skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Antidote may already exist for the CCP Virus
If SARS-CoV-2 was actually a new disease the world has never seen before, nobody would have any natural immunity. It means the "coronavirus" that become SARS-CoV-2 already had existed before. It's not a new disease, it's just a modified diseased that already existed with other genetic sequences inserted. This is why the disease has similar symptoms with other coronavirus like the common flu, but includes different injuries due to those other insertions in the coronavirus.

Another critical point, that is overlooked, the coronavirus RNA mutations, which occur randomly, are never planned with intelligence. This causes the coronavirus to develop more flaws than favorable outcomes.

Why is this important to note? Because, the unfavorable flaws promote developing a natural "attenuated" SARS-CoV-2 variation that will develop natural immunity against the more deadly variations. The antidote is free from nature at the beginning of the outbreak.

The communist measures of locking down societies, forcing everyone to wear face mask and applying social distancing measures is due to "FEAR" and coercion by communist China through such organizations under communist control like the World Health Organization that prevented the world to go into Wuhan China and investigate the emergence and origins of the coronavirus to discover a natural "attenuated" SARS-CoV-2 variation to inoculate the world before the infectious disease would had left China and later mutate into worse variations like B.1.1.7, 501.V2, etcetera.

There is also the issue of the Wuhan market, communist China destroyed all the evidence, so nobody later could investigate. Communist China continues to deny all countries in the world from investigating the emergence and origins of the outbreak.

CCP virus came from China, genetically modified by CCP, censored by CCP, and the rest of the world is told we have no right to investigate the emergence and origins that the CCP had failed to contain in China?!
The fact that you think "surveillance communism" would be for society's benefit and that the idea of communist countries mass spying on their subjects is hypothetical shows how much education in this country has failed us.
This person is very clearly mixing things that he knows directly, things that he's read about in books (e.g. Amazon's strategy in the early days), and rumors that he's heard (e.g. Jeff Bezos' personal life). There's no way that a cybersecurity engineer at a company as sprawling as Amazon has reliable firsthand knowledge on so many different unrelated topics.

The writer is a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law, which is an organization I have tremendous respect for, so it's really a shame that they were naive enough to publish this.
Yes, I wanted to mention MoltenVK. That's another dependency and another layer of abstraction, which is not our way.

We'll see how it goes, maybe at some point Vulkan will be supported by Sokol, this library is growing very quickly.
There have certainly been altcoins trading where during periods where there were literately zero reachable nodes running on the internet for them.

Fun fact: Ripple actually lost some of the early history of their ledger! Everything before block 32569 was lost.
Have you signed any contracts at all in your life? The protections and restrictions from that contract are enforced by the same mechanism, via the same social contract.
Fedwire is instantaneous for US domestic transfers, whereas international Fedwire transfers to non-Fedwire banks still rely on SWIFT as far as I know. The Ripple company offers solutions to replace SWIFT using XRP as the exchange currency.
Thanks for the explanation in this and the sibling comment!
To be fair, I found social life in college boring. I wouldn’t be surprised if some students like assignments better than parties.

Exercise shouldn’t be skipped, though.
I don't know very many young PC gamers. Is the market for good gaming hardware really that small?
> It is not "an insight a child would have".

Are you sure? Children listen to janitors just as much as they listen to anyone else. One's job doesn't matter to a child; they know they can learn from anyone. Very few CEOs know this. Hell, very few ADULTS know this.

I didn't intend "an insight a child would have" to mean that such an idea is a basic thing everyone knows, I literally meant "an inside a child would have."
There is a cautious tale of moving to a red state: If enough blue state people move to a red state, they may bring the policies that destroyed the previous state with them.
For some context: a new, more easier transmissable version of the COVID-19 virus is spreading in the UK. It was identified by scientists in the UK using genome sequencing. That 'genomic surveillance' was vital to its detection. This map shows which countries are carrying out 'genomic surveillance' of COVID-19 and it's a worrying small number.

