skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You raise a related issue, which is critical to address as well. That is, we need people to help manage patients before, during, and after their hospital stay. I’m less concerned about the licensing issues because public health emergency declarations make it possible for state officials to clear the way for someone like your mom.

Where you, and fellow hackers can help, is by offering tech solutions that solve the issue of coordinating/figuring out where your mom’s skills could be most helpful. We will also need to collect information, such as when your mom is available to help. Could be a good time to revisit the concept of an Uber-like platform for healthcare delivery, assuming that it can be up an running in a few days. Hack-a-thon, anyone?
Thanks. Though, I still think it would be cool if there's a more native port that runs out of the box.

Curious to know the experience on the Gambas apps produced in Windows. I guess they would also need Cygwin?
Antibiotics don't work for viruses!
>Also, price-gouging laws do not "stop the market from giving them what they want." If anything, price gouging does - if someone who has $100 in savings wants a year's worth of toilet paper, they're less able to successfully get it if the market can run unchecked. It's true that an unregulated free market is good at getting products sold at the best price for the sellers - that's very different from giving people what they want.

This is missing the original point: the rise in price incentivises the market to produce more of the product / incentivises more producers to enter the market. This means more product is produced, so that in the end more people have it than they would otherwise. Without that, whether the guy with $100 worth of toilet paper gets what he wants is just determined by how fast he is to get to the store.
Boundaries are an expression of each tribe exerting an area of influence. A boundary forms where two areas of tribal dominance collide. You can watch animals pee and poop on things to mark theirs, among other signals.

I didn’t say boundaries should be completely non-porous (as your comment implies), but rather that we don’t want to eliminate human ethnic/cultural diversity and that requires boundaries which enforce rate limited exchange. To borrow an analogy, there’s a reason cells have membranes.

Intermingling at a rate which allows each tribe to maintain its integrity is natural, and has evidence going back longer than writing. As does outbreaks of violence at exceeding that rate.

For example, Brexit was an act of political violence because the UK immigration exceeded the rate at which the society could naturalize immigrants leading to horrific events like “grooming gangs” of immigrants raping native children. Typically at the point gangs of migrants are raping natives, we drop the word “immigration” and talk about “invasion” or “colonization”.

Similarly, other lurches towards nationalism in Europe and the US.

Homogenizing everyone into a single global culture, which would be required to have a single government without boundaries that rate limit migration, would be verging on genocide.

Your comment assumes a very negative interpretation of what I said.
https://co.vid19.sg/
I recall post financial crisis there was untold amounts of gibberish about using Iceland as an example. It's a city block of a country. It's completely irrelevant in every way when extrapolating for a real country
True enough. However, this is only true if prices go up everywhere. If people can buy at Walmart for $1 and sell on Amazon for $5...

I am most definitely a free market person, yet one has to recognize controls are important in order to deal with degenerate or corner cases. One such case is when panic sets in.

I don’t know the answer. Not an easy problem.
The thing is, normally most people done have ANY hand sanitizer, let alone two, as you describe.... so when suddenly everyone wants to buy them, there isn't enough for everyone to have even two. That doesn't make the people buying them selfish.
We have several cloud environments that can be spun up and deployed by anyone at the company who needs a "production-like" environment. We built some Slack commands to make it easy for anyone to deploy using a specific git commit.

We do this by building a docker container on every commit and storing it in Quay (1). This also means it's easy for anyone on the team to run one of the docker containers on their computer.

We use Gitlab's release branch flow (2). Our cloud production environment is deployed directly from our master branch. And once a month we cut a stable version of our master branch and release it to our on-premise customers.

Hope this helps!

(1) https://quay.io/
(2) https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/gitlab_flow.html#release-b...
It was a lot of fun tracking the drama.

Regium spent a fair bit of money (10s of 1000s) in ads on chess.comm, chess24.com and at least one magazine (although some of the ads might not have required full up front payment) and the videos and website would have either cost money or time plus software.

chess.com had live ads read on streams by presenters, the presenters looked and sounded really sceptical it was legit, didn't stop them from taking the money and advertising it to their customers, though.
Diabetes in mice cured rapidly using human stem cell strategy
Ask HN: What news is getting buried during the Covid pandemic?
Companies often announce news they don't want covered while attention is elsewhere (Friday afternoon, during another major news event, etc.).

What news have you seen being trickled out during the COVID madness, possibly in the hopes of not attracting too much attention?

So far I've seen Bill Gates stepping down from Microsoft's board (which could affect their stock price, in a normal market), and a couple other news tidbits that I've already forgotten (so well-done to whoever was in charge of those decisions!).
Distribution is also a cost. Imagine a hurricane where roads are damaged and supplies can't be brought it. If incentives are high enough people will urgently find a way to get it in to sell things people want

If prices are fixed, they may just wait until the normal trucks can make a delivery.
> ...or other structures that can store and process information.

