skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I told you I was happy for anyone to debunk it, and I called them garbage references. :)

Thank you for letting me know the HIV paper was withdrawn, I confirmed this withdrawn status at this link:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1

Could you help me do the same thing and help me find a reference that mentions recombinant DNA can be natural?

This article defining recombinant DNA uses the term laboratory in the definition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinant_DNA
"Recombinant DNA (rDNA) molecules are DNA molecules formed by laboratory methods of genetic recombination."

Later it contrasts the word "recombinant" with natural recombination:

"Recombinant DNA differs from genetic recombination in that the former results from artificial methods in the test tube, while the latter is a normal biological process that results in the remixing of existing DNA sequences in essentially all organisms."

Can you give a reference in English that uses "recombinant" about any natural process? However it could be a translation error, so perhaps recombinant means artificial in English (per the reference I just gave) whereas perhaps the source they translated just mentions it is "genetic recombination" (not recombinant).

The Wikipedia article uses "laboratory method" and "artificial methods in the test tube" as explicitly contrasted with normal biological processes.

Just looking for a reference that this is not so.

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By the way the news you confirmed - i.e. "Chinese scientist made GMO human babies" IMO is much more salacious and spectacular than the news you debunked, so I am not sure why you took this tone with me.

It would be like if you debunked chemtrails and called me an idiot for asking you about it, while incidentally confirming that space aliens visited Earth but saying this has nothing to do with chemtrails. To my ears the idea of GMO babies, which you confirmed were being made in China, is way more outlandish than a GMO virus.

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.
Perhaps they will now switch over to automatically provisioned certificates :)
Yeah I was thinking transport over ethernet would be cool
This is a really cool idea. Could you perhaps post a minimal example?
What Does a Foldable Web Mean?
I'd expect this to be some kind of self-damaging public statement regarding the news that Safari will start blocking sites with certs valid for >1 year.
While a home-birth can be quite safe i'm astonished to hear about a community that would ignore the need for a midwife. midwifery is probably the second oldest profession and every community and culture around the world has an equivalent. I cannot see any benefit for not having at least this much.
There is a toggle to control whether Google keeps track of your search history. I suppose there's a separate toggle for location history. If you have those turned off, Google does not record that data, and there would be no way for them to derive your location even in theory.
i agree. craig murray is not to be trusted. he may be telling us exactly what is happening, but then again he might start another crusade against israel any moment now.
Former Microsoft engineer convicted for stealing over $10M in digital currency
Love this thread. If you are using K8s and want to reduce both the time you spend managing compute infra and the associated cloud costs (whether for AWS, Azure or GCP) a Spot Instance or Preemtible VM, DIY approach is certainly possible, but will require a lot of setup work.
Imagine handling multiple autoscaling groups for multiple Spot Instance types - an absolute necessity to diversify interruption risk, dealing with slow autoscaling or classic autoscaling that only considers cpu/mem and not actual pod requirements or no easy way to create a buffer of spare nodes for high priority workloads that suddenly need capacity, or identifying over-provisioning of machine sizes (based on incorrect pod requirements)which greatly exceed the actual needs of your pods.
As an alternative, you can try Spotinst's Ocean product (yes, I work there) for K8s and ECS where not only is your infra management simplified, but you can easily reduce your cloud compute cost by 80%.
Surprised not to see the license clearly on the site, but it's under MIT License: https://github.com/neutralinojs/neutralinojs/blob/master/LIC...
TCMalloc, Google's Customized Memory Allocator for C and C++, Now Open Source
"real French" "the kind [of] people that loot trains" As littlestymaar points out, this sounds an awful lot like dog-whistling.
jrockway's law of monitoring: All companies will eventually gain an alert for TLS cert expiration.
So if I understand right, what makes this lighter than electron is the fact that only webkit2 is used instead of embedding the whole chromium app.
This is an ongoing change in the extension manifest v3. You can keep track of it here - https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/migrating_to_manifes...

This is not the default yet, even in Chrome. I hope Edge does not adopt this feature or, if they do, simply continue supporting the extension manifest v2.
A quick summary of day 3 is here: https://www.rt.com/news/481711-assange-protection-political-...
Is meta opponent modeling? Then it would make sense that it becomes non-deciding when skill level differs - chess engines don't bother with it at all and just aim to destroy the opponent through sheer strength of play.
IOTA being shut off is the latest chapter in an absurdist history
It's really nice, but is there something this pretty for bootstrap?

I literally manage something like 10 different products/websites. And the only way to stay sane and have some pace with features is to use bootstrap for all of them (we currently use bootstrap for maybe 5 of them, and the rest were inherited sites that we're migrating).

