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> That's not to say your idea is bad! It's definitely good and worth exploring in the future. There will be time to explore how to have smarter tools that can be used with a less general skillset can be developed. There will also be time to explore how to develop specialized and narrow curricula for such things - itself not a trivial task.

This thread isn’t about automating medical professionals responsibilities one task at a time, or attempting to step on their egos. I’m as proud of their title, their coat, and their debt as they are.

If a pandemic respiratory virus is not the time to “consider exploring” this idea, when is? When people are left to die in their homes because the ambulances stop taking calls...?

We are, of course, just shooting out ideas of grandeur. A reactive strategy will be maintained, people will die, and everyone will throw their hands up in the sky and say “nothing else could have been done. March simply was not the time to think about COVID-specific medical operation efficiencies. There will, however, be a time to explore...”
>Dragonfly would have to first leave FreeBSD in the dust before taking on all the linux distros.

You're late to the party, as Dragonfly is already outdoing Linux in some areas, such as the network stack[0].

>But most BSD ( including OpenBSD which you just praised ) is monolith as well.

I praised them for the engineering they've been doing. They still retain flexibility, despite the monolithic design. Linux went all-in with their smp locking and kernel preemption, and the costs of getting any work done on the source code have skyrocketed since.

>Perhaps the future is hybrid, only time will tell.

Hybrid is a marketing term. It's a blurry line between a monolith and a so-called hybrid. What they're marketing is structure. Structure is good. Netbsd is an example of a well structured system. Linux is the counterpart: A poorly structured one.

>Monoliths have been great for general and corporate use.

UNIX is an old design. Corporate hates taking risks. However, there's massive scale deployments of microkernel systems, they're just not on your face; the visibility is actually quite low for these. But they do tasks that greatly benefit from or outright require such a design.

Monolithic design limits are more evident than ever, as we're hitting them left and right. So this is changing. For instance, besides systems such as Genode and HelenOS, Google is working on Fuchsia and Huawei on HarmonyOS. Brace for impact, as waves will be made when this all finally hits.

[0]: https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/perf_cmp.pdf
I wholeheartedly disagree. Megachurch founders like Joel Osteen didn't get to the position they're in by being naive followers of christ solely with a passionate message, they're businessmen.
Funny coincidence - I'm just rereading this book now, and I think I like it more than the first time (~11 years ago). Getting older makes me appreciate Steinbeck even more.

But I'm not entirely sure about his discussion of the word "timshel" in the original Bible. I'm a native Hebrew speaker, and I don't read any "may" into it - it's more of a declaration of the future like "you will rule/control it" rather than "you may rul/control it".
It's also really funny how different people can extract completely different meanings from the exact same sentence. It's also really interesting how prevalent this phenomenon is.

For example, I see nothing in that sentence that alludes to an aversion to politics.
Unfortunately, I doubt this is true. Conservative churches have largely become a proxy for conservative politics, and a lot of conservative media still questions the methods and motives of the coronavirus response.

Imagine people that are so deeply convinced that the media is lying to them and this is a plot to undermine his agenda. That narrative absolutely exists and there are many out there who believe it.
Yes,but maybe you missed my point, it was that "oil consumptiom" needs to go up along with oil prices before it can be taken down by renewables. That is fastest way, the slow way is to wait for disasters to keep happening and hope nations force change.
Also have a couple pixelblazes, very good product.

In my case I was trying to integrate with a DMX-driven show, which is tricky and required more time than I had to invest in the project, but as standalone pixel controllers they are quite good. You can also use a separate package called firestorm to tie them together, also pretty useful.
I've been seeing this plotline for awhile, and the notion that this is normal is pure fiction. They are outliers; feel free to call them out for their irresponsibility, but absolutely do not use them to make any kind of generalization.

>Some megachurches have opted out of in-person services and turned to live streaming entirely.

Correction: Just about every church that I've heard about has gone online. Certainly possible that less-affected states are a week or two behind the curve, but most understand the weight of this and are acting accordingly.
> The virus, we believe, is politically motivated.

Good God. The times we live in.

Like, what does this sentence even mean? He probably doesn't even know himself. The vague couplings we make between our political identity and just, random subjects, have transcended the subconscious and become an acceptable thing to just... profess. As-is.
> some people have expressed concerns that the forbidding of congregation is a violation of religious freedom.

There's an old saying that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. I think that applies here.

Yes, if the government--at any level--was forbidding people from meeting for religious reasons for an indefinite period simply "just because," that would be a violation of our freedoms and something to be gravely concerned about.

Restrictions on religion not based on the religious belief itself have been allowed since the founding of our republic. You can't have a religion where a "sincerely-held belief" is that one parishioner in attendance gets murdered. Or that smashing in people's front doors is a sign of holiness. Religious buildings, while exempt from property tax, must still comply with building, electrical, plumbing, and life safety codes.

