skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wind instruments don't have fixed tuning. intonation allows you to bend notes enough to get the tuning you want. for a dramatic example of this, look at the clarinet solo at the beginning of rhapsody in blue.
Yeah it's cheesy but if you want to appear professional it just doesn't kut it, at least not to me .. I mean KDE is great and all, but I wish there was some committee or some board of members trying to actually design the whole user experience.

But this is many times the problem with open source desktop environments, and I don't really see any easy way to fix it .. some people have tried to create unified experiences, but those are mostly forgotten with time.
AI Voice Ethics and Voice Cloning Contracts
This is a Web2 relay to access Web3. If browsers had built-in Web3 functionality, the eth.link relay wouldn't be needed, and this whole situation would be moot.

Until that day, it's reasonable for people to appeal to centralized Web2 entities to use their control to fix a problem inherent to centralized Web2 services.
It's $65 per working adult in the USA, or 1% of the _annual_ us military budget.
This article is missing the only piece of useful information I was looking for. What is the true capacity of the drive?
Does it annoy anyone else that many articles insist on quoting part of the article in a larger font to highlight it? It's a relic left over from magazines where it would draw the reader's attention to a particular segment.

It makes no sense whatsoever to do it on a web article that you scroll through to read. This particular one contains the text "After a 10-minute meeting with YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki, the company's first video chip project was approved." then it's repeated immediately after in a larger font.
This is awesome Simon! I actually had it on my todo list to explore using datasette with PLDB.

Here's my quick query to see the number of things that are missing a year and also a count of the total things in each year:
https://lite.datasette.io/?csv=https://pldb.com/pldb.csv#/da...

2 pieces of feedback (which I'm sure you're aware of):

1. super slow startup time (30seconds or so, but then things are instant).

2. autocomplete column names (and syntax highlighting) for the editor?
anyone in that original list of mine has deficient intelligence levels. you need an elementary analysis to see that it is so--there is nothing subjective about logic.
So instead of holding up "scientific research" banners as the reason for whaling, they can now hold up the color wheel when confronted at sea.
It's entirely possible that these were both copies of another paper in another country.
I mean, most banks don't require ID to make a deposit. It's not an unrealistic thought that someone should be able to top up some dude's account so that his stuff can autorenew. Though a company would need some sort of explicit policy for that more than likely.
But the credits are SOOOOO much cheaper than the raw audiobook cost. Since books are over $40 whereas credits are at most $15.
> "I do solemnly affirm that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the position of..."

So I assume those "duties" they're referring to don't include investigating when they are assigned a call. Perhaps you think "duties" just refers to sitting in their car eating donuts?

> "No, seeing a black guy watering flowers is not grounds for anything, even if they are someone else's flowers. I cannot believe I have to make this point."

Again, you have to pay attention to the actual facts when you participate in these discussions.

The police were not just driving down the street and, upon seeing a black man watering some flowers, say to themselves "he must be up to no good". They were specifically CALLED by a neighbor to the property to investigate a suspicious person on their neighbor's property (you know, the typical 'looking out for your neighbor' thing). Your position seems to be that the police should not have done anything. Simple looked at him, shrugged their shoulders and walked away.

Because that's exactly what you would want the police to do if YOU were away and your neighbor saw someone on your property and called the police to investigate. You'd absolutely want them to not find out who that person was or why he was on your property.
You're excuses sound like my personal projects. "Moving three kids and starting a hobby farm really slowed me down, but I've been making progress for a few weeks"
We have 4 people who live in our house. I don’t track bathroom visits, but I’m pretty sure we each average 5 per day or 140 per week, with one bathroom getting 75-85% of the usage.

We clean the bathrooms every two weeks and it’s far from “a mess” when it comes time to clean it, so much so that we need to have a calendar reminder to do it.

I think there’s something about “the public” that’s underlying that difference.
Just ask yourself if you dislike the conclusions or implications. If so, the paper isn't credible.

