skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should all be thankful for these scraps we have been generously given.
For me the big problem is that I know it can do loads, but it's not C#. So between the awkward wait for it to boot, the stupid naming convention, and the knowledge that the whole power of the .net framework should be at my finger tips, but in a really alien and unintuitive way, I prefer to either write a really small bat, or write a small C# console app.

And so I never become comfortable with it, even though I've tried several times since it was released.

The newer IDE is pretty good too.

But C# shows what it could have been if they'd had a talented language designer do it (which no-one can determine if someone is beforehand I admit).

I just wish they'd admit defeat and just use a subset of C# instead of stubbornly sticking with something that seems fairly widely loathed.
in china they were running partial ct scans: 5min per patient. Usually it's 30+
Throughout history, pandemics have had profound economic effects
I disagree that the solution to "missing out too much" when you're sick is to go to work anyway and risk infecting co-workers.

According to the CDC, the average adult gets the common cold 2-3 times per year with symptoms lasting 7-10 days[1]. So it's more like 2-4 weeks per year, but I would imagine that number would decrease if you didn't have people coming into work sick in the first place (again, I recognize not every job will allow for this). Hong Kong's flu season apparently ended early this year due to the self isolation of sick people[2].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/features/rhinoviruses/index.html

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/ad7ae6b4-5eab-11ea-b0ab-339c2307b...
Why does every criticism of China have to have a corollary accompanying US criticism? Can we not just talk about one issue at a time instead of muddling up the waters?
There is no "appear". China's capitalist leaders are in the pocket of the CCP, whether they want to be or not.

I'm not saying it's unacceptable, I'm saying that China and the U.S. are direct rivals in a way that China and Europe are not, and that it will appear a certain way to the world, and that the way it appears will be advantageous to the CCP.
Any effective homeless/mentally ill/drug addiction policy would have to come from the Feds.
Translates fairy well i think - though Americans will usually say “dick waving” instead. When two are competing it is a pissing contest.
Still hoping Microsoft will open source VB 6. It indeed was a language for the masses back then.

There would have been no need for Python syntax or Golang with Visual Basic's simplicity
Well you are not his audience.

Jack Ma knows very well what is AI and all such things. You can look at Alibaba Group's hiring frenzy for AI talents as a signal.

In the end, Jack wants to be an approachable power figure to common (Chinese) people. He shows up in Alibaba's annual corp party wearing weird dresses and sing in front of 100k+ live audience. People call him the "Daddy Ma" in reference to his influence on their buying activities online.

He behaves in this fashion, which the so-called philosophy (or Daoism/Zen-like thinking) trumps the hard reasoning. That gives him an aura of an elevated figure above scientists, engineers, and alike.

The point is, powerful people listen to each other because of the power they wield. Must has to listen to Jack, because Jack can influence the Chinese government in a much more effective way than himself. If it was an actual AI expert on that stage, Must probably wont show much interests in that discussion anyway...
but... but... don't they enforce this data cap to protect their infrastructure? I don't get it! What's gonna happen to their infrastructure if they do that??!!
The EU sending aid is definitely a political flex. It is still a good gesture, but sending aid is a sign that a country is in a 'superior' position.

Jack Ma doing this is also a political move. I'm sure that part of the motivation is just to help, but it seems clear to me that this is also intended to show that China is in a position to help the US, and the optics of that are that the countries are on equal footing. Remember, China as a country does have a bit of a complex about their status, which is completely understandable considering the rapid changes they have been through. This aid shows that, rather than being a 2nd-class citizen, the country is in a position to help America with something.

That being said, this is a great thing, these are much needed supplies for which there isn't a large domestic manufacturing capacity (as it was offshore). However charitable acts can also have additional political motivations, and that does seem to be a factor here.
Yes as maybe it’d draw attention to the absurdity of the limits vs advertised speeds.

