skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not losing relative pitch at all[0], it's actually kind of the opposite. Relative pitch and absolute pitch are at odds with each other in some contexts. There are many reasons as to why, and if you search tuning theory [1] you can find some amount of technical information. In this post I'll only cover a tiny portion of the reason, there are many other reasons, but this is one fundamental reason why.

To give a basic gist, two of the most fundamental intervals in music are octave (2:1 frequency ratio) which is 1200 cents, and perfect fifth (3:2 frequency ratio) which is about 702 cents. You'll find that if you stack 12 of these perfect fifths you come back to the same note (seven octaves up) but 23.46 cents off. 23.46 cents off is very much audible by every human being who is not speech impaired, so it'll sound extremely jarring (dissonant). This makes musical composition within the tradition of Western art/church music challenging. So, to fix this, we use 700 cents as the interval of approximate perfect fifth and each semitones apart by 100 cents (so that perfect fifth is 7th note and octave the 12th). We call this system "12 tone equal temperement" which is standard in all genres of Western music (from classical to jazz to pop to rock... but other cultures have many other systems). Now your piano will be tuned to these notes (0, 100, 200, 300... cents) such that it's impossible to play other notes. When people learn absolute pitch, they learn these notes are C, C#, D, D# etc. But when an instrument with continuous pitch plays (such as violin, cello, human voice etc) you do not need to be bound by this tempering. So you can actually play a perfect fifth as 702 cents. As long as the piece is not so chromatic/atonal such that you need 12 perfect fifths to add up to seven octaves, it'll work out. But when someone with perfect pitch listens to this effect, it can feel jarring, particularly because music is "out of tune". This can make piano music feel "out of tune" for people who are used to just intonation (e.g. violinists) and violin music feel "out of tune" for people who are used to 12TET (e.g. pianists with perfect pitch).

[0] Note that relative pitch is required to understand spoken human language, so as long as you don't have a speech impediment, you can likely understand relative pitch just fine. Of course, ear training can help you label the intervals you hear and associate them with names, not something all laymen can do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tuning
> The authors find that being hit by a 1,000-pound heavier vehicle results in a 47 percent increase in the baseline probability of being killed in the accident

https://www.nber.org/digest/nov11/vehicle-weight-and-automot...
Apple stores started opening in Canada in 2005. This was two years before the introduction of the iPhone.
> We need some regulation to only allow vehicles over a certain size to be commercial only.

Just treat them exactly the same, emission standards and all, as cars, and the problem will quickly solve itself
Maybe this is a radical position, but if users have given you data based on the agreement that you'll follow a particular privacy policy, then material changes to that policy should require the user's consent.

If a user doesn't consent, then sure, you can go ahead and do whatever policy changes or mergers or acquisitions you want, but you don't get to include that user's data in the deal.
Yes, I would agree the current state of the profession absolutely attracts low quality candidates. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. Every other wealthy nation understands this.
Hard for me to strongly distinguish this from e.g. following celebrities and today, youtubers et al, for better or worse.
>You also make trucks that regular people don't need but buy anyway, and make our streets less safe.

This is a race to the bottom effect. Those old simpsons jokes revealed a sad truth of our american car based society - If you want a bigger chance of surviving an accident, you want you and your loved ones in a bigger car.

Here in Europe you rarely get to speeds where you can even get a bruise in an accident, but in the unused stretches of the autobahn, it can be pretty terrifying. Not as terrifying as driving 70mph in Florida as teenagers pass at 120 and a granny is driving 40 though.
> I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous
— Bill Bruford
https://billbruford.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/interview...
Fedora is to RHEL what Debian Sid is to Debian stable.

Yes, it's not that simple, and there are some customization done. But Fedora is the playground for the next RHEL. I woudn't consider Fedora "an alternative" according to what the top-poster was describing.
A solution is to tax vehicles based on the ratio of number of seats to weight, with a massive tax premium for massively heavy vehicles.

