skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're linking an image of Google Maps, from a random PDF that someone posted on a website that anyone can post to without any peer review. The Google Maps image doesn't even say anything that means "Wuhan CDC." In fact, one of the buildings in the cluster is labeled a tire shop by Google Maps.

If you search on Google Maps for the Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, you instead find a building about 1.5 km from the seafood market. If the random PDF you linked doesn't even get the location of the building right, how can I trust its other claims? But further, when I look at the web page of the WHCDC, it looks like they're mainly a community health institution, not a research institute. The people studying coronaviruses are 15 km away, in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

But if they're doing research, there should be publications, just as there are for the WIV. When you search bioRxiv for papers from them, all you turn up are papers from Jianghan University Medical School, which is even farther away from the market. The random PDF you're linking to appears to be wrong on a number of counts: both on where and what the Wuhan CDC is.

In short: Random PDFs from websites that anyone can upload to are not reliable sources of information.
There used to be a “purring kitty” app for the old Symbian Nokia phones that was very popular, there were even special cases made for those phones I wonder if there is one for an Xbox controller.
Ignorance can be bliss. Didn't change my life, but has definitely helped me in a lot of cases, especially recent times. Generally speaking, I can't affect what is currently happening in the news, despite how upsetting it might be, and it won't even affect me in a lot of cases. I try to consume little information for things I don't care about or will have a negative effect on me as a way to spare myself from anxiety.

I've gotten a lot of shit for this in the past from people saying "you just don't stay informed?" or "it's your civic duty to know what's happening in the world!". If information is really important for me to know, I'll see it. If it doesn't end up on one of the few media sources I consume, it probably won't affect me. I got this idea from MMM [1], which was inspired by The Four Hour Work Week.

[1] https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/10/01/the-low-informati...
Brett Favre received welfare money for no-show speeches
Usage of "he" when the gender of a singular subject is not known or relevant has a long established history, particularly on the Web.

Alternatives are "they", awkward constructs like "he or she", or explicitly naming the subject every time it is mentioned "the user".
I also bought that album on CD as a teenager.

It had a massive impact on me in terms of opening my mind to possibilities of musical structure in `popular' music other than song form (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, etc.).

Of course there is jazz form (head, solos on same form, head) and disco 12" form (the song, the dubbed out section, the reprise). And Kraftwerk's structures have a lot in common with the latter. But there is an incredible perfection and tightness (despite the extended durations) of form on all the tracks on that album.
Will IT projects change when the lockdown ends
> Users have a choice to use the website.

Correct, and thankfully website operators don't get the choice to violate users privacy without consent.
vscode remote will actually perform better than vim over laggy ssh because the UI portion is completely local.
Then all you're doing is making a distinction so that you can defend against a position nobody in this conversation was taking. Look through the thread. Is anyone making the case that the mere existence of the virus in a person is worthy of scorn? Or are all of the people you are bothering to make counter points to condemning those that carelessly transmit it? An act that you yourself claimed made someone a "jerk."

It sounds to me like we are actually in agreement in practice, but that you want to use this as a spot to argue against a straw man with weak platitudes.
I came to the same conclusion, and here's the result:

https://medium.com/@gfodor/evolutionary-simulation-theory-81...
For more about this guy I highly recommend watching the documentary Friends of Kim in which he plays a starring role. You can even find it on YouTube. TL;DR he and a bunch of "friends of the DPRK" went to NK to participate in a parade and shout "Yankee Go Home" but then he started acting suspicious and turned on other members of the group.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C76HqPaA6kw
> what makes you believe that it'll be easier to contribute after you get it [setup] for free

I'm flabbergasted. Like.. I don't even know where to start. You've been through an on-boarding process before right? Have you led one? Haven't you ever watched a junior dev get dragged through all sorts of arbitrary "don't breathe on it" setups just so they can start making tiny isolated bug fixes?

And even then, you're just following instructions where even most high level developers don't even know why their project is set up the way it is.

We've worked on very, very, very different projects your and I.
But should we attribute malice to?
Got it. Thanks for the clarification
Me talking with my neighbor, who is telling me that some Kraftwerk event has been sold out in no time. My 6 year old son, standing next to me, saying: "'Das Model' is a great song by Kraftwerk". Proudest moment of my life!
At the risk of sounding quite silly, how do people read these textbooks? Do people (who are not in graduate studies) actually work through entire books, or just particular chapters?

I grinded through textbooks during my graduate studies, but I had to, in order to complete the HW and pass the courses.

