skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting thing about ideas like this is that they reveal how authoritarianism during times of stability does a terrible amount of damage during times of crisis.

This is the sort of problem that could be solved in a better world; collecting location data to find interactions between people would allow you to get them tested faster and prevent a disease from spreading. But it simply can't be done in this country primarily because everyone has the entirely reasonable fear that the feds want this power for nefarious reasons and will never give it up - and they're probably right.

If we had a society where privacy was an absolute right, and civic trust in our community organizations and institutions was built up over time, during a crisis like this one we could come together and find agreement on a way of providing this data to a responsible institution that would use it only for the purpose of saving lives and then delete it when the crisis was over. And they'd lose access to future data at that point too. Anyone who still didn't trust the communal institutions could opt out, but the point of building up this trust is that it makes people want to work together and feel safe doing so.

We're so far from that in this country that we're not only paranoid about privacy issues, it seems altogether most likely that our secret agencies are actively planning to exploit this crisis to be able to spy on us in the future.
I remember when I first started at Microsoft, I found some bug in some product and thought "I should file a bug with them"

Turns out there was no easy way to do that. I ended up emailing some person from the team I found in the GAL (I think that's what they called it?) and they weren't helpful or appreciative.

Never did that again.
The majority of the bugs filed are machine-filed or filed internally. It's also used a lot for project-management type stuff. I don't think radar is really very intended for external stuff, though maybe it should be.
Less /s, "Back off, or I'll shoot you!"
I have been somewhat conflicted/despairing about Taiwan’s response (only 77 cases and 1 death as of right now, 2020-Mar-17, despite reslly cloze ties with China and an almost equally early onset) since I read this: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689 a couple of weeks ago. Paragraph 2 is especially instructive. I have historically been dead against the type of cross referencing and identification this article discusses, but their capability for pulling multiple disparate sources together to allow tracing, categorization and enforced tracking of all individuals is massively impressive. We really need to either figure out a way to execute on these capabilities without revoking privacy, or else accept that some granting of privacy (whether to Google or another entity) will be inevitable.
Some people will get water. And some will get priced out of the market.
Laws against homicide are wrong in all circumstances. Killing someone while defending myself against rape is not wrong.
Buybacks drive the share price up, and manipulate the stock by impacting it disproportionately to the amount of float reduction.

Dividends pull the share price down, and allow the recipient to choose whether to reinvest or take cash.

If the goal were simply to return capital or concentrate ownership, dividends would be more than sufficient.

Buybacks have a different goal. Their goal is to inflate the stock, provide liquidity on selloff days, and take cash off the firm's balance sheet in a way that improves metrics used in fundamental analysis that compare the company's value to its earnings.

Some companies compensate executives based on share price appreciation. In that environment, a share repurchase has tangible benefits for the executives who choose to do it.
Poland has formally registered Chloroquine as a drug for COVID-19 and will treat all patients with it.
Chloroquine phosphate is a generic antimalarial drug derived from quinolone, in 10 trials for Covid-19 in China, including one in combination with Kaletra, as chloroquine phosphate is believed to have broad-spectrum antiviral activities.

Basically the goal is to allow zinc to get into a cell, it needs a helper to get inside the cell (a Zinc Ionophore). Apparently Hydroxychloroquine / Plaquenil (which you can buy here: InHousePharmacy.vu/p-1106-plaquenil-tablets-200mg.aspx or here easyshopping4health.com/buy-plaquenil-usa.html) is even more effective than Chloroquine.

Also see Medscape.com/viewarticle/736439 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550/ title: "Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of COVID-19 associated pneumonia in clinical studies"

Quinolones like Chloroquine were used in malaria prevention for many, many years. they aren't used specifically against malaria anymore, because malaria adapted. But I always prefer a compound that can be manufactured easily and has been used by many many people over years.

Regarding Zinc Ionophores, the flavonoid Quercetin (which you can buy in many places) has been shown to rapidly increase labile zinc in mouse cells as well as in liposomes. Source: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf5014633
My understanding is that you can reproduce them in order to study or extend the design, but not simply to avoid paying the patent holder.
I'd argue there isn't a lot of evidence either way. What you call "common well-understood practice" I strongly suspect is just cargo culting. As evidence: it doesn't seem to make any projects turn out better. All projects eventually suck over time, no matter how well they follow "best practices".

If you're copy-pasting code everywhere rather than creating a function, that's obviously terrible. But on the other hand we've all also seen functions with twelve arguments and 3 boolean flags that are trying to do too many things at once. Is there any "practice" that gives us good guidelines on at what point to fork a function into two? I haven't heard of any such. The fact that our "best practices" are one-sided is a strong sign that they're more religion than science. Science reasons about trade-offs.

