skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years back I sensed an opportunity to create a meetup competitor that would solve many of the biggest pain points for users and organizers. While putting together our business plan, we realized that politics had seeped into general culture too deeply to be able to run a lean ship. Everything would have to be moderated.

What do you do when the KKK wants a meetup? Ok, that seems easy but what about the League of the South? The Sons of the Confederacy? The Nation of Islam? Or what do you do when the Tidewater Democrats declare the Coastal Republicans to be a hate group and want them banned? Or the local Libertarians wanting Citizens for Gun Control kicked off the site? Or how do you handle stalkers who think meetups are their personal hunting grounds? What about trolls who leave inappropriate comments everywhere? There are so many situations that require the owners to step in that are difficult to impossible to automate. Even if you're making good and consistent decisions, that's still lots of manual work and dealing with constant PR issues. Meetup no doubt has a team that takes care of these issues but those salaries add up quickly and there's not much room for efficiency of scale.

You could try being hands off but you'd get slaughtered in the press for allowing anything outside of the current narrow definition of socially acceptable humans. Any service open to the public ultimately has to have a group who polices the service, not only to the wishes of the owners, but also to those of the loudest voices in the greater social context.
Someone should turn this into areweobsoleteyet.com and print no as long as currentYear < 2111 (assuming "hundred year language" naming story is true).
Every company I've worked at has had people who work from home either part of full time, but it's very rare to hear about someone being hired in as a remote worker in a team that's otherwise staffed by office workers.

I would say it's a much higher bar to be hired in as a remote worker vs an existing employee moving to being remote because you already whether the employee is productive, fits in the team and has the social connections to be productive.
Every apple employee
From my understanding, this structure already exists in some form, where a hiring hall is used. Essentially, workers are employees of the the union, and are contracted out to companies as needed. The union typically handles qualifications, and benefits.
Betting on Extreme Co-Design for Compute Chips
150 people is a lot. Their payroll and benefits probably cost $10 - $15 million per year.
Old!

It’s mid-2012 model. Core 2 cpu with Broadcom 43xx
And half the population dislike Trump. And they can criticise him freely. And do.

But as you ignored the last question (Answer: China is a big country, not Fox News), here's a new one for you. Which Chinese guy named Li Wenliang tried to warn people the shit was hitting the fan and then got seriously slapped down for it because reality wasn't what president Xi wanted to hear? And then died of exactly what he was trying to warn about?

As my Chinses is poor may I ask a favour of you, that you translate this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/%E6%9D%8... for us, please.

Thank you.
And if you have asked for a specific image to be made, you will invariably find something shadowed in the corner you need to also see.
Ask HN: Can't find HN article on gain-of-function research
Hey HN! I've been looking for around 3 hours (and have now decided that I needed help) for an article that was posted here at either the beginning of the month or late February (but I think the former is much more likely) on an opinion piece arguing against BSL 4 or P4 labs and gain-of-function research. I cannot recall if it was an actual post or if it was a comment on a post, but after a long search through my upvote history along with searches through HN archives for the past month, I can't find it anywhere.

I'm going slightly crazy looking for it, and it would be awesome if someone knew what it was off the cuff :)

Thanks in advance!
That's really weird. Pretty much all Apple job postings include location:

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search
It’s amazing to me that Apple’s refusal to support remote work has caused them to be caught flat-footed here. I doubt they considered the need to be remote friendly as a contingency plan in case of a disaster, but here we are. Hopefully more companies can be more open-minded in the future; to avoid doing so could be very risky to their business.
> Piling up loose dirt is just asking for liquefaction.

Having investigated this myself when I bought property for a house, this is not expensive to deal with. Heck, my neighbor did. You bore a hole with a big auger, fill it with concrete, and set the structure on it. You can even build skyscrapers on fill with such (see San Francisco).

The only reason these problems were not addressed when Fukushima was built is because people didn't think of it in their failure analysis, not because it is expensive, impractical, or impossible.

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the Fukushima design, just details.
Yes... Really. Not everyone is wealthy.

It's tricky to discuss whether the price is worth the service. Because it depends on many factors (e.g. how much you make)

We'll just vote with our wallets.
Ehhhh, the supreme court has found that you can sign away rights in a shrink wrap agreement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_LLC_v._Concepc...
The US Is Refusing to Take the World’s Most Available Masks
Think this is uncharted territory and laws are probably irreconcilably disparate from state to state, from country to country.

In the U.S., it's likely that the most consistently established legal framework revolves around recorded telephone conversations, the one-party consent laws and two-party consent laws, of which some contain mentions and subsets of 'electronic communications.'

"Recording conversations in all 50 states chart" (PDF): https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/RECORDING...

Wikipedia has a list of countries with some laws, but, it's a very shy list.

