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Buy and install one of those hand faucets. It's cleaner anyways and you'd need way less toilet paper (pretty much only used to make sure everything is clean and to dry a bit): https://www.amazon.in/b?ie=UTF8&node=10079354031
Seems like you're thinking of Intel Management Engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine)?

From what I understand, IME and SGX are separate technologies.
Would you be willing to accept applications for frontend interns with previous work experience on a React team?
Normally it’s not a problem if one person needs 10 packs of toilet paper. Many folks who live far away from a Costco or any other store make quarterly trips and fill a trailer. I have relatives in Wyoming that travel hours to do this. Businesses are a more boring example of a customer with a need for more paper products than others. In my own personal experience planning my wedding, not every venue supplies paper products. There are plenty of very “boring” reasons to need more than two bulk packs of something per month. The great convenience of Costco is having a one stop shop vs contacting the paper company for plates and cups and the baking company For bags of flour. One stop shopping.

Right now it’s a problem that swarms if people are acting like this.
And it makes you wonder how exactly healthcare $$$ is flowing through the supply chain. It obviously isn't tied up in equipment inventory or logistics management. Time to shake the healthcare-costs tree and see what falls out!
Right, so do the math. 5% of positives required intensive care. If 197 million Americans get this, That means 10 million people go to intensive care. There are 60,000 ICU beds in the U.S. If 10 million people need the ICU, effectively none get a ventilator and they all die.

Now it's true that the cruise ship passengers skewed significantly older, but on the other hand, they were all ambulatory and healthy enough to be taking a cruise. There are populations that are at significantly higher risk than the cruise ship passengers.

Also, Chinese experience was that about half of the people admitted to the ICU eventually died.
I too balked at the stack required to self host jitsi, it felt overly complicated for personal use.

But given the interest in video chat now and the sorry state of affairs of the ecosystem, I gave it another go this week. It still seems convoluted, but they provide a docker compose file to deal with all of those complexities. I used it and set a server up using docker compose within a few minutes.

As far as I can tell, the annoying thing of self hosting is going to be user management. Realistically you shouldn't allow guests to create meetings, and that means you need an ldap server if you want more than a couple of users.
Would asymptomatic crew be a more likely vector between the voyages?

This is a respiratory disease: don’t ignore touch as a vector but surely the vast majority of transmission is via the air?
How many people on Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) for Lupus or RA die from it?
They must have really big data on all purchases, could probably prevent hoarding in a crisis by algorithmically imposing a limit of items from a particular category bought by a member in a timeframe in case of a massive statewide surge in demand.
They were used up for swine flu and never restocked.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/face-masks-in-...
Do existing video apps use TCP? I'll Wireshark next time I use Zoom. Seems like TCP is never going to perform well for low latency applications.

If you have bandwidth to spare, you can optimize for latency by using UDP and sending a lot of duplicate packets, or you can do something smarter with error-correcting codes if bandwidth conservation becomes an issue. The danger is sending too much and incurring queueing delay somewhere.
IIRC classic Hangouts doesn't have the option to tile.

Meet (assuming you're on the current UI, which I would presume has been rolled out to everyone by now) can tile, but only up to four videos (excluding yourself, so five participants). Once you go above that, in automatic mode, it'll drop back to the view with a single large video of a person currently speaking, and smaller videos of everyone else on the side, and, if you force it into the grid view, only four are displayed at a time.
Our managers keep saying GCP is the best, and a lot of developers hate it. But who cares.
And we also tried Firebase, luckily idea was abandoned.
Yeah, I was mostly thrown by the reference to openwrt. I'm sure most/all GNU/Linux systems ship BASH.
I think you’re being downvoted because of that very first sentence (no matter how much I hate the guy, laying the blame 100% on his frail shoulders seems a bit hyperbolic).

But I don’t see what’s downvotable (if not agreeable) about the rest of what was said
I'm genuinely not sure what your point is. Can you explain it? The two surgeons I know generally have extreme trust that their tools, monitors, etc. will "just work" when and where they are needed, every time, and that those things have been properly vetted by the medical industry and community prior to going into a live hospital environment unless it's specifically known that they are testing something new.
> Probably the hairiest things in the kernel that maybe shouldn't be there are boot-time network filesystems, but I think that's kinda the price you pay for that sort of convenience.

