skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are 23 genome publicly available, And it’s closely identifies with existing coronavirus from bats and are further away from SARS. I am not a biologist, tell me should I trust the existing science or your story? It was said that the virus might not have originated from the market itself, people who actually raised or caught these wild animals might have gotten it first. But to make a jump from that to the biolab is exactly like how the US flag looked like wind blew on it and we never went to the moon.

I’ll believe it when NIH or CDC publish corroborating evidence. Or are they part of the ‘system’ to you?
Highly recommended! This book is relatively easy to understand, and guides the reader toward the practical application of causal concepts, eg in the realm of epidemiological research.

Judea Pearl’s book, by the way, accomplishes neither of those things (although it certainly is proof that he’s very smart).
Frankly, if you can't do this part on your own, you're gonna fail anyway.
I think consequences are an illusory deterrent personally. People thought real name policies would help. Even with people losing jobs over posting the needle didn't move.

In truth consequences can be an incentive for bad actors. To them saying offensive things and getting a burner account banned is boring compared to tricking people into getting banned.
This is the problem I see with a lot of developers - not just those looking to be entrepreneurs.

They want “interesting problems” instead of just trying to create products that someone is willing to pay for.
Except they didn’t have the same stance under Obama whose administration used stingrays prolifically as well.
Many if not all of the seasonal flu and coronaviruses have historically originated in Asia, specifically China.

A Chinese biologist told me it is because poor Chinese people in rural areas very often overwinter their geese and pigs,etc in the 1st level of the house, some even sleep with them like pets (before they eventually eat them, how touching).
That explains the increased levels of animal to human transition of these viruses.
From the most recent wireguard-linux-compat release notes:

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-January/004...

> Please note that until Linux 5.6 is released, this snapshot is a
snapshot rather than a secure final release.

In other words, over the next ~10 weeks, Linus' kernel tree and Dave Miller's net.git tree will fill up with nice stabilization patches. At the end of that process, 5.6 will be released. At that time, our backports to older kernels (wireguard-linux-compat) will also become a "1.0". This also lines up with the 20.04 LTS release and such.
True, but it doesn't have to have as large a reach, because it's presenting a more consistent anti-vax opinion.

An anti-vax post on a FB newsfeed is quite likely to have counterarguments. An anti-vax website is unlikely to run into such problems.

And going back to the original post: does "vaxxers on FB, anti-vaxxers elsewhere" sound like more polarisation, or less?
The case they mention was about tracking someone who re-entered illegally. How else are they to get people to comply? Send them a nice note to comply?

Many people who are left to on their on recognizance never show up to their court dates.
I have to wonder why. I would expect that the technology and mitigations are fundamentally the same. Perhaps the difference is cultural.
a possible solution is that hospitals and police might have escalated dial-in privileges where they cause the phone to ring, irrespective of user-set conditions. so long as these privileges cannot be spoofed, this might take care of what is an important corner case. i myself would rather get a call than deal with a VM in a true emergency.
Right, that's the plan.
> They force you to write a declarative grammar which a human can understand.

The problem is many languages' grammars are not declarative. They're full of completely uncontrolled side effects. So why are we trying to use a declarative tool for them? It's the wrong tool for the job.
As also a father of three, the only significant kid-related expense we have currently (wife stays home with them) is the extra food they eat.

Basically that just means we don't go out to eat that often. Kids eating grocery store food is pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things (though I hear this changes once they get to their teenage years).
> And studies have shown that banning hate sub-Reddits does _not_ cause that content to “pop up elsewhere”, it causes it to decline overall.

Could you provide a source for this?
> So simply saying "go meet many business owners" doesn't help, unless you can also explain the how.

There are like eight zillion guides to doing this online, and unless you're willing to spam people, it always boils down to: Grind it out. Start making cold pitches, and hustle for as many warm intros as possible.

Learn sales y'all.
> Do you think that the average person sharing false stores on Facebook is capable of (a) finding and (b) sharing a website created by some random anti-vaxxer?

Yes. Why would they not be?
$3,000 for the hand - according to the article, “Imported prostheses cost 30 to 40 thousand dollars, while we have reduced this price by around 90%.”

Instead try FREE:

https://www.ln4handproject.org/impact

https://www.ln4handproject.org/become-a-partner-organization
"Who is the arbitrator of an obvious lie[?]" Easy. The final arbitrator is the owner of the platform. It is just one platform. If a platform becomes ban-happy, you can simply walk away, even if you weren't personally banned. Hacker News has plenty of rules and standards, and it will quickly mute and ban someone who violates even a subset of them. That is absolutely not a problem, and the platform is better off for it. It probably has a much larger userbase as a result, so the population of Hacker News users is dynamic, and HN can make decisions that benefit a lot of future users at the expense of a few current users. Why shouldn't HN be viewed negatively for that, but other platforms should? Isn't that arbitrary?

