skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's about the UI. Most hardware synths have one-knob-per-function on a UI the size of a large panel. You can mould the sound in a tactile way.

With a VST, everything goes through a mouse. And you'll probably spend some of your time getting distracted by moving windows around to show/hide other VSTs.

It's a much more cerebral experience.

My biggest problem with software is that it's so limited. VSTs and DAWs ape hardware studios far too literally.

I'd like to be able to connect anything to anything - including VST internals to the internals in other VSTs. And add some generative/programmed elements. But most DAWs either don't allow that at all, or they only allow it with severe limitations.
I feel really sorry for you. It must cause you a lot of pain and anger seeing everyone through a distortive field of misanthropy
Fair point, for sure! Though I've gained a lot of frustration toward PayPal the last few years, as both a buyer and seller. Their platform has really gone downhill from my perspective and I wish there were enough alternatives in use out there that I could sever the business relationship (particularly for eBay transactions). Non-crypto competitors are just as welcome.
Wikis as discussion forums. Not wikis for encyclopedias, not for collecting notes on some topic, not for notes within an organization on how various technical infrastructure works, but rather wikis for discussing topics, coming up with ideas, and debating together.
In the specific case of ML courses - many of which I have TA-ed or attended classes of, this reason does not ring true at all. Libraries for most standard algorithms are available in some form with a Python interface (or for the more statistical stuff: R). Its almost always the inertia from the initial design of the course.

It is also not true today that not knowing Matlab harms your industry productivity in ML. This might have been true around a decade ago, but most teams outside academia also have moved to non-Matlab resources. And if anything, this has been further reinforced by Deep Learning libraries, the current crop of MLOps tools and cloud-based frameworks.

Matlab might be good for specific areas, but ML has not been a stronghold for a while. It is also important to remember that in the context of numerical accuracy or computation speed, Python is almost always the user-facing layer. You might (correctly) argue that the Python language is slower/faster than X, but this is not a useful metric for comparing libraries and frameworks, where the compute heavy code is probably in C/C++: numpy, tensorflow, pytorch are good examples of this.
If it is on the far side of a galaxy it has to be bigger than that galaxy.

Dyson swarms are about 6e9 times smaller radius than our galaxy.
I feel like it's an exaggeration to say 堂 mean "sacred space". Maybe in some historical sense but it's used for common places. 食堂 (cafeteria) 公会堂 (public hall). If you put 堂 in Google Maps you'll find 1000s of places and companies called ~~~堂 For example the bookstore on the famous Shibuya Crossing is called Taiseido 大盛堂, store that sells stationary called Kanmido (カンミ堂), a store that sells stamps called Zenbido 善美堂 etc...
One reason I am interested in Bitcoin is that it doesn't rely on violence to enforce it's rules.
Investigative journalism, I hope so. But general journalism...

I'm afraid I've traveled enough to say petty wars are often reported night-day level of wrong (at least for all the ones I have experienced)

It seems we want to believe we are good, and 'they' are bad, but frankly we don't care either way, so long as we make money
It is largely benign when left alone. The problem is working with and disposing of it, it's a hazardous material and so can be expensive to deal with in many developed countries.
The "uberfication" startup model had/has the same internet economics magic that dropshipping, crowdsourcing and such had, but for VC backed startups.

As usual, XKCD captures the jist: https://xkcd.com/1060/

Users order food. App for that. Food is delivered by non-employees. HR is an app. Suppliers don't have to know they're suppliers. The CEO can focus on visionary statements.

A software business has magic economics because they don't need capital assets (and therefore capital investment) and they don't have marginal costs. Just software development. Uberfication minimizes even that.

It's looking pretty uninspired at this point. Let's step back and think of the problem space. Food. Takeaways. Unless it's soylent or vegan meat, startup founders seem to consider actually making the food beneath them.
I'm curious in what way you think rump-UK would be weaker without Scotland? Economically it would be fine: England is by far the biggest economy in the UK. There would be some losses: about 10 percent of the UK GDP, Scottish military bases, natural gas and oil resources, about 5 million people.

But Scotland produces only about 6 percent of the UK's total exports. The vast majority of what it produces is "exported" to England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (about £50 billion to the UK compared to £15 billion to the EU and £17 billion to the rest of the world). It also has a fiscal deficit that's largely offset by the English taxpayer. Scotland is much more economically dependent on the UK than the UK is on Scotland.

