skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started piano about the same time too. I was a non-reading player of other instruments before though, and I wanted to use piano as the instrument to properly guide me along my musical theory path.

Yes, it's a slow journey. Repetition is key. And even though I still considered myself a slow learner, my teacher has been quite hands off these days whenever I am given a new piece. He would still put in the fingering, but he no longer put in what the notes are, like he would when I first started.

And the discussions also changed a lot, from the beginning, when I was struggling to even identify what the notes in different triad are, to now about how much tension different chord progression and how to resolve them properly.

I still have plenty to learn, but generally sticking with the ABRSM standards. Already on theory equivalent to grade 5 now.

Yes, I did try other learning tools, like flashcard, or even asking ChatGPT to come out with pneumonics. But I find repetition is still better. And plenty of rest.

The priority as an adult learner would never be about trying to be the next prodigy. Internalise the learning process and take it slow. Sometimes you need to slow down to move fast.
Google is busy riding the Kodak roller coaster off a cliff. Maybe they'll save themselves, but they're not doing a good job so far.
Non-"mobile" link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
Speed, scale, and efficacy all matter tremendously, of course.

Something I've become exceptionally aware of in the past decade is that virtually every previous major shift in communications or informational capabilities has come with enormous disruption.

Several of those occurrences were within the previous century. We've seen two or three in the present as well, so far.

The concept is at the core of Elizabeth Eisenstein's work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, though that of course touches on only one such revolution itself.

Previously: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34906482>
Chlorine absolutely gets in the air, can’t you smell it?

Bleach should be applied with ventilation in mind.
I mean they launched a YC-funded company that will soon be replaced by a "Usage" dashboard and some admin settings over at OpenAI.
Interestingly, Steve Huffman has gone on record at least 5 years ago stating that he will continue use to ensure i.reddit.com is supported. I think he said it in an AMA shortly after he became CEO. I figure as long as he is still at the helm it will continue on.
Yeah I have no idea about the downvotes. Internet forums gonna internet forum, I guess.

In seriousness, and without snark, I would like homeschooling to become more common explicitly because I think the US is failing so many kids (from a social perspective). Bullying is crazy, and social-political nonsense is making its way into textbooks. Not to mention the school shootings.

I think for many kids school is fine. But, speaking as a person whose schooling experience was specifically _not fine_, I would like it to be more normal to have other options.
So you’re saying that if I can hurt you and get away with it, then that would be basically okay?
NWA had it right 35 years ago: https://youtu.be/ADdpLv3RDhA
It never works like that with tech. Especially not this kind of tech, where all the building blocks have been around for some time and are well-understood - just not the result of combining them at this scale.

In any case, if it's really that powerful, limiting it to one government sounds like a recipe for the worst kind of a one world state to me.
As a reasonably well-educated conservative, I am willing to listen to ideas from those that see things differently that I do. However, these extremist neo-fascists that want to shout down, disrupt, censor speech they don’t like.. the whole “cancel culture” concept.. all of that makes be very disinclined to care about any of their viewpoints when I might otherwise be open minded to their arguments.

When the “debate” includes some form of how racist or transphobic, or hateful, or privileged I am, then anything after that is going to be ignored because I am neither racist, transphobic, or hateful, so when my ideas are attacked as such simply because I don’t agree with neo-Marxist ideas of government and society, then it’s clear there is no point in listening any further.

Why am I going to take lessons on racism, sexism, or any other -ism or -phobia from those who judge me entirely on my skin color and my gender? Why should I care about the ideas of those who hate me?

My point here is that these children and their supporters who think they’re going to “win” by smothering the other side are hastening their own irrelevance. You don’t win hearts and minds by punching people in the face (figuratively and literally.)
My impression is that, among humans, there is a somewhat positive correlation between intelligence and benevolent behavior.
(But I would expect the tails to come apart somewhat.
Also, among non-human minds I wouldn’t necessarily expect this to show the same pattern.)
For context, this is how it worked in old-school UNIX. If you look at (for example) SunOS, the kernel ABI is undocumented and everything in userspace depends on libc. The OSes and userspace languages of the day were deeply coupled -- C was the language of UNIX.

You can still see the remnants of this design in macOS, except instead of libc it's libSystem. Apple has decoupled their OS from C (in favor of Objective C, then Swift) but the idea of a userspace entry point to system functionality survived.

Linux is different from traditional UNIX because it's a kernel-only OS. There's no "Linux libc", and third parties have written multiple implementations of the C standard library that run on Linux. The only way this structure can work is for the kernel itself to provide stable ABI, and the standard approach at the time (mid 90s) was numeric syscall codes with positional parameters.
I have been long expecting a daemon that picks up scattered config files and make soft links to ~/.config
The answer is most as most code on github doesn't have a license.

