skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of viruses that still do something, but we don't know what it is, because the something is not immediately threatening to public health.

For instance, there is a chicken virus (SMAM-1) that unconditionally increases adiposity in the infected bird, even when the chicken is fed the same amount as inunfected chickens. SMAM-1 is zoonotic to humans. It also makes them fat. Several human adenoviruses are suspected of doing similar things. But they have not been studied extensively, because the general prejudice is that people become morbidly obese due to their own lifestyle choices, and therefore excessive adiposity is a condition that should be first-treated with lifestyle intervention, rather than applying evidence-based medicine.

There are still a lot of nonscientific prejudices in general medicine. "Let's sequence all viruses in our patients," sounds a whole lot like "let's wash our hands before touching a new patient, so we don't spread diseases between them," which was once rejected by the experts as implausible hogwash.
I think most "Lyric" videos, where the screen is a single image, or nearly the same image, can be compressed to be almost the size of just the audio.

If not, I would second the "zero pixel" option!
That's how "Spanish Flu" happened when the first detection was in Kansas.
"So much for the tracking-advertisement-powered web"

I'm looking forward to it. Seriously. I know you're intending to be facetious with this, but everything you listed sounds good to me. Either charge for your service, or include ads that don't follow me around the Internet.

Somehow advertising worked on radio, on TV, and in print without correlating data about each viewer with all their other habits. I see no reason why that can't be the same online.
I initially felt the same way, as I relied on ublock origin, but the loss of that extension forced me to switch to pihole, which I think is an overall better approach to ad blocking. It works for all devices on your network, so you get ad blocking on devices that you normally wouldn't like your smart tv and the apple news app.
Anything that competes with paypal in anyway I will applaud. Congrats.

I'm looking for a clone that does not have terms that include "may not use the Service to sell or distribute offensive (as determined by payhere)...offensive and illegal content include: things that are sexually-oriented or pornographic"

Perhaps someone will make a similar ux that moves bit-like coins and includes easy access to finding methods to get their local cash converted into whatever coins can be moved through it.
Interestingly before covid-19 the Government were pushing for more decentralisation and all the work around ICS / STP was going ahead. But during pandemic there's been a move away from localism and a push towards central control. Having said that, here's why it's not "The NHS".

It's a collection of hundreds of legally separate organisations. A doctor goes to work for eg Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, or for Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, they don't go to work for "The NHS".

In 2017 there were:

207 clinical commissioning groups,
135 acute non-specialist trusts (including 84 foundation trusts),
17 acute specialist trusts (including 16 foundation trusts),
54 mental health trusts (including 42 foundation trusts),
35 community providers (11 NHS trusts, 6 foundation trusts,
17 social enterprises and 1 limited company),
10 ambulance trusts (including 5 foundation trusts), and
7,454 GP practices.

(There have recently been a bunch of mergers because of ICS / STP work, so this list is wrong).

The largest is probably Barts Health NHS Trust, which employs about 15,000 people. The smallest is probably Weston Area Health NHS Trust which I think employs about 1,700 people.

These organisations are legally separate. They have their own board of directors. They employ their own staff.

To change this we'd have to roll-back the Lansley Reforms, and that's too hard to do even when we're not going through pandemic.
Oxford Covid model suggesting asymptomatic population much higher than modelled
>It seems the implication is that labour should never be done voluntarily (even in a crisis situation) in a free economy.

