skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to be a downer here, but can someone explain to me what the appeal of these projects are? In the past year or so I've seen a number of text-based music notation projects hit the front page of Hacker News and don't really understand the purpose they are trying to achieve.

If I want to transport music notation between software programs, I have MIDI for that, which does a good job of capturing all elements of a performance (keys, timing, velocity, pedals, aftertouch, etc.) These types of notation formats almost always fail to achieve MIDIs precision across all the aspects of a performance.

If I want to compose music, I need a format that makes it easy to visualize and manipulate notes in context of the other notes playing across all instruments. DAW piano rolls do a fantastic job of overlaying note information, and traditional combined scores do the same too. Again, text notation usually falls flat here - for example, if you had a large ensemble, and wanted to know which chord was being played on the 2nd beat of the 5th measure, how easily can do you do that? How do you determine if it's an open spacing or closed spacing? How do you determine the root without walking back through all the octave shifts?
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LinkHints: https://lydell.github.io/LinkHints
Template tag functions in JS can intercept the interpolation values passed in. So it's possible they're automatically escaping to prevent shell injection.

They could also be parsing out the first word as the command and not using shell execution at all.
Well the reality is that there are two browser engines that are free and open source. If they built their own that was better than the incumbents (eg. from performance/privacy point of view), then I might consider it. But I'm not paying $5000 for a chrome reskin, just like I won't pay $5000 for a debian reskin.
Thanks!

We're still workshopping the pricing model, but do give the free trial a go and let us know what you think!

There's the standard web inspector at the moment. What would you like to see for dev tools?
> to me it is totally irrational, especially since he can't give any concrete reason for it.

In my experience, people usually can give ‘concrete’ reasons for it, but what constitutes ‘concrete’ is a matter of opinion, and I don’t consider everybody’s reasons to be valid. But of course, they do.
Those are small examples but for more complex scripts I expect you'd mostly have synchronous code, for example to process strings, validate input, etc. and the "await" will become the exception rather than the norm.
Links:

- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtxZvFnL2i0

- Project: https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails/
Sure! Last week we made a blog post about our way to $100K ARR (early days of the company) and it includes photo of my co-founder with this napkin :) https://www.awesomic.io/blog/startup-journey-to-100-k
> Monopoly and patents, I believe. So yes, it's technically not expensive to make, but licensing. R&D costs money, take that to mean what you want. Unfortunately the laws in our world have not caught up with technology changes.

What monopoly? There's no monopoly on bistable displays or even electrophoretic displays. What patents? Please try to be specific. I work in the display industry. The only place I hear stuff like what you're saying is on HN, which previously got picked up by Boing Boing and then blogs and then comments on HN which referenced those blogs. Surely, if this patent hell or monopoly hell was true we would have heard about it. Surely I would have heard about this problem from colleagues, coworkers or even gossip at conferences. Could you elaborate on your claim ? Please see my comment history to see why I keep asking about this. Hopefully this time I can get a positive data point where I can learn something unlike what I got the last time I tried to ask about this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27980391
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Yeah - I thought it came from the east coast? DC specifically is where I first heard it.
I'm not going to read anything written by Greenwald, he's completely gone off the deep end. He quit his job at the intercept because they wouldn't let him publish conspiracy garbage about the Biden rape accusation unless he could provide some sort of proof - he concluded that being asked to show proof of what he was accusing someone of counted as "being censored".

Anyway, I'll say that just because the guy died of a stroke afterward doesn't mean it wasn't caused indirectly by being blasted in the face by bear mace. Even if his death was completely unrelated, it doesn't make Jan 6 any less of an insurrection.
'We' as the scientific community may not have, but 'we' the unwashed public learned much.
Note that the course got revamped this year. It is now based on Scala 3 and new content was added. Some of the new topics are: enums, extension methods, and givens.
This is why I defend the controversial Cloudflare policy of being so slow and deliberate in removing things.
Pay us to find out the list of stores to avoid…
Alda looks pretty neat. Manipulating it with a rewriting system (ala Lindenmayer) or a generative text model (hello GPT3) could be fun!
Oh nice, now I know the name and a story to go along with it.
Personally, it tends to be convent in practice for forms but is an unholy abomination elsewhere. I'd eschew it altogether and deal with the extra verbosity when it crops up.
I guess if he wrote tests first it would have said. no method called x in util. TDD helps take a lot of thinking out of problems.
>In most construction sites here we don't see the workers wearing hard hats

Well they do it mostly because laws are not strict in India even if they are its easy to bribe off the enforcer and this saves the contractor money while he maximize the profit.

It's not that average Indian is more greedy than average European it's just the enforcement system in India is easy to bribe away, so risk for not following proper safety guidelines is less in India and an open opportunity to save money on protective gears.

