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The HandPan or Hangdrum is a beautiful instrument (1) When first hearing it played, we were of course surprised to learn that it is a modern invention.

Sadly the tension between ownership of the creators, and popularity with players, is not easy to resolve.

How did this pan out when Adolphe Sax invented the Saxophone in the 1840s?

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOCaxpY0s34

http://www.hangdrumsandhandpans.com/2012/09/dead-can-dance-a... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvu8JO4vm-A
US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief
FYI, since the last few years, most recent iPhones are OLED.
> I understand this wasn’t self evident for many for a long time and for many it still isn’t.

Nah, it was made very clear by very many back when, all of my friends understood my concerns clearly, I made sure they knew what was happening.

They chose not to care. I don't blame them, but I have no sympathy for them either.

I don't really have many regrets either, my life improved a lot since distancing myself from the online world.
I so wish this could become an operating system a dedicated hacker could use full-time. I think the biggest hurdle is fleshing out their web browser, which is probably the hardest thing to build and maintain in this day and age.

But my secret second wish, is that the whole UI side of SerenityOS could be ported in its entirety to Linux. Finally, for the first time in decades, a pragmatic kernel with a pragmatic user interface. I would happily ditch GNOME, KDE, Sway, i3, Wayland, Pulseaudio, pipewire, Freetype2, Network Manager and the other myriad of components of the current Linux UI stack for something designed with passion and a coherent vision.

I am thankful SerenityOS exists and Andreas is working on it full time, well done people!
The often unmentioned killer feature part of js is that you can express tree data directly*:

person={
name: "frank",
address:{
city: "Berlin ",
zip:12345
}
}

It's a different kind of "maturity" than discussed in the post, but a very important maturity nonetheless.

* (without TreeDataFactoryImplementation treeDataFactoryImplementation=TreeDataFactory.newTreeDataFactoryImplementation())
I hate with a passion the ugliness of the politicians talking about flu deaths like they are acceptable. Also annoyingly I haven’t seen one interview or press conference where someone in the press has called them out for not doing enough for people dying of the flu. Modern medicine is remarkable and if well funded and incentivised, can create marvels.

Forget about funding sports or political parties etc, they are cursory. Fund science it is enteral and truly can be always a net greater good.
Ah, the Paradox of Intolerance. Who cancels the cancellers?

It’s almost as though we should reserve cancellation for those seeking to exclude people from society.
Maybe it would be possible to design the scientifical computational tasks so that they are very similar in terms of stress for the CPU, but not completely even. You could then state that the benchmark offers comparable results with a statistical error of something like 2% +-0.5. You can also average the error by running the benchmark multiple times before you compare the score with other devices.
Maybe talking about this?
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Better skip the "non-technical":

Nix-GUI: Make NixOS usable for technical users through settings / GUI
This is what i ment. Sorry for being imprecise.

I would argue, that this is actually the goal of todays outrage culture- not to change things for the better within the legal framework of a democracy, but to keep the emotional core of a "movement" going.
An open source distributed social site, signed feeds replicated b/w pub servers
I don't think you can really reason with left-wing authoritarians. They have a lower than average verbal intelligence and authoritarian personality traits as well as a higher chance of dark triad traits (narcissism mostly but also psychopathy) according to psychology research into them.
It depends how many people are using the system. At the moment is fairly cheap so I'm not going to charge anyone anything. In the future the cost will depend on the file storage and the video/audio processing time. That's what rises the price in GCP at the moment.
That’s neat, but the most common method, steam reforming, produces CO2 gas as the byproduct. Much more difficult to store.
I think you have to be careful about this. Reality isn't a single variable problem. It is a complex multivariate system. You are reducing a group of people to an unreasonable caricature that isn't really representative of reality.

If you want to change the world for the better, you have to engage with them. The process can be slow and painful, but there is no progress without engagement. This also means cancelling them is a horrible idea. You want these discussions in the open. Over time some of them learn about the errors in their thinking and move on to take more reasonable positions.

That does NOT happen by saying things like "stupid and very awful people who learned just enough in college to sound reasonable and thoughtful". That, frankly, is elitist and condescending. If you think you are so smart, figure out a way to help them. Hint: You can't help people if the conversation starts with: You are stupid. I don't want to hear what you have to say. I don't want to talk to you.

Sure, you don't have to talk to every single one of them, but, if your goal is to be the smart one in the room and help make a better society, you have to embrace them in order to have a shot at educating them.

I am an atheist and find religion to be mostly ridiculous. I have had Born Again Christian friends shouting at me at the top of their lungs to convince me to accept Jesus or my entire family would be damned (etc., etc.). Did I walk away from them? No way. We remained friends and had interesting conversations over many years. No, I did not turn anyone, but I guarantee you I made them think about reality in a different way.

