skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a plethora of unknowns that make it very difficult to check transmission rate.
Transmission is rare, but this could be impacted by lots of factors. There were hundreds of thousands of cows in the UK, but there were also testing and culling programs to try to prevent them from entering the food supply. There were also regulations on which parts of the cows could be used for human consumption.

Last but not least, there are huge uncertainties around the diagnosis rate of mad cow in humans.
For example, a 2013 study (1) found that 1 in 2000 people in the UK now have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Based on this, it could be possible that transmission rates are very high if a human were to eat mad cow nervous tissue.

1) https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5675.full
Huh, I totally thought transaction fees were set in Ether and that’s why the costs are so high (in fiat of course). If that’s not it, what makes the transactions so expensive? Lot of competition for limited throughout?
Given the large number of people wanting the job and the low number of positions, pruning it in even a tiny-merit way seems like a nice strategy to employ. It's not like you're cutting anyone who could be predicted to be a gamechanger; there's only so much utility you can get out of an astronaut, I think.
This bill is clearly not one that is particularly compassionate. They're not creating new social safety nets.

Do you really need us to spell it out?
I don’t care about that. All I care about is that people realize that taking from others is only achievable through violence and/or deception.
Perhaps I didn't put enough nuance in my response, you're absolutely right. A nation state should put it's citizens first, but that should not preclude helping others.
And with Democrats you can always assume naivety and manipulation is the point. Those forced seps started with Obama and are still continued under the current socialist Democrat administration. I know you will try and make an excuse here for how it was worse under Trump.

Doesn’t have anything to do with this chain but since you brought it up, I can’t let it go without correcting.
The problem isn't the resource that is being used for irritational speculative investment. It is that irrational speculative investment happening at all. And for the record, Bitcoin investment is much less rational than gold investment.
Could you expand on what I'm missing? I'd love to hear your analysis (not sarcastic, would love to hear other people's thoughts)
6 months away at all times :)

Jokes aside, I think the current ETA is Q3. I've got it marked in my calendar as "graphics card availability day."
The difficulty in banning it is very much political. You would get massive backlash from Jewish groups, you'd probably get accused of being anti-semitic. Also, not to get too cynical, but my perception is that issues affecting men/males are given less importance.
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They should have said instead "Nickel is worth more than a nickel".
It was just a particularly stupid thing to say when the App Store Review guidelines used to explicitly say they would retaliate -

"If your app is rejected, we have a Review Board that you can appeal to. If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."

It is absolutely part of Apple's culture. They publicly said so and were really proud of it!
There’s some experiments that indicate ultrashort and high energy laser pulses may accelerate decay but not a lot of interest has been allocated to it.
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An employer may not want to hire someone to be responsible for company money, when they are not responsible with their own money.

A poor credit file can show you are not organized or responsible.

Actually using much available credit is an indicator of someone in financial hardship who may be more likely to commit fraud or theft.
''Greenidge Generation, a former coal power plant that converted to natural gas and began a Bitcoin mining operation, is positioning itself as part of the clean energy future.''

I know that it's against HN to say that people didn't read the article, but it's relevant, as it's clickbait: the power plant is converted to natural gas, which is still debatable/controversial, but it's not burning coal, as all other commenters wrote.

The sad part is actually that the article is interesting, and a lot of work went into it, and then the ,,main editor'' probably gave it a clickbait title. I have seen this myself when my girlfriend was interviewed for a magazine.
IMO introducing social media licences would be a net positive. Our laws and societies in general are not ready for entities like Facebook. At the moment we are ceding incredible amount of power to private company, unaccountable to general public.
I also noticed the same thing - when I was making progress and got a particularly bad piece, the Tetris part of my brain thinks "I'll just put this out of the way for now".

Hatetris then gives me the same piece again. I think again: "I'll just put this out of the way for now"

I found it impossible to overcome this habit before running out of space.
Exactly! Would it be nice if I could step outside my door and be in Paris or New York or Mumbai? Sure! But entirely reducing all those aspects "of the grind" strangely makes the grind much more obvious. Dailies dragged on my soul much more than flying between cities.
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> Basic income would allow for people to focus on their own health and take work when they want to do something.

A very mature, robust UBI might, but we’re far from being able to support that. Realistically, a near term UBI increases opportunity and aggregate economic performance by reducing perverse incentives and friction in means-tested welfare programs.

It takes about $7350/year/person (average household size weighted by population is around 3.4, interpolating between poverty line by household size numbers that’s about $24,500 annual household poverty line) to have an on-average poverty-line-level UBI, which costs $2.4 trillion/year.

