skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That’s the opposite of what you’d want to do. You want to attach the antigen to a test and screen your body for immune cells with an antibody to the antigen

No, that's a serological antibody test. They are useful, but they only work once your body has already mounted a response to the virus.

In contrast, PCR tests looks for the actual viral RNA, and they work regardless of what your immune system is doing. In principle, the test I described could do likewise: it identifies the actual virus particles in the same way the (mouse) immune system does: by keying into them with antibodies which in turn trigger a larger response (the voltage).
It kinda touches on the border of not being offline, I don't know. A user would be able to just as easily upload the JSON to their respective Cloud Storage Provider, it would be a pain to support all of the major ones since there are so many.

Maybe when there's a clear need of one or more cloud services, this could be explored?
I think it might actually lead to losses. As in, companies that would have considered building in remote work capabilities in another timeline will now be discouraged to by employees who think coronavirus when hey think work from home, leading to slower adoption overall
I enjoy WFH and agree with what everyone is saying that the current situation is far from ideal for WFH. However, many people who promote WFH forget something pretty important. If you have an home office then great. But many people live in small apartments with other family members and don't have ideal conditions for WFH. The solution is having many co-working spaces so that most people have one nearby. But people should be able to have their own desk and everything.
Well, the word mirrorless implies for me most of all, that it doesn't have a mirror, in contrast to a (D)SLR. Of course, most of the time, mirrorless is used for cameras which have exchangeable lenses and an electronic viewfinder. That is, why I explicitly stated in my post, that while not having a mirror, the M9 didn't have an EVF.

The M(240) then added the EVF, which also precedes the A7.

All of this is a bit of trivia, as most people are not aware of the Leica M series, so I thought it would add to the discussion. The A7 certainly was the first EVF-only mirrorless 35mm camera and was sold in far higher numbers than any digital M.
Good points but “medium format” is a term of art in sensor sizes, referring to sensors larger than 24x36mm, such as the sensor in the Fuji GFX.

We went through some “megapixel wars” in the past and it turns out, like you said, there are a lot of tradeoffs here and optimizing for high pixel count means you have to make unacceptable sacrifices elsewhere.
Would you be willing to say more about this bit?: "But I was always an outsider looking in who never really got to benefit from that strong sense of community (in fact, it arguably did me a lot of harm)." I'm interested in this outside/insider dynamic, and how those correspond to a member's sense of community (leaving aside for the moment whether HN is a community), as well as the experiences of harm that members have had because of those dynamics.
It's funny how nobody is saying you should be able to opt out of getting counted when you get a coronavirus test.
Depending on how many people are waiting with you and how many machines they have running in parallel, it may still take two weeks for you to be cleared.

Better than nothing, but I wouldn't get too excited yet.
The last few thousand years of Euroasia is about massive world changing wars because of people moving in large numbers during dry spells. It’s not exactly a pleasant thing to live through.
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Yes, I guess to add to that, it’s probably really not for everyone as well. The same could be said about office life.
This leaderboard I made is the same idea but on the US county level: https://rocky-hamlet-54713.herokuapp.com/
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A green screen should make it pretty straightforward?
Could you maybe expand on what company you work for so that the rest of us can avoid it and its products?

Uploading all of this data to Facebook just so you don't have to run a Matomo instance (or whatever controlled analytics platform you use) is either laziness or disregard for your users. There's a reason the analytics are free and sacrificing your users for something this small is exactly what is wrong with the modern software ecosystem.
Forcing colonialist countries to return their ill-gotten wealth is nothing but justice. If you live in those countries your affluence is built on a history of appalling human suffering. Saying it's all water under the bridge is just tremendously self-serving and shouldn't be an option. To quote our friend Malcolm X:

"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They won’t even admit the knife is there"
All the tweets have more than 10K likes.
They weren't referring to Columbus as the person who conquered South/Central America (there were quite a few conquistadors involved there... not just Cortez).

They were referring to the arrival of Columbus as the watershed moment that signal the arrival of Europeans en masse to the Americas.
From a first principal perspective there is no reason why anyone should think that it is impossible for China or another country to create 2 billion vaccine doses in the next 6 months. There are plenty of reasons to say this will not happen but it isn't impossible. If it does happen everything flips very quickly.
I've been using Krita a lot as my Photoshop replacement lately, but I bought both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer and have been impressed with how much they offer for such a significantly more reasonable price. It's time to tell Adobe "no" to subscription based software.
Initial peopling, or oldest known genetic ancestors of current individuals.

Take Israel or Morocco as a comparative example. There were sapiens there before Neanderthals, but they are not thought to be ancestral to any modern people. The majority are not. This makes intuitive sense when thinking of species or subspecies (eg Neanderthals), but it works the same with populations.

