skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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...

ASIO, really? Sorry but you couldn’t pay me to go back to that broken piece of crap after switching to Linux and JACK2. I’m actually traumatized by that piece of software, thinking of moments where ASIO would just break and cause my Live session to collapse into a glitchy cacophony of latency-induced noise. I’ve seen this happen on several computers with different Windows installations and external audio hardware and the problem always ends up being ASIO. Some of the producers I knew swore off anything that wasn’t a Mac because of this exact problem.

The problem with audio production on Linux in 2021 isn’t the audio protocol. It’s that most free and open source audio production software for Linux is dreadful to use. UX is actually very important for DAWs. I want to like Ardour but it’s a miserable piece of software to try to make music in. Feels like a chore to perform any action, kills my vibe, would not recommend. After trying really hard to become comfortable using it, I finally gave up and bought Bitwig. It’s a proprietary DAW and kinda expensive but I’ve been producing music with it for a couple of years and it’s a dream to use - sort of a spiritual successor to Ableton IMO.

> No plug-in or DAW has a CLI…

Most people who make music don’t care about this. I’m a software developer and musician who only uses Linux and I don’t care about this. In my opinion, Linux developers of free and open source creative software should spend less time building these features for other developers and focus more on making their software feel good to create with. If I feel bad trying to use your clunky-ass UI to make my art / music / whatever then I’m not going to hold myself back because it has a free software license. I’m going to find a piece of software that gets out of the way and lets me make what I want to make.
Eventually the cloud is going to burst and everyone’s data will be public. The motive will be similar to this one, where a huge blast radius of collateral damage is accepted in the name of harming bad people. Seeing people eagerly download this data that surely includes countless amounts of personal info of non-Nazis shows this clearly.
> Climate change may affect hundreds of millions and even so it is far away from an existential threat to humans.

So? WW2 was not an existential threat. Covid is not an existential threat. If you lose your job, your house, and spend the rest of your life as homeless, that's still not an existential threat to humanity. It's a meaningless criterion.
We were the chumps.

Most of us knew something wasen't right, but were afraid to ask the hard questions. I don't belive it was do to gender. Plus it was the whole fake it till you make it cool kids time.

That black turtleneck borrowed from Jobs. That was the only thing that tipped me off at first. And no, I was not going comment on her looks. Was it because she was female? I don't know? I just knew it was a tell. (I didn't know anything about her, or her company. I just saw a person acting a part.)

The rest of her story didn't make much sense, but so many Silicon Valley companies don't make sense. She just jumped on the band wagon.

A years worth of chem at college. (I don't know for sure.)

Rediculious claims about hematology.

A generation of tech folks fawning over Zuckerburg. It was the "Everything is possible with youth, hard work, white, comming from wealth".

Investors were salivating over another Zuck.

If she is found innocent, or guilty, I don't think it will affect women entrepreneurs.

She is blaming everyone, but that's what the wealthy do when in a bind. It's never their fault. Always the victim.

She was an aberration. We were the fools.

I believe she dodged some hard questions because of her gender, but so many wealthy semi-attractive male/female entrepreneurs seem to skate through life without getting asked the hard questions, until it's too late.

I do find it disconcerting that kids (male, or female) from wealthy families get so many passes in life.
I'd challenge you to provide a source - for any statement - that is unambiguously free from political slant.
I wouldn't even defend my own daughter, let alone my daughter in law if it turned out she sold fraudulent tests to cancer patients.[1]. I would never defend anyone, family or otherwise if they threaten the health of seriously ill patients. Do you see how morally deprived that is?

Mate I'm not even sure she had that kid for any other reason than to tilt the trial in her favor, and elicit exactly this response

[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-patients-hurt-by-theranos-1...
I'd certainly love something that's not ARM and doesn't require me to go thru hoops to get simple SSH running (aka headless first)
How does this get you the median?
I'd take wild places over brainpower by a long shot
You're talking of billions of deaths from famine and conflict from displacement. Should young people not be alarmed about the idea of a few hundred of millions of humans relegated to the poles of the Earth because the species was too stupid to stop destroying their own planet?

If we can't prevent - or based on comments here, completely reject the reality of - the massive and preventable degradation of the only habitat in known universe where we can survive then we are in fact quite doomed.
Show HN: DpiApp – App to Watermark the Design and Send to Client (Ruby on Rails)
Hi, I'm printfinn, a mostly self-taught software engineer, this is a web app I made in the last 2 months with Ruby on Rails, ERB, Heroku, S3 and Cloudfront. I made it because graphic designers sometimes get "ghosted away" by first-time clients after they hand out the original design image files. This app can automatically add watermark and adjust resolution before images are presented to the client. I hope it makes the designer's job easier, and hopefully, get designers paid. Any suggestion is welcome especially from designers!
It seems like a policy of forcing people with natural immunity to be vaccinated could have negative externalities if there are other countries in the world that don't have enough vaccines.
According to the NIH, 64% of hospitalizations might have been prevented if not for obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and heart failure. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/most-co...
Are you sure it's not celebrated? The poor rural folks often are a target. Christains.. anti-vaxxers.

