skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gonna go out on a limb and say this is a (dumb) Trump ploy to get reelected. If only America has a vaccine, then in the run-up to the election he'd talk about how much better we're doing than the rest of the world and hope everyone forgets how badly his administration mismanaged the outbreak.
Plenty of npm/pypi modules require building platform-specific native code (see node-gyp, wheel), and a lot of JS packages require transpilation. I don't find this argument particularly compelling.
Timeline:

03.03 CureVac CEO meets Trump [0]

03.11 CureVac removes the CEO [1]

03.15 CureVac denies the american buyout news [2]

[0] https://www.curevac.com/news/curevac-ceo-daniel-menichella-b...

[1] https://www.curevac.com/news/company-founder-ingmar-hoerr-su...

[2] https://www.curevac.com/news/curevac-focuses-on-the-developm...
He did this same sh*t with NASA, called in the director and offered him any budget necessary to get a launch to the moon in time for re-election campaign.

2020 was impossible but guess what, we're uselessly going back for 2023/2024 https://i.imgur.com/eWLps8L.jpg
During college my friend and I kept an innocent prank going for a couple of years: every time one of us left our laptops unlocked the other would jump in and type 'alias ls=sl' in the prompt and then clear the screen. Good times.
We're talking about Folding@Home not any (or all) distributed computing project(s). I've not seen recent stats on the size of the FAH network, so not sure how does it compare to large supercomputer resources, but plots available through an easy google search show that in the past it was never even larger than the biggest machines on the TOP500, let alone multi-oom larger.

(Also, AFAIK garbage flops also count. As far as I recall talkin to a researcher working with FAH a qhile ago, a large-ish fraction of results returned were not usable due to data/files being broken.)
They haven't yet (no-one has). The point is they are recognising that such measures are very hard on people, and so they don't think they can stay in force indefinitely.
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This type of competition is harmful at this point. And deeply stupid. Cooperation needs to become a thing again.
Trump seems very committed to the image that the USA is doing a better job than the rest of dealing with the coronavirus. He was pretty transparent about his real motives last week when his stated concern with the cruise ship was "doubling our numbers" with something that was not our fault.
We have production capacity to make flu vaccines for everyone, I don't think capacity is an issue, the issue is more a proven safe vaccine doesn't exist yet.
Why not parasites causing both poverty and authoritarianism? A big part of the reason Bill Gates is so committed to fighting parasite diseases like Malaria is that there's strong evidence that this alleviates poverty. After all, it makes sense when you consider the effects a case of Malaria would have on a family: children unable to go to school, adults unable to work. If the baseline load of Malaria cases is high enough then it's not hard to see how that would continually depress the economy.
What was interesting on the cruise ships is how few got it. Of the 3,681 tested, only 696 had it - after a month of close quarters. That's under 20%.

Doesn't that suggest it doesn't spread particularly easily?

All in all, 1% of those that caught it died, and cruise ships skew towards older people.
That didn't happen yesterday.

"On March 2, CureVac's then-CEO Daniel Menichella attended a meeting at the White House to discuss coronavirus vaccine development with Trump and members of his coronavirus taskforce.

On March 11, the company announced Menichella would be replaced by company founder Ingmar Hoerr, without giving a reason why."

Source: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-and-us-wrestle-over-coronaviru...
> Also you don't know that you rolled a six, the probability is high that you did, that's very different.

By that standard you don't know anything about the world at all - gravity may stop working the next minute - it's unlikely but not impossible. We don't have a proof it won't - we only have assumptions(models) supported by statistics. For me the standards that physics use is good enough - I say I know gravity works and I know I rolled a 6 when I rolled 1000 d6. You might call that differently but I'm pretty sure you won't jump out of a cliff and you won't bet money on NOT rolling a 6 in 1000 tries.

> Too bad we don't have 1000 societies to randomly try things on.

That's exactly why we shouldn't wait for results.

We have data from 1000s of people though and several countries that tried various strategies. Social isolation works best so we should do that, immediately.

