skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(This isn't related to hip-hop or melodies.)

I have absolute pitch; I can tell the pitch of any musical note I hear without any reference at all. I can also produce any pitch within my vocal or whistling range without a reference. This all comes completely naturally to me, and I don't have to think about it. Listening to this rap song, I noticed something strange.

The article talks about the melody of the song, but the rapper isn't singing. Of course, his rapping voice still has a pitch but it's actually not obvious to me what note he's "singing". If I listen very hard, I can still pick out the pitches of his notes (like how he centers on D). However, it is much much harder for me to tell the pitch of a speaking voice (or rapping voice) than a singing voice. This leads me to believe that there is a separate, functionally discrete part of my brain dedicated to processing music.

It also perhaps explains why I don't like rap music that much; it feels like my brain processes it as though it is spoken word rather than music, creating a somewhat strange and unmusical experience.
It will get old very quickly - they will soon realize that there are much better vacancies with better offers and move on. And author of this question will stay... bound by his insecurity of his unprofessionalism.
IANAL.

Wouldn't this be a sale of a non-profit's assets, rather than a sale of the non-profit itself? I see no legal reason a non-profit can't sell, e.g., a building it owns.

Everything else seems skeevy, but this particular angle does not seem promising for a basis of any legal proceedings.
Unfortunately not. That is the hard part. Rumored for the 64core and it's chipset next year.

You can get 32GB ECC at 2666mhz Dimms that work. Giving you a max of 128gb ecc on an am4
From a marketing standpoint, I'm not sure demos like this that draw comparisons between JavaScript frameworks and 3D game engines are a great idea. The author describes updating 2000 cubes every frame as an "impossible amount of load", and claims that React will soon "run circles around even the best performing manual WebGL apps".

Here's Unity maintaining a smooth framerate while updating three times that many cubes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVMfKJfsHQg

Unlike the React demo, all of the cubes actually move each frame (it's not "rescheduling" updates to later frames like React Concurrent Mode does), and it's doing a complex physics simulation to decide where the cubes should go.
To add to the (dystopian?) scenario I painted at the bottom of my post, the VR sextelligence might make full eye contact and modulate their behavior to optimize for sexual excitation, as measured by the degree to which your eyes are dilated. That is completely plausible and is simply an extension of extant technology.
Prove it, please. Because I make an encrypted RAMDisk, set loopback, and it fucks itself when it should not. So, since you make it out to seem that you are an authoritative source, why?
You can call isatty() using a Java FFI library such as JNA or JNR. Some day, Java will come with this out-of-the-box and an external library will not be needed – see https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/191

For JNA (probably JNR too, my personal experience is only with JNA though), just have to add the JAR to your project (or the Maven/Gradle dependency). The JAR includes native libraries for various platforms.

It is non-portable, it won't work on Windows, although you may not care about that, and if you do, Windows has similar APIs (e.g. calling GetConsoleMode() on the file handle will fail if the handle doesn't point to a console.)
Take it up with Musk.

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Elon-Musk-Tesla-s-Cy...
>Why do you believe you're entitled to content that the content owner doesn't want to offer you?

pirating something that you can't even legally purchase is about as close to a victimless crime as it gets. If anyone actually feels guilty about this they can donate the value to the against malaria foundation and have done the world a net good

honestly, I find the IP mentality of large companies like Disney immoral who hoard IP like a dragon hoards a lair of gold. I'd be in favour of 'use it or lose it'
Has anyone looked into whether M Disc is less susceptible to the problems mentioned in TFA?
5 is the high side, not the low side, according to the sentencing guidelines (which directly capture the fact that it's North Korea he helped; the sentencing guidelines for 50 USC 1705 practically read as if they were written specifically for North Korea).
He wasn’t talking about NordVPN speeds. He was talking about the sort of services offered by Oxylabs, Honeygain, PacketStream and other similar proxy services.
I would flash it with Tasmota, but these sensors are cheap/awesome:
https://www.amazon.com/Sonoff-Temperature-Humidity-Controlle...
Remember: YOU are not Google!
From the patent infringement document:

"... Upon information and belief, the above OxyLabs embedded code has been integrated in at least the following software applications that may be downloaded by any user located anywhere having Internet access: AppAspect Technologies’ “EMI Calculator” and “Automatic Call Recorder”; Birrastorming Ideas, S.L’s “IPTV Manager for VL;” CC Soft’s “Followers Tool for Instagram;” Glidesoft Technologies’ “Route Finder;” ImaTechInnovations’ “3D Wallpaper Parallax 2018;” and Softmate a/k/a Toolbarstudio Inc.’s “AppGeyser” and “Toolbarstudio.”"

https://cdn-resprivacy.pressidium.com/wp-content/uploads/201...

