skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pulseeffects is a pretty neat tool for both playback and record effects including a compressor, gater, equalizer, filters, de-sser (can help quite a lot in reducing those sharp S sounds) and more. It has made a lot of presentations a lot more bearable for me, and my relatively low quality microphone in a noisy environment sound a lot better for others.

It only requires pulseaudio (almost all distro's already use it) and is available in most package repositories and as a flatpak.

https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects
Hah! If the web and cryptos has taught us anything, this will be abused to hell with SEO content and all kinds of scummy techniques to get posts to the post. Expect allegations of mod power abuse, stolen content, shady cross subreddit "collaborations" and much more not that people can make money on their submissions.
Have you looked at Apex.Amp? TF32 sounds to be along similar lines, and the PyTorch usage is a breeze.
Bread is lovely as are the green leaves shining during a beautiful day with clear, cool air in NY.

I’ve been writing and linking about flights from and to reality through art (usually videogames) at https://hypertexthero.com which is now published with a [static site generator][1] and no JavaScript other than [HTML Form File to Txt][2] to quickly create a text file for posting. The site design and format was inspired by Daring Fireball, and I aim to release it as a theme soon.

During this time I discovered [Focus Writer][3] which is open source, cross-platform, quite nice.

Hoping people will come up with fusion power and other climate crisis [solutions][4] during this time.

Peace out.

[1]: https://gohugo.io/ "Hugo — love the speed, hate the language syntax and some of the new defaults like .md extension instead of .txt"

[2]: https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/form-to-txt/

[3]: https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_mirabilis
I used to play Minecraft when it was released in ~2010, before there were maps or beds.

I remember building pillars in my constructions and other interesting places so I would be able to spot them from afar. It felt like a nice way to not get lost while still feeling like part of the game.
Your comment has converted me from a lurker to a first time poster. I'm in the exact same boat as you and just wanted to tell you to keep on plugging away and doing the best you can. Its all we can really do.
Over the past few years I've been on the hunt for a good tool to help me manage my projects. Trello, Jira, I've tried a bunch and yet still couldn't pin point why none of the tools worked well.

The quarantine forces me to think about it even more, and I think I've found the why, and how.

So I'm now building it: https://focussist.com/
counter anecdote - I met people on gaming forums in the late 90s and early 2000s I'm still very close to today. We all talk with each other every day in a Whatsapp chat, and we still play games together. We meet up about once a year in person to hang out. They're by a wide margin my best friends, and they live all over the US and Canada.
Apparently AT&T charges to prevent them from selling your data[0], which almost certainly is DNS data and maybe SNI.

0: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/atts-...
Given that I hardly saw any clone vendors other than AMD, I really doubt that they had any influence on Intel's market share.

What worked out was IBM not being able to prevent PC clones, but given the wide adoption of laptops, tablets and phones that hardly matters nowadays.
Impressive, now there's finally a killer app for cyrptocurrency, and it looks like it's starting with reddit.
A carbon tax means by definition that "offenders" can just pay their way out of electrification. Mandating EV in cities on the other hand will actually improve air quality.
I launched a side-project to manage all the domain names I've registered over the years. This service provides a simple DNS records manager, an email account that covers all the domains, auto-generates LE certs and either serves a single page HTML website or redirects to a Github repo page. No limit how many domains added to account. https://projectpending.com/
I built a simple compound interest calculator because I was fed up with the ones filled with ads.

https://compoundinterest.info
> Hillary and Biden snaring the nomination ahead of Bernie show how thoroughly the establishment Democrats can school him on politics. His appeal to certain voters is great, but he still has to play the game to some degree.

That is not hard when they benefit from a multiple year media blackout against Bernie. Playing the game sounds a lot like compromising on values; something which would have also led to voters losing interest. I would argue he did play the game, and that's why he lost. He did not try to draw enough distinctions between himself and Biden for fear of hurting the Democrats, and in the process missed many opportunities to call Biden out on his inconsistencies.

> Failing to even get Warren to endorse him isn't a failure of his ideology, it's a case of political incompetence.

Failing to get Warren to endorse him is not a case of political incompetence, but rather desire to gain more power by Warren. The political machine built by the establishment Democrats was always going to be put to work against a candidate like Bernie, or if you prefer, to "facilitate the gatekeepers."

> I hope someone (Warren? others?) echoes a lot of what he has to say and then actually executes within the political system we have today to accomplish those things.

