skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This particular piece is in D minor. (You will definitely want your program to figure this out; otherwise you will produce the "wrong" key signature, need to include a ton of accidentals, and it will look a bit kludgy.)

Anyway, in minor keys you very often see the note below the tonic get raised. So for example, in D minor, the pitch C#/Db will pretty much always be C#. You also often see the note two below the tonic get raised.

I'd say a "descending melodic line" should continue past the note with an accidental, so D-C-B is a descending melodic line, for which you could make inferences about the C, but not necessarily the B. If it goes down and then immediately back up again, the note in between is (in my experience) more likely to be sharp than flat, and vice versa.

As another rule of thumb, it is somewhat uncommon to have two consecutive notes with the same letter, one of them with an accidental. For example, if you have a G#/Ab, and it follows or precedes an A-natural, it is probably a G#. If it follows or precedes a G-natural, it is probably Ab.

Of course, exceptions to all of the rules can be found. :)
Remote workers want to re-create those watercooler moments, virtually
I recently decided not to use GA on my site in favour of server logs for all the reasons you mention plus one that I see as the most important: it would require me to annoy users with a cookie consent banner.
Would you also criticize someone for using Apache Commons StringUtils? The fetishization of critiquing npm package choices is hilarious.
This type of storage, whether it be water reservoirs or compressed air, is especially important in Ontario. We have a very strong base supply from our three large nuclear facilities and hydroelectric dams, but the rest is largely made up of wind, solar, and gas.

Because the peak supply from solar is midday and the peak load is often in the evening [1], you're left running the 'peakers' (gas plants) for most of the night to make up the difference. If we were able to store more energy short term, we could conceivably remove natural gas energy production and be 100% green/renewable. As of 2018 we were 96% renewable [2] so it's really not some pipe dream.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve

[2] https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/nrg/ntgrtd/mrkt/nrgsstmprfls/on-en...

And honestly, I'm okay with paying a little more on my energy bill for the next couple years knowing that my province has made the decision to be part of the solution.
Keep in mind also that Filecoin's storage layer is IPFS; and IPFS nodes don't have incentives that are perfectly aligned with those of Filecoin.

There's maybe a reason for the owner of a "Filecoin node" to want to delete data "on the network." But that data ends up stored on many IPFS nodes, some (many?) of those hosted by people who've never even heard of Filecoin, but are just running on the public IPFS network for other reasons (usually the same reasons someone would donate to the Internet Archive, or host a public-access Debian APT mirror.)

When you look up a file "on Filecoin", you're really looking it up from the IPFS network. Filecoin just incentivizes the insertion process. But data inserted "into Filecoin" is now on IPFS. So you have to think about what an IPFS node would (want to) do with your data.

Why would these "pure" IPFS nodes that have your data, care about deleting it in response to requests? That's not what IPFS is "for." These nodes aren't participating in the filesystem-like storage paradigm that Filecoin represents. They're participating in a "content-addressable storage" paradigm. Deletion would be a violation of the ideology that likely motivates them to run their node.
Switching from i3 to Sway on Ubuntu 20.04
I'm afraid that now the best way to donate to Firefox, MDN, Thunderbird, etc is to donate your time, by writing code or content and making pull requests.

This is a much harder way to donate than simply by paying money, though.
I have a different opinion than most comments here. I love the Oculus Quest. I don’t suggest that anyone waste their time in FB, but needing a FB account to buy VR experiences for the Quest us all right with me.

Off topic, but my favorites are the Star Wars Vader Immortal Trilogy, Racket Ball, and Ping Pong.
Mozilla makes 500million, the CEO takes 2.5million, not saying that isn't too much, but given it leaves 497.5 million left, I doubt you can blame that for the failings of FireFox.
Student who wrote story about biased algorithm has results downgraded
What do all of them have in common?
I’m not a lawyer, but I am my small company’s DPO, and I think you’ve misunderstood.

The GDPR specifies six ways you can legally process personal data. Consent is one of them. It must be explicit for each usage, in plain language, opt-in, and non-coerced. Non-coerced means you can’t require consent as a condition of access.

So, no, consent buried in a 40-page T&C would not count.
Why is that? I think it is entirely possible that in the future, encryption techniques used today will become compromised as both computing power improves and/or flaws are discovered. If someone is holding ciphertext encrypted with a compromised algorithm, then it could be decrypted.

Basically, how do you know what we are encrypting today, won't be able to have the encryption broken 30 or 50 years from now?
> avoid shopping for a job when you’re unhappy with the one you have.

The problem with this is that bad jobs don't often turn into good jobs, so job hunting under those circumstances is usually the best option. I do agree that it's worthwhile to actively look for other jobs even when you're happy with your current one.
They still don't have any cash. None. Cash on deposit isn't cash, either. It is not in the bank, it is loaned out. That's how banks make money, and why they pay you to deposit cash in the bank. They're not a charity, they want your cash so they can loan it out 9x to other people.

