skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The next level of explanation is to say: “Yes, I recognize that D-sharp and E-flat sound the same, but they function differently, and the spelling communicates this functional difference.” This explanation always bothered me, because if the “function” is limited to the page and isn’t audible, then is it even a real thing?

A feature of notated music (which is what most of us mean when we say "[western] classical music") is that there can be things notated and not heard. Similarly, there are also different notations which correspond to the same sound. Notation is ambiguous, and this can be a source of both frustration (for the students) and invention (for the composers). Charles Rosen opens his book The Romantic Generation with a fascinating discussion about music which is seen and not heard which deals with this philosophical issue.

Of course this practice goes back much further. Composers have been playing with notation for a long time and it reached a peak of sophistication in the 15th century, as Emily Zazulia demonstrated in her PhD thesis and book[1]. This quality is obviously absent in musical cultures which do not rely on notation. I imagine to the outsider it appears as if the notation itself has taken on a life of its own to the detriment of the sounding music. Of course there is a certain elitism involved as well since explaining subtleties in notation is also a sure way of ostentatiously demonstrating one's erudition, which may explain why these kind of discussions are perennially popular here ;).

[1] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/where-sight-meets-so...
What should we learn from this?

Don’t make yourself a single point of failure. Always have at least two people who have admin access on things. Have emails go to a distribution list of at least 2, not to a single individual.

The only news here is not actually news. It’s the same way that organizations have been shooting themselves in the foot for decades.

We have learned nothing.
Yeah, but I think this is also captured under the complexity trade off. It is possible create a correct safe interface over an unsafe data structure, but it is complex to do so.
None that I'm aware of.

Tuning your orchestra high was sort of the 19th century equivalent of the modern loudness war. The problem is that orchestras tuning to ever higher pitches meant that singers had to sing higher to match, and it was putting serious strain on their voices, which can easily lead to injuries.

Having some sort of agreement setting a standard was just something of an "enough is enough" sort of moment. It just amuses me to no end that this was achieved by writing it into the Treaty of Versailles, of all things. We're settling a freaking world war, so let's make sure we settle the issue of orchestra pitch as part of the treaty.
I think this one you can blame on the French.
> in some countries there are monetary incentives associated with publishing in the top journals.

Meaning the authors get paid the more they publish?

How? Per paper or career advancements-->> higher salary?
The metaphorical theft is from the people who have had uncompensated costs imposed on them, such as the people that were killed in Myanmar after their killers organized on Facebook.
Tangential: I’ve seen Authy recommended around (including in an Ars Technica article about 2FA), but never understood why linking a phone number (subject to SIM jacking or other kinds of loss) was preferred or even thought of as a decent idea. Using 2FA for security but choosing SMS OTP as the authentication for the 2FA provider seems…weird.

There are many other apps that provide syncing (the accounts and seeds) across devices without needing a phone number and SMS OTP authentication. There your threats are primarily your phone and what service is used for the sync.
Could there be any unintended consequences here?
Believe in a religion that postulates an infinite life after the current one. If you're right, big win: you're going to have all the time you want; of not, by the time you know you don't care any more.
Everything.

The missed opportunities of not sharing is way greater than any misuse of the information.
If I'm going to Walmart.com, giving my credit card information to Walmart, on a page with Walmart's logo prominently displayed, then it feels more like a business relation with Walmart that they subcontract out. Like if I buy a t-shirt from a dropseller, and it's defective, I can take it up with the dropseller and don't need to argue with the manufacturer.

Granted, a similar argument could be made about eBay, so I think history plays a huge role. When Walmart puts up a marketplace for 3rd-parties without clearly disclaiming it as being from not-Walmart, Walmart's history and reputation as a direct seller customers lets a reasonable customer conclude that they are buying it directly from Walmart. eBay was never a seller themselves, and doesn't have Walmart's reputation, so products listed on eBay don't cause the same customer confusion.
It's interesting; half the replies here say there will be a bot rush. The other half say GoDaddy will auction it off. Which is it?
At a previous company, we had strong feedback from sales that prospects thought our legacy, cash-cow product looked old and outdated. They were right, and those first impressions are hard to shake. We lost deals (in part) because of design.

We did a minor design update in a beta release that introduced ~30% more vertical padding in lists. Beta testers (long-time customers) hated it. They were pros. They could not only handle the density, but the density enabled key workflows that the additional padding broke.

We ended up making the whitespace preference-controlled. Defaulted to on for new users; defaulted to off for existing users. Solved the sales problem while keeping our long-time customers happy.

