skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a professional harpsichord tuner for a few years in college and composed a few things. Modern brass instruments still do not play perfectly in equal temperament in their low range, although good players can correct most of the way with their embouchure. The fifth is only about 2 cents (2% of a half step) off, which is easily correctable, but the thirds are strikingly different - about 30 cents off - which can sound jarring. I think this is the only class of instruments left in this situation (and it only happens rarely) due to the fundamental physics of the instrument.

Also, certain instruments sound different in different registers, so transposing a concerto written for B flat clarinet up a 3rd (for example) might sound very weird if you played it on the same B flat clarinet. That is particularly noticeable on woodwinds, though, which have very distinctive register differences - most people probably wouldn't be suspicious if you transposed a piano or string piece.

Up to the mid 1900s, pianos were actually tuned to play well with brass instruments that needed the preservation of a particular harmonic series - keeping pure fifths between A flat and C on the circle of fifths, for instance, and heavily weighting the remaining pure fifths in the tuning system toward the flat side of the circle of fifths. A popular temperament of the time was named after a guy named "Kellner," who wrote about it in the 1970's I think. Equal tempering is a very recent invention.

In contrast, the baroque temperaments, like Werckmeister and the theoretical renditions of Bach's "well-tempering" have more pure fifths in the sharp side of the circle of fifths, driven by the fact that string instruments would be tuned with pure fifths rather than equal tempered fifths.

I think this change in tuning ideas is why a lot of the saddest and most emotionally profound music of the romantic period is written with 2-4 flats in the key signature, while baroque sadness was often in D minor, A minor, or E minor.
Dollar General is not a dollar store. Traditionally a dollar store is a store where everything costs one dollar. Dollar General is a general store that has dollar in the name.
I started taking L. rhamnosus, just on a whim. The only noticeable effect was that it was easier to get up off the couch, in a literal way. No idea how that works.
There were even pedal versions, so you could practice organ quietly.
<insert food desert>

But you see people with SNAP pushing around carts full of things that aren't eggs and beans and potatoes... and why would they? The maximum monthly benefit for a family of 4 is $939/month, you can buy whatever you want with that.

<insert excuse that poor people can't cook or don't have time or ...>
I'm sure he's a smart guy, but I never got why his exploits-finding made him a kid genius. Isn't the white hat community full of whiz kids? What makes geohot more of a genius than comex? Adrian Lamo didn't even know how to code!
> conspired with Russian

Tell me your indictment is a bunch of lies without telling me your indictment is a bunch of lies. "Russian hackers did it!" is getting really old, when it's obvious now that Russia couldn't hack its way out of a wet paper bag.
The Internet (specifically, the Web and Social Media) is fundamentally different from TV and from video games.
The Generation Ship Model of Software Development (2014)
> If you can qualify for a mortgage, you have a big leg up on people who rent.

This is not always true. Often, the price of real estate outpaces rent. I.e. renting is cheaper than buying.

As a renter, you're not paying property tax, insurance, repairs, maintenance, and maybe utilities.

As a renter, you have no risk. Remember 2008 when housing prices tanked?

Making money off your house often depends on how good a negotiator you are.

Most people neglect to consider transaction costs. For example, you have to pay your real estate agent 6% of the sale price of the house. The house also may sit vacant for many months waiting for a deal, this is all dead weight cost.

The first few years of your mortgage, you aren't gaining much of any equity. It's nearly all interest payments.

A renter can walk away any time. This is why renting is better if you're going to stay less than 5 years.
Fines are deductible in the US?
OpenAI releases Point-E, which is like DALL-E but for 3D models
| There isn't such a vast history to pull from there, how can you justify an analogous nationalistic identity/moral character for it without such a big story?

Well, exactly - that explains a lot of the current political/cultural fragmentation of the U.S. population. Although you can definitely argue that though it is a "short" story in comparison, the founding of the U.S. as a revolution to gain independence from the British Crown to found a state by the people, for the people, with its own constitution and Bill of Rights is a "big" story nonetheless.

As to your other questions - good questions - one could write a whole book (or several) addressing them.
I think the article is speaking more about it being expensive to be poor due to options that are not available.

The "living within their means" examples you give sound like a person having the option of spending less money, but choosing not to (or not being aware they had an option that they did).
> corporate hellscape of the US

For multi-national corporations, global clique analysis of investors, supply chains, competitors and regulators may be required.
Yes. It's very difficult to say anything interesting or revealing about music that cannot otherwise be understood or felt by listening to an intelligent performance. Most people are incapable of describing "the music itself", so most writings on music are biographical, as is the case here. It really makes you appreciate how rare writers like Charles Rosen are.
First thing that came on my mind was The Martian book/movie and How the guy was eating only potatoes.

