skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do it every month. Call it UBI. And fund it from land tax not taxing labour, to encourage people to do actual useful things. Like manufacturing ventilators instead of playing the stock market or the land market.
Starting on about page 14 - a sizeable majority of USA voters who claim to prefer the GOP or claim to be independent do not think this covid-19 pandemic is a big deal.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6810602-200149-NBCWS...
> Closed protocols (so it seems - didn't see evidence to the contrary).

The email itself is presumably just an email. If the company goes out of business you still have all the emails, and at the worst you're just missing how many people Liked them or whatever.
Yep, UX is gonna get some love, especially desktop GUIs. The current ones are going to get led behind the barn for the Old Yeller treatment soon.

We have generally been focusing on behind the scenes tech more than GUIs so far.
Very good answer!
Perfect is the enemy of good. If it comes down to no equipment for me, or untested alpha versions, tell me where to sign my name to indemnify the hospital against its risk.

Who said that this consent had to be uninformed?
I’m not missing that fact at all. People who are at risk should self-isolate, and we should put policies in place to assist the vulnerable population in doing so.

The most at risk population is also very unlikely to depend on a weekly paycheck.
It's not that they don't know, it's that they don't care. Hot machines go into an attention queue and some tech eventually fixes it. Meanwhile, they serve. As I commented elsewhere, I think it's an effective incentive for software to grow more sophisticated. In fleets that are promptly fixed, there may be a tendency to assume that, for example, all backends are equally suited to receive an RPC. Having a lot of ambient brokenness can be helpful, as Netflix advocates with "chaos monkey".
People under 35 who take extra risks to protect their economic interests are being negligent. This behavior will harm vulnerable populations, and also impact health system availability, hurting everyone.

We need to figure out something, fast, for these workers. The economics are terrifying and require resolve to accept that we will economically damage ourselves to protect others in our communities.
As someone who's over 35, I dont know what to make of your comment...

Are those of us over 35 somehow worthless? Should we segregate the entire population based on age until the vaccine is deployed in 18 months?
I'm not surprised, because I'm already aware the umbrella is rather larger than most people would expect. Nevertheless, it simply won't cover everything that we'd need covered from a public health perspective. So what happens here?
PSAs are meant to be broadcast to all audiences.

On a subscription service, the audience is the subscribers.

There's no requirement that I'm aware of for subscription services to offer non-subscribers any content of any sort, including PSAs.
It's nice that we have a choice, isn't it?

Those who don't want a socialized medical industry can live in the USA. Those who want it can live almost anywhere else in the world.

Choice is good. Make your choice. (seems you did, picking Switzerland?) Don't deny me my choice.
Profiteers should face hard prison time.
Glad this is getting widespread attention. Buying up all of the Monopoly: Millennial Edition board games in the state to flip on eBay for profit is one thing but buying up goods that you know will cause a panic is something else altogether. Hopefully this dissuades others going forward.
This is why nobody goes to the good place anymore.

Such a pedantic concept of ethics means nobody can do any good.
You shouldn't be downvoted for sharing facts.
The fastest way to double our capacity of high-quality ventilators during a patient surge is to externally patch extra-tubing to existing ventilators so they can handle two patients instead of just one.

This paper documents how it has been done successfully in an emergency: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fijars/a_single_ve...

Reddit thread yesterday with commentary from ventilator experts: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fijars/a_single_ve...

Summary: It's definitely feasible and works. Not as good as more full ventilators but in a shortage, probably much better than DIY vents but it requires hoses, Y-splitters, adapters, etc.

Request: Make two-for-one emergency kits that adapt to fit popular ventilator models.
This is US and Canada only, but updated frequently and seems to be based on accurate sources - https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en
> There's a billion people in India and so far the mortality and spread rates there aren't similar to other countries

That is a lack of testing, same as what keeps US numbers depressed. India is severely lacking in cohesive response to viral outbreaks, to the point they are still dealing with a Swine Flu epidemic from 2009 (https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/9-swine-flu-deaths-utt...)

> There is a theory that humid and warm places will not have these mortality rate

There is no scientific evidence to support this. The wild spread in the Middle East indicates heat may not be a factor.
> a lot of people ... at basically zero risk from this virus

This is a super dangerous myth. Death is not the only risk. Here’s what this coronavirus does to the body:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-w...

TL;DR: It’s nasty, can leave lasting damage.
There is no option B like you seem to be implying. I guarantee if we did absolutely nothing, and the hospitals predictably became overwhelmed and people were dying without any access to care, and you'd also start to see significantly more cases of younger people dying, there would be mass panic and self quarantine in any case.
Might as well call off the election then. These are unprecedented times after all.
Is this the same Symbolics that came out of the MIT AI lab? With the LISP machines?
Akin dropping bags of cocaine in ocean when customs ship approaches the drug trafficer's boat.

