skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Which $1 test currently in production would this be?"

The technology to make these tests currently exists, but the companies which own the technology have chosen not to put them in to production because the tests aren't sensitive enough to gain FDA approval under current regulations.

If the regulations were relaxed to allow these less sensitive (but perfectly adequate) tests, then they could be put in to production.

So what's necessary for us to get $1 tests is to convince the FDA that these less sensitive tests are adequate for use, which is what the This Week in Virology podcast and the NYT article linked to earlier argue for.

"Furthermore, what factory produces and ships 56 million of anything on a daily basis?"

From the TWiV podcast[1]:

"Take every manufacturing company that knows how to print paper, adapt their tools to print monoclonal antibodies on to those sheets and just start slicing it up and shipping it out. It's as easy as that, I mean, you know, I'm simplifying it a bit, but..."

[1] - from about 32'30" in to the podcast https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-640/
My experience with a couple of the docker pockets is that my phone falls out when I sit or lay down. Most chairs have the knees slightly higher than the bottom and those pockets end up with the opening pointing slightly down and the contents come out.
In the companies I worked for most people speak French, but some only English and it’s okay. Some companies will require you to have at least a basic understanding of French (and my offer you French classes for that).
Goldman Sachs says a coronavirus vaccine could be approved later in 2020
Why did you quote me 'general concesus' and then misspell the word?

I'm not going to respond to the rest of the comment suggesting the Telegraph should be part of my consideration when judging the science.
What configuration error? Was this human or automatic? What was done to mitigate?
USD (Usdz is one of the supported extensions) supports skeletal animation, linear blend skinning and blend shapes in the default UsdSkel implementation. Additionally it’s an extensible format , so you can plug in other implementations as needed

Edit: to explain what I mean by supported extensions in case it comes up. USD is the format/library. It can be represented in three forms. USDA for ASCII, usdc for binary and usdz is a zipped bundle of the other two including any asset dependencies like textures, audio or other referenced usd files
My strong advice is do not ever rely on use-context or any similar abilities to change implicit state.

You should absolutely always be typing out huge, verbose commands like kubectl —context my-context -n my-namespace <some commands> ...

The opportunity for tragic error when you have implicit context or namespace settings applied is just too great.
I think something that could be called corruption is everywhere once you know what to look for. The difference is that normal people in Western Europe and the Nordics don't know what to look for.

Bringing a bottle of expensive vodka to smooth over some bureaucratic procedure is nothing compared to what goes on in the big leagues.

Something to keep in mind, corruption indexes like this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index are actually about the perception of corruption. After all it's the only thing that's easy to measure.
Not that I know of. LinkedIn always seems to be a good entry point, but most of all: your network ;)
There is absolutely no chance that they had 0 covid related deaths anywhere in the country of 95 million. None. Not to say that they didn’t act well and where prepared though.
> AOL was a paid community.

Did the majority of people paying for AOL really pay for it for access to AOL services, rather than thinking of it mostly as an Internet (and email) service provider, that just happened to offer some value-added gated-community-portal services? Were those portal services an actual selling point?

Maybe a better example is paying in phone minutes to dial into a BBS. Sure, that money isn't going to the BBS (unless it's on a 900 number)—but users are still being charged by the minute to be there, so they're constantly doing an ROI calculation and only staying if they're getting real value out of the place.
Alternatives exist in:

Ruby https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/

Python https://github.com/jonathan-s/django-sockpuppet

PHP https://laravel-livewire.com/
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There is some debate as to whether cancel culture is real and what its exact definition is. This article from RealClearPolitics discusses it and includes links to some opposing views as well: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/07/15/cancel...

To me, cancel culture is the notion of introducing political/ideological/personal stances into various spheres where it doesn’t belong (is not directly relevant) and using it to suppress certain views, punish those who harbor those views, exclude certain lines of research/debate from being pursued, and instill fear (of reprisal) in those who might otherwise explore those areas. It is not focused on correctness of views or resolution of conflicting conclusions, but rather blind censorship, suppression, and use of fear.

In this case, the LSA recently introduced a “racial justice” policy and now the signatories of this letter are claiming that inclusion of Pinker is not aligned to this new policy. What does racial justice have to do with the LSA’s core field that isn’t already included as part of the pursuit of truth? Very little. It is the injection of a political and ideological view into a scientific sphere. Adoption of such a policy enables the weaponization of the organization’s structure/laws against Pinker.

