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by dhosek | 2025-08-25 05:56:57+00:00
There is, actually, a not insignificant repertoire of secular choral music although it’s lost a lot of its popularity. The liner notes for one collection of Aaron Copland’s music made a comment about how it was strange that Copland had written very little choral music given its indigenous popularity in the US in the first half of the twentieth century.

But yes, solo vocalists have been the primary mode of vocal music in English-speaking culture which presented a challenge in creating post-Vatican II liturgical music which was intended to echo the local culture (something that Dennis Day noted in his book, Why Catholics Can’t Sing). Folk and rock both tend not to work well as a format for congregational music although the former works better in my opinion. Certainly, I don’t buy Day’s argument that the obvious liturgical choice is old-school hymnody (I lean more towards incorporating more of Black gospel instead).

I wouldn’t call the various harmony-based groups like Backstreet Boys or K-Pop as choral music. What makes choral music choral is the fact that there are multiple voices singing each part in the piece.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-25 05:57:04+00:00
Very few people here are going to have a PACER account. Here's a link to the filing itself. [1] It'll be interesting to see where this goes and if it's deemed accurate, because it runs directly contrary to what Steam's stated policy is. This [2] appears to be part of the testimony from the case. It really doesn't look good for Valve as they effectively acknowledge pursuing price parity and implicitly doing something that sounds like a soft shadowban of games where the publishers don't agree.

Their lawyers sure frame it such a friendly and elegant way though: 'We want to make sure our customers are getting the best deal, and we wouldn't want to mislead them into making a poor decision [by promoting the game] if that's not the case.' Undoubtedly the best legal money can buy. I have immense respect for Gabe and I hope he steps in at some point because this sounds like the bean counters are starting to run amuck. Or course it's possible he's complicit to this, but I think he probably deserves the benefit of the doubt, for now.

[1] - https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/washington/...

[2] - https://trellis.law/doc/district/13397794/wolfire-games-llc-...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-25 05:57:27+00:00
> above acts either carry no intrinsic information content

This is an exercise in censorship, in a sense. So is blocking spam.

OP’s point stands. Information flow requires regulation in any society. I’ve been something of a free-speech absolutist most of my life, but I’m strongly re-thinking that after seeing Europe and America fall to what can only be described as populist stupidity.
by JimDabell | 2025-08-25 05:58:01+00:00
> While the author doesn't seem to like version based APIs very much, I always recommend baking them in from the very start of your application.

You don’t really need to do that for REST APIs. If clients request application/vnd.foobar then you can always add application/vnd.foo.bar;version=2 later without planning this in advance.
by owenversteeg | 2025-08-25 05:58:08+00:00
Something I forgot to mention - because of the low temperatures involved, district heating people love to talk about the potential use of low-grade heat, but the overwhelming majority of district heating is sourced from high-grade heat. By far the largest installation of district heating is across the former USSR, where the source is mostly nuclear. The USSR used nuclear not for want of industrial processes or black paint, but because the engineering involved is far more practical when you start with high grade heat. From an old report on Soviet district heating: at -23C, buildings were supplied with water around 80C and returned it around 57C. That may sound like it is within the ballpark of low-grade heat, but it required a plant sendout temperature in excess of 150C to get that 80C building supply. And, of course, your heat source has to be higher than your plant sendout temp... and now you're at fairly high temperatures. At that point, you might as well build a nuclear combined heat and power plant for maximum efficiency, which is in fact what the Soviets did.

If you want to do practical district heating, you should look to the Soviets. Unfortunately, most of this information is available in Russian, on physical paper.

[0] http://waterworkshistory.us/DH/1967USSRreport.pdf page 18, figure 2
by simonask | 2025-08-25 05:58:26+00:00
"Accurate" means that an institution is not actively trying to mislead, and takes steps to correct factual errors when they occur. All traditional news media in healthy democracies do this. They distinguish clearly between reporting facts and opinions.

"Objective truth is unattainable, so we shouldn't even try" is overly pessimistic and does not reflect reality. Opinions are not facts, and the truth is not an opinion. The truth is often complicated, and a healthy media landscape contains all the relevant perspectives, but none should get away with misrepresenting the facts. You are saying that truth does not exist, while certain organizations and actors are actively doing their best to get away with lying to your face.

It has nothing to do with an "official" narrative - there is none. It is objective truth that RT is a state organization that exists in order to manipulate and lie to Western audiences.
by lucyjojo | 2025-08-25 05:58:30+00:00
dissonance is a function of the instrument (and the notes -- and other stuff), not only the notes.

so notes that are dissonant on piano are not necessarily dissonant with human voices.

a big reason for that is apparently overtone matching (and i guess that because of formants/resonant cavities of the human vocal tract, there must be a lot of matching overtones in more cases, maybe? i wonder if there is a youtube vid about that, there must be...)
by ehnto | 2025-08-25 05:59:57+00:00
I am excited by the idea that small businesses with super unique problems may now be able to leverage custom software.

