skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has to be some middle ground risk between rolling in random but well intentioned pieces of equipment vs rejecting them because they haven't followed a conventional months long vetting and review.

I wonder what kind of expert rapid requirements review and qualification process could be created?

The comparable risk if the system is overwhelmed is life losses in triage or outright using using medical personnel as human ventilators - causing fatigue and mistakes too.
They're too afraid that they'll have to upgrade the "middle mile" to accommodate teleworkers.
100% this. I'd been curious why I wasn't seeing discussion of negative pressure ventilators, also known as iron lungs, but more recent commentary that I've seen notes that the positive pressure is needed in part to force oxygen into the blood. Apparently with Coronavirus sick lungs are wet lungs and wet lungs don't work as well. That would imply that you also are going to need a supply of oxygen at a higher concentration than in the air which would imply either an oxygen generator or reliable tank based supply system. Other discussions I saw excluded concerns about significantly increased volume of aerosolized infectious droplets from improperly used ventilators.
Understatement of the year, it's probably more dangerous to use these at home than just using simple oxygen and someone to help you remember to breathe for a few days. If you're to the point that you need a ventilator for covid-19, you're also going to need a ton of meds and attention from trained medical staff. I could see a CPAP machine being useful for lighter cases just to help out, but even then I'm not a doctor.

Some things are good to DIY, but not this, we need HN to stop allowing these dangerous posts.
They are fine only because not everyone uses them during an emergency. If everyone felt validated to start driving their cars, it would probably not be fine.
What’s a popular decentralized networking protocol that is easily used for chat? XMPP?
I'm not good at reading Twitter threads. Will dedicate some time to it this evening.

Note also that I'm questioning if we will see an exponential rise in deaths. In large, I don't think that will be seen outside of places with poor lung health, if my hypothesis is right.
The truth is that these current tests (rt RT-PCR) are not completely accurate and may only have a true positive rate of 60-70%. See Discussion section of: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020200642

Additionally, people who are asymptomatic can test negative on all of their tests and only be diagnosed via other means. See Figure 1 here: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11427-020-166...
South Korea got ahead of the curve
> It (inflation) is besides the point really isn't it?

Rampant inflation or the idea that nobody would go to work are commonly held up as big reasons not to have a UBI (or something similar) so it's important to address those.

> Why should the tax payer pay for someone sitting on their behind?

There are a host of reasons, here's a few off my head:

- We accept there will always be people we will pay to sit on their behind (disabled, elderly, mentally ill, students going to university, veterans, retired government employees, etc.). It's important to recognize we already pay a huge number of people (about 5 million, or 20% of Australians according to one of my links above) to "sit on their behind"

- It gets them off the street and therefore not out committing crimes.

- Because you're happy doing what you're doing (going to work, I presume) and those people are happy doing what they're doing (nothing). So everyone is happy right now. If you force them to go to work you'll be unhappy because you'll spend all your time forcing them, and dealing with other massive societal problems like crime, and they'll be unhappy because you're making them go to work when they don't want to. So you would reduce happiness by forcing them to go to work. Also likely they'll do a terrible job at whatever work you force them to do, which is not good for society.

If you want to rebut that last point by saying "but I'm not happy (going to work)" then there is an extremely simple answer - Quit. Get the free money and do nothing all the time. Of course I already know you won't do that because it won't make you happy, and you don't want to live on $1k a month (it's good enough, but not great). Plenty of people actually do try it for a while (I did)... and then they come back to paid work again because overall for 95% of people (as proved by evidence) life is better.

Everyone is already doing what makes them happy, so leave it alone.

Remember, US tax payers are spending literally trillions of dollars on wars and bailing out banks (again)... would you rather the Australian government spend those tax dollars that way, or spend it on improving the lives of Australians who are in Australia?
Though I love the idea of doing it mechanically like the Long Now clock:

https://longnow.org/artifacts/equation-of-time-cam
It used to be, but they wash it in bleach each time these days.
At an aggregate level it can make more sense to leave X% of units vacant than to lower prices (which could have effects on the rate you can charge with the rest of your units). I think it’s an example of our financial system not working as intended.

