skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools to debug.
Is there some guide to that you recommend/have you considered writing one? I've been thinking of doing e-ink display + rasberry pi but your approach sounds cheaper and likely better for the environment.
History repeats itself
My painter friend told me that the art market was sketchy as hell, but I must admit even this article surprised me. I have a hard time feeling too bad for anyone in this story.
It's somewhat more nuanced than that. The currently approved swabs have limited availability, and indeed there are others (unapproved) that would work. However it seems you can't use just any - they have to consist of synthetic fiber, can't have a wooden shaft, and can't contain calcium alginate. This rules out many of the swabs that a healthcare facility might have on hand.

(https://khn.org/news/as-coronavirus-testing-gears-up-special...)
yes, the issue wasn't access to the source of gitlab, but customers who host their closed source code on gitlab.
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Yours is a fun take, which I enjoyed :)

I’m sure we agree that there are legitimate grievances here about consumer rights†, that are worth thinking about.

As the most powerful entities in the economy — not even by virtue of the goods they produce, but by the amount of people they employ and the money they spend — companies like Netflix have to uphold their social contract and be seen to be upholding their social contract!

† In the Netflix example, not the REI example.
How to objectively follow news / politics?
So I am in the time when I am growing up, making up my mind about what is important to me.. etc.

Atleast in my country I noticed there aren't any "objective" newspapers. Either they are right or left leaning. Behind every news I can see some ulterior motive.

It would also be possible for me to not follow anything and just live my life in my own little bubble?
Any tips ?
Makes me glad I went with the Business version of Vodaphone in the UK - which is ironically £1 cheaper a month than the consumer.

I suspect its the services that relay on super low prices and don't have excess capacity Talk Talk etc that are really going to feel the pressure in the UK
"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need", as the maxim goes.

You distribute according to highest need. Which is what you said.

It's strange that you said "socialism doesn't work here" and then in the next sentence gave the socialist solution "distribute according to the greatest need"; which here would be medical staff.

The difficulty with that is human greed. Capitalism embodies human greed and turns it, with careful intervention, towards a relatively useful force (when resources are limitless!). Communism tries to fight human greed, which is why it can't be imposed and must be adopted. Communistic systems readily get overrun by capitalistic actions - under war-time rationing, for example, black markets rise up ... one greedy person ruins the whole system, one generous person does not.
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My thoughts exactly. This is like saying it's trivial to do face recognition. All you have to do is load some libs, train the NN on them, and use the trained network on new data.

In practice everything from software versioning to knowing what might go wrong in NN training is gonna be a roadblock for someone who hasn't been shown.
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While their code is open source, the data and metadata in their hosted repositories belonging to their customers/users a lot of times is not.
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I think it comes to no surprise that sending data through a plain TCP socket is faster than using gRPC. The only downside is that over time requirements will likely start to stack up:

- Suddenly you want to enable TLS between one or more components, meaning you need to wrap the socket inside a TLS channel.

- You discover that your client behaves poorly when servers go offline, so you add your own logic for keepalives/pings.

- At some point you want to add metrics to all of this, so you decide to manually add Prometheus metrics to the client/server.

- Later on you want to attach OAuth2 tokens to requests as well, so that you can do credential passing.

- In order to get more insight in your setup, you decide that you want to use this in combination with OpenTracing/Jaeger.

Once all of those features are added to your Redis-like protocol, you discover that you've basically reinvented gRPC... poorly.
what about the software that opens that web page?
Perhaps we need an open source effort for this? The main obstacle is sample collection and safety handling. given however the demand for testing, maybe a group of scientists could come up with specifications for ad hoc sample testing centers and perhaps recommend best practices and off the shelf products to minimize the risk. There are tons of graduate students who could volunteer and lots of unused pcr machines. It would be far better to organize these bootleggers as an open community sharing their standards rather than each person doing their own setup.
I guess we have different standards as to what counts as a "black swan". To me, a black swan is an event that is genuinely unpredictable, and which has catastrophic consequences. A large earthquake in California, for example, is not a black swan. Even though we may not know exactly when the earthquake will hit, we know that one is coming eventually, and therefore reasonable preparations should be taken in order to mitigate the damage.

An earthquake in Kansas, on the other hand, would be a black swan. Kansas is not in what we currently understand to be a seismically active region, and thus I don't think it's reasonable to expect Kansas to have the same level of earthquake preparation as California (and vice versa for tornadoes).

