skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's probably not overkill, and actually I think it may need to be more complex than that (though simple methods may prove to work well enough in practice, so try them first!). There's all sorts of stuff do do with momentum, wrist angle, position back or forward on the keys, etc., so it depends on where on the keyboard the notes are and what notes are at the same time or before and after them, and so on. To look for optimal fingerings I'd probably model a hand and arm geometrically, with fingers on notes being constraints for a trajectory through hand-arm space.
> After going through all the BS you just end up questioning why you're at Company Z in the first place

I honestly think this is a natural path, and we should be question a lot more why we work for company Z.

The answer can seem obvious, but even if it’s something like “best money I can get”, having it explicit helps a lot with dealing with the compromises we’re making. And sometimes it’s only after putting it in words that we realize the answer doesn’t make sense.

> make it past 10 years

On one hand I think programmer is not an exception, film industry for instance must be worse 1000 times. On the other hand, that’s probably one of the reason we see people in their forties do startups. Moving on to something else can be a coping mechanism.
Usually I see Staff Engineer followed by a title like Architect. Never ever by anything about Lead or Manager because that's the whole point, you should be able to increase your scope so you're making tech decision across the whole org without also becoming a good people manager.
"Our jobs are called upon to provide the exhilaration of romance and the depths of love. It’s as though we believed that there is a Job Charming out there—like the Prince Charming in fairy tales—that will fill our needs and inspire us to greatness. We’ve come to believe that, through this job, we would somehow have it all: status, meaning, adventure, travel, luxury, respect, power, tough challenges, and fantastic rewards."

This resonates a lot with me and I'm sure others
A lot of it seems to be the crushing loss of hope. I absolutely hate my job. The pay is great compared to the service industry, but it also seems I'm making no progress for retirement. I'm wasting my life doing stuff I hate for a wage that gives the illusion that I'll one day be able to do something enjoyable.
They can totally be anti-BLM, they might not be able to do it at the outlets they like. But that’s their own moral conflict.

Weiss tried to get a professor fired, her anti-cancel culture screeds are disingenuous
There are transistors. You can string a few of those together and get any logic gate you want...
I have an undergrad degree in piano. The problem is that at higher levels it becomes more dependent on your own biology. Some of it is hand size, some of it is the layout of the tendons in your hands - some people get tendon click in ways that other people don't.

Practicing includes the identification of the fingerings that can work for you. I don't think AI will ever get you all the way there. Sure, you can put in some beginning rules like don't cross your thumb under from a white key to a black key, but there's always going to be a fingering that is ideal for one pianist that won't work for another.
"Artificial lights" were a thing as far as pre-recorded history (and for rural illiterate peasant activities, much of middle ages is essentially pre-recorded history relying on oral tradition, artifacts and e.g. 18th century documentation of old-at-the-time practices instead of contemporary writing) - especially in northern areas where during winter months you get sunlight for a quite limited time, if you look at the medieval and earlier research of "evening work" i.e. various activities that can be done under candle light or the meager light from "wood-stick" (I don't know the proper English term, essentially very narrow pieces chopped off of firewood, placed in special holders to provide evening light for the many people for whom candles were too expensive). We have descriptions of "pre-light" rural work, of preparation activities for e.g. breadmaking that were done in the morning before the day enabled to do the proper work, and which had to be done earlier in order to not waste the scarce daylight hours on it. .

Artificial light is an important piece of social technology, and improvements to it had a big impact, but people have needed and used artificial light to sustain their non-daylight activities since pretty much forever; stone age communities did their social activities next to a fireplace in the dark. Like, today is going to be 9 hours of daylight for me, and for December-January there's going to be just 7 hours or so of daylight; people are not going to lie down for 17 hours, they do try to do the same things just with less light.
Experience, sight-reading skill, and experimentation. My piano teacher used to play passages that needed fingering at full speed several times with different fingerings to find one that would work for me.
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What's the deal with learning basic notation being made to be so difficult? It's by far one of the easiest parts of learning to play an instrument.

>It is NOT intuitive and you won't benefit from it immediately.

What? How do you hope to play anything other than basic melodies if you can't read music? You'd have to develop your ear, which is much harder than learning to read music x)

> Especially as piano has different clef for left and right hand... Mostly Because grouchy 18th century old Austrian white males hate you! :-D

It's because the grand staff is centered around middle C.
How do you install stuff that you compile from source?
>End “consumerism” behavior where every problem is perceived to have a solution in the form of a quick product you can buy - much of that is a psychological trick played by marketers and rarely solves the real problem.

>Take note of the goods and services we really need. Things like food, shelter, shoes, etc.

