skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A radiologist can do it in about the same time. It presents as "ground glass opacities" which are pretty easy to spot.
The Chinese are people like you and me. Yes their government needs a lot of work, but people are people and we need to remember that more.
The Lochner Era
IBM WorkPad 20X: The 1998 Palm PDA Experience [video]
what help specifically were europeans sending to china, other than racist blunders and loads of ignorance of their problem?
Respectfully, this is just nonsense. Japan has a nationwide fee schedule that’s enforced across the board and they’re a wealthy country, with a lot of people, that consume a lot of healthcare under a single payer system. Still cheaper and with better outcomes.
IIS ASP and the Shell CScript/WScript hosts are just environments for the COM-based Active Scripting engine.

At the time it was very capable as lots of software titles opened themselves up to automation via COM - that's why you could have Classic ASP pages that invoked Office Excel to generate charts dynamically.

Unfortunately it was all a mess, but it was also something beautiful because it meant that a desktop/server OS was more than just a place where heterogenous applications could live: they could truly interact with each other regardless of their programming language or runtime platform.

That grand vision - itself an extension of OLE from the early 1990s - died down with the rise of .NET (this wasn't intentional - Microsoft just had a lot of reorgs around that time and COM was more-or-less feature-complete, and no-one was really using DCOM) - but with Windows 8 and the "WinRT" API I was hopeful that COM would be back and new ways of automating applications would come around, and that Microsoft would have a great system for non-programmer users wanting to build workflows like they can with Apple's macOS Automator and AppleScript.

This also ties-in with the do-as-little-work-as-necessary being done for VBA support in Microsoft's products. While we all wish Microsoft would allow modern JavaScript as a first-class COM automation language - the Office VBA runtime only supports its own VB6-dialect (the VBA language), and while Active Scripting supports JScript (a snapshot of JavaScript version 3 from 1999-2001) it doesn't support static typing nor is any of the tooling inside Office compatible at all. - so instead we have JavaScript, but only for "Office Apps" which don't offer anywhere near the same kind of integration or control over Office applications (or things like filesystem access) that VBA does. It's like it's 2008 again and everyone's excited about the new iPhone OS App Store and thinking about all the cool iPhone OS system extensions they'd add, like a Today screen or a camera app that can record video by using low-level camera hardware APIs - only to be discover Apple will only let-in apps using nerfed and siloed high-level APIs that take away all of the fun from extending an OS.
> PayPal also removed the option to opt-out of currency conversion.

I managed to pay in the seller's currency recently, though I did notice a while back that the UI had changed and it took some digging to figure out how to do it.

Or is this perhaps a country-specific thing? I'm in the UK.
I don't think you're correct about the 2008 crisis. But even if you're right, my point is broader than that. Plenty of executives play a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose game, with plausible deniability as part of that. Look at almost any industry with significant negative externalities.

And of course the museum can give itself credibility. Just by opening as a museum, for a start. But also by striving to appear credible to the million or so visitors who pay $20/head to tour it each year. And museums always perform respectableness for donors.

Events like this do somewhat subtract from that, of course. But only if they get caught. That could be an incentive toward better scholarship. But it also could be an incentive toward higher-quality, more difficult to discover fakes.
Well written and obviously well researched. I can't testify to the absolute truth of this article but it is certainly entertaining!
You should see what some of my Chinese relatives/friends are forwarding in WeChat-

1. CIA created the virus and released the virus in China as a test.

2. (In Chinese there's no word for 'flu', only 'cold', or 'transmissible cold'.) The 'cold' virus originated in US last year and killed more than 10k Americans before US sent special force to Wuhan to infect us Chinese! Even the head of CDC admitted it (see article).

3. A 5 member US special force went to Wuhan in November. They returned to US and all died in suspicious circumstances.

4. Now all the western countries are sending infected agents into China to blow the epidemic again.

You might notice a common theme that US is the enemy, and they are the originator of all bad things that happened to China. This is not a coincidence.
Why did this particle mysteriously disintegrate?
I'm not American or Chinese, so I read your statement as:

The American are people like you and me. Yes their government needs a lot of work, but people are people and we need to remember that more
the difference is so petty, that i feel sorry for the writer. what a huge bombshell that post was /smh
US ability to make and distribute medicine and medical supplies is falling apart and it’s a direct result of consolidation of supply chain and factories that make it. 4 power buyers buys control over 90% of generic drug for US. And probably similar percent for medical equipments.

Good news is that now all eyes are on the medical supply chains, and introduction of the medical supply drug act bill, we should see some supply chain move back to US.

Especially since Chinese government has threatened to withhold drug supplies to US https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic... and has started a disinformation campaign suggesting US inserted coronavirus in Wuhan, brought up by the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-official-says-us-arm...
I tried googling some keywords to see if Google would show me that site straight away, but didn't get anything in my 30 seconds of attempts.

