skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a nice thought from a community manager but I just checked Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service where I pay $5 a month to get access to 6 hour sessions and a ray tracing GPU and it's not available. Seems like a better headline would be "Reddit user reminds PC gamers that Folding@Home exists. Nvidia's twitter account agrees."
I won't say I loved it, but VB5/6 was one of the best tools I've ever used to create CRUD apps for Windows.
Italy stopped flights from china before the US, it didn't work so well for them. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2020/03/12/italy-ba...
bioRxive link:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.987958v1....
> Well, if it were reasonably run, why not? Imagine a world where the trillions going into the military were spent in other ways? Where people weren’t arbitraged across artificial boundaries? Would that be so horrible? So much more terrible than what we have now?

These trillions would be spent oppressing you for a change. A "world government" cannot be anything but a complete bloody dictatorship.
China Dealt with Covid-19
> why not try it?

I imagine not everyone feels comfortable potentially killing someone with a creation of theirs that they're not confident in, even if others are willing to risk it.
It would likely go in parallel, that's why the paper is published on the preprint server. Paper reviews in major journals like Nature can easily take over a year but that is mostly to get the scientific "bragging rights" these days. It has little effect on further research and drug development since the information is out there already.

The part that is most relevant for the development of a new drug/treatment is the safety and efficiency testing in the clinical studies - and that alone will take many months. It can be shortened if it is a drug that has been used before for something else (e.g. that chloroquine for malaria) and is only repurposed because there we know the drug is safe already. For a completely new drug it could take a year or more just to do the testing and get the approvals.

So I wouldn't have high hopes to see this being deployed widely any time soon.
I strongly recommend reading the (relatively few) one-star reviews of his books on Amazon. Very entertaining stuff, with more substance than his books...
Certainly Nvidia could just use the spare capacity themselves to do it, instead of asking paid subscribers to do so.
Let's say we discovered a cure. For simplicity's sake, this is a hypothetical vaccine that instantly destroys the infection.

How long would it take for such a product to go from the lab to application in the general population?--what are the key variables that factor into such an estimate? Is there some expedited process in the case of a pandemic?
Scratch is probably the most logical choice for teaching programming to kids (at least in an age when it's still hard for them to concentrate on multiple concepts before seing some results)

https://scratch.mit.edu/
You actually can add people; open up the member list (the stylized "bust" icon at the top left or the information icon to the right) and there's a button there: "Add people".

I don't think you can leave though.
Yeah, some translated important notes from the Dutch article:

> This is the first known antibody that blocks the infections

> The antibodies have to be tested in humans, which can take months

> The research still has to be peer reviewed

> It stops the virus from further internal infections, allowing the patient to recover

> They are trying to get a pharmaceutical company to mass-produce it

> A vaccine would be a real solution, others are working on it. Vaccine development can take 2 years
Do not log, instead log?
This does not teach them how to fish though. Perhaps not the best idea in the long run, although generous of course.
Human+AI play was forecasted to be the next big thing, but has proven to be a mere curiosity. After all, imagine a sitting down next to a grandmaster who helps you play your moves. Every move comes down to: Do you want to play the best move? y/N

Indeed, the moves that a human would've overruled in the Lee Sedol tournament are the ones that vaulted AlphaGo to victory.
So far no mention of SCTP which would have been fine if people switched to IPv6 (which more and more are every day). Instead we have this monster of a protocol emulating it over UDP.
No US airports until a few days ago screened arriving passengers. They were not asked if they came from regions with large outbreaks.

After a month from 1st infection, less than 2000 tests was conducted in the US. Right now, it's 12,000+ tests which is the lowest tests per million in the world.

Schools, theaters, theme parks are closed. Sports events are suspended.

What other evidence do you need that there is lack of leadership?
Yeah, would have played out very well for those top ticking n225 in 1989, esp with every global CB's trying to follow in the footsteps of the BOJ, while everyone is crowding into "diversification" and searching for yield…

I consider investors to be the same as speculators, just speculators who think their beliefs will remain valid over long time frames… cause that's the gamble.
It isn't a choice of aye or nay to one drug; there are a suite of drugs that either should or probably do help with COVID-19. If they are going to pick something randomly, chloroquine is probably a better choice based on Chinese trials.

The speed with which things that help against this coronavirus are being found really is impressive. It is good to be facing this in the modern era instead of 50 years ago.
If there is a 20+% false positive/negative rate, then there are many people this will happen to.
Some pieces of advice for VR professionals on how to go through the lockdown
PS wasn't invented when my smart new Pentium 60 was crunching the thing I wrote about above! Cripes: OLE was the latest whizz bang thing in Windows back then.
I wonder if that person ever tried to debug an obscure support case for a product that is installed on some customer on-prem hardware with ridiculous settings.
Thank you for building this. I lost my best friend, someone I'd known since I was 2 years old. It is painful to learn that MAT could have saved him, but also uplifting to think of the people who will be saved by this.

