skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an interview with Aaron McLeran, who has done a lot of work with CSound, and collaborated with Brian Eno on the procedural music in Will Wright's "Spore" computer game at Maxis, using Pure Data (PD).

Immersive Audio Podcast Episode 7 Aaron McLeran

https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/immersive-audio-podcas...

https://soundcloud.com/user-713907742/immersive-audio-podcas...

>In today’s episode Oliver was joined via Skype by Aaron McLeran, Lead Audio Programmer at Epic Games. Aaron’s first taste of audio programming was writing computer music in CSound while in graduate school at University of Notre Dame (when he was supposed to be doing astrophysics research). Realising his true calling, he left physics to study procedural and interactive computer music, audio synthesis, and audio analysis with Dr. Curtis Roads at the University of Santa Barbara. His first game audio experience was writing procedural music on Spore where he got to collaborate with Brian Eno and Maxis’ audio director Kent Jolly on writing much of the game’s truly procedural music. His next game audio gig was a sound designer on Dead Space 2 where he wrote much of the games interactive audio systems in Lua along with accomplished audio director Don Veca. He made the leap from technical sound designer to audio programmer at Sledgehammer Games where he worked on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. His next audio programming gig was at ArenaNet where he got to wrangle with the unpredictability and scale of game audio in the context of an MMO and developed some pretty cool tech around for player-created music and musical interaction. He’s currently working on a new multi-platform audio mixer backend for UE4 and developing new tech and approaches to game audio for VR.

>Aaron speaks to Oliver about all things Game Audio and Procedural Audio and his unusual entry into the industry.

GDC Vault: Procedural Music in SPORE, with Kent Jolly, Aaron McLeran

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/323/Procedural-Music-in

MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC IN 'SPORE' WITH HELP FROM BRIAN ENO (LISTEN TO THIS)

http://www.mtv.com/news/2456432/make-your-own-kind-of-music-...

THE BEAT GOES ON: DYNAMIC MUSIC IN SPORE: Audio engineers Kent Jolly and Aaron McLeran unveil Spore's procedural music generation.

https://www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_gspy-feb08.html

Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqzVSvqXJYg

Pure Data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data#Projects_using_Pure_...

>Projects using Pure Data

>Pure Data has been used as the basis of a number of projects, as a prototyping language and a sound engine. The table interface called the Reactable and the abandoned iPhone app RjDj both embed Pd as a sound engine.

>Pd has been used for prototyping audio for video games by a number of audio designers. For example, EAPd is the internal version of Pd that is used at Electronic Arts (EA). It has also been embedded into EA Spore.

>Pd has also been used for networked performance, in the Networked Resources for Collaborative Improvisation (NRCI) Library.
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At this point there are many people who would be glad to have a month's income!
If you’re looking for more flexibility than Hasura, I’d recommend you try out Warthog (disclaimer: I’m the author). It’s a Node Library that uses TypeORM, TypeGraphQL and some extra magic under the hood to let you spin up APIs very quickly (auto-generated schema), but you also have access to the bare metal code. You can set up CRUD essentially free, but it provides you a slew of ways to handle more complex scenarios.
Could you shed some more light on this amazing work you're talking about?
Also, we have developed our internal framework that eases pretraining - finetuning to subtask pipeline. After months of usage it required a lot of refactoring to match the need of all forms of DNN models. I would like to hear from other ML engineers if they have a internal framework which generalizes at least one subfield of DNN(nlp, vision, speech etc)
> If healthcare was really a capitalist endeavor then it wouldn't cost $5k for three stitches.

Before the government got heavily involved in healthcare in the 1960s, healthcare was cheap.

Edit: requested cite: https://www.thebalance.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-costs...
Jitsi has some issues with Firefox, but "doesn't work" is a bit much.
I do not. I can't self heal. I need to talk to others.
By your logic most people over 17 have been through a pandemic before, did you learn your lesson? Do you have a stockpile of n95 masks?

Even if he could predicted have it, he still couldn't sell them for more than $.10ea due to price gouging, so your whole point is moot. There's no insentive for him to take the risks you're suggesting.
Next article series from CNN:

“How the lonely peanut kills unexposed new generation of American children”

Or..

“The mystery of why Cancer and Cardiovascular conditions magically went away during COVID-19”
> Finally, given that's the environment we're dealing with, from now on the rational thing to do would be to design config file formats expecting them to eventually get templated.

But... that's kind of what a dynamic config file is.

If you're writing a JS program that imports and runs a JS file to generate an object literal for its options, you have just made a config file format that you expect to be generated, or templated, or whatever you'd like to call it. The only difference is that you're using using 1 language instead of 3, and your users don't need to have a separate step during build to generate the file.