Also, it's easy to think of ourselves in permanent "infinite growth" mide, where we colonise and dominate. But, recent years aside, humans bloomed and receded just like other species. Range expanding and contracting.

Just because a population is in the same place does not mean that it's ancestral. The first, second or eighteenth population may have no current ancestors... or none in that area.

As Dawkins puts it "descendants are common, ancestors are rare."
Yes, Photoshop supports pretty customizable recorded and custom actions. Can also process multiple files in bulk/batch.
but the financial loss should certainly be larger than €123?

Wouldn't anyone who was killed earn more than €100 a year for their lifetime?

I am sure the court has some guiding rationale, but without it this feels outrageous.
I've met some of the senior executives at OneWeb, and think highly of them.

My understanding is that from day one they were under pressure from Softbank and other backers to spend the initial capital aggressively -- to secure spectrum as quickly as possible, build out ground stations as quickly as possible, build out global operations as quickly as possible, and start launching satellites as quickly as possible -- with the implicit assumption that there would be additional capital available to get the company to launch.

The team, to its credit, accomplished pretty much everything they set out to do on an accelerated schedule, but then, when they needed additional capital to finish the build-out and launch... the additional capital they had been counting on failed to materialize on reasonable terms.

Many people working at OneWeb surely feel shortchanged.
Thanks sorry I re-read and saw it. Let’s hope it’s real !!!
There seem to be a huge number of people reading about this topic online who just want to be comforted and are willing to throw all critical thinking out the window to that end. That's the only way I can figure why all these optimistic but poorly designed papers are being cheered on places like HN and /r/covid19, not to mention the news.
I’ll just give one example of how things will change — massive amounts of women are going to leave the workforce. Schools and day cares are not going to be reliable for the foreseeable future and women are more likely to quit their jobs and stay home if that becomes necessary.
Would love to see the data set that supports this assertion.
Piketty, in his most recent book, brings up the point that when all these former colonialists ended slavery (by their own hand or otherwise), the big concern was how much the former slaveholders would be paid back in exchange for their lost 'capital'. No concern was ever given to how much those former slaves should be owed for what was done to them. The US civil war in some ways allowed the US to avoid both questions.

He also points out the rather shocking fact that eleven out of the first fifteen US presidents were themselves slaveowners.
Yes, the existing lenses out in the field certainly kept Nikon and Canon in their position. Anyone with a large amount of lenses would stronly prefer to upgrade to a compatible camera.

This is what makes their move to mirrorless so tricky. While adapters for the existing lenses exist and work, in the long term you would want to upgrade many of your lenses to their mirrorless counterpart. Especially, if most new lens designs are made for the mirrorless lines.
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> In Cut from history, author Eric Freedman describes endling as "a word with finality." He opines, "It is deep-to-the-bone chilling to know the exact date a species disappeared from Earth. It is even more ghastly to look upon the place where it happened and know that nobody knew or cared at the time what had transpired and why.

I got the exact same feeling seeing that photo of the Tasmanian Tiger. Extinctions aren't the fault of a single person, but it's still super sad that society couldn't (and can't) get its act together.
While technically true so much of C++'s success is due to backward compatibility that I think the language would be instantly crippled.

Java is in a similar situation, which is probably why they market the minor version.
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I think you can make a reasonable case that, if we have a recession, it will be OK for Airbnb. Maybe even good for them.

During a recession, people look for ways to economize, and one way is to downgrade housing. For example, people who did live alone will get a roommate, people will move to a smaller place, and some younger people will move back in with their parents.

If this does happen, then occupancy rates (for normal leases, not short-term rentals) will drop in many places, making landlords more interested in alternative ways to fill empty units. That could work in Airbnb's favor.

In a recession, people would also have less disposable income for travel. That will hurt Airbnb but it could also help them because travelers could prefer it as a cheaper alternative to a hotel. During recessions, budget-oriented businesses (like discount stores) tend to do better.
that's not what the WHO says
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It’s also possible no vaccine will be discovered as there are no coronavirus vaccines.
Preemptively deciding that it isn't worth formally hearing some grievance is a pretty colonialist attitude.

If there's not a case to be made, a reasonable court won't award a penalty. So it shouldn't be a big problem for states that are not somehow connected to the historical actions in question.
I think people have been raising the fundamental moral hazards, lack of business viability and externality problems of gig economy / “marketplace” startups for a long time. But braindead rich people who want to believe in unicorns still pour money into saccharine VC fake shit, giving people of deplorable moral status huge piles of cash, sociopathic ego-stroking soap boxes to stand on, and every incentive to pursue regulatory capture strategies as temporary props to lever up an IPO and foist the inevitable market correction losses onto unwitting regular people who come to own toxic business stocks through dark patterns in their retirement plans with “target date” mixes and automatic adjustments hard to opt out of.

