skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some kids get vaccinated to go to some schools. And none of that is comparable to this pandemic situation where we have politicians blatantly ignoring the science and taking bread off the table by firing people who don't comply, even if they have excellent antibodies from past covid infection.

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

"The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a large Israeli study that some scientists wish came with a “Don’t try this at home” label."

Alarm bells should be going off. Take a look at Australia. Are they in chains? Are they the frog in the boiling pot? I think they are the frog in the boiling pot.

When do we raise the alarm? When would you raise the alarm? When is it no longer over the top?

They're going to force people who quarantine at home (rather than a government-mandated quarantine "hotel" with guards) to install and use an app. Facial recognition, GPS tracking in your own home. And it will randomly ping you, and if you don't respond within 15 minutes it'll send the police to your house to conduct an in-person quarantine check. Source:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...

They're arresting people for making Facebook posts against lockdowns. Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54007824

Australia presumes to say how many people can visit your home. Source:

https://theconversation.com/vaccine-passports-are-coming-to-...

“NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian yesterday announced freedoms for fully vaccinated people once 70% of the state’s eligible population are double dosed. These include being able to go to hospitality venues, hairdressers and gyms, and have five people to your home.”

They can arbitrarily lock you in your apartment building for up to weeks, no one allowed to leave. Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53316097

You want this to happen in the USA too? Because that's where we are headed once we allow covid vaccine passports and mandates like in NYC to fester and spread. The slope is slippery. Time to nip it in the bud, and if being "over the top" is what it takes to get that done then so be it. Assuage my fears if you really believe there isn't a risk of tyranny. We just went through a presidency where people were regularly warning about totalitarian regimes emerging in the USA. So I think I'm a bit warranted in raising the alarm when I see it happening in other democracies around the world.
Yah, I don't think anyone's arguing that ONLY gamers will observe the phenomena, but I would be shocked if they weren't more sensitive to it than most groups.
Create wpa_supplicant.conf in the root for wireless. It’s really remarkably smooth.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/configur...
There's a Twitter account called "Alex Jones was right", that tallies current events and recent discoveries with things Alex Jones has said.

It's disturbing. All censorship is wrong, unless it's directly protecting someone from harm (e.g. doxxing or CSAM)
That's a really good point and I agree completely.

"Herd Immunity" as not the correct term to use because yes, it is with us for the foreseeable future.

Some weaker form of "herd immunity" where most people have had exposure and it ceases to become a large scale social threat would have been more correct, but I'm at loss for an exact term.
Alcohol is not a sports drink.
I was merely referencing the bit from podcast episode with Bobby Lee -- where Adam Eget mentioned Robin Williams stealing acts/jokes in a conversation and he replies as I did.
I think you are misinterpreting that comment, I believe the idea there would be to have built-in functionality that would be equal or surpassing to those plugins, possibly by merging the actual plugins with the DAW. Of course doing that in a way that will please everyone is a lot harder to do than it sounds and is likely not even feasible, but the supposed benefit would be that the DAW could better integrate that functionality and would not have to deal with a lot of the reliability issues that exist with plugins. (Disclaimer: I agree with the GP comment in the sense that dropping plugins from DAWs would be a great thing to do if it were at all possible, but it currently really isn't)
I'm sorry for coming tone-deaf for those who are in situations where they don't have the luxury to not pursue wealth. I added the blurb at the end, "But this all depends on your current situation; sometimes you do need to prioritize wealth and don’t have the luxury for goals that do otherwise, and that’s perfectly fine as well." Please let me know how to better phrase it to be more sympathetic.
EU website, "recovered from COVID-19": https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-re...
>What use is there to build systems of control that will turn into more surveillance and eventual enslavement?

After the seatbelt laws came in, I didn't wear my seat belt. Before I new it, I was arrested. They sent me to a prison work camp. I had to work 14 hours a day. I nearly died of starvation. (The food was crap, I couldn't keep it down.) Fortunately, a guard took pity on me, and I managed to escape. I'm safe now, with a new ID, good internet access, etc, which is how I'm able to share my story.

If only we hadn't put up with those darn seatbelt laws, maybe things wouldn't have turned out so badly.
Sure, but that's still ceremony.
Only as a proportion of the total amount of money deposited in the bank. That 7x means that if $100 is deposited, the bank can loan out up to $87.5 and would have to keep $12.5, which equates to loaning out x7 the amount kept as reserve. In that scenario there still was only ever $100 dollars, but depending upon how you count the money supply the bank has now 'created' an extra $87.5 and the total supply is $187.5.

