skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe someone can correct me, but I don't think this is absolute pitch. It is pseudo-perfect pitch, based on pitch memory, and it was already known that it can be trained.

As an amateur musician myself, I understand the desire to have perfect pitch, but it seems that the problem of perfect pitch is seldom mentioned.

Usually, people talk about the common annoyances, such as transposed music, non-standard tuning, choruses that drift in pitch, etc... but the actual hard one is that it fades away with age. First, it starts "shifting," and people will start to believe that a note is actually a semitone higher or lower than it actually is, and then eventually, it is completely lost.

There is research that indicates that this is very common, and people with perfect pitch are more likely to lose it than to keep it. This is a huge blow—imagine a whole life relying on this one skill to support all your music-related activities, and suddenly, it's completely gone.

I think this video gives a nice summary of all this from the point of view of a musician:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRaACa1Mrd4
This looks a lot more impressive than a lot of GitHub Copilot alternatives I've seen. I wonder how hard it would be to port this to vscode - using remote models for inline completion always seemed wrong to me, especially with server latency and network issues
The people cheering them on are an anti-elitist bunch, the see themselves as the revolution for the people. But they don’t understand the finer details of all the things going on in a modern government-society system, and most importantly they lost faith in it.
I actually wish more editors had emacs style indenting where hitting tab anywhere on the line would re-indent it or otherwise cycle through indent levels if it was unclear, especially because you’re unlikely to get copilot suggestions in the middle of a word. Plus, it doesn’t break if there’s a syntax error elsewhere in the file.
Well it was probably faithfully outsourced to people with correct documentation and certificates with their weight in gold then...
IANAL but could this fall under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?

There is a right of private-action (i.e. not requiring a prosecutor from the compromised Department of Justice) for losses over $5k.
Yes this is honestly the silliest part of the whole conversation.

I am currently employing 6 software engineers in my company. If from tomorrow they were 10x more productive then I would employ 6 software engineers because that is the budget I have.

Their increased productivity would lead to a faster growth and I would then have budget for more.

If you increase the productivity of software engineers then people will hire more software engineers not fewer.
Isn't this the whole point of Thread? You have a low power mesh network for inside a deployment (house, office, factory, whatever) and it's the border router which does the "communicate with the internet/lan/wider network" piece. These are typically plugged in (so no worries about having to be low power) have plenty of memory (so no worries about having to drop established routes like a router).
> You don't get negative feedback if you don't open communications channels for that.

This some next level philosophy pondering, thanks.
Looks like a fun project. I would love to get into pen plotting someday.

Have to say the text bothers and intrigues me… digital fonts that try to look like handwriting are already in the uncanny valley, and then you loop it back into physical media with a pen plotter. It could almost be an art project in its own right, exploring layers of going back and forth between physical and digital media to produce a seemingly mundane paper with some writing on it.
Their boss does nazi salutes at political events. They’re nazis.
> A few weeks out from launch, we ran a brief competitive process, and we ended up being really impressed with Baseten.

What? I really fail to see how it can make sense for a company like Zed: Baseten bills by the minute so it can be really useful if you need to handle small bursts of compute, but on the flip side they charge you a x5 premium if you end up being billed for complete hours…
> zeta won't be free forever

Well that's a bummer, but also very understandable. I hope they don't make the hop too early, because I still want to grow into Zed before throw my wallet at them. So far it's very promising!
Dismissing all observational study designs out of hand because they can be difficult and easy to perform poorly seems like quite the take.

I see this all the time in people’s interpretation of nutrition research, and they do exactly as this article suggests and fall back to the “intuitive option”, and go onto some woo diet that they eventually give up because they start feeling awful.

I would disagree that observational study designs should be thrown out the window or that it makes sense to, as this article seems to do, lump cross-sectional ecological data in with prospective cohort studies.

Things often “make intuitive sense” only because of these study designs. We used to get kids to smoke pipes to stave off chest infections because it made “intuitive sense” and it’s only because of observational studies that we now believe smoking causes lung cancer.

The direction of evidence from prospective cohort studies to RCTs in the field of nutrition science on intake vs intake shows a 92% agreement. If we take RCTs to be the “gold standard” of evidence that best tracks with reality, it seems a little odd that these deeply flawed observational studies that we should apparently disregard seem to do such a good job coming to the correct conclusions.

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...
If you don't want that, then complain about a lacking a configuration as such and configure your firewall so that that they can't. But don't cheer on something that's breaking functionality that others might want (especially if it doesn't actually achieve your own goals reliably).
To Incinerate 220B Euros
You might also like this one, formerly ProcessHacker. <https://systeminformer.sourceforge.io/canary>
can we run it locally to get autocomplete?
> The key pattern is that it's always easier to build upon existing systems

Is it though ?
I've seen a lot of programs using 1 or 2 functions from a library, but, nevertheless, linking the whole library.

