skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't realistically have a different guitar or a different saxophone for each and every piece you want to play, and those frets and holes can't be freely moved around. It gets that much worse when you consider "installation" instruments like carillons or pipe organs.

AI just literally, fundamentally can't "dismiss the idea of a universal tuning scale", because whatever per-piece optimisations it can come up with still need to be realised by physical instruments at some point. The idea of a good-enough compromise solution that allows you to play a wide variety of pieces on a single instrument is just too damn important.
Wow, Schwab runs an AGPL database?! Guessing they've a commercial license.
And the "web-first long form" medium positively drips with filler. Half the time it doesn't even mention the subject at hand for 500 words until a tortured anecdote or analogy has run out of steam, leaving you guessing what the article is even about in the first place. Then it carries on for another few thousand words, at least 70% of which are useless flourishes or word count padding.
Basically, everything with is based on any statistical inference.

Statistics applied to not fully observable stable systems in the modern day alchemy.

Simulations have similar flaws - once the model does not match reality perfectly one would get an arbitrary wrong results.

Look at all the COVID related simulations and statistical models - all of them are not even close to reality.
Powered by climate change friendly wind farms.
Reported for not assuming the best - or even reasonable - interpretation of the parent comment. Don’t be so insufferable.
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Why are these questionable papers? Academics are forced to publish as many papers as possible. The system pushes their own to go for the smallest publishable unit, people will find a way to optimise for that, and who are we to blame them for that? They're underpaid, overworked researchers trying to guess what the opaque and brutal funding system wants from them.

Is there outright fraud, or are they just dull/pointless papers? if first, yeah that's questionable, but a lot of these example papers look more like they're dull, rather than committing fraud.

We should rather tear down the awful system instead of playing whack-a-mole with academia's newest outcropping.
The one special thing about A=440 is that it is international law, as defined by the treaty of Versailles (yes, the one that ended World War I)
> marketing/product asking to update sms templates

Please don't spam people.
Oh come on, you’re telling us a leader has to live in the worst conditions to be legitimate ? He has to be Jesus or he can GTFO? I have bad news for you, humans are not selfless supreme beings, so expecting that from a leader is not realistic. It’s just a convenient way for you of rejecting any kind of authority. But then you shouldn’t expect to have any kind of authority because you’re not Jesus either.
Or anyone for that matter.
Such an absolute position is bad faith, childlike and harmful.
If you climb to the top of a really tall mountain you'll get a similar perspective to what Google Maps provides.
As a life long string player I can tell you that there is no difference between E flat and D sharp. String players usually play with other instruments that are not so tuneable. Good intonation means playing in tune with the other players, not playing according to mathematics. If you don't have good intonation then you hide it with vibrato. Flats and sharps don't enter into consideration.

The one exception is harmonics which are based upon integer ratios rather than 12-TET.
Personally I use https://openaudible.org/
I'm at +10, working remote with EU/US for 4 years now. East coast US is particularly hard. I guess for +7, that would be West coast instead.
It’s not really a big deal though is it?

this person is just being a little weird and stubborn about this.

Audible members know what they are getting and choose to do so. Audible DRM is not a big deal, just use this Audible app, some of the arguments made in this article are invalid.
oh so THAT's what that's called! This practice is fine for literature and other forms of art, but I often find people using it in code and comments and like, which find totally counterproductive and unnecessary.
> It is just a matter of time before there exists a compelling open source alternative to your software

The word "just" doesn't fit that sentence. Most commercial companies offer products and services for which it's "just" a matter of time before they become obsolete, irrelevant or unavailable. This may be due to technological reasons (propeller passenger aircraft which gave way to jets, sailing ships which gave way to steamers etc.) or social reasons (e.g. rigid-structured wide dresses - or for that matter, last year's fashion lines).

I believe in Open-Source - and Libre-licensed - software. But that argument is rather weak.

Also - it seems to me like most software which runs "closed-source" hardware - be it cars, household electric appliances, etc. is likely to stay closed, since such hardware is developed and released routinely so there is always a reverse-engineering challenge before that can be opened up. And usually, there are not enough people with enough interest to reverse-engineer "all the things".
Usually the reported maximum res/rate is lower.
https://github.com/AykutSarac/jsonvisio.com/blob/main/packag...
> I don't use audiobooks, since I find them 'slow'.

Audiobook players all have speed controls that let you make them go faster.
In a given orchestra (for example), what instruments have fixed tuning? A piano yes (although lots of orchestral music doesn’t have piano.) The harp? I struggle to think of others.

