skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't quite FM, though Jean-Claude Risset from Bell Laboratories did some contemporary experiments using additive synthesis with analog oscillators to achieve similar complex tones. I'm guessing that Yamaha probably experimented with all kinds of interesting prototypes before developing the VLSI FM chips that would go into their earliest FM synthesisers. It was a very large investment for them as a company, so they likely tried all kinds of things first with existing technology they had on hand.
Arbitrary line breaking is ugly and a unnecessary source of errors. I avoid writing lines longer than 80 chars but in some cases it feels better and more ergonomic/readable to exceed it.
Show HN: Technical demo of 2D puzzle “Biohazard” (open source)
Although I don't use it, I see plenty of positive feedback about fzf [0] and I'm sure I've seen palette-style tools built with it that enable command and options discovery.

[0] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
So many icons are not obvious. Why not some text under it if you can have tool tips.
The omicron variant could be a blessing in disguise if the early stories on how it is less deadly checks out. That means people refuse to get the vaccine shot will be infected with the omicron variant with relatively low consequence and get immunity that way.
Btw this is how it suppose to work. The virus has no incentive to kill its host. The variant that is fast spreading and less deadly eventually wins out.
Here is a technical demo of my open-source game. It lacks a menu and any settings, and the graphics are highly sketchy. My main goal was to test the idea of the gameplay.

Summary:

The game field is represented by a set of blue cells. Above them, there is the second layer of green cells. The player can control this group — move, rotate, and put it with the blue cells (only on the free spaces). After merging, the cells evolve according to the rules of Conway's Game of Life for one generation, then new green cells are created. The player's goal is to minimize the amount of blue cells.
You don't have to be on call to have that skill.

BTW, the google model works for them... i'm being more in general since the issue was facebook vs google vs everyone else that I was replying to.
Same with the Canopy, Ejection seat and Wing of the F-117 shot over Serbia. At the Belgrade Aviation Museum... ;-)
would this be enough? isn't SARS-COV2, being a zoonotic virus forming strains and evolving in the massive available reservoir of animals? afaik MERS also spreads from contact to camels, H5N1 in birds etc. Is controlling mutations actually possible in a way that goes beyond merely managing the (inevitable) fallout?
> we’ll never get out of this

Eradication has never been on the table. Listen to their words: Mitigation. Pandemic. Flatten the curve.

We’ve all known, the whole time, that there is no stopping coronaviruses. It would be like eradicating retroviruses, or bacteria. It’s too broad of a category, and too virulent. Viruses of this sort always have and always will be around.

We’ll only get past the fear of it getting worse when we identify and eliminate the original source.
Reddit’s new website is a giant troll experiment to see how humans respond to arbitrary amounts of extra latency wrapped around every single operation.
> Under normal conditions, highly virulent strains of the virus are not selected. A highly virulent strain would kill the host before the virus would have an opportunity to transmit to other potential hosts and replicate. Thus, less virulent strains are selected. These strains are virulent enough to induce symptoms but not enough to kill the host, allowing further transmission. However, the leaky vaccine changes this evolutionary pressure and permits the evolution of highly virulent strains.[13] The vaccine's inability to prevent infection and transmission allows the spread of highly virulent strains among vaccinated chickens. The fitness of the more virulent strains is increased by the vaccine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%27s_disease#Prevention
Just to provide a counterpoint, so people aren't completely scared from the idea of turbinate reductions or septoplasty, my breathing felt amazing right after I had mine in my early 20s. Huge improvement, and I could still smell well enough to detect that a magician was using real wine on stage for a trick while seated in the front row 30 feet away.
it's not a conspiracy, but it is lamesauce that the WHO said "it's a common surname" when Mu is a more common surname than Xi. They should have just said "it's the surname of a world leader" for honesty and transparency. Instead, they just discredited themselves.
Good science fiction books about intelligence, AI, artificial life forms, etc.?
I recently read Blindsight by Peter Watts and there were some interesting ideas about non human, non conscious intelligence. Any recommendations with these themes?
Fair enough - the page change UX is a little clunky (and anything requiring changing screens many times on e-ink will be clunky). I read papers a lot more than I do textbooks. For fiction, the successive page turns are fine.
The main campaign is not that replayable, fortunately (unfortunately?)
It happens on my iPad with iOS 15 on random UI elements. I notice it more in Safari since the tablet is mostly for news reading and emails. I honestly think the hit box on some stuff is just too small, like the button for creating a new tab so it's taking me a couple tries to press it correctly. The flat UI compounds the problem for me because I don't actually know the size of the zone where I can tap. I can only see the blue symbol on a white background.
The article’s summary:
Research has revealed a correlation between being particularly proficient in tool use and having good syntactic ability. A new study has now shown that both skills rely on the same neurological resources, which are located in the same brain region. Furthermore, motor training using a tool improves our ability to understand the syntax of complex sentences and -- vice-versa -- syntactic training improves our proficiency in using tools.

