skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the key aspect of the ASM Hydrasynth is polyphonic aftertouch/MPE support. Polyphonic aftertouch sadly died (for the most part) in the 1990s, but MPE is becoming more popular and I expect to see innovation in terms of MPE controllers and synths, with associated improvements in expressive performance capabilities.

Physical modeling dates back decades but still hasn't really hit the mainstream. I expect to see it in more keyboard synthesizers.

There are a lot of interesting apps and plugins that feature things like physical modeling, granular synthesis, various kinds of waveshaping and wave folding, etc..

There has been a huge modular synthesis revival with Eurorack and digital modular, as well as a commensurate explosion in available modules that go well beyond traditional modulars.

One major innovation in the past few years has been the rise of FPGAs and programmable oscillators such as those on the Korg Prologue; DSP synths have existed for a while, but it's remarkable to have FPGA hardware oscillators and effects that you can modify by downloading new bitfiles. Companies like Sinevibes have managed to add a variety of new oscillators (e.g. FM, resonator, waveshaping and effects (e.g. granular reverb, random repeater) to the Prologue.
> presenting a talk at the International Conference on Functional Programming entitled “Why Visual Basic DESTROYS Haskell”.

I would love to see that talk.
I'm wondering if anyone has been able to motivate themselves to get a task accomplished by a certain date by deciding on a reward that is only given when you get the job done. If so what type of reward did you use?
Do _most_ people at your work cycle in? I work in a large office tower where thousands of people work. A small minority cycle to work. There are very good end of trip facilities (lockers, showers, irons, spin dryers, drying cabinets etc) available. I'd estimate there are 100 bike racks available. The bike racks get pretty full during spring and autumn when the temperatures are in the 20s (celcius) and there is no rain forecast. During the height of summer the patronage drops off (maybe 70%). During winter patronage drops markedly (often well below 40%, especially if rain is forecast).

I have been cycle commuting to school, university and various workplaces since the 80's on BMX and MTBs. I started out commuting in casual clothes (school), continued with casual clothes when I began cycling significantly further to university, but needed to carry a change of clothes due to sweat or rain. I joined the university cycle club and was introduced (admittedly with considerable skepticism) to the benefits of lycra (less chafe, faster to dry) and eventually also bought a road bike. The road bike made a big difference to my commute times/effort.

As a post grad student I had access to showers in my department. So I could ride faster/further (for fun) then shower and change before starting my day. Almost all my work places since leaving university have had shower facilities that allowed me to continue cycle commuting. Almost all the other cycle commuters at those work places that rode more than ~5km would opt to shower also. Why? because they got sweaty or wet and dirty.

If the weather is so good for cycling why do people want the end of trip shower?

By far most people I have worked with will not cycle commute at all (too far, too hard, don't want to mess up their hair with a helmet, too unsafe on the roads, take too long etc). Of those that did cycle commute, many are not all year round commuters, for the reasons I outlined above.

You may be comfortable riding in all kinds of weather. My experience is that the vast majority of Australians are not - even when end of trip facilities are available.
I think this is the Alan Kay future of computing. Right now we're in this weird hybrid state where we still work with digital documents primarily using the physical paper interface.

Imagine digital academic "papers" in STEM fields that natively ran the simulations the paper was describing. Jupyter sort of delivers that, but it still feels like early days for interactive digital-first documents (or as Steve Jobs has been credited for saying, "bicycles of the mind").
It is hard to see this trend reversing any time soon.

Good paying “blue collar” jobs are hard to come by in the US. And even those lucky to find a good job in a trade would need to have the financial literacy to accumulate wealth.

Your average citizen of the United States doesn’t understand how graduated taxes work let alone how their 401K works. I don’t think this is a class issue either, because I have heard some fairly wealthy people complain that their raise at work was going to put them in a higher tax bracket so they were going to make less money than before their raise. It is just the wealthy can pay someone to do their taxes and invest their money. And they make enough that the fees are marginal.

Accumulating wealth is teachable, but if you have come from a family that has nothing it is likely your family has no idea how it is done and you are left to navigate it on your own.
Sorry, but absolutely not true.

Have worked at two FAANG companies, and neither would tolerate even a hint of such behavior.

It's an open secret in silicon valley that you work at apple for one of the three reasons:
1. You didn't know better
2. Were a fan/fanboi.
3. That was the best you could do (for whatever reasons).

Every time something negative about Apple gets posted here, I see this typical response - oh, they all do it. Stop with this nonsense.
You'd still want some screening for your proposal to be admitted into the lottery pool to weed out the crackpots, but yes.
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I suspect that abusive behavior is an optimal strategy if you're working for abusive people. Organizations tend to be set up such that people like the people in power succeed.

