skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An “oct”ave is 8 intervals not 8 notes. The 1 is the root, and the 8 is the same note as the 1 again (2:1).

There’s no specific reason to have 8, or 12, or 7, we just decided that way, same as we decided to count intervals not notes, and to start with 1 not 0.

You could just as well say “let’s divide the frequency range between x and 2x by 10 instead of 12”. Or we do something between x and 3x instead. We just don’t.

For what it’s worth, most guitarists (probably the largest group of amateur musicians in the west) use tab notation to begin with and many never graduate to standard notation.

As others have said, music notation is often not much more than a “paint by numbers” - experienced musicians can “paint” the picture without reading every single number.
Hence I said my/our primary fork, not the primary fork.

If I were in the position of releasing something⁰: the community, should one or more coalesce around a work, can do/say what it likes, but my primary fork is what I say it is¹. It might be theirs, it might be not. I might consider myself part of that community, or not.

It should be noted that possibility of “the community” or other individual/team/etc taking a “we are the captain now” position (rather than “this is great, look what we've done with it too” which I would consider much more healthy and friendly) is what puts some people off opening their toy projects, at all or just until they have them to a point they are happy with or happy letting go at.

> Does it really matter what is the "primary fork" for those working on something to "scratch their own itch"?

It may do further down the line, if something bigger than just the scratching comes from the idea, or if the creator is particularly concerned about acknowledgement of their position as the originator².

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[0] I'm not ATM. I have many ideas/plans, some of them I've mused for many years old, but I'm lacking in time/organisation/etc!

[1] That sounds a lot more combative than I intend, but trying to reword just makes it too long-winded/vague/weird/other

[2] I wouldn't be, but I imagine others would. Feelings on such matters vary widely, and rightly so.
Perhaps an example using a persistent functional data structure would be good, but probably also more complex.

Instead you could do some simpler example like factorial or fibonacci, which would usually run into a stack overflow, but due to Bun being based on JavaScriptCore not running into one.

At first I wanted to suggest to implement Dijkstra's algorithm for finding shortest paths from a specific node to all other nodes, but then I found a mutation in my own implementation for updating the distances and routes to nodes tables, so I did not want to suggest something I hadn't fully done myself.

But maybe, if you had something like functional hashes or similarly usable for the problem, you could do it. So I will link it here: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/guile-algorithms/src/83...

Note, that I put a "warning" in there, at the place, where it still uses mutation. Potentially this could hinder parallelization. Not sure if applicable in this specific problem, but in general, if you want to parallelize an algorithm, it not having any mutation makes it much easier to parallelize it and use our modern machines, which have multiple cores.

So shame on me for not having a mutation-free version yet ;)
There's a PPRUNE thread with the usual mix of comments at https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/656665-jal-inci...

Comments get more informative (and informed?) down the thread.
> At the same time, however, my experience over the past few months suggests that for system programming, LLMs almost never provide acceptable solutions if you are already an experienced programmer.

In one off tasks where someone is not enough of an expert to know its flaws, and such expertise is not required, "the marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all".
> It’s interesting that license plates have anti-counterfeiting features at all.

In Europe it depends from one country to another. Some have official plates, some official plate only for the back of the car (Belgium) while the front license plate can be manufactured by anyone and some have no official plates at all (Luxembourg): you can just order your license plates anywhere you want, as long as the colors are correct.

In some countries the plate must be rivetted to the bumper (as in France).

In other countries they have an anti-counterfeiting font: for example in the netherlands they're using weird 'O' and 'R' letters, to make it harder to pretend they're zero or 'B'.

Fun stuff.
37C3: Unlocked
1) My target frequents Linkedin and Twitter so it's important to have a minimum presence there.

2) I don't think that everything on Linkedin is cringe, there is a lot of very interesting people out there. I find my own posts cringe like for example, I find celebrating my birthday narcissistic, but I love celebrating other people's birthdays and I don't think their posts are cring. It's just a weird cognitive bias I'm trying to fight.

3) Of course there are other ways of marketing my product, and most of it doesn't come from these networks. But building an audience is always useful.

4) I was only sharing good resolutions, i.e. actions to stop procrastinating on specific points. However, my goals and plan of attack for my company are very different from that.
Concepts to Survive the Year
The Clapper was my first voice assistant. I could shout "light on!", "light off!" and it would do its thing. Two minutes later, when that lost its appeal, I just quietly tapped on the box twice (I had the thing next to my bed to control my lamp).
This may be the longest Stack Overflow question I've ever seen, with a code block, three graphs, and a list of links to related questions, comprising four and a half screenfuls on my display. (The accepted answer is five and a half screenfuls.)
Fascinating the sort of elephant-in-room ignoring bubble that articles like this inhabit. What next? How best to drive cars down residential streets at full speed? How about how to slap people around the head without them doing the same to you?

