skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cant really tell from the genetics. You can chop and insert any arbitrary sequence into RNA/DNA.

Instead what they do is look at the animal population in the region for highly related or identical versions. If it was natural transmission you would expect animals to be infected with a strain that is extremely similar to the virulent strain.

What this is saying is that there has been no discovery of an intermediate host which has a highly related genome. This would happen if the version that spread in humans had been incubated in a lab for a long time and had undergone enough mutations in the lab to be very dissimilar to natural versions.

<<Investigators now face the reverse situation for tracing the origins of SARS-CoV-2: a paucity of evidence and a cold trail. Closely related bat SARSr-CoVs have been identified, but there is still no sign of an intermediate host 1.5 years into the pandemic. The closest bat virus relatives have been found in Yunnan province about a thousand miles away from Wuhan in Hubei province [17–19]. >>
Anyone who kicks back while their web hosting is down... is a psychopath. That's just not going to happen. Are you accountable to literally nobody? Even as a solopreneur, there are customers/visitors. If my site is down, I am losing money/credibility/visitors/etc. Sure, you will probably get past it, but it means preparing to communicate to those people during/after. It also means understanding what went wrong and what could be done to prevent it. Just kick back and not worry about it sounds like you're doing nothing of consequence to anyone.
Wow! this is nice. Took me less than 5 mins to create a bot and start sending message/notification. Thank you!
thanks for sharing this, lot of good food, exercise, no late night eating, fasting ...all the things that several people have been telling us recently! Nice to see Ayurvedic herbs too
>There are processes for changing the laws without sending kids to jail, having to treat kids like terrorists, or potentially making the law even harsher because it isn't effective enough to dissuade lawbreaking.

And none of them work, or will ever work in this oligarchy. The rich own the congress, and the senate, and they benefit greatly from these things. America hasn't been a functioning republic in at least 50 years.
"We need to limit speed and the amount of interactions between cars and pedestrians" doesn't sound to me like relying on shaming (which never works). Rather, it evokes like building e.g. walkways and bike paths that are physically separated from roads with cars. That is much more effective.
someone always wants a shortcut :P
Thanks for the list!

> You can buy a used Pixel 3a for around $80 on Ebay

It's worth noting that GrapheneOS recommend Pixel 4a or newer for best support: https://grapheneos.org/faq#recommended-devices
Which IMO is kind of the main point of it. It's a do-over, post the 10 most tumultuous years of JavaScript's evolution
Mercedes tried biodegradable wiring and it totaled cars due to electrical problems. http://www.badmercedes.com/
you're short on dogecoin ?

and why's everyone saying that the bitcoin node code is being mismanaged?
visit a new place every day
Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness
i make (electronic) music :)
> (which I or anybody else who's sufficiently informed can assess)

But you can’t—that’s why the fake industry is a multi-trillion dollar industry and why StockX, a 4 billion dollar company, still end up selling fakes to consumers
Definitely seems like a work in progress, which I suppose is why it's marked pre-GA.
Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
Spanner, CockroachDB and similar are really exciting, but the fact that none of them support stored procedures begs the question of whether it's inherently hard/impossible to do so in a distributed database, or whether that just hasn't been a priority...
Quite funny you should say that as I had just written this comment on the other related thread:

> I've been leaning more and more away from a global internet and back to regional EU only internet.
EU & US & every other region in the world are different.

> As it stands, the global internet is dominated by US cultures & laws.

> I think the internet as it stands inhibits Europeans forging their own path.

So for me personally, my then youthful naivety of supporting connecting the globe and freedom etc. has now shifted over the past 10 years to leaning towards an EU only internet.

> The Internet is being torn apart by governments.

The internet shouldn't be the international waters of the world and it shouldn't be the United States internet.
The original article about the find, that was published in The Astrophysics Journal (linked at the bottom of the article):
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2360

And open access version at ArxiV.org:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.00652.pdf
Anodized aluminum would probably be safe also.
The article didn't mention the big advantage (in my mind) of forced migrations: the migration actually gets done.

I've worked at places that have done it both ways (forced migrations vs. ways to do migrations later when convenient), and when you can do the migration later, it often ends up being much later, sometimes infinitely later (i.e. never).

Do you want all the pain of migrating now? Or do you want to spread the pain over a longer period of time?

If the breakage is due to incompatibility (the API behaves differently, etc.), then breakage that the migration caused is probably still going to happen if you do the migration later. So you're not reducing the total amount of breakage/pain.

And if you spread it over a longer period of time, you are increasing the maintenance burden on the team that needs to provide compatibility with the old and new ways.
What happens when the owner of the NFT representing their land loses their private key or they die without passing the key to someone else? There are only two options: either the land exists ownerless forever or the blockchain is hardforked which would undermine the whole system.

