skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're conflating self-determination with nationalism, and the upvotes I got would suggest that HN is generally OK with calling out foreign election interference.
If the parent isn't being ordered home yet by the government, state law says "Your child is too young to leave home alone while you work" and they shut the schools down under circumstances where you will find it nigh impossible to get daycare at all because the entire city is dealing with the same issues, this could get you fired (or charged with child neglect if you go to work and leave your child home alone).

Lots of people are amazingly callous, but some aren't. Some are reluctant to pull the trigger on a decision like that, knowing how many people will get caught in the crossfire and have their lives essentially ruined even if we magically come up with a cure for the virus tomorrow.
Self-checkout stations should help avoid any viral spread between cashiers and customers.
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You might be right, but there's no need to apologize.

Rationing by price is still better than rationing by luck or queuing or, even worse, connections; and that guy is just converting from a luck/queue based rationing to a price based one and earning some money for that service.

(Of course, some jurisdictions have misguided laws against this practice, and normal people don't like it.)
I'm not sure how to break it to you, but that's not a choice people already in the ICU have.
Would you say that to someone whose loved one died?
Nah, that’s only thousands of children a year, pretty much different situation, and also you have one small guy to punch instead of a faceless pharma lobby. /s
The crown estates are not owned by the public, they are owned by the royal family. To transfer them to public would need the government to give the royal family a massive pay out.
They’re not going anywhere. They have EWR/SFO/DEN/ORD/IAD/LAX. I wonder what could cause many of the big companies today to go under, other than their whole product being obsoleted.
Many institutions are closed (or moved online, e.g., education) for beyond 2 weeks. Some schools within the UC system are fully online through end of May.
> > He didn't just start doing this last week. '

> Yes, he did. Previously he had been reselling non-essential things that weren't in particularly high demand. Selling something that people are panicked about is new.

That was a neat switch you did there. I started to write an elaborate analogy about someone running through an in-use batting cage, but you get the idea.
Self checkout isn't universally available. There are some situations where that simply isn't an option.
Small-time individuals don’t get the same sorts of deals as major retailers.
Obviously facts are fudged here. The original itinerary is a round trip that costed 491. With the return leg change, that cost went up to $596 (roundtrip). And they are showing a one way costing 299. This is fake and the company is looking for free publicity.
I am wondering if CPAP machines that many seniors already have can be hacked to provide oxygen as well as positive air pressure. They already have a connection for an external oxygen generator but those are expensive and probably will be sold out fast. Oxygen generation is a simple process using zeolite to absorb nitrogen which is cheap, most of the complexity is in the valves and control circuitry to manage a two-cycle process where two cylinders of zeolite are alternately pressurized and exhausted. Is it possible to create a simple mechanical flip-flop valve that operates on air pressure rather than complex electronics?
For anyone out there needing some way to respond - I find that music, and especially classical music performed live, speaks something incredibly profound to the soul. It finds strength inside of you that is buried deep. Yo-yo Ma released a short song today, take a listen if you have time: https://youtu.be/rrBOkHfvNSY
Not necessarily for drawing attention to himself.

But you never try a stunt like that with anything the government might reasonably claim to be medical equipment or supplies. You just don't do it.

The best outcome you can hope for in a situation like this is the government comes and confiscates all your supply for redistribution.

The worst outcome? Ask Shkreli.

You're just begging for them to come down on you when you do stuff like this. When you're wanting to price gouge, do it with something the government will never need. Like Monopoly board games.
I think it depends a lot on how many individual people take common sense precautions themselves, instead of waiting for governments to take action. Even if there isn't a ban on large gatherings of people, if you don't have a very, very urgent reason to attend one, I would say, don't. Cancel it, or postpone it to a better time. Other common sense precautions should be easily seen.

If enough people do that, I think we'll see US case growth start to taper off in a week or so.
Police to arrest Brits with coronavirus who ignore quarantine
The events we are currently experiencing represent a large quantity of activation energy that could destabilize many metastable equilibria in our lives. I've already arranged to work remotely through the end of 2020. I see no reason to believe others won't do the same. Our offices and commutes were already obviously bad for productivity and creativity, but we were all just collectively ignoring it.
See how much Excedrin Migraine is going for on eBay now?
Two things.

A) I did not mention social distancing at all. It may be in a pool of measures needed to handle this (see other island nations who have managed that so far) but still not the topic of the comment.

- We don't know yet if there can be hard immunity yet. Probably, maybe likely at least short term, but

B) Herd immunity. It's not a strategy. It's just saying 'let's pray. The costs of just doing that are unknown but have risks based on what we know from many other virii. Risks, not certainties. Regardless

- It won't happen at 60% given the infectiousness of this pathogen. Not even close. We are at much higher vaccination rates (86%) for measles (R0=18) globally.

