skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of. They control things like volume, panning, reverb, pitch bend sensitivity, tuning, synthesizer parameters, etc. Most controls have a defined meaning, though some (named things like "General Purpose" and "Effect 1 Depth") do not, and control different things on different synthesizers. (For example, "Effect 1 Depth" is usually reverb, but not always.) But even those things with a defined meaning are "defined" in the loosest sense of the word. E.g. one synthesizer may implement "Modulation" as tremolo, while another may implement it as vibrato (two similar, but noticeably different, musical effects). So any MIDI recording which ventures even slightly outside of the most common and obvious controls or RPNs risks losing important nuances upon being played by a different synthesizer.

(The difference between controls and RPNs is that RPNs are – in theory – extensible, registered with a centralized authority, so that new ones may be developed. In practice, there are a small fixed number, fewer even than controls.)

Further there are NRPNs, which are like RPNs but are not registered with any authority. So these completely vary by manufacturer. The SC-88 has a bunch of these, things like "Vibrato Rate", which, if ignored by another synthesizer, sometimes make no difference, or sometimes are very noticeable, depending on the degree to which the composer is relying on that functionality.

Often the bigger difference which I neglected to mention is banks. There are 128 MIDI "patches" – sounds – but of course there are many more than 128 instruments in the world. So there is also a system of patch variations called "banks". Usually these variations are true variations (e.g. concert grand vs. baby grand piano), but sometimes they are completely different (Moog synthesizer vs. square wave). And like controls, they are variably ill-defined or not standardized, and thus not implemented identically on all synthesizers.

(The reason for this mess is because MIDI is really an evolved creature. The original MIDI standard specified very little, so General MIDI (GM) was born, which is what most people know as "MIDI", but that was insufficient, so manufacturers authored their own extensions: Roland created GS; Yamaha created XG; and of course they are incompatible with each other.)
So technically, it is supposed to allow you to add field... but it is not well tested so I try to keep that a secret.

I should probably work on a proper scenario for schema evolution.
PS3 is made of plastic that doesn't make a purchaser oil company's customer. Same with the chips in it. Sony was nvidia's customer.
This different priorities argument comes out every time China is discussed. It's tired, simplistic and overused by people who want to feel culturally enlightened and hand wave away the possibility of issues in China. Anyone who's been to China knows they value different things, of course they do, every culture has different values.

Just because someone doesn't particularly care about censorship and surveillance doesn't mean they don't adjust their behavior accordingly though. If you read the PDF China ranked highly on precisely the questions which are officially approved government positions, such as the need for greener tech and better environmental management.
So is a fair summary of your position: “Anyone working in roughly the same field as any journal editor who was taken in by a hoax should be fired from their job and removed from intellectual discourse, and their subjects of study should be blacklisted as inherently illegitimate”?

How far do you cast your net? You seem to want to throw out anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, literary criticism, etc. Are you going to scrap history, philosophy, political science, economics, education, religion, design, ... departments too?

Be careful what you wish for: an awful lot of scholarship in lower-tier STEM journals is also garbage, albeit typically a different flavor of garbage: unoriginal, lazy analysis, strong claims unsupported by the evidence, based on incorrect technical premises, making false advertisements of its practical applicability, massaging data in illegitimate ways, etc. (I know this because I spend a lot of time reading math and science papers in my spare time.) Even Nature and Science occasionally need to retract a paper when it turns out the author plagiarized it or falsified the data.

P.S. You didn’t need to copy/paste a wall of hoax paper titles from Wikipedia.
I'm sure all the papers are, at bottom, terrible; they're made-up social science papers. But Boghossian and his team are working hard to manipulate you into believing they're "entirely abject nonsense" of the type any reviewer should have been able to detect. Again: they're doing that by:

1. Playing switcheroo with the papers they talk about and the papers they actually got accepted, as they did with their dishonest description of the Hypatia paper.

2. Making it hard to find the papers --- for instance, there's no link to the paper they actually got accepted in Hypatia --- and forcing you to rely on their description of the ludicrous meaning of the paper, despite the fact that they deliberately wrote abstruse papers from which you could take many different meanings.

For instance, in a separate "Project Fact Sheet" the authors wrote, they describe "HoH2" as a paper that says "social justice activists can make fun of others, but no one is allowed to make fun of social justice." But that's not really what the paper says at all; in fact, if I didn't have the background on Boghossian's dumb project, I'd have called that an uncharitable reading of the paper, which is really just a dense survey of gender studies work on the relation between humor and privilege (yes: I actually read this stupid paper).