Outside of the UK, Scotland may be a credible middle-ranking small country comparable to Czechia. It certainly could not afford to maintain its current level of public services. Without Scotland, the rest of the UK would remain one of the largest economies in the world.

(btw, Scotland was never an Imperial possession of British Empire. The Union with Scotland was peaceful, and largely in the interests of the Scots, who had succeeded in destroying their economy through mismanagement, unwise allegiances with the French, and unsuccessful attempts to build their own empire).
Being able to do proper research is all well and good, but is not needed to determine the "trivial questions of fact" that the parent was talking about.
"Maybe it's that the first is an involuntary participation without someone's agreement, while the 2nd is someone agreeing to work under given conditions?"

It's an old debate, the "lochner era" debate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochner_era).

"Agreeing on conditions" is not enough to make something fair. You may agree because you are desperate and you need cash, you may go straight to voluntary serfdom...

Society and policy makers are fully entitled to disrupt "private contracts" when those contracts are not in line with the greater good.
Unless there is some rather serious context I'm missing - and as I said in another comment - the linked bill says:

> A food delivery platform shall not arrange for the delivery of an order from a food facility without first obtaining an agreement with the food facility expressly authorizing the food delivery platform to take orders and deliver meals prepared by the food facility.

I don't think you can use Apps to send someone there without a problem. They have to get 'express authorisation' from the restaurant before they can accept your order. That is silly.
They lost the private keys, and they are not brute forceable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signatu...
Who is effective on your scale? I suspect Jobs, Gates, Ballmer and even Pichai have alienated more people than Torcalds, if that’s your metric (it’s hot mine). Though Linus is the only one doing it in public - other than some anecdotes about chair throwing and cursing, you don’t hear about the others.
> it's possible to do this sort while still working.

This. Woah, I had to scroll down so much to reach this point! This is a very important aspect indeed.

Does the GATech OMSCS program have this flexibility? .

So they admit people from outside the US?
The law prohibits a courier from being commissioned to place an order, collect it, and deliver it to you. It’s just criminalizing a perfectly legitimate form of arbitrage. The law isn’t about couriers impersonating restaurants either, because that’s just fraud and it’s already illegal. It’s just another example of a terrible law created at the behest of businesses that aren’t competent enough to keep up with changes in the market. But why would they bother when they can just seek a legislative solution?
> it brings peace to my mind.

Mine too.

My thoughts on this kind of thing aren't in any way backed by studies or research (I know some folks are sticklers for that sort of thing), but they essentially boil down to reflecting on human history.

The ability to store a huge amount of information and near-instantly recall it with these computery things we all love is an incredibly new development that I don't really consider compatible with my brain. If the brain is a somewhat general purpose computer that's been really slowly optimised by evolution, the alternative approach to ours is akin to* scheduling hundreds of threads on a small number of hardware threads. Doable? Sure. Ideal? Doesn't feel like it to me.

I've tried allowing myself to just continuously spawn tabs and it makes me uncomfortable much like it does to see a Windows desktop used as a dumping ground for whatever a person happens to want to save on their machine. Fortunately I almost never see the latter these days, and I'll choose to believe people don't do that anymore without verifying that assumption...

*this is really hand-wavy, please don't shoot.
Other polls seem to range from 29% [1] to 80% [2]. I think it depends who's asked!

[1] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-nireland-poll/poll...

[2] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/election-2020-we-want-uni...
Related to QI, itself a lovely show, there’s No Such Thing as a Fish [0]. A podcast by some of QI’s researchers.

0 - https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/
This is true although I find that the current emulations are good enough for a lot of sounds, especially when they’re buried in a mix and played back on a low bit rate stream on bad speakers.
As I answered to another poster, I believe the keyword here is "take orders".

You can't take orders on behalf of others, but you can freely arrange for someone in an app to "make an order" for you and then fetch the meal. That's my interpretation.

Of course it could/should be better worded, though.

EDIT: Also, someone also mentioned that courier apps are not "food delivery platforms", so the first few words of the paragraph you quoted already excludes them.
Shipworms are a prized food in Thailand’s Trat province. After all, they’re really a clam, not a worm:

https://migrationology.com/eating-shipworms-teredo-navalis/
But you can install software on iOS without the App Store, you don't even need to be jailbroken
The linked bill is not verbose, it is effectively 4 paragraphs.

