skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true that some things are naturally scarce (like land, or celebrity exposure, or attention), and that people can make things scarce on purpose. It probably isn't possible to work around this - but this doesn't mean we couldn't have a post-scarcity society in spite of it.

The way I see it, if "nobody has to starve, work, or even die from anything besides a freak accident ever again", if everyone has free access to as much varied, healthy and tasty food as they want, if they can pursue almost arbitrary hobby[0], or do interesting and challenging service adjacent to their interests - then the bits that remain fundamentally scarce (like land or attention) won't be enough to justify having a money-based economy, and without it, people will lose the reason for creating artificial scarcity. Some people may end up trading IOUs over trivialities like clever Instagram handle - something that, on a global scale, nobody cares about. But there would be no need to e.g. DRM movies or games anymore - the producers aren't getting paid for it, they do it for fun/reputation/self-actualization - so what's the point of making infinitely-copyable good artificially scarce?

Post-scarcity doesn't have to be absolute for it to be a money-less utopia - it's enough to make enough goods too cheap to meter that money becomes irrelevant for everyday life of average citizen.

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[0] - There will always be limits to what individuals can do - post-scarcity is a practical concept, not an absolute one. Even Star Trek societies wouldn't be able to afford people having a hobby of "detonating warp cores to use the gamma ray flash for interplanetary Morse code".
I went down the rabbit hole of looking at COVID cases in Scotland, where vaccinations are quite common. It's worth considering all of the numbers here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-53511877
They don't recommend it. The UK will vaccinate kids however.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-issues-updated-advic...
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Personally, I think they should invest in their pitch.
They’re not. They’re statements of fact. I mean them very sincerely - the modern Republican Party is Evil. True, pure evil, in a way that I would never have believed was possible in this country until a few years back. Anyone voting for them is at best ignorant and at worst complicit.
If you're inventing a special shorthand for functions like foo(42, ^), then why only in the context of a pipe? Make up some punctuation to introduce or surround this kind of expression, then use it anywhere. Less to learn, more useful.
Would this be comparable to QubesOS?
> Probably because everyone and their uncle self-diagnosed a bad cold as COVID-19 and plenty more would lie about having natural immunity.

This ignores the existence of antibody tests, and there's no reason that lying about a positive antibody test would be easier to get away with than lying about being vaccinated.
I think we can safely say that counting natural immunity would harm too many $$$ dollars and prevent politicians from maximizing the tragedy of C19 for political, power, and financial gain.
Minimum wages were designed to protect workers live's from being wholesale sacrificed in factories. The theory of a government mandated "livable wage" is a concept from 3rd wave Socialism.

It is truly the worst possible way to guarantee quality of life as it gives employers an excuse to be "legal" while being horribly out of line ethically.
I don’t disagree that the PRC is gathering a lot of intelligence, but that’s a long way from saying they gather all relevant information.

As to a preemptive strike that’s extremely unprecedented for China. It would definitely be considered at the highest levels, but would they act is a much larger question especially if they discovered functional nuclear weapons. Taiwan meanwhile benefits of China did such a strike on a non nuclear weapon manufacturing factory so could be giving them false intelligence etc. This stuff just has a lot more uncertainty than you might assume.
Yeah the standard returns data would be annualized, for example "average return ... in this
study is 2.6 times ... in 3.5 years —
approximately 27 percent [IRR]" http://www.angelcapitalassociation.org/data/Documents/Resour...
ITYM political projection. Fomenting hysteria is a well-documented tool of science deniers. Not so much the scientists, as their spoken words typically mirror reality.
datalake = spark or presto on top of s3.

datelakehouse: I have no idea.
> Adobe Acrobat can easily change anyones name on a piece of paper with a blood test result

It's even easier to fake vaccination status. Blank COVID cards are widely available. Most of them are handwritten - and even when vaccinated, they give them to you blank, you fill in your own name at home.

