skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This project uses tensorflow/keras to emulate the sound of real guitar amplifiers and pedals on wav files. The model is trained on about three minutes of input/output guitar audio, and takes a few minutes to train. For example, you can record a $1000 amp and use this code to create a model to apply that sound to other wav files.

The purpose of this project is to improve on the previous WaveNet model built for the same task. Using LSTM is orders of magnitude faster and more accurate for emulating guitar signals than WaveNet. A real time guitar plugin exists for the WaveNet implementation, and a plugin for this the LSTM model is currently in work. Compare to Neural DSP’s Quad Cortex neural capture feature, which uses a similar technique on their $1600 floor modeler.
All I can say is when I had NextDNS configured on my router it blocked requests to some IKEA domain, possibly smetrics.ikea.com from a cursory search through he logs, and my Tradfri gateway would just straight stop responding to anything at that point. I googled around for a while and found other people having issues with DHCP and QoS with Tradfri gateways, so I made sure it had a static IP set as well as all QoS “features” being disabled, but this didn’t help. It would work at first, for some period of time (30 min maybe?) and then stop responding. Once I saw the blocked DNS lookups I disabled NextDNS on the router and flushed any caches on the router, rebooted everything and it’s worked fine now for a good month or so.

I will admit I haven’t done any further investigation, but simply concluded that the gateway at some point started phoning home and if it didn’t receive a response went into some catatonic state. Maybe I’ll dig deeper at some point, time permitting.
I'd fire her in response, it's still a firing.

This technicality matters for unemployment and COBRA, and it has a concrete definition.
Thievery.
"moral cleansing theory and impression management and construction theory" ??

I'm more worried about these than a jerk boss.
Google is carbon neutral.

How much more of a problem are a billion cars and 40% of our electricity being generated from coal?

We’ve squandered decades ignoring the big problems and now people want to run into the weeds with a thousand little problems, that individually don’t amount to much.
If they didn't diversify away from 100% Enron, they are to blame, because retirement is when you reduce risks, the stocks vs bond allocation and all that, you know?
I’m inclined to agree, frankly.
I believe it's absolutely possible to do more to reduce to incompetency behind the wheel on US roads. It may even be trivial to reduce preventable traffic fatalities in the US by half. We accept these preventable fatal as a society.

Per 1 billion miles driven, the US fatality rate is nearly 2x that of Germany.

https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/why-getting-a-german-drive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Needs "Into the Breach".
Interestingly, this isn't what happens when you breathe air without oxygen. Our sense of suffocation is tied to levels of carbon dioxide, not oxygen. When breathing an oxygen-free inert gas, you pass out and die after a few breaths without any panic at all. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation
this, but also that:

“ What £ of tax would the working class family contribute towards university education”

Is not really fair to the issue. It’s not a cost for university education, because it’s not open to all - there are gatekeepers - and those from underprivileged backgrounds have very little chance of being accepted to the most prestigious institutions, so it’s unfair to expect them to pay for it, is essentially my point.
Smoked on and off for about 7 years, quit outright about a year and a half ago.

The only way to stop is to stop. If you keep them around they will be smoked, if you reduce the nicotine they will be smoked, if you go to places you associate with smoking you will smoke.

Maybe I got lucky by the “coming down” effect of quitting on my brain being nothing more than a strong itch, but it was pretty easy to reject by countering the thought with “I don’t want to smell horrible” or “you made it 1/2/6/12 months why go back now”. Not everyone can change their environment like I did though, it wasn’t because of cigarettes but I had moved to a new neighborhood, been apart from an abusive ex girlfriend, and had starting seeing someone new which all made it easier to move on.
At first I thought it was broken as I opened in mobile and it was very confusing. Otherwise, on desktop it looks funky, but fine - not awesome but not bad.
Actually, we ended up going with Django. Partially because the devs we were able to hire at the time knew Python well.
Then you return the device as defective and demand a refund. What you chose to pay for is up to you.
Android, actually.

It provides all the apps I need on the go, including a desktop like environment when I plug my bluetooth keyboard and mouse into it, including some programming.

I have given up trying to fit GNU/Linux into places where it doesn't come pre-installed out of the box, also it advances the technology stack further of the C and C++ desktops that GNU/Linux is stuck with.

Ironically it is the closest we have to Inferno/Limbo ideas.
Most people don't really understand that.

Even relatively informed people don't understand that physicians aren't members of the scientific class and in practice are closer to car mechanics than fuel chemists.

A person with a DMA, DPA, or a DMM are all still called "Doctor" colloquially, but not people with a JD.

A Doctorate of Science should by the sound of it be the one that members of the science class have, not a PhD, but it curiously represents both an award that's equivalent, beyond, and less than a PhD depending on who awards it and how it's awarded -- and is curiously often the degree of choice for medical doctors and other health practitioners but almost never the degree for chemists, biologists, physicists or other sciences.

