skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and in many cases it is for the explicit purpose of creating artificial scarcity to increase the price of a product.

So are you suggesting:

- I create a toilet paper cartel with all my buddies

- we hit surrounding area grocery stores with surgical TP buying

- Hoard til prices rise

- dump on muppet consumers

- profit??

this is ridiculous
Just wash your hands and try not to touch your face. Any virus that is on the bike isn't going to walk up your arms and down your throat. Personally I find it pretty easy to not touch my face. I doubt I am perfect at it but I catch myself a lot.

Being outside has to be better than in an enclosed space (a subway car) holding onto handles that dozens of people touched in the last hour.
What type of life do you think out there? Viruses, bacterias, cellular organisms...

Imagine there are giant creatures that enjoy romantic walk under iron rains :D
Why would you expect to know of any candidates? It's not like we've done a ton of research into complex polymer chemistry in liquid iron solvents.
Australian supermarkets are refusing refunds on all of these hoarded goods.
I biked in an N95 in Vancouver during forest fire season in 2018. Not fun, but doable and it definitely helped -- without the mask I felt absolutely awful.
What if we are wrong about global warming and this summer will be 5-10C warmer than average every day?
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You are a bit pedantic.
> If it is that simple, then someone should be able to simply answer the scenario I presented and why non-price rationing with fixed prices is preferable to variable price.

Because variable prices simply ration to the people with more money, which isn't always the best rationing scheme.

For instance, for hand sanitizer to do the most good, you want it widely distributed, even to people with little money. Non-price rationing does that decently well in a crisis. The fixed prices keeps the resource affordable, while the rationing discourages hoarding (either due to fear or profiteering schemes). Variable pricing encourages hoarding, as fearful but wealthy are allowed hoard they reasonable need and "entrepreneurs" hoard to flip the resource to the first group at surge prices.
The crazy thing here is that they go after these gougers so aggressively for just selling a 20$ bottle of soap. And yet, predatory hospitals in the US can do x1000 times worse and not even get a slap on the hand. Hospitals are the #1 cause of bankrupcy in the US.
maybe https://jasperproject.github.io/
Yes, and these trucks use way too much gaz for European standards.
Keeper integrates seamlessly with Azure AD for both authentication and SCIM provisioning. Same capability across all platforms (iOS, Android, Web, Extensions, etc). I’m happy to do a quick zoom demo with you of the workflow. craig@keepersecurity.com
The Milk Situation
Unless we could test every single incoming passenger and get results in a matter of minutes, how would this work, really?

If we could do that, I would agree that'd be a better option, but since I don't think we'll be able to anytime soon, a ban seems pretty reasonable to me. We can't even test very many US citizens, and the results take days to get back.
Important to remember that this person doesn't know what the policy is. They're just tweeting their opinion.
If I'm an 80 year old with a heart transplant, I'm happy they're doing this!
I started a project recently and for the first time ever I've wanted to keep large files in my repo. I looked into git LFS and was disappointed to learn that it requires either third party hosting or setting up a git LFS server myself. I looked into git annex and it seems decent. This, once it is ready for prime time, will hopefully be even better
If the UK really goes through with the "infect 60% of its own population to get herd immunity" strategy, every other country is going to ban travel from there.

[1]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/herd-immunity-...
Letting the price float is the fastest way to discourage the hoarders and let the market come back to a sane equilibrium. By not allowing the price to float you can see that the result is empty shelves. The empty shelf is also a "real, human consequence".
bunch of papers is not actual progress

That all depends on the content of the papers. Protein folding is immensely complex.

An actual progress probably would be something like : effective cure for a disease found.

This is such a silly way to frame things. Often the reason you don't know a cure for a disease is because you aren't even really sure what causes the, or even if the disease has just one cause. You might imagine we're waiting for a "Cure for Autism" but what if we eventually discover that there are 20 different conditions that might manifest as autism and each one needs a separate treatment? Do you have the patience for that or will you just throw your hands in the air and complain about no progress?

There has been lots of progress in therapies and treatments for diseases, much of it hampered by the fact that protein interaction and biological pathways are so complex and there's so much we don't understand. So before we can "find a cure" we need to understand how the systems work. For example, in 2009 a drug called Cetuximab was approved to treat colorectal cancer, but ONLY in patients without a specific genetic mutation (KRAS) that renders the drug ineffective. That knowledge comes from understanding cancer genomics which requires a lot of statistics and computational analysis.

I'm not saying FAH is a dramatic world-changing part of this progress but it's clear that there is a LOT we don't know and finding cures for many diseases is going to take a lot of incremental progress that doesn't yield anything obvious immediately.
There are far more poor guys thumping around in their modified rust buckets with an exhaust system and/or audio system that lacks any of the sophistication and exclusivity of a supercar's song.

