skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Anopheles mosquitos [1] which spread human malaria are present at some level across about half of the US, but are just not especially abundant here compared to other mosquitos that do not spread malaria.

In fact, of the ~200 mosquito species which occur in the United States, only 12 are known spread any sort of human disease [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anopheles

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/about/mosquitoes-in-the-us.ht...
I seems to be prerecorded, the ones I saw from the US are in the daytime. It's currently after midnight EST, but it's still cool. The interface is really clean, responsive and engaging. I thought it was neat.
This is also a theme of Adam Curtis’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head [1].

1: https://thoughtmaybe.com/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/
Sikh temples unconditionally offer free meals to all without concern for a recipient's religion or economic status.

Religion and charity are voluntary. You can choose to donate to charities that will most effectively utilize your donations. You don't have that choice with a state, and the outcomes are not always good. Even in Democracies, the state social services are often such inefficient massively entrenched institutions that they are resistant to change.

Religions also serve as bulwarks against increasing state power. Depending on your perspective this could be a good thing or a bad thing, but I'm more concerned about the great harm an unrestrained state can inflict on the world than what good it may be able to do.
I lie about smoking. When the US changes to an ethical health scheme I will become ethical as well.
Minio Changed License to AGPLv3
Full metal
This finally explains why gutter punks love boxed wine.
So what does a technical writer do?
I loved Amarok for years, including after the 2.0 rewrite. It was my favorite as long as the main way I listened to music was a collection of local files, despite flirtations with other cool projects like MPD, Subsonic, Ampache, etc.

Documentation from the Exaile project (another music player inspired by Amarok!) indicates that while the Amarok developers did not invent the moodbar, their implementation is the one we know and love (which was packaged as the standalone `moodbar` CLI program that could be used to generate moodbars that other players would also read):

https://github.com/exaile/moodbar

For me, Amarok was so good that it gave 13-year-old me enough reason to switch operating systems for daily use. The moodbar was definitely cool, and I remember being impressed that I could actually identify different sections of songs I knew with it.

The feature that really got me was the automatic lyrics fetching and other contextual information. I listened to music kinda obsessively, and I loved being able to instantly see the lyrics and really learn a song right away.
Click on the Pre-Order link. There is a tonne of peripherals and "stuff" you can add to it. This is a very impressive Kickstarter campaign. It looks like everything is of higher quality than you would expect.
charging 30k for a motorcycle didn't help
Seems so, basically compatibility layer to run another compatibility layer heh
Malls in Asia are also publicly accessible places with air conditioning and lots of food options. When kids want a place to hang out they work pretty well as a meeting place. When I lived in Asia the malls were packed with teens on weekends. Similar to the US 30-40 years ago. I’d be curious if it changes in Asia too.
More support that proactively controlling chronic inflammation in the brain will significantly reduce the incidence of dementia?
I can understand that sometimes there's decent bit of non-hate content on 4chan, but what sort of great content would you find there that couldn't be expressed here, or in some other forum that isn't full of hatred?
I’ve always known SI to refer to Self Injury but I’m in Australia so this could be a regional difference.
> Why not roll the dice on the full interval and check the product after the fact? See earlier point about the time-consuming nature of RSA key generation. Starting over from scratch is expensive.

They lose a bit of entropy by pre-setting the leading bit to 1.

There have been discussions about this in the past - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19374758
I like the idea of opt-in by default for organ donations. However, I am curious about the results of changing the opt-out option of “you can opt-out but you cannot receive an organ donation if you choose to opt-out”-choice would fare in the real world.
They have venture investors. YOLOing IP law like that is not going to pass any sort of due diligence.
Just my personal (contraversial) opinion, but I believe that opting out of being a donor should also opt the person out of being a recipient. Include a 12 month waiting period for someone who has previously opted out, but now wants to opt back in to qualify as a recipient to reduce the ability to gain the system.
There was a hack to install a BASH Shell on it because it didn't come with a Linux Shell. Only problem was their GUI updater would find a problem with newer libraries and hang and show a picture of a nerd hanging by his underwear.
I've worked in a lot of places where there were no docs and nobody knew how any worked. So be thankful that you have some docs.
A truck as a status symbol? In Russia or the balkans the rich mobsters use Mercedes SUVs for that.
You intentionally chose the words you said, but it doesn't matter how you framed it?

Ok, maybe we should back up. I objected to your "survival of your species" characterization of the pandemic, but am happy to agree to leave that aside, some hyperbole in the heat of the moment I guess. I wasn't sure, because it appears there are people who feel that way. Like you said, people overreacted, buying guns, stockpiling, afraid to leave the house, etc. Some people are still overreacting, expecting the worst at every turn.