Jobs was a notorious jerk [1] [2] [3], so it's not surprising that similar behavior is what gets promoted.

[1] https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/steve-wozniak-cried-jobs-kept-atar...

[2] https://www.yahoo.com/news/memoir-steve-jobs-apos-daughter-1...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-jerk-2011-10
Meh I don’t find the varying quality and field of view and lighting really makes it useful at all for body language. We usually have a big screen share as the main focus so the little talking heads are more of a distraction
In 30-40 years when supply chain logistics, manufacturing and distribution are fully automatable it will likely be possible for a small team to quickly convert an idea to a prototype to a product in the hands of the consumer.

By then the software/service delivery process is going to be so encumbered by regulatory response to the likely hundreds of thousands if not millions of deaths and hundreds of trillions in economic losses due to bugs and hacks that the playing field will be largely leveled (through convergence more than anything, but still).

(That or the first company to ship a reasonable facsimile of Ava from Ex Machina. Go the Tesla route and start off selling them for $5-10M each and work your way down. People will be mortgaging their homes to buy one.)
Yes that's true. I stand corrected.
For most larger companies an engineer salary, or any human labour for that matter, is very cheap. FAANG could pay 10x more if they had to, but they don't have to because no one else pays more.
It's great until it's not - story of most addictions
Yep, you press the down arrow on the d-pad. Fi does tell you about this, but I guess that's the other problem with giving too many instructions—you start ignoring them!
Hard disagree. We need to incentivized more curation, distillation, summarization, comparing/contrasting, systematizing, categorizing approaches along various axes, meta analyses etc., not less.

These are often very valuable, more so than yet another 1% improvement paper that never gets reproduced.

Review papers don't steal citations. These are cited from more distant literature so readers can familiarize themselves with the topic. Those wouldn't cite all the papers mentioned in the review individually.

But as a broader point, yeah, maybe something like PageRank could be used to "pass on" the citation Ina sense.
> I don't think it was deliberate lying.

At the onset, hospitals needed PPE, which includes masks. I remember there being messaging encouraging ordinary citizens not to stockpile N95 masks because hospitals needed the supply instead. If anybody in this same camp was telling the public that N95 masks aren’t effective then that’s an obvious contradiction, a lie.

Anyway, lies and inconsistent messaging both degrade trust, which is a big problem at this moment.
That's true, was just the first example that came to mind since I spent a ton of time modding Halo: Custom Edition back in the day.
I said extortion, not kidnapping. And it has happened.
> You do know that nearly everyone expects Biden to die shortly

No, not “nearly everyone” expects that.

> leaving us with President Harris, the most left-leaning Senator in American history

She isn't even the most left-leaning sitting Senator.

> Now, Mrs. Harris also likes to put poor people in prison for marijuana charges

Kind of weird she was the Senate sponsor (not a cosponsor) of the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, if that were true.
Because people who commit crimes tend to think that they won't get caught. For repeat offenders, they either think they won't get caught, or if they do, they "know how to do time."

Granted this was from studies done in the 70s and 80s that I recall from prepping for a debate on the death penalty.
I speculate some reasons are:

1. Being able to reveal something new and surprising leads to a flurry of good press. Failing that, constant rumors about what they are working on is like free advertising.

2. Keeping something a secret until it is shipping gives competitors less time to react/plan.

3. Preventing your employees from publicly discussing what they are doing may make it harder to know whom to poach, and harder for folks who want to leave to sell themselves.

4. It is useful as a cultural tool: it brings employees together in sharing a secret, creating an in-group/out-group dynamic; it gives product launches a kind of mystery, makes them something special for employees to watch together and celebrate together.

5. It helps Apple keep control of the framing of a product and the narrative around its launch.
This sounds like it has a community support trajectory sort of like bevy. Cool stuff.
I know what you're saying, I get the same satisfaction when I'm super productive and get a lot of things done. To be frank, I never thought of this as a reward but it definitely is one. It's also something that you're not able to get in any other way.

Do you also experience having a sluggish day after a day that you were incredibly productive?
> The fact that the economy grows every year is proof alone that companies on the whole are generating value and not just exploiting people. The economy is not a zero sum game.

This does not make any sense. The economy in the colonial Americas grew exponentially PRECISELY due to the explotation of people.
Fair enough that it isn't steganography, though it can be used for similar applications.

