skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sine and triangle were a bit more subdued but if you don't fade the sound out properly, it makes a really unpleasant kind of cutting sound due to how your ear reacts when a wave gets cut off.

The clicking sound happens when a wave is stopped when not at 0. You do need to fade the oscillator down before stopping it.

> As I was figuring everything out, I was experimenting with making new AudioContext for every note because I was trying to fade out the sound, but then I kept realizing that after 50 notes, the app would stop working. Fifty is apparently the limit for the browser, so it's better to just make one AudioContext for the entire app.

Yeah the reason the app would stop working when doing things this way is, just because the gain of the oscillator is zero, and the oscillator therefore not audible, it's still there! If you put the gain back up you can hear it again. You can't just fade out and be done with it.

So the appropriate approach (not explicitly explained in the article IMHO) is to

1/ set the gain to zero:

g.gain.setTargetAtTime(0, context.currentTime, 0.1)

2/ then kill the oscillator with stop(), so that it doesn't consume resources anymore:

o.stop(context.currentTime + 0.5)

(g being the gain and o the oscillator, and context the AudioContext).

Note: "then" means the two actions need to happen one after the other, and that is decided by parameters of the two functions; the functions themselves aren't chained and can be written in any order.
Hmm... While I don't see any evidence that L5 autonomous driving is near, I don't follow your argument that L5 is equivalent to the halting problem. Can you explain?

I am not convinced that L5 is fundamentally impossible (unless we posit that humans are also not L5 autonomous, which I suppose one could argue, as they are prone to driving errors). Granted I subscribe to Universality, and assume that humans are not capable of hyper-computation.
What was the gain from having a car in a trans-Martian orbit other than yet more space junk?
A Simple Ratio Came to Influence Military Strategy
He will get around to it again sooner or later.
Musk's bullshit endangers the valuable things he's doing.

If he wants to make Starship a reality, he needs permits and government contracts.

I met an African-American man about ten years ago who owned an excellent patent portfolio covering technology like this

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6695260

but he was the only black person I've ever met who hated Barack Obama. He was an extreme Republican, thought Democrats all worked for the anti-Christ, etc.

I figured there was no way he'd succeed at what he was trying to do because he'd need to make nice with the government no matter who the administration was. I haven't heard from him again.

I see Musk going down the same road. I can only imagine the last man is dying on Earth 1000 years from now and cursing: "If only Elon Musk didn't have to post that tweet we would have made it to Mars."
Imagine Douglas Adams thinking that within a single generation, digital clocks would render the majority of smart, technical people adult people to not only be unable to read a clock but also unable to grasp the idea of fractions, ratios, time elapsed or remaining, or the concrete nature of the way days occur in the physical world.
I lost all respect for him when he seriously posited that life is a simulation.
Sounds like it. Toxic management trinkles all the way down throughout the company.
A little tangentially, something like this was (on a larger scale) recently proposed as an explanation for the Fermi paradox.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.002...

I think their explanation has more to do with physical constraints (like energy) than social structures:

"Previous studies show that city metrics having to do with growth, productivity and overall energy consumption scale superlinearly, attributing this to the social nature of cities. Superlinear scaling results in crises called ‘singularities’, where population and energy demand tend to infinity in a finite amount of time, which must be avoided by ever more frequent ‘resets’ or innovations that postpone the system's collapse. Here, we place the emergence of cities and planetary civilizations in the context of major evolutionary transitions. With this perspective, we hypothesize that once a planetary civilization transitions into a state that can be described as one virtually connected global city, it will face an ‘asymptotic burnout’, an ultimate crisis where the singularity-interval time scale becomes smaller than the time scale of innovation. If a civilization develops the capability to understand its own trajectory, it will have a window of time to affect a fundamental change to prioritize long-term homeostasis and well-being over unyielding growth—a consciously induced trajectory change or ‘homeostatic awakening’. We propose a new resolution to the Fermi paradox: civilizations either collapse from burnout or redirect themselves to prioritizing homeostasis, a state where cosmic expansion is no longer a goal, making them difficult to detect remotely."
not the appointment making one, but i use the call screening one all the time when i dont recognize the number
Depending on the country trading the FOREX can be taxed differently than trading stocks (for example not taxed at all). If crytocurrencies are considered, somehow, currencies (no matter how volatile they are), then it may explain it.
I once heard that you're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time around

It's also "you are your friends". If you're normally a mild-mannered guy that starts hanging around belligerent unscrupulous types, well, to outsiders you're one of them.
>EBay, your go-to site for fencing stolen goods online, known for running massive tax avoidance schemes as well,

Lolwut?

