skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great work!

Do you think it could be suited to do "glitch art" on existing images? I've done things like that in Rust in the past using completely handwritten GL code, for instance: https://axellemanfrini.com/media/Editorial/281115_4_GlitchPl... but it's always a bit cumbersome to reinvent the wheel. Just having shaders auto-reload would be a big time saver actually.
if that's your definition of biological warfare, then you need to consider to yourself that the u.s. government is then waging biological warfare against its own people.

note that i don't agree with your definition.
For writing HTML & CSS, definitely the Emmet plugin: https://emmet.io/

I still find myself in situations where I need more than Markdown but less than React; as a result I just need to quickly get some HTML on a page. Emmet lets you expand a snippet similar to a CSS selector into full-fledged markup, complete with attributes.
Thanks for the info. I'm clearly not an expert. But I do still have questions.

1) where did hiv sequences come from? Are they the human immuno deficiency virus sequences?

2) you are suggesting that chimeras are created impotent, and that hybrid viruses cannot be created to be effective otherwise. My question is that whatever combination of pangolin and bat viruses is said to have happened naturally in a host, could it happen in a petri dish too? Could WIV be conducting such research? Or are such petri dish chimeras always unable to jump from human to human. Is it a natural property or choice when creating chimeras?

3) it seems that the virus is like SARS but has receptor proteins similar to a known pangolin coronavirus. Is it also possible for two viruses to leak to a single lab employee, and then combine in the first human host right away. It still can be said to leak from the lab in this scenario.

Thanks for having patience for my uninformed opinions.

I'm sure I'm missing
Tried it all, nothing worked. Even the DFU revive/restore.

Tomorrow will call a close enough store that seems to be (stated on their website) doing pick-ups and see if they can come and pick it.

My main concern now is they will try to try and charge 1000 or so euros for a repair and I will have to eat the cost as I can't really ask for a replacement one from company or friends since everyone is stuck at home
Posting a tendentiously selected collection of links in the hope of deniably constructing a false chain of inference among your audience still qualifies as deliberately lying by omission. Especially when you do it with a throwaway account obviously constructed for the purpose.
Valgrind is not in the class of verification tools I was referencing. How does it correlate to VHDL/Verilog in this context? I would expect things like MBD tools, model checkers, and proof assistants, and program extractors to be the software pipeline siblings to the kinds of tools that VHDL/Verilog integrate with.
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Ask HN: How would you design a scalable chat bot for something like Discord?
I have 2 months of furlough, and I'd like to improve my Python (and other) skills and, for once, start and finish a project. For once I've decided to pick a project which will actually both interest and benefit myself.

I wrote a simple chat bot to manage xp/levels/roles, amongst various other things, in a Discord server for a popular community. I've since used the same bot in other communities, but it just runs as a clone of a Python repo for each bot, using supervisord on a Digital Ocean VPS. Each bot also has its own developer 'app' within the Discord environment and associated tokens, which is getting cumbersome to manage.

As I've got time to focus on it, I'd like to create a singular bot, with a web UI to manage it, with a very long term end goal of maybe competing with other services like Mee6, but a shorter term goal of making it easy for me to easily add the bot to new communities and configure it - without config + manual steps over SSH.

It's quite niche, but if anyone has any similar experience, I'd be eager to hear any opinions. For example: My first instinct based upon my work experience was a Docker container per bot, but from testing, as far as I can see I need a single instance which handles all servers if I want to use one developer 'app' like Mee6 or Dyno.

Any hints/links or similar welcome.
Python has only been around for 30 years? That’s 3 decades. Of which maybe only part of the last 1 had Python gained traction in science and data.
All possible things. 30 seconds, 60 seconds. 10 seconds then plug in cable. SMC reset. DFU mode (it enters dfu mode, but restore doesn't work). I spent the last 48 hours trying to bring it back to life. Unless Apple releases some kind of software we can use on another mac to 'fix' this one, I don't feel it will be fixed without shipping it to them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare

> Biological warfare [...] is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war.

Knowingly allowing the spread of a highly contagious, lethal virus fits the definition. The only point of contention is whether the party's actions were due to incompetence or malice.
Yep, China has recovered while the rest of the world is still crippled. I wouldn't put it past China to cause harm to their own citizens to gain a position of power.

Disclaimer: Also don't believe this, just playing along.
I'm not so sure I buy the Reddit controlled by CCP (or heavily influenced) argument. Simply because in /r/China, /r/ChineseLanguage, and /r/HongKong I see frequent posts that are highly critical of the CCP and China in general. They have many upvotes and it doesn't look like people are being banned or posts are being removed. It is nowhere like /r/Sino.

