skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, the other way around really. Someone looked up the musical information and measured and found a discrepancy. Given that most western music does in fact use 12TET, the claimed "out of tune-ness" was reasonable to note. The problem is that there are cultures and genres of music that do not use 12TET. In the west these are rare, and many musicians would not know about this. But the measurer had the misfortune to be measuring music that did, and thus was incorrect.
No, this is exactly why vehicle regulations were put into place.

Regulate and validate the vehicles and their software updates, not the engineers.

Edit: Or get used to our field moving as slowly as the bridge building field.
On October 25th, in New York City, a miles-long parade of Jewish Trump supporters got attacked. The usual offensive words were said.
Please don’t get rid of DST, it separates the boy developers from the men.
If you haven't worked out that governance is more than the political class by now, we don't have much hope! Educational institutions are as much a part of the problem as media institutions, as politicians, as we are ourselves. In fact, they are probably the worst - taking children and teaching them that the government is good, it loves them, that they are not slaves.

When government is slavery.

And it takes a lot for an individual to turn around and point the finger at themselves, accept some of the blame and make a change.

Most will take the ethic-free paycheck, rather than start to consider how their effort is creating a dystopian future for us all.
That interview is from March. Understanding of COVID has moved on. Are you still running software from March on all your devices or just your brain?
Could you give examples of this?
Well, I know you are being sarcastic, but my initial impression of the article was that while I agreed with everything the author stated, I felt the author was no where as subtle as she thought she was in herself promoting this polarization by what was left out.

All of the examples were one sided (and imo true, with many worse ones left unmentioned), while there was no mention of the elephant - the world view that all members of a certain race are racist by definition, and that all interactions between races are, by definition, based on race, no matter what the context. How is this not demonizing the "other" ?

My fear is that what used to be disagreements over what rights an individual has (who to marry, what to do in your personal space, what if any deities to bow before, what you are able to do with your own body) have turned into disagreements over what framework we should use to govern our society.

Individual rights, imo, need to be respected, and can be done without infringing on anyone else.

However, the current undercurrent of how we should govern ourselves as a society (marxism vs capitalism) is something that we all, as a society, need to abide by, and that differences in these views, historically, has been settled through war.
Graphene-based memory resistors show promise for brain-based computing
I think we are mainly silenced by the hype folks who can't not tell the rest of the internet about their excitement. I'd like to think OP's opinion is the majority, hard to tell on a startup forum where most folks are hodling TSLA.
If you're downvoting this, you had better have proof that there are no concentration camps run by the United States government. Please show it to us.

Otherwise, I accept your downvote as proof that facts are not relevant to you.
Lots of people present their observations and opinions, but this problem is not hard, and the technically best solution is obvious - Debian curbs their ambitions and just distribute the damn thing, with all the vendored stuff, as upstream intended.

Some Debian people don't like it. Users don't care, as long as they can apt install it.
I guess you are perfect?
He won me on the Indiana's Jones movies. I was a kid back then. After that I watched almost all movies where Sean was present. RIP.
Yeah, fortunetaly the movie industry was not a reflection of society. I mean, it's not like any of our parents or grandparents approved of any of this, right?
Only if you insist on using harmony and/or modulation. There's plenty of musical cultures around the world that don't use harmony to the extent that western music does (if at all), and in these cultures, the issues caused by just intonation (or any tuning/scale system, really) are not anywhere near as much of a problem (if the exist at all).
Having young kids, I'd love to see the changing of the clocks go the way of the dinosaurs. I don't care which way, just pick one and stick with it.
What books are used in your program?
The problem is not the threads, it is the mutations of variables which boost the complexity of the code. So a tutorial on creation of theads actually an invitation to hell. Nothing is cool about it. Cool thing is achieving concurrency without threads/race conditions/shared memory
> if you're voting for Trump because you're anti-corruption then you and I have world views too far diverged for any meaningful communication to take place.

How ironic. Have you read the linked article? Way to prove its point.
My high school in Argentina had a night shift for the students in the last two years due to space constraints in the building. I’d go in at 5-6PM and leave at 22:30. The best two years of my time in school. The amount of effort I had to put in vs the amount I absorbed dropped drastically. And driving against traffic (against the people leaving the city), enjoying the lower temperatures in warm months, having lunch and dinner at home, not having to miss school to go to a doctor or a store that runs 9-5. Everything just makes sense to me.
It’s strange that people would rather a small chance of crashing themselves, versus a smaller chance of the car crashing for you.