I agree it's a good intellectual challenge, as far as mental gymnastics go.
Excellent advice.

I actually lost 20kg over 6 month, roughly following this advice. Not strictly, like I would be more lenient on weekends with carbs & booze, and have sugar, like a small dark chocolate, but only at night (to avoid further craving and consumption the whole day).
I avoided the exercise as it made me unbearably hungry.

I recommend this 100%
It has a transponder, and previous flights for it were recorded:

* https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ja722a

* Via: https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1742136715253313938

* https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/de-havilland-canada-d...
This story reminded me of the payphone bandit, James Clark, who stole about $500k picking the payphone locks during the 1980s. Had he kept a lower profile, payphones eventually became obsolete and he might have gotten away with it.
Not quite because it’s almost backward with banks. Yes they take your deposits, but to the bank a deposit is a liability not an asset. Banks can lend out much more than their deposits (fractional reserve) but they technically don’t even need deposits at all to create a loan, because a loan is credit (asset) and a liability to the borrower. This means banks in the modern sense can literally create money, so they don’t need your deposits. You can imagine if no one defaults banks can balance their cash flows without any deposits at all, but in practice there is risk so deposits are more like a form of reserves more or less, and potentially an expensive one if interest rates are high. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022416/why-b...
I'd like to point out the analysis done by Cory Doctorow on Spotify, and by extension, on the whole streaming industry: https://doctorow.medium.com/spotify-steals-from-artists-a-sp...
I think the most under-appreciated aspect of LLMs, one on which the article touched on but didn't directly address, is being the "developer that knows everything" aspect.

No matter how senior of a programmer you are, you're eventually going to encounter a technology you know very little about. You're always going to be a junior at something. Maybe you're the God of Win32, C++ and COM, but you get stuck on obscure NSIS scripts when packaging your software. Maybe you've been writing web apps for the last 25 years and sit on the PHP language committee, but then you're asked to implement some obscure ISO standard for communicating with credit card networks, and you've never communicated with credit card networks on that level before. Maybe you've been writing iOS apps since the first iPhone and Mac apps before that, spent a few years at Apple, know most iOS APIs by heart and designed quite a few yourself, but then you're asked to implement CalDAV support in your app and you don't know what CalDAV is, much less how to use it. An LLM can help you out in these situations. Maybe it won't write all the code for you, but it'll at least put you on the right track.
I'm not deeply familiar with all the things he tried, but from what I understand, he tried many different changes in nutrition and lifestyle. He also attempts to optimize his sleep schedule and exercise plan for his goal of slowing down/reversing aging.

Nutrition is a very big component of his plan/blueprint and excluding a very big chunk of the search space (animal based foods) doesn't give me as much confidence that he found an optimal or close to optimal plan (especially compared to the effort required) to achieve his goal.
New approach for No-code tool usage
Sometime last year, I spoke with my friends about No-code tools and how users should have complete control of their codes and products.

Today, we have built the first open-source No-code tool that gives users complete ownership.

Since Peppubuild is still in its first phase, we wrapped our initial Vue/NodeJs application using Electron so that No-code developers do not need to install NodeJs and other dependencies. We have thoughtfully added Electron-updater for auto-updating when we make new releases.

The goal is to enable citizen and professional developers bootstrap an MVP as fast as possible. We are targeting ease of building full-stack applications. However, our first beta (v0.0.1) focuses on creating frontend applications with Vue.

Here's a link to the Github repository; https://github.com/hannydevelop/Peppubuild

The repository for the desktop application:
https://github.com/hannydevelop/peppubuild-desktop

A quick-start guide where I demonstrated steps on how to replicate ouredenlife login page:
https://docs.peppubuild.com/overview/quick-start
Was that in the problem constraint? I don’t really think it belongs. I also don’t think a ton of people would disagree with your statement but it has too many open ended question for these examples.

Does the artist own their songs? Does the label have any control on which streaming services are used? If the artist owns all of their songs, they don’t have to stream them on Spotify.
I think LLMs are good for quick prototyping first drafts of small functions or simple systems.

For me they help when time is short and when I want to maximize creative exploration.
I'll add another thought here - what I really want many times is a custom LLM like GPT, but trained on a particular language or framework or topic. I would love to go to a website for a new language and be able to talk about its documentation and ask questions of an LLM to help me understand. Huge bonus points if it was trained on real world code examples of that language or framework and I could have it help me write a new program or function right there. More bonus points if its tied in with an online repl where it can help me right inline.
Probably from the same kind of personal bias that leads to saying children “ruin your life”
There will be some black swan event that dominates the elections that we have no idea about/hasn't happened yet now.

