skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so fast....In Illinois anyway. You cannot do any of that without consent if you use that data for any commercial purpose.

https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=3004&C...

I think anyway, IANAL but I believe this law prohibits the collection of, in this case, images/facial recognition, etc.

So, you can take my picture in public and keep it on your phone, you cannot upload it to say Instagram without my permission, all kinds of recent lawsuits about it. I think the intent of the law is to prevent my picture from winding up in say Instagram without my permission but for sure it cannot be used in the way it was used in the article - to scan it and prohibit me from entering an establishment. Apparently, no matter what state I go to....

https://www.reuters.com/technology/one-us-state-stands-out-r...

It's a complex law and a complex topic in general so I am not 100% sure what is and isn't covered....

edit; spelling
> Because it was mostly advertised wrong.

Wrong advertising makes it a differentiated good?! I bet you believe the BS about holding your iPhone wrongly, too.

Apple is a real cult.
from the videos and articles I was able to find about the amazon EDV, amazon's investment stipulation was for Amazon to get first dibs on having their EDV manufactured and delivered first. Fortunately, it was not an exclusive platform for Amazon, anyone else can order it
Seems like some are fairly open about it. I recall hearing about some trying blood transfusions for example.
> ouch

Really? Sorry. I just meant it's nothing like Liszt or a Chopin Ballade, i.e. unplayable for someone like me.
Show HN: A trivia trainer using D3 and Wikipedia
Except for the part that the people being named speak a dialect of Spanish, not Latin.

So as soon as you have to discuss what they speak, you're bringing in Spain.
Yes, my extremely layman pet theory is that dark matter / energy are the evidence of advanced intelligent civilisations too; just we don't understand what we're looking at yet.
I'd give him credit if he actually did reduce his emissions down to that of an average American.
It seems to have been pretty successful at its intended purpose:

The equation was formulated in 1961 not for purposes of quantifying the number of civilizations, but as a way to stimulate scientific dialogue at the first scientific meeting on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)

Even today, it’s not the end all be all tool but there are still serious papers being published that refer to it.
I don't think that was it. Jobs wouldn't tolerate any other UNIX at Apple except NeXTSTEP. He killed A/UX while still in negotiations for Apple to purchase NeXT. I don't even think Apple worked on those versions of AIX. IBM likely provided it under contract. ANS only ever ran AIX and NetBSD.
The idea of treating sex and theft in the same class of human inevitability is laughable.
> Switching them for an unfamiliar modern device or an emulator will significantly impede their ability to play competitively

Was this used in a tournament? How was it received by the competitors?
Sam Bankman-Fried Signs US Extradition Papers in Bahamas
Don’t the shareholders get their money back with interest if they don’t like the deal? I thought the way a SPAC works was roughly:

- sponsors create a spac selling shares+warrants for, say, $10

- they have two years to merge with a company

- when the merger is sorted, shareholders can choose either (a) to get their money back + 3%, (b) to get their share in the resulting company and discard their warrant, or (c) to get their share and exercise their warrant to buy another share at some potentially good price

- the sponsors get 20% of the pre-warrant equity in the spac’s investment. I think they might have a long lock-out period before they can sell too

- if no merger happens, investors get back their money with interest.

So maybe I don’t understand what you mean, or maybe I don’t understand what a spac is, but isn’t it bad for the sponsors if the shareholders don’t like the merger? Maybe it’s more subtle and it is a lot worse than coming up with a good merger but still better than not doing the spac at all.
> The issue is I as a scammer can create a paid link to any arbitrary URL, including your URL.

Sure, but that was a problem that already existed. People already sell other people's artworks / pictures / etc.. Having to copy a file rather than a link is not a significant barrier.

> Even if I followed a link and expect to be paying, a scammer could also send me a link to the same content. I expected to pay through this site so I go ahead and pay for the content. Since I followed the scammer's link they get paid instead of the content owner.

