skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The store I went to last night definitely had issues with the standard nonperishable foods. Canned goods and boxed dinners were sold out, and people had bought up all the medium- and long-grain rice and the standard three or 4 kinds of beans(navy, black, pinto, and chickpeas). However I was able to find several pounds of millet and quinoa as well as several kinds of beans that most people don't have any experience eating. Also nobody had bought any of the textured vegetable protein or any of the other non-perishable foods that most people don't normally cook. There was also tons of non-wheat flour, several kinds of short-grain rice, and a lot of breakfast cereal and granola.

Suddenly all the years I've spent buying and learning to cook "strange" foods is paying off. Also the people buying "non-perishable" foods are going to suddenly discover how important sauce and spice is when they're eating their unseasoned white rice and beans every night for the next year.
I would still plan on making any contributions to tax sheltered retirement accounts by the April 15th deadline until the Treasury and IRS state otherwise.
What is your feedback on Jupyter notebooks for this task. Have you tried to do it with a notebook?
30% chance of false negative which is why they do 2 days in a row, which bring it down to 9% chance of false negatives.
Considering how much more likely you are to die from a car crash when the hospitals are saturated with covid-19 patients, he's not wrong.
People with blood type A may be more vulnerable to coronavirus
> musk was nearly laughed out of early meetings

I'm almost sure he'd be laughed out of many meetings today, if his name would be different - i.e. nobody would think he's behind SpaceX vision. Not all meetings, but many. Imagining an aerospace professional - somebody in a position of Tony Bruno talking with a guy John Smith, when that John Smith describes similar vision and approaches to SpaceX, I can too easily imagine that aerospace professional dismissing him too easily.

That's not about Musk. That's about modern aerospace.

> i have never seen any indication that he understands as much as people freely give him credit for.

Hm. I didn't catch Musk on too blatant physical errors (I might be not a perfect examiner though :) ), but the thing is, "the rocket science is not a rocket science". Building rockets these days is many, many times easier that half a century ago. You don't need Einstein's level of sharpness to get pretty good results.

> bezos has a degree in electrical engineering and computer science from princeton. not sure what you consider technical.

Well, title of CEO in Amazon may have a large negative effect on technical abilities of a person. I've seen people with cum laude science Ph.D's from top world technical universities which are much happier with management and don't demonstrate technical abilities too much. So, "Bezos ...is not technical" may be unrelated to his degrees.
I think you have that backwards.

False negative seems extremely plausible. If you're sick, but your viral load is low, it should be possible to collect a sample without a virus particle. If the sample doesn't contain a viral particle, it will necessarily come back negative.

False positive seems unlikely, as you'd have to have something that survives several cloning cycles that ends up looking exactly like the markers you're matching against.
Reinfection could not occur in SARS-CoV-2 infected rhesus macaques

"In this study, our results indicated that the primary SARS-CoV-2 infection could protect from subsequent exposures, which have the reference of prognosis of the disease and vital implications for vaccine design.Importantly, the unsuccessful rechallenge in NHP models suggested that the re-positivity from discharged patients could not be due to reinfection. It needs to consider more complicated issues to find out the causes."

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v1....

That's a pretty good sign for an equal response in humans.
> After the medical team reached the house of the woman’s parents, her father, a railway engineer, refused to cooperate with us and lied that his daughter had left for Bengaluru. But after the district magistrate’s intervention, we were able to gain access to their house and took all the nine family members to the district hospital for screening."

Wow. Just wow. What do you have to be thinking to come to the conclusion that "screw everybody, we'll just spread the illness" is your decision? At some point, isn't it attempted murder?