People keep on circling around to, "but what if my user doesn't know the language or isn't comfortable with it?" And sure, if your user isn't comfortable programming, don't do this. But if your user does know how to program, don't force them to learn a new templating format, just let them write the code that they already know.

Or honestly, just play the joke out straight and build a template engine for your source language. I get that you're making a joke above, but a templating engine that spits out valid Python/JS code from valid JSON/YAML is trivial to write.

var template_source = fs.readFileSync(process.argv[1]);
var output = JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(template_source), null, 2); /* check malformatted input and prettify */
fs.writeFileSync('config.js', `module.exports=${output};`);

So if you go this route and a few of your users end up wanting to template JSON/YAML anyway, then fine, they still can.
Announcing AlphaZero.jl
> "it's obvious that wearing nitrile gloves and properly disposing of them reduces the chance of viruses coming into contact with your bare hands", true, this is not 100% obvious.

I think this is a little bit unfair of an analogy because the question is not really "does it reduce virus particles from coming into contact with your bare hands", the question is really "does it reduce your chances of getting/spreading the virus" which is not so straightforward.

> If a virus is likely to infect you by entering your nose or mouth, then covering your nose and mouth is likely to reduce the chance of infection from the virus.

That mechanism does seem obvious but what if the reduction is only a few percentage points or something? Consider how the virus particles could potentially pass right through many coverings, and they do nothing for your eyes or other bodily openings. It could be totally counteracted by, for example, having virus particles trapped in a moist space in front of your face for hours at a time. I have no idea if that's true but I'm just trying to say, there are plausible mechanisms that could negate the effectiveness of masks outside healthcare settings.

> It's the reason why Asian countries have been wearing face masks since the start of the COVID-19 news.

Asian countries have acquired a culture of wearing face masks based around beliefs, not data. That is not a demonstration of face masks being effective, unless you are trying to say that since implementing such a culture we've seen a reduction in viral infections there. That would indeed be a good argument for masks.

And keep in mind that mask-wearing in Asian countries didn't begin with COVID-19. It has been popular since the SARS outbreak at least.
I'm reading this subject too. Thinking in Systems: A Primer is also a good book. Highly recommended.
Here's a great course from Udemy:

https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix...
Absolutely true. The amount of bogus science being shared is astonishing. Yet, almost no one seems to notice, care or demand better. All that’s said in the article should be, but personally I’ve lost all hope. We might be living through a generation that values TikTok And click bait more than truth, and it won’t end well, but that’s where we are heading.
This. I was going to write a comment but you nailed every point. These are not "leveraged" ETFs in any sense of the word. These are vehicles designed by savvy bank trading desks to drain noobs of their money. One way to think of them is casino bets with very high carry costs. Hold them long enough and you will give back gains and most of your capital to the house.

I admire the article writer's effort but he seems to lack a working understanding of leveraged ETFs and how they are constructed.
What's an example of an NLP application that "meets user expectations" in the wild? Google's natural language stuff just annoys me. Facebook and google translate don't seem good after multiple breakthrough announcements.

Edit: Sota, state of the art, is taken incredibly glibly, as if that was enough to make a given application a success. This seems like a massive overstatement.
Hey, thanks for the adapter. It works great! I'm using it in 2 small projects.
How to Define Ad-Hoc Entity Graphs in Spring Boot
I’m working on this as well. I found a couple of people who posted their solutions online, but some of the questions are tricker than others. Wish there was an answer key!
How to Map Java Enum to Database via AttributeConverter
I’ve never worked at an early stage startup. For the last decade, I have been hired at four companies after they had found product/market fit, they “moved fast and broke things” and saw their velocity slow to a crawl because what got them here won’t get them there. (I never fault a company for having a horrible architecture if it got them off the ground, they got funding and survived to get to the point they are (see Twitter).

They needed to hire people to mentor and to help them implement better processes but at the same time being a hands on developer.

But, I have seen plenty of times where the company had an in house designer to design mockups of the UI and hire either a contractor that worked on site or a junior boot camp grad that knew $frontend_framework_of_the_week to save the heavy lifting for the senior devs/FTEs.

On one hand it seems like competent front end developers who can do “good enough” front end development and design are a dime a dozen and you can pay them peanuts. On the other hand, while I know HTML/CSS well enough to do some ugly internal site and I know JS well, I could never go from empty git repo to a well designed single page app on the front end. There is some type of mental barrier when it comes to me being a modern front end developer.

But if you give me a budget, time, and admin credentials to an AWS account, I can go from empty repo, no infrastructure to a fully baked backend solution with a full network infrastructure, database, cache, CI/CD solution easily (been there done that).
lol....shocking.....NOT!!!!