I love the look of this but don't have the time or the will to migrate all our sites to learn yet another CSS meta-language with its own sets of concepts and classes.
This has been the Canadian model and the Right has still weaponized the worst kind of vitriol against it (despite a carbon tax being the most market friendly mechanism).

Opponents of carbon tax and similar measures need to decide which they like less... some lost profits, an escalating carbon tax, and reshuffling their investment portfolios -- or food riots, mass migration, the massive resurgence of left wing populism, and even civil war, once the effects of climate change become intense and obvious to the populace.
Zinc and the Common Cold
That's not a false economy, that's the only economy that started since it's inception. Information asymmetry and game theory talks a lot about it
John Carmack – “Deep Thoughts Engineering Speaker Series”
Service Mesh Ultimate Guide
> When the reward of being dishonest is (seemingly) greater than the risk, no person or company is accountable: The entire system is at fault.

This dynamic is a great factor in many overarching issues today. In politics, it's so easy to get stuck on ideology, ethics or morality. But in practice, it comes down to incentive structure. And carrot usually works better than tick, for several reasons.

Consider the problem of tax evasion in retail. Greece is imposing fines on those who conduct a large enough ratio of their transactions in cash[0]. Taiwan solved this more elegantly in 1951, IMO, with introducing a lottery with a number coming up on each receipt, thereby creating an incentive for consumers to ask for a receipt[1].

0: https://fortune.com/2019/12/16/greece-digital-economy-cashle...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Invoice_lottery
It's already been established that hosting the Olympics in the current fashion is generally a money loser for the host city. All of those resources expended to build state-of-the-art facilities, housing, transportation, etc...with rosy ideas of how they might be repurposed after the Olympics....which generally don't come to fruition.

And that's when the Olympics actually occur, and the host city is able to gain some revenue from visitors coming and spending a considerable amount of money.

If Tokyo builds the required infrastructure and then no one comes, I've got to think future host cities will re-think this madness.

Personally I'd like to see a distributed Olympics, with mostly pre-existing facilities being used. Maybe swimming happens in Copenhagen, basketball in LA, beach volleyball in Phuket, etc. Maybe some events could be held in smaller countries or cities that had never been able to complete for a full Olympics before. A larger percentage of the world population would be local to some part of the Olympics, perhaps for once highlighting sameness rather than differences.

Or screw it, we could just let dumb governments keep throwing piles of money at this nonsense.
Looks great, I will definitely try it!
there is a firewall in there with regard to your analogy

anything floating about that is not loggedin is processed as malware

the sequence of data must be read in order to get the structural motif a set of antibodies that bind to the structure are then selected and used to label the malware for low level sector deletion
For comparison, what is bootstrap v4's weight?
Did it ever occur to you that if there is open / reliable information about the disease people might choose not to go out and/or engage in these conferences? The whole reason all of these cancellations are happening in the first place (MWC, etc) is because rational actors have decided (without government intervention and even with incomplete information) that the risks are too great.

Honestly my main concern in the United States is the complete and utter panic that will be caused by something that is only marginally less dangerous than getting in one's car to go to work each morning.

A government concerned with "not screwing up" can at times take drastic "emergency" measures with an overly cautious basis (at best) and with malintent (at worst), and we should be skeptical and continue to push for reasons for any actions. I don't see how this turns out to be a bug. They can have more impact on peoples actions with a press conference presenting skewed data than with any sort of attempt at straight-up bans or enforced quarantines.
Because deliberately obtuse hn comments do not benefit anyone: line buffers are copied on fork and flushed on exit, so you get two 'choo's. If you add a \n it goes down to just one because it flushes on newline.
I don't understand, it seems like it runs in any browser? Are they using webkit2 as a replacement for node and the system browser for the GUI?
Agreed. 1 dimension can represent the impact to an individual user, and the other dimension represents the pervasiveness (frequency) in the user base/market.

We have applied the same metric to feature request prioritization. Severity can be thought of as necessity for an individual customer (must have, should have, nice to have, could have, won’t have) and frequency represents an estimation of demand in the market.

We even created our own Jira plugin to calculate the product of these and use that number as a self prioritizing index.
LargeScale geospatial visualizations using Vue.js, Deck.gl and MapboxGL
Yes, but that's just because I think for simplicity they created one large CSS file that is used for all their components and example pages. That's not very realistic. You're not supposed to do it like this for your own project. Instead if you use Tailwind CSS and PurgeCSS I'm pretty sure you would end up with ~10 or 15 kB of CSS gzipped, maybe less.
I just got back from a trip to Asia 2 weeks ago.

