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Can i create a mindmap from my notion pages?
there was no need for that, see my response 3 hours prior
Germany also has a strict Federal structure, but they managed. They called a meeting of all the state governments, together with the Federal government, and agreed on a set of procedures. Each state does things a bit differently, but they're largely on the same page now.

Why wasn't anything like this attempted in the US?
From the short term perspective of the virus no, but long term...
It would be great if it could work. I am a bit of an Electron skeptic, though. Maybe browser canvases can give decent native performance, and we could dispense with Electron.

I agree about Zoom’s failings. The existence of Facebook is living proof that privacy is a concern for only a relatively small number of folks.
This is genuis if it could be put to work.

Many possible vaccines for covid-19 are discussed in this paper [0] which is surprisingly accessible. There's a table [1] that depicts categorization of vaccine candidates and it does mention attenuated virus as a possible solution, the one in development by Codagenix and The Serum Institute of India [2] expected in the second-quarter of 2022.

2022 seems to be an eternity away, and the problems, as the paper points out, with attenuated vaccines are:

1. Requirement of a much wider phase 3 trial than other vaccine types.

2. Very time consuming to create such viral strains in the lab.

There are overwhelming advantages working in its favour, though:

1. Human vaccines using the same platform exist for other diseases.

2. Existing infrastructure can be used to ramp up trials, approvals, manufacturing, and administration.

The proposed solution by Dr. Daniel Tillett here makes sense because it turns those disadvantages on its head-- a substantial number of people might already have been infected with proven mild inflection and the strain(s) can be isolated at a much faster clip!

[0] https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(20)30120-5

[1] https://www.cell.com/action/showFullTableHTML?isHtml=true&ta...

[2] https://seruminstitute.com/news.php
That display is $1.5k ea, and comes with an NDA mostly forbidding you to even think about it, much less think about the possibility of letting the thought of permitting your mouth talk about it cross your mind.
good luck, we could have completely eliminated HIV by now but corporate profits are more important than that so the vast majority of the population who has the virus doesn't get the medication they need to not transmit it.
Bonus points if you add a webcam that face scans the person who is standing in front of them, matches the face with the numerous profiles built from people (some combination of Facebook + Twitter + GitHub would probably find most people), get their birthday and show the frontpage from when they were born.
Hmm it might be worth you checking out capacitor, I've shipped a couple of full featured fairly complex apps under 5mb that use the same codebase for iOS and android.

I steered clear of ionic and angular developing my own framework and the apps had less than 1mb of assets bundled with them.
I just discovered that there are so many of those. Here is a list supported by asciidoctor as an extension: https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoctor-diagram/

Mairmaid looks nice
I can't process the information that is coming at me
I'm a well-educated man yet I find it very difficult to process the information that is coming at me. The number of issues that hit me every day just makes me want to hide in a foxhole until it's all over like some soldier. Yet I know it will not be over. In fact, I know it will be progressively worse.

I'm educated and aware and I can't cope. How can anyone cope?
The Electron team is tracking an issue for introducing an Electron runtime that is shared between multiple apps...

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/673

I suppose one issue is that you have to either be very good with backwards compatibility or at least support having a single instance of multiple different versions of the runtime installed side-by-side (e.g. similar to .NET Core).

There is also this.. 'Exploring lighter alternatives to Electron for hosting a Blazor desktop app' [1], which builds upon 'webview' [2].

[1] https://blog.stevensanderson.com/2019/11/01/exploring-lighte...

[2] https://github.com/zserge/webview
Would MindMap be helpful here than a flowchart ? It can show the flow ... And lots of Opensource tools available.
If you seek calm, a newspaper on your wall isn’t going to deliver it.
Please forgive my hyperbole.

Elm achieves simplicity and reliability by having it's entire eco system locked down.

But it turns out the same things that make it a brilliant developer experience make it unusable in production.

I suspect I can and might use it in production but if I do I will be putting a lot of trust in one guy. No one else can really take over.
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It is probably best to contact me offline. My email details are on my website.
This isn't really correct, and the proof is that most of east asia is relaxing restrictions right now without experiencing another exponential outbreak.

Testing, tracing and quarantine of infected people does work. It requires a bunch of infrastructure that we don't have yet (and in many places still aren't building, which is beyond frustrating). It also requires that the baseline level of the outbreak be small enough that you can catch most of the cases, which thus requires the continued lockdowns until we get back to that level. But it does work.
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This is untrue--and I'm not entirely sure you followed the article. You can't do synchronous tasks like Intl's format for strings from floats as many locales use "," over ".". It is a pure function `Float -> String`. This should not have to go through the entire update cycle to handle receiving these kinds of value. Using ports adds async to this equation which means you need to write the ports, and handle and store all temporary values which tightly couples and makes a mess everything.
One last point on this. The general idea is to see HOW someone thinks. One way to do that is to have them map out and work through a problem on a whiteboard without code. I'm talking boxes and arrows. Ask a question like 'How does (for example) bittorrent work IN GENERAL?'

