skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...

> Under section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S. Code § 264), the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to take measures to prevent the entry and spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States and between states.

Nothing stops them from encouraging states, either. (We did this with speed limits, as an example. Want Federal highway funds? Play ball with the Feds.) Florida's Governor justified not issuing a stay-at-home order based on the White House not having asked him to.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/03/31/ron-desantis...
Not too dissimilar from the EU approach. There doesn't appear to be an EU-level coordination. The member states have open borders between them, I.e. the proverbial "peeing sections", and Italy's disastrous outbreak hasn't seemed to spread into Germany, Austria, Denmark, etc.

Centralization requires buy-in, and after at some point it becomes clear that sitting around waiting for other states to play ball can be equally disastrous.
I’m surprised they didn’t include Nevada given how much of California’s population travels to Nevada.
Yes, I'm curious about the way they're intending to handling this legally as well. A bit of searching shows a Supreme Court case Virginia v. Tennessee, 148 U.S. 503 (1893) [1]. This restricts the application of that clause somewhat, but it isn't 100% clear to me that this Pact is a perfect match for the facts in that case.

It also sounds like [2] things are rather flexible in what approval is and when it is obtained. It's plausible that they expect to ask for approval, or rely on it being unlikely that congress explicitly disapproves, or perhaps they expect to obtain approval in the future.

[note: I've linked to a point in the opinion discussing Congressional approval]

1: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=103881997639573...

2: https://www.gsgp.org/media/1313/understanding_interstate_com...
Everyone who works/worked is an essential part of the machine we call society and should always be celebrated.
In electrical engineering (digital technology), there exist both circuits where

* High (voltage) represents 1 and Low (voltage) represents 0 (positive logic) and

* High (voltage) represents 0 and Low (voltage) represents 1 (negative logic)

With this background, loobeans don't seem so strange anymore.
I assume organisations that need such complex layout also have a budget to pull together immersive HTML pages, infographic design or comprehensive reports. For instance the WHO has some pretty complex and visually pleasing reports; they seem to be using InDesign and I'm sure they use actual designers and researchers to produce them.

I like the idea of using open-source tools to create books and documentation because you could incorporate the process into a workflow that pulls in actual code or on-the-fly generated graphics. I don't own any commercial software, so I don't know how feasable that process would be with something like InDesign.
Don't think of it as selecting files. It's just simple string substitution/expansion. "foo-bar-{baz,quux}.txt" just expands to "foo-bar-baz.txt" and "foo-bar-quux.txt", which are then passed to "mv" as separate arguments. The corresponding files need not exist, as this is a separate bit of functionality than file globbing.
It is trivial to create almost any encryption scheme from a fully homomorphic algorithm:

You create a program, which after all is just a set of simple instructions. If you can do homomorphic add, mul and mod you have everything you need, and I believe you can work with just a few bit operations.

So you make a homomorphically encrypted program that has an encryptor en decryptor routine, themselves encrypted (and can thus safely contain a private key), and that program then does the operations requested, which does indeed get you an encrypted result.

Then you ask the encrypted program to please decrypt the answer. It can validate that question however it wants (implementing privacy policies seems like it would be a good way to do that here), and if it agrees, it decrypts the answer. There's all sorts of schemas you can build into this to do replay protection.

For the truly paranoid such a program can be created with a random encryption key that is then deleted as soon as the program is created. Then there is no trust of anyone at all. You could implement bitcoin, or a totally secure root of trust of for example the dns root zone on the internet. The only problem is that changing the program becomes impossible for anyone, which may be a good thing.

And you keep homomorphic guarantees: No need for trust. No need for trusting the CPU your homomorphic program executes on, or it's memory. NO information, not the code, not the temporary values, not the memory, not the stack ever, at any time in the program's execution, exists unencrypted.

(paraphrasing a paper that pointed out that implementing bitcoin-like systems with homomorphic encryption is very easy indeed, which is a similar problem)
Exactly right. One of the rules of the game is that you're not allowed to say anything negative about Donald Trump even if (perhaps especially if) it is factually correct. If you do, he will retaliate (by, for example, withholding badly needed aid). So the governors have to speak in code.

Listen to Newsome's news conference today and the answer he gave to a reporter about his reaction to Trump's announcement that the decision to re-open the economy is his (Trump's) alone. It's a masterpiece.
What is the context/background of this artwork?
Braces just evaluate and expand.

$ echo {A,B}
A B
$ echo {A,B}{C,D}
AC AD BC BD
$ echo {A,B}{C,D}{E,F}
ACE ACF ADE ADF BCE BCF BDE BDF
In this case it works well. In other areas...
Hmm I am not sure that Apple's products are really luxury products any more. For many many people they are quite essential.
git. Most of which was googling basic commands.
Glass in the Soil of a 13000-Year-Old Settlement in Syria Points to Comet Impact
Do you feel this is a good thing or a bad thing?