With exponential growth doing the right thing NOW is more important than making sure you're doing it in an optimal way but a week later.

> If you don't know where you rolled the number you wanted, how can you repeat it? If you can't repeat it how can you build on top of that?

In the case of this disease we know how to prevent it overwhelming our healthcare systems so that less than 1% of population dies instead of over 5%. That's the most important thing, producing the vaccine and drugs, calculating the exact number of people sick, discovering the exact properties of the sickness - these things come after the fact. We won't have a vaccine nor drugs in time anyway.

People arguing to measure and then act in case of a disease that infects 1000 times more people every month are insane. In 3 months the whole world population would be sick and most of it AT ONCE. Who will treat the 5-10% of patients that need help? Nobody - that's who. So they will die.
The default Android calculator app by Hans Boehm (developer of the Boehm Garbage Collector as well) does this by using the computable real numbers.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2911981

Provides a good overview of how it works and perms website has more information.

What’s cool about the computable reals implementation is you can increase the precision after the fact and it will recalculate up to that precision. Basically it memoizes the steps of the calculation and how they affect the precision.
Your government is saying the exact. Same. Thing:

https://www.government.nl/latest/news/2020/03/12/new-measure...

https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/current-information-about-novel-...

> 15-03-2020 , 176 new patients, a total of 1135

> 14-03-2020 , 155 new patients, in total 959

> 13-03-2020 , 190 new patients, in total 804

> 12-03-2020 , 111 new patients, in total 614

> 11-03-2020 , 121 new patients, in total 503

> 10-03-2020 , 61 new patients, a total of 382

> 09-03-2020 , 56 new patients, a total of 321

> 08-03-2020 , 77 new patients, a total of 265

> 07-03-2020 , 60 new patients, a total of 188

> 06-03-2020 , 46 new patients, a total of 128

> 05-03-2020 , 44 new patients, a total of 82

> 04-03-2020 , 15 new patients, a total of 38

> 03-03-2020 , 6 new patients, a total of 24

> 02-03-2020 , 11 new patients, a total of 18

> 01-03-2020 , 1 new patient, a total of 7

...

Here's a log-scale graph: https://www.chartgo.com/embed.do?id=7e5c9f30aa

(And just for comparison, not log scale: https://www.chartgo.com/embed.do?id=7e5c9f30aa )

Looks like NL has had steady exponential growth over the past week or even 10 days.

As far as Mr Pueyo, in this context he appears to be an effective science writer, which is what matters. If you want a more succinct source from an academic, there's http://ctbergstrom.com/covid19.html .
What about straight from the company itself?

03.03 CureVac CEO meets Trump [0]

03.11 CureVac removes the CEO [1]

03.15 CureVac denies the american buyout news [2]

[0] https://www.curevac.com/news/curevac-ceo-daniel-menichella-b...

[1] https://www.curevac.com/news/company-founder-ingmar-hoerr-su...

[2] https://www.curevac.com/news/curevac-focuses-on-the-developm...
Blog spam. Here's a direct link: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russian-agents-plunge-to-...

Also it's just 'The Times'. The NYT is the NYT.
I don't know what happened to Wenliang Li. What I know is that there have been reports of severe cases among young people without antecedents or pre-existing pathologies where I live and the common thread was that they took ibuprofen. In parallel, there are papers/preprints popping left and right suggesting that ibuprofen's side effects may worsen the symptoms of covid-19. Just google things, it's not hard to find.

>Given that standard advice for young people (who are expected not to have severe cases) is to take fever-reducing medication like ibuprofen, I feel like we need a lot more information here before we can turn this correlation into causation.

There's other fever-reducing medication that doesn't involve anti-inflammation action. Paracetamol is fine.
I'd like to know more about how they do this. Do you know a good source?
The only moral thing to do is to finance the research and then open source everything so a vaccine can be produced world wide.
I love how 'unidentified German government source' is now enough evidence for a rather serious accusation.
God I’m glad that Bavaria is pretty much under lockdown starting tomorrow, because I’m not sure I’d want to show my American* face in public right now.

