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A few interesting pieces of information on the publishing industry, as shared in this trial and article:

On profits:

> PRH’s Dohle said that the top 4 per cent of his books produce 60 per cent of his profit. The best books, he says, are the ones “that you don’t pay a lot for and become runaway bestsellers.” He excuses the fact that so few of his big bets pay by comparing himself to a venture capitalist. The book industry, he says, is “the Silicon Valley of media.”

On marketing:

> The big houses are skeptical about book marketing. One publisher said, “I don’t think marketing money can create a success,” it can only amplify or extend a success. That may be true but the big houses, we also heard, are not really trying. They spend little on marketing: roughly 2 per cent of expected revenue per book. (…) Some agents ask publishers to guarantee how much they will spend on marketing a book before they’ll sign. Most won’t.

On advances:

> about 70 per cent of all the money paid on advances by the Big Five goes to $250,000-plus books. Judge Pan asked if $250,000-plus books comprise 70 per cent of Big Five book sales. The answer was no, not even close.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4631027
Some historical context about Brazilian independence (1822).

In 1807, United Kingdom prohibited slave trade in their colonies and pressed Portugal (that had very close relationship with UK) to do the same.

But Brazilian economy depended on slave labor. And land owners weren't having it.

Dom Pedro I declared the independence to calm down the the elite while keeping the country under Portugal influence -- the newly independent country was a monarchy with an imperator from the Portuguese Royal family.

Thanks to him and his son, Brazil was the last country to abolish slavery.

But hey, at least the country didn't break into many small nations. And avoided wars. So in the end it was good I guess \s.
It might seem like domination but its just the biggest field. The pie is huge, everybody needs CMS. So everybody eats and if you focus on one segment it might see like its domination.

I would say if anything every other website now is Webflow. Every shop is Shopify. And highest quality CMSes are commercial products like Craft CMS or Kirby CMS. So serious projects often grab those instead of OSS offerings.
There is some basic information that is very wrong in this article. For example:

"My track is tuned in a system called five-limit just intonation via the magic of MTS-ESP. It’s the basis for all the tuning systems used in Western Europe between about 1500 and 1900."

No - at no point in the last 500 years was 5-limit just intonation ever the predominant tuning system used anywhere in Western Europe. The real predominant tuning system was called "meantone temperament," to which this article sadly devotes only about 3 words - and those words are only about 12 tone meantone keyboard layouts, not about the bigger, abstract idea of meantone temperament in general as it was understood and taught by practitioners of the day.

There is a very important difference between meantone and just intonation. The goal of meantone was to have four tempered perfect fifths (approximately a 3/2 frequency ratio) add together to approximate the fifth harmonic (or a 5/1 frequency ratio). Thus, the major third from the circle of fifths would approximate a 5/4 ratio with the tonic, and the major chord would approximate a very crunchy sounding 4:5:6 ratio. In order to do this, fifths are all flattened slightly to make the tradeoff - flattening the fifths by 1/4 of a "syntonic comma" was typical, or "quarter-comma meantone". Even though keyboard instruments evolved in a more well-tempered direction, meantone was the way that teachers of the common practice era (such as Leopold Mozart) still taught and thought about this stuff.

Meantone sounds noticeably different from just intonation, where the major third from the circle of fifths is a syntonic comma sharp of a 5/4 ratio (about 22 cents). In just intonation, if you want your major chords to be 4:5:6, you need to bring in this other, different, independent 5/4 major third that is not on the circle of fifths. As a result, certain chord progressions that are common in Western music will tend to exhibit strange sounding "comma drifts" if you play them in just intonation. Adam Neely has a good video on "Benedetti's Puzzle" about this for those who are interested.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with just intonation, and comma shifts can sound interesting if you want to deliberately use them in some kind of modern microtonal setting, but it simply isn't the tuning historically used in common practice Western music.

Anyway, though, if you go through the article with a marker and replace all instances of "just intonation" with "meantone," the general idea is mostly correct.
Proposal to add equal() method to String class in JavaScript
This doesn't make sense. Buffalo are not predators of any sort and were not threatened much by other animals.
Could you elaborate on why that higher interest rate is unfair?
> Being such succesful products, all of these taken together probably generate sufficient income to cover Google's Ad business...

Assuming this post is sarcasm, Are we really going to criticise Google Search for not being profitable?

Google has an ad business because of these products, not seperate to them.
Outside of comment responding, I struggle to write anything of length that's meaningful and informative.

So far I've skimmed this guide, but I've bookmarked it for reference. I really want to improve my online writing, so I'll take whatever advice I can get.
It's the same note, but musicians are anoraks. I know because I used to be one.
Wiktionary [0] disagrees with you, the plural has the "v".