Warren already executed exactly what she wanted to execute within the political system; to ensure the gatekeepers maintain order. She will be rewarded accordingly, probably with a cabinet position, if Biden somehow manages to win the Presidency.
A Time Timer. :D The name is dumb, but I love that little thing. No ticking, and the alarm doesn't make me jump out of my chair when it goes off.
Covid-19 pandemic brings health disparities research to the forefront
Mind you, this is an optimised version of BERT, from what I could see in their blog post.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-the-results-of-the-1-...
That's interesting. I was basing my comment of the demonstration in the tweet which used just the slur and nothing else, so I didn't know.
Quite a number of humans are tetrachromat:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
A website to record historical college football data, super exciting stuff!

http://cfbpedia.com/
I saw someone else saying that today, do you have a source for that ?
Why don't you choose one that has approximately the same population and same population density -- that's why choosing an individual U.S. state might be a better choice because the U.S. is large and has a wide range of population densities.

The key point here is transmission of an infectious disease, so to get a proper comparison, you need to start with approximately the same probabilities of people infecting one another. That begins with proximity. Comparing the U.S. and Australia doesn't work because of that.
The premium cost part is interesting. When my labour might be worth something in excess of $100k per year to the right corporation, for me to spend an extra $300 per year* on whatever I consider to be higher quality or even just preferred tools is for me the height of triviality.

* Remember that most people only replace their workstations every 3-4 years. So I'm assuming that the Mac could have an "Apple Tax" of over $1,000. Of course most of their machines are a lot more competitively priced than that.
I've been busy building Pantry - a free JSON storage service for small personal projects.

I posted it a few days ago on HN and a lot of you had some great ideas and feedback. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23030298

For now I'm keeping busy maintaining Pantry. You guys can check it out here! https://getpantry.cloud/
Dread?
That's the one, thanks.
When I need to make money: I code and build hardware. But when work is slow and my brain can wonder, I find myself wanting to tell stories with video. The sad part is I am not Casey Neistat.

Here is a video that the whole family worked on for a school project a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/QHmkRBIzUMs
I downvoted you because the complexity of the software and electronics in a modern electric car is much higher than an old ICE car. The source code is private, schematics are hard or impossible to get, and replacement chips can't be fabbed at home like metal engine parts.
Just people finding relationships in data, and likely getting tripped up with intervening variables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediation_(statistics)

Without any causal model, a lot of this medical research is just staring too hard at scatter plots of correlated variables. I heard the other day that herpes is correlated with Alzheimer's. Is herpes correlated with air-pollution? Probably. Do we know what the real cause of Alzheimer's is? No way.
The NSA has been grabbing all of your browsing practices for over a decade [0]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/newly-published-...
> Are school shooters not terrorists?

They are not. Terrorism is supposed to be a political tool. Whereas school shooters are often just deranged or troubled people lashing out.
Yes, quite literally.

Also relevant: https://xkcd.com/1988/
Aaand I finally read the article and PEP and there's no escape from the GIL :( Damn wishful thinking.
Opposite to you, if I don't have at least 20 tabs open the tab bar looks naked and weird. I only close when they get to icon size, and am not happy about that. I would like to keep many of them because they are leads I might need later.
Content gilded or awarded value by Reddit users at large isn't the same as quality content.

Notice the higher signal on Hacker News, with no compensation, because high quality contributors want to contribute with no compensation and moderation is consistent and intentional.
> Why is that amusing? I specifically...

My apologies I misread.

> ... there's a tendency to start over when the development gets hard to maintain or support instead of just fixing the mistakes.

The thought that Node.js should have been 'fixed' instead of creating Deno is where I disagree. At a glance I can see a few reasons:

- Node.js maintainers + community may not even think there is something to be fixed (see various discussions in this thread about module resolutions)

- Politics, death by committee, inertia

- Effectively a dependency with npm registry (although not technically)

- Lack of backwards compatibility with changes (e.g. module resolution)

> The thing is, I can see Beepboo 1.0 being announced in 2025

Node.js was initially released in 2009 so it's probably fairer to suggest Beepboo 1.0 will be released in 2030. And yes, if it improved on Deno and solved inherent problems that couldn't be solved internally, I would wholeheartedly cheer it along.

I think it's also worth mentioning that Node.js is at a level of stability and maturity that people who plan to and have already built on it, aren't left abandoned.
Thanks, stream of consciousness feedback is ideal. :)

> After a few levels I found clusters of letters I was having trouble with building up over time (there was an “X” right in the middle, and like six “I”s clumped up). I found myself wishing there was some mechanic that could clear them out. Maybe that would make it too easy though.

Yep, this seems worthwhile looking at. Maybe smarter letter randomisation would help this e.g. don't allow a new "I" tile in a place that has two "I" tiles already, don't allow clusters of consonants.

> I really love the animation when you make it to the next level, very satisfying.

Great! I thought I needed something flashier so I'm happy this could be enough.

> On mobile safari, holding your finger on a tile for too long causes a text selection.

Ah, thought I caught that. Thanks!

> I’d love a “zen mode” with no timer!

