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Throw some extrinsic motivation into the mix. Intrinsic motivation is great of course, but it's fickle. Your internal emotional state changes like the wind depending on what's going on in your life, what time of day it is, your mood, and even what you've eaten.

Extrinsic motivation is usually more fixed and reliable. It's what drives much of human productivity, and is responsible for the major miracle that is billions of people waking up and going to work every day to do things they may not even enjoy.

Some common sources of extrinsic motivation include obligation to people (a boss, a partner, an audience, customers, users), social consequences (shame, embarrassment, letting others down), and monetary consequences (getting fired, losing a bet, etc.). On a more positive note, there's also encouragement from people, social rewards, and monetary rewards.
This is good, and I'm glad they're doing it.

They've clearly got involvement with existing ventilator manufacturers.

Are they talking to doctors in ITUs? Here's a recent Facebook thread from people involved in London's new hospital: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=103930280957826&st...

It shows that ventilation of covid-19 patients is not like ventilation of other patients.

I'll paste part of it here because I know some can't visit Facebook.

It's by Daniel Martin OBE, Macintosh Professor of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Lead for High Consequence Infectious Diseases.

---everything below this point is a direct quote from Daniel Martin---

Ventilation

- Early high PEEP is probably not the right strategy and may be harmful. This is not ARDS in the early phase of the illness.

- Avoid spontaneous ventilation early in ICU admission as also may be harmful.

- There is clear microvascular thrombosis happening in the pulmonary circulation, which leads to an increased dead space.

- Also some evidence of early pulmonary fibrosis reported from Italy, possibly oxygen related, possibly inflammation related.

- Not many patients have reached extubation yet in London, re-intubation seems to be common. I highlighted our experiences of airway swelling / stridor / reintubation.

- Brompton are seeing wedge infarcts in the lungs on imaging, along with pulmonary thrombosis without DVT.

- Proning is essential and should be done early. Don’t just do it once. Threshold for many centres is a PF ratio of 13, but all agreed, do it even earlier.

- Early on in the disease, the benefit of proning lasts < 4 hours when turned back to supine, as the disease progresses into a more ARDS type picture, the effect is more long lasting.

- Many centres using inhaled nitric oxide and prostacyclin with good effect. Tachyphylaxis with NO after 4-5 days.

- Generally people are using humidified circuits with HMEs.

- A very interesting thing they are doing at Georges is cohorting by phase of disease i.e. early, late, extubation / trachy. It involves more moving of patients but helps each team to focus on things more easily.

- Leak test before extubation is crucial, others are also seeing airway swelling.

- Wait longer than usual before extubating, high reintubation rates reported. Do not extubatne if inflam markers still high.

My conclusions from this are:

- Less aggressive PEEP strategy at the beginning of the disease and go straight for proning.

- Thromboembolic disease is prevalent, look for it. No one is sure about whether we should anti-coagulate everyone, this is probably too risky.

- An extubation protocol is needed immediately.

- We should consider using inhaled prostacyclin again (like we previously did) as it seems to be working early in the disease.
> EDIT: to further prove my point, you didn't respond to the part of my post where I said we clearly saw this coming in 2019. it exactly disproves your point - we DID see national lockdowns, we just didn't care.

China did not report this disease to the WHO until 31DEC.

The first containment restrictions, a quarantine of the greater Wuhan area, was not put in place until 23JAN.

Until a few weeks ago, the earliest known infection presented on 10DEC in Wuhan.

So, how the hell did "we clearly saw this coming in 2019"? Where are the "national lockdowns" you claim existed?
Yeah when I see a project like this, I think of all the wasted time that all these talented teams could save by combining forces.

At the end of the day, after who knows how much effort, this thing looks IDENTICAL to VS Code. So what was the point of all the work, apart from Not-Invented-Here? VS Code is MIT licensed. So what exactly is the concern about one company running it? Anyone can fork it and do whatever they want.
From your Wikipedia link:

"In 2005 and in preparation for a predictable pandemic influenza, the Bush administration called for the coordination of domestic production and stockpiling of protective personal equipments.[6] In 2006, the US Congress funded the integration of protective equipment to a Strategic National Stockpile: 52 million surgical masks and 104 million N95 air-filtration masks were acquired and added.[6] During the 2009 flu pandemic, 100 million masks were used, but neither the Obama administration nor the Trump administration renewed the strategic stocks."
M$ Edge will dilute the Chrome brand to the extent that corps will simply use Edge instead. Eventually Edge become the defacto 'Chrome' browser to the extent that everybody refers to Chrome as Edge.

