skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The precedent you are looking for is about the legal principles that limit the extent to which the government can prevent free travel, not quarantine per se. Quarantine must conform to that precedent, being one of many examples where the government may restrict travel. The No Fly List is a modern example of a government policy that violates free travel and has consistently suffered under judicial scrutiny -- it is insufficient for the government to deem someone a threat to public safety to deprive them of fundamental rights. You can no more violate rights because someone "might be a terrorist" than you can violate their rights because someone "might have COVID-19" absent strong and specific evidence. There is much more latitude to limit what people do than where they go or what they say.

Americans have a strong Constitutional right to free movement within the country. As with free speech, suspending that right for an individual requires either due process or specific imminent threat to public safety to withstand judicial scrutiny. That is the calculus. A good test would be "can the government suspend free speech" in this scenario, as similar legal constraints will apply to free travel. That the specific case involves disease quarantine doesn't matter that much, as the Constitution makes no such exception. I don't follow freedom of travel case law closely, I am only aware that loads of it exists and that it is extremely biased in favor of the individual right.

As a related point, in the US most quarantine authority resides with the States, not the Federal government. If the States don't enforce it, there is little the Federal government can do.
People are contagious the entire time.

Right now matters, this is why:

https://old.reddit.com/r/WeAreNotAsking/comments/fitsej/covi...

Basically, we have one shot at this. Max number of unidentified transmitters coupled with max number of potential infected people.

Depending on how many of us will, can isolate hard, 20 days from now the wave of sick, and weaker people hit the hospitals.

We have a 5th the beds per 1000 compared to many of our peer nations.
True, but you can extend their life by reducing washing frequency and accepting less than perfect appearance.
Yep, this all seems way too convenient for the powerful to build a moat around their holdings.
I believe we are rather talking about 2-3 months
Yeah what C programmers really want is dynamic languages
Blast it in the microwave to a certain temperature and it will be safe.

Containers are a big risk though. Be sure to handle carefully and wash your hands afterwards.
Federal Covid-19 Contract Requests Show U.S. in a Desperate Scramble to Catch Up
The next 10 days are prime. We do this right now, isolate hard, or it will look more like Italy than we would like.
Baidu engineer sentenced to 3 years in jail for using its server to mine Bitcoin
This isn’t as irrational as you make it sound- I think it has to do with how we assign blame for actions. Less blame is assigned for failure to prevent hurt than blame for acting in a way that hurts someone directly. This reflects both the practical difficulty in assessing what harm could have been prevented vs what harm was direct caused by an action, and reflects our justice system’s role as a deterrent for people harming others, and less as a tool to compel helpful behavior.

From another practical concern, we need to preserve the public perception that vaccines are low risk to them, not just that they are lower risk to society than the hypothetical alternative, before healthy people will get vaccinated.
Yes, but doesn't Instagram by natural vote (based on views) also punish ugly people?
This is true. That doesn't make it an invitation for the entire world to grill me about the specifics of my life.

Previous opinion piece by me if people really want to know what I think about how I'm allowed to mention a thing about my life and then decline to answer invasive personal questions:

https://witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com/p/a-pragmatic-appr...
There never will be an acceptable or compelling answer to these people though. They refuse to accept new information or anything that is different to the talking point they have latched on to. Its especially true for bad news, we all want climate change to be a hoax, its much more convenient to believe this than to accept reality.
Imagine you worked at Google. Imagine you were tasked with building this website as quickly as possible.
You have available internal tools designed to work with Google accounts. These tools have already been tested and validated. They have already gone through some level of security and privacy review. They have already scaled to high QPS production uses.
> It has always been the case that 1% of humanity pulls the other 99% forward. We do not need everyone to be a genius. We just need one.

This is such a ridiculous hero praising statement. It's also completely wrong.

While we love to hero worship, none of these heroes worked in isolation or without correspondence with others. Be it their teacher, peers they were having letter relationships with, their partners, their students or other people.
This is the exact point that I believe is understated. The gig economy is pure supply-and-demand. Customers are saying that they do not need a professional hotel or taxi service. The historic prestige of these services is predicated on the fact that before the internet there was no better way to connect customers and service providers. If there was a tier below Economy on planes, people would use it. This is because there will always be a portion of the population (maybe even a majority) who strictly only care about the service rendered and the outcome achieved.
That number is not what you think it is.

The case fatality rate is the number of deaths divided by the number of known cases (positive tests).

