skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. A low level, technical, detailed post about audio processing on HN that leaves me without feeling the need to correct any of it. Congratulations, and thanks!
This is one of my biggest gripes with the American medical system. Every physician is entitled to act like it's his duty to play global health director rather than attending physician.

Pro-tip: take a trip to central or south America, and buy over-the-counter antibiotics from a farmacia for pennies on the dollar.

Source: I inherited this wisdom from Kari Mullis, Nobel prize winning inventor of PCR.
> smart contract that allows users to set restrictions so that they couldn't take that expensive NFT

If they got someone to execute a malicious transaction, couldn’t the scammer just `curl etherscan.io/VICTIM`, get the restriction amount and go just under that? With normal banking, everything is closed so you can’t access that kind of information that easily, but since crypto is so open, isn’t this possible?
Mine cured up with: Glycerine soap 2x daily, benzoyl peroxide 2x daily, and sometimes erythromycin 300 mg daily, along with erythromycin alcohol wash, and sometime nitrogen facial sprays.

I didn't have severe cystic acne though. Diet has nothing to do with acne.
False. H1B visas given to work for a university are "cap exempt." They allow to work for universities and other nonprofits only. H1B visas to work for a for-profit company can only be obtained through a lottery.
> most people do just fine with any partner which meets some set of minimal values, followed by growing together and overcoming obstacles

I can't help but wonder how many of these couples -- who decided to marry without having mutual care, validation, respect, and attraction to one another beforehand -- are actually happy (let alone content) and not cheating on or otherwise abusing one another.
Drinking sugary drinks, even just 1/day, is linked to high risk of liver cancer
> Any theories for how a partisan topic like this could affect left-leaning readers?

It... confirms our priors and gives us a label to call out subtle-but-still-obvious bad behavior in a way that gets results because it can be easily understood?

I mean, it's true that it might not be rigorously defined. But that's what it means to the woke hippies. And it doesn't sound so awful to me.
the 90s saying was Embrace,Extend,Extinguish.

pick an internet or engineering standard: implement the standard in a correct, technical way (Embrace); add MSFT proprietary extensions using an IDE, a method of notification, graphical desktop software with convenience functions, etc (Extend); now, require MSFT software to use that result, use finance to market it, use contracts to require company-wide use of standard MSFT computers -- sales for vendors that are not MSFT will fall on the open market because enough companies have already purchased the MSFT windows desktop, either required by the company/department or when purchasing the PC -- why spend more money when you have what you were after, and it is built in? In Redmond, winning more sales is not enough -- kill competing companies and/or write extensions to the standard-at-hand that require MSFT products (Extinguish).

Recall that the Windows license was sold without consent of an individual user, it was included when the PC was purchased, through a legally enforced agreement with the PC manufacturer. These methods made Bill Gates the wealthiest man in the World for twenty sequential years or so, with multiple anti-trust convictions and a row of books published on the details.
> You're having a tough time keeping up, maybe having grown up in a conservative culture

> though many conservatives find that offensive.

I think I see the problem - you think you're talking to a white person[1]. It certainly explains why you so quickly rushed into the race argument when no such argument was made.

You come from a place of privilege and advantage, so you see no reason not to paint with a broad brush - you're always right after all! Anyone who doesn't agree must be secretly racist, right?

There's a lot more nuance to the world, and your simplistic and childish shortsighted view of how these things work are laughably ridiculous.

Of course, by first painting me as racist, and then as conservative, you've displayed that you have absolutely no idea what is happening in the world around you.

You've twice mischaracterised me, first as racist, then as white-conservative.

If you cannot even get something as easy as that correct, why are you so sure of your opinions, especially as it is clear you have not actually experienced or seen firsthand suffering under a legislated racist regime?

How about you first get the small facts accurate before you try making large empty gestures?

[1] I grew up under apartheid South Africa, seeing "whites only" signs that were literally legislated by law. I grew up under laws that forbid non-whites going into white areas. Education was legislated to be limited to non-whites. This wasn't back in the 60s either, it was the early 90s.
WriteOrDie.com style of writing is great, I agree. And I agree that you shouldn't be editing the initial draft, just get it out and keep writing; review and rearrange things later. Editing and fixing typos while writing is like feeding your horse while she's galloping.

My personal problem though is the language. English is hard. Yes, English is beautiful and versatile and egalitarian and it has flavors, etc. But I am not a native English speaker and I still haven't learned how to form
copiously coherent sentences in my mind, let alone complete paragraphs. I can write beautiful sentences in my native tongue, but not in English. And I just can't write my thoughts in my native tongue first and then translate them later - something gets lost whenever I try; and I tried many times - it's just not the same.

