skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not dead, just evolving! I hope to bring some of the insights from doing the k version into the free JS version. But even then, the formula language is unlikely to be raw JS - maybe jq, or a k subset. JS, as a moving target, is just too hard to parse in a small package.

Mesh's backend sits in one giant file because that's how we can write it in a Mesh sheet. But unfortunately the JS parsing library is huge and forms the bulk of the code. Happily, the k version is currently ~100 lines excluding tests.

If JSX were used, would the code need to be compiled? Mesh used to have a compilation step but it just added complexity (config files, build process, increased download size). Keep it simple! React.createElement is fine.
Thanks! That's great feedback for next time.
First person to make a phone with hardware switches for gps, bluetooth, wifi, cellular and microphone gets my money.
Isn't this already the case? Even before the smartphone era, haven't you always been revealing your location to your local cell towers?
I think the most important thing is that they're both a net wealth transfer to local food service workers (who by and large are relatively low income) and fuel demand down the road.

Most people will be able to cook for themselves just fine, but by doing so they'll be saving money, which would otherwise have been spent locally. This means that that money won't go on to restaurant workers to be spent, and the remainder won't show up as profit for the restaurant. (Instead it'll go into savings, which will likely have a negligible effect at best since money is ~free to borrow these days)

Locally this will lead to a depressed demand for everything and globally lead to a decrease in paper GDP and profit for the companies (read: stonks go down).

So honestly, I would argue that paying people to dig ditches (vs do literally nothing else, though at that point you might as well just give them cash) is in and of itself beneficial, though of course less so than doing something that generates a benefit outside of that from the activity itself.
You can nuke the food in the microwave, supposedly that's been a common measure in China for delivery. You have to get it up to germ-killing temp throughout for it to be effective, though. Not great for sushi/salad takeout, obviously...
The interface, it's very dense
> The first 3 of these will be severely cut back during the virus as offices are closed.

Facebook are still paying all contractors their regular pay, even if they're not needed at the moment:

> Facebook will pay contingent workers that cannot work due to reduced staffing requirements during voluntary work from home, when we close an office, when we choose to send an employee home, or when they are sick

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/06/facebook-commits-to-paying...
all: "there is none in the array that is false".
Thanks for this information. Very useful.
Hi everyone! The Shakti k version of Mesh is under development, but for now you can try the JavaScript prototype: http://mesh-spreadsheet.com/

Slides (view in Powerpoint slideshow mode to see the animated GIFs): https://github.com/chrispsn/presos/raw/master/2020-02-26%20M...

And past demo videos of the JS prototype:

- Basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6gE3cNgbI

- Dynamic tables: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x32tBLGrLAQ
> all the others are Co Partnership before they could enter

Foreign companies got to exploit cheap Chinese labor and got access to a large consumer market, but they had to work with a local partner. American firms still benefited hugely from access to Chinese labor and consumers.

By the way, these local partnership restrictions are now gone from most economic sectors in China. They're a reasonable tool for a developing country that doesn't want the relationship with foreign capital to be purely exploitative.

It's hard to get the impression that China is the one exploiting the US when you walk around a Chinese city and see the extraordinary amount of business US firms are doing in China. Chinese companies don't have anything approaching that level of presence in the US.

> I wonder how that was calculated. Try importing anything into China and see if it is anywhere near a single digit.

By total value imported, I think. China taxes 3.4% of the total value of imported into the country.

> I doubt you can move much money out of china without getting lots of trouble.

There are capital flow restrictions. Are those unreasonable or unwise?
“It won’t happen here.”

“It could happen here, but it’s not a big concern.”

“It’s happening here, and it’s a big concern, but we don’t have reliable data so let’s do nothing.”

“We have reliable data now, but it’s too late to do anything.”
Yes. Driver/GPU handles that. It "just works". You just manage things on high level - what can be moved in world, what cannot and group the updates together.
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The article that I linked specifically investigated the use of steamer bags in a microwave for purposes of sterilization. They showed it to be a viable method if I read it correctly.
Yeah, Quicktime does seem like a good option if just recording screen with mic audio is desired. I think that there would be some benefit to being able to see the professor at least from time to time, to make the experience more personal. But perhaps this could be accomplished just by having a small photo of the prof in the corner, by the course name or something.
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The instances establish an outbound connection to the API SSM API, so as long as they can hit that, Session Manager will work.

