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What are good resources for sound synthesis?

A while ago I started a repository, in which I wrote code to write a riff-wave file with a sine wave in it. My idea is: "All sound is, is waves. Incredibly many overlapping waves maybe, but waves. Using functions I should be able to implement things like fade-in, fade-out, increase frequency, etc, that I usually do using Audacity. And then I should be able to make small command line tools out of those and do fun effects on wave files."

Perhaps my thoughts are naive, as I have no background in sound/music theory and probably lack some fundamental mathematics for sound, but: What would be a good book to get more into this sound synthesis stuff, as a software engineer?
"Powering them off coal and natural gas does nothing for carbon" - This is actually not true. Most of the time your grid is less than 100% coal, and because of the efficiency of EVs in total the CO2 emitted is still less. See here for example:

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/02/driving-on-electricity-...

Just a small quote: "Now, 93 percent of the country lives where the average EV is better than the most efficient gasoline vehicle (57 mpg)"
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme
No such key “color-scheme”

Debian 11. Is it because it's old-ish?
Then use it as your password ;)
I have written a simple compiler in Haskell using parser combinators for parsing. And I couldn't disagree more with you. It was super straightforward writing the parser and it worked immediately. Why do say they are tricky?
They mean “more private” as in your data are less useful for things like exporting into tools or third parties.

I wish google would just focus on apis and tools for me to work with my data as interoperable as possible. But there’s no money in this, so I guess it’s not a priority.
Eh? Yes, if I untar a file in /tmp, it will go there.

My whole post talks about putting files in tmp!

And this change is a performance killer for that reason. Taking all that juicy, super fast RAM away from system caches and buffers, which yes is a performance killer.

You want sensible defaults. Telling people they can change a dumb default to something smart, isn't a viable response.

I mean my god, you say you've been using linux for 20+ years, so you surely know, doing this for a performance gain is absurd! We have mega fast SSDs, and an elegant filesystem layer, writing to disk is immensely fast compared to spinning disk days.

We gain almost nothing here, and lose RAM caching of libraries, data, buffers, which the kernel is very, very good at these days too.

It's a dumb default. Immensely so! And statement like "you can just" aren't the point.

This slows almost every single system down.

You know, this could be done right. Instead of stomping on everyone, just create a new tmpfs for just this purpose. Let people use it if they want.

And why on earth suddenly start forcing file cleaning. Debian has not had that default in decades, changing it now because someone else called redhat does it, isn't a valid excuse.

Debian doesn't need to be more like redhat.
Totally unrelated is relative (ha ha). We are all the same species after all. Why wouldn't we respond similarly to similar inputs? Especally with something very different to our everyday experiences.
More like that: https://500mile.email/
Yeah, it’s not really enable new projects in the language arts unless it’s cases where accuracy and the truth don’t matter compared to volume (and those are mostly things that are harmful to society).

You can now write a non-fiction book with a subject matter expert and an editor, skipping the ghost writer. Saves one whole salary, right? No, because it’ll take a lot more time from both the SME and editor to reach the same quality level as before. You can dial the quality down a little—worse presentation of material, more repetition, more inaccuracies—and save some money, which was harder to reliably do before, so there’s that I guess, but now we’re back at “it saves money if you’re trying to make junk”.
Yes, but only because the footage was being used commercially for broadcast. Depending on who was doing the filming they may also have been required to pay the subject; For example, a person who accidentally entered an active shoot of a Hollywood movie encountered the actors and had a short conversation with them. The footage turned out to work well with the scene, and the director wanted to keep it. In order to do so, not only did they have to pay this person and give them credit for a speaking role, they had to be given membership in the Screen Actors' Guild.
You can't even point out the use of a slippery slope fallacy anymore because that sounds a bit racist!
TFA author cites many examples from human-oriented systems, which perhaps are more common and traditional domains for RDBMS design, where there often several layers of exceptions to the rules - his argument that synthetic keys work well for these domains lands.

I personally work far more with computer-oriented systems and their data, and natural keys work well for me. When well-chosen they allow me to do an initial load of the source data for analysis, and then aggregate such databases together later on for historical analysis without fear of conflict. The data are often immutable in these domains, too.
Plenty of fanless Intel atom/celeron mini PCs out there no?

Also i think you can use ryzenadj to set a very low tdp and disable the fan?
It's a handful of books in a handful of local libraries. Yes, it's dumb and shouldn't have happened, but there are far more important and insidious cases of thought cleansing that deserve more attention.
MORE private, not completely private.

I'd argue that anything entered into a computer is not completely private, and since location can be inferred from environmental signals (e.g. cell towers, other devices, webcams, etc) location is one of the least private types of data.
> must necessarily contain true (resp. false) facts for which no (resp. counter) proof can be given

This formulation misses the important aspect that whether the statement is 'true' is not absolute property (outside logical truths). We can consider truthfulness of a statement in a specific structure or in a specific theory.

