skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made a new point, so am I missing my own point? Confused.

> Obviously if people were only contagious if showing symptoms, the pandemic wouldn't be.

I don't think that is obviously the case at all. It would have to be proved. The dominant vectors of contagion are not yet well understood - we could be dealing with very highly infectious airborne virus, that is capable of spreading widely from a relatively small number of symptomatic and pre-symptomatic super spreaders.

The fact remains that current public health interventions orientate around isolating individuals whether they are symptomatic, asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic. Moreover, to greater and lesser degrees we also isolate the healthy, assuming them to be asymptomatic in an abundance of caution. Considering the negative non-covid related knock on effects of these policies its at least worth investigating isn't it?
Good-bye ESNI, hello ECH
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by blind stupid malice.
The move towards functional linux phones are moving forward and with noticeable steps, and when my libre 5 phone arrive it will be interesting to see how close they have gotten. That said, my expectations are low when it comes to the base set in daily use:

1) managing 3G/2G network. There seems to be quite a few hacks in the telecom infrastructure and I have long suspected that mobile phone operating systems are simply expected to handle each unique occurrence. I expect calls will occasionally fail, especially for answering and calling, but also in transitioning between networks.

2) Bluetooth audio support for calling is already known to be broken. I can only hope it will be fixed some time in the future, but I suspect different devices for handing handsfree calls will have their own hacks which won't be supported.

3) As the article alluded to, the GPS software has a bunch of hacks to address short comings. I am expecting there to be both long delays at finding signals and strange jumps in accuracy. Since my personal interaction with a GPS tend to be in moments where delays will be very noticeable, like when you entered the car and waiting for the map to show where to go before starting the car, delays and inaccuracy will be noticeable in such use.

4) For music it will need to interact with other devices, especially over Bluetooth, and I strongly suspect each manufacturer has it own hacks in how to do track progression, rewind/forward, play lists and so on.

5) Android app support. Here I have some hope that Anbox will work. I am however worried that a lot of apps will break in strange ways when run in a emulator from missing dependencies or strange hacks.
That does not mean it uses a different public IP address that communicate with the rest of the intermet, I have seen dozens of such public/private wifi systems, abd never seen one with a separate public IP
The Art of Not Selling
I continued reading, what a rabbit hole. Apparently the cause of MS Estonia's sinking, as documented in that Atlantic article, is bogus.

New evidence points to a submarine collision and tampering of evidence in the initial 1994 investigation:

* https://news.err.ee/1140442/head-of-ms-estonia-investigation...

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/04/maybe-now-well...

The whole shebang, with "crazy conspiracy theories", ridiculed for decades for claiming a hole in the hull and weapons transported onboard, now vindicated. What a mess.
Blame the World Health Organization.

> Countries may gain time in the short-term as they limit travel to fight the new coronavirus pandemic, but the World Health Organization thinks overall that “it doesn't help to restrict movement," a top adviser to the U.N. health agency's chief said Thursday.

https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/13/world-health-organizatio...
Coronavirus: How can we imagine the scale of Covid's death toll?
West Germany did much the same with all roads and train tracks crossing into East Germany and Czechoslovakia. There were pre-made holes in the roads to blast craters into them. Bridges and tunnels were prepared similarly. It was also rumored that the explosive charges were mounted in place all the time, but I don't believe that part anymore.
> And with a single monolith you can comfortably handle several thousand concurrent users, not just several hundred.

That depends on what kind of service you offer, of course.
And they stand to gain far more than someone working for $20 an hour.

Over the last 50 years the values of investments have far far outpaced growth in earnings. If a millionaire doesn't invest and make captial gains, what does he do with his money? Keep it in a box under the bed?
I haven't been able to play hyperbolic tabletop games since I lost my hyperbolic table in my last move. YMMV.
The best part is how, if we accept literally all the unjustified precepts of why they went in guns drawn, you then can look at the reasoning and question why, if it's that dangerous, did they go to the house at all?

What, this was so time-sensitive that we couldn't pick her up with a traffic stop when she was out of the house?

At every conceivable junction, the police create dangerous situations and then use the danger to justify escalating them to violence.
There isn't any evidence for serious side-effects from mRNA vaccines. The vaccines have undergone significant testing, and they're not doing anything magical.

If you're going to insinuate that the vaccines have significant risks, you should provide some evidence. (This bar should also be a bit higher in my opinion in the middle of a public health emergency.)

