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You are wrong. Many projects use GPUs without big datasets. See ShaderToy, for instance: a lot of computation, almost no input data. Many other games, too: they may use the GPU for rendering fast yet have say 50 MiB of textures and assets only.

If you think of AAA games, ML and whatnot, of course. But I doubt anybody will use WebGPU for those, to be honest.
Not true at least for many Blue Cross Blue Shield areas: https://home.bluecrossma.com/coronavirus
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I'm not sure what part of the US you're in but around in Texas people are very much downplaying the severity of the situation.

I've heard "just the flu bro" a bunch and people still operating business as usual in spite of large events being cancelled.
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Your child can take a year off of school and still be fine. Just think about the age difference in any given class and that will ring true.
Curious if anyone has tried to look on the bright side, and see where humanity will be in the long run.

1. Will take infectious disease more seriously

2. Will build out health care infrastructure to guard against future occurrences

3. Personal sanitation will be improved

4. People less likely to take risky behaviors like getting together in huge groups

edit: formatting
Thanks for the explanation. It triggered my ‘internal’ red flag when I saw a post on #1 very quickly and with no comments at all. That is very rare. Maybe the authority of the submitter (and his network for upvotes) had something to do with it?
I was denied a request to present, because my head of security didn't want to risk telling the world about my project. Now, they allow presentations, but I have no enthusiasm to present. Making it difficult has a lasting impact.
You are correct. However, the point the previous commenter was making was that it wasn't being downplayed at the federal level.

The president has been visibly out-of-step with the rest of the federal government messaging on this. One voice, no matter the position, doesn't evaporate what the hundreds of others have been saying.
> You just said yourself they circumvented Sun's licensing. If software licensing and trademark usage doesn't matter, then why do even bother with them?

Please don't conflate trademark licenses with copyright licenses.
I didn't downvote, but the politicization is unhelpful. When Trump pondered travel restrictions to/from China a month ago, the media jumped at him for being racist/isolationist. All the "experts" explained us that open borders are necessary to fight an epidemic.
Is Zapier profitable and in those categories?
You must not be watching a lot of TV. I constantly hear and see "experts" and talk show hosts claiming "don't panic, it's just a bad flu", or "nobody speaks about the dead of flu, why do you care now" and some such nonsense. The "wash your hands" meme is also spreading around.
I saw exactly the opposite. Until 2 weeks ago, people who took it seriously were regularly being accused of themselves being racist against Asians.
Also the economy will get beaten up, with lots of people finding themselves suddenly in financial distress, and generally almost everyone will have it worse than it would be if the virus never happened.
Makes the conspiracy theorist inside me think why are the governments are overreacting... Are they testing their reach for a future false flag?
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Not if you avoid other people.
Republicans are older on average, but they also live in less densely-populated places. The most dangerous thing I can think of is commuting on public transportation. That's a feature of cities, predominately Democratic strongholds.
As of a few days ago they cover coronavirus specifically: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/486816-pence-major-hea...

Quote: "all the insurance companies here, either today, or before today, have agreed to waive all copays on coronavirus testing, and extend coverage for coronavirus treatment in all of their benefit plans"
Ack, unfortunately not publicly. Confidentiality agreements :/ We are permitted to share work privately though. Feel free to email me: jackson@jobportraits.com
In their defense - I don't know if the public getting access to minutes of the insanely self-centered and incompetent discussions happening at the highest levels would have really helped any.

We've seen some fragments of evidence that the administration has been more concerned with the stock market's reaction than the actual disease.
I'm mostly hoping people start taking their flu shots...
The president rarely says anything that makes sense. Hopefully most people have learnt not to listen to him by now.
Almost all of these things come from other languages, some that have existed for decades. It's probably unfamiliar because you haven't run across them yet, which is fine!
Aside from the significant question of whether you can just kick people out of the place they paid to live with no notice, is it a good idea from a public health perspective? If you have a large population of mostly healthy young people who might carry the virus with few or no symptoms, is telling them all to leave and inevitably travel to other communities even wise?

My uninformed, cynical fear is that these moves are based on someone in the school administration worrying that the school will be somehow liable if students start becoming ill while in student housing. Maybe kicking out the students isn't the "right" thing, but is a defensive posture to make sure that when people get sick, they do it off campus.
I wasn't indicating that any of them didn't work... I frankly didn't know... Only pointing out the most widely used software platforms.
Correct; but the WHO is an international organization, and could easily have made this declaration sooner. The fact that the Trump administration was so clearly downplaying it for PR, only makes it that much more vital for health professionals to read the numbers and set appropriate expectations.
> However, binary form is way more compact

That’s what I might expect too, so I was surprised to find out that SPIR-V is usually substantially larger than text based shaders. It also doesn’t seem to compress optimally using standard algorithms. [1]

[1] https://aras-p.info/blog/2016/09/13/Shader-Compression-Some-...
I will fully agree police use their guns far too often. This is a real issue.

