skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, giving things only to poor people generates opposition to the program giving it. The attitude is, "Why should my hard work pay for those lazy people." Means testing can also add a lot of overhead and headaches for the people involved.

My suggestion: use it to pay down your upcoming tax bill, give it to people you know could use it, if you order food, leave some really fat tips for the delivery guy, donate to charity.
Don't engineers solve one problem at a time?
Training people to use ventilaors in 3 months seems doable to say the least. We use the bootcamps playbook.

And I like the idea to be ready for the next crisis, which will eventually come. In California, we have earthquake proof buildings, it would be sensible to have pandemic proof medical equipment.
Ask HN: Since we don’t have enough tests, report our symptoms
If everyone, or a sufficient number of folks, logged their health every day (cough, fever, sniffles) and their location, couldn’t we tease the signal from the noise?
Most who celebrate overtime get paid more. If you're not eligible for overtime (I'd say most who frequent this site), it's not in your interest to work overtime because there's little incentive to do so. If you're salaried and exempt, it's typically in your best interests to work the least amount you can.

Most people who celebrate how much of a "hard worker" and wear 50-60 regular work weeks like badges of honor that aren't being compensated extra drank the corporate culture koolaid their HR/HR management offered them, from my experience.

It's an entirely different story if you're working more and being compensated more for that work. In that case you're not being taken advantage of (hopefully) and I say, let that person decide what amount of work is appropriate for them.

Businesses aren't paying you any more than they can get away with so don't do them any favors either.
3% of 300 Mio is 1 Mio, not 10 Mio
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Unbelievable. This was the patent they were able to get. It comes with graphs describing an "architecture" of their "unique" medical device.

Patent #8,283,155
"Specifically, the present invention provides portable medical devices that allow real-time detection of analytes from a biological fluid."

and is described as by the article

"This patent describes a generic architecture for a machine that automates testing for the presence of substances in bodily fluids. In the system described by the patent, an operator inserts a "test device" (which contains both the bodily fluid to be tested and the reactants required to perform the test) into a "reader device." The reader device then triggers the necessary chemical reactions to perform the test and reports the results. Theranos' patent isn't limited to any specific bodily fluid, reactants, or testing protocol."
No one knows yet how this ends. All we have is informed speculation.

The worst case scenarios are still very much in play.
Love and the Brain
Just like an alarm clock, some nations have hit snooze and others have woken up. It's pretty clear who is ready (Taiwan, HK, SK) and who is not.

Note: I think it's fair to say, SK is/was ready or has responded well, patient 31 notwithstanding.

I think the USA needs to work on the basics, but other nations will have so interesting advanced strategic decisions. i.e. Does ventilator design changes frequently? Does it make sense to have an on-demand factory or just build up a stockpile of ventilators that can be distributed as needed?
> that would be admitting they had a case to begin with.

And that is precisely what these people are after by making the offer — if others in the industry are willing to take licenses under a patent, then the patent owner can brandish that fact as indirect evidence of the patent's supposed validity.

That kind of evidence wouldn't be dispositive by any means. At trial, though, litigation counsel will put in any evidence they can — especially "proxy" evidence that can readily be understood by non-technical people such as judges and jurors. (A classic example of such proxy evidence is, "They lied!")

(Patent attorney here, although I don't do that kind of work anymore.)
Yes, I do. It’s a global pandemic - if you’re thinking about profit motive at a time like this you are part of the problem. Full stop.
Ben, this is absolutely beneath you. Collective punishment went the way of the Dodo long ago, and rightly so.
The article states amazon is trying to hire 100k new employees right now for its warehouses.
>Where are you getting this "hundreds of thousands more people infected than you have ventilators" idea?

Where are you getting the idea that we should trust any data coming out of China?

South Korea, Italy? Sure.
I've had a Remarkable1 for about three months. It's one of the best investments I've made in a long time. Going to preorder this.