> Food delivery platform” means an online business that acts as an intermediary between consumers and multiple food facilities to submit food orders from a consumer to a participating food facility, and to arrange for the delivery of the order from the food facility to the consumer.
That’s an argument, but many think this doesn’t work in practice.
>Whether these children were already ahead is beside the point.

It's absolutely the point. You are saying a private education is essential to wellbeing and I'm saying it's irrelevant.
They also sell flower pots. Seriously considering buying one now just to be able to tell guests: “see that flowerpot? it’s from Eternit!”
Remote control someones xmas lights and watch the results
I do the same. In a notes app, I have a TODO note where I save links and a few word description of what a link is. This gives me one place to maintain a reading list.

I also have notes for current projects/tasks. I have structure and search to find things.

As a life-hack to make better use of my time, I use the Freedom.io service to block all social media and “time wasting” sites so that I can only access them before work, first half hour of lunch time, and after end of work day. In practice what this means is that I scan HN and Twitter early each morning for tech stuff that is useful/interesting and add any useful links to my notes. Every few days I edit my notes to discard material.
Using Tor from the Command Line
I’m hoping people will start realising our technology stacks are too complex and start looking at simplifications.
Looking at religious problems that are being faced by India and west, blatant news manipulation... It's good that India will turn further right.
You are correct that synth music as a genre existed before the DX7, and that synths were used in popular songs even going back into the 70s. But what this article is discussing, and what most people discuss when they talk about the DX7, is how its sales dwarfed that of any synth that came before it. It didn't just become a piece of equipment used by major studios in countless hits across many different genres, it also became an affordable and useful instrument for working musicians across the board.

Right up the top of this thread the first commenter explained it well: "The keyboard player's job moved from playing the piano or organ to coming up with all the accompaniment parts that aren't guitars."

What I don't know is if the DX7 itself was particularly recognized as a DX7 by most of the people listening to music that was made with it. My guess is that most casual listeners still just considered it "the thing that the keyboard player is playing". This is why I am not sure that it is as uniquely distinctive as the commenter near the top of this thread suggested.

Of course trained musicians can identify a DX7 in a track, just as they might be able to hear the difference between a Stratocaster and a Telecaster. Dedicated fans might also hear the difference, if they're interested enough to pay attention. But someone just listening to a tune on the radio, humming along to it, I don't think they're going to go "yep, that's the good ol' DX7 electric piano patch" or "yep that's a classic Strat sound".

Personally, I think laypeople do identify the 808 in this way, just judging from anecdotal conversations with people who are not musicians, not DJs, not "serious" music fans, just regular people. This is why I think the 808 is an interesting instrument, and perhaps special in a way that the DX7 wasn't, and the TB-303 and TR-909 weren't. That doesn't mean those other synths aren't special for their own reasons, I was just commenting on something I perceive to be unique about the 808 - a relatively widespread understanding of what its "sound" is.

If you are a hardcore music fan or a musician, it can be illuminating to do some testing with someone who isn't. Play them a song, point out some piece of equipment, explain to them why this song has a 909 hihat but that song has a 707 hihat, and how you can tell the difference. Then play them another song and see if they can identify the hihat. 9 times out of 10 that's not what people are listening for. That's not how they experience music, they don't break it down like that.
Probably read.

TBH, an hour would be eaten up by getting coffee, figuring out where I left off, getting back in the flow, etc. So I can't really see I'd get any extra 'project' (software, woodworking, etc) work done.
I'll be an optimist and predict that Patrick Rothfuss will publish Doors of Stone and the fourth Evangelion Rebuild movie will be released.

(I just checked on the latter and apparently it's scheduled to be released on the 23rd of January, so I guess that's pretty solid at this point. You never know, though; last attempt at release was postponed due to Covid, and it could happen again. If we're really lucky there'll be a US release in 2021.)
Found on Reddit, posted there by the maker https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/knw8js/how_i_...
You miss a lot of nuance when you're busy being blunt.

An ideal signal that you want to approximate may contain infinite frequency components, but this property alone is not what gives you aliasing artifacts. Sampling incorrectly does. You can absolutely approximate this signal without aliasing artifacts, but you need to sample a band-limited approximation of the signal, not the signal itself. That's what BLEP does.

Attempting to sample the ideal signal directly (the naive approach) will indeed give you aliasing artifacts. But we already know that the ideal signal isn't band-limited, so we should also know that sampling it directly (at any frequency) is always folly.