Is it because I'm in Europe?

Got to love the oil reserves idea to help Saudi Arabia in its price war against Russia. Ah fuck, that's why he declared national emergency: so he can get 40 billion dollars to bail out the Saudis.

That lady was so proud of her 6 node flow chart too. She was beaming when she took it out...
The clerks aren't. Sure the COO is paid well.
the day the us needs aid from foreign countries has come. i pray for the many poor in that country that lack access to even basic healthcare. let us know where we can donate money to help american families in need, and pray the us wont invade another country to fight the virus.
As a U.S. citizen, I hope someone throws a benefit concert for us. That would be delicious.
Sure, but there's no way one of their billionaires would be allowed to take an action like this without discussing it with the CCP first. For all we know it was their idea.

I'm not saying it's evil or that we shouldn't accept it, I'm just observing the optics and the fact that there's no way the CCP didn't consider it from this perspective beforehand, regardless of any other motives.
This comment could be a-priori applied to any "Bob sends aid to Alice" case?
Why is this downvoted? There is a source and the point is valid. This is a fact of what's going on in China.

To the downvoters - explain.
It's possible to have the virus without showing significant symptoms, isn't it? Either because you just recently caught it, or because you happen to be lucky enough to have only minimal symptoms. Doesn't that undermine temperature-based detection?
Show me a national government that doesn't need a lot of work.
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Thoughts on the Pandemic [Greg Mankiw]
Honestly, that's probably the least interesting implication of a constructive proof that p=np.

The entire field of cryptography is based around the idea of problems easy to solve with a short piece of information but hard to solve without it. If P=NP (and we have a constructive proof with an algorithm where the constants & degree aren't rediculous), the entire field of cryptography would collapse. Only 1-time pad's would be safe.
The guy is either a complete idiot [1] or pretends to be one. I wouldn't over-analyze his actions too much.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHGd6LqAVzw
China appear to be making special efforts to send whatever they can to Italy, in recognition of Italy going above and beyond in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan 'quake.

For all that's going wrong lately, it's not a bad thing to see, I think.
That's probably exactly what China wants it's population to believe.
> I never understood the purpose of VB.Net.

Microsoft politics after hiring Anders Hejlsberg who designed C# as a competitor to Java so Java's compile-once-run-anywhere wont take a foothold on the desktop market and thus endanger the dominance of Windows, required that everything related to developing software for Windows was focused on C# and .NET to drive home to ISVs that this is the future, but up until that point VB6 was wildly popular - and absolutely incompatible with anything related to C# or .NET. So they reskinned C# with some VB clothes and paraded it in front of VB6 developers, hoping they wont notice the sharp bits sticking out - which worked as well as you'd expect. But with Microsoft having full and absolute control over VB6, it isn't like anyone could do anything about it, so over time people moved on. VB.NET never managed a hint of VB6's popularity and was always in the shadow of C#, which made perfect sense since outside of liking QBasic-like syntax more than C-like syntax, there wasn't any reason to use VB.NET.
> ...a lot of people...

Do you mean many Japanese?
Sigh. Each dumb conspiracy theory in Chinese social media has an equal and opposite dumb conspiracy theory in American social media.
Political. The US doesn't need test kits and masks, it needs approval for labs and cutting bureaucratic red tape.
Since C# 1.0, any type can have an indexer property defined that can accept any parameter types and can can return anything - though it wasn't until C# 7.0 that we could return a first-class reference to a value, including array members (`public ref int this[int idx] => ref this.someArray[idx]`).
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> This probably means that the infected population is much higher than what's being reported.

Agree, is the logical thing. The bigger the sample, the better the results.

Another possible option could be that caucasian people is more susceptible for some reasons than asian people. The reasons could be genetic or cultural (i.e previous exposition to similar viruses by gastronomy). Without more data, I would take the first option as closer to truth.
> I suspect the only way to learn it is to do it.

Guess it's time for me to go looking for my advent of code repo...

Those APLisms you list there sound really useful. Some questions about them:

1. Is a shell pipeline an appropriate analogy for what you mean by processing things in stages? And if so, do you have any tips for deciding how big to make each stage?

2. Is this sort of like submitting jobs to a thread pool in a more controlled manner? Is this something that APL-alikes tend to handle better than other languages?

3. What do you mean by gather/scatter here?
I know what Jamf Pro is. We manage all our Mac an iOS devices with it. But it's not for Android, or Chrome, or Windows. This article makes the assumption that all startups use Mac. That's a rather dubious assumption.
> know that some people have to show up to work even if they're sick, but even at my job where we have unlimited sick leave, and are encouraged to use it, people still show up coughing and sniffling.

yes, the 'overzealous hero employee' archetype is very real. The Coronavirus aside I just wish this would generally become socially unacceptable. Not just during a pandemic but in general sacrificing health or sleep or some reasonable balance of life for work should not be celebrated.
Keep in mind a lot of those flights are flying empty due to use it or loose it rules.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/coronavirus-some-airlines-ar...
This has to do with specific criticisms of what the current POTUS does or doesn't do.