Looking at few of these app's descriptions and privacy policy, doesn't mention anything about oxylabs or proxies, so I'm not sure it's true, but somebody should check the apps with decompiler or monitoring the connections it makes.
In this recent EconTalk episode [0] the guest describes an ongoing experiment (a business) in breaking it.

0. http://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-ca...
Find it hard to believe that this particular person actively wanted to help DPRK leaders rather than the North Korean people on the whole.
These issues tend to get caught up with handwavey dismissals built from the slim amount of information handed out to us from news soundbites. If you or I wanted to interact with a North Korean today, how would we go about that? How would we trade with them or send a donation?

It's funny to see the difference in attitudes between how South Koreans view the north and how westerners view them. They are starkly different.
I'm aware of what he said to save face. However, if you believe the window broke because a completely different door was hit than I have a bridge to sell you.
In 21 and up something very interesting to me comes from the introspection of the prep school boys. The one who obviously has somewhat conservative viewpoints(for the UK I suppose) believes that USA business influence is corrupting the ethics of UK business dealings. He also believes in a "moral obligation" for those who have been more fortunate to stay and put back into the system in the UK. The guy that is attending Durham, who doesn't seem to agree with a lot of the other guys more conservative points even in 7 up, also finds a common ground in this.
What if you do not want your information exchanged?
Or recorded at all?

Information wants to be free so much that it leaks!

Given experian experiance, I would prefer the option to keep a thumbdrive with me. If I lose it? My fault. Exams can be redone. Printouts can be provided. But you can't fix a leak.
Why is this exciting?
Isn't this expected? The capital growth is proportional to its size. Unless there is something that restricts it's growth, it will absorb all smaller players.
I'm going to copy and paste my own comment from 7 days ago, because I think the quote contained within the Register article is so damning.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21612033

Some further background on what happened. I don't see how this can be interpreted as anything other than corruption, plain and simple.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_s...

"Former ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade personally registered the domain name currently used by Ethos Capital in May and it was registered as a limited company in the US state of Delaware on May 14. That date is significant because it is one day after ICANN indicated it was planning to approve the lifting of price caps through its public comment summary.

As such it appears that the plan to purchase the .org registry was predicated on the price caps going ahead and that those behind the deal had intricate knowledge of ICANN’s internal processes."
Is there a doc about that? Can they also not use external crates? Very curious.
Racism Ripples Through Rural California’s Pipes
Agree. It's hilarious when the word "May" can be in the title and it's still a headline.

Though it is a fun game:

"Famous president may have syphilis".
I have several gtk apps in progress for the phone. If you tried a few years ago then i understand the sentiment. It could still be much better, especially when it comes to documentation. That said it’s pretty easy to get a basic app started and even ready to distribute with the gnome builder ide. It has a wysiwig for ui and project templates for all the most popular supported languages. The flatpak support is great too. The people working on it must be machines with the pace they are making improvements.
I was pretty surprised at how my large Vue 2 form ground to a halt when I used it with 1-2 thousand objects. Mostly via many layers deep of small nested JSON objects which grow exponentially really fast ... because customers like jamming as much data as possible into a single HTML page's form instead of breaking it up across multiple forms/parent objects like we intended.

Beyond work-arounds like pagination/hiding data, I've found the best solution is being careful with what data is marked as Observable/reactive and tracked by Vue for changes...which in Vue 2 is the automatic default behaviour where everything put it into data()/computed/Vuex or elsewhere is monitored. Then on top of that functionality which updates tons of rows at once (for example drag and dropping a row which then updates { order: n } for a hundred objects) then resulted in mini-freezes/slow downs.

Crawling through dev tools memory captures never helped much because Vue is already extremely async/concurrent, so there was never one big slow thing to refactor - the problem was many thousands of small things that turned into one big slow thing.

Vue 3 (surprisingly) helped me solve this problem, not by adding some extra concurrency to the view layer, but by making all the data default to a simple JS module, instead of a big options interface in Vue 2 where everything in Observable by default, and instead you explicitly mark which stuff should be reactive and watched. I managed to reduce the number of observed objects by 50-75% in some cases which got rid of any slow-downs.

This of course was a rare use-case and not a knock on Vue, most people aren't managing hundreds of objects in a single HTML UI/form but it also wasn't very extreme either - just a modern web-based data-heavy B2B software requirement.

Not all of it is do to the inherent framework design either but about how you use it + having good best-practices and defaults.

I'm sure there was ways to do the same in Vue 2 but being the default approach significantly helps organize the code in a performant way. Only the data which needs to be reactive will be reactive and everything else is simple fast JS objects.
You lost me.

The question was how to deal with newcomers' arrogance, and your suggestion is to have them try and fix things to find out why it needed a bad solution.

What I tried to reply to you is that they may have no problems fixing the bad code because the reason for it to be bad may be gone.