With that said, I work in healthcare and want to warn you about the HIPAA implications of using Google Analytics (which is not HIPAA compliant nor covered under a Google BAA) on your scheduling form for consultations. This can connect PII to a health condition in Google's system by means of a Google universal identifier.

I am the CTO at a healthcare startup and sincerely wish you the best in this venture, and will gladly/freely offer any knowledge I have to you - let me know if you'd like me to elaborate by email.
This article is pretty confused. For example, the concluding section is titled "What to do instead?" but doesn't actually address that question. (If this were the only problem, I'd think it was an accidental leftover from an edit, but it's all only partially coherent.)

There are some good parts. It's not all wrong or anything. But I don't think it's worth the read.

Maybe a good takeaway is: consider which monitoring systems might accomplish your business purpose better.

Also, I guess: a full-featured logging subsystem in a distributed system can be substantial. True but not too interesting because that's pretty obvious, often not needed, wouldn't normally be implemented from scratch any more than a monitoring system might be, etc.
What you are saying is theoretically possible, but the sibling comment that's getting downvoted right now invoking Occam is, I think, spot on. Why hypothesize a detour through a biomedical lab if we know that people can get these diseases from animals, it's happened countless times before and it's exactly the scenario epidemiologists have been warning about for a long time?

Beside, there's another point that makes it implausible in this particular case: BSL4 labs are absurdly annoying to work in, with personnel wearing overpressure suits. Coronaviruses are BSL3 pathogens [0], you wouldn't choose to arbitrarily work with them at a higher safety level lab.

[0] That's even explicitly true for the novel one, SARS-CoV-2: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/lab-biosafety-...
Does this mean someone treated with antibodies won't be immune to the virus in future?
It's the other way around though: it's not them or their creation that is killing the patient, it's the virus. There's a big difference between their creation being unable to save the patient and actively killing them.
yes. the web is broken.

and advertisement is the reason. the pest of the internet.
I don't want to rain on this person's parade, but I think this is a horrible idea. This is great for phishing but a really bad choice for your actual domain, because it's basically impossible to type out the URL (or even convey: it's "foo.tel but the 'tel' is small for some reason?") and you're already seeing a bunch of tools break on it. (To really drive the point home, the final link the article had a box in it on my computer.)
r/covid19 link: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fietp4/dutch_erasm...

A commentor posted English translation:

'Erasmus MC and Utrecht University find antibody against corona'

A group of ten scientists from the Erasmus Medical Center and Utrecht University say they have found an antibody against the coronavirus, reports Erasmus Magazine.

"To our knowledge, this is the very first antibody that we know blocks the infection and there is a good chance that it will also become a drug on the market," said Professor of Cell Biology Frank Grosveld. It has yet to be tested on humans, which takes months.

The publication about the find is at the discretion of colleagues, after which it may be published in the leading trade journal Nature. "Prevention is better than cure, of course," says Grosveld. "A real solution is therefore a vaccine, others are working on that. However, developing a vaccine takes two years."
Symptoms as described by WHO:

- https://i.cbc.ca/1.5496615.1584111464!/fileImage/httpImage/i...

- https://sm.mashable.com/mashable_sea/photo/default/coronavir...
PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
Except, it's equivalent to normal .tel. This URL points to the article above, with all the unhacking done client-side:

https://xn--69f31l4t57c0mag4b613h.xn--7uh4898msjaso/🆆🆃🅵/

(that's https;//🅂𝖍𝐤ₛᵖ𝒓.ⓜ𝕠𝒃𝓲/🆆🆃🅵/)
Nine months pregnant during a public health crisis
I'm a PHB these days but I'm 2/3 the way through building a Prusa 3D printer so all hope is not lost. Also, unlike most other MDs, I have a soldering iron and a fair few ESPx devices on my desk ...
From the link you gave,

"During a Feb. 28, 2020, campaign rally in South Carolina, President Donald Trump likened the Democrats' criticism of his administration's response to the new coronavirus outbreak to their efforts to impeach him, saying "this is their new hoax." "

So while he didn't exactly, it doesn't show a person who cares for reality. Snopes says "mixture" on it's veracity.

> he's happy to have people on his task force who will publicly contradict him

You mean he doesn't care enough to put out the right information in the first place, and relies on being 'cleaned up afterwards' by his staff (who he keeps sacking)? He's made a mess of this primarily. The buck stops with him. The CDC does seemed to have fouled up badly but that doesn't exempt Trump's bizarre and dangerous response to a real crisis.
"The CPC knew about this virus for over a month before they took any action to contain it"

You are trying to blame politicos for being who they are. Other governments behaved exactly the same. They knew very well what is coming and still kept flow of goods and people. They are just as guilty in ignoring pandemic.