I need that diet now.
> We had small common framework that everybody used

Python applications seem to benefit from this as well, and I've encountered a surprising amount of resistance to it from other developers. I think everyone has been burned at least once by "over-designing", building too much of the wrong abstraction. But the result is that they are never willing to commit to a common internal framework even long after the need for one has become painfully obvious.

Usually this happens among developers who have been solo developing a project for a while, and see themselves as YAGNI zealots fighting the good fight against excessive abstraction and overengineering.

I understand and sympathize with the sentiment. But when every design decision is ad-hoc and as-needed, it makes it really really hard for external contributors to make changes to the existing codebase. It discourages contributors from "big-picture thinking" and eventually leads to the dreaded Ball of Mud design, with some combination of:

• meandering flow control

• poorly-defined or nonexistent interface boundaries

• inconsistent naming

• lack of documentation, or incorrect documentation and/or comments

• redundant safety checks, or absent safety checks

• poor runtime performance

• difficult-to-test code that freely mixes I/O and business logic, requiring complicated test fixtures, tests that are difficult or impossible to change, and poor test coverage (antipattern and code smell: "idk how to test that, don't waste your time. did you run it on the QA environment and check that it worked?")

I think it arises as a misunderstanding of the forces that lead to overengineering and building incorrect abstractions in the first place. The problem is usually one of expanding the scope of an abstraction or framework too early, not of building the abstraction or framework in the first place.
> What I have read is that a lot of the moderation requests at the behest of the FBI were favorable to biden and democrats in general

> That was a coverup of pretty clear cut corruption and it seems that the FBI ordered

I just re-read files 7 and don't see them claim either of those things, let alone offer proof. There is a lot of insinuation - shared documents (content unknown), and an internal conversation with a guy who USED to be FBI. But no request from the FBI to suppress the story.

In other circumstances the fact pattern might count for something. But when you have an owner with full access to company records trying desperately to make this a Thing, the absence of direct evidence is deafening. Why do multiple days of the dumps keep referencing public campaign contributions, when it would be easy for Twitter to demonstrate a bias in moderation requests quantitatively if it existed? Why focus on Baker if there were any direct requests from the FBI?

The answer is obvious: the truth was boring enough that they had to rely on insinuation to spice it up. All of the leaked info before today is consistent with the public story: Twitter had policies for dealing with the confirmed threat of hack-and-plant interference, including channels for the government to share specific concerns. When a real situation came up, they had trouble figuring out what to do and discussed it.

With all that said, I think this latest dump is newsworthy if not surprising. Everyone expects that tech companies have special policies for the government of the country they are based in, and that governments play psy-ops while decrying each others'. But it's still important to call them on it periodically.
Every tool has a place.

For something like common nuts and bolts - like you might find on a bike - I want one tool to do it all - similar to https://www.amazon.com.au/9-32mm-Adjustable-Spanner-Universa...

Or https://www.knipex.com/products/pipe-wrenches-and-water-pump...

One tool that'd be ok for a variety - but not infinite - of sizes to regular human torque levels.

But I wouldn't use it for plumbing.
> Not sure if you have lived near homeless encampments before. If you know you know.

I'm happy to put it all out there so people can judge where I'm coming from.

I'm not an expert on homelessness, either in a scientific sense or a first-hand one. I have a few long-term friendships with people who have at various points been homeless for a year or more (some traveling, some local to an area). For a couple years, I worked near a few hotspots for where homeless people would gather during the day and/or sleep at night in the downtown of a relatively small city. In college, I often had neighborly chats with the local homeless people who regularly went through the dumpsters in my apartment complex's parking lot. We'd chat whenever we met while I walked out there to take out the trash or let my dog go potty. Shortly after I graduated, some friends (now moved away, employed, and safely housed up!) who were homeless (then as well as when I first met them) moved in with me for a few months when the weather around us was utterly brutal and physically dangerous for them. When it feels safe (and I'm not on my way to appointment), which is pretty often, I stick around to chat a bit when a stranger approaches me to beg or vent about their life or meet my dog or whatever, whether they seem likely to be homeless or not.

I have seen people violently raving to themselves or at passersby, and I have seen people fight viciously over spaces in which to sleep or beg. I've conversed with people who seemed very lucid and insightful in some ways and paranoid or mentally disorganized in others. I have nervously avoided some people who were so agitated and incoherent that it made me feel unsafe. But admittedly, I have not ever lived in a huge city which has truly massive encampments of desperate people.

