skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These projects are cool and do contribute to our understanding, but they are not part of the critical path of fighting this pandemic.

The vaccine(s) are already in phase one clinical trial testing, as are some important anti-viral treatments which are in phase three clinical trial testing.

There is no potential output from this folding project that can accelerate those timelines.
I believe that the panic buying is primarily a leadership problem. Especially in Europe, the governments have, for the past decades but even more so in the past 5 years, retreated and said "we can't do anything anyhow, so you'll just have to deal with it". People have learned and do whatever they have to to protect themselves, because the society at large is falling apart and losing cohesion. If you have no leadership, you can't expect people to behave orderly.

The US population is historically suspicious of the government and it's ability to get things done, so individuality is much more pronounced there.

Secondly, I think the government, media and experts just haven't thought their communication strategy through. They've told people "you might need to get isolated in your home for a few weeks, and remember to wash your hands a lot". What, besides stocking up on food, soap/sanitizer and toilet paper, would you expect them to do in response?
Why supercars are doing away with windshields
Navient collects on behalf of Department of Ed loans, so those would be affected, since they don't actually own the debt.
https://archive.is/eXHrF
>>> Shall we deny ourselves these pleasures because they become problematic at scale? If so, what else should we ban by the same logic?

Yes.

Anything that has an environmental externality. Not necessarily ban, but definitely reduce the use, possibly by making it more expensive, or just stop subsidizing it.
I've followed them since they were "RealBasic". I think I might just start using it. I keep bouncing between Lazarus/Pascal and Xojo/Basic. lol
Kinda off-topic, since the article is about not making errors, instead of logging them, but sometimes you are not in control of input, and you expect some exceptions that you want to log.

In Python, instead of the example in the blog:

try:
do_something_complex(*args, **kwargs)
except MyException as ex:
logger.log(ex)

Use the almost undocumented `exc_info=True`, like this

try:
do_something_complex(*args, **kwargs)
except MyException as ex:
logger.error(ex, exc_info=True)

This will log the entire exception.

Even cooler, every un-caught exception calls `sys.excepthook()`. The function is supposed to be monkey patched by anyone who wants to do something with uncaught exceptions, so you can do the following if you want to log all uncaught exceptions:

def exception_logger_hook(exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback):
logger.error("Uncaught exception", exc_info=(exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback))
sys.__excepthook__(exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback)

sys.excephook = exception_logger_hook

This will send all uncaught exceptions to the logger and then continue with raising the exception normally.
During my decade long stint working in labs that worked more closer to actual therapies, I've never once referred to a mol.dyn paper or needed those results. Crystallography, sure. Super useful. Mol Dynamics or folding experiments not exactly.

Which is fine for basic science, I'm sure there's a possibility some of these folding experiments will lead to insights of actual use in the long-term. However folding@home et al disingenuously portray this immediate effect on curing aids or the latest scare, which I doubt is truly that useful.

I'd argue that this simulation research is as useful for covid19 therapeutic research as banning plastic straws is to solve global warming.
Being fair, "exasperate" (= "make hopeless") works too...
Is WFH infrastructure up to the task of dealing with expanded traffic?
I don't work for a technology company. We have citrix, and on a good day it can be sluggish. I am already on WFH due to local school shutdowns, and many more are following. Citrix is already (though functional) less responsive. I doubt my situation is unique.

What are the capabilities of those of you working in non-tech organizations to ramp up resources here?

Same question for those of you working in tech companies, are you better situated to scale this aspect of your infrastructure?
That's a solid choice is this arena.
Great idea. Simultaneous to these types of home-brew projects...we also need someone (President? eCelebs? etc) to promote and organize fund raising efforts to simply buy and distribute cheap but effective ventilators.

Imagine a WWII style "war bonds" effort, but instead to build and distribute say 5M ventilators over the next 6 weeks.

In addition to this, we must re-purpose closed schools (gyms, cafeterias, etc) into make-shift CoVid19 triage centers where affected patients can be put on cots with saline drip, drugs, and ventilation. This is doable, but we need to do it.
Understanding SARS-COV-2 and the drugs that might lessen its power
I'm curious why people use configuration management software in 2020. All of that seems like the old way of approaching problems to me.

What I prefer to do is use Terraform to create immutable infrastructure from code. CoreOS and most Linux variants can be configured at boot time (cloud-config, Ignition, etc) to start and run a certain workload. Ideally, all of your workloads would be containerised, so there's no need for configuration drift, or for any management software to be running on the box. If you need to update something, create the next version of your immutable machine and replace the existing ones.
Iceland has a population of 364,260.
Changing the behavior of just one group of teens would lead to "radically" different numbers. Especially considering the fact that the bulk is concentrated at the capital Reykjavík.

