skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is that the best solution? The actual need for toilet paper has not gone up. So increasing capacity would just be a waste of money for manufacturers. They know this too and aren’t stupid enough to try it.
Android has a local speech recognizer, maybe give that a go ? You'll have to make an Android app tho.
And I was thinking about the retirement account ;)
Israel is keeping incoming people at the airport for 14 days.
the end is in sight, but we're still at least a couple decades away from having ICEs totally phased out. if we're gonna keep building new ones for a while, why not try to improve them?
I proposed a design on the slack group based on a centrifugal blower and airflow and pressure sensors.. I think this is the principle modern hospital ventilators use. You do the logic and control system in C code rather than mechanical linkages and valves.. very few moving parts, and pcbs/pcb assembly are quick and cheap. just don't make any bugs..
FYI

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/10/1926075/-Trump-St...
Well, neither you nor I are particularly "special". the State doesn't care about my or your individual feelings. The State puts sustaining the existence of the collective first. And it will do so at the expense of your and my freedom and comfort if necessary.

5.000$ is pretty tame compared to penalties issued by a wartime governments of the past.

I support a State that cares about the general well-being of its citizens and is prepared to that takes stern measures now in hopes of safeguarding our individual freedoms in the future. As such, I harbor little empathy for the individualistic tendencies of those who hoard supplies in times of crisis. All they end up accomplishing down the road is excluding themselves outside of civil society.
My 5yrs old son and technology
>"Vancouver couple exploits pandemic by hoarding Lysol wipes and charging double to resell them."

aren't they doing a public service here? I grew up in the shortage driven economy of USSR and have the hate to speculators and price gouging ingrained into my brain with the milk of the mother, yet hear me out - the consumption of the Lysol wipes has increased while the production stays pretty much the same, and the producer and big distributors and retailers aren't willing to increase the price while the price increase is really necessary to adjust/optimize for the new equilibrium between the new increased consumption and the same production levels, otherwise there will be shortages - similar to CAP theorem you can have either price control or availability (in my experience USSR with price control and total shortages and later, in 199x, Russia with freed prices and immediate availability of everything are direct experimental confirmation of that - you had to see how sausages and everything else magically appeared on Jan 1, 1992 in the just yesterday empty stores, granted it was 3x of the yesterday's fixed price, yet it was really available at that 3x price while yesterday at that nice 1x price it just wasn't there). Thus the price gougers like that couple de-facto do necessary job which the producers/distributors/retailers aren't willing to do.
As a starter (in German):

https://www.tichyseinblick.de/daili-es-sentials/wie-die-coro...
The point he makes is valid and critically important. If it were titled "heard immunity is a dangerous delusion" then the "well actually" crowd here wouldn't be up in arms.
Configuration Management is still present in this process, it's just moved from the live system to the image build step.
I think macroeconomics helps learn about what’s going on in general, but it’s important to keep in mind it’s dealing with very complicated systems and largely not directed to fully explain three systems involved. It’s too far to discount the whole discipline and too open for political spinning.

Galbraith’s book on 1929 is still considered a great account of what went wrong in 1929. It surely has lessons to be learned today.

The way the news cycle runs though we no longer need to hem and haw over whether policies that benefit business over individuals do better or more for the economy. Yesterday (March 13 2020) the Fed dumped 1.5 trillion in easy funding into the stock and financial market. The SP 500 saw historic increases for one day of trading. And people are still facing the trade off between going to work sick or failing to be able to pay rent. The 1.5T sent to the financial sector had no impact and is expected to not have any impact to help the individual households living paycheck to paycheck.

Edit-the hospitality industry has companies laying off employees because of diminished business. This is after the 1.5T from the fed. Probably at least one of those companies will benefit from the fed decision and buy back stocks to increase their valuations. Won’t do a lick of good for any of the former employees out of work and pay.
Imagine putting those bitcoin farms to work...
> you must have made billions on the stock market

Shorting the market in January and February would've been more of a bet on government inaction than a bet on any inherent characteristics of the virus.

Many predicted large epidemics in multiple countries, but the CDC/FDA testing fiasco, or the lackluster response in EU wasn't easy to predict.

