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I've played almost 25 years, including some professional.

To answer you... I don't come up with fingering. I just do what my hands do. The fingerings in printed music are guidelines for pedagogy.

Honestly I'm not even sure I explicitly practice fingering. It's just repetition. I frequently think I change it though.

That being said as someone whos played so long it's like an extension of my arm, don't take my word for it. Experts are notoriously bad at explaining their techniques. I do think it's just practice though. No secret
It doesn't seem like much of a mystery if you simply don't use euphemisms like "redistribution". Poor people are accustomed to working and are serious about getting and keeping whatever they have earned. If they were OK with getting income without working by using force against others, they'd just be thieves, wouldn't they? If you asked thieves, I think you might find they're in favor of redistribution.
As a Russian, this is the reason I can’t support Snowden or take him seriously.

He keeps his trap shut about our suffering or plays softball at best which effectively makes him a great weapon in FSB/Russian oligarch hands and a RT mouthpiece.
See the video @ 28:51: https://youtu.be/v1m-WEZz46U?t=1731

It's such a shame, but "Kernel" and "Oh" sort of drives home the fact that good ideas also need good marketing to propagate. "Oh!" is also a poster child for "videos suck for searchability and discoverability--post a transcript and your slides."

It's particularly bad with "Oh" because he has some truly nifty hacks. The pipeline that is reconfiguring itself as a filter while it's filtering is stunning. The "Transmit the code in one place and execute it in another" is also clever.

The thing that dragged me to Kernel was that I needed a small language to be able to debug embedded systems on the fly. So, the interpreter couldn't be hamstrung and I never had a compile step available. I needed both small code and small data.

Kernel, the idea, fits the bill. Kernel, the implementations, for some reason all really obscure the point for reasons I'm not particularly clear on.

Maybe once I've got it all clear in my head, I'll try to do an implementation in Rust. That should help keep things clean since you can't rely on "metacircular" tricks to implement things.
Men are also more likely to commit other forms of fraud—and crimes more generally. It seems like the simpler explanation is that men are just less likely to follow the rules than women. Note that this can also be a good thing: men were less likely than women to follow instruction in the Milgram experiment.
> And I’m not saying the “center” is the best position either.

We shall see.
Also, On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth, by de Jouvenel.
Based on comments, yes there are apps & JS/CSS hacks that I can do. But I rather not install another app on my phone, I too would really appreciate a dark mode.
> Content is either in an endless scroll or it's only accessible through a search box and you have absolutely no idea whether the site doesn't have the content you wanted or if you just failed to use the correct terms.

What alternatives or solutions do you envision for search? How would you build a content heavy site in a way that gives a user confidence when searching for something?

> Now your only option is a web page with embedded pictures which may as well be a paper encyclopedia entry, or a video that may or may not offer you any useful way to navigate it aside from jumping around at random and most certainly doesn't give you rich annotations throughout.

Maybe I'm mentally blocked in thinking of the era of flash intros and marquee tags, but do you have any examples of sites that achieved what you're describing?

Were the annotations created by the site owner or by the community?
“Approximately 75%–88% of excess deaths were directly associated with COVID-19. Excluding deaths directly associated with COVID-19, an estimated 63,700–162,400 more persons than expected died from other causes.”

The numbers you want are out there - many in the report I linked. (The preceding quote is from it as well.)

I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to attach a, what, dollar amount loss or amount of appropriate grieving to each person’s death.
> > In 1985, the average 30 year mortgage interest rate was 13.5%.

> the point is that even after just 10 years you could've changed your interest rate to be just a third.

That is not true.

A third of 13.5% would be 4.5%. Mortgage interest didn't dip to those levels until around 2011-2012, by the time that 1985 mortgage would've just about paid off.

Ten years after 1985 interest was still around 7.8%

OP makes a great point in that one can't compare the price of a home from the past without looking at what the monthly payment would've been given the (often very high) interest rates of the time.
Of course raving panic is bad.

What you are describing is not the result of normalcy bias, it is an actual adaptive response.

Normalcy bias is receiving information of a very serious threat and still holding an unfounded disbelief in the consequences of, or optimism about the results, and so NOT taking adaptive action.

Normalcy bias is what makes people keep on eating dinner while a fire is visible at the side of the conference room or dance floor. Or, in your case, just not feeling the need to leave the plane quickly...

I suppose that given a choice of everyone else having normalcy bias or panic, I'd choose normalcy bias, as that way a raving crowd won't get in my way as I rapidly head for the exit, but beyond that selfish motive, I'd rather have more people respond adaptively and not die.

(& um, don't grab your bags as you head for the exit windows and slides — that's a sort of different normalcy bias, as if you are leaving the plane normally.)
>but did not find much about the topic of motivation within it.

