skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moreover, the price of a things seems less determined by the cost to manufacture + some markup, supply/demand, or even a general sense of value.

Store brand vs name brand being a reasonable example. The exact same product with two different names on it - two different prices by pretty wide margins in some cases. Heck even the same can of (product) at two different stores can very by quite a bit.

The cost of a piece of tech a wild from one to another while the guts are basically the same. Then consider that the physical item is being sold at-cost or close to it, but real revenue for the company is based on subscriptions or data + ads.

How could anyone look at a kitchen appliance and guess what the price is today? It seems every toaster is made in the same factory, slap a different brand sticker on it, enable an extra button (or disable it on a generic version), and boom that $20 toaster is $150.

Also, everything is always on sale. MSRP is a seemingly meaningless number in the face of endless rolling sales.
This is what you get when you make a post when you've got no expert on this subject matter. Token example.
This seems like the best one going, and for the cheapest price for a lot of users. I'm interested in more reviews?
You should try OneLogin - LastPass is a dream by comparison.
We're not yet at that phase, but it's why the lockdown was needed.
Lastpass has a feature called auto password change [0] that allows you to update a password directly from inside lastpass at the click of the button. It doesn't work for all sites but it's a pretty nice feature.

[0] https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/generating-a-password/auto-pas...
The point of mentioning the guns was that whomever controlled the island could limit the ability of ships and submarines to transit to and from the inner Baltic Sea. If you have guns on the coast of Poland and on the island, then it leaves a very narrow set of channel where you can't bombard passing ships.
I'm sorry, but a language that doesn't support the class keyword isn't C++. They just ported templates to C.

And that's what their docs say too.
An off topic question, but I would appreciate feedback: I have tried the DuckDuckGo browser on my iPad, and it seems like it provides good privacy features even though it is layered on WebKit. Any opinions of DuckDuckGo vs. Firefox on iOS?
My wife and I regularly watch The Price is Right, and I'm frequently amazes at how broad the spectrum is for prices of televisions. That set includes outdoor televisions at $3k+
I dislike strongly the look and feel of most Thunderforest maps. It may look "modern" but when you want to actually read a map, having light green symbols on a slightly lighter green background is ridiculous.
Are you struggling to format your CV?
I can't respond to whether people need to use a nebulizer or not, but nebulizers can be used at home with basically zero training. Or they can be administered by minimally trained workers in tent hospitals.
Yes, so if you burn methane that already exists, you produce an equal amount of CO2. Climate change neutral.
If you actually have a banking system proposal, I'm still curious.
Temporary Covid-19 ventilators – define the problem, then find options
A lot of people here read the post yesterday suggesting a DIY/grass roots effort to create a ventilator.

Having many more ventilators might save a large number of lives if health care systems become overwhelmed, as seems to be the case in Italy.

Many people here rightly argued against the idea of creating a from-scratch ventilator design because of the technical challenge and the fact that getting ventilators built in factories faster is a better idea. Increased production will happen at some point, but Italy teaches us it may not happen quickly enough.

I think a better definition of what such a device has to do to be useful will be valuable near term.

According to the information I'm seeing from Italy, ventilators are in heavy use, but also things like CPAP devices with hoods, bag masks, and even ambu bags - pretty much any device that can help someone with pneumonia breathe, take in oxygen and remove CO2.

So, my question to all the experts and amateurs here is this: What exactly is needed in terms of breathing assistance to help someone with pneumonia survive?

Would a plain CPAP machine be enough?

Would a simple demand regulator set to provide air at a few tens of millibars above ambient pressure help?

Are there any devices in common use which could provide breathing assistance in dire need with some modifications/adjustments?

Certainly the ideal would be to find a way to make sure there are enough ventilators for everyone in the world, but unless the various governments and corporations of the world start reacting faster and better to this pandemic, we're going to need all the help we can get, and if converting or building something can help one more person somewhere in the world survive the virus, it's worth doing.
In the US, there's the religious angle as well. People really consider the Apocalypse prophecy in the sense of foretelling the future, not forthtelling the will of God. The faithful, so the widespread belief goes, will be raptured in time, such as not to live under the Satanic authorities.

Twenty years ago, everyone thought that "Left Behind" was blasphemous, but reality has overtaken fiction. We are living in a branch of reality not intended for production use.
Use a mail client like Thunderbird.
I don't understand how to read this. Why is it animated? What's the 3rd dimension?
The article was good enough. There was a lack of mentioning the many drawbacks that this approach can have[1], but it was a well written description of it.

Many of the comments, however, are... Not quite as good; there was a bit of elitism and maybe even zealotry[2]. As usual, it soured an interest in FP (not that I've ever needed it) that an even slightly humbler approach might have fostered.

