skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. It's about the measure, repeated several times in each verse, that sounds like it not only skips a beat, but lurches awkwardly (and excitingly).

Punchline:

> What makes this rhythmic idiosyncracy different from what has been studied by most music theorists is that this slightly attenuated beat is performed by the whole ensemble in unison, and it’s not a delay that is “made up for” right afterwards. In other words, it’s not a local deviation from the beat that maintains the pulse over a longer span of music, but a permanent shift of where the beat occurs.

Satisfying explanation for one of the more unsettling measures of rhythm in any genre of music.

Personally, I never thought too hard about this measure when listening but it definitely stuck out to me. It felt like some kind of slightly rushed triplet rhythm, reminiscent of that Romantic tendency to throw triplets into a melody (did anyone else play piano and struggle to master the timing of these triplets?). This feel seems confirmed by the signature proposed in a sibling comment, 21/32, which has the decimal value 21/32 = 0.65625 when interpreted as a fraction. Very close to two thirds, just a tiny bit sped up.

Rhythm is not meant to be perfect in performance, so my intuition is that "slightly sped up two thirds" was closer to their intention than 21/32.
> Hotter, drier conditions are already hurting them, according to Cameron Barrows, a retired conservation biologist at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Barrows said his research indicates climate change will threaten much of the Joshua tree’s habitat by the end of the century. Even inside the national park, the tree could largely disappear, conservation groups say.

In that case, what's the point of protecting any individual tree, if they'll disappear anyway?
China is getting those resources regardless. It's just a negotiation on price, which Russia is having to sell lower than normal. Which hurts Russia more than it benefits China.

Not every trade has to be zerosum.
> Of course. That was the plan and one of the reasons why the U.S. did not back down on Ukraine NATO membership in 2021, with the anticipated result (article is from before the war and there are plenty of other sources):

The war started in 2014, the full invasion only started in 2022, so this makes no sense whatsoever.
Why not go for a richer and more unified market? Europe seems to have settled a bit into a mindset of low growth and at least relative decline. GDP per head is already quite a bit apart between the EU and the US.
Since 1-3 decades, Africa is developing quite nicely and peacefully.

I read somewhere that they're ~100 years behind economically, but are catching up 3 years per year
I think the commentary railing against these sorts of trends talks about them in general, whereas the commentary promoting them talks about solving particular problems. So if you ask "how to fix foo bar issue with my system design" you might get people suggesting how to solve it with one of these "hammers" instead of a broader condemnation of overuse.
Here's a good video on this topic from a few years ago where they illustrate the difference between a pure 5/8 and what's actually on the album.

https://youtu.be/dRBmavn6Wk0
Well, I'd be fooled by "nut cheese". I'd expect cheese with nuts in it...
If we limit this claim to _just_ German manufacturing competitiveness (which is often synonymous with "European manufacturing" in the context of these discussions -- and I will assume this is true of your comment as well, given the nuclear energy remark), this really isn't true.

What changed my view on this was one of Adam Tooze's newsletters from last year.[1] The relevant points here are:

- Germany manufacturing is less gas-intensive than the global average.

- Energy costs only constitute a small and decreasing share of total industrial costs -- about 5.8% for the German manufacturing industry as a whole, and 3% for leading export sectors (namely the auto industry).

- Most German manufacturing -- and this is true of European manufacturing more broadly -- is primarily in high-margin, value-added sectors where quality, rather than cost, are the competitive factor.

Another important detail lost in the invocation of "cheap gas" is that Europe as a whole, and German in particular, has never had particularly "cheap gas." European natural gas prices have long been well above those in the US, and Germany's have been above the European average for the last 15 years or so.

I agree with both Tooze and the majority view that, notwithstanding the above points, Germany's post-war energy policy has been a catastrophe. It has certainly limited its manufacturing potential. But the effect of the Ukrainian war on its _already_ limited manufacturing sector, due to _already_ not-so-cheap energy, tends to be exaggerated.

