skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rust really only affects sungrown arabica. We've got some rust on our own (shadegrown) trees, but if they're healthy and happy and not too hot, they stay ahead of the fungus pretty handily.

If you're just after caffeine, though, robusta has more caffeine than arabica.

The downside is that robusta needs pollinators and arabica doesn't - so you're damned either way as the century wears on. You'll probably need to learn to like excelsa.
> That is, can’t all these sounds simply be digitally produced rather than relying on circuitry?

Even for an almost fully digital synth like the DX7 a bit-accurate emulation is difficult (there is a rich discussion of this in one of the other threads here).
For analog synthesizers, there is a lot of character and nuance in the individual circuits that are difficult to capture in a digital model, across all possible configurations.
In the mix of a full song though, its not often that people can notice the difference.

Aliasing--the introduction of extra unwanted and generally non-harmonic frequencies--is also really hard to avoid in digital systems.
For more esoteric instruments like Eurorack modules or Moog modular synthesizers, the physical interface is an integral part of the instrument--software versions of these exist but are obviously very different to interact with using a mouse or touchscreen.

> Why aren’t all new keyboards (or those other things DJs have on stage) simply software, maybe with a custom input device for easier live use?

For live use this is very common nowadays, though physical single purpose keyboards (even fully digital ones) still are used widely.
In a fast moving stage show you may not want to mess around with the complexity of a full personal computer setup.
In modern operating systems, even with 100s of processes competing for CPU time, real-time audio may rarely drop out (the result of which is audible clicks and pops), but even this is too risky for a big professional live show.
As the experience of discount airlines e.g. Ryanair shows, very many people actually are willing to tolerate pretty much the minimum legally allowed conditions if it allows them to travel internationally much cheaper. Like, if it was legal to have seat-less standing room in airplanes then I'm quite certain that some companies would offer that for a discount and that they would have planes full of customers.
I hope that's true. My experience so far has been pretty minor symbolic changes though. My employer sent emails about how they swapped their MERV filters for slightly better ones, and something hand-wavy about adjusting the external air percentage "when feasible" (with no numbers). I would be surprised if they do major retrofits, like a new heat exchange system allowing significantly higher percentage of outside air, at least as things currently stand.

I could see it happening in new buildings, though. Possibly in existing buildings if an easy-to-read summary number for ventilation became popular and the numbers for specific spaces became easy to find and widely publicized. Then companies might be willing to pay more to rent space with a higher "ventilation score", especially if employees balked at working in spaces with low scores.
You make it sound like there is absolutely no reason for this whatsoever on the side of the police.

It's also not really high risk when compared to other jobs which people perceive as more "normal", it 22nd in the US: https://www.facilities.udel.edu/safety/4689/

Average pay is 67k: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/04/23/polic...

What other jobs offers that many protections against often times obvious misconduct yet still always "feels" under attack? If a nurse injects the wrong medicine, they are gone. There is no national outcry that nurses are under attack. The extreme opposition against police reform is extremely ridiculous.
>Wouldn't that mean moving the toxic stuff to some other part of the environment?

sounds like we have a problem here
I had mostly the same experience. Except my allergy tests all came up negative. Everyone pretty much shrugs. They all note the inflammation, even at the dentist when they do x-rays. Yet no idea what's causing it.
Bio-terrorism you expected: some evildoers throwing dirt into the vents

Bio-terrorism you actually got: governments using every flu season as an excuse to turn surveillance, police and paperwork up to 11 and push citizens into a neverending civil war of two hysterical camps.
The rate at which they noticed it spreading in SA and the number and type of mutations.
The answers address your question here: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52676/did-the-w...
The latest variant of branding
It seems kind of unlikely that the scientific world would have overlooked this concept
Defending employees, even when they do shitty things, is literally the entire point of unions.
Are the Qualcomm drivers FLOSS or will we have to rely on their willingness to update them for future kernels?
Sure, but now it doesn’t have a label, or help text, or anything else you could implement with a touchscreen.

Single-function knobs should be mandatory for anything you might need to reach for while you’re driving, but seriously - what’s with the physical control fetish?
The point is not that it's superior to your experience. The point is that you saying "you can't do it either" is so obviously false. We know what we experience. Someone telling me I can't see images in my head is like someone telling me I'm blind.

