skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That blog post misses nearly all the point of the XKCD comic it is referring to. Having jpeg, and gif, and tga, and other "standard" image formats is a great thing. But deciding to create another standard believing you can get rid of all the other "x" standards is (almost always!) folly. That is the point of the comic. This is an anti-pattern that constantly comes up in software dev and other domains, and it is deeply problematic. Creating standards for new ideas, or new takes on old ideas, is not the issue.
I tune organs professionally, and in the US most instruments are tuned to equal temperament. For the performance of pieces originally composed on unequal-tempered instruments, though, something is lost on equal-tempered organs: the movement through harmonic progressions on unequal temperaments creates a dramatic tension between consonance and dissonance, with dissonance increasing the farther you get from the more "in-tune" keys and decreasing as the progression returns to them. Similarly, pieces composed in keys that are some distance away from the "purest" key, gain their own distinctive colors. If you're used to equal temperament and then hear a big major chord in the temperament's home key on an organ with a historic temperament, the impact is really quite something as the thirds and fifths are much closer to the natural overtones of the unisons and the whole chord draws together into a gloriously-coherent tonality.

Pipe organs often contain stops called mutations (whose frequencies are non-integer multiples of unison-rank frequencies), and others called mixtures (where there are multiple such pipes per note, generally rather small and high-pitched). These are both intended to reinforce natural harmonics, and as such are tuned pure -- even on equal-tempered instruments! The exception is highly-"unified" instruments where one rank has been wired to play at both unison and mutation pitches (to save money and/or space); this sorta works for quints (fifths), but is pretty bad for tierces (thirds), and don't even try it with a septième (seventh).

While electronic tuners are often used to set an initial temperament on a reference rank (it can also be set by listening to the contrasting rates of the differential waves between fourths and fifths), we generally tune other ranks to the reference rank, listening to the differential waves created by the two ranks to discern in/out-of-tuneness. For mixtures and mutations, the trick is to be able to recognize differential beating with partials of the reference rank that are higher than the fundamental; and for very high pitches, listening for sub-harmonics comes into play (frequencies can align in a way that creates the illusion that they are harmonics of a fundamental that's not actually being played, and our brains fill in the fundamental; this phenomenon is sometimes used to create the illusion of extremely low "resultant" Pedal-division ranks sounding an octave lower than the root of the fifth that the pipes are actually playing, and the use of an independent pure-tuned quint rank produces the most convincing result).
It's also here:

https://craphound.com/news/2022/07/24/why-none-of-my-books-a...

You could write to the author and ask him why he posts on Medium. My bet is that posting in multiple places increases the blast radius.
You may see the above as a critique of science: I actually consider it a positive aspect that puts it way above traditional religions.

The fact that I recognize there are both faith and religious elements to science only makes it easier to explain how and why science is better than religion.

Note that science similarly includes a lot of areas where our predictions are not "extraordinarily accurate" (all the statistics-based science, like medicine, social sciences...) in any particular case, yet it's still science because we recognize the limits (eg. "with a large number of samples, this will mostly happen").
Good to hear that its not pure hard-headedness that caused this.

Sure, but when I look at the development of image editing tools in the 90ies then vector shapes and layer pretty much was widespread by 1998. If I were to guess then the functionality just came with support for TT Fonts and became a standard feature for image manipulation applications.

Again I tried really hard to make GIMP work for me - I still found myself hunting for the right tool icon time and time again (I think something is fundamentally wrong there but I cannot with certainty say what) This might be where the UI criticism comes from. I bet you would learn the symbols in the end and . I still got so annoyed by the save function insisting to save as some weird format I didn't want to use that I had to patch that out. But then in the end what killed it for me was the vector lines thing.
You can suspend your Audible account as well. This allows you to keep your credits but you won't be charged.
Yes, you can do that. But the price should be such (say, $30) that people like you would be a very small minority. Of course, there will still be people that could do that. The system does not eliminate such behavior completely, but it reduces it to the point where it does not affect the availability of the service (in theory, ofc). Moreover, under such system the ones who pay the most are the exact same people who cause the most mess.
I mean normally anyone can pay to extend a domain registration so it’s not that crazy a question.
That's exactly what I said to my ever-so-slightly conscious girlfriend 25 years ago. I still feel embarrassed about it to this day. Even my long gone grandparents wondered so, socratically.

