skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I respect your analysis, certainly. And it's undeniable that knobs are more compact; and if their function has been refined over the years, good. I do have an idea for a different control that doesn't imply the need to roll the cursor around in a circle and yet doesn't take up any more space than a knob.

Let's see, going through the audio apps I've relied on the most... Back in the day it was Sound Forge. Loved its clean, efficient UI. More recently I've found Audition to be similarly clean and tidy. But I'm not renting Adobe software anymore.

So I did a mashup in Fairlight a few months ago, partly as an exercise to see if I could actually do anything resembling precision audio work in it. Like most of the "integration" in Resolve, it seems clumsy. The Effects UI is crammed into tiny panes and generally obtuse. There seem to be redundant instances for several types of parameters, but admittedly I'm not an expert in it. Effects will just stop working and you have to delete them from the chain and re-add them, though.

BTW, Resolve is where you can find widespread "reset" buttons, particularly on the Color page. I feel like these are pretty common in various media applications (including one I've written to control physical media devices, where I had them on sliders). Most audio plug-ins I've used have Reset buttons, although most of those may be for an entire effect rather than individual controls. I'll have to take a look at Ozone; I got that for timbre-matching recordings from different mics a while back.

I started to buy Pro Tools a couple years ago, but Avid's purchasing system (SalesForce, IIRC) was broken at the time and they just sent me a trial license as a workaround. Never got around to following up. Most of what I do with audio is destructive fixes or adjustments to files; for that, Twisted Wave does most of what I need and can host VST or AU plug-ins for anything else.

But, I would like to do more in a more "professional" and non-destructive environment. I'm considering the Logic Pro bundle, since it's relatively cheap and perpetual. Any thoughts on Logic? I tried it for 15 minutes right after Apple bought eMagic and wasn't impressed with the UI; but obviously it could be (and probably is) worlds away from that now. I remember reading a discussion that was generally positive, but some people called out a fundamental flaw in it... maybe its lack of pre-fader effects? Does that sound right? I'm not very experienced in this type of audio app and routing within them.
Oh no, I do mean that the lefties are the problem. They're the ones making it sterile. I'm glad the libs are pushing back.

Disconnected keyboard lefties who don't touch grass calling me a Nazi because I also still use Twitter, being completely clueless as to the fact that a lot of Black folks like myself are still there because, well, we're used to surviving and thriving in hostile spaces.

(and then also snowflake hard-left Black folks who -- and I've literally NEVER seen this in my life until Mastodon -- really do "play the race card." It's wild)
Was too much for me even with ublock origin enabled
Here's the page on the Oxfam website: https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/41-billion-world-ban...

It links to a report which seems to be the main publication, but frankly is very light on details of their audit. Also a lot of the claims are very strangely phrased which makes it difficult to figure out if the criticisms are legitimate or overblown.
I want an nginx plugin that does this. And for a cache.
pregnancy tends to be a limited time thing to me and the body quickly goes back to "normal levels" after it's over. Few women are constantly pregnant.
That has squat all to do with a 'high school kid or collage student' or CERN, which was the concern of the comment I replied to.

If you install a PBX which is two years out of date and has a high-severity, easily-triggered security hole which has since been patched, who is responsible? Who should be responsible?
That's a big number, but I'm not shocked by the error/graft, nor its source (poor accounting).

A well-regarded development organization I used to work for went through a quiet reorganization in 2016 when a few million dollars came up missing. It turned out that just getting materials to rural places in Sub-Saharan Africa was really, really hard to do without graft along the way.

I don't know how things ultimately resolved, but it's not obvious to me that effective countermeasures would have been cheaper than letting some of the money leak out in the delivery chain. It's an inherently hard problem to disburse development aid to the right parties in the right amounts.
Can you offer a substantial rebuttal? Or are you in the same camp as the OP whose opinions are axioms that are above questioning or debate?
the threat itself is sufficiently disruptive

Exactly. My point is that it shouldn't be, because there's about as much actual danger as a twelve year old cursing at you on Xbox Live.
> It's strange to me that an audit would say that there's somewhere between $23 and $41 billion missing.

Audits have degrees of certainty; an opinion may be unqualified, meaning the records are spotless, qualified, meaning there are issues but the records are trustworthy, and adversarial, meaning the records are inaccurate and do not represent the actual financial status.

If the records are questionable, it will usually take much more investigation than a standard audit to track down every money unit and produce a clean accounting of the money. Hence, it is possible to identify that records are wrong, but knowing exactly whether the money is still present but unaccounted for versus the money is actually gone from the organizations control without a record of the transaction isn't yet determined.