In practice it's a lot fuzzier than that, but the above is the basic concept people are usually talking about. The 7x doesn't mean the government or someone else is handing them extra dollar bills, it's just the ratio of what has to be kept in reserves vs. can be loaned out, and the amount that is loaned out effectively gets counted twice in terms of the money supply (and many more times over, since that money will get deposited into a bank and loaned out again at that 7x ratio).
Whom do you lump under "owners of businesses"? Because early employees are impacted as well, seeing how they own company stock. And there are a lot more of those, than just the founders.
Exactly: our civilization, comfort, enjoyment and ease is built upon the relatively predictable and stable weather patterns.

Why would anyone take the risk of messing with that?

It's as though they assume that there will be generalized devastation but there will be some "safe place" which some powerful group can defend and use.

Instead it's possible that maybe for one year New Zealand will be great, but then there will be no rain for 10 years, while previously uninhabitable Brighton (UK) will be a lush, tropical paradise for a couple of decades. Everyone will haul their gear to Brighton and massacre the indigenous, but then everything will change again, etc.

Or we could stop driving 2000Kg of metal to get to our jobs or buy a bag of chips and keep all the tourists at home that are destroying Venice and leaving their feces and plastic containers all over the Himalayas.
Interesting. We (sqlitebrowser.org) have Patreon donations (plug: patreon.com/db4s) and I'm careful to thank everyone who becomes a Patron. And to follow up with any thoughts/questions/etc Patrons have via that platform.

But I _very_ carefully don't put extra time into doing Patron-only stuff.

The core purpose of the Patreon for us, is to gather funds so we can improve things for the project. eg buy new equipment (HiDPI monitor purchased, ARM64 based Mac Mini coming up, etc).

So, putting time into making the project better is much better than putting time into doing "Patreon only" things. eg "private blog posts" etc.

From my personal point of view, if someone becomes a Patron to our open source project with the expectation they'll receive some huge extra level of effort... they're probably better off not becoming a Patron.

But if they're ok with just the acknowledgement/thanks and knowing they're helping out with an important aspect of things that no-one else is, then that's all good. :)
If facts ruled, we'd all keep in mind that the 1930s were much hotter than now, which is very inconvenient for the CO2 hypothesis. Facts don't rule. Fear rules. Fear instilled by ceaseless propaganda.
It never took that large of a percentage of the population to get sick at once to overwhelm hospital capacity. Some tenths of a percent could probably it. 35% of the population vulnerable means there's plenty of room for that.

Enough people do OK w/o interventions that "social collapse" probably wasn't ever going to be the outcome (short of more virulent variants), it's just whether more or fewer of the people for whom treatment makes a difference between life and death (or other morbid outcomes) can get the treatment.

Also, there's probably an overlap between those who've received the vaccine and those who were taking other (ie distance-focused) related precautions pre-vaccine. And the possibility of burning out medical workers.

And in any case, things in some locations are worse now than they've been thus far:

"In Florida, a record number of people are dying from COVID-19—a seven-day average of 338 deaths, higher than at any other point in the pandemic."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/graphics/graphic-...
The halting problem - it's impossible to know whether a gripe will ever die off
Economic rationalism, globalism, etc have always justified that by saying the net productivity in society has increased, so the technician can be taken care of (or at worst, is collateral damage in service of the greater good).

The problem is they don't account for other damage caused by that. People get a sense of purpose from work, many would actually rather work than get a welfare check. Communities are built around industries. Uncertainty and changing circumstances can have big impacts on people, more than can just be measured by subtracting their income from some balance sheet.
hello,

first thanks for your work, since you're in advanced medical territories, what other labs / people / work do you follow with interest ?
That's from one case, and it's worth reading.[1]

[1] https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)...
Yeah, every flu vaccine ever made.
> Your Guide to America's Finances is a re-invention of the Citizen’s Guide to the Financial Report of the U.S. Government. This site was created in response to the public’s desire to learn more about the financial picture of the United States. Where does the money come from? Where does it go? What are the trends over time, and how does the U.S. compare to other countries? This guide was created to make federal financial information open and accessible to all - reflecting the very principles that our founding fathers set forth when the United States was formed.
>It's like every time there is a problem, the cause is someone/something else.

And every time somebody else must do something about it in a way that affects everybody.
A cautionary marketing tale: Omnisend's pricing changes
HN readers running online SaaS might be interested in this cautionary tale of marketing failure.

Omnisend is a email marketing platform. When I signed up for their free tier a few months ago, it was because they were giving me the freedom to grow my business with them. The free tier had unlimited contacts/15000 mails per month. I didn't expect to reach that limit soon and I appreciated being able to start out free and switch to paid if and when the business took off.

Yesterday, I received a mail that said Omnisend is now changing pricing. I opened the mail with a feeling of dread and found that the free tier is now 250 contacts and 500 emails/month. I don't mind the contacts limit but the mail limit is crippling.

