skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going to shamelessly use this thread to pulse check something I am working on.

I too have been learning piano over the last five months or so, but I found a private teacher through a local music school. Very glad I made that decision, we work well together and it’s amazing having someone for 1hr a week to keep you on track, motivated, correcting you in real time.

Apps cannot do that, but there IS room for technology to assist remote learning. Neither of us has an amazing camera setup that can capture a full 88 key piano, which is tricky for performances that span many octaves... so you know pretty much any song :P We both have MIDI out though, which got me to thinking you could pretty easily stream that MIDI data through a p2p connection to render keys on a remote end in near real time.

I have been working on a prototype on and off for a few months on a prototype and testing it with my teacher. It’s been useful for picking up the slack of not having complex camera rigging, and the cost of entry is buying a midi-to-usb cable.

Anyway I’ve been ramping up to get it ready for letting other people try it out and wanted to hop into this very relevant thread and drop the pitch to see if there is interest in the idea!
Very, very unscientific article. Seems like no thought at all was given to alternatives to rockets.
If someone has a feeling that something was racially motivated but has no evidence, do believe that alone should enable actionable legal consequences?
In this sense, I found the 51% surprising (surprisingly close to 50%).

If you have a very practiced, consistent flip, you can always get the same result.
BingeWave on Product Hunt – Content Creators Already Making $$$
Seconded, Yamaha, Kawai and Roland all make gear in that price range that is nothing short of incredible in terms of quality and sound. Besides the fact that they don't need tuning like an acoustic would and which tends to add up over time.
Concurrent code is hard to reason about in general: async or threading included.
True, silicon valley had a great finale but kinda rushed.
Don't you mean definition of even is X%2=0 ? 0%2=0
I'm happy for them (truly—this isn't snark), but unfortunately I have far more faith in EU legislators to support my rights, my community, and my general wellbeing than a Conservative Party government.
Love the business model.
Thieves are stealing Tesla charging cables, suspecting lock defect in cold
Whatever it is it works.

I swapped a front clip on an old shitbox because the meaner looking newer front clip was cheaper than shipping a replacement bumper cover and it reduced the number of people who camp in the left lane in front of me by a solid 10% (pulling that number out of my ass but whatever it is it's a noticeable amount).
Any resources in particular that helped you grok Rust?
Police are doing this silently all the time. If anything I think we need more of this to finally wake people up to the reality of what’s possible so they’ll care to fight back.
Credits to LordGrey, thanks!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25527762
There seems to be some time loop with network application concurrency approaches. I began my career re-writing servers that had a non-blocking socket model with a state machine to use threads, so we could understand and maintain the code now that OS vendors had come around to supporting threading widely. Fast forward a few decades and the world is teeming with smart people who seem to think it's a good idea to go the other way..
Happy to see the project is still evolving!

Was a happy user of TiddlyWiki 5+ years ago but eventually left when adding too many pictures made that HTML file so bloated it could barely open.

Are there any workarounds for this now in the community? Can I add various files / pics to the wiki and not worry about it bloating? Would appreciate insights on this.

(Meanwhile switched to a set of Markdown-driven directories in a cloud.)

(Edit: first line, grammar.)
Betfair is peer to peer, so the house just takes a rake (similar to poker). This means it is hypothetically possible for both you and the house to win.
If you get real-time reliable detection of notes and chords working in the browser then please let me now. Meanwhile, I'll plug https://pianojacq.com/ which I wrote to help practice (digital or silent) piano.
Not at all Chinese fault other than China being a huge market and companies tailoring one size fits all in order to profit more. This is a bad strategy and will likely please neither market in the end
There's quite a few tricks on that front: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Magic_Bitboards
On Betfair the house is you. You determine the odds. Let's assume that cards are dealt randomly. If I know the exact probabilities of every outcome I bet on, and I always bet with odds which have a margin over those probabilities, then I win in the long run.
Nice slur drop... for literally no reason.

