skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just a standard academic publication. It’s also from 2016. I’m not really following this train of thought.

They report isolating a novel coronavirus from the bat population in that province in China. It’s not clear to me that this is the same virus. In this context it seems that it just points out that the bat reservoir does have coronaviruses. Since it’s known that there was a recent animal to human crossover, which requires a bat reservoir and likely an intermediate animal reservoir, I don’t really see that this implies the virus “escaped” from the laboratory or anything.
Has Google search quality considerably gone considerably for others?
Lately I have been having a much hard time searching on Google. Couple quick example:

1. The date filter no longer seems to work. For example, if I search for "reddit dating app" and set the date filter to be "Past week" or "Past month", it still shows me results from few years ago.

2. Using quotes for exact matches often doesn't work for me either.

Is this happening for others too?
That's great! Your default landing page is pretty clear and to the point, too. I think a new path. "/simple"? "/nobullshit"? "/what"? I don't know.
Planes under IFR will be as close as ATC policies want to run them. If everything's working and separation standards become 2nm laterally, then when there's a GPS or ADS-B outage, we can just revert to the 5nm separation standards and use radar backup.
Belyayev's Fox Experiment
I'm guessing you live in Ballard, which I do think ST3 hasn't prioritized getting done quickly enough. I would love to see Seattle kick more money into getting Ballard <> Downtown done sooner than 2035, that is a perfectly valid complaint. With that said, I also think you're not being fair to ST3 - it's a regional program, and it's paid by everyone in the ST region. Long before 2035 there will be a host of improvements[1], including more BRT and other deliverables: Link to Redmond, West Seattle, etc.

Sound Transit has consistently delivered projects on-time, and outside of an increased land acquisition cost, has been relatively on-budget[2].

I don't want to debate on a fact-by-fact basis, but I'll say that you're off on the percentage of Seattle that takes transit to work: it's north of 20%[3] (from what I can see), and bucking a nationwide trend of that falling in other cities. Seattle is, IMO, doing the right thing to work through the massive influx of population it's gotten. I only wish it was started 20 years ago (or more!) and could be done faster.

Personally, I am more than happy to pay the increased vehicle registration tax, sales tax and property tax. I purchased a house close to the light rail explicitly because I wanted to have convenient transit access, and I see the benefit of how these tax dollars were spent every day. Even if you don't directly ride the Link, it's taking traffic off the road and making commutes easier.

I think transit _options_ are an extremely important quality of life item that creates a more dynamic and healthier city. They're just that though - options. I own a car, and I use it for trips that don't make sense to do any other way (e.g. going Skiing). That doesn't mean I want a world where nobody drives, but a world where people have multiple choices for personal mobility.

[1]: https://st32.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/Document%20...

[2]: https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/article/12171636/ahead-o...

[3]: https://seattletransitblog.com/2019/09/28/census-reports-ste...)
It's surprising to me that they just started layoff this year. This "startup" will come to an end because of its arrogance.
Harvard Professor Clayton M. Christensen Turned His Life into a Case Study
My thoughts exactly. Two scenarios:
- the WeWork IPO-that-wasn't has caused most VC's to decide that you really need to demonstrate profitability before you can IPO, which is when they get paid, so lots of companies are now doing layoffs instead of just getting more VC money
- or, the economy (which hasn't had a real recession in a long time, since not even 2011 was quite a recession) is just due for a recession and tech startups are the canary telling us this is so
Atlanta has the US center for disease control. But your point of just about every other city in the US is accurate
Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours
You can spit but don't add water. That should get rid of most of it.
AdS/CFT fell out of string theory. It's only holographic in the sense that in some circumstances you can summarise an n=dimensional system using n-1 dimensions - not in the literal sense of using the kind of optical transforms that make visual holography possible, but in the more abstract sense that all of the information in some spaces ends up on a notional surrounding boundary.

