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This is great! I've always wanted to get into computational music.

I spent five years working with audio/video codecs and APIs on the Xbox 360. Had to support various DSPs and help games improve their performance (curse you, denormals!). But I never got a chance to go full synthesis.

Thanks for publishing this!!
Specifically where I run into it a lot is installing python modules that expect glibc to build something from source. The workaround is to either install the python module from the alpine package manager (apk) or to add in glibc to alpine.
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“A fainting spell” also comes to mind. It seems a bit archaic but I think it’s clear and unambiguous.
Ask HN: Why are Iranian websites blocked on T-Mobile US?
Even .com domains like sharghdaily.com (a reformist newspaper) do not work. Does anyone know why? I can only access these sites on my home wifi and not my phone.
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> you can work at a business that operates more like a charity, while I can choose to work at a business that is laser-focused on maximizing profit

unlikely unless you have a good degree of financial security or are relatively 'in demand'
Umm... ask every 'business class only' airline that has come (and gone...) about that.
In Boston I was standing beside the police as the let looting occur. There were only about 5 shops broken into and only 1 that I saw looted, but the police were standing 10 feet away from one and didn't do anything about it.
Starting with the first sentence, I have 1 single word for this - bollocks.

> Google “Bulgaria” and “demography” and you will rapidly learn that journalists and analysts have for years been reporting that the country’s population is one of the fastest shrinking in the world.

Looking at our press and journalists, the first thing you need to keep in mind is that they rely solely on sensationalism: "everything is getting worse, we are the most miserable and oppressed nation in the entire multiverse". Essentially fox news, bild and daily mail. Because this is what sells best. This is what gets facebook shares, comments and likes, simple as that. It appears as if everyone has forgotten what the 90's looked like and what queuing at 4 in the morning to get a bottle of milk was, daily shooting in the streets and hyperinflation. Because this is what most of the 90's were. None of which is happening anymore.

The population decline is a phenomenon which can be observed in most of Europe, the big difference is that there is very small migration from anywhere here which makes the issue more obvious (on paper) then in other countries. There are a million and one reasons for this, like bad reputation(see the paragraph above), language barrier which is a problem when it comes to daily life and realistically racism, which may be a problem outside the capital(even some large areas in the capital as well).

Families in most modern societies are shrinking. And while there was a lot of immigration in the late 90's and 2000's, in recent years, the numbers have gone down drastically and there is a factor which no journalist will dare speak of because it goes against the "everything is worse than ever" rhetoric. The number of people who have returned after a certain amount of time spent abroad(me being one of them). I was one of the first that fled back for multiple reasons. And while the question "but why" was pretty common back then, no one has asked me that question in over 5 years.
Just build something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk , only three times longer, put it where it is needed. done. Optionally combine with exquisite duty-free shop for the passengers stretching their legs while it is refueled. How hard can it be?
Repro on Chrome 83 for Windows.
I recently did this for a task scheduler. The logic lives in SQL. That was a "fun" query to write... You might think it's the wrong tool for the job, but it was a lot faster than reading every possible row and checking it in the application itself.
By that logic, China is doing excellent on internet freedom, since whatever is banned online, is also mostly illegal in the streets too.
I don’t see it as a disadvantage at all.

If people who are already saving in a high yield savings account move all of their funds to this, that’s almost entirely on them.

On the other hand, if this entices people who aren’t saving at all to start saving, that’s a huge advantage for them.
Awesome! Too bad I never got one from them back in college
>I don't know a single physicist who wouldn't dearly have loved to be able to explain this stuff to laypeople more easily. People are scared to use metaphors or other rough answers.

Feynman managed to do this with quantum electrodynamics, in "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter." That layperson book shows an inefficient yet accurate way to calculate path integrals of Feynman diagrams without any calculus, and uses the exact analogy of a clock spinning for phase. I understood it without any background in the math.

There's also four lectures on QED for grad students, which is the "formal" version of pretty much the same content, featuring math.

Why can't someone take the QED approach for the whole standard model? Symmetry groups can be explained visually. I think the physicists just can't be bothered, and/or they underestimate the intelligence of uninformed but curious laypeople.

Roger Penrose is another example of a physicist who does this right, in Cycles of Time for instance.
> Consent decrees are definitely an instance where the federal government is supervising the state, but the fact that they are doing something does not ipso facto mean that they should be doing it. This whole thread is about the differences between what governments are doing and what they should be doing.

The fact that they needed to supervise them because not enough was being done to change the cops behavior is a strong argument that the federal government should be doing it

> I would argue that incorporation was the beginning of the death knell of states' rights

People have rights. States which are government do not have rights. The idea of states rights is a ridiculous one that was frequently used to try to justify lack of federal oversight and the "right" to oppress people's rights.