Over the years, I have talked in depth with people, including presently and formerly homeless people, about housing, employment, physical health, mental health, capitalism, familial rejection/abandonment, drug addiction, etc., and how those things relate to homelessness.

Personally, I think homelessness is a problem that requires a multifaceted approach to make people physically and financially secure, and to embed them in meaningful personal and professional supporting relationships in their communities. I think that approaches to addressing homelessness falling under the broad banner of 'housing first' are humane, scientific, and workable. And to me, access to housing as a public good is indeed way more important than promoting individual ownership of single-family homes (fwiw, like you, I'm a renter who'd rather not be).

But my main point in that remark you're replying to is that it's useless and incredibly tone-deaf to scold someone who is currently struggling with that level of hardship and societal rejection/abandonment for not buying into the prevailing political system, or for having a perspective in which the important similarities between the two parties are more salient than their differences.
> This is why renting is better if you're going to stay less than 5 years.

Sometimes the opposite if you have rent control.

Mine can only pass on property tax increases and capital improvements. As monthly strata fees, interest and repairs go up, they can’t pass any on to me.

At this rate, I’ll never move out!
Terrestrial – A new game for the Commodore 64
> One that elevates critical thinking and reasoned argument, that honors shared experience and individual expression and brings together diverse and global communities to work together for the common good.

That sounds like how the Rationalists do things (stuff like TheMotte and "effective altruism").

I don't think it's really caught on with the wider population.
Also, nobody bragging about their mortgage mentions their down payment. I’d never be able to afford 20% down anywhere on the west coast.
Why would we want DoD budget going to chicago or Baltimore?
Yeah I am surprised how many people are of the opinion that code reviews are easy. Errors like the one you mention are especially hard to catch unless you know what you are looking for.
Lots of times you're better off getting stuff from the thrift store. Lots of lightly used household items, cheap as dirt.
I love BASIC Programming. One of the most captivating things about it for me is the box art: a 1970s future man at some sort of futuristic control panel -- I dunno, maybe he's programming the weapons or climate systems of his domed bubble city. And the message is, BASIC Programming puts the power of what he's doing into YOUR hands. All richly detailed and painterly, like D&D art or other contemporary video game box art. Because the packaging for video games had to provide fuel for the imagination in those days... ultimately you were just guiding a blob of pixels around the screen, your brain had to fill in the rest. The fact that BASIC Programming was so limited, even compared to contemporary alternatives like a VIC-20, just makes the presentation more compelling.
Contracts to fulfill
The article is not about folk tales of "living within your means". It is about paying more for the same thing because of various factors like whether you can afford to transport yourself to a better store, whether you have the space to transport and store bulk goods, or the working funds to afford bulk purchases, and whether your dwelling even has a kitchen or refrigerator.
Death and fusion will both be solved instantly once super human AI arrives.

Possibly because it will kill us all immediately but maybe it will solve those things for us.
But you need to write the Lambda function itself in some programming language. The type of "glue" is less relevant than in the past, sure, but the thing being glued needs to be written as well, and that's often critical business logic.
User since ancient times here: just make a good browser and a good mail client. Figure out a sustainable business model. Skip the rest.
Why do you think your life won't start until you buy a house? It's psychotic how much psychological weight people put on homeownership.
> As a renter, you have no risk. Remember 2008 when housing prices tanked?

As a renter, you have the risk of your rent shooting up year after year as has happened these past few years basically globally.

Housing prices tanking are mostly an issue if you’re planning to sell your house, or you’re one of those people who buy with the intention of reselling. If you bought something in your affordable range and prices drop in half afterwards, well, that sucks, but you’re paying what you expected to pay and missing out on a discount you didn’t anticipate.
Most of the US is not the west coast, and an FHA mortgage only requires 3-5% down and a credit score of someone with a pulse.

That mortgage principal and interest is fixed for the life of the loan. Rent always goes up. Real estate builds wealth because it’s one of the most accessible ways to acquire an asset that historically beats inflation with easily accessible leverage. You can even rent it out after only a year of occupancy (although one can only have one FHA mortgage outstanding at a time).

There is always risk with any asset, but you have to live somewhere; might as well borrow to capture the upside if you’re going to stick around for a bit. If you’re renting, hopefully you’re still allocating cashflow to investments to offset the real estate exposure you’re not getting through ownership.
Yes. It's why there's so many people who wanted to quit Twitter recently, but couldn't. They went and tried Mastodon/Hive/etc, but couldn't adjust to having less followers out of the gate. Their brand exists on places like Twitter. In some cases they need it to make money. But even for users with smaller followings, it's where their largest engagements are. And too many people don't want to give that up and start over. The venue for their current brand has to seize to exist before they'll move.
> Land isn’t zero-sum

Yes it is. There’s only a finite amount of land in the world, and the fact that you own some means someone else can’t.