Blockchain in general doesn't really work well when it has to interact with the physical world.
Disneyland with the death penalty…
Post author here, you're correct! thanks for spotting it, I'll fix it now.
Media reports about updated risk estimates are easy to find? I guess it's not so much one catchy number anymore and instead goes in more detail regarding age/risk groups, but that's a good thing given how vague an average number is over such a large span? And I'd argue easier to understand what it means than the average number.

I guess you can always argue "but it's not properly explained and people don't understand it!!!", but so much information people keep claiming is hidden is just there and repeated in news reports once you read past the headlines. And at some point people need to deal with the fact that data is messy and not all numbers agree or mean the same thing and that that has reasons. I feel that goes back to the title of the submission here.
In this case, they run in containers, so they can actually scale independently. For this purpose, it's as if they were running on independent hardware.

Even if we had separate cloud servers - such as EC2 on AWS - for each service, technically they are not really independent hardware.

But for the purposes of deploying, hardware capacity allocation and scaling, you can see them as such. The same goes for containers orchestrated by K8s.
lol. A tangent, but it so happens that my dad literally tried that because he hated CICO with a passion. An undiagnosed genetic condition took his life (this is a long time ago) before he could publish his book.
That's funny, I worked for a school district about 10 years ago and our IT director was also the transportation director. He knew nothing about IT but I guess they had to give the role to someone at one point and it was him. I think I lasted 2 years before finding my current job.
That depends on the business. A lot of (but not all) software development is focused on making something possible that was not before. Experimenting with the shiny and new in those cases can lead to serendipitous advances.
I'm giving this one a go as well, thanks!
American culture is staggeringly unhealthy. Denying this is impossible.
Newton's Fractal (which Newton knew nothing about) – 3Blue1Brown
This is so awesome, thank you! I've got friends in quite a few countries, and this in 20 minutes has told me more about what it's like where they live than I learned in the previous 10 years.
1 MJ is enough to vaporize roughly half a liter of water that started at room temperature. That's nothing to sneaze at. Obviously you would need to do with a high rate (e.g. once per second) in order for it to be viable for power production. No reason the lasers couldn't do that. The challenge is making the pellets cost effective at scale. Currently, they cost something like $10k each.
Bad idea I think. It would crush the lower middle class. Gov should handle infrastructure that's shared even though at times it sucks at it. DMV on the other hand, any bidders that can privatize it? The current situation is completely unacceptable and it has been for decades. Many departments in Government need to be rethought and gutted out, starting afresh. With new stack, new databases, new infrastructure and new vision. 18F should take the lead in defining the vision from the techonology standpoint: https://18f.gsa.gov/

Edit: Not sure why people are downvoting for a silly question, no question too silly and should be open for debate. :-)
Sounds like when gaming companies said that micro-transactions and pay-to-win were exciting times because they allowed people with less time to still play as if they had wasted lots of time.

Except here it sounds like just being able to be part of groups.
Sure. But isn't this valid to any tech? As I pointed, one could make stupid use of expensive machine with dozens of cores as well...
If the Houthies want to retain the minefield then they have the a2d2 to keep the minefield.
Why would they prioritize stored procedures ? They’re pretty much seen as an anti-pattern by most people today, outside of very niche use cases
> police/lawmakers have declared their intent to never enforce laws.

My understanding is that the lawmakers alone (legislature and governor) own this one.

Big city police chiefs might be along for the ride because they're purely political appointees that serve at the pleasure of their masters. Outside of that, the "only respond to life-threatening crime" policy isn't popular.
Tldr; externalized costs of fossil fuels aren't being fully considered by the economy.
Maintaining backwards compatible isn’t impossible or intractable. It requires thought upfront and then imposes constraints going forward. Two things many programmers don’t like, but are nonetheless generally good things.

A company shouldn’t make it impossible to make breaking changes but it shouldn’t make it easy either.

Semver is a good tool to build norms around. If your two year old project is either 0.x or 11.x you should probably be a bit embarrassed.
(comment below answered this)
It's quite easy to label something as a fad rather than to attempt to parse the data that supports the interventions they prescribed to the patients in the study (of which there is plenty).
In-Q-Tel CIA's venture fund gave encrypted chat app Wickr 1.6M
México, Costa Rica, Korea, and Greece would like a word, on both working harder and eating better:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/the-countries-where-p...
Is some 2 years at Facebook developer going to end up in front of the senate?

Well, possible, I guess. It could be exciting!
Another interesting thing that links with the latter part of the article - this was exactly why canaries were used in coal mines. The lungs of birds rapidly absorb anything in the air, meaning they'd die before the coal miners.
Apple Event 10/18
I tried one out maybe 3 years ago. It seemed clunky and awkward to me, and the projected scene glitched out a lot.