3. Hyping up papers they managed to get accepted in bottom-tier journals, as if the existence of those journals was a revelation. Once again: all scientific fields have those journals! They're a consequence of the "publish or perish" management of academia. Boghossian won't tell you how little impact his team's papers have, because that would subvert the narrative they're trying to deliver.

Here's a pretty interesting writeup from someone who actually worked out the impact of this whole project. He used R! HN should love this!

http://www.favstats.eu/post/hoax_papers/

Read this and see if you still feel the same about how important this project was.
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You can also run multiple profiles in parallel, using something like

firefox --no-remote --profile-manager

I have that as an alias in bash, and a shortcut on my Windows desktop.
and memory/address-sanitizer, which are super helpful too
It's more than a reasonable amount of money. But Carmack is not a reasonable amount of developer. For the guy who popularized an entire genre of video games, no.
>Engineers are used by either side but they don't have their own voice and mostly because they don't have informed opinions or the cultural means and interest to join a non-technical debate as a cohesive force.

Not strictly true engineers do concern themselves with ethics and issues are discussed including in professional journals etc(For example look at what IEEE has to say about ethics of AI) it may not be public debate but it is not ignored.

One thing you are missing is Engineers work for companies which tend to place limits what you can communicate publicly. Pretty much everything has to be released via official channels which go through all the PR Spin.

I can think of at least two reasons for this. 1. The information could be considered stock market sensitive and 2. it's very easy for something you say informally 'off the cuff' to be taken as a company position by lazy media who can't distinguish between "engineer who works for company x says..." and "company x says..."

I am an Engineer (I don't work in AI) but my company places strict limits on what we can say on things like social media and to reporters, at conferences etc so yes that does exclude participation in 'the public debate'.

I don't know about software world (I am the non software type of engineer) but we had courses on professional conduct at university (which covered professional communication, alongside topics such as, Ethics, regulatory compliance, liability etc).
> Yes, the theory is that rent control causes reduction in inventory. But housing is not an ordinary good and the evidence shows that this theory is incorrect.

Could you point to the evidence that you think disproves this?
Depending on your adversary, you need to be super careful to not make the single mistake that'll blow your cover there. If that burner ever gets switched on or off at your home, or if it only ever gets switched on/off at the same location as a phone registered in your name, or if it commonly travels exactly the same route as your phone...

I'm guessing "they" won't go to those sort of investigative lengths for theoretical retail customers of a theoretical Dropgang. I'd expect a vendor to be targeted using those sorts of techniques though.

And none of that data ever goes away... Who knows what law enforcement might choose to do with those sorts of leads in the future?
My limited understanding is that the Hawking radiation is caused by virtual particle-antiparticle pairs spawning just outside the event horizon. The event horizon is by definition the surface on or inside of which not even light can escape. This seems to imply that outside the event horizon some non-zero mass objects can still escape, if they're on a favourable trajectory. E.g. aimed directly away from the event-horizon isosurface.
I'm not seeing why this would particularly reduce violence. Some gang violence isn't about drug sales, but the same sort of territorial control that nation-states like to fight over too. And for the violence that is about drug sales, I'm not seeing why that wouldn't continue. Dead drops are just as local as corners are, and there's just as much incentive to fight over business as there was previously.
Don’t be sorry. Our nationalised then privatised, asset stripped then re-nationalised system deserves ridicule.
TOR aims to also be fairly low latency/bandwidth and many of those suggestions would probably destroy that.
There is no censorship of the Internet in Hong Kong...

He may be posting from mainland China via a VPN that ends in HK though?
I don't think that changes my point? A lot of people consider something like article 25; some right to minimal food, shelter and medical care to be part of human rights.

Right-libertarians generally don't believe that you have a right to any of those things if nobody else wants to give those things to you.

Generally this is talked about as the conflict between positive vs negative rights, or human rights vs property rights.

I mean, you could come up with some version of "human rights" that doesn't include the right to food, shelter and medical care... but you could also come up with a definition of libertarianisim that includes some form of welfare for everyone. I personally know several people who identify as libertarians who also support universal basic income...

I'm just saying, that's not how those words are usually used. Usually 'human rights' includes some kind of positive rights, and usually 'libertarian' means 'primarily focuses on property rights'
Most important piece of code I wrote controls the delivery of electrical stimulation for a nervous systems stimulation system that goes in people. Second place is a human metrology system that diagnoses eye issues in a lot of clinical settings.
I found just the opposite. I thought the first book was OK, but definitely not great. I thought the second and third atrocious, and a couple of the least memorable books I've ever read. I didn't finish the third. I wouldn't had started it had I not bought the set.