What has changed is you are part of the group punching down but you think you are punching up.

It always happens this way. That other group is always: wrong, dangerous, not like us and any action against them is justified.

Seen it, heard it before. The interesting part is when the groups switch and people still think they are an underdog.
This is the complete opposite of the truth on almost every front. Elon is really good at bluster and branding. The execution is never there at launch of one of his ventures and usually only halfway there years later, this applies to X.com, SolarCity, Tesla, and SpaceX, all of which were and in some cases still are failures even until this day. But surviving for long enough and with the right folks around you means that you can turn things around.
This doesn't really seem like an interesting story to me. It has no bearing on the case or the outcome or anything else really. Just some weird tangentially-related guy lied about who he is.
Taxes are taught in economics 101, but tax evasion is not: drive across state lines, shop online, under report activity, buy on the black market, etc. You need a strong enforcement mechanism in place that's often hand waived away. When I studied economics (2006) the theory was brilliant but always fell short of delivering in practice.

People won't evade buying cars that produce less CO2 if they're cheaper and better than the competition. This is why I think it's more likely to align with economic theory.
The government doesn't make discoveries, the government isn't creative. People are. Solving the problem of climate change can be helped by governments as a tool people use for coordination, but generally governments are best at defining rules, which are compulsory--this is antithetical to creativity. All this is to say, yes governments SHOULD fail us in solving this type of problem. Capitalism, though it is not the most popular tool in the zeitgeist right now, is a much better tool for solving this type of problem. If you have money, it's a good time to take on risk and invest in solutions. Uranium seems to be a popular one right now, as nuclear energy is the greenest energy generation tool we have, and problems from the past are being solved through better engineering currently (micro-nuclear). Private fusion investment is a much better long term investment, though it's unlikely you'll get a return in your life time, humans will get a return in the long run. The billionaires know this, look at who is investing in fusion right now.
Alternative title: Younger generation sees disaster capitalism for what it is and realise they will have to liek with the consequences.
You probably transfer a lot of your own behaviour to us. Im not saying you're entirely wrong but look how many people in this article alone agreed to be quoted by an american newspaper to bemoan a gov initiative.

China gives you the illusion it can target its people toward enemies, but the truth is we dont care all that much to "expand an empire". We'd do the minimum if forced, as always.

If we could first make Hong Kong happy, that'd be a good first step :D
I've never tried their APIs, but I believe their API would be the only way to get more granular information you are looking for:

* https://github.com/fedspendingtransparency/usaspending-api

* https://api.usaspending.gov/docs/endpoints

* For geography based spending - https://github.com/fedspendingtransparency/usaspending-api/b...
Nonsense.

Software should meet its design goals.

A ground proximity warning software system should absolutely not “convey a sense of calm”. An online PvP battle arena game should not convey “a sense of calm”. I’m not sure a sense of calm is necessarily appropriate for a chat app, an ad blocker, or a to do list.

Do you even want a sense of calm from your compiler?

> calmc main.calm
Compiling… please relax…
Okay, now, are you sitting down?
Y/n> Y
Okay, I have some bad news about line 27, but I don’t want you to panic
Where is this study proving 100M Americans have "superior" antibodies? Some experts in the linked article claim the exact opposite.

So far you've made the "superior antibodies" claim no less than 9 times(!) in various comments and cited exactly 0 supporting evidence.
You keep claiming that 100M+ people in the US already have "superior" antibodies from a past infection, but you've provided no evidence of this.

Yes I did, you must have missed it in the parent comments.

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...

From article: "A new study published in the journal Nature estimates that 103 million Americans, or 31 percent of the U.S. population, had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 by the end of 2020"

Over 100 million! Past covid and therefore natural immunity.

Just because someone suffered an infection, it doesn't mean they're now naturally immune. That immunity might have worn off, or their illness may not have been severe enough to provoke an immune response that confers as much protection as one of the vaccines do.

I would love to read a study that shows natural, extended immunity in everyone (or even just many or most people) who has been previously infected, but I don't think that study exists, and it's telling that you haven't linked to one.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-...

