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Practice practice practice.

More obviously, you can't type faster than you can think. Take the effort to prepare your thoughts. Develop a flow for your stream of consciousness. Typing on the fly requires a kind of cadence and rhythm that only comes with developing a proper form.

Honestly best advice is just get a keyboard you're comfortable with. I'm quite fond of my WASD keyboard. The sticky keys on my MacBook Pro just don't cut it.

I learned through doing runs of Mario Teaches Typing so fast that the computer struggled to render frames.

My typing speed's gone down, substantially over the years. I think that's a good thing. I think slower. I pause before I speak. I try to say more with less words. I've also picked up a weird habit of using only my index finger for my right hand but my WPM is still around 100.
That's very interesting to me. Do you have a source or more info about this?
very cool! but didn't find pricing info.
Google has been doing this since the beginning. They maintain they don't manually change the rankings.

Google originally picked a bunch of sites and included there own and gave them a 10 page rank. That meant they automatically ranked higher for the same words/term because of a higher reputation score.
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Most Apple employees don’t have extensive public social media and those that do are generally pretty careful about posting photos of anything inside buildings. There isn’t specifically any secrecy around radar the plush toy, but most tend to be a lot more private social media-wise than most people.
What specifically is this valve for? A lot of medical equipment is surprisingly low volume. The UK for instance has 5000 ventilators in the entire country. Ventec was interviewed on NBC News this evening, they said they normally produce 150 ventilators per month.

There are tons of medical devices that are low enough volume that most hospitals don't even have a single unit. There's a reason why we have hospitals with varying levels of status, capabilities, and specialties. There are fairly common surgeries that require equipment that only exists in 2 or 3 digit quantities in the entire world.
Even better is when a long-dead system is suddenly resurrected and repurposed for another project.

I had a friend at a company I left tell me they were un-mothballing a cancelled platform (killed at the time by an unfortunate acquisition) and deployment system I built several years ago because it was needed again. The whole thing was pretty janky because it was barely past prototype but fairly functional.

I wished him good luck and told him to find a new job, because there be dragons. He took the advice eventually, but I did hear they got it up and running again, with some pain. Apparently it is out there chugging along doing its thing once again.
You can still leak sensitive or private information simply by switching to the wrong window during a live stream. There are examples of this happening on Twitch all the time, often requiring the streamer to change a Skype account ID or change their email address.
Also not a lawyer, but I think that's trademark which must be vigorously defended. I believe patents have a six-year limit from infringement: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/286
That price almost certainly had liability baked into it.
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No human being is unworthy of protection regardless of their job; for instance, supermarket workers also require protection. However this is a limited resource so of course those with the highest risk should get them first.
In the US a patent holder can absolutely exclude you from making or using their patented inventions.

However, the US gov can infringe at will without any court orders or special laws.

If a US gov agent (any low level CDC or health agency employee could do it) told the hospital to print valves, there is nothing the patent holder can do about it except get paid for the value of the valves sometime later.
Would you download a car? :)
I haven't managed to identify the valve manufacturer.

They definitely ought to be named and shamed.

I did find this: https://www.archyde.com/italian-start-up-3d-prints-valves-to...

Edit: Charging 10000 EUR for a 1 EUR part in a breathing device is typical scumbag behavior. Doing that during a pandemic rises to criminal. Suing people who 3D print parts for free is grounds for nationalization.
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It might not be as flexible or good, but I use draw.io to "draw" diagrams on screen during live streams or even pre-recorded videos.
You got a picture of your homemade mask?
Actually, I think designs and patents are free for personal use.
So any easy way around it is to document how to get to that design, and let’s patients print valves for personal use
I'd prefer to just get arrested every time I sneeze.
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I wouldn't say it's "never" on TikTok. Having used both, I wouldn't say i've noticed a difference in how many non-model type persons I see on either platforms.
They have cell location data, but could have quite a few people in it. They already have this data, and I would guess that they find it useless for contact tracing. In contrast, Google/Apple and to some degree fb have super accurate traces of exactly which shops and offices you went to.
the thing is these masks were not designed to be re-used in a mechanical sense. they eventually just fall apart. they were meant to be thrown out after being used.

still, one of them can last a few days in a pinch.
I think the economic damage will be so remarkable that nobody will go hungry. We are seeing unprecedented pro-social behavior and legislation. Social safety nets are born out of crises.
I wish our politicians would just fucking own it and declare their own surveillance state rather than this bullshit death of a thousand cuts public/private partnership horseshit.
The Italian government should grant an amnesty for this immediately. Lives are on the line. There is no question about what the right thing to do in this situation is.
Tesla will be able to buy those up as well, just like they are doing with CATL in China. As a battery manufacturer, your goal is to make and sell as many batteries as possible. Tesla wants a much larger number than the other players.
The mike hiss tips are something I've never thought of. Could make a large difference.
I don't understand why we insist on keeping people in jobs that can be automated. Let them go pursue something that's fulfilling. Not automating something that can be just to keep people doing jobs we don't need done is a fascinating make-work project.

