skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, how do you go about auditioning these systems in your own practice? Are you a performer playing an instrument by ear? Are you sequencing sounds in a DAW? Or are you tuning your sounds in a programming environment similar to the linked article?

I ask because I'm an electronic musician working in a DAW (Ableton mostly) and am trying to find the best workflow to start exploring these concepts. Ideally, there would be an interface for switching between tuning systems that's as easy as drawing in a time-signature change, but micro-tuning seems to be a low priority for most DAWs. The only one I know to even begin integrating alternate tuning systems is Logic, and those settings are tucked away deep in the preferences.

Does anyone here have a resource for starting to familiarize oneself with how to integrate alternate tunings into their composition? The simpler the better, I suppose. As soon as one sets their foot into the world of alternate tunings you're usually flooded with 40+ tunings. As someone who's worked in Equal Temperament their whole life I would like to pick ONE system and really drill down on it until I get a grip on how to integrate these tunings into programs that are built for ET.
> comma pump

Well this is a fun rabbit hole!

https://en.xen.wiki/w/Comma_pump
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Pretty sure that won't work. CA is famous for vigorously going after people trying to doge taxes like this, and the rules for residency/part year residency are pretty stringent for what taxes you will owe.
An app that helps people make sense of tech
Hey everyone! I'm thinking about creating a product that would help people make sense of the entire technology landscape by using an interactive graph. When you talk to friends and colleagues about tech, what do you say? What would you say is the biggest challenge around learning about technology?
Will check it (Cohere) out. Surfly initially started off only as a support tool though.

They have an Intercom like icon at the bottom right of the web app, via which one can share screens. It's used by a few airline companies, etc. to give hands on support to some of their older users I guess.
I didn't know about that, that's really cool! Thanks for letting me know.
I wear it as a badge of honor, since I first learned programming in BASIC -- the good old line numbered variety -- on a mainframe. Then again I've never claimed that I'm not mentally mutilated.
>Wayland protocol is much more restrictive than X's -- things like screen capture and window managers don't work because the APIs they need aren't present

This is not quite true. There are protocols for these things in some implementations. You'd want to keep compatibility with these because otherwise you'd have no reason to be supporting Wayland. Keep in mind either way you're talking about using a specific compositor—it doesn't matter if the APIs aren't present in the protocol. In this situation you'd re-use one from another implementation or add another private protocol extension. That's always been what individual compositors are encouraged to do. It's no different here.
A year or two ago I built a machine with a 9600k (yet another 14nm++++++ cpu), thinking I'd upgrade to Zen 3 or Rocket Lake later on. Now that later on has arrived, I see little reason to upgrade: I use my machine mainly for browsing the web, watching Netflix, and occasionally running scripts in Python/R/Matlab, etc. Most of these tasks would not run noticably faster on a beefier cpu; those that would are not really slowing down my overall productivity. Of course, this only describes my personal situation, but I do wonder if we have past the point where hardware upgrades matter for 95% of the population. Except for really hard-core gamers who really demand the best and people who do a lot of video processing/ML/scientific computing, I doubt most people would really benefit from switching from a last generation cpu to a newer one. I'm happy to wait another ten years to upgrade.
I really enjoyed the writing, and was confused and frustrated as heck by the interface.
Comparatively to other nuclear companies and in aggregate, EDF has the best safety record, the cheapest energy when subsidies are taken out, and is solidly profitable. That one or two constructions went overbudget does not matter if the result is still head and shoulders ahead of the fray.
People always criticize MySQL, then when asked what is the problem, they always mention the same thing about column length, which is just a default that can easily be changed and it's not even the default anymore for years.
Thanks for the details! It's good to know this is an option for projects that require a custom image recognition solution. I have a feeling my company's clients will appreciate being able to train their data privately on their own computer.
You just saw somebody saying they've had too much advice, too many opinions from strangers on how to handle situations those strangers know nothing about. What made you think the best response was to assume you understand their situation and offer them advice?
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> is there some tax exemption program in CA for people who qualify to some criteria?

There are exemptions which allow some people (seniors and people with disabilities I think) to be "portable" with their property taxes. I.e they can buy a new property and the taxes of their old property transfer over to the new one..

Edit: found this https://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/prop60-90_55over.htm
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My mind is unable to reconcile the claim that CA is prohibited from owning a portion of a company and yet CALPERS invests most of it's ~$350B in companies, and quite a few CALPERS board members come from the CA government, and CALPERS is known as an activist shareholder that uses its ownership in companies to influence them.

So the more accurate statement seems to be CA is prohibited from owning a portion of a company, except not really.
I wonder how they'll deal with badly behaved pedestrians, especially in denser cities. As self driving cars take over, you could imagine pedestrians knowing that the cars won't hit them (and nobody will get out and yell), and walking into traffic. On some cases that's probably fine - why have lights anymore in a sparse suburb? In a place like NYC though I could see traffic just stopping.
> I think you need to cool down.