~Thought exercise~: Let's say you were the mayor of a large city. There are multiple areas in the city where you can shout whatever you want during certain hours. Would you let someone hook up an internet-connected megaphone in each area and pipe in hate speech everywhere simultaneously? And what if we were in a future where there were physical bots indistinguishable from humans that crowded into those public spaces, vociferously indicated their agreement, and cheered him on?

That future is now.

In reality, Facebook owns those public spaces. No one actually goes to that spot in the park anymore. Mark Zuckerberg is the mayor. Oh, and it's not just one city, he's everyone's mayor, everywhere. If you don't use Facebook but you're on Whatsapp, you're still in his jurisdiction. As for the "during certain hours" part? Nope, those internet-connected megaphones are blasting 24/7. Those bots are nodding their heads 24/7. Our mayor also collects megaphone usage fees for himself. He gives you dopamine points, likes, and social validation each time you come back for more. Freedom, yeah.
Have you ever actually talked to people who are unlike you, or hold extremely different view points? Because this whole "the do not tolerate one iota of dissent or open discussion" is very far from my experience.

It's true, you usually can't engage people when they are pumped up on adrenaline shouting at each other on Twitter, but that's like jumping into the middle of a brawl and saying "those people will never be able to have a conversation" when they don't immediately stop fighting and listen to you. I've talked to people from far left to far right, from vegans to conspiracy theorists, and with very few exceptions, all of them were happy to explain their ideas and viewpoints and were pretty accepting when I expressed a different opinion. They may well believe that I'm wrong, but they didn't mind talking to me after learning where I disagree with them, and they didn't become combative either.

I believe a very important part about "open discussion" is to be honest and compassionate. Don't talk down to people, don't mock them, don't tell them they are scum, or evil, or destroying humanity etc and then say "they don't tolerate dissent" when really they just don't react kindly to hostile behavior.
Can some turn this in to non financial speak so that I can follow it? It sounds interesting but I don’t understand what he did.
Anyone considering this question should read Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason.

He considers if an AI could be a good judge, and decides that it would not. Even though all the facts, rules and heuristics could be fed into an AI judge, the element we would not be able to program is human compassion. He concludes that even though there are some tasks a computer might be able to do, there will always remain some decisions that should always be made by humans.
I'd probably pick the normal-normal conjugate prior, in precision form.
I was more curious on why they thought that would increase availability. It didn't seem like it would be constructive to speculate about why they chose that.

AWS doesn't guarantee that failures within an AZ are independent of each other, so it's not clear how you would estimate what availability you'd gain with this. Losing everything in an AZ + 1 instance sounds like a very unusual and specific scenario to design for.
IDK, if you're going to be non-standard might as well go all the way.
Their stance on civil liberties has been pretty consistent. All people are equal, and all are entitled to equal protection of their fundamental civil liberties. Their position on border control follows from this: you are entitled to civil liberties because you are human, not because you are an American citizen. There're some pragmatic limitations on this (there's little that the ACLU can do to protect the civil liberties of people residing in China or Russia, for example), but they've consistently fought to extend civil liberties to everyone - even, for example, American citizens of Iraqi descent residing in Iraq.

It's both of the major parties that have inconsistent stances on this, which can largely be summed up as "civil liberties for me, but not for thee". That's why the ACLU tends to get flack from both sides of the aisle. Both parties try to define one group of people as their "tribe" and maximize their own liberties, while defining another group as an outgroup and trying to deny their liberties. And it works: there's nothing quite so motivating as an outgroup. But I'm glad that there are organizations that take a principled, logical stance toward freedom without discriminating against who gets that freedom.
Reminds me of the time I went to career night at my high school. I went to the seminar on running your own business, and the speaker was a guy who ran a telemarketing shop.

This was the 1990s when telemarketing was new, and there were still a lot of people in the US who tolerated it.

The speaker had absolutely no shame about what he did.

Anyway, halfway through his session he went around the room soliciting business ideas. My idea was a telemarketer blocker. He quickly interrupted me to move on to the next kid.

If I was a little older I would have raised a huge stink.
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Maybe start in this extremely well-sourced article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-r...
I think it's simple: money.
Take away the financial incentive to create viral/outrage content.
seems like an issue that surveyors and engineers should be well acquainted with.
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I use Xmonad. It's configured with nine virtual desktops and the Windows key as <meta>. The official sample configuration was sufficient to write the Haskell.