*I blend in really well - until I open my mouth and Texas-accented German comes out.
Anyone know why these types of ships don’t use the standard 20/40ft containers like regular cargo ships?
Why do you think? It's an opportunity for the US to get ahead again. The country's history is full of this kind of thing.
Sure.

The hardware side of an SDR is a pair of incredibly fast analog to digital converters, capable of tens of millions of samples per second. If you can sample at 40 million pairs of samples per second, you've sampled every radio signal in 20 megahertz of bandwidth, and moved it into a form where you can computer.

There are then techniques that are used to recover individual signals. I'm not really an expert in this, so forgive/correct me if I get this wrong, but my understanding is that multiplying two signals at frequencies A and B is the same thing as adding together a signal with frequency (A+B) and a signal with frequency (A-B).

So for AM radio, if A is the carrier and B is the message, we can multiply (A+B) from the original signal with a copy of A' we generate in the computer. That yields (A+B)-A', which is just B - the signal we want to listen to. (Plus high frequency signals that can be filtered out.)

The thing is, this last step can be done multiple times - as many times as the computer can compute, since it's all done by the process. So that's how it can listen to multiple signals at once.
Let's unleash the free market on the (globally) unique rights to things that save lives. What could possibly go wrong?
I don't know, can you? I believe what you see on Twitter is tribalism in it's purest and decentralized form. It's many smaller and larger tribes clashing all the time, because of how it's set up. People don't forget what $memberOfTheirTribe did or said last week, they fall in line because it's their tribe vs that other tribe, and consistence or purity or adherence to tribal values are less important than winning the battle.
And um, when does one have to stop blaming the previous administration for the current's failings? He did not inherit a "dysfunctional CDC" that is pure BS. He has called COVID-19 a hoax, that it would but just like the cold, that you could go to work with it, and that the number would "soon be zero" (number of cases).

He has no idea what he is doing and only cares about his own reelection regardless of the risk that puts Americans in.
For the first question, the answer is: ANY country that currently is seeing exponental growth should take action at the same level of severity as China/Korea/Singapora, if not, they will be in the same situation as Italy in 1-3 weeks.

Once the growth is no longer exponential, measures can be rolled back slowly, especially if they have access to enough tests, masks and respirators.

The earlier action is taken, the cheaper it will be to stop this. Every week of delay can increase casualty rates by a factor of 10. A month of delay, can mean the difference between 10000 and 10 million dead.

Also, economic costs, both in direct treatment cost as well as the disruption to the productive side of the economy will rise sharply the longer we wait. (Well, at least if we don't see the death of sick and elderly as an economic benefit.)
Can anyone point me to (or post) an explanation of how MathJax/Katex work? I.e. what exactly does one have to implement in order to provide the functionality they do? I'm particularly interested in the fonts and rendering side of this. In fact I'd be interested also in reading about how the font and rendering process in a standard desktop LaTeX / dvi / $outputformat works in comparison to the javascript emulations.
> It really comes down how covid-19 kills people, whether it is by directly attacking the body, or by triggering cytokine release syndrome (CRS).

It seems to be both. Plausibly at least, CRS may be often involved in damage to the respiratory system, but COVID-19 is not unlike SARS in that severe forms can directly attack other parts of the body. So any treatment based on lowering inflammation or any other part of the immune response will have to be carefully tuned.
I mean the Roman Empire spans between 500 and 1500 years depending of what you count.
I'm not sure what you're getting at.

In no language is it sound to mutate the same data in parallel or to read it while it is being mutated. Synchronization primitives are needed by all languages to deal with this fundamental truth.

Rust just reflects this truth in the type system. That said, you can build whatever abstraction you want to deal with it. You can use immutable data structures, mutexes, lock/wait free mechanisms, whatever.

