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For every one Congressman, there are 5 pharma industry lobbyists.

Heard it on an NPR podcast fee days ago. So i guess that is the reason.
>in times of shortage you could sanitize and sterilize multiple use metal parts in house

Got one word for you: prions. Standard sanitization procedures do not work with them, and if the hospital is not setup to decontaminate for prions, they're unlikely to be able to to it during the crisis.

see https://www.memphis.edu/ehs/pdfs/deconprions.pdf for what it takes.
A group of friends were and still are evaluating video conferencing for small groups (<6 people).

Here's what we've tried so far:

Nextcloud:
I'm running a nextcloud instance since ~2 years (it's awesome) and tried nextcloud talk several times, though for some reason we could not get audio and or video to work.

Just this week we tried jitsi because it's open source and can be self-hosted.
Unfortunately while it worked in principle jitsi uses large amounts of cpu cycles when running in the browser and additionally latency and video quality was an issue.

For us the best option as of now is still https://whereby.com which works well regarding stability, audio/video quality and latency, though it's not self-hosted. I'm not affiliated in any way with them, I just like their product.

I'd love nextcloud talk to work, and I'm very curious about other solutions I'm not aware of - self-hosted and otherwise.

Edit:

After reviewing my nextcloud talk setup I saw that I didn't set up a TURN server which might be the reason it's not working.
So it's not nextcloud, but incomplete setup.
I've recently set jitsi up. Its dockerized version is pretty easy to get working and supports ssl automatically if you have a domain name.
I generally try to take comments on their own merits, but I ruthlessly downvote comments that complain about being downvoted.
I doubt that this is true. Given the amount of advantages you have from learning in the Internet and avoiding mistakes locally.
I'm not against a reduction in livestock. It solves a bunch of ethical problems. I think if fast food restaurants alone slowly transition to higher percentage of plant based proteins in patties, it would have a outsize impact compared to grass-roots abstinence. But why not both, I suppose?

I'm a huge fan of forests, wetlands, bushlands, heathlands, prairies, and other wild landscapes. If land use in agriculture dropped, my preference would be to see that land go back to the trees, wild-flowers, and the many creatures that live with them.
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Hi HN! We felt we wanted to help in the way we could during these difficult times. We combined three features, our Dashboard, Rules and Shared folders features to build this dashboard. We also implemented so shared folders, that are usually only for teams, something that can be shared publicly.

We're not trying to play judge of which piece of news is true or false, but we did hand pick some sources that most of the time post high quality news. Hopefully this can be a good place to monitor the situation without being bombarded from regular browsing.

We're now looking for feedback to make it even more useful. Any thoughts on the format? Missing any sources?
> There are many smart people on HN who are perfectly capable of reading and understanding research literature in an area that is NOT their primary expertise

Most of those people know that reading papers is far from enough to understand the issues at hand and making such stark statements. I've seen this issue a lot in HN: people who have no experience at all in a field, who think they are very smart, reading something on a paper or Wikipedia and then making these broad statements, specially without any sources. Intellectualism implies being humble and recognizing when one is not an expert in the matter, in order to avoid spreading misinformation and doubt.
not trying to be a wise ass in anyway, a legitimate question .. i'm wondering do you have to shutdown a bar that still allows smoking? can the virus even survive on surfaces and in the air if tobacco smoke is present?
I have a compromised immune system. I have a close relationship to my two adult sons who still live with me. I don't like strangers touching me.

Historically, humans lived in small, close-knit family units or small villages. The human mind is optimized to deal with a social group of about 150 people, not a city of thousands.

A lot of our loneliness and similar problems could be largely resolved if we returned to a pattern of small, close-knit communities as our norm and we could improve germ control at the same time.

It's a general human norm that most cultures promote a long-term, monogamous relationship as the standard. Sex is vastly less dangerous if two people are only intimate with each other and neither of them sleeps around.

Reducing casual social contact in no way means we simply can't get our social needs met. It can mean the opposite. It can mean a return to meaningful social bonds instead of casual hookups from grinder.
https://archive.md/CJJGX
FYI, the core team behind JAX are the autograd people.
To make matters worse, undefined behaviour doesn't just exist at runtime. It can also happen at compile time etc. And it is allowed to time travel.
My in-laws just got one for their lake house, and it’s been equally fun to watch.

It’s the perfect thing for there because the last thing you want to do after a relaxing weekend at the lake is vacuum. Just hit go before leaving and you’re set.

