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> I don’t know ancient Greek, so I wonder if that language draws a distinction between singular and plural in the way “the author” of Elements is structured.

I don't know what you mean by "in the way 'the author' of Elements is structured", but yes, Greek draws a distinction between singular and plural. (And dual, though to a lesser degree.)
I think the bigger problem with this is that Edge doesn't present the content the retailer provided and the user requested; instead, it presents, unasked, what it hopes the user might prefer. The browser is not acting as a medium between the user and retailer, but is imposing on both. I'd have a lot less problem with a [whatever]bar button that you could click and see other offers for the same item. The former is frustrating and insulting; the latter is not: it's no longer an interruption if the user asks for the information instead of having the browser push it in their face.
Thanks for sharing. That's one of the scarier and more detailed descriptions of Visual Snow I've read! The SSRI complications sound truly frightening.

It seems like some research into Visual Snow is being conducted, so at least some people are starting to take it seriously.

We're finally getting some serious migraine research as well, and I suspect that at some point in the future, we'll finally figure out that much of what we thought we knew about migraine is wrong. I can't remember who was doing the research, but some neurologist claimed that migraine is a consequence of some neurons being "too trigger happy", meaning they fire when they shouldn't. I suspect that's where the link with VS is.

I wonder whether the root cause is going to turn out to be a metabolic problem in the cells involved, or whether it's a case of some neurons being too sensitive. If it's the latter, neurological rehabilitation might be a possible treatment avenue. Similar to some migraine patients greatly benefiting from light therapy at specific wavelengths.

If you haven't already, check out /r/visualsnow on reddit, people occasionally post research, recruit volunteers for studies, and generally commiserate there.
people these days are highly sensitive?
I think the title is distasteful, but the title tag of the article matches the hn title and is also the first title displayed above the fold (on a mobile browser, at least).
Could you share any examples?
This looks really good. I happen to be learning piano since October and I have a MIDI keyboard. At a first glance, it matches an idea I had. Thanks for building this and for sharing. I might adopt this.

And I fully understand why you wanted to use MusicXML now. It makes me think about the feature in MuseScore that plays the score.

(Frère Jacques as a default, nice touch)
A picture would be nice.
This is one of the reasons my desktop and as much of my phone as possible are opensource.

"outdated" "old" is an actual stable experience with bug fixes and responsiveness to actual users and not product managers.

The migration to swipes for everything on the phones is mind boggling.

Super cool for the tweens and twenty year olds that are used to being pushed to the next thing every 2 months.

My older relatives have no concept of what a swipe is and why it should do anything.

Total chaos and brokenness for them and millions of others.
Ehh not really. Some cheaper blends like Grant's (same parent company and bottle shape!) would be what you're thinking of. But Glenfiddich is generally considered to be an accessible, affordable single malt and is often recommended for beginners as an introductory Highland malt.

I happily drink Glenfiddich 12 when I'm in the mood for a whisky in a bar that doesn't have a great selection, and I have a Glenfiddich 15 in my cabinet which is really pleasant
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Maybe this a generation thing, I never have more than 10 open, on average.

Anything worth keeping, bookmarks.
That would be a fairer format, but I've read that the football governing bodies aren't introducing it as it would be more confusing for people.
Cool concept but the trigger is a tradgedy of safety. If the user needs to "slightly depress" the trigger to charge a shot, that makes pressing the trigger in too far a real possibility. Nobody should have their finger on the trigger unless they want to thing at the other end of the barrel dead.

A thumb or hand pressure trigger for the charging would be way better.
Honestly it’s astounding just how good the representations from top notch virtual instrument libraries can be given the very real limitations of MIDI. The combination of key-switched articulations with velocity-driven patch variation plus clever legato programming means that a well-practiced DAW programmer can get performances out of libraries that blow my mind. Do they sound like a live performance? Not quite (and less so for solos or small chamber ensembles than for larger ensembles). They sound far better than it would seem they have any right to, though. And the upside to the MIDI encoding is that while you’re absolutely right that it isn’t a natural fit for e.g. violins (where your suggested approach could be a much closer representation), they are universal and therefore much more transferable.

All of that mixed praise of MIDI notwithstanding, I basically agree with the take here. I (self)-published [1] a fanfare I wrote last year taking the path from a score authored in Dorico to MIDI to Logic Pro and the result came out surprisingly well out of the gate, and with much tweaking ended up in something that if I didn’t love, I also didn’t absolutely loathe, which had been my previous experience of these sorts of things.

In any case, the thought of trying to transfer between tools like MuseScore, Dorico, StaffPad, etc. with MIDI just gives me the shudders: it’s absolutely the wrong tool for the job, where (something like) MusicXML is the right tool for the job, because it’s designed from the start to represent notation rather than to represent sound.

