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Great article, I wish I'd seen the mid-project posting to HN. I was skeptical about the Alexa integration but that seems to work well.

> ludicrously difficult to set up. Laptop + low-latency Linux + Ardour + QLC+...

This resonates [sorry] with me. Linux sound today seems painfully reminiscent of Linux X-Windows 20 years ago. There's a lot of painful voodoo, competing control systems and legions of mostly out-dated forum threads of dead-ends, anecdotal advice, misinformation. I'm hoping that the next Ubuntu Studio will Just Work on the laptop that I have put aside for it and that I won't have to waste more time in the Pulse/Alsa/Jack soup.

I was aware of Guitarix but have not yet played with it. My youngest is learning electric and we've got to the point where we can play together, with me pounding out the bass line on an old classical we had lying around(!). That is a blast but I wasn't really intending to become a bassist. If I were to pick up an electric guitar to fool around on, can Guitarix drop me down an octave and make me a pretend bass player? (I had a quick poke around the Guitarix wiki, couldn't see anything). There must be DAW processing plugins to do this, but I'd really like to be live. Are there other solutions? (apart from buying more instruments I mean...).

Oh, and I love this:

> So I bought a 3D printer and became a CAD guy, I guess

"I had a hard problem to solve... so I... casually nuked it" :)
There is zero chance that Google 'pulls out' to avoid a 'ripple effect' - because this would cause a much more existential 'ripple effect' in other ways.

Google pulling out of any regular nation would be existentially damaging.

MS/Bing would weaponize this to the nth degree - they already have service contracts with businesses and corporations around the world and they'd be in a global push to 'drop Google' for the inherent risk of pullout they just witnesses.

This would be the #1 talking point for their massive global salesforce.
I was not interested in hypotheticals, I want actual substantial evidence that it solves anything practical now, after 11 years.
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Curious question: how come Horowitz does not address the successes of Taiwan or Mongolia?

These countries did far better than the West. They also acted quickly. So, it is obvious that to have done better with COVID-19 we simply needed to "build" a Taiwan.

Oh, but that's right, Taiwan has zero trust in the CCP (or their WHO lapdog) and shut out the Chinese way before anyone else ... I mean that could have been the solution too.

> What do you think we should build? There’s an excellent chance I’ll agree with you.

Great! Then let's start generating that anti-CCP propaganda sooner than later!
TikTok, as others have mentioned, is much lower friction, and is more algorithmically driven. Unfortunately, this means the quality is much lower.

Every time I see a good TikTok, it makes me miss Vine. Vine was a huge outlet for young black people to express themselves, so much that "Black People Vines" constitute their own genre [0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9qXmk8jhaE
If you have a very low error rate line, the main point at which packet loss will occur for UDP is on the receiving system. If the receive buffer size is not large enough, it is possible that it can get filled up while the receiving app is doing other things, and then packets will be dropped.
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I don't know for sure, but I feel like this app probably was born out of Indie Hackers and for whatever reason Indie Hackers puts a huge emphasis on age (it's the first thing listed in everyone's bio, before location or what they do).

I think their goal is to be inclusive (anyone, of any age or gender or race, can be a maker!), but I can see how it feels odd out of context.
I'm glad to see Thomas Paine referenced in this article. So many Americans don't realize that one of America's founding fathers championed the idea of universal basic income back when the USA was just being created.

This was something that Andrew Yang pointed out, but was largely ignored.
I don't think that's the right question to ask. It should be "Would they be happier if the tax to fund UBI was not levied"
This here says Docker with virtualbox is a thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/eatpwu/docker_c...
I didn't look for artifacts for the first part, got totally into the moment.

Yeah, my untrained eye can see things, if I'm looking. But this was a context where the maker was saying out loud "look what we can do with fake faces."

Most people won't be looking, their first perspective will be that created by the perpetrator. People will be manipulated by these, especially those that want to be manipulated.

These things will work. Even ones that are shown to be fake will have done their lasting damage.
Once we implement UBI, what's the argument against doubling it?
Another thing Python and Go unfortunately have in common is a community (not necessarily core developers) with knee-jerk reactions to any criticism.

> go: tends to wait and implement something once the problem is understood.

Go's modules provide no additional "understanding" over any of the other Bundler-derived solutions in the world. MVS was the primary innovation, but wanting checksum validation means I have to track all the same data anyway.

> took 2 years after go maintainers decided to solve the dependency issues

This is revisionist history. There were other official "solutions" before ("you don't need it", "vgo is good enough", and "we'll follow community decisions"). If this one sticks, it's fine. But you can't say it's good now just because it's the one we have now - it's good now if it's the one we still manage to have in five years.