List of two-party consent laws in the U.S. is very short.
your mind would be rapidly changed when you learned the concept of shit lasagna. Layers or waste and toilet paper.
One of the rare remakes that was better than the original.
Verily's Covid-19 Screening Website Leaves Privacy Questions Unanswered
I've always wanted live monitoring from SLR/Nice Camera straight to iPad for focus/composition monitor. There are hacks to get there now, but they all suck and cost a lot.
Eventually new technology exposes a counterfeit. There was a recent NOVA about fake dead sea scrolls and the competition between counterfeiters to create better fakes and forensic experts to weed them out. At the time the episode was filmed about a third of the scroll fragments owned by the Museum of the Bible were proven fakes. Now the rest of them have been proven false.
All that now looks very cheap with a large percentage of the economy shut down, no good solution in sight, and a bunch of PhDs in relevant fields working as data scientists for advertising companies or pricing derivatives on Wall Street after they couldn't find a sustainable job in research.
The headline isn't fully accurate, but if people are confused about – and burned by – this behavior, it is a documentation & design issue in Zoom.

They need clearer warnings this will happen, or a design which clearly separates the two info-streams, of differing sensitivity, into separate download steps & filenames.
The second sentence of your linked article says that it was pre-assembled and just needed to have the pieces fitted together on-site. It also says constructing it normally would've taken a year
Derbyshire police dye Buxton 'Blue Lagoon' black to deter gatherings
AFAICT the new Magic Keyboard for iPad didn't leak. There were rumors about a keyboard with a trackpad, sure, but I think everyone was surprised about the design.
NDA for an interview is pretty normal everywhere. An NDA for a job location, on the other hand, is not something I have been offered anywhere else.
> The way I’m working on this is to stop myself each time I’m about to ask a question and figure out what I actually want to know, and then see if I can just ask that specific question in no more than a single simple sentence. If the question does not produce a satisfying answer, I’ll try to understand if it is because I worded the question poorly, or did not provide enough context. If I need more context, I’ll add one or two sentences of context, and ask the question again.

That. Exactly that.

I've worked with people who will ask questions faster than I can answer them, or ask questions in a circle where it's clear that they never listened to my first answer... They are the hardest people to work with, no matter how smart, motivated, or capable they are.
I would imagine that repairing it would mean it'll be out of commission for a few hours up to a few days, for example by waiting until the repair techs arrive or whatnot, interrupting regular operations. Depending on how the costs are counted, even just a few hours can quickly catch up if you add all the personal costs of the sailors on the ship etc.

It's the same with things like outages, an outage lasting a day may "cost" $1 million, but what's actually meant is that you missed $1 million in profits for the day, not that you had to pay $1 million. If operating a carrier costs $400k/day then you could say then fixing something for a day "costs" $400k, but that's kind of a simplistic way of putting it.
Interesting, I've been helping with this project to crowdsource ventilator manuals (https://www.ifixit.com/News/36354/help-us-crowdsource-repair...) and as of last night Medtronic was saying they that they're "not providing [service] manuals to third parties but will provide manuals directly to the end users on request during this time to assist them in supporting their Medtronic ventilators." Good for them for changing their minds.
The Brontosaurus Is Back
It's true (at least in my experience) that the paywall is transparently dealt with when connecting from a university network, but most sites make it pretty easy to access their content via your institutional login even if you're not.
Camera/microphone isn't what was being discussed in this conversation thread. The topic at hand was taking screenshots of the desktop.
I've had 2 surface pros. I find them to be incredibly unreliable. They unpair from the lower half and drop peripherals, and the stupid trackpad! Its just awful. It is just so mediocre.
Glad to see there are at least a few bread nerds on HN! Tangzhong is also sometimes refereed to as a water roux which I think makes a little more sense for Western cooks since any cook will hear water roux and be 99% of the way there in terms of knowing what's happening.

Anyway! This idea can work will all kinds of starches because the "trick" is to trap some additional water in a gelatinized ball and spread that throughout the dough. It makes for higher total water content while not making to dough loose to produce more steam, and the starches help the gluten trap it. You can even use gelatin itself! When you make potato bread/rolls at Thanksgiving you're using the same trick but with potato starch!
'Star Trek: Voyager' gets an unofficial 4K remaster thanks to AI
Ireland, using the hotel's own website. Jurys Inn in Cork, in case you want to avoid it :-)
I agree that a lot of money is being wasted but your estimate of 4 people is very naive.
I think this is great news. Meetup still has major brand recognition out there, and I've been so many awesome events and groups over the years solely due to Meetup. But their online tools for too long have lagged behind in terms of effective group communication, so my hope is that this renewed business focus will result in a better (and more sustainable) product as well.
Tech rundown of Abbott Lab's 15 minute Covid-19 test [pdf]
Cringing it everytime he calls it an antique camera.