Be prepared for travel disruptions. My connecting flight was canceled when my destination country decided no more flights from not only China, but a few surrounding countries.

Had to buy alternative tickets last minute to take a detour and get where I wanted to go.
what about the underlying currency system which depends only on everone's trust in it?

there's very little which keeps fiat money connected to reality...
The trucks could have AI that worked most of the time. Not well enough to rely on for normal operations, but good enough for a fallback in case of losing connectivity.

Some made-up numbers to explain my point: Consider a situation where the remote operator will make the right response 99.9% of the time, failing 0.1%, and the AI is 20 times worse, making an error 2% of the time. The actual error rate will be (0.1% * connection reliability) + (2% * (1 - connection reliability)). For 3-nines reliability, which is pretty poor, the error rate will be about 0.102%. For 4-nines it will be 0.1002%.

Those sorts of figures would effectively pay for themselves in terms of safety, once you factor in the benefits for monitoring and work conditions for a desk-operator vs a physically present driver, and they don't require either a particularly reliable connection or a particularly good backup AI.
> It has killed every government that even dared to discuss it. And politically it is utterly impossible to defend

Then pull it out of political discussion! We don't have political discussion about "how to hang people of color Q better" anywhere in the world (mostly) anymore because we've wrote it in the text of our f laws that violence and racial discrimination are forbidden! Not on the political menu anymore.

Same needs to happen with lots of stuff concerning climate, ecology, sustainability etc. - we need to restrict the political menu to only the right choices.

And use the states' monopoly on violence to enforce these choices.
There's one in my city too: https://www.google.ca/maps/@46.248424,-63.1239587,3a,75y,182...
Judging from the tone and rhetoric of the so-called "left" in the US Democratic party, it isn't limited to the GOP by any means. Watching a few minutes (all I could stand) of the South Carolina debate last night was depressing.

History will not look kindly on this epoch.
> All of this is stuff you're allowed to do to compete, of course.

Is it though? It blows my mind how Google gets a pass on stuff like this. Way back when MS got slapped for monopolistic practices the key argument was that by bundling IE with Windows they were leveraging their dominant position in desktop OSs to gain an unfair advantage in another industry (browsers/web, via IE).

Meanwhile Google leverages their position in search, email, etc. to push Chrome and whatever else, and no one bats an eye.
The way I read it, the photo can't be changed, but surely in some years they will take a new photo?
>> It think many people view dicts and lists as the same general type of data structure.

Is that a joke or are you from PHP world?
I agree that they really need to explain this better on their site somewhere.
it's kinda not fair to say that a large org should have enough internal coordination to align incentives and coordinate between different teams? It sounds reasonable to start with, but really gets to the whole making-excuses-for-them kind of thing if you think harder, no?
I like the clean look but still all the web homology unite!
https://vimeo.com/393580241/82c6d7c5f6
Low severity bugs that are hard to fix sometimes get closed as "won't fix". It is unlikely any customer will hit the area where we discovered to breaks and after several weeks we still don't have a clue - why spend more money fixing this issue?
RP was in the process of being formalized at that point. It was a BBC project (I exaggerate slightly)[1]. The Queen’s accent used to be distinctly non Received Pronunciation if you listen to early twentieth century recordings.

Stone Masons would almost universally have been literate because you need to engrave things. Half assed graffiti could be someone who was less a skilled tradesman than a member of the guild but guild members would have been expected to be able to read the Bible at least. Knowing how to spell your own name is not a big thing if you can read the KJV. And t->k is not a sound shift observed in historical language changes.

[1] RP probably received its greatest impetus, however, when it was selected in 1922 by the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English as a broadcasting standard – hence the origins of the term BBC English. The Committee believed Standard English, spoken with an RP accent, would be the most widely understood variety of English, both here in the UK and overseas. Members of the committee were also conscious that choosing a regional accent might run the risk of alienating some listeners.

https://www.bl.uk/british-accents-and-dialects/articles/rece...
I would use more specific facts rather than pronouns. "They" were the Swedish prosecutor clearly acting on orders from their government either a) in furtherance of appeasing the US or b) someone who didn't like or was working for one of Assange's enemies, a con-artist, concocted a story with enough detail to convince an authority that crime potentially occurred.

It is transparent that Assange doesn't belong to either American political party but attempted to parlay the emails* into a hail-mary get-out-of-jail-(but-not-for-)free card by trying to appease Trump. On that, he gambled and lost, and now some idiots on the internet assume idiotic statements like "he's a Ruskie spy," "he loves Trump," or "he's Putin's best friend."