The displaced should be re-trained, provided meaningful opportunities, or yeah, paid basic income out of the money saved by them not going to work.

Why pay them to do a less efficient job, that they're not fulfilled by, to produce uncompetitive goods at an uncompetitive price?
> Perhaps steam and/or use of a pressure cooker could also be effective. Many people who do home canning of food goods have a pressure cooker and are already familiar with usage and cleaning.

A pressure cooker is overkill. It's used in canning because you need to kill fungal/bacterial spores that can be very hardy pre-germination.

Viruses are amongst the easiest to "kill", and live bacteria somewhere in the middle.

I wonder how effective full sunlight is for masks and viruses. Say, 6 hours on each side.
> I would think the cell service providers have much more reliable data.

Google tracks location history from GPS and this is accurate to at most a few meters and it can be use to check if people walked by each other on the street.

As far as I know phone service providers don't have anything similar. The cell you're connected to can cover an entire neighborhood.
I was just laid off due to the virus. So yes, be careful.

That is the problem with "corona panic", it causes other people to panic and behave irrationally
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Yes, it does make it slow, and reduces user customizability. I suggested a way that can make it fast and increases user customizability, as well as improving security, and improves backward compatibility, too. Yet, it would seem, they don't like that. (Although, I don't know if the authors of Pale Moon will consider my idea; probably not, but it may be worth a try.)
These serve different purposes.

If you are already infected, a vaccine is not useful.

But regardless, there is no approved treatment for COVID.

Gilead's new antiviral looks promising, and the Chloroquine/Azithromycin combo looks promising, too, but the first isn't approved for any use yet, and the second is an uncertain off-label use, so in either case, you aren't going to get those treatments unless the alternative is likely death, if you can get them them at all.
they're not nearly as expensive each if you buy a box of them. I think it used to cost like $12 for 2 or $16 for 10, speaking in the before-time of course.
Which is based on discrete data from a graph built from phone calls, fixed line locations and SMS/email meta data. It doesn't have (from the Snowden dump) selectors for intersecting location tracks. TBH, I just don't think that is the way the FBI finds dead drops.
Some surveillance and a lot of footwork.

Cell phone location data helps to suggest if a person has travelled to certain location with their regular phone but that is about it.
We actually bought 2 UVC light bulbs just to sterilize my masks. We only have a handful, and believed early on that UVC could make them reusable, but have no proof.

But using them is very hard. They produce ozone which is harmful to your lungs, and the light themselves are harmful to your eyes and skin. So I don't have a safe way to set this up yet. Now that we are all quarantined maybe we can have more time to figure out a sustainable way to use it.
Paracetamol is the same compound as Acetaminophen, and is sold under the Tylenol brand in the US.
What is the main reason that make these devices so expensive? Is it low demand? complex technology? or something to do with patents?
/s

I hope.

Explicatory edit: The CCP, like every government in history, is motivated to conceal its human rights abuses. China also lacks a free press, an important window into its current events. Accordingly, there are obstacles in the way of justly assessing China’s response to this crisis.
I have bad news for you: Modern society not only allows business and individuals to take actions that will kill people, but it quantifies to what extent in dollar terms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life

Scroll down for a country-by-country breakdown.

I personally don't pass judgement on it.
Do you have some reference for me to learn about this?
Ask HN: Is Covid-19 turning into an ad campaign?
Lately, I’ve been receiving a lot of emails from companies about Covid-19. Big and small, explaining what they are doing about it.

Are we just turning it into a huge advertisement campaign?
You appear to be correct. I had never even thought to check and just assumed that it was!
Not if they also want to put food on the table.
Now that events are cancelled and local businesses cease spending on ads, local media outlets will also start hurting. First local newspapers, then radio, eventually TV.

The alt-weeklies in Seattle and Portland have already furloughed a lot of staff and ceased print publication.

The economy is a vast web that just had a bowling ball dropped on it.
> The masks filter pollution about as effectively after prolonged use as when they're new.

Filters generally get better at filtering as they get dirty. A pore with a mountain of dirt/dust over it gets even better at only permitting gasses through. But that also means less and less flow, until you're letting nothing through at all.

