skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can also do this, don't have perfect pitch, was also a cello player, and have a guess.

Instruments have fairly unique timbres at different pitches, and our brain can pattern match that more effectively than pitch itself. So, you can actually "burn in" the correct timbre, which makes it easier to find. Since I was so used to an A reference note for tuning, I got to where I could get pretty close.

Years later, I saw this video, with someone who seems to have brute forced it to approximate perfect pitch using a similar method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT22zqg0jvE
It's great, not perfect, but in the vast majority of cases it works without needing any intervention. I strongly second your recommendation.
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Tipping is a tough problem: if you pay customer facing employees more, you'll need to raise prices. If your competitors still have a tipping expectation, their menu prices will be lower.

And let's be real, most customers aren't savvy enough to think about that ahead of time, which is why most restaurants that have attempting no-tipping systems in North America have failed (or reverted back to accepting tips).

There's also a segment of the population that enjoys the perceived power of holding a tip over an employee's head.
I'm done. I hate Windows 11 but my PC works with it installed so I'll just deal with Windows 11 minor bullshit vs fighting Proton and Nvidia.
This is just what I needed. Chefs kiss.
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I'm afraid I don't know enough about hardware-accelerated video encoding/decoding to really understand what this implies. From what I gather, the Vulkan API gives you the ability to queue video encode/decode operations, which seem to pertain to e.g. a frame of h264 video, passing in all of the required state. So I assume at a low level, how a driver would have to handle this is by processing these commands, dispatching units of work to relevant hardware units, flipping registers and etc. as needed, and doing whatever can't be done in hardware in software. And I guess what you mean when you say Qualcomm's video acceleration is "stateful", it means that you can't just simply dispatch a single-frame encode job, the video encoding process is some stateful thing where the per-codec state is not all exposed and cannot be processed out-of-order, so there's no logical way to implement a Vulkan driver.

If so, that's a bummer.

I wonder if it might be possible to "cheat" by having a driver that tries to use stateful acceleration in the happy path, but falls back to software encoding/decoding when things go out of order or there are no more hardware resources. Probably not. At least, hopefully, future hardware designs will account for this. Until those existing devices are outside of their useful lifespan, though, it seems Vulkan Video will probably not be the one hardware video coding API to rule them all.
I'll never tip on those things if it's not your typical tipped position, like a bartender, waitress, etc. Pay your employees.
> I scanned an area the size of 4 football fields and found a single dime.

Despite only finding a single dime, that sounds fascinating. Can you say more?
So if a company only needs an outbound VPN for their road warriors and not an inbound VPN to access internal servers, vprox could be a simpler alternative to Tailscale?
I just want to say your careers page is amazing. It's an often neglected part of even the most creative websites, so it was so refreshing to see.
There is a very well written history of the US navy's first shipboard computer system.

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:No_Damned_Computer_is_Going_to_T...

The article shows up here fairly regularly. I mainly bring it up as the computer was developed by Sperry, and it really is a good read about an early tech project.
So, I've got perfect pitch, and its not quite that black and white. For context, I can do all the regular perfect pitch superpowers (except for door rattles, which don't really rattle with a single tone), and have had it from a young age. When I first remember having it, I could only reliably recognise an A (and would have to count upwards to other notes), but unambiguously meet any definition as an adult

Many things that are considered perfect pitch skills take practice, and the OP is absolutely correct in that certain timbres are easier to classify than others. As a kid I would have had a harder time telling you the pitches if two woodwind instruments were playing a chord, vs two stringed instruments, due to familiarity. Its something you tend to work on accidentally as a background process as a musician

Much of perfect pitch discrimination is an active process though, eg being able to split up a song into its constituent parts and pick out the notes of each line is something you have to learn. All perfect pitch does is give you the ability to perform that discrimination, but anything more than that is a skill. For things that people consider to be perfect pitch skills (tone classification in a cluster), there absolutely are good days and bad days

Lots of pitches in nature aren't especially clean - nor are musical instruments, which is what makes them of varying ease to classify when you're unfamiliar. There are harmonics that can be make it hard to classify, or the central tone can be washed out in noise or similar tones. Its like trying to identify the dominant frequency in white noise, it takes practice

Its likely that OP had perfect pitch as a kid (demonstrating pitch classification), and simply never really capitalised on it mentally to develop it. Because you're right in that no adult has ever experimentally been demonstrated to have learnt this, even with extensive training and musical experience
I accidentally trained myself by playing with SimTunes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimTunes> a lot as a kid. But I think it trained me to be slightly flat. Electronically perfect notes sound wrong, and I tune things down when that's an option. I wish I cared enough to try running SimTunes today and see if A was 440 Hz or not.
A Samsung clothes washer.

