skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you are the arbitor of how much of something a person needs?

Two people at a grocery store, both with an entire shopping cart full of dried pasta. One has twelve mouths to feed at home, the other lives alone.

How do you police that or distinguish who is selfish?
If you know your actions are going to lead to shortages and you pursue them anyway to make profit (rather than meet your minimum personal needs), then you're absolutely trying to create it.
And then when it mentioned using social media for political influence I was thinking a-ha! Sinn Fein bots!
That document says "Published 3 March 2020" - do you know if it still reflects current government thinking?
F1 regulates the maximum number of engines a season (to 3 currently). So they have to last ~7 races.

Edit: old numbers updated
>homeopathic lozenges

Oh yeah that sure will help
He should donate them to hospitals and retirement homes.

Soap and water works better anyway.
Just a thought: Could it be that Trump family is already vaccinated?
Is it possible that the Trump family is already vaccinated against #corona #virus?

It seems that everyone who shake hands with the Trump family gets the virus but they seem immune.

a tweet by @zlj517 also claims COVID19 has been around for a while before being detected in china, according to trump's doctor trump doesn't need to be tested despite his continuing contact.
that sounds awful. i would certainly be interested in hearing from someone at DO about the real behind the scenes on why it was so bad.

It sounds like you would have stuck with DO if they were simply more reliable though - so their losing you is entirely their fault.
Interesting to say you've "solve[d] persistence" when you seem to be limited by it here. Is there a particular reason your services can't be architected in less stateful, more 12-factor way?
I'm under 35 and consider myself very 'digitally native'. It wasn't until I helped my 19 year old niece set up her laptop that I realized exactly the same thing. They're fine with youtube and spotify from a tablet or phone. She could pick things up fairly quickly for school assignments (Office, etc.). I think it was her hunt-and-peck typing that made me realize my assumptions were off. (I don't think typing classes in middle and high school are much of a thing anymore in my region.)
Here you go:

"An Ohio man was arrested for his operation of Helix, a Darknet-based cryptocurrency laundering service.

In the three-count indictment unsealed Feb. 11 in the District of Columbia, Larry Harmon, 36, of Akron, Ohio, was charged with money laundering conspiracy, operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and conducting money transmission without a D.C. license.

According to the indictment, Harmon operated Helix from 2014 to 2017. Helix functioned as a bitcoin “mixer” or “tumbler,” allowing customers, for a fee, to send bitcoin to designated recipients in a manner that was designed to conceal the source or owner of the bitcoin. Helix was linked to and associated with “Grams,” a Darknet search engine also run by Harmon. Harmon advertised Helix to customers on the Darknet as a way to conceal transactions from law enforcement."

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ohio-resident-charged-operati...
There is one note piece to the puzzle to make git perfect for every use case I can think of: store large files as a list of blobs broken down by some rolling hash a-la rsync/borg/bup.

That would e.g. make it reasonable to check in virtual machine images or iso images into a repository. Extra storage (and by extension, network bandwidth) would be proportional to change size.

git has delta compression for text as an optimization but it’s not used on big binary files and is not even online (only on making a pack). This would provide it online for large files.

Junio posted a patch that did that ages ago, but it was pushed back until after the sha1->sha256 extension.
Based on dead roach observations, this sounds about right.
Go is pretty dumbed down as languages go.
In Lisp, all programs are data but not all data are programs
Probably the most insightful comment in this entire thread. Thank you. In many cases, an "image" is just a snapshot of what configuration management (perhaps not called such but still) gives you. As with compiled programming languages, though, doing it at build time makes future change significantly slower and more expensive. Supposedly this is for the sake of consistency and reproducibility, but since those are achievable by other means it's a false tradeoff. In real deployments, this just turns configuration drift into container sprawl.
You can build your own with rtl dongles and lots of patience - https://www.rtl-sdr.com/building-a-passive-radar-system-with...
thats an interesting concept. care to develop it further? how to define the upper limit on what is "light cloud"? is it defined by traffic? bandwidth? horizontal scaling? team size? ARR?
They should absolutely not have raised prices.

