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Can there be a license - Permissive Open source for the rest of the world except the cloud providers? Or some kind of anti-monopolistic rule to protect open-source?

The cloud providers taking over open-source projects, launching their own forks (with restrictive licenses) etc isn't great for the open-source ecosystem. If you take away the incentives for the developers (respect, fame, etc) to write open-source software, then isn't it kind of doomed in the long run?
I've been suggesting that fines should be proportional to the type of data they request and how much.

So the more you collect, the more you stand to lose in a data breach. That should do 2 things:

1) Encourage companies to do "least data collection" (a good thing)

2) Strengthen their security if they do any sort of non-trivial data collection
The Game of Life doesn't produce complex behavior from simple rules.

The complex behavior comes from a large enough random starting state combined with a very low minimal required complexity to see something interesting. Also, even for a short interesting run of local behavior, the game never produces a stable behavior that grows in complexity beyond the initial information encoded in the random state. (i.e. if there is a bubble of cool stuff happening somewhere on the 2d plane, something usually interferes with it and destroys that pattern - like waves in the ocean, even when the energy curves combine to form a wave once in a while, they are limited and temporary).

So the Game of Life is actually an example that the system is limited to the information encoded in the initial starting state.

In the starting state there is either:

- a large enough random search space (i.e. a million random attempts with a 100x100 board might get something cool looking)

- intentionality (a person can design a starting state that can produce any possible stable system)
IIRC the GPL, for example, is itself covered by copyright and doesn't permit modification of its own text.
The marauders map from Harry Potter would look great.
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My first thought would be patreon or another of those services where people can sponsor monthly.
> Will you be able to improvise after enough of this? Play songs by ear?

How many Herbie Hancock's have you come across after finishing a grade 1 piano book? Of course a single exercise app or book isn't going to create the perfectly rounded musician. For a child or beginner player, this looks like a great tool.

Advanced musical skill is entirely composable. Having solid improvisational skill or technical ability largely depends on how much you practice those various facets of your instrument. The reality is that probably 95%+ of people who pick up an instrument in their lives never make it to that point anyway.

You're trying to critique this tool with the expectation that a single learning resource should address all aspects of playing an instrument, when that's never been true of any musical learning resource ever.
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Nix is a tool for deployment, that happens to have some build capabilities. This is how I view it anyway.
Not everyone wants to become a composer. A lot of people just want to be able to sit down at a piano and play music they enjoy. Learning by rote works very well for that.
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I'm not convinced. Conservatism, in general, believes some institutions are necessary to promote general welfare - but only the ones they subscribe to/agree with.

Religion is fine as long as it is theirs. A conservative christian generally isn't ok with conservative Islam, even though so many things are similar (women at home, no LGBTQ , etc). School is fine as long as it doesn't teach the wrong things. Other Christians are fine so long as they aren't OK with some things. And so on.

Yet, in general, institutions that force one to help pay for another's life aren't considered good, even though things like a healthy safety net (welfare system) promote the general welfare of peoples.
I agree. That means we both disagree with what was (at least circa 2003), a fairly standard economist's perspective.

In a nutshell, Keynes made assumptions about economic growth (correct). He then riffed on assumptions for income effects (if I pay you more, will you work more?) and substitution effects (if you have more money, will you work less?). Those are not very hard to populate. Ask poor people, observe higher income people's behaviours.

The standard retort my professor gave (people decided to keep working lots and buy more stuff instead of chillin)is, IMO, the favoured explanation because it's parsimonious with theory. It fails when it meets reality, in the form of people. Ask a median person why they don't chill more and work less and you'll get strange looks.

If interested, I think concepts in the "cost of thriving index^" are probably key to understanding why economists are (I agree) mostly wrong on this.

In any case, I think the keynes prediction, is an invaluable starting point... being from the past. A modern economist might defend the theory, with the "chill more" defense. I doubt they would bring it up though. No one is going to make a false prediction about the past to test a theory they support.

^ https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/t...
He grew up 'covering' old songs. His family sang together every night - he was very accustomed to singing everything he could. Wasn't a songwriter until later in life. Isn't the purpose of old songs, to be sung?

