skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> States pretend like their budgets are sacrosanct and refuse to take any action to prepare themselves

Very many states going into this had substantial rainy day funds, and many states have done what they can't to cut expense:service ratios while boosting services (sometimes under preprogrammed, federally-governed formulas, as for many state-federal confunded entitlements) such as employee pay cuts (like the furloughs in California). The idea that states have done nothing to prepare or that states aren't taking steps on their own is preposterous. States are structurally more limited than the feds in how they can financially respond to an urgent crises, and for that reason have always relied on the feds being part of that response, but they are not generally failing to do their part as far as financial steps; some are falling down on the public health parts, but mostly that's a result of pressure directed from the federal executive branch, not independent state intransigence or nonfeasance.
Interesting note: newlines are perfectly valid characters in file names. In fact, the only byte that cannot be in a file name is '/'[0], which means that you're asking for trouble trying to parse the in-band signaling you have to do with a stream that's pretending to be structured.

[0] with a hex editor it is possible to create a file system entry using '/' in its name. Linux does not handle this situation with grace.
Show HN: Earshot – open-source transcoder to livestream Higher-Order Ambisonics
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Using Earshot, spatial audio developers can build new and innovative immersive live experiences for the web.

Earshot solves the problem of getting audio or video content with non-standard audio channel configurations (i.e., beyond stereo or 5.1) from a source computer to the browser. It is based on nginx, MPEG-DASH, and the Opus codec which supports up to 255 audio channels (or 14th-order Ambisonics.)

Earshot comes with an intuitive web application that allows developers to debug and monitor their multichannel audio DASH streams, and easily test different dash.js client settings to optimize their end user experience.
Earshot is fully containerized with Docker, and is designed to be easily deployed to AWS with pre-packaged CloudFormation templates.

Earshot is available here: https://github.com/EnvelopSound/Earshot

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Eh, it's worth it, depending on what you're doing. I'd much rather get in trouble for a hard drive full of zeroes, than them knowing what was on it beforehand.

Today, you should encrypt everything, and cut power before physical access is obtained. Will that count as "tampering"? I was just turning off my computer. No, I do not remember the key.
Sweden is one of the last places on earth I would choose to live and probably in the next decade even you will see why. Eventually all of these socialist regimes collapse.
Invenia had run Julia for our primary production system for over a year (nearly 2).

The size of our Julia codebase is about 400,000 lines of code, spread over numerous internal and open source packages.
You can cite the "we're hiring" slide from my Juliacon talk for that
https://raw.githack.com/oxinabox/ChainRulesJuliaCon2020/main...
> If you have issues with it you have issues with science.

Dogmatic statements like these just weaken your case; the idea that some memo was the Golden Standard™ of Science and those who question it are questioning Science itself is clearly ridiculous. It's Trump-level hyporbole. The perfect memo.
Nope. The three laws are unequivocal. The universe can only increase or maintain entropy through physical processes. It can never return to a lower-entropy state. The laws say nothing about the topography of the universe and it wouldn’t matter anyway.
GraphQL in Datasette with the new datasette-GraphQL plugin
From this page:

https://www.fast.design/docs/fast-element/observables-and-st...

> The arrow function bindings and directives used in templates allow the fast-element templating engine to intelligently react by only updating the parts of the DOM that actually change, with no need for a virtual DOM, VDOM diffing, or DOM reconciliation algorithms. This approach enables top-tier initial render time, industry-leading incremental DOM updates, and ultra-low memory allocation.

> When a binding is used within a template, the underlying engine uses a technique to capture which properties are accessed in that expression. With the list of properties captured, it then subscribes to changes in their values. Any time a value changes, a task is scheduled on the DOM update queue. When the queue is processed, all updates run as a batch, updating precisely the aspects of the DOM that have changed.

That's neat.
Many states are facing insolvency, because expected revenue has declined by as much as 30% [1]. States have "rainy day funds" to cover unforeseen events, but most have between 5-10% of general fund expenditures set aside [2].

States cannot create new money and they cannot declare bankruptcy. Most states also have balanced budget requirements [3].

If you want government support, the federal government is the only entity uniformly capable of creating money and running deficits.

[1] https://www.ncsl.org/Portals/1/Documents/fiscal/Rev-Projecti...