> to an el cheapo midi keyboard.

El cheapo? You could just have said cheap and not come across as prick.
There’s also the Mutopia project:

https://www.mutopiaproject.org/

They are working to typeset out of copyright works using GNU LilyPond. The scores are particularly beautifully typeset and very easy to read when printed.
Well there you have it :P Do enough of your friends do the same? It was just interesting to see this so high on your list hah
Though even if they understood it as 'using the geocentric model, how long does it take for the sun to go around the earth?' their answer would be wrong.

That said the reason to prefer a model where the Earth is stationary but rotating over a model where the Earth is both stationary and non-rotating (but everything else is) is somewhat technical and not something I would expect everyone to get correct (though it's technically high-school level physics).

Perhaps the main reason people would answer questions like that wrong is that frankly the most useful model for day to day activities is one where the Earth is completely immobile.
Thanks!

> Maybe you can look at (linear) music DAW's (reaper, cubase, logic,studio one) for inspiration on UI; track grouping/labeling, fades

Great idea! I have a friend that is an expert when it comes to music, and I will ask him more about this. He did give me some advice, based on Logic's app ;) I will dig deeper into this.

> what I longed for years ago was an easy way to; (non destructive) editing on low quality copies of source material, and using their HQ originals for rendering.

Hehe, that's what I do now, behind the scenes ;) It took me quite a while to develop, but I'm quite happy with the results :P

> the use of VST plugins for the audio part

This is a highly complex issue, but I will dig deeper into it. I am pretty happy with how I handle the audio now (that doesn't mean it couldn't use an improvement :D), and depending on what people will want, I can slowly implement them as well ;)

> A while ago i read about software to cut video files without rerendering / converting(dunno if thats common, or useful, but sounds interesting)

It is possible, I did a few tests, but not really worth it. In other words, I'm not sure of a scenario when that would truly make sense.
It is oddly amusing. I do not own one, but few of my friends do and the refrain seems to be, it is fine to own 'as long as it has warranty'. It is nice to see BMW leadership recognizing this.
What you were looking though was a syntax to program those things rather than the specific implementation.
Yet another example of wrong interpretation of statistical bias.

Not that I expected much better from an AI Ethics course clearly not tought by serious machine learning experts.
Sounds like you need more exercise...
“Never” is a long time.
Zoomout: A pull switch that gets you out of video calls, quick
You might not be getting accurate recovery data from Whoop. The heart rate sensor is doesn't work very well.
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/05/whoop-3-platform-review....
Earlier this week I turned on an old MacBook Pro (circa 2010ish) and I couldn't believe we ever used to stare at such pixelated screens!
Ben Eater: explains and builds 8 bit computer, vga graphic card etc.

This Old Tony: machinist with great sense of humour

PBS Spacetime: space, time, and all inbetween

Tom Scott: interesting random stuff

Technology Connections: how basic tech works

Gamers Nexus: truly infomative pc news with 0 bs packed in.

Cody's Lab: a teen doing somewhat easy projects that just noone ever does.

Stuff Made Here: guy builds stuff, like a haircut robot or gun pellet powered baseball bat.

Kurgesagt: short videos explaining various topics with great animations

JohnnyQ90: machinist building motors and rc cars as a hobby, no spoken word.

TryMike4Instance: dota montages that are actually good.

Lindybeige: explains historical tppics in depth.

Two Minutes Papers: AI news

zefrank1: this guy is something else. His older videos are similarly weird in totally different style.

Barny64: World of Warcraft videos that are actually entertaining to watch.

exurb1a: your irregular dose of existential crysis

Applied Science: guy building cool stuff (like his own electron microscope) "from scratch" and explaining everything as he goes along.

Internet Historian: to not forget what once was, and laugh.

Trago: before his "podcasts" an awesome short videos about film making.