Now I’m curious about the lawn ones. Anyone have any experience to share?
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If a lot of people die, a lot of economic value will be literally put into the ground: funerals, handling of estates, coffins. That's not long-term productive value. At best it reshuffles money in an optimal-blind way.
My average recently seems to be around 4. Last friday I got 2 and on the weekends I can sleep 12+. I'm really considering seeing a doctor just in case, because I've started resorting to very bad sleep aids and on some occasions there have been times where I am prevented from passing out in-office because i dropped my phone while nodding off. Im also pretty much unable to concentrate worth shit anymore. I'm willing to accept that its probably lifestyle issues, but idk. The times I seem to be "naturally" tired and awake seem a bit strange.
All of those guys had funding trouble. Even HARC didn't last more than a couple of years, I think because the funders pulled out.

That Nile/Gezira has languished is especially tough, but I think that's partially because Amelang had some personal troubles [1]. Note that at the bottom of that Github issue there is a link to a recent talk by Amelang in which, eventually, he talks about a new language he is working on called Bert or something. I'm thinking it's a next-gen follow up to Nile.

[1] https://github.com/damelang/nile/issues/3
The same cooks. The restaurant has maybe 70 employees total.
My guess is that it requires deeper pockets but it is an utterly fucked thing to call actually competing for employeers anticompetitive. Granted the accusation "anticompetive" is often a tall poppy complaint that really means "I don't want to have to compete with that!"
You can try setting up https://www.kurento.org/

Note that all modern browsers support WebRTC. I wrote a simple server to setup WebRTC sessions between browsers that worked, but it's probably easier to use kurento.
Here is a relevant video by the fantastic self-taught botanist Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

PSA - Kill Your Lawn w/ Silphium terebinthinaceum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz9I2YwmV8M

(Also related HN discussion on another of his videos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21041193)
don't hate yourself. china is facing a huge economic epidemic from the elderly and although noone wants to be "that guy" this virus outbreak could actually be a good thing for them and the rest of the world to curb the elderly population.

https://time.com/5523805/china-aging-population-working-age/
Depends a lot on the part and on the printer. Did you see the update? Some company "massprinted" them using a powder based printer. From the image I'd say 40 or 50 pieces.
Makes me wonder what would it take to 3D print other life saving devices? And are there designs online in the public domain ?
That is probably the best approach: start manufacturing at scale as soon as the risk profile of a vaccine candidate offers a minimum of confidence for it to be working. And doing that with as many companies in the field as possible in parallel to increase probabilities of success.

As a retail investor living in Germany, this confirms my decision to put a little bit of money into Moderna stock. I would have done the same with CureVac, but they aren't listed at any stock exchange unfortunately.
That’s a good point I hadn’t considered. Only time will tell, I guess. These are now really scary times to be in.
Yes USB drive and SD card firmware is just crap as with any embedded software... Firmware is always crap... That said, NAND Flash storage is quirky.

Individual bits on a NAND flash can be addressed or read out in kB "page". Each pages can be "programmed" aka written to, by repeatedly applying desired bit patterns (0b11001001 ... 0b11001001 ... and it sticks). Bits can only be set by writes, not unset. "Depth" of write can be deepened for longer storage or can be used to represent multiple state in the same bit(e.g. 0V means zero, 0.5V means one, 1.0V means two ... that's ternary). State of the art of multi-level write is something like 256 or 1024 levels per cell(bit).

Above is for read and write operations. As said, write ops can set bits, but cannot unset(0b0010 can be overwritten to 0b1111 but not 0b1101). So, in real life, all data in the page is wiped clean before writing. However in erasing context, erase operations take "blocks", of dozens of "pages" together in few MB size where you'd love to specify individual cells or pages. This means a one byte change in a file on a disk necessitate few MB worth of erase. To make it even worse, one cell of the flash lasts only up to 10k program-erase cycles on ancient chips or could be little as 300 cycles on modern designs. Clearly a naive approach destroys NAND way faster that what is commercially acceptable pace. Error margins are even worse, I've read that ECC correction is part of normal read operations or something.

Concerning all these quirks combined, clearly the flash chip interfaces cannot be directly exposed to OS driver, disk LBA addresses cannot be linearly mapped to chip banks in the ways DIP EEPROMs might have been wired in the 80s. Write ops must be cached to minimize reprogramming, and also must be constantly redirected to least used areas. Erase ops must be substituted by marking pages safe to discard. Defragmentation must be handled disk-local to avoid stray active pages scattering. These features called Wear Leveling are present on virtually any flash storage devices, since around high capacity cards started to exceed 16GB in size. From then, the controllers grew to support MLC/TLC/QLC technology(256 level per bit thing) or DRAM-less SLC caching(use part of TLC/QLC chip as SLC as substitute for DRAM write cache - used to be multiple GB of DDR3 in itself at one point) etc etc.