If Tesla is going to be a safer driver than me, it’s already a good investment. If a software bug means I die, well, human error might too.
Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine
> you need slight over sampling and to make the conversion from 48k in to bad math to discourage DAT machine as a lossless copy format for the masses

What do you mean by this?
I've been suffering from Sciatica for the past 10 years or so due to bulging disks - If you haven't come across Stuart McGill's work already, he is the best when it comes to back health. I would recommend his book "Back Mechanic"[1]. It mostly targets disk related issues, not sure how much crossover it has with SI related sciatica, but I'd bet you could benefit from core-focused exercise.

1. https://www.backfitpro.com/books/back-mechanic-the-mcgill-me...
>"I really don't understand how a company can get away with using its customers as QA when they sell products that can kill people."

Since when did this ever stop companies when there are money to be made. Driving cars in general kills tens of thousands of people per year and so do many other activities. For governments it is just a question of how much money vs number of people killed.
If this really works, this could be the biggest news of the year. Assuming they get FDA approval for this app, we would suddenly have a free, instantly scalable, instantly available test that catches the vast majority of true positives. You could very easily set these up at all public places and require people to check before entry. If that happens you don’t even have to require people to self-test at home, they’ll do it voluntarily to know in advance whether they’ll be let in at their destination.

The final and most difficult step would be effective quarantine of infected individuals, some of whom are likely to try and go to work anyway etc.

But even if you assume nothing more than voluntary self-quarantine etc, I would expect this to drive R0 below 1 very quickly, as the vast majority of infected would stay home and thus cease to spread the disease.

Finally, if all of the above where to come true, I think this could go down in history as the first truly life-changing AI discovery, and potentially one of the biggest watershed moments in recent history.

Obviously we’re not there yet, but I am very optimistic and excited after reading the story.
Oh noes, now I'm going to watch a movie starring Nicolas Cage and it's your fault.
I mean, they did. That's the implicit critique; it's a relic of a darker time at least in societies that try a bit better today to treat people as peers.
My first experience of historical fiction was The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers. This recounts the story of the Cragg Vale Coiners who clipped coins and used those clippings to mint new coins. Rather than being driven by greed the clippers used the money to help feed the rest of their community. It's a really lovely book and gives a fantastic insight into the lives of the people of that period and area.

https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Benjamin-Myers/The-Gallows-Po...
My wife has been following suspected COVID patients and has said since the beggining their cough is different than normal. Makes sense thay ML would work is this scenario.
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A guy born in 1930 has some outdated views about something. Why do you even feel the need to mention it? Does it makes you feel better with yourself?
This reminds me of these crazy load bearing straw catenary [0] arch [1] buildings [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary_arch

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20150331150513/http://ecobouwers....
> What do you mean by not accepting it?

I will make sure you will never call me a criminal of the worst kind ever again. In my experience, not very much is needed.
A lot of false positive would make this solution unreliable and would have the same effect of a lockdown. Also, 70k people sample could also mean discrimination towards minorities, we aren’t all made the same.
This is not about the art, it is about the man. While he was a great actor, style icon, artist, and had a tremendously interesting life, he was also quite explicitly misogynistic in several interviews.
There are many subreddits with this theme:

/r/AlternateHistory/
/r/HistoricalWhatIf/
/r/worldbuilding/
/r/FutureWhatIf/
if you think the criticisms of PGE are just unjustified right-wing bashing, you're simply not paying attention
Indeed, I haven't read a lot academic literature about Identity Politics, Critical Race Theory, Flat Earth Theory or Holocaust Denial, nor am I going to. In my rejection of these ideologies, I mainly focus on the badness of their proposed solutions to (often perceived, not actual) problems.

Specifically for Identity Politics and Critical Race Theory, the main ideological issue I see is qualifying people by their belonging to major groups (often based on race, ethnicity, religion or sex) which results in solutions that go against individual rights/liberties (which I take to be the cornerstone of liberalism). Examples are: not opposing police violence against people but only police violence against black people, supporting discrimination for/against some races (for black / against Asian when it comes to schooling), etc. A lot of these policies would be good if they were instead targeting everybody (or at most class-based (rich/poor) discrimination). A lot of the proposed bad solutions could be better if they were thought-out a bit more (e.g. "defund the police" is particularly bad... instead what you should do is, prevent police buying military gear, stop swatting, ban civil forfeiture, fund (and train) them more, legalize drugs, reduce poverty to reduce crime, ...).

Edit: contrary to my words above, I actually went and read a bit about CRT on Wikipedia... One of the first "Major themes" listed is critique of liberalism. Therefore, I understand why proponents of CRT would want to pain liberals like me as bad ("right-wing"). It's also not surprising that liberals would oppose CRT.
Were they Nazis doing counter protesting? No? Then this is not relevant to the conversation.

The point is that associating one political party in particular with fascist and white supremacist views is not an exaggeration; one party’s leader embraces them as “very fine people.”
Okay, Mosad hunting Neo-Nazis and Nazi apologists.
> I wonder if it can be taught.