What you are looking for is the IFR (infection fatality rate) which is not known, because of the number of infections in the 10-19 population which were asymptomatic or too mild to be tested.

It’s extremely telling, for example, that 99.9% of fatalities in Italy as of two days ago were 50+. Surely that is not because no one under 50 was infected, particularly since the younger population is more likely to be congregating at bars and clubs.

I’m happy to throw away karma to call out anyone multiplying a naive CFR by a population number every time. It’s totally incorrect to do that.
This would be a very Last resort. Aside from infection risks you are going to cause barotrauma which we know worsens mortality. In mass casualty or trauma events the pt needs stabilization and ventilation but the issue is usually not lung compliance, so this is somewhat better use. In ARDS lungs are not as compliant. Imagine two patients where one has less compliant lungs and you use one ventilator, how are you going to prevent the barotrauma, maybe try to match lung compliance?

The paper you link also says this would be potentially useful in mass disaster for a limited time.
lot of US propaganda are being pushed lately online, 16pts, 1 comment, and yet 2nd top link

slow down guys, it is way too visible, same for pushing your native javascript language aka rust
You should be in government, we need you.
Bob’s Drywall Supply has net 60 for a delivery of drywall.

Constructor Bill now can’t pay. Bob’s Drywall is a creditor and is on the hook for a product he already shipped. Now Bob’s Drywall Supply can’t pay the company that provided him with Net 90 terms.

So Bob and Bill are now insolvent. And they fire their employees.

Suggesting that creditors somehow deserve “pain,” is just cruel. Creditors don’t “inflict pain” on people — they provide capital to people with a reasonable expectation of getting paid back. Of course I don’t care much about the Payday Lender/predatory lenders so much, but suggesting that creditors deserve some sort of payback is ridiculous. The vast majority of businesses rely on credit, without credit, you would have an economic collapse. And they aren’t the “least important” parties — they are the most important because they’re the ones providing the capital for businesses to operate.
Anomaly detection on timeseries data is surprisingly bad. The data tends to be bad in all the wrong ways -- seasonal, and not normally distributed.

And worse, you have no training data, so ML model you train simply learns whatever badness is allowed to persist in production as normal.
Across the top, looking for the gist, and you can "Get Involved", see "Our Team", peruse "FAQ", and delve into the "Blog".

Next, decide "If you are interested in getting tested for COVID-19, complete an online screener".

What's the audience? Some might have confusion about terms like Teams, FAQs, Blogs, and Online screeners.

From the FAQ: "Together with researchers, clinicians, engineers, designers, advocates, and volunteers like you, we're collaborating to design the next generation of healthcare tools and services."
The UK's response is irresponsible IMHO. But we'll see.
> Patient-0 in Europe was tracked to Germany in January.

At the end of January, was then promptly isolated and all the contacts informed, also afaik didn't have any history of traveling to Italy [0]. At that point, there were still direct flies going from Wuhan to Italy, as those were only stopped after the German case was discovered.

That's why the first positive hit in Italy were two Chinese tourists, on 31 January, who had been in Milan since 23 January [1].

There are 2 countries and several hundred kilometers between the Bavarian January case, and Codogno and Veneto. While those two countries between, Switzerland, and Austria, only started reporting cases late February, a month later.

So I don't really ascribe to the idea that COVID-19 came to Italy trough Germany, it probably came there by multiple channels, such is the problem with a pandemic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_G...

[1] https://www.corriere.it/cronache/20_gennaio_30/coronavirus-i...
Santa Clara and San Mateo counties? Where google has the most employees?

Not a hot county like Solano?

Hmm. Wonder why that is.
Exactly my question! Seems to me like they are pretty similar products – to the point of "clone" status, as the two editors have the same blocks in the same colors and seem to be functionally identical. The only difference I can see is that the advanced features of Snap! appear to be only slightly more accessible than those of Scratch (plus the change of "sprite" to "costume," and Gobo's growth of a horn and extra foot).
Nice! Lots of good ideas there.

What is even cooler, they have a build-your-own-experiment graphical wizard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhhJGdXypg
Ask HN:Help stop the corona virus from spreading
I'm not a doctor but I think there's multiple types of ventilation. There's invasive and non invasive ventilation.

Invasive ventilation requires a tube inserted into you and it's very unpleasant. You are often sedated while this is done.

Sedation requires monitoring and care to supply drugs, nutrition, cleaning, exercising and stretching muscles, and many more tasks.

Noninvasive ventilation is like CPAP machines. They just cover your mouth.

