skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> flowing streams of high frequency audio over wires whose samples are at a much higher rate than the frame rate of the visual program's control signals

Pd's "control" classes are probably confusing to programmers coming from other computer music environments. There's no control rate in Pd.

The "control" classes (the ones without a tilde at the end of their name) send messages in zero logical time and may be triggered sporadically. Building diagrams out of them is like building an immediate-mode Rube Goldberg machine.

There are some conversion classes that allow control <-> signal object communication. Some of the control-to-signal classes do conversion at what you could call "control rate"-- e.g., they might compute a single value and copy it to the rest of the samples for output. Others do sub-sample accuracy bounded by the precision of floats (single or double as Pd can be compiled to use either).

If you're weird you can use [bang~] to emulate a control rate diagram-- it will literally output the "bang" message at each block which you can then feed to a downstream Rube Goldberg machine in order to do arbitrary message passing each block. But that's less ergonomic than just using signal objects which a) all send the same type of vector data and b) get automatically ordered by the graph builder and are therefore easier to read. (The irony being that signal diagrams generally deal with DSP, so the readable part of the diagram is the most conceptually complex and the simple stuff like branching or counting to 10 tends to end up looking like a plate of spaghetti.)

There's also overhead in the control message dispatch which would probably undo any imagined efficiency gains. Signal diagrams on the other hand get sorted into an array of function callbacks (as needed during runtime or editing time), so there's no chasing of pointers or type-checking to eat up cycles.
> There is absolutely no evidence that HCQ or HCQ/azithromycin would have any effect on seriously ill patients with viral pneumonia

It's supposed to be taken BEFORE you become seriously ill and develop ARDS.

In fact, many elites are put on a short course of HCQ/Z-Pak as soon as they show symptoms, even before the results of their tests come back (which can take days).

> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-treatment-drug-hydr...
That's very true, but for me that's an acceptable tradeoff for not having to write much code or spin up a database, docker container, load balancer, or worry about security. Dark is great for getting a project off the ground and getting to the "proof of concept" stage: for me, there is tremendous value in getting there sooner rather than wasting a bunch of time doing things that are tangential to creating the product.
Learning again, albeit temporarily, how not to live like an entrepreneur: it's pleasant, and my body is thanking me.
Mumble has positional audio for game stuff - https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Positional-Audio its also extremely low resource usage and you can install/manage it yourself.

I really prefer it to discord/whatever other voice client because you can also do stuff like hierarchical broadcasting, a parent channel can broadcast to children without children broadcasting back.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22789605
Except of course nobody believes they actually "handled" it. In the absence of a vaccine, even partial lifting of restrictions would lead to thousands and thousands of infections daily, if the number out of China were actually real. Which they are not.
A lot of people just don't believe an old, boring drug cocktail can prove effective against a new disease.
There are two types of partying: raving and clubbing.

Clubbing, is for extroverts who enjoy socializing and being on the spotlight. Clubs have lots of lights, people dress in shiny colors and seek to bring attention to themselves. Camera sharing is the ideal format for this.

Raving, is for introverts. The setting is dark, people wear black and usually prefer to be left on their own and focus internally and in the music. It's a way to enjoy a social situation without being overwhelmed by the crowd. Avatars and virtual worlds is the ideal format for this.

Of course, I am generalizing here but I'm simply trying to make a point. An extrovert will not enjoy a setting where they can't draw attention to themselves. An introvert will not enjoy a setting where being in the spotlight is the default mode.

Speaking only by my own experience as being an introvert-extrovert and attending both clubs and raves I can tell you that there is minimal overlap in the crowds. A different type of people is in clubs and a different type of people is in raves. Generalizing both as "partying" is confusing, at least.
That factors into the complacency for sure.
All things considered it is working out pretty well.
Finally getting around to some discrete mathematics texts and the foundations of mathematics. All driven by an intense desire to understand the Busy Beaver function.
TDLR:

- the big boys (Google, Baidu, Facebook etc - basically FAANG) are getting SOTA using private data without explicitly stating it

- their toolkits are too complicated and not suited to non-FAANG-scale datasets/problems

- published results aren't reproducible and academic papers often gloss over important implementation details (e.g which version of CTC loss is used).

- SOTA/leaderboard chasing is bad and there's a general over-reliance on large compute, so non-FAANG inevitably end up overfitting on publicly available datasets (LibriSpeech).

I'm far from an expert, but having spent the last 6 months familiarising myself with the STT landscape, I would say I mostly agree.

