skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a guitarist (off and on) for 30+ years, and I'm oddly fascinated by tuning methods and practices.

The best educated guitarist I've ever known (he was an LA studio guy who moved back to my home town to raise his family and was teaching at the high school for fine arts I attended...literally everyone here has heard songs he played on, and probably a few musicians he's taught) used a technique I haven't seen very often, but it's been my favorite method. It's based on chords and the naturally occurring "beating" when intervals in chords are "right". Basically, you're switching back and forth between perfect fourths and fifths across all the strings and finding the best balance between them; when the beating is minimized, your guitar's first position is about as well-tuned as it can possibly be, given the limitations and oddities of intonation on a fretted equal-tempered instrument and the different sizes of strings. This is how I tune, unless I'm going to be playing way up the neck, in which case I tune with an alternate further up the neck to accommodate that position better.

The interesting thing about this, and the thing that always confused people who see me tuning is that overdrive/distortion makes this method work better, not worse. It exacerbates the beating and makes it more clear when you're tuning it right.

James Taylor devised a system that accommodated the way lower strings tend to rise in pitch when strummed aggressively; he'd tune a tiny bit flat on the low strings, getting close to on-the-nose as you went up the strings until the high E was exactly right. You would adjust this method slightly based on gauge of strings and whether the G string is wound or not. In this way strumming hard wouldn't end up sounding sharp on the bottom and out of tune across the instrument. This seems like a pain in the ass, to me, since you need a tuner and to memorize the settings across the neck to get it exactly right, so I have only done it as an experiment. I couldn't hear a positive difference compared to my usual method of tuning with chords (which already accommodates the sharpening of low strings because we're tuning to chord shapes).

A common method I've seen maybe most often, especially among metal guitarists who tune down and bass players is the harmonics method (5th and 7th frets of strings next to each other). This has the benefit of bringing the tuning notes up into a higher register where our hearing is more accurate. Distortion doesn't hinder this method either, so rock guys can do it without changing their amp settings or whatever. But...and this is a big but. This isn't actually a great method for getting good tuning, because it will be the natural harmonics of the strings, which aren't exactly the same as the notes on an equal-tempered instrument. This was the method I used when I was a kid. The traditional fifth fret (and fourth fret) method, that is the first method most guitarists are taught, is still better than this one, because it accounts for equal temperament.
Science fiction for working submarines.
The only misuse of semantics I see is where an attempt to obscure a concretely causal relationship occurs:

mistake > punish himself > donate to charity to punish himself

Donating to charity as a method to achieve the punishment goal is precisely material in this case.

GP is asking if this method, which contains both a gain and loss, actually results in a punishment with an intended loss.
Affected? f(x) = 6 has a pretty obvious effect on all input other than 6.

Your comment is more of an indictment of identity functions than dimension-losing functions.
Thanks so much, appreciate the kind feedback and words of caution. The credit for the awesome Rusty the dog photos (https://imgur.com/a/3cRZu) goes to my Grandpa and his brother Arnold who took the photo in the 1940s as teenagers, using a camera borrowed from their Aunt Florence. The negatives were lost for decades, discovered among a bunch of family old papers. The photo of Andy and I at the fancy kid's table in the 90s was most likely taken by Grandma Cook. :)
For open source libc? musl, glibc, dietlibc, bionic are the only I know of. The supported targets vary widely among these, though.
We've banned this account for using HN for flamewar (in this case, apparently nationalistic flamewar). Please don't create accounts to do that with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The article mentioned ClearBit, which does a clever (too clever?) way of showing you the Facebook profile, Linkedin profiles, etc given just an email address.

I've tried it with an email address I've never publicly disclosed anywhere, and amazingly it works. It found the FB profile linked to that email.

I always wondered how ClearBit knew that information. Were they the "malicious actors" Facebook was referring to in their announcement last month?[1]

[1] "Malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery": https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access...
Yes, that's the point. University admissions are a ridiculous sham, the primary purpose of which is to justify the political power and wealth of the elite professional class. But not every member of the elite professional class gets to go to Harvard. The fuss about how whites and Asians are REALLY the ones being discriminated is a mechanism by which yuppie resentment is directed away from the system and towards racial minorities; it keeps people from questioning the fundamental utility and purpose of ultra-exclusive, ultra-wealthy, 'prestigious' universities.
pretty good, nice execution, and im sure this is not targeted at people like me. but i figure i would add, just for those that are curious: there is more to tuning than just this. how hard you play the strings, where on the neck you play, the relative gauges, what the weathers going to do, the sound you like- all things that make it more complicated. there is also what your bandmates are doing. there are also mechanical factors that make for difficulty in getting the string to make the pitch you want, as other posters noted. i say all this to celebrate the wonderful endless complexity that "simple" things have when they exist in the real, corporeal world. its something i think can be forgotten by people who hang out on a computer mostly.
> Ron Paul has predicted it pretty consistently for about ~25 years

Ron Paul is not an Austrian-school economist (or any other kind of economist.)

