skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a bug, not a feature: the OPV went to bivalent a few years ago to reduce the odds of vaccine-related cases.
"This abomination has to die, and today would not be soon enough." Ouch!
Bitcoin is an “asset”, not an intermediary. Saudi doesn’t just sit on their dollars, they buy stuff with it, either actual goods and services or fixed incomes. Since nobody wants bitcoin for their labor and it’s a highly speculative asset that isn’t a particularly good store of value, it doesn’t accomplish either of the key things that are needed.
I could make a fair moral case for invading anywhere bigger than the mini-states like Switzerland.

Are there any countries in the Middle East where there isn't a good justified reason to invade them? I can think of reasonable reasons to invade Israel, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan. Some of those reasons have actually been used.

Similarly I can think of great justifications for an invasion of China, North Korea, Russia, pretty much all of Africa, the United States (they have a substantial amount of blood on their hands!).

Europe I personally struggle to think of dirt on in the last 50 years, South America I don't know much about. Most of South East Asian nations seem pretty well behaved to me which makes them a global rarity.

The fact that the US invaded somewhere where there were real reasons for concern is nice, but as far as I can tell that would be true of any invasion of any country short of sending the troops into Canada or re-invading Germany. In the Middle East it doesn't really mean much.
Sounds like you're just projecting your own mentality on everyone you've ever worked with for some reason.
I think there may be more reasons than that.

Human beings are complex, inconsistent, and many other things. Put them all into an interactive systems (cities, nations, global, cultures/ideologies) and the complexity increases.
Probably this? https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/09/999015/blood-tes...
You are right, I haven't thought about that.
Agreed, and the part that may be difficult for a non-native speaker to get is what other words would give the same meaning but seem less confrontational: e.g. "Yes, that's the intent..." conveys the same meaning but with a milder tone. I think with "point" there's the suggestion of "You missed the point," which is an insult.
I find Hopper Disassembler just as good and the price is certainly much more reasonable, especially when it's for occasional use - I get out a disassembler to figure out undocumented/weird behavior maybe 4-5 times a year. IDA just isn't the only game in town anymore..
Ok, bye! Been super fun!
Not only that, but if you compare the public presentations on the COVID situation given by Trump to those given by Lee (Singapore PM), the difference is stunning. One is nearly incomprehensible and full of unrelated matter (name calling, politicizing, even campaigning), and the other is polite and clear and comprehensive.
This entire article is a waste of time from the beginning.

The “two strain” theory was debunked the very next day as bad science.

http://virological.org/t/response-to-on-the-origin-and-conti...

I can’t believe that a month later, this bad science is still being circulated, by a purported PhD and former professor.
IIRC you can add your own 4K images to it via thumb drive and it'll rotate through them without relying on a connection to their upstream art server.

Take this with grains of salt as I don't own one, don't know the interval, and couldn't guarantee that it isn't bricked without an internet connection, though I find that highly unlikely.
More context it seems:

@JoeRessington 9:13 AM · Apr 9, 2020

> Yesterday my contract with JB/LA/AGC was terminated with immediate effect. The reason they gave was "gross misconduct". I said "cunt" in front of my team who I thought were my friends. It turns out that one of them wasn't my friend. I won't be naming names.

[0] https://twitter.com/JoeRessington/status/1248282904729395203
When it comes to Linux system troubleshooting, find is my best friend
Stagnation, scientific incentives, and funding models
Same here. My girlfriend just listens whether I'm talking to someone or not. If it's unclear, she taps on the door.

With kids I bet it's more difficult, but I don't think this technological solution can solve a human/social problem.
MS does that pretty well with VSCode I think. It doesn't seem to be the default experience though.
Well, if companies are using toy coding examples like Fizzbuzz to screen people, then clearly we could use with a baseline of competency in our field.
Here's how I cope:

Q: Where's my phone? A: I think it's on the shelf somewhere. Honestly I don't know.