I have long held that high software salaries withhold the power of boutique software from its potential applications in small businesses.

It's possible we're about to see what unleashing software in small businesses might have looked like, to some degree, just with much less expert guidance and wisdom.

I am a developer so my point of view on salaries is not out of bitterness.
by EarlKing | 2025-08-25 06:00:26+00:00
Already underway in several states. Bills in Texas and Utah have already been approved, with several other states entertaining such proposals, although none have moved out of committee as yet.

It's all so tiresome.

If this were really about protecting the children they could've solved the matter with the equivalent of a mandate on device manufacturers and website operators to respect a DO-NOT-SERVICE-I-AM-A-CHILD (or whatever) header in HTTP. Hell, if it were really about protecting children, parents would get access to dumbed down versions of the kind of tools corporate IT has for managing business phones ... so they can lock them down, limit how they're used, right down to what apps can be installed.... but that would deprive advertisers of a golden ticket for knowing what views are legit, put parents back in control, and actually work... so can't have that. :D
by dijit | 2025-08-25 06:01:56+00:00
> If you think 3% is too much, there are plenty of other payment processors...

The things is, there's really not.

There's two: Visa and Mastercard.

In the US there's also American Express and Discover (afaik), but those aren't accepted everywhere (to the point that it was a joke in Futurama).

But We’ve actually seen this happen in the United States before. The Durbin Amendment put a cap on debit card transactions of 21 cents plus 0.05% (although an additional 1¢ can be added to the cap if certain security requirements are met). After this Amendment was put into practice we saw two things:

1) Rewards earning debit cards were almost entirely phased out.

2) Prices did not drop as a result.

The reason the EU even capped payment processing fee's was because of this duopoly that was strangling the market. Quite poignant.

And it's 0.2% on debit cards. :)
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-08-25 06:02:15+00:00
git-annex has some really awkward documentation.

You can apparently do, sort of, but not really, the same thing git-fetch-file[1] does, with git-annex:

git fetch-file add https://github.com/icculus/physfs.git "**" lib/physfs-main git fetch-file pull

`add` creates this at `.git-remote-files`:

[file "**"] commit = 9d18d36b5a5207b72f473f05e1b2834e347d8144 target = lib/physfs-main repository = https://github.com/icculus/physfs branch = main

But git-annex's documentation goes on and on about a bunch of commands I don't really want to read about, whereas those two lines and that .git-remote-files manifest just told you what git-fetch-file does.

[1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/git-fetch-file
by firefoxd | 2025-08-25 06:02:21+00:00
Since I posted an article here about using zip bombs [0], I'm flooded with bots. I'm constantly monitoring and tweaking my abuse detector, but this particular bot mentioned in the article seemed to be pointing to an RSS reader. I white listed it at first. But now that I gave it a second look, it's one of the most rampant bot on my blog.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43826798
by anilgulecha | 2025-08-25 06:02:24+00:00
A chicken and egg problem is highly unlikely. Here's a few probable situations:

1) A fdroid equivalent pops up, which them becomes a collection of fantastic open source apps, and soon develops a strong user base.

2) Google launches play store for iPhone, which will on day 1 get millions of users.

3) Meta launches metaStore, which so the only way to get Facebook, threads, Instagram and WhatsApp. This becomes the fastest growing store in a matter of a week.

One may personally not like this world - but imo it's a better world than the one we have - personally for (1) to exist.
by simonask | 2025-08-25 06:02:39+00:00
"Elites"?

Don't project American politics to the concept of democracy. It is not the poster child, because it is not a good implementation. Nor is the decline of the US inevitable. Lots of democracies are not going through that, but watch in horror as plutocrats and fascists undermine the country, and they take steps to avoid the same fate, which is the very reason for banning things like RT.
by zzo38computer | 2025-08-25 06:03:59+00:00
For passwords, you might not need to care about the character encoding, since they are not going to be displayed anyways. You should allow any password, and the maximum length should not be too short.

For usernames, I think your point is valid; you might restrict usernames to a subset of ASCII (not arbitrary ASCII; e.g. you might disallow spaces and some punctuations), or use numeric user IDs, while the display name might be less restricted. (In some cases (probably uncommon) you might also use a different character set than ASCII if that is desirable for your application, but Unicode is not a good way to do it.)

(I also think that Unicode is not good; it is helpful for many applications to have i18n (although you should be aware what parts should use it and what shouldn't), but Unicode is not a good way to do it.)
by simion314 | 2025-08-25 06:04:19+00:00
>If you are not happy with propaganda, it is your role and the role of schools to educate people around about how to consume information and look with a critical view.

