skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better metrics would include:

- Looking at MSAs or CSAs rather than cities proper, since cities like SF are tiny and you get a distorted view by ignoring people that work or live outside the city

- Including non-commute usage data. A good transit system has people who use it even for leisure.

- Equitably. Systems disproportionately used by rich or poor people are bad.

- Development patterns. If real estate is cheaper near transit, that suggests the system is bad. If you pay more to be near transit, that suggests the system is valuable.

- Addressable market. A sprawling metropolitan area with lots of freeways is basically never going to have a high mass transit mode share, but a system can still be ok for the people that do use it.

A simpler and better metric here would just be ridership per capita per CSA, although even that misses a lot of important points.
> it's surely capable of making its own virus test kits and face masks, if it could be bothered.

American manufacturing industries are dying. We know how to make software but making hardware is slowly fading out. Most of our stuff comes from China. China knows how to make the world.
> There's an immediate need for a single source of truth for all the locations where COVID-19 testing is available.

Seems like that could be achieved with a static HTML website, possibly augmented with a REST API.

I doubt that information is changing very quickly. It could theoretically even be committed to a Git repo in a CSV file. However, although that would work for generating a website, it wouldn't be clone-able. So perhaps consider some canonical datastore in the cloud somewhere.

Also: I propose Apache/MIT licensing to minimize the friction of collaboration with both commercial entities and charities.

Technology wise, I don't care: it should just be something mainstream, popular and easy.

> Moreover, there's no way for anybody to know how many people have actually been tested, because the same person can be tested multiple times.

That seems like a harder problem because of patient privacy issues.
But you still need to configure things, even if they are immutable at runtime. And you need to manage that configuration over time in some systematic way.

You always have a configuration management system.
Most hospitals have just a handful of ECMO machines, if any. And most of them are talking about not providing ECMO to COViD-19 patients because of this.
The main API extracts text from news pieces, blogs, PR content, and other text-heavy pages with a GET request.

The free account gives you access to a GUI where you can paste/upload your URLs to extract text from. The "playground" is a collection of RSS feeds with links you can extract text from, to try out the capabilities of the API.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_passing#%22The_buck_stops...
Who would have thought: yet another indicator that drugs of all kind (yes, including coffee!) are basically self-medication by people to deal with external stress.

Happy to hear that there's an ever growing base of data to support this, but sadly acting upon that data is not exactly top priority for politicians :/
I wonder whether that's legal or not. Presumably they bought the goods before this thing blew up and the terms of sale at the time of purchase allowed for returns. Are stores allowed to retroactively change their return ploicy? Do they have a "we can deny returns for any reason" clause in their return policy? Is that legal?
We really have no idea what fraction of the population caught it, since so many show minimal symptoms.

If it were not a significant fraction in infected areas I’d expect it to flare up again quickly. Quarantine simply cannot be maintained indefinitely, nor is it going to stop all spread.
Well, they won’t stop today. Give it a week or so.
> factories cannot surge up immediately

Really? How about longer shifts, double shifts, weekend shifts? If you could suddenly make twice the profit on your product you would figure that out pretty quick! If you can't make any extra profit, why bother?
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People are saying this like they just walked out of an econ 101 class.

It's expensive to tool up your production line for extra production when you'll just have to shut it down again a few weeks later as the surplus makes its way through the system. Why would a toilet paper plant operator do that? They know that average consumption of toilet paper hasn't increased whatsoever.
> Roche is pretty much the only manufacturer for machines like these.

Though Roche makes the only huge machines like this, there's lots of high-automation rtPCR out there. And you can fit a lot of e.g. Abbott m2000's in the floor space that one Cobas 6800 takes, picking up some flexibility and each doing ~500 a day.
The tool you link recommends "kubectl apply, ansible, puppet, chef, terraform" to actually apply the changes, at least 3 of those I'd classify as configuration management. Generating the configuration is only a small part of it, and the traditional tools typically have some way to do that too because they were designed to be used by non-/almost-non-coders too.
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I'm happy to feed it plenty of voice logs as well as a training corpus as necessary. Sounds like an interesting journey.
"sql easy, data is hard". perfectly written.

why even use sql if you are simply looking for patterns in
static data? why not use an app dedicated to analytics, of which many exist? sql comes into play when data needs to be shared, and those types of apps need coders who would not struggle with sql. i simply do not buy the argument that sql is difficult to learn for competent coders.
>I'm happy if they talk back via wifi to a server in my office for whatever real processing. The server might have 16 cores and 128Gb ram.

Pretty sure Mycroft is capable of that - in theory - you'll need to config it manually. The standard raspberry pi route isn't powerful enough for local.

