skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What?

MacOS in 2000 was still old MacOS, with no compositing at all. The NeXT derived version of MacOS was still in beta, and I tried it back then, it was very rough. Even once OSX shipped in 2001, it was still software composited. Quartz Extreme implemented GPU compositing in 10.2, which shipped in 2002.

Windows finally got a composited desktop in Vista, released in 2007. It was GPU accelerated from day one.
Also see https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/beyond-the-four-d...
Not a playlist, but I've always hit up Song Key Finder[1] when trying to figure out what songs might fit together for mashup-type purposes. They rank the songs by popularity within their user community.

[1]: https://www.songkeyfinder.com/
Many of the responses to this comment imply that this is something fundamentally different than perfect pitch and give it some different name ("pseudo absolute pitch", "perfect relative pitch", etc.). While I concede that most people think of perfect pitch as something that is instilled in some way in early childhood rather than achievable through practice, I guess I would ask those commenters... why do you think the latter is fundamentally different, or is using some separate mechanism?

There are many skills which are much easier to instill in early childhood and are simply harder to master if approached in adulthood -- language learning, certain athletic skills, and more -- but we would never consider any of these impossible to achieve through study. Sure, maybe the maximum achievable skill level is less than what could have been possible if study began in early childhood, but we would not say that it is impossible for adults to achieve a level of mastery, or that those who gained a skill through serious practice must be using some separate mechanism than those who learned it in early life.

I contend that it is the same with absolute pitch. After all, there is not even a perfect level of absolute pitch mastery! In layman's terms, "perfect pitch" is usually understood to mean that a person can immediately name a pitch when played -- on a 12-tone western music scale. But some people people with perfect pitch have better precision than that and can estimate quarter tones, etc. If a note is played that's 20 cents sharper than Ab, and person #1 says "that's an Ab" while person #2 says "that's a note a touch sharper than Ab", most people consider neither statement to disqualify them from having absolute pitch. But there is a difference. Moreover, no person on Earth can name a pitch down to, say, a couple decimals of absolute frequency value. Doesn't this imply that the skill exists as achievable points on a spectrum, not as a flat binary?
He really, really knows how to make giant fireballs explode in time with a rocking soundtrack though.

I had forgotten about The Rock, but recently rewatched it - and halfway through I had to check, and sure enough. Michael Bay.

Also, for a more recent cheesy movie (with Nicholas Cage), Drive Angry is surprisingly good. In a bad way.
Don't we still have a lot of video, and other non text real world data to go with? Feels like a possible potential break from there.
Thanks, this looks like it will be an interesting read!
That’s not at all who Pat is
Merging AMD and Intel sounds like Penn Central all over again
Tangent this got me thinking about: Why are the robotics and embedded communities generally separate, with little overlap in people and tech? For example, this project seems unrelated to the rust embedded tooling. And the components categories are also unfamiliar, e.g. the IMUs and ADCs in the readme, using a SBC vice a MCU etc.

Another angle: `ROS` and `RTOS` share letters, but not much else!

I gather that robotics is a fusion of embedded and mechanical engineering; I refer to the former.
Let's be specific, this is Left Coastal elite culture. Not all of America is as delusional and neurotic as that.
insanely easy, make it on SMS?
Unless this system can easily be used to track and surveil people online, zero chance of it getting implemented.
This is not curve fitting or forecasting: it's pattern matching.

It's also a serious methodological approach. A fall on a sensor graph has a certain look to it just like an abnormality on an EKG that a human can detect. You can train multimodal models to detect these too with decent accuracy. What's methodologically unsound about that? If anything, it demonstrates you don't necessarily need a class of hyper-specific models to do pattern matching.
Um... Musk is ineligible for the US presidency.
Thankfully, we have a system of corporate capture in the US where big government (FCC, in this case) and big business (for-profit media companies, in this case) mutually engage in an incestuous relationship to work against the interests of actual citizens, which is obviously great for everyone.

Sarcasm aside, there really does need to be a cool-off period before government workers enter the private sector, and vice-versa, along with restrictions on corporate lobbying and much more aggressive financial transparency requirements for every member of congress if we ever want to address this problem.
> Orbits are exactly regular, by definition. Orbital parameter changes do happen but are rare.

