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MuseScore has been transformed in recent versions. Great strides in quality while simultaneously turning away from being community-owned, that's at least the feeling I get.

Musescore is now hard to install, distributions don't carry builds of it. It's now only distributed as snap, flatpak and appimage. It now integrates with commercial services, etc.

That's just a characterization of what it looks like from the linux front, the application is sliding over to behave like a commercial project.
No need for ad hominem attacks - I’ve followed Swedish politics all my life.

I’ve never argued for sending Kurds to turkey, and I’m not blaming Swedens problems on any immigrants - they are completely self made by self centered so called leaders and a gullible populace who has had little exposure to the outside world.

Have a nice day
I'll also have the need to make namespaces dynamic and centrally coordinate their lifecycle along with the rest of my infrastructure as I stand up anything that needs some sort of coordinated ID. So I've just moved this issue to an even larger scope with even more complexity.

What do I gain for this? UUIDs solve all of this because the chance of creating a duplicate is so low it can effectively be ignored. I can namespace UUIDS and create chains of them if needed.

This is the reason both exist. We need both. We can use both.
> Meanwhile, they'll happily pay Deloitte or Accenture 3x as much as what I charge, and then take the misguided ramblings of a junior-sold-as-senior at face value, not knowing the difference.

This is so true.

It's also very difficult to stop as the consultancy gets the project and the client doesn't get to interview the people who actually turn up.
I'm talking about iMessage and FaceTime as apps not the entire business. Apple is threatening disabling those apps not their presence in the UK.
> it is unsafe to assume that a raw nanosecond timestamp is a unique identifier

It is reasonable to assume that a raw nanosecond timestamp is a unique identifier in cases when you can reasonably expect such identifiers are not generated too offten.

I.e. this is Ok (and even redundant) for identifying manual interactions a single user would pdosuce. It probably is also Ok for labelling manual interactions multiple users would produce if that's a small team.
I have no clue what web components are and at this point I am afraid to ask.

Probably something to take up with ChatGPT at some point.
One of the saddest moments was hearing a smart person with barely a few years of experience insist that code always degrades in quality and there's nothing you can really do about it...

Never saw them try.
Enjoy the non heat-death of the universe
It was a bit alarming to see Fly offering significant resources for free (and encourage using them in the docs, subtly making them a feature and a reason to switch) back then. I wondered if they overestimated the conscientiousness of the industry: as with Heroku, surely once the word is out in the wider world plenty of people would flock over just to not pay. Guess what happened next…

Heroku was a new thing back then, so it took a while for abuse to ramp up—but every subsequent attempt at being generous should not even be considered without either a vicious and expensive anti-fraud department in place or deep pockets to compensate for the initial lack of said department by throwing enough hardware that the minority of honest users don’t notice the overhead.

My impression suggests that Fly does not score high on either of the above. Which is partly why I like them—the above seems like megacorp type bullshit, and they seem to be strictly no-megacorp-bullshit—but I wouldn’t be surprised if engineers at Fly had to spent most of their time dealing with fires or optimizing resource allocation and auto-limiting freeloading cryptominers, scammers, and other abusers rather than focusing on longer term infrastructure reliability or DX.
And some of these millions of not-popular musicians have fans too, because their music speaks to ("just") them.

I think there is a chart to be made, of the universality/popularity <-> personal axis, vs the duration of appreciation axis

platonic solids/pop songs/memes are popular/commonplace but their appreciation is usually short
One that comes to mind is LemonSqueezy
I think scientists can be very helpful in this endeavour by suggesting things that interested amateurs can do. Of course, this doesn't mean they shouldn't do anything else!

One example: As a hobby astronomer, i can help advance science by taking measurements. I've found information about this topic to be somewhat difficult to find. There is a telescope which makes it very easy (the Unistellar), but it appears overpriced to me (4500€ for a telescope with a small 114mm mirror!).
Can someone try to explain this architecture / whisper reimplementation? Thanks.
Normally I can chuckle at El Reg's hyperbolic sense of humour, because it tends to have at least some connection with logic and reality. But this has nothing whatsoever to do with telephone sanitizers. Unless in some weird parallel universe "sanitizer" is now a synonym for technician or engineer.

The original joke was that people specifically employed to _clean_ telephone equipment - not those responsible for its functionality - were deemed useless to society, although (spoiler alert) that assumption may have been a grave mistake on the part of the Golgafrinchans...
Blame Hollywood. The mythos of a lone, brilliant genius doing feats unimaginable to “normal people” is everywhere, unfortunately.
> Meanwhile, they'll happily pay Deloitte or Accenture 3x as much as what I charge, and then take the misguided ramblings of a junior-sold-as-senior at face value, not knowing the difference.