Sure they did not arrest their people for "spreading panic". But that is human rights issue and is totally separate from the subject. Nobody's saying that China is the beacon of freedoms.

But sure it feels much better when one can ignore their own screw ups and pin the blame on somebody else.
The most surprising Unix programs
Cool, it has the exact same issue here as well. (It shows up as boxes.)
Who are the unsung heroes of pandemics?
I'm sure there are a lot of people fighting the current outbreak that everyday people would never think about because they're not as prominent as doctors for example. What's the most overlooked profession in your opinion? And how could we as a society show our appreciation?
investor who does

- dollar cost averaging,

- diversification, small cost investing,

- has sufficiently long time-horizon

has never lost money on 15 year timescale, at least past WWII.
I'm a retired programmer who does ride sharing in Silicon Valley. I often pick up people at the San Jose airport. Sometimes they are coming in from China or Seattle. I live in a Chinese neighborhood. I gave a woman who couldn't breath a ride to the emergency room. When I got sick in February, I figured it was the flu, but now realize it was probably Covid-19 based on symptoms. I recovered nicely and have been quarantining myself just in case.

It's like the flu with the added difference that it makes breathing more difficult. Also difficulty swallowing. It was more annoying than anything, not really that bad. I don't have any health problems, but if I did have breathing issues, I imagine it might be very problematic.
Surely if you have a PhD in applied math you've seen that Wikipedia will often foreground dense theoretical issues, even for topics with straightforward practical applications.

You do not need to understand theoretical type theory to understand options. It's just like a pointer that can be NULL except the compiler makes sure you can't accidentally dereference it if it is. Algebraic data types in general are basically just structs and tagged unions, except the compiler makes sure you can't screw the tags up.

Like, dude, by your own account, you're pretty smart; that's the point of your last paragraph, right? There are, at this point, hoards of Rust and Scala and Swift and Kotlin programmers who can figure out how option types work, and don't seem to have too much of a problem with it and pretty much universally think they're great. Are they actually just smarter than you?
AWS recently announced SDK for its Chime conferencing app, too: https://aws.amazon.com/chime/chime-sdk/
Still, would be nice to be able to point to some tangible result, such as "knowledge obtained eventually led to developing of better treatment for bone cancer" etc.
Yeah, leaving is my main issue. When I get pulled into something and I decide it's not relevant to me, I can close the conversation, but it'll reopen as soon as anyone writes anything, so muting and having it pollute my conversation list is the only option.

Can added people read previous messages, or are they only starting at the moment they enter?
This depends whether it is a "cure", that is a medicine to be given to the people who are sick, or a vaccine, which is given to the general (healthy) population.

For a medicine, a lot of the red tape can be cut, as you might test it on otherwise hopeless cases. There is a limited risk associated (that one person might die) and the results in the case it works are also easy to monitor.

With vaccines, things become complicated.
- vaccines are given to healthy population, and to large parts of the population. So they need to be extremely safe, or you end up killing more than the disease would have had. This is obviously not acceptable and extensive safety testing needs to be done.

- you need to find out, whether the vaccine works at all. Creating a working vaccine against a virus like corona is very tricky - we don't for example have a working vaccine against the cold. So making sure the vaccine has the intended effect takes a long time, especially, if you consider that all tests have to be done with healthy people.

So currently some antiviral medicine is being tested at sick people and some results could be out soon, but for a vaccine, mid-2021 are the most optimistic timelines I heard.
Sounds like it. This is not a vaccination. It may be possible that while these antibodies are working the body might also “learn” the virus, thus providing immunity, but that would be a side effect of the infection.
Trump didn't create this but all signs indicate that he and his merry band of luddites will continue to exasperate the situation.

Where's the international cooperation? As the article mentions Bush and Obama were regularly on the phone with world leaders to coordinate their responses to the Avian Flu and Ebola outbreaks. This administration has done none of that and has effectively taken it's hand off the wheel.
Does Rosetta have GPU projects these days? I was under the impression that it only ran on CPUs.
>Three years later, with the Jaguar project ahead of schedule, Atari decided to abandon the Panther and released its 64-bit machine in November 1993

so ahead of schedule they released Broken hardware (for example SRAM scratchpad was supposed to be cache, but that didnt work) with Broken SDK on top (generated code had tendency of randomly crashing).
Hey! Silicon Valley! See something when you look in this mirror?
Highly recommend Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan.
Try using Reader mode.
It's likely. The body will be less likely to have undergone the immune response to generate antibodies of its own. Additionally, as the immune response develops, the antibody affinity to its target is refined through a process called "affinity maturation", so any antibodies which are produced might not have high affinity and hence result in a weaker immune response.