Only caveats - I like aftermarket cases more than Remarkable's. I bought one one from Amazon for about 30$.

Also I've been using staedtler's digital pencils, works great!
What makes you say that this isn't the Spanish flu?

If we look at the mortality rate in places that are doing heavy testing, such the Diamond Princess and South Korea, it looks like we have slightly below a 1% fatality rate among people who test positive assuming adequate modern medical care for everyone.

The CDC's worst case scenario is 1.7 million dead in the US. Some British epidemic modelers put it closer to 2.2 million dead in the US assuming no health care overload.

But of course, medical systems in Lombardy, Washington and the Bay Area are already stretched to the limit. Wuhan had 80,000 patients and had to be reinforced by multiple Chinese provinces. And these overloads were with just a few 10s of thousands infected. The natural peak, assuming current numbers are correct, would far exceed our medical system's ability to cope.

At which point that 2.2 million number goes up. I've been staring at the numbers, running the calculations, and I keep getting roughly the same worst case answers as the CDC.

Unless there's some critical number that we're missing, we're in an ugly fight until we have a vaccine, or treatments that allow most people to breathe unaided. Until then, our best hope is to figure how to live life outside lockdown while preventing exponential growth.
Yes that's be doing done now

"More than 60 manufacturers have been sent a blueprint for making up to 20,000 ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, “at speed”, as Boris Johnson called on British industry to help the government prepare for a surge in cases."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/16/vauxhall-ow...

I work for a very large global manufacturer w/ a presence in China, and does not produce medical equipment. My Chinese family told me (so take it w/ a grain of salt) they said 'Hey I heard your company is building ventilators to help out' and I said I don't know.

My gripe is why the other countries didn't do it too since we had more lead time. Infection rates are exponential...waiting too long to take action will cause more deaths.
> I'm a huge fan of swing manouche (jazz style developed during the '40s).

Keep in mind that many of the content creators are now dead.
> Well, pardon my French, but qu'ils aillent se faire foutre!

FTFY.
Doubtful. It just doesn't make sense to prepare for these 1 in 100 year things, especially when the next pandemic virus will likely meet a much better healthcare system, perhaps one with broad-acting antivirals. Like, this pandemic will likely not kill as much as the 1918 spanish flu simply due to better medicine.
You apparently found him interesting enough to keep up on his activities after graduating, put enough effort into making a good impression that he was willing to recommend you, and took advantage of the opportunity when it presented itself. Not everyone would. Was there some luck involved? Sure. There always is. But it wasn't all luck.
Yep. Hence my rant. These jerks should be made an example out of.
I think this is dependant upon your country. Most ISPs in the UK are unlimited.
It feels good to give financial support to regressive companies trying to put the Internet back in the bottle, destroy net neutrality, push us into proprietary platforms, divide online communities based on geographic location, surveil our behavior, etc?

You and I have much different takes on what feels good.
> The real goal here is to keep the economic engine running

I would say that the real goal is to keep people from suffering because they lack necessities, including housing. Granted that the economy is how we supply those things, so we need it to work, but I would say it is a close second priority-wise.
What about art, mathematics, fiction, music, etc?
It has to be huge...

From: http://carltonbale.com/does-4k-resolution-matter/

"What the chart shows is that, for a 84-inch screen, 4k resolution isn’t fully apparent until you are at least 5.5 feet or closer to the screen. For a “tiny” 55-inch screen, you’ll need to be 3.5 feet or closer. Needless to say, most consumers aren’t going to sit close enough to see any of extra resolution 4k offers, much less 8k."
My specific case was live albums of a band named Waso, which were never printed in CD. The only digital copies were fans that owned original vinil records from the '70s and digitalised them.
What do you do in this case? I remember downloading a copy of them and not feeling any kind of remorse about it.
Not sure it helps but I was myself a musician and my brother plays too as is his only source of income. I know a bit of the industry.
Lots of people tricked through browser toolbars and self-installing "configuration CDs" i guess
This whole virus is one big scam to keep you inside for what is happening out there
I lived in the bay area with a family and moved to Ohio in the middle of 2018. 1/3 of the population living on minimum wage in a 50k population town in Ohio. That is $18,000 per year.