> as far as I'm aware the mises institute has agreed with him all of that time.

[Citation needed]
Sounds like your company is in a tough spot. Almost out of money? Regardless of the other issues you probably need to cockroach-up and get profitable right away.

Assuming you are a C-Corp, the rest is going to depend on your equity structure, board structure, etc. I hope you have dotted i's and crossed t's, legally speaking, to cover situations like this. Not enough info here...
Thanks. I'll report back to The 'Rents.
> A robot dog would be perfect for me. But this is nowhere close to a robot dog.

It is a robot dog. It is a very imperfect, artificial representation of a dog that doesn't really replace the real thing. It's just cheaper and more convenient than the real thing. If you've ever read Philip K Dick's short story, everyone longs for a real pet as opposed to fake robotic ones.

Of course this may change as technology progresses.
Microsoft Pay Comes to Outlook, Integrating Stripe, Braintree, Sage, Wave
CoreOS, PXE, bootkube, kubelet, kubectl. And you say it's not complex? I don't think you and I will ever agree on the meaning of that word.
Wow, it is amazing to see someone turn such a seemingly mundane subject into an interesting talk!
Well, hopefully nobody ever asks you!
> don't see why you would prefer non-stop over stops if it's the same plane you keep sitting in, other than that it takes less time.

That's exactly why I prefer them. Because of the time savings. And I'm willing to pay more for that.

> I never flew in a plane that had stops, so I forgot that they exist.

It's increasingly rare as airlines move to a more direct city to city model, but in the old hub and spoke days, you'd often find planes that stopped in one or two hubs on the way.

Southwest still make a lot of stops. If you want to get from the west coast to east cost, there's a really good chance of stopping in Denver, Kansas City, or Texas.
> That's bullshit (sorry),

Please don't break the site guidelines like that, when they ask you quite explicitly not to:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In this case, your comment would be excellent if you'd simply delete that bit. Saying sorry doesn't make it better, because the other person typically doesn't hear that part.
If I type in a Word document, the data is on the computer.

If I type in a Google Doc, the data is on Google's servers.

There is no equivalency here. Sure, Google can claim that they won't use it for specific purposes, but they can still use it for a lot of other things, and most crucially, they can change their policy at any time.
SO this is a reverse pump-and-dump? Down-talk your company on an earnings call while giving people reason to question your intelligence, wait for the stock to drop, then buy. I am not a lawyer or securities regulator, but how is this not insider trading? Does he just have to wait X number hours after the earnings call before buying?
Basically an "apple falling on Newton's head = discovered gravity" kind of story people eat up about invention and science. Which always seems to gloss over the endless hard work and constant failure and self-doubt they went through. Plus the incidental ancillary work done in related fields which helped spawn the initial seeds.

Although there may be a useful metaphor here that the solutions are often easier or more "obvious" than they seem, and people often get lost in the details and busywork, missing the forest for the trees. So having a simple (but receptive) wall to bounce ideas off of (such as a 6yr old) helps break through the noise to focus on core / fundamental / primitive ideas from which more complex breakthroughs spawn.
Have you had a serious sit down conversation with your board? This is exactly why you have a board of directors.

If you don't have an external board, start making the rounds to see if you can raise a series and buy him out. (if you see the company going anywhere)
In a statically-typed language it should be reliable.

I can see this having big benefits in dynamic languages where pattern analysis needs to be done.

Just wish she wasn't saying "powered by AI" every other sentence. Programmers are the target audience after all.
UBI will change nothing. People who could benefit are "tidal"-locked in bad economic dependencies. If you live in a trailer park- and recive UBI- all that happens is that the landowner or landlord raises the rent to meet the new income you recive.
That's a pretty extreme position to take. Sure it's harder if you can't show some prior validation or backing, but it isn't impossible. Hook up with any one of the accelerators, sign up for some mentoring programs and you'll get your introductions sooner or later if that is what you desire, provided your start-up has some merit.

And then there is the dumb money, of which there is plenty floating around, and which keeps on surprising me with the stuff that gets funded. Really, if you want to get funding you probably can, but it will come at a cost and it may not be a good fit in the longer term. Be careful of what you wish for.
This reads like a rant out of frustration for not being able to raise money (and newsflash, if raising money is hard, no doubt raising in Montreal is near to impossible), but I think the author nailed it with this paragraph:

"The problem, with the Big Lie, is that it kills a lot of startups that end up building their strategy around a capital infusion that will never come, and end-up wasting a lot of time trying to fundraise. Some of those startups would have had a better shot had they focused on sales. It’s still super hard, but the odds are better. The problem is that bootstrapping success stories often remain unknown, as the valuation of those startups is never announced in press releases."

