skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just took a quick look, but as an instrumental musician (4th grade - freshman year in college), what I'm gathering is this notation lets you use the shape of the note's head to tell you where it is in position to the fundamental of the key the song is in.

That's great if you process music in those terms... but as a mostly sight-reading instrumental musician, I'm thinking about what note is written, and what fingering that requires on my instrument. When playing from sheet music, it never really mattered much to me what key we were playing in, or if I was playing the fundamental or a third; maybe if I were better attuned, I might adjust my fingering ever so slightly, but if I did that, it was unconscious and by ear.

Now, when I was playing in Jazz band, improvising bass lines, the key makes a real big difference, because I'm going to play like 1-3-5-3 and such, but then I'm just working from a chord chart, not sheet music, and note shapes still don't help me.

I was never very good at choral music, and never thought in do-re-me, etc. But I can see it being useful for people trained in that; move the do to the new fundamental, and go from there. Not sure how (or if) they handle accidental sharps and flats that take you away from the key signature... maybe not, since the emphasis seems to be on simplification.

The other thing that was touched on is arrangement --- rather than a melody and harmonies arrangement, it seems like each part is arranged to sound nice on its own as well as together. This makes it easier to practice the parts individually --- sometimes harmony parts sound really iffy by themselves, so you don't want to practice it.

I don't think there's necessarily much lost by using these shapes more, but I don't think there's much gained. And of course, it adds more labor to typesetting or hand writing the scores --- until you get to computer based typesetting where you can probably convince the computer to do the shapes for you.
> On the one hand, you want to allow hunters to recover animals they've killed, otherwise it's all a waste.

I don't think that's a good take. Yes, you don't want to _obstruct_ ability to take hunted animals, however this kind of tosses away one the core rules of weapon handling - shoot to kill (the others being shoot only if you are certain you want to kill the target and shoot only if you are certain you can kill). Having to search for animal is indicative that animal was wounded mortally, which is... dangerous and unsafe practice.
Agreed. If someone has created a place for themselves in the market - I do not find it wrong at all for them to want to capture some of its value.
So, it is nothing about transiting, and all about us being close to the ecliptic plane of the system. Being a little off the ecliptic, so there were no transits or even occultations, would barely affect Doppler measurements.
I wrote up a bit more information on the subject: https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2024/02/how-i-manage-my-to...
> I enjoy flight sims, but I'm not sure I want to actually get a license.

This was me in late 2021 / early 2022.

I urge you to get a discovery flight! I did, and now I'm almost finished with my instrument rating. One of the best decisions I've ever made in my life. I love flying so much - more than I ever could have imagined.

Your wallet won't like it though.

If you use reddit I'd recommend lurking r/flying. Great community of pilots ranging from students to hobby pilots to 747 captains.
High-risk open source vulnerabilities on the rise
It literally kept the peace?
I'm enjoying the hell out of the Foundation series, and the first couple episodes of Shogun have been great. I'll probably love Neuromancer as well. The trick to enjoying film/TV adaptations of books is to never read the books beforehand.
Yes, they updated the audio codec a few years ago. Now it sounds great. They also updated the live position syncing system so that other planes move much more smoothly across your screen
And all the private equity firms that created some of these monsters.
I don't think the dear is interested in the sport, either way.
You just reminded me that there’s a Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
The HDMI forum ought to be subject to anti-trust action.
However lavish or detailed or faithful to the Gibson Vibe this adaptation turns out to be, it will live or die on its realisation of Molly Millions, the baddest badass take-no-shit progenitor of Lisbeth Salander, Lara Croft, and The Bride.
Extraction Matters Most
Ran some experiments to see how different things affected the quality of results from a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline. Post shows results and details / code for how to run similar experiments yourself.
Minor criticism, I get that this is a page that collects links to other pages talking about the horrors of serverless. Sure. Makes perfect sense.

