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> But if you're singing a long passage without accompaniment, without absolute pitch you may end up drifting.

You don't need absolute pitch to not drift.

You just need to maintain relative pitch. That maintenance requires attention and some practice, but it doesn't even remotely require absolute pitch.

And remember that singers with absolute pitch have their own problems, in that singing the same song when accompanied by a new piano that is tuned slightly differently becomes much harder and annoying. Whereas for most people they don't notice and sing in tune with it effortlessly.

Also, people with relative pitch certainly experience key changes, the sense of tension introduced by a new one, and the sense of "returning home" and relief when you go back. Composers write for that sensation which is shared by everyone. Not for any kind of absolute perception. And I don't know why you think classical composers overwhelmingly had absolute pitch. Do you have any evidence?
Msxbook is a cheap retro laptop designed for MSX2 compatibility
You're assuming it's possible to incrementally improve the situation, but maybe a "crackpot" is the best we can manage. If we could put someone truly, brilliantly competent and uncaptured in charge it would have happened already. Sometimes things need to get worse before they can be improved.
Discussion (72 points, 1 day ago, 35 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031493

(41 points, 23 hours ago, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032112
It was and always will be timsort-ly yours. iykyk.
I think I've seen somebody compared lettuce and raw milk to argue that the latter isn't too bad.
No, not like ford packaging toyota engines into Ford cars. These still won't be Intel chips. Nor will they be sold by Intel (like Ford might sell Ford Branded cars with Toyota engines). Intel would just do that final packaging step for TSMC. It doesn't help Intel develop their fabs or process tech - which is what we want to have some US manufacturer(s) able to continue doing. It just gets Intel some packaging biz which they likely don't even want.
Yeah, this is pretty much the answer when it comes to jobs. I mean why do people do their own oil changes, instead of leaving the job to their mechanic? Why would anyone try to replace their mechanic? You might argue for trust, quality, or time reasons, but arguably only so because of how they relate to costs.
Because this thread is about Marcan's behavior, not others'. I think it's perfectly fair to claim that everyone behaved badly in this situation, but the person I replied to was insinuating that Marcan didn't do anything wrong. That is not true, and why I highlighted his behavior.
That’s a really fascinating approach! The idea of encoding secret messages into seemingly ordinary text using arithmetic coding and an LLM-based probability model is both clever and innovative. It’s impressive how this method allows for covert communication in public spaces while remaining indistinguishable from typical AI-generated content.

At the same time, it raises interesting discussions about both the ethical and security implications of such technology. Looking forward to seeing how this project evolves!
They mean that TFA spends a while on this topic too.
What I was saying had absolutely nothing to do with the Chinese internal market. I'm talking about Chinese companies making EVs and exporting them, consuming a market Japan should've logically taken.
Rust something something Linux something something braking changes, maintenance something something...
I was a little confused by the title, but later the article clarifies that the intent of little free libraries is to 'plant' (i.e. donate) books: Little free libraries are put at the curbside by homeowners and are an invitation for anyone to leave and take a book.

So I'm not sure what the police is investigating - is the (unnamed) book itself banned in Canada?
In authoritarian countries, sports have long been an important tool for laundering their international image. East Germany had a particularly notorious government-run doping program (with horrible long-term health consequences), and the Russian system is well-documented too. Talented young athletes, often while still children, are coerced into doping, with the full backing of security services, which use all available resources to manipulate the subjects and cover up any traces. I can't think of any Western country ever placing such emphasis on professional sports. That's definitely a factor too.

If you haven't seen it, I recommend watching Icarus, an exceptional documentary on state-sponsored doping: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6333060/
What made you think this boy got through "deliberate training"? What point are you trying to make?
> Can you explain what you mean by "replacing nonpartisan heads of departments?"

Sure; people like the eight inspector generals that were fired [^0] or the civil servants on the NSC [^1].

> Also, what do you mean by "paying civil servants to move?"

Civil servants moving into defense/public sector from the USG is a known phenomenon. Their deep ties to the USG and experience working through the process/red tape makes their value obvious to these companies.

From my perspective, these buyout packages are basically warm invitations for these people to slide into equivalent roles at contractors like Lockheed/Northrup/BAH/BAE/etc. I don't have sources to back this; this is just my intuition.

They'll be paid more by these companies, sure, but they're also working for the mission the execs/boards of these companies set (i.e. "people like Elon"), not the missions that are best for citizens at large. They'll also cost taxpayers more, since these contractors need to make profit on the margin.

There's also long-term planning to consider. Some things, like so many Internet technologies we take advantage of, take a really long time to provide a net-positive return. Governments, by and large, can afford to spend decades funding and researching things that seem like good ideas. Private sector companies can't.

