skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't conclude too much about the steady-state price of manufacturing labor based on the present global market.

At the moment regional differences in the price of manufacturing labor are so large that corporations are basically labor market arbitrageurs. But arbitrage opportunities are by their nature kind of ephemeral, ending when the relevant markets stop mis-pricing things.

Your POV seems to be that labor is correctly priced in the current cheapest labor market (the "Race to the Bottom" hypothesis) but I don't know that this is automatically true. It's at least possible that one can only arbitrage the price of labor in developing markets for so long until they develop and drive up the local price of labor, and until they are all developed.

"The Jobs Ain't Comin' Back" is an appealing position for professional automators like us, because it lays the credit for manufacturing labor market dynamics at our own self-important feet, when in actuality it's shaped largely by brutally exploitative and probably transient (on the scale of decades, though) labor-price arbitrage. In particular the current manufacturing labor market artificially rewards centralization because the profit made by labor-price arbitrage is so large compared to shipping costs.

I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that manufacturing is either Sweatshops or Robots in the long run.
Yikes. That's a hard no from me.
There are hard limits at play. No matter what you do, you can't go from New York to London in less than ~20ms; add video/audio encoding, packet switching, decoding, etc. and it's easy to see why any latency under the 100ms mark at that spatial scale in a scalable, mainstream product would be close to a miracle.

The thing is that when we talk in a room, sound will take <10ms to reach my ears from your mouth. This is what "enables" all of the human turn taking cues in conversation (eye contact, picking up whether a sentence is about to end/whether it's a good time to chime in/etc) - I've been looking for work from people who've tried to see at what point things start feeling really bad (is it 10ms, or 50ms?), but haven't found much so far. No matter what it is though, it's likely that long distance digital communications just cannot match it.

See also this interesting comment about the feeling of "closeness" from phone copper wires:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22931809

Landlines were so fast and so "direct" in their latency (where distance correlates very directly with time, due to a lack of "hops") that local phone calls were faster than the speed of sound across a table, and for a bit after they came out--before people generally got used to seemingly random latency--local calls felt "intimate", like as if you were talking to someone in bed with their head right next to you; I also have heard stories of negotiators who had gotten really tuned to analyzing people's wait times while thinking that long distance calls were confusing and threw them off their game.
It certainly doesn't improve the quality of education of the students who were rejected in favor of someone with a different color skin.
Evolution is romanticized, but its ability are limited, not infinite.

The more complex a species, the less adaptivity it has to fundamental shifts in environmental pressures. The interconnections between protein functions are directly responsible for that trade-off, and become a liability.

The time scales for evolution far beyond our current level of genetic complexity, probably extend beyond the life span of the Earth.

Now the benefit of this speghetti-code situation is that no intelligent designer is required - obviously a fundamental ingredient of abiogenesis, but does it benefit an species that's capable of genetic editing?

Nope. At this point, it's really just a bottleneck to even repairing the most straight-forward genetic diseases.

As a species, we're approaching the time where we've obviated evolution. ...I won't say we've seen that yet because reproduction rates are still very uneven across population segments, but it's only a matter of a few more generations (cataclysms not withstanding).
> Audiophile grade at least has roots in high fidelity.

Does it though? Audiophiles generally seem to eschew fidelity in favour of something that sounds subjectively nice, including the psychoacoustic effects of spending a lot of money.

Eg. they seem very fond of "warmth". If you asked me to make something sound "warm", I'd be applying some soft clipping and dampening the top end, not eliminating sources of distortion.

Edit: If you actually wanted high fidelity, you'd use studio headphones / monitors, which are designed to be "unflattering", so you can be confident you'll hear any issues when mixing / mastering. People don't normally listen for pleasure with those, because they become fatiguing after a few hours.

Choosing equipment because you like the sound is a very reasonable thing to do, but it's not the same as pursuing fidelity.
One of the interesting effects of using rust is saving money! I also migrate a F#/.NET ecommerce backend and can run in less RAM/CPU that make my bills lower.
>a simple design that bets on robust immune response doing the job.

That means greater surveillance time, because so little has been established about activity thresholds that might be deemed properly immunizing. Greater reliance on strong immune response than more complex designs means greater uncertainty with respect to each step of the trials, including projecting general population results from challenge trial results.

So the bad news can't come as fast as it might for other designs. So far, the main worry has been poor activity in monkey challenge testing. But that's not enough to call "bad news" yet. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.13.093195

There's no downside to proceeding with manufacturing at full speed provided the financing is secured, yes. That's what I was getting at. "Produced at no-profit" still comes with significant opportunities for contractors and liabilities if they haven't been paid yet. It would be a nightmare for a public-private partnership to fall apart with manufacturing costs left uncovered because a vaccine platform has fallen out of favor. At the scale of multinationals, even issues like brexit having been pseudo-postponed until the end of 2020 right before all of this stuff hit might have something to do with how they're trying to structure delivery timetables. It's hard to say how any particular firm structures multiple deals with billion dollar pricetags.
He's talking about it from the perspective of a user of an ebook reading app. He might not know what the problem is. The point is he shouldn't have to know or care what the technical issue is. He's trying to read a paper and when he reads an epub version it usually looks like shit.

