skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not about learning curves.

When it comes to experimenting and prototyping I think it is. The lower the learning curve the more cross polinations take place, projects and ideas get shared.

Clearly RPI is not optimal for clinical machinery that is supposed to run unattended by engineers in the real world but for prototyping why not?
I think you nailed it. The 1% will sail through the recession and just buy all the poor people’s stuff at pennies on the dollar. Poor people don’t have any buffer, all their money goes to bills already. If HSBC saw any money there, they would not be exiting.
Check out Armbian.

https://www.armbian.com/download
A facetious play on how both graffiti and pornography have been deemed morally objectionable or in poor taste, from which the masses should be protected.
I agree. But this is the ruling class we have. They thought it was a good idea to occupy Afghanistan for 20 years, and then botched the exit to top it off. Think they'll handle climate change more competently? That wouldn't follow the pattern we've seen for decades.
You're aware that the antivax grift train is a tried and true method for parting the dim and desperate from their money, right?
A proprietary emulator is both sad and extremely sketchy. Most major emulators at this point are free software and thrive because of it. I hope there is a free alternative in this space.
At what point can we blame people? Never, it seems.

Government cannot and should not regulate every aspect of our lives. Wanna drink a bottle of whiskey and kill yourself? Individual responsibility.

Wanna get fat slogging sugar all day without self control? Individual responsibility.

Individual responsibility seems to never be part of the conversation.
There is at least one study claiming the opposite of 'smaller viral load': 'Vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals have similar viral loads in communities with a high prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant'. Same with duration: lack of symptoms does not necessarily imply smaller viral shedding. But perhaps there are other studies proving the opposite, if so could you please link?

> “We don’t yet know how much transmission can happen from people who get COVID-19 after being vaccinated — for example, they may have high levels of virus for shorter periods of time,” says Prof. Walker.

In the big scheme of things, the issue is not point-in-time Sept 2021. The issue is the long term evolution of the virus. We know as a fact that the rise of Delta caught the vaccine program flatfooted and was the last nail in the coffin of the ZeroCovid idea. We have an unusual Summer-time epidemic spike. We've never deployed single-protein mRNA vaccines at scale, neither in animal nor in human populations. There are legitimate concerns (voiced even by Pfizer CEO) that the virus is likely (his word, not mine) to evade vaccine protection. At which point all the 'viral load is smaller / shorter for breakthroughs' logic goes out the window.

It gives me no pleasure to write the above. I secretly hope I'm wrong / under-informed. I wish that mRNA vaccines were a magic wand to wave covid away. But no amount of wishful thinking will make it so. I find the certitude of '(force) vaccinate everybody, is an absolute positive good in all possible scenarios' hard to square with the actual fragile situation we find ourselves in.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/delta-infection-un...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v...

https://www.insider.com/pfizer-ceo-vaccine-resistant-coronav...
Go build it!
How did we get so much mental illness in society?

They are the richest, most privileged humans ever.

There are serious issues, like a future without jobs when General AI and automation hits.

But global warming is laughable. It's worrying about the devil because you masterbate.

Is this the result of a heavily medicated society?
The real question is, why did wages in general ) not just minimum wage) start to diverge from productivity in the early 70s?
But there are (at least) 12-20 DAWs, each with their own (internal) abstraction designs. It's bad enough having to write (or being able to write) plugins for:

AAX, VST, AU, LV2 (at least)

Now you'd be talking about 12-20+ different "plugin APIs". That's not going to fly.
I'm almost certain your right. Cicero would have used something like a "w"; Modern Latin which co-evolved with central Italian uses the "v".
Yes, surely that’s the key. We are all being kept safe by these wonderful demigods who trade out human agency for safety.

Feel good yet?
If you're interested in more on why housing is expensive and complicated, I can't recommend Jerusalem Damsas' work highly enough: https://www.vox.com/authors/jerusalem-demsas

In particular, the video in this article sums up the problem https://www.vox.com/videos/2021/8/17/22628750/how-the-us-mad...
https://youtu.be/fliCxyAwBWU
> 1. Add types to the Nix expression language

Interestingly, this was one of the first issues that Edolstra (creator of Nix) raised himself, but unfortunately he closed it again as unrealistic a number of years later [0].

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/14#issuecomment-37820190...
It's easier to just get vaccinated than to test for antibodies.
Show HN: Screenshotbot: open-source screenshot testing framework
Right. And HSBC in particular has been downsizing outside of Asia and core markets for years now. So this move isn’t unexpected and not related to economic prospects.
How realistic is it to go out all day with just the watch, and no phone?
Data conclusively indicates real-world climate change is tracking the IPCC's worst case scenario.

https://youtu.be/fliCxyAwBWU
> "Ownership" isn't physical.

Land is.

> This is just pleading to the anonymous crowd of an imagined silent majority who agree with you.

