skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I responded to the question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomrod
> Then I can absorb it uncritically and regurgitate the conclusions to people without thinking about the evidence that lead me to the conclusions

You forgot the part where I then accuse you of being the one blinded by ideology and bias.
Of course they are. All CPU makers are working ahead like this. Lead times in CPU manufacturing require it. AMD for example already have the specs for the zen arch many generations in the future mapped out.
Sorry, but I have to say that none of this will make a particle of sense to someone who would be asking such a question.

A rudimentary question is a wonderful an opportunity to distill everything down to a simple understandable concept.

Here's how I would do it:

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Western music is based on simple frequency ratios. 2:1 is so basic that we call it the same note, but an octave up.

Three pitches with ratios 4:5:6 make a major chord. These are the simplest possible ratios within an octave, so a major chord is the most basic chord, and all other chords are derived from that
Popularity does not always correlate with quality, but Gutenberg’s “Top 100 Downloads” page is worth checking out: https://gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
The error in your line of thinking is that you assume humans are better interpreting statistical evidence than they are broad logical arguments. I don't see any evidence of that.
Or reuse it.

I'm right now drinking from a bottle that's been filled dozens of times. And the best feature of a reused bottle is that it has less aromatics to leach out than the newly-manufactured bottles have - they've already leached out.
I avoid waste, so if I haven't brought my own toiletries I'll use the shower gel to wash my hands.

It's essentially the same stuff.
of course they have a specific agenda, it's on their website (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/)

I'm slightly out of the loop on the Neil Young stuff but I assume this is about Rogan spreading antivax content or something, which I don't think is very compatible with Mozilla pushing for an internet that is civil, free of misinformation and factual, so it seems to me they're sticking to their principles, which I think are very reasonable.
I don’t have a degree in the field but one of my parents is a professor of philosophy and the other is a Cambridge MA in it so I think I’m qualified to disrespect him. (I can at least tell you that being a philosophy professor isn’t the same thing as being a philosopher.)

More importantly, I know that believing in superintelligence means you’ve been reading too much SF and have forgotten that things can’t exist just because you can imagine them existing. Spend any time worrying about that and next thing you know you’ll have moved to a group home in Berkeley and joined an effective altruism cult.
A lot of this discussion seems to be wrapped up in the idea that the lower classes look up to the upper classes. Is there any evidence for this point? It seems to imply poor people unable to think critically and independently. Yet, there exists households of modest means where each partner holds their other half accountable-- yet nobody is talking about those people. What's different about them, and what differentiates them from other lower-class households that can't keep it together?
The idea of "Managing yourself before managing a team" sounds true to me. I cannot manage myself very well (lack of discipline, not long term target, barely surviving mentally due to numerous issues, etc.) and indeed I cannot really imagine how do I manage a group of 10.
They'll gladly pay (maybe) 2 million in fines so that later they can pretend complying was extremely difficult for them. Drop in the bucket in the long run.
This won't age well. We're on the cusp of a demographic crisis. We need more people.
"I have never encountered an individual who claims to hate the 'elite'"

I don't know what to tell you there. Go talk to more individuals? Go read some right-wing propaganda (e.g. almost anything that comes out Josh Hawley's mouth, or certain off-bench remarks from Justices Alito and Thomas--and yes, all of these individuals are also "elite", but because their views are in the minority among elites, they can't like they aren't "elite" and rail against the other elites).

Go see who likes them, how it plays with that base, and see also how it plays with the far-left camp (e.g. Bernie, who I generally like but who has a lot wrong, and AOC) too, though they may use different language. It's a pretty popular meme (I wouldn't call it worthy of being labeled an "idea") among certain segments of the population, sometimes for different reasons.

"And what do you mean by 'elite' anyways? If people dislike those in the position of authority, especially politicians, they generally have very good reasons for that."

I was not thinking of politicians, but, fwiw, I would say blind/reflexive hatred of politicians is a prime example of a kind of idiotic and adolescent trend in American culture to just hate traditional authority figures.

There are probably plenty of good reasons to hate them, sure, but ask people who say things like "oh yeah they're all corrupt" how they know that, what evidence they have, whether they can list the past several major corruption scandals, how corruption here compares to other countries, etc, and they can't do it at all.
> France won’t let solar from Spain into their grid as it undermines their nuclear financing.

Complete nonsense. France buys renewable electricity from neighbours all the time, both for itself and to sell to other neighbours. France also sells its own electricity.