When are people going to wake the f* up....
One is you need a medical license to practice. To get a license, you need to be a graduate of an approved medical school. Slots in medical school are controlled by the AMA, which has a strong interest in limiting the number of doctors being minted, to keep doctor fees high.

That's just one.
He's a businessman that learnt his lesson and he's more cautious this time. The article did say he's hiring and trying to scale up but at a sustainable pace.
> Because the entire point of the App Store is the review process.

So who is stopping you from buying all your apps from the App Store after they've gone through the review process? Why do you need to stop everybody else from choosing to do something different than you and having their iPhone apps reviewed by somebody else?

> But you do realize even physical games you buy for consoles have to be reviewed and approved by the console makers and they still get a cut?

That is indeed the same situation, and consoles should not be restricting competing app distribution methods either.
Haven’t you watched Tiger King? Turns out tigers are very cheap to acquire and to the tune of $10000 a year to maintain.
If one wants to capture some short term gains, go for LABU (3x IBB).

A perfect example of the fleecing of the muppets I'm talking about. IBB one year performance is $114 -> $106. In the same timeframe LABU $65 -> $20.

How does the SEC allow that? It's fucking disgusting.

The only way to "win" with ETFs like that is to short them, short them, and short them again.

Edit: sorry. Didn't emphasize the obvious, real, way to "win" with ETFs like that. You create them and sell them to muppets. Billy Ray figured this out pretty quickly in Trading Places:

Mortimer Duke: Tell him the good part.

Randolph Duke: The good part, William, is that, no matter whether our clients make money or lose money, Duke & Duke get the commissions.

Mortimer Duke: Well? What do you think, Valentine?

Billy Ray: Sounds to me like you guys a couple of bookies.

Randolph Duke: [chuckling, patting Billy Ray on the back] I told you he'd understand.
Is this what you mean by more clusters? Looks like clang compiles the two functions to roughly the same "tree search" code. https://godbolt.org/z/7M_3PU
High ethical standards and the US Military do not go hand-in-hand.
The Elusive Question of Viral Aerosols
Businesses that try that often get sued by those employees after-the-fact to get the benefits of employment. Then the courts decide if they were really employees or not.

Like the current Uber driver case.
Thanks for this! I will add it to a project.
My perl script which scans C/C++ source code for typos would emit a warning (case 19) for a case statement that fell through to the next case statement. The script handled the 'fall through'-comment situation as well.

You can read the 1999 Perl Conference paper for the perl script at https://sites.google.com/site/typopl2/afastandeasywaytofindb...
I'm sure he's aware, what you're overlooking is that when China starts producing again he's instantly undercut by a 5x margin and history has shown him no one in the US cares about buying American if it means paying more, then he lays off all the workers again and goes out of business.
Thanks for your reply, I am working on changing the flow of the app so that it would be easier to use it.
I am a fan of old history docs. Search for mesopotamia on youtube for a fascinating one. I also like medieval ones. Check out A history of Britain. Any recs on your side? No aliens pls :)
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Clang compiles both switch statements and `if` statements to the same tree search code. E.g. https://godbolt.org/z/7M_3PU My point is that the optimizations you're describing for switch statements are also applied to a bunch of `if` blocks, at least in LLVM-based languages with an LLVM version from the last several years.
I currently run my own mailserver. It's running on my home computer, which I leave on 24/7 anyway.

Administration is quite easy if you start with a well-maintained docker image ,and I found one I'm quite happy with.[0] It has been less than 30 minutes of work so far, but I already understand docker quite well. It was nice to learn some more docker stuff, too.

The major downside is that random email hosts seem to reject my mail (looking at you, comcast.net addresses) so I still use a gmail with some contacts.

[0] https://github.com/tomav/docker-mailserver
Are those online somewhere?
Is it actually Perl though? I have my money on COBOL which is an entirely different story.
People, but not businesses with capital expenditures.
I believe this happened before tslint or eslint existed.
It's too easy as a catch-all to say "everything can always be priced in". Right now 48 states (I can't find anything saying all 50) are in a state of emergency, which prohibit raising prices more than around 10% or 20%.

I'm bringing up these points because over the last month I have come to also think either state or federal government needs to take responsibility and buy these makes from a local producer - even when there is no pandemic.

I don't think our connected web of hospitals, suppliers, and insurance companies have the right incentives to use local, "expensive" suppliers when there are lower cost non-local suppliers and these non-local suppliers have stocks.

[1] Price gouging percentages - https://www.natlawreview.com/article/coronavirus-emergency-d...

[2] State of emergency - https://www.businessinsider.com/california-washington-state-...
> Let me reframe is this way: There is some emergency wage where his employees would enthusiastically work substantially more than they are right now. There's some price-per-mask where the owner would enthusiastically pay them that wage to get extra masks out of the factory. That price-per-mask would still count as a steal compared to the cost of a healthcare worker developing COVID-19. Everyone would be better off if hospitals were paying that price. So why aren't they?