Won't help!
I'm not asking for apologies. I have no idea what the link you sent me says, nor what Handelsblatt is. If you're trying to prove something you're going to need to serve up something better than that.
1) Your friends are going to face that situation regardless. It's not like if we don't shut down now, things will be fine in a week or a month. We will shut things down, it's just a question of whether we do it proactively or reactively. And proactively has already passed, but we still could shut down before we're absolutely forced to.

2) Don't make it optional. If ever there was a use for the national guard, this is it. Put police and soldiers in the street. No one goes out unless it's for food or healthcare, on penalty of heavy fines and imprisonment.

Again, this isn't optional, and we will do this. Look at Italy. It's just a question of whether we do it now or in a few weeks, when our hesitation will have cost tens of thousands of lives and even more economic ruin.
I assume its a vent based on everything I've read saying that we will likely run out of those.
The original article in the Post ended hysterically with him not wanting to be known for this.

It's a pretty shitty thing to do and I'm glad the state's Attorney General started investigating him. I was not aware they were price gouging laws in some states for medical supplies during an emergency.
In an emergency situation like this one, the patent owner company wouldn't risk a huge PR loss by suing or even complaining, but when the crisis will be over they might decide to act. However, if those valves are reverse engineered, copied and given away without selling them, there would be no profit. That should fall into fair use.
I didn't mean to imply that the number was necessarily wrong. I looked around for a reference but couldn't really find anything.

The thing is, real time RT-PCR works by detecting specific viral sequences. If those are chosen properly, the FP rate should be super low in principle. However, since the test is so sensitive, even tiny contaminations could lead to FPs. Therefore, I think the FP rate in practice will mostly depend on the sample handling professionalism of the lab doing the test.

But I don't have a good intuition for what that could mean in numbers, which is why a reference would have been interesting.

Nevertheless, your point is a really generally important one when testing ... pretty much in any situation, so I don't think you should retract it.
'Nope'

That Taiwan has 'less lockdown' doesn't respond to the fact that whatever the degree of 'lockdown' whenever it is removed, the contagion will grow again, and that any level of lockdown will have bad economic repercussions.

That Taiwan is getting away with 'less severe' lockdown is not relevant because:

a) They do have a really long list of measures (more than 120 published by their Gov.) that are unsustainable in the long run and

b) It's a selective example - most other nations need more aggressive.

c) Due to the fragility from 'a' and economic downturn around the world due to 'b' a deep recession is guaranteed in Taiwan.

The point remains: there is currently no rational answer to 'how to end the lockdown' while economies go down.
"Let the young people go to work" means you now have to somehow completely isolate everyone over 60... while still providing them health care from uninfected people... while almost literally everyone else in the country is getting infected.

And even then, 3% fatalities under 60 with a 2% fatality rate means that 0.06% of those people under 60 will die. In the US, that means a minimum of (napkin math: 327 million * 85% * 0.06%) 1.66 million people, and almost certainly much more than that, because all of those under-60 severe cases are wildly overloading hospitals and so are unable to get the care they need.

All of this is the strategy that the UK is currently undertaking, which can be generously described as "completely insane" because they don't have the support system for all of those over-60 people to safely self-isolate or the hospital capacity to handle the flood of severe under-60 cases that will show up over the next month or so.
I don’t really understand your reasoning, what are your arguments as to why it would be a good idea to give the choice?
I hope you hold zero stocks and zero bonds.
Fascinating, thanks. This all makes Sister Celine's contribution less surprising. I came across her in the classic A=B "about identities in general, and hypergeometric identities in particular, with emphasis on computer methods of discovery and proof." An amazing and wonderfully-written book.

https://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SisterCelinesMethod.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celine_Fasenmyer
Yeah, sure, we would all have preferred to have responsible politicians who handled this correctly. Guess what? That ship has sailed. Most countries have "leadership" that handled this abysmally and now we have to deal with all this crap in order to flatten the curve until there are treatments and vaccines available.

My mom and dad are 73 years old and I don't give a damn about someone's tin-foil-hattery about "fighting the war on viruses 20 years from now", if I can keep them from dying. Go read some first-person accounts from people living in Italy, not just the ones about the roadblocks and forms you have to fill out, but also the ones from people who couldn't even say goodbye to their loved ones who died or the ones from HCWs about the collapse of their hospitals.

All of us who are pissed off about the lockdowns should hold on to that anger and express it fully after we have to stop worrying about our parents and grandparents being left for dead.
I'm not sure german successses are anything to do with action on the part of the government. I've been consistently surprised by the abrupt reversals in policy - with border controls or school closures going from 'out of the question' to 'tomorrow' with very little time elapsed.

