skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In absolute terms, the internet has many many more people now than it did in the early days. If you want to create a small quirky community, you only need a tiny fraction of those people to sign up. So in theory the modern day could be a Cambrian explosion of tiny communities. Is this the case? If not why not? Maybe there are a lot of them hiding and they fear eternal september? I can think of a few but maybe I shouldn't be linking them...
I don’t see anything but I am thinking of a four legged table of a brown color similar to one in my childhood.
Oh, you might be right.

I downloaded the book a long time ago as a PDF from somewhere. It also included this sentence and it stuck out to me because it was so weird. The rest of the tone of the book felt in the same style to me so I never second guessed it, but you might be correct.
Yes, I thought so as well! I had to Google it to come back.
> As you learn the measure, increase speed, but only so much that you can still play expressively.

This summary omits one of the major themes of the book. Granted, the discussion of speed is quite nuanced. See 1.II.13: https://fundamentals-of-piano-practice.readthedocs.io/chapte...

One relevant excerpt, though large chunks of the book are dedicated to this topic:

> To vary the speed, first get up to some manageable “maximum speed” at which you can play accurately. Then go faster (using parallel sets, etc., if necessary), and take note of how the playing needs to be changed (don’t worry if you are not playing accurately at this point because you are not repeating it many times). Then use that motion and play at the previous “maximum accurate speed”. It should now be noticeably easier. Practice at this speed for a while, then try slower speeds to make sure that you are completely relaxed and absolutely accurate. Then repeat the whole procedure. In this way, you ratchet up the speed in manageable jumps and work on each needed skill separately.
Of course it is, part of gTLD https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strin...
We agree on the substance of the issue. But that's not the language I'd use.

Telling people they're not welcome to pet the dog isn't an allowance, it's management.

Making allowances, to me, would mean simply permitting a behavior you otherwise wouldn't, and actually allowing the dog to practice the behavior instead of managing the environment to prevent the behavior. People who simply do nothing about a small dog who snaps, growls, bites because 'he's harmless, he couldn't hurt anyone if he wanted to', for example, I would say are 'making allowances'.
You were trying to be helpful so thank you, I do appreciate it and agree this Chicago story is quite horrific. I'm totally with you there.

But an example of a police department in one city run by one corrupt political party is not proof of the claim that any agency that does such a thing is a "believable policing agency"? Nor of the claim that this is "basically an universal trait of such agencies"?

I know there are policing agencies that behave poorly, the poster in this thread talking about NCIS gave another anecdote of it happening. That's not what I was questioning.
I think that's a fine way to characterize nostalgia, but it seems like a needlessly reductive, even perhaps dismissive, way to respond to the author's point of view. I think there are plenty of reasons to dislike the direction the Web has taken since its inception, and many of them are more substantial than just nostalgia for times past.
I, too, would like to read an article on how to facilitate pair programming
I was on the Internet before it was cool.
I should clarify one thing about "making money":

You would think you could play at rehearsals for a community theater group. Those are really low budget organizations and a lot of the staff doesn't even get paid. The rehearsal pianist got paid $50 for the entire show.

Even that guy is way better than most of us will ever be.
We just added a few sample templates (https://stack55.com/samples/) that I thought you might find interesting. They are fully customizable.
Yes, it took me too long to realize this too... so I immediately told my kids this is the reason for all of the exercises they have to do. When they approach it from the perspective of its purpose, then they take the time to learn it rather than just trying to finish it.
I have been a serious chess player for over 20 years.

Improvement in chess is not directly proportional to the number of games played - that is one factor. Amateur park players and hustlers rack up many hundreds of games per week, and thousands per year, but are usually beaten by masters who have played fewer games for shorter periods of time. Botvinnik famously recommended that a professional chess player should only play 80 tournament games a year and leave himself/herself time to think about chess.

Improvement is a function of directed study of chess : analysing one's games with the aim of eliminating weaknesses in one's play, becoming familiar with common patterns (and anti-patterns) of strategy and tactics, learning the fundamentals (and advanced aspects) of openings, middle games and endings, and conquering psychological barriers.

I say this because we need to take this into account as we study perfomance else we get skewed results.
One of the virtues of this very website is its text-heavy design.
Make the actual protocol for HTTP always be TLS, always port 443. Insecure HTTP is just self-signed.
I’d make sessions independent of IP addresses. So that as I move between wifi, fixed and mobile networks, my sessions would remain active even as my interface addresses change.
No, some things really were just that much better back in the day. Gaming for example, is now a science and extracting as much attention as possible from the equation. Every interaction, every button press, every design choice is made to get your dollars and grab your attention for as long as possible. Watch a few years worth of GDC top talks to get sick to your stomach.
There’s probably a stronger correlation with age and free time, here, than with the television channel.
This begs the question: what happened to Russia?
That seems to be Web-specific, not general to the Internert as a whole.
At least if you use Google or Cloudflare, you won't suffer from DNS hijack, whereas your ISP, would.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking
In the UK, I have found Black Cabs to be superior to any taxi system anywhere else in the world, at least any of the places I’ve been to. I mean, the sheer determination it takes to go through “The Knowledge” is just breathtaking. You really have to be committed to the job in order to do that.