Because your analysis is wrong? You seem be assuming workers are some kind of machine that turns wages into output, and the more wages you put in, the more output you get, and you can freely adjust output by adjusting wages. You also seem to thing he has a lot of pricing flexibility due to the demand. I think those ideas have several problems:

1. There's an obvious limit to individual output, and his existing employees are probably operating close to that, especially since his business was already under stress.

2. Human psychology is complicated, and you're ignoring morale. A logical robot might have the same satisfaction with a certain wage before and after he's made much more than that, but a human probably won't (and that's even an oversimplification).

3. His customers are probably going be unhappy with him for raising prices in a crisis, regardless if he had good reasons for it or not. He's already dealing with the problem of customers leaving after a crisis for cheaper competitors, and a price increase now would probably make that problem even worse.
Nice! FWIW I've been solving some wasm challenges in infosec Capture The Flag events and it's a nice way to learn the bytecode.
Out of curiosity
How’s life in Alaska. It has always been a dream for me to move to Alaska since its a beautiful state and last thing what about the jobs there
You could also consider providing bioinformatics routines such as global and local sequence alignment. Under the hood they're very similar algorithms.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needleman%E2%80%93Wunsch_algor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorit...
Tesla shows ventilator prototype made from car components
Curious if the 6 people is a limitation of WebRTC? I'm building a video chat app on it now and would love to hear about your experience.
Why Bats Make Such Good Viral Hosts
This is an area where Tcl can shine. Sandboxed sub-interpreters can be stripped of all unwanted commands so that you are no longer Turing complete. You are left with simple configurations that just set variables. If more power is needed you let some control structures back in or select custom commands to do what a dumb config file can't.
Security and privacy is something I strive to have... I would want the same for anyone who uses anything I create.
Synthwave meets arena rock? If you haven't heard it already you're going to love this!

https://youtu.be/98DDgbtE-eU
Nah, theres some overlap but they're better used to complement each other than as competitors.
I am learning how to get better at writing short stories in April by participating in Camp Nanowrimo

https://nanowrimo.org/what-is-camp-nanowrimo
I'm in my junior year of University. My semester is predominantly General Education requirements. Here's a breakdown of what we're learning about:

- World Civilization I:

At this point in time, the course is following the Cro-Magnon's during the Mesolithic age, specifically around the time that the Neanderthals/Denisovans go extinct and Cro-Magnons evolve into Homo Sapiens Sapiens. This is also around the time that Cro-Magnon-Neanderthal hybrids cross the Beringia Bridge into modern day Alaska. During this time, there's shifts in every single aspect of life on Earth. I've uploaded the most recent lecture notes for those that are interested.

https://textuploader.com/14j86

- Astronomy II:

This has been my favorite course this semester (aside from Computer Systems). My professor does an amazing job presenting the concepts and his passion is very apparent as he teaches. Unfortunately, that effect has been greatly reduced, with classes now being online. The other downer about online class is that I won't be able to use the telescopes for lab. Stemming from our previous sections, which covered the Sun, star formation, and star evolution, we're now covering the various models presented throughout time that tried to reason our position within the Milky Way through stargazing. Here's the lecture if you care to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?=AUlr2hlAPcM&feature=youtu.be

- Technical Writing:

Project 2, that accounts for 30% of my grade, was due Friday. The objective was to create documentation for a program or application. I was having a hard time finding a program, application, package, framework, or language I used, that wasn't already documented to a high enough standard (coincidence? :P). I didn't want to replicate any documentation that already existed so I decided to write an Angular library for creating a vertical or horizontal timeline and documentation for it. I turned it in two hours late, so I most likely will not get credit. Publishing my own code for others to use brought me more joy than I would've imagined.

- Computer Systems I:

The lectures have been covering pipelining, control / data dependencies, forwarding paths, etc. It's extremely fun. In lab, we're programming the Y86-64 ISA using C++.

Besides that stuff and my dance class, where we've learned about the dance throughout the 1900s to present, I've been going through a Udemy course on Kubernetes in preparation for my summer internship and CKA.
The landlords can probably keep the tenants' deposits if they get evicted or leave before their term is up. This can mean access to quite a bit of money rather quickly. And some tenants will have fixed-term leases with the contract expiring in a few months' time - for the landlord, forcing those tenants out of the contract before that term is up can be a win, because of the deposits.

Also, I don't think most businesses are literally out of cash yet. They're simply prioritizing other expenses, like wages. Landlords stand to benefit by forcing some of that money to go towards rent.

From a business perspective, it would be strange if the landlords did not try to get paid.
Maybe use WikiData? The slower rate of updates might work in your favour to avoid vandalism.
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