Copying a song from the radio to a digital file is a copyright issue and it doesn't matter in what format it's store. In this case it's stored as tokens. Same as copying a song to a computer.
It totally might.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQcST-jdl7U

I don't want to be inflammatory but it's hard as hell to see this and not think "garbage country".
If anything, the Linux approach has proven to be superior -- glibc has had multiple breaking changes over the years and to this day users will resort to Docker to run binaries that depend on "old" glibc, but programs written against the Linux syscall ABI twenty years ago will run fine to this day.

Windows takes the opposite approach (except that the libraries are gdi32/kernel32/ntdll/user32/etc.), and it's definitely an example of backwards-compatibility done well.
i don't see how the usage of different written `ta` "ruins" anything. how anyone can not see how the events of may 4th and the inclusiveness of women (as a hallmark of young socialist movements) are related is beyond me.

makes total sense to have a way to express the femininity of a person in the written language as an outspokenness to the existing social order. and it caught on, and the entire sino world uses it, so it must have some use.
It can invent words, and then correctly use them to compose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35268950
Then I don't understand your comment.

Grandparent said "this is how cities die" related to remote working and emptying the downtown core - as is happening SF.

You then said "This is how cities -- cities without commercial on street level and residential above, cities where you need to own a car -- die."

The topic is San Francisco. So am I to read your comment as completely unrelated to the topic at hand?
Yann LeCun has major blind spots in his worldview about AI
Modern banks like Revolut have this as literary part of their UI.

They use some simple ML to figure out which are you recurring payments, place them in a separate folder for you to keep tabs on and allow you to unilaterally stop any “future payments like that”.

I mean on top of tech like virtual cards and chargebacks with a few clicks.

It seems so simple to implement I have no idea how its not a standard feature for banks these days.
TSA Redefines Physics, Says Peanut Butter Is a Liquid
Similar. I got badly injured. Gym said I could only cancel in person. Was not possible. Played me off between gym and corporate for several days. Went ballistic on all social media, review sites etc. wrote some emails shaming them. Charged back from bank.

They finally agreed to cancel remotely.
I am sympathetic to you opinion, but think you might benefit from a more nuanced ways of communicating free speech.

Check this out :
https://popehat.substack.com/p/clarifying-some-common-first-...
This country was founded on checks and balances. We are missing that in regards to police nationwide.
> There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is.

> LLMs aren’t just the biggest change since social, mobile, or cloud–they’re the biggest thing since the World Wide Web. And on the coding front, they’re the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow, and may well eclipse them both.

I use ChatGPT pretty regularly but it is beyond my understanding how people can make such strong statements about the future so confidently based on the information we have now. This prediction may well come true but the justification for it is pretty vague. Sure AWS used to be a small demo and now it very useful and worth a lot of money but you could apply this example to anything and not every technology has a similar success story. Anyone who is this confident about the future is trying to sell you something. In this case it looks like Sourcegraph's Cody.
Apple does not have the queries that their users enter into spotlight, They dont have all the results it returns.

You dont spawn a network request on every local search on an apple device.
Reading over many of the comments here makes me sad.

Many of them seem to be about what I, the developer, can use.

Let me reframe it — what if you thought of FP techniques as something you could expose to a user of your API?

What if you viewed all your work in a language as a language. Borrowing concepts like affine types (aha, rust!), dependent types (hello, Agda!), composition (from pipes to combinators, this one is everywhere!) is important.

Strictly procedural or OO concepts might be useful in an implementation, but it rarely helps the user.
It should read "here's an API", of course.
> > The amount of hashpower needed to create long chains of valid blocks would require deep investments into ASICs, on the order of billions of dollars.

> You say “on the order of billions of dollars” like that’s a lot of money. For significant national governments, it is not.

It isn't, especially with a country that has access to their own effectively bottomless currency like the USD. However, such an expenditure on such a large scale would be noticeable in terms of power draw & cutting-edge ASIC/silicon manufacturing purchases, the latter of which is currently booked to the brim by Apple, Nvidia, AMD, and others.
For traditional instruments, the standard 5-line stave is generally sufficient. However, when incorporating multiple instruments in a audio workspace that may require different types of staves, attempting to display all the notes can result in a chaotic and confusing visual representation. To avoid this issue and ensure better readability, it is more practical to simulate the notes like MIDI notes, which can effectively accommodate various instruments without overwhelming the user.
> And cost effective training and inference silicon is a moat, because its Physical, and like literally One Company on the planet makes it,

I got Nvidia on my paper. Did I do the math wrong?
RP2040 Runs Linux Through RISC-V Emulation
Technological progress and societal progress are two different things. Developing lethal chemical weapons is not societal progress. Developing polarizing social media algorithms is not societal progress. If we poured $500B and years of the brightest minds into studying theoretical physics and developed a simple formula that anyone can follow for mixing ketchup and whiskey in such that it causes the atoms of all organic life in the solar system to disintegrate into subatomic particles it would be a tremendous and unmatched technological achievement, but it would very much not be societal progress.