Software isn't yet much of an evidence-based science. There's just too many variables. We don't know how to reason about the interactions between them.

Here are some writings on the dangers of over-abstraction. At the very least they're evidence that I'm not alone in these suspicions.

http://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstractio...

http://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-cod...

http://bravenewgeek.com/abstraction-considered-harmful

http://dimitri-on-software-development.blogspot.de/2009/12/d...
A much simpler option would to stop seeing the world as “them” and “us” and de-emphasize the borders in general.

It would be great if it were illegal to control the flows of inputs to and outputs from manufacturing, but I doubt national leaders hellbent on playing the blame game and prioritizing some lives/prosperity over others simply based on the accident of birthplace would ever give up that sort of control they now exercise.
When you say that the US needs to "invest in itself", what you really mean is that the US needs to divert investments from industries in which it has a comparative advantage into industries that developing countries have a comparative advantage in.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox is a better solution.
ok, I thought it was the initial intake
Defining/Extracting Zone Offsets
I don't see any disagreement with what I said in here.

Edit to add:

I am an IP attorney so I appreciate that to some people this article may seem like it contradicts some of what I said. IP law is hard.

But as far as I could tell, with one quick read, it basically confirms what I said.

Also, thanks for the link, I hadn't seen this article before.
/proc is a linuxism.
Didn't know that TensorFlow works on AMD GPUs..
I guess I was wrong, again....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22588619

Are the manufacturers forced by any legal precedent to sue in order to defend their patents?
First, they'll have to cut down on flights over time to help with climate. I haven't heard one idea out of the airlines over that problem. This would be a good time to demand that they explain how they're going to contribute to a solution ... and not have until 2050.

Second, they have been THE major contributor to the spread of this pandemic. No apparent recognition of that. This would be a good time for them to start planning how THEY - not government agencies - are going to be protect us the next time.

So we should just wait until we hear their plans. Boeing had to wait for a year - why not them?
McDonald's was hard to beat back when they had fried pies. They dropped that menu item though, so now we can beat them.
Calling Stored Procedure via JdbcTemplate and BeanPropertyRowMapper
Found this one.

https://www.evelta.com/er302-high-frequency-nfc-writer-usb/?...
Some mpre constructive feedback people? Sure the page lacks some examples but many comments here are deeply disappointing.

Remember doing an OSS project is extremely taxing, dealing with naysayers at all stages of development, impostor syndrome, lack of confidence and just general fatigue.

Please show some respect and show the creators, tinkerers and developers of HN some appreciation and encouragement.
I agree that the mask could be contaminated. In fact, I would hope that the person wearing the mask has a good reason to wear it, either someone in their household is sick and they are protecting themselves or they are sick and they are protecting everyone else who is home with them. I think it is a bad idea for everyone to wear a mask when there is no threat to their health. With people furloughed home it is likely that many of us can avoid contact with an infected person and therefore we don't need masks.

But if the user has paid close enough attention these last few weeks, then they are probably already washing hands anyway so as long as they wash up after putting the mask in the microwave and before they touch their face they should be good.

If the mask is punctured that creates a much larger path for droplets to get behind the mask or if the user is the infected one, to get past the mask into the clean air on the other side. To mitigate that situation, there is no reason that I can see where coating the puncture with elmer's glue, hot glue, etc doesn't solve that issue.

Bending the mask will probably create permeability that could allow larger particles to pass anyway. The plastic filaments they talk about are not likely to hold up to much flexing and it is a decrease in the tortuosity of the path through the media that creates the risk. Therefore, breakage along clearly defined planes creates an easy path through the media even if the mask is perfectly fitted to spec. I think bending the mask is the easiest way to send it out of spec so like you say, manipulating the mask creates a situation where it may no longer be effective against the particles sizes that it should protect against.
loses all the data because you have to start a new cluster? The data should be persisted...

If this refers to https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/148, the good news is that we're most of the way there and I'm going back to work on this now, ideally out in a v0.8 in the next week or so.
Yes... every marketing department is sending an email saying, “We’re doing all we can to protect everyone... thoughts and prayers, we’re in this together! ... btw, don’t forget about your business, and make sure to check out our coronavirus offers and book a Zoom meeting with us to discuss more about out amazing deals for you!”

It’s like... yes, we all know there is a virus. It doesn’t need to be reiterated by every single brand with your email in a newsletter-of-the-month gimmicky marketing email sent from Hubspot to funnel leads into Salesforce.