I think the other problem for medical use is moisture buildup. A damp/wet/sweaty N95 doesn't let gasses through very well.
BTW, I think you hit the mother lode on links about potential decontamination methods. I need to read some of this for future reference. Thanks!
Do we even need toilet paper?
Hey, you’re in America. So stop sneezing or I’ll shoot you! /s
After Dan and I started discussing it by email, I found a Show HN with this! I'd like to see the data on a map, but in the meantime, I encourage everyone to contribute data to them.

https://covid19-reports-submit.paperform.co/
I guess they'd prefer to maintain appearances.
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> What solutions did they come up with in China?

New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. explains in this video, and in this article:

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1238604080571772928

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/health/coronavirus-china-...
I know, I realized that just now, you got me. Hah I love this site!
> Economic interdependence makes war a lot harder.

Citation needed. The American Revolutionary War, The American Civil War, WWI, WWII, just to name a few, all involved belligerents with significant economic interdependence.
> sophisticated 3D scanning techniques

It’s not too hard to convert a DICOM file, and most hospitals have a CT scanner than is up to the task if you give cake to the right person. Engineering departments know this well.
I'm not using a plugin to capture the VM. I just use a "Windows Source" and select the VM's window. A good tip is to set the window's resolution to 720p so that text is consoles and IDEs is very clear. I then overlay a mirrorless camera source over this and use a green screen filter to neatly place my self in the frame.
Don't underestimate the number of people whose lives will ultimately be shortened by the economic harm being done in panic over the virus.
In the US:

FM is between parties to a contract. FM clauses allocate the risk of unforeseen events to the parties as per the language in the contract.

If FM is in play at all, it would probably protect the manufacturer by relieving it of its promise (if any) to provide the valves.

Note, I have no idea how contract law works in Italy or the EU.

However, in this case, there is probably an Italian or EU law that shields the hospital from liability. Especially if the hospital is part of a government health system. (The US has such laws)
The interesting thing is, you can run the js you build in the spreadsheet, independent of the spreadsheet environment.

Unfortunately the project looks pretty dead. And further one of the bullet points is "is lightweight: ~2000 lines of source code (excluding libraries)" but looking into app.js it's something like 23k loc. It uses react but it looks to be pre-JSX. And because it's all in one giant file it feels too overwhelming for me to want to learn/extend it. He says it's compatible with IE 11. And maybe that's why it's structured that way, but I don't know. Despite it all the idea is really cool.
On average what percent do most search results served come from bing vs your ddg crawls or any of the other 400 sources?
> How is this different from nightclubs having a high bar to entry?

I gather that TikTok claimed to be inclusive. Nightclubs almost by definition don't.
I wouldn’t be certain about that. Getting medical equipment vendors to agree to pay for breakages or resulting costs is hard, and their markups buy a lot of lawyering.
They already have a mechanism to do this -- it's called a John Doe (wiretap) warrant.

What they really want is full take -- the complete location movements of the US population. This would be useful for COVID-19 tracking ... and authoritarian control.
I’m not saying we should protect these jobs by law or anything, but I question whether work that can be automated can't be fulfilling.

I keep seeing these “Cafe X” robotic coffee bars in San Francisco. Surely some baristas find their job fulfilling, and some customers enjoy chatting with their human barista instead of a robot?

Personally I think I’d have a hard time feeling good about working on something that directly replaces human labor without much benefit other than profit.
I don't see how the question contains a type error, any more than the question of the earth being round contains a type error.
Those high rates are also dependant upon the fraction of cases detected.

We are currently seeing about a 9% hospitalization rate based on detected cases.

If we are really missing 75% of cases, then true hospitalization is only about 2.3%
Not only that, but this actually adds the book to one's personal library (as "document"). For .mobi, this also synchronizes the last read position, just like it does for books from the Kindle store.
It’s your choice. If we were on any other forum I would get this mentality a little more but a tech forum of all places.

“I paid this one developer and this other developer and all of them are selling copies of the binaries so it’s not like each copy is worth anything anyways, and it’s ok if I steal a copy of this third developer's software because paying these developers means I deserve all the software that isn’t made by them too because developers in general want way more money than I think their software is worth”

???

It’s kind of like, most of us get to see how the bacon is made, and should get all of this nonsense about “the marginal cost of a movie” is silly. A lot of people here make very good money because 1000 hrs of development can become 1,000,000 dollars of revenue because the output of that 1000 hrs can be sold again and again and again ad nauseum.

To me the movie industry and the software industry are two sides of the same coin, if anything we have the more extreme version of their setup with much better margins.