In the US, I’ve used rental limos on several occasions, including ExecuCar and BlackLane. They’ve both been great — not a single bad experience there. But there’s a huge leap downward from that to the “black car” service from companies like Uber.

I’ve had occasion to use regular car service from Uber and Lyft, and between the two I think Lyft is better to their drivers and their customers. But that’s like saying one pile of poo is better than another pile of poo, because it stinks less.

I haven’t had any really horrible experiences from either Lyft or Uber, and I have had some really good ones. But it’s a lot more hit and miss. I think they might be better than your average taxi, but only in some places. In others, I suspect your average taxi will still be better.

I do prefer to use local co-op transportation services instead of either Uber or Lyft — like RideAustin here in Austin, TX. I’ll use RideAustin over Lyft or Uber any day of the week.
Performance, specifically making requests as parallel as possible.

Does it really need to take 5 seconds to load a website whose contents total 500kB on a 100Mbit/s connection with a 6-core CPU?
Just beings a devils advocate for a second - People exposing personal details to the public can be very bad and make them victims of untold numbers of what should be crimes. We know this from just the data and privacy nightmare unfolding before us. It's normal to romanticism the past, but there's a certain comfort in security with less of clear open blogs.
Yes, I did. Nowhere does it say that. If you want to get a point of reference for what heroin might look like if it wasn't a street drug, oxycodone is quite similar yet distributed without the additives found on the street since it is manufactured by big pharma. Still, it is associated with respiratory depression.
I used to take lessons, very classical with a skilled teacher, had my own digital piano at home; but couldn't find the motivation to practice.

Several years later I bought a cheap 49-key midi keyboard and fired up YouTube, still going and improving every day.

Just do it, really; sit down and learn how to play something you like, your way.
Just a thought experiment: but could we have designed better protocols to not need companies like Google (search) and Facebook (social network)...

For example: a public index service (akin to DNS) where all pages upload all hyperlinks they were using. The end result is a massive graph that you can do PageRank on. You'd have to add some protections to avoid it getting gamed...

Email was the first decentralized social network and with it came bulletin board services and groups. Could these concepts have been developed a bit further or been a bit more user friendly while remaining decentralized?
Was that true before Service Pack 2? I suppose SP2 was still 6 months before Tiger in any case.
Why is it possible to turn Sealed System Volume off? Is there a way that malware might be able to turn it off?
I'm interested to see your sources that indicate the chemical weapons attack was faked.
While I deeply disagree (go look at Facebook and tell me with a straight face that a real name policy fixes spam), I truly appreciate you actually saying that under your real name; the number of times I've seen anonymous posters arguing against anonymity...
SF2 ... forget it. SFZ can do this sort of thing already, as can Kontakt format and also Decent Sampler.

SF2 is dead. It was never capable enough as a format to deal with what really needed to be dealt with. It is a quintessentially dated technology, and unless your requirements for sample libraries are very limited ("make a gong-type sound when I hit middle C"), SF2 is not for you.
>outside agitators might have fanned the flames

This was absolutely the case, as clip after clip showed umbrella man and others performing and inciting vandalism and chaos. Meanwhile, actual protestors were pleading with them to stop or directly intervening to stop them.

In each case, the instigators were young, white and frequently dressed in all black. Early arrestees matched this description and were frequently from out of town.

There was absolutely an infiltration/false flag operation. It amazes me how little this has been covered and how successful they were at establishing their narrative, even while so obvious.

Likewise, I'm amazed by how "Antifa" magically materializes at such opportune times for driving certain political narratives, then disappears again, yet there's very little questioning as to who these anonymous people really are. Instead, media and others just accept that they are who they say and assign them to a political "side".
Some publishers basically do this. For example, Manning will ship you a $12 printed copy of any digital book you own. They also currently offer a printed copy for +$6 if you buy at the time of purchase. (Similarly, Springer offers a $25 printed copy of any book your university library owns.)

That said, I'm not sure this is a great idea for an independent seller (as considerate it may be). One reason for buying a cheap paperback is that it is resalable, while a digital copy is not. So this may make the used copies much less expensive, undercutting sales.

