skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another way is for the government to declare and emergency and order production

Which generally doesn't have to be ordered, because producers are already inclined to produce more during high demand.

You might also want to worry about the business consequences of ordering suppliers of critical products to spend money increasing capacity on an emergency basis without increasing their sales price. With no way to recover their now-higher costs, what happens when you drive them out of business and then need them again next time?

> and to set rules about distribution like limiting people to one box at a time or whatever

Which fails because some people have a legitimate need to buy in quantity, but it's an administrative nightmare to determine exactly who those people are and each failure to correctly identify results in a large quantity of items not going to people who legitimately need them.

It also violates the social distancing principle. Instead of sending one person from an office to the store to buy a box for each person from the office to take home, now every employee has to individually visit the store and create a new opportunity to transmit or receive an infection with other patrons or staff there.

> Markets are typically closer to economic optimality over the longer run but not in the short term,

There is no principle that markets are more optimal in the long run than the short run. Market failures exist, but they exist where they exist and not where they don't.

A huge demand spike isn't a market failure. The higher prices cause markets to do exactly what you want in that context -- increase production and reduce hoarding.

> and furthermore optimality is not always that important for many commodities that can be stockpiled against future emergencies.

This only works if they actually were stockpiled ahead of time, in which case there wouldn't be such a supply shortage that prices would rise to undesirable levels.
I'm fond of FPM for this kind of thing. It provides a usable interface over a bunch of package formats and explicitly aims to make the whole thing painless, and in my experience it succeeds.
Plus one for the budget Victorinox. It's my daily workhorse.
The UK is the only Tier 1 customer. There are multiple Tier 2 customers.
For recent commits, it is useful for figuring out causes of bugs that have been brought up recently by checking out to an earlier commit until it goes away.

As for commits that are over 2 years old, they still serve a purpose. For a legacy app that I worked on, I had `git blame` ran on every line (vim and vscode both have support), and I was able to see who worked on a block of code last. Sometimes, those developers are still there and available to ask questions which has helped me greatly.
I first guessed it was the chemical, then remembered I was on HN, and did a double take also thinking it was a Rust rewrite of some fancy library, or something.

I was (pleasantly?) surprised at the outcome, I guess...
It's really more the second amendment that makes it harder to do
For a dev with little to no time, this does basically say you can't show other sign in options. You can have only Apple sign in, but not only $competitor sign in.

Let's say I have an old app that isn't bringing me much new revenue. I have currently have implemented two options: sign in with email + password, and "sign in with Google".

After this announcement, I would just remove "sign in with Google" as an option, and force all my users who previously used "sign in with Google" to set a password.
I suspect it is easier, per package. Is it easier for all of them, though? An odd spot where I suspect it is not a simple summation of effort.
This piece is linked in the article:

http://psychwatch.blogspot.com/2014/11/this-woman-went-on-to...

It is by the patient leveling these accusations. It paints an excellent picture concerning why I hate the "junkies and crazies" explanation for homelessness. Her care providers doped her to the gills to allegedly try to fix her while not really doing anything to help her.

If she had taken that much medication by choice without a prescription, she would be called a junkie. Defying her doctors to get off the drugs got her called delusional and accused of oppositional defiant disorder.

Prior to reading the above, I had a different line of thought in mind for commenting here. Sexual situations are incredibly complex and I generally dislike the way discussions of them typically go. In this case, I will suggest that's sort of the least of the issue. The amount of drugs she was on was potentially life threatening and I'm horrified we are only reading about this because her therapist had a sexual relationship with her.

We prescribe drugs too casually and pass out the label "junkie" too cavalierly. If you seek help for your problems and they don't really help you, they just dope you to the gills instead, is it any wonder we have a drug epidemic going on in the US?
I've just "incompleted" my first Rust project: a Minecraft server. I gave up due to the protocol, not Rust. I finally learned the damn thing after spouting its hypothetical advantages all over the internet. My overall conclusion was correct, but the reasoning incorrect. The borrow checker is an amazing pair programmer, but that's not the primary reason I'm having genuine fun.

