skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted in the last DX7 chip thread about Dexed's interesting history. I know that at least one of the original developers frequents this forum. Dexed is a fantastic emulation. I remember Raph Levien mentioning that one of the most elusive details of the DX7's implementation that contributes to its signature sound is its quirky attack envelope stage. Also, one of the biggest remaining mysteries about the DX7 is the source of its trademark 'harsh' quality. It has a much harsher, warmer, and more distorted quality than any of Yamaha's other FM synths. Even decapsulating the OPS chip hasn't thus far definitively revealed the source.
Some notables from the Big Names:
* Call of Duty Mobile
* Alto's Odyssey (personally prefer Alto's Adventure)
* Genshin Impact is pretty polished
* League of Legends: Wild Rift
* Hearthstone/Legends of Runeterra
* SoulKnight
* My Friend Pedro

Minor plug for UnCiv being FOSS
mind of a white person, yea pretty dumb. one quote out of context. It was from 10 years ago and he's clearly grown a lot from that. everyone says stupid shit once in awhile.

AS someone who's also in an interracial relationship, I applaud his support and hope my own children benefit from genetic diversity.
From what I know, he doesn't think anyone should vote

How about you cite a source instead of jumping on the false accusation bandwagon.
We really need our own version of the EU's right to be forgotten.
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
do i need to pay for it to work? i'm running the colab and i get memory issues

"CUDA out of memory."
> this is quite frankly very surprising to me.

If we let t be time in seconds, and f be frequency in Hz, the sine wave formula is y = sin(2pitf). The 2pi is the periodicity of the sine function. If f is 1, we sweep through 2pi once per second. If we let f be 2, then it sweeps through two times per second, and so on.

So, you can think of the lookup index as being the tf part, but with t counting in integer fractions of a second, with the caveat that you'll want to perform some interpolation between values.

If the waveform were more complex than a sine wave, then in the general case this "skipping agead" could cause distortion. A sine wave is one of a couple special cases (square wave being another, and arguably it's "cheating") where you're not skipping "too far" to cause distortion. (That relates to the Nyquist sampling theorem and low-pass filtering, as kens mentions)
Did she use the forward slashes? Makes it look valid: protocol 'c', host 'users' and whatever default port protocol 'c' uses. ;-)
I don’t know how people interpret results from personality tests which gives them a criterion for what constitutes a good hire. However I have a strong feeling there is no sound science behind whichever criteria recruiters are using. And that risks placing arbitrarily high weights on whichever traits correlate with your in-group. This, however, is a falsifiable claim, and if anyone has ever done research which shows that personality tests actually reduces bias (as opposed to enhances it) then I’m open to be proven wrong. I do also question the efficacy of using personality tests as a tool to scope for good hires. How do companies actually measure that? There are so many biases that comes to mind that could make a company overvalue the efficacy of these tests.

My critique applies for all theories of personality. I don’t see personality traits as a useful categorization to predict behavior. By far the most research I see in personality psychology is about correlation with other terms inside a very narrow scope (this also applies other sub-fields of psychometrics; including positive psychology). The behavior that personality tests predicts does not further our understanding of the human mind. A theory of behavior that fails to do that is a poor theory at best.

But I want to go further, I don’t claim that personality psychology is just poor science but pseudo-science.

>> there is no justification for the operationally defined terms

The personality traits in the big-5 are operationally defined. That is they are defined in terms of what the tools are designed to detect. This is useful inside your models (as evidence by the success of big-5) but this does not tell us anything outside of our model. Now if you go to the real world and find evidence that these terms exist outside of your model, then I would change my mind. That would be a pretty good grounds for a theory which describes something that your model predicts accurately. If you don’t then you have at most a useful construct that you can use in other theories (think atom before they proved it’s existence). IF you can’t even use your constructs outside of your scope, then there is not much value in it outside of a narrow scope and you are most likely doing pseudo-science.

My critique actually extends to all personality traits. Personality traits (if they exist) can at best describe a proportion of the variability within a narrow scope. Outside of that narrow scope it is actually just better to describe a person as calm and courteous as opposed to speculate where they stand in the agreeableness axis in the Big-5 personality trait. And this is what I mean when I say “lack of justification”. ‘Agreeableness’ has been operationally defined within a certain model. When you use it elsewhere you need to justify doing so. And there should probably be a scientific consensus about whether the justification is good enough. If not you are most likely doing pseudo-science
I work for the US EPA, speaking in my personal capacity.

