skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At these time scales, background radiation is the fundamental killer, and it is omnipresent in the environment.

Using numbers taken from http://news.mit.edu/1994/safe-0105 for napkin-math:

Average background dose/year: 500 millirem

LD50 instantaneous exposure: 450000 millirem

LD100 instantaneous exposure: 600000 millirem

Radiation exposure of our dinoDNA sample: 65 million * 500 = 32.5 billion millirem.

Obviously there's a lot more to it than simple dose adding, but this gives you an idea of just what deep-time DNA recovery is up against.
At least under GDPR, yes:

"If your company receives a request from an individual who wants to exercise their rights, you should respond to this request without undue delay and in any case within 1 month of receiving the request. This response time may be extended by 2 months for complex or multiple requests, as long as the individual is informed about the extension. Requests should be dealt with free of charge. If a request is rejected, then you must inform the individual of the reasons for doing so and of their right to file a complaint with the Data Protection Authority."

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...

It's directly in the GDPR itself, which everyone should take them time and read in full anyway. It's not very complex. And I mean everyone, including people from non-GDPR countries!

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-12-gdpr/ Article 12, Paragraph 3
If you use froward rendering, which means placing a bunch of textures on the screen, you are not really "drawing". We are probably not talking about the same thing.
There has been tooling for generating proper route filtering for quite some time now, the problem is virtually nobody uses it.
> DNA has a half life of ~500 years

but:

Researchers in 2016 measured chloroplast DNA in marine sediment cores, and found diatom DNA dating back to 1.4 million years.[62] This DNA had a half-life significantly longer than previous research, of up to 15,000 years. Kirkpatrick's team also found that DNA only decayed along a half-life rate until about 100 thousand years, at which point it followed a slower, power-law decay rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA#Non-human_aDNA
Interesting. My internship (not at Airbnb) is still happening, but now remotely. I booked some housing through Airbnb without refunds, so now I am attempting to get a refund from Airbnb due to COVID–19.
I guess you're missing the detail of how it's actually implemented in practice. The short description would be just "wavelet transform" I guess. The details is in how to implement it efficiently so that it can run on the phone in real-time, and draw the visualisation at the same time, without drowning the CPU (plus the additional feature of high-precision detection, which is not solved by wavelet transform itself). I will describe it in more details when I'll be open sourcing the algorithm (after I've implemented something on top of it that I could potentially start selling).
Alright, let's just pretend the DNA was somehow snap frozen or preserved to make it still useable.

With today's technology could we create a creature from long ago with nothing more than it's DNA?
one ton of sand is about a 2 foot cube, so 37 tons would be about 12 feet by 12 feet by 2 feet deep, they really only need to fill in the bottom part of the skate park to render it mostly useless.
Covid-19 shows capitalism is broken
I saw a movie about this once, can't remember the ending...
This information should be reported within 24 hrs or less of a trade rather than 45 days later to negate the insider trading aspect of the situation.

It also should apply to the house and the senate.
So the culture issue you raise definitely presents some unrecoverable aspect, but as for the biology, there's certainly a path.

We have animals now that are closely enough related to extinct animals that we could conceivably bring them back through incremental genetic modifications.

For example, if we wanted to bring back Direwolves, we could edit the DNA of a gray wolf maximally such that it can still be fertile and be born by a non-edited gray wolf. This would give you a wolf closer to a Direwolf and then you could repeat this process using each previous generation as the carrying mother for the genetically modified embryo.
I thought this was really cool, keep up the good work!
Just repeat to yourself - all administrations are equally inept. All politicians are equally corrupt. All parties are equally to blame, and all governments are equally malicious and incompetent. No specific problem exists, therefore no specific solution exists.

To suggest otherwise is to fall prey to partisanship and wrongthink. We can't have that.
Post Corona: The Four
I didn't see anything on iPhone Safari.

Are you working remote on a company VPN?
DNA half-life isn't an immutable property of the material like radioactive half-life is. The environment has an effect. The DNA in cryogenically preserved tissue should have a much longer half life.
Yup, and there are tons of alternatives. Maybe sometimes it's not obvious for instance where to get some movies or order certain stuff. But a bit searching often pays off and sometimes reveals even more interesting places where to buy things. (I wish AWS wasn't that popular though...)
Thank you! Subscribe to the email list on the front page, if you want to get updated. I'll probably release a desktop app soon, also free.
A long or short term rental discoverability platform with payments, dispute resolution, and an availability calendar is really all that was needed. All of the experience stuff seems nice but really feels like a distraction. Airbnb for so long was so good at a very simple and useful thing.

Genuinely, I wonder why this happens. Is this because companies raise too much money that they have to morph into some "experience" company that ever offers more and more to get more and more revenue growth until they eventually bloat to the tech equivalent of a department store? I see it repeatedly with not just tech companies but DTC brands that pretend to be tech companies as well. Is the pressure from VC money that you have short term opportunity but you eventually will mutate into a blob of a company that isn't really good at anything like so many old-world companies that die?
Agreed.

