skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What you all are implying is that anything less than complete mandatory quarantine is the correct course of action.

No. I'm saying you shouldn't be morally rationalizing it as you accepting a "personal" risk. Any contact is a risk to everyone, and you need to accept that.

NOR can you rationalize the chance of infecting others at the restaurant as "their personal risk", for exactly the same reason! Any transmission is a transmission, and it can lead to others. We're trying to keep the number of transmissions low so it doesn't grow out of control.

Now, again: unless you're in a major hot spot a single restaurant visit is (probably) a tolerable risk. But it is not and cannot be understood as a "personal" decision. It's still an increase in pandemic risk and needs to be understood that way.
I wonder if the end result of informing people that wildlife is swimming in potentially deadly viruses would be the attitude that the wildlife should be exterminated, not preserved.
Completely agree, most texts concentrate on teaching outdated fractional reserve based monetary systems. Fractional reserves are no longer the major constraint on an expanding/contracting money supply. This course builds up an understanding of the push/pull factors of modern finance and banking.
The south Asian/international editions of Mankiw are cheap enough if you can find them.
If you aren’t paying yourself a salary it’s not a business, it’s a hobby. Which is fine, but it’s a different thing.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00548-w
already discredited. the confusion in all this is that there are reservoirs for virus versus the intermediate animal for which the virus infected and mutated to become the current sars-cov-2. in this case the pangolin is neither and appears to have one the many versions of coronavirus that may very well have come from bats but is too different to be considered to be part of the virus lineage of sars-cov-2.

this article claims that the origins of sars was found but I am sure they are mischaracterizing the reservoir vs the actual intermediate animal source for sars.
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So he hasn't harmed net immorality.

I'd say the good version of this would be buying up hand sanitizer in January, selling it for markup yesterday.

And if somebody is mad that you're making money, tell people a certain percentage of the profits goes to charity.
Dhall: https://dhall-lang.org/
Seems like the author is just a big fan of handling problems with strong, static typing ala Rust. Good for him.

That's not a reason to get rid of all logging though.

Also, Sentry is logging, so...?
The February report from WHO did not list runny nose as a symptom. If you do have a runny nose, though, that increases the riskiness of hand-nose contact as an infection pathway.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-chi...
Interesting. How do you enable «trace-level» logging without writing «log.trace(...)» absolutely everywhere in your code? And what about performance?

For context, I mostly program in python. I could imagine compile-time loglevel settings could address the performance, though.
puppet is pretty good in my experience
Any reasons for those choices?
“Standard of care” is risk managed by a vast bureaucracy of counter-balanced interests. It is not designed to incorporate rapid learning of emerging unknowns.

During the exponential introduction of a new disease, the standard of care lags, badly.

Repeating “that goes against the basis” or “not needed” doesn’t make sense until the competing interests have settled on a new standard incorporating understanding of the new unknown.

Better to follow the emerging research, tailor care, document, and contribute findings back, to optimize the learning curve.
I'm poor at mechanics but afaik in racing it's considered that extra suspension absorbs energy, making the car slower. So my intuition is that the bungee cord would heat up from expanding/contracting, while taking energy for that from the person. Not sure, though, how that compares to lifting the entire weight. But then again, what happens when the person is already on a downswing and the cord belatedly jerks the backpack up?
No but everyone should jump away from SourceForge after the shady crap they pulled. Gitlab is also a thing.
I typically use terraform and ansible. tf creates/manages the infrastructure and then ansible completes any configuration.
Even though I am not a Go player, it is concerning. This because now money comes into play rather than just raw skill.

Picture a brilliant but poor player. How would that person fare against someone who has a good AI to practice against?
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but here's an upvote to counter it!
To add to vidarh's testimony, in Portugal Apple devices were sold by Interlog, they had two offices across the two main cities Porto and Lisbon.

So no one one islands would get to see one, and on main land it required actually driving down to those shops to see them, or you would eventually see an ad on a computer magazine and eventually schedule a delivery to your place, that could take several weeks.

On top of that they were very pricey versus the competition, which was already quite expensive for average Portuguese salary.

So the only place you would actually see Apple live would be in some computer lab at the top universities.

Regarding DTP, most companies were using Atari or Amigas for it.
Watch out for cardiac symptoms. Some individuals who have been weaned off ventilators are suddenly dying from heart failure, probably from direct viral attack on the heart, and I don't see why someone with somewhat milder symptoms should be immune.
Apple to Close All Retail Stores Outside of China Until March 27
I recommend a different approach. Start with a little bit of money in the stock market with a portfolio that you are allowed to change every Sunday. Then slowly understand what caused the value of your portfolio to go down or up and how you can hedge against your risks.(Once you lose or gain money you will get the motivation to read fat books dont worry) In the end its all a risk calculation and the faster you get into doing it the better. I am not rich or with a finance background but this is the approach I am following now.
> they have declined to test me because I don't meet the critical criteria: age > 60

What kind of nonsense rule is that? They're intentionally breaking the statistics.