After I had owned it several months, they sent out a repair crew to reinforce the lid for the purposes of (I am not making this up) preventing it from exploding and spraying the laundry room with shrapnel. OK, fine, mistakes were made. But the reinforcement came with a new wash setting for use with heavy loads (bedsheets, etc.). Using that setting, or loading the washer past about 50 percent on any other setting, or sometimes just because, it seizes up and dumps its entire water load onto the laundry room floor. This happens just rarely enough that I've only now decided to go through the annoyance of replacing it.
thanks for sharing, looks very interesting! Although, it seems to be very high level and hides all the details behind prompt string. I tend to dislike that kind of things. I designed Flow to be as bare bone as possible and give all control to the user
My wife and I happened to be in Iceland when Alexander Skarsgård was filming something. We saw him standing idly by while something was being set up, so my wife walked up and asked if she could get a photo with him. So I have a picture of my wife hugging Alexander Skarsgård, and I get to tell people my wife left Alexander Skarsgård to be with me :-)

re: Murderbot -- I read the first novella when it was on sale for $1.99 or something like it. I liked it, but the rest of the novellas were something like $4.99 each, and I'm not paying that much for novellas.

Holy crap, they're $12 each now!? Authors gotta eat, but c'mon!
When something seems obvious to me but scientists in the field disagree, I usually take this a sign I need to improve my own understanding.
How many times do Kickstarter backers have to get burned before they understand these ideas and switch to backing things that are actually likely to have good gameplay?
Everything is subjective, but the most prominent restaurant ranking is "The World's 50 Best Restaurants", which polls many chefs to get a ranking every year and does a decent job.

Roastful is trying to apply a similar methodology to coffee roasting, by polling 32 industry experts.

And, the #1 roaster in their rankings this year is Tim Wendelboe.

You can debate the method, but it's not total wankery.

https://www.roastful.com/top-roasters
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I poked around a bit on their docs site [1] to get a feel for the language, and these two features stood out to me:

> - Interfaces and generics provide first-class alternative to hacky preprocessor-based or string-pasting shader specialization. Preprocessor hacks can be replaced with a well-understood language feature already used in Rust, Swift, C#, Java, and more.

> - Automatic differentiation greatly simplifies the implementation of learning-based techniques in shaders. Slang supports automatically generating both forward derivative and backward derivative propagation functions from forward computation code.

> - Slang supports a first class module system, which enables true separate compilation and semantic checking of shader code.

I am a total beginner at shaders, but when I've dabbled in them they are mostly surrounded by string concatenation and a variety of wild macros, so it's cool to see a "typescript for shaders" with such broad support, both of vendors, and of target shader languages.

[1]: https://shader-slang.com/slang/user-guide/introduction.html
Slang looks interesting, I've been reading a bit about it over the last few weeks.

However, I've already run into the problem that, while it's a clever name for a shading language, it's a terrible name when trying to find anything in a search engine.

Making sure that devs can search and find answers quickly is an extremely important aspect of developer ergonomics, and I hope this issue isn't reflected in other subtle design flaws throughout the project.

A much less clever name that isn't already a common English word is always preferable. Call it xyzSL or something boring like that, which is unique and will always return meaningful search results.
Thanks! Yep, retry and durability guarantee is on the roadmap for sure, I also wanted to start working on the serverless offering. What kind of workflows are you building with temporal?
I'm more likely to pay cash at those type of businesses. As then there is no tip screen. And as the article states I have also avoided some businesses because they have them.
Holy miscalculation: Entire Christian calendar based on 6th-century monk mistake
Small discussion at the time (12 points, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991830
does anyone understand how this fits in with the weird mess of SPIR-V/WGSL/Vulkan/GSL/HSL?

is this supposed to take the place as the officially blessed frontend language for SPIR-V? or is this just another standard attempting to replace the other standards (insert XKCD)?
Let's see if I can state this properly. The atoms of the ship will pass right through the event horizon like nothing. To see the ship, though, photons have to travel from the ship to your eyes. As the ship goes deeper into the black hole's gravity, the photons will "appear to" be getting slowed down by the black hole's gravity well, each photon more than the last. So, an outside observer would have to wait longer and longer to get the next photon. In fact, he'd have to wait an infinitely long time to get all of them. It's like an optical illusion, except that a real physicist would say it's not an optical illusion; it's time dilation, etc.
> I found American Gods to be highly praised, and though it was hard to get through.

