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The beds aren't really anything special. "Beds" is code for capacity in an ICU ward with ICU level medical equipment and doctors/nurses trained to provide that level of care.

Any hospital bed + a ventilator is probably good enough. Sounds like the government and hospitals are putting in orders wherever they can.

But I imagine hospitals aren't going to buy slapped together untested products unless its really really bad.
Right. It also doesn't address climate change. Or gay rights, regime-change wars, or gender discrimination.

It just provides every American with increased economic freedom. It's a good thing my doctor accepts USD :)
You had to explain what “non-refundable” should be interpreted as. I think we can agree different people will have different interpretations.

I’d also expect any terms in the actual ToS defining “non-refundble” to get void in front of a judge in this specific cases if this was really pushed that far.
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To the plus side, its cheap. So, absent drug companies motivations to make cheap drugs (low) it is affordable at scale, and if it turned out to be useful e.g. early in the stage of the disease, this might be very good for wild infections. Or, maybe it points to drugs which are safer, equally cheap, and able to be made with less side effects.

(see rule one: this is not medical advice)
Yang was right in the sense that UBI is going to make more and more sense moving forward. I am still unclear how this would intersect with e.g. healthcare needs, which I believe is fundamentally an easier problem to solve for greater immediate effect.
Ok China has a supposedly communist regime but it is effectively not a communist economy.
Ask HN: Any Spatial/3D audio voice communication software?
I'm looking for something that would make it easier to socialize with friends through the internet while we're all socially distancing due to COVID-19.

Zoom and things like that are not very good for 'hanging out' with more than a few people because only 1 person can talk at a time.

I'm looking for something like VRChat or AltSpace VR but that doesn't require a powerful computer or a virtual reality headset. It would be ideal if it could run entirely in a web browser but I'm OK with something native as well if it's cross-platform and doesn't require much horsepower.

Some kind of simplistic 3d environment that we can navigate our avatars around and which has spatial audio simulation so that multiple clusters of users could form and have separate conversations in the same space with low friction would be really nice.

If the solution requires that I self-host some software on my own server that would be fine.

I know there are various video games that I could use to make this work but ideally i'd like the friction with onboarding new users to be extremely low. I also don't want the focus to be on playing a game but on talking and just chilling out.

Thanks!
Seems reasonable to me. Outside of some weird edge cases and some "technically..."s a container is just a process with its own namespace and file system, and maybe it's own IP. If we didn't have shared-filesystem, shared-namespace, shared-ports processes for historical reasons, who would be clamoring to add them? Why wouldn't you run everything in a container, container-scheduler included?
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I found a manual for one similar for the C64 in the garage, as I looked at the feature list, I thought, pretty much everything you use for Msft Word and similar - all on a 1 MB floppy right?
It's amazing what could be done back in the day, and how much money and time and disk space is used these days to do just a bit more.
'inflationary' effects are manifested elsewhere: inflated financial assets (say, stocks); inflated real estate wherever top earners live.
It’s a business relationship at the heart of it. If my business associates can’t provide the service I’ve contracted for, that doesn’t endear me to them, either.
You must be responding to the wrong person.
What does all that have to do with the story?

The hotel supposedly cancelled his 3 day reservation because they don't want him staying there at all if he might have corona virus.

The 10 day extension was just a request to add credence to the story.
What about zinc lozenges dissolved in the mouth, followed by a can or two of tonic water infused with green tea or matcha and a few drops of bay leaf essential oil.

Essential oils have been evaluated for their inhibitory activity against SARS-CoV and HSV-1 replication in vitro by visually scoring of the virus-induced cytopathogenic effect post-infection. Laurus nobilis oil exerted an interesting activity against SARS-CoV with an IC(50) value of 120 microg/ml and a selectivity index (SI) of 4.16. This oil was characterized by the presence of beta-ocimene, 1,8-cineole, alpha-pinene, and beta-pinene as the main constituents.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cbdv.200890...
But, why would we pay for the lazy poor people? /s

This current emergency only strengthens the argument for universal healthcare imo.
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I wrote it for an academic conference (https://2020.programming-conference.org/home/salon-2020) which had as its theme an essay by Ivan Illich (http://akkartik.name/illich.pdf, pdf, 67 pages)

But in the end, your BS radar is your own.
isn't it more accurate to say, rather that just a process, a process group with its own process numbering?
The blue highlighted circular structures I believe are rf inductors.
The first paragraph makes no sense that's true, but what follows is a good point. AES-GCM is much much faster than ChaCha20-Poly1305.

If:

1) your market is fragmented

2) many clients are cheap phones that don't support AES-NI

3) you can differentiate them so that you don't penalize better clients

Then yeah it makes sense to use Chacha20-Poly1305 for some of these clients.