Presumably you're getting the link from somewhere reputable - the creator's own site, or their patreon/twitter/etc.. Sure, a scammer can create a fake profile to impersonate them - but again, that's something that already happens.
It must be really fun to act so scared all the time.
The reason those other places around the world aren’t broken* is because people had the mentality of putting in hard work toward the future. If everyone shared what you thought and fled at a moment of hardship, the whole world would go to shit really fast.

*your opinion, not mine. I don’t think USA is that bad of a place and I don’t put Australia on a pedestal.
Do or do not.

It’s up to you.

¯\＿(ツ)＿/¯
Lol paying people not to wild out, insanity. Wildin' out is cool to many, being bad is cool and sexy. People will wild out and break any agreements regardless.
I think it depends a lot on timeline and other factors, like China's ability to get key tech/knowledge from other countries.

If they had to do everything themselves, I think it'd set them back longer than a decade.
The Apple I, Apple II and Lisa were not Macintosh computers. The first Macintosh used the 68k processor, and was only 10 years before PowerPC, not 18.
Musk Lashes Out at Unhappy Investor as Tesla Shares Retreat
if you're willing to relocate and not picky there are tons of state/federal programming jobs. couple co-workers got picked up by NASA for Javascript/C++ programming
What about the freedoms you value that I'd cleanse?

I am aware that smoking isn't the same as mountain climbing, it would have been redundant for me to list the same thing more than once. Each of the activities on the list is distinguishable from the others.
In my opinion, Gould had some things that worked for him, but also some that certainly didn't. Like the link you sent, the fact that he's staccatoing the broken chords in the first prelude... Why? It's horrible.

If you want something on the rigid tempo/clear notes end, I would instead recommend this Thomas Schwan recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IImakFsEHL8

But actually if you don't know Bach, I would start with the gentle András Schiff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugc5FZsycAw&t=181s

I agree with the parent that listening to harpsichord recordings does give you something different from the piano recordings.

I don't agree with the expressive pianoforte part, though. As far as I'm aware Bach never left any instructions to that end. Also as far as I'm aware, at the time musicians were expected to breath life into the pieces on their own, deciding tempo, dynamics (sound volume) etc. according to their abilities and the customs at the time. This idea of a piece being set in stone with only one correct interpretation, or at least only small variations allowed, is, I think, a much later idea. You can see it start in say a composition by Chopin that will have detailed execution instructions, and really set in with pop songs in the past 70 years.

As I gather, around the time of Bach there were several different models of both harpsichords and clavichords around in addition to organs, all with relatively different tonal qualities.

If you listen to harpsichord recordings, you'll note that they actually do customize the tempo locally (rubato) to infuse life into the pieces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNQ-sUvSiV8

You cannot vary the dynamics quickly on a harpsichord.

Clavichords are much more expressive, though. You can even make a vibrato (Bebung):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oCGNwDokT0

I think Bach wrote these pieces so that people, including his own children, could play them at home, whether on a harpsichord or clavichord or something else, and I also think he intended the players to use their instrument to its fullest potential. Why wouldn't he? I have a hard time believing he wouldn't himself graduate the dynamics on a clavichord.

I also think that part of what makes his music ethereal is that it actually does generalize over many instruments, even later instruments like the modern pianoforte, but also something like a guitar. You can find guitar players on Youtube delivering Bach that sounds great. He was a master of harmony.
Don't ruin my joke.

I used to date somebody who lived across from the Kenyan embassy in DC. The embassy had a few designated parking spaces, but only until 6:30 PM -- about the time I might arrive for a date.

I liked to think that I was parking in Kenyan territory. I was not, for numerous reasons, but it made me happy anyway. Just be out by 6:30 AM.

(It didn't become Kenya again until 9, but it was a travel lane during rush hour. That's why the spot was always open: the signs were so confusing that nobody wanted to park there first.)
Yup, Everything is a godsend. It also makes it more likely for me to download a portable exe instead of a full install because I can quick search for the exe, where as windows search struggles.
Adjustable wrenches have their uses, but applying the most torque possible is not one of them. If you're limited to buying one type of wrench and you're dealing with small fasteners, you're better off with a set of combination wrenches. If I were starting over I'd look at the now-common ratcheting ones, but I haven't had a chance to try them.