> Now, does anyone think the US can pull off getting peoples SSN , connect it to a blood test, send the SSN+result to the federal government and have them issue you a federal "antibody ID" which is directly connected to your SSN in a government database?

> We could only wish

No we don't. Americans are VERY against that kind of thing. Plus Social Security numbers are not supposed to be used as a national ID - that's not what they are for.

Not to mention how would you even do that? A Social Security card is not ID - you can say whatever number you want when getting vaccinated, no one would know.

> Americans are just really bad at these kinds of things. This is why we can't have nice things etc. etc. etc.

No, Americans are not bad at that - rather they don't want that. Don't confuse the two.
> You are right that it's just sales language, but people, tech folks in particular, don't have to like it and it's nothing wrong to voice their complaints.

Except it gets old real fast. These comments read like "first".

No signal, all noise.

Same thing with the PHP, electron and Facebook topics for instance. First top comments have been saying the same thing for years.
> Also consider that there are no good audio drivers for Linux (like Asio for example) so you're almost forced to stay in windows or Mac...

This is false.

> Imagine if they applied something similar to a git versioning system to music projects.

People have done this. Using git itself is a little problematic because it is very line-oriented and most project file formats for DAWs are not.

Regarding plugins, I know that I'm not the only lead developer of a DAW who, if they possibly could, would refuse to support plugins entirely. The problem is that most users want more functionality than a DAW itself could feasibly provide (they also sometimes like to use the same functionality (plugin) in different DAWs or different workflows).

There are things close to DAW functionality that have a CLI (such as ecasound). You can also run plugins from the command line by using standalone plugin hosts. You can use oscsend(1) to control plugins inside several different plugin hosts.

It sounds to me as if you've worked with a relatively small number of DAWs on only Windows and macOS and are not really aware of the breadth or depth of the "field".
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Good for you. Meanwhile I just had to restart Firefox because it pegged a CPU core at 100% and wouldn't refresh.

And this was after nuking the configs and doing an "sudo apt purge firefox && sudo apt install firefox"
> Removing those children from my calculation, there are still almost twice as many people unvaccinated as are estimated to have contracted the virus.

Your calculation is wrong. 120 million that are unvaccinated, out of which 40 million are immune from past contraction and another 45 million are ineligible, that leaves 35 million, less than the number of people who are immune from having contracted the virus.

That of course also doesn't take into account other people who cannot take it, and the number of unconfirmed cases of immunity from having contracted the virus. I don't have any estimates for those numbers so I won't speculate on what they are besides saying that the number of unvaccinated Americans that can and need to be vaccinated is probably a lot less than 35 million.
Things that are not rigid and that distribute the force throughout the body (think of slapping a big slab of silicone).
Coeur d'Alene/Spokane as well.

Would like to think it is going to get better but this recent spike has only left things open more for market manipulation in the rental market. Even if things get better in the housing prices there is still a huge housing issue for the people who make less than $100k a year (average rate of pay in Coeur d'alene is $20/hr, minimum wage still $7.25, waiters can be paid ~$3.60/hr plus tips).

The tent cities option that Ketchum was exploring recently is a thing we are going to be seeing a lot more often.
>It was doable 10-30 years ago

And 150 years ago you can probably buy a few acres of land in SF Bay Area for less than the inflation-adjusted price of a townhouse in Mountain View these days.

Real estate is one thing that does not scale infinitely. Population grow, things change.

>can't blame them when they get out into the market and finally start saving that they're 10 gonna be 10 years behind for the rest of their life...