E.g. a statement can be undecidable in Peano arithmetic (a theory) while true in natural numbers (a structure, model of Peano arithmetic), but that just means there is a different structure, different model of Peano arithmetic in which this statement is false.
The article headline is about filming people in public but most of the video examples are not in public, but private spaces like gyms, pubs or work places. These are not the same thing.
I'm a sysadmin and I have no idea what you're referring to. Yeah there are guys in my field who are happy to overreach in terms of data access, but I'm sure we can come up with some anecdotes about devs over-harvesting data on...virtually any modern online platform.

Most of my colleagues (at least those I've met) tend to be conscientious about data access and privacy. I host several E2EE services for friends/family because I believe in privacy and data sovereignty. But if my company's legal department says "give access to <these guys>," as a sibling commenter said, if I refuse then I'm fired and those guys will still get access. So I do what legal says and keep my job, TYVM.
Configuring the whole system to account for the needs of software installation is optimizing for the corner case.
An LLM will give back essentially the mean advice gleaned from all the training data, which cannot be better than a human expert who has just discovered some pertinent fact not in that training data… thus if you suffer from something very rare or on the cutting edge of research, always trust the expert over the LLM.

And for much the same reason as we know an LLM isn’t rational, an LLM certainly cannot have or demonstrate any empathy, though you may well have been making a sarcastic comment about human experts there.
Did OpenAI create the best weapon detection software available with ChatGPT-4o?
> which GitHub makes surprisingly easy to do

Why surprisingly? Are there any CI/CD, let alone SaaS CI/CD providers, that don't make it easy?
I love stories like this. I used to be active on atariage forums back in the day. I even created my own 2600 rom dumper which supports the vast majority of bankswitching schemes that is compatible with both Raspberry Pi and Arduino [1]

NGL I'm kinda bummed I missed out on this one. Makes me want to get back into game preservation game again.

1. https://github.com/drzaiusx11/WiringVCS
I do wish the community had leaned into the MODS direction vs going over to RDF.
This is pretty much covered by civil law. You can sue for commercial use of your image. After all, influencer is now a desired job and you can make money doing it. There may be some scenarios we're the person doesn't make money from sponsors and seeing could be more difficult, but technically goodwill is listed on balance sheets, so if theyre generating public goodwill towards their brand, there's still a basis. If you're a focus of the content, you can sue.
And how many photos of clearly-identifiable people in those countries do you suppose get published to the internet every hour?
> And another one! I actually used this regularly on my PC to remember places I'd gone to on trips, or back in time.

Me too. High-noon to engage Google Takeout [1] – so that I at least have a copy of all that data.

Off-topic: TIL, that Google Takeout can do regular backups automatically for up to one year when you link it to some cloud storage account (GDrive, Dropbox, One Drive, Box).

[1] https://takeout.google.com
Anecdotally I definitely saw the same patterns. If I had more time I would dive deep into the economics papers generated by this natural experiment, because I would be fascinated to see what kinds of real estate ripples it caused.

Intuitively, I don't think most fully remote workers who moved moved to genuinely remote areas - maybe to smaller cities, and the outskirts of those smaller cities at that, but the amenities of any city above 100,000 or so genuinely are quite nice to have handy. I wonder if rural areas saw much of an uptick in absolute, but even in relative, terms.
2000-2003 had groundbreaking visual experimentation. It was such an interesting time to be making things on the web. Flash is rightfully derided for technical reasons, but I saw some incredible art and animations made with it. That kind of aesthetic interactivity is long gone.
It has also lot of consequences, which are not obvious to people from other countries.

For example, no dashcams in D-A-CH.
These feel like perfect examples of when banning them makes people MORE likely to read them and revive potentially offensive language (that many people have never ever even seen written or heard spoken). Not saying banning is the wrong answer per se. Just that it can seriously backfire
That's a good compromise, until you consider stalkers and/or Scientologists.
One can only assume that GOOG is still collecting/inferring device location whenever possible, and putting the pieces together on the back end to paint a broader picture of the user.

Removing the user-facing feature that shows all this collected data is akin to the classic tech company manoeuvre of adding an "isDeleted" attribute to data, hiding it, and keeping it in the 'base when a client requests to delete something. Out of sight, out of mind!
I wonder if they'll start supporting risc-v soon.

I've been using github-act-runner on top of a local Nomad cluster to run some of my builds on risc-v, arm64 & x86-64, it's fine, but a bit of a hassle to set up
All those scenarios are sadly quite possible, and it shows the madness and the recklessness of the Russian leadership in even entertaining such threats, and voicing them publicly.

