skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in Sweden for a while; basically the same language as Norwegian (they share the same standardized grammar). It's easy to pick up but hard to master. Which is the same problem I have in Germany. I can get by but it's not pretty. BTW. Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish all share the same simplified grammar and are pretty easy languages to pick up if you already speak another Germanic language. Also, I did my taxes in Swedish while I was living in Finland (second language there, way easier to parse than Finnish). But I never even came close to being able to having an intelligent conversation in Swedish.
A New Dominant Species Presentation – George Hotz
>There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

Devastated to hear this. RIP Norm. I loved you.
California has digital vaccination proof. I had a paper copy too but lost it.

https://myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov/
Loop Perforation (2019)
While I have used modern DAWs in recent years, the music making tool I've used the most was Jeskola Buzz[1], it's a weird mix of music tracker[1] and modular setup[2] (but not modular in the same way a modular synth works, you connect "machines" such as sequencer->generator->effect->[more effects]->mixer).

This was when I was a "poor" student and I couldn't spend money on music.

Later I could afford real modular/semi-modular synths and I enjoy them a lot but I still appreciate being able to connect cables on a screen where you can save the state and rapidly recall it, rather than having to free up a table, setup all the modular synths, connect them together etc. - So I think I'm going to enjoy Bespoke Synth a lot.

Another alternative that I have enjoyed is VCV Rack[3] and its little brother for iPad/iPhone miRack[4].

PS I loved the "Feature Matrix" on the Bespoke home page ahah :-D

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeskola_Buzz

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker

[3] https://vcvrack.com/

[4] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mirack/id1468259834
I don't think we should go down that road.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-demogr...
Note that git's diffs and merges are customisable. If somebody wants to put in the effort for a particular format, they can write tools that perform these two specific tasks and git can be told "Here are the tools for this repo" and deliver the benefits of improved tooling. It's definitely possible that could be worth doing for a DAW if used with git.

Git even understands that it's possible that you can neatly summarise a change in text (for display e.g. as part of the change log) but that summary is not actionable (so the data stored to implement that change is different), e.g. I believe git's man pages provide an example showing how you can get EXIF from a JPEG so that your git tools say the change was from "Photo of Pam and mummy" to "Cropped image of Pam" when actually it's a huge binary data change that is unintelligible to reader.
Every once in a while, my brain asks a good question.

https://www.state.gov/reports/country-reports-on-terrorism-2... “ 2019 Terrorist Incidents: There were no terrorist attacks reported in the UAE in 2019.”

Either they were extraordinarily good at their job or their job was bullshit. IBM Presents You Make the Call.
Because we don't have enough data.
> you can't provide a dedicated GUI for them

You could expose enough GTK bits to expose an event loop to the LGI lua library. It's gobject-introspection for Lua. Since you already use these libs, it would not make Ardour any bigger.

I am not saying it's a great idea to mix GUI and a realtime DSP in the same thread, but it would be supported in you see some demand there.
Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1437517323775086594

Archived OP link: https://archive.is/KJTHN
Covid hospitalizations are a superset of myocarditis cases. If you broke out Covid-induced myocarditis, the comparison would be even more lop-sided against the vaccines.

> Is it your assumption that all myocarditis cases are as serious as a COVID hospitalization?

Yes. It is not an assumption. Myocarditis is not a mild condition, despite rhetoric to the contrary.
For those who haven't seen it, I recommend checking out Mike Tyson Mysteries.

It's an animated show by Adult Swim where Mike Tyson (voiced by himself), his adopted Korean daughter, the ghost of the inventor of the rules of modern boxing, and a talking pigeon who is a complete asshole solve mysteries in the style of Scooby Doo. Norm Macdonald plays Pigeon.
The loss of SF Weekly – gradually, then suddenly – is incalculable
I am a consultant (22 years running my own shop), and the fact that I am difficult is a big part of why. You are speaking the truth.

My brand is hard truths.