[1] https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-150-why-cheap-rus...
I don't disagree with your assessment and if anything it really opens the door for someone else to step in and offer these tools because if Skyrim, Minecraft, Gary's mod etc have shown us anything it's that these tools can create vast communities that will keep growing and supporting your work and any future releases.
Just a shame to see so many companies prioritise profits over gameplay / replayability and community these days.
On Cloudwatching
meant to write per cubic meter
Constitutionally, I believe this is largely untrue. Non-citizens can't vote or hold federal office, but are otherwise granted the privileges assigned to all people by the remainder of the US Constitution. This likely (IANAL) only applies within the bounds of US borders/territories/holdings, but that's where the FBI should only be operating, IMHO.

The exceptions written to this by Congress (FISA, USA PATRIOT, etc.) are unconstitutional and should be struck down.
That's a good point, I just realized I didn't add a screenshot of that feature to the App Store page :homer_doh:

I do have a free trial for PRO for 1 week if you wanted to give it a try but here's a screenshot I posted to Twitter to help visualize it:

https://twitter.com/HazumiApp/status/1660636585702948865?s=2...
Interesting! I stand corrected, though I think the MS explanation does sound plausible for the times.

Can this "Windows poked around in the guts of DOS" and "DOS 4.0 patched Windows" sort of mechanic be verified elsewhere?
polymers degrade, especially with heat or UV. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/micro...

Plastics have been a blessing to us humans and a curse to nature.
Now it is your responsibility to publish the real recipe alongside all those online recipes that were incorrect.
Good on them and it makes sense in my opinion. Cash is a backup and we have seen cases were bank accounts were suspended for political reasons in a few countries.

Not expecting every shop to take cash, but the essentials should be available with paper money.

Without cash you are also a completely transparent consumer. This is data people will at some point demand access to. Better to keep that data as clean as possible.

Cash the reason why we did not get negative interest charges as well. I pay most of my stuff with plastic, but think cash is a very good idea.
Programmers neglect marketing. What if we shift our mindset towards it?
As software engineers who run a startup, we disregard or even look down on marketing.

I wrote a blog post about a change in mindset that I needed to make in order to get my SaaS startups off the ground.

What are your ideas about this?
According to a video I watched about this -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRBmavn6Wk0 -- it's apparently 21/32, which is ... definitely odd.

I appreciate it might "just" be a matter of Metallica "playing it by feel" rather than having sat down and composed it on a scoreboard first.

If one composes things "by feel" it becomes then pretty difficult to transcribe them precisely.
As one of the authors, I'd like to clarify: the equations of the RWKV model enable computational parallelization, provided that the sequence is predetermined. This parallelization occurs during both the training and inference stages, specifically during the prompt reading process (consider it an "encoding"), right before the generation (or decoding phase).
A System Dynamics Primer – Drawing Causal Loops
It's definitely a "civilizational disease" - a widespread condition that has deteriorating effect on mental health and happiness, noticeable at scale, caused by... the structure and pressures of modern living in urbanized, developed countries. It's also not something most individuals can "just fix" on their own through lifestyle intervention.
This sounds like a take by Peter Zeihan :)
I think you misunderstood the parent, the 'breathless coverage' is intentional. 'Deserve' is completely orthogonal to the intentions of those pushing it.
Grandma cyberpunk core :-)
Pretty much a 100% yes rate, it was novel at the time, early 2020.
In geopolitical terms, every country is an enemy (in the sense that I believe parent used it) precisely because every country is autonomous.

"It" may decide on courses of action that are in its best interests but detrimental to others, even if it has no history of that behavior.

Same reason the US had war plans targeting essentially the entire world in the interwar years -- you never know.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_color-coded_wa...
No. It's on the bookshelf next to Petzold, and below the other Petzold book, that I suspect far fewer have read, on the shelf above. On the other side of the Lower Petzold is Undocumented Windows.