So many windows in Moscow...
That's what model interpretability research is. You can train an interpretable model from the uninterpretable teacher, you can look at layer activations and how they correspond to certain features, or apply a hundred other domain-specific methods depending on your architecture. [0]

Sadly, insight is always lost. In a noisy world where even with the best regularization, some fitting on it, or higher order features that describe it, is inevitable for maximizing prediction accuracy, especially if you don't have the right tools to model it (like transformers adapting to lacking registers [1]) and yet a lot of parameters within chosen architecture.

What's worse, bad expectations are often much worse than none. If your loan had been denied by a fully opaque black box, you may be offered recourse to get an actual human on the case. If they've trained an interpretable student [2], either by intentional manipulation or by pure luck, it may have obscured the effect of some meta-feature likely corresponding to something like race, thus whitewashing the stochastically racist black box. [3]

[0] "Interpretability in ML: A Broad Overview" https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/57fTWCpsAyjeAimTp/interpreta...
[1] "Thread: Circuits" https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/
[2] "Why Should I Trust You?": Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier" https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04938
[3] "Fairwashing: the risk of rationalization" https://proceedings.mlr.press/v97/aivodji19a
I think the line should be drawn when there is a commercial interest - If the footage is monetized, the subject should have a veto. Other than that, it should not be prohibited for members of the public to make a recording of anyone's conduct in a public space, because to prohibit that would enable bad actors to harm others without possibility of being held responsible.

For example, imagine if it were illegal to make recordings of the Proud Boys in places where law enforcement actively encouraged them to commit criminal acts...
The whole point of provability is that it is purely syntactic process that could be verified in finite time. Ideally it would be the same as truth, but there are some caveats.
Been there too haha! I wanted to do large scale data extraction from literature and manual approaches would have just been too slow.
In French, it is called the "hidden face of the Moon", obviously because we cannot see it from the Earth point of view.
And the samordningsnummer isn't only for immigrants - it's also for Swedes born abroad who have never been folkbokförd.
> I'd be surprised to find a 1/4W 0402

Something close to this is pretty common these days; for example Vishay's CRCW-HP series are good to 1/5W in 0402 size: https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/Vishay-Dale/CRCW04021...
"but only because the footage was being used commercially for broadcast."

Influencer is now a job. They make money off of sponsorship. Even if they aren't currently making money or taking sponsors they are generating goodwill towards their brand, which does have monetary value as denoted on balance sheets and can be used to future commercial value.
After reading many threads here, I think the final ruling may be:
- If your record represents a physical being or object: Use a surrogate key.

People change.

Unrelated - if you have a list of emails or SSNs or license plates or VINs - we can think of these as foreign keys to a database we don't control.
Would be interested in your use case if you don't mind sharing!
And of course, at the time, publishing was pretty much synonymous with commercial publishing. (Though newspapers, magazines, news broadcasts, etc. have had broad exemptions for editorial publication in the US.)
noseyparker is another good one: https://github.com/praetorian-inc/noseyparker

I think these solutions are all much better for finding secrets than something naive based on entropy. Yes, entropy is more general but these are well established tools that have been through the fire of many, many data sets.
Isn't it that you can't publish your dash cam recordings?
https://archive.ph/Zdd0T
It's not an app store inside a messaging app, it's a mega app. You can do literally everything with it, from home banking to payments to filing for divorce and booking a doctor.
We can't go about whipping out a fallacy in this day and age.
My recollection (and I'm old but not that old) is there was nonetheless a lot of uneasiness by the viewing public as to whether watching, regardless of whether the person later signed a release, was in itself a bit of guilty voyeurism. That the whole concept of the show was in poor taste— catching people off guard and vulnerable.

EDIT: and because I can't not share, this funny clip of Woody Allen on the show: https://youtu.be/LGb_jzaUWOg
I'm using UUIds by default for everything. Main point being that I don't have to worry about future restrictions.

And incrementing IDs are also problematic yes, since they hide business information data within them.

And I do think that I need it for much more than 1% of projects and DBs.
Oh, it was a big issue since the invention of still photography that was sufficiently fast to capture moving people in public.

In practice, controls on photography or filming in public would be used to suppress recording of those in power, such as police. It's quite proper that the right to take such images be protected.

Attempting to exempt commercial efforts from these protections would be like exempting commercial news organizations from protection under the 1st amendment.
Absolutely not. I built and shipped two products between 2015 and 2019 with what we would now call "AI" inside, and product management and marketing spent months agonizing over whether the AI label was appropriate, or if we should just stick to describing it as machine learning. The big fear was that "AI" was such a big claim that consumers might question the credibility of the product. By comparison, no one today hesitates to claim that even the simplest of machine learning/algorithmic capabilities in their products or services are "AI"

https://www.oralb.ca/en-ca/product-collections/genius-x
Okay but include "storing on someone else's computer" in the definition of "publishing" in this case.

