skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would certainly look bad, and I think it would potentially be illegal in some states.

https://consumer.findlaw.com/consumer-transactions/price-gou...

For example, Georgia:

> Selling items or services determined by the Governor during a declared state of emergency to be necessary for public safety at a higher cost than they were immediately prior to the declaration.

Kansas:

> For any supplier of a "necessary property or service" to "profiteer from a disaster" by charging 25% or more than the pre-disaster price for such goods/services.

Louisiana:

> Selling goods/services during a declared state of emergency (within the designated emergency area) in excess of the ordinary price range immediately before the declaration.

Mississippi:

> Selling goods and services at above the prices normally charged during a declared state of emergency (or what was charged immediately preceding the declaration).

etc.

Also consider that raising prices would itself be a form of prioritization, just prioritizing ability to pay over need.
In a huge medical emergency, when people essentially desperately pleading for a ramp-up of the effectiveness of medical personnel, it's kind of mind-boggling that the only answer you're giving is sneering at how little the layman knows (and yeah, that seems like a standard answer doctor in the US are going give).

And, yeah, maybe I know little of what exactly ICU processes are but it seems indeed implausible that there are no intermediate levels of skills that are the slightest bit helpful, just about physical task can aided by a "third hand" etc.
Why are people praising NY when the city is totally fucked and they've already run out of beds? Chicago seems to be doing better than SF, LA, or NYC right now...
The original "Iron lung" prototype was built by a tinsmith and used vacuum cleaner parts:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/JAMA/articlepdf/403323/jama...

(or course, it didn't need to be sterile because unlike modern positive pressure ventilators, the air it pumped didn't go inside the patient).
For the NYT, using a browser extension to disable js works like a charm.
I'm not an MD but I've had contact, on-and-off, with mission-critical equipment in the energy sector (according to my university I'm an EE but I was cleverly disguised) and then I've worked in the medical equipment industry for a few years. I would be very, very surprised if the parent comment(s) weren't correct. Training, no matter how intensive, is no substitute for education.

Getting nurses, doctors from other specialties, or even medical students through an intensive training is one thing, and I suspect it's actually a good idea. These are people who have (or, in the case of students, are at least likely to have) the knowledge required not just to learn how to operate a piece of machinery, but also to understand when they're in over their heads, when to ask for help, and to understand the magnitude of what they're doing.

But IMHO -- also based on my experience in other potentially dangerous fields -- putting people with zero medical education except for a thirty-day training in charge of observing people in a life-or-death situation is a really bad idea. Under-educated, even if well-trained assistance has a very high potential of making things worse, not better -- worse than doing nothing at all, that is.

Running a ventilator as in pushing the right buttons is something you can learn to do just by reading the manual. I can obviously operate every medical device I've worked on. I've obviously had more than 30 days of exposure to them. And nonetheless, I think the chances of getting someone killed by operating them are extremely high. I am also 100% convinced that they are much higher than the chances of someone who's had some medical education doing the same thing, even if they've never seen that machine and have never read the manual. What doctors and nurses do with the things I've built is way above my level of understanding.

I can't speak for medical students but I can guarantee that, if you let 30 final-year engineering students walk around a power plant without constant supervision, one of them will get themselves killed by the end of the day. And that's after three years of education. 30 days shouldn't even get you past the lobby.
Working with all three of them, so here's my two cents:
1. Mostly traditional, "legacy" companies have been hit hard by this. Ones that don't have culture or technology of work-from-home. Those companies use some Microsoft products. Also, Microsoft has been poaching them heavily, handing out trials, bundling licenses and so on. A lot of them don't actually buy stuff from Microsoft, but through 3rd party vendors which have incentives of their own. Some of the end users don't actually want to use AWS, also.

2. I actually think Microsoft has much less runway. From what I understand, AWS has more modern infrastructure and backend, and they shuffle resources easily around, between services, and I think they have much more in reserve. Microsoft has concentrated much more on the sheer number of regions.

3. Azure has a strange way of handling quotas, if you ask me. Up until now, once you provision a VM, it is deducted from a quota and stays like that as long as it exists. It has never been an issue to actually power it on (unlike AWS), once you have it. It's not billed, but we always thought it stays like that. Since last week, you can see failures not only when provisioning VM's (even within your quota) but also when starting them. Nevertheless, I also think a lot of users had larger quotas allocated then they actually use. So they just started creating more VMs or other resources (because they could), and the thing came crashing. I think that's just poor planning on Microsoft's side.

But the thing I'm mostly pissed of is the status page. VM's are failing left, right and center and everything is nice and green on the status page. Once you open a ticket, they send you an incident-in-progress report.
Will the police stand six feet away while they issue these instructions?

