skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> wasn't just calling the businesses, I was showing up at their offices to ask for meetings.

That's tough stuff. I've done the same, and while it feels good when you're able to talk in detail with a business owner, I didn't come away with actionable things usually. There just isn't a good substitute to being embedded in an industry.

Michael, work part-time in a warehouse (as manual labor) handling stone for 3-6 months. Guaranteed you'll come away with more problems than you can solve.
Hacker News hug of death took it down.
At this stage it is not actually important if anyone could be hurt or dies. The topic is the global state of human rights and persecution of criminals in important positions. Hundreds of millions gave their lives for our freedoms many of which didn't sign up for it. We want future generations to enjoy those freedoms. Trading them for some claims of endangerment is not a good deal.
As predicted in Contagion (2011).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_(2011_film)#Scientif...
Well yes, but the upside of standards is that you are not beholden to a single company that could at any point try to create vendor lock-in and force you to pay an unfair price.
This is nothing new. There were flamewars on USENET in 1989.
> Do you know _why_ this uptick has happened? Does anyone?

Lookup Overton Window Shift.
This has been pointed out in previous threads, but this Twitter is full of alarmist unscientific BS and it appears to be spammed with some regularity on HN recently.
We already know for sure that the initial cases did not originate in the seafood market and that the market was just an infection vector for subsequent cases.

Recently available data shows that the first few cases happened in November.
This will be true of economies that go through quick growth. It’s already hit Japan and led to the “lost decades”, it will hit China in 20 years or so...

But the issue is more complex. Today there is global competition and your jobs (never mind promotions) get shipped off.

So they don’t even have a chance at a working stiff’s job at all. That’s where desperation comes from.
Evidence of anything would be scarce or nonexistent. It's Afghanistan. Would you want your name out there cooperating with the US when the Taliban is still around? Would you be comfortable with that?
The Chinese government has done a lot worse to its own people without being "sloughed" off in living memory.
I use Keybase as a daily driver and I really love the platform, but almost every other chat client I use when switching from Keybase feels butter smooth in comparison. These tools look like a great addition, and the Stellar integration is something I think has a lot of potential if it ends up being able to manage other wallets as well.

I just really wish more love would go into the UX of the application. I have duplicate undeletable conversations with contacts, duplicate folders in KBFS that I cannot delete or access which cause I/O errors in tools that do full system scans. I keep running into errors in the UI with obscure error codes that I keep reporting to no avail. There are currently 3,292~ open issues on Github at the time of writing so it's difficult to track what the team is focusing on.

Everything feels just a little too janky.

Still, I don't believe there is any other decent alternative to Keybase that offers the same identity based mechanism for communication, and Keybase absolutely nails that. I can message half the users on HN with very little friction. People can encrypt and send me documents without registering with a single page view. A bit of polish and I think Keybase could shine, but right now It's hard to suggest as a Slack alternative.
I know that specifically on reddit, most posts related to the lab theory are deleted on the main pages and subreddits for this virus. For me it's been fascinating to watch the curation and deletion of content that has been evolving over the last few days.

I agree that anything with intentional leaking is really far into conspiracy theory land, but the idea that it was a leak is not so crazy.
"...unlikely to be fortuitous."

Ignoring the odd word-choice, this ties in to the conspiracy theory that this was a Wuhan biolab containment leak.

I have been writing it off as a crackpot conspiracy until now, depending on peer review.
Dark patterns to push opiates results in fine
>fortuitous

Happening by a lucky chance.

It's implying it was inserted on purpose... (Sorry had to look up that meaning.)
The "toxic" people are trying to be honest about real issues, and they tend to get shouted down for it. Then the real issues persist, decade after decade, but they cannot be talked about, it's too politically incorrect. A few more people try, get shouted down, rinse and repeat the process.

Then people wonder why a segment of the population is extremely cynical and bitter and polarized when it comes to any sort of debate on controversial issues...

>I've found that when I actually talk to so-called "toxic" people politely, they are willing to listen. It's not them that are causing the polarization.

Agree 100%.
I think the important things to know here are:

1. A group of scientist have submitted a manuscript for review with a number of exceptionally (and uncharacteristically) bold claims.

2. A huge amount of scrutiny and additional reproducibility will necessarily need to be conducted before conclusions of this nature can be drawn.

3. This manuscript hasn't even passed the normal muster... a biorxiv post isn't much different than a Medium post. Claims like these require many eyes.