A bit more constructively: I suppose if everyone everywhere taught their kids the police are there to help, the way the Electric Company taught me, then that specific problem might be alleviated. Perhaps with unintended consequences. But I basically had to unlearn it, and for them it would require a comfort with a level of cognitive dissonance that I'm sure no individual can sustain, let alone a whole community. At least if you accept their history is separate. Like, my ancestors on my dad's side came here in the 1600's too, but they were on the top of the boat.
How does all of that sound to people with absolute pitch?
Unpopular opinions:

1) Sometimes it is good with multiple standards so you can choose whatever you want (e.g. databases).

2) Sometimes it is good with enforcing a single standard. There is no value in European countries having different 220V plugs. And definitly no value in multiple 220V standards within a single country.

2b) Often it is much more valuable that everybody use the same standard than having the best standard.

3) The proper selection of #1 or #2 does not happend automatically. Sometimes it does, sometimes we have to force a selection. (Often Government does a good job here, but I assume it is too controversial for HN to praise governments).
Only matters if Microsoft sues. GitHub-owner era Microsoft tends to want to stay in the open source community’s good graces. (Plus I’m sure the owner would just change the name if MS asked, anyway)

That being said, this is also a diagramming tool… I probably would recommend changing it
> There’s a certain section of open source devs who fight tooth-and-nail against better UX... GIMP is peak that attitude.

Except the GIMP team worked with a UX architect for several years. That's how you got single-window mode, convenient rectangular/ellipse selection and cropping tool, polygonal selection tool built into lasso, the unified transform tool, and more.

And even after Peter (the UX guy) departed, the team still made a bunch of UX improvements (and continues making them, time-permitting).

> Affinity Photo was made by a small team, so it’s clear it’s not manpower but attitude.

Serif Ltd. is 200 to 500 employees. They have paid developers working full time. They had the funds to start from scratch and build on their previous experience creating similar applications.
I agree with you and it must be a misunderstanding: I'm pro standardization.
Ok. You made your preferences into a website which is cool I guess.

I have much more of a problem with gigantic HTML signatures.
That sounds...nice.

I get really sick of spam messages from account reps that sounds like it could be written by a bot.

Human communication should be for humans. If you want to talk to a robot, don't email me, call our API.
I only can advise to try running more demanding apps. After all that's where the fun is. You will more-or-less instantly switch camps.
> Last modified: Wed May 11 21:09:27 2022 by Axel Beckert.

It seems Axel still believes in it!
That’s very informative. Thanks for posting!

> the project has found itself at the mercy of GoDaddy. Welcome to the decentralized web3 we've all been promised!

I admit this had me laughing.
hardly. look into whats available through slime with common lisp as an example of an advanced repl
Early 00s Chinese "computer cities"? Noooo. You don't do that to merchants. Merchants do that to you.
There are also digital keyboards that let you bend pitch after you hit a note by shifting the pressure similar to a violin.
Fair. I agree that sometimes creating a new standard is boiling the ocean.

But my take is less pessimistic. My frame is: If everybody creates new JPG standards, we'd have more innovation and progress (despite potentially having more fragmentation...).
I've seen the same thing and come to think of books as preparation by the author for these lectures/interviews. The book is a demonstration that the author has thought things through. They've put things to paper and what they're saying isn't just some off the cuff remark.
They are essentially the same thing. The strategy is the same whether trying to put in buy orders for stocks or domains.
I assume the parent is implying that commissioned work is 'socially influenced', and thus by your argument, 'not art'...you are creating a piece because someone else is paying you to, not because that particular piece is just something you want to create.
Yup. “We did some experiments using models, here are the outputs” doesn’t cut it. I don’t trust you.
If someone steals $X and gives 0.5*$X to charity, it's hard to see it as virtuous, even though it's preferable to giving $0 to charity.