Unfortunately, not many people want that product. But just enough do to keep me employed.
I'll never thank you enough for linking pedalboard... That's exactly what I've always needed lol
Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk (2018)
Harris: If doctors say I should take it I'll be the first in line but if Donald Trumps says I should take it I won't take it.

What she wanted is what everyone should want is for the vaccine to be vetted. When it was she took it. She expressed doubt not in medical science, not in the vaccine, but in the claims of Donald Trump.
If no one uses Facebook, they can’t afford to pay the brightest engineers. Same for Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

Obviously not going to happen. I just don’t think it’s fair to put the onus on the workers instead of the consumers who enable the business model.
We tax cigarettes. My understanding is the tax is restricted in the budget to only go towards paying for healthcare for smokers. So the smokers can stay, at least.
The TouchID worked for me every time. I never had to think about the fact that it existed.

I’m constantly trying to accommodate FaceID.

Like 75% of the time when I’m unlocking my phone it’s either laying on my desk or I’m laying in bed. FaceID rarely works for me in these situations.

My wife eventually just turned it off on her phone and went to purely using a passcode because it failed to work so often it was less annoying to go straight to the passcode prompt rather than wait for FaceID to timeout first.
pfSense gives you the shape of the problem and creates bounds. Being on your own in a text editor with google allows you to shoot yourself in the foot while stumbling in the dark.
There are a lot better (and more cost-effective) ways to pay people to make you feel good.
I saw this on the page:

>Why can’t the government just print more money?

and thought “because the treasury is not the central bank” LOL
http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/10/5/your-load-generato...

Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10334335
Ha. So now you're questioning how much I've traveled. :eyeroll:

I don't know you so I won't pretend to know how much you value anything, how much you've traveled, etc. but you seem to be shifting your position for the sake of arguing. For example, you're now saying you're fine with hospitals in developing countries, but your original comment expressed concern about your ability to receive quality care in Vietnam:

> They are well beyond hospital capacity, so if I do have a serious case, it's uncertain I'll receive quality care

As for:

> And no, we don't know much for sure about COVID, but we have to work from best available evidence. If there's e.g. a 50% chance that a booster shot increases protection from 30% breakthroughs to 15%, and a 50% chance it does nothing, that means I've reduced my odds of breakthrough by (30-15)*50% = 7.5%.

In other words, your "absolute" need for a booster shot is based on numbers you've pulled out of a hat.
Did you use an API from one of the big cloud providers? Tingy is based on a custom variant of CLIP, which is quite computationally expensive but worth it for the general querying ability.
https://beagleboard.org/
Tried to do what? You claimed workplace safety was the absolute first priority when we have reams of evidence of Amazon not thinking so and they’re at least trying to do business in the US unlike Apple and others who simply move their human rights abuses offshore.

Try harder.
Say something of substance instead of alluding to some 'illogical' argument you supposedly found but are unable to identify.
> The ordinary way it works is that payments are tranched; you're paid in chunks, up to some cap, until the vulnerability is burnt.

Eh, it is very complicated. On one end of the spectrum you can take a cash payout up front for less money, on the other end you are under contract to keep an arsenal with specific coverage at a minimum fixed size. Brokers exist to trade risk for upside and shield parties from each other.

I think we are in alignment on your second point. Oil rich companies lack domestic talent but have massive war chests of money. I have some insights into the numbers they are throwing around to skilled foreign workers and while it is clear the numbers are stupid big, it is nothing in comparison to running a HUMINT asset or buying a drone.
There may be a housing shortage in the expensive cities, but I doubt there is one nationwide. I’ve come to believe that the real driving phenomenon here is the “you have to be in one of five cities” idea that took hold in the early 2000s.
It is conjecture, but smart conjecture. We can only see at this point.

It does raise the important point about base rates of COVID vis-a-vis side effects, which seems to be something lost in a lot of public discussion.