Q: How many tabs do I have open. A: Currently 5 and never more than 10.

Q: How many times do I watch the news on TV. A: Never, I use youtube and I get the news from various sources on the topics that I want to hear.

Q: How many IM apps do I have open. A: Just one, Skype and is reserved for friends only.

Q: How many forums do I go to. A: Just two, HN and Reddit and on Reddit, I only browse the topics that I want to. I almost never go to the front page.

Q: How many social media sites have I joined. A: None. Not on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any other apps. Accounts created in the past were for test applications.

Q: How much unread mail do I have. A: None, I have 1 inbox for friends and family and another for spam / anything I opt-into.

It all starts with you. You have control over what you do and don't do. If you reduce your surface area, the number of issues will diminish daily.
Somewhat Less Lethargic JSON Support for iOS/macOS, Part 1: The Status Quo
Tele health is an option and there are more openings because of canceled in person visits. Now is a good time to establish care
I suspect more of the people who I want to expose the idea to have seen it here on HN.
I love the new address bar. I'm on the developer builds, so I've been seeing it for a while. I use both Safari and Firefox, and the new Firefox address bar makes me want to use it more. I haven't analyzed what I like about it--I just really like it.
That was done in 1989 with an update to Reed Solomon Viterbi – Version 2.

https://sourceforge.isae.fr/projects/simplified-communicatio...
Why would the loans be high interest? Fed interest rate right now is almost 0%. In some countries the interest rates are below 0. Why do banks have the special privelage of barrowing at this rate but people don't? Its a scam!
Most attacked, I could believe. Most compromised, I'm not so sure. Browser teams ship out new versions very regularly, it's nothing compared to vulnerabilities contained within the first release of Windows XP, for example.
This is unfortunate and unexpected. I enjoyed this podcast.
At the time I started, my university had a 75% acceptance rate. I didn't do any interesting side projects or have amazing extra curriculars.

I just went to the jobs page and clicked the "I'd like a job please" button. And what do you know, a recruiter contacted me a few days later to setup an interview.

I think people underestimate how desperate big tech companies are for warm bodies right now. It's not that hard to get an interview.
So you are saying the anti-vaxxers of the linux world are protected by herd immunity? Interesting angle for sure!
That's my point. Ripcord is not built using electron, yet provide the same features as the original slack app.
TL;DR: https://centr.org/news/blog/voip-goes-web-the-allure-of-http...
There was also this report from northern Italy, where 40 of 60 asymptomatic blood donors were found to have antigens (incorrectly described as antibodies in the article, from what I've been told):

https://it.finance.yahoo.com/notizie/coronavirus-castiglione...
Sounds like there's a contradiction between this and Mozilla's quote:

> We’ll respect user configured telemetry opt-out settings by looking at the most recently used Firefox profile.
Learn to meditate, vipassana or "mindfulness meditation". This has a dual benefit... one is the physical benefit of leaving body and mind in a calmer state. The other is training the mind to become more accepting of whatever occurs... meditation is all about observing without judging.
It didn't install for me yet. I think that's because I always click "No" when a software update asks for administrative privileges.
Yeah this approach doesn't make sense in my experience. The quality of my jobs has not been at all correlated with my opinion of the interviews to get those jobs. I think one of the reasons the system still lumbers along is that it's still a good trade to go through the hazing in order to get a well compensated and challenging job. But I think it's still worth expressing dissatisfaction with the system in hopes of seeing improvements.
Funny enough - I thought you were serious and agreed with me - and just found out you were being facetious. ;)
And in a hard hit place in Germany it's 14% https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/09/999015/blood-tes...

(which matches some of the estimates for Italy)
> So I guess leaders have done some things right by listening to the right experts (a form of competence I suppose).

This is the most important form of competence for a leader of government. There is no chance any leader would have adequate expertise in every subject they would need to be versed in in order to lead their nation. They _must_ bring in and rely on SMEs to make informed choices. (Of course they still have to make the choice.)
It's often very unclear what you really want out of a candidate, much less how to select for that.

