skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to buy a new guitar. I had a PRS in the 90’s and loved it. I never should have sold it.

A lot of guitars (PRS included) are now made cheaply overseas. They’re decent, but to me they’re still not good enough. I think they’re crap.

It’s a shame the industry has fallen, but the industry did this to itself. But rest assured, guitar rock will eventually make a comeback. Music trends in waves.

Will the guitar industry be ready when it does?
The title would be clearer if it implied that it was a review of a single philosopher - Maybe "Daniel Dennet - The Illusionist"
Oh I can go on :)

Besides the tax thing, they get paid unofficial rent for weddings taking place in their churches (yes of course they are just tax-free "offerings" after the ceremony, but not paying will have consequences).

They sell ex-voto (you pay to light candles to your preferred saint), especially the old will likely do it every week or even every day. They also sell images of saints and various paraphernalia, as any religion will - I bought a sticker from a Japanese Shinto shrine to protect my electronics and it seems to work! :D

At Easter and Christmas priests are supposed to go blessing every house, and obviously they won't leave empty-handed (this varies a lot depending on the town and the physical condition of a priest). They often bring calendars to sell on those occasions. To be fair, this is again something that pretty much every sizeable European religion does, as far as I know.

Kids are required to follow weekly indoctrination courses to prepare for holy communion and so on. Obviously they are not free (unless the area is really poor). No course, no ceremony.

In summer, they organise childcare while schools are closed. Because of their legal status, all their workforce is made of unpaid volunteers, but the Church still gets paid a fee. Again because of their status, stuff like their kitchens is not required to follow all rules that private businesses would have to, in terms of respecting hygiene standards and so on. This allows them to undercut and monopolize the childcare market, and to keep the youth close and indoctrinated.

Procedure is the same for pilgrimages of old people to Lourdes, Medjugorie, Petralcina and so on - they organise them because they make money for both shrines and local parish thanks to volunteer workforce. Officially, top Church hierarchies will publicly disdain such activities in public declarations, but then they close one eye (or both) because they generate money.

There is probably more, but I have not really been close to that world for some time now so I probably forget some. The Catholic Church in UK has a lighter approach, because they are a minority (at least for now), so they only really fundraise for specific causes and don't push the superstition buttons too much. If I were Pope-Emperor of the world, the first thing I'd do would be to impose antitrust legislation on religions...
I got really confused by that at first, because I saw Abb in a note table.

When I looked it up, I saw that it's just another name for G.

https://www.basicmusictheory.com/a-double-flat-note

The fact that the same thing has 2 names, but then the same name (e.g. C) can mean 3 different things (note, chord, key) really confuses me. I'm a beginner (can't play any instrument), so this is just about trying to cover the basics and generate a machine learning dataset. If I weren't so confused already, I might try to learn an instrument. It seems to be really time-consuming to practice though, and I'd need a teacher to listen and correct my mistakes. I wouldn't notice when I get it wrong if I try to teach myself.
I was in a 22' Excelsior near a gray whale when it decided to breech. Big whale + little boat == feeling of awe + healthy sense of how big the boat is not.
Bow before your your betters, prole. Also, be sure to protest Thanksgiving and Columbus Day as racist by working - nothing says antiestablishment like free labor.
Good catch. Will fix the accidentals.
And if you're going to say there's no E# you'd want to also pretend there's no B#. Otherwise it sounds like E is totally exceptional.

Down with E exceptionalism.
This is so annoying I always have volume set to 0 or a headphone plugged in..
The script is in there! Chord Progressions.scpt.

If you can read AppleScript, go ahead and use it.

The way I see it, most people prefer to take existing data (e.g. Kaggle datasets) and build machine learning tools on that, instead of having to compile everything from source and make their own data.
I mean, you might then argue that the Echo (and, for that matter, Amazon generally) was insufficiently surreptitious about it. If Brave can be more difficult to distinguish, it will also be more difficult to ban.
> we could wish him well and let bygones be bygones?

Well it can sometimes be hard to reconcile the person you know and like with the bad things they have done, it would appear that he systematically assaulted a very large number of young men over a period of decades.

Criminal charges might be a more appropriate response.
It's the same supply-demand issue as any other field. There is no money in writing poetry, but plenty of cash writing ad copy.
Everything can be brought back to MIDI though, right?
> There is a reason why all the big tech companies operate this way. Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, all have one giant repository with their entire product.

Cool, but that doesn't explain why Office and Windows need to share the same repo. Ditto for gmail and chrome os. Ditto for fb messenger and whatever face recognition algorithm they use.
I'm 52, been programming for 27 years. About 10 to go, things still look good at this time.

