skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they go bankrupt, yes. If they simply decide to go out of business in advance of running out of money (e.g., the owner is like "I've been thinking of retiring and now is a pretty good excuse"), write the terms of it so there's some obligation to refund the card.

That said, there have been enough Patreons/GoFundMes for local businesses, so I think that people understand that going bankrupt despite best efforts is a risk and enough people are willing to pay anyway to try to keep their local coffee shop open.
If you act early when total cases are in single or low double digit, 2 is a choice you can make. But for most of the world, that option is gone. Now the choices are 1 and 3.

I like choosing lock-down to reduce no of wild cases to a small number followed by option 2. I believe that is what they are planning in Wuhan and China. They'll lift off the lock down gradually but will continue with aggressive monitoring/testing and tracing. This will bring back the economy while still keeping the risk of epidemic.
No, wrong, libertarian nutters. Limited quantities by retailers is the solution, not social Darwinism or "market forces will solve every social problem."
Who under 35 is going to die because when they need to go to the ER for a non-COVID life-threatening issue, the hospital has their hands full dealing with a pandemic?
pioneer.app has been super fun in the limited time we have used it. Check it out!
I don't know the proper legal answer to that, but you'd lose that argument in front of a judge if you gave away a locally printed copy of someone's music or writing. I wonder more about copyright here than patent infringement. I suspect Elon would lawyer-slam you pretty hard if you were 3d printing and giving away essential Tesla repair parts, no matter whether you were making money from it or not.
I'm sure you could make a metal sword which has blunt edges and a soft point.
They could be reporting those on the news and omitting them from the officially reported data, but this really wouldn't befit Germany.
No, that doesn't solve any problem. Only limited quantities can prevent one jerk from buying everything.
Wait, what? Rationing by price means that wealthy people get more. How is that better than a random distribution or a queue?
> DRACO would do for viruses what penicillin did for bacteria.

I wonder why pharmaceutical companies didn't invest in it?
Chloroquine may explain why South Korea has low CFR

https://youtu.be/U7F1cnWup9M?t=891
I was reading some old literature a few months ago on this related to police staffing where union issues had to be taken into account. It seems adding social penalties is a way to do this algorithmically
An expensive car repair is not 6 months of living expenses. It's completely unrealistic to expect a 22-year-old waiter to have saved $10,000. And any model of the world where that is an assumption is going to be terribly flawed.
Antisocial: Unwilling or unable to associate in a normal or friendly way with other people.

That has not been my experience. How could the culture of an entire country be antisocial? A nation of hostile hermits?
The federal funds rate is the rate banks pay when they borrow from the Fed.
Mass outrage. Kind of what happens to the guy from OP (I'm not saying he's a good guy, he clearly isn't). Never underestimate the madness of the crowds.
Oh sure. I'm not for a minute suggesting that printing these and saving people's lives isn;'t 100% the correct and obvious thing to do here.

I do wonder what will happen down the track, when the manufacturers/copyright-owner/patent-owner or whatever starts asking about whether or how they should have been paid their cut on these.
At the moment, it just gracefully disables itself so the movement commands revert to calling the corresponding Tuareg and Merlin operations. This is mainly because I currently rely on the vanilla OCaml parser to build the AST which doesn't handle recovery from syntax errors.

In the future I plan to move over to the Merlin parser, which has partial support for syntactically invalid buffers (I believe it wraps invalid regions with another syntactic construct), so it should still be possible to move around in other parts of the buffer.

As an aside, as I mentioned on the OCaml forum, I haven’t found this to be a major issue as I find that most of the time when I’m moving around (i.e not inserting text), the code is usually syntactically correct - I’ve also bound M-RET to insert a type hole (??) to easily allow movement even when I haven’t completed a function definition, and overall this leads to quite a natural editing experience.
Exactly. And many manufacturers will have minimum purchases, i.e. you need to buy a pallet of these, we won't sell them individually.
Death rate != CFR.

CFR is the fatality rate for diagnosed people and it's gonna swing wildly depending on how many people are tested and diagnosed. And considering how this virus affects young and healthy people, there's good reason to believe that a lot of people get infected and never seek out medical assistance and never get diagnosed.

Even the best numbers we have are often skewed and misleading - as an example, we have a lot of good data from the cruise ship quarantined in Japan, but cruise passengers do not match the demographics of the general population.
If the election was held in April, yes absolutely you should. Unless you have virtual election options available.
This is dumb. If there’s a short term spike in toilet paper no one is going to invest in the factories to make toilet paper because of the high price.
Well done.