Check out reespeaker for a raspberry microphone. You'll want one of the more expensive ones for range. Though at like 40 bucks they're not that wildly expensive.

Make sure it's a rasp 4 since wake word is processed locally. And you probably don't need 128gb RAM. No idea what they use but doubt that much.
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>apparently I can't reply directly to you, there's some nesting limit in Hacker News [EDIT: apparently not? I see a "reply" button now where it didn't exist before? odd])

AFAIK it's an anti-flamewar mechanism. Successively deeper comments require longer cooldowns before replies can be made.
> That would be a fair position if you could tell us how you would do it better

While I have much to fault the overly bureaucratic and top-heavy WHO for I do agree to their current stance on the handling of the pandemic. This stance is based on research and is supported by many in the field. It is also followed by a large number of countries in Europe except for a few, Sweden being one of those. I linked to one of Dr. John Campbell's (who is one of the more reasonable voices on this subject) videos on this subject a few posts above this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etlyvt9n_QE

> Corona testing would be executed by primary caregivers

It shouldn't. It should be done outside of the normal healthcare centres ("vårdcentraler") to reduce the risk of infection. Look at the way it is done in South Korea where mobile testing facilities are used for an idea on how to handle this. There should be no need for an appointment, the test should be "drive-through" or "walk-through".

> 6% of the population has a private health insurance. Such insurance can reduce waiting times to specialist care but not primary care.

The waiting times are mostly an issue for specialist care. Given that a large part of the role of the primary care provider is to refer people to specialist care this reduction in waiting times is very relevant.
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> An even stronger statement I am willing to make is that no one person correctly and fully understands the financial system.

This.

> So, once you accept that there is no "correct" answer to how the financial system and how markets work,

And this.

If someone tells you simple truths that you think make intuitively sense, just run away.

Money/Finance is a damn slippery concept and when you dig into it, you find that everything turns out super abstract and answer to almost everything is "It depends."

But to the very original question, here are some quick/dirty pointers what to look for:

1. A Classic economics approach book. Money is unit of measure, store of value, and medium of exchange etc.

2. A discussion about how (modern) money actually is debt. In a very fundamental sense.

3. History of money/banking. How things got from barter (questionable, agreed) to metal money to gold standard to Bretton Woods to free floating fiat currencies. History of financial crises.

4. Some coprorate finance. Equity, debt, derivatives. Why/how banks are really weird corporations from the balance sheet point of view (massive leverage, that is). What is arbitrage, how you price options.

5. Practical finance, ie. interesting stories. E.g. Nick Leeson, Michael Lewis, Satyajit Das.

After all that you may start to have a hunch how little you actually understand so far, but then you start to have tools to build your own mental model.

What you really should not read is goldbugs and cryptofolks stories. They are just one massive Dunning-Kruger bunch and will waste your time.
Come on, guys. Hoarding a commodity in order to corner a market and thereby profiteer is immoral, (often) illegal, and a distortion of the free market. It’s bad behavior. Please stop.
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o All design goals must be phrased in such a way that it is hard to use them as slogans to justify stupidity.

o The target users know what they are doing.

o Encourage users to take part in the development process and support them with good feedback for their contributions

o No interactivity requirement. Controllable, repeatable behaviour with up-front configuration.

o Flexibility where it makes sense to provide flexibility.

o No over-centralisation. Only widely used packages are to be in main repositories, and make the tools good enough to deal with lots of small third party repositories for random other apps.

o Be able to deliver features that other distributions consider too ambitious.
I don't know why the government doesn't intervene and outright ban these practices.
Hah, true.

I totally see this being difficult. To enforce DevOps/Ops to actually do code reviews, and versioned, type-safe configuration, but once you accomplish it - the profits are really worth it!
When did Denmark, Sweden or Britain have their bloody revolutions?

I agree that has been the case in economically disadvantaged countries but do you think America is closer to Cuba, Venezuela or Tzarist Russia... or closer to Britain.
The idea is that in the long run everybody will get it, so might as well "take it on the chin" now to gain herd immunity, and minimize damage to the economy. There's some rumblings of protecting the old during the summer when this is supposed to happen, though I'm not sure how that's supposed to work when there are millions of active cases at once. I suspect the real reason, as some government officials have outright said, is that it would free up money for the NHS by killing off "bed blockers".

Their reasoning is that if the only things you can do are China-style lockdown or nothing, then the disease will just resume exponentially growing the second lockdown ends, so it's pointless to do it at all.

