skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your kid can achieve absolute pitch in geometric space, like.. epsg:4978? That would be epic. Your kid could always tell you what coordinates you're at if you're standing at a known angle.
It continues to sadden me that the implicit this injection happens only on direct invocation -

let res = obj.method(arg);

and

let m = obj.method;
let res = obj.method(arg);

being different things seems like an unfortunate trade-off (though not knowing the full reasons it was chosen to be that way makes me wary of assuming it was the wrong decision overall).

I've been known, for things where the object is e.g. a bag of components, to loop at construction time and replace all of my methods with pre-bound copies of themselves, but having to make a conscious decision as to whether I need to introduce that extra code (and work for the runtime per-instantiation) still makes me grumble to myself every time.
So we should spend the money to directly help these people?
I have good relative pitch but my friends with a more "restricted" sense of pitch shall we say seem to be less open minded, have a tougher time appreciating some of the music I love despite its disorder or imperfections. I don't have any problem appreciating what they like.
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Fracking for all it's bad press has been immensely helpful in reducing greenhouse emissions.

If it weren't for natural gas we would still have massive coal fired power plants.

If you look at UK emissions which have been declining steadily since the 1990s, this has been in no small part due to the move to natural gas.

While it would be great to move to carbon neutral immediately, we can't do that without driving up energy prices massively and causing widespread poverty and disruption, so there is definitely room for some middle ground compromises.
How much "resolution" do their ears have? Like can someone with absolute pitch tell whether an instrument is in 12-ET or just intonation without a reference?
It's entirely possible digitally, although I've never encountered consumer playback software that did it. Digital audio editors will do it with resampling and there's no loss in quality. You can learn about digital signal processing to understand why quality is unaffected.
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Proof based higher math and being good at calculating the answers to arithmetical formulas are two pretty unrelated things that just happen to both be called "math".

One of my better math professors in a very good pure math undergraduate program added 7 + 9 and got 15 during a lecture, that really doesn't say anything about his ability as a mathematician though.
Been DJing and running our own sound for years and years.

You 100% can get feedback from the sound when DJing. It’s guaranteed if you’ve enough bass. We put the decks on concrete slabs which in turn are on 4 squash balls to deal with it.

What do you mean by “one it channels is inverted when recorded”??
Typical bash programmer :
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We don't know how efficient modern GPUs are compared to brains. It's possible that neurons are highly networked in a way that allows significantly more computation along more pathways.

Additionally, development has slowed in the past 20 years. It's unclear how much hardware will improve in the next 20 years. it's unclear if current GPUs are capable of running something "smarter" than GPT4. It's unclear if current GPU architecture is capable. OpenAI claims they've hit a wall with throwing more hardware at the situation (a little questionable.)

All this to say that a hypothetical AI is limited by the amount of hardware it has, and lacking a "true human-level AGI" we can't say how much compute it needs. If an AI needs to be the size of a warehouse to match a human, it's not going to be much smarter or better at research than humans.

I still do think, I would not be surprised if we wake up tomorrow and discover that hyperintelligent AIs are suddenly all around us. But also it could be decades, it's just very unpredictable, there are a lot of unknowns.
It might also sound much worse for a number of reasons that would prevent the proper cutting of the laquer master. I have my studio next door to a vinyl mastering studio and it is truly a fascinating craft. The cutter might have to narrow the stereo image to prevent the needle from jumping out of the groove. Often this is done by mono'ing the low end. The tool he uses will gradually mono the low end on a slope from i.e 150hz and down. This can lead to less low end especially if there are phasing issues that will cancel out signal when collapsing to mono. They will also high pass from 20-30hz and low pass (can't remember how low he went), and sometimes even de-ess the entire mix!

Also if the sides of the vinyl are too long, the sound quality will suffer badly.

And if they screw up the cut, it's a lot of $$$ for each laquer master and the diamond needle for cutting doesn't last many records either.
Oddly, it is worth noting that many of the accounts at SVB were completely uninsured business accounts.

At any rate, yes. But you can only split billions across so many 250k banks (I haven't checked the numbers, but I'd assume this is limited by number of banks). And presumably, that means that many more locally focused places managing more funds. That is, the spread is part of the point.
ExxonMobil reports record first-quarter profits of $11.4bn: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65427372
You think every non-US country is third world?
Inflation is because of the money printing. We have the same amount of assets, but suddenly there is over triple the amount of money floating around.