For example let’s say I have a 100 unit apartment building. If I maintain a 20% vacancy rate target I can charge an average of $1000/mo/unit. But to set a price at which my vacancies get filled very quickly, to hit a 5% vacancy rate, maybe I need to charge $700/mo/unit. In that case I’m making less money than before - $80k/mo vs $66.5k/mo.
Some do, some don't. But you took issue with the less important part of my answer, I assume because you agree with the rest: that what is fine for emergency workers is not necessarily fine for ordinary citizens.
They are, but most exploit profit opportunities introduced into market prices by human actors. If humans were rational, there would be just as many people betting against stocks as betting on them. The idea that upward price movement is always good is also misleading. A price can be irrationally too high, so corrections are good. Most of the conventional wisdom (and typical lexicon) about markets is laden with superstition and bias.
Increasing hospital capacity for Covid-19 crisis
Hospital capacity is likely come under severe pressure in the next few weeks. We need to increase our ability to isolate and treat all kinds of patients. Putting-up new buildings is out of the question.

What are the options?

In no particular order:

1- Hotels
2- Warehouses
3- Hangars
4- Military bases
5- Sports arenas
6- Convention centers
7- Motor Homes/Trailers/Toy Haulers
8- Containers
9- Schools
10- Cruise ships

I won't get into an in-depth analysis of each option. Just a few notes.

Out of these, I really like the idea of cruise ships. They have access to tens of thousands of rooms that can easily move to where they are needed. They come with a contained environment, bathrooms in every room, kitchens, large halls for staging, cargo space and even helipads in some cases.

At first I thought this would be a great idea to move non-COVID-19 non-critical patients in order to free-up hospital space for COVID-19 patients. In thinking about it some more, after becoming more informed, it seems that this could be a great idea for Corona-virus patients (at some level in the progression of the disease) because of a simple reason: They don't run the risk of infecting each other.

This means we could further protect hospital environments and capacity in order to be able to focus on those who need more attention and hospital facilities.

#7 is interesting. There are somewhere around ten million motor homes in the US. That is a massive number of beds that could be brought to aid in housing and dealing with this problem. Not sure about the logistics and compensation owners would receive, but it sure would be cheaper than attempting to build new hospital space.

Again, I like #10 better. We would help the industry financially and make use of great facilities.
That would feel wrong to me. If it rotated that way, when looking at the rings, the future would be on the left, and the past on the right.
Intel’s neuromorphic chip learns to ‘smell’ 10 hazardous chemicals
>mycroft can't do offline processing, according to their faq at least.

Not sure what FAQ you're reading there. There is a whole section of STT engines you can plug into it.

https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/using-mycroft-ai/customiz...

Including a local one. It's gonna be a pain in the ass but as I said it's possible
You might now know this if you live in North America because Australia hardly enters our consciousness or our news cycles, but in many parts of the world Australia has a reputation of being a very innovative country, especially in physical engineering and software. Part of it has to do with their anti-authoritarian heritage and survivalist mindset--they don't take hierarchy too seriously. Whether their creativity is helped by a generous welfare society or not, I'm not sure, but you definitely can't say Australians aren't innovative.
Coronavirus severe adult respiratory distress syndrome in two cases in Italy
honest question: what is the death rate for an average person in their 80s?

ie: if you have cov2 you have a 7% chance of dying from it but dont you already have say a 50% chance of dying in your 80s anyway?

to be strictly logical and not emotional about this moral question: are we unhinging society (effects we cannot begin to calculate) to keep the fatality rate for the population 80+ at 50% instead of 57%?

in terms of costs to the healthcare system, might this equate to a net relief if the peak were accelerated instead of flattened?
Several of the criticisms in this article seem fair, some less so to me, but this does really hit the problem on the head:

> It is not very hard for me to conclude that WireGuard is not ready - yet.

> It has been drafted as a lightweight and fast solution to some problems of the existing solutions. Unfortunately it has sacrificed many features that will be relevant for many users and therefore will not be able to replace IPsec and OpenVPN.

> For that we need to add at least IP address assignment, pushing configuration like DNS servers and routes.

This has certainly been the case for me. My use case for a VPN is a typical road warrior set-up. In my experience Wireguard seems like it's probably great for people who are accustomed to setting up custom VPN configurations already, and in fact probably simplifies the steps in doing so. But as someone who just needs a set-it-and-forget-it configuration to remote in and forward my connections that just consistently works, trying to get Wireguard working was hours of misery.

