skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apps and sites are pushed out fast, crammed with the everything including the kitchen sink and monetised to the hilt. This is more the reason why they suck these days, rather than because programmers are modelling abstractions from the human end rather than the machine end.
Without a good background in music theory it is very easy to transcribe a piece in a way that may result in the same sounds when played but that is musically nonsense due to the enharmonic nature of many notes. Every flat could have been a sharp just the same, knowing which one to pick requires a lot more knowledge than just what key the piece is in.

I spent many days working out a compromise that at least isn't nonsense most of the time but I know that it will still take much more work to be able to do this reliably. For now my theoretical knowledge isn't good enough though. This is very complex, and the algorithm to do this properly already runs to many pages.
> Nothing done by humans is objective.

This seems like a hyperbole. Obviously there is a lot of garbage that people claim to be science. But 2+2=4 is subjective?
I don't recall ever running into something that didn't work in plain sh. I have never scripted in zsh. I'm probably missing out on some advanced features, I guess.
Rails is alright. It's just a great scapegoat for bad teams working under impossible deadlines: "Our code is unmaintainable because Rails! We need 1 year to rewrite it in Go/Elixir/Java". I mean, because Rails has a flat structure you couldn't ever take the time to reactor that piece of crap code you wrote for 2 years? really? You didn't notice a model stopped making sense or growing in complexity?
I see the same criticism with PHP. It's perfectly fine, stop blaming the tool.
The uk would have to have it in the agreement or offer same terms to WTO countries
Yep. This 100% matches my experience too. We're the product of a billion years of evolution. Descended from an unbroken line of creatures that move around. It's really little wonder that we get sick when we don't use our bodies the way they should be.
not cool, dude.
I've been considering learning Ruby to replace Python for high level coding and scripting, Python is what I use for most of what I do. Should I? The main reasons I have not are inertia, massive selection of data manipulation libraries in Python, difficulty of async and multithreading in both languages means not much benefit from a usability perspective, and I'm not a fan of the Contributor Covenant CoC.

But I have looked at the syntax of Ruby and find it to be more elegant. Does anyone knowledgeable about it have any useful information?
Sounds like a macmini is a terrible choice for that job. Is there a hard osx requirement? It's not like they are really cheap.
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Dynamic typing never was in the interest of the human developer but in the interest of the lazy language designer.

This release looks interesting. Let's see how type annotations work out in real life and if people use them.
That's a very important point, tunings will rapidly exceed the value of any 'cheap' piano. And typically the cheaper they are the worse they will keep tune, though there are exceptions to that rule.

I can recommend Entropy Tuner, which is a great piece of software to help you tune a piano properly.
They could have done this in a much nicer way.

When they click on the (fake) phishing link, bring up a page that tells that them that it is a test and add some gentle instructions so they can avoid it next time.

What I do to confirm a non-obvious phishing email, is look at the real "From" address. The other day I got an email from "Accουnt-alert@amazon.com"

Looking at the actual email address revealed that it was from
"remimbersrs-qwrdvcxwet-exp-2020-3111538818484262@legger-3.com"
Mixer and speakers? Yes.
Something that should have caught on, but for some reason didn't:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Subservient_Chicken
Not OP, but as the name suggests, a VPN is a virtual private network: you can use it to create a private subnet from where you can securely access your other computers/resources, even from a remote location.

For instance, at work we are mostly remote, and use a VPN (OpenVPN here) to access the local network at the office with our on-premise build servers, and it also allows developers to work together sometimes (one running a debugging server on their dev laptop, another debugging the client from their own laptop as if they were sharing a local network, when actually they are hundreds of miles apart)
If self and Apple-approved developer signing is not allowed, how do developers test their apps that use those APIs?
I don't know a lot about how Mac apps work, but I've heard somewhere that you have to sign all apps to build and install on any device.
> "Broadway shows could already have achieved the same increase-in-sound-quality-per-dollar by switching to cheaper hardware running Windows"

Mac Minis are relatively cheap. Not much different in cost to comparable, branded, ultra-small-form-factor PC hardware. (And now, with the M1, I don't think you'll find competitive PC hardware in the same price range and form factor at all)
It is being invested. And that means capital being ploughed back..new products and new jobs created. And more taxes. Why doesn’t that count?