That’s 11% of GDP (and not all ofnit additional, because many existing poverty support programs would be subsumed), which is enormous but probably not unsustainable with political will—but you aren’t realistically, no matter how much political will there is, be able to maintain enough of a multiple to make work really unnecessary for most people—poverty level income after government transfers isn’t a “living income” level (which is why ”living wage” efforts typically target an income level that starts, as a baseline, about 4× higher for full-time work.)
>> That founder naïveté, however, is also what often leads to founders winning

I think you overstate your case with the word "often". It is far more often that what they're building never amounts to anything. Even the most successful founders typically bat less than 500
Yeah, this option exists and most people don’t take it. Pretty clear argument against this model.
Does anyone know what radiation levels a commercial robot like Spot can handle, and what would be involved in shielding one to do jobs inside the sarcophagus?

Is it as involved as replacing all the electronics with hardened components, or could you just make a lead suit to cover it sufficiently? Not sure how the sensors etc. function in that environment.
Perversely you /can/ use simple formulas (sum,average, etc) natively in Word tables. Thankfully I’ve never come across a document where someone was mad enough to do anything much with it.
What if there's a launch abort and they need to run out from the capsule?
What if there's an in-flight abort and the capsule lands in Siberian wildlife?
What if..............
For me, the major strength of (Free)BSD is that it's so well organized at every level. The project, the documentation, the OS. A coherent whole with the right amount of conservatism. No change for the sake of change, while actual progress is made in very a gradual fashion. Never do I worry whether an update will break by system, or render previously gained knowledge useless. In each and every way, it is exactly what I want from a server OS.

Unfortunately, getting much less attention than Linux has implications for funding. We're almost half way through the year and haven't reached 10% of the not overly ambitious annual target: https://freebsdfoundation.org/donate/.
My sister was divorced and had to split her phone off from the shared plan. Not wanting to bother her ex, she just changed her number and got a new phone. A week or so later she tried to sign into Amazon:

She knew the password but they wanted the 2 factor on her registered device. That device was traded in.

That’s ok, the backup plan was to send a code to your phone number on record… of course this fails as well.

It can get very aggravating when 2FA goes the wrong way and people don’t believe you are who you say you are. Assuming that users will always have the same device or the same phone number is an obvious mistake.
Mostly Chez. Racket is remarkable too -- I have never felt that I was stretching its capabilities. Enjoying Janet, trying to get over Clojure habits where the two differ.

Most of my career has been involved in medical diagnostic, data analysis, and desktop applications. Hobby projects include text processing, editors, outliners, wikis, and knowledge management.
Because often times they didn't get to the asking stage, they got to the "can we talk to someone about X and ask questions?" stage and nobody replied by the article deadline.
Pretty much the most important thing happening right now, IMO. The real information revolution (don't get me wrong, silicon transistors are nice, but life considered as a technology is far far beyond that, eh? It's four billion-year-old self-improving nanotech.)

One fascinating thing about this work is that we have a subjective "interface" to the "technology" already. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that one can engender e.g. limb regrowth or bone-shaping using some kind of guided meditation.

Recall that the "3-Minute Mile" was a psychological, not physical, barrier. I think we're faced with a similar situation here: the only thing preventing us from learning to regrow limbs is the common belief that it's impossible. I find it curious that the very idea of researching limb and organ regeneration is obscure in the first place. Why is that so unthinkably far out but e.g. self-driving cars are taken seriously?
Some of the best people we have have disabilities.

There are disabilities that would create real difficulties.

ESA identified a few that they seem to think won't create problems and made a really small tweak to their standards.
> In space, legs are not required.

Maybe not a hard requirement, but they are very useful. Scott Kelly talks about the hard callouses he had on his feet because you end up using your feet to navigate and hook yourself into place a lot.

https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-kelly-weirdest-thing-y...
Space exploration seems difficult and delayed enough without this virtue signaling. Supporting disabilities would add a number of new challenges on top of the existing ones, and with marginal practical benefit (increasing the pool of potential astronauts by the small minority that have disabilities).

Being an astronaut is a ridiculously selective process, it’s not like disabled people are missing out on something here that’s accessible to any non-disabled person. The opportunity for someone to get into space, whether disabled or not, is almost nil regardless.
But people want Bitcoin. I'm not sure what a proof-of-stake migration would look like, especially with how much miners have invested in hardware.

