skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've come to the conclusion the "immunologists" dont know enough and for a very good reason, we are unable to quantify what each and every cell contains chemically and we are unable to measure cell sensing and signally in vivo. So we dont know when a number of cells surrounding a damaged cell or pathogen are using the hydroxyl radical, arguably the most dangerous of the free radicals, to destroy or damage the damaged cell or pathogen.

As we get older, we maintain the ability to sense pathogens in the adaptive immune system, but we fail to launch a suitable response. Studies also show, flu vaccines are a waste of time if the person doesnt have a sufficient amount of B6 in their diet in order for the body to develop an immune system response. In my experience GP's never ask about our diets, they make assumptions and this is dangerous to our health. Now does osteoporosis play its part in a weaken immune system response because the quality of stem cells from the bone marrow is greatly reduced? Not found any studies looking at this angle yet.
What about Vitamin D3, the Wellcome Trust in Cambridge announced it had reversed engineered the human genome in Aug 2010, and from the research they found that there were 2776 Vit D Receptors in the human genome, most of which are concentrated around the immune system genes, so how significant is Vit D in immune system responses?
How much does Iron in the diet play a part, for example, there is a chemical reaction in the gut which can reduce Ferric iron (State3) into Ferrous iron (State2) before its absorbed, how much does dietary iron and exercise generating hydroxyl radicals play a part in innate immunology? The hydroxyl radical is generally portrayed as a very damaging chemical reaction, yet we do get told to exercise. Likewise what about water only Fasting? When looking at Lysine, its one of only two keto BC amino acids, used to treat cold sores (Herpes) as its been suggested viruses at least the Herpes virus need carbs. Bacteria can die off when there is inadequate nutrition, but they can also go dormant in the body by developing a biofilm. So even though immune cell counts go down when water only fasting, as its no longer having to attack most of the food and drink we consume, does the process of starving of viruses and bacteria make the remaining immune system cells more effective as its only having to concentrated on pathogens in the body.

I'd agree with the article in that immunology is a complex topic, but our lack of high tech scientific instruments limit our knowledge forcing the use of meta data to make conclusions and judgements, and the spooks know all too well that they can get it wrong!
true but this is a favorable tradeoff.

i also recommend forcing mpv->ytdl to h264 for the same reason; fan keeps quiet while watching youtube.
Generate it whenever you prefer, probably with the rest of the code changes as you say.

Immediately before applying, check that the database is still in the same state as it was when you generated the diff script. If yes, apply. If no, abort.
Why are the arguments not sound? Why is a private company maintaining communications between 2 billion people not possibly a common carrier?
I've never used that particular device, but generally you soak the sponges in a saline solution, place the electrodes on the desired locations, and choose your desired voltage. Anything under 4ma is considered safe, though I personally never go past 2ma.

I use the improved attention montage: https://totaltdcs.com/electrode-placement-montage-list/impro...
FYI the images aren't loading on your site, neat idea though!
What's stopping Volkswagen from lobbying Germany to ban Teslas because all the cameras in it pose a "national security risk"?

This is, by all account, a shortsighted move
Do you really think this has anything to do with national security? Don't be naive. Trump hasn't listened to the CIA or the NSA in 3½ years, he's not starting now. This is 100% pure political grandstanding and retaliation for the Tulsa rally. Assuming otherwise is giving way, way, way too much credit.
I rather spend my limited time working on other security issues.
> As an American, I tried signing up to communicate w/ someone in China, and I couldn't get through the verification process.

I signed up before there was a verification process. But my understanding is that you get vouched for by an existing account. Since you were signing up to communicate with someone, wouldn't that person have been a natural choice to verify you?
So what is the other option? We stay in the abusive relationship just out of fear of confrontation? How about we take care of our interests and if cold war starts we make sure we win it.
In my experience this is pretty standard across the industry.
It's a local maxima, but it prohibits maximally readable code.

I just don't think it's a big win, but I've found it's a hard rhetorical battle to fight. Everyone's more cynically fearful of ugly code rather than having that extra leeway to write extremely readable code. I've definitely found this can throw the baby out with the bath water.
Definitely not an expert here but I think the difference is that trimming machines "cut" by pinching the hair between two moving surfaces. That way you can have a 90 degree angle at the cutting edge that is much sturdier than a blade that is designed to cut.
Due to the seemingly consistent inability of many people to understand the broader concept you expressed there I feel the need to spell it out in a bit more detail.

Free speech: the freedom to speak one's mind (this can apply in any context).

Any and all consequences for speaking one's mind are a direct assault on one's freedom of speech in the relevant context, by definition.

The first amendment protects individuals who speak their minds from government imposed consequences for doing so. This is meant to prevent the government from curtailing their freedom to express themselves.

