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I find “facial hair shouldn’t touch the seal” to be much easier to remember than

“here are 45 different facial hair styles, some of them are good for respirators, some of them are bad.”

the latter takes much more critical thinking for me than “if the seal is on facial hair then it isn’t sealed at all!”

now off to clean-shave my stubble (but keep my soul patch)
Thank you for this post and pointing out the fact that we will be out of ICU beds very quickly.

The complacency of ignorance on this really beggars belief.
The most significant experience is that efforts should be made before medical services were overwhelmed by flood of patients. Mortality would be higher if patients were not properly looked after.
Or IoS: Internet of Surveillance
Flu is also heavily dependent on age —

The mortality rate for seasonal flu for 18-49 year olds is .02% — so by your own numbers, this is 10 times worse.
I'll assume you haven't seen The Great Dictator.
So it has a name that isn't the hotler mustache interesting
Why do you say that? That’s what all the reporting says. That’s why the health care systems were overwhelmed.
> at the same time it removes the need for critical thinking while giving the best and easiest option for a solution in the first square.

It also makes it a little fun so people might actually pay attention.

Not everyone responds best to a concise abstract rule given in a Ben Stein voice.
why cool?
Ding! Ding! Ding! You hit the nail on the hammer. They write it all down but do you really think anyone actually reads or follows the handbook? It has to be thousands of pages long! It is all for show so they can write blogs about it and try to impress the public with their so called “radical transparency.”

It is obvious by all the recent news articles and information leaking out from current and past employees that it is just a facade. It won’t be long until they are fully exposed and we see they are just another greedy startup like WeWork or Away with some crazy CEO putting on a show for the public while putting fear into the employees.
Rosetta Smalltalk: Prototype Language Reference Manual (1980)
because it shows entanglement with older codebases.
I hear ya. My beard goes almost down to my navel. It'd be a shame if I had to shave it off. Guess I could go for a full hood biocontainment suit.
ah, yes agreed.
White House’s top techie explains how AI initiative will boost research
Definitely not assuming that. I don't think I implied it either.
It depends on your location but must wind turbines produce less at night.
https://carboncounter.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/are-wind-farm...
I’m just getting into pouchdb and am liking it. I love the idea, for sure. I ran into a replication issue running through a proxy that had something to do with sessions being cached, but that was more the fault of the proxy.

My biggest current concern is client side search and size. I’ve been developing a private journalling/notes app with some fairly particular bells and whistles for my own personal use. Although it’s mostly just text, I want to store a lot of text. I would much prefer the search not happen on the server, as I’d like to encrypt all data that hits the server.

Have you used pouchdb quick search? If so, in your experience, can it handle full text search on about 1,000-5,000 documents with about 10kb worth of text each?

Ideally I’d also like to store data uri for png sketches, and maybe photos. But I know photos especially would balloon the database size quite a bit/am worried I’d hit client side storage limits extremely quickly (I think I read some mobile devices have a 50mb limit, but I haven’t researched it that thoroughly yet)
I am in full agreement with you here, however, I got in before the obligatory ‘developer time is worth more than CPU time’ post which is often the response to comments like yours. It seems to be the most frequent dismissive comment anytime performance comes up on HN. I find this analogous to the ‘pre-mature optimization is the root of all evil’ comment that seems to be the most popular on StackOverflow.

As a note, I’m not too interested in MLIR because I have not seen it applied to any of the areas that interest/effect me. But I guess I will remain slightly optimistic about the possibilities.
i think it is super nice to relive old code like that.
I would have expected your company to give him the option to work from home a couple of weeks more. That seems like a slam dunk to minimize cases of people that show no symptoms but still spread the virus.
BPA-Free but Still Dangerous? Replacement Chemicals Linked to Childhood Obesity
>We've seen that the case rate increases dramatically as more tests are administered

Is that really true though?

The UK has administered some of the most tests at over 7,119 but only 13 confirmed cases. US has done a measly 445 tests, yet 60 cases? Might be things are just starting to ramp up, and yet we're behind on testing...
I have but wanted to make the Chaplin joke anyway. Can't let Hitler get all of the association for that moustache style even if Chaplin did muddy the waters with The Great Dictator.
made my day. Ima gonna archive all of them to my evernote collection in case I do need one of them!
The term predates its use in software, but as used in the software industry it typically refers to the Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/osd

Deviating from that isn’t illegal (they don’t own the term), but claiming your software is open source if it doesn’t meet that definition will generally earn you some blowback.
$1.50/day has much more purchasing power in poorer countries. Any time someone makes such a statement, I can immediately tell they are ignorant on basic economics. The US also used to have low wages for entry level workers, as did every (no developed) country. That's how progress is made. You can't expect a poor farmer with minimal skills to start making $25 an hour. And what stats am I looking at? What stats are YOU looking at? Even if you believe the notion that real wages are flat (not true,) living standards have still risen drastically thanks to technology. Do you think technology gains just come out of thin air? No, they are driven by competition and the need to profit.
>how often do stationary batteries exist in the wild?

