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Check out https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-cli-v2 There are some very motivated people working to make getting started and getting going with ECS easier. The CDK (https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk) is different but through its higher level constructs it's looking to make it easier to build and compose useful abstractions (like a "load balanced Fargate service"). Useful along with https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-ecs-patt...

> But that won't happen, because the IT industry is purposely designed to be unnecessarily inefficient, complex, and expensive.

As a fellow developer, I feel your frustration. There have always been UX problems in AWS across the various pieces of first-party software you use to access them (console, SDK, etc.)

But as a developer at AWS (my opinions are my own), I think I disagree? I'll write out a stream of consciousness, it might be wrong. It comes down to at least a couple things:

1) Good UX is hard, especially for newer services that are still learning customer usage and building foundational features. There's no test I can write to know I did it well now and for the future.
2) We have limited resources and tend to focus on building (hopefully) good APIs and features (and operating the services). Good UX requires investing a lot of time and effort, I think.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say we shouldn't focus on providing a better UX, but most of the time we want to get through the mountain of features that our customers need. Sometimes an org grows large enough, and has been around long enough to understand their customers, and has the right leadership, that they can invest in building out UX improvements, whether that is console integrations or a custom CLI or whatever else. In the meantime, there are individuals/groups/companies that build abstractions - though I also don't think I've ever heard leadership say we should rely on third parties to make our services usable. Sometimes we adopt improvements, or partner with companies, or commit developer time to help maintain a project.

The tricky thing with first-party software is that once something goes in, it's supported forever-ish and is difficult to deprecate, so you have to be very deliberate. The wrong abstraction ends up being costly. We get a ton of value just by being able to auto-generate the CLI from the same models we use to define our service API, and the AWS CLI is pretty well suited for that. Though some teams do provide custom CLIs bundled in, I think.

Though in a more specific sense, I totally agree that the experience of "I have a Docker image. Run it for me." should be easy and I'm glad we have people doing something about it.
The Google Trends chart for "bidet" seems to reflect this as well: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bidet&geo=US
Agreed. I'm just saying that SB pulled the wool over their own eyes rather than being victimized by these "visionary" CEOs.

Once you read this story, you'll see what I mean: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-18/softbank-...
And so? US will be at 20% of the population not working soon. Why single out Australia.
Both trials have glaring flaws: they're tiny.
I stumbled onto this news documentary on the nerve gas stored in the US from 1973 very randomly maybe a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjA0EQPeUGM . If you're interested in this type of stuff this documentary is incredible and apparently won an Emmy. The number of problems with long term are mind boggling technologically, even if people don't know its near them. The whole idea if this place got bombed it would wipe out huge amount of people in the surrounding area based on wind patterns is nuts, frankly. The whole process to dismantle and then "store" the old gas is insane.
He didn't build them, he bought them from China.
Regarding masks: The law changed a few days ago. Previous law was that 3M could only sell 5m masks/month to healthcare workers even though they produce 35M masks/month. This law was the main reason for the mask shortage to hospital workers. Since the law change, mask shortage to hospital workers should not be an issue for much longer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com

China makes 200 million masks per day. South Korea makes 10 million masks per day.

The US population is roughly 330 million (according to 2018 census). If the US ramps production to even half of China, we'd produce enough masks, one for each person in just 3-4 days.

IMO, gov needed to contract mask manufacturers to produce more masks 2 months ago. Still not too late. Can't rely on manufacturers to simple up production. They should have gov contracts to make motivate and ensure that their overproduction will not be in vain.
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Also state if that’s above/below target/limit/guideline/"we have no idea but it sounds nice"?
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Adafruit is a great show-off business for New York City (tech, manufacturing, woman-owned) so even though the PPE angle here is quite dubious the governor and mayor are doing this as a favor.
> You quote 10% of the infected on the Diamond Princess as requiring hospitalization.

10% of symptomatic cases, not all cases, and definitely not all infected.
Your answer is coherent and rational and doesn’t deserve to be downvoted. I also agree with you. This situation is taking weeks from absolutely everybody’s lives.
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hackintosh's aren't all that hard to build
I always had a similar distaste for headlines with words like "blast" and "slam", but learned recently[0] that these are standard abbreviations for headline writers to save space. Your words are not on that list from Wikipedia, but "soar" & "crash" might be used in such a way to shorten "{in,de}crease". (But certainly not "skyrocket"!)

Of course, isn't that convenient that they carry greater emotional weight...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22290486
Wikipedia style is unreliable. I'm aware of quite a few errors. Why I don't fix them then? Because my edits would be reverted. Or because the page has been locked.

