skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...not even China...

For N95 masks as the article points out, yes, no one has the melt-blown fabric manufacturing machines that are a precursor.

However, if everyone around you wears surgical masks, then everyone is blocking ingesting about about 80% of particulate matter [1]. For an emergency like the pandemic, we're also interested in the masks blocking what wearers breathe out to surgical standards, what the masks were designed for. That's a "not letting perfect be the enemy of good" level of "good enough" if your alternative is letting front line healthcare staff go without melt-blown fabric filtering PPE because everyone is scrambling for P95 or P100 masks.

The US military establishment after the pandemic is controlled will hopefully be given a hand in determining precursor tech tree bottlenecks like the OP article pointed out, and have Congressional authorization to perform economic disaster preparedness within its scope. Stockpile and maintain sufficient operational skills alongside key equipment, so our disaster preparedness is better than "duck and cover" (some interesting questions behind that door).

Some modeling suggests we need a minimum 3 month lockdown in the US to cut deaths in half [2], 18 months (or however long it takes for critical mass of population to develop immunity or vaccinated immunity) to approach a semblance of status ante quo death rate. I wish they would put their modeling source and data onto Github (or Wolfram Alpha?), so others can work with the model (I'm interested in its backtest results from previous epidemics). If we lockdown for even 3 months, then that's GFC effects; 18 months is Great(er) Depression.

[1] https://fastlifehacks.com/n95-vs-ffp/

[2] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
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I'm sure RAID was much more usable than some of the ITIL-inspired monstrosities some of us have to deal with.
What are the other meanings that could work here?
Interest free microloans might be exactly what is needed to keep these businesses viable. The ability to spread out the impact over a year could be critical. This might not be enough, but it's good. Better is better.

There are a variety of reasons why letting the restaurant go under is really inefficient for everyone. The overhead of shutting down one business and starting another adds up to waste.
Crisis is the time to make structural changes to address poverty and inequality
Ahh Good ol guilt by association
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
On top of what other people wrote, I think a common misconception is that raytracing is only useful to determine the final shaded color of a pixel on the screen. In its current form, things like RTX are still way too slow to do this at any appreciable quality level.

You can use raytracing passes at very different resolutions, quality settings, geometry detail levels etc though, and combine them with the 'regular' render pipeline later. For example to calculate environment maps for reflections, shadow maps, or even things completely unrelated to drawing (hit tests, sound reflection etc). Suppose I want to have a nice reflection in a pool of water for example, you can already get a very good looking effect by raytracing a low-resolution environment map from the water pools' perspective, which wouldn't need any tracing of secondary rays etc, and use it in your water shader.

There's uncountable ways something like this could be useful (not all of which can be accelerated very well though, I guess)

For doing the more traditional raytracing at any resolution you will always need an acceleration structure like a BVH though, but building/updating that is part of these kinds of hardware extensions.
> however I would describe the KMT as an invading power, not a native, somewhat trusted authority (as is more the case with their present, democratically elected

A Taiwanese friend mentioned that the majority of indigenous peoples of Taiwan support the KMT rather than the DPP (the current party in power).

I suppose for them, all Han Taiwanese are “colonists” but the KMT gave them more benefits.
This talk at the start of an exponential curve is exactly the problem
It is actually the other way around: this keeps the US dollar artificially high, hitting on exports, and it is completely not true that these countries can only spend dollars on American products: they can spend on anything they want, the dollar is just a currency, you can use it to buy products from Russia, China or Nigeria.
I got chatting to the bloke next to me on a long haul flight from the UK to Japan. He was going there to buy a printing machine (he was a printer) and when I asked why go all the way to Japan he told me that, basically, only Germany and Japan make printing machines any more. He even pointed out that the pulp he bought was from abroad.

I wonder if freight companies receive subsidies though - lots of airlines certainly get subsidies - that might change things in favour of more local producers. Maybe.
>This money is not lost from the economy; people still have to eat after all.

You do know about this thing called service sector that accounts for more than half of the economy ?
>TLS is famously susceptible to downgrade attacks.

The article is from 8 years ago so I would suggest that the fame has mostly faded. TLS downgrade attacks are not a thing in practice. A system with non-upgradable and broken crypto is much worse than something that requires a MITM attack to get at the broken crypto. I am not sure why there are opinions to the contrary. In either case you still have to fix things. The non-upgradable case will just be much much harder.
Coronavirus may kill WeWork
Actually, small business owners absolutely do need money right now. You want them to have the money, too, if you want to have an economy to return to after the pandemic subsides.
> There is no defensible reason to presume good faith on the part of a medical equipment manufacturer, even though a few do have it.

