jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I just watched this video by The Guardian Comment is Free section about this podcast. Never heard about it before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJYChWybhjM
You're correct, but it is not recommended to use that in production.
Identification of an animal host? For MERS-CoV, that host (camels) was identified in a little more than a year, and genetic analysis shows multiple spillovers:

https://elifesciences.org/articles/31257

For the original SARS, it's palm civets, identified in less than a year. (The link to bats wasn't discovered until much later, by Shi Zhengli; but the intermediate host is enough to feel pretty confident it's natural-origin.)

For SARS-CoV-2, we're still waiting for that intermediate host. That's the significance of the early pangolin papers; but as Alina Chan and many others have noted, those papers have significant data quality issues, and even the Chinese have pretty much abandoned the pangolins.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.07.184374v1
When I see the words "Brain Fog" I expect to see quacks with 'cures' close by.

Yep, there they are.
We call it "Vitamin F" in our house.
I think the cat's already out of the bag with alcohol. At this point the issue is probably more that people just like cats.
How much of this can I replace with a fast acting pill?
> then contradicts itself by listing ten actual quotes from SSC that are in the article

Hum, your definition of quote is very generous to the NYT, given than most of the 10 list items you mention are four words long or less.
What's weird is that a number of WHO investigation team members a week ago said China was very transparent, cooperative and helpful. Some have tweeted against the NYT who spun the WHO team's accounts into anti-China propaganda.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PeterDaszak/status/13605511085659...

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheaKFischer/status/1360590441817...
No luck with that method for me. Wtf anecdata: I’ve had about 24 hours of peace from this my adult life and the only thing I could ever attribute that silence to was that it followed some random supermarket probiotics I started taking, for no good reason than it was a new fad and I wanted to see if anything would happen. That was apparently a one time deal, no repeats.

I can usually ignore or distract it away. Until I’m reminded of it by articles like these and it tries to consume me.
I can understand not trusting Monsanto, Cargill, Bayer, etc., but humans have been genetically modifying plants since the dawn of agriculture, we just have tools to do it with way more precision now. Borland and others have used Mendelian genetics to create rust-resistant wheat, golden rice, and other "miracle" crops. With modern tools, you can test genetic variants more intentionally without relying on random selection each generation.

There is nothing inherently dangerous about doing this, and it has the potential to do a lot of good for humanity. It's important not to conflate the demagoguing of massive agricorps with a useful scientific technique.

The bigger scam is that, despite producing more calories than we could possibly use, they've continued modifying crops for calorie yield and chemical resistance, which has made a lot of crops less nutritious (per kg eaten), less tasty, and more dependent on advanced human intervention to successfully grow.
You can call activities which work outside of the framework of science whatever you want, but they aren't science. The foundation of science is testing theories against evidence, which means falsifiability.

Relativity is a perfect example because it made very specific and testable predictions such as gravitational lensing, frame dragging, gravitational redshift, and gravitational radiation.
Why are you looking at this as "bending the rules" instead of as creating new rules for a new way of building web applications? Just hand-waving "best practices" doesn't actually mean that something is best practices if someone else comes up with a better practice.
This could reduce the amount of water required ... previously the water is used to cool down the fuel (wood) and also to cool other water from evaporating...
I think that's closer to functional testing than unit testing though...
The key: Whatever works for you.™ Each team's needs will vary.

But that's probably not very helpful. By "for programmers", I assume you want something that can be relatively unobtrusive when needed, that keeps conversation logs, and that can be linked up / hacked with for whatever particular tricks you need. And by "for small teams", I assume you mean you want something that can handle chat rooms with joining and leaving of users at any time. Maybe you even want it to remember and show what other users discussed while you were gone.

For this, the most common de facto choice is Hangouts. Other software, some embedded in larger software solutions, is also used with varying degrees of satisfaction. My personal favorite is Slack(1), and it seems to be gaining popularity quickly. Other (relatively known) examples include Campfire(2), Atlassian's HipChat(3), FlowDock(4), and so on.

A google search for variations on the theme "team collaboration chat", mixing up the keywords "realtime" and "logs" and "persistent" as needed, can bring up more options than you have time to try. Pick a few that seem to do what you need and try them out.

[1] https://slack.com/
[2] https://campfirenow.com/
[3] https://www.atlassian.com/software/hipchat/
[4] https://www.flowdock.com/
http://bazel.io/docs/skylark/concepts.html

You can [at least internally] define custom rules to handle pretty much anything, in almost-but-not-quite-python.
True mentor relationships are organic things that grow over time. Be prepared to slowly foster and nurture the relationship for years to come.

1) Start building a list of smart, interesting, leading figures you come across in business, investing, & professional services. Eventually your list could run 100+ people deep & even go global.

