers out there (AMD's x64, Apple's A chips, Tesla's self-driving AI, AMD's Zen, now something at Intel with 3D stacking most likely, and next...?)

Here's to RISC-V, anyhow!
There is a setting to change this behavior. It’s in System Preferences->General->“Jump to the spot that’s clicked”
I don't think you've really grasped what I'm saying at all.

I do care about drones, I've built several myself.

A technical solution doesn't come without regulation, so yes, this area does need better regulation, so that people can't ruin a hobby with terrible behaviour such as getting in the way of fire-fighting. (I'm Australian, bushfires are one of our hot-button issues.)

The regulation can be used to enforce the technical solution, so that the DIY crowd knows there is a hurdle to entry they need to comply with. Some won't, but you'll have significantly less unknown drones in serious danger areas.

I don't have a significant answer, and I've already said that.
Leaving the screen aside, does the PI also has a battery and 1G of RAM?

Well the information is out there and freely available so I'd suggest looking it up if you're posing an earnest question.

That's what the $57 new phone has.

That $57 phone comes preloaded with an antiquated version of Android and lists for $80 (the sale ends in two days).
Holy shit that works way better than I expected. The github project should link to this or a similar example, the technical description doesn't do it justice.
I think it's probably the same as it ever was. By my read this is essentially Google releasing an iframe (or whatever) version of their "allow blorbulax.com?" page with the message reworded and combined with the "yes" button.
Client-Side Scanning Breaks E2E Encryption
"The reason we're stuck with this shitty fifty year old architecture that's steadily gotten worse through every iteration," "Satan," "Evil Computational War Criminal," a few less nice terms.

If you ask a Sun employee: "Enemy #1."

Less sarcastically: "slightly above average."

x86_64 is a nightmare, and we're a decade behind where we could be because it was what the industry settled for.