Connectivity from a private subnet to the AWS API could be (a) NAT gateway (b) HTTP proxy (c) PrivateLink VPC endpoint.
You must be new to American healthcare.
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This, exactly. America has manufacturing talent, but not at the scale required for a manufacturing economy. (Source: ~2 decades in global manufacturing.)
Dont forget that the third world has none of those 50k but all of that crisis right now..
Sincere question - how widespread is actual check usage in the US nowadays? As in, would "mail her a check" be a colloquialism for an Apple Pay transfer or similar, or would it mean just what it says - write out a check, mail it, wait for her to cash it?

(Question comes from Norway, a small country with only a handful of banks which very early collaborated to get electronic payment options available - to the extent that debet card terminals are everywhere, even kids have cards - and I think the last time I saw a check was in 1992 or so, at which point my reaction was "wow, do these still exist?")
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If the current metrics, economic measures taken, and politicians' statements are any indications, the "corona panic" may as well waste far more life than the worst case unchecked virus epidemic could versus the slowed-down epidemic that will happen anyway.
And yet just a month ago, travel bans were opposed because they apparently didn’t work. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadas-decis...

And Biden called such bans Xenophobic.. until apparently they weren’t. Fascinating how quickly we forget.

https://nationalfile.com/flashback-biden-opposed-trumps-chin...
> You buy a gift card for a timeslot, which helps the barbershop's cashflow now, but when you redeem it later, you're clobbering it's future income.

This is most business though. You have unearned revenue which helps because you have accounts receivable and you're waiting on cash. It bridges the gap.

I agree partially on barber shops though because few have AR. Still, they get revenue upfront which can cover hard costs during this time.
Air purifiers: what are they and what are they for?
Thanks! And hopefully the README helps too:

https://github.com/chrispsn/mesh/blob/master/README.md
WashPo is the source, and better, article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/17/white-h...
You should be using steno or some kind of briefing system. I hang out in the plover discord and bunch of the people there are over 150 on a slow day.

Just need to ditch character based input, it's not easy though.
Thats why they printed so many, that they can change them for each patient.
It parses a x-www-form-urlencoded POST call and sends it to an E-mail? Or am I completely wrong about what it does?
Most epoxy isn't very flexible, and cracks leading to leaks over time.

For something you can do at home, try heating the whole thing to 120C and dipping in hot glue.
Yes, this is a difficult decision. If you were a doctor what would you do? Let the patient die today, or try the newly 3D printed valve that looks and feels like the real one but may have unintended side effects?
"nobody, especially your age, could relate to you!": How old are you?
I don't get why all these "industrial" boards don't also put their USB on pin headers. All the standard USB connectors are not vibration proof at all, and cannot be used reliably in an industrial setting.
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> A nation is not a useful or even approximate proxy for values.

I bet you anything that if you polled Saudi Arabians and asked "Would you be willing to be ruled by a monarch?" and then do the same for Americans, you'll get wildly different results. If you are willing to make the bet large enough, I will go to relevant polling organizations to pay for one to be conducted.
All of the things you've said about mask functionality, reusability and sterilization are very interesting. As is your experience with in-home caregiving.

Is there a quick, effective and easy sanitizing protocol for N95 masks that you think would work for hospitals that are short on masks?
I think this is striking at the root. Many people in tech have explained away things that where is a selection that occurs algorithmically even if it unsavoury because the black box is a black box and thus has no ill intent. However, the moderation policy does have intent. It just matters whether you value intent vs. actual consequences when you decide whether something is moral or immoral.
I would welcome us holding the gatekeepers to higher standards.

The only people in the media fired for the debacle of the Iraq war were the ones who called the lies of the government out.

When we let everyone speak at least the average of all the lies is closer to the truth than when we let only one lie through.
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I've been going over this thread wanting to comment on damn near everything, I think I'll make a blog post.

In short, you nailed it. But forgot to mention abusing the power that QMK gives you for reducing reach/key stretch.
Most problems China has with other entities and other entities have with China can be solved by the communist party of china just basically stopping their shit.

I think it is okay to get a bit emotional if the whole world economy is plunged into the gutter because Xi Jinping conducts himself like insolent prissy spoilt child in need of a good talking to by an adult. And maybe if his parents did their job the whole world would not be in this state now. So yes, I am fucking emotional about this. Billions of people have to suffer because of Xi Jinping and his party.
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I put mine on my back entrance which is basically open air. Close door with cord under it. Able to plug it in without being able to see it and ozone spews out to pollute my city even more..

