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There are clearly a lot of contrarians in this thread, perhaps that is because the premise of a flooded healthcare system is still too impossible for some to envision.

And of course there are many levels to addressing bottlenecks. For example, operators wouldn’t have to be amateurs at first, they could be any of the non-essential medical professionals who are not able operate business as usual due to the virus. Could a podiatrist or urologist operate a ventilator given enough training?

In general we are brainstorming proactive measures. I think, at least in the US, we continue to have a reactive as opposed to a proactive strategy because of our decentralized government structure as well as the delicate balance between effective mitigation and maintaining social order. While we should be leveraging the current shelter in place strategy to build as much healthcare infrastructure as possible (both physical and technical, as per the thread) to handle slowly returning society to normal operations, we probably are not moving fast enough. In several weeks, as the unemployment and anxiety builds, so too will unrest. And I guess then it will really be a test of a nation’s people.
You could give them to your friend(s) if you have any.

Or try freecycle.

It's not difficult once you realize that if you actually care about waste, then you don't have to profit.
Note: I don’t agree to what I’m about to say, I’m just providing an alternative view.

There’s a hypothesis that there’s a “passive investment” bubble. By some estimates, about 20% of the market is fueled by passive investment strategies and at a certain point, it divorces asset pricing to true fundamentals. I don’t know the transmission of this, but it makes sense- just like investors flock to the wrong ZOOM stock to inflate the price of a wrong stock, too many people passively buying ETFs has the downstream effect of people buying too many shares of something that isn’t valued properly.

https://fortune.com/2019/09/14/passive-investing-stock-marke...
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That's the lazy archeologist explanation. What was this building? A temple! What was the purpose of these artifacts? A ritual! And so on for everything.

I now believe is just code for "we don't have a clue yet", but growing up, it gave me the wrong impression that acient societies were praying all day long.
That is twisted I faced everyday these days. Instead of horror of china it is implicit a praise that it can maintain its control of the empire and suppress the virus etc. It is the very problem of suppression that give the problem of spreading. If there is a freedom of speech ... or it is Italy so we can get the message (by having people on the ground instead of no western / free media).

But instead of this China control, not just internal but also WHO. It not just kill its people which like cultural revolution and big leap forward, it killed outside. It even tried to blame the very country which has the index patient who fly out from wuhan the day before it was shut down. And that is great and ok. We should only talk about the collapse of past empire.

Let us accept even though I am not, what value it brings. Should we still do a few last stand.
Government should perhaps have an option of buying the company which holds a critical order, or stopping that company from being sold in the first place?
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I find price gouging to be perfectly normal and perhaps even desirable during times like these. If the toilet paper prices go up drastically people will not be able to hoard it the way they are doing today.
There's always a great subreddit! https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/
Podesta was her campaign manager, though, and Alefantis was the owner of a pizza shop used by Clinton and Podesta for fundraisers and such. The implication was that Clinton was involved in some way. Conspiracy theorists have been trying to accuse her of pedophilia for years.
Hi there! Project creator here. Hindsight is 20/20 - the dual CPU design did prove to be overly complex. It does in actuality work quite well, but it was extremely difficult to implement and it's a lot of extra parts for features that turned out to be less useful than anticipated. There's some major reasons why I designed it that way at the time though:

1) I already had an OS that ran on the AVR, and didn't want to spend the effort porting it entirely to the ESP8266. That being said, I've since mostly ported it over anyway. The ESP8266 is indeed wayyyy harder to use than an AVR. But, as it turns out, not harder than dealing with two extremely dissimilar CPUs.

2) The ESP8266 doesn't have great I/O. In particular, I wanted to run PWM LED strips and the AVR allowed me to do that (the LED driver circuit can run PWM or digital output on the same pins). However, I realized pretty quick after selling a few of them that nobody else cared about PWM and not long after that, neither did I. Only a handful of my projects still use the PWM circuit.

3) The AVR has a much, much better DMA than the ESP8266. There's a fast LED style dithering feature available for some LED strips, and the Xmega DMA is what made it possible to do that. Yet another feature than turned out to be less useful than I'd thought - most strips I use clock too slowly to dither anyway.

4) It also has more analog I/O, which I use in my own projects, but probably no one else does.
For sure! My favorite "epic" novel.
One of the fairly explicit exceptions to federal jurisdiction on interstate travel is precisely to prevent the spread of diseases, both human and agricultural. Agriculture inspections and quarantine type cost recovery are pretty much the only "taxes/tarrifs" the states are allowed to prescribe on interstate (and international) travel and trade.

