skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with COVID is the precedent of attempts of trying to identify the origin of this new disease being sabotaged for seemingly political reasons (and with no obvious repercussions).

It seems intuitive that knowing the origin of the virus (sample escaping a lab or pure nature) could help prevent similar cases in the future or deal with them more efficiently. Is my intuition wrong here?
I don't believe the lab escape was even remotely deliberate; however:

> the virus has no characteristics that would make for a good weapon of any kind.

Quite the contrary. The virus clearly favors authoritarian societies whose citizens will let their government weld them into their apartments. Just look at the death rate in China compared to the US and Europe. The only free societies that have come out unscathed are isolated islands (NZ, Taiwan).

That said, there is zero chance that the CPC had foreknowledge of this. They got very, very lucky.
Best part is how little labour.

One of the ethical trade offs between animal and veg for me is how labour intensive veg is. Back of envelope calculations and equivalent calorie of no mechanically harvested veg (pretty much most things except staples) harm more people than meat production. At the end of the day welfare of people > animals.
The actual processing happens on a microcontroller, not on the main application core. In some cases it is a small hexagon core on the main CPU, in other cases an actually separate Cortex-M3 (or the like). Doing this sort of thing on the main CPU would cause too much power draw due to frequent wakes.

The microcontroller OS code lives here: https://android.googlesource.com/device/google/contexthub/+/... It supports loading binary "micro-apps" (with optional encryption and/or signing) and provides them an API to use to gain sensor data access. Sensor drivers are also loaded as micro-apps. As is the "communicate with the main android CPU" code. It is also a micro-app. The OS itself is little more than an event loop, some power management, timer provider, and the loader of micro-apps in a particular format.

Activity detection is one of such micro-apps and is, as far as I know, not itself open source.

Source: I was the TL for this project back in the day
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It's not about IsoPropyl Alcohol (IPA for hand sanitisation) either. tip: don't drink a 70% IPA.
In principle, there is a way for you to have U2F backup keys. Here's a great write-up https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/backup_u2f_token

The basic idea is to have two U2F devices with with the same device_secret but one of the devices (the backup) is pre-programmed to add a large offset to the so called counter value. Upon login the service must check the counter value and ensure that the received value is greater than the one it's seen previously. If you happen to lose the first key, you can use the second key to log into all of the affected online services and upon doing so, the service would accept the new larger counter value and thereby invalidate the lost key.
Are we sure that window titles do not contain sensitive information? (E.g. file names, paths)

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835/files#diff-4bf...
Ok downvotes suggest that my observation is not only not shared by others but is considered ... harmful? I’d like to know what part people disagree with or find particularly bad
Even if it's a natural sample that escaped a lab, cleaning up the lab doesn't necessarily help anything because it's not the actual reservoir of the virus.
Yes, this is beyond awesome. Have 64G one with all the ubuntus, CentOS, windows, grml with my keys.

Life saver.
> Is just telling people to be loyal to each other enough?

Uh, no. This industry is obsessed with individually optimized paths to success. In other words, everybody is looking out for themselves. I have been on teams where there was camaraderie, mostly because of shared struggle. But, the idea that people are suddenly interested in the common good is laughable.

I'll trade his "trust" for accountability and consequences any day, especially for management. Without visible accountability, appeals to loyalty are meaningless. Also, I have seen manipulators and liars game these altruistic arrangements.

One particular gig had a co-worker that was given a sudden lift into power. That person had trouble after a month and tried to cover some misleading stats and results. Then they came after their co-workers, manipulating public chat while being fairly nasty in DM. On the surface they were all about the common good, but to us individually the person was toxic.

Screenshots. Documentation. That's what saved my job in that particular instance. I showed how the public Slack was different than DM, which was different than direct email. Multiple contradictory threads. I saw what was happening and covered my ass with documentation.

Management tried to handle the initial problems with appeals to shared goals and teamwork, which are noble. This person was very good during those calls. We went to bosses individually and said there were problems and that this person was getting toxic. Response was "we'll look into it." Nothing happened.

In the end, problems got undeniable and we ended up in a series of one-on-ones with managers. My screenshots worked. That person was given a soft exit. The mid-level managers that ignored it got no consequences. The people that were left absorbed that person's leftover mess and nobody trusted anybody and management lost credibility. To this day, I document DMs out of habit.
You're shifting the argument.

Of course Google will protect their copyright. That doesn't mean Apple should prevent video download software from being on their platform. There are an unlimited number of legitimate uses for it.