This is as pointless as saying that is my role as a consumer to test the food that I buy to ensure it is not contaminated with shit, so instead of punishing the companies that have contaminated food we should allow them to sell if even if we know it contains literal shit and instead teach our children in school how to use equipment to test the food.

Sorry for the Ruzzian puppets but soem countries are not retarded and they decided to block the toxic food today and not ignore the victims, as I said in the original comments we have laws and the fact that you are from Ruzzia should not put you above our laws, RT shoudl stay banned until they open a local branch where we can apply the fine to them equaly as we apply to our own media.

Also there are a lot of Ruzzian money wasted on social media to spread actual fake shit, priovable fake shit that I think we need to really go further in identifying the source of behind those fake crap and arrest, fine and sanction the individuals behind that shit, no level of education can just make a person intelligent or make them do investigative work to confirm that some information that he really, really loves is in fact false.

And I know some fascist here will claim that trush is not objective, and my response is that a photoshoped document is 100% fake in all natural logic systems. The strategy used in Romanian presidential campaign by the Ruzzian aligned side was to put faked documents or information on social media then have media people share in on social media and then bringt the faked document in discussion on TV.

So don't cry for the regular idiot they still get their conspiracies and faked information from Ruzzia on social media and sometimes even in the mail, as an example they sent people faked official looking letters that they are getting called to military service to go and fight in Ukraine.

So please freedom of media but there must be consequences for external media not only for local one.
by elcapitan | 2025-08-25 06:05:30+00:00
I just binged the show a few weeks ago for the first time, and while that was my impression as well, I then realized that while being unrealistic in a literal sense, it represents well that a lot of major "big things" were always kind of in the air for innovative people, and in the end a mix of luck, speed and execution wins. On the realistic side, they stand for all those people who tried to be in that group of winners and lost.

On the negative side, I also thought that sometimes makes for sloppy writing and the feeling that the characters are basically cosplaying history.
by mock-possum | 2025-08-25 06:07:12+00:00
So did you get them refunded?

I’ve never had it take more than a quick chat to get a full refund for anything I’ve been dissatisfied with.

That’s part of the appeal, for me - there’s no risk of being scammed by poor quality items - because you can always just get your money back and buy something else. And with free two day shipping, sometimes even one day, it hardly even registers as an inconvenience. They just make it so easy.
by bullen | 2025-08-25 06:07:44+00:00
When it comes to: "is it better to throw away the 6600 and replace it with a 5600, than keep running the 6600" I'm torn but: you probably need to use the 5600 for maybe 20 years to compensate for it's manufacturing energy cost (which is not directly linked to $ cost) and I think the 6600 might last that long with new RAM 10 years down the road, not so sure the newer 5600 motherboard and the CPU itself will make it that long becuse it was probably made to break to a larger extent.

Also the 6600 can be passively cooled in the Streacom case I allready have, the 5600 is to hot.
by marsten | 2025-08-25 06:08:04+00:00
Intel should have spun out their fab in 2009-2010 when the signs were clear: Mobile was taking off, AMD spun out their fab, Intel had missed the boat on mobile CPUs, and Apple had acquired PA Semi and was investing heavily in custom silicon.

High-end fab is a volume game and that was the time frame when Intel was still process competitive and could have competed for Apple's business (and Nvidia's, ...). But that would never happen as a division of Intel, nobody wants to send their designs to a competitor.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-25 06:08:36+00:00
> do you mean something more or less like a separate search path

Exactly. I sent to the GNU Bash mailing list patches that implement literally this. It worked like this:

# searches for the `some-module` file # in some separate PATH just for libraries # for example: ~/.local/share/bash/modules source -l some-module

At some point someone said this was a schizophrenic idea and I just left. Patches are still on the mailing list. I have no idea what the maintainer did with them.
by simonask | 2025-08-25 06:08:45+00:00
It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to completely ignore the historical context of these two conflicts. There is no question that Russia's war in Ukraine is a proxy war against the West - they say so directly by justifying it as a defense against "NATO encroachment" and making demands that the Ukraine can never, say, join the EU.

Israel should be sanctioned because of the war crimes and the genocide perpetrated by their government, I agree, but that's a different thing.
by aitchnyu | 2025-08-25 06:09:06+00:00
Do we have a method to let AI analyze the data within the DBs and figure out how to port it to a well designed db? I'm a fan of the philosophy of write strong data structures and stupid algorithms around them, your data will outlive your application, etc. Simple example is a Mongodb field which stores same thing as int or string, relationships without foreign keys in Postgres etc. Then frustrating shit like somebody creating an entire table since he cant `ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN`
by Narew | 2025-08-25 06:09:15+00:00
Really nice project!