First, the author wants more like Mozilla's Common Voice. Not sure if he/she is aware, but I think the M-AILABS speech dataset (https://www.caito.de/2019/01/the-m-ailabs-speech-dataset/) will go a long way to "democratizing" STT.

Second, agree that the toolkits are all complicated and weighted in favour of highly parameterized NNs. This works great if you have FAANG-style data (and hardware), but really isn't pushing the field forward in other respects (compute/training time, parameterization/etc). In all fairness, though, HMM-based frameworks like Kaldi are notoriously complex and take significant effort to wrap your head around. I think speech is just inherently more complex than image or text.

Third - and this applies to ML in general - agree that papers all too often gloss over the important details. I see no reason why publications shouldn't all be accompanied by code and dataset hashes.

I think we're seeing FAANG all converge on a non-optimal solution, simply because we've effectively removed resource constraints. When your company doesn't blink at spending a few million on creating its own datasets, and you have massive TPU farms available at your disposal, there's no incentive to focus on sample- or compute- efficient models.

What's more, they also have the resources to market their successes much more effectively. Think open source frameworks, PR pieces, new product releases, and so on.

This effect is two-fold. First, it creates a lot of noise that crowds out the slower, smaller contributors. Second, it also draws a lot of junior research attention - who would want to risk 4 years of their life on a pathway that might not work when NNs are here today and there's clear evidence that they work (albeit only for certain problems in certain environments with certain datasets).
Yeah... it's one of those things where once I noticed the kerning was off I basically had to fix it. In many of the illustrations, I did a better job of writing with good spacing and then I didn't need to do as much fixup in Photoshop. But with the illustration I recorded for the video, I was so worried about making a mistake that I spread the letters out way too much.
> If your users are writing this code, you have a whole new set of problems that you don't have if users can only provide text config files in a safe format.

If your users are writing this problem, you have a whole set of problems that aren't being solved if users can only provide text config files in a safe format.
> From a financial perspective, there's not a huge difference between a) a hospital paying $0.80/mask for the next year and $0.02/mask for the following decade or b) $0.10/mask with a decade long contract.

Yes, there is: the cash flow for the two cases is very, very different. Case b) is doable for a reasonable cash flow. Case a) is impossible unless someone else besides the hospital provides the huge up front amount of cash required to pay $0.80/mask for the first year.
The way to be economically successful is to extract those large profits from your company in the good times, then claim bankruptcy in the bad times. All your assets get sold off cheap, and you can use those extracted profits to form a new company to buy up the assets and continue business.
India, most migrations happen through intra-company transfers but that's not going to happen in a small startup where I work right now
What is the downside of storing state for external services vs using configuration to attempt to recreate everything each time?
I actually like this FF aesthetic art style better than TF2.
>> Why wouldn't capital use the inability of people who are literally passed out and bleeding out on stretchers to price shop, to capital's advantage?

> Because that would be the worst imaginable PR.

You're wrong. "Bad PR" has not worked at all to encourage the healthcare industry to fix medical billing on its own. See this article for an example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/magazine/those-indecipher...

It's literally impossible to comparison shop healthcare, and I've tried. You can't properly diagnose yourself, for the same reason a doctor can't properly debug your code. You have no idea how treatment is going to be coded (and you'd have to be an expert to understand the codes and their implications, anyway). Hospitals will only tell you their inflated "list prices." Your insurance won't tell you anything about what they've negotiated with the hospitals in your area until you've been billed, since they consider that information proprietary.

Most healthcare is to solve real health problems (from mild to extremely serious). People won't decide to live with those problems unless they're forced to, so they can't opt out of the system until it's fixed.
was your bot profitable? have you done real trading with it yet?
> That's a pro tip, right there. All too often I get caught up in using the tool/program I'm in to do something completely, where it causes inefficient work loops.

I was caught in that loop with the first couple of chapters where I felt like the drawing itself had to be perfect and I would redraw them if I made a mistake. I got wrapped up in some sort of purist ideal (an affliction I am highly susceptible to).

Eventually I realized that all that matters is the final image, so I got better about taking advantage of Photoshop. Each line and letter in the diagram was still drawn by hand on paper, but sometimes I rearrange or fix mistakes in Photoshop.
> Nor is their job to maintain the long-term health of the country. That's literally the government's job.