Two small things I have loved when I came across them:

5 Min Physics from UQ (PHYS1171) https://teaching.smp.uq.edu.au/fiveminutephysics/index.html#...

Newton's cannon.
Look at its beautifully simple source code - one short html + javascript file (I see your javascript code for orbital motion is similarly easy to follow.)
https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/html5/NewtonsCannon4.htm...

Something I was going to further explore, if I had had to do more physics tutoring/teaching:
https://www.geogebra.org/m/M4nBYbbG#material/fHHvnhjm
Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars
A good way of specifying variable types in sample code is with Python’s native type hint syntax[0].

Using angle brackets is an option, but it results in invalid syntax (confusing to beginner programmers) and is used by languages such as TypeScript and Swift to signify generics (confusing to established engineers coming from those languages).

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
Let's say you're desperate for sanitizer because you're caring for an elderly relative. And let's say that sanitizer is available on Amazon for $100/bottle. Would you buy or rather go without?
This was much worse shortage developing more rapidly than the anticipated approach of more-accurately-predicted certain widespread destruction from closely looming hurricanes like Ike and Harvey.

It only takes a small fraction of the population to act overly cautiously in the face of perceived impending disaster, and you get throughput out the front door in shopping carts greater than they are ready to keep up with from truckloads in the back door.

Would be great if selection and available hours are broadened back to normal soon

>hopefully in the next few days

but until then it looks like rationing has already started in the big city.

Within about the last 4 hours, the White House has addressed hoarding food as the situation has become significant enough for them to go on record.

>_You don't have to buy so much,_ Trump said at a news conference. _Take it easy. Just relax._

>Pence urged Americans to only buy the groceries they need for the week ahead.

While Dr. Anthony Fauci,

>the government's top infectious disease expert said he would like to see aggressive measures such as a 14-day national shutdown that would require Americans to hunker down even more to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
For some products it can be cheaper to buy retail. The retailers use their buying power to get a lower price than anyone else gets. There have been incidents where all the mechanics go buy their oil from Costco, or all the bakers go buy their butter from Walmart. The savings were enough to justify it.

You can generally skip the sales tax if you have a business license, or there's some way of registering purchases as being for resale (seems to vary by state here in the US).
Hey modwatcher
I like the way you think
Keep up the good work
And also, that the bottom in stocks may be near.
or cal -3 -m 9 1752
> If you got I’ll this weekend or the last few days you probably won’t feel it for 10 days.

The median incubation period is about 5 or 6 days, not 10.

> We probably have about 200k sick people today.

That's the big question that nobody really knows the answer to. If the actual number is indeed that high, then you're probably right that we won't see the rate taper off in a week. I personally don't think it's that high, because most of the cases identified to date are in particular clusters. If the virus had really been spreading within the population for weeks undetected, which it would have to be for numbers like 200k total to be possible, cases popping up now would not be clustered so much. At least, that's my read--but I don't think anybody really has a good handle on the actual spread of the virus at this point.
If there are acute shortages, yes lives can be at stake because of major disruptions in the food supply.

Several weeks ago, nobody assumed that 'Purell' or 'toilet paper' was going to fully sell out everywhere, rather, simply that there would be increased demand for it.

All retailers who sell Purell have their buyers clamoring to buy as much as possible because they know their customers want it, and there's no reason to think that the price won't be increased somewhat.

In fact, given the excessive demand and challenges in production, Purell will probably be increasing its wholesale price ... and then some.

So are retailers - buying up as much Purell as possible and probably selling for a little bit of a markup considered 'hoarders'? So long as they have the intention of selling it for not-some-crazy-price, then it's just normal business.

There's no reason individuals can't do the same.

As long as this guy was not price gauging, and he was in fact selling, then what are they going to charge him with exactly?

It's reasonable that the government put restrictions on certain goods during a crisis, such as margin limits, the requirement to not hold inventory etc. but the same would have to apply to this guy.

If he bought his inventory before any emergency crisis or calamity ... then again, what's the legal crime? Buying Purell 2 months ago was normal, but 'having Purell inventory' now is illegal?

I have no lost love for this guy, but that he gave his inventory away is punishment enough.
Israel rivals in unity cabinet talks to halt virus
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I love the train demo for general & special relativity, they intuitively explain the theories from frames of reference (ground/train).

This helped me instantly understand the 2 theories, great work!
My biggest issue with pcap files is lack of random access capability. If you wanted to search a large file for a packet by time or contents, you can't just hop around. You have to scan sequentially. Some people chunk a capture into individual files, but this can also get unwieldy.
i think for version 1.0 of this app it can be honor system of entering your number and getting into the daily habit of noticing how many people you come within 6 feet of each day. We can add the bluetooth/wifi/wigle.net stuff too but it won't be perfect. I started landing page at https://socialdistance.app/
I'd prefer to live in a world where we don't have to face such moral dilemmas.