I tried my friend's oculus rift around the same time, and it felt immersive and fun.
Thank you, I am enjoying the positive comments. I think dang must have put my post in the second chance pool, so thanks to him for that!
Google Maps also uses landmarks, eg "turn right after the GameStop". AFAIK those aren't sponsored
Oh yes definitely. But there are numerous other front-ends available. People can even run their own front-end locally. People generally don't because so far there has been little need.

The option to use other front-ends, and the inability of any central authority to shut down the Uniswap smart contract, is what makes it censorship resistant.
Solving Bali’s Rivers of Trash
Given that there's significant overlap between COVID symptoms and those of other common winter diseases, you really can't "confirm based on symptoms".

(My son had a bout of severe pneumonia around the same time. We wondered, too. Not COVID, it turns out.)

Therein lies a significant problem with "I don't need the vaccine, I have natural immunity!"
He explains it quite clearly that him and his friends were port scanning the schools network for funsies.

"From the results, we found various devices exposed on the district network. These included printers, IP phones... and even security cameras without any password authentication!"
Would it be possible to animate this over time to visualize the impact of global warming?
also not very safe. Attacker can duplicate your sim. This way he can call the bank and use the mobile numer as to restore bank account details. At least in Poland
Reminds me of WebSDR: http://www.websdr.org/
Funny, I found Hobb (Assassin trilogy) torturous and Watts (Rifters) quite easy to read.
Those popups autodismiss after something like 5-10 seconds
Unless I'm a qualified medical researcher, how exactly am I supposed to "examine my assumption?"
Begads! A Selfawarewolf in the flesh!!
Here is an accompanying article from The Guardian about these visualizations and new projections: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/12/sea-level-ri...

Also, here is the linked scientific paper -- from the same research team, published yesterday -- entitled "Unprecedented Threats to Cities From Multi-century Sea Level Rise" https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2e6b
Building households in a desert isn't much better than farming in a desert....
Wouldn’t that be the late 1890’s?
That works for the first tool you buy.

But invariably you continue to follow the advice and buy a 2nd. And it won't integrate well with the first. By the time you get to the 10th system that doesn't want to talk to the others, you're employing dozens of people to do the data entry between them.

And these proprietary systems almost _never_ want to talk to the others. There is a reason Outlook doesn't talk to Google Calendar, and Google doesn't talk to outlook's calendar, yet somehow Thunderbird (open source) manages to talk to both. And I can't count the number of times Microsoft has managed to break their IMAP interfaces.

I've seen this dark pattern in so many large businesses now, I've come to believe it's the norm.
Maybe cuckoo is a better bird analogy than magpie. They leave their 'eggs' in other birds nests for them to take care of.
> I'm attempting to demonstrate

Well, have fun with that. I guess I still don't understand why you're worried about office366-type domains if you're whitelisting allowable domains to begin with. Anyway, everyone's risk analysis is different, sounds like you're managing yours accordingly.
Thanks for explaining it, this makes a lot more sense. But isn't reality more like... option C? Which is work towards B while still relying on A to fill the gaps?

Does moving towards B also produce growth because it's a process that will take decades?
A concur. I got burned three times by Elastic Beanstalk in 2019 before switching away.

1. Their server manager process got in an unresponsive state. It wouldn't update my service. It stopped reporting logs from the service that was running. I went to the AWS Loft and consulted with the AWS Support technician. They had me log into the machine with SSH and troubleshoot. I was using Elastic Beanstalk specifically so I would not have to log into machines.

2. The console frequently showed servers as running when they weren't. And vice-versa. I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out why my server didn't start when it actually did start and why my server isn't listening on its port when the console incorrectly showed that it started. Logs were also delayed randomly.

3. The final straw happened on a Saturday. Elastic Beanstalk suddenly started returning errors. I purchased an AWS Support subscription and filed a ticket. It turns out Elastic Beanstalk Team had deployed on a Saturday and then rolled back. Unfortunately, anyone who did API calls through the new API version got new values added to their Elastic Beanstalk API backing database. The rolled-back the server errored when it saw the new values. They refused to just fix the bad data in their database caused by their bad deployment. Instead, they asked me (their customer) to download special management tools and perform manual operations to fix it. And I had to pay them to find out these instructions.

Now I use Heroku.
That also causes significant loss of life, both domestically and abroad.