Have them map out the answer on a whiteboard for one person who knows how bittorrent works and can nudge them along if needed. The idea is to see how well they communicate complex ideas, not how well they have memorized the bittorrent protocol.
This is a false dichotomy. Masks or gloves as worn by ordinary people are nowhere near effective enough to mean lockdowns could end. They're very effective in clinical settings with proper ppe head to toe and procedures for taking them off outside the dirty ward, but there's no way most people can stick to those, nor keep their houses/shops clean enough.

I believe it's also well established that any measures taken to slow the spread of a new virus will always result in fewer total deaths

In the sense that they prevent a healthcare system being overwhelmed yes, in any other sense no, they are very much just a pause button for the spread of the virus, not a cure.
> Data matters, facts matter.

You're talking about a difference between a massive number of people dying, and a massive number divided by two dying, and then arguing that a massive number divided by two is not nearly as serious.

Nobody knows what the true numbers will be, but only the rough range they'll be in, so arguing over a factor of two is meaningless. These are terrifying numbers either way.

> If you don't you're just reacting to the latest panic in the news cycle as sadly far too many politicians do.

The "panic" is caused by people finally listening to what epidemiologists have been saying for months. False calm has been far more damaging on this pandemic than panic. If politicians had listened to the panic mongers earlier, the world wouldn't be in this situation.
It's pretty hard to un-mutate a deleted gene sequence. It can mutate in a novel way to somehow cause more harm, but that won't be quick.
No, I'm describing the truncated hash. Signal truncates SHA1 to 10 bytes of output.

No matter if your phone number is six digits or sixteen, Signal uses 10 bytes (80 bits) of the hash.
In the end, California and Texas are projected to not exceed ICU capacity, but the most serious outbreak first happened on the east coast and I think that made all the difference for NY, NJ, MI, etc.

It means that states on the east coast would have needed far more acute preparation than states on the west coast. The fact that there could be such a difference in timing implies that this should be handled at the federal level -- or all major cities must prepare to be ground zero, which sounds very inefficient.
Doing this stuff will take time, you can later remove sequences where the person later developed symptoms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wanamaker#Legacy
> There's still quite a lot of signal for an interviewer in someone being ready to do the extra work to achieve the goal (e.g. study for interview) vs. someone how doesn't want to invest time into studying and just wants to throw stuff together.

There's still quite a lot of signal for an interviewer in someone being ready to do the extra work to achieve the goal (e.g. write a real application) vs. someone how doesn't want to invest time into writing a real application and just wants to play with little algorithms and exercises.

Now if you smell a straw man or false dichotomy (hint: writing software instead of cramming leetcode doesn't mean you're not learning new skills; and vice versa) in this, you're on the right track.

The other thing is, what exactly is this signal? What does it tell the interviewer? They have their prejudice, so the signal tells them what they want to hear.

Maybe the actual signal is "I'm bored and desperate and don't have real skills and can't think of anything creative to do so I'll just cram leetcode until some unfortunate company thinks I'm leet and hires me. Because someone on the internet told me that's how you get a job."

This is why I'm not very keen to hand wave about "signal" if there's no way to give it an unambiguous interpretation. In these hiring discussions, I've seen so many examples of "signal" that can be interpreted any number of ways but someone thought they came up with a clever interviewing method so their interpretation of the signal must be right... right?

If it's a hazing ritual and lots of jumping through hoops, the only signal you have is that a person is willing to go through a hazing ritual and jump through hoops. Don't assume anything else. In particular, don't assume it says anything about the skills or capabilities of those who are not willing to go through it.
I've never had a LinkedIn account and don't intend to start. Where I work, there's an "our staff" page which used to have links to staff webpages, LinkedIn etc, and from the web-stats, I know that I used to get 4-5 people a month clicking on the "web page" link. About a year ago, they changed the design of the page so that it had only LinkedIn links, so I have a LinkedIn link which leads to my website. Since then not a single person has clicked that link.

People do not want to read your LinkedIn page.
It's absolutely fantastic and very timely for an new IA project of mine. Thanks so much, Gerald (Gera2ld)!
So Clay Bavor did _not_ invent that
has something changed? it used to be easy but looks like there's a per-device encryption support in new kindles.
I don't see the point of this. Nature has most certainly not established the long-term effects of this virus, seeing as it has only been spreading in humans for a short while.

Skirting the regulations is pointless, because the important thing is the intent of the regulations. If it were just a problem with the regulations, we could also just change the regulations and give the untested vaccine.

