skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>During SARS, researchers moved from obtaining the genomic sequence of SARS-CoV to a phase 1 clinical trial of a DNA vaccine in 20 months and have since compressed that timeline to 3.25 months for other viral diseases. For 2019-nCoV, they hope to move even faster, using messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine technology.

This is impressive! A big thank you to all the hardworking researchers.
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Feel free to share your thoughts and comments.

Happy coding!
National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza (2016) [pdf]
Tuning deformation mechanism of boron carbide w Si doping strengthens body armor
There's been some great work on mainline support for the Pixel 3XL / Snapdragon 845: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/issues/153#note_207...
I learned Paxos but not Raft. From memory, step one of Raft was to come to consensus on a leader. Isn't that in itself entirely what Paxos solves?
Can Ford Steal Tesla's Mojo?
Thank you. Working on it. The next version is expected to have a feature to allow you to export all the data to your own self-hosted backend (without any downtime).
Confidentiality without authentication is not a thing. If I don't know that I'm talking to you, then I might be talking to a MITM attacker who's reading everything we're saying (and may or may not be altering it). It really is that simple.
Easy, either implement a decimal type (4 fractional digits) as most programming languages have them implemented by users.
or multiply by 10000 then do your calculation and then divide by 10000 again.
I used a decimal type for the administration program I coded.
Coding Bootcamp Galvanize Agrees to $165M Acquisition
I don't know where you live, but at least here (Italy) locks that have "contractors keys" can only be opened with contractors key until the "proprietor" key is used once (with an "installing maneuvre"), and then contractors key won't work anymore.

What you describe is more like the master key systems (used as an example in some hotels) where there is generally a three level (but there can be more) set of keys, the manager's one (that opens all doors/locks), the maid one (that opens - say - all doors/locks in a floor) and the actual customer one where each key only opens a single lock.
You walk into a random corner store for Tylenol and see the bottom of a cut-off box of cereal with pills inside. A cardboard sign in front of it says "Tylenol" and there's a logo clearly printed off a website gluesticked to the box. The pills are plausibly the right shape and color.

You buy a few and take your Tylenol without a second thought—right?

Maybe not. If that seems ill-advised, please don't propose the same for websites.
Non-repudiation and authenticity are terms of art. By redefining them well outside of what everyone else means by those terms, I don't think you're helping discourse along. HTTPS _absolutely_ guarantees non-repudiation and authenticity. Casually dismissing the most important protocol on the Internet as giving you some "half-assed authenticity" is pretty silly, especially when one of your suggested alternatives is GPG, which literally can not get a damn MAC right in any mode actually deployed anywhere and instead has some weird superstitious MDC nonsense.
https://instagram.com/stories/bytesnews/2229048657293209599?...
Show HN: From Zero to Kubeconfig In
Thank you. Added to my favorites
Reading his rules, it’s hard not to agree with Bob Woodward that many journalists have become “unhinged” over Trump.
How does it solve the privacy aspect if I can MITM it and replay the second half of the conversation to the real party?
It surprises me how often Betteridge's law of headlines is true

> Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Nothing wrong with my "email only" policy either - no phone or video calls. Granted, I don't work in sales or customer support, but in the "back office".

My working, thinking, and writing style requires big blocks of focused time, with no interruptions. A phone call or a scheduled meeting is a sure way to disrupt and reduce my productivity. I reserve phone/video calls only for personal purpose, not work-related, and even then it's rare.

Surprisingly, in my X years of working I've found that most people are willing to tolerate or adapt to my preferred communication methods.

On occasion, in particular when I need to interact with those working at large corporations, I've had people who just insist on "hopping on a call", even after repeated explanation. Every time I've begrudgingly agreed, I've regretted my decision, lost time, and less productive discussion.

Email is (near) perfect for me, as I can batch them at the start/end of my day. I get to sit back, think things through, and reply at my own convenience.
This has been trending now a few days, but I still don’t get it. Seems nobody can really say what exactly about this design says ‘advertisement’?

I get the feeling Mr. Mod’s tweet caught fire because of the sentiment, of Google oppression and dominance, and not many stopped to think what in particular about the design they don’t like.

Personally there is nothing immediately offensive to the way the results look. In fact I might argue it’s actually a good esthetic. I like seeing the favicon @ the top, and it does mimic the way mobile search results have looked for a while now. Nobody freaked out about that change?

If the anger over this is because people think this is a dark pattern, trying to obfuscate the difference between advertisements, that might not necessarily be wrong. But progression has been happening for a long time now. The picture in the article shows that at least since 2013, they eliminated the different color background that used to highlight ads. So it’s been a good 7 years since ads were nearly indistinguishable from regular results.
I remember in my high school every computer was a windows machine that ran Novell Net ware on boot. So some dude brought in a Linux distribution on a diskette and found he could mount anything on the network and do as he pleased.