The AdS universe is basically a mathematical toy for physicists to play with. It doesn't correspond with the physical structure of the real universe. There's a hope that it might correspond to some kind of mathematical meta-structure that defines physical laws.

This article suggests that's very unlikely.

Personally I wouldn't be surprised if AdS/CFT turned out to be a dead end - probably like supersymmetry - and the real structure of quantum gravity turned out to be completely different and unexpected, and not a Conformal Field Theory at all.

But IANAP, so I may well be wrong about that.
VOR navigation is very much still a thing.

They've been reducing the number of redundant ground stations lately as part of a project called "Minimum Operational Network", or "MON". (Mostly on affecting the east coast.) But they're explicitly making sure there's enough coverage that you can get a VOR signal anywhere above 5,000 feet AGL.

More info: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/at...
For many companies, the home page is probably simply not used for selling their product or informing new people about the company, and instead serves more as a symbol of the company's aesthetic and a way to welcome and comfort visitors.

Think of it more like the well-appointed lobby of an office headquarters. I don't think anyone would expect the lobby of an office building to explain what the company does. It's just supposed to look nice and welcoming.

This makes sense to me. You generally don't see uninformative homepages from consumer software-as-a-service or direct-to-consumer companies, for instance. Airbnb and Airtable both seem to immediately explain in fairly clear terms what they do, for example.

Even massive software companies with a huge range of products that self-serve to business customers have pretty explanatory homepages. Salesforce is a decent example.

I think the home pages that get these sorts of complaints are either companies that don't have product-market fit (and thus don't even know what they are yet), or companies that have long involved sales processes with large enterprise clients where they probably tend to negotiate highly-customized services. An example of the latter that comes to mind is Splunk, whose website uses a lot of buzz words and seems to basically be saying "trust us, if you're a big company with a lot of data, we can do anything you need regarding your data."
https://hackaday.io/project/167056-fetch-a-ferrofluid-displa... from that list is pretty amazing.
Experts Exchange: The living embodiment of the SNL Celebrity Jeopardy! sketch.
JSIO - just shit it out. Stop worrying about it being perfect and get it done
Indeed - I give it a week until some real time tracking map sourced from reddit or other like source makes the front page.
I haven't used Yelp in years. AFAIK it's a USA only thing. Most other countries I've visited there are far more reviews on Google than Yelp. No idea how I can trust either of them (the reviews, not the companies) Yelp, yes the writing is on the wall.

An no, google didn't steal anything from yelp. They just let users review places and post pictures.
I am not sure why you're skeptical about any of these stats. A visit to any modern metro system outside of America will reflect what Alon says. 10 min headways while decent in America is still kinda annoying. Note that the 10 min headways is really more like 15 when taking into account American transit's unreliability in actually adhering to the schedule.

That being said, I don't think the lack of off-peak usage is because of low frequency, but rather lack of density on the suburban stations. If there's only offices at the core stations then people can only really use it for going to work.
Wow, an entire article on projective geometry without a single figure.
The "cumbersomeness" for me is mainly the problematic handling of rotations, especially when they're not around the origin. For "numerical" stuff even those are easy enough (given you don't have to do something "fancy" like interpolate), but "symbolic" stuff gets unwieldly really fast.
Nice plane you have, if you fly above 10000' or above 150 knots frequently :-)
Archive: http://archive.is/nso14
I'm not sure if this is correct but when I was in college I noticed a couple guys who just spit and didn't rinse at all. Like, ever. They just brush, spit out some toothpaste, and then move on to the next step of their routine.

At the time it seemed kinda freaky to me since I always rinse the toothpaste out when I finish brushing, but maybe they were doing it right... I can't get over the feeling over toothpaste stuck in my mouth, though. Perhaps it's one of those things that's hard to change once you establish a pattern in childhood.
> American attitudes towards public transportation

Unfortunately, this is happening in France too. SNCF used to be publicly funded to manage all inter-city/town railways and trains, but is now privatised and expected to make a profit.
Years ago, I would occasionally answer a question on Quora, which usually seemed like a real question from a person trying to figure something out (for example, software career questions).

