skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what would be brilliant in your eyes? If he just solved a the Riemann hypothesis on the spot or something.

What should he be saying instead? who is someone who is really smart then, excluding mathematicians or physicists?
The Humanities are _essential_ to making rational decisions outside (and sometimes within) the sciences. Thomas Kuhn's work used to be viewed as a "bridge" between them (history + sociology of science). But in fact modern science owes its existence to the humanists of the Renaissance. Of course the really hard problems aren't scientific, or amenable to scientific solutions: war and peace, politics and crime, social movements, religion, economic exploitation and the ultimate questions of "why?" and "what's next?" Those require answers from history, literature, philosophy, art and culture. That's why Newton only spent the first part of his life studying the physical world, the latter part had him searching for meaning in the metaphysical.
Remember old school shareware games? Many people used fake keys to unlock the full versions of the game. At least most people had the decency (I think) to feel a little bad about it. When it comes to news reporting -- people seem to think it's wrong to ask for payment. I really don't get it.
The problem is:

Logic has Apple's own AU, wont accept others.

Cubase has Steinberg's own VST, wont accept others.

And Live (which supports both AU and VST) has a "feud" with BitWig (which was started by ex-Ableton staff), so unlikely to accept Clap.

So, what does this leaves us with? BitWig, maybe Studio One, and some even smaller players?
u-he is one of the most well known and well respected plugin vendors. Having them behind it gives it a lot of extra momentum.

I think it's a fantastic and extremely welcome even if the name is somewhat unfortunate.
Soap box, ballot box, jury box, and cartridge box?
Alternate source without paywall: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-covid-us-supreme-court-s...

Original source of report: https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2022/06/long-term-decline...

Interesting takeaway:

> The increase in abortion was accompanied by a 6% decline in births between 2017 and 2020. Because there were many more births (3.6 million) than abortions (930,000) in 2020, these patterns mean that fewer people were getting pregnant and, among those who did, a larger proportion chose to have an abortion.

Something to keep in mind is half of pregnancies each year, both in the US and globally, are unintended.

US: https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/factsheet/fb-...

Global: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1115062
Well, I'm not saying that my writing is incomprehensible, I assume I've overcome that barrier.
But I'm still years of practice away from achieving goodness. Maybe a good analogy would be something like a chef who grew up in Japan and learned how to cook tasty Yakitory (skewered chicken), and then moved to Korea and learned their cuisine. He makes unbelievably tasty Dakkochi (Korean skewered chicken), it sells well, yet it's not the same. He knows - something is missing, but he can't tell exactly what. And his only hope is to keep trying. And that's just chicken - arguably the easiest meat to deal with.
You correctly point out that air separation is made efficient by transferring the heat from the output stream to the input stream. After cooling air enough to isolate whatever chemical is needed (like nitrogen) the cold output stream is run back through the warm input stream to help cool the input stream. This also has the effect of warming the output stream back to ambient temperature. This is fine if you're separating out oxygen to use in a smelter, or nitrogen to be used in the haber process.

But you can't do this for cryogenic air storage. The whole point is to produce liquid nitrogen (or liquid air) that can be stored and then reheated later to drive an engine to generate electricity. If you ran the liquid nitrogen output through the input stream like in typical air separation, you'd warm the output stream and turn it back into a gas. So even though the two systems both involve cooling systems they're actually substantially different processes. One of them is separating air's constituent gases, and mixes the input and output streams to achieve efficiency. The other is essentially a big liquid nitrogen plant.

Unfortunately the only existing cryogenic air storage plant delivered 15 MWh of storage at a cost of 8 million pounds [1]. That's about $650 per KWh, as compared to ~$130 per KWh for battery storage. Like I said, just because a technology is effective in one application, doesn't mean it's guaranteed to be effective in another one.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic_energy_storage#cite_...
Agree about crypto. I never never seen anything hyped so much which is otherwise useless. The World Wide Web proved useful and caught on quickly such as Amazon, Yahoo, Lycos, etc., but a decade later and crypto is still slow, unusable, a niche.
Don't know what car you own, but I'm pretty sure I've spent more on my car in maintenance and service since I purchased it than the original purchase price.

Add to that the recalls for faulty airbags etc and I see a car as being a lot more high maintenance than a phone, which baring security updates does not require any further work beyond recharging and wiping off grubby fingerprints every now an then.
"Scars you for life"?

I mean, the generation who went through the Great Depression did pretty damn well in terms of savings, investment and a lack of waste.
> If you hold cash you're in a particular market, one that has earned significant returns measured against equities this year.