What? I'm saying that most people intuitively agree with you when it comes to ownership of physical things. I don't see what the issue is.

> So you think it's not real? Go ahead. Try it then.

Have you ever been to a developing country? There's an entire block filled with stores just like you described less than 15 minutes from me right now.
Not all cell phones being used in cars are used by drivers. I wouldn’t want my cell phone disabled in an Uber, or to get a ticket because my uber driver was speeding.
I believe engineers are getting smarter about the value of their innovation and won't gift their best ideas to companies that will just pay their salaries. Also all that mass-patenting of whatever idea some one has is creating a huge horizon of legal landmines nobody wants to step on.
Statistically, is it?
It's not hard to stress test plugins. There are a few good tools for some formats out there. They can verify things that most DAWs will not (e.g. by deliberately cross-threading calls and so forth).

The problem is getting people to care. For years, on macOS, the "standard" for plugin developers has been "does it work in Logic?" There were even plugins that would fail auval(1) (the command line AudioUnit validator), but somehow pass in Logic. As far as their developers were concerned, the plugin worked. Working on Ardour, I've seen at least a dozen plugins that used ambiguity in the AU spec to justify why "well, it works in Logic even if it doesn't follow your interpretation of the spec" was the end of their interest.
Thanks! Yep, you're 100% correct that design is not my expertise, I just do what looks fine to me, but I have a coder's brain. Thanks much for those contact suggestions. I do have contact with some designers and one in particular who has offered some help in return for tech. assistance, so this issue is being addressed. I very much appreciate your feedback - thanks!
Data werelake - it transforms data into information every full moon.

Seriously though I expect data people to understand that the value of clear descriptive naming. Communicate meaning not marketing speak.
I don't understand what you're saying.

Do you think manufacturers of products should be forced to sell items to any business?

The competition that matters is against other automakers.
Renoise is forever the best bang for my buck I've ever gotten out of a DAW.
Lest anyone be confused, this is Epik the web hosting company[1], not Epic Games the videogame company[2], or Epic Systems the healthcare software company[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems
Wow! Thanks for such a detailed answer. It's much clearer now.
Same...exited this bank a few months ago when consolidating accounts. HSBC was at the bottom of the checking accounts I held.
Mammoths would be cool. But if we can do that, then why not Neanderthals?

And if we did the Neanderthals, what would the moral implications be?
Do you have any data to show that laughing at anti-vaxxers dying of COVID decreases the amount of people willing to get vaccinated? Common sense suggests to me that it's the other way around.
Glad you like it! Good question about how did I find that variable. It's been over a year and I tried to trace the history of that discovery and I cannot fully recall. This page: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquickcontrols2-material.html ... mentions the environment variables. I think it had been a lucky coincidence. I had been racking my brain trying to figure out how I would toggle these rectangles without a rebuild, and then I was working with the Material Style feature in QML and I think that when I came across the table on that page labeled "Environment Variables" it just clicked and I realize it could be the answer I was looking for.
And schlocky 70's American TV:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_1
Fair point but the fact remains that transmission is occurring between vaccinated persons. Nobody is disputing this. Israel is one of the higher vaccinated populations and they're at R1.1 as of today.
Switch to proportion on the graph. And the number of cases of the fully vaccinated is now around 30%.

Still trying to figure out how the unvaccinated can give covid to the vaccinated, if the vaccine is working.
> We will have to start sucking up that carbon from the atmosphere whether we cut emissions or not.

We will have to start sucking it up faster than we've extracted it... which is about 100 million barrels a day. Ain't gonna happen.
You are clearly what he's complaining about.

When personalities are incompatible, neither side has the automatic right to claim being the correct one, not even the one that describes itself as nice or cooperative.

For all the insults they flung in this post, and as incorrect as that is on it's own and all else being equal, by calling theirself asshole, they exhibit more self-awareness and honesty that for instance this remark.

I don't know much of anything a out either you or the OP, but if I had nothing else to go on but the OP and your comment, and was forced to cboose who to work with based on only that info, I would choose the OP immediately and every time with no doubt.

Now, you can simply call me a asshole too, and like the OP I'll totally agree that to you I'm an asshole, but I think it would serve you (and everyone who has to work with you) to think about this a little.
I agree that there is a lot to do to mitigate damage, and that complacency does not help. But posting meme responses neither mitigates damage, or reduces complacency. In my experience these kind of responses tend to reinforce complacent attitudes.
This wasn't Epic Games, which is in a lawsuit with Apple. This was Epik, a webhosting company.
A More Flexible Design for Separation of Storage and Compute
Just try the responsible parties so that others will act responsibly? The US's withdrawal of support for the ICC is quite telling. The Trump administration even authorized sanctions against the ICC. The US is quite on par with Russia regarding this matter, as in "we support the court as long as it doesn't come after us".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Intern...
Really? I’m still waiting on my taxpayer sponsored bill to come in from the “anti vaccine” manufacturer.