However that issue is unrelated what I was talking about.
This is only in response to the gov't pressuring over the past few days.

This is not a long standing policy as far as I know.
I have an HSA plan, there were no copays to begin with, just my $4,000 deductible. So I'm still on the hook for $4,000 before insurance kicks in.
> guess who is benefited by this ;)

It will create so much value for our shareholders!
This comment perfectly captures the hubris of the SV / HN bubble and to an extent technical folks everywhere.

Unsolicited advice: The end-users of the products you create don't care about how you build them and during recessions tools, processes and people without a long track record of delivering value tend to be first on the chopping block. The jury's still out on Rust's ability to generate (business + customer) value so I wouldn't hold my breath on Rust being "recession-proof".
Life flights put most rural places in the US within those time bounds.
"People who contract the novel coronavirus emit high amounts of virus very early on in their infection, according to a new study from Germany that helps to explain the rapid and efficient way in which the virus has spread around the world."

"The researchers found very high levels of virus emitted from the throat of patients from the earliest point in their illness —when people are generally still going about their daily routines"

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/09/people-shed-high-levels-...
But months ago they really couldn’t have known. We still don’t know how many will be infected. All we can do is take precautionary measures. The WHO messaging should have been stronger and earlier, but it isn’t their fault for not labeling a pandemic months ago. Granted, there was enough data and research done to squarely label this as a pandemic, and that’s really where I assign blame on them.

Here is a neat video that helps put things in perspective for most any viewer.
https://youtu.be/Kas0tIxDvrg
This is misinformation, and spreading misinformation like this is not helping anyone, and can actively hurt people.

Please educate yourself: https://www.flattenthecurve.com/
Read your insurance policy. There is a good chance that pandemics are excluded in the small letter.
For the most part, the only place I've seen people saying "this is just the flu" is on the internet, and especially in tech-heavy circles.

The only mass media where I've seen that was in a BBC television report from a soccer stadium, and that was only last night.
According to TFA:

> Officers in riot gear attended the scene and shot pepper balls at students
That was very informative, thank you!
People will of course want to gather still... I've always wanted to hit SXSW so I'd be pretty heartbroken, myself.

Even still, my partner and I are keeping an eye open on flights to Europe (we've always wanted to go) and seriously considering taking the risk of buying a flight for in a couple of months time because they are quite literally at half price right now. And I'm not even talking about Italy.

edit: Haha—to clarify, the risk being flight cancellation or border closures not catching or spreading disease.

2nd edit: Wow. I'm drawing a little ire here. I'll reiterate: the risk is in not being able to go because the problem continues. Please take the charitable view (and of my whole comment, not snippets)—not the one that I'm some kind of monster :)
Will we though? I'd like to agree but weren't the past pandemic/epidemic diseases within the last 20 years, yet this all feels like a new problem?
80-something percent of the time yes. The remainder is divided between "you need hospital, but will be fine" and "serious intensive care needed".

The trouble is that (1) the people who need hospital to be fine need hospital. They won't be fine if it isn't there, and (2) by being a selfish ass and treating it like just the flu, when it's a disease that grows exponentially in a no-immunity population, people are amplifying the speed and height of the peak, which means not enough hospital places.

If you get a situation where effectively nobody who needs hospital can get it - then those 20-ish percent just drop dead. And then there's your godly death rate.
Animals are absolutely a primary vector for infectious disease. No, there's no definitive evidence as of yet of patient 0, though the cluster of early cases in China had strong connections to the wet market in Wuhan. It's not necessarily the eating of the animals directly, but indirectly – because wild animals are kept stressed, in cages, next to other domesticated animals and people.

Even with conventional animal agriculture, things like bird flu and swine flu are a serious threat.
Part 5 of this thread:
https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/123714289107769753...