Which country is this, if you don't mind saying?
Sometimes exceptions in threads of main process fail the threads. That thread could be hanging there but not working. There is no sweet way to get it back working without restarting the server. All of this happens because a dependency library made bad implementations -- hides all these details under the hood, not allowing consumers to modify. What we are doing is printing the whole traceback in the logger. Bad, definitely but yeah.. that's the real world.

And my boss who may have coded seriously a decade ago, codes these days some for-loops, thinks he still got the edge, somehow just believes logging shit is important, but doesn't provide a design guide or monitors, so no one's interested to write meaningful logs because that's fuckin time consuming. And when they are put under fire, logging is the last thing to bother.. so, we have logs here and there just to appease a boss who knows shit
Corporations are just a way to organize people doing things that people demand.

Yes, the people who are developing vaccines generally have jobs, you would not learn their craft out of the pure goodness of your heart, why should they?

If you want to help somebody develop and test a DNA vaccine for SARS-2-COV without FDA approval or perfect medical ethics, there is an option for you as well: https://youtu.be/7BTvVnOgc10
Can someone explain why we need a Twilio backend to do WebRTC?

I've never done it so I don't know, but I thought the whole point was that it's peer-to-peer. I know there is some kind of "discovery" layer required, but this doesn't seem complex enough to warrant a SaaS.
Yeah, you wouldn't spend that on the military. It would be spent on "the world police" that require rifles, APCs, tanks, jet fighters, and carriers to "enforce the law". The larger you make your administration the greater the chance of corruption and the less individual people matter to the leaders.
Yes I use velco ties for that reason.
> I guess I shouldn't bother trying to argue using basic logic with someone peddling conspiracy theories on the internet.

Pardon me? Where do you see me doing that?
Actually think they just forgot the % sign, and added extra zeros to flu and Korea numbers. I think they meant to say 0.1% and 0.8%, which isn’t far off.
I agree with a lot of the points in this but not the conclusion.

One thing I would like to emphasize: You don't write software for software's sake. You write it to solve a problem, generally a business problem. If your software has a problem, that may also be a business problem. Don't make IT support solve business problems. Make the business solve them, and give the business tools to solve them.

Obviously you won't get there with the first release of your software, but it is the goal. If you find a problem in the logs, ask yourself: Am I masking a problem that the business needs to solve themselves? Does the software need to surface this?
It might be worth taking a look on Twitter. This doctor is 'live' tweeting his experience with the disease including lung scans [1]. Based on some other first hand experiences I've read on the Twitter/News people's experience varies wildly. Some people say it's not much worse than the flu. On the otherhand I saw a tweet from one doctor who had it claim it was worse than child birth so seems like the variation in experience can be massive.

[1] https://twitter.com/yaletung
Do you guys have seen similar devices with embedded sanitizing modules ? heating wire, UVC led or plasma blade to clean air intake ?

the air version of that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RoEgxax60
I run a functional programming workshop at work, and we talk a lot about side effects.

I'm fighting unseeded 'random.next', and 'file.read' in algorithms, so they can remain pure. But I won't ever forbid someone to use logs in a pure function. Sure, it doesn't make sense from a functional programming point of view, but let's be practical and realistic for five minutes : logs are the only thing you can count on to debug a crashing script quickly. The occasional "bug" thrown by your logging back end is not a big enough deal to forgo our hability to trace what's going on in a running program. Everything is running inside kubernetes anyway.
The new management has been much better, AFAIK.
We use Ansible with Packer to create immutable OS images for VMs.

Or Dockerfile/compose for container images.

Cloud resources are managed by Terraform/Terragrunt.
That's the reality my country as well, the czech republic
It'd be interesting if they added a F@H button to GeForce Experience.
In addition to that, I read that there are more old people in Italy too -- another factor contributing to the higher numbers there.
Depending on the type of loan, and when it was taken, the interest rates on student loans very greatly.

If you have some that were low interest due to timing or subsidizing (0% interest in some cases), it can make sense to pay the loans slowly and invest or save money instead.

So the age of the loans isn't a reliable predictor of their burden.
It's never enough look at how Bezos got treated when he donated for the Australian fire hazard. Last time he probably gave a handout.
Isn't it just straightforward and sensible to use available production capacity?
Maybe just run your own instance as a load balancer?
That is correct. Immunity is developed when immune response happens and creates memory cells. In this case, that part is skipped.
The download link actually appears to open a gitlab URL.
> We're using Notion as a team wiki and note taking app. It's ... okay. I mean, it's probably the best tool for the job, and it's great in some ways, but it's severely limited in others.

