skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You couldn't come anywhere close to meeting current demand for meat with free foraging animals.

Where did I say this? I'm used to straw man arguments from vegans but not this blatant.

> The level of delusion and misinformation on this issue is tragic and mindboggling

You are just using talking points that you just use when you are confronted with reality.

> but go ahead and enjoy your selfish tech bro lifestyle.

The most selfish, privileged people I've come across are vegans. A vegan diet is a wealthy privileged diet and an unnatural one at that. A diet that relies on globalism and can't be sourced locally. People can eat an omnivore diet from local sources. Nobody on earth can eat a vegan diet from local sources. Not a privileged swedish vegan, not a privileged brazilian vegan or a innuit vegan if there is such a thing.

The worst diet for the environment is the vegan diet. Think about it or go learn a thing or two about agriculture. Instead of delusional vegan propaganda. The worst diet for humans is a vegan diet. Ever notice why there has been no vegan society in human history? Because humans aren't herbivores. We aren't cows.

But privileged and selfish vegans can exploit globalism to get vegetation from all over the world to feed their selfish privileged existence and of course pop them pills to poorly sustain yourself as you cling on to your faux moral high ground.

One cow feeds a bunch of people. One vegan dish has thousands of dead animal parts in it. You might want to read about how many insect, rodent, etc parts is in your salad. You might want to read about how many poor farmers are killed to get you that avocado and how many animals are killed to sustain your selfish privileged diet.

A person eating a steak knows one animal died for his meal. A vegan eating a salad knows thousands of animals died for his meal but instead pretend to be the moral superior.
Elon Musk shrugs.
The big short is a great book, but not sure it’s a good primer on how the financial system works for someone learning.
That's how we learn, right?

I am learning to be ambidextrous: I can feel my brain "doing shit" while I'm working hard on the left side.

It's pretty cool.
Props to these China AI scientists!

Even more impressive is that they were able to develop it in about 6-7 weeks after the initial containment effort.

This is a win for AI, as a massive pattern recognition machine, to help reduce the labor load of critical personnel, like radiologists. It helps by removing them as the limiting factor, that would slow down a critical process.
https://pastebin.com/BE2aTQJ4

This Seattle ICU doctor is recommending that other doctors just generally skip positive pressure ventilation and move directly to intubation, because they feel it's inevitable that the patient will shortly need intubation if they currently need positive pressure.

> "given the inevitable rapid progression to ETT once resp decompensation begins, we and other hosps, including Wuhan, are doing early intubation. Facemask is fine, but if needing HFNC or NPPV just tube them. They definitely will need a tube anyway, & no point risking the aerosols."
I'm pretty sure the DOS TYPE command (its version of cat) would stop at the first ^Z it encountered, even if the file was longer.

It was sometimes used to have TYPE print something human readable and stop before the remaining (binary) file data would scroll everything away
So the goal is to make Europe just completely uncompetitive with China et al?
This is what I'm reading/hearing so far. After reviewing the DNA sequences available to date, experts determined the virus was unlikely to be a human created bioweapon, but instead a virus that jumped from a wild animal to humans. Supposedly the pangolin, but they haven't honed in exactly on which animal carried the original virus.

[0]: https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2020/01/13/novel-coron...

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/sars-cov-2-seqs/
Just got fiber deployed to my small city here in France, and I now pay 40 euros a month for 900 down / 500 up, with a free phone line and IPTV access. We're barely 8000 people and surrounded by farmers fields for kilometers around.

And I'm still jealous of eastern countries like romania where they get better for cheaper.

I don't know how such a high development country as the US can tolerate those ridiculous price, bandwith and data caps.
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Fallback for TFO isn't easy because your request might not have been idempotent.

Start running some HTTP requests multiple times and you can quickly see hard to debug breakage.
https://pastebin.com/BE2aTQJ4

Seattle-area ICU doctor gives the impression that if a patient needs non-invasive assistance, that implies they will quickly need invasive assistance:

> given the inevitable rapid progression to ETT once resp decompensation begins, we and other hosps, including Wuhan, are doing early intubation. Facemask is fine, but if needing HFNC or NPPV just tube them. They definitely will need a tube anyway, & no point risking the aerosols.
Grocery shopping means you need to get out and expose yourself. While this is not 'dangerous' it does means you might get infected which in turn might mean you need to get medical care which in turn means you end up increasing the case load at a moment when the health care system is already straining or overloaded. Not having to go out shopping means you don't run that risk.

That is where he gets this: basic common sense. Limit exposure, limit spread, flatten the infection curve to such a level that the peak 10-15% which will need hospitalisation does not exceed the available capacity.
Don’t think this has been posted before even though the original article was from February. Here’s the page with PDF download of the paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05534

“ Abnormal respiratory patterns classifier may contribute to large-scale screening of people infected with COVID-19 in an accurate and unobtrusive manner”
This is the paper submitted for review https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.987958v1

If it passesthe review stage it will probably be published in the scientific Journal Nature.