2) Reach out with 1-2 very specific questions for start-up advice. Then work on staying close to the ones who are receptive and helpful. Ping them with periodic progress updates. And 1-2 follow up questions.

3) Some mentors have subject matter expertise, while others are good as a general sounding board. It's up to you to manage the relationship.
IPv6 is slowly taking over, hopefully in the near future being behind a NAT will be considered abnormal (just like happened with Unicode, we're around 35% = "Unicode 2009", popularity-wise).
> Why? Isn‘t that prevalence at an all time low due to masks and distancing?

Which reopening with vaccination will end, which will lead to an increasing prevalence of rhinovirus, which will further inhibit SARS-COV-2. The result basically indicates if you have rhinovirus spreading much more than SARS-COV-2 before considering their interactions, then its also going to help you further reduce the spread of SARS-COV-2.
For me, a Thinkpad L15 AMD ticks all those marks.
What I find interesting is you can see the impact that Greater Manchester Police losing crime files has had on the data
https://imgur.com/a/zebCHJf
To be frank, it would have looked sleazy to many people here.

I kind of already knew that users of the tool are not here on HN. So messages like "I don't get your product" aren't very helpful. I was genuinely looking for advice as to what to do next.
Funny how this talk of agency disappears when people talk about people they don't like, for example, voters in authoritarian states.
In many astronomy programs, we have to put up with the PFILES convention, where arguments are given like so

mytool infile=foo.fits outfile=bar.fits

Some parameters need to be given (and will be prompted for if not given), and some get a default if they are omitted. The extra tricky part is that the parameters and their defaults are read from .par files in a path. There are the default ones for the tool, and a user-specific parameter file which can be modified using the "pset" program (or read with "pget"). A tool when run will also modify the par file to update various parameters with the ones given on the command line.

Unfortunately, there is no form of locking on these par files, so one has to mess around with the path settings (to make per-process paths), or use some form of locking, to ensure they don't get corrupted if multiple processes are run at once.
Out of all animal experiments this is the one where you take a stance? Or are you tooting your moral superiority everywhere?

Feel free to stop using everything stemming from animal experiments. They're more or less a necessity, at least until we can model the animal kingdom with AI. Maybe you should start trying to cope with the fact instead of fighting it.
They also work in Borland C 3.1 for DOS
Protanomaly is relatively rare, though. Deuteranomaly is the common one, and is invariably what people mean when they say "red-green colorblindness".

For anyone wandering by, the full spectrum (pun intended) of things that tend to be called "colorblindness" is:

* Deuteranomaly: most common by far, involves mutated γ-photopsin shifting the peak and range of the "green" response further toward "red".

* Protanomaly: more rare, involves mutated ρ-photopsin shifting the peak and range of the "red" response. Similar effects on ability to distinguish colors, but also "darkens" the far red end of the visible spectrum toward black due to the way it shifts response.

* Tritanomaly: even more rare, involves mutated β-photopsin shifting the peak and range of the "blue" response. Is the only one of these three which is as prevalent in women as men, though, due to the way the genetics works out (deuteranomaly and protanomaly would require a woman to get the mutation on both X chromosomes).

Taken together these are called "anomalous trichromacy" conditions -- all three types of color photoreceptor proteins are produced by cones in the eyes, but not the "normal" forms of each, resulting in a shift of response.

Then there are the dichromacy conditions, where one set of color-distinguishing cone cells is basically completely lacking:

* Deuteranopia = no "green"

* Protanopia = no "red"

* Tritanopia = no "blue"

Deuteranopia and protanopia again affect similar ranges of the spectrum, but protanopia again "darkens" the far end. And tritanopia is, once again, equal prevalence in men and women due to the genetics.

Finally there's monochromacy, where either there are no cones at all (no color, just shades of grey, and usually drastically reduced visual acuity), or only a single type of cones (shades of that color + greys, better visual acuity when in good lighting conditions).

(for a non-technical term I much prefer "green weakness" since it doesn't have the OH MY GOD YOU CAN'T TELL RED AND GREEN APART AT ALL connotations)

(and personally, when I do have problems with color, it tends to be in that yellow-y/beige-y/earth-tone-y bit of the spectrum, much like your experience, and so I wish people would be more careful with those rather than caring about whether red and green are different enough colors)
I don't think that 'strength' is the issue but better tools
and a lot more experience are the core parts: I remember watching one mechanic changing the light in my car: what took me ~15 minutes (I'm not kidding) took him ~30secondes..

And that's like riding a bike: you cannot really tell someone how to do it..

It can still be very interesting in many ways!
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana (1863-1952)
Could that also be interpreted as:

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Hearing a disturbance, the master programmer went into the novice's cubicle.

"Curse these search engines!" cried the novice in anger, "To find anything I must scroll through three or even four pages of results.

Sometimes I get so confused that I just give up. This is truly intolerable!"

