skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York state wants to ban government agencies from paying ransomware demands
Who suggested bio weapon? Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Coronavirus: Early estimate of epidemiology and epidemic predictions [pdf]
It redirected to a scam site the first time I opened it, but a minute later (after a "curl" looked OK and I opened a private tab) it worked fine.
Note that the Chinese government has admitted they are trying to research bio weapons with high human-to-human transmissibility but engineered to only affect certain groups (like races).
Need a starting point of FPGA especially the hardware side. Just more familiar with basic like blue pill level. Not sure what he is talking about. A bridge too far i supposed.
ok, i guess there is a way to target to specific mobile devices:

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7101715?hl=en
With a little luck they can now do so, and require participation by any potential new trade partners. :)
IANAP but I’m reasonably confident in asserting that GR is less wrong than Newtonian gravity, based on each models’ predictive power.
London police to deploy live facial recognition cameras across the city
I don't think this will block adds, based on the keywords.

I would love to block all twitter commercial adverts. Presently I block them on sight and now get only adverts from small companies.
Do you compare streaming services by their average video? I just like the ones that have the content I want to watch, extra crappy videos don't really seem to get in the way since I never notice them.
Part of the problem is the very term "conspiracy theory" and what it actually means.

Back in the 60s after John F Kennedy was murdered, there were two broad schools of thought; that he had been murdered by a man acting alone (no conspiring) or he was murdered by a man[men] acting in coordination with others (conspiring.) Thus in this case you had people who believed the official narrative, and everybody else, who had theories "about conspiracies." This particular case seems to have been strong enough to effectively redefine the term "conspiracy" to mean any theory contrary to the official narrative.

The problem is that in other cases, such as 9/11, the official narrative is a theory about a conspiracy. As are all of the alternative theories. In the case of something like 9/11, literally everybody agrees the numerous perpetrators conspired with each other; the disagreement arises over who exactly those conspirators were. In the 'proper' sense of the term "conspiracy theory", everybody believes at least some conspiracy theories. But in this new modern sense of the term, "conspiracy theory" applies to only to those who contradict the officially endorsed explanation of events.

(Incidentally in the specific case of JFK, only a minority of Americans believe the official one-man narrative: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-one-thing-in-politi... Was it the mafia, the CIA, the Russians? Somebody else? Who fucking knows. But most people don't believe Oswald acted alone.)
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You should also be concerned about who is doing this. The Met were, until very recently, just as bent as the people they were arresting.
Possible alternate explanation: Americans, when not heading to work, get in their car for the pleasure of driving. Disproportionate US car ownership - even in areas with abundant public transport - might help support such a theory, as well as generally American attitudes towards driving being an expression of autonomy.
People work in those roles all the time, do you say "well nobody has perfect practice" when a doctor leaves a thermometer in your child's skull after surgery?

There are malpractice regimes all over the place, it just results in having real training and an assessment of risks and, y'know, not cowboy'ing, before making changes. "What difference does it make that this girder is 1/2" out of alignment? Nobody's perfect."
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22137909
And better start with hardware then basic software would help.

https://hackaday.com/2019/11/04/gigantic-fpga-in-a-game-boy-...
That would be determined in the process of drafting legislation.
> In fact, it's pretty fair to say, that nearly every standard of living improvement in western countries since roughly 1980 can be attributable to the transistor.

Very interesting statement.

Out of cusiosity, is there any way you could back it up e.g. chemical or biological research was not very digital for a long time after the 1980s. Of course, digitization was transformative in the end of the 90s and beginning of the 2000s, and it seems to me that it is just now where we are in that exponential growth of exploiting IC technology.

I quickly checked your impressive background, and I guess you have seen a lot of the IC sector in terms of innovation and technology. I believe that you are making a sound call here.

At the end, everything is intertwined. Advances in material science go back to IC design and production, and vice versa.
Such nostalgia!
NOAA Gets Go-Ahead to Study Controversial Climate Plan B
This seems to be the only Coronavirus link getting votes.
I'm still trying to recover from learning that gravity waves can be curved by gravity.
I absolutely share your sentiment about him, I had absolutely no idea who he was at the time but very quickly as you say, you get who he is, he lays it out and that trait in people is something I will forever admire.

It's only hitting me now how much he actually knocked me in my path.
I'm skeptical for many reasons.

First, where is he getting that car commuters outnumber rail commuters (just barely) in New York? Last I heard the split was 60/40 in favor of rail.

Second, where did he get that it is unusual for management to not use a car? Rather famously Bloomberg himself used to commute to city Hall by subway. By the authors own admission, even the lawyers use the subway. New York doesn't have that weird anti-transit classism of the rest of the country.

Third, what is meant by multi modal and why is it a relevant figure if merit.

