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The number one issue with ventilators is bacteria and second is if they fail you die.

This absolutely the measure of last resort, but as the pandemic spreads there will be ventilator shortages and people that don’t have to die will die.
That’s funny, because I wear the cartridge respirator outside of work for some hobbyist reno stuff I do, and find it much more tolerable than the N95. To each their own, I suppose.
I added to here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/60468711/634824

Thanks.
> Others were free to compete, but they failed.

Intel engaged in a lot of anti-competitive practices, lost a civil lawsuit over it and was fined 1bn by the EU. [1]

They almost killed AMD in the process.

Every company this size with a quasi-monopoly (in a certain segment) will squeeze the market and try to buy or push out competition any way they can get away with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel#Litigation_and_regulator...
i think one of the major reasons JSON took this role from XML is it has a tighter syntax and easier to understand rules, so serialization, hydration and deserialization became easier to optimize over time. I know over the wire JSON packs more tightly than XML too and that used to matter a lot more than I might now depending on the end users of your app too. I think these validation specifications though are all trying to solve the same problem: describing your API to users without human interaction. It turns out to be a tough problem
it's bad enough guessing dmy or mdy, without wondering if we earned interest on that 10 billion euros that appears to have spent an entire second in a transit account earning 2.7% per annum (legal think 'annum' implicitly includes the leapsecond, an assurance resting on dozens of assumptions and misunderstandings of many ibscure treaties and standards and policies, modulo the case law in jurisdictions where precedents can redefine)
The only time I enjoyed these questions was when the interviewer didn’t know the answer either and we were just trying to solve it together.

The times I absolutely detest are when the interviewer writes down the problem and sits back for 30 minutes.
https://www.gregpalast.com/rubios-billionaire-wins-ransom-fr...
I’ve heard symptoms relate less with age and more with viral load. The sicker other people are and the more frequently you come in contact with them, the more lethal it becomes.

I’m checking reddit r/COVID19, which is a science based discussion forum with cited academic papers and flaired scientists. It started turning into a prepper forum but I think the mods are shutting that down pretty quickly. I go there for my news.
I don't see it in the submitted article, either. Why are you being disingenuous about this?
I think the attention is coming from the initial numbers reported by China about a month ago, went from 2k to 80k in about 3 weeks. Something about the numbers seem odd, along with large city quarantines. If you look at the confirmed cases, neighboring countries like Vietnam have 16 confirmed, but the US already has 69. Thailand and Taiwan have 30 confirmed cases each, but Iran already has 245.
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Google has a sizable Kirkland office. A good chunk of Google Cloud is there.

Also, rather ironically, Costco is headquartered there.

EDIT: Costco was founded there, but current hq is a few miles away in Issaquah.
This is a screenshot I just made after clicking the link above.

Here is an archive.is snapshot (1 hour old), containing the same text: https://archive.is/QE5FK

EDIT: checking archive.org, it appears this was indeed not in the article ~2 hours ago:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200229205343/https://www.statn... vs https://web.archive.org/web/20200229225108/https://www.statn...
I shared this comment with a friend because it made me happy that something I posted was getting more than a surface-level review, and they responded like this to your last paragraph:

This is an interesting note to end on, because I'm not sure licensing and funding is one of the main factors that leads to this sort of thing. I think rationally designing environments in a holistic way is just sort of a lost art among programmers in general, in favor of the sort of anarchy and patchwork that characterizes software development in the present day

I agree with their view fairly strongly. Modern proprietary languages aren't this good at all in the same areas, either.

Thanks for checking this out, it makes me happy that someone's gained something from doing so.
> out of range unsigned int

AFAIK, that doesn't exist? Otherwise, unsigned would also have UB?
It’s a pretty wild situation.

I’ve been given offers from Google, been rejected by random web shops, and everything in between, all within the same year.

The Dunning-Kruger effect is put on steroids during tech interviews.

There’s this pretense that the interviewer is smarter than the interviewee, and an expectation that the interviewee will abide by that pretense as a show of respect.

That pretense leads interviewers to being unnecessarily ambiguous, and especially leads them to asking overly complicated questions. If you’re an insecure engineer, this allows you to impress your coworkers in the meeting afterward with your complicated question. You can act as if it would have been easy for you, the other engineers in the room won’t disagree because they want people to think they’re smart too, and one thing will be made very clear to everyone: You are smarter than the candidate, and the company is very lucky to have you.

It also leads interviewees to fake equivocating and feigning ignorance, and is overall a strong recipe for unconscious or deliberate bias based on the personal and professional insecurities of both parties.