Most people don't even know there are doctorate degrees other than PhD.
Sure but almost nobody can do that because they didn’t make the same careful choice as you did.

Also, you routinely make unsupported claims, so if you are going to say nearly 100%, you’ll need to show a source.

I’m happy to accept this as true by the way - I would like Android to have this level of openness, but it contradicts what others say when I suggest Android is an open alternative to iOS.
Orthogonal Persistence and WebAssembly
FCC doesn't seem to be on consumer side - at least until Pai and his ilk are out unfortunately. They showed that with NN repeal despite mass public disapproval.
I think getting killed in a car crash as the driver of a car is an overly specific measurement. What about injuries? What about if you’re struck by a driver while crossing the street? One statistic that comes to mind is that in a crash involving a drunk driver, the drunk driver is much less likely to die because they don’t tend to tense up before the impact of the crash.
See the prosperity gospel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology
I actually is. Or at least the individual cells are... At some point it will be fun to install cells in your own home...
All true. Ironically the main thing keeping C++ relevant is the lack of a standard cross platform ABI. The moment interop with the C++ ecosystem becomes easier, the newer languages look so much more attractive.
How Microsoft crushed Slack: Why the era of worker centered work tools is over
This is not a discussion about the technicalities, I am sure you are aware.
For C++17, the only best thing for me was that you can destructure tuples and pairs with a simple syntax (when otherwise you needed to use std::tie)

auto [a, b] = functionThatReturnsATuple();

For C++20, the one single thing I'm excited about is designated initializers (which was already in C99! It's kinda mad why this came so late). Basically you can initialize structs with parameter names with just a single line of code:

struct Person {
std::string name;
int age;
};
Person person = {.name = "Bob", .age = 29};

Anything else from C++17 and onwards I really don't find a usage for right now. Compile-time programming using constexpr and consteval is great, until you realize that compile-time programming works under the hood by evaluating the AST directly (which is the slowest possible way for an interpreter), and would make your build times skyrocket to the moon. Concepts are kinda nice because of better error messages, but doesn't really matter for me if heavily templated libraries like STL and Eigen aren't fully ported for this feature. Ranges are just unnecessary for me, I learned the hard way that for loops are much better in terms of clarity and performance. And for modules: again, it only matters if the STL, tooling, and major libraries are ready for it, and I'm skeptical it will be achieved at any time.
This is a good resource with a lot of good points. But,

> Display output on success, but keep it brief.

Strong disagree. If everything went OK, or something is in progress, I don't need to be notified; it's distracting and makes me instinctively think something has gone wrong and needs my attention. The Art of Unix Programming got it right, "Silence is golden."[1]

I'm disappointed that `git push` is their example of good CLI output, because I've truly hated git's entire CLI design and philosophy for years. Git's CLI is the opposite of what good CLI design should be in almost every way: a noisy, confusing, inconsistent, staggeringly complex misery. Do I really need to know that `git push` is enumerating obects? That it's using delta compression using 8 threads? That it's counting objects? That it's compressing objects? That information is useless plumbing output that clutters and distracts for no purpose. Just do the work and keep quiet, with at most a progress bar for a long-running command--and even then it should be optional.

If people really want chatty output, include an optional --verbose flag, or even levels of verbosity with -v, -vv, -vvv, etc.

> Use symbols and emoji where it makes things clearer.

Please, no. This is a fad right now and it's also really distracting. Symbols and emoji don't have common meanings and a symbol next to a header or plain text is not helpful, because the plain text already says what I need to know without the symbol. Does having an insect icon next to a header that says "Error" really improve clarity, or does a colorful icon in a sea of plain text needlessly distract? Should the icon have been an insect, or a stop sign? Or an exclamation mark in a circle? Or a traffic cone? Couldn't all of those mean "Error"?

Their example of good emoji use includes a red X next to informational--not error--text (leading me to believe that an error occurred or something stopped unexpectedly) and some kind of duck-beak icon next to the text "When the YubiKey blinks, touch it to authorize the login." Huh?

Despite what Unicode wants you to believe, emojis are not "plain text" and translate poorly to professional workstation-based communication. They are difficult to type on a regular keyboard, are tedious to copy and paste, and don't belong in other plain text contexts like data storage or CLI pipes. Additionally emojis render differently for different users so you never truly know what your CLI might be displaying.

[1] https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/programming_books/ar...
What’s at Stake If Brexit Talks Collapse
>> Gebru is the type of person who defines "bias" as anything that isn't sufficiently positive towards people who look like herself, not the usual definition of a deviation from reality as exists.