[0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/leaf
Biological structure emerge from scaling models to 250M protein sequences
It wouldn't be a pure chinese chestnut it would be a partial hybrid. someone such as yourself would not easily be able to tell
There is some effort being put towards that but I don't think they have had any success yet.
More: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1301249648053551104
Huh…can I get a source on this that delves into it more? I played the cello in an orchestra, solos, and chamber music for about 10 years growing up and I’ve literally never heard anyone mention I or anyone else should’ve been putting my finger in a slightly different place for C# and Db. I suspect this is for all intents and purposes not true in the 21st century.
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Porkbun and Cloudflare are the best and cheap
"Lots" is not necessarily "enough".

Does SF have only a few dozen "poop disasters" a day? The language in this thread suggests the number is higher and the nature is worse than your language would imply, but I wouldn't know as I've only been a tourist there.

Even if "lots" was enough, how much did you earn doing that job? I don't know American politics beyond Team Red vs. Team Blue, are American cities willing to pay for enough cleaners?
Decline? Maybe, but cloud computing is surely bringing it back.
A PWM LED constant-current driver with one-wire bus protocol. Would one only need 2 conductors, for combined power and digital control.
Or more likely they just didn't have the genetic diversity.
By that kind of logic, D# in the key of G# should indeed sound different than D# in the key of C# or B, depending on the temperament.
Also, the dictatorship making the trains run on time was a lie.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/loco-motive/
I like mechanical keyboards but like you I like silence also when I’m not wearing my noise cancelling ear phones.

Sound comes from the upstroke and the downstroke of the switches and echoes throughout the case.

If you or anyone reading this comment would like to build a near silent board I would suggest getting some Silent Alpaca switches or U4 Silent Tactile switches with switch films applied. Make sure to use all the sound dampening mods available (foam/tape mod/polyfill etc) to deaden any echo inside the case you are using. Avoiding cases that have a lot of echo will help also. Plug the back of the stabilisers with generous amounts of Krytox 205g0 and straighten the wires.

If you do the above the barely audible sound signature of the keyboard will resemble the soft pitter patter of rain.
$ dict leaf | head -5
8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

Leaf \Leaf\ (l[=e]f), n.; pl. {Leaves} (l[=e]vz). [OE. leef,
He most likely got exhausted very quickly and couldn't recover because he kept pushing. So he was actually riding pretty slow for the rest of the ride.

Endurance athletes know well that one has to start slow, warm up and get to cruising speed in order to achieve good times. Sprinting does not work.

Edit: actually, starting running was enlightening for me. I realized that, as for running, one has to work at 70% of their capacity most of the time and get ample recovery time to really improve. Then one can be effortlessly good and nice to work with.

Scrum talks a lot about "sprint" but, somehow, recovery time was lost in the analogy. Sprinters actually rest far longer than they run.
The distinctions between D-sharp and E-flat only make sense in the context of a key.

For instance, you construct a major key in E-flat and not D-sharp for the practical need to represent the scale nicely on the staff - so each tone in the scale should have a unique place in the staff.

You can construct the E-flat major scale with just three flat tones (Eb F G Ab Bb C D), whereas you would need four sharp and two double-sharp(!) tones if you started with D# (D# E# F## G# A# B# C##). And having to use F## and C## to refer to G and D tones is just ugly.

(I had made a mistake in the earlier version of this comment.)
Wouldn't change much
I don't think that's fair; it was clear from the post you challenged that the criticism was about lack of new ideas and commentary especially that countering safe narratives.

The poster responded with plenty of examples which you've dismissed with the unfortunate "goalposts" remark.
Yup, we are using it in FlyCode and it works great.
I was on the main road, decent clear weather etc with oncoming traffic on the other side when a car pulled out of the junction just ahead, blocking my path. Insane to swerve into oncoming traffic and so I just braced myself and braked like hell. The worst part was lying on the other side of the car and hearing the poor girl in the car. Her mum had time to register but she was just happily thinking of school when 200 pounds of middle-aged lycra tries to come through the windscreen.

So society has not really saved. Apart from the boring monetary losses like bike and car damage and lost working hours, there is my physical recovery / therapy, ambulances being unavailable for something serious and worse that poor kid needs years of ... something ... therapy?
> It won’t happen overnight, it will start out as a poor alternative, but slowly growing to become the robust and cheap (in fact, free!) solution that everyone uses.

I'm not sure about that: plenty of people/orgs are okay with using software that someone else will be responsible for running and managing and therefore won't be interested in self-hosted offerings (though one could feasibly argue that there could be managed open source offerings).