Hell you can throw caution to the wind and use a raw pointer if you wanted to. That's how a lot of the higher level constructs work under the hood, they just wrap the logic required to maintain soundness under the API. That's not just a Rust thing, it's true in all languages. It's just that Rust makes it a bit easier to express soundness because of how it reflects multiple aliasing in the type system.
..and it should come years from now. Hearing some researchers talk about fast tracking a SARS-cov2 vaccine in 18 ~24 months seems terribly unsafe. Vaccines need extensive animal testing following by phased human trials, less we have a repeat of the Lyme disease vaccine.

General vaccines for Corona virus families should have started years ago. H1N1 had a vaccine because it was a known flu that was researched previously. It was just the ramp-up/production time that was the issue there.
Then what word would you use describe the political leanings of a nation whose people feel threatened by something, like maybe the World Bank and IMF rolling in, and want a stronger government to prevent it from happening?
A "single universal protocol" sounds to me like you'd need at a minimum, a blob of data, with a header for length and how to interpret the data. Maybe if you flesh out the problem more you'd end up with something like this: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791#section-3.1

What would it even mean to have a single universal protocol beyond IP? Layering on top of IP (TCP, UDP, and higher-level protocols like HTTP, DNS) is the way things already work. Not layering sounds like every application would just invent and parse their own protocols, which is even worse.
FWIW, there's no sophisticated science in that Medium article. All of the things in there come from basic understanding of how exponents work, plus thinking for 10 seconds about what the graphs from Wuhan from February showed. Author's biggest contribution is quality explanation of these points that's comprehensible by a wide audience. That doesn't require skills in epidemiology, but precisely the ones the author has.
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Yeah, garbage collection came into Mesa via Cedar, with reference counting alongside a cycle collector, hence Mesa/Cedar, the replacement for XDE.

Had UNIX been a commercial product from day one, there wouldn't be any clones to start with, as they were mostly bootstrapped by the free beer source code that was taken via backup tapes from Bell Labs into a couple of collaborating universities.
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What a bizarre claim. In what way is BM trying to monopolize fringe culture?
plausible, but I could easily see how this would be Chinese propaganda. no way to tell. I'm not sure which alternative is worse.
We had a very similar situation recently where the colocation facility had replaced some missing block-out panels in a rack and it caused the top-of-rack switches to recycle hot air... the system temps of both switches were north of 100°C and to their credit (dell/force10 s4820Ts) they ran flawlessly and didn't degrade any traffic, sending appropriate notices to the reporting email.

Something as benign as that can take out an entire infra if unchecked.

I've seen racking fail in the past (usually someone loading a full 42U with high density disk systems putting the rack over weight capacity by a notable factor) and it is definitely a disaster situation. One datacenter manager recounted a story of a rack falling through the raised flooring back in the days when that was the standard (surprise - it kept running until noticed by a tech on a walkthrough).

Good story but comes across as back-patting a bit.
Seems like it doesn't matter simply due to your political bias.
Last time it happened was end of the second world war.
This is why I pat myself on the back for deciding 15 years ago to stop breaking my brain against cplusplus and learn Python.

Do I miss the challenges and rewards of working at the lowest level of the stack? A little bit. But it's more than made up for by the fact that I can produce code that's workable, readable, and extensible, and can mature and grow more powerful in months rather than years.

Of course, I now stand on the shoulders of the people who build tools like numpy and tensorflow. I have great respect for those who continue to wrestle with these demons, but I just had to tap out.
> Cow's milk is designed

No, it's not.

> Rat milk is closer to human milk and would actually be a much better substitute. Maybe we should set up big rat dairies?