Getting rich off social media isn't literal theft, of course, but they've put such huge costs onto society which is paid for by us, so it is metaphorically similar. It's like a wealthy contract killer who donates half of his net worth ... Alright, but you made your money by extracting value from others.
Isn't a whole guiding principle of crypto that code is law, rules are rules with no exceptions, and if you end up getting screwed over by the rules you opted into then it's your fault for not doing due diligence? The irony of immutable smart contract proponents begging humans to let them backdoor around a contract is palpable.
What's the significance of eth.link?
Maybe if we renamed Earth to something less dirt-sounding, people would start treating it better than dirt? Hmm
Batteries-on-fire galore, along with chargers, for example. Anything from those "hoverboards", to phones or other gadgets.
It helps when Mozilla has a backbone and shows up to the standards meetings.
Link to the post:

https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-opensearch-collaboration
Fair criticism and just as a disclaimer: I don't work on standardization in big company. Mostly as an individual contributor, so I don't personally value government-door-opening as much as a company would. I doubt I'm representing such sentiment in my article.
No one would probably have thought about it or cared if he hadn't made a big fuss about it.
Also, the tubes for the individual valves have their own tuning slides. A trumpet will typically have a little thumb-operated lever for one of those slides, to help with some of the notes. I saw a video of a tuba solo, and the tubist was working the tuning slides almost as much as the valves.
I've had Amazon take down reviews that point out that a drive is a scam.
Brief posts on Haskell tend to be a bit bloody evangelical.

A better introduction for anyone with a serious interest would be a good book and a look at the kind of work serious Haskell users do.

eg:
[1] http://book.realworldhaskell.org/
[2] https://www.haskellers.com/user/dons
The only thing that held back adoption of GIMP is its perpetually horrible UX.
This is something that you get a bit of a picture of reading classic Sherlock Holmes stories. Sherlock is always sending and receiving correspondence at a rate that makes no sense to the modern reader, but at that time in London, mail was delivered as frequently as 12 times per day.
Is this true? I couldn't find anything on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cowen.. Did fine this https://littlesis.org/person/41539-Tyler_Cowen
It seems like QuickAssist can also be used for Transcoding. Plex e.g. supports it.

My Intel i9 11900k seems to support it or has it built-in.
Don't current x86-64 CPUs come with ~48 bits of addressable virtual space? So in a way, you're not far from the truth.
Normally people can pay to extend their domain registration.
>"Since then, I’ve been interested in something better and so have done a bunch of research trying brands over the years and have settled in on a few devices I find best for my needs."

Could you share some of your recommendations or what your research has uncovered?
It's incorrect. The correct phrase would be "If something seems too good to be true, it usually is." which can be extrapolated to "If something seems too good to be true, it usually is too good to be true."
In math and computer science, papers witten in word are a definite mark of crackpotery. I agree it's arbitrary and nonsensical, but clearly a good heuristic.
Well GMail rhymes nicely, Gee-mail, and it's pretty obvious what it does.
KMail doesn't have the same rhythm to it, it sounds slightly middle eastern or german, like maybe it's a Polish software package or something..

The difference is these big companies spend a lot of time thinking about the application names, iPhone is genius in how simple it is.

I mean there are good names also, Linux in itself is a good name for example, it's unique and doesn't sound dorky. And Firefox and some others, I'm not blaming all of them.

Gimp might have been a good name in the mid-to-late 90s when the development of Gimp and Gnome began, but still sticking to it just doesn't make much sense to me.
This reminds me of my idea about Google's missed opportunity in messaging.
They had billions in a captive audience for gmail - all they had to do was figure a way to make the Subject field in SMTP optional, and bam! they'd have a killer messaging app (probably circa 2008 when this page was written). For a short message you don't want to have to decide a subject, as well as write the message itself.