My limits in the new plan, assuming everything goes perfectly (which it never does) = 1 campaign + 80 transactions.
One transaction generally means 3 messages (order placed, order dispatched, order delivered).
One email campaign per month = 250 messages.
For comparison, Mailchimp's free tier has unlimited contacts and 3000 messages per month. They limit mails to 12/contact/month.
These limits might work for a monthly church newsletter where you occasionally want to post an addendum/correction. Not for me and I think likely not for most small business.

The communication around the pricing update is complete crap. The headline says "We are moving to contact-based pricing". I have no idea how much they are going to charge per contact. Read their update here (https://support.omnisend.com/en/articles/5499152-omnisend-pricing) and tell me if you can figure it out. How likely am I to sign up for something if i can't figure out the cost of it up front?

I get that free tiers cost the provider money and they are prone to abuse. But surely the marketing value of a free tier has to be weighed against the cost. This change feels like a cautionary business tale to me in every way, and that's why I'm sharing it on HN.

To summarize:
1. Dropping free tier to unusable limits
2. Opaque pricing in new plans
3. No clear dates (The Trial plan will be sunset once the new pricing is released this autumn.) I thought it's already autumn now?

If I had been in charge, I'd have put a contact limit on the free tier, capped it at 12 mails per month per contact and be done with it. That would have been understandable. This is incomprehensible.

I'll be dropping them. A pity, because their support has been excellent, even for the trial. I expect a lot of others will do the same. Your thoughts appreciated.
What country do you live in? Can you criticize the leader without going to jail? Do union representatives get murdered? Are police there to help you or to extort you?

I live in an actually authoritarian country. Only the most privileged people here don't get vaccinated, and among them it's a very small group, and mostly foreigners. No one is forced to, and no one is being forced to do anything else with their body.

I find this jump to tyranny argument disgusting. How on Earth would that work? In a country where one man can order the military to kill its own citizens there is no logical connection between vaccinations and smoking or obesity.

Americans (and a lot of other nationalities in the West, but mostly Americans) need to gain some perspective on the difference between tyranny and responsibility. I got vaccinated (with a Chinese vaccine, the horror!) because I consider it my duty to my family, my adopted country, and the world.

And guess what? Vaccination has been stupendously effective and our country is almost back to normal. And still the government is not locking up smokers or fat people.
I recently finished migrating a bunch (100+) AWS Lambdas from JDK 8 to JDK 11 and it was pretty painless - unit testing was spotty at best but there were no issues.
This was hastened by AWS changing the underlying Java 8 runtime to Amazon Linux - it probably would have been fine but I decided that if we were going to test a change, we might as well move to Java 11 and make the full regression test worthwhile.
Thanks for the generous and informative response!
There are only two parties involved in your analogy: the first-party target and the actor. There are no third-party victims.

(Granted, that doesn't dispute the fact that the actor is still deserving of a lot of that liability. :) )
I don't understand this whole push to vaccinate kids.

In the beginning all the panic was about the "most vulnerable" in the population, while the young ones apparently could deal with it fine enough.

A year and a half later and we are rushing to vaccinate the youngest ones, even tho it doesn't prevent them from spreading and they have great chances to get trough the disease without the vaccine already.

The ultimate goal here seems to be to just get everybody vaccinated, possibly even yearly.
Everything in this list is overinflated, or you're really poor at budgeting. A $4k a month 1br is going to be a luxury high rise; not a basic 1br. $1k a month on travel expenses is insane. I never spent more than $400 a month and I used Lyft at least twice a day every day. Health insurance is covered by your employer, unless you're working for a really shitty employer.

Also, you don't understand marginal taxes. Please, go read up on them, because anytime you talk to someone who understands them, they're going to think you're an idiot when you start whipping out your calculations.
What reason is there TO get it if you have better antibodies from past covid? Why should anyone bother with the unknowns of that?

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a large Israeli study that some scientists wish came with a “Don’t try this at home” label.

Over 100 million Americans already fall into this bucket of having these antibodies. Why should they care about something that doesn't matter? Reinfection is very rare - so these people are not a risk to anyone.
Orbits don't work that way.

First, many satellites share an orbit - for example, the whole GEO is a single orbital path, and it has hundreds, something like 25% of all the world's satellites spread over that path; and any junk that intersects that orbit is a threat to all of them, not any one in particular.

Second, a random piece of space junk is likely to be in a weird orbit where no satellite would want to be, but that potentially crosses/intersects many orbits where we would like to put satellites or have already done so, so again, it threatens many satellites (or "orbital slots"), not any one in particular. An orbit that's "clean" for this rotation might intersect a piece of space junk in the next rotation or a month afterwards; that junk is not "in that orbit" but it's still a threat to that orbit and many others because its path is crossing these orbits.