But choosing Chacha20-Poly1305 over AES-GCM all the time doesn't, and I'm not sure why Wireguard does that (besides trying to be trendy).
I take your point, but prescriptions need to be made by doctors, and that is the main point here.

I actually have more nuanced views on this. Doctors are not gods, and there are situations where patients have better medical knowledge than the doctor on an important issue. But based on what I've seen so far (including confidently spread misinformation on HN) I strongly suspect that numerically these cases are far outweighed by people with just enough knowledge to be dangerous. That's all am cautioning here.
Ignoring China and Japan as outliers. The US, Germany, France, and Spain have nearly identical growth curves so far. It will be interesting to see if the US will end up. I expect the response will be better than most.
The Time Stone can't be used to "rewind" anything. Did you not listen to the 10 minutes of exposition by multiple characters on the truth about how time works?
The governors of Washington and (I think) California are literally doing that.
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One of the big additions in Yarn 2 is Plug N' Play, which allows for more flexible module resolution.

Support is middling, but once you get it working, you have near-instance near-zero size installs.
So I’m not seeing mention of this anywhere else chloroquine is being talked about.

Chloroquine used to be taken daily in many of the tropical Britain colonies suffering from malaria.

chloroquine in the form of quinine is where the gin and tonic drink came from. Quinine mixed with carbonated water was drunk as a prophylactic.

The quinine tasted so terrible it had to be cut with something to make it tolerable - gin! That’s where gin and tonic came from - anti malaria treatment in the British colonies.

If you look at tonic water even today you’ll find quinine listed as an ingredient.

As a cheap, safe bet it’s not unreasonable to start having a g&t each day along with a zinc pill.

The more you know.
why wouldn't it replace IPsec? And why can't it be as fast as IPsec?

I can only see one reason, their choice of Chacha20-Poly1305 (which should be re-considered IMO)
Certainly most will be better off being laid off (and eligible to collect unemployment in the US) vs quitting.
> The biggest concern, in my opinion, would be people who try to come to Canada in the hopes that they can get sick here and recover somewhere that isn't going to bankrupt them as a result.

Canada would probably need to build a wall to prevent this.
Interesting, same here in Dallas.
No, I was just continuing on my thoughts, not you in particular, but for everyone to see… ignore me at your own convenience :P
Not gonna lie, having an Android screenshot inside of an iPhone on the landing a page really threw me off.
What if you could use a service that gives you full control over the form, yet doesn’t require you to use anything on your server? Airform gives you the ability to create functional HTML forms without thinking about servers.

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1. In a world where both major parties come together to immediately make him President, I imagine he would be willing to resign his Senate seat.

2. Do you have a citation on Senators being unable to serve as Speaker of the House? It certainly makes sense, and I've seen references about senators not holding roles in other branches concurrently (e.g. executive or judicial), but nothing definitive on senators holding house officer roles.
In the past (http://akkartik.name/post/libraries) I've tried to distinguish between giving things a name to avoid having to work through details over and over again, and relying on something built by others so one never has to think about the details. But this has been a difficult point to communicate. I usually try to avoid the term 'abstraction' because it's gotten so debased. But here for an academic audience I go with the grain of how people use the word.
50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic
Well then why didn't they use Firefox as their base?
Actual subject is: Senate Leadership Is Pushing Through a Dangerous Surveillance Bill as Americans Are Focused on Covid-19
> I have no bitcoin and would never give one red cent to the shabby, frequently fraudulent outfits that call themselves exchanges in order to obtain any.

Not that I entirely disagree with your sentiment, but do you realize the biggest exchange in the US/World is actually a YC backed venture based in Silicon Valley?

You're the one that said they were 'fools to be parted with,' yet these are the very VC titans of the Silicon Valley most of you adore, I just took the time to name a few who you were referring to. I personally don't care, they're just like any other person to me.

> I note you don't actually address the points made either.

Not if I'm not paid to, no; I'm a professional, and I'm compensated for my labour/skill set, why would I bother to if I'm not compensated for my time/effort?

I wouldn't ask you to build me a iOS app that I think currently is not available because 'Apple sux, lol' and expect you to do so solely because of my views may contrast with your own. I know you are paid well for what you do, so why ask such an absurd request?

Moreover, I could just prove it to you in practice far more readily rather than just provide a written counter-argument. But you have declined.

Again, this comes down to not wanting to base any of your assumptions beyond anything than just simply stating them to be fact; there seems little to no foresight or effort in them and they seem mainly sensationalist and reactionary.

What's even worse is how broadly you guys generalize things, rather than say: right, I don't understand how this technology benefits me directly, but I can see how it would given the circumstances of someone else. That's my problem with most of these ill-informed criticisms, you cannot see beyond your own position and circumstances, often until it's too late.

