skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The linked article is not really about the instrument. It’s about the inventors of the instrument trying to use copyright laws (or any legal means) to stop the automated manufacturing of the “handpan”.
Their artistic conviction seems to be that every “handpan” should be hand crafted.
Mass production and automation churn out near identical instruments.. soulless copies.

They aren’t wrong; taking the artisan out of fabrication leaves the musician as the sole artistic variable in instrument’s sonic output.

Mass produced wooden instruments still retain unique properties of the trees they were grown from. No two acoustic guitars are the same, even though they came off the assembly line within minutes of each other.
Instruments made exclusively from metals and plastics aren’t as likely to have the sonic variations found in wood.
This is one of the reasons cymbal companies like Zildjian offer “hand hammered” products.

edit:
When I say “They’re not wrong” I don’t mean that I agree with their actions, just that the ideals they hold in regards to artisanship are not without merit.
It’s great that nearly any musician can purchase a “handpan” thanks to mass production. Even a very low quality instrument can sound great in the hands of a skilled musician.
How one can tell FB that this might be a false-positive though?
I disagree. If you don't need any database-specific funtionality, are OK with the least-common denominator, why not?

I run a large number of open-source software privately. It would be a way smaller number if I couldn't use them with Postgres.

Many users and projects will start on sqlite but as they mature migrate to clustered instances of a hosted database. It's great that this can be supported without each project implementing every DB.

I have been the user hitting a bug (which I was able to submit a fix for) in the scenario you describe. I much prefer that to not using the software at all or setting up a MySQL instance.
When I read posts like this I just think, life teaches only some learn.
> bear in mind that “free speech” refers to the government ...

First amendment refers to the government not precluding your speech. "Free speech" is a much broader concept.
'Six Days in Fallujah' is an Arab murder simulator, critics say
The efficiency argument implicitly assumes that electricity will be scarce, but this is unlikely to be the case if the majority of the world's energy needs are met through wind and solar. To give you an idea of why, Germany and California, at less than 50% renewable penetration, already curtail around 9TWh of energy a year due to mismatched supply and demand. This is enough to charge on the order of 130 million BEVs. As renewable penetration increases, so too does the need to provide statistical confidence in generation capacity. If you want to ensure that your wind farm is able to provide X units of power, say, 80% of the time, you'll be overproducing pretty much constantly. Connecting cities doesn't really change this either, because the problem is one of stochasticity and confidence. In order for two sites A and B to cover shortfalls for one another, it has to be true that both A and B are capable of overproducing, and that at least some of the time, both will overproduce (unless they're perfectly negatively correlated). If you want to ensure that A and B both have enough power with some statistical confidence, then your system will produce excess most of the time.
A Cloud Guru offers pretty recent online materials for a subscription fee.

FWIW, A Cloud Guru merged with Linux Academy, and now Pluralsight is merging with the combined ACG+LA entity. I don't know if that means that the final result will contain the union of all of the sets of content that were originally associated with each respective site, but so far it appears that the "new ACG" has pretty much everything that LA had. I bring this up because I can testify that I used mostly the Linux Academy course(s) to prepare for the AWS Certified Solution Architect test, and found their material to be pretty good. My guess is that the same would be true for the AWS Certified Developer certification, and other similar ones as well.
If holding employment, catching a train or attending a festival are conditional on having a drivers license then I'm unhappy about that too. The explicit purpose of this is to exclude people from society if they disagree with the government's cost/benefit calculations.