He was honest and had a crowd of people around him including staff as he did it, which was No Fun At All.
This site also invites me to run a pile of code shipped from it: http://www.kermitproject.org/ckscripts.html

-- so yes, it matters that I'm actually talking to kermitproject, and they should go get a LE cert.
Google Launches Dataset Search
I don't agree with the article (mainly because I consider that switching to https is free enough for anyone doing web hosting), but still, the point is pretty clear. https feels like red herring.

When we say "MITM" who is this man?
In most cases, the only two valid responses really are "my ISP", and "the service's hosting provider".

https doesn't securize against evil hosting provider.

When using Chrome+https, vs Firefox+http, in one case you give your data to your ISP, in the other case to Google.

Google's primary focus is using my personal data. My ISP's primary focus is giving me Internet.
Google is making fuss about https, to feed noise about Google itself.

Yes, I totally agree that best is to simply Firefox https.
Yes, I'm totally dismissing the issue of rogue networks. But >80% of the population uses Google, I believe that less than 20% of the population is using rogue networks.
What about the issue of broken WiFi security? Well, the point stands: https is so much of a red herring, that everyone forgets to fix WiFi.
Understand WebAssembly Text Format – WTF to Wat
The outcome here was 1 less problem.
Well that’s what I meant by “opening up the wall”.
My own website is on HTTP because I mainly edit it and browse it on old computers where modern encryption is not available[0]. I assumed it would be the same reasoning here, as who else is using Kermit in 2020?

Is anyone here using Kermit? Would love to know what for. Website seems to suggest it's for embedded systems, but I've only seen TFTP used in those cases.

[0] http://www.kalleboo.com/retrotech/screenshots/powerbook-145b...
Modern desktop CPUs require blobs to boot (Intel FSP / AMD AGESA), Intel laptops (except Chromebooks) are especially bad because Boot Guard. Anything with Allwinner/Rockchip/NXP/Marvell SoCs is not nearly as closed.
As someone who's vaguely aware of the workings of GA but not sufficiently immersed to fully grok your piece, could I suggest that some concrete specification of "geometric antiproduct" would be useful?

Googling for that phrase turns up exactly one page :)
It is. Main differences:

- User data is end-to-end encrypted.

- Super simple SDK.

- Predictable pricing. (You won't need a cost calculator.)

- 100% open source, MIT licensed.
I got your link from an older post about Phoenix on HN. It’s really well done (as some replies to you on the older thread said)!

Have you, by any chance, tried Hammerspoon (hammerspoon.org)? That seems to be tool with a broader feature set compared to Phoenix. I was looking for some kind of well analyzed and written comparison.
It doesn't work indeed.
Off the top of my head there is an as_type method to set a column to a type.

You can also choose how to fill None values, namely what value you want instead. See fill_na function
No, it was Jacob Marttinen, one of Byte's engineers. He was killed last June (hit by a car).
> Tickets cover half of operating costs in New York, but all of operating costs in London.

According to Wikipedia New York has a farebox recovery ratio of 47% and London has 65%.
Whenever I hear people complain about Google and that they'll switch to a competitor, I'm reminded of the "Delete Facebook" memes that happened, only to have FB reach a new user record every subsequent month.

Don't be deluded by the HN bubble. I like DDG and am glad it exists, but it's usage in a year is probably what Google gets in a few minutes, and I'm willing to bet that ratio hasn't really improved significantly for years.
As firms collect their data, employees learn to game the system
You can do that in certain parts of the US. Idaho and Alaska for example largely fit your descriptions.
That is my point
Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS (2018)
Are you aware of anybody asking them, or is that a hypothetical?
If you liked this experience then try the cave experience: you retriet into a 100% dark room (with a toilet attached) with only water and some fruits (a few per each day) for 3-5 days.
No devices no toys nothing that can keep you busy. Just you your inner self the dark and the air you breave.
That's good to see! If I remember right, the last Google Phone with mainline support was a Nexus 5.
As did the USA, see the 2018 CLOUD Act.
I didn't down vote you, but in any case, that's not what I said. I should have been clearer, my bad.

I said we'd store the user's key in local storage referring to the user's randomly generated key our client uses to encrypt data before sending to the server.

Passwords are never stored in plaintext anywhere. We don't even send passwords to the server in plaintext -- we hash passwords client-side.