M$ is very clever.
Really? All those people are actually being taken care of by their employers? I doubt it.

Reality lies in between I think. Most folks need some security, but don't have it?
I mean, panic attacks have no "real" cause by definition. They are your body overreacting in response to a perceived threat that isn't really there; they are a type of cognitive distortion. If a panic attack was in response to a "real" cause, it wouldn't be a panic attack, it would be a normal response to a threat.
These are sold out everwhere. I couldn't find them besides on eBay.
Mozilla is kept alive by Google funding, without Google Mozilla simply wouldn't even exist right now to be building anything. They are direct collaborators, not enemies.
Mineralogy and working my way through Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
> If these patients receive no help, they die anyway. Given the choice between almost certain death or some experimental piece of hardware - give me the experimental hardware.

???

No big deal if the ventilator:

kills more people than the disease.

contaminates workers.

gives you cancer, HIV, MRSA or paralyzes the lung requiring a transplant.

ignites and burns people alive from the inside.

makes the disease resistant to disinfectants, so contagious areas have to be closed down for decades.

sprays out the disease into the hospital ventilation system.

???
You have to know what you want to make before you can make it. Embrace this challenge.

Allow yourself to develop your ideas before attempting to code them up. Draw diagrams, take notes, think about how to implement the systems and subsystems. Do lots of research. Make prototypes to play with ideas.

If you want to make anything that is not trivial you’re going to have to spend a bunch of time on architecture and design before you get to execution. Try to see this as a gift rather than an impediment.

Best luck!
Years, decades? It really depends on a lot. But on average, 12 years. FDA can work fast, and likely will here. But even for something 'simple' it can take a while. Medical devices are really complicated and take a lot of testing. It's not like NASA or something where you're only blowing up John Glenn. We're dealing with a million dead babies/grandmothers/new brides/etc, potentially.

https://www.drugs.com/fda-approval-process.html
I understand this isn't exactly what you're asking for as it seems like you burn out on the idea before you even get to the implementation but I've found that for coding projects, keeping my code clean really helps to motivate me to stick with the project.

If I'm building something and the code gets messy I increasingly feel frustrated while working with it which turns me off from working on it - somewhat of a negative feedback loop, so when I start to feel like the code is a hassle to work with, I switch gears from writing features to refactoring the existing code-base.

This gives me a nice change of pace, lets me think a little bit differently than simply "add features", and when the refactoring is done I have a much more thorough understanding of the code I've already written and what needs still needs to be done.

It seems like a pretty simple and obvious suggestion but I can't tell you the number of times I've let a personal project become unmanageable just because I've wanted to keep adding features which at least for me leads to burnout.
Definitely a PR stunt like the "submarine". See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22794211
> Your link at SCMP says "companies must demonstrate to the Chinese customs agency that their products meet the relevant standards of the countries to which there goods are being exported."

> Isn't this also a good idea to ensure quality?

May be, but the motivation for such regulation coming out of nowhere, and subsequent closing of reasonable exceptions, is not good at all.

It effectively reduced the number of eligible exporters from thousands to single digits per province, mostly completely irrelevant to fighting the epidemic.

This was regulation was made with 100% deliberate intent to be impossible to comply in order to shut down exports, without overtly announcing that they do that.

As of now, pretty much every medical export out of China is being smuggled, and bribed through the customs.
> an arbitrary animal name specifically chosen to get a tomcat onto the O'Reilly book cover

actual LOL
May I ask, why not just use the official provider? https://github.com/hasura/ra-data-hasura
Why stick with it? My view is that the main purpose of side projects (for me anyhow) is to learn and improve my skills and to open up to new ways of approaching things. But even if your goal is to work it into a side business, I still would argue that sometimes sticking to the same side project too long can be a bad choice. I have a fried who worked on the same side project for 7 years and I think it stifled his creativity because he was always focused on the same narrow set of problems associated with his project.

I am simply suggesting it is possible to go too far in sticking to the same side project. For me I usually consider a side project has run it's course if I have learned as much as I needed to on it and then I try to move on to something completely different.
I am enjoying exploring your blog and reading old posts. Hope you and your family are well and that you will be able to return to posting on your blog soon.
This is a deliberately built political philosophy, one of the results of Karl Rove's "reality-based community" [1] idea, from over 15 years ago. Whether or not the label was actually coined by Rove is debated, but essentially this idea is that some people lived in a world that was "reality-based" and that others were not limited by reality and thus were better/stronger politicians. In practice, what this means is the Bush administration did not have to believe in and be bound by this thing called reality, they created reality when they acted.