The US economy continues to roar ahead of the rest of the world, to the shock of everyone.

The April total eclipse is really cool.
Yes, it does.

"a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency."
> You would need to introduce an equilibrium encouraging money system and prevent the extraction of land rents. Those things are never going to happen, because they are too obvious of a solution.

If these two action items are "never going to happen", as you say, then they are not (part of) a solution. Like the author of the article, you have just started mapping the problem.

> If you wanted the same answer in short: Demurrage currencies and land value taxes. Too simple to be believable.

If things are as simple as you claim, why don't you describe a plan to overcome the obstacles and actually implement the two changes you described?
This isn't necessarily about mathematical fairness.

The cake-slicing algorithm beloved by parents of waring siblings is a good example. "I cut, you choose" isn't guaranteed to give a 50/50 split. But it incentivises the cutter to act with loss minimisation as their goal. And most kids can intuit how fair that is.

There are cake slicing algorithms for increasing numbers of participants. But they become increasingly harder to understand for people who aren't experts in game theory.

So you're left with the problem of what causes the least complaints rather than what is logically fair.
That title does not sound correct. The plane was not landing burning. It hit a plane while landing and then started to burn.
I lost about 15kg last year over the span from August to December. That was a lot faster then expected, but the primary change I made was to cut out a lot of empty calories in favor of defined meals: i.e. I drink a lot of coffee, so I cut out the milk. I moderated morning cereal down to an exact serving suggestion and a specific amount of milk. Cut out having toast as snack food, cut out sour dough bread (which is absurdly dense). Reduced rice serving sizes.

And honestly? With those habits changed, I'd say I basically don't notice the difference. I'm not dieting now, and it's actually taken some effort to stop losing weight (which I just had a look at my calorie tracker app and realized accounting for thermic effects probably explains why 2750 naive calories is closer to 2275 if I'm targeting 120-150g of protein per day since now I chase muscle gains because it turns out I can get them).

Basically I eat better, and more frequently, then I did and enjoy it more. Which is to say: my bad habits were just unfulfilling, and as soon as I actually held myself accountable for the effects, the changes in my diet were all improvments in my overall quality of life.
This is a truth about learning that people don't want to hear, but they need to hear it. Everyone wants to hear about magic productivity and learning hacks. They end up speed-reading and playing Anki, but they get nowhere. What's worse is they think they're getting somewhere, especially with the facade erected by games like Anki.

There are no shortcuts to learning and memorizing what you read. You have to really digest it, synthesize your own thoughts on it, and use it. You get out of it what you put into it.
Alexander wept
What's up with all these low effort comments? Like these and the "eat 0 calories" jokes? Let's keep comments "thoughtful and substantive, not less."
Did you find the fractional CMO's advice useful? I'm always worried that it's too high-level or not adapted to early-stage start-ups.
To keep the dogs from smelling them, of course.
Tend to agree here. Maybe artists made more money back in the day on radio time and sold albums. From all the anecdotes you hear, it was the producers/labels that took the majority of the revenue.

I think it’s fine for artists to want more, it’s a free market after all, they might just not get it.
Passengers were using their phones during landing (including at least one that posted footage from inside the plane on social media), so...no?

Incredibly, people can walk and chew gum at the same time. This includes the ability to refocus their attention when they experience unusual events.
I'd love to see one of those for all of the EU.
Do Americans frequently think that? That’s a surprise to me as everyone is taught in school that Mexico is part of North America and I’ve never met an American who thought otherwise
I'm not an expert but as far as I can see the overlap is "only" that they both use a grid to propagate values through. Which admittedly is a pretty fundamental way to structure things. The high-level concepts seem quite different otherwise.

I suspect you could encode (some) flow fields in neural cellular automata though. "Some" because "flow fields" aren't too strictly defined I'd say, so some of the more creative variations might not quite fit within the constraints of neural cellular automata.

So I guess it depends on the angle from which you approach it. Probably not from the "default" angles that most people use for either topic. OTOH finding an unexpected connection by looking at both in a non-obvious way might be fruitful though!
Imagine, we want to write a function which returns a list of numbers from 0 below N. This is just an illustration of the iteration principles.