[1]: https://songwhip.com/chriskrycho/fanfare-for-a-new-era-of-am...
I think maybe you misunderstood their methods? They explicitly discuss the most obvious "novel" openings that wouldn't transpose to traditional openings, like 1. e4 d5/dxe4 2. Nc3/Nxe4, or 1. d4 c5/cxd4 2. c3/cxd4.
I bet the remaining employees' metrics will see a marked increase even as actual productivity drops.
My experience: It's much more common that the dramatic decline starts when the original creator(s)/product owner(s) leave the company, rather than when some product manager later on decides to go rogue.
I can only comment on The Economist App, the experience has indeed worsened over time. Simple features like searching an article, bookmarking it going back to where you left off etc.

Similar behavior I feel among other apps as well.

- New features aren't that useful. (bells and whistles because everyone has it, so should we)

- Old features aren't maintained or getting worse with each release

- Apps seem to be getting slower.

- They don't seem to be completely native (probably using incorrect terminology). When you minimize an app and go back to it, it'll refresh the page. You were reading something?, thought you found an interesting product and paused to look up something?

I don't mind paying a subscription either. If I'm using an app regularly, it needs to be maintained over OS versions but so many apps are getting worse.
The ecosystem has also lost its mojo, and Apple is the one that killed it.

The good old days of really good, dedicated mac software studios are over. Made by Sofa, Delicious Monster, SubEthaEdit, TextMate, Panic Inc, Rogue Amoeba, Strange Flavour. These were really great software studios that really upheld a standard of excellence for Mac software.

But how are you supposed to keep that up when apple forces you into a marketplace that basically relies on customer handouts, where your only way to make profit on your 99ct app is to hit it so big, that your have several million customers.

It's no wonder that there are no good apps anymore, we've swamped the market with cheap cheap stuff, and nobody wants to pay for quality anymore.

I've recently switched from VSCode to Panics Nova, and for a very brief moment I felt like I was back in the old days of Mac Os X where things just worked, and where I felt at home with my OS, without constantly waiting for a better alternative to come along.
Oh but that's not really bytecode is it? I'd say that's language transpilation. Which is a different topic, a contentious one for sure, but I don't think I'd qualify compiling down to another language as a form of bytecode, perhaps I'm splitting hairs though. My understanding is with bytecode that would then be read during execution on a vm or some such like Java, or Python bytecode during execution. JS is still a high level language which V8 then turns into it's own type of bytecode before being able to execute it.
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It's not about # of customers. Even apps with billions of users can survey those users, or use some sort of a/b testing to figure out what impact any change to a product will have. The issue is just that sometimes a change might be good for new users only, or might be good for some metric the business cares about that you don't (ie maybe the Economist needed daily actives instead of weekly actives for some reason so they launched daily news). Not saying the changes are always net positive, but I don't think it's a simple as "they want to get promoted and can't talk to all their users".

Also, as much as I love AWS as a service overall, it's actual user experience is pretty terrible and I wish it did change over time (for the better).
> I just don't get the point of a blanket ban on OF people who market themselves this way

The reason has been specified and is to the point: "... contribution is usually shallow and easy to see through. This pollutes the place with a low-effort content ..." - these OF advertisers are only interested in getting people to see their profile (as you rightly pointed out), not their posted content, because their intention is to make money from such content ... obviously, in a place where content is more higly valued, such posters will be banned to ensure that it doesn't attract more of these kind of people. And yes, many sub-reddits do have poor quality content. Thanks to the ban on OF advertisers, it is much less.
You should ask for a refund!
> [explain] to me, in plain English, why we ought to abolish the very important freedom of deciding for themselves who and how private entities do business with

The explanation for this is the same explanation for why eminent domain exists. If you own a piece of land that will be in the middle of a busy road, in the US you likely can't construct that part of the road yourself and charge people or arbitrarily restrict people from using it - you likely will have to sell it to the US government.

I'm not trying to argue about if this is the ideal way to do things, but the more society views tech companies owning platforms like landowners owning parts of roads, the more government control.
As answered on a fellow comment, my average are 10.

Anything not being used is closed and kept in bookmarks.
I mean that the essay is not written in the fictional world of 1984, but in the real world. It's outside the work of fiction, a piece of literary criticism by the author of the work being discussed.
If you have a car.
People who don't speak English natively could use machine translation, and people plagiarizing could use machine translation. How do they distinguish (if you don't mind saving me digging into the research)?
Electron isn't native.

Also your website needs screenshots, a video is the last thing I want when considering if I am going to try a GUI especially one that involves people talking about abstract concepts rather than the actual product and it's features.

If you want to appeal to traders you need to provide deeper technical details especially around order execution, real-time data feeds, etc.

In my mind there are 3 types of trading systems/brokerages.