The issue isn't manufacturers, and only retailers in that they failed to implement a purchase limit per customer given news of a pandemic.

You want the maximum number of people with enough supply to get by. Not to have large swathes of the population to go without because someone decided to usurp the logistics network in search of price gouging opportunities.
No caret was in the original so none was eaten - it's just a superscript.
I could be wrong, but a more homogenous temp across the globe seems like it would result in milder storms. Since temperature gradients account for a lot of storm activity.
Well it's passive radar. So you don't have to outperform the stand-off range of the target, since you are invisible to the plane too.
Yes the model they operate on is around 40% of the population will get this. Even with a lower real death rate of say 1% that still leaves over 250k people dead.
A goose flying at 600mph?
There needs to be consistent and safe bike lanes first, including sharp enforcement against drivers who don't honour them.

I made the same decision years ago at University. I'd much rather risk a ticket or minor pedestrian accident by riding on the sidewalk than risk my life comingling with cars who don't give a shit.
Interesting, there are so many conspiracies out there. but he might have been tested already, and the whitehouse might have decided not to panic the public.
Yes this happens, but for the flu we have done large scale antibody studies, so we have an idea that for every x number of people who get treated, y number are actually infected.

The problem is we don't have the same data for this virus yet.
It just adds up, you know? I own a Porsche and I purposely left the sports exhaust option out (even though you can turn it off, I wasn’t sure if it wasn’t still louder then). Because if using my fun car means annoying everyone else in a radius like they are annoying me when they pass my house, it wouldn’t be that much fun.
Can’t imagine what it must be for parents of young children, when some exhausts are loud enough to wake me up in the middle of the night (and the surrounding car alarms).
You really start to notice even at ~250ms because people start talking over each other without realizing it during a conference call.
I was tired of my schlorb, we'd been together too long

Like a worn-out recording, of a favorite song

So while she lay there merping, I read the scannor in bed

And in the personals streamlet, there was this stromling I read

"If you like Paarra Cosanla, and getting caught in the rain

If you're not into yoga, if you have a 20 megaton brain

If you like making love by the twin moons, in the dunes of the cape

I'm the love that you've looked for, strom to me, and escape
Big predators almost always prefer many soft targets to one big meal that can put up a fight.

The hospital has a legal team. Some jerk who's re-selling hand sanitizer at 5000% markup does not. They both deserve to be gone after but it should be obvious why the state prefers the latter.
My impression was, that everybody with syptoms who ot hospitalized also got tested. So the number of undiagnosed death should be very low. And by an order of magnitude lower than the number of untested, but infected, cases out in the wild.

But as everybody points out, the correct number can only be claculated after the fact. and even the it might be of.
I meant the innovative new engine in a mass production car, not a luxury vehicle
CDC estimates the total number of flu infections at about 10-20% of the population, depending on the year. The total number of hospital cases is usually ~1-2% of the number of infections.

The, e.g. “32 million cases of flu” reported by the CDC is not based on 32 million positive test results. It’s extrapolated based on a factor of how many cases require hospitalization, and how many people seek medical care, which itself is based on antibody and behavioral surveys.

> The numbers of influenza illnesses were estimated from hospitalizations based on how many illnesses there are for every hospitalization, which was measured previously (5).

> Some people with influenza will seek medical care, while others will not. CDC estimates the number of people who sought medical care for influenza using data from the 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, which asked people whether they did or did not seek medical care for an influenza-like illness in the prior influenza season (6).

After reading more about it [1] you almost wonder how much better than a WAG (“Wild Ass Guess”) it really is.