Agreed, this is much more of a "What to do to write once you have the motivation". That's not to say it's not a useful article, but perhaps a bit misdirected by the title.

> Is lack of interest a solvable problem?

That is an interesting question. One that I also find my self faced with regularly(and solving the general issue of motivation in general). I'm more into the fictional/creative side of writing, bit I think that general "motivation" issue is the same. I know I want to write. I consider writing a good use of my time, but I have trouble getting myself to sit down and a spend significant amount of time writing. I know for me specifically there's some degree of depression that suppresses my motivation to do anything, but even between those episodes, I do find it more difficult to actually motivate myself to write.

I've thought about this a lot and have come across two separate issues. One, is that trying to create something "new" in the world presents a challenge in of it self, whether its technical or creative. It's something I run into even when I'm working on something technical for work. For me at least, this is the easier barrier to overcome because I do enjoy the challenge when I'm in a state of mind to rise to the challenge. And that state of mind brings me to the the second issue, and that is the catalyst of the motivation. For professional/technical work that catalyst is essentially and external force (i.e. I need to work to make money and live), but for personal projects there's not that external catalyst. When I was younger I always had motivation for personal projects and my daughter spends all of her free time drawing(and she's very good at it). So I wonder if spending all of your "creative juices" at work(and despite people always creating barriers between technical and creative work, I think they may fulfill/tap similar parts of the brain) is the real barrier. The author of the article even mentions that he's done this since leaving Uber. I would be interested in seeing any statistics that correlated marginally successful authors(in any format) with the really successful ones to see of the marginal ones were more productive with putting out content because they needed too versus the super successful ones that had a major hit or two and are basically set for life.
I've been very pleased with Microsoft efforts of late: Visual Studio Code is indeed a remarkable tool, and their dotNET infrastructure can support productive environments on many platforms, even if they cannot decide how to actually build apps; the "Windows Everywhere" versus "Applications Everywhere" religious war proceeds apace...
Did people really want one big website or were they railroaded into it by a handful of big corporations that stood to benefit from it?
"How many bytes does a float have?" is a bad question to ask. Languages may implement floats differently. If someone asks "how many bytes does an ieee 754 double-precision floating-point have?" then sure, answer 8 bytes. But "how many bytes does a float have?" is precisely a question that should be further defined.
Oh come on. Google is never going to have an incentive to do better if we just excuse them for their bad behaviour, especially in cases like this where claiming any equivalence is simply ludicrous. One must be wilfully ignorant to act as though their ambitions are "orthogonal" to other browsers purely due to their own faults.

Google did not have to publicly ship their pre-standard experimental "v0" web components implementation so early in Chrome. They chose to do so regardless of what other browser vendors expressed.

Likewise they did not have to make YouTube use them so soon, thus forcing other browsers to rely on a polyfill that could not feasibly be made remotely performant compared to just implementing web components more quickly, wink wink.

They chose to do these things the way they did. They wanted to ship it on their timeline, and to hell with what other browsers wanted to spend time on first instead. They wanted to look like they were heroes for pushing the web forward, while in reality they were just holding other vendors and APIs back to get the one they valued the most done first, no matter how much of a mess they caused in the process (the transition from v0 to v1 was hardly quick or painless). And that's just web components.

When is the last time you saw Firefox ship such a major web API in such a non-final and un-vetted state, and then use one of the largest web properties on Earth to get others to prioritize it as they wished? Or even Apple, for that matter?

It's flat out ridiculous to try equating the vendors in this manner. They don't have the market dominance or even the same force of apologists burying the lede on their bad behaviour.

I'm sure the other browsers also have their own Project Fugus underway too, where they're just shipping a slurry of new APIs regardless of whether anyone else will ever implement them? Or is that the others' fault somehow too, because they should also be trying to fragment the web as much as possible as quickly as possible?

If we collectively just want Chromium to be the only engine because we value rapidly iterating on new APIs more than anything, then let's at least be honest about it.
I doubt the number matters so much that it is negative. If you put in a few minutes to write a reasoned, thoughtful and informative reply and the groupmind instantly -50's it for no discernible reason, that's a really good signal that investing time in that community is a poor decision.

Reddit used to have informal rules against downvoting those you disagree with because it lowers the caliber of participants on their forum. I guess they don't enforce it any more.
Indeed, only absolute losers would run old games and apps that use OpenGL, when there are new shiny ones.
New Orleans shoeshine man wins legal battle over $30k seized by DEA agents - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29039307 - Oct 2021 (69 comments)
I'm not sure how this can be done, but remove location association from IP. It annoys me to no end that google changes the language based on my location rather than my preference (sometimes with no obvious way to fix it). It would also stop the annoying country restrictions on websites.
In Russia they have state controlled media. In America, media controls you!