Honestly, it’s like watching social media accounts trying to 1-up each other on telling a story about how they are really a better person than everybody else for chiming in on a tragedy with a self-centered post. It’s white knighting a serious situation for self-gratification.
You seem to be talking to a strawman. I advocate business as usual, but I also notice how helpless you all feel in some way or another over this and it doesn't pain me.
I suspect most people have friends who have mentioned the same, so the overall trust level is likely fairly low.

> Twelve percent of workers said they worked when they were sick with vomiting or diarrhea on two or more shifts during the last year.

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/ehsnet/plain_language/food-work...
RTLS Technology for the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
I see you've stumbled across P3 - Important.
Debian, or close to it, based on several reports.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072748

Some (thin) additional details, though no specifics, on the Wiki: https://remarkablewiki.com/start
I've been hearing this from friends who are medical professionals for several days. This is going to really exacerbate the challenge for people who can't work from home. Even after the school year ends, there is the problem of summer daycare and camps, which also might be cancelled.
Okay, that's a drawing tablet... monoprice some basic ones I've used in the past (in the $60 range), but you can find some SEO spam articles like these (https://tabletunderbudget.com/best-drawing-tablets/) with better recommendations
That has to assume that most people would choose lower-paying jobs if the extra income presents. But I don't think it is necessarily true. It is also unlikely that people would right away leave their current job if rents are on the rise, at least not until the net gain gets surpassed by the alternatives. The extra income probably gives the tenants more 'tolerance' to the rent increase and that is simply how subsidies interact with market.
> without their contradictions, action and speech have no meaning.

This makes me think of waves. Moving your hand in water creates waves. A wave is a distinction between higher density vs. lower, or higher field-amplitude or not. Waves could not exist without such a distinction. In physics everything (?) is made of waves.

But similarly in semantics words can only have meaning by describing both what they refer to and what they don't refer to by a given word or sentence. So, "meaning" is a sort of wave I guess.
This always amuses me.

> FWIW, the foundation of it all is the act of making a distinction.

Agree. Distinctin is more like creating a new pattern, giving rise to dualism. But new term itself is a relative to old one. So old is always part of new if you compare else it is always complete if you don't. Douglas Hofstadter has done very good job with self-referential systesm in Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.

Many easter philosophies particulary Indian advaita philosophy is an indeed great piece of work in this regard. But current model of science/mathematics is not much capable to describe abstract things and labled any such attempt as pseudo science. What I fear sometimes, science has become another RELIGION of new world as mentioned by Asimov in Foundation series. The beauty of science is not only knowledge but scientific approach and pursuing truth regardless of situation. We need to focus on developing these qualities in education else schools will become another religious institutes.

Philosophy of Mathematics is another interesting topic related to this.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/
Cool project, but the title is a bit confusing:

> "A code editor that feels like a spreadsheet"

It literally is a spreadsheet though right? Is there something that separates this from an google sheet?

Also, the source repository on [1] Github is a bit more informative (for this audience).

[1] https://github.com/chrispsn/mesh
Browsing Amazon, it seems that there are some UVC bulbs that specifically avoid ozone creation. Other variants are marked “with ozone”, and for some reason both variants typically cost the same. I bought one “no ozone” and plan to put it in inside a reflective “pouch” (actually just a silver lined grocery carrier) for sterilizing things without exposing anything outside the bag to the UVC light.
I loved Rise of Nations! Mind sharing which bits you worked on?
Unvarnished Reality Leads to Opportunity
In the spirit of good humor, I will not edit my comment :)
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I believe Anika is canonically an aardvark.
Speaking of Klein, she'll need to add a few elements to her Pandemic Shock Doctrine script:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/17/we-know-script-...
People with blood type A 'more vulnerable' to pandemic, say Chinese researchers
Both are wrong. It gets more and more wrong as the entry barrier for a new player becomes bigger and bigger. So Google promoting their content is FAR more detrimental than Yahoo promoting Verizon content, because Google drives most of the traffic. One solution is to force the producer of any service to always be decoupled from the distributor or marketplace. So Amazon cannot promote Amazon Basics stuff knowingly, Target cannot promote its own brand, and Google cannot promote its own sites.

Why are both wrong? This is a question of ethics, and is therefore subjective. It depends on your personal values. "Free markets are good" is one of my values, so both are wrong through that lens. If you do not believe that enabling competition is good, then it is not wrong.
The Article describes 100% what has happened with covid based on the sars experience and research since then. Whether the covid19 virus jumped from bats or civets hopefully the Chinese wet markets will stop carrying animals that have viruses that are so detrimental to humans.
"I intend to investigate this myself once I get my hands on one of the new devices."

This isn't even a review. This is someone writing from the press release.
Was based. They haven't been swimming in place for ten years.
What are your alternatives? Managed memory language or C/C++?