We have a Github, but in a lot of ways it feels kind of like an archive. Does anyone have feedback on how it can be made more useful? We have all the authority to be good OSS community members.

Maybe if we were to prioritize like general purpose libraries instead of just our super domain specific projects?

https://github.com/USEPA
To be fair, the British invaders were pretty friendly to a separated Tibet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_expedition_to_Tibet.

> Tibet declared its independence from China

I mean, the Catalonian independence referendum passed with 92% support in 2017. Not that it makes much of a difference.
Hopefully this will make future scientists more wary of building their careers on a foundation of shaky work that could disappear - and thus engage more critically.
Sure but that's one tiny bit of it. Plus, I'm not really taking some issue with your specific criticism of it, I might make a similar criticism of it but the essay is not really about that, and it's definitely not about both-sideism which I think one can miss if unfamiliar with the author, his recent writing and audience.
Rent is expensive in big cities? Wow, the poor are gonna be so pissed when they find out. /s

Affordable housing is a separate issue and point of concern no matter who is paying.
You can read Marlinspike's 2017 description of an approach they were then rolling out – & AFAIK still use – at: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

Note it relies on SGX for privacy. (Anything they did earlier may have involved even more trust of Signal Inc's servers.)

Hashes across the (tiny!) space of all phone numbers are easy to reverse via brute-force.

But also, again: how do you think Signal is able to notify you when any phone number in your contacts – even if you're not in theirs! – first joins Signal?
How is it different from operating say two reddit accounts (one anonymous and another that's non-anonymous)?
Management decisions like this policy are indicative of a sick company. This is your canary in a coalmine scenario. Get out before it becomes too toxic to survive.
> We don't even build consumer products.

Might that be the difference?
I saw an article on here about a billionaire in Florida who makes donations. Perhaps you can find out who signed The Giving Pledge, what their philanthropic organizations are, and contact them. This should require the least capital. If one does donate, it could be a sizable amount.
An artist who delivers work on time and is easy to work with is an artist who gets asked to work on your next bookcover. Especially if they are also an artist who regularly delivers something eye-catching that makes the book more likely to jump off the shelves into someone's hands. Start looking into the art credits and you will see recurring names.

There is also the choices made by the art directors at the publishers to consider; they were aware of current trends in SF/F book covers, as well as other genres, and would select artists based on how well they worked with those trends. Or against them. Consider for instance Richard Powers (http://www.richardmpowers.com/1970s) who did a ton of psychedelic SF cover work in the 60s, and less work in the 70s as things swung to a more realistic look.

The history of printing and art materials also plays into this. Full color printing was cheap enough for full color covers to be normal; compare 1970s SF covers to SF covers from the 1920s or 1930s, when color separations had to be done by hand, and when acrylic paints were not yet available!
Is it that hard to differentiate?

I'm sorry for x.

I apologize that y lead to you experiencing x.
Well, yes, people find the work in your examples valuable. I can say that for sure because they are willing to spend their money on it.

> Sure.

Ha, then the farmers would say "no" and you'd starve to death?
> When someone asks where you're from, you're likely to reach for the most specific unit that you think that they will recognize.

Agreed. Considering this thread was international in scope, I've been disappointed by the apparent lack of awareness some people have of the way the rest of the world sees their nation.
It has worked plenty on me. Am I really going to make a phone call over $10 month? For months and months, no, I will not.
This little incident has now tainted his entire oeuvre. The truth was fine, there was no need for all the fiction. When you work in journalism your reputation is everything.

EDIT: Reading much further into the rabbit hole there remains the possibility that there were more photos that were censored by the British government and that the players involved were fed a (weak) cover story that they were then sworn to uphold. I've had military relatives with cover stories, so it's not impossible.
I assume because we already have plenty of amazing standards for networked file systems (half a dozen are listed on the linked page) and apart from Amazon almost nobody uses S3 protocol?

This is a product targeted for sysadmins, who are familiar with ftp(s), sftp/scp, rsync, webdav... or at least one of those. The day S3 protocol becomes useful for interop with other software, storage vendors like hetzner will probably adopt it.