I think much of Europe is a little bit like this. Germany will probably be relatively well off because German culture is fairly anti-social, Germans are typically very healthy, and the healthcare system is somewhat robust.

However, I haven't seen any sign whatsoever of a consistent or coherent response to the coronavirus. I expect whatever response eventually percolates out will be fairly rational, since german civil servants are well-paid and competent, but so far, it's been all over the place.
Sounds like a good way to incite panic and a bank run.
The US constitution gives the federal government the right to implement a quarantine and enforce it:

"If a quarantinable disease is suspected or identified, CDC may issue a federal isolation or quarantine order.

Public health authorities at the federal, state, local, and tribal levels may sometimes seek help from police or other law enforcement officers to enforce a public health order.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Coast Guard officers are authorized to help enforce federal quarantine orders.

Breaking a federal quarantine order is punishable by fines and imprisonment."

https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...
Projections range from 200,000 dead to 2.x million dead in the US alone.

I don't care what age or what pre-existing conditions those people have... that is a LOT of human death and suffering.

...not to mention the millions of survivors that will require being hooked up to a mechanical ventilator and walk away with permanent lung damage.
60% of your population will get the virus and take the ~million deaths

this implies 0.5% fatality rate. That's about an order of magnitude off.
Seems like this is a downside of single-use sterile medical parts. In most cases its much easier and safer to just grab a new single use part but in times of shortage you could sanitize and sterilize multiple use metal parts in house and get them back in use without needing to physically manufacturer more locally, which often isn't practical - even with additive manufacturing.
It creates liquidity in markets where it might not otherwise exist. Better to sell your stockpile than pointlessly build it.
eh .. there is an intent element. I think they should face fines, but prisons should be reserved if they repeat offend.
Diversity and locality are healthy. An economy made of only large companies is less resilient and more likely to stagnate. For an extreme example, look at Boeing.
This is a bizarre analysis in my opinion. It’s not all about the mortality rate, it’s also about spending in general.
Public safety exceptions to the freedom of assembly are routine and common.
Bingo. School is over for the rest of the year for everyone - globally.
The deaths aren't going to be limited to those that get infected either. As the health care system gets overwhelmed many others in critical need of lifesaving care will be unable to get it.

That's not to mention the shortages of medicines and medical equipment made in China and other vulnerable places around the world that the US relies on.
United is THE worst. I hope they go under and another airline places their hub at SFO. They treat their customers like garbage.
You're conveniently avoiding engaging with the part where "let people just go to work" means that the death rate in under-60 severe cases skyrockets because hospitals can't handle that many people needing ventilators and round-the-clock care all at once.
Sadly, all of New York has 3000 ICU beds. New York City probably only has about half of those.
Ah rasterization is another rabbit hole that I don't know much about and can't say anything without trial-and-error experimentation on the specific device :-) But first I'd recommend checking whether the image is being displayed at its natural size, pixel-for-pixel (or conversely that it is being generated to have the number of pixels at which it is going to be displayed -- both imagemagick and dvipng take a dpi option). See also some approaches at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/44486/pixel-perfect-...
You are most likely to get infected by touching your face after coming into contact. Washing hands is a more effective than closing banks, because people still have to go other places: grocery stores, etc., even if discretionary public places (bars, etc) are closed.
Linux++ (March 15, 2020)
macOS Catalina Speech to Text is broken
Unfortunately it is not non-sensical. People in this country are currently showing us that they dont have the self control to just lay low for a while and let this pass by. Look at the video going around from the bar on Broadway in Nashville from last night. People are shoulder to shoulder. This is why we are having such a hard time containing this thing, so drastic measures need to be put in place.

I feel for your friends. However, if they dont have a 3 to 6 month emergency fund that's on them. This is an emergency in every sense of the word, and they should be saving money to weather a storm like this.

And just because someone is not at risk of dying from COVID-19 doesn't mean they can't catch it and spread it around, thus possibly contributing to someone else dying. That's an incredibly naive statement for you to make.
No, profiteering disrupts liquidity in markets where it would otherwise have existed, if not for the profiteers hoarding activities.
There may be many reasons to be reluctant to close schools.

Some kids get a lot of their food from school and go hungry when school is closed.

