skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that stupid to feel overconfident (aka normal) when there are no cases reported in your vicinity. After he got the disease he didn't do anything dumb.

There are 26 known cases in my state. I started self-isolating yesterday. Hopefully that wasn't too confident.
Yes. These laws are bad. Mike Munger of Duke University explains more here: https://www.econtalk.org/munger-on-price-gouging/
Exactly: https://www.econtalk.org/munger-on-price-gouging/
That's an instance of the Berry paradox...
By 1992, his team in Denver had won a $1.2 million government grant to form Project Self-Discovery, which offered teenagers natural-high alternatives to drugs and crime. They got referrals from teachers, school nurses and counsellors, taking in kids from the age of 14 who didn’t see themselves as needing treatment but who had problems with drugs or petty crime.

“We didn’t say to them, you’re coming in for treatment. We said, we’ll teach you anything you want to learn: music, dance, hip hop, art, martial arts.” The idea was that these different classes could provide a variety of alterations in the kids’ brain chemistry, and give them what they needed to cope better with life: some might crave an experience that could help reduce anxiety, others may be after a rush.
It also mentioned them making tens of thousands of dollars in profit in a short time.
That’s because his business is inefficient. If he had left the products in place there wouldn’t be a scarcity in his local region that he then could profit from. He helped create the scarcity, and then profited from it.
At least one company in South Korea, Seegene, has produced many tests and it is this aggressive private sector production that is largely reasonable for South Korea's effective testing. There is also a large demand for Seegene's tests around the world indicating that WHO tests are definitely not in sufficient supply.

The private sector stepping in is the best way to get enough tests out to everyone who needs them.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/asia/coronavirus-south-korea-...
Which manufacturer is this? What country is it in?
It really depends on the book. The main issue regarding historical books is that they can very easily become dated.

I've also read Reminiscence of a Stock Operator and I found that, while interesting, very little of that informs how the market works nowadays. It did shine a light on why TA is still a thing nowadays - a flavour of TA used to work historically and you can still see echoes of that today.
How can you kill that which has no life?

Humans apply taxonomy to nature, useful but ultimately flawed models.

Reality seems to be continuum, nature does whatever works and has no concern for neat categories.

My opinion is viruses are "alive" as they are unique replicating and evolving genetic code that can be identified distinctly from the host.

Other opinions are they must have other biological process to be considered "alive". The debate does not seem to be settled, its pretty similar to the is Pluto a planet, again another human taxonomy that not everything in nature fits neatly into.

I think as we discover more of the universe our definition of life will probably need to evolve. Already our computers make us question the definition, when will software become "alive" or "conscious". We already sometimes speak in terms of "biological" or "organic" based life.
I, uh, applaud the sheer chutzpah and will that would go into making something like this.

Only after the piece finishes in full, not in between movements, of course.
One thing missing in this survey is the arrival of shoulder strap lift straps. If you go back to the 1970s, backpacks more or less uniformly had a shoulder strap that started at the top of your back, sat directly against the body and wrap up and over the shoulders. This transferred a significant amount of weight directly to the top of the shoulders.

At some point, people figured out that it made sense to run an adjustable strap from the very apex of the shoulder strap back to the pack "frame" (whatever that was), designed to generally run at about a 45 degree angle upwards. This massively reduces the load on the shoulders, and converts the shoulder straps more into balance/position elements than load bearing.
The simple solution is not to respond to them. Sometimes you have to train people through practice.
As I commented below, I don't think someone saying "oh look, I saved 10 cents" is going to stop price gouging. As much use as a chocolate fire guard.
> I keep seeing advise to wash hands and use hand sanitizer to kill viruses

Sorry this really doesn't answer your question, but "inactivate" is probably more accurate than "kill."
I'm noticing with Amazon/eBay shut down people have moved to craigslist and alternative resell markets. I see some listings where people are genuinely trying to help (4oz hand sanitizer, two 2oz bottles, alcohol pads, moist wipes) for $20, but these will probably be quickly bought and resold at a premium.
Anesthesiologist here: yes and no. It depends on whether the patient is having difficulty clearing CO2, in which case ventilation is more important. If the patient’s lungs are unable to extract sufficient oxygen from the air such that the blood oxygen levels drop below a certain threshold, then supplemental oxygen becomes important. In fact, excessively high oxygen concentrations in inhaled gas has the potential to damage lung tissue. Hopefully this helps to explain why the ability to titrate oxygen flows is important. If we can do that effectively, we can conserve our oxygen supply for those who need it.
No, it matters to the buyer, and everyone else, because that one transaction doesn't exist in a vacuum.

