skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the tip, will keep an eye on them. Though I wonder why they shot up 50-60% while Moderna keeps trading normally. It does appear from the outside as if both of them were comparable from a liquidity standpoint and also with regard to their progress towards a working vaccine.
Why do you assume the current process is perfect and any speed ups are “cutting corners”?

When have we ever had a perfect process that can’t be improved?
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What point is there in deleting side-effect free loops though? Literally the only use for those is to trap the control flow.
You should only buy now if you a) suddenly have a lot of cash, AND b) can definitely take a long-term position without needing the money for 5-10 years.

Everyone else should wait for the upward trend to make sure it's not going to get much worse. You want to "predict the staircase" and not "the floor".
I'm aware of all that stuff, I was just saying there is no ethical dillema or procedure if you want to do medical tests on yourself. That's how Barry Marshall proved that Helicobacter pylori causes stomach ulcers.
Is rooting it worth it? I have one but I haven't bothered with rooting it yet. It would be worth it if I could start-stop it locally, as the app has to go through China and the latency is ~2 seconds, which is terrible.
In many places the number of tests run (on suspected cases not just random) is 10x the positive cases... and still there are thousands positive. I don't think the exponential growth is behind us... even in China.
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I remember Upside-Down-Ternet module from when I was playing with MITMf - framework for MitM attacks. Now I know where the idea originated from.
Yes, although it’s worth saying that at least in Britain business trips are a strong minority of flights. With Heathrow expansion the case was made that it was vital because capacity was stretched, and businesses in general needed the extra flights, but in fact most flights are tourism. And even within that category there’s a lot of frivolous travel, people flying for a night or two, or even commuting by plane.
It’s always amazes me how few of the task management tools out there have the concept of task dependencies (the core feature of this app). I use OmniFocus but even there I had to setup a custom view.

Good luck with the app!
We were looking for a good LAN video conference tool, since we (ZeroTier) could use it on virtual LANs for telework. The ideal would be something where you can do a conference call by just entering IPs or finding participants with mDNS. It seems nothing like this exists beyond some really old abandonware for Windows. I spent a little time seeing if we could trick VNC into doing this but it's too clunky.
sudo killall -19
Regardless of how it sounds to "any rational person," it's quite possibly true: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2612/can-poor-air-quality-mask...

In the short term, decreasing economic activity could raise temperatures. Your objection only makes sense in a bizarre universe where there are only all-good and all-bad choices. In our universe, good choices have bad effects and bad choices have good effects.
Ideally we'd like SaaS SPAs to be as accessible (if not more accessible) than articles/documents.

The WAI looks mostly aimed at applications anyway, I suspect in part because there aren't a ton of compelling reasons to use WASM for a static page.
It is a sandbox site. You can enter any different custom instructions you wish to see how it performs. If you would like something that is not cached in memory perhaps this instruction isn't:

document.getElementById("canvas").getElementsByTagName("span")

For me that reduces from 800 million ops/s to about 778 million ops/s
Fd them have different too
They're turning off the refineries...
Typo existed at least in Unix V5, with this source code: https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/source/...

Unix V5 was released mid '70s, but as others have pointed out, counting is different from count distinct.
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A scarf (and other soft cloths) sounds problematic, because it traps droplets and then gives them more time to get into your airways. Though it probably helps with someone coughing at you directly. (But you have to instantly remove the scarf, and should wear glasses too, and then remove that too, and then wash your face, then the glasses and then the scarf.)
> this is why I avoid mutexes and other concurrency operations that aren't channels; you can't cancel your wait on them

Mutexes are designed to solve different problems -- albeit with overlap. Channels are great if you have a one to one relationship or even a many to one but they're not so good with many to many relationships. That is where you need several routines to have read access and several routines to have write. I'm not saying they can't be used in that way but if you're not careful it's even easier to have goroutines "stuck waiting for something that will never happen" with channels than it is with mutexes. So I'd be very nervous about shoehorning channels into a design they're not well suited for.

