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Show HN: Perfect Pitch Puzzle – a musical Wordle daily ear training game
Hi all! Thanks for checking out the side project my family and I have been working on (on and off) for the past year. We were playing wordle when we thought: wouldn't it be fun if you had to guess musical notes (ABCDEFG) instead of words? And what if the notes you had to guess were actually the first six notes of a familiar melody?

My brother and I both have perfect pitch, which has been really helpful when we want to cover a song that we like, or improvise in a jazz or blue grass setting. We don’t promise that this game will help you gain perfect pitch, but it is possible to train your ear to more accurately gauge sounds, and our hope is that this game will help with that.

So far we’ve gotten feedback from consistent players that the game has helped non-musicians more easily identify notes based on relative pitches, and helped even musicians improve their ability to remember tunes better, which is good to hear.

The game has evolved with different instruments and difficulty modes (easy, normal, hard), but the essence has remained the same:
- One new musical puzzle a day
- The octave moves with the melody, so you don’t need to worry about the octave; you just need to guess the pitch

There are a few things we want to improve as well, like:
- improved mobile support (especially Android)
- a “practice mode” - allow users to play more than one game per day, or multiple variations of notes, with visual feedback on how close they were to guessing the note
- making it easier to add new songs to the database (currently it takes 5-10 minutes to code in a new song)
any other feedback that we get here or in our Discord. :)

PS. If you already have perfect pitch or want to challenge yourself to the impossible, I'd recommend playing the "bird_tweet" instrument in "hard" mode!
I use a notebook with a 32 Gb soldered on eMMC for /boot and a 512 Gb microSD for /.

And you can't stop me.
Apple still grades their AppleTV boxes by local storage amounts. For 128GB it’s 150$. IMO that sort of weirdness positions it just a little too far from a chromecast/roku/fire stick for the average person wanting to escape their smart TV garbage OS. The 64GB box is still 130$, and people might not even understand why they need any disk space at all. (I don’t use much of my Apple TV’s 64GB) The fire stick at 40$ looks pretty good in that light. Why pay more?

It would just sell better at 99$ IMO, and there’s obvious things to cut to create apple’s usual “price ladder”. I’m not using the games, nor am I using more than 8GB of storage.
You're right -- I have no idea why fp64 wouldn't be half the speed of fp32, and traditionally it is. I was simply taking them at their word. Maybe they're exaggerating or maybe they did what you suggest and hamstrung fp32.
Longlife tech to inspire us beyond our throwaway culture
I am not an AI doomer, nor overly concerned with AI risk, but this post isn't a good rebuttal to the AI doomers. It mostly says "Nuh-uh, you're all being stupid".
Remove all safety breaks, ignore the doomers, accelerate, maximize profits.
Yann LeCun: "Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*."
> I have no idea what "Max" is in the GP

HBO Max, a streaming service.
This seems more of a course about how to use Generative AI - does anyone have a good recommendation of a course or book about how they actually work?
Another example is driving licenses: driving is a privilege, not a right. If it were a right, there would be no such thing as a "license" to drive, and anyone, regardless of age or ability, could drive a motor vehicle anywhere.
Found the issue. In collaboration mode, when user deletes a sheet another user was on, this error is thrown. Will work on a fix. Thanks for the report.
It’s actually only 5 years, not for the life of the film.
HBOmax - removed a ton of shows (some well regarded) for the tax write offs
In today's world, where is your confidence coming from? Maybe I'm just too pessimistic, but when studying WWII in school, I was always baffled by how the people could allow such people to become in charge. I always felt like nothing like that could happen today because as a society, we've learned what can happen and quash it before it gets to that point again. Yet, here I sit today amazed that it isn't being quashed.

So, the reasoning for my disagreeing is largely based on the lack of evidence that as a society we just can't help but fire the footguns

Edit: also, let's also look at the precedence on the decisions made by the socials on how companies will use tech/data/manipulation/etc. not good there either
How do you think they make money off you without ads?
My personal side projects have helped me land jobs multiple times in the past, but they are absolutely not the way to advance your career.

