skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

> Hi
< Hi.
> Do you have time for a question?
*internal sigh*
< What is it?

It wastes both parties' time.

But some people consider it more courteous. In general, courtesy is a low-level de-optimization (non-productive words/interactions) striving to avoid higher-level impediments (taking offense, etc.)
Saying “can you back this up at all” in response to this is just glib rhetoric. There’s no published standard of evidence for this, by very definition of the type of event (panic).

When you buy a stockpile of supplies, it is for contingency, not immediate threat. You are not accounting for this.

If the probability of being home quarantined is, say, 1%-5%, that’s huge and requires stockpiling at least some supplies. The grocery stores functioning today has literally nothing to do with it. That’s not fear mongering.

In the absence of hard data on the probability of home quarantine, then what do you recommend people do? Prepare for a worst case scenario? Act like nothing will happen? Somewhere in between (but where exactly, and why?)

I’ll reiterate, your responses so far are just glib rhetoric. Unless you can provide a reason why people shouldn’t prepare for a worst case scenario (knowing it’s unlikely to get that bad, but better to have the supplies if it does), it’s extremely disingenuous of you to brandish such moralistic grandstanding judgment towards people trying to prepare for an emergency.
Weeks after the total shutdown in Wuhan, the President of the United States went on TV to say that it was little more than a flu. Same with the leaders in Europe. I'd say they absolutely dropped the ball.
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Is it likely that a large cloud company has more spare capacity than the sum of all home GPU owners? I'd have thought a cloud company would optimise for the maximum possible utilisation of their infrastructure, whereas most gaming GPUs are probably off 99% of the time.
It's effectively impossible to fix this once it's been shipped, though. The bundle ID is the fundamental identifier of the app to the whole system. If they were to change it, they would end up with a completely separate app in the app store. They would have no way (at least no way that's not nasty and convoluted) to move user data from the old one to the new one.
I went here to get started:

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

and started running the client, but...

* The fahcontrol DEB package is not compatible with Debian 10 / Devuan 3.

* There is no APT repository.

I'm willing to do folding@home, but not take-care-of-their-devops-issues@home.

Edit: Apparently, indeed, the folding@home work I would be doing doesn't have much in particular to do with covid-19. I feel a bit cheated here.
“How to Read the Financial Pages” is an excellent book.

It covers most of Equities and Bonds and is often hilarious.

It covers how governments finance themselves by issuing bonds, t-bills etc

A fairly straightforward read for any HNer, should be a couple of days easy.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0054ZBXLG
> Your comment assumes a very negative interpretation of what I said.

Not sure that it does :D

I'll address your points one by one:

> Boundaries are an expression of each tribe exerting an area of influence.

Modern boundaries, like modern nation-states, don't really work like tribes did. Prehistoric tribes tended to move around, didn't build fences or patrol them with armed guards and usually had a relatively vague concept of ownership.

In many places around the world boundaries were drawn by colonial powers according to their own interests and not by natives themselves. For that reason borders very often actually split cultures and lead to ethnic tensions (e.g. in the Middle East).

> we don’t want to eliminate human ethnic/cultural diversity ...

Fully agree.

> ... and that requires boundaries which enforce rate limited exchange

I really don't understand why you think this is the case. It seems to me you're operating with a mechanistic/thermodynamic model about how cultures work. It's simply not true that you need borders to allow diversity to survive.

Take for example the concept of linguistic continuum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_continuum. This actually ante-dates modern borders and shows how you can have cultural diversity and cultural mixture at the same time.

> Intermingling at a natural rate which allows each tribe to maintain its integrity is natural, and has evidence going back longer than writing.

Again, tribes and cultures used to mix all the time and modern states are not like tribes (or ancient kingdoms or empires for that matter).

> Brexit was an act of political violence because the UK immigration exceeded the rate at which the society could naturalize immigrants.

While I agree that Brexit was caused by a perceived flood of immigrants, the act of violence is mostly self-harm. The public's belief that immigration is excessive and harmful was encouraged by certain political and economic interests and is not an objective fact.

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

I wasn't arguing for a global government to begin with. However, again, I don't see why you think administrative unity requires cultural uniformity. We can, and do, have institutions that oversee multiple diverse cultures, both across nation-states (e.g. UN, EU, NATO etc.) as well as inside them (many countries are federations that oversee ethnically diverse populations).
I Worked as a quant for a few years, but in a certain point moved to data science and lost interest in stock market.

Read many technical and non technical books, and I recommend this one - Berton J Malchiel - A random walk down Wall-Street.

Simple but not simplistic, it has some great useful lifelong tips for investment. I follow it's advice for >10 years - from 2008 crisis, until these crazy days.
> "We don't make pure electric cars because for the time being, we think they're too heavy, and they don't make a cool sound. And as long as we can be CO2 neutral and frugal and clean comparatively, we will push the combustion engine."