I haven't seen this "usual definition" of bias as a "deviation from reality" that you give anywhere before. Can you say where it is coming from?
but some opinions are crimes

No. The US does not criminalize thought, and doing so would be tyranny.

you should not use it to badmouth the US

Also No. The very purpose of freedom of speech and the press is to maintain channels for criticism and change.
PS5 Pro Will Be 70% Faster Than Xbox Series X
One of the issues that companies like Waymo will have to face is that it's not going to be enough to be better than a human driver, you actually have to be better than a human driver with lane assist, blind spot checkers, adaptive cruise control, etc. As self driving technology matures, so does driving assistance technology. The 100 Million miles that a human driver will have to drive on average to die in a crash will be pushed to a billion miles+ before L5 is achieved, effectively moving the goal post further.

Ultimately self driving technology has to be better not than a human, but than human intervention. It has to be so good that it recognizes when a human incorrectly intervenes to override L4 decisions and then be able to override that human's overriding. Only then will autonomous vehicles overtake humans.
What's your point?

Jeff Dean is a solitary worker (male, white, known political agenda).
IANAL but it's probably covered by fair use. Otherwise "Let's Play Videos" on YouTube would not be possible(and they actually show all the content in the game, while this shows single screenshots). Same goes for games review sites, Metacritic, game wikis etc that all have screenshots. It's definitely not in the interest of a game publisher to disallow the internet to show off their game, but they probably can't legally stop it either way.
Well naturally they'll just not work if they don't have a connection or detect a hardware fault.
As much as facebook is a thing I love to hate, I don't see the problem there. It's not because you have an onion site that you are forced to allow any content whatsoever, and in fact many onion services explicitly forbid certain types of content for good reasons.

You're free to not connect to their platform either way (and to be subject to their limitations regarding contents and behaviour), whereas setting up an onion service can be about stuff that people aren't free to avoid (i.e. censorship by the only ISP they might have, by a state, etc). There's no issue with consistency there.
> I'm not going to pretend that it's doing the homeless any favors.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are simply ignorant of what jail or prison does to a person. Because I cannot see otherwise how you can possibly believe your right to a clean sidewalk should be enforced at the expense of another person's rights and freedom.
Ah now I get it, when something instead of producing pollution directly, merely concentrates it in a reservoir, we can blithely ignore it. /s
I disagree. I understand that it’s your opinion that he’s doing something, but without something concrete to back it up, it’s just an opinion.
Equivalent of let/const for PHP would be manual use of include/require when loading php files, modern code bases rely on an auto loader.

There are some legitimate use cases of manually loading a php file, e.g loading the auto loader, but that is usually the exception and not the rule today.
HDR needs a bunch of things to work correctly:

1) the software needs to render with the correct gamut profile (typically "P3.display")

2) the OS needs to have a reasonable color profile for the display that knows about the higher gamut

3) the display needs to be in the correct mode to interpret and render in the correct gamut.

My LG HDR400 display only has 1 obvious setting for HDR as a "quick" setting, but it behaves like what you're said, and that just drops gamma.
Perhaps companies should hire more talented customer service representatives who have a technical background instead of continuing to make their products shittier.
Exactly this, we’re a small team and have to pick our battles. In practice very few people have IPv6 only connections, and even fewer of the people who buy our products.
well, maybe they could just setup a website, let me drop a coin and download a freely convertible, virus-free copy of the book. Setup cost around ~10k, all profits go to them. (and I would actually buy books there)
I think about this all the time. I'll be on the highway, cruising along with lots of other cars moving at a high rate of speed all around me and just marvel at the fact that, generally, everything works out ok.
Article doesn't mention deaths/injury to pediatricians/cyclists.
UML class diagrams are overrated but they're not the only UML diagrams.

UML sequence diagrams are pure gold.

I have no idea how you can accomplish anything remotely complex without extensively talking about it (and writing it down!) first. It works fine for 2-months projects, but not for 2-years projects.
The article suggests an inevitable fall in rankings - I mean, do you expect it to be #1 for the rest of history? In any case, these lists are tenuous, subject to vagaries of film distribution, canonization, and critic selection, as the article's questioning of such readily-made canons suggests.

The true insight of the piece is how it got there in the first place. And I don't think any serious cinephile will give you an answer to "the best movie of all time" without qualifications.
Why? The psychoactive effects (relaxation, stimulation, and cognitive enhancement) of Nicotine is the reason that people enjoy tobacco products. Not everybody who smokes tobacco is an addict. Why ruin the fun for everybody else?

While we’re at it, let’s replace all sugar with saccharin, only sell non alcoholic beer, and ban recreational intercourse.

Truly a proposal from a sexless bureaucrat building a teetotalist snoozetown.
Summary:

* Figure out a good way not to hire a 2-faced asshole, because it ain't easy to fix.

* Making someone change their normal behavior may deplete their energy in the short-term, and they'll come off as fake. So, if you're after that, go full on Pygmalion, and give it some time to set in; some crap two-week HR course won't cut it.