I would like to see some small amount of commentary on each page that covers what I am about to read. Not much, but half a paragraph of introduction would be nice.
I think you're conflating automation and intentional avoidance of bot detection as part of automation. The issue I have is not that this service allows users to automate browsing activities. The issue is that this service deliberately tries to circumvent being detected as automating browser activities because websites are trying to prevent bots. There are LOTS of services that allow users to create automations without disguising themselves. If you are using well-behaved scrapers that respect TOS then you shouldn't have to use a service like this.

Nitter is an example of a service that explicitly disrupts Twitter/X's way to make money. If they can't make money then they can't provide the service, there would be no Twitter/X, and hence no Nitter. Of course they would try to prevent that kind of behavior and it should be obvious why. Resorting to using a service like this in order to continue using Nitter should raise some alarm bells. Sure you can still do it and rationalize it however you want, but you have to acknowledge you're trying to get the value of the service without paying for it.

Perhaps there are cases where there is a dissonance between a website's TOS and how they are blocking bot traffic? That sounds like a valid gripe. Otherwise, I don't buy the argument.
Did not know about that!
As conspiratorial as an article published on the Microsoft Network by "Russell A. Berman (born May 14, 1950) ... an American academic and professor specializing in German studies and Comparative literature."[0] can be?

Have a good one either way! Certainly, no reason to quarrel when, orientation ignored, we're overwhelmingly in similar circumstances.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Berman
Yes each weight will not be able to "learn" as much if it has less bits of precision. But the idea is that you can use more weights, and the big question is whether these low-precision weights can make the model more accurate, as a whole.
This reminds me a lot of value objects from Domain Driven Design
I think they’re too narrowly focused on subscriptions and I used to work in journalism.

I don’t want buy the whole paper for some arbitrary length of time, with maybe a few exceptions in print that are already hyper focused on my specific interests (New Yorker, NYRB).

They need to have a button that says .99¢ for this article, one click, apple pay, no sign up flow that makes me navigate away, no dark pattern bullshit.

It has to be so close to instant that it operates right in the moment an article catches my interest.

And maybe, if I buy five articles in one month, maybe give me an auto-renew subscription option.

I don’t think this is a hard problem, I think the issue is:

1. Wanting to force a subscription model for revenue predictability, etc.
2. Mimicking of crappy web bad patterns for capturing user juice and retention.
3. Editorial drift that’s chasing social media clicks and compromises the product.
Yeah, I wish meteorologists explained this concept better to the general public, since they're basically poised for it. One day I was just wondering where wind _started_ from, and started digging deep into the topic, but essentially we're all just standing on the bottom of a roiling ocean floor that is very sensitive to heat changes from the sun.
The FAA has authority to ground the entire fleet.

It probably won't go that far, but it does have the necessary authority to enforce a pretty huge "or else".
That's pretty much entirely up to the FAA. They can, for instance, revoke the type and manufacturing certificates and Boeing doesn't get to make and sell aircraft anymore.

What likely happens? They don't let them sell until the problems are addressed to the FAAs satisfaction.
DisplayPort to HDMI converters trivially solve that. Let the TV consume HDMI all it wants while still "just" outputting DP from the computer.
> So, if you think that 200x is meaningful, then it's because you don't know how language/compiler development works, you haven't read my manifesto, and you have no idea where the 200x is coming from (hint: almost all optimizations are turned off for now so I have a reliable compiler to grow a corpus with).

I actually did, the first day you made it public. A friend also sent it to me because you link my blog in it. Again, I think it's cool, and I'm going to keep following your progress, because I think Rust alone is not a panacea.

I've worked on and in LLVM for about 5 years now (and I've contributed to a handful of programming languages and runtimes over the past decade), so I feel comfortable saying that I know a bit about how compilers and language development work. Not enough to say that I'm an infallible expert, but enough to know that it's very hard to claw back performance when doing the kinds of things you're doing (isoheaps, caps). Isotyped heaps, in particular, are a huge pessimization on top of ordinary heap allocation, especially when you get into codebases with more than a few hundred unique types[1].

