skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m quite interested in expanding what can be done with digital and programmable music/accompaniment, but I’ve never knowingly sent MIDI data over a physical wire, only software interfaces. So, grain of salt…

I think MIDI is very well suited to build on top of, without needing to change the spec. Most if not all of what you discuss can be built in software (and hardware! but it might need to be purpose built for some tasks, which is admittedly a weakness of the aging spec) with MIDI’s existing features.

Importantly, I think that can be done without introducing ambiguities that would require end users to pierce the abstraction layer. (I say this as someone who works on projects rooted in a relatively younger but also old-by-today’s-standards spec, with very good abstractions built atop, but breaks down for certain use cases in ways that came up just today in my weekly check in.) Granted being such a small, low level target means it’s easy to get those abstractions wrong. But as someone might say of a house, it’s got good bones. A motivated person with the right tools and skills can do incredible things.

I’m not sure that’s a compelling argument that MIDI objectively should remain unchanged for the better part of a century. But it’s compelling enough I’d scrutinize any proposal to revise for its thorough in-spec alternatives.
Why would anyone continue to give Wells Fargo business at this point? Rates between various banks are competitive. It seems like the deciding factor in which bank to choose is how well they treat their customers, which WF fails miserably at.
It is also the first company in history that has patented Wagie Cage for their workers

https://ifunny.co/picture/wagie-cage-9000-improve-worker-pro...
Or it was this: https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/160459985556060569...

> Btw follow me on Instagram in case I get banned here, you know how to find me

> If saying that is banned, this isn’t somewhere I want to be anymore. That’s so far from free speech.
Interesting project, although in all likelihood vast amounts of people crave toxicity, popularity contests and flamewars. Kinda like how school bullying appears everywhere, independent of culture.

That doesn’t mean that healthy places cannot exist or thrive, but it means that there will always be demand for the unhealthy. Tech impacts society, but we’re mistaken if we think we can change human nature.

I’d expect the outcome of the research to reach a different conclusion than people expect. For instance, I don’t think the typical system of likes and followers will ever be healthy. Beware of early results though, because it always takes a while for a platform to mature enough to see if it withstands the test of millions of users, socially speaking.

My WIP theory is: people-oriented public broadcast mediums always deteriorate towards the unhealthy with massive scale. You can have one or the other, but not both. (People oriented means that there is a strong focus on the people, usually with real name and face, or emphasizing the user/display name)

Anecdotally, to illustrate the point:

- LinkedIn became a cesspool despite having a professional boring focus. My theory: because it’s people-oriented and public.

- Group chats have thrived and are very rarely problematic, despite likes and reacts everywhere. My theory: private groups with implicit trust. No need to build your personal brand.

- GitHub has not deteriorated (a bit perhaps, but very much usable still), despite having likes, being a public broadcast medium. My take: it’s because it is mostly content oriented.
Squeegeeing isn't speech, it's an act. The First Amendment protects it no more than it protects the act of armed robbery.

The First Amendment protects "Sir do you have any change?"
I doubt you'll see active nazi parties on most popular platforms.
Some works from that era still have publishers enforcing the copyright wherever they can. I remember some disputes about the Sherlock Holmes books which expired in life + 70 countries but were still under copyright in the USA.
Then one day you fart on an airplane and are no longer able to fly due to being a "troublemaker" that people wouldn't want to sit next to.

A community of people aren't built around absolutism. They are built around give and take.

You can't have your best day, every day.
Figured it out.

I found if you make a new developer account and application, you can fill out the Elevated credentials form and you will be automatically accepted (no waiting or manual process). This will get you access to the premium v1.1 API sandbox. You get 50 queries in there against the full history endpoint, which I used to grab all tweets replies to my account since the beginning.

