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Deaths on the scale of 0-10 per state are not noteworthy. Flattening the curve is about keeping the case count within hospital capacity.

We are well beyond "contain it"; it has been everywhere in US for weeks now. But low density regions with sufficient hospital capacity don't need to use the same tactics as high density urban settings where hospital beds are at a premium.
This is dangerously false (we don't yet know what the long-term effects of COVID-19 will be).

How do I flag this for moderator removal?
I'll note one thing that was quite annoying on my locked-down browser (via uMatrix): The site appears to be unscrollable without loading scripts from (probably, not spending the time to investigate further) typeform.com or subdomains of it.

Maybe it's just me, but I think having third-party scripting whose absence breaks fundamental features is poor planning.
Another common misconception is that stringent measures aren't needed in lower density areas. Take one look at Dougherty County, GA — whose outbreak was also spurred from an out-of-town traveler to a funeral:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/us/coronavirus-funeral-al...

> With a population of only 90,000, Dougherty County [Georgia] has registered 24 deaths, far more than any other county in the state, with six more possible coronavirus deaths under investigation... The region’s hospitals are overloaded with sick and dying patients, having registered nearly 600 positive cases. Last week, Gov. Brian Kemp dispatched the National Guard to help stage additional intensive care beds and relieve exhausted doctors and nurses.
We need to encourage good people to get into government. I tell every young person that if they really want to change the world, run for an office.
I agree that there is a difference between sales spam and scam spam.

This is why we provide the former with a warning before being blocked, while the latter gets no such courtesy. (We don't engage in legal threats over it, that's pointless and stupid.)
Ask HN: How to Buy Microcontrollers?
I'm a electronics hobbyist who's just about wrapping up a Pi compute module carrier board for a project. My first non-trivial PCB in fact, and it seems like it's going to work.

The Pi computer module has been the most accessible way I can find to get my hands on a Broadcom processor, but still, this unit adds $35 to my BOM, from which I estimate 15-20$ to be unnecessary parts (for my application).

I cannot find the BCM2711B0, or the BCM2837B0 anywhere for sale on DigiKey, Mouser or Octopart.

Similarly the Allwinner v3, the Novatek 966660, anything by Realtek, etc.

Possibly I'm going about this the wrong way, I've never designed a product for manufacture before, probably I find a partner in Shenzhen to source them for me, but what about small run build-at-home-prototypes, should I salvage the Broadcoms from older generation raspberry pis?

How do actually trained, well-connected electrical engineers who aren't solely derping around in their basement approach these kinds of issues?
If this were very customizable, it would be a powerful way to hack together MVPs or even richly-interactable prototypes for user testing
Which Way Now? [pdf]
Ask HN: How do I unsuspend my Twitter account?
Hey,

My project's Twitter account was suspended a week ago—probably got mistakenly flagged by an automated system. I immediately submitted an appeal as suggested but still got no reply from the support.

Maybe some of you guys know someone who works at Twitter to ask them what's up? Any other ideas how to unsuspend my account?
The xenophobia remarks were probably more in relation to classifying it as a "Chinese problem" and the targeting of specific nationalities, instead of fully closing the borders, as if this was going keep us in our bubble of protection, when the spread had probably already occurred, and was by then coming in through all ports of entry, not just Chinese people from China.
Rolling lease to own, maybe?
If you are using any of the many hardware-accelerated encoders available on desktop today the CPU is not at all limiting. Quicksync can run 9 HD h264 encodes, NVENC can run 4 to 17 depending on the card, etc.

Most OBS users don't configure software encode because of the resource issues.
If you have vlans set up at your house you might have a decent firewall that can block dns requests to unauthorized servers, so there's that.
An artificial brain being fed a stream of bits will not necessarily feel like it's in an empty room processing an abstract data problem.

If we can create an AI with different goals and reward mechanisms, there is a potential that we could create agents that are experiencing bliss doing data processing tasks.

Of course how we tell the difference between a miserable agent and a joyous agent is still an open question ..
Even better! Thanks.
> low density regions with sufficient hospital capacity

These regions were already struggling with hospital capacity before the virus hit.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rural-hospital-closings...

> More than 100 rural hospitals have closed in the United States since 2010 and another 430 are at risk of closing, which a new study says could have life-or-death implications for rural communities.

> University of Washington researchers examined 92 rural hospital closings in California from 1995 to 2011. They found that while the closings of urban hospitals had no impact on their surrounding communities, rural closings caused their populations — which have limited access to health care and other services — to see mortality rates rise 5.9 percent.
I would honestly ignore the case rates for the reason you stated. What if you had 500,000 tests tomorrow and discovered 30,000 people who didn't even know they had it? What does that really tell you?