Now I'll dabble a bit in the self-congratulatory tone of some of the comments: I have never written a line of F# and the last time I dabbled with a primarily functional language was a couple of toy projects in Clojure (quite different) years ago and yet I was able to follow along the code and the explanations.

Functional approaches aren't all that different or revelatory for someone with enough development experience[3] and it's just a different approach, who would have thought it?

[1]: Not unexpected; functional programmers who've convinced themselves that FP has no drawbacks are unfortunately common. I'm not saying the author is one of those, though; he probably thought the article was long enough as is.

[2]: Also not unexpected in any discussion about paradigms, specially functional programming.

[3]: I've seen the general idea discussed here in different more multiparadigm languages.
Totally agree in disciplinary actions and practices. Though We need to accept a pitfall on the mood sometimes. Getting a mentor-ship is a good thing to get back on mood
12V / 6mV is ~33 dB SNR. What’s more is that the 6 mV ripple on this supply’s 12V rail is p-p and not RMS. So for most apples to apples measurements it’d be more accurate to say the SNR is closer to 35 dB.

Regardless, seasonic supplies, and this one in particular, are very low noise. Most supplies are closer to 30mV ripple on the 12V rail.
given his recent travel records and the genetic testing that linked his particular strain to subsequent patients, it's highly likely he was patient zero
Similar in some ways, yes, but without some of Firebase's limitations and with a much different query engine.
Yes, sucralose is chlorinated sucrose (table sugar).

If the structural formula looks like a pesticide it might be better to not ingest it.
> Put a 65" TV and I'd bomb it...somewhere between $400 and $1500?

that's actually not bad. I researched TVs recently, and an entry level 65" does cost about $400, while $1500 is upper mid-range. of course, it can be double that or more for a really good 65" oled.

if I had to price a specific model, I'd be in trouble.
Wide RGB color support is almost non-existent.
I predicted this. I made 100% return on my $4000 investment. That's not hindsight bias.
Seattle will likely be Italy within 2 weeks.
I think this animated version is terrible and offers mostly confusion. The version here is much easier to understand: https://twitter.com/_rospearce/status/1235603201648402432
Do you have a demo?
The article was behind a paywall, but in the past few years, the show has been getting away from staple goods to make it more difficult for contestants to win.

The Perfect Bid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdFKZtZop7A) went over this in more detail after a player and long time watcher (Ted Slauson) managed to win both showcases. For years, the show had used a set of household goods that had a consistent price. Ted memorized all of the prices and won both showcases at the end.

The producer freaked out over the incident and started to use more items and ones that add-ons that made guessing the price more difficult. They did that because they didn't want their winnings budget blown out.
In recent years, they have been using more generic items like 'free utilities for a year' to make it more random.
We use mailgun and have not had an issue. It's often cheaper than sendgrid too
Five security tips for web developers
J2ME was missing floating point. Remember the flip phones and candy bar phones of the 2000s prior to the iPhone? I remember having to use an int to have 16 bits to left and 16 bits to right of "binary point". Then have simplistic trig functions on these. And functions to convert between an ordinary int and this "fixed point within an int" type.
nCov is 20x more deadly than the flu across all age ranges.

Young People

* Flue - 0.01% death rate
* nCov - 0.2% death rate

(I am struggling to source this, I read it in the past week in a graph of a study and have had a very hard time tracking that study back down).
I wasn't too worried about covid19 until I realized the radical disconnect between the understanding of the real risk of this I see here and on twitter vs in the real world. At least in the US people won't take this seriously until we see very high numbers of cases. Which means when people do take it seriously, we'll be in trouble.

It's not simply a case of not understanding exponential growth, Americans actively do not want to understand what's happening. I was in a meeting yesterday and someone, with no hint of reservation, said they felt very optimistic about the business in the next quarter.

This bizarre denial means that things will inevitably get much worse in the US then they will in Italy (and we don't have the political will to solve this like China has even in the most extreme cases).
6000 are, but only one person spends money on it.
But why the lungs and not the liver?
Gutenberg Block Patterns: The Future of Page Building in WordPress
we used that too. it also has LDAP SSO afaik
For those that want to understand what modern class-based OOP really is, there's a great analysis at https://wiki.haskell.org/OOP_vs_type_classes#There_is_only_o...
I doubt increasing albedo would help much. Venus already has the highest albedo of any planet in our solar system (at 0.75, versus, for perspective, our moon's 0.12), due to its effectively-100% sulfuric acid cloud cover:

https://sciencing.com/albedo-planets-5203.html

https://www.universetoday.com/36833/albedo-of-venus/

Also, I doubt an insignificant chunk of ice (relatively speaking) could help cool it, or increase albedo.

