skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title states that parasite prevalence predicts authoritarianism, not causes it. That's not a causation hypothesis.
Murderers become less murderous once they have killed off the majority of their victims.
Well, not really. Exclusive implies "only", not "first".
> truly practical

We've not forgotten that the impetus for this thread is a 600-hp engine designed for the next Koenigsegg supercar, right?

The Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model 3 are here today and are already practical cars, and are down-right affordable compared to a Koenigsegg. If you take purchase price out of the equation, the other Tesla cars are also practical in terms of range and electricity costs.

I hope those buying a new ICE car in 2020 who could afford otherwise have taken a credible look at buying an electric car instead.
If the strategy works the UK will benefit massively.

It is like seeing an experiment playing out at a societal scale. We are all looking at it from a personal level, but successful societies have always been built on sacrifices of various kinds - their costs or others (colonization)
Is the German Health Ministry a good enough source for you?

"Contacted by Reuters, a spokeswoman for the German Health Ministry said: "We confirm the report in the Welt am Sonntag.""

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/15/coronavirus-germany-trie...
Interesting project, I'd like to see it take into account decades of ambiguous union contracts, past practices, seniority, preferences, time off requests, preferences, training and certification levels, and not to mention the various local, state and federal labor laws.

Scheduling isn't an easy problem to solve in the real world vs the lab where there are far less constraints and consequences for getting it wrong. Kronos (kronos.com) is the recognized leader in this space and even their software has a hard time keeping it all straight.
"voluntary unnecessary exposure to help others"

What's so unnecessary about making and delivering food?

That sounds like the very definition of necessity to me.
why would you work together with the US? They would steal and patent the results in the end or just claim that they invented it because they're the best country anyway and "America First".
If the US politics don't change they will be left behind by Europe and China. I know that there are also a lot of US people who don't like Trump, but those people need to step up. Why is nobody protesting? Why isn't there a big Anti-Trump movement? The whole country is either cheering or watching it happen in shock
I first heard about this from the autotldr bot on Reddit [1] which uses a similar service SMMRY [2].

The SMMRY page points out some extra NLP-related grunt work in addition to the high-level steps you list, like:

>Associate words with their grammatical counterparts. (e.g. "city" and "cities")

>Detect which periods represent the end of a sentence. (e.g "Mr." does not).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotl...

[2] https://smmry.com/about
For what it's worth, the company is kind of denying this:

> "As a consequence, the company is in contact with especially CEPI and many other organizations and authorities worldwide, however abstains from commenting on speculations and rejects allegations about offers for acquisition of the company or its technology."

https://www.curevac.com/news/curevac-focuses-on-the-developm...
> Just as carbon ash from the fireplace has the same chemical makeup as a diamond

AFAIK wood ash is predominantly mineral oxides, particularly of calcium. The carbon in the wood is the fuel that burns up and goes out the chimney as carbon dioxide. When wood burns it first boils and burns off various volatile compounds, leaving behind black charcoal coals, made predominately of carbon. This charcoal also burns, leaving behind wood ash.
Publish the emails, the phone calls, sanction us, go to the press

Agree with the rest, but sanctions don't hurt the people who actually came up with this shitty idea. It ends up hurting the normal guy on the road, who will probably not endorse the idea in the first place.
The article notes that famine also predicts authoritarianism, which is predominantly caused by things outside human control like weather and plant diseases. Even the Great Chinese Famine was started by much of the agricultural land getting no rain, though the authoritarian government's response was what led to most of the deaths.

This would say that the criseses that impact the poor are what lead to authoritarianism. You need the support of the poor to grab power for yourself, but it's hard to make supporting such a cause appealing unless death is the alternative.
IMO a better outcome might come from the odds of the entire world without the USA, rather than than solely the USA getting the vaccine and distributing as we see fit.
The US has a massive amount of standing capacity to produce vaccines. All they need is a license to produce it.

Given the threat posed by the Corona virus this is exactly what must happen.
CureVac's main investor is Dietmar Hopp. He's one of the founders of SAP and 8th richest German at the moment. He's also been known to donate large amounts of money, just recently he gifted $100 million to build a new center for heart surgery in Heidelberg.

Long story short, I would not expect him to be convinced by anything monetary at this point in his life. He's a class act and would probably be embarrassed to be helping Trump.