As for incorporation it's one of the best actions the supreme court has taken. As a libertarian you should be happy the court said that states can no longer violate people's constitutional rights
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A lot of care and work seems to have went into this book, really commend the author.

However, I do have to make one slight joke:

> "The topics are short and light on theory."

This did not prepare me for full-page greek-letter and symbol walls haha.

https://i.imgur.com/2K7w1vL.png
The government has slowly sold off anything good in Bulgaria, water facilities, power plants etc. It's sad to see such a beautiful country in decline. I can say it is definitely better than it was in the 90s. After joining in EU it has gotten fairly pricey as well.
This is a complicated issue with various shades of gray in between and no black-and-white answer unfortunately. One can go wrong either way depending on the expectations of all the involved parties.
Setting all of that infrastructure up and subsequently maintaining it involves a considerable amount of time and knowledge. Some people just want a solution that's easy to deploy and that handles all of the management for you.
I was being lighthearted about watching my country fall to a fascist coup. I agree with your point.

It's rather surreal to watch this all happen -- the gaslighting, the racists crawling out from under their rocks, the blatant corruption, and the fomenting of hate amongst the populace. I think things are going to get a lot uglier before November, and after the election to get even worse.

We live in perilous times.
That’s what comprises the overwhelming amount of immigration to leading western nations. And it’s what governs, lobbies, and votes for pro-immigration law.
Browsers should phase out and block executable downloads from HTTP sources in 12 months.
It's what these guys and gals are trained to do. Ya, it's dangerous.

They do have systems that help and/or automate parts though.

Going fast into and out of AO is the way you stay alive.
Sundell's site is faster than any other tech blog I know. The lack of JS bloat is a huge bonus.

I hope this is a trend that continues.

99% of the time, you really, actually, don't need JS.
> what you see when go "to" the group page, shows posts in the order of who last commented on the post.

But that is itself a decision to elevate conflict and hide things that don’t generate conflict, unless there are an extraordinarily small number of posts in the group or it is just a small size. Because every time you visit the page you start at the top. And you get sucked into the “high-engagement” content before you get to it.
I do. That said, the value calculation is complex. It's not just annual salary divided by 2000 hours per year worked. It's more based on things like:

a) If I work harder and/or learn more, my salary and career trajectory will go up. There's an integrated increase over the rest of my life.

b) If I do consulting / startups / etc. on the side, what's that worth?

And you want to factor in risk, as well as not having bank account hit zero (even with risk). So if I'm unemployed (broadly speaking -- including planned unemployment like going to school), the expected value of my time hasn't changed, but the risk profile has, so my spending goes to as close to zero as I can bring it until I'm employed again.
The same source, if explored for Roma/Romani:

In the Romani language, Rom is a masculine noun, meaning 'man of the Roma ethnic group' or 'man, husband', with the plural Roma.
This kind of surveillance is not very effective for preventing or solving crimes.

It is much more effective at making lists of people willing to lawfully and peacefully stand for the human rights or others, -- "potential subversives", as the parties monitoring might call them.

Imagine, instead, if law enforcement were to stand outside of a marijuana-legalization rally and collect the sort of data effectively collected here: name, address, duration of involvement. They'd end up in court immediately, and it would likely be found that their actions had a chilling effect which created a prior restraint on the public's constitutionally protected speech.

Yet online this kind of data collection amasses more data and is more chilling due secretive nature since you never know when you're not being tracked.
Yes, or rather: avoid that the blacklist becomes an individual user's fingerprints. Appreciate any suggestions on how to approach that.
No, this is nothing like commenting code. These comments are not meant for other "programmers" (i.e. Justices). They're meant for the public, which doesn't compile anything with regard to the Supreme Court.
The alliance that managed Crypto AG was named by a German beer brand, Maximator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximator_(intelligence_allian...
I think the widespread practices may be calling from inside the house.
If I'm reading this right, they are just pausing operations to save money, until COVID is over and they can re-open?
The existence of jailbreaking fundamentally breaks the security of the device. It means any malicious app that manages to get on your device can turn into a full system compromise. It means any RCE can as well.
Well, yes, but that's just a fact of legislation. There are no "promises"; there are just laws that are easy or hard to change. If we were to amend the constitution to set aside land for native peoples, then that's probably the closest we can get to a promise, as that's probably the hardest kind of law to change -- but it's still not a promise, because it can be changed.