I'm not trying to defend the CCP here, but just trying to say that maybe Reddit isn't a CCP propaganda weapon. I'm sure there's some influence, but I see these arguments go quite far.
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I've noticed this as well. Does China have any stake in HN that would allow them to sway discussions?
it's malware
Since everyone is noticing clear skies these days, I hope that motivates people to get rid of dirty power plants.
How many times do we need to repeat this... everyone assumes that “came from a lab” means “engineered bioweapon”. No!

Also, people quickly forget that humans have been selectively evolving plants and animals for thousands of years without touching the actual genomes.
Thanks for entertaining me and my family for a couple hours today :-)
I'd argue that Reddit has a more US centric voice because... it has a more US centric userbase. [0] I don't think it is because there is more going on in the US but more that people tend to be focused on the things that are closer to them.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/325144/reddit-global-act...
Misinformation. There were still Wuhan tourists as late as 1/28

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7937943/amp/Air-pas...
Some poor accident investigator had to write that up.
Oh I didn’t realize this is the same America Magazine which Fr. James Martin is “editor at large” of. I’ve been wanting to ask him about the many points at https://www.churchmilitant.com/main/generic/fr.-james-martin... but haven’t found a way to contact him. They all seem valid and thus the magazine’s doctrinal position seems compromised, if it is in fact edited at the highest level by someone who dissents from immutable Catholic teachings. But I am a big fan of giving people a chance to explain or defend themselves, having many times been on the other side of misunderstandings myself.
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The potential for disaster was enormous, but in the end everything went well. In retrospect it was so goofy that the humorous tone of the writing was fitting and made it a much more interesting read.
i feel it's a totally dangerous thing to be claiming such things though. it's an incredibly unlikely possibility and strong evidence should be provided before spreading rumors. we have no way of knowing who started these rumors in the first place.

for example, this article is a great read: http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-p...

people making baseless claims about the virus, which is happening everywhere and in particular is coming from the u.s., will only seek to harm things for everyone in the long run. it will cause governments to clam up (already happening) and has politicized the virus. now, experts' opinions and life work, like that found in the above article, will continue to be ignored in the chaos that is ensuing.

if the experts on zoonotic viruses are to be believed (why wouldn't you?), then it is clear that there are systematic problems that are leading to the increasing crossover of these zoonotic viruses. by politicizing the virus and hyper focusing on its political enemy, the u.s. is making this thing much, much, much worse (in addition to increasing the current spread within its own borders) and will lessen the impact on preventing future outbreaks. we as a species already struggle to address the issues that cause these outbreaks (overpopulation, encroachment on habitats, socioeconomic issues, etc.), and these actions of rumors and associated behavior, found on this site even, will bury the actual problems, turning everything into a childish and chaotic argument.
could this be the year of "too cheap to meter"?
Many of those tools have important functions other than dependency isolation. Pyenv is perhaps the only tool mentioned that can be replaced by docker. However, pyenv has a marginal usability advantage over docker. You can set a python version or virtualenv to activate automatically in a project folder - no need to start a container.

Poetry is primarily a packager. Pipx installs python scripts like gita, poetry, youtube-dl etc as user commands. They cannot be replaced by docker.

Finally, I never had a good development experience inside a docker container. Pyenv, pipx and poetry play much nicer with the system development tools and give a better development experience.
Alteryx Designer for ETL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2PaLZRpWdY

Likely more than a 100 hours saved using this tool for DWH work.
Residents were displaced to build the facilities. People lost their homes and their lives were significantly disrupted, that's a cost it's difficult to put a dollar amount on.
One cent is less than the cost of a credit card transaction, which makes that infeasible.

That brings us to what I assume you had in mind, which is blockchain, the solution in search of a problem.

Unfortunately proof of stake systems can be gamed by using stolen credit cards to buy stake, which defeats your proposed system. On the other hand, proof of work is an unmitigated environmental disaster, one of the most egregiously wasteful technological endeavors of the last twenty years, and would be rightfully shunned if not for its enthusiastic users who are too enamored to see the second-order effects of their easy access to illegal drugs and speculative investing while they hope for the next Bitcoin bubble so they can cash out for more fiat currency to retire on.
It's an introduction to Monstrous Moonshine, an unexpected connection between the monster group M and modular functions, with applications in theoretical physics, see Wikipedia [0] for a summary.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_moonshine
It’s also “natural” to take your mare over to the prize stallion to get impregnated. Humans can control all the conditions around the “natural” process.
I want to believe that the mainstream could accept nuclear again but I don't have huge hopes. I'm French, we've been getting cheaper and cleaner electricity than our neighbors for a long time. Germany is about to open a coal plant (partially) to take over from one of the nuclear power plants we're shutting down.