A lot of people caring for babies are financially stressed as is. Simply having children in the US helps push a lot of people into poverty. We do a lot of things very badly in this country and one of those is we do not have family-friendly policies.

For some people, a hundred dollars is quite a lot of money. It can mean not eating and similar hardships.
Whataboutism doesn't really help. Yes, there are systemic issues with our healthcare system. What this guy did was also wrong. We can choose to address both. We can choose to be upset with both.
Just other customers, not much better.

How many touchscreens are necessary?
> People are hoarding toilet papers

Yes, this was the oddest thing I noticed while shopping for necessaries. Every single place I went to was totally cleaned out of toilet paper. Other paper products were depleted but not completely out, but TP--nada. I don't get it.
> For a recession to start something fundamental has to change irreversibly.

It seems like you're thinking of the last recession (2008), which included the collapse of major financial firms like Lehman. But most recessions are much less catastrophic. A recession just means a slowdown in the economy, usually defined as "two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession#Definition
> However, if they dont have a 3 to 6 month emergency fund that's on them.

This is incredibly out of touch. When I moved out of home at age 18, with unemployed parents, I certainly did not have a 3 to 6 month emergency fund. Students and part-time workers generally don't, and a huge fraction of the country is to poor to even contemplate it.
Truman elected just not to run. Yes, the spirit of the 22nd amendment was factor, but so were his terrible poll numbers.

I don't think this is a "rally behind the flag" moment, especially because the President isn't invoking the language of national identity to get people to respond to the crisis. That could change, but it won't be super effective at this point.
> the idea of video game players crawling through virtual worlds to acquire real knowledge.. is the most poetic idea in game I heard in 10 years

Poetic, sure. There’s also the way more mundane yet infinitely more effective method of just using a goddamn VPN, which gives you access to the whole internet instead of a random collection curated by activists.

The architecture is amazing, though.
Flying right now is a monumentally stupid idea. All passenger flights except repatriation and medical airlift should've been grounded in January. Checking people's temperature is safety theater accomplishing F-all.
HyphalMesh: Social distancing doesn't mean we can't get close
As OP -- One of my really good friends (and a mother of 3) is currently undergoing chemo to knock out her immune system and prep her for a bone marrow transplant since she discovered she has severe aplastic anemia on Christmas, several of my family members work in primary care in hospitals, I have a large very close-knit family with ~10 uncles/aunts with significant Covid19 comorbidities and a 90-year old grandfather who lives in an urban center. If "Expelling people from polite society" for directly endangering all of their lives is extreme then I'm glad I didn't share my true opinion of what should happen to these charlatans.
Why do you think it's a ridiculous idea that the US might follow in Italy's footsteps? (Honest question, I'd love for that to be the case)
All the people I know are taking common sense precautions (including my wife and me). Do you know a lot of people who aren't?
My friend uses disposable latex gloves and brings all his items to customer service, where he scans them and bags them himself.

When he receives his change, he has it placed in a separate bag, which he then sprays w/ 70% rubbing alcohol, and then disposes of his gloves.

And, yes, he is fun at parties.
So first off I've spent enough time with people in epidemiology/at the CDC to know that I (and probably you) don't know enough to have a more accurate armchair analysis than what their experts produce. Second, I would imagine ICU/critical care beds per capita is a better predictor of fatality rate than hospital beds and the US is very well equipped in that regard. The US medical system has numerous flaws, but in terms of technical ability to keep extremely sick people alive, the US is pretty good. We can debate the details, but since neither of us are experts it's probably a waste of time.

However, there is absolutely no basis to say "best-case estimates right now have US deaths at 2 million". It is blatantly untrue - it directly contradicts every single expert analysis that I have seen.
Your CFR numbers are likely too low across the board - about 2x off would be my guess.

Here's Wuhan's data: https://i.ibb.co/983SC13/covplot.png
> Motorbikes are the worst offender here.

I think ford mustangs are becoming a contender for this honor. :)
Your quoted information supports that comment not refutes it.
Interesting that open source software is not discussed, it seems like one of the most radically successful embodiments of this.
Also, probably, other travel-related businesses, such as the hotel industry.
Singapore has been paying S$100/day (about US$70/day) for anyone issued a quarantine/stay-home order [1]. They've been doing extensive testing and contact tracing though, so they haven't been doing general lockdowns, just targeted stay-home orders to contacts of tested-positive people.

[1] https://www.mom.gov.sg/covid-19/frequently-asked-questions
Then I hope you would agree that we help that waiter the same way we help people who's home has been washed away in a hurricane, with some meager public assistance from disaster relief.