Let me be very clear: career advancement and competency are entirely unrelated.

If you want to advance your career get a masters degree. Get promoted out of development as early as possible and learn to manage people, assets, and finances. You can be absolutely horrible with both software and dealing with people and still advance into more money and responsibility in the software industry.

If you want to be a better software developer spend lots of time writing original software progressively solving harder and harder problems. Odds are, I mean this absolutely overwhelmingly, you will have to do this entirely outside of work. Becoming brilliant in software is the equivalent of being a mindless patent clerk and toying with ideas about physics at night. You won't get hired for being brilliant until you make something brilliant. Sometimes that means asking for help. Consider that Einstein needed help with advanced math.

Why is this the case? Because the economics of software is not well understood and there is no established baseline of competence. The industry cannot even figure out how to tell competent developers apart from people who simply most enjoy hearing the sound of their voice.
Super interesting. I’ve seen that as a rumor but never confirmed.

It’s an example of the sort of grey area that would’ve made “openai 2.0” tricky at Microsoft.

A small startup can ignore ToS and scrape YouTube but Microsoft cannot.
damn. indeed.
10 years and tens of millions of users means insufficiently abundant evidence?

It's like the fearmongering around MDMA, which claims that there will be delayed harmful effects from meddling with your brain chemistry, but hundreds of millions of users and decades later where is the widespread harm? Arguably it proves that it's one of the safest drugs on earth.

Of course controlled studies are rigorous, but widespread use must also lead to widespread harm if it exists. There may be hidden harm because it's a small effect on a large population or only harms a small population, but that just means it's relatively safe.
So we’re still pretending smoking and vaping are anything alike?
> My bias is that 50% of ADHD'ers have anxiety disorders due to noradrenaline running high.

I think this is partially the case. I think the glutamatergic system is messed up which causes the release of too much norephenephrine and dopamine.

After a while this causes down-regulation and the actual neuron pathways develop "bad connection" e.g. the frontal lobe develops bad habits/poor motivation.

At this point you're stimulated via norephephine but you have poor motivation/focus because of the dopamine tolerance.

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NAC is an interesting candidate you might find interesting as it directly effects the glutamatergic system. I was recommended this by my doctor and had a good personal experience (I'm not a doctor, etc).
If you have the possibility I would be quite interested in a link to the video or alternatively the name of the researcher you mention.
Even if I watch the ad nobody is making any money from it. I'm just saving their bandwidth. But even with the latest 'crackdown', I haven't seen a single advert or nag screen so I guess the crackdown isn't very effective.
Apple TV is only a tuner, not the screen, so this Fire TV can still show you ads, even if you have set the source input to an external device.

This will almost certainly become a reality when a sufficient #users buy an Apple TV, through a remotely activated update (of the Fire TV).
That's... Not possible?
It’s at the very end of the blog post:

“The maximum size of a key value store is 5 MB, and you can associate a single key value store to each function. The maximum size of a key is 512 bytes. Values can be up to 1KB in size.“
Or me when I’m playing Catharge at Diplomacy.

I’m not good at this game, at all. To a point that scares my friends, actually.
> Or a transfer of power from US-centric companies to actual sovereign bodies.

Why are your characterizing the CA/Browser forum as US centric companies? Its a collection of certificate issuers from all over and notably includes European Accredited Conformity Assessment Bodies’ Council and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
It is though, I definitely had project not-launched which had expenses that accountants found much harder to justify then launched projects. Taxes isn't a hard science but a soft one, and when talking to a tax officer, as far as my limited knowledge goes, launching a product or movie does help to ease their fraud suspicions.
LeCun: Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*.
https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1728126868342145481
> The worst is getting downvotes every time we point this out

I didn't down vote you.

No solution is 100% perfect in the tech world. I won't knock them for trying to make some money to keep afloat, even if they aren't (probably) the best at managing money.