Also you can cancel your wait on mutex if there is another goroutine which unlocks that mutex. In fact if you browse the Go source you'd see that channels use mutexes themselves.
Failing European economies where the workers look down on technical work will continue to look for ways to tax US corporations. Apple may have some monopolistic practices, but a larger problem in Europe is as I stated, a work force not inclined, interested, and put off by the "low status" of being a programmer. They will continue to pursue aggressive legal tactics to stop the domination of FAANG tech products, but the real answer is legislation and action that foster growth of tech companies and start ups.
BTW, I think you’ve misinterpreted “don’t know what they’re doing”†. I’m not talking about code, I’m talking about the business domain. (I thought it obvious from context, but clearly not.) And yes, a depressingly large number of working programmers today have zero interest in learning anything except how to write more code. But how can you write code that solves a user’s problem if you refuse to learn what that problem is and how it was arrived at?

And then you blame the users for “not speccing the job right” when they discover your “solution” not only fails to make their lives any better but often makes it even worse. I’ve worked a decade professionally as a user-turned-developer, so please don’t say this attitude isn’t cultural right down to the bone. I’ve seen it, I’ve dealt with it, I’ve walked out because of it. And looking around me that seems pretty much par for the course.

This is why I like a philosophy of reshaping your stock language into something that much better expresses the business concepts and processes you’re dealing with, then writing your solution in that. It forces you to learn the user’s job before you get underway, because you can’t fake understanding: your new “business language” either does the job or it sucks.

Building up that vocabulary is the first test of whether or not you understand what you’re doing; and until it proves you do you’ve no business proceeding or you’re just wasting everyone’s time (including your own), and giving this industry an even worse reputation for shafting the customer by giving them shit than it already possesses.

--

† Ironically for exactly the reasons I’m talking about: you’re unable to see anything that isn’t about coding. But the code is the least significant part of the overall puzzle; and until you understand the puzzle in its entirety you’re not fit to solve any of it.

TL;DR: I may be nuts, but I ain’t what’s broken.
I agree. There is a chance that sufficient spread of this will help develop appropriate counter measures as well.

But yeah, cat is out of the bag. Best we can do now is declaw it.

edit: I forgot to add that I am absolutely amazed at the pace of development in this space.
https://theicct.org/publications/co2-emissions-commercial-av...
I'm using Janus https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/
>I was a diehard "native" person until recently and I can't believe just how much better developing for web technologies is than writing native Mac.

Same. It turns out that The DOM/HTML/CSS is a really powerful and flexible way to build UIs. Much better than any native widget framework.
https://app.jogl.io/project/121
This looks like a project with massive momentum. I’m trying to figure out how to apply SysAdmin/ IT Conultant skills to the tasks at hand.
"Small groups and gatherings" have collapsed here, too. Like I said, we're not in total isolation, but most people aren't going out, restaurants are abandoned, etc., and the few foolhardy folks still doing it are fading fast.

The exposure network hasn't been trimmed to zero, but its branching factor has been radically cut down. This is going to have an effect.
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On the battery front - many of them are carrying lithium-ion batteries these days instead of the old nickel-metal hydride batteries that the older Roombas used, so their battery life is much better, until it's not.
Yesterday I took my kids (4 and ~7) to an old WWI/WWII fort along the coast. We had a nice picnic and discussed WWI/II briefly. We also discussed sea currents and geology (the fort is in some cliffs overlooking the sea and there is lots of quartz). We were able to go outside, keep away from other people and learn a bit. Social distancing doesn’t need to mean stay in your house.

Today they will be drawing pictures of the seedlings they just planeted last weekend. Some are just starting to poke through.

Tomorrow, maybe we make some CNC projects (like making stamps from their drawings).
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Same here, when I doing the initial research for Intention I found that a lot of people had had the same idea, but nobody had implemented it.
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And leap years.
I think what you're getting at can be accomplished with materialized views in clickhouse now. Most queries that might be fast with inverted indices can be solved that way.

Also, I don't think they use bloom filters for the index as far as I can tell from the documentation. There is certainly an option to use a bloom filter aggregator on a table for faster counts, but it's not the default. If you're referring to the fact that count () is not precise, there's a exact count function too. This is my speculation, though, and you may be fight.
We have built a DNN which does 2 things on real-time audio:

a) remove background noise
b) remove room echo

We’ve then embedded it in a virtual microphone which can be integrated into ZoomRooms or similar products.

Demo with video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnoWG1JBe8A
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> This seems to contradict the suggestion to write a native c/c++ backend.

I’d much rather use an app with a native UI and a JS backend (like React Native) than one with a web-view UI and a C++ backend.

