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> famous article edited by CmdrTaco

"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

(Nomads were pretty technically impressive at the time, but good luck fitting one in your pocket, or finding the track you want in a collection of thousands.)
You don't have to be bedridden to have lungs that are one cold away from death.

People with advanced COPD etc are everywhere but can walk short distances etc and prefer cruises to schlepping through airports and whatnot.

Knowing people who go on large long cruises they tell me they've never been on one where they didn't have at least one death. Indeed I know people with serious health issues who go on these knowing there is good on site medical care at hand.
Worth noting that the de facto markup in python docstrings is RST

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0287/
Maybe they looked at the advice, looked at the numbers and decided that it's worth taking the risk. Isn't that what personal freedom is about?
I don't think it's any more about the ability to measure and simulate than anything else related to quantum mechanics is.

If you attempt to observe anything at that scale, you will create a black hole. Without a theory of quantum gravity, it's sort of nonsensical to talk about what happens at that scale of space-time.
I have wondered for quite a while about this so maybe you can help. How does it spread without symptoms?

Like, I get that you start shedding the virus, but if you don't cough or sneeze and practice generally good hygene it should not spread, right?
Tape it to a brick, for good measure.
Yes, you tend to live a healthier life when you aren’t subject to extreme stress, or at least are able to use a medium to mitigate it. Meditation is one medium, one which I believed to be overhyped (but I guess it works for many)

I prefer playing musical instruments, but there’s no studies claiming a link between playing music and slowing down aging. It doesn’t sell much into the “bio hacking” agenda.
There’s sentiment here on HN that any documentation is good documentation - and while it is better than NO documentation, it’s just not correct to dismiss truly great documentation.

For example, Stripe (the workplace of the author) has incredible documentation that single-handedly enabled me to build with it, despite my being a wretched server-side developer.

That the documentation alone doubled the potential user-base, thus fostering growth and engagement with the product, is a testament to the power of great document versus just documentation.

V1 docs in markdown - fine. But V2 for an ambitious tool should probably start approaching what Stripe is accomplishing.
What to do when consumers aren't buying
Yes, the World Health Organization's Myth Busters page about coronavirus [0]. But there's sub-spectrum of UV, which might be helpful [1].

[0]: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

[1]: https://www.crr.columbia.edu/research/using-power-light-prev...
Breaking India into India and Pakistan didn't work really well.
Ask HN: How to learn small electronics and HW interfacing?
I, probably like many of the people who read HN, am satisfactorily competent at slinging code but have absolutely no clue how to make that code talk to the physical world. Like, suppose I wanted to attach a motion sensor to something: unless the sensor comes with a USB cable and a well-documented Python API, I'd be out of luck.

HN, what are your recommendations for strategies, books, projects, etc. to learn this stuff?
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If you want an S3 service with lower pricing than AWS there are providers like Wasabi. They only charge for space used and not traffic.

I believe Wasabi currently charges $5.99 per tb a month which is pretty reasonable imo.
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> testing has gone up exponentially in Seattle

Still an immaterial fraction of the population being tested.

> we’re seemingly past containment

Containment has failed. Doing nothing after containment is a good way to decimate one's population and cause it lasting economic harm.
Please enlighten me on how to produce [`code`](https://example.com) in reST.

Hint: This is rhetorical. https://docutils.sourceforge.io/FAQ.html#is-nested-inline-ma...
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I agree that S3 is fantastic, but not sure I would consider it simple considering how much sensitive data is left wide open in publicly accessible buckets all the time. Clearly, applying correct permissions seems to be quite a challenge for even experienced folks. The S3 console doesn't really make life any easier either and terminology can be confusing. Also, applying IAM/CORS policies, object headers, etc isn't exactly simple for the layperson.
Hey HN,

I would love to share one small, rather personal project of mine - it is a web adaptation of the book my brother wrote, using authentic letters our father sent us while being stuck in Sarajevo during the war in the nineties.

Thank you!
Gotta love the telephone game, and click bait headlines. They ingested aquarium cleaner; basic high school chemistry tells you not judge one ingredient as a reason to ingest something. Also, common sense tells you that the product was designed for aquariums, not human consumption, so even without basic high school chemistry they should have not ingested it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/24/coronavirus...
Anil from Zebrium here. We provide an Autonomous Monitoring service that until now has used logs as the source of our anomaly detection. We wanted to augment this by correlating log anomalies with anomalies detected within a group of related metrics.