I agree with OP that "everyone should stop pretending that 'no one could have known'". The probability of having a large epidemic in each country was significant, definitely above 2%. That number alone would've warranted ramping up production of test kits and sanitary supplies, building fever clinics, doing emergency drills, and setting up some data sharing infrastructure between healthcare providers. Most developed countries didn't do any of that.
> it's (rightly) considered predatory and criminally anti-social

It is this attitude that creates these opportunities. If we collectively understood that allow "surge" pricing is the fastest way to respond to a spike in demand and to quickly return to a more normal market equilibrium we would have fewer and shorter situations like this.
Yes, that is exactly what some people are doing, and what has quite a few posters justifiably angry. It may sound ridiculous to you, but That doesn't mean there isn't another person out there willing to do it.
The delivery guy I talked said his route was easier on Friday because of all the Work from home. What increases in logistics costs are you referring to?
Please don't take this as a personal address to your specific comment. Yours was simply the last drop of water that tipped the scales in me to comment on an overall trend I'm seeing. What I'm beginning to see in a lot of these types of discussions is those calling for caution/compliance are missing the term "in extremis".

I've seen no one is suggesting that these DIY/hacking efforts of all stripes replace the existing healthcare infrastructure. What I see is concern the existing infrastructure is not scaled to handle what we anticipate will happen even in a moderate scenario. We have in this very thread a real MD who confirms that post-ICU ventilation is not being addressed but still needs to be, yet that confirmation seems to fly by those who say that DIY isn't advisable.

My position on the mitigation however, starts from these two premises:

In Extremis, any action is better than no action at all.

In Extremis, don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

When asked, I believe many will opt for a 1% chance of living on a DIY ventilator intubated by recently-out-of-license nurses emergency-authorized during the pandemic when no other intubation staff are available in the time required to attempt saving a life, than a 100% chance of dying with no ventilation option whatsoever.

What I'm not seeing are any alternative solutions offered by those who want to stick to the "official" script. Let's in about 6-8 weeks from now our healthcare infrastructure is overwhelmed by severe respiratory distress cases, starting in the June timeframe. What do you suggest we do to prepare for that starting now instead of any of the DIY efforts you deem too risky/non-compliant?

I'm honestly asking in response your specific post, now. Even an answer like "triage non-comorbid over comorbid patients, let the comorbid patients die" is acceptable. Even if your response is, "I'm no domain expert, I'm leaving it all up to the experts", that works for me, too. I'm just trying to figure out what your mitigation angle is.

What doesn't help improve our probabilities nor mesh with my personal philosophy is giving criticisms with either no alternatives or no position statement of what you believe is an acceptable protocol going forward. It's in my nature to seek answers and address my curiosity, even if it only leads to a partial answer. If that's not you, then you live your best life, and thanks for the note of caution, it is definitely a concern to manage as best as we can.
Not really qualified to answer you, but I commonly read that it boils down to carbon being the base for life on earth, because that material can form complex bonds with so many other elements, without requiring much energy to do so. No other element seems to come close, though another contender is silicon. But if we assume carbon as the base component of other life, we also have to assume similar ranges of temperature etc. for it to thrive.
Kind of surprised there isn't really a consistent answer for this. Just skimming through these answers.
IMO, ensuring sufficient stock and refusing refunds will be a more thorough punishment than some half-enforced CA law on price gouging.
you would have to upgrade a lot of other parts in a boxster for it to be able to handle 600hp.
Not anymore. F1 cars use just 3 engines for the whole season. Lots of other categories use one single engine per seasone. The "one engine per event" era is long gone.
When you start looking at what Microsoft can offer now re: Microsoft365, Dynamics365, Power Platform, Sharepoint, Azure, wsl, massive sales dept. with years of experience, etc., why would the enterprise ever go with anything else? Something tells me Azure will end up kicking Amazon's ass in the end.
it's also quite possible that some people suffer both from covid-19 and the flu or a cold at the same time and the symptoms are being mixed up.
https://miro.medium.com/max/2400/1*FoIElQyKudIShpnBHckC5A.pn...

Would you like to refute or respond to this plot?

> Containment is part of flattening the curve

But "flattening the curve" means allowing exponential growth and waiting for most people to become infected. That would be a catastrophe, so no, containment is not a part of flattening the curve, and FTC is a wholly inadequate goal.
Wouldn’t it require higher tolerances?
> This doesn't really seem to make sense. The US already has confirmed community transmission and the suspected case rate is higher in the US the UK. Also why now? Why not 2 days ago?

It makes a lot of sense, if you just disregard human lives. The UK leaving the European Union opens the possibility to open their market to American companies. So, any signal that USA is welcoming to the UK and that the UK and Europe have separate destinies makes a deal more likely in the public opinion. A basic divide an conquer strategy.

From THAT perspective makes a lot of sense.

When you look at the world thru a glass of 'what will bring me more money' makes sense for president Trump.