In recent years, oddly, even the questions seem fake, as if somebody somewhere is being paid to come up with questions. Why would I spend time to answer if not even the person asking seems to really care? Perhaps, I am not the only one to stop seeing the point in Quora a while ago.
Vine reboot Byte officially launches
Very true, they're all winging it. It all seems to be coming from the evil genius Cummings who tells everyone from Johnson down what to think.

It's too disturbing to contemplate what the state of the establishment, civil service, judiciary and all the other checks and balances will be at the end of five years.
Same story, but wasn't this just a trending post? Like it popped up for you long before it had 200k+ likes? I remember seeing it and nobody I know follow it but I don't recall thinking anything of it (I also thought it was Bernies account).

I barely know how to use twitter in all honesty. I'm worried I'm liking too many things and shoving stuff in peoples faces. That's a big turn off on me using social apps.
“Don't rinse your mouth immediately after brushing, as it'll wash away the concentrated fluoride in the remaining toothpaste”

Sorry but that’s unacceptable to me. Come up with a better way for me to clean my teeth or I’ll keep rinsing immediately.

I do actually do this with fluoride and alcohol free mouthwash though. That’s easier to not rinse for 30 minutes.
Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV: early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic predictions https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.23.20018549v...

>We estimate that only 5.1% (95%CI, 4.8-5.5) of infections in Wuhan are identified, and by 21 January a total of 11,341 people (prediction interval, 9,217-14,245) had been infected in Wuhan since the start of the year. Should the epidemic continue unabated in Wuhan, we predict the epidemic in Wuhan will be substantially larger by 4 February (191,529 infections; prediction interval, 132,751-273,649)

>Our model suggests that travel restrictions from and to Wuhan city are unlikely to be effective in halting transmission across China; with a 99% effective reduction in travel, the size of the epidemic outside of Wuhan may only be reduced by 24.9% on 4 February.
> Who is getting these contracts? Where is that money going?

Stop right there, surveillance should be unidirectional.

More seriously, I wonder if at some time in the future, folks will be able to detect if they are under surveillance? Maybe walk in front of a camera, and see if more ip traffic occurs?
Thank you! In the interest of fairness, I have added a complicated landing page as well:

https://imgz.org/?v=c

I will break them out into new paths, thanks.
It seems the story of how this galaxy formed remains unknown.

> Many of the details of the galaxy remain a mystery, foremost of which is how it formed. So-called "classic" ring galaxies are generally formed by the collision of a small galaxy with a larger disk-shaped galaxy. [...] However, there is no sign of any second galaxy that would have acted as the "bullet", and the likely older core of Hoag's Object has a very low velocity relative to the ring, making the typical formation hypothesis quite unlikely. [...]

> A few other galaxies share the primary characteristics of Hoag's Object, including a bright detached ring of stars, but their centers are elongated or barred, and they may exhibit some spiral structure. While none match Hoag's Object in symmetry, this handful of galaxies are known to some as Hoag-type galaxies.

I offer no hypothesis of my own (not least because this is outside my field), but it does seem odd to me as well. Is it possible that our mechanical intuition fails at such a large scale?
Interesting, I need to check this out. I currently use Amethyst[1], and while I like it, it’s definitely got some bugs/performance issues. I’ve also heard people use chunkwm with good results, but haven’t tried it myself.

[1]ianyh.com/amethyst
2019-nCoV: early estimation of epidemiological parameters and predictions
Plus you might've inadvertently blocked the frequency longer (for other participants) if you hadn't been able to diagnose it. So it was definitely a good thing you had the handheld aboard: even if there was no imminent danger for you, it would have been an inconvenience for many.
I understand your point. But are babies really susceptible to distraction?