> selling short-term investments to make payroll

Payroll is usually met by establishing a "line of credit" with the local bank, because a business's revenue is not on the same schedule as its payroll obligations. Selling short-term investments to make payroll is inefficient (as you imply) but also quite unnecessary.
Orwell Youth Prize 2019: A Band Apart

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-youth-prize/2018...
Windows Mixed Reality headsets are the best in this regard. Still locked to Windows but at least that's not a social platform. I really wish there was a version of it with better quality controller tracking, it's fairly good, but not on par with Oculus or Valve controller tracking.
Really recommend that speech as well since it's give good understanding what's wrong with X11 and why Wayland was created.

The real story behind Wayland and X:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQh_DmDLKQ
Matomo does provide an alternative to leverage web server log files (beyond the usual client side javascript)...using a python script: https://matomo.org/faq/log-analytics-tool/

When i first migrated (my personal sites) away from GA, i was concerned about performance, so was considering using server logs, and stumbled upon this feature of matomo. The javascript approach ended up not being the performance issue that i thought it would be...so i never ended up using the python script...So your mileage may vary, but to your question, this does exist.
Not yet - but it's on our roadmap. Feel free to get in touch if you would like this to be accelerated and we can find out more about your use case :)
I'm not really up in arms about OpenAIs decision, but I just don't want people to frame this as "why can't more companies release models like OpenAI does" when in reality the opposite is pretty much true.

GPT-2 wasn't really feasible for most actors to train from scratch, otherwise it would have been released by a third party. GPT-3 is technically feasible for a single actor to do inference with, although not really really.
It's a pretty big failure for Amazon and a big score for AOC.
https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/output/2020...
Forcing users to violate their personal moral principles, upon which the decision of never using anything related to Facebook rests, is a big enough difference for many--myself included.

EDIT: I didn't know that Facebook bought Oculus some time ago, back in 2014--for some reason I thought it happened far more recently. I would make the case above for someone who had bought an Oculus device before Facebook's acquisition and now would be forced to use its platform, then. I don't have anything to do with Facebook, personally. I don't even use WhatsApp, so there's that for my moral integrity.
Some shade from HP's Joanna Popper on r/HPReverb...

"The HP Reverb G2 does not require a Facebook account today or in 2023."

https://www.reddit.com/r/HPReverb/comments/ic93cn/for_anyone...
On Web Servers, Microsoft’s Collapse Continues More Rapidly Under Covid
But by your own quote, he is not presenting these as evidence of advanced civilizations. He is presenting these examples as evidence of "old things that others had confidently predicted would never be found".
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Guest Blogging vs. Answering Quora Questions
When I worked in a tiny house next to my bed, I tried several alternatives but the situation was untenable.
I had to move to a more distant and cheaper region because that was easier to solve than the lack of space.
I hope you can find a space solution because while working at home it is a matter of mental health.
Increased preterm births in infants exposed in utero to aircraft emissions
Ask HN: What Are the Big Problems?
I'm leaving this open-ended, there's no specific criteria for responses.

I'm interested in both your list and the reasons why. Submitting your list before reading other's contributions would be preferred.

Optionally: who is (or isn't) successfully addressing them. Individuals, organizations, companies, governments, other. How and/or why not?
what would you recommend then as the best way to sous-vide eggs? I can't find a good answer online. well I can find lots of answers but a lot of them are wrong
Betteridge law strike again
Unsporting scandium (2014)
Then you already have a problem with using an Oculus device regardless of what sort of account you can sign in with, they've owned Oculus since 2014
The platform play was the only reason they bought Oculus.
Yes.

processed version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQs5VxNPhzk

Side by side with 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TqqdOcX4dc

Wuppertal Suspension Railway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn
These same type of statements were made by the whatsapp founders regarding ads on whatsapp(they said they will never happen etc.)[1]

All that went out the window once the company was bought for 19B, sure both founders left a few years later, but their statements were false after the sale.
Australia for one. I returned my Ring camera when they removed the customisable motion detection zones and it no longer worked as advertised (to this day, many months later) on their own website.
Time will tell. Thumping Huawei is much like thumping Boeing.

There will be big blowback. IMO it will be the destruction of the US's semiconductor business as China competes and then undercuts Intel, AMD, etc. and puts them out of business.

That would probably lead to the decline of the Intel-Windows Software infrastructure, as the lead in software follows the lead in CPU hardware.

It's the Law of Unintended Consequences that always comes back to bite you.

Semiconductors will follow other industries like Textiles, Paper, Pharmaceuticals, Automobiles, Plastics and all the rest into oblivion.

