skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a microbiologist, and it's unlikely that you are one either.

I wouldn't call it a conspiracy, and it doesn't really matter what the truth is. If a Chinese lab blew it, they're not going to fess up, and there's nothing we can do about it anyway, so it's pointless to get upset about it.

It's interesting to idly discuss, in an HN sort of way, but my advice is to ignore it and continue to live your life. Or at least move on to this week's outrage-fest.
The difference between Amazon and traditional retailers with shelf space a la grocery stores is that grocery stores pay wholesale for the 3rd party products they put on their shelves. So when you see generic fexofenadine sitting next to name-brand Allegra in CVS, Sanofi already received payment for the name-brand bottles (or at least a commitment to pay, depending on net terms). The risk of selling them to consumers now falls on the store.

Amazon does not pay wholesale for items in its marketplace. In fact the marketplace was explicitly set up to be a logistics-only service and level playing field for anyone who joined. Now it's not, of course. Basically they pulled a bait-and-switch on their marketplace customers.

(Ironically, they also pulled a bait-and-switch on their first retail partners by signing exclusivity agreements, and then breaking them when they launched marketplace.)

This is also why Amazon struggles to fight counterfeit products. For most of the products you can buy on amazon.com, Amazon the company does not have buyers who can verify product quality and supply chain before placing a wholesale order. It's a logistical struggle made worse by a cultural struggle, i.e. they don't want to sell counterfeits but they also don't want to do any of the normal work that retailers do to prevent counterfeits.
Zebrafish study:

The researchers introduce a fusion protein into the cell which combines two proteins: (i) protein responsible for axon growth and (ii) photoactivatable (Rac1) protein that is responsible for sensing light (found in plants). By giving a light stimulus, they could make the axon follow the path illuminated by light. This was also shown to work for regenrating axons that were genetically defective. This could potentially allow study of long range projections of axons in a non-invasive manner.

Orignal paper: https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807(...
I do this to expose services to the internet in a limited way. Wireguard link between a pi running, say, octoprint, and a vps. Then, the vps is running nginx or caddy as a reverse proxy over that wireguard link, giving me https access and even letting me add basic auth if I want another layer of authentication.
In a previous report by Reuters, all 4,800 personnel were tested for COVID-19. 600 tested positive of which 360 were symptom-free leaving 240 that tested positive and showed symptoms. 1 person died [1].

This report indicates that of a sample of 400 volunteers that agreed to take an antibody test, 240 tested positive and 160 did not. It also indicates that 1,100 people tested positive for COVID-19 back in April, possibly an update to the first report of 600.

At this point it appears that in this mini-testing lab of an aircraft carrier, about 25% of the crew tested positive for COVID-19 and 60% tested positive for antibodies, which seems to match with the earlier results showing that 60% of the sailors were symptom-free.

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-mi...
Intel Core I7-1165G7 Tiger Lake Leak Shows Xe Graphics Performance Leap
I also agree that this is a people problem. But moving to DDG is also not a reliable solution according to me. When we imagine DDG at google scale and quality, DDG will need so much resources and money to maintain their service at that scale and there is no guarantee that their current business model will be enough to continue their operations. Between closing out the business Vs increasing revenue, I am sure majority of businesses will choose the later. At least for now we can say it is focused on privacy to take some market share out of Google.
Ugh. Lots of nostalgic views here made fonder through absence I think.

UO sucked was amazing but it sucked. I can't recall how many empty dungeons we walked through, only to get to the treasure room filled with gold? No. Filled with other players. All just camping out, waiting for loot to drop. In fact it would be true to say I can only recall such dungeons. And then the Lich would respawn and all the n00bs would shit themselves while someone else killed it, and then everyone frantically trashed the place looking for loot like an FBI raid at the drug dealer's girlfriend's place.

Honestly it was so utterly pointless to try to "play the game" that my friend and I actually indulged (I am ashamed to say) in some naked griefing. Which is to say, the only fun we had was in trying to figure out the games state machines, i.e. to goad people into killing us such that we could get the guards to kill them. How it works: stand outside a town. Be offensive. Wait till someone attacks you. Run into town. Yell "Guards! Guards!". Guard appears and kills aggressor. Take all his stuff. There were various iterations of this that Raph Koster actually wrote up [1], and it was fun. For us. Neither my friend nor I are actually assholes, and only resorted to this because it was literally the only "game" present in the entire system. We'd paid for a game, we rationalized, and by golly we were going to find one. Ok, we probably were just entitled assholes. Perhaps it got better later, but we'd gone by then. [Naked griefing, because every now and again we'd grief a wizard and they'd freeze us in place and then kill us. But we were naked. Didn't even lose a shoe.]