I don't call having to tweak my kernel config to be very convenient, or the graphics driver crashing my system, or not having an obvious way to reboot the network/audio/FS stacks without doing a full reboot (I am sure it may be possible).

However, I am hardly the target market for gnu/linux.
A rounding error, but still worthwhile. $300k here, $300k there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money ;).

Anyways, the main point: passengers and their luggage on a 737-sized craft might weigh 15,000 kilos. You might save 340 kilograms/hour by flying slower, too, so a 6 hour flight without passengers could move 17 tonnes more than it did with pax onboard, so long as you have space for what you're shipping.
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This might be the first symptom of Coronavirus
If everyone bought the normal amount we'd be fine... Except the high risk and elderly, who should restrict their movement even more carefully and not go shopping as much, and so actually need a deeper stock of TP (and other normal grocery items)
I saw the videos from Wuhan hospitals 2 months ago and it was clear that the severity of this was off the charts. You can pretty much scale up the situation from a single hospital, because it tells you that it's impacting locally more than the hospital can respond.

You don't need "evidence" of how many are actually infected or what is the correct R or CFR or which way it spreads. Just look how it's impacting the local health care system. If it exceeds the capacity by X % that's how big a problem it is.
I'm guessing there are some people who had visions of making bank on resale, but are now willing to settle for getting their spare room back sometime before the end of the decade.
> That doesn't mean giving prominent authority figures a pass on outright falsehoods. He said the FDA approved chloroquine to be prescribed for Covid-19. The FDA said they had not done that.

It doesn't matter, because chloroquine is already FDA approved to treat COVID 19. Let me explain: chloroquine is an FDA approved drug for malaria, which means doctors can prescribe it for whatever they want. It has been approved as a legal prescription drug and doctors can prescribe anything for any reason whatsoever.

That does not mean it's now okay to take it without a prescription.
> The key that unlocked donations was President Trump. Upon learning of this restriction he quickly put into place a release of liability for medical use of industrial N95 masks.

President Trump did nothing except sign the law when it came to his desk. The provision was in the “Second Coronavirus Package” that originated in the US House of Representatives. It was written by Democratic lawmakers and sponsored by Nita Lowey, a New York Democrat.

Here’s the law in question: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6201...

This Link should take you directly to the relevant section about industrial masks: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6201...

Here’s the vote in the House: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2020/roll102.xml All 40 “Nays” were Republican.

Here’s the Senate vote: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_... all votes against were, once again, Republicans.

It’s also unclear what type of masks Facebook had in stock. They might have been of the medical variety for all we know. And even if not, there would not have been liability anyway: it was manufactures that were previously liable when selling the wrong type of mask to health care workers. But in Facebook donating masks, no manufacturer is part of the transaction.

I’ll not go through the rest of your half-truths, except to note that if you believe any MD can see patients in “Africa” without going through some sort of accreditation you’re wrong.
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I'm always entertained when the guy next to me is buying 50 cases of canola oil or something. Turns out Costco is still often cheaper than a lot of wholesalers.
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I currently work at Loom. I think it's worth mentioning, when they say it's remote, they actually mean remote and not just "you can work from home sometimes".

I did the whole interview process from home in New Zealand and continue to work in my home city.
I've been using Jitsi for a while, even though my company uses GSuite. Not going into details about the corporate use since many have already, but the other day it was my daughter's birthday, being on a quarantine and all and having family in different countries, I sent a jisi link to the family groups on whatsapp so we could all sing happy birthday together, everybody got in, it went all very smoothly. Better than the usual business meeting "can you hear me, I hear you, hello" routine. Thank you Jitsi team!
Indeed. Costco is a small business staple.
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> This also doesn't include people who could not get tested because their symptoms were mild

My partner and I are in that boat (in the NYC area). We had a full week of mild Covid-19 symptoms (I still do not recommend); initially, we couldn't get tested because our fevers weren't high enough and we had no known exposure. By the time we established a known exposure (one of my colleagues got a test while hospitalized with pneumonia, it took a week to come back positive) our symptoms had mostly abated and they would only test sick people. So we'll never know if we had it, but have to both a) continue to isolate (for a variable amount of time, depending on who you ask) under the assumption that we're contagious and b) continue to assume we're still at risk of acquiring it.