I don't know why you'd use one or another but there's likely a reason the sick are being sedated for covid-19
> They just say you won't get herd immunity until about 60% are infected

But even this is wrong, or at least, unsure.
Herd immunity relies on low (or zero) re-infection. It works for diseases like measles, where the risk of re-infection (after either infection or immunisation) is effectively zero.

We don't yet know if re-infection with covids-19 is possible or not.
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Federal vaccine development sites ill-suited to counter Covid-19 epidemic
Well you're talking state government vs federal government. Different departments.
62,000 in the country. Half are meant for kids and babies. Only 8900 in national stockpile. If the potential peak numbers are as bad I've seen, it sounds like they could use an extra 8900 per major metro.
Absolutely correct.

If re-infection with covids19 is possible, then herd immunity won't occur.
Anything the fed does affects large and perhaps medium sized businesses directly. A couple of percent lower interest rate on their line of credit matters fuck all for small business facing a total collapse in demand.

Same with SBA loans - how much paperwork will it take to owe a huge sum to the government with an uncertain business environment in a few months? A lot of small places will just close.

Fiscal stimulus is the only approach to keep these businesses afloat. Honestly at this point it might be better to skip the middle man and cut checks to individuals.
I am not sure how you can catch something that’s at 6 per 100,000 without giving it to an very large group of people. There are so many unusual conditions that such problems are going to look like statistical noise until your distributing something to around a million people.
Sample wordcloud can be found here: http://tusharmakkar08.github.io/wordcloud.html
Ease of deployment in employees knowing the area, existing relationships with people in the community, less likely to make mistakes. Pretty obvious why, really.
Would there be risk of contamination from other diseases that patients may have? I agree with your general expectation that risky reuse over high-probability death seems strongly preferable. One tricky moral dilemma is what to do if you have 1 clean valve, 1 dirty valve, and 2 patients.
>Even if it takes months it could be worth it.

Anything short of "days" or "weeks" is frankly worthless right now.

If we want to take action, get our local governments to nationalize/commandeer a significant number of our lab and chemical capacity to get testing capacity up to where we can afford testing people who are asymptomatic, and not just those at risk or those who may have been exposed.

The bottleneck is not people, money, or technology. It is simply the incompetence of our leadership to get their shit together and make the hard decisions that need to be made to close down our borders and businesses and redirect our national efforts to the treatment effort.

For example. Governor Newsom should command the entire UC system to get every single professor and student capable of manufacturing reagents and running tests possible while they're closed down. Every business capable of manufacturing should be directing it to making the PPE for doctors and nurses. Healthy, low risk people should be conscripted and trained in respiratory treatment. High risk people should be sequestered, and those with exposure should be quarantined.

None of this is a tech problem or a medicine problem - it's a government problem. Only none of our nations have a Churchill or FDR to drive the efforts.
People in Ohio think the virus is a liberal conspiracy.
Counties, cities, can issue bonds and go into debt. It might even be a good investment for everyone involved. They'd probably pay more than the federal government, seeing as short term treasuries are now 0%, and thus while not free to finance it would be almost free.
> I do have to say that buying clothes from amazon is a pleasure

I wish it was that simple. I tore a big hole in Columbia ski pants I got 2 years ago. I bought two replacement of the same size, but different color since the original one wasn't available. Both of them had up to 2" difference in waist or length from the original. I've sent them back. This has been my experience with many clothing items. 95% of items I try don't fit. I hate shopping for clothes!
This is shown as an example of illegal C:

struct{
char x
char y;
}a;

memset(&a, 0, sizeof(char) * 2);

But the only thing illegal about it is that there's no semicolon after 'char x'.

Writing to (theoretical) padding in this way is fine. Though, you might want to check the manual to see if this could generate a trap representation on your platform. (This won't, on any platform I'm aware of.)

Also, the sizeof operator always returns 1 for char and unsigned char (C99: 6.5.3.4), so there's no reason to do sizeof(char).
Jack Ma joins Twitter, first tweet is about mask donation to U.S.
Whataboutism doesn't help the conversation

Edit in response to commenter: Whataboutism is a Meme? It a logical failure and when used it should be dismissed since it highjacks the conversation which is about what tiktok did (which is different from what insta and friends do).
> Let's tackle recruitment. I've seen trials recruit really fast and that took a month. It's not like someone says "hey I'd like to take part in this trial" and you give them a shot of drug. You need to screen everyone who comes in. Basic labs, then make sure they don't have some other disease that will mess up the results.

