skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it (the transposing of instruments) like this everywhere or is it different in some parts of the world?

Japanese flutes are transposing. The scales and keys are all numeric, instead of the alphabetic system that western music uses. For example, my #6 flute (western: "B flat") sounds 2 half-steps lower than a #8 flute ("C"). A piece might be written to start on note #4 (and not say what absolute pitch #4 means), so it would sound different depending on what flute you're playing.

> The musicians mostly can adapt on-the-fly. Is there something similar in classical music ?

When I played the cello when I was young, I remember having some sheet music put in front of me once, and being asked to play it in a different key ("up a third" or something) as part of an ensemble. It wasn't especially fast or complex music, but that was a skill that was apparently expected of a high school amateur. It's not as hard as it sounds, but it's also something we never really practiced.

Reasons I can think of would be when working with a soloist who has a particular vocal range, or if you find a piece that's not written for your instrument in particular (e.g., piano score to string quartet). I don't think anyone transposes a piece like Beethoven's 9th. When you want an entire symphony to transpose (usually up to "sound brighter", or down to emulate baroque period instruments), you just tune to a different "A".
I have a feeling that is because they are computer image developers and not animators. I am in the same boat and have a great collection of animations I pull from, but animation is a serious specific skill. Even hooking it to mocap would be another crazy level. Most mocap is gross and needs cleanup, also it would be a distraction from the point. In addition to all of that, by using only a few specific animations it makes the examples easier to compare. Things that look like confusing magic can be hard to quantify on presentation.
Any idea what the first steps for that would be? Sounds amazing.
rclone is great, but I find syncing manually in intervals to be ideal since you get to see what is changing from your destination/remote. I use CrashPlan Pro to back up everything automatically, and then a few times a week I'll run rclone on my data drive so that I can see what has changed.
Off topic: I'm honestly kinda surprised this kind of comment isn't built into HN by this point. There's often so many good comments from old articles we rely on adventurous users to dig up.
An abundance of food and a willingness to take more than you need if the cause. "Clean plate" would not be an issue if there wasn't too much already on the plate.

Furthermore, what's on the plate matters as well. Three fried pieces of chicken and mashed potatoes with gravy is not the same as broiled chicken with steamed vegetables.

I suspect - based on anecdotal evidence - people who often over eat also too often eat badly.
This is not a tradition. It’s only supportable by cherry picking examples.
I do this, but 90% of the time I forget to pull on the other machine and have to deal with conflicts.
Except when people serve you and you still must finish your plate
For Android yes, but the GP is likely using iOS where no such client seems to exist.
I feel like a big enabling factor these days is the disappearance of scheduled TV programming, either broadcast or cable. Without that to put everyone on the same page, games like Fortnite get a chance to fill the vacuum.
That's quite the condescending generalization you're making there. That might not be your intention, but that's the way this comment came across.
This is a massive post (I didn’t have time to write a short one so I wrote a long one), but there’s some vital stuff buried in it for those interested in Matrix, including:

* Details for testing the redesign of Riot (https://riot.im/experimental)

* A teaser of fan-out routing

* The potential roadmap options for 2019

* The endgame for E2E encryption, Matrix 1.0 and a whole lot more.

Any questions welcome :)
With LUKS it doesn't matter. But not all encryption methods are like that. That was just really an example of potential differences. In fact, when this (Dropbox dropping non ext4 support) happened the problem that triggered this was encryption related IIRC.
I have a water-cooled i7 6700k and the rising fan speed was the first thing I heard as well.
Normally this does not happen when browsing the web.
It also happens in reverse: you tend to fill the size of plate you have, the size of glass, etc.

At buffets I either pick small plates or intentionally pick a small number of items regardless of how much of the plate is used.

With soda for instance I eventually realized that the main reason I was drinking a certain amount was a combination of the cup size and the straw. I switched to tiny cups that I drank from directly and found I could easily make that last a meal and have some left. Now I barely drink soda.
Bach was a church organist, and improvisation absolutely hasn’t been lost in the church organ world. Basic improvisation is a skill expected of every organist: this morning I needed to “cover the action” when the offertory hymn didn’t last as long as the offertory itself. But in the hands of a master - an English cathedral organist, or a French titulaire, particularly Saint-Sulpice or Notre Dame - it’s high art in its own right.
Feliz Navidad from New Mexico, USA!
That only counts for closed systems. Does that pertain to our universe? We don't know; We can not see a limit, to say the least, and we have absolutely no agreeable model for any kind of edge. The idea that U closes in on itself, like the surface of a baloon, without any borders, is indeed reminiscent of hindu's Darma idea. It is rather descriptive of our mode of thought: cyclic and self centered; focused on origin and phobic of ...

