skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the Navy manual. The stitch described here would be called a "running stitch" by a telephone installer, and is just one of several stitches in our repertoire.

This PDF describes several more, including the starter, Kansas City, and Chicago: www.dslreports.com/r0/download/1377481~846610918062e1c57e36f03a5c37b426/lacing.pdf

It does not include the "power stitch" or "H stitch", though this and the others are all over YouTube if you're curious.
Strangely it excludes USA.
We (the guy in the article and myself) live in a nation where insurance companies would rather see you die than pay out, insulin is $350/bottle when it's $7 to produce, and politicians that we elect are entirely for it all. We have ourselves to blame for setting the moral standard.
The Corona Virus in Turin, Italy
#1 Stay home when you're sick! (In the old days, this was expected.)

#2 Quit forcing employees to travel to big conferences for stuff they could learn online.
Why there's no suggestions for Karl Marx? He predicted these crises and that they're unavoidable in capitalism and all only get worse with the time.
I think the point here is to not do unstructured, string-based logging. If logs are valuable, then you should treat them the same way as any other valuable data: rather than blatting string soup into some datastore and hoping you can somehow index it in the future, write a proper data schema and represent the trace of your program execution in a structured, machine-readable way.

This ends up overlapping a lot with event sourcing: if you're doing event sourcing right, with every substantial business decision recorded as an event and your logic decomposed into lots of fine-grained transformations between event streams, then the event streams can be your logs: each successive event transformation either succeeds or fails, and if it fails then you have the input event and the small piece of code in which the failure occurred, so you shouldn't need any more. If a given transformation gets too complicated to debug, split it into two smaller transformations!

You still need alerting on failures, but again, that's something that's better done in a structured way, with proper stacktraces and business-relevant information.
Potentially price gouging laws.

Even if he is not breaking laws, he is doing morally reprehensible thing.
Keep in mind that depleted uranium has been used for ammunition (arguably resulting in war crimes against the civilian population in Iraq).

I think it's safe to say that the armies of the world has not learned much from wwi:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge
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I would imagine an epidemic of ventilator associated lung injury if people started rolling out homemade ventilators in quantity.
I'm really grateful you're getting better. I had a very strong flu two years ago, it was the toughest flu (or any diseases) i ever had. I fall apart and lost conscious three times, the cough was very strong that i wouldn't be able to breathe for a few seconds. It was really terrifying experience, and from what i read it is quite simialr to covid-19 symptoms.

For the throat issue, we use hibiscus (hot) with ginger. It really helps a lot to relief the pain and ease your breathing.
You seriously think a new drug will be ready to treat this within a few months?
better known as Zapp Brannigan strategy

Brannigan: "You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down. Kif, show them the medal I won."
In Lithuania, Gov allowed for some Alcoholic drink factories to make Sanitizer. One factory doing 30 tons a day of Sanitizer and starting shipping it asap. Others are smaller, but about 14 factories doing it full time. Within week, the market will be full.
Ethical considerations aside, why not just set up a website and sell it himself? Have we become that dependent on the big platforms?
Those 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer were better off staying in their respective stores and being sold off in their surrounding communities. Unless the gov steps in, I don't see needed supplies like this, masks, medicines, etc, being distributed fairly to everyone in the market. Rather profiteers will get their access and sell off to hoarders. The comfort of having access to some of these supplies, even if they are not effective, goes a long way.
Yup, it’s a vicious cycle. You carry more, you need a bigger pack, you’re slower, you need to carry more.
"Yes Officer, we were breaking the speed limit because, let's not kid ourselves, everybody breaks the speed limit."
Why would Apple pay developers for this work? If OP didn’t want to advertise their app this way, Apple could’ve easily asked another dev.

Granted, I’m sure the uptick in sales more than compensated OP for their time. If it didn’t, then this HN article probably will. :)
Am I the only one who thinks QUIC looks a bit crazy with all its variable length fields in the frame, separate short & long header format, and rather high limits for certain things? 160 bit connection ids and 64 bit stream ids sound like something you'd benefit from if you're Google scale and building big-ass load balancers on custom hardware but I feel like there's going to be a lot of overhead for everyone else. (Consider that a TCP header with no options is as large as a single maximum size connection id in QUIC).

At least the designers of IPv6 seemed to care more about efficiency, even if the protocol otherwise seems quite bloated and overengineered.
Doing this with fossil fuel produced electricity is more likely to cause loss of life than reduce it.
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> The people who are reacting negatively to my comments are doing so while completely devoid of experience and an understanding of the realities in China.

You must know much more than the rest us. How many years do you have in China, 老外？

If you think the richest man in China doesn't know more than you do about "specifications, performance, and quality," you're not just misinformed, and you're not merely ignorant.

