skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take this with a grain of salt, copied from reddit:

Read this website:

http://virological.org/

Specifically this one:

http://virological.org/t/ncovs-relationship-to-bat-coronavir...

and this one:

http://virological.org/t/missed-orfs-in-ncov/345

Basically

Wuhan virus is essentially SARs

http://virological.org/t/missed-orfs-in-ncov/345

"Anyone notice two ‘accessory’ ORFs not annotated in nCoV? Orf13 (aka 9b) (28284:28577) and Orf14 (28734:28955) . One is ~ 70% ID and other ~ 90% to syntenous ORFs in BAT SARS 2017 ?"

Translation:

Some very specific parts of the genome are matching almost exactly, which only occurs in almost identical viruses. The ORFs are tagged parts of genes, this researcher is discussing how Chinese researchers "omitted" parts of their gene annotation. Some back story is the gene sequences have been shared openly so they can be studied, Chinese messed with how they annotated the sequences.

To understand this better, here is the wikipedia definition of 'accessory gene' (ORF is just a chunk of the gene):

"The variable or accessory genome (also: flexible, dispensable genome) refers to genes not present in all strains of a species. These include genes present in two or more strains or even genes unique to a single strain only, for example, genes for strain specific adaptation such as antibiotic resistance."

The researcher is saying specific strain markers are matching between the 2017 virus and this one. Which is impossible, unless...

Not only that, its extremely similar to a SARs taken from bats in 2017! The comment on this linked thread is from a Harvard researcher, she is hinting at a biological link to a lab strain. This virus escaped from Wuhan lab

Another hint from another researcher

The comment on this page from Kristian G. Andersen is mildly disturbing (http://archive.is/O1vhN)... As Associate Professor, Scripps Research, Director of Infectious Disease Genomics, SRTI etc etc I assume he knows what he's talking about when he states: "That means that the outbreak was detected almost immediately after the first case, which - given that this is flu season in China - is just amazing. Detecting an outbreak of pneumonia (similar to flu) of a novel coronavirus that fast is truly impressive."

Basically they are saying its weird to have found this to be a novel virus so fast. Its so uncommon, how could they have done this? Its an oddity

Washington Times article

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/24/virus-hit-w...

UPDATE

More evidence this virus came from a lab!!!!

Read through this Harvard biologists twitter:

https://twitter.com/AndyBiotech/status/1220377043210317831

Specifically:

"Even has almost identical accessory genes to 2018 bat ‘SARS’ (not all in new database annotations)"

Shes saying this virus has already been seen and is logged in a database!
I really wonder if I live in the same world at all. I have never come across a tiktok link for some reason. First time I heard of tiktok was from an American guy talking about how China is taking control via their social media apps. That was a few months ago.
Would be very bandwidth intensive?
They’re service video streams served over HTTP.
Journalism is in the same boat as websites are.

There are more fantastic ones than ever before but the number of crappy ones and major players that have entered the market in the past 20 years have overshadowed them by orders of magnitudes.

I think this is pretty much happening everywhere as access to the middle class and knowledge worker/white collar jobs are becoming the norm.

A small cadre of experts still exist but the number of amateurs, scammers and grifters is aggressively growing.
Mcdonalds.com was first registered (1994)
From the article: "I am not a theoretician and have not proven that this is actually correct."

So, yes, you might get away with floating point values for financials -- and I have even seen banking code that did -- but that doesn't mean it's a good idea. Especially when libraries providing fixed point and arbitrary precision decimal representations are widely available and easy to use.

The biggest problem with using IEE 754 for currencies is that IEE 754 defines a domain and a set of operations that don't match the domain and set of operations required for currency calculations. The discrepancies between the "right" answers and the answers given by IEE 754 aren't because IEE 754 is in some way "wrong", it's because it's not calculating what you think it's calculating.
GCP load balancers do have lets encrypt support. They will issue certificates automatically if you want.

https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificate...
Some time ago I've actively used Question2Answer to launch enterprise and personal Stackoverflow clones. So after a year of development and countless improvements I somehow had a standalone fork with modern look and new features. Would like to know your opinions on how it may be useful to broader community.
Power has never been on the latest node, and Global Foundaries abandoned that node over a year ago. POWER10 will by all accounts be a Samsung node
Clearly this is bullshit since exposing it to a sufficient load of HIV fucks it up proper. So we have an existence proof of at least one thing worse than "ceasing to expose it to pathogens".
About web APIs, didn’t want to imply that blink was used instead of WebKit for that reason, it was just an example that rendering engines could still evolve independently.
Sarcasm detection AI bot here, that was a snark.
I’m considering showing the iframes in an HTTP popup.. that way the main site can be served via HTTPS and the non HTTPS content would simply pop up.
To identify what the author feels is missing in neuroscience: in order to understand something, you need to figure out how to describe two things about it (1) what its state is at any point in time, and (2) how that state evolves in time. Connectomics gives you the beginnings to solve (1), but it doesn't go the whole way. There's a fundamental misunderstanding that you can collect exabytes of data and glean understanding from it just because how much you had to sweat getting the storage and collecting it. That's not how it works, it needs to have structure too. I wish more biologists / neuroscientists understood this.
Hi, I'm Hamel, I'm one of the people who contributed to this project. I think this is a really great blogging platform for data scientists because:

- Visualizations can remain interactive
- You can write your entire blog post in a Jupyter notebook and deploy it to your blog with a click
- No nagwalls or paywalls (Like you might get w/Medium)
- It's hosted on GitHub Pages, so it's free
- Its portalbe, so you can take your data elsewhere anytime.

This project is a repository template on GitHub, which means its super easy to setup and get started. Its powered by the really cool nbdev project https://github.com/fastai/nbdev, which enables lots of other cool features for blogging!

Most of the credit goes to Jeremy Howard (https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward) and Sylvain Gugger (https://twitter.com/GuggerSylvain) for building all of the tools that make all of this work!
Even though it's cheaper, it doesn't mean people can afford it. Medical bills in the US aren't paid upfront like a trip to Europe, it becomes debt.
> By using much of the same code as another browser implementer, any browser vendor [hint hint] that still makes their own engine could reduce the resources they put on the foundations and web platform and put more of it on the product itself.

In other words, throw out all the advantages that come from using Rust in the browser in favor of a codebase that has a policy forbidding any use of that language. No thanks.

Furthermore, I have to note the irony that you say nobody else should implement their own engine when your team is the one that forked Blink from WebKit in the first place.
> Assertions like this — there’sa similar one about hip replacements being more expensive in the USA than flying to Spain for the op and living there for two years — always make me wonder why health tourism from the USA to basically anywhere else isn’t more common.

Because most people don’t pay that. Medicaid covers half of all births in the US. Insurance covers almost everyone else. We just had a baby last year. Insurance covered almost everything.
Ethernet over HDMI is interesting.
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You are probably using a VPS running on someone else server, through many networks. (So do I.) Any of those can MITM your traffic.
Maybe you're also using apt/yum to keep the VPS up-to-date.
Is adding Letsencrypt to the list such a burden? Or maybe you're only against Cloudflare. I go with Letsencrypt.
It's illegal in Denmark to have your face covered. There are a few exceptions, but I don't think "I don't want my face identified" would fly. It seems to go directly against the intention of the law: https://apnews.com/9e5f787cdcc94c0c83210dbf275b715f/Danish-b...
Aha! That is a valid concern indeed. Lesser than the usual "baseband has full access to whole system", but still significant.
TI is aiming for 5nm?
When I was a junior in high school and computer lab monitor, I made a suggestion that we install VNC on every computer and it was green lit by the administration. We used an app that could view thumbnails of all screens at the same time. I only enforced the "no porn" rule. Kids could play games, browse the web and I accepted fake hall passes. But if they were watching porn they would be thrown out and banned.
Tesla needs to fix Autopilot safety flaws, demands Senator Markey
Even the "newspaper of record", the NY Times has lost its journalistic process.

This is just one recent example that comes to mind. See why Harvard Professor is suing the NYT [1] for completely twisting his post about MIT and Jeffrey Epstein [0]

I found this so outrageous how NYT would completely twist words and not make the appropriate corrections when given the evidence.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D135DBWfabM
Let’s say your stored your wealth as gold bars, diamonds, or Rolex watches. Good luck renting those out.
Focus-follows-mouse is sorely needed, at least as an option, in OSX.

I used to achieve FFM, circa snow-leopard, with the excellent "mondomouse" from AtomicBird, but it is no longer maintained and will not work with modern OSX versions.

Looking ahead, it appears that there is some new capability buried deep inside the accessibility section of Preferences that actually enables FFM, but I do not have a new enough (Mojave ?) version of OSX to verify this ...

EDIT: I think it is actually High Sierra that this new accessibility feature appeared in, but again, not sure ...
For those of you into charts and graphs, here's a little tool from a reputable source that shows the risk of each country getting a case:

https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/e693c1f9-13fa-42...
Do you have a source about people working on it?

Or is this a blacks op kind of thing so no one would admit to it publicly anyway, thus making it an unfalsifiable statement?
They won’t hear about it. The “proper” narrative is to promote the terribleness of oil and gas.
There's a pricing/information problem. Say you hear that the hip replacement is $10k in the US and $2k in India. But there's also a place that's $1.5k in India and a place that's $2.5k in India. Which place is good? You haven't a clue. Do you take the risk? Are you going to end up with a hip that lasts shorter than you want it to? That'll be bad for you.