I found it interesting, FWIW, even if it turns out to be completely wrong.
right? These word by word break down responses don't ever get anywhere

the whole argument he's making has operates on the presumtion that the vacccine is unsafe, contrary to mainstream scientific opinion. Then the only evidence he has to back that up is lack of evidence on long term effects.

But...the type of which would potentially appease him is only possible with a time machine, so it's literally impossible to appease him
Omnisphere is the last thing you should buy.

There are countless free VSTs that are very, very good. KVRAudio is a good news source for what's happening in VST World, both paid and free.

https://www.kvraudio.com/

There are also numerous plug-in discount stores (Audio Plugin Deals, Plugin Boutique, Emmett VST Buzz, and others) that regularly sell mainstream VSTs at hugely discounted sale prices.

Free DAWs are harder to find, but you can get intro-level DAWs with enough features to get started for less than $200.

On a Mac Logic Pro is $199, which is a full-featured DAW with a solid collection of virtual instruments.
just stop being fat
Where do you think this ends?

At some point we'll destroy the planet and then nobody will be housed.
AppImage works perfectly fine in nowadays. But I would be totally fine if it would simply say "Ubuntu" than "Linux". That is really all I'm asking.
Is magenta a color? A real one? We perceive it as such, but there is no place on the electromagnetic spectrum corresponding to magenta. If you went hunting for magenta photons, you'd be hunting for quite a long while. What that says to me is that our intuitive mental construct of color isn't very reliable, even though it feels so real. Likewise, maybe we should be less trusting of our intuitive labels for other phenomena.
It's been increasingly hard to differentiate legitimate tech architecture/patterns that helps under certain scenarios from marketing shenanigans packaged to sell you more of the same stuff. IMO, it is just natural evolution for such "lake house" patterns to emerge to address shortcomings of "data lakes" (another term passed its prime in terms of hypes around it). But the overhyped term "lakehouse" itself is actually hurting adoption, because it makes it sound like just marketing talks.
Still not going to be decoded in hardware on iOS.
I'd also like to add someone to a group Text and have a way everyone could agree to give them permission to see the old messages from that group chat. That way it isn't as hard to catch people up or bring them into a group conversation.
That's disappointing. I was more interested in deducing the implications of power assuming scarcity was eliminated.
There are whole societies that remains relatively lean. Pretty sure it's not a choice. It may be their food diet, or their chemical environment, or something else.

Note that the Hadza people, one of the most active people in the world, burn about the same amount of calories as sedentary population in Europe and the US.
If hospitals didn’t overflow and society didn’t crumble for most of 2020 (when there was 0% vaccination), it’s odd to argue that it will now that there is 65% vaccination.
Go work for some bigco that is coasting on a great market position of a SaaS project and you can definitely find software jobs where you can work about 30hrs a week, make around 130-180k a year, and chill hard.

Only problem is that after a while you'll get really complacent and your skills may suffer. If there are layoffs and you have to find another job, you might be in trouble.
Costflow
You don’t find black swans from the data you find them from building better models. You can look at 100 years of local flood and weather data to build up a flood assessment, but that’s not going to include mudslides or earthquakes etc. The same applies to studies.

My point is this: You can’t combine them using Bayesian statistics adjusting for the possibility of research fraud it’s simply not in the data.

Their great for well understood domains, less so for research. Frequentist models don’t work, but they also don’t even try.

PS: Math errors don’t really fall into modeling error.
But I remember watching the video where about 10 people were killed from kilometres away. The people responsible were clearly having fun. I also remember a few people getting in big trouble over releasing just a small piece of an enormous pile.

It's clear where stand: "Things happen in war"
Alyssa wrote some background behind the project:

https://alyssa.is/leaving-freeagent/

“When I had a call with [the project sponsor] NLnet recently, I was told ‘you work for the internet now’. And that evoked the most powerful feeling of purpose and drive I’ve ever felt in my life.”