For larger hex things, and for square things, adjustable wrenches work fine. They're much nicer on (hex) pipe fittings than pipe wrenches.

I find the "adjustable" moniker doesn't really create the best expectation of how to use them though, implying that you choose the right setting to do the job and then it behaves like a fixed wrench. Rather on every use, I back the jaws off slightly with the thumb screw, put on the piece, then tighten up while it's on the piece. The more torque I need to apply, the more deliberate I am about making sure the jaws are snug before doing so.

Vise grips are for when you would otherwise use pliers, and want them to latch.
Ruby is still relevant and people are still learning it. There's some good stuff in there (though I agree I don't understand the "built in" claim) and stuff I didn't know after getting back into it after being away from it for a couple of years.
Ask HN: Fun side project this winter break?
I'm a PM with the coding capability of a relatively junior developer.

I fondly remember building toy apps earlier in my career. Like Twitter clients, simple CLI tools, etc.

What's a fun (relatively simple) toy project that you think might be useful? In my day-to-day life/work I don't have that many simple problems that need solving, so having some constraints should be ideal.
Messi Poaches Instagram Record from an Egg
National Parks are just one type of designation. There's 20-plus different designations, and that's just at the federal level. Wikipedia says 13% of the land in the US is protected (which is about 10% of all protected land in the world), but I believe certain designations allow for some level of exploitation (hunting, mining etc).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_areas_of_the_United_...
> it becomes hard to articulate

I read you. What I find helpful is not to trust my own internal perspective on how I think I think. Things become much clearer when I consider more neutral ground, yes, ants, chatgpts, rocks, etc.

So, yes, I still wonder what would be the advantage of a conscious ant, besides
hubris.

> Are we just a more complex version of ants

The same evolution caused humans and ants, that's all. Oak is not a version of orca.

> emergent behavior

This time it's a canonical thought stopper, on the level of "idiopathic disease".
You literally told me that you are a cargo cultist and your words should not to be listened to in your previous comment.

No one who has really tried both would conclude that static typing is better hence I know you are lying. :p
Is IIUC the International Islamic University Chittagong?
It's relative value.
Climate change will result in more rainbows
No I hadn't heard of it, but I need to now. I adore his work. Really need to read Crash again, loved that book before - will see if it hits differently now.
Colin's Barn
I strongly disagree. And not just because copyright in perpetuity is unconstitutional. The value in a rich public domain is vastly under-appreciated. The default position is that IP is not protectable by law, because the free exchange of ideas is extremely important to modern society.

Certainly we have carved out exceptions to that default position, but only for very clear and distinct policy reasons. 1. consumer protection (trademark) and 2. incentivizing innovation and expression (patent and copyright).

The idea that my great-great-grandchildren might want to benefit from my having written a book really does not factor into whether I might write a book. If I'm not incentivized by life of the author + 70 years, I would probably not otherwise be incentivized.

Also, corporations don't pay to extend their copyrights. Other than the money Disney pays their lobbyists.
Fun fact: several computer games in the late 80s used MIDI to support cross computer multiplayer. At the time Ethernet/LAN cards on home PCs were rare, but if you played games you mostly likely had a sound card/MIDI card!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Maze
Absolutely worth the hype, doubly so if your backend is also written in typescript and you can share types. I would say except for very specific cases, you don’t need the complicated parts of typescript, and what you are left with is a lot of defining interfaces/records of what object are. This takes minimal effort to write but pays dividends when you can hover a variable and see the exact type, or the compiler complains about some unintentionally null or undefined value you didn’t consider.
FTX Wants to Claw Back Sam Bankman-Fried’s Donations
Did you add og and Twitter tags? I just shared your link again and no preview
I gather you're getting all triumphant there: "Hah! A contradiction! So there."