Is there anything good/special about S3 protocol that would make it worth supporting? I don't know, but in the present time when i see some tool claiming S3-compatibility i always wonder why? Why make it easier for Amazon and other clown computing providers (spot the typo) to continue eating away selfhosting as a practice, and whatever's left of online digital rights along with it? I'd rather let/help their proprietary mainframe and protocols die, but i may be missing something.
Agreed. I spent about a minute before reading it and came up with the first solution, didn't feel like thinking through the puzzle of how not to care which one is larger, and then settled on the one with the 2016 expiration date. All within 1 to 2 minutes. I briefly considered XOR but didnt feel like remembering more about it - the solution was obvious when I saw it. How any of that was ever patentable is a crime.
We’re Fine Without Facebook, German and French Ministers Say
There is a great chapter in ‘The Art of Invisibility’ that describes a lot of the ways in which your anonymity can be compromised…
Casinos will take your grandmothers last dollar and throw her out on the street when her credit runs out.

Somehow the regular people are smart enough to know the lottery is entertainment but they aren’t smart enough for investment wizardry. It’s just incidental, I guess that the government profits significantly from the lottery.

Listen, I’ve heard and understand the arguments “why” investors must be accredited. But I can’t help but find myself hearing these arguments and thinking “this is the government codifying the wealth gap”. When Slick Rick scams someone, it’s the worst thing ever. But when the government scams us all, it’s just the way the world works.

But hey, Powerball is just entertainment! Right?
In my experience, recruiters (not all of them but some) lie about EVERYTHING. Why not the money?
The browser wars, told by a veteran
Need to bring back pokes then... Facebook/Meta seems to go down hill, wonder what there next name going to be though?
I’m not familiar enough with this space to say how much overlap there is with what you describe, but you may be interested in:

https://www.lydianaccelerator.org/

It is the project of a former colleague; I don’t know the latest status of their efforts
That sounds nice, but can't possibly matter. "We're closing your account, for, uhm, no reason." How are you going to argue against that?
> There seems to be a hatred towards simple tools in our generation that I can't fathom

I have people bothering me about when things will be done. Something not great that plays nicely is preferable to something great that requires configuration in these scenarios.
His Roth IRA certainly doesn’t regret it.
For a second I thought the title was a joke about the indie game Starsector.
If you have read a lot of fantasy, there's a good chance that your favorite is a book that was popular at some time. My favorite, for example, is John Crowley's Little, Big. It's not obscure! It won critical acclaim and wide readership in 1981.

Most popular books become obscure books, given enough time. (Reading Les Miserables, I had to consult the footnotes repeatedly for Victor Hugo's allusions to then-popular novels and novelists, almost none of which remain popular today.) If you're a serious reader the chances are diminished that your favorite book is something that has just recently been written. But it's also likelier than random chance that your favorite book was once popular, because as you note there's generally a positive correlation between quality and popularity.
Agree that it's like Python 2->3, and that's why I think it was a mistake to do it that way. Phased deprecations are the way to go in my opinion.
yes, you are right. meaningful voluntary collective change is unlikely.

however, i believe that individuals should respect the commons, and don’t believe in the tragedy of the commons as an excuse for individual actions that contribute to the problem.

(insert starfish on the beach story)
Having transitioned from Vue 2 to 3 the biggest thing I love about v3 is no need for `this.$set` anymore, as almost all properties are fully reactive now by default.

Even after working on some rather big projects we never used composition API once. It feels more like a hindrance than an asset and greatly disrupts the simplicity of Vue, which is the most beautiful thing about it. But thanks to Evan's/team insight they've made it 100% option to use and so it didn't get in the way much.

Overall the number of improvements in v3 are amazing and the new native elements like <teleport>, fragements, etc are god-send if you ever had to struggle with them in v2. I really wish they didn't remove the event handler ($on) though. That really made life very easy and using a separate lib for that is a bit of pain imo.
I would strike Google off that list, given that they have a history of cutting support for hardware that's only a few years old.
> it's definitely not about both-sideism

I'd be very happy if you'd provide your reading of the article.
> Show me a founder who thinks it’s ok to fail fast and I’ll show you a failure.

That's an interesting take. I've experienced both sides of it multiple times: failing over several years with the same strategy, and giving up too soon on ideas/products that were starting to gain traction, slowly--that later became clear market needs.
Don't they have a sunshine boy as well? Seems fair and well within my liberal worldview (a nude body isn't a sin). It is probably time we accepted a more mature view of the human body. It always wondered why killing someone is acceptable at 8 or 9 but nudity is forbidden in primetime.
Is it still unusably buggy? Not sarcasm, I'm just curious.
> Population size and distinctive identity are two factors that matter in that regard.