Fatality rates are what people should focus on. Is Texas's fatality rates doubling every three days, or is it staying steady, or going down?

Europe is already having trouble with fruit production. Fruit is rotting because seasonal pickers can't work. If we loose food sources, a lot more people are going to die than from COVID-19.
I absolutely love this! Personally I have made a few projects that use google sheets as a backend in order to give the non-dev owners control over their data.

I wonder if in this app you'll have some API access? I can see this a extremely useful to hand non-technical clients a very nice interface (better than a spread sheet) and avoid the user from breaking the app (i.e. "I didn't know that rearranging/changing the name of a column would break the app!")

I'm gonna keep an eye on this product. Thanks!
I think tradition, 1.1.1.1 was released on April 1st (4/1, four one).
Used it with windows for years.

I use it to record my screen for training my outsourcers.

Works great and is simple.
If you happen to remember, please tell me. That sounds awesome.
There are no low infection states- just states that are a week or two behind the states that got hit first.
Would they? First of all, the criticism I mentioned was when the governent was "ahead"; experience indicates people were not "agreeing it was good to be ahead". "Ahead" in this case may be shutting down the economy far more than is justified. While it may be fun to talk about "the rich" and stuff, remember that "the economy" is what feeds all of us, clothes us, houses us, and keeps us in electricity and clean water. It is even now not necessarily clear that we aren't "ahead", once you put aside the partisan political sniping, and doing ourselves much greater damage than is actually justified. Thousands of deaths are bad, but a 30% employment rate (and presumably growing) is going to be bad too. I am not implicitly claiming one is worse than the other... I'm saying right here, right now, we don't actually know.

The "correct" response is an exponentially small target. Right now in the fog of war we don't even know what it would be. It would fit the evidence that the coronavirus fatality rate really is sub-.5%, if you count all the asymptomatic cases that may exist, and that we're badly overreacting. It would fit the evidence that coronavirus is still, if anything, downplayed, that there is no reserve of asymptomatic cases, and that even if it doesn't kill you there will be a generation of people crippled by it just like there was by polio. The nastier end of the rumors I'm hearing are really nasty [1]. It will only be visible in hindsight.

[1]: Can the virus kill the part of the brain responsible for determining whether or not you have enough oxygen in your blood, and then also kill your lungs, so that you think you're recovered and doing well and everything's fine even as your blood oxygen level sinks until you just keel over dead? Is that what the videos of people literally keeling over dead in the streets of China were? Dunno. Won't know for a while yet. But if it can do stuff like that, it could be a scar on us for the rest of our lives. Or that could be something else entirely, up to and including some intelligence agency's way of fearmongering. Heck if I know. Maybe it is ultimately just a bad cold that tends to cause pneumonia and everything else is just the Internet doing its echo-y thing. Zoonoses (diseases that jump the species barrier) have a history of that sort of thing.
It's not "he's rich". It's that he has been actively engaged with all the research programs that he's funded. Global health philanthropy has been his primary job for over a decade. When you're working with experts in the field for that long, you do learn a thing or two.

Seriously, you're picking the wrong argument here.

Now, if Gates had started talking about rainforest conservation efforts in South America (random topic), he'd have little authority. But on this specific topic, he does.
Launching 1.1.1.1 stuff on April first has been kinda their marketing strategy for the 4 x 1 factor.
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AIX was late to the game for sure, but I don't think it was quite that late.

It was more like AIX 4.3, that added the ability to run 64-bit code on a 32-bit OS. As part of that effort all the syscalls were double defined, one for older 32-bit only applications and another for 64-bit applications running on the 32-bit OS. By AIX 5, there was a native 64-bit kernel as well. Pretty sure that between those events the header files were tweaked so all newly built applications were using the 64-bit time_t calls unless a compatibility flag was defined.
Masks and fever checks only do so much. First off, you need to have masks for people to be able to wear masks. That is something we don't have right now in the US. Secondly, fever checks only go so far. There are tons of people that are asymptomatic for two weeks before having a fever. Going off of China's numbers is ignorant in itself. Why don't you take a look at https://www.nytimes.com/series/people-who-have-died-of-the-c... so you get a better sense of people in just New York city dying from this?
You spend way too much time at your job not to enjoy it.
Which makes me wonder - do states have the authority to shut down travel from other states? Airports are mostly a federal thing, aren't they?
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Huh, I wonder if they can use a measurement to adjust the refresh rate based on turbulence. I think they did this for the space shuttle experiencing vibrations to make a screen readable.
i wouldn’t think so either but in no way is omni in the category of enterprise software.
>This way you would introduce the thought and point of view bias of the people working at Google to the results.

