skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pianoteq is very impressive. It doesn't sound quite as good as a real piano 'live' but it sounds better than most real pianos when recorded.

I have another interesting setup at home that I'll do a blog post on one of these days that works extremely well with Pianoteq and other virtual pianos, costs peanuts and gives you some amazing capabilities. Stay tuned! (pun intended ;) ).
This quote is not from the article and is only tangentially related to the article.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/mit-scientist-stallman-pedophi...

He's never adequately explained from what I can tell why he made those statements in the first place. If he could provide that additional insight, I think it would help others evaluate the sincerity of his apology.

The question today that I have for Mr. Stallman, whom many of us hold in the highest regard for his role in the free software movement, is a very frank one:

Were his remarks in support of pedophilia designed to persuade Mr. Epstein to donate part of his $500 million estate to the Free Software Foundation, much like he observed role-models such as MIT president Rafael Reif do for Mr. Epstein when Dr. Reif sent Mr. Epstein a personally signed thank-you note for his donation to the Media Lab, or colleagues like Martin Nowak do for Mr. Epstein when Dr. Nowak created a web page on a university website and an office in his department for a convicted child-rapist in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in donations that were promised to his academic program at Harvard and hundreds of millions of dollars in donations, often laundered through Epstein's fellow billionaire pedophile friends like Les Wexner and Glenn Dubin, to Harvard University, where Mr. Nowak is employed as a math professor?
Absolutely. I was really just curious why the person I responded to was forced to buy insurance. I don't think that's the case nationally, but may be something state specific.

> the employer deals with a broker, the broker represents many employers

I need to look into this again, but it wasn't the case last I checked. Larger employers (those who can really move the negotiating needle) don't want to help smaller companies by being the anchor in a group situation because the larger employers see insurance as a competitive advantage. It's been a few years, but the last time I checked going through broker they were just negotiating for the individual company and not a group. I clearly need to revisit or maybe find a different/better broker.
I can read it with JavaScript completely disabled.
i have a similar experience. i became mostly fluent after a year of living in the US during high school. (and then living in the US again and other english speaking countries for a few years)

i always explained to people that complained about learning german being hard, that i felt that german is hard at the beginning, but once you are over the hurdle, it gets a lot easier, whereas english is easy at the beginning, and it keeps getting harder.

learning german is like climbing up a steep road followed by a shallow incline, whereas learning english is a not so steep road that just keeps going up and up and up.
I know given it's GK chesterton, he's trying to say that's bad, but being treating, say, a forest, the ecosystem, the people around you with more reverence in the early 1900's probably would have avoided a lot of the problems we have now.
I’ve played piano for the last 20 years, starting off initially with a teacher and going through the usual sheet music pieces. I used to think as you do for the longest time - “The important thing is to have fun!”

I still believe that, but I find that I learn new techniques every time I read, learn and play an existing piece - this makes my improvisation and jam sessions all that much better! So would highly recommend learning to read sheet music.
Here is a YouTube playlist, for those who don't want to download the individual *.mov-files and are OK with streaming via YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89fKiaMxHrA&list=PLfsVAYSMws...
5G baffles me. I hear about it from politicians. I hear about it from telecom companies. I hear about it from my tech-illiterate dad, who asked me "Does it have 5G?" when I told him I got a new smartphone.

But... what is it? Higher bandwidth? Lower latency? Is it the IoT dream, my smart microwave connects to a cell tower instead of my private subnet? Does it replace my wired home internet connection?

And, bonus question - what's the theoretical bandwidth limit per person for, say, a football stadium full of people? Does this limit improve on 5G vs older specs? At what point does physics prevent us from having better standardized wireless networks?
Tech to monitor bridge as breakdown lanes open to traffic
> When you tell people to "vote with your wallet", you are implicitly admitting that people with bigger wallets have more votes.

Seeing the world as it is, is a precondition to changing it. You don't have to like it, but you do have to understand it.

In this case I both disagree and agree.

Disagree: Yes, rich people have a lot more money. But they don't eat more food than anyone else. Their threat to not buy certain fish is worth about as much as mine.

Agree: These kind of boycotts rarely accomplish much. The fishing system needs to be reformed away from free for all hunting, and legislation must do that. Iceland and New Zealand has decent systems in place now.
crypto and crypto people != BTC and BTC maxis
Fine, but the police level of suspicion is not relevant.

Never, ever agree to be interviewed by police without your attorney. There is no reason not to have someone who knows the game play for you. You have no clue what the police know or think they know already and your innocuous answer about something that seems unrelated may seem to confirm some wrong information they already have.