It's difficult to become an adequate writer for someone born into the language, almost impossible for someone who had to learn it in adulthood.
Japan did it on bubble, then...
> However we have studies

Isn't the argument of the post that some of those studies/findings can be questioned?
same experience here.

the "hot girls in your area" popups are more believable.
Any suggestions for how this could be scaled up to the general public (the vast majority of whom aren't comfortable reading code and have no idea what github is)?
https://imgur.com/tk10YHN.jpg

Do you think you would be able to see this tank if it were 3000 meters away?

Because the tank commander, with his set of night vision / thermal vision binoculars sees you.

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If that tank commander closes the hatch and ducks down, you wont see him at all. In full hide position, the tank commander will only reveal himself and his tank when a nearby infantry asks for support.

Of course, tank commanders want to see the battlefield for themselves and will stick their heads out like that unless they think there is an eminent danger.

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At 3000 meters, you can't hear the tanks, and you can't see them in hide position either. They move around the battlefield at 50km/hr all terrain, so they don't follow roads or well trodden paths either.

And the tank is absolutely lethal at this range in a way that no other weapon is comparable to. Even sniper bullets and rockets are far far slower than tank shells.
Are there other postdoc countries/systems which work well, that we could use as examples?
Been using it for 8 years and going strong
Completeness (Logic)
I would always dread new teammates that were 100% academia with no industry experience or real project experience. More often than not if you leave them alone for a bit you come back to functions with several dozen one character parameters or something equally odd. Really uncertain why this is, but this has consistently happened multiple times and it's always this type of situation.
Sure, but that's a tautological statement. If I hadn't chosen to divorce, the bond would also still be loose, but as an outside observer, you wouldn't see that.
Hi, author here. I liked this comment a lot and I can help to shed some light:

We do see phishing pages like this increasingly popping up with obfuscation. I think at this time less than a third are obfuscated, but this is gradually increasing. The thing is, most of the folks running these sites are likely not very technical. They buy the template from a vendor and plug in the config settings and just focus on driving traffic to the site - this happens through Discord & Twitter spam.

The thing with fraudsters and threat actors that play in this space is that at the end of the day it's a business and they want maximum reward for minimal effort. I think right now there's not a very aggressive takedown feedback loop with these phishing sites, but we are working to accelerate this and as this happens the perpetrators WILL need to rely more on obfuscation to try and thwart on the fly static detection. My guess is that eventually most of the logic will be server-side and cloaked as has happened with many other categories of phishing and fraud (particularly malvertising campaigns). Sooner or later the more amateur scam operators in this space will likely get shaken out by this acceleration of the cat and mouse game and only highly technical operators will be left.

With regards to the sites that we see obfuscated today, we are still able to do accurate attribution, as we've been specializing in the detection and blocking malicious client-side code for some time now.

Thanks again for your comment.
> Unfortunately, this is also a low cost skill to acquire, so the barrier to entry is low.

Why is this “unfortunate”?
> If you're bored in High School, you're not spending enough time studying.

Wouldn't you rather spend the time studying when you're older? I have found studying to be much more enjoyable, and useful, the older I get. Having a breadth of experience to relate it to improves things substantially.

It is not so much being unable to find things to spend time at, but often it being a waste. Like cramming for tests. Looking back, who cares? If they are feel-good activities for you, great. Don't discount what you love. But if you are someone who wanted children, I'm sure spending time with children would have been worthwhile too.
Ask HN: Are there other documentaries like Koyaanisqatsi?
What does the HN community think of documentary films Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi, Baraka, Samsara?

Are there similar documentaries that the community likes? If so, what would you recommend?
GPUs have some use for physical modeling (e.g. convolutional reverb — which at least 5 years ago was not practical to do in realtime on a CPU). i toyed around with such a plugin a while back but i think it takes more expertise to program any reverb to sound obviously superior to the CPU-optimized algorithms we’re more practically familiar with.

also additive synthesis greatly benefited from GPU acceleration at one point (particularly if you’re making full use of panning or detuning individual harmonics), but with SIMD/CPU improvements it’s much less relevant now.

latency as a barrier to GPU use is sometimes overstated. you can reach sub-ms latency overhead on a GPU roundtrip. maybe relevant if you’re really targeting 5 ms through the whole pipeline, but not for amateur audio. of course, one issue is that these latencies stack if your host architecture uses something like VST/LV2 which only knows how to pass frames via the CPU. it’s one reason why i’d love for some declarative approach to plugins instead of shipping binaries which assume so much about their environment (even just shipping LLVM IR could let you batch GPU calls). but it seems that approach may forever be niche.
Note that Bitwig does not have ARA2 support either. Bitwig was developed by some folks who left Ableton to push in directions that Ableton did not want to go.

