skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great points! I've seen a couple of papers on CLA for music learning, but CLA is a subset of so-called "non-linear pedagogy", so maybe music education has its own "branch" of it, so to speak.

> I held the belief there was a "perfect way to play" the piano

Yes, CLA is actively debunking the myth of a "perfect technique" which is very popular in sports. Like a coach/teacher is one who knows the "perfect" way, and their job is to make students repeat an exercise over and over again, fixing deviations from "perfect" technique. This couldn't be more wrong according to CLA.

Already mentioned Bernstein introduced the concept of "repetition without repetition", which claims that repetition is important in learning but for a different reason. Each attempt of a movement will have slightly different "inputs" - constraints – and thus can't have a single "perfect" technique that will work for all variations of inputs. Each repetition will be slightly different (hence "without repetition"), and the goal of the proper learning process is to give the body enough "input data" to _discover_ the proper movement solution.

It's important to note that "constraints" is a wide term here, and there are few classes of constraints. Task and goal given to the student are constraints, so the size of the hand or level of fatigue. Even environment temperature, mental state, and light conditions are constraints.

Another important concept in CLA is action-perception coupling rooted in James Gibson's theory of perception. This one was mindblowing to me when I first read it. In essence, the brain perceives the world not as a set of geometric objects but as "actionable" items. What you can do directly influences how you see the world. That has direct implications for learning as well – mastering any skill (including playing a musical instrument) is coupled with perception, as your body has to react to how it sees/hears the result of its own movements.

But the core of CLA as an educational philosophy lays in acknowledging that the actual learning still has to happen inside your nervous system. You can't really "teach" a skill, only facilitate a discovery inside the student's body.

It's really fascinating how it all works in practice. One related concept in motor skill acquisition science is the Method of Error Amplification (MAE). Let's say, golf players make a fundamental error of not shifting weight onto the back foot after swinging. Instead of giving them verbal instruction "Shift weight to the back foot", coach might do the opposite – ask them to move weight to the *front foot*. This will increase the error, which will amplify the signal in the nervous system and the body will react to it as it now feels "more wrong" by itself. It's not super clear to which types of errors MAE is applicable, but the research on MAE is fascinating.
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
No one is saying no congestion. The idea of highway expansion is to allow more people to travel while keeping congestion about constant. NYC and Chicago's highways allow the massive suburban areas and the tens of millions that live in them to semi conveniently go to the city. To do that with trains would require driving to a commuter rail station and then transferring to the metro to get where you want to go. Suburbanites just wouldnt go to the city in that case unless the destination is easily accessible on the commuter rail
Notice that fedora can't run playwright right now.

Lucky we are on linux, so i was able to put it in docker and render the window back to the host (amazing!)
By the way, I don't understand how does password cracking work on a site/system that has fail-to-ban?
> all sorts of performance bugs

A lot of code is written in safe, slow languages that could be written in a safe, fast language.
Realizing how much work I had to do on my own shit. This is a gradual process because most people can’t handle knowing the full extent of it initially.
Thank you! I was trying to find this the other day but couldn't.
Something that is capable of obtaining samples, testing and interpreting them, and providing meaningful answers is going to be expensive enough without an apple tax on top.
https://www.dqindia.com/company-makes-ai-robot-its-ceo-makes...

Seems your claim's been disproven already
Email Aliasing Providers in 2024
For a long while now, I've been trying to write a monad tutorial I'm actually happy to give people as an entry point, and that point is precisely why I haven't put anything out there yet. It's also the reason I keep trying: there's something important to be learnt there in terms of communicating tricky concepts.
I think the xkcd comic was more about academia vs product engineering in for profit entities. If anything, it is the collaborative effort of many people working on a product with deadlines that ends up with some of them coming up with really interesting solutions just due to the number of people looking. The lack of sharing between companies does increase the incidence of the outsider effect, at the massive cost of reinventing basic knowledge over and over. The only reason breakthroughs still happen despite that is just the large number of people trying random stuff that probably won't work motivated by unrealistic deadlines. They don't know it probably won't work though...
I believe we were discussing the former not the latter? I agree that for lots of problem solving tasks it can be hit or miss - in my experience, all the models are quite bad at writing decent frontend code when it comes to the rendered page looking the way you want it to.

What you're describing is more about reasoning abilities - that's not really what the article was about or the problems the techniques are for. The techniques in article are more for stuff like Q&A, classification, summarization, etc.
Then you call it a parallel discovery!
I observed some normal users and they are clueless when it comes to computers. If there is a problem, they ask it to be serviced or buy a new pc.