Identity, yes. Population size, no. Vatican City? Monaco? Ireland?

> In some conversations the most recognizable name will be the city. In others it will be the region. You pick the one that is most likely to be recognized.

Exactly. Since this thread has been about international identities, it would be useful to consider how a nation is perceived by those from outside that nation. The name of the country is way more accessible than regional specifics.
As a Logic Pro user, I find the Logic Remote on both the iPad and the iPhone to be an absolute dream to use. Low latency, (mostly) intuitive, clutter-free and customizable interface, and lets you focus on creating music instead of fiddling with the mouse with a guitar in hand.

Point is, I’m using it as a periphery device and it absolutely kicks ass in that regard. I wish they would do more of that.

(and also, my use case is also an edge case)
Thank you very much for linking this video. It's great viewing, and does much to dispel many commonly propagated myths.
It's the network itself that is limiting this, since SMS was designed for intra-network communication - so the sender needs some kind of network ID.

Something like Google Fi can provide a web-based client for your SMS (which works on any device and doesn't require cellular) because they know your virtual SIM and can emulate it as needed. But I don't see how Signal could pull that off.
Harry Egipt, The Forgotten Genius of Soviet TV Commercials
UK archeologists unearth Roman-era cemetery with dozens of decapitated skeletons
I think it's related to the way people organize. I also like to have edges (maybe a few log lines) and corners of windows peeking alongside the edges that are small reminders of their existence. What others consider 'clutter' is 'context' to me. My physical desk area looks much the same--but worse with different layers for other projects.

What I really don't like is the swipe-the-entire-full-screen to an entirely new context when working on another part of the same thing.
> And I'm not claiming to know anything about whether the guy wishes women couldn't vote, maybe he does. I just don't see that in what is written.

I'm relying here on a priori context tying Thiel to the internet neoreactionary movement [0], which does consist of figures who are comfortable voicing opinions that are quite appalling and out there- or at least were a decade ago. I don't think Thiel is literally a neoreactionary, but he does seem to be a fellow traveller or comfortable enough in association with them to be willing to entertain unconventional opinions.

This isn't really a value judgment, either. It's just identifying one subset of the company that Thiel has publicly kept before, noting the type of ideas they are open to, and thus concluding that Thiel is possibly within the ballpark of such ideas, if not fully aligned.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/

> OP edited his post to include a link of Thiel responding himself, but with your opinion of him being what it is, is it safe to assume you don't believe him?

That link does provide context. And it sort of shows the rather extreme position that neoreaction arrives at: quibbling over suffrage is immaterial, because democracy is inherently flawed. There is no political solution.

I believe Thiel when he says people shouldn't be disenfranchised. But I also believe him when he says he believes that voting will not solve anything.

I think that the link doesn't disprove that if Thiel could have retroactively prevented this state of affairs from arising, he would not have done that. But then we arrive at angels dancing on the head of a pin territory of hypotheticals, so I will concede there.

> To take it to the extreme, the sun coming up tomorrow makes it possible for socialist policies to be enacted. Do you think if Thiel realizes this, he'll try to blow up the sun?

Once Palmer Luckey comes up with a plan, yes.

Edit:

Rereading the context of the original Cato Unbound essay, and the paragraph after, it does sound more innocuous than previously portrayed. But it's still questionable framing. Thiel is placing the blame for the oxymoronizing of "capitalist democracy" on those two constituencies. And that's placing the cart before the horse. It's almost as if he's forgetting there was something that happened at the end of his beloved roaring 1920s to change American politics, and in fact the political structures of nearly almost all western democracies, forever. And that was followed by other sweeping historical events leading to the centralization of government power.

Thiel's framing makes it sound like two groups of voters just decided to vote capitalist democracy away, for no reason stated. It's a twisting of the truth by omission, by oversimplification. Which detractors would get understandably upset by.
>Thousands of AngelList members were invited to invest personal checks ranging from $2,000 to $20,000+ via the mailing lists of multiple syndicates."

That doesn't happen on good opportunities which the well connected keep to themselves until it is the time to finally hand the bag over...