skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideally we'd use just intonation for digital music, but 12-tone equal temperament is so deeply ingrained in everything that you practically have to start over from scratch if you want something with more than 12 notes in the octave.

MPE is a pretty good first step, but you also need good support in composition software and DAWs.

I know some people who compose in 41-TET using Musescore. I think it requires some plugins.

One of the nice things about modular synthesis is that it uses control voltage for pitch, which is continuously variable. There's no built-in tuning system assumptions at all, even though individual modules may bring some 12-TET baggage with them. On the other hand, getting analog oscillators to track the volt-per-octave standard accurately enough that these subtle distinctions in pitch don't get lost in unintelligibility is easier said than done. 3340-based VCOs seem to do a decent job but they have to be calibrated carefully.
I went to college for journalism and had to memorize the AP Style Guide cover-to-cover. We got marked down for any violation of its rules in our writing, including the Oxford Comma. Repeated violations were usually mocked publicly.

My lifelong avoidance of it verges on the Pavlovian. I don't think I could start using it if I tried - just the thought makes me shudder.
Similar, but 6 or 7 years ago and with no discernible reason. The process of filing a police report and then compiling all the documentation required by insurance took longer and cost more by wage than I ultimately recovered through insurance.

I wish I could say it was still worth it because filing the report and providing the information about the theft gave the police additional info to use if they ever caught the thief, but nope. They didn't even want a copy of the video from the security cameras at the store in whose parking lot it happened. They made it acutely obvious that I was wasting their time by being there and that they had no interest whatsoever in doing what I naïvely thought was their job.

What an absolute waste of time.
> I would describe Python as possibly the most complex programming language in existence.

You haven't lived until you've argued with a C++ language lawyer.

> Go is simple, that’s why it’s verbose. It has no syntax sugar and it’s not fun to write Go, but you can read it and see what it’s doing really quickly.

Python is great. It has a lot of syntax sugar, but it's also easy to read and understand what it's doing. They teach it to elementary school kids. But they use it in F500 companies. And it has made huge strides into the scientific computing, because it's relatively easy to call existing C/Fortran libraries.

Go's experience by comparison is awful. Their community is an anti-social gate-keeping echo chamber. Their FFI is awful. Their language design is awful as well.

Edited to add: I feel like Go got popular because Rob Pike had no problem bad mouthing other languages. "Python/C++ are so terrible...".

Consider Rust on the other hand, where python and Rust seems to be getting along quite well. Rust seems to care about the coding experience. I think that makes a difference.
It's weird, I use the standard "gpt-4" through the API and it's still stuck on September 2021. Annoying. According to the docs it's supposed to point to the latest version but it's never updated.

Ps I also tried gpt-4-turbo but the API rejects it for some reason. Same with the "numbered" ones listed in the documentation, I only seem to have access to the standard gpt-4 somehow.
Someone should train a model to evaluate video compression quality
Can't they use the money from their money laundering business?
This is a good point, but AI also will allow us to enhance the video in other ways than upscaling, such as inserting (or replacing) CGI / special effects. We should be able to really up the visuals.
You're noting "2" when I just said "most". Doesn't need to be a measuring contest here.
all of those things can be communicated just as easily over text message. A solution could be opt-in on the customer side, and the business could need a license from the telecom to robocall. Otherwise the FTC could fine the telecom and/or the business for unsolicited robocalls.

I would go as far to say unsolicited business calls, automated or otherwise, should be banned.
I broke IKEA (2023)
What about attachments? :) Comments on new stuff on that topic? Etc. I need more, at least something like Todoist/Ticktick...
I'm in Australia and it's quite nice to use.

The big killer here isn't just round trip time, it's the RTT compounded with the 14KB limit from TCP before it stops blindly sending data and compounded with extra resources that have to be fetched in a chain. If you keep the size of the response under 14KB and don't have render-blocking links to CSS and JS a page will be pretty fast; the moment it's any bigger the time before page load will double. I'm happy waiting about 300ms for a page served from the east coast of the US to load, but 600ms becomes noticeable and anything more - JS which loads more JS which loads JSON and blocks rendering until it's done, for example - starts to be excruciating.
> Parking minimums reduce the number of homes that can be built in a given area, thereby reducing the supply of homes, thereby denying people homes.

Yes, of course it does. The goal ultimately is to create livable housing, not just pack the maximum numbers of units into a space without practical considerations. Everything is a compromise.

I mentioned above what happens when you build apartments without enough parking: Constant fights over parking, vandalized cars, people circling four hours looking for a spot.

> You can build parking!

Where?

You can't build parking after the fact into an apartment building. It had to be designed in before construction started. If the building is already done and doesn't have enough parking, it will never have enough parking. You'd have to tear it down and that's too disruptive and expensive, will never get done.