EDIT: My sentiment echoed by someone who know more than I https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1223325141364592640?s=...
Interesting article - but it's even worse than that. I had a friend of mine who is a lawyer at a large hospital system. When the boomer head of the legal department retired they gave him the same job she had with half of the salary. Even when the boomer blockade stands down, what's left isn't what it used to be.
Good Sentences Are Why We Read
The article addresses how to handle buns, but that part of the article isn't in the screenshot:

>Most people eat Beyond Burgers with ketchup and a bun, but those are hard to fit into a keto diet, so you might have to get creative. Consider crumbling your Beyond Burger over a salad with fresh tomatoes and a keto-friendly salad dressing. Or try out one of these delicious keto burger recipes.

https://isitketo.org/beyond-burger
FYI: on isitketo.org/cream-cheese, the link to "keto dessert recipes" is broken (it's an internal link). Looks like it's being prefixed with the domain and the url ends up having two http segments.
By what metric was this shown to not work?

I've been on lots of forums where the only rules were "no personal attacks and no porn" and they worked just fine. If the forum has a topic, then moderating to keep on topic is reasonable. Polite disagreement and discussion is the hallmark of a healthy forum.

There is of course more to curating a community than its moderation policy.
Worse than creating a super plague?
Haha, I like conspiracy theories. While we're at it: 
Isn't it convenient that it appeared smack bang in the middle of China right about 2x incubation periods before Chinese New Year, the greatest annual migration in human history? Also that it's the first major virus outbreak to be described to the public as driven by asymptomatic carriers? And right after a 'trade war'? Before an election? What's to say it wasn't a ... drumroll please ... foreign or rogue scientist bioweapon?
 cue for Dr. Evil cat stroking
Hardware Hacking: SWD, OpenOCD and Xbox One Controllers
If you are trying to quit social media, you have to find something more interesting and engaging to do so that social media becomes the gorilla that you fail to pay attention to.
But that's a big deterrent for a lot of people. Odin, Zig, and the like are languages that can be used right now. Yeah, they're not mature yet, but you don't have to wonder what it is like to program in them, and you can start building familiarity with them today.
I'm not sure that realizing your totalitarian government is more dangerous and less principled than you thought is going to encourage rebellion.
Its not! The vast majority of languages are garbage collected high level languages. How many non-GC'd C replacement languages have been created? Seems like there are only a handful. Hardly bikeshedding.
Very true but but people are better informed and are no longer powerless peasants and roboter. They have a bit more self determination.
Well how far do you go with the river? Aligning with select means group by sticks out. Aligning with group by means left join sticks out. Aligning with left join means inner join sticks out.

EDIT: feel free to show me something better..
Does that mean you never worked for a company (in an IP-related job), or actually managed to find companies who hired you without signing a contract? If the latter, what kind of companies do that?
Ecotaylor – World's first eco-voice assistant
> So, in summary, the cable Apple gives you works with other manufacturers chargers, and the charger Apple gives you works with other phones, using a standard USB-C cable that, I would imagine, came with the phone.

The point is you still need extra stuff just to charge your phone when you switch manufacturer. So what apple provides is in fact not a "common charger", but merely a transformer+rectifier that, using additional equipment, can be made into a "common charger".
Realized two things -

1. I don't have money for investing in marketing and paid-advertizing.

2. Importance of building a dedicated audience/community.

What I had was time. So, I spent 6 months on Instagram building a community without any ads and totally relying on organic reach. Added ton of value. Build an email list of 500 people.

Also little things

- having an email list where every subscriber is double opt-in, helped in increasing the opening rates 10X.

- getting the subscribers after showing the product increased the final conversion rates 30X. Earlier I just asked for an email subscription for notification of new blog posts. Then mailed all of them the Kickstarter link. Two people backed.
Successful persuasion stories are always interesting to me, but at over 2.5 hours I'm unlikely to watch this whole thing. Can you please list some key takeaways? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGTQ0Wj6yIg
Good point. I was framing the conversation with 4chan as a whole, not just /b/. Big difference.
Looks promising and definitely that can have a huge commercial value.
I'm curious about how you establish context for code-search?
Also, how do you decide on how to rank the result based on a single string?
Hey Dhruv, thanks for reading! Always fun to hear from you again.
If someone with deep pockets may be liable, there will be a well funded effort to debunk this.
I don't want experience.

I want people with less time to become endebted to corporate M.I.C. scumbags who have financial/personal blackmail on those people.
This particular person doesn't seem to be an example of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Ding

He's also calling for confirmation before everyone goes nuts:

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1223325141364592640
I have allergies and my nose runs a lot. Somehow I manage to not throw my tissues on the ground.

Is it so hard to carry an ash box with a cigarette box?
I don't know if it's lucky that the job didn't just cease to exist or not in that case. I know when my father retired his job disappeared. One could ask if the job was that important if they could remove it, but in this case it was deemed non-vital, so no effort was made to replace him.

Ironically, it was focused on evaluating ways to transfer knowledge to new hires to account for the brain drain incurred due to retiring boomer population.
People should note that this isn't usually how we construct compilers in industry today.