If the buyer is giving the factory an extra 19x the price, the factory is incentivized to produce more, the buyer is substantially more likely to be able to buy more then next time they want to. Averaged over society the buyer is much more likely to be able to buy whatever they need the next time they need to buy anything.

If it's Joe Schmoe Markup Inc getting the extra 19x the price, there is no benefit to society or the buyer. Joe Schmoe is just an asshole profiting off of making other people worse off. That should be criminal.
> clean water

Your clean water generally comes from your government-run water supply, not from a private company. Many of the important discoveries in water purification were made by people who didn't stand to profit from it personally, including English doctor John Snow, German scientist Moritz Traube (who funded himself as a wine reseller), US government contractor George W. Fuller, British officer Vincent Nesfield, etc., all of whom published their research.

> tons of nutritious food

Did you ever hear story of Norman Borlaug the wise? I thought not, it's not a story the libertarians would tell you.

> computers

Like the ones made in communist China? Or even the ones made historically in the Soviet Union, which kept close pace with capitalist America during the early days of the field, both in terms of fundamental research (cf. the Cook-Levin theorem) and in terms of actual production? (Not that calling America "capitalist" is quite fair, given how much of the work took place under publicly-funded universities and how much was done by government-funded military contracts.)
I assume he's getting water along the way and filtering it, not bringing his water for 6 days. I don't think many people hike out with almost a week's worth of water vs. finding water sources.
Good point! I guess handwavy-napkin-math that looks like roughly ~2x more flops/core for the Tianhe-2, which is unsurprising for the latest supercomputer vs rando home computer. Maybe even surprising the number isn’t higher...

It’s probably worth noting that Seti@home has partitioned the problem space so that it’s “embarrassingly parallel”, as they say. I think raw flops are a good metric in this case, where raw flops is a very bad metric for some problems.
I think the problem is twofold.

1) Our brains are bad at acting on information that contradicts our gut feelings, which are usually based on things we perceive directly. If we don't see direct evidence of a threat, we might take some minimal steps to avoid it, but it's hard to fully commit for intellectual reasons alone.

2) We've adapted to a low signal/noise ratio. Everything is always a near-cataclysmic threat: tech companies, Trump, the Clintons, Sanders, immigrants, global warming, vaccines, carbs, terrorists, and so on. They're all going to kill us or ruin our lives! We could probably mobilize and act on one or two of them, if we could all agree, but all of them? Some of them contradictory? We just pick a handful that resonate, and ignore the rest. And that mostly works, because the threats have few visible short-term effects.

A pandemic is just another one of these filtered threats, right up until the exponential growth shoves it in our faces -- at which point it's too late.
I see some commenters saying that preventing price gouging will take away the incentive to produce more of a certain good when the demand increases. This doesn't make sense to me.

If, under normal market conditions, producers already make X amount (of , say, toilet paper) due to Y demand at price Z, when the demand spikes to 2Y, if you can produce and sell 2X goods at the same unit cost, you can double your profit without raising the price at all.

One might argue that in order to rapidly increase production capacity, the unit cost will rise as well. But that doesn't necessarily mean that you have to allow prices to rise. As long as the extra investment allows you to produce and sell enough units so that the extra profit is greater than your cost, the incentive is still there. And that's ignoring the fact that a price cap doesn't have to fix the price at current levels - it can limit the increase to a reasonable amount.
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> High prices induce production that would not have occurred otherwise. They also curve demand downwards so that only those who really want the item will get it.

These are good points.

> There is little reason to outlaw price gouging save for humans have a disgust response to people who profit from tragic events.

There is at least one reason:

Setting a price ceiling means that the distribution of the good will be tilted more towards those with less financial capital than it would be if the price were allowed to climb further. I believe this is a point that many care about for a number of reasons.

I'm not arguing that it's better if you are optimizing solely for maximizing total utility received from the supply of the good, but I would question whether that is necessarily the right course of action.
It's not a black market if it's a market for legal goods, it's just a market.
OK, I think I see where we talk past each other - I stated:

> One could argue that science is about falsifying hypothesis - and terby narrowing in on not just if something works, but how.

You read that as saying that we can only test how, not if. Now you read my comments as saying we can only test if not how.

I think we're in agreement that they are two sides of the scientific process.
One other way to solve this is to:

- use EMI sheilded conductors (at greater expense), or

- use twisted pairs where applicable.

I believe the CAN standard is based on twisted pairs, and they work very well for other ground/signal based configurations.
At 300,000 people and 8 political parties - the people still kind of ARE the state.
Tell HN: Happy Pi Day
He seems balanced.
Yes, I'm referring to @home projects.

Totally, but if the work done @home is useful, donating compute time makes economical sense I think.

If I'm willing to donate $10 I can either donate money and it may be used to buy $10 worth of compute, with should cover all costs including the hardware and administration.

