skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the findings in this paper are true (which, for the moment, I think we need to doubt), then this is an incredible bombshell of a finding. It suggests, at least to my reading, that this virus was spreading in communities for several months before being noticed. The fact that the IgM was found to be so much lower than IgG suggests an additional month or more before the September 2019 sample. It also suggests that the virus may not have originated in China.

Both of these are at least vaguely plausible - if it was the in the early phases of exponential growth, and, unlikely as this is, didn't make its way into high-risk groups during that time, then obviously it just had the appearance of a typical seasonal coronavirus. If people over 65 didn't exist, we'd probably have never even identified this virus.

The sample wasn't random - it "was enrolled from September 2019 to March 2020 through the SMILE trial (Screening and Multiple Intervention on Lung Epidemics; ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03654105), a prospec-tive lung cancer screening study using low-dose computed tomography and blood biomarkers, with the approval of our institutional review board and ethics committee."

I don't know what effect that might have in skewing the results; I look forward to expert analysis on this point.

On the second piece - the matter of origin - the evidence of Chinese origin is strong, but not airtight by any means. It's not altogether impossible for it to have emerged in Europe and been unnoticed.

Still, I have to believe that something is very wrong with this study, and that its findings are an error, until we these results reproduced or further analyzed. As much as I'd love for it to be true.

The thing that I can't reconcile is that seroprevalence this high wasn't found in any surveys until much, much later - I believe late April 2020. And there is no place that achieved seroprevalence without high-risk groups being affected (and substantial deaths as a result). It seems likely that any situation in which these numbers are real has to at least have appeared as a very, very bad flu season, and that wasn't the case in late 2019 in Europe.

So what the heck is happening here?

And why isn't this huge, bombshell news around the world? Far less meaningful studies have received much more bombastic coverage.
Ask HN: Why Isn't Open Source Voting Software Mandated?
Why doesn't the United States (and other democracies) require open source voting software for all elections? Software that can be externally verified and validated and that could reproduce the results of an election (given the voting data set). Why are citizens expected to trust private companies and closed source software to elect officials? All software has bugs. This fact is not disputed. Citizens should have access to inspect the software used during national and state elections. This should be a basic democratic right. Why don't we do this? Why don't people demand it?
Well they are just as well integrated as the Jewish population or the Amish. Small communities where everyone married back into the faith is the only way to keep a small ethnic group consistent.
My concern isn't bias, it's misinformation. And let's be real here, it is emanating from right-wing media vastly more than from the left or otherwise. Unbiased reporting of a topic like voter fraud means reporting that Republicans are usually lying. Unbiased reporting of climate change means reporting that Republicans are usually lying. Unbiased reporting on the COVID pandemic means reporting that Republicans are grotesquely disinterested in human life.

Bias is subjective and insidious, but misinformation is obvious and unequivocally detestable. Right-wing news orgs are freely peddling misinformation. Networks like OAN aren't even biased towards conservatism as much as they are seemingly built to serve the political interests of Donald Trump. It is simply not equivalent and should not be treated as such.
20 years ago my doc suggested I start taking statins but I always said no because "I'll improve my diet" etc which never happened. Now I finally started and its not a big deal, no side effects and cholesterol is down to top end of normal for the first time ever.
It does indeed remain to be seen—but those recent cases were completely ludicrous! That some semblance of logic remains does not help me sleep at night.
> is aiming to master the rock that is the Earth

Genes aren't goal directed towards something higher.

> This cause requires no convincing because only winners get to play the next round

The 'winners', us humans, are literally destroying the ecosphere which supports our life.

> Understanding is overrated.

That's an appeal to ignorance.

> Control does not require it [understanding]

We can control something without understanding it? Most of science would disagree.
Which part of this are you saying is impossible to accomplish in an adversarial situation? Is it that you need to have control of where the laser starts out?

I can imagine a covert operation sneaking in a helium balloon into the enemy's power grid infrastructure, or tying it to his fancy car, even in a situation where you can't do the same with barrels of high explosives.
Does wilfully omitting the original copyright statement (as required by MIT license) and removing any reference to the original author count as someone 'just trying to get work done'? However trivial the code may be, denying credit is as bad as stealing.
I so want to believe this is satire. Never change, HN.

It's too bad your comment doesn't use the royal "we" like in the project README.
FWIW, I searched for your first point, and the first google result was https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/10/13/who-warning...

Which implies your summary of the point is based off of one of the several misreadings out there.
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/30395

@facebook
facebook locked and limited conversation to collaborators 3 minutes ago

ruh roh..
Apple as well as Windows dropped support for a few class compliant audio cards awhile back so I have a £200 sound card that is just dead weight
I’ll confused. What has San Francisco got to do with this?
Electricians are bad at low voltage wiring. There’s a different contractor license for low voltage work in many states.