I think the first order of business on Venus, if one wanted to colonize the surface (rather than colonize the atmosphere, which I think is doable), would be to "harvest" the gases of the atmosphere and thin it out to something more resembling Earth's.
The goal is to slow down the spread not to stop it completely, so everything that reduces probability of a person catching a virus helps. For example if a person goes to one meeting instead of two, the probability is reduced.
Never understood the "starve the beast" argument of reducing government. Take ten seconds to imagine being locked in a room with a starving beast--does that sound like a good idea to anybody?
I get that flattening is good, but the animation is actually harder to read than the original static graph (Pearce). I can't stop it to read it. I can't read which outcomes are fatalities, and which are not. I can't read the total number of infections or total deaths.

In addition, like Pearce, neither axis has a scale so this is purely qualitative. It's made to look like it's quantitative but it's not.

A rational decision maker (if only we had them) would trade the cost of aggressive quarantines (economic and political) or aggressive testing vs the cost of infection (economic and human). Flattening the curve saves lives, but how many? Can I save 1000 lives in my country by an absolute ban on all gatherings of 100 people? and so on.
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Now I want to watch that movie!
That's nice, but how about treatment costs? You can get tested for COVID, but if you present at the ER with respiratory symptoms, physicians will want to rule our influenza and staph, and that will still cost you, nevermind treatment when you are admitted and uninsured.

It has been drilled into people that physicians will cheat and overbill you, and that you should not "overconsume medical resources", and now the economic damage of that mindset becomes apparent.
The third dimension is us slowing down the spread of the virus. It doesn't necessarily prevent people from ultimately getting sick, but spreading it out ensures that the medical infrastructure is not overwhelmed. If we do nothing to stop the spread, we won't have the infrastructure to handle it and many patients with potentially recoverable ailments (not just corona related issues) will end up receiving subpar care and dying.
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A Former Rocket Scientist Makes the Best Copper Pots in America [video]
0 degrees is "really fucking cold outside" and 100 degrees is "really fucking hot outside". Celsius resorts to negative numbers even for a normal snowy day while wasting about half of the positive two-digit numbers for temperatures that have never been recorded on Earth. It's a terrible scale for weather.
Have any of you checked out TigerGraph yet? I have heard if you have run into scale issues with any other GraphDB, to check them out. First glance, benchmarks blow Neo4J out of the water... GSQL seems intuitive, anybody have any experience?
I guess that's a reasonable trade-off. if I want to protect my personal assets through an LLC, I have more obligations to the worker than some random Joe.
They got unlucky. But it‘s highly likely that the procedures successfully delayed or prevented some infections for now.
Turning off JavaScript disables the paywall.
On the other hand, a GIF is easy to share and can be viewed on very low end devices.
Why don't you stop feeding your cat and see what happens.
Twilio rival MessageBird launches Inbox, an AI-powered contact center
I'm the same. It seems to pierce any flavor profile. It's not the first thing I taste, but it quickly overwhelms other flavors and IMO ruins whatever it's in. I rarely read ingredients lists, but when I do, it's after tasting sucralose.
NYU is doing the same.
Nevermind. I've figured it out with the help of the reference manual at http://www.nsl.com/k/k2/k295/kreflite.pdf. I knew it was a permutation but I applied it incorrectly.
Dashlane or KeePass
Augmented Training Scheme Fixes CNN Texture Bias
Gates, Wellcome and Mastercard launch $125M fund to finance Covid-19 treatments
Yes linear gamma generates the most natural results, because that's the way physical light combines. Gamma was a great invention for display and transmission but it sure wrecked our ability to mix colors.
Connect Your Screens. Don't Let Them Be Black Anymore.
Every news article on any policy change will include some characterization of what the opposition to it is saying.
If nobody is diagnosed as having COVID19, then Trump was right that COVID19 wasn't a problem. So how do you keep diagnoses low - by not testing anybody! It's like turning off your phone so you can argue "I didn't get any phone calls".
Notebook Environments for Deep Learning
1956 Olympic Flame Hoax
Agreed - it can really be the little things and moments that matter. When we've become focused on creating camera worthy moments at the expense of having an enjoyable, satisfying moment, that's a problem.

I don't think there's a default "oh just don't use instagram/cameras/phones" reaction that we should jump to; as with everything there's a certain amount of usage that's good and bad.
Yes, that too. Also it's important to realize that each study is a datapoint unto itself, and over time these data points paint a picture. But even if the study is not the whole picture, we can still get a hint as to what that picture is shaping to be.
The biggest problem with modern capitalism is that you don't know if something is "good" before you buy it. The information asymmetry / obfuscation ensures that.
Electra: Pre-Training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators
The Holodomor is Ukranian fascist propaganda popularised by the Nazis, the Katyn massacre was done by the Nazis, the Cossacks weren't massacred, the 1956 Hungarian revolt was led by local fascists and friendly socialist countries were called to help fight them (not just the USSR), The Gulag Archipelago is fiction, Afghanistan's socialist government asked for help from its ally agains the US-backed local fascists.