As the science and data continue to roll in we find that this is not as bad as was once feared. Lately I've been reading the recent articles/studies on how this is an airborne aerosol, which means the cloth masks everyone have been wearing may not have made much of a difference. The CDC now appears to be trying to talk people down, letting them know that surface transmission is not a significant factor, that we don't need to wear masks outside, etc. It's may be the case where find out in the end that the lockdowns were a waste of time and that aggressive contact tracing was the only thing that worked.

This thread got into talking about democracy and lockdowns. A lot lot of people don't think this is as big a disaster as you do. 1 out of 570 people dead, skewing older with comorbidities, doesn't strike many people as a disaster. Many people don't accept the premise that the lockdowns are worth it, and therefore don't want to spend the money supporting those same lockdowns like you suggested. They would rather live their lives as close to normal as practical. They don't feel the need to assign political blame for a pandemic that caught almost the entire planet by surprise. They have a vote, the same as you. They feel just as strongly as you. Difficult situation, eh?
This is great. Congratulations.
We have the same issues in Canada. I suspect it is global.
We shall watch your progress!
Late to the party, but one does not simply store 10PB of data :)

The short story is, ignore most of the advice, poach^H^H^H^H^Hhire someone who has done this, and leverage their expertise. There is no armchair quarterbacking infrastructure at this scale.
A few years back I listened to audiobooks/podcasts on my bike with a bluetooth earpiece in one ear only. I bought a bluetooth media button and that helped a lot, except there was something weird about the firmware where it would go to sleep sometimes and had to be woken.
NIST is considering "resistance to misuse" when assessing post-quantum crypto schemes.

A final desirable, although ill-defined, property is
resistance to misuse. Schemes should ideally not fail
catastrophically due to isolated coding errors, random
number generator malfunctions, nonce reuse, keypair reuse...

https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Projects/Post-Quantum-Crypt...
As per the linked readme, there is a Linux kernel and it is emulated.

Basically this project is a Linux emulator but rather than exposing libc APIs it exposes Win32 et al via WINE.

Pretty neat idea but comes with all the usual caveats of running Windows software on WINE plus all the new caveats of running C++ in WebAssembly.
...for highly-established, old-world European brands. Is it just that producing luxury goods is something that takes an economy a while to do, or does China make high-status stuff that's just under my radar?
It is interesting that the whole AGPL perception change in OSS and small business all thanks to Amazon. I guess we could now call AGPL as Amazon GPL.

And last time I checked there doesn't seems to a A-LGPL or L-AGPL type of license.
It was a luxury in the 90s, now it's standard trim. Even Renault Symbol has electric windows.
User interface evolution for the past 40 years
A good cause aside, opting out of anything is a terrible practice that needs to be abolished. It’s shameful that we keep having to opt out of every facet of our lives.

Life is hard enough as it is, but let’s make it harder by forcing people to have to opt out of choices they never made!

Maybe it’s just the phrasing, but unless there is a proper shift away from a given default expectation, lots of people will be blind sided by this.
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The oil wells in North Dakota are rivaling all the major US metros.
I’ve actually never thought of that. In most countries, does your next of kin own your corpse?
Because humanities neurotic need to dissect, judge, survey and quantify everything is what is edging us ever so slightly into a dystopian world?
I think you've just described citizenship-by-birth anyway. Being born opts you into all sorts of crazy stuff.
I have the opposite take.

It seems it would be harder for the government to insert a "biological backdoor" into a viral vector vaccine than something that runs any RNA code as long as it's encoded in a special lipid delivery system (according to my limited understanding). 1 in 250k chance of blood clots is nothing... at least compared to the anxiety of the government having a switch in my biology that could melt my brain at anytime.
I think governments should go after cartels rather than monopolies. Google and Apple combined have a >99% market share for mobile OS/app store market share. They also impose a synchronized 30% fee cut. There is a case to be made for an antitrust behavior from this cartel.
Some people have organs no one in their right mind would want. For example: You have a genetic disorder.

So, I wonder how stuff like that factors in. That doesn't appear to be addressed.
Maybe they're priced like that exactly because of the subsidies?
High status to whom?
Adult tetanus shots are given to people who engage in intense excerise and then get medical care. It's not hard to see why this just might be a great signal for lower dementia risk.

"Vaccines have magical inflammation reducing properties" is not a conclusion any halfway intelligent person (who isn't trying to sell you something) would reach.
Yeah, that works as long as only one person does this, and they regularly merge into and out of master. Otherwise you still get all the communication and feedback problems long lived branches have.
I have been a registered organ donor (full body, even for research purposes) ever since I could legally do so, which is for almost twenty years now and registering for donation in every single country I have lived. However, not seeking consent is inexcusable, regardless of how noble the cause. Reading “80% of people in England support organ donation but only 38% have opted in. This means families are often left with a difficult decision when a loved one dies.” [1], it is clear that despite a massive amount of popular support the UK government fails to communicate effectively with its populace and instead of reflecting on its failures it now opts for a nuclear option. What about those without family? What about cases where family can not be contacted in due time? What about cases where the UK bureaucracy “accidentally” approves it? I am not a fan of slippery slope arguments, but here is a case where a good cause is hijacked and corrupted by a political body, leaving someone like me that considered donation to be a no-brainer with a bitter taste in my mouth wondering how best to protest as opting out clearly will not cut it given my moral inclinations.

