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Thanks, I've tried again after reading your reply and, indeed, it managed to pick up a GPU job rather quickly. I did disable the CPU slot, don't know if it's a coincidence but a couple days ago when I tried this first it spent several hours only running CPU work w/o any GPU.
Yes, that's exactly right. Sure, if it gets warmer than one place currently just right will be too warm, but might there be another place too cold which is now just right? Although maybe there aren't enough places of the right altitude at the right elevations, with the right rainfall in new conditions.

Also, 'he,' not 'they.' :-)
I just assumed people who say this have kids. I have a 2 year old and the past two weeks have been hell.
As a previous commentator noted, the Chinese were providing guidance on chloroquine a month ago.
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Personally, I almost quit Twitter.
Twitter used to be my online hang-out of preference but now it seems like no one is talking about anything else.
The only thing I can do is get away from it before it gets me too depressed/angry.
Does anyone know how they do the “virtual object insertion” demonstrated in the paper summary video? Can that be somehow done on the network itself, or is that a diagnostic for scene accuracy by performing SFM on network output?
well that's a little disingenous. they have been profitable before.

from where i stand they attempted to turn their platform into an entire travel experience (w/ business travel "certifications", spending lots on verifying pictures/host setups/etc., experiences) as opposed to just sharing homes. i believe they have large M&A associated with this, buying up some longer-term rental sites who may have been competitors in the future as well.
But these investors have to rent out at market prices, thus reducing load on rental markets
So "burn down the Internet, all the way back to the BBS days, and burn those down too."

Seems like overkill.
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Story is not true. https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-ital...
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Shakti has an arbitrary memory limit (like 4 GB or so).
And all of these 'upsides' will occur regardless in a few years. Why hasten economic benefit at the cost of human life? Economic benefit is only of benefit to human being so it's not an arguable equation.
You can tell the existing client that now the intro. offer has expired and for new pages, you will charge $x/Hour with limited revisions. If he really liked your work, he would still pay. If not, you need to find a new client and this time, don't promise them unlimited revisions.
You didn't answer why imposing limits on how many each individual may purchase isn't a reasonable solution. It prevents hoarding and keeps prices normal. Sure, the manufacturer or retailer doesn't profit, but if they were happy to get price $X pre-panic, why are they not happy to get the same price now? Their costs haven't changed (yet).
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Welcome to Open Source Ventilator (OSV) Ireland. This project was initiated by the COVID-19 global pandemic as a result of a community discussion within a Facebook group called Open Source COVID-19 Medical Supplies (OSCMS). This group rapidly grew and currently is targeting the development of a number of different COVID-19 related medical supplies.

OSV Ireland was formed by Colin Keogh, Conall Laverty & David Pollard, with the goal of building a focused team in Ireland to begin development of a Field Emergency Ventilator (FEV) in partnership with the Irish Health Service. To date we have formed a team of engineers, designers and medical practitioners to develop new, low resource interventions, all working collaboratively online. Bag Valve Masks (BVM), 3D printed and traditionally manufactured components are being considered to maximise potential manufacturing capabilities. We will also include other challenges and problems as they arise from frontline healthcare workers, which we will encourage our volunteers to tackle.

We have a core developer team publishing open source designs with ongoing communication with medical professionals regarding needs requirements, testing and validation processes. The developer team is led by OpenLung in Canada in collaboration with an Irish based engineering and operations team. The developer team is led by Trevor Smale, Dr. Andrew Finkle, and David O’Reilly from OpenLung as well as Conall Laverty and Dr. Keith Kennedy from Ireland. Work is well underway with hundreds of worldwide contributors.
What? This doesn't make any sense. Of course they're losing massive amounts of revenue. Their business model is to make a cut off each booking, and bookings are down massively.

At the same time, they have large fixed costs because they have a lot of employees and leased office space. So money coming in goes down massively while money going out doesn't.

EDIT: It sounds like others are talking about pre-coronavirus times whereas I'm talking about now (like the linked article is).
And will be massively expensive, will be financed by borrowing. Can't in any way be used long term.
There was this hilarious cartoon:

https://i.redd.it/trycnbzmy0m41.jpg
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Microsoft Teams is okay but hopefully there will be better tools for this market.
There's a lot more to life than necessities.
Ask HN: Offering a way to broadly screen patients for Covid
I am one of the founder at Luma Health (a patient communication platform). With the outbreak, we are offering a lot of our services for free (https://www.lumahealth.io/covid-19-patient-messaging) in an effort to get ahead of this disease. One of our offerings is an ability to broadly screen patients to risk stratify who might be at risk for the infection and who might be at risk for bad outcome if they have the infection. Given US health care limited resources, we are desperately in need of a way to proactively identify patients at risk and treat them. We are offering mass SMS based screening to anyone who would like to use including county health officials, health systems, employers, etc. We just want to get this into the hands of anyone who could use. No cost.

