skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with cases rising, and hospitalizations and deaths holding steady at low levels.

That... seems to confirm the idea that it's no longer a crisis?

Again, the crisis is in the hospital systems. Flattening the curve was all about controlling infection rates in order to ensure the systems continue to function. COVID zero and crushing the curve was never a public health goal in North America.

If you accept that, then the reality is COVID is here to stay. That much is a given.

So if we've reached the point of mostly decoupling hospital/ICU/death rates from case rates (or at least dramatically lowering the frequency with which a COVID case escalates to hospitalization/ICU/death) through a mix of vaccines, antivirals, and other measures, then it seems perfectly reasonable to conclude that the crisis has past.

And I say all that as someone who still compulsively wears a mask in a lot of circumstances.

Is there something in that analysis that I'm missing?
Looks super cool!

For those more experienced in Programming Language Theory, how does code generation slot into PL theory? Is there some kind of common formalism for it?
We probably wouldn't burn wood directly. Ethanol is also biomass. In fact, every single fuel we "burn" is biomass. The hard part is getting hold of carbon that isn't glued to some oxygen already. Once you have it, you can process it into whatever form best suits you.

You have to be careful when you speak of "efficiency". You have to specify, with respect to what expended resource, and what desired goal? If we say the expended resource is "land area" and the desired goal is "powering all of civilization", then indeed the the "efficiency" of growing trees and burning them is not so great, compared to say solar panels. But if the expended resource is "environmental damage" and the desired goal is "heating a cabin in the woods", burning tree wood is extremely efficient.
Why do some see using the Euro or other money for oil as a threat to the value of the US dollar?
I thought the reboots were in order to retain property rights, and that with 2-3 years between reboots aimed at teens, there are a new batch of teens. So it seems like a win-win: renew property rights and lure in the new batch of teens.
I'm not sure I understand the author's point here. Spotify is recommending artists outside of the top 40 charts who they haven't heard of before, therefore they are fake?
The biggest problem for me is bad recommending system. There is a random-casting button which generates main page with "categories I have never interested in" (not clear wording, that happens maybe 1 time of 100 visits), and after pressing it the number of clickbait gets surprisingly low and that's how I have found several really interesting channels with less then 1k subscribers. The problem is how to get this button for 100 of 100 visits of mine.
Wow, this is the one feature I expected would be the raison d’être for an update of iMovie. Now it's still useless. That's really odd.
I get the sense that it's cyclical. In rock music, there was the stadium rock of the 80s that gave way to more punk influenced music in the early 90s, which became fairly commercial and same-y by the time the 00s arrived.

There's probably already some movement in film that is new and different that most people don't know about, but 20 years ago everybody will claim to have already been into "back in '22."
also interested, if you're up for it! (also email in profile)
How so? Are hard links still allowed?
There are a populations of experts that promulgate that view. There is another population of experts which strongly disagree with the assessment of inevitability.

I gravitate towards those that say something can be done; that we have both the science and the ability to do it, though I'd say we do have a lot of people with a lot of power that want to tell us to give up on the precautionary principle.
In all fairness, it wasn't that long ago Apple were still selling iPod Touch with 8GB base storage, having tons of storage is a relatively new thing for most people. But with that specific 10GB metric, I'd assume we're speaking about those earlier scrollwheel iPods.
> "they're comfortable these days watching reboots of the same superhero movies"

This in particular. I don't mind the odd superhero movie, but they seem wildly overrepresented in big budget movies.

It feels it's also frequently a retelling of Spiderman or Batman. I don't think I can stand another Spidey or Batman origin story, or another "...and the next villain is hinted at to be the Joker!". Occasionally there's a "superhero team" (usually the Avengers, but sometimes a more obscure team) or some other lone hero. Even with less known superheroes, the story beats and plot structure is always a familiar one.

I'm sure there are exceptions, and I'm sure my mind is playing tricks on me (as I get older, I tend to consider a "recent reboot" something that actually happened 10 years ago!), but still...
"These Days" in particular('Rona Season), I feel like a lot is/has been getting produced to keep up with increased demand. More people spending time indoors, means more people sitting on the couch looking for things to watch.

From this, I think it's safe to assume that the lowest common denominator is growing fastest. Why put in original thought when you can use an internal plot-point checklist or AI/ML to guess at what the focus groups would say anyways?

It's not like the big production companies wouldn't move towards that model on their own.
This is BS semantic goalpost shifting.

There was a crisis. It had many aspects (medical, economic, social, political) and there were many different methods of alleviating those different aspects.

Claiming "there was no crisis" is simply, factually wrong.
Triple click.
Carbon storage gets dirty: The movement to sequester CO2 in soils
Organization Discussions – GitHub Changelog
I use Google Drive as a trailing safety backup. Client installed on a machine that updates once a month with all the files from drive. Manual process. In case something happens and a folder gets wiped off of Google Drive I can walk over and transfer the files from the trailing safety backup since Google Drive actually copies the files.