That's the thing about Americans. The speed of change in this country has finally increased after decades, especially when comparing to many fast developing countries. A lot of people just don't know how to adjust for that.
that is a wonderful word, thanks
Up to a point this would work but there is a point where stocking shelves at all is no longer worth it when the labor reaches a certain price, and they would probably just start tossing pallets of goods directly onto the sales floor and only support self checkout. And then probably invest in robotics to automate moving the pallets around. You could have an entire Walmart ran by fewer than 10 employees
I think this is the only time besides the A12X to A12Z bin and rebadge in iPad Pro that Apple hasn’t compared last year’s model directly to the new one. A15’s main processors don’t sound like a big improvement over A14. Maybe Apple didn’t think a 5% to 10% bump was enough to brag about in the keynote, even though that’s roughly what AMD and Intel regularly pull off between generations.

I’m eager to see what really changed, and if it will hint at what’s coming with M1X/M2.
LMAO...

Blaming war preparation on totalitarianism...

Do you know why CCP geared up military? Because the bombimg on Chinese embassy by US [1] and war plane collision off Chinese border [2].

That scared the shit out of CCP. It just shows that US always retain military option against them. And plant the deepest resentment towards US in Chinese citizens. CCP literally need to actively suppress the anti US sentiment to avoid affecting the business relationship.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident
Unpopular opinion: we could just add, say, `pipe` and `pipeAsync` into the standard library, appart from aesthetic, I don't see the pipe operator to be very useful, at least the F# one doesn't because it's literally just another syntax for function invocation.
Mathematica has `f[a,#,b]&`, for example, which is syntactic sugar for `Function[{x}, f[a,x,b]]`, i.e. the function that takes one argument and calls `f` with that argument as the middle parameter and `a, b` as the first and last parameters. It's not quite what you're referring to, but it's similarly an extremely lightweight syntax.
I am happy about this. It was a wake up call for many.:)
Things to check:

For audio on linux: https://pipewire.org/

For a more code oriented audio workflow (python lib to load VST and AU) https://github.com/spotify/pedalboard
Would be great if we could dive in deeper, breaking it down by expense purpose, regions, etc.
If you have a more rational explanation for all the craziness happening, I'm all ears, pal.
also, i miss reading your comments on SSC, are you on ASX?
I've got a child under 12, and while everyone in my household over 12 is vaccinated, I'm not sure if the vaccine has any point for him. If you look at CDC stats, today there are only 412 reported covid19 deaths in the 0-17 age group, 138 in the 0-4 group, meaning 274 in the 4-17 group out of 670,000. Furthermore, kids rarely need treatment, so most infections go undiagnosed.

While I have no objection to a vaccine, and I don't question the efficacy of these, the trivial chance of my son's covid19 complications versus forcing him to a doctor's office over his fear of needles, which will cause him a lot of angst, makes me question whether to do it. These decisions aren't always entirely about death percentages.
If you remember, nobody wanted to be first (except China) to tell their population to stay at home.

And then they did not wait until we got rid of the virus but were quick to tell people to get out and enjoy as soon as the infection rates fell a little bit.

If you look at this algorithm, it works like a thermostat. A dumb regulator designed TO REGULATE TEMPERATURE AT A CONSTANT LEVEL. Yes, that's what the policy ensured -- that we are keeping infection rates.

Not that this is important now. We are living with consequences of these decisions and the best we could do would be to vaccinate as many people as possible as fast as possible to prevent as many unnecessary tragedies.
Thanks for sharing. I can understand you as I used to do the same before I switched to Spotify many years ago. And I can still see why some people prefer that "old" way of syncing content. I remember when Spotify was missing even popular bands like "Beatles" or "Tool" and that was a pain... I guess lot of stuff still isn't there (or anywhere else online for that matter), and especially some more obscure stuff.
>and why do we have seatbelt and helmet laws?

I don't have the slightest idea. It would be like making sugar or alcohol illegal as it merely involves the person wearing the seatbelt or helmet.
"Five dollars less in your pocket". Brilliant!
Here's the thing, the dilemma isn't "should I get the shot or shouldn't I get the shot".

The dilemma is "should I support the public experts even if their approach might have some minor flaws, or should I dissent and risk feeding credibility into their opponents that are prolonging this pandemic and getting innocent people killed as they clog up the hospital system".

