skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long, long ago I made a simple synthesizer for windows using the CoreAudio API (there is a newer one, WASAPI, but I never got it to work well myself since it is so complicated). It's a fun project. It is also easy to add some simple filters this way.

If you don't want to do realtime synthesis, you can also dive in the (uncompressed) WAV file format and make programs that generate sound files.

Another thing that might be nice (but I personally haven't tried) is to synthesize your own drums, 808-style. Google 'kick synthesis' for example.
The Air Force Built a Robot to Wash F-16s
Indeed if you have a fixed fee conveyancing deal (I'm not sure about the UK but it seems common over here) the solicitor is probably losing money just on the administration of filling out the paperwork and then billing you that 4 pounds...
Is the future of mobile technology in healthcare bright? Why invest in healthcare? How to improve health services using technology? These are common questions that businesses looking to develop a healthcare app have. If you’re among them, read on to understand whether you should invest in healthcare solutions development. In this article, we’re going to look at the mHealth market and its growth prospects, talk about the advantages of smartphones in healthcare, and sketch out some real-life examples.
https://steelkiwi.com/blog/improving-healthcare-services-thr...
Can I just say that I genuinely hate the kind of people who complain about the sounds of other people going about their normal life? Chewing is absolutely normal and I don't enjoy hearing it either but I would never actually go up to someone and tell them to stop chewing so loudly. It's just a ridiculous complaint.
Strap me in and scan my brain.

The sound that infuriates me is the glug glug sound of a cup being filled with liquid. You know that pouring sound that gets to a higher pitch as the container fills up? oof I hate that sound and it makes me shake and clench.

Its used so much in TV/movies to fake them pouring a drink or mixing a cocktail or some shit, pulls me right out of the media.

Chewing though? Nah, its annoying, but like... "oh wow, that's rude" type reaction, not an anger feeling like the pouring sound.

What part of my brain is supposedly too connected to the audio sensory?
Agreed. I'll add to that a healthy application of the Principle of Least Astonishment. If you have a light, there should be an obvious light switch nearby that turns the light on and off, and does so even if your home automation system is offline for whatever reason.

"Smart" devices should, wherever possible, function as dumb devices if for whatever reason they can't be smart. There are a whole lot of devices that simply become bricks.
You probably don’t want that concurrency for speed in Go
It's not something I know a lot about (I'm more interested in synthesised sounds!) but I believe you can create pretty impressive emulations of physical instruments using techniques like physical modelling. Not sure if it's comparable to a well recorded sample though.

I believe Audio Modelling are one of the leaders in this field: https://audiomodeling.com/

In terms of harder/easier... I'd guess it's a lot harder to code, but easier in terms of not having to sample thousands of different articulations for each instrument! Judging by the huge selection of sampled physical instruments and the small amount of synthesised ones, I guess overall harder. Would be interesting to hear from someone who knows more though!
On that group, they mostly discuss urbit.

There are a lot of other interest groups with varying levels of activity: cat pictures, art, cryptocurrency, tech, emacs, politics, finance, ham radio, weightlifting, cars, tea... All the different kinds of stuff that people discuss on the web.
Also known as the "Cascade of Attention Deficit Teenagers" (CADT) development model:

https://archive.is/l4svG
(jwz link, so archive.is)
> Too laggy

What’s your setup like? I’ve experienced some lagging from time to time—almost always because I turned on some package I didn’t need. My thirst for responsiveness has won out and now it’s nice and snappy.

I’m personally not running the native-comp branch, but I hear lots of people say it’s a game changer. Native-comp recently got merged to master, so when Emacs 28 ships it should be available to everyone!
USA Math Team Olympiad beats China for the first time in 30 years
Putting zero-shot text classification to the test
There is a species of parrot that has established itself throughout the south-east US called the Monk Parakeet. They are one of the few parrots that nests communally, as in, a large colony will share one giant nest.