It’s similar to the security theater at airports. I personally dislike the entire TSA precheck concept specifically because it works so well. The lack of pain for frequent travelers has kept the entire system from being replaced with what’s now the TSA precheck process.
I agree, allow people to show there kindness. Things aren't always so black and white.
If there was any country that did it maliciously, it would be Russia.

The government never had any ethical qualms (and is known of doing many horrible things), the things they way they are is benefiting the most to them, they don't have many cases surprisingly even though they declared 2 cases early on, when many countries didn't have any.

Yes, a conspiracy theory, but there's no denying that current state benefits them the most.
If it was fearmonguering, it was not intentional on my part. Sorry for that.

Indeed I missed the mild cases which are not quantified but likely quite numerous.
The impression I got watching that was it was a dog-and-pony show, full of typical exaggerations and half truths. The site is the easy part.
I think you have a good idea for an AI startup here.
There’s some interesting ideas in this blog, but also a bunch of weird logic assertions which sound like the type of statements you’d get from somebody trying to sell their thing.

In case that wasn’t clear,
you can’t containerize an
appliance. That means you
cannot orchestrate an
appliance. That means you
cannot adopt Kubernetes if
you keep buying appliances.

Why do you need to containerise an appliance? Containerisation is useful for abstraction of hardware, but that presumes the goal of a homogenous fleet. In the cloud you don’t care and in a datacenter you separate the workload. So long as there’s an API you can poke to manage the thing, you’re fine.

Likewise, you don’t need to containerise something to have kube orchestrate it. You simply need an api object and a controller which can work with that.

Also, the idea that you somehow can’t use kubernetes if you have storage appliances is just plain wrong. Perhaps it’s true that can’t do _some_ things, but the idea that you throw the whole thing out because one workload doesn’t fit seems very extreme to me (although not surprising from a company who sells a Kubernetes based solution).

Why does _everything_ need to be on Kubernetes?
Jack Ma, the head of Alibaba, is donating 500,000 test kits to the US.

Hopefully ones that work. Here's what you can buy on Alibaba.[1] Some of those are probably totally bogus.

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product...
Painting? That's the reality, The US response is a disaster that will likely surpass Italy. We have done close to nothing. Maybe he's trying to help because we are too fucking incompetent to test on our own. The question is, will the US take the help or be the too proud asshole it's always been and ignore it like they did with the WHO test?
Look I know this is dumb and all. Other Chinese relatives/friends (usually oversea) are trying to combat all these fake news. But 2 things-

1. WeChat is heavily patrolled and monitored by the PRC censors. If the PRC doesn't want these rumors to circulate, these rumors would not last more than a hour (or seconds. It's very enlightening to see the sensitive terms get filtered in real time.)

In fact, in the last week or so, I've been getting more conspiracy forwards. The spread of rumors on this topic on WeChat is speeding up.

2. I don't see US' Secretary of State accusing China of intentionally creating the virus.
Thank you. That's what I gotta say. Thank you.

I hate all the cynics and conspiracy theories here. It's a generous move, and deeply appreciated.

Jack didn't spend that much money to be a douchebag. He spent it because this will save countless lives.
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Absolutely better regs around access to diagnostics (e.g. CAN bus as you mention) is part of the story. But for the bigger internal stuff, tolerances are a lot tighter than they were 20 years ago, which can make it hard to do a good job of in your driveway. Certainly some superficial repairs are made much harder than they should be, but a lot of that is more modular too so you aren't saving a ton doing it at home. At least you can find out which control unit should be replaced if you can read the diagnostics properly :)
Truth. They're using drones to following people and ask them to go back into their homes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPw6xjwAlHc

With complete lack of freedom and privacy, you can achieve a lot. They're doing better than any western country would: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-china-slowed-coronavirus-lo...
> There would have been no need for Python syntax or Golang with Visual Basic's simplicity

in a windows only world.
I've read that that's the real bottleneck--you need to clean the bejesus out of the machine if you don't want it becoming part of the problem.