In this situation, given that it is content-neutral--all gatherings of size are prohibited--and time-limited and in the furtherance of a major social interest (inhibiting the spread of a brand new virus), I think it withstands Constitutional scrutiny.
Interesting info, thanks. I also missed the point that Apple is going to design new CPU, they are definitely able to add any hardware virtualization instructions
If you know C++, you know C (ignore dark corners and changes in later C standards). C++ is first and foremost a "better C" and only later everything else.
Foundation by Isaac Asimov — that book has reignited my passion and intrigue for life every time I read it and had a fundamental impact on how I view my existence.
Hebrews 10:24-25 would indicate that the people should meet together. Depending on how literally their church interprets this, it could mean they don't consider things like virtual meetings enough.
That code doesn't make any sense. Either halts() itself is a function that solves the halting problem or the else branch is a dead branch because in order to be selected halts() must have never returned.

Dynamic code is where the GC can't know if something simply has a stale reference or if the codepath that calls it simply doesn't exist yet. It's be interesting to need to tag such data appropriately as that opens up a lot of leak protection.
There's no question that this is a violation of religious freedom. However judges have generally decided that civil liberties can be restricted to a limited extent if the government establishes a compelling public interest and there's no other solutions are possible.
How did you draw that conclusion?

I'm involved in leadership for a church that closed in-person services two Sundays ago. We were probably one week later than most, but I can tell you that money did not enter the conversation at any point.
There is nothing complicated about air pressure/volume control loop. If $5 arduino can control a V8 engine (Speeduino) it can control a small air pump.
But don't forget that the unit of measurement for the Dow and S&P is not what it was in 2014 either.
Risk Minimizers and Risk Balancers
Is your church a Joel Osteen-style megachurch?

Because while I can ascribe a great deal of good-faith behavior to more normal churches, we know what kind of bad actors lurk in those palaces.
How's this for basic math?

33,968 covid-19 related deaths so far on Earth since Jan. It is now almost April.

That may sound like a lot but it is not really. We live in a world of 7.8 billion people.

And these are just covid-19 related. Many have other conditions such as cancer.

The vast majority are elderly.

Old people die. Always have.

This is just life.

The virus is a hoax.

Wake up.
Curious what your SO thinks of this...

If a health care worker has a positive test and no or mild symptoms, seems to me they could sleep alongside COVID patients and continue to treat just fine? Save a lot on PPE while you’re at it.

A lot of workers would prefer that, rather then being quarantined at home where they will infect their families.
Incredible.

We had a very similar situation in Poland - our local branch of the catholic church was reluctant to enforce social distancing in their temples.

Eventually they caved, but who knows how many additional infections/deaths this will cause in the long run.
I love the interactivity in your workshop sandbox. Is the bottleneck your Boid.findNeighbours function? (that was the first thing I tried on the GPU, except GPU parallelism let's us get away with 50,000 boids).
This was a concern in our church.

This concern was ameliorated by a) pointing out that any restrictions have been applied without any discrimination in that regard, and b) with the full assurances of the state of Pennsylvania that the work of the church is vital and should continue in this crisis, even if in-person services are not currently a part of that mix. (There was a conference call and everything!)
>the Windows NT kernel for example (a microkernel design)

Windows NT isn't a microkernel design. It does however have some structure to it. Some call it Hybrid kernel, I call it crude layering. It's still better than the spaghetti Linux is.

>you couldn't do it

Each approach has different tradeoffs. With the microkernel multiserver approach, you get a lot of advantages, such as having a tiny amount of code running in supervisor mode, having strong separation enforced by it, particularly if using the capability model (not to be confused with POSIX capabilities). Possibly formally proven like seL4. It is possible to build a secure system on such a design. It is also possible to build a hard realtime (with proven WCET). It is not possible to do either with a monolith, because of the impossibility of proving the correctness of the monolith inherent to its sheer size and the exponential nature of verification work.

In detriment, there's more context switches, which have a cost. But this cost is an order of magnitude smaller on seL4 than Linux, for a solid example. You'd need a severe amount of extra context switches for an actual performance penalty. And seL4 would still have a massive advantage in latency.

>but you are just trolling here.

No, I am not, and I do not appreciate the accusation. Try and be kind.
Huge +1 to Martin Kleppmann's "Designing Data-Intensive Applications." It's the best single-volume introduction I've seen to the fundamentals of databases, queues, and the complications inherent in making those systems distributed.
Maybe. Or, maybe they optimize for income over all other things, and when (and only then) they truly do fulfill the proper/advertised role.

