skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What scares me is musescore.com. That website went from being a largely free repository of sheet music to a subscription service paying into the music industry, with no support for CC style licenses (it's either public domain or paywalled), locking everyone's sheet music retroactively behind a paywall regardless of actual license, sometimes in violation of said licenses (e.g. anything with a BY-NC or similar style license). None of the profits go to independent creators, only to a few major rights associations, regardless of who actually owns the music. They then tried to threaten folks who had written download tools with vague and ridiculous threats. [1]

It seems these days they support CC (finally...), but not any ad-hoc or third party licenses. So most of the music I'm interested in, which is legal to distribute sheet music of for free but not commercially (but under a non-CC license), is still paywalled in violation of its copyright.

MuseScore the software is fine, but the MuseScore.com fiasco has left a really bad taste in my mouth. I hope none of that nonsense bleeds over into the development teams of the actual OSS software, but absent any kind of apology or change of direction MuseScore.com, I'm scared.

[1] https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5
I hope it works out for Basecamp. It is simply not ok to allow anxious or bitter people to be wearing each other out with political beliefs when they are being paid well to do a job. The twitter parade of martyr complexes is predictable but it is disappointing that so much talent has lost perspective on what professional conduct looks like in a workplace.
There have been numerous headlines in media about the psychiatric illness epidemic resulting from social distancing measures, and all the downstream effects of the whole situation, including continuing uncertainty. Common sense alone would tell you that mental health has worsened since last year, particularly in those who were already on the edge.
There are disputes over "white noise" videos so it is already as bad as it gets.
As a white Australian who grew up in a country area (close to Moree, which was the first stop of the Australian ‘Freedom Rides’) and having spent a lot of time in NZ in the last decade, it really pains me that we are so far from the level of race relations that NZ has. It truly is a blight on what is otherwise a really good country
Grokking Functional Programming Series
Simple Sabotage Field Manual – How to Destroy Your Organizations
> acquire Audacity

should be "hire the key developer of Audacity"
Maybe we should think about building a society that’s less financially cutthroat. I’m not in the financial position of the potential restaurant workers discussed in the article, but I can’t imagine wanting to work in a typical chain restaurant if I was. Not because of the work itself, and I’m not trying to downplay the value provided by restaurant workers either, but because I would feel that it was limiting my potential future earnings. Most chain restaurant jobs just don’t seem to offer real opportunities for upward mobility and their unpredictable shift scheduling can make it difficult to work or study outside of them.

Obviously, I’m coming from a position of privilege here, but putting myself in the shoes of a potential restaurant worker, assuming I wanted to put myself in a better long-term financial position, I would simply choose to not be a restaurant worker and study/apprentice for something else instead. I’d imagine that actually working in a restaurant teaches plenty of useful life skills, but unfortunately I’m not sure that experience really translates into a marketable resume. Unfortunately, in a competitive job market, there’s an opportunity cost associated with time spent in jobs that don’t enhance one’s desirability to potential employers.

Now obviously not everyone has the option to simply forego low-paying work and become a student/apprentice, and I’m sure some people really like working in restaurants (even fast-food chains), so I’m not arguing that restaurants should simply disappear. Instead, I think we should work to reduce the competitive nature of our economy so that cheap, convenient food (or similar services) isn’t effectively being subsidized by the existence of a permanent economic underclass with no career options beyond low-paying, so-called “low-skill” work. Fast-food workers should be there because they want to be there, not because it’s their only option.

American society is built around work and constant competition for better-paying work - that’s certainly not unique to the US, but the high-levels of income inequality and winner-take-all job market dynamics sort of are (at least among countries with similar social + economic profiles). We should try to create a job market where people can choose full-time jobs they enjoy and excel at without worrying about whether they can afford to have children, maintain stable housing, or be able to retire some day. To do that, I’d expect that we need to reduce the power differential between the restaurant/business owners complaining about a lack of people willing to help them make money for low wages and the potential employees they’re complaining about.
If I understand your calculation, it seems like the lower bound is around 0.03%, not 0.0004%.
Chia devs themselves recommend not using consumer-grade drives, since they're not built for running at 100% all day.

> The one thing in common will be that you need high endurance, due to the fact that it take almost ~1.8TB of writes using the -e flag or 1.6TB without that option to create a single K=32 plot.

> Endurance is how much data can be written to the SSD before it wears out. In Chia this is important because a plotting SSD will generally be at 100% duty cycle and writing all day.

> A mixed use or high endurance data center or enterprise SSD is the best choice for plotting. Used SSDs with plenty of endurance can be found for a good value on eBay, Craigslist, or similar.