Doing an ldd in /usr/bin is an exercise in horror.
Seems realistic.

I tried asking a LLM for a full code snippet for the first time yesterday (i've been using them as search engines better than google, which isn't saying much, before).

It produced code that compiled but failed to do anything because the 3rd api call it generated returned an error instead of doing what the LLM said it would do.

Didn't spend time on seeing what was wrong because we already had a library that did the same thing; I was more testing what the LLM can do.
How did that work though ? Isn't bitcode tied to a target triplet ?
Human eyes are a lot bigger. It's much easier to have a shadow in a thing that is a few centimeters big, than it is in something half a millimeter deep.
Delusion + power + conviction doesn't always equal evil, so there has to be something missing in that equation. I'd wager it's evil.
Maybe you can passthrough the completed text from a simple, fast grammar model to improve text. You don't need a 40B/200GB A100 demanding language model to fix these mistakes. It's absurdly wasteful in every sense.

I'm sure there can be models which can be accelerated on last gen CPUs AI accelerators and fix these kinds of mistakes faster than real time, and I'm sure Microsoft Word is already doing it for some languages, for quite some time.

Heck, even Apple has on-device models which can autocomplete words now, and even though its context window or completion size are not that big, it allows me to jump ahead with a simple tap to tab.
Interesting, software used to be developed as a scarce resource but he's saying that having too much SW leads to many issue.

I wonder if this will (in the long term) lead to the usage of language(s) with no ambiant authority to improve the security story.
In theory it makes sense but in practice given that these language are painful to use with small projects, I'm not sure that they'll ever become popular.
Aren't GitHub private repos frees now?
>There is only delusion + power + conviction. There is no other evil.

If you believe this, your beliefs are out of step with essentially every Western justice system, which hold murder to be a worse crime than manslaughter. The difference between them is solely the intention.
Maybe the model itself can be ran locally but the wa it’s currently integrated in Zed it runs on the server.
I'm aware of the article's context but am asking the broader question.
Based on the blogpost, this appears to be hosted remotely on baseten. The model just happens to be released openly, so you can also download it, but the blogpost doesn't talk about any intention to help you run it locally within the editor. (I agree that would be cool, I'm just commenting on what I see in the article.)

On the other hand, network latency itself isn't really that big of a deal... a more powerful GPU server in the cloud can typically run so much faster that it can make up for the added network latency and then some. Running locally is really about privacy and offline use cases, not performance, in my opinion.

If you want to try local tab completions, the Continue plugin for VSCode is a good way to try that, but the Zeta model is the first open model that I'm aware of that is more advanced than just FIM.
Very cool channel. Thanks for sharing.
Sadly we can explain most bad things that happen by understanding that most people are f*cking idiots.
AFAIK, that referred to a DDOS by LulzSec, rather than a hack
"Homotopical macrocosms for higher category theory" identified as woke DEI grant
> Did Russia and China send soldiers on American soil to make the US as unstable as it is right now

Wait a minute. We did this to ourselves. Of course do Russia and China meddle in the USA's infosphere (just like we meddle in their infospheres), but there are always two involved: those meddling and those believing it. I mean, Reptiloids, blood-harvesting, Pizzagate... Seriously, what would China have to put in your china to make you gullible enough to believe that? Yet there are obviously people out there that do believe. It made headlines!

Unlike China or Russia it still matters in the USA what the population believes. Thus we, as members of the general public, regardless of our political leaning, cannot exculpate us from the state of the nation by pointing at some foreign power and say "they made me do it". As an expat I thought, I could keep out of it, but I can't. We have to face up to the fact that all of this is our doing and nobody forced us to do it.
That is correct. I use AxiDraw SE/A3 and I love it. One of the best purchases I ever made.
Of course! Because Ronaldo is the best athlete in the world, I love him so much... I am not gay, guys, I just like his pro approach!
That's pretty fascinating, thanks for sharing it! It's a pretty compelling explanation as to why some people seem to be completely unable to logically explain their reasoning for certain beliefs and just fall back to "well it should be so because everybody says so."
That is not the case anymore.

React and many other SPA frameworks use an additional virtual DOM which gets mapped onto the real DOM. This used to be faster 10 years ago and allowed for a unified interface.

Any addon manipulating the DOM forces the virtual DOM to go out of sync thus crashing the app.

As shown be the likes of Svelte, the virtual DOM is just legacy modern browsers are fast enough to get by without.
Not only Ada?