Again, your word cannot exonerate you but it can absolutely get you charged or even convicted.
I appreciate what you're saying... but I don't think that's the generally accepted meaning of 10x. You're just describing a good, responsible, effective programmer. Skills like good documentation or secure code are things anyone can learn from training and experience. And the qualities you're describing are also very much a function of what the company requires/expects/incentivizes, rather than what any individual chooses to do.

People generally reserve "10x engineer" who really do have the intellectual capacity and stamina to crank out 10x the amount of code of the same quality as a median engineer.

I think it's important not to confuse the two.
As a 'white' father of 3 who has been unemployed for the past few years I can tell you that this paper is sole crushing. Its a monument to how backwards common perception is to reality. Its a declaration from academia to never stop finding ways at punishing (me, my wife and 3 daughters) for my sin of being born white/male/pre1990. From what I have seen, people like me are under-represented in most office environments. Next time you are in an office (in NA at least), look around. Who are the black suited MBAs in charge not hiring? Even the abstract of the paper leads me to believe the the universe is a simulation because why else would it want to destroy opportunities for me and my family and simultaneously assuming, and tying to prove in a lab, that I am the modern Satan.
I'm considering joining a church almost exclusively for the social aspect. Christianity does teach some good lessons and taking my kids would be a net positive.

I wonder how many people who attend church and identify as Christian hold similar views to mine: overall it's a pretty good system but very few stories in the Bible are historically accurate.
I can't tell if you're being intentionally dense. Elon mixing his personal and business facing statements on his personal twitter account were his doing. He can no longer speak as a private citizen about Tesla on his twitter account, period. Anything he tweets is rightfully considered an official statement by a company representative.

By your logic, Elon could tweet Tesla's financial results on twitter during a quiet period before public release "because first amendment". The first amendment doesn't give you carte blanche to break the law without consequence...
"permanent" how? The fact that it has ended up a dead rock implies that that's its steady state. You make mars habitable, it'll probably require a perpetual gardening effort to keep it that way.
Seconding, one of my top 5 SF reads.
I learned BASIC on an HP3000 circa 1975 or so.
I guess my question is, "why would you like to know?" Of course, there are times when knowing important information can be the difference between helping people and harming people. Otherwise, I think there are other ways to either ascertain the truth or even find peace in not knowing. I take some solace in being okay with not knowing some things.
I think it is more oriented towards saving money and stuffing more subscribers onto the infrastructure. So, it's about money.
Ask HN: Is it possible to practice decision-making / rationality?
I'm currently working on decisionschool.org, something that I wanted for myself for a long time but couldn't find, a learning platform for decision-making/rationality.

I managed to create some exercises (multiple choice questions) with the help of friends and online resources. But coming up with practical exercises is still a challenge.

My question to HN is two-fold:

Is it possible to practice decision-making?

And if it is, which ways do you use or have seen?
> I sometimes translate German figures of speech into English, where they don't exist.

This is how language develops, so I wouldn't feel bad about it.
Both of our comments appear to have been downvoted a lot, so it seems we’ve struck a real nerve here challenging this narrative.

Folks should note that New Zealand literally banned foreign ownership and is similarly going through a property bubble.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/23/new-zealand-mo...
From an evolutionary standpoint it makes perfect sense, but there are some unfortunate downsides
it should be pretty clear where the quote is from.
I find the evidence presented by <https://rms-open-letter.github.io> for Stallman being transphobic absurd. They are citing this document [1]. Here's what it actually says:

> Please think about how to treat other participants with respect, especially when you disagree with them. For instance, call them by the names they use, and honor their preferences about their gender identity.

> Honoring people's preferences about gender identity includes not referring to them in ways that conflict with that identity. For instance, not to use pronouns for them that conflict with it. There are several ways to avoid that; one way is to use gender-neutral pronouns, since they don't conflict with any possible gender identity.

Those statements apparently make Stallman a transphobe.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210325014959/https://www.gnu.o...
How would Box86 compare with QEMU user-level emulation?
ActivityWatch: Cross-platform, private app for automatic time usage tracking
Not OP, but the primary studies saying masks are effective are basically experiments of function, such as, does a mask block particles more than not wearing a mask? However, studies on their effectiveness in the past have never found actual protection from diseases. For example if every one covers their mouth were they sneeze anyways, then what is a mask really doing? Do people touch their face more often with masks, reuse masks, and actually bring more particles to their face? Diseases are not all airborn and live on surfaces, so is all this interaction with your face to large untrained groups actually increasing the risks? The best we have now is comparing groups of people or states with different policies, which is also not proving masks are effective, but could that cause be due to people still following rules even though the policy isn’t forced or some other unknown reason such as hers immunity being reached, etc.
It's simple. 5G is a marketing term to get you to buy stuff. It's 4G + 1, therefore it's better. There may be marginal technological improvements too. See: Veritasium's latest video about planned obsolescence
I’ve always pronounced it "-tile", not "-teel" & both Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mercantile ) & the OED ( https://www.lexico.com/definition/mercantile ) agree that it’s pronounced "-tile" rather than "-teel", so I think your initial belief was the correct one!

