skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm struggling to fully understand this tbh, but was recently exposed to these subtle differences when writing a mini organ synth.

When implementing the draw bars (dictating the harmonics comprising each key) I realised the true harmonics of a note and neighbouring notes calculated in the 2^n/12 way are sometimes the same and sometimes slightly off... organs just kinda ignore this fact and use the closest neighbouring notes for the draw bars anyway so that they don't need a million different oscillators, so technically the draw bars are just chords on the keyboard using the same oscillators and not harmonics (well some of them happen to be exactly the same as harmonics, others not).
> The United States is too young to indulge in medievalist fantasies...

Medievalism was hugely popular in the counter-culture movement of the 1960s and remains a significant influence today among hippy/New Age types. The famous Oregon Country Fair started out as the Oregon Renaissance Faire. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Country_Fair)
Peer review has issues too at the moment. From what I've read, it worked when the world was a smaller place, basically. Now, peer review is another broken cog in a machine that grew organically out of past practices and which no one really intended and no one knows how to fix.
Given the way human faeces have been treated and disposed of throughout history, then yes, inherently we don't know any better than what we get taught growing up.
System programming languages also used to refer to non-scripting languages. See this paper by John Ousterhout (creator of Tcl) written in 1997: https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/top/ousterhout-scripting...
So wait, you can put a 1000m2 solar sail at Mars L2 for $2100?

Sign me up. Cash on delivery.
You do not need to have your card "stolen" to get into this trouble. I did not get my card stolen. You hand out the data that can cause you trouble every time you pay something. That is not the case with crypto.
Photoshop runs fine on Linux. I pay for it and use it in Wine. Gimp is hot trash and to add insult to injury it's responsible for birthing Gtk; it's a fool me once fool me twice thing.

What is this mutually shared meme-delusion that Gimp is anywhere close to an adequate facsimile of Photoshop?
I work in an infrastructure field with lots of engineering disciplines doing separate design. Designs are typically exchanged in AutoCAD even when a 3d tool are used to make them. Or AutoCAD is used to do design work in 3D. BIM exists but is just another data silo. A lot of the large engineering companies will try and push their own BIM solution which adds one more silo that no one else uses.

Everyone wants their own system and solution to be the single source of truth and that is a huge part of the problem. On a project of thousands of people there is never going to be a single source of truth. It's like expecting a globally distributed system to be in sync. Ultimately you have to chose between locking and eventual consistency and there is no other option. Having a single BIM system helps but is not a silver bullet. Because people will still get out of sync as other teams and tools are brought into play.
Agree to disagree, I guess. I'm glad you did use it for pizza back then, and I hope more of us use it for pizza in the near future. You are one of the few that don't just gamble and buy nfts.
Full marks for ambition, but what's the economic argument for this, or indeed any other teraforming plan.

I know it's a civilization saving idea, but in the absence of some killer asteroid on it's way, who's going to pay for this.
For that matter, F𝄪 (F double sharp) and A𝄫 (A double flat) are both legitimate alternatives/equivalents to G in some situations, by extrapolating the sequences. (And if you extrapolate far enough, any note has multiple possible alternatives—for example, you could get a G♮ that’s kinda more G♯♭ or G♭♯ than just straight G, to use super fuzzy terminology.)
> I'm curious do you work environment require you to have multiple sat phones?

No, I’m just a tech geek who had to be emergency airlifted from 11,000ft off a mountain straight to an emergency room. I happened to have an Iridium phone at the time and it’s what likely saved my life (no cell phones worked there). Since then, I’ve been interested in something better and so have done a bunch of research trying brands over the years and have settled in on a few devices I find best for my needs.
Instead of just accusing that journal of being a paper mill and summarily blocking it, we look for face saving way of filtering papers.

Because in science it's totally forbidden to accuse someone of deliberate fraud. You always must find a face saving way for the authors when dismissing their paper, like "bad statistics are being used".
In a world... Where the entire survival of the planet is dependent on one shield ship... One man... Must save it... From the mad scientist who wants to destroy it!