\* The emails were NOT from a Russian operative. Assange stresses this if anyone cares to listen. Furthermore, if someone watched Jimmy Dore, they'd know this is a continuation of anti-Russian conspiracy theories.
GitHub is a free CI/CD/Hosting solution
oBTW in order to refine your model, "blood" plasma actually extends beyond the blood stream and into the extracellular matrix so the patrol for malware [antigens] [foriegn bodies]
will occur there as well

its kind of technical if your not strong on biology but check this out from wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system#Adaptive_immune_...
> Even in real-life, you're never sure, when someone recommends a product, be it a salesman in a brick and mortar store...

This is real-life too but the difference is the dis-honesty of the influencers is more damaging than the next-door salesman's whilst at the same time affording more convenience with proportionally limited accountability to the said influencers.

> What should we/they do?

Force on-demand transparency and information disclosure? I am not really sure, to be honest, but regulation might be one way to curb or limit the game to a few enterprising entities (which comes with its own down-sides)?
Safe Notes vs. Convertible Notes
Mass consumption and CO2 emissions aren't independent problems. It already is an insurmountable challenge to meet current energy demands with green energy. Producing things costs energy, energy costs CO2. Producing things in a carbon-neutral way still requires energy and that energy could have more usefully been spent to replace carbon non-neutral energy.

There needs to be a discussion about economic incentives. It's not people wanting things that is the problem. It's that it's easier and more profitable to produce short-lived crappy things that can be sold for cheap, because the environmental impact of the waste it generates (both CO2 and the actual crappy product itself) is not sufficiently factored into the price.

I would not be surprised if, in our current economic system, simply having more green energy available (or products produced without emitting CO2) is not going to solve anything. With almost 8 billion people on earth, we'll find ways to increase consumption and burn it.
Unless I'm reading this wrong, this is incorrect. The nih paper says that influenza deaths represent ~2% of all respiratory deaths, not a death rate.

The CDC estimates the death rate of influenza is at most 0.65% (61k deaths and 9.3MM infected) and at least 0.026% (12k deaths and 45MM infections)

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
Another thing: every single time I use Google to search for a Firefox extension such as uBlock Origin or anything else that is available on both browsers, the equivalent Chrome extension is consistently the first result.

It knows my user agent. It knows very well that the Firefox extension is the relevant result. This is 100% done out of malice.
How is the user's IP address hidden from the servers?
I'm working on environmental software at the moment, the best unanswered service? A good data API for climate emergencies and disasters classification/push notifications. We can pull in rain data, satellite imagery etc. but correlating it with problems that have a lagging effect (eg. rain today means flooding next week) is a problem I find isn't super scalable from an entry level at the moment. Disaster response is mostly an even by event analysis today.

It's not a hard problem, it's just tedious.
How religion is playing a role in the spread of coronavirus in Korea
« I think when this all comes to an end, China will be one of the countries that dealt with the virus the best. Countries without authoritarian governments likely don't have the means to effectively quarantine major cities and shut down massive portions of their economy immediately without major problems arising.»
I sure hope the rest of the world can do better than kidnap or wall in people until they’re dead or healed.
If you think spamming random links to old toy/dead/in-house projects you found on Cliki and that contained words like "machine learning", "Games" or "GUI" (mcclim – really?[]) constructs an effective rebuttal to "no ecosystem to speak of", I'm not sure I know what to say. But I'll go through your list in more detail if you want me to.

[] For the record CLIM had interesting ideas, but last I looked, calling McCLIM's implementation of them a toy would be charitable.
This is flirting with redefining 'severe' as something it is not. Severity is about impact on the user.

In your scenario, you don't know whether it is severe or not, so you just want to provisionally mark it as severe, and have someone with the appropriate domain knowledge make the final call. Until that happens, decisions made on the basis of that provisional call could be bad decisions.

And what might those decisions be? Priority, for one! To say that the severity should stay at 'severe', and the adjustment should be made only in the priority, is to confuse the two distinct concepts. I see a lot of that going on wherever data are used.

If you want to characterize bugs by the sort of technical outcome they produce, then do just that, instead of trying to bend 'severity' to try and encompass it, while actually hiding the issue that you wanted to characterize on. Again, while technical outcome is an aspect of severity, they are not the same thing (and, FWIW, crashing is rarely the worst thing that could happen (unless the domain is vehicle control.))
Of course, why not?
Really confused about what this does or what advantages it brings.
When leadership acts unethically, the employees who stay tacitly approve. You can't tell me that Google engineers are hurting for opportunities.
"Torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession"

Yes, it is exactly torture.

https://apt.ch/en/what-is-torture/