skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is another report that suggested mobile data indicated the Wuhan lab “was closed from Oct. 7 through Oct. 24, 2019, and that there may have been a "hazardous event" sometime between Oct. 6 and Oct. 11.” [0]

As far as I know, no federal agency has been willing to vouch for this conclusion.

I recognize there is skepticism about it coming from the lab, though I thought this is related enough due to how the indicating data was collected to share.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/report-sa...
HN Said my post was too long, so I made a challenge:

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( clueless recruiter filter ;-) )
The only answer I can come up with for this is a larger team of specialists in the relevant areas combined with a small number of generalists to coordinate between the experts and synthesize the findings.
Twitter to launch revamped verification system w publicly documented guidelines
Original title was too long. It was:

Twitter to launch a revamped verification system with publicly documented guidelines
This is a conspiracy theory that was propagated by PRC state media which the CCP ultimately ended up back-tracking on due to the absence of basis in facts and research.
This isn't really about the article, but why does it take 6 seconds to load the page.
One thing that is regrettable about K8s winning the orchestration wars so remarkably, is that it pretty much killed all other solutions. Swarm is dead, Nomad doesn't seem like it has much community support and Mesos feels like it's on life support. Mesos still has a lot of people working on it however, but the perception feels different.

Personally I've found Mesos much easier to manage, secure, and operate than k8s. However, when it first came out all the cool kids were using it, then most of them jumped ship to k8s. AirBnB's Chronos is now pretty much a dead project, Mesosphere's Marathon is now gimped (no UI) and major features moved into DCOS. At the same time, Mesosphere (now D2iQ?), now seems like it's more focused on k8s.

k8s is everything plus the kitchen sink, and managed k8s isn't the killer feature I thought it would be. I don't blame people for not jumping on the k8s bandwagon at all.
I think when you're initially teaching how to write characters, yeah there's a stroke order, but people mostly just care about the writing being clear/legible/neat, not specific strokes being in order.
Cool clip thx. Very interesting and hadn't heard of it. Could be a feature tho to get rid of the dumbest ants.
IBM still maintains the platform: I’m sure there’s still system updates and the like, IBM just has done a better job maintaining backwards compatibility than “modern” stacks: e.g. the AS/400 has gone through a couple different CPU architectures without requiring that programs be recompiled because it was designed to decouple the code output by a compiler from the machine code of the underlying platform.
Move Beyond Functional Programming to Categories
It was cool when I was looking at the product page for a battery and there was a recommendation for an incompatible AmazonBasics-brand battery.
As a side note, if you want to watch 4K video, keep in mind that as of right now, _the_ main draw of 4K is HDR (most 4K video out there is upscaled), and most cheaper 4K screens (both TVs and monitors) don't support HDR. Or if they claim they do, they only "support" HDR in that the monitor does tonemapping in hardware but can't render HDR colors.

The technology is still new enough that getting the cheapest 4K screen you can find is still a really bad deal.
Build yourself a private self-hosted full stack personal cloud system
Another perspective: It's nice that there are many nicer languages that target JS, besides the fairly new TypeScript there's ClojureScript, ReasonML, Elm, CoffeeScript, Dart, Haxe etc etc.
> "Isn't that addressed with the proposed exit tax that is part of the measure?"

Nope, they can move out before the law takes effect and retroactive ("ex post facto") laws are not legally valid.
Yes. But it takes decades for it to do so, and in the initial stages it can appear to be quite effective. And as any communist will tell you, "it's not really communism" if it collapses on itself, killing tens of millions of people in the process.
Large corporations use their market power to gain competitive advantages - fully understandable from Amazon's point of view. However, it is completely incomprehensible why the authorities do not intervene in the market in a regulating way in these cases more often.
The Space Force May Lose Its Trademark to the Fake One
Apple, Google have trained their virtual assistants to rebut 'All lives matter'
Original title was too long. It was:

Apple and Google have trained their virtual assistants to rebut 'All lives matter'
But, but, but, if you don't write in C and manage your memory you are not a real programmer! Says slashdot/HN...
I’m waiting on these antibody tests as well. My symptoms weren’t as bad as yours but I too had an illness around that time, and so did a fair number of people around me, I remember joking with my drinking buddy that I probably got whatever it was from her. I’m still mostly convinced that whatever it was, it wasn’t COVID-19, but I can’t ignore the sheer number of stories that I keep hearing from people about a strange illness in that time frame. Some medical professionals who I’ve heard on various podcasts addressed these anecdotes and say it probably wasn’t COVID-19, and let’s be fair, it most likely wasn’t.