Frankly I am finding this whole area of medical science entirely underwhelming relative to the potential impact to lives and economies of the world.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/how-cdc-estimates.htm
This clip of the political sitcom Yes Minister from the 1980s is making the rounds on our social media, as it explains that thought process succinctly, and hilariously:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qNjFIwRYEIo
thanks for putting it like this, i guess I could see that.

I'm also interested in the "new Heroku" startups (Render, KintoHub) that I guess are different enough from DO that it's kind of offtopic to this conversation. I just care as someone just starting a career in this industry.
Eat less carbs, eat more fiber, don't overeat, and you'll have nicely firm occasional feces and you can rinse in the shower.
They can't realize their goal of profit if the scarcity doesn't exist, now can they?
Strangely enough, they aren’t allowed to “protect” themselves doing that in Germany, and yet the fatality rate per capita is much lower.
People are gonna get infected. At least 70% of population as everyone already says.. however. to slow the total run on health services, most of the countries adopt some sort of attempt at mitigating the aforementioned health services onslaught. This does not do that. This is literally.. a giant shoulder shrug to the Populace.
> ...but the B-2 is now 30 years old and was designed in the mid 1980s.

Given that the B-52 is 65 years old, built with 1955's technology, I would expect something more sophisticated to have a longer shelf life than 30 years.
Sometimes taking 3 minutes to respond to something at the right time gives a much better impression and more uplift than 30 minutes chained to a desk at any other time.
and F1 tires only last a few laps. it’s all designed in. the F1 engines don’t expire in a few races because they can’t build them more robust, they expire in a few races because the rules require them to last that long. they could last all season (yes, with same performance) if they were required to do so.
Are people hoarding because they're worried about being gouged on the price, or because they're worried about being unable to buy at all? Are the viral social media posts "OMG look at these high prices", or "OMG look at these empty shelves"? From a hypothetical perspective, which scenario creates a stronger incentive to buy supplies now: "Prices might rise 10x in the next month, but buying will always be possible", or "The supply might run out completely in the next month"?
Not much. The F-117 is stealth mostly due to shape. The B2 stealth is mostly due to materials and construction techniques. You can run optimization routines to reduce scattering, but it’s not going to be huge improvements

This is a good book that discusses several techniques:

https://www.amazon.com/Radar-Man-Personal-History-Stealth/dp...
Irrational, but well rounded.
This is only an issue if you put a go.mod file at the top level of your repo. We have monorepos with hundreds of modules.
I would say the odds that the hospitalization rate or death rate are significantly overestimated is pretty small given what it has done to the hospitals systems in places where it has spread even a little bit.
I am an EMR in California and provide (emergency) medical care relatively frequently.

"To self-assess the seriousness of breathing issues I intend to make us of a pulsoxymeter."

I like the idea of owning a pulse oximeter and have them in all of my first aid kits. However, I think of them as providing immediate information about an acute breathing problem.

Your SpO2 should be around 98 always. If you go below 95, something is really wrong and requires immediate attention. You will be displaying signs of breathing difficulty and you're not going to see if it lasts 24 or 48 hours.

If you are not tremendously affected by a cold/flu/coronavirus, I would expect you to have a ~98 SpO2 throughout, even if you feel terrible and perhaps feel your breathing is a bit labored.

" ... below 80% immediately ..."

Just to put this in perspective, all else being equal, you're not going to be coherent or functional in any way below 80%. I would personally call 911 if I saw an otherwise normal person below 90 and I would be very concerned if I saw readings below 95 - especially if the trendline was down ...
I'm not talking about people with mild symptoms who can indeed stay home.

I'm talking about the serious cases who require hospital treatment.

If they have no plan for a drastic increase in capacity then their plan will turn into a horror movie within a month...