In this instance, I think the pandemic was a reasonable thing to anticipate (even if no one could have predicted the actual timing or cause). There were airborne viruses which had made the jump to humans from a wild reservoir in the past. While previous examples were more deadly and less transmissible, the current outbreak was not, as I understand it, far outside the confidence intervals that epidemiologists predicted.

An example of a black swan in this instance would have been an organism that was as contagious as SARS-NCOV-2, but as deadly as Ebola. That would have broken many of our models (which hold that transmissibility is inversely correlated with deadliness). It would have caused us to significantly reconsider our models of viral evolution and disease mechanisms. In contrast, the current outbreak hasn't really caused anyone to reconsider their models of epidemiology. It's played out largely as many epidemiologists warned.

For that reason, I don't think the current outbreak is a black swan, and I think that many of the people calling it a black swan are doing so as an excuse to dodge responsibility for failing to prepare. It's as if I failed to secure my shelves in California, and then when an earthquake hit, and all my crockery spilled to the floor, I claimed that it was a "black swan", because no one could have predicted the specific timing of this earthquake.
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I don't get this.

It's not that I'm unwilling to donate a few bucks or take a hit for this situation. I have helped as much as I can.

I still don't think its acceptable for Netflix to decide to charge me the same for a worse service.

Why do people equate dissatisfaction at a large entertainment company charging for something they are not delivering with being insensitive??

I don't care if they reduce quality, stop the service entirely and cease to exist, but don't charge me for something you're not delivering.

I'm happy if they want to immediately cease all online video, just don't fucking charge me!

If this move saves lives GREAT!

Just don't CHARGE ME as if you are still delivering the contracted product.
You're describing an issue specific to US ISPs. It doesn't apply to Europe. From what I read even before the pandemic the US ISPs offered rather crappy services. In Europe, particularly in Poland, I don't have and haven't heard about anyone having any issues with connectivity right now, even though the country is in lockdown, schools and universities are closed, restaurants work only in delivery/take-out mode, companies switched to remote work, ... And still no issues at home nor at work.

Don't make decisions about the European infrastructure based on American problems.
> It's just annoying to have to keep telling the computer over and over and over again "this is for layout" or "this is for structure" particularly in a case where the number of repetitions can be very, very large.

I have a hard time understanding this scenario. What kind of content are you working with?
Stack height just visualises the repeated transition function for "next spot to jump to". You don't have to compute the stick heights and do searches, just execute p <- (p | (p + 1)) & MASK for a "right horizontal line". This transition is more simply explained as "set the least significant 0 bit". The important thing is that each successive jump is at least double the size of the previous one, which intuitively gives you the log2 in the worst case complexity. There is a paragraph on right skipping, but not left skipping.

For left skipping AKA "gather", what you're trying to do is log-skip across contiguous zeroes in the auxiliary array. So you skip bigger and bigger regions until you hit a nonzero spot. I'd have to think a bit more to prove that you do actually hit the next number, but the visualisation of the transitions should get you in the ballpark: the tall sticks tend to get numbers written under them by the lesser sticks to their left, and when you are skipping from the right, you tend to hit the tall sticks.

The explanation doesn't mention it, but the left-skips are defined as p <- (((p+1) & p) - 1) & MASK. This is also simply explained: "clear any contiguous 1s pinned to the least significant end, then subtract 1 to create more 1s" e.g.:

1100 1100 ( =204)
1100 1011 (-1, =203)
1100 0111 (-4, =199)
1011 1111 (-8, =191)
0111 1111 (-64, =127)
1111 1111 (-128, =255, wrapped)

So the "buildings" get wider as you go, until you hit another nonzero spot, and you start drawing thin buildings again because you start from the element to its left, whose binary representation ends with 11*0.

The bitwise ops are the key to understanding why you can draw the sticks at those heights: for each index i, simply draw to height = 1 + the # of trailing 1s in i. Many trailing ones makes for bigger jumps in either direction. So the wide buildings are also tall.
The problem is, now is the only time when something actually can be done.
When this overs, we're going back to "everything's fine" until some crisis happens again...
lightweight maybe is not correct. maybe simple is more correct.
In Germany, 40 €/month can get you anything between <16 MBit (more like 4 MBit where I come from/my family lives) and 200 MBit.