$100,000 has much more purchasing power than $18,000. For you saving $5000 is easy. For someone making minimum wage, saving $500 by the end of the year is impossible.

If you have a car, your deductible might be 250-500. The majority of the minimum wage earners deductible is 500. They usually don't have that when accident happens. When the boiler goes out, it usually cost same to fix it for high earners and minimum wage earners.
It's also important to keep in mind that some of those ventilators are already in use for non-COVID-19 cases. Our healthcare system has to deal with COVID-19 on top of what it's already dealing with.
Why do you find this strange? There’s a pattern across all fields: Different paradigms compete early on, and the best paradigm wins and we build on it incrementally for years (forever?) after. Every once in awhile a new workflow emerges based on increases in hardware capabilities: Ableton Live, Adobe Lightroom, and Figma are all examples of this. Notably these new tools usually split the market rather than replace the previous version: Logic, Photoshop, and Sketch are still popular.
We don't have 3 months we have less than 3 weeks. Plug the deaths and doubling time into the formula for exponential growth.
It's not the only possible measure to handle the problem.
they don't, per https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360014759692-Righ...

what they will do though is keep it in their archive and
a) put it online waiting for some entites to complain.
b) if someone does complain and it's a valid complain, the content will be 'offlined', but still avail in their archive. The day it becomes 'legal', they'll put it back online.

for old software, cf what they are doing for the Apple 2, where flux images of the disks are archived https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_apple_woz

Old manuals are scanned too https://archive.org/details/savetz_stacks
One can try something without investing in others' perception of its success. I often make an effort to be likeable, but if people don't like me, then that's often their problem, not mine.
Obessed with Making a Generalized Suffix Index/Tree Memory Efficient Part 2
Amazon actually just announced this yesterday:

> Amazon is looking to hire 100,000 new warehouse and delivery workers to meet increased demands for shipments as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the company announced on Monday. It will also increase the hourly pay of workers employed in these positions by an additional $2 in the United States through April.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/16/21182411/amazon-hires-emp...
> Academic papers can take hours, if not weeks to discover if it's complete BS

Did you see this recent thread? It is a paper on how to read papers and it was very useful and insightful for me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21979350

From the linked pdf:

"Researchers must read papers for several reasons: to review them for a conference or a class, to keep current in their field, or for a literature survey of a new field. A typical researcher will likely spend hundreds of hours every year reading papers.

Learning to efficiently read a paper is a critical but rarely taught skill. Beginning graduate students, therefore, must learn on their own using trial and error. Students waste much effort in the process and are frequently driven to frustration.

For many years I have used a simple ‘three-pass’ approach to prevent me from drowning in the details of a paper before getting a bird’s-eye-view. It allows me to estimate the amount of time required to review a set of papers. Moreover, I can adjust the depth of paper evaluation depending on my needs and how much time I have. This paper describes the approach and its use in doing a literature survey."
> But based on what we're seeing so far, it seems plausible that this virus prefers cooler northern climates. So hopefully it will turn out to be an unnecessary precaution.

Wuhan has temps around 50F-75F (~15C-22C). Certainty not hot, but not a cooler climate given how it's still winter in this hemisphere.

Italy and Spain aren't known for being especially cold either, mountainous areas notwithstanding.
I've never used Todo graphs, but I've spent hours using Yed, a free (but not Free if you're into that kind of thing) point-and-click graph editor with various layout algorithms.

I've found many times that the visual outcome of laying out my concept graphs in say, hierarchical or force-directed layouts. Mainly to show me that I was missing certain links. This is not formal concept analysis (which uses formal lattices), mind you, it's just using the visual realization of graphs as Gestalt.

