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Guitarist might find three videos recently posted to classical guitarist and lutist Brandon Acker's YouTube channel interesting.

Lutes and early guitars (before around 1800) did not have metal frets. Instead they used pieces of string tied around the neck.

They did this because the strings were very expensive, with a set of strings for a lute often costing more than the rest of the lute, and strings were not as robust as more modern strings. With metal frets strings would wear out faster. You could easily end up spending more per year on strings than you had initially spent on your instrument. By making the frets of the same material as the strings they didn't need to change strings as often.

Acker and luthier M.E. Brune took a classical guitar Brune was building but had not yet put frets on and played around with putting on tied gut frets and gut strings. In the first video [1] they just go over the history of tied on frets, and do some comparisons with metal frets.

With tied on frets it is relatively easy to try tunings other than 12-TET. You can change the position of a fret, or you can add extra frets. You can also add partial frets. Renaissance lutists would often glue on small pieces of string behind or in front of a fret. The fret would give them some particular note from a sharp/flat pair, and the little mini fret, called a tastino, would give them the other note from that pair.

The second video [2] explores the tuning possibilities of tied on frets and tastinos. Acker plays a bunch of things in 12-TET and in other tunings more suitable for the particular piece, and also gives some examples of how bad other tunings can sound when you are playing a piece in a key that doesn't fit the key your instrument was tuned for.

The third video [3] is just playing around after the tied on fret experiment is over but the guitar has not yet had its metal frets installed. Acker tries to play it without frets. That turns out the be quite a mixed bag.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--y_vf-Kg-w

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiKCORN-6m8

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIQaRqr5T5U
I think behind most anti-k8s comments is the thought that these things are not needed for "your app". "Your app" is used sporadically by a very small number of people and they don't care if it is down for up to a day.
I'd LOVE to buy a split keyboard, but I can't seem to find any prebuilt that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, and soldering my own is not an option (I have some physical issues impairing my precision hand work).
What's the penalty if you make an instrument tuned to A=442? Do you get dragged to the Hague International Criminal Court?
Without the one child policy, there would be an additional 300 million people to feed. The policy is looking a lot more farsighted now.

The philosophy of infinite growth is now being tested.

There is this idea that we can just innovate our way out of every problem, but we forget, whatever problem we have is multiplied by 8 billion. That is a very challenging constraint.
$2 is a full days wage for some people in the developing world who have more interest in sorting out their own local environment over some moon shot
But there's some truth in this statement!

The "Luma" resolution is, in theory 625x625, but the "chroma" resolution is approximately 1/4 of that. That's OK, because the way our eyes work.

So "detail" remains at the 625x625 resolution, but the color information isn't that high. And our brains fill in the rest.
Most definitely.

An advantage of having open peer review system is also that this kind of attempts could be detected by tools doing automatic processing of scientific knowledge graphs generated by peer review activity.

This, coupled with verification of users, should be able to minimize the risk quite significantly.
They don't capitalise their acronyms which regularly catches me, forcing a rewind and a re-read; anyone know why not?
1. Yes, this would be against idealized free market
2. Yes, they are all against idealized free market

'Natural state of things' would only apply in the absence of all society and civilization, but since there are land owners and employers, its not a natural state but a man-made one, just like a gun. A bullet and homeless/starvation can be both deadly and/or cause severe bodily harm, just at different rates.
> Let me educate you a little bit, the US lied to the world, they promised they'd never expend NATO in Europe, they want Ukraine to join NATO and become the N'th american military base, Russia went ahead and made sure it wouldn't happen since Ukraine, the most corrupt country in Europe [1], went silence radio

You're just repeating Russian talking points. None of what you said is actually true. Russia was part of the signatories (basically they were asked if they were ok, and they OK'd it) for the formation of NATO, and that agreement didn't have any clauses on expansion. This is a fact in writing that anyone can verify. Did you know this?

As a separate matter, Putin claims Russia was promised NATO would not expand. There's two problems with this story. First is, does anyone believe that a smart guy like Putin would just take a verbal promise and not get it in writing? I wouldn't take verbal promises if I was just buying a car, let alone deciding on the future of my country. Second problem is that Gorbachev who was actually physically present, said that no such promise was ever made to Russia.

So stop spreading lies.
The US still permits slavery (as punishment for a crime):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...
Insects become airborne, slowed down to a speed the human eye can appreciate
Same problem with USB-C cables. It’s really hard to find out if it can only charge your phone, or if you can also connect a screen with it (DP).
I suspect Dijkstra made the relevant distinction in a different context: the open source process is geared to providing correct software, not pleasant software.