"Freedom of speech, not freedom from consequence" means (in the context of the US) that even if there aren't any governmental consequences for speaking your mind there might still be social ones.

Hypothetical situation: People debate the merits of a non-governmental entity (for example, an employer) placing various restrictions on speech in some context (say, in the work place). Someone comes along and glibly points out that "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequence". Said commenter has _completely_ missed the point.
All Google services are banned, IIRC. And the legality of anticompetitive practice is hardly a justification. This executive order is, after all, entirely legal.
I use the following in my kernel project: asm, const_fn, const_generics, exclusive_range_pattern, global_asm, panic_info_message, start, untagged_unions.

Of those, I could get away with just global_asm, start, and const_generics if I had to, but the others certainly make my life easier in a kernel space without an allocator.

I'll be the first to admit that some of those are "I'm just going to embrace nightly if I'm stuck on it anyway".
Neat! Definitely going to try this out.
> Much of the complexity of this system is designed to give you a specific feature: migrations abstracted from your database. In my opinion, if there is something less likely to happen than writing a complex app to run on interchangeable databases, it's the need to repeat the same history of migrations.

Unless you have a dev, staging, and prod setup. Then there's a good chance you'll encounter a wide range of variation in the current database schema compared to your models. I use the ability to roll back and forward migrations all the time. Django ORM and the migrations (and the admin site) are the features that make it impossible for me to justify the use of other frameworks or languages in the vast majority of cases. The productivity boon is just too much.

With that said, I have a personal policy of not letting the ORM get in the way. If I find myself reaching out to the documentation for how to write a particular query (something like window functions, for example), that's a good indication that I may be better off writing the raw SQL.
That's a good point. Brute facts strung together often get mistaken for analysis or synthesis.
The Australian government does not have the power to bring the dead to life but it does have the power to bail-out home owners, and everyone else badly effected by the economic crisis. Given that the economic problems can be offset with enough economic stimulus, but dead people can not be brought back to life, it seems obvious which course should be taken.
> Both the mortality rate and the long term impacts of COVID19 are both real and have not been overblown

The mortality rate for healthy people is incredibly low.

For example Singapore has had ~54,000 cases with a death count of only 27 since it was mostly young healthy people who got it.

Likewise there has been basically no excess deaths in many European countries for <65 years olds.

This is not at all how the media is treating covid.
> leaving aside that the CCP doesn't consider ethnic minorities in China to be full citizens

Is that actually true? China seems to be even using affirmative action to benefit its minorities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_China
You can't have the freedom of speech when there is a chance for retaliation.
45 days is not a lot of time as these things go. It's hard to imagine that most companies could organize something like this in so little time.
What will work in a lot of circumstances is to put your custom scripts into empty Django migrations. Then they'll get run as needed. If you're feeling fancy you can write the backwards script as well.
Estimating True Infections
This really depends on your development style and experience, but not in general, no.
Looks clean and well-designed, congrats on launching it! I thought the search bar would let me search video titles/subject so was a tad disappointed with what it actually is (maybe giving it a more specific label will fix my expectations), but everything else is great.
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*source: jobs where you are paid the minimum wage, but maybe you can cut that down a little by building a rent-seeking company.

the only things which might remotely be well paid (trades/construction) generally have some relatively high hurdles in most countries.
> will essentially make this a smartphone replacement to reclaim mobile computing from the duopoly

I think it’s a bit too thick to reclaim anything, to be honest, but its nerd cred is off the charts.
If any/everything is potentially offensive, don't be surprised if we are going towards a future market where the easily offended are MUCH less employable.
You realize this is basically a shakedown, likely with either a kickback from the concrete cutter or nepotism? Seems kind of unethical
Tolerance and a sense of shared responsibility, perhaps?

If all the participants feel like they took part of the educated decision regardless of outcome - they might be more tolerant towards walking it back. One could argue that would be part of the culture.
In a large company you have to choose your battles.
Is the USD valuation really correct though? I doubt anyone could sell that amount, and not affect the exchange rate drastically.
I was thinking about this the last time plasma replenishment came up on HN. I can’t donate blood as I lived in the UK during the “mad cow” years, which prevents me from donating in various other European countries.

Simple blood-letting might be feasible... but something feels odd about just throwing large volumes of blood away, and my partner wasn’t totally down to help with the practical side...
No, the implication is that this would be done by Trump.
Or just help those 40 people with federal funds, which is what every other rich country did, and _which worked_?

The problem isn't the lockdown (the US didn't even have a proper lockdown, compared to European countries), the problem is lack of federal help to compensate the losses.

The US GDP shrinkage in Q2 2020 was three times larger than that of e.g. Germany and France, despite these countries having harder lockdowns. Now those countries are mostly done with Covid, while the US still has over 1000 deaths a day _plus_ the economical costs of Covid.
> free speech meant the freedom to speak your mind

As long as you were white, reasonably well-off, and probably male, yes. It did not mean that for almost everyone else.