One of the things about the current boom in cryptocurrency prices is that the underlying technology is irrelevant for most speculators, as long as the ledger is secure. So yes, there's a technical solution for this, but Bitcoin is still popular.
It's a packaging system for Ubuntu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_(package_manager)). It's not that IntelliJ is slow, it's that something to do with the snap packages makes them dog slow (Same thing happened with Spotify installed through snap, while a .deb launches in about a second).
You used VicModem from behind the Iron Curtain?
> No doubt there's some sort of backend telemetry that proves the value of all this trouble.

And it seems like unless you go to a lot of trouble, you're essentially relying on the ad network's own metrics for efficacy... Which when you consider the sheer quantity of money at stake, seems like it will end in a massive fraud at least once. I could be wrong about the perverse incentive though, it seems almost too obvious so I would assume that people who know the ad industry better than me would have a response to it.
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Well cigarettes are available most places...
People have also claimed, hunters may have been smarter on average. BTW, DNA sequencing does not tell you much. You would need an extremely big sample for comparisons, and even this would exclude methylation patterns and other things.
Sounds to me like labor wage expectations have gone up, and businesses aren't reacting accordingly. As I recall, many minimum wage-$13 an hour jobs find better returns on unemployment benefits than actually working. (I don't see this as a problem with the government program either; wage theft is a real thing).
Of course, why not? I'd be surprised if it wasn't considered. I just probably wouldn't bother The Musk with it.
How exactly do we identify these domain experts? This also implies crazy disruption comes from within, which doesn't explain why successful companies are the ones getting disrupted. My only conclusion is that PG wants us to trust him or that his theory is a whole lot of smoke.
This is my pain at the moment. My co-founder is new to startup but seems to think that because I can code, I should just focus on that. I've been working in startups for >10 years now, have run Startup Weekends, and have a bloody MBA. Trying to coach him on what should be happening with the marketing funnel is proving impossible.

If I was contracting I would be counting the money while watching them mess it up with a wry grin on my face.
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1. For sure, "fast" is a bit of a vague term. To be more specific it's not fast at number crunching, but it has a low latency, low standard deviation concurrent garbage collector and it's quite memory efficient. More details can be found online, and WhatsApp etc provide some good case studies.

2. Yes! More documentation will come as the language matures. For now we will have to defer to Erlang and Elixir documentation and studies.

3. All three. Gleam aims to provide scalability with development through excellent tooling and static analysis, Erlang and the VM provide runtime scalability with fault tolerance, concurrency, parallelism, and distribution at runtime.

4. Quite a tricky one to explain quickly but it's concurrency model based around the idea of having many sychronous subsystems working together in a system similar to how people work together. It's often said to be one of the easiest to use concurrency models. To paraphrase one of Erlang's creators: "It's hard to write a web server that can process 1000,000 concurrent requests, it's easy to write a web server that can handle 1 request and run 1000,000 of them".

5. Most languages will only have 1 thread or 1 per CPU on the machine, so having millions is quite unusual. Golang is another language that has this property and it has proven very valuable.

6. I'm sorry, I don't understand this question. What do you mean?

7. It's not analysis, so turning completeness isn't an issue! The fault tolerance is purely a runtime behaviour. It covers exceptions and such, but also works for hardware failure, network issues, memory corruption, etc.
That's not how it plays out though. More effective/profitable ads does not lead to less ads being shown. In fact, it's the opposite. As ads have become more targeted, and theoretically more profitable according to this argument, we have more of them.

There is no set "amount of effectiveness," so to speak. If ads are more profitable, advertisers are still going to spend just as much or more on them, precisely because they have a higher ROI.
not seeing this on think or swim.
I can't believe that an earthquake and tsunami that killed 20,000 people is called a "nuclear disaster"
Probably installed with snapd
repeating my comment from the last times this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27026039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27034782

This post (whether intentionally or not) is misinterpreting some of the evidence it presents.

For example it gives this example research grant as evidence for chimeric viruses being made in the Wuhan lab. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/proje...

This is actually pretty standard virology grant. Nowhere does it say that they are making chimeric viruses. Note that "S protein sequence data, infectious clone technology, in vitro and in vivo infection experiments" is not even close to "Creating chimeric viruses". This is not the same thing and it would not be rational to compare the two.

The posts claim that: "What this means, in non-technical language, is that Dr. Shi set out to create novel coronaviruses with the highest possible infectivity for human cells. ". That is simply false, they are collecting and testing viruses. They were not creating new ones.

This post also tries to claim that these researches had been doing genetic engineering in past work because of this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985

Note that Nature added an editors note here: "30 March 2020 Editors’ note, March 2020: We are aware that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus."