Under the new process the files will no longer exist on the drive, but will now be links to files on Google Drive. Is that correct?
John Coltrane is only good on paper and there’s a cult of personality which exists around his work. I can’t really say that I think much of his improvisations and in general, what people believe is “incredible” could be cranked out by an algorithm.
Miles Davis is the real deal of jazz for me. Never cared about notes, fame, or much other than being free. That’s jazz.
Not to mention the huge subsidy programs that likely saved the economy from a far more profound shock.

But that wouldn't support the anti-government narrative that seems to be so popular among Americans in general and techies in particular.
I've been using Apple products for almost 30 years (good ol' System 7.5) but this absolute bullshit of user hostility has made me switch to a Pixel 6 most recently.

The App Store, the Lightning connector, two huge hassles that only exist to make Apple more money on top of the premium you already paid for the hardware. It's my device! I paid a premium for it!
I skipped spotify alltogether, my digial collection is vast enough to last me for months, including December.

Regarding streaming, I did love last.fm's radio, it helped me to discover a LOT of music, artists and styles. The 3 Euro (Pound?) fee was well-spent. Or was it 5? When that went down the drain I did some footwork myself by scrolling through bandcamp and these day I just turn on BBC 6 music. Sure, every DJ might have some agenda behind their playlist, one of them (Tom Ravenscroft) is often just going through his dad's record collection, but that's fine: because when they pick tracks the audience will give them feedback and the whole experience becomes an interaction between DJs and their listeners. No AI can give you that.

Does anyone else know good radio stations with a wide range of music that I should listen to?
It'd make a great movie to watch (but a weird thing to experience in real life). The AI should also figure out how to influence people to consume even more, maybe by buying/creating social media companies so it can deliver more ads.
Because everyone can see right through that narrative. Blaming trump for policy decisions that the democrats were extremely supportive of, to the point where they were pushing for much more spending is ridiculous. They scolded the Republicans for not going far enough and the entire negotiations were very public. Not only that but they came up with even more bills and grand spending plans the moment they were elected.

Blaming trump for everything just won't work, not when you have control of the house, senate and the presidency. What is even more ironic was that Biden repeatedly attacked trump for deflecting blame, and promised the "adults in the room" won't make excuses. If by the mid terms nothing has changed, the electorate won't be receptive to the mental gymnastics required to connect the situation to Trump.

The only thing they will see is that Biden's admin is completely impotent and everything is worse than it was 2 years before. (Even covid numbers are incredibly higher under the Biden admin). So let's hope a miracle happens in the next 6 months because this is has been a slow motion disaster, and no amount of "actually this is perfectly normal but even if it wasnt the presidency cannot be blamed" damage control will magically make things better.
I still remember AOHell and similar tools, was interested as a kid in how the credit card # generation worked and learned about the method payment processors used to validate credit card numbers. But I was mostly interested in the punting feature, me and my friends used to spend hours doing that to each other
what's an artist anyways? ...I don't even know anymore. (this will only get worse now that we're on the verge of some neural net 'rendering' as much music as you can listen to in anybody's style; I mean, it's been done in a lab already)

also, this seems to be all about the rights to royalties (collecting rent) for the playback of music. what's that got to do with artistry?
LiteStream was previously mentioned in A database for 2022, an article published to the Tailscale blog, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30883015
> "Hence why I feel that the most interesting things are those which are polarizing."

I strongly agree with this. To me it's impossible for something characterful and powerful not to generate equally strong dislikes. The only way absolutely everyone will like a movie is if it's so bland and inoffensive it cannot motivate anyone enough to dislike it.
No, "hard link" here essentially means "folders are really just (tree of) labels", so a single file can be assigned to many folders. All references are shared, and a file is only deleted if you delete it, not merely remove it from a folder (label).
You're omitting the detail that Ron Pauls' channel was removed by error and reinstated, and James Woods' acct is ok too.
I had been with Surfshark for nearly a year when everything slowed down. They could have been having temporary technical issues, of course, but it went on over a long enough period that my troubleshooting made it through multiple steps to trying a different VPN provider - so over a week, IIRC.
Not sure why you got downvoted.
Google can't escape its own API rate limits

Request URL: https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/guide?...
Request Method: POST
Status Code: 429
"error": {
"code": 429,
"message": "Resource has been exhausted (e.g. check quota).",
"errors": [
{
"message": "Resource has been exhausted (e.g. check quota).",
"domain": "global",
"reason": "rateLimitExceeded"
}
],
"status": "RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED"
}
It is not about law enforcement either. It's about debating whether he's the sharpest tool in the shed or not. I contend that running such a criminal enterprise is no easy feat for a teenager despite the rookie mistakes he committed.
Amen! I do not understand the rash of OAuth-style authentication mechanisms for pure server-to-server applications.
I still use Craigslist: it's great for finding apartments and roommates. Usage varies by location obviously but Craigslist is far from dead.
> because when they pick tracks the audience will give them feedback and the whole experience becomes an interaction between DJs and their listeners. No AI can give you that.