But yes, even storing the key in plaintext in local storage has undesirable properties, which is why it's opt in. But an app that encrypts data with a key stored in local storage has a significantly higher level of privacy than an app that sends all data in plaintext to the server for storage.
Drag drop swap like Trello
You forgot to put journalists in quotes.
> If you want a thriving internet, fix that.

If you want a thriving internet, get out of the way. Too many big companies and governments are trying to force us to see only certain things.

Stop that! Back to the early 90's.
I’ve been noticing recently that a lot of non-technical people have been complaining about how Google doesn’t work as well as it used to.
I didn't confuse anything. I specifically mentioned Rails before listing those drawbacks you quoted.
The new look is annoying, but in my case I'm running a PiHole server. Clicking on ads just presents me with a page not found error.

I guess if I really get tired of the new look, there's other options out there. DuckDuckGo is great and I use them occasionally. Bing actually isn't terrible either, so there's alternatives out there. Maybe I'll give some others a try for a while.
"We find null and empty values in your tables and Excel files and prompt your users to fix them" sounds like a 10 dollar idea. How are you going to get employees and investors to really jump on board with that.

"We revolutionize Enterprise Data Quality with next generation AI in the cloud" sounds better to employees, investors, and in some cases buyers
Guile 3 and Guix
>> The rules are stupid and inefficient

My go-to example for this is the radiological accident at the irradiation
facility in Nesvizh, Belarus, in 1991. The International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) has a report here: [1]. It's fascinating reading.

To summarise, the facility in Nesvizh was a common type of irradiation faciity
where product, such as food or medical equipment, is sterilised by circulating
it around a radiation source by a system of conveyors.

In Nesvizh, the conveyors would often jam and the operators of the facility
would have to shut down the irradiation process by storing the source in its
safe position inside a dry pit, then enter the irradiation chamber to un-jam
the conveyors [2].

The day of the accident, the operator circumvented all the safety procedures
and entered the irradiation chamber when the source was in the unsafe position
(he thought it was secured). What is really striking is that he would have had
to work really hard to circumvent the physical safety mechanisms in place to
stop this from happening. The irradiation chamber was built as a spiral maze
with thick concrete walls. The entrance to the maze was protected by a
retracting section of floor that exposed a "chasm" considered too deep and
long for a person to jump over it. The way to the center of the chamber, were
the source was, was lined with pressure plates and motion sensors that, if
tripped would trigger an alarm that would cause the source to be automatically
dropped in its safe position. It was basically like a room with traps in a D&D
dungeon.

And yet the operator of the facility managed to circumvent all those safety
mechanisms and accidentally kill himself as a result. He died before he could
explain how he did it- so for example noone has any idea how he managed to
cross the "chasm" in the entrance. But what seems reasonable to assume is that
he had done this many times before.

The reason he did it of course was that sticking to the safety procedures
meant that the operation of the facility would have to be stopped temporarily
- which slowed down production at the facility.

____________________

[1] https://www.iaea.org/publications/4712/the-radiological-acci...

[2] It seems this is a common occurrence in this kind of facility: there are
two other IAEA reports on radiological accidents that started with a conveyor
jam inside an irradiation chamber that caused operators to override safety
procedures. Look for the IAEA reports on the radiological accidents in San
Salvador, El Salvador in 1989 and in Soreq, Israel, in 1990.
I get how extremely frustrating and angering this must be! I’d recommend chatting with Apple Support or calling Apple Support first, since there’s no way to do anything similar with Google (AFAIK).

Not that this can prevent such an occurrence for others, but my guess is that providing a phone number while registering for Google services and verifying that number makes the user more trustworthy to Google than otherwise. This is a big compromise on privacy for someone like me (and I’ve anyway switched to other providers), but anyone who’s tied to Gmail/Google and does not want to use paid and better alternatives could probably benefit from this.
What if the reason they lost their password is their laptop died? Then the local storage is inaccessible, and the key is lost too.
How do I do that these days? Every Google account appears to need a hard (non voip) phone number attached to it.
> I don't really get the logic by which someone letting people find you, should pay for that privilege.
Images ends up being more of a media platform than search engine. I'm rarely looking for a site. Doesn't seem too weird that they could pay for some of the content
Yep we publish a UMD build you can grab here:

https://unpkg.com/browse/miragejs@0.1.33/dist/
That was the day I signed up. My first post was asking for Arc to be released!

We're only a handful of years away from the first person being accepted in to YC that wasn't born yet. Time flies.
Was a genuine question. Interesting, didn't know that, thanks for the background.
End-to-end encryption is one of the main features of the product. Since the key is user-controlled, there will always be something that the user must keep and never lose. For this first version, we chose to make that thing the user’s own password.