From the other side of the table, when you’re the one interviewing candidates, you spend an absolute minimum of 90% of your time screening and interviewing people who are so bad that it literally hurts on an emotional level to interact with them. You develop compassion fatigue, like a nurse in an ER, and it’s very easy to find yourself in a place where you assume the worst of every candidate and don’t even care anymore if they fail.

The results of these interviews are influenced far more heavily by the interviewers than by the person being interviewed, in my opinion. And most companies (nearly all in fact) have literally no mechanism by which they grade the quality or subjectivity of their interviewers.
I disagree with your last sentence, but thank you for bringing the history here up!
> the Obama administration was too weak

In hindsight, withdrawing from Iraq left a void that ISIS filled.
Well, even if it's only as bad as the flu, what we're talking about is "remember that thing that kills hundreds of thousands every year? We're now going to double that number for the foreseeable future". Unless of course we manage to stop it from spreading further (which seems unlikely at this point but possibly worth trying anyway.)
They seem to be missing the point that the single greatest feature of text-mode interfaces is portability and not being tied to a single platform provider.
Their criticism is fair: I have been making a performance argument. I do think they've misinterpreted my performance argument, though, which I'll get to. (There's a lot of backlog I need to catch up with; this thread is very large and my typing speed is significantly faster than the speed at which I can think.)
Isn’t the intel 6208U a strong competitor to the AMD 7302? At the same price and TDP it has higher clock speeds and a unified memory domain, compared to the AMD 4-way NUMA architecture. It seems like you can make a case for either, depending on your workload.
I thought the conservative school of thought was to let the market solve the problem? It’s amazing that the same conservatives who think the market can take of care of healthcare even though there is plenty of evidence to the contrary, aren’t capable of doing something much easier like creating a forum. If conservatives don’t like the companies out there they are free to create their own social media companies where they can voice their opinions.
Without being derogatory (only ironic); Made in China.
That said it is a pandemic, those other countries are going to need their kits as much as anyone will.
"ecological collapse, food shortages due to crop collapse, and of course rising sea levels causing mass migration"

Those statements are so vague in measurement as to mean nothing.

I've read the IPCC report and the relevant section says nothing of generalized society ending collapses as people would seem to want you to believe.

There's a few that you can read about:

1. A collapse in permafrost may occur (low confidence);
2. collapse of Maize in some regions, may exist under 3°C or more of global warming (low confidence)

etc...

Ok, those aren't great or desired things, and we need to mitigate that, but the world isn't ending. This isn't even close to a world war, a nuclear bomb going off, a massive solar event that takes out the grid etc...

I'd love to see way less apocalyptic language used and more talk about tradeoffs and realistic possible future costs of how we produce and consume vs finding sustainable growth.

[1]https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/chapter-3/
Amusingly, the transcript seems to have been generated by an "AI" tool (https://www.snackable.ai) and gets things wrong just enough to make it very annoying to read.
The naiveté being expressed in the comments here and as the premise behind the ventilator is astounding. I though I would share some information to put things in perspective:

- If you are unwell enough to need a ventilator then the ventilator itself is going to the least of your worries. You will need the drugs and expertise to care for you. The current respiratory illnesses going around aren’t like polio and the iron lungs where all you need is help breathing.

- If you can sort the above to have any hope of survival you need a “modern” ventilator that can operate in way that this simple homebrew device is physically not capable of offering. Most of the improvement in caring for people with ARDS is based upon careful and tight control of ventilatory parameters to prevent secondary lung injury.

- Modern ventilators have a price tag of if you have to ask you can’t afford it.

So in summary this is a nice build but serves no practical purpose.
American Test Kitchen has a gluten free cookbook with recipes for bread, pizza, pancakes, etc. It’s really good, and very informative.
The pressure vessel failed during testing with nitrogen, no explosion occurred.

This probably isn't that much of a surprise, they knew the welds were far from ideal and already had improvements on the way.

> We had the wrong settings! To make the welds super flat & strong, we’re building a heavy duty, custom planisher, but just having the right settings is a major improvement.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1232556310874533888

The next version is already being assembled right beside where this one failed.
In either demographic the mortality is so much higher than the flu that it would be noticed. Otherwise we wouldn’t be worried; it would be like just another strain of the flu.
The quoted text appears for me when I click the submitted link.

Try clearing your cache?
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You are correct in that it’s not just like the flu. It’s much less severe and not as trendy. You can’t sell the flu. This you can sell.
I like these a lot! I'm seeing them less as "interview questions", which they'd be terrible as, but as "annoy your friends questions" after you've all had a couple drinks.

One I heard a while back: "You have a list consisting of every college student in the US. What's the fastest way to sort them by age in years?"
I was thinking that with the shortage of antiviral masks in the consumer space, if there was a way to diy one. Extra points if it involves a 3d printer.
Even if you are of an age where the risk of fatality or becoming very ill is minimal, consider this: if you have it for a few weeks even in a minor way, you are actively spreading it.

