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superpope99··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
+1 to moto.

Does anyone know of a similar library for GCP? Searched and not been able to find anything and I miss it dearly

superpope99··on Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music
I'm super excited about the Audio AI space, as it seems permanently a few years behind image stuff - so I think we're going to see a lot more of this.

If you're interested, the idea of applying Image processing techniques to Spectrograms of audio is explored in brief in the first lesson of one of the most recommended AI courses on HN: Practical Deep Learning for Coders https://youtu.be/8SF_h3xF3cE?t=1632

superpope99··on Show HN: Embed a snow effect on your website
I asked GPT what the source code does, was pretty impressed with the response

>This code is a JavaScript program that creates a "snow" animation on a web page. When executed, the code generates a number of white, circular elements (which represent snowflakes) and animates them to move across the page, creating the illusion of snow falling. The snowflakes are given random positions, sizes, and animations to make the effect more realistic.

superpope99··on Dissonance – A Journey Through Musical Possibility Space
This is incredible! I've wanted to build something like this for a while.

I sing in a barbershop quartet with 4 engineers, and we are constantly trying to tweak our tunings to optimise consonance of the chords we're singing. It can lead to interesting occurrences where you have to tune 2 consecutive notes differently despite the fact they are on paper the same note.

superpope99··on Stable Diffusion 2.0 on Mac and Linux via imaginAIry Python library
This seems to work for me. Incredible work turning this around so quickly!
superpope99··on DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]
This was posted about 20 days ago and got 200 karma. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32088718 Is there any specific policy on reposting in HN, or does that just get handled through voting?
superpope99··on People Who Apply for Jobs by Showing Up
I had a different experience, 8 years ago I needed to get a job quickly and went round my local town pubs with CVs, had an interview the next day and a job the day after.
superpope99··on A decade of dotfiles
> You don’t need to reload your shell when you work on it.

For this point - I use an alias

  alias chalias="vim ~/.bash_aliases && source ~/.bash_aliases"
auto-reloads the aliases when you exit the file
superpope99··on Albanian prosecutors probe huge suspected leak of personal data
Any Albanians on here who can validate if their own salary is in the list?
superpope99··on Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
Maybe 0.4x and 3x programmers exist, and so when you introduce a little noise it's easy to perceive as a 10x difference at certain points in time.
superpope99··on Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
This is so important - it's so hard to gauge what another person's mental model of a scenario is compared to yours.

As in - perhaps OP and 40+ year person had the same, accurate mental model of the probability distribution of success, but OP and 40+ had different attitudes towards risk/reward.

Or perhaps the OP happened to have a much more realistic picture of the probability of success, and 40+ was unnecessarily pessimistic.

So hard to evaluate these things, and to internalise the fact that other people don't have the information you have all the time.

superpope99··on Interview advice that got me offers
I think reaching the correct solution is one of the least important parts of a technical interview.

I've interviewed candidates who will write the equivalent of enterprise level fizz buzz [0] and get to a correct solution, and candidates who will write much simpler code, but not quite solve the problem (it's a longer problem than fizzbuzz). I feel like I get better signal off the latter, as we can spend more time discussing their ideas, Vs writing boilerplate.

[0] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

superpope99··on Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena
There is something so nourishing about websites like these. Does anyone know of a curated list of similarly content-rich, "web 1.0" sites?
superpope99··on The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers
True it is sad in the domain of fixed interval instruments, but ask a Barbershop quartet singer if they're sad about the ratio 4:5:6:7 and you'll get a wholly different opinion :)
superpope99··on The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune
This is definitely auto-tuned, and I would guess that 90% of auto-tune goes unnoticed as it can be applied a lot more subtly than this.
superpope99··on The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune
I have a little experience with the recording process, having been involved in the production of a contemporary a cappella album, and I think most people wouldn't believe how much stuff is auto-tuned. To my ear, if you listen to something like the Pitch Perfect soundtrack, a lot of it sounds quite obviously pitch corrected, but I will play it to musical friends and they are often surprised when I tell them there's some serious auto-tune going on.

Outside of the a cappella domain, I believe it's pretty prominent in most pop music, but my understanding is that the technology's gotten to the point where 95% of the time you can't tell apart machine correction from good tuning of the vocalist.

superpope99··on Uber London loses licence to operate
So, what does this actually mean? Will Uber not be able to operate in London, or will it just not be sanctioned by TFL?
superpope99··on Angela Merkel’s record on environmental policy has been a disaster
Very much George Monbiot's style, I find it grating sometimes how hyper-critical he is of a lot of climate change endeavours. But I suppose it's better to have that voice there than not.
superpope99··on The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology (2005) [pdf]
Found this interesting after recently listening to a lot of Jordan Peterson talks - especially the latest Joe Rogan Experience episode #1006 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G59zsjM2UI
superpope99··on Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read?
They mean 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' by the late Robert M. Pirsig - I second the recommendation
superpope99··on Self-Interruption and Distraction
Oh, well the feeling fades... but for a short while it's quite compelling!
superpope99··on Self-Interruption and Distraction
If you are interested in this, consider reading 'The Shallows' by Nicholas Carr. Ironically, I have become a worse reader due to distraction, so the book took me about a year to finish - but I definitely recommend it! You will come away from it vowing to quit Facebook/HN/The Internet.
superpope99··on Former miners out to put Kentucky on the tech map
Time and time again I keep coming back to the same conclusion - anyone who has the desire can learn to code. I would say that 95% of people have enough innate logic to write code, they just need to be taught to express it formally.
superpope99··on Apache Server Status for ask.com
Is this page meant to be publicly accessible? Seems odd to me that they would reveal what people are searching for in real time like this.
superpope99··on “I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration”
That's crazy dangerous considering the recent terrorist incidents
superpope99··on Trump’s Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home for Tech
This is a classic logical fallacy I see too often. It's like mentally creating a Venn diagram of "People who said a" and "People who said b" and then just assuming that the two circles basically entirely overlap - without any basis.

I feel like it's somehow a variation on a straw man argument, but I can't work out if that's a good enough analog. Would be interested to know if anyone knows of a more formal name for it.

superpope99··on Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
Since no one's mentioned it, The Shallows by Nicholas Carr covers some of the neurological effects of constant social media/internet gratification quite well. Ironically it took me about a year to finish the book because I kept getting distracted...
superpope99··on Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
It tickles me that they have an Ada and a Grace representing women.
superpope99··on Mozilla Thimble
They've clearly made an effort to appeal to a young audience and that should be commended
superpope99··on The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
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That 2.8mb .jpg is Bullshit

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