A new interconnect between france and Spain is under construction (the biscay bay line), in order to bring the exchange capacity between them up to 5GW.
You forgot the moon landing, filmed on a soundstage on Mars. ))
It’s true you can get into a hole, but there are strategies that help, like the one the person you’re replying to mentioned. It also helps to get a sense for what kinds of words wordle uses (e.g. no plurals). That being said, it’s the possibility of losing that makes it exciting!

I’ve played 113 times on hard mode and only lost once so far, guessing between two possibilities on the sixth word.

For a while now I’ve just been starting with the previous day’s word to mix things up, rather than trying to use the most optimal starters.
The seamless transition into "waged" slavery and the kafala system are not even mentioned? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrant_workers_in_the_Gulf_Co...
> I'd rather go back to a simpler form where banks were only allowed to make money on the spread between lending and savings rates, making them boring and having to compete (with higher savings rates, for example) for your business

I'm truly interested in what's happening now and why this _is not_ the case. Can you elaborate on what they're doing now to make now, rather than making on the spread?
Which party is dedicated to importing massive numbers of cheap workers from other countries to allow business owners to undercut working class wages and pocket more profits?
You’re observing that political labels vary semantically between political systems. “liberal” in the UK has a different meaning than in the US. Similarly, “leftist” means something different in an American context than it does in your “global” context (although I suspect “global” here is really only accurate for Europe, but that’s a debate for another day).
In case some folks have not seen it: along something of the same lines but in very much more depth is Music: A Mathematical Offering by Dave Benson, at https://logosfoundation.org/kursus/music_math.pdf
56.7F = 13.7C
The missing follow-up is how to stay in the loop with your friends and family who continue to use these services.

Many used to be actively helpful by serving web feeds of public content. Now, not only have they removed the feeds, but they actively sabotage their public website to pressure you back into their control.
Rick-Rolled in Every Frame
Similar to mine: CRANE, SPOIL, MIGHT then sometimes BUNDY
I love me some Blackwing 602's.

However, I don't if this is really prime HN content?
+1 for purelymail. Pricing is just unbeatable.
Social Media Is Not the Fault of Everything
> The US is likely fine because our southern border is porous and anyone can walk right in

Go ahead try it.
Ah yes, think of the men!

Single moms outnumber single dads 5:1. People in general need more education, but much more the men. Partriarchy left women holding the bag for a lot of things, so they were more prepared for a post-patriarchy world. Men will need more explicit support in learning to adapt to their new societal role.

> This only confirms men are more often outed as poor male partners.

Technically true, but unless you have some data to suggest it's meaningful, I think that's just a distraction. Reddit is 2/3rds male [1], so if anything we would expect more stories to be about bad women. But in the real world, women initiate the bulk of divorces [2]. And men are more likely to be the kind of bad partner who, say, turns murdery [3]. So I think my inference that men are on average the worse partner and need more help is reasonable.

[1] https://www.alphr.com/demographics-reddit/

[2] https://www.whitleylawfirmpc.com/3-reasons-why-women-initiat...

[3] https://www.womensaid.org.uk/information-support/what-is-dom...
The volunteers are usually half day corporate team building events. The company pays a fee and the staff provide "voluntary service", photos are then taken and shared on social media.
Because one is an effective counterargument if true, the other isn't, even if true. Hence, the former is a better counterargument.
It's not the opinions of any one person that matter, it's the expressed opinion of society as a whole, which is made up of the expressed opinions of every individual. It has to start with someone, but I don't think anyone here is under the illusion that one person speaking out is sufficient to alter the culture.
Will countries ever learn to make their own energy! Has this Russia situation taught us nothing!?
Equal temperament only applies to a handful of instruments that can be kept in tune long enough for it to matter, and that can play the same note, the same way, twice.

I'm confused. If I'm not mistaken, equal temperament is the norm for all instruments since Bach.

Any keyboard instrument is tuned that way. Or any instrument with frets. Or any instrument that must be played alonside with one of the previous ones.

If you meant something else, could you ellaborate?
I’m holding out for this - Nix is the only tech I veto in startups I work at nowadays because I’ve never seen it go well beyond small dev scripts, and time spent on Nix is time taken from the product/project.
I read a lot of this as it was being written and found it to be extremely helpful and oddly had a lot of “this was written for me” moments.
This is basically correct, apart from the “center-right neoliberal corporate capitalist” babble. :)
Instead of deleting, I usually simply deactivate all notifications by default.