If you want to see the future of America, just look at how Britain got to where it is today. Just over one hundred years ago, Britain was the Number One superpower of its day with the biggest armed forces as well as the reserve currency of the world in its hot little hand. Not so much today.
Apple iPhone assemblers Foxconn, Pegatron feel threatened by China manufacturer
Wikipedia has lists of big unsolved problems in different fields:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_problems
> If Server-Side tracking looks too complex for you, you might want to reevaluate the balance of technical knowledge in your enterprise.

Shameless self-plug: if server-side analytics is too complicated for you, consider using the tool that we just launched to help with that (other functionality gets included as well): https://www.nettoolkit.com/gatekeeper/about
I’m not misunderstanding anything, but that’s a cool way to blaze into a convo lol. Most/borderline all of these plans kick in above income thresholds, ie you dip down below 50M and you’re not paying the tax. So that’s one way you’re not getting 45%. The other way is that asset growth will play a huge role in how this tax effects you. The only way to get the 45% number is to say your assets didnt grow in 60 years, which is not realistic. In fact if your assets are growing even around average rates over 60 years you could pay in huge excess of the original principal, while also making a killing.
I can only tell you that I consider it excellent and that I would rather use Julia with PyCall than Python.
Amazing, so if you get banned from Facebook due to one of their dumb rules or algorithms, I'm assuming you can sue them for the value of the device they've just taken from you?
It is a fallacy and ignores the benefit to the economy that having a living wage level of pay for all citizenry vs the artificial corporate welfare support of having government entitlements (food stamps, medicaid, etc) making up the difference so that corporations can pay less. Lassez faire capitalism seems to be a common fallacy promulgated on HN a lot.
Have a look at what ipfs actually does. The nodes involved not only don't try to hide/obscure any metadata, they will share it with anyone running a DHT node and your queries will be pretty much public. Ipfs is probably the worst solution for distributing illegal content. The incentives there are actually to use just about anything else.
Apple’s Epic Retaliation: Unreal Engine on iOS and Mac in Jeopardy
Not to mention, target outdated ways of doing things with CMake (there is always 3-4 at least).
Quite intriguing! I have no experience pitching to investors or advertisers, (but i do have web analytics exp.) and never would have thought that this would even be a question! Curious, is this something that you encountered, or is this hypothetical?
The ciphertext is irrelevant now, today. That might not always be the case if computing power improves sufficiently to be able to breakthrough that encryption or a flaw in the encryption algorithm (or default parameters being used in a particular implementation) is discovered. At that point, it would be nice to know that even the ciphertext was not exposed.
I was watching the D-A-L anime the other day and thinking about this character

https://date-a-live.fandom.com/wiki/Natsumi_Kyouno

who has the power to become anything so decides to become what a kid would think is "flashy" and "cool" to cover up her own feelings of vulnerability.
I think the word you're looking for is vague. He's being intentionally vague, not misleading.
Very cool! I get excited about Category Theory just like the rest.
At the point that you've given money to facebook when you bought their product, haven't you already done that?
A long time ago the Western world had a voluntary wealth tax of sorts, the tithe. That's 10% of your income and/or property to your church. Admittedly taxes were then much lower, but whatever else you may think of them, churches poured vast energy and resources into social services.

Now that it's an elected government instead of an opaque non-profit providing social services, they've become unpopular with the wealthy. I suppose the government can't assure you a place in God's Kingdom :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe

Edit: certain of these are based on land, not income; see the article.
I tend to agree. It's a great PDF reader, and seems snappy on the web overall. The only reason I'm sticking with Chrome for the latter is basically laziness and Google ecosystem buy-in.
"In this case" there is no provision in the contract which says Facebook needs to keep Oculus accounts separate, so there's nothing to sue over. If that provision were in the contract, then yes I'd expect a lawsuit. Or at least some form of arbitration or settlement. Ideally the contract itself would specify what happens if that condition is violated.
> It's not a great experience, and it doesn't work at all with everything that uses video acceleration (like a modern browser, and as a corollary all Electron applications).

I'm posting this with Firefox 79 running on FreeBSD, displayed on Windows (VcXsrv) via remote X over ssh (gigE lan because I'm at home). Not sure how much modern I need to get. chromium-84 also installed and worked enough. Scrolling is glitchy, and I don't dare watch a video[1], but either would work enough if I need to use a graphical browser to administer some network device remotely (I used to be able to use w3m for a lot of those)

I'm sure RDP would be better, but it doesn't fit my use case. I don't want a whole desktop, just one window, and I do need it to tunnel through ssh, and it's nice when it's a simple setting, so I can just run a program and it shows up. If there's an easy way to tunnel RDP that I'm not aware of, I'm happy to learn, especially if the experience is better, but if it's super fiddly, I'd rather use what I know and what works, even if it's laggy and awful.