Obviously at the moment (certainly here in the UK) there are loop holes when trucks and vans are "commercial vehicles" with different tax levels, many not used for commercial purposes. They need to be closed off, maybe include cargo volume in the equation so an oversized heavy pickup with little carrying capacity is penalised over a commercial van.

We are also overdue ending significant tax breaks for electric vehicles. We have reached the point where we are over the hump needed to shift the market to EVs.
The tooling (Visual Studio, LSPs, etc.) around F# is very lacklustre, I wish it had better support from MS. At the moment F# just seems to be a playground for experimenting with FP ideas that then get ported to C#.

As for learning a functional language, I recommend this Haskell tutorial[0], and accompanying video series of an experienced haskeller (Brian McKenna) running through it[1]. I've read countless texts and tutorials explaining Haskell and FP to me but it didn't fully click until I saw someone with experience using the language and tooling effectively.

[0]: https://github.com/system-f/fp-course
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLly9WMAVMrayYo2c-1E_r...

There are a few other video series from other experienced haskellers available that may be better, too, I just haven't watched them so I cannot comment.
Yes, of course. Lines of text are classic regular grammars so anything parsing them is a DFA at heart.

Is there a take-home message I'm supposed to get from your comment?

My comment was meant to be a light-hearted observation that you're overthinking the problem, since your language of choice likely has this built-in.

Or a boast that Python has a built-in feature for what requires a custom TXL and/or TypeScript solution. ;)
I have mixed feelings about it. if nothing else, the name..."slog" isn't exactly the word i want repeating to myself as I'm working.
Where you are failing here is likely empathy, or understanding how other people work or think. This might be because lack of experience in programming, or just because of reflexive negativity. Even if you think Python is a terrible language, for many people it’s the best language for the job. This also includes must PhDs, because Python is the most used languge in science and academia.

When doing critical thinking, please set asides your own biases and try to understand that your own viewpoint is not always the correct one.
Majority of US homes do not have an abundance of 240v outlets - meaning your 40 hour charge is a non-starter for everyone but those in high income brackets and ability to modify their homes (ie. non-renters).
Cybertruck is so far first announced and last (still not) delivered pickup truck...
Thats not true with Ubuntu Pro, which includes support for way more packages than RHEL, 10 thousand to be exact, and is much cheaper with more features like included kernel Livepatching.
Me too. Flash is a great technology, but it tends to forget things, especially if there's no power applied to it.
You refactored your code, you think you wrote your ``min`` function, but no, it'll call the builtin one, without warning you..

I don't like this design..
This is extremely obvious to most, but apparently it wasn't to you.

The base system packages are exempt from the stipulation I posted above.
You would have a big group of people who would really struggle if they ever had to play something familiar transposed, rather than just a handful.

What the post you're replying to is alluding to is all the ways that pitch is simply not absolute. That can be for boring reasons: you're playing with an organ, or some other instrument with fixed or temperature dependent pitch, or in a different city with different conventions; but also for the interesting reason that the "correct" pitch of a C, say, is the result of a mostly-unconscious negotiation that considers ones' place within a chord that's sounding and the melody you're playing. Even equal-tempered tuned keyboard instruments involves compromise wrt placement of the octaves, etc.
Are Vibrams a shoe brand? I see lots of vibram rubber soles on other brands boots.
> Who could even arbitrate that?

HOAs. They should be outlawed, or at least made legally non-mandatory.
You can teach basic calculus to high school students in a couple hours, if they have a solid understanding of algebra.
Meh, it was just an example. The point is that extremely dense data storage is now concievable, though perhaps not yet practical (e.g. using a "DNA drive") so this magnitude of units has it's place in the real world.
Fair point. But what surprised me was the way HasAVX2 is getting set. It is set on the hardware that has AVX2, even if you set GOAMD64=v1.
> third party apps are where a lot of things will come up that Apple themselves likely haven't thought of.