The specific incidents (statements made by Pinker) that are called out in the letter are issues that can be debated without such a policy in place. The correctness of some claim (like “there is no racial bias in police shooting”) is worthy of scrutiny independent of this campaign to cancel Pinker. After all, isn’t that the point of research - to develop ideas, gather facts, form arguments, and compare against other findings? Why isn’t that sufficient - shouldn’t the truth set us free? Researchers and professors are both allowed to be wrong and allowed to form opinions that disagree with the prevailing sentiment. Without that there is no environment for honest learning and expansion of societal knowledge. But cancel culture precludes such exploration by taking ideological opinions as fundamental factual presumptions. And there is no room for error in these situations - someone like Pinker can have a lifetime of achievement and correctness and then be judged on a couple tweets by a random selection of engineers, grad students, and assistant professors.

As for Pinker’s specific claims - it is fairly trivial to validate them, or at least agree that there is substantial grounds to hold those opinion. The letter itself makes no serious argument against those statements that they find so problematic. I don’t want to derail this post by analyzing each claim, but my point is that it is about ideology not facts.
> Good. That way other countries can hold on to their most needed doctors.

And those doctors don't get a say in where they want to live?
When I’m not wearing comfy “tech pants” with extra internal pockets (Prana, REI, and so on) I’ve been wearing a lot of blazers. Extra pockets that, blessedly, aren’t in my pants; dresses you up but not so much that people in my hickish ‘burbs are put off, rather than dressing you down like a hoodie. Appropriate in almost all weather, if you’ve got the right kinds of cloth and weight. Love ‘em.
If your ICU is at 80% capacity, with 20% COVID and 60% everything else, that means you can DOUBLE the number of COVID patients there before running out of space, whereas if all of the patients were COVID patients you could only accommodate an increase of 25%.

Yes, hitting 100% is bad no matter what percent of patients are there because of COVID. But what percent of patients are there for COVID informs how large an increase of cases can be managed.
Respectfully, I don't think it added anything to the discussion regardless of whether or not you were serious. Why is a multi-arch binary "totally gross"? The advantages and disadvantages have already been discussed heavily upthread, and they did it in a much more substantive way.
Another score by natural selection
That is related, and the Tyto thing is arguably not shitty in the context of this case, given Leandowski's improper affiliation with Tyto while he was at Google was one of the pieces of the case. It's hard to say they got cheated or something when he basically controlled both companies.

> Specifically, Uber was aware that Mr. Levandowski had facilitated the relationship
between Tyto’s founder and its investor, a holding company managed by Mr. Stojanovski that
invested funds provided by two irrevocable trusts formed for the benefit of Mr. Levandowski’s
children, and would visit Tyto and his friends at that company to talk about technical and
business matters from time to time. Uber was also aware of Pierre Droz’ (a Google employee)
allegations that Mr. Levandowski was involved with Tyto and even deposed him extensively on
that very topic during the Waymo litigation.

Part of Google's claims (rightly, imo, though ianal) was that Levandowski had a stake or outright controlled Tyto while he was at Google and before he had even formed Otto.

Just before your quoted section shows how shady the whole thing was.

>Uber’s claims were false. Uber accepted Mr. Levandowski’s tender of indemnity
only after Google’s commencement of the arbitration proceeding alleging claims relating to Tyto
and only after Mr. Levandowski had been interviewed by Uber extensively about Google’s
allegations relating to Tyto. In addition, Mr. Levandowski’s devices given to Stroz had extensive
information about Tyto on them. And Stroz had specifically identified other materials on Mr.
Levandowski’s devices that he had not disclosed during interviews.

This is basically Uber saying (among other things) "yeah, we didn't know you were connected to Odin Wave/Tyto that Google is making claims about, that's outside the indemnity agreement."

And his response is "Oh no, you totally knew"
We did ours semi-independently, where we wrote the patent and then paid a patent attorney to look it over and file it. This cost about £5000 all the way to and including the PCT stage.
To add to what's in the article: the Swiss have compulsory military service that puts almost all young men (and many young women) of hugely varying backgrounds together and forces them to work together in really hard contexts. This seems to do a lot to bridge divides like urban/rural, socioeconomic status, and language backgrounds.
> but it is clear that the crossover event happened earlier and the virus had been circulating at low levels prior to that.

Source? Definitely some experts think it is not impossible that it was brought to the wet market very early in the outbreak, that's not implausible at all. But the idea that it was circulating globally or widely at all before that is not backed by the evidence.
There's sort of a paucity of tutorials in that space. You're pretty much stuck reading specs and studying source code. Here's the UEFI specification and a link to the "gnu-efi" project, which provide a reasonably clean (if... idiosyncratic) environment for building and running EFI binaries with a free toolchain:

https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_8...

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi/

Broadly: EFI is a simple C environment (albeit one based on windows-style PE binaries and not ELF). The firmware will load and run your application binary and jump to its entry point, passing a giant table of API hooks and callbacks for you to use to interact with its services. You then read and assemble your own OS image using these tools and jump into it.
It's not clear that Levandowski has anything to do with Uber killing Elaine Herzberg. Specifically, the chapter 11 filing in this post says that Levandowski had very little to do with Uber's software. (Which TBH means that he had a very small role there.) And he was fired from Uber almost a year before Herzberg's killing, so we can't hold him accountable for their testing protocols.