There is evidence in the article that the vaccines reduce the risks of COVID by 2-3 orders of magnitude, which gets it into the range of a bad flu. We know that a lot of people have already had COVID and pose a lower risk than someone who is vaccinated. These compliance systems are going to do more harm than good. It is never going to work out well when the government brings in authoritarian compliance measures to protect a majority from a minority who are being accused of causing all the problems of today. That script has been put into production before.
And ironically the author became the abusive politician.
Also there is the "old Reddit" add-on for various browsers , auto changes the URL to old.Reddit.com

Unfortunately this is currently incompatible with current Firefox on android
Its thing nowadays is being a fork of a Firefox release old enough to still support XUL. Which means it's effectively a 4+ year old version of Firefox, with no renderer isolation and no support for most web features added in the last four years.
If we choose to go with a real world analogy, the "public square", then why are people sharing messages and photos with friends and family via a "public square". That is not what we do in the real world.
Electron is more than just V8 and in fact most of the UI elements (since we are talking about UI usage here) fall outside of V8.

But it’s also worth noting that JavaScript isn’t as close to Java as you claim. Not only do the benchmarks posted in this discuss but that argument to bed, but also the existence of WASM too (is JavaScript was really that good then there would be no need for WASM).
> A500+A501+SonyTrinitron

I had this combo as well. Not as crisp as a 1084S but still quite decent
Indeed. Religion may well be the best defence against memetic attacks.

And I say this as a lifelong atheist, which is a distressing thought given the amount of deliberate memetic manipulation we are being subjected to.
HEPA filters do not remove odors. Bad smell is caused by extremely small particles that cannot be removed by HEPA filters. To remove odor, you will need other filters, such as an activated carbon filter. Some air purifiers come with both a HEPA filter and a filter to remove odors.
Their release cycle is way more opaque than that. I had to wait literally over a year (after "release") for them to let me install the upgrade to Win10 that would give me WSL2 (I don't remember what version that was). They control the upgrade cycle, and I couldn't get it to upgrade.

Maybe a clean install would have helped, but screw that.

Anyway, it's not just "wait 6 months".
Oh I thought you meant you could install an old reddit redirecting extension into safari.
That is interesting. Not sure how crucial this studys circumstances are for looking at this, but personally I could swear that my phone screen without a blue light filter keeps me more awake. Maybe that's just a fallacy because it definitely feels way more pleasant for me.
It always seemed to me that these "blue light harms your eyes" proponents had never spent a day outside.
Vaccine passports in Canada are implemented using the https://smarthealth.cards/ standard. The QR codes are verifiable offline using digital signatures.

The app used in BC is open source and available on Github:
https://github.com/bcgov/BCVAX-iOS
https://github.com/bcgov/BCVAX-Android

It works just fine with the device in airplane mode, and does not maintain a record of the QR codes it has verified.
Cowsel (COntrolled Working SpacE Language) Programming Language
I wouldn't say that. He pulled his country out of the very abusive Versaille treaty, had he stopped there he would today be regarded a hero by all sides. I'll leave it at that!
Yes. It's probably regional vernacular, but "picture" and "photograph" are equivalent in my area.
Yes, the US didn't ever have an explicit export ban. But the US government had passed the Defence Production Act, then went to the vaccine manufacturers and made priority contracts with them. What did you think would have happend if the vaccine manufacturers had say no, we'll supply the highest bidder from our US plants first?

The only other production locations were in Europe, so guess where the vaccine manufacturers thought Canada's doses would come from?

Please don't fall for the obvious obfuscation from the US government.
I believe it is intended to limit click-bait. I'm happy HN does this kind of stuff, because it increases the quality of discussion.
You’ve misunderstood my comment and the one I’m replying to. This person is talking about chalking off an entire country because of a comment they read on HN, without giving it much more thought. Not really my business but IMO they’d be missing out and to be honest you could use this line of reasoning to eliminate basically every popular destination
I have found myself sometimes spending more time - and getting more enjoyment - out of reverse engineering a game.ornits data files than actually playing the game.

It is enjoyable in its own right!
At least in Europe it is forbidden to sell BPA/BPB thermal rolls. IIRC law came to effect about a year ago.
I used reading glasses for years.

Then I started drinking a pint of kombucha, most days. I got my accommodation back, no more reading glasses! Other improvements too, e.g. blood pressure, skin elasticity.

