skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So my own take on this is that it's not really about atonal music at all. The musical universe in which this is presented (certainly in the article I referenced) is already using 12TET, and where a specific scale (of the 4096 possible) has a known name in 1 or more cultures, it is cited (this includes the western "church mode" names that you mentioned).

It's still unclear how much "tonal music" is simply a shared set of cultural assumptions and practices, and how much arises from acoustic physics and acoustic perception. So ... rather than a priori priviledging a specific group of interval sets ("major", "minor" plus "a few modes"), why not start by exploring the full universe of all possible (12TET) interval sets (aka "scales"). By using an explicitly mathematical approach one can bring some analysis techniques to bear on the "full universe" that are not readily available when stuck in traditional western theory and notation. To me, this approach accomplishes two things. The first is that it offers a bridge to non-western musical traditions. The second is that it offers a common core from which to understand both "tonal" and "atonal" music, particularly their similarities and differences.

Finally, its a particular bug of mine when people connect "modes" and "scales" as you do in the your final sentence. What is important in (almost) all musical traditions are not the specific notes used to form the pitches that make a piece of music, but the intervals between the pitches, and their ordering. There's significant evidence that we are vastly more sensitive to relative pitch (intervals) than absolute pitch - play the same series of intervals starting from a different tonic/root and we experience it in almost the same way. Change the interval series (i.e. the scale), and we hear a much more noticeable difference. So, the major scale is just an interval series, and the "modes of the major scale" are also just interval series. There is no inherent relationship between them, other than one can construct them by rotation. The modes do not "belong" to the major or minor scales, nor vice versa (indeed, in fact the major and minor scale are just modes too ... just an interval series).

And now really finally: we actually don't have special names for most of the possible interval series that can constructed from the diatonic notes. We have a very limited number, and from my reading and understanding it is unclear if the ones we have names for are priviledged by physics and perception, or are mostly the result of historical precedent.
can't see anything titled that. :)

edit: Happy chuwustmas btw!
> People tell me this, but I genuinely can't tell the difference between Chrome and FF's speed on Linux.

It's a bit hard to compare, and part of the difference in perception is Firefox's weird animation function for smooth scrolling on stepped scroll wheels (it takes longer, and feels unnatural). Firefox regularly hitches on webpages that never miss a frame in Chromium-based browsers for me (and several other people share this experience, anecdotally, as you mention). When looking at most decent benchmarks, there is a clear quantitative difference, if anecdotes are not your jam. I've never gathered metrics or frame timings for both Firefox and Chromium, but I don't see why it would disagree with my experience.

In my experience, slightly interesting CSS on documents, or scripts and layout on SPA-style applications, can cause Firefox to miss hundreds of milliseconds of frames. I've become accustomed to 144/165Hz with few or no missed frames, while I noticed Firefox missing frames even when I was on 60Hz monitors.

> My only real complaint about FF on linux is a lack of hardware video decoding.

Generally speaking, this is of little to no importance on a laptop or desktop. But yeah, that is a bit of a bummer.

> You can't be serious.

I'm fully serious; you won't convince me they wouldn't come out ahead, without some hard reason.
Not all, I believe. There are theaters that get movies thru digital transmission as well. How much it is widespread, however, I don't know.

EDIT: https://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2017/03/23/75-of...
75% of cinemas in the US get their movies digitally distributed.
Flat earthers are everywhere on the Internet too. Does that mean the earth is flat?

Loads of things kill cancer cells if you expose cancer cells directly to them. Fire, alcohol, radiation, etc. The trick is to expose just the cancer cells to them. I agree that a lot more research could be done, but at this point we know that RSO is about as effective as ethanol at killing cancer.

As for the rest of your comment, I don’t know if you will find this place particularly friendly towards the rhetoric that there is some illegal world government controlling everything. Try /r/conspiracy.
Those are not exactly physical copies, theaters are getting special cases with hard-drives, microcontrollers and encryption. Every presentation is accounted when played.
In this case, the work was quality and the reader was wrong. But there’s no way for the author to respond with that.
An afterthought: I suspect this is done subconsciously too quite often by people in such fields as part of their evidence seeking (hypothesis confirmation) procedures which are admittedly more adhoc than those sort of naturally built into many STEM fields (I'm sure someone could provide numerous counterexamples to this latter point though, especially with the replication crisis).
> It's a money laundering industry in its entirely with almost barely any money actually reaching the original artist.

Considering the original artist is often deceased, I think it would be rather difficult for them to get the money.
>>Do you have a wife pressuring you to save for a deposit on a house and get a mortgage in an overpriced market in order to provide a stable environment for the kids?