If you want to steal a movie because you can’t afford it or you feel entitled to have “all the stuff I wanna see right now immediately how dare they make me wait for my movie that I deserve or give me the choice to pay more for earlier access so they can squeeze all the profit from the multi million dollar investment they made” and tell other people what they have the right to price their creative product go right ahead.

That entitlement coming from technologists will still get me though.
Unlike with SARS there is a significant viral load in the upper respiratory tract too.
I’m reminded of an old saying that there two hard things in Computer Science:

- cache invalidation

- naming things

- and off-by-one errors
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Is it though? I mean we know everything there is to know about the war and even if we discovered something new it's unlikely to be of any practical value. There were bunkers all over Europe.
I loved RAID. Lightning fast, so fast that speed was its own quality.
3–13 September were skipped when the British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar

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Even homemade masks provide some protection. A lot less than N95 masks, but much better than nothing.
Same setup almost! I am a student, just starting to use Anki, been using Polar since it same out, will get Readwise subscription soon.
Just want to integrate RM2 pdf highlights with Polar.

Will buy RM2 when pocket permits. It's going to be a tough decision be an iPad and RM2, recently came across Liquidtext iPad app, it's so good.
Exponential growth with 6 hidden doublings is nasty stuff.

Far more will die from the virus than the measures already. It take about a month from exposure to death. There are 1000s to 10s of 1000s 'walking dead' in the UK alone.
> low cost touch enabled tablet

This has different context depending on what you mean... is it a drawing tablet or some sort of Android tablet?
I know about the pressure canner for spores. We can a lot of things here around the house and insuring that we have sterilized everything up front to prevent any opportunity for botulism or other pathogen to ruin the food is at the top of the list. I didn't realize that viruses could be easier to kill though. I appreciate that nugget.

Full sunlight, being UV-rich should be effective though like you I don't know how long one should plan to expose each side. I'd be interested in anyone's thoughts there.
I'm curious, if I have no internet access and gps turned off on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S7) is there still hidden shit which is tracking my location? .. Like, is GPS not really turned off for example?
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Here in the entire state of Ohio, literally every dine in restaurant and/or bar operation has been shut down. Only take out / delivery is allowed: https://governor.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/governor/media/news...

I believe other states / municipalities have started to follow suit, but entire state shutdown has been surreal.
Ugly fat poor. 3 strong words repeated over and over in the comments. I hope people realize that there is a pretty large demographic that may identify with this.

As for TikTok, it’s a Chinese app and things we consider discriminating may be a bit normalized there. I constantly get surprised how much the CPC gets away with, but asking my Chinese friends, they’ve made peace with it “it’s for the greater good”.

So like Facebook’s unofficial motto “growth at any cost”, this doesn’t surprise me coming from TikTok. I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook did/does this too.
This isn't the only ends to that means though nor the most efficient way to accomplish it. Not that it's bad or good but that isn't a particularly convincing reasoning.
‘in moments of crisis, people are willing to hand over a great deal of power to anyone who claims to have a magic cure—whether the crisis is a financial meltdown or, as the Bush administration would later show, a terrorist attack’ (Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine)
Train a spam filter and use a commit hook, in Perl.
> he ability of my local Chinese place to serve customers is undiminished, my desire to eat Chinese food is undiminished, and all that's in the way is an ultimately temporary law.

I have thought quite a bit about whether this situation will cause long-term behavioral changes.

Do you expect the restaurant business to bounce back to where it was after the crisis ends? I would expect that to happen for a short-duration event. But what if this persists for months, or into next year?

I have searched for papers that explore this idea (say after the 1918 Spanish Flu), but haven't found anything relevant.
It's not the legality or the right to work from home that is in question. You too live in a small country with too much corrupt politicians and networks of influence.

If I named the company I would be uniquely identified by my immediate superiors as soon as they read this. I might as well ask you if you have any job for me in a couple of months. I really like Porto.
You probably want to avoid manipulating the mask a lot, both because it may be contaminated and to avoid punctures.
The average annual cost of 1 year of mAb treatment is about 100K [1], which jibes with your estimate.
However, that is one year of treatment.
Fully human mAbs have a pretty long serum half-life.
COVID-19 should clear from 1 or 2 administrations, not the 12-24 per year typically seen with other mAbs.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29461857
Before the Federal government gets location data, they're going to have to test to find out who has it.
> Timothy Robson, a business development manager at Hills, Inc. in Florida, is skeptical of the quality of such production lines

Oh fuck off! Where are the millions of dollars invested by the US to fill these shortages. Everyone likes to shit on China when it's the only country taking steps to fix the situation at a global scale.

They should probably keep their shitty made masks to themselves then if their quality is bad. How well will that sit with other countries? ...