skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They talk about potential false negative, but should have talked about potential false positive from sample cross contamination, because this isolated case seems in contradiction from everything we know about the french contamination history, a researcher that follow closely the phylogeny of the virus seems very dubious about that one. Now we need a sequence of the genome and serological test of the patient, the family and co-workers.

Also this is not the first hospital to do that in France, IHU Méditerannée Infection, from Raoult and Chloroquine fame did that at the beginning of the epidemic in China, they tested 2500 samples from several month ago and found absolutely nothing.
If you have enough delta-v to land on a hypothetical Mars without an atmosphere you've got enough to slow down for a gentle atmospheric entry that wouldn't burn you up.

In terms of technical design creating a lightweight craft that can aerobrake to land on Mars is harder than the heavyweight craft that could do an airless powered landing. But once you factor in the booster requirements suddenly the atmosphere is making your job easier overall.
I could argue the exact same about literally any database used by the government. Their tools are just easier to use and more expressive.

If you don’t like the bullshit the government does, that seems like an issue you should take up with the government, no? You’re using a tech company as a scapegoat.
Israel's IIBR completes development phase of Covid-19 antibody
Here are some free Springer books https://github.com/alexgand/springer_free_books
This. and let's add: don't use fancy frameworks (that are cool and popular) that cause many headaches for you down the road.
My two cents is that there is no reason to _use_ Glacier as a backup strategy. Glacier's cost come for restoration: the more you restore and the faster you want to restore it, the more quickly costs rise. It's far better suited for a collection where you're pretty much most of it will never be restored but what you'll need to restore you don't know. Think video, art, music assets for projects. B2's retrieval is far, far lower cost and completely immediate for restoring an entire backup back to a server. If you're not careful that extra .5 cents you save will really cost you on a full restore.
This is the best and worst part about open source dev.

Pro: You can do whatever you want

Con: You can do whatever you want (including things that will bite you in the ass later)

I've also noticed that AI/ML falls into the exact same pit because many folks there are cowboy coding
The author needs to try BSD
Another excellent source is this 8-part series in The Digital Antiquarian. https://www.filfre.net/2017/06/tales-of-the-mirror-world-par...

Basically like a short book on the context of Soviet computing, how Tetris got to the West, how Nintendo got the rights, what happened afterwards. It's an excellent read. With all the shady deals and fun period details I almost feel this would make a great movie.
I'm not aware of an "out of the box" solution, but maybe paying for NordVPN or similar will do this for you.

VPNs typically tunnel your packets thru an encrypted connection to a gateway somewhere else on the internet.

Ad blockers point your DNS to a resolver that blacklists ad domains. You can use a VPN and still set your DNS to whatever you'd like. What works best for you will depend on your threat model (or just privacy concern, as that other term sounds loaded).
I'm sure this they case most everywhere where international travel is widespread. If the virus started spreading in China in November, then it most likely spread to most major international cities in December.
> How often do developers recompile postgresql?

Uh, never? I mean, there may be cases where you might need to do that, but I don't want to use a PG built by JoeRandoMacbook somewhere. It's better to use PGDG.

> How often do developers go through the hassle of upgrading databases versions?

As often as they have to. Most places don't upgrade all that often.
> Then I worked for a tech giant, and then for a high-growth unicorn. It shocked me how dilbertesque they both were. Full of politicians, and burnt out engineers in golden handcuffs who can't wait to get out, and meaningless business speak, and checked out employees who pretend they're "excited" about everything all the time. The young, wide-eyed engineers seem hopelessly naive to me now.

I don't know this person. I wasn't there. I don't know which tech giant.

Certainly there are plenty of stories of large multinationals with dilbertesque politics, and checked out zombies.

But something tells me that this author's experience was only because he was comparing it to the glory days of his own startup where everyone was intensely invested and engaged.

The truth is there is a middle ground: employment. You are engaged insofar as you receive a paycheck, and you want to do good work to continue getting that paycheck. But you also care enough to do a good job because you're human, and because you want a raise or a promotion, or even a cookie from your peers that says "go you". You probably also like the specific job more than you would other ones.

The loudest stories rise to the top of HN, but I think most professional industry is just this. That doesn't mean it's unhealthy. Politics has purpose.

And when you yourself are cynical, everyone else's excitement rings hollow and you think they are pretending and are actually checked out..
It sounds like you think that the concern about Amazon is primarily about working conditions in the cushy office jobs. But that's not what anyone is talking about here. They're talking about frontline "essential" workers like those in the warehouses and delivery trucks.
Thanks for the clarification. I did not know that reference, and it seems we're much more in alignment than I thought.