Yep, I want to figure something out for this. It's pretty fun thinking of different scoring mechanics and how this impacts gameplay strategy.
I've been making a personal information/task management system that I can only describe as a weird cross between Things for Mac and Dropbox Paper. It's really an opinionated tool designed specifically for myself to be run on a desktop.

It's a buggy work-in-process app built in Svelte and PouchDB and definitely not in a "Show HN" state yet. I put my progress up on Github pages for close friends to try [1], but what the heck, I'll put it here too (no instructions or videos yet).

I honestly haven't figured out what I'm going to do with it long term, whether to make it free or to try to monetize it somehow. Right now, my main goal is to fold it into an Electron app and have it sync with a Couch/Pouch db server once the main UI code is done.

[1] https://bt-apps.github.io/braintapper_edge

Note it's not a Saas, so no sign up required to try it. PouchDB is storing the data in your browser in IndexedDB so you can delete your data by clearing your browser data for that URL.
Sure, just curious. :)

Currently I am on a mix of .NET (C# F#) alongside C++.

I agree with the performance part, that is why the best is to be able to have both around, AOT + JIT.
Covid-19 and China: A Chronology of Events [pdf]
Are you following the open inverter forums?

[1] https://openinverter.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=151
"I could literally die if I eat shrimp." "I could literally die of this disease." Those sound like "this actually happened" to me.

"I can't believe I did that in front of all those people -- I literally could die of embarrassment." "I can't believe I did that in front of all those people -- I could literally die of embarrassment". Those both sound like normal "meaningless emphasis" usages of the word 'literally'.
Literally the next para in that blog - "we committed to retaining KPMG, the well-respected auditing firm, to audit our practices annually and publish a public report confirming we're doing what we said we would."

In addition Mozilla put them through a rigorous process when selecting them as their default DoH provider which included them contractually agreeing to adhere to their stated policy. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy
I'm working on a system that generates fantasy worlds. It's meant for RPG players, especially those that do solo tabletop play.

It's more simulationist than similar worldbuilding tools. I recently rewrote the climate generation to be closer to reality. You can read about that here:

https://blog.ironarachne.com/major-update-to-the-climate-sys...

The website is here: https://ironarachne.com

And the code for the underlying API (Go) is here:

https://github.com/ironarachne/world
I'm recording a course about Dynamic Programming – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnwNEngsXoIp_tgJ2jZWfw
Faking 3D Elements with CSS
https://crystalshards.org

...and making homemade tortillas
Strategy as a Tactic
Learning Rust and WebAssembly for a project that I want to do for a master thesis.
At its peak, there were probably a few hundred posters, tops

This is mostly the crux of the matter. It doesn't matter if you're talking about Reddit, phpBB, discord, imageboards, whatever. As a community grows, it becomes harder to deal with and more "faceless". I've been in great sub reddits. I've had to leave message boards on other platforms for the problems you describe (and others).
benchmark on a thermal limited, turbo-boost enabled machine is usually a very bad idea. (single socket, etc.)

Edit: If you wish to microbenchmark - lock the CPU frequencies (core/uncore for intel), lock the voltage too and measure the power draw as well. You wish to use taskset too, depending how many cores the benchmark utilizes.
The Super Serial Card is a nice and you don't need any software to use it. Typing "PR#2" followed by "IN#2" (replace the "2" with the slot number the card is installed in) will give you access to a very simple serial communications terminal. Granted, it does take some configuration for both computers to understand each other.

You can also search for scans of books and magazines online. People have been working on preserving these materials since the mid-1990's, so there are many excellent resources.
I was only referring to:

" Is that the only thing it does to provide a C++-like "resource efficient and predictable runtime"? After all, that's basically Swift (or Python+static types). I think the main improvement that C++ (and C# and Go) have over languages like Java is ability to avoid heap-allocated objects (i.e. stack-allocated structs)."
Taking care of my kids while simultaneously trying not to pull all my hair out.
I am not Windows developer and sure I didn't know this "Windows-specific construct". But I can google https://www.google.com/search?q=Multiple+Top-Level+Windows+I...

Also I can look on the link I post and Ctrl+F "Multiple Top-Level Windows Interface"

> Microsoft Word 2003: MDI until Microsoft Office 97. After 2000, Word has a Multiple Top-Level Windows Interface, thus exposing to shell individual SDI instances, while the operating system recognizes it as a single instance of an MDI application.
> Actual terrorists(like 9/11 type, well funded) know better than to even touch anything digital for comms

Shit like this is said all the time on HN with absolutely nothing to substantiate it.
Show HN: Flipidea - 454 post-mortems of startup failures and business shutdowns
> What I really can't understand is the people who hate turning on their cameras yet will greet me with a smile and a handshake in person. What's the difference between a camera and being in person?

