skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DNA is made of nucleic acids (deoxyribonucleic acids), not amino acids. DNA is translated to amino acids, except when it encodes long-noncoding RNAs, or miRNAs, or piRNAs, or untranslated regions, or intergenic regions, or transposons, or psuedogenes.

And the protein coding sequences are coded into proteins, except when there are alternative splicing sites, or anti-sense RNAs.

And then the protein sequence folds into their minimum free energy state, except when they are assisted by other proteins, or when they exist as disordered proteins.

And it's not always DNA -> protein. Sometimes proteins make other proteins, for example circular proteins can only be made from other proteins.

Then there are post-translational modifications, which change the RNA sequence between DNA to RNA and RNA to protein.
And then there's RNA interference, where miRNAs interfere with RNA to protein translation.

And then there's epigenetics such as DNA methlyation or histone modifications (histones are protein which compress DNA) which change what genes can be expressed when.

Really, for every rule that you've been taught, there is an exception. Biology is so much more complicated than we understand. And understanding how to make a biological computer (different from the biological computing of Adelman, yes the same Adelman as RSA) would involve understanding how all the pieces fit together.
Buddha, Topoi, and Quantum Gravity
Yet it is still somehow legal for them to market themselves as “Dr. $NAME”. It’s baffling.
> The common and slightly derogatory term for an X5/Q7/XC90 type SUV in Swedish is “Stadsjeep” (“city jeep”).

The Russian term for that is "parquet jeep"
As long as it doesn't affect the health of the codebase or force the engineers to work overtime, why do the engineers care about what features get shipped or not? They're paid to code, so if they aren't sacrificing code quality or working overtime they should just focus on coding features that may or may not get shipped. I mean, if we're being strictly objective that is.

If the engineers have feelings they might feel dismissed and devalued if they spend time and effort making features nobody will ever see.
Shouldn't be cynical, it could be a matter of rampup, other hospitals knowing when to send, when not to, testing problems etc.. In not a long time it could very well be full.
> Maybe there is a way to use this concept of reducing stress with a gesture without invoking supernatural gibberish.

We know that fake acupuncture works just as well as real acupuncture, and we know that regular massage works pretty well to de-stress people, so it should absolutely be possible to remove the woo and still get the benefits.
President Rodrigo Duterte orders police to kill citizens who defy lockdown
The homeopathic a&e:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0
On Slack, I just mute all the channels, unless I'm active on a project related channel. But having to jump through each workspace to clear out messages is a pain.

One view to see all or every workspace unreads would be great... I'm jumping through hoops just to find the damn unread messages sometimes.
Given the proximity to Javitz you'd think they'd have a Covid wing for handling these cases.
aka a Mac 10.4 only front end for youtube-dl.
Is this up to date? Are there advantages over youtube-dl?

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Did you read the article or just the headline?
For sure. Accessibility should also encompass things like making content or functionality usable on terrible networks and ancient devices.
This hospital ship was meant to house non-covid patients. It's meant as surge capacity for the NY hospital system. Of course it isn't full yet. Of course it isn't full of covid patients right now, it isn't ever supposed to be full of covid patients. It's not a joke. The joke is that the Ny Times of all places let this ridiculous article go to print when a simple search, or even a summary of the DAILY press conferences where this is covered would have explained the situation.

If NY thinks it's a joke, and it isn't being useful by being there, then NY should be calling for it to be sent somewhere else. I bet the 20 patients who are there now sure are happy to have a hospital that isn't infected with the virus[1] right now.

As a side note: this brand of journalism is disgusting to me. Articles like this absolutely do not help anyone. You can lump this sort of thing right in with the people who ask EVERY SINGLE DAY why we didn't start acting sooner. EVERY DAY they ask this at the press conference. People want to know things like when they can get tested, if their parents are going to die, or if they're going to be able to pay for food this week. But every day they waste this precious time we get with these experts asking stupid self-serving questions like why we didn't start sooner. What possible answer to the question could help any of the very real existential problems Americans and their families are facing right now?

[1]: There needs to be an easier name than "sars cov2" for this. It only creates confusion where people either choose to call it "coronavirus" or "covid".
Jitsi's first release was in 2003. Zoom was founded in 2011.

So, more accurately, Zoom is the costly, proprietary, privacy-invading alternative to Jitsi.
Modern medicine is also mumbo jumbo for the average patient, and still it's crucial that the patient have faith in it and cooperates - without it, they won't be disciplined to take their prescribed drugs, monitor exams, follow up consultations, and in the end the treatment won't be effective.

So I wouldn't downplay the importance of perception, and that depends on culture, traditions, individual values, etc.
Every supernatural gibberish healing practice I've seen gets one thing right - their lobbies are consistently cozy, inviting places full of soft chairs and natural materials. A doctor's office is often a place with horrible lighting, no decoration, and plastic chairs.