Not really, sorry.

"Probability" as in "something you can assign an exact number between 0 and 1 to."

"Probably" as in "I dunno, maybe."
I've got the XS which is even smaller, and has the distinction of being the only wrench I carry with me on MTB/hiking trips, basically an EDC item in the pouch of my backpack:

https://www.knipex-tools.com/products/pipe-wrenches-and-wate...

The mini has still got the pushbutton and dual locking tabs, the XS is more compact, much lighter, and is slightly more complicated to use, but can be used one-handed.

It's fixed a number of problems with skis, bikes, and tents that you might not expect of its size, it will do properly maintained axle nuts and other large fasteners (it prefers 12mm and less, where most wrenches suck, but can do up to 18mm or 3/4"). I carry the 10" pliers wrench in my work tool bag for working on hydraulics, pneumatics, and it's definitely one of my favorite tools, unlike the accursed worm-gear Crescent wrenches...
The name of the twitter account is "نبض الفرات" which translates to "Euphrates pulse". However, you're right that the Twitter bio doesn't have that phrase; rather, in the link you gave it's another CENTCOM disclaimer. It looks like this phrase in the bio was later deleted and replaced with nothing (https://web.archive.org/web/20210506142008/https://twitter.c...), and probably not coincidentally the account is now suspended for breaking the Twitter rules.
Sex encompasses more than the production of some gamete; it includes genetic and anatomical determinants, and it ain't exactly unheard of for those to get out of sync or otherwise produce sexes that are neither unambiguously male nor unambiguously female.

This is also why sex and gender are modernly regarded as distinct from one another, on that note.
yes, it's true, I keep hearing the people everywhere clamoring for their shot at remaking "The Jazz Singer."

(something something blackface)
High failure rate ≠ high risk. Everything with a high upside will have a high failure rate, but working 10 hours on your own startup a week is definitely lower risk than gambling with options (which is what /r/wallstreetbets is doing) or gambling with crypto (even higher risk).

I know people that made low 7 figures last year flipping NFTs, but the risk profile (to me, at least) was untenable. At least in Vegas you get free drinks.
Build a clock with heads-up transparent time display
Unfretted clavichord also works very well for them. IMO even better than the harpsichord, the sound is less grating. There are a few bits that aren't playable on the fretted clavichords of Bach's day, but very few and it can be performed on these (and probably was given how common they were).

There's also an excellent performance on the organ[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBQxfv7IZWA
Exactly. We can now eat the best foods from all over the world, enjoy music, stories, art, all of it.

How very cynical and destructive does one have to be to police that? This movement is miserable.
> it doesn't belong in close contact with humans

You couldn't be more wrong

People forgot this all the time. Wolves and dogs are in --the same-- species. They can interbreed and have fertile pups, so is by definition, the same species.

This means that most extant alive wolves live inside --our-- homes. Think about it.

No other species achieved such closer connection with human societies. Not even apes. If an animal deserves a place close to human societies for mutual benefit is this.
I want off this Elon-owns-Twitter ride it’s not fun anymore :(
The bar for direct listings is not because of the model its because of the costs to go public and be public. Small cap stocks are not what they used to be, and it seems like some process for reducing regulation on small cap stocks seems like it would benefit everyone.
Money is a powerful incentive, but there's a creepy taboo around it's
use to solve social problems.

For example, we have very poor engagement in some universities I teach
at and I've suggested simply paying the students to attend classes.

Of course the chancellors, denes and other jumped-up administrators
think I'm as mad as a box of frogs. But it's they who are utterly
stuck in a tiny world-view, prisoners of preconceptions.
HVAC repair will likely be done by robots within 10 years. It could even be 5 years. So I don't think it would be a long career.

I think that we should plan to create businesses rather than be employees. And to do that we can leverage AIs and robots ourselves to work as _our_ employees.

Studying ML can help you find and apply the AI advancements that you could deploy for your business.