If the NHS cannot handle this then serious measures should be taken to stop the spread instead of forcing schools to stay open.
Were Macs in scope of the original post? I assumed it was server side stuff, rather than office hardware. For that, though, I'd use Jamf (Pro) or some other MDM option.
He bought most of the masks from a single liquidation company a month ago, and he bought the hand sanitizer from some stores in Kentucky & Tennessee, but not in large enough quantities to cause shortages there. He definitely didn't buy from every hardware store in the state. Not even close.
I prefer: climate alarmists vs climate realists
Classic blog post from 2013 on this subject.

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...
I had this argument with a lot of people last week. People learn the basic concept of supply and demand and suddenly think they're economists, which is like learning to write a loop and thinking you're a developer.
This reminds me of the time I spent at the NIH conducting research on cancer vaccines. After lots of trial and error, I had finally found something that seemed to prevent lung cancer in mice. I rushed to show my PI the results. He listened intently and asked thoughtful questions. Once I finished, I asked if the findings would be worthy of submitting to Nature.

He looked me straight in the eye and said, “I wouldn’t publish this anywhere, we still have work to do.”

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“If Nature published every article that purported to cure a human disease based on a mouse model, then I would be next in line for the Nobel Prize,” he replied.

Harsh but true. The challenge of curing human disease cannot be replicated in animal models. At least not yet.
It could happen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
Or selling software with 0 marginal cost for $40k? :-)

As with all moral issues, it is difficult to come up with an objective distinction between wrong and right. I tend to rely on Kant’s categorical imperative: Would society be harmed if everyone behaved in this way? In our situation where hoarders are attempting to profit from a crisis, I believe the answer is clear: It’s immoral.
Even for people under 40, it’s 20 times deadlier than the flu is.
I just feel like it's a typical libertarian comment that markets solve things because they will probably react eventually. It's not wrong to expect the feedback, but in the meantime, havoc that affects people occurs. That legitimately can affect peoples' opinion of a process.
Thank you, creating a directory here: https://github.com/wikirona/wikirona/blob/master/oxygen/READ...
I feel like specialization is a loaded term, as a way to label a category of work. I've changed stacks numerous times, so I can't say I'm an expert in any one language, stack or business. However, I have skills that feel like are specialization: I'm good at working with multiple stakeholders across the business, debugging unfamiliar systems, and modelling business domains and turning that into maintainable software that multiple people and teams can work on. To me that feels like specialization - I'd be a fish out of water building mobile apps or machine learning models for example - but I suspect most people would call me a generalist.
Are you able to identify who these people actually are, based on the payment details for the ads? It just seems amazing to me they can get away with nothing more than a Kickstarter ban.
Mitogen looks cool. I hadn't seen it thanks.
His company is getting paid less for his route so they might need to cut/merge routes and slow deliver time.

In places more severely affected, delivery/handling workers may be unavailable to work.
Meanwhile film studios go on with 300+ people without hitting the issue of people hitting the same asset files without needing locking.

I think locking is a fine utility to have but I think a lot of workflows use it to workaround poor communication.

And I think you're constraining your views of git to just your workflow.

I've worked in a lot of scenarios where you need multiple remotes such as having an internal repo and an external one.

And similarly there are lots of scenarios where having a decentralized copy of the report is very useful for being able to work in offline scenarios and compare multiple branches. Things like when commuting on a plane or being in low connection areas.

I don't see how my view is git centric. I'm saying each VCS has very useful areas and equally big rough spots. The problem is that each VCS group believes there's is the only right system.
This is the experience for more than half the websites I browse on mobile. I just don't even bother anymore.
So early on I was suspicious of the numbers from China, but since they have managed to control the spread (and it would be obvious if they didn’t and other cities started to look like Wuhan), that means they have done a good job of catching almost all of the cases, not just the symptomatic ones. Otherwise the ones they miss would continue to spread.

Therefore it feels like at this point their data would be pretty representative of what percentage of the cases are severe vs critical and what the death rate is (accounting for both the overwhelmed medical case in Wuhan and for the under control case in rest of China).