Since Prometheus is very popular in Kubernetes environments, we wanted to support discovering and scraping Prometheus targets and send those scraped metrics to our software running in the cloud for anomaly detection. Latency is important to us as we need to receive the metrics in near real time as they get scraped. We also need to preserve labels, types, and full fidelity of time stamps for anomaly detection and log correlation purposes. And we need to do all this while being as efficient as possible in sending the metrics over the wire, as this data will be going over the WAN from a user’s Kubernetes cluster to our software which is running in the cloud.

To achieve all of this, we have built and open sourced a forked instance of the Prometheus server and a new remote server that collects metrics. Quick summary of what we achieved: near real time metric updates, preserving of valuable information such as labels and types, ability to handle out of order samples, greater than 500x bandwidth reduction. You can read all about it in this blog: https://www.zebrium.com/blog/a-prometheus-fork-for-efficient... or in the github repo: https://github.com/zebrium/prometheus.
People roaming in open areas by themselves or with people they cohabitate with is not a threat as long as physical distance is maintained, especially if masks (even improvised ones) are used. Allowing them to do it will allow the public to bear a longer lockdown than cracking down on it.
FWIW Italy has a very active anti-vax movement:

https://bppj.berkeley.edu/2018/10/25/the-anti-vaccination-mo...

Effect on Italian measles outbreak:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/italy-vaccines-anti-vaxxer-po...

Anti-vaxxers are unlikely to get annual flu shots and are, as a consequence, subject to both the annual flu strains and to covid-19.
People should walk around outside and keep their distance from other people. Mental health matters too, and being forced to stay indoors will take a toll. There is minimal danger of transmission by taking walks alone or with your household members. Better to simply walk than to have to make an "excuse" like going in to a store when you don't really need to. Unfortunately, in some places you need to do that because outdoor exercise is not permitted.
Then you still need somebody who cleans up the documentation afterwards or converts it into your Markdown dialect of choice.

If you have such a person anyway, you can just let other contributors write simple text without any styling to begin with.
Global surveillance key to containing spread of virus
Side notes: I was trying to figure out how I could "help" by developing an N95 respirator with some online communities. I was prepared to be humbled by what I didn't know, but holy smokes, now I realize I can't even begin to know what I don't know.

* 3d printed PLA? Deforms at autoclaving temperatures. chemical sterilization not recommended b/c there's not many good ways to "know" it's worked correctly.

* Sealing? Good luck. There are some people working on using TPU to help seal, but again, sterilization is a problem.

* Porosity? 3d printed materials can barely pass 2psi. This also creates a LOT of places for bacteria to hide.

* Filter media? DO NOT cut up a HEPA filter! They're made with micron-scale fiberglass. This keeps getting suggested, but people don't realize that HEPA filters are not made of paper.

I'm confident an open source design and process can eventually be made, but it's much harder problem than it looks. There's a lot of people are adding a lot of noise (I'm in "read-only" mode for now to cut down on the noise level) so if you're thinking of contributing, the best thing you can do is just read atm.

Producing Face Shields has some interesting and unexpected requirements (head back leakage among other things), but is a much simpler problem to solve and there are some good designs (Google Prusa 3d Face Shield)
They do have a breakdown into governable regions, together the regions form India. Norway has 5 million people. New York, LA, Toronto, etc has more people. Total population isn't a great reason.
We should be expecting our governments to be ready, not a billionaire with a charitable foundation.

I wish my government was as effective and functional as Taiwan or South Korea.
In delhi they've now started giving curfew passes. So people working in essential services can get them.

Places where you can get them : https://twitter.com/BhardwajAnanya/status/124209734947373056...
It is easy to turn the country into a police state and lock everything down. I think what is required is what the UK called a partial-lockdown, where the essential services including food, medical care, etc remain easily available to people. As of now, India government plans on that direction has been patchy, unclear and execution pathetic.

It is a sad state when the police is beating up and arresting journalists, and those delivering or out to buy medicines/food.

Overall the government trying to be extremely paternal and the language used is lacking a humane touch.
Is that quoted verbatim or did you translate it? It doesn't sound like language government officials would use.
YouTube is reducing its default video quality to SD for the next month
I've only ever paid my own money for one Apple product, and it was an iPod. Back when they came out they weren't as great as they later became, but the hard-drive was a significant advantage.

