skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MIDI is definitely capable -- code 64 is used for sustain pedal, and code 67 for soft pedal. And it's associated with a byte value for how far the pedal is depressed.

The third (middle) pedal in pianos is nonstandard -- i.e. used for different effects on different pianos, whether sostenuto or bass damper or practice mute.

In actual performance the only time it's ever really used (and rarely at that) is as sostenuto, since that's what it does on grand pianos like Steinways, but its effect is indistinguishable from simply holding notes for longer durations, so MIDI can simply represent its effect that way. (Unlike the sustain pedal which increases resonances in a big way and needs to be represented independently, or soft pedal which changes timbre as well as volume.)
I'm in IT but my MBA taught me a whole bunch of random useful things in business. Things like how to have difficult conversations, how to negotiate, how to do cost benefit analysis' for every applicable situation, how to interpret the numbers from statistical analysis, how to make decisions that involve a lot of stakeholders. Skills you can learn on the go, but it's just super useful when curated, peer-reviewed methods are spoon fed to you.
The future of work will be whatever is easier for the CEO. So easy for CEO, hard for everybody else is what we will get.
Yet that is not what we see happening. Indeed this is affecting those who look Asian, let alone Chinese. (The rise in anti-Asian hate crimes is now well reported and easily Google-able in both right- and left-wing media).

The issue is called out-group homogeneity bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity
It's the difference between being able to get 20 units of XYZ though a middleman in the US and being able to order 20,000 units direct from the manufacturer.
As someone who has run both side by side on literally identical hardware... no, Linux has not caught up.

Lxc containers vs Solaris Zones... zones clearly wins.

SMF vs systemd (I know that you didn't include this, but it matters)... SMF is clearly superior as well.
RL-IoT: Towards IoT Interoperability via Reinforcement Learning
Is this really what it has come to? Do we need to use deep reinforcement learning to make IoT devices useful? Should we really have to deal with such poorly documented proprietary garbage?

Reminds me of the Linux origin story with RMS and the printer[1].

[1]: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201...
>The Chinese are still struggling to successfully copy previous generation Russian designs

This is certainly not true. If anything, the Chinese are very successfully copying current generation American designs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu_J-20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_FC-31
Briar rocks. But the point of Pinecone is to take any Matrix client/bridge/bot and make it work P2P as well as client-server, which is a slightly different proposition.
It must be your connection then (or the image format), last try: here it is again in Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rMagXGgth-pAXH2RQ-Ltj59jpgb...
Super useful for updating rpath!
That's kind of a useless chart for the reason you point out, which is that it doesn't divide by language use.

I think computer games are a bad example because game developers don't care about code quality for their release-once-and-done games.
I think people are pretty good at driving on snow, we have lots of snow every winter, but there is rarely any problems in traffic.

For self driving cars its very hard, roads might be a lot narrower and visibility is limited because of snow banks, also you need to know what part of the road you should drive, sometimes there can be deep grooves and you might get stuck.
If you stop at traffic lights etc. it might be hard to get going and how does the computer know that this crossing is very slippery and it takes 3x more time to take off?
well it's happening in incognito mode too.
This is why FreeBSD rebasing its ZFS fork on ZFS-on-Linux made me so scared for the future of FreeBSD. Their one major advantage over Linux and they didn't have the developers to maintain their fork themselves.
I can't tell if this is satire or not, but I'm assuming it's genuine.

Compression is not a replacement for minification. The client still needs to parse and run the uncompressed source code. Minification provides measurable performance gains for clients by reducing parse times and p̴o̴t̴e̴n̴t̴i̴a̴l̴l̴y̴ ̴e̴v̴e̴n̴ ̴a̴l̴l̴o̴w̴i̴n̴g̴ ̴f̴u̴n̴c̴t̴i̴o̴n̴s̴ ̴t̴o̴ ̴b̴e̴c̴o̴m̴e̴ ̴s̴m̴a̴l̴l̴ ̴e̴n̴o̴u̴g̴h̴ ̴t̴h̴a̴t̴ ̴t̴h̴e̴y̴ ̴c̴a̴n̴ ̴b̴e̴ ̴i̴n̴l̴i̴n̴e̴d̴ (the inclining part is not true anymore; see child comment).