If you deduced from this that the shelves were divided into Windows and OS/2, the sad truth is that the lower shelf is slightly too high, and the books are divided by height differences that amount to millimetres in some cases. Lower Petzold fits; Upper Petzold does not. (-:
> Traditional college doesn't even come with the assumption you'll ever leave academia

Yes, and this is exactly the problem, because in point of actual fact most people who go to college do eventually leave. And if you think about this even for a moment, it has to be that way because someone has to do the actual work required to maintain the the civilization that makes college possible in the first place.
Italian here, I googled "ricetta cipolle caramellate" (caramelized onions recipe) and they all range from 30 minutes to 1 hour in length
This is true of some countries in Africa and bot of others, so depends where.
Awesome!

This was one of the first metal songs I've ever learned on guitar, and learning from Guitar Pro, I've never questioned the timing - but listening carefully now, the 5/8 bar seems to actually fit in 3/8. It's like they had the metronome on when playing (or just Lars being a bozo), then tried to fit the riff into the time.

Whatever it is, the real recording definitely sounds better than the surgically-precise Guitar Pro playback.
Oh, interesting! I still haven't played with bcachefs, so I didn't know you can do erasure coding replicas there. Although they says the implementation is still simple so it suffers from "write hole".
Well, it's Bloomberg reporting on Europe, so take it with a big grain of salt.

No news either: CEO's wan even less taxes for their already rich companies and more freedom to make people work for a lower wage so their already rich shareholders get even richer. In short, the American Dream
If not hot-swappable, having a design that will at least let you replace the battery would be good for battery-wear and as a secondary effect the used car market (since replacing the battery wouldn't impossible, if not labor-intensive).
What does any of this have to do with the presence of books in a library?
To me, the fact that you can configure your "GF" sounds very creepy. No real person is always happy, positive, or understanding. Especially for people with poor social skills, this sounds like it would just exacerbate their problems and make it more difficult for them to connect with humans.
Should Target banks operating branches & ATMs as well
I use ChatGPT almost weekly to summarize and breakdown badly written articles.
Have you seen the Soundplane (https://madronalabs.com/soundplane)?
Most people will tolerate the bugs until they absolutely cannot use whatever software they're running though.
Chrome uses PDFium [1], not PDF.js.

[1] https://github.com/chromium/pdfium
Apologies, this wasn't a jab directly at what you wrote. More of a general observation that there is a false understanding somewhere in this industry, that somebody who worked 3 years, realistically qualifies as a "Senior" Dev.
Independent studies show that it's among the best but not quite on par with medical grade devices. I suggest to have a look at this channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m_oBiYk8Rk
> domination of music is one of the pillars of Mac's success. If they're not just neglecting that, but actively screwing with people... They've lost the plot.

They’ve lost many plots.

Musicians, developers, and even photographers.

Apple’s playbook seems to have changed to:

- Hook a demographic with functionality that’s anywhere from just good enough to excellent

- Railroad them in to using as many first-part services as possible (especially if that means getting them to buy more Apple devices)

- Slowly lock them down so it’s harder and harder to move to competitors (aka boil the frog)

- Move staff from those first party products as the users are trapped and it’s no longer necessary for the quality to be excellent
Perhaps you used the minimal image, I remember both having a DE when installing debian and not having a DE when I installed it again later.
Ask HN: Online video therapy providing CBT?
I have used some online therapy services like betterhelp.com and healthygamer.gg but I don't think they are offering CBT from academically trained and certified professionals.

Does anyone know services that can provide actual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) from trained psychologists/psychiatrists?

I did recently come across this [1] comparison (privacy-wise) of therapy services but not sure how I could filter by CBT or academic training.