Rust is a systems language that is a pleasure to build. This "how to build on Mac/Windows/OSX" is a non-issue and should be a non-issue. Solving how to build something is an utter waste of time and is complete bullshit.

Please, for the sanity of the rest of us, stop using C build systems. They are just unbelievably terrible; people have tried and tried, but you can only do so much with a fundamentally flawed bad idea.
Chromium is just C++ and it can be hacked. The claim that something "isn't solvable through Chromium" shows magical thinking.

If a vector can be randomized or otherwise arms-raced vs. the remote adversary via C++, then "Chromium" is not an obstacle for Brave. Consider the case of extensions, where your point would have been valid if you'd written "Chromium extensions".

Fingerprinting can be done many ways, but most are not economic: they cost too much for the too few bits they get from the target browser. The common methods, notably fingerprint2.js, use APIs that we at Brave, along with Apple and others in the W3C Privacy CG, are taking on.

ICYMI, https://brave.com/whats-brave-done-for-my-privacy-lately-epi....
I'm happy to see AWS is giving back to the open source community.
> Nodejs is single process, single thread and single core.

ps -eLf disagrees:

$ ps -eLf|grep node
deploynode 16438 16173 16438 0 11 00:21 pts/6 00:00:01 /opt/bin/node node-le-manager-api 3550
deploynode 16438 16173 16439 0 11 00:21 pts/6 00:00:00 /opt/bin/node node-le-manager-api 3550
deploynode 16438 16173 16440 0 11 00:21 pts/6 00:00:00 /opt/bin/node node-le-manager-api 3550
deploynode 16438 16173 16441 0 11 00:21 pts/6 00:00:00 /opt/bin/node node-le-manager-api 3550
deploynode 16438 16173 16442 0 11 00:21 pts/6 00:00:00 /opt/bin/node node-le-manager-api 3550
deploynode 16438 16173 16443 0 11 00:21 pts/6 00:00:00 /opt/bin/node node-le-manager-api 3550
deploynode 16438 16173 16444 0 11 00:21 pts/6 00:00:00 /opt/bin/node node-le-manager-api 3550
deploynode 16438 16173 16445 0 11 00:21 pts/6 00:00:00 /opt/bin/node node-le-manager-api 3550
deploynode 16438 16173 16446 0 11 00:21 pts/6 00:00:00 /opt/bin/node node-le-manager-api 3550
deploynode 16438 16173 16447 0 11 00:21 pts/6 00:00:00 /opt/bin/node node-le-manager-api 3550
deploynode 16438 16173 16448 0 11 00:21 pts/6 00:00:00 /opt/bin/node node-le-manager-api 3550
deploynode 16579 8353 16579 0 1 00:27 pts/4 00:00:00 grep node
There might be some question as to the Federal government's legal authority to impose a quarantine on people who are not actually diagnoses as sick, but it would be no problem for state or local governments to do so. The Supreme Court has ruled several times that states have that power.
I'd pick SICP over those 2
This is what Maxly.coM used to do. They learned several valuable lessons and would be worth talking to one of the founders.
Dangerzone: Convert potentially dangerous PDFs, documents, or images to safe PDF
> a chef's knife, which will blunder through most tasks at mostly the same speed even after you whack it against a brick.

What? this isn't true. a sharpened knife is a joy to work with and you can "feel" the difference.
I don't know, pro sports are all unionized and they make money. Blaming the workers seems like rightwing nonsense to me.
Ideally, everybody would be tested! But the tests are expensive and in limited numbers (even if free in some countries for people, health authorities still pay for them). And people also won't volunteer to get tested unless knowing they are at high risk.
People only don't sell things when the prices go up if they expect them to go up even more. That doesn't apply to temporary shortages at all. Either the demand will fall off over time or manufacturing will catch up to the demand, either of which causes the prices to decrease over time. Anybody who wants to profit from a shortage has to do it while there is still a shortage.
The amount of tracking data that Apple devices collect is almost almost inconceivable.

