skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intelligent search of physical parts is something I've thought a bit about before, in a different context. Often times people with a lot of car knowledge can point out interchangeable items that manufacturers don't come out and acknowledge as being interchangeable.

Examples: Oil filters are often differently sized but still interchangeable between models. You can use an Aisin-built airflow meter from a 90s Mazda to replace one in a Toyota, even though they're different housings, and it would work (if not perfectly) because it's essentially the same part with the same electronics. Brakes and suspension parts often interchange across many models, with the possibility of 'upgrading' to heavier duty parts from more expensive models.

Anyway, it'd be great if you could combine a lot of data and NLP to search off-the-shelf parts based on parameters of varying specificity. Anything from "made of metal and roughly x/y/z dimensions" to "shares the same bolt pattern as part # on a joining surface" could be made searchable in theory.
In part there's a desire to tell people that we have "a cure" or "a vaccine" ready to go because it suppresses panic and anxiety by creating the impression that the problem is solved. Naturally, telling people that before it's actually true causes new problems, so now we have people fighting to combat misinformation.
I'm in no way qualified to explain this, but going by kurtzgezagt's explanation[1] the main cause of damage isn't the virus replicating itself but rather the severe reaction of the immune system, which isn't directly proportional to the amount of viruses (although it does eventually go down in the absence of viruses). When you're too late with administering then the immune system has already done most of its work in destroying the virus (as well as the surrounding tissue) and it takes a while for things to go back to normal, if things go well.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtN-goy9VOY
Lol I think its a case study in Kayfabe, especially the part where Joe Exotic ironically went off-script and orchestrated a shoot. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_(professional_wrestling)

A "shoot" is when the agreed-upon boundaries are broken and a "worked shoot" is one where they are "broken" but actually planned E.g. when Joe's barn burned down. Classic.
Because it’s screws those with the least power the most.
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The thought occurred to me as well, I got a strong sense of "playing with fire." However, viruses have a very high mutation rate as it is [1], so I'm not sure how much difference it makes.

Btw, one of the best markers for overconfident but uninformed analysis is overinterpreting the fact that we have all these strains of SARS-CoV-2 as suggesting they have different degrees of infectiousness or health impacts. Certainly the different flu strains do, and, thanks to fine-grained sequencing efforts (Nextstrain in particular is doing awesome work) we can see lots of strains of this one, but Trevor Bedford has estimated that we have about a year or more before the variation in strains has an impact other than being able to "fingerprint" the chains of transmission.

[1]: https://jvi.asm.org/content/92/14/e01031-17
Lol: yes, it's "sedated".
> When you think about it, how our mind works is fundamentally the only actual problem. Everything else is just an artifact of it.

I think this nails it and is really the main thrust of the kayfabe analogy. It's also something I came to understand a few years ago, and have since had a lot of trouble getting others to understand the concept.
Hackers’ forum hacked, OGUsers database dumped
There is a clinical trial going on to check for just that. The hope is that when taken as a prophylactic it prevents entry into cells and give the immune system an advantage over the pathogen, but as you say, the immunosuppressive effects are a concern. We'll see soon enough.
> From a computer science standpoint it is obvious that generic declarations are just functions that accept type parameters

I'm ashamed that realization was slow in coming to me. But once it did, it was key to greatly simplifying the D template syntax.
Rostelecom (AS12389) is directly connected to Level3 (AS3356) and announced the hijacked routes to them but Level3 filtered them out.

But...

AS12389 announced them to Rascom (AS20764), who accepted them and sent them on to Cogent (AS174), who accepted them and propogated them on to Level3 (AS3356), who, unfortunately, then accepted them from Cogent.

The AS path would've been much longer than if Level3 had accepted them directly from AS12389 so, at the least, the actual effects of the hijacking weren't as bad as they could have been.
They won't be the people funding your presential campaign though... Obama's campaign did cost about one cool billion dollars. Even if you get a million of these guys,each would have to contribute $1000..I suspect Trumps campaign was even more expensive.
I didn't say Wasm is unexploitable. You're attacking a straw man.

Wasm vulnerabilities are worth real money. Bug bounties are tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of thousands as part of exploit chains. If people aren't finding many, your explanation will have to be a little bit better than "they haven't yet bothered".
> The actual threat of COVID is going to be much lower than global warming, COVID is either going to be temporary or in the long term settle to look a lot like all the other diseases we put up with. Climate change could be a legitimate crisis at some point.

I think you are conflating two different possible meanings of the term "threat".

Climate change is likely to be much more of a "threat" than COVID-19 in the sense that we are likely going to have to be dealing with it for a much longer time. But humanity has already been dealing with climate change through all of human history, so having to deal with it for the indefinite future is nothing new. It's only more of a "threat" in the sense of it being a long-term thing we need to factor into our planning, as opposed to COVID-19 being (hopefully) a short-term crisis that we weather and then move on.