The actual scanning itself only takes a moment. We do head ones and they're surprisingly fast once everything's ready to go.
Which has me wondering...what will Paul do when M$ is no more? Ah, click 'move on to site'.
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Instead of building your logic in a module, just use powershell to create and manipulate Excel objects.

You don't even need Excel!

http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/PSExcel-Intro/
The only difference is that in the US the goverment is in the pocket of the capitalists leaders.
GOTO for flow control is not that bad, it's just a tail call after all. The real damage is things like having everything be global variables. But part of that was a technical limitation, as things like "proper" call stacks and reentrant code as the default still had plenty of overhead, and even FORTRAN didn't support them.
no, that's what you want to happen so you can cry about trump some more.
My workplace is still requiring everyone to come into the office even though we're all capable of working at home. They're allowing people to work at home on a case by case basis. What's crazy is that we already get to work from home one day, every other week. They're obviously telling people to stay home if they are not well. A lot of my coworkers are upset that higher-ups are not taking this seriously.
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It's better defined as things people do freely, and out of self interest (that's flawed too, but it's better).

And yep, that trade is "market" too. And it does get blamed for a lot of things, some of them unwarranted.
...on Twitter.
For what it’s worth, Jack Ma has a degree in English and taught English at a Chinese university.

Chinese unis don’t have the best reputation, but I would expect him to be able to speak the language decently well at least.
My entire point is that the software isn't good enough, is that the software is garbage for the task of being used for anything else than browsing the web. The hardware isn't terribly slow, it is WAY beyond adequate for providing smartphone features, as proven by an actual smartphone that existed a decade before with hardware than 10% of the power that ZTE Open has yet provided a much better and snappier user experience.

The question on my original message was rhetorical - of course it doesn't have to be a platform built around a web browser. That is a massive waste of resources that could be used for a ton of other things.
You can only do that in China.

The sheer amount of privacy-infringing data set is impossible in the US.
Assuming it actually happens (unlike the recent European cargo ban), it sounds like this will be a temporary measure for more-or-less the duration of the pandemic. OK, but I think taking it to the next level of automatic deferments/forbearance is also in order.
I don't think that's really what we're talking about? Anyway, it's incorrect, because backhaul is cheap. The whole reason we have to deal with Comcast etc. is the many barriers to competition over the "last mile".
Jack Ma seems like a pretty cool dude from what I know of him. I think he's kind of seen as their version of Elon Musk.
It definitely shifts the message somewhat from "look, the Americans need our help" to "we're prosperous enough to be a world leader", which depending on your perspective may be preferable
So many things.

"It takes doctors around 20 mins to do the same" is patently false. I would say a full review and dictation of a chest CT by a trained radiologist takes... 10 minutes? 20 if really complicated (metastatic cancer). But for the radiologist to decide whether or not there were findings compatible with COVID-19 (i.e. what this algorithm is performing) would probably take seconds.

In fact, you could probably train almost any adult (and probably most children!) to distinguish between "possibly COVID" and "no COVID" lung CTs very quickly.

However, as pointed out elsewhere, the presence of these findings (such as what we call "ground glass opacities" -- which is just a fancy/weird way to describe areas that are slightly less transparent than normal lung but not quite opaque) is not specific at all. They can be caused by COVID-19 or any number of other viral or fungal lung infections, as well as by reactions to drugs, hemorrhage or edema in the lungs, and so on.

A positive CT would almost certainly require a confirmatory COVID-19 test. A negative CT scan in a patient with symptoms... would still demand a COVID-19 test, because findings in the lungs often lag behind the infection.

