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Propose HN: Milkdrop AI
Would anyone be interested in creating an open-source machine learning project focused on Milkdrop? The basic idea is that it would analyze a group of Milkdrop presets and then output new presets, preferably with some guidance from the user.

While being an interesting ML challenge that would need to generate valid code, it would also be useful for performers and VJ's.

A few possible approaches:

- Generate new Milkdrop presets
- Find similarity between Milkdrop presets
- Walk between groups of Milkdrop presets
- Use the mash-up technique (of the Milkdrop editor) to combine only select sections of code
- Automatically categorize Milkdrop presets
- A preset editor which suggests lines of code

The average Milkdrop preset is about 15 kilobytes and can be opened in a text editor. So the presets are human readable. Also the code of a single preset is organized into groups: initialization code, per_frame equations, per_vertex equations, warp shader, composite shader.

Open-source Milkdrop projects to build on: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm --- https://github.com/mvsoft74/BeatDrop

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Dataset curated by hand

I've spent the last 7 months curating a best-of collection of Milkdrop presets. I went through 52,000 presets and selected only the best 9,795 Milkdrop presets. Includes screenshots of each preset.

https://thefulldomeblog.com/2020/02/21/nestdrop-presets-collection-cream-of-the-crop/

The presets have been organized into 11 category folders: Dancer, Drawing, Fractal, Geometric, Hypnotic, Particles, Reaction, Sparkle, Supernova, Waveform, Transition. Within each of these category folders the presets have been further organized into 183 various subcategory folders.

Full transparency, I'm part of the NestDrop team. I'd like to breath some life into preset creation. http://www.nestimmersion.ca/nestdrop.html
Solidarity my good people.

That is one virtue you americans have, that A Lot of us europeans simply do not.

It will be our downfall eventually, and the americans will perhaps conquer yet again, because you really are good at showing love and compassion.

I mean that.

Take care of yourselves and help where you can. Please.
Every time I eat something or go somewhere, or don't eat something or don't go somewhere, I'm taking a risk with my life.

What matters is what the level of risk is, and what the cost of reducing that risk is.

I feel lucky.
> So far there is not much Trump as done in regards to foreign policy that I disagree with

Except for culturing a situation where one of our closest allies justifiably doesn't trust us to help them out, even in straightforward ways, in the biggest international crisis of the last 70 years, you mean.

We've come a fucking long way from the Berlin airlift, huh? The biggest disaster isn't Trump, really. It's the realization that his poison goes so deep in the american psyche. No one will think of us the same again.
TLDR, as I see people complaining about the length of the author's blog post:

- the author mentions his work on "libman", a common format to describe C and C++ libraries. The idea is to have a manifest format that can be emitted by a package manager, then consumed by any build tools that supports it. The main example is "Conan (a C++ package manager) generates the libman file, CMake uses it for its build process". See the project at: https://github.com/vector-of-bool/libman

- then the author presents its own build and dependency management tool, named "Drop Dead Simple build and library management tool" (aka dds). It's one tool that can both consume and generate libman manifests (at least, that's what I understood), and should be simple to use in the majority of cases. It's still very alpha, you can find tutorials and documentation at: https://vector-of-bool.github.io/docs/dds/index.html

I spent the weekend playing a bit with both projects, it's really refreshing IMHO compared to CMake & co., and quite fun. It took me just a few minutes following the tutorials to get some side project build on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Keep in mind that all of this is still very early days, and experimental.
It is funny you guys don’t say that when sanctioning Iran to death. The definition of hypocrisy.
What has been shown however, is that for sars-cov-2 that young people are asymptomatic carriers at much higher rates than for other infections. And what has also been shown is that the R0 for other respiratory infections is tremendously higher in schools than in the general population.

Though it has not been proven that schools are a hotbed of contagion for sars-cov-2, there is a lot of reason to expect them to be and little reason to expect that they aren't.
True, though I suspect that to make the picture in the US remarkably worse.
I tried the advanced summarizer and got the lines below. Seems to me it skips summarizing beyond a certain length of the article.

Most people have had mild to moderate illness and recovered, but the virus is more serious for those who are older or have other health problems.

The risk of virus transmission from food servers is the same risk as transmission from other infected people, but “one of the concerns in that food servers, like others facing stark choices about insurance and paychecks, may be pressured to work even if they are sick,” she said.

Tests have found high amounts of virus in the throats and noses of people a couple days before they show symptoms.
Flu kills about 0.1% of those it infects, so the new virus seems about 10 times more lethal, the National Institutes of Health’s Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress last week.