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

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

Also, the evidence says that the antibodies are slated to last a lifetime.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9
Apple and Intel have both contracted the 'good stuff' from TSMC, to GP's point.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Apple-a...
At this point, the only viable solution is geo-engineering, which has a great feature: you can do it unilaterally, without having to convince every single person to change their habits.
aren't you excited about having live through both the great rise of civilization and then also the biggest decline?

you may have gotten to see the absolute peak of society.
No, no one really really did practically[1]. There are ways to capture more revenue, but it usually involves a VAT. Other methods historically cause economic contraction which lowers tax receipts. It’s important to be realistic about what policy can practically accomplish.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-on-the-rich-1950s-not-high/
She seems like enough of a fraud to have concocted this strange angle. In any old case, I would probably attribute this to an insignificant occurrence. In a case involving deception, I am highly suspicious.
He cut her a personal check for $100k when she was 19 and didn't have much of a company because he liked her.

Not following up on that investment is a pretty strong signal
> already been a solved problem for decades

How solved is it if the solutions aren't getting deployed?
It's not that the people have given up. There are small changes that seem to be happening, like rank choice voting, and calls for many other things, like trading restrictions on members of Congress. But really, it's easy to take advantage of people when the People have increasingly less power.
OK, I'll speak in terms you might get.

Humans have a myriad of visible characteristics: height, weight, skin color, eye color and shape, hair color and type, shapes of facial features, and so on.

All these characteristics vary continuously.

If you see that data as points filling a high-dimensional cube, there's not going to be an empty space there.

Some areas are going to be denser than the others, but there are no gaps there.

What you try to do with "race" is you're trying to cluster this data.

But there really is only one cluster. Might as well call rand() a million times to get a bunch of points in 0..1, and cluster that.

Oh, but you've see black people! And white people!

Well yeah, but it's all those people filling the spaces in between any two points that make it impossible to draw the line.

The only way to draw the line is to make a call on where to draw it — that is, to make an arbitrary choice. Without it, your clustering algorithms would fail.

Yes, there are high-density peaks on this data, especially if you look at any single characteristic.

Yes, you can separate the peaks. But deciding on where to put the the threshold is choice — a social construct — that can leaves a lot of points without a "race" label (which race is Irish - Mexican?) and/or change which peaks make the cutoff (are Armenians a race, or noise in the dataset?).

>Maybe if diseases are distributed differently across different races, it can make testing and treating them more cost effective

The scientists have two options:

A) Look at the original data which you used to assign the race label (skin color, hair type, etc), and see if there's any correlation of that data with diseases

B)Look at the data, cluster it using an arbitrary choice to be able to get more than one cluster, ignore a lot of people below the threshold, assign the labels, IGNORE THE RAW DATA, and then look for correlations between labels and diseases.

Which approach do you think is more scientific?
> I had to look up what that meant...

... and immediately had to reflexively reject it so it wouldn't sink in.

> I do not know what the "wet bulb" equivalent of that is, but it was warm, for sure.

It's fairly unlikely to have hit 35 a bunch, given that Wikipedia's table of places that've measured that temperature thus far has only ten places on it, and then "albeit too briefly and in too small a locality to cause fatalities".
Haskell is a fantastic language, and it's becoming one of my favorites, but it is by no measure a friendly one. Nobody wants to have to learn a complex language for a task as essential as using their own computer.

Also, I think your claim that "most have used at least in university" is skewed to your experiences. I doubt the majority of programmers have any experience in Haskell whatsoever with even fewer having enough experience to be comfortable in it.
>It was students who protested the Vietnam war, climate change and brought the piece movement. It was older voters that supported Tump, Brexit and Iraq war.

When the Iraq war started, how old were people who were young during the Vietnam war protests?

2003 - 1965 = 38

Young person that protested the Vietnam war + 38 years = old person

I don't think that the Vietnam war protesters were in favor of the Iraq war, but it is the same generation that you're talking about.

The young of today are the old of tomorrow. They will take their biases and ideas, temper them with experience and then be derided by the young of tomorrow for being too close-minded.

We might teach 17 year olds general relativity, but we don't teach them how much work goes into making and maintaining all of the stuff they (we) take for granted in life. They might know that world hunger is a distribution problem, but it's not as easy to accept that and apply it to your thinking.
As an engineer who has never had to write truly performant software, this sounds so cool.