The main selling point is that big 4/8/16 have standard process, that does not really work, but gives the impression of "high quality" to clients, who are not technical.
> young, smart me decided that "string.h must be broken"

I mean, fundamentally, you weren't completely wrong.
Same, tried a bunch before moving completely to Hetzner. I'm super happy with their service.
> One side note - a friend of mine has a house that sits on a county and city border, and is taxed in 2 different cities and 2 different counties here on the outskirts of Houston. He gets multiple tax bills per year, and doing anything to his house is a nightmare because of the different codes (yes, he has multiple building codes in different parts of his house). This is what the state is trying to reduce.

This is not at all what the state is trying to reduce. The number of people who live in houses that straddle jurisdictional barriers is vanishingly small. And I’m sorry to be uncharitable to your friend, but what else on earth would you expect if you choose to buy into such a bizarrely situated property?
It hadn't occurred to me that there would be significant energy contained in a beam of sub-atomic particles. Something like 100kg TNT equivalent (~500MJ)? Wow.
Small joys of programming in Odin
great article and well supported (loved the tennis example).

i can't help but notice that Cedric (author of commoncog, and a friend) is accumulating a good body of work exploring knowledge and expertise acquisition. is this something that is generically applicable or are we reading convincing-sounding text generated by a very advanced human expertise language model? I guess the only way to know for sure is for Cedric to open up a coaching practice and see the results?
> Why do you need the time component anyway?

To sort or filter the records by time. Sure, you can just add an extra column if you need this, but there are cases when this is not convenient to do. E.g. when you want to be able to export the records info files, naming the files with the IDs and still be able to sort them.
Dunning-kruger strikes again
that's an awesome site
The K’nurta Calculator [video]
This is a video (not mine) showing a Curta-style calculator made from Knex. If you know what octal/base-8 is, you can skip 1:28 to 4:30.
I actually found this really pleasant to read. My eye seemed to be able to move from each word to the next more smoothly. It is interesting to note how the slightly uneven weights on each character are similar to fonts designed to aid Dyslexic readers like OpenDyslexic. I wonder if that is why. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDyslexic
Ethics, what are ethics?
Quench

Nice verb
The problem with UUIDs is they are completely unreadable. Not just you can't understand them, it is prohibitively hard to even distinguish between them visually. This is why identifiers which would not include any bit of information (or noise) beyond the necessary minimum are useful in some cases.
> This strongly encourages influencers to provide positive reviews.

The problem is conflating influencers and review outlets. These are two very different things although influencers do everything they can to blurry the lines.
Anytype aims to be an open ecosystem. We open the source code. Now will announce the contributor program. We will start with translations and gallery of templates, then imports/data adaptors, then design themes and extensions.
Frankly, the only solution to reducing dependence on these type of things is self-hosting. At least then you will be able to be 100% sure of causes and resolutions

Companies moving to the cloud are only increasing their operating costs
…if it ultimately profits them.

This doesn’t, so I do not think they will be motivated to fight Nintendo for this at all.
This looks really cool. Can you give give a quick rundowns on how your goals with this differ from Nomic’s GPT4all project?

Do you intend to support fine tuning and other development functions?
However, such lone geniuses have indeed existed, no? e.g., Ramanujan.

The American taste for comic book superheroes makes such stories compelling.
They profit from spying on you so obviously they need an app and SaaS per device vendor. In their perspective interoperability is an anti-feuture.

Even just pushing one of those IoT buttons tells them you are at home and is probably used for some ad placement or credit score or whatever.
This report really has disturbingly strong Half-Life 1 vibes for me.
Project redirecting Hong Kong users dependency downloads to China
one more point i want to mention - if u intend this to be used for genuine document signing, you may want to switch to a .com domain and do a registry lock[1]. I mean these are legal documents at the end of the day.

If u ever want to do enterprise contracts, they will insist on this. Might as well do it now, while ur still early.

registry lock is only possible for a limited set of TLD AFAIK.

https://www.nameshield.com/en/cybersecurity/registry-lock/
But without threat of violence?

What are you referring to?
I imagine they made numerous visits to Israel because they were Jewish, just as Einstein did. Although Oppenheimer is said to have been ashamed of his Jewishness and tried to hide it, he still was a supporter of Israel and of course this meant helping their nuclear program. He met with Weizmann in 47 and Ben-Gurion in 52, literally just after the holocaust. He helped Israel as he was concerned about Egyptian-Russian relations and securing the position of the only Jewish majority state in the world in the wake of the largest industrialized genocide. Ben-Gurion recruited many Jewish scientists with the explicit goal of ensuring something like the holocaust never happened again. The french also helped newly independent Israel.