More 20 hour/week jobs. With more young people educated and coming out of schools..and a raising population, this is how economy keeps chugging.

When Amazon builds more warehouse hubs, there is construction, more automation jobs, more drivers, more consumption, more taxes and more revenue. Most important ..more jobs.

What is an acceptable alternative?
Production companies are ephemeral and tour multiple locations. Depending on the production they may require different sorts of equipment to accommodate different performance skills. It's totally unfeasible for a venue to stock a wide enough menu to satisfy a variety of productions, and likewise totally unfeasible for a production that shows up and has mere hours before showtime to adapt to someone else's instrument rigs beyond the basic necessities of PA. You can rent but it's often better to buy as cheap as you can to eliminate complexity and risk.
e.g. dating apps
And yet Ruby has a global interpreter lock and is an interpreted language. Ruby, I assume as a language, has had all the time in the world to develop well. Why don't we fully utilize our hardware while still allowing for high usability such as with Rust with algebraic data types or (if you don't want to deal with a borrow checker) recent C++ with auto pointers, or Haskell which is garbage collected but is still quite fast and of course highly expressive?
The thing is the language is complete (imo).
I don't want them to reinvent the wheel or break backwards compatibility like python 3 did. And please don't introduce explicit types into Ruby for god's sake.

So what's left to work on? I guess the things they're doing now: better performance, better tooling etc.
In the same field as Total Uninstall, there's Bulk Crap Uninstaller[0] that helps you stay sane when fixing up a relative's computer. It finds and helps you uninstall applications unattended, also removes leftover files after the uninstallation.

[0]: https://github.com/Klocman/Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller
Google is unnecessarily expensive than namecheap.com.

As a user of both domains.google and namecheap, I'd recommend namecheap.

Usually, in both the cases, I immediately move registration to Cloudflare-run registrar.
Well, because there is no moral argument. There is merely a statement made (entirely implicitly here) without logical reasoning. And a statement, asserted without evidence or reasoning can easily be dismissed without it.

There can be no tu quoque fallacy when there is no argument made. For instance, if I were to say "I'm at the beach" and you were to say "But you are not. I see you downtown in front of me." that's not tu quoque just because it references the guy making the statement.

Make the argument and perhaps we can see.
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It counts sure but I'm saying on a balance sheet it's not useful to look at, per my example above. Increases in gross profits are much easier to look at, before they're used up for reinvestment.
Shared piano is quite impressive.
Well, unfortunately no. Ratatat is my lucky find. Heard their 'Gettysburg' while watching some random gaming clip that feature their music! and they're not my usual genre I've listen to. So Google is your best friend...

Other of my fav instrumental band is CHON, but they're more of math rock and not really the same.
Yup, I am also not understanding the need for it to be a mac mini.

The new Apple Silicon chips might be a lot faster. But I am pretty sure that audio plugins take a long time to update.
Yay lets argue again about types vs dynamic! I'm sure throwing another opinion on this older than time debate would finally settle things.
Thanks, but I don't need the wikipedia summary of a VPN.

It didn't sound ad all like the OP was using his VPN to dial into work. He was dialing into a purpose-build VM which wasn't stated to do anything else - just tunneling his traffic for some unknown reason.
I first encountered the term "provenance" in 2007 when I was working on an undergraduate research project at UC Santa Cruz in the area of metadata-based search for the Ceph distributed file system. I particularly remember reading this USENIX ATC 2007 paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/2007-usenix-annual-technic.... This was my introduction to the concept of provenance.