>Develop a culture where getting rich is not the goal but making sure everyone has what they need is. This has worked in other human societies before so this should be possible.

There are two versions of this: communism and Religious asceticism (particularly Christian, given the concern for all individuals.)
jan Misali's Conlang Critic episode on Ithkuil[1] was pretty good, though I don't remember if it mentioned what version of the language was being covered.

1: https://youtu.be/e_n3loSfejg ( 6m 27s )
I meant a bit in a diminutive sense, since the trace exposure to phthalates and dioxins which you will be exposed to when unsheathing a record will have lasting effects on your liver. They won't be severe, but the liver has to work extremely hard to cope with phthalates and it leaves a mark even if it's just a bit and leaves a trace mark. You're taking the least generous spirit possible while talking about phthalate exposure which has strong and lasting effects on the liver even in trace amounts:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6373551/
That the CCP is far more is clear indication that it is too much.

(In the US) The judiciary is very obviously not the only branch concerned with protecting individual liberties. Law makers pass laws with the intent to do so and the President can command the military to do so if necessary.

The world is on track to completely eliminate starvation and abject poverty in a few years, maybe a decade or two.

Projected life span and quality of life is at an all time high on average, and crime is overall down which is another indicator of plenty rather than lack. It is utopian minded idealism that everyone should have everything they want (including cell phones) and the world should become 'post-scarcity' (whatever that means). I have found utopian minded idealists to be the least experienced with regards work.
The advantage on Linux and friends is that if you really want or need the fix you can apply it yourself.
> Please excuse this brain dump! Running on fumes but had to get this down.

I think they are just trying to say that all the toxic behaviors of social media are seen in anorexia-discussing communities.
I'm not sure what that saying means. Both sound absurdly unreliable, but I like it!
The last remaining patches that enable FreeBSD on .NET have been merged upstream
They won't/can't fix Facebook, but somehow they won't have any of the same problems if we all just put on mind-reading headsets. Riiiiight.
N00b question: would the fibers being introduced in PHP 8.1 enable the same functionality in that language?

https://php.watch/versions/8.1/fibers
Way way back I wrote a small script for my blackberry that updated a page on my university account with my rough location. My wife was like that’s so creepy no one will ever want that. Then four square happened. Then everything else happened. And a short while later a guy I knew showed up with his iPhone and was showing it to me. I was like wow what a dinky little device but hey at least it’s cool looking. Then iPhones became the thing to have. And also around that time I recall people talking about Facebook and I was like well MySpace is already a think who’s ever going to use this random site. And here we are today. So I’m most certainly not going to say meta verse won’t take off. I’ve been wrong about most things (bitcoin, I’m looking at you buddy).

I personally don’t see a benefit to it. I don’t want to have to wear AR goggles to attend a three hour meeting. And I don’t want to have to physically move to buy things on an online store other than just moving my mouse or scrolling.

But there’s a lot of potential there just from the gizmo aspect of it all. And I’m sure plenty of folks will see tons of value in it. If nothing else, pornhub will make a killing.
I can agree as far as the point that the past must be understood on its own terms and not in terms of contemporary categories, but if EH Carr and Elton truly believe the past has absolutely nothing to tell us about the present, they're about the only people on Earth, including academic historians, who think so. Looking them up suggests their ideas are rather controversial and not simply accepted as consensus ones either (and indeed rejecting the concept of "contingency" would put him out of step with pretty much every working historian I've listened to).
This seems to provide a solution: https://github.com/marcomusy/pianoplayer
This was my concern too. What's the point in having these ships if the most minor damage will cause a catastrophic loss due to incompetence?
Yeah this goes hand in hand with medical culture in general. My partner is becoming a physician, and they will make these people work 12 hour shifts, or multiple days straight, or both. We pretty much burn them out before they’ve even gotten out of residency. She hasn’t encountered any real reasoning, just “this is the way”.
Sure. Obviously, it is only a finite sampling of the real number line, and it is only sampling at a particular set of rational numbers. But it is a sampling with a density that is (roughly) scale invariant. That enables FP computations to have (roughly) the same precision regardless of the overall scaling (choice of units), and that underlies the illusion that you have the whole number line at your disposal when you do computations with FP numbers.
Great contribution to the discussion!
> Absolutely nothing, since they don’t know what to expect.

Exactly. This is the problem though. Look back at the threads when Sir Clive Sinclair died. The number of people (like me) who have a career due to just having something you can experiment with. Now, it's all "press this allowed button and the allowed action will happen". A company like Fisher Price, with their deserved reputation for producing quality learning toys, should be embarrassed by this.
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> our military doesn't need "managers", it needs leaders.