I would still like a way to prove or disprove it though, and same as you, anyone I’ve talked to about it says the antibody tests just aren’t good enough yet to prove anything conclusively.

Even the data we do have available sucks. There’s a bunch of States and counties which still aren’t reporting or aren’t reliably reporting recoveries which is artificially inflating the active case count in the United States.
The antitrust case was about Microsoft giving away a free browser. Every operating system comes with a free browser. My phone comes with a free browser. My kindle comes with a free browser.
I was positive for COVID and have no antibodies. Don’t assume you didn’t have it if you don’t have antibodies.
Analytics driven content marketing startup (feedback please)
Hey there, we're just about to launch a tech/services content marketing startup and would love to hear your thoughts on our messaging, pricing, and service offering. All feedback welcome. Thanks in advance.
Facebook’s Muddled Makeover
> That's why I said they "are not arranging those products in relation to a particular request."

But they are, which is what you're missing. Again, these stores spend millions and millions of dollars collecting these requests and arranging their store in response. They collect feedback and rearrange the shelves nearly every day based on requests (which can be actual verbal/written requests on their website or to store workers, or derived from things like sales numbers).

You can think of it in this way: each time someone goes to the "Chips" aisle, that is a implicit "request" from the customer that they want to buy chips, and the store has arranged their aisle in such a way that influences which chips you buy, just as Amazon arranges their search results page.
It depends on what you mean by "better". WoW certainly eclipsed UO in popularity/playerbase. Eve has a more sophisticated metagame. UO is definitely the best Ultima Online game ever created.
>> At best an economist could advise you on how to keep the economy afloat under the restrictions the epidemiologists has advised.

> Why WOULDN'T we consider the economic ramifications?

He's not saying that. He's talking about who should be giving the marching orders. Let me put it another way: in a war, the generals decide what equipment the military needs and the economists figure out how to produce it. You don't have the economists saying: the economy is good at making buses, it makes sense to us to weld extra armor to them rather than to design a tank from scratch, so go fight the war in armored buses.
Paywall: http://archive.is/0Ltlj
Structs are a natural way to organize data, but that doesn't necessarily make it "OO". In Lua, a module is typically a table (associative array really) of functions. All of the standard modules that come with Lua are just collections of functions that don't have a concept of "this" (like math or os).

Now, an object in Lua can have functions that assume a "this" parameter (Lua calls it "self") and thus, it can be viewed as an object qua OO, for example, an open file:

file = io.open("foo.txt","r")
file:setvbuf('no') -- no buffering
file:seek('set',10) -- seek to byte 10 in file
data = file:read(8) -- read 8 bytes
file:close() -- close file

but Lua lacks typical OO features like inheritance, a "class" function or method, which are what the OO modules in Lua always add. It's this mentality, that OO is missing if you don't have inheritance.
I think the fear of a terror virus was so great that a virus that didn't have such a bad quality was mentally turned into a virus that has this bad quality.
Because: medium.com ...
If you want to be clear, use the name of a month or a quarter number.

Seasons are opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, and it is always confusing to read American or European information that references a season (I am in New Zealand).

Please Don’t marginalise those of us that are down under (we are already marginalised by physics causing long ping times to servers in the Northern Hemisphere, which is harder to change).
The US will not resume its position as a functioning democracy until both sides reconcile their differences. But when those differences are on the opposite sides of the political spectrum, perhaps we should be considering other options.

At this point, with COVID and the riots, its a matter of life and death.
I am surprised that they are doing it. They are going to attract the attention regulatory bodies in North America and Europe - especially once competitors or users of their platform start complaining.
Theoretically Amazon has infinite shelf space, but in reality, no one really scrolls past the first few pages.

So in reality, if your product is on page 5, it is perhaps as good as not being on Amazon anyway for that particular query.