Professor Margo Seltzer (https://www.seltzer.com/margo/) is a well-known researcher in the area of provenance. I highly recommend reading her papers if you're interested, starting with her USENIX ATC 2006 paper "Provenance-Aware Storage Systems".
Meta: title should have "(2011)" in it. Not very important for this kind of content, I guess, but still helpful.
Shout-out to TortoiseDiff over WinMerge/BC3. I routinely get my best results with it because of its superior usability (and it’s free!).
> Creative endeavors are not additive. They are iterative, convergent processes, and so they are subtractive: you work until you have converged, and then you stop.

Subtractive implies few, if any, unknowns.

If you are chiseling away at a well-defined spec along a well-trodden implementation path as part of a large team (as creative as such an endeavor might be), maybe.

The smaller the team, the less charted your territory is, the more it becomes about jigsaw pieces fitting together despite individual irregularities. One piece can cause a rather disproportionate effect at the outcome.
There are many other tunings you could use, Just Intonation, for one example. Although I agree it’s strange to say that. Like saying ‘We’re driving there, in a car, with four wheels.’

Some more info, if you’re curious:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tuning#Tuning_system...

I have a synthesizer with a ton of different tunings on it. I flipped through them once. Some are interesting, but they mostly just sound _bad_.
My impression from modern art galleries I went into was not "social critique". Very little of that was in social critique category.

The realism is not the achievement anymore, because people can do drawings that look like photos.
This sort of "wasteful spending" tends to happen for big budget events for reliability reasons. You might be able to save $10k by reusing equipment from the last event or using a venue's equipment, but if the equipment cuts out mid-show, it will cost a lot more than $10k in missed opportunity.

I spent a week hanging out at Circuit of the Americas helping to run a solar car race, and asked about all the loose CAT6 bursting out of every wire conduit. The broadcasters run new cable for their equipment every Formula One race, hardwire it, then cut it loose and pack up. It's apparently cheaper to do that than to debug connection problems with existing cables, or risk losing a camera feed unexpectedly due to intermittent connections from failing connectors.
6) We’ve learned more about what works to fight poverty

I think we have always known what works, we just weren't willing to do it. I doubt that has really changed.
What use would a union be for such a highly paid and fluid industry? Genuinely curious.
Why do you have to abuse people as lazy because they prefer a different typing discipline to you?
This is commonplace in the US, less so elsewhere.
It’s no different from hanging out in an IRC channel.
By 'fines collected at free parking', do you mean whereby the free parker collects the various fines (tax, chance cards, etc.) paid up to that point?

I've never been sure if that's an official rule or not, but it seems almost 50-50 in use, if I sat down to play Monopoly with people I hadn't before I'd definitely ask 'do you play the free parking rule'.
What high end sample libraries do they use? Also to be fair the Korg D1 sounds perfect for this and only around $600 each...
Strictly, I suppose they're making no argument at all since they are merely asserting a fact: Amazon isn't paying more. There is an implicit other statement: "this is notable". And I suspect an implicit third piece "it is notably bad".

None of these are arguments but one could imagine that the last one stems from "because we all think it's bad". Of course, absent justification one could just dismiss that last one out of hand instead.
Speak for yourself. I love Leetcode. It's a standardized process that I can study for and basically be guaranteed to get a job in a sunset of companies that pay extremely highly.
Sample libraries are pretty efficient compared to digital synthesis VSTs. They really don't hit the processor nearly has hard.

But M1 designs that max out at 16GB don't have the memory to handle plenty of sample libraries, so I don't understand how a Mac Mini is supposed to be up to the job.

It's not just about raw cycles but about cached access to the samples. The biggest libraries can run up to 1TB and you'll probably have more than one. Obviously you don't keep everything in RAM at the same time, but even so - 16GB is a serious limitation for this kind of work.

And if you're using a computer instead of a synth rig you cannot afford to have problems, because any stuttering or glitching is painfully obvious and distracting in a live setting.