“Although my funding is for Spectrum, I expect to be able to work on free software much more broadly over the next year. Certainly, a lot of my work will make its way into Nixpkgs, which I was very excited to receive commit access to some months ago due to my other work on it. And there are some further projects of my own to come as well. In addition to working on Spectrum, I’d like to diversify my funding. I hope to be able to take donations for my free software work on Spectrum and other projects, to make this important work truly sustainable for me. I couldn’t sensibly do this before, because I couldn’t guarantee that I’d have any time to spend working on what people would be giving me money for, but, in this new arrangement, I have a lot more freedom and capacity to choose how I spend my time. I don’t expect donation income to pay my bills, or even be significant, but I’d like to explore it, and until now I haven’t had the space to do that.”
The S10-line from Samsung has that feature so it's certainly not impossible
The worry is much bigger exhaled droplets that carry the virus, not individual virus particles.
>People shouldn't need a thank you email

I think it's entirely unsurprising that people would like a thank you email. If you donate to an open source project, you have gone out of your way to acknowledge the project's maintainer. The least they can do is acknowledge you back - it's basic reciprocity.

>the cost of configuring a bot to send thank you emails is so low

Honestly, I think a bot saying "thank you" is as soulless as no "thank you" at all. It doesn't take long to type up a manual response and genuinely express your gratefulness.
>even though they're saying an infection is protecting as much as one vaccine dose

That's not the same thing as saying it can replace one vaccine dose, though.
It's one of the reasons why donation platforms are demonstrably more effective than just a form or button alone. Even though the emails are largely or entirely automated, people still like to get them for causes they like enough to donate to, whether thank yous or updates or whatever.
Does this mean you think vaccine records kids show for school are a sacrifice of individual liberty?
The problem with "productivity gurus" is that not one of them actually has any accomplishments in an actual specialized domain (other than marketing their stuff).

Conversely, as I look at all the accomplished people around me, they've quietly built a mountain of expertise and achievement with cobbled systems held together by spit and glue that a productivity hustler would scoff at.
Why didn't they say "5 ounces"?

And then "McD is 4, ours is 5"!
To reply as the devils advocate to this comment, what is the tolerance to social costs that society is willing to bear? Also why would one segment of society have to do something that it doesn't want e.g. not bear risk if they want to?

Should we tell people to get their BMI under 25 too? Overweight and obesity are going to cost much more in increased healthcare costs than COVID will in the coming decades (pls prove me wrong..).

What about drinking and smoking? Maybe we should also ban these because these people will probably go on government health insurance when they come down with chronic health issues from too much alcohol or tobacco.

I guess I don't see where your argument about societal costs doesn't become a slippery slope.

Also full disclosure I'm 100% vaccinated and will get the booster in Dec.
From Emma Best (DDoSecrets)'s tweets it looks like it's unavailable at the moment (6h ago):

>There don't seem to be any active seeds and just under 0.5% seems to be available ATM, so... we'll see what happens!

https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek/status/1437827363505573896
Also, the study, IIRC, found greater social distancing in the mask conditions, which leads to other possible explanations.

I wear a mask all the time and am happy to but I agree this study, while solid in some respects, is not exactly overwhelming in making a compelling argument for masks.
they did, and they are now. Society didn't crumble because of extreme monetary policy measures.
You are a STEM major.

Then you know that a mask is the least we can ask of parents.

Children are germ factories. What compounds the problem is they can't be vaccinated.

In CA, we opened the schools.

In two weeks, I have a feeling we will be in trouble.

Kids get virus. Some people show no symptoms, but are little viruse spreaders.

It's a pretty simple equation. Kids spread viruses very easily.

So put a mask on it.

Not for your kids sake, but for grandma's sake, and others.

(Personally, I would have kept the kids out of school for another year. Every kid would be able to stay in school two extra years, if needed. So instead of graduating at 18, some kids would be applying to college, or Amazon, at 20.)
It is a choice made by our environment first. That is, it's practically impossible to walk to your grocery store in most circumstances. Ditto for food environment and possible chemical factors that influences our weight.