The version that's sold today is the "author's preferred text" which is not the version that was praised and won awards etc.. I think that's pretty dishonest marketing, and wish they'd sell the original edition, which is like 200 pages shorter.
Its worth noting that adults can learn something called pseudo absolute pitch, which sounds similar to what you're describing. The difference (which you're also describing) is that it requires reinforcement, and is a bit less accurate than having perfect pitch
Another shader compiler to support?
The distinction: there's a frequent understanding or expression that a single common ancestor means that that was the only individual alive at a time, or that its ultimate dominance was evident immediately or very shortly afterwards.

Neither of these is the case.

Nor, strictly, is the notion that the individual (or its descendants) were necessarily evolutionarily fitter than others.

In the first instance, a common ancestor may have come long before some evolutionary chokepoint or contest in which their gene line ultimately survived whilst others died out. And in some cases (mitochondria), the alternative gene lines didnt' die out. Non-mitochondrial organisms are the prokaryotes, and they have continued (for many hundreds of millions of years) to live alongside their mitochondrial-bearing eukaryotic cousins. Bacteria are AFAIU largely prokaryotic. Even some eukaryotes have lost their mitochondria, though it seems that all eukaryotes had mitochondria at some point in their evolution. But where it comes to complex organisms, overwhelmingly mitochndria-bearing cell forms out-compete those which lack same.

As for evolution, that which is expressed in genomes requires a threefold process: variation, selection, and inheritance. That is, whatever leads to the eventual survival of a particular line of descendants must be based on an inheritable characteristic: stronger muscles, lower metabolism, superior coordination, robustness to environmental variance, faster development within a given niche, mate-selection advantage, etc., etc. (And note that what works in one selective environment may well not be suited to another.)

Other selection events are not directly heritable, or are far less heritable. Getting smacked by an asteroid is an example, though there are features (e.g., being an aquatic life-form, small body size) which may increase survival odds after a major impact. Other natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, wildfires) etc., are to an extent random and arbitrary in what they kill, though there may be specific adaptations which increase survival odds after such events. Even given this, many species will see a fairly arbitrary selection of extinction and survival, often with little prediction for a future repeat of such an event. Which individuals survive, or don't, is pretty much a wash. Those are still selection events, but don't convey any heritable advantage.

The possibility that some common ancestor or LUCA is at least in part arbitrarily determined seems high to me.
In my city we tune to A=441 I have no idea why but when in Rome...
My main company is Laminar (https://www.lmnr.ai) and we actually help folks ship reliable LLM software to prod. We've seen many of our clients successfully do that. Although, the entire space is very new for sure and things are changing everyday
The point of the article is to explore ways to make it possible to play the game without studying a manual for hours first.
Unfortunately as often as not this doesn't seem to be the case. Expertise in a field often seems to create blinders.
The other one I'm seeing lately is a semi-stealth "service charge" on the bill. Something like 18% to 20% added to the bill without really standing out. This used to be something they'd do for "larger parties", but now I'm seeing it even when I'm eating solo.

This makes for an uncomfortable situation where I now have to ask the waiter or bartender if they receive this as a tip. Then I need to decide if I want to tip something like 5% to 7% extra, which would be a good 25% tip in total, but looks like a crappy 5% tip.

So after dealing with that, I just don't go back to those pubs or restaurants.

There was one bar where the waitress told me she doesn't get that service charge. It just goes to the house. So if she was telling the truth, all of the prices on the menu are just a lie.
Something i like to do on top of this is separating the goals from the actions. Explain what, not how, we are trying to accomplish at a big picture level. Then, give concise, actionable instructions for how to accomplish the goal.