It also makes no business sense for a Broadway show that may be grossing $25m a year with a multi-year run to cut costs to the bone on its musical hardware. Considering the cost saving involved in replacing real players (for better or worse...) it makes far more sense to spend twice as much initially for a no-risk professional setup than to pinch pennies and risk glitches.
To add a perspective here:
Being offered help, especially in a way that says "why don't you do X?" can often provoke a reaction that tries to justify oneself. You want to feel validated in your self-pity, and if the solution to your struggles is as easy as "just doing X" all of your bad feelings are your own fault, too. That makes you feel even shittier.
So you need claim that it's impractical advice to evade that.

My best guess: Your friend is not looking for advice, they're looking for validation of their feelings when lamenting about their life.

But maybe this is a "what you want vs. what you need" situation.
Depends on how much of a drag you feel Python to be. People sometimes want a change for change's sake. If you think you're happier using Ruby well that's a good enough reason to seriously consider it. Outside of machine learning I can't really see any objective advantage one has over the other. Both are super mature, expressive, dynamic languages. The rest is a matter of taste. Jobs wise I'm sure Python has an avdantage, but Ruby has some strong niches (web development, devops) that are always in high demand as well.
Writing their own TTS sounds like what Nintendo would do, to be honest.

Spanish is about as phonetically consistent as Japanese. Most languages have simpler phonology than English. It's not about the number of possible syllables, it's about the rules to go from text to phonemes. The rules in English are immensely complicated and inconsistent. Meanwhile, I can accurately describe Spanish phonology, such that you'd be able to pronounce ~any Spanish word (English loanwords excluded) accurately including stress, in about one page. Written Japanese lacks pitch accent information, but otherwise works similarly.

(By the way, your stats are off; modern Japanese has about ~106 possible syllables (mora) by rough count).
BITO was uninhabited before it was settled by Europeans. It doesn't have "native people" according to Wikipedia. Unlike .us/au/ca etc. Are those tlds controlled by their native people?
This view on bio-ethicists reflects my views on ethics as an academic field in general: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/fr...

Some quotes:

> I realized quickly that the incentives are all wrong if what we want is people who will think hard about humanity’s pressing ethical dilemmas and who will suggest intuitively appealing solutions.

> Since almost all ethicists are academics, they have to publish, and in order to publish you have to be novel, and since the basic principles of ethics are little changed for millennia the incentives to do thorough homework on the basis of principles which are widely understood and accepted is not great.

> Furthermore, if you decide to be a utilitarian, then basically all ethical issues will boil down to cost/benefit analyses which you have to outsource to technocrats, so your unique expertise as an ethicist will be worth little.
Yeah I remember those green phosphor ones that we had in one of our computing centers on the campus. Alongside them there were pure IBM X Windows terminals, connected to a DG/UX server.

On a similar note I find similar lack of experience understanding what is possible with something like ESP32, given the computing power we had at the early 80's, and the polyglot environments that were already available back then.
That's quite lovely, thank you for posting!
I’m sorry to hear :(

Go to Google domains, there’s an option to see all available domain endings with your chosen name, you can see if there is another that works better for you? Eg .xyz or.app etc
It's because they thought you memorized the problems and solutions. Next time if you get something you know, feign ignorance and just stumble through it naturally.
It's not that there's a hard OSX requirement, but Mainstage (for live mixing) dominates this field. It's incredibly low latency, and there's really nothing as good for this specific use case. Combine Mainstage with on-demand sequencers like Doggiebox, and Apple really owns this market.
Can't believe email clients still allow such basic tricks to not be spotted instantly.
Yep that’s my fear! Oh well, nothing in life is certain.

However I am hopeful it has a strategic purpose - for anyone using Google Cloud Services, it would be more convenient to have the domain registration bundled in. Similarly, Google sell you you@yourdomain.com as an add on in Google Suites.
I mean it’s totally crazy, emulation of Arm on x86 has always felt extremely slow, to me anyway.
There was a lot of Mac-first software too, though - Opcode Vision, for example.
I like dnGrep.