Correct. I would do that.

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>They also have their own bias introduced to their content.

Yes. Good.

I'm not necessarily saying they hand pick the best article for every single story. Although techmeme.com and hn do that to an extent, when they notice a better version of an article, they replace the top link with the better version.
Fatalities may not be a great measurement, either.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/coronaviru...

> And two of the hardest-hit areas in the nation — New York City and Los Angeles County — released guidance earlier this week encouraging doctors not to test patients unless they think the test will significantly change their course of treatment. That means that potentially more people in both places could be admitted to hospitals with severe respiratory symptoms and recover — or die — and not be registered as a coronavirus case.
Sorry, I'm not really aware about the situation of COVID-19 in the US, is it that serious so that there are shutdown opinions?
What is the current status in the US?

Big clusters or unprecedented outbreaks can be controlled with mass/rapid testing and selective quarantine - is the US's situation that bad to all-stop the economy?
> Some states have zero deaths,

Do all the states use the same methods to count covid-19 deaths? What is that method?

In the UK we have two different numbers.

The Public Health England number is anyone who dies in an NHS hospital who has been tested (and had a positive result) for covid-19.

The Office for National Statistics number is anyone who dies where covid-19 is mentioned on the death certificate.

> fever checks along with testing

People are infectious before fever develops, and they stay infectious after their fever ends. Some people have covid-19 but don't get fever -- they might get one of the other symptoms like anosmia or upset stomach.
> Which was the point of both the OP and the buzzfeed article that I pointed.

Sorry if my comment was clumsy. I realize that you are aware of everything I said. I didn't intend it to be novel. Trying again:

On a superficial level, there's been a lot of media coverage of the number of confirmed infections (the denominator). On a slightly more advanced level, there have been calls to pay more attention to the actual number of deaths (the numerator). These discussions properly point out that deaths (which can theoretically be counted) are likely to be more accurate than infection numbers (which can only be estimated).

This article (and the one you linked) are pointing out that that the number of deaths due to COVID-19 also has significant uncertainty. My comment was trying to make clear why this matters: not for you, but for others who have been paying attention mostly to the media coverage. Perhaps this 538 article makes the point better:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-freaking-har... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22746780).
I would interpret the GP as I treat any reference of such a title and Trump: As satiric. Some predecessors might have tried to fill such a title and living up to it. For Trump it is a non-goal.
To clarify "professional immaturity" does not mean personally immature/childish. It means he comes across as extremely green, new to the professional world, etc.
There are lots more examples than Wikipedia, although that's a good one. Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube are other examples where you can find adult content if you're looking for it, but if you block the whole site, you block a whole bunch of useful and in some cases educational content along with it.

Now all that being said, this is a decent enough way to at least block the obvious stuff like Pornhub. For some, that might be good enough.
It's probably a US thing. Canada has a stronger EI program so the hardship of unemployment is handled by society rather than falling solely on the hands of the employer.
Why are their values less important than yours? Isn't it just as easy to look at what you consider this rich, fulfilling life and say "poor sucker is totally a slave to our social media culture; desperate to show us how wordly and alternative they are. Why can't they just be happy with the little things in life?"

A lot easier to find joy in your work these days vs. activities and vacations too...
A blog post about your setup would be invaluable for small churches with a skeleton/volunteer AV crew. Would you be willing?
Choices have to be made. You can't save all lives and then have no economy to return to. It's a horrible choice, but it's the job of government to balance that. And yes, before you or anyone else says "what about your grandmother, your mother, father, etc", I get that. I also don't want to lose my job, my home, access to food, either.

The medical field is pushing their agenda. I don't mean that in a bad way. It's the Hippocratic oath...save all lives. If they save 100% of the population, they've done their job. They're not economists though. What people forget is that it's the job of our governmental leaders to balance on one hand the health and safety of the populace while on the other hand ensuring that there is a country left for them when they are healthy.
This is the wrong way to look at this. You are not paying $12.95 for a bound copy of papers with ink on it, nor for a printed disk with magnetized bits on it, nor the electricity that powers the servers that host the transfer of those bits. This is so obvious I didn't think it needs to be said. It's advantageous for you to think of it this way, though, right? In your way of thinking, no software should ever cost anything if delivered electronically, and no more than $3.00 if delivered on a physical medium.
Regarding the rate of testing, since the whole country is in lock down the rate of testing isn't actually that helpful. It's more about damage limitation. The UK, and most countries, are no longer in a containment phase that ship has sailed. Now it's more a case of reducing burden on the NHS. So the rate of testing only has a limited use at this point. I gives a guestimate about the total infection rate, and it is probably essential for hospitals to ensure containment of patients, but in terms of testing the general public, not that helpful.

