skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am very similar, I was looking to switch and the signup bonus tempted me

in the end I closed that account and went back to my old one as the HSBC website and app were so appallingly bad

it was like something out of 1995
Indeed that does seem incredibly difficult, my imagination goes to a cloud of poly-bots, perhaps powered by surface-based laser(s) and solar, such that they could be made to gradually approach the target orbit, attach to the object, and any that attach could help the others by accelerating the debris towards them.. then hopefully once enough were on, you'd have enough control on the object to de-orbit it? (Total space/engineering layperson here, just thought it might be a way around some of the tricky parts?)
Sunvox was my first thought as well. Watching the intro video it seems in bespoke the modules' internals are more visible. Though it's missing the sequencer portion compared with sunvox.
great, now add multiplayer netcode
A little more verbose than your example but https://github.com/tc39/proposal-async-do-expressions would help with this.
HSBC also previously exited mass market retail banking in Japan, Korea, Brazil, and Turkey.

(There's probably more, these are just the first ones I found.)

Japan (actually exited both mass market and Premier retail banking): https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/24/business/hsbc-t...

Korea: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324853704578587...

Brazil and Turkey: https://www.ft.com/content/85642fcc-e50d-11e4-bb4b-00144feab...
I'm guessing most of those look at viral loads in break throughs. But I'm not sure that is quite as relevant as the viral load that typically results upon exposure, i.e. my guess is that viral load in breakthrough cases looks different than in non-breakthrough cases.

I think this study tries to get at this problem.

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/90800/2/reac...
MDX: Markdown for the Component Era
> The point is that "trying to make music" isn't much of a description: people's workflows for "making music" vary dramatically. Not many years ago, more or less the only way to do this was to record yourself playing one or more instruments and/or singing. These days, there are many fundamentally different workflows, and countless minor variations of each one.

Excellent point and apologies if that comment came across as inflammatory. I really respect the work you and the Ardour team have done even if it's not for me (and infinite thanks for your work on JACK, it truly is a special piece of software). My frustration has more to do with there not being a FOSS DAW that gives me that true Ableton-like experience. I understand why though, this stuff is hard to build and one workflow does not fit all as you point out.
Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem
cant wait to get bricked over the head by some thug for using the wrong registrar
I'd assume that new variants arise roughly in proportion to the number of people who are infected at a given point in time. Each infection is like a lottery ticket for developing a new variant. Covid might be around for a very long time, but if we can keep the pandemic under control to the point where we have thousands rather than millions of people getting infected every day, then I'd expect the risk of variants to go way down. (Maybe this is completely right, and the mutations accumulate over time, but either way fewer infections would mean lower risk, even if it isn't exactly a linear relationship.)

The question then is can we get new infection under control all around the world? Maybe it'll happen naturally due to herd immunity in places where vaccination is rare, but I'd rather we exported more vaccines to those places. We're all in this together.

Interesting thing from that article you link is that just over 99 percent of Covid cases in the U.S. are delta variant.

I'm inclined to be skeptical of claims that any variant is bypassing vaccine protections unless we have pretty solid evidence. It's just the nature of news to speculate about worst-case scenarios.
What's there to consider? Get vaccinated even if you might have had COVID for assured immunity.
Are young men too much in French society?
Blame Dennis Muilenburg. In his (successful) efforts to get the Boeing stock price up, he got rid of all the senior engineers who would have known better than to make a non-redundant control system responsible for human flight safety.
(The MCAS used input from only one AOA sensor.)
I think I might be misunderstanding you, but that's completely false. Nix sandboxes things and every single C project I've used with "./configure && make && make install" works with zero boilerplate.
Ask HN: How can a software developer make a positive impact locally?
git-crypt, https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt, provides better analogous functionality, and supports GPG in addition to a single shared symmetric key.
Feels to me like less and less youtube videos have the auto-caption option as well these days.
>>The sprawling 20 and 30 story apartment complexes that are all around Taipei really expanded my view of how other countries do it. “Fields and fields” of these massive structures.

As an Indian. This culture caught on some time here in Bangalore early 2000s. But most people, even those living in large apartments, eventually prefer living in individual detached homes over time. Simple reason: Privacy. There are also a whole lot of other things. Space to dry clothes, walking space. Disturbance from from people staying the floor above. Unhygienic neighbours. etc etc.

The plus point is it comes inside a gated community. It's Brazil like inequality contrast here in Bangalore these days. Rich IT/software MNC working families live behind these bespoke apartment gated communities. Which is often contained within a larger slum.