A giant eCommerce platform that keeps records of listings and transactions going back god knows how long is the last place anyone with a brain is trying to fence stolen goods or dodge taxes.

eBay has plenty of problems but stolen goods and taxes aren't one of them.
Vale 0.2 Released: Higher RAII, Concept Functions, Const Generics, FFI, Modules
> Is this some kind of a trend that I'm not up to date with?

It's called planned obsolescence and it's part of the factory-to-landfill pipeline. It's not exactly new.

Do we know how to make a long lasting laptop fan? Yes. Would nearly every consumer pay $0.25 more for a laptop with a longer lasting fan? Yes. Can you buy laptops with high quality fans? Yes, but seemingly only by dumb luck.

By the time you figure out that a product has a high failure part the company will no longer be manufacturing it and therefore reviews won't be relevant (granting relative immunity to bad reviews). And when every brand is doing it, there's no way for "free market" competition to sort it out. It's a race to the bottom. (3. 2. 1. Cue "The morality of protecting share holders eclipses the morality of ripping consumers off.")

I only buy used laptops now. The significant reduction in price is a reduction in risk. Also a used product has had "burn in" time to weed out the lemons. The engineer calculated xx% of fail-early laptops often aren't the ones being resold.

I'm bitter. I'm cynical. Despite being aware of my mind's ability to find patterns to confirm my biases... I'm really struggling to be excited about new products. I'm spent like nuclear fuel; I'm toxic. They say knowing is half the battle... not in psychology. Doesn't help me a damned bit.

Today's sponsor is Better Help. I should just stop now.
I'm guessing "prawn" is local slang for some insect, because I'd only ever heard it refer to the seafood (like shrimp) or those aliens in District 9
Yeah, came here to say the same thing.

Plus:

> I don't think I've ever seen any C++ code bases that follows this rule.

It's not particularly useful to do this given that the moment you include anything from /usr/include and STL that rule will get broken from under you a 100 times.
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Ebay seems like a unique company. I don't know if they still do this but at one point they were using web sockets to port scan customers networks.
Sneller: Vectorized SQL for JSON at scale: fast, simple, schemaless
> Wenig was not criminally charged, has denied any knowledge of the harassment campaign, and his lawyers have asked that the Steiners’ claims against him be dismissed.

Call me crazy, but I feel like the guy who started the whole thing ("take her down") should face some punishment.

> charged for harassing the Boston duo

This is a nitpick, but they live(d?) in Natick. I live in a suburb of Boston and Natick is way farther out than where I sit typing this.

Then again I swear I've seen places in Maine calling themselves the Boston whatever company, so what do I know.
capital gains is income from investing, which is how new productivity gets funded (via buying new plant and equipment, etc).

Encouraging investments is not a bad idea. Of course, it's possible to be too pro-investment, but a 25% flat rate on investment based income is not too low, but not too high. It's slightly lower than wage income as an incentive for people to save and invest.
Also, if they already know there is X amount of bots, why don't they just...ummm...delete those accounts already?
Money is most emphatically not a store of value and hasn't been in over 100 years nor do you want it to be. Hoarded money has little value to an economy. What you want money to do is be used to build or expand manufacturing, build or expand shipping infrastructure, communications infrastructure, expand agriculture, and so forth and so on. "Investment" is a much broader term than just buying equities. Do something with your money! As I said, there's even a parable about this.
Ah ha! I like it. Mangers with a restricted budget for meetings. The more people they invite, the more rapidly their quota burns.
> (Also, let's give the previous U.S. president credit where credit is due; he might have a repulsive personality, but at least he didn't start any foolish wars! So there's that, too.)

I always find it so amusing when the best thing anyone can say about our previous White House occupant is what he DIDN'T do (and not for lack of trying!). As if a pet rock or farm animal couldn't have accomplished the same feat.
>Did you read the article? [...] , but learning clearly is an essential factor.

I think your reading of the article missed the point of their experiments that dissected the learning :

Yes, the "learning from other-species foster parents" was affecting their non-cowbird type of behavior (e.g. songs).

But no, they did not "learn" the cowbird-specific behavior from any parents. E.g. They figured out their preferred roosting in the fields at age ~20 days on their own.
I had issues with my M1 Mac mini.

But no issues with my newer 16" MacBook Pro M1 Pro.
> This has changed now.

Where does it say that?
There are a lot of Postgres operators. Wondering if a CNCF endorsement would place it as the “by default” operator to use. Could this reasoning be extended to other databases and stateful applications?
I'd add UV to the mix - i.e. Auckland climate is great, but on sunny day you generally stay away from it.
> I can't play the cello, but I know music majors who can and they would struggle in Thermo.

