skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I remember that's the case with PCR, but not with the AB tests. They rather show a high number of false positives...
I have a similar anecdote, but tested negative for nCoV antibodies. I figure my human brain is just prone to availability bias. There were and still are lot of viruses out there, and many share similar symptoms.
The arguments I advance aren't just wrong, they're "naive". (There is a useful non-combative useage of the word "naive" regarding ideas, but that's not how you're using it here.) When I disagree with people, I am "dismissing" and "denigrating" them.
Well put.

Though I think it should bear an asterisk: the stakes are higher for some people. Based on my experience, I think movies about musicians are often pretty stilted, but that kind of thing can be brushed off a little easier for me than misrepresenting a person's innate identity can be for them (as in the parent comment's position). And then—enter the always waiting host of philosophical questions.

edit: Felt like adding a little to my comment. I've always figured art was as much an exploration as an expression. I'm not sure anyone should be judged for a single work in that case—but there are abundant nuances to that kind of statement so don't hold it against me.s
Can you really call living with your family isolation? There are people out there who live with no one, aren't near family, and can't see friends because of the lockdowns.
Ok, first, the answer is really no, but there have been two main attempts, in Darkfall and Mortal Online. I jumped on the Mortal Online bandwagon in beta and stuck with it for a long time, being part of one of the best guilds in game.

The bad: Unfortunately, while it had a ton of potential, there were lots of issues and eventually it just stopped being as fun. For me dealing with a red was easy, but for new players the learning curve was so steep what ended up happening was roving gangs of reds and gank guilds griefing new players into literally quitting forever. A world that was too open, so didn't feel living, despite the player impact and control. Much later players could build walls on game vital paths and completely block off areas of the world. Basically the freedom of working towards a UO system has a lot of potential weaknesses and the devs at StarVault learned all this the hard way.

The good: some amazing emergent gameplay I have yet to experience anywhere else. A crafting system that should be an inspiration to every game that has crafting. Hidden things, with not everything in a database you can just look up, guilds and people that horded info, and political intrigue and subterfuge. Really fun combat for it's time if you had a good connection. Full loot pvp. A large world that was very fun exploring (there is no in game map, I was one of the people who literally participated in a guild mapping of the continent that is still used at https://www.mortalonlinemap.info/ A large single persistent instance (no sharding).

The devs, recognizing many of the issues stemmed from complications of using UE3, are now working on Mortal Online II in the UE4 engine. I hope it goes well for them but haven't tried it yet. https://www.mortalonline2.com/
No it isn't just a simple list of the top search results. It should be filtered by results that are considered "News". It's like simply that there isn't much real "news" on Python Data Science that's been published in the past 24 hours, so it feels the gap with whatever can be found.
you can also try windows sandbox on windows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...
Fancytree: JavaScript tree view / tree grid plugin
So my understanding is that there is are practical differences between a partition and a shard. They both are ways to stored separately, based on the partition key. But a partitioned table has one table, while a shard uses multiple tables which share the same schema.

For example, with a partitioned database, you might have a single `transaction` table, partitioned by date, but with a shard database, you'd have multiple `transaction_${date}` tables which needed to be queried from, but they'd share a common schema.
Not meant to be sarcastic, just failingly self-deprecating. Thank you for the direction
Are these exported? I know people that need all the superstition they can get for their equipment!
I'm under the impression that not much confidence can be placed in the results of a single AB test.
What remains to be seen: is it due to the ongoing coronavirus or the protests, or varying degrees of both? Real estate analysis tends to lag somewhat, and protests are fairly recent, so the current data could be reflective of the sentiment of March/April, a time which felt like peak uncertainty surrounding coronavirus.
Are statins enough? When to consider PCSK9 inhibitors
Cravings are satisfied a thousand different ways these days. Social interaction has a lot of competition.
Make Your Code Great, Python Style
I’m not sure which is it more about, the drivers getting so good, or GNOME being so bad it needs a decent graphics stack with 3d acceleration just to draw some application windows.
I admit that I also fell for some of the police union marketing material and automatically assumed that being a police officer in the US must be one of the most dangerous and deadly professions, however, the numbers from BLS don't back that up. It isn't even in the top 10: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/27/the-10-most-dangerous-jobs-i...

So, I believe as a public we have been misinformed on how deadly it is to actually be a police officer in the US, and this is somehow used to justify extra-judicial killings of potentially innocent civilians. You certainly don't see loggers and roofers unions talking about how they are the "thin brown line" protecting society from the dangers of uncut trees and leaky roofs.
Take a look at kafka ;-)
Just put the file path as the key and the content as the message value.