Electricians also almost always use the wrong colors when wiring speakers with something like a 16/4. I have ran into this a lot.
It has meaning, but not what we see today. Interpreting the US Constitution as intended by its authors would probably have consequences like this:

- A much stronger view of the Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. That means no searches without a warrant, period. No general surveillance. No "drug exception". No "exigent circumstances" exception. Wiretapping, on a court order only. Which is where the US mostly was until the 1960s or so. This means going back to "We have you surrounded. Come out with your hands up".

- Much more use of jury trials. Anything that involves even a day in jail, or a fine over $20 (might allow for inflation adjustment) means a jury trial. No treating six months in jail as a "petty offense". Longer sentences for demanding a jury trial would be considered a major Fifth Amendment violation. And no "civil forfeitures".

- Religion is just another business. No tax break, no restrictions on lobbying, no exemptions from other neutral laws.

- Corporations are not "persons". The history of how corporations got constitutional rights is strange and interesting. See Southern Pacific Railroad vs. County of Santa Clara (1886). Until then, corporations did not have constitutional rights; only their employees did.

That's originalism.
Sometimes repetition with predictability also triggers pleasure, like Krautrock and motorik beat
> Can't there be some way to build a platform that encourages intelligent, reasonable, polite debate?

Yes. They are called journals and academic conferences.

Most people aren't interested in these things and if you build forums for everybody, it definitely will not turn into scholarly debate.
Which of these services that you are complaining about do you pay for?

I used to pay few bucks a month for Google drive but switched to http://Mega.nz because they support Linux. Google sucked, I left. Everything I use from Google is free and many times better than any other option. If I need a better option I build it or find a competitor willing to take my money.
SARS-CoV2 antibodies September 2019, Italy [pdf]
That’s actually not very much compared to someone like Bloomberg.
Windows 10 Exploit
Apparently people consider that things get done on this planet by 'mandating' or 'enforcing' a set of rules, procedures or outcomes. On _others_.

I guess the jokes on me because I thought that people, society in general negotiate on important matters.

Is my observation wrong or are you reading me as only condescending, facetious, luddite, troll?
There really isn't a good case to be made for electronic voting at all. Paper is much simpler, more reliable and has none of these issues.
> The more likely explanation is that the Bulgarians screwed up with the policy and the Turks got something right.

You're insinuating that Bulgaria enacted policies that forced Roma into a life of crime. You're also insinuating that all Europe enacted policies that forced Roma in Europe into crime since they behave likewise everywhere in Europe this specific group of gypsies goes which is a preposterous assertion.

There are other groups of gypsies, in France for instance which live there and do not have that criminal culture. So no, the problem isn't Bulgaria, or Romania, or France. The problem is criminal gangs that exploit their illiterate brothers and sisters, you can't put the onus on European states, not today.
Just 1% of women obtain an abortion because they became pregnant through rape
the island of dr moreau
You act like I invented the custom. I don't encourage or condone littering but if you've even glanced at the pages from the links it indirectly addresses that.

Also it's much better than the alternative of non-biodegradable plastics.

> Because the shards were unglazed, the cup would simply dissolve over time in the rain and sun, and from the friction of peoples feet walking over it

> No one know how long the tradition of environmentally friendly clay cups can resist the onslaught of cheap plastic.

> But plastic [is] rapidly replac[ing] the clay.
Unlike with cis gay people, there's two unrelated ways a trans person can be "in the closet":

- You haven't told anyone that you're transitioning, and Eve the attacker tells Alice and Bob. You weren't ready to tell Bob, and you never intended to tell Alice. Eve has outed you as trans to Alice and Bob.

- The public part of your transition is complete, you can pass for cis, and you don't want people to know you're trans. Eve tells Alice and Bob that you're trans. You weren't ready to tell Bob, and you never intended to tell Alice. Eve has outed you as trans to Alice and Bob.

The 2nd kind of closet is often called "going stealth". Some sources says it used to be called "woodworking", i.e. blending into the woodwork. Some people call the 1st kind "stealth", but I think "closet" is less ambiguous.

> I can't hide my trans status from my parents or a school that I attended pre-transition.

This is true. I came out at work recently, so almost all of my coworkers know that I'm trans.

But there are a few new hires who might not know. It would be impolite for someone to tell a new hire about me, at least without asking me.

So for children, the 1st case is probably what they're talking about. If a child is questioning their gender identity, it's not kind to out them to anyone. They will probably be bullied.

It's the gender identity equivalent of gossiping about Alice having a one-night stand with Eve. Is it wrong to bully her about it? Of course. But as long as the bullies exist, it's also wrong to gossip about it and expose her to danger.