(I am assuming city blocks which are fully built-out already. If there's a bunch of empty land nearby there probably is no parking problem either so this is all a moot point.)

> Just don't force people to build it when price signals indicate housing is a more valuable use of said land.

Capitalism always seeks maximum profit, not a sustainable long term solution. In the absence of regulation the builder will maximize units, which is more profit. The problems that arise when new residents realize they won't find street parking only occur after the builder is done and gone, not their problem. They are very happy to externalize the problem to others.
What a ridiculous excuse.

Leaving aside the fact the chances of your reply being in the training of the next GPT near 0, it certainly won't happen anywhere near fast enough to disprove your point to anyone reading this today.

So you have nothing. Not that i'm surprised.
I’ve always wanted to bring some scuba equipment and dive into the one-foot-deep lake when it’s there, just so I could tell everyone that my deepest dive was 282 feet below sea level.
> OTOH, has there really been any actually culturally significant video games released in recent years?

Yes, like -random example here- Uncharted :-P.

TBH i do not think what is "culturally significant" is something that we can answer right now, but something that will be up to future people to decide.

Though i do think that Uncharted is culturally significant in how it was part of a series of influences from the original Indiana Jones, to Tomb Raider, to Uncharted and back to Tomb Raider (in that each one of those influenced the next) - with some Prince of Persia thrown in for good measure. But for people to be able to tell, judge and discover these things, the games must be available to them - preferably in their original condition (remasters, rereleases, remakes, etc often tend to change things - though those should also be available so these changes can also be seen and perhaps talked about in the future).

Also not only "good games" or "influential games" are worthy of preservation - even bad or just mediocre game are worthy of that, for a variety of reasons. Games are often a snapshot of the times they were made at and multiple "snapshots" are always better than a single one. Even from a design perspective, a bad game can be interesting: for example the original Prince of Persia 3D seems to have been largely lost in the sands of time and yet it is an interesting game in its own right despite its flaws, in how its interpretation of (classic) Tomb Raider's controls combined with ideas from the original 2D games around realistic/captured animation ended up creating something inferior to its clear inspirations (but that is clear only really if you know about/have played the games that inspired it and know about/have played the game itself).

Of course if you just want to have fun, whatever is available on Steam will more than suffice.
I love that idea! Honestly even if it doesn't show up as a sex-difference doing this same trick might be nonetheless fruitful by asking it to predict say cis woman / trans man.
There's been plenty of amazing and culturally relevant games recently, you just have rose tinted glasses for the time you grew up in (or you haven't been gaming much). I'll just list a handful of really well known ones.

* Basically everything FromSoft has put out (With Dark Souls 1 and Elden Ring probably being the most important - Dark Souls effectively kicked off an entire genre because of it's popularity (technically Demon's Souls came first, but Dark Souls was the first one to blow up).)

* Breath of the Wild

* Escape from Tarkov also kicked off a new genre in the extraction shooter, although noone else has quite nailed it yet imo.

* The Witcher 3 (heavily influentual towards the design of Breath of the Wild, and a number of other open world rpgs recently)

* As someone else pointed out, Baldurs Gate 3

* Skyrim

* Minecraft

* Dwarf Fortress (not exactly recent, but the Steam release propelled it into being much more well known)

* Path of Exile arguably revolutionized the diablo-style ARPG genre - any ARPG that comes out now is influenced by it - see Last Epoch for probably the biggest example.

Whether a game is "culturally relevant" or not really just hinges off of whether a significantly large portion of the population plays and talks about it for long enough though.

These days we get so many more quality game releases than we ever did in the 90s/2000s so it's much harder for a single game to grab everybody's attention in the same way that the stuff you mentioned did.
Is 90% accuracy good enough to be useful?
You could use it remotely, but I doubt it would feel great due to latency and bandwidth.

In home, a great use is to play when the TV the PS5 is hooked up to is in use. You can play and someone else can watch a movie.

Also the Switch and Deck don’t play PS5 games you already own. And both are more expensive.

It’s 100% a companion device. If you owned a deck you could just run the PS remote app on it too.
I’m reminded of the tale of a similar breakthrough, and upon ablation, it was found to be indexing on a particular artifact found on one X-ray machine. Or maybe the patient name?

Anyways, would recommend some caution, there’s no reason to believe there’s some obvious fundamental difference in brain organization that we can’t see ourselves, until the research is a bit further along :)
Yes, all in the name of doing good. While holding the power to define what doing good is.
I am always worried for elderly people I know. It seems like a fall is inevitable - we all fall, trip, stumble, at some point, and they have worse balance and less muscle to compenstate - and they are so fragile.