[2] https://taxfoundation.org/2020-state-rainy-day-funds/

[3] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-are-state...
Sliders and radio buttons do not seem to work on Firefox for Android nightly build.
I stand for free trade, but it's not "free" when trading with a country that doesn't share our values. How someone can advocate for a minimum wage or health and safety protections for a European or US company, but then turn around and advocate trading with a country with no such protections baffles me. There is no outcome except that our economy will become disadvantaged while at the same time encouraging the erosion of democracy and human rights around the world.
It plays into the argument that people will be lazy and refuse to do any kind of work if they have an alternate source of income, when the market doesn’t actually see as much of that. People like to have multiple sources of income (hello, passive income.)
Not sure if it's just me but I kind of feel like these components are not very polished - at least not to the point of Bootstrap/AntDesign. May be it's the square unrounded borders or may be it's just the way the demo components are presented.
>In just the last few years we have realized that human bodies contain ten times more cells that are bacteria, than they contain cells that have our DNA in them, though the bacterial mass is only about 3% of our body weight. Before that we thought we were mostly us.

I am really interested to see where this goes. How much of this bacteria determines which diseases we get?
I just transitioned my sites, and I really dislike the reflow and mobilification of the websites. Makes it much less useful, especially on smaller screens. Stuff (like side bar info) is hidden away behind hamburger menu buttons instead of immediately visible in a compact format.

This mobilification is a fad, and like many fads it will, too, disappear and have to be replaced (requiring many work hours) because ultimately it’s less usable especially for largely static content. There’s no option to keep a similar look and feel. “Mobile first” has been forced upon us and is now, with reflow, “mobile only.” Imagine if Arxiv required PDFs to be replaced by mobilified versions? So annoying and impractical.

Really disappointed. Google made a bunch of work for themselves just to reduce the usability of older web pages.
Re: absorb vs absorption. tl;dr: pronunciation

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59530/why-does-t...
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Ever heard of Linux? Consider it disruptive? Did you know it was invented in Europe?
Two ideas here:

1) that this information is the most or some of the most salient information about you a reader could now. Author may also be a professor of a certain field, may be confrontation averse, or a stubborn, vocal politico, or someone who studies conflict negotiation for fun or whatever. Why do none of these things matter when introducing yourself or the article you are writing?

2) this strips the individuality away from the author in a piece where that isn't necessary
Damore's evidence was by turns cherry picked, misinterpreted, and unrepresentative of mainstream understanding in the fields it came from. You can read plenty of those researchers complaining about his use of their work. His synthesis is about as scientific as phrenology.
Molyneux being an extremist does not mean that Danmore must necessarily be an extremist. Contrary to what many people seem to believe, you can appear on a talk show with someone you disagree strongly with, or be interviewed by the same.

And, personally, if I was being lambasted in the mainstream media, I'd be taking whatever opportunities I could to put my side of the story out there, without looking too hard into who was offering a helping hand. I think that's true of just about everyone.
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I have no problem with this. Though US' strength has always been insidiously entering foreign markets and forcing developing countries to be dependent on US tech (e.g India, EU, GB). The more US decouples from China in terms of tech, the more incentive you are giving China to be tech independent and thus, be free of US hegemony.
There is ample evidence that China’s GDP has overtaken the US on any real measure.

And the idea that jobs that were formerly done in the US have not been exported to China is ludicrous.
I think this effort reflects the reality that anti-trust is ill defined and matters are decided by circumstantial "evidence".

The speculation of a rank and file employee on market share should have exactly zero bearing on antitrust, but it will be trotted out there for headlines anyway.
It typically takes two to get the third stage up there, and only the third stage stays in orbit. Alternative shuttle designs, BFR and New Glenn start at two but you wouldn't want to carry around all that extra weight on a second stage unless you had a very specific mission set (launch the ISS in a couple of missions or have a stage that goes and lands on Mars). Not optimized for typical payloads.
Damore is a funny case.

The original memo runs against current mores, and the science is wobbly, but it's not outrageous. Perhaps it's wrong, but it's not outrageous to be wrong! On the other hand, once he was kicked out of Google, he quickly fell in with some nasty characters, like Molyneux.

If you only heard about the memo, and missed or skimmed over the subsequent stuff, it's easy to see Damore as a victim of the dreaded cancel culture. Whereas if you didn't read the memo but saw what he was up to afterwards, it's easy to see him as a straightforward villain.
Sorry, what on Earth are you babbling about? I think the vast majority of decent people if challenged to think about things like "racial profiling, wanting racially homogenous societies, removing welfare" would realize that those ARE inherently evil (and anti-human) ideas. Really disgusting post ringing of racial supremacy.
I agree with everything you said. But this comment is a great example of a rant you don't want to see on Twitter.
A paper-based backup solution
Care to point out which lines in the Memo were weren't supported by standard literature?
I am very impressed with the recent changes happening to Java, all of which seem very carefully thought out and planned, keep up the good work!
The U.S. Doesn’t Trust China Audits
This is one of the nicer utilities that I have paid for. It absolutely increases the usability of my $2k computer.
Yes, we need some strong Republican for the people mayors and governors to replace these weak democratic wannabe leaders.
Well, I will see myself out as this is indeed an unproductive conversation, it feels like I am speaking to a Linux zealot about why my grandmother has no need for Arch. But just to answer a last time, inspecting files is in no way something the average MS Office user has any need to do, it has nothing to do with the conversation really.