Wait... are you seriously suggesting that struggling to save the deposit for and then buying an overpriced house will provide a stable environment for your kids?
Anybody who believes in the placebo effect is not to be taken seriously. If you think you can measure the placebo effect, what did you use as your control in your double blind study? That is, your control group which did not get a placebo, but believed they were getting a placebo, how exactly did you manage that?
Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped
Just realized that my current state (Kansas) doesn't really have much in the way of roadside billboards. Never thought about it before.

But it does help take in the views, a lot more so than, say, the highways of Florida.
I had a package shipped to a locker. Delivery date comes and I get a notification that the driver couldn't complete the delivery because the location was inaccessible. Perhaps I "locked out the mailbox" the email says. I call them up to ask how I supposedly locked them out of their own locker, which is in the middle of a public mall. They assure me the driver will "try again" tomorrow. The status goes back to in-progress, then "location inaccessible" again, and finally "package damaged" a couple hours after. I don't know whether it was always damaged, or it got damaged in the process of not delivering it, but neither is a good look. Amazon automatically refunds me, presumably so I stop messing with the delivery time average. How its possible to screw up what's essentially an internal shipment so bad I don't know.

I went to buy it from the manufacturer's website instead. Ships without trouble right to my apartment, and I don't have to worry if I'm buying damaged goods, a knock-off, or some garbage. Someone is doing some terrible Pinto-style calculations, shaving pennies here and there while losing pounds building a delivery network that gets 'most' packages 'somewhere', 'most' of the time.
General relativity doesn’t help anyone throw a basketball better, but that’s not what it’s for.

Category theory is rarely going to be the best way to do any kind of science, but it does nonetheless allow one to make statements which are true across many domains, without getting bogged down in the details of any particular subject.
That hasn't been my experience at all, but the further point is that is all background stuff. They can improve the search without changing the UI, so it's not really a response to my point.
Ban me. Do it, you royal faggot.

Bonus points: you linked the same URL twice, you dummy.

These guidelines as you selectively enforce them are a motherfucking joke and the entire site knows it.

Also I was never banned, you truth-twisting faggot.

Fuck off and die loser.
...And even if the GP does name issues, what possible connection could there be to Prohibition, other than the fact that both involve constitutional amendments?
If I were you...

1. Start with something simpler & work on building up your fundamentals. Build momentum & confidence.

2. Recognize your struggle is part of the journey of learning. When you read and don't understand a word, you look it up. Take the time to fight through the abstraction & learn some core concepts when you don't know what something is. It's ok to get distracted & go down a mini rabbit hole.

You may need to learn 5 things that seem unrelated to the task at hand. Those 5 things aren't a waste, you'll likely find the concepts useful later. I always did.

Consider not using some frameworks to remove some of the magic.

Build something you want so you finish it.
DDG works for most stuff, but I've found Google to be better for niche topics and for anything related to a forum content. When searching for "reddit" + something else Google does a better job.
They are referring to the HotSpot VM default behaviour. That is how the HotSpot VM works. It's happening right now, while you read this sentence, in millions of production deployments.
Probably the greatest chip designer of all time.
I'd recommend reading this post I made elsewhere here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21872976

The easiest way to make cycling work is to pick where you live based on where you work. The default is to pick jobs or where you live that are convenient for driving. That won't lead to a good bike commute, as you've found.

> A lot of you guys don't understand that not everyone is a wealthy 24 year old knowledge worker and can just live in the downtown and bicycle everywhere. People have cars because they enable you to even find work.

I think most cyclists get that. For me specifically: I'm in my 30s and currently a PhD student. While I am rich from a global perspective, few people in the US would consider me wealthy. I usually live a few miles from where I work in a relatively cheap neighborhood.

And, as I pointed out elsewhere here, in my case cycling definitely saves me money. In fact, that's a major reason why I'm a cyclist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21874175
And really finish it. Most learning is done while reducing bug count. Prototypes are easy in comparison.
The Disney reboot retconned all the lore established by the decades of games, comics, and books of the extended universe. To be fair, the extended universe was a mess and had plotholes galore. On the other hand it makes it hard to empathize with the Mandalorian when your understanding of the mandalorians comes from Knights of the Old Republic where the Mandalorians are essentially space-mongols that ravaged much of the Galaxy in wars of abject destruction.
Pretty sure Venezuela is not an extradition country?

Also wasn’t Assange holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy?

Cuba probably would hold on to someone, as well.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney changed video game industry
Selective memory? Google made this thing called Android. What was Microsoft doing?
This is what taxes are for.. ban advertising, increase taxes on these companies, and pay for the bikes with taxes
Shoot. I understand that a simple “no” the rest of the year isn’t interesting, but during Christmas time? The flags, the developer console chat room... there’s even a dedicated API for the flags. Oh well.

Side note: I “deleted” this post because (obviously) it’s off topic.
Tech vague equivalent of people claiming to be Navy SEALs (stolen valor).
OP here.