Herefor numbers regarding Iceland should always be interpreted with great caution since they are likely not projectable onto other countries.
This is the approach we take. We don't track states or do continuous config management either as we're all in on cattle > pets (and we don't typically have the time to maintain terraforms properly enough to do anything but cut new environments). Something gets sick? Shoot it and stand up another one.
There was nothing unexpected here. Users traded their eth X days ago for dai, with the full intention of adjusting their liquidity characteristics

What happened here simply precluded the possibility of the reverse trade when the loan became under collateralized, this was not unclear to anyone involved
It's not really about sense of hustle. The problem is on the demand side, not the supply side. The vast majority of people would not trust a fly-by-night website selling hand sanitisers at elevated price.
I figured out a workable solution, using Thunderbird tags.

1. Customize Thunderbird toolbar and "View" button/menu to your toolbar. This reveals some hidden functionality that I discovered by accident just now.

2. Go to your Inbox folder and Tag some messages as "To Do" (default shortcut "4"), and then archive them.

3. Go to the Archive folder and from the "View" menu select Tags->To Do. This will display all "To Do" emails in the folder.

4. Under the same "View" menu, select, "Save view as folder" option. Select appropriate settings on the popup window and create your shortcut.

5. Now you have a shortcut folder in your folderpane that displays your ToDo items. At this point, you can revert step 1, as the toolbar button is not needed.

Now, if I can't deal with a message before the end of the workday, I can do "4 A" on the message to make it disappear from my inbox, while still keeping it handy. The only downside of this system is that I need to select "Archives" folder to update my local copy of the folder. Otherwise, newly ToDo-ed emails won't show up under the shortcut.
Your old wife's tale might safe someones life at best and at worse do nothing, no reason to not say it, no one is going to mock you.
I like Chef for similar reasons. It's just Ruby code.
I have been here before where I actually wanted to find out what is going on with finance. I was amazed that its more about ideology than it was about finance itself. It was more about psychology and the intents of human nature than it was just about transactions and definitions.

In as much as books are good, i would urge you to follow certain men as well.

Prof. Richard Werner and all his books.
Prof. Steve Keen and all his books.

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Nah, I only pay $4.50 for a oat milk turmeric ginger latte. But they are pretty tasty and non caffeinated.
Marx's Capital, despite being old, is pretty prescient for the modern day.
I would love a Firefox version of this.
"Money Stuff" is excellent. I also recommend the FT. Their Alphaville section is very good. One of my favorite classic Levine articles is "Regulators Want to Slow Runs on Derivatives."

Some other resources I came across via those and friends:

• "Other People's Money" by Kay

• "Zombie Banks"

• "The Money Problem"

• This NY Fed study of shadow banking: https://www.ft.com/content/1a222bf4-f33d-11df-a4fa-00144feab...

• "All the Devils are Here"
Kubernetes 101 – Zoom Webinar
Just consider how many of these articles made international news, even though the research theoretically applies internationally: https://nos.nl/zoeken/?q=%22Nederlandse+onderzoekers%22
I would be rather interested if anyone tried zinc supplements. I do get that Choloquine is ideally should be also part of regimen, but since it's prescription only, so you can't simply get it.
I did not expect this to be a weather app
But... How do you configure the hosts where your containers are running on? How do you configure your storage (NAS/SAN)? How do you configure your routers and switches? ...
Dr Ernest Chan

Ray Dalio

Marcos Lopez de Prado

These authors are how I started. I'd be happy to list specific books if that is helpful, but I don't want to give you a false sense that if you read books I mention you will have the same understanding that I do.
I meant store logs the same way as any other data - be that an SQL database, Cassandra, or whatever you're favouring for this system. I'd expect your fields to be somewhat business-specific, and reading them works the same as reading any other business data - you write the data schema in one place and generate read and write code from it. key-value pairs aren't perfect and you certainly can (and should) define a more detailed schema than that, but even just a bag of key-value pairs is a lot more structure (and therefore a lot easier to query) than a raw string.
Agree, BUT the media only has so much attention. Use it for chastising the govt.
According to the danish health authorities, the symptoms include: Fever, airway infection/breathing problems, chills, muscle aches, sore throat, headache, diarrhea and vomiting.

As far as I can tell they’re listed in order of frequency. As for “airway infection” they mention dry cough and runny nose.

From what I can tell the symptoms are more or less similar to a regular seasonal flu or a common cold, but with much more severe outcomes for some.
>> I disagree… "before the virus has even taken hold" is the perfect time to do long-term shopping. Avoiding crowded areas (read: THE MALL and the public transports to get to the mall) is key to reducing infection.