Climate change is not more of a "threat" than COVID-19 in the sense of causing more disruption to our society; COVID-19 has already caused far more disruption in a few months than climate change has caused over decades, if not centuries, and also far more than climate change is likely to cause in the future. Time frames matter. Having to restructure the global economy over a century is one thing; that's already been done multiple times in the past, and happens as a natural result of people gradually changing the way they live and work in response to other changes. Having to restructure it in a few months is a very, very different (and much, much more difficult) problem. In that sense COVID-19 is a far worse threat than climate change.
> A healthy person taking a reasonable dose as a malaria countermeasure is not the same as a person on a ventilator in the ICU.

Well I don’t think a person on a ventilator is in any position to self medicate, a doctor who presumably knows what they’re doing would be the one to direct the course of treatment. What’s the problem with that? There’s literally no “established” treatment for Covid 19 other than “hope we can keep you alive long enough for your immune system to beat it”, so under a doctor’s care I really don’t think there’s a lot of downside to trying to establish the efficacy of certain drugs in lieu of a long trial process.
I don't want to discredit him as a source.

I want him acknowledged as a source with a pre-determined axe to grind. He's smart, he's clever, he's sometimes right. But he's not J. Random "Economist from Somewhere University".
Neither surgical nor cotton masks effectively filter SARS–CoV-2 during coughs
While I like the general idea, I still think we need a wider answer to the question of companies like doordash. Employees (or whatever they are) won't get what they want this way any more than they would previously...
Since Amazon commingles inventory, it doesn’t matter if it says shipped and sold by Amazon since the item you get could still be supplied by a third party.
The forbidden railway: Vienna – Pyongyang
Most of the bad reputation is deserved. Most US unions are horrible organizations. There are still some good unions, just not many.

That doesn't make the concept of a union bad. They worked much better 50 years ago, even. It's a great concept, but the implementation got corrupted over the years.

I don't think we'll fix unions' reputations without first fixing unions. And we really need more unions and more credible unions.

As a footnote, in my local school district, under coronavirus school closures, the teacher's union negotiated that the teachers get paid, but they don't need to remotely teach students. Some teachers continue teaching for some amount of time, but essentially on a volunteer basis. Many teachers are just sitting at home, doing nothing except for collecting a pay check.
Although the focus is somewhat narrower than amazon, for my professional needs I have had nothing but an excellent online experience with bhphotovideo. I have ordered hundreds of items worth tens of thousands of dollars from them starting about 2007. Their site can be a little frustrating, mostly from not narrow-enough categorization, but their app for iOS is very good. Their prices are usually as good and often better than amazon. The users' product reviews are useful and well-written and the site/app shows which reviewers are verified purchasers of the product they are reviewing and offers comprehensive review filtering.

They also invest a lot of effort in producing their own product demo videos and articles done by obviously knowledgeable people which, given the breadth of their catalog, is particularly impressive and serves well more than just to shill their wares.

They have great packaging for shipping and I have not once had an order go missing or show up broken or damaged despite many of my orders being fragile items.

Well-oiled machine.
I think he's just relying on Navarro's reporting that HCQ is being used in NYC, which, it clearly is; it looks like it's being tried all over the place. You can probably safely quote administration officials on something that simple. If he quoted Navarro saying HCQ was working, that would be problematic, especially because it doesn't seem to be working.
What are the limitations? For example: if I have a Python script that makes some HTTPS requests, will this runtime provide to my compiled binary everything it needs to perform this task?
In my eyes AirBnb is being blamed for taking houses off the market that would have generally be rented out to long-term tenants. This lowers the supply of rentals increasing prices. Lower interest rates just make the situation worse.
Oh, it's even worse than that for companies. The 9th and 10th circuits have both agreed that if the defense refuses to pay for arbitration, plaintiff can go to court. They're no longer barred from suing at that point.

Incidentally, the AAA rules have some useful provisions in consumer disputes. Either party can request to transfer the case to small claims court. At least in California, that's not only cheaper, small claims courts tend to be pro-plaintiff. You get to be heard in person in your own county by a real judge.