While that may be technically right (under some optimistic, unverified assumptions, e.g. no reinfection), I think it's a false dichotomy. Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Korea aren't under lockdown, they're stopping the spread by just having good testing and case tracking capacity, and good hygiene. And the longer things go on, the better they're getting at doing that. If things are getting out of hand, a temporary lockdown is effective (as it was in China), to get the numbers down while building up this kind of capacity. But the UK seems to have just dismissed this option out of hand... which means they seem to be heading blindly to disaster.
Using submodules require that everyone on your team has at least a vague idea of what's going on and how to not foot-gun themselves. That's hard enough with git itself. I don't think I've ever seen submodules used without become a major pain point.
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I understand how laws shape behavior, but I also believe that for a law to be effective, it has to be worth the effort to enforce it. This law doesn't protect anyone, as you stated it would, unless the government is spending its limited resources chasing down TP resellers and confiscating their goods. It certainly isn't going to stop the hoarding.
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There will be pockets that will see this carry on for years globally. Currently it is mostly prevalent in climates in their winter phase months, and UK just entered spring.

Then there is this virus mutating, could it mutate into something less harmful, or something more harmful.

Past pandemic the spanish flu saw the initial infection decline in the summer and in the winter saw a higher wave of infections and deaths - which would be at a time when health services with climate phases tend to be less able to handle extra volume.

Policy seems to be around accepting people will die, no escaping that or dressing that up and to manage infected and control the spread and managing response/restrictions accordingly. So by managing the effected numbers needing medical intervention and dragging out the first seasonal phase so that the summer months lul can be used to level out the impact down the line.
> These types of situations are textbook explanations for WAR PROFITEERING (except we are in a crisis instead of war).

Meh. I don't think it is the same thing at all. There is no shortage of raw materials or of labor (as in war time).

There is an increased demand (irrational or rational doesn't matter). Best way to decrease demand is to let prices rise. It isn't really any simpler than that.

If politeness or customs or laws prevent the price from rising while demand continues to rise then the outcome is 100% expected: shortages where the product isn't available for any price.

It is our own mis-placed disdain for surge pricing that is creating the shortages.
Toilet paper is produced locally (since it's very expensive to ship from overseas), so the logistics and production costs for TP aren't likely to have changed much as a result of COVID-19. We don't require employers to provide paid sick leave so the hourly wage people doing production and logistics for the TP also aren't costing the employer more than before, and they're probably showing up sick like usual so they won't be dealing with staffing issues.

At present TP demand is simply higher than normal (from panic) and manufacturers are having to scale up. This is all avoidable.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2020/03/12/how-kochs...
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That’s interesting, from work I have some insight into inner european production- and delivery chains.

It seems we had a lack of truckers and an older friend who changed professions to become trucker told me, there’s money in it.

I’m writing “had” because I’m not so sure about the rest of the year.
Even with it's deep catalog, Disney+ still has far less content than Netflix. I do agree that Netflix relies on new content to reduce churn, but my argument wasn't so much about existing users (churn), but about millions of new people who never had Netflix deciding to sign up because they have nothing else to do at home.

As for the rest of people, I agree that when you're competing with hundreds of other sources of entertainment and ways to spend your days, Netflix's catalog may not be amazing, but when most of the population is stuck at home, I'm sure there are plenty of stuff people will find and enjoy on Netflix.

Disney is definitely a runner up too. They've started moving releases closers. They just released Frozen 2 and the new Starwars movie digitally.
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> The US already has confirmed community transmission and the suspected case rate is higher in the US the UK.

What doesn't make sense is adding unnecessary numbers and risk to your domestic infection figures. Why would anybody do that? It does not matter which country has a higher case number, what matters is you don't want to add to it by importing cases from other nations.

Under your really bad premise, Italy should just keep travel open with the entire world, because they're currently the worst off. Because what Lombardy obviously really needs right now - with a failing healthcare system that is intentionally letting people die in large numbers because they don't have medical resources to go around - is more cases being imported from the outside.

The US may be in Italy's shoes in a matter of weeks. Adding more cases from outside, ie reducing available per capita healthcare resources further, is plainly a bad idea.
Fabric https://www.fabfile.org/ (just one step above shell scripts using python), using 1.x as the 2.x stuff is still missing things. The key is having is structure to almost be like Ansible where you kind of have "playbooks" and "roles" (had this structure going before Ansible) ... probably have to move out of this soon though
> But our social and media users are a group marked by narrow and limited digital media use and a lack of data literacy. They are likely to come from some of the poorest households in the country.

I see this when I open Youtube in a private Window. My feed is full of videos about movies, software engineering, history, ... I just do not get what the most popular videos are about.