You get TTL/size garbage collection for free: no need to get/develop a sophisticated client/server.
Yup ignore it. Front-end dev is super complex these days! I started when it was just HTML/CSS. JavaScript dev these days is much more complex than some 'real' programming languages!
I use emacs flycheck and the compiler is invoked in the way that doesn't generate object code. It just stops after type checking.
Didn't the study of the simulation model find facts about the simulation model?
That's some pretty serious doublespeak. A huge portion of the problem of counterfeits is a result of Amazon's decision to comingle inventory.
That happened to me in South America in 2009. These individual data points are not meaningful.

Maybe it was covid... but it just doesn't tell us anything since there's obviously a reporting bias here.
When a product suddenly sells a lot (a fidget spinner for example) Amazon starts selling it too. If you cannot buy a better ad placement than Amazon's competing product you will sell less. The sellers that wasn't selling a lot of products already will be dead. If that isn't driving out the competition I don't know what it is.

>unfairly privileging its own brands

will lead to

> drive others out of business
No. That said, IIRC, there was some paper claiming that there was some binding (the spikes?) that appeared to be more specific to human than to any of the animals suspected of passing to us. That's at least rather surprising, if you imagine this to be an entirely natural event. And it might support the idea that there was a lab step (accident?) somewhere along the way.
Oh, my mistake, I misunderstood. Thanks for clearing that up!
I've occasionally bit my tongue really hard in not calling someone an idiot outright.

Semi-recent example (shared previously w/ dang):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22133112

The person I'd replied to ... thanked me.

Your reply reads better without the attacks.
> Why is the modern software industry in such a constant state of flux?

I see huge software frameworks sort of like political parties. The community around each of them promotes the benefits of using their framework over someone else’s, and we “vote” by hitching our products to these tools.

If you didn’t choose wisely, or the framework didn’t develop in a way that benefited you or your org, you’re probably keeping an eye out for what’s next.

The other component to all of this is figuring out how to stay relevant in the industry, and I see more and more frameworks making design decisions around this fact.

Take Gatsby, for example. I still can’t figure out why they use graphql to populate templates other than developers wanting graphql experience, ergo let’s use gatsby. The whole point of graphql was to minimize data transfer from server to client, but somebody thought this was somehow more beneficial to generating a static page than a vanilla JS object.

> Every time Slack redesigns its interface, users need to relearn where all the buttons are. Nothing can possibly justify rolling out ten million redesigns;

I think this partly falls on engineering orgs with development teams that need to justify their existence by constantly rolling out these kinds of changes. Because of Slack decides to freeze the UI, how many front end devs are going to need to be reallocated?

This rant was somewhat aimless, but I think ultimately that many of your rightful criticisms are the product of the politics of engineering companies and communities.
There are more than one major flu strands in the wild now and depending on which we got first will tell us how we react to the other. Or, so I'm told.

Here's a video on the flu from 1918 that killed many. It's a few years old and talks about our responses to virus and how they trace them. It's enlightening.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Klc3DPdtk

In any case, it could have been a bad flu infection. An antibody test would really help. I know several people who had a bad flu that was detected as influenza.
Here is the thing, I've been reading more and more about the spread of COVID-19 started in Wuhan due to the military games in October 2019:

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/coronavirus...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8327047/More-compet...

If the illness there was COVID-19, with delegates from over 100 countries at the military games, the origin of the virus then is still very much unknown! China being the first country to detect the virus and report on it, while being demonised, makes a really bad precedence for countries to not be the first country to report on a new outbreak in the future.
As interesting as this is, but my understanding was that the genetic evolution / development of the virus can be used to determine when it started spreading. Or jumped from animal to human.

Or did I understand that wrong? Not saying this study is wrong (no way for me to tell), it just seems a very indirect, and thus error prone, way to look at it.
The point remains, though, that I avoided an unnecessary dependency. I copied that function once and never needed to mess with it again, because it was 15 lines and I could verify personally that it did what it needed to do.

For contrast, we wanted to be able to incorporate new versions of React, because it isn't a simple enough thing that it can be written once and be done. It evolved, and offered real improvements in terms of performance and useful features.

As in all things, there are costs and benefits to making something an external dependency or not. The key is to realize that there are indeed tradeoffs, and that outsourcing every single thing you can isn't necessarily ideal.
The value in those private label items is sometimes the aesthetic is more appealing. One example: the pattern on a textile such as a curtain or blanket, or the colors/patterns on casing for an electronics item.

There are considerations people have that are above and beyond the purely utilitarian.
Payment processor for a global marketplace (Stripe Connect alternative)?
Does anyone know of a payment solution for implementing a global marketplace (Etsy, Amazon, etc) that supports sellers in multiple countries where a buyer can fill up a shopping cart and pay for the products... platform takes a fee?

