skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a store it really is that simple, and they do it all the time with really good sales (esp. loss-leaders).

The "preferable" regime is whichever one is easy to implement, appears fair, and ensures primarily that the store has a reputation for things being in-stock even when on sale.

Which is usually max 1, 2 or 4 per customer. If you really want more, you can usually put them in your car, go back in, get in line again and pay again. If you do this more than two or three times, a manager will probably ask you to stop and prevent any further. But you can always come back tomorrow.

It works pretty well. People who really need double or triple can get it with just a little extra work, but it absolutely prevents people from clearing out the store's stock in a single, quick easy transaction.
I thought r0 numbers were pretty similar? The problem seems to be that containment is harder this time around.
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All problems of this scale are coordination problems. Inability to coordinate effectively on a large scale is the fundamental problem of humanity. If we could coordinate then there’d be no poverty, war, or famine. Disease outbreaks like this one would be slowed dramatically as well.
Thank you, benrrio. I appreciate your telling us, and as promised I will downvote mockers. You are definitely no scammer.
That's an ignorant comment.

Russia's using the the same kind of reactors (pressurized water reactors) as American supercarriers.
That opposing party was traditionally in favor of bringing troops home from Syria and Afghanistan, until Trump did it.
I agree. These people are not just selfish, they're idiots - I've seen purchases of years worth of toilet paper. My local shop had empty shelves for about a week but now has stacks on the floor as well as full shelves. The sanitiser stocks will soon arrive too - cash in on the nutters.
Their instructions for compiling it on Cygwin hints on its dependencies. Looks like a long list, but many of those probably have ports for other plaforms (e.g. Windows). The Wikipedia article says it has been ported to Mac and FreeBSD "based on using local versions of the X11 system". Perhaps these are leads...
Not precisely relevant to the “innovation” in the article, but is there any smaller-scale application of electrostatic paint deposition in the form of some kind of hand tool?

I.e. is there an electrostatic version of an airbrush, that doesn’t require a compressor, but rather (presumably) a voltage source alligator-clipped to the paint tank and the work surface?

I can’t picture quite how such a thing would work, because I feel like the paint wouldn’t really have enough energy to jump out of the nozzle on its own.
And this is why I failed C IO classes. Lack of information and improper abstraction.
If you have a fever and a wet chesty cough, you should be planting your ass on the sofa with Gatorade and fever meds.

Regardless of what's causing your symptoms.

If you're having increased trouble breathing, you should see a hospital.
The cloud providers are all getting hammered with customers right now.
Whole Foods wants workers to pay colleagues’ sick leave during coronavirus
Hah, The crisis is turning Trump into a socialist: trillions injected into the banking system, more health care paid for, more aid for students ... Rand Paul must be having a fit. (librrtarian who votes no on most federal funding)
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The "until more deliveries arrive" is at most the next day. The supply chain for grocery stores is very, very good and we are not even close to lacking of anything.
> Does anyone else do it better?

To that question, assuming by "anyone" here you are asking about other donate-your-cycles-distributed-computing-projects:
I am not too familiar with how well-optimized the codes of different @home projects are.

Taking a few steps back, perhaps the efficiency of these codes is the lesser issue and to be honest, in some (many?) cases other forms of donation/contribution may further more scientific progress than simply crunching numbers on one's home PC.
I would argue that the most fair thing I can do is stay home. It is the most good I can do society, as each person at home is one less infection path for those who cannot stay at home.
I think Mankiw covers pretty well how banking system works in real life. Open market operations etc.

I'm referring to the book: 'N. Gregory Mankiw, Laurence Ball - Macroeconomics and the Financial System-Worth Publishers (2010)
I learned with turbo c++ compiler yellow on blue on dos. But quake c was my formative nostalgic experience.
> Your comment about not being older than 60 to get tested made me so angry and shows how fucked the US is.

This is not US-only. Here in Austria there are very strict rules on whom to test, and age is a big factor as well as having symptoms or not. Local authorities do decide on a case-by-case basis, and getting a test if you are not showing symptoms is really hard.

But on the other hand by taking these measures they try to not overwhelm the testing-labs, as they struggle to keep up with the demand for tests and want to keep the reporting-time as low as possible. A couple of days ago test results came back the next day, now (Saturday) they seem to slip to 3 days or more.