For infrequently-used tools, especially transactional ones (e.g., Google Maps), additional whitespace seems to improve legibility, usability, and ultimately engagement. For power-user tools like GitHub in which users spend hours of their time every week, I want to see an industry shift "back" to denser UIs. Power users can handle them and typically benefit from them greatly.
Yes, but how has formatting fixed it? It wrote something I the partition table that corrected the issue?
I let my natural curiosity guide me. I used to beat myself up about not being one of those people who have a singular purpose, someone who focuses deeply in one area, but found solace in Susan Fowler's blog post:

"All of the really great people of the past and of the present always have some singular destiny. Somehow they know exactly what they love, they find it when they're young, and they spend their entire lives doing that one thing. Their destiny, their singular passion becomes their entire life, and they love every minute of it. It's their calling, it's what they were born to do, and it's beautiful."

...

"People tell me I can't do all the things I want to do, and they are of course wrong, because I can and I do and I will. But I still can't ever reach my greatest, deepest, most secret goal, the goal I left off that list: to have a singular passion. Maybe that's ok. Maybe my life will always be about running toward that unattainable goal, trying and loving everything I find along the way. And maybe at the end, when I have to give an account of my life, I'll say that I never was anything, but I was everything."

Source: https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/5/21/life-without-a-d...
If new things to be expert in proliferate faster than you can become an expert then life-span extension will not work. You would need to duplicate yourself each time there is a new thing you want to pursue. One you would be a concert violinist and the other you could cure the common cold.
Numpad removal is similar. I'm a heavy CAD/spreadsheet user and I cannot live without a numpad, which is by far the fastest way to input numbers. Most DIY builds, its the first thing to be removed.
Why would they do anything? They're still making their buck on every sale.
I was about to write about 80% of what you wrote, so Im glad I parsed the comments first (and GIMP & Krita were going to be my examples, as well as the AWS-ification of things like Elastic) but to me the real crux is "open source as a whole sucks at building products, but is great at building infrastructure".
Derive-Type: Generate TypeScript Definitions Based on Invocations
Hi, Here's a small project to generate TypeScript definitions based on JavaScript function invocations. Here's a video showcasing it: https://youtu.be/gdz_X0b5SnM
I think that one's mostly just to put in that link to their(?) list of best SSDs, probably full of referral links and paraphrased Amazon descriptions...
Look at this user for example, he was posting for a year and guess what, for a year of posting, all of his submissions are dead, without him knowing, only the first 9 submissions from 2021 that are visible, only 9 from ~58 and he keeps posting because he don't know that his submissions are not visible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=alkeshghorpade.me - https://i.imgur.com/Ely4AfP.png

I don't think this is right
I recommend you play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex_(video_game)
I am fine with hyperlinks and useful inline images/attachments in e-mail. I don't like or want the "web page but over e-mail" but having rich text or hypertext can be very useful.
That's true, up to a point. That's what the .link registry says.

It also says Domain Status: autoRenewPeriod

.link is a modern gTLD, so its policies are set by ICANN†. ICANN registry policy says the domain automatically enters "autoRenewPeriod" status, it renews for a period (typically one year). But for a few weeks in this status the registrar (GoDaddy in this case) can delete the entry, signifying they don't want to actually renew it, and they aren't billed for renewal. So this lets them offer a "grace period" where eth.link doesn't work but when the subscriber notices hey my DNS entry doesn't work, they're told they can renew (possibly with an extra fee for late payment). GoDaddy also, as I understand it, uses the last few days of the ICANN policy window to run auctions, since you didn't renew but they have say on whether the name is deleted, the auction winner gets to just pay $$$ to have your name.

† Some older gTLS have their own policies, and the ccTLDs since they are operated by or on behalf of sovereign entities, well, sovereign entities have armies and stuff, they're not inclined to listen to a bureaucrat about what they can or cannot do, so they set their own policies, making your own rules is sort of the point of being a sovereign entity.
Most of the cables I've purchased always list the max resolution, so if a cable says 4k@60hz I would assume it's HBR2
Exactly.

I had a lot of driver pass me quite aggressively (while I was going at speed limit or maybe 1-2 kph less) only to stop at red lights in 300 meters or park near a grocery store in 400 meters. I cannot understand their thinking, if this kind of road rage can have any thinking behind it at all. Those milliseconds saved likely mean a lot to them.

The winter is coming, and at least here in Europe all signs are that energy — be it gasoline or diesel or electricity — are going to be quite expensive. For any kind of vehicle out there, the only practical way to save fuel is to drive smoothly, in a relaxed way, without sudden acceleration/deceleration, and not at all at highway speeds.

As far as I know, no type of commercially sold vehicle has its optimum speed for maximising range close to highway speeds. Maybe it’s not true about some sport vehicles produced in dozen units total.