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I get this error at an extremely high rate when using twitter web. I am convinced that they are fully aware of this “bug” but don’t fix it to push people to the mobile app; and even suspect that they might trigger that error on purpose to this end.
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators
You just described nearly everyone I went to university with.
Naw... grew up in a city. Parents walked me to school the first day of 1st grade, across 8 blocks and 1 major street light. Walked to school for the next 5 years. I had more freedom than most 12yr olds in suburbia today (can't ride their bike past the end if the block).
> Expecting someone else to write software that meets your particular needs

You misunderstood: I'm hoping people write software that meets everybody's needs, not just mine.
maybe https://osquery.io ?
disappearance of scheduled TV programming, either broadcast or cable.

That's an interesting thought, something that's crossed my own mind before. Are the numbers there to suggest scheduled TV programming is declining, or do the shows that get best ratings and reviews and pop culture buzz these days just happen to be shows on streaming platforms/alternative media?

I actually don't have the answer, I'm just probing the thought, so to speak.
“once tech becomes mainstream outside the tech hotbeds”

Precisely the opposite is happening. In the 1970s and 1980s there were huge numbers of computer programming jobs in places like Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Kansas and Wisconsin. These were attached to the USA’s vast industrial base. As the USA lost its factories, it also lost these programming jobs. As manufacturers sent more and more jobs overseas, these computer programming jobs also went overseas. Tech jobs did not begin their current pattern of concentration until the 1990s. The current situation, where so many of the jobs are in California or New York, is a new situation which is still taking shape.
no use of your own (dropbox) sync...
* The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch (taught me the true importance of knowledge)

* Tribe - Sebastian Junger (taught me how important it is to be part of a close community, decided to Airbnb all of next year after reading this book)
Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells
Sounds like the Conservation Corps: https://www.fs.fed.us/working-with-us/opportunities-for-youn...
In other news water is wet. "Game has its own jargon and players chat with each other about some real world topics." The fact that this story ever made it online is laughable.
Clearly you didn't read the article because she did in fact pursue an English major instead. :)
De nada :)
Did you maybe mean to reply to some other comment?

But just to be clear, I have nothing bad to say about Mister Dillon. I hope my comment did not give you the impression I did.
We invented horseless auto mobile but required continuous human attention for steering and managing the machine. With a horse indeed we already had semi-driverless operation in some scenarios.

We are reinventing the "horse" - sometimes I think.
"Software that meets everybody's needs" needs to be defined by someone, and in this case, that someone is you. Take inspiration with what's been done and run with it. They've given you all the tools you need, including open source and a very permissive license.
“Writing from the perspective of a person who literally had a life ruined by religious ideology impairing the mental judgement of parental figures. This is literally one of the best things I've read in my life. Going to be unpopular opinion because of people indoctrinated into freedom of expression but why not. Religious ideology has done more damage than terrorism to LGBT people. The result has lead to suicides and the law has done nothing to remedy the people abused. The people running the "faith" systems are nothing more than celebs to people who desire their fix and when it develops into a mental illness of pushing upon others.. people look the other way. Since "who has all the money" gets to keep the show running. No compassion exists in this world. Just agenda pushing by who has all the finances.” Shouldn’t be flagged
One the problems with government run transportation R&D is that the responsible agencies are fundamentally not in the R&D business. DoT and subordinate agencies like the FAA are regulatory and risk management organizations (with some mandates in inspection, construction and telecommunications). They lack the expertise, structure and know-how to build effective Research and Development programs and to overcome their own institutional risk management culture. For example, the FAA has been trying to roll-out a new air traffic control system for decades and at a cost that regularly far overruns any estimates the Agency can put together.

The DoD, DoE and the Intelligence Agencies have dedicated R&D arms (DARPA, IARPA, ARPA-E, etc.) with long legacies of knowing how to to research and shepherd it into operational development states and/or commercialization. Even other parts of the civilian government has things like the NSF,

The closest the civilian world has for transportation is maybe NASA? But for self-driving cars, the DoT's R&D components are not well organized and seen very much as side-show "Administrations" and are generally new affairs. DOT's version of DARPA is called "RITA" and was formed only in 2005 by strapping together a handful of previous organizations inside of DoT and are focused mostly on, you guessed it, improving safety and studying statistics.