I don't want to be recorded and uploaded to Google or Dropbox without my consent.

Although it's not totally satisfying: a record can leak. No record is the only guarantee for no leak.
Next up how to hide your weapon from AI detection.
Of course it did. This is modern warfare. Welcome to the future.

Just like how we knew everyone was always spying on everyone else long before Snowden, we should all know that everyone is doing this to everyone else long before all the revaluations come down to us. There is no benefit to assuming good faith here.
Timeline has been so useful. I have used it as a way to recall where we stopped in holidays, check where I was when I made a purchase, and to help diarise work related car trips for tax purposes. Having a small computer a with you with lots of sensors on it that is able to record images, sounds, and log location is infinitely more useful when it is searchable in an archive. I don't want to have to do that searching on a small screen.
There really isn’t any downsides. No feature updates? So if something fancy comes out LTSC doesn't get that just much later (and even then almost everything is removed).

The only thing I can imagine if there is some bleeding edge hardware feature that needs the newest Windows version because of drivers, API etc. and that won't work.

Windows 10 LTSC only got four feature updates, most of the time years apart so most likely that will be the case with 11 LTSC too https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/ltsc/ove...
Wait till they remove Google Takeout
"clearly-identifiable" is not the criteria, it's a question of focus and respect.

The articles of constitution this is based on in Germany read (roughly): "(1.) Human dignity is inviolable. (2.) Everyone has the right to free expression of their personality, so long they do not infringe on others."

You can publish photos with identifiable people as much as you want, as long as the intent of the photo is not to capture one (or more) person specifically.
That google maps feature was probably supported by a team of 5 that they decided they didn't want to use for that anymore.

And some PM decided they could get a promo by 'unifying interfaces to simplify and enhance the user experience'
This, absolutely.

There are already many people today who cannot tell the difference in realities, and likely many people who think they can but only succeed some of the time.

It's so pervasive that soon it will become the 'only' reality (online) and then it's too late. This is what the marketing people want, just like the sugar companies.
Debugger.godMode()
"At-will", he says to the expat to Finland. I wish. It's nearly impossible for me, or any FTE I know here, to get fired. (To be fair, I have never to my knowledge been considered 'a bad hire' by anyone except Home Depot.)

But in fact even in at-will situations, firing aversion seems to be a real and expensive issue that all kinds of managers in organizations face [1] [2].

So, in one sense I agree, bad hires are existential threats "only" because we don't fire them fast enough. On the other hand, have you ever had to fire someone yourself? Try it. It's heart-wrenching, even to a heartless utility monster like yours truly.

[1]: https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/06/firing_aversion_2.h...

[2]: https://www.econlib.org/firing-and-the-left/
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MARC can do all kinds of crazy things. I used to work with folks who had been hacking on MARC since the 1960s. If I remember correctly, at one point it got punched onto dangling chad cards (and of course was used to print the cards in the card catalog in the library).

> The real problem is that USMARC uses an int with 4 digits to store the size of a field, followed by 5 digits for the offset.

A colleague told me they used to exploit this "feature" to leave hidden messages in MARC records between fields.
What kills your ram is not compiling things but the browser and those Electron apps.

(Well and Yocto builds, but that's not your average 'compiling things'.)
jasomill's question/assumption is about PRO version.

Internet connection and Microsoft account are explicitly required for HOME version.

There's no mention of such requirements for PRO version. Therefore, it's reasonable to assume that they are optional in PRO version.
If you don’t start using new Google products, you won’t have to worry about when they will remove the service.
some things that have served me well for 20+ years since exactly your age

1)start investing the federal maximum pre-tax into your 401K. if you can't do the max, invest at least a minimum of your company's match. if there is no match, try to do at least 5-10K.
1a) put it all into an SP500 fund, or at least never put it into the age 20## type funds.
1b) if your work offers anything else that can be purchased through them such as vacation, insurance, etc., do it all through them as that's typically all pre-tax.

2)if you need a car, never buy a car that's more than 3x your yearly salary. if you can make it 4x even better.

3)don't rush to buy a property, expecially at today's rates. if it does come to a point that you're buying a property don't buy a property, don't go above 4x your yearly salary. i suspect that won't be much at 21 and i suspect the bank advisor will tell you the good news that you're pre-approved for much more, but until you (and your eventual spouse) can meet the 4x level, don't buy a property.
3a) this advise is worth exactly what you've paid for it. there are a gazzilion nuances such as do you need a car if you have a house/condo in a place where you can walk/take bus to work and everywhere else, what are the property taxes? it's one thing to have 2000$ mortgage and it's another to realize that you're paying another 1000$ in taxes before utilities, etc.

4)work-life-balance: it's extremely important to use all your vacation and have overall balance when you can get away from work and recharge.