Go's track record is not "good" (in that regard I think only Cargo qualifies). At best it's "mercifully short."

> and honestly the proxy issues were not real.

Documentation was poor, the needed flags changed shortly before release, the design risks information leaks, and the entire system should not have been on by default for at least one more minor version.

> python is how old now? couple decades? and it has only gotten worse over time.

Yeah, that's exactly why I said "Python just looks worse right now because it's been around longer." It hasn't gotten worse though, it just also hasn't stopped churning. And if Go doesn't stop churning, in 10 years it will look the same.

The age argument works both ways - multiple major versions of Python predate Bundler. Go has no excuse for taking so long to reinvent "Bundler with incidentals", just like every other language.
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Looks like he used Ardour [1] and Guitarix [2].

I am curious about the latency of this setup, having used jack and Ardour in the past for recording. I would be very surprised if this rig yields a latency below a couple dozen milliseconds, which, at least for me, is absolutely unbearable when playing guitar.

Even with a dedicated DSP, effects processors in the early 2000's (like the otherwise excellent Vox TonelabSE) greatly struggled with latency issues.

[1] https://ardour.org/

[2] https://guitarix.org/
> I don't want to get into partisan politics, but the US central authorities weren't serious about the problem

This was a problem in Germany as well. End of January, the German minister of health still said that Corona is not as bad as the yearly Influenza.

> until relatively late in the process, and our testing ramp up was also very slow.

Ramping up testing was also very slow in the beginning and highly chaotic.
hopefully, one day geopoliticism will go away. so called sanctions etc affect regular people. the teen can't even fly easily or represent iran due to sanctions
>But the whole premise is absurd. Bill Gates doesn’t need to inject tracking microchips into everyone through a forced vaccination program to “sway elections” — that’s Hollywood supervillain-level garbage: a massively intricate complex plan that achieves so little. It’s like inventing a time machine just to use it to prove to your friend that he really did say that thing he denies he said in 1972.

That's not what I'm talking about. You're conflating vaccination with the id2020 program. Different conspiracies. I'm just saying, if you implant an RFID digital certificate, you're effectively a walking uuid beacon. I'm not saying that's where he's going but the technology is there and his foundation is funding research into something like an RFID tattoo. Very easy to convince the masses that this is a necessary technology for safety given the new normal brought about by COVID19.

If I had billions of dollars I'd certainly be tempted to play worldbuilder. I very much doubt that he sees the masses as people - not out of heartlessness, but out of a necessary objectivity. They are statistics.
9 days ago Ioaniddis said

If I were to make an informed estimate based on the limited testing data we have, I would say that covid-19 will result in fewer than 40,000 deaths this season in the USA,
Eh, that's a bit extreme. If I write a todo in code rather than just doing it, it's because I've already made the decision that it's not important/needed enough to do now.
Check out Bela also for low latency audio.

https://bela.io/
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“Universal basic income” of any reasonable size in, e.g., the US, requires the creation of new money, because taxation is insufficient for its funding.

New money derives its value, subtractively, from the value of existing money (“WEALTH”), which is held by individuals who earned that money (“WORKERS“).

Some individuals decide not to work because of reasons OTHER THAN retirement, inheritance, disability, and child bearing; these individuals do not contribute directly to production (for convenience, we’ll call this group “LAZYS”).

Therefore, giving UBI to LAZYS intrinsically takes WEALTH from WORKERS, regardless of whether not WORKERS also get UBI.

In other words, universal basic income can be correctly defined as “transfer payments from WORKERS to LAZYS“.
I think a vaccine is quite likely to be developed within the next couple years, the virus isn't as complex or difficult as influenza or hiv to target and we have some well defined targets to go after, as well as numerous vaccines already in clinical trials.
I asked my dad about this. His answer was, (paraphrased) "We don't even come close to even with all the joy you and your brothers gave your mom and I. And now with grandkids you're paying out more than ever!"

And I get what he means. I have two toddlers and they're positively exhausting. But I've never before felt joy like this. They give my life very very clear purpose when before I was a bit lost.
Can you talk about all of the systems you employ to make your efficiency higher?
Bitcoin is imho a terrible solution because it’s unstable / volatile and it’s totally a ponzi scheme + piramid scheme.

I want my money to be backed up by a government that wants to keep society stable.

Sad to see that bc is always so tied to distrust of governments. That way of thinking seems so naive.
Why the hate?

Do you know of any modeling solution where you can pick up your guitar and play without your hands ever leaving the guitar?

Do you know of any modeling solution that will automatically change your guitar tones during playback?

And automate your loopers?

And scroll lyrics and chords in perfect time?