Other end-to-end encrypted apps (such as password managers) have the same requirement. Sometimes the password is resettable, but you have to keep another key. But there’s always something that would lock you out if you lose it.
Why not just an airplane ridesharing project? Uber is all about getting around legislative lockin, and the private airline industry is quite locked down legislatively. And, I believe there would be great amount of value for individuals to catch local hops, especially those who work in the city but want to live a fair distance away. I don't know why this hasn't been done yet.
Everyone says "it goes so fast" and I always smiled and nodded because sleepless nights with an infant dragged on. Then I blinked and they were 1 and 3.
There's an electron-based desktop app.

https://github.com/tefter/desktop
Activision Blizzard to use Google Cloud as new hosting infrastructure
Simple reporting with relevant metrics, not logs.
Blitline Is Down
Looks like Blitline is completely down. Even their website is inaccessible. Statuspage reports green though :/ https://blitline.statuspage.io/
I'm sure they still get plenty bored at school
Show HN: A tiny brainfuck interpreter written in Rust
Testing and Comparison of YouTube Alternatives: Flote, Bitchute, LBRY and IPFS
If you take the present journalism climate as the norm, these rules are radical. Can you imagine CNN reporting on Trump voters and following rule #6? Or reporting on Trump and following rule #5, #11?
As someone who has only ever lived in a European city, this is very hard to imagine :)

Do you have any ballpark figures as in how remote those watermills are? Like.. next road is 10km? 50km? Are there even roads to your property?
I guess, it does fit the common dictionary definitions though. Other companies in the space do not charge such fees.
> Easy, either implement a decimal type

Great, how do you become confident that your hand-rolled decimal type is less buggy than the known hazards of using floating-point?
It's the user's key in plaintext, not the password.
This is why I think dev needs way stronger hierarchy. The typical flat hierarchies are trash for maintaining long term quality code and thus productivity.

All juniors should have to PR everything through seniors. All mids should have to PR at least a portion to seniors. All seniors should be vetted by the best dev the business can afford. That's the age old master-journeyman-apprentice structure, tried and tested.

At my firm, attempting to weasel out of that mentorship responsibility, such as seniors just clicking through trash PRs, or much much worse: trying to falsely automate it with git hook stuff, gets a "are you asking me to put you on a performance improvement plan?".
This is just tech being reset to the rational expectations of any other industry. How many new businesses outside of tech can get a decade of runway to exit or show a profit? Quora et al are just the beginning and there is a lot of deadwood to be cleared out. The expectations of the last decade - that you could just get a company to a reasonable point of maturity and then just wait to be acquired - are no longer valid.

Instead of bemoaning this reality check we should all be grateful that so much of the world's wealth was redirected into overcompensating us for unproductive work for so long. How many of us are paid over $200k to perform unprofitable work? Its crazy! But its been going on so long it has become accepted as the norm.

Larger/profitable tech giants surely recognize there is no need to rush in an acquire startups for a premium...they will soon all be on the clearance rack...no one believes the valuations these companies and their VCs assign themselves anymore. Quora valued at $2 billion? I doubt they could get an offer for more than $100 million at this point.

Interestingly since so much of the deadwood never made it to IPO, this culling could end up being a nonevent to investors. They'll stay invested in AAPL and MSFT and not miss Bay Area private startups imploding.
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Refactoring Applications for Cloud Migration: What, When, and How
Literally NOTVINE joke coming true :D)))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGDJkqESz0k
A square mile is 2.6 square km. You are replying to someone who said it would be hard to destroy thousands of square km of panels. It would seem that your reply, that "it is…easy…to…destroy a square mile of panels or more with a single warhead", is not to the point.

However, by coincidence, your position is right, for two reasons:

1. Single nuclear warheads routinely have blast radii of tens of km rather than, as you suggest, hundreds of meters. So in fact a single warhead can indeed destroy thousands of square km.

2. 1000km² of solar panels would be 1000 GWp; at a low-cost module price of €0.19/W (the average for 2019) that's €190 billion. Currently solar plants are not built that large, nor nearly so.
I've had a similar experience with spying software in University. The instructor was bragging about the spying tool during a lesson. Driven by disgust of being watched I quickly identified the remote host and port. Hacked together a shell script to flood the host with spoofed connections. While this was going on the command server was projecting it's video signal to a large screen at the front of the room. I watched with glee as the active clients preview thumbnails of the spy app slowly filled with fake clients. Very soon the machine locked up and became unresponsive. The instructor became noticably flustered I raised my hand and claimed responsibility. I was excited to explain how I did it and discuss but instructor was not interested at all.