From US Constitution Article 1 Section 10:

No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws

Like much of the US Constitution, it's both a very loaded and ambiguous statement, with much of it's meaning implied.
This looks fairly dire, but I do wonder to what extent it may be overfitting? After all the model was created yesterday.
At a high level, this is how Google Pay and Apple Pay function now. They create a temporary card number that's used in place of your own to insulate you from being tracked (to some extent).

The primary issue with anything like this is going to be getting VISA and Mastercard to play ball. And if you try to do an end-run around them, they'll just get this whole thing made illegal, if it isn't already.

I think the only way to really make headway in the payment anonymization front is to eventually have something like a cryptocurrency, but without all the speculative garbage that currently comes along with it.
Well, China, in particular, is a known quantity here. They reported a total of 144 influenza deaths in 2018 of 700k infected. Personally, I consider that a lie. Others would say that they simply use different statistical methods. The truth is, they use this sort of number fudging internally as propaganda. See, the west suffers hundreds of thousands of influenza deaths per year, right? And China only had 144. Clearly TCM is superior to Western medicine, etc...
Why was this downvoted? It was meant as a positive remark. Not trying to troll. I think it’s healthy for AWS with some competition.
Sad behavior by modern snake oil peddlers.
"Honey, I'm not a drunk - I'm just trying to build us a bigger house..."
Have they confirmed that exposure to a greater number of particles leads to greater symptoms? Last I heard that was still unclear
It is, but DCA helps people who think "now everything is on discount, let's buy more" when the market could easily continue to fall.
The virus is apolitical, but there's no denying the amount of politics surrounding everything.
This Anonymous is extremely light on details.

The assumption that world wide medical professionals are not looking for some magic bullet anti-viral? Asinine.

The assumption that there is some magical anti-viral cocktail that medical professionals aren't using? Asinine.

We can't afford to give credence to mindless twits who are listening to Alex Jones/Fox News/Conspiracy du Jour and implying all we have to do is take up one of these fake news/fake cure woo and the problem is solved.

If there was an easy answer, life would be back to normal.
Great question and answers here, fascinating to consider potential use cases. Have you thought about adapting this copy for your website so more people can see the potential when they arrive there?
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Hi! I'm the project creator. While it's true the Kickstarter boards have all sold out, the project is still alive and well. Check out the dev and esp8266 branches, there's commits as of today ;-)

My long term goal for this year is to get a port running on some stock ESP8266 boards (such as NodeMCU and the Adafruit Feather Huzzah). My original hardware design was too complex to build in a cost effective way, but I'd really like to get the software in the hands of those who are interested.
On a related note, the Mesoamericans seemed to have great technology by 1000-500 BC. About 3 years back, I was on the nearby site of Monte Albán. It is an incredible place. It's humbling to know that around 400 BC, Zapotecs could engineer a city by flattening out an entire mountaintop.
The real answer isn’t as logical or rational as most of us would like to believe. It’s a combination of inertia and fear of cannibalization.

Most Universities want the high price/high value programs to remain on campus and don’t want to undercut themselves by putting them online.
Totally, although the idea that people should self-isolate is effectively apolitical as evidenced by it's acceptance across the entire world -- with governments from far-right to far-left, secular to theocratic, all preaching the same practice, likely to their own detriment.
Of course it's not coherent, it's just a roundabout way to say they don't want to give anyone any reason to move to LOH. Read between the lines.
Seconded, I googled bitfields and Stack Overflow and still don't understand the OP even a little.
This reminds me of the parable of the drowning man and the helicopter.

https://truthbook.com/stories/funny-god/the-drowning-man

The congregation may say "God will protect us". And he did, by having Donald Trump and everybody in power telling them not to congregate.
my father , a Depression Era banker, observed : "who asks How Much is fine but the man who asks When you are paying him is finished."

Government has to smooth time.
Not palettes, but for the authoritative "name" of a given color, I turn to the results of xkcd's color survey: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ and the list at https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/
To keep the market going up, the market needs more buyers than sellers in terms of aggregate dollars. Bogleheads and DCA 'evangelicals' are not going to liquidate their equities; so, they are happy to preach truisms like "you can't time the bottom", "time in the market is better than timing the market", etc.

Market is driven by 30% fundamentals, 70% herd psychology(technicals try to capture some of this). Keep that in mind when you evaluate answers here.

Longs want you to join the market to make their assets safer. Shorts and those who are on the sidelines, want to time the market by half a standard deviation; so, they want you on their side in order to break the price support of any ETFs/indices, etc.
> 2) If it's a soft budget then it's no different than the alarms you already have.

Not if I'm busy, or away from work, or asleep. There is a massive difference between getting an alarm (which is probably delayed because AWS is so bad at reporting spent money) versus having low priority servers immediately cut.

