skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “It was quite unusual. Up to that point, the virus had been characterised by having a relatively slow mutational rate, maybe two variations a month. Suddenly out of nowhere we’ve got this large cluster featuring mutations that were significantly different to what we’d looked at before.”

This is just completely untrue. The mutation rate, as far as I'm aware, is not changed. We've been tracking mutations to the virus since its emergence, and there are literally thousands of strains:

https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global

Perhaps public health in the UK was not tracking mutations, but suddenly discovering that a situation exists is not prima facie evidence of a crisis. The circumstance here seems to be that the people involved in this particular project decided to start looking for things, and as is usual when you start looking for things in science, you find things. This is amplified by the fact that S-gene dropout made them more aware of this particular strain than most, since it mucked up their PCR tests.

(Edit: also, you can see that strains rising/falling to/from local dominance has been seen repeatedly throughout 2020. This, in itself, is not an exceptional finding, despite the article's attempt to paint it as such. B.1.1.7 does seem to be selectively advantaged in a more general way, but again, that's not prima facie evidence of a crisis. Just because a strain has a selective advantage over other strains does not mean that the strain is more dangerous -- and so far, all claims to this extent have been quite weak. For example, the claims that B.1.1.7 are more lethal have been called into question with later, better research. [1])

[1] https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/92057
You need to realize it to pay back the loan. No free lunch.
I really miss the defunct `media="handheld"` attribute.

That said, available layout area and the kind of user interaction available to an interface are separate concerns. So can we have `media="touch-only"`, please?
>So this seems pretty obvious to me

If you extend the logic to other sentences they become similarly problematic. In other words, clearly it's bad to execute an innocent person. But it's also bad to imprison them for life, or 30 years or 20 years or 10 years and so on. There's no clear reason to draw the line at execution but not at life imprisonment.
Vigilantibus non dormientibus aequitas subvenit.

The principles of laches may still apply and provide a defence for Cellebrite if Apple makes an "unreasonable delay".
Ask HN: Could someone help a dev out with this ludicrous Regex task?
> I exaggerated in my post, but the general difference is: in US to access high paying jobs, you can either live in city centres where rent is sky high, or suburbs which are very car-centric. This is not compelling to many Europeans. I might not be earning six-digit salary, but I don't share a room with 3 people and don't live in a van (this is probably grotesque but there were many stories like that on HN alone).

Rent in SF-NY is high, but it's not that high. It's far less than the extra money that you make. $3k/month will get you a nice apartment just for yourself, no roommates. $4k/month will get you something awesome.

On $150k/year, which is what my students make as their entry-level salaries at Google and friends, you can buy an apartment in almost every metro area in the US so that you don't even need a car. As a mid career developer you can easily afford a house even in SF-NY. I don't even have a driver's license...

> Even if as an employee of FAANG I would get a good health insurance, the way the system works overall for average folk just doesn't make me feel like living in such a system.

That's the thing. The US works for the people in the top 5% and is pretty bad for the people in the bottom 90%.

> And as someone with a "preexisting condition" I'm actually not sure how my case would be treated in case I wanted to apply for a visa.

Visas don't have healthcare checks. You'll be fine.
Exactly - I have no easy way to tell if something is "USB USB-C" or "TB3 or TB4 USB-C" especially on the adapters. It's frustrating getting everything hooked up.
Andong did a deep dive on it and the norway genesis isn't the full story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k4x9FrD5k4
Video isn't truly irrefutable. Two people can look at the same video and draw different conclusions. You can see this anywhere from instant replay review in sports to some people's reactions to the Chauvin verdict.
Ideally, both users get their way. The web developer should be able to just say "button" and have the browser decide how big it should be, based on the user's preference and what is appropriate for the platform.
> StackOverflow deliberately removed Clojure from their surveys

How? When? Why?
> dozens of independent entities

or one entity operating dozens of nodes? droplets are cheap, pwned windows boxes even cheaper. they don't even have to be cheap by regular Joe standards, they could be cheap by nation state, or ransomware gang standards. the point is there's no way to prove they are decentralized. this is an intrinsic, structural property of the cryptocurrency model, thus it is not a mere technical defect that will get solved "in the future"

proving decentralization would require zero privacy, because you'd have to prove independent nodes are indeed independent and not part of a cartel, which means you'd have to somehow prove who operates each one.

nothing but faith-based decentralization here, as with all cryptocurrencies.
Just so you know, you appear to have been shadowbanned. I'm not sure why, probably for having a new account and getting quickly downvoted in this thread. (Admittedly you come across slightly strong, but... not outside of what I think is reasonable, so I dunno what's going on.)

I do recommend participating more in other threads and a little less in this thread, where you're repeating pretty much the same point over and over.
The title is false.

They stopped publishing WM1NS, the weekly, non-seasonally adjusted version.