Also, shame on that site for hijacking the copy functionality.
I think this is a very interesting analysis. I think it's more apt to say there could be a Populist wave in Nov, which could be very positive for whichever party adopts a populist stance. Looking at the current state of the Democratic Primary it doesn't appear it will be the Dems which push that agenda.
best time to do something like this too
One thing I've always wondered about this "not even 1.0" mentality is, why is a version number so significant? Sure it's an easy proxy, but it's not perfect. That number could be arbitrarily changed tomorrow and the maturity of the project hasn't necessarily changed.
Charter - loved by clients and employees.
Parts, yes. New cars, no. In the short term regarding replacement cars, I'm certain there's enough inventory. The optics of what is still considered a luxury brand continuing the production lines isn't great (but is consistent with the messaging Musk has released during this crisis)
In the end the money for UBI comes from taxes one way or another. Even if every dollar is taxed the same amount, not everyone makes the same amount of dollars.
It appears that Facebook for programmers now has an official app which has finally surfaced on the App Stores.

However, this may be terrible news for other third-party apps since Apple, Microsoft and Github can work together to forcibly shut down any unauthorised clients with legal action due to this release.
Talking residential here (but probably a very rough proxy for commercial):

In Wellington NZ, a 3 bed house is almost NZD700k on average, having risen almost 15% in the past year. That property might earn a bit less than NZD3k/m. Capital gains have been outstripping income (rent) for property here for some time. Many investors have the luxury of not even bothering with the hassle of tenants for this reason. A 3-6 month rent holiday would not be an issue for many.
That’s not what I’m saying. It’s the propaganda and lies from the campaign fueled by Russia to dismantle E.U. integration that I’m talking about. Its too easy for a country to just pay someone to be a journalist and spread propaganda, while also banning it in their own country. Tools of liberal democracy can and are being used against us, so we need to ensure that we limit their damage while respecting liberty.
In Firefox 75.0b4 on Mac, the code in the example shows up all on one line. In Chrome it looks right.
The article is from Jan 7 2020. I think most people (e.g. the Fed) agree with you that the macro situation has changed.
That article is five days old. Find something from today suggesting the same. And make it relevant to the entire world. Italy is not a model for how this is going down in other countries. Every region is different (and more important has different data collection methods, making it hard to compare two areas)

Again, nobody knows what the fuck is going on. Chill out, stop spreading panic and think critically about things. It’s okay to question stuff.
Awesome, thanks! I'm going to give this a go :)
Irrespective of UBI, is the US similarly not highly dependent on imports paid for by debt issuance, demand for which is not guaranteed to persist in the future just as Venezuela's oil income was not guaranteed?
> When free speech causes panic (like shouting fire in a theater)

You’re paraphrasing Schenck v. United States, part of a series of Supreme Court precedents that upheld such practices as imprisoning people for advocating draft resistance and organizing communist parties.
There's always good discussion around these kind of lists[1][2] here on HN but I think this is the first list I've seen that promotes its own product, Pixelic (free)

[1] https://daily.patwalls.co/apps-services-that-i-pay-for

[2] https://blog.acrossapp.com/how-a-2-person-startup-already-us...
Bloomberg is a nationally known politician who was willing to spend 230 million in a 4 week span. Gabbard isn’t comparable to that.
Tangential at best, but I’m very curious what will happen with the U.S. census. I can’t imagine the completion rate will be particularly high, and will census workers still be going door to door?

Presidential election year, census year, and of course complete economic shutdown makes this fascinating, setting aside the massive human tragedy.
Doomsday panic? Ill informed opinion? I'm literally looking at the chart used by the White House that comes from the data generated by the UK government. Look for yourself:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
> Charter CEO Tom Rutledge last week told employees in a memo to keep coming to the office even if their jobs can be performed from home, because people "are more effective from the office."

1. Bullshit. Show us the data to substantiate your claim.

2. Even if we assume that Rutledge is correct: Is the delta in observable effectiveness worth the cost to employees' lives and their families?

I'm on the side of the engineer who resigned. The CEO's policy is stupid, irresponsible, and/or callous.
He's in his 70s, he could be immune compromised etc... Many reasons why his body might not have actually cleared the virus.
> The deficit is a spending problem not a revenue problem.