The true failure comes from average Indian not being able to demand better standards from those in power like Europeans have managed to.
Virtualization came around in 1972 so was not far away either!
You were wrong technically but you have a point. These sites should leverage existing services like reddit or AWS.

Personally I'd put a static information site on AWS and a community on Reddit if I was the creator for something like this game.

It's just like SMB's today don't really need much infrastructure, well open source projects shouldn't either.
If we counted goofing off as part of productivity, we might start to see the gains we expected.

Put another way, while computers have made us more productive, the internet has made it much easier to not do our jobs while at work. I don't think it is a coincidence that the graph stops being as steep around 2005.
A No-Nonsense Introduction to General Relativity [pdf]
And specifically, although it is nowadays uncommon for Python scripts to be run the way old-school WSGI web services were, with a script being fired up for every request and mapping user-controlled query parameters to environment variables, this was at one time actually the motivating example for https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/ ! It's a common enough attack pattern that https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/77.html exists and specifically cautions applications against trusting environment variables. There are very few places in Python where upon importing a module, an environment variable is trusted and triggered; all of them should be seen as security holes.
Dubai Is A Parody Of The 21st Century [video]
You can only be rational within a greater framework defined by a set of beliefs. When society at large believes that market capitalism is the only way for promoting prosperity, the rational action for a single individual is to get a job, pay the bills and have a life. Other possible actions might have a stronger moral justification, but aren't as beneficial or rational for the individual.
No offence taken at all. really appreciate you still taking the time to check us out :)
a) Bjorn Lomborg - a political science major who published a book contradicting the body of knowledge that we have on climate science.

b) The IPCC - https://www.ipcc.ch/about/

Please decide who would have the most legitimacy in what they write and if you agree that the IPCC collective of hundreds of scientists is noteworthy, then please read the 6th report issued by the IPCC.

I link below the summary:

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
Google Researchers Enable Transformers to Solve Compositional NLP Tasks
Thanks for the suggestion, I got it over mobile data; don't think I'm using quad9 here, perhaps blocked by opendns?
Have they not heard of deepfakes? Or is that still harder to pull off than I thought?
Getting Started with Observability
JavaScript Polyfills Asked in Interviews
Feels. I found my static site generator got updated in a way that wasn't backwards compatible, and it stopped being able to generate my site. The older versions of the software got pulled and I wasn't very happy with it anyway, so I've been slowly migrating to another one.

It hasn't stopped me from writing posts... Which does feel a bit odd... They're just not getting published.
$15 a month is too much for me to consider switching from Safari. Although I'm looking for a decent browser-replacement, because of the <Safari - OS - hardware> update interlock.

I don't mind paying for software, but for $15 I'd expect Browser + full blown google internet search alternative + privacy.
Heya, appreciate this. We hope people are at least honest enough with their feedback that they try something before making judgment on it :)
How do they lower prices?
Fun to watch, thanks for sharing.
> the book is targeted towards programmers who do not have an academic math background

I am truly wondering how many (professional) programmers don't. (Not to say, of course, that the book is not good or not useful.)
Hmm this article on corps casually gathering data on people has an awful dark pattern GDPR implementation.
I’m with you but I get OPs point that it’s a fallacy to assume competence in one or many fields automatically translates to others.

Agree of Chomsky’s contributions, but also think he is over quoted and taken too seriously where he shouldn’t.

That said, still making up my mind about this particular instance.
Interesting, that's pretty cool. Thanks!
Why women need male allies in the workplace
This really feels like it would have had a better time with a smaller "meet the batch" thread. Given that which startups get to be featured in one of those threads rather than a standalone thread is decided by dang, it almost feels like this thread was intentionally greenlit standalone to start a flamewar. The odds of that are slim, probably, but it seems impossible that anyone thought this was a good idea to give its own thread rather than a smaller and more under-the-radar spot in a group thread.

It's so early that it has support for effectively a single version of a single operating system (it isn't even an OS X web browser, it's a macOS browser), it doesn't have ad blocking or extensions, it doesn't look like it fits the HIG of any operating system, let alone the one it was apparently purpose-built for, it really drastically needs a designer, and to top it off it's got a subscription model in a genre of software that has never worked well at even a one-time price.

There has never been an iteration of HN that would have given this product at this stage of its development anything but a disaster of a thread. I'm not going to insult the product (I doubt I'd say anything that someone else hadn't already said), but I can't see how anything productive or useful would have or could have possibly came about from this thread.
Show HN: Hypertrace: A modern distributed tracing and Observability platform
Thank you for such a kind feedback! You're right, some prefer turnaround being even longer to not comment so often. For complex or ongoing projects that may be the case — managers can comment whenever have time, still, they are guaranteed with a designer working and updating tasks daily. Looking forward to you trying us out!
Hasn't Cloudflare started removing a lot more lately than they ever used to?
My car shows the speed limit of roads it knows. It uses GPS and stored limits. It also doesn't know the limits of non-major roads and doesn't attempt to show a limit then. My car is a 2013, and I've not paid the $$ to update the maps in that time (seriously, they want $200-$400 to update the maps).