The idea that people "just" hate him is a pernicious excuse for avoiding discussion of those specific criticisms.
It's amazing how much impact leaving this information out has.
The issue isn't "test kits". Its labs to run the tests. It seems like the CDC and state governments are addressing that. Not really sure what this is trying to solve.
Norway's runs pretty well, powered by excellent stewardship of their sovereign wealth fund. Everyone needs work yeah, but a lot of work, I don't know.
Bitcoin has lost 30% of its value this week
There are AI solutions that can work on the HTML and manage to avoid the ads. Checkout https://blog.scrapinghub.com/extracting-clean-article-html-w...
Yes, he's a native Chinese speaker whose English is clumsy and ineloquent.

Guess how native English speakers sound when they're trying to speak Chinese?
The Google/Alphabet distinction is nit-picky, but the fact that the site may have intended to be used differently and is not even close to a public launch is surely the more important news.
Found the Chinese bot.
WHO establishes Covid-19 response fund accepting donations from the public
For context, there's a growing number of Chinese diplomats from younger generation who want China to reciprocate the rhetoric of the current US administration. Expect a lot more ridiculous clap backs like this, especially on Twitter where Chinese diplomats have been cultivating a following since HK. This is probably a direct response to folks in US administration using Wuhan/Chinese Virus. Chinese international messaging has been predicable and fairly mellow, western MSM likes to blow it out of proportion, but looks like they're about to fully embrace post-truth twitter drama.
That's definitely the case.

Powerful people have their sphere. They cannot just doing things without staying in their community.

But that's not a novel conclusion, humans are social animals...
Incredibly well said
I suspect that the CEO and the companies employees gave two shits about your precious free market when they decided to implement a crash program to develop tests.
Thanks for sharing this! It's something I've been confused by the absence of, for years. This seems exceedingly worthy. It will be very interesting to see them make progress with the fuel and distance limitations. I hope they are more than successful.

Edit/add: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyboard_Air
Yeah. The one CDC developed was faulty as well. That's why China is doing multiple tests on patients. As well as doing CT scans widely.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-13/china-cor...
US is just wasting time, period.
Spoiler: "X can do Y" is not the same as "random dude on LI says random company says X can do Y given Z without providing any relevant numbers"
Don't pretend you don't know the answer.
Correct, firing someone for trying to unionize is illegal. It is illegal to retaliate against workers for trying to unionize. It's not prohibited, to the best of my knowledge, to receive a contract from a union and say, "these term's aren't competitive, we'll find other workers". Otherwise that would effectively give unions unlimited power over companies.
No, and before de Blasio kneecapped them they were on track to causing massive, bus delaying, gridlock.
I never did VB6 or VB.Net, but I've done VBscript with classic ASP and VBA in Excel. Glad I went with C# instead of VB.Net.

Not trashing VB, but C# was always more capable and fully featured than VB (VB couldnt even do unsigned integers, and I dont it can even now), and almost immediately more widely adopted in even .Net 1.0. Hell, C++ with COM was more capable (if not extremely annoying amd error prone). Of course VBscript and VBA share very similar syntaxes, but they're not the same languages or std object models/libraries, just maybe 95% similar.
Scientists discover the math rules underpinning brain growth
Indeed. On it's own, it looks like .. I'm not sure "willy-waving" translates into American well.

But once you realise they're sending them everywhere, it makes it look more like they've ramped production up to stupifying numbers (which is China's speciality afterall), and have realised their value in goodwill is far beyond their dollar value.

(or, yes, propaganda - there's not a lot of real difference between PR, propaganda and goodwill. Ultimately, doing something good because the optics benefit you, is still doing something good.)
100% this to a tee! In the mid to late aughts I knocked out soo many junky little desktop apps that scratched very specific business itches we had at work.

A couple hours work in VB saved non-technical people hundreds if not thousands of hours of repeated effort. Killing it is a mistake in my opinion, Even if I haven't touched Windows since 2010, VB.Net is the one wonderful thing it had going for it.
The CIA rumour is no less raised by the CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY spokesman https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-official-says-us-arm...
BASIC (old-school unstructured imperative) is structured as the "ASM" language for an old-school desk calculator from the 1960s, with a few tacked-on features around string manipulation, input handling etc. plus more, depending on the hardware. It was fine for what it was in the 1960s (a simplified "scripting"-focused version of FORTRAN), but the needs of even slightly more modern coding are very different, and BASIC would not serve them well.
You can't just declare everything that any low-ranking Chinese bureaucrat does to be an "effort by Chinese establishment". This is nationalistic flame-bait.
Pretty sure in a couple of weeks US will need masks and other equipment. China very likely is the biggest producer of masks and as the number of new cases drops to near zero they have the extra capacity to donate to the rest of world.
Why don't we just use a bunch of edisons.