The punishment feels, to me, disproportionate to the crime. Things like having permission to shoot someone for breaking into your house.
And there are, according to the CDC over 160 _million_ of such people in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

Under the "man dates" all 160M are considered "unvaccinated", even though "science" shows their immunity is longer lasting than that derived from the vaccine, and a lot of them are currently being thrown out of their jobs.
Contest to Win Gameing PC
> I rewrote the whole internet

The web is not the whole internet, and Google, Facebook and YouTube are not the whole web.

Makes me sad to think that someone could possibly believe either of these things. I suspect the rest is just something you read somewhere, but don't understand what the words mean. Enjoy your MIPs (meaningless internet points).
> cherry red Chevy

That's probably one of the most unique insurance claims in history.
> Blaming this on lax social policy around arrests misses the point I think.

No.

I'm old enough to remember visiting SF in the late 90s. The city was overall clean and safe. Only a few vagrants. The parks were parks and not shantytowns.

Fast forward to today. None of this is true.

That blame lies squarely on city leadership and the policies they push regardless of outcome.
Well this hits the nail on the head...
> The Silicon Valley Poll is a survey of 1,610 registered voters in five Bay Area counties...

> The following sources were used to recruit respondents:

> • targeted advertisements on Facebook and Instagram.

> • text messages, sent via the echo19 platform, to cell phone numbers listed on the voter file for individuals who qualified for the survey’s sample universe, based on their voter file data.

That's it; just those two sources.
That makes no sense. Mixed use and mixed speed creates an environment where drivers have to notice diversity of traffic, including cyclists and pedestrians.
For instance, poverty of the stimulus (basically what you describe, but for speech) is not a problem when learning a language. Should it be an obstacle for pictures?
The 1918 “Spanish” influenza pandemic that killed 1-5% of the human population still has descendants in circulation both direct and through horizontal gene transfers. Basically all influenza A infections contain at least a piece descended from 1918.
In general, using http for the scheme has security implications though, even if it gets redirected almost immediately to https.

_If_ you can rely on the domain being in the HSTS preload list, and if you assume the browser knows that and cares, then it's probably fine.

Otherwise though, the data in the URL will be sent in the clear, and also you can be silently redirected to any other domain/URL if someone can MITM you (which in this case could be pretty trivial just by some variation on setting up public wifi).

Not entirely clear to me if any of that matters for this particular use-case. I can't think of an actual attack that's not available by just making a malicious QR code instead. It still feels a bit ick though.
iPhone gets USB-C thanks to creative robotics engineer
I don't think it is that unrealistic (not every combination, but popular ones). The results from parts of Europe that have many political parties, eg. Germany, show voters being relatively fluid over just a few years [1]. The US, on the other hand, has been consistently split in roughly two for ages. The combination of right on social/left on economics may be somewhat strange in the US now (and perhaps the west in general?), but in China it's the norm.

[1] https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2016/03/15/...
This a common lay-person approach to "strengthening" cryptography, but is not as effective as using a better algorithm instead.

For example, SHA256 and SHA512 require approximately the same number of "cycles per byte" when using modern CPU instruction sets. So 2× SHA256 is 2× slower than 1× SHA512. On some processor models, 1× SHA512 is faster than 1× SHA256!

Of course, things aren't always this simple, but you get the idea.

Similarly, for some class of attacks, it's only 2× as much work to crack 2× SHA256 as it would take to crack 1×SHA256. However, for these attacks it is (2^256)× more work to crack SHA512, which takes the difficulty increase from "slightly more" to "absolutely impossible in this physical universe".
"put their profits over human lives"

The government has a price per life when setting airline and automobile standards. Is that putting "profits over human lives"?

Stop with the ridiculous rhetoric.
Mydevice.io: Web Devices Capabilities
Unfortunately I'm pretty sure this would fall under acts of God and therefore wouldn't be covered.
> But you can’t—that’s why the fake industry is a multi-trillion dollar industry and why StockX, a 4 billion dollar company, still end up selling fakes to consumers

Two things:

First, let's say I bite the bullet and accept the claim that a human with sufficient information is no better at verifying the authenticity of an item than an NFT would be. Where does that leave me? Now my Burberry jacket and my monkey JPEG are fakes. How has the state of affairs improved for me?

Second: I think the way you're approaching this belies a misapprehension of the counterfeit market. Duplicitous counterfeiting (where the seller deceives an unwitting buyer) is just a fraction of that "multi-trillion dollar industry" -- a very large chunk of it is made of the fake Scott toilet paper and fake Duracell batteries that people knowingly buy at their local dollar store, to say nothing of fake luxuries. There are more harmful examples (adulterated honey and olive oil), but the underlying point is the same: NFTs either (1) don't solve the problem (I eagerly await cryptographic proof that my olive oil is authentic), or (2) are irrelevant because people don't want the problem solved ("I know damn well that my batteries are fake, and I don't care").