I love Stripe and wanted to implement this using Stripe Connect. However it isn't possible since the seller and platform have to be in the same country.

I've looked into Adyen but I'm working on my own startup and not doing volume to where I can use them.

Looked into Bluesnap but they have weird fees including dormant account fees where sellers get charged $50/month after a few months of no sales and other strange fees.

Looked into Paypal for marketplaces. Looks like it's almost impossible to get a response from them unless you've alread scaled and are doing big numbers. Even then I'm not sure how responsive they are based on the comments I've seen.

Looked into tons of others. Most were region specific.

Has anyone found a solution for building this type of marketplace? Even a hybrid solution (accept payments via stripe, payout sellers another way)?
I think the strongest case I could make is that the advantage of stores like Amazon (and Target) is customer acquisition. They're where customers go to discover products and comparison shop. The limited resource they control is the supply of customers who are there to buy a specific type of good. And buy favoring certain products they can choose the winners/losers in this game and edge their own products in.
I shopped on Lemonade and found a low grade insurance offer. Why is this on hacker news?
Say we believe that the number of people that will be killed be coronavirus is 10^x where x is a gaussian random variable with mean 5 and standard deviation 1. What is the expected number of people killed? In the case we believe to be most common, the expected number of people to be killed is 100,000. However, the the mean value of this distribution is 1.4 million, https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=X%7EGaussian%285%2C1%2...

This is a the very strongest mathematical case for pessimism that I can give. Any argument that "we should have been less cautious" is automatically bullshit.
I took it as more about ability for remote work.
That is likely worth doing, but it does come with costs.

Amazon has great distribution and a good checkout flow (even ignoring that I already have an account there).

Many smaller shows will take easily twice as long to get what I want and/or the checkout flow is obnoxious. One I did recently took 2-3 extra days because my shipping address doesn't match my billing address and they somehow had to email me to get the phone number to call my credit card company. Pretty extreme example, but still, there's some funky ecommerce out there once you venture away from the big few.

Totally not to say you shouldn't do it, but there are legitimate reasons to want to fix Amazon instead.
It's also possible the antibody test is inaccurate. TWIV (This Week in Virology) reported a big double-digit false negative rate.
Firefox has also allowed text input boxes to be resized for quite a while now.

HN might be one of the few web sites still around that uses a simple HTML <form> for input, so people might not be familiar with this basic browser feature anymore.
Article based on:

Unexpected Propagation of Ultra-Lean Hydrogen Flames in Narrow Gaps
- Physical Review Letters

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
I wanted a shredder. Wirecutter recommended the AmazonBasics one. I bought it. It’s great. Wanted another one. No longer made! Bummer.

Need some light bulbs. AmazonBasics ones look good. Oh, doesn’t ship to California.
In this vein, Device Orchestra's performance of Finlandia is masterful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOgd2B__X0k
What’s the sensitivity of the test you took?
This probably under counts the true number of infection significantly.

If the sensitivity/specificity of the test was similar to the paper below, true prevalence for the ship probably approaches 100%.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.092619v2
R0 on a ship will always be higher than in pretty much any other situation. Most ships are packed to the gills, and in a gigantic ship like a carrier it will be even worse, since most of the crew will be in poorly ventilated areas rather than on deck.
Economic problems come with a cost on human life. There are numerous studies and paper that show how bad being poor and unhappy are for a person's health. Why WOULDN'T we consider the economic ramifications?
That's what it was like for VB developers in olden times.
I think it's a fair point. You are both correct.
*TMRCA (Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor)
One that is very susceptible to bribery and threats. If you threaten a judge in the US, you're in for a world of hurt.
My Brother was in China in November and got pretty sick with back to back to back colds/flu like bugs, I also was very sick for late Nov. - late December, didn't have a fever but had a hard time breathing than normal for a cold/flu, I asked my Doctor and a friend at Stanford and both of them said the antibody tests they have are not accurate. I really want piece of mind if I had covid-19 but am still waiting for a decent antibody test.
I'm new here, but my limited experience so far has been good. I've only submitted a handful of things, of which I initially thought "this deserves much more up votes," but in retrospect I came about and acknowledged my bias because I'm the author or it fits my worldview. I don't think all my posts merit their current karma, but most do.

Also, somehow I find myself being disincentivized to post unhelpful comments.
As a matter of fact, every time I share an article I found on Hacker News I recommend people reading the comments. This site definitely has the highest helpful to unhelpful comment ratio.
Since they looked primarily at the month of October - I'd just say October.
> Well, that's true of the left as well. A "bottom-up government economic intervention" fits nicely with existing left wing ideas.