I find both parts fascinating but especially the second, that improving proficiency in understanding complex sentences improves tool mastery.

Sounds like we need we word problems in shop and shop in language class.
There is no such mechanism, from what I’ve read (not an expert). Most diseases demonstrate the tension for the reason you give: too deadly too fast reduces transmission rate. But hypothetically, you could conceive of a disease with a high R value that is asymptomatic for the first month or two, and deadly in month three.
I clicked your profile to see exactly who would come up with such an odd take, and then it made sense.

I actually agree with you that this type of deep customisation is great for a "productivity tool" like VS Code.
For something that people don't spend hours of every day in, though (say, a weather app), you don't need or want this level of customisation.
Is this the aviation version of the "your call, I'm a lighthouse" legend?
> You don’t need 100% efficacy to achieve herd immunity (obviously I’m not an epidemiologist and my terms are imprecise) if you have a sufficiently vaccinated population.

Treshold of herd immunity depends on transmitability. For delta variant, if r=6 estimates are true, you would need 100% of population vaccinated in last 5 months (because after that infection immunity drops too low).
I have hard data that a quake so big never happened.

I have a book from the 70s that talks about the up coming ice age with data to back up his claim.

Have I seen trends going in the wrong direction? It depends on what trends and what start point you pick. Currently things are trending lower than a few years ago as carbon output is being reduced in many countries. I remember when the target was keeping it under 3% degrees than lower than 2% now it sits at 1 1/2%. Soon it will be 1% global temp increase. So things do seem to be trending in the right direction.
I’ve been wondering the same since learning about aphantasia.

I have once imagined music strongly enough it was the same subjective experience as if it was real (except for the conscious awareness it was internal, but that was literally the only difference).

I can alter my sense of which way down is on a whim.

I can’t imagine tastes or smells at all, merely recognise them when I experience them.

I imagine thermoception more strongly than pain, but nowhere near as strongly as sound or gravity.

I can imagine non-painful touch stimuli almost, but not quite, as strongly as gravity.

I can imagine false proprioception with middling strength, including the perception of having a differently configured body.
> So you could not randomly distribute children around and ignore their preferences

I believe SJ activists care only about class conflict and don't have any respect for individual choice. Like feminists criticising women who choose to be housewives. They know what's better for everyone.
I guess it is just an english grammar issue Germans often make (less, lesser, least and so on for single syllable words and x, more x, most x for the rest). The german equivalent of least is also just one word: wenigsten.
I've been using Afrin on and off and recently went off of it because of the rebound effect. What does the test indicate though? Afrin will clear your nose regardless of allergies or not. I don't see how this test would tell me anything.
Given the apparently low efficacy of the current batch of vaccines in preventing infection and transmission, I'm not sure that it's any harder for variants to occur in, say, New Mexico than South Africa. If the case rates are higher, the odds of variants is higher.
My favourite part of this is that the wallpapers will look super sharp on my 4k display. It's quite difficult to find wallpapers that don't look blurry when blown up, even quality landscape photography. Very neat! Thanks for sharing :)
Define "work". Countries that pursued zero covid largely avoided hospital overcrowding and massive amounts of preventable death. It might never have been possible to actually zero covid out to extinction, but it was possible to be close to zero for long enough to get everyone vaccinated. Millions of lives have likely been saved because of these strategies.

"zero covid" is still the right strategy for a disease for which the population is unvaccinated; even if it doesn't achieve full elimination.
You’re kind of proving the point here, the media does not only exist in some “conservative vs not conservative” binary. CNN is a cable news network, NYT is a subscription based newspaper. Their output differs accordingly.
Anecdotally, I had a deviated septum correction and turbinate reduction (not complete removal.. I think they were cauterized down?) surgery last spring. It was mildly uncomfortable for a day or two after the surgery. Before the surgery I was a chronic snorer and couldn't breathe through solely my nose when running/cycling. I would get awful daily sinus headaches that would make it really difficult to focus on coding. I now no longer snore at all and can breathe through my nose all the time and am a lot more comfortable during aerobic exercise and my headaches are mostly gone. I still use antihistamines and sinus rinses to keep the rear part of my sinuses from bothering me.
> You're making the assumption that being on-call made some kind of difference to your career progression

Two things.

1) I didn't just put in on-call overtime. I put in "free" hours in general.

2) I'm not really making a big assumption. Unsurprisingly working a lot of hours gave a very positive impression of me and I was able to easily justify raises and promotions when I asked.

