skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no point to doing so, it would be illegal for me to sell them.

Surely only making medical claims is illegal. You could sell them as a fashion accessory, with all sorts of funky designs. Make masks fashionable and desirable just like funky socks were made cool.

Just make sure to make it clear in your sales copy (not in fine print) that the masks are a fashion item only, don't protect against COVID19, and "These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA" or whatever the asscovering stuff you have to write is.

Personally I find the expert opinion on the efficacy of such masks ("unless they're n95, they're useless") nonsensical. If there's a difference between standing 1m and 3m away from an infected person, there's gotta be added value to one or both of you having a covered mouth, regardless of the material the covering is made of.
That may be true. However, if you are a normal citizen (not a healthcare worker) and you have N95 masks, you should strongly consider donating them to healthcare providers right now

There are huge shortages of these masks in most US hospitals, even in areas with limited cases (cant speak for other coutnries but assume the same is true). HCPs are forced to either treat patients without wearing masks, guaranteeing high exposure to virus, or not care for patients

If you are sheltering in place (as you should be doing if you are healhty), N95 masks wont help you much. THey will 100% help HCPs
"Currently, of the 200 million masks China makes a day, only 600,000 are N95 standard masks, used by medical personnel, according to the National Development and Reform Commission, a state planning body. "

Wow, that is not enough.
That's unfortunate. I did not know that
> Thats basically a misinformation. They are completely useless, and if you dont change them each 40-50 minutes - bring you more damage then good

Evidence required.

If mist forms on my glasses from breathing, I assume the mask must be doing something.

I read a comment the other day on how many efforts are impeded by the "quest for perfection"

I know such homemade masks are not 100% proof. But even if they only work to reduce 10% of the risks if everybody wore them, than can be the difference between a R0 of 1.1 and 1.0 - and gives great results overall.

Don't just think about yourself. We are young and at no real risk of dying (0.1%, whatever). But we may cause the death of other people by simply contaminating more people.

Small actions are better than doing nothing when facing exponential growth
In fact, ordinary people do not need N95 masks. General medical surgical masks will do. Even as long as the mask is waterproof. After all, wearing a mask is mainly to prevent the virus from spreading through saliva.
Easy to say now, but there's just not enough manpower to make _everything_ in house that we deem strategically important. And if the price isn't viable on the free market, how is it justifiable long term? I generally agree with your sentiment though.
The article says about masks, that cannot be made en masse. This is due to a flu, which will likely flow through, your fabric and not meltblown pads.
Fuck off dang you filthy piece of shit, ban my ass. I post valid scientific links proving my claims and you just suck the asses of your capitalist masters like Graham who are wringing their hands at the stock losses. YOU Dan, are responsible for the shitfest that is coming. You are a terrible lackey who is harming the world and your work is finally paying off for you. Enjoy your apocalypse.

This motherfucker created a brand new account to post scientific misinformation and YOU Dan are supporting that. What the FUCK is wrong with you Dan? How insane and hateful and malevolent towards humanity can you be?

BAN SCIENCE DAN. BAN IT. HARM PEOPLE, DESTROY MANKIND. THIS IS YOUR WAY.
>majority of their properties simply becoming vacant,

Which is exactly what landlords in Hong Kong are doing. And they couldn't care less, since most of those properties were already paid off.
Great, now I have to also stop scratching my face with my elbows.
> Instagram does the same thing

No, it does not.

There is a big difference between:

- showing you unconnected content you are likely to engage with

- having rules enforced with the help of human reviewers to prevent any user from getting recommendations with people deemed ugly/poor/etc.
I think that's taking a dim view of what machine vision should be capable of. If a picture is rotated 180 degrees, upside down text should be recognized as its flipped version, i.e., the word "6op" should be read as "dog" having been rotated. Similarly a machine should be able to tell if it's looking at the reflection of the sky in a lake. And disregarding entire scenes, any object upside down (upside down chair, upside down dog, upside down car, ...) is clearly recognizable as such to a human, and hence should be to a machine as well.
Coronavirus layoffs surge across America, overwhelming unemployment offices
The older generation is not one homegeneous group.