There are many people that chose to work for the USG to pursue these ultra-long-time-horizon projects while being fully well-aware of how much money they're leaving on the table by not working in the private sector. Many of them are now being told "sorry, only companies that make the line go up matter now; here's a rack; go work for them."

[^0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inspectors-general-fired-trump-...

[^1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
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Dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid is what makes Star San, the surface sanitizer used by many homebrewers, foamy. It's dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid and phosphoric acid.
The factors at play are all obvious. The old-school guys want to keep things old-school. The new-school guys want to make things better in a new way. Has there been any new rewrite without a BFDL who himself is of the new school? The vim/neovim schism happened and perhaps that's how it ends. I personally like Neovim and I'm glad to be in backers.md and it's a tremendously larger amount of work than to have just changed vim. But c'est la vie.

Egcs vs. gcc was a big deal back in the day and in the end we ended up with gcc by the egcs guys and that was it. When you win, everyone forgets the 'drama' existed. When you lose, everyone remembers you as just the drama guy. RMS had the drama label for decades. Things are not even different. They're the same again. It's like when you'd buy those Chinese NES dupes and they'd have 999 levels of Mario but half the levels would be the same but with different colour bricks. Isomorphic to original but distinct. That's this story.
When I was in graduate school the chances of getting a tenured position weren't anywhere close to 1 in 3. Where are you getting that number?
> Corporate influence on open source has served to narrow down the tools that are able to gain adoption

Adoption by whom?

What is it that you think wider adoption of open source would (or should) look like without corporate influence?

What is your measure of success there, and do you have any examples of this happening? What open source products have "gained adoption" without corporate influence?
This! Agreed! I wish more people understood this reality before they shout, “but you have to wait in Canada and the UK… socialism evil”, “higher taxes”, and “no other country has the same freedoms America has”.
What’s with the warning on the top?
> If the C developers make it a "Them vs Us" thing, there IS NO ALTERNATIVE for the Rust developers.

There is always an alternative. Exit the project quietly and gracefully if Linus won't show proper leadership. Don't engage in poor behavior back at the C developers, that is just as wrong.
Just wait until the next presidential elections in US and see how quickly all of those companies are going to get those pages back again.
> Only ONE of you will take your advisor's place, statistically speaking

The academic pyramid was never sustainable.

However, for some fields (science and engineering being good examples) there are decent jobs outside of academia.
Whoever find the book should substitute their own book instead. This free library is meant that someone can put a book or take one, anyways. It should not be the thing for the police to get involved (unless further worse things happen, other than putting in or taking books), I think.
Yep I can definitely sense this. It's not ambiguous anymore. Also, a lot of corporate employees I spoke/chat with tend to portray their situation as being paid big salaries just to suffer by playing this game. As if their suffering creates any value for society. It's a twisted social contract. I'm sure it's harmful mentally.

Imagine this is the best way to make money nowadays; what will the next generation of elites look like after decades of abusing themselves mentally in this way? The future looks grim. Common sense has gone out the window.

It already doesn't make sense to me why people with a lot of money would choose to shape society in this cynical way. What more could they want from society? They literally have the best it can offer and yet they approach life with with intense self-destructive cynicism. I understand why people are giving into conspiracy theories. The motivations of the elite don't add up unless you assume twisted hidden/secret elements. The rich, in all their abundance, seem to act like desperate people.

The desperation to achieve specific goals doesn't mesh well with abundance. Abundance should mean stepping off the accelerator.
Apple has built a reputation for supporting progressive causes like (RED) for AIDS relief, LGBTQ+ rights, and racial equity, yet now they’re funding a platform rife with hate speech and extremism.
How do they write this story without mentioning the executive order?

The head of each agency shall include in every contract or grant award:
(A) A term requiring the contractual counterparty or grant recipient to agree that its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws is material to the government’s payment decisions for purposes of section 3729(b)(4) of title 31, United States Code; and
(B) A term requiring such counterparty or recipient to certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws".

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...

The Stargate initiative will invest at least $500B. Whoever wouldn't scrub their website for a chunk of that is unusually principled.
Your justification for discrimination against white guys is that a very tiny percent of them are legacy admissions and/or from wealthy families?

You know the rest of them are not benefiting from that in the slightest? Actually they are probably hurt by it under the current DIE platforms.

I agree that it would be great if hiring wasn't so focused on a small group of schools(ie excuses to hire people just like yourself).

If DIE is replaced it needs to be with a system based on family income not skin color etc.
Because forked kernels is how we ended up with all those SBCs which could only run some ancient version of linux. If you can't mainline it, you are committing to maintaining a fork forever, and the more changes you require, the more maintenance that fork will be.