Why would this information be relevant in modern coverage of Oppenheimer and Teller? They weren't atomic spies selling secrets to an enemy state? The USSR was obviously not equivalent to Israel given the US was the first country to even recognize Israel. Post-WW2 the world was fractured into the eastern and western blocs, and obviously the USSR was the enemy. So I don't see your point

Finally, Israel's nuclear weapons policy is drastically different to that of the US or the then-USSR. The purpose is entirely defensive as Israel is a small country surrounded by majority-Muslim countries which have invaded Israel several times; Israel cannot afford to lose a war as this threatens the very existence of Jews. The US and USSR had very different, intentionally antagonistic policies with the exact opposite of deliberate ambiguity.
Oppenheimer will forever be associated with both delivering the the nuclear weapon and with his own reflection on what he had done, whether triumph or regret. His legacy is equally sociological as it is scientific or technological.

To pick him apart and view him only through the lens of his physics research is very myopic, equivalent to picking apart whether Bill Gates was a great programmer.
Why would it be sarcastic?
You can hand out uuidv4 to clients without revealing anything.
Well yes, but whatever milk/water you serve in it right afterwards will still taste and smell of burnt plastic. I take it as something inevitable because no one's going to be giving a glass milk bottle to an infant.

Maybe I should dump every single child plastic drink/dinnerware for 18/10 stainless steel.
American Annihilation: US families face a unique danger – murder from within
The answer is both of them together obviously. The dichotomy you propose doesn’t exist. Curriculum like most things are collective endeavour.
Create a new column with an MD5 hash of the other columns. Easy.

/s
$0.000025, ahem.
Oh yeah, no doubt there.

If a nobody like me writes a random blog post saying my custom way of doing ThisSecuritySensitiveThing is the best, at the next microsecond I'll have half the world linking me to like 20 different papers and 5 real incidents proving why I'm wrong.

And I wouldn't be able to wiggle my way out of that criticism with responses like "but it works for us".
Archived/non-paywall version: https://archive.li/8C46O
The "major consequences" seem to be for the schedule:

> This incident will probably have a great impact on the LHC schedule, with machine operation unlikely to resume for at least several weeks.

I also read it instantly in case they had a black hole on their hands, even though I'd expect us all to be dead almost instantly if any real "major consequence" event truly happened in the accelerators.
Cloudflare API Shield adds CA cert support
Database indices.
That's like trying to find a unicorn on Mars, at least if your definition of unicorn goes beyond a frozen donkey with a mop fastened to its brow...
Reading this thread, I didn't know so many people use microwaves.

I've never owned one, traditional cooking, food taste better and insert other conspiracies...
I never had code where I was like, oh this has too many comments.

I never get this sentiment from developers. I've had reviews were developers wanted me to slim down & rewrite comments.

It's often hard in the moment to understand what's obvious or not. Just always writing a comment even if it's obvious can save a lot of pain in the future.
this is a bit of a non-story, if the gadgets are worthless the data will show it and there will be no payment made for the devices.
> markets can't go below zero and also can't jump by more than a certain amount per day either

It depends on what you are looking at, and how you are modelling it, isn't it?

For example: the value of log(asset_value_today/asset_value_yesterday) can become unbounded (and, thus, so can all its moments).

Furthermore, the problem is not just the "finite variance assumption", but the fact that the CLT only talks about what happens asymptotically: for some reason people use t-scores in practice, rather than z-scores. CLT does not imply normality of (e.g.) sum-based estimators if you have finite number of samples (which is pretty much always the case).
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For reference, I did offer alternative solutions.

> I'm surprised you've spent your career doing this and you still haven't figured out how to get people to listen to you.

This is the point of the article, which you appear to have missed.

There's a point where it becomes essentially impossible to articulate the differences to the lay person. Or for that matter, someone actually quite skilled, but not a "master".

It's not a lack of skill on the part of the expert, it's the lack of skill on the part of everybody else.
Careful. It's only one small inference to women being valuable, and a socio-biological explanation of why so many groups tended to protect women and the consequence for the power balance.

Just for the trigger happy: I'm not saying we should lock our women behind the kitchen counter in a modern society, but that roles are much, much older than that, and may have an evolutionary reason.
One thing is dating. The other is that people treat others differently depending on their attractiveness in any other aspect of life. Not only how kids relate to each other in school but even how parents (often subconsciously) favor the more attractive kids.