- It may wane after a few months

Herd immunity right now is a fancy word for The Vast Majority of people will get it.
So no statements on the epidemic, no plans to support or donate for the cause, just Silicon Valley rat race as usual?
I'm sorry, but that's blatantly false. The original itinerary is a one-way flight, not a round-trip.

I'll send the original receipt in a few minutes once I scrub all sensitive passenger information.
Chinese links didn't matter. Patient-0 in Europe was tracked to Germany in January. The most affected Italian areas do not have a particularly large official or unofficial Chinese population - but have massive economic and social links with Germany. The areas where the Chinese concentrate, like the Prato mentioned in your first source, saw no cases - they all voluntarily self-quarantined as soon as the emergency exploded in Wuhan, and kept that discipline going.

Italy simply pays the price of a very elderly and weak population, coupled with a decades-long shrinking of public healthcare. Even in Lombardia, one of the best regions for healthcare, intensive-care units in public hospitals were instructed "in peace time" to run close to capacity as much as possible, in order cut beds and save money. This is how we ended up with less than a third of the capacity of Germany, and when shit hit the fan, it wasn't enough.

(Also, Germany is kinda fudging the numbers. They don't record deaths as Covid-related unless covid was absolutely the only health issue a patient experienced. That's not how victims are recorded in most other countries.)
Urbanization has been a hot mess of disease for the last 5000 years. And our biological evolution hasn't had time to catch up.

See "Against the Grain", by James C. Scott (https://www.amazon.com/Against-Grain-History-Earliest-States...), and also "The Story of the Human Body", by Daniel E. Lieberman (https://www.amazon.com/Story-Human-Body-Evolution-Disease/dp...).

I'm seeing guidance to, over next weeks and months, increase ventilation, open windows, and socialize outdoors instead of inside. Fortunately, it's spring here in the Northern Hemisphere.

Long term, the WFH trend may only increase. Maybe light industrial work could disperse as well?

I was struck by NY Times list of the workers who face the greatest coronavirus risks (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/15/business/econ...).

Least risk? Loggers.
yep, and markets change, sometimes very quickly. if United wasn't money grubbing, they wouldn't be holding people hostage to ancient market conditions.
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Thank you for your well considered input into the conversation.
Rest of the world coronavirus cases crossed total cases from China
You are really butchering the definition of rationing there.

The word you want is distributing.
Seems like a needlessly editorialized title. (The actual title at the far end of the link is "Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet".)
Also creators of the crazy Space Cadet keyboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
> Ibuprofen, along with paracetamol, is generally considered very safe

NSAIDs are considerably more harmful than might be assumed from their availability and public perception. Over the past half decade, I've heard doctors recommending with increasing frequency against cessation of OTC NSAID use. Research available on Pubmed and NCBI seems to agree.

I'm also in a common but at-risk group for Covid-19 that should never use NSAIDs, but I think qualifications of their safety shouldn't be accepted outside of any but a very loose definition of 'generally'.
IP restrictions have gotten seriously out of hand anyway; academia and the public sector should be working on making "open" versions and know-how about basic essentials like this widely available. There's no excuse for keeping these designs under wraps like that, when for many of them the "basic" version is old enough that any patent rights on the underlying idea have long since expired.
To be honest I don't really want to criticize China here, but rather the slipshod way in which countries are being compared. Wuhan has been in lockdown for almost two months now. Italy's national quarantine is only a week old. The number of detected active infections is delayed with respect to the actual number of infections, so it takes time for the effects of a quarantine to be visible in the data. What is the point of taking two countries at different points in the curve and presenting one as a shining success story and the other as the worst-case scenario?
Amit from https://www.labnol.org/ has had a similar tool for 6 years - https://github.com/labnol/passwords
Salicylates and Pandemic Influenza Mortality, 1918–1919
I am not sure if manufacturers will be open to selling directly to someone who is not buying a large enough quantities. But even if they are, they probably won't sell them to retail arbitragers.

I cannot remember if it was from the same episode or another Planet Money episode, but I remember them talking to manufacturers who were unhappy with their products being sold online for prices much different than they intended to.

The gist of it is that, if you are for example Coca Cola, you want people to think of your products as an everyday item they can drink anytime, not a luxury to be saved for special occasions. And if you are Apple, you won't want your product to end up in the bargain bin. Pricing is part of a brand's marketing strategy and identity. People who price products way out of the range the manufacturer envisioned are detrimental to their brand image and long-term market share.
My hunch: United is only showing you fares of the same class or higher, even if a cheaper class is available
Is there any good analysis of that? I'm not saying it's not "profiteering", I just find it puzzling that nobody had undercut them on prices yet. There must be a reason, and health care is very complicated, so I'm not even trying to generate hypotheses on my own (I'm definitely not qualified for that). I have little hope that those "hearings" will actually find the root cause of the problem.