Sure, when the automation has reached the point that number of animals you need to deal with per unit of milk production isn't a significant factor in the cost, that’ll probably be a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
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I thought it was Mars he was pushing for during his presidency?
Is it true that we hear?
Just FYI, if you don’t have symptoms or direct contact with someone with COVID (basically if you don’t have a high probability of having COVID before you have the test) a positive test still probably means you don’t have COVID:

Sample numbers:

* Population of US: 3e8

* People that have COVID right now in the US: 1e5 (30x the confirmed cases right now)

* Disease rate: 3e-4

* FALSE POSITIVE RATE for COVID test: 1% (likely higher)

* TRUE POSITIVE RATE for COVID: 100% (definitely lower)

If you take the test, don’t have symptoms or direct contact, and then the test comes back positive for the disease, then under these pretty reasonable assumptions, the likelihood you have the disease is

P(actually have COVID| positive test) = 3e-4 /(1e-2(1-3e-4) +3e-4) = 2.9%
Very usefull extension indeed.
Quick fixes and updates.
Adding custom sites is a very interesting feature also.
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Nice to see CSAW represented so much there. Shout out from an OSIRIS Lab alum.
Pretty unlikely that a German newspaper reporting what it heard from German government sources is Chinese propaganda.
They denied it, did they not?
Right. High temperature and thermal throttling are things that can and should be monitored directly.

Spotting it by digging down from service-level monitoring instead isn't terrible, but it isn't something to be proud of either.
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Humans might be kinda slow and expensive, but their ability to handle a lot of variable data and inputs and weigh them dynamically, filter out absurd results before applying them, and etc is pretty amazing.

Like if someone comes to me and says "what if we... did X with the schedule". I could tell them how to do that and not to right away. The code would have to be changed / rewritten and tested and fail at it each time... so much mess.

Especially when scheduling other humans... the humans being scheduled can smell a computer scheduling a mile away and IMO they expect the worst at that point. They're not necessarily wrong.
Unicode support, especially for RTL languages, is abysmal.
Please stop spreading misinformation. The price gouging laws allow prices to increase without limit to pay for increased wages or costs: https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/pricegougingduringdisasters#8C
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Use Cases for Linode Object Storage
The very fact that we are discussing this is super silly and shitty. The whole world should be working together, not competing with each other and not trying to screw each other over.
> It costs like $3k to save a human life

Source?
On a second thought, projects like the Exscalate4CoV [1] might have a chance to contribute even short-term as they do have the explciit goal to also focus on "Identify virtually and quickly the drugs available, or at an advanced stage of development, potentially effective"

[1] hhttps://www.cineca.it/en/news/exscalate4cov-hpc-platform-win...
I hate shopping for clothes. Hate it. When I was growing up my parents made sure that buying clothes was as painful as possible and I never got over it.

I still year the same members only jacket my father bought in the 80s and gave to me in the 90s - the lining could use some work but otherwise completely functional. I’ve had the same umbrella for almost twenty years - was a niche brand that built heavy duty frames and it’s taken punishment that would have broken a lesser umbrella dozens of times over - but aside from some thin spots in the canopy it’s perfectly fine. I wrote the company that made it but only got a form letter in response so guess they weren’t impressed with my long lived umbrella that’s been to every continent except Antarctica.

I do have to say that buying clothes from amazon is a pleasure. They remember your orders forever so if I’m not sure of size or brand I can always look at order history. If the style or color I want is no longer available the purchase recommendations are good at finding me something similar. Best of all I don’t have to buy what’s available and get it tailored, I can buy clothes made for my exact size. I used to spend as much getting pants legs shortened as I did on the pants because I have an odd size that the stores don’t carry and can’t get for weeks. I still have to typically buy shoes two sizes larger to accommodate the width of my feet - Allen Edmonds is about the only places that makes affordable shoes in my exact size, but those soft leather soles get torn up quickly by NYC streets.

I’m sure that in another ten years I’ll just give Amazon my measurements and tailored clothing will magically appear whenever I order it.
What you say is true. I like the way you phrased things. What you write about the authors potentially having a bias that blinds them is nicely put. If someone has reason to think this I’d welcome reading their commentary.

I am tired with people just saying that correlation does not always imply causation. As if this is somehow insightful. Whenever I see this I think less of the person who writes it. It’s as if they don’t have enough common sense to assume that authors of a study that relies on statistical analysis don’t know this.
You're lucky you're in Bavaria, though. Germany apparently has 25,000 intensive care beds with respirators. The country I currently live in has less than a thousand.
“Deeply stupid” is Trump’s middle name.
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