Of course it can be taught, it has to. The current model of expecting people to just pick it up on their own by going to school or a bootcamp isn't working.

I think a large part of the problem is that in contemporary workplaces it's becoming rare for senior talent to spend serious time developing juniors and doing so as an integral part of their job rather than merely within the scope of some mandated "knowledge transfer" phase.

To many places are beset with pushy "deliverables" treadmills and suffocating project management. It's hard, especially in large organizations, to just "think" and be creative. Juniors need to see that, emulate it, and get meaningful feedback beyond a dumb burn-down chart.
> USB Audio device class and a USB stack. That's a hell of a lot of code.

Its actually not that much for the bare minimum needed, though the USB docs are pretty daunting.

If you go with USB1, you basically just need enough to answer the descriptor and set interface queries and set up the endpoints (in particular the isochronous endpoint for audio is a bit more complex). If you stick to exactly one supported format and sample rate and don't include any control units, you can basically skip all the audio class control messages.

For USB1, in a pinch, you can use a cheap generic 24MHz usb logic analyzer and pulseview to decode the raw usb protocol for debugging (though with 24MHz you get some corruption in the capture from clock drift, you need at least 48MHz for more reliable signal sampling).

I'd guess you can make do with ~1k LOC in this case.
Well, there are several things.

There hasn’t been any “hunt for Turks”, and the Armenian community has been overwhelmingly peaceful for the ~100 years it existed. Both Turks and Armenian have always been welcome in France. There is no climate of fear that can justify this sort of behaviour. This is purely a result of the heightened tensions around Armenia.

There also isn’t any Armenian organisation that’s comparable to the Grey Wolves. Turkish militants are much more of a threat to stability in Europe than Armenians (although they aren’t a major one either).

So the situation is not quite symmetrical. I can get that some nuances might be lost in the reporting but the two sides clearly are not as dangerous.
My sophomore year in college all of my classes started after noon. It was by far the best I ever remember feeling in my entire life because of how well rested I was.
The human language is called Catalan in English and català in Catalan.
What's the common API for drawing across OSes?

What's the common API for video across OSes?

What's the common API for "put this string in a message dialog on the screen" across OSes?

And meanwhile there's JACK, RtAudio, PortAudio and several other crossplatform APIs, most of which have wrappers in non-C languages (despite the problems with realtime audio that this can lead to).
> less coercion and more voluntary cooperation in space

The state isn't the only form or coercion. Given the high cost of accessing space and the extreme resource constraints, space is likely to be dominated by multinationals and billionaires.

Some forms of feudalism where serfs must pay rent for their land or otherwise starve are technically still a free market, just one where the market power is extremely asymmetric.

"Voluntary cooperation" implies options and a liquid competitive market. If your Mars colony is going to die and you ask mine for resources to bail you out, and I condition that on being the supreme emperor of your colony, that rapidly degrades.

Further, there is no reason to believe firms won't engage in straight up theft and warfare. If you just captured an asteroid that has enough rare earth metals to collapse the prices on Earth and space isn't governed by our laws, then many companies would be funding a mercenary army to take that asteroid from you.
I wouldn't underestimate the thief character he played in "Entrapment" (though the movie in itself was IMHO so-and-so), which is clearly derived/has connections with the one in "The rock".

And there are some memorable quotes:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/quotes/?tab=qt&ref_=tt_...

I like the "It's impossible. But doable." and the "I'm never late. If I'm late it's because I'm dead."
> there was a time when you could organize a conference or group or project without conjuring a set of rules governing social interactions

Yes there was a "magical" time of a couple decades like that, I remember it well!

No rules were needed because it was an ivory tower of almost all white men. Who far too often would act inappropriately towards the very few women who would come to a tech conference. Making the sexism problem in our industry even worse by driving women away from these events.

Is a code of conduct all on its own going to fix these problems? Probably not. And as we have seen in this case, they can even be misused. The important thing to me is that people are working to solve the long-existing problems of sexism and racism in our industry. And learning in the process about what works and what does not work. Making mistakes is part of the learning process in improving anything in life. If you think the tech industry and conferences don't need to be improved, then the ivory tower worked for you. Not so much for others.

> If people enjoy being treated and treating everyone like babies

The sexism and racism didn't fix itself, did it? Clearly some people in our industry do need loads of hand holding, clearly defined rules, and consequences, in order to act like respectful adults in a social setting.
Sadly, Connery didn't play roles at the age Diana Rigg did (eg Lady Olenna)
We'll I'm claiming that my pixel 3 is _in_ warranty, and google are claiming £300 for a replacement (not $300 sorry, that was a typo). The phone is less than two years old, but I don't know what recourse I have.