Rust has much more modern and ergonomic syntax, features and package management over C, so even inside unsafe blocks it's simply easier to write.
Honestly I feel like D3D12's days are numbered. Tons of engines and devs are moving to Vulkan and while Vulkan has tons of tutorials and documentation, D12 has NOTHING. If you want to just go out and make a D12 game, you basically need to join up with one of the existing DirectX shops that has all the knowledge siloed within.
Maybe it isn't the best way. I did only say it would help in theory. $1000 alone won't help, if the landlord decided to increase our rent by the same amount after finding out. Instead of $1000 in my pocket, it might be better to just put a freeze on paying the bills until things get better. That could also be wrong too.

But it does make me a little appreciative, that for once in my personal experience, they might bail out the people and not just the corporations. That is more of what I would like to see in response to this crisis. Will we choose human life or will we choose economic growth? Are most of us just ultimately disposable while the wealthy can sit through this until things get better and then they'll be well positioned to become even richer? It is sick. We were already sick, the coronavirus just makes it clearer. I'm afraid this crisis will pass without addressing any of the core issues that made this crisis so difficult, and then we will move on and pretend that everything is okay until the next big thing.
If investment were somehow zero sum, yes that's a large part of what I would mean. Luckily, for my point to continue standing without being reduced to that, investment is indeed not zero-sum.
It follows from exactly the same logic. The following are theorems, at least as long as x and y are lists of Booleans:

all(x + [True]) == all(x)
any(x + [False]) == any(x)
all(x + y) == (all(x) and all(y))
any(x + y) == (any(x) or any(y))
not all(x) == any(not xi for xi in x)
not any(x) == all(not xi for xi in x)

Any other values for all([]) and any([]) would cause some or all of these theorems to be correct for all values of x and y except the empty list. In practice this would mean you would have a bug in your program on most occasions where the argument of one of these functions was empty, unless you included a special case for empty sequences.

For example, suppose you're processing a request that includes some tasks and some attachments. You might write something like this:

if any(task.is_failed() for task in request.tasks):
raise TaskFailed(request)

if any(x.is_too_large() for x in request.attachments):
raise AttachmentTooLarge(request)

Clearly for this code to do the right thing in the case where a request has tasks or attachments but not both, we need any([]) to be false. And the corresponding requirement applies to all([]) if our task interface is a little different:

if not all(task.is_succeeded() for task in request.tasks):
raise TaskFailed(request)

Now, there are occasionally programs where you do need a special case for empty sequences; for example, if you have three search results, you might want to return a page containing just those results, but if you have zero, you probably don't want to just return an empty page — the user might think the software is just broken. And in the above example, if there are neither any tasks nor any attachments, it might or might not be useful to report that the user accidentally submitted an empty request. But it is unusual for such a special case to just fall out of a possible alternative semantics of all() and any().
This may have something to do with it, 83% of the cruise ship did NOT get infected even though population was mostly elderly people: https://twitter.com/ecosensenow/status/1239952942234402816?s...
If you read that Wikipedia you linked it supports my position more than negates it. Positive rights are rarely if ever imposed on individuals or organizations of a country and almost always involve some sort of significantly limited contract which outlines the government's responsibility to fulfill them.

For example, there's a massive difference between saying "everyone has a right to healthcare" in a country than saying "the provincial governments of Canada has to provide a public health insurance option to tax paying citizens and temporary visitors".

When I walk into a doctors office as a Canadian citizen or enter the ER I'm still at the whims of the system. All that I know is that the financial costs of the what care I can find will be covered, care which is provided by a limited set of doctors, care the doctors decide to provide me often based on their perceptions of need and a broad definition of 'cosmetic'. If the doctors office is busy and all the ERs are full, or they don't believe what I say or that my symptoms don't require care, there's no one I can go to about my "right to healthcare" or right to spend the health insurance.

Proposing these limited arrangements as if they are positive rights does more harm than good. Once you add enough modifiers to make it accurate, you might as well not say it at all.

I know this matters little during political campaigns and all promises are non-binding so they might as well lie through their teeth as much as possible, up to the point people call bullshit. But it still significantly influences how we debate and discuss important topics, and it's a type of thinking which filters down into a lot of things which have little to do with political campaigns.
Better be careful of that normal. Social distancing is measureable now. This will be very convenient for those who wish to control the invisible spread of infectious ideas.
https://twitter.com/jeremycyoung/status/1239975682643357696?...
What makes me always uneasy about theories like this is it makes me ask "If 3, why not 4?". What reason do we have to assume that these three dimensions 1,2,3 are the only ones there are? Why exactly 3 and why just these 3?
The only thing that I have found that is close to what it looks like is this company[1]

[1]https://www.intersurgical.com/info/starmedCPAPmasks