If you think "Chinese-made masks given as gifts by some dude" is in any way appropriate in a discussion about a donation by Jack Ma, you know less than nothing about Chinese culture and should remain silent.

If "taking the time to learn something and understand" is a value you hold, now is the time for you to do that. Your xenophobic fear-mongering is a shame to your country.
"Takes 4 minutes of hand sanitizer to remove viruses."

No it doesn't. The study you refer to was one specific virus (influenza-A) that simulated essentially coughing directly onto your hands. Where the virus was encased in large volume of mucus.

That isn't how people use sanitizer. It's for dry contact displacement, and there it is incredibly effective. You should still wash your hands when you can, of course, but these misleading claims aren't helping anything.
To be fair any bigger conflict than a guerilla proxy war will do that too, whether it be from salting the fields, WWI mustard gas, unexploded ordance and/or mines, agent orange, or fallout from an actual nuclear bombardment. The scars of war persist for quite a while.
How WhatsApp is used and misused in Africa
Coronavirus: Nitrogen dioxide emissions drop over Italy
I got zero ads when I opened it. I'm using Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger extensions.
“ Current price-gouging laws “are not built for today’s day and age,” Mr. Colvin said. “They’re built for Billy Bob’s gas station doubling the amount he charges for gas during a hurricane.””

That is exactly what he is doing.
Death rate is between 5x-25x higher, hospitalization rate even higher than that. Regular flu has a .01 death rate, Covid is at .08 right now in Korea and like 4% in Italy.
I've not read tfa (because of the pay wall) - but don't we have third or fourth generation micro reactors already in submarines, ice breakers and hangar ships? Obviously there's going to be a lot of water available for those... But is much research really needed to repurpose one as a generator?
The virus can not pass through skin. Wear a mask, even a cheap fabric one if nothing else is available, to prevent yourself touching your face. Then wash your hands when you get to a bathroom.
The public health authority should just requisition all of the masks and hand sanitizers this irresponsible guy has to make good use of it.
Despite all these fancy designs, I see a big trend towards simple packs. A main compartment, no lid to speak of and a small external pocket.

Pair that with the increasingly popular vest-style designs and we have a winner.
If there is no evidence to substantiate or support the claim then it falls deep in the wild speculation category.

And the comment is quite literally a theory on how someone is conspiring.
F@H drives me nuts with their crap documentation.
Write a how-to for people to get started, FFS!

What am we supposed to do with this?
https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/coronavirus
because we live in the real world and deal with real humans. Karl Marx never worked a single day in his life and created an ideology for people who believe in unicorns.
His work is a criticism of Adam Smith's theories, not a self-sustainable solution.
This is totally false. Hospitals in North Italy are at full work and respirators are constantly added. No one in need of respirator is left without. The very high death rate (6%+) is attributable to the fact that people with mild or no symptoms is rarely tested so we have a lot of positives, but in good state, missing from the stats. Half of country hospitals have little o no one infected people and is available to bring help to more hitten north. Who think that Italy is let people die unassisted is totally wrong. Italy is giving the full priority to save lives, even older ones, paying the price of destroying it's already not in good state economy.
Not just Iraq. Many other theaters as well, the balkans for example. Imho more significant for this debate however, is the fact that personnel from coalition partners also have been harmed by it. Point being, it's a unacceptable hazard for everyone and everything.
The price would rise to $0 then?
The structure of English and Dutch sentences is often very similar. There is a glaring error right in the title though: “ Scientists Rotterdam and Utrecht claim discovery...”
That's such a bunch nonsense, on every possible level
NY Times is giving free access to articles re: Coronavirus. You just have to sign up -- even via Social sign-in, it's two clicks.
Another scenario is drastic measures are taken but the threat fizzles out on its own. With infectious diseases it can be quite difficult to know until it is over just how real the threat was. President Ford pushed for a widespread inoculation program for a swine flu epidemic that seemed threatening but never came. The vaccine caused more health problems than the flu itself. Ford was heavily criticized and lost credibility for his level of response but there was no way for him to know it would fizzle out on its own. Had he not acted and it became an epidemic, he also would have faced political consequences. Sometimes the best response simply can't be known ahead of time.
My key takeaway, too. I am not worried we will pass NCov19 - we surely will. I am afraid we won't learn anything from it.

We surely need to invest more into health policies and reaction to pandemics. We need to be more conservative about spending resources. We should communicate and coordinate better.

Right now I feel like a lot of actions just prevent the spread (good), but not so many measures for the long-term play are being instantiated. Let's hope I am wrong.