Sidenote: Had you purchased BTC 8 hours ago when I made that post, the 'store of value' of your purchase would have yielded an increase in 8% in a matter of hours while everything else in the stock market and fiat currencies is tanking.
Unlikely but plausible. I rather order raw stuff from amazon and do my sanitizing rather than order food from an unknown kitchen, delivered by a driver who was in contact with god knows how many people. Either ingredient delivered home, or I will go out and buy things myself which is probably riskier.
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Hotels usually have a more flexible cancellation policy than Airbnb.Its way easier to find cancellation up to one day before at hotels than an Airbnb in the same city.

Was supposed to travel to Spain last week. Had a few Airbnbs booked. When the cases started spiking on the 2nd of March it looked like Spain was going to be another Italy. So we cancelled our trip. Got most of our flight tickets & hostel stay money back. Airbnb returned 50%. Spain did become like Italy was on the 2nd of March.
Sign me up. I’ll also need about 13 liters of gin and a bag of ice.
I recently spent three years driving around Africa. Chloroquine is still a very common anti-malarial in many parts of the continent.
Googly translation:

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There is a US company that makes king size wall bed systems. --> Sico, Inc. in Minnesota [1]. In some size I have seen them in hotel rooms. They seemed well made and operated smoothly. I have no idea about prices.

[1] <https://www.sicoinc.com/en/product/room-makers-wallbed-syste...
Yes.

Apparently the possible utility of chloroquine was discoevered because SLE patients on it in China weren't getting Covid-19 during the outbreak.
Whatever the app uses to do the login flow. Probably a standard webview?
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Medical Hackathon: How Fast Can We Design and Deploy an Open Source Ventilator?
As far as I read over the past week or so this is in vitro, and not yet shown in vivo or humans.
Generic drugs [1]

[1] https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycomme...
This is a wonderful examination of the "why" (which usually gets glossed over in these kinds of posts). Looking forward to the subsequent posts on the "how".
I think the idea here is that people that are sick can actually take time off. If you've worked in these kinds of jobs you show up to work sick because you can't miss a day, because you can't have a smaller paycheck. So a little more money eases this and gives more leverage to workers.
I disagree.

There are two kinds of goods. The ones like computers and phones which are steadily getting cheaper and the ones like housing whose price has got inflated enormously. Remember how we tried to fix the education problem by student loans and how we tried to alleviate the housing burden by mortgage tax deduction and subsidies of interests? I don't think the problem is people are unable to afford milk or a shiny iPhone. It is the price of housing, education, and healthcare.
Why he isn't:

Suggested income: $12,000

US Population: $327,200,000

Total cost for first year: $3,926,400,000,000

Total government expenditure for US: $3,800,000,000

So we would need to shut down everything the government does to afford his UBI. I personally don't feel like going for free market ICBM solutions is the best way to run an army, but each to their own.
I'd actually go the other route: tax investment gains like any other income, at the time when they happen, and then the incentive to do buybacks or cash hoarding goes away.
The Australian government forces you to do unpaid work if you spend more than 12 months on the dole[0]. They've trialled drug testing. Turning up to Centrelink is more degrading than going to the DMV in the US. It's not intended nor commonly used as a UBI, with the exception of youth allowance and austudy for uni students. Once you're at the threshold for the dole your effective marginal tax rate climbs well over 50% because it's not a real UBI, disincentivising recipients from working more hours.

Australia is also incredibly rich in mineral wealth and has profited immensely from digging up ore and selling it to China during their construction boom. These profits haven't been enough to stop it slipping out of the top ten of the happiness index, and Melbourne lost its most liveable city spot to Vienna in 2019 because the embarrassingly high property prices prevent most people from buying a home.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_the_Dole#Basic_Work...
Most people receive far less than $1k/mo. Yang's plan was to allow the option so that if you were one of the few that did receive more, you wouldn't have to give that up.
Oh, I'm a very smart cookie, but surely I'm often wrong, as is everyone. However, if I were to present you with Ph.Ds that agree with me, what would you say? Who is right? Would your instinct be to fall back on consensus...or to fall back on the scientific method?

Watch Dr. Patrick Moore's 2015 talk on this: "The Sensible Environmentalist" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFHX526NPbE

Or Dr. Richard Lindzen's 2018 talk: "Global Warming For The Two Cultures" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2q9BT2LIUA

Or geologist James Kanis's talk on Plate Climatology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=GX1e_uU5u3A...

Or you could also dig into the science yourself, with a skeptical, rational mind and care for the scientific method, and come to your own conclusions. I would recommend learning about everything from thermodynamics to geology to atmospheric science. It's fascinating stuff. We live in an era where it's easy to do that.
Make them grow with productivity.
repo markets don't help corporate debt at all, as long as the federal reserve don't accept the commercial paper (corporate debt, in other words). The moment the fed accepts commercial paper as collateral, yes, it does. However, this will lead to a bigger problem.