Even things like logging into google with an already logged in account (click on your face) is not intuitive they press instead the "log in with account" button and retype the credentials.

All of this to say, there might be challenges with Linux. But then the opposite it's also true, windows restarts the computer in your face without caring
The strings are strings. I don't care how people handle their dates, that's between them and their god.
The west has almost the opposite "problem", where stuff that some people really want hidden and forgotten is replicated and spread and amplified so much that it will never be forgotten. We even have a name for this: The Streisand Effect

It really does illustrate the difference between information being forgotten and being deliberately censored. In the West the harder someone tries to censor information on the internet, the more amplified it is likely to get
> And when you're too sick or old to pedal?

The elderly cycle all the time, especially since e-bikes went mainstream. Most elderly stop driving much earlier than they stop cycling.

> assuming she did have the stamina to bike groceries,

E-bikes are a thing.

> if she fell she would not recover.

People who have difficulty with balance, either due to age or medical issues use (e-)trikes, for some examples: https://senzup.nl/driewielfiets/nieuw/

There are very few people for who cycling is not possible; there are so many options to make it accessible for almost everyone. Here is an example for people in a wheelchair: https://www.roam.nl/runner-handbike-20/a3535 , it basically hooks up to their existing wheelchair and turns it into a hand-operated tricycle.

I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. Because you can make up some edge case for whom cycling is not feasible the 99.999% for which it is shouldn’t either?
As a spacecraft Assembly, Integration and Test (AIT) Engineer, one of my areas of expertise is harness manufacture and routing. So this naturally involves an awful lot of crimping. I am a certified crimping operator and inspector under the ECSS standards (which go a bit overboard at times in their requirements when compared to the NASA standards).

I am lucky to have built a large amount of harness has/is/will fly on many spacecraft for many customers. There are a lot of unique challenges to crimping for spacecraft harnessing, but in almost all circumstances the main issue has be schedule. Very few project managers that I have worked with, even those who have a lot of experience, plan for enough time to complete the harnessing side of a project.

Depending on the number of crimping configurations that are present in a system, it can take days to calibrate all of the crimp tools before starting. Every crimp needs to be inspected before the heatshrink can be shrunk, and often before the next crimp can be performed if the routing is critical. Routing involves labeling, gluing of tie-bases, bundling of harnessing, and the shielding.... jesus christ the shielding can be a nightmare...

Man I love making harness, honestly one of my favourite things to make. Not sure if anyone cares enough to have questions, but happy to answer them if they exist.
> its crumbling defenses around Kharkiv

Uh, Russia is losing over a thousand soldiers a day for minimal gains. “Crumbling” is an odd way to describe a line being held.
Problem-Solving – Inversion, Deconstruction, & Starting from the End
Embracing unconventional problem-solving techniques like inversion, deconstruction, and starting from the end, we can create a robust framework to analyze challenges from multiple perspectives. Inversion helps identify obstacles, deconstruction reveals hidden insights, and starting from the end provides a clear roadmap to success. Don't be afraid to think outside the box and employ these techniques for more effective solutions.
Donald Trump Joins TikTok Years After Trying to Ban the App
Bwaha. Funny the company named as doing so doesn’t mention it on their actual management team [http://www.netdragon.com/about/management-team.shtml], listing an actual human CEO instead.

But it makes for a fun soundbite eh? Especially when the article claims it was in the past, and totally was awesome. Sucker born every minute.
Complex vs complicated. Complexity is a property of the problem you are trying to solve. If the problem is complex, the solution is complex. Complicated is a property of the implementation. It happens particularly if the abstractions available in the language of choice can’t represent the complexity of the problem. My impression so far is that Rust is powerful enough to do OOP without issue, but, strangely, doing so is frowned upon, and instead developers add needless complexity to avoid using a feature of the language (dyn).
I wonder why the TLD is not .ngo.
The problem is that we live in a democracy and most American voters dont want to live in europe. They mostly want a single family home in a low density suburban area, which makes public transit difficult.
The European Court of Human Rights has determined that there were no such things as DNR and LNR; they were a Russian military ruse from the get-go to justify the invasion of Ukraine.
Previously discussed in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15647452
I think the point is that Rust encodes more rules in its interfaces (ownership, lifetimes, thread safety). If you misunderstand how a Rust library works, your code most likely won't compile instead of silently causing UB.