More demand, but the same supply of resources means prices go up. Take a look at the feds balance sheet in 2008 and compare with now (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL)

It's no surprise we've had a bull run for over ten years.
Same. On an M1. Loved my thinkpads but between the battery life and the screens, using a M1 macbook is like a different world completely.
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Agreed, that there are many build tools out there, but still created a simple compact shell based build tool, just for fun!!
Microtonality is a rabbit hole you'll likely enjoy.
Where do you get Android phones for cheaper than a Raspberry Pi (e.g. $35 for a Pi 4)?
Like any good magic trick, it's an illusion. While you're looking over here, I've secretly built an unmaintainable monolith!

Tada!
Most humans fail at doing simple arithmetic in their head. At the very least I'd say GPT4 is superior to 99% of people at mental math. And because it can explain its work step by step it's easy to find where the flaw in its reasoning is and fix it. GPT-4 is capable of self-correction with the right prompts in my experience.
I sincerely doubt that if you ask a professional musician with perfect pitch if they would "turn it off" they would say yes.
You're not able to run an ad-blocker on that computer?
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There's a lot of great explainer sites and articles about the fediverse, but I wanted to make something that serves as a quick introduction for a more casual audience, and lets you dig deeper from there.
timer.express: tag-based, one-fee time tracking (in-progress, but online). React, php.
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My own recipe site, not public. WordPress.
Daily email-based diary. Two php scripts and Mailgun's api.
> The hill you're dying on is never destroy anything under any circumstances, no matter how useless, aesthetically repulsive, or morally reprehensible, because those things are merely subjective, but not destroying things is objective.

Cool strawman! Here, I can do it too:

Why do you feel the need to be the ministry of truth and right-think, destroying and silencing anything that violates your "modern" sensibilities, regardless of it's historical significance?
You'll be asked to produce documents verifying your ownership and/or compliance with any licenses for all intellectual property. That includes code and graphics (logos).
But we have historical documentation that shows AI would see that the only way to win that game, is to not play. :D

(Just to make sure folks know; yes, this is the call to action in the article.)
Unrelated, but genuine question from someone who doesn't really use twitter. What happened to Twitter's QoS falling apart after Musk laid off all those people? Were the warnings overblown and unrealistic, or is there just an inside story? I feel like I heard a lot about how they were doomed and now it seems like they're rolling out new features.
E2e encryption or just not stored in plaintext on their servers?
> More importantly, all net worth gains should be taxed equally.

What policy would you use for measuring someone's net worth? How would you ensure they're being honest?
“if your day job can already be automated by chatgpt”

If they can automate the work of a physician, who exactly is safe? Low skill labor, maybe, for awhile.
Termux uses a sandboxed file system by default, but you can give it access to the rest of the phone's shared files by running `termux-setup-storage` from within Termux (more details at: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux-setup-storage).

That'll mount a new folder called "storage" in your home directory where you can place files in locations where other apps can see them.
It would be difficult to search because that is a weird question. If you asked a more practical question like "merge two arrays and remove duplicate values" you would find tons of exact results.
Intonation is a matter of relative pitch. I have good relative pitch, and can distinguish intonation to a degree.

People with absolute pitch can nonetheless distinguish pitch with better than semitone accuracy. This is why it's often a hindrance, because if an ensemble is tuned to a slightly different reference, it is quite noticeable to them.
Which bill exactly?
Shame that you haven't replied. Sounded like a super interesting job.
> IMO, we are more likely to stumble across a completely new form of intelligence than we are to successfully recreate something akin to human intelligence

This is predicated on the assumption that we’ll eventually hit a hard wall that prevents progress or that we’ll stop trying. This doesn’t seem likely. We just can’t estimate the timescale for progress.

> It didn't lie nor hallucinate. Lying assumes intent and planning, it is incapable of either

This is why I used quotes around “lie”, but again I’d argue that this underscores my point.

It doesn’t matter whether the LLM is actually lying or hallucinating in the human sense if someone believes what it says. If I read what it says, believe it, and take some action based on that, the end result is the same and potentially harmful.

Likewise, an “AGI” doesn’t need to actually be smarter than humans and its mistakes need not be attributed to intent or planning to cause real harm in the world. If a robot kills a human, we won’t be picking nits about whether or not the kind of “intent” it employs is the same kind humans assume they have. A smarter AGI just poses bigger problems if such a thing can ever be achieved.

And this is all assuming we’re talking about the development of benevolent general purpose intelligence, which is certainly not the only kind of research that is happening right now.
Precht doesn't seem particularly French to me. He is a solid craftsman. I associate French intellectuals more with esprit and a certain craziness.

His earlier books had a slightly penetrating American style, popular science peppered with human interest stories.