My only question is: what does the query interface look like for something like this? I've only ever accessed indexed data via SQL (or, I suppose, key value data). The main tradeoff discussed is indexing time in psql, but you give up the flexibility of sql (WHERE, joins, etc).
There is no way to have a good faith argument with someone who is advocating not saving lives because we aren’t saving other lives.
Turn off the CNN.
Co-founded our local Hackspace, the first Mini Makerfaire, pushed for many municipal computer parsable open data initiatives. Lobbied for additional bike lanes and bike parking in our downtown corridor. Optimizing resource management for North American manufacturing (pending & hopeful). Giving talks about how there will be no techno salvation as long as we live under the Leibensweise formed by a civilization driven by resource extraction (capitalism). Sending supplies to protestors at Fairy Creek, and above all am currently making bread and eating it. And it’s so far from enough. What are you doing?
To each their own I guess. I live in the midwest and I'm perfectly happy here. No social problems whatsoever. I've spent enough time in some of the biggest US cities to know I'm not missing anything.

I'm not sure what sort of mass exodus you're talking about either. The midwest city I live in is among the top 10 fastest growing cities in the US.

If selling your soul to FAANG in exchange for a lousy appartment is your recipe for happiness then I guess have fun with that.
Here you go [1]. Most high income earners in the 50s paid about 42%. It’s hard to squeeze income much more than that without the income going somewhere else. Historically speaking.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-on-the-rich-1950s-not-high/
All the bright minds on HN have failed them by not working on climate change because we need another Uber for pizza delivery startup...
> We named this quartet of zero-days “OMIGOD” because that was our reaction when we discovered them.

Gulp
Have we stayed ahead of the flu?

If we vaccinate the vulnerable but ease off the rest of the population we'll be better off longer term with less harmful variants.
You basically wrote "it won't succeed because everything is going to go to shit". Well, maybe, but I hope not!

Our industry shamelessly imitates of the limping, stagnant, service economy in doing these things, and we call ourselves the future!
This is such an underrated part of the experience.

I think we all felt that way. Is that worth the high cost of tuition? Debatable. We're just about all working though.

I was changing careers after a decade plus of low-level grunt IT jobs when I was capable of doing so much more. It took probably 3-5 years just to build my confidence enough to do the bootcamp -- I had developer friends who were telling me for years I was more than qualified and capable but I'd found it so hard just to start.

A huge part of the lack of confidence has to do with growing up always being poor. The idea of a stable, high-paying job that's rewarding is almost unimaginable from that position.
You can't put precise laws for eons to come; Hammurabi couldn't either. You have to adjust them - in some degree because people get advantage of imprecision in laws. So everyone should - to some extent - assume that rules of the game aren't cast in granite.
T-Rex Rig Unreal Engine 5 Using ControlRig [video]
What It Means to Develop Antibodies to Biologics (2020)
Similarly, I would rather have no wifi than bad/spotty wifi for this reason
I don't use social media, HN notwithstanding, and 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.

I agree social media is awful, but it does not follow that climate change isn't cause to panic.

If anything, half of Americans are nowhere near panicked enough about climate change as the result of social media.
Why? Anger and frustration. Probably shouldn't have but the grandparent comment practically invited it.

There's so much we can do to mitigate the damage but that won't happen through complacency.
It’s much easier to spend an hour getting a vaccine than it is to live a healthy life.
Nonsense. There's such a thing as people on the margin. On any binary issue most pieces of evidence "won't matter" to most people, in that that one piece of evidence is unlikely to be the one that "flips" the person, but that doesn't mean people are ignoring the evidence - it's just that most of the time any given piece of evidence is the difference between 99% believing and 98% believing rather than the difference between 50% believing and 49% believing.
I suspect some Argentinians and Venezuelans would disagree with you about the degree of consequence.

Argentina: decades of inflation and economic stagnation.

Venezuela: societal collapse.

With game theory, you can see how a certain amount of debt, especially when borrowed from foreign lenders, can be the optimal choice for long term relative national growth. That's pretty much what the US did for most of its history up to ~2001. But unsustainable, growing debt, certainly has consequences.
Turns out it’s easy to make cheap solar cells if you have access to unlimited free labor from Chinese prison camps.
Epik pushed back against the mob, particularly against Chad Loder who some consider (according to Andy Ngo) to be an Antifa extremist. No doubt this was retaliation.
https://t.co/LUvexnk0fk
Let's say people in the 70s knew climate change was happening. That it was the prevailing consensus and had the necessary evidence.

What were governments supposed to do? What technology were they going to leverage? did we have computers, modelling, alternatives?

Cars with ICE could have become more efficient, yes. But where else could we have cut the fat? Fewer people via worldwide contraception, to stem demand? More public transit? Much of carbon output is not on the consumer side, but on the industry side of things.

The antinuke activists killed green energy which would have make coal and other dirty power obsolete. That would have been a nice chunk.

I don't think we had the technology back then to do much about it. We could have slowed it down a bit, but not stop it.