Funny, that's exactly what I said 40-plus years ago when I got out. (Naïve youth that I was, I even wrote a letter to Admiral Rickover about it; IIRC, the response was a bland thank-you letter from some functionary — but Rickover was famous for having said about certain managers, there but for the grace of God goes God.)
Years ago I participated in a few adult LEGO robotics competitions with a group in Toronto, and one of the peculiarities about the Mindstorms kit was that each RCX (the control module) had just three motor outputs and three sensor inputs. So you could do a bit of hackery like doubling up your sensors, and obviously in the extreme case you could go multi-RCX and have them talk to each other over infrared.

But that constraint always really pushed people toward finding pure mechanical solutions to problems that in the real world would just be solved by slapping on another servo. One of my favourite examples was a single-motor steered castor, where a ratcheting mechanism switched between wheel driving and castor rotation based on which way you ran the motor.

I think another factor with it is just that LEGO makes the pursuit of a mechanism-type solution inexpensive, effortless, and fun, whereas in "real" industrial automation, every new gear or bearing is another point of failure, one more thing requiring lubrication check-ups and so on.
Highly interesting idea. Why not try to harness the heat? Other possible question that needs an answer is, what to do if this idea has been realized working for generations at very large scale and that volcano erupts. Millions would suffer outages. We need fusion!
Non paywalled link -> http://archive.today/sTa0U
No. He was actually heading to Ecuador but US Admin specifically cancelled his passport while he was in transit at Moscow Airport from Hong Kong. He ended up having to stay at that airport for a while before he got asylum in Russia. And then this became the talking point on how "he's a Russian agent". The administration specifically intended this to happen.
I got this sorted out. I will post a URL with instructions Sun/Mon.
For vehicle motors, I think you should look to the Siemens Taurus locomotive.

Though half an hour of clips is a bit excessive.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-IC-JRJYwc&vl=en
“4 SREs…” my heart goes out to each of those 4. This must have been the worst 48 hours of their career.
Covid-19 has killed more people in the US than HIV/Aids did in 40 years
>The practical benefit is that some ISPs run bad DNS servers that e.g. automatically redirect nxdomains to their spam pages. If you use Google or Cloudflare you can bypass this particular anti-feature.

As I discussed here[0], my goto DNS server is 192.168.xxx.91.

Which is to say I run my own recursive resolver. This avoids ISP DNS server issues as well as other issues (like these[1][2]). Also, Google/Cloudflare/whoever don't get to log my DNS queries.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29026077

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

[2] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Random-Stop...
Personally I’m wondering why a billionaire hasn’t undertaken projects to explore the deepest depths of the oceans, and perhaps start ambitious projects like underwater habitats for small communities.
One of my favorite piano practice tricks was using one hand to teach the other. Not like how this book describes it, but using inverted patterns.

In the first movement of Apposionata Op. 57, there's a pattern that goes from hand to hand, in groups of five. Difficult for the left hand. So my teacher had me learn it in the right hand too, but inverted.

So in the left hand it went Db Eb G Eb Db. In the right hand that would be Eb Db A Db Eb, an octave up. Mirror image. You'd play both at the same time.

It sounded awful (and then kind of cool after a while) but it worked really well.
This doesn't seem very surprising to me. The brain can handle up to certain level. It's only when it exceeds a threshold that it starts to really make an impact.
Because of unstable security crap your company's IT installs on them? You can't seriously blame Apple for problems that only happen on your work laptops.
Matrix system sucks because the servers are branded with domain names and the server operators have total ownership of your account.

In a network like Status or Session, you don’t need to know and don’t care who runs the node you happen to be using at a given moment.
IthkuAPL?

(sorry)
I also don’t think the technology is affordable enough. I had a couple of friends who were big into second life and always tried to get me to join in and I did but my machine was so sloooooooow and my connection was so choppy that it wasn’t fun. Now mind you I had the same experience with Napster - it took me 4 hours to download one song and I said to myself man this stuff will neeeeeever take off and I was so wrong about that it’s almost funny. But millions of people having access to high end equipment to go online and socialize just seems so far from realistic to me. But as I mentioned in another comment on this thread I was wrong about basically everything with regard to the modern internet so there’s a strong chance I’ll be wrong on that too!
The whole enemy thing is being encouraged by those who make money off it. The arms suppliers sell to everyone, the idea of countries as enemies is good for business, and keeps everyone in line. It's a systemic issue for the world that needs to be addressed, sure there are underlying ideologic differences, but without the war machine actively fanning the fires we could no doubt find more common ground.
This is so odd to me. There seems to be some sort of obsession with making sure everybody knows that programmers “Aren’t Normal People.” It’s just a job, doing it well doesn’t make you some Superhuman Logic Machine.