I would see this sci fi movie!
I'm in the crowd and I would make mine quieter if possible. Stealth strength is cool.
If we can have it of course, it's a godsend. BUT we can't. I have a small lithium storage, I see how fast it get depleted and how quick performance degrade. In 8-9 years I expect it will be just rubbish. If I compute how it's produced, how much energy, pollution, it need to exists brand new in my home, and how so far we can't recycle...

We have some effective storage, like pumped hydro, yes, but we have them where we can, we do not build mountains so far, for instance. Compressed air storage prove to be possible at a certain scale, but so far is just a promise with some experiments and honestly I doubt the actual push is ONLY for environmental and economical reasons. I think we start suspecting that oil is at the end, and we have just 2 decades or so remaining so we need to rush finding alternatives...
Is a D-sharp/E-flat played on a piano or guitar closer to D-sharp or E-flat on the violin?
I take it that folk here believe advertisers are parasites and that
I am defending them by suggesting mindlessness rather than malice is
at work.
Why is demolishing an old house and building a new one cheaper then trying to renovate?

Because you have no existing structure to preserve, it's a blank slate.

It is literally impossible for anything we can do to Mars to make it less habitable. There are no moral dimensions, no existing interests, not even any risks due to failure.
Cable Matters, to its credit, does have some discussion of the higher bitrate cables and their availability towards the end of this year: https://www.cablematters.com/Blog/DisplayPort/displayport-2-...
What would the AI's reward function be?
> Most people simply have no time to watch 20 amateurish tutorials just to get basic things done.

There is this tutorial on YT right now: "How to Download and Install Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 Free Trial". It's got 755K views.

Do you really think your YT tutorials argument holds any water? :)
Excellent tool for developers, I use it all the time
Google offers this download link for the PDF, works for me: https://canvas.harvard.edu/files/1871005/download?download_f...
Exactly as in the animal kingdom, the alpha males get to spread their genes around.

Peahens are impressed by the peacocks spectacular tail feathers. Human females are attracted to displays of wealth, power and fame. Elon does pretty well on those scores. Hence the numerous progeny.
Song gets into Billboard Top 100? Song view count on YouTube?

And for earlier stages you can have human raters or similarity with past successful songs.
Back in the days of Delphi, that was trivial. The description of the GUI itself was kept separate (I believe in binary files?) and you basically only used code for interaction/changes. A lot of quite complex apps were written in it before Microsoft and their own stupid decisions basically killed them off.
Agree woth you on the power cable.

It does have exposed GPIO, though! You can see the connector above the CPU and other microchips in the first motherboard picture. This is in keeping with the Odroid Go Super design, which also had exposed GPIO in that location.

The bigger size allows for a much better screen. But I agree that you loose something in pocketability.

I suppose technically you could upgrade the battery yourself. Although a larger battery is at ods with that size constraint.

Eyeballing it, I would guess that you can swap the motherboard out from the previous generation Odroid Go Super, so that may actually be an option.

I don't think I'd want a subscription, but sure some people might go for that.
Like JC said - you can shove your roadmaps where you like, many people contribute exactly because they're sick of roadmaps and product foci.
There’s a message saying “incompatible device”. I’m using an iPhone.
It's more obvious in US NTSC that the PAL being discussed here .... essentially the colour subcarrier was put way out in the high freq part of the luma signal - display - anything with too high a bandwidth and it stomps on the colour - you've all seen this happen on analog TV ... and it has had profound effects on fashion .... let me explain ...

So what does "high frequency luma" mean? it means that the brightness of a signal horizontally along a line goes rapidly from dark to bright and back again - if that happens it stomps on the colour sub carrier and the colour goes wonky.

S-video is just a cable that puts the 2 signals on different wires so this doesn't happen.