It's no wonder that most of the government research that's actually made progress in this area have all come from DARPA.
Why was this kicked off #1 of homepage and now can't be found but by direct link?
Fyi, there are many correspondences between logic and type theory / functional programming. I have found that as a programmer, many ideas are more accessible to me in type theory as opposed to logic. Languages like Haskell are great for exploring these relationships.

This is also known as computational trinitarianism - https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/computational+trinitarianism

Robert Harper, the computer scientist that coined "computational trinitarianism," has a series of lectures on the foundations of type theory including some commentary on these correspondences - https://youtu.be/9SnefrwBIDc.
There's a whole mechanic in the art of buying, preparing and cooking just enough. I've lived for nearly 40 years and I'm still not great at it.
Is that the name of a tech, or are you telling me to simplify? In what ways would you recommend simplifying?
Plenty of kids whose parents were watching them got hit by cars, because parents can't be watching every second. Kids with a tendency to get carried away and run in front of cars are going to do it even with their parents in view. Better to condition kids not to do a few obvious dangerous things, than to maintain constant vigilance and try to intervene before they do dangerous things.

Also, these days, a parent "watching" their kid(s) means proximity, not awareness. The parent may be within view, but that's useless when they're glued to their phone a good percentage of the time and only glance up now and then.
the thing is, all 3d software ever is an UI nightmare, almost inevitably. it's all very complex software that tries to do way too much at once, and even Cinema 4d with all its initial beginner friendliness that has made 3d accessible to a lot of people that were afraid of it before wears off once you try to make something non trivial (did you have to make a deformer a child of an object or the other way round? what operations do you need to make an object editable for? what about needing to change the order of objects in the manager for certain things to work? how to reconnect missing textures for a project? - those are all fairly basic things that i need to look up again and again, because they are not as obvious as they should). Maya is such a clusterfuck of bad UI decisions and insane defaults that one wonders how it's held its place as the king of vfx 3d for so long. zbrush might be easy to start with - it's like finger painting! - that's until you try to make sense of its million sub menus.
My point is, blender just happens to trip you up right away with the clicking thing, and it's happened to me that I stumble upon that and I go "oh, this free software doesn't work, it's crap", so for sure it's bad marketing, but they are all the same in the end.
Sorry. Yeah you’re right it is too much of a generalization. I’d amend it to be developers I’ve met.
True, was just a poor decision on OP's part to go with arbitrary lockin
Glad I use a different user everywhere!
I'm not going to focus on the free speech part of this, or even the purpose of art. It's gotten to the point that watching well-funded companies go down this road is just painful. All of that money and education. Such idiots. I'm embarrassed to be part of the same tech community with them. Go buy a copy of On Liberty and take a time-out until you grok it. (Rawls can wait until later)

Instead, I'm curious as to a few other things.

1. This looks prima facia like fraud. You say one thing, the TOS says one thing, you do another -- and you take money while acting that way. If that's not fraud, I don't understand the term.

2. As I noted in a recent essay, the way that software generalizes communication, combined with a system/platform that has massive adoption, always leads to a bad place even when this has nothing to do with politics or content. Even if we get past the speech and fraud part of the problem, we still have a huge problem. http://tiny-giant-books.com/1.html?EntryId=recEUbufzhAvph8K1

3. Are we a bulletin board or a publisher? I understand these companies want to take both stances simultaneously, and that the law allows this, but heck if it makes any sense to me how it's going to work out well. Yes, it's legal, but that doesn't make it any more tenable. Algorithms don't amount to magic sauce, no matter how much you wave your hands around.

4. We are in need of anti-trust legislation when it comes to the marketplace of ideas. On the net, either there is no such thing as a public square or some legislative intervention is required. I don't think arguing that there's no such thing as a public square works for rational observers of the marketplace. Sounded pretty cool ten years ago, sure. And perhaps most of the public might still buy it. But its days are numbered.

Interesting place we have ended up. I note that "interesting" can have terrible connotations.
And yet the UK continues to have mini-scandals :

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46454844
When Buddhists persecute Muslims in Myanmar, it isn't because Buddha told them to do so.

But when Muslims persecute yazidis, it is because Mohammed did so, and Quran has verses allowing it.

