skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where people weren’t arbitraged across artificial boundaries?

The boundaries aren’t arbitrary; they reflect ethnic differences between groups.

Homogenizing people is an abhorrent suggestion — and without that, large governments don’t really work.

> Well, if it were reasonably run, why not?

This is extremely unlikely, because history has shown us that remote, centralized governments are generally both arbitrary towards citizens and ineffective at addressing regional needs.

Big, centralized government has killed 100M people in the past century.

> Imagine a world where the trillions going into the military were spent in other ways?

There’s basically zero chance that would happen, as a central world government would need a lot of force to keep regions following their edicts.

That you even suggest it shows that this isn’t a serious proposal.

> Would that be so horrible? So much more terrible than what we have now?

Yes, absolutely.

You seem to have a fantasy, not a serious view of how that would operate or the consequences to human well-being based on historic precedent.

It’s not that people don’t cooperate, it’s that what you’re proposing is dangerous and harmful, so people cooperate to oppose it.
Perhaps it's not clear, but i live in China and experience the result of these "politicos being who they are" first hand. This virus could and should have been stopped before it got out of Hubei. The CPC have no excuse for their ineptitude when they already went through a comparable outbreak in 2003 with SARS.

We have evidence that acting earlier was an option, because the party chief of Qianjiang (a city in Hubei) unilaterally decided to do just that. He went against the prevailing wisdom from Beijing and quarantined all coronavirus patients in that city back on January 17 - ten days after Xi Jinping claims he was on top of things and over a week before the party ordered other cities in Hubei (including the epicenter of Wuhan) to lockdown. Qianjiang is now the only city in Hubei that has lifted their lockdown, and infections have been an order of magnitude less than other cities in the province.

And that's only one case that Caixin was allowed to report on. If we had a free press here maybe we'd hear more about the abject failure of party leadership to follow the advice of specialists, but unfortunately we do not.

However, that is beside the point. The point is, this outbreak was grossly mismanaged by the CPC, and now the entire world is suffering. No matter how many lavish gifts wealthy party members bestow upon the rest of the world, it's important that we do not forget how this crisis started and who was responsible for it. Otherwise, how will we learn to avoid the next one?
Physician here; this isn't true for the ventilation of COVID patients, or ICU patients in general.

There's a difference between simple ventilator [1], and an anesthesia machine [2] that adds gas mixing, scavenging, etc.

ICU patients are anesthetized using IV sedation (a common regimen in the US is fentanyl/propofol), not inhalational anesthetics. Most vents only have simple inline filters to reduce contamination.

[1] A classic vent in the US is the Puritan Bennett 840. Here's its manual showing filters: https://www.medtronic.com/content/dam/covidien/library/us/en...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaesthetic_machine
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var x = [1, 2, 3];

let y = x.map( { v -> Int in
print("got \(v)")
x.removeAll()
return 1
})

print("x: \(x)")
print("y: \(y)")

got 1
got 2
got 3
x: []
y: [1, 1, 1]

I don't know much about swift but this shows the closure is able to mutate the Array. I guess value types are captured by reference by a closure.
Or because biotech companies charge what insurance companies will bear for them?
There's a gargantuan step to be made between saying "there are _some_ similarities between human and fish brains" to "the stock market behaves non-randomly like a school of fish". And an even bigger one to saying "The non-random patterns in the stock market can be divined with TA".
America has "a right to try," so patients with no chance could ask for this.
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the sense of self entitled heroism near the end is truly amazing
Probably none? Nuclear reactors shouldn't be able to go prompt critical by design. The bigger concern is that it spreads radioactive shit all over the place if it gets bombed.
What's alarming and kind of ironic is that COVID 19 has a lack of symptoms compared to the common flu. Aches and pains sometimes for COVID 19 as opposed to aches and pains common for the common flu. Runny nose sometimes for COVID 19 but runny nose common for the Common Flu. Its almost to say if you feel really bad you probably don't have COVID 19 unless you really start having trouble breathing. It's helps me appreciate the need to stay home if I just start getting SOME of the symptoms for the flu like a fever. Don't wait for body aches or a runny nose.
Awww poor price gouging end stage capitalist. Not.
This guy did something that at a minimum will make him a pariah in his community and at worst could get him convicted of crimes in several states, yet he didn’t hesitate to have his name, picture, and complete confession plastered nationwide in one of the country’s premier and most widely read newspapers. Head-scratcher.
I do! In classic Sierra style, that game was impossible.
This will be a wonderful source of pre-processed nuclear material. No way any of that would ever go missing in the field. Or get hit with a shell and spread all over.
Every ad network and every social media platform need to be saying as much world wide to everyone, 10 times a day.
Covid-19 substitutions Chrome extension
Unmentioned in TFA: what's to become of the spent fuel. Maybe since we're fighting in someone else's home, we can just leave it there...
Side note: this translation by Google Translate is amazing. I am a native Dutch speaker and the translation is 100% correct. I had no idea Google Translate was this good.
Who is using DAI as an investment instrument?
Or allow multiple return values like Go. EOF gets returned as an explicit error value and the io.Reader interface is standardized and widely used.
At least coronavirus exists in these conspiracy theories. I'd cry if it was the media (and scientists and doctors) lying because the Rothschild's shorted the global markets. At least this way they're still washing their hands.
This is the military industrial complex reaching new levels of insanity.