Licence retention isn't a reason to skip minification either. Practically every modern minified retains licence comments.

And finally, your users can still read the original source code if you ship source maps.

Care about your users, please minify your JavaScript :)
How do you generate a pdf like this? It’s pretty.
Ask HN: What opened your eyes to a subject
A quick example, then a general explanation.

In a recent interview, I came into contact with the analysis of genetics and have found myself fascinated by the data and systems involved. After a single bio 101 class in college, I had a tiny interest, but this turns it into something like a fascination.

I've often hear people talk about so-and-so, or this-and-that being the reason they got into subject x.

What is your story? Particularly the questions below.

- How and what topic(s) did this happen for you?

- Are the resources you can share that might help others similarly?
> besides it's mature community/ecosystem/tooling

How could you not see this as an incredible technical advantage in almost any context?
I know some Lisp/Scheme, but never really did any projects in it. What did you use to learn Racket (both the language and the ecosystem)? If I had to read a single book/tutorial, what will give me the most bang for my time?

I tried reading the official docs, but while they're great for reference, probably not the best in terms of tutorials/learning.
Other than longer variable names taking up more storage, is there anything built into browsers that actually prefers minified code? The only feature I've seen that's related is the pretty-print a minified file option.

edit: yay source maps!
I'm not sure a want a human driver who only drives in winter - they will be out of practice when we need them. The snow problems mentioned above are real - but it isn't all winter, it is a couple weeks scattered around the whole season. Then the plows get out (and things warm up enough for salt to work) and you can drive like summer for a few days.
Right now the 7 day avg is below 700 deaths per day and has been steadily declining since the peak in January when it was over 3,000. There's been roughly a 5x reduction in cases as well (45k cases per day over last week down from 260k per day over the worst week in January). To me the strong downward trend indicates that we're cruising towards the end of the pandemic. I can't see it lasting another 4 months, let alone another year (although the COVID rate might never return to 0).

How many deaths per day would you use as a threshold for being past the middle of the pandemic?
> Likewise x86 interrupts are handled on the stack and so you need to keep the stack pointer initialized for them (modern CPUs will automatically switch the stack for you from whatever user code is running, but they still need to switch it to a grows-down area you initialized for them).

If your kernel is re-entrant, you need to keep platform stack conventions in the kernel, or an interrupt (or exception) during the kernel will overwrite your backwards stack.

I don't know for sure, but I think aignal handing in user processes runs on the user stack too (but I could easily be wrong).

If you really wanted, you could use the platform stack for call/ret only and have a separate data stack with whatever conventions you like.
Very very interesting topic.

I was also used to suffer from the visual migraine as you describe it.

For another exemple, it is like looking at the phone in complete darkness with the phone brightness set to the maximum; but that effect in daylight with the screen set to low/normal brightness level.

Maybe I'm wrong, but the deductions I did from my issues was that it might be related to work conditions. For example, I used to have the computer screen at 90° of a window. And there was probably constantly a little bit of light reflexion on my screen. So it is not so much to be noticable or annoying, but for a full day it will exhaust my eyes and brain. And I would regularly have the issue at the end of the day.

Then, I changed of work and of light conditions, and I almost never got the issue anymore. (Still once in a while, but very very rarely compared to before)

Also, I discovered that there are a lot of good advice regarding the work environment that you should try to respect:

- no excessive room temperature (>21)

- no sun or light directly in front. No light reflexion from the back or side.