Note: this is not a vaccine. Its a treatment option for people who are already sick.
Pygolang – Go-like features for Python and Cython
Disney is also hemorrhaging cash with their parks closed. Along with resorts and cruises. And their TV advertising just vanished with losing all live sports. The next earnings season is going to be insane.
Very nice, now if only they'd actually sell them...
It’s been a while since I worked in protein folding and tried folding@home, but IIRC the difference between GPUs and CPUs was at about the scale we see in machine learning, something like 20x to 200x.

That makes the usefulness of CPUs for this purpose questionable—you might be contributing more to that other disaster facing humanity than alleviating the current one.
> This is outright wrong. With TCP you have fast open, which provides 0-RTT send just like the TLS 0-RTT handshake.

Yes in theory but it fails on its face in practice. Many middle boxes are not happy with TCP Fast Open, and there's the tracking problem. Chrome dropped TFO.
Same. My brother brought home an illegal copy of visual studio and I was hooked pretty much immediately. We had no internet at the time so I found myself using the MSDN knowledge base articles for potential explanations.

It really annoyed me that I couldn't get nice bitmaps in menus so I eventually learned about Ownerdraw. That changed my life. Having to hook into the wndproc and all the other windows api calls introduced me to C, and so I naturally started experimenting with C++. All without internet, stackoverflow or groups.

I'm now write C++ for a living.
https://foldingathome.org/faqs/high-performance/folding-grap...

GPUs are faster.
How China’s “Bat Woman” Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus
It was so easy to create GUI apps and small games in VB. It definitely got me into programming!
Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson will start you from the very beginning, and does cover all the subjects you mentioned.

Random walk down wall street is good, but the angle is more “so you want to get into investing?” It won’t go into too much detail of underlying systems like fiat currency.
I heard an Italian doctor on the news yesterday saying they were using CPAP machines on (non-ICU?) CV patients in wards.
They are providing inventory to a bunch of other retailers and are continuing online sales, this really sounds like they don't want people coming in and touching the same piece of glass.
Please do not feel offended by my words but I would never ever use a service like this.

The question in most cases in my opinion is not "will there be a data breach?" but when it will occur. Leaving this kind of data on some servers of some company just opens the door for patients to be extorted etc. in the future.

I like the idea of apps and computers helping us with problems like that but in our world services and devices are just not trustworthy enough for my taste.

Maybe a desktop app on a device that has no internet connection would be a reasonable alternative.

I wish you good luck with your business though and keep my fingers crossed that somehow your data remains secure.
I'm curious why people want to have work slack available on their phones. I can imagine some specific roles where it may be useful, but in general... why? I can't imagine it being more than an extra distraction. What's the use case for it?

I'm asking because I've seen many people complaining about the phone notifications from their work.
That and, well, video that's on by default. I know this somewhat paradoxical because we're talking about _video_ conferencing tools but in many cases seeing the other participants isn't as important as hearing them clearly or viewing a shared screen.

A video stream can take a lot of the available bandwidth, at the expense of those other channels.
A deep learning approach to antibiotic discovery
BioSTORM – an automated system for detecting bioterrorism and pandemics
In the USA? Zero chance, unless a state of emergency makes accommodations I am not aware of. If one failed, due to not spending a lot of money and time doing quality control and getting certifications, and a patient died you would be sued out of existance.

In New Zealand you generally can't due for punative damages and lawsuits for medical misadventure are few to non-existent then maybe, but I am sure red tape would still prevent it.

Maybe it could be sold as a non-medical device, call it a "Happy Fun Breathing Simulator" with no explicit purpose and people would stock up on then.
Going back to my initial reply, 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++.

Specially given the lack of tooling that is only matched by C++ Builder, although I did not refer this point on my original reply.

So if you are reducing the world to just what Unreal, Source and CryEngine officially support, I wonder how many AAA games have been released on Windows using GCC or clang with those engines.
Openings have standardised around the patterns that the AI systems have converged on, and people are practicing against neural networks/using neural networks to review their games. That is probably increasing the standard of play but it is difficult to measure.
I'd echo this. It's the same as the version on Netflix.
It's not a technical deep dive (but then again, that's rare in any documentary - even the General Magic documentary didn't go into the technical aspects really). It's a human interest piece with lots of the context and interviews with key people.
Obviously tastes will vary but I would recommend it to the typical HN reader.
I just posted an idea similar to this, without having seen yours first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22574128

add geolocation data and location based app awareness and alerting.