Marco Reps: dude repairs electrics stuff, or just messes with it.
I'm using the same techniques in my client-side epub generator.
the cronut, i will not elaborate further
I play a lot of jazz and blues on the piano, well enough that people pay me to do that. I can't read very well, and if I had to play Bach correctly (or, I'd really struggle even reading student etudes), but when I've played in big bands I've gotten by okay.

It's possible to learn the way I did, which was to first learn guitar and bass, and get an idea of how chord progressions work...

At that point, you can approach the piano like guitar, and play a bass line with your left hand and whatever chords you want on the right, and slowly move into reading and playing melodies from fakebooks.

That isn't, I think, a very hard approach to the instrument, and it gives you a lot of latitude on what you get from it. The first song I played on piano was Grateful Dead's tune Ripple... it's 3 chords and I just alternated the bass notes and sang the melody.

You're not going to find a method book that does that, because there's not a lot of method to it.
This thread is clarifying to me. I now have more anecdotal data to back up my anecdotal feeling that I don't agree with most people on HN on matters such as this. The highest voted answers are things I feel are overhyped.

Harry Potter, Breaking Bad, The Wire, Apple Watch, Ruby on Rails, Hamilton.

I'm not saying these things are bad, but the hype level far exceeds the delivered value, in my opinion.

I had to scroll down to things like M1, AMD Zen, and the original iPhone before I felt a sense of agreement. Perhaps I am overly sensitive to hype, so fewer things can possibly measure up for me.
I'd scrounge craigslist and ebay for a lightly used Yamaha, Kawai or Roland digital piano. $300-400 should get you something that is next to brand new. People do a lot of impulse buying find out that it is hard work and then get rid of them again.
Playing piano starts with melody [1]. Kids have the best method for learning something new. They are epistemologists of their own world.

1. https://youtu.be/hkQOtL6gzX4 (this title might throw you off, but she truly communicates what I mean so well about starting with melody.)
Some folks have big heads, others big tails.
The Mutopia Project – open-source beautifully typeset sheet music
Vim: Although I use IDE for coding, Vim has been a good all-around editor for my past 8 years. I just hate working on editor without vim kb binding.

MacOSX: As a veteran developer on Windows (and Linux), I really liked how everything worked well in GUI. While I can't explain it all, everything looks and feels intuitive and easier to work with, even little things like the command key, its various keyboard shortcuts, and other UI/UX elements that are very subtle yet makes everything better as a whole.

Next thing on the list of hypes that I plan on trying:
* Emacs (and Lisp)
* 4k monitor
* Docker
As the article points out, Hayabusa "spent six years and 16.4 billion yen ($157 million) recovering a single gram of material".

What is the plan for commercial scale mining? How do we get the equipment there? How do we get the material back? Scaling up increases the requirements by many orders of magnitude to the point where it becomes unviable.

It's not enough to simply point to launch systems that can put 100 tons into orbit and recover a single gram of material and say "look, it's possible". Scale is what makes it impossible.
Anglo law not historically having a concept of personal property...

That's a new one for me.

The US only protects property rights of some. Read up on asset forfeitures in the US. Police can seize cash on you with only "reasonable suspicion" with no conviction required.
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Note I said "possible". Your link specifically states "During the transition period the GDPR will continue to apply in the UK".

That said, apparently they've just reached a deal, and the transition period ends in 7 days, so lets see what they decided about with data protection.
Compliance is on a product by product bases. Inside the EU when compliance is mandatory it consisted of 45% of exports.

To use an extreme example, if the UK suddenly decides to legalize pot they could then export that while continuing to export every other product under EU regulation. Net result an increase in exports.
> The Pudding collects your data so that we can:

> Personalize stories
> Create content for stories from reader-generated inputs

Is this clear enough to forbid them from long term storage and passing the data on?
Both Rust and Go used to have green threads i.e. stackful coroutines / fibers that installed their own execution stack and switched to it.