If S&P drops ratings for many companies, many banks will end up holding bags; in which case, the fed will come to rescue these banks.
Counter point: https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-peak-divorce-rate-c...
Exactly. You'd need 20 Senators to break ranks and it could be done in 5 minutes.

Not saying that's likely but technically there is nothing lawful stopping them.
And lo and behold, again: Madagascar has just closed their borders.

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/14/world/africa/14re...

> "To prevent the outbreak entering in Madagascar, all flights connecting Madagascar to Europe are suspended for 30 days," Madagascar President Hery Rajaonarimampianina said in a statement.

> Madagascar, one of the world's poorest nations where malnutrition is rife and outbreaks of deadly diseases are common, will also suspend air links to the nearby islands of La Reunion and Mayotte, he said.
Apple iPhone as a Car Key via NFC
That's not true. at the very least, Walmart is open, does deliveries, and doesn't charge a monthly fee, unlike Amazon Prime!
From wikipedia

> In the United States, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) limits the quinine content in tonic water to 83 ppm[3] (83 mg per liter if calculated by mass), while the daily therapeutic dose of quinine is in the range of 500–1000 mg,[4] and 10 mg/kg every eight hours for effective malaria prevention (2100 mg daily for a 70 kg adult).[5] It is often recommended as a relief for leg cramps, but medical research suggests some care is needed in monitoring doses.[6] Because of quinine's risks, the FDA cautions consumers against using "off-label" quinine drugs to treat leg cramps.[7]

For malaria prevention that's 25 liters of tonic or about about 200 gin and tonics per day.
The median household discretionary income -- i.e. money you can waste on whatever -- in the US is more than $1,000/month. Per the official government statistics. That is after all ordinary household expenses. People in higher percentiles have considerably more.

I am skeptical that 78% of Americans are "living paycheck to paycheck" unless that has been defined so loosely as to lose all useful meaning.
The distinction between IKE and IPsec is the last thing on my mind when I’m in the fourth hour of debugging a connection. :)

The existence of all the configuration options is the underlying problem. Well, the wealth of options plus the near-universal behavior when you have a mismatched configuration: either a vague yet misleading error message or just a silent refusal to work.

Combine that with arbitrary vendor restrictions on that wealth of options and it’s just a guaranteed waste of time, E.g., neither GCP nor VMWare VeloCloud let you configure key lifetimes, so they can never connect to each other. Aside from the vendor stupidity, that’s a protocol problem: how does refusing to connect when the two sides disagree on key lifetime help security?
Back then the disk capacities were only 170 kB (5.25") on a single side of a disk. Pretty crazy. And the actual word processor in the article - written in machine language - was only 25K. Most user avatars or site logos on the web these days probably come close to the same size. Hah!
Even if the true rate is 10x higher, the odds of running into an infected person are still very low for most Americans. (At the time that confirmed rate was published, at least.)
This destroys incentive to invest in productivity improvements, because the gains are eaten by wages. Most productivity gains in the economic sense don't come from people working smarter/harder, they come from investment in better machines and technology (capital). If you took the most productive worker today back two thousand years, their productivity would be massively reduced without access to any modern tools or equipment.
Happy to hear this. Microsoft has been doing a great job with Github IMO.
That sounds like the perfect way for a disease to spread. Do nothing to most.
> A person that couldn't afford a car can now. I person with a $1k beater car can now buy a $5k car.

Wouldn't car dealers raise their prices some value up to $1k because they know anyone coming in that month to buy a car also just received a $1k check from the government?

> Someone that was living paycheck to paycheck can now take a breath, buy a TV and a Netflix subscription.

Netflix may raise their prices knowing everyone has a little extra cash to spend, and that people would rather pay a dollar or two more than cancel.

If your streaming subscriptions, phone bill, and everything else goes up incrementally because companies begin to factor UBI income into their pricing, then without making any lifestyle changes, you'll see that overtime you're spending an extra $1k a month due to higher prices (of course it won't work out exactly like that, but the point is that some portion of your $1k UBI will go toward paying for things you were already buying, but that are now more expensive as a result of UBI-aware pricing.)

If you believe that companies won't act that way or that other market forces (such as increased competition) will renormalize prices, I can see the argument, but I don't buy it personally.
Why not? Testing packer would mean specifying a large number of machine configurations, building them, and verifying the output images. Why would that be smaller than the actual code?
>Edit: It occurred to me the government could lock people up in work camps in order to be able to tax them

So people end up in a situation where they are forced to work in order to survive, the same situation they are in now.