How do other people deal with it? I know the basics for a fall-resistant home: no stairs, walk-in shower, handholds at toilet and shower (with a chair in the shower), hazard-free walkways.
I felt like the iPod struck a good balance. The collecting was still in-play, since the music was the user’s and not from a streaming service. The clicks were tactile (except for on the 3rd gen), and even the click wheel felt tactile, even after it was only a touch surface.

It never felt the same once it went to the iPhone. The iPod lost its soul when it became an app.
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For the government employees only allow .gov domains and verify email.

For people... maybe require a small temporary credit card change with a billing address matching their inputted zip code?
> What did it ever mean?

Probably the same thing it has always meant -- whatever people want it to mean.

> Trying to quantify it through tests is such a… bullshit proposition.

I completely agree.

I think one of the biggest disservice of modern-ish thinking is how quickly we are to write-off individuals. Humans are creatures that are full of endless surprises, and sometimes it merely just takes being in the right place at the right time to achieve greatness. A person with an IQ of 100 is considered to be of average intelligence.

However, I think it would be laughable, and a downright disservice, to claim that a person with an average IQ is only capable of average accomplishments because some proprietary test that has been arbitrarily slapped together with an equally laughably low correlation coefficient of 0.20 or whatever says so.

I find all this idea to be so damaging to people. One does not have to be "greater than" to be great. How many successful musicians have had great careers despite average abilities? How many virtuosos have accomplished nothing noteworthy? Jimi Hendrix and Bach are both talented, but who is more talented? I think the better question is, "Who fucking cares? Why does it even matter?" They both created music that millions enjoy, and that is what truly matters. At least, to me.
Target is/was pretty bad about this.

As of ~2007 daytime backroom staff had to pick n items within a 2 hour window, every 2 hours, 3-4 times per shift. There'd be ad hoc forklift requests for toilet paper or patio furniture from the rafters which interrupted scheduled work, but in general it was doable by the 1 person they'd schedule back there. If you got done early, you were supposed to backstock items that didn't fit on the sales floor. Cutting every corner and being uninterrupted one person could do 2.5 hours of projected work in 1.75 (and have 15 minutes to spare).

At some point after 2007 they changed it to a series of 1-hour batches. In addition to ad hoc requests you also had to wait for a manager to let you into the electronics cage, the pharmacy cage, and the overflow shipping containers out back during summer/winter-- every hour. The time targets were physically impossible to keep up with since you now had to cover the same amount of ground twice as often. Pissing in bottles wouldn't even have helped; there was plenty of time to use an actual toilet while waiting on keyholders to show up.

So where once employees were afforded leeway to manage enough time to get a task done, corporate shortened the window arbitrarily (which also generated additional backstock every hour instead of every 2), ran everyone ragged and made it impossible to meet goals, ever. Seeing that my chances of getting merit raises beyond that point were tanked, I fucked off.

Insidious indeed.
Ah, but this is science. How would you feel if it were not vindicated? What if it were not a matter of "born that way"?

Plus, there's a whole ton of confounding business we'll have to look out for. Just off the top of my head, you've got certainty intervals. And wouldn't it be prudent to at least examine the effects of various hormones like testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, estradiol, progesterone on the brain? Say, post age twenty five, pre age twenty five. And so on. Might exist, might not.

We're a long way from being able to have much certainty at all.
No, a bar is a public place so this counts as a public disclosure. The people having the conversation would be in trouble with the SEC for making a disclosure in this manner.
> which implies what casual mechanisms you're controlling for.

Without thinking terribly deeply about it, it seems like this could be modified to
"what correlated mechanisms we're controlling for", in which case, yes I think if we controlled for the highly correlated variable of "does this cow live on a meat farm" with the mean age, we would be able to make broad claims about cattle lifespan without needing to be privy to the internal mechanisms of the agriculture industry
Project Pluto – Nuclear Powered Ramjet
I released it a few days ago & I appreciate the feedback. A single__hyop is a strategy to run a hyop mapped to a key...opposed to a multi__hyop which runs multiple hyops on keys delimited by whitespace. Other strategies are possible, like implementing an HTMX-like api with tree-shaking...but I havn't yet run into a use case for such sophisticated behavior. TBH, I only use single__hyop but wanted to leave the api space open for more sophistication. I mainly use this pattern instead of the overly-bloated hydration feature that come with the large UI frameworks.

It is like onload for all elements, it works with tree-shaking, & the hyops can keep local scope (do not need to be assigned to globalThis/window). I didn't use the onload attribute because hyop has different semantics than onload. eval would need to be used & the functions would need to in global scope to preserve onload semantics.

There is a DEBUG preprocessor which ensures that all of the hyops are loaded in the browser build & there are no unused hyops as well.