We restrict Iranian students from studying at our universities, but will start littering the battlefield with nuclear appliances. This seems a proliferation accident waiting to happen...
> I did not say that everyone was using ICC, rather that desktop and game developers did not share the same opinion regarding ICC and Visual C++

Yes, sure. MSVC is garbage clearly isn't right.

I presume (in the absence of any real data of course) that ICC doesn't result in significant performance advantages over MSVC, for games, or it would have been worth these developer's time to support it.

> if you are reducing the world to just what Unreal, Source and CryEngine officially support

It's a reduction sure enough, but I think that's a reasonable set of engines to consider.

> I wonder how many AAA games have been released on Windows using GCC or clang with those engines

I imagine it's none.

According to the (quite possibly stale) official wiki, Source does not support Clang, and only supports GCC for building Linux dedicated servers. [0]

It looks like Unreal Engine supports Clang for Linux builds [1], but for Windows it seems they really only support MSVC, although Clang can be made to work [2][3]

CryEngine supports Clang for Linux builds [4], but not for Windows where it seems to be MSVC-only [5][6]

[0] https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Compiler_Choices

[1] https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Compiling_For_Linux

[2] https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/Development/...

[3] https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/engin...

[4] https://docs.cryengine.com/display/SDKDOC4/CRYENGINE+on+Linu...

[5] https://github.com/CRYTEK/CRYENGINE/issues/381

[6] https://docs.cryengine.com/display/CEPROG/Building+the+Engin...
Social scourge. Capitalism at its highest.
> 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 had that as well for 3 weeks after being on an event with known covid-19 cases, feels very different from the flu. I asked if they wanted to diagnose me but I didn't fit their profile (being on the same event doesn't count as close contact), so I've self quarantined as well just in case.
Will they withstand sabotage and nuclear bombs, such as normal nuclear plants are?
True, but you can teach SOLID with React.

I think the technology isn't important, but how you teach.
Deducing that something exists and identifying something are two different activities. The article is about the latter.
> Are they actually just smarter than you?

Sure they are. Or at least they do not hold an irrational, primary hatred of over-abstraction like I do. In math there's also people like this, who work in stuff like category theory, logic and whatnot. Fortunately, they are a mostly controlled minority.
Not a doctor but if X is dying, wouldn't it be too late for antibodies to do their work?

e.g. if dying from the immune response or a co-infection.
This is stupid on two levels. The first is that obviously this guy is a crook, profiteering from a crisis.

The second is that hand sanitizer isn't even necessary, soap and water is better, and people paying $7 for a bottle of hand sanitizer are ignorant when they could just buy a bar of soap.
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I don't know what's actually happening in Germany, but here's one reason one might think that:

You can use the number of deaths to reason about the true infection rate, independent of the testing strategy. (Until something happens that changes the death rate, like the health system getting overwhelmed.)

For example, Germany and France started seeing cases at about the same time and have found about the same number of cases. But France has 10x the deaths. This suggests that Germany has found a larger proportion of their cases, i.e. they've got better test coverage.
> Or because biotech companies charge what insurance companies will bear for them?

Do you actually have any evidence that substantiates your claim? Wild speculations and conspiracy theories should not have a place in discussions regarding serious matters.
There is only 37 MHz available for upstream, from 5 MHz to 42 MHz (basic upstream frequncy allocation). There is 890 MHz avilable for downstream, from 112 MHz to 1002 MHz.

https://www.excentis.com/blog/differences-between-us-docsis-...

Therefore, given that there is 24x more bandwidth in the downstream direction compared to upstream, it would make sense to offer 20:1 or higher ratios of DS:US speed to customers. Of course, if your HFC network is "good", i.e. has less users, you can sell higher speeds, or just grossly over-sell the service and "hope" not everyone uses the upload at the same time.