Do "Most viewers" show it? Google Chrome doesn't, nor does Preview on a Mac. There is no easy way to add attachments to a PDF, except Adobe Acrobat Pro or iTextPDF. Firefox and Adobe Reader can read the attachments, but it's "hidden" to some degree, inside slide-out side menus. Certainly enough to avoid a casual glance.
may I ask what pays double that of FAANG?
Of course. I unfortunately don't have anything to show yet, but I'm building a site for people to swap books they have for books they want!
I upvoted both this and the parent.

Without much experience in the industry, I would say that both perspectives are important:

The person most invested in your success is you, so leverage that and promote yourself.

But you absolutely deserve management and teammates who celebrate your accomplishments and help you get rewarded for them.

Discrimination and prejudice also affect this—it’s probably hard to advocate for yourself if your management just doesn’t believe you’re capable for some reason—but I’ve generally found solace in the synthesis of both attitudes.

Fight for yourself, but find people who fight with you. Maybe put it like this: if you yourself were a people manager, wouldn’t you want to advocate for your reports?
No but in software it's normal to have metaphorical names. I don't expect to be able to make a salad with cucumber js or have tea time with chai

https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js

https://www.chaijs.com/
/r/wallstreetbets was a fantastic place to really get into the higher forms of investment until it garnered attention from the mainstream... now its full of idiotic "autist" and "retard" jokes.

There was surprisingly high-level technical analysis going on there at one point.
Was her name Pygmalion?
I think I just found my new source of procrastination for the coming weeks with your videos.
But in that instance the dish wouldn’t be available for take out either.

If the restaurant sells takeout, why does it matter whether I take it gone to my house or another person’s house?
Sadly I haven't seen many news about the Disney comics. IDW doesn't seem to release any news ones? Not that the confusing IDW website is helping. Normally, guess I have to stay with the European comics, at least they still release monthly
Thanks for such an honest introspective to a life that I'm sure many of us here envy from the outside.

This may be cliché, but I've heard a lot of successful founders talk about how they see the best and worst character traits in them manifest in the company culture, often 10x'd if left unchecked. Have you given any thought to how your own personality is affecting your babies (aka your companies)? Hiring/outsourcing the problem to someone else sounds like you're not confronting it head on - and teaching your employees that they can/should do the same. Probably reading too much into this though! Thanks for sharing.
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Yep. Best investment I made this year.
If you had to pick one?
Happy new year dude!
Did it ever occur to you that we are evading their (kids) space when working from home, not the other way around? It's that you have to learn the protocol, not them.
A "diff" view for the product description like in version control systems, and the revievs sorted according to the time the change in product description happened, and not some commingled ratings which have nothing to do anymore with the product.
> You also agree that I am not your uncle.

Looks like his nephews/nieces are verboten from using the site.
That's nuts, I literally just downloaded UE yesterday and subscribed to Quixel to compliment my learning. I'd be very interested in knowing which courses you selected.
E-ink to the rescue.
Is West Germany better off with East Germany or without? Or how about is California better off with Alabama or without?

By all means continue to shrink yourself down into the smallest tribal sub-population you can slice yourself into. I’m sure prosperity is right around the corner when you finally do.
Did they make sure the plant was still alive after the Ether and Lidocaine were applied?
Yes this is how I use it and I love it. I think some IDEs havee similar capability but for vim users cscope is an great way to understand large code bases by quickly jumping through callchains. There's a 'Using Cscope with Vim' tutorial on the page that covers it.
Haha! Let me know if you have any questions
'The Burnout Society' from 2015. Kinda post-Marxian thing from a Korean-German philosopher named Byung-Chul Han. Takes dead-aim at the culture of positivity and individual achievement. Fantastic.
I disabled access to the VM's public IP from the host. I may eventually need to completely disable the network stack for the containers in the future.
Thanks for this. Someone else also mentioned the "sense of accomplishment" feeling. While I've never thought about this before, I think it's a pretty good one cause you can't get it in any other way and certainly cannot pay for it. That probably makes it better than anything else if you can use it as a "reward" when building a habit cycle.
Calm down, Karen.
Not in the US and not a recent story, but there was a professor in my university who called out a noisy student telling him something in the like of "if you're bored with my lecture, you can do like these guys (pointing at students who were reading comics) and read in silence, or you can just leave, but can you not prevent others from listening?". The funny part is that the ones reading comics thought they were doing it unnoticed.
Well gold has intrinsic value (industrial processes for one) and Bitcoin doesn’t so there’s one difference :) not that intrinsic value dominates the price of gold of course.

Oh and Bitcoin wastes as much power as the entire country of Chile just sitting there existing and being speculated on at a rate of 7tx/sec, and not solving any real problems. I’d say that’s the only thing that matters.