Here's a quote from the chapter 11 filing:

In addition, to the extent that any trade secrets were taken and used at Uber, those trade secrets did not come from Mr. Levandowski, but rather a different former Google employee. Indeed, as admitted in Uber’s public statements, Uber’s self-driving software—an area that Mr. Levandowski did not work on at Google or Uber—contained problematic functions that will require it to enter into a license agreement with Waymo for use of Waymo’s intellectual property. Upon information and belief, the Waymo Settlement, entered into after discovery of possible misconduct relating to Uber’s source code, settled issues relating to theft of trade secrets by individuals who are not Mr. Levandowski.
That's not how this works. It's much more sophisticated than that.
Sigh...Even mild satire is dead.

The latter part of the post was tongue-in-cheek. You missed that entirely or felt some officious compulsion to correct my joke.

If the latter, I must inform you that nothing you say is news to me (although there are detail errors that I will not go into here so as to not upset your children, who apparently also read this forum). That you criticize my obviously absurd suggestion to separately carry a firearm and ammo is especially revealing. Why were you were compelled to "correct" what was obvious hyperbole? Perhaps...

- You are a moron? Then likely little can be done. Bless you, child.

- You meddle in the affairs of your neighbors, argue over fence lines, call the police on barking dogs, and file complaints with the HOA when neighbors fly a flag on Memorial Day? If so, you're what is called a "Jackass" (you get a capital "J"!).

Since you later unnecessarily sermonize about brass knuckles, pepper spray, carrying guns, etc. I suspect you fall into the latter category.

The WWW has lots of good suggestions about how to improve yourself, although compulsive behavior is very difficult to change.

The only thing as bad as a left-wing jackass is a right-wing jackass. There seem to be more and more of these each day.

[I can just see the follow-ups now: "Pot....Kettle" &c. Humor is dead.]
BBC Three is aimed at the 16 - 34 year old demographic. The article talks about someone who went all in on alternative therapies and declined mainstream treatment available on the NHS.
Show HN: Chrome extension to channel surf Netflix
For anyone wanting to try this, it is pretty straightforward - first install noise-suppression-for-voice (AUR package available, binaries available via Github releases). You want to have librnnoise_ladspa.so and librnnoise_lv2.so available.

Then identify your current output sink by running `pactl list sinks short`. One will be "RUNNING", and this is your active sink. Keep this name to hand.

Create and enable an output sink using this plugin:

pacmd load-module module-ladspa-sink sink_name=denoise_sink_for_apps.stereo sink_master=YOUR_OUTPUT_SINK_FROM_ABOVE_HERE label=noise_suppressor_stereo plugin=librnnoise_ladspa.so control=0

The value of sink_master should be the output sink name from above, and the control=0 parameter can be adjusted - that seems to be the voice auto detect threshold. https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice/issues... suggested 0, but I found it benefited from being higher. You can compare before/after by changing your pulseaudio output sink at system level (or application level) back and forth.
OK, but if you know the formal definition, and you're not reading it out loud, why not just make something up? I actually don't know whether "is drawn from" is the "correct" way to pronounce the tilde. I think maybe other people say "is distributed as".
Thanks for the hint. I started with the intention of staying within the limits of "traditional" AWK and only resorted to using match (which is only available on GAWK, for those who don't know) to parse links and images.

As you'll read on, you'll certainly find more areas for improvements, because this is pretty much based on an idea I had in the shower and then typed it out in a hour :)
No, that's 640.
Particularly when climbing ladders. Anyone who’s ever gone up a ladder and felt like they needed a third hand for carrying crap has experienced why the hammer loop exists. Plus securing it when you’re up there so your dumb ass doesn’t knock it on someone’s head :-)
I like them. So you've eliminated side and butt pockets? I can see keeping the butt pockets as a display platform for design touches, branding etc but inseam side pockets can be discarded.
Maybe not that, but pay off the police to seize your servers? That's table stakes for a multinational in a region where they have the necessary influence.
Is this using GTK? What bindings?
Interesting. Are those ads benefiting the creators of the videos or are they ads that only make money for the creator of Vanced?
I don't like this idea, it makes using a public/cafe computer impossible. It would also force me to have a work browser and personal browser on all my devices. I am also not a fan of google chrome trying to log me into every site with my google profile.
To be fair, one might argue that medical intervention would inhibit natural selection. At least, selection for individuals with less risk of cancer.
I find the kubectx and kubens tools invaluable for switching contexts and namespaces quickly: https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx
That's unnecessarily harsh for a sad story, frankly anyone can fall into those rabbit holes (even if you're smart enough to grow Apple).
Red meat is possibly the most nutrient dense food in the world. With everything from essential proteins and fats, to minerals like zinc, iron and magnesium, to water soluble vitamins like biotin. It's also tasty and satisfying to eat.

