skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinion is that it's a good time for electric guitar buyers, because factory-made guitars are pretty good and relatively inexpensive. They also last a long time, which means there's a lot of great used guitars out there.

I don't think there will be any major technological advances that make factory-made guitars significantly cheaper and better than they are now. I think a more interesting direction is for guitars to become simpler and easier to build to the point where a non-expert can build one easily without a lot of exotic tools. (In a way, this has always been the case. Cigar box guitars are an old tradition; they're ridiculously easy to make, and can sound very good.)

If you think about it, a Fender Stratocaster is a very minimalistic design that was engineered to be easy to manufacture with 1950's woodshop tools (bandsaws, routers and jigs, etc).. Every Strat clone is a reproduction of a design made for that era of technology. When CNC machines came on the scene, a Strat shape isn't substantially easier to make than any other shape, but we keep using that shape because it works well and because of tradition.

A guitar design that's optimized to be easy for a non-professional to make with a CNC router and a laser cutter and some basic woodworking tools might look somewhat different. This could open the door to extreme customization -- one-of-a-kind harp guitars, unusual pickup arrangements, guitars with three strings and four frets, nine string guitars designed for 31-tone equal temperament or just tunings, or whatever you like.

I expect most guitar buyers will continue to buy traditional Fenders and Gibsons and so on with 6 strings and from 21 to 24 frets and a scale length of 25 inches, plus or minus half an inch. However, for those that want something different, there will always be a minority of tinkerers who build their guitar just the way they like it. That's where I think the most interesting advances are going to happen.
I think the author used OmniGraffle [0]. If not, then the tool used is surprisingly similar.

[0] https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle/
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Adding AC to the trains would just make the tunnels even hotter and make the problem worse.
The more accurate title for this is "Python interface to Google's cloud TTS service".

Which means it won't work offline or when Google inevitably shuts down the API.
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they don't provide anything, they use outdated software provided by volunteer, their content is managed by volunteers for free and pretty much only expenses they have to run Wikipedia are servers but they still have 300 people in payroll
"Upanishads"?

Interesting! Thank you for mentioning. I am currently reading Gilgamesh and there is "Uta-napišti" meaning "the far away".

The Sanskrit term Upaniṣad (upa = by, ni = nether, shat =sitting) translates to "sitting down near".

In Gilgamesh epos, he (Gilgamesh) travels to seek wisdom from Uta-napišti.

Now I am curious if there may be a relation of the two.. I wouldn't be surprised.
Thank you for the feedback. What do you mean by "specifying output units"? Insect has the "->" operator which does that:

40000 km / c -> ms

= 133.426 ms
Wrong question.

Risk. Reward. Administrative cost.

The first of these I blocked when I looked at the domain and realised that the TLD were registering any old line noise. I'm not going to bother sorting that. Search for other experience turned up Blue Coat.

I subscribe to blocklists, and they update periodically. There are other levels of protection.

When a TLD is 99.9% malware or scams, it's far easier to block it outright. Registrars should take responsibility for what they're registering. Not my problem.
i read they have 300 employees who create zero content on Wikipedia which is created by volunteers for free
Two points here, about both the advice and the people giving it.

Regarding the advice, personally I think the advice is bogus. A lot of Mastodon instances have started legitimately using unconventional newTLDs. And I seem to see more URI shorteners, .com and .ru in spam than all the newTLDs put together (zero, from a hacked site, costs less than free). Country K-lining, while attractive to the lazy network operator, only works as an extreme temporary measure in a crisis - spammers adapt, but blocklists tend to only grow. And perhaps Symantec, given their business dealings with Verisign, might not be a 100% neutral party in making recommendations seemingly targeted primarily at severely disrupting the present and future business of cheaply-available TLDs?

Regarding Blue Coat, research shows Blue Coat devices are also used in the censorship/mass surveillance programmes of: Russia, UAE, Bahrain, Iran, and even China. Please also remember Blue Coat devices intercept, log and parse near-everything that goes through them. That puts them at a significantly elevated security risk above a network which didn't have them at all. I know I would find it unethical to report any vulnerabilities to that vendor, and I know I am not the only one who thinks so. And middleboxes like that are incredibly frustrating to the interoperability of the internet and present probably the single biggest hurdle to progress in internet protocols - ask someone in the IETF TLS Working Group currently working on TLS 1.3 just exactly what they think of them!
Ah. Insurance doesn't act as a separate party to absorb risk in the way you're talking about.

They act as a party to amortize known risk, in exchange for a monetary premium set based on that known risk.

Without the government stepping in and limiting catastrophic liability to some degree (ideally in exchange for signaling the market to produce a social good), the premiums changed would be so large as to just suck money out of tech. There's no creativity shield if you're paying an onerous amount of your profits in exchange.