It searches inside archives, Excel files and other MS Office documents.

Supports replace.

[0]: http://dngrep.github.io/
A lot of small-shop semi-DIY VSTs used to be Windows only. That's not so true these days. It's been a while since I found a VST/AU that wasn't at least dual platform.

But having run music on Windows for a long time, I would never ever go back. The telemetry, random updates, and general awfulness of the user experience are not something I want in my life.

MacOS has issues, not least the breaking changes in Catalina and Big Sur. But when each OS iteration settles down it's generally super-stable and - most importantly for professional use - it doesn't get in the way.
Winget is the de facto official package manager for Windows. It is or will be included with Windows. I know it’s included in the Insider builds.
Yes, it assumes companies are bad because they don't follow individual moral standards, but organizations are not individuals and cannot be judged the same way. I would even go so far as to say that because there are so many people in it that the entire organization is an amoral entity.
How is it same value when there is automation replacing 20 man hours?

Population increases exponentially. As does consumption. Resources are limited. We will all live smaller. Thats what happens when we exceed carrying capacity.
It's TTS. They absolutely don't go dubbing around every line for this, that'd be insane. That's the whole point of this system, to provide some fun sounding audio for the lines without having to actually dub them. You can tell because they speak your island name and your own name exactly the same way as the rest of the text, accurately. And because it's pretty monotone and consistent.

Besides, can you imagine voice actors dubbing this stuff in this kind of voice line by line? They'd go insane.
Ugh he migrated sett a while back and I bet I was doing some bad hardcoding somewhere. Hmm, maybe I'll make some time to try and fix it up. Thanks for letting me know!
I call BS on this. You can read just the home page of the Second Harvest Silicon Valley homepage that demand has doubled and people have stepped up to fill the gap.

https://www.shfb.org/

SF spends something like 40k per homeless person per year: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Bu...

It's a hard problem to solve.

Example (not necessarily the valley) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-charity/ameri...

In conclusion you can find ample evidence that no one cares or you can find a way to make some tiny impact and attempt to influence others to do the same.
Not exactly related but 7-8 years ago a company in the region had a major virus outbreak. There was some kind of zero day worm running through their environment and despite having updated endpoint protection they still got got.

They didn't feel they had any choice but to hire about 50 temp folks from a local contracting company and run through the entire desktop environment and pull drives, re-image, reinstall. They did this over the course of a weekend and on Monday when employees came back they found their desktops wiped clean. Within an hour the site lead started getting calls and visits from panic stricken employees that had kept all sorts of personal info on those machines...photos, emails, documents, etc.

All gone.

They ended up missing one machine that got powered up that Monday and re-infected the entire campus. Had to do the same thing again.
I tend to use WizTree for local NTFS volumes where it's MFT analysis benefit is present, it can be so much faster it almost seems like magic.

For everything else on Windows (network mounts, fat/exfat) I currently use Space Sniffer (http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/)

One thing issue with WizTree is that drawing the result is slow for large trees (a volume with a great many files spread over a the structure) compared to other programs. For one of my local volume at work which happens to include an archive copy of a huge (for VSS) source safe repository WizTree is slower despite the MFT shenanigans because drawing the result after takes enough time to undo the advantage. Though this is on SSD - I expect WizTree would reclaim the speed crown for this dataset on a "traditional" disk, where the reduced random access IO requirements of its MFT scan will be even more significant.
As a former sound engineer I can state for a fact that this is not true. We stopped using Macs while I was still doing it and it was back in like ~98 when we moved for real to digital studios. Depending on what we were doing the only thing the Macs gave us were bigger purchase and support bills. What Apple had going for them was history so people didn't know as much about how to support the setup if it wasn't Macs. The non-Apple software was just fine and the hardware, at the same price point, way better.