Related BBC article:

Covid: New variant found due to UK's genomic surveillance system

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55413666
wasn't this called Hijax back in the day?

https://domscripting.com/blog/display/41
Also remember that in most ways, wireless is more like a hub, than using a switch. Fundamentally all wireless peers share the bandwidth (they can share it differently, but they share) - with a typical ethernet switch (i haven't seen a hub in years, let alone coax...) - you get 1gbps duplex between any two peers simultaneously (these day probably without much problems at 1gbps, depending on hardware at higher speeds and multiple ports - but much closer than with wireless, anyway).

I think the "leap" to 10gbps was a bit too far for consumer grade switches - and "too fast" - faster than your SSD - so it didn't make much sense. Hight cost, low real world benefit.

In a lot of situations, you'll likely only use 10gbps in order for your NAS to talk to multiple clients, each around 1-2gbps duplex.
Rust did a good thing by creating its own niche. D has constantly tried to appeal C++ programmers, implementing features such as better interop with C++ and a lot of advanced template structures. But C++ programmers won't go to D anyway, any language with a GC is dead in C++ programmers' eyes, even if it's reasonable argument or not.
Why do so many people on this thread not understand how a one-year cliff works?

The OP already has 40% of nothing. He has to earn that 40% over 4 years but if he leaves within the first year he gets nothing. All he has within the first 12 months is the promise of potentially 40% of something if he sticks around for 4 years.

But honestly, as the lawyer in this thread said, this was a crummy deal from the get go. FOUNDERS (rather than employees) should get Founder shares, which are immediately vested. There can be conditions for "claw back" which allow the company to buy back / vest back shares for an early departure, but founders shouldn't have to "earn in" their share into a company that they start. After all, they started it. It's an odd idea indeed if all the founders have a 1-yr cliff because then in the first year no one technically owns anything!

When they say "otherwise you'll own 40% of nothing", it's not even clear what they mean. Do they imply that they will dissolve the company and form a new one without you leaving you to hold an empty shell company?

At best you can argue for your 1 yr cliff value, which is 10%. You're not in the position to negotiate between 40% or 3%. You can only negotiate between 3% and 10% because there's no way you're going to earn the 40% over 4 years.
Any way you slice it, Apple made the right choice.
In light of shake-ups at the US Post Office in 2020, this ... smells funny.

"The rumors that I hear, both internal and external, are that we're very seriously interested in acquiring post office real estate. The reason why the post office is valuable to privatize is because of their real estate holdings. They have great real estate in every downtown of every city in the United States. Amazon may be interested in buying all of the post office locations, and we have the cash to do it. So why not?"
Yeah it's interesting since he becomes a blend of himself and V's personality.

I liked the story and world ultimately, I think people just like to have 'contrarian' takes on something popular as a way to signal how smart they are.

Probably too harshly worded, but it's a recurring thing I've noticed.
If we're doing his biography, he also created "42", a free (as in, "you don't need to pay any money") coding bootcamp based on the principles and general philosophy of the school Epitech.

It's a very project-oriented cursus, where the students have total freedom to decide how they work as long as they pass the very strict requirements of each project. To keep costs down, students have to grade each other and use mostly automated resources.

I'm not sure if the school is sustainable (I think it's supposed to be funded by alumni donations), but it's a really cool venture.

They recently opened a chapter in California.
Yep - many, if not most, factories staff these positions themselves. It fits in with their existing maintenance, assembly, cleaning, warehouse type roles.