Which is why I said any solution has to be two part: (1) require risk liability on a better-defined subset of risk & (2) provide a liability shield on the remaining less-defined risk iff a company demonstrates an ability to handle it (aka prompt patching). This creates a modelable insurance risk market, therefore reasonable premiums, and still does something about nation-state level attacks.
Genuine question: Has your son seen Mayer play? Either on TV or in a live situation? I remember my son being entranced when I brought home the "Where The Light Is" DVD and put it on to watch it myself. He happened to be in the room, and was hooked from the opening song to the last.

Not saying that will be the case in every instance, but I do remember the actual video that got BOTH my sons into music was an "AC/DC Live In Germany" video that I put on TV when they were both toddlers. They were duck walking all over the house and begging me to put the DVD on over and over again until I (who am a huge Angus Young fan) was thoroughly sick of it. Many years later, I took them to an AC/DC live concert in Sydney, during their "Black Ice" tour.

Exposing kids to such raw energy and musicianship on a semi regular basis is critical IMO. What they don't see, they cannot be inspired by. I also know that they won't always be inspired by what I like, and that is fine. Both my sons went through a 'thrash metal' phase, which wasn't my favourite, but it still formed a large part of their musical journey.
FB is not asking me for donations and FB pay to people working for them unlike Wikipedia parasiting on work of volunteers pretending to be non profit organization so 300 people can enjoy doing nothing for good salary
Where is the license?
If there were collisions the signalling was crap. Train intervals below one minute are definitely possible. For example the new Thameslink line in London will have (or already has?) intervals well below one minute.

Trains know their position very precisely, with errors less than 20cm, and their braking characteristics and error margins are well known, especially in tunnels where there are now wet leaves or snow on the tracks. Automatic train operation makes trains stop at precisely the same spot each time (for example to match train doors to gates), to the point where increased track wear becomes a concern.
Ah, I didn't find that. Yes, that's useful.
Very valid remarks and that resonate a lot with digital photography as well. These days making a good picture is more about using photoshop and the like than actually making a good picture in one shot.
I used SimpleMind https://simplemind.eu/download/free-edition/
Tea ceremony, Zen buddhism, Geisha, Samurai, ... from emulating Western programs?

Have you read about Japanese culture before commenting?
You have a point there- solitary mastering of an art is fought against by social networking.
Well, hat's off to you sir :)
Also, that game looks awesome. Must. Get. Copy. Fast.

About legality - I can see why people are hesitant to legalize suicide as it can be exploited for personal gain or for the thrill of pushing others off track... For the terminally ill it should be granted tho. That's just cruel.

At the above post - I just have a problem with people criticizing suicide as some horrible sin. More sticks! That will bring someone back!

Happiness is a choice?? Life itself is a choice! For all those who have yet to self-terminate and who keep marching off in the unknown I say thank you for still being here and best of luck!
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I love this post. I found it years ago and used it to make a toy game I always wanted to try. It's awesome.
The slow, secret death of the six-string electric
It must be real tough to run a smear job here.
I presume that KCC in question is https://github.com/kframework/c-semantics, i.e., a formalization of C programming language in a form suitable for evaluation.
It indeed can detect undefined behaviour, though last time I played with it (a few years ago) it was hardly something that you can use on anything but trivial examples.
Not to mention that it crashed on various implementation defined behaviours (for example comparing unrelated pointers with <) limiting its usefulness even further.

BTW, both gcc and clang contain runtime checker for easily detectable undefined behaviours like singed overflow you have mentioned.
You can enable it with -fsanitize=undefined.
I'll add Angus Young. A guitar hero if ever there was one and pretty well known outside of narrow music niches.

https://youtu.be/skoZ7j5PBE8
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181101 (3 years ago, 110 comments)
I've been saying this for a couple of years now. None of the music I listen to anymore features an electric guitar; it's all made on laptop computers. The fun part about knowing how to play guitar is that you can learn how to play your favorite songs. But if none of your favorite songs feature an electric guitar, what fun is it anymore? I'm 30 years old and have been playing the guitar since I was 12, but it's just not as fun anymore... I'm thinking about learning how to make music on my macbook so I can stay young and hip :)
it seems you don't realize your donations have pretty much nothing to do with service you use, created by volunteers, running on software provided by volunteer

i would not be surprised if you would just give money also to homeless for booze
Good for you. But this is a scary looking link for the average internet browser.
in Spanish they are still the same word: "receta"
They beloved all sorts of strange stuff, often without any evidence at all.
Right.