So restricting who get's a test and who doesn't seems like a good idea to begin with.
Coronavirus is most contagious before and during the first week of symptoms
Sure, agreed. But Folding@Home is setup for home, and both of those machines put together add up to the equivalent of maybe 1k-2k gaming rigs. Putting aside looking for the maximum possible efficiency, crowd sourcing has the potential to scale to many orders of magnitude larger than what can be done in a data center.
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What kind of stack and architecture would you use?
It is a good stepping-stone, but it still isn't on Visual Basic's level of accessibility
Why is it illogical? Often there is a deeper logic than what appears on the surface.

Nassim Taleb pointed out on twitter recently that when interest rates are zero (in reality negative with inflation), buying tons of non-perishable goods isn't really that bad of an idea. The time value of the money is arguably better sitting in toilet paper than cash.

To answer your question, yes it really is possible that we run out of basic goods. That's why people are "panicking". Personally I don't see it as super likely, but you could reasonably argue that it's probable.
> My take is that in the near term (1-2 months), there will be a shortage of a lot of produce

I say this from a place of kindness and compassion: this is the sort of mindset we should avoid.

It's understandable to have fear of an unknown situation, but look at the available data. Even in places with large outbreaks, grocery stores have continued delivering all essentials to the population.

Ensuring you have some food for the next couple of weeks (not the next couple of months/years) makes sense in case you need to self-isolate. That's about it.
What's salt? Any link? I found something called SaltStack but that appears to be enterprise security software.
>The results are presented for 1-pass mode with fixed frame-level QP offsets. A single-threaded compression mode is used.

Why is it 1-Pass? and if I may, use the word "again". Every time when it is compared to LibAOM, it is always one pass.
I would contend that video games, cell phones, etc have made a bigger difference than anything else.
Let me try to take a stab at this:

If you have video chat with 10 people, then you have peer connections with 10 people. Each person will have connections with 10 other people, resulting in 10x10=100 connections.

With a streaming server, you would just need 1 connection to a server that would give you 10 media streams.

With a streaming server, you can also do recording and stuff.
I code mostly in Go. And yes, I'm writing `log.Tracef` everywhere.

Might seem tedious, but in fact it's easily automated using snippets in the editor.

Also when I'm inserting trace statements during development it provides a great help since it's much easier to debug logic.

Regarding performance: I don't think that we need to worry about log performance. Most applications we have this days are not performance-bound to the logging. And all it takes to disable particular log level is single `if` in the code. Or a build flag in more extreme cases.
Thanks. Nice to see 60fps 1080p is within reach for certain profiles. Anyone know how big the difference is up to 4k for typical video? Is it more or less than 4x?
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I agree.

In fact, donating in other ways, e.g. giving free programming, HPC etc. education to more researchers can have a higher impact on the long run.
I use OPS https://ops.city which uses the nanos unikernel https://github.com/nanovms/nanos and since I work on it would appreciate any suggestions/comments/etc. on how to make it better.
This basically describes modern chess. Top pros use ultra-deep computers to find opening novelties. Some isolated incidents of cheating in real tournaments. There is some cheating online still, but the novelty wore off long ago so it's not endemic, plus most only play fast time controls online because it's much harder to cheat.
No reported reinfections and we’re 4-5 months in.
I hate it when people call it panic buying. It's not a panic. People are preparing themselves to have food for 2 weeks. That's what you should do as well.

In fact what everyone should have done is stockpiling gradually over the last couple of weeks. I went grocery shopping today and I only had to buy a few things because I was already prepared when there was still enough in the stores.

Be smart, think about what you need to get by without being able to go to the store for 2 weeks. I see lots of people buying stuff like bread, but you don't wanna eat bread all the time, do you? Also it goes bad pretty quickly. I think most of the bread that has been bought will end up in the dumpster.
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We've been giving people stents for decades without any evidence that it was a great idea, so gimme a break :-)
I've seen and even participated in quite a few climate change discussions recently. I would suggest that it is a well covered topic.
Just soap and water far more effective due to fatty structure of viruses. Not an expert I'm sure someone else can provide more detail.
Is interesting how americans have the need of discrediting iceland & scandinavia in general. You can read that between the lines of the comments. Really great countries to live, people gets a real chance at developing their potential.This article is an example of that.
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Can public view the data on Bloomberg or is this from the terminal? The closest I got is from Yahoo Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MSFT/holders?ltr=1) & that is all different.

If my understanding is not wrong, board members are representing shareholders and they themself are also share-holders.

So, is Pepsi Cola, Gap Jeans, GSK (Sensodyne) & Marriott Hotel (just the household brands I recognised) shareholders of Microsoft or are the people Shareholders of Microsoft and their day job is at those companies?
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> Your quote literally includes the phrase "testable explanations"?

