skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That should fall into fair use.

I think there's something 100% valid in what you're suggesting, but it seems there's a fair bit of confusion here.

"Fair use" is a copyright thing, not a patent thing. I don't actually know if a widget (whether patented, patent expired, or never-patented) is covered by copyright - and even if it is, at least from what I know about copyright in music/literature, "fair use" wouldn't allow for making 100% complete working copies.

"not for profit" doesn't fly as a defence against either copyright or patent infringement in other areas, I suspect it wouldn't here either.

I'm reasonably sure if the "owner" of these valves started making noises about overly onerous enforcement of any patent/copyright that applies, and sane government would step in and declare some emergency-use legal exception for cases like this.

I wonder if the "owner" could make some obvious olive-branch offer along the lines of:

"Hey, that's our widget you're printing, but we totally understand that for the duration we were unable to get our version into your hands for reasons outside both our and your control. Normally we earn $x per widget when you source them through the usual channels, we are happy to waive that for the duration of the supply chain disruption, but ask that once things are back to normal, you continue to support the research and development that goes into those and other life saving products we make, and start buying from the usual supply chain, or paying our regular royalty on locally printed versions. Thanks, WidgetCompany"
It prevents hoarding, for one thing.

Also, in this system, things never sell out.
Covid-19 Tracker (with U.S. state breakdowns)
Which they won't see because United will be bankrupt by then.
PBKDF2 solves all of those issues, which LessPass uses. I think I understand what you're trying to say, though; it _is_ insecure to rely on the user for entropy. If the master password is weak, that consequently weakens the entropy of the generated passwords. PBKDF2 does a lot to add entropy to offset this issue. From there, you can generate passwords of any desired length using the entropy of this PBKDF2 key. And brute-forcing these generated passwords won't tell you anything about your master password.

SRP isn't a perfectly good and well-supported protocol. It was made back when all sites used HTTP, and has taken years to finally get to a revision that isn't broken. You'd just be adding unnecessary complexity for authentication, when it's completely secure to send your password over HTTPS. And if the database was compromised, the attacker can still bruteforce the password verifier to impersonate the user. Yes, it's good that they won't be able to derive the actual password, but that shouldn't be an issue if people didn't reuse passwords in the first place.

At the end of the day, you're still using encryption if authentication is involved.
I kind of agree with what you said, but not at this time. We need focus on value, but after the corona situation has passed. Right now we need to focus on not letting the whole system collapse.

We don't need to merge two different ways for the financial system to collapse.
I'll burn karma for this: Shit hacker news says.
It was reported in Italy (obviously in Italian) https://twitter.com/Paolo_Tumolo/status/1237018245552582657/...

There are other reports of hundreds of deaths that were simply not tested for the virus, whereas in Italy they've tested pretty much every death since the outbreak in February. Considering that Patient-0 was infected at the end of January, the theory that there might be some under-reporting going on is not unrealistic. Germany probably just had the capacity to deal with this "under the radar" for longer than Italy.

This is hardly unique to Germany, btw - each country has adopted different methods to test and report, it will likely take time to get some decent convergence at European level.
It is ironic that Americans are not okay with common folks hoarding and price gauging medical supplies but are okay when drug companies do the same.
Can't use case numbers in the US since we aren't testing unless you're dying of pneumonia.
YC doesn't require companies to be located in SF after a batch. It never has.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22589306
Am I? I don't think I am. I think I'm describing a system where we take a portion of the product of the labor you choose to undertake, and use it to raise the minimum standard.

You can do more labor or less labor. You can do more valuable labor or less valuable labor. You are not forced to labor, but you are required to give up a portion of what you choose to undertake.
I understand that.

I will note that the phrase “some freedom” is slippery. Really we’re talking about ceding the fundamental freedom of movement.
Another Seattle resident here... I wonder if we're only a few days away from a Hubei/Italy-style lockdown where you can't go outside except for groceries and pharmaceuticals. Is there precedent for that in American history?
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Good study, badly analysed IMHO.

If we presume the virus was still in exponential mode, then the 328 not showing symptoms could easily be those that had only just caught the virus.

Also you need to know the age distribution before trying to extrapolate rates to normal populations.

“As of February 20, tests of most of the 3,711 people aboard the Diamond Princess confirmed that 634, or 17 percent, had the virus; 328 of them did not have symptoms at the time of diagnosis. Of those with symptoms, the fatality ratio was 1.9 percent”

Edit: here’s the study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20031773v...

I think “quarantined” was not individually quarantined, but that the ship as a whole was quarantined.