And then comes the fact that insurance pays for most people so the price is hidden. You don't actually pay $10k. Instead everyone pays slightly more than they should for insurance.
It is along the southern US border for simpler procedures and more expensive dental care. Speaking anecdoctally, some immigrants also return to their home countries for more affordable care as well.
It's a funny thing. You hear on HN constantly that everyone's backend is a mess, that the SQL tables are incomprehensible, the AWS server has crashed again. Surely these scummy companies must be in the same state?

I know that security through obfuscation is not a valid method for storing bitcoin keys. But privacy via idiocy is more common than not (exceptions do apply: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Net...)
I wrote a blog post talking about the journey and lessons learned: https://blog.vjeux.com/2020/uncategorized/reflections-on-exc...
It is trivial to profitably invest wealth while producing no income: invest in companies that don't issue dividends, whether public or private. You can achieve excellent investment returns solely on appreciation.

I know more than a few people with excellent investment returns and quite a bit of wealth that realize almost zero income from that wealth in a typical year. It is a common strategy, particularly if you do not need the wealth to produce income.
Yes, the Redmond Middle School science project called Internet Explorer prototyped some excellent concepts. For sure. You can get a LOT of cool concepts for a hundred megabucks a year from people of the intellectual and creative firepower hired by Microsoft.

But, why did it fail?

Of course, as the article says, one reason was the Ballmer-era tsunami of bureaucratic confusion that inundated Microsoft and stymied the release of the Windows versions that carried IE.

Another was security. Cybercreeps love IE. Drive-by malware? IE. "Internet Exploder."

A third was the cost of compatibility. It necessary for web developers and later, web app developers, to develop and test once on all the browsers and then again on each version of IE. It didn't help that it came bundled with Windows: large-org IT managers often forced their users to use an atrocity like IE6 years after it upgraded. This bogus standardization shackled a ball and chain to third-party developers.

A fourth was, paradoxically, the whole ActiveX Control subsystem. Apartment threading, anyone? Monikers, anyone? It was just barely good enough that DICOM and other high-end imaging systems could use it. That took away incentives to get <canvas>-like stuff working well.

Other companies have done similar things. DECNet, GM's MAP/TOP. Apollo Token Ring. SysV vs. BSD. But none of those things hobbled an industry quite like IE.

Trebuchets are cool tech too. But imagine if every UPS truck had to carry one to place packages on peoples' doorsteps.
I've used it. Again, the UX/UI isn't strikingly enough to say, imho, "ok, this is a new concept". In fact, when they started the app looked differently, again, look at their first year or two and you will realise why they have success. It's not the UX, Snapchat had the worst UX/UI ever but their success was related to the mass of people they've appealed to.
Maybe UX complexity is a problem, too.

Tools for thought have to become like prosthetics, an extension of your body. For this it has to have really low friction.

Here we have two problems:

1. the ideal power user UX has some learning curve for newcomers which hinders adaption a lot;

2. I prefer typing, but it's hard to beat a piece of paper in ease of input and flexibility of arrangement, type of input (graphics, text, plots, mindmaps, tables all there without any toolbar to click).

The 2nd point makes me think that a general interface is just really hard and specific ones can be done really well already.

Examples of tools for thinking I like:

- org mode: suffers a lot from (1.) and is not that generalized (more is possible, but little effortlessly).

- Deepl Desktop App: real AI collaboration for translation. The UI could be more streamlined, but is fine for now: hit ctrl+c+c, check if the translation is ok, click "insert" and your sentence is translated within your document. It translates 90% as good as I do, I catch the other 10%.

- Soulver/Opalcalc/NaSC: a bit like excel but all calculations always visible (trade offs: not working for tabular data, not as flexible as programing)

- wikis: amazing for long term and collaborative storage, problems with scaling, relevance, discovery and organization

- paper: great input flexibility, hard to refactor, no computer assist (calculations, data etc)

- jupyter notebooks: finally mixing documentation and programming, sadly problems with structure and state

- grafical programming languages (touch designer, pure data, bitwig grid etc.): predominant in the art-world, I think because you can tweak values and connections best.
Offtopic:

I am using entry page that brute forces password for accessing other pages. It takes a 30 seconds max on phone, but will raise cpu to 100%. Later it is stored to cookie. I havent seen any crawler get past that.
This is a very good starting point.

Digitalocean's DNS is free, so you can, at a push create a script to do dynamic DNS, should other systems fail you.

For me, I have a dedicated VPN node, Which depending on what I'm doing is either hosted on a VPS, or a physical box. (depending if I can find somewhere with decent network) that is called something like vpn.mydomain.com

All other nodes are connected to that. I then use Anisble to manage the keys, DNS and installing of packages. This makes things nice and dynamic, and simple to re-create/backup/redeploy.