So ... consider the possibility that the fundamental data models in both Live and Bitwig make it hard to support ARA2, in an inverse of the way that Live (and later Bitwig) had clip launching for 16 years before any other DAW.
Once I was actively taking doxycycline when I went for a walk through the woods with some friends. After the walk I took a shower and made sure a tick didn’t catch a ride. Put my clothes back on and flew home the next day. Fast forward a week, I’m hanging at my in-laws house when I scratch my leg and feel something off. Pull my pants up and there’s a tick, but it looks flat. My nurse sister jumps into action and tweezes it’s off but she comments it’s dead.

I figured either I became The Tick (TM) or the doxy in my bloodstream killed the tick. It’s been over 7 years and no signs of Lyme nor desire to latch onto someone’s blood stream so im going with the doxycycline killed the tick.
Either way, whoever named these are certified geniuses.
It's amazing how after being on Keto for a while, everything tastes sweet when you go off, almost disgustingly so. The most surprising one: IPAs. I can barely drink heavy IPAs after going off Keto because my palette gets so wreaked from all the sugar. I've also learned to appreciate really dark chocolate; 90% being my go-to.
When people learn to live with less and within their means, it only hurts the rich bankers that publish these type of articles.
https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful
The lithium is there, it just needs capital investment.

Ironically ESG has guided capital away from extractive industries like this.

It's not a physical limitation, it's a timing of scaling limitation, and we haven't hit it in a hard way yet. Plenty of new lithium resources, and more being discovered all the time.
Sure, but what about other examples. Tons of people like blue cheese. But it smells bad. It doesn't have "smells bad" in the name. Neither does "durian" 榴莲
HN Zeitgeist. Two different comments from this very comment section:

> what’s the point of a new standard when no DAW besides Bitwig supports it?

> Good. This is a space that could use a new, open standard. With Bitwig behind it, I’m paying attention now.

Never believe in the idea of the HN "hive mind" :)
“Truly disappointing that Microsoft would subvert an active open-source project”
Air separation is not a chemical process. It's a physical process, involving compression, heat exchangers, and expanders. You know, just like an energy storage system using cryogenic gases. None of this is magical unknown technology. The components are literally in use today and have been for years.

Now, whether LN2 (or LAir) energy storage is practical is another matter. The efficiency seems poor unless you have a source of waste heat to juice the process.
An NDA is almost certainly useless if you find a job that is willingly to hire you without verifying your government identity.
Because it's fun.

Because you can.

To see what the limitations are.

To see how it compares to other methods of writing web apps.

To learn Rust.

To learn web assembly.

Etc.

Not everything needs to be immediately useful or monetizable to be interesting or worth doing.
People want the benefits of regular banking without the drawbacks.
Which kind of problems exactly have you had with Balena OS?
You mean the "whale song"? It's just a quirk of the Pratt and Whitney PW1000G series at low power settings. The same engine family is fitted to new Airbus A320neos and makes the same sound. Examples:

https://youtu.be/Eeq4rYQUozY
Look, there's over a hundred years of positivist theory in the social sciences. Durkheim, the guy who founded the discipline of Sociology, was a hardcore positivist whose primary interest was in replicable 'social facts'. Why is more of the same the answer to the replication crisis?
Speaking of walking sims, I personally think that INFRA [1] is the single best one out there.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/251110/INFRA/
What if we just donated that money to all these hostile countries' citizens, and told them we'd stop the donations if they piss us off? Instead of dreaming of turning the future warzone from Terminator 2 into a reality?
This is a load of conspiracy theoretic BS, starting from the nonsense position that environmental groups are the source of nuclear's failure.
Forget this nonsense and just go where the easy money is. You can work on all the hard and low-paying problems you like on your own terms once you have your fuck you money
It's a demolition of your nonsensical 5% number (which is also what-if).
Discord and Reddit! It's great not to have to interact with people on person or carry on a conversation beyond 1-2 sentences if you don't want to. Meetups with prerecorded talks are also great, because I can just watch them later, instead of a specific time, in some arbitrary specific place.
Really? If I were living in the US and I pay a guy to pull the weeds in my garden it's "job fraud"? I'm not a lawyer, but that's not a crime in any country I've lived in. Which countries is that a crime in?
Digital twins aren't simulations, they're just data. The idea is that it's openly available and easily queryable so that people have good data to run their models and simulations on.
That’s literally what I said. I’ve read this thread a dozen times and I can’t see where I’m going wrong. I’m saying that one needs to make more than $100k for non-competes[a] to be valid. Which is exactly what you’ve quoted! I don’t know how to make that more clear!

