skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least three factors regarding rationing of bandwidth: Data rate, data volume and caching.

"Bandwidth" is already rationed but is usually high enough you don't notice most of the time or its still good enough most of the time. If you do continuous transfers you immediately see the data rate limits already in place.

But these data rate limits are usually already throttled and therefore different to some monthly download data cap. Those data caps are often marketing/sales driven rather than the actual data rate. And often the real technical data volume limits are for data entering/leaving the ISP. That's the real cost that is being covered by bandwidth caps. They estimate the costs at their borders and cover that first.

Which brings us to the caching involved. The more caching the easier it is to lower costs or limits. Peering means that some ISPs are closer to each other than they otherwise would be. And Netflix and others using CDNs etc place servers at strategic locations to bring themselves closer. That 2GB movie stream is likely traversing a lot less equipment than you'd expect. In some cases, less than a video conference or game.

If caching fails and something got broken along the way, or... they don't have a close enough CDN site, or caching simply isn’t possible, that is when you have congestion[1] since your traffic now joins whatever else is at the ISP entry/exit points. They can still lower your data rate without touching some monthly data cap.

[1] I'm not discounting congestion within an ISPs network but as they have all the dials and can do whatever they like to sort that out its a separate issue. Redundant paths are a thing. Also, if they isolate congestion to a particular user or usage, eg bittorrent, they already have throttling for that.
> each day along with a zinc pill.

The scientific studies being cited for these COVID-19 vaccines using Chloroquine specifically state zinc supplements by themselves are not ionized and are therefore useless for fighting the virus. Even though zinc entering cells is a key part of how it works, zinc can't enter the cells in question unless it's properly ionized, which is why they use Chloroquine... an ionized zinc delivery system... jumping to "lets all take some Zinc pills with gin & tonic" is irresponsible advice IMO.

These sorts of Naturopathy proposals is exactly how we got COVID-19 in the first place (ie, people eating Pangolins in east asia for Chinese medicine purposes - the most trafficked animal in the world - which just happens to be infected with a coronavirus that matches 99%+ to the one currently making the rounds).

This sort of weak adherence to a scientific approach to medicine + some vague historical reasoning is the problem, not the solution.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's similar. Many countries, even ones in Europe with high infection rates, still don't test people if they don't show severe symptoms because they don't have the capacity to do it on a large scale.
Australia is pretty densely settled though. I mean I have cousins on the Eyre Peninsula so I know what "thinly settled" means, but most people live in (comparatively) densely settled suburbs.
I have read a couple places that there is a worry that becoming ill may not generate long-lasting immunity — possibly only for a few months.
South Korea seems to have done this; they have more testing than anywhere else, yet they have less new cases now than they did last week.
I dont think thats true. Unfortunatelly I dont see mortality rates like in Seattle reported in other retirement facilities.
It's a problem everywhere. Sick leave is something you take when you have high fever or need surgery, not when you start coughing. Reasons include: there's only so much sick leave you can take, employers expect sick leave to be extremely rare and will "phase you out" if it isn't, getting a sick leave involves a visit to a doctor - which, like any visit to a healthcare facility processing sick people - comes with a risk of catching something even worse than what you came with.

Every place on the planet needs to rethink how we handle infectious diseases. This requires both a cultural and legal shift, so that one can just not come to work when showing mild symptoms and not face any negative consequences. The market will not make this happen on its own. But this is a golden opportunity for the cultural shift - every society on this planet is going to be deeply scarred by SARS-CoV-2.
For those of us outside the US/EU, can someone explain about the change in tone here on HN ? There was a similar post a few weeks back and top-voted comments were uniformly scornful about such DIY medical equipment, and about how a ventilator was just one component in the ICU ecosystem.

Now, though, there is a complete 180 ? What gives ?

There is also the question of supply-side issues - uCs and IC boards are overwhelmingly manufactured in East-SE Asia. These projects can't get around these issues, right ? If only there were someway to hack the abundant numbers of smartphones in order to do something useful.
It's she, not he.
Why do ethics suddenly matter when short term human inconvenience are a consequence.
Ceffio,
Payments integration can be a tad bit overwhelming if you are new to payments. But, in my limited experience of about 12 years integrating payments with Authorize.Net, Stripe, Braintree, I can advise that switching mostly won’t fix the issue.
There are a lot of edge exceptions in the response payload returned from Stripe (or just about anyone else) that you can must account for.

Also, it is fairly easy to build a PCI compliant stripe checkout experience without having to send customers visually to another stripe.

I can help with a quick look if you want to hit me up. Always happy to help.
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Ventilators might be the issue, I'm sure the Army Engineers can do something pretty quick with field hospitals.