Instead they've languished launching 4 dozen messaging apps.
That’s borderline delusional. California is probably one of the cushiest states for the homeless.
My Chase account does not require 2FA for my car payment login. Thats a more reputable example.
Assuming the documentation is up to date, we'll written, and easy to follow.

Of course I'm more of a tinker, so I'll mess with something first intentionally before going to the manual. What you get stuck on is what teaches you what part of the manual is most important for you.
If you atheists were indeed smart you would not have felt so hurt and downvote my original comment. Also, IQ tests are rubbish (and you didn't know that--which shows your intelligence level).

Among us, we look down on any work that is written by an atheist. It is the ultimate mark of low intelligence.
You can absolutely sing a perfect chord. That's most of the idea behind styles like barbershop, for example. But things start to fall apart when chords transition between each other. The first and third notes of the central chords in a key will line up on top of each other, but the middle notes of the chords and triads based on other notes don't. So just like an equitempered scale sounds a tiny bit off, harmony gets wonky too if you try to do interesting things.

So the compromise we've all settled on is that we play music in the equitempered scale, and only adjust a little bit here and there to exploit perfect tunings in limited, style-dependent ways.

Which is to say: perfect chords are interesting flavor, but at the end of the day kinda boring in isolation; "real" music needs more rules.
>I challenge you to find me two concurring definitions of systems programming that also include enough detail to set clear bounds between what is and isn't systems programming.

There's no such thing - that was the whole point of my comment.

A systems language is not such because of conforming to a definition, it's a delibarate classification ("this language is, that one isn't" as opposed to "this langauge is because it conforms to this definition"). And that "is/isn't" isn't even up to the individual programmer, it's cultural.

There are characteristics that drive this classification, but it's not driven by a strict definition. It's more of "know it when I see it" kind of affair.
I wonder if godaddy registered it themselves? not sure if possible / legal
After choosing to keep the crypto, divorcee wants a do-over
Seems like there are a few other things that are not SMS, including SMS itself:

$ dig is-not-s.ms @sym.noone.org. axfr

; <<>> DiG 9.11.5-P4-5.1+deb10u7-Debian <<>> is-not-s.ms @sym.noone.org. axfr
;; global options: +cmd
is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN SOA sym.noone.org. hostmaster.noone.org. 2018092900 28800 7200 604800 86400
is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN NS ns4.beckert.ch.
is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN NS sym.noone.org.
bloggen.is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN CNAME sym.noone.org.
blogging.is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN CNAME sym.noone.org.
changelog.is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN CNAME sym.noone.org.
e-mail.is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN CNAME sym.noone.org.
email.is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN CNAME sym.noone.org.
etherpad.is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN CNAME sym.noone.org.
icq.is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN CNAME sym.noone.org.
im.is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN CNAME sym.noone.org.
irc.is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN CNAME sym.noone.org.
jabber.is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN CNAME sym.noone.org.
sm.is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN CNAME sym.noone.org.
sms.is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN CNAME sym.noone.org.
usenet.is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN CNAME sym.noone.org.
is-not-s.ms. 86400 IN SOA sym.noone.org. hostmaster.noone.org. 2018092900 28800 7200 604800 86400
;; Query time: 672 msec
;; SERVER: 178.63.92.236#53(178.63.92.236)
;; WHEN: Sun Aug 28 15:27:12 BST 2022
;; XFR size: 17 records (messages 1, bytes 441)
hydrogen fuel cell instead of long waiting li-on battery.
On the contrary, the fact that SDGs became buzzwords is likely tied to the fact that Japan does well or can market itself as doing well in most of these indicators. Obviously gender equality is a glaring problem, but you'll notice they rebranded whaling (and possibly dolphin hunting if we dig into it) as controlling the fish population as per the article. Their systemic issues such as a greying population are not in the SDGs because Japan is essentially a snapshot of what awaits developed economies in the future rather than anything to do with the struggles of development.
This has been going on for awhile. But my question for the crowd here: I actually need a bunch more storage soon, and can't afford to spend much. So while this is an obvious scam, what isn't? Got any links to the best price for the most space?
yes I assumed you were talking about GIMP - my bad
The guy who owns it is in prison and it's used to access IPFS sites through their ENS (Ethereum Name Service) domains. i.e name.eth.link
> Godaddy claims that the domain expired, but the WHOIS record says otherwise.

