skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
out of all the various zfs snapshot tools, this is one of the better ones, and the creator is also an active community member on various tech forums
Or just reroute off an interstate onto a different road between states, which is a lot more likely.

Then somebody takes the whole thing to the courts, and the courts tell the Feds to knock it off and let people through because they are violating the law of the land.
The headline is stupid. Its pretty obvious that the transmission happened _before_ they got the patient into an 'ebola-style lockdown'. Based on another sentence in the article, you could change the title to 'Seattle's Coronavirus spread despite a lack of testing in a critical six-week window'.

My point is, its pretty obvious how you slow this thing down, and its not much to do with 'ebola-style lockdowns', its to do with lots of testing, social distancing and hand washing. South Korea has a 2 hour turnaround on tests, in the USA its still 5 days I believe.
Yeah, you’re probably onto something. They’re probably keen on “shaping their version of the whole story”
Nitpicking, but ... If one says :

>> We reached this conclusion after looking at the planets in a new way: ecologically

then, why can he say :

>> Housing could be made of plastic produced from the unlimited resources harvested

Ecology is also about realizing that resources are limited.
GPs claim was that non-aspartame sweeteners cause insulin to rise, not blood-sugar. This would cause non-diabetics to become hypoglycemic, and over a long-term could cause type 2 diabetes.
> Is there a word or phrase for the act of poorly implementing an idea, then using the failed result as a way to discredit the idea?

First off: I'm sure the Germans have something. :)

Otherwise, some candidates:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization#Hasty_ge...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy#Perfect_soluti...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrelevant_conclusion#Red_herr...
Not to be tinfoil hat but isn’t this exactly the sort of thing you would add to it if you were making a bioweapon in the only BSL-4 lab in China which is a few meters from the wet market they are saying was the epicenter?

> Strikingly, the 2019-nCoV S-protein sequence contains 12 additional nucleotides upstream of the single Arg↓ cleavage site 1 (Fig. 1, Fig. 2) leading to a predictively solvent-exposed PRRAR↓SV sequence, which corresponds to a canonical furin-like cleavage site (Braun and Sauter, 2019; Izaguirre, 2019; Seidah and Prat, 2012). This furin-like cleavage site, is supposed to be cleaved during virus egress (Mille and Whittaker, 2014) for S-protein “priming” and may provide a gain-of-function to the 2019-nCoV for efficient spreading in the human population compared to other lineage b betacoronaviruses. This possibly illustrates a convergent evolution pathway between unrelated CoVs.
Thanks. Earlier this year we closed our school for two days plus the weekend to disinfect after we had an unprecedented near twenty percent of the student body absent due to an incredibly virulent strain of the flu. Trying to keep all these factors in mind while we make decisions on remote learning for this mess.
from the paper:

"This furin-like cleavage site, is supposed to be cleaved during virus egress (Mille and Whittaker, 2014) for S-protein “priming” and may provide a gain-of-function to the 2019-nCoV for efficient spreading in the human population compared to other lineage b betacoronaviruses. This possibly illustrates a convergent evolution pathway between unrelated CoVs. "
the cleaving prepares the virus to be able to enter the cell
Yeah...-291F, an unbreathable atmosphere, and the atmospheric pressure is high enough you might want something to moderate it. Maybe not a ISS space suit, but we're not talking long underwear, warm boots and a pullover.
Heh, It makes more sense if you think about it medically. Like, the gain or loss of function in a limb or organ.

For a virus I suppose this would be function in reproduction.
It is deeply disturbing to see a lot of effort put into colonizing another planet, while rampant pollution increases at Planet Earth. While science advances, at what opportunity cost?

It Remains to be Seen if we have Spoiled the Nest. <--
This is the piece I was looking for:

"Which would push-replicate the specified ZFS filesystem from the local host to remotehost over an SSH tunnel ..."

syncoid root@remotehost:data/images/vm backup/images/vm

Now, if only there were a cloud storage provider that you could directly zfs-send to ...

If only ...
For me, the concept of "quality time" only really applies to work. You can be "in the flow" and get a lot of stuff done in 2 hours that might otherwise take weeks to build. And in the context of work, there are factors (organized, bright, distraction-free room) that you can optimize to make it more likely for you to have a short, but high-quality work session.

But for free time, I don't get it. The whole point of relaxing is that you stop worrying about getting things done, so there should be nothing left for you to measure to determine the quality level.

If you can measure the "relaxingness-level" of your free time, you're playing make believe for other people.

The quality of your instagram photos is probably inversely related to how relaxing the vacation was. When you're asleep at the beach all the time, there won't be any photos to show for it.
There's no atmospheric absorption though, so that would compensate a bit. Building very tall structures would be easy in the low gravity, and you wouldn't need to worry about earthquakes or storms.
> 20 years ago it would be impossible to think that you can order stuff from an unknown location/seller using a piece of glass.

