skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dr Shi Zhengli was working on bat Coronavirus research in the US and we closed the program down in the US in 2014 for being too dangerous. She returned to China to continue her research in Wuhan.

Yeah. Just a coincidence.
it's really and truly not. This isn't a movie...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/09/foxconn-says-it-met-hiring-t...
To many poor people a smartphone is a necessity. It is their only computer and their only connection to jobs and job boards and communication with potential employers.

Who are you to say a smartphone isn't the best thing a needy person can buy?
I think you are on the right track. Give everybody some discretionary amount, but also the ‘universal basics’ as you described.

So, everybody has a food account, an internet account, a housing account, a healthcare account, and a ‘fun’ account for whatever. Funds cannot be intermingled, nor spent on out of category items/services.
Would those in the USA accept a tax where all income above $10,000 / year (around the global mean) was taken to enable global redistribution?
I also have this bug, and a couple more. When you use the smaller floating keyboard at some point the keyboard starts to jump to the lower left corner. Swipe to type doesn’t work anymore.

I also have a bug with their hardware keyboard. After a couple days of usage the keyboard can get unresponsive and the § key starts to magically appear in the next text field that gets focus, at least 10–20 times, as it would be stuck. Reconnecting the hardware keyboard usually fixes this issue, but it’s still annoying. The restarts that are required for software keyboard bugs are worse, though.
I only know the Mel Brooks version:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Chairs_(1970_film)

But reading the wikipedia description of the book, it's the same premise: characters attempting to obtain jewelry hidden in a chair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Chairs

Are you thinking of a different story?

Edit: ah, apparently that's a part of the novel, which if it's in the Mel Brooks film, I don't recall: "bamboozling a village chess club with promises of an international tournament."
Except payment is already required for traditional mail, yet I still receive an endless stream of spam and scams.
Yeah the moon would be terrible. Data literally just floats off into the void under zero gravity.
Article author here. I don't get the sense that he's just talking about a living wage for marginal workers. That is a longstanding demand from the church, but the language here is different. To speak of "universal" and "basic" here is a clear nod to UBI of some sort, as are the references throughout to care work and activist work, which are never going to earn a wage in the labor market.

+1 on the point about hedging against technocratic solutions, however. He expands on that language a lot in Laudato Si. I should have highlighted that in the article. Unlike many Silicon Valley UBI advocates, he does not see this as a simple, algorithmic fix, but his emphasis is on the way it could help bring about cultural change, transforming what kind of work we value and orienting the economy toward a recognition of universal human dignity.

Will check back to chat more. Fun to see this show up in my HN feed!
It's about the password management. Users get tempted into storing their passwords in plain text in env, config files, code etc.
Price ceilings have a very bad history. People invent things like furnished apartments with crazy costs to make up for the lost rent increases or worse. NYC has a good history as record of how price fixing can go south.

Giving people vouchers for goods and services creates a lot of bloat for politicians to then run against and remove entirely.

I’m for UBI because I’ve seen time and time again the market fail far too many people to be relied upon exclusively. But I don’t think it’s a wise priority right now.

The first and top priority is for people to get off their butts and do their civic duties. Learn your political economic history. Learn the systems and political institutions at play. Then contribute at all levels of government: locally through to nation wide. Until that happens we’re going to be stuck with two parties that are essentially the same thing with superficial differences - or worse.

Edit-oh and stop throwing your hands up anytime an outrage or corruption is revealed. It’s not acceptable for politicians to be corrupt anymore than it’s acceptable for individuals to shirk their civic duties. The one thrives on the other. And fatalism is just ridiculously destructive.
Which ethnic group/cuisine are you referring to?
A beautiful document. Fans of G.K. Chesterton (Chesterton's Fence, etc.) might be interested to know that Rerum novarum profoundly affected the man's life, and there is a fascinating outworking from it, misleadingly named "Distributism" that would see a society with the maximal number of small businesses in the hands of as many friends and families as possible, along with a return to the guild system and 'localism' in as many places as possible (not just food) [1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
I'm not even talking about "not doing well in theaters". I'm talking about a Hulu-like experience, where the streamed version hits streaming services within days or a few weeks of the theatrical version. What I see falling apart is the model where it doesn't stream until months or years after its release.

For example, when the next James Bond movie comes out, I fully expect it to be released in theaters and streaming services within two weeks of each other, if not simultaneously. It's going to be very hard for them to take back the immediate streaming they're doing now without a backlash, either PR-wise or financially.

I also think they're about to discover that they can make $20 per household at much much higher rates than they can get people to spend $50+ per household to go to a brick-and-mortar theater, and if I were a betting person, I'd say it's more profitable to distributors to do it that way, anyway...
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Wouldn't market prices reflect that everyone is now starting off on n amount of money?

