skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prices being elastic is good for people, in a vast majority of cases. It makes sure things get distributed more or less proportional to need, as opposed to just random or worse than random.

Case in point: I luckily found some hand gel still for sale online. Probably the very last one around here. So I stocked up - not resale quantities (thought it would have been trivial) but definitely more than I needed - something like 10 pieces. Why? Because the price was low and I'm doubtful I'll get to see any more this year.

If the price had been even slightly elastic, I wouldn't have bought 10 pcs for $10 each. I would have probably spent about the same, and gotten 2 or 3. Even better, I would probably still be able to get it from the groceries store, without any shortage - and buy just one as needed.

So we have two scenario: if the prices stay the same some people stock up early, and most are left without. If the prices go up proportionally, we end up spending a trivial amount more (let's be honest, spending an extra $7 on hand gel is not a tragedy) but we have no supply problems. First because there is much less stocking up, and then because everybody is incentivised to produce and sell more.
Free market capitalism is not in opposition to regulations. America is a free market. We don’t live in socialism.
Author seems to be a manager, not necessarily a dev.
Logic flows from axioms, consider axioms that these other people believe in. It may well be that it’s a perfectly logical things to do.
I've looked into this (I'm returning to California in two weeks) and you don't have to had to buy something to have standing to sue. If you see someone advertising $1.50 masks for $40 apiece on Amazon, for example, you can sue them in small claims court in CA (if you can find them) and, most likely win, according to my attorney who helped us with a similar case two years ago:

There's a similar law in California that allows individuals to sue businesses who offer you a contract that forbids leaving negative feedback on review sites. We had a garage door company offer us a contract that included such a provision. We didn't sign it, went to court, and quickly got a judgement for $2,500, which they paid.

(Here's information on that law:)

https://racohenlawfirm.com/fines-for-trying-to-stop-bad-onli...
Anesthesiologist here - sedation is ideal for managing patients in respiratory failure, though volatile anesthesia is not commonly used in an ICU setting (at least not in the US). It is more common to use IV drugs such as dexmedetomidine, fentanyl, or dilaudid.
The artwork on this Science PDF looks excellent.

However, on the Linux I am using, the text color on the images is not fully consistent with the art, nor is its description below the figures.

This can get more confusing with the superimposed structures in Figure 5.
Bach's prelude in C major written in sed
Better to get on with closing nearly every store and introduce rationing. This is stalling.
Should have been libertarian, autocorrect. But this isn't basic economics, is the point: this is about what to do with limited resources in the social context of an emergency. Ignoring the context to justify the economics is just dishonest.
It wasn’t a national emergency in Jan. WHO had also not declared it a pandemic yet.
>it redirects goods from poor people to wealthy people.

In this case it's arguably something desirable, as the most at-risk group, the elderly, on average are much wealthier than young people. Someone over 80 is around 100x more likely to die from the virus than somebody under 40.
It's interesting to look back at these sort of prescient events and laud the people who got it right and ignore all the people that 'got it wrong'.

However in Bill Gates' case, he really was being realistic and not prescient given his close work with global healthcare. He must have seen up close how fragile this whole setup was.
There are poor elderly people too. I think the best response in cases of true need like this is some sort of government intervention and rationing based on need as well as some sort of subsidy to make scaling production profitable. Politically the let the market decide ideology is utterly infeasible - not only are most politicians fundamentally good people that care about their constituents and simply aren't the type to stand by while there's a shortage, there's also the political consideration of how your relection chances will be impacted by attack ads detailing that time you stood by as an elderly individual saw a shelf stocked with purell but couldn't afford the gouged price who then went on to pass away due to the virus. Externalities might not be priced, but they can vote.
>Not too long ago DO was touted as the #2 cloud behind Amazon [1]

Is there a time of where that was said in the podcast. I could bet money at no point in time was DO no.2 in Hosting or Cloud Hosting in revenue, profits or customers. They might have been the case if you count instances / droplet or Domain name, but both of these are quite irrelevant.

They have growing pains, as with ALL companies does, and they reach a point where growth has slow down due to market interest and competition. Not only has Linode becomes better and more competitive thanks to DO, there are also new comers into what I considered as Middle Class Cloud Hosting such as UpCloud and Vultr. You also have Giants ( in their own right ) such as OVH and Hetzner.

>Its not like the market for their stuff is that small, Azure and even GCP have proved that.

No one gets fired for buying IBM. That mentality is the same for Intel ( vs AMD ), using SalesForce rather than other CRM or ERP, and across All industries, from toilet paper roll, food, water, cleaning solution etc. Big Enterprise wants to works with other Big Enterprise. If you have ever sit in the chair of the purchasing, or Supply Chain director you will understand the risk of working with smaller companies is far too great. DO aims at people who are willing to take that risk, SME or startups. And that market is fundamentally different to Azure and GCP serves.