Except for the fact that you could actually do this 20 years ago.
Nitpick title based on dense verbiage [1]:

2019-nCov may contain a mutation for efficient spreading

1 - Gain-of-function mutation: A mutation that confers new or enhanced activity on a protein.
Some (re-)insurance companies specialise in exactly these kind of things.
I guess this means that containers still don't work in private mode.
First item listed under New:

> Your login management has improved with the ability to reverse alpha sort (Name Z-A)

Cool!
Relevant (not my own): https://sso.tax
Imagine putting a paywall up on your personal blog.

I can't imagine people reliably get invested in your content if you're blocking them from reading the top three posts.
AFAIK this sentence is a bit dishonest. Justworks is still a PEO, they are just not a CPEO. CPEO is a PEO that is certified by IRS to be in excellent standing, it's not a requirement.
Normal body temperature was defined† in Celsius, at 37ºC; this explains the decimal when used in Fahrenheit (98.6F). So even that argument of convenience doesn't hold.

† Yes everyone's baseline temperature is slightly different, but that just makes the decimal on the Fahrenheit scale look even sillier. And fever definitions are also keyed off of Celsius: 37º to 38º is "low grade". Sure, it's an arbitrary convention but it's the one adopted around the world, including in the US (98.6 to 100.4).
I'll add that I agree with him that more companies should try the Netflix approach of all cash comp, with stock for purchase (particularly the cash flow monsters). But he's just so convinced that he's right that he also thinks we need force everyone to come to his conclusion.
Π-box, a modular system of radio/streaming broadcast
'Russian Intel services trying to incite violence by white supremacist groups'
You just have to get there with a rocket
Whose business? Those that don't cede such risk to larger entities?
Confounding variables don't invalidate research, they merely inform us on how to weigh the evidence, and shape future research.

Studies can have interesting conclusions even in the presence of confounding variables. Sometimes the state of the art in a certain hypothesis space hasn't progressed past of of these yet, but that's still better than gut feeling.

In some areas like public policy research you will never completely eliminate all of these factors, but that's no reason not to attempt to create knowledge.
I don't know what is up with mozilla/firefox. I'm still using firefox but not because I like it, only because the alternatives are worse. I signed up for a firefox account almost right after they were announced. At the time and multiple times since I've unsubscribed from "all" their emails because I'm not interested in them. They just either invent a new list and auto-subscribe me to it or they just ignore my preferences and spam me anyway. Today I got an email from mozilla telling me to "Get the 'F' out." So I did, I reset my password, logged into their service, unsubscribed (again!!) from all their lists, and then deleted my account. Yes, I was forced to reset my password and log in just to unsubscribe.

Not mentioned in the changelog for this release is that in the URL bar, when I start typing and the suggestion list drops down, the first result is now highlighted in an eye-destroying bright green (even in dark mode, which I'm using).
The prices of things fluctuate so much. The price of the same product in different stores or the same product in the same store on different days can vary wildly. How many things these days have fixed prices? Iphones? Teslas? Mail order mattresses?
Congrats on launching! I’m curious - do you find people actually power down their laptops? I generally slam the lid shut and shove it in my bag.
Those cost-points will be hard to argue with for those who need "good-enough" performance.
We use 1Password to manage hundreds of different credentials and secrets, and it works great.

LastPass UI is a nightmare last I tried it a couple years ago.
Yeah, I think it's the "peculiar furin-like cleavage site in the Spike protein" that's the new mutation which might make this variant more efficient in spreading. As best I can tell as a biological layman.
1Password's business offering is pretty darn good for enterprise use. I highly recommend it.
The Importance of the Scientific Method to Startups
No. Pistols at dawn.
PARC is turning 50: From ethernet and laser printing to this wild new tech
Ah good point about overlapping location data for sick users, that would add ambiguity.

This approach still puts a lot of trust in the server. Every client needs to upload their hashes to the server, so if the group running the server wanted to reverse the hashes they'd get everyone's location, not just sick people. The server would also know which hashes were popular, indicating that they are crowded areas like a city or event center. From a tracking perspective the fact that two people were in the same location is useful to start making inferences, even if the location isn't known.
Ultimately, Seattle’s experience shows the futility of travel bans

Yes this is complete bullshit. Wuhan and now Italy are showing that travel bans are very important.

edit: When I say Travel Ban, I'm also thinking of a soft lockdown such as Italy have implemented, which is slightly different to a travel ban in some senses.
Thycotic Secret Server, hands down.
Why are you being downvoted? Is this the equivalent of people sticking their hands over their ears and saying “la la la la! I can’t hear you!”