> Sure, some companies, like Samsung, try to offer some exclusive features. Just avoid them.

If your advice is to ignore the largest manufacturer and manufacturers of the most high end devices, that says a lot about the state of the ecosystem. Samsung and huawei have both had massive incompatiblies with other devices and android products - work profiles, pay, fit being my examples.

> Although there are a lot of cheap Android devices to choose from that can drag down the brand reputation, I would really push back against the suggestion Androids are exclusively "cheap" in the pejorative sense

I never claimed they were cheap. My experience is with flagship devices and premium manufacturers, who in many cases are the same price as apple - a galaxy s20 is £900, a oneplus 8 is £800.
Can we get rid of timse zone and leap seconds too?
I don't know how someone ever could think this is a good idea and also got so many governments to implement this. Whoever is behind it, he or she is a genius of evil. Let's ditch this nonsense now.
You need Icestorm or Symbiflow in any case; VerilogCreater doesn't include them.
Do you use other paradigm / languages ? (clojure comes to mind, but maybe others)
Can I come? Will bring snacks.
I hate this time switch absolutely every hour of the year - regardless of how far away the actual change is. Yes, I feel robbed of an hour for the entire duration. When it’s reset, it’s nice but not so much better - because all the wrong’s already been done. It needs to stop.
Professor solves and explains 300 theory problems for 7 hours straight
Yes, my actual opinion is that Joe Biden is a vastly less corrupt candidate than Trump.

Presumably Hunter Biden traded on his famous name to get job opportunities (in a smaller way than the Trump kids), but I've seen no credible evidence (and please don't reply with a gish-gallop of shady twitter and youtube links) that Joe Biden compromised his office to assist his son.
I'm less concerned about the Tesla driver dying (since it means they weren't attentively monitoring their car right?) and more concerned about the driver they t-bone or hit head on due to a software bug.
Both, but maybe unlike you I didn't get stuck only on the parts that criticized republicans.
I wish mobile OSes provided an API for putting the phone into / out of Airplane Mode. It used to be available to unrooted Android phones until version 4.2.2 which broke some apps[0].

In theory it would then be possible for an app to take the phone out of Airplane Mode (to receive a call) when it received a specific ping over a different radio protocol, such as Wi-Fi or perhaps even FM.

Also, I'm surprised that not giving users full control over when they broadcast their effective location to the mobile phone network isn't a GDPR violation.

[0] https://apkpure.com/scheduled-airplane-mode-root/com.galaxy....
Debian Developer here. Some people take a very cursory look at Debian and assume the packaging is an exercise in masochism that we inflict on ourselves.

And yet the number of DDs keeps increasing (and Debian is one of most successful projects).

Indeed it takes time to do packaging, and this is by design. Packagers are expected to thoroughly review the code they are packaging and smooth out various sharp corners.

Many times I've found bugs in the upstream code while packaging. Sometimes around security and privacy, often around documentation, usability or non-x86 architectures.

Every time I check if other distributions opened bugs or applied patches for the same issues. It almost never happens.

This is why I might spend 2 hours on a package instead of 10 minutes.
In the UK it's pretty well known that it all goes to Sellafield.
Daylight savings time has some really interesting effects on a macro level: https://www.businessinsider.com/daylight-saving-time-is-dead...
Show HN: Comparison of IP Geolocation services and databases
I was thinking about switching IP geolocation sources when MaxMind updated their license [1] and made it harder to include, and was shocked to see just how many different services are out there [2]. This is a utility page to compare the results of ones that have a free tier.

Let me know what you see. Anecdotally, they all seem decent, though IMHO I wouldn't count on anything besides country being completely accurate. A fair number of them seem to be "based on" the MaxMind data.

Note that I am using the free tier for everything: I am sure the slashdot effect will kick in, so if you are late to the party, you'll be able to see what their error/over-quota responses look like. And if my error handling is any good. Try again tomorrow!

I ended up keeping MaxMind, and jumping through a few hoops to have their db in the build, but encrypted. The source is available: encryption [2] & decryption [3]. I think I got the crypto right, so let me know if you see anything amiss.

[1] https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-a...

[2] https://resolve.rs/ip/geolocation.html#ipgeolist

[3] https://github.com/redirect2me/resolvers/blob/main/data/maxm...

[4] https://github.com/redirect2me/resolvers/blob/main/src/data/...
In Russian katala means a card sharp, a crook. The name has a great fit for the language purpose.
I have to agree with you here. I grew up with Brosnan but Lazenby has more class to me.

On the other hand Connery defined Bond.
That's only the case if this new Autopilot iteration is actually a safer driver. There are many who doubt that.