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Ask HN: Funding for PPE Orders
I'm currently working with healthcare providers to order approved PPE directly from manufacturers in China. One of the major bottlenecks we're facing is financing the inventory purchase: the providers do not want to pay until they receive their goods.

Does anyone have suggestions for how we could obtain funding to fulfill these orders?
Why is it the United States' job to identify health problems in China? Does any other country have bureaucracies to identify public health issues in other countries? Why is the United States expected to be the police watchdog of the world, while simultaneously being critiqued for having a presence in other countries? Why is the United States expected to stand up a separate bureaucracy for public health in China while also paying for the majority of WHO funding, an org that is literally tasked with identifying major global health threats and helping countries get ready?

If the United States is now expected to have bureaucracies specific to China and other countries, one must wonder why we're expected to provide services to foreign countries while not actually having sovereignty over them.

If there's one thing the Trump administration has done right, it has been to slowly rid America of foreign entanglements. Thank goodness.
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I would think that you would have no legal fees if you lose, and the fees would be less than 2/3 of the money.

If you let them do this, they will continue to behave this way. (if you win, doesn't mean they will change)

But, how do you want to do business and carry yourself.

Another thing to consider is that if they get a letter from a lawyer, they may just pay up. I'd start there and see what happens.
Hey Causality, it's a valid concern. Most groups have been using China's reported deaths and cases as a baseline for the "shape" of the virus. We have modeled things with and without China / international data and are hoping to expose that soon.
I’m so sick of articles about unpreparedness. It’s real rich coming from the same exact media rooms that tried to make me and others feel like idiots when we saw what was going on in Hubei in January — ”it’s no big deal”. Now all of a sudden it’s supposed to have been obvious for years? Just stop with this bullshit, please.
I agree.
You pry it from my cold, dead hands.
That is more than just your intuition--with minor tweaking, it is a theorem that was taught in my Programming Language Theory course when I was in college!

The tweak is that any safe type system will preclude programs that are otherwise semantically valid. You can have a type system that catches some errors and lets others through, or you can have a type system that catches all errors but also excludes some valid formulas (or even, and most commonly, a type system that catches most errors, also prohibits some valid formulas, but nevertheless still lets other errors through), but you can't have a decidable type system that permits all semantically valid programs and excludes all erroneous programs.
Who pays the liability when the ventilator backs up and blows the patient's lung apart?
I am fortunate that I can think of ideas pretty quickly but I get overwhelmed with what tech to use. If you can just standardize on a platform you know, set your ego aside and use that. You can always iterate a working project but you can't do anything with unfinished work.

If you want to learn new, shiny tech, do small proof of concept projects and consider if they bring any value to what you've already built with what you already know.

Aside from that... you just have to do the work!

A book I've really enjoyed for my motivation across not only work and side project but also life in general is The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday: https://www.amazon.com/Obstacle-Way-Timeless-Turning-Triumph...
You use this for journaling, but I was wondering, do you think in toki pona and type out the thought, or do you have the thought and translate it as you type?

This journaling system would make a nice mobile app.
Counterpoints/thoughts:

* In the end the US has responded, to the tune of losing half the GDP and tanking the stock market. This is true skin in the game and shows that the (true or hypothetical) oligarchs have been overridden.

* The POTUS is not a dictator and was never intended to have very much power. The fact that states and their governors have taken point illustrates this is working as designed.

* Of course this has been known for years, and people have been warning about it. But, SARS and H1N1 came and went without any serious consequences so I don't blame the system too much for not taking this epidemic more seriously.
Hydroxychloroquine has been slowed by the FDA for emergency use, but there’s not much proof it does anything. The President shouldn’t push unverified pharmaceuticals on live TV, that gives people the wrong idea that there is treatment available.

There’s no plot against the president, this is just the result of someone inadequate for the role.
I think people are confusing the CDC with the Pandemic Response Team: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
Don't have any particular recommendations, but I do have a way of browsing that made me find a lot of interesting stuff.

Go to https://dl.acm.org/conferences

Click on the Conference with the subject area that interest you, like "Hypertext and Hypermedia" (https://dl.acm.org/conference/ht)

Scroll down to "Most Popular" and sort by either Downloads or Cited.

Go bananas with reading everything.
Firefox reader mode generally works well, although it's completely disabled on some sites and I never managed to figure out why.
This is one of the reasons why I never got myself to finish my master's thesis.

My advisor advised me to use synthetic data, because the work I was supposed to build upon did as well.

I insisted on real data which I generated myself and, unsurprisingly, it showed how undoable this whole thing was(using stereo audio data to localise speakers) with the suggested methods.
Why was this flagged? It's surprising to see something from NPR get flagged. I didn't see anything uncontroversial in the content.
Not a comment on the ventilator made from a wiper motor, but I have had one fail, and had to have it replaced for something like $255.