I actually should be doing that a lot more...

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That said, we should always be wary of the "A" in "DAG". That's a deep ontological assumption that restricts the universe we are able to think about. Sometimes, like in the Judea Pearl approach, this enables maths to get done. Sometimes we should just cope with cycles or resolve them at the appropriate time when enough information and wisdom is available.
Since the focus is exclusively on the virus, whatever the economic outcome we will just have to learn through discovery, apparently.

The enforcement here in the SF Bay Area was written and published by the health department bureaucrats without even some semblance of economic consideration.

It seems like if you attempt to bring up what you are asking about, most responses suggest to me that "compared to what" critical thinking analyses are not what people are concerned with.
Section 108 of U.S. copyright law has relatively broad exceptions for libraries and archives. Note that this is strictly about preservation, not making the content available to the general public (per sibling comment). However, preservation also enables worthwhile things like formal academic research, etc. that in turn gets broad exemptions due to fair use.
Sure but lets not lose sight of the problem here, which is the system's severe abuse. Regardless of if it's a pandemic or not.

Though arguably if a company went ahead and leaped into action and saved millions of lives, when the patent holder didn't lift a finger. There is some debate on whether or not that should be punished and how that should be handled.
We already have heavy handed centralized attempts to intervene, they are what has got us in this mess in the first place. It just happens that they came from big business.
So you're saying the argument must be wrong because it would imply things are hopeless? That's a textbook fallacy of appeal to consequences. You're not actually addressing whether it's true.

The point is that the UBI isn't going to fix things until you first fix the dynamic that's responsible for gobbling up all the economic slack, so that should be the priority.
> Why don't the feds see the urgency here?

Because the United States is a collection of fifty sovereign states, not a centralized government. Why is the EU not taking EU-wide action here, and leaving responses up to constituent governments?
Very interesting, thanks.

Translation of the follow-up article:
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=it&tl=en&u=htt...
For that price it would be cheaper for me to “buy” the movies I want to watch outright. You’d have to watch a lot of movies to recoup the cost.
Hopefully one outcome of this is renewed support for building out the nation's internet grid and other infrastructure. In 2020 we have the technology to be vastly more resilient to all kinds of disasters and pandemics.

Critical Infrastructure and Pandemic Preparedness initiative, etc.
None of these battery benchmarks seem to normalize for work per unit time. 2.0 hours of cinebench rendering on one cpu and 2.5 hours on another cpu can't really be compared unless you know how many frames were rendered.
I have an ipad pro and a remarkable, and I use the remarkable a lot more. I mostly note take/doodle though. The writing experience is way better.
If you could parasitically power the unit from Wi-Fi beacon frames that would be awesome. The idea of a sign that "magically" updates itself over the air gives me a giddy "I live in the future" feeling.
Couldn't have said it better. "Why would i develop something that could save millions of lives if it will save millions of lives and might not make me money". Absurd
> In an unencumbered free market system

This is not a real thing. Stop bringing it up as if it’s a meaningful concept.
The Mathematics of Ted “The Unabomber” Kaczynski
The marketing sounds like they've stepped up the app/cloud bits with a browser plugin, etc. Do you know for certain the second version still supports the non-cloud snycing? The support site is incompletely updated for the new device; it's not clear at all if they still permit private operation.
I would consider entering this to the scipy plotting comp: https://forms.gle/SrexmkDwiAmDc7ej7
No one (almost) has a TV which is big enough for 8K to be noticable unless you're 1 foot away from the screen.

For an 84-inch screen, 4k resolution isn’t fully apparent until you are at least 5.5 feet or closer to the screen. For a “tiny” 55-inch screen, you’ll need to be 3.5 feet or closer. Needless to say, most consumers aren’t going to sit close enough to see any of the extra resolution 4k offers, much less 8k.

http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.html
This could replace your printer really nicely. Anytime you want to print something out, you swipe your phone by this and use it instead.

