skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a fairly unusual scenario though, where the government actively disliked their citizens, many politicians explicitly happy to see the Irish suffer, others viewing it as the will of God, and none of them dependent on Irish votes.

It's an indication of how things can go wrong with the government working against you, but I don't know that it maps well to the current pandemic.
I don't understand why they populate MiniPCIe vs an M.2 slot.

Anyone know?

Only thing I can imagine is the key variants for M.2 are more complicated.
In the current climate, encountering people in public doesn't feel like a sunny day. I'm breathing shallow and keeping distance. I suspect people careful enough to be wearing a mask in public are staying very aware of their mask. Especially as they get within sneeze range.
Reminds me of how Hitler killed himself in a bunker, basically in downtown Berlin... which is now a grass/gravel parking lot that, despite Germany’s desire to never forget WWII, is almost entirely forgotten (primarily for fear of worshipers overrunning the place).
I guess self-checkout is a matter of taste and/or opinion. Personally, I prefer it at the grocery store when I have the choice.
Last I checked, patents only prevent you from selling infringing items, not making them for your own use. From the pictures I saw, the 3D item wasn’t a straight copy, so the copyright case would also be weak.

I doubt Fracassi is open to any legal liability at all. The hospital might be guilty of some IP infringement, especially if they charged someone for use of the part, or for the part itself.

I’d guess the bigger liability would come from the patients suing for the use of non-approved medical devices (which I doubt will happen, or would hold up in this case).

Note: not a lawyer, and certainly not an italian lawyer.
Why aren’t we working to create a 3D print file of this ourselves and releasing it?

If other hospitals do indeed need this valve, we should be spending our time doing this.
The "comparative advantage" we enjoy is an artificial creation of deliberate policy choices. The traditional "well this is just econ 101" macroeconomic lectures describe scenarios as they exist, not how they should be. The "comparative advantage" that you think developing countries have is using cheap slave wage labor to produce an unending wave of cheap (mostly plastic) consumer goods that people are quickly realizing in this pandemic they don't really need. Not to mention non-existent environmental regulations.

I hope that this crisis makes people do a deep introspection of their consumption habits, and realize where these "goods" actually come from, and whether it was really worth it to stock our giga stores with this stuff.
Yes. Assembly might prove tedious though.
Based on the article’s last line, the problem is that it is very difficult to make a profit on masks.

When this thing blows over, no one will buy an N95 mask anymore, and the capital investment will have been wasted, and possibly never be recovered.

Probably the only people making any real money on masks are the hoarders, that collect and sell it for triple the price.
Yes you are right. Even with laws preventing price gouging people will sell/buy what they want. If sellers/buyers cannot do that in government regulated market - they will do that in the black markets
One odd property of remote teaching is that you can use notes a lot more; you can have a pile of papers on your desk with your lesson plans written out -- and you can refer to them without your students really noticing anything odd. So you can make lesson plans by piecing together piles of things that you have lying around and still have a coherent and useful lesson.

Then there are things you can do face-to-face that are really difficult remotely which you just have to avoid.

These include:
- students doing anything long on their own
- teaching interactive programs

These are related problems.

If students are going to do an exercise on their own, it needs to be small enough that it's possible for them to post the whole thing that they've done into the chat channel.

So it's nearly impossible to teach how to use an interactive program that has a lot of hidden screens. (e.g. teaching Qlik remotely is hard; Tableau tends to be easier because you can post a screenshot).

(If you want to teach those things, it's better to create a simulation for it e.g the kind of thing that e-learning authoring tools like Articulate does.)

So put together, you end up with short-ish theory session followed by a 30 second exercise, followed by another short-ish theory session, and so on until the end of the time.

If there is substantive work to be done (e.g. some mathematics practice work), that needs to be students submitting something into a LMS (learning management system), not something you do in a classroom. That kind of thing works for me because I've only got adult learners; I don't know how it would work for younger students.

Of course you follow all the guidelines from whoever is sponsoring the course, which often entails wrapping everything in a pre-defined sandwich of "this is what we did last lesson; this is what you will learn; this is what you just learned; this is what we will cover next lesson" -- if that's the kind of thing the sponsor wants to see.
They can probably also move to invalidate the patent. There is precedent for this sort of thing in the US, at least.
It's often the simple things, not meant to last long, but work well that live the longest.
Won’t be strong enough to move a tank though if designed for a focus...
Yes i stand corrected. I had my country LT in mind. But as you self write “ as long as there is no non-lethal way to do so.” Same probabbly for rape. If guy trying to commit rape changes his mind just by seeing a gun, and stops, it would be illegal for you just to open fire and kill him.
amazon go is the self-checking next step and seems to be superior to cashiers altogether
I know! What are you waiting for?
IANAL but I‘m not sure it would work this way since parliament cannot directly influence the judge. And I think this wouldn’t be a criminal case, so they would have to change patent laws (might take too long now), or find a different way - eg they could promise to fully reimburse all infringers of this patent though.
I don't know, maybe it is. Maybe the politics of our world simply are that cynical and won't allow for such a thing to exist. But I guess I'm hoping it isn't. I'm trying to imagine how a non-authoritarian institution would work; it wouldn't have the "authority" to compel anyone to turn over their data, but just about everyone would have enough trust in the community and its decision making process to be okay with it.