There was also "The Great Unused!" which we had "fun" with for a while. This was an item that was called "Unused", and its icon was a photoshop lens flare. It also weighed 255, the max amount. So you couldn't move if you were carrying it. So my friend and I spent hours standing next to it, picking it up, and then dropping it on the other side, moving it two squares at a time, leapfrogging each other. We could put it on a boat (much to our relief, as we'd been lugging it for an hour by that point) and managed to bring it from a far island back to "town". Where upon, we tried to start a cult to worship "The Great Unused!" People tried to steal it, by picking it up, and we would laugh as they ran in place for an unreasonably long time (some people are just so determined), but eventually they would drop it. It didn't catch on.

Now Raph's first go at Star Wars Galaxies I really enjoyed. I couldn't play very often, and yet I could still be useful, even as my friends leveled far ahead of me. I played a medic, and sometimes my heal would be the thing that saved someone from death and a long walk back. Most MMOs (that I played), once your friends are four levels ahead of you, you don't get any experience points at all if you join their party.

So UO was a great starting point, and very smart, very passionate people have made significantly better games, learning every time.

[1] https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaphKoster/20180627/320893/A...
Recent finding: 80% of people exposed to covid produced only a minimal amount of antibodies. Our immune system protects against millions of diseases, and we don't require specific antibodies for most of them.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.092619v2
Divinity: Original Sins was that game for me; everything I loved about U7, minus the annoying bits (collecting arrows, eating food every x minutes, time-of-day changes for NPCs).
If the virus jumped from bat to some other animal 50 years ago, then the 1000 miles of distance is not hard to explain, and doesn't tell us anything about the time-scale of initial human infection.

We need to find the close relative of Covid19 (TMRCA < 1 year) in a non-human host.
Not sure user namespaces are the default yet sadly
Sounds like a great space to dive into. Plenty of depth so you won't run out of interesting things to learn and there are lots of ways AI can help others.

If climate's your thing, you can check out https://www.climatechange.ai/. I'd bet similar communities exist around other areas for social good too. Good luck :)
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FWIW, where I work we're going with Nomad over K8S. It gives us everything we want and nothing more (plus it's from a source we trust and love: HashiCorp).

The nice thing with Nomad is, thanks to it's straightforward design/approach, it should be easy(ish) in the future to swap it out and go with something else if we outgrow it (or HashiCorp abandon it for some reason).
That just isn’t true. Aside from the fact that 1918 wasn’t exactly the area of “four humors”, one can’t decide that “unprecedented” falls within a convenient range for your argument.

Besides, if your argument is that precedent doesn’t exist because medical technology was different, consider that we’re dealing with exactly the problem that quarantine was designed to fix: an infectious disease that we neither have immunity nor treatment for. For this exact scenario, the precedent is both strong and relevant.
Also evaluated Reaction ~9 months ago and came to the same conclusion. A React/Node eCommerce framework sounds like an interesting possibility but this project looks like a hot mess.
Turning off all of my digital “assistants.” I don’t want corporate mission statements and policies fed to me by an appliance. Politics and religion are best avoided in conversations with mixed company, there’s no reason for a machine I use to play a song or take a reminder to express opinions at all.
Cell History Inspection on DoltHub
Francois Chollet tries to address some of these problems by tackling how intelligence is measured. Most AI systems are measured by task performance, but he argues that intelligence is about "skill-acquisition efficiency".

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
Tailscale is what we have been looking for. It looks like a huge upgrade compared to outsourced boilerplate OpenVPN.
> * read through Raspberry Pi SenseHat code to figure out that the drivers won’t load via SSH (you have to plug in an HDMI cable!);

I've suspected that for a long time without confirming it personally, so thank you for your time.
Just because you got used to this tool, does not mean it is good UX. To me this looks really cluttered, and I would be overwhelmed, if I looked at all those options for the first time.

And I don't even see a reason that all these different modes need to be visible at the same time. It also takes up alot of space.

There are probably many ways to make this more user friendly, but if it works for you, thats great
Dolt (https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt) and DoltHub (https://dolthub.com) are Git and GitHub for data. Having a versioned database makes collaborating on data more fluid and reliable in the same way that Git improves source code collaboration for software engineers.

This blog discusses DoltHub’s newest feature, cell history inspection. You can inspect the changes between versions of every cell in every table with just a click, making debugging between versions easy to trace.
'Did I Miss Anything?': A Man Emerges from a 75-Day Silent Retreat
Shrug, I see what you're saying but we can't be sure they are trying to list those items and are being told "no".

https://smile.amazon.com/stores/Google+Inc./page/080B7645-82...
I agree with most of this, but was surprised by your comment:

> Oh, also, the implementation of Kubernetes cron jobs is also complete garbage (spawning a new pod every job is insanely wasteful).