The DOD itself hasn't passed an audit ever. Money comes and goes without accounting meeting financial standards. That does not strictly mean that the money has been embezzled, only that the DOD and World Bank are unable to demonstrate that it hasn't been.
It's a great use for scroll wheel.
https://archive.is/TJR4l

Site certificiate expired October 25, two days ago.

Site is not authoritative/original link:

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/41-billion-world-ban...

https://archive.is/5Zhg0

The report itself:

> Download Oxfam’s new report “Climate Finance Unchecked.”

> https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10...
To be fair, Pollan would specifically not consider a bag of potato chips food. It's not included here but he specifically is talking about "real" food and not ultra processed snacks, etc.

I think it's still an oversimplification - people with large amounts of muscle mass, low body fat, and high levels of daily physical activity just don't get a lot of the same metabolic diseases even if they eat huge amounts of animal protein, outside of really poor genetic luck (or complications related to steroid use, etc.) - but it's a pretty good starting point vs. the modern diet.
Your account is dead but none of the posts in your history look bad. You can email hn@ycombinator.com and if there has been a mistake they'll sort it out.
Isn't there bottleneck at your egress - I thought sqlite was fast at reads but only handles one read at a time - so if someone is downloading a gigabyte binary out of your db every other connection just has to wait - am I wrong?

Something I want to try is using sqlite as my filesystem but just storing content hashes that would point to an S3-compatible object store, so you get the atomicity and rollbackability and all but you also get massive parallelization and multiregionality of an object store

Edit: I googled it again and find that multiple processes can read sqlite concurrently so shouldn't be a problem

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4060772/sqlite-concurren...
Hm, good point. I suppose you could use [more git commands][1] to enforce a "nothing older than N commits" policy. But now the solution lacks that dead simple allure.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/wk2kqy/delete_files_un...
Kenya is not a rich country, but hardly suffers from "civil wars, coups, and a starving population". Not all African countries do.
A millennium ago or five millennia ago it would have been very normal to ask someone to count all the sheep in a field that had no sheep, because the one asking would not have known that there were none, hence the question. The asked would also have not been surprised by the question, because it would have been obvious that whoever had asked had not known the answer, and they would have provided the correct answer: none.

Already before the ancient Romans, Aristotle had made a classification of the parts of speech based on their meaning as exposed by the kind of questions to which they can provide answers (the so-called "Categories" of Aristotle). For some of his categories he has coined new names, including the name that has been later translated into Latin as "quantity", and Aristotle has divided the quantities into discrete quantities (providing answers to "How many?") and continuous quantities (providing answers to "How much?"). According to Aristotle's definitions, "zero" was certainly a quantity, together with the other numbers and with other words that can express quantities.

I do not think that there is any preserved text from the Classical period of Ancient Greece in which it is stated whether they thought that zero belongs to what they called numbers (arithmoi), or not. In any case whether they had chosen to call zero using the term "number" or not is less important than the fact that they understood perfectly the more general concept of "quantity", which included various subclasses, like numbers (what we call integer numbers) and measures (what we call real numbers), and to which zero also belonged.

About the ancient Romans, the most frequent way of saying in Latin "some", i.e. an unknown number, but at least 1, was "not zero". Therefore regardless whether they were using the word "number" for zero or not, they had a clear concept of a set consisting of 0, 1, 2, 3 and all the other cardinal numbers, so they identified the subset with 1, 2, 3 ... as the complement of the subset containing zero.

The ancient people were much less ignorant than some modern people believe.
Ask HN: Is there any good no code mobile app builder?
I tried to use marblism. at first it seemed okay but the app kept crashing and it didnt work. can u guys give some advice? i wanna build a mvp
And according to this article [0] (from the mindustry article on Wikipedia), it was a hit on prison-issued android tablets until they banned it.

[0]: https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/03/31/popular-video...
"nutrition science circles" are the joke on their own.
It's still encrypted and you can still access it.
>The people I’ve seen drop out of something and succeed are like out-of-this-world fucking good.

And frequently from connected and/or rich families. That can be very useful in success, it turns out.
You wouldn't have to be a professor of music for this.

Chopin has a unique style and it is a waltz.

This would have been a trivial question for any piano music lover.

The only reason I might not have have guessed Chopin first is it seems too obvious and easy if I had been asked. A new Beatles song might be harder to guess than this.

I think it sounds pretty good too but I would want to hear it performed by a pianist who I like the way they play Chopin to judge it better. It sounds quite good considering I don't really like the sound of the piano that is being used.
Considering how little most adults seem to remember about what was taught in high school I'm not entirely sure how much value it provides. It sends me up the wall when people can't help their kids with the excuse of "I don't know how to do that" despite having done that same thing in school. Pick up the damn book and refresh your memory then.
Sure, no argument with that but let's go another step back in the casual chain. What's causing the arterial wall injury (or loss of ability to repair damage) in the first place to even allow that mechanism to come into play?