The Linux kernel quite intentionally makes maintaining a fork a pain in the ass to pressure vendors to mainline their drives. But now mainline maintainers are refusing to accept those drivers. So it's unlikely we will ever see Macbooks properly supported on Linux.
This is currently happening to me: I’m starting to be off by a half step when I guess what key something is in. I’m 40 now, and I started noticing it a few years ago. Maybe it started early because I don’t play much music so I wasn’t using it much.

This video by Adam Neely was helpful: https://youtu.be/QRaACa1Mrd4
Eh, it can be plenty beneficial, but those benefits may not be able to compete with “targeted by the most powerful man on the planet”.
Will the White House blame DEI?
Companies were grandstanding against Twitter for various reasons.

None of the issues they claimed to oppose went away. But now they're coming back for the money. If they were an individual doing the same, nobody would find a problem with the headline.
In some fields, possibly.

I will absolutely not argue that you should do whatever will make you the most money.

But just as absolutely, a PhD isn't the right answer for a lot of people. I thought about it at various points and it wouldn't have been the right choice for me even taking money out of the equation.
These two comments stand out to me as inappropriate (directed at OBS).

> keeping up with runtime updates is one of the most basic expectations of a maintainer, and I suspect it's a sign there may be other problems as well.

> I won't mince words: allowing the runtime to go EOL is unacceptable and indicates terrible maintainership.

I don't use Fedora but I do use OBS… on Mac, because OBS is hands-down the most popular application for streaming on any platform. It's crazy that OBS works great on Mac, works great on Windows, works great on Linux if using the OBS Flatpak, and when the Fedora-packaged-flatpak breaks and this Fedora guy starts saying that this is indicative that "there may be other problems".

If OBS isn't good enough for Fedora to ship a working version, then show me the streaming software that is.
TikTok Returns to Apple and Google App Stores
I don't see why not.

It's sensational, and that drives clicks. Clicks sell ads.

I don't think anyone is exactly holding Gizmodo to high journalistic standards.
http://archive.today/2025.02.14-013406/https://www.nytimes.c...
> Oh wow, love it, a testacle in a teacup, dudes just made my day!

It's an eggcup.
Correct, and companies only ever pretended to care about measures of diversity that didn't hurt their bottom line too much.

How about software diversity, where one doesn't have to use either iOS or Android to function in the modern world? Or have to use Chrome OS at school, etc. We have no real freedom there unless we want to face significant difficulties.
Discussion (72 points, 1 day ago, 36 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031493

(41 points, 23 hours ago, 48 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032112
I would argue it’s not about making money, it’s about adding value. A PhD for the sake of a PhD is more like a vacation, and so most people won’t want to take a 5-year vacation
>But American businesses really over shot.

Did they though? There was a race to declare DEI-friendliness in the wake of Floyd, but I wonder how much was actually done and how impactful it was at most of these companies?
"hall of shame" inherently means it's about literally shaming people. If that isn't what he meant, then he shouldn't have used those words.

> It's a magnitude more professional than the extremely over the top and public emails that Linus shares

Since when do two wrongs make a right? I think it's perfectly fair to say Linus hasn't shown the best leadership here. But that doesn't excuse Marcan's behavior.
It's not your fault, these can get messy very quickly. Infer.NET was started because Tom Minka and other Bayes experts were tired of writing message passing and variational inference by hand, which is both cumbersome and error prone on non-toy problems.

It helps to take a more abstract view where you split the generative process and the inference algorithm. Some frameworks (Infer.NET, ForneyLab.jl) can generate an efficient inference algorithm from the generative model without any user input. See e.g. https://github.com/biaslab/ForneyLab.jl/blob/master/demo/kal...
Also worth pointing out, Qt versions are supported for 6 months before EOL, unless you purchase enterprise support.
Awesome story, congrats on pursuing your passion
American business did not stop doing business with Nazi Germany by their own volition.
Apple has also built a reputation for depending on China for manufacturing, and bending to their will in multiple cases. So Apple is not only supporting progressive causes.
Yeah, that's an interesting point that even Christoph sounded open to it in the past. Thank you!
Introduction – Algorithm X
Hey HN -
I made a bunch of GenAI projects in 2024: - 2 frontend React/Tailwind codegen projects (1 an agent, and 1 a really cool website builder) - 1 Node.js codegen AI agent - 1 ecommerce product placement image generator

I'm not working on these anymore (and the code and dependencies are probably far out of date now unfortunately - haven't looked at some of these for a year at this point).