I think only 1 or 2 apps are allowed so send notifications and one of them is my own.
Good point. Just updated the site to make that clear. Thanks!
> “liberal” in the UK has a different meaning than in the US.

Liberal doesn't have any consistent meaning in the US. (Like, nearly every point on the spectrum uses it differently

> Similarly, “leftist” means something different in an American context than it does in your “global” context

Not particularly. Except in the propaganda of the American Right, where it is one of a pile of indistinct labels like Marxist, liberal, Communist, woke, critical race theory, etc., applied indiscriminately to everything they disagree with.
When that's the only way to just get the software, because there is no binary package. If it doesn't build or run, some users just give up and go onto something else.

Sometimes the package maintainers who make binaries for themselves and others don't want to fix bugs. At most some minor build things, but something actually broken is punted upstream.

You may see behaviors like the program being disabled (unavailable) for some platforms because it couldn't build or tests didn't pass. Or the package will stay on the old version of the program: 1.2.3 isn't building, so we just give up for now and stick with packaging 1.2.1. Maybe 1.2.4 will fix it. In these situations, package maintainers will not always contact upstream; the developer doesn't know unless they go into that distro's site and search the issues for activity related to their program.
I'm a professional engineer and amateur musician. I've always made music a bit of an engineering puzzle and I don't necessarily consider that a problem. The thing about engineering music is that once you've established some soft constraints, there's still a ton of room for experimentation. And when you have a good handle on following the rules, breaking them can lead to interesting places too.

I wrestled with temperaments for a bit before realizing that the "engineering rules" of music (at least at the compositional layer) are not dictated by physics but by culture. Equal temperament is in some sense "arbitrary", but because it's what people are used to hearing and performing music in, you have to just accept it as an axiom and move on (unless you're setting out with the express intent of challenging that norm, in which case more power to you).

Also when you delve into world music (particularly from India or the Middle East) you quickly learn that twelve-tone octaves are also arbitrary and that musicians in those regions regularly perform tones that don't fit in that model and have other common musical idioms that western music theory is poorly equipped for because our common music theory originated from a particular western European style from a particular era.

My hope for the future of music notation is that we recognize this and welcome more forms of music theory/notation for different styles of music just like we recognize different strengths of different programming languages.
It changes our understanding of property rights from one of violence (state confiscation) to one of knowledge (knowledge of the private key). It is the biggest switch in your lifetime, yet you fail to see it. You keep falling back to governments enforcing ownership through violence.

The state being able to confiscate things is the opposite of property rights. The universe enforcing it through math is a more natural state.
>because the wokes decided it should be memory holes

You truly believe that’s the driving force behind the problem? That “wokes” are the primary reason some content is hard to get and/or keeps getting pulled from streaming services?

It’s licensing increasingly becoming the core product and everyone and their mother trying to launch their own streaming services. We’ve been slowly backsliding into this situation for the better part of a decade.
Yes. One of those things is legal to track without permission. The other isn't.
This is super interesting and I feel like reading it helped a few concepts click for me, so thank you.
What a weird comment flow to read.
Your defensiveness off putting.
Rather than saying that one would need to work in a specific field, what I actually meant was "unless you have a highly concentrated exposure to this subset of the population, there is no way to know a half dozen people with this exceptionally rare psychological condition."

> In my case I just proved knowledgeable and willing to listen and they reached out to me

If you put yourself out as a resource for people of a specific characteristic to reach out to you, then your exposure is far from a random sampling.

My broader point is that a random sampling of the population would never produce the quantity of actual cases of DID that is manifesting in young people on social media. In other words, the degree to which DID actually exists and the degree to which people claim to have DID have diverged dramatically in favor of the latter. That statement is not meant to be taken personally as I'm acknowledging that you've established yourself as a beacon for those struggling with this sort of thing to reach out to you.
> I imagine lack of success of President Trump in implementing his proposals has made many of his voters unhappy

Somehow that hasn't happened.
It seems the best solution is to ban all advertising and money interest on the platform. Then Twitter would have a lower valuation, and they would not do that. It is a good thing we do have ad-free social media like Twitter such as Mastodon.
Back in the day, when you asked an engineer, "How much is 2 x 2", he'd whip out his slide rule, and reply confidently: "approximately 3.99"
> all fifths and all octaves sound approximately right

Octaves are actually 100% right regardless of equal temperament versus perfect/just/etc.