So your answer aren't really technical, but more on the economical and business side of things.
Well, from the perspective of the buyer it doesn't matter if you're buying it for 20x the price from CVS or from Joe Schmoe Markup Inc. It matters to CVS, but that's their problem.
And like most things, basic econ is not the be all and end all of how the world works otherwise we wouldn't have those all-important second year econ classes.

Price gouging is not an efficient market result for anyone - the goods aren't actually, in real terms, worth the temporary price (the costs of manufacturer's switching over production is going to wind up much higher then any profit they can make once they're tooled up) nor does their value represent efficient allocation of resources - the guy with 11,000 bottles of hand sanitizer has no use for them, outside of the extremely limited window of people panicking due to uncertainty.

But really, whether anyone believes this can be viewed through a very different lens: multiple times in the past week, US exchanges have ceased trading due to automatic circuit breakers from 7% drops in the market. Surely if the market is all knowing we shouldn't trigger these mechanisms and instead just let the invisible perfect hand let people sell stocks freely. After all, if we don't allow sudden plunges, what incentive will there be for investors to properly allocate their risk in the future?

But, no one's making that argument. Nor is anyone questioning why it was suddenly urgent that the government put $USD1.5 trillion of liquidity into the market.
There were similar situations during Y2K, which my friend reminded me was a generation ago now, so many younger folks don't remember.

As others have said, this is a temporary blip, but when things are restocked, you should build up your supply. The ideal thing is to build it up slowly over weeks or month, and always have a rotating supply (make sure you use and replace items before they expire).
...by placing an artificial price ceiling that will ensure a shortage of goods.

In a pandemic, prices go up, rightly or wrongly, because there is an increased demand. This price scales as the difference between supply and demand grows, in order to decelerate how fast the shortage occurs relative to the speed of creating the good. The price ceiling just means the shortage happens immediately.
Another downside to it is EMI. tying all the wires tight together increases the odds of any EMI problems vs letting them be loose in the wire duct.

In a previous CNC machine, I zip tied everything together very carefully, but was getting phantom steps in one of my steppers (even with shielded wires). Unclipping the zip ties caused the problem to go away. (after that, I added plenty of ferrites, too, as a measure of safety, but clipping the zip ties killed the only real symptom)
Maybe, sure seems like the point was "do not log ever"
I must be out of the loop, but why exactly are people so focused on toilet paper? The virus doesn’t cause you to go to the bathroom any more than you’d normally do in a three week time period. It seems odd to focus on this one thing.

Last trip to the grocery store I saw people carrying out 3 year supplies of TP but the stock of fever reducing medication was all untouched.
It depends on the details. The recent NYT article about buying in stores and selling online mentioned that more than 50% of the sale price could be eaten up in shipping and other fees.
What is everyone experiencing for price gouging / shortages on the west coast?

Even though I stocked up myself, I feel like shortages of food and general supplies are going to be temporary. The immediate goal is to avoid having to go back to stores before everybody else figures out the new normal (eg don't fucking stand there coughing in the middle of the store).

Hand sanitizer/IPA seems easy to produce in industrial quantities, and it feels like that will sort itself out in a week or two.

Respirators/masks seem the only thing that are and will continue to be in short supply. But it feels like government (including health providers) is going to have to get them into everybody's hands eventually. But maybe that's overly optimistic.
Pictures of empty shelves on social media is causing panic and driving more shortages. This is a lose-lose situation for gov interference. This sort of punitive response will always be far too late or too little to be effective anyway.

The markets will respond far faster with supply than setting price ceilings and fining random opportunists will.

So few people question whether it will actually work in the real world before asking if in an ideal scenario it is an effective idea.

I mean what’s going to happen next time? Are they going to lock up all the TP and ration it out on first signs of any sort of epidemic or other causes or panic? Because that’s when the hoarders and grey market guys were already stocking up.
[SPOILERS] To me there are five super interesting points in this video.

1. The arrogance/confidence that people had towards AlphaGo assuming that it was not going to be competitive.

2. The lack of understanding tt even the programmers had for the game. At one point the devs were saying "I don't even know if that's a good move or not", yet their program is playing at superhuman play.