A lot of parents are dependent on school as de facto daycare and can't afford to pay for childcare when school isn't in session.
Is this actually a patent infringement if they aren't selling the patented design? If I get some parts, maybe for my car, 3D printed and give them away is that illegal?
That only holds if all of the people suffering severe cases can get enough medical care, which becomes much less likely if hospitals get overwhelmed. That's why 'flattening the curve' is extremely important.
Hopefully you aren't buying enough burrito bucks to put yourself underwater :P Yet, if everyone buys some, that could still be enough to keep the business from going underwater.
Just a note that this document is from 2011. I know you did not claim otherwise, but I had assumed from your comment it was a document prepared in response to the current situation.
No intelligent person who knows what is going on is visiting a restaurant or a personal trainer in the next few weeks, lockdown or no. The economic damage is inevitable. The only question is the difference between thousands or millions of deaths, and that is on the backs of healthy people to willingly separate themselves from others.
Ask HN: Home treatment options for Covid-19?
It seems that we're on track to exceed medical capacity for treatment of COVID-19. I've seen alot of information on diagnosis and triage - but not much on how you actually treat it once you or a loved one have the sickness. I'd like to gather the supplies and/or remedies that might ease the course of the virus, and wonder if anyone has advice on what to get?
I know this has nothing to do with universities and the scales are very different, but it's pretty absurd that universities stockpile and hoard billions in endowments which they don't really need, when first-world governments and hospitals aren't stockpiling things like critical medical supplies and drugs (or at least don't stockpile nearly enough of it).
It is, probably, pointless to argue the economics in this case, too much emotion involved.

Also, price controls make sense in some cases. This is one of them.
A couple generations ago there were “Measles Parties” to expose kids to measles because it was not risky to children. This was before a vaccine was available, and made sense at the time to build herd immunity.

Until a vaccine is available, as someone over 35, and who has parents who are 70/72, I want as many 0-55 year olds to get COVID as soon as possible to establish herd immunity and ultimately limit the risk to the elderly population.

The 0-55 population by and large isn’t going to the ICU when they get exposed to this coronavirus. Most will report that they “don’t even know they had it”.

After they get it, the data we have shows that they won’t be able to get it again, or spread it.
Cute. Apparently he caused a bit of upset. He's is justifying himself with a mix of contrition and claims of innocence.

> Colvin apologized for purchasing all of the products Sunday, saying that he did not realize the spread of the coronavirus outbreak or the shortage of sanitary products across the country.

> ... I had no idea that these stores wouldn’t be able to get replenished.

Right.

I was wondering what law the Tennessee AG could possibly use to stop these guys. The answer is in the AG's press release (sort of):

> On Thursday, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee declared a state of emergency prompted by the spread of COVID-19, or coronavirus. The declaration triggers the state’s anti-price gouging law which prohibits vendors from charging too much during a crisis tied to a state of emergency.

> Under the law, the Attorney General’s Office can put a stop to price gouging and seek refunds for consumers. The courts may also impose civil penalties against price gougers for every violation. The law applies to all levels of the supply chain from the manufacturer to the distributor to the retailer.

https://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/news/2020/3/15/pr20-10.ht...
In the same vein, Vince Kosuga cornering the onion market in 1955.

https://www.npr.org/2015/10/22/450769853/the-great-onion-cor...
This article is very low on information. The man is accused of price gouging, and was threatened by the Tennessee AG, but the article says he purchased all his stock before a state of emergency was declared and hasn't sold any since the state of emergency was declared.

He's an Amazon seller, but it doesn't say at what price he was selling. Selling hand sanitizer during a crisis doesn't seem like gouging unless the price was exorbitant.

It may have been exorbitant as his account was suspended. But the article doesn't mention the actual asking price.
The federal government used the commerce clause to restrict a farmer from growing wheat, and won in the supreme court.
Here is a source that might be more acceptable for your palate: https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-confirms-that-donald...
That's wishful thinking by the restaurant PR industry.

"Newsom said the social isolation and bar directives were not an order, but that he’s confident they will be followed.

“We recognize that social isolation for millions of Californians is anxiety inducing ... but we need to lean in and own this moment,” he said."

In SF, it is an order for larger bars and clubs. Also for Santa Clara county.[1] Under California law, the county health officer has primary authority in this: "The county health officer may take any preventive measure that may be necessary to protect and preserve the public health from any public health hazard during any "state of war emergency," "state of emergency," or "local emergency," as defined by Section 8558 of the Government Code, within his or her jurisdiction." The Governor's direction tells county health officials to issue appropriate orders, which they are doing.[2]

[1] https://www.sccgov.org/sites/phd/DiseaseInformation/novel-co...
[2] https://www.smgov.net/departments/oem/sems/proclamations-and...
You can choose as a patient between the following Scenarios:

Scenario 1: No treatment option and you will die.

or

Scenario 2: Choose between the following options

A) No treatment and you will die, OR

B) Treatment with lower-quality QA standards (with a device that works, say, 98% of the time instead of the typical 99.9% of the time).

Most people will prefer the scenario that gives them the choice.

Note: these numbers made up purely for the hypothetical.
How is this different than the price gouging the hand sanitizer guy did?
Epidemiology multi-agent model in NetLOGO