What about the last 100 years?
Good to know. I should stop by and give my thanks for all the good work.
Interesting, it's a recurrent debate. I believe we'd all be better if we all grew thicker skin. Even if, on paper, an ideal society were everybody is nice is better.. I don't think it's stable (reminds me of experiment in absolutely bacteria free environment that made people even more frail at the end). A blend of self sufficiency and strength is my natural answer most of the time, yet I can't be sure it's right.
Caution: This explanation might not use 100% accurate terminology, but should get the point across.

Most modern music is made via software named DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), which is kind of like an IDE but where music is made. These allow you to play with audio (ex: import audio files, arrange them across a timeline, record sound from external sources like a microphone). This is great if you already have all the audio files you need (eg: you're a live band and recorded a song in a studio), but sometimes you want to create new audio without having access to a recording studio.

Audio plugins allow you to create new sounds. You've got two main types of plugins: ones that generate sound (eg: instruments, like a synth) and ones that modify sounds (takes an input sound, modifies it and then outputs it again, like an equalizer/EQ).

Audio plugins are external (or bundled) software that you can use inside a DAW, you can download a lot of them for free but they can also get quite expensive (eg: thousands of dollars). The most popular format for these plugins for a long time (and still today) was VST, but Clap aims to be a new standard to compete with VST.
I don't think Ableton is that petty. They'll back this if they think they stand to gain something from it. And given the mess that the other plugin standards are I think the value proposition is clear.
How is your dead corpse going to care about any of the hours of your life?
I think the only one very valid criticism for nuclear is long term storage problem. But also I think it's sunk cost. It's a big problem to have 10000t of nuclear waste from zero, but adding another 15000t from 10000t can be ignored, isn't it?
Predictions for 2030
In my opinion, there are five primary industries that follow common missions with defined outcomes. If these industries succeed in implementation, it will have a predictable effect on civilization.

1. Autonomous taxis will change urbanization by allowing for reduced transit times and a more productive commute; shifting living from dense urban centers to more concentrated environments, expanding the suburbs.

2. Robotics technology will replace a good portion of the US labor force, as investments into robotics advances to more sophisticated AI models similar to Tesla's Dojo.

3. Agriculture productivity will increase significantly per acre and grow more sophisticated, thus lowering the need for many foreign and domestic farming, and eventually reducing their costs. New species will be introduced as traditional agriculture is increasingly unsustainable in a changing climate.

4. Humans will adapt to become reliant upon technology integrated into their lives, particularly in VR + AR which they will spend equal or more of their time in these environments for productivity or play.

5. Human genetic engineering will be a serious subject, but may be far longer away, particularly as every generation has gotten increasingly liberal in their beliefs, likely first to mitigate disease and the second for cosmetic reasons.

These are assumptions premised on factors that may accelerate or decelerate their outcomes that are both predictable (e.g. business cycles) or more random (e.g. epidemics).
Why did we stop at 2?
The parent is probably thinking of websites which make use of ERC20's 'approve' method, which "Sets `amount` as the allowance of `spender` over the caller's tokens."

It's used by a lot of DeFi apps, often with an unlimited amount. It doesn't give control of the tokens to a website, but rather to a contract. It's fine if the contract is secure and immutable, but of course that's not always the case.
I’m surprised they don’t sell prints.
Anecdotes are evidence. Somehow "data driven" people got the mistaken idea they aren't.
Dump Your Thoughts
But still up 40% from the post-Covid low.
> so holding cash at 0% return is still better than negative returns from stocks

holding stocks as they go down in price does not necessarily matter. It only matters at time of sale. Selling an index (or a particular stock or set of stocks) as they go down only to buy them again later is not the right strategy... you're incurring transaction costs at the very least and the fact that you cannot time the market means you'll probably lose out even further.

Hold the index, unless you need the cash flow or forecast that you need more buffer for flexibility and don't want, in the short term, to be penalized for volatile stock prices (e.g. in case you need to sell to service some cash needs).

And if you have the cash, continue to buy the index on the way down. If your view is that the market, over the long term, is the best generator of wealth, then continuing to buy into it is the more rational strategy.

Inaction is sometimes the best action. There are more ways to be dead than being alive.
The discussion isn't about chip designers. It's about the guys that print what was designed.
I lived in West Germany for about 10 years back in the 19[78]0s as a British Army brat. Even back then, far more people died in RTAs or of smoking fags than ever were associated with exploding thingies.

My dad was in EOD - RAOC 321 Coy (lol and bang!) before he did rather large logistics for the entire UK military, eventually as a full Col. His jumper had a flaming grenade on one sleeve and the other had a para jump badge on it. My hero.

Oh, ICBM etc: We had bomb threats roughly weekly. At age six or seven, I knew how to frisk a car for bombs. Now I'm 52.
Well, I don't think microaggressions are a huge problem, I do think they are a useful word to describe a phenomenon.

Full on racially motivated abuse is obvious and easy to understand. When someone tells me to go back to my own country and so on everyone around me can easily condemn that behavior.