There's a lot of stress and general unease that could be alleviated by getting someone to take time out of their day to go somewhere comfortable and explain their problems to a kind person. Unfortunately there's probably more stigma for that by itself - therapy - than there is for that plus a fanciful story.
I didn't lecture anyone. What did you find inconvenient about the existing methods of contact?
Same here but a quick search on YouTube found plenty of other train crashes to satiate me
Well US DECT only has 5 channels (everywhere else it's at least twice as many)

DECT base stations are capable of detecting when two (or more) stations are on the same channel and sharing transmission slots between them.

With 10 channels and 12 full duplex slots/channel you can handle 120 people sitting on top of each other, spread them out a bit and then you can handle many more - probably a small number of hundreds if done right
Wait, is this real? It seems deeply weird to me. I think they have a carve out for plasma, but surely selling your literal blood is illegal? If not, why can't people sell organs? I think this just introduces a sort of inequality that even American society can't stomach.
Why do people insist on using ‘TFA’? Bugs me every time I see that on HN.
This is for you! : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6113561
Let's all watch the Magnificent Leader play the blame game on this one.
Each character in e.g. Chinese represents more information, so there are fewer of them, which sorta cancels out. I thought German was a good conservative choice here.
It's paywalled for me after the title and photo, from the other replies it looks like these questions were addressed in the full article.
US deploys warships off Venezuelan coast
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Exactly. And it's not like they're going to wheel 1000 patients out of the hospitals they are currently in out onto the streets of NYC and fill the ship up in 3 days. It's ridiculous. The logistics of that alone would be untenable. The patient count will obviously grow with time. Super irresponsible from NYT.
Under clear Linux, Firefox WebEx works for me simply by clicking the meeting links I'm sent.
As a newbie, looking to learn front end (and programming in general) without a programming background nor related career goals, I actually feel like this is gold. One of the hardest things when learning is that you don't know what you don't know. That's where this is so useful:

- I can easily see areas where I feel comfortable, and identify concepts I've at least heard of before. I can put them in context to learn more about them. For example, I learnt SASS but didn't know about css preprocessors.

- Where I identify gaps in my knowledge, it gives me the keywords to start digging deeper.

I do get imposter syndrome, but it is usually triggered by uncertainty and unclear expectations etc. This actually helps by giving me a more objective way to assess my skills - or lack thereof.

Also, I find actual beginner ressources particularly unhelpful. It's always the same: a painstaking slow build up from "hello world" to substractions, which I can't skip because I'll miss one thing that's critical to understand the specific tool/language/framework but doesn't teach me any new concepts... and then suddenly! arrays, realistic physics, Documentation that just lists functions with 50 parameters and assumes you'll guess the correct syntax... This at least gives me choices where I feel like I can pick an achievable next step...
I noticed this, too.

If you take 16,000 words/day multiplied by 26,280 days (72 years' worth of days), you get the 420.48 million in the text.

If you take that number and multiply by 24, you get 10,091,520,000--close enough to 10 billion that I think the author made a days versus hours mistake somewhere.

The remainder of the article seems to actually use the 420.48 million number and not 10 billion, as ringshall points out.
I think "can" is better than "does trigger" here. I know I am not alone in genuinely disliking physical contact with anyone at all, including strangers, friends, parents, pretty much anyone other than my wife.

I put up with it for ease of social pleasantries, but otherwise am much more comfortable not touching than touching. Massages are at best pointless and at worst counterproductive for me.
There is an available replacement for Python's standard re library, regex[1], which adds a long list of features and enhancements. It is too little known IMO, despite having existed and been continually maintained and enhanced for nearly a decade.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/regex/
Yes, it is an antimalarial. It also seems to be an antiviral, too.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8546725

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10434...
Genuinely interested, how did you get started with meditation?
People didn’t really memorize 10 numbers that often anyway. Most people whose numbers you knew would be in a small set of area codes, or just one, and even the next three might only have a couple possibilities for most useful numbers, unless you lived in a very dense area.
This is YouTube-dl, but also:

-OpenSSL 1.1.1f (latest).
-Curl 7.69.1 (latest).
-FFMPEG 4.2.2 (latest).
-Python 2.7.17 (latest Python 2).
-LAME 3.99.5 (second to latest released).
-Zlib 1.2.11 (latest).
-Mozilla's Certificate Authority Certificates PEM extracted by the Curl project (latest).
-Bzip2 1.0.8 (latest).

All compiled for Mac OS X 10.3.9+. And then theirs the web interface or app to choose from.
There is a paper record though called VVPAT, and the machines are not connected to the network.
Clicking 'read full article' worked without issue or payment
Big-Box Stores Told to Halt In-Store Sales of Non-Essentials in Vermont
One problem is that when people are triggered by certain topics, they will still be triggered by the topic, no matter how careful or non-violently you approach.