I still hold that the target moves discontinuously, though not universally so. Death is the strongest argument here. A set of preferences exists, and then it doesn't. Some deaths are expected. Some are slow. Some are unexpected. Some are abrupt. Death is a binary off-switch for all preferences the deceased individual may have had. Without this collection of preferences, equilibrium abruptly jumps to some other value. Of course, in a system as large as the market, these death-jumps are going to be so small as to be effectively immeasurable.

Note: expectation of death here means at a specific time. All death is expected on a long enough time scale.

> To a good approximation, markets moves continuously

I agree here. My discussion of discontinuity, though, is that of movement of whatever ideal equilibrium the market is moving toward (but does not achieve). The equilibrium is the target toward which a market moves. This equilibrium is incalculable or at least not calculable in less time than it would take to reach. The target may move discontinuously (though I would argue the discontinuities are small for the most part), and the process moving toward the target may be continuous, both at the same time.

Ninja edit: An equilibrium in this discussion is more akin to a platonic ideal than anything concrete. The market is the system which can be observed. The equilibrium is an abstract and incalculable target.
+1 on the small 1-2 weekend tangible projects, that you may have wanted to build before, but never got to, they are great for morale.

This weekend I implemented RS232-powered RGB LED that is controlled attiny85, which reacts to strings sent to that very same RS232. A gross violation of standard, probably, but it works! It definitely added a lot of joy.

I typed “git init” only after I finished the first working version which had a regular One-color LED, and could not yet do blinking :-)
Language changes and evolves over time, this is normal and natural. Just because "elecrocuted" at one time only meant died from electricity, it doesn't mean it can't mean now that one simply got a jolt and didn't die.

Or do you still think "Google" just means a big number? Do you "literally" means "exactly" or can also be used to show strong feeling or emphasis.
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I think Space X money comes in large part from NASA, so I don't see how they could do it without them.
Projection? As a fairly honest person it took a long time to stop assuming other people were too. The alternative world view is disappointing but you get used to it.
Consensus rules must be verified using on-chain data only and cannot depend on website access.
Ask HN: Blogging, Microblogging, What's Next?
Blogging ...
Microblogging ...
... (what's your next favorite writing platform)?
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How can I best share my config and learnings on this?
I guess the idea is to react to various rumors about the company, founder, and connections to China. And they are probably smart to post it. I have nothing against Zoom personally, I use it a lot and it works fine.

But I can understand if companies and individuals decide to go with another service because they are dissuaded by Zoom’s connections to China (maybe they think appearances are deceiving), not to mention plenty of other reasons. It’s just video chat and there are lots of providers. Again Zoom makes a fine product, but competition is ratcheting up quickly.

It’s true lots of companies have offices in China. Lots don’t. Some people care about that.
Those interested in NES Tetris should check out this excellent documentary on the NES Tetris World Championship: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1836974/
In 1970: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_16
Thanks for your inputs.
Yes, you are totally right about the DDLs, you cannot mix it with DML.
Seeing all the comments, it looks like a good decision to migrate. :)
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It's a solution to a non-existent problem. Nobody in the country wants to end voluntary contracts as you suggest.

You want people to be able to renege on contracts they explicitly agreed to under no duress. This position is not supported by the country and has been rejected countless times. Even unionism as a whole has been rejected. I would not join a union even if it was free, absolutely never.
Widespread genetic connectivity of feral pigeons across Northeastern megacity
it indeed becomes much easier to understand after ~ a year. this thread included some discussion about making APL-family languages easier to read for novices:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20728715

I'm of the opinion that code should be documented. Short description, arguments, return, purpose etc. However rebinding primitives kindve defeats the purpose after a little familiarity. For example:

commute ← {⍵ ⍶ ⍺} ⍝ or commute ← { ⍺ ⍶⍨ ⍵ }

will get tedious quickly. Its better to lean into the terseness of the language, rather than attempt to transform it into something it isn't. There has been work done for easing the learning curve, for example https://aplcart.info/ . Keep in mind aplcart generally targets dyalog, however many of the idioms should work for alternate implementations with possibly some tweaking.
From that one line alone that sounds like a textbook description of "the hundred day cough", also known as "whooping cough" or pertussis.
Each part of the government tends to give a great deal of deference to the other parts of the government.
Hmm, looks like their pay is better than last time I looked. Mea culpa.

As for the rest; 17/hour to break your back is not a lot. And people have been lambasting the minimum wage for decades, and companies that pay it.
I think they are referring to running the same applications on client and server, not just the same language.
"It's legal, so what is everyone complaining about?"