I don't know if you caught wind of any of the "decolonising science" movement, one adherent of whom claims that science is based on who says a thing is so. The truth is the exact inverse. The motto of the Royal Academy is particularly instructive: In nullis verba. By the word of no one.
> compared to the struggles one used to face to make either a Windows or Mac system function well. (when was the last time you had to use regedit?)

We used to have books with clear, comprehensive, information about fixing windows.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Windows-98-Annoyances-David-Karp/dp...

I'm not sure what point this supports: that the process was easy because all this stuff was in one place (with a nice index); or that all OSs suck and Windows 10 (while an improvement) isn't an exception.
This Course does not come close to cs50 in anyway. cs50 makes computer programming look intresting to a lawyer
My experiance with symantec web protection (which I assume will use the same blocklists they are talking about) is that it has a ridiculous false positive rate and when I was still in High School they had blue-coat installed and it had a worse false positive rate. I would be very careful about running blacklists from those companies aside from anti-ad blocklists.
Where did he blame it on the database vendor?
Who supervises the servers ? Who creates Wikipedia ? Who defends Wikipedia legally ?
Thank you. Same request is tracked here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/86
> "Upanishads"?

Beware, it is a "rabbit hole".
Ask HN: How do you remember your HN username?
This one goes for the users that don't post frequently (once every few months). HN only allows username for logging in and resetting password, so if you forgot the username you're screwed.
Whoa... is there a slap bass guitar player hiding behind him for the solo at 4:00, or is that really possible on an acoustic?
Imagine that every of your items in a warehouse has a unique barcode to track it. In this case you have to keep a record in a database for every item.

You could have a list inside a single document.
I'm not savvy in the technology, but are the contracts actually executed as part of mining?
If I were trying to send someone to my nefarious website, I'd definitely now wrap the link in this, so that the savvy viewer would think it's a harmless verylegit.link...
Out of curiosity: How could Blue Coat had prevent this? There must surely been a middleman? We should probably not argue they should have a kill-switch in their product?
Very instable on Linux unfortunatly.
I for one, welcome the death of the guitar solo.

I say this as a guitarist of more than three decades, and as a lover of great guitar playing. Rock and roll guitar solos are, by and large, the wankiest and most pointless waste of notes I can imagine. If we never get another, say Eruption, in exchange for no more awful weedly-deedly musical maelstroms I believe it is a more than fair trade. Even the good rock and roll guitar solos often aren't all that good compared to the song that surrounds them. (There are exceptions, and there are moments where the only thing that could have possibly worked was a wailing guitar...I'm thinking of something like the ending of The Chain by Fleetwood Mac...but that's not really a solo so much as a real and vital part of the song).
I disagree, because it literally says "secure.verylegit.link". Those are not negative words.

If this seemed suspicious to the people you're talking about, nobody would start a letter to them with the words, " Please permit me to make your acquaintance in so informal a manner. This is necessitated by my urgent need to reach a dependable and trust wordy foreign partner. This request may seem strange and unsolicited but I will crave your indulgence and pray that you view it seriously. " (I found this example online.)

So, I simply disagree that the example produced looks suspicious. It looks fine.

Further, I wouldn't even think twice before clicking it. The example I quoted simply doesn't look suspicious. (Because pdf is a 'safe' filetype.) I don't think it would give the average Internet user pause, either.
> IMO taking the compiler out of the trusted computing base is the way to go.

That is the point of compiler verification after all.

I'm biased here, but I think that another important point is to work out what the specification of a compiler is in the first place. Obviously, we've made a poor job of communicating this for C/C++, since so many people write broken code...
Guitar players are usually not remembered by the general public unless they have something else (like being cute). Worse for bass players and drummers, but the frontman/singer gets remembered. It was always a fight. Singer/guitarists is always easier but, like you said, usually considered non guitarist. I listened to the youtube you included and disclaimer taste/I am old, but then I listened to a lot of what he did: it is not very impressive. Sure, if you can do that live and long stretches that is talent but a good guitarist (what is the definition outside taste? that is a question, taste should not have anything to do with that)? Do you have something that shows he can do something? And the singing is just taste but without it would be better if you have.
Keep in mind that path dependencies can lead to outcomes -- peacocks have tails and songbirds specific songs not because those specific patterns or sounds are necessary to survival, but because the dyanmics set up promote them.

(Evolution is not teleological. Self-selection and trend-propogation occur.)

That said, multiple societies, and virtually every major empirical society (Egyptians, Persians, Hittites, Greeks, Romans, Muslims, Indians, Chinese, European, Aztec) have had some form of religion, though the specific form (polytheistic, monotheistic, ancestor-worship, mystic, meditative) has varied considerably.