I mean what could possibly go wrong by systematically exposing your law enforcement to every person that enters the state at the moment of their arrival?
Are the privacy concerns not abated base on their many privacy declarations through the sites and apps? (Re: NextDNS)
>does Disney+ run on Azure?

Some cursory web searching suggests that at least as of 2017, BAMTECH / Disney were using AWS as their public cloud provider. There's enough inertia here that you'd imagine that this is still the case.
Alphabet's implanted sensors and Amazon's socially distant book club
So that's why my OneDrive sync hasn't been working at all.
I think it's still too early to tell. I live in Toronto and we've been mostly shutdown for two weeks. I believe we took actions earlier into our outbreak than Italy and the US did with theirs so hopefully that will help. We had testing already in place in January so I think the numbers were reliable. There are backlogs now and people with mild symptoms aren't getting tested. Most clinics have moved to tele-health consultations to avoid spread. From what my friends in healthcare have told me, we're not overrun yet but we've cancelled all elective surgeries, etc. It seems like there are PPE shortages and healthcare workers have been rationing.
Sure, it's language used to discuss doctors in the context of abortion, euthanasia, and medical research relating to genetics. I wonder why people might focus on doctor playing God. Could some people actually be religious?
To play devil’s advocate — a not insubstantial amount of the economic damage is self-induced. We could accept some degree of risk and the associated consequences to reduce that, but we have not for various reasons that are subject to debate. I suspect in hindsight we’ll find we have overreacted due to a lack of good information.
The situation is rather interesting.

If individual states begins to shut down their borders, and alienate citizens from other states, then what is the purpose of the Federal government?

According to the constitution, the Federal role is to provide for the national defense. And to allow for free interstate trade and commerce.
Return to Nib’s Knoll (2014)
> A trope of Hesse's in general...

Though I did enjoy Siddhartha, you touch on a point I agree with: Hesse recycles many of the same themes in all of his works, and Siddhartha just takes those themes a different geographic setting (which was intentional - Hesse's relationship with Germany had deteriorated, and he felt that any book set in Germany would be seen as commentary on the country). It seems that Siddhartha is often read in isolation from his other works and thus seen as primarily a commentary on Buddhism. While Hesse was very familiar with India (his grandfather had been a missionary there, and Hesse had traveled there), and he certainly had an affinity for the Indian spirituality that comes through in the book, the primary themes are very similar to the themes in Narcissus and Goldmund, Demian, Beneath the Wheel, Peter Camenzind, and of course the Glass Bead Game.

I'm a huge fan of Hesse and have read almost all of his works, and I think Siddhartha is quite a good one, but it's not a book about Buddhism; it's a coming of age tale with a protagonist navigating the tension between intellectual learning and experiential learning, and finding happiness from within. Which could describe many of Hesse's works...
There are also individual limits on number of cores per account, etc - something we ran into when we needed to quickly scale on Black Friday, and the support too forever to get back to us even with priority A ticket.
Much more complete discussion of the problem, with strategy variants and code: http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/monty-hall

Author is also a HNer: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=loup-vaillant
I don't get how this helps. For startups/individuals, AWS eliminated all capex expenditures except for a single user's computer, which can be had for orders of magnitude cheaper than server hardware, literally. The cost of a cheap but powerful enough laptop or tablet plus keyboard is under $200 now.

Unless you literally do everything by hand (which is a niche, but a tiny one), the cubesat is still going to cost at least 10-50k and the launch 100-400k. In the grand scheme of things, it's not the huge improvement that the rest of AWS infrastructure was.

I think this could be a huge deal for students and academics though. It's not uncommon for companies to give away free secondary/tertiary slots (at least in my experience pre-SpaceX) because the logistics infrastructure is expensive to keep around and they can write off costs that they normally would have to eat. Even if this only shaves 10% off the cost of a sat project, that's a lot of extra money for aerospace clusters like LA, Cal Poly, MIT, etc. and might be enough to start hitting more economies of scale leading to a snowball of development.

Between university machine shops and subsidized labor, Ground Station, and low cost launches once SpaceX volume increases, it might become feasible for student groups to pull off launches for $50-100k total which would be well within the realm of rotary clubs, small-to-medium educational grants, and university budgets.
Assuming one made the right choices and is 100% cash, what now? Do you buy the dub on equities? In my view cash is also getting diluted by gov action, which can be nicely summed up by the meme money printer go brrrrr
I just read 1Q84, and decided that it was the worst book I've ever read.

Now reading Dune, for the first time since high school 20 years ago. There is a solid argument to only read classic scifi until the reviews are so good that you can't ignore it, or if you learn to trust the author.

Dune is an incredibly textured far future. Ecology, waves of anti-technology, post-humanism, politics, and nuanced characters.
> I'm fascinated by the concept of prioritization rules in place rather than simply raising prices

Do you realise that it's potentially illegal to increase prices based on market demand during a crisis?
“You can’t hug your children with nuclear arms.”