All mechanical parts will fail (the antikythera device isn't still operational, but that's a pretty long-lived device!), it's just a matter of when and why.
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Related:

> The best thing you can do to fight COVID-19 is nothing. Stop writing that paper. Don't put it on the arxiv.

> In recent days we've seen an influx in papers on the arxiv modeling the spread of COVID-19. Many of these are relatively simple papers clearly written by physicists using simple SIR models, some basic curve fitting, and even Ising models to model the spread of COVID-19.

> I'm writing to ask you, from the bottom of my heart, to cut that shit out.

> This is not an unexplained X-ray line from the galactic center. This is not the 750 GeV diphoton excess. This is not something where the first paper to correctly guess the peak number of COVID-19 cases on the arxiv gets a Nobel prize. People's lives are at stake and you're not helping.
At best, you make physicists look bad. Epidemiology, as a field, already exists. Any prediction from a physicist tinkering with equations pulled from Wikipedia is not going to be a better prediction than that of professional public health experts whose models are far more sophisticated and already validated.

> At worst, people die.

https://www.reddit.com/r/datascience/comments/fsfdn2/the_bes...
No problem. Thank you for working on this.
that would require one to keep in mind all the $PATH values and their order, which doesn't sound fun.
> "People aren't so easy to fool"
> Yes they are lol.

Interesting. Do I detect some glee in your answer? The same glee I pointed out I found disturbing?

> Your mind is already made up so you'll believe what you want.

I believe I used the words "I wonder if...".

> Not what is being said but who is saying it and in what narrative of power dynamics are they saying it.

Yikes! Here we go again with the Foucault power dynamics stuff, seeing everyone as groups of competing interests rather than individuals with opinions. Those are some dangerous ideas that can lead people to do terrible things.
I still believe that naming the sets in the paragraph I've quoted is completely superfluous in the sentence I've quoted. It just sounds more "mathy" but I'm quote sure that either it doesn't convey more useful information or it is not formal enough to be exact enough, so to me it looks it fails both ways.
There are plenty of dead young people. 1 in 500 from most data. I personally wouldn't describe that as low risk
All events are the result of a complex web of causal histories. The choice of which factors to focus on sometimes depend on the biases of the speaker.

In this case, a Darwin award seems more appropriate to me than blaming anyone for speculating based on low quality data.
What works for me is enjoying the process, not the end result, and making small incremental progress. I started blogging recently - just little pieces of code or analysis here and there - and found that a sense of making progress strongly motivates me to tackle harder problems, while sharing my progress along the way.
Don’t know why downvoted. This is true.

The only special knowledge the Pentagon might have had is that “oh, specifically the corona type of viruses is particularly nasty because of the long symptom free incubation time”[1].

But people like Bill Gates, in addition to those disease prevention orgs, were shouting about pandemic risk from the rooftops.

Could they have done more to encourage a robust countermeasure strategy? Sure. But so could tons of other orgs and they’re not special or particularly evil in this respect.

[1] I probably have the terminology wrong there and welcome corrections, but I think I have the substance right.
It's not "just" the OS, it's O365 too. Teams is a part of it.

And yeah, this is MS' attitude to privacy issues. The fact that nobody cares about that or doesn't want to write an article about it every day doesn't mean that it's less worse or somehow good. Zoom has been there for years too, just like those problems. The fact that now everybody DOES want to write an article about it is a result of the fact that it became so popular and it became so popular because it just works. Acting now as if MS is some kind of privacy heaven compared to Zoom is plainly wrong.

> The only solution that would probably work for the German standards (and is something the EU should be investing heavily in anyways) would be Linux.

This is not true. There were guidelines by the Federal Office for Information Security for Win7 that would work just like for certain versions of Office. Windows 10 is the first one where they plainly say: it's so ridden with privacy issues that it's just bad (data protection and privacy accident) and you should avoid it.
The schematic on the whiteboard had a humidifier component, fwiw.
I was in your situation a few years ago.

I “found my way out” when I created a project that I really cared about. It scratched multiple itches and I was constantly finding new ways to improve the application. It got the the point where I had to create a backlog for improvements I wanted to see.

My mind started to wander and I started thinking about my newfound organizational skills. I started the high-level design for a tool to organize my scatterbrain. Thankfully, I decided to just keep it in my backlog and continue on what I was working on.

td;dr:
1. Add projects to backlog
2. Weigh benefits of each, rank them
3. Work on #1 project
4. (Optional) Set a deadline to re-evaluate priorities
5. When new ideas pop up, add to backlog. Fill in as much detail as possible. The goal is to do a braindump and get back to what you were previously working on.
Solve a problem YOU have.
Because you said Ford, he was an anti-Semite, and his company was also part of the Nazi war machine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/n...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryfo...
Cars are about as similar to airplanes as airplanes are to washing machines.