I very much dislike guides that combine goals and actions in one large, linear instruction set. As soon as there is any deviation, you don't have the high level knowledge to adapt. Sure, I'm supposed to stand on this plate and shoot these 3 things when you say so, but why? Someone died, now the timings are all off. How do I adapt?
> It's optimized for profit.

It wasn’t optimized for profit 30 years ago..?
It would have to be custom made because the sofa size depends on your hallway width.
I dread the day I have to eat at US restaurants, or even get something delivered. Part of the reason is cultural: I’ve never lived in a country where a tip is mandatory and you’ll be called out if you don’t. The other reason being it involves a degree of social pressure and shame, if one doesn’t tip enough. Both don’t sit well with me.

But I can attest that if I’m forced to tip, I’ll not return to that establishment.
If it were me? I would keep in my focus the concept of the "Third Place."[1]

FYI, some owner-run stores in Japan have been in the family for generations, so the overhead is lower. And lots of those owners work 7 days a weeks, all day.

If they don't fall into the above category, some little shops here in Japan don't last very long at all. They're passion projects with naive entrepreneurs who just want to break out of typical society role they've been given.

Others are family funded businesses that lose money, but save face as it gives the otherwise-not-working "business owner" something to do.

Others still are part-time hobbies. Like a coffee stand or tepanyaki place that is open once or twice a week. Either funded by their full time job or elsewhere. Not money-makers.

Japan also has a lot of support for small businesses; your local municipality can help you out with money, marketing, and more.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
The problem is that Intel is poorly run. Intel should be printing money, and did for a long time until a string of bad leadership. If they had brought in Gelsinger after Otellini, which they were reported to have considered, the company might be in a much better position.

But alas, Intel is a mega bureaucratic company with a few tiny siloed teams responsible for innovating and everyone else being test and process jockeys. I think Gelsinger wasn't given enough time, personally, and agree with the OP that even someone like Elon would struggle to keep this sinking ship afloat at this point.

BK wanted wearables and Bob Swan wanted to cut costs; neither of them were visionaries nor did they really understand that Intel was a hard tech company. Intel had achieved such dominance in such a in-demand, growing market, that all they had to do was make the technology better (smaller, faster, lower power) and the money would continue to flow. The mandate was straightforward and they failed.
Echoing the sentiment this is a huge mistake.

Something I was thinking about the other day: All the mega successful chip companies at the moment: TSMC, Nvidia, Samsung - are all lead by founders or family of founders. It got me wondering that if you really want to innovate in the most innovative industry in the world, you need more skin in the game than stock options. Gelsinger was the closest thing Intel had to a founder-leader, someone who deeply cared about the company and its legacy beyond what they paid him, and was willing to make tough decisions rather than maintain the status quo until his options vest.

I wonder if this is the nail in the coffin.
Beato has a course for it. He says he used to have it but it has drifted over time. He also claims his young daughter has it now.
I do not find the Retrotink 4k any less configurable than the OSSC (non-pro, I haven't tried the pro). Note that the 4k is nothing like the 5X-Pro which is more plug and play.
What makes a hypothetical brain microbiome so hard to find? I would think that once you’re doing microscopy on brain slices that a biome would show you quite fast. But if you’re still optimistic after a negative search I assume there must be many reasons why a brain microbiome could exist but still be hard to detect.
Logically it wont be long until we all have our own micromodels instead of hedge fund managers. Trained on random factors that have seemingly no relation to anything at all, but the correlation absurdly strong from the market. With enough data collected and compute getting cheap enough such a model is certainly possible. I bet us in the peasant class won’t get to leverage it when it comes out of course.
Thank you! Good question. Behind the scenes, state is manage via Semaphore. So each call to .get(...) acquires a semaphore with a single permit so it essentially guarantees thread-safety. Check out how the state is implemented here https://github.com/lmnr-ai/flow/blob/main/src/lmnr_flow/stat...
Unless you believe America will buy less overall why would the new tariffs make that big a difference to China? Say America shifts dollar amount X to country A, what do you think country A does with the X dollars?
The worst service that I ever received was in France, where tips were mandatory and could not be varied. I've never been so offended at being asked to tip as when it was done by the smug jerk who had just arranged to make sure that I didn't enjoy my meal, and who knew that they would get their full cut of my unhappy experience.

I have no problem tipping in the moment. And sometimes for very different amounts than expected. But if you expect a tip and didn't earn it...?