So it turns out that the things that are the worst for this are things like checked or p;laid shirts/ties/dresses, tartans, houndstooth jackets etc etc - Think about what happened to fashion in the 70s/80s as colour TV became ubiquitous, people on TV started wearing solid colours, they didn't want to be the person who's whole body was a crawling mess - and people in the rest of the world started wearing the same sorts of styles - all those 50s/early 60s styles with checks and plaids you see on old game shows, all gone, not because of some big change in fashion - but because they could no longer be represented in popular culture.
The website that contains every book ever written
> I was a terrible writer growing up.

And why should I care? Maybe answer that question earlier. At least give me a hint, to keep me engaged. The whole first five+ paragraphs are way too self-centered for a piece that wants to sell something to me.

The way it is written now, you lost me right at the beginning. And I guess I'm not alone in that. If you want more people to give you their email, you have to do better than that.
> Scammers claiming to have the rights to my books commission narrators to record them on the cheap, with the promise of a royalty split when they are live. Inexperienced narrators, excited at the prospect of recording a major book by a bestselling author, put long, grueling hours into recording them. Then the book goes live, and I discover it, and have it taken down. The scammer disappears with the profits from the sales in the interim, and the narrator is screwed.

If I was a narrator, why wouldn't I do a basic search to see if the audiobook exists, or contact the author/publisher to verify ownership rights, before investing all this time and effort because someone said they own something?
> There are Iridium-based two-way messengers on the market without an externally visible antenna.

I currently own a couple and have owned a bunch of other devices in this category. Have you ever looked at a tear down of one of those devices? Now compare that to a tear down of an iphone? Even supposing Apple can design a much smaller antenna, where is it going to fit? What’s the battery life going to be when it has to send messages periodically (until confirmed) at MUCH higher output power?
Feedback from a neural link which indicates satisfaction in the listener?
> You asked for numbers of a population that has no census, I stated that it was significant, which is the point in question. I can prove that those people exist and then it's a matter of threshold. E.g, "how many atoms in that falling piano" -- "enough to kill you if it hits you".

You could have stated all of that without insult.

I probably travel in different circles than you do, but Americans voting from the motivation of "hate" is not in my experience. Short-sighted self-interest, definitely. Way too influenced by partisan propaganda, absolutely. Hate per se, not so much. Whether your experience is truer than mine, dunno. But asking what you meant isn't silly, and if you do it again, I'll end the conversation.

What is in my experience, though, the accusation of hate is often used in one-word partisan dismissal of valid concerns. For instance, rural voters have suffered economic devastation from government policies. They tend to perceive coastal elites as ignoring their concerns. True or not, coastal voters, including nearly all journalists and pundits, all agree with each other that this is definitely not actually true. And let's just say the quiet part out loud: rural people are Jesus obsessed, homophobic, uneducated, gullible, AM-radio-addicted racists. Their voting for Trump is therefore entirely due to white fragility and other irrationality, and there is zero - absolutely zero - valid reason to vote for him. Clinton was clearly the better choice, and any concerns about her were entirely due to sexism and lies. This is all so clear, that any disagreement at all is silly, am I right?
I don't think it was due to limited resources.

GIMP development started in 1995. First version of Adobe Photoshop with adjustment layers was released a year later, in 1996. The notion just wasn't there.
While showing some tourists around a local scenic spot, we were just entering when a couple about 50 metres (yards) away started calling out 'Quick! Quick! Come and see the snake.' So we quickened our pace to see an 8 metre (25 foot) python slowly moving across the path and away into the bushes.

As we walked away, one of us said "Yep. Australians are so blasé about dangerous animals that such a large snake is a cause for excitement, instead of fear."

https://www.9news.com.au/national/scrub-pythons-crash-throug...
It won’t get terminated on AWS.
There are two types of people in this world (well, at least two): Those who dream of underground living spaces or secret hideouts/tunnels, and those who don't. Count me among the former. Thanks for the link!
Elon Musk.