Sure, Congressional legislation could take away that land. That would be a lousy thing for them to do. Unfortunately since I doubt Native American groups are a big enough voting bloc, the only thing that would stop Congress from doing that would be enough negative public opinion from people who are not Native American. Hopefully there are enough people of that sort.
> Seems to me that everything is nonlinear in the domain of aircraft, particularly when concerned with "efficiency".

The same physics applies to fast trains and other modes of transit. Fast electric trains have the advantage of not having to lug their fuel along with them at speed.

> consider that energy is a function of both power and time applied; if you double the speed to fly from say London to NY, would you cut the time to fly to less than 1/8th what it would otherwise be?

I think I understand what you’re trying to say, but note that by definition going twice as fast will get you there in half the time. Work and Energy are in alignment here because of the various efficiency losses you’re talking about.

The Concorde did have some reprieve in that it flew 20k feet higher than the usual cruising altitude.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/21881/at-what-a...

Ultimately high speed transport is not about conservation of energy. It’s about conservation of human time. Weighing that against the environment and other factors are important but few people weigh their total use of energy in a given day.
The new 787 has made her lag a lot better with better air quality, timed, dimming cabin lights and a few other comfort trucks, it definitely takes the edge off.
That's a bit like saying the root cause of an automobile accident is that two people were driving without a physical barrier between them.

The statement is true but is not a root or a cause. Its a high level description of what happened.
If your interested in this kind of stuff, I highly recommend the podcast "What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law". It's a podcast focused on constitution law rulings made by the supreme court. Often looking at a current court ruling, giving historical context with historical cases that laid down precedent. The political disdain for Trump comes through the hosts a little bit, but I think it's fairly neutral in it's evaluation of the cases, and very educational.

As I understand it:
The court's job is to interpret the law under specific circumstances.

As a stupid example, lets say that congress makes a law that you can't have those fake flamingos on your lawn, else you'll go to jail.
Fred ignores the law and puts some fake flamingos on their lawn. The executive branch enforces the laws, so the police arrest Fred. The courts rule that you violated the law, so to jail you go.

Bob is rebellious, so he paints his fake flamingos with orange spray paint. The police arrest Bob under that law, and in court he argues a core characteristic of Flamingos is that they're pink. So really he just has decorative orange birds in his lawn. If the court agrees with his argument, then he goes free.
This sets a precedent: The judicial branch didn't really make any laws here, but they kind of did. Courts don't have the power to make laws and decide on a case by case basis what's legal or not. So they take breaking precedent as a really, really big deal.

Now what congress can do is go back and make any birds in the form of flamingos illegal, no matter the color. Now that the law has changed, the courts will use a new interpretation, and Bob could now be arrested if he doesn't take down his "decorative orange birds".

However, he could make another argument in court: That he has the first amendment right to have orange flamingos because that's freedom of speech. The courts (possibly up to the supreme court) can rule that he is indeed protected by the first amendment, and nullify congress's law.

Of course, the constitution can be amended. So if people really hated fake lawn flamingos, they could go through that process and remove the first amendment's protection in this case. The bar for changing the constition is so high that it basically doesn't happen for anything political.

This is why the supreme court's rulings can be so politicized, against the court's wishes. The courts aren't political because they don't make laws, and are intended to be impartial interpreters of it. However a 5-4 split supreme court ruling today is basically law until there's a super-super-majority of people who want to change it.
>> I'd been contracting/self-employed for 20+ years,

How did you convince companies & clients to hire you? What are the questions you were repeatedly asked? I'd think you actually have plenty of experience in the recruiting process, just from a different angle. (and congrats by the way, it's always interesting how contractors line up work and keep a client pipeline going -- something at which I've only had sporadic success)
I was picking up sandwiches from a local shop and watched 3 doordash/Uber Eats drivers come right after the other to pick up the same order, but they all cancelled it because the restaurant didn't have multiple deliveries for them to pick up at the same time- ie- they were dropping off multiple houses each run. It made me realize why the food was cold last time we ordered from them! From now on I just go and pick up myself.
> Whoever proposed it should be ashamed of themselves

Name and shame: Interior Minister Horst Seehofer of the conservative-authoritarian CSU. He and his party friends are who want this.

We have the chance to kick them out of office in 2021, it's time for the stranglehold of Conservative internet-printers (Internetausdrucker, a German word for tech illiterates) as Interior Ministers to end once and for all.
Hopefully these new MEMS speakers will enable wireless headphones with tens of hours of battery life.
The sparseness of it is funny to me. That lone <br> is beautiful.
Good idea. How about:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

That would keep the pesky federal government out of our personal affairs.
Drives get swapped behind the scenes often. Waiting a year isn't reliable.