I'm not certain what you're getting at. The deficit is defined as the delta between spending and revenue. It's as much one problem as it is the other. Could you clarify what you mean?
Tesla's Fremont Factory Stays Open While Bay Area in Quarantine
I too think naive models are the most accurate. Linear fits for everything.

But seriously, no. I literally gave you examples of this strategy happening. Here's some more companies doing it: Venmo, Move Pass, YouTube, Google, Amazon (store), Facebook, Robinhood, Vanguard, need I continue?

Simple models are great to get the basics, but if they worked for most things in the world everything would have a O1 solution. Frankly the world is more complex and can't be explained in a 10 minute lecture. That's why we have experts in subjects and why basic knowledge is drastically different than expertise knowledge.
I dunno. Go to a library?
Yep, the new rapid-release schedule. Java 8 (grandfathered) and 11 are the current LTS branches, both of which cease getting any kind of support (read: security fixes) in 2024. Java 17 will be the next LTS.
"Like I said in my other post: the claim that they "covered it up for months" is nonsense."

There was an outbreak, but it was covered up for many weeks. Doctors that came out were silenced by the government. Anyone talking about it on Chat platforms like Wechat were also censored.

"The US has had 2 months to prepare for COVID-19, and what happened in the US even though you had freedom of speech? Cover-ups, or -- a more charitable interpretation -- incompetence in information sharing."

Well. through January we were going through the shampeachment, which I think many people seem to forget about. This was keeping the government busy, when they should have been thinking about ways to combat the virus.

Trump banned flights to China early on. The mainstream press called him a racist after doing this. This is probably the single best thing that prevented large amounts of people from getting infected.

"Free speech is an important value. But don't pretend like it's some kind of panacea. You will do the ideal of freedom of speech much more justice by recognizing its limitations, because only then can you truly leverage its benefits while mitigating its weaknesses. Anything else is like driving with your eyes closed and thinking "I'll be fine"."

If Chinese citizens had the freedom of speech, we would have known about the virus much earlier and we might have actually been able to prevent the spread to countries like Italy.

I'm not sure why you are defending an authoritarian government that clearly prevented the world from knowing about a pandemic that has already killed thousands of people.

My guess is that you are one of the many people paid by the Chinese government to shill for them and spread propaganda.
and on lobste.rs too :)

https://lobste.rs/s/ob6a8z/rewriting_heart_our_sync_engine
Could someone explain to me why would anyone use GitHub on their phones rather than on a desktop computer? I can't seem to come up with a situation in which I'd reasonably need to interrupt anything I'm doing in order to check GitHub on my phone.
You send mail to hn@ycombinator.com, or flag a post.
Touching only the surface of some AWS services and calling them "the good parts" is really misleading. This does not run the gamut of all AWS services available, skips over a number of other popular databases and developer productivity services, and makes broad generalizations as another commenter points out...
Would it be so that stock buy backs amplify the company stock value during good times? But is the reverse true when there is a down turn in the market? Ie when there is a market down turn if a company owns its own stock it amplifies the down movement?

Can someone who understands this better explain how it works?
I would be tempted to tie the LED lines to digital ins on an Arduino. I'm betting some finagling with the display data lines could get you the information from the display, as well.

Depending on how the cabling to that display works, you might be able to do all of that without having to disable the display.
The reactant in thermal paper is often BPA.

