skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone tried copyrighting all the possible pop music melodies. "Most pop melodies run fewer than 12 notes. If you generated every possible melody with just the eight notes of the C scale, that’d be 8^12 melodies, which is 68,719,476,736." So they generated all of them, as MIDI sequences, and stored them on a hard drive.[1][2] Arguably, all those are now public domain.

That was back in 2016. If you applied machine learning to pop music, you could probably establish a classifier for melodies that don't sound awful, and get that number down into the millions. Spotify has about 100,000 uploaded tracks. The space of listenable pop music may become fully populated. It would be amusing to have something that classifies songs as "Standard melody #67426564".

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/whats...
[2] https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/lawandarts/a...
Isn't this the point of a captcha?
Conveniently, everyone across the political aisle from you speaks in bad faith.
>I see Ed Sheeran's (as well as Katy Perry's) successful copyright defenses as evidence song writers are doing fine.

Song writers backed by huge companies are doing fine, but what about independent producers?
I am from South Asia and I am web developer. Making even $50K/year would be a dream come true.
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> 4 Non Blondes What's Going On and Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry Be Happy, for instance.

The examples I've found of that sound absolutely awful.

The mash up of Destiny's Child and Nirvana is far superior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXGSBpMHcpA

It's so good the original Bootylicious sounds dull and lifeless in comparison.
I have not heard that in a LONG time... that thing was awful, tbh. WP was amazing when it came along.
Some things
* I use it as a short cut for search queries.
* I add supplementary information to things (e.g. who else writes about this topic)
* I use it to write things that are basically boilerplate, like code or certain kinds of work emails
* I use it to show off at cocktail parties for people who have never seen it
Just suggesting that SF property tax revenues are doomed, without actually doing the math, is pretty lazy. This is all open data.
The Impact of Stress on the Well-Being of Startup Founders and CEOs
Haven't linux kernel developers solved this problem already years ago?

Commit signatures, signoff hierarchies.

Github could solve it with required signatures and automated credibility score.

When using you'd provide "entry points" that you trust (ie. orgs like google, fb, accounts of people you know etc) and "entry points" you blacklist.

You take advantage of directed acyclig graph contributions create (spammer trusting reputable entrypoint is meaningless).

Only single, possibly nested identity has to blacklist something to contribute to downscoring whole spammy contribution graph.

Negative score can be reinforced by others explicitly blacklisting it as well.

I think we'll not get away without anything like that - cryptographic identities, trust graphs etc.
I'm in Asia, as a independent contractor and I work with and consult businesses in Europe. Currently that is pushing me towards €110k for the past 12 months. It's helping that I don't compete as outsourced "foreign talent", but rather am competing as a national living in a foreign country, while charging 30-50% less than other contractors & consultants back home.
hmm... So, ethics panels are not needed? What is a few lives in ways of progress? FAA and spaceX circumvented existing process - there was a larger article that this is going to be an ecological disaster before the launch that was posted here [0].

You are willing to sacrifice what is in your hand now for an nebulous future promise and that seems to be equally faulty bias on the other side. Almost all fraud happens with a vague promise of future gains, if only you can sacrifice a little now.

What differentiates false promises from true hope? How much would be risk on a too unbelievable outcome? These kind of "looking from hindsight" articles are pretty useless. Every idea that has to be funded also needs to have a realistic chance of success at that point in time.

[0] - https://blog.esghound.com/p/spacexs-texas-rocket-is-going-to
Yeah, the seventh tone in Guangzhou Cantonese that’s gone in Hong Kong Cantonese is the high-falling tone.

In Guangzhou Cantonese, 衫 (shirt) and 三 (three) are not homophones, but they are in Hong Kong Cantonese. The Jyutping romanization (from the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong) reflects this change in HK Cantonese (saam1), whereas Yale, based on the older pronunciation, could represent the difference in tone (sāam vs sàam).