Calling on-call hazing or bitch work is stupid, I'm not engaging with this.
This tracks. Hawaii still has the lowest COVID in all of the US, and even the city (note: not the county) of alameda has the lowest COVID rate in all cities in the bay area (it's kind of a pain in the ass to get to). Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, are all islands. And South Korea is... politically an island.
A couple years ago I bought a CO2 meter, and was astonished to see it going over 1000ppm in my office. Since then, I always keep the window cracked, keeping the CO2 levels usually under 500.

The meter was one of the best investments I ever made.
This. I have a Boox Note 2 that I love. I sync DRM free books to it via my NextCloud and I can draw/type notes in them and sync back to my computer. I've also got the Kindle and Adobe reader apps installed so I get instant when I want it too. (I'm an academic so a lot of my reading comes via library downloads DRM'd with Adobe). It can take hand written notes in a separate app, but I don't bother because my handwriting is as bad as the authors so I just type my notes up and sync them with NextCloud too.

My wife isn't a tech nerd, she has a Kindle, she wants a book, she presses a couple of times on the screen and she has the book. Sure she might pay more than I would, but the time/convenience factor clearly outweighs that.
> The only way you’ll stop this thing from mutating into a variant not covered by the vaccine is by eradicating it everywhere, simultaneously.

Even if it were possible and achievable to vaccinate all humans, we'd still have a problem because COVID has spread to other mammal species. There's no reasonable plan that I know of to vaccinate animals in the wild.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/10/1054224...

> We’re all in this together. When COVID spreads in Africa and makes a new strain, it may as well be on your own doorstep. The world needs to step up and distribute vaccines to every corner of the globe, for FREE, or we’ll never get out of this.

But you're 100% right about this. I don't want what I said about your last sentence to diminish the importance of wealthy nations sharing the vaccine with other countries. We're all in this together. The idea that a country can vaccinate only their own citizens and then consider this problem solved is completely false.
Er, what? On call for an entire week at a time?

Does this actually exist? It's like an... anti-holiday. Insane.
Due to low trust in government after decades of corruption and mismanagement of basically everything who can blame them ? And who stepped into into this void of authority... Facebook, bastion of truth and science and critical thinking.

America's inability to curb its own propaganda machines and its capitalism uber alles rhetoric and group-think boomerangs right back. This pandemic has certainly shaken a lot of nuts out of the rug, but where did those nuts came from ?
It's worth noting that the game was a commercial title, and the Polish Colobot community managed to convince Epsitec to open source it. This game was a large part of my childhood, and finding out it was open sourced was indeed a very happy piece of news.
It’s a good point about SS. I kind of forgot about years of other books and programs, learning how to lift with good form, none of which TB really covers.

TB just makes so much sense day to day. I think that the fact it is designed around you staying actually fully functional day to day, and not a worn out mess from a crazy amount of lifting is the key. You get serious gains but also still feel human.

The workout “Black on Oxygen” is maybe one of the best all round routines I’ve ever done. I’ve never found anything that tops it.
I totally agree that no one should remove turbinates. From my understanding almost no ENTs do it anymore as there's much more knowledge about consequences such as ENS. I was told by one ENT that many ENTs in tropical countries would get away with it because of the humid conditions.

But I should also note my story. I went to do a surgery because I had some sinus infections and an ENT lied to me that I had deviated septum. I always suffered from sleep apnea so I thought maybe it'd help fixing it. I went and did the surgery. The ENT never told me she is going to remove one of the turbinates, nor it was in the post surgery report. I found out about it by another ENT who checked my before and after scans. The surgery also caused structural change so mocus gets stuck in my nose and I suffer from dryness. I rinse but I don't find it very helpful beyond a temporary relief which I usually get from hot showers anyway. Now I do it once a week with Alkalol and xylitol.

My luck is that all the damage happened only in one nostril. I have one nostril that is perfectly fine and somehow just learned to live with this condition. The biggest issue is sleep. I now have both sleep apnea and this new issue and I even developed insomnia years after the surgery. Somehow I managed to treat my insomnia by sleeping on my side on an elevated topper and pillow. I just need to find a solution that would keep me on my side all night. CPAP also helps because of the humidifier but it's hard for me to sleep with one all night.
Well, if you want to be picky, the parent comment asked

> When did it get renamed to "Omicron"?

which is neither "why" nor "did it happen".

Regardless, it seems that the other commenters you're referring to are citing the same sources in the stack exchange thread [1] [2].

I'm not sure what additional clarification your comment has to offer, as there is already speculation on why Xi was skipped [1] [3].

[1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/52686

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29374052

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373580
2 weeks of turning my screeps code from a simple script into a system where I had a CI/CD system (on a VPS I paid for in addition to the game!) compiling Purescript into screeps JS convinced me the same, lol. These are cool games for people with more time than me, and these days I prefer just coding at work and doing other non-tech stuff at home. If I were 20 again though...
> maybe it was a bit of encouraging people to still get vaccines

This is exactly what it feels like - and what we need is clear, honest statements of facts, not attempts to mislead for some higher goals.

