skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, what’s the difference between a “wet market” and the sort of familiar farmer’s market of butchers/fishmongers/etc. that five-star restaurants source from all over the world?

This article seems to be doing a motte-and-bailey of grossing you out with things that are just “regular meat wholesaler things” (e.g. fresh meat sitting out on ice without refrigeration) and then moralizing about the specific kinds of meats available in certain markets in China.

As far as I can tell, the author really just wants to tell Chinese people to stop eating certain meats (pragmatically, bush meats; but also, less pragmatically, whatever a Westerner would find gauche, like endangered species or things we’d consider pets), but doesn’t want to come out and say what they really mean; and so instead tries to seem like they’re making a point about sanitation. In so doing, they end up arguing against the existence of wholesale meat markets in general, which is clearly silly: meat wholesaling happens all over the world every day and is perfectly sanitary, despite seeming to a layman like it’d be unsanitary. (It is unsanitary in some ways, but in general principle—which can certainly be violated, like any other standard can—it’s always exactly as sanitary as it needs to be for any given use-case. Meats that are cooked get treated with less care; meats that are served raw are treated with more.)

This sort of reminds me of the parable of the new owner who came into a bakery and demanded it be cleaned because everything was greasy. The bakers kindly informed them that the grease was intentionally put on every surface, right after cleaning; and that, in fact, grease is used to clean some surfaces. Some systems function perfectly well in ways that seem disturbing to outsiders. If the bakers have been greasing the bakery for thousands of years, and you’ve never gotten sick from a loaf of bread, then maybe think a moment before telling the bakers to stop greasing the bakery.

Certainly, if you buy a loaf of bread and it turns out to have a bunch of thumbtacks in it, there’s a problem. But not one, I would suspect, endemic to the concept of bakeries.
Yeah that's what I was saying. We're in total agreement.
Do you have the full procedure? can you list here?

I know there is a liquid handling machine made by CTC [1], which could handle very small volume of liquid, and do a lot of custom procedures.

Still, cross contamination is still a issue.

[1] https://www.ctc.ch/
pocket support is implemented as a kind of extension, to my understanding.

for example the about:config setting wording is `extensions.pocket.RelevantFeatureHere`
An Open Data Clinical Trial for Covid-19 Prevention
Suspected cases
Thank you for responding and providing as much information as you did. That's pretty impressive; if I have to start looking again, I'll have to focus more on the LinkedIn side of things than I previously did.
The Chinese Government is an authoritarian regime. Agree that it's terrible, but of course they won't apologize for anything.
Those are secondary rays, which are separate from the primary rays from a camera. Secondary rays from reflective or transmissive effects are not considered visibility from the camera. This distinction was very important in hybrid renderers that combined rasterization from the camera with ray tracing for secondary rays, like PRman and mental ray. Now we have the same patterns being repeated in real time rendering. This was explained to you already. You could learn something if you didn't think you knew everything already.
Interesting! You just described my local weatherman.
Fire everyone who directly responsible for development of the browser, pay managers $1 per year.
The doomer and prepper crowd will twist any news to fit their narrative. You can go back through the last 20 years of blog posts and see these same predictions made about every large news story. If you hear people quoting this stuff remind them that it's the same thing people said about the financial crisis, hurricane katrina, 9/11, and y2k, and none of those things ever happened.
Thanks for sharing! I might give it a shot again! (I used fvwm around 15 years ago and it took me weeks to do the final setup ;))
Read the whole sentence: ad blockers which do simple host / path filtering are fast but there are many which inject huge amounts of code into the target pages with unknown impact. There were years where a big fraction of the people complaining about Firefox performance were ABP users.
Perhaps they are not. As I mention nearby, successful breeding can be measured on a continuous scale. We don't really know the success rate, other than it being above zero because humans have some of their genes. Maybe 9999 cross-group cave-people boinked for every one cave-baby produced. (Bamm-Bamm?)
That's simply not true. My life has drastically improved since I reduced carbs and increased meat consumption.

This is not anecdata either, there are well done studies supporting this.
Got any info on point 6? Did they really start that rumor?
The Changelog 386: Engineer to manager and back again
From a quick skim:

- $61M to the FDA for various uses relevant to COVID-19 response.

- $20M to the Small Business Administration for admin expenses incidental to carrying out the disaster loan program.

- $2.2B to Department of Health and Human Services for preparations/preventions/responses to COVID-19; Not less than $950M to be used for grants or co-op agreements with states, tribes, etc. Minimum of $475M to be allocated within 30 days.

- $836M to National Institutes of Health for COVID-19 prep/prevention/response. Including not less than $10M to go toward training to reduce hospital employee and first-responder exposure to COVID-19.

- $3.1B to Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund for developing innovations and enhancements to manufacturing platforms toward COVID-19 response. Emphasises creating affordable medication, among other things.