I always open Firefox on desktop 5. Pressing Win+5 switches to virtual desktop five where my live Firefox session sits. Emacs sits on virtual desktop 2. And so forth. Conceptually, my virtual desktops are organized by task and it's just that Emacs and Firefox tend to be separate tasks. But I also move windows between desktops if it makes my work more efficient.

Good luck.
Great read with the logical analysis and openness lends well to success and navigating this adventure.

Doing your own products is definitely the way to go for sustainability. Just one big one or a few have to work. Focusing on products is nice as you don't have to work for clients but instead customers more which can be more rewarding and freeing. Having only a big client or a few end up dictating direction and freedom to pursue ideas.

Overall the experience on the business, marketing and promotions side is very helpful in all aspects of life.

I have been freelancing/contracting/product developing for 8 years full-time off of trying it for a year or two and have had to take clients/contracts here and there. This helps while you are building up products where needed. Though it isn't all bad doing contracts it can take time away but also help you, sometimes you learn about new problems and thus solutions that can become products when dealing with clients and unique industry problems. These problems can be hard to find if you aren't going through some of the pain points related to them.

I will say most products do take multiple years to make it so fail quickly and press the gas on momentum and projects that you lean towards or are more interesting. Pay attention mostly to external product user experience and presentation at this stage.

Good luck on your adventure and may your travels be rewarding personally and financially fruitful.
https://archive.org/details/netlabels Nobody mentions this one. It's a shame really because there's lot of tracks here. I guess Spotify etc. has beaten the scene.
Empathy is the one word that I think sums up the solution to this problem. And it is beyond just the web. It is a broad cultural problem in the US.

Speaking generally we've lost our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes.

This is the result of rampant tribalism and surely several other contributing factors including the gasoline of social media magnifying the issue.

We gotta just start empathizing more!
Currently reading a (French) book regarding France-China industrial espionage and relations that was published well before the virus outbreak. Funnily enough, the author describes quite extensively how this P4 in Wuhan came into existence and all the subsequent problems faced by France to get China to honor the deal.

I quote/translate: "In the course of these fifteen years, China has several times failed to live up to their engagement, staying relatively vague about the existence of an offensive biological program. Chinese officials had, for example, previously certified they had no other P4 and no plans to build any, but we now know they do have many, some being quite suspicious, a France official said".

The book is "France-Chine, les liaisons dangereuses" by Antoine Izambard, for those curious.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-sues-obama-administ...
Major ongoing stories, especially sensational ones like a new epidemic, lead to tons of copycat and follow-up posts. In order for the front page not to fill up with coronavirus stories, or some other sensation du jour, we try to downweight follow-up posts unless there is significant new information. Otherwise the threads fill up with repetition of what's already been said, wild speculation, or both.

We hit on the "significant new information" test after the Snowden storm of 2013, when users justly complained that the front page had become inundated with too many articles that added nothing substantial and were just triggering repeat threads. As a discussion becomes repetitive, it also tends to become wilder and more flame-prone—as if the mind has to resort to that to amuse itself, since there's nothing new to sink its teeth into.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Since HN's organizing value is intellectual curiosity, repetition and groundless speculation are among the things most to be avoided here. That's why we moderate that way.
Virtual machines are awesome and have many incredibly great uses. However, they aren't awesome for everything. I would personally tend to avoid machines if I couldn't run an OS on the bare metal for many purposes.
Probably this Georgia Tech article: http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf
> Sadly there are lots of reasonable-seeming right-leaning people whose discourse about 'real issues' sooner or later circles around to 'race realism' or 'the jewish question' or some other ideological Pandora's box. It's often later; a common rule of thumb among far-right extremists is that it takes at least 2 years to reliably indoctrinate a person online.

I think an equally large problem is reasonable-seeming left-leaning people who hold some opinions so spectacularly absurd in the name of ideology that it generates very fertile ground for right wing commentary to resonate.
Well, it worked for ZoL.

(I mean that in a positive way. I'm a fan of both... although only theoretically about WireGuard.)
Which means both of you would get a ticket/citation/fine/etc instead of just one of you.

Brake checking was a popular thing to do in my state before dashcams were so popular and affordable (assumes the person behind is at fault, but brake checking is also illegal). Someone with money is clearly able to afford dashcams, hence, don't brake check rich people thinking "they have more to lose than I do" because you just think it's only your car that's at stake.
>My point is that a communities' right to self-govern has very little to do with where you're allowed to freely move today -- it's a vast web of historical agreements, geopolitics, and the lottery of birth.

Historical agreements can be changed if there is political will, but of course inertia is important.