The death rate has been higher among people with other health problems -- more than 10% for those with heart disease, for example.
Historically, google has chosen to leave these problems to the service layer. Their internal systems detect these events but don’t readily remediate them. I think this is great policy, it’s the reason why Google’s stack has excellent, sophisticated client-side load direction and error avoidance.
Many comments are breaking the site guidelines and the thread is certainly wretched but I'm not sure what behavior you're worried about beyond that.

Btw, it's best to send these concerns to hn@ycombinator.com. I only saw this by accident.
maybe something to be proud of by the person who actually did the digging down.
> In a separate statement, the health ministry told Reuters that the WELT am Sonntag report was accurate: "We confirm the report in the WELT am Sonntag," a spokesperson said.

Health ministry seems to confirm it. Calling Fake News on an article without any evidence comes across as needlessly partisan.
That’s really interesting. Cool idea
Interestingly this uses JHU data [1] (with lag because they don’t push in real time), yet somehow managed to omit part of the data, e.g. 8k cases in South Korea completely missing.

[1] https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
Hindsight is 20/20. And there is at least some sort of survivership bias.

In a huge system with lots of failover you won't notice all the contingencies they identified planed for and successfully mitigated. Then something breaks which; you thought would be covered under another redundancy, was covered until a recent change (firmware change to the HVAC system), you didn't plan for etc...

And everyone points at the failure and says "that seems obvious", meanwhile the mountain of tests and monitoring and redundancy goes unnoticed.
I very strongly recommend against putting pages like this up, unless you are qualified, especially with claims like "always updated", and especially as you are giving medical advice like "stay at home".

Some years ago, when I lived in a boat, I wanted better presentation of the river conditions (which you would look at if you wanted to go out for a cruise). I put something similar together. It scraped the UK's Environment Agency website and showed the status of various stretches of the River Thames on a Google Map. Just for fun.

I got an angry email when the scraper broke and the data got out of date. "You're putting lives at risk". I took his point, and took the site down.

The odds are much higher in this case. It might seem like a nice portfolio piece, but could be dangerous.
Do you realize that:

You might still need intensive care and not get it?

You might be infected and not know it?

This is really a huge gamble you're making, for your health and others'
This is like asking for a "universal vehicle". Some people want a truck while others want a forklift. It would also not be economical to make a truck extensible so that forklift components could be later tacked on. What vehicle you use depends on the goods you carry.

Likewise, the protocols do different things at different layers. Some are nested like Ethernet/IP/TCP/HTTP. TCP ensures delivery while UDP does not.
It does. It looks like it's for dirty holds where manual hosing from a distance isn't enough. Somebody or something needs to get a pressure nozzle up close and personal to the dirt. On a vertical surface in a moving ship, that's better done by a robot that can use magnets to climb steel.
Thanks, maybe I'll make a post of this instead of posing it as a question, that might create a discussion.

Oops, looks like that has already been done heh.
Today's Space X Launch Aborted at T-0
It's a form of personal attack to bring in someone's personal history as ammunition in an argument. You can't do that on HN, regardless of how strongly you feel about some other commenter or their work. No amount of personal upbraiding is worth the damage it does to the container. Please don't do it again.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The case of using someone's employer or field to shame them is particularly bad for this site, because it disincentivizes people from showing up where they have the most expertise. It's true that we're all strongly biased by our work, so some distortion is inevitable, but having HN be a place where people feel free to show up on topics that they're knowledgeable in is more important than policing each other for bias.

We're also trying to avoid the online callout/shaming culture on HN in general.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
That sounds more like making America #1.

America First is a different concept, and would be more like developing a vaccine and making sure Americans are vaccinated before anyone in other countries. But in this case we may not be the first to develop it so we want to buy it for ourselves.

Imagine the reaction from Trump's base if he could tell them that "he" secured a vaccine that will only be available to Americans.

To be clear, I'd much rather see America (or any country) develop a vaccine and share it to the world free of royalties, but at least in America, that's not the political climate we live in.

On April 12, 1955, the day the Salk vaccine was declared “safe, effective and potent,” legendary CBS newsman Edward R. Morrow interviewed its creator and asked who owned the patent. “Well, the people, I would say,” said Salk in light of the millions of charitable donations raised by the March of Dimes that funded the vaccine’s research and field testing. “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” Lawyers for the foundation had investigated the possibility of patenting the vaccine but did not pursue it, in part because of Salk’s reluct
The UK already has more aggressive policies than Canada and our PM is in isolation. The UK is easily par for the course. It really only got very serious yesterday when numbers doubled (which we saw with the US reacting to that news).