I agree it's insane to be spending that much on rent as well - but short of raising the minimum wage and using pricing controls to stop rent increases, what can be done about it? Cities hold the good schools and the good jobs, and people aren't being irrational by moving there and trying to compete. This is the modern financial tightrope we ask people entering the workforce to walk.

Say they spend an additional $200/month on a used car they own outright, just between the price of gas, insurance, and parking, to get to work, and this lets them instead pay $500/month in rent living further out in a townhouse with more roomates. The new $400/month savings rate this allows them, if fully utilized, still takes nearly 7 months to save up 3 months of sitting in your apartment doing nothing but paying $500/month rent + the $430 we said you needed for food and all other expenses monthly.

This isn't just hypothetical for me. I had the great fortune to work during college at significantly above minimum wage in a very cheap area, and saving for me was still next to impossible. I have a sister who hustled waiting tables for almost two years after her degree in NYC before building up enough connections to start her professional career filming tv shows. She is now paying down the debt she accrued with a much, much higher paying job, contributing much more to the economy than she would have had staying in our sleepy state.

These kinds of success stories take not only the kind of panache and grit people like to prescribe to the working poor, they also take the ability to take large risks and the luck that they pan out. My sister and I were fortunate to know that if we failed, we had loving parents who could catch us with a place to stay until we got back on our feet. It's true we worked hard, but without that safety net, and much other luck, I don't think either of us would have walked to the end of the financial tight rope of rent in major cities. I think people who walked across the rope without fearing the fall often just don't get it.
Lisp is very good at teaching you that you're not as good a programmer as you think you are, and that you don't understand the domain as well as you think you do.

These sound like negatives, but it's better to learn these things up front.
But is it just "weeks". We've no evidence nor precedent to know how long this lock down will last. The problem being that without any vaccine (and mass generation of vaccine and distribution to the population), the virus will continue spreading when those "weeks" are up.
I would wager that a 0.5% mortality rate is closer to the “real” rate than the 5% figure.

Look at South Korea. Do you see a 5% CFR there? Of course not.
> This doesn't follow a modicum of scrutiny. If he's buying to sell them at a markup, it MUST be because it's not getting replenished. Otherwise, people would just go to the store and buy it at retail price. It's a BS apology and shouldn't be accepted by anyone.

So much of economic innumeracy is explained by this comment.
This doesn't follow. Just because something isn't legislated doesn't mean someone didn't do the thing.
> A lot of countries thought they were taking that option

At least in the US, I think it's too early to tell what the outcome of that option is.
Life MLB theory – Multi Level Binary. Work is all about money
As someone who works in a remote - friendly company, and experienced both sides of the workplace, I believe that a startup accelerator program going remote lose part of its value (although I understand the decision) .
There is something about networking, and face - to-face meetings, that videoconferencing cannot replace. It's hard to explain, but easy to feel. If that was not the case, people would not force themselves to be in a highly overpriced housing market, like SV.
This comment won't age well.

No bank run is coming, and we are not witnessing financial collapse, nor the failure of the American empire.
I don't think "mass amateurization" and "institutions" are opposed. Traditionally you needed major institutional support to set up, say, a TV channel; today you can get a YouTube channel for free. If you start a YouTube channel and it gets successful you can certainly set up institutions and processes to keep it successful, but those things aren't necessary to get started.
Just as much movement as hitting any other key. Plus slightly more because you have to keep it held during the next key. It's really easy to do, but it's still more than double the effort of hitting a single letter, and when you're hitting many keys per second that makes a difference.

Shift, letter, unshift is great for a single capital letter, but if you're doing that several times in a row then capslock is a lot simpler. As is holding a single shift, if you're used to it.
Good. Aggressive steps like this are the only way we'll get a handle on what's happening. The alternative is exponential runaway and complete disaster.

Full disclosure: I live in Seattle.
How can one profit from the corona virus?
Absolutely, but only one of those statements is correct in this context.
Not my cup of tea. I think it's better if people just don't share their germs so freely to begin with.

It's more economically sustainable. It's more environmentally sustainable. It meets a higher bar for hygiene than being exposed and cleaning up afterwards.

Etc.

I mean, maybe you are just making conversation. I don't know. But this is not a practice I care to embrace.
This is actual happening to a friend. She has a toddler daughter, and two elementary age children.

School is cancelled, but she is expected to come to the office on Monday.

She works for the school board as an administrator.
Totalitarian leaders always invoke the benefit of the masses when justifying their abuse.

Personally, I believe very strongly in personal freedom, so I would absolutely rather have a million deaths than go into a state-mandated nationwide total lockdown.

Anyway, the truth is it’s not an “either or” scenario.

Hopefully there’s a sane middleground that we converge on :)
Restaurants and bars will be closed in New York City