Also, you're going quickly run into many of the problems current redistribution programs face. One of the big ones is how to deal with people that spend money irresponsibly.
Man, there will be some weird pro-life stances on people should start getting paid...
You might be thinking of this one https://img-prod.tgcom24.mediaset.it/images/2020/02/16/11472...
What big tech is doing so clearly violates the principles of free speech that I can't see an argument for it. It goes well beyond people expressing unpopular opinions, to the point of interfering with markets and elections.

Twitter has been interfering in elections by selectively deplatforming candidates that they don't like. It is so obvious that the biggest threat to the integrity of American elections is big tech. I can't believe that there are some that think that Russia buying a few thousand dollars worth of Facebook ads is a bigger threat than Google.
You should put a license in that repo. Witbout a license, the default copyright laws apply, meaning that you retain all rights to your source code and no one may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work. If you're creating an open source project, it is strongly encouraged to include an open source license.
Thats a good data point. So it cost the state at least $90 million.

I'm much more in favor of using these types of data points to determine cost, rather than the subsidy "cost".
Natrualy occuring viruses escape from labs all the time, particularly in China. Infact SARS is known to have escaped twice in Beijing.

That the virus originated zoonotically does not precude a lab accident + leak theory of origin in fact we know that one of the labs actively experimenting on bats there was within half a kilometer of the market. You combine that with a significant fraction of the first known hospitalized cases having no direct connection to the market it should be obvious that the source is unlikely to have been the market itself but rather something close to it with the market just acting as a regional landmark or amplifier.

It's like you walk past a bunch of kids playing with fireworks by the trail and an hour later the forest is on fire having started in the same area as you saw the kids. You obviously can't know for sure it was them without more evidence, it could have been a cigarette butt from a carless smoker, but you be a fool to think it that just because there was no accelleant involved that it couldn't have been the kids.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18224451-700-chinas-s...
Yes, but the NCBI sequence database is quite vast. You seem already to have gone to the effort of finding and reviewing these sequences, and producing an analysis. Why not share your sources as well as your results, instead of asking others to find them from scratch and have to hope they're the same ones you're using?
Thank you for posting this.

It is unbelievable how dumb and corrupt some local governments are. Especially disturbing how heartless these people can be to their own town folk.

This is like some 3rd world country local government kind of banana republic. Unbelievable.
I agree that Daily Mail should not be used as source in informed contexts, however the thebulletin.org link has very well informed comments (at least).
Living in Los Angeles, we are fortunate to have a Little Ethiopia with plenty of restaurants baking delicious dishes. It's been a good opportunity to bring in friends from out of town to try "exotic" food and let them see that unfamiliar food to them can also be completely delicious, and even become a new favorite dish.

Note: If you have not tried Ethiopian food, check out Yebeg Alecha (Lamb Stew), along with the combination vegetable dishes that come with Injera (a thin, spongy bread that you can tear and use as a pocket for the vegetables).
Mermaid can be plugged into Pandoc, so you can create decent PDF docs in Markdown that include diagrams. We store the Markdown files in git and have a Makefile that converts to PDF.
One of the researchers at that lab was also effectively dissapeared. I don't believe the conspiracy crowd saying this was some kind of weapon, but there's reasonable evidence to suggest that this is a case of embarrassing government incompetence (which the CCP loaths) followed by attempts to cover up said incompetence while a solution was persued.
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While this is very much in line with Rerum Novarum's call for state assistance for the poor, the way Francis presents this indicates that he understands it as a call for trying something distinctly new. Otherwise, he would simply talk about buttressing the welfare state, as the church often does. Instead, he's talking about the need for considering a different approach.
There are two issues:

1. Foxconn claims that the targets have been met, but the empty buildings obviously make some petiole suspicious.

2. There was also a lot of subsidies and government spending based on the deal that is not tied to the targets. This was mostly at the local level (which __really__ can not afford it without the project going as expected) but the state had some too
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The article mentions tt fonts as being based on the postscript language.
I think what you're missing is that the websites may be 100% in compliance with the ADA- the site owners simply can't risk the expense & uncertainty of a lawsuit, so they settle. It's (legal) extortion, the law is simply the vehicle by which they do it. And it certainly doesn't make the world a better place for the disabled, it's just a payoff for the attorneys. It is literally the same concept as patent trolling.

Maybe a solution would be to change these laws so that the outcome of the lawsuit is a mandated change to ADA standards, but no damages, and parties have to pay their own attorney's fees. That would achieve what you say you're looking for, good faith ADA compliance, without incentivizing strongarm attorneys looking for a quick buck
The Daily Mail is not a credible resource. Wikipedia banned, as one example.
I worry big companies like the failure of free email.