Relay computers can be constructed primarily from iron... relay solenoids, ferrit memory, coils, conductors, contacts... only energy sources seem to need some other elements...
Is it possible given a git repo (hosted on say GitHub) to only 'clone' (download) certain files from it? Without `.git`
>So what you're saying is, they wouldn't have scaled production, so your entire proposition about why the price increase would be an effective means to alleviate the problem was false.

Scaling production is not a binary yes/no thing; they wouldn't scale it so much that scaling back hurt them more than the profit they made from scaling gained them. Or to look at it another way, only the producers who could scale without "too much" cost would scale.
It's a given that American hospitals will be running out of ventilators, beds, and nurses will be stretched too thin. And if you need an ECMO and/or organ transplant in the near future, good luck with that.
Yes, these machines are insane. See also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P-jaC3_d3o

The dramatic trailer music is quite adequate, IMHO.
Actually I took the gas price bit from specific experience and saw enough examples in a quiet Midwest area growing up to expect my experiences weren’t unique.

The other issue is people, like in the article, just buying up a bunch of stuff so that other people literally can only buy from the opportunist. Consider the battle for concert tickets, which the band might sell for $20 but a scalper would buy and try to resell for $100. Yes it’s technically possible, but it’s fine for a society to determine it’s better for everyone if you’re not allowed to take advantage of people’s needs or vulnerabilities like that (when it comes to health supplies, for example).
Bill Gates Stepping Down from Microsoft’s Board
nice I didn’t know about this project and it’s using my implementation of VarIntG8IU codec.

I will give it a try.
Build the underlying vms with packer. Or use cloud-init as the parent mentioned - I think it has a bunch of knobs.
Let's discard present circumstances, then, and notice that he just resigned from his board seats with Microsoft and Berkshire to focus all of his energy on climate change. He is treating that far more seriously than he treated pandemic preparedness.

Also, we should forever be thankful that such a mild version of the coronavirus mutated a structural upgrade like the furin cleavage site. If this had happened with SARS, MERS, or a hemorrhagic fever it could have been real trouble.
I get this for a scrappy startup trying to move fast. But this app (pretty decent, btw) is 10+ years old.
WSL appears to have significant adoption already.

Is there any advantage over simple multibooting?
With Odds Against It, Taiwan Keeps Coronavirus Corralled
> i hope you are not proposing such a dystopian future.

I am not.

I don’t know how one might implement something like this or if it is even possible. Not an easy problem.
Sad to see your delusions prevent you from having an honest discussion.
Oh thank you!! I totally missed that.
I would also like to not that encoding the the Option<char> using the unused bits of the return value is a perfectly valid implementation. But that is exactly what it is, an implementation detail. It could work exactly the same way as today but the programmer wouldn’t have to care about how it was implemented, just whether they got a char or None.
I've read good things about Mycroft [1], though I haven't tried it myself. Ticks all the boxes though

[1] https://mycroft.ai/
> Also, heaven help you if you need to make a change on 1000s of hosts quickly.

Why? I would have seen that as Ansible's strong point.
That cookie scenario is pretty unrealistic. I don’t think that decision has ever happened on a news site or any serious online business. This was entirely predictable that it would just be something people learn to click okay automatically without even reading it and it’s never geofiltered either. It’s a Windows approach to ‘privacy’ (annoying alerts replacing carefully timed messaging) that does little to influence decision making.
An Alternate History of Ultimate Play the Game (2018)
But they also decrease hoarding in that the higher the price, the fewer items people can afford to buy and hoard.
‘Big Short’ Michael Burry Has a Bearish Bet and Warns of a Selling Stampede
American Astronomy’s Future Goes on Trial in Washington
Sorry, it's just an observation I've made over time, and I didn't save every example I came across. If you want to see it for yourself, keep it in mind when you come across news about Dutch researchers in Dutch news in the future.
It seems hard to construct relays from liquid iron.
Show HN: Questionnaire to help determine if you need to get tested for Covid-19
Mass-produced vaccines are probably around a year away, in the meantime we need a plan.
> What I don’t like is the effort to make some people like Gates into heroes that saw what nobody else saw

Though I suspect if it was Elon Musk who said the same thing, there would be no shortage of hero worship.
Welcome fellow Americans to the normal citizens that don't even know the words "data cap". Wish you stay longer then 2 months in this club. Personally I am member of this club for over 2 decades (as is my entire country btw).
Do you know if they did anything clever to keep the scanners clean?