Here is a very simple version of what we could do via text: https://youtu.be/escWi-ZuGRo

Also, please help us gather data by texting to the number below. This will deliver you a survey to identify who might be at risk for the infection. The more data we have about this, the more we can try to combat it. Please feel free to share number broadly.

Screening number: 218-402-6843

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tashfeen@lumahealth.io
If society was actually thrown back into preindustrial levels, odds are good we would never get back, because all of the easy to acquire oil/coal is already gone.
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As you can see with WA, deaths is not a perfect metric either. Florida also has a lot of retirement homes and one getting hit will skew that metric a lot.
You're saying a lot of things here that don't make any sense.

> I'm afraid I'd have to strenuously disagree that cutting corners on QA/QC [...] would be unacceptable.

> I would _never_ dismiss controls as an inefficiency

So, the QC in QA/QC stands for Quality Controls. So, you're strenuously insisting they're unnecessary, yet vehement that you would never dismiss the thing you just said wasn't necessary? Which one is it?

> But [RNA extraction is] fairly trivial and can be done fully in parallel by multiple people

It takes longer than the instrument analysis was my point. That's the typical bottleneck in running samples, not your instrument sample throughput like you claim. So even if you can run 1000 samples on the instrument, if it takes longer to prepare them (which it always does), then that's your rate limiting step.

Unless, of course, you're working in this magic lab of yours where new, fully-trained techs suddenly materialize any time there's a spike in sample volume (whereas new benchspace doesn't? Might wanna take that up with your deity lab manager).

> Regarding barcodes, I didn't mean it had to be fully automated. Just drop the excess data entry and switch to a serial number scheme with built-in redundancy (or at least error detection)

With all hands on deck who do you think will have time to do this? Barcode migrations are a lot of work. Adding the word "just" to what I've described doesn't make something trivially easy.

Though apparently this whole process is trivial, from the sample check-in to the RNA extraction to the instrument analysis. Why not just fire the UW resident and all the staff, so that you can swoop in save the world, since it's all so terribly easy for you? I look forward to touring this fully-automated magic lab of yours.
I realized how much of a scam standardized testing was when I used to do the PSATs and increased my score mostly by using a different strategy rather than getting smarter or anything. The SAT prep class my high school offered for like $40 was a complete joke because they were designed for public school students where you get around 1250 and it's pretty good for state school admissions. Until I learned to treat the test as a game and understand its scoring I went from 1330 to 1520 simply by _not_ answering anything I wasn't fully confident with my answer - this is literally the opposite strategy I was instructed to do where they encouraged people to guess. To get to the higher end, you are best off never getting even a partial deduction for getting something wrong. When I got my best score, I only got 3 questions wrong but far more unanswered.
There's something that doesn't quite make sense to me about this worry of wealthy people passing on their privileges to their children. Their children are different individuals who were effectively randomly chosen to be born into that situation. Why should it be some other child who was randomly chosen some other way instead? No matter who gets into Harvard, it's still the same number of people who somehow ended up with that privilege.

Is it simple jealousy of rich people? Or is it a worry that their kids aren't really the most capable so society won't function so well when they're eventually in charge? I'd say their kids probably are the most capable because elite universities get their funding and fame from successful graduates so they're incentivized to choose the people with greatest chance of success. Of a well-connected rich kid and a poorly-connected poor kid with the same SAT scores, the rich kid has better chance of future career success.
I read this X% success rate for many drugs, Remdesivir, chloroquine etc... What does it mean? Giving no drug, just ventilator alone has 97% success rate right? So how do we know that that 90% is due to the drug and not, you know, immune system itself? Moreover, a lot of people keep saying both Remdesivir and chloroquine are in official treatment suggestions in Italy, and seeing Italy is suffering a pretty bad mortality rate, how do we even know these drugs are better than placebo?
> This seems... completely unjustified.

Um, no. Firstly, not everything is about rational economics. No sane and functioning democracy is going to allow 500k people to die if it can stop it.
We definitely want more studies, but IMO we're reaching a tipping point. We have anecdotal evidence from China and South Korea, and this quite flawed, but at least data-containing study from France.

Chloroquine's safety profile isn't great, but the safety profile of COVID is way worse. If you look at Chemotherapy for example, one would never take any of those drugs unless you had cancer.

COVID isn't quite as bad as cancer, but Chloroquine, especially for a short course, isn't anywhere near as bad as most chemo drugs. Many people take it for years as prophylaxis -- not even to treat an existing disease.
Homeless? Quarantine in a hotel. Not homeless and income or wealth <100k? $100 fine per occurrence. Plus $10 every week of non payment without proof of financial hardship.