If RDP worked like X, I'd love to setup a beefy windows server in my basement and play games on it via RDP from my PCs around the house. If anyone has tips on that, would love to read them. (Requirements: single server, three simultaneous users, single GPU ideal, but flexible; want to play Civ V etc with the family. Cost (including licensing) needs to be comparable with three low tier desktops (i3-8300 ))

> In fact nowadays I would argue that the method used by Xorg is no longer ideal

Again --- I know it's not ideal, it's just less fiddly and I already know how to use it, and it how to make it work hasn't changed significantly in the last 15 years (mostly the windows X servers are better and crash less), and desktop applications tend to be more synchronous and harder to use over high latency connections. I'm not looking to run all my applications from the other side of the country, I just want to occasionally run a couple things from home when I'm not there, or to setup my HTPC with a mouse and keyboard instead of a remote control.

I think everyone will hate me for suggesting it, but I could imagine an X11 extension where if the client is not local to the server, it would switch to rendering everything locally and sending compressed video; I don't expect anybody to build that, but there's no reason you couldn't do it. It wouldn't solve important issues like head of line blocking, of course.

[1] Ok, for giggles, I tried to watch something on youtube. It was surprisingly decent. Lots of tearing, and I don't know where the audio went (clearly, not over X which doesn't do that, not sure if it was playing on the X client host), and it took a long time to stop the video because I'm guessing a whole ton of frames were buffered. But, I got the idea of the video, and it didn't kill the session. If I were doing this over my WAN, it would be a lot worse, clearly.
Really? I have never and will never have a facebook account, so this expensive device is now a paper weight..
I wouldn't say it's misleading but I see where you're coming from. I play the piano so this was what inspired the name.

It turns out that picking a name for a startup/product which is representative of what you do is hard!
Keras: use 'experimental_steps_per_execution' for 100% TPU utilization
As soon as I needed a Facebook account to use the social features, I bailed. Thankfully I was fortunate enough to buy a Valve Index. SteamVR is a much nicer platform anyways
By that logic, wouldn't any company inventing/developing a new technology be forming a monopoly?
She won with 57% of the vote in her district. By definition not a minority. Are you objecting to her winning through a democratic process?
Ironically, we already have a wealth tax on land. It's just called property tax, but it's effectively a wealth tax on land.
> Facebook had pretty significantly different reputation in 2014

That's not really true. Hipster antitrust wasn't a thing yet, so people weren't talking about it at your neighborhood Starbucks. But serious people were talking about it. Look at the conflicts of interest disclosures for prominent antitrust scholars... they were busy during that period.

Also, the infamous "Zuckerberg destroy mode" email is from 2012.
What about https://github.com/mittwald/kubernetes-replicator
The Making of a Maker: Six Professionals Share Their Stories
I would appreciate suggestions on how to regain my Facebook account, shut down without explanation a year ago. Despite its age (15 years) I barely used it, let alone for anything "controversial", but did regularly log into it. I have repeatedly tried to verify my identity by submitting an image of my driver's license, without any response.

I don't want to create a fake Facebook account. I want my own back.
Did you try to make a burner Facebook account? I tried doing this since my client needed something to be verified through FB and I don't have an account.

After initial login I was asked to verify myself by either providing ID (sic!) or a phone number.

Well, seems that after 2023 I'll just trash my Quest.
Ohhh, that's a great trick. Thanks!
People don't realize there was no income tax till 1913, only tariffs.

Income taxes are historically raised to pay for war... The US has been on war time taxes ever since WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_taxation_in_the_Uni...
which changes nothing either way if they were a Benefit Corporation.
That's right, I didn't know. Well, rephrase that to a less radical standpoint, then: "upon which the decision of not wanting to use Facebook rests".

In any case, I personally have never owned an Oculus or anything related to Facebook.
Whatis your favorite founders recommendations? Book, articles, interview..
Who is your favourite entrepreneur? Who is the founder you follow on Twitter and read the books he recommended?
I learned a lot about Product Market Fit from Rahul Vohra's content, and about network effects from the founder of NFX.

To make this type of learning more efficient, I have put these recommendations into content packages.

Then I went a step further and founded a platform where people can exchange curated content packages. In the beginning, focused on entrepreneurs’ recommendations.https://marblehub.co
LastPass was offering something like $10 for anyone that left a review on G2 (from RSA Conf). The kicker was I did this and they never even honored it.
Lenovo did it before the Go released (or about the same). It was kind of gimped because they went with the Daydream controller instead of full controllers but the headset itself was roomscale VR. It was also bigger and not as comfortable but worked on a previous gen SOC to the Quest. Check out the Lenovo Mirage Solo.
Sure, but Hanson seems to be taking a stronger position here than "well maybe". He's proposing that we should set up prizes so people are incentivized to always be on the lookout for older civilizations.