So CT doesn't change your decision-making in the screening process. And they are time-consuming, costly, and harmful (they use radiation!). Their utility in caring for COVID-19 patients is probably to assess severity of disease, monitor response, and to rule out additional pathologies in the lungs. (Not to say AI couldn't help with those!)
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> I totally understand how someone trained in VB was "mutilated" for CS

The quote isn't about VB; its from 1975, VB was released in 1991.
Only interest, not payments? Better than nothing
Surprised he was even on it still...
Sorry, modern CT scans are < 20 seconds. The really great scanners are 10 seconds.
I've been reflecting on exponentials and humans in light of coronavirus.

AlphaGo showed the same dynamic: I don't know if everyone remembers, but before the Lee Sedol tournament, most 'sensible' 'respectable' people assumed that there was no way AlphaGo would win, any claims it would stomp Lee Sedol were hyperbolic AI alarmism, and the only question was whether DeepMind would be saved from acute embarrassment by eking out one victory over Lee Sedol or if he would simply clean the board with AG. And in the absolute worst-case scenario, it might be a fairly even match. After all, anyone could look at the Fan Hui vs AG games which were released a few months before and see that AG was really crappy, hardly even human pro level; Lee Sedol wouldn't break a sweat. Yes, it would improve if they trained it more and tweaked it more, but so what? There were so many ELO points between Fan Hui and Lee Sedol, and AIs lack human intuition. Just drawing a line is mindless curve-fitting, which sensible respectable people know better than to do.

Meanwhile, people like Eliezer Yudkowsky considered the training time and thought through the exponential graph, and concluded that, given all those months between Fan Hui and the tournament and the fact that DM was willing to do the tournament at all with so much money on the lines, AG would either lose terribly or could well go 5-0. As it happens, his prediction was wrong. It actually went 4-1, because Lee Sedol got lucky and accidentally triggered a 'delusion' (fixed in AlphaZero).

We went from 'the best MCTS might be somewhat competitive with a very low-ranked human pro head-on' to 'superhuman' in a matter of months, because AG performance scaled with compute. We've seen similar capability leaps with DoTA2 or SC2: the best non-cheating AI was so low level it basically didn't exist (DoTA2) or was nowhere near competitive with any pros (SC2) and then within a few months of finding a working architecture (compare Oriol Vinyal's demo at Blizzcon to the matches just a few months later with SC2 pros), they reach better-than-most-pro levels even if they are not strictly superhuman yet.

That's all fun and games when it's just board games or computer games, of course...
There is a reason it is called the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers)..

If you try to UBER union electricians you are probably going to be in for a rude awakening.
I made this extension out of a frustration from working with my friend, sending screenshots without linking to the article (or design) where it came from. Screenshot HQ solved this by pulling the URL when the screenshot was taken.

In order to mimic our workflow as much as possible, it uses the open graph social html tags to load the screenshot directly on the page in Slack.

We're thinking about adding comment capabilities), among other features (i.e. automatically rendering a mobile, tablet, and desktop screenshot, immediately making the background transparent etc.) and would love any thoughts.
Masayoshi Son wanted to give his home country Japan 1 million tests, and suffered a huge backlash on Twitter from people who said too many tests would "overwhelm the health system".

[1]
https://www.businessinsider.com/masayoshi-son-breaks-twitter...

No good deed goes unpunished, i guess.
No one needs to paint a picture of our institutions struggling to the world... we've been doing a fine job of that ourselves. Had a U.S. company made the same gesture to another country, our media would be covering it as humanitarian aid or building goodwill. The fact is that we currently have an inadequate supply of masks and test kits so I think an appropriate response would be 'thank you' regardless of any potentially less than altruistic motives.
No, you're not. In Greece starting tomorrow all bars, restaurants, malls, hair salons and whatnot will be shut down. Schools are already closed for two weeks.

It's not just the inefficiency of central governments. The main problem, at least here, is that people seem reluctant to follow guidelines, and thus the state had to enforce stricter rules. The same happened in Italy and it's the reason incidents skyrocketed. Everyone was fucking around thinking that it's just another variant of the flu. And then reality hit them like a ton of bricks.
I saw a summary of China's efforts, supposedly before they had enough testing available they were at one point running 300-400 patients a day through each CT machine in Wuhan.