I care if I can't turn them off. As you've pointed out, you can do that.

There's no date on your referenced article (pet peeve), so I can't tell when it was done. However it's been a long time (so much I so, I can't even remember) that I've seen ads that I couldn't turn off.
Heh, sounds like the next big Netflix white collar crime hit will be self-referential then. Will they reuse their Streamberry alter ego from Black Mirror or appear as Netflix proper?
From the Times article:

> [Rinsch] transferred more than $4 million from his Schwab account to an account on the Kraken exchange and bought Dogecoin, a dog-themed cryptocurrency.

Guy sounds like a dummy

> Unlike his stock market investments, this one paid off: When he liquidated his Dogecoin positions in May 2021, he had a balance of nearly $27 million.

Shit, maybe I'm the dummy?
Not sure about lung cancer, but we know enough about the negative health impact of air pollution that a little common sense should tell us that putting random garbage in your lungs is unlikely to be good for you.
> and that giving someone a salary is enough reason for them to subjugate the entirety of themselves as they turn up to work every day...

> Well, you're wrong, and you can fucking bite me.

Hear, hear!
Dog Intelligence
I would watch it.

My wife would probably head to her sister's for the weekend.
I used to watch YouTube quite a lot on my TV without ad blocking, but over the past few years the quantity and duration of ads became so incredibly ridiculous that I stopped doing that. It's probably not what they intended, but the primary effect is that I drastically cut down on the amount of time I spend watching YT. Whenever I do watch videos it's now on desktop or mobile with an ad blocker, and it's not enough to justify the price of Premium.
The thing is that you can currently choose which org to give that power, and at least so far, those orgs have acted in line with wanting you to choose them (i.e. on your behalf).
Yep, I’ve since learned that haha. When friends have a tolerance, they might not remember what no tolerance feels like.
A* is a red-herring based on availability bias.

Q* is already a thing and it's the Bellman equation describing the optimal action-value function.
Probably anyone willing to spend some time to save some money. They could also sell the tool for less than any of the books and make money while saving their customers the full price of the book. https://octagon-simon.github.io/projects/unscrambler/ Here's a word unscrambler that was made with a tutorial on what they did, so from there someone else only needs to consume the jumbled words, unscramble each one, and if there are multiple options for a word it can be in a select list or something so the user can choose the correct word. It's a novel trick, but isn't going to help for long.
Oh I meant the Fire TV 4K streaming stick, not their actual Fire TVs. Their naming has become really confusing. They used to call the previous ones Fire TV Sticks, but I think they dropped the "Stick" from the name in the recent versions.

Although I should look into the Store Mode setting for the Samsung TV which is connected to the Fire TV. Thanks for the suggestion!
Would be funny if the post was written using ChatGPT.
No, CloudCaptain is based on Linux, and tries to provide a minimal, though Linux-based, image.

Unikernels do not use Linux at all: you can always try to minimize Linux but fundamentally it is a monolithic OS and fully specializing with it would require non-negligible engineering.

Instead, unikernels are (typically) based on a modular OS that makes it easier to pick and choose modules for each target application, resulting in images that can be an order of magnitude smaller, boot much faster, etc.

The difficulty with unikernels in the past has been to (1) making them Linux API compatible, (2) making them accessible/easy to use and (3) integrating them with popular tooling ecosystems (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, etc.)
One principle in game theory is to align against the weaker player and compete against him.

"Look Around the Poker Table; If You Can’t See the Sucker, You’re It"

That's an easier game then competing against another strong player.
No, “I’m a victim” is largely a reinforcement to anxiety.
Yes, this was also thrown in collaboration mode when user deleted an active sheet of another user. Will need to figure out how to handle this case :(

Thanks for the report :)
Slightly unrelated, but there is a 19 hour fan-edit of the Hobbit + Lord of the Rings -- i.e someone glued all 3 Hobbit movies and all 3 LotR movies into a 19 hour video.
They're either:

A) Not as finished as being represented by media, and the costs associated with finishing them exceed the likely value of the finished product

B) The studio views the finished product as being of marginal value and damaging to their brand
For Falcon 9, the costs and payloads aren't just claims. You can go to SpaceX today and buy a flight.