Has anyone had experience using Org Mode files in a Git repo to achieve the same effect as Notion or a team wiki? Seems like it checks many of the same boxes (forgive the pun): todo lists, easy links, hierarchy, tables, Kanban (with org-kanban), formatting. I think that it would address the issues, too: ‘show me what changed’ would just be git diff, comments could live in comment blocks, todo lists and reminders are rather insanely powerful & flexible, and it’s very extensible and, of course, free software.
Jet2 planes turn back in mid-air as firm cancels Spain flights
Simple easy to use tool to make a full time income with dropshipping
It seems irresponsible to waste donated cycles like that. Does anyone else do it better?
Towards a refactoring-aware code review system
This line of reasoning is really just silly for a number of reasons.

For starters, preparing for every crisis that could potentially eventuate, even for just a single category of crisis, would still come at the opportunity cost of doing anything else at all.

Also, what’s so special about spillovers? People suffer and die from all sorts of things every day.

Finally, what lessons do you expect people to learn from past spillover events? To not have contact with any non-human organisms? Spillovers happen all the time. Most human viruses come from other animals. Is it reasonable to expect we can predict which infections, out of the millions of spillover infections that occur ever year, are going to cause a crisis? Or predict when a typically self-limiting spillover infection is going to unexpectedly pick up a new transmission route? Or should all sickness be treated as if it were ground zero for the next pandemic until proven otherwise?
But do you understand that some values of a 32 bit int can be used to encode meta-data about a 8 bit char?

If you understand both, which one is conceptually easier to you?
You just answered your own question. A whole planet won't stop them - how will your detector?
I still prefer the Open Source edition of https://puppet.com/ to manage larger, diverse environments - which may include not just servers, but workstations, network appliances and so on. It's well established with lots of quite portable modules. But it can also be a bit on the slower side and comes with a steeper learning curve then some of the others.

https://www.ansible.com/ is surely a good solution for Bootstraping Linux cloud machines and can be quite flexible. I personally feel like its usage of YAML manifests instead of a domain-specific language can make complex playbooks harder to read and to maintain.

If all you do is to deploy containers on a managed Kubernetes or a similar platform, you might get away with some solution to YAML templating (jsonnet et al) and some shell glue.

I am keeping an eye on https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt which is a newer contender which many interesting features but lacks more complex examples.

Others like saltstack and chef still see some usage as far as I know, but I've got no personal experience with them.
> No! Log it and still retry.

You will likely say this is a form of logging, and you’re right, but I think this is a better fit for a metric rather than a log.

“Something something retried at…” isn’t nearly as useful as the “the number of retries peaked at…”
WE use Google meet a lot at my office. It’s great except for being the only reason I have Chrome installed — at least the last time I tried it simply didn’t work on Firefox. Maybe I should give it another shot.
This only fuels conspiracy theories and it's quite counterproductive, just like the recent US/China row about the virus being planted by the US and other BS.

We have similar transmission vectors as in the case of SARS, Ebola, Lyme, AIDS and other zootonic pathogens. This is exactly what the researcher in the article also states if you've read it. The writing is on the wall in capital letters. Stop disturbing wildlife, ban wildlife trade, unchecked wild game.
>>>so I wont post it here since I don't want to be mocked for it.

Please tell us. Mockery on here is of no consequence.

Oh, and thanks for posting and good luck.
This is definitely happening all over the US.

The reason the counts are so low is the CDC refuses to test anyone.
No! Terrible advice. Good luck trying to figure out why component X has stopped working without logs of any kind, not even a timestamp of when it stopped working. Logging does not make any sense? That's just polemical. His examples are unrealistic and can be taken apart quickly. Can I make bad states unreachable? No, I can never know all paths to failure, and perhaps I don't care. I can't complete a write, I don't care if storage is full or I don't have perm but I want to know that my write did not complete.

Further along he goes on to advocate for logging systems. And "business monitoring". What does he think drives these "business monitoring" thingy? Quick notification -- what's that? Like, an output of some kind, denoting a state? I think we call that logging.

Log everything, make sure it goes somewhere you can look at. Logging but not collecting is as good as writing to /dev/null.
Ansible is just extremely easy to begin with, and comfortable to use since it is an agentless solution using SSH. As for Puppet, well, it could largely depends on your team. Is it a devops one or a strictly dev one? Puppet seems to be the perfect balance for us (devops mostly, but devs can touch it with confident too)
Europe is over 3x as population dense as the usa. Europe also doesn't have American suburbs, so even small European towns are very population dense within the city limits. America is too spread out for the capex of fiber to be worth it outside of major cities.
This is fantastic. I've lamented the lack of a good GUI and environment for making desktop apps since VB 4, but it looks like they never went away.