Because when those volunteers go to get something they want, such as buying a home or paying rent, it won't be given to them free. It might be possible for some sense of social capital to exist to feel the gap, but that seems to be mostly gone these days as it has be optimized and hacked until it is no longer recognizable.
So says the guy with $96.3 Extra Large and a security detail.
As someone who is probably more supportive of intellectual property rights and copyright in particular than the median HN user, "how dare someone nostalgically resize and make available a handful of background wallpapers that were distributed with obsolete versions of an operating system" strikes me as one of the tiniest, most pedantic hills to die on I can imagine.
"we are working closely with Apple to fill the remaining gaps" - definitely sounds like it. I think Apple has made the right call tightening security around kernel extensions but I'm glad they're working with 3rd party developers (even if it's only big ones) to ensure the functionality is still there. They also mentioned the existing version will still work, it will just need to be explicitly enabled.
Next to crying right now .... I've been whining for YEARS that ScreenHero was gone. This is like Xmas all over again! Thank you thank you thank you!
This is definitely one of the people we co-humans should listen to.
"Son" here. AMA! Fun to see this on HN.

A few replies to some good questions:

1. Per @JdeBD, that was the Wikipedia edit that started everything. After 30+ hrs of online research, all roads lead back to this edit. I read 3 books on the island and found no mention of the boulder.

2. I took a bunch of photos that didn't make the article. Happy to share them offline with interested parties, but given that I could not find MB, they don't prove much.

3. The article does focus on us getting lost but that happened well after we left Ryan Island. This confused the NPR reporter too. Ryan Island is pretty easy to get to from Malone bay which is just a water taxi away from Rock Harbor. We had a working GPS with us the whole time which made certain legs of the trip a lot easier. How did we get lost with a GPS? The island is a mix of clearly marked dirt trails and large rock fields with no trail markings. You need to have a great sense of direction and some luck to pick up the trail again after traversing each rock field. We got lost after what must have been a quarter-mile rock field at 1am and the GPS didn't have the hiking trail marked in that area.

4. We made 2 landings at different points on Ryan Island, one southern and the other west / north-western. I did a lot of bushwacking from both points but there was no evidence of any water on the island or even mud where there could have been a "seasonal" pool. I was looking for a clearing or any kind of large flat-ish area but couldn't find anything like that larger than a few feet in diameter. The (small) island is extremely rocky and densely wooded.

5. Re the route, as many have noted it was very convoluted. We originally planned to go 18 miles in a day - the first half mostly paddles and portages, the second half is an 11-mile coastal trail back to Rock Harbor. The plan was to abandon the canoe at the halfway point and come back and get it via water taxi the next morning. After getting lost we gave up at the halfway point around 4am and camped for the night there.
It seems to be based on the manipulation of weak magnetic fields, so aluminum should not have a noticeable effect.
even better:

Stack {
display: grid;
gap: 6px;
}

https://codepen.io/tychi-nflx/pen/OJVBZzV
ok, so again I'm back to thinking your department is very much not like most places.
The regular reports about tracking in random advertising/... SDKs suggest otherwise
Yep, "prep cook" is a full on job title. A bit tedious at times but can be fun, and you do get good practice chopping things
With persistence, you can do it for free at home. Here's a guide:

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integrati...
I'd argue that this post is more relevant than 10 days ago and should receive an exemption.

10 days ago, the number of cases were small and there was no lock down. Many people did not consider Corvid-19's real impact. Now that most of the country is taking it seriously, it is more top of mind.

10 days ago, Corvid-19 posts were barely considered here on HN. Now many are generating serious discussions.

Please reconsider marking this as a dupe.
A friend made the surprising point to me that a hugely helpful element of quarantine is reducing traumatic injury across the board -- dramatic reduction in DUIs, car accidents, construction accidents, things that take beds in the ER.
A few things I really like about pgloader (which to be clear, uses the COPY protocol):

- Handles MySQL -> pg; MSSQL -> pg; And pg -> pg copy

- Very fast (lisp/"real threading")

- Syncs schemas effectively (this says data only)

- Has it's own DSL for batch jobs: specify tables to include/exclude, renaming them on the fly in dest, and cast dtypes between src and dest if needed. etc
What I have learned from this crisis is apparently there are a lot more dyslexic people out there than I thought
Is this two-way or one-way sync? It's sounding like it's one-way. I don't see anything about how to deal with clobbers, for instance, if the same data is changed in two different databases at the same time.