Respect goes both ways and has to be the foundation of positive and constructive relationships. One one occasion, when my business was doing badly in the 2008 economic downturn, a couple of them asked if they could pray over me as we went into a trade show where we were exhibiting to try to get some business. My response? "Yes. Thank you. It would be an honor". Why did I say that as an atheist? Because, as much as I do not believe one angstrom of what they stand for, their offer came from nothing but love and caring for my situation. What kind of an asshole would refuse that? Live and let live. And teach whenever possible.
If there's one "conspiracy theory" I'm inclined to believe is that Microsoft deliberately makes every other Windows version subpar to the previous in order to make the market (that has the memory of a goldfish) applaud the follow-up for... going back to what to how things used to be with a few tweaks in between.

It's like they thought that keep improving on the things they work would make them hit a ceiling so instead of steadily climb they take one step back to delay the climb.

And the reason why I think it's deliberate is because none of their other products follows that pattern: Azure faces fierce competition so you cannot afford to stumble, C# is amazing compared to Java at least, Office has alternatives breathing on their back, VS Code... used to have competition but now that it's super popular I'm scared it'll be the next product to follow the "Windows progression pattern".
Except that nobody is trying to silence flat-earthers, or 9/11 “truthers”, or moon-landing deniers, because we all know they’re nuts. They are trying to silence vaccine skeptics… which just makes me wonder if there’s something there worth paying attention to.
PoW works because showing a correctly mined block, ie one with a nonce that satisfies the many-initial-zeroes hash, proves that you on average (you can be short term lucky) have a used a certain amount of computing power.

It proves it because with the selected algorithm, there's no known shortcut to just doing a load of hashes, so if you found one it means you did a lot of hashing.

What problem would you insert instead that had the same properties?

We should also not forget that it gets harder and harder for the same benefit. Any amount of energy can be poured into a PoW system. Invent fusion, use it all in crypto.
Has or had? Singularity's last release was more than 10 years ago predating Windows 7 perhaps the most acclaimed OS release Microsoft had.
The author exactly says this "two engineers with the same experience".

I'm sure there are engineers that can create an architecture 10x better than mine.

But show me someone that can create UI 10x faster and I'll admit they're a God.

Some things can't be 10xed after some point. It just takes work.

Some things can be 10xed and some just can't. I find it silly to think someone can be overall 10xer at everything.
I think the case of Fabrice Bellard is one where working on building the tools instead of the product gives you a way bigger reach. For example, if you're doing webshit react in a company, if you spend time automating the testing infrastructure instead of producing yet another feature, you'll have a disproportionated impact compared to the person that worked on the feature. Of course Fabrice Bellard is still way better than the average developer, by a very large margin. But you can improve your "output" without getting better, just by picking the right problems.
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The article states that the problem is with the dogs retinas though, not the brain. Even blindsight wouldn’t work. I’m guessing the dog can hear where nearby objects are, based on how sounds of footsteps bounce around.
I don't disagree with your premise (as a libertarian)

But re:

> I don't see any way to cancel Twitter mobs that doesn't itself uphold cancel culture and destroy liberty.

You'll see many people here are suggesting that we just don't listen to the "mob". That would be a way to "cancel" them that is completely compatible with liberty.
But they don’t want it to be only owned by the wealthy! They said it themselves, so it must be true. The fact that there selling an item in high demand and trying to ensure there’s almost no supply plus to have to jump through expensive hoops to buy it, won’t result in a scalper’s marketplace. No siree.
Amazing how the what's become the "standard" is the worse possible design, ergonomically speaking. Was it Apple's doing?
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Absolutely not. Crime/violence are taking something from someone. Firing/uninviting are deciding not to trade with someone.
The other argument against the EU directive isn't about now, it's about what happens in 5, 10 years, when our technology has progressed, but the directive still specifies USB-C.
I must admit, if there was a guy giving a lecture at my institution, and I was informed that he had made a Third Reich comparison while talking about admissions criteria, I'd be pretty opposed to the lecture going on. At the same time, I don't like the idea of succumbing to an online mob of sorts.

It seems like MIT is thinking kind of like a business here.

And perhaps that's the bigger problem – not only are campuses are becoming more like big businesses, but they are big businesses. So they tend to act more like businesses then intellectual centers of speech and thought.

Edit: After reading the letter linked in another thread [1], the support for my understanding of this as an action against "stuff that's bad for business" seems to be strengthened. To quote:

> The Carlson Lecture is not a standard scientific talk for fellow scientists. It is an outreach event, open to the public, with a speaker who is an outstanding scientist and role model. Typically held at a major venue away from campus, it is geared to build public understanding of and appreciation for climate science, and to inspire young people to consider careers in STEM. Each year students from local high schools are invited...while all of us can agree that Professor Abbot has the freedom to speak as he chooses on any subject, the department leadership concluded that the debate over both his views on diversity, equity, and inclusion and manner of presenting them were overshadowing the purpose and spirit of the Carlson Lecture.