Academic literature in contrast, has multiple parallel journals. If one is suppressing you, you can go to the next. Of course if you go to a less reliable one, then people might not trust your research.
Now all of the Diet Coke is being hoarded too. Hoarding has finally gone too far.
Okay imagine this. You finish taking a shit. And then there's a hole in the wall that you stick your ass in. Then your ass sealing the hole creates a vaccum where it can then flood the hole by violently shooting warm soapy water at your ass. It does this for 3 cycles with new recycled soapy water each time. Then it switches to the dryer mode and completely dries your behind.
http://www.euromomo.eu/

Mortality across Europe has drastically declined in the past few months. Seems like everyone sitting at home is saving a ton of lives. Fewer accidents, fewer sicknesses, maybe even people eating a bit healthier.

Why stop locking yourselves indoors when so many lives are being saved by not leaving home?
This is one article among literally thousands of articles reporting the economic impact of covid-19 around the world. I wouldn't call that singling out Australia.
Can you imagine the repurcussions for writing the equivalent of this if you had a penis?
I'm not sure about Germany, but South Korea was and is extremely effective at testing their population. They also did and are doing a fantastic job tracing infections (although part of this is due to being able to mostly focus on a single super-spreader rather than many simultaneous outbreaks. I think that South Korea probably confirmed 70-80% of their actual number of cases, while Italy probably has at least 2-3 actual cases for each confirmed case. Testing and tracing en masse is really, really hard, and is basically impossible if you don't catch it soon enough. I think that hospital overloading is definitely able to double or triple the death rate, though.
Faceshields != masks. Those lend themselves a bit better to printing than proper masks (since it's mostly a sheet of transparent plastic + one plastic piece to hold it)
Current modeling indicates that the number of COVID-19 infections will peak in Australia in August[0].

If the modeling is correct, December will have a similar number of active infections as April, but the number will be declining.

I imagine Australian governments will be keen to restart the economy as soon as it's safe to do so.

[0] https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/dreaded-duo-austral...
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I frickin' love the Toto Washlet, but a toilet with only the flushing feature is less likely to break and easier to fix when it does so there's something to be said for its economy of design and lack of scope creep. I believe Toto sells the Washlet as a seat for an ordinary toilet, so that helps.
Trump has made absolutely no statements at all saying:

This will certainly work out*

"But the nice part is, it’s been around for a long time, so we know that if it — if things don’t go as planned, it’s not going to kill anybody."

Full quote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669656

Look, I know you want to nuance your way out of this, but it's not gonna fly because remarks like the above are taken at face value by foolish people and that's something that public figures have a responsibility to take into account. As I keep pointing out, that's why pharma ads have to have so many warnings in them. You think they wouldn't rather just say 'try this, it'll cure what ails ya!' But bitter experience has shown that people need to reminded about side effects and safe dosage and listening to their doctor over and over and over again.

In case you follow up on this thread, please listen to this - an interview with the woman whose husband died, describing how they came to try the medication: https://twitter.com/VaughnHillyard/status/124225399700566425...
Great list of equipment and their roles in production!
Hoarders who lose their source of income (as many are expected to, under lockdowns) might look at a $400 pile of toilet paper and decide they want to eat this week instead.
A bunch of interesting comments, to be sure.

All I know is, the fonts (in ROM) in the original IBM-PC, or the Apple ][, or the C-64, or the Atari 800, or any other of the 64K computers of the 1980's -- never had a security issue with their (ROM bitmap) fonts.

That, and:

I challenge all of the naysayers to come up with a better solution than the one I have proposed...

Not all font-renderer/language experts, here, are we?

Neither am I.

That's the whole point.

A graphical shrink routine I can easily audit for security holes.

A font description language (an entire language mind you!) with lots of nuances -- how is any normal human being (much less rockstar programmer) supposed to audit one of those, with all of its possibilities, for security holes, in a single human lifetime?

We've seen some very subtle manipulation of these (evinced by this article), whether intentional or not...

A simple graphical shrink routine -- is orders of magnitudes more transparent and auditable than font description languages, or their interpreters...

You want a better solution?

Come up with one and tell me what it is!

I'm listening...
Like supporters of Oberan, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Modi, Putin, Duterte and Maduro, any damning direct quotes will always be claimed to mean something else entirely.

The larger issue is that the leader's supporters know what he is and his relationship to the truth. They know when he looses the popular vote, has consistent majority disapproval and acts with dubious legality. These things don't mater. If fact, that he can retain power in spite of these things is considered a virtue.