South Korea is also doing a pretty good job with testing to control the outbreak although they haven’t yet gotten it as under control as China does. So their numbers would be a good data point to cross-validate the China numbers.

In countries like Italy (or Wuhan early on) the number of confirmed cases wasn’t equal to total cases as evidenced by continued growth of the epidemic. So it’s reasonable in those cases to assume that more severe cases are being found and less severe ones are being missed.
High blood sugar is toxic to pancreatic beta cells. Thus, poorly controlled type 2 diabetes typically progress to some degree of insulin-dependent diabetes. That condition is the worst of both worlds; your insulin levels are insufficient, but even supplementing insulin artificially can't bring your blood sugar under control without significant lifestyle changes.

Note that beta cells are hardly unique in this regard. High blood sugar is toxic to all tissues, but the affects on some tissues are especially problematic, examples being retinas, kidneys, endothelium, and peripheral nerves.
Is there any risk of demodulator IF or other leakage from these receivers?
are you sure? reporting say 3M can only ramp up another 35MM per month. Im not sure what the baseline production /month is - but estimates for how many masks needed just for healthcare workers are 300MM. And I would guess takes a month or two ramp up production, machines are probably already running 24/7 need to build more.

So it seems from reporting that n95 masks are NOT being made in sufficient quantity for healthcare workers - let alone everyone.

http://www.startribune.com/3m-can-t-confirm-pence-comments-a...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/us-mulls-using-sweeping-powe...
Ask HN: What societal changes will result from Coronavirus?
In what ways will society (wherever you live) look different in say a 6 months or a year?
True, but I suspect the effect of so many fewer people venturing out is probably canceling out a lot of that effect.
I think you greatly underestimate how complicated these machines are. For instance, I just cannot imagine how these machines keep themselves so clean. My guess is "lots of disposables" but still, that must take years to get right. Just read "Bad Blood" to see how Theranos struggled with the machines not simply becoming a bloody mess, and they had some great engineers on the team.
I'm sure someone probably told him Verily was a sister company of Alphabet which is Google's parent company and he just kind of latched onto Google because, well, let's face it, that sounds cooler.
I removed that level of specificity out of an abundance of caution. I still use the internet by the rules of the 90s, except that I no longer ask my parents for permission to visit AOL keyword “kids”.
Kick the persistence can down the road some more? Sure, why not? But sooner or later, somebody has to write something to disk (or flash or whatever that doesn't disappear when the power's off). A system that stores data is inherently stateful. Yes, you can restart services that provide access or auxiliary services (e.g. repair) but the entire purpose of the service as a whole is to retain state. It's the foundation on top of which all the slackers get to be stateless themselves.
China’s method of containment was to scan pretty much the entire population for fever and quarantine everyone who might have been infected immediately and involuntarily, including taking children from parents. Needless to say, that will never happen in the us or Europe.
In a catastrophe, carbs are a terrible staple. High volume for low satiety. Fiber, fat, and protein are far more efficient.
Even if you exclude "office hardware" from configuration management, our Mac OS build and test farm is "servers" I'd say. Not everyone running servers is doing so to run an online service on a platform of their choice.
The absolute number of severe cases to be hospitalized overwhelmed hospitals. The relative number of severe cases, and fatalities, depends on the denominator. In our case, positive test results. So both things are true.
This is the reason for the estimates (also in the article mentioned) of 1% instead of the calculated 3%. 1% is still 10x more than the flu.
It is a game of cat and mouse.

Yes, B2 is relatively ancient, but so is the Tamara passive radar (it was capable to detect B2 and F-117, in the 80'ies). Just like there is a newer stealth tech for planes, there is never stealth detection tech in radars.
The statement's conclusion doesn't follow from its assumptions.

And, in any case, you ignored the point made myself and others in this thread, that any individual's actions have ~zero impact on whether there is a shortage. It's the collective result of many individual actions.
So the market is functioning as intended based on the circumstances.
Isn't that tons of wasted work and materials?