With TV there was a similar drift toward low quality content. But, there was a limit how low it could go and at prime time they needed to cater to everybody, including the middle class.

With Youtube and social media, you can live in your own bubble of low quality content. Facebook is just the same but much worse.

Many young people are as close to be digital natives as I am of being an airplane pilot for flying frequently.
Mr. Colvin does not believe he was price gouging. While he charged $20 on Amazon for two bottles of Purell that retail for $1 each, he said people forget that his price includes his labor, Amazon’s fees and about $10 in shipping. (Alcohol-based sanitizer is pricey to ship because officials consider it a hazardous material.

This is bollocks. Anybody wrongly offended, should try to figure out which one is wrong, the word or the concept of feeding on misery. This person is price gouging.
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Check ebay and equivalents, kijiji just had to go on record that they were banning sales of toilet paper, sanitizer, etc.
Agreed. ICE will also gain a vintage appeal. I can imagine my grandchildren reacting in wonder to my "classic" jeep cherokee dinosaur juice guzzler.

There will always be collectors and niche uses for ICE vehicles (e.g. backcountry 4x4) even if they get largely displaced by EV
I would never criticize how or whether an individual donated. Apple is fair game. The entire announcement is self-congratulatory PR. Yeah, it's good that they're donating some money and matching some employee donations. They could have just done that. They turned it into a PR item, fluffed it up with other self-aggrandizing anecdotes, and announced what, to them, amounts to a token gesture. I don't go around town bragging when I drop $20 in the veterans' bucket at Walmart.
The price float shouldn't happen. Furthermore, an alternative measure, social ostracization/legal pressure is being employed to remedy the situation.

Existence is not the Market, and the Market does not take place in a void. You cannot reduce the world to a bunch of economic models, because at the end of the day, people will get tired of your Quant's BS and do something that generally doesn't end well for the person who ignores human nature.
If I owned a TP factory I wouldn't increase production. Consumption has not increased, this is a distribution issue. If I increase production now, I'll spend a bunch of money on overtime and then have to shut my whole factory down next month as the glut from all the hoarding makes its way through the system and everyone stops buying TP.
Well, its pretty decadent to not have your own garden.
I'd love to see a counter opinion about the elderly being cruel to the young by saddling them with debt, the climate crisis, social security, tax breaks for the retired, etc. What's interesting is this article notes that these young people are "not caring" about a generation, but probably do care for individuals in the generation (e.g. their wlown grand parents). This somewhat amusingly reflects the case where individual grand parents are often very generous to particular youth, but not to the generation as a whole.

People should absolutely be taking the outbreak seriously, and I agree these young people are downplaying the severity. I just feel this article sets the stage so perfectly for a counter.
> People hoarding aren't trying to create artificial scarcity. They are buying because they anticipate scarcity, and want to either (i) be prepared, or (ii) profit from resale

How would (ii) be a profitable activity if buying in bulk wasn't creating artificial scarcity? I mean, I guess you could argue that the scarcity isn't "artificial", but like, when someone is literally buying more hand sanitizer than they could possibly want to actual use themselves, that seems pretty artificial to me.
> enlightened selfishness is still the enemy of progress

Baloney.
Plus letting it spread to totality means many more chances for a mutation that makes it even worse or re-breaks immunity.
keeping a fit in a face cup requires discipline.
a hood or cowl is a better option for those challenged in that way such as children.

depending on the overall physical condition or task the use of an active device may be required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_air-purifying_respirat...
I'm still unconvinced. Will this provide a user friendly approach to managing design assets.
I'm not really clear on how these post-infection lung issues differ from other illnesses. I've had cold/flu infections in the past where my symptoms otherwise resolved on the normal timescale but it took many weeks for my cough and lungs to entirely resolve.
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You are evoking the rhetorical excellence of Churchill to make the least Chuchillian statement ever.

The epidemic will be mildly inconvenient and relatively insignificant. Some people will die, because the virus is already here. Your hysteria is pointless.
I totally understand that, but why not aiming high? Why we just say "you have experience configuring stuff, so we will just give you some extended json with templating, you won't be able to code....". I think this is bad approach (: We should always aim high and mentor those less experience to use programming languages for this. They don't need to know complex algorithms, distributed systems and performance optimization. It's really just more smart templating that is actually can be easier to use! (:

> Templating systems are much more approachable for people who have a lot of experience configuring things via big blobs of text.

I have mixed feelings about this statement. How reading or using jsonnet is easier? I am a principal engineer and I am struggling to work with this, how less expierience people can deal with that efficiently? (:
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How do "few people die from it" and "most abusers die [...] young, 30s or 40s" fit together?