Since I bought my car, Illinois (where I live) has raised the maximum limit on interstates by 10 MPH. My car doesn't know about it. If my car limited me to what it thought the limit was, I'd probably be driving 20 MPH slower than prevailing traffic, a decidedly unsafe situation.
The number of fossil fuel driven Mustangs (except for classics) may be in the ~single digits (hyperbole) in Norway due to the taxes based on total weight of the vehicle, and emissions of CO2 and NOx. It would be an indulgence for the very affluent.

The Mach-E gives the common Norwegians access to the famed American Comfort Car (c/tm) without having to break the bank, as power prices are relatively low in Norway and gas prices are very high.
This is hilarious!

I sincerely wish the US would try a stunt like this, if not for anything else then for the entertainment aspect. I emphatically don’t think it would work out as you’d expect.
> so i want to know how much of this price is licensing costs? suppose today the e-ink patent goes public, is free to use, how much of a price delta can we see?

What licensing cost? Who is licensing what from E Ink? What patent? Please be specific. I work in the display industry. See my comment history for how many times I've asked this question and also have a look at the replies people give. So far, I've never found a satisfying answer. I'm starting to think people who say this stuff don't actually have a clue about the display industry, or are unwilling to acknowledge things like how volume is the main determinant of price in the industry today.
The Mach-E really seems like a pretty good car.

As an enthusiast I can't get over the Mustang name, though. It's irrational and emotional.
One thing that I've noticed is when the comments for a Launch HN or Show HN is overwhelmingly negative, that usually the product captures a usecase that people have wanted or hacked together themselves but haven't productionized or monetized. Sometimes, it works out and sometimes it doesn't but it definitely makes me want to judge for myself.

Watched the video and the product looks great! I'll definitely give it a spin and congrats to everyone @ SigmaOS for a great launch.
I am pretty sure that if I call Geico they will not provide me with those data. Am I wrong?
Maintainability is paramount in DevOps and core to that is using languages that are common.

I personally would advocate strongly against using Haskell in DevOps. Too few people know the language. Python is a good choice when one needs to move beyond bash and the existing tools.
many have a background, few remember it or apply it enough to be happy with their ability.
That Nobel was won in 1978, and is based on the fact that in practice we can't be rational.

The NP demonstrations that, in theory, updating a Bayesian is a computationally infeasible problem was G. F. Cooper in 1990 (for Bayesian Networks). The stronger result that approximating the update is also computationally infeasible was Dagum, P. & Luby, M., 1993.

So Simon's work relates to what I said, but isn't based on it.
I will. Thank you for doing a great job anyway. I don't actually feel angry or demand anything from you, although I might sound this way. I just expressed my thoughts which many people obviously share.

May I, however, ask if there is a serious reason to require Big Sur instead of supporting Catalina, Mojave and High Sierra also? I understand you probably don't want to waste resources on actually supporting them but perhaps you could just build against them and let users use it on their own risk?
Uber does have partnership programs where drivers can rent a vehicle with maintenance and insurance included. So the driver basically only pays for fuel. I don't know how that works out in terms of hourly wages.

https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/vehicle-solutions/hertz/
Thank you for the encouragement. I'm glad to have this approach validated.

The good part about being so low key about this project is that "small" - though I'd argue human-to-human scale communication isn't small, it's human scale ;) - feedback like your comment are extremely encouraging. So far, 0 people have not been interested...which is awesome.

I've been fascinated to discover that the process of writing a book is (can be) a lot like the experience of playing an MMORPG. It's a framework that captures your individual achievement, and that achievement is backed up by legitimately hard work an admirable ability to set and achieve our goals.

I could go on-and-on... Cheers!
Claiming that because Magna Carta missed out a huge number of people it started the declines we see today makes the spectacularly false assumption that the world today is on a downward trajectory.

I suspect the only group on a truly downward trajectory at the moment are monied elites who used to be able to guarantee their male progeny success via licensure and the female heirs success through marriage.

I suspect it was documents such as Magna Carta that set us off on the path of progress. We aren't there yet, but the world is getting better on almost every metric.
Have you considered the possibility of a single person's words are not true? The Iraqi war started by lies. shall we be more conservative now?
I always recommend anybody wanting to learn a language should just start using it. Find a project and learn the language and libraries as you need them.