After all, the problem isn’t JavaScript. JavaScript may be easy to abuse, but it can be a reasonably fast language if used well. The main problem, in terms of both usability and performance, is HTML rendering itself.
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I won't be surprised if original part manufacturer sues these guys, hospitals for IP infringement...
That virus can still kill a lot of old people and people with comorbidities.
If he gave his money to a few people in need, it would be effective for them, wouldn't it? And probably better spent then after going through the tangled mess of government bureaucracy. What more could you hope for?
They announced a collaboration with a Chinese company to start trials in April. So that news is the catalyst for the move. I am surprised Moderna isn't moving higher on news that they actually dosed, you know, a real live person. shrug the market seems to enjoy hating on Moderna. Oh well, they raised $500mil in January and are sitting on $1.9b so it doesnt' really matter what the stock does in the near/mid term.
Yes. Most countries have a system for compulsorily purchasing a patent if it's deemed in the public interest.

With the 2001 anthrax attacks, the US government ordered Bayer to lower the cost of an antibiotic that treats anthrax, or lose their patent on the drug. (Bayer complied.)
While sharing your view of the situation I do not see anything to back your hopes.
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First and foremost - it is awesome!

Though, when I tried to share it on social media, but the title is not too descriptive ("Physics notes") and there is no cover picture.
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You're exhibiting exactly the kind of non-science-based attitude I was talking about. Droplets, oh no, run away!

Let's say you're unknowingly infected, like all of those people who were hanging out at bars as though they're invulnerable this weekend. So you have virus on your skin already. Are you more likely to pass it on to others via surfaces if your skin is bare or if you put a glove on it? The answer's pretty obvious. If you touch your face then the probability of infection either way increases again, but (a) people touch their faces less often with gloves on and (b) every time you change gloves the probability drops back to near zero. So yes, gloves do protect you somewhat, and they protect others even more. Just as importantly, there's no sane scenario in which they'd make things worse or deny resources to those who need them more (as with masks). It doesn't make much difference whether the surface transmission route is directly on skin or via face touching. That's why health care professionals use gloves even when dealing with respiratory diseases like COVID-19.
> Electron is the solution when a developer values themselves over their customers. Now, you can make an argument for that, such as getting your minimum viable product out to market quickly. Over time, as the app develops, the attitude of happily giving your user lower UX quality and wasteful applications is harder and harder to justify ethically, though I admit that's only true if predicated on a foundation that you should respect your customer or have pride in your work.

You're entitled to hold this opinion but preaching it as if it is an objective truth and thereby disrespecting other developers is just obnoxious. Luckily the users can decide for themselves what is unethical or not. I have 5 electron apps open right now (Spotify, Slack, Figma, VS Code and Notion) and I find it absolutely absurd calling the devs unethical because of their choice. They have provided me with some fantastic value. Is it great that they take up ~100MB of memory each? No but it's not even close to as big of a problem as some devs try to make it out to be. 8 gigs of RAM is around 30 bucks. Get off your high horse.
Seems to be down from the load. Cool, though.
https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/tree/master...

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The 'starter pack' costs $1,000, which is good for just two uses.

However, the entire device is just made of plastic, silicon and metal, which are very cheap materials. The majority of the cost is R&D cost, which if one were to produce millions of this device would be amortized and you could bring the cost down to that of a $10 fake ink cartridge, which coincidentally has awfully similar technology.
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Usually, (on smoothly geared watches) they jump past the intervening day(s) and start smoothly incrementing again. The counter example would be a year's leap second, which would need to delay.
Most people aren't athletes. A handful of workout clothes is enough for even the hardiest gym rat.
Most 22 year old waiters have other options. If you can move back in with your parents that greatly reduces how much you need to have saved to cover 6 months of living expenses.

There are lots of reasons someone won't have 6 months of expenses. Most are rare situations (most people are not just getting started in life). If everybody makes saving 6 months expenses a goal they work to before most people will achieve it. When it is only a minority that can't take care of themselves it is a lot easier on the rest of us.
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We weren't dealing with a crisis before. Now we are.