Given the whole context (this is a post about Omicron) and the fact that they aren't qualifying some of the other statements either ("Corticosteroids and IL6 Receptor Blockers will still be effective for managing patients with severe COVID-19"), I am going to treat this statement as a claim about Omicron. I don't really care much whether they are explicitly trying to make a statement about Omicron, intentionally writing it in an ambiguous way to make people think it's about Omicron while being able to claim that that's not what they meant, or whether they're incompetent to communicate clearly - either way, if the statement turns out to not be supported, it's a further signal that everything coming from the WHO cannot be trusted.
ESA's Riskiest Flyby
"ESA Space Debris Office"
https://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/Space_Debris

"The chance that ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft will encounter space debris during its upcoming Earth flyby is very, very low. However, the risk is not zero and is greater than any other flyby ESA has performed. That there is this risk at all highlights the mess we’ve made of space – and why we need to take action to clean up after ourselves."
Are "power users" disappearing, or are they just being ignored? Software (and online services) has been in a race to the bottom for over a decade.
Strong sre culture not super compatible with their early “move fast and break things”
Fuck every piece of shit that posts fascist covidian propaganda to hackernews.

You all need to be arrested.

I hope you all die from your 'vax' that isn't a vax and doesn't do shit.

Fucking cult!
Canada is light years ahead when it comes to packaging milk. In the US you open a half gallon or gallon and it all loses its freshness. With bags you basically keep all of it fresh except the 1 liter bag you opened. It can also be stored lying flat. Cartons and gallon jugs are are shit but I think it would be too difficult for Americans to adjust, just like the metric system.
It's also because while the number of programmers and basic users (smartphone tappers) have increased, the number of power users has not. People who would have been power users are pushed into programming due to demand.
>any chance wa is related to waahid?

No, wa (usually in basic sentences) means 'and'. Layla alone means one night. Alf is a thousand, and for certain numbers the singular is used over the plural, which is why it may seem confusing.
I don't know about France but in my country that's also factored in the law and hiring offers except for jobs that are on managerial level (them the law says you don't have clock in but you also pretty much don't get to clock out and you mostly get paid well for that), which doesn't apply for developers and that means you get paid less if there is no "on call". Basically your base pay is the same on company A and company B (assuming they are truly equal), but since company B requires "on call" that is extra work that gets compensated based on your hourly rate or double that if it is during night time, in the same way for the same job in the same company who ever works night shifts get paid twice as much as the daily shift (before taxes).
Yes, left (hand) finger taps are rarely registered the first time. Glad someone else also noticed this… (Chrome, iPhone SX)
That is a ridiculous thing to say.
> There's already Disneyland and Disneyworld and also Disneywhatever in France.

There are 23 Six Flags in the US and two Disney parks.

If you've been to a Six Flags recently you can see they are no Disney, nor do they try to be. They have great roller coasters.
Will we know if we actually saved net lives in 20 years? That's what I keep thinking. If we just let it run its course it could have been over in a few months and we would have been back to normal.

History will tell.
I’ve taken this approach in the past.
> Gone are the days when you might stumble across an ISIS beheading video on youtube.

Good? Do you want kids to accidentally watch one of those videos?
Most surgeons I've ever seen are pretty conservative. Maybe that's because I tell them I want them to be conservative but nonetheless, there it is.
I take Trazodone most nights to sleep, and there’s a period of a few minutes most nights where my visualization skills greatly increase.
Indeed, iOS Shortcuts are an interesting new approach with passionate communities.

But even the base level UI is not on par with basic desktop usage. There's no system wide Undo, no Select All, no standard menu…
So great to know that we have tests that can test the difference between Delta and Omicron.... oh wait we don't - they are literally just making all of this shit up.

FUCK THE COVID CULT!
M-x has entered the chat.
dethrone != "take over"

It's important to understand the concept of the Petrodollar, how that system is secured by US maritime supremacy, and how it underpins the US financial system.

https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/50983

*If there is another strong power that can provide military security and at the same time offer sufficient funds and industrial products, the whole Middle East oil can be freed from the dominance of the dollar*

>>>What size defense force do you think China should have?

It's not the size that matters per se, it's the content. China used to have a largely-coastal navy. It has massively expanded its ability to conduct expeditionary warfare, with aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships. The latter category are basically carbon-copies of the equivalent US classes. You only need warships like this if you expect to put entire battalions of troops on other people's shores.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_071_amphibious_transport_... compared to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio-class_amphibious_t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_075_landing_helicopter_do... compared to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_assau...
Why’s that relevant? The payment is divided by the terms of the agreement with the author and associates. It was mutually agreed by everyone in writing.
Spotify has the most frustrating and bug-ridden UX of any software I have ever used, by far.