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/opt-out-organ-donation-ma...
Hey HN,

If you're like me and was unaware you could have SVG emojis, here's a client-side tool to make a simple one. Just open your emoji picker, save the SVG, and use / modify as you please.

(I'm aware there are equivalents of this hanging around, this was just a day project. I'd recommend https://emojifav.com/ for this, but slicker. Only downside with that one is you have to unescape the data/svg it gives you if you want to edit it, e.g.: if you want to use media queries)
There would have to be a really large number of opt-outs for that to matter. Unless the opt-outs actually cause still cause a problem after this change, why do it? Trying to punish dead people doesn't sound effective.
That is really a brilliant connection, that I would not have made. Thank you!
Ah but not each child will die. GiveWell estimates that one grand roughly to spend enough netting to transform one dead child into a live child.
Punching a serious hole in the logic is hardly “ what-if pedantry”
Optimization Problem, Optimization Software
A slippery slope to what? Cutting down on pointless consumption and needless environmental damage?
They are too poor, plus who are they going to impress all holed up in their houses (sorry, studios)
Incredible! Nicely done!
No worries, it’s been posted tons of times. But if anyone wants to see prior discussion, there’s the link. :)

(I’m not a mod btw.)
It also means you can customise your product closer to the delivery time. The vast majority of parts are the same between dozens of final variations of the cars. Having low final product inventory, but plenty of parts stockpiled, means if demand shifts between your final variations you can respond to that quickly while also still being resilient to sudden increases in total demand.
Large utility vehicles like pickups are, by dint of their mass, their high centres, and their poorer visibility, dangerous to other people on the road.

They also release a large amount of carbon into the air.

So yes, their use as a recreational or status symbol should be discouraged.
I never said anything like "the blood clot risk might be 1 in 10k". I said that there can be things that come up a lot more than 1 in 100k that were not found in the trials (not referring to anything specific, just unknown unknowns), and it is not appropriate to stop looking for side effects just because we have done some testing.
> on top of the expensive six monthly motor service

Please elaborate.
Not gonna lie: I’d been waiting years(!) to catch a relevant post for “photos of dull stuff in public” on the front page early enough to post about that and probably have enough people see it that I’d get that link. Thanks!
The neat thing about malls is that they are

1. Usually already located at a crossroads; you want a mall at a busy junction to attract custom

2. Usually already a local transit hub, since they tend to be a major concentration of jobs

3. Are separated from any pesky residential neighbors by major roads and/or large swathes for parking

4. Have a lot of land in the form of said large swathes of parking

These characteristics actually make them ideal for densification into a more walkable oasis; they already have some mixed uses, and the parking lots are developable without much fuss from neighbors. And you can do the whole thing in phases.

A bunch of malls in the Seattle area are getting redeveloped in this manner.
It's veggies, leafy greens as far as I can tell.
He's clearly one of the most important figures of the last century and utterly brilliant. But what makes him an incredible programmer also makes him a bit insufferable. Further reading: his infamous blog post about the semantics surrounding the word pedophilia.
Good to know, how does the presigned URL work? I thought it was this - https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/b2_get_upload_url.html. Does it function differently from this? My guess it for a mobile app, the API backend will generate the presigned upload URL hand it off to the mobile app. But certainly don't want the mobile app to have unlimited upload for a 24hr period. So one presigned URL, one upload.
Kiwi here. In NZ, a doctor is assumed to be a medical doctor without other context. And calling yourself a doctor when you're not a medical doctor gets you mocked, unless the context makes it clear you mean academic doctor-- as in, you're on a podium, and about to give an academic talk.

Mind you, calling yourself anything which isn't explicitly self deprecating gets you mocked in NZ.
Most companies who publish AGPL software also offer a paid commercial license, so it is accept AGPL (and contribute in kind) or pay (and contribute in money).

I don't think this is bad forcing companies to choose between these two (or abandon the software), and they are fully responsible to making lives of people who work there easier.
If the sites offer downloads or can be scraped in spatial formats you can use QGIS (free and open source) although you may need to learn some of the basics of gis like a bit about datums and projections.

qgis.org

It is exactly for these kinds of spatial analyses that these tools exist. Dev tools might work but this is an existing field with advanced tools you won't code yourself any time soon.
As I said to someone else, I was referring to unknown unknowns and the need to stay vigilant, not to blood clot risks specifically. And I stated expressly that I think the vaccinations should continue. But let's not just stop learning. It's not a big ask.
Opt-out has been becoming more common throughout the world. Some countries only offer conditional opt-out.