The rules for safe interfaces are the same for all Rust programs, so users know what to expect. Whereas in C++ the library author has more to say what usage is supported and what isn't (e.g. Rust requires all globals to be thread-safe unconditionally, but a C++ library may say it's thread safe if you set a config option or it's your problem to synchronize access).
While it's an interesting story, I don't think this Ask HN was meant as a "what's your greatest weakness" job interview question.
The problem is the design of the system and the programs. It should not handle by the apps/services but you can use your own programs for encryption, for display, etc, and can be used separately. If the data is really end-to-end encrypted then the service and apps should not care what they are; the user should care based on what programs they install to handle them.

Additionally, it says photos, videos, links, but you can make any data represented as other files e.g. text, slowscan, steganography, etc.
Related:

Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 7: touchscreen - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38136590 - Nov 2023 (1 comment)

Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 5: graphics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36287963 - June 2023 (13 comments)

Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 4: reboot/poweroff - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35184917 - March 2023 (10 comments)

Upgrading my old Chumby 8 Linux kernel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34063931 - Dec 2022 (32 comments)
I didn't know I needed this until I actually saw this.

https://looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
Thanks for pointing out, I see now what you meant. Also thanks for sharing the Wiki article.. it was a difficult read with, I think, sometimes overly simplified examples that to this day seem to be mere hypotheses. But it also provided some valuable insights.. It's one of those rare reads where afterwards you see it everywhere.
Theres no getting past the fact that being on the bus means youre necessarily close to strangers with no recourse when they do things you dont like. This is a pretty big problem to overcome in the US. The bus needs to be obviously much better than driving to get people to switch when they already own a car. Just a little faster/more convenient/cheaper wont cut it.
Would you consider adding armhf as a build target? This would make it useful for a wide range of older devices including Raspberry Pi 1 or 0, which are more likely to be used via console interface.
Mssql on azure also has READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT (server level setting, default ON on Azure SQL Database, default OFF on SQL Server <<wtf?>>). When ON, it transparently changes your explicilty specified isolation level in query/transaction of "READ COMMITTED" to "READ COMMITTED SNAPSHIT" (genuine typo made here, decided to not correct) instead. Good luck fixing your prod incident when locally you're using mssql docker image (default OFF).

If you want to say "just use their edge mssql container image", yeah man – mssql/azure sql databse/mssql docker all support JSON_PATH_EXISTS, edge sql docker doesn't so that's it for better compatiblity.

What a mess.
Right? Which Indians don't eat ghee
As a kid, Stegosauruses where my favorite. And I still always hate it when dinosaur articles need to mention the T-Rex, like this one :)

Anyway as others said, sad to see this being sold, but with how pure research budgets have been and probably will be cut, I guess they have no choice.
Just don't make asynchronous human input turing complete, there's plenty of machines for which the halting problem is solvable.
Phi-3-Mini has the same ELO on chatbot arena as the oldest GPT-3.5-Turbo. It is an 8GB model (~4B paramters?)
I think the lesson is that tricky concepts have to be taught by example.

Some theoretically-bent people can read a definition and generate their own examples, but most people I've met need to be presented with and taught one example at a time. After a while, they just get it and the abstraction falls into place.

https://two-wrongs.com/the-what-are-monads-fallacy.html
Oh but we're bringing in some hotshots from McKinsey who have some ideas about how we can trim all this unnecessary overhead. They have assured me that absolutely nothing can go wrong.
WOW. Had no idea. the Fairlight is a really unique piece of gear. Nothing sounded like it at the time, and I'm sure there are still a handful of operational units scattered around some very big name studios.
There was no coup in Ukraine. Yanukovych was removed from office by the constitutional majority of Ukrainian parliament with votes 328-vs-0. Not even a single member of his own party supported him.
A Philosophy of Software Design: Reducing Complexity and Technical Debt
Show HN: Journalling is great. But I failed every time I tried
Ditto, I loved devours too, and it's a libre game:

https://jxself.org/git/devours.git

Spiritwrak it's Zorkian but libre licensed unlike Zork [1-3] / Dungeon.

And, OFC, Emacs has Inform-mode, a helper for Inform6 and Inform6-lib.
You don't need to have a deep understanding of monads to use them. Plenty of languages are built on concepts that their users aren't expected to understand thoroughly.
Some Thoughts as I Sit Here in Another Standup
That's cool, seems like you have something that works well for you. Something which is also based on several hundreds of years of refinement.

And yet you are still extremely dismissive and rude around people investigating methods where foundational work is roughly 40 years old.