It's just that Apple isn't collecting it, the apps on their appstore are, which Apple profits from directly and indirectly.

But, yes, they're doing a really good job marketing themselves as the "privacy" company.
I appreciate your comment but we are talking about decidedly different things. I mean falsifiable as in how Karl Popper defined it [1]. Culture is ineffable and to even understand it will be like trying to define something like Art, to define 'broken culture' fairly impossible. There is no falsifiability criteria for your assertion.

[1] https://explorable.com/falsifiability
Autonomous vehicles can be fooled to ‘see’ nonexistent obstacles
> After this announcement, I would just remove "sign in with Google" as an option, and force all my users who previously used "sign in with Google" to set a password.

Okay, you do that. That's not a punishment to Apple, you might bounce some of your own users and is a choice you made exclusively.

> You can have only Apple sign in, but not only $competitor sign in.

If that's the antitrust argument, they just need to reword it say "and include another signin method" or logged out functionality. I just don't think thats a strong enough argument, as they aren't removing choice in any way only adding it, except to people with existing apps - like you - who will risk decimating all their own users.
I heard of a story of an SD card purchased from china that did not have the disk space specified. In fact, the card would continue to over write the contents without reporting full.
It's very unclear to me how this is all that different from basically any other means of allocating funds that people use.

The only fundamental difference seems to be the rate at which you re-evaluate allocations.

Conceptually I see how this mitigates the sort of waste described by the OP, but implementing it seems ridiculous. How would you conduct bureaucratic audits in the middle of military operations?
I generally get annoyed at most analogies that compare DNA to code because they oversimplify a lot, but I really do like this particular DNA-code analogy.

My university molecular genetics course taught me that DNA is very complicated. Many of us know of the simplified model where an RNA polymerase, encouraged by some transcription factors, locates and binds to a promoter sequence, unwinds the strands, and constructs an RNA strand. However, DNA has a 3D structure. Histones can wind up DNA tightly enough to hide genes from transcription proteins, or they can unwind and expose DNA to encourage expression. Some transcription factors can bind to sequences several kilobases away from the target gene, cause that part of the DNA to fold onto itself, and ultimately bind to transcription proteins to encourage expression of the target gene.[0]

Extending your comment, it is entirely possible that bits and pieces of old viral code have accidentally led to weird things like this, and that many organisms now depend on this behavior.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_factor#/media/Fi...

(In the course of reading about transcription factors, I came across something pretty neat that's related to all this about 3D structures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_factories)

Edit: I should also mention that, if it wasn't obvious, that viral DNA getting inserted into certain places can disrupt these complex interactions by increasing or decreasing the expression of a gene. For the cell/organism, this can be detrimental, benign, or perhaps beneficial.
This sounds so much like a ‘stick my head in the sand’ policy that it’s unreal. Who the hell would stop doing it because it’s illegal...
You can always make Methane from Hydrogen.
> Porter Airlines appears to have started in an entirely unique regulatory regime, actually

I did a quick skim of that wiki article (skimmed a couple sections, ctrl+f'd for "regulat" and "monopoly"), but couldn't find anything about a unique regulatory regime. There has been regulatory issues with the Toronto Island Airport (where porter wants to extend the runway to allow jets to land, but no one* else wants this), but I don't see where they required a unique regulatory regime?
I take about 1-2 hours to hash out some major changes to C# code. It breaks for asinine reasons (of my own fault) 7 or 8 times after I try it out. I just wrapped up my learning Rust project. Day 1 was spent with about 7 hours of coding, some unit tests, first run it worked with no stupid errors. All refactorings except one (I messed up mutability, logic error) went without a hitch after running it.

It's wholesome development, if there were such a thing. I feel good and proud of the code I write in it.