Perhaps it's an issue with translation, but then I'm entirely unsure what he means by "Arrest".
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We will have more of them, but they would be of _lower_ quality. Because they could no longer build off one another. You would start to see different API's because they _had_ to be different, not because they were better.
I haven't heard about Tesla/Panasonic securing any raw materials years in advance. Would that even be economically sensible? There's lots of investment in R&D to try to reduce certain ingredients (cobalt), but for now it's probably a level playing field, everybody is in the same position in fighting to procure the raw materials.
But it will kick in, pandemic or not.
Playing Devil's advocate, but if the situation does fizzle out in the US due to active measures, people will likely look back and say how it "ended up not being a big deal".
I believe I read somewhere that it had to be declared an epidemic on two continents for it to be called a pandemic.
Outstanding rhetoric!
The WHO and the US government have lost their credibility. I'm looking to state and local governments to step up. The California state government looks like they are doing and saying the right things ( better than the federal government at least ). Actions speak louder than words, look at what is working ( South Korea ) and what isn't.
That's a bit of a stretch...there are probably dozens of other obvious correlations in places where authoritarianism pops up, because authoritarianism is much more likely to spring up where people are poor and uneducated...
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I was testing a pre-release version of one of our products at work, and it was causing (inadvertently) massive slowdowns periodically due to a naive approach to scanning a system for installed applications.

So, I did what any sane devops engineer would do; I throttled the CPU use limit for its cgroup in the systemd service file. Now no more scans.

Except now the UI wouldn't load. Couldn't figure out why. Just an empty white window. Turns out, it's running a node.js server and the whole UI is rendered in HTML/CSS/JS, but because of that it was so non-performant that the UI would effectively not render at all if it couldn't slam your CPU.

I can't think of any native-code, native-widget, control-panel-type UI that would completely fail to render the entire window at all if limited to 10% CPU time, but hey, here we are.
seems like what you're talking about would fall under the real-time streaming category... HTTP overhead alone would outweigh the JSON differences you're talking about.
WHO is an organization with no real power; it was necessary to kiss China's ass so that they could gain access to the country and get early data on the virus. The alternative was that the rest of the world would have had to rely solely on the manipulated Chinese stats.
I don't understand how it's okay to let cats wander outside simply from a hygiene perspective. When my dog poops in public areas I'm required by law to clean it up. Why do cat owners not have the same responsibility?
Same in Poland. Schools, kindergartens, universities all closed starting Monday (Thursday and Friday are "if you must" to give people time to cope), but from what I hear from people, the Church considers itself to be a "hospital for the soul", and "you wouldn't close hospitals during a pandemic". smh.

> "the virus cannot be spread through Communion"

I assume Greece is Catholic, right? Because pope himself told people to take the "spiritual communion" instead of the actual one, and yet the Church in Poland doesn't seem to care.

EDIT: sorry. Somehow I thought Orthodox is mainly in Russia. But my rant against Polish Catholic Church still stands. Pope himself shows people what to do, but in Poland, we're going to do the opposite.
Please keep in mind I might be wrong, I just want to understand things outside of the hype.

So I don't buy all the hype, can somebody tell me why i'm wrong? I keep hearing claims from brilliant people that 50-80% of the population could easily be infected.

Exponential growth is obviously the answer, and is occurring because the median person is infecting more than one other person, which right now is coming from people not knowing they have the virus and not worrying about getting the virus. This will change as more people become infected. Assuming even the most BASIC of measures are taken, (people washing their hands, not going to crowded areas often, not travelling etc.) this will probably stop exponential growth.

In China, 5 people have been infected for every 100,000 citizens, and the virus isn't exponentially growing anymore. But fine, maybe they took good measures.

In Italy, it's closer to 20 people per 100,000. Fine, four times as high, but still a TINY portion of the population. If you assume that their graph will ever look anything like China's, there is no way in hell more than 1% of the population will be infected. It probably won't come within two orders of magnitude.

In what god forsaken situation could even 1% of the US get the Coronavirus?

Even without government intervention, as cases increase people will start taking this more seriously and the exponential growth will stop. Even if you don't have symptoms but have the virus, you aren't going to that concert or that vacation because you don't want to catch the virus from someone else. As long as you at most infect 1 other person, the exponential growth stops. This will happen way before 1% of the population is infected.

EDIT: I'm incorrect in the idea that people shouldn't worry about it, you should, but I believe that worrying about it will be enough to stop the exponential growth.
Yes, but clickbait.
Why is this evidence that “we need to abolish centralized institutions”? It’s not like every local organization can marshal expertise on every issue. Perhaps the WHO misjudged the coronavirus, but I’m confused about how this is suddenly a referendum on large institutions and the superiority of local ones.

Running the WHO seems hard. Alarm people too often and they will tune you out. Miss an alarm once and they will call you incompetent (“you had one job!”).
> Instead of opening the phone app, the messages app,
> facebook, twitter, etc. you would instead open the "Joe
> Smith" app and all of your conversations with that person
> across any medium would be aggregated in a single place

BlackBerry hub did this under BBOS10.