I know that privatisation of Royal Mail here in the UK was terrible for the average user as prices went up significantly.
I think it's fear mongering because it makes people worry whether grocery stores will be able to stay open. As somebody who lives in NYC, I can tell you right now, that if they didn't, it would cause a panic (right now my local grocer won't let people in without masks).

If a panic happened, this could lead people to things like looting. I think looting would be incredibly dangerous, more dangerous than the virus itself. Thus I find it borderline irresponsible to "stoke the fire" by writing an article like this without properly putting necessary disclaimers.
I pulled my YouTube Premium subscription once I was furloughed, along with Spotify and Netflix. I imagine many have done similar things to cut down on expenses.
That's not what the law says: the coronavirus regulations (United Kingdom)
Apple seems to have figured out a compromise.

There is an icon for turning off data to a radio (wifi or Bluetooth, for example), and an entirely different icon for if the radio is completely off.

If you have an iPhone, you can see this by turning off wifi and also your cellular connection. The wifi icon will change from color to black-on-white, while the cellular icon will change from color to white-on-black. This indicates that the wifi connection can still be used for things like AirDrop, but the cellular connection is off.
I assume the example numbersapi that is loaded by default.

I got the same thing. Leaves me wondering what to do next. It's not clear, then I figured I'll try this curl command, then an error and still nothing obvious to try next.
> I don't want to link my bank account to a third party site anyway.

And this is just my take, but this last sentence really weakens the rest of your argument. Your view seems to be that of someone who's uncomfortable with modern technology. At some point, we'll need to accept that being uncomfortable with the status quo of antiquated, painfully slow, inefficient non-tech solutions is just as valid of a viewpoint as being uncomfortable with technology.
Can you provide any source for criticism from the left on this decision? I only found this:

> Although Democratic leaders and Democratic presidential candidates have been highly critical of Trump’s response to the coronavirus, we couldn’t find any examples of them directly and clearly criticizing the travel restrictions.

[0]: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-trumps-travel...
That seems less of a problem with USPS itself, and more of a problem with the funding structure of USPS. They are now in the position where they are forced to deliver junk mail to subsidise the loss-making deliveries they are mandated by law to perform.

If the government mandates USPS to perform deliveries for a price that is below cost, these deliveries should be partly funded by the taxpayer. They should not be forced to subsidise these deliveries by delivering spam mail.
X86 ... not x64
What's interesting in that statement to me is that you don't consider the spec sheet to be advertising. Therefore, you feel that you're "unaffected" by it.
Ya but I feel that California, Oregon and Washington are bound but many unique and common cultural ideals. Tech, ecology, etc. I live in Seattle and there is a lot of fun rivalry but if I didn't live here it would be Bay area, Portland, San Diego, LA, etc. The West Coast has a special culture in my view.
FPGA as DMA Controller Chip (2014) [pdf]
Ocado would love deliver more groceries but the bottleneck in the delivery system isn't related to vans or routing
3D printed corals could improve bioenergy and help coral reefs
That would prevent any such pact from being legally binding on the states. It doesn't necessarily prevent states from coordinating at all.
As I said, I understand the utility of services like certified mail. That seems like the appropriate level of care for most of the mailings you mention. You wouldn't want absentee ballots or passports to be lost, right? Or if my county wants to summon me for jury duty, they probably should pay the $3 to make sure I get the summons.

At heart, though, my beef with USPS stems from my hatred of spam. They're a service I interact with multiple times weekly... when I move their garbage from my mailbox to my trashcan. When 95% of my interactions with them are negative, it's hard for me to understand how some people can like them.
Yeah, this falls far short of what these states should be saying, something like "We're feverishly working on building out the infrastructure for wide-scale population testing and tracing, but we will not lift shelter-in-place until we're confident the infrastructure is in place in all three states to contain any outbreaks".

I have the same beef with Mayor Breed in San Francisco, who has otherwise shown standout leadership. She's publicly worried that people will let their guard done by assuming things are under control. Rather than worry about people's feelings and opinions, she should be setting expectations exactly as I described above.
The financial structure is very different. Email service providers deal with the costs imposed by spam. They wish to be rid of it. The USPS derives much of their revenue from direct mail advertising. They depend on it.
If other states don't do a good enough job at controlling their outbreaks, it is maybe, potentially legal to close our borders to residents from those states in order to control spread. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Coronavirus-FAQ-...
"If anyone wants your ads, they can sign up for it, delivering it to anyone else should be punishable by law."