1. Hobbyist - dominated by Robinhood and Webull these are about having "nice" UIs. i.e looks pretty. Low or no fees but also very little control, payment for order flow, doesn't support most asset classes.

2. Investor - Mainly Fidelity, etc. Powerful but orientated around long-term holds. Ability to control things like loaning out shares for shorting, support for every asset class imaginable (minus maybe crypto), higher fees, phone support required for some tasks like executing warrants, etc.

3. Trader - IBKR, TD Ameritrade, etc. Extremely powerful UIs but old school looks, keyboard driven. Extreme control over order execution. Emphasis on real-time data feeds, depth of book, etc. Extensive support for options/futures/warants/cfds.

You need to pick which if these 3 your system is intended to be. Right now it looks like mostly aimed at hobbyists.

Personally I use IBKR so that probably colors my outlook. I'm willing to accept ugly for speed and power, traders don't tend to value pretty - it doesn't make you a more profitable trader.
> Abstaining from sex

Okay, I'm definitely not training like an Ancient Greek Olympian. It's the bulk of my cardio: 30-75 minutes per. (I have a delayed response (DE)). More fun that HIIT biking to nowhere reading/listening to a Penguin Classic book. Most exercise bores the hell out of me, even if the cumulative effect of endorphins feel great.
Yeah, against e4 why would black play anything but d5 followed immediately by dxe4? That would basically turn 1. e4 into the Englund gambit (an awful opening starting with 1. d4 e5 2. dxe5) with reversed colors, giving a clear advantage for black. The next two moves for white would let him equalize, but still the Ruy Lopez is unlikely to occur.
Others have already responded that it's much further away than that, and this is very good because they are extremely energetic events, possibly the most energetic type of events we have ever observed.

Just the jets of Cygnus A are 40000 light years long (nearly half the diameter of the milky way). Active galactic nuclei like Cygnus A have power outputs on the order of 10^35 watts, this is 10(!) orders of magnitude more than the power output of the sun, and it's a highly collimated beam rather than radiating in all directions, so the usual inverse square law doesn't apply.

If such an object were in our vicinity (< 1000 light years), a single sweep of the jet would obliterate all life on earth. I suspect it would be enough radiation to re-melt the rocky planets in the solar system and strip them of their atmosphere. Some of these objects are estimated to have consumed hundreds of stars every single year. Even outside of the jet, the amount of ionizing radiation emitted in every direction around such an object would likely be incompatible with life as we know it.

So, luckily the object is actually very far away :)
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My wife asks me why this happens all the time. This is the way better answer that I usually give her: “money.” So I’ll be passing along this blog post to her.

There are many apps that get worse over the years. I literally don’t know how to use most apps these days and I don’t care to. On an app we use for work, I went irate that a button I used often mysteriously disappeared. A few months later, I was having a beer with one of the devs that works on it and it came up. He laughed and said that 40% of users had the same reaction I did. It was less than 50% so they shipped the change. :sigh:
I heard a joke about FTS engines, but Whoosh !
> in my days at Amazon Web Services, I saw exactly zero instances of major service releases that, in the opinion of customers, crippled or broke the product. ... the PM could go talk to them and bounce improvement ideas off them. Customers are pretty good at spotting UX goofs in the making.

AWS really does like to "bounce ideas" off customers.
To the extent that I am wondering if we should start billing them for consulting services.
A hour long meeting every other month with 3-4 senior team members adds up.
I (non-American, not a native English speaker) thought it was a pejorative reference to rural universities; ("hick" / "rube") state universities of Midwestern states etc.
It depends on the model/Vendor. There were upwards of ~15k devices showing their web interface WAN side and it could be that it is enabled by default in some cases.

You're right that the risk is dropped significantly if the web ui isn't showing WAN side (though could still be an issue for businesses using the router for public wifi, or in shared residences, etc).
On a totally opposite tack, you can use s7 Scheme and C in WebAssembly. S7 is fun. :-)
There used to be an acceptable Scrabble app. No more.
Doesn't that require a language to be engineered to output java bytecode? For example, rust can't be compiled to java bytecode because it does things that jvm can't do. A real polyglot can't only understand a language by requiring it to speak its native language
Wasm supports languages that weren't created with wasm in mind, just by requiring a compiler with the right output, without restraining the language.
You can get the Fed minutes (iirc) back to the 80s on the main website. To get earlier ones (they go back all the way iirc), you can get them from ALFRED (there is tons of interesting data on there).
> ...in my days at Amazon Web Services, I saw exactly zero instances of major service releases that, in the opinion of customers, crippled or broke the product.