Treatment with antibodies might be useful as an immediate fix, but vaccination or infection and the development of a proper immune response is the long term requirement for resistance.
> it sounds like a job for Sentry, not logging.

Sentry IS logging.
> Rhinovirus is responsible for the common cold, not corona virus.

https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus

> Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).

I'm done here.
Yeah, I write a ferocious amount of PowerShell it's an amazingly bad language. I use it for its API, but its language design is a nightmare.

I'm not talking about its unorthodox syntax - that's the least of its problems. The language is hellishly inconsistent and has an inexcusable number of legacy issues for being so young.

And the quality of the standard library is poor. More and more often I find I have to drop down into .net commands to work around showstopper bugs in their PowerShell wrappers.
Does Apple pay for the extra work necessary to prepare these? Did you notice an uptick in sales from being featured in the retail demo?
I believe this article is about one data point.
I concur that my statement is not entirely accurate, but if we apply the same nuance to the general sentiment I was replying to, surely we will conclude that we should absolutely not rely upon “the market” to prepare for and carry out disaster response.
That's not the complete story. They have lost one asset with a certain set of liquidity characteristics, and unexpectedly gained one with another set.
As I say in the blog post, this is only useful when you want / need to save a couple of characters in a message. Or if you're desperate for the URl to look "interesting".

It's also handy if you want to hide a URl from automated detection tools.

But, you are right, not all characters will render on all systems.
Well that's very not good, I hope it's much lower than that:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/27/coronavirus-...
how do you find the correct index values? My 2080 Ti receives no work.
Taliban girls 'education'
https://www.refworld.org/docid/53ce30773.html
A good heuristic is, don’t get your medical news from LinkedIn. Doubly-so if the word “AI” appears in the headline.
The US also has a helium reserve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
Elliott Wave Principle by Robert Prechter and A. J Frost

https://epdf.pub/queue/elliott-wave-principle-key-to-market-...

This is the technical analysis method used by many market traders and it both predicted this week's market plunge as well as described its form, and is currently forecasting a further plunge next week.

For economics I would look for any youtube talk by Prof. Steven Keen - he accounts for debt that most mainstream economists ignore.
If everyone always demanded the "best" treatment according to our current knowledge, we might never find out there was anything better than leeches...
At my employer we've used Skype, Lync, Slack, Teams, Slack again, Zoom for our meetings and whilst some have started to become OK now (Slack and Teams), it's laughable to me how bad the voice experience still can be considering how this has been a solved problem in the gaming community for what, 15 years?

Today? If I could choose, I'd just use Discord. The only annoying limitation is the 10 people screenshare/Go Live limit but that's only really a problem for company-wide meetings but thankfully in my case they're usually not very, ahem, informative (and thus not essential), plus they get recorded anyway.
If you ask people who live and die by their 'backpacks' - the military (they'd call them rucksacks in the US or bergens in the UK) - you'll find that they eschew all this fancy complexity and just use something with a very basic structure. You may get an internal metal or polymer frame, but that'll be about it. Keep it simple.
Fair enough, I do agree that it's certainly interesting from a technical perspective. But in general, I would stand by my claim that you don't really want to use these because they just don't work in a lot of places–either they won't render, or URL detection won't work and you can't click on the link, or they'll annoy people who use screenreaders…
I was introduced to the real benefits of logging on an Erlang project. They used a pseudo-csv log format and it was possible to do a lot with these logs. For example you could process them with cut/uniq/grep/etc in order to produce statistics for stuff that you weren't recording statistics for. If there was some kind of dataloss because of a bug it was sometimes possible to reconstruct the corrupted/missing data from the logs. If you had a problem with a particular transaction you could just grep for the transaction_id and see how it moved through the system to narrow down what happened to it.

I'm now working on an Elixir project but the way Elixir does logging is kind of dangerous. So you have a dynamically typed language that relies on unit testing in order ensure stuff works, then you have logging methods where the compiler will remove them depending on what log-level you have configured for your environment. Now run different log-levels for production and testing. What could go wrong? It seems insane that the framework would let you do this and not have a more sensible default like run the log methods but drop the output to the floor and you have to do a bit more work in order to make the log methods be completely removed.
Even assuming that's true, one can't say the sort of risk and investor took on 15 year look-backs since WWII has been evenly distributed to get some sort of acceptable return, nor can one say that this will continue hold true for the next 15 years. You may believe it hold true though, and many do… but very few will do their homework on the risks to their "diversification" and their own changing liquidity constraints that will occur over the "sufficiently long time-horizon"
That's the thing with giving people stuff that hasn't been tested on anyone before: It might actively kill them, not just not prevent them from being killed by the virus.