This is a usability issue. It might be possible to make properly formatted epubs. However, from his experience most authors aren't making properly formatted epubs, so using epub isn't an option for him.

I've experienced the same quality issue with Epubs. It has been probably 5 years since I've tried reading one, so maybe they have gotten better. Can you give an example of a freely available Epub with proper image placement?

I think part of the issue is that people subconsciously expect ebooks to look like they would expect print books to look. That's not all nostalgia. One of the reasons print books are formatted the way they are is because over centuries of tweaking designs people figured out a near optimal way to present a combination of images and text. You could create print books that mimic the look of the average reflowed EPUB text, but it would look terrible because it doesn't benefit from having an intelligently designed layout.
Monzo confirms £60m down round
The Ever-Shrinking Transistor and the Invention of Google
More than 21-bits is meaningless. It's all hype beyond 24-bits.
> That is, even under Newtonian laws, if a body emits a force like gravity which drops in strength with distance, and if that body moves back and forth in relation to you, you would necessarily experience waves of force.

Not if you take the term "wave" literally. Any action in Newtonian gravity is assumed to occur instantaneously, so while an observer far away from that body would certainly see the gravitational pull varying in time, this would not be the same as a wave traveling through space.
> SoX is amazing.

100% agree.

The man pages are chock full of examples too, which is great because the tool does a lot. Some of the examples are really interesting too, such as the delay effect showing how to synthesise a guitar chord.

I use an audio player built largely around sox¹, and it allows you to take advantage of the power of sox.

1. https://80x24.org/dtas.git/about/
Illinois was the same way. ACT charges for every damned thing, whereas SAT is free. That's one good thing, at least.
I thought it was all the rage to hate on white men.
You can use gst_parse_launch to create a pipeline using the launch syntax.

I've found this helpful to prototype with gst-launch-1.0 and then pull into a separate program down the road. I found it to be pretty hairy trying to create and link all the individual elements manually in complex pipelines.

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/gstreamer/gs...
Is compilation a problem though? It's an unattended process, so it doesn't matter how long it takes, 1 hour or 2 hours, both equal infinity for all practical purposes. I thought ARM has problems only with FPS games, which are not parallelizable and sensitive to single core performance.
I never played any flash games and I never really understood the difference between the flash and shockwave plugins for games, but , I always installed flash because it was a wonderful video player. Before flash video was common most things were quicktime and the quicktime plugin was SLOW.

The other nice thing about flash is unlike quicktime there was a linux version.

Sure, flash is obsolete and unloved now, but it really was better than what came before it.
I have 2 kids in college right now. One goes to a non-Harvard Ivy League school, the other one is at a state school. My wife and I both went to an average state school (as far as college rankings are concerned). We've gotten more insight than usual into our kid's academics as both of them have been home this spring and taking online classes due to the Covid outbreak. The level of academic rigor and the high expectations at the Ivy league school are through the roof compared to my own college experience and my other kid's academics. I frankly don't think I could have handled it had I been able to attend a school of that caliber. I can't speak for Harvard specifically but I have my doubts that an average student would survive for very long at some of these elite schools. I also have my doubts that their teaching style would scale real well to a large number of students. They rely heavily on hiring exceptional professors and giving them a significant amount of autonomy in the classroom. The class sizes are very small by university standards and the vast majority of assignments and tests are hand written and graded by the professor.
> as I don't think that the 5 million Indians and Pakistanis living in the UAE are responsible for much of the carbon footprint of the country. So for the Emiratis and Western expats, we should consider their per capita footprint to be at least double the average.

While I acknowledge your sentiment, making these kinds of arguments is not acceptable. Please base your conclusions on facts or at least coherent, easy to follow logic. This will be better for you as well as your point will come across more easily.

Right now it just sounds like a lot of prejudice from someone who watched a lot of (quite sad) documentaries but actually has never been there in person nor is very well-versed in its politics and/or statistics.
> they're the hardest part of admissions to game

Are they really?
This looks really good, from a quick skim. I would definitely consider using it if I had to teach an intro to Python. It reads like material that's been taught before.
The FAQ has concerning points:

> Are there limits to what I am allowed to do with Spot?

> Spot should never be used to harm or intimidate any person or animal or for any illegal or ultra-hazardous purpose. Our warranty of Spot becomes void and we may disable some or all of its functionality upon any such use.