I guess today we regard some canonical rendition of a song to be the 'correct' one. Does that stem from the dying art of singing - folks don't hear songs except in their most viral form?
Right? If seeing multiple messages in a single TCP packet immediately clues you in to the issue, the truth is that you already knew about the issue.
Yep. I used Fedora and Yocto on iMX6 SoloLite. Both use rpm&dnf. Fedora is much better. In fedora, I feel like at desktop: everything is the same, zero issues. In yocto, I feel like I returned in time for about 20 years: same f*ing bugs, which I reported or fixed years ago, again and again.
Ask HN: A CLI alternative for mobile scanner apps?
I have been looking for a CLI alternative to apps like CanScanner, Scannable, Office Lens, etc. I have taken a look at ocrmypdf, unpaper, http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/textcleaner/index.php, scantailor. None of these seem even close to the commercial apps (which just take your colored photo of the document, auto-straighten it, deskew it, crop it, and enhance it). Does anyone know of a solution?
Thanks for introducing me to this!
Musescore does do a great job and is open source, so there's that. Another option is to have users manually upload midi with a proper score attached to some store or community repo with user reviews. It's less satisfying as a solution, but it means all it takes is one motivated user for everyone to enjoy the score.

For my final point, you can model this as a hidden markov process. You're observing notes, but not the user moving his mental "cursor". Classical filtering algorithms should do well here.

Ah, one more missing feature, good scores have fingering, but it gets lost in the midi. I'm pretty sure fingering can be infered though and this would be pretty powerful. Amusingly, it can also be seen as a filtering problem:

- At any given point, a hand can have a finite number of fingerings, and that number isn't that large. Give each of them a difficulty.

- Now, make that difficulty conditional on the previous hand position.

- Run Viterbi's algorithm on the score to minimize the difficulty.

The difficulty can be obtained from an expert or through some physiological model, but they could also be inferred from an existing body of music sheets.
Zoox is burning Amazon's money now.
> The GPL is all about protecting a users freedom to use their software in any way they'd like, and correctly notes that users require access to source code in order to do that.

I'm still tempted to argue that if I want to run the software in whatever way I like - in this case mimicking someone else's production system, then I'm going to need access to both the source code as well as _my_ user-data so I can use the software to host my own user data.
I'd wager it can't teach you abstract concepts but since abstract concepts are much easier to learn with the practical knowledge of using them, it would definitely be helpful. Also honing motoric skills is a key part in doing many things - arts, sports - so getting accustomed to that is a big plus too. The downside of doing only that is yes, you will be quite lost with the abstract and also reinforce some bad habits.

So no cynical HN commentary from me! If it works, it is definitely a big help for learning to play piano.
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I don't disagree, and the opaqueness of land ownership here is a real problem.

That said, England does have a fantastically extensive network of public footpaths.

It's really something you don't appreciate until you go somewhere without such a network.
I agree. We have no reason to give our data and power of speech to these shit companies. We need a decentralized authority in charge of social networks. Nothing these companies provide is of any substantial value that cannot be open sourced and decentralized.
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Oh noes, my beloved hacker news has sunk down into the political morass.

I think the bigger picture, and meta topic here is that private companies have become the arbiters of what is and what is not appropriate social discourse.

We as a society have chosen to let the Marks and Jacks of the world decide what is appropriate to publish.

I think the bigger part of the problem is that while we sit and argue about whether the policy was fair or not or was biased or not, we are not asking the question of are the right people setting those policies?

Should private companies with no accountability to the public they serve/sell to the highest bidder, be the ones to decide what constitutes valid social discourse?

We all thought social media was a good idea, when we were young up and coming geeks. We thought it would be a force for good and allow people to connect and talk.

What we as geeks actually invented were a bunch of brain washing machines that profit by selling the minds of their "users".

I have an opinion about whether or not there was bias, but I don't think it's as important as the bigger question this story brings up.

We now, in this thread are fighting about how the brain washing machines are being used, instead of the IMHO, the more important topic of, how can we turn off the brain washing machines and put the genie back in the bottle?
Synthesisa is awesome. I think it is not a direct competition to pianojacq because while similar in some ways it is different in many ways too. murbard summarized some differences in another comment better than I could. In my opinion the two apps and a piano teacher complement each other.
Could we write a license so that if a big company uses my software they have to send me a pony? A real live pony?
The middle man increases costs and inefficiency for the billion dollar companies, giving a competitive advantage to everyone else. It's foolproof I tell ya!
I do like that you are showing the score, instead of doing some sort of Guitar Hero style / abstract grid. That will definitely help people that want to translate this into reading sheet music. And you may be right in that doing this enough will give you a sense of what keys make what sounds, which then can clue you into to how songs work "under the hood".

Since you're rendering the score in realtime, you could let users transpose songs up and down which would really help them learn scales.

Very nice project, though.
Here's a wire wrapped PDP10 backplane. You'd see something similar inside a PDP8 and the earlier PDP11s.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/PDP-10_1...