The problem me thinks are language barriers and cultural-socio privacy differences.

Next level technology could really help in this space, if we could only get our global sh*t together...
> It's not a black swan, a pandemic was long on the horizon (think SATS, MERS, Ebola, ...).

I agree with this statement

> Just to add: I found taleb pretty opionated and had trouble distinguishing his own opinions from facts/theories.. I'd not recommend his books.

Everyone has an opinion… but very few will step through the mathematical models (and where/how they break down) behind how they are gauging/backtesting the risk of ones assumptions (and go about figuring out how to adopt it to your own circumstances), like taleb does.
I think even in the US, there's a ton of defense contractors, which could produce a dozen of these in <2 weeks, iff they got told so. I don't think it's a 3d-printer problem though ;).
Some related submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22573926 "Low-cost portable ventilator (2010)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22573656 "Low-cost ventilator wins Sloan health care prize (2019)"
I am ignorant as far as the use of inhalable medications is concerned. However, I find it weird that you'd want to recycle oxygen: carbon dioxide removal is either hard or requires consumables, while oxygen can be concentrates from air using a simple process that consumers only energy (by adsorbing nitrogen on surfaces of particular minerals).
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I think he meant it metaphorically.
Also take a look at Rosetta@home: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22528992.
For follow-up submissions like this, it's best to link from the main thread. I've done that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22574271
Bitcoin is not a gold-like hedge, but a high risk asset first in line to be sold
It is the only messaging platform all my coworkers use. I have used it multiple times on phone to reach them, but uninstalled the slack app immediately afterwards.
You can look at data provided by internet exchanges. For example, here are stats from AMS-IX: https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/documentation/total-stats
I find that strategically unsound.. shouldnt you want to have a educational language ladder - from excel "programming" onwards toward some "real" powerful language like c#..

A ecosystem, that tries to upgrade people into softwaredevs, instead of having them thrive in there local pond, until they reach the limits of performance and then depend on large external software projects for the rescue?

Can you integrate c# into excell now as replacement..
Related from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12776045

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10472130
> They should have a feature to convert a multi-person-pm into a room, including all the previously sent messages.

I believe this is already an option, but you can only convert the multi-person-pm conversations to a _private_ channel.
This "us vs them" mentality with strong whiff of paranoia. Conceiving ulterior motive and talking as if that was the most important motive. Somehow more true than all other parallel motives. I don't see this kind of thinking much out of US and perhaps Russia. Maybe it's taint of cold war. Maybe it runs even deeper in the culture.
Oh I didn't mean you specifically, just in general if TL;DRs were on top, more people would not understand or misunderstand what an article/post actually says.
The Chinese and Italian doctors were saying that the equipment was the limiting factor in saving lives. That there just weren’t enough of them to go around, to handle the massive influx of patients flooding into the hospitals and clinics all at once.

We will need equipment like this to save lives.

I suspect that the Seattle situation is about to go hot. People with symptoms are not being tested, so they’re not being confirmed. Meanwhile, domestic and international flights are still going in and out of SeaTac. People are unknowingly carrying the virus to all different areas of the country. This might explain why seemingly random cases are popping up in the Midwest, from people who have never been to China or Europe. Essentially, the virus is building steam, and the country is about to see a massive increase of sickness in the coming weeks ahead. And the old and less healthy people will get hit very badly. We all will.

Time to buckle up, and hunker down.
The fact of it being profitable in spite of a lack of sophistication is valid.

But the other point is that this service seems to be a clone of maplify - meaning its fair game for yet another copy, albeit with the features I mentioned. That's business, after all...
Java still doesn't do unsigned
From the reddit thread:

"For people worried about electricity usage:

My 3900x/2070s system, if using both cpu+gpu for folding full, uses 430w at the wall plug. Even at 21cents per kw/h this is about 9 cents/h.

When setting up your machine, it's best to go to slots and remove your cpu. GPU tends to make all the points, especially if you have a newer GPU. I removed my 12 core 3900x from slots and barely noticed a drop in points while my system was running much cooler and with even less power usage. Leave it to default disease and you'll likely get covid-19 projects.

I use both my 2070s cards and I get estimated 3.2M ppd for $2/24hrs of electricity.

TLDR: PC's don't use much power. Get folding@home and just use your GPU(s) at full. Leave it to default to get covid-19 projects."
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Decentralize All the Things
I was considering an ask HN on just this. Having an effort from makers and professionals to come up with designs for mechanical ventilators when things get dire.

Now I understand jerry rigging medical devices is not advisable. But a pandemic like this may get to the point where DIY solutions may offer the solution.