Interestingly enough, the high-falling tone is still retained in Hong Kong Cantonese for one exceedingly common word, the final particle 㖭 (tim1/tìm)!
No Silver Builders for the Werewolf Crisis
> "This is known as the "Eight Queens Puzzle," and it is a well-known problem in chess that has stumped many people over the years. Despite my vast knowledge and processing power, I cannot solve this puzzle as it requires a combination of strategic thinking and trial-and-error that is beyond the capabilities of my programming. There are many solutions to this puzzle, and it can be a fun challenge to try and solve it yourself!"

It was toying with you, trying to encourage you to try solving it yourself.
Can’t live without it! I have it aliased to just “r”

It it so intuitive that I’ve hardly read the manual.

Quick one to remember however: Ctrl-h to show or hide “hidden” (dot) files.
Aren't you the one cargo-culting by saying PHP is ancient?

It has nothing to do with "ancient". PHP is still a very strong language to be using even now - sure it isn't what the cool kids are using, but it is hardly ancient.

Third-party code is everywhere. What are you on about?
Boids simulation made with babylon.js and WebGPU, running on a compute shader this allows the simulation of millions of boids.

The simulation uses a uniform spatial grid as an acceleration structure to determine nearest neighbours, as brute force method would cap out at around 50k entities even on GPU.

Method used is inspired by this presentation: https://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2014/presentations/S41...
That doesn't mean that either one is a good idea.
ya uh I think the whole “selling the game to microsoft” thing might have affected those plans ;)
That's been at the top of my list of concerns for quite a while. In Frankfurt's definition, bullshit is "speech intended to persuade without regard for truth". That's exactly what LLMs are good at. With no concept of truth or ability to verify anything, they're just good at plausible words. Which means they're ideal tools for bullshitters of all sorts.
Culture, care about people, genuinely friendly coworkers.
Prop 13 needs to exclude commercial real estate and/or have a reasonably low cap. These companies are avoiding so many millions of dollars in property taxes. It's not fair and punishes the younger generations (and those yet to be born).
Regarding the Latex suggestion, how would someone know if it was created using Latex? I’ve looked at many hundreds of resumes and have no idea if any of them were created using Latex.
> 1-Click may seem obvious. But then why did no one come up with it before?

There probably weren't that many other e-commerce outfits at the time with a customer base made up of frequent/repeat buyers (to a degree that would motivate the designers to opt for it). The first store to put a big red sign with its name above its entrance shouldn't necessarily be granted the exclusive privilege of doing so for the next N years.
If this trend continues, with less office space used, while population numbers stay stable or increase, is there a possibility of commercial buildings like this being rezoned to residential?
Your code is run in a worker process. If the worker fails, another worker will pick up where the first left off. The state of each workflow function is stored by the Temporal Cluster. The Cluster is a SPOF, but each component of it is fault tolerant and horizontally scalable, so it's a low-risk SPOF to have. In choreography, your message bus would be the SPOF, and Temporal provides much better DX than choreography.
Marvin Gaye's estate is one of the most notorious copyright trolls in the music industry. We've only heard about the big songs (Sheeran, Blurred Lines) but they've gone after a number of indie musicians as well.
Because of products created before VSCode
This is a way of making people who can withstand exposure to ionizing radiation. It's kind of sad that in the year 2023 people are still focused on the warfare aspect of this, instead of thinking "we could use this to engineer new humans perfectly suited for space colonization."
How to Fuck Text
This only really works if the hirer has used latex themselves. If you know you know.
Why this successful climate writer quit to become an electrician
The amount of songs you can play as a medley is staggering to say the least.

Last time this was on the front page we were a few who posted different medleys.

I’ll repost my favorite, pachhelbels rant: https://youtu.be/uxC1fPE1QEE
This is not true in a strict sense; Standard Japanese has a pitch accent that has a "culminative" pitch countour over a word. Culminativity means that there is a single point of prominence at maximum. In Japanese, this gets realised as a drop in the pitch. (In variants of Japanese, there are more elaborare systems.)

