skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Absolute pitch is a neurological phenomenon. People who have it experience the world differently. It's not a party trick like you're talking about here to name a note in isolation.

There's a fascinating phenomenon known as the Stroop effect[0], where if you get people to read a series of color words (e.g. "purple blue green red"), where the words are colored, but in the wrong color, it slows them down quite a bit. This was used to identify Soviet spies by showing them colors written in Russian; native Russian readers were slowed by the incorrect coloring, people who didn't know Russian could read it quickly.

Well, the Stroop effect applies to music notes, too! People with absolute pitch are impaired from reading a sequence of note names when a non-matching pitch is played at the same time. People without AP can read it just fine.

People with true absolute pitch can't help but know immediately and automatically what note a sound has. It taps into the language center of the brain. Does your song trick give you such an overwhelming sense of the note, that if someone played a different note it would be noticeable and distracting enough that you can't read a simple word or music note on the page?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect
stochastic justice maybe
> If we consider Musk to be an unreliable actor (I do),

Musk said himself yesterday that he expects to be wrong, he has been wrong, and we should all scrutinize him thoroughly. So even he admits he's an unreliable actor.
100% RTO (return to office) is coming back later this year with a vengeance, and it's going to mean a lot of layoffs without severance. It's what they're getting at.
I mean, adoption by anyone right?

Although adoption I think is largely a matter of marketing. Outside of more people willing to search into open source alternatives themselves, or contribute more to open source projects... what else is there to foster adoption?

If corporate entities weren't doing that, then it would have to be non-corporate entities doing that. No?
I'd expect that as well, but we can't really assume that.

Being a minority does not make you underrepresented. Underrepresented means there are fewer than you'd expect, given population-level numbers. In the Rust community it certainly seems true that trans people are overrepresented, though "marginalized" almost certainly still applies. The same goes for LGB, which again does not seem underrepresented in the tech community compared to society writ large, and I think many LGB people probably don't see themselves as "marginalized" in 2025, but I could be wrong.
Trump says US to increase military sales to India, eventually provide F-35 jets
I don't know about this case in particular, but Morgan & Morgan is a well-known plaintiff-side (mostly personal-injury) firm. Chances are good that they are working on a contingency basis. Of course, that does not excuse the behavior.
Apparently it kills cats.
There are bird flu variants that are very deadly to humans. It's been a concern of scientists for a long time that it would evolve to spread more easily to and between humans.
unfortunately I did read it
I am a happy Fedora user, but the "Software" application it ships with has always been a joke. Pushing flatpaks (and especially poorly-maintained ones like this) has made it worse.

When I open Software I always think it's going to be a clean GTK interface for dnf. But it appears to just do its own thing, and I've learned not to trust the app listings in there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907076

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42783776

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780835

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42718838

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708579

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700319

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43034231

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031405

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959625

My methodology:
Search for any of the following terms: woman, biological, Black, Latino, gay, trans, woke, dei, or virtue signal

Set to "Comments" and "30 days". You'll find plenty of people saying things that are pretty awful. Yes, they are not the majority of posts, this place isn't a cesspool, it's just a place that permits "just asking questions" or "it's up for debate" as a defense for behavior

I could find many, MANY more examples.
Don't they release custom tuning patches for every single AAA game that comes out? Geforce Experience is basically just a spoonful of sugar to make sure people install new drivers.
So dragonfly's hit a scaling law?
maybe we need something better than git. meh.

I feel like this problem should have a technical solution.

maybe a VCS good enough that this isn't as big an issue? (along the lines of pijul?) or

maybe something from formal verification methods to better enforce or more clearly explain why some drivers cannot be accepted. then again, I don't think the computer science is quite there yet
Apple isn’t following the law right now either. They just brought TikTok back to the App Store based on Trump’s promises. But it is still breaking the law.
There were news reports last year that Fidelity marked down their equity holdings in X by over 70%.
John Gruber from Daring Fireball has an interesting comment:

>I’m surprised but not shocked by this. But I’d sure like to see what exactly that letter says. The PAFACA Act — the law that bans TikTok in the US now that the deadline has passed for ByteDance to sell it to a US company — hasn’t changed or been rescinded, and the current delay in enforcement has no basis in law.

