skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A pan-CoV antiviral drug could have been developed through human phase I trials, and stockpiled for the next pandemic.

Would it make sense to test this drug on 80 year old people who are also ill? Usually young healthy people get the drugs in these trials AFAIK.
Sorry, but the US has (had?) the world strongest economy and owns right to being the home of the dollar , the currency all others are measured against.

It’s crazy to me to cry poor now, especially like the author said, trillions have been spent now, not billions on economic remedies which are likely to fail.

This was just ignorance and a lack of foresight from administrations who had issues “trusting the science”.

It’s going to be the same scenario in the US with regards to climate change, all the economic ability to tackle the issue head on early, existed, so little has been done.

Also remember, the author is talking about the past, you can’t really blame China or India from 15 years ago not to have taken more appropriate action, they weren’t the economic powers they are today. Besides, why t try pass the blame?
You can pick up laid off engineers for a “bargain” price and have them build feature x,y and z now to be ready for the grand reopening of the economy.

If the ppp shell game works like I’ve been told you can swap marketing/support/sales for engineers and maintain headcount.
I remember this very well. Both my partner and I were working from our homes and we both got the "I love you" email sometime overnight. That morning I took a look at it and thought "that's a virus" and deleted it and went to work. My partner opened the attachment and it instantly began deleting all his photos on his PC. He was devastated. All the photos of his two young children he'd taken since they were born were gone.

By the time I looked at the news later that day that email had bit so many people it was just stunning because the truth was everyone should have known better.

Kinda feels like there's an analogy there for our current situation.
What is disturbing is how much we know about this is only because they did a really bad / not much effort to hide it...
I think you're playing semantics here.

The collective, nationalistic culture of China isn't a fact in dispute. The fact that the West acts as a union of extremely disparate and unique nations in league is not even remotely comparable to China's united national front.
I don't think Wuhan labs started the virus, but I'd point out that the job of spy agencies is to lie and manipulate the public. Trump's a liar but so are the spooks. Trump is transparently attempting to pin the blame on a foreign power so that way he isn't blamed for the epidemic in the US. Essentially, who is blamed will determine the 2020 election. One read no further than that to understand his motivations.
In Ruby C extensions it works like this:

int FIXNUM_P(VALUE object_pointer) { return object_pointer & 1; }
long FIX2LONG(VALUE object_pointer) { return object_pointer >> 1; }

VALUE ruby_value;
long number;

if (FIXNUM_P(ruby_value))
number = FIX2LONG(ruby_value);

I thought this was pretty simple. What does Python's C API look like?
What do you mean? Whitespace does mean something in Haskell, see http://echo.rsmw.net/n00bfaq.html .
You can write applications that run all the way back to Mac OS X 10.6 using the latest Xcode. However, our of the box a new project is going to be configured to build for the latest macOS supported by the version of Xcode you’re using. It’s very easy to set your deployment target to an older operating system though.
I'll agree if they must exist that would be arguably the least evil of said options, but you'd have to convince me that mass surveillance using flying machines, in the name of 'public safety' is a thing i should be positive about in general first.

As it is, my attitude towards military and police drones is fairly cold. This might as well be some horrible dystopian sci-fi shit as far as i'm concerned.
The tv mount person was me.

Article here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20091215031722/http://blog.david...
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Brand value extraction might be the name of the game. It seems only when a restaurant is ascendant is the quality excellent. Once they have a good reputation, the quality slides.
There are Vulkan and OpenGL -> metal libraries. The original post gave windows (where the better performing native api is direct3d) As an example.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/04613...

-1000 from GvR
Correlation is not causation. There is plenty of reason to believe that novel viruses would emerge in a place like Wuhan. I would suspect that the reverse is true: The coronavirus lab is in Wuhan because it a likely hot spot for emerging infectious diseases. Basically, the lab exists for exactly the reasons Vincent Racinnello is arguing for in his blog post.
My experience was that whiteboard type interviews are often conceptual and fairly shallow (at least in terms of amount of code) to make it easy to review.

A bug in any piece of non trial software could involve a ton of investigation / research as the candidate doesn't know that code base...