Can you imagine trying to fault-find this with just a schematic, a meter, and a scope?
Please don't speak facts.
There was[0]! In contrast to 2010, 2020 thread seems much more pessimistic.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21941278
TLDR: Twitter and Facebook regulating platforms causes more backlash, this time from Murdoch linked sewer press.
Checked out the article, her website, and her Instagram.

Wonder if she ever goes a week without using that word.
If this is Keyne's failing (I agree it's a part of it) then the majority of economists still make this mistake.

Where they do acknowledge it, it's usually via frivolous examples. Your friends have cool cars, so you need one too.
Canonical has always been getting a lot of hate because they are the biggest fish. When smaller distros switch things up or trade off flexibility for UX they are called "opinionated". When a big player does it all of a sudden it is the end of the world. You do not see Elementary OS getting this much vitriol. The complaints about Snap are hardly new. Linux people were crying and screaming when they updated the desktop environment and init system too. It is unrealistic to expect a both consumer and enterprise focused company to exist solely based on the needs of a few minority developers.
I've taken it multiple times. As in, more than 10, but I haven't kept count so an exact number is elusive. And to be fair, I've done a lot of hallucinogens that weren't MDMA.

MDMA was by far the most profound personally, and has made me a happier person overall. I've never fallen back into my old ways of thinking and am much more comfortable with myself.

But the first time is the most helpful and profound - once can really be enough, though I can understand why someone would want to take it 1-2 times a year just to keep it fresh in their mind.
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I honestly do think you missed it and it's been laid out by my two comments. This isn't a personal goal of mine it's just how I see the economics of it. People that want their grandma/gf to use linux as a desktop - that is a personal goal. None of those people give a shit about using linux or they would already.
I have to admit, that was captivating. The part about cryptic images that resemble children gave me the chills for some reason.
How realistic is the patreon schema?

Say you would need to support 2-3 members team of highly professional software developers... Is patreon realistic for that?
Yeah, a backdoor.
> basically all land is freely accessible by anyone, except when explicitly forbidden

That's not strictly true for England. Although it's not illegal to trespass (outside of power stations, military bases and ports) unless you cause damage while doing so.
The value of reading The Singularity is Near in 2005 (I read it in 2009, a little late to the game) wasn’t the predictions themselves. The way he thought about the development of technology was fundamentally different, and by reading his explanations for his prediction other people were learning how to think about the future as well. 2000 started with clunky desktops and dial up. 2009 ended with 3G iPhones. I can forgive him for being overly optimistic about future progress given the time.
The Stack Overflow answer was "straight from the horse's mouth" too, doubters here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24799256 notwithstanding. (-:
sligthly similar in spirit.. I so wish I could have local information about stop lights..

I like to play the 'continuous driving' game where I coast in neutral if the next light is red and try to get the green light so save kinetic energy etc

With this data I could compute the avg speed required to do so (granted there are other factors because I don't want to clog the traffic too etc etc)
The UK, keeps repeating ad nauseum (to their own public hilariously) that the EU is not trying and the UK alone is heroically trying its best to reach a deal.
But in reality the UK is at fault, as you cant expect to leave a club and get all the benefits of the club, and pretending that the club is being completely unreasonable, only plays to your own audience, as it does not change the clubs outlook. Its all so bizarre.
Since Nim has hit the front page twice in the past day, let me just say: if you're at all curious about the language, try it out over the weekend. Nim isnt quite as simple as Zig (to compare to another compiled language with a smaller ecosystem), but the more advanced features stay out of the way until you need them. If you've worked with any static language, you probably know 80%-90% of what you need to write productive Nim code. The dev team has worked hard over the past year to improve documentation, and the website links to some great tutorials.
The advertising clause is inherently problematic to integrators, distributions, and packagers, which are an important part of the community. For a distribution, having to acknowledge 1,000+ authors in all promotional materials is unrealistic. Worse, it won't be a problem initially, but only after most people had noticed this trend: they would want their acknowledgements too, and everyone would start adding advertising clauses, in the end - everyone spams all posters with credit and nobody gains any notability, it's kind of a tragedy of the commons. The only way to stop this problem is explicitly discouraging everyone from using it.

A idea is to reword and relax this license: Similar to LGPL, you can skip the acknowledgement if it's used in an unmodified form. But it doesn't really solve the problem - if the original project has been forked by the community, the exception becomes useless again. The next problem is that, it doesn't really cover all cases - in a previous incident involved Microsoft, Microsoft didn't even use a single line of the original code at all, it was just an inspiration from its framework, and the author was upset for not receiving any acknowledgement... Another idea is using AGPL's approach and targets cloud providers only, but still, it doesn't cover all the cases here.