From this post: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/02/13/apple-google-ti...

No basis in law hyperlinks to this post: https://daringfireball.net/2025/01/npr_trump_tiktok
Hah, I'm creating something like this right now as a hobby. Will open source it soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDePFvxj6Po

I think we're quite far off if you want to model full organism complexity. But if you want to answer a research question you can model simpler versions today. Like this research team did around how vision evolves.

By the way– As of recently, we were able to model C Elegans (flatworm) in 3D with all neurons and neurotransmitters. It reacted to virtual stimuli just like a real worm (https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-024-00738-w). So single-organisms is already possible. But the evolution of these entities in 3D will take us a bit more time is my guess:

Also I'm not a CS person, just an enthusiast.
Companies also have first amendment rights.
Of the key members of this drama though, almost all of them live in the USA.
The analysis would make a lot more sense if it dropped every big O and computed an expected number of comparisons. Of course, the real issue is that the whole thing relies on an empirically-determined length of √8√n for the number of lists in the rainbow, when the theoretical justification isn't there and clearly the worst case is n/2. I'm not seeing any awareness that the expected number of comparisons has to be at least log_2(n!), and am starting to see some worrying signs that the author thinks averages like n log log n are possible. I'd initially assumed that "somewhere between O(n) and O(n log_2 n)" statement meant in the presence of asymptotically large natural runs, but there's a claim that the runs "need not be of any minimum size" and another that the algorithm can "capitalize on natural runs" that seems to be referring to the benchmarks on "purely random values".
https://github.com/Duke-QCD/trento/blob/master/src/fast_exp....

Check it out for yourself! I’m not claiming this was some kind of prodigious programming move, just something memorable that stuck with me.
Thanks for the feedback!
I understand that you are pointing out that no can be interpreted as false.
I'll have to update the spec to require ‘string’ for folder and file names.

There's no big reason why i'm using yaml.
Originally I was trying to create a very simple spec with just simple text rules, like you said.
I needed a way to distinguish whether <year>-<month>-<day>-<hour>-<minutes>-<seconds>.txt was a file or a folder, and for folders I used ‘:’ for this.

I'm not interested in the semantic structure of YAML, I chose it because it's an easy format for users to read and write. I'll give more thought to whether or not to use YAML.
You’re going to make a company work with another company?
Roughly speaking, there are 10-20 PhDs for every faculty position. But not every PhD wants a faculty position, even in principle.

Many want to do research in the industry, or in public research labs. Many do a PhD because it opens doors in other careers, such as medicine or education. Some PhDs are hobby projects people do in retirement. Some are side projects for people who want to study something relevant to their main job (those are quite common in social sciences).

Then there are those who actually want a career in the academia. But many of them are not trying seriously, because they restrict their job search to a single city / region / country. The 1 in 3 chance is for those who are flexible enough and committed enough and accept the realities of the academic job market.
From that grant's abstract:
ADDITIONALLY, THE PROJECT?S LEADER, A WOMAN SCIENTIST, IS DEDICATED TO BRIDGING THE GENDER GAP IN SCIENCE THROUGH SPECIAL CAMPS AND WORKSHOPS, EMPOWERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF FEMALE SCIENTISTS.

The grant is labeled with "JUSTICE" & "GENDER" in Cruz's spreadsheet.
This site is not about just any news anyone wants to hear about, there is a focus behind it. And honestly the reason I frequent this website is specifically because political garbage is usually down voted, flagged or removed fairly quickly as it typically just causes flame wars with no actual actionable things and nothing of value is learned from it.
Nothing prevents anyone from trying to eat spaghetti with a spoon. (Or from modifying the lexer to accept a different set of terminals, even.)