Could as well just relax and save money, too.
Instead of a flagging system ranking the credibility of papers once for everyone, can we have a system where each user decides which other users they trust to evaluate papers, and ignore any signal from untrusted users?

For example, I could L1 trust people to evaluate papers and the trustworthiness of other users, and L2 trust others only to evaluate the trustworthiness of papers. If I notice a spurious signal getting in, I can find out who it came from and prune my list of trusted users.

I imagine I'm not the first to think of this. Anyone know of reading material on the topic?
The "your" part of that is the problem. Other people are not in a position to know what my requirements are, so telling me what my app does or doesn't need comes off as arrogant. The anti-k8s crowd always talks as though the only reason anyone would choose k8s is that they're brainwashed by the hype. It's never possible that a team actually weighed all of their constraints and made a rational choice.
This question could be best answered by Daniel dang, hn @ ycombinator.com. The automated scoring and flagging algorithm's are not publicly available AFAIK.
That reminds me when I learned how blind people use the screen reader, the setting for the voice can be at an incredibly fast speed, where the words turn into "bits" of sound.

I know people who watch YouTube videos like that, and my brain cannot process spoken words so fast.

It also reminds me of hip hop, some of those raps are like a machine gun of words that overload the brain.

It's probably about personal preferences in "modes of thinking", visual, verbal, auditory, etc. I much prefer to read something than to watch a video or listen to audio, and can consume information the quickest.
You can just write the email in the Contact link at the bottom of the page with questions to the mods. And the reason for not telling the poster that a link is dead is that they will just try to circumvent the block immediately.
Inadvertently accurate advice, perhaps?
I can see the gaming pass schemes thrive if game streaming services to cheap hardware improve.

Of course, that would raise the question of why we would then need dedicated vendor-locked consoles...
Container to build is nice in CI pipelines, then you don't need msbuild installed on CI runners.
If gimp copied photoshops interface there would no be question it's a replacement for 99% of use cases. Unfortunately, Adobe owns that. Along with IP for many other features. Repeal software patents and software intellectual property, and we will have competition.
Yes, thanks a lot! What a fail by me.

Unfortunately I cannot add it anymore
That’s not really fair. At the moment we communicate and read json in text, so formatting the text to be human-readable and reasonably arranged often (although not always) matters.
The drive controller lied.
"if GIMP hadn't been so resistant to input from artists and designers, Krita wouldn't need to exist at all"

Thats not far off at all actually.
Hetzner anti-crypto policies: A wake-up call for Ethereum’s future
United States. Biden and Congress are just using "Ukraine Aid" as money for special interests (read corruption) and funding the military industrial complex as arms dealers.
She does apply it to the big bang as well. She says that it's just the simplest explanation we have and that it's probably wrong too.
Northern China was systematically destroyed after Tang dynasty. The population declined ever since.
From the guidelines:

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

The non-dead posts got two total upvotes.
You can't be an expert in many things.

Be an expert in one thing + know a little of more other things
For working with JSON from terminal recommend: https://fx.wtf
> I want to be able to win arguments.

The easier route to this is to talk loudly and confidently until the other person gives up.
Four Thousand Weeks is a good book that touches on this. It begins with the premise that most people have infinite desires, and all people have finite time, and it's unlikely you will accomplish even 1% of all of your dreams in your finite life. It then talks about how that's okay, because what we choose to spend our time and attention on is what makes us unique and interesting, and explores some ways to prioritize the things that are most important to youm so that you actually do those things.
Amazon doesn't even take down products that give kids lead poisoning. If a foreign nation had imposed Amazon upon us, we'd consider it an act of war.
thanks for the pointer! As ten-thousands before me I just had the epiphany that phones need to be more like Apple-IIs or a web-inspector, where you drop to a development environment / shell to edit and create your own apps
Hah, reminds me of an old Married with Children episode where Al Bundy is going to the cable provider's customer service office to buy access to a Pay-Per-View event, and, after going through a lot of hassle, is asked for his ID, which he doesn't have on him.

I don't remember exactly what happened after, but my immediate reaction was, "lol what? Why do they care about whether this is really Al? At worst, it just means some random benefactor is paying their own money so Al gets to see the PPV."

(IIRC he was paying cash too so there wasn't even an issue of CC fraud.)
> my brain cannot process spoken words that fast

Not at first. This is something that people train themselves to do gradually. For me it didn't take very long to get to 3x playback speed for audiobooks, which untrained people usually find incomprehensible, but I started out much slower and then increased the speed a little every day because I wanted to be able to listen to more books.
Hi!

yes, I started with something very niche and specific, but my plan is to extend this into composing / generating the PDF from scratch.
What components would you need for your documents?
They probably changed the partition table to say that the partition is 8GB. No complex firmware shenanigans needed. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record. Tools like fdisk will allow you to “hack” it in 10 seconds.