And "batch one-way sync" is better described as "copy".

So I think this is a "postgres database copy" tool. Also known as clone, or backup. And as such, it's competing with the existing postgres database cloning tools, like pg_dump. So how is this different than that?
January this year Chrome committed to phasing out third party cookies by '22.
Back in the days we used DocBook for documentation, because it's medium independent.

When I read that AsciiDoc is a Markdown-like syntax for DocBook, I was instantly sold.
Look, I wasn't mature enough to have an opinion when the governments of "past" were in. That said, i am a citizen of India, I can criticize my "Current" government and try to hold them accountable. If you want to engage in whataboutism, refrain from having a conversation.
I am talking about the things I see,
may it be the one elections thing, or the NIA, or electoral bonds, or removing special status of a region without consulting the general public of the region, all of that is nothing but signs of centralization and abuse of power to me.
Makes one wonder how long it will take the US to stop being driven by this sort of repressionist puritanical mindset.
Thank you! There are so many knee jerk reactions here which completely miss the point of the article (especially the post about images as spacers). It's not really anything new, wildly complex, or hacky. It doesn't even require components or a frontend framework, it's just a good way to structure your code.
I thought they did switch to audio feed only in the background? After all, youtube-dl usually reports an audio-only file.
Url changed from https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-24-youtube-standard-definit..., which points to this.
It's great that I can still override it. Companies are taking away important features, at least this stays (for now)
Sure.

But those complications can be set aside for the moment, and anyone caught abusing the normal regulations can be dealt with severely later.
Personally asciidoc has too many features, and the asciidoc syntax is baroque.

Cheat sheet: https://powerman.name/doc/asciidoc and there are a bunch of complicated examples on this page: https://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/newtables.html

Examples of asciidoc text styling:

'Emphasized text', * Strong text* , +Monospaced text+, ``Quoted text''. 'Subscripts and superscripts': e^{amp}#960;i^+1 = 0. H~2~O and x^10^. Some ^super text^ and ~some sub text~

Example of a nested table (WTF!):

[width="75%",cols="1,2a"]
|==============================================
|Normal cell
|Cell with nested table
[cols="2,1"]
!==============================================
!Nested table cell 1 !Nested table cell 2
!==============================================
|==============================================
Interference: Java-based open source distibuted database with event processing
> We need legislation to ban rents for COVID-19-affected businesses.

This only works if the government mandates full moratorium on both rents and mortgages. That also means that no interest on mortgage is accrued during this time.

Otherwise, landlords are screwed in the same way as tenants - they can't pay mortgage and the property may turn into foreclosure. More so, frequently landlords are screwed even more - because it may be hard to get rid of non-paying tenant especially during this time. So tenant may get sort of temporary free pass by just not paying rent.

Bottom line - Landlords are not the right target of this rage. Appeal to Governments, not to Landlords.
https://archive.md/aOqCc
Hah! It's almost as if the developer "tool wars" are stupid because everything has its place. Every tool is useful to someone; someone wrote it for a purpose.

I think an article like this should be called, "markdown is good, but fur large documentation requirements try ASCIIdoc" and approach it from that angle, and then people would have a chance to compare the two, and maybe use a new technology, without the clickbait title.
I’m speculating here but perhaps one factor that adds to this situation is that people who are good at the stuff taught in this course, and have skills that are up to date, will earn lots more working for a FAANG than in academia.
Pretty cool. I would think there would either be an algorithm to label the vertices or an example of one that cannot be elegantly labelled, but I guess not.
I's pretty obvious that node n must be adjacent to node 0, since that's the only way to get edge n. And it's pretty obvious that if you have one labeling you can get another by replacing m with n-m, so all the edges keep the same labels. But that's about as far as I get.
Does that somehow refute his point?
This makes a lot of sense. Rentiers are among the worst. My rental contract is so strict that it is insane. For example, I have to give 60 day notice, but those 60 days have to begin on the 1st of a month. It can't be 2nd or the last day of the previous month, it has to be the 1st.