I was under the impression we knew this method for a pretty long damn time by now.
Nice work pal keep up !
That's certainly Jonathan's contention. I would argue that it's already obviously wrong.
Maybe? You do enough of this kind of stuff and you’re going to lose credibility. Possibly your devoted fans let you off the hook for the first offense. But Audible has a pretty scummy reputation in some circles (as evidenced by other comments here).

Also, making a big fuss about it is content marketing, which works because of his brand. He’s on the front page of HN with a blog post that mentions a bunch of his offerings/plays up the quality of his audiobooks. More financial incentive to forego the Audible dollars.
Author mentions the printing press as an example of European machinery, but doesn't seem to go into why printing never really caught on in China, despite there having been movable type printing presses there before the west: ideogrammic writing.

This whole revolution that you just needed to have a few dozen dies of each latin alphabet character and you could print any page was completely not operative in a language where you needed thousands of individuals character dies.

Ideograms are not really any harder to learn or to handwrite than alphabets in the pre-printing press era, and they aren't a disadvantage in the modern computer age, but they were a huge disadvantage in the like 1400-1950 era.
Wow, I have to be impressed though with the lengths they go to to keep up the charade. Hacking the firmware and creating fake files if you go over the real limit. Many people might never find out it's a fake (how many people who don't immediately know this is a scam are actually going to fill up that much space and find out?)
This has always been a thing, but I think it's insane that a retailer is carrying a scam product like this. Amazon has the excuse that third-party sellers are usually the ones selling them (which is of course still bullshit). What's Walmart's excuse?
I don’t think Amazon’s choice is the same for every one.

I would guess it adjusts for shipping time and result relevance weighted by previous usage. For me, the choice 1TB flash drive is a PNY thumb drive.

At the very least, it seems brave to assign your company’s endorsement automatically based on an algorithm.
Forecast shows a low possibility of hell freezing over this week, I wouldn't get your hopes up.
Pine64 August update: RISC and reward
Exactly. If we could cut global emissions by even 10%, it would make a pretty meaningful dent in climate change. Unfortunately, as of now, global emissions are still rising!
Stick with the name brands, look at SlickDeals or r/pcdeals for daily deals, and assume any off-brand hardware is a scam.
I had a hard time with The Savage Detectives but the ending was cool.
I think this hinges a great deal on how strict the definition of OSS is.

There’s a (generally positive IMHO) trend towards more SOTA stuff being source available over time, but if it’s part of your business you’re paying someone to maintain and support it (even if it’s yourself). And a vibrant range of options from elite proprietary niche stuff to radically-licensed free software is a great thing!

Compilers are a great case-in-point: for ages ‘GCC’ was knocking the stuffing out of much/most commercial stuff, at the moment the pendulum has swung almost completely over to LLVM which is like, way more tied into industry, and maybe it swings back at some point.
There's a system called ENS which allows domain names to be registered on the Ethereum blockchain and traded around like NFTs. However, none of the mainstream DNS resolvers support ENS so users either have to (a) switch to a niche DNS provider which does support it or (b) use a site running on conventional DNS like eth.link to proxy through.

Unsurprisingly the latter option which doesn't require messing around with network settings is quite popular, and so their decentralized domain system ended up centralizing around a conventional domain name owned by a guy who is unable to pay the bill because he's currently in prison for helping North Korea evade sanctions. Now the domain is about to expire and acquiring it is a crypto phishers dream since there are so many organic links to it in the wild.
Could you expand on what you define as socially desirable or undesirable? I understand the point you are making but I am not sure exactly through what lens you are quantifying these characteristics.
Awesome appreciate you explaining this. Hadn't considered the idea that transitions vs simultaneous notes "compete" on what the optimal note frequencies are. And very cool to understand that people are dealing with this pragmatically all the time.
Yeah let’s just throw all ICANN rules.
Sure, if the original contract had a clause that said “anyone can come add money to this and if they do, go ahead and extend it under my name” then this would be entirely reasonable. It seems that clause doesn’t exist here or at least GoDaddy isn’t required to exercise it.
I think newegg is still honest.
> String players have no choice but to learn equal temperament as the vast majority of the time they're playing alongside other musicians, and it's what modern ears (since the late 18th century) expect to hear. It'd be a rare violinist these days that could actually accurately play something in any sort of intonation based entirely on just intervals.