You could do that time-consuming screening after they get the trial vaccine, not before. After all, I suspect it is highly unlikely that a virus vaccine would give someone a bacterial disease or a genetic disorder.

Also, before the 6 month trial is up, you're still going to have data trickling in that will give a good indication whether it's working or not.

Source: I saw the movie "Contagion" and learned that a vaccine is considered safe and effective based on one monkey not getting sick. I believe everything celebrities tell me.
Ask HN: Starting over after business failure
I'm a little burnt out after my business failed after 4 years of hard graft. I'm looking for a new online opportunity but feel as if I've run out of ideas, problems and general creativity.

I'm not sure how to start again. Any advice?
In a time of crisis, poetry can help focus our fears
Over 50 restaurants in Seattle have announced temporary or permanent closure (as of a couple days ago)
There are real reasons to distrust the safety of at least some vaccines. I did not get too much into it(it is tiresome as you are quickly in tinfoil hat territory), but what I took away is, that the procedures to check and regulate the safety of vaccines could definitely improved.
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Bay Area counties, as of 2020-03-15:

Alameda County: 15 cases
Contra Costa County: 29 cases
Marin County: 5 cases
Napa County: 0 reported cases
San Francisco County: 37 cases
San Mateo County: 32 cases, 1 death
Santa Clara County: 114 cases, 2 deaths
Solano County: 6 cases
Sonoma County: 5 cases

https://abc7news.com/health/coronavirus-updated-number-of-co...
If I was doing a kickstarter, I wouldn't go injection molding.

You can have a service bureau use a $250,000 nylon 3D printer to get small to medium-sized runs for something more affordable than making a mold.
The OP said "we just need to be smart enough to recognize when one of them is born amongst us".
I'd rather people die then risk the state grabbing power against the right to organize in groups.
Yes. I guess it's no secret that the influencer economy is dominated by people who you could call conventionally attractive or people with lifestyles that young people would want to emulate.

This is of course not news as people in entertainment have always set impossible (and rather shallow and conventional) beauty standards, but I think apps like tiktok with their engagement drive it even faster.

You see a lot of discussions these days about dating behaviour on Tinder as well as people being obsessed with height in their profiles and whatnot, and we seriously have to wonder what this interaction through apps is doing to our social life.
Neither does dismissing things with a meme.
> Why develop (a vaccine for a disease that is now non-existent?)

Unless there's somehow infinite amounts to spend on research that's not viable whatsoever and actively diverting away funding from more pressing needs.
I think you'd at least want to sterilize it. Not sure if it's the case with these things, but other devices like endoscopes have enough cracks and crevices for stuff to hide so they have to go through an acid wash instead of steam, so the plastic probably wouldn't survive. Stuff like that either has to be non-corrosive metal or disposable.
You are entitled to your opinion, but I think you misinterpreted me there. I didn’t claim that they worked in isolation or accomplished it on their own. I was simply pointing out that the work, knowledge and understanding by the very few have always benefited the many. Look at the parent comment and you will understand the context.
I first met eqn in the mid 1980s.

It was amazing that you could write pretty complex math with just a few special literals like “sup” and “sum”, and the braces. It turns out that compositionality is so strong in math that it’s most of what you need. This isn’t obvious until you try it!

Paired with a LaserWriter (vintage 1986, say), and troff, you could get almost book quality typesetting.

Later on, TeX got the details of math much better, but the basic language was the same.
Second Life, Chat Roulette?
That's a shame because you could get an essentially one-instruction program

loop:
jmp loop

CE shows this happens on opt-level=1 which is neat. Of the weird breakages this takes the case!

https://godbolt.org/z/LyERew
Even if those cards aren't fake, they definitely aren't "high quality". Memory cards that don't use SLC NANDs (maaaybe pSLC too) shouldn't be trusted for anything serious.
The Norwegian government is prohibiting anyone from staying in cabins [0] because they fear it would overwhelm the small hospitals in rural areas and becomes harder to manage medical resources.

[0] https://www.thelocal.com/20200315/norwegians-told-to-leave-c...
Everyone promises to talk about and think critically of why they believe things to be true.
amateur engineers are abundant across garages in the US. everyone is an amateur doctor, especially parents and any caregiver. and you can certainly represent yourself in court without a lawyer.

i'd even go so far as to argue law to be the least "technical" profession (in the sense of having specialized knowledge) of those options--you mainly need to know how to construct a good argument and deconstruct bad ones (most law education seems to be learning a canon of past cases and rationales so you'd be better prepared for that. and writing a lot.).