I couldn't understand the appeal or relate to them at all. That said, I'm glad they exist, it's refreshing after so much copy-cat blandness in today's publishing.
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If you're interested in Dewey (both the man and his ideas), I can't recommend reading Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (https://www.amazon.com/Metaphysical-Club-Story-Ideas-America...) highly enough. It's truly magisterial, and will give you insight not just on Dewey but on the entire sweep of his intellectual age as well.
Actually before al gore allow USA firm to do internet it is very hard to get to it. At least not around the world.

Around 1993 it started to move to the world after film can sell internet bandwidth (and in fact mine come from a firm under a U). As mac user at home, has to wait until the mac internet guide before dialup modem work.

As commentary before it is very exploratory. Zen and the Art, gopher, mosaic comes along.

And email group. And you can pay internet Go server even then using ascii client.

Still remember answer a question what and where is Vulcan? The usual answers pop up but my answer that it is the planet sit between mercury and the sun is a big surprise in those days without wiki. Even for Trekkie. Just nice days.
This might be relevant to Apple killing their airports, but it hasn’t stopped others making excellent products.
I wonder why the latest release is over 800MB compressed... I doubt that includes the actual imagery either.
I recently replayed through KQ5 (and for the first time ever, finally completed it). The provided youtube recording of the oasis theme MIDI is way way WAAAAYYYY nicer quality than the original game. Is this deliberate? Is this what we're trying to showcase?

Side-note: It was really nice hearing the theme music when encountering the princess near the end of KQ5, as it was very clearly the progenitor of the "Girl in the Tower" song that was to be the main theme of KQ6, which is my favourite by a long way. It was an unexpected nostalgia hit, was quite well done and I'm glad they carried the tune between the games.
San Francisco is not a good model for capitalism. The housing market in particular is highly skewed not just because of politics, but also geography.
It’s pretty natural for people to want the “best” whatever that means for them. And which is probably situational. I’m willing to believe that online information, however imperfect, makes it easier to surface the best value options.
HN is for anything that's intellectually interesting. That's been the case for the 10+ years that this site has been called Hacker News. Please read the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That project seems to use some other kind of API. It does not handle real octree/3d data AFAIK. I've only seen quadtree and terrain elevation stuff there.
> the average monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment at an insane $3,447, according to a 2018 rent report by Adobo. The U.S. Census revealed in March, the median rent in San Francisco in 2016 was roughly over $1,600/month. These numbers are worrisome in a few ways: 1. The egregious rent amount that is required for somebody to live in the city today. 2. The jump in median rent in a mere two years. 3. The $1,600 median rent from 2016 also included rent-controlled apartments which indicates their rapid disappearance.

She's comparing apples and oranges, and doesn't even realize it.

$3,447 is the asking price for apartments now on the market. $1,600 is the median rent price people are actually paying, including people with rent control and affordable housing. People who have been living in rent-controlled apartments for many years pay a fraction of the current market rate.

As a result, her second and third conclusions don't follow. If this is the kind of critical reasoning that comes with "an MBA from a top school, the rigor of an engineering education and a decade and a half launching and managing some of the most successful businesses for Google and other tech companies," it's worrying.

In fact, it's easy to find actual market rate rent prices from 2016. According to the sites below, it was around $3,500, so rental prices have remained very flat over the last few years.

[1] https://www.zumper.com/blog/2016/05/zumper-national-rent-rep...
[2] https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-ren...
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You're more than welcome to make modifications to my quote that you feel would change the context and I'll even update my comment. It's mostly word for word but I did it pretty fast and just with two listens so it's not 100%, but as close as I felt it needed to be too relay his message.
Would regional Persistent Disks be acceptable?

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/#repds

Global might mean you're accessing blocks stored in Europe from a container running in Australia. If your workload is doing that, you might want to consider network costs and latency, and then reconsider whether you really want to architect things that way.
As far as I know, it does this by having a base file and a bunch of delta files alongside it on the server. Applying these deltas is time consuming, you have to choose how many levels of delta to keep around, and you end up downloading a lot of redundant content (ie. information about old packages, only to replace it with the delta content).

bupdate avoids that by just letting you post only the latest file (and .fidx), then the client figures out which blocks it doesn't yet have.
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It's the biggest failure of modern day education: an inadequate understanding of the basics of supply and demand. Such an irony that this is so prevalent in a city with one of the highest percentage of residents who have so called educational degrees.
When I worked remote, I found I worked more hours than the days I went into the office and spent 40 minutes each day commuting. It's a lot harder to walk away from work when it is embedded in your home life. I actually quit my most recent job when they decided to close the office and move to full time remote work, so YMMV.
Cixin Liu and Ken Liu (admittedly American) are in my top-10 SF authors now.
London is the most surveilled public space on the planet with full access for law enforcement. Somehow crime still happens there.