Maybe a workplace wants someone who will conform to corporate culture and cheerlead for the company. Maybe a workplace wants someone who will learn a big stack of internal tools quickly. Maybe a workplace wants someone who will grind out intense hours without complaint. Maybe a workplace wants someone who isn't going to "waste time" paying technical debt and instead just ship an MVP as soon as possible. Maybe a workplace wants someone who learns new skills on their free time tries to incorporate them at work.

Workplaces don't identify or admit what they really want out of a candidate. And they certainly don't have a way for testing against it in interview.

Top tier (read: cash-flush) companies have settled for hiring strategies that effectively select for "yuppies" (I dont mean this in a derogatory way) who are willing to bust their ass and do whatever it takes to overcome any obstacle they are given. This mentality is common among top schools that are already intensely selective and competitive. People with this mentality are much more likely to spend hundreds of hours prepping for tests, such as the leetcode meta today.

Ultimately, while it's very annoying during a job search, I'm thankful for the fucked state of hiring because it means software engineers aren't commoditized.

If we were indistinguishable cogs, and any engineer with N years experience can be replaced by any other engineer with N years experience, that kind of dynamic ultimately results in a strong downward pressure on employee's power and wage. We are closer to a talent dynamic where every engineer is unique and some are much better hires than others. You wouldn't hire an actor just based on their resume. Knowing how many years they've acted or in how many roles isn't enough, you need an audition.

Software engineering is halfway between these extremes, and we should be thankful that we aren't (yet) indistinguishable cogs in the corporate machine.
The tech billionaires of this world will not fund anything based on a layman's explanation. They want to fund ideas based on reliable research. The Gates Foundation is staffed with tons of specialists for this reason.
A free and open source site that lets you and your friends watch movies together
The title of the article is deceiving as virus itself was never isolated from wastewater. The authors used RT-PCR to test for the presence of a 150bp segment of the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Although the presence of nucleic acid implies that virus is there, infectious virus was not isolated in this study.
Yes.

I can confirm that your information got to one of my contacts at the White House. He replied saying he would distribute it to the right people. Your guess is as good as mine as to what happens from there. Even people within the White House have trouble penetrating through various layers due to just how busy everyone is (as well as security, etc.).
If the number of cases are really as high as this paper suggests (5% infected) then we are one or two weeks away from a death wave like nothing else. However let's pay attention to the many caveats the authors point out about their calculation, including the assumption that there are no particular individuals who are shedding especially large quantities of virus.
I guess for automatic updates one could simulate a USB drive and send remote control commands, but that feels a bit too hacky and disruptive for something where sleekness is the focus. Thanks for your responses!
His assumption is based on live-attenuated vaccines. The measles vaccine being one of those. All the early vaccines where like that. The process only requires heat inactivation. So you end up with a dead or almost dead virus, which can't replicate anymore. Your immune system recognizes it as a foreign agent, makes antibodies to tag it for removal.

Today we prefer to immunize with a part of the virus structure, which end up doing the same thing.
Thank you for mentioning this. Even I've never really understood the Firefox dev team's rationale behind making the DEFAULT action of middle mouse click of that of auto-scrolling.

In my years of using the web, never have I ever come across a scenario where I'd need middle-mouse-click triggered auto-scrolling.
Well, would a shared electron runtime make things better [0]?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22774088
Dengue is a different virus. All viruses behave differently.
Given they didn't have the warning we had, and have a very dense population and hold the manufactures of the entire world, it could have been much worse.

I can't imagine what would have happened if patient zero had been in new york.

Now of course, they handled that the way a dictatorship handles it.
Planetary Exploration Budget Dataset: NASA's investments in robotic exploration
Another +1 for Cutter from me, it's absolutely brilliant.

$365 per year is still prohibitive for most hobbyist/home use. I was hoping it'd be $100 one-off, or $60 per major release + 2 years of updates, or something like that.

That should allow them to regain some popularity with hobbyists, whilst still making the bulk of their money from the BigCorps paying $$$ for a commercial license.
I Made a Public Chatroom for People Working from Home (WFH Chat)
In one of the article comments there is an interesting suggestion on reviving the research on DRACO[1]:

> In cell culture, DRACO was reported to have broad-spectrum efficacy against many infectious viruses, including dengue flavivirus, Amapari, and Tacaribe arenavirus, Guama bunyavirus, H1N1 influenza, and rhinovirus, and was additionally found effective against influenza in vivo in weanling mice. It was reported to induce rapid apoptosis selectively in virus-infected mammalian cells while leaving uninfected cells unharmed.

They even had a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo[2] but as usual, nobody cares about infectious diseases until the pandemic...

Now the crowdfunding seems moved to another page[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRACO

[2] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/1641241

[3] https://riderinstitute.org/discovery/
I think it is more a matter of perspective than not having enough new unicorns. Every "Unicorn" looks like every other startup until it doesn't, that being said there are a few things all successful startups have in common and a plurality of things holding startups back from succeeding.

Rather than make a list of things that I am no means an expert in, I will just say that YC seems to find a lot of startups with potential and if your a founder looking for motivation maybe this book might help?

https://www.dummies.com/business/fundraising/venture-capital...
Or the case fatality rate is a lot lower than we think it is.
Learning how to learn

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/
And your software. I have a dual-booting machine, the green screen is required in Linux but not in Windows.
Antigen is the actual virus.
Thanks for saying that. It is super flawed.

I was planning to go through all of his replies to other posters and debunk them one-by-one.
Disk decryption passwords / keys could show up in kernel memory.
Making your phone a thin client makes you completely dependent on network; that's a significant tradeoff.
To late, I just blindly pasted that in my terminal and ran it :p

OK cool. Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense why it's empty then!

I definitely didn't get it. I take back what I said :) It did lead me to poking around the Linux kernel docs so that's not a bad way to start the day!
What animation???
I can't confirm whether the scheduled task did or did not actually upload any data from my system, only that it shouldn't have needed to be there at all.
I've heard that is problem is caused by Linux's overcommitting strategy. Basically, initial memory allocation never fails (unless you set special flags), but no memory is actually allocated on the spot. Memory is only allocated when it is accessed. And if Linux runs out of memory when a program accessed a piece of yet to be allocated memory, it will try really _really_ hard to free up memory so that memory access can success.

That's what's causing the lock ups.

Sounds to me this would be difficult to fix without breaking backward compatibility.

In the mean time, you can probably improve your quality of life quite a bit by using something like: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd
19.9% per https://dashboard.cityofboston.gov/t/Guest_Access_Enabled/vi...

i wonder why the disparity?
Mudsill Theory
I don't get it. Why make people download an app when the same thing can work in the regular Chrome browser? Just bookmark it or something.
My big complaint with SIP is latency - we should be able to get latency way down and call pleasure is enhanced significantly with low latency - how does this help
Nobody is proposing a system where you need to authenticate with some national ID in order to do any of the things you mentioned.

We are talking about having better authentication (both more privacy-aware and more flexible) for situations where it's needed. You don't need to validate your identity for email, facebook, or groceries, so obviously this wouldn't apply there. This would apply to things where some ID auth is already taking place (e.g. anything that asks for your SSN, KYC processes in general, etc).
Black-Literature-Announces-a-Monthly-Book-Club
Why not just presell future batches with no refunds and cash upfront? People like myself would still pony up cash
I've been using firefox for over ages and I've pretty much never changed a config flag. No complaints.
A toilet seat that identifies you by your butthole
No, the safety data is not well controlled in this case. There are lots of ways to administer a vaccine, it doesn't have to be injection.

Look up the history of vaccination. Starting in the late 18th Century, people used to do this exact thing for early vaccinations: they found a naturally occurring, less pathogenic strain (for instance, cowpox[1] in the days of smallpox), and intentionally exposed people. This is exactly the same thing as a vaccine except less controlled and, ultimately, much less safe.

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[1]The root of "vaccine" is "vacca," i.e. Latin for "cow," for this reason.
That is how you detect and characterize the biota of a water source quickly and efficiently- quantitative pcr or rtpcr to detect viral load levels. What would you expect they do instead?
Wow. What an answer.
All flaviviruses cause ADE.
Only few attenuated vaccines worked as a strategy. And no they don't shed.
Funny thing is, 2 years ago I had a machine with 32gb, and I never passed 16 even while willingly opening everything just for fun.

I though it was too much, and downgraded for a small, cheaper and more portable machine.

Today, I think 32 would be just right.

2 years, lol.
I think I'd like this even if I were married, as long as the trial period isn't too long and interview experience indicates that I should have a good chance of landing the job.

Contrast with the alternative: I'm a senior, considering switching jobs, but I have no real way to evaluate the potential new employer beyond word-of-mouth and interview experience. What if it turns out to be a place I don't like and I just gave up my former position for something worse?

Working a few evenings & weekends (and getting a little extra $$) to evaluate the new company sounds like a superb way to gain the confidence and jump ship without regrets. In best case, I get a new job I like. In best case, I get some extra money and keep my old job which is better than the new one proved to be. Win/win? What's the worst that could happen?
a.k.a Make Linux Unsafe Again.
The main argument here is that finding a mild strain (and having it tested implicitly by virtue of it infecting many humans) could be faster than developing a human-created vaccine.

I don't have any credentials in this field, but IMHO we should attack the problem from all possible angles, including the search for a natural, less harmful strain.
That's not happening to me with full-screen-api.macos-native-full-screen and single screen.
Just take a trip through time and stop it that way, if you could.

(I'm not even talking about the inconsistency between traveling faster than light and not moving backwards in time, I'm talking about repeated in-universe demonstrations of time travel mastery)

Of course, the writer's tortured "ethics" might require that everyone has to keep the last couple months of awful memories.
If nothing else, I really appreciate the summary, with all the comments and various threads on this it's a bit hard to follow exactly what the hold up is.
It's not a matter of perspective. NYC was clearly not prepared for a crisis, and is still not handling it on par with the rest of the country. Their dysfunction does not reflect the rest of the country, of which the majority is not handling the crisis in a dysfunctional manner.
I haven't updated yet, still on 74.0 -- but does

browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = false

still work?
We don't know exactly what each bit does, so we don't know what to delete.
Yes in fact the 43 days is in stanby but I don't use the phone for anything else, so I thought it would take more than a few hours between charges.
I thought that the difference in battery time between old and new mobile phones was due to the touch screen, but now I don't know to what extent 4G contributes to that difference.
5% is the larger of two estimates given in the paper. The other estimate is 0.1%. These aren't an upper and lower bound, just two very different estimates.

As the paper itself details, there are currently too many unknowns for these numbers to guide policy or expectations. But it is an interesting approach that might yield useful conclusions eventually.
The real world has time constraints, so I don't see this as unreasonable expectation in an interview.

> I need a few hours to think...before I write any actual code...I work faster if there's no time pressure.

It sounds like you work better but not faster. If something absolutely must be done in 3 hours, you usually will not have 2 hours to do the dishes while you let it marinate.

To be clear, I prefer to let a problem sit in my head for a bit, too. I think the end result is better in most cases, for most people. But the real world has problems with hard and fast time constraints, or huge financial incentives to get something working in ASAP and clean it up later if necessary.
And it’s built by one developer, and supports Slack and Discord!

Imagine what these massive companies could do if they made their own native clients.
Very well said.

I would add that it is also needlessly antagonistic in addition to be being in poor taste.