Defense in depth means don't bully anyone, and also don't open them up to bullying.
I feel this is a moon-landing like historical event without all the fireworks.
> as long as the heavy work is done by calling native non-Python code.

Do not merge that. I once realized that grep is really fast, and replaced our custom solution with bash script, but I still claim that app is written in idiomatic PHP/python/ruby. This project has a lot of problems that it depends on C code is only a symptom. Noting all those bad things in a project Readme is a trap I fall into way to often it never works.
If you ponder whether these things have souls, then they're directly related.

There's a spectrum here.

At one end, religious folks believe life and soul begins at conception. Some also believe tampering with genes is tampering with god's creation.

At the other end, atheists believe in so soul.

Some believe personhood doesn't begin until a being is able to think, feel, and reflect upon the world around it. They hold that cetaceans have higher consciousness than human babies. They wouldn't have issue with this.

Plenty of people with no monotheistic belief feel nature shouldn't be tampered with.

Many scientists view biology as a machine that should be probed and studied.

The "choice" argument is one of the counter arguments used by those that are pro-life. I think many of them would object to these experiments on different grounds.

The ethics are complicated and messy. The science is rather straightforward.
How much work was that (getting qualified) and then how much work to be your own agent during the transaction? Any guides on how to do it? Thanks!
The book was better (naturally); as I recall, they used technology instead of a "magic amulet" to work their way out of the problem, in keeping with the theme of hyperintelligent mice.
That is not true since Mojave. It will always tell you you have a pending update, it will dump a notification to update to Big Sur (already happened to me this morning), and it'll do it's best to confuse you to update.

Case in point: if you have catalina and you go to system preferences, system updates, you will have the big sur update in big, then some text on the bottom of the window saying something like "there are some other updates..." and then you'll see the security updates for your current OS
You’re missing survivorship bias - nature didn’t just create these balanced ecosystems, it creates anything that goes, and things that don’t work out just die. Humans ruining earth for themselves is just as natural, just that we might die as result. But life won’t - it’s much more resilient than just one species. Or several.
For context, this is the second major RCE vulnerability discovered in SD-WAN products by Realmode Labs in under a week. There are another two such vulnerabilities on the way according to the post for additional vendors.
For commercial systems that will do that, Hue lights work fine on an isolated network, and HomeKit as a broader ecosystem doesn't require an internet connection to work and is explicitly designed to always treat the local hub as the primary controller.
One advantage of lifetime appointments is avoiding the temptation for judges to become corrupted by promises of post-judicial careers.
Fileless Malware: The Advent of New Generation Malware – Some Dude Says
Just because there is demand for something does not mean it is a viable business idea. There is tons of demand for food yet the margins selling food are tiny and it is very competitive. There is tons of demand for listening to music online, yet it was never profitable until Spotify came along. There is huge demand for watching videos online yet YouTube ran at a loss forever. Everyone thinks that their product is great and will stand out among the competitors.
Yes, this. It's really common for naive implementations of packrat parsing to work just fantastic on short input strings (aka benchmarks) and then take literal minutes of "linear time" to parse, say, a 1kbyte source code file. Particularly if you (as is relatively common) do it in a scripting language with a naive memory management policy where creating and connecting vast numbers of small objects can be a performance problem.

It turns out that, in practice, it's better to be selective about where you apply the packrat mechanism.
It's important to understand this. His personal views slant strongly libertarian, but his political activism is almost entirely motivated by return on investment, not his ideology.
I find it... sad? how knee-jerk people are, especially with the expectation of "perfect privacy" in a country where millions of people's SINs got leaked and that company still functions.

Looking forward to that $1/month I'll get if it goes class action though...

The cause is always glass half empty isn't it?
I can’t judge on the protocol specifics but if installing and getting a userid can be as easy as literally pushing one button this can pick up. Currently it looks very slick and thus promising!

I like the name. It reminds me of GNU, which is Not UNIX. So nostr is no str, or something ;-) But is compact and not a monstr either.
Actually there is no fundamental difference between VRBO.com and Airbnb.com, with VRBO predating Airbnb by a lot, except for a more slick execution.

Edit: Per Wikipedia VRBO was launched in 1995.
As long as you use terraform/cloudformation/sam, it should be fairly simple. You deploy everything with your name as a suffix. Most of the resources will be billed on usage only as well, so you don't even pay more than a few cents for testing like that.
Renewables are cheaper and faster to deploy now and getting cheaper.
I'm the author and I can tell you that tipping is also very common in Germany (at least in restaurants). The big difference to the US is that 5-10% are considered enough because waiters already get a wage and don't entirely depend on tips. And yes, tipping happens after you already got the service.
It's more active jumpers over their jumping career than just people who try it once. It varies wildly jumper to jumper based on the types of jumps done (cliffs are more deadly than bridges) and how often. Most people jump for a period of 3-6 years and quit.