This is like a millennial talking about an antique technology called 'VHS' tape.
Harvard Medical School: early diploma to help fight Covid-19
I agree. Finding where to start/how to help, and fear of jumping in/criticism are biggest barriers to open source contribution. Also, time/family constraints and lack of mentors.

Sink or swim!
I am sure deepfakes for radio is even easier to achieve than other media. Not only is it audio-only, but it is also low fidelity audio.
What will happen is that we will end up having 10% fee with 10% mandatory tip.

Because there will be a certain group of people who shame others to tip.
Interesting watch thanks. Makes me think it would be good for transparency if all board meetings of publicly traded companies should also be recorded and available online.
Collaborative Whiteboard for Remote Architecture Interviews
The problem is not in science but in human nature.
As a fellow meetup organizer, I think Private Investors will be worse than WeWork for Meetup.
Except onions! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
Sure, if you ignore monetization completely then that is reasonable. But that Instagram is not the Instagram of today, which actually makes money from an advertising platform.
Maximizing the productivity of an all-remote team requires appropriate IT infrastructure, work processes, workspaces, management skills, etc.

I'm concerned that some companies will take a productivity hit during the covid19 outbreak, and fail to attribute some of that hit to their inexperience / unpreparedness with all-remote teams.
Yep. We have these in our team too. People who came in the regular way, were absolutely top performers, and then decided to relocate. The decision to the company was let them be remote or let them go, and some were allowed to be remote and some were shown the door.
Does Meetup run on ad revenue? I have an ad blocker installed so never noticed. I thought they charged organizers a modest fee.
Not intending to denigrate this in any way because it is cool, but that video wasn't the board meeting (notwithstanding the title), that was the founder/CEO giving a recap of the board meeting.
The host can allow or not allow bob mockery on business calls. Many business just allow public chat. So the host has to allow private chat, then someone chatting with someone has to download their chat and publish it.

A fair number of use cases benefit from being able to see private chats - webinar replays it's nice to see the questions folks are asking, but usually host in a large webinar doesn't want to chat spam everyone by allowing 300 people to post to everyone. So they can set it host only, download, then edit and include to whomever cares what questions are getting asked.
Out of curiosity: Could you be more specific on the issue and how it works?
ATS has all the ergonomics of a burst reactor core, but as far as safe low-level programming is concerned, it has Rust beat.
It's unfathomable to me that anything about the universe would be pinned at some integer value.

My intuition is that particles come in infinite numbers of "generations" and we just so happen to be only able to measure three of them right now.
A lot of people don't have Facebook or limit the usage.
That requires the middle managers to actually understand the jobs and responsibilities of their staff. For me, this hasn't been the case in over a decade. Since my current boss doesn't really have a technical understanding of what's involved with his teams responsibilities, he instead simply feeds metrics to his boss (also not technical). These metrics range from tickets closed, system uptime, and "automation." I would love to have the Bobs come in and ask him what he actually does here.

It's also important to realize that what middle management wants and what its staff thinks is important usually diverges. Middle management wants to look good, to climb the ladder. Staff generally wants someone to provide guidance, and remove obstacles. If middle management isn't technical, there ends up being a gap.

My favorite is a manager who hired a DevOps admin. This person had never touched Docker, yet after a one week course, was put in charge of our environment. Needless to say, he's made Docker look really bad due to his inexperience. The manager looks good though, because our stodgy company is using Docker.

My second is the manager who was hired to manage our SQL and Oracle team. He has no experience with either database, and was a pity hire by our VP. He's been wonderful.../s
Provocative generalizations about countries are flamebait and against the site guidelines. This isn't hard to understand, nor is it hard to make one's substantive points without such provocations, if one wants to. We ask everyone to do that for the good of the community. It's all too easy for these things to break into outright flamewar, which benefits no one and destroys what this site exists for.

In case it's helpful, two facts are (1) HN is a highly international community, at least 50% outside the US, and (2) we do this moderation independently of which specific nation(s) a commenter has a problem with.

I'm afraid you're making nationalistic generalizations in here that amount to flamebait in their own right ("Americans, in general, are more egregious [etc]"). Please don't do that.
> it sure would be great if we could decouple health insurance from employment like other reasonable countries.

How does this work in Denmark? I read they were the gold standard for how a nation should do health care, but I also read they don't do insurance solely as a public option through the government.
The cool kid on the block is https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/ . At least they don't share their user data with facebook like Zoom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708233
> because patient dying from COVID-19 almost always becomes critical before dying

Actually I read the opposite. That the patients in ICU's are younger 40-70 with the bulk in their 60's, while those dying are mainly 75-100, mostly over 80 years old.