You're quite correct that this is a fiscal and not monetary crisis, as I commented up-thread, but that doesn't mean it won't have monetary impact and implications. For example as I pointed out the primary problem is cash flow for companies and households, but that also means they may not be able to pay back bank loans when they otherwise would and that will impact bank balance sheets. It's a secondary issue, but still a real issue that banks need to have the flexibility to absorb.
I've been toying around with a macOS app idea for awhile. This looks like a great starting point for someone like me with no macOS native dev experience. Thanks!
NYC bars/lounges were packed Friday and Saturday. The bar staff that I follow on IG was giggly at the amount of money they were making telling people to keep coming in.

The sad thing is it were places popular with the crowds that live paycheck to paycheck most of whom cannot afford any sort of medical emergency or being under a forced quarantine.
"Then it's back to normal" remains an utterly risible claim for what happens after two or three million Americans die in the span of a month.
The same thing happens in Oregon. People flee the high costs of living in California that is being driven by California's policies, and then they largely vote for the same practices after relocating.
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GATTACA. :)

Easy to remember that there's no I in it, because the letters are the letters used in our DNA. (guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine)
If you want to see this taken up a few levels check out the incredible work done by Bellingcat to identify times and locations where minors were sexually abused in Cambodia. Includes consideration of Mango tree growth speeds, among other things I definitely would never have thought of.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/12/17/two-europol-stopc... (SFW)
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As of now, I don't think there's any evidence that the immunity from having been infected in the past would last long enough to avoid another peak in winter. This thread mentions that we can assume an immunity measured in "months" if we look at other coronaviruses:

https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/12388371580074475...
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Sometimes there is no interactive user as such who is capable of manually cancelling an operation. Back and data processing and real-time systems both really need to have reasonable timeouts set on every blocking operation.
And make sure that any LED on the robot is visible from the direction of the camera regardless of the orientation of the robot ;)
In terms of fatality, the Diamond Princess cruise ship [1] has the helpful property that everyone on board was tested. Nobody recovering/asymptomatic not getting tested, nobody being refused a test.

The wikipedia page lists 700 infections and 7 deaths.

Of course there are still certain biases: on one hand it happened early, when hospitals weren't overloaded; on the other, cruise ships tend to have more older people. And as I don't speak Japanese I haven't traced those numbers to primary sources.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_outbreak_on_c...
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Every biology adjacent facility I've ever heard of requires them for at a minimum biohazard waste disposal. I don't know how a hospital could not have enough given that all those plastic one time use parts still get autoclaved after disposal.

In terms of overall mass, sterilizing all those parts should be equivalent to throwing them away. It would require different internal procedures though, I don't think people are used to saving and reusing things. And it would be more labor intensive. And autoclaving might destroy the parts.

Most of which seem like reasonable tradeoffs in an emergency.
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Since nobody has mentioned it - multi platform seems to be a necessity.
In "the andromeda strain" there is a scene where they try to determine the size of the particle, by selecting different filtration sizes between an infected an uninfected mouse / rat. Is this representative of how droplet sizes are measured? Has this been measured for SARS-CoV-II?
That's assuming nothing needs to be changed in the formula (I'm no chemist, excuse my ignorance).

But logically, if these tests show that somehow it needs to be tweaked, you're practically throwing out funding that could otherwise go towards developing better candidates.
I didn't limit the virus to being sensitive to environmental lung damage. I'm saying existing lung damage makes people more prone to the serious cases.

Would be why you haven't heard of many (any?) children getting this. You know they are getting it.

So, I'm not clear on your criticism. The air quality in China is worse, but from what we've heard, their fatalities have been worse. They took ridiculously extreme measures and had a lot of deaths.

My perspective is I had the worst asthma attack of my adult life a month ago. Closest to this I have had was when I had walking pneumonia about a decade ago. I literally could not breath well enough to say three words at a time. I was not tested for covid, because I did not knowingly have contact with someone that did. Looking back, hard for me to think I had something else. I look at the rest of my family, who have all had fevers and coughs, and I ask why don't they also have difficulty breathing? Best answer I have is lung health.
I'm assuming you forgot to mention the light on the robot in the dark.

In order to get the progression of the run, you could have an RGB LED sweeping through a color scale during the run.
This was a really interesting read. Is the crd event "system" also built on HTTP?

Stop teasing and finish the next part already! ...

O and thanks for the Go realism, we can use some of that.
What would the cost be to set up testing machines every few blocks? People just get a swab, drop it into the machine, and get a code (just take a picture of a QR code) that they can later check for results.