There are a lot of impoverished older generation people. No cash, no house or no liquidity, tiny pension if that.

Those people are seriously at risk, and there is nothing they could have done for younger people along the lines you have described.

Do we treat the impoverished old like their lives don't matter as much, let them die because they happen to be in the same arbitrary statistical grouping as other, unrelated old people you feel could have sacrificed more?

Couldn't you come up with a fairer statistical grouping for "could have sacrificed more" at least, e.g. the rich?

The younger generation is not a homogeneous group either.

Among them are a lot of vulnerable young. People with respiratory problems, reduced lung function, among many other conditions, or lacking physical or mental capacity to look after themselves. Also every young person who needs hospital care for things like dialysis, when hospitals are unable to provide it.

Do we just not care about the physically vulnerable young either?

The lockdown is about protecting an extremely large number of vulnerable or unlucky people of all kinds. It's that simple.

Some of those are children, some young, more middle-aged, and most old, although we are currently not sure how the statistics pan out for middle-aged and below when hospitals are severely overrun.
I am pretty sure the American political party system could be consider to be Bad-Cop / Nietzschean-Cop.
An alternative:
"Anitoa systems, a Silicon Valley biotech company has demonstrated a
solution for rapid on-site nucleic acid test of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Anita combines a high
performance ultra-portable Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) instrument called Maverick, with an
innovative “one-step” reverse transcription qPCR (RT-qPCR) reagent for testing 2019-nCoV."

http://www.anitoa.com/docs/press-ncov.pdf
Precompiled thoughts are part of the OODA loop.
Still, Nancy Pelosi, the head of the democratic party, could have not called a vote on the bill. Totally her discretion.
That doesn't make the statement misleading. We tax income. The middle class doesn't pay the majority of taxes.

You may think there should be a wealth tax but the statement isn't misleading. The prior statement was inaccurate.
That’s 3 N95 masks for 200,000 people every day. China meanwhile has over 3 million doctors. So, production clearly needs to ramp up, but it’s not so far off the mark they can’t get there in a few months.
I used this too, until my kid destroyed it.

It's a great tool, especially considering there is almost no lag between the "pen" and the display.

However, the contrast is a bit low and makes it difficult to view in moderate to low light.

Great for outdoors though. I have one with four magnets on the back and keep it on my fridge.
On iOS I have the same issue. When I click on the "Sign In" black button it just reloads the app. I tried it on Wi-Fi and normal mobile network.
This reminds me of a time I worked in an office with a roach problem and management refused to do anything about it - until a dead roach ended up on a executive’s desk.
> Leo Liu, a sales director at Haigong Machinery, a Chinese company that assembles the machine parts for melt-blown lines imported from the US, Germany and Japan. "Everyone is considering mask manufacturing, but they don't understand the process. Once they learn the cost of these machines, they give up."

FTA. The US does manufacture some part of the whole mask making process, but I think no country can do it alone.
Don't forget the service industry. There's a correlation between how attractive you are and your earning ceiling for bartending and waitering/waitressing.
> In the end it doesn't matter which entity did the speaker of this term intend to refer to. The recipients have their own judgement due to the culture they raised from.