To be clear: I don't think performance is a sufficient reason to not do memory safety. I've previously advocated for people running sanitizer-instrumented binaries in production, because the performance hit is often acceptable. But again: Rust gets you both performance and safety, and is increasingly the choice for shops that are looking to migrate off of their legacy codebases anyways. It's also easier to justify training a junior engineer to write safe code that can be integrated into a pre-existing codebase.

> You don't have to rewrite your code to use Fil-C.

If I read correctly, you provide an example of an enum below that needs to be rewritten for Fil-C. That's probably an acceptable tradeoff in many codebases, but it sounds like there are well-formed C programs that Fil-C currently rejects.

[1]: https://security.apple.com/blog/towards-the-next-generation-...
I always whine about how CEOs are overvalued and usually don't have that much impact. I suppose I should put my money where my mouth is and buy tomorrow.
If you haven't failed, you haven't tried. It's more likely your idea won't work out than it will, but most people won't risk the failure to try.
Thanks for the sheet this was super enlightening. I was comparing my pacifica phev with my polestar, and the pacfica has a green score of 57, vs 53 for the polestar. This really seems like a methodology issue likely related to hours of operation vs miles driven.
The books are a full of interesting ideas but as written would be terrible for television. You should just think of the TV show as an unrelated science fiction show which happens to share a name and a few plot elements.
Support for splitted archives, recovery records, and encryption. And pretty good compression ratio too.

Maybe most archivers support these features today, but rar command line flags are in my muscle memory.
Silo was far too predictable and slow for my taste. Ending in full was predicted correctly in episode 2 (which was a bit infuriating that that's all it was culminating towards)...

The acting was good, the cinematography and sets, and costumes too: but not worth the watch, as it says nothing original, new, or interesting. It falls into 'content' for me, something rehashed to make money first and tell a story second. To each their own.

It was based on a book... and that kind of ending (the finickiness of details) works far better in a literary setting, in a film the connections seem arbitrary and ad hoc.
"Soon to be a major motion picture by Cabana Boy Productions"

Anyone else remember this from the computer magazine ads from the Necromancer C64 game?
People usually think we’re slow, but I believe is exactly the opposite, when in a meeting or in a group discussion I almost always know what others will say, and how everything will go on including outcomes and failures, but since it’s obvious for me, I think it is for everyone so never say anything unless directly asked.

In response to OP, to me the exercise that helped me the most is to put myself into situations where a quick decision is needed but in case of a mistake the consequences are not that bad, just like in drama theatre you get better at improvisation by not having a script to follow.
My first thought when I read the definition of token was - that's how they bill you :p
Is "woke" code for "there is a minority in the show"?
That would be a strong alien to deal with 1.5 Jupiter gravity :)
Keep in mind that there are nuclear detection sensors deployed throughout the US and if you tried to roll a nuke-containing semi into New York, there would be a heavily-armed team trying to intercept you[1].

Supposedly[2], they are sensitive enough that it's untenable to transport enough lead around to shield it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Nuclear_Security_Admi...

2. I have no inside info.
Oneirocritica
"This year" is all "no tag" which sounds like it's not sorted yet, or just shutdown expenses.

Last year was $1.3m for 5 "number of expenses" (high but not insanely so depending on what it covered) and $400k for the platform.

You can go into detail: https://opencollective.com/foundation/transactions?kind=EXPE... and I'm not sure how they classify employment versus various other things.

It may be that the for-profit company gave the foundation a ball of money to start, and it was to get self-sufficient by now, and failed to do so.
Really? Might as well specify that the name of the establishment has to start with "P" and end with "anera".
I’d wager the C Suite at Apple, at most, approved PWA support but it was an engineer-boosted project. In contrast the DMA compliance stuff is definitely driven exclusively by the legal and strategic teams.