While I agree that being prepared is important people are stocking up for much longer than necessary + not considering other people. This all depends on your ethical/world view I suppose but we don't have enough of certain items yet. The options are to think of only yourself and buy as much as you can as quickly as you can (while leaving other people with no options at all) or buy what you need now so that everyone has what they need and hopefully production can increase of the in demand items so we can all stock up before (worst case scenario) production has to cease entirely for a period of time. It's interesting to see how quickly our progressive societies can become every person for their self (to an extent).
The downvotes is for calling panic buying selfish. You can't simultaneously tell people to stay at home for long periods of time and tell them to not stock up for that.
This is the best solution we can hope for now with Coronavirus IMO.

Slow the infection rate (but not too much) till we hit enough cases to have herd immunity, which will then slow the rate significantly till it mostly dies out (I suspect this has happened in China and South Korea, if not they will suffer the consequences later as the virus is reintroduced unnoticed from another country).

Since it won't be stamped out worldwide this year, there's no point in attempting complete eradication and tracing all contacts. That means the aim of reducing the spread should not be to avoid infections, but to to reach herd immunity in an ordered way without taxing healthcare systems too much on the way.
Early on, doctors were quick to note that there is no herd immunity with this particular coronavirus.
Not all of us have the luxury of our projects being greenfield.
I mostly don't for new stuff (all in on Docker/ECS), however we have a lot of old stuff and things in the process of being migrated where it makes sense. There's also always the odd bird thing you use that needs to run on a regular host.
"mining would became fully regulated with enforced kyc on every transaction"

Aren't they prosecuting bitcoin mixers as money laundering right now?
You need to install an app. That's a massive hurdle compared to "visit this link", especially when interacting with customers.
I'm also really interested in what companies at scale are using. Anyone here from FAANG?
State and municipal governments have invested heavily in professional sports teams with payback coming only via economic activity from their games being played. From the state's point of view, they're protecting their investment and trying to get it generating revenue again. Of course these "investments" in sports teams by state and local governments are about as logical as investing in lottery scratch off tickets but politicians love getting their governments entangled with the finances of the local pro sports team and being able to boast to sports loving voters that they're the reason why the town has a team.
Forecast is actually for a 3rd of 3rd wave down which is likely to be larger than anything seen so far maybe 15% + over one or two days, and then the midpoint of that should be the halfway point from the Feb 19th top to the eventual first big low point.
We use technology mainly so we can be fast and self sufficient. This allows for short trips which can be fit in a modern working life. I believe that's a big driver.
Coronavirus Drug Update: The Latest Info on Pharma' Treatments and Vaccines
Yes, Alt-Svc just isn't practically faster unless you're constantly back to that particular site so a DNS solution had to be on the table, and (the current assumed path for) eSNI assumes a DNS solution too.

It will be interesting to see which is the biggest deployability headache out of QUIC itself (UDP doesn't work for a noticeable fraction of users) and HTTPSSVC (not only will lots of people who have a shiny new HTTP/3-capable server not have a DNS server that understands HTTPSSVC lots of their clients have DNS servers which reject queries they don't understand outright).

Remember it was about a year between TLS 1.3 being finished and being really finished, because the standard that was cryptographically sound and made sense from an engineering perspective couldn't be deployed - what we've got now is that protocol seen through a funhouse mirror that lets it pass middleboxes.

For example the version field where you'd write TLS 1.3 (actually in a sense SSL 4.2 or maybe SSL 5) you can't do that. To sneak past a middlebox say instead that you're TLS 1.2 like it expects, and furthermore, you are re-connecting. It shouldn't worry that it can't understand the rest of what you say because you're just re-connecting - it must have approved that previous connection and so logically this one is likewise fine. Actually remembering which such connections have happened would cost money and isn't required to make the test pass so the middlebox doesn't do that and many will just allow all re-connections past untouched.
There's been talk that previous coronaviruses don't cause immunity and there already seems to have been cases with this one where a person got it twice. Does anyone have insight?
The original question didn't have much context, and I guess my answer assumed someone would be using a cloud provider as opposed to anything on premise.

Are Ansible/Puppet/Chef any good for managing the hardware you mentioned?
> I suspect this has happened in China and South Korea

How could it have if only a negligible fraction of the population caught it?
Chinese researchers might be collecting data, now that the initial chaos is Wuhan has been addressed. “Some of the reasons for the lack of autopsies and biopsies include the suddenness of the outbreak, the vast patient volume in hospitals, shortage of healthcare personnel, and the high rate of transmission, which makes invasive diagnostic procedures less of a clinical priority.”
https://www.genengnews.com/news/coronavirus-early-pathology-...

The Italians are obviously overwhelmed:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-h...