To put my answer to your question "Why should people in CA let people from OK move there?" in a different way, people from CA should allow people from OK to move there, and vice versa, because free movement between the two areas is a show of good faith. It tells the people of OK that the people of CA trust them not to exploit that privilege for their own gain, which is of course something that not everyone can be trusted not to do. Shows of good faith of that kind help both sides trust the other side more, to the point where they are comfortable with, for example, pooling military resources, which are absolutely critical to maintaining the future existence of both groups and are more effective when pooled.

Might the people of CA have enough in common with the people of London that each side could trust the other not to exploit their generosity? Maybe, but it takes quite a while for that trust to build.
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The iOS app is very bare-bones and it drops the connection once a day and doesn’t notify you about and doesn’t try to reconnect automatically. I hope Mullvad VPN will release their own app this year.
>Now it's invading your real life, your real-world friendships, your workplace, even your family.

I fully expect in the future for there to be a segment of the population that chooses to "drop out" of the always-connected digital social life for these reasons. And I don't just mean giving up Facebook, but going back to analog social circles only, as well as ignoring those who are still connected (and hooked) digitally.

I like to compare it to smoking. Imagine everyone got addicted to smoking, but you eventually wanted to quit because you realize how bad and addicting it is. Even if you quit though you'd still be hanging out with other smokers mostly, and breathing in that 2nd hand smoke. The only true way out would be to both quit and only hang out with non-smokers.

This won't be everyone of course. Like smoking, toxicity and polarization are too addictive, but I can see there becoming a counterculture that simply rejects all of it altogether.
I just met a founder in StartupSchool who is building this exact thing.

Here is their product: https://www.callstop.com/
Competitive analysis is different than cloning the look & feel of something. "They have a unified design style with very nice rounded corners throughout the OS, we should have our own unified design style with our own nice touches" is not the same thing as "we should copy their style wholesale". GM isn't making cars that look like Toyota's.
Maybe its lost in translation, but I doubt you can patent a name. Maybe copyright, or trademark?
Worth noting that the author is the guy behind this extremely interesting project to create a 4D puzzle game: https://miegakure.com/

He's given a lot of talks on subjects like this. I imagine that what he's doing mathematically is a lot more intricate than most games need though.
That sounds incredible. What kind of kernel-version differences are we talking about here? Basically... how many conflicts and what's the diffstats :)
That's way beyond me. What is a "philosophical super-hero" - in what way is any amount of philosophy heroic at all, let alone super-heroic?
The Comanche helicopter was subject to this dictum. The original drawings specified all metric fasteners. They found out nobody supplies aircraft grade metric bolts so everything had to be redesigned for the next size up in freedom-units with a corresponding weight penalty.
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Interesting. I've always thought that there's no real reason why e.g. Ruby has to be context-sensitive. Yes, I am aware of the fact that local variables are resolved statically, but do they have to be resolved during parsing? Couldn't they just be parsed as a method_call_or_var_lookup, and then later resolved? The main "feature" that Ruby's context-sensitive parser has is the ability to parse differently depending on what precedes it is a local variable or not, and I'm not sure if that's a good feature or not.

Are there other parts of Ruby's grammars that are also context-sensitive?

I'd say that Bison's biggest issue is that it's limited to LALR; if it actually supported full context-free grammars it would be far more useful.
sounds like an issue that can be mitigated by a simple $400 toilet seat built using tools from NBC protection arsenal like pressure differential - i.e. flush activates only when the seat is down and there is lower pressure by air suction from under the seat during and a bit after the flush. Probably can make for a small (what are the number of toilets in US hospitals? in the world? and also can be sold to some people who have some money to spare :) cottage business.
I read that insect protein is like 60% to 70% of the entire animal - - way higher than beef.

Pesticides will only further poison our world. What is needed is urgent development of monster military aircraft flying through locust storm with intense radar (microwaves) to fry them,ready to eat. Otherwise,there are at present many biological microbes that could be aerosolized to attack locusts:
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/focus/2006/1000345/index.html

BTW, Amazon reaches new high today, but is that the "top" ? Because all indicators are flashing red on the Chinese economy, which this coming Monday only about 1/3rd of factories to open,if that much,and so soon Amazon will run out of Chinese crap to sell, which is like 70% of their inventory . . .
see https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1223337991168380928
I don’t think it’s a dog whistle, because the ACLU is stating it openly and clearly: ICE and CBP are unconstitutionally violating our civil rights. Nothing winky or noddy about it, and good on them for not mincing words!
Deplatforming totally works, it quarantines the toxic people/ideas and doesn't allow them to spread further. Its fine if they move to voat or whatever, voat has orders of magnitude less people who use it casually, so there is a much lower opportunity for their message to spread.