ONE SURPRISING THING: high ratio of asymptomatic cases for 70+, whereas most 20-30 year olds are symptomatic: that could explain a lot about why death rates seem absurdly low for below 40 year olds - sampling error because most 20-30 show symptoms.
I’ve read the onboard HEPA filters are actually pretty effective at filtering out a typical 0.1 micron viruses.

Right now, I’d probably hold out for a plane less than 1/3rd full. First class would probably be fine, too.
I wonder if Mass Amateurization (Swype fail, tap tap tap) has furthered the obsolescence of terms like "citizen science," (the term may no longer be as special as it once was, since it happens all the time thanks to Amateurization) or made those terms more relevant (can we somehow improve on Amateurization with an eye to the strengths of existing citizen science community institutions?). Either way, one of its strengths seems to be helping science & tech when institutions may otherwise lack resources:

> There is no institutional hierarchy in mass amateurization. There is only an informal group of collaborators working to solve a problem. Due to mass amateurization, amateurs are able to collaborate without the interference from the inherent obstacles associated with institutions. These obstacles include the costs that an institution incurs while educating, training, directing, coaching, advising, and organizing its members.
Credit card companies (really, banks issuing credit) survived 2008. Pretty sure they'll be fine this time around.
I imagine their thought is that, it spread to Italy and the other big US cities at about the same time (we have just not done as much testing). And that we have not had the deaths they had.
Canlis (fine dining place, think Michelin) made a really interesting switch in order to keep the lights on. They shut down their restaurant and are starting a drive-thru burger stand, a bagel stand, and a meal delivery service, rather than lay off all their workers. I'm going to try their burgers tomorrow.
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Note that, even if true, this doesn't mean it can't destroy a country's healthcare system. At least 10% of cases appear to require hospitalization for pneumonia. No country has enough hospital beds for 10% of its population. Once you're out of beds, many people who need critical care start dying instead.
Why would there be no net value creation?

People's willingness to pay for the service suggests otherwise?
Conversation. I am definitely not recommending it.

Eating in restaurant with him is a stressful experience.
Wonder what value he can attribute to it. Possible that the tax write off exceeds his cost
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I am in a kickstarter for an injection moulded item (a photo scanning holder) which has run 18 months late because of massive systemic backlogged production issues with the injection moulds requiring repeated re-re-re-re-fabrication.

its a kickstarter, and undercapitalized but please don't over-state the "ease" with which injection moulding can work. Its true but, it has a high capital burden up-front to "get it right" which clearly, this current medical emergency demands and we should expect.

No, we can't just mint things with zero cost, injection moulding. It requires craftspeople to make the moulds.
Cases slipping under the radar, sure, I expect that's happened everywhere to varying degree. But also quite different from not reporting someone that's known to be infected "unless covid was absolutely the only health issue a patient experienced".
I mean, clearly it does not, as this guy was sitting on 17,000 bottles of the stuff.

Also, random lotteries also prevent hoarding. Same with queues with a reasonable limit on the number you can take per trip through the queue.

> Also, in this system, things never sell out.

Sure they do. If you can't afford $70 for a bottle of hand sanitizer, the product is sold out. Sold out is always a function of 'the cost of getting it to me is too high'.
Do you mind telling me why he lives this way? Does he have a particular medical condition that you know of?
SARS-CoV-2 doesn't care about monetary policy. Why not give money directly to the people who need it? They'll spend the money right away.

I'm willing to sacrifice my 401(k) and retire on just SS if need be if my government is willing to help everyone worse off than me.
There hasn’t been a single COVID fatality of someone under 20 that I know of. In the entire world.

There is not a 0.2% fatality rate in the 0-45 demographic. Even 45-55 is probably less than 0.1%.
That doesn't work for athletes. Clothes just wear out in less than a year of hard training. The only way you can go a year without buying new clothes is if you already have more than you need stored away.
> proceeds to macgyver half of kubernetes in her own opinionated way...

What, by suggesting we run a process on its own instead of wrapping it something that isn't required?
Software-controlled valves have been a holy grail for ICE for a long time, and now they're here. This is an amazing accomplishment. Unfortunately ICE are rapidly becoming obsolete.
You can get my DevOps books free the rest of this month
To the commenters here: It's price gouging and not price gauging. The article made a spelling error.
Can't wait to lose my job over this complete overreaction to this virus.
I'm taking common sense precautions.

There are parents at my kids' schools rolling their eyes and planning playdates. The local ski hill closed and people are complaining falsely "it's less lethal than the flu". There are people filling bars all over the country.