Actually, that’s great idea. Someone should make an antidote for the “vaccines”. It would sell like gangbusters.
VAERS has some data quality problems, however the CDC considers it a legitimate source.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...
The explanatory commit message of "Enhanced security" should be enough to document all you need to know!
Gradle lets you write your build config in Groovy or Kotlin.
The possibility for complexity is there but I've found it mostly just works and is reasonably simple - for home projects my gradle.build files are typically 50 lines or so.
Not saying no code reuse. But if you're going to reuse code across multiple DAWs, then a plugin system is the established standard.

Do you think those existing developers are just going to drop their code into your environment and hit compile? How do you plan on getting all these musical components into your DAW? It doesn't work like that. Someone is going to have to write something, or you're going to be acquiring the rights to existing code somehow, which is still going to have to be ported to your environment.

Or you could skip all that and implement VST. There are even libraries that present a standard interface and output plugins in all the major formats, so you could target that instead. (I forget the name of the framework I'm thinking of but it was written by the Cockos guy and his DAW's ReaPlugs effects suite targets that library)

How would you motivate a synth/effects developer want to spend time on your project? Unless you hire them, and if you're going to ask them to "write reusable code," they're going to point to their existing portfolio of plugins.
Why did xml lose to yaml/json?
> We aren't in chains.

Just don't try to move too much and you won't even feel 'em.
Incredible. All these ifs and buts to try twist the situation into exactly the shape that suits you.

> The load on the medical system from obesity is largely predictable and stable. It's no comparison to how COVID overwhelms the medical system.

And yet I made the comparison. Both increase load on the healthcare system.

> Nobody is going without necessary surgery or treatment because some other people eat too much food from McDonald's.

Do you have a source for this claim? It's commonly knowledge now that overweight people are a significant burden for the healthcare system, and it is also known that hospitals have had resources shortages, ambulance wait times have been too high, etc at various time in the past. You seem quite sure of yourself that by some miracle of chance, none of that additional load due to obesity has ever caused someone else to have a less favorable outcome.
Judaism was an ancient and long established religion in the Levant by the time the Roman Republic came into contact with them. They had been under the suzerainty of the Seleucid Greeks for about a hundred years, and had a culture that deeply valued learning, literacy and the law, so they weren't barbarians by any definition. The Romans respected their culture as ancient, and being on par with other cultures in the region (at least until the Judeans started rebelling too frequently).
I think, like I've consistently done, you have lost a year. It's 2021, and parent's post (and plan) makes sense to me.
I live in the US. Here the police do extort, union representatives have been murdered, and Ben Franklin's own grandson was jailed for criticizing our president adams. However we are certainly pretty low on the authoritarian spectrum, compared to many other countries.

Our own military has done quite horrible things to US citizens, including killing and jailing them in foreign detention centers.

Having spent time in "authoritarian countries", I can tell you even in those countries the common man can often criticize leaders in private, and as I foreigner I have had them confide in me about problems in their country. So it isn't some defense to say that because the common man can complain, it isn't authoritarian.

>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.

Despite the dooms-dayers on the internet and media, virtually the same has happened in the US. Nowadays almost all the deaths are the unvaccinated, which for the vast vast majority of them that was their own voluntary decision.
MTA from dying in a fatal incident is ~600 years for an average person. Source: an exercise we did in a university using statistics for all kinds of fatal accidents provided by a national statistics agency.
It's posts like this that remind me why I force myself not to do front end. I always end up tweaking the same 10 lines of CSS until they're juuuuust right and never get anything done.

Great article!
There's an interesting "mod" for games involving die rolls where you replace each dice with a set of numbers that the player can just pick, with the limitation that each "die" must use each number once before reusing any.
If I was "skeptical" about something like say the covid vaccine - then I'd go and do some research. And do you know what the research (in this case) would turn up? That the covid vaccines are indeed SAFE AND EFFECTIVE. But you know what most of these "vaccine skeptical" people are NOT doing? They're NOT doing any research to resolve their skepticism. So spare me this vaccine skepticism argument.
Lately we have moved to 'Data Pond pattern' where data store is attached directly to micro service for all CRUD operations. And of course we use Data Well pattern for deep data analysis.

Another emerging architecture I see myself investigating is Data Sewer Pattern where huge load of useless data be dumped on to millions of unsuspecting entities via social media.
Wow, that's an excellent illustration!
hrowaway5752 says " it is plainly obvious to me from just looking out the window that climate change is substantial and accelerating. It is the most urgent and dangerous issue facing the planet."

Golly, that proves it! What could possibly be a more convincing argument?