No, it isn't. It's everybody's job. The government is a tool we use to delegate certain aspects of that job--and often it's a very bad tool to use and we should be relying on it less, not more. The idea that "it's the government's job" to do things causes all kinds of problems, because people think they can just let the government take care of it and not have to worry about it any more. You can't do that. Ultimately it is we, the people, who are responsible.
> I currently use parts of the textbook Programming Language Pragmatics

That was the first PL book I read. I really liked it, but you're right that it's like a survey of the entire landscape. For a first book, I personally like getting a single guided tour so that I feel like I'm going somewhere and not just looking at everything from a distance.
> To be clear, there is no good data on either of those assertions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00984-8
I'm sympathetic to this, and I suspect the original author is as well (see their comments on Emacs). I think you're making a very good point that people need to keep in mind when they write configs.

However, very specifically where Makefiles are concerned:

> This is the beginning of the logic that lead to things like Automake, and completely impenetrable makefiles.

The problem with Make in specific isn't scripting the build, it's that Make is a completely separate domain-specific language that isn't particularly well structured or particularly elegant in the first place.

The comparison I would draw is with Grunt.

Grunt is also a programmable config that allows you to do powerful stuff. It's also IMO a giant disaster and most projects shouldn't use it. Grunt is using programming to control how a project builds, but it's also tying tons of layers of abstraction into this secondary API that's unreasonably difficult to debug, and that lends itself to really bad, unnecessarily verbose control flows.

I was teaching interns how our build process worked at a company, and I had an "aha" moment when I realized that in the time I could teach them Grunt's API, I could also teach them how to write a maybe 100 line pure-JS script that did literally everything Grunt was doing for us.

When I look at Makefiles and Gruntfiles and cringe, very often the thing that makes me cringe are these giant pillars of abstractions and control flows of "program X calls program Y and pipes its output to program Z, and good luck intercepting that specific output to see what's going wrong".

There's something to be said for getting rid of these giant build systems that are spanning multiple processes and languages in general, and instead doing something very direct in one language in one file. And I kind of think that's a concern that cuts across different config types. At my current job, we're in the process of dropping Team City, because we realized that for our needs, we can get by with a single 30-ish line bash script that gets copied to each build machine and auto-run every 5 minutes. And Team City is using a lot of declarative options in a very structured web UI, but the Bash script is still a lot easier to debug and reason about than Team City's whole... thing.

Which is not to say you're wrong, I do think you're making a completely valid point. But I don't think the obfuscation you're talking about is inevitable, I think that's just a side effect of programmers thinking they're clever and trying to make generalized build systems for specific tasks.
From Rust to WebAssembly: building an interactive note-taking app
This kind of manual override can also go wrong and cause traffic to be incorrectly dropped.
Are you sure? I'd guess that if the cases are an interval of consecutive integers it may do a "jmp [c]" sometime.
I'm curious; are you studying Cantonese or Taishanese or some other variant? Asking simply because Cantonese is pretty mutually intelligible with Mandarin; I'm a native Mandarin and Cantonese speaker and barring some vocabulary (and pronunciation which is often just slightly "off-sounding" Mandarin), they're almost identical.
GNNs made easy for TensorFlow users with Deep Graph Library v0.4.3
In regards to integrating Logic Apps with source control here is some reading material that I found useful on the topic:

- https://platform.deloitte.com.au/articles/preparing-azure-lo...

- https://www.feval.ca/posts/logicapp-ci/

- https://blog.thenetw.org/2019/08/20/logic-app-in-a-multi-ten...

- https://www.bruttin.com/2017/06/13/deploy-logic-app-with-arm...

It was a real hassle to get everything somewhat nicely through CI/CD (and it's still not at the level where I'd like it), but getting them in source control and having them deployed through an Azure DevOps' release pipeline has been immensely valuable.

Let me know if you have any more questions about that as I'm happy to help you get going!
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Your second sentence would probably be "o sina lukin e soweli suli pi telo". what you wrote is more like "big animal water".
Yeah, I was trying to joke -- if your users are OK with Python, then just let them use Python.

What I was getting at was that this is a scenario where concerns over Python users needing to actually use Python has morphed into those same users now needing to use 3 languages.
Whether this is true or not doesn't change my point
Ask HN: Do you use a mood tracker / journalling app? Why/why not?
I've bounced between paper notebooks, Apple's notes app, and have recently begun looking at apps designed specifically for journalling and/or mood tracking. Is there a better alternative? Is it even worth the time investment?
Brief encounters and romps in the park: George Orwell and women
jhipster is good for basic crud apps.
Where is that? Even in most of Europe, unless you're part of a strong union, you can be fired for no reason as long as the employer respects the notice period that's in your contact, no other compensation is made. You have to rely on unemployment from the state after that.
I'm not a lifter (nor do I compete in anything), but it's a persuasive video none the less!
I don't really understand how I am supposed to be using this. It seems like it is some sort of product management tool but more training on what the workflow seems like it would make it a more valuable tool.
Crypto Gazette Gives Away 10 Ledger Nano X Units to Lucky Readers
But 'ruin' simply involves claiming bankruptcy, then selling assets to someone else who will continue operations with 1 month reserves.