Kind of like any other business that provides a service that people voluntarily purchase.
Yeah, they were quite expensive and I'll probably just end up giving them away.
> Donald Trump

...after he spent two months minimizing it and doing the bare minimum under apparent duress. And implying, today, that the threat is smaller than everyone else says by dint of accusing medical workers of "stealing" PPE.

There is a great deal of American blood on that man's hands this day and if your post was (as is easily read from it) an attempt to credit that pseudohuman with anything, it is mistaken.
Every church that I am aware of here in Iowa (both locally and back home for various people I know) has been closed for three weeks now. That includes the mega churches.

Gatherings of more than 10 people are banned right now, and I don't think there are any churches interested in flouting the local government.
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A big part of this, I can speak for my church, is that we believe in a God, and thus God has control over plagues and disease. Therefore, it is logical to believe that we should offer more sacrifice and honor to God in these difficult times instead of less, in the hope that the long-term effects of the disease be reduced should it be God's will.

We still take natural precautions, such as maintaining social distancing, as we believe that it is not ours to tempt God. As it says in the Bible story, Satan tempted the Lord to throw himself off of a building because scripture said the angels would catch him. Christ responded that it was also written in scripture that you should not tempt God. This week, to take natural precautions without denying the sacredness of the Mass, we actually filled the parking lot and celebrated Holy Mass with everyone watching from their vehicles. This way, viewers could participate in the Latin Mass with minimal risk of exposure.

We obviously do not enjoy this method of worship. But, when it comes to ensuring the safety of the people while still trying to give honor and sacrifice, it's a compromise that's better than nothing.

It's kind of like Lord of The Rings, a little bit. Frodo was called to do everything possible until the very end of the journey, whereupon Eru Illuvitar, the creator of Middle-Earth, intervened to cause Gollum to slip at the last moment. God expects us to give our all, and intervenes only when we've done everything we could have done. This is to allow those who fought against evil to attain glory, and those who fought for evil to attain humiliation.

Which is more humiliating for evil? Being instantly defeated by an omnipresent, all-powerful God, or having been resisted and fought against by comparatively weak human beings who gave their all in resistance?
Unfortunately looks like this is not available to almost anyone except in rare cases: "To add satellites to your account, please email aws-groundstation@amazon.com with the NORAD ID, your FCC license information, and your customer account number and someone will contact you."
I think this is the most likely answer. The only people I know who aren't taking this seriously are friends who get their information from conservative sources.

I don't think any churches are intentionally risking the health of their congregation.
I live in a group house in Oakland, California and tensions have been pretty high. I've heard of similar tensions in basically everyone in a group house under quarantine. Of course, for me, it's worth dealing with the psycho social drama because living in solo isolation seems a lot worse. If anyone is dealing with similar issues, you may find this analysis helpful.
Unless you do pull out fusion, you will always have too huge loss between solar panels and LEDs. As efficient as LEDs are now, and I know because I just built 1200 watts of the latest and most efficient LEDs that are available, they are nowhere near cost effective in comparison tot he sun. Plants are not nearly as inefficient as people believe, especially when you consider the fact that solar panels themselves can also only absorb a small fraction of the light spectrum.

That 1200 watts is only really covering a 6 by 6 foot square worth of growth area at about 35 watts a square foot at 200 lumens per watts. It could be slightly larger but only if you want most plants to grow extremely slow or be really weak, and you can go up to 50 watts per square foot before requiring supplemental CO2 but not all plants like that amount of light.

Converting that to 1 acre worth of coverage, which is what is about what is needed to feed a single human for one year, you are looking at about 1,500,000 watts running 12-18 hours per day. That is a ridiculous amount of energy. Even assuming you can get away with 1/3 of that area by super careful and efficient growth year round that is still a half million watts in lighting costs alone. Not to mention all the other work and costs.

I don't see indoor farms being good for anything other than extreme specialty plants or extremely fragile plants until we can pull essentially limitless energy out for far cheaper than we can get even with fossil fuels.
From personal experience, in Virginia and the pacific northwest, you get plenty of berry roads. Roads literally lined with prolific blackberry bushes and sometimes raspberry bushes too. Seriously, these things are weeds. Especially raspberries. They're fucking delicious weeds. During season, plenty of folks park on the side of the road to pick berries. These road berries are better by magnitudes compared to store bought ones.

I have yet to see salad roads, but would love to see it. Diversity is "weed" edibles would be awesome.
The supply chain is functioning normally, but "normal" means ~40% of food consumption in urban areas occurs via restaurants. The supply chain isn't designed for 100% of folks buying groceries at the supermarket and preparing their own food.

And that's sort of the problem. The normal centralised supply chain optimises for normal usage patterns, and adapting to abnormal usage patterns causes widespread issues in the short term.