There is a story by Ted Chiang on a device that makes you blind to the physical attractiveness of other people, "Liking What You See: A Documentary" (https://waldyrious.neocities.org/ted_chiang/liking-what-you-...).
More importantly if you have an index on purely random IDs, then each insert will go to some random position into the tree whereas having IDs that increase with time will make all new IDs end up at the end of the tree which reduces index fragmentation.
Our Go ULID package has millisecond precision + monotonic random bytes for disambiguation while preserving ordering within the same millisecond. https://github.com/oklog/ulid
Your linked site states:

> The harmonised indices shall be annually chain-linked Laspeyres-type indices.

And further down:

> Elementary aggregate indices for the HICPs are computed as the ratio of the geometric average of prices or the ratio of the arithmetic average of prices. The arithmetic mean of price relatives may only be applied in exceptional cases and where it can be shown to be comparable.

I read this as:

- individual indices for countries are calculated using the Laspeyres [1] formula, which is effectively an arithmetic mean of weighted prices of different products, not a geometric mean

- the individual indices of countries are then "aggregated" by calculating the geometric mean

That'd mean that outlier countries would not move the average much so there you'd have underestimation of inflation to a certain degree. But it wouldn't mean that individual products/components of the consumption basket that significantly increased in price would be undererstimated through the geometric mean.

Right?

Just calculating a geometric mean of countries' indices to get an index for EU wouldn't make much sense, though .. they'd have to weigh the indices with population, GDP or total consumption.

So the actual calculation to get the HICP is surely more complicated than that.

But if they really use Laspeyres then the underestimation due to geometric mean shouldn't be an issue here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_index#Paasche_and_Laspey...
According to some people on Twitter, this should've been deleted lol
That's interesting way to validate JSON. Basically they run the whole compiler (making it a runtime dependency). Hopefully this horrible implementation would nudge TypeScript developers into a direction of implementing RTTI.
>Can we separate that from the entirely correct action from Amazon of "if you are going to insult our deliverypeople with racist language, we no longer will send them to your house".

What!?!? The description of the incident says " Amazon completely shut down the customer's account, locking him out of his smart home devices."

How is that "we will no longer send them to your house"?

If in order to not send a delivery person to a customer's house Amazon needs to shut down the customer's account it would seem that the one having difficulty separating these things that should be separate is Amazon and not anyone else?
I haven't used Lit yet, but have used lit-html standalone professionally for some projects. (lit-html is a very small, very performant library and the templating solution for Lit).

I'm very happy with it. I don't have a use-case for web components (so far) and am happy to just wire up dom events to state changes to lit-html. It requires _very_ minimal plumbing and is very easy to reason about.
Great piano play; it's not actually "rendered", but very professionally performed by a human artist!
> But HN is not a customer service forum ?

you must be new here ;-)
Unity3d VR Developer
When you get used to this basic principle of when you create something, the creator slaps a name on it, it stops being considered a hassle or confusing.

More specifically:

1. When you create something, the creator names it.

2. When you bring something you created outside your scope, you prepend your name to it.

It's kind of what we do with (actual) children if you think, slightly less structured, but the idea was always there. Just add recursion to complete the principle.
What features are missing?

In contrast, I almost feel like Stripe is innovating too much. I wish they stopped product development, no more redesigns, no more API breaking changes, it already "just works" so why rewrite and "improve" everything endlessly.
It's absurd that in 2023 the operation of your home appliances depends on your relationship with your mailman. Large tech companies like Amazon have their fingers in way too many pies. It may not technically be a monopoly, but it seems very detrimental to consumers.
If anything it’s more important. Without it you cannot separate its confabulation from its useful output.

Knowing when to use what tool, how to do it properly and to what extent takes expertise as well.

Carpenters and craftsmen in general are infinitely more productive with woodworking and related tools than I will ever be. My destiny is assembling IKEA cupboards. The same principle will apply with AI tools. Sure you can whip up something, but a specialist will do it infinitely better in 1/100th of the time with the same tools.

Guess who will be employed to make use of said tools?
> The people looking for a higher quality product will immediately go for the more expensive product

It is more complicated than that. There is no guarantee that the more expensive wallet is also the higher-quality product. The people looking for a higher-quality product can be classified into those who can measure the quality well (perhaps by observing those minor differences), and those who have to use less effective proxies of quality (like price).
although it is unethical for Amazon to do this etc. and obviously I am the last person to argue for people needing to be smart about things but probably it would make sense not to have business services associated with personal services, also for tax purposes etc.