- room ambiant light the closest possible to the brightness of the screen

But, a point that could support the theory of this publication is that, when the issue arrived, it was often that I was feeling hungry for sweets and desperately looking for a snack.
Comparing uncompressed but minified JavaScript to compressed JavaScript is not an honest comparison. Obviously the minified JavaScript would also be compressed and smaller than the unminified JavaScript.

Most of the arguments in this short presentation feel disingenuous. Minified versions of most 3rd party libraries are provided directly by the open source maintainers, so minifying your own code and including their minified library isn't violating anything. Companies are under no obligation to provide their own proprietary source code in a readable format with variable names intact.

Somewhere between 99.99% and 100% of users would prefer the faster loading, more responsive site with minified code. I think the authors started with a conclusion they wanted and tried to walk backward until they found some arguments in favor of their conclusion.
I've never played the game, but Grandma (Destruction) [0] [1] is one of my favorite songs of all time!

[0] https://open.spotify.com/track/1VC3Ut39SEZK48pij3ILBa?si=__a...

[1] https://open.spotify.com/track/0yw4A9n5A6su1pJnNko3MA?si=RQx...
for me it always worked well to just solve a problem at hand. There are lots, and you will most likely encounter them on a daily or weekly basis. You just don't recognice then.
Sometimes when I'm drinking at 3am I like to imagine a world where somebody wrote a hypercard server and we were all developing web apps as hypercard stacks instead of our current abomination.
Searching the web is a fool's errand. Google doesn't even search the web anymore, they just mind-controlled everyone to submit nightly sitemaps to them. Google is more of an index than a search engine nowadays.
> Why shouldn’t a country fight back against US coercion on its soil?

What "coercion"? China employs internet commentators to influence online opinion[1] - whereas the US does not (as far as anyone can tell).

> Hong Kong has been a part of China for centuries.

You're misdirecting. China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration[2], which stated that "Hong Kong's existing capitalist system and way of life would be unchanged for 50 years until 2047"...which China is now blatantly violating, making this an effective invasion - or some form of hostile action - take your pick of words.

> How many countries had the US invaded and is still occupying? How many were threatened into extreme exploitation?

In self-defense. China has no excuse for invading HK, which poses absolutely no threat to them.

> How many people are in the ICE run concentration camps?

Not remotely comparable. ICE detains illegal immigrants for breaking a rather reasonable law - "you don't enter our borders without permission" - and then returns them to their country. China detains existing citizens for thoughtcrime, speaking out against the state, or merely being Uyghur - none of which are reasonable.

> The two countries don’t even remotely compare.

Yes - every shred of evidence paints China as being incomparably worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration
"thank you for agreeing with me" has to be one of the most-annoying neckbeard phrases in the english language.
I'd love to never touch facebook again, but my 80 year old mother uses it and won't give it up because its how she stays in touch with all her friends, and I'm kind of stuck with using it to communicate with her.

I also suspect that through browser fingerprinting that facebook can track everyone across the web anyway, particularly people who run a lot of customization on their desktop (O/S, graphics card, fonts, config settings, etc) that shows up in the fingerprint. If you're visiting sites which cause you to make requests to facebook servers you're leaking information to them, even if you've deleted your facebook account (and they can probably still track who you are).
Well then your father should do us a favor and fucking die.

But some older people aren't useless Fox News addicted dipshits.
Then multiply it with the death rate.
> requiring more disclosures

Just so we're clear, this is not actually "required". It's a combination of bragging rights, post credibility boost and (rarely) actual, official, authorized communication from the company.
Scala can't let go of implicits as they're a fundamental part of the language. I just don't believe this Scala 3 fudge to give the impression implicits are not alive and well beneath the surface.
I agree it does come off as extreme, but I can understand the desire to provide society with some reasonable expectation of privacy in a public space when someone might no longer be able to consent to being in public.

Sure, it's part of the inherent risk calculation when we venture out or interact with public space, but at the same time if I can no longer remove myself from that space when I want to achieve some privacy I think it's reasonable that society change the context of the space. At that point I would think that laws pertaining to the violation of privacy (like those regarding peeping-toms) should apply.