I can't think of anything else to attribute the improvement to. I would never have guessed anything would help. (No guarantees, but would welcome other reports, positive or negative.) This is one of those "anecdotal" things where you might as well, because there is only potential upside, plus tasty hydration, no down. Like getting your Tdap booster (free at the drug store), because why not?

A pint of kombucha runs US$2.50-$4 at the supermarket. But I brew mine for <$0.20.
everyone is required to take pictures of themselves inside their homes at regular intervals

That is... bizarre. Very bizarre. Do you have a link to read more?
you did not mention metaverse (_)
Not to send the password in plain, maybe?
You guys are still missing my point that it’s not a TUI because non-text elements have been drawn to the frame buffer. This is actually a lot easier to do in DOS than it is in UNIX too by virtue of the fact that DOSs text mode isn’t a pseudo-teletype. In fact this is a trick I used to do all the time when writing software back in the 80s: draw a UI then fallback to printing characters for UI updates.

For that tracker to be a proper TUI it would have to use text characters for all of the UI elements, bevels included. You simply couldn’t do those 3-tone bevels with any alt character sets, let alone an 8-bit one from the era of DOS.
As someone else said -- supply and demand. But also deeply ingrained nepotism - there's a tendency to overpay bankers, bureaucrats and mid-level executives, which reduces the amount of compensation available to other roles, e.g. engineers.

It's like all of these people got together and decided an engineer should make 40k euro. So, regardless what company or EU country you go to, you are never offered more.

As a result, all the good engineers either moved to the US or work remotely for US-based companies and that's why there isn't a European Google, Apple, Microsoft and so on.

Looks like the executives, bureaucrats and bankers don't care too much, as they continue to be able to make good money off their legacy industries. Alas, tech innovation in Europe is pretty much dead and eventually the market will punish this behavior.
Rip big man
Overloaded.supply – Superfluous (Object) Futures
I do not understand the assumptions behind this question. Can you clarify what you mean?
The spotlight one is just a black rectangle with a transparent circle - on a 4K monitor you can see the edges of the rectangle.
Where is your data to support your extraordinary claim that "a lot of people have already had COVID and pose a lower risk than someone who is vaccinated"?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/prior-infection-vs-v...

"The CDC researchers found that people previously infected but unvaccinated were 2.34 times more likely to get reinfected than people who were previously infected and fully vaccinated."

"The researchers saw even more variability when they looked at neutralizing antibodies—those known to bind to the virus and prevent it from infecting cells. Neutralizing antibody levels in recovered people varied over a range of 40,000-fold, and up to 20 percent of people didn't have any detectable level of neutralizing antibody."

For vaccines, we have data showing they are highly effective:

http://www.bccdc.ca/Health-Info-Site/Documents/Vaccine_Effec...

We have data showing reduction in transmission as a result of vaccination.

We don't have comparable data for people who have merely been previously infected, and in fact the data we do have seems to provide evidence that they pose higher risk. The immune system is not as reliable when it is having to fight off an infection while mounting its response vs when it is able to mount an immune response while not under attack from the virus.

We're quite happy here with our freedom to go to a restaurant or attend a festival without exposing ourselves to the risk of being around unvaccinated people.
FLAM3 – Programs to generate and render cosmic recursive fractal flames
I’ve know several programmers who I would consider to be 10X.

You get an X multiplier when you have a lot of experience with the programming language.

You get an X multiplier when you’ve built lots of similar things.

You get an X multiplier when you understand related technologies in depth.

You get an X multiplier when you really understand how the computer works.

You get an X multiplier when you really understand the operating system.

You get an X multiplier when your damn smart.

You get an X multiplier when you’re organized and systematic.

You get an X multiplier when you know how to solve problems quickly.

You get an X multiplier when you work hard.

You get an X multiplier when you’re creative and can “see” systems in your head.