In short, you're completely right that SD cards and USB sticks are "not disks". Large erase units and low endurance of NAND chips, that necessitate intricate nursing, is what makes them "not".
(I'm only a PC nerd, not a NAND expert. Especially numbers above are through my Google-fu so can be off)
Yes. The simplest example is when the loop has no other side-effects.

But you could also have something like:

while(true) {
if(some condition) {
do stuff;
break;
}
}

In this case, a compiler might be allowed to assume that 'some condition' happens to be true eventually.
$1.2B appropriate? It’s hard for me to tell in this case because I don’t know the size of the market they colluded to capture.

Did Apple gain more than $1.2B in profits? Is this just a cost of doing business? There are so many cases when the fine is worth the expense, like advertising.

I would much rather see a corporation be banned from a sector for a period of time when they get caught, in addition to a fine.

Wells Fargo gets caught creating fake credit card accounts for customers? Wells Fargo can no longer sign up new credit card customers for 2 years.

Equafax leaked everyone’s social security numbers? You are banned from accepting new customers for 3 years.

The punishments I'm suggesting are off-the-cuff but some sort of corporate business practice penalty is more fitting than just a fine.

It also gives the company time to correct the problem before they continue to do business in that sector.
Do you have any references for that? It sounds horrifying, but very plausible.
I'm not sure how much non-developers care about "native look and feel". In the arena of iOS apps, extremely popular ones like Snapchat, Discord, Gmail, GroupMe, and Facebook (to an extent) use non-native-looking controls and different user interface paradigms. All of them are cross-platform as well.
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The article itself doesnt really go anywhere as in it seems to be an exercise is busy work. One could conclude that on conscious experiences are just a hodgepodge of state.
Okay and which optimization does this allow for? What's the difference in the emitted binary?
I too bought a robotic vacuum out of curiosity (high end iRobot) and found the algorithm to be completely inadequate both in it's mapping and it's ability to adequately cover the area that it was supposed to clean. Additionally it left random patterns in the carpet that could only be described as a drunk toddler vacuuming... in other words, it didn't look clean. It took more than 3 days to map the three rooms that it was supposed to clean, getting stuck away from it's base unable to return because it's charge ran out. It would also get stuck under my bed. I'm not certain how it's possible that it could have done a worse job. I waited for years to enter the robot vacuum market and can state unequivocally that waiting 9 generations wasn't enough of a wait.
https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/...

It happened on the 31st of Jan. I think that was before Taiwan stop, but I'm not 100% sure.
> 3d printing has an extremely small window where they are useful for bulk use parts like this.

If you can have enough printing capacity on site (per hospital, per unit) to meet demand (keep you X number of ventilators running indefinitely) it might make sense.

Still having 1000s of spares in a closet might be safer than relying on a 3d printer bein online some n percent of the time.
X.com was registered in 1993 but bought by Musk in 1999.
He lost the domain name by leaving the Paypal but bought back the domain name from Paypal in 2017: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/884580654117076992

X.com is one of the few single-character domain names that created before IANA’s restriction of single-letter and single-digit domain names registration in December 1993.
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Hello, I'm launching this app today, it's not perfect yet, there are many features that I'd like to exist instantly, but at some point I have to pause iterating and release something, so here I am.

By the way, here is an example of what a shared video page:

https://cutvid.io/share/?29-zg8kxKwc17X7fnPAsOwz
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I personally don’t think there’s a floor, all that matters is spread over treasuries. If we go with your 2% number, that’s the spread between the mortgage risk and the risk-free rate. If risk-free goes to -1%, then it’d make sense for mortgages to go to 1%. This is something that already happens in European countries. I don’t think there’s an inherent reason for the risk-free rate to be a positive number.

On a different note, 2% default != 2% loss. Mortgages are secured by the property, losing investors only a small fraction in foreclosure, so a 2% default * 25% severity = 0.5% loss.
I'll try to counter your arguments, even though I share your sentiments against Electron:

* Huge memory impact for your app

The same is true for native macOS applications.

* Non-native look and feel (no, neither Vue nor anything else give a native app experience)

Agreed.

* Possible security holes, as Electron is patched behind Chrome, and your app therefore behind Electron

Security holes with respect to what kind of threat? That is, for an application that gets installed on a computer and runs with user privileges (), what is the kind of threat that could break Chrome/Electron but not a native macOS application?

() If we are talking about sandboxed applications, the thread could alternatively be the application breaking out of its sandbox. A different analysis is obviously needed here.

* (...) you value their computer resources very little (...)

This seems to contradict the suggestion to write a native c/c++ backend. Such a backend can easily optimize the performance-critical parts. Premature optimisation isn't the same as valueing your user's resources.

* Electron is the solution when a developer values themselves over their customers.