They still publish https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL, the monthly, seasonally adjusted version.

One could perhaps hold a theory about how the seasonal adjustment (or monthly smoothing?) occlude some important dynamics. But the headline as-written ("Fed has stopped publishing the M1 money stock data") is not true.
no, our brains are overwhelmingly biased toward smallness (i.e., 1, 2, 3, 5) and the short-term (which is just a special case of the smallness bias)--a consequence of the evolutionary advantage of inferring potential danger from tiny sample sizes. once a phenomenon gets beyond our ability to relativistically comprehend, as in 10 or 30 years (i.e., thousands of days), our brains can't effectively differentiate the consequences and treat them as essentially equal.
Web What is it good for?
Is this nefarious, negligence, or something else?

I thought M2 (velocity) was what mattered in most contemporary inflation measurements, but I can't pretend I understand MMT. Anyone feel like explaining to a layman what's going on here?
I don’t need to look it up, I know what it is.

The proposal would hit every business not just a few tech giants.
Have fun with the schema :) It will do what you need though!
I assume that the SALT limitation will be removed by this administration, as it was punitive and not grounded in effective policy.
Do you know why Sia is overlooked so often? I see a lot of shills on forums and the founder seems to tweet bitterly about Filecoin, but folks seem optimistic about the tech. So what am I missing that makes Sia not get adoption vs. Filecoin?
> Given how poorly most software teams are run, I do not think this is demonstrably true.

OK, but one does not "fix" organizational problems by adding more layers of PM.
Just for everybody to be in the same page.

Blockchain is not used for distributed storage itself. Existing concepts like IPFS are used for this. Blockchain is used to confirm that someone is storing certain data and to verify it's integrity through an additional protocol.

From ipfs.io about Blockchain

>With IPFS, you can address large amounts of data and put immutable, permanent links in transactions — timestamping and securing content without having to put the data itself on-chain.

Please correct me if I am wrong.
Looks like they are still doing monthly reporting. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
Digging for performance gold: finding hidden performance wins
What does this even mean for whoever is not educated in this area?
There's no effect to the best of my knowledge. Long sentences appear to be a tool for gaining votes and wasting taxpayer resources rather than correcting behaviour.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180514-do-long-prison-s...
In the case of Storj, I believe that the redundancy between storage nodes is sufficient that something like only 20 out of 80 nodes need to respond in order to restore your data.
The wording of the DMCA is irrelevant. All court officers take an oath to behave ethically. Submitting fraudulent documents because you're too lazy to exercise due diligence verifying the claim should result in meaningful punishment.
100% but those debts are unsustainable as a society.
Understood, still learning.
Totally agree about the perfectionism. I started out in consulting and it was a great way to work across a bunch of industries and technologies and to get exposure to different ways of doing things. The reason I left was I felt like my skills around support, testing, and architecture were atrophying because those just aren’t priorities on short, hourly engagements.

Since starting at a product company I’ve been able to build deep expertise, but I still rely on those consulting skills when talking with product people, QA, or if we need somebody to quickly ramp up on 3rd party libraries or understand something outside the scope of the team.

This all only applies to small, short term engagements though. Multiyear engagements are their own beast and I always stayed far away. Consulting politics is another layer of hell that most people will want to stay away from.
Yep - and the change was announced to be forthcoming ~6 months ago:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/h6_technical_qa.h...
Yes, that's right. But what's the problem?

You're back in the same place you are already. If this putative palm print duplication technology becomes widely available then people will stop building technology that depends on palm prints.

As has been repeatedly pointed out, the risk lies with the merchants and the issuing banks (at least in the U.S.) for credit card payments.

EDIT: and, at least in the U.S. again, no-one is going to be able to force you to use this technology; there will always have to be an alternative mechanism because there are people with no hands, and a system that required them would be a massive ADA liability.
You can at least let someone out of prison. You cannot undo execution.
In the UK science must be aligned with politics (check Dr Nutt problem)
> For btrfs you at least have a decent working fsck

When I say "corrupted beyond repair", I mean "the btrfs tools were not actually helpful".
How about a vector oriented 'database' instead? Pinecone(https://www.pinecone.io/) does both exact and approx search and it's fully managed so you don't have to worry about reliability,availability etc.

PS: I work there
Maybe in the US. Medical education in the UK starts at the undergraduate level, there is no pre-med.
True I agree with that. It can feel like a cynical slap if they cover up your low status and try to make you feel good about it. I try to coach and mentor my employees and see what they value. I totally recognize that isn't common in management.
I don't understand why he couldn't just get on another ship and leave forever. Worst case you just never go back to that shitty country right?
This is false, as any who knows how to use Google can attest to.
completely baffling to see people imply that college attendance is a prerequisite for having informed views and perspectives on things like politics, in twenty twenty-one.
OT a bit, but while I don‘t use it often, sometimes fzf really takes the pain out of navigation.
An SLA just gives you the right to fee reductions or potential compensation for downtime. And not all SLAs are created equal. Meanwhile, for example, many blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, have 100% uptime. Not 99.99%...100%.
Thanks for the references! I am simplifying a bit to get my point across: I am well aware that nobody is a born cheater, and that the fear of getting caught stops many from cheating too.