Personally, I think the current situation could be the beginning of a new and better era. It could strengthen remote work, less travel, less global dependencies, digitalization, local economies, and the environment. The next virus could be a lot more harmful ...
I don’t mind people selling stuff at high prices if it is in demand. I do mind front-running the population by buying uhaul-sized piles of supplies. I blame the stores he bought from - they should have refused to sell obviously in-demand items to one person in that quantity.
Spent fuel is a hell of a lot more dangerous than depleted uranium, though. DU is less radioactive than the unprocessed kind that comes out of the ground. Spent fuel, on the other hand, is extremely radioactive - enough that just spreading it with a regular bomb would be really bad.
Other people are bad so it's OK for you to be bad?

The basic moral standard is don't be an asshole, especially not when people are desperate. You're failing that.
I am working on one now.

The problem is that ventilators require tubes to be inserted into the patients lung. This requires a very skilled doctor and has a risk of infection and injury.

So I am making an wooden lung - like an iron lung but made from plywood. I can share the plans and sourcing for the parts if you want.
> are you joining my side?

No I’m probably going to do what he had in the introduction and just dump major events or errors to a text file because it’s cheap, easy, and it’s usually all that’s needed to diagnose end user issues (I do desktop apps and can’t do any real time monitoring but on the other hand logs are perfect chronological records of the actions of one user on one document - not of just one system as is common for web apps).

It’s not that dumb logs are great, but they provide 50% of what you need at almost no cost.

If I were able to dream and could have the amount of thought and design that he describes in any part of my code - logging would be pretty far down the list of subsystems I’d refactor.
Has the US gone nuts? I know this might not go well in some circles, but is there another way to put it?
"free access" you just have to "sign up"

you pay with data, that is not free
China’s Nuclear Arms Are a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery
That’s not my takeaway from the article. Schneier was mostly talking about how the war on terror has been a waste of money, because human actors will always find a way to circumvent whatever security measures you come up with.

It seems to me that the money spent on combating the new Coronavirus will lead to better understanding of what measures work against pandemics and will improve humanity’s ability to contain and to stop pandemics in future. Sure, it can be argued that the current Coronavirus is not very lethal (against young people), but whatever new technologies and defensive measure we develop from this pandemic will likely be useful in future pandemics, which may well be deadlier.
Would you mind sharing your age?
Almost no one would find his web site, and if they did, they probably would not give him their credit card details (probably a good idea, too).
It's curious how the US military can commission projects that would be difficult to get off the ground if the justification was ethical.
They keep your private data, so that's only free if you think your data has no value.
A very interesting out of the box solution to the problem.
prolonged qt interval. Yeah.
Weird article.

As greatly represented in this comment section, this article touches on maybe 1/10 of the usecases of logging...and than pretends that the opinion is applicable everywhere.

> And yes, you got it correctly: it sounds like a job for Sentry, not logging.

okay, I guess I will not write a log file for my Raspi bash script then and instead setup a third party service?

> We don’t really care about exceptions and how to handle them. We care about the business value that we provide with our app.

That's how you get shitty software which can be fixed relatively quickly regarding large scale black swan events (everything broken) and retains their annoying edge case bugs forever, slowly driving users away...

All the while, the arguments against logging seem to be the same against implementing, well anything. More things = more complexity. New things = new problems. By all means be aware of these pitfalls in the context of logging and anything else.

But as a whole, this article awfully smells like an unreasonably strong opinion wrapped in pseudo-intellectualism.
> Of course antibodies exist against the virus - otherwise the fatality rate would be 100%.

That was the starting point of the research project.

Then, after some work, the team actually managed to identify one, and one that also neutralizes the virus.
The relevant paper:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/03/scie...

Note:

Official names have been announced for the virus responsible for COVID-19 (previously known as “2019 novel coronavirus”) and the disease it causes. The official names are:

Disease

coronavirus disease
(COVID-19)

Virus

severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2)

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
You just explained the Atlantic hatred for Iran.
In case of rational adversaries, the "littering" would convert presence into "MAD" endgame. That's a swift resolution of conflict! Unlike adversaries in the past such as for example the Soviet Union, Iran is not a rational actor thus the MAD scenario will not lead to resolution/stalemate but to obliteration. Never the less, it is a humane solution at other theaters of war.
Some of the old-wives tales were descriptions of things that worked just like a lot of the herbal medicines. We didn't know why they worked so I agree it's hard to call them science. It's also possible it worked for you due to placebo effects, but you describe having a sample size of two! I hope we don't mock people for stating anecdotal evidence. I have seen mocking for statements that clearly contradict evidence (cough-cough flat-earth cough) or when people clearly have confused anecdotal evidence with fact.