That's not true at all. A lot of string players learn to play in orchestras or chamber style, which means they're only playing with other stringed instruments, and they absolutely are taught dynamic tuning by ear, which uses just intervals.
Walmart isn't carrying it. It's being sold by a third party on Walmart.com. Walmart allows third parties to sell on Walmart.com just as Amazon allows third parties to sell on their website.
We leave it pretty long because it’s apparently very new and we were told that’s what you have to do. The soil is apparently awful though - more sand than soil - so I believe that’s one reason any water we do put on it runs away quickly.

Artificial grass would be a last resort but may be required if the original proposition doesn’t work out.
We are lucky enough to have lots of other flowers, shrubs and trees too and there is almost always some bees flying about. It’s magical and our daughter loves it.
For me the bigger issue is the other way around: SMS is not email. Way too often I get a text from someone asking a question that doesn't need a reply right away, is asking for a detailed answer, and sometimes needs me to bring an additional person or two into the conversation.

But since they sent it as a text message, it's hard to keep track of the need to reply since I can't mark it as unread, a long answer is cumbersome to give, and transitioning to a group message is tedious and loses the conversation history.
You can check spot prices for NAND chips (Gigabits not GB) which explains the margins for end-user products. (This one is <2% of the TLC chip cost, obviously fake.)

https://www.trendforce.com/price/flash
I don't understand the purpose of letting actively used domains expire. It's a flaw in the web that is a constant threat to things breaking. This could easily happen to tens of thousands of business or more.
No, usually you can renew a domain for anyone without authentication
It is, because that domain is in demand and it would be unfair to other people who want a chance to get it.
The Ars article that Tom’s referenced from has that info:

> Scammer gets two 512MB Flash drives. Or 1 gigabyte, or whatever. They then add hacked firmware that makes it misreport its size.
This should be the page, but it requires a Flash plugin (so doesn't work for me): https://rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm
Why have you chosen to inject 'multiculturalism' into a topic about conceptually 'winning' in society? Do you think maybe there is a common economic system underlying everything that enables the concept 'winning'?
> for a piece that wants to sell something to me.

Does it? My impression from that article was that the author was giving advice, left and right and for free. There is a link to a course, in the header, which the author is selling; but the article is not centered on it.

> And why should I care?

Well, the obvious presupposition is that you are reading an article titled "guide to writing online" because, presumably, you want to learn some tips about writing online. Because, presumably, you think that your writing is somehow lacking. To which the author is saying here, effectively: "don't worry; I too sucked at writing; and now look at me, I am teaching people how to write; if I could do it, so can you." Or something like that.
Coolblue has a result https://www.coolblue.nl/en/share-product/834931?utm_medium=i...

Megekko instead has a lot of results
https://www.megekko.nl/?r=cdromland

But is a shop focused on pc components so it’s less generic
Where do you see that it's a third-party seller? I'm not seeing it.

edit: Reading through the text and looking at the pictures, it's obvious that it's a third-party, but nothing on the site explicitly says "this is a seller not associated with Walmart".

Comparison:

Amazon: https://i.imgur.com/rGdTkM4.png

Walmart: https://i.imgur.com/JRwhzBy.png

Edit: Ahhh, of course. You're right, thanks guys.
>an infinite history makes no sense

Yes, it does. It's just an uncomfortable notion for people raised in Western philosophy.
WHOIS query returns the expiry as "Registry Expiry Date: 2023-07-26T19:31:41.508Z".