[1] https://www.adr.org/sites/default/files/Consumer_Rules_Web_0...
Table tennis for 1-2 hours, 30-45 mins on the treadmill and rowing machine.
Someone did the calculations. Ppl need to drink 200 gin tonics per day
I've seen the same thing in monoliths when I was a young contractor. Inheritance hell is usually also involved at that point.
I just started using vim wiki and it's been great - totally revolutionized my workflow! When I make my daily diary markdown file, I write down my TODO list from yesterday, and add one for today... then I jot down some notes as I write code or attend meetings (it's especially nice because I can pop into hyperlinked references easily). Everything I do now feels way more organized, efficient, etc.. 10/10 would recommend. Get started here: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
The FCC has obscenity regulations for broadcast TV in the US under the idea that the broadcast spectrum is owned by the people. Cable television has no such restrictions. That rationale holds up a lot less now than it did in the early days of broadcast television, but it's still a far cry from Canadian hate speech laws in which the expression of certain points of view is deemed a crime.
Not sure if you were in agreement with me, being sarcastic, or nitpicking.

But the history of comments is certainly not dull. Look at my profile, and see if the link mentioned in it catch your fancy, if it does, shoot me an email.
The U.S. (and others') military may be, by definition, a resource that isn't inherently good or bad. But the military is most certainly good or bad in actuality (i.e. the real world) according to many peoples' definition. I can see how anyone could use that as justification.
Being 70 years old and widely prescribed does not mean the function and associated risks of the drug are well-understood. I literally saw a physician mention today in a video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILowf7Tw7QY ) that the exact mechanisms at work here are not fully understood. He explained a half dozen different things HCQ/CQ might be doing in this scenario that are all biologically plausible based on what we believe we know.

HCQ/CQ aren't unique in this either. Lithium is widely used as a psychiatric treatment and has been in use for a long time even though for most of that time period we haven't had a good detailed understanding of how exactly it works. Gaps in understanding like that can lead to disaster unless we apply enough caution to match.

Another way to put this: We know some things the drug does, but that doesn't mean we know the complete set of what it does. We know some of the side effects and some of the risks, but unless we have a complete end-to-end understanding of everything happening here there is always going to be a risk worth considering.
I feel like, rather than coming together, people are just backing into their partisan corners again. This is really not a partisan thing.

It looks like California and Texas are making better choices than NY or Florida. Trump was too slow to act on testing, but was criticized for acting too quickly with the travel bans. The most credible and forward-thinking leaders on pandemics include George W Bush[1] and Arnold Schwarzenegger[2]; and their best-laid plans crumbled under later Democratic administrations.

Credibility is a funny thing. For some things, people are very credible but still drop the ball in big ways. Honestly it's just hard to know how someone is going to act in a major disaster. I would have guessed that if anyone were to overreact on a Chinese virus pandemic, it would be Trump. And people that are highly competent during normal situations might start behaving strangely and lose credibility quickly during more interesting times (like lying about masks not helping ordinary people).

There isn't a magic team of scientists that has all the answers. There is a science to pandemics, but there's a fair amount of guesswork, as well, especially when China was hiding so much information. Politicians need to make decisions based on incomplete information. So do doctors, for that matter.

So let's have some humility and realize that a lot of formerly-credible people are also in the process of screwing this up. It's not just the shoot-from-the-hip politicians.

[1] https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/homeland/pandemi...
[2] https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/03/31/...
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Repeating myself, but: there's an extent to which that trial has already been running naturally, since lots and lots of people take doses of HCQ comparable to the C19 protocol already, for rheumatoid arthritis. Lots of those people are getting C19. Are you seeing reports that arthritic patients who get C19 are faring better?
Because China covered it up and misled the experts.
> It explains that we naturally trust people who sound smart, well-informed, and CONFIDENT. We don't want to hear uncertainty, probabilities, or the other signs of someone who thinks in a careful quantitative way. We want to accept a cognitively simple answer, then move on. This is what we find comfortable.

Almost any interview with Robert Shiller is a striking counter example to these smart confident sounding people who aren’t actually good at making predictions. When speaking Shiller does not sound very confident at all and you need to know his background and history and remind yourself to pay attention to what he’s saying.
SCO vs. Novell was in Utah, under Judge Kimball. But Alsup was impressive in Oracle vs. Google, noting that he had some familiarity with programming and calling out Math.max() as the kind of function where scènes à faire and merger probably apply.
Wikipedia:

> only prevents government restrictions on speech, not restrictions imposed by private individuals or businesses unless they are acting on behalf of the government.

Which means the US right of free speech is somewhat weak compared to some other countries.

Especially it means that any company working "in favor" of the government but not "for it" could very well restrict free speech.

I never understood why anyone from the US think they have a "very strong protection" of free speech.
Sadly journalists seem even more in the pocket of big biz than scientists.
I’d like to think so too. It’s hard to actually understand how Docker works by reading their documentation.

