skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, most of the samples were. You don't need live virus in order to sequence.

Which was the problem with all the studies early in 2020 finding SARS-CoV-2 mRNA on surfaces after X hours.

Also the problem with high cycle count rtPCR results long after symptoms have abated.

You can study genomes without ever having to deal with infectious virus, which is vastly simpler.
I thought I implied that pretty heavily, but yes, I agree.
It's the marketing / sales equivalent of the HN-developer-type who would "build Dropbox / Docker over a weekend"
I made my point in my first comment.

> I'd expect any open source focused company* to merge beneficial changes.

I didn't think I needed to spell out that means "they're not acting like they're talking", but you made a reply that clearly missed it.
Vape and External Battery Reportedly Cause Fire Aboard Spirit Airlines Flight
I get the feeling this sentiment is not necessarily because BB sucks, but because people don't trust Atlassian.

After the shit show last year with the week long outage and all the shit JIRA gets I don't think very highly of Atlassian as a company either.
As far as I understood, one of the questions asked was also can you increase the hours of light per day to get more rapid growth. Imagine plants with 22 hour grow periods vs 14.
I can't help but wonder if non-profit makes it easier to get access to or train on certain datasets/models.
Isn't this the case in every nation? The state has a monopoly on violence and is actually in control of the functioning of the country. By extensions to this, they also are able to "forceful" employ you.

Mind you, in many countries this isn't even relevant compared to what economic system the country is in. (heck, in some countries people swear allegiance to the literal ruler of a country before becoming a citizen).
I see a bit of confusion in this thread about what and where HIPAA applies to. I ran a HealthTech company a few years back. We spent extensive time working with lawyers to understand our obligations under HIPAA. While we always held ourselves to the same standard as a covered entity, our product/service was not technically obligated to follow HIPAA. I was shocked by this and we got serval differing legal opinions that all said the same.

Put simply, HIPAA is enforced on healthcare providers via their relationship with insurance companies. And, in turn those insurance companies relationship with the government.

For example, a cash-only clinic is not required to be HIPAA compliant. They do not process "transmit any information in an electronic form in connection with a transaction for which HHS has adopted a standard." [0]. Therefore, they are not a covered entity and not bound by HIPAA.

In fact, there are a lot of loopholes that HIPAA doesn't apply to. For most of your healthcare, it doesn't matter. It's far easier for most hospitals/doctors just to treat everything as though it's HIPAA compliant. All of their systems are already compliant, so they don't benefit from the loopholes.

Things get weird with "direct-to-consumer" health providers. Particularly, the cash-only (or credit card) providers. They aren't covered entities, so they are not bound by HIPAA. They are bound by general privacy law, but not by HIPAA.

tldr: HIPAA is far less limited in reach than most people think.

0 - https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...
CDC:

* About 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys in the United States experience child sexual abuse.

* Someone known and trusted by the child or child’s family members, perpetrates 91% of child sexual abuse.

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fast...

WHO:

"1 in 2 children aged 2-17 years suffered violence in the past year"

https://www.who.int/health-topics/violence-against-children

It's a sad joke that child protection is the driving argument for surveillance. The actual numbers are _horrifying_, but almost nothing is done about it even in "developed countries". None of the organizations looking into actual violence against children is advocating for such measures. It is a completely fake and bullshit argument.
Yes, it was utter chaos, and we liked it that way because we were the ones driving the clown car, ha ha.
unless you can demonstrate we humans are more than chemical reactions and physics, can can it be any other way than highly complex, emergent systems based in the laws of physics and chemistry are capable of exhibiting what we both call "human agency?"

systems theory is the crux here. and Latour's Actor Network Model is basically just systems theory. if you refrain from reducing the scope of your systems to a single chemical reaction but looks at the complex interplay withing systems, you start to see what I'm actually talking about.
I don't want to disable cookies. I want to be able to log in to things, and I'm not happier if the site uses localstorage instead of cookies to track me.

The GDPR doesn't forbid using cookies, by the way. If cookies are used to remember that you logged in using a session cookie, or remember the state of a shopping cart, or stuff like that, no warning is necessary. It's a law which requires consent to tracking, not consent to cookies.

You complain about lawmakers' poor understanding of technology, but I don't think your understanding of law is any better if you think that "every website is forced to show a pop-up". They choose to show a pop-up because they're forced to get consent if they want to track you.
Well, using the identity function as a hash does not provide any avalanche effect at all. And as parent comments point out, certain hash map implementations require a strong hash function.
I'm guessing that the identity function probably isn't a "good" hash function as required by abseil's swiss tables and similar hash maps, but to be honest I haven't looked into this any further.
Put another way, I'd have expected std::hash to be at least a very basic hash function (like FNV-1 for example).
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You are correct that HIPAA only applies to entities who engage in insurance-related transactions, and that a cash-only provider would not be bound by it, and you are right to point this out as an important limitation.

At the same time, it does not apply only to insurance-based transactions; its applicability is on an entity level, not just a transaction level. A cash patient at a provider who engages in covered transactions is still protected by HIPAA.
I don't think the upsides are worth all the work.

You can spend a lot of time getting databases and other stateful workloads to work -- mess around with StatefulSet and PVC on top of all the normal Kubernetes concepts, and what do you get in the end? Are you really better off than you would have been if you ran the database in EC2?

Plus, "herds not pets" kind of breaks down once you start using StatefulSets and PVCs. Those things exist to make Kubernetes more like a static environment for workloads that can't handle being run like ephemeral cattle. So why not just keep using your static environment?

If Kubernetes is the only workload management control plane you have, then I guess this makes sense. But if you are already able to deploy your databases with existing tools, and those existing tools don't really suck, it's probably not worth migrating. It would take a lot of time and introduce significant new risks and operational complexity without a compensating payoff.
I think having a unified time everywhere is a really obvious advantage. Time being measured differently based on geographic location is completely silly. You would still need to look up how a different location is scheduled but you also need to do that with timezones so there's no disadvantage, only an advantage.
> People with real experience will have encountered this problem and know that you have to spend time investigating to find the root cause of the backpressure, otherwise you could add capacity to random things without reducing the queue occupancy. Are your queue consumers getting throttled by some downstream service? Are your workers CPU bound? The "right" answer here is basically "we should figure out why the queue is filling up before changing anything", but very few candidates answer that way.

This is the opposite of what "people with real experience" do, at least in production-down situations. The first step is to mitigate, the second step is to root cause. If there's some no-brainer step that has a chance of alleviating the issue while you root-cause, and is unlikely to make things worse, you should take it.
Chick-fil-A confirms accounts hacked in months-long “automated” attack
Is there a direct email address to contact?

Very interested in open roles at Datadog.
You should reconfigure that dialog to Welsh ;-)
Yep. We actually got multiple legal opinions on this. I was coming in from outside healthcare and absolutely baffled how little HIPAA applies to.
Yes, GPS satellites are a good example. We don't keep a "GPS time zone"[1] or define "GPS second" to account for that - we calculate the dilation the satellite gets due to relativity (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_...), treat that dilation as a predictable "error" from the correct (Earth) time, and adjust for that.

[1] There actually is a time zone called "GPS time", however, that explicitly doesn't include the relativistic effects, it has the same second length as UTC, not what an atomic clock on a GPS satellite would measure, it differs from UTC only in how it counts days - in "GPS time" there's always 86400 seconds in a day and leap seconds are never added to adjust for Earth's rotation speed.
100%, I should of mentioned this is an issue with management.
not even a mention of animism?
how did you make this - was this done with embeddings? the brute force way (sending all the data as part of a chat context) seems unscalable at your level

btw would love to see this for other subreddits or reddit in general where it weighs certain subreddits more heavily when answering questions tailored towards them
That call is because Health Plans are rated by CMS on if you get certain types of services, or skip them. By skipping those checkups you are reducing your health insurance plans STARS rating, which means they lose significant monies from the government. Each .1 of a start equals around 1 million US in government funding to a health plan doing MA.
I don't know, I get this feeling ChatGPT has also read all the quack books where the condition depends on the alignment of stars when you were born, or how chicken entrails land when the shaman "studies" it. Those books are also written confidently without giving any sign of being completely fabricated.

In the end, why do people believe what they believe? The answer is it connects with what they already believe. That's it. If you had a diet of what we call science, you'll have a foothold in a whole bunch of arenas where you can feel yourself forward, going from one little truth to another. If you are a blank slate with a bit of quackery seeded onto it, you end up believing the stars predict your life and that you can communicate with dead people with a Ouija board.

CGPT doesn't have an "already believe". It just has a "humans on the panel give me reward" mechanism, and all it's doing is reflecting what it got rewarded for. Sometimes that's the scientific truth, sometimes it's crap. All the time it's confident, because that's what's rewarded.
> Use a helm chart and just bring your own little database for dev test and e2e tests.

dev, test, and e2e tests should be done against full-size db clones
If the image doesn’t leave the device and only the hash does… What is stopping one from uploading existing public images, banning a whole lot of innocent people?
Ask HN: Is Gnome desktop still Turing complete?
Sometimes I wonder when I have to download 3 extensions to minimize windows or when it takes multiple seconds to snap windows.---- Has Gnome accidentally rendered the linux kernel turing incomplete?

Has Alan turing written anything on higher level abstractions undermining turing completeness? How can I test if gnome is indeed turing complete? I don't want to be turing incomplete. My code will be less clean if my confidence is a bit lower knowning my computer can't do all computations.
How can it be Turing complete if I can't minimize and my default calculator app looks like its from toy r us?
Gnome devs if your out there can you make sure the linux kernel is still turing complete when I run Gnome on top? I'm scraping wikipedia for the church turing hypothesis right now but I'm not so good at math.
You know what gets rid of paperwork? Nationalized health services.

Look at South Korea for a palatable (to conservatives) example.
No worries, I’ve made this suggestion to a lot of people but no one has followed through with it afaik, not even me.

I do find that https://freedom.to/ is one of the few things that has worked for me. It’s more difficult to bypass than ScreenTime, and syncing blocklists with the laptop during the day is great for overcoming procrastination. It works through a VPN profile (though not an actual VPN), so it also blocks apps.

I‘ve used it with schedules that go from 05:00 to 19:00 and it’s just such an eye opener when even a week after implementation I still open safari and reflexively type the urls for Twitter, hacker news, and Reddit even though they’ve only produced blank pages for days. Restricting it to the evening and going a couple of hours longer than the workday means I can still enjoy some mindless surfing but if I get busy doing something else I’m less likely to get sucked in. I also really like some of the suggestions here to restrict time wasters from the phone completely and only do social media stuff on the desktop. The extra effort for me to go to the office would mean that I’m more likely to use the time doing something else.
In a dystopian future, hydroponics etc can also function as a hedge against soil depletion.
Thank you, but what, specifically is "heat"

What property of matter is 'heat'
I'm sorry if this question is stupid, I'm still learning a little about technology. The little bit of knowledge I have tells me that my product team shouldn't directly access the same production database as my application. The idea for this product would be to create a copy of my production base and give access to it through this tool? Wouldn't the cost of this replica be too expensive?
If I look at it post-hoc and cynically, maybe their motivation was to get him off the "insurance" company's books (electing hospice kicks you back onto vanilla Medicare). But it was objectively needed and they spent time to do the job, on a major holiday even.

I've no idea what the dynamic would have looked like if they came to different conclusions than me and we were at odds, but all I can say is that the quality of care always heavily depends on having an advocate.
I’m taking the leap that you’re from the US - if you’re not, then the first comment may not apply to you.

> bodies like the EU (led by appointment, not elected politicians) decide on technical standards

The president of the United States is not directly elected.They are voted by the electoral college, which introduces all the problems of gerrymandering. EU council are appointed - by politicians from each country, directly elected. You could argue it is less problematic.

> will force a lowest-common-denominator implementation on independent private companies who, up to this point, Havel all been innovating in this space

I prefer to see this as “they will mandate a minimum interoperaability standard on a public, regulated, communications service, which is conceded by the nations. And colouring bubbles green or blue is not innovation. Neither is refusing to work with others that have at least as good implementations just to keep your walled garden.
> the EU desperately wants to compromise end to end encryption

Not “the EU”, some council members. A sufficiently large number of EU countries are adamantly against that proposed legislation, it has more chance of not passing at this point.
Chesterton's Manager?
> It's not like non-profits can't be evil

There's no shortage of non-profits that exist to pay saleries. As an example, growing up in the bible-belt, and I can confirm that religion can be good business.
> The sun is always "up" on some side of the moon.

I don't understand the relevance of this. The sun is always "up" on some side of the Earth, too.
You're completely right. The horizontal display is only better than the vertical touch display, it's still worse than the vertical non-touch display with horizontal input devices.
> If the event is cancelled, refunds are issued. Who pays that fee?

Insurance. The promotor would have insurance to cover this. If the event was cancelled due to a performer cancelling, the performer's insurance will pay.

All this puts up the price of insurance, which puts up the price of event tickets.
It's a reasonable hurdle; an employee who previously signed an NDA (or any one, for that matter) needs to be able to design new systems without regurgitating verbatim parts of an old one under NDA.

So it's really not a big ask to navigate their own NDA and come up with something interesting to talk about at an interview.
Same here - also on macos. Thinking about opening an issue on the github repo, but will try to see if I could figure out from the source code what this is about, first
And that is one of the main reasons I hate build systems. If I have to use a build system it had better work perfectly the first time and every time, never slow me down, and never ever require any fiddling or maintenance.
Researchers took over Booking.com accounts using a legitimate Facebook link
The vulnerability exists in OAuth (social sign-in), used by almost every website today.
If you are unfamiliar with OAuth, the post (in the first comment) explains it step-by-step with detailed diagrams.
You can send iMessage an sms, that is letting other companies interoperate with it, no? That sounds like WhatsApp is choosing not to implement a way to send a message to iMessage.
ya this is a new common licensing pattern used by a lot of database companies (cockroach, red panda, etc.)
https://salt.security/blog/traveling-with-oauth-account-take...

Video:
https://youtu.be/IK_AV1UFS-0
They are indeed (to my surprise) related: https://taskandpurpose.com/about-task-purpose/
>I know flesh and blood humans who are confident in their knowledge but still manage to make shit up and get facts wrong. I make up my own mind about what's true and what's useful by considering an ensemble of sources.

They're turning the freakin' frogs gay!!!
SBF tries to revise bail conditions after judge noted suspicious VPN use
I don't believe the moon has a dark side and light side. both sides get light / dark. The moon is locked with earth, not the sun. I could be wrong though
Refunds, not disputes.
Seems like calling it ChatGPT might be a little misleading, their description implies they fine-tuned another pretrained GPT model, like GPT-2/3/neo or something, which seems fine for this use case
I personally received a letter to:
"Fergal Reid, Longford, Ireland", in the late 90s. Ireland had no postcodes at the time.

I lived in a small village on the edge of a county called Longford; my name isn't that unique in Ireland.

The funny thing about the story, is that the letter was posted in the Philippines, and was physical spam mail, trying to hook me into some sort of scam. They had pulled the partial address from a domain name record. No idea how the economics of that worked!
I'm beginning to think that making more money by becoming a better developer is hard, and that managing, while difficult in a totally different way, is less hard. At least for the money.
My kid's university housing bill accepts credit card payments with no added fees, so I get my 2% back on that. The tuition bill can be paid by credit card but they tack on a 4% fee, so tuition gets paid by check.

Rinse, repeat with most vendors.
I don't see why the path of AI technology would jump from 1) "horribly incompetent at most things" to 2) "capable of destroying Humanity in a runaway loop before we can react"

I suspect we will have plenty of intermediary time between those two steps where bad corporations will try to abuse the power of mediocre-to-powerful AI technology, and they will overstep, ultimately forcing regulators to pay attention. At some point before it becomes too powerful to stop, it will be regulated.
their manager paid for a valid SSL cert that they never used!
Futuristic? Mate, you've just invented physical versions of phone numbers.
Sealioning is an action. They are not being called a sea lion.

This accusation is a insult?
Hey, founder of interviewing.io here. We actually did zero thinking about SEO. We had someone look at this guide at the end through an SEO lens, but then we decided that that would make the content not as good and would make the guide less readable.

(As an aside, I think in recent years, the spirit of SEO has become more about just making good stuff and less about hacking...)

Anyway, it wasn't for SEO. It's hard to edit stuff well because we're so passionate about what we wrote here, and we probably should do another pass.
Yup. And it’ll end in trash soon. So much for ecology.
> At the same time, it does not apply only to insurance-based transactions; its applicability is on an entity level, not just a transaction level. A cash patient at a provider who engages in covered transactions is still protected by HIPAA.

Also not true.

By default, if something in an organization is HIPAA-bound, the whole organization is. However, HIPAA allows organizations to be "hybrid entities". Essentially, should an organization have a desire, they can carve out the non-HIPAA compliant parts of their business as a "non-HIPAA entity".

You don't really see this in the "standard" healthcare system. It's simply far easier for everything to be treated under the same umbrella. Particularly, since most of them stand to gain nothing additional than the transaction-for-healthcare piece.

However, it seems far more common in the "direct-to-consumer" space where these companies are banking on secondary data and marketing plays.
Do you know of a ChatGPT prompt using basic (x)html forms?
In my experience in tech, most teams directly access and manipulate production frequently. Bigger companies usually have restrictions on this but in the start up world not so much.
While theoretically true, it's so often not the case that I'm not surprised people just use the headline to infer what the article explains.
We received a letter from a friend in France, in the 2000s, addressed to Wellington but no country specified. Also present were an nz postmark and "try great Britain".
I think this is commonly known due to address finders online for shopping etc. providing autofill based on these two items.

However, I would be more interested to understand how the address is used by the postman delivering the mail.

If you have just a post code, do they have to look up the street name (how?) or is it already pre-organised for them so they know that stack/bag X of letters all corresponds to street Y and so they only really need to look at the door number?
Huawei Hides Displayed Chips to Protect Suppliers at MWC
They did not lose this case for want of a plausible reason to close a store.