Rentiers deserve no protection, especially when everyone else is bleeding
You could, but this mental model probably won't be as helpful as thinking of margin as the element pushing its neighbors away (or pushing itself away).

It's hard to define margin without any relation to neighboring elements, it's easy for padding and border. It seems logical that a reusable component shouldn't make assumptions about its neighbors, therefore avoid margins on its boundaries.
Apple has really done a 180 degree turn from back in the early OS X days, when they actually did quite a bit of work to keep existing applications functional. Forget binary compatibility, now even existing APIs are disappearing left and right.
What Happens When All the Doctors Get Sick?
It seems that it would still be surprising that such a parasitical organism could exist in such an environment.

Presumably, if an organism is breathing in a near-zero oxygen environment, they are probably just getting the oxygen they need. If there's enough oxygen to support a parasite stealing from the first, there was enough oxygen to support the parasite getting its own oxygen.

It seems to me much more likely that we'll find these parasites where there is plenty of oxygen:

These organisms didn't evolve as a way of dealing with having no oxygen. They evolved because they adapted so that they did need to bother with mitochondria, because there was a plentiful supply of ATP they could steal. Since they didn't need to burn oxygen, they could do without. And the environment they are in has so much oxygen that the host organism doesn't suffer.
This! Thanks for the heads up.
You need to read about what happened to Indira and how the country erupted with protests, and you need to stop validating something bad by comparing it to something else, its called whataboutism.
Indira is dead, and Modi is the current PM of India.
I'm still confused by all of this. Surely most video services are capable of adapting to lower bandwidth (and congested) links very easily. I personally have a fibre line directly to my house, and whilst the peering isn't great with my provider (Frontier), the network is more than capable of doing basically any video task. Why should the video bitrate be dropped because some second rate ISPs are oversubscribing super badly? Isn't all of this totally against the principles of net neutrality?
I've done a lot of ip blocking. I really like the option to block via cidr, asn, country, and hostname. Some things I like to block tor and vpns.. other things I prefer to block all but allow xhostname or x block of vpn ip blocks.

Different needs for things. For something like this, I'd want a log of access sent to third place and a ping / email / text or something anytime it's been used. That might calm some of the fear of unauthorized access for me.
Important article IMO
only if mozilla quit removing ways to use user/prefs.js on android.

every version the "patch" a new way and back we go being full of beta features enabled by default
Unnecessary or not, it's my experience it means "living with someone who you are having sex with" and has my whole life.
And Apple takes another step closer toward a proprietary OS away from UNIX. Perhaps 10.16 will lose certification [1].

[1] https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

EDIT: I can't find anything that references kernel extensions in the conformance [2] section of the spec, so maybe 10.16 will adhere to the UNIX03 standard after all.

[2] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/
Looks great! :D
You're right that they _are_ using different classes of CPU -- I'd not initially been able to find solid info on what CPUs the new Air was using which was why I left it off.

I'm not sure I agree with the idea that the Air CPU is "a really weak CPU" compared to the Dell one though... just to clear this up I mean that the i5-1030ng7 is slightly less capable than the i5-1035g1, but the difference isn't huge.

Here's a couple of geekbench results across those particular models that I found: looks like multi core performance _is_ notably better on the 1035g1, but the single core performance is only about 10% lower.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/1551286?baselin...

So with the new evidence of the comparative performance of the CPU available I feel like we're still basically at the same spot -- user preference. With a slight nod towards Dell for including a more performant CPU.
This is good news. Moving to the Network Extension framework means that Little Snitch's filtering will run entirely in user space, which is not only great for security but it will also allow the code to be written in a higher level language such as Swift.
Install ublock origin. It blocks Youtube ads.
In case someone from Microsoft is reading this, could you please show cursors of other people using a shared whiteboard, even if they are not drawing. It is weird seeing lines pop out of nowhere and hard to avoid drawing over the same space. Feature creep warning: ideally, I would like a "single pen" mode where only one person could draw. Once they are done, they would pass the pen to the other person. This feature would help keep meetings a bit more organized.