It says "and predictions". That is, both "testable explanations" and "testable predictions" are a part of science.

> Indeed, 'testing "how"' isn't really possible, only testing "if".

This argument is a dead end. If you construct your epistemology in such a fragile way that testing "how" is not possible, then take a closer look at the world you've constructed, you'll find that testing "if" is not possible either.

Any modern philosophy of science has to reconcile with modern epistemology. If you try to construct a good definition for science but use your intuition about what "knowledge" is, then you're only going to discover that you need to go back and refine your understanding of epistemology.

I claim that we can, in fact, test "how".

Testing "how" and testing "whether" are both scientific endeavors.
I understood this to mean flattening the curve is important, but not enough. Containment is the most critical intervention, but also the one that requires effective government intervention (South Korea).
But the NHS is always 'underfunded' because demand for healthcare is infinite. Its funding has gone up continuously. There will never be a time when this isn't a political fight, that is, there's no level of funding that would end this bickering.
Some AMD GPUs are supported (in beta test). Here's the 'requirements' page:

https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/installation-guides/li...
Yes, very much this. As a VP my responsibilities largely revolve around budgeting, org structure and corporate politics. I take the advice of my directors on pretty much everything (and they mostly listen to their managers & engineers), because they and their direct reports are better informed than my responsibilities allow me to be. My involvement in technical decisions is largely limited to testing their decision-making process and the political issues that impact that decision.

I do know how the stuff works in general, but my technical skills are probably a decade out of date because I've spent that time working up the management ladder and learning those skills instead. But management is more about being able to organize a group of people to do a task, not doing the task yourself.
Sounds like you'd like Go, which works this way.
Yeah, small population size creates fake outliers. "Rural states have both the highest and the lowest rate of kidney cancer" - what they in fact have is small populations, so they just have much larger variance.
It's odd to me that software developers so often develop these sorts of questionable dogmas. Also, I wonder how many of my beliefs about software fall into that category.

I recently worked with a person who was anti-logging. His argument was that logging is only necessary when the code path is not easy to assume solely based on the input. This is true, of course, but his mistake was assuming it is possible to guarantee that level of predictability in non-trivial operations. It wasn't long before he was adding logging to his code to figure out an issue that occurred rarely and only in production.
Members of his own party were opposed to it as well - the US government tends to be pro war regardless of party affiliation. Meanwhile, his opponents are actually running against him with student loan forgiveness as part of their platform.
The most important factor isn't how quickly one can process the test (so long as it doesn't take an excessive amount of time) or how many, but rather how many false positives you get.

The CDC, in a press conference, explained that tests in places like South Korea are producing 3% to 4% false positives. Our tests are in the 1% to 2% range.

This difference in false positives can have massive consequences as infection spreads. Doubling your false positives could easily overwhelm the medical system. Which in turn, could increase fatality.

And then there's the secondary effects, which Italy is sadly experiencing, as the medical system overloads doctors are having to choose who they simply let die. There are reports of stroke patients going without much attention in Italy because of precisely this issue.

If hospitals can't take care of people because they are overloaded due to administering large numbers of tests with double the false positive outcomes, more people die.

When things truly matter there is no substitute for quality and performance. Quantity and speed are not always the most important factors.
I'm pretty happy using both Puppet and ansible. I use Puppet for configuring hosts and rolling out configuration changes (because immutable infrastructure isn't a thing you can just do; there's overhead and it does not fit all problems) and ansible for orchestrating actions such as upgrades. They work well together.

I very much dislike ansible's YAML-based language and would hate to use it for configuration management beyond tiny systems, but it's pretty decent as a replacement for clusterssh and custom scripts.
It’s not a silly question if you want to learn. Just because you don’t need it doesn’t mean it isn’t worth learning about.
Humans are not logical animals. There's a lot of criticism on modelling human making logical decisions in economics. In some other fields humans are modelled as fluids or herds, devoid of individual judgement/decision making.

Some items will be restocked, some others may not due to supply chain disruption. Look online for DIY solutions or alternatives as there are plenty. In some cities Asian supermarkets might be a viable option since many Asians have stocked up like weeks ago and they avoid crowded places now.
In the short term, shelves will probably take some time to be adequately restocked from all the panic buying.