“Socialize risks, privatize gains.”

“It’s already priced in.”
How do you know plants don't feel pain?
The trick is doing that while still having some semblance of free speech, and allowing constituents to talk to their representatives about what problems they are seeing.
The Little Prince. It’s beautiful and helps me re evaluate / question priorities.

Vonnegut impacted me to be a bit more fatalistic (“among the things he could not change were the past, present, and future”) and nihilistic in a positive way. Although not sure this is a positive overall for my personality. More sort of forgiving, e.g. the idea that people’s mistakes are due to their bad chemicals or faulty wiring. Suggest Cats Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5, maybe Galapagos for starters.

Once A Runner, as a runner myself, crystallized for me a philosophy of striving for excellence at something that may not matter to anybody else. And I find it fun.

What I liked about Neal Stephenson’s Anathem was the “this too shall pass” perspective on human societies and civilizations outside the wall of the maths. Whatever the current government or technology levels or wars happen to be, blend together. It reminds me of the feeling you get in Jerusalem of being in a moment of history that is no more important than other times and is of one piece with them, rises and falls included. This probably connects to the nihilism again. Anyway.

I almost exclusively read fiction but I’ll mention Working by Studs Terkel, not fiction but certainly not self help or technical. Just helped me feel connected to parts of society I don’t experience.
Dubliners by James Joyce

A collection of short stories united by the fact that characters have epiphanies.

Often my life has changed not gradually but in moments of epiphay and this book made me more aware of such occasions.
Damnit. I had somehow missed that for years, but you are right.
I'm a fan of the actual (in-RAM, no tricks) problem and its variants. The entropy of the sorted list is 0.96MiB so it is theoretically possible (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4679756), but I've not seen a good writeup of an actual algorithm.

My personal favorite variant of this is sorting 1M 32-bit integers using 2MiB of RAM. This is possible and I coded it up for fun a few years ago. Here's the specific encoding I used for the sorted list: A '0' bit followed by 12 bits of payload generates a number which is those 12 bits added to a global state counter. A '1' bit increments the global state counter by 2^12. It's easy to work out the memory requirements (it's constant for all sorted lists of the same length): 2^20 bits for the '1' bits (to reach a maximum value of 2^32) plus 10^6 * 13 bits for the integers. This is exactly 1,756,072 bytes, which leaves plenty of extra space.

ETA: unfortunately a simple adaptation of this technique doesn't quite work for this problem; the optimum payload size for 1e6 integers up to 1e8 is 6 bits, but even with that the representation takes 1046kiB, and the budget is 1024kiB.
Cloud provider is not a grocery store? You can't just wake up and randomly raise prices of services.

Also lots of .gov runs on azure.
What makes you think that? Have you seen a discrepancy between your projections of future cash flows and therefore your valuation, as compared to the value the market is at right now?
By the way, it’s on Netflix and Hulu.
That's almost twice the amount of deaths in Canada, which has a population of over 30 million people and is on a relatively tight lockdown (not as intense as some European countries but still well followed).
Different folks different strokes, but I wonder which approach is going to be the most reasonable in hindsight.
The device he was referring to was a hand-driven bellows attached to a face mask, and he brought it up as a desperate, last-ditch scenario, ending his description of it with "No, thank you!" Though I think there's a good chance we'll end up there.

Those are a lot simpler and safer than a mechanical ventilator, which requires intubation or a tracheostomy, which you might say is highly invasive of the respiratory abstraction layer, and can cause correspondingly subtle and messy failures.
Uranus is losing its atmosphere because of its weird wobbly magnetic field
> Still, I am discomforted by your book-buying habits; a book unread is a valuable resource wasted :) But each to their own way.

There are lots of fantastic books out there, and only so much time to read them. Sometimes I buy some with the intention of reading them later. But reading books properly takes time, so it's inevitable that I fall behind.

Also, lots of the techincal monographs I buy have some overlapping contents with others I own.

I can buy a book for a single chapter. That's the only way to get that chapter, so it justifies the purchase to me, even if the subjects covered overlap with other books I own.
I also suspect that some of it is just revealing economic malaise that already existed but was hidden, and this served as a Schelling point for it to reveal itself.
$399 for $25 in plastic. Go to home depot and buy some rain plastic gutters.
Maybe the graphs from ft are illuminating. They attempt to show the hopefully more comparable data across countries: deaths pr day, starting at [ed:10th death]:

https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
Not really comparable, even if we saw lately some cytokine storms in too healthy young people, where an overreaction
of the immune system killed them. In three cases world wide so far. With the Spanish Flu it was 50% of all infected. It only killed the young and healthy.