Back before I had an iPod I had something with flash-memory, holding a couple of hours of music at the most. Having a drive meant I had days worth of music in my pocket, more than I needed for a train/gym session, but a significant upgrade for sure.
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Warnings are cheap and easy. Lots of people warning about all kinds of things all of the time.

Where is the technology? Where is the solution? Where is the execution on the warning?
In some cases it's enough just to breath to infect people - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25816216/
Like you, I would also like to put my views on it.
I make no claims that I know any more than you do.

> why do I believe community transmission has not started or rampant

We already have many unexplained cases of local transmission. So yes it has already begun.

Nothing you or me say will change this fact.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

> Is this the right thing to do?

This is the best we can do in India. If you have anything else feel free to share.
Right now I can't think of anything else with the current already crumbling medical infrastructure we have in India.
> Will people obey the curfew:

No.

Is there a problem with how India is doing it?

No

Is there a problem with Indians?

No

This is human nature. People will panic.

But this is no reason to not apply a curfew.

> they are negative, it might feel like a license to go back to regular life

Finally, I see someone who thinks logically.

Otherwise, people either support whatever Modi says or oppose whatever he says. No common sense applied to understand what is right or what is wrong.

> We are in uncharted waters.

You want to stay in a comfort zone. I am sorry to disappoint you.

Corona virus is not the last pandemic you would see in your life time.

And this is yet far away from the worst humanity has seen.

Search Spanish flew. Just think about medical understanding doctors have back in those days. Yet they fought and we survived.

We would survive this also. Long live Humanity.
Crazy lol, never in a million years would I have thought my Toto would appreciate in value far more than my stock account.
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I’ve been using Whiteboard with a Wacom Intuos tablet and it’s been working really well so far. In some ways it’s even better than a normal whiteboard because I don’t have to remember to take a picture and share it with the group when we’re done and I can export the image to add markup text, etc, if needed.

OneNote also has some great drawing support.
It appears they updated that page to explicitly state that the tabletop exercise was not meant to be a prediction, but simply to highlight challenges in responding in a pandemic.
Markdown is the best. It's plain-text, meaning it can be version controlled. You can transform it to other formats with pandoc. It supports most common formatting options.

I'm sorry, but "no color support" is not a compelling reason to switch to something more complicated. Define your own color meta-tag and generate a PDF from the markdown with colors if you care that much.
I'm a mathematician on sabbatical, after many years glued to a screen. I spent the first few months outside doing woodworking; I've been struggling with an overwhelming urge to center my consciousness in my hands. This is of course the history of our species, a biological urge as profound as our sex drive. We figured out how to make very sharp hunting tools from unruly rocks, or we died.

I've managed to fix myself back at my computer only by increasing the dexterity workload, making the process more interesting. Any increase in efficiency is a bonus. The reward is that I'm actually sitting here at all.

It is an astonishing sensation, accomplishing everything with slight movements, using both hands at once. As one progresses, the fire burns and other movements that were once acceptable feel ridiculous. Imagine sleeping under a half dozen haphazard blankets, always waking up feeling like you're tangled up in Saran wrap, then switching to the European system of a single Duvet as top sheet. There is no going back.

Some people have a better eye than others for cultural inertia. The classic keyboard design carries the "DOS-compatible" weight of resembling a mechanical typewriter. Is it even faintly conceivable that this is anywhere near optimal? Also recognize that most products are aimed at ease of use for beginners. In stark contrast is stenography equipment, which requires years of commitment. What is an optimal investment of energy?

I've succeeded miserably so far at what I consider an obvious goal: One should spend half one's career as a programmer developing the skills so that one can then do the work of ten people. I am forced to tolerate my failure here, but I can't accept that most people don't even see this as a goal.

A related debate is vim or emacs editing. It's trying to scratch the same itch. The question isn't comfort, but maximizing bandwidth between us and machines. These editing systems are crippled by the keyboard interface itself, and then one uses them through a periscope: One works in a terminal session where even multiple windows are drawn with dashes like a second-grader wielding a crayon. If one instead programs many QMK layers, the fingerings spread out and are much easier: One finger from each hand near home row is much easier than emacs control-xylophone for anything, again I feel tangled up in my sheets. And the target becomes one's entire operating system, not just an editor window.
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And also the most probable, especially given the diet in some of the regions. That said, some countries in Africa also eat bats and pangolin and Ebola came.
Yes, the doomer narrative is getting old very quickly. Everyone and their mothers are running formulas in Excel to try and prove that in 50 days 3.4783 billion people will be wiped out if you go out to buy groceries.