And yet, despite all that nuclear power is incredibly unpopular here and the vast majority of ecologists want to reduce our nuclear capacity more and more. I find it depressing personally. We're at 75% now, apparently we're on track to hit 50% by 2035. There's nuclear waste and there's a waste of nuclear.
Honestly the much simpler explanation is coordinated voting. If the Donald Trump-related sub-Reddit can coordinate their voting sufficiently that Reddit needs to step in to stop it, then I'm sure a country with access to Project Management tools can get large numbers of state employees or patriots to click on voting buttons.
the quoted definition is not the definition you posted.

and if you are so up in arms about this, what are you going to do about the u.s. waging biological warfare on its own people?
Docker alone would not add automatic scalability. You'd need to add an orchestration layer.

Seems like your current bot would be fine in multiple servers if you added an additional server argument to each of the i/o's.

Don't overthink it.
You only need a small force to build the momentum to get people to shitpost for free. But they do it on every major website. I'm sure the US and other major countries do similar things on VK and Weibo. Only difference is VK and Weibo have more control by the government and our companies believe that they should not be in the business of determining what legally is free speech and what isn't.
Depends on how healthcare and housing are handled.

In most developed countries they would end up in a homeless shelter or social housing and be covered by national healthcare.
Seems unlikely. Maybe with reduced precision, so they can use lower maintenance meters. They do have to account for crazy usage still surely. But while you get a bill for the connection, they've still got a billing overhead.
And a hydrogen atom is spherical... Coincidence?
Oh, I thought we were in search of a solution that obviates the need to socialize the losses. Socializing the losses is what we're doing now. I mean, sure, we could move them all to a government program, or we could just keep letting the government do what it's doing, as post-QE, the stock market basically is a federal program.

I guess my sincere question here would be whether or not you'd be opposed to bailing out social security if it were in the same boat for whatever reason.
Volatility and returns are not the same thing, but you're correct that people are usually willing to pay a premium to reduce volatility (for instance consider that Vegas Roulette has high volatility and negative returns, so plenty of people leave the table winning money).

A lot goes into the price of a stock. At a minimum it includes some sort of fundamental value (price of all assets) plus some discounted expectation of future earnings.

These two things don't actually change that quickly, so any wild price swings on top of that are probably not connected to the fundamentals.
You’re the one making extraordinary claims. The virus came from a bat sold at a wet market? Where is your evidence? What is the name of the merchant who sold the bat at the wet market? Where is the specific bat from that wet market which was recovered and tested positive for the coronavirus? What specific species of bat was it? Where is your proof that anyone ever sold bats at that wet market (many sources are saying they didn’t)? Why did the outbreak supposedly begin at a wet market 300 meters from a lab that specifically focused on studying coronaviruses? You’re implying that you have very convincing answers to all these questions. Do you?
This entire video is translating open-source conspiracy theories that Chinese netizens conjured up under lockdown. You know what else was conjured up under lock down? US engineered weapon from Fort Detrick disguised as vape pneumonia that later infected Wuhan via international military games. Both theories has exactly the same credibility and validity.

It's ridiculous that people think laowhy and serpenza are credible China-watchers. They're travel bloggers and now clickbait video generators. The amount of people who get all their information and opinions on China from these two is worryingly staggering. There is an incredible amount of subject matter experts that specialize and operate in China. Literal billions are poured into NGOs, think tanks and other intelligence sources with boots on the ground. Granted much of it is not great, but they're infinitely more reliable than a couple youtubers who got kicked out of China and have no professional prospects outside of click bait conspiracy theory.

Also notice how he has recent videos about China killing his dreams, his move out of China and his wife divorcing him. Do you think that would cloud his judgement? Why isn't there a video on netizens work on the US engineered virus conspiracy theory? Youtubers =/= credible sources.
Foreigners all over the world are likely to be targeted as long as they stand out. For instance, in China, Africans are being kicked out of their homes and forced to sleep on the street (because no hotel/apartment will accept them), countless stores, including a McDonald’s restaurant, are refusing to serve foreigners (blacks are in particular targeted).

Please be mindful that it’s not just Chinese or Asians being targeted, and that the racism foreigners are experiencing in China right now is far worse than what the Chinese are experiencing elsewhere.
And... it does not. Most crashes in actually important software are due to hardware/memory errors, rather than the software itself.

Of course, I hope you are not referring to Windows or any day-to-day software by "important".
Well, yes, but to be honest - very often what they have to say is worthwhile even if you've read the piece. :-P
Great idea. I say that as a pat on my own back, given Ive been hacking on basically this exact same thing for the past few days.
i don't know regarding investments. but just to be clear, the trend i have noticed is a clear anti-chinese sentiment on hacker news. it comes up a lot.

i think it's simply because a lot of americans are on hacker news, and there is a gross level of anti-chinese sentiment in the united states in general, probably more-so from educated people.
Stripe has a list of restricted businesses too. I been toying with the idea of building a new virtual world, but still very early... And sounds like getting the whole economy system is going to be a huge pain, plus other rules too. However there's plenty of other things to tackle first anyways.