This is so true. Most people I know that have founded startups that later failed were working towards having something decent to show to institutional investors instead of focusing on understanding their customers.
There are more speakers of Hindi than English in India, but they are geographically skewed toward the north of the country. Some regions (esp Tamil Nadu) are actively antagonistic toward Hindi. English is a good bet to be able to communicate across the entire country, and is also an official language.
Jeremy from fast.ai here. I've posted a summary of the course materials for anyone who's interested : http://www.fast.ai/2018/05/07/part2-launch/

Let me know if you have any questions about the material or approach. There's also a discussion for the course here: http://forums.fast.ai/c/part2-v2
Gmail was in beta for 5 years.
Hah I actually meant to write "android auto and carplay"

As long as the screens are dumb and the interface documented I don't see why that couldn't happen.
I used mathematics as an example to give you a sense of what things in reality (truth) are like. People don't perceive what is in the world of the truth just by learning what exists there from someone who can see and say it. Nevertheless, if you learn and use the truth, such as in your work, you can get what you want. You just won't be able to confirm how much of the whole thing you can see, lacking enlightenment.

By the way, everyone is in reality. So how can you say "access" to a real "realm" of reality?

When you decide you have something to you want to know, ask me again.
All: since the title was baiting some people into nationalistic arguments, which are off topic here, we replaced it with representative language from the article explaining what it is about. This is a great HN submission! Please don't let the thread slide back into bickering.
Time is a path “through” space. In other words, change over space IS TIME. That is why they found “timekeeping” in the space brain. In a sense, they didn’t discover anything. They reaffirmed that time is an aspect of space (or of any n-manifold).
And even though PW1000G has been in "production" for two years, it's had constant problems. Someone else here probabally knows for sure, but I think they finally fixed all their issues and hope to start producing in volume sometime soon. IIRC, they are still trying to get all the existing engines swapped out with fixed builds.
But as this accident shows, that's still an easier problem: if there an object in your lane on the freeway, you should pretty much always avoid it. On a city street, it's more difficult to decide which objects should or shouldn't be ignored.
Cheap locking tuners are inferior to quality non-locking tuners. I would pick a good set of non-locking over cheap locking tuners any day, unless I absolutely needed to do dive bomb tremolo swings.

Also, you can usually solve tuning problems by replacing the bridge and nut with something hard and smooth like Graphtech TUSQ (they call them "self-lubricating", whatever that means).

That's not to say locking tuners are bad, it's just that I don't have problems with tuning on any of my guitars that have decent nuts and decent tuners. I even used to play my Schecter (old 1990 California model Super Strat) without the Floyd Rose nut locks in place because I wanted to be able to switch back and forth between alternate tunings without the hex wrench. No problems with tuning, at all.
Thanks for this great feedback. I hadn't considered the difference between distortion in each of the strings vs applied overall, but that makes sense.

[edit] as korethr described above, I chose to implement it this way because of the samples that I was working with
The slippery slope fallacy isn't really a fallacy.

I've been thinking this for awhile now. There are certain systems which are somewhat hazy or flubbery by nature. Legal and political systems fit into this category. Systems of logic and mathematics have more sharply delimited values for truth or falsity. Science is more sharply delimited, but even here, you see some of the haziness creep in. Is this particular grain of sand Ediacaran or Cambrian? There may be no way of saying, one way or another. However, that also isn't of particular import, one way or another.

Legal and political systems are particularly bad, since they tend to have very fuzzy distinctions combined with very significant consequences.
> There's no documented proof that Indian system was descended from another system. [...] Hence, purely of Indian creation.

If the Babylonians developed a place value number system with a zero in it before the Indians did, then it's more likely the Indians copied it from the Babylonians and changed it to base 10, than it is that the systems were developed independently, because the two civilizations were in close contact with each other. Number systems are exactly the sort of thing that ancient traders would share with each other -- it only needs to happen once during the many hundreds or thousands of such contacts.

The onus of proof is hence on you to prove any such single contact didn't happen before claiming "Hence, purely of Indian origin". It's better to write, as the article did:

> whether the Indians got the idea of a place value system from the Babylonians [...] is simply not known
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/xiaomi-mi-robot-hacked/20632/

The talk at 34C3 at 10m:00

https://youtu.be/uhyM-bhzFsI?t=607
The distortion sounds are being distorted on individual strings, as opposed to after summing. If you look at the credits, and follow the link to the sound sources, you can find the files used. If you listen, you'll be able to match them up. While I agree that the distortion should happen after summing, I suspect the playing and summing of individual already-distorted string sounds was done because that's what could be implemented simply and easily. Applying distortion after summing may well require more extensive coding, or stuff that's computationally intensive enough to slow down the browser (I don't know this for certain, I'm guessing).