That being said, and going back to the "no longer consent to being in public", what about drunks, or children who cannot legally exercise consent? There's a million ways this can get very hazy very fast.
It is literally impossible to submit any exposure alert without including location data, and then it can reasonably be assumed that all the matched bluetooth device IDs were within the same general vicinity as well. Have you ever used a GeoIP database?
I make a thing to a function that I want it to do. I release that thing so other people can do the thing I envisioned. Someone else then realizes they might be able to use the thing I made for something else entirely, but only if I provide instructions on how to do it? How is that my problem/responsibility?
Not sure why I can’t reply to the person who replied to you - “timr” who is asking for data, but there is data here: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
How long would you have expected them to remain alive absent COVID? Look at it as a probabilistic spectrum, not a binary choice.
The Apollo Flight Journal – Ejectable Camera Pods (2019)
What’s the difference between a website and a web app?
‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation
That coil.com exists only proves one thing: they found a neat token idea to shill. We're in full-on speculative mania phase. Anything with blockchain stapled to it immediately garners a high "market cap" and a lot of attention. We're back in the new Long Blockchain Inc phase.
Oh I'm not saying they're successful, but just as Tesla is on shaky ground promising full automation, the others are on shaky ground promising constrained environments where full automation would work best.
If America had been able to win it quickly, then wouldn't the unpopularity not have mattered?
Sure, here's a much better treatment of the same subject:

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-excess-mortality
This is a slight re-write of history, by my recollection.

Neil Ferguson's earliest models were used to justify no action/herd immunity as the UK's initial strategy.

I recall (but can't find) the Imperial College scientists saying they didn't fully consider any other option at first, because they understood that it would be politically unpalatable.
That is kind of my point, I don't often work with primitives that need to be redefined. I'd rather operate on an object where I can mutate its value rather than redefine the whole thing.
European food safety panel reclassifies titanium dioxide food additive as unsafe
Bookmarked. Thanks for the recommendation.
Thinking poverty induced crime warrants incarcerating people instead of helping them overcome poverty is a view too cynical to be real. I think that you should reanalyze your empathy towards your fellow man if you're arguing in good faith.
and patents as well https://patents.google.com/?q=%22to+our+surprise%22
I love how that thread is full of well-intentioned, respectful responses with deep technical knowledge and details; and the Gnome developers just won't budge.

When, finally, it becomes clear that the user demands cannot be met and Gnome is woefully inadequate as a modern desktop due to their design decisions, the final post is:

> Enough spam for today. Locking the issue.

Gnome is dead. It has been taken over by toxic developers.
There were two separate experiments. In one, "Here we report such an experimental demonstration, with the moving bodies being two massive micromechanical oscillators, each composed of about 1012 atoms, coupled to a microwave-frequency electromagnetic cavity that is used to create and stabilize the entanglement of their centre-of-mass motion"- from the abstract. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0038-x
From a Wall Street Journal interview with Apple's Craig Federighi:

WSJ: "Why the verbiage 'Ask Not to Track'? Why not just 'Do Not Track'?"

Federighi: "There are other techniques that developers over time have developed, like fingerprinting, which is a bit of a cat and mouse game around other ways that an app might scheme to create a tracking identifier. And it's a policy issue for us to say 'you must not do that'. And so, we can't ensure at the system level that they're not tracking, [but] we can do so at a policy level."

https://youtu.be/G05nEgsXgoI?t=153
PHP's Bus Factor
I did look into it, I've seen these ideas before, and no, nobody wants to have an app or service than can just arbitrarily withdraw money from them haha.

This is the problem you've danced around a few times. Content producers do not price their content by the byte or by the minute. They charge premium prices for premium content. And they charge low rates for low-end content. The flat-rate per-unit-data billing model falls down as soon as content providers set their own rates (and they will demand to). Then not only is there a ton of perverse incentive (like content providers just setting the max rate all the time since they know you're not making a purchasing decision) but it also feels crap to know you have no (a) idea and (b) control over how much you're getting billed.