The master programmer stared at the novice. "And what would you do to remedy this state of affairs?" he asked.

The novice thought for a moment. "I will design a new search engine," he said, "a search engine that will replace all these others."

Suddenly the master struck the novice on the side of his head. It was not a heavy blow, but the novice was nonetheless surprised.

"What did you do that for?" exclaimed the novice.

"I have no wish learn another search engine," said the master.

The novice packed his bags, left and went on to create Google, which gives him exactly the results he's looking for.

While his former master was left sifting through multiple pages of results on (insert other search engine here).

One day the master stumbled upon Google and the master was enlightened.
The simple version is: US cell phone contract = service bundled with a small loan for a phone.

It isn't that bad. They can't charge you whatever they want, your plan is locked in, and if they change it you can leave without penalty. For whatever reason you leave, you can take your number. Pre paid plans are available as options.

Nothing forces you to stay with a carrier. The penalty is just recouping some of the unpaid value of the phone. You owe less as time goes because you are paying back the value of the phone through your contract.
My understanding of bitcoin could be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure that would be physically impossible. I think you would need the private key to make the transaction, and only then would >51% of the miners be able to accept the transaction.
So getting practical, the main strategy would be:

- When a project reaches a popularity threshold (for example 10k github stars or gets to be the most popular project is his category - example: the most popular 3D library) would get a subdomain:

https://jquery.js.org/eachplugin

https://node.js.org/express

When we get exceptions, in this case, express grew and got autonomous, https://node.js.org/express would redirect to:

https://express.js.org/
It's a good start, but I feel the UX could do with some refinement. Why is there no default notebook upon signup? Why isn't there a big fat "Add a note" button on the top of the list of notes? Why do I have to explicitly press save after editing a note? And why is is soe obscure icon of a floppy disk, instead of a button with the text "Save changes" on it? Etc.

All the functionality is there, but as I see it, an app like this is all about good UX and very little about the technical features.
The airport will have to pay airport tax at the airport the passenger leaves, which could be more than at the destination proper.
Yes. Moreover, this self regulating-type "utopias" are not just fantasies or tricks from history -- this is reality in some countries that are corrupt, where government regulations exist, but are just never enforced. You go to the market to buy baby formula and you get chalk mixed with water. You buy "organic" but it is laced with chemicals.
Plural should be Stangenkünste or even more probably Stangenkunstwerke. (artworks)
But possibly fun to dance to.
Mosh is a client/server setup allowing kind of asynchronous interactive session on a ssh server over a ssh connection. It doesn't replace ssh but complements it, making ssh interactive sessions more usable for low-latency and failing connections.

It somehow works like a proxy, with the added feature that it tries to add some sort of advanced local echo.
CSS Houdini is a set of low-level web browser APIs that provide access to the browser's CSS engine.

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Houdini

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https://drafts.css-houdini.org/

It's not yet widely implemented: https://ishoudinireadyyet.com/
Erlang adopted function pattern matching
https://uniwebsidad.com/libros/concurrent-erlang/chapter-1/p...
What exactly does "encryption" solve about this? It could be encrypted from client to server and the main concerns over privacy would still stand.

What exactly are you suggesting by randomly throwing out the word "encryption"?
> some countries in Africa managed to do to reverse trends in their countries early

Source? AFAIK the low number of reported cases is a direct consequence of not running tests.
Yes. They put an incentive to order a particular way in the flow, not an incentive to not order. Tells me they want the order.
It will only really get interesting after the Queen kicks the bucket. For most non monarchists she isn't a bad sort to be in charge. The rest of them are a shower of shites.
Aside from the overfishing study, it doesn't really seem like the documentary was deceptive. In my own opinion, the producer(s) were naive or at least appeared to be - I can see that being detrimental to their message. On the whole, I think the documentary is a net benefit.
Look, I see in your past submissions that you are or were in school. Obviously that doesn’t peg your age -
but I don’t want to beat up on somebody who’s never paid their own way. That said...

You implied it was simply an issue of buying a bus ticket - magical hand wave. It’s not pedantic to ask the obvious follow-up question: then what?
Does it work one sentence at a time or can also do a paragraph? Looks like it works one sentence at a time. It ignores next sentence onward. Also, punctuation seem to be weak, it didn’t correct questions that I ended with period (.).

Can it be easily extended to take a text sample and rewrite a different text sample using the keywords from first text sample? Most probably not possible.

Use case: any situation where incorrect statement might be manually or automatically written.

Potential users: language learners, email writers, messaging app users, people using translation app to translate then use your service to make translated statement better, people using voice to text/dictation, correcting OCRs, ...
I'd ship myself in a nice big coffin with lots of soft upholstery and leg room to stretch out. That way if the worst happened and I died en route, nobody'd suspect foul play.
>"That’s quite a bold conclusion given that the most popular positions seem to be either: “Free will exists and is central to ethics,” and “Free will doesn’t exist, and it’s ethically important for everyone to recognize this fact.”"