To stop with the craziness, one should look at what motivates and incentivizes the craziness. And it turns out some religions are crazier than the others.
My video with 47M views was stolen on YouTube [video]
And also that eating all your food implies that you thought it tasted good. Leaving a bunch behind says: I didn't like it.
> It's not a tech company, so it doesn't work that way. IT doesn't tell management what to do

No, but IT come and say "in order to get ISO313186461 certified we need to do an upgrade" tends to work pretty well.
> Even people with significant experience in their resumes usually fail to answer most basic questions like what is RAII or const correctness? In what cases would you rather pass around naked pointers instead of smart pointers?

I'm not claiming to be highly skilled with C++ (or any language for that matter), but I've spent several years as an undergraduate TA for the year-long intro to programming series which was taught in C++. I read the textbook over several times, helped create homeworks, exams and study material, and not once have I heard of RAII or naked/smart pointers. In fact, I've never heard the word 'correctness' in reference to the idea of const variables. Is my education faulty, or is it disingenuous to call these ideas 'most basic'?
They do learn to have agency: think plan ahead and make your own decision. Live with the consequences of your decision.

As I noted every decision is modulated by parental intervention — if a kid made an obvious mistake, possibly intervene early “are you sure you want six bao? Just take a couple — you can always have more” or late “ok, but see the problem? Next time let’s be more careful.”

Yeah, parenting is non-algorithmic, and once (if?) you get good at it it’s too late to do it again.
Agreed. And they won't sell the "kid" portions to adults.
Haha Chinese is my second language. With Vietnamese or Chinese, you need "absolute pitch" to be able to speak it like natives when learning as an adult.

China/Vietnam have higher proportion of people with absolute pitch.

It has to do with the number of phonemes in a language.

There is also a genetic aspect of it. Mandarin speakers will have higher IQ than normal population.
Ask HN: Co-living for founders recommendations?
My partner (and dog) and I are thinking about leaving our apartment to save money as we continue to build our company. Has anyone had a good experience living in a shared space while building a company? Any recommendations for cheap housing while starting a company?
Previous discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18747302
Hey! Sorry for the late reply. I was using Safari on MacOS Mojave.
Salk scientists find genetic signatures of biological aging
I have a nephew who will mess with his brother, and play these at random from a Bluetooth speaker in their house. It is interesting, and is probably already making for an interesting study somewhere.
You may be working in classical logic, but that doesn’t mean the parent poster is. You asserted the parent poster seems to be confused, but what the parent poster said makes sense in a constructive setting. Please see my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18756974
I have not worked for the feds, but have spent time in state/local government. Basically the perception of conflict or impropriety drives the process.

Additionally, random process gets bolted on by outside parties (legislature, external compliance, procurement regulation authority within the executive) and creates delay and policies of questionable value. Each thing is not necessarily a bad thing individually, but add up to a nightmare process in many cases.

It’s not incompetence, it’s a different perception of success. A government procurement officer views success as meeting compliance requirements, and then competing in price. Compliance matters more as the procurement folks face nasty audits or even prosecution if there’s an issue.

The same stupidity happens in corporate procurement, but doesn’t make the news because it isn’t public. When I sold stuff to a fortune 50 company in college, they would roll random shit like pencils, toilet paper and chairs into capital equipment leases to goose the books.
It's not so much that they break things, but if those features are enabled sqlite will be writing multiple files instead of just one, which somewhat nullifies the "single file" benefit of sqlite.
In which case, they didn't need "someone with common sense to take a look at the new design". They needed basic user testing.

Telling a company "do some basic user testing" is a useful recommendation. Telling them to have "common sense" isn't.
I picked up the clarinet in 5th grade and played in school bands through college. I knew that it was a Bb instrument but was never taught what exactly that meant. I assume it was because my instructors never felt that it was important for their players to know. Since we always played off sheet music that was written for the specific instruments, that's probably true. It's nice to finally know.
I don't think so. China remained subservient enough during the cultural revolution and the great leap forward.

It's going to be easy now for the party to remain in control.
>That's one of the supporting principles of all totalitarian regimes.

Actually that's one of the supporting principles of all regimes, period.
Sure. Sometimes, people use TLS to implement Lisp-style "dynamic scope" in an effort to reduce the amount of information passed from call-frame to call-frame via explict parameters. This approach suffers from the same drawback that dynamic scope does, and it's usually (but not always!) better to be explicit.
How about “You can be an asshole if you’re a once-in-many-generations product genius with charisma”.

I have yet to see a SINGLE sign of Evan any where close to Steve Jobs quality. Evan may be good, but he is not a genius like Steve. The only one praising are his VC which during Pre IPO era were constantly spamming twitter about how good his Keynote and unseen since Steve passed away.
And I believe less consumption of fossil fuel
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