You get an X multiplier when you’re happy an motivated.
Before we go to web3 can we get a decently working reasonably priced "serverless" SQL RDBMS?
Sorry, context for this? I take a pretty thorough scalpel to removing any traces of sponsored content from Firefox, and it never occurred to me that they might have ads in the address bar. Is there a previous discussion an announcement about this?
This looks great, congrats to the author!
I agree overall. Note that China imports 50% of its food today, so is very vulnerable to famine.

Also, several of the old historic empires did collapse from famine:

- near the end of the Bronze Age, in Europe and North Africa

- the Central and South American empires were either conquered by the Spanish, or the soil ran out of nutrients

- there are two jet streams that change latitudes periodically, which changes rainfall or drought. That can help or destroy agriculture.

The latter was magnified by the low productivity of crop strains, which were 5,000 years behind Europe in terms of plant breeding.

For example, corn was originally looked like a grass with bumps, and didn't have giant ears like today.

If you grew corn, initially there was enough for your family and some taxation, but the yield dropped to nothing after a few years as the soil depleted, and whole cities had to move.
> So that's a pretty neat service they're offering to a substantial part of the population.

For sure, Facebook is great. It just provides services that shouldn't come from one single company in America.

They should be forced to interoperate. Provide a way to subscribe to Facebook content (pages, events) from outside of Facebook, and a way to pull outside content (RSS, ActivityPub, hell, throw in Twitter while we're at it) into your Facebook stream. A sort of standardized stream for updates and comments.

This would clear up all my criticisms of Facebook. At that point I would only wish them well. I'm sure they would provide the best interface to it, and most people would stay with them, and that would be fine.
Three will be considered enough by now. Gotta line up some pockets.
In Germany I have a mixed vaccine. I think they found mixed vaccines were better at fighting delta.
It renders as-expected on NetBSD, Linux and Haiku. If you check the linked Overline Wikipedia page, «Overline (markup)» and «Overline (character)» look near-equivalent.

I see what may have been the problem, though. It looks like somewhere in the process the overline was duplicated. Probably an issue with my IME (I've been working on it for a while now, but it's still got a few quirks). Does this (6̅) look right to OS X users?
I've seen some musicians playing these in the park and they sound great and their players have developed great styles and compositions for playing on these instruments.

But I don't get the argument for banning mass-production. If that makes the quality less then so be it. All instruments are of varying quality anyway. Stradivarius? All violins can't be Stradivariuses.
I always wondered. Source?
It is "real linux". Or I should say "real desktop Linux". Most people who don't like it for some reason are trying to use it like a server.
I'm not sure how "optimized" it is. I used it to create an Ubuntu VM and it was very laggy. Keyboard, mouse response and display update was slow.
a) Canada has 4x the population of Israel

b) Israel agreed to the extraordinary term of sharing their data with Pfizer, in exchange for getting doses early, something Canada almost surely won't be willing to do

c) The Israeli PM Netanyahu was facing significant electoral challenges and desperately needed a win, so there was a lot of political will
They added it unannounced in the last update, Firefox 93. There was a small outrage on behalf of the dozens of people still paying attention to Firefox, but nothing came of it. If you're on a good distribution, you'll probably see it disabled by default.
Does it make Amazon work at 4k?
Short story: they put in a higher bid and agreed to actively participate in studies, something that vaccine producers were looking for. But I would not discount the money aspect.