It doesn't take all that many of these people to flood the hospital ICUs - which already run pretty full in normal times - well beyond capacity.
Sometimes putting America first means being an altruistic and cooperative international citizen. PR is real.
I mean why is an epidemic a good time to use price controls? In other words, why isn't it just another "market prices allocate goods to the most effective users" situation? People who are more vulnerable are willing to pay higher prices, and high prices incentivize rapid production increases, etc.
YC has always been open to startups from anywhere. They've funded hundreds of international startups, if not more than a thousand by now, and certainly well over a thousand international founders.

YC-funded startups have never been required to stay in the US after the batch, so it's easy to answer your question. (I've not got any inside information and just found out about this by reading HN like everybody else.)
Welp, I guess my trip to Sakuracon is officially cancelled...again.
> I’ve never seen anyone doing it in the wild.

You watch people as they use Gmail? You actively ask them?

I guess if YOU haven't seen anyone do it, no one must be doing it.
I have a flight from SYD to NYC on May 2nd.

While there is no entry restrictions yet, I expect it to ramp up soon. When I come back to Australia, I'll be mandated to self-isolate for 14 days.

The Australian Government has warned to reconsider all air travel.

I'm looking to cancel this trip, however it looks like I'll only have the opportunity if reschedules this flight. Even if so, I won't get a refund for 12 months.

I'm not happy about this.
Yeah, the issue is that the long lag time between infection and hospitalization combined with short doubling times means what once we order a lockdown it could get 20x worse before it gets better.
I'm running 1440p on a 27". That works so beautifully.
As a person who majored in math, this is very readable.
It's quite simply not true that every future time slot costs more money.

Try putting those dates in Google Flights and I'm sure that your "$1000" flight is now... $700 or something.
California is already there for people over 65.
And gives you a hint for why banning 'price gouging' doesn't help either. (Despite the overall strong sentiment in favour of such silly laws in the discussion on this article. Economics can be a bit counter-intuitive for humans.)
It isn't all grim! His granddaughter is successful porn star Brandi Love.
The statement below is interesting (linked in the article) - it was posted on March 10, presumably mainly as a COVID-19 reaction. Is that acceleration surprising? Or maybe the acceleration is just for a few of the companies who most directly are impacted (or impact) COVID-19, but YC needs to take a portfolio approach?

>Over the last few days, a large number of investors have accelerated their outreach to our current batch of founders. They are moving quickly to make investment decisions, and we’re going to match their pace and accelerate our schedule by one week. YC W20 online Demo Day will now be on March 16.
At this point, I doubt anywhere is safe.
still waiting ...
its a really nice read but i am somewhat sad they neither know what actually happened nor why it happened at all. I hope this gets some attention from someone here that is skilled enough with this kind of things and willing to figure this out as it kinda bugs me now...
Having extra clothing beyond the minimum allows me to put off doing laundry (or going to the dry cleaner). It's a significant time saver, a "life hack" if you will.
First, maybe order veterinary ventilators already existing in the US. And ask veterinary hospitals if you can use theirs.

Alibaba has a lot of listings but most are middlemen. The underlying factory may or may not be able to produce what you want.

China probably has a surplus of ventilators now. Are our countries too proud to ask?
Because the guy specifically tried to corner the onion market and the response was a re-action, not a pro-active one.
IMO the only question now is how long it takes the rest of the country to follow suite. Here in NC our governor announced the closing of all public schools on Friday, but I've heard from several friends that in my city (Raleigh) the downtown bars and restaurants were pretty much at normal capacity this weekend. I don't think the general public is going to truly take this seriously until they're told that they have to.
California Orders All Bars and Nightclubs in CA to Close, and Restaurants to 50%
heaven forbid you miss a weekend of fun so that some of our fellow humans might live
No. It is definitely not.

It's a strong recommendation without enforcement. This however could change in the coming days and weeks.

Source: https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/03/15/...
Great action, well done
As usual, these announcements never come with any promise or a plan of economic relief (or at least reference to plans already made) for businesses force closed, creating more panic. I don't understand why it's so hard to just say: "We will take care of the businesses affected by this policy and more details are forthcoming."

Shutting them down is the right move. Taking care of small businessowners running on thin margins - like mom/pop restaurants - is also the right move.

EDIT: Unless the government has no plans to help small businesses. Which is completely possible and probably even likely.
They must be making really fine burgers.
May I ask what exactly that sanitizer is and how is it different from soap and/or alcohol, which is abundant in any house? Everyone here comments about it as if it was a bottled water or an irreplaceable first aid medicine.
You’re giving me flashbacks to some software I worked on a while ago that had to use rules from three different collective agreements from nursing unions. Turns out writing business logic for rules that aren’t internally consistent is a challenge, and unlike most LOB projects I’ve worked on, the procedure can not be amended until the next round of bargaining.
Illinois announced restaurants and bars closed except for pickup/delivery effective after close of business on Monday.
Their needs force them to buy the product. If the only one who has it - because they hoarded it - is somebody offering it at an unreasonable price, then they're forced to buy it at that price.
Here are the details of Austria’s lockdown, for the curious: https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3000031/
I don't think that the EU closing their borders is at all an issue between the member states. it is seen as a reasonable precaution and, what we are really talking about is stopping tourism.
> I'm sure you could make a metal sword which has blunt edges and a soft point.