There's enough tooling built around OpenVPN that you can generate a simple .ovpn configuration that just works and does everything you want in a few minutes. You don't need to be a professional network admin or have a lot of experience configuring VPNs. I hope Wireguard gets to that point because I really do believe in its technical superiority.
Putin's butthole is clenched to the max. Last time oil dropped too steeply the Soviet Union disintegrated. Take one look at this graph https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha... and you can tell immediately where Perestroika began, as well as Russia's 1998 default. You don't even need to superimpose anything.
How would the data from any experiment reach you? (there have been lots of experiments) And not to offend you but what point is there in informing people?

I would like to see an 1 euro/month basic income. Then we get a good idea what it costs to distribute. Then we should gradually increase it by an equally insignificant amount so that we can gradually observe who should but doesn't get it and how much fraud we have to deal with.

With 100 euro extra we can at least silence the folk who for the last 100 years barricaded the discussion by saying they would continue to work themselves but others... others will do this and that. Popular variations: Wimmen will stop obeying their husband. Men will use the extra money to buy alcohol. Kids wont seek jobs. etc

I think Keynes 15 hour work week provides a good hint. Wealthy people actually work more.

I think the silver bullet basic income is silly for other reasons. Our economic model is to optimize for wealth extraction. Give people 50, 500 or 1000 extra and rent will go up by exactly the same amount.

I'd still be willing to pay for the distribution experiment.

But does it actually matter what I think?
In any case I am just trying to help people limit their downside by giving some simple advice. It's always better to make less money and yet be able to sleep well, then always fearing your portfolio goes to naught with some naive strategy. Not worth shortening your life by a few years with all that underlying anxiety just to make a potential 10-20% more. But definitely I would say this strategy would at least increase your upside and minimize your downside than a pure DCA, because it factors in the psychology of a bear market. Just trying to help here, I stand no gains, just don't like to see people losing their minds and sleep over losses that could have been avoided.
Don't know. With the fear around,I am staying in. And I don't see benefit in my taking up space at a doctors office, at this point.

Bad reasoning?
Why Are Markets So Volatile? It’s Not Just the Coronavirus
>My whole point is I don't think Canada would risk it.

Fuddle duddle.
I'd really love to teleport some forum nerd from just six years ago to the present.

- Microsoft is a leading sponsor of open source?

- In fact, .NET is open source now and runs on Linux?

- Microsoft bought Github, then NPM... and the community is celebrating both of those things??

- The guy from the apprentice is what?
Toilet paper hoarders: "Hold my burrito."
that sounds right the distance is the variable to get here
its inverse square dependent. usually flux is at 1 foot distance to keep the measurements in a standard framework.

have a look here re inverse square:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
Hackers Attack Health and Human Services Computer System
https://factcheck.afp.com/chloroquine-has-not-been-approved-...
I think the problem the article was communicating is running out of money if your job is hit (and you live next to a network engineer slash mooch)
I’m not going to argue on the statistics, because I don’t quite get it.

You seem to be implying that maybe there are a load of us that had it already (and maybe, hopefully, that’s the case). But if so, doesn’t it seem weird that we’ve basically watched its progress as it’s spread around the world? Why would most people get it and be asymptotic followed by a series of unlucky people that are getting it now and falling ill? Though again, maybe I’m misunderstanding.
Hmm, not everyone is a volunteer...
I like cowsay (especially cowsay -f dragon) for punching up important git commit messages.
The mortality rate is definitely lower than anything being measured. But the lower bound is still high enough that this is very bad, maybe just not 'blight of the eons, scourge of humanity' level. If you are above 70 or have health problems, the mortality rate is extremely bad whatever the real number is.
It should help alleviating the symptoms, but is in no way a antiviral.

There's a phase 3 trial for treating pneumonia associated with coronavirus. This is based on prior work showing anti-inflammatory response in rheumatoid arthritis (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8278823).

Note that the trial is happening in China (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04261517), where the barriers of entry and approval are quite low.
Not sure I follow how the milk as a substitute for water analogy translates to housing. There are no substitutes for housing in desirable areas. When the entire working class suddenly has more income, it doesn't create more housing, it pushes up the price of housing. Sure we could build more, but why? After all, if the price of affordable housing goes up, so does less affordable housing, and luxury housing. And we end up in the same place, except with inflation.
Ew. I feel bad for their developers.
> I heard people would become more creative and innovative under those circumstances.

That could be one of the possible outcomes, yes.

Remember too that Australia only has a population of 25 million - only 7.5% of America. So even if Australia was twice as creative and innovative as America, it can still only innovate and create 15% as much as America can simply because of the size difference.