Fourth, he clearly used New York metro area, not the city proper in his calc. Can I get some footnotes on if the cross comparison did the same thing to other cities?

Fifth, 10 min headways is exactly the threshold where you can just show up and not pre plan your trip. When you get to the station you will wait on average five min. Compare that to the amount of time spent looking for parking or waiting for an Uber. I am unsatisfied with the conclusion that of peak wait times are the reason for underutilization or that there even is an underutilization problem in the listed American cities.
If the life we find on Mars isn't DNA-based, but something entirely different, it would suggest that DNA-based life may be unique to Earth, and that every planet hosting life will likely be fundamentally unique.

That's pretty much the only reason I get excited about finding life on other planets.
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No, he 100% expected a comfortable remain win. He called the non-binding referendum because it was a major manifesto promise. It was a manifesto promise solely as an attempt to shut up the awkward squad -- the extreme Brexit wing of the Tory party, and put them back on the fringe for another decade or so. Then expected another hung parliament and probable coalition, not a majority.

There are plenty of major Tory figures on record confirming this.
This is incredible, will definitely try!
It would need to be all the above, and without anyone to help with writing an address (I'm sure someone at the post office would help), and without knowing how to print the address onto the envelope, but still able to use email.

And he's a Tory MP, so in any case this hypothetical disabled person is wasting their time.
> GR is no more or less wrong than Newtonian physics.

Then why does GR make more accurate predictions?
Not in cities. And a latency on the order of a week gives people plenty of time to travel.
>(a) is consistent with the rest of quantum mechanics

i think we're on a right way in general :

QM -> GR : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity#Quantum_mechan...

" In particular, contrary to the popular claim that quantum mechanics and general relativity are fundamentally incompatible, one can demonstrate that the structure of general relativity essentially follows inevitably from the quantum mechanics of interacting theoretical spin-2 massless particles (called gravitons)"

GR -> QM : We did observed gravitational waves of GR. A force field with waves mediating that force interactions - that requires just a bit of math to "quantize" it. It is a bit more complicated when classic EM -> QM because of added complication of non-stationary spacetime and just vastly different scales of spacetime/energy to run the experiments to establish/verify the gravitons parameters.

For the "true deep" nature of graviton I subscribe to the view that - given gravitational force not being the "real" force and the gravitational waves being really a ripples of spacetime - graviton is more like phonon, ie. quasi-particle from the point of view of QM/SR theories.
In general I've adopted a policy to just not fly on Boeing planes and see no reason for that to change. Reading this as a potential passenger to me says its too soon.

This craft has to be demonstrated to not only be free of the (underlying) flaws in the 737MAX, but to show that it didnt go through the same design/build/approval/etc process as said craft.

This being released so close to the MAX debacle says that its exceptionally unlikely to benefit from any new process or management changes. So as a potential passenger the burden of proof is not only on Boeing to demonstrate the aircraft is superior in safety, but that the moral corruption which undid their sterling reputation does not apply here.

I don't expect that that to apply here, and based on overall trends, my pessimism leads me to expect a kind of palm-slicking to sell the plane rather actual quality.
I'm aware, I have a branch implementing C FFI for Lean 3; my point was that it's logic, mathlib could be implemented in system F instead. I'm pretty sure Lean could be implemented in Lean eventually.
On the performance and design of BioSequences compared to the Seq language
Very cool that there’s a second ring galaxy you can see by looking through the first one! And here I was not even knowing ring galaxies existed until today!
Every time I have to sit and wait for the Seattle light rail (the red line) outside commuter hours this is what I think about. It's 3:30 pm right now in Seattle and the light rail is scheduled to come only every 12 minutes. I dream of the times this article quotes for Germany and France; 5 minutes between trains would be amazing!
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I will be very interested what the guys at This week in virology say about the outbreak. They briefly talked about it on the 12th of January and it will probably be what they talk about this week with all the new developments. http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/
Here is a patent from the lab in Wuhan:

https://jvi.asm.org/content/jvi/90/6/3253.full.pdf

"Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Bat Coronavirus Closely
Related to the Direct Progenitor of Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome Coronavirus"

an excerpt:

"In conclusion, we isolated and characterized a novel bat SLCoV isolate, WIV16, which is the closest ancestor to date of the
SARS-CoV. Our results provide further evidence that Chinese
horseshoe bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-CoVs. It should be
noted that WIV16 is not the closest strain to the human SARSCoVs with regard to ORF8. Full-length ORF8 is present in several
SARS-CoV genomes of early-phase patients, all civet SARS-CoVs,
and bat SL-CoVs. It is split into two ORFs (ORF8a and -b) in most
human SARS-CoVs from late-phase patients due to a deletion
event in this part of the genome (3). Recently, two papers reported
that they found a full-length ORF8 which has higher similarities to
SARS-CoV GZ02 and civet SARS-CoV SZ3, suggesting that SASCoV derived from a complicated recombination and genetic evolution among different bat SL-CoVs"

Reading the paper, its clear that the Wuhan lab was studying viruses almost identical to the one that emerged in Wuhan. This would make sense, as this is what they are trying to prevent. But it also raises concerns about whether the epidemic in Wuhan originated from this lab.