I wonder if you could somehow isolate the patient rather than deep-clean the machine (ours has some exposed moving parts, which would make that time-consuming, but perhaps the non-research ones are better designed).
I believe you're looking for the 'working tree' only. You could do the following:

git archive --remote=<your-URL> | tar -t

source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3946538
Yeah, version I'm running (7.14.2) will use GPU and/or CPU
Have you considered the Almond integration for Home Assistant? (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/almond/)

Alternatively, you could just fork the Almond project directly and take it from there: https://github.com/stanford-oval/almond-cloud
Which Is Best for Data Science: R or Python
>Literally any exasperated parent who has to deal with little children having a tantrum because they can't get what they want.

>Yes, that sounds harsh, but it's exactly how this works. Your statement is simply saying that society - you, me and everyone - should obediently and without criticizing enable those who can't cater to their own emotional needs; those who don't know how to deal with their own drive towards self-gratification; those who haven't learned to not indulge in their own irrational fears.

So other people should do what you want, not what they want, because you know better than them? How would you feel if people compared you to "little children having a tantrum" just because your values differed from theirs?

>That's why your comment is not constructive nor even remotely funny.

Having so little respect for other human beings that you compare them to little children is not constructive foundation upon which to base policy making.
Picture a brilliant but poor person who doesn't have the time to dedicate to the game because they must deal with the constraints of being poor.

Buying high end computer hardware is very cheap relative to the time required to become very good at go. Conversely, having a reasonably strong go program available on your mobile will mean there's more access to people to play and get analysis.

I would expect that AI makes it better for poor people. Previously, a non-poor person might take classes or have a tutor. Now, a poor person can have an AI analysis of each of their games if they want.
This is interesting and could be a savior for Machine Learning(ML) engineering teams. In a typical ML workflow, there are three main entities to be managed:
1. Code
2. Data
3. Models
Systems like Data Version Control(DVC) [1], are useful for versioning 2 & 3. DVC improves on usability by residing inside the project's main git repo while maintaining versions of the data/models that reside on a remote. With Git partial clone, it seems like the gap could still be reduced between 1 & 2/3.

[1] - https://dvc.org/
What Taiwan can teach the world on fighting the coronavirus
> To a very good approximation, the marginal impact of any hoarders on the scarcity of a product is zero. Hoarders are not trying to drive scarcity themselves, they are trying to buy a product now because they think the price will rise, but they're not trying to make the price rise by buying it. The distinction is important!

Are you sure? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-pu...

"Mr. Colvin said he had posted 300 bottles of hand sanitizer and immediately sold them all for between $8 and $70 each, multiples higher than what he had bought them for. To him, “it was crazy money.” To many others, it was profiteering from a pandemic."

> This completely ignores the fact that the cost to produce a product is not a fixed amount, but rather that higher prices induce producers to make more product sooner.

How will they make more product sooner? By expanding their businesses - making new factories, procuring new manufacturing machinery, hiring new workers? What happens when demand reduces, and they're back to not only having a normal amount of demand, but having that further reduced by the glut of supply - supply of a nonperishable good in particular?

We have certainly fallen back on rationing during times of emergency in our society - even here in America. If it comes to that, I know many people will find it distasteful, but your point of:

> The higher price means that those who demonstrate a higher desire for an item (by their willingness to pay) end up getting it.

Is unfortunately the truth (though it's interesting that you chose to phrase "ability to pay" as "willingness to pay" - that discounts the fact that many people have a high desire for these items, but could be forced to choose between them and other items needed for basic survival), and left unchecked it will result in a pretty quick reversal of the "rising tide lifts all boats" argument for Capitalism if this situation continues long enough. It'll be pretty hard to argue that the free markets help all Americans when only people who can afford to do so can wipe their ass, or have access to basic health necessities.
Salt + Serverless.
>So is your solution "good on them, they're taking advantage of people's fears to help make the rumors true?"

My solution is we should do all that we can to decrease the latency that prices respond to supply and demand. It will help everyone.

>Just what price do you think toilet paper should be right now in stores?

That's not up to me to decide, because I don't presume to speak for the individual wants and needs for all participating suppliers and consumers, which is how a price is determined.
Why does Unicode have different code points for same letter rendered with different type faces?
"The End of Alchemy" by Mervyn King is a great book that explains fiscal/monetary policy and the modern banking system from the ground up. King was the head of the Bank of England during the last recession. This was the book that made me "get it".

"When Genius Failed" by Roger Lowenstein is the story of the fall of Long Term Capital Management which was basically the biggest hedge fund failure ever. Teaches you a lot about modern high finance and systemic risk.
The leading Democratic candidate is no better. According to him, half the country has been killed by gun violence since 2007.
That's a bit of and extreme characterization of "tend to look out for the well being of your family/people you care about"

So who's model accounts for hoarding behaviors like this?
The Lottery ticket folks who see this as their one miraculous "opportunity" to become "billionaires" based on toilet paper, hand sanitizer, Lysol and powdered milk hoarding and selling individually on eBay at 10000% of retail.