Also, a correction: any given cable modem can support up to 32 bonded downstream channels for ~1200 Mbps per CPE, while the cable itself has capacity for ~130 channels, which is theoretically ~4900 Mbps of usable capacity, if there are no TV channels on the cable. However, there is still about ~200 Mbps of upload bandwidth on the cable for all customers, which is limited by the number of channels in the return path RF range. You can assign multiple customers to a single channel, but you can also segment the channels so that all customers get some channels out of the available range, but not exactly the same ones, which would increase the overall capacity of the network.
It took me a short while to parse what you were saying because I never thought of enemy combatants as "the enemy". The actual enemy is the political force to continue fighting, which generally is very loosely correlated with the people on the front.
When I was "in" 45+ years ago, the most important feature of our packs was the ability to shed them quickly so that we could take cover and maneuver our bodies to attack, fight, and survive.
From what I've read sore throat is relatively rare as a symptom of covid-19:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-sympto...

Notably, the COVID-19 infection rarely seems to cause a runny nose, sneezing, or sore throat (these symptoms have been observed in only about 5% of patients).

That doesn't mean you didn't have it, of course, but does suggest it might have just been a cold.
Flu season is already at the tail end so it would be hard to tell. Colds and flu spread in similar ways as CV19 so isolation should help that too.
You have good leadership, and bad leadership..... ;)
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6644298...
Jet2 flights from UK to Spain turn around mid-flight and return to UK
I have had a fever for a week and difficulty breathing. I have asked my doctor about getting tested for Covid19 and they have declined to test me because I don't meet the critical criteria: age > 60, around large groups of people, etc.

I run in circles with someone that returned from Italy and has been confirmed to have Covid19. I'm assuming I have it.

The fever isn't so bad for me but there have been a few times where I thought I would die from not being able to breath. There is only one thing I did that helped with the breathing but it fits in the old wife's tales category so I wont post it here since I don't want to be mocked for it. We used to the same thing 10 years ago to get my Mother-in-law off the ventilator when they told us she would never get off.

Today is day 6 since the fever started and the fever is gone today, still feeling weak.
How is it different than an Excel sheet with external data from a ODBC connector?
Today I Was Afraid
Even sentry itself says sentry is NOT logging: https://sentry.io/vs/logging/
Hard to support grpc without it
Making a claim without providing evidence is different from "wild speculations and conspiracy theories".
This guy should deploy a "Pay what you want when you want" model.

>> Society helped.
>> Eventual HUGE profits.

Good people c.q people able and willing to pay outnumber "bad" people or people who can't afford it by a huge margin. Can't go wrong!
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That isn't speculation; it's just a factual statement about how capitalism and a free market works. Prices rise to the level people will bear.
Hand sanitizer is really useful in office's and when you're out and about at the moment though.

You basically can't get out of an office bathroom without realistically touching several surfaces of questionable cleanliness for a contagious pathogen, for example.
it's strange for me now, looking back and appreciating the Commodore 64 for what it was - the colours that I thought muddy and awful as a child now seem considered and more broadly useful, the capabilities of the SID chip blowing away what the Spectrum was capable of.

And then there was the Amstrad - I simply can't recall its graphics being as good and as colourful as they clearly were. Blinkered fanchild shades, I guess!
What laws does this violate? Illegal resale without a permit or something?
He claims his actions would put him in a really good place financially, and later claims he isn't making much profit. That's some impressive cognitive dissonance.
I wouldn't be surprised if high-volume translations weren't hand-tweaked by a human to iron out mistranslations. In fact, I would be very surprised if Google didn't had a human in the loop to handle these usecases. They already rely on end-users to fix translation issues on their own.
soap and water is better

Sanitizer is useful in situations where you can't wash your hands. Like when you get out of the subway system.
For home sure, but when you’re out hand sanitizer is very convenient.
South Korea hasn't contained the virus yet. They've done a good job at squashing the big cluster in Daegu, partly due to luck (the index patient didn't meet the criteria for testing but got tested anyway), and their numbers look promising. However, Italy's numbers looked good right up until they didn't. The fear is that there are a bunch of other clusters spread throughout the country that are slowly bubbling away, too many to apply contact tracing to, and it looks like there's evidence that is becoming the case: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/10/8128651...
I don't think the author has ever debugged a complex semantic/logic state bug, maybe even across multiple components or systems. Relatedly, all they look at is error logging.

Admittedly, there's a blurry line here between logging and tracing, but the latter word generally evokes externally attaching additional tools. But that "far end" of tracing is frequently not what's needed... there's a reason logging systems have "info" and "debug" severities.

Either way good (i.e. configurable, low overhead) logging is worth its weight in gold.
I imagine one could dampen the motion by regulating the tension of the bungees? or maybe lock it entirely if you need to jump around for a while?

I think that kind of shock absorption and momentum conservation optimization over something that happens tens of times per minute (like steps or strides when running) would definitely make a difference.
If you’re renting, just move out and discard as much clothing as possible. I had this issue in an apartment I was renting - I tried everything that I could, as a tenant. Nothing worked. I gave up and moved out, in desperation.