Further evidence would be the fact that a member from the lab is reported to have contracted coranavirus.
Craziest interview was for a job that I wrote the description for, yet was apparently unqualified to fill. -.-

I like my job, and I'm visible enough to have had several poaching attempts (one or two I regret turning down, my would-be peers have all retired after a few years and 8-digits happier). Anyways, one studio tried to lure me away by having me interview for 'whatever my dream job was.'

This intrigued me. I wrote up a 2-page job description. Was quite clear I'd moved into Data Science and my Solution Architect days were a few years behind me. Passed the 10-person panel interview with flying colors. And the Data Science / Management tiers. Lunch interview no problem. Then... came the low-level C++ interviews. I did OK, but clearly was rusty.

And then the architecture interview. They laid out an identical topology to one I've given talks on having architected, and asked me where might be problems. I highlighted the number one concern (ensuring the data was logged with accurate ingress/egress timings so we could be measuring real funnel progress), and went down several esoteric paths that telemetry could be corrupted / unreliable / provide faulty analysis. At the end I could tell they weren't convinced. I circled back, and... "Well, this is based on a real thing we rolled out, and we were measuring the time-to-receipt on the first layer, not the delays in payload aggregation before relaying the buffer through the rest of the system, so latencies seemed low but throughput was unacceptable. We'd hoped you would have picked up on that."

It was the very first thing I pointed out. But they didn't hear me when I stated the obvious up front. I'll own that feedback: Make sure I'm heard and understood.

At any rate, someone else was hired for the job I defined.
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Oh? What's that relative to your income? Because my point isn't about absolute dollars. It's about America's long-running tendency toward exploitation of people with less money.
Going by death count I'd hazard the opinion that Alex Jones is much safer, despite personally finding many of Jones' statements unpalatable.
Germans are fairly well known for their love for cars, and a lot of folks have cars “for pleasure” (convertibles, sports cars, etc). Autobahns are also insanely fun - you can actually speed up that sport car, unlike here in the US of A. All anecdotal of course, but I would be surprised if that theory has any evidence to support it..
it's really not hard to define what a "good" ad might be--a product (or service) you don't know about but that solves an immediate problem without an immediately obvious solution. it'd anticipate your need, without invading your privacy.

fwiw, i generally don't want to be subjected to ads either, particularly for the privacy-invading aspect, but also the time- and attention-wasting aspect too. most ads are absolutely horribly conceived and targeted, especially spray-and-pray email spam.
Most of the Amazon X products I can think of are really basic obvious things. Sheets, cables, simple computer peripherals... well OK those are the things I remember ordering offhand that were such things.

My point is that they'd be categorized as basic staple items. Someone else might have sold a particular size or feature of X, but I don't see any reason why Amazon or another competitor wouldn't think to copy it.

Instead (as I made in a different reply a couple hours before yours) I believe it's the strength of Brand Recognition as a form of Quality Control, which is an area that has decayed on Amazon as a whole but less so with their own brand of products.
Additionally, it takes a lot of fuel to be able to de orbit high altitude satellites.

I don't think this is so much an a 'additionally', as a 'mostly'.
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This is actually comparison with coal plants.

Coal contains traces of uranium, which gets released during burning. The uranium released in such way would have been sufficient to generate the energy obtained from burning coal if it used for fission instead [0].

So indeed, now we disperse the nuclear fuel in the atmosphere and freaking out about it much less then when instead it is being processed in a plant, and coal left alone.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
I disagree that any vote on the matter of how much power the executive should have, or if any specific executive should be punished for an abuse of that power, would fall along anything other than party lines, with those in the same party as the current executive voting in his or her favor.
honestly i dont know why more people dont use tweetdeck. i have my timeline, it's not controlled by an algorithm, it's always chronological, i'm not constantly being suggested stuff, i can split out topics into columns that i'm interested in, i can filter the columns to show exactly what i want.

also can i suggest that filter:follows is super useful if you want to search a term exclusively among your follow list.
Sort of. Life on Mars would provide an instance of life AND filter, since that life has not progressed over billions of years and is likely extinct. And that filter would be very likely behind us, given life on mars was very likely more primitive than it is on Earth.
same. the small demos on the landing page are amazing. for once, i got a lot from a library by not even moving away from the landing page!
Are you sure? That could explain a significant number of comments here.
Draw a shape, get the LATEX symbol
It's too bad that SE3 isn't sold anywhere. It still works fine on Win10, provided that you can get past installing it (which can be tricky, because the installer is a 16-bit Windows app!).
At low speeds relative to the speed of light, they have the same accuracy don't they? And in that case, the Newton model is simpler so more useful. At high speeds, it becomes inaccurate and then you need the other model.