So, Excel is to complex for simple calculation, but you expect my mother and nearly retired colleagues who never used non-GUI apps to learn emacs to add two columns together? Is this a joke? Besides, the fact you can do it so much easier with emacs, regardless of the veracity, is fallacious at best and says nothing of Excel.

Yeah, you need to learn how the program works, that's how programs always work. Are you telling me you didn't need to learn how emacs and Latex work when you first tried it? I for one have never met someone who didn't learn how to use Word, it's pretty damn easy.

>I manipulate text for a living

Here, we find the problem. You are a specialist and you seemingly lost touch with the way average people use Excel and Word. The only argument I see in these two comments is that Excel and Word are not suited for specialist needs, which is probably true, but I don't see a hint of why they are not suited for basic operations or their intended use cases. So I will see myself out, thanks.
Check out the FAST Component explorer to see it in action: https://explore.fast.design/

Looks very flexible but the presentation and default design is horrible.
Why do you think that? If those companies are hobbled, that will give any EU competitor to them some breathing room.
How is it misleading? Explain please.

What I see is a 250MW dam built in 1989, that produces in 2011 the equivalent GHGs of a 1000MW coal plant.
So then how do you stop China from doing the bad thing?
Tit-for-tat has been found to be the most effective strategy in prisoner dilemma type situations. If China lets us into their markets then we will let them into ours. This was the whole point of letting China join the WTO, but China has completely ignored any rulings against it by the WTO courts. It not playing fairly. These individual trade sanctions by the US are the only way to make China keep up its end of the deal.
Buzzfeed News has always been decent in the sense that it is a serious journalism outfit.
There's a big disconnect between technological work and emotional work. If I make myself a digital scrapbook online, it may not have many visitors (or any) just like a scrapbook may sit on a shelf for years without being touched; but the emotional impact when you do pick it up again is huge. Kind of like comparing a scrapbook to a best seller novel.
>China can't feed itself... China runs on oil

That's only a problem if the rest of the world sides with the US in a US-China trade dispute. There are plenty of net exporters of oil and food who would be very happy to sell to China and would be rather pleased to see the US get a bloody nose.

>All we have to do is no longer put merchants heading toward China under the US navies protection and the CCP will be in serious trouble very quickly.

China has a large, modern and highly capable navy. They are perfectly able to protect their own shipping against piracy or any state-level actor that would be insane enough to start a naval war. In the event of a direct conflict, the American navy is largely defenceless against the Chinese ASBM capability.

The US relies on China for convenience, not for survival.

US hospitals would rapidly degrade to third-world conditions without imports of Chinese-made supplies and materials. COVID-19 has revealed the fragility of global supply chains and the position of China as a manufacturing superpower. If you need a sufficiently large quantity of pretty much anything made, you don't have many options outside of China - doubly so if you need it in a hurry. If China decides to tighten the noose on American consumers, you're going to immediately see severe shortages of even the most basic goods.

A total trade war between China and the US would of course have a catastrophic impact on US export revenues because of American reliance on outsourcing - US sanctions on Huawei have had a significant but manageable impact on their smartphone business, but Chinese sanctions on Apple would be catastrophic.
I think it's not very productive to discuss if one form of atrocity is worse than the other. It's terrible that we have to compare them at all.

Just like I wouldn't blame US's actions in the middle east on Amazon/Google; I don't see why it's fair to associate ByteDance with what's happening to Uighurs.