You can use thermo to build civilization, but you can't use a cello to do that!

> I don't see how anything but hubris can make someone see differently.

We don't know the context of this conversation with Musk. In "just between us engineers" conversations, there's plenty of hubris to go around. It's not just engineers, of course. Many of the highly educated professionals I know will express demeaning opinions about religious people or rural folks after a few drinks.

To be clear, I don't think being condescending is a virtue. But I don't see any reason to single Musk out for that specifically. I don't see him talking shit about how stupid everyone is, like many people do.
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And one could go a step further: run the software itself and show that it discriminates. One doesn't just have to look at past performance of the software; it can be fed inputs tailored to bring out discriminatory performance. In this way software is more dangerous to the defendant than manual hiring practices; you can't do the same thing to an employee making hiring decisions.
I will concede that you are right about the average "rich white socialite in New York", but I was hoping you'd have some data to back your claim that "The middle class vote Republican."

It doesn't actually seem like an unreasonable claim, especially as there are so many contradictory definitions for "middle class", but I think we'd have a clearer picture if we could say, for example, "The median wealth voter in the US is 55% likely to vote Republican".

For context, here is what one source[0] says:

> Democrats have a huge advantage (63 percent) with voters earning less than $15,000 per year. This advantage carries forward for individuals earning up to $50,000 per year, and then turns in the Republicans’ favor — with just 36 percent of individuals earning more than $200,000 per year supporting Democrats.

> Interestingly, the median household income in the United States is $49,777 — right near the point where the Democratic advantage disappears and the Republicans take over.

[0] https://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/economic-demogra...
I'm actually surprised they could narrow it down even that much. The skylake and coffeelake iGPUs always seemed basically identical to the kabylake one.
Imagine a future where every homemade bedtime story can be turned into an IMAX-quality cartoon…

Alternatively, imagine one where every website is flooded with mass-produced bland "art" like Corporate Memphis... we know what SEO spam looks like today, and I've been occasionally seeing what looks like AI-generated images show up in image searches. This feels like the latter --- good enough to look the part at a brief glance, but clearly "off" if you take a closer inspection (see comments about the lines on the basketballs.)
400 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31365307
A lot of feedback here mentions tax compliance. Perhaps you could use a company like paddle.com to actually handle the payments and act as a merchant of record for each transaction. This way you wouldn't need to worry about calculating taxes and collecting payments from the end customers, you would still need to handle distributing income to sellers. I'm not sure though if Paddle supports selling such 'umbrella' type of products.

Anyway, the idea is great, I view Paddle as an order of magnitude less work for the seller compared to lower level services such as Stripe, and your service could be an order of magnitude less work than Paddle for products that fit such simple selling model well.
Gates’ attention is focused on solving problems for people in emerging economies.

What you’ve quoted are the types of batshit crazy conspiracy theories I’m referring to.
The whole thing was a pump and dump. He sold billions in shares weeks ago.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-sells-billions-of-dol...
Would increasing supply of a commodity decrease it's cost?

Yes, obviously.

>As for environmental concerns I don’t think we are any worse the having another country mine the oil and then send it over, in fact the transport costs makes it probably twice as worse in terms of the environment. So why don’t we just start mining for oil again here?

You will notice over the next 5-10 years climate change is going to go away as a subject. It won't go away permanently, but it's going to a non-subject.

Most climate change graphs start around 1850 because solar activity went into the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Maximum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_maximum#/media/File:Suns...

We haven't named the new cycle we entered around 2010. We don't want to mislead science deniers into thinking the sun is involved in climate change at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_hiatus

Yes there has been a hiatus in global warming, it's just coincidence that climate change started during the modern maximum and now that we exited the solar maximum and entered a yet unnamed minimum and global warming stopped. It's pure coincidence.

What's going to happen is that we just drop the subject for some time. We muddy the subject by saying it was el-nino.
UV index is definitely a more accurate representation. I had to look it up because people always say it’s the elevation, which turns out to be partly true.

The link below says an increase of 2% for every 1000 feet, so most of Denver gets 10% more uv index because it’s closer to the sun (more accurately higher elevation/less atmosphere).

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/uviguide.p...
>I live in a suburb of Boston and Natick is way farther out than where I sit typing this.

Natick is pretty undeniably a suburb of Boston unless you want to engage in "anything outside I95 is irreverent boondocks" type snobbery which people of the immediate "Boston, the adjacent cities and their wealthiest suburbs" are somewhat known for.