Personally I’ve given up on mouse GUIs

Why?

Photoshop pros use macros

Unix pros use text editing macros

Why teach new users single point and click methods of computing when the pros think it’s a waste of time

It’s from an era when computers couldn’t multi task and were largely business focused data entry terminals

Photo manipulation can be automated from a terminal and results displayed in real-time now

Why care about file menus? That’s just a set of keyboard macros unrealized.

The desktop metaphor is finally dying. Let it
Excellent point. What is 3M for example — an American company — doing? Are they attempting to ramp up production in the US or have they determined that it’s not feasible because PPE prices are are not permitted to rise because of anti gouging laws?
There's a bunch of intractable latency, but there are patterns that can help maintain pipelining, if you don't need the data immediately: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API/W...
Clearly the hoop that minimizes shots is what exists at funfairs all over the world.

Would making the backboard convex make it near-impossible to hit? What about making the curve imperceptible so it's hard to notice it's helping/hurting?
The governor I watched talk about this (NY) said something completely different: he said if you know how to make PPE, call me. If need funding to spin up manufacturing, I'll get it for you. And so on. This was a week or two ago.
I have the engineering abilities to design equipment, but I'm not willing to risk my savings to get government approval.

Instead I'm offering to sell cotton masks I sew.

I already have a sewing machine and fabric, basically free. But if I create my own n95 mask, I need either suppliers or tooling and government approval. The latter is expensive and risky. Who knows if production in those facilities or automotive will change to be making healthcare equipment.

8 year Design Engineer here. The 963$/week I'm getting in unemployment is nice too.
I wanted to comment exactly this. The hollow face illusion

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-Face_illusion?wprov=s...
So far, no. I guess we have to be happy about the little things, don't we?
> It purports to expand the coverage without mentioning how we can pay doctors more so there is more of them

That part of it is actually not complicated: once you dismantle the private health insurance industry, you eliminate billions of dollars of waste and inefficiency that can now go toward actual care. Not saying that there won't be inefficiencies in a government-administrated system, but we actually already know what that looks like (Medicare).

Increasing the number of doctors is another issue, as private industry trade groups effectively set a cap on the number of doctors by limiting the number of teaching hospitals and medical school programs, and how many students they're allowed to take. (It's basically a doctor salary protection racket; limit the supply of doctors and the existing ones will make more money.)
Show HN: GitHub Repo Engagement Dasbhoard with Apache Superset
Well, that depends on what you mean by "country," I suppose. If your definition is "independent, sovereign state," then, of course it is. But, so is the Vatican, with its population of ~800 and land area of 0.17 square miles. For perspective, San Francisco has a land area of ~47 square miles.
> you could be looking at millions of deaths in the US alone

That's not true. Very worst case scenario will be 160,000 deaths based on our last data. But around 60,000 is more probable even we go out of lockdown right now.

Ref: https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america
Plenty of people are mentioning it, it's all over the news.

There was also plenty given to Republicans, when in the Senate they managed to include yet another tax giveaway costing $90 billion for 2020 alone. The benefits will almost entirely be received by millionaires and billionaires.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/14/coronavir...

Personally I see it hard for Democrats to want to just up the amount in the fund without a strategy for distribution. Add in the executive branch immediately doing everything they can to undermine congressional and Inspector General oversight over these funds, we will have a repeat of TARP where large corporations were able to find all the bailouts they needed while SMBs were hung out to dry.
Also, when creating wire wrap circuits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap) one works from the underside of the board, so the underside pin numbering image shown in the webpage is the pin numbering one follows while wire wrapping a circuit.
City Leaders Rally Around a Fix: Cancel the Rent
I would assume controlling GW of power generation would be a very large, heavily regulated org...
Also worth noting the video says that a non-profit manages the skate park, but the city dumped sand on it without informing them of the plan.
> I think the international opinion is that there is no WeChat competitor in China because people are afraid to step on the toes of those in power

But how can there isn't a WeChat competitor, that actually does all the things WeChat is capable of in US/EU?

Regarding WeChat as if it is another chat application only means you have never been a regular user of it, which is probably true to most HN folks.

WeChat actually has its own embedded WebView within it and JS execution engine also. It also has the whole Paypal counterpart ships with it. The whole WeChat ecosystem is probably on par with the whole Facebook, probably more complex than Chrome I would say.
Possible? Yes. Practical? Not for 2-3 decades when DNA synthesis capacity gets good enough to synthesize full animal genomes. In terms of raw synthesis power, we do have the ability to synthesize billions of base pairs, but you're going to need other infrastructure around it.

