skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A related paper in the journal Pain is named SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein co-opts VEGF-A/Neuropilin-1 receptor signaling to induce analgesia [1] was discussed in the podcast TWiV 674: In the company of coronaviruses with Lisa Gralinski [2] (~17 min starting at 1:04:43).

[1] https://journals.lww.com/pain/Abstract/9000/SARS_CoV_2_Spike...

[2] https://youtu.be/8vV3TWtLXnQ?t=3883
Aren't "political" comments often downvoted, at least on technical/business forums like Hacker News?
Apparently unavailable in Europe
It's still up:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

28.6% is between 1/3 and 1/4, definitely not 1/5.
Google auth works if you scan the QR code with multiple devices at setup.

So I keep a spare phone at home i my safe with google auth setup. Just in case my primary is lost or stolen.
A state killing a political opponent, however unacceptable, isn't terrorism. The point of terrorism is that it effects unsuspecting bystanders. I already said I think we should sanction the saudis though, because they actually are sponsoring terrorism. See the Yemen war and their funding of al queda as well as their infiltration of twitter.
Sure - for me, the cards slightly don't match the mental structure that is actually stored in my mind. In fact I remember the two steps "together", as this spatial move-and-squash. Perhaps I should rejig the cards.
My Stack Overflow never asks me to do anything.
And yet, Microsoft has built the most popular desktop 'operating system'.

We've seen, again and again, that popularity has absolutely nothing to do with technical merit or even lack of overt user-hostility.
https://youtube.com/user/peppermint78

This woman is fantastic. Its so great to hear an honest take on the particle physics field without the constant spin and angling for more funding.

Thank you for sharing!
May be it's time for people to be against new things.

Open source I know is often a work of love, but it's a bit painful that everyone is chasing after new things instead of keeping things that already work working. It's like how there are dozens of js frameworks that have thousands of contributors whereas openssl had one which lead to the infamous heartbleed bug. We need to talk about how the culture of open source is broken in this regard and figure out how to fix it.
Ok but if Iran stopped publicly sponsoring terrorists and trying to nuke Israel they wouldn't be sanctioned. The public support is an integral part of why they're sanctioned.
It seems like with environmental policy where people forgot about Reduce and Reuse/Repair as vital parts of the of environmental protection triangle and instead only focus on Recycle

Data Protection has fallen into the same trap, where no one even questions if data should be collected, and then if it is collected for how long it should be retained.

It seems the default position is Collect all info, and store it forever, encryption can protect it for all time....
It makes sense that an analyst would just shift through internal tools not connected, that process intelligence data.

However, they must have s/w engineers. I'm curious how they do their jobs w/o stack-overflow, google and obviously HN. :)

Yes, it's possible to do dev w/o an internet connection, but programming nowadays is a pita, especially as a full-stacker. i.e. I just had to deal with a sticky css footer problem and I would have topped myself if I didn't have the internet.
Some pretty genuine looking video floating around from it.
You'll have to be more specific than this. Help them with what?
Building product. There has rarely been a more effective team building 'exercise' than getting something useful out.

Also, explaining your thinking. Being able to bring everyone from the objectives, back to how what you're doing fits into that is useful. People will be aligned, know where they're going, why they're doing what they're doing even at the task level.

It makes them much more independent because they have the logic you yourself used to make those decisions and can make many more on their own without your intervention, and if you intervene, it will start being on minor things and corrections because they get it right more often than not.

So, rationale out in the open do people can fork it and send in pull requests to your thinking, and adopt and improve it to make decisions and do useful things.

We have periodic calls where we discuss things that are holding us back, cool developments, etc.

I tend to be skeptical on team building, leadership, and what not as much as I was of self improvement. Not because the concepts themselves are bullshit, but because most content about it is bullshit. Those who are good at it seldom write, and those who write about it never accomplished anything in life other than writing about it.
This feels like exactly the problem the internet was supposed to solve. A centralized corporation is dictating content decisions for anyone who wants to stay alive and profitable online.

I have no idea what the solution is, but I don't like that Facebook gets an outsized say in what people can profitably write online.
Agreed, but my son's crank flashlight is a great teaching tool and it never runs out of batteries!
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886573.
Print it in a book and take the physical copy with you on a plane, iirc that was how they did it with GPG back in the day because 1st amendment protection.

Been a while so I might be wrong.
Conservative version of The Onion.
This is based on ordinary spending, not essential spending. It has nothing to do with frugality. Transportation expenses are "ordinary" without regard for how much someone chooses to spend on a car. A lot of luxury spending is captured in "ordinary" at the aggregate level.

The US Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) tracks the expenditures of every income decile of the population in considerable detail. If you want to know how much the average person at the 30th percentile of income spends on eggs, fresh vegetables, commuting, or many types of entertainment or non-essential spending, BLS can tell you in surprising detail. I have not seen similarly detailed data for other countries, which makes comparisons difficult.