It's only 61 bytes, so it's basically snippet-ware at this point. There may be more built on this foundation as I mentioned earlier. I wanted to express this pattern b/c it's been useful for me.
What are some examples of types that don't?
No. Russia has always had the upper hand. Though if you have only read Western news, you wouldn't have been told that.
Assuming an outside investor vs a buyback, tender offers are usually done through a platform such as Nasdaq Private Market. Fees are usually much more reasonable vs through marketplaces. Funds are wired at closing. There’s usually a virtual data room available with financials you can share with an attorney and/or financial advisor.

https://www.nasdaqprivatemarket.com/
If it were built into the steering wheel and used a HUD to display the text it might not be criminally irresponsible..
Plenty of PS people don’t have a Steam library. So that’s not a benefit.
Fellow junkball fan? He just reviewed this game, for context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SbbS0MSA0U
Google can still kill your site even if you're a word of mouth, pateron, liberapay funded site...

That is by having scammers feed of the keywords of your product and selling shitty bullshit/scams siphoning the people that were told 'word of mouth' yet use browsers like chrome.
I don't have a degree and it has not mattered in a long time. On an interview, I don't even get enough time to get into all my professional experience at this point.

Of course, I am not applying for something that would need a PhD in chemical engineering.

My experience has been that most companies are pretty good at identifying who the smart people are and giving them more responsibility. If anything, I would consider a business or psychology degree a huge red flag if I was doing the hiring.

I should add though that it is hard to compare for myself because without a degree I have always known I had to do that much more networking. Doesn't matter what degree you have if I make friends with the hiring manager.
> Throw in the Oxford comma and George has become a policeman: “Through the window she saw George, a policeman, and several onlookers”.

The problem here might also be that of artificially limiting the solution to commas. We have alternative or better punctuation available to demarcate the interrupting thought. One could emphasize the relationship better either with an em dash or with parentheses:

“Through the window she saw George — a policeman — and several onlookers.”

“Through the window she saw George (a policeman) and several onlookers.”

In text either of those could better express the different emphasis which verbally would be conveyed by a shift in the speaker's tone.
I like to tell people how big space is just by describing how fast voyager 1 is moving and how long it will take to reach 1 light year of travel. Voyager 1 launched back in the 70's and is traveling around 38,210 mph. Even at that speed it will take another approximate 18,500 years for it to reach it's first light year traveled. The closest star is about 4.2 light years away so at it's current speed it would take about 75,000 years for it to reach Alpha Centauri.The more you start getting into the numbers and things like how many light years across the milky way is and how far to the next galaxy and how many galaxies their are you start to see the universe is unimaginably large. I don't think one could fully grasp it's size. Amazing
Boredness due to poor teaching by the teacher

Same reason people are on their phone in meetings
This kind of worries me, Ubuntu is by far my favorite distro, and one of the only reasons I don't just go back to windows after 10+ years of Linux, largely specifically because of Snap.

Although, I suppose if it went down some Flatpak based distro might take it's place eventually.
The fact that, at the time of writing, all of the comments on this post are about the Oxford comma rather than the actual thesis of the article goes a long way to proving its point.
> Google search has become worthless for me. I use bing instead because of how horrible google results are.

Although Bing is generally OK at dealing with general queries, it's far, far worse at surfacing niche content, no? My non-commercial, hobby homepage fares reasonably OK on Google (although some queries are dominated by SEO spam). But on Bing, it ranks below a good number of spam websites, including ones that simply copied my content and serve it with ads...
The Dodge Ram logo is cool.
The 3.5x energy-efficiency gap between serial and SIMD code becomes even larger when

A. you do byte-level processing instead of float words;

B. you use embedded, IoT, and other low-energy devices.

A few years ago I've compared Nvidia Jetson Xavier (long before the Orin release), Intel-based MacBook Pro with Core i9, and AVX-512 capable CPUs on substring search benchmarks.

On Xavier one can quite easily disable/enable cores and reconfigure power usage. At peak I got to 4.2 GB/J which was an 8.3x improvement in inefficiency over LibC in substring search operations. The comparison table is still available in the older README: https://github.com/ashvardanian/StringZilla/tree/v2.0.2?tab=...
FBI, British authorities seize infrastructure of LockBit ransomware group
I believe this is a clue to where the GP post is coming from: we can't, therefore the study must be flawed.
Hopefully soon the AIs will not only write drek like this but also read it for me, so I don’t have to.
The parent 'sw1sh' didn't ask that? Do you mean some sort of critique found elsewhere?
I saw a fan-made AI 4K remaster (Star Trek Borg) and it was a lot better than the remastered Star Trek on Amazon prime.

I think the AI adds crispness that was not captured due to limitations in the cameras (and skill of the cameramen) at the time. Possibly it also fakes textures to make them more visually appealing.