Do you know how long of an exposure is needed to be effective? assuming within 2-3 feet but single source not even light
Which also has a sunset clause that will never ever be allowed to expire. All this talk of temporary authority is a joke.
And that's all the motivation you need. I wish everyone would follow their lead and the defy the quarantine theater - yes, I know the virus is terrible, but we haven't even quite started with the cure and it already looks like it's worse.
What you do here -competently, compassionately and altruistically facilitating productive discussion at scale is of the rarest and most valuable human skills. If you ever put yourself up for political leadership in an electorate in which I can vote for you I will.
Some of these units operated in a cell-based system (similar to Al Qeada), so there wouldn't be any offical records.
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If you want the same "NFC updating from an app" ability, a small solar panel, enough to charge a supercap, so you have enough energy to update the screen once per few hours could be the solution. You can still use the NFC power option, just wait longer if you need more frequent refreshes.
That’s you bud, I prefer the self check out every time, most visits to the bank are for the atm and if ai driven Uber cars were a thing I’d prefer them to. (I can agree about ivrs thou, those can die a fiery death)

We all have difference preferences so don’t attribute yours to others.
This has been a big fear of the left - that if the GOP takes up the socialist plank for the working class before the DNC does, it would be a death knell for the resurgent American left. Throw in climate fear after this recession and there's been a lot of worry of ecofascism surging.
Professors and teachers often complain that they have to compete with the rest of the Internet for students' attention. Solutions like this could minimize the problem of distracted students by making class more engaging. Combining this idea with AR could really help kids with ADD/ADHD.
> Actually, I was talking about something more like individual American companies & China vs. the United States.

> [...]

> The idea is that American companies making profit selling Chinese-made goods to Chinese and Americans may not actually a very good deal for the United States.

What it sounds like you're upset about is actually the growth of international trade and deindustrialization in the US. You're putting it in crude and xenophobic terms: China taking advantage of the US.

American workers who have lost their jobs or who saw their wages decrease certainly were taken advantage of. It wasn't by the Chinese, or the Japanese, who were the bogeyman in the 1980s. It was by an impersonal and ubiquitous economic system. It's much easier to direct your hatred towards a specific, tangible enemy, however, which is why the xenophobic answer is so popular. Just point the finger at the foreign workers earning their pennies an hour, rather than understanding the broader economic forces at work.
If I'm playing chess with a guy who is known for making good decisions in (i.e. winning) many chess games, and he makes a move that looks dumb, the prudent conclusion is not that the move is dumb, is that I'm dumb and I need to figure out what the motivation was.
They've been running out of work units lately due to a huge increase in users in the last week. They're working on getting more work units available asap.
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Typing club is excellent. With my kids out of school for the foreseeable future, this will be great to keep them busy – thank you!
Contains a useful table

Age Range (1) (2) (3)
0 to 9 0.1% 5.0% 0.002%
10 to 19 0.3% 5.0% 0.006%
20 to 29 1.2% 5.0% 0.03%
30 to 39 3.2% 5.0% 0.08%
40 to 49 4.9% 6.3% 0.15%
50 to 59 10.2% 12.2% 0.60%
60 to 69 16.6% 27.4% 2.2%
70 to 79 24.3% 43.2% 5.1%
80+ 27.3% 70.9% 9.3%

where
(1) is % symptomatic cases requiring hospitalization
(2) is % hospitalized cases requiring critical care
(3) Infection Fatality Ratio
We can limit our precision here for more fun :)
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I think that Ioannidis makes a valid point about the need for accurate data. But isn't the (pretty decent) italian healthcare system getting completely overwhelmed a strong argument against the possibility that the corona outbreak could get "buried within the noise" of seasonal influenza? I also don't understand how shutting down non-essential businesses for a few weeks is supposed to cause large damage.
To be fair, even though a lot of people rightly or wrongly criticize Facebook, I don't think most of the criticism has been about their treatment of employees. I'm pretty sure it's always been pretty great.
They could, of course, do this the way any other type of institution would do it: create an app that people would voluntarily install to gather this data. Playing by the rules isn't how governments work these days, though.
Comments here are ~50% whataboutisms.
The obvious solution is to stop breeding and hunting animals for food, period. No more coronas, bird flus, swine flus, mad cows, salmonellas, etc.
Indomethacin has a potent antiviral activity against SARS [pdf]
Summary of the best bit:

Viral load dropped to near zero in patients with azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine compared to not much change with the control group https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/20... (graph at bottom)
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This[0] extension worked for me.