How does that match up with [0]?

"... a satellite that stalks other satellites, started another relocation move on July 22, leaving its position near ASTRA 4A at longitude 4.8 E and drifting west at 0.9 degrees per day."

Do they make this up, or do you and I have a vastly different understanding of "irregular"?

[0] https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-russian-sigint-...
The companies that are big tech today took the risks and are now reaping the rewards. Intel decided not to take the risks, so now it doesn’t reap the rewards.

No one stopped Intel from paying for talent. Intel’s shareholders decided to pay themselves instead of investing in the business by hiring great employees. That’s how you go from being a leader to a laggard.
Official post from last week: https://europeanjournalists.org/blog/2024/11/26/x-odus-efjeu...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269495)
Good info. But is the difficulty detecting the references? Or interpreting the meaning and metaphor?
Peculiar, Thanks!
On paper, this is true. In effect, however, it often is not.
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Not the main topic, but the article is in part on how people respond to changing normative pressures so I think it's fair: I'm surprised at the low level of information in this article given that it's written by the original researchers! In many other fields I would have expected greater specificity and care from academics presenting their work to a lay audience. For example they say "our results were clear" but then only describe the direction of the effect -- they give no numbers about magnitude or significance! And following the link to their paper ... it seems pretty bad?

Study 1a was done at a single brewpub, which uses 2 POS systems from the same provider, one counter-based and one hand-held. They say nothing about what kinds of customers or transactions get the hand-held (presumably table-side?) POS system instead of the counter-based one. Are these different group sizes? Different seating areas? Food vs not? It's not a random assignment? So (a) it's hard to know whether the effect is real in the one business they measured with or if it's just that different kinds of customers are more or less likely to return and (b) it's hard to know whether this actually generalizes to other businesses. What was the effect size? During a 1 year period, customers whose first visit used a handheld POS had 1.1 subsequent visits vs 1.46 for customers whose first visit (within the period) used a counter-based POS. They're grouping people by their first visit in the period, as if that's going to be determinative of how they think about the business, but they don't know which customers were actually new (i.e. one month before the captured period, did you go and use a hand-held POS and then in the 3rd month of their period you went and used a counter-based POS? You're in the counter-based group.)

All the rest of the 'studies' in their paper are market-research surveys.
Couldn't take them out the windows?
I look forward to do the day when people stop pretending "man stops using website" is an interesting or important story.
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Really glad to read there is a local story.

> Today, OCI images are the new cloud executables. By moving to OCI artifacts, all Fir apps will be using images with compatibility across different environments. This means you can build your application once, run it locally, and deploy it anywhere, without worrying about vendor lock-in or compatibility issues.

Is this something I can try out locally without signing up for heroku first?
Korea arrests CEO for adding DDoS feature to satellite receivers
Agreed. IMO, the real difference between ‘good’ (aka ‘not selfish’) and ‘bad’ (aka ‘selfish’) behavior is really more about the level of honesty, coercion, control, and degree of autonomy afforded the other participants than actual degree of self interest.

So it’s less about degree of one’s own self interest, and more about the degree of interfering with or manipulating others and their self-interests.
Hybrid wolf dogs are a thing. I've seen YouTube videos of people who have one as a pet (usually along with regular dogs).
> 2. Charge more for the credit card paying customers, and they can avoid this extra payment by paying with cash.

Things may have changed in intervening years but about 20 years ago I owned some quick serve restaurant franchises, and the credit card companies banned charging a fee to customers for use of credit cards - there was essentially a most favoured nations clause in the agreement. If you were caught doing this they would terminate your service permanently.
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.NET has been cross-platform since 2014
I dunno, I just read about this drama and it seems like WP Engine is a shit company only interested in profits, and WordPress.org & .com are in the right...
A middle schooler found a new compound in a piece of goose poop
it's on the roadmap!
20% to 30% of autistic people seem to have perfect pitch [1, 2].

