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> Surely it doesn't really start until the first note is played?

That question itself is built on a radical assumption. Example:

Just skimming, it looks like 38 out of 48 of the fugues from Bach's WTC Books 1 & 2 begin with rests followed by several beats worth of melodies in the first measure[1]. If you think the piece only really starts when the first note of the melody is played, then you've got problems. Either:

1. You hear the first articulation of the melody as the downbeat. But that would mean the first measure is in a disparate (and probably irregular) meter. Radical!

2. You hear the incomplete first measure as an anacrusis, or a kind of unaccented lead-in, to the second measure: OMG even more radical!

You can use accent patterns on a modern piano to play any of these fugues using either of these methods, and it will sound silly to non-silly keyboard players.

What's more, non-silly keyboard players do feel the pulse for the first downbeat of these pieces when they perform. Most of them will even inhale before the downbeat, as if they are somehow singing the melody through their fingers.

Finally, lots of music begins with rests: not just conservative cases like Bach, but progressive cases like the beginning of Beethoven's Fifth, and of course the radical cases like Cage's.

This leads to one of the things I love about Cage's music: it compels criticisms that reveal fundamental misunderstandings about music. E.g., you don't buy the radical case-- perhaps reasonable. But you then speculate there are no cases-- which is at odds with common musical practice.

If Cage's music did nothing but compel these questions it would be worth its weight in pine nuts.

Edit:

1: Bach does this because nearly all the fugues have three or more independent melodies singing at the same time. If they are all singing on every downbeat it can quickly sound really clunky and predictable.
My read is that the parent is immature and needs to be reminded that "starting at the top" means the people in charge. What does it add to the discussion?
In other words “interpretation”

It’s so funny coming from a musical background and reading all these comments of people who have no idea what they are talking about criticizing one of the worlds most famous modern composers

Every performance ever done has been the performer interpreting the composer’s score and making it their own. Nobody want to hear a robotic perfectly accurate recreation of what is on the page, because even the act of transcription alters the composer’s intent. The score is not the art!

There is no perfection in art. It’s all subjective, by the literal definition of art.
> "...women, ... and other minorities..."

According to polls, slightly more women voted for Trump in 2024 than in 2020 and significantly more minorities voted for Trump in 2024 than in 2020 (https://www.nbcwashington.com/decision-2024/2024-voter-turno...). One party energetically claims to be on the side of the oppressed but the oppressed don't exactly seem to be flocking to be on the side of that party. Makes you think, doesn't it?

The Democrats cannot win as long as there's a substantial faction inside it unwilling to face the reality of what voters actually think instead of what they want to tell the voters to think.
This makes me think of the Hari Seldon recordings which play over the course of centuries in the "Foundation" books by Isaac Asimov.
Natural language is poor medium at communicating rules and orders. The current state of affair in US is a prime example.

We are still debating what some laws and amendments mean. The meaning of words change over time, lack of historical context, etc.

I would love natural language to operate machines, but I have been programming since mid 80's and the stubbornness of the computer languages (from BASIC, to go) strikes a good balance, and puts enough responsibility on the emitter to precisely express what he wants the machine to do.
It's quite an ear worm!
This is exactly backwards. You should have declarative schemas but inferring migrations is crazy. Only pain will follow.

Instead, I am a fan of doing both: either committing the resulting schema of a migration, or hand writing it aside the migration. Then have tests to ensure the database schema matches the expected schema after a migration.

Generating these artifacts is fine, but in TFA's case there is no chance I wouldn't inspect and possibly modify the generated "diff" migration. It's significantly easier to go the other way: write the migration and show me the resulting schema diff.
> Christains might see living is the light of Jesus as the ideal life, and while not for everyone, you should at least be able to understand why they feel that way (as opposed to a religion of self inflicted torture).

Yes, but also we've seen how they've behaved in the past when they had vast political power in Europe. And we see what the goals of the Heritage Foundation is with Project 2025. There have always been a decent number of conservative Christians who want prayer, the bible and ten commandments in school. Who don't want legal abortion or gay marriage. And the more power they have, the more they would restrict. They also tend to believe in a lot of conspiracy theories, like the Democratic Party being controlled by satanists and communists, who have also infiltrated the "Deep State".

So you can imagine how those beliefs play out with enough political power.
Protectionism is usually about protecting existing jobs and industries.

This idea of blanket tariffs to try and kickstart industries is unique.
I was really enjoying the article until I realized there is zero attribution to the book _Thinking in Bets_, which IMO this is obviously heavily influenced by.
Tibet was a slave society. What are you talking about? Tibet was also a part of China for many many years.

America is a liberal western democracy. Just because you disagree with the democracy of China does not make it true.