The day I find a baby swiping up on an iPad will be momentous in my mind :).
So GR is more right in more scenarios and that makes it no more or less wrong?
>This structure seems like it should not be stable

Mmmh ... not sure that you can easily apply intuition to N-body problems.
If it kills the bacteria on your mouth that’s got to hurt your gut too.
Not to be confused with Phoenix[0], the Rails-like web framework for Elixir/Erlang.

[0]: https://www.phoenixframework.org
Startup was originally meant to describe a company trying an entirely new business model. If there's nothing new then it's just a small business (until it graduates to medium/large/public/etc).

Unfortunately the venture capital industry decided to just call everything they invest in a "startup" and the usage grew from there.
Why? I would have thought it makes more sense to brush, then floss, then wash at the end so the fluoride stays longer
In Light Emitting Diodes, electrons move across the electron transport layer, while "hole" particles move through the hole transport, where they meet at the heterojunction to combine and emit photon particles. Holes aren't really like other atomic particles, rather they represent the lack of an electron in an energy field that has an affinity for electrons. But it's still a type of manifestation of energy (or lack thereof), thus represents a unit of mass (albeit negative), which effectively signifies the presence of a manipulatable minute piece of negative matter - the definition of a particle.

So, I don't see why you couldn't use the particle label when referring to information. How about an "infon"?
Have you ever brushed your teeth?? (Just joking)
Not all of their products are "Amazon Basics" products - they have a lot of private label brands that aren't obviously "Amazon".

But the article I referenced above was a company that came out with a nice laptop stand design and a few months later, Amazon started selling one of their own that looked basically the same (but not identical).
Right but the question is for how long? Surely you're not supposed to never put water in your mouth again, so how long should you wait? 1 minute? 10 minutes? An hour?
They have a recent blog post “A lesson from SARS-CoV for 2019-nCoV”: http://www.virology.ws/2020/01/23/a-lesson-from-sars-cov-for...
another poster gave a good example--offering related merchandise on a interest-based website/forum.

a made-up example might be a customer at best buy spending time in both the tv and pc departments and then having an ad pop up on a nearby screen for an intel NUC and/or apple tv (making the assumption you want a tv-connected computer). the ad didn't need to know any personal characteristics about you other than limited, directly observable behavior in the store.

i'm sure people who focus on this every day (i.e., not me) can provide better examples.
I'm guessing the toothpaste is able to penetrate the gaps that were filled by debris.
If your point is that they're both equally wrong, then no, I think you've disproven your own point. There are no circumstances in which Newtonian math produces better results than GR. That the latter is more complex is not relevant to the discussion of whether one is more accurate for a wider range of phenomena than the other.
Note that the rationale is that it washes out most of the lingering fluoride, which is presumably more of a concern in the UK where the water isn't fluorinated.
> Bloomberg has spent $250 million and is still trailing Yang in the latest Emerson Poll.

Bloomberg is also at over 3x Yang's support in the Ipsos poll that covers the same time as that Emerson poll, and ahead of Yang by a similar amount in most othere recent polls that are within a couple days of that Emerson poll.

Now, it could be that the Emerson poll is showing a real phenomenon that appeared suddenly and that Ipsos missed, but its vastly more likely that its just a statistical outlier blip.
The woman who took over the experiment after Belyayev died wrote a book about if a few years back: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2116251372
Because most people use Twitter on their mobile. How is their mobile web browser app?
Times Now is the biggest govt mouthpiece
Personal experience. We perceive a continuity of experiences, memory, and the difference between that and slumber or becoming insensate, and we call the experience "consciousness" and our knowledge of that "self-awareness." It is definitional; the word descends from the experience, not the other way around.
is layoff announcement becoming more frequent recently?
> That is not different from static typing. It is just that the enforcement happens at runtime.

Isn't the inherent problem with dynamically typed languages exactly that they do not enforce types at compile time nor runtime? Like you try to call a method of an object that does not exist, and it crashes the runtime.

