uncurable mlady posted:

hn posters are extremely dumb

uncurable mlady posted:

hn posters are extremely dumb

MononcQc posted:

dude probably used the hard 'r'

josh04 posted:

nothing says "not throwing a tantrum" like a plan to leave earth with an imagined legion of smart clever people much like yourself, so you can return with the physical force to prove everyone who laughed at you wrong

salisbury shake posted:

been a while since i saw a "throw a startup at it" this tone deaf

justinzollars 9 hours ago [-]

We have had the sequence of the COVID-19 for over a month. Are you guys, on hackernews, are telling me there isn't a single startup - not one - that could develop a more effective test to fill this gap? The virus when it comes, will not discriminate between Republican and Democrat. But developing a better test could save lives.

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suffix posted:

i've started on a react/nodejs spa with communication through websockets, bootstrap with some custom css for branding, i'm thinking maybe two weeks for productionizing, running super lean

i've stubbed in some detection code for now, does anyone know what's a good dna sequencer you can call from javascript?

code:

function hasCovid19(patientId) {
  // todo: hire a bioengineer to check this
  // later: can machine learning help here?
  return shell.execute("grep -R $COVID19SEQUENCE /data/" + patientId + "/all_detected_dna/")
}

fritz posted:

jimmaswell 10 hours ago [-]

That psychological tricks like this are necessary to make people see that 1+1=2 makes me feel hopeless that humanity can ever reach the level of Star Trek without some kind of genetic engineering or letting AI take over. The vast majority of people are like this, incapable of reasoning through anything, only defending the views they grew up with or that they ascribe to their "tribe" by any means possible, never taking a Planck unit of time to self-reflect. There's some respite on select internet corners but even those have their pockets of crazies.
I recently had to regrettably leave a fandom Discord server because a sizable portion of the populace including the admin devolved into screeching banshees with no capacity for rational thought at some /slightly different/ view than they preferred being posted in their politics channel, and I could no longer justify expending any energy trying to engage in a reasonable fashion with these people or supporting a server with such a rotten administration I'd lost all respect for. I wonder if those of us who can consider ideas without throwing ourselves on the floor in a tantrum over the fact someone disagreed with us should just move to another planet then come back and conquer Earth in the five years it would take us to develop the capacity to do so without such people in our way.
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popotamonga posted:

Can you actually buy a consumer ventilator? I would see myself paying up to 10k for a ventilator to have at home just in case...

mjmdavis posted:

Doing this could deprive hundreds of people of a life saving device.

anonuser123456 posted:

Prices and consumption signal producers the relative importance of a good. Its better for people to drive prices up so suppliers can respond appropriately.
Right now it makes sense for instance for defense companies (eg large manufacturing corps) to partner with med corps (who's supply chains are in shambles) to start cranking these our.
But they won't unless the profit/market is there for it.

Nomnom Cookie posted:

beep boop my lust for mass death is entirely rational and untainted by humanity

fritz posted:

Internet Janitor posted:

on "Open-source “pandemic ventilator” (instructables.com)"

Chris Knight posted:

https://twitter.com/ruinedurnight/status/1234612815786319872

Malcolm XML posted:

Zoomers are all right

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LinuxBender 1 hour ago [-]

It is interesting to me that people are so laser focused on test kits and vaccines. In my less than humble opinion, people should focus on improving their immune system. You can reduce the load on your immune system by not eating sugar and reducing carbs as much as you can.

PIZZA.BAT posted:

now see if it were me i simply wouldn't get sick in the first place

dingribanda posted:

In some parts of Africa, growing khat is more lucrative than growing food. This causes acute food shortages. I am not sure how this is going to affect growing food, if cannabis is more lucrative than growing food.

Koremat6666 posted:

> growing khat is more lucrative than growing food
Could you please clarify more ? I think I am missing something. If khat pays more wouldn't it mean you can sell khat and buy food with that money ?

Suspicious Dish posted:

predictmktegirl 3 hours ago [-]

With how much money everyone is spending, wouldn't it just be cheaper to build a private cross-country interstate where only AI drivers are allowed. Let humans drive the trucks to this interstate then let the AI take over. It seems like almost all the edge cases would be solved if you just got rid of other human drivers and let the vehicles network with one another.

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lancemantis posted:

that and a complete unfamiliarity with the high capital costs of private right of way

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

this takes an incredible amount of subject blindness

gee how do we make sure a driver is available for both endpoints on a journey? clearly it's impossible to just, put the driver in the vehicle for the duration of the journey...

Qwertycoatl posted:

eh, that bit makes sense. drivers can work locally shuttling cargo to the train, then go home at night instead of living in a truck for a week