Strangely, the only symptom I have left is an oscillating sinus headache and anosmia. Fortunately, some testing I did with vanilla extract this morning indicates that my sense of smell might be healing slowly, instead of somehow permanently damaged.
My friend owns a pharmacy in Canada. She said that it started with the previous Wednesday when in a single night they suspended the NBA, Tom Hanks announced he had coronavirus, and I think Trump stopped flights from Europe.

Her store and others were caught in a flurry of buying. Her daily sales were double or triple what they normally should have been and her shelves became empty because they didn’t anticipate it. It caused multiple days of empty shelves because they order on Wednesday for the Friday and Saturday for Monday, so basically they got hit hard Wednesday evening and then they could only order for Monday. So the shelves were empty from Wednesday to Monday. That creates fear.

However all the stores were hammered so the warehouse was empty. Since then she has been getting half orders and the further shelter orders caused more buying. So it hasn’t abated yet.

She has been sold out of masks since January and hand sanitizers for weeks. Only recently did she get sold out of rubbing alcohol and cleaning products. And then after the Wednesday she started selling out of basically everything. It hasn’t stopped yet but she is getting shipments of sanitizer and cleaning products but they are getting bought up immediately.
I'm kind of OK with that, honestly, as a) they're trivially skippable, b) there's no financial implication to watching it, and c) I turn on HBO to watch stuff so if they're letting me know I already paid for something that generally improves my life.

My issues with ads are really much more with third party transactions—I want to be the customer they care about pleasing. Unlike, say, newspapers, or cable, or social media.
On just toilet paper, or everything? It looks like S.Korea has remained calm pretty much the whole way through.
Isn't the nature of a bankruptcy largely at the discretion of a judge?
Surely you must see that now we're having a moral/ethical/political/religious argument, very far removed from anything resembling science?

This is exactly my point. You may believe that you have identified all of "the real nonsense" perfectly well, and your suggestions might be better or worse than mine. But good luck becoming any more certain than you are right now, or proving your case to anyone else.

Put another way: If you believe that X is a "serious enough" risk and I do not, but I believe that Y is a "serious enough" risk and you do not, how do we resolve that disagreement? Who gets the money?
A software consulting company will win the contract, the project will be “delivered” in 2022, but then cancelled because they got the requirements wrong, followed by huge lawsuits.
Yes! By flooding the market to create an over abundance of TP, you reduce our innate anxieties to panic buy.

These actions can do a lot to alleviate panic not only at Costco, but other retailers too.
Just save it for when everyone isn't working from home.
Having written Ansible modules in POSIX sh, I can assure you that this is absolutely the case:) Internally, Ansible modules are just normal executables that expect a very specific set of parameters and return a very specific JSON-encoded format. I believe there's also a newer pure-Python API, but I ignored it after realizing that it was much easier to just use the old one. (... and, of course, I really enjoyed the notion of writing a module in shell)
People are not being selfish, people are in panic and irrational. Social media has made the pandemic many times worse than it already is by the spread of misinformation, conflicting information and plain dumb advice.
> While what they offer is technically superior to all their competitors

No it's not...
CFR can give you an indication of how long its going to last. If its low and you're getting smashed, that tells you that significant portions of the population are getting infected and it will run out of steam sooner. Higher CFR tells you that the exceeded capacity will last for longer. That will impact the strategies you use.
I must have have a naturally sarcastic inner monologue, because your sarcasm came through loud and clear to me.
The way I understand it, they're talking about asian (super-)markets, not the marktes of Asia.