Not all perfect pitch people have autism. On average neurotypical perfect pitch people do score higher on the AQ (19) than neurotypicals (12), but much lower than high functioning autistic people (35) [3].

I'm one of them, definitely high functioning autism + perfect pitch here. Got diagnosed in my mid thirties for sleep difficulties, no social difficulties in my case (except for as a kid).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AutisticWithADHD/comments/1g7fbhp/h... - not scientific but given that it normally is 1 in 2000 at best, this is way too high.

[2] More sources talk about it, but can't seem to find it right now. I'm pretty sure that [3] has some sources, but don't want to do the research.

[3] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3364198/
Brave and Chrome are both Chrome. Have you tried Firefox, Safari?
We all remember when Jack Dorsey spent over $100m of his money and went around campaigning for a candidate..
What do you think those game engines use to do the translation? They certainly aren't writing their own compilers and languages, they've got more important things to burn engineer time on. Anyone writing cross platform shaders can consider Slang, even if only for the output targets.

The intended user _is_ game engines, and it's a damn good contender in its space. The average pipeline for shader translation right now is HLSL being fed into DXC to generate DXIL for D3D and SPIR-V for Vulkan. That SPIR-V will also get fed into another transpiler (SPIRV-Cross) to spit out shaders for other platforms like Metal. This pipeline is quite fragile, especially in the SPIRV-Cross step, and DXC is on life support with Microsoft integrating a DXIL target into Clang so they don't have to develop a pseudo-cpp frontend anymore.
Does anyone of if there are any consequences of the existence of monotiles in algebra or number theory?
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True, but for me, the techno-optimism started with Google. I was a young kid back then, but the idea to catalog all of the world's information under a search engine (that worked) sounded wild to me at the time.
Reddit is profitable for the first time ever.
If your screen is too bright, turn it down. Don't make it everyone else's problem.
I believe my claim of having perfect pitch stands on solid ground, and consists largely of what OP is describing. That's because I can demonstrate it. I wouldn't go so far as to say that the described method is a reasonable way to _acquire_ perfect pitch, but I do contend that what is described is a reasonable method of demonstrating and explaining one's perfect pitch. If you do have perfect pitch, that is reflected in the fact that you don't transpose the music you hear on in your head.

This idea of recalling songs is an easy way to explain perfect pitch to others in a way they can easily try for themselves. If you can sing the first note to a song, and then afterwards you actually listen to that song, and you are actually in tune, then you have perfect pitch. That's a far cry from being able to name the note, or rattle off the notes in a chord, but in my view the mental recall is the true innate essence that undergirds every other component of the umbrella of perfect pitch.
> I’m interested in building stuff, not sitting near my pond on a warm summer day, thinking if TypeFamilies + DataKinds would be better than GADTs for making illegal states unrepresentable.

I feel differently. I would rather sit by the pond on a summer day rather than build stuff
Distributed Erlang
It wasn't technologically possible to have such a tight feedback loop 30 years ago. We realized the Human Instrumentality Project around 2013 and now every-goddamn-thing spies on us at all times so markets can react in real-time like the ultimate jealous controlling spouse — “Where are you going? Who else will be there? What are you talking about?”
Agreed. I shared this careers page with an Anime loving front-end eng connection of mine because the page was so great.
It almost feels like we would need an "in between" category.

If I paint a broad brush:

- embedded is all about latency, low bandwidth

- computers are all about bandwidth with often terrible latencies.

A modern robot needs both low latency and high bandwidth.
Surely there must be an emulator you could use?
It's also a little weird that they lie and claim "Usually we're able to parse recipes from {{domain}}" no matter what domain you put in. This really rubbed me the wrong way.

https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe/blob/39868809c1...
It sounds like you had something similar to what I had with the clarinet in middle school.
Thanks, finally a signal in this thread of noise. I found it unbelievable that all media presented it as if it was his decision. Of course it wasn't.

I "predicted" this three months ago (really, it was inevitable), but gave it 1-6 months.

