skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that this is normal securities, not crypto. But it could also happen in crypto, just not this time
What kind of returns did you get at the bank per year? What was the best traders returns at your location? Care to share? I ask because I think I can beat anyone.
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> For the Huawei case, the rules are actually a little fuzzy. Phones are permitted to adjust performance based on workload, which results in peaks or dips in performance for different apps, but they are not permitted to hard-code peaks in performance specifically for the benchmark app. Huawei reportedly claimed that the peak in performance seen during the run of the benchmark app was an intuitive jump determined by AI; however, when an unlabeled version of the benchmark test was run, the phones were unable to recognize it and, as a result, displayed lower performances.

Source code for their AI engine:

if (app == benchmark) { increasePerformance(); }
Hi, author here. This is what made derivatives finally click for me (as opposed to the tangent line) so that’s how I wanted to explain it...maybe the same thing would click for others!
I don't see why an earnest benchmarking firm would let manufacturers know details like the name of the testing app.
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This is only showing companies that are HQ in SF, doesn't show satellite offices, which there are many of them.
The tricky part with the 100k downloads is that you do not have all the meta data for each file. You just have the filename, so some are just called “index.mid”. Which I guess is nice for a random surprise when you play it.

My shameless plug is my old MIDI site called MIDI Delight. I had user registration, ratings, comments, top 10 lists, etc. I always wanted to get it working again like you did. It would be cool to see more user features added on your site.

I’m glad there is a new MIDI site carry the torch.
If you count only the people who require tech support then of course you're only going to see the people who require tech support. But they're not the only users.

Developers and techies are users too and they're much less likely to call tech support in general.

This harms them far more than it helps the people who need help.
> ... if it wanted to

Made me smile. Google needs to track you, its their core business model. Defeat is not an option, all methods should be found and blocked. Thankfully Chrome is not the only usable browser, and network requests are detectable.
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I tried many times, but never got the hang of GIMP's UI. I usually end up googling the operation I want to do, and then following the recipe (and forgetting 5 minutes later, because it is always non-obvious).

Paint.net has always being intuitive, an I still remember how to do most operations, even after years without using it. But never managed to run it reliably on Linux under Wine.
What's a reasonable retirement fund to you? (asking out of ignorance, not sarcasm or anything)
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An option to download the archive would be great, just because it's always good to have an offline copy. Any chance you could also add the ability to upload new MIDIs to the collection?
Onward to Idiocracy we go!

/s
I esp. would not use Messenger. That would seem to be the "spyingest". But I'm assuming you have someone who is all-in on Messenger you would lose otherwise.

Deleted FB and all content a year ago. Honestly, as I was on my way out, I was beginning to enjoy the "groups" I had discovered. Wish there were a lurker mode....
This! Consistency.

Browser start screens with a large search box in the center haven't helped either. Some users do see no difference between the location-field and this search box. Some have even unlearned this. Arguably, it facilitates ignorance of the location, the significance of URLs and how they work. Reading a URL isn't witchcraft, it's just about three simple things. But dumbing things down towards convenience at the expense of consistency will not empower users.

(Surprisingly, ordinary people have been able to manually dial a phone or to parse a street address without the help of a map service in the past. It can't be that bad.)
I wonder if it is saying that he should be maxing it out each year, and maybe he hasn't contributed this year, meaning he would need to contribute that much in the next two to three months in order to meet the goal for 2018? I dunno. Like you said, that seems like it can't be right.
If we're talking about deserts, there is next to no plant and animal life, and part of the goal of this would be to change that.
Can these be grounds for refund?
I will note that my framing comes directly from something I saw somewhere. So my understanding is that it was intended a certain way.

There's a great book called How to lie with statistics. It makes a lot of excellent points about how framing the same data differently can support different conclusions.

So, some thoughts:

Law makers who passed it may not have realized the average 65 year old would live another 12 years. They may have only known average life expectancy was 67.

Six years longer may not sound like much, but it's 50 percent longer. That can have significant repercussions.
He's an absolute, frothing-at-the-mouth nut job. It makes me sad how many people listen to him.
Thanks for the response and info. I looked at the README and it seems like you all use Javascript for this. I was thinking maybe Maple or Mathematica was used. I'm impressed with the calculus notes/exercises I saw. It looks professionally done. The fonts/colors are nice.

I'm going to try to make some stuff myself. I would mostly do it for developmental math, college algebra, and trig. I haven't dug too deep into how to make my own stuff using Ximera but I'm hoping I won't have to write Javascript myself to handle checking expressions.
Transparency. Everybody can run the benchmark on their own device [1] and check the results, that way they can't deny the results saying that it's malicious, a conflict of interest or a configuration error.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glbenchmar...
We’re in the middle of the best economy and wages still aren’t rising. Monopoly, monopsony, and free market extremism have crushed them for all but the very few.

https://www.epi.org/publication/its-not-just-monopoly-and-mo...