But since joining industry I've not been able to actually work through a textbook - when I try to attempt the problems, I'll find a couple have passed and only one or two
problems have been completed - I simply find it a challenge to find the time to work through book exercises.
"lots of people do it" != "it's ok"
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. But if talent starts working hard, it's game over.
I see massive irony in fact that article about consent wall is hidden behind one of them... :-)

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Wink Smart Home gives hardware owners 1 week notice
I don't think that's necessarily a useful question at this point, because some of the basic thermodynamic assumptions don't work out for deciding between batteries vs. using a fuel-burning generator. Normally, it's pretty obvious that "Hey, if we're going to burn hydrocarbons to produce thrust, we might as well do it directly and not deal with necessary conversion efficiency losses between heat -> electricity -> heat." Since they're dealing with RF-generated gas plasmas, though, there might be efficiency gains with acceptable configurations and lower intermediate losses, etc. over traditional systems that makes those conversions acceptable. I've worked in a lab accelerating gas plasmas using helicon antenna, and as the article mentions, scaling those systems isn't a trivial implementation detail. It's very tough to reason about them from first principles, or even small-scale models because of the non-linearity in the relevant physics.

So, I guess in summary, imho it's probably a bit too early to talking about what kind of battery would be used, since it's unclear from the current system that a usable version would actually use batteries vs. another form of energy storage.
It’s just an extreme example to help illustrate the point. By itself it isn’t enough to make the argument, but that’s why the author also makes the rest of the argument.
> And all for what, some feel-good legislation that accomplishes nothing but making the web less profitable and entrenching big companies that can afford the wasted resources of their legal team navigating it.

Ideally, big companies would be subject to the law just the same. However, small companies can get a head start by just not doing what they know they are not supposed to.

> Nobody has ever been hurt by a tracking cookie in the history of the internet.

It doesn't have to hurt me. I just don't like it and I don't want it, and that is a good enough reason for me to not give up my privacy.
Not to be confused with Commodity Fetishism? :p
Yes, the size and age of the group matters though
Ask HN: For those who run their own business, how did you learn marketing?
I am really struggling to learn to market and to find product/market fit. Would love to hear about how you learnt that invaluable skill...
...if you would like a bespoke adorable mascot for this project, I do a lot of smutty art in Illustrator and would be interested. http://egypt.urnash.com has art and contact info. I would gladly take money but this might be a thing I'd think of doing pro bon(er|o) as well.
Spark plugs?
A small suggestion then: why not re-apply the same fundamental technologies and techniques, but to targeting public figures who are perhaps deserving of a little more scrutiny and contact than they're getting?

Rather than facilitating cold-calls to startup founders/leaders (which, let's face it, is generally a waste of their time and which they probably don't deserve that kind of punishment), why not expose the emails/contact-info of executives for bad actors in the marketplace, companies that have recently been sued or charged with crimes or civil complaints (by the SEC/FCC/etc.), companies that have had exposes written about them, etc.?

I'm not saying this will be a more profitable service or anything btw; in fact I'm quite certain it will have much less profit opportunity. But maybe this is something you can do to buy back some goodwill, to counterbalance the profit-seeking and cold-call/spam enabling side of this project.
I hope they continue to make those changes. To your first point, I find it ridiculous when companies make devices with very little ability to repair.
I see... Problem for me would be that updating that library would mean an investment of all these different devices, and you know they ain't come cheap. Would it be an option to create a virtual device which could be populated with the hardware rules of each of these producers, to enable swift creation of bindings in all sorts of languages without quick aging of code?
Yo, I would pay for that.
It's not necessarily an rna vs dna thing. HIV is an rna virus and notoriously goes latent.
They often designed the units in outline but other people implemented the ideas - like the Synthanorma sequencer, which was a product in its own right and eventually evolved into the Doepfer MAQ.

There's some mystery about who designed their robo-speech box [1], because Schneider (and colleagues) actually patented it.

[1] Not the vocoder, but the chip-speech system used on The Mix.
Always private browsing as a default is a very good idea. I set Safari for auto-privacy. The overhead of manually opening a non-private browser when that is what I want is really a very small hassle.

Setting up Safari this way and using FireFox only with containers for each major web platform works really well for me and I have been able to talk non tech friends into trying it.
And pictures.
This. I've found UberEats customer service to be severely lacking compared to other food delivery services. I stopped using them after getting yet another completely wrong order (I'm vegetarian and was sent a dish containing meat) and having customer service rudely close my ticket without even an explanation or refund.
If the one particular aspect I mentioned isn't for you then why even bother wasting your valuable time responding? Just go read their website instead and see if there is something for you. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't, but at least then you'd know definitively. Much better use of your time and effort. I'll even save you a few clicks:

https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availabilit...

https://sourcehut.org/
It looks like there are some ongoing studies:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32034019

https://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/clinical-trials/valacyclo...
Getting Multiple Datasets and Joining Them
In Reddit's case, that's the deal. You get a website to share things on with other people, and the value exchange involves you giving full licence to Reddit and giving relicense rights to Reddit.