Pascal is less esoteric and has had that forever.
Don't they have the Grace CPU: https://developer.nvidia.com/grace-cpu

And a consumer CPU planned: https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/gaming-pcs/nvidias-arm...
And ofc no woman in top 100, it's not a kitchen competitive game
Personally, before I hit tab to confirm a change, I would want to see the before and after rather than just the after
I think it's being overhyped by those who fall into either of these two categories;
- financial incentive to do so
- feel the barrier to entry for "coding" is low enough for them to "build"
Ah, right. Yeah, that is surprisingly bad! Why wouldn't they at least generate enums!
Good, charge for Zed and secure its future.

I'm becoming more and more wanting to use Zed every day, and shifting away from other editors whenever possible. Some LSP implementations are lacking... But it's getting damn close!

I love the new release every week. Zed is my recent love, and Ghostty which is also stellar.

Hanging by a thread for some sort of lldb/gdb integration with breakpoints and inspection! Hopefully some day, without becoming a bag of turd.
I doubt it. Say you write a native app and some other side app swoops in and changes all your UI state while running. That is going to cause problems.
> When I first ran into this issue back in 2017, I posted in the React issue tracker that I had ”fixed” my app by blocking translation entirely.

Please do not do this! In almost every instance I've encountered severe Translate-related broken-ness, it's still worked well enough to get me a snapshot of the current page translated. Fighting through this is still less cumbersome than the alternatives.

> The only alternative solution that I can think of, is to implement your own localization within your app (i.e. internationalization)

I will add, please make sure that language is an independent setting, and not derived from locale! I sometimes have to use translate on sites that have my preferred language available, but won't show it to me because it's tied to locale and that changes other things that I don't want, like currency.

On one such site I used a browser extension to rewrite the request for the language strings file.
This is a great take, I agree 100%.

I'm curious, would you mind elaborating on your use-cases for sandboxed backend application code? This is clearly the direction in which it's all headed, yet is still mentioned relatively rarely in WASM-related discussions on here.
Thank you all for responses.
This is so cool! Was so sad to mis this on FOSDEM!
Hmmm, interesting.. The results are significantly better compared to other public MQTT brokers
Thanks for sharing your story too, Yorak.

Yes, having in-house expertise to integration optimization into their existing tools is hard. Especially if they use low level solver APIs (especially if it's math equations).

We're working making that easier with high-level REST APIs (Timefold Field Service Routing, etc). And with education (Timefold Academy) by creating videos and articles on how to integrate real-time planning, continuous planning, labor law constraints, fairness, cost reduction, etc

See https://www.youtube.com/@timefold/videos
> No one in medical field is interested to cure any disease. All want to manage it so that pharma can get as many "subscribers" as possible to keep that money flowing in.

Care to support such outrageous claims with actual evidence or?
But Zeta model is open source, so I suppose you could run it locally if you want. I didn't tried it yet, but I suppose that's their intention by open sourcing it.
50 years of travel tips
What a great story and indeed you're an excellent storyteller.

I want to wish you all the luck in the world with this, it sounds like it's going well.

Have you considered offering public pricing for your API, or maybe a few trial? Even if it's only for small use cases, I'd love to know I can just give you guys $100/month to cover my small use case.
They are they are shrinking the government to find ~4T$ for for corporate tax cuts. You can call it legitimate policy but calling it "efficiency" is bit misleading.
Yes, though Cloudflare has ended their privacy pass trial as far as I know.

I remember Safari as the only browser that implemented it natively, but I guess Orion has it now too.
> Wait a minute. We did this to ourselves. Of course do Russia and China meddle in the USA's infosphere (just like we meddle in their infospheres), but there are always two involved

I have no clue what this has to do with the current discussion. Yes, there are two involved. Panamanians could also become similarly involved in any instability the US decides to sow there. How does that imply Panama is going to be stable? Are you under the impression that Panamanians are somehow immune to to this?
Why Is Everyone Obsessed with Chat Interfaces?
A friend of mine wants to know the author and the name of the book...
I know about mass rebuilds, but in the parent comment you were talking about fixed output derivations, and committing the hashes for a mass rebuild to version control is technically possible, but not a reasonable workflow, because it makes all changes that are mass rebuilds conflict.

What works better is keep track of those hashes as part of the signatures, which is already happening. There's a lot of interesting things that can be done with that kind of information, I'm one of the people working on that kind of stuff.

Basically I have a paper out about how verifiable and reproducible can come together like that in Nix:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689944.3696169
Exactly the same situation in Central Texas. Many German, Swedish, Czech enclaves resulting in towns with names like New Sweden. Indiana has a bit of this as well.
Ah! Yes of course, "How to Get Rich" by P.T Barnum.
Many people who are not in tech circles think Elon is a brilliant expert in everything from artificial intelligence to space travel. People who largely think of technology fields as magic hail him as like the modern Galileo who cannot be wrong.
I think one problem that the people with extreme sensitivity have is that not only choruses but also orchestras drift in pitch.