With that said, I actually can't phantom how I would function without mental imagery. How do you recognize things? How do memories play out in your head? How do you even know where to put "two wheels, pedals and handlebars" in your drawing if you can't visualize it? It feels like I would be completely handicapped and not far from being blind for real or having amnesia. However, I presume you're a functioning individual so I guess I'm equally surprised but from the other end.
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The Pirate Bay provides value also. So, how does that fit into your logic?
Tl;dr: we don’t know much currently. It is very frustrating that our tools and techniques are so slow at analyzing, detecting, understanding airborne diseases.
Aside from ethical concerns around shutting a subset of the population out of society to benefit others, that presumes that a selective approach would be effective, and that it is feasible to segregate the vulnerable and non-vulnerable populations. Do you have any practical suggestions as to how that might be implemented? As a I believe that’s why it hasn’t been attempted.
> It’s actually the opposite since the block reward goes down over time

See history of block reward in dollars[1]. This the miner's collective budget to find blocks.

It's about 350K USD per 10 minutes now, or 2.1M USD/hour. Pick an industrial electricity price, say 0.05 USD/kWh. That budget will then buy 42 GWh/hour, or 42 gigawatt of power continuously (roughly 2% of global power consumption). Of course, miners have other costs, and their growth is lagging this ceiling. But it gives you an idea.

That's why I think we're heading for overshoot, and future block reward halvings will come too late.

[1] https://bitcoinvisuals.com/chain-block-reward
There is a reason this is happening in SF. The residents asked for less police intervention.
Is there another, less biased source we can use rather than the WHO, which has been confirmed and well documented to be influenced heavily by the wishes of the Chinese Communist Party, especially with matters related to COVID?
Not that I'm aware, but I have very little knowledge about Tor.
Host availability is likely the greatest pressure I would think. Then severity or its lack, given our numbers, would be less a driver of genetic change than would random mutations.
This has been my experience too. I have been to several ENTs. Every one was more interested in my allergies than any sort of surgery. YMMV, but ENT stands for Ear Nose and Throat specialization. There's no surgery inherent to the treatment. Sure ENTs have been trained in basic surgeries of their specialization, but that doesn't mean they're "surgeons". It's just one tool.
Uber and Lyft in fact require customers to agree to keep windows open “when possible” in the same pop up as reminding them to wear masks. Short of intrusive integrations with some hypothetical car window status sensors, not presently deployed in the fleet, that’s getting close to the limits of what can be effectively achieved for now.
It's trivial to get volunteers. I'll volunteer. In the US we're around SARS2 spreaders all the time. Every time you spend ~30 minutes walking around in a major retail store chain you're highly likely to be exposed to SARS2. Now do that N times per week like most Americans have been for the past year plus. What am I supposed to be afraid of compared to that?

I've had Covid; early into the pandemic. It was quite unpleasant. I'll take my chances at another round with it, especially if the science is quite useful and the experiment is reasonable.

There is enormous cowardice in the governmental sphere in much of the world today. Otherwise we would have immediately began pursuing challenge trials with the mRNA vaccines, which took a mere few days to create. It would have been trivial to get thousands of volunteers to rapidly begin testing the vaccines and it would have been trivial to work with the government to stage a large physical space to do so (the army could have provided a significant, isolated location easily), at whatever cost in money and resources were necessary.

In the meantime, instead, we probably had well over 100,000 people die just in the US that didn't need to, versus had we accelerated the vaccine testing and deployment. Older people have a high vaccination rate in the US, fortunately; we could have gotten vaccines to them sooner. A generation or two prior, we would have used challenge trials to move faster.

But then this is the same country that barely shrugs when 100,000 people die in a single year from overdoses. Of course that same cowardly country isn't going to do challenge trials.
For better or worse, the medical community is usually hesitant to recommend things before studies have been done, and some "common sense" advice is difficult to test.
Some of my Polish programmer friends speak fondly of it, but being Polish myself, I've never heard of it until they told me about it.
So I've heard other great stories from this book before, and I was curious how much it cost to actually get the book.

The book in it's latest incarnation is $295. What on earth?
right near the beginning they explained how ground water fills the quarry with sulfuric acid
I don’t like touchscreens but what’s really cool is being able to search my owners manual on the screen. Such a minor feature but it’s surprisingly useful.
Because I didn't bother to look it up. (And neither did you apparently)

You can read the exact guidelines here: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/163636/WHO_...

In particular, they say:

Disease names may NOT include: [...]

- People's names [...]

- Cultural, population, industry or occupational
references. Examples: Occupational, legionnaires, miners, butchers, cooks,
nurses

What it again does not mention is brands.
Have you seen it? I thought it was incredible. And informative. And I assumed what you described before I saw it
Such a one sided view. Let me tell you the truth of the matter.

Government is made out of multitudes of personalities and conflicting interests. There are those that care, there are those that don't care, there are scientists, there are people who are knowledgeable of the proper action and there are those who are emotional and everything in between exists as well.