If you can't appreciate the crackle and pop of a supercar taking off then I'd suggest you're very green in more ways than just your environmental concerns.
Eh, the trend now is for steel bikes that can ride anywhere with braze ons for accessories. It’ll just take a while for it to catch on.
This is great for vendoring external dependencies that aren't under the developer's control. When the same developer is working on several related but separate projects at the same time, it's too cumbersome.

Would be nice if git submodules could also point to a branch instead of specific commits. That way, the superproject's state would not be modified every time the branch is updated.
> Really it's the opposite. You put an AP next to a school and it gets the whole school's traffic off the cell tower and onto a local high bandwidth coax/fiber network. You save a ton of wireless spectrum by having low power wifi APs everywhere instead of needing high power cell towers.

Note that I was talking about a single AP - not a planned large rollout - and just the point that there are a few high-density applications where you actually have to worry about the number of simultaneous users.
That is the wrong interpretation. It is a shift in the date of the turn on curve, not a bump in the plateau of 5-10C, that would be end of days bro.
Ah not even isolated in a car but breathing heavy around the city, spreading the virus.

Going to be a whole lot of quiet outside there soon with exponential spread. Calm before the storm.

People just do not seem to understand you can be infected without having symptoms for day. Or rather they just do not give a damn who else they infect.
A disease like no other: leprosy
CAN uses a differential pair which is the way to go. EMI will drive the pair in the same direction. Also used in USB, RS-485, pci-e, hdmi, etc.

You don't really have to twist them but it is best practice.
I have no horse in this race (I don't ride a motorcycle; not interested), but these days cars and motorcycles both seem to be big offenders. If you want to hate on someone, probably the fairest thing to do is be equal opportunity about it and hate on both cars and motorcycles for this.

I discovered this after making the now-regrettable choice of living very near a busy major road. I hear a lot of vehicles. (Sometimes so loud that I can't understand the TV in my own living room.)

At first I assumed it obviously must be motorcycles. But one day I gazed out the window and watched traffic for a while, and to my surprise, I learned there really are a whole lot of cars which have been modified to be super loud. I didn't exactly collect stats, but it's not obviously more one than the other.
Instead we get this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/12360294490421985...
It kills maybe 1% to 2% of people under 50 with no comorbitities.

If we assume everyone in the UK is under 50 and there are 60m people and we want to infect 60% of them that's 36m people infected, and 1% of that is 360,000 dead.

That's ignoring all the people who do have comorbitieis (diabetes, high blood pressure, etc), and all the people over 50.

It's also ignoring all the people who eg get into road traffic accidents and need an ICU bed, which won't be available if we cram hospitals full of covid-19 patients.
They won't if they can't sell it for higher price. But adding capacity could just mean running extra shifts or producing on the weekend. But that means higher costs (paying people to work on the weekend).
Some ideas/needs I've thought of:

1. Tools/curriculum for young children education (K through 6th grade primarily)

2. Technique for temporarily segmenting airplanes into smaller compartments

3. Anything related to ventilator supply chain.

4. Test kit supply chain

The problem is that no one knows how long this will take. Ideally a venture would choose something that would hold its value after the crisis is over.
I don't believe that necessarily.

I think people are not rational to think that "oh its too expensive" - I think they will still try to hoard it and speculate on prices going up to 15x. And so on and on until the crises ends or they end up with no place willing to sell it.
I don't think that's right. Most of my bike rides are about 1-3 miles. When I commute to work it's about 6 miles and that's farther than most people bike here.
Slightly offtopic, but should you need sanitizer and your local stores are out of stock — perhaps due to people like the subjects of this article — you can make your own based on this guide from the WHO:
https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf
So it sounds like, in your own words, there is literally no difference in cost between the two other than perhaps a 1% delta in your electricity bill.

If you really want to pursue compensation from your employer, of course you have every right to do that. Is that something you feel is worth chasing down?

If the company feels you're giving them extra headaches over WFH, which is a situation a lot of people would love to have, what does that do to your reputation with your managers and leaders? Does it help or hurt your long-term prospects with the company?
> the rise in price incentivises the market to produce more of the product / incentivises more producers to enter the market.

Ask yourself this question: if a TP manufacturer were to double their production effectively immediately, how long would it take for that extra product to reach the shelves? I don't know the answer specifically for toilet paper, but it's generally going to be in the region of a month or two for most consumer products.