No recursive replies but meh, better than nothing
For a rhythmic workday, you can try using Pomodoro with other people at the same time like here: https://remoteyo.com/
Native Excel on macos isn’t bad. I’m on an M1 and it’s slow to start initially, but once loaded it’s fine. Better than any web version.
There are too many homes out there that might escape being owned by some absent financier. This'll help bring them to heel.
But Paul said Musk was smart.
> How do you debug/reason about this?

Debug? You don’t. You have to break your sexy chained-functional-style 1-liner into a “boring” multi-line loop to actually set meaningful breakpoints and work through any problems that may arise. Which is why I dislike this style of code — once something goes wrong, it’s WAY more cumbersome to debug and almost always makes you “unroll” it into its boring, “classic” form. And, of course, once you do that, you’re now debugging something DIFFERENT than what’s shipping in production! And you have to be extra careful to ensure that all of the logic has been kept the same, lest you ship a patch that doesn’t actually fix the bug! This is my prototypical “what programming is NEVER about” example: programming is never about how pretty the code is. Programming is about shipping features, and then being able to diagnose and fix problems with what you shipped.
Although I agree with this to a big extent, washing silverware is not without a toll on the environment either. You also must worry about the hygiene and the chemicals they use to wash it - recently there was a post here about the toxicity of dishwashers. Not that plasticware doesn't come with microplastics pollution and hormonal disrupting chemicals though.
> I strongly suspect that you may not have a relationship with the people who this language impacts.

In society we have come to a collective understanding that “I’m not racist; some of my best friends are black” is an invalid dismissal of a person’s potential for racism.

Somehow, however, we have also decided that if someone does not have a sufficient quantity nor quality of relationships with black people, then that is a strong signal of racism.

Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.
I have one here and it is an amazing machine. Mine is about a decade old, bought at a very steep discount compared to the new ones, but it is in mint condition, whoever owned it first hardly ever used it. My first experiment was to hack a disklavier mechanism into a rickety old grand piano, and while that worked it did not give me the recording capability and a good action so after two years of tinkering I bit the bullet and bought the real thing. Amazing to mess around with that, I wished there was more time in a day. I also use it to test my software on and it's always fun to see people that can play well realize the kind of tricks that you can pull with it.

It's also a bit eerie, to see long dead pianists play from rolls converted to MIDI files for instance, it really has a 'ghost in the machine' kind of feeling.
How about a combo of the two, the locking crescent wrench?
https://youtu.be/WNTC91TKcMg
Absolutely doable and it's a fun exercise. Mastodon is probably overkill for a single-user instance, there are other ActivityPub services that do not need Postgres+Redis+Ruby etc (pleroma, microblog...).

ps: as I found out while setting up my own server, diaspora is its own thing, it can't federate with ActivityPub services.
I wonder if it would just be possible to run a nixos module instead. Like using services.nginx...
Is money laundering with crypto even a large percentage of it? A public fully traceable blockchain isn’t great at that…

https://cryptoslate.com/money-laundering-0-05-of-all-crypto-...

Every exchange has kyc rules. Sure people can fake the kyc but we are splitting hairs here.

We absolutely have to have crypto to avoid the dark maelstrom that is CBDCs.

https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/21584/the-risks-to-soci...
Why should crypto be exempt from the regulations applied to other financial institutions?
Either Gerald Cotten is alive, or someone else has access to these wallets. I'm guessing the latter, but who?
I continue to use knemo for this purpose.
I reactivated my account just to make that vote. Then I heard he wanted to put democracy behind a price wall, then I heard his ego couldn't spell hubris.
I struggle to find use case? It seems to inherit MIDI flaws and...not be compatible with it aside from maybe making MIDI device that sees it do something funny ?

Like, the MIDI format is pretty elegant and easy to decide but why inherit limitations of 14 bit numbers and continue using "sysex" as kludge to drive everything ?

Keep the format of <command><channel> (really, <channel><command> is probably better for decoding but whatever) but then instead of the silliness of 7/14 bit encode rest of the parameters properly
we dont have that atm?
> no possible option for any standard negotiation between devices.