It's mainly white collar places that don't know how, or don't want to, hire anyone who does blue collar work.
> but what happens if the system _really works_ for us... What if a computer can match mine and another one's happiness with a % of success that it's impossible for me to match, what happens then?

since any system has to start with a set of assumptions and expectations, and based on feedback loops for what works and what doesnt, always optimizing for what "works", wouldnt such a system more and more narrow itself down to a limited scope of outcomes and possibilities that basically we stop being peoole and turn more and more into basically narcisistic psycophants?

wouldnt it basically be the end of evolution and society?
That's not the networking performance though. RP4 can hit line speed on Gb Ethernet:
pi@kodi:~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep Rasp
Model : Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1
pi@kodi:~ $ uname -a
Linux kodi 5.4.72-v7l+ #1356 SMP Thu Oct 22 13:57:51 BST 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux
pi@kodi:~ $ iperf -c 192.168.0.39
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.0.39, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 214 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 192.168.0.214 port 44960 connected with 192.168.0.39 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.04 GBytes 891 Mbits/sec
What was the other game?
WSJ is great, and also paywalled for most
What is web scraping, and why you might want to use it?
In fact, for quite a few fish they do, ditto amphibians and insects too.

Mammals are the exception here, there the environment for replication is an integral part of the body of the parent. But in all those other cases, including, technically, marsupials it isn't.
That’s fine. I’m taking philosophy courses toward my minor and they tend to be impossible to fail. Having said that, I spend huge amounts of time doing the readings and writing the papers. I don’t need to, but I do anyway.

When I talk about students taking bird courses, I mean the kind where they never show up to class and just memorize a bunch of stuff before the midterm. They walk away with an 80, completely satisfied, having learned nothing.
Experts Release Open Letter: Covid-19 Preys on Those with Vitamin D Deficiency
Hard to put a price on reputation, but I suspect they have a harder time raising money for their Neom project
"On Backorder
Order now, your card will not be charged until it is ready to ship."

Generally, this means "a long time". I've been waiting 6 months for a recommended underwater camera, still nada.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is the crypto "ecosystem"?
Single all in one modem/router/access points are popular because they are incredibly easy go set up and that is about it.

The only people who don't run Ethernet cable are those who are too lazy to bother.

The second any sort of performance becomes important you will need to find dedicated devices with Ethernet running inbetween.

My parent's house is 100% wireless however I had to run extended lengths of Cat 5e to set up multiple wireless access points. We have multiple 4k TVs on different sides of the house. There was no way we could keep decent speeds and wireless coverage without running cable.

Even for my Android phone. I will occaisonally use a wired Ethernet connection to speed up downloads.
Do you mean countries/municipalities or do you mean rentals or properties? For the latter: the flat I own in the UK came with leasehold rules prohibiting pets in general, and “no pets” appears to be a common prohibition in the UK rental market.
I am very happy there is a split government. I would much rather one party control the House, and the other to control the Senate. Presidency is a toss up, but I'm personally grateful the next two years will be completely stagnant.
Interestingly enough, back in the day when ripple was first starting it was heavily promoted by the wall street crowd as being superior to bitcoin because it was "regulated". The logic was that ripple could better be incorporated into the traditional financial system because it would be easier to allow for know your customer and anti-money laundering compliance.

As someone who is a huge supporter of decentralized/unregulated crypto like BTC, I am just laughing my butt off watching the SEC rip ripple to pieces like this. Hope it shuts down.
In the context of an electronics course, I consider it relevant that he asked someone else to do his electronics project.

Apart from that, I see "great showman" as a compliment. I watch BBC nature documentaries because David Attenborough is an amazing narrator. I don't care how much work he does on the movie apart from narrating it. I have the same view on Mark Rober. I don't usually care what or if he does something, I just want to see him present it in an interesting way. And he is amazing at the latter.
Show HN: TODOx a personal task manager for desktops
Everyone who is talking about how the route the industry took with SPAs was just a silly mistake, and that we should go back to the good old days of PHP are forgetting that at the end of the day the most important thing is to choose the best tool for the job at hand.

This, while very interesting and might have a preferable set of constraints for some projects, is simply not a good fit for many others, as you mentioned in your comment. This looks amazing, and I would definitely try it for a project in which it would fit, but I don't really see a reason to disparage the work others have been doing over the past decade. We need those other tools too!