Compare a statement like "5g has great potential, but I'm really, really concerned about the health risks of 5g towers". I'd expect that to get voted down too unless you had some remarkable evidence.
Old school Bond films can't be beaten - for a whole range of reasons. The storylines are absolutely chaotic and hilarious in equal measure.
> If capital gains are taxed the same, you will find that there will be less investments, which leads to less jobs and less wealth overall.

So you're saying people don't work because they are taxed at a higher rate than capital gains?
Haha yes, good point - nothing with video ^_^
Kind of annoying to have a review and not have a single picture of the phones, screenshots, etc. Yes, I can google them myself, but c'mon.

Also $1999 and the camera doesn't work yet? Yikes.
I think that’s a use-case for Nanopore in general, but they explicitly call out that the app here is only useable against small genomes (Virus/Bacteria). I actually really prefer the movement away from optical reads and using smarter materials, some of the PacBio stuff is still optical but is focused on single cell work mediated by nano-materials as well which is interesting.

The part I was really interested in was why portability matters, instead of just having a bench-top Nanopore. I think the idea is that it will be more hobbyist friendly, would be fun to sequence random stuff while hiking. My concern is that the market for these devices isn’t actually that large, as any place doing meaningful analytics is probably going to want a bench top unit.

Looking at the prices, now, though I think $1,000 for the minION is about what I’d be willing to pay for that vs a $50,000 benchtop unit. The fact that it does RNA too is huge, as that has a lot of benefits to doing it as close to site of harvest.
They weren't lost, this politician just talked some nonsense

"die Logistikbasis der Armee hätte ihn darüber informieren können, denn trotz ihren Informatik-Problemen hat sie den Bestand an M-113 und M-109 säuberlich registriert, wie mehrere Stellen im Verteidigungsdepartement betonen.
Thank you for the explanation. I'm really out of my depth when it comes to hardware.
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This is a good idea. Can you point me to guides for setting up this multi-build with Flutter/Android Studio and Fastlane?
The way I see it, some commenters here keep holding on to their 'html is content, css is styling' mantra because, well, all of us old-schoolers have held to that for a long time.

Some of us realized it never really works in practice, and never really made sense in the first place (as many here and in the past have argued). Others decide to hold on to the mantra and feel a need to be arrogant or dismissive to those they disagree with.

I respect fellow front-enders who are happy doing things their way. Not everyone needs Tailwind. But it's frustrating to and honestly somewhat baffling to see a bunch of them dig their heels in the sand and defend their approach by assuming all the rest of us just "don't know CSS". It's a minority, but a vocal one.
As this rolls out I thought Derek Lowe had a good point to make

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/12/04/ge...

When you vaccinate this many people, you will have those people die, get heart attacks, strokes, cancer, etc. Why? Because that would have happened to them anyways, vaccine or not.

So don’t freak out when “issues” start to crop up. Wait until someone has a done a proper analysis to see if the “issue” is actually related to the vaccine.
This too is excellent advice.

Start off with a monolith if it makes most sense (in terms of simplicity / MVP) but from the start keep future scalability in mind and plan for it.

I like this.
Vertical Farm in Copenhagen reimagines sustainable food
I wish that people with this mindset could be denied entry to Europe even for vacationing.

They are aware of the context, they know that they are entering a house where also a husband and two children are living. What makes them believe that they pose any kind of threat?

I'm not expecting them to ask for a coffee and discuss the matter and further proceedings at the table, but threatening everybody with a firearm like that?
I'd like to see a report on finding Setun[1]. Ternary computer is a real marvel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
> "Aren't magistrate judges supposed to take the police's word for this?"

What do you imagine is the point of having one? It's to hold police accountable and Judge if what he/she being told is potentiality total BS.
American freedom under the 1st & 4th amendments require "deadman switches" and "ditch protection", the false advertising about the US was really effective...
This.

The idea that people are planning 'vaccine holidays' is bizarre.
> In Europe the risk of having someone greet you with an assault rifle is non-existent, because people just can't buy them.

Are you stupid enough to actually believe this? My uncle was put in prison for over a decade for robbing banks in the UK. He slept with a shotgun under his pillow (the police found it there when they arrested him).

Believe it or not criminals do have guns in the UK (police confiscate guns all the time), as well as as other weapons which are illegal (swords, machetes, nun-jucks). Recently police raided a warehouse (near where I live) where they were making firearms.