Microaggressions are much more subtle. When someone is dismissive or rude to you it's very hard to tell whether they were doing that because of your race, gender, or because they are just an unkind person. For each individual action, it's basically impossible to say whether it was racially motivated or not. But after repeating this situation again and again you noticed that on average people are treating you a little bit differently.

I don't think it's worth complaining or trying to correct microaggressions. But I do think it's a useful term to describe what happens and to share experiences with others.
I don't follow. Which older browsers? If they're new enough to support WASM, but this development method is so brittle that they already need transpiling to support them, that's a red flag. On the other hand, if you're talking about pre-WASM browsers, I don't understand how Rust + WASM is going to help support them.
Yes, I think you are correct that I was mis-reading the point you and GP were trying to make. Sounds like we are all in agreement that the WA law likely does not protect most technical employees of Microsoft.
CeresDB: A high-perf, distributed, schema-less and time-series database (Rust)
It still make sense as long as the thing you're buying is something you'll eventually need to buy anyway.

Say there is a 20k car you need to get to work that you should purchase within a year. Then assume, in a simplified scenario, you can either take out a 6% annual loan, or just save up the money for a year and then buy the car.

Now say the car raised in cost with inflation at 10%. In one year the wait and save will mean the car new costs $22k where as if you had just taken out the loan it would have been $21.2k.

Typically the loan isn't the best thing you can do because a.) inflation isn't that high and b.) there are other ways to generate revenue with your money if you have it one hand.

I still see plenty of those wacky startups offering 0% interest for a year. I made a $10k, necessary, purchase for my home last year using one of those and going to save quite a bit by doing that.

There's also the darker truth that if shit really hits the fan, you can always default on debt, often without real risks of your stuff being repo'd. There's no equivalent if you wait to purchase something in the future.
Europe & Asia is huge, but that's irrelevant to the structure of cities & economic hubs. Cities in America are designed around cars to the detriment of community, shared prosperity, & fitness/health.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
I made that 2nd comment. I don’t use Bitwig. But I’ve been an Ableton user for 15 years and have been intrigued by Bitwig since they started. I’m really drawn to their design philosophy and the programmable interfaces.
I was a security researcher since 1992. I don't mean to sound arrogant, but why continue to use languages that lead to security holes when we now have a language that it strongly resistant to most of those failings? Rust isn't just type safe or memory safe - eliminating foot-guns was a guiding principle throughout. People hate the borrow checker, but that concept of ownership eliminated broad classes of concurrency bugs. Rust was a godsend for computer security.
Correct. That is what happened.

The issue is that bullshit as listed in the title of this thread makes it that much more difficult for actual patients, who are going through their life collapsing, to do that.

Yes second opinions. Yes get more than one day of doxy. Yes antibiotics are not enough (but we're a requisite for me getting better).

Lyme is more expensive so much worse than anything you have read once you have made the wrong call and accepted too little doxy after being bit. Do not accept one day, don't accept one week, and demand one month of doxy which will cost you maybe $40 out of pocket but may save you the $200k (and counting) it cost me.
This is a long standing debate in evolutionary biology, I wrote about it if anyone's interested in more context: https://www.maltinsky.net/blog/giraffe-evolution.
Acquired Traits Can Be Inherited via Small RNAs
Dude if you can't see the connection between your weird comments about green hats and the stock price of the green hat companies, then I don't know what to say. It's as clear as day. You pretended it was all about baseball but we can all see the stocks moving everytime you mention it.

[See? It's easy to make a wild conspiracy when I get to put words in your mouth, and I never have to prove anything. Don't be critical of my methods, boomers]
Sounds like individuals who have beliefs and are standing by them.

A company choosing not to submit to popular politics shouldn't immediately prompt doubt of organizational health or professionalism.

They've clearly articulated their actual core values, and are offering very generous severance to employees who disagree. This is a sign of vibrant health if I've ever seen one.
This falls more into the electronics domain, which I know is sometimes put under the "semiconductor" bucket, but in universities usually has its own domain ("microelectronics" in my day). It's a lot more focused on the circuit/high frequency model of the transistor, and builds up form it.

Semiconductor theory is more about the transistor and everything below it: Starting from quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, derive the equations of electron/hole transport in a doped semiconductor, how the material's band structure impacts current flow, etc. The derivation of the transistor equations is often the end point.
> You can put the task down for months on end without negative results because time is constrained to the game world. Or put another way, constant upkeep tasks and their results can be perfectly saved.

After a very brief taste of Elder Scrolls Online I realized I really, really dislike when game time rules seep too much into real life and start contaminating my schedule.

Nowadays I can't stand even the simplest habit-forming daily rewards loop of mobile games.
> Look, there's over a hundred years of positivist theory in the social sciences.