He's also much deserving of the success he's having with this venture here, to my understanding he kept many biotech firms alive when the going got though.
But it's also cartoon-evil, so crazily nasty that you wonder whether it can actually be true. I mean really? He wants credit for saving America from the virus? But also to make sure nobody else gets it, even though it wouldn't stop America from getting it?

It's not like you can keep a plan like that secret, either.
I'm using KaTeX as well, but there's also https://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/ (GitHub: https://github.com/brucemiller/LaTeXML)

I want to switch to LaTeXML eventual over KaTeX (via embedded JavaScript), but my blog workflow is based on Emacs Org-mode and it was much easier to replace Org's native MathJax with KaTeX.
Moving too fast and not being careful could be what gave us Covid-19. If it comes out that it was a product of SARS/MERS research then the tone of these "move fast" conversations will certainly change.
Even Russians know that there is Russia and there is Moscow. It's like two different countries. Moscow has 10% of Russia's population and 90% of wealth (probably even more). Moscow has moderate climate. This winter temperature was above 0C most of the time (though this winter was the warmest in centuries).

Though I don't believe in that parasite bullshit. The only "parasites" that cause authoritarianism are a parasitic thoughts and parasitic mindset of the population. This is a dead circle since creative people leave authoritarian countries all the time (or being killed if they try to counter the system).
It has always been like that, only usually it is not this obvious.

All advanced societies are built on the exploitation of someone else, you just did not get to see who those people were.

Note: I am not endorsing the choice - just observing.
I don't have a poor (or biased) imagination.

I imagine we'd much have better private schools, better and cheaper private toll roads, etc.
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China’s handling of this is the reason we are all in this situation. They had a chance to contain it and they chose to shut down information that would have stopped the spread. Now the Chinese government are some kind of heroes?
Mathematics professors know as much about the spread of disease as anyone else here.

The UK is taking measures. The public has been educated and told to stay at home if they show symptoms. If people were uneducated they'd be at work with a slight cough spreading it around. There's a strong social stigma in the UK to not take absence due to a cold. So this is a big deal.

At the end of the day, there's no evidence that the measures other countries are taking will work either. There is a strong argument that closing schools will impact the NHS, even though children aren't very at risk. Other countries are essentially on lockdown indefinitely right now because none of the isolated people have been exposed.
And if it doesn't work it would be catastrophic in terms of impact because the NHS will collapse fast and won't be even able to process all the other medical needs of the population for an extremely long time.
Do you have examples of where Trump isn’t that bad? And do you have them where it’s actually for sure he who is the one who makes the situation better? Not his advisors and others pushing it or him reacting to the backlash.

IE Europe flights ban not including U.K. but then including U.K. later. Based on your comment, I assume you could say that was all trump fixing to include the U.K. with no effect of others or the backlash affecting him. But maybe I’m wrong.
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Hmm this could backfire onto the US becoming the last to receive help now and in the future. While China on the other hand sends medical supplies and staff to Europe.
Do you have a reference for that? I can only find articles saying it apples to North America.
Are you sure?

> Contacted by Reuters, a spokeswoman for the German Health Ministry said: "We confirm the report in the Welt am Sonntag."

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/15/coronavirus-germany-trie...
China is run by an authoritarian extreme nationalistic government that tortures its citizen that dare to critise it. That is widely known. Europe will stay a close ally with the USA and the cooperation will resume to normality once the USA has recovered from its recent personality cult and government running on lies.
By the way, there are shops specialized in "extreme" sizes but their offerings are limited and frankly quite boring. Hurray for the free market ...
They confirmed they Trump offered them money to research in Vaccine in the US

Not that Trump wants the Vaccine "only for the US"

The truth, like with anything, is probably in the middle. In that what ever nation developed the vaccine their citizens will be the ones to get access to it first, logic dictates that if the vaccine is develop in Germany it will be distributed around Germany first, then other nations shortly there after (probably EU nations next, then the UK, then the US which could be weeks later). Most likely The American government would want that to happen in the US first.
It hurts the metrics of the people who came up with the idea, and might therefore reduce the chance they get re-elected. Plus, it adds weight to the (perceived) severity of the crime. But collateral damage is high, so it might not be the best of plans.
I don't think you understand how journalism works, or what's at stake for whistleblowers.
Unfortunately typically there is no way to directly donate funds (especially not $10, even if there are 10000 people who'd do that on a monthly basis) to some research (group) of one's choosing. Therefore the choice is whether to donate to an @home project and trust that what they do is meaningful and the donated resources are used in a responsible manner.