Price gouging isn't a signal to manufacturers to produce more; it's opportunistic middlemen profiting off of the inability of the supply chain to absorb a temporary shifting of demand.
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22572033
Racing engines last ~1000mi
You're late. There are flights already returning half-way 3 hours back
From this article https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635421...
the supposition would be that the dosages needed of Camostat mesylate - extrapolating from the dosage used for mice...would be quite large to have any effect. Any thoughts/speculations?
> Motorbikes are the worst offender here. Sound limitations should be a lot stricter than they are

Haven’t given that much thought until now, but I guess you are completely right. One person driving a loud motorcycle or car through a dense city at night, can potentially disturb/wake up hundreds of people or more.
Just to counter that point:

https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/123882151552689766...

(this is a thread, click the tweet to expand)
The UK has explicitly declared that its strategy is to let about 40 million people get it. If they hold to this, I'd be surprised if any country in the world will allow travel from there by summer.

I was part of a US/UK fellowship exchange program, emphasizing the "special relationship" between the countries. The current cohort has largely fled the UK this week, abandoning their fellowships and their degrees, knowing that this kind of travel ban would soon kick in.
how do you know? I live in a major city and I find loud exhausts to be only a fleeting annoyance. I'll admit I hate when people put straight pipes on motorcycles and inline fours, but I love listening to porsches and amgs go by. you might not guess it, since I drive a pretty quiet car myself.

outside of hn, I've never really encountered anyone who was more than mildly annoyed by loud exhausts.
Never before has a country consented to group suicide on the scale the British are doing at the moment.

I hope every other country isolates us fast. The epidemic will be terrifying in the UK.
Where Is Russell's Paradox?
The difference seems that ChuckMcM observed a pattern of reactions, whereas cryptica postulated an active conspiracy to create a disaster.
Could you please point me at prominent advocates of immutable infrastructure who propose destroying whole clusters to add a node? Because from what I've seen, that's a total misunderstanding.
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And what is the end result of empty shelves? Is that an acceptable solution?

I don't understand people who advocate for policies that almost guarantee empty shelves instead of a policy that would avoid shortages but at a higher price temporarily.

In my mind the higher price followed by a return to normalcy is a much better outcome for rich and poor alike than a complete shortage with nothing on the shelves.
You have to realize that these people want to inconvenience others. That's what gives them their kicks. So it really isn't the Porsches that's the issue here but rather your asshole neighbor. I live in the middle of nowhere but.I still have a neighbor who keeps two constantly barking dogs. One of his dogs died so he replaced it with a new puppy which he proceeded to train to bark constantly too.
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Yes, I choose to have my body be the crumble zone rather then using some innocent child for that purpose from the comfort of a 2 ton piece of armor with blind spots the size of Manhattan. Cars are about the most selfish ways to haul your rump around. I personally don't have loud pipes, but in the context of the damage your car does the complaint is laughable.
The current hoarding issues are being addressed in Australia by all supermarkets, they are rationing key goods ( 1 pack toilet paper, pasta, handwipes etc per day) but keeping prices low. You can deal with rapid demand increases for essential goods this way.
"There are many substitutes for toilet paper including other paper products and bidets."

After coming back from a trip to India, an old housemate of mine told me that a huge part of the world uses their hand to wipe, and he decided to adopt the practice himself. He then warned me not to drink out of a cup he'd left on the floor in the bathroom.

I'm also reminded of a story I'd heard about an American traveling on a train in the Middle East, who'd offered to share some tomatoes he'd brought with him and divided up at lunch, when everyone else in his train compartment was sharing their food. All the other people were happy to share their own food, but none would touch the tomato sliced he offered them. He couldn't figure out why, but in retrospect he realized that it was because he'd touched them with his left hand, which in that part of the world was commonly used to wipe. So everyone would only shake hands with and touch food with their right hand.

I'm not sure how common such practices still are in the modern world, but if paper and bidets wind up in short supply, they're something to think about.
I hear you on keeping our humanity, and that is presumably the basis of the anti-price-gouging measures in the first place, and those are, at absolute worst, probably not going to do any harm. Still in an uncanny way, I think a "free market" (asterisk, disclaimer, footnotes 1 through n) actually would handle a situation like this fairly effectively. After all, TP that costs more is less likely to be hoarded, and less likely to be an attractive "buy low / sell high" arbitrage (because it's not "low"). Part of the effect of a higher price is less buying (demand). I mean it makes a certain amount of sense.

And I have one anecdatum: I was going to buy TP myself -- not because I hear "pandemic" and my thoughts immediately turn to my anus, but simply because it was getting to be time to reorder the ol' 48-roll brick. But because of this situation, my usual seller was out of stock, and everyone else was in fact, price gouging. So I'm just going to wait. I'll wipe my ass with my hand before I pay those prices. That's the thing, we're not talking penicillin here - you could permanently do without TP. I'll spare you the specific details of how. But one of the things you would need is bleach, which come to think of it, is probably also covered under this anti-price-gouging order, so hey, thumbs-up emoji!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/487581-bolton-de...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/i-dont-know-anyt...