They elected him because of single minded ruthlessness and willingness to break laws to permanently eradicate liberalism and the viability of opposing parties. The mere promise of this is so thrilling to them that any action the leader takes is defended or obfuscated unwaveringly even when the defenders don't fully believe or aren't really comfortable with it themselves.
Has anyone tried the captioning features of hangouts meet. Amazing technology!

Live dictation of everything said.
I know Mac OS X has ignored a lot of the hinting in fonts. Do they evaluate the entire script regardless?
Don't forget "whopping."
If you're talking about GDP per capita it doesn't really tell you whether the general populace is well off or not.
Are you implying that a woman can’t have a penis?
This made me recall some wild online catalog website from the early 2000s that was primarily known (and advertised) for hoverboard sales, where the hoverboard was basically a small noisy gas-powered rectangular hovercraft you could stand on. I think I first saw their ad in Wired, or maybe a gaming magazine. Anyway if you dug into their catalog there was all sorts of wild stuff, from sleep masks that used LEDs to induce lucid dreaming to things more like this. Anyone know the website I'm talking about?
Anyone in the NYC area/interested in helping NYC should read https://jakehlee.github.io/nyc-makers-vs-covid/ or https://nycmakesppe.com/ same site, different URL
What you're describing is the bases of many different kinds of concentration meditation.
My only pair of shoes are falling apart. Thanks for the reminder to get "non-essentials".
Toto sells porcelain products in the USA, it just hasn't focused on marketing the Washlet until fairly recently. Whether that's due to negligence on their part, or American revulsion to the idea of toilets squirting you with water[0] is unknown.

[0] Japanese toilets were long the butt of stand-up comics' jokes. I remember one such comic ending with the punchline "I'm being raped by a toilet!"
Facebook should get into the search business for the same reason that Apple is getting into the software subscription business, it's an obvious way to grow their business.

Facebook already has the analytics in place from their share buttons, ad platform and user engagement on the feed to create a great ranking system. A lot of people already use instagram to search for restaurants, fashion, travel and products, same goes for facebook marketplace and business pages, all they'd need to do is expand the search bars in their apps to include web results. Tracking search queries would give them true intent data that they could use to improve their ad targeting across their whole ad platform.

The only thing google has on facebook right now is the ability to let advertisers target search queries. (just did a google search and it looks like they're starting to add that option: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/reach-people-who-are-...)
Except with a lot of learned lessons applied.
Nah, I think these are resells. But I read a post earlier that claimed to be a machinist doing finishing work on parts for a Tesla ventilator, so I do think we'll see them soon.
It is authenticated, i.e. only logged in users have access. Prosody is well tested XMPP implementation and is used in many production application. meet.jit.si is unauthenticated deployment and many people use it.

I wouldn't call it a tiny bit of functionality, MUC and SFU are the two main components of any video conferencing solution. XMPP helps provide MUC capability, Jicofo is the component you can see the implementation here https://github.com/jitsi/jicofo

BOSH does not allow all operations available via XMPP standard, there are restrictions possible, to maintain security.
Covid-19 and Predatory Pricing Online
Social distancing and hygiene hopefully contribute to fewer exposures and therefore fewer fatalities. Especially those 65+ with underlying conditions such as hypertension and diabetes.
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Are "rise" and "fall" not perfectly acceptable neutral alternatives?
Since its therapeutic Index range starts at 4, this would definitely explain why they died if they each had a teaspoon. Very different from somebody buying a package of tablets in a pharmacy, investigating average dosage for other conditions and finding the dosage used in the recent clinical studies against Covid, then taking that much over several days.

Edit: it seems they really did just swallow a teaspoon without even checking dosage or a single other thing... I really wonder that the hell they were thinking.
Or apparently microscheme!
I know, right? The first time I went out they were sold out of Nutella! We are truly witnessing the fall of western civilization.
As a democrat, I don't understand why the democrats in Congress are planning to give $40 billion in grants that don't have to be paid back to the Airlines. [1]

Why not a loan or take an equity stake instead of these "new environmental, labor and other conditions" that will be gamed by the companies.

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlin...
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Open hardware, gold standard tutorials, open source libraries.

But holy cow, they need to charge a premium to make it work. I'm always conflicted between supporting them or just going to ebay or alibaba.
Adafruit make circuit boards and microelectronics in Manhattan. In that blog post,

Adafruit Industries located at 150 Varick Street, New York,
NY 10013 by Executive Order 202.6, “Essential Business” by
New York State: https://esd.ny.gov/guidance-executive-order-2026

And Adafruit belongs to the "microelectronics/semi-conductor" category so they are exempted in the "3. Essential manufacturing including". This rule is mostly designed to let the upstate NY's multiple multi-billion semi-conductor industry's fabs (Cree Marcy fab, GlobalFoundries multiple fabs) remain open.
Do you have the link to an STL so I can print one? I have an Ender 3 Pro
This rhetoric you're starting here about bringing out the war drums to fight invisible enemies is exactly what Ioannidis is afraid of. It is not scientific, it is not based on evidence, and it does not, weigh the tail risk of a global economic breakdown.