But it does matter. Does an utterance mean what the speaker intended it to mean, or what the listener understood it to mean? The answer is both.
I'm not in contact with people in the plant. I'm just not sure if they can maintain the social distancing with the number of workers in that plant. If they keep spreading the virus between themselves it means the shelter in place may need to extended longer because the cases keep increasing. I wish there was more extensive testing so we can assess how concerned we should be of community spread.
You deserve to be banned for that first line. It's not about you posting studies.
Kinda shows how gimped gaming GPUs are for doing training really.
>A commercially available N95 respirator requires a fit factor of 100 to be considered adequate in the workplace. The prototype mask achieved a fit factor of 67 for 1 author [...] The other 2 authors with LANL panel face size 10, the largest size, achieved fit factors of 13 and 17 by making the prototype mask inner layers slightly larger

So what's the actual effectiveness of this then? Does a fit factor of 67 mean your chances of getting infected (over what time?) is 33%? What about for the other two guys with fit factors of 13 and 17? I wouldn't risk a 87% or 83% chance of getting infected.
It's the same underlying app/framework, but not the same content and users, right?
By now they probably have already exhausted/repurposed all the second hand manufacturing machines so they need new ones to add additional capacity. According to the article, the company building them needs months for a new one due to the precision requirements.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22612515.
Masks are supposed to be disposable. In normal times you wear it for a few hours, then throw away.
>But how can you objectively establish that somebody is unattractive?

Dating apps are a good data point to start with.
Good luck ever enforcing that.
actually taken to an extreme he could deserve criminal charges.
I had both, and returned the remarkable as it was rather unremarkable. By itself it wasn't so bad, but next to a Sony I could feel the difference.

Everything just felt better on the Sony- not just the hardware or the software, but the whole product. With some minor fixes (ex: moving the icon from the dropdown menu to the empty space on top of the screen) it could move from outstanding to just perfect.
Profit is the motive that gets people to build things, period.
Yup. After reading the article, I was dumbfounded when the solution to the left/right handedness is a simple screen flip.

Glad the OEM thought this through.
Owner of Theranos's patents sues maker of actual Covid-19-testing kit
You are learning an important lesson the hard way.

Never be loyal to a corporation. Corporations are not loyal to you (or other employees) in spite of how it may seem sometimes. How could they be loyal? They are not human.

I first heard this from a CTO at my first dev job when he was encouraging me to come along with an upcoming merger. I said something like "well I want to be loyal to company..." he immediately cut me off and said "never be loyal to a company -- a company will not be loyal to you." (paraphrasing)

Since then, I have witnessed his assertion come true many times.

Save your loyalty for people. We would like to think that the bonds made with teammates will be shared by the company, they won't.
Which Tech Bro Is Fleeing Coronavirus on This 'Lord of the Rings' Plane?
I'm honestly unable to make sense of this given the poor "camera pointed at projector screen" quality. Website looks intriguing, but I can't figure out how to do anything in the browser demo besides simple numeric calculations inside single cells.
I too love this kind of humor. Don't worry, I'm not one to break reasonable laws, much less try to harm people. :)
Show HN: Clean, curated knowledge base on recent Coronavirus (Covid-19)
This is extremely impressive. The value prop, the product, all of it. It resonates.

I was at a startup 5 or so years ago, and now am at a very large company. The world of pain you enter as a small shop when the Large Co. takes you through their third-party compliance and enterprise IT requirements are mind boggling. WorkOS seems to be that critical and much overdue on-ramp between startups and the FT500.
Those masks aren't N95 class meaning they can't be used by care workers. Of the N95 class masks, only 600k are manufactured daily, which isn't enough by far, especially when growth of patient numbers continues.
I've played MUDs for decades. Spamming "k monster", "st", and "i" doesn't really make you faster at typing anything other than those letters. I'd still miss frequently on ; {} () and [], as well as capital letters. It'll train your skill writing macros more than typing.
keybr seems to be the best resource for me. It tracks what you're doing wrong and gives you buttons around that. There's less fluff and gamification. You can also practice punctuation, whuch is where many programmers have trouble.
We can and should regulate the "market" when they exploit ignorance of our fellow beings, regardless to the degree of efficiency you purport it has.
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2049, for the year the blade runner sequel is set in.
Let's not go anywhere near that far.
Not enough manpower at the moment, for sure, but we should create it through education and social investment. It's generally a strategic advantage to have manufacturing capabilities no matter what discipline; it's less that we are reliant on China for this one particular thing and more that we have allowed our once-strong manufacturing muscle to atrophy. We subsidize gas heavily because it's a strategic advantage to the nation; call it a hunch but I think there are more knock-on benefits to being able to make stuff than is readily apparent (and I thought such a view would be more popular on Hacker News to be frank).
Even Apple Employees are attending work
> Start looking for a job asap