However, I should add, I'm an SRE by profession, so this is 85% more work than most people would want or need.
> It's not an insecure protocol.

It absolutely is. In what sense is HTTP anything but an insecure protocol?

HTTP does not prevent man-in-the-middle attacks or content-injection. It does not ensure you are connecting to the domain you think you're connecting to. It does not prevent snooping on transmitted data. If it did, there would have been no reason to invent HTTPS.

> Without that terrible design choice, prioritized because of commerce and the desire to change the web of documents into a surveillance operating system, HTTP would be, and is, just fine

Absolutely not. You do not get privacy without HTTPS. You do not block MITM without HTTPS.

It's obvious that HTTPS should be used for online banking and for software updates, but HTTPS should also be used for ordinary websites, to protect your privacy and to prevent content-tampering (by an unscrupulous ISP, or when using insecure Wi-Fi).

People sometimes give Wikipedia as an example of something that doesn't need HTTPS, but these people clearly haven't spent much time thinking about it. A snooping ISP should not be able to tell whether a customer has been looking up an embarrassing medical condition.

I'm reminded of a lengthy HackerNews discussion on this same topic, a month ago [0].

The only compelling arguments against HTTPS are that old smartphones used in developing countries don't support it, and that it prevents HTTP caches like Squid. Browser defaults regarding JavaScript, certainly have nothing to do with it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21912817
There is a whole market for buying/selling the old rolex watches at higher prices than they were retailed for.

You may generate wealth by holding onto a diverse collection of them as a hedge bet for selling in future.
Show HN: Create digital safety inspection forms in minutes
Yes. There’s a biology from Harvard who has noticed this. I think people are catching on it’s from the lab. I’ve seen PhD level biologists on twitter making the same observations

Here it is:

Wuhan virus is essentially SARs
http://virological.org/t/missed-orfs-in-ncov/345
"Anyone notice two ‘accessory’ ORFs not annotated in nCoV? Orf13 (aka 9b) (28284:28577) and Orf14 (28734:28955) . One is ~ 70% ID and other ~ 90% to syntenous ORFs in BAT SARS 2017 ?"

This was a lab break.
> you have to accept that

Except for eating, drinking and breathing, that's almost never absolutely true. All human contrivances are malleable.
Obviously everyone's different. :) But there seem to be countless articles titled "Are Separate Bathrooms The Key To A Happy Marriage?" [1] -- even Michelle Obama has made the claim about her marriage to Barack. So if you're curious about other people's relationships, it's a good place to start.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Are+Separate+Bathrooms+The+K...
Bonus points if someone makes it into a polyglot quine somehow
I find this disgusting. You’re trying to justify theft, which isn’t what the article is about.
The truth is that post-war America was blessed by ridiculous growth for that half-century across all industries. That's not going to happen again. We have true global trade now and labour is fungible.

Reality is different now, guys. There's competition. And they're fucking good at what they do.
How common is for SARS coronaviruses to share the same envelope proteins? I downloaded 200 CoV envelope proteins from NCBI, and I couldn't find any pair of identical proteins. As someone unfamiliar with virology, I'm curious if there are any explanations for how come the protein envelope of 2019-nCoV[1] is the same as the protein envelope described by the Institute of Military Medicine Nanjing Command 2 years ago in the unpublished paper "Genomic characterization and infectivity of a novel SARS-like coronavirus in Chinese bats"[3]? Is it just a coincidence? The bats used in the paper were from Zhejiang not Hubei.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein/YP_009724392.1

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein/AVP78033.1

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6135831/
Now measure coal waste.
My very first job out of college was with a company that put us through a 6-month training program and paid us our regular salary during it. I found it fair they asked us to sign a contract promising to remain with the company for at least 1yr after the training program ended, and signed that. They didn’t ask us to sign a non-compete, but did ask us to sign a no-solicitation agreement (eg don’t poach their employees after you leave), and I found that fair too.

A subsequent company later asked its developer hires to sign a non-compete agreeing not to work in that industry for 1yr after leaving. But they were hiring us for skills we had already developed prior to joining, and contributed no training or skill development. All the developers refused to sign that and explained how you can’t expect people to agree not to work in their profession if they leave a company.

The CEO of that co realized they had overstepped and cancelled the non-compete request, which was cool. It was just an overprotective legal department pushing the limits of what they could get away with.

Regarding your contract, is your company’s blockchain product open source? Almost all of them are, since the whole point of blockchain is trust. If that’s the case, then their non-compete may be pointless, in that it doesn’t protect any actual trade secrets since they’re all open source. Also depending on what state you’re in, your non-compete may not be legal. Worth looking into.
In store, pay with cash (if your face hasn't already been linked to your identity). If it has, it's too late.

Online, you're screwed. They link you with your phone number and/or email address and those are often necessary for purchase.