> The pleasantness problem deals with the question how satisfactory a system meeting a given functional specification would be; the correctness problem deals with the question whether a given system meets that functional specification. The correctness problem being an entirely technical one, the functional specification can provide strong heuristic guidance for the system designer.
Interesting you mention this as Slack was originally an acronym: Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge

Point is that it was intended as a communication stream that is recorded and indexed, so you don't need a wiki/sharepoint/notion/etc. for example. It doesn't seem to work like in practice, though
Wow, thank you very much for this. I honestly wasn't aware of any of it.

And double-Wow on that first PDF published by GCHQ. (Pages 8 and 9 are specifically their data on Namecheap as the #1 phishing threat, for anyone else wanting to read it). That's astonishingly bad performance from Namecheap. The data in that PDF is very useful with my own anti-botnet research. I bet the GCHQ data will be persuasive if I do bring this up with politicians considering removing the Safe Harbour provisions for hosts.
Not a wrong side surgery but history of harm is well established, eg:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/200498

That both are older is either a sign that we are yet to recognize present harm or that things have improved. Check back in 20 years for clarity on that issue I guess.
This is EXACTLY how it works. Any and all credits are lost the instant you unsubscribe; it’s very clear when you do.
On the rationality of divination practices (2021)
There is no toxic masculinity, only toxic people. The term toxic masculinity serves no purpose other than to denigrate a class of people that share masculine characteristics. It's ironic that I most often see the concept pushed by people that claim to be against sexism.
Simply because it would never occur to you that it could be part of a scam.

We're trained to think of scams as involving Nigerian princes, misspelled e-mails, password phishing, .exe attachments, or "I've got a bridge to sell you".

It's nowhere near obvious how contracting an audiobook narration, of all things, could or would be a scam. You'd have to know there was a market/scam for counterfeit audiobooks which I never imagined until I read this. In fact, it's pretty convoluted and I'm still pretty surprised to discover it exists.

On top of which, contacting an author isn't always easy, and figuring out how to navigate from a publisher's consumer customer service to a person who can actually correctly verify rights is probably going to be a long annoying journey.
I completely agree. Every time I rush I get stressed and I realize if I would have just relaxed I would have gotten there just fine
>The benefit is even less in the city as you can aggressively tailgate all you want, but at best you'll get through only a small handful of lights one cycle earlier over the entire journey.

Or even: one *bicycle earlier over the entire journey.
You said "we're currently importing far more gas that we did before the war", but gave a link that only covers gas imports in LNG form, not in gaseous form. So, it doesn't include the Nord Stream, Yamal–Europe and other pipelines.
This seems to be a historical doc. Most people don't use email like SMS anymore, since instant messaging walled guardens took over
If I recall correctly, wasn't there some sort struggle within the company between those who wanted Twitter as a product and those who wanted it as a platform, and the product people won. Followed shortly by shutting down of third party Twitter clients.

To me Twitter as a platform was easier to steer towards a protocol
Not in my experience either. I received phishing (physical) mail [1] pointing me to a domain that was registered with namecheap. I reported it to them in March, I followed up a few months later, and I still see the website operating today, with no response from namecheap.

The domain is even listed on the USPTO site as a scam operation [2], yet no action has been taken yet.

[1] Looks like this: https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/WTP%20Tr...

[2] https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/protect/caution-misleading-...
Turing completeness is a separate axis. There are programming languages that are famously not Turing-complete (for guaranteed halting) and there are (actually, surprisingly many) “things” that are Turing complete, but are not programming languages at all. The latter includes Game of Life, many boardgames and PowerPoint.

As most human things, programming languages don’t have a specific definition, but as a point of reference we should probably have a look at whether that “thing” was ever intended to be used as that. Sure, there is a program that can encode loops into html tags, but it is generally used as a markup language for describing the DOM. Not for programming it.
Yes, there are some popular communities that emphasize form rather than function. Avoid those. I suggest https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/
> You don't need to be part of the "community" to use a mechanical keyboard, it doesn't have to be a hobby, normally mechanical keyboards don't need maintenance and last longer than rubber domes.

I never considered a mechanical keyboard before seeing comments fawning over them. I was already a fast typist and had some strong preferences about keyboard layouts, bindings, ergonomics etc. There was never a huge community around this so I was quite intrigued when I discovered these people who cared so much about their keyboards. Somehow all these years I must have missed out on mechanical keyboards. I tried a few and even the "light" switches are SOOO much more tedious to type on than (decent) modern laptop-style keyboards. Searched around and most in that community seem to take the position that indeed they don't help with typing speeds, or are in fact slower to type on, but they're more "comfortable" (which doesn't make much sense to me). I want a keyboard that's good for typing/using. I don't care if it's "mechanical". Sure, people have their preferences, but this mantra of "mechanical" somehow being inherently advantageous all else be damned originated with that community. When I see people pushing mechanical keyboards I always suspect they've been heavily influenced by them.
Basically kmonad allows your home row to be modifiers on hold, and Karabiner allows combos [1]. These are both functionalities that are readily available with QMK. Ultimately QMK can do anything you can think of with a little bit of effort. If you aren't set on sticking with the built-in keyboard, the mech keyboard rabbit hole is really wonderful.