Let's say I am a Gray Actor, Company X, who sells great products but I want to make money on digital signups. I add this unchecked box to my order form: "By checking this box, you agree to be contacted by our partners with promotions."
- can checking this box apply promotions to the mail address you entered on my shipping form?
- can I sell the rights to send you mail promotions after you check this box?
- how long can I send you promotions?
- how hard can I make it for you to "unsubscribe" (phone, written by mail, difficult to navigate website)?
- you demand proof from a partner that you did indeed check this box after I send you a promotion. What do I need to supply?
- the original subscriber has moved (without my knowledge) and I send generic ads in their name to the new tenant at the old address. Am I still in compliance?

Even if you presuppose "sign up for ads" is the only way to get spam, there are a lot of protections that are still missing.
> For event sourcing you still need to turn the "event" into an actual operation and record that database operation in a classic database.

That's where the CQRS architecture comes into play. An event is recorded to the event store, the projection database is updated to the latest point in time, then any further reads are done from the projection database.
The goal is practical and meaningful risk reduction, not elimination of all risk.

As such, the threshold for being able to do an activity is not whether it is necessary to sustain life.
If my hypothesis is correct, I have unlimited upside. It's hard being bearish in any market, but now's the best time to be one. Across many asset classes. Probably not stocks, because the Fed will continue to inflate those assets. But in real terms they will drop. GC >= 1800 EOM, CL <=20 EOW, SI >= 16.5 within 2 weeks are my predictions.
I would imagine this is like the AASHTO or the UCC lobbying groups where the agreements don't force any states to do anything, the states just independently do the same thing together. And in some cases like with the UCC they don't even do that.
In any sufficiently high dimensional system with resource constraints it's inevitable there will be tradeoffs. Or more simply, no system is perfect.
Yeah ... it's a great system unless you live in a part of the country that is not trying a smart approach; a place where "best ideas" are routinely dismissed as partisan politics.
Docker containers are not reproducible and building the containers takes bloody forever/poor cacheability.

Look at every Dockerfile

FROM Ubuntu/Ubuntu

RUN apt-get update (or apt-get install) # BOOM — no longer possible to reproduce the build
My brother lives in Oregon.

He was complaining to me the other day that Oregon's requirement that you are not allowed to pump your own gas is an obvious COVID transmission vector.

To get gas in Oregon, he follows these steps:

1.) pull up to gas station
2.) Roll down window to hand attendant (who isn't wearing a mask, nor is required to) his debit card.
3.) Get card back from attendant.
4.) Sanitize the debit card
5.) Sanitize his hands
6.) Hope that the attendant is washing his hands, and that he didn't breathe COVID onto him through the open window.

Not saying this isn't a great, noble effort.

Just saying that, in some aspects, these states aren't doing a good job on obvious things within their own borders.

Why the hell is Oregon still doing this, and not requiring masks from gas attendants anyway? Maybe it is required, but my brother told me he has yet to have an attendant wearing a mask, so possibly not enforced???
They absolutely could both be true. Maybe 90% of advertising doesn't work, but the remaining 10% does, but nobody can tell which. It's a lemon market.
"I will concede am lucky enough to have static IPv4/IPv6 addresses on my home connection."

A while back, some HN commenters in a Wireguard thread tried to argue that all home connections have static IP addresses, or at least ones that do not change frequently enough to be an issue. If I had a static IP address I, too, would consider myself lucky.
I love that book, but I'll never visit this website again, so I wonder how apt the comparison is :P
> I think the false premise here is that non-experts can build on the work done by experts.

I'll take a different side to that argument - it is dependent on the expert to establish the bounds and rules of change to a system. How a system naturally grows from people with less context is one of the architectural traits of the system that can be traded on.

I have often seen systems which can ONLY be worked on by the so-called "expert" who wrote it. Even when you hire a new "expert" level person to work on it, it takes forever and success is not gauranteed.

On the other end - a system that actively works against doing things the wrong way. It has an established core idea with clear boundaries between the roles of interlocking parts. For the intended usecase of the system, it is as extensible as it needs to be, while still remaining within the bounds of the intended usecase. It does now allow a vacuum cleaner to become a microwave oven, but it does let you add custom attachments, modify and swap out drive systems, adjust suction power, and change body style and hoses for the vacuum. Those can absolutely be done by non-experts, and the system is still very malleable.

Think of all the code on github for libraries people use every day that is added by non-experts, or hobbyists, or people who are new.
> should it still be called real estate?

Fake estate.
It is a great system, but our founding fathers encouraged us to continually tinker with it :) It is never perfect. Remember, they were rebels !
There's no reasonable way to tell if something is solicited or not, mail is not duplex, and it's not on demand. Most mail I get that matters was not explicitly requested to begin with.

As well, most ads I get in the mail look like normal mail anyway, and I don't really want the government opening my mail to check if it's spam or not.