For Starship, it's an in-development rocket with a focus on novel technology as well as cost engineering. Orders of magnitude cheaper is a great goal but it's impossible to know if or when SpaceX can achieve it.
Yann has been a refreshing source of reason and common sense with regards to AI safety, regulation and open-source. I wish we had more people like him and less AI doomer cultists.
I remember reading this paper about this time exactly a year ago - why isn’t 2022 in the title?
You could, of course, just pay YouTube $14/mo for the ad-free version instead of complaining.
I'm looking for SES alternative in a box, I wish I could send my own emails no need to manage inbox, just send.
Giving AI space to represent and deliberate about the world separately (secretly, in the case of Diplomacy) is an obvious, but very productive step once “think step by step” has been established as a key improvement over LLM’s standard logorrhea (not dissing, it’s just their only way of interacting with the world: spewing the next word, again and again).

I’m curious if there’s more to this model than a turn management, input and output world states and prompting two streams of consciousness and using one to inform the other at every step. More new models have required some creative tricks to not be disappointing in “obvious” (human common sense) ways.
I'm curious how you got ads with premium. I have not seen any.
It largely depends on where you’re hosting your mail server. Certain providers (e.g. Digital Ocean) are a complete no-go. Their IP ranges are completely untrusted.
LeCun at least knows a lot about AI. Most of the Q* stuff is coming from people who know almost nothing.
Ask HN: Any AI-based Code Assistants for web CRUD apps?
I'm looking for something to help me faster code CRUD endpoints for a Rails side project. Is there something more integrated than ChatGPT4? Like, I give it access to my codebase, it parses it and understands the models etc. and can then crank simple features?
> Sorry bud, Google makes its money spying on my email and my searches.
If only more users realised that's the case.
https://www.techradar.com/news/nearly-half-of-all-online-tra...
One of the most awesome experiences of my life was sailing close to a cargo ship and hearing the full blast of the horn, crashing through the bow waves and marveling at the size of the ship. The size and power of these monsters is impossible to describe. Many people have seen one sit still but seeing them move from up close is completely different. The power and energy with which these massive objects move... it is as if an entire mountain sprung to life. The largest cargo ships are in fact even larger than the Empire State Building. Imagine the largest of the skyscrapers charging forward at you, churning water, pushing forward at incredible speed.

A warning to those who want to try this at home: You typically don't want to get too close to a moving cargo ship (or a stationary one with a moving propellor) as they have incredible suction power that will rapidly draw you closer like your boat weighs nothing. This power can easily capsize you or slam you into the hull with incredible speed. My boat is ten thousand pounds of steel with a powerful diesel engine, oversized for its class. Container ships move it to and fro as if it was weightless, a mote of dust on a sunbeam rudely sent zigzagging by a passing gust. Underestimate these monsters at your own peril.
My anecdote was more to suggest that cannabis usage does not always result in a user being a “walking train wreck.” I’d say it’s anecdotes all around.
That may be true with regards to iOS vs Android. But there are a few things you’re missing - a much larger community of blind iOS users, consistency in devices - ie you always know that you’re going to get a minimum
quality - longer device operating system updates and Apple Stores for in person support.
It’s all fun and games until you lose big client email offer because MS outlook decided to mark yours as a spam.. not a scare tactic but a warning that if you do that, make sure you have parallel communication channels with whoever your communicating with, just in case.
I’ve used both and personally prefer https://mailcow.email/
>Even if I watch the ad nobody is making any money from it.

What?
This pizza box-sized equipment could be key to Ukraine keeping the lights on
Holding accountable is fine, but it does tend to be abused.