The disrespect and hubris Apple has to control the behavior of its users is astounding.
Thank you for the study, I was surprised to find that (though I will note that it seems the impact speed on Mars can be larger than on Earth, depending on the size of chunk - I found antoher study that gave an upper bound of 8.52 km/s for large meteors with mass > 10^10 kg).
Yes, it exists for many year. Ask you local vegan community (as product in this field are very different from place to place). We have several vegan sushi places, and the omnis that I know like the food there very much.
I am looking more of how it can be used in real life. But thank you.
> However, the majority of meat we eat today comes from factory farming, and the majority of the feed for those animals comes from... traditional crop farming.

This is incorrect. Cattle is fed primarily on grass. They are grain finished to increase weight at the end. A lot of that space is unusable as crop fields. Also a lot of animal feed is based off of plant byproduct, corn husk, wheat

"What most livestock in the world mostly don’t eat is grain fit for human consumption."

"What most livestock in the world mostly eat is grass and other forages and crop ‘wastes’ and by-products."

Additionaly:

> This study determines that 86% of livestock feed is not suitable for human consumption. If not consumed by livestock, crop residues and by-products could quickly become an environmental burden as the human population grows and consumes more and more processed food.

http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/home/en/news_archive/2017_More...

There is a legitimate usage of livestock, they can graze in areas not suitable for crop production (especially sheep and goats). They can consume and digest plant matter that we cannot (which is the whole point of utilizing livestock in the first place).

I think in general (as an American) we eat too much meat. And the consumption needs to go down (and it's been staying flat which is saying something). But I think that livestock has a very useful purpose of converting non-crop farmable lands and plant based byproducts into useful food.
Do you think that doctors don't have financial incentives to treat patients?
Great quote from a comment on a YouTube video about this technique:

> The fact that we are still out here revolutionizing the mere concept of pressing a button on a controller that is almost 40 years old. I love this community.

Yes, the video does seem to show concrete, sustained progress on the ergonomics of rapidly pressing a button on the NES controller!

Edit: Also, the video shows an interview last year between Tetris champion Jonas Neubauer and a musician, where the two discuss the ergonomics of extremely rapid hand movements (some of which the video interprets as having presaged the new technique). Jonas Neubauer died unexpectedly earlier this year, aged just 39: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Neubauer
From the OP, it appears that scientists knew exactly where to insert a furin cleavage site:

>“Since 1992 the virology community has known that the one sure way to make a virus deadlier is to give it a furin cleavage site at the S1/S2 junction in the laboratory,” writes Steven Quay, a biotech entrepreneur interested in the origins of SARS2.
Most of that 80% is used to grow crops, that are then fed to animals.
Great idea and I'd suggest you rename it away from "GTA" as quickly as you can before Rockstar's legal team notices.
That sounds like a game of Tetris though, with or without IDE support ;) It would have been better if C++ treated structs like C structs, not like classes, but too late for that I guess.
Those things also don't need 400psi.

A modified fridge compressor could have 4x the capacity at 100psi and be suitable for a small workshop.
Thanks for the reply.

>But then you loose the fixed instruction execution time: if you configure your registers to be larger than the compute units of the core, the instruction will take multiple cycles.

"multiple" doesn't imply "not fixed".

Floating Point on pretty much any modern CPU, CISC or RISC, takes 3 or 4 clock cycles for add/subtract/multiply/FMA. It's not 1 cycle, but it's always the same. This means the compiler can (if it's told what CPU the code will be running on with -mtune or whatever) accurately schedule the code for maximum efficiency. And usually the FPU will be pipelined, so you can start a new add or multiply every clock cycle, as long as it doesn't depend on the result of a very recent one.

Recently I've been using the Allwinner D1, which implements draft version 0.7.1 of the RISC-V Vector ISA with 128 bit registers. Like an FPU, most instructions take 3 clock cycles with LMUL=1. If you increase LMUL then, yes, the instructions take longer, but it is deterministic and you can do your instruction scheduling around it.

If you look at the result of a vectorised memcpy() I did on the D1, you can see that the execution time is absolutely identical at 30.9 ns (31 clock cycles at 1.008 GHz) from sz=0 to sz=64

http://hoult.org/d1_memcpy.txt

At sz=0 this is 60% of the time for the standard scalar memcpy() in glibc!! By sz=64 it is 3.6 times faster than the standard memcpy().