Related: see the old Martin Shkreli videos where he ruthlessly goes over the list of all drugs to find something where his company/companies can undercut the pricing of the status quo, looking for the highest margin profit potential / assumed fixed cost ratios. He is (well, was) obviously not the only one.
Yeah, I was mostly influenced by paredit, though I had looked at parinfer and a few others.

Question about your approach: what happens if the code is syntactically invalid? Dark prevents code from being syntactically invalid cause it's AST only, but for example ocamlformat just refuses to run if it can't parse the whole file.
There is obviously a way. It’s not unfortunate. It’s a deliberate choice.

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Oh nonsense....he correctly noted that a person with no medical training was trying to use fear and political motivations to get followers to do things that put them in physical danger.

That is not an opinion much less an extreme one.
https://blog.samaltman.com/funding-for-covid-19-projects
People may not realise this but we have wonderful methods to quickly mass produce plastic parts.

These pieces might take several hours to print which means one 3d printer could produce maybe 50 of these a week. If you have 10 printers you could do 500 in that week.

However, within one working week I can have injection dies machined - and with a small investment ($10k ish) I can buy an injection moulding machine and pump these parts out at a rate of 100s per hour and a cost of almost nothing.

3d printing has an extremely small window where they are useful for bulk use parts like this.
Re 1) Why would my friends loose all of their hours if their employers don't shut down? My friends are young enough that they would likely recover quickly from the virus if they got it.

Re 2) There is no way the police has the manpower to enforce a shutdown like that, even with help from the national guard. There would be riots. And where does food even come from in this hypathetical situation?
You might like gcal better as it can show holidays too.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/164555/how-to-empha...
From the CDC:

"but a broad range of 0.25%–3.0% probably should be considered."

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0320_article
Here's California Representative Devin Nunes on healthy families visiting restaurants to help local economy:

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/487666-nunes-urges-americ...
There also seem to be differences in underlying assumptions: whether humans exist to serve markets or whether markets exist only because they happen benefit humanity. And a similar question for property itself.
I really enjoyed Dave and his interviews back than. Even gave money to help his new show and wore a Rubin Report shirt around so if people asked I could point them his way.
With time though I feel the his show has turned from a long form interview with people across different spectrums, to more center-right with guests who help channel a certain point of view.
There are different strategies for vaccines so even if it acted like the flu - there are options, albeit work intensive ones. We do have flu vaccines after all, they are just not guaranteed to work

It is looking good for immunity in monkeys right now, do knock on wood. Failing that...

Get much much better at hygiene and science.

Let's hope it does not come to that but be respectful of the fact that, many times in our history as a species we have been confronted with challenges like this and it did force dramatic changes on the way we live. We are by no means exempt from such dynamics today.

We are still working through HIV and its implication. In the tropics dengue and malaria require constant vigilance and the plague certainly hit the world when their known tools and frameworks failed.

We are a resilient species, if anything we adopt to visible risks quite well once we get out of flight or fight but our lifestyle is not guaranteed and any politicians promising that reality is not real is bad news for our ability to adapt to the threats
I thought all of this was unnecessary until I met a few people who say "are not afraid" of the pandemic and continue going out to parties and reunions. The US needs to lock everything down because of people like that.
Where did the C touch you?
Only for parts amenable to 3D printing, which is limited at the current state of technology.
Mortality Rate of Covid-19 Is 0.5%, Much Lower Than CDC / WHO Claims
Either would likely run into wiretapping laws.
Except just about nowhere is like northern Italy’s situation. It’s apples to oranges. There’s so much more to it all than a Reddit Excel graphic meme.

This entire thing has become a meme and it’s mainly wrong. It’s a serious issue but these kinds of data analysis are just super wrong. They are missing all context.

Italy is an awful model. Look to cities like NYC or London for realistic worst case scenarios as they’ve had infections just as long. And they are the worst case as most places don’t have anywhere near the foreign travel or social proximity.

It will get much worse than now (it’s not even bad yet almost everywhere in terms of ICU PATIENTS). But this ridiculous idea that the Italian situation is going to replicate in most places is bad analysis.
Canada also encouraging return of residents [0]

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-travellers-abroad-...
the hallmark is readability?! really!?

Please explain to me why then you introduce a binding after you use it in array comprehensions.