There's a huge difference! You can move around in-person without making sure you're "in frame", subtle body language isn't lost to the shitty framerates and compression of most webcams, speech doesn't get messed up from packet loss or shoddy echo cancellation code, and you are in a shared environment which makes it easier to communicate without having to STARE at the other person/camera the entire time you're talking to them.
If you enjoy this type of thing you might like Barn Find Hunter, a YT series about traveling around the US and finding stored cars in various states: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHKCmmH-x9mLN0PNeFBtx...
The issue here is the link; it doesn't do a great job of explaining _why_ Bosque is breakthrough. A bold claim like that needs evidence.

What's special here? From glancing at the code snippets--which is really all we have in the way of evidence on that page--I see an interesting language concept, but it's not entirely here how that relates to the initial claim.

There are definitely some interesting elements, though. It looks like it borrows a lot from TypeScript and C#, then attempts to make the resulting syntax a bit stricter with various forms of contracts. I think the goal is to make stronger guarantees at compile-time and promote better design practices. That, in turn, can result in faster applications because the compiler can make more assumptions.

If that is the goal, it needs to be explained more clearly in the readme before receiving widespread publicity, and there needs to be text explaining how each feature achieves that goal. A big part of developing a new programming languages is selling it: you have to convince a lot of opinionated people that it's worth their time and energy to invest in learning your technology.

Ideally, these arguments would be written during the design process before implementation even begins, so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that they be available in the readme.

This might be a better link for the HN post: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/bosque-prog...
the reddit mobile app now comes with one.
Oh wow. I've been thinking about trying to get into a remote rogue trader campaign, this looks like an awesome tool for that system!
Privacidad+en+redes+sociales
I believe far more people are going to die over the next few years from the economic collapse than the pandemic would have killed had we used the Swedish model.

For most readers of HN, this has just been like a vacation. Our investments have lost some value. We will have to lower our expectations for our next jobs. Maybe we can't buy a second car.

Most countries have burned down the village in order to save it.
Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. You have a vote -- use it wisely.
I'm not a linguist, but typically words evolve as memes and/or follow etymological patterns made up of root words. It's very rare that they're plausible sounding gibberish attached to plausible arbitrary meanings. This generator seems like it's in the "uncanny valley".... They're all somewhat plausible immitations of words, but the fact that they're not natural can be felt.
You will dig this https://youtu.be/4Jbk1uU_Jkk. Tim is an all time hero
“bad sound quality and some ideas on how to change the acoustic environment to improve it.“

I hope that if video conferencing stays more popular we will see a lot of progress there. Cell phone cameras have shown what can be achieved with enough computation so I hope the same can be done for video conferencing. The current solutions are still very primitive as far as sound and image quality goes.
Looks very interesting, I've been playing with similar ideas, but everytime I come back to the thought of 'But somebody must have built this already'. I'm really curious to try a prototype of this, so I signed up to the list. The sketches/screenshots look good, keep up the good work.
Haxe outperforms handwritten JavaScript but JVM target is 2X faster than node?
We live about about 30km outside of our capital city. It's a village, but you can see it slowly transforimg into a small town. Wife got crazy about growing own vegetables, so I've been busy assembling garden crates for her.

We also decided to farm chickens (for eggs), so we bought a havel - another couple of hours spent on assembling. As we never did this before, we are grokking the web looking for something you would call "chicken farming for dummies".
Self-aware Machine Learning

procreationist
1. relating to or advocating the theory that sex is the only biological sex, or as opposed to that other sex identified with reproduction "a procreationist approach to reproductive science"

2. a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.
Nvidia begins shipping the A100, its first Ampere-based data center GPU
OpenShift is coming to AWS as a native service
AFAIK (spouse is an OT, works with PTs, puts up with my barefoot nonsense & enjoys explaining biomechanics to me) forefoot walking is something to avoid. Leads to shortened calf muscles/tendons, can lead to problems in old age as balance degrades.

There's also some interesting anthropological work by Esther Gokhale about gaits in indigenous peoples indicating that heel-first walking is natural, but very different from the gait induced by cushy shoes - no slamming on the heel, place the front heel on the ground while the back foot still supports all of your weight. She does sell books and workshops, but I found her book at the library, tried out the exercises, seemed legit.

Anyway, YMMV! Don't take my word for it; check out the primary sources, etc. If forefoot walking works long term for you, then go for it - one of my in-laws only walks on her forefeet /shrug.
I hear you, it does sound super hard, never seen it addressed in the "SV lore" and you could be onto some uncharted waters, would could spell opportunity. Whaddayathink?

Good to hear you're sounding a little better, because it must be super hard to go through that.

Re pg, it's obvious to me why nobody mentions this. It's not part of the narrative, which is designed to produce useful slaves (darts) to throw at a bet (target), with a blindfold on.

If you wanna chat more about it, you can mail me crisf7e@gmail.com. I have a feeling it could be interesting.
"And give them bookoo $$$ to do so."