Technology is not a magic bullet. It also is also neutral and does not choose sides. Crime will exist for as long as it is profitable. There's even crime and black markets in highly secure, structured environments like prison. "Arms Race" between law and outlaw will continue.
It’s banned but every student beyond 7th grade has a secret link and it was worth bragging
So if you've been following Tor closely for years, you've presumably decided you don't trust Roger Dingledine?

I say this partly as an appeal to his authority (which I'll argue is not insignificant), but I don't mean it in an aggressive way. I don't know him personally, and I can't say very precisely how much trust I have in his claims.

With that said, he's claimed that he personally knows a substantial number of relay operators by volume, and there is significant pressure from certain levels of the US executive branch on the Tor Project to either compromise or abandon development of the Tor network in order to stop child porn.

Of course, he could be entirely unaware that the relay operators he knows are compromised or are simply federal agents, or he could be himself.

But I think these, among other pieces of information, must be contended with to develop a theory that tor is entirely compromised.

For instance, there are claims that people within the intelligence community use and rely on tor for their own work.
I've been a Google Suite reseller long enough to know not to trust Google with anything critical that can go wrong. I would imagine that when things go wrong there, the only recourse would be to blog, complain here, and no doubt file some sort of appeal to ICANN involving paying $1000 or so and having a month of downtime.

As bad as the ENOM example is, at least I don't have to spend a week hammering the same dude on a certain subcontinent that has no escalation path.
I occasionally feel like that already happened.

Looking at quite a few modern social networks, like Instagram, "success" and engagement on many of these platforms seems to follow many of the same rules people use for SEO in regular websites.
From an outside perspective much of the difference between many influencer or aggregation accounts and a bot with nice imagery escapes me. (Although I realize much of that is just me being old and grumpy and the difference is likely the community around those figures that I am simply not a part of)
On this, I used to work in investment management. Good distribution is several times more important than generating returns.

One of the most prominent managers local to me (worth $150-200m, probably one of the wealthiest people in my country) only has one senior manager, apart from that...just grads. The product is terrible but is designed for a certain market that is growing rapidly and is naturally doing very very well. This is true of all of the largest fund managers local to me: always distribution first, thinking about who is going to buy, and what they care about (i.e. US pension fund, superannuation, etc.).

Even worse, I have come across more than one manager who was clearly very +EV but either couldn't raise money or went out of business because they weren't selling the right product at the right time. Most good managers do stay in business but not all. And if you don't have good distribution, you won't survive no matter what returns you have.

Why? My current theory is that people have rigid ideas about how to make money. Profit doesn't matter: it is about validating an idea or opinion of themselves. I suspect that the VC world is no different. I know nothing about a16z apart from their "reputation": very influential, whizzy VC firm, and very safe intellectually. They are the archetype VC firm, this is what VC investing is, you can lose money but you won't lose face.
I will note that a service charge on the menu is actually pretty common in a lot of places in Europe. Not saying it’s good or bad but it’s not something a few places in the US have dreamed up.
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Me too. And of course the Sound Blaster was an entry-level MIDI device; even while I was enjoying my SB card I was jealous of people who could afford a Roland MT-32!
Doesn't CloudFlare's new onion routing make a large chunk of the web immediately available over Tor? It seems to me like a great idea.
Apple is always graded on a different curve from the competition and there's a lot of manufactured crises by the press.

Other products from other manufacturers have extremely serious flaws and they're routinely ignored because the expectations are simply that much lower. I'm talking faulty bluetooth chips, processors that slow to a crawl, faulty camera software, a camera lens placed right next to a fingerprint reader, shipping a phone with a button that did nothing for 3 months, literally exploding phones from poor battery design....all of those are things that absolutely cripple a product and they're quickly glossed over.

Meanwhile Apple's issues are repeated ad nauseam no matter the magnitude just because Apple is that embedded into pop culture. Even if you don't like Apple, you definitely have an opinion about them. No one gives a shit if some random new HTC phone is completely awful by design...but a completely fixable communications issue like "Batterygate" will get blown out of proportion.

I'm not saying Apple shouldn't be graded on a curve. They should, they're the leaders in the industry in so many ways and the bar is high. But sometimes the curve is just comical. Just look at the outrage over the notch.
If the time difference isn't a problem, there are people with a much lower cost of living who are willing to work for 20 times less money than anyone in the Bay Area.
yup haha
If their jobs are indeed worthless, then it's a win, in that we can save tax-payer dollars for worthless jobs.