Or I can donate $10 worth of pure electricity and the other marginals I cover for no or a very small extra cost, since I already own the hardware for other purposes which it's temporarily not used for.

In the latter case the value of my $10 is higher, I theorize. Again, given that the @home project is truly useful.
It is different than the test currently being used in the US, at least. It is going to speed up testing rates.

See: https://youtu.be/q_WM_pMp0Hg?t=7382
Previously when I installed Gambas to Windows with Cygwin, I did not need to build from source.

With Cygwin:

setup-x86_64.exe --packages gambas3,xinit,xwin-xdg-menu

Install from Internet, click Next

Root Directory C:\cygwin64 , click Next

Select Local Package Directory C:\Users\USERNAME\Downloads - where setup files are downloaded before installing, click Next

Select Internet Connection / Direct Connection, click Next

Choose a Download Site - I did select http://ftp-stud.hs-esserlingen.de but some other could also work

Select Packages - All required is selected, click Next

Wait while downloading and installing

Checkmark:
[X] Create icon on Desktop
[X] Add icon to Start Menu

Click Finished

Start Gambas this way:

Start / All Programs / Cygwin-X / XWin-Server

From hidden taskbar right corner icons select icon that has black C and in middle of it light green X. From there click Programming / Gambas3.
They have the incentive of keeping customers happy

If 1 customer is allowed to buy all the TP then that means the rest of the customers will not be happy
But what is the price ceiling in this case? I fail to understand this argument, as this doesn't regulate the price of manufacturing a good but rather then price of its sale. If manufacturers aren't the ones setting the high prices then why would they be disincentivized to make more goods?
Vice President Pence to hold coronavirus news conference today
I don't know, but related: at least some of the faces on their about page were actually plucked straight out of thispersondoesnotexist.com!
Reminds me of my dad to be honest
I suspect this is because they're out of ventilators and CPAP machines are the only option they have left.
>> “If I can make a slight profit, that’s fine,” he said. “But I’m not looking to be in a situation where I make the front page of the news for being that guy who hoarded 20,000 bottles of sanitizer that I’m selling for 20 times what they cost me.”

That quote is out of context. He was hoping to make a large profit selling anonymously on Amazon. Now that he's been blocked from doing that, he has to try to break even selling locally (and surprise, surprise, he's much more concerned about his reputation when doing that).

I think this quote from him captures his situation much better:

> “It’s been a huge amount of whiplash,” he said. “From being in a situation where what I’ve got coming and going could potentially put my family in a really good place financially to ‘What the heck am I going to do with all of this?’”
These is no law which requirers you to warn for all Cookies.

Beides some degree of misunderstanding most sides which show you a cookie (or GDPR) banner or similar do so _because they track you_.

So why not instead stop tracking people all the time?

The fact that you see banners everywhere should be a warning about how messed up the state of the web is.

Also as a side note it's most times not even tracking for basic aggregate statistics but tracking and sharing unaggregated data with many other companies to a degree which strongly reduces your privacy _much below the point of privacy you have in real life_!
Strawman arguments. JFC.
Still immoral...
/r/wallstreetbets would love to know what those are right now?
I'm interested. How does this relate?
The problem, from what I saw, is hoarders having stock piled 17,000 hand sanitizers and the like, not official stores selling them for too high a price.
“We'll take them all”: Demand for ventilators spikes as coronavirus looms
Isn't it more likely that regular sellers want to protect their brand, something that the arbitrage seller doesn't care about? After all, the California price-gouging law only takes effect once an emergency has been declared and regular stores, presumably, weren't increasing their price by 20x before that.
The problem with git submodules is they can't be used like a hyperlink to another repository. Updating the submodule requires updating the superproject as well. The new commits are invisible to the superproject until that is done.

It'd be great if they worked like Python's editable package installations.
And tens of thousands in losses for products that were stuck. As I mentioned in my comment on the original article, the required margin goes up to account for risk.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22576051
A lot of people in this thread are willfully ignoring some basic facts here. These products are being made in sufficient quantity for everyone. There is not a significant decrease in production. There is a significant increase in hoarding, and in many cases it is for the explicit purpose of creating artificial scarcity to increase the price of a product.

This is not a case of toilet paper suddenly costing more to produce. The price gouging law is not bringing toilet paper to levels where the producer of the product is taking some kind of operating loss or even reduction in profit of any kind. This is a case of consumers attempting to create small niches of artificial scarcity so that they can profit.

The free market arguments being made here are baffling, and willfully ignoring the aforementioned truths of this specific set of circumstances that have driven these specific laws. Have we lost all sense of humanity for the sake of our ideology?