The UK government has also completely denied the “herd immunity” thing is part of any active policy. But that hasn’t slowed down social media... or HN for that matter.
I love this great interview! Looks legit
Show HN: SplitCSS - new API for reducing unused CSS
Digital tracing also seems to be very helpful in the Korean response. Would you support your government to have a digital database of gps data, credit card transactions, and immigration entry information?
They probably just ran the numbers and discovered they'd be risking fewer lives if they did what they are doing instead of shutting down their economy indefinitely. The latter, at a large enough scale, can be quite deadly too.
Gag laws aren't needed, and most states and countries don't have them.

Some states have gag laws because activists kept trespassing onto farms and disrupting activities, including harassing workers and endangering themselves in order to get footage. There are several shots in the video in which the camera person could have fallen into the machinery and become sausage or fillets.

I claim that most of the practices in the film are unusual in the West, especially since they violate farm safety laws passed after the mad cow outbreak several decades ago. It's also not clear why footage from Asian factory fish farms is relevant to a discussion of factory farms in the West.
Would be cool to have a country selector. It’s the “all politics is local” effect, since the global numbers really have no meaning except academic.
> I don't have a right to nutritious food

Many, many people would disagree with that statement. Who says you don't have a right to nutritious food?
Hypocrisy is standing for one thing and doing another. Standing against the policies of the government you’re governed by is not hypocritical, by any measure whatsoever. Americans are not individually responsible for our governments actions any more than a German is responsible for the historical actions of theirs.
Company Opens Xfinity WiFi Network Nationally for Free
Is it a mindless leader of large corporation, or is it Government? It does not reflect the character of USA people.
They listed the constraint of no back-back shifts in the text but didn't implement it as a constraint.
Good catch. I have turned a game into matching stories with their headlines.

This is fun to do with buddies over email.
Get any newspaper. Cut out the stories and cut off the headlines. Now try to match them. You will often ask yourself questions like “how did they get this from that?” I like to blend stories from different sources, including known misinformation, and seeing what happens.

Without doping the story with the headlines sensationalism, the mainstream news is actually pretty tame.
It's worth pointing out that Italy is about 2 weeks further along in infection spread than the UK and Spain a week.

Italy's had 1800 death, Spain 300, UK 30. They're all roughly the same size population (60, 50, 70 million)

As I've said in other threads on this, I would assume that the earlier you lock down, the longer you have to stay locked down. Or you risk a second peak.

There's a balancing act, given that it's not possible now to stop the spread, only slow it. Lock down too early and you do a lot of damage to the economy and by extension the country. Lock down too late and people die from lack of care.
If the data cannot change and is not gated by AuthZ/AuthN then it is usually called a public cache.

If the data cannot change but is controlled by AuthZ/AuthN then it is pretty clearly not stateless.

I get what you mean, but calling a cache "stateless" seems like a contradiction in terms to me.
Wikipedia says it was a mutation, although the selective pressure on that mutation (war) is something we hopefully won't have in today's circumstances.
Apology Act (2009)
Bitcoin Risk and the Once-in-Cycle Trade
So creating theme and selling your have this much revenue? Why go for all the work? Cant you sell using themeforest or stuff like that?
He could be doing both.

NB I have no reason to suppose the story is actually true. Very likely it isn't.

But the motivation the story claims Ford had does make sense. He was in a position to influence other employers' decisions by reputation, not just via the price mechanism.

If there's one equilibrium where factory workers in general end up as unskilled labourers, and another where they end up as skilled, the latter is better for Ford because of the products he happens to sell.
Amazing; I love the way he describes the usage of the program from first principles, and the programmatic translation of musical techniques, which is quite ingenious. Well worth a watch (and listen).
> If you accept this, then the only solution is to reduce the transmission rate to reduce saturation of the healthcare system, i.e. “flatten the curve”.

But for how long can you keep people holed up in their homes? This is a tradeoff that the government (whatever it is, in whatever country), must be prepared to face (even if it just means extending lockdowns).

Also, once the curve is flattened, will you allow people to leave their homes, and if so, what if another outbreak occurs? Will you lock people periodically every year until treatments are available?

(meant with no rhetoric: a question that I keep asking myself) Will this be sustainable in the long run?
Let us be cynical here, the NHS already kills thousands of critical but not necessarily terminal patients as a cost saving measure.

Shaving off a decade of lifetime or more from chronically ill patients could save the NHS trillions of pounds in the coming years.
I know AE offers different types of soles, including some very weather resistant ones. You probably know this, but just in case; and you might have more options for different soles if you buy online.

That said, I've heard their QA and service have gone downhill dramatically over the past year or two since their aquisition.
A very good point. My worldview of performance is highly biased towards “full steam ahead” desktop graphics.