This is a definite case where "perfect is the enemy of the good".
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"A new study suggests that almost half of those hospitalized with COVID-19 have mild or asymptomatic cases."

What is true anymore?
I'm not sure why death is the only thing we're trying to avoid. Currently, children's ICUs in Oklahoma are full in part due to the number of Covid patients. I'd rather my child not end up in the hospital, much less be turned away from one in a time of need.
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Tidyr/dplyr (R) can do something very close to this but I don't know how it is achieved. There it is a dot
Ah I confused it with ffmpeg which is also vaapi of course.

Also gstreamer somehow was added for something but that was 7 years ago, I guess getting video decoding running was different story

https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&limi...
Very interesting. A possible improvement could be some "knob linkable objects" (can't imagine the correct name) that could be tied to analog inputs (GPIOs, ADC connected to i2c or USB, etc). The purpose would be to be able to modify certain parameters live on the fly, should anyone want to create a physical synth out of this software and a *PI like small SBC.

Also, I like a lot the way it links inputs and outputs just by dragging the mouse. Does anyone know if there is any general purpose library to do that?
I mean, Ideally I create some list nodes, then use that library to link them in a certain order by using the mouse.
The 30s was the great depression. And 1933 was pretty bad. $0.5/hr is a typical wage. [1]

In Chicago in 1933 a 4 bdrm apartment was listed for $35/month. [2]

So basically, rent was eating half your salary even then. But then again, you had a 4 bdrm apartment and not a closet.

Probably would've been tough to buy a house on that though.

And of course, there is this:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/place/article/Problems-H...

“the two great problems it ignored before — housing and traffic.”, Herb Caen, 1948

Some things never change.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/41815102
[2] https://blog.rentconfident.com/2635/classified-history-housi...
> as immutable data is easier to work with

Source? This hasn't been my experience. Going on 10 years of heavy Node.js ecosystem involvement, immutable data enthusiasts are exceedingly rare.

Plus, this is const vs let, which is a reach to call "immutable data". We're not talking about object properties.
That is a statement that really needs some backup.
I always played civ 1&2 only on hardest levels.

Now, thinking of this further, i think I might misremember this because I've never let my stacks be attacked in the field.

Best tactics is to drive tanks via railroads up to the city (sometimes building them in the fly using a ton of settlers in one move) and attack it with 20+ tanks and then move in 10 mech infantry for defence, and I used fortresses extensively.
No one I respect is questioning this - on the contrary, I see a vast collection of people whom I despise in a dark alliance to kill as many people as possible to score points from their deluded base.
Seriously if we stopped letting a dew parasites at the top leech all the money out of businesses we wouldn't have this problem. We have entire C Suites getting overpaid while the people who do the actual work can't even afford to live where they work.

Something's gotta give.
Right. The context here is when combined with bit-packing, i.e. `int_fast8_t : 8` vs `int_least8_t : 8` in a struct or similar.
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I clicked wondering when did the movie maker create a database, and why?

Turns out the story is about two films..
Pipewire is a layer above most of the really important stuff.

Pedalboard is also not a realtime audio environment (as was clarified by one of its developers here on the HN thread last week). In that sense it is extremely different from Bespoke (and nearly everything else).
"The internet" is not facebook.

"The internet" is not Instagram.

There were a fuckton of websites and forums devoted to gay issues and emotional support before Zuck ever got horny in his dorm room.
Not me. Internet can be installed quickly and cheaply, but we're yet to discover a way to do the same for land.
- One thing not discussed in the article is type safety. But TC39 increasingly considers the impact of proposals on typed extensions to JS like TypeScript/Flow. In your example, v must be a union type of the return types of each of the called functions.

- The pipeline operator can be used to assign to a const, to prevent further assignments. While const isn’t necessarily immutable, it is often idiomatically used to signal that the assigned value is intended to be final. The same can’t be achieved with your example without wrapping it in an IIFE, which is (IMO) much harder to follow than the pipeline operator.