I agree and I also think it's incredibly shitty of a medical company to threaten to sue in these trying times. Really exposes what they are all about. I was just trying to see the coin from the other side, trying to understand.
In the software context PuTTY is a terminal program.
It defines a virtual version of a hardware terminal and includes a defined character set, control sequences for displaying text, virtual screens (e.g. 80x40) and handling input (e.g. VT100).

A console doesn't have these specific restrictions and definitions and is just a catch-all term for a (text-based) user interface for interacting with the OS, or a specific app.

The Windows Terminal app is a host program for various consoles that in turn may implement terminal emulations and provide shells. It's not, however a terminal or console itself.
> citation needed

It would be ridiculous to copy here the URL of all newspapers and TV channels in Europe. You can also easily find doctors and other personal in hospitals saying they are over capacity. You can also see how in China they had to build new hospitals.

If you need me to give you a citation to understand that this is a huge shitstorm for our health systems you are just stupid.
This has been our first approximation to pricing, and I agree with you, it has its shortcomings. We are aware of it and recognize it's not the ideal method of charging users.

Changes on the pricing are on the table now, we'll keep studying different options and change if something makes more sense than what we have right now.
that is encouraging
Thanks for labeling me a noob while I have been editing text configs for a decade and a half. Again, passable != good, and there’s hardly any defense for a GUI application putting all common settings in a text configuration, especially when you need to configure colors, fonts, etc.

I’m pretty sure the terminal app was advertised as the next generation console experience for Windows, which means it is going to replace cmd, and will be used by non-power users.

Re binding: that’s just the default when VS is installed. Also, whether it’s Visual Studio is irrelevant, what’s relevant is it definitely isn’t Windows Terminal.

Edit: By replacing cmd I probably meant replacing conhost or something. Not completely sure about Windows separation of shells and terminal emulators but the idea should be clear.
Apparently talking about a persistent setting here.
I think if a similarly spreading disease had started in say a tent city in the US, the response would’ve been much worse
The Gig Economy's Coronavirus Plan Is a Public Health Risk
Yea. We should have learned when the US unleashed H1N1

Point being .. this is just stupid. You start this and countries will intentionally infect each other next.

The only answer here is more robust international collaboration and response and getting rid of the stupid people sabotaging our preparedness or selling your protective measures to the highest bidder when we already see the wave coming

https://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucdsclnk?sl=71QSCI20292...
Looks nice indeed @grinich ! Excuse the naive question but : what's the difference between workOS and software such as amplitude or mixpanel for audit trail logs ?

From what I understand, you have to declare events as you would do with analytics software. And your docs doesn't say how you make the audit trail available to the customers. If I have to do the proxy myself, then I really do not see the difference with an analytics software.
Microsoft had to catch up sometime?
I would guess the machines are built one at a time to order. That would be typical for such things with small demand.
Its not over - I switch to oldschool phone that I'll regularly switch off. I'll have some lagging in communication, but at least it's a way to raise awareness among my friends.
> ... but it seems clear from the stock market average that stock prices have been growing much faster than the historical average for the past 5 years.

Where does cash have to go? In Germany/Europe you have a culture of saving, so everyone stashes in "safe" accounts, and so government bond yields are at zero or even negative. Those folks would do better, both financially and for the health of the economy, to go with equities. German/EU governments would do well to spend more as well.

In the US people seem to be more culturally tuned to spending, and is "the" market to invest in world-wide, so a lot of folks are putting their money there. Potentially bidding up prices.

This is why Krugman is calling for a "permanent stimulus":

> OK, if you’re still with me: I hereby propose that the next U.S. president and Congress move to permanently spend an additional 2 percent of GDP on public investment, broadly defined (infrastructure, for sure, but also things like R&D and child development) — and not pay for it.

> The starting point for my argument is the astonishing drop in interest rates over the past few weeks. They were historically very low even a year ago, but at the time of writing the 10-year rate was only 0.76 percent. That’s below the rates on Japanese debt during the Lost Decade:

* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/opinion/the-case-for-perm...

* https://archive.is/Z2TMK

Borrowing is cheap, so if the US is going to run deficits anyway, instead of 'tax cuts for the rich', there's a lot of infrastructure that's aging that could be rebuilt.
The problem is that so many people are ill or die within a very very short window instead of being spread out as it is before the epidemic.