At some level you have to be angry at consumers who use and defend these businesses, and be angry at employees who agree to work for them and smugly believe it’s all untouchable becuz tech.

If you are an engineer for Airbnb, Bird, Uber, Lyft, etc., you are the problem.

You have to be responsible for the business model of the jobs you take. What is the value proposition? Not just internal to the company, but to the external world.

Until rank and file engineers start saying no to these jobs, nothing is going to get better. We have to say no to horrible working conditions like open plan offices, braindead infantilizing office spaces where video games and catered lunches matter more than basic health benefits, severance pay, and work life balance.

It’s not going to get better until we just refuse to participate in these sham businesses and we stop glorifying some manifest destiny founder trope as if it’s worthy of admiration or good for the world.
ALL companies who attempted to launch massive satellite constellations ran out of money, often pushed by financial markets around the dotcom bubble bursting.

Many of them ended up being salvaged afterward and many are still operating today (some at a profit) after going through bankruptcy: ORBCOMM, Iridium, Globalstar.
All three have launched second generation satellite constellations. Bankruptcy doesn't have to mean society loses their value.

I'm as big of a SpaceX fan as anyone, but I hope we manage to salvage OneWeb out of bankruptcy and get at least the minimal constellation up somehow. Maybe they'll be able to switch to cheaper reusable launch providers like SpaceX or New Glenn as part of the bankruptcy.
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When will jupyter have "highlight and execute" functionality? The cell concept is fine, but I'm constantly copy pasting snippets of code into new cells to get that "incremental" coding approach...
Mullvad offers double-hop VPN as well.

>provide the highest level of internet security

o.O
This will always be the case, unless rural subsidies are increased even more drastically (not really a good thing). Infrastructure in cities is far cheaper than rural areas, so this is kind of a cat and mouse game for rural areas where internet will be x times slower than in cities.
Are your local officials not amiable to aggressive short term rental regulation implementation? Housing reform can mean many things.
You are generally right.

I’ve been to two chapel conferences. Brad is great, but he’s an engineer.

IMO, They have always lacked a good design and marketing support to get the messaging right.

Julia blew past them simply due to being more end-user focused.
This was definitely the warmest winter I remember in my lifetime. There was hardly any snow.
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SpaceX and OneWeb were actually once partners. OneWeb didn't like SpaceX's more ambitious plans (or SpaceX wasn't satisfied with OneWeb's less ambitious plans), so they split.
Person A stabbed person B possibly hundreds of years ago. Now because C lives where A did, he owes D money. Oh, and B originally acquired his possessions stabbing someone else, but he's somehow virtuous because of C has to feel guilty about everything A did.
Don't make the mistake of conflating concern for one's life with a desperation to avoid losing it. Safety concern is our own in-built countermeasure to desperate irrationally.

The fallacy that patients cannot act rationally in the face of adversity is a common excuse for compulsory regulatory bodies. While there is value in having a centralized body like the FDA provide consumers with qualified advice on drugs and food, a certification authority can provide that information for individuals to use at their own prerogative.
Possibly they're not inflation adjusted for whatever reason? Also they probably assumed the widow would not receive all of her husband's money.

Adjusting for inflation would get us to around 2000 euro, which makes sense for poor countries.
They weren't saying the Aztecs weren't there. They were saying the Aztecs had massively deforested areas prior to the arrival of Europeans.
Thank you very much for the advice, it is really useful.
I find WFH "depressing" because I like to get out of the house. The separation is more important for some than others.
Need to start naming and shaming any public figures, companies, and politicians who say otherwise. That’s the only way to fight against the corporate takeover attempt.
Historically, Chapel had an effort to support mixed instruction sets within a single logical program, but this effort fell by the wayside due to the amount of effort required to maintain it, combined with the fact that it was virtually unused (most HPC programmers are using homogeneous nodes, or at least ones with compatible ISAs).