_should_
I wonder what the software looks like. Is it open source? What kind of network connectivity does it need? What kind of training is needed to program the robot?

The price feels low to me, people pay more for cars.
Interesting, wasn't aware!

I was pretty ignorant about this before today. What I've learned today is (1) that there are several competing claims for who has the first PhD in Computer Science (or the first PhD by an American, or Woman...), (2) all of those claims depend not on the quality of the work by the person but rather by whether something counts as "computer science" (does it have to be issued by a Computer Science department? Department with Computer Science in the name? Can the degree just say it's for Computer Science? Does it depend on the thesis topic?), and (3) for the most part none of the candidates really care too much about the distinctions about who was 1st.

But it is an interesting exercise in learning about computer scientists that I didn't know much about before.
This strikes a chord, as we too made the switch from Dropbox to Syncthing recently. We also ended up using Syncthing-GTK, which is a cross-platform UI front-end for Syncthing. (For us the process does not get killed in Windows platforms when Syncthing-GTK exits, but we can live with us for the time being.)
No one will be forcing you to install Spotify or a banking app.
What are you arguing for, exactly? It sounds like you're somehow trying to justify extermination?
i figure taking vows gives you the mental space to devote your time to academic (read contemplative) pursuits. I assume most spend their time thinking through the philosophies of divinity but science is certainly an area of philosophy that is worth their time...
That's news to me if true. Do you have any resources I can check out?
> This service was created to help programmers find real examples of using classes and methods as well as documentation. Our system automatically searches, retrieves and ranks examples of source code from more than 1 million opensource projects. A key feature of the service is an opportunity to see examples of using a particular class or method from multiple projects on a single page.

Sounds like it's just a search engine for code, with good SEO of their own.
The short answer to your question is: We don't know.
Terrafirma: Static Analysis Tool for Terrafirm
As a little side project, I've been trying to automate creation of those "1 second everyday" style videos [1], and used FFmpeg to achieve this.

For things like trimming and concatenating videos, one thing that surprised me was that it was slower than using a tool like ScreenFlow. Note, we're talking about hundreds of gigabytes worth of 4K videos.

slower = When I say slower, I mean, if I manually performed the same operation in a professional video editing tool like ScreenFlow, the time it took ScreenFlow to export a video was quicker than the time it took FFmpeg to finish executing the command.

Interestingly, there seems to be a fast and a slow way to do things in FFmpeg [2]. The slow way is free of quirks, whereas the fast way introduces something unexpected to the video, like a half a second of a black screen with audio continue playing like normal.

I'm still curious as to how a tool like ScreenFlow can achieve faster trimming/concatenation/subtitle overlaying, than FFmpeg. I suspect if I read their documentation and do some more research, I'll discover a more optimal way of ordering the various flags on the command line which can speed up the execution, while preserving accuracy.

[1] https://github.com/umaar/video-everyday

[2] https://superuser.com/questions/499380/accurate-cutting-of-v...
> From what I recall, it only worked on wav files back in the day

It depends on your build, but on my system it supports: 8svx aif aifc aiff aiffc al amb amr-nb amr-wb anb au avr awb caf cdda cdr cvs cvsd cvu dat dvms f32 f4 f64 f8 fap flac fssd gsm gsrt hcom htk ima ircam la lpc lpc10 lu mat mat4 mat5 maud mp2 mp3 nist ogg paf prc pvf raw s1 s16 s2 s24 s3 s32 s4 s8 sb sd2 sds sf sl sln smp snd sndfile sndr sndt sou sox sph sw txw u1 u16 u2 u24 u3 u32 u4 u8 ub ul uw vms voc vorbis vox w64 wav wavpcm wv wve xa xi. You can check your own with `sox --help`.

On Debian mp3 support requires `libsox-fmt-mp3`.
One problem I have with that hype cycle diagram is that it appears to show that all technologies that get a lot of hype will eventually even out and get good adoption once they go through some growing pains.

Realistically though a lot of new tech will get into the hype stage and then everyone will realise that is in fact no good or just disappear for some other reason.

People see that diagram and think it doesn't matter if you jump in at the hype stage because eventually this tech will become mainstream, when a lot of the time that graph just drops to zero after the hype stage.
Please, WHAT does Israel have to with this?
TL;DR another tech person discovers just how inefficient clinical trials are, uses tech to try to improve patient recruitment for clinical trials (often, trials can't recruit enough patients to have statistical power).
remember, you can buy xbox games via disk. not all games have to be via the store. independent publishers have a way to get you those games without going through microsoft.