If you are married, and your trigger topic is house work, it doesn't matter if your spouse says "you need to more house work" or "when I get home after a long day of work, I feel let down by having to do a large amount of house work, could please do more in the future?".

If anything, the latter might be seen as more accusatory, even though feeling let down is exactly the emotion that your spouse communicated, and it was "non-violently" communicated using the "I [feel]" pattern.
http://longnow.org/seminars/02013/may/21/reviving-extinct-sp...

Progress.
Google hangouts / meet
Comeon dont be overly pedantic. If you call it coronavirus or covid or covid19 everyone knows what you're talking about. There is no confusion.
What does a Portuguese ship have to do with the US? And what are you smoking to think that a fifth-rate piratical force that managed to start a fight with an unarmed, civilian ship and lose spectacularly would do any better against an actual military? You can tell that the Venezuelan navy is not currently deterring a contemplated invasion by observing that their ships (bar one) are still floating.
The $94B fitness industry is reinventing itself as Covid-19 spreads
It shows the title and an image for a split second then a non skippable register prompt pops up over the article.
I don't think that's really off-topic & I agree. Another case in point: indigenous Australian cosmology. On the one hand, I don't personally take the notion that ancestors created the landscape very seriously. On the other, this cosmology was part of a system of thought, culture, and action that helped maintain a civilisation's existence for over 40,000 years (a feat we're very clearly not going to match).

And such questions naturally address an individual very differently according to their situation. I can't say I'm ever likely to be involved enough with Reiki to need to take a strong stance on its efficacy. So why not just remain open and admit ignorance? That admission seems as hard for humans as does holding an empirical stance. HN is (hardly uniquely) stuffed full of comments proclaiming great certainty about things it's blindingly obvious people hardly know a thing about.

It's fine often (and in truth most of the time) just not to know.
Slack workspaces aren’t good. I hate switching between them. I can get to “inbox” zero in my email and one slack workspace. Switching between them is too
much friction.
I have a microbiology degree and an EE degree (but more like comp E).

DNA truly is a blue print. (almost) Every cell in your body has the source code for your entire body.

"this gene or set of genes are responsible for that outcome" is generally going to be a true statement.

The equivalent wouldnt necessarily be a processor instruction.

If you wanted an analogy, a cell is like an entire minimal computer. Power supply, processor, memory, and I/O. Each computer can run different parts of the code, but every computer has the entire code base.

Within the computer are specialized "organelles" for storage, graphics, network, etc. These are comparable to organelles such as mitochondria, nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum etc.

DNA acts like code in that it produces outputs (messages) and receives inputs. Proteins are also like code in that they produce outputs and receive inputs.

It might be that DNA is like the executable source code that is stored as files and proteins are more like in memory processes such as services and actively running programs that get spawned from the files to perform various tasks.

Viruses are like hostile code in bound in an email or coming through as tainted packets. They cant actually do anything on their own - they are inert, but once the processor starts executing the code, they hijack the processor. Sometimes to spawn more malicious code to other computers in a trusted network

To carry the analogy further, departments in a company are a bit like organs. The computers in that department all roughly do the same thing. Imagine if IT imaged every computer in the company the exact same way, but what software was actually used would be based on your department.
There are two different kinds of empiricism, and they're in tension with each other. One kind is where specialists measure things and publish the measurements in journals. The other is where individuals try things for themselves and decide for themselves what they experienced.
No, you see, you don't understand: orange man bad
Is it encrypted?
How do we value a statistical life?
They are only talking about Quest's overcommitting and unable to process their Californian backlog. All the other sites are doing fine, New York esp.
Can you share the respiratory
I don't buy it. If its all shifted away from the industry supply, why are all the industrial supply stores devoid of industrial TP as well?

Just like all the baking supplies are gone from the stores, AND from the restaurant supply houses as well. There's not a 50# bag of flour to be found anywhere of those that that will actually sell to the normal consumer.

Although that industry is very closed in on itself, around my area if you go in person, you have to show your corporate paperwork to get setup as a buyer, and you can't just drop into willcall to buy restaurant quantities of what they have without an account. I know other areas are different.
You're giving way too much credit to the media to do anything other than shit on Trump 24/7
The HMMWV is on its way out. Orders for the vehicle are decreasing and will (or maybe already have) stopped. The vehicle is being replaced by the JLTV and MRAP (among others).
Don’t know about that guy but I did it with Headspace. It’s guided meditation - he coaches you through it. I found it pretty helpful.

Nowadays I do guided yoga with YouTube videos but I try to keep the lessons from Headspace in mind while doing them - clear my mind, focus on my breathing, if my mind wanders gently bring it back, think about how my body feels etc.
>(Swift, SwiftUI, XCode preview for SwiftUI, etc.)