So no, there aren’t really “plenty of options” to get paid or treated better. Just better returns for those already at the top.
Here's what I try to do:

- Outsource chores or tasks I hate doing (like shopping and laundry).

- Optimize for free time where I have no obligations...I find that very pleasant.

- Say yes to things I've never tried before...if I hate it I'll say no the next time but I'll forever be able to tell people I tried X. This also makes conversations with strangers and acquaintances easier because I've tried a lot of stuff and can contribute to more conversations.

- Travel with friends. This can be hard to coordinate but is incredibly fun.

- Treat myself on occasion. I try to minimize the "stuff" I own but I just bought a nice pair of shoes that I've been looking at for a while and they make me happy every time I wear them.

- Only use social media for staying connected instead of entertainment. If I want to send a message to someone specific or look at pictures of my nephew, I'll log into Facebook. But as soon as I find myself scrolling through any sort of "feed" I pinch myself and log out...it's 95% bullshit I don't care about and 100% stuff I don't NEED to see right now anyway.
1% per year? So some bits of these solar plants will last a century or more? I'd put a 20-year expectancy on everything, to cover both degredation and periodic upgrades. That is 4%+ per year. Nothing functional lasts for a century in the desert.
Thinking about your users is kind of your job as a developer / entrepreneur...
Consider the possibility that these "toxic environments" are in fact not the norm, but the exception, especially in Silicon Valley in 2018. The person who wrote this blog post has never even worked in the US.
This reminds me of Rebugger.jl

https://timholy.github.io/Rebugger.jl/stable/
As someone who spent a ton of time in the smartphone GPU/CPU space from '09-'13 we saw every single vendor do this.

They'll happily ignore thermals, run custom shader microcode and any other tricks that'll boost their benchmark scores on common apps.

We always kept a set of internal benchmarks that we didn't share with vendors and used that as a part of SoC evaluation. It had the benefit of not being gamed and also lined up with our normal workloads so we had a decent idea of where we expected the whole system to land.
What exactly does "adjust performance" even mean? If it's something like frequency throttling, there should be a user setting to force maximums, even at the expense of battery life, and likewise another option to force minimums.
Did a little googling and couldn’t find any benchmarks but the new v4 release claims a 4x improvement in speed.

https://mitmproxy.org/posts/releases/mitmproxy4/
Yeah for sure, people living hand to mouth in a hyper competitive low-skill wage job definitely have the luxury of shopping around for better conditions where employers have their pick of any number of people desperate for a job. Totally.
Because I don't equate moderation with "actively working against a culture of free speech". If HN was an enemy of it as a cultural norm, then I could not in good conscious support it with my traffic/content/etc.
I'm gonna get down voted but that's why I buy Apple phones. Comparing processors, ram, test scores means nothing compared to the actual experience
It's called "context".
Ask HN: Will humans ever create a new, widely spoken language?
Likewise, I was prop and the tools, access to borrow and reduced exchange fees and balance sheet made it all possible.

As an individual it’s way more difficult and time consuming.
Shut up. You get downvoted cuz ur bad. The hardware is good
Reminds me of the time way back where Futuremark confirmed Nvidia was cheating on synthetic benchmarks by doing something similar except in reverse where they would degrade texture quality and use other tricks to artificially inflate scores in 3dmark. I'm certain ATI was caught doing so as well at some point.
Well, the extra energy can be used for CO2 capture :)

And the win of an arable Sahara would be just incredible.
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Desktops have gone through it too: quack.exe and the HardOCP exposé. It’s been a long time since I thought of that.
you can, you just pay a 10% penalty. If you really need it, it's not the end of the world. A decent employer match would probably subsidize the penalty for most people.
> There are a lot of dark patterns Google could use to track you if it wanted to

Could you elaborate here? I'm primarily only aware of cookies and javascript/pixels, but I'm sure there are much more elaborate ways.
Yea I kind of agree. I think most people, myself included, just don't really recognize minor performance differences, only relatively large ones. And I've always thought that these things improve so fast year-to-year, that it's kind of pointless to try and keep up. So, i shoot for a phone I like that performs pretty well, and just leave it at that (hello iPhone SE).
I hate how Xi Jinping is running China so strictly. The Russian Apartment Bombings was an inside job. Westerners should have no business in the Middle East.
I find it hard to believe there’s any day trader using any kind of information making a consistent profit. Isn’t everybody just dabbling around hoping to be in the 50% that outperform by chance?

i’ve read about ed thorp pioneering statistical arbitrage in the 80s (?) which would fit the bill of “consistent returns”, but I doubt that there is any of that left close to 50 years later.