BTW what do you see out your window? last time I looked there were flaming meteorites falling on the wooly mammoths grazing on the front 40 acres.
Pride. Vanity.
Nix needs a shell language integrated into nix. Nix should be usable as an os shell. That would make complex scripting so much easier than the weird passasfile bizarreness
I know a US Treasury employee that has an active felony arrest warrant in their name in a US State. They told me they only have to tell their boss if they’re arrested, not before. This person continues to wield power over mere mortals like us. The government is a joke.
> or a p value of something like p = 0.0001

This has been proposed [0], albeit for a threshold of p < 0.005.

Here's Andy Gelman and others arguing otherwise [1]. They also got like 800 scientists to sign on to the general idea of no longer using statistical significance at all [2].

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0189-z

[1] http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/ab...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9
Ok, I "tried this", and thinking about it did nothing to help the problem.

I try to choose the most useful response, which for me is volunteering time in organizations that develop solutions. This way I can use my personal expertise and contribute something, however small. If I find a more useful path, then I will take it.
But no on-device fuzzy hash scanning and swat-ing on Android afaik - the above quote enumerates cloud services.
"EncryptData"

https://github.com/microsoft/omi/blob/e4d72481fa2f805148c9c8...
Wait, how is it non-selfish? I've only ever heard selfish reasons to not get the vaccine, e.g. that there could be side effects to them personally so they selfishly decide to not get the vaccine.
We'd have to ask the Neanderthals.
The people that annoy me are my neighbors in SV that can easily afford a (used Leaf, used Model 3), but instead buy a gas guzzling SUV for more money. Even the rental homes, that won't be getting solar panels unless the building owner is somehow incentivized, can do better than the SUV.

The appliances and furnace and so on are part of the solar loan, and so they are effectively free, as the loan payments are lower than the electricity and gas bill.

The solar and new appliances, and the AC, are effectively free, paid for by my ability to sell the energy back into the grid and by the sun.

I know most people can't adopt it yet, or without structural changes to the incentives, but most of my peers and neighbors could but don't. I'm mad at my peers and neighbors (except, obviously, the homes full of young immigrants working hard, and the retirees on fixed incomes and so on).

Also, when I visit my birth place of North Carolina, I get mad at all the people living near the beautiful and fragile barrier islands with their expensive SUVs and trucks and no solar, no electric cars, nothing being done to halt the destruction of such beautiful ecosystems. Not even an idea that the flooding and hurricanes are something they could actually take steps against. I get mad at the elites in these towns that ignore the problem that will end in the destruction of the beautiful islands they are entrusted with the care of.

I'm also a bit mad at my cousins that are resolute anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers.
Gravity is already helping all it wants to. Gravity is constantly redirecting the velocity in the circular orbit. A velocity change will push it into a new orbit, that will be slightly offset from the old one. You need so much velocity change to offset the orbit so much, and then you are still orbiting - still in something of a a steady state trajectory, just a slightly different one. It’s symmetric in fact
I wonder if the other route forward is cloud streaming games to the browser powered by a "Heroku" for cloud game hosting.
VAERS shows more than 15,000 cases of COVID-19 reported after vaccination. Are we to conclude that they got COVID-19 "from" the vaccine?
4.55 million people dead means that this isn't "crying wolf"
Continuity is part of regulation in some industries, yes
tried deluge and qbit
qbit loaded it instantly while deluge froze for like 15 minutes
> So in the 90s, with interest rates still high, regulation was passed to lower the capital requirements for Fannie & Freddie to give out loans - leading to more lending than could be covered by capital, leading in 2008 to a spectacular global "whoops!".

There was outright fraud happening in the years leading up to 2008, with people writing down false incomes and assets, and underwriters looking the other way on verifying them.
I mean that's an unfunny off brand pewdiepie, but like, who cares? It's not morally reprehensible or anything, not even really particularly controversial I'd say. It's vulgar in sort of a bland way
Would allow for more graphics extensive experiences!

But, I do think the future will be full of games that can be instantly played directly in the browser
Except, most of a nixos system is built by simple Autoconf scripts and some env cars being set correctly.

I mean I built a whole nix distribution for embedded devices with runit as init and cross compiling and everything and nix made it easy and fun. And I learned that it's just Autoconf and shell all the way down. There's no magic to nix. The most voodoo non standard thing they do is patchelf stuff, but most of the nixos specific stuff is just setting paths to configure scripts or in the environment.
The thing about these results is that its mostly in people who show symptoms, and it isn't clear to me that symptomatic covid infections in vaccinated people are associated with similar viral loads as when asymptomatic.

I think this study tries to address this. But haven't had time to read through

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/90800/2/reac...
Sometimes, if there's a story I find interesting but am not entirely clear on, I upvote it so others more qualified have a better chance of seeing and commenting on it. I guess if enough people do this, a story'll teach the front page w/ 0 comments. Just my own 2¢.