I’d love to see a post like this that includes “Pathologically Obsessive Need For Self Aggrandizement” as one of these ~Coder Feelings~ that only the Chosen Folks can experience.
Hopefully that will spread to the rest of the site, since Pharo Smalltalk is a clear and accurate description and it's confusing/misleading to imply that Pharo isn't a version of Smalltalk.
Zrythm – highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation
> actually I think it may need to be more complex than that...

I like the way you think. thumbs up
They are both metadata sponges, but Matrix is on a whole different level of bad because it gossips that metadata to every server it connects with.

Not to mention that you don’t actually own your accounts unless you run the server yourself.
Stargate DAW – digital audio workstation with a powerful pattern-based workflow
we had a teacher that would type our questions into google (or whatever search engine we had back then) for us :)
People have been doing this for decades, probably centuries... there was a book on shorthand (Eclectic shorthand) I found on the Internet Archive and the first couple of pages were extolling its virtues compared to the others. The difference is that you're seeing it.
Being deflationary isn't the problem there. Stealing gold/silver happens because they are small physical objects with objective value that can be stolen from people guarding it with enough people with guns. Stealing crypto-assets is much different and given competent security policy, seems much harder to do. These assets are not guarded in vaults by people, but in computers by strong access controls and encryption algorithms.
Is there any reason to mess with the drive settings instead of just making a smaller partition?
> Why is this quoting the top-level lambda expression arguments?

I suspect mostly because the implementation stumbled into the dynamic binding/lexical binding/FEXPR traps that hit all the early Lisps.

> Here it becomes clear that, in its most bare essential form, beneath the macros and abstractions, LISP actually has an unpleasant nature where name bindings (or assignments) look like a venus fly trap.

Ayup.

A lot of these problems were addressed by the late John Shutt in his thesis about vau calculus in the Kernel programming language:

FEXPRS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fexpr

John Shutt's vau calculus thesis: http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-090110-124904/unre...

John Shutt's Kernel Language--"Revised-1 Report on the Kernel Programming Language" https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/47187352.pdf

The "magic" is that the "$vau" operative closes over the environment when it is defined so that it can execute later in that environment--this is the "static/lexical environment". However, when you actually execute the "$vau" operative, you also pass in the "execution/dynamic" environment so that the code that the "$vau" operative runs can choose to do what it wants with the arguments--do nothing, evaluate them in the lexical environment, or evaluate them in the dynamic environment.

It's a powerful concept, but difficult to compile so got kind of relegated from the Lisp/Scheme languages.

For something which seems to implement it properly, see the "Oh" UNIX shell:

https://github.com/michaelmacinnis/oh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1m-WEZz46U

I would mumble that the fact that "list" is defined as "cons pairs with a final nil()" is also a pain in the ass. I understand why it was originally done this way, but it makes the idea of a "sequence" abstraction so very much more painful. It's one of the reasons why Clojure dropped it.
The difficult jumps are usually write tge changes, but once there, it would seem redundant to keep numbering as it's obvious to someone at that level playing.

If you're learning on your own as an adult, I highly recommend "Alfred's Basic Piano Course" book 1. You start from the very start, and by the end of the book, you'll be able to sight read
Even if we had the tech it wouldn’t be practical. Dogs are cheap and easy to get more, they are also commonly upgraded with titanium teeth and bullet proof vests, and soon may have AR goggles for more precise commands.
Yep and she is not a journalistic peer to Taibbi or Greenwald.
In Russia they have state-controlled media, but America is a media-controlled state.
I would also recommend Peasants (1897) by Chekov, a very stark depiction of agricultural poverty.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Witch_and_Other_Stories/P...
I'm sure there's a not so distant future where Broadcom ships a 7nm (or smaller) SoC that finds its way into the Raspberry Pi series.

It's not like Apple has a meaningful moat around state of the art silicon. And that's a Good Thing.
O yeah, his tours of that museum are really great. The original Fisher Price player worked exactly the same as the one they show in that video with a little gear that coupled the records to the comb.
These "Covid killed more people than BLANK" articles don't phase me, because we haven't separated the "died with covid" from the "did directly because of covid"
But you could change the bank or use some alternative. If legacy currency is sunset in favor of centrally controlled currency (where the bank has no latitude and just does what central bank says), all those alternatives may disappear.
> If we had drastically different systems and experiences, we could try and marry the best aspects from each.

Wouldn't this result in exactly the global culture? A compromise by taking the “best” aspects from everyone minimizing everyone's unhappiness from that?
You'd think they'd check the applicant's webpage even before that, and find out it'd a rickroll...