Wind instruments essentially have continuous tuning because the player can adjust the pitch with their lips and vocal shape. Orchestral string instruments are all fretless (and thus continuously pitched.) Singers, same thing. Even fretted instruments are often played with a lot of vibrato that masks any true pitch problems.

I think the inability to play with a perfect pitch is more the exception than the rule (at least in “classical” music), it’s just that piano is such a popular instrument in the modern era that this becomes a problem.
You don't need to be part of the "community" to use a mechanical keyboard, it doesn't have to be a hobby, normally mechanical keyboards don't need maintenance and last longer than rubber domes.

As for choosing the right one, the best is to try them out at the store if you can. Find the one that looks and feels the best, buy it, plug it in, done, drop-in replacement. You can't really go wrong, these are just keyboards.

I'd say the only feature you may look for that is not obvious is NKRO (N-key rollover), or the ability to press any number of keys at the same time. If you are paying $100 or more for a keyboard, it is something you want. Most keyboards in this price range have it. 6KRO means you can press any 6 keys at the same time, it is not quite NKRO, but unless you have special needs, it is just as good, 2KRO (2 keys) is the one to avoid. It is sometimes called "anti ghosting" but some manufacturers cheat, so, not a reliable indication.

There are other features like hardware remapping, RGB lighting,... but if you need these, you will know beforehand.

Small caveat though. Many mechanical keyboards, especially in big box stores have clicky switches, clicky switches may be perfectly fine for you, but chances are that people next to you won't like them as much. Please be considerate of your surroundings when using a loud keyboard (are we back into audiophile territory ;))
You earlier in the thread: "Nuclear power is sustainable."

You a few posts later: "[Battery and storage] also aren’t infinitely sustainable either" (also meaning in addition to nuclear).

Me: "Oh, so you concede that nuclear power actually isn't sustainable then? Okay."

Just read back. Is it sustainable or also not sustainable? You contradicted yourself and I think my comment went over your head.

The carbon cost of the construction and decommissioning a nuclear plant as well as producing and disposing of nuclear fuel is significant, and unlikely to become less so. Wind turbines and solar panels have a carbon footprint almost purely at the construction phase. It's significant too but manufacturing techniques are improving yearly while nuclear has been stagnant.

But according to to your source the difference between renewable and nuclear is marginal anyway and it only considers CO2 and air pollution as it affects human lives. It ignores water pollution from uranium mine tailings, radon or leaks of spent fuel are considered and so is a poor source for considering environmental damage in general.

Finally, your link doesn't mention batteries or storage, so is not an especially relevant source to the discussion either.
The definition of a programming language is a language that can be used to write computer programs. A turing machine is not necessarily a computer program, and a programming language isn't necessarily turing complete.
Edit: I was wrong below.

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Hi! I am not a musician. Did you mean that true temperament guitars are the ones with squiggly frets, instead?

My understanding was that true temperament [0] is not the same as equal temperament [1]. I also believe that both pianos and guitars are typically tuned to equal temperament [2], but you may well be right about guitars.

Maybe somebody can shed some more light on this. Thanks!

[0] https://www.truetemperament.com

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament

[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=-penQWPHJzI
Dev ops skills are expensive in general for one, but the second reason is Kubernetes is only starting to get to popularity and mass adoption. Look at the 2021 and 2022 stack overflow surveys under tooling to see the difference in adoption rates. It’s ramping up. I’d say it’ll take about 5 years or more until it’s at ubiquity and then that won’t be a hard to find skill and then not more pricey.
There a lot of times in my day when I can listen to a book (commuting, chores, taking a walk), but not as many when I can sit for a decent amount of time and read (usually around bed time). I do both, and on balance I slightly prefer actually reading myself, but I don’t think of listening to a book as a lesser experience.

There are books that are enhanced by a great narrator (Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson) or the author gives a bit of extra info/context while reading (Good to Great by Jim Collins).

Also, Audible has a huge selection of “Great Courses”, which are lectures from professors. Obviously, they aren’t as rigorous as a real college class, but I love being able to listen to 12ish hours of lecture about something I find interesting.

I listen to books at 1.2-1.5 speed depending on the narrator and topic, so that helps to not feel “slowed down”.
I don't know either if the 3D cache tile uses a different optimized process from the CPU one.

But chiplets are actually first for cost optimization, and second for process optimization IMHO.

The first cost optimization is to leverage the better yield for a small die compared to a monolithic die. The density of defects for a given process means that N small chiplets will be cheaper than one monolithic die with same number of cores: one fault will kill the whole monolithic die where it will kill only one chiplet. A SoC only uses good chiplets ("known good dies" or KGD is the term of the art). That's what has driven AMD too chiplets in the first place.