There are many things going wrong in the world, the question is if we are on the right path towards solving them. I would argue the current escalation is not helping but rather stir up tribalism which is not going to be our solution.
I'm increasingly convinced that allowing widespread use of automobiles on public roads will be regarded as one of the biggest societal-engineering blunders of all time. Between the health effects (of the cars and roads themselves, plus the secondary effects on physical activity) and the adjustments to city layouts plus extra costs eating most or all of the time-savings anyway, it's hard to see a clear upside. Granted much of that would have been difficult to discern when early decisions on the topic were being made, but that doesn't make it any less an error in its effects.
If you use React, you might like Rebass (https://rebassjs.org/getting-started), which turns the most common CSS attributes into component props with assorted built-in functionality for common theming and media queries, or Emotion (https://emotion.sh/docs/introduction), which lets you composably define CSS per component that automatically gets scoped to that component only. Both are designed in a way that still render efficiently, such as turning static CSS rules into statically-defined bundles and only swapping out the dynamic bits on the fly.
I hadn't heard of this, can you link a news story or something about it?
His wealth increased but his power decreased. In Google’s case, their monopoly drives tremendous value to management at the expense of society and its shareholders.
Does anyone think Facebook is requesting for this to happen? Trump and Zuckerberg are friends (on friendly terms anyways). Trump needs Facebook for reelection purposes, Facebook is losing users to TikTok. Seems like a win-win for these two to team up like this? A little quid pro quo?
It's a good thing nobody has to see it on there ;)
You can always come up with a sinister motivation for a good act. The question is whether there's evidence to support that surmise. I guess that's why sometimes it's best to look at the effects of the system rather than the intention behind it. Do the training actually have the effects that one would desire from them, if one had good intentions? At least in my case, the answer is yes. I have never thought about my work in terms of besting the competition. But then again I'm nobody important so what I think doesn't matter all that much. It would be interesting to know the mind of the executives whose thoughts on this subject might actually have an impact. Maybe during the upcoming lawsuits we'll be able to see more deeply into what they have been thinking.
Yes, AFAICT this is just DDG with a less silly name.
Hurrah for the Blackshirts
> If you have ever used DuckDuckGo before, we integrated the same bang feature as them so that you can redirect your searches to other websites directly from our site. Here is an example: https://infinitysearch.co/results?q=!ddg privacy Right now, we have the same ones as DuckDuckGo so you can use the same ones found at https://duckduckgo.com/bang for now.

> The whole Infinity Search system is open source and the code can be found at https://gitlab.com/infinitysearch.

From the FAQ here: https://infinitysearch.co/why
You are correct. It is all about how you think about things.

"ls" lists files. Sure. Simple interactive command. But,
thinking about this, "echo " also lists files. "ls" provides
information about files. Sure. Simple interactive command.
But, "stat" specifically provides information.

So, I would reach for

stat --format "%n %a"

To get name and octal permissions. You are correct, and wrong
at the same time. Easy enough to accomplish -- but using * instead of ls. Note that the "space in filename" becomes the big issue (use %N in stat format).

So your conclusion is 100% correct. Thank you for your post and insight
Exactly - the engineers who authored RFC 4193 were super familiar with the problems of RFC 1918 space - and so they were super, super clear on exactly how you needed to allocate space from the FD/8 network. The details are very clear, and the RFC is an awesome read - but the net-net is you can generate a /48 - which means you have 2^16 sub-networks to work with (each subnetwork having effectively unlimited number of hosts allowed on it) - and you can connect with 1,000 other companies that have done the same thing, and there is only a 4.54*10^-07 chance of collision.

I know IPv6 network engineers despise RFC 4193 - but, it offers extraordinary flexibility around addressing - particularly if you have large networks that you want full control over. At my last gig, we deployed over 25 million nodes in RFC 4193 space, and it worked like a charm.
> Right now, it doesn't. But I don't think it is because they are OK with European companies dominating US market. It is rather because there are no European companies at the moment capable of dominating US market. The moment a company in Europe starts to gain significant market share from American companies in the US, the government would (most probably) step in and stop them.

Airbus is a great example of this, the US repeatedly cockblocks Airbus from making major US military sales, puts tariffs on them, etc.
The finder window won't reopen, which forces me to manually reopen it. The finder will reset to the home directory (as mine is set up to start).

I've been using Mac for 3 years now, it was the same issue in Sierra, Mojave, and now Catalina.
I question whether advertisers really care about public ethical issues, and won't just quietly restore Ad spending when covid is over.

Virtue signaling is cheap.

Is there any evidence that they've specifically cut more from Facebook than from other social media platforms?
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Possibly? It's possible that the emails were sent on a data pull at some point, and in between data pull and emailing, you deleted the classic site. Or potentially there was a wire crossed somewhere. I apologize for the extra email either way - if the Classic Sites Manager shows no sites, you are good to go.
https://www.memorangapp.com/flashcards/167551/Brosencephalon...

I used to be a med student and I used "Brosencephalon" deck from Anki. I know that this paid platform "Memorang" has content from Bro's deck. So far they're still in business Search Results
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In practice, people generally tend to act on their beliefs so the distinction you're drawing is kind of moot. For sure it is possible to argue things from a purely intellectual or academic perspective.
It’s really “only” about $500-800 million more than an average quarter for them. Very surprised to hear the ride business is actually barely profitable and they are just pouring money into deliveries and self driving. Both of those seem like absolute money pits, but I’d say the same about ride sharing. It is an interesting point that when people go out less (less Uber) they order more takeout (more UberEats). Nifty mechanic there.