[0]: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
I'd imagine (or at least hope) a lot of governments and hospitals around the world will be building up stockpiles after this all blows over.
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I was thinking along similar lines. Maybe it's possible to use BLE for this (don't know if the standard PXP profiles would be applicable or you'd need something else).

You could also have app-level 24-hour rolling identifiers to prevent non-infected people's contacts from being correlated over time, even locally—if that would make people more comfortable using such an app. (The app would have to keep track of all its previous identifiers; if the user is found to be infected, all their previous identifiers would be marked as such in the database.)

Some challenges off the top of my head:

- What polling rate is needed? (How do disease experts define a "contact"?) What's the battery impact?

- What fraction of the population has BLE-capable phones?

- What fraction of the population keeps their phones physically on their person as they go about their day?

- Can distance be roughly inferred from RSSI? Does the mapping of RSSI to distance vary much depending on the transmitting radio / phone model?

- If you live in an apartment, you might be identified as a "contact" of your neighbor even if you never breathe the same air, etc.
What if every coronavirus victim voluntarily uploads their location data publically (their identity kept anonymous). Now you can, without uploading your own data anywhere, check if you have ever been in vicinity of any of them. If you have been, you can get tested and then upload your own data if that comes out positive. This way not eveyone has to share their data, only a few who have been infected.
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So no group can select their members anymore? Nonsense. A model agency will continue to hire exclusively beautiful people. Top tier universities will remain a club for well doers in the education system. My group of friends remains closed to most everyone else and so does yours.

Exclusivity is a necessity for society.
Implementation is different, but passes all the same test cases.
I agree with the part about aiming for accuracy instead of speed. But I disagree with the constant rhythm thing. Maintaining a constant rhythm will slow you down, as there are always words or letter combinations which are slower to type. Thus, if you strive to maintain a constant rhythm, you have to adjust your rhythm to the slower parts, which means it will slow you down for the faster parts.
That was true for GSM, but 3g & 4g have directional signal management, and track location to enable cell 2 cell handover. Information is limited inside.
It's cool to see more Ryzen embedded boards on the market. Wondering how the price will be, when Ryzen V series was terribly expensive.

However, no NVMe, no regular PCIe, no even a single SATA port...Lack of IO is a serious dealbreaker to me. Feels like it's wasting the CPU's capabilities. I know there must be compromises for the RPi size, but the size itself is already compromised because it requires a cooling system, at least a big heatsink, on the back of the board. This company is hiding it.

I would go for an Odroid H2 for now.
The Typing of the Dead (tutorial mode) is how I learnt touch typing.

Also, you can selectively scramble the keycaps of your keyboard : way cheaper than getting a Das, but as efficient!
Just an FYI doctors are using hydroxychloroquine in the US today to fight C19.

This isn’t the only study that suggests chloroquine is a good treatment. Medcram had its own analysis of a different paper from china that said hydroxychloroquine was useful when administered early. However it’s possible new data may present itself in the coming weeks that suggest otherwise.

But the type of confirmation you’re looking for is impossible in this critical timeframe.
It hasn't spread to all communities yet. China had a lot of province, city and village level "borders" closed, I'm a little surprised that we haven't seen any US states (esp places like Hawaii or Alaska) do this yet.
> "protected class" is a legal term, it has nothing to do with morality.

This is not a distinction that most people have the mental capacity to make. Whatever the law is, that's obviously what it should be.
Why? All unicorns are blue, aren't they?
I second this, considering the fact that the two platforms have an equivalent feature set, there's also Drew Devault's platform: source hut (I think) which seems very good.
I don't think that's a reasonable reading of my comment. (Trying to be light-hearted here, not mocking.)

I wasn't ascribing good intentions to Westminster. I was saying that their intentions, good or bad, and the intentions of the current American government are irrelevant. What's relevant here is they did a thing and it got x result. So we should use that example to wonder what will really happen should we do a similar thing now.
I disagree. Sony / Nintendo use proprietary APIs, Windows and Xbox use DirectX, and Android you need OpenGL ES for compatibility. Apple is self-disqualifying with their hardware and insistence on Metal.

That leaves Vulkan for Linux games. The 1% of the market that no savvy business person would touch with a 10 feet pole.

In Linux land, you'll meet people who feel suspicious of you in the first place for charging for your game, and people who have compiled their GPU driver from scratch, yet blame your game for being incompatible with their wrong compiler flags.

So for almost every game studio, there is no viable market where you could sell a Vulkan game.
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