Law != ethics
Apparently schools can let children move on no matter what. When unable to hold end of year exams (end of middle school and high school), they will use the current grades so far and do away without any exam.

For universities, it's gonna be a lot more tricky. They shouldn't get away with charging up to 50k a year for nothing. They can't deliver labs and practical trainings. There is no continuity between an undergraduate and an postgraduate, probably somewhere else.
Hey Mathie, we just pushed something today where you can set your own Firefox send url (or set it to send.firefox.com)

Just run this command:

/secure -set-url https://securesend.quantfive.org/
Python package for financial machine learning
MlFinlab helps portfolio managers and traders who want to leverage the power of machine learning by providing reproducible, interpretable, and easy to use tools.

https://github.com/hudson-and-thames/mlfinlab
Divide it by two? He must be an optimist. I divide it by 10.
Smallpox and a flu-like virus aren't comparable. So I reject your premise.

Like I said, if a novel flu-like virus appeared in Atlanta, would your first guess be that it leaked from the CDC facility? That's what you're faced with, not smallpox.
Most of your problems sound like they stemmed from VC. Similar story. It's a good, and hard, lesson. Two things one should not touch when it comes to building healthy companies in 2020: crypto and equity sales to VC. They're going to become fossils soon anyhow [1].

Read Rework by Basecamp. Read The Beginning of Infinity by Deutch. Read the Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Hamming. Watch some Bret Victor talks. Ignore the negative memes about tech. They're all wrong, the rules get re-written every 10 years, and that is going to decrease in duration, not increase. You might be the person needed to re-write them.

Release your code. Teach. Share.

If you can, bootstrap. Give more than you take. Don't hire or work with assholes. Grow slowly. Don't over-lever yourself. Make something people not just want, but love. Know thyself. Don't outsource your thinking, build the thing only you can build.

If you are not working on the most important problem in your field, why not?

Most importantly, know that the future is bright and that our best days are not only ahead of us, but always will be.

[1] https://alexdanco.com/2020/02/07/debt-is-coming/
FDA Orders Companies to Submit Antibody Test Data
The analogy seems apt; weapons dealers don't give warlords armies (if they did, they'd be called mercenaries.) They give the armies of warlords the tools they need to be more effective. The violent acts, killing people or holding PII, are still performed by the warlord's organization, but does that excuse the people selling the tools used?
> I think it's very unlikely that employees will decide they want to have guns at work instead of, say, a security system, or maybe offices in places with low crime, etc. I think it's very unlikely that employees will decide, I dunno, that they want the right to shit on eachother's desk, or whatever other fairly-objectively-negative thing you can think up.

I think his point is that carrying guns to work is not a fairly-objectively-negative thing for the 1/3 of America that owns guns.
For an office laptop? A few Excel sheets, a dozen or two browser tabs, maybe something like Slack?
Target the market of the geographic region you plan to work in. You might get a feel for what's in demand by looking at job websites.

To reliably get a job in my local area, I'd jump on the Microsoft stack. C#, ASP MVC, Sql Server.

Web-based software dominates the job market just about everywhere. So basic competence with HTML, CSS, and javascript will serve you well.
> In fact bargaining power is the only way employees can have somewhat of a say in any sort of negotiation with their employers, without it it's a completely one sided relationship.

I truly don't understand this position. Unless we're talking about a company town, every single employee has the option of going to work somewhere else. That they don't means that they find value in the relationship with their employer.

> It's not just their warehouse workers they treat like garbage either, they steal successful products on their page and drop the original company from their listings and showing up in search. They charge a kickback just to rank in the search, etc, etc.

None of this is unethical. Not in the least. Nobody has a right to have their products sold on Amazon.com. Amazon is not the government. Other private parties have no inherent claim to be involved in anything Amazon does.
I'm not surprised. These books, and Jeff Geerling's contributions to Ansible in general, are a very strong resource for new Ansible users.
If you have proof of passport, you have proof of identity (at least up to the difficulty of obtaining a counterfeit passport - pretty expensive). If you have proof of identity, you have secure private online voting. You also have solved the astroturfing bot problems, and multiple-accounts problems on most communication platforms.