That said, I do want to point something out: the “Fast (because Rust)” or “Lightning fast” tagline that’s increasingly common in Rust projects isn’t great. Just using Rust doesn’t automatically make something fast — real performance comes from design, algorithms, and benchmarks. These days, whenever I see “Lightning fast” in a Rust project, it makes me think the author hasn’t really focused on optimization, and that the project might not actually be as performance-tuned as the claim suggests.
by satisfice | 2025-08-25 06:09:25+00:00
Wow… that’s your counterargument?

First you are confusing the passing of a test with the actual non-occurrence of crime. My point is that passing a test for counterfeit money doesn’t make passing counterfeit bills legally or morally acceptable. Your point is what? That the tests on $100 bills always work, or when they don’t work that’s okay?

Surely you don’t mean that. I’m saying that I reject your AI-soaked fake work product even if I can’t see anything wrong with the work itself— because lying and stealing is not okay, but that’s what you are doing when you pass AI work off as your own thing.

Lots of criminals believe crime is no big deal. I am not trying to convince them, nor you, if bullshit is your creed.
by miffy900 | 2025-08-25 06:09:41+00:00
Anyone here arguing that we should just let Intel fail in the market needs to understand that Intel is struggling right now partly because Asian nations like South Korea and Taiwan have for years subsidized their own chip making companies because they knew that in the long term, it was going to be an important strategic industry that would eventually be worth the effort and trouble. Now look where we are. Their long term strategy has paid off. Only TSMC is at the cutting edge, and Samsung is a fairly distant, but still reasonably close, secondary player.

Maybe there are better ways to prop up Intel besides the government taking a stake, but losing Intel would be a huge blow to American manufacturing interests. There's been a failure of strategic vision, both at Intel and in the American government. I think as a short term measure, taking a stake isn't the worst thing the government could do at this time.

Also to go off on a tangent a bit: this is one of the benefits of having a Trump-like character as President; he's clearly not beholden to any ideology and is extremely flexible when it comes to making policy decisions, even when a certain policy might be more at home with the opposing party or side of politics.
by leviathant | 2025-08-25 06:09:59+00:00
My wife is a successful Australian-American choral composer, and riding shotgun as her career has taken off, if I were to make a few observations right before I turn in for the night:

"Choral music is harder to appreciate than say either symphonies or chamber music" - unlike orchestras and smaller string ensembles, choirs are champions of new music. The end of the article cites opera's growing popularity (an idea I'm not sure I buy into) but opera companies are famously stuck in rep from 100-300 year old, because that's what the donor class wants to hear.

The perspective painted by this article isn't all that different from the boomer who thinks there hasn't been good rock n' roll since the Beatles and the Stones. It's out there, all around you - you're just not looking in the right places. Choir music has a built-in network effect; when one choir sings a piece that goes over well, often times there are members who are in one or two other choirs, or are even choir directors themselves. There's a very dynamic scene, not even touching on religious choirs. And to people who think it's not that exciting, again I think you might just not be going to the right concerts. I've seen a choir reduce an entire audience to tears, and I've heard choral pieces that send the hair up on the back of my neck. I say this as someone who normally listens to Nine Inch Nails, Fever Ray, Queens of the Stone Age, Autechre, Aphex Twin... Some of my favorite choral works have very catchy rhythms, others border on math rock.

Choral organizations could do with better marketing; it's hard to compete in today's media landscape. One of my favorite groups, the St Louis Chamber Chorus, performs new and old works, and makes it a point to perform in unique spaces all around the St Louis area - part of the attraction to a concert is getting to go into that church you've always wondered about, or an old theater that's been brought back to life by the community. The Mid-Columbia Master Singers have performed in the Hanford B reactor site in the Tri-Cities area of Washington state. Or even seeing The King's Singers perform with Voces8 in an old mainstay like Royal Albert Hall, it's a sensory experience that can't be replicated.

And again, it's a community thing. You meet other people who appreciate this stuff when you go to the concerts and stay for the receptions. If you feel like you could make things better, become a subscriber, a major donor, join the board of one of these things. It's incredibly rewarding.

Back to marketing: outside of a few long-running groups like Chanticleer, Cantus, Voces8, the King's Singers, and so on, it's really challenging to build a brand around choral music. The industry's just not there for it. But seek out local choral concerts, talk to some strangers there, and you'll find a whole ecosystem that operates is more typically consumed live and in person, than it is via recording.

Going back to the title of the article, I suppose that does make it harder to appreciate than something you've heard in movie trailers and can stream from Spotify.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-25 06:10:30+00:00
The UK has Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Scotland, particularly, is anti-authoritarian.

The only thing that kept Scotland from voting for independence was a promise the UK would stay in the EU. If the Scottish referendum was to happen today, I don’t think England would win their vote.

And leaving the EU has caused massive complications for the Good Friday agreement that specifically agreed to removing border controls between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Yet none of these countries were able to apply enough pressure to change the UK government’s downward spiral.