Personally, I find that a very fair deal and clearly other people do as well. I think it actually yields positive externalities because we get things that wouldn't exist otherwise because the transaction costs outweigh the value, but the transaction costs are an inherent cost and I don't want to levy them. Fortunately, Reddit gives me the ability to not levy them and to guarantee that I won't levy them.

In fact, this is part of the magic of Free Software: true freedom to use. Yes, Google can use so much work which was done and it doesn't have to pay any of it back to Torvalds or Greg Kroah-Hartman or even me for the minor changes I made to libraries. This is freedom. I prefer it. And fortunately the world is aligned in this direction.
And such a cookie one that is necessary for the site to function, and as such not covered by cookie laws.
>You're never going to kiss anyone or share a cup or a smoke or any of the thousands of ways that have infected the vast majority of humanity?

Sounds reasonable

I am 30 and have never kissed anyone, and no plans to change that soon. Although I had some shared cups. I probably should get tested. But there is a good change I have avoided all herpes, even EBV. I hope they can find a vaccine soon.
I wrote a blog post showing how easy it is to take datasets from Dolt and combine them to get interesting data. In the blog I take the IRS Sources of Income dataset and combine it with information on congressional districts to find out which districts represent the least and most tax dollars.
This is a pretty weird assumption, especially when you extend it to, say, those people who do faux-medieval re-enactments. One can dress up and get in a character without it being about sex. Don't see the appeal myself, but "it's all about sex" is a weird leap.
My list of list of list inclusion trumps your second order list. I use my work emails sometimes for conference registrations, those always get burned and I get spam mail immediately. Conf registrations are the worst.
I saw that there weren't mobile apps and a backing service as part of this yet, but I am rooting for you to get to that point. It'd be great to see a community-driven open-source response to Lovense and the other companies like that which dominate the industry currently.
There was a period (before Feb 2018) where 'more than twitter, less than facebook' was my standard answer to the question of how much profit my startup was making.
I definitely don't blame Nintendo for using this strategy - I do however find it frustrating how unintuitive finding the games feels. Want to play Earthbound? Get a SNES classic. Want to play LOZ:Link to the Past? You can do it on the switch. Want to play Mario 2? Too bad. Its japan only. Etc.
Delivering products quickly to your customer is not “Instacart’s” business model.
> Some HN users post a lot of content, and post several links in a row, which will push away your post if they publish just after you

> You get a 30 min time window at busy hours (and 1h time window at non busy hours) between the time a new link is posted, and the link disappear from the 1st page of new links

Should /newest list the last-N-hours of new stories, instead of the 30 newest stories?
The disease is close to eradicated inside the borders of NZ. At this point there are only a couple of hundred active cases and we’ve now had a couple of days with 0 new cases. Australia seems to be on track for the same thing.
Maybe you are too picky? Mistakes happen in restaurants and we shouldn't expect everything to be as we want. I never asked for refunds even when my food was completely different than what I ordered.
It's worth remembering that COVID isn't airborne, it's transmitted through droplets, so a simple plastic panel would be sufficient.

True that, though I was thinking about rideshare being robust against any pandemic, going forward.
Simplicity and Significance in Observability
CRAIG! Hey! I think we talked once, during the lawsuit days. I still talk to Andrew every so often, and Comingle still comes up a lot!

Hoping to do a video on my youtube channel about it soon, still have my Mod!
Pursuit of knowledge should be a goal until your last breath. Never stop learning. Learn about new things that aren't necessarily related to your career. Use what you learn as a launching pad to explore even wider areas.
It's amazing to me how little progress is being made in such an important area.
Congrats, GitGardener helps idiots like you commit hiring fraud. Go fuck yourself. Some of us actually spend our time digging into and actually contributing to open source projects we use.
Chase curiousity, don't chase money
A question I'm facing with SSL that wasn't satisfied by the article:

What SSL vendor has the shortest certificate chain?

I'm looking to optimize SSL handshakes and outbound traffic in general from Cronitor's telemetry API and shrinking that certificate chain will make a big impact, but I couldn't find a comparison between vendors. I did some sampling, downloading cert chains, but it was far from exhaustive.
Distributed Tracing – A Path to Be Traced Lightly
We tried building an end-to-end machine learning framework. Here’s why it failed
On Monday I'm launching a giveaway campaign of my 20 favourite marketing books on FB.

If you want I can just DM you the list.
Having been in a ren-faire and had friends in the SCA...

Holy crap, have you picked a bad comparison, if you're trying to refute my point.