You’re reading us wrong.

[a]: I said “NDA” in my upper comment, but I meant non-competes
What happens when the Democrats enact these laws, and the shootings continue?

The only way to stop these shootings is to make it very hard to get and keep weapons.

That’s how every other country solved this.

In the 1990s, there was a ban on assault weapons. Studies showed these laws helped a bit, but weren’t game changers.

Same is true with everything being proposed: background checks, “red flag laws,” etc.

Realistically, we need to take away peoples guns to stop mass shooters.
Why sell your house if it would mean giving up a <3% fixed rate mortgage and require you to pay a lot more interest on a new loan for a different home? Nobody is going to sell that doesn't have to, unless they've already paid off that mortgage and won't be getting one for the next house.
Better to just create trillions out of nothing and use them to buy financial assets, now that's a good use of money!

(https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/implement/app/html/index.en.h...)
> When I hear "social safety net" I don't think of public schools and universities.

The comment I responded to said social welfare, not social safety net. But personally I consider them not so different since education is a basic need like housing and food. But since middle and higher income people rely on the education subsidy, we don't like to use the same descriptors for it that we use for food and housing subsidies.
A significant anti nuclear movement has existed for maybe 40 years and it has clearly not been influencial until maybe the last 20 years.

That anti-nuclear movement was huge in the 1970s, and was successful in many states and countries at creating major roadblocks to new power plants. Their success in California back then is big reason why the last plants are going offline now, and there haven't been any new plants since Diablo Canyon, which was started in the 1960s. To say that anti-nuclear groups weren't influential until the 21st century is absurd.
Sorry, I just saw your comment now. Not sure if you'll notice this reply.

> But I don’t see a justification for fixing housing prices.

There is no justification for fixing house prices; that is an assumption made purely to consider the result of that hypothetical scenario, to examine what the consequence would be of housing prices not falling. The reason this scenario is worth modelling is simply because many Canadians do strongly believe that housing prices will not fall, so I want to examine what the world would look like with this belief being correct.

I also consider a scenario where housing prices drop by half. If rates keep going up as quickly as they are, I actually think it's plausible that housing prices drop more than this, but I have to pick a number that won't cause readers to simply tune out.

The model so far is only a partial model; housing demand is not included, but it could be in the future. Then housing prices would not need to be taken as an input, and could be projected forward. But I'm not sure it's worth the time to build that model; no matter how rigorously I derived it, I don't think it would change anybody's minds. Canadian housing prices are a charged topic and the beliefs people hold are pretty hard to change.
Of course, for more features!
"It's over Antlerkin. I have the high ground."
Only Javelin has that range, mind you.

NLAW has 1000m range. AT4 and Panzerfaust3 has 300m range.

If you are using an NLAW and the enemy tank has line of sight 3000 meters away, you are outgunned, outranged, and outmaneuvered and almost certainly will lose.

The tank has 40+ shots with a firing rate every 4 seconds. Javelin is a 50LB weapon that is single shot, so a miss (due to thermal smoke grenades / flares) is a critical mistake that will kill you.

Running away at 3km/hr only delays the inevitable, as the tank travels 50km/hr to close the distance with you... And had far more shots to invoke suppressing fire to scare you from running away effectively.

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The advanced weapons help, but a tank is a tank. It's faster than you, has more range than any weapon you can carry, is almost always decked out with the best night vision optics, has more bullets, bigger bullets, and armor to negate most of your weapons.

At best the advanced missiles even the odds. I'm not sure if I'd call it an advantage though, because of the single shot nature / long reload times of missiles / recoilless rifles, especially compared to tank guns.
Air separation is mostly used for chemical processes [1] to isolate certain gases like oxygen or nitrogen. This is what I wrote in my previous comment:

> It's off the shelf technology for chemical processes. It's not off the shelf technology for energy storage.

The while point I'm making in these last few comments is that just because a certain technology is effective for one application doesn't guarantee it's effectiveness for a different application.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_separation#Applications
What kinds of meetups have you found in Indianapolis? Pretty curious what the tech community is like there.
> VST3 has an awful license.

It is licensed under two licenses. One of the is the GPL v3 or later. Evidently you don't develop libre software, and additionally dislike the other Steinberg license.

VST3 for all its issues was the first version of VST usable by the libre software community - VST2 was not legally re-distributable even though it was available gratis. This prevented legal development of any libre VST2 plugins, which was not a good situation for anyone.