What I guess I'm asking is ... what if the organizations we built looked more like the WHO, and less like the CIA?
I'm usually teaching over Zoom / Nexi / Google Hangouts or something like this, not OBS. This is bi-directional, interactive teaching, not broadcasting / live-streaming a class.

Those tools too can capture individual screens, but then how do you do a PowerPoint presentation when you only have one monitor?
I think you overpaid, I paid less than half that the last time I bought a box of 10, which was not at a time of high demand.
>We have the workforce.

That's the problem - you don't. By definition, the kind of efficient, highly-automated manufacturing you're thinking of doesn't need many unskilled or semi-skilled workers, but it does need skilled and experienced engineers and machinists. It needs a massive and complex ecosystem of suppliers and support.

The depletion of America's industrial base has created a massive skills gap that would take decades to remedy. You can't create a new Silicon Valley with a bunch of bootcamp graduates and some wishful thinking; likewise, you can't create a manufacturing economy through sheer force of will.
>A nation is not a useful or even approximate proxy for values.

What? Of course it is. Even if you went one level down, states in the United States itself are excellent proxies for the mean values that are held in a particular region. If your point is that every geographic region has groups of people on the fringe, then yeah fine. That's true. But that doesn't mean anything with regard to the usefulness of what makes up a nation or its borders - which are of course proving quite useful during a pandemic.
The way I think about it is the base case of a recursive function to evaluate the two. In order to preserve folding Boolean AND across a list your base case must be true. Folding Boolean OR across a list only works if your base case is false.
If it was legal to own slaves and someone owned slaves, I would blame them. And work to free all their slaves.
This will save a lot of lives. It will simultaneously increase the capacity of our health system while also significantly decreasing exposure risk.
Looks like they recommend 500gb storage space for production.. where are running yours?
Then there's this one from privacytools.io where they disregard criticism as "Fake News" https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/375... and get all upset at people for "shitting on them". (Note mattatobin is also one of their devs).
That looks very similar and indeed you can purchase those for 7000 rupees ~ 100 USD at https://m.indiamart.com/proddetail/ventu-cpap-mask-kit-m-l-2... which sounds reasonable for a disposable medical device. The original article is completely unsubstantiated. If the story could be verified then the manufacturer could be named.
That's actually the wrong way round. In order to be pardoned, they first have to be found guilty, so they need to go through the expense of defending themselves. What's needed is to prevent the cases from getting that far in the first place, which could be done by the government taking possession of any relevant patents for the duration and issuing a time-limited license.
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That is not we are seeing from GDC talks and LunarG surveys.

Vulkan is a PC thing, without any impact on consoles, even on the Swift, NVN is what gets mostly used unless it is a PC port.

Also the subject of this thread, Ray Tracing, was developed by Microsoft and NVidia together and took two years to reach Vulkan.

How long will Vulkan now take to adopt shader meshes?
After having done editing, I imagine that 30 minutes is optimistic.

Your best bet is to take the low-tech approach and distribute the slides seperately in pdf form.
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Going through the wiki link, some of the jobs might end (or already be at the end of it) but it would be less due to Covid-19 and more due to some automation (and hence cost saving to the business). That said,the following jobs seem fine for the time, maybe the way (or the workplace) might change, but definitely won't end soon:

* Receptionist

* Administrative Assistants

* Lobbyists

* Corporate lawyers

* Telemarketers

* Public relations specialists

* Programmers repairing shoddy code

* Middle management

* Leadership professionals
So the price has lawyering baked in. I agree with GP that this is almost the same as liability.
That's why I do the two system thing (Workspaces for the slides, laptop for my face video). Then I don't even bother editing it afterwards unless I think there's something really important. The recording shows your face in a window because you are speaking, and the content in a big screen.

You just hit the "record" button in Zoom and it works.