Airplanes are exponentially more complicated than cars.
Ask HN: What would the Pandemic Response team have done differently?
We keep hearing about the pandemic response team that was dismantled, but I'm curious what they would have done differently seeing that pretty much every western country has been caught with their pants down. Seems like the only countries that handled this well (Taiwan, South Korea), did well because they had practice during H1N1 and SARS.
There are people working on it for the GBA.

https://www.retrorgb.com/gba-consolizer-an-hdmi-720p-gba-kit...
https://github.com/hasura/ra-data-hasura/issues/11
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I was looking for beginners level course that teaches development and deployment of microservices for application developer.
It's political news: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
I wish the topics here on HN would include a bit more context so it wasn't necessary to click on each link to find out what the post was about.

I love these sort of naming derivations, and it shows a certain creativity and irreverent humor found in the free software world. I wish that naming was a simpler aspect of software development -- often times it's the ultimate form of bikeshedding.
When I'm researching apps like yours, the thing I'm most curious about is the experience for my users. If you added a walkthrough showing the user experience for the top 3 most common problems people run into when importing data and how you address them in a usable way, you'd go a long way towards convincing me.

1) What happens if someone tries to upload a non-CSV file? What do you do?

2) What happens if the data is malformed or not in the right format or there are no headers at the top of the file?

3) How many steps does it take for someone to get from the uploading step to the final step? How do you make this easier?
Awesome. I've been looking for more Lean resources outside of Theorem Proving in Lean [1].

[1]: https://leanprover.github.io/theorem_proving_in_lean/
What would you want moderators to do?
The "remind" program has a pretty well-developed DSL to represent dates and recurring schedules, with backends to produce postscript/html/etc calendars.

https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/

It's available already-packaged in most mainstream distros I know of.
How to get a remote developer job?
Any tips or advice?
How the times have changed! I used to play with my grandfather but we played chess-by-mail using special chess postcards where you can write your move and the board position!
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The start button isn’t working for me. iOS.
That would be an unwise decision.
Doctors can be replaced with other doctors, but if an engineer working on the ventilator gets sick, and possibly infects the whole team, they are hard to replace, as other engineers don't have the experience and expertise that they got in the last couple of weeks (and maybe years).
Show HN: DropZap World: A falling block game with lasers. [video, beta]
You can try out the DropZap World beta via TestFlight:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/CdEXgjst [iOS13, iPadOS13, or tvOS13]

The game has over 100 levels with three modes each.

Any feedback would be appreciated!

P.S. If the TestFlight link doesn't work, try opening it in Safari.
> Does the video linked look like the result of "an all nighter and a 3D printer" to you?

As you might understand from the language used and your failure to see a 3D printer, my description is what you may describe as a hyperbole.

But still, to put it in terms you might better understand, why do you think that medical devices take years to design and develop and get to the market? There are more things to it other than the old tinfoil stories.
I wonder if the use of the 65C816 processor in the SNES (released in 1991, at least in America) also qualifies.
It's noteworthy precisely because it's relatively unusual for Nintendo.

I mean, I'm one of the ones complaining about stuff like this, but I also have a NES, SNES, GC, and their peripherals working like a charm. Meanwhile my Xbox 360 just randomly stopped working and my original Xbox died a long time ago.

I can't speak for the quality of ps4 or Xbone controllers (seems fine?), but as far as intensely-used technology goes Nintendo does vastly better than most hardware.

(I also still have a working Gameboy, which puts it alongside only a Nokia phone I have as far as durability goes. That piece of tech has SEEN things).

EDIT: I will say the joy-cons definitely aren't the best Nintendo has put out, but the problems there pale in comparison to the D-Pad issues we've had GC-on.
Turing award lecture papers.
Hospitalization rates for people aged 20-44 are in the range of 15% to 20%. You might want to read up on the experience of COVID-19 hospitalization before you decide that there's little risk from infection.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105402/covid-hospitaliz...
My pick is Jeff Dean's The Tail At Scale (2013) [1]. If you're interested in performance of web services, it's very, very well-written and describes a counterintuitive (but crucial!) phenomenon: your p99.99 latency can drive the entire user experience because of head-of-line blocking. As microservice architectures have gotten more popular, this has only become more important.

It's a fiendishly difficult problem to get around, but Dean proposes a few mechanisms. I learned a lot and think back to this paper often when designing real software.