It seems obvious that you are right that everyone will get it. The real quibble is what will the death rate actually be. 2.5% seems like a middle-of-the-road estimate according to current knowledge.
Suddenly, everybody is a physician. Your fellow developer, who yesterday couldn't find her package.json, walks around saying case fatality rate and asymptomatic.
sanoid works great, used it for quite some time and the creator is actively involved in the zfs community

in the spirit of link sharing for other tools, I've been moving many of my personal infrastructure & tools to golang-based apps, and I started using this for zfs replication

https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl

No issues thus far in about 6mo of usage for local-and-remote snapshots
The Commerce Clause is essentially the catch-all for Congressional authority within the enumerated powers for doing the thing they want to do which has not been enumerated to them.

This kind of law would have to be tested.
Banjo Is Turning Utah into a Surveillance Panopticon
What does metformin do for therapeutic purposes? wiki doesn't allude to much besides diabetes treatment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metformin
Got it. Yeah we did that for a bit, but it became apparent soon enough that we actually needed different access levels and keeping track of three or four different databases & passwords just didn't seem practical.
Given that:

* Almost none of the commenters understand what this post is about

* It spiked to the top of HN, despite that

* There are a handful of comments suggesting covid-19 is a bio weapon

I can't help but wonder if this very post is manufactured to spread the bio weapon conspiracy.
Seems interesting, but I can't read that without paying, and I probably lack the background necessary for it to be understandable.
1Pass is great, but it lacks the kind of advanced tooling I'd want for it to scale.

Password sharing controls are insufficient.
Show HN: We've added a guided tours feature into our browser game engine
Allulose is an interesting sweetener that has the same molecular formula as fructose, and IMO tastes much more similar to table sugar than other sweeteners.

It has been shown to lower glycemic and insulin response when taken with other carbs
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19155592

I'm guessing because of the molecular similarity I've found it to have similar browning as sugar when cooking.

A few downsides--it has a cooling sensation depending on what I use it to sweeten. Also if I consume too much it can cause bloating (a downside of not being absorbed like sugar is). In general it doesn't look like it's as well researched as other sweeteners, so it's hard to tell if there are more subtle/long term downsides.

More here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psicose
I've been a KeePass user for at least as long. Sharing it with my wife and my multiple computers was done via Dropbox. I switched a couple of months back to self-hosted bitwarden. It is _much_ better. No need for file sync. Better UI. My wife actually _uses_ it now, as opposed to before she would avoid keepass. With Bitwarden, you get better control over passwords and who can see them and all that. Bitwarden also will host for you if that is not your jam. I highly encourage adoption of Bitwarden :)
You might be overreacting to dark humor from kids who are ironically parroting what they keep hearing about their generation from their elders: "play stupid games, win stupid prizes."

Don't worry, they're young enough that they won't vote either :P
It sounds a little bit like a solution for a problem you wouldn't have if you didn't use classes and inheritance in the first place.

A role as understood by OOram design principles paper is "An activity is a task carried out by a set of associated objects in cooperation."

That's an abstraction more easily and succinctly solved by higher-order functions.

And to boot OOram uses inheritance for re-using those role-models, which we would avoid nowadays.

An interesting idea for sure, but more like an observation on the limitations of (older) object-oriented language with regard to abstractions we now take for granted.
Great stuff.

Talking w/ people who work in the intelligence-military-industrial complex south of the Beltway I've learned some tricks for very high precision systems and the method of having multiple classifiers, one out front that does the easy cases, and one in back that handles the hard cases is one of the best.

They are doing something quite similar here.
Better not drink coffee or eat peppers then. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kavinsenapathy/2016/03/22/5-pes...
Unless you think that the Moon is the obvious next milestone in space.
It’s a typical geek bait: a lot of smart words, some obscure info that needs to be superficially researched first to be understandable. At the age of the attention economy this specific specimen of information is highly engaging for this specific slice of population.
And larger entities, I guess, are connected to some extraterrestrial gold source, right?
Facebook Container is an optional extension, not installed by default. And you can write your own extension for different domains. In fact, people have created several such extensions, such as Google Container, Temporary Containers, and others. It's true though that the Facebook Container extension is actively marketed by Mozilla.
Life is meant to be lived.

A tautology at best, but more likely empty rhetoric.

Make healthier choices, but still enjoy.

This assumes healthy choices cannot produce enjoyment.

Otherwise, what's the point?

In our modern times, it seems to me, the point of life is whatever you make of it. I'm getting the impression that the point of your life is to experience as much pleasure as possible, i.e.: hedonism. This is a perfectly valid approach to one's life, but I wouldn't assume that others are getting less enjoyment out of their existence simply because they choose to impose constraints on the pleasures they pursue.
> this doesn't seem like something completely beyond self-checkout to you?