The answer in five years will be very different from the answer today. Suffice it to say, increasingly often with industrial scale energy storage such as the Hornsdale project in Australia.

https://www.energy-storage.news/news/undeniable-success-sout...
That's a great point actually.
It would be nice to have a single use license. Not all of us are building many sites in our day jobs.
I can totally see the value of Tailwind UI, and as an experienced user of UIKIT (https://www.getuikit.com), I don't see much difference, to be honest. Can someone please help me understand what is so good about Tailwind UI that UIKIT doesn't already?

UIKIT is super light weight and modular. I've developed extremely high converting landing pages with almost no JS at all using only components I needed. Can the same be done with Tailwind? And if yes, then what exactly is the appeal? Simply the difference in number of components?

I love the look and feel of Tailwind, but it just looks like another UI framework to me and I don't understand all the raving reviews here. If it's something obvious I'm missing, very happy to learn it and pick it up.

Thank you.
the work that has gone into this is incredible, 9795 presets!
You're missing the point. But that's OK.
> which offers the key advantages of both HDF5 and Zarr, such as chunked dense arrays, numerous compression filters and native cloud support.

Taking a look at the compression filters, it seems that they are mostly suited for byte-oriented and integer data? The bit width reduction filter, for example, seems to act only on integers, and it doesn't look like any floating-point-specific compressors (like fpzip) are implemented -- just general-purpose ones like bzip2.
As L.A. plays tech disruptor, Uber fights back
>US has done a measly 445 tests, yet 60 cases?

I think the US tests were much more targeted to those most likely to have contracted it. Like US citizens returning from Wuhan/Hubei.
The photos on the thread are down. Could you re-up them?
> If its at a desktop there is really no reason to not use a wired mouse.

Sure there is. I don't want a cable across my desk and a desk grommet just to duck keyboard-and-mouse cables looks bad.
Ask HN: Source to Rebuilding Civilization?
You're watching the gradual unfolding of an apocalyptic event. You have a week to prepare. What do you save? How do you get access to it?

Your goal is to hasten the rebuilding of civilization. Anything on a computer is fair game.

This thread has a purpose. Modern technology has given us an unprecedented, largely decentralized access to the majority of institutional human knowledge. As developers, we are natural vanguards to maintain this knowledge in times of global crisis. I'm sure other organizations to this end already exist, but a fresh take by outsiders is always refreshing.
going preset hunting, i might aswell remake my business card into "vj" if this continues.
Apportionment is based on direct census count only. Indeed there is better science available for population estimation (and IIRC some of it indeed gets done by the Census Bureau's reporting), but that's not how the law was written.
...for shipping. Free shipping costs $10.

I wanted to order something the other day that should be in a local store, but wasn't, and random specialty websites had stuff for $20 plus shipping. So I found something equivalent on Amazon for $8, and when they pestered me about signing up for Prime to get free shipping, I did it and then set a calendar reminder for a week later to cancel it after I got my order. This sort of game could well make people working at Amazon feel justified in manipulating customers, but there doesn't seem to be any choice except to play the game everybody is.

Random things on Amazon that I consider buying are often double or triple the price they should be, so I try to buy anywhere else if at all possible these days.
Now Safari will no longer trust certs valid for more than 13 months. Recent discussion thread about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22398063
9000 is certainly alot, but you can also do your own setups you know?
CoronaNotify – Get Notified When the Coronavirus Is Near
That can't be done just by buying shares at market price, right? Would require some combination of options or short sells. Or setting stops on a highly volatile stock in a way that basically guarantees you lose money.
i am also going full on VJ now
My Mistress Melancholy: Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
USB to microSD adapters are so cheap, that very often Kingston microSD card is more expensive than the same card in SKU that also includes the adapter.
It's more patients vs resources than developed vs undeveloped, it's much easier to handle 91 cases at once than 900 or 9000. Italy is also a developed country and the mortality is around ~3% so far in Italy, Japan is developed and it's at ~1.5%. At the moment it seems like Korea is the biggest outlier with mortality under 1% but also with a lot of cases.

I'd rather be in a developed nation, but you're cherry picking your example.
"Oracle donated between $25,000 and $99,999 last year to the internet project..."