> Consumer NVMe SSDs are generally not recommended due to the lower endurance, and they often employ caching algorithms to faster media (SLC, or single level cell) for great bursty performance. They do not perform well under heavy workload sustained IO. There are very high performance consumer NVMe SSDs that will offer great plotting performance, but the lower rated endurance in TBW will result in a faster wearout.

https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/SSD-End...
I said it’s what I would do and that what I would do would be out of principle. Not what Apple will do.

The E.U. Happily bows down to China all the time so if you really want to do this whole anti-China thing everybody is happily playing in the mud - Apple, and the E.U. .
Learn. That's what I did.

The issue is that many designers and engineers loathe Usability and Accessibility people (like Jakob Nielsen and Don Norman).

For me, it all started with Don Norman's excellent book The Design of Everyday Things[0] (nee The Psychology of Everyday Things).

Reading that book changed the way that I view the world. I can't walk through a door, anymore, without evaluating its affordances and usability.

The challenge (for me) is melding usability and aesthetics. In my experience, designing and implementing a truly usable software interface is hard. It's also highly iterative. A lot of "running things up the flagpole" stuff. I throw out a lot of code, and slaughter a lot of sacred cows.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things
Surely, it then makes sense to perhaps take into account what people are saying, no? The issue here is a very clear cut case of antitrust. You seem to opine facts and laws shouldn't matter in this discussion on the assumption that only legal professionals can know stuff that is relevant, and those are as you put it, by assumption, not present. Then, you are repeating the, to be frank, tiresome talking point that doubles as missing the point, whilst being a strawman: "it isn't a monopoly, because you can buy an android". So to reiterate, "monopoly" as total market share isn't the issue here. It doesn't need to be for there to be a case of antitrust. And, it clearly is such a case, no matter how much you attempt to change the discussion to "is/isn't a monopoly". They are orthogonal issues. You can have monopolies and duopolies without there being grounds for anti-trust.

Just to summarize, and also hit the nail on the head, and perhaps be less polite (not intentional, but sometimes it helps with clarity): "In other words, I cannot fathom how anti-trust law applies since Apple doesn't have much leverage to abuse in the first place", you are 100% mistaken on both accounts (though spot on, on the inability). The former misconception I've already explained, the latter is to be found in troves, the article I linked earlier has a good explanation on a lot of points, and unwillingness to educate yourself is also your own business. So, I'm chalking this up as a willful ignorance, which is fine. I'm not really interesting in arguing with you, or all that bothered with trying to convince you. So, I suppose we can leave it as is.
I was born omnivorous. However, I accept the premise to minimize suffering of animals, including humans in all respects.
Did you actually read what I wrote? The full tracing property means that when double spending is detected, the bank can identify all coins that the cheating user spent. Honest users remain anonymous, which is the basic security property of ecash (and a property that Bitcoin does not achieve).

Also, this may seem pedantic, but cheating is entirely feasible in Bitcoin. In Bitcoin the honest users must perform more computation than the attackers, but that means that an attack must be feasible (as the effort of honest users must be feasible for anyone to use the system).
A very important thing is the topology of the infection. I had COVID last year and it progressed linearly over time, from the back of my nose(probably from a big water droplet I breathed)forwards(towards my nose) and downwards towards my lungs. I could measure the progress day after day.

It progressed linearly because the breathing system is a duct. Like a fire needs a boundary to expand, a frontier. It is not 3D but 2 dimensional.

You just can not do an exponential calculation, without taking into account the physical limits of the environment.

Just before entering the lungs I did beat it. I coughed for a month or so,specially for the irritation in my glottis, but nothing serious.

This year I got it again, the progress rate was very similar but my immune system reacted sooner.

What is interesting is that I did not developed antibodies, my antibodies test were negative but the PCRs positives. This means that my T cells were already fighting the infection.

That probably had something to do with living in China in the past and having developed immunity against SARS.
I am comparing 2 situations where laws set the framework and contracts specify the relevant details within that framework. The contract or terms of use usually contain the exact definition of the service and the conditions it's offered in, and the SLAs. So I'm not entirely sure how these being "different" changes anything for the purpose of the discussion. The contract sets some terms within the framework set by the law. This is valid whether it's a router or a person. The only thing you could point at is that the marketing material is misleading. But...

GP's claim was based on the same misunderstanding you make now regarding that marketing material:

> if my business is selling a 1 GB/s internet connection

You're doubling down on the same mistaken assumption. I randomly browsed over ISP websites just now and they all sell "up to xGbps" connections. Marketing material anyway can't cover the breadth and scope of an actual contract. So it's the job of the law to decide what "up to x" can mean (you deliver that speed at least 60% of the time for example), and for the terms for the specifics of that particular contract.