Even without a priority system, shutting down all active servers would be a huge improvement over just a warning in many situations.
Reckless / public endangerment? Arrest the church leaders.
Hi, project creator here. Sadly, the poster was a little behind on catching this... The Kickstarter boards shipped over 2 years ago, and as the hardware didn't really sell well after that, it's mostly just a personal project that this point.

That being said, I am actively working on a port for some stock ESP8266 boards (Adafruit Feather, NodeMCU, etc). I don't really want to sell hardware, but I'd love to see someone else using the software.
Generally speaking, biblical churches (And their people) must:

1) obey the rulers and authorities (insomuch as it does not cause issue with any other command) and

2) love their neighbor. E.g. by not knowingly engaging in activity which might cause someone to fall ill

3) not flaunt freedom. While we have every _right_ to meet, we are not disobeying if we do not.
About a year ago I spent $80 making a single query using BigQuery. There was a large public dataset and I did a query that spanned several months of data. My query was something like SELECT fields FROM table.* WHERE date = ... the problem was that WHERE still scans data from ALL date partitioned tables then returns a filtered result. What I should have done is FROM table.date - anyhow I am glad I checked the cost before I hit it with more queries. At $5/TB scanned is remarkably cheap for small data but not for large data. In my case it was 16TB.

Still, it was pretty amazing that the query returned data within ~2 seconds.

So be careful kids. Public datasets don’t cost anything to store, but your cloud account is going to get pummeled for your exploratory data analysis and if you haven’t set any billing controls or alerts you’re in for a nasty surprise.
I live in a religious county in Iowa, and while all the churches have stopped meeting, some people have expressed concerns that the forbidding of congregation is a violation of religious freedom. Nobody is violating it though.
I counter this I've never had good feedback, because of people that wanted a solution, but not from me and sometimes I would bring a solution that will cost less overtime.

I have been bitten colleagues and it still hurts. Because they weren't that great with I.T.

I rather show it off what I can do and what I need to work on. Than relying on somebody else. (Again I have been bitten by that.)
From Kissler et al. (2020): "To implement an effective intermittant social distancing strategy, it will be necessary to carry out widepsread surveillance to monitor the prevalence threshholds that trigger the beginning or end of the distancing have been crossed."

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/42638988/Social%...
Certainly this one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/05...
Then they likely have a very sub-biblical view of God.
As I understand it, the aquarium cleaning product in question is a mix of formaldehyde, hydrogen peroxide, copper sulphate and chloroquine. It is used to treat the fish parasite Amyloodinium ocellatum.

Taking a spoonful of that stuff is always a very bad idea.

Even if one could find "pure" Chloroquine Phosphate without all the other stuff, Chloroquine Phosphate is not the same as Chloroquine Phosphate. You can charge or remove electrons and still call it Chloroquine Phosphate, you can put it into different crystal formations, and I am probably forgetting other tricks that exist in chemistry to completely alter the behavior of a drug.
If it was that easy, we'd there would be no bacterial infections (antibiotics are already sitting on the shelves) and we would have no problems with viruses (antivirals are already sitting on shelves).

It's not that easy.
Do you mean the passing of classes as additional arguments? I haven't seen the horrible thing.

Overall I think C# got this one right. Generics are right there in the binaries.

bUt ActuALLy, I think the rightest right thing is to do specialization up to representation at link time (or compile time), when the whole program is available, ala MLton. Virgil does this. Of course this is not possible in a dynamic code loading environment but I only have so many fucks to give in this life.
Imagine if there were a collapsible filter you could push through then neck, along with a hole drilled in the bottom.

You could get a few in series and have a hasty purification system.
are you saying you're surprised or object to the idea that there are political implications to a pandemic?

It's really funny how there is this natural aversion to politics within (not only) American conservatism but American society at large, as if the involvement of politics somehow diminishes the authenticity of some event instead of being the natural platform to organise collective action.
The only thing these pastors who are keeping churches open is money. To ignore every health professional out there right now means they don't care about their flock at all.
Yes, and it's also not as though everyone just goes on their merry way in the midst of a pandemic just because a politician declares the country "re-opened". A large percentage of people will continue trying to isolate themselves and their families until they feel assured the outbreak is over and risk of infection is low. This will severely impact the economy whether or not there are official restrictions in place.

The only way to really get the economy going again is to deal with the virus.
variable pricing for volume - reverse discounts, in effect - might have worked well.

buying 1 pack of TP? $2. 2 packs? $5. 3 packs? $12. etc.