If you look at it this way, the space constraint isn't much different than brick and mortar.
I did not know dailymail is PRC state media, thanks for this new piece of information!
This is a recent list of promotion opportunities: https://postyourstartup.com

Good luck!
you can do any kind of lockdown without having any ramifications on people's health. In vietnam the government went around and distributed high quality food to everyone so they didn't have to go get groceries. There are a ton of things you can do to have people not be miserable during a pandemic lockdown, you just probably have to not obsessively stick to the capitalist free market economy where everyone is on their own.
Unexpected, but certainly welcome.
What Is There to Love About Longfellow?
Cointroversies to Look into over the Summer
Ask HN: A spam bot triggered by public donations?
How illegal or risky is this and why?
My understanding is that the flu shot for 2019-2020 wasn't as effective as in other years (which even then is only 40-60%).
I think there's some truth to this, but the same is true in, say, the Java world where you're almost not even writing things in Java-the-language, you're writing things in Spring. That said, it's probably more true in the JS world because it is so feasible to teach someone to make something in a JS framework before they know the fundamentals. Which is, honestly, an enormous compliment to the language, not an indictment! But it does come with some interesting side-effects.

I do feel the need to make one small correction (the OP actually made the same mistake): Node.js is not a framework, it is a runtime. If you want to run JavaScript the way you run Python, you use Node (or, very recently, an alternative called Deno). You also don't have to do anything special with your code to run it in Node, like you would with a framework, unless you want to use its system APIs which of course do not exist in the browser. But even those are really more like libraries.

But yes, your overall point is valid
As far as I know a false positive in PCR is not very likely, but of course it is possible.
Justice in Policing Act of 2020
I think it's pretty clear the best use of a lock down is to allow time to develop and improve the infrastructure and protocols to do this properly.

But if you lack the competence or political/social will to do this properly, all you really have in the face of rising (or rising again) case numbers rolling lock downs and wait in hope of a vaccine. Or failing to manage it spectacularly, that also seems to be an option.
maybe the economist can advise on how we do not have a world where losing a job has any kind of health effects? Its really that simple. Its the concept of "people over profits".
This was a long time coming. A quick look at the historical DNS records for IEEE.org shows there have been strange things going on for some time.

Recently, OpenSSL unveiled a new "notification" policy that gave massive preference to Huawei and Smartisans [1]. They are OpenSSL's largest donors. The process by how this was done was kind of laughably deceptive, which of course aroused further suspicion.

Many things have yet to be revealed likely. I hope more individuals come forward.

[1] - https://blog.12security.com/openssl-expands-partnership-with...
I remember Plato. In our lab, it was used mostly to play John Daleske's Empire, a space game. It was graphical and the coolest thing around!

Then years later, working on 802.11 radio drivers, I ran into John at a job. One of my youthful heroes! And a regular guy, plugging away writing software for industry.

Anyway, most folks who saw Plato were affected by it. Lightyears ahead of other text-terminal computers of the time.
Thanks. I was looking for their combined ratio. I suppose it’s not surprising that overhead is high for a fast-growing company. As with many startups, GAAP only reveals part of the story and more fine-grained metrics are needed to gauge potential future profitability.

For those unfamiliar with the combined ratio, taking a stab at an explanation by simplified analogy…

For most normal companies:

Revenue
− Cost of goods
———————————————————
Gross income
− Operating costs
———————————————————
Operating income
− Interest expense
———————————————————
Net income

For insurance companies:

Premiums
− Losses
———————————————————
“Gross income”
− “Operating costs”
———————————————————
“Operating income”
+ Investment income
———————————————————
Net income

Most normal companies use profitability metrics:

Gross margin = Gross income / Revenue
Operating margin = Operating income / Revenue

Insurance companies use inverted expense ratios:

Loss ratio = Losses / Premiums
Combined ratio = (Losses + “Operating costs”) / Premiums

(The above is obviously simplified, for the sake of illustrating by analogy. For instance, insurance companies usually won’t have “Gross income” in their financial statements, and “Operating costs” and “Operating income” are typically called “Underwriting expense” and “Underwriting gain”.)
It's probably because they don't meet some California environmental regulation (like energy efficiency or toxic chemicals) or aren't certified to meet those regulations. California tends to have the strictest environmental regulations.

Some models of cars are unable to be sold here for the same reason, although most are designed to conform to California regulations due to the manufacturers not wanting to miss out on the California market.
I thought you were exaggerating. You weren't.
>1. There's limited space at the front of a brick and mortar store. It's not practical to put most of the items at the front, so anyone who's not just there for a bag of chips ends up looking through the aisles anyways.

There's limited space on the frontpage of Amazon.com, too. If I go to Amazon looking for chips, I won't see it on the front page so I'm going to end up going to the Chips section of the site. If you're just at the store for a bag of chips, you go the chips aisle, which is also meticulously planned to specifically influence which brand of chips you will buy. I fail to see how this is any different than going to the Chips section of Amazon and seeing a specially arranged selection of chips.

>2. Brick-and-mortar stores usually only sell a few forms of same product. If I want olive oil, there's some store brand, some italian-looking brand, and maybe a brand that advertises some sort of magical health benefits. There might be a few variations for the level of refinement/virginity. It's easy for me to look at all the options and compare them. When I look at a search page on Amazon, there's often 100's of hits, and it's often pretty unclear if there's any difference between them that I'd care about (see https://www.amazon.com/s?k=olive+oil).

I don't really see what this has to do with the topic at hand. Can you clarify your point?
I have the same issue. My wife is going absolutely stir-crazy and dreaming of all the adventures, while I'm absolutely happy to be productive at home with relatively few distractions.
>I don’t see what’s wrong with this.

I'm with you from an ideological perspective, but from a practical perspective living in the current world the way it is, they will get in trouble from either the American or European[1] regulatory bodies. And I'm surprised they don't get it. It's only a matter of time. It will take only one of their platform users or competitors to get fed-up and make a big stink (and there's already griping), that will start a chain reaction where they will have to do something to firewall their divisions, or they will be broken-up while paying multi-billion dollar fines and taking a huge PR hit.

I'm not a genius, but it doesn't take a genius to see that this WILL happen. And they are so stupid for doing what they are doing just to sell some Amazon-branded toilet-paper. They should have just stayed an open platform and not competed with their users. They screwed this up and it's too late to do anything about it now.

>Many retailers reserve some of their best shelves paces for their private label products,

Sure. And Apple can get away with heavily restricting the type of apps that can be distributed on iOS (so much so that you can't even ship your own HTML rendering engine!!!), but if Microsoft tries something like that with Windows, they would get in tons of trouble. Do you think Amazon in this example is more like Apple or more like Microsoft?

[1] Nothing makes European regulators as happy as going after American tech companies.
It is possible to overcome the virus without antibodies. I forgot the name for the process, but I'll try to track it down.
That ID design has worked well enough for email for multiple decades. Most of the ways of dealing with Fediverse moves are similar to email ("please update your contact book") though the Fediverse has some smarter tools for automatically updating "address books" than email has.

Here too the "centralization" problem mirrors email in that there have often been large email hosts that have the majority of users, but a long, long tail of smaller hosts.
Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users
> We _now_ know that children are at a very low risk, people under 40 are very low risk.

… at very low risk of death, but there seems to be increasing evidence that some COVID-19 survivors, including children, suffer serious, and possibly permanent health effects.
Amazon started out being the retailer, and moved into the space of being a platform. I remember way back when they only sold products from themselves. coincidentally the more amazon moved to being a platform for 3rd party sellers, the less I used them l.

I rarely use amazon for anything today because the volume of garbage easily outweighs the good products, mad it's like rolling craps dice if you get a good seller. I opt to purchase directly from the manufacturer or a known retailer that know owns the product they are selling now, if I use amazon, it is exclusively for amazon brand products only.

if this type of behavior pushes 3rd party sellers off the platform and returns amazon to their glory days of being the actual retailer, I think it's a good move
Dynamicdrive.com is from 1998, and it's still online! I learned a lot from that site.
Dozens if you aren’t using localhost to test that it works.
The rubber has to meet the road. Users have to interface with the software.

"Backend" software tends to be very long lived because it's not client facing. Clients don't care that the software was written in Java2 and uses some weird-ass collection of korn shell scripts to keep things moving. These scripts usually just need to eat data from one location, and poop it into another. And because these systems are old, they are well tested and battle hardened.

But that backend is no good without some form of user interface. This is almost always the place where things break down. There are many more people involved in the decision making for UX, and we have more and more devices with different use-cases. Most tech-ish companies can't afford to ignore completely new computing paradigms for decades.
Currently around ~5% of the US has contracted COVID. 60-70% of the population needs to become infected in order to gain herd immunity. Meaning we're about 7% of the way to herd immunity. We still have a long way to go.
Specifically, I was asking if you had informed opinions on the virus that are now significantly different than the informed opinions you hold now?
I have always imagined higher level academia would be rife with inner circle politics (corruption).