If a patient is already accumulating arterial wall damage then it might be necessary to limit serum cholesterol through dietary changes or statins or something. But I would claim that those interventions usually come too late, and that most of the damage can be prevented through other interventions thus making serum cholesterol levels less relevant.

It's like if you have a truck driving around full of toxic waste. Maybe that's cause for concern, but if you can take other measures to ensure it won't crash and spill the cargo then maybe it's fine.
There seems to be an unstated opinion here: that cities cannot fund their general expenses from parking tickets.

It's not clear to me why that should be so. As I see it, taxing unwanted behaviour is fair. The city needs to fund its expenses, ie. it needs to tax something. I don't see any reason to avoid taxing unwanted behaviour, or to avoid taxing this particular kind of unwanted behaviour.
Platform Strategy and Its Discontents
Thanks.

Certain famous men in the past smoked pipe all day and lived very long lives. E.g. Winston Churchill and Bertrand Russell. Do you have any theories on why smoking didn't harm them as much. Do you think back then there might not have been some interaction factor that's prevalent today, etc.?
Not sure about TA, but definitely saw radio station in Indianapolis using RDS to broadcast advertisements. In between the artist/song info, ads for an injury lawyer appeared. Thought it was super lame use of RDS.
This is amazing! Have been using Newpipe for years because of its ability to group subscribed channels into different feeds.
No, PGP isn't much better.
Imagine if nobody had any incentives to do stuff like that? As long as Chinese leaders remain reasonably rational and US/Taiwan maintain a high level if deterrence China won't invade.

Russia invaded Ukraine because (supposedly) Putin et al. believed that it will be a repeat of 2014. Quick invasion/coup and their in control of the country before US/NATO can react. As long as Winnie the Pooh doesn't think he can somehow that off in Taiwan why would he invade?

Russia will never be on US/EU's side in any conflict vs China. Maybe short-term they might make some concessions if we let them have most of Eastern Europe to...

> WW2 we allied with Russia against the greater Nazi threat

Only because the Nazi's backstabbed the USSR. Until that very moment they were affectively allied to Germany and they even bankrolled their invasions of France and Norway (Germany would have run out of oil a few months after Poland without the Soviets). France and Britain has almost serious plans to attack the USSR in Finland and Azerbaijan before the Battle of France.
This helps with front end caches and CDNs as well.

The main trick is upload all of the non-html changes before the html changes, so that no file is referenced before it exists. If you want to make the app as complex as possible you do a depth first search for upload. But if you value your sanity you relax the problem and have assets-first in your app.
Last I checked, there's no authenticated encryption option in the OpenSSL CLI.
People forget that solar panels don't grow on the trees, battery packs especially have very large footprint and their manufacturing is resource intensive.
I think lots of people who lack the experience have no idea quite how large and difficult cybersecurity is for a massive organisation whose systems span 20-30+ years or possibly even longer. There is no standardised tooling and very little that can be retrofitted to older systems. Firewalls are fine if the attack is against a port you do not need to use but otherwise you are left with a myriad of commercial offerings and a lot of "risk analysis".

The one basic tool that does seem lacking, however, is just basic network segmentation. I could understand a single system being hacked, especially an old system that is massively complex to replace but having to shutdown multiple systems including WiFi and office networks just smells like lazy "just connect all the wires together to make my IT life slightly easier". Having air gaps with separate computers, separate networks (even vlans) etc. is probably the most cost effective way to reduce your attack surface.
"No global truth view" also makes discoverability difficult. How do you know whom to follow? Just people you already know from elsewhere?

Then if you don't know any subject-matter experts, will your individual view of the wiki be devoid of subject-matter expertise?

That arguably reflects reality better, but also isn't terribly useful.

Edit: I guess the situation of an expert correcting an article written by laypeople is similar to an expert replying to a layperson's toot or whatever. So maybe you could solve this by letting people see new edits made by other people on top of their own edits, and giving them the option to block or accept the change, or even follow the user in question.
CRT tubes usually have stern safety labels warning to not exceed specified voltage, not because there will be an electric breakdown, but because this will generate vastly more X-rays.

So the quotation "glass formulation limits the voltage" is probably correct, but it is supposed to mean: "glass formulation determines how opaque to X-rays the tube is, and what acceleration voltage can be safely used while remaining in compliance with the health regulations".

I think this is what it is supposed to be. Lead based glass is so common in CRTs precisely because of this reason.
> That's a non-trivial error, even if it is only one stroke difference.