Fixed it for you.
Neocities for me is like picking up a game I used to love as a child. There are about 20 minutes of "OMG yes, this is what I have been wanting" and then you very quickly get bored and realize there isn't actually very much special or desirable about this old stuff. It was so great back then because it was new and novel. Once it stops being something to explore and be surprised by, the value is gone.
> "information you never act on is useless information."

Sometimes the act of processing information is useful in itself, as a mental exercise. It's not just about training your eyes, it's about keeping the gears oiled.
> First, you are literally just repeating the claim without taking into account whether this was 78 year old dying one year earlier

Research the meaning of "excess deaths".
I wish you great luck and success; thought I'd share my experience as a former math teacher.

I made the jump from math teacher to software developer a bit over 11 years ago (and I've been a few other things before that). I put my projects on my resume and any work I could cite. A recruiter saw my tech-only resume and sent me on some interviews (this was the first I ever heard of recruiters). My skill set was php, mysql, js/jquery, html, css. I flubbed a couple interviews and landed at an early start up making more than I had been making as a teacher. I so happened to engineer 12 at at company, that later went public and was then acquired. It's been an awesome and wild ride.
I just love text because it's ready to consume at my own pace. I can glance through the sections that don't interest me, skip the parts I already know, I can slow during the really deep parts and consider how they fit in to my situations. All in my head.

If I do that with a YouTube video, I have to constantly fast-forward and pause, and it's much harder to pick up the thread again after you've jumped a few minutes. Also, YouTubes (and the same with online courses) tend to be really slow to make sure even the slowest viewer doesn't disengage. And tend to have cutesy 'funny' bits to keep people 'interested'.

I have nothing against people that enjoy those things. To each their own. But I really don't work that way myself and I hate it when people impose it on me.

I just started a new job and my boss gave me a whole load of YouTube links to study and also podcasts (which I hate even more).. I really struggle wading through that kind of content :( so I proposed he just give me the topics and I research them myself.
The reality is that we have too many people on earth as compared to the amount of work that needs to get done. We can either force the extra people to do useless work, or we can tax the robots and pass on the gains to everyone. The sooner we accept that this is the inescapable future of humanity, the better off we all shall be. At the end of the day, it's our responsibility to make sure everyone has some bare minimum standard of living because life is a lottery. We can either make it supply side push or demand side pull.
Can I send a hash of some content and then get a signed response from the ntp server with a timestamp?
Past related threads:

Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20557830 - July 2019 (29 comments)

Utopian for Beginners (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17340757 - June 2018 (4 comments)

Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14049712 - April 2017 (39 comments)

Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8312842 - Sept 2014 (2 comments)

An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8180493 - Aug 2014 (106 comments)

John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5420942 - March 2013 (27 comments)

Ithkuil, an invented language (for humans) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4932205 - Dec 2012 (2 comments)
I can't help but agree. I've been playing piano since childhood too, though in a desultory, non-Conservatory way. It's been great fun reading through this comment section and seeing Piano HN, but I'm really surprised that this is the first comment that acknowledges the skub-nature [0] of the book, and that the author doesn't actually play piano but in fact armchair-QBs it via observation and discussion with his two daughters' piano teacher.

That's not to say that he doesn't have any interesting insights, but IMO this is an entirely inappropriate book for an ab initio beginner. The value of his insights comes from another perspective on piano pedagogy, but it's an untrained one; better to learn the ropes as they're commonly understood before you seek the guy who's all about an unorthodox presentation of them.

At the bare minimum, get a teacher so you can learn how to hold your hands.

[0] https://pbfcomics.com/comics/skub/
I don't know what benefit "experience" has. I've worked with plenty of people who had long careers, worked at big name companies, and went to fancy schools, and turned out to be some variety of dumb or useless. If your experience benefits you in someway I should be able to detect that in our interview - you'll give good answers to questions because you're experienced enough to know good answers, that kind of thing.

If you seem smart in the interview because of your years of experience, your natural genius, or some combination of the two, what's the difference? What I care about is that you are a smart person, not how you came by your ability. If you learned to program video games at age 8 and now have fourty years of experience or if you finished a boot camp yesterday - who cares? If you can discuss and write the programs I ask about that seems like a good signal and if not, not. I feel like I can just skip finding out about your history and not lose anything.
It has a polished and very curious UI. The problem I can see is there is not enough incentive for people to signup. The value proposition is hard to justify. So you just post a question and share a link so people will answer? How is it any better than ASK HN here or reddit?