Precht, however, is willing to make himself unpopular, but he is also one of the few intellectuals who can afford to do so. Many media workers probably don't like to read how strong the pressure to conform is, they prefer to suppress that.
I wonder why nobody thought about recreating album sleeves with the original artwork and no vinyl inside, just the housing capable of carrying one or more CDs, that is, giving a CD owner the ability to put their discs into a old-style sleeve. I'm all for digital music, but totally miss the old sleeves and prints. Would it be economically viable for a business to acquire only the rights for the prints, possibly plus lyrics, but not the music, so that they could sell the prints alone?
- Easier to keep up with increased demand on server resources due to user growth.

- Screwing something up impacts 100k people and not 10M people.

- Users have some expectation of "hiccups" in something presented as a beta product.

- Prevents bots from taking over the platform as the anti-spam / anti-abuse systems mature.
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> normalising as a portion of wealth.

I don't follow this framing. You are saying we should look at taxes as "how much money does the government allow someone to have"?

This seems to assume a government has a right to take an arbitrary amount of money from its citizens. Do you believe this?
> $35 for a Pi 4

Lol, if you have them at that price I'll take 5. More like $80-120 at current market rates, and then you still need to buy everything else that's already included in a phone.
It's very useful for a session musician. You could pick up a song without hunting for the key.
One of the reasons I like chatgpt is that it makes coding on phone much more accessible. Type a prompt and paste it into vim in termux.

Using scripts to edit and maintain your android internal file system is another plus. Unfortunately can't write to SD card if you're not rooted.
That used to be true, but the cultural revolution put a dent in that. While it is still likely they’ll have a degree in engineering, the leadership is now a lot like Xi Jinping in being career politicians (he has a 2 year correspondence chemical engineering degree from qinghua, but never worked as an engineer).
You really don't need a keyboard, I use it just fine with onscreen and even wrote some simple scripts in vim with it. Tab completion in the shell helps a lot too and termux's keyboard has a button for it right there.

But if you _do_ need a keyboard... it's android and it perfectly supports USB or Bluetooth input devices including mice, keyboards, etc. If you have a Samsung or some other devices you can even get a nice HDMI output to a monitor and desktop experience out of the box. It's really like a little laptop in your pocket at all times.

And if you need a GUI Termux runs X11, vnc, etc and GUI apps just fine. Just download a X11 server or vnc app from the play store (there are tons) and you're good to go.
The block of the 300ZX is pretty strong. The cylinder bore spacing is about the largest I have seen.
The issue is the bottom end is a bit weak and to reliably take it to the 1000hp range it needs a crank girdle it seems.
The 2JZ is however a better engine. It seems like today the VG30DETT is finally getting some attention. I seem some shop doing some fancy big HP builds with them
Hey! I am building a sailing simulator built on my own openGL engine. See this:
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That is because HTML is intrinsically built on rest ideas. But few people develop browsers
Second hand market? Samsung, OnePlus, HTC, LG, Nexus, Nokia, Pixels, with quad core CPUs and RAM >2GB can be had dirt cheap depending where you live.

Choose a popular, old flagship that's well supported by the community, and can be flashed with a de-Googled ROM and you're gold.

Old OnePlus devices are still supported today by the community.
Not sure I'd call this "effective", but it seems the way management has always prioritized it has been to wait until it breaks something, or almost breaks something.
Quoting the article:

>But government authorities have underestimated the danger, the study found. Officials rely on a climate vulnerability assessment, designed by India’s Department of Science and Technology, that indicates a smaller percentage of the country faces high risk from climate change than the new findings suggest

The Indian state's persistent denial of science and criticism will continue to cost Indians their lives. It happened during COVID and will happen again in years to come.

There is a worse problem here - heat causes electric power demand to rise. No gigawatt-scale power grid anywhere on the planet has supplied increased demand through renewables. What will happen is simple - coal and gas output will increase and this is an unfortunate but vicious cycle. Carbon emissions will only make the problem worse in the short term.
I have perfect pitch and find it to be quite a burden in certain ways: it's very, very hard to transpose in real time.
Did it ever represent progress? What I was saying is that the increased baseline of education for the populace is progress, not that a degree represents progress itself
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I wonder what's the physical basis of perfect pitch? Neurons growing in a certain pattern?

When I was in my late teens I went to a concert which was way too loud - for a few years after that incident I could hear something akin to modulation distortion if the sound was loud enough - a sort of low ringing like what you hear if you spin a suitcase wheel using your hand.

It was unpleasant, but surprisingly helpful in identifying pitch, because the distortion would just sound differently depending on pitch - I associated it with a few notes and could roughly identify them - especially the lower ones (E, D and C# specifically).

The effect faded over time and now I can't do it any more.