Plus, if you want to argue from a pure legal background, this approach would probably still run into trouble, as in most countries it would be highly illegal to infect people on purpose.
I guess I must be completely miscalibrated wrt. performance of newer technologies, because I'd imagine it's the opposite. In particular, I'd be surprised to get a Python+Node loop passing large amounts of data around like that to run 30+ FPS, unless everything Python-side is carefully written to do everything on C side. At the same time, I'd assume the inference/ML part is the fastest one, because, as far as I understand how NNs work, they're supposed to be blazingly fast once trained (it's just lots of parallelizable linear algebra). Is the inference part in your solution doing anything more complicated than that in real-time?
Hell, even some rich Western nations' currencies are fragile by this measure. I thought I was being smart by anticipating the coronavirus crash and selling half my global funds as an hedge. Timed it almost perfectly, a week and a half before the crash.

But it ended up being a complete wash! The funds were settled in Norwegian Crowns, which fell 30% relative to other currencies along with the stock market. And during the recent recovery, it has recoved in lockstep with the US stock markets, so the returns of my fund holdings measured in Crowns have been pegged at -5% to -10% throughout the whole crisis.

Turns out in retrospect that some big NOK-denominated bond funds investing international bonds were margin called on their currency insurance. They were therefore forced to sell a crapload of NOK bonds into the drop, in sum causing a 20-30% crash in two days.

Let's just say I did not see that coming!
Has this ever happened in humans? I haven't been able to find an example.
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I have exactly one electron app (VSCode) that I need for my regular daily work. Everything else I shut down when I don't need it. Then I look at my coworkers who have dozens of apps running at the same time and complaining that their laptop is slow, and I only shake my head…
> If not, it doesn't affect you.

I don't think I agree. Instead, I'd rephrase: "Do you ever use your web browser on this computer to go to less-than-trustworthy sites? Ones that use ad networks or load a cryptominer? Then you may not want to turn these on."

The risk for most individuals isn't that they'll be held ransom, rather their property will be abused and they'll have to repair it.
Hi! Right now I'm using it with s-2vcpu-4gb droplet and yesterday I had a meeting with 10 people without any problem. The CPU were at 26% on average, the inbound traffic at 13 Mbps and the outbound 40. Disk usage were negligible. Today I'm going to try with even smaller droplets to see how far I can push it :)

Keep in mind that the selected droplet costs around $0.030 per hour so that's $20 per month. The good part is you can tear this setup down very easily, so you can save money whenever you're not using it.
> Almost no other "white collar" profession I'm aware of will so completely and thoroughly ignore your actual proven ability, historical accomplishments, and holistic qualities, as part of the hiring process.

Perhaps that's because programmer is not a white collar profession? Those who don't manage other programmers are naturally at the bottom of the hierarchy, just like a machinist (clearly a blue collar profession, though I would certainly show proper deference to them before I even dare approach a machine).

Never mind how useful, or how skilled, people at the bottom are. They're at the bottom, and that alone probably affects how they are treated. The hiring process is just an effect of this.
Rust is also an example of a language that leans pretty heavily into "familiar C++ syntax as a marketing tool."

Although they did not cave on the Ternary Operator. About which a certain contingent (myself included) is vocally unhappy.
The site is my personal blog. I thought about writing a more technical level paper, but what I wanted to accomplish is to get this idea in front of a non-scientific audience who can think outside the box (like many of those on HN).

A standard scientific paper will sink without a trace -scientists are just too conservative to take something like this seriously. I hate to say it, but the people who will make something like this a reality are the tech billionaires of this world.
And if immunity lasts 6 to 24 months as this author suggests, there might well be no chance for a herd immunity.
> SPECTRE & friends are not a credible attack, for instance because you disable JS by default

That's... an extremely optimistic perspective on what's running on your system. Disabling JS in browser tab contexts (even if it's universal and not just "by default") is going to cover a pretty small percentage of SPECTRE et al. vectors.
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Doesn't that kind of reasoning lead you down a path towards panpsychism or panexperientialism?

Either there is a phase transition of consciousness or there is not. If there is, we have no idea where it is because we can't prove that another being has subjective experience the way we can ourselves. If there isn't, then something roughly panexperientialist follows and even, say, a gas cloud has (very occasionally and very limited) experience. But which is it?

The problem to science itself seems to be that we can't make any comparison of the "what it is like to be" sense of experience. I experience things right now. I can't tell you what it's like with the kind of certainty that is usually associated with science. I can't even tell my future self with that certainty, because memory is a sense in itself and when I recall something, I'm just experiencing something with the sense of memory.