When I'm not at work I mentor self learners who are trying to become a software engineers. I thought it would be helpful for their learning to build and launch a tool that developers may find helpful.
Yeah - my money would be in Venezuela or Cuba.
It will be in the next few days, I've been in a long sprint to get everything I've been working on done (and my personal website online); so, I can have an online portfolio and apply for jobs again (yay, ~f~unemployment).

It's totally not compatible with Apple's record layer I don't use protobufs at all (though there's a good case to be made for using them even despite the article from today's frontpage, heh).
Totally! Thank you for providing the correct link, I had to step out for dinner and didnt see the screw up until now.
I wonder if Cats really deserved the fait it wrought. You have to wonder if it was universally seen to be terrible, or if a couple of early opinions led a wave of negative opinions. Tough to really know.
Very cool. It would be incredible to see what some professional game devs could do with FPGA acceleration.
Incidentally, I tried to see the new Star Wars movie today. But the projector stopped working and the employees blamed it on a computer failure.
That's funny, I still recognize some of the op-codes--though I was more familiar with them in decimal or their ATASCII characters. I used to be able to write machine language subroutines with character escapes in a string and JSR the string address from BASIC.
Been there myself. My solution is forget all those frameworks. Just build something from scratch using as little bling as possible. Maybe even just python+bottle for a web app. That should take less than one hour to get a result. The. Do tasks in one hour chunks that get results. E. G. Add argparse and command line help, add a logo to displayed html page.... And so on till you have broken thru.

Good luck.
I tried to read this article but it is tone deaf, infantile, and moronic. And I'm a very ardent environmentalist.

Fundamentally it blames the victim.

Carpooling won't work because even if people go to work at the same time (by some miracle no one is sidetracked in the process), getting home is even more unreliable given different workloads, so someone might get stranded. What to do then if you're in the burbs? Eat a 100$ taxi that might be a significant chunk of the take home pay they earned that day? Take an even longer time on things like busses that they haven't navigated before?

Biking is great until there is rain, snow, cold, and it exposes the rider to a far greater risk of catastrophic injury, and the downside of getting a flat is a lot worse than in a car since changing the innertube is often about a 50% chance of actually solving the problem if there are splinters or a bad outertube.

As for the victim blaming, companies should be obligated to providing comprehensive transit networks, or contribute to the existing transit networks. If the company is the usual adult daycare cubefarm office junk, then a company should be obligated to providing telecommuting options for parttime at least, and several office centers (especially in downtowns near transit nexuses).

Yes Americans suck. But they also are overworked, underserved by infrastructure, and given little options by businesses and governments.
Show HN: MyProxy, app to help you deploy to your own server and domain name
What does "1:10 minutes" mean? Somewhere between one and ten minutes? One minute and ten seconds?
It's pretty apparent in "web apps" - plenty of SPAs grind Firefox to a halt and not Chrome. The other major win for Chrome is battery life on laptops. I know it's getting better for FF, but it's still not that close.

Is this because you're on Mac OS? Firefox has always had Mac as a third-class OS, especially since they started pushing Metal. I can't remember the last time I had Firefox crash, grind to a halt, or even stutter.
When does this patch land? I was hoping to see the original in all its glory, but don't have time until later this week...
Or I can run an ad blocker and they can go fuck themselves.
> they put a Tor client in the default distribution

Something that Mozilla is also doing[0], albeit with significantly more attention paid to the privacy-minded patches to Firefox made by the Tor Project. The end goal is to mainline these patches, such that Firefox gains the same privacy properties as the former-- they're working with the Tor team on this. If I wanted to use Firefox to access the Tor network, I'd just start a client locally and have the browser proxy traffic through it. Tor Browser's anti-fingerprinting measures are half the reason it's useful.

It's half-baked "features" like this that turn me away from Brave; there's this feeling that it's marketed towards the sort of well-meaning crowd that won't know the difference between "Tor tabs" and Tor Browser. This isn't a bad thing; rather, it's the misleading material surrounding such features published by the developers. Just look at the relevant page[1]; there's just a vague mention near the end of the article about using Tor Browser if you need "leakproof privacy", and the rest of the page carefully tiptoes around the fact that this really only prevents websites from knowing your IP address (and likely not even that, considering the similar fingerprinting properties of normal tabs and Tor tabs).

Excerpt:

"Also, web destinations can no longer easily identify or track a user arriving via Brave’s Private Tabs with Tor by means of their IP address."

To non-technical users, this reads more like "Brave (with Tor tabs) prevents websites from knowing who you are". It's lawyer-y, if that makes sense-- the whole thing just rubs me the wrong way. This is, of course, assuming said users even read the linked post; most will probably see 'Tor' and draw the relevant conclusions.