/s
It wasn’t a language barrier issue though. And his English isn’t clumsy. It's that the actual content of what he said was ridiculous. It reminded me of the kind of BS Adam Neumann would say.
So if me and my 2 other buddies are the only two employees at an early startup we can unionize and demand immense equity packages, and the company is prohibited from hiring additional employees if they don't like our demands?

This does not sound right - this effectively gives unions the ability to extort companies with impunity. I'll believe this claim that companies are prohibited by law from hiring a non-union workforce if you back it up with a source.
They still care about share price, which depends on outside investors willing to buy the shares, which depends on MS having good IR, which some of the board members help with.
Anyone remember the old Gold Rush game by Sierra?
Sounds like you'd love playing Satisfactory and Factorio!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg4h1uv4o6Y

https://factorio.com/
No. He makes himself understood quite well. It's just that what he says is stupid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

> Because the strain was first discovered in Wuhan, China, it is sometimes referred to informally as the Wuhan coronavirus

I would suggestion you to look at the sources linked after that statement in the Wikipedia article.

Colloquial names are not designated, they form naturally by people. The location of the origin of the virus is a natural place to start.

Yes they now have an official name for the virus, as they do other famous viruses that don't go by their official name by the general public.
When Dijkstra wrote that quote in 1975 he didn't had Visual Basic in mind, he was thinking the much older BASIC dialects that used line numbers and GOTOs for flow control.

Dijkstra was trying to promote structured programming languages like Algol and Visual Basic is based on the QBasic dialect which has full structured programming features like WHILE and FOR loops, IF that would work with compound statements (that is have the THEN part be more than a single command), local variables, functions, recursion, etc. It might be hard to image nowadays but there was a time when those weren't available to all languages. Though note that the next year after Dijkstra wrote that quote, the original Dartmouth BASIC actually got structured features. Though it wouldn't be until QBasic that you'd see a (popular) BASIC dialect having those in home computers.

Regardless, this quote was outdated long before Visual Basic 1 was made, let alone VB6.
>What he did say was also almost entirely wrong. There will be a coronavirus testing site, not from Google but from Alphabet sister company Verily. “We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing,” Google tweeted in a statement.

Calling what he said completely bogus is really pushing it. No one from the general public knows who the heck Verily is, so it makes sense to just say Google for shorthand. I'm sure his advisors explained it that way and he repeated it.
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Yeah China bad USA good. If anything China has done much more to contain the virus.
Principles underlying Nonviolent Communication (2019)
I believe Zoom was made free for K-12 now, so at least for video conferencing this could be used, maybe in combination with Slack.
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Okay, how about this one?

I own my home, but I'm not allowed to replace the GFCI outlets in my bathroom with non-GFCI outlets.
That's just propaganda.

"China is not helping us, they are justing making propaganda for their people. All they did was sending 9 doctors and shipping masks that we had to PAY for. No gifts, no true donations."

https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/fhyayr/italian_h...
Less safe is less true than it was back when that answer was written: a LOT of traffic has gone TLS-only and the operating systems most people use are secure by default. Yes, there’s always a chance of an exploit but these days I’d be more worried about what links people are clicking on rather than where they’re sitting.

Congestion is also an interesting challenge: in some cases that’s a problem (imagine having an AP next to a school) but since the hardware limits have gone to substantially we’re probably at a threshold point where geographic separation is enough to avoid that problem for a large fraction of places. The public library has open WiFi but there are only so many people who are going to camp out there.
Cellular automata are turing complete, so in principle you can implement any algorithm if you control the start state (albeit with massive overhead).

So probably the answer is technically yes, but probably not in the way you are thinking of.
Nothing exists yet [1]. Verily (an Alphabet subsidiary but essentially "Google" for all intents and purposes) is working on a triage website with a limited focus on the Bay Area.

Ultimately it's going to be a slightly more complex variant of "Do you have a fever?" with a map showing nearby testing locations when someone clicks yes.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-coronavirus-screening...
I suppose limitations on testing are going to make the official numbers less useful going forward, not that they were taken as anything but a very rough lower bound so far.

I mean, the Johns Hopkins map shows 13 infections in Ohio, and you have the director of the Ohio Department of Health saying it's 100,000. How do we know if either are anywhere close to right?

Presumably when things get bad it'll be impossible to hide it, as the hospitals will be over capacity. That's already happened in Wuhan and China, and probably Iran and some other places as well.

It would be nice if we had some sort of indication of where a particular region is on the scale from "hardly anyone has this yet" to "we're experiencing rampant community spread" that's more trustworthy/accurate than the official numbers.
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