You don’t self isolate for yourself, you do it for all the people you can spread it to.
I wish something like this existed for organisms you see under the microscope (fungi, bacteria, viruses).
The Russians also thought victory in Afghanistan was possible. Their humiliation was absolute.

The US' mistake was not capitalizing on Russia's failure, choosing instead to make exactly the same mistake.
It's maybe ten times more lethal than flu, and there's no vaccine for it at the moment.
One of several of Intel's issues is that they can't do this to TSMC.
I think the main issue keeping the pi with a 32b userspace is the lack of availability of 64bit GPU firmware
Do you know how many the clinic has tested since then? The ratio between the confirmed cases vs the test count seems about 3% in US, and the total tested number in US is 472 according to CDC.
What you describe sounds a lot like the police breaking into a house to arrest an alleged criminal.

>At that point you can't just ignore them and hope they stop; they'd been escalating violence for years.

If you can't ignore the problem, then drastically escalate the violence on your own?
Afghanistan is where empires go to die.
Actually someone already did a PR for it!
I'm sorry that I can't directly help you (although I have IBS and a couple of other chronic diseases, so I can sympathize). But it makes me wonder if there's an opportunity for a startup, or even just a nonprofit online community, here. The targeted community being people with rare diseases in countries that are too small (or don't have the communications infrastructure) to offer good support. There's an especially big opportunity to do good in situations like this, where the disease is incredibly common overall, but apparently rare where the OP lives, so there is tons of information online but probably very little is written in Lithuanian or targeted to local needs.

Or maybe there's stuff like that out there already that we'll be able to share with gretar, in which case, even better!
I see it now, in the two paragraphs added since it first went live on the site.
> If anybody were to produce such a model, they would be utterly destroyed.

In the case of Exxon, it appears that they believed the opposite to be true:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...
Would Apple allow this to be placed into the App Store? (IMO, they should)

It seems like a lot of companies are apparently using the developer program as an end-run around App Store review.

In the case of a tool like this it seems like the obvious solution would be to use Android phones for police officers, etc. so they can use apps without needing to get Apple to review and approve them.
> there's less risk because the US government quarantined it so well.

Can you elaborate on that? Up to now everything shows that US government did not quarantine it very well, the chances for early testing and isolation of early cases were missed because of too restricted testing, and now we're getting severe patients who did not have any travel history, so they've been infected somewhere on US soil a week or two ago from sources who haven't been identified (possibly because they themselves have only mild symptoms and don't need hospitalization) and presumably have infected others. These "surprise patients" are evidence that community spread in USA has started some time ago already.

From what I see, countries like Singapore and South Korea are some examples of implementing somewhat effective quarantine measures, and USA has quarantined it much worse than other countries, it's just that it's been hidden due to lack of testing and the time delay of severe symptoms, so we're just starting to see the consequences of that.
That seems far more likely to me than I would like to admit. I can even see a rational that doesn't start that way, but with a homegrown solution in Webassembly it would be fast enough that you could write your own font and text layout algorithms that are better than what the browser does -- so your newspaper could do a proper justified text with great kerned headlines that would also look the same way in all browsers.

Then, naturally, there is no dev time set aside for copy and paste, because there is no business justification.
Many thanks - this is really helpful.
YouTube has playback speed controls, as well as most popular podcast clients.
Seeing projects like this one always puts a smile on my face, because I really like to see Crystal having a heartbeat.
It might just be my personal background, but the language brings everything to the table that I am looking for in a fits-most-use-cases programming language. Crystal is _fast_, has a type system that stays out of my way as much as possible and (coming from Ruby) a really legible, expressive syntax.

Great reasoning on allocation seemed to have paid off, looking at your benchmarks. Keep up the great work and let's make Crystal a thing!
I think you missed my point, which was that the wars in the Middle East failed because we didn't have clear political objectives. That's not true in the other examples you listed, we have pretty clear goals as it relates to the Saudis and Cubans. With respect to Libya and Syria we're more sideline players but the goals are still fairly clear.

If you try and apply a consistent morality onto geopolitics you're going to see everyone is hypocritical. But geopolitics is not a debate between philosophers on morality and political theory. It's applied game theory closer to what Sun Tzu wrote than Hobbes or Locke.
Clumsy XML parsers and clumsy language choices?