Now, if I understand correctly, your reply to that is to "threaten" them with having to fix it? The point of my comment was that they'll have no problem in fixing it and they'll keep being arrogant because they'll "prove" that there was no reason for it to be bad.

EDIT: s/shitty/bad/. I meant no offense to anyone.
“Cooling Process” Algorithms Help Determine Eigenstates on Quantum Computers
I suppose the question is who will do something about this.

What group or individual is going to slog through the work of getting this investigated?

What group or individual is going to slog through a lawsuit?

Would the EFF take it up, or is it outside their purview?

Is there any hope of reversal/fines/prosecution? Will it hinge on intent? Does that intent exist, or was ISOC just foolish? If there was intent, can that intent be shown beyond a reasonable doubt? Or is there some rigid, incontrovertible rule that has been broken, such that intent doesn't matter?

All in all, it seems like such a stupid financial decision by ISOC (and one which goes against their mission) that one can't help but presume some sort of foul play. But who knows, perhaps they just messed up.
they should have auctioned it... and get 10x more
10% per year!

That 3 to 4 times recent historic and near future projection for inflation rates.
just fucking wow. ISOC didn't need that money, the internet is fucked. We need to start working to decentralize naming. I loved the internet before ICANN and DNS. We fucked and built a monster.
Question: what even gives ISOC the right to sell it? IIRC, they were granted control by the US gov, but that is not the same as ownership.
Spoken word and Music are processed by different sectors of your brain it feels like or seems? That's really fascinating. What about math?
That's exactly what it is. Does the fact that I have succeeded in doing a task better than another person (knowing above all that the context is not the same) give me the right to ridicule or criticize him/her beyond necessary? That's why I think the strategy suggested by m0zg may have limits... But again, this is the first time I'm confronted with this situation, so I don't really know.
While I don't doubt there are shortcomings in the US's road safety regulatory regime, That's probably not a fair comparison.

I strongly suspect that on both a trip-miles and passenger-miles basis, the US far outstrips any european country.

*edit

If you sort that table on 'road fatalities per billion vehicle KM' you'll see the US at 7.3, same as Belgium. The UK is doing better at 3.4
Curiously, OpenRISC support was just added[1] to the radare2 reverse engineering framework.

[1] https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/pull/15515
ISOC is redacting its own meeting minutes. The part here about "PIR business" is about the sale of .org (public interest registry).

What the hell?

https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/minutes/

Ctrl-f for "redact"
If I don't do business in Turkey, and I pay for the clicks, I should easily be able to exclude Turkey (without having to write a blog post and consult an inside source that most could never reach)
I mean it says right there that they may also be people regularly in the US. I don't see why I'm less of a marketable audience for a SaaS when I'm abroad.
Is this potentially illegal?
> Your participation will never be disclosed from our side unless you publicize it on your own.

Blackmail / extortion / compromise trap right there. Don't email em, don't talk to em.

If you're an American and you go there, they have dirt on you and can threaten to reveal it if you don't play ball with them.

Shame on you, North Korea!

Also that feel when the only tech smarts you can get is cryptocurrency folks
Reading your profile I’m not sure your intentions in this comment. Rest assured I am not virtue signaling.
Not necessarily. Oxylabs could use UPnP to open ports like other similar services as FluidStack, Honeygain, etc.
Honestly, everything after your first sentence is completely incoherent. I'll stick to the first sentence.

>It's well known in business that ads are generally dubious at best and likely mostly a fraud.

You're using the phrase "it's well known" in an attempt to support a consensus that you completely fabricated. I spend over $100,000 every year on digital advertising, and I can assure you there is a very measurable return. Colleagues who manage much larger (and some smaller) marketing campaigns are also making measurable returns. You clearly have no experience in what you're talking about. So why talk about it?

There are lots of unsophisticated business owners and marketing "professionals" who think they can just throw money at digital and it will magically return. These same people don't understand how to effectively measure, so they may not even realize they're burning money. Like any failed venture, that is THEIR fault. In no way does that make advertising "generally dubious at best and likely mostly a fraud".
I live in India so I don’t understand what you mean by “Its India”.

No nationalized bank( majority of auto loans) will use a coercive process. Hell no private bank will use one. RBI has clamped on that practice as illegal in 2010. Worse case is the bank repos the car and auctions it.
It's like the Hyperloop, for trash.
How is this better than Bitwarden?
Use object.freeze in your mutation.
Copying information is already victimless. No one is harmed or wronged by magnetizing some disks or tape a certain way in your house.
To my surprise yes ads are very effective. Without getting too specific, my close relatives run their own business as home improvement contractors. In the early days, before they had their reputation built, I setup a google adwords campaign for them — having never run an ad campaign before.

It was a simple PPC campaign that included keywords in google search results and geofenced it to the SFBay. Here are some numbers and findings:

- PPC costs were about $1-2.50/click with a ~$15/day max spend

- Selected cities by hand to fit the service area

- We did in fact get clicks outside of the zones we selected. Many if them were B2B trying to sell their services.