AFAIK, this is the authoritative answer.
That looks… very cool? That’s exactly what I was expecting.
Whenever I receive an email that is worded like that but is written in my native language it immediately raises a red flag because no one around here communicates that way.

In 99/100 cases the email is spam/phishing attempt.
Manuals are written by the people who know the software better than anyone else. But that knowledge comes at a price of being completely unable to shift their perspective to that of someone coming in with fresh eyes.

Documentation needs two parts, a reference written by the authors and a tutorial written by someone with no prior experience with the software going though their process learning it from scratch.
> Though also, they’re technically correct — “proprietary” just means “controlled by one party.” Open-source things can still be proprietary

Awesome, thanks for this explanation -- this is why I asked. I had always equated proprietary to closed source. Good to have my definition expanded. Thank you!
I browsed the twitter comments and appears the FW is hacked to report this incredible amount but when it writes then it's overwriting multiple times. It's also USB 2.0.
A better title: A self-congratulatory guide to writing online without contributing anything.

Ahh! do not forget to smash the button to join my writing course.
The equivalent to the relay in that case is just the browser. If control of the browser passes to someone else - say because the dev is in jail and the server or signing key is seized - you now have a silently-self-updating piece of software running code from an unknown third party. This seems like a far more catastrophic problem than losing control of a relay domain.
uh. what?
Web3 functionality
3615-YouTube
Both twitter and FB were wildly unprofitable until they made this kind of "algorithmic" shift and that shift happened in order to court the ads revenue firehose.

Having worked in ad-tech some years ago, it's just... the temptation is too strong. Your whole business becomes "enhancing engagement" and all sorts of sophistry gets involved in presenting a Zuckerberg-like case about how this is "improving the world" by "making things better for users" and "connecting people" [with products or other people or whatever]. The firehose seems infinite, and it lets you grow grow grow.

Even Apple, which resisted this for years and kept itself as a "consumer products" and "media" company has now fallen prey to this and is trying to divert some part of the ad-revenue stream to itself.

Once you do that, it's paperclips paperclips paperclips
Um, use Brave, or any other decent web3 browswer. Put in any .eth URL, and it works fine. Eth.link was a crutch. A silly hack that makes it so you can take a .eth URL, add ".link" to it, and get onto .eth sites without having to use a modern browser.
Newegg has the same problem as all the other big online retailers, third party sellers.
I tend to think the cyber money hyperventilation on both sides ranges from silly to really annoying, but…

Molly White is hilarious and that site is gold.

She’s (intentionally or not) done a bit of an homage to dealbreaker.com, which is roughly “Wall St. is Going Great” and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys the above.

Top kek.
Of the many things, can you rank them?
Thanks for building this!
Especially on small screens the (useless?) whitespace is annoying and rather distracting.

The problem with whitespace (or also colored whitespace) is in my opinion a true problem on mobile devices too. The ratio between available information and screen estate is oftentimes very off.
> Did anyone else just skim through the article just glancing at the headings and get the entirety of what this person was saying?

Isn't this how we consume most of long texts online anyway? :-)
Why? Because if you use the application, you are thinking about the name of the application. You think about "Launching Affinity Photo" for example. What if the name of the software was CripplePhoto, I mean that wouldn't be too nice to think about, or "ShitSoft FecesEditor".

Or even more not so extreme examples, for examples let's say your music player would be called "Brown Juice" or something like that, would you be happy about that application, vs for example "iTunes" or "Soundamp" or whatever.

You know these are extreme examples but just show you that the power of words is very clear in what kind of images they create in our thinking, I bet if Gimp would change their software name to something like "GNU PhotoEdit" or something like that, more people would be willing unconsciously to work and improve it also vs working on this "Gimp" that still uses that silly logo with the Gnome Mascot. It's very unprofessional and you wont attract the best designers or developers if you don't think about the big picture.