[1]: https://github.com/jcdickinson/racemus
They sort of do...

Not explicitly as you implied. But implicitly it is required. Let me explain.

You own a service that has social authentication with Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.. You have web, desktop, and mobile apps for this service (or some combination thereof).

Your iOS app now requires you to offer "Sign in with Apple" as an auth provider, because you already offer Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.. So you add "Sign in With Apple" to your iOS app because Apple requires because of their monopoly for distribution on iOS devices. So you now add Apple auth as an authentication option within the iOS app.

Now what happens if a user signs up in your iOS app with Apple's Auth? How are they going to log in on your website, desktop, Browser extension, or anything else? Well, I guess you now need to add "Sign in with Apple" on those devices too.

Once you offer an auth provider as an option on one device, it must now be offered throughout your platform on all devices or you risk locking users out.

Thus, if you offer social auth for authentication, and you want distribution on at least one iOS device, you are implicitly required to offer Apple Authentication across your entire platform.

And that is the power of Apple's distribution monopoly on iOS.

Oh, and before you think "well we will just boycott iOS" for my platform. Good luck. You won't get very far (in the US at least) without iOS support if you are just starting. Even an established company would struggle to succeed without iOS support. Imagine if Uber just said "Fuck it, no more iOS app". All their iOS users would say "Fuck it, no more Uber then, Lyft here I come".
Thanks for the tip - haven't heard of Maxly before but will do some research
There are ways to improve that, eg https://eng.uber.com/rethinking-gps/

It could also give a probability for each case.

I agree it's hard, but maybe there are some cases where it will be effective. Look at China's current infection rates vs. Italy. Desperate times require some not-perfect measures.
https://menafn.com/1099795540/China-suppressed-Covid-19-with...
Yes, I think Netflix survives, and prospers, for a number of reasons;

A) not "every other entertainment company" is starting, or can sell, a streaming business.

At one end of the scale you have Disney, with a huge catalog of stuff you've already seen. At the other end you have Apple with a handful of shows that you can watch all of in a single month.

But there are lots and lots of long-tail entertainers who will ultimately sell their work to a provider. Which brings us to B)

B) content costs money. And Netflix is out-spending the others. Which they can afford to do because they have the larger income from this already.

Of course there will be multiple platforms going forward, but most people will consolidate to 2 or 3 services. And for most people it'll be Netflix plus 1 or 2 others.
> she was written off, the attack was deemed impractical as it required a corrupt official

I think that hit a bit too close to home for most of the government.
https://menafn.com/1099795540/China-suppressed-Covid-19-with...
Uh... data from this Chinese study suggests that death & recovery take longer than that... I read it as about 30 - 40 days from exposure.

Also suggests you've got a critical / potentially terminal patient occupying an ICU bed for 2 - 3 weeks in the process, which becomes a significant load on your available hospital capacity...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20028423v...
The number of subgraphs increases exponentially with the number of additional layers (and neurons). If you started off with a network the size of the final pruned network, you would have a dramatically lower chance of finding a winning ticket compared to the oversized network you start with.
How is stackoverflow different? This is the same shit.

I just look at wikipedia as a reference point, but verify the facts from reliable source.
Yeah you can pretty much forget about wealthy Europeans doing anything at the speed of any business cycle. They are scared oldest sons managing a family office who have no idea what they are doing aside from breathing and making a baby in wedlock.

These people will put down $1 million dollar deposit to make it seem like they are serious about completing a deal, and will just let the timeline expire forfeiting the entire deposit!

Forget about the negative interest rates. Unless you can tap into the high yield corporate debt market, then dealing with these rich people is hopeless.