This is exactly what Spotify gives you, no?
When reviews became numerical and used to recommend content via algorithms, was it any wonder they became as broken as any other form of rating online? Incentives and emergence shape everything. Want a good critic? Find someone (an individual) with tastes similar to yours. The aggregate is always a distorted mess of corrupt business practices, incompetent hot takes, and people you disagree with mucking up the waters. That there is or was ever "critical consensus" should be the least reassuring thing.
global financial crisis (2008), quantitative easing.
I don't highlight in real time what I'm reading but I use it as a bookmark if I need to take my eyes away from the screen or step away from my computer. I also sometimes highlight as I go in a long article proactively so if I need to look away I've "saved my spot". I hate when sites pop up a share UI or similar when I highlight, I never want to do that and if I do want to share I'll just copy/paste it, not use your "tools".
I'm re-evaluating how I share content on the internet and I started a public Telegram channel that posts links of interesting tech content.
Reminds me of when I worked at a grocery store, during training it was drilled that one angry customer would outweigh ten happy customers.
mIRC scripting was great. The first real useful script I wrote connected to babelfish.altavista.com with raw sockets around the time that came out and would scrape the HTML results from queries for realtime chat translation. Their backend was basically SYSTRAN, so it was like SYSTRAN for IRC via HTTP scraping.

Had to set the incoming and outgoing languages manually before any chat and avoid doing it in any high traffic channels, but was fine for private messaging. You had to write in a kind of simplified verbosity without expressing too much style or culture in order to have the most successful communication. That experience alone taught me a lot.

It wouldn't surprise me if someone out there had already setup some rudimentary IRC translation before ~1997 without even needing to do an HTTP request by just having a word replacement flat file, but wasn't aware of one released publicly. Didn't share it at the time, because I was concerned it wouldn't scale well if it became popular and spammed the server with requests.

Never did buy a license for mIRC and haven't really been on IRC since probably 2009 due to a mixture of Google Wave and Steam chat being sufficient, but ought to get around to that to give it the respect it deserved.
I use it on Mac, Windows, and iOS - they just work well.
There are, but they are likely not on Spotify.

The artists listed here in the article are not very talented or interesting or even acceptable as background jazz, in my opinion.

Your statement about undisclosed talent is absolutely true, go to bandcamp for example , and find new music.

The artists and publishers discussed in the article are scattershot attempts at money making likely not even by the artists or performers in question.

There are corporations that cheaply scoop up the rights to tons of old music or by commissioning session musicians to bang out generic copies of standards etc.

I’m not joking, follow up and see that I speak truth. Check out many electronic chill genres.
I and other artists have been exploited by such content consolidators
Solar energy can now be stored for up to 18 years, say scientists
Rationing is coming, guaranteed.
YAGWAP* – Anyone Using Inbox.eu? Good, Bad or Indifferent?
*Yet Another Gmail Workspaces Alternatives Post

I know alternatives to Google Workspaces have been discussed to death recently. And, after looking at a few of the options mentioned in other threads, I'm leaning towards inbox.eu. They seem to offer the most competitive price for the modest needs I have [Custom domain. Handful of addresses for family members. Not bothered about any of the usual 'businessy' stuff].

Searching HN, I only find user 'malinens' with much to say about inbox.eu and s/he seems to be involved with the company, so likely not entirely unbiased. Searching further afield, 'malinens' shows up again in most of the positive mentions of inbox.eu I find online. And all the negative reviews seem to be the same one copy/pasted to everywhere inbox.eu is mentioned and presumably by another single individual.

So, between those two extremes, it would be nice to find some unbiased opinions from people without a personal axe to grind. So, as the title says; Anyone Using inbox.eu? And, if so, how are you finding it? Also, how much hassle was importing your mail from Google?
Shostakovich is not considered "standard orchestral repertoire"?
Oracle-backed server chip startup Ampere files for IPO
I had that thought this morning, knowing I have to present at a design review today!

I think the boring solution is to take written notes when making decisions. As an engineer, I find that architecture documents are very powerful and always worth while.
You're 85 percent of the way there with 2FA and a credit freezes and the monitoring.

The SSA lets you set up an online account. It's a good idea to do this before some tries to do it in your name—that scenario is probably unlikely unless you're close to retirement. You definitely want to get an IRS pin so no one tries to file for a tax refund before you do.

Talk to your doctor's office about adding a note to your and your family's medical records that they have to call you before faxing your records to someone claiming to be a doctor bearing an official looking form.