No, not really. It's more convenient and faster, sure, but it's not an incredibly significant sort of thing. And the cost/benefit ratio of it (considering the privacy implications) is nowhere near favorable enough for this to seem attractive to me.
Proudly inclusive too. First university to accept women and foreigners
Small elaboration: it didn’t “merge in” this feature, it independently evolved it (“convergent evolutionary pathway”), which implies it’s a particularly handy feature for this virus to have. (For the virus, not so much for us.)
yes you have it this is the concept.
NYC could easily have a red light camera on every significant corner and real penalties for blowing through a light. Right now minority of drivers but a significant enough minority blows through lights because they know they most likely won't get caught and the penalties for doing so are a slap on the wrist. If there was a $1k ticket for blowing a red light believe me it would stop really quickly
You can absolutely overreact to that. People will get sick and die, yes, but it's also not worth sitting down make parts of the economy and falling into panic.

This will get much worse, but it's still worth maintaining some perspective.
I 100% agree with you - but people tend to ignore "privacy" if something is free.

I was just talking with a colleague of mine who is in this "privacy is important" camp. But he is using mail tracker from hunter.io (since it is free).

It was really hard to explain him that that company which allows you to "Find the email address of any professional" is giving mail tracker for free in order to collect more data (to their defense they clearly say in their privacy policy and you can opt-out of the "sale" of personal information).
I was addressing GP's assertion that anyone contemplating the actions of the CIA is a "conspiracy theorist," which is not true. Some people are solidly defined as historians, where they use official documents and trustworthy interviews as source material rather than speculation.

You are perfectly normal to be suspicious of the actions of the CIA, and some of the theories are likely to be true, but that was not the point I was making.
I guess gain-of-function == new-feature.
WebRTC experience will be highly dependent on the network connection of the participants and can only handle so many connections. If you turn off video, it will handle more people and lower connection bandwidth.
I tried to use ARM instances on AWS, and I discovered a lot of things just don't work. For example, launching an EKS cluster with ARM nodes requires a bunch of hacks, and you can't really do anything useful with it yet. The instances are also not properly supported by Terraform.

I'm excited for ARM because of the pressure it will put on Intel, and also because of the cost savings. However it seems like AWS has a lot of work to do to make it useful.
It isn't the languages themselves it is the structures and software architecture that people think will scale while not realizing how tangled their program is.

Inheritance by its nature introduces dependencies but accomplishes little to nothing that couldn't be accomplished better with a different technique.

Likewise putting any sort of transformation from one type to another inside a class introduces a dependency on that type, which may be doing the same thing, thus depending on other types, etc.

On the other hand message passing in the form of pointers, interprocess communication, copying within a program, etc. Can be done in C++. Unfortunately most people go where the language leads them because few people really have a great idea of how to structure complex software.
> When a video is uploaded with a batch of photos on Instagram ...

Features just for insta? I thought this was a web browser not an instagram browser. I guess same goes for the facebook container... what's up with building browser features for facebook? Why no reddit container, or google container, or amazon container?
There are known cases of the FBI running such sites and sharing such images. In general, people have not been outraged by the FBI's actions and the FBI agents themselves are fine doing so, even though by the very logic that makes the material illegal they are harming the children in doing so. This is part of a trend I've noticed where some portion of the population is far more interested in catching and punishing the bad guy than protecting the innocent and when it comes to having to choose one or the other, willingly sacrifice the innocent to punish the bad guy.

Not the CIA, but should be close enough.
> But there is a reason Computer Engineering is the predominantly understood title of the overarching software field.

This is not true. The software field side also falls under computer science. Computer engineering is understood to mean the engineering of computers. Someone with a degree in computer engineering will have a strong electrical engineering background as well as digital circuit design, plus the lower-level side of software (operating systems, device drivers, general systems).
If I were to guess, they've probably invested heavily in building a bunch of "high availability distributed systems" when they should have just stuck to MySQL or Postgres.
To those still on RH, with all the other fee free brokers out there, why are you still on there?
HN is disproportionately composed of multidisciplinary generalists with backgrounds in a range of fields, including virology and molecular biology.

There is no harm in having smart people reading breakthrough literature in other fields. Even if we don't understand every detail, often with enough experience in other fields you can still get the gist and there's always opportunity for cross-pollination.

>Trying to ascribe meaning to highly technical results seems futile (at best) or irresponsible (at worst).

I'd like to point out that this is primarily how grad school on the cutting edge works. You pick a subject and start reading papers until piece by piece things start to make sense. Frequently people do so by jumping into a graduate topic that can be quite different from their undergrad, and this is still a valid way to learn for a subset of the population.

Frankly given the gravity of the pandemic I don't think any published article is inappropriate for HN right now.