Video encoding is a bit of a special case though because the common algorithms are carefully designed for hardware acceleration. For most rendering, it doesn’t make sense to go out of your way to avoid the FPU.
American Airlines cuts long-haul international flights by 75%
I have been building a employee scheduling system in a factory environment. New employees need to be trained on machines, for a certain number of shifts, with a limit of how many employees can train on a machine at a time.

A question becomes "how many new employees could we handle?".

I looked at some solutions, but landed on an Excel spreadsheet with a small macro for spreadsheet setup, conditional formatting to call out an employee being allocated to 2 positions on the same shift, and a visual way to show for each operator, how long it takes to be fully trained. HR or a manager can setup training schedules by manually allocating people to training slots.

There were some constraints the business wanted (train on machine #1 before #2, do 2 days of training if you haven't already trained on _x_ machine). They would have been hard to accommodate in a way the end user could configure, so I have a notes section they can fill in (and they have to manually observe these constraints).

Totally open to other ideas people have on how to approach the proble.
Such a protocol would be so dynamic you'd just end up with nodes that are all unique in that no two nodes that aren't running the same OS/software run the same capabilities of "universal protocol". As a result you have the same problem now without the ability to categorize nodes by which features they actually support (currently covered by "protocols" which rely on simpler protocol abstractions to be passed by intermediate nodes that don't understand them).
In go? This is a job for rust!

...there goes my weekend.
I didn't expect it to work for either.
Here's an explanation on why decreasing the rate a little bit via the isolation may save lifes tenfold https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22548734
Elon Musk Downplays Covid-19 Danger in Email to Space-X Employees
Last time this line of discussion came up someone confessed that they discovered they’d accidentally made an exhaust fan into an intake fan thereby blowing hot air across their cpu into their drives and nearly baking them.
The article centers on this:

> The point is not so as to be paying a "decent wage" or anything of that sort: it is to be paying a higher wage than other employers.

There are a couple of key take things to take away from that.

* The employer is less pressured to find candidates. Candidates will find the employer if it means double wages.

* The employer has more choices. They aren't locked into settling for somebody vaguely competent from a limited pool of applicants.

* Employees are locked in knowing they cannot go somewhere else for equivalent money.

Despite those points there are limitations to this approach. For example, I have known many low income people who would not join the military even though it could mean double or more in wages. Likewise I have also known many people who refuse to get into software knowing they could double their wages. I would also be willing to accept lower wages elsewhere if the work were engaging and meaningful (however a person defines meaningful).

The only way that super high wages make sense numerically is if it results in retaining employees for a longer enough period to reduce expenses of employee replacement over a satisfactory time period and results in a premium on choice of employee from the population at large.

Wages alone won't provide a combination of those though. There has to be something in addition that makes the employer stand out in world class fashion. That could be unique opportunities, superior training, an accreditation program, research recognition, or something else. If this is missing the organization is going to swell with a certain percentage of bad candidates that will decay the organization over time from the inside out.

Government agencies emphasize the later more than the former because they have budget limitations on what they are allowed to pay employees and because the later has proven more historically reliable at retainment.
"Some of you will die* this year, and there is nothing that anyone can do about that"

*some of you will die even without the virus, more of you will die than normal because of it, this is awful, but true.
The "confirmation" in the article:

> “The German government is very interested in ensuring that vaccines and active substances against the new coronavirus are also developed in Germany and Europe,” a Health Ministry spokeswoman said

That doesn’t sound like they’re confirming exclusive access. In fact, the quote sounds like they’re explicitly going out of their way to not say that.
The idea of being contagious and spreading the virus to others doesn't bother you?
I’m curious as to your definition of a little white lie, and I wonder how durable you think this calm is. People clamoring for tests nationwide don’t need provable lies told to them. They need confidence that the people in charge know what they’re doing and they need to know how they can access the tests. These lies are hurting, not helping.
Some people who recover from corona might be left with 20/30% less lung function
Taiwan is 23 million people. The UK is 67 million people. The level of confidence of your comment does not seem to be warranted by your level of knowledge.
Getting the healthcare system "back to normal" ASAP is the top priority, and you do that by flattening the curve as much as feasible. Once we actually know what the sustainable carrying capacity of the medical system is and how not to exceed it, we can maybe think about relaxing these policies and moving cautiously towards a "herd immunity FTW" approach.
This is on point. This is why I never released an app I made for ocean diving conditions. Hydrographic offices exist to provide accurate information, and to be liable for what they produce. I could waive liability, but then I could still endanger people. It isn't worth it. Don't give people advice, don't assume the role of a professional if you aren't one.
I didn't say you had to coddle someone, but it's equally clear you asked the question with the intent of being a dick, not to actually engage with the parent poster. "Haha, look how superior my intellect is, did you even think about water?!" is materially different than exploring and questioning someone's belief.