The pessimistic view of AGI deems spontaneous disintegration into beta particles a less dramatic event than the event of AGI. When you're climbing a dark uncharted cave you take the pessimistic attitude when pondering if the next step will hold your weight, because if you hold the optimistic attitude you will surely die.

This is much more dangerous than caves. We have mapped many caves. We have never mapped an AGI.
>which is in fact the basis for most actual private property law and is not at all "exotic"

What western legal system is based is such a way that it doesn’t consider IP to be private property? I am not aware of any. The notion that such a narrow definition is the basis of most actual property law runs contrary to empirical evidence.
Yeah this was added by accident, luckily we have pretty good management of local development and production testing, so these keys were not production keys
> any good that, by its nature, can only be used by one person at a time: one person's use precludes use by another person.

> There are edge cases--for example, multiple people can ride in a car even if it's only considered the private property of one of them--but they aren't relevant to the discussion we're having here.

But that's not just edge cases. Jointly operated objects and co-habited houses make up a huge fraction of what we commonly consider to be property. I don't think you can brush this away as an edge case.

I mean, come to think it, looking at what objects currently surround me, most of them can be used by more than one person at same time.
Show HN: C-Dogs SDL – classic run-and-gun game with up to 4 players online
I had a book from college that went missing. Paid 100 at start of semester. Supposed to return it at end.

99 dollar ding on credit. Hundreds of calls from hundreds of numbers about it. Took years to finally block all the numbers.

Beyond abusive.
Repo: https://github.com/midzer/cdogs-sdl
I’d wager most modern rocket engines are 3D printed. At the very least SpaceX uses 3D printed engines. It greatly enhances the ability to cool the engine using the supercooled propellant and the technology to achieve it isn’t exactly cutting edge. 3D printing metal using SLS has been around since the eighties
Discussed on HN earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35278840
He's riffing on a study that was released just before that talk, in which blood was passed through a machine that shone UV light into it to kill infectious material. (Similar in spirit to dialysis in terms of blood going out of the body, being treated, then put back in.) Of course, that statement of "this new tech is interesting" got memetically mutated into "Trump wants people to inject bleach".
I am curious to find out more about those "prompt packages". Where can I see the list of them?
Well if it can bark out the right answer its an impressive damned dog...
AR glasses with cop recognition
The Open Assistant community ( https://open-assistant.io/ ) is building a crowdsourced dataset for RLHF, with apparently high quantity of high quality contributions.
Can you control how your insurance makes these decisions today?
>Alas, many things really must be experienced to be understood. We didn’t have much of an experience to deliver to them though — after all, the whole point of all this evangelizing was to get people to give us money to pay for developing the software in the first place! But someone who’s spent even 10 minutes using the Web would never think to ask some of the questions we got asked.

THIS! I think most people can relate to this concept if they ever tried to explain something completely new to someone else. I have struggled with this many times with my own project.

I have a new kind of data management system that is much different than other systems. I can try to explain it to others in a personal or a public setting. I have written blogs, whitepapers, and other documentation. I have a set of demo videos that are each less than 10 minutes. It is still very, very difficult to get people to understand what I am building.

So far only a few people have taken the chance to really 'experience it' by downloading the software and using it to do something useful that they need. I have some really good beta sites that are enthusiastic about it once they get that 'Aha moment'.

It will take a lot more work before the masses 'get it' like the average teenage now 'gets' the Internet.
> One cool small detail on the 16" is they've dropped the built-in 3.5mm jack and added two more expansion card ports, with one of the options being a card with a 3.5mm jack. Really smart move there; satisfies both camps of people who want and don't want that jack.

Normally this would annoy me a bit, but my 11th-gen has always had a bit of annoying line noise coming over the headphone jack anyway, so being able to break the whole of that out into USB is actually a compromise I'm more than willing to make. (Also I lol'd IRL at the riff on "courage.") But then again, my hot take on phones for a while has been that I'd rather have two USB ports than one headphone jack, so this is pretty firmly in line with that.

> I think the thing that is most encouraging is that it does seem like they're trying to settle into a yearly cadence for new mainboard releases, tracking the latest chipsets from Intel (and hopefully now from AMD too). I was a little worried that they wouldn't be able to keep up, since they're still a small-ish company. Certainly not going to buy the 13th-gen or new Ryzen boards this year, but it's good to know that, assuming the company continues to be successful, I should be able to upgrade in a couple years.