Most acting swords are safe in the cut. That's rarely a problem.

The real problem is the thrust. In order for a sword to move like a sword, it needs to be stiff.

Most fencing/acting swords have blunt/rounded tips, but that doesn't really matter if you get stabbed in the face - there's just too much force over too little surface area and some facial bones are too weak. In order to be truly safe without a fencing mask, the tip would have to be unacceptably large.
1918. It wasn't a presidential election year, but it was for House and Senate.
“Restaurants will be allowed to provide take-out and delivery services but no in-person dining will be permitted.

I live an SRO. I don't have a kitchen. I currently don't have a fridge. I have a small grill and some shelving to store stuff.

I eat a lot of takeout. I'm glad to see I can still get takeout.

But, wow. This is beginning to look pretty scary.

I was homeless for a few years. The quarantine/containment measures are turning into a really big problem for the homeless population.

I don't even know where to begin trying to talk about that. At this point, I find the whole homelessness in the US thing simply infuriating. We mostly need to solve our housing supply issue and people are wholeheartedly against that and it's just infuriating.

I will add that Little Caesar's now has a "pizza portal" where you order online, pay online and enter a code to get your pizza yourself without ever interacting with a person. I don't know how to scream this from the rooftops so everyone gets the memo, but someone should.
Thanks! I would have probably just gone with the Arcteryx but my wife really likes me in jeans...
Can't restaurants still offer takeout/delivery?
"What kind of ghoul would argue that we shouldn’t vaccinate everyone against a pandemic threatening the health of our nation? The same kind of ghoul, perhaps, who thinks that cancer treatment, or insulin, should only be available for those lucky enough to be able to pay for them."

probably the same ghouls upvoting the "price gouging is actually good" story and flagging this one, hiding their sociopathy behind shitty economics 101 scenarios and loudly advocating for the free market while the government pumps over a trillion dollars into it in an effort to keep it from imploding under its own contradictions.

america is a sham, and an exogenous shock like covid-19 is likely to lay it all bare. the only question is how we respond to the ugly truths revealed; do we acknowledge and strive to fix the issues facing the country, or do we avert our eyes and hope all this just blows over.
What if the difference is based on the fare code that the original ticket was booked under, and the rebooking ticket must be made into the same fare code?

So a lower priced fare code is available but not for the rebooking process?
The little guy that scalps hand sanitizer on eBay needs to be investigated while the corporation that scalps cancer drugs is praised.
It scares me how many Americans welcome authoritarianism the moment that something scary happens.

I remember when, following the tragedy of 9/11, the PATRIOT act was passed.

This is another shameful moment in American history.
>Attack into the now empty space, the opponent Parries "into" the attack, but their body is out of the way

I've never done any sort of theater but have done some boxing and kickboxing type stuff. Newbies will often instinctively do what you describe and need to be trained out of it. A more advanced person sparring with the newer person will suddenly stop and make no attempt to get out of the way of an attack which will still not hit them because it was aimed at empty space in front of their nose for example.
In Italian hospitals, there is traditionally a difference between Intensive Care Units ("Terapia Intensiva") and Reanimation ("Rianimazione") departments. Don't ask me what the difference is. A lot of what they do, however, tends to overlap, so in many places the two concepts were merged into a single department - which is basically what we'd internationally call an ICU dept.

So in this case "reanimation device" is just "a device used in ICU".
Apparently China is totally safe and everything is under control.

I do wonder though.
"I'm sorry Mr. Trump, but we're going to have to let you go."
Many of them, no.

And bars, for instance, aren’t allowed to serve their primary purpose via delivery. Or movie theaters. Or music venues. Or retail. Or....

It’s gonna be a mess, because we already know the government is going to fail to alleviate the impact.
Yeah, I'm not going to say United is some shining beacon of a company, but all I'm seeing here is that somebody representing a company that "book[s] a lot of travel" doesn't seem to understand how fare classes work. I'm not saying it's impossible that United is pulling a fast one here, but this blog post does not show sufficient evidence one way or another. If this showed up in my inbox as a bug report, I'd send it back to QA with a request for more information and reproduction steps.

(Former travel industry person who triaged way, way too many bug reports about fare differences when changing flights)
I believe it to be an undiagnosed mental issue.

He is healthy and eats well, otherwise.