The current estimated Covid-19 mortality rate is under 1%. Not really comparable at all, sorry.
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> the government's FPS Public Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment announced March 27

They don’t provide a link to an original announcement and I can’t find anything on google
Technically I should provide a citation and searched, but couldn't find it. I'm almost certain that I've read that wayyy more than 50% (prob 70% die) once placed on ventilator. Maybe because those ending there are already with one foot+ on the grave. The ventilator can save,say 30%, and also make us feel good "we did all we could," after all, we will all reach that point one day ;)
Sure, but that doesn’t necessarily coincide with peak economic impact. We may be looking at some traumatic bankruptcies and economic disruptions, and those will likely lag the medical impact, in some cases by quite a lot. Some of the habits and behaviour changes people are developing may stick, causing severe problems for some companies or even whole industries, and this will play out over a long time. So I can’t say when we will hit bottom, there are too many uncertainties. Also the bottom for some industries and companies will differ from others.
That assumes external storage, which is not given in the problem statement.
> Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey-Maturin series.

Wonderful, wonderful books. I didn’t even like historical fiction as a concept before these. It takes a while to get over the “culture shock” and learn the vocabulary of seafaring life, but it easily pays off with twenty-and-one-half (!) excellent stories. Someone also made a companion glossary called “A Sea of Words” which is a big help.
If you're talking about the case I think you're talking about,

"""
However, Los Angeles’ County Department of Public Health later said the teen’s death was taken off a list of deaths associated with Covid-19 in the area. The department said the CDC would complete an investigation into the teen’s death. It remained unclear what symptoms he may have been experiencing prior to his death.
"""

The 17yo fatality that Gavin Newsom mentioned in a news report was also later reclassified as not CV related.

The late 21yo patient in the UK was never tested for CV.

The media do not have a great track record here.
looks really cool -- will evaluate when the API is stable -- would hate to adopt only to have it change from under me
I am rather surprised by how Russia is able to maintain their large hold on territory across Siberia.

Surely, the people on the Eastern front, is highly genetically different, than from those on the western side, which is closer to being European.

I assume it’s because of the threat of nukes, which kept the size of the Russian Federation the way that it is.
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I’m not a medical professional so hopefully someone more knowledgeable and confirm or counter.

From what I’m reading the treatment of COVID19 seems to require a pretty narrow set of practices. Mostly around monitoring, administering of medication, ventilation / oxygen and general bedside care. If this is true can we not cross train adjacent areas like EMT, army medics etc fairly quickly to provide care? They don’t even need to perform diagnostics.
Covid-19: China’s ‘defective’ masks and test kits raise concerns
3,000 times per second. That's fast enough to trace electrical signals flowing through brain circuits.

It's incredible how much slower brain signals are than what we are used to dealing with in modern electronics. To debug a CPU in my laptop I'd need a scope with multi-GHz sampling rates.
You’ve tried the Arm MacBook?
All right, I misunderstood what you were saying.
I never said they didn't have full value. I'm just looking at what would happen to society in this sort of scenario. It may be harsh to say it, but there is a potential brightside whether you choose to acknowledge it or not.
To anyone believing the hogwash about, “loans getting forgiven in 10 months if you follow the rules,” go look what happened with student loan forgiveness for public service.

Trusting anything the US government says about money that could cross a political cycle is just stupid.
You can get your code on the satellite, effectively getting it for your own use for as little as $0. Right now. This is what ESA OPS-SAT mission is all about.
> If you are considering dropping node because you need more performance, be careful.

That's what is surely not surprising to me, as I've measured the performance of V8 even before node.js existed, and already knew of enough examples that resulted in the code executed with the speed comparable to C. I don't consider any modern JavaScript JIT implementation to be "slow", neither V8, nor the one in Safari or in Firefox. Moreover, all of them have more than one level of achieving the speed -- they adapt to the needs of the code executed, they are really the works of art, and not an accidental development.
Hadabot: Use an ESP32, ROS2, and the web browser to control a motor driver
Can't they introduce border controls like in Europe?
It is pretty remarkable, and reflects a remarkable failure of the US obsession with market-driven resource allocation mechanisms.
It feels like Cuomo is on the wrong side of this. Like it or not, national and state boundaries are the only boundaries we can reliably use to segment the general population right now, and while it may be rudimentary, it’s one way of identifying those coming from a very dense area with a very high rate of infection.
From what I've read, results are mixed so far. I believe it's being tested out in MANY places right now to gather more data, but it seems clear at this point that it's definitely not a miracle cure.
Out of ignorance, how does DNS Cloak differ/compare to NextDNS?
I read this book at a coffee shop and have never had so many people asking me what I was reading! Although I must admit, I switched to the abridged version because I was so impatient reading through the serial filler...