You know in Tibet, 90%+ of people still speak their native language. Do you know how many indigenous people in Hawaii or the continental US speak their native language? Not close to the same.

I am Muslim. I see what the west does to Muslims. I have looked into Xinjiang. If Xinjiang was near Europe or in America, the Muslims would’ve been genocided.
Depends on the setup and what your goals are. Anycast typically takes the shortest route based on topology. This is particularly nice when you use something like caddy (because of the huge plugin system, you can do lots of stuff directly on the edge) to build your own CDN by caching at the edge or go all in and use caddy-lua to build apps at the edge. Gluing together dns systems (health checks, proximity + edge nodes) can be similar but the benefits of being "edge" largely go away as soon as you add the extra hop to a different region server.
No, I'm asking for details in this specific case. I don't have deep knowledge and understanding of the subject, so why is it no applicable in this case?
This makes 0 sense. Democrat and Republican "values", to the extent they are even real, no way represent the full spectrum of values one can have.

Further, the Democratic party has a 27% approval rating and the Republican party had like 47% and I bet its falling. So even within your narrow framework this is a bad proxy because both are clearly unpopular.
I was talking to a very drunk Republican girl the other day. We were having a small argument about why we would send medical support to Africa for AIDS. Her argument was something about fixing America first (I was also drunk).

I asked if she regretted her vote for Trump after several people she knew lost their government contracting jobs, and she said "No, fuck that guy, I didn't vote for him."
Tribalism is just bad sociology, that's where the nuance is missing.
I just replaced the seat back on my 2005 Aeron chair as well. Feels good to take an old thing and make it feel new. These kinds of opportunities need to be designed into products, but maybe even more importantly, people need to value those design choices so much that they'll pay more for these types of things.
> They aren't references to internal concepts, the model is not aware that it's doing anything so how could it "explain itself"?

You should read OpenAI's brief on the issue of fair use in its cases. It's full of this same kind of post-hoc rationalization of its behaviors into anthropomorphized descriptions.
No surprise here.

Certain drugs rely on being chemical broken down into certain things to be absorbed. Gut bacterial help with this process.

Additionally bacteria can release their own byproducts that can function as catalysts or inhibitors.
Where in the US constitution is capitalism mentioned?
I am sure you know this, but rsync works perfectly fine without ssh. In fact, it has its own custom protocol for remote communcation. It can use ssh to talk to remote machines, but so can any tool via the plain pipe mechanism. Followin that logic, every Linux CLI tool that does stdio is an ssh tool...
> The US doesn't have the people to do the actual manufacturing

I am willing to move anywhere in the US to do any manufacturing job if it means that I will be paid enough to afford a house with two bedrooms and basic living expenses. I have a bachelor's degree and have been unable to find such an arrangement. So where exactly are all of these unfilled jobs that you speak of? Are they unfilled because we don't have the people, or because they're trying to pay in peanuts? Unfilled because we don't have the people, or because HR departments are filtering away qualified resumes based on voodoo? This outlandish claim you're making that we don't want to work is offensive to a lot of people who are aware of their own existence and know that you're spouting bullshit to trick people into more wealth inequality.

Your 7 million young men aren't 'missing', you're just refusing to hire them. The jobs don't exist.
To be a bit pedantic, those recordings are played at real time for normal speech, and have gaps between anything being played of centuries. They don't play continuously for that long, unlike this project which does play continuously.
This is basically a big dunk on OpenAI, right?

OpenAI made a big show out of hiding their reasoning traces and using them for alignment purposes [0]. Anthropic has demonstrated (via their mech interp research) that this isn't a reliable approach for alignment.

[0] https://openai.com/index/chain-of-thought-monitoring/
Yeah it's probably an ancient web site. This was commonplace back in the day when Internet Explorer had 90%+ market share. Lazy web devs couldn't be bothered to support other browsers (or didn't know how) so just added a message demanding you use IE as opposed to fixing the problems with the site.
speaking of remote-first, you accept applications only from US and Canada, not Europe, right?
Looks great. Thanks for sharing. Keep going!!
given that LLMs are going to produce code that is essentially an average of the code it has been trained on, which is all human code of varying quality, I don't see how the current methods are going to actually produce better code than humans do when working with their own domain-specific knowledge.
I just downloaded this and listened to it for the past 2 hours, this is a fantastic book. Thanks for the rec guys!
i think germany, france and italy also said that won't arrest him. EU also should "pull out from them" ?
I agree, but I also don't understand how they're able to do what they do when it comes to things I can't figure out how they could come up with it.
But there IS this?

> [13] Not a reference to the book, which I haven’t read — this is just a phrase I use

Seems to me an unwillingness to cite / give proper attribution to Annie Duke and the book, which is super weird? At any rate I’d highly recommend the book.
There doesn't seem to be a conductor at all in this performance, and there certainly wasn't one for the entire 17 months that the rest lasted. (The person in charge of this project, Rainer Neugebauer, is not conducting; the linked article makes mention of a speech before the note was changed, but nothing about marking time.)