Also note that the Wuhan lab is actually 5th author on this paper. In big publications like this order of authors is very important. 5th author usually means that they had a very minor role in the work. I.e a consulting role. This is compounded by the fact that only 2 people from the Wuhan lab worked on this paper.

It is actually more likely that the "genetic engineering" took place at the University of North Carolina and not in Wuhan. The paper lists a 9 people on the project in the US. Usually the people who do the actual lab work get first author.

Even further what about the 9 other virology labs that are on list? They have about the same amount of contributions to this paper? Why are they not suspect?

In my opinion these are some pretty key details to leave out, especially from a science journalist who should not be hiding some of the key facts here.
Agree wholeheartedly on the viewing experience. I'm curious as to how the largely unenjoyable viewing experience for an average gamer has to do with OW's dying popularity. I know Twitch isn't the best canary in a coal mine for the popularity of a game but it definitely is one of many signs. OW has had lower viewership than like Rainbow Six and Dead by Daylight and other games who haven't put a billion $$ in funding behind their pro scenes for better part of a year now. Getting absolutely blown out of the water by Fortnite/Valorant/COD/Apex Legends and other games you would consider in their competitive space.

I consider myself to be a pretty heavy gamer, played OW casually in the past but mainly Apex now. I used to go to Blizzard Studios in Burbank to watch OWL with my wife as she was a huge fan (funk pops and all that) and holy shit, even being a causal player of OW, trying to understand what is going on at all times and trying to glean any semblance of "exciting plays" or "clutch moments" from the pro gameplay is virtually impossible. The gameplay is essentially an unintelligible explosion of colors, sounds, and strategies that brings you to the brink of a seizure before ending for indiscernible reasons because it's impossible for the camera to view the important elements of the match at once.

This is in comparison to the popular competitors currently beating them in Twitch viewership above. I watched competitive Apex before playing it and it just made sense. Teams of 3, battle royale, they have different powers, now go survive. Done, easy. Same with COD, Valorant falls inline more with CS:GO which is equally understandable. All of which are proving to have more staying power than OW.
Zoom said they had no intention of continuing developing Keybase as-is., and nobody even pretended it would be business as usual after the acquisition. It’s a little surprising it’s all still running at this point.

(My memory is a little fuzzy, but this is how I remember the announcement and discussion around it.)
>That's the privilege...

Only experienced by white people of course which also by your implication are incapable of experiencing

>Yeah, well, for a lot of people working hard (or not) isn't the only important factor that's determining their odds of success

It's great you lead a privileged enough life you've never had to interact with poor struggling white people before.
Perhaps the only thing that life is, is life, and tetris is a slightly less-wrong metaphor than chess?
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Yes, patients should be making all decisions regarding their own health. Am I misreading you? Are you really suggesting they shouldn’t have these options because they might make a bad decision?
Have you thought of using one of the many open source Firebase alternatives?
companies in the US want people to be "local", that is why people from europe still move to the US.
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I think many (but not all) domain experts end up that way because they are so interested in a topic, they've internalized all the jargon and assumptions required to get there. It takes quite a bit of effort (and practice!) to keep the viewpoint of the common person in mind as well.

Feynman loved explaining things, so he had to keep trying to explain them in a manner that the ordinary folk could understand, but he also loved physics, which kept him diving deeper, and playing with it.

Having charisma and knowing what people want, and how to sell was Steve Jobs portion of the game, once the initial technical hurdles were solved. Woz likes to minimize circuits and do clever things, that was his part of the game.

Here on HN, the balance seems to be keeping it focused enough on hacking technology, while still appealing to those who want to make money off of it in yacht loads.

It's all about balance between at least 2 domains.
You can lack legs and be fully ambulatory. (And murdery, but that's beside the point here.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pistorius
This is what exactly what COM and OLE give you.
Cultural mores are a powerful thing. Honestly the sheer amount of cultural cognitive dissonance around the practice was seriously eye-opening on the subject of human irrationality.

For instance, my mother is aghast at the prospect of clipping a dog's ears or docking it's tail. And yet, when it came to the birth of her sons the same sense of ethics never registered about circumcision.
When my son was born (in the USA) there was an employee of the hospital who mounted an aggressive effort to have this done (doing these amputations was her job). Finally I made her go away by saying "It's his body and he can choose for himself when he is a legal adult".

Her disturbing response: "But if you let him choose he will say no."
I checked about of half of these out and I can't take any of the complaints seriously. The strongest argument against tracking remains the moral one.
>most desktop apps are web apps.

Not yet.
Are you under the impression people without legs just sit around hoping someone will give them a piggyback ride?

Oscar Pistorius qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics without any.