That's true, but the different political ideologies are better at handling different kinds of problems. Public health emergencies like this one are the kind of thing that benefits from a properly-resourced, centrally coordinated response; a solution that happens to lean left.
Evolutionary you can see a case for having society members of both keeping culture and changing culture at the same time.

Roughly Conservatives don't like change (lockdown) Liberals like change (lockdown)
The non-essential guidance has little bearing on whether or not someone should engage in non-essential visits, as policymakers do not schedule the virus.
nit: Fix your team’s code review participation issues
What is race for the purpose of American job applications?
> Amazon's brand (as a store / marketplace) is that it helps you sort through many options to select the product they believe you will like the best

This is an extremely important part of the service that every store provides. The only difference with Amazon is that they offer a wider selection of everything. In brick and mortar stores, only one or a few products of each type are stocked and the rest are simply not offered. You don't think about the store providing the service of sorting the products that they decided not to offer, but they do.
Has anyone created a free and open source Amazon marketplace?

It seems like something the world desperately needs.
"The left" doesn't say "lockdown lockdown lockdown".

As a card-carrying (ANTIFA, laminated) member of the left, I consider countries like Austria, South Korea, or maybe Germany the gold standard: lockdown, yes, but continually adjusted, exchanging the most draconian measures with lesser ones when more knowledge allows more targeting, or when infection numbers sink.

All those countries have now effectively exited lockdowns, at levels of single-digit daily deaths. This allows further lockdown-free reduction by amassing resources for contact tracing every single infection.

Meanwhile, the US, UK, Brasil, and other countries are seeing thousands of deaths daily because they stopped maybe two or three weeks too early, and/or did it half-heatedly and/or failed to use that time to stand up alternatives to lockdown.

This has won them absolutely nothing, economically, as far as I can tell: Germany is at +3% unemployment (6.6% total) while the US is on >15%. And except hoping for the weather to make a difference, they will either continue to see people dying and incurring the cost of people self-quarantine. Or they'll change course, do another round of sustained lockdowns after all, and use that time to think of an excuse for wasting three months and 100,000 lives on a thought process that took competently managed countries the better part of the last in-person meeting they had this year.
im having hard time trying to imagine an election mechanism for a site where users are mostly anonymous

and resent events in /r/worldpolitics is just a good example of the current model not working
Do they co-mingle their own products? Seems unlikely a 3P could FBA some Amazon Basics products.
:) that wld entertain me, having witnessed a couple ant-termite wars in the garden.
I think the concept of cultural appropriation is a good one but it needs to be limited and not just slapped on all cross-pollination of ideas. Things that seem like cultural appropriation to me: Using a culture's content to make fun of or denigrate that culture, using a culture to make money in a way that reduces the money they make from it (e.g. factory-made "dream catchers" driving the market price of them down and eliminating a Native American handicrafts business), or using a culture in a way that makes that culture seem worse (e.g. the expectation that eating Mexican food will give you gastrointestinal problems, which is caused by Americans making poor quality Mexican food with bad ingredients, which makes people skeptical of all Mexican food including that which is healthy and properly made).
in a world where losing a job can be just as disastrous to one's health as disease, you really don't think their opinions are valid whatsoever? not everyone has large savings or the ability to work from home.
Potentially Ireland. That seems to match the licensing scheme here.
That kind of supports the parent comment. RoR is not even that old and, "the development landscape has shifted a lot since then."
A take it or leave it anecdote for you: I was chatting with an actuary working in life insurance field who is heavily involved in the pandemic industry groups. The actuary told me the antibody test is considered unreliable and has as high as 50% false negative rate.
Conda does (in theory) handle python module dependencies well. In practice, like pip, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.

Note that you can use 'pip' within a 'conda' environment as well, so you can sort of have it both ways.
> you might imagine a supermarket which stocks all brands, but the first item in every row is the store-brand equivalent of that product which you must remove to get to the branded one.

I think this is going a bit too far. "removing to get to the branded one" would be appropriate if you had to go to 2nd page of search results to see branded products, but most results on Amazon show competing products above the fold.

A better comparison would be reserving the best shelf space for Amazon Basics.
OCaml is a lot less pure in spirit as well. Not only can you read and write to the outside world without having to jump through hoops, you can also write all your code with pointers, for loops and (mutable) arrays if you so desire.
Absolutely nothing in either of those articles indicates the virus originated anywhere but China.

That it was circulating in Wuhan in October widely enough for contagion at military games suggests strongly that it's origin is in fact China.
Thanks, that's really interesting, and about baking the bicarbonate too.
That is so strange. Why wouldn't they ship light bulbs to California?
The Spanish flu is called the Spanish flu because all the other countries refused to report on it, so all the news of this new disease came from Spain, hence the name.

Sounds like a similar thing might have happened here.