I read that as "we don't give a fuck about emissions because we like vroom vroom and we plant a few trees to not feel bad about it".

I agree about the weight problem of large lithium batteries, and light hydrogen fuel cells may not deliver enough pick power, so I don't have a good solution for hyper cars. I just think that ICE engines shouldn't be in cars ASAP.
I hesitate to post this because I haven’t been tested, but I can’t help but wonder. I live in Tokyo. 3 weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night vomiting, and had a ~38.5C (101F) fever for 2 days. Muscle aches, very fatigued etc, but no real breathing problems - basically a tougher-than-average flu. I went to the doctor and tested negative for influenza. The policy at the time in Japan was not to test for COVID-19 unless the patient had a cough. My wife came down with the same symptoms a couple of days later and had an intermittent 38~9C (102F) fever for three days, and also tested negative for influenza (we both have flu shots every year, if that’s relevant). A couple of weeks later we (plus 2yo child) all have cold-like symptoms and a cough, and are keeping ourselves isolated. It isn’t possible to get tested now unless we have a fever, so who knows. Our child has not had a fever at all and seems quite cheerful apart from a runny nose and cough. 3 weeks ago I would have had to have been quite unlucky to catch it which makes me wonder if I’m just a hypochondriac, but the timing makes me wonder. We’re all on the mend and I don’t feel there’s any need to tie up medical resources, but it would be nice to know for sure if we have / had it. Again I hesitate to write this because I don’t wish to add to the mountain of misinformation out there, but at the same time I’d be very interested to learn if anyone has had a similar experience.
Hmm, sounds like I need to give it another shot.

It’s definitely failed for me during the current school year (2019-20). Usually the audio fails to come through, or one side of the call gets booted off as soon as the other side joins.

It worked great on Mac in late 2017 and early 2018.
In my country of roughly 5.6 million people we now have > 800 cases. Diagnosed, so multiply at least by 10 or 20.

Day before yesterday, colleague handing over company car to me. He gets out, and needing hands for both his bag and the doorhandle he holds the key between his teeth. And is vocally offended when I refuse to accept it dumped into my gloved hand.

30 people use that car. I will not enter it without first rolling down the windows, and I will not touch anything in it without wearing gloves.

Those are the ends of the spectrum.
No, you would save up to buy a car.
Same for a house, you would save up to buy it. The average house price would be lower because demand would be lower because only people who could afford it would be able to make an offer. Same supply, lower demand means lower price. You won't have to compete with over-leveraged fools who are on their 20th credit card as is the case today.
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To bgorman: (apparently I can't reply directly to you, there's some nesting limit in Hacker News [EDIT: apparently not? I see a "reply" button now where it didn't exist before? odd])

>I would much rather be able to buy one package of toilet paper for 50 dollars versus being able to buy zero for 5 dollars.

Yeah, because you have 50 dollars to spend on that. What's a person supposed to do who is only barely making ends meet? Do they forsake eating so they can wipe themselves? Underpay their rent? Go into debt so they can wipe their ass?

My point here is that this isn't an either/or situation. There's other alternatives, though some people won't like it.

Rationing - at least by stores if not by the government - is one that we don't like these days, but that has worked for us in historical times of trouble.

This law is meant to be another alternative. It's certainly not perfect - I'd have taken rationing initiated by stores over that - but it is an alternative to the "pay 50 for a roll or not have a roll at all" options.
No. I would if I thought Bill Gates represented the US government, but I don't think he does.

The problem here is it's so hard to separate private and governmental action in China. Jack Ma may not have even been able to do this without their approval or prodding, possibly. Maybe he did, but there's no good way to know. Most other large countries don't have such powerful and expansive governments.

This is about geopolitics, not philanthropy. I think most philanthropists aren't doing things for PR, and for the ones who are, it's probably a minor, extra motive. But all bets are off when the philanthropist may be an ultra-powerful nation-state.
Linux fans sometimes reminds me of vegans : they always have to transpose what they had before their new "religion".

So we have zucchini noodles and GAMBAS an "almost basic" for Linux.

Usually the original is much better (can't say for GAMBAS, but zucchini noodles certainly aren't noodles !).

To me it means you're not comfortable with your new environment, you came here for ideological reasons, not because the new one is better and you miss the old system.
They make high performance cars, what do you expect? With your logic, any improvement to IC engines is evil...
Correct. And Trump completely disbanded the Pandemic response team in 2018.
I don’t feel like it’s unethical to write a paper along the lines of “If this is not noise, then such and such theory could explain it.” Then people could make judgements about further consequences of that theory and whether it makes more sense for the theory to be correct or for it to be noise.
Clicking on StartGame does not work beacause the button is not wired to anything:

func _on_StartGame_pressed():
pass # Replace with function body.

Probably not ready for the public, but fun to hack around and trying to understand how it works from the inside out.
ftfa:

>Sales wise it’s been a huge help, as Spend Stack tends to consistently chart since its retail demo release. Before, it tends to dip in and out throughout the month.
Why all this focus on weight? Regenerative breaking makes weight 80% more irrelevant, or did I miss something?
Interview with Guido van Rossum the creator of Python
Key point the headline glosses over
but is contained in the article body - they'd already closed stores in China and are slowly reopening them as the virus subsides in the country. I get that mashable is looking for clicks and that the title is not false and doesn't say anything that is untrue, but it's one of those titles that manages to convey a million mistruths without saying anything directly. Apple is shutting down everywhere except where it's worst- why? Well speculate based on whatever your preconceived biases are! The disease isn't bad and it's just for show from apple. Or the disease is terrible and China is an evil authoritarian hellhole that is preventing people from responding appropriately. Whatever it is, the title promises juicy details - just click here! It's pretty insidious.

In case it's changed later the original title of the mashable link was "Apple shuts all stores around the world – except in China"
Mirror: http://archive.md/Mc6PL
Article seems to be removed.

Nothing at Google Cache or Archive.org
Coronavirus is a less distinguishing name. There are many types of coronavirus, including SARS and MERS. There are types of coronavirus that are only in animals.

Here is the media prior to the thoughtpolice, using the common name:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LT_up3ltqo
> there's too much emphasis placed on science

The site rules prevent me from making an appropriate reply.
Obviously. He even calls it an old saw. That's a very strange reason to be put off from the article.
Is it not a "simple" matter of the state waiving license requirements like this? I thought I had heard of this being done already.

I.e., either the governor or the legislature says "it's no longer impermissible for RNs with inactive licenses to care for intubated patients". Or even "all inactive licenses shall be considered active on request of the licensee, until DD/MM/YYYY". Fiat, done.
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>To a very good approximation, the marginal impact of any hoarders on the scarcity of a product is zero.

This is pure ideology. Do you have any evidence that a single person buying 10,000 masks from every hardware store in an entire state has no marginal impact on the scarcity of a product? Basic math would suggest this is not the case.
Given that the article talks about Icelandic kids no longer being heavy drinkers and the fact that nabla9 can read Finnish and so is probably not a naive English speaker, that sentence may just be an erroneous version of an intended "If you look at other things than alcohol use".

Both "like" and "than" express comparisons, that may cause confusion.
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> Obama tested 1 million Americans the month after h1n1 broke out in America.

Where is this number from? You aren't the only person that I've seen use it.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-pandemic-tim...

I see 1 million estimated in June 25, then by september we had done 1,000 test kits (which I assume have many samples).

> Your memory seems to be quite selective.

It was 11 years ago. Most of us don't remember what actually happened.

Edit to add: The biggest original difference in testing seems to be that the existing influenza tests worked for H1N1, then were easily modified for H1N1, while producing the corona virus test and running it appears to take far more time + we have shortages in sourcing chemicals because everyone is trying to get those chemicals atm. That 1 million number may be correct since existing tests that everyone can perform may have worked. That doesn't seem to have anything to do with who the president at the time was, or their actions though. I don't see any regulations being lifted/waived to make that happen. Do you remember that being a big deal at the time?
And I have been told the opposite. Even professionals are human. They have political views, just like the rest of us, and they don’t always agree.
It's ok to improve ICE engines. I'm sure some people continue to improve horse drawn carriages.

Thankfully we don't have our cities full of horse poop anymore.
Two problems; factories cannot surge up immediately and all of the actual gouging here is not actually making it to the manufacturers, it's people mass buying out stocks and reselling. So the supply side isn't actually seeing any increased price to increase their supply. The Econ 101 pro price gouging logic breaks down here because of that.
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I was just in the US (San Francisco) for new employee orientation and they sent us all home 1 day early because they feared something like this would happen, especially after the Europe ban came into force.

What's amusing is after returning home, I've just found out the company has basically put in WFH policy in most offices, so I'll be starting my new job....from home haha
The article states:" We therefore hypothesise[sic] that diabetes and hypertension treatment with ACE2-stimulating drugs increases the risk of developing severe and fatal COVID-19."

From the paper you cannot conclude that, in general, "Ibuprofen may increase the risk of Covid-19 complications ", because the paper applies to people with hypertension and/or diabetes.

Nonetheless, for other reasons, it has been recommended that one take paracetamol (acetominophen, tylenol) instead of ibuprofen or naproxen for Covid-19:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/anti-inflammat...
Poland ans Lithuania was a union. Maybe it has something to do with it. We are like brothers and sisters
> I'll be extraordinarily surprised if shelves aren't completely full of those consumable within 7-10 days.