(I'm not sure if the Mongol civilisation had a core religion ... a quick check suggests that Genghis Khan himself was shamist and the culture generally was permissive: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_Mongol_Empir...)

But the thought occurs that where literate knowledge and communications were limited, religion provided critical social structure.

I'm aware of some research and literature on this, mostly Weber and Durkheim. I'm meaning to explore further. I find your thoughts interesting, though I'd like to find more substance.

I'm also fairly certain a collapse of some nature is inevitable. Spirituality probably won't change that, though it may affect the outcome.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_(book)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology_of_religion
I posted this story first! My shit should of made it to the front page of hacker news :(
Er - not so sure but it would be fun to try.

UK is parliamentary so you are voting for your local MP. People quite often vote for the actual member as well as/despite the party so could be tricky with the sanctions. There is also a constitutional thing about being able to stand in elections except under very narrowly defined conditions [1].

How about lotteries for local government - like jury service? Local government in UK is problematic as it is unpaid and often elections have very low turnout.

Not sure that I or the people of France would necessarily agree that M. Macron is a sleazy candidate - he represents something different absolutely, and you need to be careful designing systems where it becomes hard to change things. Podemos and SYRIZA were both extremely popular. They are now facing the reality of governing, hence winners and losers, and so the sheen is somewhat tarnished but they still command a significant level of support.

[1] https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_fil...
Huh, and all this time I thought "rock and roll" and playing electric guitar was all about sex. At least, that's why we learned to play guitar when I was a kid...

Guitar playing lost its mojo when it was usurped by aficionados enamored by theory and technique and repulsed by swagger.

If I was 14 today, I'd grab a Maschine, load up some tracks in launchpad, and start emulating Avicii until I could pack a small dance hall.
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Matt Bellamy of MUSE was my last guitar hero.
Interesting game. I have been looking for a web-based turn based strategy game for a while, this looks promising. Some thoughts:

1. Let the user press Enter or Space to go to the next dialog in the tutorial.

2. Let the user press Escape or another character to exit out of the current "move/attack" selection state.

3. Let the user undo/go back to the start of the turn if the user hasn't pressed "end turn" yet. Very often I click move on the player's own square or move instead of attack/capture or other similar mistakes.

4. The graphics are fine for me, but I just feel the UX in terms of actual gameplay is very unintuitive/more complicated than it could be. Maybe get a game designer to give you some feedback?
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I've read the articles about NSynth with interest, but I can't figure out why they're using 8-bit and low sample rates. Surely, it's not that much more computationally intensive that they can't tinker at 8 bits and then do a render at a high resolution once they've settled on some parameters they like.
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I had the same reaction as you when I heard it the first time - I never thought one person could make all those sounds on the guitar AND sing. And if you listen you will hear that the singing melodic line is a completely different rhythmic feel from the guitar riff. How he syncs the two of them together is beyond me.

But I know it is possible, and not dubbed at all because I've seen and heard my own son do it as part of his repertoire now...
You're absolutely correct. I should have been clearer.

When I mentioned the >2km 'elevation' I meant in an airplane, which typically cruises around 10km ... but are pressurised, as you note. Unfortunately they're pressured to be around 2.4km (effective). Some newer planes will pressurise to around 1.8km but these are uncommon.

In any case, water boils at '2.4km effective' at around 92C ... and therein lies the problem.
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If I can amplify on that second function, it also had a few components.

One was guiding people in how to live within typical social and community structures -- mostly smaller towns.

The other was providing for people to act in a reasonably predictable way, across great distances or times.

Realise that a typical large pre-industrial empire might span a few thousand miles, meaning that a journey from one region to another would take days, weeks, sometimes months. Sea and river travel was preferred to land, but ships were restricted to harbour from November to May, in the Northern Hemisphere. Which meant that a provincial regent or magistrate might be on his own for months at a time. As business and commerce expanded, those also required trust.

(It's not surprising that the first financial networks developed either among specific subcultures, particularly the Jews, who had dispersed throughout Europe, were restricted from owning land or participating in trades, and had strong ties to other areas, or families, such as the Rothschild banking empire, founded by brothers in London, Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt, and Naples.)

Religion effectively provided that structure, firmness, to both social relations and political and business behaviours.

With the addition of considerable other overhead.
Fashion stores, grocery markets, liquor stores...
"Impecably" comes from the latin root for sin. It must be the problem, goody two shoes ain't rock 'n' roll. It used to be about a rebellious nature. If it's right then it's all wrong, you know?
It's more that all content is increasingly behind paywalls, no?
I'm curious, can the government use surveillance on paper mail at the large mail operators?
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The epicenter of the modern human waste problem is India. Has this project been tried in India? I know Gates is behind this project. If it has, I wonder what were the results, hurdles and practicalities.