What's the equivalent for learning mathematics? A lot of mathematics seems only useful for learning more advanced mathematics.
Only 4 days ago the US intelligence believed that Kabul would not fall for at least 3 months.

Yet another complete failure of an American institution, after FAA (Boeing crashes), CDC, FDA, the Navy (military ship crashes due to lack of basic navigation skills).

It seems they are so bureaucratic and risk averse that they can't handle even basic challenges anymore.
The Future: Where Are the Colors and the Sports? (Part I)
I tend to wash it more often because I switch between water and other powder-mixed drinks. When you switch you either accept the mixing and taste "pollution" or wash it. Going from something like gatorade to water does not require rinsing. I found that switching from powder-based fiber to water or gatorade does. I tend to schedule these for minimal rinsing though.
How to automate image generation from your app with Bubble.io API Connector
> Bash is great, but when it comes to writing scripts, people usually choose a more convenient programming language. JavaScript is a perfect choice

um… what?
This is a very hard sell. As a potential user I'm being asked to abandon my free browser that I trust and exchange it for something that costs money where I would lose access if I stopped paying. I think conceptually what you're building has a niche worth pursuing (productivity focused, project based navigation of the web) but it's going to take a lot of thought to make that more compelling than installing free extensions on an existing browser.

On reflection if the core functionality (organising projects/bookmarks as a key part of the browser experience) was made into a paid browser extension I'd be more likely to consider using it.
Nerds are uniform grey mass, which is why sweeping generalizations based on anecdata or hand-waved statistics give truly accurate statements :) I know because I'm a nerd.
The purpose of HR is to protect from liability and regulation violations which gets harder the bigger the company

The purpose of accounting is to prevent stealing, fraud, regulation violations and taxes. All which get harder the bigger you get.

The more of those people you have the more managers you need to oversee them.
There are many facts you can cherry pick to suit whatever narrative you want to sell. Why ignore the support and funding from Sunnis across the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia? Why ignore the founding of early Taliban madrassas by Jamiat Ulema-e Islam in Pakistan?

There's plenty of blame to go around, and no reason to be selective unless you have an agenda.
You can just use files as a temporary buffer:

(/my/bg_producer1 > /shm/file1) &
(/my/bg_producer2 > /shm/file2) &
/my/longrunningfgjob
wait
(/my/consumer1 < /shm/file1) &
(/my/consumer2 < /shm/file2) &
wait
It was, I haven't been following closely enough to know the details.

Did we leave US citizens behind as well?
See my reply to a sibling comment, but long story short: thanks for sharing your interest. You are on a (very short) list of individuals that I'll include when I start communicating or publishing some of my progress.

Thanks!
Or even countably infinite :) One could argue that all finite sets are countable since it's not too hard to find a surjection from the naturals to a given finite set.

(Intended to be mildly humorous.)
The secret to a great best selling ad is simply to put an ad somewhere that people do not expect an ad and also has a lot of exposure to traffic.
Heh! I don't have Big Sur on my work laptop yet :)

So, I'll give it a shot as soon as I can upgrade. The standard chrome dev should be good enough, if that's what it is.
It took a while, but the legacy automakers are finally putting out some decent EVs.

From a quality and performance perspective, they seem to be pretty good, but still have a ways to go to match Tesla in the "wow" factor. But, perhaps the similarity with everyday ICE vehicles will be a boon to adoption; older people are reluctant to take on seemingly overwhelming tech...
>For instance, I consider CSS to be a programming language

Out of curiosity, on what basis do consider CSS to be a programming language? And does it applies to versions prior to CSS3 too?
In the UK it's not even limited to people!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiKmqY_RNME
The corruption is incredible, even this 6 year old article (discussing a book on corruption) knew about it:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-rev...

E.g. an excerpt:

> [A]s Chayes studied the graft of the Karzai government, she concluded that it was anything but benign. Many in the political élite were not merely stealing reconstruction money but expropriating farmland from other Afghans. Warlords could hoodwink U.S. special forces into dispatching their adversaries by feeding the Americans intelligence tips about supposed Taliban ties. Many of those who made money from the largesse of the international community enjoyed a sideline in the drug trade. Afghanistan is often described as a “failed state,” but, in light of the outright thievery on display, Chayes began to reassess the problem. This wasn’t a situation in which the Afghan government was earnestly trying, but failing, to serve its people. The government was actually succeeding, albeit at “another objective altogether”—the enrichment of its own members. Washington supported Hamid Karzai and his ministers and adjutants in the hope that they could establish a stable government, help pursue Al Qaeda, and keep the Taliban at bay. But the Karzai government wasn’t a government at all, Chayes concluded. It was “a vertically integrated criminal organization.”
This is a cheat code. Well done. Well done.
Any other recommendations? I'll find that book but you sound like you might have others