Until they sherlock it. Honestly, I'd be terrified to come up with something that became too popular in their app store.
It's not a sale of information to a third party. It's the sale of a business and transferring the business to the first party. Businesses buying and selling businesses happens, all the time. Customer data is being transferred in the process, all the time.

Is there anything noteworthy going on here, or are we just confused/pretending to be confused about the world and looking to put a spin on it?
That's true. And each one of those teams is going to need intra-team support teams with a lot of enterprise project managers, product managers, technical project managers, stakeholders, directly responsible individuals. There's going to be schedules to manage, rollouts, release dates, code lockdowns. Build engineers, infrastructure to support the build engineers and the project managers. Engineers are going to be spending so much time in standups, meetings, pre-meeting meetups, all-hands, etc that they'll be lucky to get an unbroken hour a day to code at all. Before you know it you have 500 people doing a job that's entirely doable by a handful of hardworking people.
Did you see their decisions on the new Bronco making it a luxury SUV pricing it out of the realm of 98% of the population?
Sentimental.
It’s very interesting that I’ve heard it suggested to build a water pipeline to deliver water from the east to the west because the west is out of water, but I have not heard it proposed to create a pipeline carrying nutrient slurry from Ohio to California in case California has to stop growing food on account of being out of water.

Maybe there’s a reason we are supposed to be thinking inside of boxes, after all.
They talked about this briefly on the WVFRM podcast [1]. Apparently the pass-through is significantly better than other headsets they’ve tried to the point that they felt comfortable walking around and overcoming that sense of vulnerability you describe. Still, $3500 is quite a lot.

[1] https://youtu.be/17-aVWFa098?t=5084
I could be wrong but I don’t think mushrooms will help you learn piano
In the market for a 3 row full-size SUV and Ford Expedition was on top of my list. But I guess as a software developer my work is not "real work" and I am not "real people" (whatever the fuck that means)? Shrug! Ford's off my list then.
They are both larger and heavier than in 2005. This also reduces the efficiency requirements.
Rent a Sleeping Pod – Shared Homes in California Starting at $500/Month
About what? Real work or real people or both?
Lol that would be an awesome feature!
> People charge in the middle of the night when its cheap.

Why is it cheap in the middle of the night? Because there's near zero demand.

Fast forward 10 years and everyone has 1-2 EV's to charge each night. Is there zero demand still? No... and now it's expensive to charge at night.

People really need to be realistic about these things. Pretending these issues do not exist only harms EV adoption. People buy expensive EV's and find out it's a major PITA to keep it running, it's expensive to charge, it takes forever to charge, etc.
Both of those things seem like they have a chance of splattering on the cameras.
I wonder if anyone ever came up with an elaborate mechanism connected to a pen.
The proposal[0] gives a rationale. Using builtin functions lets them be variadic without allocating a slice.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/59488
Schools Have Had It with Google [video]
I like Rust, but I wouldn't categorize it as a "better-C". It is a whole different world, and some things work well in Rust but not in C, and vice versa. Many things are flat out uncomfortable to express in Rust, and the number of times you need to bail out and just Rc<RefCell<T>> or Arc<Mutex<T>> random things is a bit high.

Interacting with anything but basic C is also horrible, requiring significant engineering efforts to hide the glue in a binding crate when possible, and sometimes it just doesn't work out. Many C libraries are heavy on linked lists of linked lists with their own lifetimes, and that's Rust's kryptonite.

Zig is definitely a "better-C", but also young and not nearly as widely adopted.
InMusic where music software goes to die. Has MixMeister been updated yet?
Microsoft for sure trapped the whole Europe, is that the case in North America? I think both AWS and Google are doing something similar
“What did you work on today?”
I learned about this from Reddit. <https://np.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/13iisse/nyc_faces_growi...>
> Q: Why doesn't RES incorporate reddit gold features?

> It's unfair and unwise to undercut reddit inc.'s development work. Get gold!