The detached home/row houses gated communities are fairly expensive and in terms of US dollars are anywhere between $500K to $1 million. Most people buying these are people who won the higher salary software job lottery.

People like me who have always been there in Bangalore stay in the inner parts of the city which are not this cool and jazzy. Most homes are old, crumbling and roads are full of potholes. It's mixed population and the areas aren't all that much gentrified. So not many posh software people like to stay here.

Eventually you just pay extra for living among people of your income class.
You know what's easier than getting an antibody tests and ensures immunity to COVID?
I hear you. Appreciate hearing your perspective. Sounds like I'm getting too in the weeds about word choice and misunderstanding.
> So there will be enough housing... when my parents die?

Not necessarily if the location is in demand such that it is seeing a net inflow of people.
Neanderthals are around. The genes are still with us.
Oil companies knew about climate change in the _1980s_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_cont...
> Every year, your stats get worse, and they take away your advantage. No matter how much exercise you do, or how well you are off, you will lose on those dice.

Plenty of people get into much better shape in their 30s and 40s than they were as teens or twenties because they take it more seriously. There is obviously a yearly cost, but it's highly, highly variable how much that decline has to be, especially when you are younger. Sleep better, exercise more, eat mostly vegetables and your decline rate will stay close to 0 most years and may improve in some years. You will catch fewer diseases and be sick for less time when you do catch one.

Father time always wins, but you can play defense and make it a competitive match.
No. Flakes will be stabilized with nix version 3.0, while the current nix-unstable release is 2.4pre-something. See the roadmap here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-release-schedule-and-roadm...
A vaccine is an innoculation and prophylactic, not a cure.

The prophylactic costs less than the diagnostic. It has negligible risk of harm. It's a determinable and unambiguous event, unlike trying to verify a possible infection and sustained immune response.

The obvious rational policy decision for public health is to mandate the vaccine for everyone.

Those not previously infected gain immunity. Those previously infected ... either get a not-strictly-necessary injection, or far more likely, a useful booster.

And the administration, diagnostic, and monitoring costs are far lower.
Natural immunity and vaccination provide even better protection, though. Plus vaccination can help with Long COVID symptoms. So I don't see that there's anything wrong--or misleading--with encouraging/requiring people to get vaccinated to avoid weekly testing.
> Would it be able to penetrate hundreds of miles of Chinese air defenses or defeat an ABM system?

Cruise missile flying 100m off the ground.

For practical purposes, cruise missiles are the real wunderwaffe which is impossible to stop, not ballistic missiles.
At least the party who ordered the missile strike. The Navy servicemen mainly launch the missiles to coordinates X, Y without questioning the order, so they're an accessory to murder.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term)
Lenovo ThinkCentre M72e. Very nice form factor. I bought a refurbished one from eBay, very good price.
I suggest Taiwan forsake the pursuit of independence, but at the same time commit to unification only on the democratic reform in China.

The pursuit of independence is just pursuit of conflict. No one in China, Taiwan, and US, can alter that trajectory.

Even if Taiwan managed to gain independence, most likely Taiwan, China, and US would be severely damaged (assuming all parties are still sane enough to avoid a total nuclear armageddon), democracy would simultaneously deteriet in all 3 regions. As economic downturn inevitably results into worsening social orders (more dictatorship, or more chaos), there has not been a single exception in human history anywhere, period.

Well, I guess EU would be happy to see that happening. It's a gamble, but if plays out correctly, EU would be left as the sole superpower. Not a bad outcome.
>> In public health, “the primary objective is to protect as many people as you can,” he says. “It’s called collective insurance, and I think it’s irresponsible from a public health perspective to let people pick and choose what they want to do.”

If it were really about maximizing defenses against the virus, we would also be told to maintain vitamin D sufficiency among other things that can help. So clearly the goal isnt that. It seems the goal is simply to vaccinate as many people as possible.
It's sad, but I think the only way out would involve violence/riots.

The system is just so incredibly inhuman - you have working class people commuting hours / working 2 shifts and barely being able to afford housing, while others just hoard houses and profit.

It's all just one big sad Monopoly game.
I was building a docker image today with nix, but to my demise it ended up being over 90mb (loaded into the docker daemon). How can I make a docker image smaller?
If the numbers quote above are correct, then the majority of the “unvaccinated” have already been exposed to COVID. And yet, they are dying by the hundreds of thousands and running out of ICU beds to die in.

So, I think we already know how that works. Or doesn’t work, as the current example shows so clearly.
Neither of which were public companies.
More people will die waiting unvaxxed for their antibody results than will die from vaccine side effects. Please use real numbers when you talk about vaccine side effects.
Actually basic economics says, all economic transactions in an economy are designed to benefit a private property owner. *All*.