3. The amazement that commentators and other players experienced
when AlphaGo performed move 37 in game 2.

4. The disappointment experienced by everyone when they came to the realization after game 3 the computer won.

5. The confusion when the computers neural network fails in game 4 and everyone (except the engineering team who sees the probabilities) is confused about whether the machines play is brilliant or terrible.
Price-gouging would correct the toilet paper hoarding problem.
Well, if he hasn't sold them yet, he has. He needs to find a buyer ASAP. I suppose this article would help.
We should be applying a much hefty fine for stock investors or other kinds of investors if this $5k price-gouging is reasonable.
Why don't the pharmacies raise their own prices 20x before the scalpers can get to them? The answer is probably, "they don't want to get slapped by gouging laws." So in essence this is a prohibition scenario where lawful providers don't want to touch the situation and unlawful people fill the gap.
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 considered spiral wraps but it's more convenient for me to keep around a spool of string.
Interesting article that basically answers the post title question by saying that utilization of improved sensors and data processing techniques have allowed us to determine that Mother Nature had a rumbly in her NGB tumbly that, over the course of more than a decade, she has been attempting to burp away.
Amazon and eBay banned all sales, regardless of price. Anyone relying on those platforms to sell products is stuck.
Modeling of InSAR and GPS data suggests the 1996–2004 uplift was caused by an intrusion of magma about 14 km (8.7 miles) beneath Norris. When magma intrudes the crust it cools, crystallizes, and releases gases that had been dissolved in the melt. Gas escape lowers pressure in the magma, causing the surface to subside. That's probably what was going on at Norris from 2005 to mid-2013. But rising gases can become trapped under an impermeable layer of rock, causing the kind of rapid uplift seen at Norris from late 2013 until the M 4.9 earthquake in March 2014. It seems likely the quake created microfractures that allowed gases to escape upward again, resulting in subsidence that ended in 2015. The third uplift episode from 2016 to 2018 suggests rising gases became trapped again, this time at a slightly shallower depth. Modeling indicates the source depth for the 2013–2014 uplift was about 3.2 km (2.0 miles) deep, compared to about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) for the 2016–2018 episode.
Should you worry? In a word, no. Activity like this is probably common at Norris and, at other times, under the caldera, too. What's different is that we now have the tools to detect and model Yellowstone's ups and downs better than ever before. For the first time, we've been able to track an entire episode of magma intrusion, degassing, and gas ascent to the near surface. For those in the know, like you, that's awesome—not alarming.
Slack Rules for Asynchronous Communication
I'm in favor of attacking poverty directly, e.g. with UBI, rather than conscripting private sellers to act as an inefficient ad-hoc welfare system.
That's what I would get if I were "in industry" and had a lot of cables to deal with. I just have my personal equipment, and one spool of string is very convenient to buy and shove in the closet when I don't need it.
Developers partially share the blame for cookie dialogs as well. They could choose not to use cookies, knowing the alternative is an annoying dialog, but they choose to go the path of annoyance.
Here’s some price gouging:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-pu...

Banning that is not going to have any effect on production.
Best books to understand why the financial system behaves the way it does are Nassim Taleb's books. Take the principles there, and apply them to finance and it explains 100% of why prices move the way they do.
It would give me no satisfaction for it to be retracted :(

And I hope lurquer will not find themselves in the situation they suggested above.
Only if wrongly applied.
You are correct. Once you slide into Socialism there is no returning.
I find it ironic that my post was flagged.
Socialists also hate Free Speech to the point of violence.
I'm not sure how the parent thinks it will help with shortages, but sales tax adds to the price that the consumer pays. On sales tax holidays you see prices go down.
Here is a link to the relevant section of the California penal code:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

"While the pricing of consumer goods and services is generally best left to the marketplace under ordinary conditions, when a declared state of emergency or local emergency results in abnormal disruptions of the market, the public interest requires that excessive and unjustified increases in the prices of essential consumer goods and services be prohibited."

Emphasis mine. This definition still allows producers to pass on increased costs, as long as they are not excessive and unjustified.
Think in terms of the survival of the government, not in terms of general social welfare. If you have a lot of pissed off poor young people, they're often fairly socially well-connected, they're more aggressive, they're able-bodied, and they can fight. If you have a lot of pissed off old people, they'll continue to be pissed off but probably won't make a whole lot of trouble. They might make a lot of trouble come election day, but in an emergency the priority is the survival of the government now, so that you can get to the next election.

This is not an academic thought exercise, BTW - a lot of the social unrest of 2019 in Venezuela, Chile, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Iraq, etc. came from prices rising quickly enough that young people could not afford basic necessities.
You might read up on the Bullwhip Effect. these demand fluctuations can have very disruptive effects on supply chains and availability of things, even if nothing else happens.

Doig the kind of shopping right now is extremely disruptive if happening at scale. Which it does. Long-term availability of all kind necessities will suffer from it, for you, for everyone. It is the opposite of reasonable right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect
My understanding is that the "main line" was breadbin, 64C with front glyphs, then 64C with top glyphs. The Aldi 64 was concurrent with the breadbin, but mysteriously used the keys from the early 64C. The 64G was concurrent with the late 64C. The Aldi and 64G were only available in a relatively small area (mostly Germany), rather than internationally.

Commodore was notorious for mixing and matching parts, though. Even the very early breadbin 64s would sometimes ship with VIC-20 function keys (orange instead of dark gray) and vice-versa. I don't know if this was due to poor quality control, or an intentionally sloppy supply chain management. Perhaps a combination of both.