I’m wondering what all these quantitive funds are doing.
Until one in ten thousand of the losing accounts hits the jackpot and Nonko can't cover it, thus taking down all customer funds in it's collapse.
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Suprised no one has mentioned google scholar, the solution already exists. Not to mention google by itself is already a pretty great research tool if you know what you're looking for. You can even search by file type e.g. "cure for cancer filetype: pdf"

https://scholar.google.com/
Demand for AC will increase greatly, no?
Fans who is read about the benchmarks want to know.
I think it could be argued that good moderation helps preserve free speech.
I don't see why he can't just terraform Mars and built his own Internet and Twitter there.
The central problem there is that we even care about gross income rather than net income minus housing expenses.

> Is the problem lack of education, or is it that humans also have emotions to contend with?

On second thought, it is indeed good that there is selection pressure against the weaker-minded.
Long before writing, people had oral histories. Those were more reliable using rhyme (sort of an error-correction scheme). Setting it to music made it even less error-prone, and so better transmission of information gave a survival advantage.

Hence, we like music.
It appears that it only does it for anything subdomainish -- that is, not the first part after the TLD. I tested it against .nz which has a silly mix of .{co,govt,school}.nz second-level domains and directly registered example.nz domains and it always displays at least one "registered" bit.

Which is almost worse because it seems like people have put thought into this.
I hope you’re joking.

The level of sophistication is insane: microwave networks tuned down to nearly theoretical min latencies, specialized hardware systems where teams worry about shaving nanoseconds, data cleansing teams, research teams, automated news/sentiment analysis...

And that’s on top of all their non-technological advantages: connections on the street, getting preferential deals with exchanges, banks, brokers and other counterparties, lobbyists ensuring their interests are protected, etc,etc...

That being said, there’s always another angle to get a leg up.
I’d love to hear how you can beat them. If you can, they’ll hire you soon enough or figure it out pretty quickly.
>we saw every single vendor do this

Except Apple.
How much do you want to make per year? How much do you want to start with? What kind of return do you want each year on the initial investment?

Believe it. I do make it consistently.
Do you seriously not know how many spark plugs are in your car? It's the same as the number of cylinders. How could you not know that?

They absolutely should care. They should be aware that when they store things in "the cloud" they are not stored on their device and are visible to third parties. They should understand what encryption is and how to use it. "I don't know what I'm doing, and I didn't get the result I wanted, but it's not my fault it's the machine" is not an acceptable statement, whether we're talking about cars or computers.
It's a different kind of experience, but definitely clustered in the "feelings of intense pleasure" cluster. I'd say that musical frisson is much more of an emotionally driven feeling that encompasses a much larger part of the body. The intensity ranges all over the place from a small feeling of "nice!" to intense, almost physically disabling, feelings of absolute bliss that have left me weeping like I'd just experienced an overwhelming introduction to an infinite god. But most of the time it happens it's just a crawling feeling of pleasure waves along the upper back, shoulders, back of the neck and arms and a general feeling of happiness and joy.

In my case, there's sometimes feelings of "consciousness expansion", and "universal connection", similar to stories I've read from among various drug users or people who've experienced intense religious experiences -- at times I've felt intense focus, explosive creativity, and an "overclocked" sensation like my brain had been turned up to a faster performance ratio -- often for those moments of he frisson I can be intensely productive in creative pursuits. But it falls away as the frisson dissipates. I do not know if this is universal or not, there's pitifully little understanding of this phenomenon and sharing of information.

It's a very personal feeling, I don't know that I could ever do it with other people around, and it's tied to very specific passages of music that seem unique to the frissoner. As you can guess it's very addictive, and when I was younger I would spend hours auditioning albums looking for "frissonable" moments I would play over and over again for hours -- usually just a few seconds of some passage that would trigger it. However, pursuing this seems to "use-up" the feeling and after a while the passage would lose its triggering power.

If the universe was about to end, and I was allowed to have one final pleasurable experience replayed, selected from any orgasm of frisson I've ever had, I'd definitely pick from among my most intense frissons.
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Hate speech is a phony political category. Hate Christians and white people? Well that's just fine. Have a Twitter account that retweets verified people saying 'kill all whites'? That'll get you banned.
This is about as ridiculous as javascript making == not homomorphic for the reason of "making it easy for newcomers".

Please, predictability and consistency is what helps newcomers, not pandering to prejudiced intuitions.
> and a transcendental emotional feeling

Yeah, the feelings along those lines are really really powerful...and slippery, they slide away as the frisson goes away. :(
Thank you, Feross!

I can confirm that this sounded exactly the way it did when I last heard it in the pre-Napster days: https://bitmidi.com/sublime-wrong-way-mid

Any chance of getting customizable soundfonts? Me and Ben already compiled a few here: http://gleitz.github.io/midi-js-soundfonts/
> Then why bring up that seemingly incredibly biased comparison you saw?