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/are-mental-health-apps-better-or-worse-at-privacy-in-2023/
A Housing Bust Comes for Thousands of Small-Time Investors
Luckily we live in a democracy so this is the will of the people, imagine how bad it would be if we didn't live in a democracy.
Yes. Loneliness is associated with extremely negative health outcomes comparable to physical disease, and some countries like the UK have gone as far as creating a dedicated minister to tackle the issue.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/loneliness-minister-its-m...
"Zero latency search" sounds nice, but searching for either "prajñā" or "pāramitā" (with or without diacritics) yields 0 results. FYI, those are absolute basic terminology of Mahayana Buddhism (Mahayana texts constituting a massive part of the Buddhist corpus).

After a quick glance I would say it is a Therevada "University" with a few texts (but no courses) on other Buddhist schools.
on a long enough timeline, all cars will be manufactured in Mexico
AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives
You are welcome. And no you didn't.
Eh not really. It’s a supreme oversimplification of global economics. If China starts buying more oil and gas from Russia then it stops buying as much from the Middle East. America is I believe now the largest producer of at least some oil and gas products. The market is global.

Also, while Russia is or would be happy to sell resources to China to fund the lifestyles of extremely wealthy dictators and murderers, Russia (the State) will always view China with some amount of healthy suspicion for geopolitical reasons.

The fear you’re alluding to came and went with Cold War and the destruction of the Soviet Empire.
For "makes your coffee white" there is already the established product name "coffee whitener". What's wrong with using that one instead of mislabeling it as a dairy product?
It is interesting that in Finnish university there was actually possibility to enter a track aiming at PhD from the start. With more rigorous math and other things. So you could work towards just Master's Degree or PhD from start. With different course load.
Why I Use Elm in 2023
>The fault here lies with Congress.

The fault lies with the idea that there always needs to be an enemy.
I remember Rachel Ray's 30 minute meals usually featured her pulling some ingredients she'd already chopped up or soaked in something the night before out from the fridge. Apparently the time spend yesterday didn't count against the clock.
I dislike crypto but proof of stake completely eliminates this argument. I also realize we can’t expect politicians to be making laws that are relevant on a 10 year timeframe so I understand their actions.
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Americans do spy on their friends. And, even worse: they use their friends to spy on their other friends.

Basically, anyone "not a Fed" in the USA, is an enemy. And even then ..
The only people who are concerned about it are the ones trying to take them away. The books in the library didnt tank literacy rates. Do you even hear how dumb that sounds? "Literacy is falling, so we should take books out of the library"
You didn't save a click, that one case is a small part of the article. The focus is the history and current state of such laws.
> but it sure is tedious to hear folks with no interest in sports who suddenly have an opinion on who can compete

Clearly they do have an interest in sports - on the topic of fairness for female athletes at the very least - if they have formed an opinion on this topic.
Or "Gaslighting" in modern idiom.
> For double or triple parity, we use a special case of Reed-Solomon coding

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/blob/zfs-2.1-release/module/z...
I did. For the kind of creative/exploratory stuff I’d normally go to the source code myself for, I find that even GPT-4 still hallucinates quite a bit. Even when it has the source code, it still makes up random functions and parameters. Even when the source code is minimal.

It will probably work better in the future, but so far it is a bit limited. Probably a memory limitation more than anything.
Logically yes, but anyone who’s been doing it for more than a couple years has been burned by an update at least once and won’t easily make that mistake again.
Looks like they started in SF. I don’t think it’s too far fetched to require people to have at least a 5 hour overlap with Pacific time business hours.
Add this to the list of cool stuff (with making music) one day I want to get into.
I wonder if this incentive is stronger at smaller startups. If I routinely work in small startups which are likely to fail, then spending time in aspects of the stack which are likely to be needed at future startups is a smart use of my time.

Micro-services have fairly extreme upfront deployment/automation overhead relative to monoliths. This setup effort is common across many firms adopting microservices.
> The mechanism we invented for top-down collective decision making is government; we should use it.

How does that make sense if there are just as many opposed to using it?