From a purely selfish point of view, assuming the disease will be a minor inconvenience to you because you’re young and healthy, there are other things to consider:

- what happens to your (presumably much older) parents when they get sick? Death is a very real outcome there

- what happens when you have a car crash and need intensive care but all hospital beds are full and there are also younger patients than you to treat with a better outcome? You’re triaged lower priority and may not get the care you’d normally get or survive at all

For perspective, there really aren’t that many ICU hospital beds altogether because the usual number of people who need intensive care at any given point in a city of millions is in the hundreds (maybe low thousand?) Once the exponential nature of the epidemics hits and there are thousands of people who need care right now on top of the usual load, then it’s like in Italy where some are left to die just because choices must be made and there are either healthier victims with better prognosis.
At the time Rome was a military superpower and it did not have the capacity to feed itself, the agriculture was at a completely different level. Farming subsidies have no logical link to Rome 2000 years ago.
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the elefant in the room here is how he does the streaming?
looking good -- looks like they're taking the good parts of iterm2 and other terminal emulators -- keep it up!
The way you put it makes it sound like he was still inside.
I don't know if this is by design, but Ctrl+V still doesn't work. Shift+Insert does though.
Disappointed that this release appears not to be supported on Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019, which is what I have available:

Add-AppPackage -path .\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_0.10.761.0_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle

Add-AppPackage : Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073CFD, A Prerequisite for an install could not be satisfied.
Windows cannot install package Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_0.10.761.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe because this package is not
compatible with the device. The package requires OS version 10.0.18362.0 or higher on the Windows.Mobile device
family. The device is currently running OS version 10.0.17763.1098.
Price tags, menus, or e.g. corporate announcements is the only thing I can think of really, but I'm not the most creative.
> Mind you, that doesn’t mean that things have been stable, because the name of the service changed from Visual Studio Online to Visual Studio Team Services, and then again to Azure DevOps Services.

That's the most Microsofty sentence ever. It summarizes their allegiance to ever changing marketing goals over simplicity and consistency. Even for something like a bug tracker.
I assume there was some maintenance cost, but the biggest problem I saw with the tablets was there was nothing preventing anyone from deleting somebody else's meeting and replacing it with their own. There was authentication on the web interface, but nothing if you just directly edited the schedule on the tablet.

At least with the paper-on-clipboard, it's obvious if an existing meeting was crossed out.
Cool and there is an audiobook for it
Wearing a Face Mask Is Encouraged in Asia, Shunned in the U.S.
I’m not sure about the exact mechanics, but we are being advised to minimize ‘bagging’ (ie using the ambu-bag to help patients breath before they are intubated) as much as possible. We worry about the markedly increased risk of aersolization of the virus by ambu-bags. So, I’d be sure that isn’t an issue with this device before pushing it out too broadly.
Ask HN: Why hasn’t the £30 contactless payment limit been raised yet?
LiquidText: A tool for academical note taking
I sure don’t want to touch that terminal to enter my PIN.
Also consider Kobo devices which may be slightly more hackable.
FWIW, reMarkable device is accessible by ssh, so you can manage the files yourself. I don't think the format is well documented. I saw some articles about reverse engineering it, but it didn't feel well supported by any means. But if I wanted to use say a private GIT repo instead of rM cloud, I think that would not be very hard to set up.
>focuses more on the characters personal problems and whether or not they get married/divorced/sleep with each other.

This is an unfair summary. There might be a divorce (does no one in the tech world get divorced?), and a relationship (that starts in Season 1, Episode 1 and is a driver of the plot), but it is nowhere near about "who sleeps with who". The show has good character development; would you rather the people not do anything in life, over the 15 or so years the show covers?

Halt and Catch Fire is great television that loosely follows the technology arc/personal computing age from the early 1980s through the 2000s. It has great acting and characters, including two strong female leads. If you go in thinking it's going to be about people sitting around "solving hard problems on computers", yes, you will be disappointed. There are coding screencasts for that.

It's a shame to discourage someone from watching wonderful television about a subject we're all here for.
Really good analogy. I guess the answer is that it isn't ok that the nightclubs do it either, but they get overlooked because no-one has to be there. TikTok, being so widespread, gets closer scrutiny.

A lot of things are like that. One example that comes to mind is that the New York Times, which frequently runs articles criticising tech companies for invading their users' privacy, loads a million trackers every time you access its website. When you're bigger (and more lucrative), different rules apply to you. Maybe that's not a bad thing.
I had never heard of PaleBla before today. After seeing the BSD issue mentioned above, a short visit to their forum, and what’s being said by their supporters here I can unequivocally say it’s the most toxic and incompetent community in tech I’ve ever seen.

It’s weird and cult-like, but without drugs, dancing, or women. It’s sort of alt-right, hating gays and foreigners just as much as post-2008 JavaScript, but there just isn’t any reasonable model explaining how that connects.
I argue if everyone would increase their Vitamin D level drastically (by 10000IU), this sole intervention would save much, much more lives than tracking location of phones.

I'm in for the Vitamins, not for tracking.
Millions! Billions! Trillions!