- $300M to same, for purchase of vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics.

- $264M to Department of State for COVID-19 response.

- $1M to USAID for Office of Inspector General oversight activities relevant to the funding

- $435M to Global Health Program funding / Bilateral Economic Assistance, administered by USAID.

- $300M to International Disaster Assistance

- $250M to Economic Support Fund (Economic, security, and stabilization purposes)

- Telehealth Services During Certain Emergency Periods Act of 2020
Hellman and Friedman Acquires Checkmarx for $1.15B
I've recently acquired a used Surface Pro 5 with Cellular connectivity as a replacement for my old iPad (many apps don't work yet on the newer Surface Pro X, the successor with Cellular connectivity to Surface Pro 5). I take it with me everywhere nowadays and I'm very happy with it.

I agree that Tablet Mode in Windows isn't as good as iOS on iPad. On the other hand, I just want to carry with me one mobile computer/tablet, not two.
Thanks for the very clear reply. I have a bidet, use it every time I poop, but most of the time my poop leaves enough sticky residue that just spraying won't clean me. I wipe with TP, then spray with water, then wipe dry. I'm cleaner than without the bidet, but it isn't saving me paper.
The high price of gold reduces the direct value it provides to society (because people pay more to hold it than to use it).

There's all sorts of uses for it. A good conductor that doesn't really corrode and all that.
Friday will be the day we find out how much boards are asking their companies to reduce burn. The first large wave of layoffs will probably happen this Friday and then it will be a nervous few weeks. Much more similar to 2001 than 2008.
> There have been only a handful of such attacks

How many are an acceptable number? Or tolerable number?
I'm the OP and I had to re-read your comment a couple of times to make sure you were employed by my company. Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to collaborate on anything. It looks like we both find ourselves with some free time ;)

My email address can be found in my profile.
Addition of LiDAR seems consistent with my theory that Apple is actualy a branch of NSA:

* first they put fingerprint scanner in the home button, so they could collect fingerprints of all their users.

* then they put FaceID, so now they have a high-res scan of everyones face

* now they are putting LiDAR so that they can scan your whole body, and map all your surroundings.
Silver's scarcity is less than gold but its practical portability and exchangeability is a bit greater than gold, because typical units of exchange align with practical amounts of metal (coin-size, rather than gram-size).

However, now that a highly-scarce, highly-portable, and highly-divisible Bitcoin is on scene, silver is less useful as a monetary metal because it loses to gold and/or Bitcoin on each of these qualities.
I believe NASDAQ doesn't have a floor and hasn't had one for quite a few years.

A likely result of the current crisis is that many exchanges, which have long had the capacity to institute electronic trading only but which for historical reasons have elected to retain a floor, will fully embrace electronic trading. Peter Tuchman might be out of a modeling gig [0].

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/matthewzeitlin/meet-the...
Mostly because the path to here was not a straight one :)

Our main Rails app does a bunch of things that can't run globally and it takes a long time to build while the customer facing app is a lightweight Rails app that consolidated several static and single page react apps into one less gross place.
The phrase I really liked for these sort of articles are 'Intellectual zambonis". Here come the right wing intellectuals to buff over the rampant xenophobia and put a sheen of intellectual justification behind it.

Let us be clear about this: A 'wet market' is

> a market selling fresh meat, fish, produce, and other perishable goods as distinguished from "dry markets" which sell durable goods such as fabric and electronics

Fish & Meat counters exist at literally every large supermarket in the UK, is she planning on banning Billingsgate Market? Or, have we just come up with a term 'wet market' - that no one actually has heard before, dressed it up as some asian odity and then decided we need to ban it?

Wet markets aren't a particularly likely place for pandemics to spawn from (let's ignore the fact that there a literally hundreds of thousands of them operating every day). We're not fighting off dozens of epidemics. The thing that enables these outbreaks is bad food hygeine standards, and that doens't improve by banning anything we've decided is vaguely foreign and scary.

Here's a Michelin starred chef going to a wet market to find you the highest quality fish to cook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GTTXJKZ08Q
I imagine most of the people reading it made that mistake. I've only ever seen it referred to as COVID-19 or Coronavirus. I assumed SARSCov2 was a more specific name for the virus involved in the early 2000s SARS outbreak.
Spain does not have that high resistance. But still wanted to point out this info
Congrats on escaping to a context where your skills are valued & in demand!
Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated (2018)
Did it include anything about him screwing hundreds of people out of work and money by forging an illegal deal with other VFX houses to blacklist people that wanted to change jobs for better pay and treatment?
As you alluded to, I think it's the policy/political problems that are more difficult to overcome compared to the technical issues. That's the main reason I was assuming it would be easier to solve the coal ash problem
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lij...
I've been using this[0] page as a reference, which seems to back up those numbers. It currently shows 82,424 recoveries and 8,697 deaths. Can you recommend a better resource I should be looking at?