Strict formal equivalent information doesn't have to mean easily or as well coded in current idioms?
Very cool project, and a fun article, though I can't help feel like this thing is more likely to kill you than nCoV-19. It's got a mortality rate of 0.7% (same order of magnitude as the garden variety flu) and I'm betting there's a much more than 0.7% chance this thing blows your lungs clean out haha.
I don't think it's been quarantined well. In fact, I'd say the quarantine here in the US was handled very badly. Workers were exposed to quarantined individuals without proper equipment or training[0]. The virus has a long period before people show symptoms so the current number of people infected is probably larger and more widespread than we know.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-02-29/...
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A problem with gluten free diet is that it has become one of the popular diets for living healty. So when you go to a restaurant and ask for gluten free food, they think you just want the diet version, not the celiac disease version. The diet version isn't totally free of gluten, just reduced gluten content.

Some restaurants are even asking for a paper to show you have the disease because they are tired of all the people asking for gluten free just because they are on a diet.

Don't have it myself but was working with someone that have it, together with a number of other food alergies.
Well, I'm Freeman Dyson's team.

Reference: https://e360.yale.edu/features/freeman_dyson_takes_on_the_cl...
So if the EU is so worried about planned obsolescence, are they going to force Android OEMs to match Apple’s support when it comes to iOS upgrades on older phones and security patches on even older phones?

The iPhone 6S released in 2015 is still running the latest version of iOS. I can replace the battery and still get a fully supported phone.
If the SLS blew up during testing, it would set the program back a literal decade (or more).

If the James Webb telescope failed during deploy, it would be a $10-$20 billion loss -- and it would never be re-attempted.

NASA needs to re-learn from SpaceX's ability to iterate on cheap designs and flush out flaws quickly. I say re-learn, because they DID know how to do this correctly during the Gemini / Apollo eras (TONS of rockets blew up before they attempted human spaceflight).

But culturally, something went deeply wrong, perhaps when we reached the Space Shuttle era, and they lost the willingness to ever accept failure or pushing limits -- the same process we tell tell children is critical to ever learning.
Again I want to emphasize that you were comparing different algorithms on different data structures. It's like someone made a benchmark using the naive recursive Fibonacci definition and then you implemented the iterative version in another language and concluded from that that the other language must be much faster. The different algorithm is what gave you (most of) the speed up, not the language.

I mean, I don't doubt that C++ is in fact faster than Haskell, just not by that much.
I have heard speculation that it was to make the federal government look bad. Or perhaps the local government benefits from maintaining a crisis situation. I’m not Puerto Rican.
This made me look into Spaced repitition and wow are there really no apps on the iPhone that are free or inexpensive?? I’d love to just try loading up the multiplication tables for my kids.
> would be 1mm thicker

Good lord that would be awful, I'm shivering just thinking about it.
I think you hit the nail on the head. This seems like a testing issue, the real numbers are not known yet.
The total number of cases in each country indicates otherwise.

Currently compared to every other country on Earth, we have quarantined it the best.

Even if you assume there are some undetected cases in the US (which is likely), it's still not even close.

It WILL spread across America, it's just a matter of time.

You are speculating that the CDC will not be able to handle it.

Take a step back and calm down. Maybe evaluate where you get your news and why they are trying to fear monger.
It would be for me, but it's a single socket only processor. I like the 7302 specifically for the non-P variant. If I was going to stick to just one socket, I'd probably spend a bit more and go with the entry level Threadripper 3960x...

It's a nice looking processor though and probably the only one worth a damn in that line up.
If it’s Android, what are the chances I can also run the latest OS on an old phone.
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> US fundamentally won’t take strong-arm approach

I disagree

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Ameri...
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I don't understand why it takes at least three atoms to form a molecule. In a cloud of hydrogen atoms, what is the third one doing in the production of h2?
This is correct.

Particularly the “if you are unwell enough to need the vent, the vent is the least of
Your worries.”

The vent keeps you oxygenating while we address the (usually multiple, overlapping and interacting) severe issues that led to you needing the vent. This is ICU-level care. A vent without an ICU doc and appropriate medications (and ideally a resp tech and a nurse) might as well be an origami crane.

Hospitals will run out of one those other things, on average, before they run out of vents.
You assert that numbers mean a lot. You also state that appropriate testing is being done. What number of tests need to be administered to attain an appropriately sized population for statistical analysis? The answer to this is a LOT MORE than the ~3500 tests that have been conducted in the US over the last month.

We already have people testing positive who have not travelled overseas and have not come into contact with known carriers. The CDC has labeled those cases as community acquired cases. That means we KNOW that we don't have accurate numbers, and we KNOW that there are more people sick than our data suggests. It also means that some population of carriers are both not in quarantine, and are activity transmitting to others.

So the quarantine in the US has failed, and we have no idea how badly. Paranoia is warranted at this point.
That doesn’t fix facial matching.