- More subjectively, it (in the F# variant) encourages better interfaces. For most use cases where piping would be appropriate, it’s generally a good idea to make the data you’re processing the last parameter. This also, as the article notes, works well with partial application. Which in turn also encourages good practices like composition.
Since you're a software dev you may have explored supercollider and other environments where you can employ great tools.
I've been looking for a hybrid UI/UX + Audio programming environment that would combine the freedom of code with the visual cues of a DAW but haven't found the ideal fit.
So far I've been rolling my own with cl-collider, a common lisp client for Supercollider which uses some lisp tricks (macros) to good effect.
Take some of my languishing. I have plenty to spare at the moment.
It's interesting you mention that because I went to their website today and they are running a secret product campaign at the moment:

> The ...............* that can change a whole industry

> *Coming soon. Subscribe for updates and a chance to win big!

So it may be a laptop, a fairphone 4, a DIY geosync satellite. Or simply the old trick that tickles curiosity and get them subscribers to their newsletter. Not that unusual. And as a techie I say "fine, keep your secrets then" though.
Good point. I don't know why I ever try to be optimistic about industrial practices.
They wrote something about it here: https://spectrum-os.org/motivation.html
> Why do companies pay their regular employees a small fraction of their worth?

A dead German economist might have an answer for you ;)
Not in all schools, mind you. Americans are bred and battered to exist as consumers, to work to consume, to work more and more, to wade deeper and deeper into the sunk cost of lost opportunity and useless industrial waste made useful only by measuring its bulk in third party business income from storage units leased.
I would be interested in seeing if NYC will require the same proof of identity for voting that they do for their vax pass.
You can get them for free in the uk

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid...
And what can’t be outsourced will be automated whenever it’s cost effective, and our capacity both to outsource and to automate is far greater than it was even just a couple decades ago.
I believe that is called "crab bucket mentality". Resident doctors deserve better than that. Their situation should be improved rather than dismissing everybody else's struggles.
This second result is a lot weaker than the first, however:

“Individuals who were previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 seem to gain additional protection from a subsequent single-dose vaccine regimen. Though this finding corresponds to previous reports, we could not demonstrate significance in our cohort.”

At the moment, this does not justify mandating the vaccine for those previously infected.
Europe (or Germany at least) accepts natural immunity in lieu of vaccination. As far as I've heard, no one has been getting covid on purpose as a result.
If there's a plugin version of this I can see it giving ZynAddSubFx a run for its money in my workflow.
> Which leads to more deaths and outbreaks.

Worse, it leads to

1. new COVID variants, some of which will be worse than what we have,

2. more deaths from people who had some other health emergency while unvaccinated idiots are slowly dying in the hospitals taking valuable beds, and

3. to more burned out, dead and PTSD suffering healthcare personal.

I would recommend everyone to browse [1] and [2]. Not being vaccinated if you can, is truly disgusting, selfish and stupid choice.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/
[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/nursing/
That only works if your customers are willing to pay for employees to be paid better.

As it is, it seems most people do not give a fuck about it and will still choose a store that is cheaper.

Actually, everybody knows Walmart or Amazon employees are paid shit and they still choose cheap.
I also live here and additionally I'm an MD. But I didn't check sources before posting ('cause I'm feeling lazy, a mortal sin in covid threads).
Here's a list/overview of all things "live coding": https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding
Wouldn't be such a big issue if housing policy kept up with the change. That's the biggest issue for young people. They want the change but young people aren't in control. (And for whatever historical reasons - young people still don't vote enough to enact the change they wish to see)
I would say this is an observation that the labeling isn't nearly granular enough in those very large regions. From my experience, people from those regions will use much finer labels, to describe people, than the "this side of the planet" labels of "Asia" and "Africa".
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