Also I am pretty sure guns were illegal in Northern Ireland as well and plenty of terrorists and criminals had them at the time.

It really annoys me when people try to claim the opposite (or gaslight me) by saying "well they banned all the guns that means that there isn't any" because I know it isn't true.
Does such a tracker exist now?

I only know of https://senatestockwatcher.com
I've been thinking of switching to Artix with s6 and this project seems similar. Could someone give me a rundown of some of the differences?

I can see it layers over s6 with 66 for service management.
Show HN: Wealthx.ai – Investing advice supercharged by algorithms
Apple Could Ban Apps Not Following iOS14 Anti-Tracking Rules Says Software Chief
On this note, I started a little project to convert Travis.yml workflows to GitHub Actions: https://akx.github.io/travis-to-github-actions/

Currently it deals with rudimentary Python and Node.js workflows, but contributions are naturally welcome.
New Search UX for Algolia (YC W14) Docs
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Yes if dumping was a continuous practice then we'd all be living off the largess of the dumpers, but it's a temporary practice used to drive out competition before jacking up the prices once dominance is restored. De Beers provide an excellent case study in the application of this tactic.
As someone with a causal passing interest in the cold war and nuclear weapons, yes this is public knowledge. How to build a blast shelter or fallout shelter was widely disseminated in the cold war for citizens to build their own. Overpressure protection and NBC air filtration is just part of building a good shelter. The filtration systems are not some exotic radiation neutralizing material, they are just filters to catch irradiated particles and keep them from entering the shelter and being breathed in. If anything, the pictures of the bunkers showing their camouflage design and locations would be the biggest disclosure, but even that is obviously not an issue at this point.
Great list, but half of the entry link is dead.
Swiss nightclub, shuttered by Covid-19, reborn as blood donation centre
True, but not all, just most of them.
Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH
Why does it have to be a premium for getting a fixed budgetable amount?

If they ship millions of containers, surely they can work out an efficient solution.

Yes, at some point they need a lawyer and what not. But not every single time somebody wants to ship a container. They work it out once and that's it. Even if the lawyer costs 100 million dollars, if they ship millions of containers every year, they can scale the cost down to one dollar per container in the end.

The system to only ask for money in case of accidents doesn't actually make it cheaper or less complicated. There simply is the inherent "cost" (a ka expected loss) of accidents, that you have to pay one way or another. There may also be people who don't want to pay, and then you still need your lawyer.

My travel insurance is very cheap, by the way.

Insurance is an old and established business, many learnings already exists. The industry presumably is quite good at estimating and pricing risks.
51% of images on Docker Hub have critical vulnerabilities [pdf]
I dont think I disagree, but isn't this standard practice when there is suspicion that evidence might be destroyed had they just knocked at the door.

They did the same thing to General Flynn, IIRC.
Fox News watching nurse?
Priority groups for coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccination: advice from the JCVI
If the healthcare worker is overworked, then the hospital should hire more worker.

Its not like there is not enough healthcare worker looking for employment all over the country.

The lockdown was needless because it is worse than the risk if covid.
Person with damage to the right brain hemisphere can develop a “joke addiction”
Sorry, but she was the soft target of the investigation. As you (hopefully) know her house was only one of the warrants executed on that day.

From NPR: "The purpose of the raid on Taylor's home was to find evidence linking her to an ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, a convicted felon with a history of drug trafficking, according to court documents.

Police didn't find any.

Now it appears prosecutors attempted to tie Taylor to a life of crime after her death." [0]

Now color me sceptical, but that appears to be an interesting argument if she's not a target as you continue to incorrectly posit.

Please top spreading misinformation.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/02/908625259/prosecutors-plea-of...
The behavior of American police behavior cannot be explained by the number that have been shot. That number has been trending downwards over the last few decades:

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

Regardless, the current actions in question were inexcusable even if police incorrectly believe they are in increasing danger in general. They simply had no reason to be brandishing firearms in this specific case.
Is Kotlin Living Up to Its Programming Language Hype?
Well said. I guess it's a good example of how metrics can be useful but not definitive.
in case some dont know:

proton is a config shim around wine and dxvk (both foss).

wine is a 27year old project that does the bulk of the work.

credit where credit is due.
While I posit that the Internet is humanity's greatest invention, it still has yet to be utilized in a net positive way.
Mankind has made contact with an alien
What stops pfizer from selling directly to customers?
You don't get rabies by someone sneezing behind you in a poorly ventilated area.
LOL! It's the proverbial goose that lays golden eggs --- with a modern AI twist.