While I agree for ease of designed use, I also think that’s one of the fantastic features of MIDI, because it makes it possible to use participating devices in novel ways, never anticipated by their manufacturers.

For example, I sometimes use note pressure messages (a.k.a. polyphonic aftertouch) as a second set of 127 control change messages, rather than their documented design intent.
I mean you’re a gen X-er, it makes sense that you have zero idea what people that graduated college in 2008 went through. For context, people that had degrees in comp sci were working as Best Buy’s Geek Squad.

On the bright side, you timed the dot-com dip perfectly!
It's Gary Marcus, again, as always and as ever, criticizing other people's work as "machines that manipulate data but aren't really intelligent."

He's been on HN many times before, always criticizing the same things:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

As far as I know, all he's ever done is criticize, without ever delving into the mathematical details.

To understand those who disagree with him, read "The Bitter Lesson" by Rich Sutton:

http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

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EDITS: Modified and rearranged sentences to reflect more accurately what I meant to write the first time around.
- nondescript building

- weird security

- hard to get ahold of anyone to interview

Yeah, I'm thinking OpenAI are going to be in the news fairly soon regarding their operations.
>> there is a very clear line: either your business place welcomes the general public, or it does not.

> I run a home business. Does that mean the general public are free to enter and roam around my home office?

So you're in the second case. What's complicated about this?
You know, you don’t NEED to qualify every slightly negative comment about Rust (especially when the comment is made in jest)
Freeze rv: segment in Firefox UA string to 109 to avoid erroneous IE11 detection
Came here to note the article makes no reference to MIDI 2.0.

"There’s no MIDI 1.1"

That was both its strength and its weakness. It took 40 years of MIDI consortium bureaucracy to evolve and agree upon the MIDI 2.0 spec.
Greenpeace is an anti-science group that does harm to what they claim is their cause. This sort of thing doesn't surprise me.
Well, the comment is about Firefox not improving their browser and instead doing other things; I imagine the comments will continue until Firefox commits to improving their browser instead of doing other things.
You touch on a couple of issues.

The first is that civilizations tend to be short-lived. There are only really two ways out of this: they wipe themselves out or they somehow "transcend". "Transcending" is a trope of sci-fi (eg David Brin's Startide Rising series, the Iain M. Banks Culture series) but it's very handwavy. We really have no conception of what that might be. Living in the quantum world? Higher dimensions? This is really the sci-fi version of godhood.

As for wiping ourselves out, that's becoming increasingly harder. We are currently in the latter stages of it being possible to wipe out humanity, despite all the talk of Armageddon. If would really take a large cosmic event at this point. I'm talking the Earth being hit by a truly massive object, the kind that puts the dinosaur-killing asteroid to shame.

Things like nuclear war, biological wars, disease, etc could be truly devastating but kill every last one of us? Easier said than done. It would really take making the Earth truly uninhabitable.

Now another K2 civilization currently has the ability to wipe us out by virtue of the huge amounts of energy they have. Two talked about forms are the Nicoll-Dyson beam (quite literally, turning the energy of a star into something that would bather the target in radiation) and relativistic kill missiles.

Barring some major disaster, in 1000 years this is unlikely to be the case, particularly if we reach other stars.

Of course there's something we might not be able to conceive of but this too feels very handwavy.

The second thing is the Fermi Parai Paradox itself. You can argue that not every civilization goes the Dyson Swarm route or even continues to grow. Some might fade into irrelevance. There are a bunch of possibilities. But we're not concerned with what's likely or expected.

Imagine if there were 5 civilizations in the Milky Way. What are the odds that none of them become K2 civilizations and surviving long term? There's some nonzero possibility. But what if there were 1000 civilizations? As N gets higher the probability that zero of them become long-lived K2 civilizations starts approaching zero.

We look around us and see... nothing. That doesn't mean there's no one out there but it looks increasingly likely the galaxy isn't teeming with spacefaring life. I, for one, think it's most likely that we are the only spacefaring civilization in the Milky Way, at least within our light cone (which means much the same thing).
Don’t forget storage: that’s pricey in urban environments and elsewhere it is often is a considerable part of overall housing costs unless land is basically free.
That's the problem. If you want to make something that isn't piano like, you run right into a brick wall -- there's no way to send the note information you want to send in a way that's understood by any random MIDI synth. That makes it much more difficult to be successful.

Recently expressive instrument makers have settled on MPE as a workaround. That works, but it's kind of kludgy and isn't widely supported. You can also use an MPE-like approach on synths that don't explicitly support it as long as they're multitimbral.

Unfortunately there's a lot of amazing synths out there that aren't multitimbral.

Recent controllers that use MPE include the Linnstrument, the Roli Seaboard, the Haken Continuum, the Expressive E Osmose, and the NuRad wind controller.
Unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud? He really is a Republican.

(Yes, this comment will probably be flagged and removed. I stand by it.)
It recommends removing video recommendations. Does anyone know a way to do that with the YouTube app?
This is a recent paper I thought was really intriguing using Answer Set Programming for a synthesis problem with some very promising sounding results compared to an SMT based approach.
http://www.weaselhat.com/2022/11/07/asp/
She really hates "anonymity-enhancing technologies". It's not your money, it's a tool for leverage. Anything outside of the CBDC system is a threat.
How dare you! :-)
My thoughts about surveillance and such in the world at large may well be wrong or naive, but I'm pretty sure I am not the one being black and white here. I think, in order to tell me off like you want to do here, you should say I am too equivocating of things, that I am not black and white enough!

You could be like "you see some particulars and generalize too quickly, countries do live and die by principles, not 'efficiency' or abstract incentive. You're turning everything grey, and forget that there is light and darkness, good guys and bad guys, black and white." That seems to be what you want to say to me, no?
Does he need to develop an AI system at all in order to have a valid opinion, though?
> it carries the same racial baggage.

Which race? You mean white people, right?
So we should subject all works to extreme copyright lengths on the mere off-chance that a tiny fraction of them might still be making appreciable amounts of money decades later? Looks like a total non-starter.
IME they have their uses if you do a lot of mechanical stuff. The smaller ones don't work well because of the poor tolerances involved but the larger ones are indispensable for "field work" where they work just as well as large combination wrenches for most tasks and one wrench is easier to carry around than a dozen.

I use one for changing the blade on my table saw.

They also double as a hammer if used wrongly enough.
I wonder if this relates to how comfortable people are with silence? Sometimes one or the other person can feel anxious in the presence of silence because it does not fit the profile of "work being done".
Adding a bunch of noise to that situation is less than helpful.
I disagree on a number of levels, but especially because big tech valuations were propped up by QE over the past 10 years, Tesla being the poster child there. But Amazon, Google, etc. have all been impacted by macro elements. So that “TC” people brag about has been heavily subsidized by the FED.

The irony of calling me naive when not even understanding macroeconomic effects is… something.
The community here is good in spite of, not because of, the moderation. The dang-era changes to "increase civility" have predictably lowered the quality of discussion - just look at threads from 10 or even 5 years ago and compare it to the barely-better-than-Reddit discussion we see now. For now there's still some legacy of the good old days to be found here, but I don't expect to stay much longer.
No the vast majority of money laundering is cash. CBDCs will be used to fight that in the next 20 years.
Well that characterization is a bit farfetched, but not completely.

You would have to equate "em surveillance" with all radio (that is em after all), and coverage of course varies by location.

As for inner speech and bodily actions that does go too far because its much simpler, and has little to do with the other.

They use a combination of psychological blindspots, mass media, and indoctrination to influence the latter. It could be as simple as a sound that previously was associated with a dopamine hit, or other conditioned response. Cialdini wrote a book on the subject covering the most common blindspots.