They usually nest on cellphone towers and big utility poles. I have seen their nests become as big as a car before.
Let it go! Don't make it take even more power to your life.
I use it every once in a while to truncate aligned text in tables. It's not very useful, but I'm glad it's there.

The big question for me is whether anyone knew of virtual select mode, enabled by `gR`.

It's like select mode except that it replaces screen state instead of characters, so pressing `<Tab>` will replace `tabstop` characters instead of just one.
Calculating flow in winter reroutes around the Alps
Isn’t engineering time cheaper than legal counsel time when your customers file complaints with the government against your org for not adhering to the law?
If you right-click in default Microsoft apps that ship with Windows, you can expect one of like 5 types of menu to appear
This is how the Honeywell stuff seems to work, at least for my thermostat. As long as there is some local wifi, thermostat and controlling unit will work, even if you cannot contact them from the internet.
Use this submission for your “Google will abandon it soon” comments
Whenever you think you're being clever for suggesting that a new Google product/service will be abandandoned soon, post your comment here and leave the other submissions alone for interesting takes and debate.
A system to verify public keys without PKI: my first try
It may also have been a play to remove Java as a fundamental requirement due to their experience with Oracle and Android.
Taking a step closer to becoming a complete OSS alternative to Firebase
These discussions are useful in a concrete way because it helps us to identify and prioritize our values with our imagination! Lesswrong is, in this case, cataloging my teenage thoughts on the matter, which is very cool.

Buddhist cosmology has an interesting take on heaven. They believe only humans can become enlightened and achieve nirvana. Angels, demons and animals can't do it. Even heaven ends, in that system, and angels, although exceedingly powerful, happy, and long-lived, still experiences the suffering of attachment. Meanwhile, nirvana is explicitly defined as ultimately blissful, but not life, not death, not both, not neither - and a state the enlightened can enter into at will. (The major steps on the path are defined by touching nirvana N times, each time burns out some deep seated big category of reaction, like fear, where by the 4th time you conquer lust and anger, and boom, you're an arahant.)

I like this. It tacitly accepts the difficulty of heaven as a self-consistent concept, which in turn challenges the assumption that there exists some combination of external circumstance which is perfect, forever, for anyone, and places the responsibility of ultimate bliss squarely on your shoulders. The implications seem bloodless and strange, unless you accept the fact that, as you become more enlightened, the more powerful your ability to love and act on that love becomes.

BTW my favorite conventional utopia is the Culture from Ian M. Banks. It's fantasy couched in scifi rhetoric, but I think Banks does a great job looking at the implications of getting every material thing you ever wanted, every freedom, almost every power, the problems and drama that even a galaxy spanning, unimaginably powerful and benevolent society can run into.
HDFS vs. Cloud-Based Object Storage(S3)
If we're going to accuse somebody of not even trying, I think I'd go for the internet commenter saying "X is completely wrong" and descending into ad hominem and broad-brush tarring of large segments of society while not providing any actual evidence or analysis.
Certainly, though I personally draw a pretty large difference between "supported by scripture" and either "I can find a verse that helps me justify my opinion" or "I can find some famous idiot in the Bible who made the same mistake, therefore it's okay".
It's not a build system, it's a meta build system.
You do realize that some people suffer from a real psychological disorder called misophonia, right?

I’m not saying everyone does, but it’s something to be aware of before you judge people.
Imagine dollars leave the US, get sent to Nigeria, and eventually return to the US to buy some music.

I'm definitely on board with the idea that if those dollars never return to the US, then the US effectively got free labour (which is why a trade deficit, I often suggest, isn't automatically a bad thing - it's free stuff, at least until the dollars all come back!), which is quite a win for the US, and given that of all dollars sent overseas, some will never come back, the US has a steady supply of free labour purely because migrant workers are sending dollars overseas (which sure feels like a win for the US).