The expenses BLS defines as "ordinary" are comprehensive, pretty much everything you'd expect, and they make no value judgments regarding how people actually spend in a particular category. The only category exclusion from ordinary living expenses that might be controversial is eating out at restaurants, but that is based on the fact that most Americans do so infrequently (it won't feel this way to the urban minority).

Subtract the median ordinary expenses from median income to arrive at $12,000 per year. Anecdotally, this number feels about right.
will it do it also when Trump wins?
If someone communicates that they want to kill you, I think refusing to do business with them is an incredibly subdued response.
This post definitely needs [2003] in the title as it is fairly dated.
You got it the other way around - the UAE is the open ally, Saudi Arabia is the secret one.

If you're wondering about the rest, Israel is the secret nuclear power, the UAE recently became a nuclear power (civilian purposes, of course :P), Iran is building up nuclear capability, and if it does, Saudi Arabia will just buy nukes off Pakistan since they funded the latter's nuclear programme.
If the list was allowed to include a short description provided by the search provider, and DDG's said something like "Your privacy is important. We never track you or record your searches.", many more people might choose DDG.

I've been using DDG since they first launched, and that simple promise was all it took to get me to try them out the first time I heard of them.
I'd like to ask them how they square the circle morally by supporting an agency that under the most optimistic interpretation breaks the law constantly.
The most important thing in biology/biochemistry to realize is that everything that happens requires things to bump into each other, many times, randomly. If things fit/stick to each other really well (think lock and key fitting, glove to hand idea), they only need to bump into each other a couple time before they lock together. This study shows that a thing on the virus sticks to a thing on a cell (Neuropillin-1) really well. What this does is then keep the virus really close to the cell so it can bump into the other thing (ACE2) more often. This is important because ACE2 is how the virus gets into the cell. So the first thing (Neuropillin-1 binding) sticks the virus to the cell and gives it more time to find the entry switch (ACE2). Without that first binding (from Neuropillin-1), the number of times the virus bumps into ACE2 is not a lot because there isn't much of it on the cells.
> preventing Google from entering into deals like the one it made with Apple,

Be careful what you ask for. If you make such deals illegal, Apple will have to set Google as search engine for FREE thus benefiting Google.

As a non-murican it baffles me that US government will try to hurt its own successful companies in this fashion which smells of incompetence and political vendetta rather than genuine concern for the health of search ecosystem.
it's not a precedent, kosovo was a precedent. there can't be two precedents. international law got fucked up back then.
Detaching flamewars so that they languish at the bottom of the page is standard HN moderation and the reason we do it should be obvious. If you don't want that to happen, nothing is easier to avoid (from a moderation point of view): simply provide corrective information respectfully. Of course that is not so easy from a personal frustration point of view—that is something every HN user (certainly including me) has to work at.

I definitely don't want to penalize your counterarguments, but if you can't or won't decouple them from guidelines-breakage, what choice do we have? We do just the same with users and threads that are arguing the opposite.

There are two very different issues here: (1) Wayland; (2) protecting the commons. Important as the first one is, the second has to take precedence because it affects every topic, every thread, and the survival of the community.
Pretty much this, they pay crap.

That and a lot of the people with the genuine skills they need are actually on the other side of the spectrum from them on things like liberty, free speech and privacy.

Fuck 'em.
All modern versions of game creation software have internet based sharing and many support building commercial software, including every PC version of RPG Maker. RPG Maker on PS2 was a product of a weird era where consoles weren't really internet ready.

Dreams on PS4 has a complex sharing backend and the PS4 also let's you share directly to social media. https://indreams.me/
Yes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Wire

> According to FactCheck.org, The Daily Wire incorrectly credited Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson with finding over $500 billion in accounting errors made by the Obama administration. FactCheck.org reported that the errors were discovered and published by HUD's independent inspector general before Carson became secretary.[18]

> The Daily Wire has published articles expressing skepticism that climate change is occurring and that humans contribute to climate change. Climate scientists have described the articles as being inaccurate and misleading.[19][20][21]
I think it's an error in the model structure. If their goal was to artificially increase uncertainty, there are more reasonable ways to do that than adding weird between-state correlations (like the uncertainty index which is part of the model). WA and MS definitely should not have a large negative correlation.
I should have mentioned that I live in europe. By US standards, our cities are extremely walkable. That being said, I have three super markets that I regularly buy from. Two of them are in walkable distance (when carrying few groceries). For the third, cheapest, I have to use either a car or a cargo bike.
That seems like a strong enough test, but it also seems too strong in that 98% of gainfully employed adults could not pass it.