The Germans would be my best guess for methodical data collection
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/09/people-shed-high-levels-...
But the South Koreans have done the most tests of their population.

Dennis Carroll points out that addressing the COVID-19 disease requires international cooperation:
nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-pandemic-coming

One guy has been collecting lots of resources, including journal articles:
https://virus.travel/cs
For people heating their home with electricity this is an option, unfortunately you cannot force GPU only!
I left academia after wasting all my twenties believing there's more to it than citation rings. And maybe there is a small amount more. But my conclusion is that in general citation rings (I typically use a more colloquial Reddit phrase involving geometric shapes and descriptions of motion) and ego stroking is the main purpose of academia. Any scientific progress is incidental or often merely accidental inspite of people trying not to move the needle for personal gain.

"At least Nvidia is doing something" - like what exactly? Sounds more like a PR move than anything. They can have a more tangible effect donating money for actual efforts to help people probably.

Whenever I said "something is better than nothing" my dad would immediately reply, "but nothing is better than nonsense." He was a smart man indeed.
Cheers! Thank you. :-)

(Really, all I want or expect is for folks to not insult me to my face for sharing the experience. It's not like I'm claiming I rode in a UFO or had dinner with Bigfoot, y'know?)
Hm, vinegar for preservation does sound like a good idea. I assume it's better for killing anaerob bacteria than eg oil?

(anything that grows in the earth + oil + cool and dark storage - has a potential for growing Clostridium botulinum which can be lethal).

Hm, indeed. I stopped making garlic oil at home, looks like I should invest in some vinegar...

https://www.thespruceeats.com/removing-risk-of-botulism-from...
The amount of testing seems to be ramping up, but we also hear reports that results now take up to three days to get back, where we got the results for our tests (which happened on Wednesday and Thursday) on the next day.

As for symptoms: Male (56) fought quite hard to get one, as he had long direct contact with a positive-tested person. Male (80) got one because of "risk group" (age) and symptoms (light fever).
An interesting side discussion to this regarding vaccines: Does the presence of vaccine antibodies exhibit selection pressure on viruses? That is to say, do vaccines inadvertently and indirectly create an 'arms race' scenario?

NOTE: I am not anti-vaccine. This is intended as a nuanced point
I'll tell you the one tool I DON'T use. Cloudformation. I've touched it a grand total of once and it burned me so hard I set a company policy to never use it again.

It's like terraform, except you can't review things for mistakes until it's already in the process of nuking something. Which is terrible when you're inheriting an environment.
No _existing_ herd immunity. That doesn't mean "herd immunity doesn't work for this virus" which is I suspect what you're thinking.
Estonian is even worse, as "tee" is also road (in Finnish, "tie").
No an epidemiologist, but I think the theory is you only need herd immunity in the local area, if travel is also restricted, for the infection to burn itself out.
> It was sometimes used to have TYPE print something human readable and stop before the remaining (binary) file data would scroll everything away

Notably, in the PNG file format (created back when MS-DOS was still very relevant):

"The first eight bytes of a PNG file always contain the following values: [...] The control-Z character stops file display under MS-DOS. [...]" (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/PNG-Rationale.html#R....)
Will report back in those intervals, thanks for the idea!
The best solution will be mass vaccination. What you’re proposing amounts to millions people dead worldwide and a total collapse of healthcare.
They were tested on Wednesday and Thursday, results came back the next morning.
What about using an air compressor? These should still be readily available and is an off-the-shelf air pressure solution. The air couldn't be used directly (oil in it) - there would need to be an isolation bellows or something similar.
We can’t take any steps once the app is deleted. We told them if we reupload the app it won’t actually change anything.

The fact that they can delete first and destroy a business without warning should be unacceptable. It’s simply a one way contract and we seem to be asking them to undo the punishment seems like we upset a parent.
Ask HN: People are panic buying. What to do?
I just got a phone call from my brother that a lot of online services have stopped delivering.

I just went to the supermarket and I see people just stocking up on essential items and empty shelves everywhere.

I am very much against it since it's a very illogical thing to do.

What would the sane way to go about it? Is it really possible that we can run out of things like milk and diapers nowadays?

This is the first time I'm seeing this happen in my life :(
>> What, besides stocking up on food, soap/sanitizer and toilet paper, would you expect them to do in response?

I would have hoped people would keep in mind that staying home for a few weeks doesn't necessitate buying all that much more than a lot of families do in a "big shop". Take toilet paper as an example. The amount of it that's being bought by most people will last them 6-12 months. I know there's a lot of factors pushing people to make these decisions but it's certainly altered my generally optimistic/positive view of people as a whole.
Herd immunity until now referred to immunisation (ie vaccination). It is not at all clear that allowing people to get infected and recover will achieve the same result.