I'd much prefer a way to opt out of receiving advertisements wholesale on a per-address basis (not per-person, mind you). While you can "opt out" of receiving ads, it's borderline impossible without giving PID to advertisers!
Excerpt:

"Whenever data is to be transferred from an I/O to a memory, first the processor read the data from the
source address and then writes it to the proper destination address. This leads to the wastage of CPU cycles just
for data transfer rather than processing. In many applications like image and video processing, where data needs to be transferred frequently from I/O to memory, if the processor is involved in the data transfer operation the throughput and overall system performance may degrade.

That is why in those cases we use another controller;
called DMA controller is needed, which is responsible for transferring the data without the intervention of CPU.

In this paper we have tried to implement a DMA controller core to transfer real time data from I/O to DDR2
SDRAM in the Spartan 3A starter kit."

My Comments: Basically this paper is about using an FPGA (in this case a Spartan 3A) as a discrete DMA controller chip.

(Side note: Something analogous to IOMMU might be desired for this too...)
Sidebar to this, it seems interesting the Whitehouse uses Wordpress. Shouldn't it use something more secure like Plone?
Yep, that Supreme Court decision severely limits the need to get congressional consent to form interstate compacts.

It would be wonderful if all the progressive/blue/Democratic states in the country could get together, and form an interstate compact for their mutual benefit and advancement.

However it's possible that a Republican-majority Supreme Court, seeing the benefit that's coming out a Democratic interstate compact, could strike it down, with partisan motives (just like they struck down parts of the BCRA with Citizens United, or the Voting Rights Act with Shelby County v. Holder).
Telling them they shouldn't expect Bluetooth devices to continue working when they turn off Bluetooth will make them confused and eventually angry with you

Yep. Many greybeards around here have fought the battle of "Why do I need a modem to access AOL? I got a disk in the mail, that should be good enough!"
Dude...if we're talking about secession, we're talking about civil war. In a country with the second most nuclear weapons in the world. With a federal government already looking to adversaries for cooperation.

You're talking nuclear missiles or chemical weapons fired against San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Seattle from land-based silos in the Dakotas, or mutinies aboard our SSBNs, or Russian troops landing en masse in South Carolina to offer foreign assistance. It will mean the Balkanization of the country, where California has to station permanent garrisons in the Sierra Nevada mountains to ward off invasions from Texas or Mexico. You're not talking about a 40% drop in GDP this quarter, you're talking about famine and starvation, and complete international irrelevance after the dust settles. If only tens of millions of Americans die, that probably counts as a win.

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Don't mix Location Services and Location History (confusing but similarly named things - Google at it's best :P).

Location Services provide... location. Without it, Maps obviously won't work. Location History sends your location to Google servers and you should probably turn it off.
> If you do, he will retaliate (by, for example, withholding badly needed aid)

Has this actually occurred?

I know NY asked for way more ventilators than they got, but as I understood it they were giving them out "just in time" rather than up front in case they were needed more elsewhere.
> California is suffering the most due to the Senate's structural unfairness, and it has the most to gain from succession. I hope it happens in my lifetime.

Someone needs to secede so the rest of us can divest our tens of trillions of national debt.
The 2nd link, to the implant that contains a small computer and injects drugs via remote control feels like the kind of technology that could be misused.
That is one tiny step in response to a crisis that requires dozens of quick, bold steps. If he gets one point for decisive action and 20 points for delaying, deferring, muddling and contradicting, how much credit has he really earned?
Ask HN: Best time management methods or software?
Here's my dotfiles for some of my nixos servers and home computers.

https://github.com/ghuntley/dotfiles-nixos

Steal away and enjoy.
SN2016aps
If you're starving, stealing from the food delivery network is about the worst thing you could do about it. Robbing random strangers in the street would do less damage than victimizing the specific people you depend on.
To be fair, Henry Ford and his close friends driving cars around Detroit probably would have gotten enough attention on its own novel merit.
Ok, but what do you do when said authority is hellbent on forcing people back to work and reopening the economy when your local metrics show that would be a really bad idea? While the Federal Government may have the ability to restrict the states, I don't see any avenue where they can legally prohibit local/statewide restrictions that are stronger than Federal rules.

Perhaps through "encouragement" but that still leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
I bought precisely one item from a Facebook ad, because it was the exact kind of item I had been looking for and failed to find. I was really pleased.

But it happened one time. Now I get ads for chicken feet sellers on Alibaba.
> nonplussed

It seems nonplussed has two, almost contradictory definitions:

1. (of a person) surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react.

2. (of a person) not disconcerted; unperturbed.

The latter is an "informal" definition. This seems to be the process by which the word awful switched from meaning awe-inspiring to the opposite.
And yet there are tens of thousands of userscripts, even without any "malleability" intended by website authors, just because platform allows some introspection and extension:

https://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts.html