Remember that the obesity epidemic started in the 80s. Before then, it's not like we don't lack access to all the food that we ever want to eat.

And then finally our choices. We could exercise choices to fix our problem, individually or collectively, but it's a difficult uphill struggle.

However, vaccination is different. It is not a struggle to walk into your pharamacy and get a flu or covid-19 vaccine. The only problem was the information environment that people are immersed in that dissuade people to take an otherwise very easy action to do.
It's never that simple. You're implicitly assuming that a fraudster wants the account long term, which is rarely true.

And identity is a VERY complex area, and nothing like as simple as "plenty of ways to verify identities". Particularly noting that fraud is often carried out by leveraging many partial opportunities: I use the (false/stolen) identity from over there to carry out of the fraud over here.
The problem with “asshole” is that it is applied to people who are “disagreeable givers” (moral people who want to help but have abrasive personalities) as well as unethical psychopaths.

I live by a moral code, but many have called me an asshole, because I will say “you don’t know what the hell you are doing” to people I believe are incompetent (instead of smiling wanly). But I don’t steal credit or tell lies.
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28531447
I'll take tyranny of the minority over tyranny of the government any day.
It’s faster. You don’t have to be looking at it. You don’t have to long-swipe up the screen. It works while it’s lying on the desk/bed/couch.

The SE is already unlocked by the time it’s out of my pocket, so I just see HN right away instead of holding it in front of me, looking at it, swiping up to authenticate and then seeing HN.

Bonus that it works in stores with a mask on so I don’t have to type my passcode in public as a result of a FaceID phone seeing the mask and popping up the passcode prompt, or pulling down my mask temporarily.
The underground has also altered the underlying heat retained in the thermal mass of London clay. Its been over 100 years of pumping heat in, now its radiating back out.
Epik is one of several registrars I've used. They were the first search result many years ago for a particular TLD. This was before any drama regarding them being a haven for unsavory sites. I stayed because I thought I would be incrementally safer against social engineering attacks.

All of my sites are things you might see submitted here.
Probably 1/2 of all Java classes written should be records.
Well, that's treason. Of course they wouldn't have obeyed such a command, but there's a lot of unnecessary and illegal actions and a lot of self aggrandizement in this story.
"Turd pounder"
Articles like this is exactly why I can't take the US covid response seriously.

- "You're protected if you get antibodies... except if from natural infection"
- "Masks don't help... oops they actually they do... nah they don't... hmmm they might"
- "Can't fly into the country.... unless you come through the southern border"
- "Covid is scary for kids... even though the flu kills an order of magnitude more kids"

So much cognitive dissonance I don't think I'll ever be able to trust public health ever again... they're either dishonest or completely incompetent at this point.
Yeah, a huge number of early twitter folks did exactly this.
Cool so what happens when the power goes out?
They don't want to open the flood gates on people expecting the government to do things to make their lives better.
> This isn't lying, it's results-driven communication.

Wow. I believe what you just described is the textbook definition of manipulation. I’m sincerely discouraged right now.
No they don't. No it doesn't.
Something doesn't add up though.

1) virus is highly contagious
2) unvaxxed run around without care

So how has it not propagated through everyone after months (of delta), at least in those areas with lower vaxxed rates?
I'm thinking there is some form of at least social distancing preventing this.
How to Fix Face and Neck Problems Each Women Suffers Form?
Such staff scientist roles for people with particular methodological skills do exist. They are not particularly common, because there are a few issues:

1. Who will pay for them?

2. How do we make staff scientist roles attractive to people who could also get tenure-track faculty positions or do ML/data science in the industry?

3. How do we ensure that a staff scientist position is not a career dead end if the funding dries up after a decade or two?

The standard academic incentives (long-term stability provided by tenure, freedom to work on whatever you find interesting, recognition among other experts in the field) don't really apply to support roles.