Therefore... what? What conclusions are we supposed to draw from that? That sociology has lived up to the standards of positivism? That it hasn't? That we should therefore find sociology to be trustworthy? That we shouldn't?

What point are you trying to make? Asking honestly, because I can't tell.
Physics is based on metaphor not math. We take common experiences like space, distance, speed, temperature, "energy", quantify them with other stable experiences we can use as reference units, then select the operations on them which happen to have predictive value. The operations have become more abstract over time, but they're still more complex variations on the same underlying concepts - for example generalising 3D Euclidean space to the abstract ideal of a set of relationships in a mathematical space defined by some metric.

There's nothing absolute about either the math or the metaphor. Both get good answers in relatively limited domains.

One obvious problem is that reality may use a completely different set of mechanisms. Physics is really pattern recognition of our interpretation of our experience of those mechanisms. It's not a description of reality at all. It can't be.

And if our system of metaphors is incomplete - quite likely, because our experiences are limited physically and intellectually - we won't be able to progress past those limits in our imagination.

We'll experience exactly what we're experiencing now - gaps between different areas of knowledge where the metaphors are contradictory and fail to connect.
I was a kid in the 90s and I still try to do as little trips as possible.
> massive overcapacity

How bad of a solution is this? How bad does solar/hydro output get during the off season in most places (presumably wind is more consistent than those two when averaged out over shorter time frames than a whole year)?
> "from 2017 to 2020" ... "Reversing a 30-Year Decline"

Does that mean that Trump, far from being pro-life, was actually the most anti-life president ever?
"You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out."
Security is just one aspect of web application development. Writing in rust doesn’t guarantee an application free of security issues like how writing in another language doesn’t necessarily guarantee an app full of security issues.
Almost how remaining people are living in Mariupol right now. No food, no water, no medicine, broken sewer, destroyed buildings with bodies still under the rubble in the summer heat, cholera is starting... That is how end of the world looks up-close.
While such people may exist at Intel, it's not at all the norm, and to be frank, doesn't improve your chances of getting a job there.

(Worked at Intel and along with fab/process folks for a bunch of years).
The study featured in the article can be found at https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(11)01341-9
Putting in SRE terms, do you know the whole thing that at scale you will inevitably get errors and it can be counterproductive to try to eliminate them instead of setting an error budget? I think the same applies here. Is it productive to try to control every penny people in welfare spend? And that's a question that should be answered statistically: do the benefits outweigh the bad consequences?

Statistics guarantee that there will be a lot of anecdotes like the ones you've told. The question is: how representative they truly are? Again, I can only talk about my own country, but I hear the same speech here as well. Statistically speaking,
though, just giving people money was the right way to go: most will spend in what they need and yeah, that's way more than just painstakingly-controlled government-allowed list of items. Birth rates actually dropped even more amongst welfare recipients, etc...
>Looking at Ableton 11's feature set it seems they're running out of ideas

Ableton adds pragmatic stuff. They have tons they could add without running out of ideas for those for 50 years. A new format is not one of those (and will have small workflow impact on users anyway).

Examples: ARA support (somebody already mentioned), melodyne/flex/style vocal correction, soft track re-arragement (versions), and 50 other things besides...
Dude this is industry swill.
There is absolutely no evidence for "post Lyme syndrome" done by any legitimate (read: non insurance backed) research team.

Proof?

Check the study where ticks are introduced into a room with post Lyme patients. Spoiler: ticks bite post Lyme patients and end testing positive with Lyme disease.

Conclusion? Post Lyme is Lyme, insurance companies are on the hook for billions if they gave to cover that... So. Yeah. There is incentive to not do that.
It’s usually a limited number of passes, so when customer k+1 requests access, customer 1 gets dropped. I don’t tell anyone about my library’s resources—they’re great, and so are the ones 2 counties up ;)
I don’t think there was ever any doubt. He certainly funded, personally, many abortions throughout his life.
Sounds like my father in law: voluntarily chooses not to turn up the heat in winter to avoid spending, even when he could pay the bill multiple times and still have plenty left from his retirement monthly paycheck.
the whole thing could be fake. If it actually works to spec, the world presumably ends in 1 hr, so there's no time to get your money back. :)
Ok -- for a less general audience, I also like "Foreign Policy" (https://foreignpolicy.com/), and particularly, "Foreign Affairs" (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/).

In my view, they have a more US-centric point of view (even more than the Economist), and are obviously less oriented towards economics, but they have some in-depth coverage that's worth a look.
The A321 is not wider than an A320. The A320 family[1] comes in a variety of sizes and configurations to support different profiles, but they are all variations in length, fuel capacity and MTOW.

Making a plane longer is relatively straightforward, just insert additional sections before or after the wings. Making a plane wider you may as well design a whole new aeroplane.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320_family#Specificati...