If you really had such a creature, why would you tell others about it?

If Donald Trump really had a secret way to get rich in real estate, would he sell it to you --- or use it himself?
How to predict growth after being on Hacker News
Out of curiosity, are any of those projects public?
Why would this be a bad thing? Jetbrains is not a charity, and their free open source license is in order to support people who can't otherwise pay for a license, not to make another company's balance sheet look better on their dime.
No beating it in a porous country of 330 million people.
I think the argument here is essentially that of the prisoner's dilemma. A system or game can put two rational (or we can say ethical for the purposes of this argument) actors in a position where the most rational/ethical decision isn't the most ideal for all parties.

You can argue that the individual acting in a self-interested way is the problem, or you can argue that the system itself is the problem.

I'd have to agree with the parent comment - it's complicated.
How it’s “meant” to be is that you’re asked for where you’re registered, and your NHS records are pulled up, and if you’re not registered at a GP practice or in the NHS system you get a bill
Remember that in 6 other countries, 20,000 people have received this vaccine as part of the phase 3 trial.

https://www.pfizer.com/science/coronavirus/vaccine
Not NHS, but what’s stopping private companies from purchasing from pfizer at 10x markup and selling to willing customers?
In the last three years four police officers were killed in the line of duty in the UK. Two by motor vehicles, one by stabbing, and one by gunshot (inside a police station). The gunshot death was the first in eight years and one of seven in the last 20 years. It happens, but it is rare.

In contrast, 44 police officers were shot and killed in 2019 in the US.

(Also, including phrases like "are you stupid" in comments just makes you look foolish)
You are not looking at the whole picture here.

The uk is vaccinating according to risk of death, and risk of occupying a hospital bed first. Not the risk of catching or passing it.

THe big concern in this pandemic has been hospital usage. once your hospital is full everyone starts dying not just covid patients. We were about two/four weeks away from collapse in london in april.
The programming language Occam, in its time the primary language to program Transputers, did not have operator precedence, so you had to use parentheses for anything.
It was a huge pain, but probably still better than avoiding the edge cases of what you describe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_(programming_language)
This made me remember something about castles...

I was wondering, how useful are ancient castles in modern battles? Armchair generals all over the planet kept prattling about them being useless because modern weaponry is awesome and all...

Then I went to look properly:

1. Kerak de Chevaliers, yes, that one crusader castle, was occupied during the Syrian war, and gave a hard time to the enemy outside, the castle worked exactly as intended, even with modern weapons.

2. Ditto to a bunch of other castles in some past wars.

3. A fortified monastery gave enemies a hard time in WW2 in Italy, I forgot its name now.

4. Not exactly "ancient castle", but a "star fort" in France was captured in the opening days of Battle of Verdun, in part because the french leadership believed castles to be outdated and didn't garrisoned it properly... the result was that the attempts to retake the fort resulted in 100.000 casualties on the French side before they succeeded.

5. Also in Verdun there was a smaller fort, the commander of that fort was old and the military ordered him to retire for medical reasons, he refused and basically "kept" the fort as his own, with a small garrison, the old guy and his small garrison fought fiercely against the invading Germans and caused 3000 casualties to the Germans before they lost.
I was intrigued by the technical aspects of the enterprise he engaged in, but I do appreciate your perspective.
> "going into dangerous situations" thing - plenty of professions get required to do that (paramedics, firemen) and manage to be both unarmed and not shoot people all the time.

Firemen, in fact, take every precaution they can before going into a blaze, such as flame retardant suits and breathing masks.

A gun does not stop fire and fire does not shoot back at you, nor has any intelligence to work around predictable defenses. A human has that intelligence, so the only way to safely handle an armed man that does not want to cooperate is with extreme, overpowering violence.
Perhaps it is a scam?
> noone is obese from eating too many potatoes

You get obese from eating too many calories, source is irrelevant. Sugars and refined foods are dangerous because they are particularly addictive. But if you crave carbs, and think potatoes are a "healthy" way to satisfy that craving, you're very wrong.
Heck even if it came in a box the size of the full starship Enterprise
No, he got into trouble because he has trespassed into territory of an active military radar installment [0] (for obvious reasons he filmed only the defunct part). Try to get into a similar US military base, film it, publish results and see for yourself how "someone up top" would like your actions.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFNqsBaIWk0