skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet somehow most other countries have still managed to come up with a significantly more competent response. Germany is tracing contacts of all cases and has capabilities to test 20,000 people per day. How many is the US testing right now? And that's a country with 1/3 the population.

There are probably thousands of infections in the country already, we just don't know it yet.
I would be pretty surprised if this was going ahead at this point.
Why? If side effects are marginal and well understood, just start using it and see how well it does.
This is really important, especially in countries where flu season is coming.

At the same time, I’ve been reading papers in top journals about various clever technologies to do rapid (ie <60 minutes) detection of pathogens for years. The latest was using crispr [1]. None of them seem to have left the lab, PCR is still it.

Final point, nanopore sequencers are ideal for rapid home testing, and you get the actual sequence. They are a bit too expensive unfortunately.

https://nanoporetech.com/products/minion

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00601-3
Do you know what the treatment option(s) were? That seems extremely expensive even for cancer. Makes me wonder what my family plan's maximums are.
“It does require trials in humans to determine if it’s effective, and I suspect it would also require pre-clinical animal work with SARS-CoV-2 specifically before human trials could start. If it has been shown to be safe for clinical use in other countries, it may be fast-tracked for FDA approval or the FDA may authorize emergency off-label use[with no need for clinical trials],” said Rasmussen, indicating that the FDA will have to examine safety data and pre-clinical data before determining which, if any course of action to take with investigating the drug further.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2020/03/03/ther...
Adding another anecdote, I worked for a company which paid Glassdoor to remove a bunch of negative reviews. The score jumped from 2 to 4 overnight and a bunch of well-written negative reviews disappeared.
How bad is the Windows command line really? (2016)
Not really. I'm mostly on Debian, only using OSX for photo editting and some development, but I honestly didn't realize 32-bit desktop apps were still a thing.

I understand the frustration, though. Apple's spent the last 5 years or so dropping features I care about and breaking things important to me, across my iPhone, iPad, and MBP.
That sounds like it might be a good philosophy, except that it runs afoul of our normal, day-to-day living and the social mores we live amongst.

What if you can't stop thinking about 'that tall, slim blonde from Accounting'? The #me-too crowd will have something to say to you if you decide to go and 'do' her.

What if you can't stop thinking about how to commit the perfect murder? Same problem. The cops would soon have a few questions for you.

Note that the two examples I have given you above are also perfect examples of 'side projects' and have nothing to do with your day-to-day job. <grin>
Smart man!
Quinine is found in the Italian soft drink Brio.

I used to be able to buy it when I lived near Toronto Canada ; but don't know where it is currently available in the USA and Canada.
>The sad part here is that those people who have essentially been swindled have succumbed willingly essentially in the name of religion. Their leaders are keeping the faith.

>So it's sad to me that not only are people so easily manipulated through religion but also what a huge lost opportunity this was. What, really, do any Middle Eastern countries have to show for this massive windfall?

Actually the Ba'athist dictators and monarchs are against the faith. The only country in Middle East with proper theocratic state is the Iranians, and they are doing "alright" so far as a middle power who is in a decades-long cold war with the current Superpower.
From what I’ve seen, a lot of the false negatives with these tests comes from the fact they require two swabs (nose and throat) that must be performed thoroughly/correctly in order to get a viable sample. I wonder how home testing will impact efficacy.
Also depending on what you do using event sourcing can be helpful, too. Or can be a big chunk of unneeded additional work. Be aware that there are 2 ways to do event sourcing one focused on traceability and maybe even replay-ability which has a choke point in that you have a single sequential log, i.e. it doesn't scale horizontally. Or the one which uses it to archive huge horizontal scalability but on the cost of problems with (more) eventual consistency and a very very hard time to get system wide transactions right. (Best of both worlds is if you can shard your system into _independent_ subsystems and have a use case where you can rely on it to not need too much throughput per shard so that you can go with sequential. E.g. like a chat system which can shard per channel all messages and user management per workspace/group).
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On the other hand, done estimates are that there are an excess of ICU beds in the US and an overuse of them.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4351597/

evidence suggests that in the presence of available ICU beds physicians tend to admit lower-risk patients to the ICU and use the ICU more for care at the end of life (4–6). These findings suggest that overuse of ICU beds may be mediated, at least in part, by excess supply. Yet the number of ICU beds in the United States continues to increase, from 69,300 in 1985 to 93,955 in 2005 (2, 7).
They tried to fire me - actually in a rather underhand cowboy manner that I was quite unhappy with for some time after. I gently let them know that they'd actually made me redundant and I allowed them to negotiate a smaller payment than the statutory requirement as a gesture of goodwill. I had another offer with in an hour. I threw the (still worthless some years later) equity away for tax reasons.
Well if they manage to keep it suppressed they can keep the health care system from collapsing at least.
I'm friend with a Tunisian in the country we both live. One day he was really happy, because a fellow countryman brought him a jar of olive oil. I didn't understand, why the hassle of travelling half the world with a product available in any supermarket? He explain, then let me taste it. After that I understood... it's was incredibly tasty.

With the industrialization of food we (as a society) forgot the real taste of raw aliments and artisanal intermediate products.
It's not strictly a superset, to the point that there are good reasons to stay with a C compiler other than to simply stay sane. I make a lot of use of designated initializers for laying out static const arrays. And I actually don't like the way that structs in C++ can be referred to both with and without the struct tag. I also don't like how void-pointers are not compatible with other pointers without an explicit cast. Or that plain integers cannot be assigned to enum types. Some of this is just my personal preference (or Stockholm Syndrome), but the fact is that most C code will fail to compile as C++ without some changes.

MSVC is probably pretty close to C99 these days. Designated initializers are C99, for example.
I did the calculation in Freedom Units and converted to grams per km. Assuming tires last 60,000 miles or 100,000km and got 0.1 gm/km. So matches your analysis closely.

Notable I put 60,000 miles on my cars tires since I bought it. They are due for replacement kind of whenever.
That gives you a quantity of force^4. How does that translate to road wear?
Ayup. It's a two by two matrix.

So, how sure are you that the formulas you used handle massive cancellation and roundoff correctly?
No, it doesn't need to be, but it is nicer. There's quite a lot of complexities to my country's tax law (as with any country's tax law, really) and it's heavily simplified by giving you highly dynamic choices. Trying to use my country's immigration site, which has some JavaScript sprinkled on but is largely static, is a largely inferior experience.
I believe it's more nuanced than that.

When you're a billionaire you're probably very diversified, and such foundations can serve as convenient vehicles for shuttling money between interests while giving a tax advantage and buying social favor, and who knows, you might manage to actually help some people along the way.

Hypothetical example: Gates sits on the board of the medical company producing covid test kits and holds a large stake. So he directs his foundation to buy huge quantities of the kits and give them away. Gets a number of birds stoned at once.
Being a generalist is a luxury given mostly to people who can't do anything better than not enough. And more often than not, this means managing specialists ..
> Renewables compete against the long-term oil price, not the spot price.

Not really. Hybrid vehicles for example tanked the last time oil prices plummeted.
"never works like that" was meant to reflect that naive, knee jerk solutions never account for all the complexities of the problem and do more harm than good.

distributing COVID tests to the population is a ridiculous idea that does not do anything but create more panic and trouble.

The problem that needs a solution has nothing to do with whether Random Jane can or cannot (in the privacy of their home) determine if they are infected.

For what is worth, there are people out there, not even few, that would knowingly seek to infect others especially if they themselves suffer almost no effects from the disease. They would do it just for the "lulz". Have you considered that? Being infected, knowing it and suffering no ill effects is an evil superpower.
In the early 90's, everything was client/server where I worked. If you couldn't fix your problem from the command line, there was something really wrong with the software itself. If the database broke, it was perfectly normal to fire up a command line client and manually enter SQL queries to find the bug.

Before the decade was up, the overall belief was if you had to use the command line to fix a problem, there was something really wrong with the software itself. But you wouldn't use the command line to debug it. There is a reason penetration testers still use the command line so extensively to this day. I pity developers who don't get to learn what you can do from "underneath" since it is often so much more efficient.

The funny thing was, it was all client/server, but both the server and the client were powerful. Then things got monolithic and power was taken away from the client. And now that we're still reaping the benefits of Moore's Law, our clients are super powerful again, but we moved the server portion to "the cloud" which may or may not have simplified things. It's starting to look like the mainframe days again - just more efficient.

The takeaway is that no matter how you see things right now, it'll be deconstructed and reconstructed forever -- even if it doesn't really need to be. There is a lot of money being made on change for change's sake.

ADDITIONAL: A big thing back then was how information got shared so freely in the 80's and early 90's. It was easy to get into conversations about Artificial Life (for example) directly with folks at the various national laboratories. Once the Internet started to become commercialized, it was all about keeping secrets and profits - even on things that were mundane or reasonably well known to technical folk. Patent trolling really messed things up. There is still some openness, but it isn't as casually free as it was then.

Having said that, I really love how technology is evolving. Look at Raspberry Pi. In the 90's, you couldn't afford to build your own super computer to learn parallel coding, and cpu's were single core, so you couldn't really even fake it all that well. Now you can build some really amazing things on the cheap, with all the available sensors, etc, and of course, Arduino.

Perhaps sharing didn't really die. It just became more focused.
I do not. They managed to raise about $80k through GoFundMe, and he just found a donor after months of looking. Assuming he will be in debt for the rest of his life, if he lives.
> Once you are a generalist you can build any side project you can think of without any external help.

I agree wholeheartedly. Maybe it's because my grandfather was a farmer and I learned a lot from him, but from a very young age it's always been "what do I need to learn to be able to do this?" instead of "who can I find who knows how to do this?"

> almost all of the software development landscape

Embedded would like to have a word with you :)

I do agree with you though, at this point that is a pretty good set of 3 languages that cover a lot of breadth for application (web/mobile/desktop) development.
What do you mean by imperative? Static control by the program?
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This seems to be a significant (and sad) trend.

It's also good to note that the increase in college grads doesn't offset this trend.

"Younger Americans are more likely to have attained a four-year degree than older groups. Among Americans between the ages of 25 to 34, 37 percent have at least a bachelor’s degree. Among those 55 and older, just under 30 percent have a four-year degree." (Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/326995-census-more-...)

It seems like the reasons suggested have merit: the numbers start to rise steadily after trade deals that facilitate globalization.

I noticed that one of the reasons mentioned seemed a bit weak:

> “Many people used to associate the meaning of their life with what their corporation or institution was doing,” says Deaton, a Nobel laureate in economics. Miners and factory workers identified themselves as such. Warehouse workers, especially those whose paycheck is signed by a staffing company, rarely feel the same connection.

I wonder if social media and entertainment could be a partial contributor to the numbers increase. With how distracting and/or addictive internet entertainment is nowadays, it's easy for people to lose enough time to become "trapped" and unable to solve their problems.
"What was changed is easily seen in the commit itself, why needs to be in the commit message."

Commit message is like subject of an email. Is n't it faster to look at commit message, and get an idea about change rather than go through commit and understand it?
I made a web app framework [0] for people like you (and me). It lets you use static HTML to build a web app.

Data attributes store data in the page and add dynamic features (like CRUD functionality and drag and drop sorting) very easily.

Plus, the whole thing is server rendered with Handlebars, so the front-end JS part isn't even required for 95% of visitors (it's only necessary if you're an admin who can edit the current page).

I wrote it because I missed the simple days of jQuery and REST APIs.

[0] https://remaketheweb.com/
what are you talking about? we all got rich from all that Klein Money in 2008. still reverberating in the economy as we collectively decided not to buy booze and steak and instead invested them all /s
FAA poised to require electrical wiring fixes before 737 Max can fly again
Hybrids as well.
Allende did the same in Chile with the copper mines and CIA delivered the same medicine in kind.

Chile's story is a strange duality of murder and relative economic prosperity. It is extremely difficult to say whether it was "worth it".

But, the most important thing is that we say it happened, just like you did.
https://archive.is/UXRGa
What about finding a cure, there, Billy Boy? Why just test kits? Afraid of big Pharma knowing you have a cure for the common cold?

Edit: Looks like Amazon has it
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/amazon-is-secretly-working-o...
Unfortunately they won't publish the link that corona virus is the common cold so it'll be buried.
Booking asks for the good parts and the bad parts seperately and then only shows the good parts. You really have to look around for the negative parts. I always do that and it is very helpful.
Very straightforward - the founders were good people; I was not diluted at all throughout our entire 7 year run (I was employee < 10). We were also acquired by a huge scandinavian company which helped avoid icky shenanigans usually pulled by US companies.
The history of various bugs in various very commonly used libraries, with them being extremely obvious after being discovered, strongly suggests this:

If there is some situation that is somewhat likely to come up and needs special code, but it is not immediately obvious (and, going by OP's evident lack of realizing it, that's some proof to say it is not immediately obvious)? It may not be there. And even if it is the common path, it can still be buggy.

Is is less likely that a library with some actual use out there has these bugs vs. handrolling it, but, if you handroll it, you're writing it for _your_ case, specifically with what you have in mind, whereas the library is more general than that. That's usually upside, but there's also downside, in what may be obvious to your usecase may not be obvious to the library.

The central point of the top comment here, that opinions differ and that there isn't actually an obvious answer even if you think there is one, holds true here.
Italy banned all flights from China on the same day that the U.S. did:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-10/italy-s-h...

> Italy on Jan. 31 suspended flights to and from China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan in a bid to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The ban, due to last until April 28, was the first by a European Union member. The Czech government later followed suit.
They want to take away the USA's global oil dominance. Won't work.
Do upper class americans really have an obligation to help working class americans if it means neglecting the millions of people in other countries who want jobs and are willing to work for less? Shouldn't we prioritize helping low income job seekers in poor countries before we sacrafice economic efficiency to create relatively high paying jobs for americans who already have a higher standard of living? Tariffs and welfare are expensive drains on the economy. If we continue to grow the labor supply and keep wages low, everyone will get richer, especially employers and immigrants who are much harder working are deserving of the American dream than drug addicted whites who are probably racist anyway.
You're already on your way to having tens of thousands of infections.

But because it's absolutely false that "all governments are led by idiots", countries with good health care systems are raising awareness of the severity of the issue and taking effective measures.

The US isn't a first-world country; but it is a very rich thirld-world nation.
I do hope the true ruler of things turns out to be an old bloke in a hut with no interest in anything beyond a vague affection for his (possibly imaginary) cat.

Otherwise we’re really in trouble.
Ted Cruz shook hands with COVID-19 positive party, puts self in quarantine
We jump through so many hoops to avoid this terrible pattern. This puts more load and less scaling options on your DB. If you need to upgrade how something is stored, you need to touch every service. And they didn't really solve their problem.

If you can't keep track of what services call each other, what makes you think you'll be able to keep track of who is writing out what data?

Reading how they did SOA (spaghetti of services with highly coupled interactions) I don't think putting that at the data layer is useful in the long run. They even suggest many services operating on the same data as a way to decorate the data as it haphazardly makes it way through this mess of an app. Their original problem was a poorly planned separation of concerns leading to cross service coupling. In DOA that still have it. Its just coupled directly through the datastore with no hope of cleaning it up without a massive migration.
I think both KSA and Russia eventually will come to an agreement. Current oil prices are not sustainable for KSA. Their budget deficit is already touching 7% of their GDP (https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1XA2EO). If they need to balance their budget they need the oil price to be at 71$.
'Not many people use markup' seems to overlook Wikipedia, which is probably the great mass use of markup by ordinary people today. It's a shame that it's so gross to work with, though.
The U.S. presidency and Congress are elected via a majority vote, not unanimous vote.
Eh, 'renewables' (presumably you're thinking of solar and wind-generated electricity) don't really directly compete with oil (at least in the USA). Oil is a negligible part of our electricity generation mix. This might somewhat delay the switch over to battery-electric vehicles, as it lowers the cost of gasoline/diesel, but that has relatively little to do with renewables, per se, and more to do with the relative costs for electric power (regardless of source) and gasoline/diesel.

A secondary effect, however, could be that it temporarily wrecks the fracking industry in the US, eventually leading to much less natural gas production, raising the price of natural gas (and thus being good for wind/solar, which will probably have gradually declining costs for the foreseeable future).
Only a small percentage of jobs are actually remote-capable, but most people would be just fine with 1099 work. Most benefits are unused and people prefer cash that they can spend on their own needs instead. Taxes might be harder to save for upfront but not a big deal.

The biggest challenge is how healthcare benefits are tied to employment. It's something that made sense when it started but is now obsolete and seriously detrimental to the modern workforce. Many people either suffer from lack of insurance or are held captive in a job from fear of losing necessary coverage.

Fix that and we would see a lot more positive developments for workers.
I second every book recommendation here. Another great one is The Standard C Library.
The U.S. government couldn’t shut down the Internet, right? Think again
Just listened to Fit the Third: Marvin hums up some Floyd. Maybe just this once sanity ruled.
How pathetic can an idea be that it can’t hold up to rational discourse and must instead be defended by an ad hominem attack?

Cato is known for having bias, not for spewing bullshit. The NYTimes has bias and Piketty has bias. The bullshit asymmetry principle never applies when discussing ideas regardless of the bias. Otherwise you could never argue with any human.

That principle is a lazy cudgel used by people in echo chambers who are incapable of defending ideas or linking to simple refutations of re-used arguments.
Try FastMail. Its beautiful and refreshing. "Old school" in everyway.

If anyone from FastMail is reading this - do not change your design or UI framework...like ever. The moment you start slowing things down with animations and bloat, that's a slippery slope...
What did you use as the original data source? I've been poking at some GTFS data but there seems to be no obvious way to get distance traveled between stations (aside from as-the-crow-flies).
Physical register <-> L1 <-> Fill Buffer <-> L2 <-> L3 [<-> L4 ] <-> [bus buffer <->] memory module

I wouldn't count buffer registers inside DRAM chips as a separate cache.
It's of course perfectly fine using chrome, which may or may not be indicative of a serious problem for the open web
I think they're dropping support for installation on 32-bit machines, not the 32-bit libraries needed to run 32-bit software on a 64-bit OS.
F-Droid Is a Key Source for Academics and Researchers
At which point egcs was gcc.