1: https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad/issues/227
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32611021
Computer Networks from Scratch Ch.4
I don't care too much what the names are, but it annoys me that apps have secret, hidden true names. Want to launch an app with a command line argument? Time to start grepping system files.
> Sacrificing morals for money.

HN user: Not really a big deal though is it?

If you've paid attention in the last century or so - it is a big deal in countries all over the world, there is a global political crisis of people sacrificing morals for money.
Yes it does. Unified comms via Matrix, which bridges SMS, Facebook Messenger and much more into a single pane. RSS? Yup. Notifications via Matrix, SMS and RSS? Yup. Exactly what he's asking for, and they're modernizing it and adding sync too.
In Japan it's customary to first introduce yourself in emails with boilerplate, and then make small talk about the season if its someone you email infrequently, then close with more boilerplate.

The "boilerplate" means you begin every reply in a thread with "This is George Jetson at Spacely Sprockets. Thank you for your patronage." even if it's crystal clear from the From: line who is sending the mail.

The message about the seasons will read something like: "Recently the leaves are showing their first autumn hues. The night temperature may become cold soon, so please take care." This is done only on the first message in a thread.

My company here in Japan uses Slack, and it has done wonders to reduce the amount of boilerplate internally, but you still see it sometimes even on Slack esp. from the older generation.
> Now that we can have electronic instruments that "tune" themselves, could we compute song-optimal tunings that preserve the intervals used most in that song?

We've had self-tuning instruments for thousands of years. Vocal harmony has almost always been perfectly tuned for its key. Likewise orchestral strings are fretless and can produce perfect intervals. Equitemperment was an innovation in the 17th century because it approximated the perfect intervals very well ("sounded good") but also permitted the ability to simultaneously represent scales based on every note in the circle of fifths ("sounded interesting"). But the "real" chords were always (well, since the late middle ages) understood to be integer ratios.
> Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is Twitter became a company

I think everyone can tell that he's not into it from the fact that the company hasn't innovated in a decade.
I'm not sure what you are implying or how we got from "why it was originally designed that way" to "still not available".

If you still want talking about notions and time, GEGL as the non-destructive backend for GIMP was started by Rhythm&Hues developers in early 2000.

We could have a long conversation about priorities and availability of developers and refactoring and all the reasons resulting in non-destructive editing not yet available, if you like.
There is a very similar thing: Just intonation http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~bdenckla/thesis/texts/htthe/nod...
Perhaps the author has not lived in a time, where postal services would have more than one delivery during the day. At its height, postal services in Copenhagen would have up to seven daily deliveries.

My dad recalls in the late 1970s sending a postcard to his then-girlfriend, basically saying 'see you on Thursday'. Text messages replaced these kinds of letters, but the notion text messages dawned a new form of communication is a bit mistaken. It made it more widely available, and over greater distances than before.

Nothing wrong with writing a letter like that (but these days, why would you?), and similarly, nothing wrong with writing an email like that.
I thought that was only relevant for financial stuff but as for dropcatchers, that's new to me.
I didn't notice anything about releasing data/code/failed results in the press release. Does anyone know if this will include that aspect of research? That would be a huge stipulation on researchers, but could drastically improve the misaligned incentives in the academic community.
Me too. I really would love to basically have everything mentioned here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrska7UU7BE&feature=youtu.be

That is:

- Mechanical
- Split
- Ergonomic
- Non-qwerty
- 30 % keyboard

But I have one extra requirement: I am Scandinavian which means that I need to have keys for Nordic letters. This makes me extremely niche which in turn means that I cannot buy anything pre-built.

And I do not find much joy in building my own keyboards. I want something prebuilt.

There must be a business opportunity here for someone to make something that is split, ergonomic keyboard with good mechanical keys and which allows for customization such that Nordic letters could be mapped...
There’s a certain section of open source devs who fight tooth-and-nail against better UX as they see any attempt at making a software easier to use as ‘dumbing things down’.

It’s why as a UX designer I don’t contribute to open source projects any more as the fight just isn’t worth it.

GIMP is peak that attitude. It could be a top-quality mainstream open source image editor if they wanted it to, but they don’t.

Photopea is the work of one guy, Affinity Photo was made by a small team, so it’s clear it’s not manpower but attitude.