The people that truly need 1 or 2 can afford those. The people that want to buy 10 or 20 at a time will pay a huge premium, enough such that it won't really even be easy for them to turn a profit trying to resell to the people who got there 10 minutes after them.
Taxation is the skim. A secure (protected from "borrowing, just this one time, I promise, don't worry I'll put this fancy piece of paper in the box as a replacement") kitty containing these funds, is something else entirely.
- Hobbit, followed by Lord of the Rings.

The selection might seem trite, but I suspect that there wasn't a book with bigger impact on me than Hobbit, for very simple reason. It made me into voracious reader, put me on a path of reading, actually reading. All because my father prodded me to read out loud first few pages so that I could show off how well I read. That was enough to get me hooked and probably nothing compares in impact. Then there was LOTR, later on Silmarillion, and to this day I remember sometimes surprising amounts of trivia from them. A definitive positive impact.

- Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Had an impact mostly unrelated to its sci-fi content but related to more down to earth things mentioned. Whether it was positive impact remains an unanswered question, over 18 years later.

- Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. A book series that, now that I think of it, fed probably disturbing amounts of growth of my personal morals. Unclear on how positive that impact was, but I think it was? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You're assuming they acknowledge basic math and science. Most of them probably don't.

They probably believe this is a hoax, or God will spare people who give them money, or something.
It's astonishing that a crackpot like this has a chair at NYU (the summary of his legal work seems pretty out to lunch, too). Though it looks like the chair was created by a billionaire for him, so it's probably because the billionaire needed the crackpot to have some legitimacy.
Yeah, good point :)
Because the difference between letting someone die under inappropriately-applied ventilation versus just letting someone die is the occupation of a perfectly good ventilator. One that could be used to actually save someone. If you're in the business of killing patients, a gun would be more economical than a ventilator.
Great app, love it!
Sorry, I didn't mean to mislead you. This has little to do with Unreal (or Unity) and everything to do with GPU programming.
I don't know of an exact theme, but I think you would be able to get a similar effect by using a standard landing page theme and tweaking the fonts / colors a little. Use a round typeface, double the font size, and choose vibrant colors.
“I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance inflict and pollute others and so cause their death as a result of my negligence. If God should wish to take me, he will surely find me and I have done what he has expected of me and so I am not responsible for either my own death or the death of others. If my neighbor needs me however I shall not avoid place or person but will go freely as stated above. See this is such a God-fearing faith because it is neither brash nor foolhardy and does not tempt God.”

Martin Luther, 1527 after a plague wrecked his hometown of Wittenberg
they know math very well, are great marketers and managers.

They just don’t give a €*#+%% about those on whom they prey
I would appreciate if you can breakdown how cleanliness in Japan (say vs. the US) helps stop (propagate for the US) the spread of the Corona Virus. I have seen the Japan is exceptionally clean argument which is independent of the Japanese don't like to touch each other and are less touchy-feely as a culture (hugs, handshakes, etc. ) than Western countries.
Thanks for replying again and telling me the conversation is over. I wasn't accusing you of lying, it's just that I can't see what used to be in that post.

HN allows people to respond to things an hour or two after they are posted. I don't think that is extreme behavior and we've both done it in this thread.
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> Good human narrators add nuance and emphasis and energy, and it's much more interesting when someone is passionate or excited about the topic they're talking about and you can hear that come through.

And... there are some humans tasked with making videos for others and they're just really bad. Again, internal/training videos, etc, done by people without much passion for, or even knowledge of, the task they're training you on. I prefer machine generated voice in those cases, or perhaps even some sort of subtitling that could be piped to the TTS engine of my choice.
Should be cap so you have a check. If your system does not allow threshold or assertion, please do not use it. If your cloud system do not have capped budget so you play in and alert you when you soon run out, do not use it.
So make it $500 a mask and you just cordon off a good for the rich.
High prices encourage people like me who have more than enough to get off their asses and share the excess.

There is already plenty of TP in existence in the country for everyone, it’s just poorly distributed because the gov has removed the incentive for the TP-haves to distribute it better towards the TP-have-nots.

Or, more to the point of the article, there is no incentive for someone with a useless side project to give up their Azure instance to someone delivering food or medicine.
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Professor Neil Ferguson (Imperial College London) is working with John Carmack
It's worth mentioning that the facebook forums for hydroponics farming are full of people trying to sell these things second hand with no explanation 'why'.
just built this. hope it helps in this crazy times. MVP. will continue building.
I was going to point out that some deaths may be more likely to be included in the list because they died of COVID-19, but fuck, that does not seem to be the case. Genuinely terrifying.
Italy Cremona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkbv_WQtn0 Italy Bergamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_suhYeWEcJg

Two hospitals, not a single patient survived ventilation/ecmo to date (last week).