This is about Gold but it might be a more general "we do not step on Reddit's toes" kind of rule too.
>The issue is that there is no alternative. I'm not aware of any distro with its base and all its packages working seamlessly with SELinux enabled.

Why is this a dealbreaker ? Ubuntu has apparmor which is similar. Maybe selinux is stricter/granular etc., but that's not a business level differentiator. Your company won't fail or succeed because of selinux.
Hmmm... it's light and physics, not sure how it could get much smaller. Lighter, maybe. Thinner, maybe. But smaller, no.

Not unless someone figures out the contact lens or the direct brain uplink.
by what metric is Johannesburg the richest city in Africa?
In the cities in Europe maybe theres mo major speed. There are plenty of fatal accidents due to speeding or drunk driving on smaller roads though.
How often are you stepping in dog shit that this is a concern?
Fiction writing.

It'll eventually be useful in games when the model sizes come down, but the novelty of being able to talk every NPC into abandoning their scripted goals and starting a family with you and living together in marital bliss until the HDOTU will wear off quickly.

The scary part will be when NPCs are pre-emptively directed by the developer/hypervisor to say and do anything to keep you engaged in every way possible, adapting to your behavior like a meth-dispensing slot machine that broadcasts pornography while you sleep.

For the sake of both fun and bandwidth, we'll have to move back to scripted dialogue and behavior.
It's pretty easy to find the answers you want with a couple of Google searches. Large trucks are way more dangerous to pedestrians (and especially dangerous and heartwrenching is all the kids who are killed every year when their parents drive over them because they can't see them over the giant height of the front grill). It's also simple physics that larger vehicles will produce more destructive crashes when average vehicle mass increases.

Your "bicycle is more dangerous than a pedestrian" is a very poor analogy. Bicycles provide a ton more utility than walking. The same can't really be said for a suburban parent driving a couple of kids to soccer practice in a giant truck vs. the station wagons of the past.
(You’d never want the box in either of those situations, as the data is already boxed by the Arc or Rc)
I'm sure there will be a thriving ecosystem of protective accessories.
This is yet another absurd statement in a long litany of absurd statements about this subject that I see constantly on HN.

And it is asburd because there is no such thing as "pre-training" is nature, much less anything done by evolution. Pre-training is very specifically a technique used on artificial neural nets, and then only specific kinds thereof.

Even in a metaphorical sense, an analogy cannot be drawn, between training an artificial neural net on many billions of instances of text, created by humans, carefully tokenised, or images, on the one hand; and, on the other hand, the evolutionary forces that operate in the real world, where there are no boundaries between the different sensory stimuli that animal nervous systems must learn to distinguish and manipulate.

What you're proposing is nothing but a "just-so" story. "How the squirrel got his brains and how the cockroach lost hers". By E. V. Olution.
Hard to tell if it’s such a gamble considering all their prior consoles were aimed that way as well. If anything, the gamble was in not making the move towards “hardcore gamers” that everyone else was making at the time. They had their established idea of reality and they didn’t cave into what everyone else was pursuing. Such insight can be a unique asset itself.

Which, your point stands nevertheless. You have to have some level of deeper understanding of and experience with a market to pull it off. Having some sort of philosophy and principles probably don’t hurt either.
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Primary Sponsor: D. Short

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Long Title: AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SEAFORD RELATING TO THE CITY'S ABILITY TO AUTHORIZE ARTIFICIAL ENTITIES, LIMITED LIABILITY CORPORATIONS' PARTNERSHIPS AND TRUSTS TO VOTE IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS HELD IN SEAFORD.

Original Synopsis: This bill would allow the City of Seaford to authorize artificial entities, limited liability corporations' partnerships and trusts to vote in Municipal elections held in Seaford.
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This would solve the problem I noted. I have never seen such a glorious scale. More of this in my neighborhood, pretty please.