In my org, I offered to help with self-hosted Mattermost/Rocket.Chat or another chat solution, since that would allow for a centralized platform for all of the company developers to get in touch and organically self-organize into interest groups, thus easing the friction of communication.

And yet, nobody was interested in setting aside the resources for an instance and getting everyone on board, so the plan never materialized, even though I also run my own instances for personal projects etc. So in the end people stuck around on multiple distributed Skype/Slack/Teams and possibly other chat solutions, it all being a bit too fragmented and sometimes there even being message history limits to deal with.
“Forced to buy”?

You understand what “addictive substances” means , right? Your solution to protecting a population from being hooked on drugs is . . . Give them more and without restriction?

Sometimes the naïveté in the tech community amazes me.
It doesn't need to be a utopia.

Apartheid regimes or extreme poverty lead to gated compounds for the rich with depressing predictability.

Toilets that exclude the poor are great for ensuring the rich have access to nice private toilets. Doesn't help those who can't afford the subscription fee.
The problem is you are incorrect. The deeper your knowledge of music theory, and the more experience you have with a capella choir music or certain instruments where they can be played differently, The more apparent this will become.

Trying to sing a D# in a B major chord the same way you would a Eb in a C minor won't be a great experience.

Most of the adjustments will happen automatically if you listen to your fellow singers and have experience. But they do happen.
What do NLP researchers believe? Results of the NLP community metasurvey [pdf]
So the CIA made up a movement and then the FBI infiltrated those CIA-run movements? Huh?

You should look up what such terms mean first.
You can use parenthesis with YAML though. It’s just not a common idiom.
A strange and beautiful place. I was last there in 2007, I think it was, but I first visited as a kid in 1987. Cappadocia is one of my favorite places on earth. <3
Cool. So we have these 3 public bathrooms around the city. How much do you charge to keep them clean and what is your SLA?
This is basically the premise of the oddly compelling 2019 Spanish sci-fi/horror film, The Platform. Prisoners alternately experience privilege and deprivation, and it either makes them animals or socialists. Lots of food for thought, as it were.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Platform_(film)
So. I don't know if it's a samba thing, an ubuntu thing, a gnome thing, or yet another thing. But accessing smb folders with a large amount of files is waaaay slower with Ubuntu than with windows. Also: will we ever get thumbnails?
The same thing which transfers electricity from a distant nuclear reactor to your home can also transfer it from a distant solar panel.

This means that two different houses each with PV can support each other when one is sunny and the other cloudy.

In principle that would scale to the world; in practice that's the domain of politics rather than technology, and politics may push for one of many other solutions.
Am I the only one who prefers the most pleb membrane keyboards over anything mechanical? I already type super quickly on, say, a 2015 MacBook Pro, a default 2010 Apple external KB, or a $5 Logitech. There's just enough feedback to know that I pressed the key, it takes very little force, and I can glide my fingers around really quickly. I don't even bother with cleaning cause the oiliness makes it faster if anything.

I've tried several mech keyboards. The longer key travel doesn't seem to improve speed, and I don't see how it would. Also most of them come with the concave key caps for some reason, which of course you can switch out, but I feel like any amount I spend fixing one would still result in something worse than what I already have.
I believe it is intentionally gimped because they are not allowed to make the UX too close to Photoshop(which, unfortunately happens to have the most intuitive / comfortable interface for photo editing) or else they would be sued by Adobe. Blame the horrendous interface on Adobe and their aggressive enforcement of software patents.
They might have contributed, a bit (all they did was replace income from salaries with equivalent income in unemployment money, and cover some enterprise's expenses; the only monetary difference was coming from those who used to spend a lot of money going out to bars and stuff, who couldn't anymore), but let's not kid ourselves. The main reason for the booming inflation is Russia's invasion of Ukraine and resulting boom in prices of many raw materials, including very important ones like foodstuffs and energy, which are factored in the prices of pretty much everything. I don't understand the people who are hell bent on ignoring that and pinning all the blame on monetary policy. If you really want to blame someone, blame Putin.
Their products havent changed in like a decade. Its actually getting worse, slower and buggier.

Its best photo editing software because people are so used to it its hard to move and everybody new has to learn it because its industry standard.

But photo editing is not some arcane magic like it was in 90s. Freaking photopea.com does what photoshop does often much faster in browser. Not to mention million other affinity/pixelmator/acorn native apps.
Kind of like saying that “cell” and “sell” are different words. Obviously they’re different words, even though you can’t hear the difference. Just like it’s obvious that Ab and G# are different notes, even though they may sound the same.