The android app more-or-less does it as well.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackberry...
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schema isn't part of the actual encoding though afaik.
What's the problem with starting screen sharing? That's how we do it and it works quite well. (Same timezone though)
Arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01086
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Why have the meeting at all if the information won't be shared? What is this, Ukraine while it was in the Soviet Union?
We are both correct in that they can do all/some/none of the below:

1. Structure their agreements so that some things are covered and others are not e.g. suicide is sometimes NOT covered for life insurance

2. Choose not to cover certain areas e.g. there were insurance firms choosing not to cover Staten Island even pre-Sandy

3. Set their rates at high levels to discourage people e.g. this happened in my old town house where there were too many claims based around water heaters leaking

Funny side story: I remember reading a book about the British Special Forces (S.A.S.) and there was a note that said only Lloyd's of London was willing to insure them due to the high risk of injuries from their line of work.

Funny side story #2:

One of my family members had a friend who was apparently a crazy driver. He drove a delivery truck so a bunch of the driver's friend (including my family member) took out a life insurance policy on him (driver). I didn't even realize you could do this but apparently you can.

In the end, turned out that the driver outlived all of the people who were on the policy!
I got the initial wake up call after it became clear this is much more contagious than SARS/MERS. (Reused parameters and initial data for contagion simulation.)

That was a month ago. Managed to get done most of the preparations designed for a quarantine of about a month length as predicated by Chinese data. And a few extras. Not exactly hoarding food levels.

What I didn't consider was how strict and well executed were the containment measures applied by China. Without these, we'll probably get much longer, three month run. The measures I've taken definitely will help but potentially are not enough.
Yes, for most people it isn't much to fear. Even children seem to fare well.

But since it is very contagious and dangerous to the elderly, it's still a good idea to distance yourself from at-risk groups. The panicked overreaction probably won't see the backlash that it deserves, because there is a kernel of truth that social distancing can help to protect a small number of the most vulnerable people.

Also, it's easy to point fingers in hindsight. A lot of the decision-making up to this point has been based on extrapolations from very incomplete information.
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AFAIK, it's not the virus that kills most (liver infections - TBD), it's the pneumonia that follows and there are lots of treatments for that.
Until 2 weeks ago, the tech press was still mocking the "no handshakes" recommendation.

Ironically, no ones hands are clean here. :(
No one said it was going to be easy, or convenient. But most estimates say 70% of the population could become infected and with Italy's mortality rate of 6% that's 13.7 million deaths in the U.S. alone.

We had 6 weeks to prepare for this, and we did nothing, and we're still not doing nearly enough.
Yes, but those bounds are not binary. The faster you arrive, the higher the chance survival (specially for things like strokes, arriving in 30 minutes is way better than in 2 hours).

Then there is the issue of cost for that flight and the poor state of healthcare.
I think gitlab has a huge advantage in remote work as in their mission is clearly understood by their employees ( to clone github.com). Its a very outsourcable class of problem where requirements are clearly understood and employees aren't required to really come up anything new or innovative.

I am yet to see a 100% remote company thats doing something brand new and innovative.
I disagree - the role of president in the USA is quickly marching towards "only voice of the government." This has been clear from many politicians acquiescing to the whims of that One Voice, sometimes to their own detriment, oftentimes to their benefit.
It has really been a lackadaisical response from the Austrian government - shades of Semmelweis all over again? This is a country that has monuments to Plague victims in its most valued districts ..

Going to be an interesting few weeks as we see how things proceed. To think, somewhere out there, the virus lurks and is headed our way ..
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That may be the case, but I would guess other insurance companies will buckle under similar pressure. Perhaps I'm being naive, but it seems like the worst kind of PR nightmare to financially cripple a group as big as those who will eventually be infected.
Executives and founders are also managers.
This pandering-to-China really needs to stop. At first it was "just business" but now it's objectively costing us human lives, and that's not okay.
Azure Files is exactly this.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage...
t=0 was three months ago
This is one of the things I like about Wirecutter's format for product recommendations-- in a good Wirecutter review, the "runner up" and "competition" sections are just as informative as their actual pick, because they'll highlight any deficiencies or tradeoffs in the item they picked, and explain why they chose what they did.
Except the statistics have been so wildly different across sources it'd be very unwise to follow any of them, and instead check the stories where possible. Only yesterday someone posted the accounts of people in Italy being overwhelmed. Last time I checked, a regular flu doesn't smash through a hospital's capacity so hard they have to ask doctors to change focus.
Nice try :).
I don't think this is much of a defense. This administration can't get its shit together, but they at least knew enough to cover up some of their incompetence?