The process optimization can also be for cost saving more than performance: if an older node is acceptable, it's cheaper.

Then there is the design saving, and this shows up in Intel chiplets presentation: by developing M CPU and N GPU chiplet variants for example, one develop M+N tiles but by mixing and matching can offer MxN SoC. One has to add the chiplets interconnection complexity (extra work vs a monolithic design), but this may still save on design development. And design development costs increase a lot with each new node.

Chiplets may also become a way to extend the life of a design. We may see at some point chips embedding a mix of "old" and "new" chiplets. This could extend the useful life of a chiplet design, and give more time to amortize the increasing design costs.

So I guess a good way to see chiplets is as a cost management tool first, in the face of ever increasing design costs on advanced nodes. With the nice side effect that they also open the possibility to optimize the process per tile, if needed.

With a chiplet standard and the possibility to treat chiplets as silicon IPs today, a chiplet target market may be extended too. For example Intel as a fab may sell its chiplets (or part of their catalog) to their fab customers. This is yet another way to absorb increasing development costs, but we're not there yet.
"Being a brood parasite, the Asian Koel is notorious for cleverly inserting its eggs after it removes the host's eggs."
Polititians are more like the stakeholders, and companies generally listen to those more than the customers they serve.
Uh yeah, and it's been tried with huge success as well. Huge huge success. Such one sided reasoning has no merit and is intellectually dishonest.

I'm saying try it with restrooms. Because this hasn't been tried yet at all.
You can play them at faster than normal speed in the audible player, but I have to ask you a question, do you also find movies slow?

For my personal use, I tend to do podcasts/audiobooks in my car and sometimes when doing chores around the apartment. I can't read while I am driving or vacuuming, but neither takes much mental capacity.
The last time I felt the U.S. as a country had a goal that was outward looking, forward looking was when we were adopting the Metric System back in the early 70's when I was in elementary school.

Good times.
Cory is sometimes crowdfounding his audiobooks, see the campaign for "Attack Surface" some time ago.
You have clearly not see the user interface of most (as opposed to the most popular) pieces of closed-source software.
Now that we can have electronic instruments that "tune" themselves, could we compute song-optimal tunings that preserve the intervals used most in that song? Does this have a name?

As a guitarist we often swap guitars or retune to make certain songs easier to play, or to be able to get a certain tamber put of the note. But I never considered it as a way to address temperament.

It's interesting to think how much of music theory emerges out of reconciliation with available instruments, as opposed to reconciliation with the ear.
Stilted: Partial implementation of a subset of PostScript, just for fun
Are you using Wells Fargo as an example of a trustworthy company? They're one of the scummiest large companies I know of.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_sc...
Or: How to take all the joy out of reading.
The source and the sink negotiate a link rate that allows error free communication, based on the number of errors seen on a known pattern over a certain amount of time during the link training phase.

When the established link rate is too low for a requested video timing, the source requests a less demanding video rate.

It’s why the control panel of a GPU might now show the video timing that your monitor officially supports.

In modern GPUs and monitors, an alternative is that DSC (display stream compression) is used, and that the compression ratio is cranked up to still fit the requested timing in a reduced availabile bandwidth. The image quality impact is usually unnoticeable.
Japan is a strange counterexample. Not sure how they do it without identification.
Which can be subtly changing the meaning - explain carries more baggage than said, as do some of the others.
R is lispy enough for what they're suggesting.
Based on its origin story, the statement "Twitter should be a protocol" is either willful misrepresentation on his part or the loudest "woosh" noise passing over Jack's head that he's ever heard.
How many developers are there? For single developer projects, commit messages have very little value compared to documentation and an extensive passing test suite.

As the project grows in contributors, the commit log gains value
Secondary Water Quality Standards
> For example, what defines poverty?

I think we can all agree that homelessness is a problem we should address. If we could somehow tackle that one our country would be in a better place.

No need to kill the idea because we can't precisely describe what the definition is.
> why don't we take this $500B of canceled debt and direct that into supplying mosquito nets to malaria-prone regions of the world instead?

1. Again with the false dichotomies.

2. The total debt only exists as an abstraction. That money is not directly available. If it was, then the debt would be paid off! In fact many student loan debtors were in default or income-based forbearance before the 2020 pandemic suspension of payments. In 2019, student loan payments were $70 billion per year, which is only 4% of the outstanding debt. https://slate.com/business/2021/03/student-loan-total-annual...

> why should you get to force me to act toward your good at the expense of my own good -- or vice versa?