Time will tell, but right now I think Swift isn't the languages that I once hoped for. And objective-C, despite all of its problem, is still doing well.
This has been getting a lot of attention lately. My friend reddit requested r/jitsi, as that it was abandoned, and we've already got quite a few new posts.

Unfortunately, we're not experts in Jitsi, we just installed it on a shared server. We're hoping to build a community there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/jitsi/
Future of Package Delivery Is Underground
This would be an interesting dataset to explore! A biographer's dream. Insider information on every corporate & governmental decision in history. Intimate daily-life details from early hominids.
Which trials has it failed? I've really only read through the French one and the one from Wuhan. There are plenty that are still ongoing, of course.
I picked up a microscope last year - they were on sale, and one of those things I'd always wanted to have a play with. I remember having a look with them in school and never seeing much and it seemed very hard.

All you have to do is go to a pond or creek scoop out some weeds, dirt and water and stick it in a jar and there is hours of exploration in front of you. Once you start looking its like seeing an evolutionary world in front of you, everythings eating each other and trying to not be eaten. If you're thinking of getting a telescope (I had one), think of a microscope they open up a new world, its incredibly easy to see things - I thought it would be a lot more work.

Probably there's so many on line resources now to - this guy is a great start - microbe hunter https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDpKY8-oz5PWlBPNzNsbLug
India faced a lot of instances of booth capturing, where the lines of the police and security services were spread too thin by the sheer population count that was voting.

About 1,00,00,00,000 people voting together between thousands of political parties and candidates! I am not wrong when I say that the west has never faced this.

Why not have a machine then, which could make this task scalable and easier to manage?
Not OP, but for me what made it work, initially, was the Headspace app. Some people aren't a fan of the voice, but for me it was so much more pleasant than the usual breathy deep-oice I find in other apps/audio.

I'd say more than anything what matters is that it's a kind of program or has some schedule or structure. Perhaps ideally with a shared commitment (so, planned sessions with a 'host' and other participants). Doing this physically is difficult right now, obviously, but I imagine there's tons of 'online meditation groups' these days...
Journalism is dead
Who cares? Honestly, stop giving a crap about what other people do to make themselves happy, just don't try it if you don't think it will work. If no one is getting hurt, one person leaves happier and one person leaves richer, then it's a win-win-win (win-win, plus a win for society as a whole).
It is. The bare API of QUIC would now mostly look just like TCP/IP streams. You have bidirectional byte streams with flow-control.

The main difference from an API pointer of view is that there is an additional multiplexing layer. On TCP/IP the byte stream is directly on the connection. On QUIC a connection can contain multiple streams - which are openable by both sides. And each of those streams is a bidirectional or unidirectional byte streams.

QUIC doesn't care what protocol you run on top of those streams. HTTP/3 is just the only one which is specified at the moment.
> Nations are not competitors. They are trade partners.

Of course nations are competitors. International trade is an unregulated market, every nation competes economically with each other and tries to extract maximally favorable deal for themselves; when negotiations get heated, they get backed up by military strength, and the only reason we don't go to war often is a combination of sanity and MADness.
With all modern dependencies compiled by Xcode 2.5 for Mac OS X 10.3.9+
"Over the past two decades, a number of studies have shown that Reiki treatments help diminish the negative side effects of chemotherapy, improve surgical outcomes, regulate the autonomic nervous system, and dramatically alter people’s experience of physical and emotional pain associated with illness."

The article links, with the phrase "a number of studies" to what seems to be one study [1]. In this study it looks like they surveyed people who regularly attended reiki practitioners about their trips and found that these people reported positive results.

This doesn't seem like a very compelling study to me. Of course people who go to Reiki will think that it works. That doesn't mean that it does work. People think that placebos work.

I'd like to see a study where half of the Reiki guys are people put through a Reiki training course and the other half are people taught to do the opposite of the intended techniques.

On the one hand, I can see the value of a placebo like institution where people wave their hands and say and do soothing things, and if that makes you feel better, then great. I don't think we need to pretend like this is some kind of mystery though, except as it is a specific case of the more general placebo mystery - which is interesting.

Maybe they go this direction in the article. I stopped reading after it became clear they don't have good evidence that Reiki works.

This also reminds me of the story of an astrologer who genuinely believed in astrology and practiced it according to complicated rules. Somehow he makes a mistake or starts to doubt things, and starts giving people their astrology report (or whatever it would be called) as the opposite of what it should be. Sure enough, the opposite analysis worked just as well as the "correct" analysis.

1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31638407
Ideally you should design in and implement accessibility from the start.

Doing the site first then accessibility second usually either means accessibility simply doesn't get done at all (since people forget and/or priorities change before it is done), or it is retrofitted in a really half-assed way.

This is really important stuff (both legally these days in many countries, but also ethically) so giving it second-billing is probably a mistake.