You're literally repeating fascist and Cold War propaganda. Consider that perhaps the rulers of the US have a material incentive to lie about the kind of politics that threaten their profits.

The US is the evil empire, murdering millions across the world to this day.
Yeah, this is how it usually is with animation. That's much better.

Regardless, "measures" is too abstract to provide any meaningful information. At this point of reduction what the plot offers is basically self-evident. Well, maybe the only thing that might surprise someone is that the better the thing is handled, the longer it will last.
The answer to the first why is... maybe due to climate change?

The second why should be easy to figure out if you took basic human biology.

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonito...
Great idea. We should use Titan to build a bunch of insane asylums there. And then perhaps we can neglect the insane asylums, the patients can escape and start their own societies based on the type of disease they have.
somewhere between $400 and $1500

Both! I see anywhere from $549 to $2200 on Amazon right now.

Durable items introduce enough randomness into games like The Price is Right, but laziness on the part of the producers (e.g. using the same 65" TV every show) negates it. Keen players that study for the show used to know what a Ford Escort cost as well as every add-on package. Then they would ask the host which packages are installed.
Ok, Matt.
> returning four days earlier from a visit with family in Wuhan, China

> County health officials located more than 60 people who’d come in contact with him, and none developed the virus in the following weeks. By Feb. 21, he was deemed fully recovered. Somehow, someone was missed.

A flight from China sounds like way more than 60 people to come in indirect contact with: same plane, same airport facilities,...
I shop for my family's groceries every week, and I couldn't tell you the price of 3/4 of what I buy. I just know what a usual weekly total looks like. If there's significant change I can usually tie it to one or two items that were special that week (or that great sale that I chose to bulk up on). I tend to just put things into buckets of $1-20, $20-100, $100-250, etc. Most things at the grocery store are in that first bucket, so while I'll grab an alternate if there's a sale on, the only prices I really pay attention to are steak/large cuts of meat.
Is there no hope to expedite it in this case? Are we gonna sit and watch dozens, maybe hundreds of Americans dying of a disease that has a medication in EU and China?
Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science
Unfortunately for Rachel's argument, rhetoric exists.

That means that while Alice can come along and be less evil than Barry and Mark, Eve can appear to be less evil than all of them and corner the market.

Now ask yourself which our society optimizes for: designing and implementing sustainable, ethical business models? Or designing and implementing sophisticated public relations campaigns?

Btw-- how much market share does Firefox currently have?
I agree. Changing human behavior/culture is more expensive, takes more time, and is less likely to succeed.

I disagree on the foil pieces in orbit. Sure, that would be much easier than a single piece. But it would be impossible to correct or reduce the amount of "glitter" once it is in an orbit. A single piece (maybe spaced out with holes or cuts) can be removed or reduced as necessary.
> the number of active infections could reach 1,100 by March 10

That's today. How old is this article?
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Samsung Presents Groundbreaking All-Solid-State Battery Technology
Are we missing f64 and other 64-bit integer types because of... JavaScript? Again!?
Check this out
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-jap...
We cannot be sure, sure, but absolutely everything in the movie indicates that Vincent survives. The whole story arc for him is that he overcomes everything, even rescuing his genetically superior brother from drowning on the way, and prevails.

Edit, to add: the name Vincent is derived from the Greek/Latin word for conquering/winning... so there’s that too.
Not really. But it's significant progress compared to sticking charts like this into reports https://www.shipownersclub.com/media/2017/02/Risk-matrix-1-7...

I think it's also worth saying that when people say reputational risk they're generally not thinking about litigation, they're thinking about consumer perception, which it's not crazy to believe would have large impacts for large companies.
Remdesivir COVID-19 Clinical Trials Recruiting
"path of least resistance" -- Ha, I see what you did there.
From Jansenism to Humanae Vitae: The Long History of Catholic Dissent
GPU's rarely have double precision arithmetic.
Lies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
Just note that Firefox (any version) won't be in the quarterly repository for a few days due to a dependency problem, at least for 12.1-RELEASE:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2020-March...
Conversely, I shop on AliExpress, and I've become very good at telling you the price of any gadget.
If the claim is random access, then I agree that O(1) is imposssible. Rope would allow these tasks to be carried out in logarithmic time.

The tasks I chose were the first two API desiderata from http://www.and.org/vstr/design - which is the examples page you had in mind?
Google services are extremely slow on Firefox too.
How Big Is the Mobile AR Market?
Agreed! It's painfully slow.
With the new(ish) Containers feature, you can have different accounts in different tabs. They are color-coded so you can tell which container each tab is in. Just long-press or right-click the New Tab button to choose which container the new tab opens under. So e.g. you could log in to Twitter in your container, open a new tab in her container, and log in to a different Twitter account there.
Administrating it is a giant PITA, I wouldn't recommend.