Also, immune problems I don't think would be a huge issue, the adaptive immune system has been around for a while.
I don’t necessarily disagree, my comment was largely based in response to the OP seeming to think population was major discriminator.

Even at the city level, I think its is too broad of a generalization. Berkeley and Baltimore have roughly the same population density but very distinct cultures
doesn't take a month to pull a business license search and check employee records.
Data from Wuhan was that in the early phase of the epidemic about 70% of infections were transmitted at home. Once they realized this, they went to rapid isolation of positive tests and quarantine of contacts in “COVID hotels” away from home.

So your suggestion is entirely unworkable unless there is a plan to remove all at-risk persons from contact with low-risk persons.

Please show your work and let us know what that plan looks like. Who will care for these people, how will they be housed, how will you prevent the care force from bringing infection to them ala nursing homes, etc.
Seven levels of work: from task to multi-enterprise
To put that in context: 1 cubic foot of flour is 37 lbs; of sugar, 50 lbs; of water, 62 lbs.

If you've ever tried to pick up a sack / large bucket of any of these things, it's like that but even denser. Compound that by the usual "volume varies as the cube of a side" thing, and this gets really heavy fast.
> which forced the China central government to crack down on manufacturers, and only allow “medical grade” certified masks to be shipped.

There is way more to it than that. That was a very convenient pretext for China to legitimise its unofficial exports ban. It reduced the number of exporters to single digits per provice, and even few ones with appropriate licenses are now being turn arond at customs without explanations.

China's official Red Cross, however, seems to have zero problem exporting just anything off the shelf.

Even supplies for which there simply can't be a medical certification are stalling at customs. I know a person who works in medical clothing industry, and they ran into that with... hospital bedsheets.

As of now, the lion share of PPE coming from China is effectively being smuggled out.
I try to avoid Amazon when it's feasible. Care to list alternatives worth mentioning? Google express/shopping was great until it really just fell off a cliff a year or two ago.
Come on. There's a middle ground. Of course the government can't be expected to vet every company in absolute depth right now, but it can very easily check a few criteria:

- does this company have any experience making the product in question?

- what size workforce does this company have to deploy once they receive funds?

This is basic stuff. Very basic stuff. And the government is failing at it.
I've done this initial app just to gauge if there is any interest in this at all (friends were telling me "no", but they don't know anything about music :)). I am thinking that I could do some visualisations for free, and add the fancy ones as a paid option. There are many visualisation apps out there, but none have the same frequency detection algorithm... Many people asking to open source it now, but I don't know how can I do it, and also get paid for making something people can pay for on top of it... Just trying to make something that would allow me to leave my (already high paying!) job... I'll need to think :)
Monopoly ISPs Too Big to Make Good on Covid-19 Internet Offers
As internet access proves critical, we are missing targets to connect everyone
Well we still have chicken
I have some eggs and chicken breasts in my fridge if anyone needs some dinosaur DNA.
Ubuntu got worse at 18.04. Logging in on desktop now requires "swiping up" with the mouse to get the password box. The "swiping" thing is to avoid problems with unwanted activation when the device is in your pocket. It's totally inappropriate to desktops.

Then there's icon mania. I've recently converted from Blender 2.79 to Blender 2.82. Lots of new icons. They dim, they change color, they disappear as modes change, and there are at least seven toolbars of icons. Some are resizable. Many icons were moved as part of a redesign of rendering. You can't Google an icon. "Where did ??? go" is a big part of using Blender 2.82. Blender fanboys argue for using keyboard shortcuts instead. The keyboard shortcut guide is 13 pages.

Recently I was using "The Gimp", the GNU replacement for Photoshop, and I couldn't find most of the icons in the toolbar. Turns out that if the toolbar is in the main window (which is optional), and it's too tall to fit, you can't get at the remaining icons. You have to resize the toolbar to give it more space. Can't scroll. There's no visual indication of overflow. It just looks like half the icons are missing.

(I have no idea what's happening in Windows 10 land. I have one remaining Windows machine, running Windows 7.)
What it is also able to do: render cartoon personalities into more real looking personalities.
While I think there is massive opportunity here, why not target low hanging fruit? There is no reason to have pharmacists when we have computers. They are a dangerous and expensive layer.

Are there any countries that have found a way to eliminate this profession with technology?
It took a while for the US to get the war production really going during the war. Logistics and production was a mess in 1942 and it wasn’t really until 1944 that they were pumping out dozens of carriers and hundreds of liberty ships a year.
That's fine. Those people have "access to clean water". Any guarantee of such needs to take into account the various ways people obtain clean water, and make sure one exists. It might just be someone noting, "nice, they have a functioning well with plenty of capacity, good to go". If they don't then the government should fix that, either by running a public water system to that location, or drilling a well.

If that's "socialism", then I'm all for it. The idea that we shouldn't ensure that everyone has access to clean water in this age is ludicrous, and, frankly, reprehensible.
Keep applying. Don't give up.