You could accidentally give one candidate an absolute nightmare of a bug, another fixing a fairly lame typo.
I am usually more up to speed on the features and options of the vehicle than the person selling it to me. I think they exist to rip people like my Mum off, who think because the nice man advises she really does need the AWD version for inner city life, she should pay the extra $3k, as it's "safer".
Yes, you're absolutely right and this is not generally a problem (although obviously APIs get deprecated, etc). All my projects have a cycle, though, where I open them back up and have to turn several knobs in the build settings to get them to build. It's not often an issue with the code aging out, but the Xcode configuration. I got a pretty good chuckle when that happened to a brand new project right off the bat.
I would argue Berlin has some of the cheapest food in Europe. Though to be honest the food quality of the 2.5 EUR Döners is usually questionable and I'm not sure how they can turn any profit or actually live from it.
Sort of. The only issue with merges in GitHub tends to be that merge or squashed commit itself isn’t tested before being committed. It’s always possible, though in practice this should be quite rare, that the merge or squash commit produces a different result than any of the individual commits did. I suppose you could do something like a pre-push hook that would run tests before sharing your code with everyone else, though I haven’t looked recently at what options are available with GitHub.

Edit: I stand somewhat corrected, seems most CI systems actually test the merged code - https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/15#issuecomment-5... which I presume includes manually merged scenarios also. That said, they don’t appear to test squashed commits, under the assumption I suppose that any series of sequential changes will always cleanly squash with upstream as long as there are no merge conflicts.

When you use squash-and-merge approaches to GitHub PRs, you have to make sure you automatically delete old branches, as the connection between branch and commit only lives within the GitHub PR at that point (and maybe in a commit comment somewhere, not sure). But it’s not as explicit as merges which include the name of the branch in the merge commit.
I tried an oculus. It was ok, but I walked away utterly unconvinced of the value proposition.
This is awesome. I wrote some software to pull readings off my weather station and stream them to the browser. The plotting library that I use is pretty awful. Besides being slow, it's constantly hosing up the numbers on the y-axis. I want to give uPlot a shot.

Station: https://carlisleweather.com

Software: https://github.com/chrissnell/gopherwx
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Yeah, the Integer class maintains a cache of all signed 8 bit values:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/3131208/512904

In Java, there's a clear distinction between a primitive int value and an Integer object. Not all languages have this property. I thought Python didn't.
Maybe I responded too strongly, based on other things I've read on other sites. "Currently unfounded" might have been a better way to phrase it.
Wow amazing, $9600 per month is even more than I am getting a senior developer. My internship stipend when I was studying was $600 per month and that was when I was studying abroad (NZ).

Personally, nothing to complain about, you get practical experience and getting paid amazingly well.
You Need to Break Bad Money Habits
> So, why are the margins so bad anyway? Well, it starts with the fact that the industry as a whole shot itself in the foot when it started competing on price.

Started? You're always competing on price until you hit a certain status. Restaurants are low-margin if they offer a commoditized product.

They're also up against time. People lose interest in restaurants, and if they can't maintain enough business a few years after opening, they're not going to make it.
I fear that this pandemic eventually passes and we learn nothing from it.
Yeah, the problem was making sure we didn't have screen tearing. T he only path to video was through the mobile integrated graphics interface even when using the external graphics chip. On a desktop CPU you can DMA into graphics memory directly and get the frame sync.

I think you have to do this if you want to be able to switch between integrated and external. Which we didn't care about but perhaps most people do?
How do they “not worry about rent”? The local franchise pays rent to the parent company.
Wow, that’s quite a large amount of money to spend for one game.

I find $60 for AAA titles a marginal proposition.
ApplicativeDo allows the previously well established monadic do syntax to be applied in cases where the type you're working with is only applicative. It's not new syntax - it's been around since 1996.
> That’s not how taxes and “write-offs” work. You deduct your expenses from your income, and pay tax on a percentage of what’s left. Having more income is always better than having more expenses.

Does that apply to all properties, including commercial buildings? I only said that because a close friend of Tebo's wife (that's his actual name, and he named his business after himself from striking it big in collectors Coins) was a trainer at the gym I went to and we'd often talk about how all the property surrounding the area was owned by him and a lot are vacant, he said that was her rationale. He could be wrong or made it up, I suppose.

He literately is a Feudal Lord in Boulder and has obscene amounts of holdings, its actually alarming how much clout the guy has a result of it and the effect it has on the local population.
Here's the best collection of evidence that accidental release from WIV should be viewed as a plausible vector: https://project-evidence.github.io/ Nothing in here can reasonably be classified as a conspiracy theory.

The US intelligence agencies haven't said anything to my knowledge about accidental release. They said it didn't appear to be an engineered virus (true) and that there was no evidence that it did come from the lab (true).

But what that misses, is that there's a ton of circumstantial evidence that exactly this class of disease was being studied (bat coronaviruses, research on animal to human transmission, including forced mutation to encourage this) a few hundred yards from the wet market in question, and this lab had explicitly been called out for sloppy handling of dangerous biological materials.