The AWS recipe is easy though: add another service instead of touching the old one too much. Great now there are 200 services and approaching them is like learning C++. If one considers "the product" to be the entire offering of cloud services - I'd argue that the PMs fell in exactly the same feature trap.
>I used that example because it seemed most appropriate for this forum

Any example you pick is going to be complicated. Because they're people. They're doing their best.

Assume good faith. It's not a law, but it helps.
After "e4 d5 dxe4", White could play "Bb5+ Bxe8", capturing the king. This new game is very, very different from chess.
>>As for iPhoto, I never used it much, but my eighty-something mother did, and took lots of great photos with the Sony RX100 I gave her when I gave up on pocket cams. She’s not geeky but has a Bachelor’s in the sciences and is really smart. At some point they broke iPhoto so she couldn’t figure out how to do anything, and when she asked me for help she had tears in her eyes. I tried to get her fixed up, but she doesn’t take pictures much any more. I miss them.

Literally the exact same thing happened with my mother and Google's own Picassa. It was fantastic application to easily manage your photos collection, until one day google just went...nah? The app itself still works, but a lot of the functionality is just broken, and without the google photos integration working anymore my mum lost the easy to use way of sharing the photos she takes. And the actual google photos interface is horrendous, I'm willing to bet that it's constantly being redesigned so that someone at google can justify a raise/promotion, not because there's any actual reason to keep redesigning the whole thing periodically, other than someone's career progression.
AoE2 was better than AOE though. Same goes for Civ 5 vs Civ 4.
> Gobineau’s hogwash is easily disproven by comparing the health and vitality of endogamic and exogamic communities, that is communities that only breed with their own versus communities that invite outsiders into their genetic pool.

Endogamic communities such as China, Japan, or Judaism [1], and exogamic communities such as the US, Canada, and South Africa? Seems like anything but an "easy" comparison, as those communities have many differences besides endo/exogamy.

Overall the article spends more time worrying about implications than trying to answer the question posed in the title. Ironically, the answer it gives is "yes". Despite the false dichotomy it offers at the start [2], it then goes on to describe exactly what I would call "degeneration" [3]. I.e. brainless entertainment is growing disproportionately to quality art.

It's hard to view this article as anything other than an excuse to dig up and triumphantly defeat some 150 year old racist thought. Once the reader sees that dumb racists worried about degeneration, then surely the idea must be false.

That the author herself admits there is a distinction between quality and mindless art, that giving mindless art disproportionate attention could be termed degeneration, and that that is something that definitely could, and arguably (argued by the author herself [4]!) is happening... well just ignore all that, because racists.

Overall the kind of article I would expect from a humanities professor - a lot of rhetoric, used mostly to distract rather than inform. Comparing that rambling article with dash2's post [5], that definitively answers the question in 3 sentences, reveals what a farce the Princeton professor's work is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogamy#Examples

[2] Do you see a thriving and innovative scene, replete with original forms and vibrant content? Or do you see something simple and stagnant, marked by dead-end ideas that either repeat the patterns of the past or offer only feeble attempts to craft a new aesthetic vision?

[3] Upon deeper reflection, I realise that while media companies reward narcissism, shallowness, empty spectacle, hyperbole and brainlessness by giving disproportionate exposure to things that generate easy attention, there is another coexisting world, one in which thoughtful, intricate and uplifting things are being created at an unprecedented pace.

[4] On days when I feel discouraged by the kinds of cultural objects I encounter

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28110007
When a product feature plateaus, the team starts inventing work from top down instead of bottom up; so as to keep themselves busy. The oblique objective is that, that the product becomes worse.
++1 for the Hedberg.
That assumes that the US system's success has been due especially to the laws and not to other factors. The question is, which factors had how much effect?
> Masters degrees are cash cows, which is why no one in unregulated industries cares about them.

So, uh, is Business Administration a regulated industry?
I’m eating at a Panda Express right now. They have a big sign up offering $15.6/hr for their lowest level hire, with other positions open, too.
> Crafting commits is hard if one wants perfect commits and most of us don't have time to do that.

I can agree with the first part, because in my current job we do it. Some more than others, but it's recommended. Throwing some naturally grown git history to review is making the life of the reviewer hard. Doesn't matter whether you belong to those who make a lot of WIP commits because you are paranoid of losing some idea or whether you only commit once when everything is ready, because you are shy of showing your trial and error mess.

Probably you are also correct that most people don't invest the time to do it. That's why there is more bad code on the planet than good. It's hacked together hastily and not reviewed properly because the history is not reviewer-friendly.

I'm sure in some organizations quality work is not tolerated because "we don't have the time".
And if you felt like passing it down your family tree, the number of people would have multiplied by an order of magnitude, diluting the share each grandchild ends up with.
So, like, stop using Edge. Firefox doesn't do this crap! At some point, it's the fault of the person choosing the tool that's known to be made by an actor so bad they conceived Windows 10.