However everyone who ever did green threads ended up having a lot of difficulties with stack optimization:
- Go: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wAaf1rYoM4S4gtnPh0zOlGzW...
- Rust: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-November/00...
- Same for Java in the past.

Now only Go is left.

More on fibers woes from the C++ point of view: http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2018/p136...
Ok, I guess I'll bite. To me, BotW feels more like a game engine and less like a game. My biggest issues:

> Content sparsity. Like many open world games, most of Hyrule just feels dead to me. Towns aren't as populated and lively as OoT / WW / MM, the main reason being that there aren't as many overlapping storylines that have you return to the same location as you progress through the game. The game basically encourages you to clear a region and never return. The random encounters are repetitive.

> The shrines, what the heck were they thinking?! It feels like Nintendo hired a bunch of interns that year and needed to give them something to do. All the shrines were clearly made in a generic level editor. Felt really out of place to me.

> Most of the music in BoTW is quiet and subdued, unlike previous entries in the series. This is good for setting a certain tone, but it's less effective unless there's some flashier music to contrast with. To me, the lack of music made the game feel even emptier.

> Shallow combat mechanics, even compared to other entries in the series like OoT. Just mash buttons until enemy dead. Armor / weapons don't really matter beyond the stat boosts and occasionally some elemental matching. Guardians / Lynels require some strategy, but once you figure out the tricks it's not hard to brute force those too.

I had fun playing, for sure. It just doesn't rank very highly on my list.
I'm looking forward to BotW 2, where hopefully they'll use their game engine to make a great game!
Also, perhaps it's mastery vs. creativity.

People who are learning an instrument are arguably at their most creative in fact because they don't know the right way to use the instrument. As they become more proficient it seems they "fall in line" and naïveté and serendipity go by the wayside.
There are plenty of other sites you can go to if you want to read chains of joke comments.
It’s a smartband or more like https://www.aidlab.com ?
Im guessing those are upper owner class, the ones never setting a foot in a supermarket.
Successful auto-playlisting is going to vary on the demands made.

There is no 100% music (or any creative output) recommender because everyone feels differently about what 'energy', 'easy', 'powerful', 'touching', and 'rock' all mean, and to each person individually. These terms are meant to, and always will be, necessarily ambiguous; and that is how these terms work best.

AI currently cannot 100% give you a track without drums even if you check the 'no drums' box (because along the way one track with drums was put in the no drums box).

Incidentally I've used various searchers (now referred to as) AI for years to try and find tracks requested by clients, it remains somewhat helpful though unable to compete with a human first listening to the human making the request.

AI is improving, but it is going to be beyond our lifetime before it replaces communication, human to human, eye to eye.

Until AI knows what it means to be human, so it shall remain.
I've been looking for something like this for awhile and the UX on this is great. Just tested it out and it did exactly what I wanted.

Does anybody know how the discovery mechanism works?
Let’s see if the EU parliament finally throws a fit for being ignored yet again.
Yours is a possibility but I personally think the opposite is true - if all thoughts were made public everyone would understand each other much better (100% empathy if ALL thoughts were known), and thus there would be no monsters or mentally ill people left.
Economy of time
This is a great app! Useful and to the point.
It's worth it as-is if you're into flight sims. I don't mind the bulky headsets, it helps me larp as a fighter pilot.
It takes about an hour to read and understand that documentation and I highly recommend doing so. And once you do git becomes far more intuitive. The key concepts to understand are commits and refs. To a first approximation a branch is just a variable ref and a tag is a constant ref. A commit is a node in a generally sparse upside down tree and refs are pointers to said nodes. Once one realizes that then pretty much everything makes sense. For example the difference between rebase and merge is how they affect the structure of the commit tree.
People in the US cared very much.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-54171571

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-50658187
> pressing tab X number of times

You seem to be under the impression that Netscape style navigation is the best a keyboard can do, which makes the argument an involuntary strawman.