Sorry, but with the world economy literally crashing around you, this isn't practical advice. Everyone who was hiring is going to be delaying those decisions right now.
These videos are more informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6gE3cNgbI&list=PLf1PDMa3qV...
If the posted content is never shown to anyone then this is the same as not allowing the post.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22611910
Even assuming it takes 5-6 months, I assume they did not start building new machines today. Starting late January puts the ramp up starting in ~3-4 months.
The world needs IP rules like the FCC (USA) has for Amateur Radio.

The rules are basically if lives are in danger, anything goes.
Hyperrogue[1] takes place in hyperbolic space. Definitely a good way to gain an intuition for it. It offers several different projections, so you can try them out. It's also open source[2].

1: https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/

2: https://github.com/zenorogue/hyperrogue
Only 600,000 of those are N95 standard, suitable for health care and using the special fabric in short supply.

Mask wear in Asia is common, for smog, smoke and controlling flu. The cheap ones don't last long, and often replaced instead of put through the wash. Common mask usage requires use of cheaper, more comfortable masks rather than the health care certified ones.
Without locking down the community early they’ll lose their livelihoods anyway. You can’t create a holocaust and expect there to be no forced shutdown.
I see plenty of places that landlords just sit on waiting for some maximal amount of rent to be agreed to, only for the business to crumble under high rents, rinse, repeat.
Valves are mature technology. The expense to develop it is negligible. The expense to push it through regulatory apparatus might not be.

Most likely it is a trivial variation on an already approved design, varied solely for the purposes of obtaining a new patent, and of getting an exclusive requirement for it to be used on the machine.

There is no defensible reason to presume good faith on the part of a medical equipment manufacturer, even though a few do have it.
Yeah presumably this is something that is best used and highly localized as far as knowledge goes. No records, just some trusted locals who would use it... beyond that as few people as possible would know about it.
OBS is super complicated for non tech-savvy users, so it’s probably not a great option, but some video sharing systems (I want to say Zoom?) can target a specific window.

And as to the Workspace thing, it is super handy to have a immediately revertable system for any kind of demo so it’s controlled and you can reset if something goes wacky, and a Workspace (or Citrix or whatever) specifically is handy because it doesn’t eat CPU/RAM which streaming HD video typically wants a lot of.
>I know such homemade masks are not 100% proof. But even if they only work to reduce 10% of the risks if everybody wore them, than can be the difference between a R0 of 1.1 and 1.0 - and gives great results overall.

There's a psychological component to this. If a mask reduces the chance of infection (from daily contact) from 60% (random number) to 54%, I'm not going to bother, even though in aggregate it might make a huge difference. That's just me though.

Also, I suspect half-measures like this are only effective in the early stages of the outbreak. For instance, if the viral load required for infection is 10 units (completely arbitrary), and your daily exposure is between 5 and 15, using a home-made mask that filters out 50% of viruses makes sense. However, if your daily exposure is 100 (presumably because everyone around you is infected), that 50% reduction isn't going to help you.
Been compiling this list à la patrickcollison.com. The core goal of this is to consolidate good practical and scientific knowledge on the topic in one easy-to-access place/repo, especially that there seems to be a lot of noise currently. Would love to get [critical] feedback from HN and/or connect with anyone who's interested in helping out.
yeah you are right, the guys in italy should have let them die ?
I have an even better suggestion: Put your computer in DoNotDisturb mode while streaming. No messages popup ever.
Hi there, I'm in NZ too.

> Unfortunately, tests here in New Zealand cost 3000 NZD,

> and only people who have travelled recently AND show

> symptoms are allowed to be tested.