When you reparationed your OS probably read the true disk size (correctly reported by firmware) and made a brand new partition table, partition and file system on top of it.
What's the lease for a gas car? What's the term? There's a mention of $6,000 subsidy a car costing up to $47,000.

Is this an actual plan or a campaign promise? I can't see this being feasible without some other details
You have to minimize the customer returns in the first 30 days. Sending a brick gets lots of immediate returns and probably the device pulled from the shop.

Making it look like it mostly works, enough to pass a 5-minute “is this a scam?” test probably even gets some legitimate users to write a 5-star “I can’t believe it’s true, but it is!” review.
Yes, I know they are entirely passive.

That’s why the source and sink need to determine the maximum rate literally based on trial and error.

The source tries a link speed (and other parameters such as drive strength and pre-emphasis), the sink reports back home many symbol errors it detected. Rinse repeat until a stable configuration is found.

For marginal connections that’s often not sufficient. After the introduction of DSC, DP has mandatory support for Reed-Solomon forward error correction, which is a great help in fixing occasional error burst. It can be enabled when DSC is off, but I don’t know that happens in practice.
> Melamine was once illegally added to baby formula in China, in order to increase the apparent protein content. Ingestion of melamine may lead to reproductive damage, or bladder or kidney stones, and bladder cancer. It is also an irritant when inhaled or in contact with the skin or eyes.

> Surplus melamine has been an adulterant for feedstock and milk in mainland China for several years now because it can make diluted or poor quality material appear to be higher in protein content by elevating the total nitrogen content detected by some simple protein tests. Actions taken in 2008 by the Government of China have reduced the practice of adulteration, with the goal of eliminating it. As a result of the Chinese milk scandal, court trials began in December 2008 for six people involved in adding melamine in food products, ending in January 2009 with two of the convicts being sentenced to death and executed.

Wow. Did people know it was harmful when doing this, or did we discover it was because of it?
> I saw Solana and thought, okay so it is possible to build a scalable cryptocurrency, but then again, the culture of speculation and excessive amounts of volatility make cryptocurrency useless for payments.

Solana, Stellar and Algorand makes it usable and possible for scalable crypto payments with USDC. I just tried it, swapped it and it works well.
Flash drives with hacked firmware to pretend to be bigger capacity than they were (along with other evildoing, like counterfeits targeting people paying a premium to get Sandisk quality) were already rampant on eBay IIRC 15+ years ago.

I was still seething over some of the storage ones when, a few years ago, I joined an anti-counterfeiting startup. (Sadly, our successful MVP launch integrated into a high-end factory production line happened just as Covid was breaking out, which spooked our flagship customer, and impacted followthrough we needed, then we ran out of runway while pivoting.)

As a consumer, I can imagine a lot of things that the marketplaces like Amazon.com and Walmart.com could do to improve trustworthiness. I don't know whether those make business sense. I'd love to see consumers reward a marketplace that conspicuously kept out the scammers.

Ideally, the solution would protect integrity of all brands, not only house brands.
What does "After eth.link was renewed, GoDaddy decided to ‘re-expire’ the domain" mean?
Every generation deserves a fuckedcompany.com or two.
Starlink is providing broadband internet to more than half a million customers. That’s a product.

Everywhere except the southeast US is available now: https://www.starlink.com/map

Even in that region you can buy the RV product which is deprioritized but maybe better than some peoples’ alternatives.
Yes I was hoping that he was announcing a collaboration with others with similar problems. One of the things that leads to this kind of abuse is industry dominance, and one of the things that encourages industry dominance is that average consumers don't want to have to think about more than a couple of places to go to get their content. A collaboration of those who have been bitten by audible would be much better than each of them doing their own thing.
The author’s use of Git versus Google Docs’ version history (which I find is excellent for tracking and annotating collaborative changes across a document) hinges on his claim that GDocs history is too complicated. He does not substantiate this claim; indeed, his use of Git seems extremely convoluted and complicated relative to GDocs.
The owner isn’t incapacitated. He has a lawyer who can decide what happens with the domain!

These sorts of disputes happen all the time. They don’t generally resolve with “contractor signs with counterparty’s name on new contracts in perpetuity.”
I've read other analysis, the key point is ancient China always had an excessive working force problem, why inventing machines when your slave labor can work just fine? Things got worse when corns & potatos were introduced to China. A married couple can reallocate to really remote places and raise a family easily. There's no motivation to farming for larger margins. Silk and tea were much more lucrative business. Farming was scattered and limited to core-family scale. Tech advancements never caught on.