Any kind of reference, recipe, directions, notes. This would even be cool instead of a second monitor. Just to put up a reference page or cheat sheet.
You didn't read my post.

We should be forcing the mentally Ill into treatment, not giving them a choice to stay on the streets.
Do you mean this one? https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-02-29/in-depth-how-early-s...
Coding your way out of the Coronavirus
How Can Developers Help Fight Coronavirus?
Whenever I hear someone like Andreessen who is still a cryptocurrency believer, I go and really look for what he's talking about. I find nothing.

I also have a routine search that I do when I look for something built on cryptocurrency or the cryptocurrency ecosystem (e.g. Ethereum "dapps") that I might want to actually use. I always come up empty handed.

Yet there are many smart people that believe in this stuff. Are they in a parallel universe?

Where is it being transformational? All I see is gambling, speculation, scams, solutions in search of a problem, and a ton of vaporware.

Beyond the core use cases of easier international wire transfer and black/grey market commerce, I don't see anything in this space that people actually use (excluding gambling and speculation).

I'm puzzled when I hear them compare it to the Internet. The Internet had immediate real world use cases everywhere. I saw people all around me start to get online and actually use the Internet for a huge variety of things. I don't see any of that with cryptocurrency. Nobody is using this stuff for anything. It's got that classic worst-case solution in search of a problem vibe: you can't give it to people.

I get why bag holders and speculators sound bullish on cryptocurrency. They're hoping more will buy in so they can dump at a higher price. I am genuinely and deeply puzzled when I hear bright people who aren't in those groups who are still believers. What do they see that I don't?
3% of 300 million = 9 million.

That said, the latest figures I have seen predict the US internet connected population to be 293 million [1]. That figure comes out to 10.63%.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/325645/usa-number-of-int...
I think at the very least some regulations/restrictions have been lifted which are never coming back. Examples might include allowing doctors to practice telemedicine accross state borders and allowing local labs to create their own tests without waiting for federal approval.
Products for sell on a shelf now have been in the pipeline for months. The stock market is looking past the immediate now, and is looking at the tomorrow, next week/month. If factories are closed and not manufacturing things, the supply stops. That doesn't affect the retail end today, but will in a few weeks/months.
> This doesn't really explain your position on why you don't just buy/rent $50 worth of movies per month.

Isn’t their position that they’d like this thing to exist? I don’t see how you need to have a Spotify or Apple Music account to understand the argument.
How Can Developers Help Fight Coronavirus – Continuation
Specifically for giving cash money? No. But the UK has experience with benefits that are automatic versus have to be claimed and it's noticeable.

As an example elderly people in the UK are entitled to use some types of public transport at no cost so as to ensure they don't end up isolated (of course right now isolating them is a good idea, but ordinarily it's a problem). But the entitlement takes the form of a smartcard with photo ID. So of course you need to do paperwork to get it. The very wealthiest may not bother, if you have a chauffeur who cares about free bus travel? But the poorest don't apply at anywhere close to expected rates, because somebody needs to explain to them that they need to apply, help them take a photograph and upload it, and so on.

Are you sure about Nordic countries just "giving people" money with no strings attached? They have much better social safety nets than the US, which are important for softening things like this - but an improved social safety net is not free money.
Thanks for the recommendation, sir! I will check it out!
> are easy to inspect

Until they're delivery vehicles for obfuscated wasm to canvas rendering applications. Then nothing of the "web as graph of hypertext documents" will be left.
I'm not really interested in judging Amazon; they're a for profit company, they're going to do what's best for their bottom line. And I'm sure they don't care what I think. This is more about the systemic issues with the tax code itself.
Lessons are generational. Unfortunately. For example, the rhetoric from anti-vaxers would be unthinkable to people from the generation that lived through polio.
It might help for a short time, until inflation catches up and that $1000 wont go very far.
How Can Developers Help Fight Coronavirus - Continuation: https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0717/
All social contact has a cost.