The upper bound is barely enough for two modest full time salaries? This is not much money. I wonder how much the project gets altogether, ie what proportion this is of the total income.
dudez - presets mean nothing at all after a short while, focus on the editor
It's PoE, I guess, if you treat any concept of standards compliance with dismissive disdain to the point of intentional malice.
There is also the question of long term physical storage. To my recent horror I've found that none of our current memory media, from NAND to disc to tape, last more than thirty or so years before physically degrading. Other than the M-disc, which claims long lasting media, there doesn't appear to be any digital form of storage accessible to the layman that can last anywhere near as long as paper!
It's not so much a legal thing as an ideological one. "Open-source" is a manifestation of the idea that knowledge should be free. It's based on the belief that societies grow when people are not restricted in how they build upon our collective accomplishments.

We have plenty of ways to reward innovation: patents, closed IP, commercial licensing, etc. But open source is about giving freely to the people around you, not rewards.

Selective commercial licensing is fine, and it's still nice that you let people see how things work so that they can learn and suggest improvements. But it isn't open source, and it feels deceptive when people misuse the term. Open-source code is a gift, and gifts don't come with demands.
It's not that those people groups don't matter, it's just that if it wasn't COVID-19, it could have been one of a dozen of other common ailments with elevated CFRs for those populations. My Nana beat cancer multiple times, but ultimately succumbed to a minor cough that turned into pneumonia.

Eventually time gets the better of us all. I don't think that's an insensitive statement, just pragmatic/realistic.
not true, if you have 9000+ presets, you can aswell be just browsing untill retirement.
Huh? My computer had important (usb) ports on the front top of the case as early as 2005. Do they not make PC towers like that anymore?
In my opinion the answer is clear. It is not ethical to "free" information that others have the exclusive rights to. Wanting strongly enough for this "freeing of information" does not make it ethical nor legal just as wanting to drive faster does not make exceeding the speed limit ethical or legal.

I know many strongly oppose this view and I will assuredly be down voted for voicing my opinion. Before down voting me though, hear a counter example.

Many advocates of "open source" and "free software" feel very strongly about licencing. Should someone be ethically and legally allowed to violate open source licencing agreements just because they feel strongly about being able to? For me the answer is clearly no, just as it was for the case of circumventing the monetizing of publication rights.

Feeling strongly about being able to usurp IP rights does not give one the moral or ethical or legal high ground to do so.

IMHO
Some pages that check for private mode or whatever won't work without JavaScript.
Yeah sorry, mis-click, meant to reply to the post below that said maybe catching it early is better.
Haters gonna hate... It's about getting shit done and these guys can execute. Dave has affected the lives of many and has great respect in the Valley
I’d love to see your implementation.
> I can dump an implementation somewhere if people are really curious

Interested.

I've put together a few encoding libraries for fun when I get bored. (base16, morse, etc.)

This one looks fun, particularly because it _might_ be possible to serialise it to sound and back, if I put in a little bit of effort, which is something I've done [0] once or twice.

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~shakna/soundofsilence
This is very similar to Dominic O’Brien’s techniques for remembering numbers where he assigns each number in base 10 a letter, then you go through and make characters and actions for each number 0 - 99.

So 0 - O, 1 - A, 2 -B... (with S for 6, and N for 9).

Then 00 -> Double O holding a pistol

OA - Your friend Oliver Anderson doing whatever Oliver Anderson does

Etc.

Then 0100 becomes your friend Oliver Anderson holding a pistol in your imagination and that’s easier to remember and you can make stories with your characters to remember phone numbers etc.

Once I started this comment I realized it may be just a tad bit more involved, but I wonder if you could combine the two and have characters for every number from 0000 - 9999.
I'm not sure that it is possible to do so.

Vaccines take a long time to develop; just throwing more money at it isn't a solution. You need to understand the pathogen, which just takes time. Getting the IGg out of horses or whatever takes time. Making sure you can use horse IGg versus rabbit IGg takes time. Trying it out on volunteers takes time. Mass producing it takes time. The officials aren't joking when they say 2 years.

SARS still really doesn't have a vaccine, and that effort started in 2003. Heck, Malaria took ~50 years for a kinda-okay-ish vaccine.

Fact is, there is a very low chance of a vaccine for this one.