Not homeless and income or wealth > 100k? 1% annual gross income or net wealth (greater of both) per occurrence with a 1% daily compounding interest rate of the principal amount until paid in full. If third incident mandatory minimum of 5 years imprisonment and $1,000,000 fine or 50% wealth whichevers greater. Non payment prevents release.
> The equivalence between "takes time to train up" and "20 years of systematic dismantling" is that we have lost many of the experts we might otherwise depend on in a national emergency. For example, Trump dismantled the Pandemic Response Team. You can't easily replace that overnight. Longstanding cuts to CDC budgets, etc.

Do you have trustworthy (confirmable), conclusive data that suggests the ideas (assumptions) in this statement are actually objectively true, and materially relevant to the actual problems we are experiencing? I've read a billion claims of this, but literally every single time I interface with the person that wrote it, the response is angry and evasive. Literally 100% of the time. Note that I'm not strongly implying any conclusions here, I am simply pointing out what I think is an extremely interesting and important phenomenon that is currently occurring on our planet, and I think there is a causative relationship between the two.

I follow your new analogy, it makes perfect sense to me, but how you connect this back to your conclusions is where you continue to lose me.
It is likely possible to engineer a vaccine for this virus. If we can social distance long enough to get that out, people's lives are saved.
5K IU/day over the long term is the upper limit of safe D3 supplementation.
If only there was an app for enabling this on other people's phones.
An optimist would say this is Bayer being benevolent, a pessimist would see this as them taking advantage of a situation to make a lot of money out of a possible snake oil during this time of panic.
I bought chloroquine few weeks ago when there was still plenty of it. A week ago it was out of stock not necessarily due to rush buying but because government bought out all the stock to give it to hospitals to use if it turns out to be effective.
Hello HN!

We just rolled out this little MVP for a new user interface for our knowledge base software.

I would love to hear what you think about it!

Cheers,
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Could you post a non twitter link?
Why shouldn't they be tanking? Everything in the travel sector, including hotels, is tanking right now. They're not highly profitable; indeed they've never turned a profit.

> whereas the fixed costs to run a website are ridiculously low

This is clearly not true. They are a tech company and have a large number of well-compensated engineers. So they do have a large amount of fixed costs.

It sounds like you're arguing from hypotheticals, none of which actually apply to Airbnb as it exists in the real world.
The money is meant to keep the economy working by encouraging spending, not specifically to help the recipient (though that will be a side effect in many cases).
This is incorrect. Withdrawals from Roth IRAs follow particular ordering rules and one can withdraw direct contributions without a 10% penalty or tax.

In general, direct contributions are taken out first, followed by conversions, followed by earnings. (For the exact rules, including more details on withdrawal ordering of conversions I'd recommend researching Roth IRA withdrawal ordering. Note that the rules for accounts like Roth 401k are different.)

Direct contributions are not subject to tax or penalty when withdrawn, so if one can always withdraw their total direct contributions without tax or penalty from a Roth IRA, while leaving earnings in the account. Withdrawing taxable portions of conversions or earnings may result in tax and/or a 10% penalty, depending on ones circumstances.
What has happened to HN that asking for sources/evidence is now something that gets you downvoted? Asking for supporting evidence should never get downvoted.
Is our fight against coronavirus worse than the disease?
yes it is, that's how humans think, it is whats it is...
No because the money will also be paid to middle class + people who still have jobs and who can WFH or have paid sick leave.
Yes, of course everybody understands that. Most also understand that the reason for being “poorer than ever at the end of this” will be because of the event itself and not the response to it, will understand that we will collectively have to “pay back this debt” and that either of these facts affect the suitability or otherwise of guaranteed income policies.
> How can we justify this sort of effort for Coronavirus, but not Climate Change, Obesity, Air Pollution

I do think we would react the same way to any of the other issues if you only the side effects were more 'immediate'. Things like climate change do not impact day to day life currently and especially not in western world. It's just too easy to ignore them right now.
I watched Airbnb places ruin Nashville. I feel for the employees of Airbnb, but Im not exactly sad to see this .
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Firstly, is QALY really the right number to use here? We are talking about deaths.

Secondly, yes, 500000 deaths in the short term is much more alarming and destructive than the same in the long term or some time in the future.
I'm all for self-service repair, but how would calibration be handled?

If a repaired iPhone were somehow slightly out of spec, it is unlikely anyone will be hurt (sure, it isn't impossible). What if a repaired ventilator, insulin pump, etc is out of spec, though?
On eBay, purchase and shipping is in the context of the seller, their name is prominent, etc. with a little eBay branding around the edges.