A decentralised supply chain is (at least in theory) better able to adapt to local distrubances.
A strategic geopolitical conspiracy theory behind this virus is actually an extremely popular conversation topic many different communities.
If it doesn't specifically prohibit "virtual meetings", because they couldn't imagine the technology, then it seems to me it doesn't literally forbid them.

I [virtually] never understand how other people use "literal"...
Good to provide links to show that it's for real:

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/488675-the-plague-co...

The actual letter he wrote: https://blogs.lcms.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Plague-blo...
First, it's independence from the industrial farming infrastructure of the USA and knowing what fertilizers went into your food or medicine. Produce sold in your local store are the 'industrial' versions which are genetically bred for transport, storage and presentation over taste.

Second, it's climate change which is making outdoor farming more and more difficult by the year, as well as a push towards higher efficiency. Also, having a garden (or being around nature, things growing) has been clinically shown to reduce stress in humans.

Third, it's MUCH less climate impact to transport renewably sourced electrons over a regional grid than it is to transport decaying produce in cold storage to a grocery store. Free sunlight is still cheap, but creates dependence on the seasonality (frequency, duration) which means a variety of crops are totally non-viable in certain hemispheres. Full outdoor growing has a much higher level of exposure to pests, requiring pesticides -- whereas indoor growing under lights gives you a higher level of defensibly without that risk.
Thank you for a wonderful link - speaking with you as a dual Barco CRT flashing Intergrsph TD-610 Quad PPro wielding dinosaur and present day owner of a Cs200 MI opts spot colorimeter and the scars,literally from moving office, to show for my sins, having been tricked into believing that RNNs were passeé how could anyone fail to test so good a idea of how to explain what the "unused ninety percent" of our brains is up to?...., anywhere but Tumblr I'd have thought to be the repose for such a thoroughly intriguing essay... What bus vd I been missing?

Posted to prevent the utl discouraging anyone else who should benefit from reading.
This is severe bias on your part in my opinion.

Conservatives are just as concerned as liberals about the prospect of hundreds of thousands of people dying. The only difference is they tend to have confidence that the government will be able to handle the response effort.
I should clarify that the problems I experience are probably not specific to ZipGrow, but would happen to any vertical hydroponics that require functioning system to keep roots damp.

Soil is an amazing technology.
There's more, but you have to dig a bit.

If you follow the last tidbit and Google "In response to Donald Trump's nomination of XX to the Supreme Court", Google will bring up plenty of reputable media sources that ran it.

In this case, it was 'The Womens March' that had a template protest sign ready, but incredibly neglected to fill in the blank with the nominee's name.
Many jurisdictions no longer recycle glass (considered too expensive), but will collect for upcycling. Could this be the right time for a renaissance of this type of design? It probably would require incentives from the government, which imo are merely manifesting preexisting externalities.
Great job. Would be nice if it could handle basic HTML (<ul><li><sup>)
How to block email trackers and read reciepts
Guaranteed loans and other subsidies.
Where is this no car traffic happening?

Where I am, I don’t see less car traffic. We are moderate in terms of US states for cases. We are told to only leave the house for urgent matters. But the chic-fil-a drive through line is 45 cars deep.
Ask HN: Could mushrooms prevent Covid-19?
I found this patent on Google while searching for Coronavirus + Paul Stamets. Has anyone done research on this?

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/b4/8b/af/28c5a9243caa57/US8765138.pdf
Considering that they can't manage to not break foundational libraries in code paths that should require no changes (at least since the introduction of Aqua, with the actual code being used since 1988!) and considering how they broke even 64bit software in Catalina in subtle ways that are still impossible to figure out by developers...

Nah. It won't be seamless at all. It will be like touchbar macs - you buy it because last 3 generations were stuck in place with little improvement and you are forced artificialy to upgrade.
Aabsolutely. I use glass bottles for water storage, and while they're a bit cumbersome to refill, I won't ever use plastic for this again. It's nice to know there's nothing leaching into my drinking water, plus carrying them around is good exercise.
In 2019 this headline would have been quite astonishing as well.
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There is no need to breed plants specifically for LED lights. All the newest and most efficient and cost effective LEDs are white spectrum now and emulate the sun far closer than any other light ever has. What matters is how efficiently can you make the lights run, and right now it is pretty damn good getting about 200 lumens per watts on those grow LEDs (versus about half that for a shitty standard household LED)
>Is your church a Joel Osteen-style megachurch?

Nope. We're a small one. But just the fact that we're talking about megachurches already limits the scope of Christian churches in the US: five minute search session suggests that there are less than 2000 megachurches in the US and somewhere around 380000 churches overall.
We need a couple of Indian cops in the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jOQEGBM72s
This behaviour is not particularly new really. For example, there are all sorts of people who believe the Iraq war was started based on less than entirely truthful pretenses.

Some people have very active imaginations, but that's just one of the things that makes life so interesting!