I'd still advise my kids to go into programming. It's been a great gig.
That article was enough to inspire me to write a K interpreter, and eventually land me a job working with K. If I ever meet Stephen Taylor in person I imagine it'll be an interesting story to tell.
Thank you. That's exactly right.

Indeed, those lines are dramatically oversimplifying, but it makes the comments section more exciting and the article shorter.

Perhaps it'll scare off people who were planning to do machine learning audio analysis. But at least they'll get an idea of how complicated it can be.
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We absolute can be aware of subjective experience/awareness.

Hawkins posited in "On Intelligence" that consciousness is simply the feeling of having a neo-cortex.

While I am as baffled as any/many at having subjective qualia appear so "real", I really don't have any basis for believing/thinking that they could arise from anything else other than from physical quanta hitting my senso-sphere and being interpreted by a biological machine.

I also have no basis for not thinking/believing that this is not nonsense.

How you you break the conundrem of primary-physics vs primary-mind?
Sutter says "part of a routine destruction of old paper records"

If that's true, they can be required to show evidence of the rest of this routine and how it was possible for the mistake to happen. Apparently they havn't destroyed documents for at least 17 years so it doesn't sound very routine at all.
True, caches are a whole different story though.
> There is always risk associated with specialization

That might be the reason people demand higher pay, but it wouldn't be the reason why companies pay the higher pay. They pay it because there's a scarcity of people, and/or because they get some multipled value back. No company cares if I've specialized in the 'wrong thing' - they just won't hire me.
Yes, the mistake was out of ignorance.

It was not an "accidental"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_(music)
It is fraud and a blatant lie for Christopher Woodrow to claim “Investors will benefit as the tokens, which can be traded in the secondary market, would appreciate based on the success of the films”

That is a straight up lie. Token value is not a share of the film’s revenue or profits.
Respectfully, did you read the article? The article argues that it is not capitalism -- competition in a free market -- driving the gap between the top 1% and the rest. Rather it is the efforts on the part of the 1% to monopolize, to drive out competition and protect their position that is the cause.
Sorry, poor people: The FCC is coming after your broadband plans
Can you suggest resources to find jobs that pay coin?
Are there job boards for people looking to work exclusively for crypto currency? That would be an exciting perk.
Sorry, I meant to include that very link.

It doesn’t take much real bread to turn people away from the mass produced options.

Soughdough is surprisingly forgiving and can be made in a pretty lazy fashion with excellent results - just keep deleting steps in the recipe until it doesn’t work, then go back one step.
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Jane Street's famous for its obsession with OCaml.
To be fair it's more like "turn matter into light and then into matter", since they still need to accelerate electrons first to produce the gamma photons.
Oh! Thank you; I hadn't realised that.

I learned this by asking a friend in the CouchSurfing meetup who brings a guitar or a roll-out piano. And as I say, I can't play any instrument myself.

Maybe if I want to learn, I should choose an instrument that uses single notes, it might be easier.

Regarding singing though, my ex-girlfriend told me to sing more quietly in church because it sounds so bad.
If there is no principle behind the desire to oppress, it is just an application of violence.

You won't get consensus out of me for that.
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I'm curious, what makes the ML families different than Algol?
In Consciousness Explained, Dennet is deliberately not dealing with that problem because he had already written his thesis, a book, and several papers on the subject of content and qualia and that sort of argument. He was also a student of Quine, who had his own rather extensive criticisms of the notion of intentionality and subjective experience. As such, he decided to leave that particular sort of discussion out, and just focus on his main objective (as he remarks in the appendix).

The following papers represent I think a pretty good summary of his response to the sort of objection you raise. They might not be the best, but they seem to be the ones that come to mind at least for me.

https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/quinqual.htm

https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/JCSarticle.pdf

The first is an extensive attack on the notion of qualia as a useful notion. The second explains the methodological approach implicit to rejecting this sort of notion, especially in the social/psychological sciences.
I don’t know if I disagree with you, but I certainly don’t agree.

His point is that Dennett and any philosophers who ignore all philosophy before the 17th century are and always will be running in endless circles with arguments that are intrinsically unsolvable by nature of the way they are framed.

I just got through about 1/2 of Feser’s The last Superstition which basically makes the same argument.

That claim to me seems more an objection to hand-wavvy philosophy rather than an application of it.
Thanks, this looks like what I needed to know!
The first few lines define the interface that is going to be used and its monotonicity properties. E.g. getAt :: (m : NatMap, k : Nat) ⇒ Nat[↑ m, ? k] means that when you get the value of key k in the map m, the result is a number that increases as the map increases.

Based on the names, I guess that getAt is for value access, joinAt updates an entry of a map with a new value, span returns the maximum key with an associated entry, max is the maximum of two numbers, emptyMap is a map without entries and + and > are the usual mathematical functions. The GCounter type is essentially just a wrapper around maps that will be used to count things, apparently.