The AI (and within a few years) robots will be strong multipliers for those who know how to use them. So as long as you keep one eye on applications, the CS/ML masters might actually be ideal.
It's more of a psychological experiment, perhaps?
My understanding was that the GP wasn't saying that people should commit violence in the face of such a severe personal and institutional tragedy, but that we have this idea that people in tough enough situations reach a point where they're no longer in a place to act rationally. The surprise is that more people don't snap.
Not sure.

I feel like I'm fundamentally a different person. Like I was dropped into someone else's body. Someone else was here before me and left a bunch of furniture I keep bumping into. :)

But, I know I'm a kinder person than the person before me. Is this spiritual enlightenment? If it is, I might want a refund. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316dtHW_6RE&t=1s
I agree with the main point here, but one thing that has always puzzled me is how to think about what might be called deep collaborative work. Most meetings, especially the status-y kind, are manifestly not "deep" but some of the most intense work that I have ever done has been with one or a small handful of collaborators.
Space-based solar power: How it works, and why it's being considered now
Some 12-15 years ago, every browser would play MIDI files readily.

They were used as ring tones on phones.

Seemingly overnight, that all vanished. I shared a .mid file with someone a few years ago (someone at Google!) and they were not able to play it.
Not bad, but completely skips over the piano-centric nature of MIDI and the ways in which this has hobbled musical creativity for 4 decades (despite the rest of MIDI expanding it). The good parts of MIDI are ... OK, the bad parts are terrible. The best thing about it is really just about the only bit of technology the audio tech world ever managed to agree upon that was license free and at least adequate for some important tasks.

Ever since MIDI, every audio tech company has been convinced that its technology was going to be the next MIDI, and that the licensing fees from it would the ticket to an island of their own. E.g. check the state of audio-over-IP. You can almost hear people saying "I mean, imagine how much [ EDIT: Roland ] & Sequential could have made if they had licensed this!"
IPOs feel like more of a rip-off if you have easy access to private money and so don’t really need to IPO to raise more. Maybe there won’t be as much easy private money going forwards and raising from public markets will look more attractive.

I’m also not very convinced that IPOs are a rip-off FWIW.
Interview with Sean Gugler, Chief Bug Wrangler of Ultima IV Remastered
> some activists really pushed a racial connotation on a term which had none

This isn’t quite right. The term “master recording” itself refers to the master/slave dichotomy and has been used in the music industry with the explicit knowledge of that. Master recordings have also been used by the music industry as tools to assert control over artists. This practice was recently exposed in popular culture by Pharrell Williams.

If “master branch” is to derive from “master recording”, it carries the same racial baggage.
Well, the one I am thinking of is an old-school all-metal belt sander that my grandfather gave to me.

The thing is an heirloom and may very well last forever, but basically has an unacceptable lack of modern safety features at this point. No trips, no guards, horrible ergonomics, weighs a ton, and has no grounding (keep in mind it's all metal). It also takes non-standard belts and I may or may not have cut my hand open twice just trying to change them.

So while I can understand the appeal of buying a tool that lasts forever, what are the odds you will actually want to use it forever?
First, I almost never do this, so whether I can or not isn't really a selling point. That said, emacs+lsp-mode handles this just fine, at least for c++.
All privately owned business work with the government. Ownership of private property means that armed people who work for the government will enforce your claim. If no government employees are enforcing your claim, then you don't actually own the thing you think you own.

Businesses get favors from the government whenever they call the police or are involved in a lawsuit. They help the government when they pay taxes, and when they give information to the police. The BTK killer was busted because T-Mobile shared his information with the FBI. This was considered normal at the time, and is considered normal today.

None of this should be surprising to anyone. It's how capitalism works. If you don't like capitalism that's fine, but you shouldn't be surprised when the capitalist country you live in does capitalism.
A link with images of the new glyphs they discovered in 2019. Looks like they aren’t releasing the full set yet for this find.

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/13057833