The Godaddy statement is dated August 25th, and so is the WHOIS record. The situation may have changed after the statement was made.

> I suppose that someone could have made a payment that got the domain date extended, but then the payment failed. But wouldn't the record only be updated after the payment was confirmed?

Payments sometimes bounce after they were approved (chargebacks, weird check stuff, etc), so there is a procedure to unrenew names.
How does this compare against https://porter.run/ ?
Civilization is all about word games, is my larger point, and those games are important business and what drive characterization - they're not something incosequential that we can "set aside and get to the real work".

Doubly so if what we're concerned about is labelling itself, like "what is and what isn't considered a systems language". Then we're in the word domain, not in the measurement domain.
This might have actually stung a bit were it not for your pattern of posting in this way. You lot are on your 4th Eternal September since 2009, by my count.
I’m not convinced running your own service is cheaper than paid solutions in general, if Slack can provide the same service for cheaper than it should be considered even if it’s no longer free.

I also don’t see it as a moral failing for a company to cripple/take away it’s free offerings unless it promised/guaranteed otherwise (like Google did with the Workplace Apps).

However I do see a major issue with Slack’s pricing structure - the per user pricing means it’s a lot more suited for communities or companies with small number of highly engaged users than large number of low engagement users, the latter end up costing a LOT more for the same server load, which seems like a major missed opportunity.

Unless of course Slack determines that they could earn more by doing it this way, even with the number of potential customers they’re losing.
6 Months with the Unihertz Atom XL
Hey thanks, GoDaddy for releasing a statement[0] instead of fixing the problem. They literally choose this over siding with the customer and their lawyer.

[0] https://aboutus.godaddy.net/newsroom/company-news/news-detai...
It's not totally crazy to think that GoDaddy could unilaterally extend the contract so that a widely used relay service could stay operational.
But I think that's the problem. For some things, the "form" is important, things like marketing sites, maybe prose. But for sites that are supposed to be highly functional, information density (function) should always win out. That's not to say that it shouldn't still be presented nicely, and that may make it more difficult. But when I'm browsing files or commit history on GitHub, the more stuff I can see at one time, the more useful it is.
> Reading them as "blanket rules for all ages" without knowing who and why they were written, knowing about the context, what was already the culture at the time, etc, makes them really easy to misread parts as endorsing things our culture does differently, compared to critiquing the situation at the time... I guess that's true of all ancient literature.

A very important point. I find that many, including Christians, approach reading the Bible as a textbook, or a moral code of sorts to guide behaviour.

Treat it like ancient literature developed over thousands of years, different people making various modifications to it not unlike an open source project, and it can become super insightful. Of course ancient people were wired differently from us, but the lindy stuff in humanity remains
I have no idea why you think what you posted has anything to do with what I said or the interaction that is being discussed. The Due Process clause is not the only source of the state's power to enact laws and regulate the conduct of citizens. The police powers of the government existed long before the Due Process clause was enacted.

But even if you take the position that the police are not REQUIRED to do anything (and I would disagree with that position), that does not mean that they CANNOT do anything. In this case, the police CHOSE (to use a term more suitable to your position) to investigate. And nothing precludes them from choosing to do so. Or do you take the position that the police are neither required to, nor can they choose to investigate when called?
Things like iMessage and Google Messages for Web mean SMS doesn't really fit the bill, either.