- Customer acquisition costs specifically for the google ads campaign was ~$70 (clicks/conversion)

$70/customer sounds like a lot except these home improvement contracts were typically thousands of dollars, so the campaign was a fantastic ROI. Furthermore, we dialed down ad spend as the reputation was built, and now most leads come
via referrals and review sites.

In the end all that mattered was that customers were signing contracts so even if there was some funny business going on it was still worth it for our particular case.
Basically you just rattled off everything I, as someone who never worked in that industry, assumed was going on.

There's just a shit ton of money to be made pretending it's 1955. I went into the wrong business.
Consistency Models in Distributed Systems
It sounds like a difference in priorities and not an indictment on the tests.
Cyprus after a year of residence. Canada after three.
>>And author of this question will stay... bound by his insecurity of his unprofessionalism.

Could you elaborate?
Indeed, revenue multiples are dangerous. I’m guessing they bought it at a significant ebitda multiple making the deal sweet for the sellers. However, the private equity MO is going to be value creation through margin improvement. When they flip it their proceeds will be much sweeter. They’ve most likely modeled in multiple contraction as that’s rather common with tech buyouts these days. If the market stays hot they make a killing.
I posted the original many months when .ORG price caps were being removed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20263561
Had high hopes for the VSCode version [0]

Unfortunately it seems to have lost momentum.

[0] https://github.com/vscode-org-mode/vscode-org-mode
One of the most educational and interesting explainer videos I've ever seen is Vox's "Rapping, Deconstructed". Please consider this required watching, even if you have no interest in hip-hop music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWveXdj6oZU

After you watch that, I suspect you'll hear this Kendrick Lamar track with new ears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZTYgq4EoRo

I know that while I am still very much a jazz/rock person, those videos expanded my perception of what was musically possible. No hyperbole on my end.
Nobody owns content as ownership does not expire. People are incentivized to create content with a limited monopoly of finite duration. However, this means when they fail to licence it and thus chose to forgo revenue there is zero moral obligation to respect the monopoly.
I think my assertion is much more likely than yours that people were in higher paying jobs and moved to Uber/Ola, a lower paying job, so you should give a source for that.

Nevertheless the source is my twice daily ride with Uber and talking to the drivers. Most of the drivers are youngsters from villages with no degrees and no skills now making a living. They also don’t own the car and drive for someone else. The fact that the Uber/Ola commission is able to support the driver and owner should tell you something.
The linked article pretty much lays out how this aligns with ISOC's mission---$1.1 billion, properly managed, gives ISOC the resources to pursue its mission for the foreseeable future.

Probably nothing to prosecute.
Not everyone has use for those advantages. To me they are meaningless (I have no need for "better" performance, I have no use for PCI 4.0, etc). I buy Intel CPUs because lower heat dissipation and power consumption at the performance level I need. I have avoided buying the relatively cheaper but power hungry Intel CPUs for many years.

By all means, please buy AMD. The more people do that, the better deal I get for Intel models I want to buy.
Machine Learning Generated Gradient Colors
Ask HN: Best way to prioritize happiness while focusing on the important things?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irresistible_force_paradox

aka "What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?"
How so? There are a great many TLDs in the market.
Of course, CTR is apart of the profit formula and cannot ignored as you correctly note. It’s not a trivial task to find those verticals or geos where this will be a successful strategy.
Self-dealing?
No, const inside of a function is a complete waste of time. There has never been a bug that would be prevented by const inside a function.
The .org TLD isn't "The Internet."
OpenNIC is actually a parallel organization to the ICANN and they manage a register that is in sync but with a bunch of additional TLDs.

They could decide to fork .org and lobby ISPs and DNS to use their register instead.
That's seriously a tiny drop in the bucket in terms of total internet usage.
His best defence will be he didn't specifically explain how to evade sanctions. But the government can make "evading sanctions" any off-mainstream network finance stuff. It's easy to twist this stuff in a court room.

But of course any sort of technology transfer which would help them in their effort, even indirectly but still very obviously possible to any rational person, which the courts very much take into account (in this case an expert in the field) could fall into breaching embargos.

In this case it's like selling a terrorist group's local community police force non-military low-power handguns, possibly believing they aren't practical for a military effort. But you're still giving a terrorist group firearms which could none-the-less be useful for their overarching cause.

I highly doubt he practically helped them hide any significant amount of money. Billions aren't flowing through blockchains into their pockets without notice. But the whole idea of sanctions is to make everything, even small-time indirect help off-limits... even banks doing business with legitimate NK businesses.
No. Can't possibly be.

Until someone lies under oath about it.
I believe OP was referring to regulatory capture [0] where special interests are prioritized over the general interests of the public.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture