skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do we need more designs? We have designs. We need more production. If we need simpler designs, brush off the proven designs for 40 year old emergency field medicine ventilators and manufacture them. To paraphrase, designs are easy; manufacturing is hard. Stop tossing around unproven designs that are unlikely to roll off the assembly line any time in the next few months and focus on getting current manufacturers anything they need to scale existing production. It's not like there aren't simpler, emergency-ready rapid deployment models already on the market: use them! [0]

[0] http://www.alliedhpi.com/mcv.htm
That would explain the random issues I saw recently (within the past ~12 hours) where I asked for a page version from 2019 and got one from 2018.
Is this also the case for Netflix as well? Or do they actually pay more when people stream more?
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Speaking of crudeness, Hergé's worldview was pretty racist... Those first 9 albums or so are pretty cringeworthy. Especially considering that they've been rewritten a couple times to adapt to changing times.

(I say that as a huge Tintin fan growing up.)
If a huge amount of small and large businesses go bankrupt at the same time, stop paying salaries and fire all their employees, making a huge amount of people unemployed, and stop paying rent, making a huge amount of real estate companies go bankrupt, don't you think we're already in the largest financial crisis in human history?

If we can pause the economy, preserving all employment contracts, lease agreements, loan agreements, etc, then we're in a much better position for restarting the economy once quarantines and lockdowns can be lifted.

But you would rather let everything burn down because existing contracts must be honoured as-is because won't somebody think of the poor bankers?
Surveillance accounts are already the case. And, we already conduct "Digital Cash" payments every day - Credit cards, ACH and Wire transfers and many other means where physical paper bundles of cash aren't literally shipped when you send money to another country.

I guess, can you exemplify what exactly the government would be able to do with this bill vs. what it can already do? If they send you a check, that's not helping you much. It goes through the bank and there is 100% traceability of the $$$ from the Fed to your bank account which is already very much "Digital".
> "Keep paying rent if you can pay rent."

How in the hell is anyone going to know if retailers or people can actually afford to pay rent?
If the CPM went down by that much, wouldn’t the huge increase in impressions offset that? Thus basically no change in revenue?
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"Were not overwhelmed yet so its fine"

Cases are still growing exponentially. The hospitals in Italy are being overrun. They were being overrun in China.
Agree with this. Humans/civilians are not government employees or public entities just by being alive. I'm probably not as big of an advocate for privacy as many of my peers, but trying to keep a public spending ledger of individual people is crossing a line.
Coronavirus survived for over a week on that empty cruise ship.
Blameless post-mortems and a just culture (2012)
I think it's a fairly simple proposition. Anyone who suggests that nations suspend across the board business operations beyond what is "reasonable", let's say beyond 4/5, is suggesting that we should "crater the economy" because that is what will happen. It's already happening.

And I'm still agreeing with you that Gates does indeed have a great deal of influence and should be very mindful of the human damage this cratering of the economy is going to have. Perhaps he should not comment publicly? But that's his right to do so.

Anyway, I disagree with Bill Gates on this. We need to get everything back up to speed again and still remain vigilant in protecting ourselves from this contagion.
Sometimes I contemplate launching a copycat conglomerate like Rocket, but instead of international copies of American and Chinese ideas it would do fast, minimal bandwidth & js clones with real privacy. The main problem is that network economics are a hell of a moat.
I had someone take over an old netflix account of mine, they said it's common for people in other countries to take control of a US based netflix account and even change the payment method to theirs. I'm guessing they get different content with a US based account.
Why not? When I run the numbers on what happens if we don't stop this thing, that's where they land.

Perhaps we'll stop it. Then we won't need them. Perhaps we won't. Then we will. I'd rather have them than play dice with a million lives.

The million number already has a discount over the worst-case, by the way. Worst-case, all 330 million people catch this, 5% end up critical, and we need >15 million.

And yes, we would need to train up people to run them. It'd be a real mess.
In the meantime, distributed archiving ftw, run your own archives with Webrecorder.io, ArchiveBox.io, SingleFile, kiwix.org, etc!
Ironically, even this list is a set of best practices that are sometimes specific to the use case.
Massive layoffs today I heard.
The day count is days of active browser use, not calendar days, so what you describe is unlikely.
Kind of my point — so much software depends on it, it’s difficult to statically link more things.
Because internet ads are not most ads. If it's attached to an ad exchange or runs any code client side we're firmly in the "not fine category."

Types of ads that I don't like but I won't be up in arms about from a security perspective.

* Paying for sponsored reviews.

* Affiliate links and partnerships.

* Paying promoters and influences to push your product.

* "One way broadcasts" like billboards, commercials, magazines.

* In house ads like Kroger sending you coupons based on your purchase history at Kroger.

* Corporate press events like E3.

* Paying to post on the community billboard.

* Paying have a booth at professional/enthusiast conferences/trade shows.

* Stuff like E3/NintendoDirect/PAX/BlizzCon.

* Selling air time on radio, podcasts, online videos.

* Sponsored articles/announcements on blogs/news sites.

* Native advertising a la Buzzfeed where they would get paid to write a listical "top 10 things you should order off the secret menu at Taco Bell."

* Generic direct mailings and coupon books.

* Paying employees to suggest and guide customers through the sale provided they're upfront about it. I've seen Lululemon do it somewhat tastefully on Reddit when people post topics looking for recommendations.

But ads that come from ad networks/exchanges are nothing like these while simultaneously being the bulk of what ad blockers actually block.

So I don't see it as a contradiction. The kinds of ads that ad blockers block aren't usually these and are instead are the spyware/malware kind.
UV light might damage the mask itself. Radiation will work but that's not readily available like an autoclave or oven.
Any chance you can allow custom integrations. Please if there is a possibility I would like to get in touch with you.
My blog dives into Markdown, Pandoc, R, bash, and the ConTeXt typesetting engine.

https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/

Part 8 (coming soon!) uses annotated Markdown to reproduce a famous poem (original is on the left):

https://i.imgur.com/idV1mTM.png

The text of the poem is written in Pandoc-flavoured Markdown:

::: poem
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great,
And would suffice.
:::

> Markdown is good for generating HTML and terrible for making PDFs.²

Yes, Pandoc is essential for transforming Markdown into beautiful PDF files. Tooting my own horn a little more, my illustrated photobook, Impacts, is written almost entirely in pure Markdown, with a few annotations for plots and spectra:

https://impacts.to/preview.html

Tangentially related, what would be amazing is a robust text editor that allows injection of interpolated string variables from various data sources and structured data formats. Here's an architecture diagram to clarify:

https://i.imgur.com/8IMpAkN.png

My open-source editor, Scrivenvar (https://github.com/DaveJarvis/scrivenvar), implements that architecture to some extent.
Exactly. I had coworkers like this, and their code was impossible to understand. To make a simple change to it, it would require days of refactoring just to know you weren't going to introduce a bug.

It's not being more productive, it just seems that you're getting things done faster because you're taking out a loan on the quality of your software (i.e. technical debt) with every line you write.
I don't see how zig cc would help with that. Your distribution probably also doesn't ship all the source files for your packages either, and there's no other way to statically link.
Can you please elaborate a little bit more on the reason to run containers on VMs in production?
Rust has some really good static linking support. If you compile with the `musl` targets (e.g. x86_64-unknown-linux-musl), it will give you a fully statically linked binary.
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Older Coronavirus Patients Face Looming ICU Bed Shortage
https://archive.is/GY7si
Depending on the intensity of light you have and the wattage is the bulb, 7 mins is way too long. If your bulb is very close to the mask 10 seconds is more than enough.
You don’t need Jamboard hardware to use the web app version: jamboard.google.com
That's incredibly regressive. Give money to people who will spend it.
5 times is perhaps a bit high, but many best practices advocate for not abstracting until you re-use the code >3 times, since you may end up adding too many conditionals in to handle all the slight variations.

Also - as long as your code is written to be easily readable and refactorable, refactoring can be done when needed. It’s dense complex code that’s too tightly coupled that’s the long-term burden.

It’s often about how the code fits together rather than the individual syntax itself.
E. coli are much heartier than viruses and harder to kill. If they kill bacteria they will definitely kill viruses.
Most of my life I've been told that government is horrible, and that the most terrifying thing to hear is "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." When an entire generation hears the demonization of civil service (though not military service), then it's no wonder that we end up with a government that can't serve us.
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It says in the article that (end of page 4)

"4C Air confirmed all the proposed treatments have killed corona viruses."
For an alternate empirical take:

https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/...

They find publishers only have a 4% premium on programatic ads that involve behavioral targeting.
That's what I'll do...simply cash out the Fed account, and pay cash as I go.
> Surveillance accounts are already the case.

Not quite. I can spend cash and nobody knows when or where I did so.

> If they send you a check, that's not helping you much. It goes through the bank and there is 100% traceability of the $$$ from the Fed to your bank account

Many, many Americans receive checks as payment which they then take to a service which will exchange the check for cash in hand, no bank account required. The check issuer has no idea where or how the money gets spent.
Have you measured it? How much is dynamic linking saving you? How many processes are you running on embedded systems with of 256MB or RAM?
Have you seen https://pioneer.app/ ??

Their leaderboard looks really cool.
Now There’s a Mortgage Crisis Too
Adblocking apps in particular have been known to break other apps on the same Android.
300 pascals? That's darn near a vacuum. Did you mean not to let it drop more than 300 Pa below ambient?
Password managers that have browser integration already function this way -- you have to go out of your way to copy-paste your password. The main problem is that some sites design their login forms to make this kind of functionality harder (such as putting the password and username fields on different pages, or having strange layouts where you need to also input your last name, and so on).

I personally use KeepassXC which has a browser plugin that does this for you (and it's nice that the plugin doesn't have access to your passwords directly -- it has to request access from the password manager which be default gives you a popup asking for permission to share specific credentials).
(1) This doesn't sounds like their original plan to infect all the youth by locking down the vulnerable and letting the youth out. That is the plan to which I was referring. As you know the UK is on total lockdown for 3 weeks [1]

(2) What is described in this post is what everyone else is doing, keeping the vulnerable inside and providing services such as prescription delivery and at least helping coordinate food delivery. ("Please visit gov.uk/coronavirus-extremely-vulnerable to register for the support that you need. This includes help with food, shopping deliveries and additional care you might need. The government is helping pharmacies to deliver prescriptions. Prescriptions will continue to cover the same length of time as usual.")

(3) It specifically says that everyone in a risk category is getting a letter by March 29th ("The NHS in England is directly contacting people with these conditions to provide further advice.")

I don't really know what you're asking for, or what you think is factually incorrect.

[1] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/boris-johnson-coronav...
> Many, many Americans receive checks as payment which they then take to a service which will exchange the check for cash in hand, no bank account required. The check issuer has no idea where or how the money gets spent.

And they pay dearly for the privilege. I imagine the number of Americans who use check cashing for privacy is extremely small compared to the number who use it because they're in poverty and unbanked.
> And people that who actually work with viruses consider them alive.

I know of two people that work with them (create vaccines) that don't consider them alive. I've honestly never heard anyone else that I know working with them talk about considering them alive or not. Not sure why you'd make such a blanket statement unless you are a virologist.
Can my factory manufacture these designs?
That's not true. There is no
special blanket copyright exemption for libraries (equivalent, everything is a library).

The exemption is only for making backup copies of circulating materials.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108

Archive.org only serves things that copyright holders haven't demanded they remove.
Some things they "lend" out to one person at a time using streaming technology, so it's the users fault if they copy it, same as with Blockbuster videotapes.

Their arcade ROMs at abandonware or streamed.
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When I get a check or ACH direct deposit, I can go to the ATM and get cash out of it and spend that cash, so while there is a record of "I got paid" and "I withdrew $200" (and "I paid my credit card bill, and here's what I bought with it"), for the things I buy with cash, there's no more record than that.

Can I do the same with digital dollars, or must it be spent directly out of the account?

I guess that's actually a practical question in general, independent of the privacy concern. Can you go to any member bank and withdraw cash?
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Then don't statically link. "Emebedded systems" requirements shouldn't dictate "Desktop" or "Server" requirements.
I was thinking the same. Or keeping it in very dry environment that desicate the virus?
Bad money drives out good.

And we're already at pretty darned bad money.
Bay Area is Flattening the Curve
This is the only public place: http://newosxbook.com/bonus/vol1ch16.html. Skywalk is an asynchronous networking interface designed to be adaptable to a number of different needs. I'm not really a networking person so I don't know a lot about it, but mostly the kernel gets out of your way and writes out a bunch of data in a ring buffer of some kind asynchronously or something. The goal is to be able to have different use cases customized to their own needs, so the HTTP stack can write its own custom stuff to be optimized for that use case and the same for the IDS stuff or bluetooth stuff etc. Most people quoted a 30-50% reduction in overall cpu usage for a wide range of scenarios.
So Cumo wants all 20,000 ventilators for NYC, and I suppose the rest of the country can just fuck-off?

Considering NYC has about 8M population, that 400 is just about the proper allocation.
Once fed "digital cash" dollars exist and can be used by everyone, including the unbanked, they have a plausible reason for discontinuing the use of "inconvenient" paper cash. After all, it's only used for money laundering, drugs, criminals, gambling, and prostitution. Who wants that stuff?!

Once that happens, there is no option whatsoever for trading with everyday people that does not involve complete surveillance, recorded and saved for all time.

Your movement at all times will then be reported in realtime to the federal police, provided you eat or buy fuel or water at any point during your travels (just as it is today if you use a payment card or contactless payment).

From 2010: https://www.wired.com/2010/12/realtime/
I loved LambdaMoo. It was installed on our high school network in maybe '97 and I created whole worlds in there for friends to explore, including interactive functions. Had no idea I was writing "lambdas" at the time, it was just an interesting way to build a text adventure from within itself.
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From the second sentence of the abstract: "This ventilator is an electro-mechanical equivalent of the old, reliable Manley Ventilator. "

I don't know enough about the manufacturing process to say if it's faster to spin up a new simpler design from scratch, or expand existing lines. But it's worth evaluating.
Why? I can pay my taxes just fine and I'm still employed because I'm a software engineer. Is there an argument that this will benefit either the economy or keep Americans alive beyond the general, non-crisis argument to get rid of taxes?

Also, what's the plan for paying for government services, such as the military budget that's funding the Army Corps of Engineers that's building emergency ICUs?
Clojure has a focus on immutable data. With Python, a list or dictionary is mutable and with parallel execution this can result in one function mutating a list that another is using. Or even without parallel execution one may wonder if a function somewhere in the call stack is mutating a list. Jokingly called spooky action at a distance. In general mutation makes reasoning about code more difficult. Clojure has a nice set of orthogonal functions for transforming persistent data structures. Once you wrap your head around how to program by transforming data instead of mutating data, you might enjoy that method of programming. Python has pyrsistent library, but Clojure is immutable first and in Python it is not really the norm.
The temperature would be too high and would damage the microfibers
It cannot go under STP + 300 pascals, must always be positive pressure.
A sign of the times.
i ran it on my laptop (colour screen!) 20y ago. mapped my apartment into it, with triggering objects etc.
You're talking about payday loans versus cashing paychecks. It's usually a token fee to cash a check at a grocery store or free if you go to the bank that issued the check. Some people live by cash. Some businesses still operate on cash only basis.
If anyone's wondering, atmospheric pressure is 101 300Pa, so 300 Pa is extremely low.
There was a study done using uvc light to disinfect N95 masks and it had negligible effect on filtration rate. It had some effect on strength but that’s only with massive amounts of UVC light. I think you could easily do 50-100 rounds of uvc disinfection without any worries.
Some, not most. And each continues to dwindle over time. Privacy is a human right, physical currency is not.
A sanitary cordon is not a quarantine.

The Wikipedia article for cordon sanitaire [1] mentions quarantine as an alternative way to handle disease spread.

> Public health specialists have included cordon sanitaire along with quarantine and medical isolation as "nonpharmaceutical interventions" designed to prevent the transmission of microbial pathogens through social distancing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire
It's an elegant and damning presentation of how Apple software has gotten more flashy and less usable over time.
> Take a moment to appreciate what just happened here - I downloaded a Windows build of Zig, ran it in Wine, using it to cross compile for Linux, and then ran the binary natively. Computers are fun!

Even though it probably doesn't qualify this is pretty close a Canadian Cross, which for some reason is one of my favorite pieces of CS trivia. It's when you cross compile a cross compiler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compiler#Canadian_Cross

> The term Canadian Cross came about because at the time that these issues were under discussion, Canada had three national political parties.
Max restarts is a big sharp edge. I think anybody running Erlang in production must have hit it, probably a couple times. For things that I expect to fail regularly, but have no business bringing the system down, I reflexively sleep in the init, so it would only trigger max restarts if I really messed up. If it's consistently failing, it'll log enough to be visible, but it's not like this is an ideal way to handle it.
That doesn't help the millions of recently unemployed. Especially if it takes months for the economy to recover and for those unemployed to be rehired.
Quality @savedyouaclick comment. Thank you
The Fed was never designed to be a retail bank. And so you know, the Fed is a for-profit business.
> But personally, I'd much rather see it eradicated in just competent and affluent countries than not at all.

With something this infectious all it takes is one visitor from one of the have-not countries to put the have-country into total lockdown. That's not a realistic plan moving forward either.
No, they absolutely have not anywhere closed to the peak in Hubei. People with grave respiratory difficulties were given Kelatra and sent home.

Outside of Hubei and after the peak, sure.
Yeah I think this terminology is odd because I think that the computable numbers are much more “useful” than the definable numbers.
Calling it "hundreds of thousands of dollars of capital" somehow makes it sound like massive wealth, as opposed to the single accumulated asset of a lifetime of lower middle-class labor.
Let me illustrate:

FED -> JOE's bank account -> ATM cash withdrawal -> Buys private stuff $$$ cash

FED -> JOE cashes the check -> Buys private stuff with $$$ cash

The FED still knows that it went to JOE. Whether they use the bank as the intermediary or a check-cashing service as an intermediary, its all traceable.

May be my logic is flawed here? To me, it doesn't make any difference. In both cases, what JOE bought with hard $$$ cash is indistinguishable. I think we're making a big deal out of this - I haven't read the bill but I am presuming that its just a modernization of physical mailing of checks to some wire transfer.