My parents had only two children, same as my grandparents. My family isn't growing and taking up an exponential amount of resources, so I do not personally feel responsible for unsustainable population growth. Therefore I will not sacrifice my health and well-being in order to satisfy some resource quota being morally applied. Meat production isn't even a proportionally large source of energy use compared to transportation and electricity, so being asked to give up eating it to increase sustainability before larger slices of the pie are confronted really smacks of dogmatic imperialism.

I think the discussion would fare far better with people who think along lines that I do, if you focused on 'how can we make meat production more energy and land efficient' instead of 'you are sinful for eating meat, give it up.' More efficient grazing patterns and breeding animals to better digest alternative food sources like kelp, for example, are promising. I'm sure there are many other avenues yet thought up.
I believe people call these "magic links" or "magic URLs". There is definitely a market for it, I recommend searching for competitors and see what you're up against.
The problem is that H1-B exists. Instead of that, expand green cards to people who want to immigrate and have desirable skills.

H1-B is mostly used to offshore jobs anyway. It allows offshoring companies to bring in captive workers to learn the skills/jobs to be offshored, and then to send them back. That is not a benefit to the US, and taxpayers should not be footing the bill for it.
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Regarding your professional career, what is the single decision you regret the most making?
I’ve seen nothing so far to indicate they didn’t have heavy audit logging and access control. They just had an employee who knowingly or unknowingly violated company policy.
All good questions. Based on some of what I've read, actions are being taken to ensure (for the most part) the contrary...that businesses / schools are protected with little regard for the individual. A more recent example is below.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-republicans-to-propose-l...

> Included in the list are temporary protection from the trial bar for schools, colleges, charities and business that follow public health guidelines and for frontline medical workers.

One could argue they (in this case Senate majority) are just crossing the t's and dotting the i's but considering there has been little regard (in many states and definitely on the federal level) for public health (in favor of other concerns) thus far...that is IMHO wishful thinking.
The design is nice enough but from a marketing perspective, the copy was really great. No fluff, just a very clear value proposition. I understood immediately what the service does and how it could benefit me. Far more mature than most indie SaaS websites I've seen.
Facebook: Police officers trade racist memes, conspiracy theories, Islamophobia
> He started documenting his journey on Facebook Lives and grew a huge following.

This is a major problem; not only did this stupidity cost him his life but he also put others at risk.
Title might be a bit misleading: they disappear against the black background, it's not that their numbers are diminishing.
CUIDs are better for this use case than UUID, i.e. needing to generateany many unique IDs in parallel on many servers / clients. They have a bit more structure to them, while still having randomness, that avoids collisions in cloud scale ID gen
US doctors make 3 times as much as doctors in France. It's not a salary problem, but artificial limits on supply on all levels of the pipelines.

https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-international-compen...
Well many people have the ability to see through marketing BS, and these types of excuses are exactly that, marketing BS

I often feel sad for people that have not developed the critical thinking skills needed to look past marketing to where the realm of logic and reason resides
Or you can signify the context using shell prompt and use kube rbac to give read only permissions instead of letting people mess with your prod cluster.
Transcription: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_patent_X1
> Hundreds of active-duty and retired law enforcement officers from across the United States are members of Confederate, anti-Islam, misogynistic or anti-government militia groups on Facebook, a Reveal investigation has found.

> These cops have worked at every level of American law enforcement, from tiny, rural sheriff’s departments to the largest agencies in the country, such as the Los Angeles and New York police departments. They work in jails and schools and airports, on boats and trains and in patrol cars. And, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting discovered, they also read and contribute to groups such as “White Lives Matter” and “DEATH TO ISLAM UNDERCOVER.”

> The groups cover a range of extremist ideologies. Some present themselves publicly as being dedicated to benign historical discussion of the Confederacy, but are replete with racism inside. Some trade in anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant memes. Some are openly Islamophobic. And almost 150 of the officers we found are involved with violent anti-government groups such as the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters.

Original title was too long. It was:

Inside hate groups on Facebook, police officers trade racist memes, conspiracy theories and Islamophobia
Combats also tend to be closer fitting than US "Cargo pants" and can even look quite smart.
NetBSD wasn't mentioned so I am left wondering if it runs on this "toaster."
Good job rationalizing it. All cash bribes put together might be about as much as one fat government subsidy.
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It feels great to be appreciated for all the hard work i have put in the last few months, thanks a lot mate!
Thanks for warning, i need my data plan
I am a customer of a SaaS product that use AWS, and I never accept "AWS was down" and should the vendor use that I start looking for new vendors