At least you can give some social login choices to lower the entry barrier.
Native payments, video, and search
Who says it involves "phoning home"? You can use offline apps, and turn off your internet if you want. I happen to like browser based MIDI apps, but then again, I write them, so if it is "phoning home" (which it usually isn't unless I want it to) it is often to localhost. :)

Your comment could be applied to typewriters. Do you prefer the days when, if you wanted to write a book or article or something, you used a typewriter that was completely standalone? I kinda like having my "typewriter-style keyboard" connected to a computer... it opens up a ridiculous number of possibilities that you can't do with a standalone machine without a big display and a fast processor and a big hard drive. And maybe internet.... you can't exactly have Hacker News with a standalone typewriter, but you can with a keyboard that connects to a computer.

Same with a "piano-style keyboard."
This is not really related to what this author means as "good" at chess. But I found spending about 8 hours working through lessons and chess.com and Magnus Carlsen's app (I preferred the chess.com one personally), and maybe another 8 hours playing online was about what I needed to have the occasional "good game". Relatively speaking.

It was eye opening for me learning some basic strategies and tactics. Mostly controlling the center, a couple of openings, and techniques for checkmate.

Too much beyond that and most players are doing a lot of memorization and pattern recognition. Which I don't really want to do, but I am super happy I learned the basics because now chess is fun and I understand it.

I'd recommend taking lessons online if you want to learn chess. Skip many games.
Just rattling off the action movies I can immediately think of, I don’t believe any of which include a conspiracy in their plot/synopsis. The only action movie I can think of about a conspiracy is the movie Conspiracy with Mel Gibson, got any others?

- The Last Action Hero

- Robocop

- Karate Kid

- Baby Driver

- Rocky

- The Revenant

- Mad Max

- ConAir

- Terminator
One of the first things to do if you come on an emergency is to either call 911 (or insert appropriate emergency number here) yourself, or direct someone specific to do it. "You. Do you have a cell phone? Call 911." It's quite common to discover that even with a decent sized crowd around an event, nobody has actually called emergency services, because everyone assumes someone else has done it. Better to annoy the 911 operator with "Are you calling about the XYZ at the corner of A and B? Yes? Already reported, emergency services are on the way." than to have nobody contact anyone.

Humans in emergencies are weird. I absolutely agree.

And in the context of this article, were the floor buckling, I'd be making haste to get myself and everyone else who would listen out of there ASAP. Nothing good comes of this sort of progressive failure.
They're not modifying the DOM. They're loading ads from external sources which then pop into the page. I hate this too but a good adblocker solves this for 95%.

I had a discussion with a website developer recently asking why they insist on loading all these ads from external URLs. All the different loading times cause this. But he said the ad provider needs this in order to validate someone looked at the ads, they don't take the web owner's word for it.

So blame the ad industry, not the website :)
Glitch musicians would like a word.

Maybe you mean digital. As electronic toys can still be modified/screwed with.
Happy October 30th, the 60th anniversary of humans causing a blast ~ 4 times as powerful as the Tunguska Event!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
I wish I kept the references, I didn't think they would be hard to refind but they have been. This is a reference I just found that's more recent (I found the others around 2016):
https://www.qualified.io/blog/posts/truly-predictive-softwar...
Just have to say, this comment lead to one of the more unique, yet also on brand, HN threads Ive seen. Bravo.
Iceland harnesses their geothermal energy at a large scale, using it for 99% of their energy needs. It's certainly possible.

I guess the bigger problem for the US would be distribution. Is it feasible to transfer huge amounts of electricity from Wyoming to the coasts/midwest/south?
I used to work in a warehouse driving a forklift. I will take a desk job any day of the week over that hell.
I'm sure this is partially true but I don't remember it being the norm. I remember it being harder to find things (Netscape days, Altavista, etc), content embedded in Flash or jsp mess, low resolution, non interactive maps (let alone 3D), low quality audio and video 360p or worse. Dot matrix printing and just generally lower fidelity. Super slow connections requiring the phone line is totally incapacitated while using the net.

I agree that I can't find a recipe without an obnoxious amount of crap writing around it, at least it's there if I scroll far enough. Wikipedia, by the way, suffers almost none of the complaints I see here, loads extremely fast and is free (donate!).

So I guess what I'm saying is it could be better, but the Internet is pretty incredible still.
A very different situation in degree. The nobility in Hungary considered the peasants to be sub-human. This was partly because they were physically distinct from the upper classes. This, in turn, was because they didn't have enough to eat, though the nobles didn't recognize that.

Also, the high-born were free to rape and kill peasants with no repercussions.

Like I say, read the book.
Solar storm and aurora starting tonight
Third, I push mine super hard and it doesn't break a sweat with anything. Never reboot.