Also "speaking your mind" has never been (and never should be) consequence free. There was just no recourse for the majority to apply consequences until recently.

> The idea that people would routinely get fired for voicing their opinions [...] would have seemed shockingly unfree.

I'm pretty sure people have been fired for voicing their opinions all the time - it just wasn't white folk, especially men. And not just fired - plenty of people have been killed for voicing their opinion in the USA since day 1. Just not really white folk, especially men.

> That's where society used to draw the limit.

Because society used to be a lot more lopsided in terms of diversity, power balance, etc. Now the balance has shifted and some of the people who previously had all the power do not like it one bit.
Brand managers can get the best out of their teams
Good to see someone acknowledge the Australian states individually for their efforts.

Queensland (where I am) by the numbers is roughly the same population as NZ and has managed to keep cases and fatalities to a fraction. With the border closing again this weekend the state government is again not bowing to pressure from the other states or the Australian government to keep the border open so we can stay open locally.
Thanks for the figures.
I've bought an ARM PC in part for lowering its footprint.
The only difference is the equipment, a little time, and the volume you ultimately end up with.
It's racist to assume that someone is an immigrant because of their appearance. It's not racist to say that you think rates of immigration are too high. You can oppose immigration but have nothing but delight for the diversity of culture across the planet. A xenophilic restrictionist, as Eric Weinstein describes it.

In fact extreme xenophilic restrictionism is the norm in Japan. There's almost universal support by the Japanese people for their extremely restrictive immigration policy—probably the most restrictive first world country. But no sane person could call the Japanese people racist. They love other cultures—no, they adore them. They are incredibly welcoming to tourists from across the planet and delight in the sharing of culture.
Or even in a non-malicious case: https://crates.io/crates/logger

"logger" is now forever a middleware for the iron framework. Same with "router". Iron is pretty much obsolete now.
This goes both ways. If I want to send an email to someone but their MTA doesn't do encryption, I might choose to encrypt the content of my email, but I have no way to hide my FROM.

Blocking the MTA server is not unheard of.
The US lost that near-monopoly years ago.

Broadly speaking, I think we're witnessing the birth of three distinct global powers.

One is centered on the US, and consists (broadly) of Canada, Mexico, the rest of Latin America, the Commonwealth nations, Japan, Korea, Israel, and Taiwan.

An American civil war would destabilize this to a large degree, so we'll have to see if that plays out.

Edit, since people seem confused: This would be an absolute nightmare scenario, but it is in the realm of possibility, and would massively change international political structures.

Another is centered on Germany and France, and controls Europe, parts of Africa, and the Middle East.

Finally, we've got China, which will likely control a big chunk of Africa and Southeast Asia.

Russia is a tough one, but I see them siding with China or Europe.

Contested territory will include Taiwan, bits of the Middle East, and an escalation of the border disputes with Japan. Likely bits of eastern Europe, plus conflicts on the China/India border...

What a time to be alive.

Edit: Just because somebody says that something is a possibility doesn't mean that they want that thing to happen.

Me coming down with a case of COVID is a possibility. In fact, I'm operating under the assumption that I will be infected at some point, regardless of precautions (masks, hand-washing, stepping back from my competitive doorknob-licking career, etc.)

That doesn't mean I want a case of Horribly Shitty Virus With Not-Yet Well-Documented Complications.

I'm just prepared for the worst (as best as I can), and hoping for the best (because why not?)
It's easy... Chinese companies that operate internationally are controlled by the CCP.
Time to ban AWS in Europe too. Maybe cut the transatlantic cables too. I mean we ve known for ten years we are definitely being spied on and did nothing
Passing job interviews is already a skill on its own, and one that does not necessarily coincides with being a good employee.
if the only problem with PowerShell is that it feels clunky and annoying, why not try to extend/improve it (like Kotlin over Java)? Why start a new project that will maybe catch up in X years?
tl;dr of confidential computing:

In normal cloud computing you are effectively trusting the cloud provider not to look at or modify your code and data. Confidential computing uses built in CPU features to prevent anyone from seeing what is going on in (a few cores of) the CPU (and in EPYC's case, encrypt all RAM accesses). Very roughly: These CPU mechanisms include the ability to provide a digital signature of the current state of the CPU and memory, signed by private keys baked into the CPU by the manufacturer. The CPU only emits this signature when in the special "secure mode", so if you receive the signature and validate it you know the exact state of the machine being run by the CPU in secure mode. You can, for example: start a minimal bootloader, remotely validate it is running securely, and only then send it a key over the network to decrypt your proprietary code.