I'm not sure whether using copyright to require acknowledgement is a good idea after all. In the academia, copyright and credit/attribution are two entirely independent process. The credit is not a legal matter, but simply a form of code of conduct and informal politeness. Perhaps promoting a code of conduct for acknowledgement in the industry regarding the use of FOSS could work better.
Same. I have done a lot of hallucinogens, but MDMA was the most profound. It changed my relationship with myself. I really didn't know what it was like to just be OK with myself, let alone realize I liked some bits of myself.
would CC-BY require that the licensed work get mentioned in _the product announcement_ ?

It seems to me it would just require mentioning it in some CREDITS.txt or whatever, which the other lincenses also do.
> Waymo and Tesla have some hope. Cruise and Zoox are burning VC money like crazy with little to show.

The numbers for Cruise reported by GM [1]:

As of six months Q22020, Cruise posted revenues of $53m and total expenses of $498m, compared to $50m in rev and $553m in expenses for the same six month period in 2019.

Total cash in hand for Cruise is $2.2b with zero debt

2 more years of cash burn is not your typical startup that is 'burning VC money like crazy', but still the cash burn is large.

Now the question is if Cruise can expect any revenue from the new DMV authorization in SF [2]

[1] starts page 9 https://media.gm.com/content/dam/Media/gmcom/investor/2020/j...

[2] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/news-and-media/dmv-authorizes-...
Sounds shady but here’s how I found lists with 300 investors contact data
Absolutely, I don’t deny the complexity! I still wonder at the mind boggling accomplishments of evolution. It’s like being able to create a working car out of nothing but wet spaghetti!
I'd prefer no phrasing at all. Just pick one that will work well in all cases, and don't give me any footguns.
The wonders of Bellard never cease. Another discovery for me was that he wrote LZEXE in 1989~90 when he was 17. I remember this program from my childhood.
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> And according to the Department of Energy the average US power plant expends 600 grams of carbon dioxide for every kWh generated. That means that transferring 1GB of data produces 3kg of CO2.
Wow, thanks for creating this @jacquesm! I'm going to give this a spin tonight with my kids!
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> He tried some LSD, which may have either activated and/or exacerbated schizophrenia in his brain.

Or perhaps being a latent schizophrenic, he was drawn to LSD/drugs in general. According to a study done in 2006[0] 90% of schizophrenics in the US used tobacco products in 2006, while only 20% of non-schizophrenic people did.

How do you explain this? It’s either “schizophrenic people use drugs at a higher rate” or “tobacco causes schizophrenia”. I’d bet heavily on the former.
I don’t see a problem with it. It says more about the comment author than it does about the article. If he (commenter) wants to out himself as a knowitallogist, so be it?
I would not say the bible is boring. Yes there are inconsistencies in it. One thing to remember when looking at the inconsistencies is that the bible itself is a collection of separate books that for the most part are telling unconnected stories. The new testament is more interconnected as it is several of the disciples accounts of Jesus's life but the old testament is books by separate authors throughout time.

Depending on what you mean by learn. If you are trying to understand Christianity, so might get a better idea but maybe not. From what I remember as a child going to church, each season would have a section of the bible that the pastor would pull from and there was not much variation on the theme from year to year. i.e. Easter being rebirth, pulling from Mathew, Mark and John.

But to say there is nothing to be learned is rather harsh, it does try and set out guiding principals and morals for people. From the old testament 10 commandments to the new testament "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". It has some nice poetry in it in places, it has some epic tales such as David and Goliath and it has some really crazy stuff such as Revelations.
The textbook explanation for why Keynes' workweek prediction failed is that he failed to account for the shift to a service economy, which provides ample room for people to expand what they work on and what they spend on.

The crisis within that explanation is that the number of people employed in the "service" category has not grown proportionately with gains in productivity. In fact, it's barely grown at all. The type of job that has filled the gap is "administrative/clerical."

This observation has led David Graeber to propose that perhaps Keynes was essentially right, and that the only reason we don't have the shorter work week is basically that we refuse to let it happen. We would rather continue "working" whatever number of hours was customary in our culture (40 hours a week in the US, less in Europe, many more in Asia) and if there's not enough to actually do (there isn't) we have a small number of people do the work for 40 hours and the rest are just managers and administrators sitting around in a redundant meeting or staring at a screen waiting for the next redundant meeting.