Bedbugs are horrible. They also stink bad.
This guy is a complete piece of shit. What kind of monster do you have to be to deny everyone that lives anywhere close to you reasonable access to critical supplies? I hope a mob descends on his house.
Doesn't dry cough imply sore throat (ie you cough since your throat is sore and irritated)? So people having a cough wont also mention that their throat is sore since it is unnecessary information?

Edit: The way I experience is is that there is a constant tickle in my throat. It sometimes get so strong that I can't hold back a cough but most of the time it just stays a tickle. I call that sore throat, when I got it initially it surprised me and I got a cough attack but after that I've been able to suppress it and not cough for days.
[Disclaimer: How do I know this stuff?
I'm a core developer of GROMACS, one of the major molecular dynamics simulation FOSS community codes. Molecular dynamic is the algorithm/method behind the F@H simulations.
I work as a researcher in high performance computing and have (co-)developed many of the parallel algorithms and GPU acceleration in GROMACS.]

20-200x is simply not true. Typically, such numbers are a result of comparing unoptimized CPU code to moderately or well-optimized GPU code which is often misleading. (Such differences are however perfectly reasonable when comparing hardware-accelerated workloads like ML/DL). If you compare actually well-optimized codes, you'll see more like ~4-5x difference in performance for FLOP/instrction-bound code as it is the case for well-optimized molecular dynamics.

Case in point, I recently pointed out the huge difference in CPU performance of two of the top molecular simulation codes, one of which is 8-10x faster on CPUs than the other, solving the same problem [2].

F@H relies on GROMACS as a CPU engine [1] which happens to be the same code as I quoted above as the fast one. The trouble is that F@H has not updated their CPU engine for many years and distribute CPU binaries which lack crucial SIMD optimizations to allow making use of AVX2/AVX512 on modern x86 CPUs as well as the years of algorithmic improvement and code optimization we made. These two factors combined lead to _significantly_ lower F@H CPU performance compared to what they had we're they using a recent GROMACS engine.

Consequently, due to the combination of an inherent performance advantage of GPUs and the severely outdated CPU engine, it is indeed not worth wasting energy with running F@H on CPUs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Folding@home_cores#GRO...

[2] https://twitter.com/twilard/status/1235142089156984832?s=20

Edit 1: adjusted wording to reflect that the performance difference between running outdated GROMACS version and subotimal SIMD optimizations on modern hw can have a range of performance difference, depending on hardware and inputs.
Edit 2: fixed typo + formatting.
If you are looking for a shorter read, I would recommend "The money creation paradox" paper published by ING: https://think.ing.com/uploads/reports/Money_paradox2.pdf

I find fascinating that, despite the simplicity of the question, not every economist agrees on how this happens.
Takes 4 minutes of hand sanitizer to remove viruses.
Price gouging (The practice of raising prices on certain types of goods and services to an unfair level, especially during a state of emergency) can be crime during civil emergencies.

If you don't have laws and rules based society, you might be killed for doing that. 100 year ago this guy could easily get a beating or tarring and feathering type punishment.

It's amazing that some person can do that and don't think that they might be doing something really wrong, at least ethically. He want's publicity for his stunt.
I think you mean exacerbate. :)
None. But if it is blown up by say, artillery or a truck load of semtex, the fine vapor of radioactive dust sprayed all over the place will make a decent chunk of land pretty dangerous to hang out on.
> spams your @#$!! phone [...], even while you're on your PC

I feel like "attention", "presence", and "what device am I `on`" is a poorly exploited concept in tech in general.

The right answer probably entails a device using a combination of gaze and most recent input to assert "I'm the attention leader now", then gossiping out to all your devices. Any device hearing that gossip should mute off until it was leader again.

This idea is almost app independent, as an overlay. Phones, at least, seem to have do-not-disturb modes.
Believing that all international communication must be routed through the United States government is a very U.S. centric way of looking at things. Other nations are free to cooperate with each other without first checking in with the U.S. president for his blessing.
Some states have laws against price gouging.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging
Anti-gouging laws are seldom enforced and are of dubious constitutional basis. I'm entirely for them, but I doubt this guy is going to be convicted of anything.

We had a similar case in Canada where a Vancouver couple talked to a newspaper about their enterprise and it just left me pondering what they thought the outcome would be. People respecting their "hustle" and business savvy?
Monolocal antibodies require a complex and expensive process of cell cloning there are only a handful of labs capable of producing these and non of these can scale up production to anything close that is needed for a large scale epidemic not to mention a world wide pandemic.

This is still cutting edge biotech used for experimental treatment for cancer and other diseases often getting an orphan drug or other exemption certification to go on the market.

You also will be hard pressed to find insurance companies to cover these atm.
I used this all the time and I'm still alive.
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I may be mistaken but I think the state of emergency declarations actually made price gouging universally illegal, which he probably should have expected even if eBay, Amazon and that AG hadn't acted on their own.