So the only "downside" for the US is if those dollars sent overseas do eventually make their way back and buy something; at that point the US is handing over goods and services in exchange for that original work done by the migrant worker. Not so much a downside as a delayed fair exchange.

Let me just think out loud for a moment; sending the US dollars to our Nigerian chum, and him returning them to the US in exchange for something, is the same (barring people skiming off the top and postage etc.) as our migrant worker just buying something and posting that to the Nigerian chum. So I think I agree with what you say, but I hypothesise it's not making the US any worse off than the money not making that round trip and just being spent on goods/services in the US by the migrant worker (barring postage etc).

NOT sending the US dollars to our Nigerian chum, and him needing to source US dollars from somewhere else, does make the US dollar a tiny bit more valuable as there is a tiny increased demand for it. Whether that's a good or bad thing for the US, I couldn't say, but if the US dollar becomes too expensive, US exports go down. At this point I guess we're heading into second-order effects of what happens when US exports become too expensive, and I wouldn't like to run into that right now.
Well, social media may be fun for those who are the worlds most beautiful and rich
the mental shift seems to be to not regard your customers data as your product but rather focus on your service as your product
Fun fact, professional rat hunters tend to prefer Dachshunds over cats; they’re easier to train and will hunt on command rather than whim. It’s no good to bring cats only to watch them start murdering pigeons, or take a nap.
A government need not be colonial to be aloof.
ah so grey haired as in experienced people think John Maddog Hall. got it. thanks.
The article says this explores mysophobia which covers a wide variety of sounds, like fork on plate, nails on chalkboard, ASMR sounds of all kinds of nature (not related to eating sounds) and also eating sounds, but also any similar sounds produced when playing with sticky gooey substances and so on (which our saliva is an example of).

To suggest all of this is because I struggle not to move my mouth and throat and feel "intruded upon" is honestly bizarre.

Their study only attempts to satisfy their own VERY SELECTIVE definition of mysophobia without attempting to explain how this "hyper-mirroring" explains the same exact effect non-eating mysophobic sounds cause.

All in all, someone writing a quick paper is all.
One thing that bugs me is that on Windows access keys[0] are underlined. This means I accidentally hit the ALt key all the time and some unintended action happens. Anyone know how I can disable it / if that's even possible?

As a recent Windows user, I don't know if this is a Windows thing, but I hate inconsistent keyboard navigation in the various UIs. Although the keyboard is nice, it can't beat the precision of the mouse. The unwanted focus on menu bars, the unwanted triggering of menus with the keyboard, and too many modes: tabs and panels and dialog boxes. It's an accessibility nightmare.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
You could go for what Iain M Banks did in The Culture: although death is theoretically optional, most people only live for a few hundred years because by that point they’re basically done with everything they care about doing.
Forgive the naive question: but is code like this typical for "data science"? It seems more like something out of a masters project... Huge script files with zero testing?

Theres a huge amount of data reshaping, mutating, and general wrangling going on here, how can one be confident without even a known input->output integration type test?
I enjoyed this fascinating read about a software business idea that failed, why it failed, and why the person who tried it still thinks there's the nugget of a viable business in the idea.
not to fly over Belarus != not to fly to Belarus
Immutable in the sense that the old value is preserved, even if you update it, and you can't change the history (tamper-evident).
Forbidding non-Belarus based flights from flying over Belarus would accomplish that.
Half the particles in the universe obey him: A biography of Satyendra Nath Bose
No, this is not the way to handle this. Please read up on how you must treat bounces on AWS SES or you face an account stop/closure. E.g. you MUST remove addresses from future sending once they permanently bounce.

Offering a software solution without offering a feature for correct bounce handling is just naive.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/monito...
How else would you add/manage external dependencies for your project?

Do you manually install them on your local host? That's not reproducible and doesn't support multiple versions for different projects.

Do you use an uber build system like Yocto to wrap your CMake build, and let it pull the packages?