> Kramer: "Yeah, well, I could do it. I don't wanna do it."

> Jerry: "We didn't bet if you wanted to do it. We bet on if it would be done."

> Kramer: "And― and it could be done."

> Jerry: "Well of course it COULD be done. Anything COULD be done. But it's only is done if it's done! Show me the levels! The bet is the levels!"

> Kramer: "I don't want the levels!"

> Jerry: "That's the bet!"

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CxIVvLaGKI>
I know you are not referring to Twitter?
> It was profitable to do so a year ago, it was simply dangerous politically.

Explain? Because if it was politically dangerous, it automatically means it wasn’t profitable.
The reasoning Linus himself gives for greenlighting Rust is, among other things, to avoid stagnation. So OP's description seems more apt than yours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvuEYtkOH88&t=367s
Doge software (PuTTY) approval alarms Labor Department employees
Because HN has a reputation and this influences that reputation. The same way an open relay would harm your MTA reputation or an open redirect harms your domain reputation.

So if HN were to think: "gee, we don't want to delete this content, but we also see how it breaks the rules", they could opt to put some noindex flags for the robots to consume which is a very cheap way to try to do something that reflects their own rules.

It is of course possible that this is no reputation effect at all, and there is also no interest on a human level in all of this. In such a case, nothing happens.
Markdown files as TODO list and work log
Illinois is mandating lead service line replacement. I'm not wild about it. Solubility of lead in Chicago municipal service water is very low, because the lines are mineralized by the phosphates in the water. Have your water service tested; you're probably more than fine. But replacing the water lines disrupts those lines, which ironically does introduce lead into your water (for a time).

Regardless, Illinois munis don't really have a choice about this anymore.
Not righteous, just my decision to make. I’m proud to make those decisions and I’m generally happier for making them.
Not really, most administrations have a bump out of the gate when they can make cheap talk and the consequences haven't yet come to fruition.
That is one possibility. It could also be exactly why this warning is on the page to begin with.
The desire to do something and understand something is the root of everything, and who are to preemptively decide who has that capability? What a pompous thing to say. On top of that you are operating on the assumption that it matters. If someone wants to learn, they should be able to learn. I guarantee you that we as a society have stifled people who would be this generations Einstein so to speak.
Sounds like more extremely wasteful government employees we can "delete".

The poultry industry has an enlightened self interest that will ensure they keep their birds healthy. No need for tedious public reports!

Entrenched deep state making silly things up out of thin air again, to harm the smartest most effective president in the whole youniverse.

Also if this really is my dog and if he really did bite you, it's only because you asked him to.
Highest ROI to Learn: DBA, Pfsense, Gitlab,Bind and DNS?
I am a helpdeks engineer trying to migrate to devops/system admin & wondering what should I be learning that gives me highest ROI. I am currently knowledgeable about Linux & bash scripts.
You can blame Apple for that. It's not fun having to patch 3rd party webviews so their videos won't jump out on PiP
I am sure this was tongue-in-cheek, but I read the GP as "I desperately wish the need for money didn't drive what I did with my time."
The project has apparently been harassed by some other group I’ve never heard of until today. I still fail to see how that has anything at all to do with HN. The wording of the warning definitely implies they’ve been hurt by HN.
They're either brainwashed, or being paid by Amazon.
The inverse: ensure companies that are already working with companies are not leaving them for illegitimate reasons.
Can you expand on how the Kalman Filter fits into this category?
This comment is so funny to me because obviously Apple is only returning to Twitter because of politics. Twitters owner is in the Whitehouse.
Very cool but butchers beards for some reason.
Well yeah JPM is spending three bills on its new headquarters at 270 Park Avenue and wants to fill it with 14,000 employees.
It'd also be blatantly unconstitutional.
in this specific case, yes they are responsible for flathub. but Fedora is pushing Fedora Flatpak down to user's throat without user's awareness.
Lightning Fast Image Compressor with Next.js and Payload
Check out https://swissknife.cc/!