Let the experts do their work, take your precautions and everything will be fine.
Please, write your documentation in whatever tool you like, including Markdown, and being Markdown better than others like a word document or directly PDF for accompanying code. If it's about a code, better living with him in the same repo.
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i highly doubt that. its all about microchip implemenation
I do think there's something wrong with it, when the WHO advises to use the terms they have laid out precisely to prevent racism-fuelled hysteria. The fact that "China virus" may be accurate in line with terms such as "Spanish flu" does not mean that they should be used, as explained in this[0] post. Calling it "China virus" is no substitute for the criticism the Chinese government deserves. If you want to criticize the Chinese government (and you should), then there are better ways of doing so, ways which won't be confused by anyone as anti-Chinese racism, which has been shown in various countries to generalize to anti-East Asian racism.

[0] "Why is Trump dubbing COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus” considered offensive, while many past epidemics have had similar naming schemes?" https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/51121/why-is-tr...
Home delivery systems have been shut down??
No, I'd rather my Constitutional rights be respected. Individual liberty somehow made it through smallpox, malaria, polio, and AIDS without being destroyed and I see no reason why COVID-19 should be some exception to the rule. Privacy in the United States is a right, as deemed by the Supreme Court.
Used an Asus Zenbook 3 UX390UA-GS041T for a very long time for exactly that purpose. Ran Linux on it, loved the keyboard, didn't like the trackpad so much but since it was really only for writing (code) on-the-go it worked perfectly fine. Not sure if there's an updated version of that.
You don't even need to wear a N95 mask, or wear it according to the book. Anything that can reduce the number of virus particles you are exposed to when someone nearby sneezes, or when you touch a surface that was recently sneezed on and then touch your face, can be helpful when millions of people do the same.

A T-shirt over your mouth or a handkerchief tied around your head might not protect you personally. But if enough people wear them, even a small reduction of viral load in the community will compound over time and result in a meaningful difference in the total number of cases and the load it puts on a nation's health system. That's what ultimately matters, and that's what the Japanese and Koreans understand.

Any country that has the guts to order their citizens to stay home should also have the sense to order them to cover their faces with something substantial whenever they have a valid reason to be outside, e.g. going to work.
Are you in China? Could you explain/give context to the violence shown here: https://twitter.com/AF632/status/1238704923417575424
Not sure about proper documentation, but I've found Org-mode to be quite enjoyable for writing readmes, mainly because of its org-babel [0] (aka executable code blocks) support.
That way you can include/tangle bits of source code and help strings documentation in the readme, avoiding unnecessary duplication.
The results of the evaluation are committed to the repository as well, and it's plaintext, so you don't need Emacs to fix/update the docs -- you can patch up the evaluation results, and the maintainer with Emacs can fix it properly later.

E.g. here [1] I'm reusing the argparse help string in the readme. That makes the source code the primary source of truth.

Another experiment I did was writing readme as an Ipython notebook [2], and then compiling the output to markdown.
That allowed me to link bits of readme straight to the code. E.g. as an example, each of the 'Features' [3] links straight to the unit test for that specific feature. The downside is that you need to remember to refresh the readme after code changes, otherwise the line numbers break. Perhaps that can be set up automatically as a CI job.

In hindsight through, would have been easier to use org-mode as well to avoid keeping two separate files for the readme.

- [0] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html

- [1] https://github.com/karlicoss/rexport/blame/master/README.org...

- [2] https://github.com/karlicoss/cachew/blob/master/README.ipynb

- [2] https://github.com/karlicoss/cachew#features
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If you follow the news. This is exactly what is happening here.

All the essentital service are avaialable.
OK, thanks. The article made it sound like they found a way to show time reversal symmetry breaking and I was waiting for them to drop whatever assumption they used to get there. The underlying theory is symmetric and so it only makes sense that it's just a limitation on numerics.
Same. I use B2 as a backup location for Arq, and it's inexpensive and has worked great.
Hmmmm how is Airbnb doing in light of COVID? I'm afraid it's not a good time to join right now.