(and to be clear, this isn't some dark secret research -- it's public albeit controversial research on preventing pandemics, funded by the NIH.)
I literally don’t know a single person who owns a low-end VR rig, let alone a high spec one. That probably has something to do with my skepticism.
When games are targeted to the Macs potential users have, they have always sold reasonably well. Back when the Mac market was far smaller, and it was much more difficult to develop a game, developers did OK.

If you start with the premise that you should just barely achieve 60fps with all effects enabled on this year’s top-of-the-line PC video card you’re artificially constraining your market. Make your game fun and make it run on as broad a set of users’ systems as possible and you have much better chances of doing well in any market.
Unreturned (uncast) ballots are not "missing".

USPS's UAA (undelivered as addressed) rate for first class mail is ~1%. Both ways. Something for postal ballot advocates to consider. Make sure your jurisdictions have online ballot trackers.
I'm not sure if this[0] counts as a source, but people have been re purposing iPad LCDs by making DP to eDP breakout board for awhile now.

0: https://emerythacks.blogspot.com/2013/04/connecting-ipad-ret...
There's an easier way to prevent animal nexus illnesses. This includes SARS, COVID, MERS, Ebola, E Coli, and many others. This change would have a byproduct of massively reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving the life expectancy of billions of people.

Unfortunately there is no sign people will do this.

It requires a switch to a plant based diet.

It's really a shame that so few people will consider a change that would personally benefit them and everyone around them.

EDIT: Instead of downvoting, why not respond? I'm happy to hear your alternate opinion.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing! I'll check that out.
I agree with your sentiments. The USA still leads the world in research and were the best positioned to respond to this threat. So much of the rest of the world's biology/medical research relies on tools that are supplied by the NHS/NCBI/CDC in the USA. It is scary to me what will happen to those essential tools as the USA continues to deteriorate.

Also, China was prepared for this epidemic. They experienced SARS. They knew there would be a SARS-2 sooner or later. They had lockdown plans ready to go for this. They had a huge research facility specialising in this threat where they thought it might occur.
The Fintech firms I am talking to all stopped hiring or having pay cuts. They offered lower salaries compared to last year when I wasn't looking (upto 30% lower)
> You're a serious business man wearing a serious business suit, running a serious business, and you need computers from a serious business computer company that can run serious business software! You need an IBM!

To be fair, that mindset predates the use of personal computers to do serious graphics business. The Mac is largely responsible for making that mindset obsolete with things like desktop publishing and Photoshop. The same attributes that made the Mac a good platform for those use cases also made it much more suited to gaming than DOS-era PCs.
The lion share of the price goes for the privilege of eating in a NY establishment. The rent is too damn high [0]. I bet you can find world class Asian food in NY, it's just that it's going to be a whole lot more expensive.

[0] 'The Rent Is Too Damn High Party is a single issue political party, primarily active in the state of New York, that has nominated candidates for mayor of New York City in 2005 and 2009, and for governor and senator in 2010.', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_Is_Too_Damn_High_Party
First wave of virus litigations are filed
ttycopy: Scanning other terminal tool in Bash
FIX API?
> States and local authorities simply have no idea what happened to these ballots since they were mailed – and the figure of 28 million missing ballots is likely even higher because some areas in the country, notably Chicago, did not respond to the federal agency’s survey questions.

> This figure does not include ballots that were spoiled, undeliverable, or came back for any reason.
Yes, I have had three job offers rescinded since March. Meaning got job offer, accepting it, rescinded, interviews, got a new job offer, rescinded, more interviews, got a job offer and got rescinded. All due economic situation or COVID-19.
Government is a common counter-cyclical.
In fairness, over the long run, we don't really "learn" anything from any major world events. Human nature is human nature, and we'll always prioritize the immediate threats over something vague and in the future. It's why climate change is virtually inevitable.
> real estate prices

For older, less popular restaurants, maybe, but a salad at Sweetgreen is, what, $10-$15? And that's fast casual. Clearly overhead is being passed on to customers.
I don't know the proper name of this principle but it essentially argues the opposite of what Statistics says. Statistics argue that the larger the sample size, the more accurate data we have. To give it a name, I will call it the "Fog of War" as that is where I see this principle the most. In cases of military conflicts where you have many layers of bureaucracy, the "Fog of War" says that quantitative reports (putting events into categories and assigning a numerical value) results in wildly inaccurate reports and wrong decision making. Another way of saying this is that "We don't know what we don't know, so we can't come up with a mathematical set of metrics to measure something we know little about." Ryan C. Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and former ambassador to Iraq said this: Our whole notion [is] that we can somehow develop a mathematical model that includes concrete achievements, factor in a time frame and voilà. Iraq doesn’t work that way and Afghanistan doesn’t work that way.
Whole Foods is the only place to buy quality food at okay prices in the whole city
>TBF, Apple’s Metal was developed before Bulkan while tackling the same problem
People are huddling inside in fear of Covid-19. How many of these excess deaths are caused by fright and the stress thereof?