The only real exception is when you get into octave stretching to compensate for string inharmonicity, but that's a whole separate matter.
You and the sibling commenter are definitely correct, this construction method definitely appears to be preferable to just killing the road for a year. My qualm specifically is that the title doesn't really tell the full story (clickbait). I, at least, clicked it because I wondered how they could possibly have done all the prep and work in that sort of a window and the answer was they couldn't, but they still got my click.
Does this mean there's actually a scientific reason to tune by ear instead of with an electronic tuner? I feel like I naturally do some of these things, like tuning low to high but then (seemingly arbitrarily) tune the high e against the low E.
> You seem to be attributing the cause of this to 'Telling men and boys it's cool and fine to divorce' and not attributing to say... declining material and social capitol in the lower four quintiles of wealth that have created pressure that exacerbates marriage instability and numerous other social ills

Considering that the divorce rate has increased massively while poverty has decreased, it is nearly impossible that the cause of marriage instability is poverty.
"Do not track me" IS the reasonable default expectation of user intent, to be fair.
Personally I wouldn't read too much in to the timing. Although the end result looks small the change affects multiple large projects, each with hundreds of millions of users, and likely has knock on effects in other parts of google. Sprinkle in a bit of legal review + big company bureaucracy and I can easily imagine it taking 3 months.
Disney pulled the chord on SotS decades ago of their own accord despite their conservative leanings as an organization. That wasn’t because of “the wokes.” They straight up saw it as a liability.

It’s also very easy to watch if it’s that important to you to watch racist nonsense. Hell I think internet archive hosts it, they did a while back for sure.
The culture has shifted fairly significantly left while a backlash to that, in conjunction with a bunch of weird details about our system of government and just the random timing of elderly people passing away, has shifted political power significantly to the right.
This isn’t binary thinking.
It’s clear you don’t understand people who need these extra steps, and thank god for that. This is a problem I wouldn’t wish on anyone.

However, your lack of understanding does not make it any less relevant or useful.
And today's lucky 10 000 are thankful for your doing so.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
While it's an interesting derivation, Schoenberg was eager to explain that his book was about teaching practical skills and understanding.

He prefaced his derivation with the statement: "Therefore, whenever I theorize, it is less important whether these theories be right than whether they be useful as comparisons to clarify the object and to give the study perspective."

This is something I find compelling about Schoenberg. He doesn't claim to know more than he does, he's just presenting a useful mental model.
Oh, hey, I have this gem open right now on my taskbar. I do a lot of creative work in video, 2D and 3D animation, illustration, photo editing, music composition, and sound editing. I've almost never encountered a UI for a creative tool that was so intuitive to me and such a joy right out of the box. Bravo. Seems like 90%+ of software designers can't figure out how to achieve this. The last time I had such a great time out-of-the gate, which didn't make me want to take revenge on anybody, was probably Maya circa 2002.
This is exactly correct. Especially software developers who are new to music often approach it like learning a programming language, which is not how musicians think and learn music at all.
The EU situation has taught us many things about collaboration.
The BLM movement explicitly supports "dismantling of the nuclear family structure" as one of their goals. How many progressives have voiced support for BLM? How many have bothered to denounce and disclaim support for these peculiar aims, that seem to have remarkably little to do with benefiting Black lives, and that quite a few Blacks would themselves oppose?
> Personal responsibility cannot overcome AI designed to addict you.

I agree with your general arguments but you're going too far here. Individuals can overcome addiction. That doesn't change the big picture of how additive substances and services effect society as a whole, and I agree corporations use personal responsibility rhetoric to stave off government regulation. But you're going too far by suggesting that individual addicts have no chance of quitting. Many people have quit, proving that it's not impossible. It's good to see the whole forest, but don't forget the trees.
It’s already been clearly substantiated: running the cable through Spain or France would give leverage to those countries regarding (among other things) territorial disputes. This has nothing to do with the EU except in the tangential sense that Spain and France are both member states.
>> others require him to get along with unpleasant customers and coworkers, and to maintain a submissive attitude toward the boss.”

These are requirements of high paying jobs, too.
Chuckle. This is why people can’t stand engineers. (Said with love, but still).

The idea that mhz is even worth mentioning…

Fwiw, huge shout out to https://improviseforreal.com which for me was the happy medium between “major chord is happy” (huh?, whyyy?) and “C0 is 16 mhz”.