Spatial navigation and caret navigation blow a pointing device out of the water.
From my perspective as someone who learned for about 8 or 9 years, there's a lot of theory here. Personally I never learned much theory - as a child, playing piano wasn't something I particularly enjoyed (and it's only now as an adult that I do it occasionally for fun and appreciate the time I put in), but back then learning theory was even lower on the list.

I do think theory is useful for understanding the mechanics of music, and may help accelerate learning any instrument.

My teacher pulled a lot of material from the Royal Conservatory of Music (and I didn't learn theory from them). I haven't heard of this course until today.
IMO as a practical matter the way to manage this is to have an a active pipeline and manage your callendar to pull the B-grade opportunities earlier and push out the A-grade opportunities. Telling a recruiter “I am actively talking to a couple other companies” is usually an accelerant and seeds FOMO.

So, I agree with you that it takes some luck. But good strategy makes you ready for whatever luck happens. Play backgammon, not chess.
Coronavirus.

When I first heard alarmists at mid-January 2020, I couldn't have imagined that they would turn out so correct.
As much as I prefer CarPlay over the default UI of most cars, I had to disable it on my 2019 i3 because it was an unusable disaster.
Brexit happened at the end of January past. The UK has left the European Union. From February through to the end of this year is a transition period to facilitate further discussions to sort out the state of the future relationship with the EU on Trade and other matters. For the transition period the UK remains aligned with the EU, and a part of the EU Customs Union.

There was a real fear of a cliff edge end of this transition period - this was the "Hard Brexit" scenario which I think you were referring to. This deal - if ratified by both parties - precludes this from occurring.

My issue with the procedure with which the UK has followed here is that there is very limited time to get this deal scrutinised by both Parliament and the Lords (and the EU Parliament on the other side). This is an enormous 2,000 page agreement which will form the basis of the future relationship the UK and all it's industries have with it's closest neighbour. It is precisely the sort of legislation that requires serious scrutiny.

Worse than that, all the businesses affected have a week to prepare for the changes required - This week has two bank holidays in it (these are functionally public holidays, for non UK people). This is going to be a challenge for everyone involved.
Explain? Are you talking about ANPRs in general or are they setting up billboards to shame people?
I assume this is something which is going to be very region/industry dependant.
I have done the exact same thing multiple times, never had an answer.

When they answer "no, we want you to give a number first", I'm at loss about what to do, so I usually give them a number. Answering "no, you" feels kinda puerile.

I assume you have to be the first to do the power play?
https://outline.com/uH22c2
i was never into musicals. but the wife and i were visiting new york and she's a huge hamilton fan -- so i said fuck it and paid more than i should on two good tickets to see it.

it was more than worth it -- it was absolutely beautiful (although tiresome -- it's three hours of music with just a small intermission).

i watched the disney+ version and it's great. but it's not the same due to the angles they chose -- it feels more like a movie, than a broadway play.
It's not black and white. In all cases there is consensus that Brexit will be bad economically. UK went with the middle bad scenario according to their own leaked analysis [0].

The "no deal" scenario, which would see the UK revert to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, would reduce growth by 8% over that period. The softest Brexit option of continued single-market access through membership of the European Economic Area would, in the longer term, still lower growth by 2%.

[0] https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-com...
> As if the problem of moving in a new nation is the strictly bureaucratic one and not the cultural one.

Could it be that you are underestimating the importance of (not dealing with) bureaucracy? It determines if you need to collect lots of documents like criminal-records certificates in each country you've lived in, to verify your degree abroad, to do a bunch of medical tests in approved institutions.

It determines what legal restrictions you need to deal with if you change jobs while your work-permit card has the name of your employer on it.

Many opportunities simply won't happen for a person separated from them with a bureaucratic boundary.
That's organizational incompetence not technical one however.

IMO there is no good fix for that past certain company size.
> GoT TV series was dramatically better than the books because so much of the bollocks was cut

Looks like you havent watched the last few seasons.