Now for the what-happens-next popcorn. In a normal world, they would go bankrupt, but this is very much not a normal world.
> A surrogate activity is an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that the individual pursues for the sake of the “fulfillment” that he gets from pursuing the goal, not because he needs to attain the goal itself. For instance, there is no practical motive for building enormous muscles, hitting a little ball into a hole or acquiring a complete series of postage stamps. Yet many people in our society devote themselves with passion to bodybuilding, golf or stamp-collecting. Some people are more “other-directed” than others, and therefore will more readily attach importance to a surrogate activity simply because the people around them treat it as important or because society tells them it is important. That is why some people get very serious about essentially trivial activities such as sports, or bridge, or chess, or arcane scholarly pursuits, whereas others who are more clear-sighted never see these things as anything but the surrogate activities that they are, and consequently never attach enough importance to them to satisfy their need for the power process in that way.

You could both be right. Perhaps addictive behaviors are just maladaptive surrogate activities that are the result of humans being intrinsically compatible with contemporary societies.
I was disputing this claim:

> If you need to use Excel at work, you need x86 since Excel for Mac is a gutted toy

The nominal cost of Excel was not the topic being discussed. It was the cost of using Excel for MacOS rather than Excel for Windows.

Almost no one needs the Windows specific features of Excel, so almost no one needs to give up using macOS just because of Excel.
Here's an example: https://rnsaffn.com/cot4/

That's large-scale prediction of trader positioning changes in most of the big commodity futures and options markets.
Wow, this is a brilliant idea!
It sounds perfect for fewuent travellers.
I'm fascinated by this discussion because of how imprecise the terms "perfect," "absolute," "pseudo-absolute," etc. are. It's doubly interesting because we're describing things that happen in our own minds, with each of us having potentially different abilities and training and no common reference to what a "typical" person can do.

For me, sometimes, I can hear the opening note or chord of one song and it will immediately remind me of another unrelated song. When I check, they're almost always either in the same key or a semitone off. It happens most reliably when the timbres are similar. It's not a conscious thing, and the more I try to make it happen the less it ever does. Oddly enough though, I am terrible at identifying intervals. (Major third, perfect fifth, yeah, I know they're different and I can hear that, but ask me out of the blue which one was just played and I'll manage to get it wrong.)

Another thing I can do is play what is essentially a "mental recording" of a song I know well in my head. It's like if I had an iPod, and I felt some urge to listen to "La Grange" by ZZ Top, I can hear it in my head -- guitars, drums, vocals. I can skip around to whatever part interests me. I find that when I start tapping out the rhythms of what I'm recalling, or humming along with its melody, my recollection is pretty spot on when played against a real recording on speakers. Again maybe a semitone off at worst.

Both of those suggest to me that, somewhere in there, I do have an absolute pitch reference that I'm drawing from in an undisciplined way. If I sat down and practiced I bet I could refine it, but... why? Might be a neat party trick, but aside from that I don't really feel like I'm missing anything without it.
2025 will be a bad year for remote work
But it's still not really foie gras -- "The foie gras is 51 percent Japanese quail cells ... plus a plant-based fat mix and corn husk flavorings."

I think this is going to run into the same problems as impossible burger. They made a huge deal about how their patties "bleed," but no one has ever tasted an impossible burger and confused it for ground beef.
> I feel that I can focus on actually building stuff with this language.

This is very much how I felt when using Rust as a previous production Haskell user. I enjoyed aspects of Haskell, and I'm still very impressed with it, but it seems to call up a kind of perfectionism that I don't experience nearly as much with other languages.
I've lived here for a long time, but this stuff still gives me anxiety. I get you are supposed to tip in restaurants, but I'm unsure which other services need tipping. Is it required to tip, for instance, the HVAC repairman? Are you supposed to tip mechanics? Do native Americans have a spidey sense for which people need tipping that I just need to become sensitized to?
Yea, I was just thinking that.

Truth is a narrative too. There's one difference though: over time, truth will play out.

Simple example: blood moon occurs, people think they'll die. And then the next morning comes around.

With social systems, the truth takes a lot of time to truly unfold, but unfold it does.
The Next Platform
I screenshotted the ad for it I saw (did not click on it so have no idea what it's like). If it's any good please report back

https://imgur.com/9Ea7ISw