Sounds totally Web Scale
It used to be the case in some countries; for example in my country the tobacco processing plants had the dual-purpose to build rifle ammo as most of the packing equipment used ~ 7.62 diameter. My cousin that worked in such a plant said it took less than 2 weeks for a full conversion. In this particular example there was no dormant capacity during peacetime, it was actively used on alternative production.
For example, I put embedded computers on drones and the first thing I do is have to figure out how to get power in that avoids the barrel jack which will almost certainly vibrate itself out. On the Pi (and most boards) that means direct power via the expansion header, but usually that means making a daughter board PCB with a suitable connector plus input protection (fuse, diode, etc). Not industrial, but any situation where you don't want to provide mains power, and you want a reliable connection means avoiding the jack.
Master and Visa doubled the limit for contactless transations in Poland today. From 50PLN (ca 12€) to 100PLN.
More info please? That sounds pretty hard / impossible to do.
Feb 13: The v0.9 release of the Windows Terminal has arrived! This is the last version of the Terminal that will include new features before the v1 release.

Mar 17: Welcome to the v0.10 release of the Windows Terminal!
Once you go down this analysis rabbit hole, I believe the rational conclusion is to "stockpile" manufacturing capacity by keeping manufacturing under physical domestic control.

Otherwise you're always fighting the last war. Today it is a respiratory-oriented weakness in our supply chain. Tomorrow it could be fungal spores; do we have enough domestic manufacturing capacity to create fungicides at pandemic scale?

Another mitigation option is standardized international cooperation and automated data interchange on international acute public health matters when an issue rises to just the regional level. Improving the level of integrated data sharing in this age of data mining would accelerate research and development of responses. I was hopeful that a standardized data representation format already existed, and highly-granular patient data from around the world would be available to the entire public (not just institutions) to sift through. Instead, we're still exchanging data through papers. The source code and raw data of models or clinical trial analyses are not published. We do have genome sequences available publicly, which helps, though.
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"keep"

1. have or retain possession of.

2. continue or cause to continue in a specified condition, position, course, etc.

Could mean keep her as a girlfriend, If I say "I'm keeping my doctor" I'm not claiming to personally take ownership of my GP.
They wouldn't hide in a tube in the Scottish fortress, they'd go for something like https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/doomsday-luxury-bunker... or https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-...
If you don't want location tracking, you need to turn off the modem anyway.
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It will probably not be cheap or widely available, as their other boards don't even list a price. A quotation is needed.

Sigh. Hopefully somebody else will do this properly.
It was the same with VS Code.
Probably they won't start to transition to a more GUI oriented options until release.
Even then it'll probably be an incremental affair.
> a responsible institution that would use it only for the purpose of saving lives and then delete it when the crisis was over

The UK managed to get rid of ID cards in 1948 on pretty much this basis. The problem is, that war ended, but the one started on 9/11/2001 hasn't. For temporary authority we need both clearly defined end conditions, a belief that they will be reached, and faith in the authorities to work in good faith towards the ending of that crisis.
I... don't follow. Sounds like you're using "console" to mean TUI or CLI? That's not how I see anyone use it. Windows Terminal as far as I can see is just a program like xterm or GNOME Terminal. All of which are terminals or consoles, whichever you prefer to call them. They interact with TUI and CLI programs (another distinction we can shove aside here) like grep or nano or whatever.
Stay focused and feel more comfortable working remotely
This could be possible if the data is stored encrypted in a public ledger (blockchain), which has time-locked script functions that permit another key to decrypt certain pieces of data for a limited duration. I think something like this is a primary goal of most decentralized identity projects, some of which have been underway for around a decade.

Of course none of this stops the person with temporary access from making a copy to save forever. I doubt that problem has a technical solution but would love to be proved wrong.
> we all worked from home during this massive global pandemic and things didn't grind to a screeching halt, maybe remote work isn't something to be afraid of". That would be a really interesting development.

This serves as an ancillary move on the proverbial corporate chess board though. The next step sets them up to remove a large burden in allowing remote employees- but “remote” can mean anything, including overseas labor
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Peculiar situation. Hoarding Gold purely as an investment strategy is largely a psychological phenomenon now, since it has lost most of its value as a currency in harsh times. Or what exactly are you going to buy with your gold coins when all supply chains are broken and most goods can't be produced even at a higher price? Better hoard canned tuna...
One benefit Netlify has is that it keeps a reference to multiple deploys, so you can always go back or deploy a development branch separately from production. Plus it does the building for you, which for a Hugo site is not really important but in our case (product website + shop) we used Gatsby which pulled data from several data sources (= secure access keys that ideally don't linger on dev machines).
This, plus the Seattle area is of special concern because it's among the hardest-hit states and close to the border.