Science is a means of discovering the most likely state of things and an always uncertain one. Other human institutions have to come into play when it is necessary to act. Those institutions make the trade-off rather simply calculating them. In the current context, the institution of a war is appropriate (more appropriate than all the semi-wars we've had over the last 50 years in fact, better than "war on drugs" or "war on terror"). We confronted by tiny semi-living creature that happens to be very good at killing us. We should band together and engage in unified, determined action to protect ourselves.

As far the economy goes - the economy is a phenomena of society. The productive machinery should kept going as much as practical and the entire process managed by the government, essentially a machinery akin to WWII needs to be in place for the duration of this. Such war measures kept things running at that time and there's little reason to think they wouldn't work today. Now, as far as lots of people losing their investment. Well, sorry, investments aren't life. This, in a sense, very quick trip from 1929 to 1948 for y'all.
One hopeful thing from Italy is Vo Euganeo where they stopped it completely by testing everyone and separating those who had it. Nothing harsh, just a lot of testing https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-...

Now obviously there are scaling issues going from 3300 people to millions but I'm not sure it's impossible. S Korea also mostly controlled things by testing.
Why does this bullshit keep being posted here? Zero reasons for this line of research to exist.
Australian unemployment may double by June ?
if you present the current unemployment rate in the article to give the reader some context, they will be able to conclude whether it's good or bad themselves.

Better yet, compare it to olden times like the great depression, and give the reader more context.
There are a lot of wearables promising to do everything, it wouldn’t surprise me if you were talking about this site. Although it wasn’t around in the early 2000s.
similarly in NZ.

The health care system is pretty abysmal here which I think is why the government is acting so strongly now; The city I'm in has just 18 ICU beds for a population of around 500,000. We're heading into winter as well and from what I've heard the government is expecting to hit peek case-rates in August.

If that is the case, I expect the full lockdowns will be a periodic thing over the coming months in order to keep cases manageable.

Too early to really tell how this is going to play out, but I don't think the current financial measures are enough; I expect we'll continue to see them expand in the coming weeks in an attempt to keep businesses a float.
German news are mostly in comparison much more factual and neutral compared to this. I prefer the German news because of this.
> We are also working with NYC to explore disposable open-source low-cost face shields.

That's interesting, is that supposed to be used on top of the face mask (surgical, N95 etc.) or is that supposed to be used as standalone protection equipment at low risk environment?

I wonder whether it would be put through thorough tests such as NIOSH ratings, before being used?

I'm asking this because I have made a 'Qualitative Filter' based Facemask[1], to be used as last resort when nothing better is available.

[1]DIY Qualitative filter face mask - https://abishekmuthian.com/diy-qualitative-filter-face-mask/
I found this bit from the paper interesting.

A Google search with “coronavirus” yielded 3,550,000,000 results on March 3 and
9,440,000,000 results on March 14. Conversely, “influenza” attracted 30- to 60-fold less
attention although this season it has caused so far about 100-fold more deaths globally
than coronavirus.

First off, I am not sure how to comprehend those numbers. Back in the day a "result" was a page. What is that today? Are there really $9bn+ pages of useful content that mentions coronavirus? The number seems a bit arbitrary...

Second, the major issue with comparing flu deaths and coronavirus deaths is time. We have only known about covid-19 for a handful of months. The flu in all its forms has been with us for millennia. You simply cannot compare the two. For me this bit throws the credibility of the paper out the window.
Totally my personal opinion, but I much prefer MTGO (Magic the Gathering Online, windows only also) as it better emulates table-top Magic. I can't handle all the animations and noises of Arena. Also, much better card/draft selection on MTGO. Not free though, but not nearly as expensive as paper Magic.

I am an old fuddy-duddy.
That's good to know. I'm going to give it a go with a couple of family members who really could use something like this for their businesses.

Zoom also suffers from the non-intuitive problem so I was hoping for something a bit better on that front.
Could web fonts (CSS font-face) allow exploitation by merely visiting a browser page?
I get you're excited, but old school CRTs can easily kill a person with the discharge off a capacitor, even when they've been unplugged for a while. It may not be a good idea to casually encourage people to go start hacking on them.