The 64G especially looks like they were scrambling to meet demand any way they could, as the key colors and even the LED colors vary. I'm guessing the beige breadbin was used to increase production speed by taking the old breadbin injection molds out of retirement. They aren't old cases that they had in inventory, because breadbins weren't that color previously.
Regulation for safety concerns is not price control.
For traditional datastore, I usually do:

Dev/QA/Similar: Either containerize and back to persistent volume, or use a managed DB service such as RDS or Cloud SQL and create a schema per environment. Include a deployment pipeline argument to reset to known state. CI pipeline can be tuned to handling dynamic environments in either case.

Stage/Prod: Use managed DB service such as RDS or Cloud SQL.

The time and cost to automate a DB upgrade with every edge case considered is huge. Rarely makes sense for small/medium business.
Has anyone used Git submodules to isolate large binary assets into their own repos? Seems like the obvious solution to me. You already get fine-grained control over which submodules you initialize. And, unlike Git LFS, it might be something you’re already using for other reasons.
Why We Chose K3s to Power Our Kubernetes Service
Further information from a German paper:

- Roche has been working on this already for weeks with high priority.

- These are tests that run on high-throughput machines, namely the Roche Cobas 6800/8800 systems:

https://www.dialog.roche.com/pk/en_us/products_and_solutions...

- One Cobas 8800 is able to perform 4100 tests per day in a fully automatic fashion.

- There are roughly 800 Cobas 6800/8800 in Europe, US and Asia combined.

- One test costs about 15 CHF (which is roughly 15 USD) (EDIT: This is what Roche gets per test. The overall laboratory cost is probably much more expensive).

- Roche is pretty much the only manufacturer for machines like these.

Source (German):

https://www.faz.net/2.1690/pharmakonzern-roche-neuer-schnell...

EDIT: More exact numbers in the linked article: Cobas 6800 can do 1440 tests/day, Cobas 8800 4128 tests/day.
Youtube how economic machine works by ray dalio.
...are you drinking apple cider vinegar neat from the bottle??
"I'm doubtful I'll get to see any more this year." - I'll take that action. All of the consumable that people have been panic buying - toilet paper, hand gel, etc... have experienced absolutely zero supply shock, and, indeed, most of the manufacturers are going to be delighted to draw down their inventory and get a boost this quarter. I'll be extraordinarily surprised if shelves aren't completely full of those consumable within 7-10 days.

People are strange - the fact that there was a global pandemic coming at us was pretty obvious as of early march, but it was this weekend that everyone decided to panic? It's not as though this were a hurricane that just landed on us by surprise.

I fully support the price gouging laws - it discourages these yahoo's from buying up all of the supplies and sticking it in their garage and depriving people over the weekend who might need a container.
I'd like to add an entry:

Me. 42 Mendeleevication (pseudoscience): Laying things out in a periodic table to make it look scientific.
“If confirmed, this requires physics beyond the standard model to enhance the signal. We examine various new physics interpretations of the result including these: (1) heavy new physics boosting the standard model signal, (2) [...] a new light long-lived particle, or (3) reinterpretation of the whole signal as the production of a new light long-lived particle at the fixed target,” the scientists explain in the paper.

In other words, the high number of “fluke” measurements was itself a sign that something unusual was going on, and now scientists want to understand and explain why it happened. Yes, the results could be “noise,” or just interference or measurement errors. Our instruments for measuring subatomic particles are often using secondary information, like the shadow an object casts or the way it reflects light instead of the object itself.

Because of the extreme tininess at play, these secondary data can be inconclusive. That’s why the next step for this research team is to try to definitively rule out noise. Researcher Kohsaku Tobioka says even this level of noise (if it’s so) would be wild. “In this case, expectation of noise is very low, so even one event or observation is very striking,” Tobioka says. “And in this case, there were four."
The Fed’s $1.5T loan injection, Explained
We may be saying the same thing from different angles. You have the right to decline the employees' proposal, but you have to try to negotiate something better, not just boot them out immediately.
> I work in data storage. Am I the enemy, then? ;)

You’re the prison guard.
Also --reference (or --shared) is a good parameter to speed-up cloning (for build, for example), if you have your repository cached in some other place.
I was using it a long time ago when I was working on system that required to clone 20-40 repos to build. This approach decreased clone timings by an order of magnitude.
You're justifying your own unethical behavior by painting yourself as a rational economic agent, when you could also just not buy more than necessary and leave some for other people.
Reading this thread is the official confirmation that Americans are out of their mind.
Do you know of any local developer communities? A slack channel for devs in your area, perhaps. Usually they have job channels but also the best people to know about jobs in the industry are developers themselves. Check out /r/forhire and make a post. Then maybe comb through the HN monthly freelance threads and send some emails. That'll get you started. Good luck and stay safe.