This of course makes sense because we were operating remotely; if your wife is teaching in a lecture theatre then that's a different kind of thing. Likewise, if she is creating lectures to be viewed offline, then the cost and effort goes up, and she's now going to be spending all her spare waking hours editing video.
Can you describe why in some cases one cant hear the other peer? There are different sdp versions if i remember correctly but if you only use audio and video without changing the tracks later on it should work perfectly i guuess.
Sony and Microsoft will never get Vulkan on their platforms, and I bet none of the new models will support it as well.
A pity Firefox Focus is not covered
with community spread being so prevalent, what is the logic behind border closings between two comparable countries? It's not like it matters any more if one sick person moves from Canada to the US or vice versa any more than any other movement.
By your nomenclature this is java 1.14
Sorting - really? Isn't the first thing to learn about Dynamo the primary key and the sort key? Filtering you can do on the database but you still pay for the reads as if it wasn't filtered. To me Dynamos biggest con is that it's propriety technology and aggregations it's just not really any good for.
I don't know how it is now, but you've just described every single well-meaning starry eyed fresh Microsoft employee in the 00s and likely before. The fact that management did not see how fucked up this was is a condemnation of the Microsoft company culture of that period. Again, don't know how it is now. I turned in my blued badge well over a decade ago.
Not the same thing. Property taxes based on the improved value of the land create a perverse incentive to avoid making improvements, and California prop 8 and similar laws encourage people to hold property as long as possible rather than sell to people who could make better use of it.
Never heard of it, but as a tech nerd from the 80's it sounds awesome. Will definitely check it out.
Personally, I think the only way we will retake our privacy is when hobby level, readily available hardware, software, and 3d printable parts enable hobbyists to create “good enough” phones with encryption and privacy options that won’t exist in mass market phones.

Then an enterprising startup can deliver marked-up, preassembled devices, then people might have privacy again.
Excellent question. Operator manuals for e.g. military vehicles (and weapons) are fairly step-by-step, though not necessarily idiot proof. I would how that a lot of us here could figure out the basics on our own, and with a manual be up to speed in a few hours if it really came to that.
Israel started using cellphone tracking as of today.
An in stable (transitional) government got an approval from the justice department.
The tracking is based on location / cell data stored at the mobile operators and should be used for tracking people around a positive covid person to send text messages asking them to get into their home to a lock down for 14 days.
Cellphone data is retrospective of course.

However, once asked to go home. Enforcement will used current location data.
Doesn't change my point though. A human translator almost certainly would have caught an error like this.
Yeah this is a fair point, it looks like a generic bunker with the (same limited) equipment long ago pillaged by the local people who knew about it. Not much value IMO, outside of maybe knowing the full scale of the deployment.

Once one or two of them are museums and the known survivors were documented, there's not much archeological or historical value in hunting them all down.
"We must find them before they find us"

Aren't there inherent risks in going to search for these viruses, storing them in research centers and performing experiments with them?
These are good questions! It may well be that there's an architectural breakthrough out there that will obsolete this whole approach. It's one of very many ways it can fail. Think of it as a hedge, at a societal level. What if we aren't able to come up with a technological breakthrough? After all, software has lagged Moore's law for decades now. I think there's a very real danger in the next few decades that software will get regulated like other fields before it, killing the intrinsically motivated aspect of it entirely. That would be a huge loss to society.

We'll have to see how higher levels of the stack develop. I started on this quest building a Lisp, so believe me when I say I can't wait to get to the high-level side of things. There doesn't seem any reason to imagine that we can't have good primitives, grammar and visual representation. My claim is merely that in addition to these interface properties the implementation for them is also important. And it gets short shrift in the conventional narrative.

That said, let's imagine that there's a strong case that we need to give up parser generators (or something similarly high-level) in order to give everybody the ability to understand their computers. I'd take that trade in a heartbeat.
While I suppose it’s an interesting academic discussion, frankly the idea of being able to safely contain an aerosolized upper respiratory disease at home is ludicrous to begin with, so it doesn’t really matter.

The simple truth of the matter is that if you are in a home or apartment with an infected person, and you remain present during their period of high viral shedding, you’re practically certain to contract it as well. You don’t have a negative pressure containment room, your home furnace is going to drag it all over the house. Normal airflow as you open the door will probably drag it out.

It’s perfectly valid to stay and care for grandpa, just don’t have any illusions that you’re not going to get it as well. You 100% will. Doctors who are trained in cleanliness and with access to real, non-makeshift gear are getting it.