I suppose time will tell.
Okay, this are good numbers. However, I would also draw your attention to Table 7. Only about half of the prisoners released who were re-arrested were re-arrested for violent crimes. So, the question I ask is, are these released prisoners actually getting the support they need to succeed after release, are are they so weighed down by the stigma of prison that they can't reasonably obtain a non-criminal life?
I suppose you haven't heard of endotoxins yet
> They're also hip

Yes

> folks like their products

Yes

> maintain some level of underdog cachet

???????
> How do you get good bells and brass or as punchy bass sounds from subtractive-only synthesis?

Quick answer: modulation (primarily oscillator modulation but also filter and amplitude modulation.)

Analog brass is great already, but for metallic (or sometimes woody) sounds oscillator sync, cross modulation and/or analog FM, and ring modulation are your friends.

You can also get some pretty jarring sounds out of pulse width modulation, some tinkly bells out of sine and triangle waves, and "punchy" basses out of square and sawtooth waves. I hear a lot of pretty raw sawtooth-derived basslines and leads. Stacked waves of different shapes can also be interesting.

It also depends on your oscillators. Many subtractive synths will feature analog filters attached to flexible oscillators that can generate waves other than classic waveforms.
Just for the sake of it?
The Life and Death of Paul Behrends, the Most Notorious Man in Washington
I like that the terms and conditions page has a comment section beneath it.
> Big issue though is desalination plants are capital intensive.

I thought the main cost was the running cost of replacing the membranes. I saw a video recently of a modular desal plant that was equipment in shipping containers.
I recommend "Long Way Round" on AppleTV. Ewan McGregor and his friend Charlie ride motorcycles from London to Magadan. Episodes 7-8 are on the Road of Bones -- it's insanely difficult, even for military trucks.
How Ray Kurzweil’s 1998 predictions about 2019 are faring
The “more staged than real” has been added by the op and doesn’t actually seem to match the journalist’s opinion who mainly badmouths other robots and concludes “Atlas is a big advance, and what we can see of it here looks far better than most previous efforts.”
I agree, and it was never an issue to go at other times you just had to ask and not bolt out of the room. It was never denied. They teachers did encourage you to take advantage of the times when you were already out of the room however.
But I think those schools are a clear example of why it's a hard problem. Urban schools could be great places if we ended their stockhousing and controlling programs - but any school that did that would see a massive drop in graduation rate, from all the students who don't value education and won't show up unless compelled. If the cost of nice, non-controlling urban schools is a 30% graduation rate, is that a price anyone's willing to pay?

(And that's without touching the problem of actively violent, disruptive students, who would probably need to be expelled far sooner than they are to protect a non-controlling environment.)
Not just you and not just when you wrote.

But it is interesting otherwise.
To defend Apple’s image as a progressive, innovative, diverse, compassionate company that values its employees and is a great place to work. Even if he does not care at all about this person, he at least has huge reasons to not want articles like this circulating among major programmer forums.
After doing a brief amount of research, you're probably right. Thank you for correcting me.
I think this is due to the exponential payoff in a success scenario. Especially in high tech where certain initiatives can have a “winner take all” effect. I find it completely unsurprising that internally the tech giants function like a cluster of startups competing against each other.

Capitalism is based on the idea of transplanting the survival of the fittest paradigm into the economy and that’s exactly how I’d expect it to look in practice. Especially as progress accelerates and massive wins become both scarcer and more impactful at the same time.
FTA:

Apple has accused Amphetamine of violating the following guideline:

1.4.3 Apps that encourage consumption of tobacco and vape products, illegal drugs, or excessive amounts of alcohol are not permitted on the App Store. Apps that encourage minors to consume any of these substances will be rejected. Facilitating the sale of marijuana, tobacco, or controlled substances (except for licensed pharmacies) isn’t allowed."

Looks like you forgot some other stuff.
I don't know. I still stick with the drunk driving analogy. Going to a basement rave with 100 others during a deadly pandemic is as unambiguously wrong as drunk driving. If a bunch of friends are going to shame me back for "being a pussy and not drunk driving with them" then they're not my friends. I guess if I were back in my 20s I'd care more about being the pariah and try to find some way of being polite and keeping the relationships. But I'm blessed to be a 45+ old geezer now who has largely stopped worrying about what others think of me.

If one of my gambling buddies tried to convince me to head to a casino with him right now, I'd have no problem saying, "Dude, we've been pals for a while but WTF are you talking about? Use your head, buddy." and I don't think either of us would take it the wrong way.
Most people are really shitty. Sadly I can’t think of any satisfactory solution for that problem and I’m not too hopeful that any solution is forthcoming.