Reading it will probably make you a better engineer.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2408776.2408794
As a public company, don't they have to disclose lawsuits like this?
It looks like a programmable version of Notion (https://www.notion.so/). Like, if you were frustrated by Notion's limitations, you could use this to build your own. As well as consume external APIs with it.
Z3 is very different from Coq and Lean. Coq and Lean are interactive theorem provers, while Z3 is a satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solver which can do things like checking whether a logical formula is satisfiable or finding a solution for a system of constraints.
True, but hot tap water doesn't always taste very good. If you've ever had seen the inside of a water heater, you will never want to consume hot water again. It's often full of rust and scale.
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It took two years for Ford to start producing B-24s, leading credence to the time-cost of retooling.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Run
I'll just say "et-sea" and stop there to avoid further arguments
I also have been learning about options. My goal has been to understand the financial sector better first and foremost, and only secondary is making some money. I am a newb whos only been going for about 6mos at this so fair warning to not listen to me at all.

1. The entire market is a big casino. The main question is what kind of risk you want to assume in your bet. Everything you do in the market is a bet/gamble. Don't fool yourself otherwise.

2. Options are a high risk avenue, but can also have some of the highest returns.

3. Learn the lingo. Traders use it so much you will be lost if you don't. (https://www.investorsunderground.com/acronyms/)

4. Start small to learn the ins and outs of your broker.

5. Understand that stocks are not a reflection of the companies actual value. They are a reflection of the markets perceived value of the company. The difference is enormous.

6. Do your own DD (due diligence). Read the docs the company has and is putting out. Do your own math. Don't rely on analysts, but you can use them as a reference.

7. Learn what IV crush is!!! (theta gang ftw)

8. Learn the most common strategies used. The wheel, put debit spread, cash covered calls, etc. Different situations and risk profiles in the moment are better suited to certain strategies.

9. See what crazy plays turned out good, and which ones bad, and seeing what strategy was used, how was the DD, etc.

10. Lastly, and less commonly talked about, never underestimate the power of powerful people's connections and interests in a company/stock. This is why I tend to focus heavily on ownership analysis and board analysis. Sometimes every normal, quant level algorithmic indicator points one way, but the connections say otherwise... and the connections almost always win out.

Bonus material: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmZHsuUt_DOzcgIcLd0Qnw
The ethanol is just there as the delivery medium, it evaporates very quickly leaving just the scent behind.
If you are 'god'-level admin on any enterprise mail server I've ever used you can read users email or even manipulate it in transit. This is intentional, all business correspondence is property of the organisation.
I assume it is because they are like all other huge international companies in that aspect so people ignore that part and focus on other parts.

i.e. Facebook does the same and is, like IKEA, hammer by it in Europe and elsewhere but Facebook also have privacy scandals while IKEA has fewer of those types of scandals.
I think the admin always has the power to see things in all tools unless it's true E2E encryption which I think is very rare in corporate environments, or even non existent?
Great read! Love Nintendo
The media is not the Pentagon and it's clear that both the Pentagon (per this report) and epidemiologists have been aware of this possibility for years.

I do not understand exactly what you're suggesting here. Is this unworthy of reporting? The implication you're making is that no such articles should come out reporting on this material, since you believe the media made mistakes. Or maybe you're just venting – understandable, but it gives the appearance that you don't believe the article.
Of course they can, why would anyone assume otherwise?
To invoke the notion of foreign entanglements in response to an epidemic, which knows no borders and can't really be contained to them, is kind of rich.

I think most people here are suggesting that we ought to, even as an isolationist state, if that is your preference, monitor and be prepared for pandemics even if they appear in other countries.
To me, kettlebells are a hipster trend.

Bw: push ups, pull ups, crunches, supermans, squats, calf-raises, planks, wallsits, HPUs or easier variations

or

Weights: bench, rows, deadlifts, squats, OHP (google 5x5), pull ups, calf raises

+

run, bike, or swim
Just something to keep in mind as minimum.
Just assume your work has full access to every system you touch and act accordingly.
If you are a Ruby programmer or interested in Ruby I maintain a list of Ruby papers, some of which are only now freely available due to this open access, at https://rubybib.org
This statement is hyperbolic nonsense:

"He single handedly dismantled the CDC when he became president[0]"

Few quotes you might have overlooked:

"repeatedly attempting to slash funding..."

" proposed a 20% cut to the CDC’s emerging and zoonotic diseases program"

Congress did not let this happen and has actually INCREASED the CDC budget.

The actual enacted program budgets for the CDC in 2016 and 2017 were both under $7.2 billion, but for 2020 the budget Congress adopted for it is nearly $7.7 billion.

"dismantle the CDC"- Please, give me a break...
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Do you have a link for the story? It sounds like a good case study.
Water from the standing hot water heater typically doesn't taste as good.
I'd love to know about when your Airtable integration will launch. Is there a place I can sign up for that?
Also likely illegal in most of the world.