Just because we don't like something doesn't mean they're breaking the law or that there's a moral obligation on one side to satisfy all claims for the other.

No marketing material is 100% accurate because you can't cram all the things that need to be said in one punchline. But if you enter an agreement based on that one marketing claim then surely the problem isn't with the provider.
It sounds like you think I’m defending the dumb list. I’m not. To me, it sounds like the Basecamp leadership did mostly the right thing. They said, this list shouldn’t exist, we expect better in the future. But also, we’re sick and tired of people making extreme assumptions about people’s motivations and making this list tantamount to a KKK membership. The list was dumb. Calling the list the work of hateful racists was also probably dumb.
I can not really imagine a whole object at once, I can only easily imagine the features/edges individually, although I know that they form a triangle.
As someone who finds most things at least a little bit interesting, this is pretty awesome. Love seeing someone doing what they love to do and sharing it.
How do you know when enough computational effort / energy has been devoted to mining i.e. how do you know that there is no attacker out there who is working harder than all the honest users combined?
Hopefully Apple wins the legal challenges or finds a good work around instead.
Then what of the ⅔ who stayed?
> Yeah, JS is the only hairy part. I considered mentioning it, since I know it was going to come up. But luckily, all I've seen so far are basic demos (like leaky.page) that read data from a carefully-crafted array that the page itself populated.

Only PoC says very little. If I were head of a nation state APT I'd look into exploiting this because attack surface of JS is high. I'd only use it targeted, for example on Microsoft Azure team as outlined in Darknet Diaries #78.
Rapé is not the same as Rape, not even close. I know the letters look similar, but they just... aren't. To people whose native language includes accents, the idea of reading one as the other is bizzare.

Not to mention the existence of the common European crop rapeseed, which actually is pronounced exactly the same as "rape" and has been for hundreds of years.
Prices are fairly similar in this industry. So not much to decide. Early clients did push me to add a medium plan which turned out to be popular.
I don't think I'm ever going to approve of any sort of automated copyright claim system but if Google wanted to make it one bit fair, they should use the same concept of three strikes against the accounts that make false claims and ban them.
There should be some kind of law to forbid this type of unilateral model training. What great lapse of judgement to not also train the same model that is used to blacklist music to also whitelist music that is in the public domain -- and to use AI in this way, to suppress the creative freedoms of billions of human beings as the robot revolution edges closer to automate us out of existence. AI should not be used this way, but if you're going to do it you may as well be honest about it. How this algorithm could be deployed without first even acknowledging the existence of music outside of what is proprietary is disturbing
What did you mean to imply by your finding that "none of the negers had any objections to word neger in itself?"
Whether schools open is a decision made by public authorities. How is it not political?
This seems an unfair assessment - to consign those comments to coming from "haters" (though the one you quote is over the top, the first is fair comment to be debated), and not in keeping with the OP article here itself which is about those who attach themselves obsessively to particular people.
What are some of the best non-FAANG companies to work at?
Are people who formerly did shitty things not allowed to ever criticize those things point out their consequences? If said employee learned to behave better, why publicly shame them?

Unless you only care about shutting them up and "winning" the argument in front of your staff, DHH didn't help himself or the company at all. He actually behaved like a spoiled chikd.
Gr8, not only I wont be able to buy a decent card for new PC but also NVME..

Cryptocurrency really ruins the market for regular consumer.
The evidence suggests this nonsense doesn't work and is even harmful. Check out the literature review on the Heterodox Academy website.
One thing that could be nice is giving established users an occasional nudge to have a look at /new (and a quick explanation of why it's important people do go there). Like, maybe if they haven't been to /new in a week, show a little banner suggesting they give it a go. If you wanted to get really fancy, you could even try to throttle the nudges according to the amount of posts being submitted at the time, so you drive more eyeballs to new when there's more stuff to be reviewed.

I know it took a long time for me to start looking at new, a little nudge would have made me start much earlier.
Can you elaborate on tabs vs powder?
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4763
Crimes Against Women – Geo Data Analysis
What about deportation of undocumented immigrants? Isn't their existence in this country politicized?

People are being killed by gun violence, police violence, gang violence. Isn't it fair for people affected by these things to feel their lives have become political footballs?
How to Know If Your Pitch Deck Is Good
The URL link → https://msameeruddin.hashnode.dev/crimes-against-women-geo-d...
I want to add that the overall chart shows that there was a small bump in, an uptick around 19th feb. However this trend was only actionable in a better data oriented environment.