Do you see what I was trying to highlight? "Oh no, the signal has high frequency components!" is not the problem. Incorrect sampling is the problem. Aliasing is an effect, not a cause. You don't "get aliasing" just because the ideal signal has high frequency components, you get aliasing because you sampled the wrong thing.

You can call it aliasing if you want... you wouldn't be wrong. It's just not particularly instructive, and referring to everything as aliasing without being more specific about where it's coming from is what leads people down rabbit holes like running a DAC at 2+ MHz because nobody showed them how to use a polyphase filter. Sure, it works, it's just wasteful, and you can accomplish the same thing by sampling better rather than faster.

Then again, your condescending response leads me to believe that you're not actually interested in being instructive.
Many comment threads here discussing the (in)ability of an attacker to modify the source-code that Microsoft builds from, or use it to more easily discover vulnerabilities.

What I've not seen anyone discuss is the potential for an attacker to take the source-code of a single Windows core component (a system DLL for example), add in a backdoor, build it and then distribute the binary via a compromise such as the SolarWinds update mechanism.

In other words, insert a modified core Windows DLL into some other popular Windows driver or application package updater published and signed via a 'trusted' channel other than Microsoft itself.
Bitcoin payments might be traceable from wallet to wallet, but wallets don't have a name on them. Not even for governments. So if anyone takes basic precautions, you can't trace them.

Although I assure you a normal person can't read bitcoin transactions lists like they can a bank statement, and this goes for people working at the tax office too. And they can't forbid those transactions, either. It raises the bar significantly on Tax offices, and therefore means less enforcement.

And if need be, there are several anonymous cryptocurrencies that would love nothing more than to replace Bitcoin, and of course they will as soon as governments actually start tracing payments.

https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/is-cryptocurren...
Node.js PostgreSQL tutorial: Build a simple REST API with Express step-by-step
Why is Stephen Hawking alive if ASL [ ] is said to kill you within 3-5 years?
Circle–Ellipse Problem
every currency transaction creates this risk. Nothing to do with Bitcoin. I suppose you could say that this is a problem Bitcoin doesn't fix ... but judging by the Bitcoin market cap, it's not as much as a problem as normal banks.
the only interesting part of this whole debacle in my mind is that it highlights what was already fairly obvious. the security of a given environment is only as secure as its weakest link. the entire supply chain for every bit of code that is installed on a machine is a potential vector. if that code happens to run at privilege (like administration software) that vector is shorter. (and that's only if you're considering software) when you think about it, it's staggering.

i suspect we'll be seeing a lot more attention on reproducible and cryptographically secure build environments, similar to the gitian stuff in bitcoin land.
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you
> If someone feels like sending a courier to buy take away then that should be legal.

Should it be legal for a business to ban somebody for any non-protected reason?
It's not about risk, it's about it being annoying. When I click a link where the hostname is i.imgur.com and the path ends with jpg/png/gif, I want my browser to load a single image resource and not an HTML page.
Signal, Cellebrite, and the Sorry State of Tech Journalism
The author talked about this in part 1 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25538820).
If a person decides to buy a pizza from X and then sell it to Y, don't they have a right to?
Benchmark M1 vs. Xeon vs. Core I5 vs. K80 and T4 (MLP, CNN, LSTM Models)
Another useful representation for them is B+ tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%2B_tree

Can be a single tree for the matrix where keys are tuples of two integers. Or one tree per row, where keys are single integers, column index.

Unlike CSR, inserting elements is Log(n). RAM overhead is larger than CSR but still reasonable, much smaller than hash maps or red-black trees would be. Similar to CSR, reading rows is mostly sequential RAM reads i.e. pretty fast.
Ask HN: How do you read/manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?
This is a general question, but I didn't want to ask specific one because I'm still trying to understand the bigger picture.

Do you have apps/tools for organizing specific type of information and if so, why this particular one? Do you have ideas how to organize/manage this efficiently?
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* EU-based SaaS will become more popular due increased difficulty in working with US-based SaaS companies in a privacy compliant way

* Remote work will stay mainstream in tech, with most employees working at least a few days remote per month

* HN will get a dark mode
Not everything has to be solved with a new law.

In fact, most things shouldn’t.
So the argument is I should accept this silly law because I can get around it by handling all the coordination between Uber and the Restaurant to make it clear to both that I was the one who placed the order and Uber is acting strictly as a courier service with no extras?

That is silly. Uber can do the ordering and I can enjoy my evening without phoning people up.
ah, that did the trick. You're right, it really is snappy. Kind of crazy how smooth it is.