And (eventually) automate your vocal effects, lights, fog machines, drone cameras and dancing baby Groot?

For < $150?

Thingamagig understands the underlying composition which is a critical component of advanced automation. No other solution on the market does this. If it did, I would have bought it and been done with it.
It's so hard to prioritize tech debt and usually those cards only come back to the conversation when it blocks a new feature or causes a big bug.

Now as a manager, when new work comes in I ask my team if any solution for the new feature would allow us to also pick away at any of the tech debt cards. There is usually always a few and we plan it into the deliverable timeline.
Isn't this essentially what backpropagation does in neural networks?
It depends on what the characteristics of the transmission line are. If it is purely random, that is one thing, but often if one packet is dropped or smashed, there is a higher probability of following ones to meet the same fate. For example, if the transmission is over a microwave link, it is easy to see how something could cause a few thousand packets in a row to go missing.
Tens of thousands of engineers successfully use these chips already without this data.

Divulging this data ends a revenue stream (which funds tooling development) and prevents competitors from potentially extracting useful information.

There's zero reason to open the chips up at that level.
> Time series forecasting […] is hard […]

> Leaving modeling up to the professionals is completely the wrong lesson.

I don’t understand what you’re saying. Nobody is advocating that amateurs be precluded from modeling to their heart’s content.

So what are you advocating? One should discard models from professionals? One should prefer models from non-experts? One should crowdsource models? One should make policy decisions based on gut instinct?
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Only hypotheticals and that after 11 years. And so tied to an almost paranoid distrust of government.
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Biology doesn't care about individuals. It cares about populations. The main mechanism is exponential growth, capable of quickly filling carrying capacity boundaries of arbitrary size. Individual death is a small setback, as another branch of the exponential growth tree takes over shortly.
My crash happened whenever I tried using a Matlab MLX file (which are similar to Jupyter notebooks in Matlab, if you aren't familiar). Since I don't use them much, this was easy to work around. Not clear to me whether the problem was Matlab or VcXsrv.
Hi. That's a good summary of what errorship does. The pricing [1] page has an faq that touches on the build vs buy question

1. https://errorship.com/pricing.html
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> If there is no bed, respirator...

Most of the people who go on respirators die. If the health system is going to be our weapon here until the vaccine is developed, we need to find ways to manage the disease before it gets to the point where we intubate people. Remdesivir might be that drug, but we're unlikely to have the kind of supply needed for what you propose until after the first vaccines potentially may be available.
> The fact is that many (most?) implementations do support this.

Which implementations?

GCC? The compiler used for the Linux kernel? Why do you think that?

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Arrays-and-pointers-imple... does not clarify what they do in this case. So it's not defined by the language nor the compiler documentation. How do we know what it does?

Do you check the disassembly? What if it compiles one way one day and another the next because something else changed in your code?

If you write C code to do this and compile it with the most common C compiler, and it works, then you're just lucky! Nobody is guaranteeing it will do anything at all!

It's much better to do it in assembly, where you know it's doing what you want.
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> I mainly did this because I wanted to have an all-in-one machine to play the latest games with on Win10 and do work in OSX. For my daily work and coding (mostly JS/Python these days), I haven't had any issues. For the price, it can't be beat!

So it’s stable enough for pro-dev work and gaming. That’s exactly what I’m looking for.

How are Xcode build times? (Or whatever IDE you use)
Honestly, I was just super tired and filling out my bio was one of the last things I did. I think a lot of people mention age because it's something to say when they can't think of anything else. Didn't mean to come off as ageist.
the primary issue is the ad market capture by G+FB. Instead of forcing them to pay up, force them to provide evidence that their advertising works, and that the market capture is not just capture-by-marketing or regulatory-capture of the entire advertising pie.

Also, break up their monopolizing tactics, like not sharing search queries with target sites (removal of referral) and monopolizing the browser search bars. Maybe G should share the search term instead of revenue.
> My point is that a lot of people have this Atlas Shrugged view of the world, where the noble entrepreneur is lashed to earth by envious, regulation loving, Democratic bureaucrats. But if take that view, then we'll get rid of regulations that are really useful and save lives. You're already seeing this with the rollback of environmental regs. The regulations that stifle innovation are written by "captains of industry" themselves, because manipulation of government via corruption is way easier and far more predictable than R&D/innovation.

The problem is bad regulation. We need to keep good regulations, and eliminate bad ones. At the end of the day, the problem is still regulation, as I said.

> So my point is you're missing the point. The symptom is regulation but many regulations are very important. We need anticorruption legislation, we need to break up monopolies, and we need a wealth tax so people can't just strike gold (or cheat people who strike gold), invest in existing ossified industries, rake in cap gains/rent while contributing absolutely nothing, and corrupt our political system with their wealth (and demand that the companies they've invested in also do so in the name of shareholder profits) in order to protect it.