President Trump is just continuing this idea through today. Unlike GWB and cronies, Trump and team don't even have to act to "create reality", they merely talk and reality instantly changes for their followers. It's a powerful tool and like him or hate him, his administration is using it skillfully.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-...
Link should probably be changed to the source article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-go... or a state press release if someone has a link

EDIT: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/02/politics/hhs-redistributi... seems to have some additional info too
Go back to Slashdot with your "M$" bullshit
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that your statement likely won't be well-received on news.ycombinator.com, though as a baseless claim it merits just as little attention anywhere else.
In my twenties, with no responsibilities and with some money, I thought to get a motorcycle and learn to ride it. I stopped when I looked at my room and saw the vast number of things I was already dabbling with and deep-diving. I knew that if I got a motorcycle it would consume my interest for something like five years as I had to understand how every single part worked down to the bolt.

That could be a great thing. But for me, then, I didn't want to go into suspended animation for half a decade and wake up with deep motorcycle knowledge. So I completely dropped it.
A properly worn fragrance doesn't "mask" your scent, any more than jewellery doesn't mask your appearance.

Fragrances shouldn't be so strong as to be particularly noticeable or overpowering, it's supposed to be subtle. In the same way as jewellery, it should complement your appearance.

You wouldn't really particularly notice if someone wasn't wearing jewellery or cologne, and you definitely notice when it's garish and overpowering or tacky, but properly applied it's stunning (both jewellery and fragrance).
Why do we use capacitors in parallel with DC motors?
This is likely a gross overestimation. We're at 70k worldwide deaths; turns out it's just not as bad as we were initially told.
Yeah, I recommend keeping a sketchbook/journal to write down and plan out the side-projects, then when you have more available time pick which one to start on given how feasible and interesting they are now. From my own experience I have found that if something still sounds interesting two months after writing it down then it's something worth spending time on.
But is there a difference between a statement that is excluded from the language by a non-typing rule and a statement that is excluded from the language by a typing rule? In both cases, the "natural" evaluation could work as the developer intends but some language rule prevents that program from being executed.
ADHD isn't an excuse, there is treatment.
But the question was, if Breath of the Wild is average, what are _above_ average games, in your eyes?

I could, personally, point out about half of that list that I found just... dull, compared to Zelda. But games are subjective, so I'll let you enjoy what you enjoy!
A family from NYC has a much higher risk of having COVID-19 due to being from the city where people are on top of each other than a family from the country, and the level of this risk is roughly represented by the hospital facilities available to each area.

So if people who have a high chance of being sick come to rural America, some of them will actually be sick with COVID-19 weather they know it or not and they will overwhelm the limited facilities there, not to mention possibly infect others and make the situation worse.
Yes. Because then they have the duty to explicitly rule out non-psychogenic causes (like a pinched vagus nerve, viral infections, a pulmonary oedema, etc).

Sometimes it feels just like the "panic attack" is a wild card they default to when the investigation would be too complicated and the patients looks like anxious anyway (which is probably because the patients' body is playing castanets, who would not be scared of that? But they seem to invert cause and effect).
Make something you need, so that you will actually use it yourself.
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I have experienced this my entire life.

I'm interested in so many things that I cannot focus on one thing for too long or to completion. This really sucks when people ask what I do with my time because I have nothing fully realized yet I did spend the whole time tinkering in my own way.

I overcome this a little with discipline. I just have discipline and a clear path/plan and go step by step through to completion.

I'm probably going to pick up a book or two that is mentioned in this thread.
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When you have nothing, this is something. Stick to software.
> It's not clear

I think it's 100% clear.

> Why did they make this new law that prevents 80% of the accredited companies from exporting medical supplies?

Your questions already has an answer: that was made with that exact intent.

As I wrote above, even things that should not require any medical certification as such, like medical clothing and bedding, are now being turned around at customs. And those few random companies having full certifications, are turned around at customs too!
Software development doesn’t need to be put into a singular box; it’s all of engineering, art, science. It’s also none of them.
> Until we see evidence of heart issues in patients without pneumonia complications

That's exactly what they're seeing, and why this article was written:

"An initial study found cardiac damage in as many as 1 in 5 patients, leading to heart failure and death even among those who show no signs of respiratory distress."

Unfortunately the article doesn't say what percent of people with cardiac damage did not have respiratory issues as well.
They are to be used in conjunction with distancing measures, handwashing, etc. They are not a replacement for it.

Here's one on homemade masks; they work better than nothing, not as well as surgical/N95: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24229526
I think the right place to draw the line is: speculation is fine, medical advice is not.