The legal team isn’t concerned with gutting PWA feature and PWAs aren’t strategic for the company.
> On the other hand, you have the blanket plausible deniability granted to anyone using drones to find targets.

Yah, I appreciate the problems; perhaps you can't have a weapon on your person while doing certain permitted recovery things.

In this case, it's some poor SOB who got a phone call from some hunters^H^H^H^H^H^H agents who wanted help finding a hurt animal.
Blackmagic's Mini Converters are at their core nothing more than SerDes chips and an FPGA that does the protocol translation. I _think_ that the recent models with USB-C power supply inputs also have the data pins connected to the FPGA.

Might be worth a try to check how hard BMD has locked down the FPGA bitstream.
That's the current playbook. Take incredible IP, throw production values at it, the script is just a map to get from marketing image to marketing image.
One thing I've always been curious about, and have never been able to find a solid answer too, is what data is available to the various companies whose software I have on my phone?

What can AT&T/TMobile/etc... learn from my device as my carrier?

What can the apps I have installed decern from my device if I allow no access to anything settings?

How does this change if I use a vpn?

I have an idea of whats possible based on my career in tech, but I'd love a more solid answer. Happy to read any content answering the aforementioned.
Every single tool has problems. There's no application that has no bugs, no limitations. There's nothing wrong with wanting to use specialized tools to perform specific tasks and most people choose to do that.

The main point you're missing is that at some point in your career, inevitably, you'll collect so many tools in your toolbelt that you might become overwhelmed.

There are tools for debugging, searching, formatting, converting, documentation, device control, synchronization, networking, databasing, containerization, security, etc.

Most tools operate with data. And most of the time that data doesn't stay in the context of the same tool - you have to pass it somewhere else. The common approach of unexperienced devs is to become "a copy-n-paste programmer". No, not someone who grabs the code from StackOverflow. I don't know if SO has much value in 2024, I stopped using it a source of valuable knowledge long ago, I do occasionally find clues there, rarely complete answers, perhaps the complexity of my questions has changed, but I'm going off the rails here...

So, anyway, at some point you'd become more efficient in enabling tools to exchange data. Experienced Vimmers use terminal tools with piping, etc. Some of them develop really neat and powerful mini-automation workflows.

Emacs is another amalgamating medium that can be used for the same purpose. People with shallow understanding of Emacs often get grumpy for Emacsers wanting to do "everything in Emacs". Matter of fact, it's not about doing everything in Emacs, but rather doing everything _through_ Emacs. And that can be quite effective too.

So tell me, why is it so difficult for you to accept that Emacs is just another tool, not a replacement for some other specialized single-purpose tool, and that it is quite good at what it does - that is to work as a "glue" to orchestrate many other tools?

Maybe VSCode is truly better in that aspect than Emacs. I don't know. I have yet to find out. So far, people have been claiming that it just works better as a code editor in specific languages, but I haven't heard it being used as a "tactical unionizer" that can talk to many other tools in a way that Emacs does.
And not melt?
Steppin' Razor is a way more memorable character than Case.
Ternary networks have been used since 2015. There are hundreds of papers. They all require full QAT (training from scratch). Not sure why you’re shocked.
This sounds entirely unappealing to me -- not to say you're wrong, just to say that not everyone agrees and your preferences might not be as widespread as you think they are.