Humbleness and perspective can nobody blame on you, though - maybe an llm could help you on that?
On PC mobos it's usually not a problem as the BIOS is programmed after assembly. I've seen laptop repair shops in China do it all the time.
Then I guess we can’t have a conversation about whether Napster “ruined” the music industry or not since it’s pure speculation.
Would the code have been there and the demo have happened if you had done everything by the book?
It was largely crumbling until the latest aid package got approved.
If by "haves" you mean anyone who can work from home, then yes. But that is a large percentage of the population already and it seems to be increasing.
Running a java is still slow as hell, in 2024

It still takes many seconds to just start the program

Maybe the JRE is simply a pain to start ?
Sounds like a people issue
G&R = Guns N'Roses
Antibiotics are compounds that if imbibed can cure the sick (under some circumstances). They would be considered magical in the middle ages when bacteria were not known of. Now we have better descriptions of nature. Paracetamol/Tylenol was discovered as a derivative of Willow bark, which was chewed as a cunning prescription for toothache.

Can you claim you know why the pills you take work or don't work? Many popular antidepressants in use today wouldn't get a licence now from a lack of provable efficacy and the placebo effect. How is that different?
The nerds aren't jaded, they are worried. I'd be too if my job needed nothing more than a keyboard to be completed. There are a lot of people here who need to squeeze another 20-40 years out of a keyboard job.
Why bury the lede? Pharma is doing well in helping transform lung cancer from a death sentence into a potentially survivable illness.

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/lung-cancer-treatment-...
I'd like to know more about the education & career path that lead you there ...
Nvidia Brings AI Assistants to Life with GeForce RTX AI PCs
At that point just use protobuf
2025 Lamborghini Urus SE PHEV a family friendly crossover
> distraction-free Hacker News terminal client.

This seems contradictory :)
If Multicast Is the Answer – What Was the Question?
>It’s enough, just make sure you’re not trying to fly an airplane or prevent the detonation of nuclear weapons

My gripe with this kind of argument is that today, you aren't. You can write application-side duct tape to deal with any kind of wonky database situation, but the whole point of having a database with strong and easy-to-reason guarantees is that it makes future development easier.
Programming Musical Effects 'Live'
Choose your video - some are live programming, others are explanations of effects. Actual website is https://www.airwindows.com/
I've always presumed that a large part of this is tax evasion. Cash tips are legally required to be reported as income, but I'd guessing that they are very rarely reported in full. The increase in salary would have to be quite a bit higher than the amount lost in tips to make up the difference. I'm base my guess on my personal experience, but I could be wrong. Does anyone have numbers that would prove or disprove this?
cd / (intending to cd ~)

rm -rf *

Yep; I actually did it. By mistake, as a junior in a CS research lab.
The Internet's Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes Connected by Starlink
This is very much a tangent inspired by the title: Where can i best keep track of what is going on in embodied AI? I feel there's been a lot of development there recently but I've lost track and I'm not sure which companies besides the big ones are working on interesting solutions?
?

What does this have to do with Elon Musk?
Is it as "just" as "just ignore the abuse and keep making tools used for that purpose"?
https://archive.ph/2DgnA
It scored less than 50% when compared to people who had taken the test once.
I contributed System.HashCode to .Net Core. I was overzealous with inlining hints to make it go fast. jkotas popped his head into the PR and noted the 2MB of machine code per generic type parameter. The bigger problem was that I knew better, and preached better at the time, but had my head too deep in the weeds. I'm better at occasionally popping my head out of the weeds nowadays to make sure I don't have tunnel vision in a daft direction.
Yeah except hiragana and especially katakana both look ugly though.
“Code” in that sense predates pretty much any form of computer or technical writing. It came from the same word in old French in the 14th century, which itself came from the Latin codex. It basically meant “book”. Now of course it is specific to books that contain laws.
Completely agree with your comment, and here you have some more examples in the Spanish university to support your thesis:

- Rafael Luque was suspended of employment for 13 years not because of blatant dishonesty but because he was signing with the King Abdulaziz University as first affiliation and that bothered his university [1]. The KAU is known for buying citations this way [2].

- Another example is Francisco Herrera Triguero [3]. He's been signing with KAU as second affiliation for years and nothing happened to him even when the story about the other guy broke out.

So yeah, maybe we don't need more algorithms but more public oversight over this stuff.

[1] (Spanish): https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-03-31/suspendido-de-empleo-y...

[2] https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/to-some-a-citat...

[3] (Spanish): https://www.elsaltodiario.com/universidad/papers-y-mas-paper...
I was thinking about the brief life of the dedicated flash video cameras. They were more capable than phones of the era, but they couldn’t share on their own.

Those are still used in environments where that is a feature, not a bug.