Do you manually copy all the external deps into your own project repo, and then manually keep them updated with the latest changes?
People also curl and execute shell scripts from the internet every day.
Heh, for a similar Soviet car, Zaporozhets, the joke was that you can drive it on the autobahn as long as you first roll it down a big mountain, to get to the requisite speed.
As a bug reporter I take it very personally when it happens to me.

When I try to debug a problem and I see it has already been reported and closed due to inactivity (that is :not fixed. Not tagged won't fix) I give up, I won't fight the machine.
He Built a $1B Business by Creating an All-in-One Software
This article is reminding me so much of "The Good Place", which explores how the ideal conception of heaven of many people could perceivably be construed as a hell; and vice versa. I recommend it heartily - both for the laughs, and the thinking.
Time and time again Five Eyes have shown that they will do whatever they wish "in the name of national security" and nobody will be punished. That's why we cannot rely on laws that will be "worked around either through legal interpretations or FVEY-shoring the work", and must insist that systems from 2021 and beyond are built with end-to-end security in mind.

Gone are the days of "the government may be listening" as it's now "we definitely know they are listening, recording, indexing, searching, and parallel reconstructing". We must start treating everything as compromised and actively develop against all threats... because if we don't, then we need to swallow the bitter pill and accept that state surveillance is not only actively used, but it's going to be actively used against us, and we should stop complaining about it.
It's capability based, so instead of this weird hodgepodge we have in the Linux world that resulted in Docker containers it's natively a part of the OS design.

Also its not GPL, so we will see actual binary drivers instead of GPL <> proprietary shims in Linux that need to be recompiled on kernel upgrade.

So it solves a lot of problems for Google and can replace Android/Chrome OS/Cast OS.
I know. Pre-war Czechoslovakia was a long noodle and people from Carpathian Ruthenia (a region annexed by the USSR in 1945 and attached to Ukrainian SSR) still come to Prague to work. They usually take buses from Uzhhorod to Prague (750 km), the journey lasts about 13 hours.

Yeah, no one does a weekend hop to family and back under such conditions. Visits are monthly.

Warsaw to Minsk buses take about 12 hours too. But the ticket is cheap, about 20 eur. I don't think you can buy an air ticket under 100 eur. Perhaps even much more (150-200).

Given that a lot of the people work for peanuts, they choose the far cheaper option even if it means a much longer and uncomfortable journey.
Waiting for the RISC-V variant of Archimedes and RISC OS.
I think parent is saying to use a package manager.
> if someone tells me , I want to port my data to competitor, because my UI better then theirs, but they still prefer competitor, why should I care about this requests, why should i spent a single second of my engineers time to implement that?

Because you're a good person and care about providing value to your users, and not just extracting value from them.

But since in practice, we can't rely on every business to be run by good citizens, this needs to be made a legal requirement, to remove the competitive advantage from being predatory and locking users down.
>Group of "swine"

Legislature
It’s almost as if you quite literally didn’t even bother reading the article :|
In this case, unlockable means it can be unlocked. As a native American English speaker, I have not seen unlockable used as "cannot be locked", but both definitions are in the Oxford dictionary.
If I understand correctly, a locked bootloader prevents you from installing a different OS or rooting a device you might "own".
If you have a 5% bounce rate or more, you're already doing something wrong - i.e. your emailing addresses no longer existing. Make sure you have permission to email a recipient.
Sure. And you can also run an RTOS on a separate chip, elsewhere on the same PCB.

Linux is still Linux, and it is still fundamentally not capable of hard realtime.
In my experience, yes. Data science is highly creative/improvisational and the resulting artifacts of work reflect that. FWIW, normal science is pretty similar. The clear step 1, step 2, ..., you see in scientific publications is effectively retcon done for the benefit of the reader's understanding.
Do you remember what you tried?