The only model that I can see working is a Netflix type model where you bill folks a fixed monthly fee, and you hand out the money to content producers based on agreements you negotiate. You aggregate the risk, you negotiate the pricing, you intermediate the customers and the content producers. You bill once a month, a fixed, predictable amount. No blockchain needed, just a Stripe account.

I'm uniquely qualified to answer this, I worked at a startup that considered building literally this 5 years ago. The payment mechanics were never the issue. The fundamental billing model and customer interaction dynamics were at issue. Nobody wanted it haha, according to our user research. Nothing has fundamentally changed by stapling the blockchain to it.

We actually got pretty far along building it - and had a bunch of high profile content producer relationships, you're welcome to reach out if you want to take the learnings. You seem involved in the project.
Nonsense. Those are superficial copies of some aspects of the airframes. It's the engines and avionics inside that count. What is the efficiency in terms of thrust per unit of fuel burned? How many hours can they run between overhauls?
I own a Tesla, but I'm not a fan-boy. I can appreciate how having fewer ECUs means, all other things being equal, it would be less failure prone. (But more expensive to replace a failed larger ECU than a failed smaller one). Tesla starting from scratch gives them a lot of advantages, not being tied to a specific legacy architecture or vendors. Again, assuming they actually do it right rather than bodge it :)

Sandy and the other experienced gentlemen in the video are welcome to strong opinions about one approach being better than another; it's not necessarily biased. Maybe you favor a "simpler" design, or maybe you favor one that's cheaper to repair, or uses a tried and true architecture, or more off-the-shelf components.

I actually just had a steering wheel module replaced in my Model 3 last week; the Park button had stopped working. Of course these kinds of things are electronic in virtually all modern vehicles.
Not one of those graphs contains annotations on lockdowns, so not one of them provides evidence for the claims you're making.

Nobody is disputing that excess deaths are happening, the question is why they're happening.
Ask HN: Is there open source AI based search engine for photos?
I have my own photos on computers. 1000s of them. On google photos, I can find a photo by describing it in english. I.e. Outside, teeth, receipt, notes, etc. Is there something similar that doesn't need cloud or internet and can be trained to understand context in photos.
https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/automatic-runtime-depende...

Part of the excellent "nix pills" guide on why things are the way they are in Nix, and why this tool was created.

The whole series is a pretty easy evening read if you have experience in functional languages (like haskell), and really helps you appreciate what nix is doing.

One of my main reservations about Nix and introducing it at work is basically requiring that other developers wrap their minds around functional concepts like partial application.

This might just be an imagined problem, but not one I want to spend cycles explaining to the higher-ups
Tilix is an excellent terminal emulator, but it's not adding any new features until it gets a new maintainer. Anyone familiar with the D programming language (similar to C/C++) is welcome to apply.

https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues/1700
As far as Ive heard it's still pretty iffy. Since you were involved with the zfs side of things what are your thoughts on the upcoming zfs draid bits? I don't have specific need for them myself but they look really attractive for building a new pool to replace my aging drives.
IMO, `const` should be used by default, `let` in rare instances and `var` never.
Bullies typically choose a kid that somehow differs from the rest of the group. How specifically that kid differs, that depends on the specific group. In some groups, it will be the kid of a different race, in other groups in will be the nerdy kid. If there are multiple candidates, the bullies will probably choose the "safest" one, that is the one with smallest risk that someone will intervene and punish them.

The culture can have an effect on evaluation of the "safest" victim. If everyone knows that no one important will care about a black kid being bullied... And in a different town, maybe everyone knows that no one important will care about a kid from a poor family.
Hawking Radiation Calculator
Converting staff to contractor status sounds like a layoff, making said staff eligible for generous covid unemployment relief and fully subsidized cobra health insurance payments until September.