If you are just a decent person, then it makes no sense at all.
Manufacturer aren't stupid, they are aren't going to over invest. In Australia the the toilet paper companies just added shifts to manufacture 24/7.
> all those hoarders are left with tons of worthless inventory

How can toilet paper become worthless? You're always going to need to use it yourself even.
I think it's definitely a privilege to be able to work a job where you can WFH. Really feel bad for those who don't have a choice.
Both the US and EU are discussing allowing airlines to keep their airport slots even if they don’t use them. In which case, airlines will just stop flying, an aircraft is only profitable at >80% full
Carry some disinfectant with you. Covid19 is easily killed by alcohols.
The State of Oregon lab can process 80 samples a day. Every person gets at least 2 samples taken. They are waiting on >150 samples to be tested...
The cylinders are especially large, but the displacement is still only 2ℓ. I think the unusually high horsepower for a 2ℓ engine is not just because of high compression but also because ⓐ they normally run it at especially high revs, like your motorcycles; ⓑ they run it on a two-stroke cycle at low speeds, up to 3krpm; and ⓒ they optimized it to run on alcohols, which as you know have lower energy density but are better at keeping the engine cool.
For posterity's sake, one correction: Not all critical care rooms have a vent. There's a certain number in the unit that are then pulled in.
Why not just have the acronym in full: 'Russian Internet Research Agency' to reduce ambiguity? Since us British folk know the historical associations of both RIRA and The IRA.

But yes, at first the title did look like that the IRA somehow expanded to Ghana. Which would be completely bizarre of them.
Computer controlled valves are an old idea. It's been a "can be done, but not worth the trouble and added complexity" thing for years. This is more like the last gasp of fuel-powered supercars, as the IC engine people try to stay relevant.
Debt makes some particularly interesting observations about currency before fractional reserve banking, which I imagine most other books treat as a starting point. The hypothesized relationships between minting precious metals, war, slavery, and mining were thought-provoking.
From memory JBuilder did have issues with its GUI builder.

Code emitted JBuilder's tools was not isolated from other code that was written for the application. It was easy to add a line of code that would make the included builder tool to not show the resultant GUI correctly.

This was from JBuilder 9 and JBuilder 2006, other than that issue it was a really nice IDE to use.
I try to avoid these discussions on HN as I'm a petrohead and find myself often on the wrong side of the greater audience here.

That said, no car is really loud sub ~3000 rpm, at least not in the way I imagine you're implying. That is all this (or most any) car would need to muster for driving down the streets of London or any city.

The problem is that some owners get really aggressive with the throttle in places they really shouldn't. I'm with you, that is annoying, but that is by no means an isolated "super fancy car" problem. Motorbikes, modified scooters, tuner cars, trucks tuned for show instead of work.

This whole thing is about how some folks can't help but flaunt their opulence/excess. Talking it out on the car is like talking down to Tesla for including autopilot knowing that some drunk drivers will simply use the feature to take themselves home.
If you can't bring your bike inside your building then no question steel is the way to go. NYC has some laws to encourage building owners to provide bike storage though, e.g.:

https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bikesinbuildin...
I haven't looked into what they added specifically for the space, but I think a configuration management company at a security trade show makes sense: Configuration management is a very useful tool for various security goals.
We're in a similar place in terms of restrictions on promotion -- we can't advertise on any of the major platforms, at all, ever.

One thing that has worked for us is directly reaching out to community groups or (and I hate that I'm about to use this word) influencers. I'm sure there are plenty of sober / in-recovery people out there with large followings and/or community connections who believe in your cause.

It can be tough, because people who dive bomb into a community for the sake of self-promotion are gross and deserve to be shunned, but there's a balance there where you're actively participating, and helping, and also telling people about the thing you're doing to help.
He told you he purposefully trained the puppy to bark constantly?
This link is about inequality in the U.K., but what's even more interesting to me is the massive number of people that don't use the Internet at all. Only about half of the world population is online and there are dozens of countries where only 20-30% of the population has "accessed the Internet in the last 12 months from any device, including mobile phones."

- DRC (8.62% of 81,339,988 people are online)

- Nigeria (27.68% of 190,886,311)

- Indonesia (32.29% of 263,991,379)

- Pakistan (36.18% of 220,892,340)

We truly are only at the beginning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
Imagine trying to be so edgy and clever with your kneejerk response that you accidentally reveal how unhinged and unsuitable you are for civil society.
I think what's needed here is a tool that transparently uses Git (our some other VCS) in the background.
Another example:

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/03/13/amazon-blocks...

> Ranga said that a six-pack of wipes, which might sell for $20 at Costco, could fetch four times that online, representing a “big opportunity.” He said the couple had spent about $70,000 on Lysol wipes and liquid cleaners over the past few weeks

I don't think someone buying $70k of Lysol is doing it because they're worried they'll run of enough for themselves!