I'm not faulting the author for this, I probably would have done the same.
> a culture where gun ownership is legally a human right?

Oh, easy. Even if owning a gun were actually a "human right", it wouldn't mean that everyone must be forced to allow you to speak your mind about this.

The 2nd amendment isn't "right to bear arms and post videos on YT about it", and "talking about weapons" isn't a protected class.

xkcd "showing the door" strip applies:

https://xkcd.com/1357/
I'm going to assume you aren't in the US because that simply isn't true here.

Amazon is quite often not the lowest price. And, while they do still seem to be quite liberal with "send it back and we'll refund plus <mumble>", that doesn't matter if you can't get a genuine product because of all the counterfeits.
Excellent tip on asking for a STRONG letter of recommendation when approaching faculty, this probably would have saved me some heartache in the past.
Were the Fortune 500 companies hosting k8s on-prem or on a cloud provider? From an operational standpoint, I can see where GP is coming from, especially if you are hosting on-prem, for non-greenfield projects.

Trying to integrate a k8s cluster into legacy infrastructure is non-trivial, and requires knowledgeable operations teams to deploy. Troubleshooting k8s requires extensive domain knowledge, in addition to foundational understanding of fairly advanced networking and distributed systems concepts. In my experience, working with k8s also requires much more vigilant watching of the project space for (breaking) changes, updated docs, SIG news, and github issues. Even if Google or Amazon is managing the k8s management, troubleshooting your app using kubectl, etc. is a new skill to learn.

I actually like a lot about using k8s, but I understand when people complain about the complexity.
Galaxy S9 Killer? The LG G7 ThinQ Can't Beat Last Year's Phones
True, but same can be said about built in google maps. What happens when volvo stops paying the license? I think right now android auto/carplay/mirrorlink are the best we got
Yes for sure, it isn't sudden. I think right after college people "settle down" at different times. Some marry early, some later. Marriage and kids are huge time sinks. By 30 many are married. The more that are married means less time for friends, and slowly those "groups" wither away to the most important.
Finally, Microsoft! I have always felt weird about Microsoft prioritizing Python before their own language. Not that I do a lot of ML, but I plan to maybe use it for some projects in the future and then it would feel nice to have an official .NET package for it.
In my opinion, the author dies try to indicate that they are meaning people who avoid gluten yet do not suffer from celiac disease.

"Consider the gluten-free movement — those who choose to eliminate gluten from their diet, not those who have celiac disease and must eschew wheat entirely."

I do agree that a non-celiac person who chooses to avoid gluten simply to avoid gluten, without any other health concerns, is bizarre. And it's certainly on the rise: where I live restaurants actually alter behavior based on whether or not you suffer from celiac disease or simply "prefer no gluten". My partner has celiac disease and when they ask if something contains gluten (or requests a gluten-free menu, some places offer this) the server always asks: "Do you have an allergy?"

While my partner always replies "yes", this indicates to me that some people are saying "no". In those cases, apparently, the restaurant is doing something differently.
I didn’t knew something like ClearBit can transform an IP into personal data.
In a fatal crash, Uber’s autonomous car detected a person, but chose to not stop
That is true.

They do encrypt it all at rest, though. Plus they are audited regularly by third parties.

I actually use OneDrive for all of my Microsoft Office files even though I'm using the desktop suite, so keeping the document data in the cloud is far more of a feature in my eyes than an issue.
What's Volvo's plan regarding OS and security updates?

If I'm going to have a car connected at all time to a LTE network, I want the software on it to be secure.
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There is something robust about the way moderation on reddit is handled "by group." This allows for a kind of free market of moderation ideas. The situation on reddit isn't perfect, of course, but such distribution/division might be a step in a better direction for society.
Here's two: hapiJS and lacinia
If you get a 404 on the link (like I did), click on Mathematics at the top, then on the article.
It is not an idea from an exec, and that is not a lie.

>https://youtu.be/uhyM-bhzFsI?t=607
That's also a big negative about a job - like group projects in school, you're FORCED to work with people you may or may not like. As they say, you don't quit your job, you quit your manager.
Hmm... I get no sound on chrome for some reason. Works fine on FF.

_edit_

See kmm's comment, chrome seems to be intentionally blocking it.
What is that supposed to mean? You can't have 100% safety at any speed. If it really is incumbent upon the driver to always drive at night in such a way that no collision can occur at all, then why not change the speed limit?

My whole point is that it's not the driver's responsibility to account for every possible scenario. It can't be.
I flew on the Concorde once. I didn't hear any sonic booms ;)
From TFA:

> “It is easy to have opinions without evidence,” Suri said. “It is time we tried to gather some evidence and started thinking about what the impacts truly are and how it changes people’s lives.”