Want to get into cryptocurrency-specific applications? If you used that proof-of-passport design and issued an inflationary currency around it such that inflation was issued one-coin-per-passport, then you have a currency that auto-taxes the rich and auto-distributes a UBI (parameterized however you like). Could be governed via online voting. Would need to have considerable penalties (or bounties) to those who are found with fake passports though. This currency could be quickly substituted with effectively no usable difference to most people for anything currently purchasable with Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc. It could also be used as a decentralized asset registration system for non-cash assets. If enough people simply held and used this currency as opposed to other crypto or USD/etc, and enough started requiring buyers/sellers to use it (for political reasons at first, then later practical reasons) then its price would quickly stabilize and make it a reserve currency, and there's not much any other party could do to stop it. Participation in the economy could then effectively require use of this currency, which means effectively registering your assets and your accounts under a single identity and exposing those assets to automatic taxation in their effective value due to inflation. It is simply built into the system at that point. Though this inflation relationship could be set to be a net benefit users up to a net worth of e.g. 2 million USD equivalent.

This also opens the doors for automated anonymous auditing of assets, anonymous proof-of-ownership, etc.

Enter "but we could do this already without cryptocurrencies!" - sure, probably. But now you can do it without centralized control of the system by anyone.
Just switched to Wasabi last week for better pricing and S3 interface... but great to see this.
Note that their "slow molecular clock" estimate gives a most recent common ancestor around the end of December. They reject this because it "finds a root which seems very early given the data". It's also, of course, possible that this particular cluster died out entirely, got genetically bottlenecked, or only ended up causing a small proportion of cases just through random chance.
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They have to protect their valuable behavioral surplus.
There are dockerised versions as well if you happen to have a docker stack somewhere in your home
I can take another stab at it if you like, but just because my defense is irrefutable doesn't make it a tautology ;)

> decentralization

Decentralization of currency is provably less efficient than centralization. Trust is a huge optimization, as you can see by the sheer overwhelming inefficiency of proof of work algorithms. It's tens of thousands of times less efficient. With reference to [1] a single BTC transaction releases 332 KILOGRAMS of CO2, consumes 700kWh of power and generates 87 GRAMS of e-waste. That's enough to drive a Tesla Model S from San Francisco to New York, and throwing half an iPhone out the window en route. And that's without paying for the fill-ups on the way.

Then there's the pragmatic: every stumble down the timeline winds up with all coins lost. We're at 20% of BTC lost already, since there's nobody to appeal to, you're just SOL.

> anarchism

Anarchy is not an effective way to ... anything. If there are some proven successes of anarchy at scale please do cite them.

But without that, the entire "anarchist" crypto space has shown as soon as you open the door to the architecture, scammers and schemers follow through immediately. [2] The entire pricing structure of all cryptocurrencies has centralized thanks to anarchy and is centrally controlled via Bitfinex' totally oversight-free generation of billions of dollars in fake money in Tether. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

> applied cryptographic research

Doesn't matter if they're pointing in the wrong direction.

> real-world improvements to banking and the exchange of currency

Everything crypto does can be done better, faster and cheaper with traditional currency since it's not boat anchored to the inefficiency of decentralization.

Not to mention, it fails at even the most basic aspects of modern currency theory by being deflationary.

[1] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

[2] https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...
"Buy why?"

If you have proof of passport, you have proof of identity (at least up to the difficulty of obtaining a counterfeit passport - pretty expensive). If you have proof of identity, you have secure private online voting. You also have solved the astroturfing bot problems, and multiple-accounts problems on most communication platforms.

Want to get into cryptocurrency-specific applications? If you used that proof-of-passport design and issued an inflationary currency around it such that inflation was issued one-coin-per-passport, then you have a currency that auto-taxes the rich and auto-distributes a UBI (parameterized however you like). Could be governed via online voting. Would need to have considerable penalties (or bounties) to those who are found with fake passports though. This currency could be quickly substituted with effectively no usable difference to most people for anything currently purchasable with Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc. It could also be used as a decentralized asset registration system for non-cash assets. If enough people simply held and used this currency as opposed to other crypto or USD/etc, and enough started requiring buyers/sellers to use it (for political reasons at first, then later practical reasons) then its price would quickly stabilize and make it a reserve currency, and there's not much any other party could do to stop it. Participation in the economy could then effectively require use of this currency, which means effectively registering your assets and your accounts under a single identity and exposing those assets to automatic taxation in their effective value due to inflation. It is simply built into the system at that point. Though this inflation relationship could be set to be a net benefit users up to a net worth of e.g. 2 million USD equivalent.

This also opens the doors for automated anonymous auditing of assets, anonymous proof-of-ownership, etc.

Enter "but we could do this already without cryptocurrencies!" - sure, probably. But now you can do it without centralized control of the system by anyone.
Would you consider candidates in MST, willing to work EST times?
My interpretation was that the board thought he should be considered, so they added him to the pool themselves even though he hadn't been nominated.
Very light on details. There was at least in the press a similar announcement on a vaccine candidate (probably the one mentioned in the article) a month and a half ago, then little else (to my knowledge).