It is a hodge podge of motives. Classifying government action in a singular light as if it was one ulterior ass covering agenda is a lie people tell themselves when they need something to blame.
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At google you could choose either 1/3-2/3 of your hourly pay (base) for each hour of being oncall outside of 9-5 or equivalent number of hours of additional pto. Best oncall comp structure I’ve seen ever since. Somehow people like to parrot only employee unfriendly practices from big corps…
The labels are mostly just one word, so not very helpful. That conference button, what does it do? Will it ask me to type in the phone numbers of to-be-invited participants?

Also the buttons are not context sensitive. Ideally they should disappear when you can't press them. I want a basic interface with clear options, and unfolding menus whenever I want to do something more advanced like making a conference call.
So… the government is acting in what they perceive the population overall wants. That motive doesn’t sound very ulterior to me.
More "looks like", in transliteration; John Q. Budweiser has no reason to try to pronounce it, and why should he? This was purely a butt-smooching move from the Western media.
It still does harm, but you treat it differently.
original post showed that they prefer them, not me.
They've allowed people to leave and come back (not the entire pandemic probably, but most of it), it's just if they come back they have to stay in a quarantine hotel for two weeks, especially if they tested positive for Covid.

A quarantine hotel that a bunch of assholes were so fucking impatient that they literally climbed fences and dodged security to escape from just to grab beer or some shit and wasted millions of dollars as New Zealand tried to contact trace everyone they came in contact with and try to keep a spread on it further.

When all they had to do was chill in a hotel for two weeks and then they'd be free to do whatever.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/asia-pacific/570511...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/02/new-zealand-po...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/man-...

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-delta-outbreak-man-es...

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/454613/covid-19-two-esca...

A couple of these might be the same person, I just did a quick google search, but I think I've seen at least a dozen of these stories out of New Zealand over the past year and a half.
Synthesizer is the part that creates the sound, keyboard is the part that tells synthesizer what note to play, when, for how long, and possibly at what volume. Sometimes people call the whole thing keyboard cause its the most distinctive part of it, but you can use the same keyboard connected to different synthesizers and synthesizers can exist without keyboards.

What's important about synthesizers is the fact that for the first time in history it allowed musicians to control the "character" of sound gradually in new dimensions (the parameters that let you distinguish the same note played on piano, flute, guitar, violin, etc.), creating sounds that were impossible previously and even changing the character of the sound in real-time as another dimension of artistic expression. It's like you played a long note on violin and it morphed slowly over time into a flute and then some instrument that doesn't exist. You couldn't do it before and all these new possibilities and constraints changed music.

Also the particular UI of some synthesizers allowed easy exploration of these new dimensions and that's important too. It's one thing to be able to play any waveform you want (you can do that by editing .wav file in hex editor), it's another to have several knobs and sliders and hear the differences in real-time when you tinker with them.

We can simulate all of this in software but not 100% perfectly.
"I'm a synthesizer designer, so I'm a bit biased towards knobs."

Plenty of those still on the roads.
And yet the endgame will probably the same as that for all the other travel bans -- the variant will spread anyway.
I honestly think that people with this attitude should be made to live in a city without police.

...and locked in there.
If a good chunk of them are, it's still good to do a code freeze. If %30-90 of your company is on holiday, not a good time to do major things.
All the people in this thread here who hate touch screens don't know what the alternative looks like. I have a 2017 Lexus RX which doesn't have a touch screen, and it fucking SUCKS! Straight up had to get an after market android auto/carplay upgrade or else I would have sold this car given how frustrating the "joystick" is for controlling the infotainment.
> Recognizing a handwritten "A" ought to be trivial

You clearly haven't seen my handwriting :)
So if you ever offer a work for sale, you're obligated to either sell it forever, or have it given away?
Are we certain Delta was/is more severe? Since it’s more contagious, might it also be producing a lot more mild/asymptomatic cases that don’t get reported? Severity seems like a difficult thing to measure reliably if you can’t be sure about the denominator.
I’m not sure what there is to accept? I never said it wasn’t worth it, just that there are financial and environmental costs to consider. Where I live heating a building is expensive and many people can not afford to do it adequately at the best of times.
The WHO statement seems to have a more sanguine viewpoint than the Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) which defines "Variant of Concern" as associated with one of the below:

Increase in transmissibility or detrimental change in COVID-19 epidemiology; OR

Increase in virulence or change in clinical disease presentation; OR

Decrease in effectiveness of public health and social measures or available diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics.

https://www.who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-varian...