Yours has been literally the first negative comment out of hundreds of comments I've read about magit. It'd be interesting to learn what didn't work for you and why.
Is any legal counsel time actually being spent on this? It seems like all the disability legislation. In theory it applies to websites. In practice, few give it a 2nd thought.

I have yet to hear of a company significantly harmed by failing to consider accessibility.
That would be the same issue though, just moved to a different spot
> either you would die at some point (which creates suffering due to the anticipation of the event) or live forever, which actually seems more horrible in a way

We know death causes suffering, but we don't know if immortality causes suffering. Don't knock it till you've tried it. #FableOfTheDragonTyrant
Well that's humorous to me. /shrug/
Sorry about "tarring of large segments of society" but I think we all know what I'm talking about. Also I've unfortunately been in academia and had a close look at how those "groundbreaking" papers happen, not just me, but other colleagues.

Unfortunately going through the moves and calling it a day is something researchers also do, when given wrong incentives (like quantity over quality).
Where is the Mailmeteor for SMS?
Its like you didn't read the guidelines.
Compare browser market shares when this bug was posted and now, they did leave.
Yes unless you already have lawers on staff.
Dachshunds over terriers?
Thank You!

I wonder how common this issue is, hoe often we're just talking past one another. Even though we're agreeing.

I think some folks on my side of this are stuck in the past, Trump's election in some ways paused our internal mental realization of our own progress greatly.

If anything it made us feel as if the last 20-25 years of progress was imminently threatened, and we're seeing the reaction to this right now. It saddens me so very greatly, because it just inflames things further and somewhat perversely that reactionary tendency puts the progress at risk.
As you say, the data domains of different services may simply be logically incompatible, which is fair enough. As critical as I am of social media platforms, I don't think they should have any obligation to implement the abstract ability to "import" data in general. As long as they provide their users with the ability to export their data in a reasonable fashion, in a well-defined and consistent open format, and as parseable as technically feasible, I believe they have done their duty.

What's important is that a Twitter, or Facebook, or Reddit alternative should be able to implement data import from their respective competitor, without facing intentional anti-competitive difficulties. Let "the market" decide which services want to implement the import of which kind of data.
Yes, sadly.

Testing is hard. The researchers who write this code typically don't have the necessary hands-on experience to write good tests, even if they had enough time in a day/week to actually do it.

Edit: Also the code tends to be very "high level", chaining lots of high-level API functions together, and even coming up with assertions to test tends to be a bit of a challenge. Testing such code turns out to be surprisingly difficult; you might end up just rewriting big chunks of your code in the test suite.

In my data science work, I've focused on writing tests for the complicated sections (e.g. lower-level string processing routines) and just trying to focus on the keep the other stuff very clean and readable.
That is already true today in Portuguese ID cards, secured with a chip.
If there's no other connections to the device, then sure you could do that.

However usually there is. For example, the device might need +5V or +3.3V as well.

Well you can't supply +5V and PSU ground as separate leads, because almost always multiple ground connections are internally connected in a device.

Thus that would mean the +5V rail gets shorted to (PSU) ground by the device.
No way. The owner of the land is inscribed in the cadastral books. If he's from Swiss, then he can collect the money. But also pay the overdue land taxes. If he is not ...
Ah, thinking back (it was a loooong time ago, and I was only on-site for five days) I think she may have mentioned typhoons.

The thing that really struck me at the time was not so much the building, but the security. There were card-access only doors every few yards, and they wouldn't give me even a visitor card - I had to be escorted to the lav and canteen all the time, which was irritating for all concerned. God knows what they were up to in there - summoning dread Cthulhu?
Interesting! I love that sound and have two motor associations with it. One is definitely in my throat, the motions I'd make if I were mimicking the sound. The other is in my hands, pouring with the left into something held in my right. So next time you hear it, you might see if you experience similar motor associations. That would fit with this study.
You could just alias this in your shell:

alias magit='emacs -nw --eval "(magit-status)"'
Arm Announces New Mobile Armv9 CPU Microarchitectures