My wife and I were pretty active jumping in the era of wingsuit videos on YouTube. In her first year we had one good friend die and 9 people we'd met or hung out with a short time. It is basically comparable in danger to spaceflight.
At least with videos there's a problem with videos copied from other places and monetized on Facebook, especially because they boost the FB-hosted videos over external videos and do fuck-all about it.
Like the majority of us, I also loved traveling around the world with beautiful views. Unfortunately, the pandemic has brought the world to a stand still. Therefore, I created this browser extension to experience the beautiful world virtually right from your browser and to start updating your travel list for the times when travel is safe again.

I am so looking forward to all the feedback.
Examples of how hard it is to be deliver quality experiences across different products designed by different teams. Yes, they have a design system but that’s just the UI.
I use Linux primary, but also Android, Win10, iPadOS, iOS, macOS every day. Pick a side though.
So what exactly is inherently unethical about letting this engineered organism live? Is it a violation of "Christian" ethics of playing God? If so, we've already gone way past that point with modern medicine and things like genetic engineering of mosquitoes.

If it's a fear of how society reacts to the organism surviving and causing an upheaval of life philosophy, isn't all science then unethical?
Tough luck. Maybe some people are more prone to such issues.

>sibo

A typo? An acronym?
Neat. By the time I got to level 8, I decided it was time to implement turtle commands, which made the solution to level 8 neater, then advancing to level 9 failed to load the puzzle.

Then again... perhaps the js errors on the page are the next level.
> bad at staying focused when nobody is around to peek at my screen

omg yes. It's hard to communicate to people this need for coworking and co-presence. I've tried over the years to ask for always-on remote presence tools -- always-on video or audio. Some people seem to think of these as micromanage-y employer-driven tech, but it truly helps me stay motivated and reduces anxiety/depression. Like I don't want anyone's explicit help or project management (though check-ins on one another are nice imho), but just your conscious human presence. I'm incredibly distraction-prone, but working in service of the humans around me is what helps keeps me in check.

If you're also energized by support tickets, I'd venture a guess that The Helper is a high type for you too, if you were to do the Enneagram personality test :) https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-2
- Thalidomide

- Leaded fuel, the highest ever source of lead exposure and poisoning for Humans.

- Asbestos still present in 60' to 80's construction

- Refrigerants with Ozone destroying CFCs

- 1800's arsenic pesticides still contaminate today's rice fields and most of the world's rice crops.

- DDT

- Plastics are currently leaching estrogenic-mimicking endocrine disruptors and contaminating water supplies, wildlife and Humans.

That's just a few from memory, I am sure there are more.

Edit: yes as someone else commented our grenhouse gas emissions are probably the biggest elephant in the room
Sunken boats. Stolen gear. Fishermen are prey as China conquers a strategic sea
Of course, otherwise those fancy cameras would have no market and disappear. Just like film is pretty much completely gone now, as are glass plate cameras. The truly inferior tech disappears and what's left fits some extreme niche where it surpasses the cheap consumer stuff in some way. There are things you can do with a PC that you can't with a smartphone too.
I LOVE that you provided a sample application targeting the ESP32-LyraT! While the ESP8266/ESP32 get plenty of love on HN (and elsewhere) I think the ESP ADF (audio development framework) and various boards dev boards (Lyra, Korvo, etc) are really under appreciated and essentially unknown.

I enjoy a Raspberry Pi, Jetson nano, Arduino, whatever as much as the next person but the seemingly endless stream of projects and resulting blog posts, etc featuring them can get a little old.

Great work!
No. Especially on a non-mobile screen. I used to have better-than 20/20 vision, I would guess that I now have around 20/20 vision. I find the text to be too small on the home page and scrunched up. I'm on a 4k monitor, and the front page stops at "30" and wants me to click "More" instead of loading in more posts automatically (and loading in even more as I scroll). I find this inconvenient and wasteful - I'd much rather each post take up more height, and I'd strongly prefer a "infinite" scrolling system. Even if I was on a 1080p monitor, I'd rather have each post on the front page take up double the amount of vertical space it does now than have it's current UI. The loss of information density would be (to me) well worth it.

I've switched from a mac and iPhone to Linux and Android, and as you can tell, I'm still on HN. Clearly, design isn't absolutely everything to me. But the notion that aesthetics "get in the way for the most part" is one I and most other developers I know in real life disagree with. I'd argue that HN's aesthetics get in the way. I personally have used browser extensions to change the HN CSS, due to how much I dislike the UI.
Release notes are much more useful than the commit log for understanding what's getting done. Neither shows what isn't getting done.

Of course it's the project owner's prerogative. It's just a warning too.
There's also https://github.com/localstack/localstack for the heavier services.