To compare it to a baseline of something universally regarded as "not peaceful". Assuming you agree that the crusades weren't peaceful then you can't really claim that islamic expansion was peaceful can you?

> Without seeing the details, it seems to be comparing the battles sanctioned by the Pope during a few centuries against any expansion battle by any Islamic state over a period greater than a millennium.

I don't know if this is true or not, but I assume they're referring to the early islamic expansion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests), it's comparing the centuries of the crusade to just ~150 years.
Thank you for the links and reply. The materials for calculus are very good. They look professional. You guys did a great job.
I mean, yea, there's ways to do it with a different workflow. (And in GIMP, I've done exactly as you describe) But the mechanism + data flow in Photoshop also let you work naturally w/o those extra steps. The mental model of placing a physical filter on top of a physical image is mapped better to PS's method. Say you want to draw on a layer under the filter? In Photoshop you can just do it, and filters above the layer will be updated properly. (I imagine in PS this mechanism permits better data/memory management) By duplicating layers, I imagine GIMP has to keep extra copies of the data around that it cannot discard, because it cannot re-compute it.

Mind you, I haven't used Photoshop in years and GIMP (or Krita) has proven well enough for the image work I need to do. This is just one thing that stuck with me from 15 years ago!
Here’s one way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags
This is a change from their normal business practices, usually they would steal performance results and publish them as their own.
The benefit is obvious in that instance. There is a very direct connection between checking your mirrors and not hitting a car as you merge or similar.

Where is the cause and effect for a URL or SSL cert? There is no learning experience.

Furthermore as some have claimed, and I've personally witnessed, for some URLS's literally dont exist. Just type whatever site you want into the google box and hope you get lucky.
Has anyone tried www.www.com? what's the bet that domain will display oddly...

And what if I setup a domain with a subdomain of the www? I'm sure also someone clever could find a way of using this for phishing.
No mobile device on the market runs at the same clock speed for any length of time. They’re always scaling down the clock speed for a variety of reasons (usually battery life and thermal management). If you ran at max speed all the time, you’d have trash battery life and probably cause overheating.
> If it's something like frequency throttling, there should be a user setting to force maximums, even at the expense of battery life

Battery life is not the only concern; a device that sits in your hand or your pocket needs to carefully manage heat.
Yep. I believe ATI was the one where if you renamed quake.exe to quack.exe it suddenly performed significantly worse.
This is incredible. Could you add ratings and/or play counts?
I always use singular.

But I don't really know if there is a convention.

ANSI information_schema uses plurals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_schema
That's a cool idea!

I'm currently using the FreePats soundfont (https://freepats.zenvoid.org/). I'm curious which soundfonts you'd like to see? What are other, better-sounding choices?
Surprised to see not a single mention of Brave [1] in this large thread of comments as an alternative browser. It's not the best for development, but for casual browsing it's great. Brave blocks all ads and trackers.

[1] https://brave.com
React 16.5.0 released
I saw it once described as "the perfect split of politics and patriotism". People can love the queen and hate the PM.
MIDI is making a comeback. I still think the 10,000 midi files torrent is bang for buck. Something for the zombie apocalypse survival kit
Just FYI, everyone calls Whole Foods Whole Paycheck.
I don't even know how many cylinders I have!* Why should I care? Put key in. Press gas down. Car goes forward. Works for me.

"How do you not know that?"

Why would I need to know this? Why do I need to know what a cylinder is to drive? Is this even a logical question with electric cars now?

You are arguing what should be vs. what is.

* Well, I don't currently drive but I couldn't tell you with 100% accuracy the number of cylinders my last car had.
I already have play counts! Just go to any MIDI page and you'll see it right there at the top. Example: https://bitmidi.com/theme-from-beauty-and-the-beast-walt-dis...

But ratings is a great idea and I plan to add it.
Interesting I was wondering why there is "ear candy" that would catch me, even though I did not understand most of the song meaning or background or history. And I was caught by the ear candies of different genres except folk. Folk would not catch me much. Most of the 1 hit song of some band or singer would catch me. (lll￢ω￢)
This is surprising to me.

Someone as pragmatic as him, still working and taking/giving abuse at that "milemarker" of wealth? Huh.
> I would think it would be quite the opposite: the likelihood of being censored creates inhibition.

I suspect that it's due to general interest social media sites being unhappy places. For example, I was definitely exposed to a constant stream of negativity when actively using Twitter. That might be because both sides see them as the front lines in culture and political wars.
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Is there not an EU equivalent of US "fair use" law?

It's hard to imagine a world in which you cannot quote short amounts of copyrighted material. For review, discussion, brief reference, etc.