[x*2 for x in range(1,10)]
This is precisely the type of situation governments should help with.
What differentiates this from MIT Scratch?
You can look around to see how realistic that fantasy is. People are notoriously bad at risk assessment and in many cases the costs are borne by other people: those healthy 25 year olds hitting the bars all weekend probably don’t have much to worry about, but that’s almost certainly not true for everyone they cross paths with during the period where they’d be contagious.

This is exacerbated by the political angle: once a huge, well-funded and entrenched propaganda system picked this up, it became inevitable that there’d be a lot of people who will take inordinate amounts of personal risk because they think doing so is somehow sticking it to liberals. The latest NBC poll showed a stark partisan divide on even basic personal safety measures:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/sixty-percen...
> COVID19 has laid bare the superiority of the Chinese model in terms of quick mass mobilization.

Uh what? Define quick - They could have shit it down in December and spared the whole world
Isn't that exactly how the west ended up in this clusterfuck. Dismissing what happened in China as scaremongering and failing to prepare for the likelihood of global spread?

Ignoring risks we cannot personally control is a human staple and we found many ways over the years do deal with that, chiefly religion - but it does not remove the risk, it just makes us feel better about it
The Federal government requires local cooperation to enforce any such orders, they operate at the pleasure of local authorities. This limitation on Federal power shows up routinely in other matters when local authorities disagree with Federal enforcement actions. Hence the reference to CBP and the Coast Guard, which do have authority to enforce such things at points of entry into the country.

There are also strong restrictions on the scope of quarantine orders that would be allowed to circumvent due process in emergencies.
Ask HN: How can I help other small businesses stay productive during COVID-19?
I'm a small business owner and can already see the stresses COVID-19 are putting on other small businesses. We've already started deferring payments 6 months for customers to make the financial strain a little easier. What else can we do to help other small businesses make it through?
There is one big reason why the supreme court wouldn't overrule a quarantine order.
I always use this tool https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3

It fills the entire device with data and then tries to read it all back. It can tell you how many bytes were successfully read, how many were corrupted and how many were written over by other writes.

Even on cards I know are real I still run the test because I have had a card that had a few bytes that got corrupted which caused loads of issues with my rpi.
Would you mind posting your itinerary? Collecting more examples here...
I use Python full time and I found this useful. Starred it for future reference.

Why does everyone find the <thing> notation confusing? <list> means its a list, and so on. I'm really surprised it's tripping people up.
I have to confess, the first time I heard about Wikipedia I was skeptical that such a thing could thrive. However this article pits institutions against the idea of “mass amateurization” when in fact I think the major reason Wikipedia has succeeded is because of institutions and process put in place to keep the community moderated and in check.

For more information listen to the excellent podcast episode of “how I built this” featuring jimmy wales. [0]

[0] https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/national-public-radio/how-i...
The article which has the word replies in it regarding the number of volunteers.
Sure, and ostensibly the United States has some sort of don't legislate morality doctrine. Just because I think he deserves to be punished doesn't mean our legal system will punish him.

I'm certainly not above public shaming especially when the guy has very publicly and unequivocally explained what he's doing.
You should google economic hardship and suicides.
No he didn't

>Gov. Mike DeWine says it’s possible Ohio schools may be closed for the rest of the academic year.

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/03/15/ohio-governor-say...
stay at home
This reminds me of how Iceland gets forgotten on most infographics and maps of Europe.
Before the Internet there was Usenet and a world-wide network network of machines connected together via UUCP, doing email and such over point-to-point dialup (modem) links. Sending mail was a matter of knowing a complete path through the network from your source machine to the recipient's destination machine (and Usenet news implemented public discussion groups over this network). If I recall correctly, you could send specially formatted email messages to the server where the RFCs lived, and an autoresponder program would read your message and email back the requested RFCs.
We've seen in examples like South Korea that it is possible to keep the virus in check by doing extensive testing, contact tracing, and temperature checks.

We don't have those available right now and are looking at disaster if we don't lock down. Our testing capacity will grow significantly and by later we can take those measures and get back closer to normal life.
Who knew? Electing badly can have bad outcomes.
"Funding [word of the day] startups". Adaptive rat race, sure.
Interesting. I have a few tickets that qualify for free rebooking. My experience was though that every future time slot costs more money. This has left me paralyzed, because I’m not sure if I should just give up on the money, or double down on the very high risk that we’re still avoiding travel for the rest of the year.
Application deadline tomorrow 8pm PT btw.

I'll apply with phone-based weather forecasting (as I always do, ha), and in the other ideas section I will add my ideas for remote work.

I wonder if there will be a surge of last-minute applications regarding new ideas adjacent to the current crisis.