> even if the browser does not implement some of the anti-fingerprinting measures that Tor browser does

It's laughably easy to fingerprint Brave browser users, even compared to Firefox and its rather basic fingerprinting protections (at the moment). Though this is likely because Brave has a far smaller userbase.

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tor_Uplift

[1] https://brave.com/tor-tabs-beta/
Luckily, Reader View makes quick work of it.
Flightradar24 does that? I thought that was FlightAware, but still awesome to know!
Be very young and grow up in a country where the new language is spoken.
I’ve been having fun with learning how to talk to raspberry pi accessories using the i2c bus. I’m specifically playing around with Elixir and the nerves framework. It’s fun to reverse engineer someone else’s Arduino or Python code and use it to inform my Elixir code. When I say fun it’s a huge pain in the ass and progress is extremely slow but I’m able to talk to my GPS and accelerometer at this point. It’s kinda refreshing from the typical web development stuff.

In your case I think you’re creating a lot of anxiety by making the assumption that you need to be perfect right out the gate. I do this to myself as well, so perhaps I’m projecting. Slow down! You’ve already recognized an area you know you can improve in, that’s the first step. Don’t push yourself so hard to get everything perfect. Focus on learning one thing at a time and apply them to real problems. You’ll keep certain things and identify things you can do better in the next project. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
> I wonder if Cats really deserved

No need to wonder. See it for yourself and form your own opinion.
OP here. When I'm not at work I mentor self learners who are trying to become a software engineers. I thought it would be helpful for their learning to build and launch a tool that developers may find helpful.
> Either way, what way do you propose that normal citizens get the investigative information needed to participate in a democracy if we don't have journalism? What's the alternative?

That is a vitally important question whenever ideas like "Gell-Mann Amnesia" come up. Cataloguing journalists' mistakes and ethical lapses is easy, and I think that can sometimes evolve into a cheap cynicism that deprecates the vital job that journalists do, and that cynicism is toxic to democracy.

Journalists are all kinds of imperfect, but despite that journalism still performs a vital function for democracy. There's no other practical way for the public to stay broadly informed with timely information, than to have generalist communicators try to summarize into digestible bites the fire hose of events and specialist knowledge for broad dissemination.
The range of the Tesla semi is supposed to be 500 miles. Others can be expected to be similar. That's enough that if you're even partially charging every time you stop to eat or sleep you'll never run out.
You are not wrong, but right now the consequences are materially different.

As a Russian citizen it is not uncommon to go to jail for two years for expressing anti government views online, that kind of thing does not happen int he west - for now.
Yup have been doing it for about 3 years now. I love how much value I get in return of little I provide (relatively).
This is par for the course on almost all bussing systems I've seen in America. They are designed with the assumption that the people using them have no choice, are poor, and have ample free time to take inefficient routes.

Busses are just too cumbersome. Once self driving actually is feasible through software and/or convergent infrastructure, bussing should be almost on demand with basically the equivalent of minivans self-driving groups of people between locations. Uber and Lyft are (currently) just dead end variants of this ideal.
Unfortunately I can't agree.

There's an old quote I can't remember the exact source of, that "Microsoft Word users only use 5% of its features... but each user uses a different 5%."

It's not bloated. It's just that other users have different needs from yours, and you're ignoring other users, assuming they're the same as you. But they're not.

It's easy to write a minimal version that works on your dev machine in your browser. But now get it to work on all browsers on all devices on all OS's. And now build in all the little feature that big clients require for legitimate reasons. And now ensure it works with several legacy versions of API's, etc. Is it "bloated"? No. It does what it needs to do.
Couple of things, it seems that it is you who make the claim with little actual support.

Here:From the "JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION" from the European Parlament ( https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/RC-8-2014-0118... )

"
12. Recalls that the restrictive measures taken by the EU are directly linked to the Russian Federation’s violation of international law with the illegal annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine, while the trade measures taken by the Russian Federation, including those against Ukraine and other Eastern Partnership countries which have recently concluded Association Agreements with the EU, are unjustified; calls for the EU to consider excluding Russia from civil nuclear cooperation and the Swift system;
"

Now as far as it concerns the Internet there is even no real need to bring Swift example. Any country would be insane to let their Internet infrastructure under someone else's control. Question of course how much it will cost to build a replacement for situations if the things go sour. So for many countries, especially the ones that are on friendly terms with the US, they can let it slide. Not so much for Russia, China etc.
TL;DR: the app does nothing out of the ordinary for a messaging app, which is why it’s so nefarious. It uploads contact information and location data…but after asking the user’s permission for seemingly legitimate reasons. The danger is that it’s hard to know what they’re doing with the uploaded data.
The rest of us hope you had a happy Festivus!
Elsewhere on HN today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21876063

> Uniqlo heads towards full warehouse automation with groundbreaking robot that can fold and box clothes