You could assign responsibility to sources of particular pieces debris; but there simply aren't cleanly separable areas of space for orbits to which you could assign responsibility like we do for radio spectrum.
"This is a purely aesthetic change, it doesn't break any habits."

This sort of wrong (or more precisely easily falsifiable) statement perfectly exemplifies why I have so little respect for "design" as it currently exists.

You shouldn't just be able to say things like this that are nearly provably wrong on their face (e.g. I certain I can find 5, or 20, or more people who will definitely get slowed down by this)

Add on top of this the sheer stupidity of not being able to keep the old way if you like, an increasingly common thing.
A great book about this topic is "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work" -- which covers the routines of actual artists and thinkers, with their wild, idiosyncratic inconsistency: from waking up hungover most days and only writing when they feel "inspired" to working 3 hours a day and spending most of the day walking and "lounging" to the strict, regimented routines in the style of productivity gurus
It is true that a bank can convert reserves to notes, but that doesn’t mean the bank will actually do so. And if it does, it is merely facilitating the withdrawal of cash for its depositors, which means that the money already exists (in the form of a demand deposit account balance).

New money is created by debt issuance. This comes from both the federal government, which supplies the monetary base, and from commercial lenders, which leverage the monetary base through loans to the “real” economy—business startup loans, mortgages, supply chain finance, revolving lines of credit, etc.
I feel like the author makes a lot of assumptions about what others are able to do based on their own experience. This reminds me a lot of the guy who wrote in Forbes a number of years ago about what they would do if they were a poor black child... Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote one of my favorite essays of all time explaining the flaw in this type of reasoning: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/a-muscu...
Covid is contagious, obesity is not.
I have tried SunVox on the iPad, it's a very nice application.

On tracker websites I used to be mastazi just like my HN username, but I never released my own music I think. However I made a CD and gave it to friends, I might still have a copy somewhere at my parents' home in Italy. That's the only memory I have, because I lost all of my Buzz project files in a HD failure many years ago.

The modern web is different from what we have back then, but if you look hard enough you can still find corners of the web that look familiar :-)
The reasoned answer is politics. One side of the aisle committed to a message before they had all the data. The other side did this too. Now it's too politically costly to change any of those positions, no matter how much anyone claims to "follow the science".
Blog + google? You'll miss the discussion, but if you put a few months of work in, the search engines will find you.

But for near real time discussion in public, I don't know of any alternatives.
almost all devices offer USB MIDI and its as good as DIN MIDI in almost all scenarios

DAWless setups are definitely a thing, and you need DIN MIDI to connect the keyboard directly to a sound module (USB can only be connected to a computer).
I intend to for future domain registration.

- Register.com is an annoying cesspool of value-add upsells and is extremely expensive in the process, with added cost to not have your personal info attached directly to your domain whois.

- GoDaddy, other than the creepy ads, has shown plenty of willingness to remove domains hosting content that they don't like, even if it's legal.

- I think Google is a registrar, but I'm not at all comfortable with how easy it might be to move my domain out of their grasp if I care to host my content somewhere else. I'm sure it's possible, I'm sure it has weird issues, and I'm certain there's zero support to talk to.

- Epik has, at least as far as I can tell, a reputation for simply hosting domain registrations, not asking questions, and ignoring just about every request for information.

Of those options, I'm fine with the last. I tend pretty hard towards the "free speech" side of the spectrum, and a registrar that will ignore anything short of a legitimate legal request from the authorities of the nation(s) they operate in is perfectly fine with me. Even if they host domains I consider distasteful, I'd rather support that than someone who will bow to public outrage and go snooping around domains looking for reasons to remove their registration (GoDaddy and Arfcom come to mind here).

There are probably other options, but those are the ones I know of, and why I'm intending to register future domains with Epik. I don't particularly care if a founder of a service is a scumbag in their personal life, as long as they reliably do what they promise to do.
As in Vulgar Latin?
How do GUI DAW's compare against pure code approaches?

Are there any artists today working with pure code?
That's not how you develop embedded stuff normally. You usually do that over some serial line to control the remote debugger-related interrupts and whatnot and drive it via GDB. You can also emulate many SoC's via Qemu, Bochs, etc. (to varying degrees) during the development process.

Further, you don't run hard realtime applications on a normal OS. Preemptive multitasking can cause a userspace program to drift out of sync, or have other side effects - for example.

There is a pretty well known RTOS but the name is escaping me.

You wouldn't really benefit from prototyping on the pi as a lot of that software has to be purpose built for the hardware.