How often/how many cron jobs are you running that spawning a new pod per job is a problem ?
> How can the problem be CO2 emissions but not the source of those emissions?

Because the problem is emissions, not who creates those emissions.

What I'm saying is that if coal does so much sequestration that it in effect has negative emissions, this is actually better than solar which has a little emissions. This is because we care about emissions.

I'll make an analogy. Let's say we have two companies that output poison in their process. Company A produces 10000 units and company B produces 5 units. Company A shifts and now produces -10 units of poison and company B doesn't change. Initially company B is better but after the change company A is better because really all we care is about the poison being produced and not actually what the companies do. Because at the end of the day, our goal is less poison. That's the number that matters.
I agree that the results are important, but in the amazon vs third party vendor the difference between the two parties are large.

One is much better capitalized than the other and enjoy many cost advantages. On product and price alone, many consumers would choose Amazon, all else being equal, including product placement. In short, since we haven't seen Amazon crushing equally well capitalized and competent white-label players like Anker, Amazon is only out competing inefficient firms.

Similarly, Walmart's "Grocery Store O's" are competing against P&G, which is a equally well capitalized firm. That is, the Cereal market is efficient and competitive, and winners win through distribution and market positioning. This is why P&G O's aren't getting destroyed.

The results you are witnessing - smaller firms getting taken out, is just a phenomenon of competition. I suspect as consolidation takes place, many large firms like Anker will be able to offer competitive product at competitive prices vs. Amazon Basics.
Thank you for those kind words. I really needed it. A honest person to talk too.

You can imagine how much of a shock it is to my believe system to come from literally other side of the world, in hope of doing genuine research, and turns out, it is based on lies.
He's lobbying for the 3rd party firms, what else can he say? "My job is to complain when amazon consolidates power away from my 3rd part clients" wouldn't go over as well.
I don't think religious gatherings should be banned explicitly, just that the number of people sharing air indoors needs to be tightly regulated. With the protests, they're at least outdoors and the vast majority are wearing masks. If religious people can meet outdoors and wear masks in the same fashion, have at it.
Arcade is pretty nice. It's what pygame should be, at least in terms of installability.

https://arcade.academy/
A positive test result for antibodies is a strong indicator for having been exposed to covid, but a negative test result doesn't say much because 80% of people exposed to covid don't produce antibodies, even if they get sick and recover. It doesn't matter how good the test is if seropositivity is the exception rather than the rule.
Anecdotes aren't worth much in this area. There's no conspiracy of silence about problems. We can use actual science. They actually test the quality of these tests. Some are better than others.

For example, the Abbott test has a surprising accuracy [1] "Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine found Abbott’s test had a specificity rate of 99.9% and a sensitivity rate of 100%, suggesting very few chances of incorrectly diagnosing a healthy person with the infection and no false negatives."

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/08/study-suggests-abbott-covid-...
Echoing GP - the additional data on how contagious it appears it isn't in circumstances of brief, well-ventilated contact, helps me feel safer outdoors. Over the last two weeks, we've had or visited two different outdoor get-togethers with friends, sitting and chatting in the lawn 6-10 years apart, and feeling like it was no big deal to step forward briefly to (for instance) hold out a dish of cupcakes for your friend to grab one.

I definitely wouldn't have felt comfortable with that a month ago.

And I still don't want to do that more than once a week or so.
In the french air carrier CDG , 1,081 out of 2,300 were found infected

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_on_Charles_d...
Couldn't it reach such a percentage with a R0 being lower than 10?

If your R0 is 2.5, herd immunity will make the current R value go under 1 when 1 - (1 / 2.5) = 60% of the population got infected.

While that means that the epidemic will stop growing exponentially, the virus will not stop propagating, as there will still be a non-exponential propagation of the virus (e.g. if 10% of the population is still infectious at the time herd immunity is reached -- when R becomes 1 --, we should expect at least 10% more infections). Or am I missing something?
I don't think this is true from my experience. I've been on several program committees, and have managed a couple as well. Usually if you're above the first-level reviewers (e.g. senior PC, track chair, PC chair), you can see the actual author names and reviewers.

Most of the time when an author later says (formally through the review system, or informally in casual conversation) that "I know it's this reviewer who asked me to cite their own paper" they are wrong. Their main evidence is that the reviewer asked them to cite two papers that include the same author.