Your policy prescriptions here are entirely orthogonal to the problem of moving society forward technologically. You may want a wealth tax because you don't like inequality, but it isn't going to do any good for the technological development of the world. To do that, you need to streamline the regulatory state.
In the long term the issue with this is that it pushes Google and Facebook into your politics. If you use political measures to screw with them, then they'll start getting involved in the politics more and more to protect themselves. And these two companies could have a lot of influence in ways that are hard to notice.
This question is insufficient, because, in most large economies, taxation is insufficient to fund a UBI have any reasonable size. Therefore, new money creation (a.k.a. inflation) is the means, and the timeframe for its ruinous effects are too long to study within a single generation.
The basis is studies of closed communities. Here in Germany there was a study of a whole village (testing everyone), that found a death rate of 0.37%. Other interesting data sets may be Diamond Princess cruise ship, Theodore Roosevelt carrier, or Health Care Workers.

So saying there is "no basis" is a bit rich. There may still be uncertainty.

Edit: this (just googled) article cites Diamong Princess to lead to an estimate of 0.5% death rate https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-outbreak-dia... (the percentage of deaths on the DP was higher, but the passengers were also comparatively old on average).

Edit 2: lol for the downvote. What the fuck?

Edit 3: about the study in Germany https://www.theblaze.com/news/german-study-shows-coronavirus... (don't know "The Blaze", but if you care, you can google for better sources - google for "Streeck").

Edit 4: Theodore Roosevelt carrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_on_U...
Different perspective here. All the best engineers I have met are self-motivated generalists. Furthermore, I have had career mathematicians beg me not to study it, on the grounds that applied forms are more efficient. (Then again, I don't tend to hang out in large organizations that engage in relative edge-case activity such as compiler design or processor design. Probably mostly because I find large organizations deeply sociopathic and unproductive.)

The best pre-university advice I received was "if you can't decide, get some life experience first, since a huge percentage of people spend four years studying something then discover they dislike or aren't motivated by, then have to start from scratch and change professions".

We should all aim to study every day at a pace, breadth and currency that is unsupported formally. Set aside time to learn every day, and you will always be wise. You are perhaps most successful if you learn throughout most of the day.

The real job of upper management in the 20th and 21st century is to learn things, because change is the constant thing that's going on. - Alan Kay (2017)

... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
It’s a hardware solution, but digitech make a drop tuning pedal.
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An even better example is with the coroutine FSM by the same author here https://github.com/arpitbbhayani/fsm/blob/master/divisibilit... . It is cleaned up a lot by using functions instead of coroutines. Here each 'state' function takes a digit as input and returns the next state:

class Divisibility3FSM:
def __init__(self):
self.current_state = self.init

def send(self, digit):
self.current_state = self.current_state(digit)

def is_divisible(self):
return self.current_state == self.q0

def init(self, digit):
if digit in [0, 3, 6, 9]:
return self.q0
elif digit in [1, 4, 7]:
return self.q1
elif digit in [2, 5, 8]:
return self.q2

def q0(self, digit):
if digit in [0, 3, 6, 9]:
return self.q0
elif digit in [1, 4, 7]:
return self.q1
elif digit in [2, 5, 8]:
return self.q2

def q1(self, digit):
if digit in [0, 3, 6, 9]:
return self.q1
elif digit in [1, 4, 7]:
return self.q2
elif digit in [2, 5, 8]:
return self.q0

def q2(self, digit):
if digit in [0, 3, 6, 9]:
return self.q2
elif digit in [1, 4, 7]:
return self.q0
elif digit in [2, 5, 8]:
return self.q1
Its all French to me.
Here Here! We need more reasonable responses from someone not living in the SV bubble putting on a front.

I swear, sometimes I feel like the VCs are stupid enough to be very Marie Antoinette about their monologuing. As if stating the obvious and doing nothing about it helps anyone or anything.
I’m very skeptical of evidentiary patterns laid out in NYT bestseller style books.
You misunderstood the parent poster. Germany's healthcare system is very decentralised; Germany had 16 states which have large legal, financial, etc independence in a number of fields such as healthcare it education.

A key difference though is that most of German healthcare is public; there are very few private clinics and those play no major role in the pandemic response.

Insurance is mandatory but cheap (and independent of employment). Healthcare is accessible no matter your budget and maybe in the pandemic nearly as important, everyone has the right to sick leave. You get s doctor's certificate and can stay home for a week or two or three, if needed. You also won't be fired for it as labour protections are strong.