The function sumCounters they define first unwraps the maps backing the counters and determines the maximum key that will have to be considered.

Then there's a helper function sumCell which takes a key k and an accumulator acc containing the intermediate result for all previous keys. The helper function then checks whether all keys have been handled already, and returns the accumulator if that's the case. Otherwise it updates the accumulator with the sum of the entries for the given key in the two input maps. Then it calls itself recursively to handle the next key with the new accumulator.

The final line just starts off the helper function with an empty accumulator and the first key.
ZFS doesn't use actual RAID. It uses independent writes to each disk, so there are no write holes possible.
The Go team has a whole bunch of benchmarks besides compiler performance by which they judge the language. Certainly maintaining good compiler performance means giving up some low-value optimizations, but it doesn't mean compiler performance is their only benchmark.
HFT has matured.

But, I agree, finding alpha through alternative means at internet scale has been around for at least a decade, but things are getting more interesting now.
I would agree with that, particularly if you totally abandon programming. But management skills are useful as you continue your programming career and development.
Rhytmatom is really cool! If I knew about it a month ago, I'd probably have used your source code instead of rewriting everything myself.

I like that I can choose the number of beats, unlike Jake Albaugh's arpeggiator (although that has some other interesting features).

https://codepen.io/jakealbaugh/full/qNrZyw
Not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing, but I had in mind (for example) a language server supporting multiple languages that run on the JVM and a separate language server supporting languages that compile to JavaScript, etc.

(This is assuming that reducing the number of processes improves performance; otherwise, a process per language might be simpler.)
Or any instrument that isn't tuned to 12-tone equal temperament. In just intonation there are no enharmonic notes, for just one example. C# isn't always the same thing as Db!

And that's without mentioning oddities like most varieties of bagpipes or the hurdy-gurdy, where a constant drone is present. It doesn't exactly form chords with the other notes, but it's still more than one note being played at a time!
You're right that most startups don't need domain experts, but most startups won't be paying 250+k salaries, either. So a domain expert would look elsewhere anyways. Even if they still work for a startup, it'd be one that needs their expertise.
Put anybody in a tiny tank for long enough and they will certainly go crazy.
I've visited about a dozen countries. Some of them "third world." The US has pockets of communities that are as impoverished as anywhere.
this is good advice for first timers and also people that have done many presentations. Also, it is always clear when the speaker has put in effort before the presentation, and that is always appreciated. The only thing I would add is to check your fly again after using the restroom :)
I thought recently they made e ink monitor. But not laptop though.. More like a giant tablet
http://www.dasung.com/english/
Wow, examining you! Amazing. Thank you for sharing this episode. Hemmingway could write a whole book on just that snippet.
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback! I got lucky and checked my fly right before walking up and it was unzipped...
I talked about this with my friend Lenard, because I was confused why the Parsons code would be different for the same chord progression.

He then explained that I should move the key, and when I transposed the MIDI table, the Parsons codes all became the same.

I then asked him, is it possible to move up an octave for just one part of a chord progression? He said yes, it's possible, but people don't do that often. Normally people wait until the end of a chord progression to change octave.
I think almost all the people they hire nowadays would be familiar with git and not something else. So it would be a lot of time savings in training if you switch to git instead of training every newbie to your own peculiar source control mechanism.
What is the technical advantage of Brave using a new token like BAT instead of directly using an existing cryptocurrency like Bitcoin that millions of people already hold, and will likely be less volatile in the long term?

I feel like a lot of ICOs are simply used to try to capture a piece of the cryptocurrency/ICO hype and avoid securities regulations, but there’s no advtange to users.
E.g. it says: we need time to actually read the paper.
There is no constructive argument to be had and will only result in thread detachment and a stern warning by an HN mod. Let’s move on to a more productive line of discourse.
Why would that have been better?

(Why in the world would that have been better?)
BeOS has extreme task scheduling to give smooth UI, for example if you run too many programs at once, BeOS network connection has noticeable stutter even if your UI seems slick enough
Well, instruments in just intonation or other tuning systems can surely still play one note at a time!
Cool. I have something else that uses Eigen in WebAssembly, so that hasn't caused any issues btw.
The threshold of the top 1% by wealth is $8.4 million in the US.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/economix/2012/01/17/measuri...
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15725108
In what way is Trump “against gay people”?
I'd hate to call them "as impoverished as anywhere", but there are some pretty rough spots in the US to be sure.
Extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15725108
"Some readers wondered if the 1 percent by wealth weren’t an entirely different group of people from the 1 percent by income. But there is substantial overlap: the Fed data suggests that about half of the top 1 percent of earners are also among the top 1 percent in the net worth category."

https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/economix/2012/01/17/measuri...
Dennet is a reductive materialist. He'd probably disagree with my hardline depiction of him, but, in my opinion, if it quacks like a duck and swims like a duck, it's probably a duck. For what it's worth, he identifies as a 'teleofunctionalist' (???).