We would be doing our entire society a severe disservice if our solution to this problem is simply "create so much toilet paper that people can't hoard it." The fuck are we going to do with that much toilet paper.
This is a great list. When I switched my view to “unread and starred” and started aggressively starring and I unstarring things to keep a sort of living todo list my Slack workflow vastly improved.

I disagree with you on the topic of threads though. IMO threads are Slacks worst feature. They put all of this effort into giving users excellent granular control over presence and notifications but every thread update gets lumped into a single sidebar item with no context. I don’t know if the thread notification is important or not nor who it’s from unless I interrupt my work and click into it. I wish they’d remove it or improve the notifications.
It probably wasn't developed overnight; it was just approved quickly.
Speaking of Visual Basic... this tool (Windows based) that let's you quickly/easily develop an simple Android app using a flavour of Basic:

https://www.b4x.com/b4a.html

The developer recently released the tool's source and made it free.

It's a mature tool with lots of community support. It also has a pretty slick GUI Android screen designer (Win only - but works in WINE).

It might even be feasible to get the Gambas tool to work with the B4A Android Bridge and Designer.
Like seriously some people think they fucking know everything b/c they know a lot about one thing
In the current state of infrastructure, an accepted definition of "immutable infrastructure" is that:

1. You deploy a completely fresh instance/container, instead of in-place updates
2. You don't actively push changes on a running instance/container

Of course you might have stuff written to disk, such as logs, temp files, etc. But it should be non-essential data, and potentially pushed to a central place in near real-time.
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In AWS, it's worth considering putting those large files in an S3 bucket.
Even if you can, why would you? There's a reason thru-hikers ruthlessly cut back their carrying weight - because you don't actually need that much stuff and it's a literal burden to bear. 75 lbs is almost half my body weight, carrying an extra half-me around is absurd.
"A nearby liquidation firm was selling 2,000 “pandemic packs,” leftovers from a defunct company. Each came with 50 face masks, four small bottles of hand sanitizer and a thermometer. The price was $5 a pack. Mr. Colvin haggled it to $3.50 and bought them all."

"He quickly sold all 2,000 of the 50-packs of masks on eBay, pricing them from $40 to $50 each, and sometimes higher. He declined to disclose his profit on the record but said it was substantial."

$100,000 gross revenue ($50 each), let's say shipping, fees, and price variance were 25%. That's still $75,000 for a $7,000 investment. 10x returns.
Absolutely, I cannot fathom how people are so anti-government that they cannot see the forest from the tree.

These types of situations are textbook explanations for WAR PROFITEERING (except we are in a crisis instead of war).
Interesting. I largely sympathize with skeptics, certainly a step up from religious bigotry. But this type of self-righteous elitism rubs me the wrong way enough to make me turn in the door. Mainly because there is no room to talk of common ground across cultural divides, like the ubiquity of the golden rule for example. Only mockery and insults.

Great for finding like minded friends in small, liberal minded groups in religiously conservative societies. Nothing on which to base general tolerance and long term human societal progress.
I submitted an article predicting Corona virus pandemic from 2013, but it wasn't upvoted:

The Next Pandemic: Not if, but When:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22571607
Markets exist on the pre-supposition of a smoothly functioning society/civilization in which to conduct business; i.e. one not under the pressure of a perceived existential threat. The work exists to be done regardless of how "market signals" make it appear, and last time I checked, nobody has a great track record of either "making" or "applying" an economic wrench in ways that have had very satisfying results in about the last 30 year's or so. We want healthy people, and a minimally burdened healthcare system unroll either herd immunity, or pharmacological treatment becomes possible.

In short, pick up a shovel, and get to work. The Market will continue when people stop fearing existential threats.

Whether or not an economist is happy with that state of affairs is beside the point. Economists don't run the country. People do. Contrary to popular belief, most people are fine leaving money on the table as long as it pays off in the long run in terms of not losing those they care about.
He's not necessarily selling to the same region as it was bought from, as the original article mentions.
If you killed yourself at 10 you could avoid the difficult teenage years too.
Animal fats are not essential nutrients afaik.
Why Did the Wright Brothers Succeed When Others Failed?
If you're buying from retail and re-selling at over 4x the purchase cost, that's gouging... not even wholesale pricing, but retail.
I agree that he gravitates towards quirky ends of the market - it's a big part of what makes it enjoyable to watch. To his credit, however, whenever he discusses a mechanism breaking, he usually starts by explaining how the machanism usually works. To wit, he did a good job explaining how the aluminum market works when discussing the GS market manipulation accusations and he explained how index inclusion works (and what an index provider's job and incentives are) when discussing the Snapchat IPO.

But yeah, for someone coming in with 0 knowledge, some more fundamental, drier texts may be more efficient in imparting knowledge.