I think this is unfair. The response is probably calmer than what I would have passed back in my best effort, had I been the one engaged.

> move on if not interested, but blaming people for trying to help in a social setting

On HN (and with a higher bar), I would be blaming people for talking past me in seemingly bad faith.
Basically I was trying to build some software which would be able to do what marketing and SEO people (what I call "brand experts") do for larger businesses, but provide those services for smaller businesses.

Happy to try and explain any of the jargon if you'd like.
It sounds like the FM/a test is still experimental- at least in the sense that abnormally low levels of cytokenes are a potential indicator of FM.

https://www.healthline.com/health/fibromyalgia/blood-test#re... (Feb 2020)

Neither the American College of Rheumatology nor the Mayo Clinic appear to indicate it as an option, yet; both continue to claim that FM is a label after other options have been exluded:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/fibromyalgia/...

https://www.rheumatology.org/I-Am-A/Patient-Caregiver/Diseas...

In fact, the The American College of Rheumatology preliminary diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia and measurement of symptom severity" that you refer to are still incredibly generic; basically it's just an extended period of pain, accompanied by poor sleep or mood to the exclusion of other possible causes. Naturally, months of chronic pain will contribute to feeling poorly rested and / or an altered mood, fibromyalgia or no.

I don't mean to disparage your assertions, and fully agree with your ultimate point of not letting it get to you. That said, I look forward to the FM/a test being more widely recognized.

The thing that surprised me the most about this conversation (and the quick research it forced me to do) is that there is a curiously high level of co-incidence between psoriatic arthritis and fibromyalgia. One of the more annoying effects I suffer (most frequently when I was younger, less so now) was a heavy "fibro fog" cognitive decline typically triggered by high levels of stress.

Maybe I have both? Who knows. Yet another website claiming that neither psoriatic arthritis nor fibromyalgia have a reliable test: https://www.everydayhealth.com/psoriatic-arthritis/living-wi...

(I just might ask my doctor about getting one of those FM/a tests though!)
That's brill. I'll ponder some more and maybe try and get in touch ... thanks.
Thank you Hanselman for saying this and sharing this. “Not everything is code.”
Some jokes are really good, not all though.
> Interestingly, it turns out that there is “a general inverse relationship between horror vacui and value perception”

Here are some counter examples:

* https://mydeutschlandblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/linder...

* https://411design.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/german-castle....

* https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V_XqJfdBdro/maxresdefault.jpg

* http://www.hiddensecretstours.eu/img/w-900,h-750/2016-03-02/...

* https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dd/96/7b/dd967b766bc0a3a47a20...

* https://i.pinimg.com/736x/22/95/a3/2295a3c4fc5afde296b531e5b...

Other examples include grand mosques and Persian rugs.
Legitimate question, not sure why you are getting downvoted.
maybe im not looking at the right places but this seems to have gotten far more attention on hackernews than twitter.
I believe his degree was "Mathematical Engineer." He remarks in at least one of his EWDs that Americans thought that was a very funny title.
How to make a living on your own?
> Can someone explain how utility companies aren't part of the gov in the US of A?

Ronald Reagan. His administration started the deregulation of public utilities. While that's a bit different than taking gov't run services private, but I see deregulation of industries as the cause for a lot of issues of today. It took a while for them to take rot and fester, but we are seeing the results of it all today.
TikTok creators successfully block U.S. app ban with lawsuit
For those fighting with this and similar frameworks, you might consider simplifying with post-commit/recieve hooks, which is how I deploy some websites.
"To astronauts who ask whether they can get out of a black hole, physicists can answer, “Sure!” But if the astronauts ask how to do it, the disquieting reply will be: “No clue.”"

My intuition is that these astronauts would exit the black hole the way a candle exits a flame, i.e., at the atomic or subatomic level, correct?
> But knowing PG&E they will cut back on maintenance

That would be a decision made by the government of California, not by PG&E. Their budget has to be approved by the state.

There were some fun articles back when they were blamed for fires about how PG&E had spent the last several years trying to allocate money to equipment maintenance only to have their budget rejected whenever they tried.
i dont think he would take the call, given his response. they weren't fair from the start, dismissive and one sided, and now have a non-apology for PR purposes.

They broke into his house, robbed him blind, burned it down, and are now apologizing for the communication error of not having knocked. Next time they'll work on the communication - the one sided dismissive process and lack of fair treatment, and the ridiculous nature of the issue itself, is not in the apology.