This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning. Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other VOCs. The number of cases of this variant appears to be increasing in almost all provinces in South Africa. Current SARS-CoV-2 PCR diagnostics continue to detect this variant. Several labs have indicated that for one widely used PCR test, one of the three target genes is not detected (called S gene dropout or S gene target failure) and this test can therefore be used as marker for this variant, pending sequencing confirmation. Using this approach, this variant has been detected at faster rates than previous surges in infection, suggesting that this variant may have a growth advantage.

https://www.who.int/news/item/26-11-2021-classification-of-o...
> the Cosmo's mobile linux hardware

I haven't used a Cosmo; perhaps it's better. I do, however, own a Gemini (the first generation of that series), which is the reason I don't own a Cosmo.

> https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/gemini-pda-1

This is actually a great example with which to answer your question. So this device, the Gemini, sells today, in 2021, for $680.00 (or right now $400 with a black Friday deal). The most recent Android version for it is an Android 8.1 image from 2019[0], using a kernel that doesn't even try to match upstream, also last touched in 2019[1]. Now, they ship an official Debian image, which is super cool! Of course, it still uses the same ancient out-of-tree kernel, and they somehow managed to ship an official image with apt broken. To reiterate: This is the best software officially available for that device, which they are still selling for $680. Okay, so forget the vendor; maybe others have filled in its failures? Well... XDA is dead [2], and PMOS is doing better but the device is still mostly broken[3] and running the same ancient kernel[4].

So: Having owned a Gemini, I decided that unless I had some specific reason to think the situation was going to be better, I wasn't going to waste money on another Planet Computers product. And to your general question, AFAIK this is the reason in general why Pine and Librem as such a big deal: The software doesn't suck; you have an actual hope for getting updates and things working nicely. Hallium might let you use something better than Android, but it still kinda sucks because it just lets you bolt a nicer userspace to the awful base that the vendors ship.

[0] https://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Gemini_Firmware

[1] https://github.com/dguidipc/gemini-android-kernel-3.18

[2] https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/planet-gemini-pda-roms-ke...

[3] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Planet_Computers_Gemini_P...

[4] https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/blob/master/devic...
Perhaps if it requires less energy to replicate and/or it invokes a weaker immune response?
Having read this article I understand floating point even less now
Your insane perspective and the fact that it is common, is why the internet sucks.

1. Youtube is just a generic video hoster, of which many came before, during, and will come after. As for the whole "pretend Youtube is a thing" thing, I can't remember one actual good video from a "content creator" ever. It's all circle jerking and quick videos on a topic based on least effort.

2. <video> tag has never had a single good implementation. They are all bugged and 100x slower/clunkier than using the built in menu on a CRT TV from the early 90s.

3. Yes, the web would be better if it was just static content. Even without <video> tag. The primary use of a <video> tag is clickbait (actually, almost nobody uses a <video> tag because they don't want to host video, and instead use a youtube embed, so <video> is not even used in practice). For anything else, like movies, porn, etc, it's 1000x more convenient to just download the video and watch it offline in a real video player like MPV. Web browsers still cannot even turn off that stupid "you are now in full screen" banner at the top of the screen, which fortifies my point that <video> is not good for what it is intended for: short one-off clips scattered throughout web pages.

4. The whole idea that it's hard to have a video tag is a product of licesnsing braindamage and the clusterfuck of video encoding standards.

5. The web is not great, and I try to avoid it as much as possible. Using a god damn terminal emulator (the most braindamaged obsolete shit in the world) is 1000x more pleasant than using a web browser.
Masks have been recommended heavily since the beginning without good evidence that they are effective. [0]

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047217v...

CONCLUSIONS Most included trials had poor design, reporting and sparse events. There was insufficient evidence to provide a recommendation on the use of facial barriers without other measures. We found insufficient evidence for a difference between surgical masks and N95 respirators and limited evidence to support effectiveness of quarantine. Based on observational evidence from the previous SARS epidemic included in the previous version of our Cochrane review we recommend the use of masks combined with other measures.
For people, the difference between 2% and 0.2% mortality is huge, but for the virus (and the evolutionary pressures on it), the difference between 98% and 99.8% chance of continuing to spread is insignificant; any minor changes in the rate of spread far outweigh that. The evolutionary pressure towards survival of the host matter only for diseases with very high lethality.
Ventilation is energetically expensive, and can be even impossible to retrofit (windows that don't open, ...)

Purification however is energetically very cheap (just a fan blowing through a filter, maybe with a UV led, no temperature change). And has the bonus benefit of removing other dangerous particulate stuff from the air (dust, smoke, ...)