So there is no global "right" or "wrong", just different measures of usefulness depending the problem constraints.
I don't think it's the most likely explanation, far from it, but it wouldn't have to be a bioweapon to have been released from a lab.

The reemergence of H1N1 in 1977 is believed to have been the result of a lab accident or vaccine trial gone awry, for example: http://www.virology.ws/2009/03/02/origin-of-current-influenz...
> Americans have a kneejerk aversion to any sort of taxes because they think they will never see the benefits.

Close. It’s not that they think they will never see the benefits, but rather they know it.

Look, here is a good example of what you and the parent suggest. The ST3 passed in the Seattle ballot, which promises expansion of the public transit network. The project includes light rail to my neighborhood, in about 20 minutes of walking distance from my home. However, the planned date for delivery of the project is 2035. Knowing the realities of public projects in the US, I don’t expect it before 2040s. I’ll be long retired by then.

At the same time, the ST3 involved a tax increase, which for me means about $10,000 (today’s dollars, more in inflated ones) I’ll pay in additional tax before the construction is complete.

In addition to that, since the farebox recovery is only around 30%, the city subsidies covers 70% of operational costs of public transit, and the subsidies come from my taxes too. To put it in concrete terms: assuming I use public transit only for commuting, annual fare costs would be $2.75248 = $1320, and so the whole operational costs apportioned to me would be $1320/0.3 = $4400, so the subsidy would be around $3000 per rider. Fortunately, only 10% of people in Seattle commute via public transit, so it roughly translates to $300/person/year now, which I’m paying to support public transit that I don’t even use. This number is so low only because the driving majority subsidizes the public transit riding few. Thus, since operational costs grow roughly linearly with the number of riders, if majority of people were using transit for commuting, the cost per resident would have to rise significantly. This would make my public transit costs significantly higher than my driving costs, with greatly reduced convenience. So why would I want to support public transit?

The big issue here isn’t that public transit is always a bad idea, it’s just it’s a bad idea in places where government cannot do large projects quickly and cheaply, and cheaply operate them, which in 2020 is the whole US.
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> green-screen text causes eye strain,

You have any data to back that up? My favorite color scheme is green-on-black, followed by white-on-green. I find white and blue backgrounds the worst for eye strain. Low brightness with high contrast seems to be another important factor to reduce strain.
https://news.ycombinator.com/hide?id=22141903&goto=news:

> You have to be logged in to hide.
Same for web and iOS. To my amazement, not only is this something that Twitter did on purpose (3 times, once for each client), but their designers have defended it vigorously. Because metrics obviously are more important than users saying what they want.
That's a great hack of impossible difficulty, love it.
I assume they just send it through one of those drive-thru car washes.
Plasma, or other readily replenished fluids (there's another popular option, at least for men, though it carries other pregnant long-term implications) are propbably reasonably fair. There's little long-term harm or consequence.

A kidney, lung, or liver lobe, not so much.

Psychological research or DNA submission enters a pretty freighted grey area.
> Americans have a kneejerk aversion to any sort of taxes

And how. My hometown is near a state line. There are somewhat lower - about 10¢ per gallon - gasoline taxes on the other side of the border. People will habitually make special trips to a gas station in the next town over - at a cost of half an hour of time (at least) and $2 worth of gasoline - in order to pay $1.50 less in taxes. To another state.

That said, I'm not so sure about

> because they think they will never see the benefits

People don't seem to be quite so opposed to public spending on things like highways and airports. I would guess it's more that America's cherished spirit of individualism means that there's a greater tendency to oppose public spending that benefits society as a whole, but doesn't directly benefit oneself.
I understand how ETag works foe tracking, but can you point me in the direction to learn more about steganographed PNGs?
> There is tremendous amounts of red tape designed to keep other players out.

Call it what it is - bureaucracy, and corruption.
Well, I was more interested in the science side of the course, anyways! Taught by Harvey Lodish. Still, disappointing to hear that.

https://www.edx.org/course/the-science-and-business-of-biote...
A mix between Bing and DuckDuckGo for general keyword searches and I use Apple Maps to search for local businesses.
What do you mean by "it's logic, mathlib could be implemented in system F"? System F is not dependently typed!

Anyway, nobody doubts that Lean's logic is a dependently typed formalism: "Lean is based on a version of
dependent type theory known as the Calculus of Inductive Constructions" [1]. I thought the discussion here was about using dependent types in programming languages. Note that logics and programming languages are not the same things.

[1] J. Avigad, L. de Moura, S. Kong, Theorem Proving in Lean.