Grocery supply chains are good, but if people are continuing to panic buy things, then it will be difficult for the grocers to keep their shelves full. Also, if grocery store workers start to become sick en masse, then it might become more difficult for the grocery stores to stock shelves.
SaltStack is actually a configuration management system, but they're re-characterizing themselves as security management software.
Stock up a modest amount yourself. If people are manufacturing a shortage by panic-buying, then you don't need to do the same thing, but you do need to prepare for that manufactured shortage itself. We made sure we've got a week or two's worth of stuff we already use. I bought an extra pack of toilet paper; I didn't shovel the entire shelf into my cart.
Robots, then. Robots are the future!
Who owns SuperTux? Can anyone just make a SuperTux game?
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You can easily freeze bread.
If everyone buys only what they need (e.g., if it’s a small personal sanitizer bottle, keep 1 in use and 1 in inventory), demand could be spread out and crowds avoided.

The problem appears to combine habitual shopping for long term (not many have a 24/7 convenience store within 3 minutes of walking), panicked distrust in infrastructure reliability, and good old tragedy of the commons.

Some countries fare better on first two, but still have the last one (e.g., Hong Kong).
Anyone here ever play IVAN? (Iter Vehemens Ad Necem) It's a pretty fun roguelike with a unique fluid system.
A friend of mine worked for the stage hand's union. It seemed as if it already worked like Uber. Of course in this case Uber was owned by the drivers, not a founder and investors.

What's the rude awakening that I should expect?
https://github.com/saltstack/salt

Salt (also known as SaltStack) was right.

> Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.
The point is that they won’t all hit the ICU athe same time. See flattenthecurve.com
>Hardware support from vendors has been a key consideration from the inception of the AV1 project.

If that was the case AV1 spec version 1.0 would not have been postponed multiple times simply because the spec did not had any hardware decoder cost / performance in mind. And then there was the errata to version 1.0 which makes it incompatible to AV1 1.0. [1] Those vendors being a member of AOM means literally just a member only. They may or may not share any common interest.

[1] https://codecs.multimedia.cx/2018/12/why-i-am-sceptical-abou...
Yes, the supply chains can be disrupted. Of course the governments will make sure that grocery stores, pharmacies and trucks for food delivers will still be open or be able to pass borders. But unforseen events can make it so you local grocery store has close or runs out. I've had people I know infected with the virus and I know even more people who can't come to work, because of some other events, like Kindergardens closing, so they have to stay at home to watch their kids. It's not always as simple as "no more flour", it can be an unforseen event that can hit you hard.
Since there is no fundamental supply issue (at least for items like groceries and toilet paper) this will follow the same curve as other "panic buying" - stores will be pretty barren for about a week or so, then everyone will realize it's not Armageddon and go on normally.

The exact same thing happened a couple years ago WRT gas in Texas. There was no actual shortage, but because of the hurricane there was fear buying that there would be a shortage, so people showed up to gas stations literally filling up garbage cans with gas, and then there was an actual shortage.

If possible, though, I would definitely recommend stocking up on essentials when things get back to normal. I'm not worried about doomsday, just irrational humans clearing out the shelves at the slightest hit of a negative event.
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Ah, so they do make them! Yes, that's what I meant, like those R35/R30 backpacks. Haven't seen that before, thanks for the link!
There are different degrees. Some people are buying months and months' worth of things. Some people are buying an entire store's supply of toilet paper and the like in hopes of profiteering. It's insane and selfish. It prevents reasonable people from getting their 2 weeks' worth of stuff.
Yes. The original SuperTux is a GPL project.
That's the problem. Py3 was basically a hard fork with no real benefits for years, but by then it became a sort of ideological rift, and people started back-porting stuff instead of upgrading.
Coronavirus masks cannot meet demand as manufacturers fear lawsuits
>What would the sane way to go about it?

Plan for at least a week, if not two ahead. This depends on the number of people in the household.

>Is it really possible that we can run out of things like milk and diapers nowadays?

1. Someone correct me if I am wrong but cargo transports haven't stopped (ships, planes, trucks, trains). These things will keep coming in and stocking up the necessary stores.

2. People will stock up at once and then the craze will subside.

3. Just-In-Time works great when things go well, not so great when things aren't going well. Countries have warehouses stocked with (non-perishable?) food in case things don't go well.

>This is the first time I'm seeing this happen in my life :(

When this whole thing is over, go and volunteer in some third-world backwater shithole of a country and help them out. For many parts of the world, this blip of a "food shortage crisis" is the standard fare, along with a general lack of, well, everything.

Also, a good portion of the western population does not know how to cook, or has a very limited range of cooking, baking and food preparation skills. Something to consider.
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