> Unfortunately custom projects and the like won't work for teaching fundamental maths skills.

I am not sure I agree. One of the projects I did for my projective geometry class was to do an inverse of a projected drawing (in AutoCAD) and save a 3D .obj file. In differential equations course, I was given a project to prove a theorem that is generally missing from the school books (or usually given as an exercise). You can also let people devise proofs in a closed system of axioms and a few theorems.

It is a hard and different type of work, but I am certain you can both teach and get to know students with theoretical math projects. If they get someone else to do it for them, yet they are able to present it in front of the class (online) convincingly, they have likely understood the concepts, which is what teaching is all about.
I think spending the rest of your life in solitary in a supermax prison sounds like a fate much worse than death. I'd rather see that happen to a terrorist than the death penalty.
> If it were really looking at AST level data, that wouldn't have fooled it.

Semgrep does look at an AST; but that counterexample is not something you can "fix" solely by looking at an AST. You need actual Python-specific semantic analysis that knows that all "open" functions like 'print' come from the builtins module, and thus are bound to the same identifier. They're literally built into the implementation, it's not something you can "discover" from analyzing existing Python source. Even if you had a perfectly accurate python AST it couldn't "tell" you this fact, it's a priori knowledge, and all analysis engines need a base set of facts like this that they work from.

> but I wouldn't use it, alone, to vet outside code.

I mean, nobody seems to be suggesting this though, and the OP quite literally stated the major value of the tool is enforcing domain/codebase-specific rules among a team. Which is a really good use for it! There are tons of little useful patterns you can codify this way.
The wallet of a pump and dump DogeCoin Whale
Yeah, that's why I said it was the countermeasure version. I just can't remember the actual name and am too lazy to look it up (or maybe too burnt out to care).

The purpose of the funds was good. It was supposed to provide an easy mechanism for victims to recover damages that would not be as arduous as traditional litigation. The purpose was to increase public trust in vaccines that are commonly required/pushed by the government. It does perform this for the common or known side effects listed in the compensation table. Although some of the amounts approved as caps may not take into account individual differences, and don't provide great flexibility.

It's extremely difficult if it's a rare issue or if the underlying mechanism is not known. This mechanism part is the real downside. You could be completely healthy, get a shot, and two days later be airlifted to the ICU with a heart issue that has no family history or even an explanation for the cause other than "some people just have this" (no genetics really identified yet either). How can you prove it was the vaccine if they don't know the factors that would normally cause it? There are other reports of the issue in VAERS, the patient is in one of the lowest risk populations for first time presentation, etc. Even if you don't have a conclusive underlying mechanism, there's no opposing theory for the "natural" mechanism that would normally cause it (even stuff like which genes cause it), but the special vaccine court will most likely say 'too bad, it might be a coincidence'. If they do that, this seems contrary to intended purpose of building public trust in vaccines and compensating victims in a less confrontational system. Now you don't fight a company, you have to fight the government.
You have to be a multinational by definition to do this, and yet the proposed taxes will hit most medium sized businesses.

“It will hurt Apple and Amazon” is not a problem. “It will hurt most growing businesses”, is.
It's worth pointing out that there is no such thing as "sushi-grade" fish in the US. The fish used in commercial sushi is always flash-frozen on the ship. Neither the USDA or FDA have designations for fish similar to the grades they have for say beef. There is a regulation around freezing temperatures in order for it be sold for raw consumption but this has nothing to do with the quality of the fish. The regulation is used to guarantee parasite destruction. I can highly recommend the book "The Sushi Economy" by Sasha Issenberg for a very interesting look at how the sushi trade works.
I think you can feel empathy for the researcher and dolphin involved, but it isn’t wholesome; the experiment was traumatic and kind of insane. However, you can see that the caretaker really did try to do her best for Peter.
So again you're off track. We're here to talk about responsive design, not privacy issues. Analytics don't tell you what people want, but what they do. And what they do is browse the web in mostly large or maximised windows (when on desktop).
>What's the big difference between the death penalty and life imprisonment with no parole that attenuates the error in the conviction process.

You can't reverse the damage done by either sentence. However a sentence of life without parole is correctible as soon as a mistake is identified. Releasing an innocent person after taking 40 years of their life is awful, but it is better than realizing we killed an innocent person 25 years ago.
In the argument of which is the best pet, Guinea Pig vs Squirrel, having owned none of them, I'd also be completely "uninfluenced by the honeymoon period" of owning them as pets.