In all seriousness, I do not believe you can achieve the goal in this article with only ten billion dollars, but if you could, the money would be there.
In Praise of Sweat
It's cool and all, but is there an actual use case for the multiplayer aspect?

Feels slightly like the infamous "hacking" scene when two people are using the same keyboard.
https://archive.ph/b00lQ
Hunting for Ambergris in New Zealand
Oh yeah, I forgot the economists had repurposed "investment" formally to mean something useless too. I'm using the word in the informal sense of gaining control of capital, not in the sense of a flow in an economic model. Sorry for not being clear there.

I don't use the word in the sense of S=I because some savings go to things that I don't recognise as investment (because they are value-destructive).

> as compared to what?

Value add. As you demonstrate in your $1,000 example, if S=I the value of both is largely meaningless. The important part of what is happening is the value-add from the manufacturing of the solar panel and the trade itself, neither of which is being quantified by the dollar value.

We can also observe that until the person with the money spends it, the only person who has experienced a material improvement in their life is the person who ended up controlling the solar panel.

Too much capital at the moment is going in to activity that destroys value (I like to cite Uber as an nice example). People learning more about accounting identities just confuses them because they stop looking at whether activities add or destroy value. The technical terms for saving and investment aren't useful for improving people's lives and it doesn't matter if they get them wrong.
Plenty of crypto tokens are inflationary. Some are deflationary. Some are both, based on supply and demand.
My crazy Venusian terraforming idea is to attach mass drivers to millions of kuiper and oort cloud objects, and send them hurtling past Venus multiple times. The gravity drag would slowly but surely spin Venus up to a 24 hour day. Once that is achieved, the asteroids and comets would be used to create a moon for Venus, large enough to cause tides.

While that is happening, create a large shade between the Sun and Venus. This will freeze the planet's atmosphere onto the ground, allowing processing factories to gather up all the chemicals and start creating soil, water, rivers, oceans, etc etc. It would probably take a while for the vulcanism to die down, but the whole process would take millennia.

Like I said, utterly crazy and I'm sure wouldn't work for some flaw I'm not considering. I'd still like to try though!
Why does fretless matter? Doesn’t string bending also let you play off-note tones?
It is just a thought experiment. Terraforming earth is the primary objective of that company.
Start with Youtube, in particular people who describe how to actually build various energy related technologies from wholesale materials. For example Robert Murray-Smith. I would stay away from tech analysis types who just overhype a particular "cool" technology.

Beyond that is extremely costly (capital, labour, time etc). You could look at solar farms or low profile wind energy installs though (e.g. look at improving the wind-type TENGs).
I think that is the delivered cost, not just the cost of the electricity (which is only about 45% of the cost here in New Hampshire).

We have an oil boiler and wood stove. This year and last we added Mitsubishi hyper-heat heat pumps. The wood stove is great, and cheap to operate, but in the ~4 mos. of the shoulder seasons, it often doesn’t make sense to fire up the wood stove (when it’s only cold in the mornings). This is where the heat pumps shine. This winter we will only use the oil heat when the temperature is below 25°F as per this [1] Mass Save site. A bonus of the heat pumps is the AC in the summer, which we now need about 2 mos. of the year.

So we are effectively deprecating our oil boiler. In the next year or so, we may pull out the indirect water heater (which is powered by the boiler) and replace with a heat pump water heater. Then in ~5-10 years when our oil boiler is at EOL, we will likely replace with wood pellets.

[1] https://www.masssave.com/learn/blog/residential/5-tips-to-ma...
I scrolled down on mobile and closed the website because I couldn't see any example
Funny, almost at the same time I published a similar tool on github.
https://github.com/SimonWaldherr/liveCalc
Mine is released under the MIT license and is mostly based on math.js. Suggestions for improvement and pull requests are very welcome.
I recon this Feakonomics podcast includes the answer amongst other interesting related topics: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/mathematician-sarah-hart-on...