In that respect, the responsibility of whether to ask for and how to make good use of donations lies solely on the teams that receive the donation. Without oversight it would however be foolish of them to be overly critical on their own shortcomings as there is a great benefit to having these cheap FLOPS (and good PR) that F@H brings.

I was about to suggest that it would be great to set up a merit-based funding scheme somewhat akin to the governamental funding agencies, but one run independently by the "council of the people". I'm however uncertain how effective could such an organization be at awarding the funding in a responsible and effective manner.
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Crazy thought: maybe we all should start mass-production of the top 10 most promising Covid19 vaccine, before any are proved safe and effective.
>This is a US Federal government-scale public utility problem space.

No. The free market voted that they don't care about long term availability as long as they get cheap supply right now.

You reap what you sow.
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> which I've only seen stated as

Government started talking about herd immunity as a strategy, and there's video of Boris saying this.

They've stopped saying it, and they've changed their comms, because it's such an unpalatable message and they were getting (still are getting) considerable push-back from the public.
Not only that, but it blindsided European leaders. You'd think one would want to communicate an incoming travel ban to our allies before announcing it on live television...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2020/03/12/many-europ...
My point is that the way it's phrased guides the mind to jump to a particular conclusion.
"unidentified German government source" plus:
- Timeline of CEO replacement just days after meeting Trump
- Everything we know about Trump administration and their "america first" philosophy.
- Everything we know about Trump himself and his xenophobia.

so yeah... I would put this in the "very probably true bin"
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Company's own official statement: https://www.curevac.com/news/curevac-focuses-on-the-developm...
I agree the current admin has made the US an uncredible ally.

That said, Trump has been the most unpopular president in US history, and there is a huge resistance movement. The president has been impeached, and according to Generic Ballot polling, more people are willing to not vote for his party each day.
> ERs in the US primarily act as triage and stabilization centers for emergencies. Treatment for chronic illness or preventative care can't reliably be found in an ER.

I get that, but how is that relevant when it comes to the coronavirus? It's not like it's a chronic condition. If you had it and were experiencing pneumonia, I doubt you'd be turned away for being undocumented.
From what I gathered from actual epidemiologists, the main issue isn't who takes the grandest of stands on this the day of reckoning, but rather, who takes what LONG-TERM action? Can you really shut down your economy, realistically, for more than a few weeks? The virus is sure to survive whatever countermeasures you put in its path.

Flattening the curve is the idea, so that health services can deal with the critically ill. That means EVERYONE HAS TO LIMIT THEIR CONTACT, as much as possible.

If you thought capitalist society was good at distributing goods, just look at what happened to hand sanitizer. Everybody needs it now, yet it has been bought up by the few that got to it.
You don't understand. One way or another this has to get done. We as a society have to make it work or we die.

If the people who run the manufacturing companies aren't doing what has to be done we as a society have to step in and do it. There's only so long we can wait for others to fix the problem when there's no food.

Money will have to take a back seat to necessities like food. This society will have to face this fact if things get bad enough.
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I have been wondering about this. If health experts are saying it's inevitable that a large portion of the population is going to be infected with the virus then why not limit isolation to those most at risk.
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The idea that Trump wants the vaccine only for the United States is completely insane. It is beyond stupid.
No, that is not normal politics. It’s sociopathic and it’s self defeating.
The policies were always abused. I've heard people boast about taking in a well-used rain jacket every five years and swapping it for a new one although most didn't do this of course. I certainly don't have the data to support this sort of thing being more common; it's just a general impression that there are fewer social norms against gaming the system to your personal advantage so long as you can get away with it.
Also, trump's anti-european sentiment is fuel on the fire for pro-federal and integrationist political forces in europe to form an ever closer union.

Also, why should germany/EU not block this sale at the national/supranational level?
I wish I knew. It seems like a state of fear overrides other behaviors. But I have no idea what a population's "normal" level of empathy is.
It would be a mistake to conflate "America" and "Americans" with the current administration, generally. There are a lot of good people doing good work that I'm sure would also collaborate and share a global solution to this problem.

Also, FWIW there is a considerable anti-Trump movement. You may remember he was recently impeached by the House of Representatives.
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Trump is a great president.
I made a simple infographic to track Covid-19's stats
> After that, it can be eaten safely even if it was contaminated with the virus when it was made. Of course, that means perishable food that won't last that long is out of the question, but other food that can last should be fine.

This makes sense, I don't disagree.