As for the rest, that's a bit off the rails sir.
'I’m legally female. But I have facial hair. I have a penis. I have no breasts. I don’t have a feminine voice. I don’t wear makeup or dress up like a female.'

Quite the interview!
Probably one of the main differences would be due to re-digesting the MIDI back into sound. I think Zenph's tech actually plays the piano and physically records it. For MIDI, you'd probably use samplers like NI's Kontakt, and while the huge amount of collections available on that platform definitely are closer to real-world sound and variability, if you're just bouncing the raw to audio without re-recording in a physical space, there's probably at least some number of people who could tell the difference. I think there are physical modeling-based VSTs and instruments available, but it's been a really long time since I looked into that space.

The biggest difference is that I'm sure if you introduced Gould to the world of MIDI and DAWs he probably wouldn't stop fiddling with it for months or years. Even back in the 60s and 70s I think he was well known to obsess over his recordings, and his practice of occasionally splicing performances to get the best from each take was/is pretty controversial. The irony also being that he was notoriously a pain to record because he often sang overtop his playing.
idk, i just assumed that pycharm would be optimized out of the box for python, so i never bothered with intelliJ
No publisher would want to sign a contract with an author that isn't likely to live much longer. It needs to be either a fixed amount, or Life + something.
It was initially signed as a standalone agreement 150 years ago for the sake of reciprocity - rightsholders in different European countries were unhappy with pirate publishers over the border selling their works without payment.

Today though pretty much everything in the Berne Convention is part of agreements you have to implement to join the World Trade Organisation, which is a pretty big motivation to abide by it.
Which is basically my point!
> They can easily be automated to generate misinformation at unprecedented scale.

> They cost almost nothing to operate

These two in combination scare me the most. We still fall for email scams for cryin out loud.
Copyright enthusiasts have done their best to have the 50 or 70 year term written into as many trade agreements as possible, e.g., WTO.

However, the US probably has enough weight that other countries would just have to adapt if it wanted a shorter term, but at present there's no evidence of much political efforts for one.
I've been fascinated how US society allows people to be so loud everywhere. For folks like me who prefer silence and peace it can often be a drag, and more stressful than otherwise.
Critically reflecting on the harms of social media is a commendable effort. But I think this analysis and the implied conclusion is superficial and misguided:

In private hands our choice is limited, toxicity is rewarded, rage is called engagement, public trust is corroded, and basic human decency is often an afterthought.

On a platform that is not centralized but consists of smaller competing providers, the incentives are the same for each provider: to maximize engagement. And given our current experience, the most effective way to do it is to incite anger and fear.

Decentralization does nothing to address the core problem.
> government will bail out any perpetrators of fraud

What’s an example where this happened in the past?
Unless I'm reading your reply incorrectly, you absolutely could do the same thing. (You are referring to managed hosting solutions, right?)

https://growyourown.services/making-your-own-mastodon-server...

This website has some instructions and pointers that might be helpful.
Is it really true that previous generations didn't have to sacrifice to buy homes? That seems patently false to me.

First, previous generations were significantly more thrifty which meant more cash on hand. Don't believe me? Let's say you save 30 bucks a day starting at 20 (most of us can easily do that by controlling how much we eat out) - that means you have 110k in your bank for a down payment on your 30th birthday (ignoring interest). How much of the current generation thinks that way and cares about saving 30 bucks a day?

Second and perhaps more obviously - our parents generation and their parents traded off affordable housing for long commutes. They weren't buying 3 bedroom apartments on park avenue, they bought 3 bedroom houses in the burbs and commuted an hour+ each way every day.

Compare to that, your options of working remote or living somewhere basic for a bit sound obviously better.

If you aren't willing to trade off what you want long term for something you can give up now, you won't have anything. And neither would anyone in a previous generation.