If you have an application in process, keep it going. If your bank is still taking applications, file one.

Most members of Congress agree that the CARES Act small business programs should get more funding. But they are dragging their feet on a bill because of other topics and ideas that could get attached to it.

The more un-fulfilled applications there are waiting for funds, the more heat that banks and trade associations can put on Congress to move fast. It demonstrates the dire need.

And if more funds are allocated, banks will likely start disbursing them first to applications that are already in the queue.

You should absolutely be contacting your House representative and Senators about this. Call their office, tweet @ them, send them emails. Tell them to pass a bill on Monday to fix this.

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representati...

https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_...
Hi. jessmartin here. I've been using this framework for over a decade to think about the different levels of work and it's been very helpful. Curious to hear critiques or responses to this approach.
I am tracking the issue here.

https://mrmacintosh.com/10-15-4-supplemental-update-bricking...
it's the difference between explicit and invisible force. people in favour of capitalism (in all its forms) consider the invisible forces "the way the world works".
First tweet: Vox saying face masks aren't the best way to avoid Coronavirus. Actually basically the mainstream view in the US at the time, and still arguable. Note how right now the states aren't mandating masks, they're mandating social isolation.

Second tweet: Vox factually reporting the tech industry is eschewing handshakes. Tweet author editorialises that Vox is telling them not to.

Third Tweet: Vox factually reporting that tech companies are providing 9million masks. Factually states that it's not enough to solve the problem. Tweet author contends that's not true - but provides no evidence .

Fourth tweet: Author tries to claim Vox is responsible for Coronavirus.

I find this hilarious, because we all know perfectly well, if that tweeter had found a Vox contributer tweeting that 4th tweet he'd be apoplectic.

I'm sure this tweet thread has nothing to do with Vox's coverage of that tweeter and his previous attacks on the FDA: https://www.vox.com/2017/1/14/14276530/balaji-srinivasan-tru...
> from what I've heard, there's significant fat to trim

My company was pitched to redesign our Oakland office by Airbnb's architects who used their airbnb HQ work for our pitch. They had truly spared no expense in the design, we came away actually horrified at how overpriced and needlessly overdesigned things were. We didn't go with that vendor and in fact their office design was so opulent it served as an example of what not to do - we swung our design the other side of the pendulum and simplified and streamlined our office!
The web puts us in a usability death-spiral. It's easy to use an onClick div to make a beautiful pop-up menu, but harder to support much more than clicking on an item. This in turn trains users to only click, which further erodes the case for any sort of richer interaction.

This is bleeding into basic browser functions. Find and scroll bars are routinely broken by the infinite scroll paradigm. Undo/cut/copy/paste are broken in customized rich text editing. Eventually these features will atrophy and fall off.
A bit of whataboutism never hurts the argument I guess...
Broadcom employees (even devs) are required to show up to an office 1 of 4 weeks
Correct. This template is ALSO created by Bitnami (I’m the cofounder). For most people Lightsail (or Wordpress.com) are better choices, for others not
> Facebook used to sit with the cool kids at lunch, but word got out that he killed a dog, filmed it, and made a meme of it.

Priceless.
Same here. We have provide a warehouse management system specifically for e-commerce warehouses, as SaaS. We are (one of) the biggest player in the Netherlands, and since "social distancing" started here 4 weeks ago we see Black Friday 2019 levels of orders every day, for 4 weeks straight now.

We have some customers that saw there orders come to a stop, even a few bankruptcies already. But almost all see a 30-40% bigger order flow. Some customers that sell DIY hair products see a doubling or tripling in orders per day and revenue.

When I talk to the biggest e-commerce players in the Netherlands and the top 3 parcel shippers, they all see (near) black friday levels of orders/shipments.
It seems AFL might have been ported to Windows:

https://github.com/ivanfratric/winafl

(don't know; just found this two minutes ago)
A scientist may say this, but that statement itself appears unfounded in any evidence provided in this article.
In my experience, there is a large range in the effort hosts put in, and low fungibility as a result. There is a bit of signal in the reviews, but not usually enough to be very helpful. Some hosts really do try to make it a hotel quality experience and sweat the details. On the other hand, a host once blamed me for not bringing my own bath towel after I was surprised to find that there were no towels at all in the unit, including in drawers and closets.
Yeah but why are you saying "It's scummy maths and unworthy of you?" such an overreaction

Most people think of those kinds of expenses in monthly terms, maybe you're not aware of that. This isn't a press release, it's someone's comment off the top of their head.
In terms of both political expediency and social good, it might not be a bad idea for them to crack down on Airbnb to increase the available housing supply that could potentially lower rents, in a time when economic insecurity drives voter fears about if they can make rent or not.
Two ugly gorillas fighting for the bananas held out by a war monger. Whatever.