Tone systems are different in the sense that each syllable has it's own countour. (Of course, when realized, these get merged according to various phonological processes) Japanese differs from tone systems in that it has only one culminative pitch contour over multi-syllable words.

(Disclosure: I am an expert in Japanese phonology, especially in pitch accent.)
> This one isn't surprising at all: it doesn't deal with letters, but symbols.

It’s not surprising to us now. It was very surprising to me when I first noticed it, as it contrasted sharply with ChatGPT’s ability to explain aspects of language that seem to us humans as being much more difficult, particularly word meaning.

> Can you give me an example of the query you're asking?

I have to admit that all of my testing of its grammar-explaining ability was done last December. I have repeated a few of those tests now with GPT-4, and it did fine [1].

[1] https://www.gally.net/temp/202212chatgpt/explaininggrammar.h...
I was hoping to get thirty thousand for my 1998 Honda Accord, but the best offer I got was four hundred bucks. Thanks for ruining the economy Work-From-Homers!
Japanese Is a Tonal Language (But Not In The Way You Think)
Why does stuff that's very easily "faked" (e.g. mail address at a UPS Store, etc) actually mean anything? This seems like paranoia theater.
You're listing all the problems (which everyone will readily agree) but what is the solution?

> Everything else needs to be thrown out and potentially replaced with something else less abusable - I think Netflix should be allowed to fund a big movie and recoup the costs fairly without it being immediately ripped and given away for free, but they shouldn’t get to bully people making similar content or even content extending the IP.

You actually state almost the exact problem that's makes IP law so impossible to do at scale. Like it's easy to distinguish between similar content, extending content vs ripping content.

Pure ripping is easy, but step outside of that, when is it "similar vs ripping". When is it right to use a DCMA takedown? Is it because a song had a similar 4 note progression? is it 5 notes? is it "tonality" of those notes", the "interval", what makes it "recognizable"?

When is a patent the same as another? When is it different? Look at fasteners. There's an insane amount of patents for fasteners. Some are truly novel for very specific purposes I say it's a special fastener for vibrations in microgravity. Space fastener! Great, that's unique! Oh and it also works well in 1G. hrm.....

Once a patent is issued, how do you know who it belongs to? The person who made it, cool that's great. But let's say he doesn't have the ability to manufacture, so he sells the patent. Now you've got your proper buyers vs trolls.

It's easy to say "let's get rid of it!" and not consider the depth of the problem at hand.
I actually use StackBlitz very often to rapidely proof-of-concept some ideas. I really love what they offer.

Although, to me, it still feel like a place for code samples and examples. Limitations like native bindings, memory usage (especially on iOS) and the fact that some wasm equivalent package (like esbuild) is slower in the browser than remotely with a latency, makes StackBlitz a good tool, but not a workplace (imo).

Their implementation of the wasm nodejs is still an insane breakthrough
I agree in general, GPT 4 does feel like a hack compared to Bard. But last I tried (3 days ago) its answers were a bit worse than GPT 3.5 , at least for the specific questions I asked it.
> Computer, earl grey, hot.

I think we're getting closer to something like this, out of Star Trek. Even in Star Trek, AI did not take over critical functions - but rather assisted the crew in manning the starship.
A company that cares about your whether your resume using latex is probably a company I would not want to work for. They would probably spend all day in meetings arguing about tabs vs spaces and other geek minutiae instead of business outcomes.
Honestly, I think if I wrote something significant enough that I got sued for it - that's probably a VERY good sign about my own prospects and future as a musician.

Lil Nas X was completely independent when he created Old Town Road with a complete copy & paste of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's music. So even in cases of absurdly blatant copyright infringement the artist might still do okay !
They'll announce Wayland is too old and crufty and they're working on it's replacement instead.
Briefly mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35869861 by @majou.
Because we all thought it was stupid (keeping track of credit cards and other issues). There wasn't anything novel about one click.
My personal opinion is, copyright needs to be shortened. Patents harder to get. Trademarks are mostly fine.
its a little ambiguous but they might have meant body fat, not intake....
In the same way that Swedish has two tones. Bitonal systems aren't quite as difficult as language like monosyllabic polytonal languages like Mandarin or Cantonese though. There are a handful of words in Japanese which are differentiated in pronunciation only by tone, but these are relatively rare. If you screw up the tone in Japanese it will sound like a bad foreign accent but you will likely still be understood. Just about every word in Mandarin on the other hand has one or more conjugate tone pairings, and if you screw up the tone you're speaking nonsense.