[0]https://nssac.bii.virginia.edu/covid-19/dashboard/
The Chinese media spread the rumor, and they are an extension of the Chinese government. Whether they started the rumor is immaterial.
Doesn't look like at this point we should be caring too much about not offending. You know, after thousands have died because some undomesticated people eat bats and stuff.
I dunno, but I imagine whapping Bigfoot with a newspaper doesn't exactly clean his face either. Water's just better, relatively speaking.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us...
Not laid off from this, but I was last Oct. Unemployed for three months, started in January. Realized I didn't fit with the team and just took a new short term contract. That caused me to burn through some of my savings. It's been one thing after the other recently.

I'm really nervous after this contract is up. I already didn't see anything in the market. Most recruiters, and even jobs told me I was too senior for what they were looking for, or to expensive. Even cutting my rates drastically and going for mid level / entry level engineering positions. Or reducing my resume.

I'm looking at my burn rate and have about four months, right now. Honestly I was looking at getting out of software all together after last October. Every project I've been on is shuttered due to budget, or outsourced. Every six months or so looking for new work, now this.

My inbox is still being hit up with roles in NYC, San Fran, Seattle on site / on premise. I don't know if they'll come to fruition. I just worry about volatility. I just find it odd to see people still hiring.

Hope everyone is safe out there, and can keep the bare essentials running.
They certainly brought it to prominence:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/chinese-o...
No, we don't need a “Manhattan Project” to fight the coronavirus pandemic
This is one I put together a while back for gcc and clang: https://github.com/jeffwalter/defer/. There's no limit to the number of defers you can have. At least not one I've run into.
> So, what’s the difference between a “wet market” and the sort of familiar farmer’s market

1) The wet market is full of live animals in close proximity and very unsanitary conditions. So pathogens are more likely to still be alive, and can jump between diverse hosts, not just to humans.

2) The wet market is full of non-domesticated, exotic animals which carry pathogens humans are not acquainted to.
Wet markets? Do you want to be able to go to a market and buy fresh fish? Do you think that's an option that should be available to you or to your favourite restaurant owner? Because if so, then well done, you're one of the people that think these markets are ok.

Edit: Here's Gordon Ramsey giving you a guide on how to buy good fish (spoiler: he's at a wet market) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GTTXJKZ08Q
> Leaders are looking at the precedent on how to act.

No, they aren't US policy of suppression was an abrupt policy turn that came with this report: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196234/covid19-imperial-rese...

The Chinese example didn't change overnight, the information available about predicted outcomes of different policy approaches in the US and UK did, and that's what drove policy change, including the Trump Administration flipping from claiming it was a hoax cooked up by political opponents to treating it as a serious issue.
They have a million muslims imprisoned and are stealing their homes and letting soldiers rape their wives. You think they should apologize for wet markets first? Every country in south east asia has wet markets. China is wiping out minorities they don't like. Maybe the outrage should be focused somewhere else.
We’re moving the JS apps to just run on Deno containers. Deno is fabulous.
Ask HN: Advice for students about to graduate?
I'm one semester away from graduating with my BS in Computer Science. Seeing threads on here talking about folks getting laid off and companies starting to freeze hiring has me somewhat scared for my future job prospects. It looks like I will be graduating into a recession. Many of my peers are having their internships for this summer canceled, further hurting their chances by taking away an opportunity to gain experience and make themselves more marketable to employers. So HN, what is your advice to the thousands of students now in this situation? If you graduated into a recession, how was it then and how are you doing now? What would you have done differently?
He's probably talking about the rationalist community, and people did.

https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1233174331133284353
> Instead of seeing op-eds with "stop raiding stores for toilet paper," all we saw (and still see) is "this president is incompetent."

Well, if one believed that both these things were equally true, which one would be more worthwhile writing about?
> China Spins Tale That the U.S. Army Started the Coronavirus Epidemic: After criticizing American officials for politicizing the pandemic, Chinese officials and news outlets have floated unfounded theories that the United States was the source of the virus.

That's the headline of this story from March 13: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-ch...
If the bakers are greasing the bakery and causing deadly pandemics every 5-10 years, maybe the system isn't functioning perfectly well.
Designing Your First Personal Website
My uneducated guess is that it's the western internet getting into a fit over what was essentially a Twitter fight between officials.

Related to that and some other stories about evil China - if China treated certain politician's Twitter feeds or Fox News articles as seriously as the West seems to treat China's equivalents, North America would probably be glassed by now.
(6) is a direct response to the White House's continued use of 'Wuhan virus', 'Kung Flu' and other racist/shitty deflection garbage.