If whatever experience is can't be "frozen", then science has nothing to work on, apart from trying to get at it from the objective side of things. But it seems like it's very easy to get sidetracked, hence the argument that Dennett just redefines consciousness as executive function and then proceeds to explain the latter in a materialist framework.
That's already baked in to human responses to suspected COVID-19 though, and a chance mutation to a less lethal strain would be unlikely to change human responses to an outbreak in a way which benefited the virus' ability to spread.
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Depends on who you ask... ;)

Kidding aside, my primary use case is reading and annotating pdf textbooks and legal documents. I used a 10.5" iPad Pro for over a year for that and, while doable, not very pleasant for my eyes after a couple of hours of reading. Upgraded to the 12.9" iPad Pro this year and my eyes felt noticeably more relaxed even after 4-5 hours of reading and working on the iPad.

Ideally, reMarkable would make an XL version that closely resembles the aspect ratio and size of a 8.5x11 paper, but I'd settle for something slightly smaller with that aspect ratio.
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Do you have any evidence that social isolation will cause more deaths than an unchecked pandemic? That makes no sense.
I have to also mention nandgame.com here. Similar idea, but all presented as an interactive, browser-based game. Start with nand gates and build up to a functioning computer. You never get to tetris, but it's great and super easy to start playing/learning. Delightful.
The whole idea of herd immunity in this context is fucking nonsense. No self-respecting epidemiologist would even bring it up this early into a pandemic.

Herd immunity is the last resort for the immunocompromised or unvaccinated, not the foundation for public health policy.
Black Death?
The BOOX MAX 2 sadly doees not expose its full native resolution through the external monitor interface which is a real shame. Worse, none of the supported resolutions are integer fractions of the native resolution so scaling artifacts are unavoidable. It doesn`t even seem possible to sacrifice some border area and use a suitably-sized subwindow of the screen (e.g. FHD 1920x1080) without scaling. (If somebody knows better, please leave a comment)
Onyx pretends there is no problem and cheerfully tells frustrated users to adjust their OS theme and font sizes, over and over again [1]. Shame on them for ruining what could have been a great and unique feature. because wouldn`t it be for this problem, the MAX2 would finally be a decent sunlight-ready external laptop screen, at least for text writing and some light coding.
Well perhaps the problem is solved in the new MAX3 device.

[1] http://bbs.onyx-international.com/t/max2-hdmi-not-useable-wr...
I don't understand anything of what you are implying nor does that link provide any information (at least to me).
I think it would be pretty easy for you to find a strain. Start licking subway poles, then see what happens! Just kidding. Stay safe. ;)
> I fully agree with everything listed in this article. One point he alluded to (by mentioning the "friendly" exclamation marks) but didn't fully address is the Elm community's bizarre and infuriating language policing.

Is this something that is unique to IT folk? I don't hear about this in other fields, but that might be because I'm not exposed to it.

Or is their something about IT / programming that just attracts these people who are so easily offended / find offence in everything?

Maybe because they are mostly young?
Those are not the only two options, you know...
I just don't think the assumption of malice is required, or particularly credible. People want to help!

Do you believe if a virus started in, I don't know, Seattle with 10's of thousands infected, that U.S. citizens, foundations and companies wouldn't be shipping in all the PPE they could get their hands on from everywhere in the world?

Would you assume they were doing this maliciously or that there was some nefarious government plot?
“You don’t get it. You aren’t the point.”
Kakistocracy at its finest, that's how.
This seems like a pretty good idea (good enough that certainly there must already be people working on it) so it seems like if you could find and contact them, maybe you could contribute to their efforts?

It just seems more practical than hail-mary posting on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22810639
As I replied on the comment above, yesterday with the selected droplet (s-2vcpu-4gb) we were able to have a meeting with 10 people without any issues.

The minimum official requirements on the page are the following (https://jitsi.org/news/new-tutorial-installing-jitsi-meet-on...) are:

- 1Gb of RAM
- 2Ghz of CPU
- 25GB of disk

An amount that s-2vcpu-4gb surpass easily. Today I would like to test it with even more people. Whenever I have more stats I'll put an update on the repository's README.

Thanks for dropping a comment :)
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I personally find whiteboarding / diagram drawing very irritating, for the same issue as most physics exercise: given a complex problem and you have to discard 95% of the problem to come up with a result that the teacher might thought.

The same with diagram drawing, 10 boxes and arrows, but missing most aspects of the architecture that actually matter. As a hiring manager I much more prefer to talk through the problem to see if the candidate can ask the right questions, thinks about NFRs, can suggest alternative solutions in light of new information.
I am not sure about the genius part, but it can be done. While a search for an attenuated virus might fail (there might not be one out there yet), it at least won’t take long or cost much to look. Let's get started.
> If you are going to create an app that does video, audio and web rtc, it would be silly not to use a battle tested browser engine that does all this already.

I think you mean "create an app that does video, audio USING web rtc".

Plenty of native desktop/mobile apps do video/audio/text without embedding a browser.