BUT

Worth mentioning that this unit is twice as long overall than the units where I shop, which are set up two deep. I think with a scale this large, you’re halving the number of lanes you can support.
It's tricky talking about racial stuff though I'd say the difference between the Afrikaans/Dutch origin government and the current African one is more culture than skin colour.
> C is better because it doesn't try to program for you, it isn't clever, convenient, or have any ideas about how you structure or solve a particular problem.

Oh, C very much does have ideas. One of the big problems I have with C is that it has a surprisingly limited feature set that makes it difficult or impossible to express certain programming styles. Want to describe a function that returns multiple values? Well, you can't really do that (especially if you want this to mean "use two registers"). How about using unwind to express exceptional control flow? Can't do that either. Or if you want a function with multiple entry points? Or coroutines? C's fundamental inability to express certain kinds of control flow [1] greatly limit your ability to structure your code in ways that might make the code clearer.

> It also turns out that if you remove all the fancy abstraction and write everything out, the code becomes very maintainable and easy to manage.

I think experience has shown that this is not the case. The closest kernel of truth you might find is that if writing code requires a certain amount of tedium, that tends to limit the scale you can grow a codebase to, and size is one of the largest drivers of complexity. While it's definitely the case that abstraction can decrease maintainability, it is a mistake to think that it necessarily does so. Indeed, abstraction is often necessary to make code more maintainable. For example, when I design APIs, I think very hard about how to design it in such a way that it's impossible to misuse the API. So I make my APIs distinguish between UTF-8 strings and Latin-1 strings, so you can't be confused as to what's in them, or even distinguish between a row number and a column number.

The other thing to bring up is that we know quite well that humans are pretty bad at doing tedious, repetitive tasks with high accuracy. And computers are pretty good at that! What this suggests is that languages should be designed so that things that are tedious and repetitive--such as propagating errors up a stack, or cleaning up resources on failure--can be done by the compiler and not the programmer. As we've seen with things like gotofail, C is a language which lacks features that enable work to be pushed onto the compiler and not the programmer, and code written in C suffers as a result of that.

[1] And there's even more exotic kinds that I could get into--this is merely the list of features available in languages you've probably heard of, maybe even used!
[webkit-dev] unsigned vs unsigned int (2012)
It's not even the font in question, some other random font they're trying to sell I guess.
With the possible exception of "Drake’s Uncharted" which I've never heard of, none of the other games you listed (including all currently released games in the Uncharted franchise) are PS5 exclusives (although most were initially only released on PS 2, 3, or 4)
https://googlethatforyou.com?q=suv%20kill%20people%20study
Yes. https://www.vibram.com/us
This isn't a new issue. For example, WhatsApp and all of its data was sold to Facebook. I'm sure some people closed their WhatsApp accounts because they didn't agree with Facebook's privacy policies.
Briefs? Or Jockstraps?
That doesn't seem to be true, unless I'm misunderstanding something.
https://go.dev/play/p/ymM0tD3aGYg?v=gotip

Obviously these sample functions don't take into account all the intricacies of float min/max functions.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/8HP2M
Man, kids today with their precautionary principle. Also, this whole idea that “the thinking that got us into this mess can’t get us out.”

Or, the world is complicated and progress is complicated and we just keep on keeping on because probably they will work out.

Both of these are faith based positions, it seems. But I like the latter. The precautionary principle is way too risky for my taste.
People who spend $3500 on a headset are industrial/professional users who will make more than $3500 in value for it. That is why Microsoft HoloLens, and a lot of commercial AR products you've never heard of, cost even more.
Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt
Programming languages for quantum computing needs to uphold some rules normal programs does not need to. The biggest is likely that no information may be destroyed when the program is run, from this follows that it needs to be reversible. This means that from any result you should be able to compute the input. Rules like these can be hard to uphold in normal languages (I have done it with a subset of rust in the past) so a specialized language is often used instead.

There is probably more to it, but these are the parts I know a bit about.
How is such content even allowed here? It's not available due to GDPR and paywalls.
What's the rate of such collisions for trucks and sedans?