I made a super fast image compressor that can handle up to 40 images at once, though it can do far more if needed. I'm currently limiting it to 40 images to explore the limits. It supports JPEG and PNG formats, making it perfect for social media and web use. Built entirely with Next.js and Payload (a headless CMS https://payloadcms.com/). This is just one of many tools we'll be adding to SwissKnife.cc.It's free to use, and your feedback is welcome. If you're interested or want a specific tool added, let me know!

Give it a try and share your thoughts!
The TB that does exist out there in the world is increasingly multi-drug resistant, which means most antibiotics won't work on it. Once it starts spreading abroad and later in the US, a lot like Covid did, it's game over.
> I’m sure most people would be fine with Apple having flat revenue and not sacrificing their integrit

How about people who own stock in apple, for example in their 401k or taxpayer funded pension plans, which directly mean higher taxes if equities do not perform.
Whoah, for me the left looks unreadably blurry... but it sounds like that's only me? If other people saw it I have a hard time believing they wouldn't mention such a significant difference and just talk about "I stems" instead.
Certainly he works with a group of people. That much is certain. It seems unlikely that originally he was a group.
> I recall school textbooks having visible dots

In the color graphics or the text? I've read many textbooks with dithered color graphics but often had very sharp black and white body text.
For real. I have a great deal of support for maintainers but that comparison is the quickest way for you to lose it.
One day maybe you will recognize that generalizations are shortcuts your brain uses to avoid having to spend energy thinking.
Can someone who has used either You.com or perplexity recently tell me how they compare? The phind landing page is uninformative. I would encourage them to use it to explain their value proposition relative to the alternatives, which are well-funded. I could not find pricing details; is there no paid plan?

From their videos above I gathered that they format their results and incorporate media better?
Ask HN: What do modern hardware startups use for Manufacturing Resource Planning
There must be some good options for modern ERP and MRP software, but it is hard to tell what is legitimate. Some software looks suitable for a job shop, but not a full design and manufacturing company. I would prefer to avoid Oracle, SAP, Infor.

My goals:
- easily configurable without an army of consultants
- modular
- useable through APIs
Is this a fine tune of another model, or is it trained from scratch?
>I thnk it does occur to people, but that's a choice for nepo babies and aspiring monks.

Maybe you've only spent time around PhD candidates at Ivy League schools where people are more likely to have access to wealth, but if you've spent any time at all around PhD candidates you'll find this is generally not the case. As a PhD candidate from a lower SE class, I've found that the majority of my peers are from a similar class. However, I am not connected to a private university though I am in medicine.

Studies on this show great variation across doctoral fields. Economics doctoral students tend to come from more affluent backgrounds, while the majority of Social Sciences doctoral students are from a lower SE class. Overall there seems to be a trend that doctoral students in fields with more lucrative career prospects tend to come from a higher SE class.

From what I have read, your claim only applies to the majority of faculty members, which tend to come from backgrounds with an income that is higher than the national median income.
I also do clamshell but I bought a Magic Keyboard with Touch ID.
It seems to be smearing HN’s reputation. They don’t even point out any examples of this supposed behavior. They just link to something entirely unrelated.
Bristling at 'Gulf of Mexico' name change on maps, Mexico says might sue Google
I guess the basis in law is "I fired the entire DOJ so there is nobody to enforce it, we'll just have to wait until those positions are filled again".
The wealthy and powerful, in exchange for their preferential treatment, their place of power, and more generous scraps from the master's table.
“it’s a different point of view” is not a panacea for making immoral behavior moral
Capital.