My guess is that would actually be less of a problem in this context, given that the the form factor is stable from year to year and they can just ship upgrades for individual components instead of making whole new devices on an annual basis.
This is exactly right, thanks a bunch for checking. Also, thanks for the note! We will add a SECURITY.md
It reads a bit like promotional material. A bit of a letdown to find it was done by MSFT researchers.
Ridiculing opponents shuts down the possibility of a meeting of minds. I don't believe this is how you solve conflict in your own life and it isn't how this conflict will be solved either.
Linked from that same page is a citation [0] that djinn is, in fact, or Arabic origin. Where do you get that it's a romanized word? Unless you mean romanized in the sense that it's spelled using the latin alphabet, but that's overly pedantic even by HN standards.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jinni
The site doesn't seem to be thrown together very well, you can dump the entire DB by searching for a space character [0] (assuming every officer should have a space in their full name). It dumps as a nice JSON format with all the details.

All the headshots can easily be extracted by appending "https://watchthewatchers.net/headshots/" to the values from the "imagePath" value in the JSON dump.

[0] https://watchthewatchers.net/api/search/%20
Perhaps it depends on the audience. For a non-CS person, it's a pretty good introduction to solvability vs verifiability, and how seemingly similar math operations are quite asymmetric.

I personally might use the example to convey the concept to non-CS people.
Top Challenges from First Practical Online Controlled Experiments Summit
Yes, but I'm noticing a lot of people complaining that it doesn't immediately look like a real person.
What law could they possibly be violating by adding a plug-in system to their software product? This sounds like an outrageous dramatization of reality.
No-one said anything about space, time or objectivity. Those are all weird, but external reality is something we know just as well as we know internal reality. (Internalist conceptions of mind don't pan out).
Saying mind and thinking can exist without any physical basis doesn't make it possible either, but I will point out that everyone I've ever met who was capable of thinking had a healthy living body.
The arguments that have been deployed to show that incorporeal thinking is possible and the subjective knowledge is the only true knowledge have always been flawed in their theory of knowledge. They all treat geometry as the paragon of knowing. When, in fact, the rationalist mode of knowing is a rather peculiar and idiosyncratic form of knowledge that doesn't really generalize. In some highly reductive sense, you can argue that we don't really come into contact with an external reality, and people have. Though in the same sense we also don't come into contact with an internal reality except in an very unimpressive fashion.

So while people have spun up plenty of complicated arguments to show that we know nothing about anything, in a very real sense we clearly know quite a lot about the world around us. We know that when someone is knocked unconscious they weren't off thinking great thoughts when their brain was flatlining (if/when they come back they confirm this). Our knowledge of this is, surprisingly more solid than our ability to accurately introspect our internal state of consciousness. As to what exactly changes when the innumerable pulses of neurons sprang back to life, that's a mystery. Something is happening. It is pretty clearly connected with thinking.
Except the terms of service you agreed to in order to make an account and upload code to GitHub at all, regardless of any licensing you choose to put on it to enable others to use your code… that Terms of Service you agree to with GitHub allows them the right to keep a copy of your code, to use it for a bunch of explicitly described things like indexing it for search, displaying it to other people if it’s not a private repo, and there’s a little block of language in there that also covers them for future services they may develop that are not yet explicitly named.

Future services like training CoPilot.

We have them permission, to do the training that’s not something we can argue on a legal grounds… the only question we can argue is the derived works licensing question.
Can you add a link?
You're in good company! Most of the apps listed used a hidden file or directory in the home directory.
Except your first useQuery call happens before the component it’s in even returns any JSX for React to render.

And you don’t need a useEffect to do this sort of thing. You just need a function that creates a promise keyed to whatever identifier you passed in and some state to hold its status and result.
"Most Cops Just Above Normal The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average."

This is a pretty startling statement for armed people who are supposed to understand and interpret the law, detect abnormalities accurately while not terrorizing the law abiding general public.

Here's a breakdown of appropriate jobs by IQ. Keep in mind the 100-104. This might be part of the problem.

https://www.schooldrillers.com/the-iq-level-you-need-for-dif...
> Have laws stopped music piracy? Have laws stopped copyright infringement?

They have a large effect. But regardless, I don't see the point. Evidence that X doesn't always do Y isn't evidence that X is ineffective doing Y. Seatbelts don't always save your life, but are not ineffective.
They stole cash and deserve the ridicule.
that's not good. it doesn't have the geocities site i made in the early mid 90s
Self Supervision Does Not Help Natural Language Supervision at Scale