I'm curious what the author's opinion is on new editions! Is it considerate to have the customer purchase a new book, although it may be largely similar?
Not to mention that there are multiple schools of thought on fingering. I'm a 1-2-4 player, likewise on double bass.
Seems like a petty distinction when you realize that the US, in one year, accumulated more Covid-related deaths than all of World War 2, and is now approaching the total deaths from the Civil War.
> O’yë aitkánz lo’lsöspa kšänhëi’lujmu ih Jonkihada.

> ‘The chief clown, John Quijada, is engaged in constructing a new language for the good of everyone.’

(Quijada likes to use clowns in his examples, don’t ask me why)

I would like to recommend looking into the most recent script proposal at [0], especially if someone is inclined toward calligraphy.

In my humble opinion the script for Ithkuil III and the current proposal adapted from it are both together a work of art in itself.

[0]: https://ithkuil.place/4/archive/script/script-v0.3.5-2019-11...
Working in a building site under sun and rain is not fun. And it is dangerous.

My father had a blast in a farm, because he is the boss and the manual work he has done is symbolic.

Swinging a machete (blade) under rain and sun for days on end is not fun, I can tell you from experience.

I only hear the opinion manual labor is "better" from some people who have never known any alternative, politicians who won't have to do any, or desk workers who can afford doing some manual "work" when feeling like it.

Any work you don't like will be tagged as bad, but I personally took the desk bad alternative over the manual labor alternative.

Manual labor is so bad that you have to import immigrants to do it. You could truly argue the wages are lower. I will elaborate realistic higher wages aren't enticing enough to get more nationals to embrace that work. That is happening in England right now, by the way.
This was interesting to me. I played chess seriously for about 4 years and gained about 400 Elo points. Apparently that's rather above the expectations for an "ordinary" person!

I spent around 1000 hours practicing chess during that time, 3/4ths of which was spent on tactics training (writeup here: https://blog.waleedkhan.name/hours-invested-vs-percentile-ra...). I'm guessing that's a significant differentiating factor, and that the majority of players only spent time playing games.

Of course, you can't tell from the Lichess data in the post how much time was spent practicing via not playing. And I would argue that 250 hours per year, like I accomplished, is not actually that much.
It's usually not too hard to figure out a fingering that works. Just don't do anything that feels really bizarre or involves stretching in a weird way. As you get into harder music you have to have an open mind -- it's not unheard of to do weird finger-crossing (like having a scale end with 4-5-4) or playing a line with some of the notes covered by both hands or crossing hands. But for the most part it only takes a few seconds to find a natural way to play any particular passage.
are you a professional jazz pianist? there is more to jazz than pitches... theres time, vocab, rhythm, tone, etc etc which are the things you work on your whole life lol. and then theres the whole issue of playing with other people
This is why I love using Gentoo. I'll sometimes see bug fixes hours after they are made.
How is that different from the existing ntp infrastructure, which already supports encryption, integrity, and stratum one time servers?
I think the biggest issue is the majority of internet users don't want to join small communities, just one website or app that has all their friends and family. Aside from this, the cost of making a big (the main goal of every social network is go big or go home) social network is increasing as "big" gets bigger and safety requirements get harder to meet.
It's a proxy indicator for a certain character of website. As well as a direct indicator of the content itself.
DNS itself is certainly problematic.

Incorporating a time dimension to domains, such that it's explicitly recognised, and greatly restricting transfers, would be one element.

Ownership of domains should sit with the registrant, not the registrar.

Characterspace should be explicitly restricted to 7-byte ASCII to avoid homoglyph attacks. It's not a shrine to cultural affirmation, it's a globally-utilised indexing system, and as such is inherently a pidgen.

Other obvious pain points:

- BGP / routing

- Identity, authentication, integrity, and trust. This includes anonymity and repudiation. Either pole of singular authentication or total anonymity seems quite problematic.

- Security. It shouldn't have been permitted to be baked on.

- Protocol extensibility. Standards are good, but they can be stifling, and a tool for control. Much of the worst of the current Internet reflects both these problems.

- Lack of true public advocacy. It's deeply ironic that the most extensive and universal communications platform ever devised is controlled by a small handful of interests, none answerable to the public.

- More address space. IPv6 is a problematic answer.

- Better support for small-player participation. Servers are still highly dependent on persistence and major infrastructure. A much more robust peered / mesh / distributed protocol set that could be utilised without deep expertise ... well, it might not make things better, but we'd have a different problem-set than we face presently.

- Explicit public funding model for content, and a ban or very heavy tax on most advertising.