It might be worth a listen for anyone who finds the topic interesting, but the answer is obviously already found in the top response too.
Depending on one’s point, it can be argued that listing Google’s successful products is the cherry-picking: https://killedbygoogle.com/
We'll, it doesn't have built-in wi-fi, but I suppose it would work with a USB dongle.

However, an iPad is going to be significantly more powerful than one of these devices; you're probably not going to want compile code and whatnot on one of these.

But sure, it would do in a pinch.
Fund high-impact, firmware reverse engineering, projects
Battery technology as well. Think how just the lithium battery has changed the world...
I have several DP cables, using it with no problems on 2560x1080.
How to figure up which standard they are?
On the contrary, I found starting with a short personal story to be a good way to catch my attention since I could somewhat relate to the author while also getting some context about the actual piece.

And, uh, I don't see the author asking for my email.
I've always felt that user-facing error messages should be simple, clear, to-the-point, and should include a simple explanation how to contact the author, and where to find and send any relevant "user-local" log information which might be helpful.
It is not realistic to generate a virtual card for each purchase. It creates a documentation headache as well, such as handling returns and payment proofs.
Pilates: Flexibility yes, weight loss no
How much mass would you need for ion thrusters to offset that momentum?

It wouldn't be a problem for a species with an active space economy to keep a few satellites at L1. Should the species no longer have active space travel then eventually the planet would be screwed though, but how long is "eventually", and how long would the satellite have to be in place before the goal is met.

As a species we struggle do 5 years projects, let alone 500 or 5000 year projects.
> Second of all, GraphQL forces you to write business logic on the client.

Yes. I may very well have goals that imply pulling some data and doing client-side work that is inappropiate for upstream.

Picking where/when to do work is sometimes referred to as 'engineering'.
are you an evil hypnotist?
Disclaimer: not a scientist.

Part1:

For the sake of the argument: Have you seen evidence of scientific fact-x? (For example x=“water is made of H2 + O”)

Since set of “x” is so wast, no matter who you are, for most of “x” the answer will be “NO”. Time, accessible equipment and brain-capability constraints force us to outsource the evidence check to others. (even smartest scientists read papers instead of reproducing all experiments)

Part2:

I would like to distinguish two meanings/aspects of word “Science” used by in various contexts:

- scientific method - hypothesis, experiment, …

- “institution of society” -distinct group in society, view/expectation by the rest of society, education, trusted sources and similar

Methods of science and religion are very different.
But as “institutions”, they do have some parallels.

- Both offer basic explanation of reality.

- In both cases people trust stuff written by others.

- Both have consistency if you accept some basic truths.

To sum it up:

I (and most) believe that “carbon has 6 protons“ without evidence. The basis of this belief is trust in science (the institution of society) based on its authority, stated principles&process. But in the end laypeople don’t have evidence for that.
at least in Germany after holding 1a you have no tax to pay.
Odin sounds like a nice improvement over C, however this caught my attention:

> If your “dread” of C comes from fear of memory management, then Odin is probably not for you, and dare I say, maybe systems programming is not for you.

I have to say that my dread of C definitely comes manual memory management. The awkward syntax and compilation model I can tolerate. But having your program expose critical security vulnerabilities because you forgot a weird edge case while managing a pointer is really worrying. For simple programs is not that complicated, but for complex multi threaded ones it becomes really hard. And the fact that event the most expert programmers make these mistakes, leaves me not much hope.

So perhaps systems programming is not for me? But what exactly is systems programming? Is it developing OS kernels, writing drivers and embedded microcontroller systems? Or is it more.

I'm not very interested in writing any of those. But I do want to write programs that are fast and run as fast as C or C++, and I want a language which allows good control of resources and has minimal overhead. Sometimes these programs are multi-threaded and quite complex, so I want memory and type safety and I want tools to crate abstractions to tame complexity a little bit. Is all this out of the systems programming definition?
The solution is a language that seamlessly interoperates with C, like Zig does (no FFI, high impedance match with C, cross-compiles C, exports to C ABI, transpiles C, compiles to C).