>Then again I swear I've seen places in Maine calling themselves the Boston whatever company, so what do I know.

Calling Portland, Nashua, Kittery or whatever "a Boston suburb" is a statement about people, not geography.
How would we then move non to the next standard if we needed? How would we evaluate it before being released?

This sounds like such a great idea but in reality it’s probably going to be a mess.
Pointless piece imo, doesn't really matter.
it's hard to get high wages in europe compared to america. So it makes sense to work in america for a while, save and invest, and eventually come back to europe to retire or live a more leisurely lifestyle.
I am a person, not a statistic. I always decline to answer these surveys; I encourage others to do the same.
>>The popularity and success of a project

I think React (and Vue) are popular and successful because they meet 80% of the needs 80% of the time, and that's what you want and need from frameworks that are trying to do everything for everybody. They also make it a lot easier to go from a 6-month course into a low level coding job, and corporations are happier because the parts are more replaceable. In my mind, they're rather limited and hard to work with if you want to do anything outside the box, but there are always going to be frameworks because they solve the most common problems quickly.
Congratulations on the launch!

You posted paperd.ink on needgap(My problem validation platform) about 2 years ago[1], It feels amazing that you were able to deliver your product.

I understand the difficulty in building hardware products out of India without access to the crowdfunding platforms, As I've myself dabbled recently to host crowdfunding on my own website for a hardware product and it's easy to imagine how it would have gone.

So, My appreciation to the folks at FOSS UNITED for funding paperd.in and my best wishes for the success of the project.

[1] 'Affordable E-Ink large external displays' - https://needgap.com/problems/43
If you read the document again (?) maybe you'll see it's not about proving a negative. Instead, it's a standard of due care. Did you check whether using some particular tool illegally discriminates and document that consideration? From the document itself:

"Clarifies that, when designing or choosing technological tools, employers must consider how their tools could impact different disabilities;

Explains employers’ obligations under the ADA when using algorithmic decision-making tools, including when an employer must provide a reasonable accommodation;"
Languages with multidimensional arrays (APL, BQN, J, but not K) have trouble with dicts because an index into an array is a list of numbers, and an index into a dict is an arbitrary value. Many primitives, and especially selection, are designed around lists of numbers and don't transfer to dicts. In K, where the index into a list is one number, there's still a requirement that the keys in a dict all have the same level of nesting, but this isn't bad in practice. BQN will eventually have hashmaps implemented as in a more mainstream/conventional way, as objects. There's a model at https://github.com/mlochbaum/bqn-libs/blob/master/hashmap.bq... .

I don't think studying the compiler is a very good way to learn BQN, but I would like to write up parts of it (limited by time and motivation of course). I did some chat sessions on this sort of compilation during early development; see the links at the bottom of https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/ .
"Police have been doing this since the days of typewriters."

Well, that the typewriters and today the printers are unique, sure.

But here they seem to claim(I do not speak the articles language) that they could identify the computer that send the document. Which is a very bold and new claim, I think.
According to Wikipedia, the U.S. is currently the world's #1 producer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ...
Translating a K expression into something much more readable won't likely help you as the language is extremely compact. So for example, translating "ab",/:\:"cd" to ((each-left (each-right concatenate)) "ab" "cd") will still be inscrutable to you. But you can experiment with k, one expression at a time, play with its builtin operators and incrementally build up knowledge. Long before you get really proficient in it, you will start appreciating its compact syntax.

Without trying you wouldn't know if you are going to love it or hate it. But at the same time, there are far too many interesting things to learn so one has to pick and choose. Ignore what the cool kids of the day are doing or the latest fads. Just do what furthers your personal goals!
one of the reason i moved away from C/C++ and went full Zig/D
Point here is, crypto - as well as Gold and Real Estate - are considered a special case of capital. Contrary to stock they have - different - 'speculation periods' (Spekulationsfristen). If they are held beyond this period, no tax is collected for gains of the sale. This was true for stock too before 2009 (unfortunately).
Debunking 5 Stubborn Systems Performance Myths
Miami has some weird weather patterns where it’s always humid, but the temperature never reaches triple digits so you don’t have the crazy hot muggy unbearable summers like the Midwest.
The idea that you think there is a "right" and "wrong" here is bizarre. You have a different value system to me, that's all.

Collectivism results in a world I and many people I know don't want to live in, so we reject it.

And yeah, we have to resist it quite harshly, because there are a lot of you guys who'll try and impose it on us via force. Good luck.
The Apple GPU and the impossible bug
Well, that's new. That is really cool and opens up some neat usecases.
He's telling his story, and you're telling him he's wrong for having it.