Overall, cost of business is lower.
> Spending 4 years, full time from what it seems, on a book with a (let's face it) niche audience.&

Four years, yes, but much less than full time. Usually around an hour a day, often less.

I work full time at Google and the book was a (very involved) hobby.

> that's an opportunity cost of 200k*

Yes, there's definitely a financial opportunity cost. But when I see someone working a job they hate eight hours a day, I often wonder what the satisfaction opportunity cost of that is. What could they be doing instead that would be more meaningful to them?

I'm unlikely to make enough money from the book to justify the time (though my first book made me much more than I expected), but I do think it will bring enough other rewards to be worth the time.
Same here. Also trying to learn a new language without a dictionary: the toddler's cry, and trying to learn to make myself fall asleep on command, but being awake in the same time.
There are a number of physical impositions placed on ballerinas. They are expected to have a small head, a long neck, small breasts, narrow hips and thin, graceful limbs. Mutilation of the feet to complete the illusion is simply part of the package...
Oh, for FFS. Can we please stop with the SJW stories.
Do you have specifics?
https://meet.primrosevr.com/#FromGithub
From NYC ICU: Does COVID-19 Cause ARDS?
I wonder if there is an interest or place to dump these old maps. I have a ridiculous amount of TFC, CS 1.5, etc maps I've scoured the internet for and mirrored locally just because I'm worried they'll disappear forever at some point.
What about Strapi https://strapi.io/? I see strapi has everything hasura has but with more user friendly UI. Am I missing something?
Hey, I'm doing that too, learning DirectX to build megaman-clone and learn more about game development. I planned to learn Godot after that. shall you create a discord chanel? I'd love to join
The third example is valid C.
Bill Gates cannot even defend the reason behind this brilliantly
> I think making medical claims is quite punishable if one doesn't have a license.

Well, it's tricky. If you say "I don't believe covid-19 is a serious problem", that can't be punishable as there is a large spectrum of legitimate thinking as to its severity and what trade-offs we should want to make. Such a statement is not remotely like practicing medicine without a license, but some will argue that it is if it could help them shut up the speaker. While saying that "chloroquine phosphate is a good prophylactic for covid-19" to someone who would believe it certainly should be punishable (as attempted murder perhaps! and regardless of whether the speaker is a licensed physician!).

> This could easily be extended to include journalists and politicians as well as other areas of science (if the stakes are high enough)

Journalists? Eh, maybe, but government officers generally have privileges and immunities -- good luck getting them to let those go.

Anyways, the rest of your comment reads like 1984. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes and all that. Regulatory capture and all that. There's no Objectivity. There's no way to set up a mechanism that yields objectively-correct results. All systems will be susceptible to collective delusions and other failures. There's no silver bullet here, and free speech should be part of the mix. Reactionary thinking is fun for the angry, but not good for society.
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JQBX might be of interest to you. Let’s people dj Spotify playlists at the same time. So everyone can be on their own device, listening to their own music but all listening to the same song at the same time. Might help with timing/lag etc.
How do you calculate ROI in a Software Engineer/ Programmer
If you had to communicate ROI for new software engineer/ developer/ programmer to the higher management, how would you do that? Is there a maths to it? I have options like hire a freelancer, hire on contract from an agency or hire a full time developer.
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The fundamentals of sound synthesis are things like oscillators, delays, filters etc as you see in Miller Puckett's book, and teaching materials tend to lean towards environments like Csound, pd, SC etc for their practical exercises because they all contain roughly equivalent implementations of those fundamental tools, albeit wrapped in some uniquely opinionated structural or UI paradigm, in each of those environments.

If you think as a programmer you might be happier around low-level things, take a look at Soundpipe, which contains those same fundamental elements again - often with the same or similar names to their equivalents in the above programs - but in plain C code.

https://paulbatchelor.github.io/proj/soundpipe.html

For something a little more 'live' and high-level built on that library by the same author, check out Sporth, or another guy's browser-based embedding of it called AudioMasher - which has some very nice examples.

https://paulbatchelor.github.io/proj/sporth.html
https://audiomasher.org/
Yes, the only course I ever finished and finished wiser of the scores I must have enrolled in so far.
> Again, XSLT could be used, but should your configuration really need to be Turing-complete?

A few of OPs suggestions are not Turing complete, but rather total programming languages as is the case with Dhall.