I'd like to see a test that correlates well with our colloquial notions of human intelligence but that also generalizes to non-humans (including machines). Maybe those are fundamentally incompatible goals. Maybe the outcome of AI research is finding that colloquial notions of intelligence resemble "real" universal intelligence only as closely as the intuitive physics of throwing and catching a ball resembles the unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity.
None of those things protect you from an extinction event.

I’m not sure why you think that plant pollination needs a new solution in the first place. We’ve been working with bees for centuries and we’ve used them as a tool. Bees are themselves an optimal method for pollination created though thousands of years of natural progress.

Colonizing Mars continues to be a pipe dream and even if/when people start living there it’s going to be full of compromises and discomfort. And we’ll still have billions of people stuck on earth.

Technology isn’t the solution to all of life’s problems.
I agree.

However, from my understanding, it doesn't matter if the takedown notice is completely without merit. As long as it meets the requirements, Github has to follow it in order to avoid liability.
A JavaScript function that makes $40k/year
If everyone was wrong, it is reasonable to believe a low probability event occurred. However, given the extent to which people predicted a Trump loss (say 1 in 20), which is significantly rarer, given that the event occurred it suggests the model that predicted a Trump win with the greatest probability to likely be a more accurate model.
Would you feel good about someone smiling at you they were forced by law to smile?
The spike of the SARS-CoV-2 virus binds to the neuropilin-1 (NRP1) [1] cell receptor in addition to ACE2 [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropilin_1#Role_in_COVID-19

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiotensin-converting_enzyme_...
No money coming to Apple could have other effects, like more aggressive anonymization of search data, or even caching on Apple’s side, or any other technical setup that their contract prevents them from doing now.

Also Google is not the best engine everywhere nor for everyone.

I think a sign of this is if it was that simple Google wouldn’t be paying that much in the first place.
I have a good amount of bee-friendly flowers that are visited daily in the spring and summer by our local bee populations, it is very much “build it and they will come”.

If I had a bigger yard I would host a couple hives of my own, I love just sitting out in the flowers in the warmer weather and watching them forage.
Made the RIAA DMCA say what it is
Yes, it increases the state-level and national uncertainty intervals (Andrew Gelman has talked about this several times on his blog), which improves Trump's odds.
And are a way, way more attractive demographic for advertisers. I knew about the deal, but until the House report I didn’t realize it made up such a high proportion of Apple’s profits (14 to 21%). Knowing Apple, they must be driving a hard bargain.
> But the cease and desists to (ex-)developers in Germany are simply tasteless.

Anti-circumvention law (and bluntly copyright law in general) is a lot stronger in Germany than it is in the US.
> Who says apple hasn't built a viable alternative already?

Wouldn't it be ironic if the DOJ case fell apart because Apple released it's own search engine?
Having a monopoly isn’t illegal. Using a monopoly to give you market power in another area is illegal. Windows can have a monopoly perfectly legally, they just can’t use that monopoly to give themselves a monopoly on, say, web browsers.
Looks like even the knight in shining armor Robert Mueller has dirty hands. Can’t imagine what his motivations could have been other than to do Adobe and US software makers a favor by stripping a guy of his rights for 6 months and sending a message to other programmers.
How cloudy does it have to be for a 3rd <$100 solar panel to provide less than 0.06 kWh of charge over 1 day? Clear skies are of course always better but I don't think I've ever heard just how bad it is when they aren't.
I've added this comment to my favorites; a very succinct description of the problems with Wayland. At this point I wonder if starting from scratch was the right call vs. spending the 12 intervening years trying to (yes) dig into X11 and fix existing issues.
Also related for anyone who read the article above:

https://twitter.com/MrMichaelSpicer/status/13156404326977167...

(Comedy sketch from Michael Spicer on the subject)
Go look at the majority of 1st amendment cases in the courts the past few years. They're mostly corporations arguing against regulations as free speech issues.

The jurisprudence, largely from "conservative" judges, is that "speech" is any expression, and it applies to corporations. Ironically, that's what'll make it tough to regulate Facebook/Twitter/etc. They didn't see the 2nd order affects coming.
I can only respond to your words. If you don't like my choice of bulb, then do your own math and show it like I did. See what watt bulb (not bulbs plural, or moving the goalposts even further, an entire bathroom) it takes for your assertion to be true. Actually I'll just do that myself because it's easy.

Now, we already discussed generating 1800Wh per month using this bike. So:

1800 / (8 * 2) = 112.5

Or in other words:

112.5W * 8h * 2 = 1800Wh

So you'd need to run a 112.5W light bulb for 8 hours per night, twice per month, just to equal the amount of electricity produced by the article author. Although you said that leaving the light on wasted more, so, let's just go with a 113W bulb. I'm old enough to remember 100W incandescent light bulbs, but even then, they were rarely bought and used because that's an insane amount of electricity for indoor lighting.

Now where I live I can't even buy incandescent bulbs because they're not for sale. For 112.5W to be average, there would need to be millions of Americans using stadium lighting just to take a shit.