Wiktionary suggests that -teel is an alternate pronunciation in the US, but that -tile is the preferred one even there.
Tangentially reminds me of thoughts and theories behind the TV show "The Prisoner" regarding society.
Sidenote: you should really learn about homeopathic dilution and how to synthesize the same cancer drug as I did.

This is unrelated to being a "homeopathy sceptic", a "no-diluter" person, or anything else.

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Really? If you think blockchains are stupid, why should you learn about the details of how exactly the pollution happens and how much real money is used to power each transaction?
VHDL was initially developed by the DoD back in the time when there was a strong push towards unification of programming languages used in government/defense contracts.

Newer VHDL deviates from Ada syntax in some unfortunate ways that can lead to confusion. For example ".all", in Ada is used to "dereference pointers" while in VHDL it is used to import everything from a library.

Also, coming from Ada you eventually realize that many FPGA vendor's tools are non-conforming to the standard in regards to certain features that are seldomly used by hardware designers but are bread and butter for Ada developers. (enum -> int, int -> enum conversions were partly unsupported in the Xilinx toolchains some years ago, not sure if the problem persists.)
> Doesn't everyone want cheap energy, like factories or heavy industry? Are Bitcoin miners really more eager to push for clean energy than other industries?

Yes. Given enough time, Bitcoin will gentrify the power grid.
Lack of evidence for divine Creation, lack of evidence that a particular “revealed truth” is supernatural in origin, moral teachings of a particular faith incompatible with own morals derived from lived experience, religion systematically corrupt or staffed by people of dubious character ...
Show HN: useNft() is a React Hook to fetch NFT metadata
> if we were despotic and put people into tracks like the USSR who turned out lots of talented women in STEM

It sound like BS. Have you learned it in school?
It's not a one-time misclassified label, it's a continuous loop of unions trying to get more benefits for their "members" at any means possible.

And the sensitivity of some of them would cause a disgrace for any politician to mention ( eg. because yes, teachers are important)

I wouldn't call it inaccurate, but more like deceit.
That's a ludicrous question.
House Prices Are Inflating Around the World
Same. My high school had a "computer lab" which had a teletype with a paper tape punch that communicated over a modem to a local community college. Definitely not the norm at the time for a high school.
Martin County coal slurry spill
Okay, done!

Scroll all the way to the bottom after pressing F5 and it should appear. You can clearly make out the labels.
I'm really eager to see if I can replicate the Raspberry Pi setup with Pianoteq!

https://forum.modartt.com/viewtopic.php?id=8302
Japan surprises me. Religion seems nearly absent from their daily lives.

There is ritual around death and marriage. The scene of a temples will be typically older people eliciting prayers for health, relieving ailments.

But little else that I have observed.

It is perhaps the rest of the rigidity of their society that gives them a sense of belonging to, serving the whole, a notion of laws, rules, guidelines....
There's a library for that: http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/units.htm
Zoom's pandemic profits exceeded $670M. Its federal tax payment? Zilch
No, open source is not a tool.

Open source should be the default mode of operations. It is not some kind of "can opener" to get people who might be interested in your product.

Most of the software does not use "magic algorithms" that no one else cannot think of. Power of people and companies should rise from trust and professional behavior. Well it might be that there really is some magic algorithm but if someone who I cannot trust is providing that algorithm I am probably better off not using it anyway.

I am willing to pay to someone who I can trust that he will do proper work, he does not have to be a "mastermind". He does not have to have some magic tricks up in his sleeve.

Remember that trust and professional behavior beat any "magic algorithm" in the long run anyway. By having open source company/person is signaling that they also rely on trust, but don't use is cynically, please.
It's a pity that the EFF has lost its credibility last week by participating in a witch hunt against RMS.
Consider joining the Freemasons. They also teach some good lessons but are more tolerant of different beliefs.
While the statistic on atheist or agnostic self identification is fairly accurate, I think it is misleading. There is a lot of stigma against these terms in the U.S., and many people who hold beliefs inline with what would generally be considered atheist or agnostic do not self identify as such.