In 2018 the people in charge of the program were forced out, and Trump repeatedly (unsuccessfully) sought to cut the CDC budget (and the administration is currently still advocated for budget cuts after declaring an emergency, but who knows how long before this guy is thrown under the bus[2])

This was widely condemned but I don’t remember much media coverage. In 2019 a bipartisan group of experts petitioned the president to reinstate those positions and not to cut funding[0], and recently at the start of the outbreak in February senators wrote a letter to the head of the NSC to please appoint people for the pandemic preparedness roles[1], but so far nothing.

[0] https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/1...

[1] https://www.schatz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/021320%20NSC%20N...

[2] https://thehill.com/policy/finance/486817-trump-budget-chief...
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I'd love to see that stateside, too. I have to go out for some regular old run of the mill groceries tomorrow morning, I'm going to ask about refund/return policies at the two grocers that we frequent.
Humans are the only species that use toilet paper ... although some Vietnam veterans remember monkeys that wipe with their hands (and throw it at intruders). Design a sustainable alternative to TP that does not require pressurized water. Historical Examples: corn cobs, Sears Catalog, "soft rocks". (I'm winging this guys. Bear with...) What feedstocks are ubiquitous and cheap? What would it take to recycle junk mail into TP?
But that’s not what they do, try to buy two or whatever reasonable number. A few people literally fill a shopping cart with toilet paper, water bottles, and hand sanitizer, and it’s gone. The problem is one of capacity to match demand within such short time frames.
The average exotic burns about 1/3rd the amount fuel per year as does a typical hybrid vehicle. The reason being, exotics are driven 1/10th as much. And the environmental impact of all exotic cars in existence combined would be easily lost in a rounding error. They're essentially irrelevant to environmental impact. Nobody uses them as primary transportation.
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Considering the malware years of sourceforge, this is no opportunity to take a stab at github. The surprise is that sourceforge is still a thing.
https://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don%E2%80%99t-downl...
The Microsoft offline speech recognizer is pretty good. I did some work with it many years ago [0]. The only problem we had was with accents: My French co-worker had to use his most obnoxiously over-the-top American accent for reasonable accuracy. ISTR that we could switch to Australian English for the Aussies and Kiwis.

[0] https://github.com/spc-ofp/ObserverLengthSampler
These engines remind me of the wankel rotary era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine
Great idea that really worked but let down by reliability issues. I hope the Koenigsegg gets into some sort of mass production so we can see how reliable and durable it is though!
Makes sense to me. Allowing flights in means more non-US citizens reliant on US health services. US should prioritise those services for their own citizens.
I mean, by the time I'm gone from a citibike to a place where I can wash my hands, I've had to touch a lot of other things. It's not like there are sinks directly next to the citibike stands.
I think you misread-

> a list of Google Cloud Products or even just Business to Business related products

They asked for GCP or B2B products, not only GCP products.
It would be interesting if this outbreak led to a resurgence in the use of brass fixtures for things like doorknobs and handrails.
option obviously.

I just do not understand what the problem with Option is.

It's either Some(1) or None. If it's some you have the value, otherwise you handle the fact you don't have it.

It's so simple and basically every modern language uses it to handle nullable types.
I agree with the approach but not the instances. 1 pack of toilet paper lasts a good while so that's OK. 1 pack of pasta per day means you have to go back to store every day and expose yourself and others to danger.
Did you open the link two posts above yours?
The CDC does state in one place that inhalation appears to be the primary route: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/transmissi...

It says surface -> hands -> mucous membrane "is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads".

But then again, the TTL of the virus on surfaces is still not certain, so, as also noted there "we are still learning how it spreads".
Out of similar frustration, I created Cabin @ https://cabinjs.com.

Cabin is a BYOL (bring your own logger) solution that normalizes logs by adding metadata and automatically strips/masks/purges passwords, credit cards, and sensitive fields from logs automatically. It works out of the box with any client-side or server-side JS environment, and has support for Koa and Express.
Mean Piston Speed [1] is a good indicator of engine longevity.

~16 m/s for automobile engines

~25 m/s for Formula one engines

~26.5 m/s for Koenigsegg’s 2.0-Liter

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_piston_speed
I've always gotten the impression that under the jokes and sarcasm, Matt Levine loves finance, though I agree that he focuses on the interesting in a way that might skew a layman's perception of the likelihood of various things happening.
Friend is a pilot for British Airways that flies long international routes. He says they will be most likely be flying a few flights to a limited number of pre-approved US airports based on demand with lots of route consolidation.

So while it will not be impossible for a US citizen to get back to the US, it will not necessarily be easy or fully predictable. Far from business as usual.

Caveat: I don't think anyone fully knows what will actually happen yet.
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