All stores had to do was limit quantities, but they didn't.
> to focus all of his energy on climate change.

Not true. Press release says "global health, development, education, and his increasing engagement in tackling climate change".
Development is not necessarily the hardest part. You are developing a medical device that needs to be validated. Even with expedited approvals this is a huge undertaking where only a limited amount of people can be involved at the same time.
That's not what null means in javascript and typescript. There, it's more like 'null' signals that there is no value, and 'undefined' signals that there is no variable.
> "create so much toilet paper that people can't hoard it." The fuck are we going to do with that much toilet paper.

Stock it somewhere, and release it gradually over the following months, perhaps at a loss. Some hoarders will actually stock it as a reserve for the next emergency and brief price spike, which is socially beneficial behavior. Think of it as a kind of insurance.

This would be more of a problem if we were talking about perishable products, but we're not. Toilet paper and personal protective equipment (masks) are not perishable. Canned food and lysol are only mildly perishable.
Some of the best medical systems in the world have been pushed into chaos with less than 1/1000th of the population infected

It's really impossible to give figures like that with any certainty, given so many people seem to be asymptomatic, and how concentrated some of the outbreaks have been. Which area are you considering where you think infections are 1/1000?

Whether it's a fantasy or not, our best hope at this stage is controlling spread. Total quarantine is simply not possible, since people need to go out for food, and will also increase infections within family groups stuck together in close quarters. There is no simple solution.
Seems to me that it's unlikely the toilet paper producers are perpetually running at 100% factory output. Something tells me they will respond by increasing production. Why? Because they are seeing enormous sales currently. Of course they want more. With some of the supply chain troubles we are having with everything closing, though, the delay might be slightly longer. I highly doubt this shortage will last longer than a couple of weeks. Even if I'm wrong, I'll keep believing that... Because honestly, the fear people have is as bad as the illness at this point.
This video by Ray Dalio, "How the Economic Machine Works in 30 Minutes" is an excellent primer on understanding the financial system as a whole: https://youtu.be/PHe0bXAIuk0
I saw magma on the news, so I'm hoarding that instead! It's important to get ahead of the crowd.
Ask HN: Share your virus apocalypse stories
Want to share your virus apocalypse stories? If so please limit comments to factual observations. I am hoping a thread like this can provide data to help people make some well informed decisions in a period of momentary disruption.

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My wife's observations:

Preface: I live in a small US county (geographically) with nearly 2 million people and all schools here were cancelled yesterday in a single uniform announcement for the next 2 weeks.

* Eggs and milk are not impossible to find, but are out of the major grocery stores so she had to look for these at small convenience stores.

* Fortunately, the produce section of each grocery store she visited remains fully stocked.

* Toilet paper, feminine hygiene products, and anything snack foods/drinks mostly containing sugar are gone.

* My home gigabit internet is normally around 890-920mbps up and down, but today its hovering at 500mbps.

* Traffic is really light on the roads.

* My wife's searches have so far been limited to larger urban grocery stories and the neighborhood gas station. We have a major grocery store here about every 3 miles.
Key Missteps at CDC Have Set Back Its Ability to Detect Spread of Coronavirus
Iceland also has a total population less than any major city in the US until you get far down the line into 2nd biggest cities in states or cities in small states.

Not to mention entire state populations or anything close to any other relevant country’s total population.

Which matters a lot when taking lessons from other countries IMO (including banking and restrictions like gun ownership). It’s like taking lessons running a startup vs a multinational corporation.
Do you have a source on who made those? They're pretty fascinating and I'd love to learn more about how they were made.
I haven't done an estimate yet as we start this week. We pay on a meter so the electric is pretty expensive and as we rent not much I can do about it.

Thats mostly it...I bring lunch in and thats the greatest expense.
Most computers fail to work above 100 degrees celsius. I've learned that when I investigated a mysterious kernel panic bug on a remote computer... turned out to be a cooling issue.
Am I missing something? The Roche website says

Designed to provide a fully integrated real-time PCR workflow,
the cobas® 8800 system can run up to 960 tests in an eight-hour
shift with minimal user interactions and up to four hours of
walk-away time per run when running at maximum capacity.

(24 / 8) * 960 = 2,880 per day

Update: formatting
Increasing retail prices doesn't do any good, especially normal people who need one package of TP, limiting quantities does. That's a fairer way to solve it than treat TP like some damn Bitcoin.
I don't think reporting that the Russian government is sowing social discord is "Russophobia". The rest of your comment amounts to whataboutism.
Thanks! That makes a lot of sense. Certainly more than the pundits currently lambasting the UK health services for their strategy of flattening the curve. The current argument against being (I kid you not) that the health authorities are somehow stupid enough to think that immunity can be passed between individuals like the virus itself.

I appreciate you taking the time to correct me.