That's one every 4 minutes.
The right of free transit have been denied in every country with enough infections, why would you particularly demonize China for it? You are in quarantine, you cannot leave, period.
I tend to spell the word I'm wanting to type wrong the same a lot. For example, I'll type "that" when I want to type "than".

It's an annoying habit.
America is now great again.
Can it differentiate between all the various types of atypical infection? Because the findings of COVID are nonspecific viral pneumonia, which could literally be any atypical infectious/inflammatory process.

CT only has great sensitivity; it has terrible specificity.

Anyone have the paper?
America has the yugest complex around; with Biden as the frontrunner we now have two old men running for the president, both trying to Make America Great Again, only slightly disagreeing on the methods and period of time we have to go back to recover our greatest Great-ness.
Visual Basic and Python are not that simple. Simplistic maybe. Go is a lot closer to the mark, though. It might be the closest thing we have today to classic QuickBasic (the "Visual" part being pretty GUI-dependent, all things considered). Haskell is also getting there - the baseline syntax is extremely simple.
> If the PRC doesn't want these rumors to circulate, these rumors would not last more than a hour

Reddit tries to stop conspiracy theories with quarantines and bans. But they're rapidly spreading anyway.

> 2. I don't see US' Secretary of State accusing China of intentionally creating the virus.

It really is symmetric: Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas, has been on Fox saying exactly this.

Fox also has other people on saying it was a joint North Korean and Chinese bioweapon, made solely to attack America, but released initially in China as a decoy. Fox is the most watched cable news channel in America.
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I'm not sure what you have in mind but in the 1975 dialects of BASIC the code was something like

10 REM Grab input
20 GOSUB 1000
30 IF VALUE=BAR THEN GOTO 100
40 IF VALUE=BAZ THEN GOTO 200
50 IF VALUE=BLA THEN GOTO 300
60 GOTO 20
100 REM Bar stuff
110 blahblah
199 RESUME
200 REM Baz stuff
210 blahblah
299 RESUME
300 REM Bla stuff
310 blahblah
399 RESUME
1000 REM Code that grabs input
1010 blahblah
1100 RESUME

Or just here is some actual BASIC game:

https://github.com/peteri/ClassicBasic/blob/master/Games/kin...

Note that this is a bit more readable than what people worked with since now you have syntax highlighting.

I'm not sure where tail calls enter in the picture... there wasn't even support for functions, at best you had GOSUB/RESUME which was essentially assembly-like CALL/RET.
It's too bad that Comcast chose to have inferior upload speeds, about 6Mbps on standard plans in my region, no matter whether it's 100Mbps down or 1,000Mbps down. When we're talking work from home, online learning, video conferencing, upload speed matters. Comcast tries to bury the upload number, I'm kind of surprised to see it printed in this article, and when I realized the reality I thought there must be some mistake. There is no option for a higher upload speed at less than $300/mo, which pays for a full fiber. It's great to have an option but too bad Comcast chose to make their service inflexibly inferior in this way.
That’s the 20th Anniversary edition; it has been graphically enhanced from the original. In that linked video, you can see at 3:22 where the player, probably by mistake, switches back and forth between the original graphics and the enhanced version, but just for a second.
Seems strange that anybody would feel the need, given how the US is one of the richest countries, trumpets it's own abilities endlessly, and has an official policy of "America first".

I.e., it's surely capable of making its own virus test kits and face masks, if it could be bothered.
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PowerShell is cross-platform these days.
I think this is the case when false positives and false negatives can do a lot of harm, so in human review of CT scan is a must. Especially if we consider how small dataset this model is trained on.
Power move or not, these are things the US desperately needs. Just accept the damn supplies, thank them, and try to do better next time.
Note that this is most likely just filtering for whether or not said company has raised more money than they know what to do with.