This is PR.
The 'botched power shut-offs' details

"The California Public Utilities Commission’s independent consumer watchdog arm is recommending that Pacific Gas & Electric be fined nearly $166 million for the company’s failure to properly warn customers of a series of intentional power outages last fall.

At their height, the so-called public safety power shut-offs of October 2019 left nearly 1 million PG&E customers across 38 counties without electricity, some for as long as a week.

...the San Francisco-based company failed to notify tens of thousands of customers that blackouts were imminent, including hundreds who depended on steady electricity to power life-sustaining medical devices. Many people couldn’t access PG&E’s website for several days, as it was overwhelmed by visits from Northern and Central California residents scrambling for information".

PG&E are between a rock and a hard place: they have huge problems with aged infrastructure that catastrophically fails during fall wind events, causing ignition of dry vegetation, some of which they are responsible for maintaining.

After being previously fined for previous fire damage (the money was distributed to affected counties such as Sonoma) they are erring on the side of caution by shutting down when the wind becomes too strong during 'red flag' fire risk periods.

Sonoma County isn't spending their windfall PG&E fine money on fire prevention though, they are spending it on buying hotels to house street people in permanent 'home' hotel rooms, augmenting Governor Newsom's 'Homekey' cash handouts.

This is a core California infrastructure problem, and along with crumbling roads and bridges is symptomatic of the challenges California citizens have to deal with more and more.
He's clarified the timing in his interview with Tucker. The only reason he's coming forward is because the campaign dismissed his presence as Russian disinformation, which hurts his reputation. He is under no obligation to wait till after the election to repair his reputation.
I'm running as side project https://gosourcingwise.com

Built it during the lockdown in spring and its a enhancement for Quickbooks Online. Allows companies to ask request for quotations from their suppliers.
Let me guess who would ultimately pay a fine like that. Anyone except shareholders and the people responsible.
This is most decidedly not lame! I'm sitting there looking at the code poem trying to figure out how the sound happens, it looks like it's just writing bytes to a file. I figured there was some driver or something but "sound driver from file" is not super googleable.

aplay was the missing link.
Because they're greatly prioritizing function over form.
> This is not quite true. There are protocols for these things but they live in multiple places.

Every Wayland window-manager-compositor-hybrid invents their own protocols for these things. This basically means that you can't write a program that does these things -- you need three different versions of every API call you make, and that's just to support the popular desktop environments that people happen to be using this week. So no one has, so the only Wayland protocol features you need to support are the basic ones to open a window, draw into it, and get mouse and keyboard input.

> Keep in mind either way you're talking about using a custom compositor

No, I suspect the "top-level compositor" could be any off-the-shelf Wayland compositor that supports XWayland and can make a window full-screen.
> My skills really leveled up when I landed a full time job at Peer 1 Web Hosting, where I started in Tech Support working tickets and taking calls helping people with Linux servers, Plesk, and MySQL. It's true, it's always a DNS problem.

Tech support for a hosting company is a really sweet deal. It was my first real job in college (I’m aware of how incredibly lucky I was to have that opportunity) and you really do learn a lot in a short period of time.
Socrates didn't use writing because he thought it was a mental crutch that would atrophy his memory and mind.
I remember once upon a time I took a stab at spec work on 99designs. All the designs were sucky, but the contest holder commented he liked the direction my design was heading.

Within 24 hours all the other entrants copied it. That was my last foray into sharing my work. Of course, I knew this was the game, but I summarily bounced from playing that game ever again.

Don’t share your stuff until you are literally done getting what you intended to get (a job, money, credit, etc). It’s not a small community anymore, and people will copy everything.
In case anybody is interested, Ken Williams has just published a book.

https://kensbook.com/
Apparently the issue is that the game is poorly optimized.

In addition, my CPU seemed to be overheating and was likely throttled. I tracked the issue down to my new RTX 3090 which was dumping heat inside the case in a noticeable way.

I re-applied thermal paste to my CPU and replaced my watercooler fans (due to rattling) and I’ve improved fps by 15%.

The latest nvidia driver also increased fps by 12%.
The irony of this being posted on medium.com of all places with that theme is immeasurable.
The property I just bought in northern CA was a trip. In the full title report I got documents dating back to 1880 - all hand written. I got to read about various families that owned the land, and transferred ownership to various companies, including "Northern California Power Company Consolidated" in 1917 and eventually "Pacific Gas and Electric Company" as of December 10th 1948.

It is a total mind-fuck how tied up we are with that company.