I'm not defending it, but it isn't happening in a vacuum.
All value is about faith in the future. In fact it's about faith that society will continue to function in the future.

Gold works as a hedge against loss of faith, because it's a more tangible and less abstract symbol of hope than fiat money.

But ultimately it's all just concentrated hope. If you need food and no food exists, all forms of money are useless.
Most people, chinese or not have nothing to do with the cause of this outbreak. Let’s be real. It killed thousands of innocent people so far, including Chinese.
At least for sexually reproductive species, your first objection could be addressed by defining the species relation as the transitive closure of the relation A ~ B if A can reproduce with B. (so for instance male1 ~ female0 and male2 ~ female0 by the original definition, and then male1 ~ male2 via the closure)
As with most massive bills. You can read what's in it after it passes. The only ones that any idea of specifics are the staffs to members of Congress.
Looks like you also have to use a custom return (`Return`) which is error-prone.
This is a good point, factory farming in the US is endangering us al by creating superbugs, and is probably just as dangerous
Not even H1N1 - annually about 500K people die of the flu and we don't even consider panic.
American Swine Flu in 2009 killed tens of thousands of people. To say it could not have happened anywhere is wrong.
It's rather interesting that his Wikipedia page no mention of this, nor does the one for Pixar.
It’s not this simple. It takes a longer time for people to recover than it does for people to die. Particularly when you consider that people stop having symptoms, so “recover” in the ordinary sense of the word, but still test positive for the virus, so are not marked as recovered.
Ask HN: What's something you took for granted before you lost it?
“Your personal choice to eat animals impacts every living being on this planet.”
> This is a direct consequence of their agricultural practices

It's also a result of people, around the world (but mostly in China), buying into Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It creates a market for products based on wild animals like bats and pangolins, which this virus originated from.
One built into the browser that can only be disabled by going to a hidden configuration page that pops up a big warning not to change anything.

I'm really glad it can be turned off, but I also wish it wasn't there. I have trouble wholeheartedly recommending Firefox to others, because the default experience (without about:config tweaks) feels messy.
> Wireguard + backhaul were tricky (we use a tool called autowire to maintain wireguard settings across all the servers).

I'm guessing that's?
https://github.com/geniousphp/autowire

Looks like it uses consul - is there a separate wireguard net for consul, or does consul run over the Internet directly?
I didn't say "Chinese" anywhere. It would be stupid to generalise given the size of that country.
"No such thing as a free lunch" - some 80's unpopular lady, but she might have a point!
There are people getting sick without having been in contact with other people who are sick. How else would that happen?

"Most contagious when symptomatic" is not even remotely the same thing as "not contagious unless symptomatic". We also don't have a good picture of what symptoms look like aside from the most serious cases.
Considering how much influence their government has on businesses, it should be even easier. I wouldn't be surprised if most wet markets were actually owned by state-owned enterprises.
Here's a great explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpoJGYlW54
This comment is frankly lacking substance. Generally accepted, binary thinking like this is exactly the kind HN is best without.
Do you really want them to write a politely worded apology to the UN?
Trend Micro Patches Two Zero-Days Under Attack
For those troubled by the paywall: it doesn't appear if you disable javascript.
I used my uBlock origin to do so.
It generally divides along continental lines, which is mostly as expected. It's harder for genes to cross continents.
Has Catmull changed his opinion on his participation in illegally colluding with Google, Apple, etc to keep employee wages low? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-19/apple-goo...
Trump straight up lied about freezing student loan interest. Just like he did about the "google" website, and testing availability. I know from multiple people who have called their loan providers and they've told them it's not implemented and there's no plan currently.
Off-point. Lambdas are different, in the sense that with such functions you 1) need to think about the closure of the function 2) might need to reconsider what part of memory will be executable (you certainly don't want an executable heap). The change here is in the other direction - you remove a feature that is easily swapped with a builtin, which is implemented in terms of other already existing language features.
Imperial college says it's about 0.8% with the data available at this point.
The shelves at my local HEB in Austin, TX were completely cleaned out on Monday. There were entire aisles that were completely empty.
CDC suggests nurses use bandanas, scarves during face mask shortage
A key issue for parents is kids stuck at home. Parents can't work, even remotely (very well), with kids cooped up for months. There is a huge lack of childcare now and it will be worse on the way back to normal until schools are open.

My idea is to facilitate linking teens to nearby families with younger kids for babysitting. This already happens normally, of course, but in cities like SF it is less common. With dual working parents solving the childcare issue is a requirement.
Mask shortages are showing up all over Europe too. France and The Netherlands already started shutting down general practitioner offices due to a lack of protective gear. A month ago the WHO already warned for this shortage (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/07/who-warns-glob...)

It's kind of heart-breaking to see people wearing the N95 masks on the streets, while hospitals are having a hard time to find sufficient protective gear to keep the hospital afloat.