Chapel can still be used in multi-architecture distributed computing today, but by running a Chapel program per ISA and having them communicate through more traditional means (e.g., ZMQ).
Regarding her response dance video; whatever else she may be, out-of-touch is certainly one of them.
This and the pt-online-schema-change tools look promising but not really applicable to NoSQL :(
I guess backwards-compatibility in the app is probably the way to go. Thank you for your comment!
There are significant second order effects (and 3rd, 4th degree effects and so on) that are difficult to foresee and accurately simulate. For example, just to continue on your train of thoughts, the number of average children in existing young families is going to go up, which is going to increase food consumption and, potentially decades later, construction activities in real estate.
Any business that takes even 1 cent from someone and gives it to someone else is, by the definition provided on the url I shared above, a MSB. GoFundMe certainly is. Yelp is not, but they are culpable by this business business arrangement.
It looks like Oneweb first received funding in January 2015. It looks like they had started working on the idea in 2014. (Per Wikipedia)

SpaceX's first propulsive landing attempt was September 2013, by the end of 2014 they had twice succeeded at controlled descents over the ocean. Their first landing on a solid surface (i.e. actual recovery of the booster) was late 2015.

So yes, there weren't yet reusable rockets, but the writing was very clearly on the wall.

Tesla still isn't in the satellite business unless you count the roadster that SpaceX launched, Starlink is part of SpaceX. It was announced at roughly the same time as Oneweb receiving funding (January 2015). My understanding is that Oneweb and SpaceX had been in talks that broke down, so they knew it was coming.
adobe has way more and better features. the subscription model is working well for them. that ship has sailed.

for people who only need affinity's feature set, it's perfect alternative. but it isn't putting a dent into adobe's revenue.

i'm not sure why you care to continue to slam adobe. if affinity's products and sales model suit you, why care what adobe does?
This is a great story. I feel like talented CS students are particularly prone to this sort of myopic thinking; their professors introduce them to functional programming, or the philosophy of UNIX, and they carry that approach everywhere, in a very blunt way. They also carry this little-examined conviction that the world consists of mediocrities and mediocre code and sometimes aren't charitable with the work of others.
We already perform migrations separately but we were trying to avoid needing to be backwards-compatible. However, it looks like this is the best approach. Thanks!
We operate 2 units out of our home. They were converted from rentals. They were REALLY crappy rentals though and essentially illegal to rent out anymore - lacking access to laundry facilities, kitchens, etc. But they are comfortable and spacious and in a nice part of town, so they have made excellent Airbnbs.

Housing shortages in our area are a huge problem - any apartment complex proposal dies in city hall, so they are essentially banned. The only source of new units are hotels. Our units are slightly more expensive than renting, but still an amazing deal over an equivalent hotel. And a quarter of the cost goes to local taxes (we're taxed at a higher rate than the hotels, btw).

Coronavirus has dropped Airbnb rates across the board - but occupancy has been about the same (market pricing in action). We have noticed a ton more interest in long term rentals (a. because it's so cheap, and b. a lot of people have bizarre living situations right now), so if anything income is a lot more consistent right now.

Airbnb's cut isn't that affected. It's still bizarre how much they make off of a unit considering how little they provide. Their insurance never pays out - their website and app are embarrassingly bad.
That’s both a dark thought and a great first sentence for a scifi story.
Apparently:

> MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 26, 2020-- Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) announced today the availability of an antibody rapid blood test, known as Standard Q COVID-19 IgM/IgG Rapid Test

...

> The Company anticipates having at least several hundred thousand tests available by March 30 and significantly increased availability beginning in April 2020.

...

> Because serology tests measure antibodies, they can help assess the likelihood of past as well as present infection, and are meant to be used as an aid to health care professionals in diagnosing the mid- to later stages of the viral infection. Along with other information, such as the presence of symptoms, the tests may help health care professionals assess whether individuals (including health care workers) have recovered from the virus.

From http://investor.henryschein.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
Easy. Just fly the upper stage slightly higher than wanted and shoot one at a time into the final orbit desired distance apart.

(Payloads’ own engines works fine though)
For the same reason you'd quit walking in your house at night without turning on the lights after your dog develops a bowel problem.

Testing helps us see the problem and deal with it before we step in it and spread it around.

Isolating is like putting the roomba on a shelf for a while. Without taking that step, no amount of turning on the lights will save you.

Both strategies are important and complementary.
Global warming is a myth. Brought to you by the same folks who said coronavirus is a hoax.
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Read a book. People stabbing each other is utterly unlike enormous systems deliberately set up to extract, impoverish, and exploit entire regions of the globe. Oh, and colonialism hasn't ended in case that wasn't clear. Any time a nation tried to nationalize their resources and was toppled in a US-backed coup? Colonialism. Nearly anywhere a multinational corporation works to extract resources and profits from a developing nation directly continues the legacy of colonialism.
China woo this again. Not sure n ext round will be 20 years long if they continue their eating and Gov social control.
For some reason I don't like to know that some people are doing research on extracting viruses from ice or mass graves from old plagues. It looks like playing with fire.
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