The second position makes no sense. If free will doesn't exist, there's no "ethical importance" to anything, including recognition of the fact. A rape and murder is no more ethically wrong than a boulder falling.

Even more so, if free will doesn't exist, (a) it's not up to us whether we recognize this fact or not, and (b) whether we recognize it or not will have no consequence at all (since it can only have a consequence in what we willingly do, but since we don't have free will, we'll do what we were to do anyway).

If people are to argue that free will doesn't exist, then they should be coherent and consistent about it, and recognize that:

(a) they argue so because they can't argue otherwise - they don't have any free will on the matter

(b) recognizing this fact or not is not up to anybody (people will do what people would have done anyway, as with determinism and no free will there's no change ever to the future from a predetermined past)

(c) morality means nothing (as people where always meant to do something, even as babies, they don't have any agency about it), punishment or lack of punishment is predetermined and doesn't affect anything that will happen,

and so on

>For Harris, those people are wrong, not just about the existence of free will, but the character of their own experience. Harris, in that episode, says that, if there’s anything novel about his position on free will, it is the claim that the experience of having free will is a penetrable illusion: If you pay sufficient attention to your mind when making a decision, it’s possible to see that you’re not really “deciding” anything. Options of what you might do simply appear in consciousness, and the feeling of “choosing” an option is just another thought that appears in consciousness, completely out of your control.

This is similary bogus.

The agent in free will doesn't have to be the conscious voice "speaking" in your mind. Your uncoscious processing bringing up those things to "appear in consciousness" is still being done by you and your mind.
The HN equivalent of a “cool” response is clicking the upvote button.
> have cellular connectivity

Then you'll get local shops that sell the machines painted in 2-3 layers of faraday paint (or apply some sort of cage, or solder out the antenna, etc). Or perhaps just like in the old console hardmod days everyone will know someone that can "mod" your dryer so it stops being dumb and just dries your clothes.
Isn't Gnome-Do just a Quicksilver clone? Rythmnbox just a take on iTunes for Linux? Both are great applications, and arguably an improvement on the projects that inspired them, but I wouldn't say they great examples of innovation.
The prevailing theory is that AT&T is too incompetent to meter traffic based on source; since the double-billing is not intentional they don't have to justify it. Of course, now that they've been informed of the problem they have to either fix it or somehow justify not fixing it (I predict that "it's not cost-effective to rewrite the billing system to save a few dollars for a few people using femtos the wrong way").
All I've tested on, even IE6.
High voltage DC? What's that about?
> If you google "pass-by-value" vs "pass-by-reference" and understand what they mean, in a language-agnostic way, and you understand what Java is doing when you pass parameters, then you too will come to the same conclusion and I have, and the people who wrote the wikipedia article, and everyone else.

What conclusion would that be, exactly?

> your claim that pass-by-reference is meaningless

I didn't make that claim.

> and is also what Java does

I didn't make that claim, either. Nor would I ever. Stop putting words in my mouth.
> "there are some of them ... that puts them off or they have doubts." On the other hand, Ziring says, the Snowden leaks have sparked other students' interest. "[They say], 'I actually know some of what you do now, and that's really cool and I want to come do that."

I don't buy this. I find it just short of impossible that anyone is looking at the leaks and saying, "Yes, I want to be part of your wholesale abrogation of the Fourth Amendment. I used to think you were just a spy agency, but now I know you're the Information Nomenklatura and I want in!"
Sure it's falsifiable. The falsification test is that when the NSA/DEA/FBI are stormed by the citizenry in the same manner as their moral and spiritual predecessor, the Statsi, if those files contain no mention of doing such things, it is less likely that they occurred.

There is always a possibility that the NSA could exchange information entirely covertly between itself and the DEA, but I think this is unlikely to be totally ironclad.

The comment to which you reply is pointing out the very real asymmetry in ability between a citizen and the amalgamated federal government. It is, in fact, unreasonable to put the burden of proof on the much less able party when there is real evidence showing that the NSA->DEA information flow does in fact exist, and could potentially be used in any case.

It's not likely to have been used in this case, because Brown seems to have indeed made real threats and probably plead guilty because of that. But that doesn't change the unreasonability in the general form of argument the comment grandparent makes.
Oh, we're not ignoring brand name at all. Our first mini-collection is by a relatively established upcoming British label that only has very limited exposure in the US. We have exclusive collections from several other labels coming up. Small labels can find themselves in very precarious financial positions as they try to grow, even after many "successful" seasons. Fabricly is about providing a very low risk route to putting out a collection. Almost like a book publishing model for fashion.