So they are assuming that they don't infect people either on the plane or when they land? This seems like dangerous thinking considering that the world is currently very aware of how contagious this is.

Also are you saying that it's $3000 out of pocket for the person infected? Or is that costed to the government? I think the US could be very heavily affected as people are not wanting to get tested in fear of associated health costs.

> I would love to see a web app where anecdata like this

> could be shared on a map (checkboxes of symptoms,

> severity, locations, number of people in groups).

100% this. Like the earthquake data that is collected from reports. Could also be a good opportunity to share good and up-to-date advice about the latest best practices.

I've not got a background in web-apps of any kind, but if you want some help to throw something together let me know.
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Surgical masks are protecting patients not doctors. Please educate yourself.

"The coronavirus is an upper respiratory virus and a surgical mask does not protect you from that kind of virus,” he said. “In fact, when people buy up these masks and hoard these masks then they might not be available for healthcare providers to use for patient care.”

He said surgical masks are more effective on people who are already infected with an illness to keep them from infecting others rather than the other way around. He said other types of masks are not very effective at preventing you from getting sick either."

https://www.wibc.com/news/local-indiana/surgeon-general-surg...
Same for the FAA, right?
All the workers being replaced by automation and having to rely on "gig economy" work could pursue manufacturing instead. We have the workforce.

We can pay workers livable wages and give them meaningful work. Cost of goods could be reduced through greater efficiency. Research into robotics and automation could fuel a new decade of American growth.
Care workers are in tiers. Not everyone needs a N95.

Not to mention there a are only 8k active covid cases in China now.
Apparently this isn't a well-done review: https://old.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/fjxnpn/librem_5_rev...
> As far as I can tell, most teams think Radar is the best bug tracking tool ever.

To judge from the outside, one of its features is that it makes it super easy to ignore years-old and highly multiply submitted bugs.
COVID-19 is bringing to the surface more and more fascinating cases where under "normal" circumstances Capitalism and making a profit is a good thing, but under just a little bit of pressure, suddenly it's evil.

Canada have just made it illegal ($5000 fine) for trying to profit off sales of toilet paper or sanitizer, and listings for them have been banned from eBay and Kijiji (Canada's version of Craigslist). Of course, under normal circumstances it's perfectly fine for Nike to make a pair of shoes for $3 (paying people terrible wages) and then sell them for $300 dollars. Their share price goes up and the Capitalists are happy.

Under normal circumstances patents are a good way to protect IP, and nobody cared last month that a part was $11,000 dollars and they had a monopoly on making it.

As one twitter post said "COVID-19 is a blacklight and it's revealing a lot of nasty stains on our Capitalist society"
Fun quote from the Grand Canyon river rafter: “Forgot to mention this, but my river name is One Chain. If it’s at all appropriate to mention that, that would be tight.”
Show HN: A dead simple Python Covid model. Help me get it in the right hands
Tesla updates employees on coronavirus, no plans on closing stores
I've heard using it externally described as "throwing a Radar over the wall"
The Pandemic Imagination
I mean, if it’s the same result does it matter if it’s human or artificial moderation?
Buganizer was preceded by BugsDB if I recall correctly
i get ya but it looks like an insinuated threat even if it was only postureing.
There are many online collaborative whiteboards. Those are the keywords you need to search for. I can't really recommend one since they all seem to have serious flaws. But for your use case, one might suffice.
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Coronavirus: 3D printers save hospital with valves
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Thank you.
You might want to read up on The Irish Potato Famine.

Some landlords were letting people stay rent free out of compassion because no one had money and it was tough all over and no one else was going to rent it. Then the government decided to bleed the landlords and insist it get paid if the unit was occupied, even if no rent was being paid.

Landlords had no choice but to begin evicting people. Things got ugly fast.
> nations can just print money to fund enterprises

I’m honestly not sure if you’re being facetious or not.

You can’t buy machinery with worthless banknotes.