(This comment is posted every time but it's true.)
while halving seems extreme, this isn't that ridiculous when you think about it (nor is it uncommon). The previous head of legal had probably been getting promotions for many years as (s)he continued to grow and become better at the role. Whenever I am promoted, I don't expect my entry salary will be identical to someone with the same title and 10 more years of experience doing the job.
Fun fact: If you use muscle memory, coming from a German non-Mac keyboard layout to a Mac keyboard layout you'll end up constantly closing applications.
The combination for @ on non-Mac keyboards is AltGr + Q and on Mac is Alt+L. Now if you use your left hand to type @ the AltGr key is roughly where the Command key is on an Apple keyboard. Thus you end up pressing Command + Q: quit.
It's great fun when adding additional recipients to a lengthy email you are writing. Thank god for auto save and terminal buffers.
> One example shows [...]

Yes,

printf("Hello, World!\n");

shows an awareness of the security issue and good habit being used.

printf("%s\n", "Hello, World!");

shows that you think "%s\n\0Hello, World!" (or however the compiler decides to lay out those strings) can't be overwritten with "%p%nHello, World!" (or something to that effect), but "Hello, World!\n" somehow can.
Virtually everyone can agree that toxic voices are undesirable, it's the equivalent of saying "evil people should be in jail"

Well, of course, but it's our inability to mutually agree on the terms "bad" and "toxic" that makes this policy fundamentally impractical, and freedom of expression the only workable solution.

These are not new problems, they're old problems in a new suit.
> A popular open-source project could yield more long-term value for one's career than an unprofitable or barely profitable "lifestyle business".

Only as a launchpad for another job or consulting gigs, no? What if he wants to work solo?
Analysis of early transmission of 2019-nCoV and implications for outbreaks
Hardly; toxic isn't a word for 'people speaking their minds' or 'speaking up about problems'. It's someone who is abusive, unsupportive, or unhealthy emotionally towards others and in some forms themselves. Or so the dictionaries say.
Harvesting organs from political prisoners is pretty bad.
Yes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

> A lower-end estimate is 18 million and upper estimates find that some 45 million people died.

That's more than virtually all epidemics. Black Death, Spanish flu, and (maybe) HIV exceed it.
Indeed, but the provided scan states there will be two documents about the interrogation and a separate PM. This is why I said Melzer was wrong.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200131195339/https://www.biorx...
Website's currently down:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200131200026/https://think-bou...
Nike’s Vaporfly running sneakers to be allowed in 2020 Olympics
This is especially interesting since there have been reports that China was testing HIV treatments on patients with the coronavirus:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-abbvie-hiv/c...
All the drones I’ve seen have relatively limited weapons capacity. Nothing close to the A-10. I do agree this is probably the future, but we’re not there yet.
I wonder if this could happen because someone with a retrovirus got both infections at once?
Perhaps the US and EU will put aside squabbles caused by the trade war to have a united front against China?
> The real problems come when you try to use the SMTP gateway. It's quite slow and unreliable and doesn't really work for parallel workloads.

Ah, that's helpful to know. I would normally have wanted to use the SMTP gateway as a more portable API, to avoid tying things to Amazon-specific APIs. But it sounds like doing so would add substantial fragility.
That largely depends on the credibility of the source of the Twitter posts. The author in the referenced thread does seem to be a legitimate commentator on the subject.
"The transport HMS Chepstow Castle, carrying troops from New Zealand to the front, coaled at Freetown on August 26 and 27; within three weeks, out of her 1,150 men, inﬂuenza struck down nine hundred of them."

This doesn't sound right, so I looked into it. It could have been the HMS Chepstow (Chepstow Castle seems to have been cancelled from Wikipedia), but other sources [1] put the fatality number at 68 for that sailing which sounds more realistic.

900 out of 1150 would be above Ebola rates and that would have been very quick for such a mortality rate.

[1] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KYtAkAIHw24C&pg=PA38&lpg...

Edit: Actually your source was correct, you just cut them off early which gave a very misleading impression, it said 38 of them died. Always good to be critical....
You know, every time I read something on Assange, I see all of these hot takes based on incorrect information and part of me is starting to think that one should have to take some kind of quiz on the actual facts of the case and receive a passing grade before commenting.

The other part of me is kind of impressed on the hatchet job done on his reputation that has led to such conveniently incorrect "knowledge" of the situation.
As someone who had a seven year account banned from YC previously for debating against socialism, you're wrong. Regular debate is labeled toxic all the time if you are anywhere to the right of pure Marxism on the political scale.
In terms of paid marketing - zero.
In terms of time spent - 6 months.

I spent lot of time in building a 69k strong community over Instagram. No ads, no shoutouts from influencers, no usage of promotions from others.

Added valuable posts every day. Interacted with fans regularly. Cared for them.