Not that I'd expect a conductor to be needed for a soloist performance, but it makes the whole "when the conductor raises his hands" point a little off-topic.
> A group of Minnesota Senate Republicans which included Justin Eichorn introduced a bill in March 2025 that seeks to classify "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a mental illness and incorporate it into the state's legal definition through amended statutes.

> [...]

> On March 17, 2025, Eichorn was arrested during a sting operation on suspicion of soliciting a minor for sex. On March 20, he was charged in federal court and resigned from the Senate as Republicans and Democrats prepared to expel him.

Clearly this is a rhetorical tool used by only the most serious and dedicated of American patriots.
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It also ignores the possibility of plateau... maybe there's a maximum amount of intelligence that matter can support, and it doesn't scale up with copies or speed.
I'm not sure I trust Microsoft's take on a debloat script for their own OS.

Sure it will have less stuff, but I suspect there may be some remnants purposefully left behind.
Cool project! I would probably call it an MCP server for every Github repo though since project could be confused for Github Projects which is their work planning/tracking tool.
We don't have a complete enough theory of neuroscience to conclude that much of human "reasoning" is not "algorithmic pattern matching mixed with statistical likelihoods of success".

Regardless of how it models intelligence, why is it not AI? Do you mean it is not AGI? A system that can take a piece of text as input and output a reasonable response is obviously exhibiting some form of intelligence, regardless of the internal workings.
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MNT reforms get more and more appealing by the day as I’ve become increasingly disillusioned by the state of current hardware offerings.
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But that only works if you compare the US with other single countries. The EEA is similar to the US, China will be larger than the US, India will be larger than the US. Any of those combine and you loose by a factor of 2, etc
I find it easy to discuss politics with friends. The hard part is listening, being open to persuasion yourself. Walzing into a discussion believing the other ones are stupid people with simple arguments rooted in misunderstandings — yeah, that won't fly.

You can smell it in the article. it's right there. The author thinks he's intellectually superior and arrived at his opinion though a pure intellectual pursuit, where the stupid conversation partners can't follow.

I completely understand how you're not having fruitful discussions.
I love how breaking changes in the latest version are shown as diffs.
It's real pity that is the only upside of an AMD GPU.
Trump also didn't raise tariffs against Belarus (Russia's puppet regime).
I am confronted in my daily work with a massive amount of good-to-know knowledge.
To be precise, i am a field technician for copy machines.
Every brand and model has its own details like which drum unit fits there and what to change to get $result.
What helped me the most is just to simply touch the machine and build graphical impressions of the machine and the dark blue toner carton.
I am not a friend of blindly accumulating knowledge without understanding.
What uses you a fact sheet without knowing what those parameters do?
I have tried such a website for learning all(why does that matter?) all countries in the world by finding them on a map.
As a european, it was pretty annoying being asked the 50th time where italy is.
I think its not necessary to really being able to find the last exotic island on a map, you will forget it after a year or so, if not even earlier.
This sounds very against this app, but i am a instructor for my apprentices and i would never demand simply learning stupid facts, in the field, you will lack the ability having built up transfer knowledge.
The rest is written in service manuals, nobody has on hands standing in front of the machine.
You can research some stuff, but most of the time you have to combine facts that occur out of the blue in very changing circumstances.
Nobody asks you every fucking parameter of such machines.
So, dont rely alone on facts you know.
I know academic learning is different what you experience later at your workplace, so i recommend to develop thinking and problem solving.
I mean Yes, you _can_ do it, but why?

Life is WAY more comfortable on a 36' boat, and once you add all the costs of making the passage, it's not _that_ much more expensive. Turns out, being able to stand up below decks is a HUGE advantage.

A great story about making big passages in a small boat is "Red Dot on the Ocean":

https://reddotontheocean.com/

There is a documentary video, linked on the site above.

The (very) small boat thing has appeal to some people, but persoanlly, I'd rather have a little more comfort, and not have to fight a yeast infection in my crotch like Matt Rutherford did during his first ever solo non-stop sail around the entire American continent, in a 27 foot boat.