A 2017 Pew Research survey found that 18% of Americans consider themselves "neither religious nor spiritual" and that a further 27% consider themselves "spiritual but not religious" [1]. In total, roughly 45% of Americans consider themselves "not religious". Given the historical trends in the U.S., I suspect these numbers are even higher now.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/06/more-americ...
It added a whole bunch of different things. More efficient communication at existing frequencies and high speed communication at much higher frequencies are the main two.

The Wikipedia page is pretty good.
I know someone will reply this. But I’ll bite. Say, watch Netflix all day and play video games all day.
I can’t imagine taking a stroll through a field and stumbling across something like that. What a breath of history.
It definitely not. The energy used turned to heat and eventually radiated away into the universe. Just like the energy used to find the largest prime number. Unless you think that energy is embodies in the number somehow but then where was the energy before the number was found? Because the number clearly already existed before it was found.
I've been using Mountain Project for over a decade now. The site made a turn for the worse when it was acquired by REI, and then improved again when REI decided it wasn't worth it for them and handed ownership back over to the founder. onX has now owned Mountain Project since January, so this is likely originating with them.
Treating minors as adults is not a new problem. They are regularly tried as adults by "tough on crime" prosecutors. With examples like that it's not surprising to see the "tough on racism" crowd following that lead.
Except for the lack of magic, I suppose?
In some critical / regulated / military embedded software, there are situations where you'd want runtime checks. The Ada tooling ecosystem is pretty good, and can help you figure out if it's necessary and what affect it has.
Maybe the victim in this case is not you, but the company paying for the ads.

Think about it this way: You buy a webcam from some company X. The company X wants to sell more webcams, so they buy ads. Amazon shows those ads to you. At the end of the year, company X gets a report saying "we displayed your ads to bigiain, and bigiain bought your webcam" (the little detail that you bought the webcam before seeing the ads is not mentioned). Would this seem to the company X as money well spent?
On the world stage there is no court system. All you have is sanctions and war. And it seems unlikely that any significant number of countries are going to sanction an economic power like China over an accident. Look at the weak sanctions put on Russia which annexed a neighbor, and routinely assassinates political rivals.
UT Austin journalism professor Robert Jensen joined — and was welcomed by — a liberal Austin Presbyterian church even though he didn't believe traditionalist theology, christology, or soteriology.

From a Texas Monthly article: "Jensen, who joined the church in 2005, did not come to St. Andrew’s in search of protective cover. On the contrary. In an article posted on the church’s Web site, he explained that he came in search of a moral and political community .... He told the congregation that he did not accept the divinity of Jesus, but he did endorse the core principles in Jesus’ teaching and pledged to be a responsible member if they would have him. That was enough for the folk at St. Andrew’s." [0]

(That didn't sit well with traditionalist elements in the larger church and led to ecclesiastical trouble. [1])

[0] https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/st-andrews-presbyteria...

[1] https://killingthebuddha.com/mag/confession/the-inquisition/
Respectfully, why wouldn't I study and strive to emulate the success of Stripe in my own industry? I think X for Y is just a quick and easy to get the point of your business across no?
If your ideas are not falsifiable you're a terrible scientist.

If your goal is to "find evidence for X" instead of "find out the truth" (wherever that leads you), you're a terrible scientist.

I think it is pretty clear which is happening in this case, no?
I totally agree!
Impossible to read with an ad break every paragraph.

In addition, if doing such a long and detailed article, the author could have spent a few minutes to draw on computer clean version of his schematics. Instead of unreadable pictures of hand drawn thing.
Before we jump to “how white are you?”, it may make sense to ask “was there anything that could possibly have been the explosive?”

Random wires, breadboards, etc aren’t going to explode without a source of fuel.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/mit-scientist-stallman-pedophi...

He's never adequately explained from what I can tell why he made those statements in the first place. If he could provide that additional insight, I think it would help others evaluate the sincerity of his apology.

The question today that I have for Mr. Stallman, whom many of us hold in the highest regard for his role in the free software movement, is a very frank one: were his remarks in support of pedophilia designed to persuade Mr. Epstein to donate part of his $500 million estate to the Free Software Foundation, much like he observed role-models such as MIT president Rafael Reif do for Mr. Epstein when Dr. Reif sent Mr. Epstein a personally signed thank-you note for his donation to the Media Lab, or colleagues like Martin Nowak do for Mr. Epstein when Dr. Nowak created a web page on a university website and an office in his department for a convicted child-rapist in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in donations that were promised to his academic program at Harvard and hundreds of millions of dollars in donations, often laundered through Epstein's fellow billionaire pedophile friends like Les Wexner, Glenn Dubin, and Leon Black, to Harvard University, where Mr. Nowak is a professor?
NATO phonetics (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc) helps with this. The words were chosen specifically to be resistant to accent differences.