One could use a numeric loop, push each number to the front and return the reversed result list:

(defun iota (n &aux result)
(dotimes (i n (nreverse result))
(push i result)))

But we can also use:

(defun iota (n &aux (result (list nil)) (pointer result))
(dotimes (i n (cdr result))
(setf (cdr pointer) (list i)
pointer (cdr pointer))))

As you can see, there is no REVERSE needed. Instead the pointer is moved to mark the cons where to add the next cons+item.
Even if it weren't, I'd suppose that the CRA would want to know how he came about the money in order to attest if it was really exempt.
Depending on your level of interest you could learn some hacking. I have used tryhackme.com (no affiliation) in the past and loved it!

It’s kind of enlightening and empowering to understand how a hacker thinks, the actual tools they use and what to look in a web application to exploit it.

As a quick experience, I once came across a huge vulnerability in a web app I was working, a logged in user could pass a different user ID and our app would send all the other user ID data back!

I was part of a team with much more experience but they never considered intercepting and modifying a request to see how the app behaved
If those 9 year olds are mature enough for sexual activity, that's their business.

Biologically, there probably aren't many.
People still want a roof over their heads. If they don't own the land, do they own the house? If so, do they have any control over the land that the house sits on? And if they don't own the house, then what determines who gets to live in each house?
Dogs are used to detect:

people
cadavers
drugs
explosives
electronics
cash
bed bugs
Show HN: DB GPTs Smarter Text-to-SQL GPTs that knows your schema/relations
You can use this tool right in OpenAI's GPTs after creating an active connection (or just create a demo one with one click) in db-gpts.com. It connects to live postgres DB to fetch table names, schema and entity relations to generate more accurate SQL queries that can be run immediately with less modifications.
Besides using chatGPT for certain pieces of code that use a 3rd party library. I successfully used it as a "Code Reviewer". I recently copied functions of a Symfony PHP controller and asked for a code review and suggestions for refactoring with code and reasons. Surprisingly it worked very well and I was able to refactor a good amount of code.
This and the author's other post both remind me of tyler the creator's famous tweet about cyber bullying (https://twitter.com/tylerthecreator/status/28567082226430771...).

We choose where we put our time. Obviously it's harder for teens etc, but we still have agency in this. I installed an app called clearspace that makes instagram annoying to open. It's killed it for me. Using it less has shown me how little value it was delivereing me.

So, how does this reconcile? The author is too deep in social, they're not seeing the forest for the trees. The problem isn't some minute one about which social platform matters, the problem is that they're bad products 90% of the time, with the occasional gleams of brilliance that keep us hooked.

I get the same value out of checking instagram for 5 min a day that I did when I didn't have the chastity belt app and could check it continuously. This is a problem for Zuck. And Musk.

AI could read instgram for me and summarise, and my utility would increase even further.
How to Succeed at DevOps: Wrong Answers Only
Study permit refusals are high. Canada wants them higher
And yet in US it's also standard practice to have airplanes takeoff on the same runway at the same time if the preceding airplane is small enough to not create vortices.

Note how no one did anything wrong really in this case:

https://simpleflying.com/march-2020-air-canada-incident/
> Build housing would be a great start! Markets don't care about low-profit cheap small apartments, so there's no supply and the demand isn't being met, so it's the mission of the state to step up and compensate this market failure.

Let's start here. What are the steps needed to get the state to do this? Is the money for it taken from other places, or by increasing the deficit, or by raising taxes? How do you convince other politicians of your plan? Where is the land taken from?

Again, this seems only like a first step in mapping the problem.
The Shimasen traditionally is made with cat skin. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamisen. In the Clannad VN, one character names his cat "Shimasen".
US does the siphoning with quite a different method, mostly by enforcing the petrodollar using the huge military. It could probably use this money a lot better if wellbeing of the citizens is the benchmark.

Sleazeball havens like Isle of Man (and many others) by the merit of creating international legal loopholes.

West in general siphons off money/labor from other places.

Not a fan of these, but this wasn't really the point. The point was that Isle of Man has the advantage of not having to do much work of their own to keep the economy rolling so it's not necessarily comparable.
Around where do you live? Anecdotally, I don't see much of any of that in Eindhoven or the surrounding villages.
Woo I have a question! I have attempted something similar but my biggest issue was fixing the layout of overlapping events. Online solutions attempt to divide the column width by the number of overlapping events. But then another issue is the "tolerance" of overlapping events - Apple Calendar, for example, only begins overlapping events if they're > 5min of each other.

How were you able to overcome this challenge?
I do agree it's inappropriate when it is invoked in reference to divine intervention. But not when it is simply used to describe something extraordinary. Take "Miracle on the Hudson" - I think it's fair there, it's incredible every person survived a water ditching. Miracle is a fair word to use.
It's not really marketing posts, it can be anything. Like saying we are attending this or this conference.