"Can You Die from Fear? The Baskerville Effect"

https://www.drmirkin.com/histories-and-mysteries/the-baskerv...
No difference to Western food in big Asian cities. Either passable yet overpriced, or completely unpalatable yet still overpriced.
Who Knew Mac Could Even Do VR?
This kind of practice is illegal in most developed countries. Hiring for the same position after giving someone a redundancy is considered intent for unreasonable dismissal. Does the USA not have these kind of protections?
Would cannabis treated with fertilizer have the same effects then?
I mean, if it's a really good sandwich I might.
Why did you pick Bitcoin as an example?

Even so, that's a totally LMGTFY thing, no?

But it's really not a difficult concept. Just ask someone their position on some contentious issue. And then ask them how they'd react to being blocked from posting about that on Facebook or whatever.
There were similar persistent rumors about Apple having a build of OS X running on x86 back in The Day. I dismissed them as wishful thinking by the rumorer. One day Apple announced x86 Macs and I was simply shocked.
And yet I'm not sure it's a smart deal to be a commercial landlord. These "Retail space per capita" graphs have been eye-popping for awhile.[0]

The landlords that win seem to be the landlords who play the political subsidy and tax games, not just good developers.

[0]
From the perspective of everyone not in the niche, the difference between it fading away and being a niche is minimal.
Game developers who insist upon working a certain way and insist that they have to target a certain kind of high baseline hardware say this.

Game developers who want to reach a broad market and are willing to meet their deployment platforms halfway do not say this. They just port and ship.
Yes. Floating point numbers cannot be folded into object pointers and are always copied into newly allocated objects. Integers larger than ((sizeof(long) * CHAR_BIT) - 1) will actually become an arbitrary precision integer object.
It’s been horrifying to read about the slaughter of thousands upon thousands of pigs by allowing them to cook alive in their pens, simply because of a “drop in demand.”

If people want to understand the nihilistic impulses behind some of those pushing to “reopen the economy,” they’d do well to observe how livestock are being treated in this moment of crisis. The belief in their entitlement to impose misery and death on life that’s “beneath them” isn’t limited to animals.
> people love to rant about "JavaScript apps" while maintaining (willful?) ignorance about what the actual factors are that manifest as the slowness they experience.

Are you sure you got this right?

Just because JS is fast[0] doesn't mean we cannot complain about Javascript apps that should have been plain web pages?

It is clearly possible to create advanced Javascript apps that are enjoyable even to people like me.

For most pages I use as a consumer I don't see much value add because of frontend code: I see the value of autocomplete, drag-and-drop etc but I would much prefer if my CPU stopped chewing after web pages were loaded and rendered.

[0]: yes, I agree - in most cases the Javascript language or engine is not the cause of the performance problems on the web
High Fidelity missed the Coronavirus WFH opportunity by only months. They claim to still be working on something new but, wow, its hard to think of a case of worse timing.
> I think you have to do this if you want to be able to switch between integrated and external. Which we didn't care about but perhaps most people do?

Most people need to be able to power down the discrete GPU when they're done gaming in order to have reasonable battery life, and the most user-friendly way to make that possible is for every application but the video game to use the integrated GPU.
Thanks for the feedback - I'll definitely be trying to make the controls more explicit.
No one has conclusively shown that radiation causes or does not cause cancer at low doses, on the order of the world's variation of the natural background radiation dose. There are lots of data. It is noisy.
what are some usecases where you need systemd alongside docker containers?
Probably high as long as you include work machines, and otherwise low.
As a normal user who wants privacy, you'll be just fine with LineageOS on Xiaomi. Assuming you don't install spyware later. You don't even have to install Google apps (see f-droid and Aurora store).
One percent of 300K is 3K. Your figure is “less than 5 percent”, not “less than 0.5 percent”.
A few? I was just looking at getting MacOS hardware so I could do iPhone builds of a Flutter app. The bottom-end Mac Mini is $800 with 8 GB of RAM, and $1400 with 32 GB, which is what people on forums were recommending for running XCode properly. Is that what you'd call a few?

Looking at System76's equivalent mini, it's $555 for the low end, which has the same RAM and a faster, newer processor. Going to 32 GB takes it all the way to $700, or half what Apple's charging. So yes, "extremely expensive" is what it seems like to me.

Especially given that it should be entirely unnecessary. Just let me do a cross-platform build!
Carvana is the Amazon equivalent for cars, however, they sell used cars only.