Source: Been around a lot of wealthy Europeans that talked a big game. It is the most ridiculous stable business climate on Earth. I do not recommend, especially for tech.
This is a blog post encouraging people to go out and find someone.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Like a real-life Ocean's Eleven.
reminded me of this speech by Dijkstra that i believe was linked on an HN thread last month.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/E...
Couldn't agree more. I often have to install programs from sounce, and dynamic linking, header files/include paths, etc. make the C build system extremely unreliable. It's often more of a trial and error process ("which library is it going to be missing next") than a methodical one. I've spent countless hours hunting down why libfoo.so isn't loading correctly, or why some random function is undefined at the compile stage.
I would LOVE to see a full population test sample... Would be expensive (probably need 5 K - 10 K tests for a significant read, most of which will likely be wasted on "likely healthy" members of the community... but would decisively settle this outstanding question of asymptomatic infection frequency.

The closest data point we have is likely that South Korean church, where I think they hunted down more or less every member and tested them... Doesn't give you a true view of asymptomatic presence in the general population but does provide a cue about relative size vs. known infected...
I think spec files are asinine. Throwing it all in one specially formatted file and using weird macros to define the build steps. Deb is terrible too, but mostly just because they split everything up too much. The actual file formats are nice to work with. E.g. the rules file is just a make script and the install files are lists of files to install and their destinations.

Ports systems like alpine/arch/void are nice, but they also handle less (except for void maybe, that ports system has built in support for a lot of different build systems, so packaging a cmake or meson project is a breeze).
> apple is leveraging it's position in the mobile Phone space to push it's way into social login

but they aren't removing choice, they are only adding choice in their approval processes, and leaving it to the developers to decide to remove choice when they get social login fatigue but want high engagement and low friction. Looks like they dotted their I's and crossed their T's on this one.
I think this is a good idea in general but aren't Western people too afraid of the implications on privacy?
This is applicable if tou use Firebase Auth. 90% of apps will have to implement it on their own. It's not that hard, but it's usually not trivial as well. It also costs time and money they wouldn't have to spend if they didn't want to include Sign in with Apple option originally. Yet they're now forced to.
I would love to see a high level overview and compare/contrast between different container and virtualization technologies out there. For those if us who have a good understanding of operating systems and hardware, but haven't been keeping up with the plethora of new technologies that are out there.

From what I understand, even QEMU can work in different modes, either emulating hardware or a system call interface. So I'm not sure which of those modes you are referring to.
author here. the more interesting statement i was considering making, but didn't, was betting on whether they might IPO at all now (say within the next 5 years) given the troubles they had even pre coronavirus
What would be even better is if not only would they have to tell you this, but that you could say, "No. I don't agree to this nonsense" and they would have to refrain. They wouldn't even be able to deny you service based on that. They would, of course, be able to use the data if they needed to fulfill the contract with the customer, or if they had some legitimate reason for using it, or if there was some legal requirement for using it. Otherwise they would have to get consent.

It would be a kind of General Data Protection Regulation. All joking aside, and as much as I've grumbled about implementing it at the company where I work, I really wish this was a thing world wide.
Kids can catch and transmit the virus to other household members; this was the main path through the community in a few flu models a while back (spread through daycare and the elementary schools first, then families, then everyone else).

Household transmission rate was about 15% in china. (so a 15% chance of infecting another member of your household).

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20028423v...
Abstractions are meant to be broken! One could probably work around this problem by adding new functions to cool_library, or modifying existing ones, whose code would be copy-pasted from the library but with some asyncio.sleep(0) calls spliced in strategic places :). For legacy projects, it may make more sense to cheat like this than to rewrite the whole project in a saner tech stack.
> Fuel cell catalyst material has been cost prohibitive.

Maybe, maybe not. Lots of people have been working on low cost fuel cells:

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/04/pani-20110421.html

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2016/01/20160115-udel.html

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/12/20191216-suryanto.h...

Toyota thinks they can build fuel cell cars cheaper than battery electrics:

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/26050/exclusive-toyota-hydroge...

> Interesting research but I don’t understand the commercial value.

They are more uses for hydrogen than just fueling vehicles. For example, you can use hydrogen in steel production:

https://www.en-former.com/en/hydrogen-revolution-steel-produ...