I'm using LMUL=4 there. LMUL=2 provided slightly lower latency for sz<=32 but couldn't achieve as much speed in cache. LMUL=8 didn't provide any more speed in cache but had latency closer to the standard scalar code (but still less than it) for sz=0.
In plain JS:
pipe(a, b, c)
is equivalent to
a().then(b).then(c)

function pipe(...functions) {
(async () => {
let accum;
for (const fn of functions)
accum = await fn(accum);
}());
}
Whenever a new platform breaks out, companies emerge to seize on its reach. It happened with Facebook, Twitter and Slack. There's now 70 pages of providers in Zoom's marketplace: https://marketplace.zoom.us
The vaccine has me thinking of these things, and my reaction was closer to yours. I don’t think ads here are fantastic. What I think is fantastic is companies wanting to remove the “dis” from “disease”. But we must not rely on pharmaceuticals. They are just a few tools in the tool belt of healing.
Somewhat related, there was a great video on USGS cartography department from the 60s from a deleted youtube archival channel that went through the steps of map making and administration. Ive been trying to refind for years, wonder if anyone has come across it or know where to look. It looked like an official gov video, so must be archived somewhere.
I hope you have a safe job, now.
“If you’re a drug manufacturer looking for patients”.

Maybe I’m just too Scandinavian to understand, but wouldn’t it be the other way around?

Now I also wonder if I should see a doctor. I’ve been getting a lot of “is your will in order” commercials from law firms on Facebook recently. I sure hope big tech advertising doesn’t know something I don’t.
I totally get your point! As someone who is not coming from JS, I agree with you!

But you must understand that I/O in JS is async, it's how the language is build! People who are advanced in async programming find this very comfortable.
> Netflix provides entertainment. Bitcoin provides the ability for speculators to make money

A.k.a gambling, a.k.a entertainment. It's essentially the same. Especially people that play a lot with altcoins and constantly buy and sell, it's basically a hobby for them, a game where the score is an amount of money.
"Move fast and break things" induces bad code. Pascal's quip that "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter" applies to code too; it takes time and effort to make code as concise as possible.
Not where I live. This is a uniquely US problem among first-world countries.
In my experience, nowadays just format as FAT32 and copy all files is fine for most situation, thanks to UEFI.
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Have you heard the expression, "A solution in search of a problem"? Because that what this is. Multinational billion-dollar corporations using their marketing dollars to convince people that their pill is the solution to all of your problems.

This should be illegal.
4x more likely to be stalked, along with many other issues that go along with that.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/n...

If you'd like tho, you could happy refute that doesn't correlate with my initial statement if you so feel the need.

This was from a singular Google search in about 5 seconds, I'm sure there's much more statistics out there if you feel unsure.
It's been written everywhere that the horseshoe bats most likely to carry coronaviruses live in Yunnan province, more than 1000 km away. It's where the closest COVID relative was found as well.

Also while there are other species of bats near Wuhan, they are in hibernation in winter.
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They should have an incentive to treat them, they shouldn't have an incentive to suggest specific medication.
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When antibiotics were first discovered, the world spoke of "the end to disease." Now, we are actively breeding antibiotic resistant infections and having trouble coming with new treatment options for infections once thought to be easily treatable thanks to the miracles of modern medicine.

This strikes me as just the latest stage of that process (or the latest chapter in that story).
Saying that there is not an economically plausible way of producing or keeping water is just saying that you don't want the water very much. This immediately proves that, if you are in a drought, it doesn't really matter.

Water is cheap.
Lions, and our ancestors, ate much leaner grass fed animals compared to our factory-fattened cows and pigs. I don't believe hunter gatherers were eating meat with 15-20% fat content as often as Americans eat burgers.
This is interesting! Can you link the proof?
Do people actually find this more convenient than bash?

Their own readme isn’t trying to suggest that it’s an improvement, just some sort of convenience.
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I wish, althought C++ was born on the same building as C (kind of) and has enjoyed first class support on UNIX, it has hardly taken its place at the kernel level or syscalls.

So most UNIX/POSIX projects, even new ones, will default to C.

Then there is the embedded space where almost 40 years later trying to use C++ instead of C is still an uphill battle, between embedded development communities, tool vendors, debugging tools, available libraries.

Arduino and mbed are the exceptions, not the rule.

Even Microsoft despite all their security talk around Azure Sphere, just releases a pure C SDK for it.

Which is while I tend to rant about C, I also argue that tooling improvements related to security are more than welcomed, and knowledge about best practices when coding in C should be more widespread.

It is the COBOL of systems programming languages (about 10 years younger) and it isn't going away for the foreseable future.
If you feel the need to emulate C++ features in C then you're just writing C code with a C++ mindset.

Getting back to the "C way" takes a couple of months to get C++ out of your system first ;)

Of course for some types of problems, C++ is indeed the better language than C, but very often other languages are even better suited (e.g. I turn to Python for most problem where C doesn't work well, for instance munching text files)
In the end, what will happen if a crypto is ever accepted and non-deflationnary, is that actor with enough credit/trust (banks, states) will start according loans, creating more money that the initial creator wanted, creating inflation.
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We've changed the title from "Show HN: WinBox – just like Windows, but for the web". The "just like Windows" thing was baity and provoked complaints.