Translation: We don't someone who compares DEI efforts to their Third Reich as our public spokesperson.

As someone who is pretty much never invited to be a public spokesperson for various reasons like physical appearance et cetera, I am A-okay with this.

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[1] https://orgchart.mit.edu/node/6/letters_to_community/importa...
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I've got a Logitech G403, which has a little button just behind the scroll wheel that you can program to behave as the middle button. It's not positioned very well for chording, but for middle clicks and middle drags I've found it fine. Certainly much more comfortable than any scroll wheel.
Ah yes, cancel those who want to cancel the intolerant.

It does help to think of tolerance as a peace treaty.
Sure, it's silly. Yet, how do you improve their intellectual standing in life if you ignore them? If you ignore a problem it does not tend to get better on its own. It grows (like that damn leak under our kitchen sink I have been ignoring for weeks).
I am not convinced of their compatibility, as I explained in my sibling post to yours. I think free will of an agent means the choice is determined by the agent's state, because as a materialist I think your state and 'you' are the same thing. I am my state. Any choice that does not principally depend on my state is not my choice, because I am not the cause of it.
It doesn’t seem like the same as what I mentioned in the post. Also, if any company came to me and said they offered subscription based charging/battery switching in 2011, I’d have laughed them off as well. If I remember correctly the only plug-in cars to be found on the road were Prius and Chevy Volt. Both having the ability to fill up the tank for the road trip.

The market is ripe now with almost all major manufacturers adding electro cars to their line-up. I see this as an opportunity for these car manufacturers to easily compete with the ICE cars and capture the market because an EV with just 100 mile range can easily compete in price against the mass market ICE cars. I saw a Hyundai Ioniq 5 on a promo the other day, and boy does it cost > 50k EUR while essentially falling in VW Golf’s category.
I edited a little bit in to tie it back to the vaccine thing while you were posting your comment. Those lines might address your comment.
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> the majority of people also hold this view

His argument is strengthened by, but doesn’t rely on, that fact.
There’s clearly a line somewhere, otherwise there’s no point in speech (if it cannot be used to influence others in even the smallest of ways).

While I don’t think MIT made the best call here, I think that Twitter users (mobs or otherwise) should be free to ask MIT to do this. I would have preferred that MIT had professionally yet firmly declined as the controversy is unrelated to the topic. (IMO, they’d be wise to avoid having a flat-Earther present at an EAPS event, but that’s not the analog here.)
Sorry, but I don't agree with this. I did this platform for myself because (a) I have a podcast and (b) I share somehow often articles and coding tips. For the podcast I stopped doing it because it took me lot of time just to prepare an episode and publish it on all the social networks. With the blogging is the same. I write the article but then I have to spend 30 mins writing posts and running email campaigns. Also most of the readers of my blog are from the states so I had to stay till late in the evening to post stuff. I'm very glad that this is now automated.
Sorry, I'll repeat myself with the comment below:

Sorry, but I don't agree with this. I did this platform for myself because (a) I have a podcast and (b) I share somehow often articles and coding tips. For the podcast I stopped doing it because it took me lot of time just to prepare an episode and publish it on all the social networks. With the blogging is the same. I write the article but then I have to spend 30 mins writing posts and running email campaigns. Also most of the readers of my blog are from the states so I had to stay till late in the evening to post stuff. I'm very glad that this is now automated.
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This is antivax propaganda.
Unfortunately that last point is not strictly true so long as the mob can get their hands on the list of 24 people and then badger them to each make a public condemnation of the speaker or be assumed to be a wrongthinkist like the speaker, and hence one of those who voted incorrectly. So you'd better hope that the other 10 will stand strong and not out the 14 wronguns in their mix.
Sure thing. But I always give reasons. That stuff builds trust.

Even silly things like "hey I'm tired and feeling down, gonna take a couple of days off" builds a lot of rapport.

And unless you're dealing with a huge asshole of a boss, it's never a problem. And if it is, you'd get warned so you can leave faster.
> > The term NoSQL is meaningless. It only means that a database is not SQL (d'oh) but people (such as the author of the article) use it as if it meant anything beyond that. […]

> Except that it does not. It does mean „Not Only SQL“, and not „no SQL“.

That's a (silly, IMO) retronym. "No SQL" means literally no SQL in English, and that's all the original "NoSQL" DB evangelism meant, too. Later, as they found their paradigm more or less sucks, the proponents retrofitted -- more or less hastily, frantically, or desperately -- SQL to it.