Everything looks so simple.. and it magically runs on macOS and Windows too. No wonder people think it’s some sort of a VM.
Not all ideas were created equal. Parent's contention (one I agree with) seems to be that the contemporary browser-as-app-deployment-platform paradigm is a bad idea.
Warthog is super cool too.
My understanding is that action-oriented multiplayer games in browsers have always suffered because they can't use UDP. How does this achieve multiplayer from a networking perspective?
You could technically say that about Tylenol, but I doubt there’d be anyone jumping up and down about how dangerous it would be for a Covid 19 patient to take 500mg of it daily as part of a treatment regimen. There’s literally NO drugs approved specifically for Covid 19, but there are drugs, like HCQ, which are promising and well-understood in general.
> it is the scientists that have predicted the disaster, with an overwhelming consensus

No, they haven't. The IPCC reports are political documents, not scientific documents. One key fact that shows this: the Summary for Policymakers is written and published before any of the Working Group reports, and the Working Group reports then have to be edited and massaged to be consistent with what the Summary for Policymakers says. A true scientific report with scientific predictions would be the other way around: first you would write, review, and publish the scientific analysis and predictions, and then you would write, review, and publish the policy recommendations.
I was using the word "flu" in the broader sense. People commonly refer to virus-caused colds as simply flu. So what I was trying to say was that this is yet another virus that causes "flu".
The "censored" TV shows are really just the networks not wanting to piss off their advertisers. There is little to no censorship in the sense that the government actually prevents you from publishing something - especially now that almost all media is internet or cable. The last area where government actually decided content was with broadcast television, since the government got to decide how to use a limited number of frequencies.
Not exactly related to the video, but why do some people choose gRPC and others choose event sourcing for microservices communication? Is it just a matter of unneeded complexity in event sourcing? Are there performance issues as well?
> As long as regulating authorities allow private residences to be occupied by renters on a short term basis, then investors are going to buy property and rent it that way.

Regulators in many cities didn't allow residences to be occupied by renters on a short term basis but Airbnb facilitated those transactions anyway.
“hydroxychloroquine itself actually lowers the activity of the innate immune system; that’s why people take it for lupus and for rheumatoid arthritis. Many people are saying that perhaps it will work best if taken early in the course of infection” (from article.)

Yet HCQ takes a very long time to act as an efficient immunosuppressant (1 to 3 months for Lupus) as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22798370 which seemed factual; but anyone have references to how long HCQ takes to become immunosuppressant?

Hydroxychloroquine has a long half life in the body, so you have to wonder what effects there will be from using it, especially if it turns out to be ineffective.

The original idea HCQ was useful was from long term users of HCQ, which may have quite different biological effects from short term usage in reaction to dosing.

Also perhaps Lupus has a confounding factor that makes Lupus sufferers less susceptible to Covid19?
> as the kind of function where scènes à faire and merger probably apply.

I had to look this up -

»Scène à faire (French for "scene to be made" or "scene that must be done"; plural: scènes à faire) is a scene in a book or film which is almost obligatory for a genre of its type. In the U.S. it also refers to a principle in copyright law in which certain elements of a creative work are held to be not protected when they are mandated by or customary to the genre.«

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc%C3%A8nes_%C3%A0_faire
Because various high profile idiots have been lying about them. In an ideal world maybe this would be staying out of the public eye, but it’s a bit late to put the genie back in the bottle now.
Internet is working because of the Cold War-era pioneers who designed it
Over one hundred replies to this? How to get attention on hacker news, just gripe and whine about your interaction with a big corporation, I guess.
There are only two ideas there, well researched is unlikely, but unknown unless you pay
You probably don't have to derive the relative toxicities axiomatically, since volumes appear to have been written about the lower toxicity of HCQ compared to CQ.
True, I should have qualified that with "most" or "much" media. I agree there are still some responsible outlets out there.
Robinhood impressed me by supporting both strong passwords AND 2FA with Google Auth. They haven't rolled out cash management accounts yet but I think they will my financial center once they do.
Agree with you. There should be some kind of sanction for dumb posts that make claims without references. Downvoting isn't enough.
Why do you continue to use Deis Labs instead of Microsoft?
Because it's actively being pushed by right-wing media and the President.

We have a Presidential election in November. And there is a proven, strong correlation between the strength of the economy and your chance of being elected. You can't have a strong economy and people feeling happy when they are stuck at home without a job and fearful of leaving the house.

So they need to get people back to work. And the only way that happens is if you can convince people that it's okay to get COVID-19 because there is some magical drug that will cure you if you end up in hospital.
If I remember correctly, someone on twiv's podcast said that the inmune inhibition occurs months into treatment for lupus patients taking HCG. So, Could you explain in layman terms why this is not the case? Most of us have no clue about what's being discussed in the paper.
"I'm the most correct because I don't care about anything and trivialize important matters to just differences of opinion!"