They’ve got things just how they like it and the last thing they want is to make things easier and have a bunch of n00bs running around and spoiling things, thank you very much.
I'm more on team "Email Is Not HTML" than "Email Is Not SMS". The text information in email is whatever you want it to be. It's fine. But encoding that information as HTML really breaks the functionality of email and opens up all sorts of attack surface (and bugs) for very little gain.
What a frightening solution that Portland loo is. Compromising on the most basic sense of privacy that a bathroom should provide. And putting the hand washing station on the outside? This just reeks of cultural bias and not considering the bathroom uses of others.

Some people like to carry bidets they can fill to clean themselves, some people like to wet toilet papers they use for cleaning, some people feel safety and more secure being able to clean themselves and make ablution in an enclosed bathroom environment.

Certainly hope the project fails.
All the str* functions work on C strings, except for strncpy. It's the only str* function which doesn't expect or produce a C string, yet its behaviour is such that it will work as if it operates on C strings in most cases.
An investment that scares the next generation from having kids is a failed investment.
Good careers gone bad – active inertia in mid career
https://black-mirror.fandom.com/wiki/Smithereens
Exactly! This might just be Social Justice Warrioring, and therefore instantly illegitimate.
I agree, this is only obliquely referenced,

"making data published in peer-reviewed research articles immediately available upon publication and other research data available within a reasonable timeframe."

Appears the paper's key data will be available immediately.
Maybe, but it needs to be the whole band not just one instrument. What notes the bass us hitting changes how the guitar needs to sound and vice versa. If you have a large orchestra it's gets hard, and even worse if someone hits a wrong note.
This is interesting, do you plan to support more rich dynamic templates?

I work with a dev team that produces a few different flavors of document where a page might include details of optional product features depending on what the customer bought. Today they use HTML to PDF which is sort of painful and made more painful due to the regulated industry they are in which requires pixel perfection. Some ability to assemble a multi-page document where the pages vary based on config might be an interesting solve for that. I’ll admit I’m unsure how common a problem this is.
"China tops U.S. in quantity and quality of scientific papers" - https://archive.ph/bemMy
There's nothing that gets my eyes to roll harder than someone complaining about how other people choose to use a tool. Mentally filing this one next to the guy who thinks people shouldn't wear sweatpants when working from home.
You didn't miss out on much. My cello teacher mentioned it to me early on, in passing, but it's basically useless trivia until you actually have enough control for it to make a difference. From observing my kids go through music study, I'd say it emerges as something to actually think about at the college level.

Instead, I switched to the double bass, joined the jazz band, and majored in physics. ;-)

I think "sweetening without realizing" may be a thing. You've assimilated the sound of classical (or whatever) music through listening. You can hear how you want the note sound in your head, and your finger goes there.
They do, but typeset them with small caps.
I don’t really get where’s the problem here in the first place?

Marriage is first and foremost a team game, why raising the team’s performance can cause anything but pleasure?

If you prefer thinking of yourself as a separate independent individual competing with others - you should not get married at all, there’s no point for it.
This is pretty awesome. I wonder how this scales. Like if I wanted to visualize a graph with millions of nodes, would it make sense to copy a whole JSON blob into it?

One of my side projects is called GraphJSON (https://graphjson.com), where we took the opposite approach. Log events (kind of like nodes in your graph) in a segment/mixpanel/amplitude way and then use SQL to stitch these events together. Currently it just does basic visualizations like lines and tables, but it'd be awesome to do the flow charts you've created. Perhaps there's opportunity for partnership?
Just create a federally funded sci-hub similar to NCBI PubMed already
After some searching, I found https://linksquare.io/

Look up handheld or portable spectrometer. There are a lot of them that are more lab / industrial focused (and priced!).

Really what we want is a tricorder. :-)
Assertion 1: "All software will be open source, "
Assertion 2: "and no one will make money with software."

The data on the page only demonstrates the first assertion, at best. Even that should come with a caveat of distinction between the software itself and the business model around it that makes it sticky.

There is absolutely no reason why open source software couldn't make money.
One might be vastly underestimating the corrosion that bribes bring.
Dear College Freshman...
Ironically it is paywalled by Medium. Commenting is only allowed when using their app (I'm on phone).

Was it intentional? Can someone ping the author and see if they can remove the paywall to increase the blast radius of such an important piece?
> if the speaker has good reason to assume the listener would know which conservatory was being talked about

Right - and as I didn’t, I assumed she was using a proper noun. It’s fine English either way! Language is fun.
Drones and rockets bring rainfall to China during record-breaking heatwave
It was a different time. It’s easy to misjudge the past without fully understanding the context of that time.
Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough
If you are this kind, how do you decide which things to work on?