Also, "Show HN" implies that the project is your own personal work. If that's the case, let us know and we'll put it back. But if it's not the case, please read https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and only put "Show HN" on your own projects.
There's no novelty to or uncertainty about the risk of viruses entering the human population from nature. That's exactly as important to mitigate, whether or not it's what happened in this case.

If it turns out to have walked out of a lab, then perhaps it points to a need to harden containment. You can’t cancel virology, because we still need to deal with pathogens from nature.
As mentioned by other commenters, this stuff gets political real quick, and you should look at the framing effect [0].

I applaud any effort to fight misinformation, but I'm concerned that your agenda of optimism comes across as an attempt to sweep serious issues under the carpet.

I'd suggest reading some academic papers about how to conduct surveys, and how to interpret them.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_effect_(psychology)
There's no razor to apply, both hypothesis are plausible at this point based on available evidence and without any speculation whatsoever.

And still without any speculation, one of those hypothesis could potentially be confirmed if only the main suspect did let us look at the crime scene. In any criminal trial, said suspect would get a guilty verdict from the jury in minutes.
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Roboto is reasonably boring but the real issue is, on most Android phones it’s the only decent font, so it’s a bit monotonous, but as a font Roboto’s fine.

However the Droid Serif font that ships with Android isn’t boring — it’s just awkward. Blockier than Times New Roman, with serifs that jut out. Reading a page of text in it does make me notice the font — and not in a good way.
There is sort of a weird point buried in the story. YouTube have Content-ID, so why don't they just use it to ID the same videos across the platform when a DMCA take down notice is issued? Why only remove the one specific video?

Surely a rights holder would be able to tell YouTube: Hey, these videos are mine. I don't want them on your platform.

Why does he have to excuse YouTube from any past copyright violation in order to have them use Content-ID to remove his films? I don't understand YouTube logic here. Sure a waiver would be nice, but it's not required for Content-ID to work.

As I read it, Vasallo want YouTube to use a tool they already have to police their platform.
I mean, the best way to survive SARS-CoV-2 appears to be "be South Korean". Africa and random Eastern European countries have also been doing okay.
Italian speaker: also piece / peace / piss and sheet / shit.

We have only seven vowel sounds. A i u and open / closed e o. But different parts of the country often use only one of the two e and o sounds.
Well it did tone down the aggressive argumentation, shill shrieking, negative behavior, etc. in the subreddit. At the cost of what you already stated. People are being more performative and excessively positive/empathetic/comedic to farm moons.

I mean it makes sense - a monetary incentive for good (at least superficially) behavior. Same as the physically world.
Uh? There's no mining in proof of stake. That's the entire point.
This ought to be a decent starting point for vocabulary and mechanisms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer
> Assuming YouTube does dedup on their backend then this is the same issue that megaupload has to deal with before they were taken offline.

This is not an assumption I would make. MegaUpload was a file transfer site. Videos on YouTube do not tend to be duplicates of other videos on YouTube.
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I hope we start rolling out desalination at scale before things get dire.

As far as powering that goes, we'd either have to start deploying as much renewable energy generation as physically possible or get over our collective fear of building more nuclear power plants. Or both.

One of those self contained, passively safe tanker truck sized 100 MWe reactors that last 30 years that LLNL has proposed a few times sounds like an awful nice way of powering your 40 MW desalinization plant...
You do realize that antibiotics have never been directly effective against viruses, don't you?
That was such a fun community. I wonder how much the doge donated to the Jamaican bobsled team and that NASCAR sponsorship would be worth now. There was a pretty sizeable Charity:Water donation too.
> Humans probably could do in a week what all rovers have done over decades.

This seems highly unlikely at first glance, given the fact that Curiosity has been able to explore 25km and has been performing experiments and observations for 8 years and counting. A human on an exploratory Mars mission would not be able to venture any significant distance from the landing site (unless you also send a vehicle down), and they would definitely not survive for 8 years of soil-level observations.
Not sure about floating windows (I don't like them much personally, so that might be why), but I've been toying with the idea of building a UI for a web-based database that would allow you to drag links onto the sides of "internal windows" or alt-click links to intelligently create a new window somewhere. Kind of like a tiling window manager, but just for one site. Since the devs would control all the UI code, they'd make sure it scales to very small sizes.

The idea was to make the common action of "opening multiple links from a list in new tabs" better, where tabs are too large containers and OS windows are often unwieldy. If you wanted to look at one of the results further in a bigger window, you could then pop it out into a new tab (again, kind of like tiling WMs with desktops).
No. Or maybe in really rare cases. One man savings are really another man debt. In reality, actors that can roll their debt do so (so states and companies with enough capital as collateral), allowing common men to have savings.