Effectively, it increases your trust in the cloud from P(cloud provider is screwing me over) to P((cloud provider AND CPU manufacturer are both working together to screw me over) ∪ (cloud provider has found and is exploiting a vulnerability in the CPU)).

Disclaimer: I work for Google but nowhere remotely related to this (I know only publicly available information about this product); I happened to do very similar research work 6 years ago in grad school.
> racism and sexism while most people don't really perpetuate it

4 years ago, 63M people voted for an explicitly racist and sexist candidate in the US Presidential Elections. Yeah, they do "really perpetuate it".
Test on pets. Seriously our pets get all the same diseases we do (as always there are some exceptions). Millions of pets every year get cancer (just one example) and we make almost no use of this resource.

The other approach is to start testing in humans at a very, very low dose. While this would work it would require a change in the regulatory environment.
See also: detaching from, or quitting a tmux/screen session.
I know I'm splitting hairs, but the us government effectively censors obscenity, defamation, whistleblowers, inciting violence, copyrighted material etc.
Thanks a lot for diggin' it out! Looks really interesting, yay!
FWIW, AirPlay can send a H264 video of my desktop at 60FPS with ~0% CPU impact (hardware accelerated), good enough to play many games on TV.
> I felt like the story of the memo overtook the memo itself

And that story was mostly fictional. The memo itself bares little resemblance to most of the reporting about it.
Whether Facebook is an ISP or not isn't material to whether it should be a common carrier.

Facebook's social function is as a distributor of broadcast information and carrier of peer-to-peer information for two billion people. Further, network effects mean that Facebook's size makes it a natural monopoly.

There is no shortage of historical evidence that unregulated natural monopolies are bad news for everyone except their owners, and, given that Facebook's function is the distribution of information, the natural path for regulation in a free society is a common carrier designation.
> Shouldn't it have been a simple find-and-replace?

For a single crate, sure.

When you're managing multiple crates, an older nightly compiler version (because the software hasn't been tested much on the newer nightly), and git submodules... it isn't so easy.

I wasn't actually doing the work, but from the outside it seemed like a pain.
It seems similar devices are available on Amazon for considerably less - any idea why the significant hike in price?
I wouldn't say so. The economical costs are very similar to its neighbors Denmark and Norway (around -6% GDP growth projected for 2020), but the death rate is 10x higher in Sweden.
I actually think that's valid. Sure, http on a dev machine isn't a security risk. But there is a tail risk that it ends up somewhere on a system that sends data between machines. Also, using http on dev and https on prod can lead to unexpected bugs. Banning http is not unreasonable.

Same with the md5 complaint. That use of md5 wasn't a problem but there's a perfectly fine alternative and if you can ensure by automated tests that md5 is used nowhere, you also can guarantee that it's never used in a security relevant context.
> As long as you were white, reasonably well-off, and probably male, yes. It did not mean that for almost everyone else.

There's some truth to that, but the solution is obviously to extend the same freedom to everyone, not dive into authoritarianism.

> There was just no recourse for the majority to apply consequences until recently

It is not at all the majority who are "applying consequences". It is a small vanguard of extremists, most of whom conspicuously belong to the classes they criticize.
Just tested the script provided by the researchers [1]. Yep, it works, and my system is vulnerable.

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[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eset/malware-research/mast...
Those phones really should be recycled instead of collecting dust. Of course being usable and secure would be the best, but you can't have everything.
> [In Haskell] I spent a lot of time debugging dangling pointers and race conditions.

Uhm, ok, pointers in Haskell… must be really low-level programming, because ordinary Haskell doesn't deal with pointers.
Respectfully- have you not been paying attention? The dude doesn’t make decisions with a long-term outcome in mind. He did this so he can send a tweet tomorrow morning about how he’s sticking it to the commies. That’s where the plan ends.
I don't think Huawei is being accused of stealing 5G technology.

It's accused of being an espionage arm of the CCP and that having it control communications backbone infrastructure is a bad idea.
Well, supposedly[0] the next iteration of the CM will be based on the Pi 4 guts, and expose the PCIe capabilities. The maker of the hardware being discussed also mentions that they might try the compute module (it probably makes a lot of sense from the custom PCB side of life?).

0: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-nvme-support-...
But does this exact argument not also justify the US and Europe to pursue their own interests?

Isn’t that what Trump thinks he is doing?

I mean, there is plenty of countries around Europe that are sort of doing worse than China, but are still strongarmed by these Chinese.

Maybe the EU should also get in on this, not allowing any Chinese firms onside our borders. After all, our companies are even more fragile.

A call for global protectionism, in other words.
I'd rather that US lose the moral high ground than lose its bread and butter.
so what kind of collecting device do you propose then?
There's also memory. I remember when driving at night 35 years ago I saw a lot more insects in my headlights than I see these days. The difference is very noticeable.
There definitely more to it than aerodynamics.