And if you need a UXR intern, let me know ;)
> I find it bleak that we expect our societies and markets to function, solely driven by "selfish" value-chasing individuals.

Perhaps it's bleak, but it is an expectation that generally works even without massive brainwashing. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

> Interestingly, in the past I've also experienced private health-care in the US, and yet wouldn't consider volunteering...

So your willingness to help is premised on upholding some collectivist institution, not on helping save lives in times of a crisis. Interesting indeed.
Same! I even paid for an app (something I never do) just because it supports creating markdown files on your iphone

(ia writer - I don't work for them I just like their product)
It's a bit hard to say for sure since it is all classified info for the most part. This article cites one of the creators for claiming it could last for years https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/novichok-nerve-ag...
Are there efforts to cloak third party cookies via the first party domain?
Good catch! Hopefully our product is better than my math :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_(markup)

I remember ages ago someone went and did a review of markup DSLs and Creole was their winner IIRC.
To chime in on good intentions. Some branding guidelines specify "this logo must always have 20px of space around it".

Using margin will guarantee it'll have at least 20px and likely only 20px top and bottom with the way margin collapsing works with CSS. Padding or spacers would just add potentially more space than the minimum design requirement.
From the very end of the article:

> When will Little Snitch be updated to the new APIs?

> The replacements APIs that are currently available (NetworkExtension framework on macOS 10.15.4) are not yet completely sufficient to implement the full functionality of Little Snitch. But we are working closely with Apple to fill the remaining gaps and we expect that a beta version of macOS 10.16 (most likely available at the next WWDC) or even an upcoming version of 10.15 will provide what is missing. As soon as the APIs allow us, we will complete the transition of Little Snitch to the new NetworkExtension API. It’s our goal to provide a public beta in June 2020 and a stable version in October.

If they can (and Apple) can keep to that timeline, I expect they will.
Synthetic Biology (and beyond) Community response to Covid-19
It's also very new (started in September 2018), so it probably has nowhere near the institutional strength or depth (to say nothing of the funding) to deal with a pandemic of this scale. According to the wiki page:

"It covers 3 days of hospitalisation and 15 days of post hospitalisation, including diagnostic care and expenses on medicines."

3 days of hospitalization even with the best facilities is probably nowhere near enough for a serious COVID19 case.

Then again, health insurance providers in the US also recently balked quite strongly at the US administration's suggestion that they cover the full cost of COVID19 treatment, including co-pays:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-fact-check-trump-is...

How this all is paid for - and the delicate question about who has the right to the best treatment (those who can pay?) - are big issues that will soon be faced by health services and governments in all societies, whether wealthy or developing.
> Ban rent for COVID-19-affected businesses

Landlords have mortgages and a host of other associated costs. If this were made a policy in the UK, you'd have a huge number of small-time buy-to-let landlords going bankrupt and losing their nest-egg to the bank.
The system is to blame. And the system is made by the rich. It's hard to find a politician who can't be bought.
If they keep all third parties out of their kernel, could this ease a possible x86-to-ARM transition?
I disagree, I think the consensus view is that the feature has to be in Lake Superior because that's the largest lake in the world.
macOS matches watchOS, tvOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Unless Apple decides to rename all their products, I don't see macOS changing.
AsciiDoc specifically is pretty nice though, I prefer it to markdown and it doesn't really have much more of a learning curve.
> Can't we just use JSX or XML? Those both beat this house of cards formed out of one-off and nonstandard extensions, parsers, and pipelines built around Markdown

Why wouldn't this be true for JSX?
No, but it certainly makes it a lot easier to take that position even if it's wrong.