Gambas looks fantastic, and exactly as easy to develop with as I remember VB 4 being. I can't say I can stomach the language it uses, but something like this for Python would be a godsend.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13144133-where-does-mone...

Where does Money come From
I think if i was to implement this it'd be purely for marketing/styling purposes, and making sure to register the plaintext equivalent aswell and setup redirects for everything.

That way i could for example display the canonical domain in blackletter but also keep it accessible to users, which would make for a pretty neat effect if it suits the brand in question.
After reading a lot of reporting about this, it isn't clear to me if Covid-19 is the name of the virus or the disease or both.

I realize that for laymen (like me) it doesn't really matter. But academically speaking, is there a difference?
I was 'in' 10 years ago and from my deployments in the flatter of the two sandboxes and the the hills of east Asia, I firmly believe that the military is holding onto backpacks for tradition more than anything. I was in the Infantry btw so I have a lot of Kg's carried.

Without going in depth about this, I attribute my opinion to the fact that everyone is rocking body armor these days and few teams can take big packs out for extended patrols without choosing between armor or big packs or broken backs.
Time O'Brians short story, 'The things they carried' still rings true.
From memory Body armor with plates and flak vests ~8kg, then 0.5Kg for every Magazine (7-10), 2 kilos of water, Radio 0-1.5, helmet, nvg, rifle or gun, and then maybe a rocket or mine.
And that's stuff outside of your pack!
The military is going heavy with armor so vehicles become the pack and soldiers just orbit out of those.
When I was leaving the military more and more folk were moving towards having a day pack around the 25-30L mark that would be good for about 36 hours.

Anyway the only person giving me orders these days is me, so I take my suggestions from the ultralight hiking crowd.
It's the difference between worry and irrationality and exploiting others in cold blood.
I'm pining for extra straps lower on the front, so my everyday-backpack sits more snugly and swings around less, and the weight isn't on the shoulder joints. However, I also need to breathe, so dunno how to resolve all of that.
Not in my case. I often get a very annoying dry cough from common colds, but my throat is perfectly fine. The irritation starts deeper, and it’s not pain, just irritation which triggers cough.
Ask HN: Best resources for AI in computer games
I am an academic researcher working in decision theory, game theory, ML applications and so on.
Like many technical people, I dabbled in game programming at some point or another during my youth and thought to take it up again. In particular, I would perhaps like to work on some AI programming in OSS or Indy projects. I noticed in my preliminary reading that there may be some overlap between AI programming and what I worked on in the past.
On the other hand, there are a lot of algorithmic and practical considerations that I have no idea about. I had trouble condensing down a good learning path for myself. My programming skills are average, but I do have a decent grasp of mathematics.

So, I'd like to pick your brains on what some good resources are to get into AI programming.

Is this already an established "field", in which a canon of knowledge exists? Are there, perhaps, books or particular articles you can recommend?
Are there any people who one might follow?
Or any particular keywords or topics that are important or state of the art that would be worth researching?

Where would you start?
Thanks for sharing your story. It's rough for immigrants and I can certainly sympathize. I've seen the news of extremely racist things done to Asians in America due to this virus.

Let's unpack what you said here:

"you're going to be treated just as badly as me, because they can't tell the difference between us"

1. That's an assumption of yours that I simply don't agree with. IDK where in the US you are, and it sounds like that's going on where you are, but I haven't seen it where I am and don't expect it. The US is HUGE and you can't just extrapolate like that.

2. I'd be careful about your usage of the word "they" and "us" in this sentence. Are you generalizing that most non-Asian Americans are racist ("they"), and defining "us" as the Asian Americans? Because if you start assuming that, that's just very negative and if Asian Americans ALL start acting that way, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. That's why I said I'm not on your "side", because I don't want to see sides.

I prefer thinking of us all (all Americans, regardless of race) as "we". Sure there are some racists, and I react accordingly, but I don't just assume that. Ultimately, if you are dealing with a bunch of legit racists and can't change them, then maybe you should ask yourself why you want to continue living and working where you are, and dealing with those. Lots of options in America.

Where I am, I rarely feel that I am mistreated and have no reason to expect it. That's my data point for you.
Have 4 family members that have been tested positive for COVID-19 in Austria:

- Male (56), no symptoms except weak voice

- Female (55), no symptoms

- Male (80), light fever (37,7C), weak voice

- Female (81), no symptoms

These cases are all connected, and we have talked with others that seem to have caught the same variant/mutation. None of them does really show symptoms, no hospitalizations, no real fever, and no hard breathing. Hope this is a light variant/mutation, and the situation stays the same for them.
Predicting gene expression using morphological cell responses to nanotopography