This is a false dichotomy. A developer who makes his/her life easier has more time to work on things that matter, including optimization.
Definitely measure the performance with sqlite though. I recently found one of my recursive queries had really bad performance compared with using a temporary table, because the CTE didn't create an automatic covering index. Had to separate it out into two queries (which changed it from something like .3s to .009s + .001s).
Polio, drugs, and >40 years of Cold War fail the "event" part of "world event"

The Great Famine fails the "world" part.

Your first item is sort of arguable, but I'd say it's half not an event, and half not independent enough of WW2 to count.
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I dunno. As bad as Haskell's exceptions are, I still didn't see anything better.

On a sane system, every little thing must be cancellable, otherwise nothing really is. This interface fails because of this.
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It appears from Wikipedia that normally you sterilize things at 121° in steam for 15–20 minutes? If that's the case, common plastics like nylon and polydimethylsiloxane should be okay, although poly(lactic acid), commonly used in FDM 3-D printing, and poly(ethylene terephthalate) won't be.
The morbidity rate is around 5%. In locations where they can keep the ICU beds from being overwhelmed, the mortality rate is low. In locations where the ICU beds are overwhelmed, the mortality rate goes up considerably. It all comes down to how well the system can respond to the load of people needing substantial medical care.
Replacing Windows? UOS claims to be able to boot in 30 seconds
How so? Doing an online meeting is way more sustainable than for example flying to somewhere to have a discussion in person.
I believe newer versions of MacOS dropped support for a specific partition scheme (the name of which I unfortunately don’t quite remember)

I spend some time on it just recently because disk manager would not work with the official Ubuntu images.
I spend all my time online and don't always keep normal hours. I sleep far better than I used to.

I'm healthier than I used to be and I live a spartan life. To accommodate my health issues, I have no carpeting, no upholstered furniture, no books or magazines in the house, etc.

These articles consistently vilify modern tech and the kind of light it emits. They seem to never, ever, ever mention modern North American Affluenza as in any way pertinent to the problem space.

I think they are overlooking a very important detail.

I'm sure there are others. That's not everything. But I think it's a large factor that is largely overlooked.
It's simple and works very well! maybe a little bit harder to self-host but definitely a top option!
Future generations will look to us in amusement that in 2020 only thing robots could do people’s home was vacuuming.
> Since the way to achieve a good night’s sleep was by no means self-evident. . .

It couldn't be more self-evident: stop doing things and go to bed with enough time to sleep your amount. Anyone can do it any evening.

The challenge isn't how to sleep but how to prioritize your life to avoid distraction from encroaching in that time. That's a matter of examining your life, figuring out your values, and learning to act on them.

If you prioritize other things and sleep less, fine, you prioritize other things and sleep less, but don't say the way to a good night's sleep is hard if you chose not to turn off your computer.
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I Bought 2.5-ish Roombas, maybe paid MSRP for one, and bought (and repaired) a couple of refurb units off Woot a decade or so ago.

It was an interesting exercise, and if our pet-load was a little lighter (I'd hate to see it get caught in Macaw Poop) I'd consider doing it again.

But.

They do wear and there was maintenance, and the batteries did lose capacity, and I eventually wandered away from them because there was a lot of labor in a labor saving device.

Maybe a mop for the trailer?
> I have a hard time believing he'd go so far as to deny the world a vaccine for this,

I think outside the U.S. no one would be surprised if he really did that.

Or blackmail other countries into some deal that's only great for him, but not for the rest of the world.
I have to admit: I've never been able to fully wrap my head around Piumarta's papers for STEPS (in particular the COLA stuff), but think I "get" about 30-40% of it. Even that part I understand sounds like magic.
Do employers-as-a-class get together to talk about their feelings?
Probably the best thing a woman can do upon discovering that she is pregnant is to see a doctor. Under your argument, it would be ‘scientifically reasonable’ for pregnancy tests to automatically track your name, age, and location, and then send your results to your doctor.

Obviously this is a massive violation of privacy...which is exactly the same issue.
Gross. It's the smell, not the appearance.
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Patch dosfsck to just dump every file it sees.
given that the US has spent[0] over $5,000,000,000,000 on pointless wars, redirecting even a fraction of that toward a necessary one should be a no-brainer.

[0]: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/war/
The value proposition is that they can do 90% of the job with 10% of the effort. It takes me 1-2 minutes to pick up stray socks and usb cords and start the vacuum right before I walk out the door for work. The things it doesn't do can be dealt with with a broom and duster, and that ends up being very infrequent.
Still, many don't have the space to work distration-free with children at home when schools are closed. Open-plan offices can be noise, young children at home tend to be noisier.
> Public health officials say it will take a year to 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine.

About the same length of time that experts were originally saying that it would take to get it out - unless they corners, I suppose.
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