I'm curious now what you meant ... maybe it would work for others and if it falls into the category of "can't hurt", why not share it.

NOTE: the coughing above is not a self-diagnosis on my part.
FYI, the World Health Organization has published a guide to the local production of hand sanitizer. [0]. There also numerous other recipes available online. While there are retail shortages of hand sanitizer, bulk quantities of ethanol and isopropyl alcohol are readily available directly from manufacturers and third-party sites like ebay.

[0] https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf
Do you happen to know why these laws apply to a few named categories (not including what he wants to sell) rather than everything, and why they apply only when the relevant states declare an emergency?

I don't mean why you think they should do so, or might, but do you know the actual reasoning applied by the legislatures at the time of enactment?
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>If so, let’s refactor our code to be type-safe. And eliminate all possible exceptions that can happen here with mypy.

All possible exceptions eliminated when calling doSomethingComplex(). Perhaps I'm missing something here and this overly broad language is more targeted than i've realized while reading... But that just sounds silly to my ears. And saying that making something type safe solves "all possible errors"... What am I missing?
Lee sedol is a pretty cool guy and a normal human being, albeit the crazy ability to remember games likes maps, do watch the latest episode of 'master in the house' a korean variety show which featured lee sedol as the guest.
Most sources [1] say that alcohol-based hand sanitizer can deactivate targetable viruses within 30s. The CDC recommendations for coronavirus are to apply a suitable amount and take at least 20s to spread it over your hands completely.

Coronavirus's are a class of viruses well known to be susceptible to deactivation by alcohol exposure [2].

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019567011...

2. https://www.livescience.com/how-long-coronavirus-last-surfac...
If it's $7 to produce why there are no new companies that sell it for $100? They'd make quite some profit.
I would appreciate the advice about the old wives tale, even if I don't after all use it. I promise to upvote every supportive comment and downvote every mocking comment!
I mean, it would only be used as a last resort. So lung injury or death seems like a pretty easy choice.
Intense regulatory barriers.

For a longer comment from a healthcare worker of note, see section 2 here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/30/buspirone-shortage-in-...
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What about the people hoarding hand sanitizer?
Sourceforge? Is this an old post?
I saw one of these in the US - I believe they are allowed to produce it, as long as they are just giving it away.

It seems fairly trivial to make (Aloe Vera + alcohol).
I mean, I can will myself into not breathing. I used to hold my breath between subway stations. But that's about as long as I can do it.

I feel like there's some sort of analogy between how you can have local violations of conservation of energy where particles pop into existence from nowhere, but longer term it has to even out.

Bias isn't the word I would use.
> 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.

What if this info helps someone in need?
Add more logging.

I don't want to have to guess why your service is crashing. I'd much rather be able to jump in to the logs and find the exact exception information so I can fix it quickly.
Hah

"Even via Social sign-in" ...

Really?! How generous of them.

Not even worth a bugmenot attempt.
The other requests are still taking the latency hit.
When either is atomized enough for people being able to breath it, the end results is something you likely don't want to see. Nor does it matter if it was DU or spent fuel; at that point.
Related, The log/event processing pipeline you can't have: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190216
Oh, quite. I just meant that the organizations that see no problem with effectively creating depleted uranium aerosol (pulverized on impact) isn't too likely to be concerned with the environmental aspects.

I suppose they might be counted on to consider the weaponization of things left behind... But then again it seems they aren't really able to keep track of who they supply actual weapons to either..
Stores don't have any mechanism to stop people from buying things.

Not to mention, a buyer can just do something like claim to be getting these for the ER 30 miles down the road. So what's a good store to do then?
Sounds like you've already made up your mind about it and aren't looking for an answer to your question.
This guy needs to do the following:

1. Sell the hand-sanitizers for a penny each to build goodwill.

2. Set up a Kickstarter to make back his losses.

Otherwise, he is going to get some serious grief from his community and end up like Martin Shkreli.
What do we understand from this?
It wouldn't be practical even if I were right, but I see the issue with my logic.

My reasoning amounted to "there are infinite repetitions of any sequence in Pi, therefore for any given sequence there must exist one occurrence with a compressible index."

Which, after consideration, I acknowledge is incorrect :)
>Thankfully, in Gambas you cannot use GOTO to trap errors! Instead, use CATCH, FINALLY or TRY

For error handling goto is generally much clearer than using exceptions.
I suppose that's good news then for potential emergency use of unapproved makeshift alternatives to ventilators, I guess it also makes hand ventilation viable if you have enough volunteers available to do the bagging.
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I started running at this full tilt on Jan 23rd, for the record. Making progress. The main problem was our information systems were taken over, but I fuxxed it pretty good I think. It was all about making the positive feedbacks.