I work professionally, and some orchestras are extreme. My orchestra usually starts at a at 442 but end up at 443,5 but I have played in places that start 441 and end up above 445. Good orchestras with very good reputation.

Some are extreme at the other end. I played with the Munich Phil and despite the concert being a killer for every woodwind and brass instrument involved, we didn't drift a cent despite the hall being almost 28c and the end of the concert.

A colleague (now retired) had the crazy kind of perfect pitch where he could say the note and how many cents off it was. At least to something like a 5 cent sensitivity.

Back before we switched to LED lighting that must have been horrible. The stage r got crazy hot during concerts, and I remember having to struggle to not end up at 446.
And if not from Musk then maybe they'll get that information from someone else in DOGE who is either sympathetic, compromised, or easy to bribe.

Without security clearances and the usual vetting it's difficult to see how any of them can be trusted.
Are there investors who wouldn't agree to pay the founders a wage?

I understand the part where you invest your time and money to build the PoC but I can't imagine running a startup with VC-backed investment without paying out myself a wage. That seems crazy to me if true.
Does it matter? I am still alive!
It seems brave to let an IoT device talk to someone over an unencrypted wan though. They're often of pretty varying software quality and rarely updated.

If you really want IoT wifi devices, put them on a separate wifi, and only let them talk to a local device that you can keep up to date. Assume they're vulnerable to local attacks over wifi and act accordingly, e.g. don't give the IoT wifi access to your other devices beyond to that controller, and definitely not to the wider internet.

If they're closed source, assume they're already compromised from the factory
I know, but I'm curious.

I'm Polish.

Here I'd say I can expect an average wage of somewhere around 6 to 8k PLN should I have few years of experience as a software engineer; that is around $1.5k - $2k ($1 = 4 PLN is a good estimate even if it can vary at times). Minimal wage is 3.5k PLN, so ~$880.
Chernobyl reactor shield hit by Russian drone, Ukraine says
Anecdotally I’ve had zero issues with the Safari extension.
I think the fundamental problem is you have two applications, the primary application and google translate altering the application state of the primary application at the same time, without any possible communication between the two regarding locking or alterations or anything.

I'm pretty sure most applications in the history of computing would not fare any better if you constructed that situation.
> you cannot learn absolute pitch as an adult

Interestingly, you maybe can; albeit with chemical help [0] (previously mentioned in the comments).

Unfortunately, the drug involved (valproic acid) also comes with serious side effects including liver toxicity, weight gain, and birth defects.

0 - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3848041/
The masse cheering this on have been told for decades that this is what they want. This is a response to Reagan's welfare queens, The $600 dollar hammer, and "activist judges". They think this is freedom. That this is good governance.
Exactly, those people are happy because "Musk will show them!". That is it.
Their marketing person needs a bonus!
To elaborate a little more, the commenter above must've done an Inspect Element or otherwise navigated to the live DOM view which is what has the html and pre nodes. If you view source (or look in the network tab) instead, you'll see the plain text.
What primarily brings you to using backend WASM rather than deploying Go natively?

Then don't worry [...] high performance programming" is ill defined. For the term to have any real meaning one has to be more specific about what one tries to achieve.

My main "high performance" experience is of writing WebVR applications. VR can't tolerate framerate drops because it makes users physically sick.

I don't know what the GC story is like for Go in WASM but it would make me very wary.
UX of Spotify - you mean annoying podcasts, ads for the concerts by the bands you've never heard of and mixes with ghost artists?

My main issue with Spotify is how bloated it is, how they ruin the UX with almost every update.
yes, there is also a "cat" executable that is being looked at. In this case it is probably harmless, but I am not sure why they have no source for it. someone suggested it came from gvim.

A proposal in the attached issue suggests just building it from openbsd sources which is probably not the worst place to get source for tee.
If you can't handle me at my worst you don't deserve me at my best

Just kidding, you're welcome buddy
Pretty gross to think of these people doing code reviews for projects they have no familiarity with - along with of course this bafflingly incompetent tweet: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1889062581848944961#m Donald Trump said DOGE were "super-geniuses," and according to his standards they probably are.

(The way Trump's election directly led to "retard" being a common pejorative again hasn't been discussed enough. Just awful.)
That's a good read on the budget proposals the House Republicans are bringing to the table – the aggravating part, though, is that the loss of $4.5T of revenue won't help with the deficit or debt, since the current target for cuts in annual spending are only $1.5T. (Give or take increased defense and national security spending over the next few years.)

https://apnews.com/article/house-republicans-budget-blueprin...
Future CPUs must be able to run this model locally. This is the way. I have spoken.
Congress approves the annual budget for each department, it's not micromanaging how it's spent