Moreover, I'm not sure I get your example. Wouldn't that be just a matter of a union type + parametric pattern matching in a statically typed functional language? You would just get exhaustiveness checks and type safety on top of that for free.
In Korea (not China), but here it is common to get PCR assays for infections when the cause is unknown. People are also tested to determine the type (type A influenza) when showing flu-like symptoms. So if someone comes in with severe flu-like systems but is not a match for flu, that may trigger further assays.
I don't think you're in tinfoil hat territory here at all. While it wouldn't be anything amazing for a BL-4 lab to quickly identify that it's novel what is amazing is that the samples would get sent to the lab that fast in the first place. Zebras, not horses! That's going to take the frontline docs realizing that they're dealing with something novel. (This is not at all the same thing as the CDC jumping in very quickly when Ebola landed in the US--that wasn't novel.)

Now, I don't think it would have been a weapon. China isn't so stupid as to try to weaponize a coronavirus. However, it does make sense that this might be a leak from studying it. The genetic study really only shows when the population was one, not where it came from.
My friend swore by it. I called bullshit a bunch of times. It's such a counter intuitive color pairing. Then I tried it for a marathon lab session, typing away until nearly sunrise. Allowed that he might have a point, chose a slightly dimmer color than he had and stuck with it for quite a while.

At some point it became much more difficult to modify the terminal colors and I gave up. Never got back into the habit. But black on white is getting pretty old lately, and I'll either switch to darkmode or something else before long.
Secretive Startup Promises Satellite Internet for the Masses
I frequently see people click through a Google Ad just because they didn't type in the whole domain name. Example: type "NYtimes" into address bar, click on top-most link (an ad). In these cases, the ads are entirely extractive compared to organic results.
> a REST API where you can store and share your custom postgresql.conf configuration files

isn't that just a pastebin?
>My reaction is that the lab should be suspected.... What are the odds that it would break out in the same city, of all the cities in the world?

I dunno what are the odds, but do you know what are the odds? If you don't, then you have no base for suspicious.
>You know, good news story.

You're missing the forest for the trees.

It's Quora. It's Softbank imploding. It's WeWork. It's Wag. It's Uber. It's Tesla. It's Doordash. It's Lyft. It's Casper. It's 23andme. It's Digital Ocean. It's Mozilla.

Who knows what the financials of the giant private companies actually look like?

This is classic late economic cycle: the companies still appear to be succesful, but the fundamentals are shifting.
In the US, drinking water supplemented with fluoride for this very reason, so feel free to rinse out your dislodged food scraps after brushing and ignore this advice from the NHS.
>Don't rinse your mouth immediately after brushing, as it'll wash away the concentrated fluoride in the remaining toothpaste.

That is the point.
I'd be curious to know if there's any organization that tracks layoff rate over time. It seems like the US Bureau of Labor Statistics used to do it, but Obama cut their funding [1].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/bls/sequester_info.htm
> At low speeds relative to the speed of light, they have the same accuracy don't they?

GR is always more accurate, but the increased accuracy is not always needed; at low speeds relative to the speed of light the difference is often too small to matter in practical terms.
If I understand correctly, the middle part far out-masses the ring. If the middle part were not centered, then the ring could continue to peacefully orbit it, as the planets orbit the sun, even though their orbits are not (quite) centered on it.
I just commented on this too. Choose your word very carefully. They will be misinterpreted. Your job is to pick the right words so you minimize the misintetpretation.
It's weird that we don't know what teeth were like before fluoride was invented. The knowledge isn't directly accessible to everyday people. Sure, we know some examples, but what about the averages? Was everyone's teeth just completely screwed, all the time? How could evolution work that way? We need our teeth to eat.

It's further complicated by the invention of processed sugar, which ruins teeth. Before that, presumably it wasn't quite as bad to live without fluoride. But again, the knowledge seems kind of hard to find.

Anecdotally, I lucked out by not listening to a dentist when they said one of my teeth had to come out. Still have it six years later, and it's fine. Apparently it was a rather intense toothache that eventually went away.