But of course I can't tell them otherwise because of the confidentiality, so they keep on believing that, perpetuating the myth. Perhaps someone can aggregate some statistics on this, but I genuinely believe that authors suggesting their own papers only about 20% of the time, and when they do it's because their paper was highly relevant.
So the gist to me seems to be that they have such vendor lock-in with AWS that they don't need to bother with Kubernetes today. Fair enough to me.
Every post has someone who doesn't like it. I think this post is interesting and relevant to HN. Thanks for posting it.
It’s not a random sample.
No, they got rich with good web search, then became dominant, then stopped doing good web search and started doing user intent targeting via payola search results.
> In my experience, JS code has a life expectancy of about a year and a half.

Maybe for toy projects. I‘m working on projects that take years to build and are around for many years.

There are problems with JS but with TypeScript and React I find it more maintainable and robust than other languages.

The worst project I‘ve worked on in the last few years had 800k lines of C# around a C++ core from the early 90s. It was terrible to work with and far worse than anything I‘ve seen in the Javascript world.
Sorry, what's TWIV?
> I took Japanese in college, and we were taught that this is because dictionaries are arranged by stroke.

There's multiple methods of searching a modern Kanji dictionary, but, yes, this is a useful property of stroke order. The bigger issue is when you have characters with 8+ strokes you quickly become reliant on specific shapes that come as artifacts to the stroke direction and order for proper identification, messing this up makes things a pain to read.

You also cannot purely rely on an "alphabetical" sorting in a Kanji dictionary anyway, as every character may have two pronunciations and you need to be able to look it up without knowing either. Some do have indexes letting you look a character up if you already know the on-yomi or kun-yomi reading but not the other, though.
There's also the "mystery respiratory illness" that was never identified in July 2019 which could potentially point to an even earlier start. Does anyone know if they've looked into it being related?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/health-officials-to...

> Three people have also died, but Dr. Benjamin Schwartz of the Fairfax County Health Department said Wednesday afternoon that those who died were "older" and had complex health problems. Officials don't yet know the extent to which the respiratory illness contributed to their deaths, he said.
AVRs are a huge hassle to deal with, and overkill when you only have 2 or 3 devices to switch between and/or don’t have many audio-only devices. AVRs made more sense during the days when we’d have CD players, tape decks, VCRs and DVD player, vinyl record players, cable/satellite STBs, and a game console or two all hooked up. Now it’s just an STB (if you aren’t a cord-cutter), a Roku/AppleTV/Chromecast/FireTV, and maybe a Blu-ray player (or BD-capable games console, which also doubles as a Roku/AppleTV/etc).
PCR is very unlikely to give a false positive if you never had the virus. The viral RNA simply isn't present to be detected. A false positive from PCR most likely came from contamination of the test materials.

PCR is quite likely to give a false positive if you previously had the virus but have recovered, including asymptomatic cases. There are still pieces of viral RNA that can be detected by PCR, even if they're inactivated by having destroyed the viral coating and you're no longer contagious.

So PCR is pretty accurate at saying if you ever had the virus, but not so accurate at saying if you currently have it at contagious levels.
Yes, except more like 'in addition to' than instead... unbelievable... #lockin
The US never went into an actual lockdown in most places.

"Lockdown" is New York where R0 is 0.75. "Lockdown" is not California or Texas where R0 basically sits at 1.0.

R0 of 0.75 after the last 3 months would basically mean Covid cases in the single digits basically everywhere in the US. But, no, we can't actually get people's attention before we start piling body bags in the streets.

The people in the US who are "Open all the things!" are also the "I'll be damned if I'm wearing a mask." Ummm.

You can argue about the finer points all you want, but when you can't get people to do the basics, you're sunk.
We tried strapi late last year but found some big deficiencies that made the editing experience subpar. Simple things like being able to order a list of foreign keys, you cannot do and makes it hard for using this for content management - not sure if this has been fixed yet. The editor was very buggy too.

Ended up just using wagtail.
Tinker with the timeframe, it will be the same cluster in West-Central China, and Beijing over autumn to winter. Same what Baidu, and Tencent data allegedly showed.
If people quit their jobs to go on an incredibly uncertain treasure hunt - that is on them.

We cannot legislate to the lowest common denominator of society.
The first iteration (I actually wasn't around for that) was trying to run a cron for every "data ingestion job" -- at some points, we were doing about 50k+ API requests daily (FB/Instagram/Twitter/etc.) and that was absolutely not tenable using k8s cronjobs.
<fantasy> Or just keep hitting company officers with a tire iron until they fix it. </fantasy>
Specifically, Microsoft told PC builders (to which MS was a supplier) that they would not sell Windows to them if they intended to pre-install Netscape as well.

Microsoft tried to use their monopoly as the supplier of one piece of software (the OS) to distort the market for another piece of software (the browser).

Netscape did not give Navigator away to PC builders for free originally; selling volume licenses was their business model, and Microsoft illegally destroyed it. Hence the prosecution.