Of course, we can argue about what constitutes medical advice. I think there needs to be a call to be a call to action (IMO, an implicit call to action would qualify if it's strong enough).
Ask HN: Should I sue public company?
I have a situation now:

My company was acquired a couple of years ago and by contract with an acquirer they have to pay now the rest of the money.

Acquirer now saying that they don't want to pay and if you wish - you can go and sue us, but in meantime, we are a good company and we can pay you 1/3 of the money.

My lawyer told me that I have 99% of winning this case, but I will spend about 14-18 months on that case, + costs for the lawyers will huge and I'm not sure that I can afford it now.

Need a suggestion
As a Londoner I find this very difficult to believe and I think the situation is fairly similar across all of the major metropoles.

Basically everyone I know is chomping at the bit to get back to the pub and resume life as normal.

If there's an antibody test and enough people are infected, then I imagine that those that are immune will just act exactly as before and perhaps even find paranoid folk frustrating to be around.

A nonzero and significant fraction of people (I don't condone this FWIW) are still wandering around in the parks, having barbecues etc, because they simply don't want to face the idea of a life in which we are afraid of our common man - it's the essence of metropolitan life. The death of sociality is the death of London.
>releasing a system with PS4 / Xbox One level power in a portable form factor

The reason the Switch doesn't hit PS4/XBox One levels of power is because it's hard to hit that mark while staying within weight considerations, having decent battery life, and also coming in at the price points console gamers intend to pay (<$400).

It seems like they're trying to back into it by turning the consoles into in-home gaming servers and have you use your smart phones, tablets, laptops, etc. as a display that the console streams to.
Straw man. Minimum wage doesn't "force" people into unemployment. No meaningful increases in unemployment have occurred as a consequence of raising the minimum wage.
My therapist recently told me that often it's working on something that sparks (or fuels) the passion for it, not the other way around.

Sometimes you just need to decide to do something and make progress on it, not worrying about the fact that it's not what you're most interested in at this instant.
INTP here. Starting projects and having multiples at once sure seems comfortable, but, ADD does not. It is a measure of rigor that there are projects that get done. Now, there's something to be said for projects that were always "low priority" and are waiting for the right moment, but there are also ephemeral, same-day kind of projects that come from having the tools/resources available to you to scratch whatever itch you have.

IMO, OP's problem isn't that he/she can't decide which side project to do, it's that they have already decided that the side project involves coding, and they're already a good coder. Doing your job as a side project seems...boring. Pick something you don't know how to do, but wish you did. Learn CAD, use a bandsaw, 3D print a D20, or just take your bike all the way apart. This idea that every software engineer needs to treat software as their hobby is frustrating to me. Bankers, lawyers, and doctors don't do that, why should software engineers?
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Before that even, with the Game and Watch handhelds.
but (for the simply typed LC anyway) the 'mechanism of action' is just the untyped LC under beta reduction surely? I mean, the type annotations don't actually do anything when the program is run/reduced?
That's great. I hope wiper motors can take that kind of continuous actuation -- it's not really what they're designed for. I'm sure they'll stress test the hell out of it.
> What a bizarre position.

I don't see how it's bizarre to recognize what the US Constitution says.

> This distributed approach to the emergency health of nations hasn't worked out well in the current situation.

In the US at least, what hasn't worked is waiting for centralized authorities to tell people what to do, instead of just doing obvious common sense things like social distancing and wearing masks. Not to mention allowing the FDA to prevent state and local health authorities from taking obvious common sense measures to develop tests, either on their own or in cooperation with private labs, when it was clear that the FDA and CDC didn't have tests ready.

> more government control

Would be a bad idea, since the more centralized authority controls things, the worse the consequences are when the centralized authority makes a mistake.

> rethink how economic systems work

What you call the "catastrophically fragile" economic system is a product of government control. So again more government control seems like a bad idea.
I do this, but I realized a while ago that most of the time, what I want to do is learn how to do things, and not actually do them. So that's all I try to do. Because after that, it's not fun anymore.
I think if you're in a company where you feel you can't bring an issue up to someone above you, something is wrong. I would go talk to someone about it or leave the job.

My experience working with people who don't have discussions (or they only have "1" way ones) is they are bad at their job so they have to be defensive all the time.
How is COBAL not the top answer here?!?!?
> Masks aren't a large enough portion of a hospitals budget for cashflow to be a major concern.

Maybe not under normal circumstances, but these are not normal circumstances. Also, we're talking N95 masks, not ordinary surgical masks.
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