But then, they have to also be ready for war--just in case.
Xfinity is the name of their consumer/residential package. Possibly to distance themselves from bad PR associated with the Comcast name.
We had a small demo to simulate pandemic outbreak at malls. The simulation was mostly for demonstration purposes to illustrate how distancing impacts spread, and potentially some ways to help mitigate it.

http://socialdistance.ai/
How did you set up video ? Last time I checked it was not straight forward. Do you have any software/plugins/repositories to recommend ?
> a problem without a solution is still a problem.

The solutions are well known to a lot of problems we have, we just don't want to talk about them!

Why don't we, for example, look at how all these lock downs we are having to do to slow down the virus spread are impacting the environment positively? So, why don't we try some of this on a more permanent basics to slow down climate change?? The effort for me as a person has been incredibly little: just work from home and avoid going to restaurants and public events. That's it! The effect on the economy would certainly be huge, but what is our priority? You know, and I know, the answer.
It's she, not he: https://twitter.com/b0rk
US wait times aren't ideal either. I scheduled a dermatology appointment (suspicious mole, so this is a necessary treatment, not getting my acne treated) and my wait time is three months for the appointment. My dad was telling me his derma usually schedules a year out, they set up next year's appointment while he's in the office.
Well, we did invade Iraq, so sometimes it works.
What kind insane countries could that be? Sounds like a black mirror episode ;-)
at least they can try it. If 1400 patients show in an afternoon, this may seem like paradise.
I have done it during the past 5 years before switching jobs.

Life science research laboratories and many medical devices are pretty much some form of Windows running a mix of MFC, Forms or WPF, dependending on when the application was made.

The large majority of device manufactures, delivers their SDKs as a mix of DLLs and COM libraries, with samples written in C++, VB and C#.

While HN might talk all day about R vs Python vs Julia, many of the researchers actually use Excel or Tableau, and when their built-in programming cannot keep up, it gets reborn as a .NET desktop app.
This is my biggest concern. I don’t even think this is “the big one”
... “we predict that transmission will quickly rebound if interventions are relaxed.”

So we should expect another wave in China? Or is China a counterexample?
Something like "Some threshold of official approval/proven safety has not been met, but we'll break the rule this time and give it to them anyway since they're very sick and we don't have any other options."
I suppose that may be the case. But let me play devil's advocate against it. Markets are supposed to price in values from expected future returns. Since this is "a cure", there should be positive sentiment for the future economic environment rather than the current negative sentiment.

The paper says that people are being successfully treated with this medication. It sounds like a slam dunk and a definite end to all the uncertainty we're experiencing. It's somewhat akin to magically having a vaccine available today, no? A situation in which we'd expect markets to react positively. Maybe, this information has not disseminated widely enough in the media, and the markets are acting as a trailing, not leading, indicator.
Well, blacklisting is absolutely undemocratic.

But it is fair to not have her in the debates when she does not meet the requirements.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

Perhaps our most significant conclusion is that mitigation is unlikely to be feasible without emergency surge capacity limits of the UK and US healthcare systems being exceeded many times over. In the most effective mitigation strategy examined, which leads to a single, relatively short epidemic (case isolation, household quarantine and social distancing of the elderly), the surge limits for both general ward and ICU beds would be exceeded by at least 8-fold under the more optimistic scenario for critical care requirements that we examined. In addition, even if all patients were able to be treated, we predict there would still be in the order of 250,000 deaths in GB, and 1.1-1.2 million in the US.
you are a cog in a economic system, you just ( as many here have ) fit into a spot in the machine that generates wealth at good levels. Your personal principles don't really make any difference. It's a system. There are a number economic principles at play. Worrying about individuals sitting around is not even a factor worthy of consideration, it's a simplistic layman reaction to quite a complex system. Even IF it was a problem, it's a problem to be addressed in other ways. Economically speaking, there are far bigger contesting problems to be dealt with.
So how does the scientific community decide which are the theories that is worth spending time on to prove them and which are not ? Are there personal biases ? How do we know choosing theory X over theory Y to prove will advance Science and humanity ? Is it just the budget available to prove theory X over theory Y the criterion?
> 1. How do you decide something is scientific?

Is it a body of knowledge arrived at by means of the scientific method? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

> 2. Who should decide it?

Each person for themselves. The whole point of empirical knowledge is that it does not matter who performs the experiment.

> Are there guardians of Science?

Yes, but they will tell you that the true authority is the real world: the results of experiments.

> 3. if every theory is wrong until proven right...

No scientific theory is right. Science does not and cannot prove anything. This is also something that the guardians of Science will insist on. Even the Standard Model (which has no known violations) has only failed to be disproved so far.

I don't understand the rest of Q #3.

> 4. Who and How is it decided that something is science or pseudo science?