You can add fraud alerts to the 3 credit bureaus so creditors are supposed to call you before they issue credit in your name. Useful if someone tries to unlock your credit with your PII.

You should add a freeze/fraud alert to your NCTUE report. They deal with utilities and cell carriers pull from them. There was a scam going on with Verizon for while where people would sign up for a contract, get 4 "free" unlocked phones and disappear.

If you want, you can also add fraud alerts and freezes to your Innovis (a smaller credit rating agency) report, and your Chex system (basically a credit report for banking) report, and freeze your LexisNexus (background stuff mostly for insurance) and Work Number (salary info) reports.

Many states allow you to suppress your public voting records like your address and phone number. That's where a lot of those data brokers first get your address.

Your phone carrier probably lets you set up a pin to prevent sim swapping. And you might be able to opt-out of them selling some info to advertisers.

If you find out your identity was stolen, you can file a police report, send that to the creditor saying to close the account, and include that with a letter to the credit rating agency to get it removed from your record. At that point you can probably get a new drivers license number.
you're missing the context of the thread:

> He most likely has an active TS clearance and works with ITAR.

it's very unlikely (though not impossible for Elon, I guess) that someone could retain a TS clearance after smoking weed in a highly publicized video.
If generic jazz can easily substitute "important" jazz it just means your important jazz doesn't have the value you ascribe to it, especially not in the context of "things for background music."

This is a modern version of Seeburg background music. Seeburg was a jukebox company, and as a sideline, they also sold a background music system. This used a special purpose record changer that played a stack of records over and over.Seeburg made their own records, recorded by their own orchestra in Chicago, and distributed them through their own jukebox dealers. So they didn't have to pay anything to record companies. It was a subscription service; every few months, subscribers got a new set of records with 1000 songs, and the old set was taken back to Seeburg. The records were not copyrighted, which cost money back then. Instead, they were 9 inch diameter, 2 inch center hole, 16⅔ rpm, 420 grooves per inch, 0.5 mil diamond stylus, all of which were incompatible with record players of the era. They were not sold, just rented, although often nobody bothered to ship them back to Chicago for crushing, so many have survived. DRM, the early years.

You can listen to them here.[1]

[1] https://streema.com/radios/RadioCoastcom
What user authentication does Stripe handle? As a user I've interacted with Stripe's services a lot, but I've never needed to authenticate myself to them.
I see, so these examples still suffer from the keyframe issue. As far as I know, there is no good solution to this issue, but I'd be interested in hearing how pion's consumers handle this issue. Streaming a file from disk is ideal because it's really cheap and doesn't require any video transcoding, but as soon as you need to insert additional keyframes, then at least some portion of the source video needs to be transcoded again.
Connectivity - we are verging on IoT needing a 24/7 internet connection, coverage is still quite a way from that.
>No, it's a solution things like "I sent my money to the wrong guy" and "this transaction was technically correct but the result of fraud by one party."

These things happen. I'll tell you this much - debit card got skimmed last year on a trip to Western Europe, nobody gave me my money back either. I guess the current model of resolving them is perceived as working convincingly enough for the general public to overlook its externalities (which reach as far as police brutality, economic disempowerment, and mass media-driven global cognitive collapse, and yes, I'm blaming the entrenched financial system for that.)

>If you have a problem with that, then do share the details.

It's a matter of threat model, and of affordances. There are failed states in the world today where it is commonplace to bribe officials to commit fraud, including stealing people's homes. For those people it makes a lot of sense to keep their assets away from the state-favored banking system - at least liquid ones because that's what's technologically available to them today.

>Assuming your story is true

Even if it wasn't. (It is.)

>the invaders are likely to care as little about a blockchain as they did the the paper records, digital records are fragile when unmaintained

Geographical decentralization and distribution of responsibility among multiple independent interested parties solves that

>the invaders may not ever be driven out, and if they are there may not be a restitution process). In the unlikely event that they do help, I'd likely only benefit distant descendants that may never have even met their wronged ancestor.

That's a matter of offline consensus. Blockchain can enable oppressed communities to maintain internal organization, and increase the overall independence of their members.

>blockchains fail at being a solution to most if not all the problems they purport to solve.

That much is true, and while the dominant discourse is that of crypto bros are hyped about on gains and driving lambos on the moon, everyone will keep overlooking the capabilities of distributed consensus tech in favor of the novelty value of magic internet money, smart people who know what to do with the stuff will do other things, and the whole thing will collapse on itself. Just one self-fulfilling prophecy among so many...
my... I see you have adopted an appropriate name.

By this logic I could just spend all my budget on telling the public a movie is great, then show them a grey rectangle for 2 hours and get rave reviews.

If this is not the case, then to what degree is it one or the other? Where would you put your ratios?