Might pay to check yours and read the health effects section here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A

Edit: fixed a word
Yeah, the idea that all of these businesses shutting down has little consequence to the public (regardless of whether they open again) is incredibly tone deaf, with somewhere around 15% of the US population impacted by these closures. Worse, this population likely overlaps with the most at-risk when it comes to both health and financial standing.
Life is only easy for about 1% of the country... Most of us are barely surviving
Ooh, that's very cute! I usually throw a "| grep -v grep" on the end, but I'm gonna try to remember this.
Yeah sorry to make it seem too much like a left versus right issue, I hate both sides, I just specifically pointed out "left" because the left purports to care about the "little people" (see Krugman) while very much actively pursing policies that are great for capital holders and rhetorically espousing policies tantamount to throwing bones to everyone else.
The Census is sending multiple pieces of mail with information and a key to complete the census online; only after multiple mailings with no response will a census taker be sent to someone's door.
Amazon's supply chain can be world-class and its anti-fraud can be awful; they're not mutually exclusive statements.
I would hope that electronic price tags make use of some sort of
authentication in order to set the price that they display.

In Norway, where I live, big retailers will often allow you to
pay the price that is shown on the shelf even if their cash register
is returning a different, higher price.

I have personally experienced a difference between shelf price and
cash register price a few times, and in all of the cases where this
happened at a big retailer they allowed me to pay the shelf price.

I actually thought that they were required to do this by law, but
looking into it now I find that it is only a recommendation that
they do so and not something that they are required to do by law.

The Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman (the government-appointed ombudsman
in Norway for consumer affairs [1]) has an article on their website
about this topic [2]. Translated from Norwegian, here is an exceprept
of what they say:

> * Do you have the right to buy the item at the price at which the
item was marked? The Marketing Act does not grant such rights,
and it is disputed to the extent that one has a legal right
on other grounds to demand the purchase of the item at
the shelf price.

> * The stores should still allow the customer to pay a shelf price.
It is the store that made the mistake, and it would be very bad
service to allow for this to negatively affect the customer
who notifies them of the error so that they can correct it.

Anyway, as mentioned you will often be allowed to pay the shelf price
rather than the cash register price when you're at one of the stores
of the larger retailers. So obviously it would be bad for their
business if someone was able to manipulate the price tags without
them noticing it.

In closing I should also note that there are probably limitations
to how big of a difference in price that they would be willing to
accept. In my case it has often been a matter of $20 in difference
at most. So, don't expect that you would be able to pay like $99.50
for something that was supposed to cost $995 or anything like
that, even if the shelf price somehow ended up showing $99.50 :P

And also, any consumer that changed the price-tags of the things
they were buying in order to con the store into selling it to them
at a lower price would see no sympathy from me when they inevitably
eventually got caught for doing so. Remember, kids: Just 'cause it's
technically possible don't mean you are legally allowed to do it. If
you notice a vulnerability in a system I strongly recommend that you
don't touch it and that you at most let them know about it anonymously
unless you have prior written consent to investigate and/or mess with
the electronic systems that belong to other people, businesses or other
kinds of entities.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Consumer_Ombudsman

[2]: https://www.forbrukertilsynet.no/regler-for-prismerking-buti...
What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor?
It's the Thailand cave-sub situation all over again.
The actual text of the law seems to contradict this though. From: https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/files/HealthOrderC19-07-%20...

f. For the purposes of this Order, “Essential Businesses” means:
xviii. Home-based care for seniors, adults, or children;

h. For the purposes of this Order, “Essential Travel” includes travel for any of the following purposes.
ii. Travel to care for elderly, minors, dependents, persons with disabilities, or other vulnerable persons.
I use FastHub[0] (also the fork called FastHub-Libre[1]) and don't intend to switch away anytime soon.

Is Microsoft's new app for GitHub free software, or even open-source software? If not, this is laughably ironic.

[0] https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub

[1] https://github.com/thermatk/FastHub-Libre
Because you're only applying economy of scale to a single market. What I tried to illustrate is that different classes would spend the money differently. So it isn't just everyone buying cars. Come on, that's idiotic and unreasonable. But what I'm saying is that new people are entering MANY markets. Not a single one. That there are so many markets and that we are no where near full market capture (this is the important part) that thinking just rent would go up is also an unreasonable assumption.
Take some time for self care if you can.
I am obviously not addressing whether it's true or saying the argument must be wrong. I'm pointing out there's some circular reasoning here that's unexamined in most online discussions about UBI.