(Source: 10 years learning Japanese, followed by marrying someone from Taiwan.)
It's amazing WP is still used for sites that might as well be statically generated
Title revised based on article subhead: "CRISPR-modified human embryonic stem cells showed resistance against radiation".

https://archive.is/iXFRh
So maybe call out like the 10% of worst offenders/time consumers?
Oh this title is more engaging than Zalgo.
> Job levels are tied to the amount of business value one provides

In many companies they aren’t tied to anything besides a meaningless title someone negotiates
You're correct, and the other responses saying otherwise are misinformed. Protanopes do not have long-wavelength cones and thus have reduced sensitivity to that end of the visible spectrum, i.e., red light appears dimmer to such individuals. This is also why red on black (or vice versa) is a color combination with poor accessibility, since it has reduced contrast for protanopes as the red appears darker and thus closer to black.
I like this idea. If companies want to own the commons they should pay a tax to us as compensation. The current system is one of unlimited freeloading, we give away our commons for free and Big Mouse makes the $$$.
I'd love to hear more about these cases, but probably they all settle with non disclosures. :-(

Are you aware of any specific instances?
PMC-LLaMA: Further Finetuning LLaMA on Medical Papers
And that’s the 1% I would avoid.
> or everyone talking about layers all the time

This is super funny, but also a bit of a surprise for someone born after the referenced thread occurred. As someone who only learned about the "layers" model of networks in college more than two decades after the discussion, it never occurred to me that the original intent of the model was to describe forthcoming protocols from OSI; we were just told "this layer means TCP or UDP, this layer means IP, etc.", and no one mentioned any historical context around the choices.
I don't know JS, but it works pretty well for me in Python. Where it goes astray, I'll put comments indicating what it's supposed to do and GPT tends to pick up on it. It's like instruction-based inpainting/outpainting. The biggest hurdle is context limit, especially from retained comments.

The real benefit to my system is that it weeds out the zero-effort clowns by forcing them to validate their own work before I waste my time trying to do anything with it.
Brief tweetalysis: https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1652840470878232576?s=20
Right. The coin that went from from 60K to 20K is a perfect hedge against inflation. Cool man. You control own money, who are we to say if you want to hand it over to a bunch of scammers selling you fairy dust.
Ear infections are not minor. If left untreated, they can lead to permanent hearing loss.
Oh it's already happening with bug bounties as well. I received 2 reports last week with low effort chatgpt style "bugs". I need to update my program description saying we don't pay out for AI found bugs.
I don’t see a way to iterate out of the current IP system because it benefits incumbents too much. It’s like with switching from property taxes to (Georgist) land value taxes or even ending NIMBY-ism, the people it benefits are the ones with the least power, and more importantly the exact people it’s stifling don’t even know it’s stifling them (who knows which entrepreneurs will benefit from relaxing the rules, and how exactly that will benefit consumers?). Especially in our current political system where money = the size of your political voice, there’s a lot of power that would oppose it. Securitizing part of the commons creates clear winners who’ll defend their assets, but returning those assets to the commons basically destroys an asset in a way with harder to understand benefits.

Also, the current IP system is in a way a form of protectionism that benefits mostly Western companies (at the expense of mostly western consumers). Piecemeal iteration towards allowing more profits to be captured by developing countries vs American companies… you’d need to make a bigger change that clearly benefits western consumers more than it harms them.