But I'd probably just call myself, maybe less politely but probably closer to the truth, clueless about owning small pet rodents :-)
Its not a racially based cruel experiment probably, but it is an experiment on the mass population. The long term effects are untested and unknown, the only accurate description of it is that it is a massive experiment.
Look into the 70s swine flu vaccination effort, similar fear based advertisement with lack of accountability.

When you have a system with

A) massive profit incentive (pfizer and moderna now 'suggesting' annual shots will be neccesary)

B) a populace accepting headlines without verification of what's claimed

C) no accountability if it turns out the vaccine isn't safe

You can't seriously expect that to be accepted. If any individual wants to take those chances with the belief they're doing something good for their community, great, let them take that risk. But the concept of mandating this or even socially expecting your friends and family to take part in this experiment, is absurd, and extremely bewildering to see.

This virus is somewhat more deadly and infectious than the flu or existing cold virus, but looking at the actual numbers of those lost to it, its in fact not much different than the flu. Having lost friends to the flu, I'm not sure people have an understanding of how deadly it actually is. We accept the deadliness of the flu and move on with life because the alternative would defeat much of the point of living. Same as we get in cars every day which kill thousands constantly. Having a suggestion of everyone to simply be more hygienic and socially distance is reasonable, everything else is way beyond necessity.
I saw this video from Chief MAKOi (who has an excellent youtube channel in general) about this situation a week ago. It seemed rather hopeless for him at the time considering that it was going on for four years already. I wonder if that video contributed to pressure to fix the situation, it does have almost a million views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zD-KjuGuiM
I'm almost a complete outsider to UK politics, so I try to stay neutral, but this is a truly bizarre thing for a scientist to say.
Uncontrollable stupidity apparently. Where I went to school you would have been called to the Dean on the first event and perhaps out on academic probation if they didn't like your answers. Second time would have been academic suspension

Crazy stuff.
Apple downplays complaints about App Store scams in antitrust hearing
Just to clarify, that's for the server ISO, not the desktop ISO? I know that as of 20.10, ZFS on root was available on desktop ISOs but not server ISOs.
So... never be able to captain a ship that goes through the SuezCanal?
If your livelihood depends on shipping, being unable to return to Egypt likely represents a significant barrier to obtaining future employment. Also, he may just have been extradited back to Egypt by another government.
You can let someone go if you found out they were innocent. This is still bad that they serviced time in prison while innocent.

However it is currently impossible to unkill someone, which makes executing someone for a crime they didn't commit significantly worse, this seems a reasonable place to draw a line to me.
I haven't used ZFS on the same hardware, but during the time when BTRFS ate itself multiple times my home partition on the same drive also on BTRFS was perfectly fine, so it'd have to be an awfully specific hardware failure. Also, it would have had to hit the metadata both times since we're talking "pool wouldn't import" not "it gave me data checksum errors". Which again, is possible, but on an SSD with wear-leveling seems a tad unlikely.
Presumably they have some kind of recourse as to their grades.
Agreed - I would like to know what the effect would be on regular businesses are growing, not a few giant multinationals.

If people care about this loophole, how about just closing it, rather than taxing everyone else?
Once I learned that I cannot quickly solve of usual problems big companies use to interview you.
I made my peace with the fact that I'm not smart at all. And I'm ok with the logic of it, just like the fact that one day i will die and that's it regardless of money, status or whatever.

You seem like a smart guy, perhaps it's not your fault.
> Never should a company like amazon have access to the biometric data itself.

Perhaps that's exactly the purpose.
While this makes sense in theory in my experience these companies end up relying on new grads for a lot of the work until they get wise and leave or burn out. For some reason they treat attrition as a cost of doing business, even though a lot of knowledge leaves when people do.
My understanding is that he ran under KMT, which is the much more China friendly party.
On account of where campaign finance comes from, I'm afraid politicians see it the other way around.
I imagine many brother app vendors, who may or may not maintain good relationships with Signal might possibly have found a usb drive containing the relevant data on the street. (pure speculation, i don't know anything about moxie, but judging by his tone, i wouldn't be shocked)
Since the answer, in minxomat's words, is "terrible," maybe look at Pinecone (https://www.pinecone.io) which makes light work of searching through 10M+ rows. It sits alongside, not inside, your Postgres (or whatever) warehouse.

Disclosure: I work there.
Can you use this with an existing .net core mvc project?
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That's what I meant with "normalized grades": I wasn't familiar with the term "curved grades", but I covered that point with why I don't think that's a problem.
You’re comparing global IFR to a specific region. Not the same claim. US mortality is worse because of our extensive diseases of modernity and decent proportion of elderly.

Furthermore you are assuming that the excess deaths are solely attributable to COVID-19. The truth is not even close.