Within capitalist societies police protect the interests of the state, which itself exists to serve and benefit the capitalist class. Police "maintain order" to ensure the proletariat continues to submit to the state and participate in the capitalist machine, and they commit violence against anyone who does otherwise.
There are already kernels written in Rust. Telling them to go write new kernels in Rust is like telling people working on a new audio workstation that they should write a package manager instead. A new kernel that they cannot practically use does not suit their needs. The point is to use Rust where it can suit their needs.
Seeing as I'm not getting any traction in the fediverse (https://tenforward.social/@aspensmonster/113999217587309328), maybe I can ask here instead.

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From their blog:

>As standardized in [2 - 4], the Privacy Pass protocol is able to accommodate many “architectures.” Our deployment model follows the original architecture presented by Davidson et al. [1], called “Shared Origin, Attester, Issuer” in § 4 of [2].

From [2] RFC 9576 § 3.3 "Privacy Goals and Threat Model" :

>Clients explicitly trust Attesters to perform attestation correctly and in a way that does not violate their privacy. In particular, this means that Attesters that may be privy to private information about Clients are trusted to not disclose this information to non-colluding parties. Colluding parties are assumed to have access to the same information; see Section 4 for more about different deployment models and non-collusion assumptions. However, Clients assume that Issuers and Origins are malicious.

And From [2] RFC 9576 § 4.1 "Shared Origin, Attester, Issuer" :

>As a result, attestation mechanisms that can uniquely identify a Client, e.g., requiring that Clients authenticate with some type of application-layer account, are not appropriate, as they could lead to unlinkability violations.

Womp womp :(

This is not genuinely private in any meaningful sense of the term. Kagi plays the role of all three parties, and even relies on the very thing section 4.1 says is not appropriate: to use mechanisms that can uniquely identify a client. They utilize a client's session token: "In the case of Kagi’s users, this can be done by presenting their Kagi session cookie to the server."

Frankly, that blog post is disingenuous at best, and malicious at worst.

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I want to be wrong here. Where am I wrong? What am I missing?
Body World Eye Mapping
EDIT: went ahead and mirrored their website[1] for the time being while they figure it out.

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Website seems broken (repo deleted?), had to go here[2] instead.

And here is the paper[3] the website is about.

[1] https://cambrian.pages.dev/

[2] https://eyes.mit.edu/ACI/

[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.15001
It's neat that we've decided laws don't matter and Congress can just be ignored.
I think I'm mostly in agreement with your points. I think a significant part of the downfall of DEI was deliberate bad-faith behavior from those who actually oppose equality, but there are also things to be learned about how DEI programs were run.

I've been in mandatory corporate DEI seminars that I had high hopes for, only to find that they felt overly prescriptive and ill-equipped for the complexities of trying to be sensitive to every culture. Having to jump in and explain "Well, some Latinos actually find LatinX to be an offensive term, so you might get the stink-eye if you use it" was a bit uncomfortable for me personally, for example. Getting it all right is hard, and getting a few things wrong can leave a really bad taste.
The Network State Coup Is Happening
> I think it boils down to the fact that intelligent, curious discussion on topics like this can’t be held on the internet.

They definitely can be. Usually, moderators dont want to deal with the shit slinging that comes with them though, and many intelligent people are too sensitive to allow bigotry and hateful comments to be allowed to be hosted.

I miss the old days where anything goes, and if you don't like it just close the browser. Better than censorship and sanitization.
Theres no asymmetric crypto here. The QR codes share the same secret.

https://github.com/ksze/PeerAuth/blob/main/index.html#L240

The big win IMO is that lots of people already have TOTP apps on their phone, so there's nothing extra to install.
Yes but the parent has addressed this and you're just talking past them like they didn't comment. If the maintainers don't want it to happen then they need to come to an agreement that it won't happen. If they do want it to happen then they need to stop blocking it for non-technical reasons. If they can't actually decide then that's "no" or up to the project lead to enforce the decision at the risk of losing maintainers.
State of New Mexico et al. v. Elon Musk et al. [pdf]
It did though? First attested reference was to the US army, then to various police departments including the (infamously corrupt) LAPD.
Lemmy or another decentralized service.