Edit: To provide a bit more context: Mating dances in most bird species are not direct indicators of evolutionary fitness, but they are what is selected for. SCA events, Fursonas, and the like are the postmodern equivalent of mating dances. They are Conspicuous Consumption, Veblen-good displays of "I can spend my time doing this self-defining thing instead of productively". That's fine and dandy. I'm not judging people for making their mating dance some form of roleplay (because most any formal competition displays the same traits).
I don't believe my original comment was wild conjecture (although it did lack a citation how I arrived at the hypothesis), but in keeping with your ideals as it relates to putting forth a thesis in a public forum:

> We believe that HSV1 is a major contributory factor for Alzheimer’s disease and that it enters the brains of elderly people as their immune system declines with age. It then establishes a latent (dormant) infection, from which it is reactivated by events such as stress, a reduced immune system and brain inflammation induced by infection by other microbes.

> Excitingly, successful prevention of Alzheimer’s disease by use of specific anti-herpes agents has now been demonstrated in a large-scale population study in Taiwan. Hopefully, information in other countries, if available, will yield similar results.

https://theconversation.com/alzheimers-disease-mounting-evid... (Alzheimer’s disease: mounting evidence that herpes virus is a cause)

The author of the post is Ruth Itzhaki, Professor Emeritus of Molecular Neurobiology, University of Manchester

This (in my opinion) would lead a reasonable person to believe that an HSV-1 vaccine would prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s (through the prevention of an HSV-1 infection), in a similar fashion to how the HPV vaccine prevents (among other cancers) cervical cancer. I hope you have found some value in this subthread.
There are hundreds of companies, many of them quite large, that do this. ZoomInfo, DiscoverOrg, Hoovers, Data.com, Clearbit, UpLead, etc.

Like it or not, sending unsolicited email is how millions of sales professionals make a living. Before email it was unsolicited mail, voice mail, or phone calls. Outbound sales is an essential part of the world we live in.

Honestly, I'm surprised that this is news to you.
To essential work. To essential businesses. To carry out their epidemiological tasks. To someplace not crowded. Etc.
Yeah, it's a great feeling when you find an existing name for a concept you've partially observed yourself, where sometimes you're sure there must be a name for it already...is there a name for that? It's also great because now you can read up on it and usually find a whole branch of related stuff you never knew existed.
Perhaps it has a narrow “on-ramp” to get started? This example certainly does not paint it in a very good light.

I remember the text-based adventure example from a few months ago seemed both more interesting and immersive, and certainly more artistic.
You're missing Echelon's point and clearly aren't aware of the reality of having HSV-1 or 2. There's a huge stigma just for having a cold sore. Kids are made fun of in school for it. People are thought of as being sexually promiscuous for catching it. That's not right. The passive spread of a disease that can be caught when the transmitters has no symptoms and may very well have never had symptoms is not something to cause shame.
you can also buy stolen credit card numbers on the darknet, the customers are paying.
There's an option to show it all the time (though I have only managed to have it "full screen", not reduced).
Same experience here, both with wrong food as well as a bug in the app which caused a cached, previous cart to be ordered instead of the new cart from a different restaurant. I actually provided detailed steps to reproduce this and screenshots and they couldn't care less.

Both cases ended up with a chargeback.

Deliveroo is similar, they banned a 2 year old account used multiple times every day (for both me and my flatmates) with over 2k spent on it for supposed fraud when I dared to ask for "too many" refunds because of cold/incorrect food (if you place many orders you have more probability that something goes wrong, but their "fraud" scoring algorithm - that also influences whether you can get one-click refunds directly in the app - doesn't seem to take that into account).

Both Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats also often lie and blame the restaurant for being slow when they can't assign a driver. I've had multiple occurrences where an order is stuck on "Driver waiting at the restaurant" for 20+ minutes but calling the restaurant reveals that the food was ready long ago and nobody is coming to pick it up.
Being born into wealth helps, but it also hurts. If you have something to lose, its harder to take risks. Elon put all of his wealth on the line for SpaceX and almost lost it. Anyone, from him down to the person who scrapes together pennies to start a risky business to make a better life for themselves, deserves respect for taking risks to achieve their dreams.
This is amazing.

And much more aligned with how to actually build momentum.

25 minutes can be a LOT for some people, and 5 minutes can be enough to start building momentum
When you are surrounded by assholes, chances are that it's you who is the asshole.
>Devs tend to have a penchant for the absurd.

Ok this is just a stereotype that's not true.
Edit: Just saw this link on here and this is great blog post about just this.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
No one wants a Chatbot that can talk better FFS

We want a Chatbot that can tell us something useful.

Which has never been created. How about start with that.

Best we have is dark pattern chatbots used to scare people away from talking to a human. But I guess this mass dilusion helps us sleep.

Ever notice no-one ever lets you test their amazing new chat-bot.