You should just assume every hard drive has a conservative annualized failure rate of 4%, jumping to 20% after 3 years, and plan your RAID arrays based on that.
Haha, yeah I love how he thinks that the government shouldn't have access to our data without a warrant, period, full stop and that the 3rd party doctrine and "reasonable belief" doctines should be repealed.
As one of the creators of the library, I'll add that we hope to solve one of the biggest problems in machine learning right now:

- ML models are often trained on very specific datasets and fail in embarrassing/costly ways when deployed in real-world settings where things looks different than the training data

- The worst part is that these limitations are usually not detected until the model is released, because usually the ML engineers may not realize that their model is: biased, unfair, or fragile

It takes a diverse team of users and testers to realize this. Gradio gives you the ability to instantly create a web interface around your model that you can share with a public link.

Your users or testers or collaborators can (right from their browsers, without having to install any software) try your model, understand its limitations, and point out biases in the model and data.
Here's the Bugzilla report where they actually request their root be added to Firefox:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1232689

The answer is basically "no".
This seems nice, introductory and very up-to-date. If I may offer some superficial criticism, I found the covered material was at odds with the title. The title evokes themes of algorithmic composition and experimental whole-music generation, while the book is actually about digital synthesizers and effects on a digital signal processing level. Of course I'm having a hard time coming up with anything better, but maybe in the lines of "Audio Programming for Music", "Music DSP for Programmers", "Digital Synthesizers and Effects"...
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> It’s just that the money went to a third party instead of the college in the scandalous cases.

That's a pretty huge difference. Letting someone donate money in exchange for admission smells bad, but if the donation is larger than the cost, they made more room for others than they occupied themselves. If a third party captures the "donation", that's just a roundabout form of theft/embezzlement.
I've spent much of my career as a software consultant. I usually make about 1/3 of my client billing rate. The rake is high. Part of that is normal overhead of employer-side taxes, benefits, expensable items (hardware, business lunches, continuing education), infrastructure/support (office space, office staff/HR/non-owner management). We can generously call that another 1/3 of the client bill rate. That leaves the final 1/3 to the company for profit and business development. There's nothing remotely unusual about this arrangement.
I think sometimes those maps are faked. We've seen drivers from apps pick up multiple orders for delivery, but the map doesn't show them stopping at multiple houses, it just slows down the icon of the car.
Can it be disabled completely?

I know I'd miss the F keys, but since you don't have them anyway...
Presumably you're working on this as a technique for widespread use by other parties, which means you can't control what DNA is being transported. Minimizing the chances of escape seems only prudent.
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I'm sorry to be so nit-picky but it always pains me to see a long exchange each side doesn't understand the other. Here's a minor reading comprehension issue where I think you and the GP are failing to communicate:

> first privately built supersonic airliner and the second ever after Concorde

In this sentence, do you think "second ever" refers to "second ever privately built supersonic airliner"? Or "second ever supersonic airliner"?

If the Concorde was the first privately built supersonic airliner, what airplane is "first" intended to refer to in Boom's marketing?
As they say, the best way to make a million dollars is have a billion and start an airline.
> If you really wanted people to read the whole thread you would not have shortcircuited the process and replied upstream.

And yet, I explicitly said: this is my (opinionated) summary of the thread that ensued from my sibling comment; if unsure whether I've captured things accurately, please read that whole thread and draw your own conclusions.

You are welcome to claim that my explicit invitation to people - in a situation where, as you say, your last comments are 'hidden away behind "more" button' - is deceptive, but given I was actively encouraging people to read things upstream that would otherwise have been, as you said, 'hidden away', I personally do not consider my actions to have been deceptive in the least.

As for 'civil', it seems to me that this conversation has, in and of itself, made very clear to anybody reading it that you and I have significantly different definitions of that concept, and how to interpret this fact can only be left as an exercise to the reader.
We overestimate and underestimate our abilities in weird ways
the law is not morality. he interprets the law.
I'll be charitable and assume you're well-intentioned.

Your argument makes no sense. If the drugs weren't illegal then your whole argument goes up in a puff of smoke.

If you can't prove to me that this "war" is valid, then any premise you base upon it is nullified.

Go ahead, sell me on how the war is about keeping America safe.
> That was an issue with one phone, once, and it was a problem with the battery, not Android

If my house burns down, I personally won't care if it's android in general, the model, or the battery in the android phone which destroyed everything I own.

> That's actually solved by rooting since you can update from any source instead of just signed packages

Installing software downloaded from xda-developers is, what I like to call, malware as a service (tm).