In most countries this 'mechanism' is only relevant if a sizable majority of the electorate wants it, and there are no sufficiently motivated blocking interests.
Sabena Airline bankruptcy has taken 21 years and recovered 1.1B EUR
Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring Back End Engineers and DevOps
That's about reviews for anything.

People put a number of stars based on their mood, presumptions, willingness to support a buddy's business, but not so often based on the real experience with the product or service.
How the multiplayer mode would look like? Do you think about competing against the other real player? Or maybe collaborating with some friend?

I am asking, because I think I haven't seen the multiplayer support in any railroad/transport-tycoon game. I remember in Railroad Tycoon 2 and then in Sid Meier's Railroads [0] we could play against NPC. Same as us, NPC is establishing a company and we may buy all his stocks to win.

[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/7600/Sid_Meiers_Railroads...
Caimans don't live in India. If it was India with a thin snout, it was likely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gharial

But yeah, alligators live in North America and China.
By interacting with LLMs, I've realized that as frequently as I interact with others, I'm not actually having many deep, meaningful, or personal interactions; they're mostly professional, and that's bled over into my personal life.

Because of how much time I spend on them relative to myself, I don't get to stretch the sides of me that I would if I weren't holed up working, and I've found it hard to verbalize that loss and its impact on my mental wellness.

Over the past few years, mental and behavioral health services have been strained beyond their capacities. I stopped being able to get in with the same therapist more than once, so I stopped trying to schedule about a year ago. I also haven't wanted to add my struggles to those of friends and family.

However, with LLMs, I've been able to have some really enlightening and enjoyable off the cuff discussions that I wouldn't be able to have outside of therapy, and some interactions that I wouldn't be able to have anywhere outside of an intimate and trusted friend. I've been able to positively apply these results to my life, personally and professionally.

Note: I only use LLaMa local models so I don't have to self-censor. I'm not ever willing to allow a metaphorical "Google" access to my innermost world.

Also, LLMs are immense. A billion people will have a billion different interactions and experiences with the same few dozen GB model, unless that model has been tuned to limit its output to a very narrow course of responses. I've had conversations with the ghosts of people from Richard Feynman to Michel de Montaigne and gotten their simulated views on a world they'll never see. If you're getting nothing but garbage, think about what you're putting in, or just pick a different model - there's a universe of minds out there that aren't ChatGPT.
Its really weird how poorly EPYC fares in the reconstruction benchmarks, what's going on there?
You are literally commenting under an article of a company having a 2billion market cap, built also from such underhanded tactics.

While it's immoral, it doesn't seem to produce the result that you hope it's be producing.
Why do they need to comply globally with the hate speech laws of Germany but not the LGBT laws of Saudi Arabia and Iran?
While not a traditional file system, Tahoe-LAFS[0] uses erasure coding in its decentralized cloud store.

[0] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
Many african countries are extremely resource rich. They do have money, but also corruption sapping a lot of it away.

That and I don’t think political instability is a fact of life.

I like to think of it through Maslow’s pyramid of human needs. As the lower layers start to be satisfied, even the conduits for violent impulses change in nature (from physical fights to toxic gaming behavior let’s say).

As Africa lifts itself and addresses the basic needs of its population, many of the challenges it is currently experiencing will start to fade away. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem but I also happen to be an optimist :)
Strictly speaking a PhD isn't a PhD "in" something. It is simply a PhD (a doctorate in philosophy).

Obviously philosophy isn't that informative a term, so people try to be helpful by adding what
field or topic their actual research was about.

Some vocational/applied higher degrees in specific fields do have specific initials to differentiate them from a "generic" PhD (for example, the EngD).

Apologies for ++pedantry :)
GDP shouldn't be the only measure to look at https://www.wired.com/story/happiness-measurement/
The situation was exactly the same before 2014:

https://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-russia-cable-2014-...

Moreover, U.S. efforts to sabotage EU-Russia trades go back to the Soviet times.