I feel that you're steering into some grand philosophical debate about the existence of government itself that's not directly relevant and specific to the student loan issue.

Keep in mind that universities themselves have always been heavily subsidized by governments in various ways. Universities as we know them wouldn't exist without the government, and there wouldn't be student loan debt without universities, so in a sense the debt problem is of the government's own creation.

You say you support keeping tuition low, but that involves massive, permanent taxpayer subsidy, of the kind you don't seem to like.

> you say we have progressive taxation (last year i reached the social security contribution limit for the first time in my life, actually decreasing my effective tax rate)

I didn't say that all taxes are progressive. FICA definitely is not, and I'm not a fan of FICA.

> their endowment is large enough to cover -- by very rough estimate -- about half of tuition in perpetuity; but not enough to refund their graduates.

I'm not sure what "refund their graduates" is supposed to mean — full refund of all tuition ever paid by every attendee? — but it sounds like much more than necessary to ameliorate the student debt problem for current debtors.
Original twitter was also like this. As was Facebook, etc.

They got their original user base without any of this. And then used that foundation as the basis for a giant advertising machine by rolling out "the algorithm."

I think it's possible to get quite large by just offering a decent reinvented "BBS" service. It's just likely not possible... to make money.
I translated this article into Riau Emojesian:

chicken emoji + food emoji

https://pastebin.com/raw/nxPY102R
I think I suffer that...I've edited a few HN comments recently after realising I'd used the same word twice in a sentence. Even the previous sentence's overuse of the first person pronoun is bothering me...
Crosstalk between luminance and chrominance signals are called dot crawl (chominance signal interfering with the luminance signal causing spatial artifacts) and chroma crawl (luminance signal stepping on the chrominance signal causing color artifacts).

I believe chroma crawl was generally more of an issue with NTSC, if the luminance signal wasn't sufficiently band limited.
What is "compoper"?
Other large regrets he has:

- becoming a multi-billionaire

- dating models

- having the clout to determine the course of the culture

- seeing how long a goatee he can grow without risk neck injury
Just curious: what company did that work for HTTP?
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I understand that emails can get buried but threaded views are so much better for me (especially at work) than my inbox being buried by conversations/threads that I have zero interest in. My alternative would probably be to more aggressively filter but that would effectively mean I never even saw lots of things I might actually care about.
Given that integer ratios tend to sound better, are there songs edited to use notes that maximize the number of integer ratios rather than the standard tuning?

It would seem an easy hack to make people like your new pop track better. But then, I'm no musician, so maybe I'm oversimplifying.
Why not just use sshfs?
CVE Link: https://exploit.report/cve/cve-2022-22717/
Six unpopular opinions about software standard development
Oh look I can criticize after cashing out
Having burned out spectacularly, I’d take $10 billion and retire.

Then again, people who make $10B aren’t likely to be people who are happy not working. :)
You're wrong about homeless people in SF. There's a huge liberal movement here.

Homeless people are coddled and taken care of. Free syringes so they don't get HIV. Homeless people aren't beaten. If you're homeless SF is paradise.
There are some players of guitars with a scalloped fretboard who do so to experiment with tempered tunings. It's definitely uncommon, but it's not unheard of.
netscape
There's nothing special about his billoinare's playbook though. After you sacrifice any and all morals & ethics to capture enough resources for a 1,000,000 lifetimes you set aside 1,000 lifetimes and use the rest to buy back your soul.
The Mining of Minerals and the Limits to Growth (2021) [pdf]
> How many projects that you haven't touched in the last 5 years still run?

The ones which were built like a tank in terms of adherence to standards, minimization of dependencies and of assumptions regarding the platform, non-flakey build system etc.

> If your software stops adding features, it will quickly be out-competed by software which does have new features

Not usually. You're probably thinking of things like web browsers.

> because servers require upkeep

If your software does not require continuously running global server(s) then that is not an issue.

Otherwise I mostly agree.
I wouldn't say that it has a very strong Go fondation because it seems that Odin doesn't have an equivalent to God's channels..
Don’t think to write, write to think
It would be interesting to have an electronic keyboard that watches what you are playing and decides when you press the D-sharp/E-flat key, which note it should play.
> getting your paper approved means that you convinced at least three PhD students with a published paper

This is a recursive definition of scientist "A scientist(t=n) is someone approved by scientists(t=n-1)". If you have a good initial condition maybe it can work for a while, but it seems that time may be coming to an end.

> Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration. Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc. The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
https://twitter.com/HereToRebuild/status/1562584857653301250
Hubble Telescope sees Metal Asteroid Worth 10M Quadrillion dollars (2020)