That's just my view on the thing. The package and nice colors matter, but of course the interiors and working of the software is that matters more, and on that frontend Gimp just doesn't cut it. What I'm trying to say is that maybe they could make the software better by changing it's name and design.

I mean, no professional uses Gimp for photo editing, at least I don't know anyone besides some hobbyist who rarely use photo editing, they might use Gimp. Or am I wrong ?
Pretty wild that walmart rolled with this. Implies they've got literally nobody even vaguely competent & qualified involved their purchase decisions

>limited to USB 2.0 speeds

Nice.
Holier Than Thou: Precision Holes by Drilling, Boring, and Reaming (2021)
> Email is unencrypted because some value-extracting tech companies are controlling large parts of the infrastructure, and there is a systemic problem with gatekeeping that suppresses innovation.

Huh? I can only assume that the other isn’t referring to S/MIME or PGP, etc., but to encryption of transport and/or storage. Or maybe they are limiting their consideration to web based email?

That assumption is based on decades of PKI experience: unless every message is encrypted and signed, by default, without user action, and somehow (notice the hand waving) users are automatically enrolled in a seamless, invisible, low friction, key management system, encrypted email is just too complicated for most people.

There are so many moving parts, from getting a certificate, be it PGP or X.509 or something else, to having a working email client with encryption, to knowing that everyone else does, to deciding whether or not every email should be cleartext, signed, encrypted, or encrypted and signed.

I’ve taught this stuff and it is surprising how many people think a signed email has some level of confidentiality protection just because it isn’t readable text anymore (clear-signed aside).

The reason that web clients don’t offer encryption or signature is most likely because it is a support nightmare.

We’ve known HOW to do this stuff from a technical perspective for decades. What we have yet to figure out is how to make the UX acceptable or elegant or pleasant or seamless.
Turkey has tons of off the beaten path sites to see that are not as touristy. There are underground cities that are completely open to visit. You drive up and there’s just a dark hole in the side of a hill, such as Han near Afyon…

Han Underground City
https://goo.gl/maps/rDn2MMQPy7qF2Vhe9
Newly Discovered Super-Earth May Be an Ocean Planet Shrouded in the Deep
not bad, but I would like to add to that, never use html for emails and wrap lines to less than say 70 characters
> I don’t know if both your example and mine are pulling inspiration from the Lupin film intentionally or if all 3 are referencing hurdling

Could also be! Either way it seems to be part of the Japanese animation "language but not the Western one so much
Was reading on mobile, probably need to use some adblocker for mobile as well.
It's not really done anymore, but there were some scandals in the first decade of the 2000's. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting
My thought is, if you peel back the first layer of music theory, you discover a chaotic, lawless world. The main thing I've noticed is that this is extremely unnerving to engineers, who want to learn it as a precise hierarchical structure. Regular people are more focused on the fact that somebody is somehow making it all sound good, and want to learn how to do that.

On the other hand, most musicians are completely ambivalent to it, or even thrive in the chaos. Yet the "rules" are useful because they provide a common ground for forming ensembles, or connecting composer and performer. We've watched musicians go down the rabbit hole of nonstandard scales, innovative notation systems, etc., only to discover that nobody can play their material.

I'm a double bassist. I'm happy just to be able to coordinate my ears, brain, and hands, well enough to play the same note the same way twice if I want to. Claiming that I have conscious control over temperament would be laughable. I've got too much other stuff to think about: The notes on the page, the non-notated passages (many jazz bass parts are expected to be improvised), tempo and rhythm, connecting with the rest of the band and the audience, who's coming in the front door, and so forth. This stuff is all happening in real time.
I now use aws to register my domains. I started with GoDaddy. I remember searching for some names (on GoDaddy) and found something that was reported as available. I went to register it and GoDaddy tells me that it is no longer available, but that they have some service that I can pay for where they will help me to negotiate/handle the purchase from the owner. I called the customer service to ask about this. I found out that it was GoDaddy itself that had purchased it right up from under me. That was the last time I ever dealt with GoDaddy.