The original dBase and Paradox formats were also databases, and didn't have SQL: They were the canonical "NoSQL" databases. Are you claiming they're now somehow "Not Only SQL"?
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You have the option not to buy the product.

I'm not taking an absolutist stance on this, I think there's scope for regulation of how accounts can or cannot be used and privacy protection of user data. I just don't think eliminating online accounts is practical.
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Yes, nothing is foolproof, but badgering 24 people is quite a lot of work. One of the reason why Twitter mobs are so efficient is that they can concentrate on a single target or two without too much effort.

Edit: also, the show where all 24 people ritually condemn the person while everyone fully knows that 14 of them voted "yea" would be absurd enough to make some people think twice.
I’ve heard it said that “The best form of government is an absolute monarchy. The worst form of government is an absolute monarchy.”

It depends -entirely- on the monarch.

I’m not sure I buy the premise of the article, but I also don’t have a viable alternative, which, in many communities, means that my opinion is worthless.

I just got finished watching -yet another- documentary on WWII, and was struck by how so many of the reasons for the start of the war, were because a very few individuals had poorly peer-reviewed, anecdotally-tested philosophies, that they nonetheless were successful in making mainstream, by sheer force of personality (and arms).

"The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake."

"There's always an easy solution to every human problem; Neat, plausible and wrong."

-H. L. Mencken
Not exactly but you can use it to say "as time goes by" or "it's time for isolation" (in the context of covid for example). It doesn't describe an instant in time but a period.
For trust busting:

I'd break out FAANG's advertising operations. Prohibit conflicts of interest, fraud.

I sorta expected the online advertising bubble to pop, mooting the need for remedy. But somehow it keeps not popping.

Set some threshold. Reach a certain size and your ops get divided up. Spitballing: $10m annual revenue, 100k monthly visitors, whatever. So indies like daringfireball can continue to do their own thing.
Right, and it allows for arguments of functions and destructurizers to be undefined for default and null for null. Absent and empty are really different concepts. These being merged, separate, implicit or explicit, all may be hard to manage, but at least in the case of (undefined & null) it is a most uncrippled value system. JSON also got it right, allowing null but not undefined. At the end of the day all that matters is a programmer’s convenience. Corner cases exist everywhere.

With all flaws of js, this is where it shines:

var t = undefined
var u = {b:1}
var {a=42, b=true} = {undefined, …t, …u}
// a==42, b==1

Another related issue with Lua is:

table.insert(t, string.gsub(s, “1”, “2”))
-- happy debugging

It is full of these little design decisions that put your feet to danger not any less than others.
Ding ding ding, I think you hit the head of all the nails there.

I don't use Discord for anything serious but it's just very convenient to join any Discord group with a single click since I'm already logged in there.

I think we need to put aside the security practices of Discord (it's not like the discussions tend to be sensitive in any way), because I'm not aware of anything that comes close in ease of setup and user onboarding, at this point. Setting up Zulip or Mattermost, paying for hosting and then managing it all is quite a hassle in comparison.
I just looked at a HN comments dataset, for May 2018.

Empirically the number of commenters, c, needed to "start x%" of conversation is sqrt(c) %. So 144 commenters gets you 12% of "conversations started".

Where I define that as there being 144 commenters whose comments are the parents of >=12% of all comments.

At 2500 commenters, 50% of all conversations are accounted for, etc.

Note, this is just an empirical formula for 0 to 3k commenters on this dataset, ie., its just very close to sqrt(c) for this range. The general formula will be different, but approximated by sqrt(c) within a small range.
The only way to dampen the toxic impact of social media’s radical vocal minority on the real world is to create tools that help decision makers easily contrast what they are seeing there with overall sentiment in the real world. In this case, 74% of Americans agree with the views that got this speech canceled. Had administrators been able to instantly see this fact when they saw all the angry tweets, perhaps they would have realized that the uproar they were seeing online was incongruous with the views of people in the real world.

I wrote and run a DeFi arbitrage bot for a living. There are hundreds of thousands of “pair” contracts to trade given coins through. The prices in different pairs for the same coin can vary wildly, as pairs only see their own balances, and can thus only make pricing decisions based on the rules and information within their own little silo. Arbitrage bots like mine make a profit by quickly balancing coin ratios among all pairs, which ultimately lowers the risk that a retail trader will pay an outlandish price for a given coin from a given pair.

We need the equivalent of arbitrage bots that can help balance the views of radicals on social media with those in the real world. They have tried this with fact checking, but unfortunately that, too, has been weaponized by biased actors. There has to be a better way that is provably unbiased.
The article was significantly more nuanced than that. Not only did it discuss a range of solutions, it also went into some detail about the narrow focus on tech as the source of problems, rather than a symptom of broader economic, cultural, and political trends. Which Facebook aids and abets to pad their bottom line, of course, but isn’t solely responsible for the world’s ills.