(And its likely someone, somewhere has focus grouped or A/B tested this. It's not a novel idea. But there's a reason it doesn't exist, probably that it results in LESS money for the content producer)
Wikipedia, really? Ok, let’s set that one aside for the moment. What are your thoughts on this here gem from the first Iraq war: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KP1OAD9jSaI Is that “humane” or “proportional”?
> I disagree with the reductionist account of a table that is I think implicit here

Even the proofs imply a reductionist account no? The first proof says: the table holds up the glass, the floor holds up the table and the earth holds up the table. And then asks, what holds up it all? Answer: necessarily God. But then God is at the edge (first) of this causal chain and the table is still holding up the glass (directly), no? And God is holding up the universe (directly) and everything in it (indirectly). Thus, saying that God is holding up the glass would be misusing the usual meaning of the term "holding up".
HDCP usually is an issue if you can't turn it off on the source. There are ways around that, though those are more than $199 if you're dealing with an HDMI 2.x source.
Show HN: Code, a safe programming language written in Ruby and Rails
Funny time for the NYT to pontificate on honesty, or having a future.
Well, yes. The problem you are identifying is primarily a structural power imbalance.

It is not a structural power imbalance that can be fixed by abolishing copyright. Indeed, abolishing copyright is vastly more likely to hugely increase the power imbalance.

You are looking at the problem too narrowly (identifying it as "a problem with copyright", rather than "a problem with the power structures in our society"; "AI training and compute...in the hands of the few" rather than "most of the money and resources in the hands of the few"), and thus coming to counterproductive conclusions about how we might solve it.

It's very satisfying to imagine taking a big hammer to a system we know to be corrupt and serving those without our interests at heart. But just smashing the system does not build a new one in its place. And until you address the power imbalances, any system built to replace one you smash—assuming you can manage to do the smashing, which is highly suspect—is nearly guaranteed to simply be designed to serve the desires of the powerful even more than the one we have now.
Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product
It’s not the problem with binding to Rust. Python can do it, Zig can do it, C can do it, even JS can do. It is Go which doesn’t integrate well with anything that isn’t Go.
Right, this isn't a movie we're making...
Sometimes the adaptations are better, or more approachable. Blade Runner, Game of Thrones, Man in the High Castle, I Am Legend spring to mind.

I tried reading Foundation when I was younger and could not get into it. I think they've done a pretty good job with the Apple Series.
Conversely, this also implies our current model sizes can still embed a ton more “understanding”
I think Paypal's micropayment option[1] doesn't have a ton of competition, but at 4.99% + 9 cents you will do a lot better than typical stripe rate.

[1] https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees
huh... was it open source before? I could have sworn it was when I first started using it years ago
should not are

As for officer discretion, I'd prefer they had less.

But even still, there's a pretty massive difference between mindlessly speeding by a small margin (which isn't even a criminal offense in the US) and doing something that explicitly illegal and impossible to do without forethought (spotlight deer).
Oh the issue isn't a technical one. It's that once there's been a big discussion about a topic (in this case MicroZig) the community appetite for a second thread about roughly the same thing (in this case, another MicroZig thread) drops off sharply. However, if you wait long enough then it becomes fresh again and a new thread is ok. That's what I facetiously call letting the hivemind caches clear.
People are going to complain "This Neuromancer story totally rips off the Matrix!", before realizing the order of operations.
> Not known many people who enjoyed working in call centers.

Because this is a type of a job that gets you by in your teens and twenties while you amass skills, degrees and knowledge. The fact that you don't enjoy it helps sometimes to muster the strength needed to continue with your efforts. For me crappy gigs were always a ladder. Without them I'd probably be forced to make some pretty hard choices. I'm of course not defending call centers specifically, but maybe You'd elaborate more on what's so exiting about all this ? I'd be more exited if we find a way to maybe not exploit children in third world factories, but to see even the most mind numbing jobs go away to me always feels like more people will struggle somehow.
I’m 42. I don’t care too much about progress, and Covid has nuked my lungs. I was lucky to be born with great endurance genetics. I mostly care about riding long and discovering new parts in nature on my gravel bike.
I'm with you here. I read the books so long ago I barely remember them, and I'm not that fond of Asimov as writer. But I've enjoyed the series so far.
Generally I do full text search if I want to find words and phrases in text and natural language queries if I want cute widgets to solve natural language questions.

But "house sale $placename" works fwiw!