Ask an English speaker to interpret a text about a sails man who sales around the world and cells sell phones, at have price for any guessed who sends him a facts to his office in grease.

It’s harder to read when you use the wrong words, just like how a score is harder to read if you use the wrong notes.
This sort of comments really annoys me. Google call it's mail client gmail and everone is fine with it, kde does the same a few years before and call it's mail client kmail and people complains about the name all the time. Same thing with apple and it's i-names scheme for their hardware and software products.

I'm not sayint that the k-names are great and new kde applications try to avoid using it, but then a big company does it and has a big marketing budget, nobody minds it.
About 20-25% of that solar energy not going into your shingles or whatever now goes through an copper cable. Still a lot of energy, and if not wired correctly, that is still a risk.

The other 75% of solar energy heats up the panels themselves I guess and/or is reflected.
> I have a hard time seeing anything named "Gimp" ever becoming a great alternative for Photoshop.

Name is least of Gimp's concerns.
Backronym it to GNU/Gnome Imp, presto.

Bigger problem is they took so long to add CMYK support.
"But the real problem is Kubernetes."
Yeah, that's true. Setting up full k8s with scaling, logging, prometheus, etc. for Wordpress(real example from Acorn) - that's definitely a sign you are doing it wrong. 90% of internet websites don't need k8s at all, docker compose covers all needs at very efficient manner.
My undergraduate degree was in history from a top 10 university. Only say this to illustrate that I respect and love history. I thought I was going to become a historian. That said, the field has practical limits not faced by the hard sciences. You can’t test or prove your theories in History and many other humanities/social science. The best you can do is provide evidence that an event occurred. It’s the inherent limits of the field. How do you conclusively prove the cause of the French Revolution or the reasons the Japanese surrendered in WWII?

So how can you validate that any reinterpretation is forward progress and not just a change?
I just don't want my important files to be deleted by a kid experimenting with a computer.

Is that so strange?
You can get non american chestnut trees all throughout the united states. It's only the american one has the disease problem
oh non! mon dieu!
> Also, having to call the G tone F# is just ugly.

I presume you mean having to call the F tone E#.
But not in the main trunk.

Way back when in the 00s I did some triage to what it would take for adding nondestructive editing. It was basically a complete rewrite of the whole code base. Given that it's 20 years later and it's still not in the main trunk I'd trying to fix gimp is the lost cost falicy
Science is not a replacement for religion because science is not a moral code. It can tell you how something can be done, but not what is right or wrong to do. Attempts to develop such moral codes by reasoning from first principles turns out to be incredibly difficult and can easily lead to degenerate conclusions.

In another comment you ask what scientism is. We can define it as an attempt to turn science into religion. It retains the surface look and feel of science, but isn't science. HN has a lot of people who follow scientism - you can find them getting frustrated on any story about science asking why other people can't just Believe The Scientists like they do.
I was surprised to find out that Portugal cared.

It is election year in Brazil. The opposition has been portraying this as an example of bad taste of the president (by the way, he has has been insinuating there will be a coup on the independence day -- and it wont be shocking if he try).
But what about other editors with similar UX? Do Krita/PaintShopPro ever got hit by spurious patent claim?
Bank. Unsupported runtime. Extremely likely to not be secure.
Not a big company, but there is the Zemarmot project. One of the project members implement things in GIMP, which are needed for Zemarmot. So there are people using GIMP professionally and extending it accroding to their needs.
It's not the difference between C# or Db per se, it's a function of what note in the chord it is occupying.
Why would it be wrong to earn money selling software ?
Or why is it good that you earn less and less money for writing and publishing software ?
I don’t get it.

Working for free is the new normal ?
As a former jazz musician, I always find the classical perspective on theory interesting. This article touches on Pythagorean tuning techniques, which if you ever find yourself in front of a good a cappella choir, they’ll be tuning to the true temperament tuning scheme described here.
A fun comparison to make in the jazz world is enharmonic usage for the purpose of readability. Jazz chords are very dense and short lived compared to the very clean and predictable counterpoint found in classical music, so “correctness” doesn’t really matter as much. Most charts are sight read, so even though the band is sounding some flavor of a B chord, if you’re playing the 3rd, there’s a chance there may be a written E flat instead of a D sharp simply because E flat is a more commonly written note for horn players.
I love the implication of inverse relation between accumulation of wisdom over time and a need to get your hands dirty to accumulate that wisdom.

That is: The younger you are, the more you need to read a given book in the off chance it might teach you something new and worthwhile. The older you are, the less you need to read a given book because you probably already know whatever it contains.