I think you should take a step back and reflect on why you're so quick to attack someone for doing a cool hack (this is Hacker News) that reduces their electrical usage (in the time of climate change).
Yes. It's a garbage site (regular headlines include things like "LGBT Pride is the worst sin of all" and "Gender Equality is a Leftist Lie") that itself was caught breaking Facebook's rules against sockpuppets and fake accounts but since their founder Ben Shapiro somehow became popular on Youtube for 'owning the libs', they have the ear of politicians who regularly threaten Facebook and so they can escape punishments that other orgs see.

https://popular.info/p/facebook-allows-prominent-right-wing
A Republican-funded independent audit of Facebook found no such political bias: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/facebook-report-...
They do, and also it makes a better case than worldwide where Google is kneecapped by the Chinese government to benefit Bandung, or Russia where Yandex is a strong competitor.
I wish more companies would take this position, but one barrier to taking this position is that the penalties are so skewed. You can face far larger damages for even minor copyright infringement than spurious takedown requests. Plus there's the cost of litigating.
They’re on the somewhat unreliable/extreme slant spectrum. Posting them here is roughly on par with posting a Breitbart article. They might not be saying something that’s blatantly untrue but it’s highly likely that they would omit important context that makes their story misleading.
I’m really confused by what I’m reading on this page. Can someone clarify the different between these two?

Quoting:

> Apple iOS continues to hold its large share of the smartphone operating systems’ market within the United States, claiming more than half of the market in May 2020.

> ...

> Android still the one to catch

> Android, however, still holds the largest share of the United States smartphone operating systems’ market and has done for many year.

So this is about the smartphone operating systems, in the united states. Apple has “more than half of the market”, and Android has “the largest share”. How are both statements possibly true?
The reported 1 hour power seem to be on a low side. Average untrained male should not have much troubles generating 100W. Reasonably fit male that cycles regularly should be able to put about 200W. For longer intervals the power will of course decrease.

Still of course the power is low comparatively to traditional sources.
"Such C-terminal sequences that conform to the “C-end rule” (CendR) are known to bind to and activate neuropilin (NRP1 and NRP2) receptors at the cell surface."

Sounds like we should add a CendR-cleaved S-protein to our vaccines...
I have an IDE, but I keep going back to essentially the same setup you have. I find that GUI IDE's tend to try to be too many things at the same time. I like having nothing on the screen that isn't directly related to what I'm doing, and I strongly dislike ribbons of things I could click on but rarely, if ever, do.

BTW: depending on your workflow, and the type of code you are writing, you might find gaze interesting. I occasionally use it when programming something meant to run from the command line. That way I can see the progress without a whole lot of clicking to another window and "up-arrow" to repeat the same steps over and over again. https://github.com/wtetsu/gaze
Tegnell differs on that:

>“I want to make it clear, no, we did not lock down like many other countries, but we definitely had a virtual lockdown,” Tegnell said. “Swedes changed their behaviour enormously. We stopped travelling even more than our neighbouring countries. The airports had no flights anywhere, the trains were running at a few per cent of normal service, so there were enormous changes in society.”
Just Curious: How has your experience with Toptal or Facet been, and how long have you been doing this (since the Pandemic)?
Now I'm picturing Wade Watts powering his rig in Ready Player One
HN is suppressing anti-tech stories
Two stories[0][1] flagged/dead today, many more before today.

These are tech articles on two core topics to the community: big tech + censorship.

What's ironic is the concerns raised in these stories are.. exactly what's happening on HN - suppression of discussion anti- the liberal-tech-majority.

Some ideas for preventing minority-viewpoint suppression systemically:

- Flags should be justified with fixed list of reasons + justification text input, article then shows flag reasons. Profiles show how many flags a person has done, per-reason.

- Total flags capped per-month

- People who tend to flag together have less weight on flagging

- "Vouching" should be stronger than flagging to prevent minority viewpoint suppression, and also capped.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24889379

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24888639
It's useful to note that system's thinking is such an outdated model of looking at the world. Basically modeling the world as a fancy mechanism, with mechanistic explanations about every aspects of the world. Very reductionist about organisms, nature, societies, etc.
Actually actually, it's even more complicated than that! Works published between 1925 and 1978 needed to file a copyright extension notice before the 28th anniversary of initial publication or the work fell into public domain.

Copyright law is a maze whose rules have changed numerous times over the decades. Here's a pretty good flowchart for U.S. copyright: https://www.sunsteinlaw.com/copyright-flowchart
The commons are full of propeganda and misinformation at the hands of your policies to "protect" them. Your guidelines are not holy writ, and are unfit for this task.
Code is speech.

The fight should be an ideological one - akin to first amendment protections.
Can you really tell the difference? What's the latency? Are your eyes that sensitive?