Sounds like offering VOIP related stuff would also be a no no with them, so I guess if you made a chat app with features similar to Skype, couldn't use stripe either.

It sounds like some of these rules might be passed down by one of the major credit card processors, but I know there's other providers out there who allow this stuff but maybe higher fees or more vetting for a merchant account.

https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses

As for the virtual world idea, I have debated about using blockchain since I know some other virtual worlds experimented with doing blockchain based payments, so could probably mix decentralized and centralized but I think not having a stable value kinda sucks, then non technical users setting up a wallet and other considerations, especially if multiple devices is kinda a UX nightmare. Well I guess you could make a wallet on your phone or desktop app, and try to enter the seed words in your VR headset too but probably be strange to most people. Micro transactions where speed matters is also a hurtle...
Hilarious! Love it :)
Why not both?

Using your exact logic three times:

- there's a 97% chance the CIA planted it in the seafood market

- there's a 97% chance the CIA planted it in the WIV

- there's a 97% chance the WIV made it

Now it's obvious that something is going wrong here. There is no conceivable way these probability assignments can make sense. But your math was formally correct! What a mystery.
There’s speculation that patient zero is Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher Huang YanLing 黃燕玲

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3050872/chin...

She’s still missing and her whereabouts are unknown
> Disclaimer: Also don't believe this, just playing along.

everybody keeps saying this, but just stop. it doesn't help and it confuses. all you do is bolster people who skip over your "disclaimer", even if you actually do believe your disclaimer.
I don't think that it is safe, it will be best to just stay home watch movies on netflix or home theater. I wouldn't want to go out unless it is safe and they find a cure.
Also, the no-ship, no-chamber, "no-gene" vs prescience describes the battle between data and privacy. The desire to know and the desire to remain hidden.
These are great questions, and thank you for asking them!

1. Yes. The claim based on the misreading of the 2019 paper is that SARS-CoV-2 is actually a lab-created combination of another coronavirus and the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. If that were true, the genome of SARS-CoV-2 would incorporate large parts of the HIV genome verbatim. It does not; comparing these genomes for identical or nearly identical subsequences via BLAST, by far the tool most widely used for this purpose, shows no such similarity.

2. Viral recombination occurs when multiple related strains of a given virus infect the same cell at the same time. That can be done in vitro, but I haven't seen any papers from WIV describing such experiments. Notably, the frequently cited 2019 paper describes a totally different kind of experiment, which could not under any circumstances have produced a virus with the genome which SARS-CoV-2 has been observed to have.

3. For that to happen would require two different strains of the same virus to independently develop the same mutation allowing them to cross over and infect humans, and to simultaneously infect the same worker in the lab, and to then recombine in such a way as to produce SARS-CoV-2.

That is not impossible, but it is about as likely to occur as it is for every atom in your body to simultaneously transmute into gold.
If by "people" you mean corporations, then yes. But actual working people who don't have enough money to buy food and are waiting months for a one-time $1,200 check... I don't think so.
I'm from Munich. "Table manners" are a bigger deal when bringen children up in Germany, I think, to the point where it's hard at first to put them aside (even though they are just a local custom, in the end).

When I moved to the US, I was a bit confused at first that people did not follow the same table manners even when they were using fork and knife. Sometimes they cut food first and then only used the fork. Often they would leave the other arm below the table, which I have been taught not to. It is perfectly normal to not to finish your plate in the US.

I've got over it, and do the local way now. I do not notice whether I or someone else leave their arm hanging. I especially enjoy the ability to not finish my plate and take leftovers home instead (which is possible in Germany, but the instinct of finishing, sometimes forcibly, your plate made it less common). Customs are just customs.
This is honestly the first time I'm hearing about someone monetizing a color scheme. I didn't even now such a thing was possible.

Was it already popular before you started to monetize it? I see that the Github repo [0] has 12k+ stars, so I assume it was already pretty popular beforehand. Did you get more exposure (and GH stars) after the choice to monetize it?

Also, what things does the bonus screencast cover?

I just downloaded the Alacritty theme [1] and to my liking the background is too bright (I guess I prefer it darker than Dracula hehe), so I changed it to 0x000000, but other than that I like it, it's definitely pleasant on the eyes.

[0]: https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme

[1]: https://github.com/dracula/alacritty/tree/af38d360e9589a75a2...