(sorry for the rant)
Using a HorizontalPodAutoscaler [1] you can scale up and down the amount of "pods" (a grouping of containers that are scheduled as a unit) based on the desired metric.

[1]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-...
Planet with 15K Year Orbit Suggests Earth's Search for Planet 9 Has Barely Begun
Autoscaling is a field of its own, yes. Lots of footguns, though.
We had to remove the womb of my brother-in-law's lady Pug because she had pyometra [1], if he hadn't noticed it on time the poor creature would have most probably ended up dead. Me and my life companion now own a 3-month old border collie and we're not planning on castrating him (granted, we live in Europe, not in the US).

[1] https://www.bluecross.org.uk/pet-advice/pyometra-dogs
Condemning the establishment of peaceful diplomatic relations between Israel and Morocco is just bizarre. They haven't established a military alliance.
In terms of written fiction, Greg Egan's Amalgam setting has all the space-capable denizens of our outer galaxy effectively in a vast sprawling Utopia. Figuring out what to do with yourself in that circumstance is the story driver.

The Neil Gaiman run of Miracleman is about the Utopia constructed by Miracleman during the Alan Moore run of Utopia. Presumably the next series is about how that goes tragically wrong, but it has never been published. But the Golden Age (Gaiman run) is pretty interesting. People living in a Utopia are still people.
You're right it's not all cut and dry.

The two things that use the most battery in a phone are the radio and the screen.

If you can do most of the work client side, the phone can turn off the radio and save battery. The amount of battery savings of course depends greatly on what the application is actually doing.
A tcc backend is mentioned—can someone point me to that?

P.S. This language looks amazing
This article is interesting because not only are its claims implausible, they are also completely nonsensical on their own terms.

If the company really could make a salinity gradient engine that was efficient and practical enough to be used in an automobile, then why on earth bother to make and sell the car? Just make and sell the engine! The owners would quickly become among the richest people on earth. Why waste time actually making the car, which lots of people already know how to do. Just sell the engines or license the technology to the car makers.
So how do you explain all of the programs caught doing the things you say wouldn't happen?
People often conflate use with abuse.

The bad experiences stick out to people, whereas all the well behaved JS-heavy apps out there likely don't even register as such to most people.

Even with SPAs, it's very possible (and really not that hard) to make them behave well. Logically, even a large SPA should use less overall data than a comparable server-rendered app over time. A JS bundle is a bigger initial hit but will be cached, leaving only the data and any chunks you don't have cached yet to come over the wire as you navigate around. A server-rendered app needs to transmit the entire HTML document on every single page load.

Of course, when you see things like the newer React-based reddit, which chugs on any hardware I have to throw at it, I can sort of see where people's complaints come from.
A lot of things are inappropriate for HN, but the masses up-vote and the mods manipulate, and what you get is...well, what you get.
Many statements made with certainty about an era about which we know absolutely nothing for sure.
Thank you for the next book on my reading list :)
Installing APK outside of Google Play and breaking system libraries on your phone is different things. First is easy and plenty of people do it. Certainly more than 0.1%. Second might not be easy and I don't know why even 0.1% would want to do that.
Quote from the letter:

> Vitamin D modulates thousands of genes and many aspects of immune function, both innate and adaptive. The scientific evidence shows that:

> Higher vitamin D blood levels are associated with lower rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

> Higher D levels are associated with lower risk of a severe case (hospitalization, ICU, or death).

> Intervention studies (including RCTs) indicate that vitamin D can be a very effective treatment.

> Many papers reveal several biological mechanisms by which vitamin D influences COVID-19.

> Causal inference modelling, Hill’s criteria, the intervention studies & the biological mechanisms indicate that vitamin D’s influence on COVID-19 is very likely causal, not just correlation.
Q: 1a. How come today, for home use, WiFi seems to exceed the price/performance of hard-wired? Is the Ethernet standard lagging, or lack of interest/demand, or some more physical barrier?