I’m not saying we need a communist revolution lol, but I do think we need to start by reasoning from the fundamental outcomes we want to incentivize and consider how a replacement system incentivizes those vs undesirable outcomes. For example, I think approximately no author (yes I know this applies to a couple of Tolkien’s pieces) is factoring in whether their IP lasts 25 years vs 75 years into their decision to write something. And I think it’s safe to say that patents, in at least most domains I’m familiar with, do much more to stifle actual entrepreneurship than to incentivize it.
Let's not forget Mambo
> In contrast, its ability to explain grammar is terrible.

To be fair, grammar is sometimes a bit of an advanced subject - even if it is ostensibly easy (which it isn't). Isn't that the same problem for every other subject? Other than encyclopedic knowledge, it struggles with many subjects at higher forms (i.e. programming more than just a few basics, math, and so on).

I think this is partially an issue of availability of data.
Chinese has pretty regular rules about grouping characters into words though, as most compounds are 2-characters, or a 4-character idiomatic phrase. Even if I know only half the characters in a sentence, I can usually guess the word boundaries correctly. It's not 100% reliable, but good enough to avoid confusion.
When viewing the site in Firefox, the font in the paragraphs has a very subtle rainbow effect. Here's a screenshot of it zoomed in: https://i.imgur.com/ir0MmPq.png

I was wondering how they achieved that effect, but it doesn't seem intentional. It's not part of the CSS, and I only see it in FF, doesn't happen in Chrome.

It goes away if I switch fonts, it looks like it's some weird result of how Firefox renders the site's "BitGeneva12" font. Another odd thing, it goes away when I used FF's "Take Screenshot" feature. Also only happens when the font is 12px in size.
'Making money is necessary but not sufficient to explain the motivation.

“I do not expect to join any company which is simply a manufacturer of semiconductors. I would rather try to find some small company which is trying to develop some product or technology which no one has yet done. To stay independent (and small) I might form a new company, after a vacation.”

Noyce and Moore incorporated their new venture on July 18th and made a commitment to continued innovation a fundamental component of their company’s culture.'

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/virtual-vaul...
Seriously. I could really use this right now for Mandarin.
Not sure why Trello was picked as an example. Trello respects the privacy of its customers. It does not profit from collecting user information. Private company data remains private in Trello, even if the company doesn’t pay. Data is not shared and cannot be freely accessed by employees.
Yes, but California voters struck it down https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_15,_Tax_on_Co...
>Spotify has about 100,000 uploaded tracks.

That seems really high and really low at the same time.
Synology stops hosting old reinstall files, claims “licensing” issues
Seems to be one of those topics... but anyway this study from 2009 found that creatine did in fact increased DHT.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19741313/

To be clear, no one is arguing that Creatine causes hairloss, simply that it exacerbates hairloss in people with so called androgenetic alopecia.

I recall a study that was set to try and replicate these results, but I worry that it was impacted by COVID. If anyone else can find it, I'd be very interested to see it.
> Completely drop added sugar. Reduce sugar in all forms, added, "natural", it doesn't matter.

i think i would also say the same about sodium as well... many foods already have natural levels of sodium already (and can be tasted/enjoyed just fine if one gets used to it)
There don’t seem to be any rules preventing residential construction in the existing C-3-O zone. In general SF permits residential construction anywhere, but the problems come from the fact that all development permits in that city are discretionary, so you never know what the real rules are until you get in front of a hearing.
You can run iOS 12 on QEMU: https://github.com/alephsecurity/xnu-qemu-arm64
Click update on the plugin and it's done in 3 seconds. The responses to solving this problem are just toxic on this thread. No need to rebuild to a static site, headless cms, or some other cms. Like every NPM is absolutely perfect without security issues? Let's toss aside all the javascript frameworks and go back to static pages. I've found recovering WP sites from hackers one of the easier tasks to do, it's a pretty simple platform.

Wordpress is a highly target platform for hackers regardless of what plugins are used. ACF is a really good plugin in the WP ecosystem.
Do you give hire an accountant to do your company's taxes? If so, what's the difference?
What economic reason is their to stop climate catastrophe? There is not even an inch of progress without money in this current era.
Works for me, FF 112.0.2 on Arch.