"The first question is how Israel was able to get that many vaccines when supply is short? It is not because—according to reports—Israel paid about $30 per dose, almost double what other nations did. [...] The answer: Israel is a great pilot country for the pharma companies—small and able to put together a massive vaccination program quickly and effectively." https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/01/05/the-secre...
New York Times Guide to Neopronouns
Slowed Canonical Progress in Large Fields of Science
Yes, springs in game physics engines typically have damping factors and other variables than just what's need to Hooke's law. For instance, Unity's Spring Joint: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-SpringJoint.html

That being said if you don't model inertia of the spring (or at least what it's connected to, in this case the camera itself), would you have any oscillations? I thought inertia was a separate concept from Hooke's law, but it's been a while since I've touched high school style classical physics.
I think that azure serverless SQL database is extremely cheap ... what is your goal spend and throughput?
I’ve heard they’ve created a whole electronically synthesized universe in one of their offices so they can hack all night during the day and still go to management seminars in the evening. (DNA)
Gold. Thank you so much for posting this!
If it seems like the first power to create nuclear bombs will use it and basically annihilate the other, then the only logical step would be to preemptively use it.

And it doesn’t seem like an out of the world assumption that if the Soviets would have created it before, they would have used that - and that is also a fair assumption that the world would be better under faulty capitalism with proper democracy than a single-party dictatorship.
Flatpack will be the death of Linux's software ecosystem.
Attaching a small computer running some other code besides wsl2, is not an answer to the charge that wsl2 can't access usb. It still isn't accessing usb. The code on the usb server device is.

That's not semantics. What I mea is:

For any low level code of my own that I wrote to run on *ix, I can just as easily run that same code on an arduino or pi, and wsl2 and the usb server hardware would just be pointless extras.

For any code that I didn't write and can't port (say, closed source xilinx fpga programmer) there are native windows versions which work better and are better supported than the linux version anway. So here too wsl and usb server harware would both be pointless extras and backwards.

People are bamboozled and forgetting to step back and remember what the point of doing something even was in the first place.

I say it's a mistake to even get sucked in to the question of how to work around any deficiency in wsl, instead of asking why you even care or want to run a linux app on windows in the first place.
This headline makes a huge leap from a single study that found a lack of evidence of permanent damage caused by blue light in screens to a claim that it is no danger at all to sleep. "We didn't find evidence of danger" !== "there is no danger". And anecdotally, many of us know from experience that blue light affects our sleep. So, I'm skeptical of this headline.
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What matters is the quality of life for you, and the people you care about (kids, parents, friends, etc...).

I sometimes think about immigrating to California, being paid a lot more, buying a few fancy cars as toys and a big house.

But I already live well in Europe. The food is good, I have a good place to live in, I have more than enough toys, I get many holidays, I have everything I need, and I'm simply happy where I am.

I also enjoy the work culture. Just an example, when I became a dad, I took 7 months of paid parental leave. The mom took 5 months. Our work places congratulated us for the birth and they were truly happy for us.

Moreover, I'm not sure whether my children and future grandchildren would have a great life everywhere. They will probably not all work in IT. Once I die and my money is gone, will they afford education or healthcare? I like that most of Europe is a good place to live, even for people who are not very successful or lucky with work.
Embrace, extinguish, destroy.

You realize that's not the original well-known phrase?
Not everyone has enough money to have a $4999 Gibson. Should music, art and culture be reserved for the affluent? A crummy $99 mass-produced guitar is the only instrument many can afford.

Obviously people who’ve never actually -been- poor are quite insistent that you can always afford something if it’s really important to you
I'm guessing the tensorflow.js is pretty bad due to lots of temporary tensors. Although, it uses a convolution operator, and that part is probably relatively good.
My understanding is that the cost of sink is due to the patent holder keeping licensing costs high which keeps it niche. i.e e-ink is expensive so it is rare so it is expensive.

TBH at this point I have no idea why you need e-ink out side of low power situations. Quality VA panels have great contrast and viewing angles. OLED is even better.

At the prices e-ink displays are, a OLED screen would be more versatile and probably just as little eye strain (just use low brightness).
I just remembered the dark sunglasses that some senior people wear that look almost like goggles, where the sides are also covered. I have never asked what are those for, but I imagine it's for preventing degeneration.
If you don't mind being in jesusland and can make remote work salary, its tolerable. Just be careful to blend in.