The Xbox is a closed system that will only run approved and signed code. Whether it is on a disc or a digital download is irrelevant. You can only publish Xbox discs if you are approved by Microsoft, go through their system and pay their fees. If you somehow found a way to circumvent the DRM and published discs with Xbox compatible games 1) you would be sued into oblivion and 2) Microsoft would immediately push updates to the OS that would disable your games from working.
It was an info page similar to a terms and conditions page, nobody wants to share that.
Deep Dive into Configurable Joints in Unity
That's how it looks if you oversimplify history and do it with only one sentence. Turks started to migrate into Anatolia about 600 AD. However, the most defining moment and the most known turning point is the Battle of Menzikert in 1071. This puts at least 1000 years of slow demographic change.

We can argue a lot of details about how it happened. But it is better to stick to your main argument that the guilt over past crimes is mainly a Western thing. That could not be further than the truth. That's where I object mainly. Such demographic changes happened much faster and more brutal in the West by the Western people. Both North and South American continents that are tens of times larger areas than Anatolia has seen genocidal change for a much shorter period of time for much bigger population. It is estimated that the populate in North America was comparable to that of Europe when "discoveries" started. I do not see such guilt proportional to what happened.

You may think that those are a bit in the past. How about French and Belgian colonialism. The crimes committed by Belgian in Kongo pales even that of Germans. The most conservative figure is that Belgians killed 10 Million people. The upper estimate is about 40M. Why we do not hear about those crimes as much as about what Germans did ? Kongolese are not human? or this much emphasis serve a political agenda?
Unless a secret court rules we have to let you.
As another Asian who kind of understands your viewpoint, I'm conflicted and unsure about this.

Us Asians are in a weird place, because as a statistic we're very successful, but also subject to a fairly wide range of discrimination inside and outside the workplace. We already a harder time breaking into "Good Old Boy" all-white institutions, and I have lost count of the number of casually racist anti-Asian things I have heard at my past few jobs.

> I wouldn't want to go to a college that is 50% Asian and 1% black over a college that reflected the demographics of the country.

I would disagree. IMO I'd rather see Harvard and the Ivies become 50% Asian, to drive home the point that there is nothing special about Harvard and it's just a name (as an example -- consider the other two schools you mentioned. Going to Berkeley or CalTech is still considered prestigious as hell). Life should be a holistic admission, but a lot of employers still use schools as a filter. So why should Asians be denied the opportunity to prove that that heuristic is imperfect?

Otherwise, Harvard will used as a filter that implicitly discriminates against Asians later in life. Think ”Oh he's from Harvard, good thing it's not one of those all-Asian colleges” which I'm sure is said behind closed doors in many rooms today and which you have perhaps benefited from.
I'm fairly sure the author means that if you're still able to maintain a more or less demanding job and all the social obligations thereof, the degree of your suffering is nowhere near as serious as it could be. Take for instance someone suffering from debilitating/easily triggered mental breakdowns/ seizures.

You may think that these conditions are not strongly related to procrastination, I can argue against that.
You are using a bunch of emotional non-arguments like "trite and banal" while not addressing the validity of these slippery slopes, on top of lacking history knowledge (for example check how blanket arrests for suspected FETO supporters extended to arresting opposition under the same name in Turkey). Makes me think your reply is more about helping yourself feel safe and secure rather than arguing.
I bet we'll see this appear in some Hollywood films!
> And if anyone know what happened to Battery Day?

Elon mentioned a while back it was postponed because of COVID, I'm hoping it still goes ahead soon.
I'm guessing that you've already heard this from like 10 people, but have you experimented with a lower dose or other ADD meds? I have heard that methylphenidate and vyvanse have weaker effects on mood while still helping calm down distractions. Their effect is bit less noticeable in general.

As always ymmv, and good luck :)
Newly unclassified report finds CIA security failures led to 2017 breach
All industries do this.

Finance, oil, corporate attorneys, lobbyists -- I can't think of a single profession that doesn't build a myth around their value to the world.
Chloroquine (not hydroxy, good old chloro) is used in Central Asia. Death rate is pretty low (less than 10 per million), if you trust official media source of the countries in the region.
I don't know if it fits you but there are several GUI frontends dedicated to help with the sheer amount of arguments/flags.

https://github.com/swl-x/MystiQ is what comes to mind
By the time of the tweet, it was pretty well established that there was at least familial spread (aka human to human) in Wuhan. Everyone raised at eyebrow at the tweet because it goes against all observations on the spread, even from official Chinese reports.

The WHO is clearly a very conservative and cautious organization. They won't do anything without really good studies and evidence. In this pandemic, though, this staunch stance gives a perception counter to lot of common sense and comes off as inaction.
I make an app called Nikola that's seen data from a few thousand Teslas. The short answer is there are some identifiers, but they're basically impossible for outsiders to track. Tesla is making modifications all the time.

From what I've seen in forums and user groups, etc, owners tend to just break things down by major feature. AP1 / AP2 / AP3, or I have X type of wheel, or I don't have the retractible roof, but there are obviously so many other changes that aren't easy to detect
Ha why is your career in a downward spiral?