In previous attempts I was in the false illusion of "make it and they will come".
The difference is in being abusive or not, just like freedom is not absolute or in one direction; i.e. in the example of your freedom ending where someone else's freedom begins.
Definitely interested and would love to be a beta-user.
I do not "think he's guilty", but thanks for trying to discredit me by labeling me like that anyway.
Very sorry for being late. Got a call.
Does anyone know the extent of the symptoms of 2019-nCoV? Does the virus get fully expelled from a person when they are recovered? Or is there a secondary effect / reemergence?
Even notepad can do \n-only newlines these days. Zig can't do UTF-16 files either, but no one complains about that.
Cybersecurity lacking at most of the world’s major airports
Maybe we should wait for peer review before we jump to any conclusions.
I don't know if it is allowed. This is my my first post on HN. You asked so posting.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rajarjit/the-rocket-dec...
Jeff Bezos met FBI investigators in 2019 over alleged Saudi hack
> Anyway, that was true until somebody jiggered the Standard, just before 1998, to require a NUL visible to s[s.size()].

This is not technically true. You could plugin your hated NUL byte in the implementation of operator [].

> C Code that depends on NUL termination is ubiquitous.

No, that's not what I said.
It really doesn't matter what language underlying the API of all the code that expects NUL terminated strings is written in (a lot of it is C++ of course too). Windows, MacOS, and all POSIX-ish systems have a large API that consumes NUL terminated strings. NUL terminated strings are ubiquitous in computing at this point. Sure blame C from 40 years ago and burn a dmr effigy, I don't care, but that battle was long lost.

NUL terminated strings may be terrible, but the C++ accomodation for them is not -- its a well-thought out trade-off. My understanding is that neither go nor Rust make this trade-off. golangs FFI and syscall overhead has always been something of a performance disaster anyway. C++ has always had a greater demand to "play nice" with legacy code and systems then either of those.

The overhead of just having the NUL-byte is almost always a non-factor. If it really is, then use a byte vector.
A limit of two terms in the US senate would still allow for a total career of 12 years — 4 years more than any president.

A 3-term cap would give 18 years, two more than any two presidents combined.

That’s a long way from being a newbie.
>ve seen firsthand in my career that people who were open to opportunities advanced much farther than I did because I closed myself to all of them, waving them away, acting cynical about the whole endeavor. I wish I hadn't done that. I just wasn't seeing what my coworkers were seeing.

I needed to read that. Thank you.

The internet is becoming more obviously homogeneous and obviously a hive mind. It's been trending that way for years, but it's going to lead to They Live being remade or a war of independence or both.
IncoherentInstances?
> are there many people available but nobody to pay

This. I personally would not have any problem doing a job like that.
Why Sisi is much worst than Assad? The Assad family controlled and butchered the Suni majority for generations, it already started with his father butchering 20k people in Hama, how is Sisi compared to that? Sisi just a secular guy who seems to be a bit too friendly with America and Israel which brings the ire of many extreme Muslims, especially the Muslim brotherhood types which Obama used to love so much. Is it so bad to be secular and peaceful?
> There is just as much money to be made in tearing down a civilization as in building one up.

Do you think Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates agree with this statement?
Does free speech include yelling down other speakers? In the physical world this rarely happens. But spamming and vandalizing an intelligent conversation with sock-puppets and intentionally disingenuous posts is trivial and universal on the web.

Consider a parallel phenomenon: I notice there is outrage among gamers when cheating happens. But ironically cheating in conversation causes less active outrage. Both of these behaviors happen easily on the web but are difficult in real life. Maybe because conversation destroying behavior is less well understood or more stealthy. Maybe because it's so unimaginable in real life, people aren't used to dealing with it. Whatever the cause it's absurd that for games the problem is solved more zealously than in conversations that have serious impact.
So what is the probability that a lab that works with HIV normally, now working under extreme pressure, contaminated or mixed up a sample?

And what is the probability that this is not just a third type of major coronavirus, but in fact a secret bioweapon?

Knowing how commonly there are arguments about mixed up samples in the biolabs friends work in, I know where I would place my bets.
That actually doesn't matter.

Remember, the point of debating publicly isn't to persuade the person you are debating, it's to persuade the people reading the debate.
Potential Origin of 2019-NCoV as a Bioweapons Research Breach
The problem isn't "RHEL ships ancient PHP for legacy apps".

The problem is "RHEL doesn't also ship newer PHP as an alternative and you need to instead rely on third-party repositories".
JavaSoft Ships Java 1.0 (1996)
Ignoring the political implications, how would HIV insertions change the virulence and epidemiology of the infection?
Is it an extraordinary claim? The sequence matching should be easy to verify as the genome has been published. If the sequences are short or common enough maybe it would be a more likely coincidence.

That said: What are the priors on a "natural" virus erupting in the only city in China with a level 4 biohazard facility?

Source:
http://english.www.gov.cn/state_council/ministries/2018/01/0...