In any case, non-newtonian fluids exhibit such distortion and the body is full of them(most notably blood). I wonder if they play any role in this?
It's more correct to say they could still be profitable while being bad at it. In the last 10 or so years, journalism has been captured by the dynamics of online advertising while the outlets themselves have become increasingly consolidated under profit-driven corporate masters. For a long time the newsroom, especially of TV and radio networks, was considered a cost center, but that was OK because the entertainment departments brought in the money. Now news organizations themselves are supposed to be profitable, which leads to incentives being skewed towards views and ad revenue.
There are retroreflectors on the moon you can use to prove we were there.
I'm working on Costbot, a price tracking tool designed to help online shoppers save time and money by monitoring price histories and alerting them when their favorite products hit their target prices. The side-project recently become done "enough" to be shared in small fashion, and wanted to ask for feedback/thoughts etc. on here.

I'm a staff software engineer by trade, but love working on side projects in my (relatively rare) spare moments. This has been a fun project, involving some new things I hadn't worked on before (extended parsing / crawling, scraping, headless browsers etc.). Hoping to put together a write-up on the tech soon.
If the cherry picking is less effort than painting a picture from scratch then I wouldn't say it's dishonest.
I have been using termux on my tablet for work and it runs very well; I had taken a screenshot some time ago for reddit:

https://i.redd.it/p5h7ongm51541.jpg
As an amateur musician and composer who doesn’t have it, seems like it would be handy for transcription and tuning, but I don’t know what else. You must still be able to “switch modes” to relative, right? Otherwise you couldn’t even hear musical structures the same way, because aside from timbre they’re all relative.
A bit of a tangent, but I looks at your link to Bernard. Aren't there a lot of broken link-checking services out there already? Curious to learn what your USP is, and/or your approach to competing in a saturated market.
Look, if unplugging a computer constitutes murder then I'm a bonafide serial killer. If you're going to cry while HAL sings Daisy, maybe someone else should hold the screwdriver.
If I understand it correctly, the key to this method is to teach children to recognize chords first and then the notes in them. They practice by associating a different colored flag with each chord.
I don't see the issue. You buy it to support the artist and have something to hang up on the wall or collect.
Having the AI tell you it's thought process is very similar to giving it an 'inner voice'

Just give it a question with a half dozen logical steps and tell it to answer in one word. It can't. But tell it to write out the thought process and it will get to the correct answer.

Similarly, you can ask it to outline some code and then begin filling it in.
Can you elaborate? Did you have an experience like this?

Is this a regular occurrence or have you found a better physician since then?
One thing caught my eye:

96 KLOC of C++ is now 152 KLOC of Rust.

What causes the increase, and is that 1.5x ratio typical?
I've wondered if it's possible to train exact, frequency-based pitch, instead of this relative tuning-based absolute pitch. I wonder if that would be as discordant to the trained ear when switching to another tuning.
There is Starlink Residential which only works in approved countries and can’t move. There is Starlink Roam which works anywhere on land. They supposedly restrict it far from land but not sure if acutally limit it.
I can't sing or carry a tune to save my life and have a speech impediment, but I can tune a guitar or a piano by ear, confirmed by tuning fork.

From ages roughly 10-25, I could tell the type of (US civilian or military) aircraft or helicopter flying above and the number of engines it had without looking.

My hearing now is fairly shot and I have SCDS. I can hear my left eyeball move, eating chips is a noisy affair, and it sounds like water is perpetually in my left ear.
It also protects from the sort of operational capture we are seeing at wealthy American Universities (more 'professional managers' than students at, e.g. Yale and Stanford). The American system is undergoing radical upheaval in the last ten years.
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The point is the patient has already given their history. The clinic's internal processes aren't the patient's problem.
DJing since the early 90s.

1000% get that turntablist / scratch DJs prefer turntables.

But for the kind of beat-matching and quick mixes I do (reggae/dancehall mostly), CDJs are much better imo. Finer control for every degree of turning the platter, plus cue points to get back to quickly.

It’s a preference I guess. I still buy LPs to listen to at home, but when it comes to performing 100% digital.
Thank you for your feedback. I see your point.
MRSK is like something pulled straight from my dreams. Longtime Capistrano user, loves Docker for reproducible environments but still hasn’t mastered using it in prod because I’m a dinosaur who just wants servers and a load balancer.

I’m gearing up to deploy a Nextjs project in the next few months and while I appreciate the claims of Function this and Edge that, I feel infinitely more comfortable with a couple small server instances, especially early on when my focus should be testing my product, not optimizing my cloud infrastructure for scale that might never be needed. I’m excited to give MRSK a shot and feel grateful to live in a time when there are so many good choices.
Oracle stored procedures run by cron jobs. Ran for 5 years with no problems.
"The soundtrack of the phone constantly ringing in the house, and the guilt associated with not picking up, is unbearable."

Hit me right in the feels.

Thanks for sharing pigcat. Beautiful problem solving.