That’s fine if you’re not a senior yourself. Severe reactions are fairly rare for anyone under 60 or so. And it can’t really be helped without abandoning grandpa.
In your heart of hearts, do you think Donald Trump has ever uttered the words "executive branch"? Honest question.
What follows are just my assumptions and observations but:

I think it’s meant to discourage shopping or eating at rest stops or small towns along the way, or unnecessary contact between family & friends either at a destination or while in a car or minivan, travelling. They are in fact trying to discourage “any other movement” with the closing of gatherings over 10-50 people depending on jurisdiction, the call to practice social distancing (and only leaving your home when it is essential to do so), etc.

They aren’t restricting truckers, who technically could carry and spread the disease because the point isn’t entirely to stop the disease at the border but to instead limit everyday movement to the essential. Assuming transport workers isolate themselves as much as anyone else does, the trade benefits far outweigh the potential harm, especially as truck drivers are often alone anyway, hard to spread it to others then. Compare this to personal travellers who meet and interact with small town folks or who travel as a group... lots of contact, lots of opportunities to share that which we don’t want shared. ;-)
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The Irish example is a real world example of the government tampering in some way with landlords and it having unintended consequences that were disastrous.
Don't forget to take the GoF while you're at it.
This was the day before the shelter in place order was announced. The guy was going on under his breath about how people don't know how this thing was transmitted, that you aren't supposed to wear them if you aren't sick. He said it in this really sort of stressed out and angry kinda way. I apologized in what I hope was a really sincere kind of way

(I mean, I... am not going to be angry at someone who works retail at a time like this, short of maybe getting physically attacked. I know I'm feeling bad 'cause I am working from home and have to deal with my own lack of discipline and have to cook for myself now. I have top-shelf medical insurance and unlimited sick time. I can only imagine that those on the front lines, getting sneezed on all day with none of those benefits are in bad shape.)

Dude said "It's not your fault, it's the media" and generally seemed mollified - I mean, if this were facebook, I'd fire back something about how I don't see how his media is any more accurate than mine, considering neither of us are experts... and if you are supposed to wear a mask if you are sick, well, almost none of us actually know if we are sick. But this was a face to face interaction, so I sincerely wished him good health and finished the paperwork (before quarantine, I'd use 'order online, pick up in store' orders to minimize time in store)
Nothing but love to the Canadians. USA's all-time best friend.

It's time to close the border.
Homemade masks can be quite effective: http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1206.051468
I disagree with the idea that no one will will an N95 mask after this threat ends. I personally use N95 masks in my shop all the time. I have a collection of masks for various filtration tasks including dust, welding gases, paint and organic vapors, and even an asbestos rated dust mask. Some of them are disposable N95 or N99 masks while others are half-face canister cartidge masks.

There will always be a market for masks and I think the price will go back down to normal levels - under $30 for 20 disposable masks.

Plus you have to consider that medical workers who use different N95 masks than I need, will always need protection from airborne threats. That won't change at all. The only change will be the threat itself.

People that hoarded these masks to gouge others should be held to account for that. I considered buying masks for my family but once I decided it might be a good idea, they were in short supply and the gougers had taken over the market. I currently have a few masks in my shop but almost all of them are used. I just bag them in a ziploc between uses so they don't absorb any fumes or get dusty or in the worst case, get pissed on by the rats that I'm trying to keep out of my shop.
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Legal is a low standard. If something is legal to do does not mean it is ethical to do.

I guess they are not in consumer space and donate valves would not have any real return.
not the same thing, no
The context of making a joke in front of an audience is very different from presenting guidelines for a virus.
> Show me any random collection of 10,000 Americans and I will show you $2 million/year of disposable income without sacrificing a single smartphone or smart TV.

That's $200/year on average. Not exactly a compelling argument.
Compatibility? Something like Iridium radio might still be using miniPCIe. And you wouldn’t want adapters in embedded.
Will this work for Covid19?

Can we get these plans to hacker spaces, college engineering teams and others who can start building these for their communities?

Folks need to stay on these for weeks to recover and we have a very short supply.
MiniPCIe allows for adding wifi, network, storage (M.2) and other cards.

M.2 limit to only storage.
> without any real data

The trouble is we can only get "real data" by testing more people. If we test more people we will almost certainly discover the numbers are worse than they appear now.

All that is to say that the situation can only be worse than we already know. I'm not sure more data would lead us to isolate less at all.

You might be right that there could be large numbers of people with the virus who are doing just fine right now, but we know from nearly 200,000 cases (that's plenty) that a non-trivial portion of cases require hospitalization. That's the whole problem, right there.

So we know hospitals can be overwhelmed and a LOT of people die for it. Healthcare workers included.

We know the situation is probably worse than it looks, but we won't know how much worse for weeks yet.

So without real data, it seems to err on the side of caution is absolutely essential. This can bring countries to their knees within weeks, and it has.

What would you propose we do without real data?