People explained away or ignored that small bump.
While the current pandemic is not yet over, there is an ongoing hype in hydroponics (soiless planting) right now. There are a lot of guides from books, youtube, reddit, facebook groups, blogs, etc. Its so much easy to automate this indoor or outdoor. People in the future will obtain free food at home. And large companies will exploit this.
> evolutionary advantage

> If we'd had the same factory work for millions of years, we might have some mechanisms to enjoy or get good at it.

This is simply NOT how evolution works. It's not intelligent and does not super-optimize a species for some task.

It's very chaotic and messy and constantly gets stuck into local minima/maxima where species are barely "good enough" to survive.

Furthermore, it works only on a set of physical attributes. There isn't a set of genes for liking repetitive work, or pop music, or similar abstract psychological traits.

This is why the infamous eugenics experiments of the 1940s could not develop superhuman psychological traits.
We have legal and clean heroin given out, for basically free, by the state here in switzerland and from my personal experience these are the least city image damaging junkies ive seen around europe. Many of them even have regular work as they have no need to get criminal for their next shot.
Given that white noise is random, a recorded copy of white noise is its own perfect watermark.
In the age of high density displays, fractional scaling is a must. It's the first thing people will encounter that indicates that a DE is antiquated.

On a 11" display at 1920x1080, the alternative is to suffer resolution mismatch (which can introduce any number of artifacts depending on how the panel handles the input, the least of which is a blurry/fuzzy display) or drop the resolution fractionally for pixel accurate rendering.

I did not buy a 11" laptop with a FHD display to browse at 960x540.
Ask HN: Does the power law also exist everywhere outside the VC industry?
There’s a lot of content out there that just doesn’t have as much attention as less deserving others and this just makes me wonder?
Oof yeah this resonates with me too. I did two failed startups back to back a number of years ago and had a lot of health issues after that which I’m sure were due to the stress and burnout.

And... I’m actually sitting on a hospital bed this very moment because of high blood pressure and some other symptoms that are probably caused by the blood pressure, but they want to do some more tests to be sure.
I was mentioning this last time MuseScore appeared on HN - their CEO gave some insight in the comments on how this came to be.

Seems to boil down to "music publishing mafia didn't like it", which is understandable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25825533
Parent offered since terrific examples. The least you could do is give an example of a company unaffected by politics. Frankly I'm skeptical of your line of reasoning but happy to entertain it.
Not sure how you reached this conclusion. How is this "discussing sexual preferences at work"?
This is the evil of monopoly. Monopolies destroy freedom and will bring back feudalism. The GAFAM must be broken up.

Yannis Varoufakis discusses this in this (oh the irony) youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlkuA1mx0pc
PG got called out on his BS for his previous essay now cries because "haters".

Very sloppy writing Paul, very lazy.
I used to make my own effects pedals and sell them under the “electric toad engineering” moniker. It’s a lot of fun, but the market is way too crowded and you’re not going to make much money at it! Still, my pedals are very good.

The last design I came up with I only made one of, and I use it for myself.. but, it is the best overdrive I’ve ever heard, or at least, after years of fiddling with it there’s nothing left I can do to make it any better. I just don’t want to spend my time doing screen printing, advertising, shipping, drilling, soldering, and so on just make 50 bucks on each unit.

There is a lot of hokum that people believe when it comes to overdrive, but it comes down to a really good signal to noise ratio, and a thousand tiny details, and very close attention to pre/post gain eq.

I think the same is true of the “tube sound” mojo- the tube amps that are most sought after are great because they were a labor of love, and people sweated over the tiny details. Solid state amps are designed to be cheap, so they have worse speakers, and so on. You can get just a good a sound out of transistors, you just have to spend some money and time to do it.
On the other hand, isn't it nice to have a funding model that allows developers of open source software to be sustainably salaried?
https://www.ilograph.com is great for this and more
I tested this some years ago on a raytracer, and got a tad over 50% more speed when enabling HT compared to disabling it.

As you say, the ray tracer did a lot of cache missing , interspersed with a fair bit of calculations. I'm guessing this is close to the ideal workload, as far as non-synthetic benchmarks go.
As he said, his healthcare is shit, so he used his test data to diagnose himself.
I think there is an implication in the name: to burn out you have to burn in the first place. My personal experience, that of some colleagues and multiple accounts of other people I've read over the years suggest that.

There are certainly other ingredients than just overwork (despair, low project morale, lack of stewardship, blame culture) that make people fizzle out. But working too much is there in all accounts.
People who recognise technology as core to their business.