I did cross the Atlantic Ocean in a 37' boat (as crew), and it was still a WHOLE lot of fun and adventure!
Funding public universities and giving them the mission to keep tuition costs low. Public universities are capable of providing enormous value to students, but over the past two decades their funding has been substantially cut. The result is that those schools became more reliant on expensive out-of-state tuition, which in turn means competing with private institutions for students, which in turn means building more luxuries (awesome gyms) and not focusing on value for money.
That's not going to be true after your facilities are built.
Tariffs aren't bans. They still have access to the US market, US consumers are just forced to pay higher taxes for these goods.
Outlook allows several key productivity features that Thunderbird currently lacks. These include unified categories and tags across emails, events, contacts, and tasks; customizable views that consolidate all item types by category; the ability to drag emails or contacts directly into the calendar or task list to create new associated items; and precise control over reminder times for every item type. Without these integrated capabilities, Thunderbird cannot fully replicate Outlook’s seamless and interconnected workflow.
My read is that talkingtab’s agenda here is to focus the conversation on what politics is. Rather than being this thing you discuss with people (or not) it’s about injustice against the majority. So why does that get brought up? Because with the OP it’s easy to end up concluding that politics to the average person is something you choose to idly or deliberately or max-brainpower chatter with other people about. Then it can be easily thought that it’s just about differing policy positions. But talkingtab is saying that it’s more confrontational than that.

So why are the questions “loaded”? Because as you can see with your own eyes, they have their own political agenda. Part of politics is defining what the the agenda should be—and what should be considered political.

As you can imagine, people who think they are arguing or fighting on behalf of people making a living wage etc. want to put that message out there. They are not discussing abstract concepts or competing in some open-mindedness competition or some rationality contest. It matters to them.

> If anything, talkingtab's post just highlights to me the author's specific point about political "tribes" vs political views, and if anything has convinced me more that the author's view is spot on here.

You are even more convinced. Yet there is nothing here that suggests that talkingtab is tribal in the sense of what the OP is talking about. None. Is this received opinion or opinion born from studying like a monk for 10 years? You don’t know.

You also say that talkingtab is presenting what the “correct” answer is. Yes, according to them. Again, is it really tribalism? Or is it conviction as well as the polemic tone of the whole comment? And having conviction doesn’t mean that you cannot conceive of people having other opinions, or being intellectually unable to present counter-arguments to their own position. Again, no proof of tribalism is presented.

And this focus on tribalism presupposes that the end goal is to find your tone. Alternatively you can look at their arguments. Maybe they want to change the flaws they perceive in the world.
I thought everything was pretty easy to use as soon as I realized what clicking a button would do (a little trickiness if you open the tile while the button is nearly off the top of the screen but honestly really great)

Because I don't know what the drop off rate is when someone reads this, take what I say with lots of salt.

Giving one button as a demo and then saying click on button to close (and leaving it implicit that the rest of the buttons need to be opened manually) seems good? Leaving them closed by default worked great for me!
I wrote one! It works well with cutting-edge LLMs. You feed it one or more source files that contain natural language, or stdin, and it produces a design spec, a README, and a test suite. Then it writes C code, compiles with cosmocc (for portability) and tests, in a loop, until everything is passing. All in one binary. It's been a great personal tool and I plan to open source it soon.
Framing has always been used in political debate just to target certain values; what may have changed (or not) is as a deliberate tactic to keep people divided: folks who do not speak the same language cannot communicate.

On a lot of issues, I think 80% of folks are in 80% of agreement, but the partisans (whether politicians or activists) are framing the issue to prevent that consensus, because the partisans want something in the 20% that 80% of folks don't agree with.
But why would we need an MCP server for a github repo? Sorry, I am unable to understand the use case.
Your conspiracy theory isn't coherent enough to be implied. Make the argument.
Fair reply, and reasonable people can disagree. But there is just one thing I wanted to reply to:

>> irresponsible and bad journalism
> I honestly don't see how left / center / right fixes this.

Well, it doesn't. Those are labels we have affixed to things, because those are the lenses through which society sees "debated topics." But those lenses are applied to real things, that are really happening.

That you discount climate change because right-wing publications don't engage with it - despite the overwhelming preponderance of evidence - then you've just made yourself more susceptible to propaganda, not less. The omission of information is just as political as the inclusion of it.
The comments on that really nail the issue: Not worth the effort and pain.
> Web Push on Apple’s platforms uses the same Apple Push Notification service that powers native push on all Apple devices. You do not need to be a member of the Apple Developer Program to use it.

This has... interesting implications for natives apps, at least at first glance.

Also, it's not clear to me how you send to a website using this. Has Apple wildly overhauled APNS server-side since I implemented a sender-client for it years and years ago? That design was excellent, but you did need a push key tied to an app to even connect to the socket IIRC. Do they issue those for websites, now? Does it work totally differently? How does validation work?
this argument is along the lines of "if theres global warming why is it cold outside today"

The rich prosper precisely because they are in the US.
100% this, in 2010 I briefly worked for a company that built assembly lines in the US and number one requirement for every client was reducing the number of workers needed. Almost every project going at the time reduced the number of workers by 80%+ and I imagine it's only become more automated since then.
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