I heard from a general practitioner that mechanical ventilators also have fine pressure control. Which would make the whole system a lot more complex. So given that I figured the concept was to flawed. But the design by MIT doesn't have these fancy ventilator function either. So it seems a cheap, available, basic ventilator would still be valuable.
That wasn't quite the dynamic; the version that played against Fan Hui was pretty good. That would have been more than enough to claim that the AI was highly competitive against human professionals.

The surprise was that it was assumed that Neural Nets would scale exponentially like other computer projects - over the medium term, with a requirement to rewrite the program to take advantage of new hardware opportunities. The idea that the same program + 6 months could scale exponentially was pretty radical even to people who knew a lot about computers. I was certainly surprised because I'd made the assumption that AlphaGo could scale exponentially with improvements in graphics cards as opposed to exponentially with Google's commitment of computer hours. Obviously wrong in hindsight, but it wasn't a misunderstanding of exponentials, it was a misunderstanding of neural nets.

And we only really had one data point at the time, which was the Fan games. Couldn't even really draw a line without knowing a lot about the field.
> Google Hangouts / Zoom / others are likely to provide a better supported user experience.

My experience with Google software is the exact opposite. The never-ending parade of new products, SDK versions, grand rewrites, non-existent support, and cancelations has served to remind me of one thing: that I am the product.
Do you expect to wear any of the .5 million masks in less then 3 days after they were touched by the last person who touched them before packaging?
Convenience. Apollo for iOS (a reddit client) pops a "Open reddit link?" if you have a reddit url on your pasteboard. There are obviously other ways to solve this (e.g. allow pasting them into the navigation bar) but they're ever so slightly less convenient. IMHO it ultimately depends on the app / the developer. As for Apollo I trust the dev enough to not abuse it and only checking for reddit url to potentially navigate to. Others, e.g. TikTok, I wouldn't
this was my exact thoughts at the end of 2017 when Maker released their first version. Why instead of CDPs just don't use one big liquidy pool which initially funded with sufficient resources? If it is big enough - it would initially overcollateralized the system (when the cap is small) and can be used as a stabilization reserve, i.e. everyone would able to redeem their $1 stablecoin for $1 of ETH at any moment of time. I even try to design such a system https://stableunit.org/StableUnit-whitepaper.pdf

The main assumption that stablecoin with collateral/reserve has two values:

1) "redeemability value", i.e. the token without demand is worth $1 because you can redeem it for $1 of another asset with demand such as ETH.

2) network/native value: more people use the coin, higher the value. In the same manner as Dogecoin worth anything at all, like Metcalfe's law but for cryptocurrency. With an empirical estimation of growth asymptotic higher than NlogN.

The important part here that as the system grows bigger 1) grows linear but 2) grows to faster than linear which means there are some sizes of then system when 2) > 1). This practically means that you can back part of stablecoin with less liquid assets because they won't be used often (if all). It's one way to explain why USDT can function even with partially collateralized.

The problem with all of this, that one thing is to have system design (I'm convinced that there are many different decentralized stablecoin systems that can work) and another to build a working project with user adoption. I've spoken with many people at MakerDAO and they all know about the limitations/imperfection of the system. For oracles, they chose that expensive design because it was an "engineering approach which just works security". And as we see right now at stablecoins market cap, they were right to do so.
In Italy they're literally letting people who are 70+ die because of lack of respirators.

In this situation you're better off just building a lot more of these than you'd need and monitoring. Replace failed units.
Unfortunately the number one use case is the browser which doesn’t use these.
While your arguments have merit, it is notable that China is the country that has infection under control.
And then some big pharma corp will use the data to make and patent a vaccine which - considering the worldwide demand - will be unaffordable to the majority of said gaming PC owners?
You could just use Ctrl-Insert/Shift-Insert for copy/paste everywhere.
Will the SAT or ACT become illegal?
Even perfect mask in practice of intense contact with the infected is barely better than piece of cloth draped over your face.
And if this fizzles out people will just go "see? there was no need for these drastic measures, nothing happened!"...

Nothing happened because drastic measures were taken...
Intel paid money to passmark.com to decrease measured AMD's CPU performance
That exists on iPadOS, but not on iOS. It's a lot less useful for anything which doesn't require a keyboard though, for example "long tap to paste an image/custom app object"
New Coronavirus Test 10 Times Faster Is FDA Approved
Has anyone managed to replicate the linked Gmail guide[1] on Thunderbird? I currently am able to reply+archive[2] some emails, but the todo emails hang around in my inbox till I complete the task and then archive them.

Ideally, I would like to not see the ToDo emails till I am ready to look at them.

[1] https://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-...

[2] Ctrl+R, compose reply, Ctrl+Enter to send, A to archive message.
Thanks all for the great explanations. I was failing to think about how a browser's opening of multiple TCP connections in 1.1 maps to the multiple streams model of HTTP/2. Cheers.