That is: many if not most of those who die never pass the ICU. Obviously people in ICU wards die too, a significant fraction. But the age of the group that die mostly (80+) means it's mostly non-ICU patients.
Doctors know a 80 year old with some comorbidity isn't going to survive being tubed. By "survive" they mean survive for X months afterwards too (This number can be e.g. 6 or 12 months to use as a guideline for survivability, to consider ICU treatment).
Actually it would give them something with which to differentiate their Pro lines: they would have the x86 processor along with the ARMs.
Also moderation: Meetup isn't gMail, so I get unwanted, sometimes explicit messages delivered directly to the Meetup inbox (and forwarded to my email).

That doesn't even take into account the number of fake groups that aren't really meetups so much as "here's a webinar in which I pitch stuff to you 1-on-1 or 1-on-2, if I can find a second sucker".
My company, Repair Biotechnologies, is working on regrowth of the atrophied thymus via FOXN1 upregulation. We're at the preclinical stage of getting the vector and formulation into shape, and the start of tests in influenza exposure models in mice.

The atrophy of the thymus is a major reason why the adaptive immune system declines. The evidence from sex steroid ablation in prostate cancer patients strongly suggests it is possible to provoke the naive T cell component of the adaptive immune system into regenerating itself in a matter of months, provided that the thymus is restored to more youthful activity. Also evidence from the Intervene Immune trial with growth hormone (not advisable as a strategy, but congratulations to that team on getting interesting data) for the same proposition.

To be clear this is a years long process for Repair Biotechnologies that would see us into trials around 2022, but at some point fixing the aged immune system will and must become a practical concern. At that point, we'll all be a lot less concerned about pandemics of this nature, as the mortality and hospitalization rates will be much reduced.

There are other things that need to handled to restore all of the aged immune system: getting hematopoietic stem cells back into line and functioning properly, regenerative medicine for lymph nodes, some form of targeted destruction for malfunctioning immune cells. But each of these items will give incremental benefits on its own.
The content of the article which details the facts of the cases.
They wouldn't tell me the job they were recruiting me for even during the on site interview. Everyone was extremely cagey. Walked out of there decided against working for them based on that. The employees seemed like victims of abuse.
> After all, these technology platforms are making supply and demand more transparent,

What do you mean? I don’t see any transparency from these platforms on either end. Workers often don’t know how much the customer paid and the customer doesn’t know what the worker received (or even if their tip “made it” to the worker). These gig economy markets are entirely artificial and centrally planned by the corporation in charge.
According to a speech given in 2016 by Dr. Michael Bracken, an epidemiologist from Yale University, as much as 87.5% of biomedical research is wasted or inefficient.

To his point, "Waste is more than just a waste of money and resources. It can actually be harmful to people's health."

> He backed his staggering statistic with these additional stats: 50 out of every 100 medical studies fail to produce published findings, and half of those that do publish have serious design flaws. And those that aren’t flawed and manage to publish are often needlessly redundant.

What we need is NOT more funding, but we desperately need to improve the research and funding processes to make them more relevant, more efficient, and more reliable.

1. Publicly funded studies should yield open source research data that is freely available, so that studies can be repeated and experimental methodologies be improved and scrutinized.

2. We need to prioritize randomized clinical intervention trials over weak and questionable epidemiological surveys that often only muddy the waters and hinder our ability to draw sound conclusions.

3. Consequentialism should drive research funding. We need better and more formalized ways to identify gaps in our current knowledge, and to identify the potential impact of research before funding it. We don't need to allocate our current proportions of funding into research on subjects that are already very well understood or unlikely to drive policy and decision making. For example, more studies showing that exercise is good for you aren't likely to have a large impact moving forward.

Here's a more in-depth link to Dr. Bracken's speech:

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/while-ni...
UK Government commissions data platform to help inform Covid-19 response
You're not seeing a slight difference between a search engine indexing the whole web and a calendar with signups and comments? Yes, I know they do a bit more than that, but let's keep it in perspective.

What at meetup requires hundreds or thousands of servers?
It's not revolutionizing everything in the field of AI. It's "only" good at prediction in domains where data is poorly structured, such as images, audio, video, text and some games (which is a lot to be fair, hence the publicity it got in the recent years). It's not that great on structured data or on small datasets, and is not really adapted to anything not related to raw, "black-boxed" prediction.

I'm not sure what you'd expect that tool to do regarding the current epidemic.
I'm surprised. I've had 8 development jobs in the past 25 years, and in none of my job searches was I asked to sign an NDA.
Recipes for automatic text summarization using Google BERT and Microsoft UniLM
Indeed, it's bizarre. I imagine it's a technique to force prospects into an NDA as early as possible or, might be just a blanket policy of not giving out any information without an NDA or a legal clearence.