As is the difference between "fitter" and "filter" in English.
> where will the revenue come from to pay those benefits

A mixture of bonds/borrowing, federal bailouts, and (painful) corporate tax reform.

This is a major reason why provincial law enforcement has recently begun cracking down on unpaid corporate back taxes recently, because social spend is largely devolved to the provincial level.

The property crisis in China is itself a result of the retirement fund issue, as until recently provincial government's only financial lever was land sales, and retirement funds are largely the domain of provinces following Deng's reforms.
That's exactly why Interrail[1] has existed for many years. I haven't used it in 10+ years and the webpage is a bit confusing, but generally you would just buy one ticket for e.g. a week and then get on/off wherever/whenever you want.

[1]: https://www.interrail.eu
Also https://delightful.club/delightful-fediverse-apps/
If he has his own special meaning of the common word "food", then it's no longer a spiffy quote. And now you need to get into all the nitty gritty of this recommendation to actually take any advice from it.

Even this term "ultra-processed" is highly suspect when you start investigating it more deeply. Plenty of traditional foods are quite processed - bread being one of the oldest. Is it better to eat 200g of bread (artisanal, wood fired, using traditionally-milled non-GMO pesticide free grains), or a steak?
V0 Dependencies Installer for NextJS
I did make this installer but I was wondering if there's a way to either writhe the whole terminal issues that still remain after a copy paste page from v0.dev to just send it to the page for a fix or use the typescript compiler to make idk a automated fix? based on types or i'm getting too far rn?

The point here is that i'm developing like too many websites on a daily basis using v0 and wanted to speed up the process as i'm loving the tool
No, their have their own homegrown (objectively) fascist government. They also seem to be very happy about that government deciding to needlessly kill or cripple hundreds of thousands of Russian men for who knows what reason...
Why not link to the horse's mouth instead of some random site with expiring TLS certs? https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/41-billion-world-ban...
I'm with you. This makes zero difference to me.
Are people using these for practical purposes or are they purely a learning resource? 35 year old man yells at cloud
"Tangential to value", not "tangential value".

The value in tracking false proxies like lines of code, accrues to the tracker, not the customer, business or anyone else. The tracker is able to extract value from the business, essentially by tricking it (and themselves) into believing that such metrics are valuable. It isn't a good use of time in my opinion, but probably a low stress / chill occupation if that is your objective.
> Activists are calling for the Global North to provide at least 5 trillion U.S. dollars annually in public finance to the Global South as a down payment on their climate debt to those least responsible for climate change but most affected by it.

Huh? I'm pretty sure the Global South produces significantly more carbon emissions than the Global North. Like double. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong?)

From a quick Jupyter CSV excursion:

Region
North 13307.26
South 24518.75
Name: Emissions, dtype: float64

(based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...)

(edit: updated, miscategorized Australia)
The problem with hypotheses on large time scales is that they are not falsifiable.

The even bigger problem is to, despite that, make them into de-facto doctrinal tenants such that any critic is automatically labelled a pseudo-scientific nutcase.

The additional problem with the hypothesis at hand (speciation-by-random-mutation) is that it has never been observed and thus confirmed.

Now what I just stated are simple objective facts that nobody who understands reasoning from first principles AND is academically honest should have any qualms with.
> So, at most 350 keV the first time around, but then at most 350 keV the second time around, and the third...

The voltage is the gradient across which the electron moves and gains (or loses) momentum, similar to a ball rolling up- or downhill. Once the electron has moved to the positive side of the electric field ("to the bottom of the hill" so to say), it can only gain more energy from that same field by first losing the equivalent in energy by moving back to the negatively charged segment ("the top of the hill").
Strictly speaking, the energy gained by a charged particle along any path is the integral of the dot product between the electric field and the line element along the path (edit: times the charge). In the absence of changing magnetic fields, this is always the difference between the voltage at the starting and ending points.

What I was getting at is that there's only so much energy a field can put into a particle. Either the voltage will drop because the machine can't "keep up," or the particle will reach a terminal velocity where the force applied by the field is insufficient to accelerate the particle any more. But, barring those two things, the particle will continue to accelerate.
Using sqlite keeps a persistent open database connection, so you only have to send requests for content that sqlite has probably cached. When reading static files, you open, read, and close a file with every request, meaning more context switches, even though the filesystem layer will have cached the file content. If you want to speed this up, the appropriate solution is to add a caching front-end, not to turn everything into a database. It will be faster than using sqlite and easier to maintain and troubleshoot.
This seems like a "green brag" without much substance. Great that this person is privileged enough to afford solar panels, I guess. Nothing to be learned here though: no wire diagrams, placement schematics, or BoM. Just someone telling everyone how green they are.