While the infrastructure is quite stable where it has been extended, those rural areas ("not prioritized for broadband builds") are also affected by the lockdown, people have to work from home, use the internet all day etc. pp. In those places, the infrastructure reaches its limits pretty quickly all the time. This will cause _serious_ damage to local businesses for no good reason other than ISPs unwillingness to invest there.
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To be fair, the third 'ifconfig' implementation is not compatible with the original in command-line options or in output, so adopting it would require changes just as adopting 'ip' does.
Nobody will do anything once it's over. Nothing more to say.
For my office I bought two "gaming" monitors because they were cheaper than the equivalent "professional" monitor. The panels were exactly the same. However my accountant raised it when I put it on expenses it just because it had the word "gaming" in the title.
So, 8 days later. I think fear is useful if it changes people's behaviour, which appears to be the ONLY THING we have to fight this at the moment. If we can deal with hoarding through social pressure and law as a last resort, we might be okay.

But please compare/contrast the current state of play:

1. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-they-call-it-the-apoc...

2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-51955362/us-st...
You should account for ignorance in public health policy, but you shouldn't rely on it.

Having more false positives than true positives only works if the people taking the test either don't understand statistics or don't know the test accuracy. I for one would probably ignore a positive result if I thought my chances of true positive were 0.001 and my chances of a false positive were 0.5.
I get 100 MBit for 40 €/month. As mentioned in another comment, it's not about Netflix but doing home office during lockdown, remote work in general and more. People in those "underdeveloped" areas are really fucked, altough they pay the same money that I do. They just don't simply get anything (better) for that.
That is incorrect for most cases. Viral pneumonia is by far the primary cause of lung obstruction in covid-19 patients, and just about all of them are on antibiotics from the start so bacterial pneumonia will have a hard time establishing itself.
I am not an expert on manufacturing biomedical devices, but I do know quite a bit about manufacturing safety-grade nuclear components. So take this with a grain of salt. However, from what I do know, fundamentally the requirements are pretty similar.

There is likely nothing magical from a purely mechanical standpoint about making a ventilator. The part that is difficult is:

* Have an adequate QA program for you and your suppliers, tracing safety-critical components down to the raw materials

* Adjusting your tooling, making molds, etc.

* Doing low-production runs followed by testing to validate your process

* Getting whatever certification is required; even if there is a flexible emergency process, I think we still want some demonstration of compliance

* Not having the lessons-learned of companies who have been doing this for years, and have worked through enough problems to have general domain knowledge

* etc.

My experience would lead me to believe that short-term returns would better come from finding ways to optimize the supply chain and manufacturing pipelines of existing manufacturers, which potentially could be done much more quickly.

If you look at the example of WW2, when auto factories converted to war production, it was not a quick or easy affair. The excellent book Arsenal of Democracy describes the conversion of the Willow Run factory to producing B-24s, it took at least a year and a half to get the plant producing planes at an acceptable quality and quantity.
Opera was pretty innovative. I'm still smarting that their browser-with-server concept (Opera Unite) didn't become the web.
He probably was around when the standard was defined. It's amazing this is taking 30 years to replace IPv4.
Clickable link:
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It's fair but the way they wrote it is not.
How are they supposed to "process" it? Every business customer (cafe, chain, large company for their office coffee makers) who knows what they are doing, buys these raw beans. In Italy, at least in proper places, coffee is roasted SAME day as it is served, or previous evening worst case. You suggest doing it months in advance, then ship roasted beans from Ethiopia? Who's going to drink what results?
Yes, but how should I tell him in a convincible manner
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California orders its residents to stay home to prevent spread of coronavirus
Hey,
thanks for your reply

i made a lot of contacts through exhibitions, meet-ups and even some customers i became friends with. I have had many "internet friends" before, but once i disconnect, all of them disappear

i realised, i crave even more attention, because of the lack of

the fear of remaining alone made me needy, hopeless, miserable

i'm not a member of any offline private clubs, however i have my own community and we get together once a year in Moscow and St. Petersburg

even after we've met, i never feel happy afterwards, because i know i will be getting back home into loneliness... i feel very powerless about it

sorry to disappoint you with my grammar and writing style. I will take that into account. Can you suggest any books or articles to read?

thank you very much
How do you know that they won't repay the additional fee or make up for it in some other way? They haven't even issued a press release about this yet.
"This is pure bullshit."

vs

"Netflix should downgrade everyone's plan automatically or just charge them less"

The way it was said in the parent comment was ridiculous.
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1% to 5% of what? This is the kind of statement that raises suspicions of over-reaction.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/health/wuhan-coronavirus-...