And nobody would buy from them if there was stock remaining at Costco.
The why now question is easy, a reporter yesterday told Trump the UKs numbers were rising quickly and asked why they weren't included over some EU countries with much lower rates and he said they'd look into it
Someone recently made an app here in Germany where you can take a photo of offending cars and the app automatically forwards the information to the authorities. Perhaps someone can do something like that for NY?

Source in German: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/app-wegeheld-falschpark...
Here's an English article: https://road.cc/content/news/258976-german-app-lets-cyclists...
What is the UK doing different than Italy? Will they just let the old and weak die as part of their plan?
Why in gods name would you prefer that, which would bring sick people into both countries vs just ensuring no cross-country transmission via travel?

One can question the timing, but the more isolation between countries populations, the more lives that will be saved given that it will reduce the spread.
And European wallets. That side of the pond prefers spending less on cars to begin with, and is also usually taxed on CO2 on top of the high gas prices. I doubt the average Asda has a dozen late model 5L+ V8 vehicles out front with prices >$50,000 USD. But the average Walmart in the US does.
Love in the Time of Coronavirus: I'm Sick and He's Well
Sorry, what truth do you think I should be seeking here? My point was that you were needlessly (and apparently ignorantly) trash-talking a serious contribution to the long, ongoing discussion of software architecture. If you've decided to stop doing that, great.
It amazes me that anyone is Ok with millions of people catching a brand new virus that we know very little about.

https://www.sciencealert.com/even-those-who-recover-from-cor...

Polio, but for lungs.
"implied"

Did he imply or are you implying now because you don't like Trump?

Kind of like when he made a speech about illegal immigrants and the press implied that he was talking about all immigrants?

"Also, people were pedantic with Obama all the time. Tan suit, anyone?"

Obama was adored by the mainstream press and anyone that said a single negative thing about him was attacked and deemed a racist. Fast and Furious anyone? How about when he used the IRS to illegally target conservative groups?

60 million people were infected with H1N1 during his presidency and 13,000 people died in the US. Most people don't even remember this.

If you can't admit when Trump does something right, I sure as hell won't believe you when you tell me Trump is doing something wrong.
A few flights especially to hubs will probably remain, at prices to compensate for the lower usage. But yes, not business as usual.
the largest nordic population is sweden, which is less than 10% the population of the US. it is also ethnically significantly more homogenous than the US, which by your own standard is dizzyingly diverse ('white' contains dozens of ethnicities, along with regional and class subsets and period of integration). assuming that the same policies work for everybody in all circumstances is willful blindness.
Or you can buy a $500 no frills quality bike or a $200 bike shaped Walmart thing.
There is also vespa.ai proton search-core in c++ https://docs.vespa.ai/documentation/proton.html
There was an episode of Fresh Air last week that covered this. The way the administration has been run makes it so everyone that is a political appointee is making policy decisions based on Trump's non scientific views, including disbanding our pandemic national security team that could have redirected resources/efforts earlier from the top.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/814887953/how-trumps-mismanag...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/nsc-pandemic-office-t...
I actually just moved specifically because of this problem. The peace and quiet has been such a nice change. You should really consider it as soon as you can.

The biggest offenders here in the PNW are actually pickup trucks. Having worked in the automotive industry recently, I know that pickup trucks are one of the only profitable classes of vehicles left for dealerships. It's really an unfortunate situation. People are willing to overpay for gargantuan vehicles that make too much noise, use too much fuel, and pose a severe risk to pedestrians, so they can build some kind of macho identity. This really seems like an area where governments should step in and put upper limits on vehicle size and noise generation.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting anything.

I'm presenting things that I've read that have made me curious and am trying to gather opposing information to create an informed opinion.

But yes, an engineered virus is the theory I am trying to gather information against.

We know for a fact that Shi Zheng-Li and his team has already worked on engineering coronaviruses previously:

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/lab-made-coronavi...

Even the article states that the fear of their research is:

>“If the [new] virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,”

I'm sure engineering viruses is a difficult task, but we know that they were doing this sort of thing already via funded public projects.. and they also don't necessarily have to have developed it in the Wuhan Institute itself, but it's not unreasonable to think that a samples that were created elsewhere and being stored there for research.

Regarding: >the only thing that Eric Feigl-Ding actually states is that the origin of the virus isn't well understood.

He does also state definitively that the market was not the origin.. despite that everyone else in the world seems to accept this as fact.

You are correct that this is not my area of expertise, which is why I am hoping that people more knowledgable than myself can tell me why this thought process isn't worth pursuing.

I do appreciate your feedback.
In the past they had large tanks of liquid O2.

More recently, many have a large oxygen concentrator machine on site which just takes it from the air.