The end beneficiary in an economy, the place where money stops is a private property owner. Every economic activity no matter what that is, just acts a long chain in which the eventual beneficiary is a property owner.

That's just how it is, there's really nothing that can be done about this.
Gravity 'helps' too much, by making you go faster as you get lower, and then you slingshot right back up to your original height.

That's why a lopsided orbit is stable. It wouldn't be if down was easier than up.
Eclipse was my go-to XML editor for the year during which my first computer job was to edit XML files.
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> The poor do not elevate the poor out of poverty.

What a bizarre, paternalistic take. This is the same sort of narcissistic logic that led to Reagan's golden showers^W^W trickle-down economics.

I mean, I agree about entrepeneurs. Historically, the thing that has lifted communities out of poverty has been entrepeneurs in that community that contribute back to it. In other words, the poor very much elevate the poor out of poverty.

The rest of your comment (e.g. "and, yes, the rich") is just weird apologetics for people that don't need it, and can pay for it anyways, so why are you wasting your time doing it for free?
They are only fragmented at first glance. Upon a closer look, there are organizations like the Association of Bay Area Governments, and of course all kinds of unofficial meetings and shared information sources that keep people on the same page.

Similar to how "salary surveys" are "not collusion" among the big employers, even though they're used to effectively fix the price of employee salaries to certain ranges and treat that as some sort of natural barrier like a mountain range that can't be overcome.
That's true, and certainly I'm in favor of national policies to encourage people to be healthy and fit.

That said, getting vaccinated is about a thousand times easier than staying in shape. It's free and quick to get over with, whereas fitness requires sustained effort indefinitely. It's reasonable to treat people's choice to refuse something easy different from people either refusing or struggling with something difficult.

The other important distinction is that we're not gonna suddenly have a shock of people coming down with obesity and flash flooding the hospitals. The country getting bigger is not a good thing, but as a gradual thing it can be managed much more easily.
I (and many others) have had good experience with Namecheap.
The Free clone of Delphi is here: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
> This applies to every single crime.

Not really. Crimes are limited by reality. One criminal can only do so much.

With copyright infringement you have insane situations such as over 80% of a country's population being guilty of it. At this point, is it even a crime? More like a local custom.

> Try getting the police or courts to do anything about your stolen bike. They won't.

Maybe in the US. It's rather common here. I have examples in my family. I see it in the news nearly every week: some drug addict steals a phone, police arrests him and the phone is returned to its owner.

> So theft should be legal?

From what you just told me, it looks like it already is.
Then you have an opportunity to be my hero!
Greenspun's law, "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." is really just a special case of a general principle. There's a lot of cases where if you use the wrong tool and/or don't know the right libraries, or don't or can't use them, or just won't, that you'll reinvent something that already exists, badly.
Socket location is wrong. Use this:
export DOCKER_HOST='unix:///tmp/podman.sock'
Reminded me of SunVox:
https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/
Thanks! I think it wouldn’t await the whole loop though

for (const item of iterable)
async do {
await item()
}

This would be equivalent to

Promise.all(arr.map(async item => {
await item()
})

Notice the lack of await before Promise.all
I don't think the plan to exit the US consumer market was because of the pandemic. I remember there had been talks of exiting the US market even in 2019 ( random article I pulled up after a google search -https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/money-and-banking/hsbc-... ). I think their US banking operations had been performing badly for some time now. Maybe the pandemic could have accelerated things.
it does matter, but your chances of getting it without taking more damage than you started with is a hell of a lot lower than getting it via vaccination.

Gov's are not good at granular management. they have to make broad sweeping rules that everyone needs to fit into or they get nothing done.
> We can test for natural immunity. That then counts as fully vaccinated

According to who? It's not in the US or Canada, as examples. That's the point of the topic you're replying to.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2313728/canada-refuses-entry-to...
Or just build huge amounts of homes. It's not impossible. The US doesn't even build as many dwellings as we used to in the 60s and 70s if I remember correctly.

Enable developers to build skyscrapers of 500 square foot apartments until there are enough of THOSE apartments to house literally 100% of the population. Then people can choose to either pay say $1000/mo to live in one of those small apartments, or whatever it costs to buy a single family home. And if people have the option of renting somewhere cheap, even if it isn't ideal, that'll help balance the market. Right now we have situations where people need to pay $2000+/mo for the smallest of apartments.
The main point is "legitimate source for what?". A reporting system like VAERS errs widely on the side of overreporting and explicitly doesn't require any causality, so that its data can be mined for surprising patterns to investigate that might uncover a causal link we didn't know about.