Then why do we need any price-gouging laws? Who is harmed without them, if the supply remains intact?
>> If you read the official release notes of version 10.0 carefully, you will find that the makers of PassMark suddenly incorporate the AVX512 command extension of the x86 command set into the evaluation, which is not supported by AMD processors.
There's another benefit of the signal sent by high prices. It encourages the use of alternatives. There are many substitutes for toilet paper including other paper products and bidets.
The problem is also with the industry itself, particularly if it's perishable. If this continues much longer, there's going to be a point (and perhaps it's already there? We don't get numbers about capacity - though I'd love to see it if there are numbers available!) where these companies reach peak capacity, and would have to incur significant investments in order to scale: investments that would become a detriment once the market comes back to normal, particularly if everyone has a glut of stored supply by the time this has ended.
There's a video in the article. Did you look?
"Doing something" can be worse than doing nothing. OP may be posting with an agenda, but onlookers on the fence about running up their electric bill will actually want to know that it's for some real benefit and not a counterproductive show of solidarity (displays of solidarity do have their place, don't get me wrong).
As an aside, it seems you're interested in speech recognition, or speech to text, not voice recognition. Voice recognition is a different problem, where the particular speaker needs to be recognized from voice.
It's still good to be light on low speed corners. At high speed the aerodynamic down force is much greater.

I think they just want to have a super fast car for a few people, and to do so you need to pollute with an ICE engine.
Please also check this twitter thread, according to the Medical University of Vienna and the German Robert Koch Institute this is not confirmed. WhatsApp messages with a similar message (and a “quote” of the Medical University of Vienna) are deemed to be fake news.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MedUni_Wien/status/12387995614156...
Stores and manufacturers aren't actually charging increased prices in the majority of cases here. It's people buying out those stores and selling. If manufacturers don't see the increased prices the Econ 101 logic breaks down.
If you don't mind getting your hands dirty a bit, I think Nvidia's model [Jasper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.03288.pdf) is near SOTA, and they have [pretrained models](https://ngc.nvidia.com/catalog/models/nvidia:jaspernet10x5dr) and [tutorials / scripts](https://nvidia.github.io/NeMo/asr/tutorial.html) freely available. The first is in their library "nemo", but they also have it available in [vanilla Pytorch](https://github.com/NVIDIA/DeepLearningExamples/tree/master/P...) as well.
Damn, you must have made billions on the stock market since you already knew in January what was gonna happen.
Just to make sure I understand your ideology: so you're saying the rationing that happened during World War II was a mistake?
I learned cable lacing in the aviation world. It is not uncommon to add a certain amount of extra (spare) cable runs to a loom for future use, you can also easily add cables to the outside of a loom.

The tug method of tracing still works, you don't want to tie your looms that tight, your lacing (same with zip ties) will cut into the insulation over time.
Andiamo avanti
How do you get from small/no government libertarianism to “right-wing”?
The turbocharged peak power was said to come at 7500rpm, with peak torque of 443lb at 3000rpm which is pretty good! I would expect NA torque to be somewhere in the mid 200lb region, which is comparable to the 2020 Nissan Pathfinder in both V6 and I4 petrol variants. The I4 Turbo diesel obviously putting out far more torque at lower RPM making it more usable. But there is no doubt that Koenigsegg has made a huge leap here. The only missing datapoint is reliability. How aggresive is the tuning on the engine to get these numbers and does that effect it's long term robustness?
Most of the videoconferencing tools support the state-of-the-art Opus codec. If people are not using headsets though, echo cancellation is required, and that can seriously mess with the audio quality.

Gamers use high-quality headsets with good microphones. Anything Bluetooth is still rather low quality because of the codecs used by the legacy hands-free profile. This will improve with Bluetooth LE Audio.
Title is too broad. From TFA:

> We therefore hypothesise that diabetes and hypertension treatment with ACE2-stimulating drugs increases the risk of developing severe and fatal COVID-19.
Asserts during development and testing are the best. Instant cadaver for inspection. Initial testing is very slow, crashes all over the place, stopped applications, etc. But then quality sky rockets as obvious things are fixed. Then eventually non obvious things get found. Logs hide problems in test phase.
> we're discrediting it because iceland has a miniscule population

So find one or more groups of 360,000 people in your country and start testing it on small parts of your population.

Don’t just ignore the findings because you can’t apply it to your whole country at once (which is a bad idea anyway: e.g. some nation-wide education changes at home have been big mistakes).
This has been tweeted by the French health minister today, and reinforced during a press conference and all over the news.
I have no clue about this, but to me it seems they just took the existing human workflow and built a robot to replicate it. Is there no more clean slate way of doing this (maybe with a lot of pipes like in a refinery?). How does one even keep one of those monsters clean?
My prediction is that people will create separate seller accounts that list emergency items at sky-high prices when there is no emergency. Thus, in an emergency they don't need to "increase" their prices.
The link on the submission is broken. The correct link is https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-pu...