But to my limited understanding most large scale food prep & processing happens well outside of city limits. Apart from some bakeries and doughnut shops I imagine most of what I find on the shelves of common grocery stores is largely shipped in via complex distributions chains originating either a) much closer to the farms/source ingredients or b) outside the state/country entirely.

> This machinery has to be operated by somebody, and people can be trained to do it. It takes people willing and able to
do it, however.

So if things start going really bad (ie, large scale interruptions in production AND delivery) then yes, your situation starts to apply where I, a software developer, might have to trek out hundreds of miles somehow and start learning and operating food production equipment. I'm not saying I would refuse to do it -- but things would have to get incredibly bad for that to be a reality. To my knowledge there is nobody seriously predicting collapse on that level.
I'm guessing that the UK has decided this can't be practically contained, that even total shutdown will only push it back a couple of months with huge cost. As such they are just going to accept mass casualties.

See figure 4 at the bottom of this preprint from one of the UK research groups about the tactics in Wuhan:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033050v...

they appear to be modeling here that even a total shutdown for a month, or for two months, will still lead to a similar epidemic.

I think that similar thinking is driving the UK policy but that's just a guess.

I wrote a blog post trying to predict the impact of this virus on Ireland. The fatality rates look grim:

https://medium.com/@fergal.reid/predicting-the-impact-of-cor...
Tries. Lol. They ousted the US CEO without much fanfare after he met Trump, replaced him with the German founder.

The company is tied to a national research and regulatory institute (Paul Erlich) - they can nationalise it in an instant.
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What would you find in the emails, Trump saying that he prioritizes American wellbeing over everybody else? That might be harsh diplomatically, but that's going to be taken as evidence that he's living up to his promises. That's what he said he was going to do, and almost everybody outside of America disliked him from the beginning of his campaign because he was promising to be not nice to other countries.
As far as I understand, the UK's strategy is essentially steepening the curve into one huge but thin peak, in order to minimize the time countermeasures have to be in place - which is the exact opposite of what "flattening the curve" is about.
In fact the US is worse than many parts of Europe, the difference is that the US government is not testing people! In the last week, testing crawled to a near halt, while the virus is ravaging almost every state of the country.
First doesn't necessarily cause second, but second almost certainly doesn't cause first.
Why might doing this to a Chinese firm feel justified? (I understand this question doesn’t matter to Trump’s true believers.) Finding the vaccine had better to be international teamwork. China is the ground zero in this pandemic. It has a lot offer and lose. I would argue China is a big ally in this case.
They can. They could ban the trade deal of the vaccine or the IP. They could even nationalize the company, but I don't think that's very likely. The Company is already working together with a government owned health institute so it is possible that they share already some IPs
Most of Trump's shit happens and only got superseded by his next shit NOT because it wasn't true.

Do you even follow that that dump shit of human being is doing the last three years?
You’re going to be really upset then when you find out what happens to the elderly if you just wait a few years.

This stuff always involves complicated choices.

For example, would you advocate a policy of taxing all restaurant owners at a 90% marginal rate forcing most into bankruptcy to pay for a very expensive new medical treatment that only works on the elderly and extends their life just a few years?

If you proposed that do you think it would be unanimous or controversial?
Older people cannot just wall themselves off from the rest of society.

What if they live with or are cared for by other family members?

How will they get health care for existing conditions? Hospitals have been shown to be a major vector for transmission [1]. And how do they even get to the hospital if they can't drive?

What about grocery shopping over the next few months? The National Guard is stepping in to help deliver food in New Rochelle now. Can that scale to the entire nation? For how long?

What if they live in a nursing home? Look what happened in the Seattle one [2].

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2761044

[2] https://www.foxnews.com/health/washington-state-nursing-home...
So you saying I should have call options on EWU? Probably a bit premature, but could be a good gamble.
The screw up was caused by the lower level CCP trying to sweep the problem under the carpet. Once the big boys got involved it was taken seriously.

As for instantly closing the borders: if you did that everytime a new virus popped up then you'd be closing the borders twice a year.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22582962
First, these laws are generally pretty flexible. They account for cost increased during emergencies. Also, grocery costs vary anyway and so the "base" price can be higher than normal supermarket prices.

Second, labour costs are not 100% of a supermarket's costs, so a 10% increase covers a lot of extra labour. Considering the sheer volume of sales they're doing, it might actually pay for that %200-%300 wage increase... though you don't actually need it to go that high.
Describing sheer abandonment of elder care as “a complicated trade-off” is utterly disgusting.