I am pointing out there is an assumed and implied argument that 1) inequality is a problem and must be corrected, but 2) straight redistribution of some wealth with UBI will fail because-inflation/rents, but 3) we should have less inequality though even if we did that would put us in the similar position as with UBI where costs rebalance.

And at the end I ask, rhetorically but still, what's to be done. So here you also assume it's true without addressing it and offer no answer to how to address the gobbling up of the economic slack.
Disclaimer: Former FB engineering employee.

I have rarely seen a greater bunch of whining here. Don’t like FB as a business? Fine, I don’t really either. But they take care of their people. If there must be an outpouring of whining, maybe direct it at those other companies that also have cash on hand and aren’t giving some of it to employees?
It’s the opposite. False positives are highly improbable. False negatives happen more regularly.

If there are very little viruses, and the swab/sample didn’t contain any you would get a false negative test.
How did their costs go up?
> Not really the fault of the leaders, This situation's just something that has not been seen previously.

This is the fault of the majority of our past or present leaders that ignored history and ignored the warnings (recently SARS, MERS, Ebola), and have left everyone unprepared. Not all countries were unprepared.

A civilised, well run country, deals with risks proactively (and ideally develops techniques to decisively act reactively as well).
It is tagged with the correct name. I took the picture with my iPhone.
SARS (including this new Coronavirus) does not mutate as fast as the flu, so it's even less likely to become more deadly than the common flu.

> But SARS has a molecular proofreading system that reduces its mutation rate, and the new coronavirus’s similarity to SARS at the genomic level suggests it does, too. “That makes the mutation rate much, much lower than for flu or HIV,” Farzan said. That lowers the chance that the virus will evolve in some catastrophic way to, say, become significantly more lethal.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/04/two-scenarios-if-new-cor...
> My understanding is that the downside is that although this will lead to more oxygenation, it doesn't help any with removing CO2.

If your input is O2 (or O2+N, no CO2) and you run part of the pressurization cycle with the exhalation valve open, won't you displace at least some CO2 (not in tissue, just in the lung cavity)?
What do you mean by commercial browsers?

Edge is backed by MS, Safari by Apple, so they are out.
Firefox is a backed by a foundation, a not for profit. Brave is on top of chrome, and open source.

I guess the old Opera browser ran ads in the browser and was a commercial browser. And did people pay for netscape navigator?
I'd hire him. I'd like him as a coworker.
It has not worked for every test city that tried it. Why is this different?
This is consistent with Tesla's safety record both for its own employees [0] and for its customers [1]. Government is all too happy to allow Elon to keep testing the boundaries.

[0] https://www.revealnews.org/article/inside-teslas-factory-a-m...

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a31093282/ntsb-autopilot-t...
We might have gone with Matrix if it had been a little more polished when we were looking for a replacement for XMPP. Instead we ended up with Zulip, which is very nice for an entirely in-company chat system.

If you want UI polish, Zulip is still ahead. If you want federation and interoperability, Matrix is a strong contender.
Could also try a Sharp Memory LCD. Faster refresh rates and pretty low power consumption depending on usage pattern. Here's an article of someone using it with an ESP32: https://hackaday.com/2020/01/07/how-low-can-an-esp32-go/
Naively, if immunity from prior exposure lasts for a few months, then we might reasonably hope for a vaccine whose effects last for a few months.

I suppose if that happened people would get revaccinated frequently.
That's not the actual text of the law. The actual text says:

f. For the purposes of this Order, “Essential Businesses” means: xviii. Home-based care for seniors, adults, or children;

h. For the purposes of this Order, “Essential Travel” includes travel for any of the following purposes. ii. Travel to care for elderly, minors, dependents, persons with disabilities, or other vulnerable persons.

It says nothing about limitations to this based on need for medical care only.