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I realise that this is a bit of a special case.. OK it's a really special case. But it's a bit of a shame not to see it actually merging back up stream though I'm very glad they did some work to make the fork easier to maintain.

There are a lot of these new world great utilities like ripgrep, silversearcher, a bunch of rust parallel re-implementations of various core utilities. It would be nice to see more of them become easy to be the "default" tool to use. And forks make that harder.
> Those payments in turn pay for other things. Stopping them, stops everything.

That's correct. We stop everything for 3 months to get rid of the virus.

Or almost everything.

> almost all home and commercial property sales stop

Have you tried buying or selling a house these days? In most parts of America, you can't -- the registries of deeds aren't open for business with coronavirus. This is already stopped.

> What you are looking for is the time equivalent of printing money

It is like a time-equivalent of printing money. By virtue of the time-limit, it doesn't have nearly the same inflationary pressure. We need to relieve a short-term financial crunch, and the stimulus, zero interest, etc. all do that, but when the crunch is over, that stuff explodes into inflation. This cleans itself nicely.

> It's too simple of an idea

What's wrong with simple ideas?
For the most part, I'd just be using macOS WindowServer. Which isn't very helpful. That's part of what is driving the question about whether one big monitor is ultimately better.
"Due to lack of information, suppliers, manufacturers, sales people and customers often have an incomplete understanding of what the real demand of an order is"

Of course this makes the game interesting and also explains why in real life the only sustainable model for economy is planning. The planning starts from actually measuring/calculating the real demand. Then you model your whole supply chain. Of course this means the state has to have control over and complete understanding. This is hard science http://www.strategplan.com/en/

Also, this allows planning measures for emergency cases like epidemics, war and other disasters.

It's impossible to achieve that with monetary approach.
that doesn't sound like a terribly hard problem to solve.
Do you happen to know how long these have been around? I build a little nanopi cluster using a combination of standoffs, cases, and a little light tinkering (aka filing), about 18 months ago and I couldn't seem to find anything like this.
Oh so it’s like PornHub on any usual day
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Sure, that might make sense too
So take the design from one existing company and ramp the manufacture. The alternative isn't sit down with a blank sheet of paper and some pencils and see what you can knock out in a couple of weeks and shove into people without going through the appropriate testing and certification procedures.

The problem isn't a lack of ventilator designs.
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Sorry if I wasn't clear- would you mind explaining how you got that from what I said?
Under the circumstances, the only living expenses should be gas and food. If someone who owns hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of capital doesn't have enough money set aside to weather a bad month, hopefully they've been kind and fair enough to their tenants to receive help, or have supported community efforts to help feed those in need and can receive support in turn.

Like, this is why people need to be active participants in their interests, and in the things around them.
Good TL;DR, but it's absolutely worth reading the whole piece because it is very beautifully written.

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Not at all!

Viruses come in many shapes and forms. One of the major features of viruses is whether they have a viral envelope (derived from the host plasma membrane lipid bilayer) or a protein capsid shell.

The structure of capsids can make them more or less hearty.

Luckily for us, Covid-19 and coronaviruses in general have viral envelopes. These are easy to disrupt with soap and susceptible to the environment.

Polio, on the other hand, was damned near impossible to be rid of. Capsids can be resilient.

Other major features are the nucleic acid family (RNA or DNA), encoding (single or doubly stranded, multiple senses), and these impact mutation rate and what host or viral machinery is used. RNA doesn't survive as long as DNA, but that doesn't matter if the virus is in a good environment.
If it's that desperate force companies to make them. Don't pin your hopes and dreams on a fantasy that you can build a large-scale medical device in two weeks.
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This attitude will just drive more properties off the leasing market and on to the relative safety of AirBnB type marketplaces.
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oh, ok
The point is to avoid congestion to begin with.
It would, but then you need multiple masks per person if each person uses theirs for 1 day. And even that can be a stretch: once they become moist, they're useless.
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Exactly, the complexity of the "real world" far exceeds that of what a typical engineer deals with. This requires more darwinian, rather than cerebral, processes, simply because human brains are too small to understand all consequences.
South Korea has twice the population of Texas (51.7M vs 19M). Alaska is twice as big as Texas, is it harder to test everyone in Alaska than Texas?
The oven method only takes 30 minutes. So masks could be sanitized and turned around for reuse much more frequently than leaving the mask “out of commission” for several days would allow.

The report also found acceptable (if a bit lower) sterilization from applying steam from boiling water for just 10 minutes, which would improve turnaround rates even further.
> ...and then what?

Send in more and more subs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5JiPj9c98Y
A lot of regular kitchen ovens can go as low as 100F or 120F. They’re wildly inaccurate and you need to have a baking sheet or other barrier between the mask and any heating elements to block IR.

Source: by far the easiest way to fix crystallized honey is to bake it somewhere in the 120F to 140F range for an hour or two. All the Internet guides saying to use warm water have probably never tried to put a half-full bottle of honey in water, fully submerged to get all the crystals, and without destroying the label. In contrast, all common bottle plastics and labels are just fine in 140F dry air.
It already is anarchy. I can just sneeze on my land lord.
That's obvious. Corporations like Target and Walmart can weather the storm and shouldn't be gaming the situation for their advantage when they already receive enormous tax breaks, have lobbyists and corporate welfare, where mom&pop and regional chains may not be able to.

Consider Louis Rossmann, who's now had to close up shop with $37500 in rent deferred, not including salaries. There are no emergency grants or no interest loans for small businesses, only "low" interest loans which don't help recoup losses.

My mechanic, who has $16k in expenses per month, may have to default on his business, lay-off his brother-in-law, and find a salary job because his landlord is an ahole who will demand all of the back rent when the 90 days is up.

Maybe business interruption/income insurance, which often requires buying flood insurance, is worth it if actually covers force majeure.

Edit: It turns out the vast majority of BII policies do not cover pandemics, so almost all small businesses and landlords in the US are fucked. This will absolutely require federal bailout action or there will be revolution-level seething anger ready to explode.

https://www.bisnow.com/dallas-ft-worth/news/commercial-real-...
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Ask HN: Amazon not paying stranded overseas employee
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

Friend works at Amazon in Sydney. Can't work from overseas after this week. No payroll if he stays outside of Australia after 2 weeks. That is the policy he didn't know before he came.

Even worse, he can't get an exemption to go back to Sydney. If the border ban is still not lifted after 3 months, working visa will expire. It will be up to Amazon whether they still want him or not... it seems pessimistic.

He's a software engineer, one of the few jobs that can still work remotely. Firing him seems ridiculous. Is there any legal recourse in this situation? As a foreigner he doesn't get government assistance, and probably has no rights even if he were back in Australia. Anything we can do to help him?
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From a virological POV, yes. But masks conform to the wearer's face. There's a clip and it can only bend so many times. Not sure if the filter itself also conforms over time.

Users are tested for fit, but that test is based on new masks.
“Australia may see a rise in the unemployment rate from around 5% to above 11% in three months“
I don't like this article. It's basically the interviewer trying to goad Fauci into insulting Trump, when obviously Fauci is trying to be diplomatic and not fan flames so he can do his job. Fauci can't impeach the President. Congress already tried and failed.
Abandoned leases then increase the incentive to demolish and replace.
This is the problem with treating everyone like a child. If I am dying of corona, and there are no more ventilators, I would like to be offered one that Dyson made out of cardboard, sticky tape, string, and wood glue so I can decide for myself if I want it.

The potential risks of a medical device need to be weighed against the risks of not having it. Safety testing is less important when treating dying patients who have no other options.
If I run a high-tech manufacturing facility that has some extra capacity these days, whose ventilator design should I start producing? It seems so many are springing up.
And if they can't make enough, waiting for a ventilator that never comes will 100% kill someone
Forget home ovens. Hospitals are surrounded by restaurants with big, roomy commercial ovens, most of which are now closed. A functioning government could commandeer those ovens for sterilization.

Heck, pay the restaurant owners rent to use them — now you’ve solved two problems.
> I just can't see them sticking it out as the third place provider.

Maybe that's the case, but I can't see it. Cloud computing is such a huge business, it doesn't take more than a third-place position to make more money than say, Youtube. Some random article [1] has GCP's 2019 Q4 revenue at $2.6B compared to Youtube at $4.7B, and total revenue in the cloud market is definitely going up way faster than total revenue in the advertising market. Plus, the "Google sucks at products" narrative is based on a reputation that people at Google would much rather be building technology than products. Cloud computing seems like the perfect match for such a reputation. App Engine is almost as old as AWS, and looks very much like it started as an excuse to have something for Guido Van Rossum to do.

> I saw their Android support through the lens of comparing them to Apple.

> So why doesn't the Android experience compare?

It came out in the Google vs Oracle lawsuit that Android had only made Google something like $10B since it started. So GCP is already making something like 10x what Android makes, and given cellphone saturation this will likely only grow.

> But there's an entirely different category which just got abandoned or lost their ambition.

AWS has a whole pile of services that you can tell no longer get any attention, or in some cases, even have full time staff anymore. Services that still aren't integrated with CloudFormation after years and years because clearly nobody cares. A guarantee that the lights stay on and the service continues to handle requests is the most you can ask or get from any of the existing cloud providers.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cloud-revenue-first-t...
The original ventilator was very janky. It did work!
I'm not sure it would actually save them any money at all. They are still transcoding into the higher quality, so you don't save compute resources. The videos themselves are served from edge CDN nodes. Through peering agreements I doubt Google is paying much for bandwidth.

I'm not sure where this would save Google any money. It seems to just be a helpful (if more symbolic) thing to do.
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Not in the health field, but the rapid innovation on the front lines is breathtaking. There are groups of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists communicating on Twitter solving these problems in real time. It's really inspiring!
I use the water method, who cares about the label? To keep honey from getting crystals just drink more tea.
Indeed, there were a lot of people going on about WW III, a draft, etc. It's a bit harder to find good examples now that the hype has faded and the results get buried on Google, but here are a few samples -

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2020/01/03/some-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/01/04/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/07/youth-nee...
Yeah, they mention ventilators a few times, but it seems they are talking only about respirators (ie protective N95 masks). Gov Cuomo just said today he has a projected shortfall of 30,000 ventilators and they aren't available anywhere. The FEMA stockpile is 20,000 of which they have been promised 400. Ford and GM can score some PR and help medical workers by producing respirators, but we could be facing hundreds or thousands of excess deaths unless the DPA is invoked to produce ventilators and needs to happen a month ago.
Can you show some predictions of World War 3 imminently happening by news sources? Say CNN.
It's a real revelation to find out that there are people in the world who aren't you.
You should look into fdpic as format to store your binaries in.
It think i might lessen your concerns.
As a freelancer on Upwork I share my screen to my customers and they share their screen to me in parallel solely using Upwork web based application. Allows us to view each other screens, talk and share camera - all of this just by web. So there is a way to do that, you might want to look at them to see this is possible from web
I share your shock. The copyright on the drawing is owned by the child no? Also moral rights.
Is there a method if an oven is not available? In a bag in a microwave?
I'd imagine a PLA-printed headband would be very uncomfortable.
Interesting, I assumed that it was an automated system to reject it ("sorry, the computer won't accept it unless the scale has a lower weight than what was paid, nothing I can do"). But if it's manual that makes sense
This is false. The license for glibc is the LGPL, not the GPL, and the LGPL has an exception to allow static linking without the whole code having to be under the LGPL, as long as the .o files are also distributed to allow linking with a modified glibc ("As an exception to the Sections above, you may also combine or link a "work that uses the Library" with the Library to produce a work containing portions of the Library, and distribute that work under terms of your choice [...] and, if the work is an executable linked with the Library, with the complete machine-readable "work that uses the Library", as object code and/or source code, so that the user can modify the Library and then relink to produce a modified executable containing the modified Library.")
That may be the least coherent plan I've ever heard. If I offered you a leaf blower taped to a sack, that would absolutely make the situation worse. If you need a ventilator you're not in a position to make decisions because you need a ventilator. Come on, this is a fantasy and I think you know that.

If you're lying there, gasping for air, that's not the time for the nurse to wander by and ask if you liked the Dyson BlowMaster 8000 or the Siemens 300A Servo Ventilator, and to explain to you the pros and cons.

What you need is a proper, certified ventilator you can get by ramping production of existing ventilators, not starting over with some bits of sticky tape and string. You can force companies, in an emergency to produce them [1]. That's the only sane plan in an actual emergency.

Let's briefly break down the "treat like a child" bit. A child is someone who's not capable of making decisions. Neither is someone who needs a ventilator.

> Safety testing is less important when treating dying patients who have no other options.

Safety testing is more important because sometimes applying a useless device will do more harm than doing literally nothing. Something is not always better than nothing. How else can we, to your point, weigh the risks of having it vs not having it if we don't evaluate them?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950
I have a feeling this doesn’t work even in the developed countries. Sometimes people are just testing the boundaries of what they can really when a new system is brought in.
Note that when using static linking, you don't get a copy of everything, just everything you actually use.

It doesn't alter the fundamental point: shared libraries save both persistent storage and runtime memory.
Dynamic linking is what has allowed avoiding even longer backwards compatibility and even more cruft like Windows has.
We are working on a version of this which does not require any electronics: https://twitter.com/zackbloom/status/1242156904782139395?s=2...

It uses fluid dynamics rather than a sensor system, simplifying manufacture at scale.
The world is designed for short people with short parts. Fingers are not the only problem.
Your biggest problem right now is denial
often times your immune system kicking into overdrive is what kills you — not the virus itself.
IIRC, there were still traces of the virus on the diamond princess 15 days after it was cleared out. So it might be able to last longer.
What about other germs, esp from the doctors' own breath? Doctors in OR need sterile masks and hopefully they don't reuse in that setting. But outpatient clinics and testing sites, sure reuse is better than shutting them down due to shortage of respirators.
Yes, most have a low-temperature cycle and the rest can often be configured to include the option.
I'm planning to still self-isolate beyond that for now. The median duration of viral shedding is 20 days according to the research out of Wuhan. The longest observed duration of viral shedding in survivors was 37 days.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
The manager: what are you all cooking?

Employees: N95 masks sir

Customer: can I also order one?
This might not be in good taste but this line of discussion is just hilarious to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QKnqD7scI4 might be of interest.

I'd think an autoclave/pressure cooker/rice steamer would have a much lower risk of melting plastic fibers in masks since they're physically limited to lower temperatures than a typical oven.
I WFH for 6 years at my last job. I didn't have a child. Now I have one, and with the SO that doesn't have to work at this time, it's still hard.
Weird that alcohol removes the static charge needed for proper filtration, but hot water vapor doesn't. I'm sure someone with a better understanding of electrochemistry could tell us why.
Does your design also rely on pressurized medical air for operation?

It sounds like this one is using an ESP32 microcontroller (described as 32 bit, arduino-compatible, WiFi+Bluetooth ). What microcontroller are you using?

Is your design open source?

Can you expand on the solenoid difficulties you experienced?

Thanks!

Edit: typo
I recall seeing a thing about creating curfew laws for high school kids. Most kids on the street after school started were from poor neighborhoods and were on their way to school. They were just running late. Making it illegal for them to be there -- out on the street -- was just compounding their problems and creating additional barriers to getting to school.

A lot of rules get made with little understanding of the actual problems and circumstances of a lot of the people they are supposed to apply to.
My parent comment wasn't arguing for privacy, they were arguing against personalization.

Specifically, I referenced two proposals for privacy-preserving ad personalization, FLoC (https://github.com/jkarlin/floc) and TURTLE-DOV (https://github.com/michaelkleber/turtledove), and their response was that privacy wasn't the issue, the effects of personalization are harmful in themselves.

For privacy I do agree that you can't just do it with legislation and you also need technology. But if you think the issue is personalization itself, regardless of how privately it is implemented, then legislation is the critical playing field. Blocking personalization on the open web through technical means while allowing it in walled gardens means you (a) still have most of the claimed harms of personalization but also (b) massively disadvantage the open web.
Some mumblings have been heard accusing us all of trying to reimplement mainframes, badly.

For a long time I have been watching the ebb and flow between peer to peer and client server and it’s gotten quite a bit fuzzy lately. I suppose if you treat cloud providers as a large amorphous server, it sort of still fits the mold.
>where one party has been talking about how incompetent government is

You ever been to a DMV? Or seen someone treated at the VA? Or heard how patents are issued at the Patent Office?

The government is good at some things. It's really, really bad at others, and has zero accountability most of the time.
Now imagine, how would a competitor that hires remote and even international workers save on payroll. I think it's already starting to happen.
To expand on my personal use-case, I don't want or need a whole stack of physical servers sitting around just for a test k8s environment. There are some things that you can only really test properly in a real multi-node environment rather than single-node solutions like minikube: failovers, shared storage, some networking particularities, etc.

But there are reasons to run containers on VMs in production too. Hypervisors and container orchestration tools solve very different problems. Depending on what problems you are trying to solve, it might be useful to leverage both.