There's a lot of hemming and hawing but it comes down to empirical experiment as the source of confidence in knowledge. (Also, math.)
Another live streaming music festival throughout the month, supported primarily out of Madrid, Cuarentena Fest (no affiliation):

https://twitter.com/CuarentenaFest
I don't think you understand what "bad faith" means. Bad faith refers to signalling that they will act in one way without any intention of following through.

When a non-refundable booking is made, both sides understand that the correct way to follow through is to not have a refund, should circumstances (not caused by the hotel) arise where the customer could not end up staying in the hotel. Hence there was no bad faith on the part of the hotel.
So increase their capacity to meet demand is a bad thing?
i agree. it's a UI element that forces me to behave to how it wants to behave and not how i want it to behave. i want to just scroll through a page without having to delicately hover and click my mouse. the extra few pixels are not worth the time i've spent jacking with those things. (in microsoft edge, the scrollbox will sometimes not even widen and thus can't be grabbed. you gotta refresh the page to get it back.)
So conversely if US hasn’t gone to hell in a couple weeks, it indicates we’ve been doing something right?
Again, blame the poor for their poverty.

Gives a nice tummy feel but does nothing good for society.
I am not so sure.
9/11: concerns USA and terrorist organisations.
Vietnam: USA and Vietnam
Cold War: This comes close to world wide concern.
This is a more stressful event than those three together.
There is a lot of overlap between wormhole and webrtc thought, and using it as a channel has been on the road map for a long time.

So maybe people knowledgeable enough to build it just waited for it, or went to apply PAKE like rdv on top of webrtc.
Norway to hit those breaking quarantine with $2k fines
Evidence. Replication of results by multiple unrelated investigators.

Those two points alone remove a lot of gibberish. Even an appeal to authority is suspect if those first two aren't addressed.
The original idea of encapsulation was not to rely on arbitrary internal knowledge but provide stable procedures. One of real-world examples was not to rely on Dorothy in marketing putting the red copy into the blue folder because next month Dorothy may be on vacation, red copies become yellow, and the blue folder is replaced with a green one. Instead the procedure should refer to Senior Marketing assistant, marketing copy, and folder for the current year. No excessive hiding, just stability.
With a disease that spreads while asymptomatic, the droplets we really need to stop are the outgoing ones. A high level of even improper or suboptimal mask usage in the general not-yet-diagnosed population would be very helpful, because it would cut the six-foot proximity hazard zone down to inches.

If we only had enough masks, that is.
There are at least several other sources talking about this, from more than 20 days ago. Try to google the spanish word: Cloroquina

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32147496

https://gacetamedica.com/investigacion/covid-19-el-fosfato-d...

https://www.sadi.org.ar/novedades/item/931-covid-19-uso-de-c...
While I'm amused, some of my colleagues were quite offended by this.

Our product manager, who wrote the original copy on Arc, had this comment upon seeing this:

"They actually copied our entire developer application form, I realized that because I was thinking, man they really wrote these like how I would talk in real life, it’s because I came up with all the wording and they just copied them verbatim…….well, they swapped out “cup of joe” for “cup of coffee”. This is highly upsetting"
If you're working for a company where it's seen as "heroic" or "passionate" to come to work sick, you're in a toxic environment.

I've had a couple co-workers who perhaps see themselves as heroic for coming to work sick, but everyone else resents them and wishes they would just stay home.
US drug prices are pretty crazy. A random search in an internet pharmacy shows 100 tablets of 200mg hydroxychloroquine is like 30€ in Germany.
> Governments shutting down pandemic response units

One government specifically did this.

> It's not fair to say the healthcare system has limits if you're only providing the bare minimum

Healthcare systems all over the world are struggling are preparing to struggle in the coming weeks, many of which do not provide only the 'bare minimum' but seek to provide good national coverage.

While we'd all love to see more joined up thinking between countries in tackling these kinds of crises both during and before, you're being unnecessarily harsh. We are human after all.
Mean incubation period is 5.6 days (range 1-14). So while possible, it’s highly unlikely you got it 1 day after infection.
Patients will get “unprecedented” access to their health data
It's really interesting to me that stark difference between MS's GUI framework fire-and-motion, vs macOS's stability. Why couldn't MS do that? They have c# vs macOS's objective-C, perhaps it's because MS wanted to have a decent C++ UI framework, but the Windows-8/modern app direction they took added to the fragmentation.
That's some COVID, that COVID-22.
People ate bats; Chinese government covered up the virus for a while; big US pharma wasn’t incentivized to research a solution; underinsured Americans were afraid to go to doctor; immigrants were afraid to go to doctor; US government just sunk trillions into economy (which vanished in mere hours), but can’t promise free tests and treatment for everyone; US government messed up the cautionary messaging; US has no systems in place to handle anything like this.