A: WiFi does not exceed the price/performance of hard-wired Ethernet. They are different enough it is difficult to compare properly - for instance, for wired Ethernet, do you include the cost of the wire installation, termination, etc? I don't think it is reasonable to include - complex wiring gets more expensive - potentially by an order of magnitude! Fiber can be much more expensive than copper.. or cheaper. Fiber transcievers get very expensive for very long distances (miles) etc.

So to do a simple comparison - 10GbE vs. Wifi. Let assume you are adding these to a computer which doesn't have them. The Wifi adapter is $26.90
A 2.5GbE adapter is $30

What about the network switch? (or wifi access point) Typically with wired ethernet, you do this as a "cost per port" - currently about $25/port on the low end (rated at 10Gbps, by the way, but able to step down to 2.5Gbps).

This (top performing "high end") Wifi router runs $250. It may officially support 200+ clients but that just means it can theoretically talk to them at all. Good luck pushing actual data to/from them! In practice, to match up in cost/performance with a 10 port ethernet switch, it would need to drive the full 2.5Gbps for 10 clients simultaneously! I guarantee you it can't.

And the price equation only gets better if you go full 10Gbps - which is probably the "sweet spot" right now for price/performance, buying in SOHO-sized quantities.

Q1b: The ethernet standard is pretty excellent, and currently goes to 400Gbps, and if you have the cash to buy 400Gbps equipment - you can basically expect it to work to spec - if the switch fabric says it will support X Tbps concurrently - it will. Good luck with that on Wifi.

There is a TON of demand - you just don't see it in your house. Or your neighbor's house. Or your friend's house.

You should though! Ethernet is AWESOME - and back when we had wired landlines, people ran those wires all over their house. It isn't that hard, or that expensive, and you'll get MUCH better, more predictable performance from doing it, and moving as many devices as you can to wired ethernet. Even your WiFi access point benefits from an ethernet cable running to a location where it's signal works best, rather than some closet off in the corner of your house.

Q2: Related, for somebody who wants reliability, is Ethernet/wired still a sane choice, or does that just make them an old geezer? In urban setting with overlapping wifi cards all blasting full strength at their neighbours, is real-life wifi performance actually near as good as wired performance?

A: No, real life wifi is nowhere near as good as ethernet. Switch to ethernet as much as you can! Of course, it doesn't make much sense to run an ethernet cable to the tablet you read sitting on your couch. But every desk, printer(?), your WAP(s), etc.
My job involves scanning damaged codes of both types on a regular basis. QR codes are way more reliable than you'd expect, and will often scan even with partial codes, on damaged labels. Barcodes meanwhile always need a complete code to work.
> Legislation is an unstable and unfair method of change that is biased towards people who can afford to partake in it.

whats the solution then?
I mostly agree. On the other hand, the existence of hdmi/thunderbolt switches/chaining kinda proves there's life for networking at 10gbps and beyond - 4k@100hz stereoscopic video etc.

But for better or worse, we didn't get ethernet for that.
My mistake. I indeed did make that exact mistake. Thank you for correcting me.
We gotta wait and see what Strada has in store. Looks like Basecamp and Hey mobile apps are fairly good.
> international Fedwire transfers to non-Fedwire banks still rely on SWIFT as far as I know

International wires are a bit of a mess. But there are alternatives to SWIFT.

Also, SWIFT is just a messaging protocol. The actual settlement is handled separately. This was Ripple’s original pitch, but it changed along the way.
Related HN discussion about the SEC’s suit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25510979
Hi, I'm the person who introduced the term "virtue signalling" into this thread. I stand by it. When allegiance to certain political forces is considered virtuous, being a member can be a signal of virtue to other members of the party.

Virtue is relative, not objective.