Yes. It's a huge win for Google to read everyone's email.

Also, companies like the idea of programs needing "security updates", which allows pushing other unwanted things as well. Microsoft was one of the first in that area.
If they couldn't have pushed Windows 10 as a semi-forced update, it never would have sold. Now pushing unwanted features is so pervasive that Mozilla does it.
Yes, what I've been saying is that we're moving back to where we were 20 years ago. We're moving back to a hosting model where you can not completely rely on any hosting company to get the job done.

Big tech companies changed things a lot, and developed very sophisticated infrastructure that we could not compete with.

Nobody could compete with YouTube for awhile. But now, YouTube has made itself so unreliable, that people are forced to find new video hosting services, and people will put up with slower speeds for more reliability.
angelenos, and visitors to LA, should check out awash[0] in mid-city, near (but not in) the ethiopian district on fairfax. it's an absolute hole-in-the-wall with warm but wonderfully slow service (expect to wait 45 minutes to get served after ordering). you're expected to relax and chat with friends, unlike korean bbq restaurtants that try to turn your table over as fast as possible (that's why they cook the meat for you even at the table grill). get the vege combo (pictured in the link below) and the awaze tibbs (or the meat combo, which includes it).

it's fabulous and very reasonably priced.

[0] #1 on this list: https://la.eater.com/maps/best-restaurants-los-angeless-litt...
I really love the idea that pure mathematics and nature are the same thing.
On a philosophical level, our daily lives are the expression of the differences and inefficiencies of our systems compared to an optimal end-state.
Also, sometimes I think that religion and science have more in common than people think.
You might hope that the risk of legal damages would spur better technological solutions. Businesses won't take these issues seriously unless it impacts their bottom line, so that's the point of these laws.

There's also virtuous cycle here: sites that are more accessible to screen readers would generally have better semantic markup, and be better for machine parsing, too.
Since my power cord frayed (no strain relief due to aesthetics) to the point that it will no longer charge, my laptop has been off for a week.

I've been protected from a major flaw by another, equally major flaw.

I guess it's better than the alternative of getting hit by them both.
Both custom diff and merge drivers are described at a high-level in gitattributes(5)¹. They're pretty useful even in really basic ways such as adding a textconv with "jq -S ." or "xmllint --pretty 2" to pretty print JSON or XML before calculating diffs.

Plus, if you've already dipped in to those docs to see the diff options be sure to check the funcname attribute too. It allows you to add custom diff(1)-style `--show-function-line` options. For example, you can use an ugly regex such as `^\\[\\(.*\\)\\]$` to guess section names in .ini file diffs. Or the wordRegex option to make CSV files break on fields with `git diff --word-diff`. Or... well, thousands of other things. There are tonnes of things you can do to improve diff and merges for textual data in addition to the things you may want to do binary blobs.

1. https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes
I have a theory about this. To me the relationship between entropy and life was a big realisation and left me wondering why it wasn’t of greater cultural or scientific interest. Here’s what I came up with:

All life is preoccupied with removing free energy in order to get greater predictability over the future, and that encompasses literally everything we do in one way or another. Therefore, the theory that life reduces local entropy is not in any way useful, because it doesn’t guide us to do anything differently than we are already doing. It’s a bit similar to the anthropic principle.

Example: let’s say you need to clean up your room. You’ll find that even doing a very quick straightening of debris on a table will make a space feel more orderly and produce some level of satisfaction. But if you’re not the type to do that regularly, you might not bother the next time because clutter is the norm and it’s more dependable.

Another example: tell a businessman that life is a process which reduces entropy locally. Ok, so he has to get greater predictability over his circumstances, how to do that? More money and power. That was already taking place.

Thus, this theory hasn’t really taken off for lack of utility.

When we have a magical entropy measuring device, then yes, we can use it for all sorts of things...
Tried this out, but it picked the wrong webcam. You should provide an option to select the correct one.
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Yeah, linear with regards to the number of nodes - double the amount of nodes and you'll need to do double the look-ups; and constant with regards to the number of streams - no matter how many streams, always the same number of look-ups.
The moon would be very bad. No atmosphere = no heat dissipation.

For thermal reasons alone, computing is a massive challenge in space.
> the exact research being done at the Wuhan Virology lab

I would like to see the exact research they tried to do there. Navigating through their published research list, I couldn't locate any, but I am not an expert:

http://www.whiov.cas.cn/kycg_105248/lwqk/index.html
oh no, I have absolutely no complaint. I 100% support the ADA and think it is incredibly underused. The way we treat people who are disabled in this country is morally indefensible. The ADA doesn't go nearly far enough, and the burden should not be on the person who needs access.

That being said...

The problem in this case is the rammifications are not always more accessibility, in fact they are often less accessibility and even less availability. It's not dissimilar to copyright trolls and striking youtube videos that happened to have happy birthday playing in the background. The frivolous label gets applied and undermines greater accessibility.

An example of where this can go bad:

1) Materials that are not accessible are taken down under threat of lawsuit, now its not available to anyone. Could they have been made accessible? Sure! did anyone ask...or did they start with a lawsuit? - https://www.theledger.com/news/20190420/ada-compliance-polk-...

2) when assholes are assholes and use the ADA, everyone else now has to counter arguments saying they are trying to personally profit - https://attorneyatlawmagazine.com/ada-trolls-and-unintended-...

3) New laws making it harder in Florida to win ADA lawsuits - https://www.wptv.com/longform/florida-lawmaker-files-bill-to...
a few weeks ago CCP issued a new law to manage virology labs, and yes historically virus escaped its labs multiple times.
Yes but nowhere near 1 cent per email, a sum that is still very little for legitimate users (especially considering the high likelihood of getting it back), but much higher than what current spammers pay.
Not every tax credit had the targets set. The environmental laws changed for the site are vague enough that anything they decide to do there is okay, and many people lost their homes due to condemnation to clear the land, and roads for the plant. (Plus all the money already spent to upgrade roads, freeway off-ramps, power, and utilities in a very rural area.
Not working on ad tech? (Tech supporting ad-tech is the same - turtles all the way down...)
I don't know about illogical, but I think your intuition that zoonotic transfer is unlikely because it hasn't happened in the recent past is not a good one.
Except this started in the heart of a city the size of New York, near a market not known to have sold bats, within half a kilometer of a lab known to have been doing research collecting bats from neighboring provinces near villages with people confirmed contracted SARS like viruses from bats per their own state media documentary.

And then there's the behavior of the CCP.
This is very valid clarification on what I will just name "lab theories". There is a huge differentiation in: 'purposely bio-engineered and intentionally-released' theories, vs. 'someone collected bats in the wild for research, brought them to the Wuhan lab, and there was an accidental pathogen escape during the research.'

The former is entirely dramatic, while the latter is neither dramatic, unreasonable, illogical, or "conspiracy".
I don't agree. I agree that if compare random software project x to a random hardware project y that the hardware project will do a lot more verification.

But that doesn't really compare to state of the art of what's possible in software. Property based testing, symbolic execution etc all have incredible power that afaik is not available in the hardware world. I'm just a hobbyist who uses FPGA's but it's way way easier for me to ensure a function has some properties compared to a VHDL module or whatever.
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Thanks for the recommendation! I haven't been to Awash, usually checking out the restaurants in that one block area on Fairfax (and usually Lalibela, at that). It's nice to see something new when you thought you tried them all :)
Though the relationships with non-local rule can be complex. I saw a paper/talk about Ottoman Egyptian farmers disciplining local elites with work slowdowns and strikes. The loss would attract an impatient Ottoman official with a "fix this now, or else" attitude. So for instance, if a widespread beef with an elite family wasn't resolved to villagers' satisfaction, they might move out to stay with family in nearby villages, leaving village production to plummet, and the intransigent elite family to face official ire.
Laborem Execrens (1981) is another descendant encyclical of Rerum Novarum. It’s excellent reading.

John Paul II knew a lot about the failings of socialism and capitalism both, and oh boy was he interested in a yet more excellent way.

http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/do...
Bad guys will buy cheap stolen credit cards (and there will be intermediaries for more legit ones). One credit card bought for 2$ - one hundred thousands emails sent. On the other hand payment processors will drown in transactions which cost more than amount sent. And before someone says "blockchain" - highly unlikely that it could work, but lets say maybe, for some specific token system. But eventually it will be plagued with exact same issue - easily and cheaply stolen funds will empower millions of emails and system will struggle under millions of useless transactions, problem won't be solved.
Found this:

https://objective-see.com/products/blockblock.html

“Malware installs itself persistently, to ensure it's automatically re-executed at reboot. BlockBlock continually monitors common persistence locations and displays an alert whenever a persistent component is added to the OS.“
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Interesting that it originally had that even worse name.

But also, I'm not wrong per the current version of the spec:
https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html

"YAML Ain’t Markup Language (YAML™) Version 1.2"
He tried, but they killed him. Didnt you watch The New Pope on HBO?
Ok, switch the C compiler to a Go one:

https://github.com/kisom/goat/blob/master/goat.go

Well, JK. A simple, braindead, ugly and fast netcat clone (client only) can be done in C in few functions.
I disagree. XML and JSON both have linters, and correctly so ; they are complex.
My take is that if a serious disease existed for which you don't develop immunity we'd all be long dead by now.