At least that's the way here in Germany. While flour, toilet paper, some sorts of canned food and random other stuff is sold out in most super markets, the small turkish shop down the street has everything in stock.
"My phone, which is satellite-tracked by the Taiwan gov to enforce quarantine, ran out of battery at 7:30 AM. By 8:15, four different units called me. By 8:20, the police were knocking at my door."

https://twitter.com/MiloHsieh/status/1241540231595044864?s=1...
> Costco is still often cheaper

On the flip side, they have been more expensive on quite a lot of things that the normal grocery store carries. Beware that just because Costco sells a giant pack of something doesn't necessarily mean it is cheaper.
Our Costco (Atlanta) this past weekend had the entire back aisle filled with bottled water. Last weekend it was Kirkland Paper Towels.
I know that you're imagining, "The Rational Mob". But you'll always end up with the violent angry type though.
I am thinking some of it has to do with the fact that more people are buying groceries now (rather than eating out) and groceries that are staples rather than buying a wider variety of food (stuff that lasts, is easy to make and is packaged so it can be cleaned easily).
I believe the healthcare system is so bloated because of a lack of competition. It made news when Trump pushed for legislation that would force hospitals to tell you how much they cost. Think about that. Setting aside all the arguments that it shouldn't be left up to the free market at all, in what world can a marketplace be healthy without something so basic as price disclosure?
Haha, money printer go brrr.
> - Cart full of sushi platters. Obviously somebody bought it for a party and didn't finish it. Again Costco refunded.

That's a happy customer, damn.
In the present case, we are isolating everyone to protect everyone; and Quarantine can apply to entire populations and has.

Ie, whole towns under _cordon sanitaire_.
These panic buyers are a different kind of hoarder. These aren't hoarders buying it due to a mental illness. The people who panic bought a lot of toilet paper did so for what they thought were rational reasons: to get toilet paper before everyone else bought it all, to get toilet paper in case of long term quarantine, perhaps to resell it a higher price, or fear of long term disruption of supply lines. Once these rational reasons turn out to be incorrect they may desire to return their purchase.
Then they weren't watching the news. The TP hoarding is hardly specific to the US, and it definitely did not start here.
We are a couple of weeks from having to buy TP, but the fact that it is missing from our local grocery stores (I live in Bellevue) has been making me paranoid. I should try the early morning thing and see if I can get something before its too late.
Meanwhile, restaurant supply stores are currently overflowing with extra stock.
Toilet paper is classic "inelastic demand;" no much how much it is, you're going to buy the same amount.

But unlike other inelastic things -- say, critical healthcare -- it's so cheap that its demand/supply behavior comes seemingly out of nowhere.
>I wish our hospitals' administration had as much foresight. I think this crisis is making it clear that management in health care is vastly overpaid.

Facebook has just a tad bit more money to prepare for these remote possibilities compared with your average hospital. Plus hospitals have to justify every cost in relation to how many lives it will save. Is prepping for a once in a century pandemic going to save more lives than having an extra doctor on staff for every shift? Almost everyone would have answered no to that questions up until a few weeks or months ago.
I'm a bit less positive with regards to MtG. Though I have not played it for a long time (mainly did in 90s). IMO they innovated the combination of loot boxes and pay to win, which with regards to children I find especially cruel (I was a kid in 90s).

The only good card game I played in recent years is Slay The Spire. Inspired by Netrunner it has a static, one time fee less than 20 EUR (buy to play), rogue like elements, unique characters with unique playstyle, and a balance between RNG/adaptation/skill. It also has a unique, simple art style which is I guess indy like. I find it daring and refreshing.

Hearthstone I was enthusiastic about during beta. I quickly figured it was pay to win (or a massive grind which is IMO an excuse).

Garfield and Blizzard might have made good games, and perhaps they still do. But it's also big business.

I've seen a myriad of other card games on Steam. If anyone has any recommendations, I'm interested (solo or multi-player).
Why America Is Losing the Toilet Race
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Like these guys, who rented trucks and drove 1300 miles, hitting every store they could find. They got left holding 17700 bottles of hand sanitizer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-pu... (Filed under "technology", ha!)
…RIGHT?
Anyway, pretty sure that practically none of these people trying to return toilet paper bought it for their business. They just went into quarantine panic (or maybe profiteering?) mode back then.
When you write 500 simultaneous users, do you mean:
1. 500 users making multiple calls across our servers at the same time?
2. 500 users on a single call?
That works iff the policy is known ahead of time
Off topic: could HN make a rule that any questions that could be easily answered from reading the article will result in a day ban? There are way too many people here who didn't read this article ("why did they have so many masks?") and half the comments could be removed if they had!
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