Wash your hands, don't touch your face, stay calm.
I never heard this before, so I looked into it just now. There appears to be some dispute, since he allegedly had the closely cropped mustache before WW1, which was when he was allegedly ordered to crop it short for gas masks.
yes and no, in my experience too much presets are just as good as no presets at all.
The short and slightly oversimplified answer is that one level or another of our government has all the same info on us most other countries do—if they don't, they can sure as hell ask any of several companies for it—but various interest groups demand, for a few different reasons, that they pretend like they don't, mostly in the name of some notion of freedom or advocacy of same (for the latter, see: making income taxes annoying for hundreds of millions of people only because some folks want them to be annoying)
South Korean Clusters: How coronavirus cases exploded in churches and hospitals
There's also reports that if somebody is dead then they won't treat them due to limited resources, they'll just ship them to the crematorium. Because of this I'd expect the 3% rate to hold at the very least, if not slightly increase.
Etsy sellers are furious over new mandatory ad fees
True. On the plus side, the higher the actual number of infections, the lower the death rates that we should be expecting. There's a growing consensus that the virus can spread asymptomatically which (while not good for containment) means we're only seeing a small fraction of cases and the death rate is going to be much more like that of the flu (which isn't great but also hasn't destroyed civilization as we know it).
Imagine being talented and having your big heroes journey be within the context of something that is a net negative for the world.
I was hoping my ancestors went to Sean's bar but it's in Athlone Co. Westmeath, Leinster. My mom's ancestors were from Co. Monaghan and dad's one of the counties somewhere in Ulster province.
My biggest issue with wireless office mice is that if the laptop de-prioritises bluetooth interrupts due to CPU load or whatever, then you get this really laggy response. I'm not entirely sure exactly what's going on, but if I open something heavy on my work laptop the mouse will have a 0.5-1 second delay in responding.

This doesn't affect the touchpad, which I presume is running over a different protocol that has more real-time interrupts.
This fund is unlike any fund out there, and it makes sense as the DNA stems from what birthed a shot heard around all major US universities in the 2010s when Dave Fontenot and his crew at MLH catalyzed thousands of college students to get together and build software all across the nation. Their approach in VC I believe will be just as exciting in this new chapter. Excited to see what comes out of this
"that means you'd have to eat 1 can every other month if I understand the math correctly"

Doing anything consistently over time sounds easier than doing it in a hurry.
I'm just saying a company like Paypal which is both massive and dealing with something extremely sensitive (money) isn't going to make such a ridiculous mistake. I'm definitely no fan of theirs; I'm just saying it's silly for the initial poster to speculate the password length restriction is there because they're storing them in plaintext.

Plaintext password storage definitely still is common, unfortunately, but you're not going to see it at a place like Paypal or Bank of America or Stripe in 2020. Or even 2010.
great milkdrop fork - it can be projected on a dome.
we have no dome here can it also be projected on a flat surface?
The numbers in that table don't make sense. Belgium has 20.6 confirmed cases per 1000 inhabitants and neighbouring Germany only 2.3? Meanwhile, Wikipedia's article on the 2009 flu in the US says that 60 million people (out of 300 million) caught the disease. It seems that everyone is counting something else.

However, the 2009 swine flu wasn't particularly deadly. CDC estimates about 0.001 % of the world's population dying as a result of respiratory complications: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemi.... The US, according to Wikipedia, had 12000 deaths.

The coronavirus is going to be orders of magnitude worse, and the current informal arrangements in the US will be overwhelmed.
Brainshredder, A paper shredder, but make it a brain
The users who can't opt out are subject to a 12% fee, but this is on top of the the existing 3%-4% transaction and payment processing fees.
The DDR4 extender takes up the same place the memory would, and more. I don't understand what obstruction would be solved by this.
The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready?
Can you explain those percentages? Why do they add up to ~30% and not 100%?
That is precisely what the sodimm slot is for. Most service centers use those for memtesting.
That quote is very illogical. It tries to create a dichotomy where it doesn't really exist. Pretty much everyone tries to adapt the world to themselves (see the use of fire, clothing, air conditioning, fans, etc to try to adapt climate). Also, pretty much everyone adapts themselves to the world (realizing that gravity means you can't jump off of cliffs with no parachute, that you need to eat, that you need oxygen, etc). Progress depends on finding out the right balance of what can be adapted to you, and what you need to adapt to. Finding that balance requires reason. Thus all progress is dependent on the reasonable person.
SpiderEye [1] is another project with the same approach, while Ultralight [2] is very different but with similar goals in some ways (light cross-platform application UI).

1. https://github.com/JBildstein/SpiderEye

2. https://ultralig.ht
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this. I guess it's really not that far from the realm of possibility these days. Why apply machine learning to finding a cure when you can develop a selfie filter that makes for better insta posts during a pandemic?
Another interesting solution to this problem is that used by plus codes [1]:

> The characters that are used in Open Location Codes were chosen by computing all possible 20 character combinations from 0-9A-Z and scoring them on how well they spell 10,000 words from over 30 languages. This was to avoid, as far as possible, Open Location Codes being generated that included recognisable words. The selected 20 character set is made up of "23456789CFGHJMPQRVWX". [2]

[1]: https://plus.codes
[2]: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...
That takes a lot of code and effort moreso necessary for it to ever be accidental. We really need a system where courts can have a jury of relevant people from the relevant industry. Imagine if the jury for Oracle v Google were made up of software developers every single time how much more effective and meaningful that would be...
Oof, yeah, I'm not filling out something that invasive. They can serve a warrant to Google if they need info like that about me.