Any "There's X VAERS reports of the vaccine causing Y" claims thus heavily misuse the data source, because that's not what it is capturing.
BeOS is still with us: https://www.haiku-os.org/
> For purposes of calculating the probability of successful post-mission disposal, we define
successful post-mission disposal for spacecraft in LEO as re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere within 25 years or less following completion of the spacecraft mission.

I don't see the problem.
I feel bad for people under 20 due to people pretending there isn't an existential crsis and it'll all be fine if they just recycle.

Unfortunately, that's still doing less harm than climate change actually is (and certainly will be in the future).

And it does nothing to solve the problem of climate change.
> This is usually called "MIDI mapping" or similar and is available in basically every DAW these days.

I'm aware of MIDI mapping, my question was about the possibility to make a stand alone sysnthesizer (with keyboard and knobs) in which the necessary controls would be read from analog inputs while still displaying them on the screen as if they were changed with the mouse, which is not easy to do when playing live.

> Something like qjackctl (with Jack, obviously) could do this for you, as you can route things however you want in a drag-and-drop UI.

Sorry, my second sentence wasn't clear at all. I'd love to see a general purpose (not related to sound or any other use) library to allow the graphical representation of structures links (list nodes) together as this software and others do with generators, effects, etc. Ideally, it should operate on the header of a structure which contains the relevant fields for linking to others. When I alter the links on the screen, it does the same on the represented nodes.
That would be the way I would build for example a drum machine in which each structure contains also a pattern and I can move them at will back and forth, replicate them, set their own fields (number of repeats, etc). This would be again a sound related application, but what I'm looking for is something really general purpose.
Outside of tech, most businesses are back in the office now. Personally I work from home in an apartment in the city because the lifestyle is just better than a sprawling isolated suburb.
I'll give you feedback. Any time I come across a martyr saying "Go ahead and downvote me" I do so whether or not I agree with their position.
Oh, I think they are doing what they think is "research", but they don't know the difference between anecdotal evidence and scientific evidence.

They hear about one pop star's cousin [1] in another country that had swollen testicles after his shot and that's someone that not only they can relate to, but even trust more that official sources because, hey, why would that star lie about it. While many are convinced that the government and health care industry in general has an ulterior motive.

It's a combination of disinformation and lack of critical thinking skills. I spent 2 hours on the phone with my brother one night, pointing out why his "sources" were not really authoritative sources - if you can't find the source of their data, don't trust it, "I know a guy who..." is not a "source". Not sure if that's what swayed him, but he got his first vaccination 2 weeks later. And it's a good thing he got it, he and his wife just recovered from COVID which they think their daughter brought home.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anthony-fauci-nicki-minaj-cov...
As per your other comment, it seems things are already going in that direction, if developers are treating their plugins as being written in a format that could be described as "AU that is compatible with Logic but nothing else" or something like that (substitute for any format/DAW combination that the developer wants). So I would say that in a way it has already flown regardless of how we feel about it.
Well that makes my switch specialized Bluetooth adapters useless, but that's not really a complaint
Didn't you just say they'd be totally fine suing everyone?
Neither is the science settled on whether COVID infection infers "immunity".
Totally in agreement. But I’m a libertarian. The larger point I was making was that people vote for liberal politicians and act surprised when they get what was promised. Don’t pretend you are a special snowflake and deserve 0% taxes while the working person does not.
What's the implication? That faults were included or neglected to be sussed out by their next company?
What gets me is how complicated Git is when all I want to do is check out the production code for ONE file, make a change, and check it back in.
With git, I need to clone a repository, create a branch, do a add to move my changes to a staging area, commit the changes to update the local repository, then some combination of pull requests and merge (haven't figured out that part yet) to eventually get the changes back into the remote repository.
And now this article tells me that not only to I need to know all those commands, but I need to understand the structures behind them?
Geez, I just wanna change some code, test it and check it in.
> Still trying to figure out how the unvaccinated can give covid to the vaccinated, if the vaccine is working.

Not trying very hard, by the looks of it. Since you're lazy: vaccines aren't perfect.
The real numbers are in the links I posted above, as well as this CDC presentation.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...
Nice out of context quote.
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I've heard https://njal.la is pretty good.
Everytime I see KDE and Konqueror I wish I could make it work on the mac. The KDE system in the mid 2000's was way ahead of everyone else in opensource.
If you want to see what all the hype is about - I can try arrange a demo meeting for you ;)
shir@wiz.io
You sound like you're against the vaccine. What's wrong with just getting the vaccine (even if you had COVID)?