In the U.S. 33% of organ donation come from motor vehicle accident. Reduced driving due to Covid put a dent on organ donation. Long term, as cars go more autonomous, vehicular related fatalities would decrease drastically.

The U.S will have to follow the same model.
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Minneapolis is the most bike-friendly city I’ve lived in. Even in the winter the city maintains its bike routes; it’s safer than most of the SF Bay Area.
> Clusters of cells can't be 'tortured in a lab,'

From a Hindu perspective, consciousness begins associating with the body at the moment of conception. Though it does not fully inhabit it yet.
You need cachet and legacy to signal exclusivity, which is best obtained with time, and even if there were any sort of big Chinese fashion houses they haven’t been around long enough to earn that kind of cred.
Olive Oil > Tomato Sauce on a pizza.
> How do you make choices on things if you do not have a comparison

Point is that it is NOT good to compare COVID and non-scaling death factors.

But I do agree it is a more difficult overall problem than this - think the main failure is the rigid-as-steel top-down governance models that takes ages to react to even major environmental changes and make borderline idiotic decisions when being too far removed from their effects.
An 2048 bit RSA key has 112 bits of security, but not necessarily 2048 bits of entropy. RSA 2048 only has about ~112 bits of security because there are faster-than-brute-force algorithms for integer factorization.

A 2048 bit RSA key is generated from two 1024 bit primes. Let's assume we randomly choose each prime from the range 2^1023 to 2^1024. Per the Prime Number Theorem, there are ~ N / ln (N) primes below N. That means that there are 2^1024 / (1024 ln 2) - 2^1023 / (1023 ln 2) ≈ 1.3e305 1024-bit primes. It follows that a 1024 bit prime has ~1023 bits of entropy and that a 2048 bit RSA key has ~2022 bits of entropy.
The only way that changes if cities get better cycling infrastructure, and the only way they get better infrastructure is if they stand up and get counted on the road.
I bike through winter in Canada. I take the bus for a day or two after a blizzard, but after that the salt is down and it's fine if you bundle up. Heavy gloves, a balaclava, and splash-pants make all the difference.
I have a hard time imagining anyone commenting about the moral implications of the article would be unaware of the difference between deontological and utilitarian ethics.

Personally, I find your defense of the idea betrays a naive view of utilitarianism. We must take into account not just the immediate consequences of our actions but also the long-term ones. Any society where people may be experimented upon is one where people must live in fear of being experimented upon. To fail to take into account human dignity is tantamount to disregarding human nature, which just means your formula is wrong.

For the case in TFA, the consequences could be dire. I challenge anyone to reference a society where some people can be seen as subhuman and say they would rather live there. One might argue that the chimera is not a person, but that would still, in my opinion, fail to account for all the variables, as the current paradigm where anything with human DNA is considered human is what makes this debatable in the first place.

In short you may say that anything is acceptable but you can't declare it so, and you must also consider that there would be blood in the streets if science had no deontological bounds. You must also account for this in your utilitarian calculation, regardless of how you yourself view morality.
Yup, completely agree..

> it is clear that despite a massive amount of popular support the UK government fails to communicate effectively with its populace.

I have no idea where you get that opinion from... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56818750
(sarcasm tag, just in case :-p)
Why people are paying €100k to breed digital horses online
Morally complex please, as if God is real or the universe or whatever cares, what a quaint sentiment.
Stealing from another response:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/natural only one sub-item of these fifteen definitions of "natural" mentions a difference between human vs non-human.

Lets look at the definition for nature: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nature

Definition 2b is succint: "an inner force (such as instinct, appetite, desire) or the sum of such forces in an individual"

According to this, of course, something like murder is quite natural. Is the stranger giving you directions not following that "nature" within which makes him help you for nothing in return? Is your request for help not a natural thing?

Ultimately, I don't like arguments about definitions, because I think they're a cheap way out: "x is (not) bad because its y"; they also force discussions about all the wrong things, ignoring the core of what both parties care about regarding the issue.
Out of curiosity, do you have numbers or specific insights on this? Whenever I’ve looked at European wages and costs of living it seemed as though not many would have access to the resources necessary for luxury goods, from my cursory levels of research.
What these researchers are doing is very different than that Vox article. They aren’t giving a monkey a human brain, they are just adding some human cells into a monkey so the monkey will carry them around. By my understanding the Chimera is a host for human tissue that can be used for disease research, sort of like a more effective version of growing human tissue in Petri dishes (e.g. HeLa).