Amazon's checkout process is 99.99% in the Amazon context, only showing a "sold by" on the order page itself in a 12px font. There is no mention of the seller at all in Amazon's order notification emails.
Since there are a lot of children on an extended vacation, it is a very good time to arrange a mega online course teaching programming (not a youtube tutorial)

The other thing which is critical is creating a COVID-19 home testing kit or any sort of testing automation / automatic testing pipeline.

The only way out of this situation is extensive testing, but from reading around, the current testing time (from mouth to result) is around 4 days.

I think that testing will be an integral part of daily life until we have the vaccine.

I can also envision that verifying that you are not a carrier, will be part of a day to day procedure.
No they didn't. Literally the first sentence of your Bloomberg link includes "based on a common measure that excludes some expenses."

They made an EBITDA (operating) profit. They were not a profitable company.
.. fortunately, this is being borrowed at 0.1%. And we can go lower. Expect to see negative rates. The irony is it might have to be a Tory government that raises taxes to cover it.
>It's someone's dream to be discovered like that - and then to fall almost faster back into obscurity?

Obscurity can be nice. I'm a stay-backstage kind of person. Even when I do work in creative public-facing endeavors my goal to make the product enjoyable without needing any non-monetary benefit. I work for a company that purposefully makes sure our name is on very little. It's not the same, of course. We obviously have to be visible enough to get clients. But it's got a comfort that suits me. You've almost certainly used one of our products, but even if I could tell you what it is you'd never know it from the branding on it.
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This is about helping people in need and not a gift from government.
In theory if you saved the difference in taxes...but then we don't generally save, but consume.

max 2500 pounds. Say for 6 months? A Year? That's 15k to 30k. This is not enough to justify "45%" taxes for life...
If you're going to do this kind of thing, do it with positive language, not negative. (in a very literal sense) You want to focus on peace, not anti-war. You want to focus on health, not anti-virus. You want to focus on stability in Yellowstone, not "please don't erupt."
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SAT Subject Tests are either optional or not considered at most schools. I personally took a few SAT Subject Tests that were only required for a single school I was applying to.
I thought the election was in November?
Ignoring tweets, it turns out, made the situation worse over time.

As the Internet just becomes another part of the real world (down from the lofty "alternate universe" it was imagined it would be in the cyberpunk era), I'm 100% on board with people having real-world consequences for bad online behavior.
I'm not convinced. Apple rethought how the pointer works in the context of the tablet. iPads have keyboard covers for a couple releases now and were always capable of using one - since the first version, which had a keyboard-cradle accessory. The trackpad is not a mouse replacement as it is on PCs, just like the pen is not one either (as it has always been with PCs)
> This is an astonishing U-turn

A u-turn from what previous position and by whom? Universal basic income hasn't really been debated seriously in the UK, so nobody had a previous position to u-turn against.
Similar story to you except I graduated with a 3.4 from a top 10 university without learning to study or manage my time. I guess the test was right?
I'll check out Notion, thanks for the rec. I just realized that the XFCE desktop I use already has a lot of functionality which could be warped into building much of what I'm thinking about.

I think I can go heavier on the information density (e.g. maybe using a lot less white space than Notion does) as long as the information has a personalized reason for being there...
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This sounds like either a demo song from Arturia's Storm Music Studio, or it was (possibly) made using it; one of the built-in instruments for bass lines (Arsenic) uses a similar saw waveform. Take a peek at one of the demos from version 2.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ixSHQrNtLw
Just downloaded the app for iOS. Really cool idea.
What's the cut-off where it's okay? Like, you can stop all road traffic deaths, just stop driving. Sure, it might cost you a lot etc, but no sane and functioning democracy is going to allow x people to die if it can stop it, right?
payroll tax deduction also hurts social security and Medicare.
Code can be studied, reasoned about, interpreted with some semantics, and often even turned into some manner of equations. Heck, Standard ML is even defined by a bunch of equations. But very rarely is code written for the same reason a mathematical expression is written. I agree code can be as you say, but most often isn't.

Code, at the end of the day, more often than not, is written to express some logic to be executed by a computer. At least 80%, if not more than 98%, of code is written to express imperative commands to a machine. I say this as a fan of abstraction, Lisp, Prolog, etc. I just don't buy that

s = 0
for x in a:
s += x
return s

is interpreted with the same generality and depth as

s := \sum_{x\in a} x,

the latter of which is seen in and of itself more as an "object" which may or may not be used to represent a computation that the code above indicates.
They're just doing what almost all VC-funded private tech companies do: Spend massive amounts of money to grow faster than if you limited yourself to what could be accomplished while maintaining profitability.

And the comparison to Facebook isn't really fair; not everyone can be a Facebook. They're an exceptional success story. Airbnb isn't.
> So they will consider what?

They explain it very clearly: The SAT or ACT, and high school grades.

They are just skipping the subject tests, because they don't think they are useful.

The subject tests are the optional tests that students can take in addition to the normal SAT.