* Be yourself. It's less work and you'll come off as more real.
The point is not that autonomous weapons systems are possible, but that their existence does not presage SkyNet, and the whole discussion distracts from the real societal impact, like some people being denied shelter/finance/employment/social connection/etc based on opaque ML boxes that intrinsically discriminate but in a way that can't be easily interrogated it controlled with legislation or court action.
Harley Davidson dealerships attract traveling Harley owners.
Those results rely on Java and OpenGL.

These technologies are long deprecated on Apple platforms.

It’s completely unrepresentative. But sure, if you rely primarily on Java or OpenGL for your workloads, I agree that a Mac isn’t the right choice for you.

It’s a lie to say “The software adds a 30% performance penalty on top” based on these results. It doesn’t.

If you have something credible to link to about iOS performance being slower, I’m interested, but I’m not going waste time watching YouTube videos that nobody else is going to bother with.

If it’s that bad, you’ll be able to find some credible analysis in writing. I’m guessing you can’t.
Most of us have all successfully learned how to be kind and polite to each other.

We just have to relearn it for our online world.
>> And real parrots are also stochastic, like all living things.

I don't understand how living things are "stochasic". Can you please elaborate on the matter?
That's taking the concept to an absurd extreme. Totalitarian belief systems that can't coexist with others can't be tolerated, yes, but it's nothing inherent in christianity - yet different Christian denominations spent decades killing each other in the Thirty Years' War. It's more of a character trait. Same personality type that was happy to kill all 'papists' would be a fanatic nazi in 30s' Germany and an eager killer for Pol Pot.

People like that are always going to exist, what happens depends on the reactions of the other members of the same 'tribe'. If they oppose it nothing happens, if they ignore it or, worse, weakly support it, the situation deteriorates in a feedback loop until both sides convince themselves that everyone from the 'enemy' camp wants to kill them, so the only option is to kill them first.
Young people wont' get this but see also Rube Goldberg Contraption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine
Afaik, TPMS does not follow a specific standard for communication. I saw a video about tpms and privacy issues. Because each sensor have a unique id, and beacons it out every minute. With four weels, you have an unique is every 15 seconds or so. The industry response was that it was an unreasonable attack since each car brand had their own protocol. Well, the rtlsdr projects now can decode a dusin. But my point was, that since there is no standard on how tpms should communicate, why would there be a regulation dictating it do be done in a specific manner? The end goal is that the cars drive with correct tire pressure.
While the US instead is good to his people

They only kill their presidents, the brothers of the dead presidents, political activists who only wanted fair treatment for the minorities and of course regular citizens

https://www.salon.com/2010/04/07/assassinations_2/

They only kill people in other countries by starting wars on fake news or support Nazi dictatorships all over the world

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

can you tell me anyway why in US there are still 700 people in jail every 100k while in Italy they are 112, the European average is 127 and the World average is 156?

Do you really believe that China has 15 million people in jail while they secretly killed 86 million (assuming they have the same rate of incarceration of the US) of them to not look bad in comparison to USA?

Do you really believe you can go from 700 to 115 by hiding the deaths?

Aere you really THAT stupid?
I think this article ironically overgeneralizes certain issues. For example, conformism is good when it comes to vaccination or social distancing. People are more comfortable with a stranger injecting a liquid into their bodies when they know everyone else let it happen as well. More conforming countries are handling the pandemic better. The difficult question is what heuristics can be applied to when it's fine to take a mental shortcut.
If repos are public, then you must assume that once something is pushed then someone has copied it.

You may get lucky and remove/hide it fast enough, or think you did...

This is an with Github today, all public repos are being watched by bots reviewing all commits for accidentally-pushed credentials.

The only solution is to not use a public repo.
I meant that each person had to disclose the single reason they wanted to take the course. Out of all responses, one of most common #1 reasons was to expose issues in other people's thinking.

In other words, some people may have ranked them as you did, but many people ranked them in the opposite order.
Why is this even a discussion? “Learn to lie better”, why bother, just be honest?
>>FFI that bypasses the JDK and interacts with native code that does either IO or OS-thread synchronization is extremely rare in Java.

>I would also argue its rare because its hard to do.

Is it? I recently had to write some simple code with C to interact with WinAPI and JNI was pretty straightforward to do.
Maybe I'm not understanding the argument. But why do people think she was let go?

My understanding is she wrote a paper critical of certain aspects of Google's business.

They asked her to retract it for revisions because they didn't think it was fair to Google which believed it had made advancements relevant to her critiques.

She thought this review was unfair so she wrote an unprofessional message to an internal group and submitted an ultimatum/resignation. Which google accepted.

Do you believe that corporations generally accept ultimatums?

Do you believe the message she sent out would never be a fireable offense?

Do you believe she was let go because she was black or female?
It has been solved though. Most post industrial countries have solved or minimized it with generous safety nets.