^ this is a list of problems I read in the news over the past few days. Pretty sure there are a lot of solutions people have been proposing, most of which are completely feasible.
For now I focus on getting it as complete as possible for X. I'll consider wayland support more in the near future.
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This just isnt true. Look at china. Their new cases per day have now dropped to effectively zero. Under 100,000 people got it, and deaths are around 6,000. Keep in mind this is for a population of 1.3 Billion. US population is 300 million. Please explain how 2 million people are gonna die in this country.
And it probably won't let us go back to the Olduvai Gorge savepoint anymore.
Just build more homes!

Build apartment high rises and condominium complexes, that people can own, with 15 years of work. Why should we be forced to work for 30 years as a slave to pay off some bank’s mortgage?

It’s not our damn fault, that politicians are inept and can’t do the right thing, by providing affordable homes.

Socialize the housing market. This is a basic human right, but the greed of capitalism is forcing everyone to pay insane prices for their housing.
Ironically the only reason why we will see so many deaths in a pandemic such as this is only because we are so overly overpopulated and we as a species have become too good to cheat nature by keeping dead people alive.

Also ironically this pandemic is exactly what the world needs to shut everything for 18 months and therefore finally take (involuntary) a real measure to stop further global warming. On a philosophical level one might say it’s better to fuck over one generation now and later save many more generations to come by keeping this planet inhabitable. As if we got punished because we were unable to act responsibly ourselves.
Quinine is one of the most bitter substances in the world. In capsule form it's not used much any more for malaria because the taste of the dust on the outside of the capsule made people throw up. The amount in tonic water is tiny compared to what you need if you have malaria.
If you disagree with this extremely obvious longstanding complaint with US regulatory practice, about which much has been written for years but little done, let's hear your thinking.

Our headlights are both objectively and subjectively terrible compared to, say, European standards, and the manufacturers are helpless to improve their products. I'd go so far as to say the US DOT has significant blood on its hands.
> It fascinates me that so many countries on the planet do things like liberal welfare and 'free' healthcare, yet the richest country in the world by a very wide margin calls it shenanigans.

Have you ever considered that it would contribute to why it is the richest country in the world?
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I have, and genuinely the only thing I’d like to see included at this stage is vim-keybindings, which I realise aren’t important for the vast majority of people.

Everything else is great, it looks and feels like a very high quality Cocoa app. You’ll be happy to know that Both horizontal and vertical splitting are included. While everything has been moved around compared to Coda, I think there haven’t really been any feature regressions (though I was never a heavy Coda user).

Panic has done a great job, imo.
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This is what I was wondering when I read Donovan Mitchell from the Utah Jazz saying he felt fine. I wondered if he just hasn’t become ill yet.
Early strict containment and disciplin.
Or you know, ease off the gas and tailgate a little less.
Absolutely. My mom is a teacher for virtual Virginia full time and it took her at least a couple years to get in the swing of things after 25 in the classroom.
I don't wish to downplay those events but their impact was quite limited when we consider entire humanity.
> That's not what the original blog post was about though, it was about how bad Gunicorn is.

Yes, the post starts out describing an issue with how Gunicorn listens for connections. Like you said, there are better libraries than Gunicorn so that's not a reason to jump to Ruby.

However, the article goes on to talk about other things, like the lack of real multithreading, import-time code execution, and overall efficiency, all of which also apply to Ruby.

I'm not saying Python or Ruby are a bad choice. It's just that MapleWalnut was soliciting an alternative that doesn't have the problems described in the original post, so Ruby doesn't qualify.
He immediately followed up by claiming that the number of accidents cause more deaths than COVID19....

The love for Elon Musk in this site is super strong! He is certainly infallible.
In the hypothetical case where the minimum rent in the entire US becomes $1000 (and the laws of supply/demand have not magically disappeared), then that means all of the livable areas in the country have been revitalized enough to demand such a price. Considering how poorly many rural and exurban communities have fared in the last few decades, that feels like a nice problem to have.

Its also worth mentioning that the US is very big and there are a lot of places that are just not that attractive to live in[1]. So I feel like it will be quite a while before we get to that point.

And a final point. UBI is not meant to provide free rent. It is a form of social welfare and safety net. The fact that the real estate market is so imbalanced in the US is a failure of capitalism (why aren't startups and companies moving to low-cost of living areas?) And the fact that UBI can help bring some balance to real estate markets is nice side benefit, but its main goal it to act as a counter weight to the ruthlessness of market economies.

[1] https://dimewilltell.com/free-land/
Worked with contaminated vape toxicity and the Juul flavor ban.
They said that computer technology would eliminate boring office jobs back in the 1980s and 1990s (when most unskilled labour was still manual). This didn't happen. In fact 100% the opposite happened.
Yes, but the reason it did not work is different:

"they put the nozzle of the spray bottle inside the mouth of a follower who was later confirmed as a patient, before they did likewise for other followers as well, without disinfecting the sprayer"