- A much keener, skeptical, and pessimistic early analysis of the interactions of media and society.
This is really cool, and probably deserves its own HN submission :)
Maybe. I think automobiles is better because preventing driving prevents automobile deaths, so there is a pretty reasonable case to make that it is a necessary and sufficient measure to end deaths from car crashes. Pretty hard to rebut the automobile analogy, isn't it?

Gun violence is illegal and quite significantly committed with illegally obtained guns and particularly pistols. So banning or increasing legal controls on rifles (for example) would not be an evidence based policy for reducing the largest sources of gun violence. Unless you are drawing parallels with the relatively low effectiveness of vaccines, but even then I don't think vaccines are quite that bad :)
What's especially painful is that this isn't actually an inherent problem, just a shortcoming in tooling. If WordPress had defaulted to generating static HTML as its output, even just as a preferred caching method that was enabled by default, you would have basically solved this problem.
This sounds like an absolutely hysterical reaction to someone pointing out the effects of watching CNN who have been pursuing a narrative intended to make people scared. As evidenced by polling in September that showed that Democrats significantly overestimated the danger of COVID.

It's hilarious that people like you will underplay the issue of misinformation when it's disseminated about COVID when there has been no single bigger political issue in the world for the past 2 years. Restrictions put in place are not costless and have real impact on people's lives.

As for your laundry list of crazed conspiracy theories, I have a hard time believing that Fox News has been publishing them. So they don't seem analogous to results of CNN coverage. They sound far more like the sort of thing that propagates from 4chan into social media. Regardless, they can't be that common as you have also said they intend to massacre their opponents. Seeing as we're 10 months into the Biden presidency you'd think we'd have started seeing these massacres by now. Maybe they're like the next Jan 6th the FBI is always warning against, always another month away.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-misinformation-is-dis...
Hand size, too. I have big fuckin' hands, and I can comfortably manage chords in eg Chopin pieces that my (small, female) piano teachers had to roll. Conversely, they could more easily do some of the arpeggiation that I'd almost literally fat-finger at non-practice tempo.

I'll also add my anecdata to the parent's thoughts on quantization of fingerings to tempos. I like ragtime, and I've grown to notice that playing it properly (that is, slowly, as Joplin is always going on about in the margins) often requires what is essentially more difficult fingering than that which is required to play it quickly (that is, the !!FUN!! way). Someone in another subthread mentioned having to physically model the arm and hand. I think that's essentially correct.

>You must first access the corpus of data on fingerings. AFAICT that is an oral history passed among piano teachers.

At the risk of a vague digression, I'd also like to point out the difficulty the parent had in extracting exactly what their hand was doing outside of the context of "sitting in front of a piano, playing the notes in question". The whole point of fingerings being added to a difficult section -- whether by the publisher or the performer -- is to aid the speedy automatization of that difficult section, with the aim of converting it into an uncontroversially straightforward section, like those in the rest of the piece that don't need fingerings. The best piano teacher I ever had, when working out fingerings for a difficult unlabelled section, would play it slowly a few times while looking at, and thinking about, her finger position. Then, she'd try to play it at as close to full speed as she could, and observe what her hand was doing. That is, leverage the automatization that fingerings are supposed to supplement. It's not just piano teacher oral histories one should ought to digitize, it's also piano teacher premotor cortices!
Would redesign BGP with more resistance to Byzantine actors. Not so much because many folks announce routes maliciously (though that definitely) happens but because people always manage to screw it up accidentally.

Make it easier and more equitable to obtain addresses and ASNs.

Build protocol to make edge/cloud computing more fungible. Similar to folding@home but more flexible and taking into account networj connectivity rather than just CPU cycles. Probably looks a lot like Cloudflare Workers/Sandstorm but no vendor lockin.

DNSSEC only. TLS only for HTTP/consumer facing web.

Actually on the topic of that probably something simpler than TLS to replace TLS. It has too many features. x509 can stay but the protocol needs reworking for simplicity.
Certainly for some people. But for many who are on the web professionally, it can be hard to separate professional and personal identities. And especially once people are public in other ways, such as by owning homes and, at least until recently (sometimes) having a landline, it doesn't take a private investigator to link some facts about someone to a great deal of information--at least some of which is often public by law.

A great deal of the mainstream Internet was not anonymous/pseudonymous.
> Uh.... drilling horizontally into the caldera isn't going to set off an eruption.

No one said drilling horizontally was going to set off an eruption. Indeed, they said the opposite: it could relieve pressure and prevent an eruption.

> Doing that is actually beyond human technology.

Many people -- indeed, here, NASA/JPL/Caltech and the article author-- think it's reasonably possible to extract a lot of energy from Yellowstone without much ecological impact, and perhaps to an extent that would delay the inevitable eruption.