As of yesterday the best data suggests a 1% fatality rate amongst confirmed cases in Wuhan. Wuhan has 2169 confirmed deaths in a population of 11 million, so if we speak of the casuality rate for the population it would be 0.019%. Is that a lot? Well, it's the sort of level that's lost in the noise of regular influenza.

Thus, we can conclude 1-5% of that 30-60% of the infected population would die

No, we can't conclude that. You're taking a death rate of a very selectively chosen sample and then projecting it onto the entire population, which isn't statistically valid. People keep making basic logic errors like this one, which is what triggers questions like the OPs about possible over-reactions.

All the data we have is useless. Not a single stat has a level of accuracy that would normally be accepted for scientific use. We don't know what the infection rate is, which means we don't know how many people get sick and die, we don't know even what the mortality rate is because in fact we don't even have a globally agreed definition of COVID-19 mortality.

Italy examined their own death records and discovered that of all deaths marked as caused by CV, only 2 appeared to have no pre-existing or underlying health conditions. If that's true then SARS-CoV-2 is sort of like HIV. That makes it very hard to establish precise definitions. If someone has been battling a severe health problem for months, is very likely to die anyway, they die, and then their blood showed they got SARS-CoV-2 two days before dying - what was the cause of death? Health systems don't agree on how to answer this question which makes comparing numbers between locations very tricky. This is being floated as a possible explanation for the divergent death rates between Germany and Italy.

who staffs grocery stores if 60% of the population is home?

Here you're not using temporal reasoning. Why would 60% of the population be at home simultaneously except via forced government fiat? Even if you assume everyone has to stay at home until they get the disease (worst case scenario, not implemented anywhere) people don't all get sick instantaneously, and once recovered people can go back to work as they aren't a threat to anyone. Most people recover within a week. So, to ask a question about how many people will be out of the workforce requires discussion of timeframes and curve slopes.

Something to be aware of is that the "60-70% of the population will get it" figures are based on a form of modelling that assumes everyone in the population interacts with everyone else. That simplifies the maths but clearly isn't close to being true.

Thus, I would conclude that the penalties for unabated spread of the disease are so horrific that the only reasonable response is something that looks like an overreaction

And yet your post contains statistical and logical errors, which is why the number of people questioning that sort of conclusion is going to be non-trivial for the foreseeable future.
These are certainly different branches on the human development tree, So I agree that there wouldn’t be any vague memory of the specific site. If there was any memory it was in the form of habits just like stone making techniques persisted for tens of thousands of years
You also need to consider that when the false positives get over their flu or cold or whatever, they will assume they are immune to COVID.
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Amazing writeup, kudos.
If you want to make the same game now that you would have released 5 years ago, sure.

But games have become way more complex in that time, and the expectations of players have grown considerably. So you end up having to put more content in, more features and more data. The disk and memory become a bottleneck and you need to write and optimise some pretty complex systems to be able to handle that well.

PC Hardware has actually advanced since that time as well, so the artists have now more power to create better looking and feeling things in their tools, which means more data to process and get into the game.

Also designers will often surprise you as a programmer with the features and creative solutions to problems. They don't really think and design the same way a programmer would, and don't really design for the system hardware (except for the input/output devices of it).
I was thinking about donating just to get some attention in the local newspaper, but i think that is be very dishonest and people would see this
This argument is pointless as the assay relies on a dual-labelled probe. Look up how that works [1].

Anyway, an end-point PCR is not quantitative. You could do semi-quantitative on a gel, but it's a rubbish technique that was rightfully forgotten years ago, as it requires a lot of optimisation and has very little reproducibility.

[1] https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/technical-documents/articles/bi...
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most of the meet-ups find place outside of my small town :(
The problem is harder if we demand flexible fabric. That isn't how gas masks are done. With a canister filter, all sorts of options become possible. We could use sintered glass, ceramic, or metal. We might be able to use aerogel, diatomaceous earth, or metal foam. We could even go electronic, with a UV light.

Filters with greater air flow resistance can be used if we add a blower. Remember that the virus can enter via eyes. Eyes need protection. Eyes also need air, and it can't be humid or the protection will fog up. For this too, a blower would help.
Right, and the article seems to have some sort of axe to grind with Linux, so the author paints "developed by separate teams" as somehow an inferior choice deserving of scorn.

I generally found the article to be light on technical accuracy and heavy on pointless "my OS is better than yours" prattle.