But, I do have some hope that at some point in the future mini-grid technology will replace these large juggernauts.
Look up the law. I know of law abiding people who do exactly this. Live in Vegas and come back to California once in awhile.
AI programming assistants

Given what I've seen of AI today (works reasonably well at the best of times, but is sensitive to unusual cases and can produce totally nonsensical results otherwise; and nearly impossible to actually debug), I remain highly skeptical.
Of all of the utilities, power & water should be considered basic rights. Yet, I find it curious how cities provide water and sewage, yet power utilities are private. Solid waste also tends to be private. There are a few cities that provide power. Burbank, CA is one that I have personally had an account. I would include gas in that, but if you have power & water, you can do with out gas.

In today's age, I think a basic internet connection (5mbps down/1Mbps up) should be required at all addresses, and then premium packages with higher speeds could be purchased. But that's a can I'd be happy to kick down the road if we could get power&water guaranteed to all first.
Dijkstra strongly advocates not making a mess of things. He then elaborates this means the primary challenge the programmer faces is keeping his programs intellectually manageable, which among other things means not burying himself in needless complexity.
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They need enough to pay for teachers, administrators, facilities, and the supplemental education that better off folks love: debate, music, sports, speech therapy, early reading help, etc... That extra money has very high return.
Bear in mind though that spending hours upon hours to find a simple solution to a hard problem will tank your professional career. Why? Because your manager will look at your simple solution that you took such pains to derive and then ask why it took you so long to produce such a small amount of such obvious code.
Reason for being it free and most probably free for next couple of years coz Company needs as much data as possible.
Unfortunately copyright law doesn’t even remotely recognize that claim.
> I'm old and don't like the reaction-based (and certainly not multiplayer) games anymore.

I still like them, but I have no time to train myself every afternoon and evening any more, so they’re mostly exercises in getting shot and/or killed all the time.
Do you mean technically? On a speakerphone with hd quality... Possibly. There's lots of research about audio side-channels.

In practice though - why would they do that given Echo is designed to work with network connection?
Vaccine pretty much. It ruined every business that was operating at the edges, restaurants that were playing it loose financially couldn’t withstand it. It’s all pretty fucked up, and honestly we just have to take the L and wait for this vaccine.

Nothing to fix anymore.
My point is that that JSON isn’t being delivered via a js db but instead translated from data stored in a database written in C. So the “what about json” gotcha isn’t as good as it was made to seem.
The Audience Is the Message
Are you bound to C++ for the implementation?
No, the actual issue here is that people don’t understand that they need to have enough empathy to be able to follow a logical sequence of steps before speaking:

First, realize that the person with the chronic health issue has probably put a lot more time and effort into addressing the complexity of their experience.

Second, realize it is in fact exhausting to constantly get unsolicited advice.

Third, realize you presumably are not the only person this person with a chronic health issue interacts with and that most people do not take special care to avoid giving unsolicited advice.

Fourth, realize this means you should assume that this person is getting a lot of unsolicited advice.

Stop for a moment before speaking at this point. Ask yourself, is your additional one iota of advice is highly likely to be both completely novel to this person and efficacious for their issue? Your advice is unlikely to be both those things simultaneously but instead forces this person’s focus back on an issue they are likely trying to avoid thinking about.

Okay, given all that, I am not saying “don’t ever give advice”. All I would request of people is that most of the time, ask first. If your advice is critical, novel, and highly likely to succeed, perhaps intervene immediately. But otherwise, the person will appreciate this opportunity to decide whether or not to interact with input regarding their chronic issue, it’s very unusual that anyone takes care to consider how it feels emotionally to be constantly the person who needs to be told how to live.

Imagine you were telling someone what you had for lunch. You had a sandwich. They ask what toppings you had. You say you had these particular toppings. The person then says “you should try next time adding this other topping, that would have made your sandwich better and in fact would greatly improve the quality of your life”. Unfortunately, you’re allergic to this additional topping, which you dutifully inform the other participant in the conversation.

Okay, that’s fine. Maybe it would have made the sandwich better in their opinion, and sometimes that kind of stuff is okay to let go. But now imagine this conversation happening with multiple people every lunch every day for the rest of your life. Pretty soon you’d start wondering why the fuck all these people have such strong opinions about your lunch. You would also notice that none of these people ate any sandwiches with the topping they insisted would improve your life so much.

I have a chronic health condition that is better managed now, but at one point caused debilitating pain. I stopped talking about it and tried to avoid giving any indication I was unwell at all outside of intimate social settings, because the sheer volume of unsolicited input I got about how the right way to deal with the fact that a surgeon shredded the nerves in my abdomen was to take ginger and rub lavender essential oils on it, or just use CBD, or have you tried hopping up and down on your left foot on a Tuesday immediately following the vernal equinox...
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Program verification is a fool's errand and Dijkstra would have been the first to tell you this. The correct approach is program construction following derivation rules that do not admit error. You don't need to verify a program produced from a specification this way anymore than you need to prove a proof by construction. It baffles me that to this day the distinction defies comprehension for so many in our field.