Another outcome from all this might just be that you create one of the best places to live on the planet... i.e. one of your cities has been voted world's most livable city (or second place) for decades.
> Rampant inflation or the idea that nobody would go to work are commonly held up as big reasons not to have a UBI (or something similar) so it's important to address those.

You completely missed the point. I am against the principle of me (a tax payer) paying for someone else not working unless they can't work (unable to work). The inflation argument is completely irrelevant.

> If you want to rebut that last point by saying "but I'm not happy (going to work)" then there is an extremely simple answer - Quit.

It is besides the point. The principle is that I earn my way and I stand up on my own two feet. It not about liking work or not liking it. It is entirely besides the point.

> Get the free money and do nothing all the time. Of course I already know you won't do that because it won't make you happy, and you don't want to live on $1k a month (it's good enough, but not great). Plenty of people actually do try it for a while (I did)... and then they come back to paid work again because overall for 95% of people (as proved by evidence) life is better.

This is why it is irritating arguing with people like yourself. It isn't about the facts. It is about the principle. When I am working I don't want to be paying my tax for someone sitting on their behind.

> Remember, US tax payers are spending literally trillions of dollars on wars and bailing out banks (again)... would you rather the Australian government spend those tax dollars that way, or spend it on improving the lives of Australians who are in Australia?

Just because banks got bailed out in the past (which was wrong) doesn't mean it is okay to do something else that isn't ethical.
I'm not sure what would be worse, for this to be trolling or for you thinking what you just wrote makes sense.
yes.

the internet today is engineered for sustained use: think youtube/netflix streaming, bulk data upload/download from dropbox and similar.

upload might suffer a bit, but that could be fixed by lowering our video quality during video-calls.
> A buyback is a form of capital return to shareholders.

> Improvements in leg room, amenities, services, infrastructure, etc, are a form of capital return to customers.

And bailouts are a form of wealth redistribution from people of modest means to wealthy executives and investors who, it turns out, are actually not willing to shoulder the risk associated with passive profits.

> That's not to say the airlines don't care about the little guy.

They actually like the little guy, you can fit more of them on a plane.
>Supply Chain Expert Tells Tucker What Coming Shortages Americans Should Know About, And It’s Not Toilet Paper - Fox news had Daniel Stanton on over the weekend (link). Forget about toilet paper shortages, that'll pass. Worry instead about disinfecting wipes, hand sanitizers, the hospital masks. "We need more of those than what we would normally consume,” he said. “For those things, we need to be increasing capacity, maybe creating some new supply chains, and in a lot of cases, we are dependent on foreign manufacturing and long-distance transportation to get those supplies.” Stanton said the U.S. could experience an inability to make several products Americans “want to buy” in the coming weeks. Axios echoes this (link), pointing out that that some food producers could find themselves without enough employees to manufacture, deliver and unpack groceries. The U.S. imports a lot of food from China, where factories are currently closed — meaning a possible supply chain challenge. Phil Lempert, a California-based food industry analyst, told the Washington Post "We’re going to have two-, three-, four-month lag time until those factories get back up to speed.”

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/supplychain/comments/fjleyw/covid19...
AT&T has dropped all data caps, waived any late payment fees, will not terminate service and has opened their WiFi hotspots to everyone.

Charter is waiving late fees, not terminating service, offering free service to households with students which don't already have service and opening their WiFi hotspots to everyone.

Verizon is waiving late fees and will not terminate service.

Cox is waiving late fees, not terminating service, opening WiFi hotspots to all and upgrading speeds on connections in their programs for low income customers to 50Mbs.

Comcast is eliminating data caps, waiving late fees, not terminating service, opening WiFi hotspots to all and offering 2 months of free service to those eligible for but not enrolled in their $9.95 per month program for low-income families. They are also increasing data rates for their low-income program connections.

Many other providers have also pledged to not terminate service.
Where have you heard that?

This is a textbook example of a strawman argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
There is a lot that remains unknown about the COVID-19 disease. Is it biphasic? Does it leave lung scarring or other chronic ailments? I think you are being very presumptuous as to the type of virus SARS-CoV-2 and disease COVID-19 are. Could you imagine how naive you would sound giving this advice during other unknown viral pandemics? For example the 80s HIV and AIDS crisis. Obviously COVID-19 is nowhere as fatal, but to assume there are zero long term repercussions is a little early as of now. Perhaps slowing down and waiting for more answers as research ramps up is not the worst short term trade off.