I was thinking along the lines of overall harm reduction. Are a lot of people overweight? Telling them to exercise free will and eat less demonstrably doesn't work. Same with various addictions, tobacco, alcohol, drugs, gambling, consequences don't seem to have much effect.
> "We reserve the right to serve refuse (i.e., garbage) to anyone"

Could not find it either, but clever indeed! :)

> You will now see that in your mind repeatedly!

X)
That’s not even the last resort.
One idea I have to solve the concern that it might eventually be made remotely accessible is to include in the bill a clause that if any future bill tries to mandate it being remotely accessible, in any way, then both bills are immediately null and void. Is there any legal precedent for something like that?

And just to be clear, I don't support a kill switch either way, remotely accessible or not; I will never in my life voluntarily own such a vehicle.
https://course.fast.ai

https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html

Both fantastic.
The source for that is two-season showrunner for a CW drama.

Also, this isn't a debate. The US tax code isn't something that's decided by CW showrunners.
This Intro to Transformers is helpful to get some basic understanding of the underyling concepts and it comes with a really succint history lesson as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfpMkf4rD6E
As a user, Ramp's web interface is absolute trash. I've submitted reimbursement requests only to get an error message and then have them go through later, creating duplicates.

CC transactions queue up, requiring a response and there's no way to go through them efficiently. The UI pops up a weird modal and is horrible to use.

It feels like a legacy enterprise application and it's basically a new product. I wish my company didn't use it.
It’s a really rough experience. I saw my grandfather go through something similar 9 years ago. I built him an audio book reader and it made a big difference for him. The problem was that he had never been into technology, so getting him a smartphone at that time would have meant a way too steep learning curve. I wanted to make him something that had almost no learning curve. He had a small percentage of his vision left, so I could use that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177117
> But there are plenty of people who do believe that AI either will or might kill all of humanity, and they take this idea very seriously. They don’t just think “AI could take our jobs” or “AI could accidentally cause a big disaster” or “AI will be bad for the environment/capitalism/copyright/etc”. They think that AI is advancing so fast that pretty soon we’re going to create a godlike artificial intelligence which will really, truly kill every single human on the planet in service of some inscrutable AI goal. These folks exist.

Yes, these people exist, but they are so few that this argument is essentially a strawman. "AI could take our jobs" is a valid concern, and it is something that our political structures are wholly incapable of dealing with.

Most "AI Doomers" aren't worried about Skynet, they're worried about 90% unemployment.
No; sorry. Birthright only, I'm afraid.
If your friends can't accept that you will ruthlessly lie, betray, abandon and/or backstab them in a game that is designed for just such actions, are they really good friends?

I used to betray my friends and supply there enemies with weapons and research support in Civilization way back when. If you can't stand being lied to and betrayed, you shouldn't play strategy games with humans. Or this AI, probably.
You can get mini PCs or laptops that idle at 10 watts or less. If you suspend it when not in use it will be truly negligible. And there's no reason you can't use a remote with one, although I'd argue a wireless mouse is basically a remote.
Kaparthy uploaded a 1hr talk to YouTube recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g
It's likely that they just chose Kotlin as "better Java" - many companies do this and I can understand why.
Awesome, glad to help, and thanks for sharing those addons, didn’t know about them!
YouTube kids show ads even with a premium account. Not a surprise since Google is on its way down anyways.
I would far rather have things decided by US-centric companies than even somewhat influenced by France and Germany. At least the former have comprehensible motivations.
I’d list childhood trauma, broken families, pathogens, and metabolic disorders as the most likely causes of anxiety, then the points you mentioned.
So if you get shipped to Turkmenistan tomorrow that wouldn't be a problem right?
I don't understand your comment. It's not far fetched to have millions of rows to handle. I myself have about 12 million rows (notes mainly), although I don't load everything at the same time, so maybe you're referring to that aspect?
This is essentially Global Thermonuclear War, right?
Ask HN: What did you wish your employer was more transparent about?
What do you wish your employer was more transparent about? This could include things like salaries of everyone, or revenue figures, or promotion targets