But I thought I would just go ahead and make the code public and share it out there in case it can help anyone or inspire some new ideas.

Besides just sharing the code, if you click through to the detailed pages for each project you can see a demo video of each one showing how it works and read some of my notes about each one.

About the projects:

I really love the website builder, it's probably my favorite project I've done - so many cool details.

Other projects have some cool agent things going on, maybe some novel approaches to codegen in there - not sure.

The image generation one has a bunch of ComfyUI workflows that I spent a bunch of time on.

Happy to answer any questions here - although I'll probably have to review the code if anything is too in the weeds as I've forgotten a lot already.

Also the code is not very well-organized and there's some dead code and stuff floating around and things commented out or half-implemented at places. I didn't bother to clean it up too much besides making sure I'm not leaking any env secrets or API keys (if you spot one, let me know please!)

And last - these are mostly written in Node.js, React, and a bit of Python. I don't claim to be an expert in these languages and was pretty unfamiliar with using them before I built these - so don't use this as a reference on how to write great code, rather I hope you enjoy the concepts behind the features.

Hope it can be of interest and potentially of help to someone out there!
Seems like ignorance of the implications, not any desire to a tie themselves to a political stance. I think the “assume positive intent” principle needs to apply here.
> Begging and pleading for people to make tech that doesn't torture and depress the average user seems to just fall upon deaf ears, because all that ever mattered to them was the money.

I think there are some people on HN who care about other things than money.

I've seen a number of references here to encrapification and the rot economy, noting that chasing unlimited growth seems to lead to harmful, anti-social technology businesses.
I got the reference, it's a pastiche of a few Trump tweets from before his first term.

It became a running gag that the man has no idea what a dog actually does.
It is though - according to you, the would-be oligarchs are acting collectively against the public due to social pressure from the other oligarchs.

When Larry shows some for me, I’ll show some for him. Only one of us is in a position to cause the other harm.
Why not? It's endemic of a wider shift in Apple leadership towards extremism and political pandering.
This problem was already solved. OBS ships a package on Flathub which can be installed on any distro. There is no reason for Fedora to package their own broken version.
I think there's two big things involved: firstly, that distros just bump library versions of frameworks like Qt and regressions in the frameworks introduce regressions in the app, which is exactly the kind of conflict that causes annoyed users and upstream devs (and it'll especially annoy the devs if they're called 'irresponsible' for not keeping on top of the release treadmill for vague security concerns). Secondly, OBS has features which need various API keys to integrate with different services, which I think third-party builds can not easily include just by the rules of those services. That's a bit more of an annoying one to deal with, because it means even a packager doing a good job and actually testing the software still can't reach feature parity, but it's also not something OBS can really do that much about.
Why would anyone use words spewed on the Joe Rogan show as some source of evidence where the host spouts wild conspiracy theories and inane ideas while cosplaying as an open minded average Joe?
I would have loved it. NO doubt.
You can buy the Mac and Windows version online for a small fee. I guess interest in a "boxed" Linux version is low enough they don't make it easy to buy a single license.
It works if you use OBSs own flatpak. It's just Fedora which modified it, broke it, and shipped it broken.
Apple hasn’t released a new PRODUCT(RED) since the iPhone 14, which they previously did for every iPhone generation.
The first words of the video are "we're going to do the hardest ear training test of all time", and the description contains a link to "The Beato Ear Training Program". I'm really not sure what it is that you're missing, it's pretty clear.

Also, I know from my own experience that the idea that this is an innate skill is bunk—my wife's mother taught her children absolute pitch through deliberate training. Sing a note to them, they identify it, they check themselves on the piano. Repeat.

No one in any prior generations had the skill, nor do any of the cousins. Just the kids my wife's mom trained.

I'm sure like most skills it's one that is easier to pick up in childhood than later, but it's not some musical innate ability that you either have or lack, it is trained.
Not to mention Shellsort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Shell
Most stem PhDs actually go into industry. In fact, in my department I would say 60% or more go directly to industry and we are a field with growing faculty opportunities.

The immediate post graduation employment of all PhDs is very high 74% in 2023 up from 68% in 2018 and the highest since 1993. Interestingly difference between stem and non stem is effectively moot.

I continue to be shocked in this thread at the factual statements being thrown around that there is easy data to push back on from the nationally managed survey of earned doctorates.
> The act of not voting can mean nothing but "I'm OK with whoever."

Or it can mean “I am not ok with either”. That is the reason I didn’t vote for Trump or Harris. Why should I participate when neither viable political party actually respects my vote enough to run a candidate that is worthy of a vote?

I don’t need to vote for the lesser of two evils or to feel like I voted for a winner.