The author of the piece doesn't seem to be a reductive materialist, so obviously Dennet won't jive with him. I'm also not a materialist, so I don't really find Dennet very insightful. For example, he denies the existence of qualia (and rejects everything that comes with that experience; see Nagel's famous What is it like to be a bat?).

With that said, I think he's made some pretty big contributions to materialism, in particular with regards to evolutionary theory and by providing some pretty solid theories of an 'emergent' non-hand-wavy consciousness. I don't really agree with his points and I think he's being crudely reductive, but dismissing the man's life work is kind of unfair.
When you realize how the current "mapping" of piano keys makes everything confusing and how it historically developed, it looks like musician version of "JavaScript", i.e. a really crappy standard, where you can do anything but in a really unpleasant way. Map your scales directly onto launchpad/push/circuit, and you never get a wrong note. Moreover, the equal temperament makes all sounds slightly disharmonic, so even a professionally tuned concert grand piano sounds rather bad and unauthentic, different to what original classical composers intended (they used harmonic tuning where transposing by one key changed harmonics completely unlike with prevailing standard today). If you do acid trance, it's OK though.
If you want to get a bit more wild, though, a lot of solo music still contains chords by implication, and can be very easily harmonically analyzed. I don't know how popular solo works are in the 20th century since atonality flung the music locomotive gleefully through the "Bridge Out Ahead" sign and into the canyon [1], but if we discount that it would certainly include almost all Western solo music.

[1]: Yes, it's an opinion. Yes, it's an informed opinion, and implying in one way or another that I just must Not Get It will not faze me. I do Get It, and that's why I find it distasteful.
I think you're being unreasonably harsh here. You have to consider the perspective of the people you want to help. Lashing out at me for explaining why it's a difficult problem doesn't particularly help solve the problem.

Let me try again:

Think about how much spam you receive on a regular basis.

Now imagine you're in a position where you have fans wanting to send you money: you probably get all the bulk spam plus a ton of targeted spam simply for being notable. This goes double if you have a need for people to be able to message you legitimate business inquiries, because then you're going to get illegitimate inquiries as well.

Then imagine one of the messages in the flood (I know people with six figure unread message counts) that is your inbox said that they had some money available for you, and all you had to do was sign up for their service with your personal information.

You'd be crazy to be willing to do that without researching, likely for several hours.

And if more of these services start popping up, then you have to check up on each one individually as they come in.

That's not something most people in that position can afford to do for 0.01% of their inbox.

Or you could ignore them, but then you're at risk of upsetting your fans because they're trying to send you money and you're not receiving it, out of a quite reasonable assumption that it could be a scam. No one wins in that situation either.

Or, consider the following situation:

Someone you know recommends a donations platform, or you find one while searching, whatever.

You sign up for an account, post the link somewhere, and people use it.

It's much more inconvenient for the users who are giving the money and have to track down what platform you use, but at the same time they also get a level of assurance that any money they send will end up in your hands in the end.
They're not turning those electrons into photons; they're using the electrons to transfer energy from the accelerator into gamma photons. The electrons aren't annihilated in the process.
Financial aid exists. Phillips Exeter's web page says that families with income under $75,000 pay $0 of tuition: https://www.exeter.edu/admissions-and-financial-aid

I went to boarding school and came from a family of two church musicians. Some of my classmates came from wealthy families, others came from very modest backgrounds.
Just try playing any instrument - you'll soon realize that we're quite good at figuring out what sounds good and what not.
Thank you for the elaboration. Now that you remind me, I remember about the C11. Which also adds "The C memory model" as part of the runtime, IIRC. Other languages have different memory models. Usually simpler, though it's hard to hold that against C11 since it was in the unenviable position of trying to codify decades of implicit and divergent practice in one of the trickiest places in software engineering.
Hard work. It's the easy way
No-one seems to be accusing him of an actual crime. It sounds like his victims/partners willingly carried him on their backs or did workouts together or took their shirts off. It sounds very similar to what many pairs opposite sex people do when one invites the other back to their hotel room. If it was a woman and she wasn't sexually interested in him, she would be unlikely to go along so far - certainly not taking off clothes in a hotel room! Does it just seem worse because it's gay? Maybe it's worse because young men in those days didn't think that other men might be gay so they misread his advances?
The government explicitly can't restrict freedom of speech in the US. It is the first amendment to the Constitution.

I'm not sure why you seem to think that e.g. non-disparagement clauses are unenforceable in the US.
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