> Do you think currency will eventually restrain growth, despite being (mostly) created by fiat?

There’s no “game” in life where the end goal is having currency in the economy. In the end currency is a means to an end (even if we may forget that). Land is one part of that end, and there’s only a finite amount.
It depends what you think the purpose is. I'm quite happy to have a tool that can assist me rather than replace me.
So are we finally getting Google+ back?

Or another Twitter clone?

That said, when it comes to Mozilla I'd prefer if they fix some long standing issues on the browser, from the top of my head:

- fix the API so I can use Tree Style Tabs without crazy hacks again.

- fix the dev tools so it copies the full token even if it has been shortened in the UI.
Because if you’re rich enough, you don’t need any.
It's worth noting that Raph Levin (who this letter was a reply to) tackled many of the same problems that plague social media these days with the wonderful but now sadly mostly forgotten Advogato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato
There is a SDF renderer in Taichi Lang examples: https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi/blob/master/python/taic...

Not so short as OP's version(46 lines vs 171 lines), but it renders a nice looking image: https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi-release-tests/blob/mast...
I haven't watched it yet. I doubt they replaced the music, since it IS about a radio station.
I use Focus on macOS to block 100+ sites Monday through Friday.
To be fair, this is common among most of the big banks in the US. In my opinion, they do not cater for poor people and only make sense if you make $50k+ in transactions with them per year.

Case in point: I have a WellsFargo account. It was mostly dormant for 4-5 years with enough cash to avoid the penalty fee. In the last year, I used it for most of transactions (doing $10k+/month at some points). I got my credit card limit upgraded in a short amount of time (by around $5k). I was out of the US, and needed a new credit card. WellsFargo contacted me (got back to me) shipped a new card overnight overseas for free and waived the fees for the credit card and gave some credit/gift things.

I mean completely different experience?
people won't get out of poverty working at amazon warehouses. America has always had enough money to do whatever it wants. We could spend money in Ukraine and Chicago if we cared to, but we just don't. This country will never solve the poverty problem, as there is no real interest in doing so to any significant level by those who could solve them.

Universal free health care, like the rest of the modern world.
Free Education, like much of the modern world.
An effective and cheap transportation system like most the modern world

Those things would make a pretty big impact. America doesn't believe in such things. It won't happen. America believes in the lottery system (not just thru tickets). You have a chance to be rich beyond your wildest imagination. But almost certainly won't be. and if you aren't, hit the road.
Gusto lowering their Cash Accounts APY from 3.49% to 1.00%
Gusto just released that they are lowering their APY for their Cash Accounts dramatically from 3.49% to 1.00%. If you are using it, switch to something like wealthfront or anything else. This is atrocious with interest rates where they are.
A poor renter often can not walk away any time as easily as a home owner.

First and Last months rent is often a deposit, and when you don't have credit is a minimum, 30, 60, even 90 days notice (and the naive or people who can't take a phone call, research laws, or just don't have time) will sometimes pay more.

In effect, poor, don't have credit, then lost deposits + new deposits could be worth more than a down payment.

Oh, and those with credit might have gotten down payment assistance (with forgiving), or a low% downpayment - and their worst loss is that downpayment and 7 years of bad credit; plus it takes a lot longer to evict a delinquent mortgage than a delinquent renter.
And to add more continuity to the circle, here is a short memorial I posted to Advogato on Dijkstra's death, just over 20 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20170629060656/http://www.advoga...
Even though I’m not deaf or hard of hearing, I find myself using captions more and more when I consume video content. I don’t think I’m alone in that. I saw something a while ago that tracked this as a broad trend. Today’s accessibility is tomorrow’s usability.

I also work on player stuff with OP and learned a lot in this process.
You elide the impact of a stable two parent home.

No doubt education, hard work and grit are also at work here, but the facility of two incomes, two people to split housework and childcare duties are an enormous boon. Statistically, two parent married families who have children after high school are almost never below the poverty line.

I offer that as descriptive and not proscriptive - I don’t know the solution. But I know two parents in a stable household make it much easier.
I too think that unfortunately, this is what will happen. There's practically no chance of Firefox for iOS making significant headway.

The only silver lining is that this might land Google in an antitrust lawsuit that forces them to spin Chromium and Blink off into a Mozilla-like nonprofit with wholly independent leadership, which is about the best outcome possible in a single-web-engine world.