The US might get more use out of it at the moment in the remotely located populations such as towns that currently have limited infection rates Then testing is extremely helpful postponing infection. By doing so, it bides time for stock of medical supplies to increase after the significant burden that infected cities will have in the coming months.
I live in a country going through the second week of Shutdown. This is simply stupid and irresponsible. Unlike China which had a limited regional shutdown and where the government controlled lots of everyday life; most of the other countries are running with the private sector.

A 3-4 months shutdown is going to bankrupt pretty much everyone. Those who were running thin but also those who were saving a bit. Unless you have a 1 year expenses upfront and probably own your house in your name, you are going bankrupt and will be relying on the government for help.

Next we are going to see massive disruption for pretty much everything and every consumer good. This is a good opportunity for government intervention and for government (or Big Co) to own pretty much everything.

The virus might kill 100k in the US (or millions) let's just assume that cost and prepare for a future outbreak.
The main big one for me is similar - not recording but being able to stream to multiple servers.

We can do things like run nginx with nginx-rtmp-module as a proxy, but then you have to put stunnel or something in front of it for Facebook because nginx-rtmp-module doesn't support rtmps (and development seems completely stalled).
Have you checked out https://www.deepl.com/en/translator already?
> not interested in starting a flame-war.

Me neither - my intention was to pose a neutrally-worded question, which I think I did.
As the saying goes, you can depend on Americans to do the right thing when they have exhausted every other possibility. (Not by Churchill [1].) Plus, it's not a given that it is the right thing to do, especially if there's no plan for what comes after; and there reportedly are early signs of social unrest on this side of the pond [2]. A shutdown can't last until there's a vaccine. At best it buys you time.

[1]: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/11/exhaust-alternative...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/singing-stops-...
Zoom cloud meetings does seem to be on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zoom-cloud-meetings/id54650530...

Are you talking about something else or am I misunderstanding here?
No. Where I'm from, only specific kinds of stores (groceries, pharmacies, gas stations and similar) remain open, there's a police curfew from 8pm to 5am (with ~250 euro fine), bars, cafes, hairdressers etc are completely shut down, restaurants can only do delivery, covering your face is obligatory when in public, public transport is completely shut down.

Admittedly, it is a small country (~4 million people) but we've been doing this since we had ~50 cases. If anything, people were arguing that we took drastic measures a bit too soon, but we're able to pin point individual clusters thanks to a quick response.

On a side note, one company anniversary party is responsible for about 17.5% of confirmed cases so far, so please stay the fuck home.
Telegram accelerated its demise by “refusing to disclose the bank records concerning how they have spent the $1.7 billion they raised from investors in the past two years and to answer questions about the disposition of investor funds” [1].

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-claims-telegram-refuses-s...
> Similarly, we understand (at least mammalian) brain structure well enough to identify animals like cows to probably have relatively minimal conscious lived experience, even if they have ample processing power, i.e. "intelligence".

Do you have any sources to back that up? As far as I'm aware, the 'hard problem of consciousness' is still 'hard'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
50% of corona virus carriers are asymptomatic, so fever checks are going to have a huge false negative rate.
Not sure I’m liking this turn of events. Sounds like a recipe for fragile stuff and walled gardens.

I don’t think you can safely paper over the lessons devs learn by failing.

The other thing I’ve notice is that non-devs tend to build in production. No version control no testing. Just straight into prod
Natural light flicker can help prevent detection
You're making a rhetorical question about a hypothetical scenario?

fwiw Microsoft is paying Microsoft Store employees who aren't currently working due to locations being shut down awhile back (& these locations didn't wait for the government to tell them to shut down): https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-closes-all-microsof...

I know he doesn't run things anymore, but at least I'm not creating baseless accusations
Presumably because its running a 32-bit linux kernel? That is a problem too (hit me recently too with a MD device), but the solution has been to switch to a 64-bit kernel.
Canada missed the boat by not being serious about checking travellers returning to Canada. If the fake followup questionaire that was routinely not asked was asked and had detailed questions, if an assessment of people returning was done, if airports were shutdown earlier, if returning people didn't have to wait for hours in line in close contact with thousands of others returning.. The airports are the weak links.

Now they go on tv and yell at people for not doing enough. When two weeks before they downplayed, mocked those who would dare wear masks. The majority of the initial outbreak was spent telling people they were racist for not shopping in Chinatown.
"No Advertisement and No Tracking" would be nice. Right now I keep Web Advertisment low with a manually installed anti-advertisement hosts file.
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