skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, eventually and corners will be cut to expedite that long development and testing window.

May even be better in the end, though let's say the USSR and NASA stopped space launch vechiles - how long would it take to make an alternative. Longer than we appreciate.
It's pretty nice to have min work on tuples, so I can make my min-heap take in (distance_so_far, (x,y)) when doing pathfinding.
I think the price has research, development, and the cost of clinical trials baked in. I believe these costs can be very expensive, as (at least in the US) there are lots of hoops to jump through in order to sell medical devices. And many experiments don't lead to successful products, so the costs need to make in the "failure rate" as well.

I think a lot of the high prices charged for medical gear isn't so much to recoup the variable cost of production of that item, it's to recoup the initial/fixed cost of bringing the gizmo to market. If people can "photocopy" someone else's device by just covering the variable cost, it might cripple companies' incentives for developing for the medical market.

And I believe it's true that if a patent holder doesn't go after every known infringement, it becomes much more difficult to go after any known infringement.

Not saying that 3d printing these valves doesn't feel like the right thing to do in this case. Just saying that feels like a more nuanced situation, rather than being cut/dry.
I love my 16" MBP, aside from the dongles situation (though I rarely need peripherals at all). It has the same keyboard mentioned here; feels great to me. The Touch Bar doesn't really bother me.
I thought "Wall Street" meant financial firms and exchanges.
Macs have the option to run a 4K screen at different "effective dpis" via scaling. The default ~200% scaling factor gives you a 1920x1080 work area that is twice as sharp. A lot of folks (myself included) choose to draw larger work surfaces (I use a 5120x2880 canvas with 2560x1440 work area on my 24 inch 4Ks). A 4K screen is high enough DPI that when scaled text still looks very nice (nicer than a native res 1440p display). Doing this (especially on multiple displays) requires a lot of GPU power.
Sells for profit to who? The "american taxpayer" isn't a person, the taxpayer is the economy. The taxpayer is every business and most individuals.

Yes buybacks were dumb. It's done now. Just change the regs and make sure it never happens again.
> Quercetin is over-the-counter and has similar properties

Source for the similarities between chloroquine and quercetin?
Where does it say "we stuffed up, and in response to your feedback we've gone back to basics"? Sometimes, people want to hear acknowledgement of error.
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> So honestly, I would argue that paying people to dig ditches (vs do literally nothing else, though at that point you might as well just give them cash) is in and of itself beneficial

This is the point -- paying people to dig ditches breaks down into two activities:

- Paying people, which is net zero benefit. (Otherwise we could all sit in a circle and pay each other to riches.)

- Doing useless work, which is net negative. (Effort, materials and time spent that coukd have been spent on leisure or actually productive ends.)

GDP is obviously a bad measure here. For the same problem stated another way, Google and Wikipedia are free, but increase productivity and aggregate wellbeing immeasurably.
Yeah but it's so easy to code my crappy app now! I don't have to understand anything, just copy-paste from Stackoverflow!
While I agree this is of dubious value medically, it’s also interesting as simple data collection and collecting data does not require actions.

I was looking to getting an MRI every decade as an artistic endeavor. You can look at photos from 40 years ago, but what’s your body like 40 years ago?
If a company is too big to let fail, it's too big. We should have blocked any mergers or acquisitions that made Boeing larger.

For now, give them a loan, as much as they need, interest free for 10 years. No more bonuses nor stock buybacks until the loan has been repaid.
An alternative way of viewing this is: find the recursive definition of that function, and think of its base case. For sum, it is something like sum([Head:Tail]) = Head + sum(Tail), which works only if sum([]) is 0. For prod, we have prod([Head:Tail]) = Head * prod(Tail), which again works only if prod([]) is 1. And for all, we have all([Head:Tail]) = Head && all(Tail), which again works only if all([]) is True.
Huge amounts of cash has been printed and used to buy bonds over the last ten years, I don't think the bond market is a useful means of price discovery as a result.
‘Rainbows’ Are a Mathematician’s Best Friend
I don’t see a problem with the loans. They get paid back with interest. I see no problem loaning the airlines money.

Grants, however, is something else entirely. If they are in so much trouble they need a literal bailout then they should be nationalized. They can be re-privatized later, after a decade of drama and red tape, but nationalization should be the consequence that’s faced until bad actors can become responsible.
As someone who was a VB developer back when VB.NET first shipped twenty years ago, I'm kind of surprised by this. VB.NET was very clearly a second-class citizen in the .NET ecosystem even back then. While Microsoft paid lip service to supporting it equally with C#, it was very clear from the huge volume of documentation, tutorials, books, etc. they put out for C# compared to the tiny volume for VB.NET that C# was where they really wanted developers to be. And syntactically VB.NET felt more like C#-with-training-wheels than "classic" VB anyway, which reinforced the impression.

Given how big C# ended up becoming, I'm wondering why anyone committed to staying in the .NET ecosystem would have stuck with VB.NET all this time. What's the attraction? I could see it as a transitional stage to get classic VB developers started on the road to C#, but as a long-term solution it seemed doomed to chronic suffering from birth.
That was my fault. Thank you for pointing out the mistake. Im working on it :)
If you like the XPS 13, I also recommend to look out for their "business laptop" Latitude 7xxx series (12", 13", 14"). They tend to have more ports, physical buttons on the touchpad, and slightly better keyboards. YMMV
I mean that’s just unhelpful. Caring for patients after ITU is a real challenge and if they are triaging a very limited resource it makes sense to give it those who are likely to survive long term when there isn’t the medical facilities to look after them without family input.
True -- the next few months should be really interesting in this space. I was thinking of ditching OS X entirely for a linux box but I can't get over how great the Mac hardware is -- it just doesn't run Linux all that well and costs an arm-and-a-leg such that buying one to nuke OS X just seems like a waste
Mac Mini doesn't need a real GPU in my opinion -- what they need is a mid-level desktop that accepts a real GPU. $1000 - $1500 with decent specs. But, we know they won't move into that space.
Realistically it’s because they’re not going to sell low, but they may just fire a ton of people, max profits, and then sell. There’s a balance of funding to dissuade making that decision, especially when there’s a natural disaster occurring that does have some expiration date.
This doesn't scan for me. If both are "flight to safety" assets to different extents, how come (a) the list price has gone down significantly for both assets during a "flight to safety" and (b) every online coin shop is selling for delivery in 4 weeks at 20% above spot (not too abnormal) or delivery this week for 50% above spot (quite abnormal). Physical silver is very hard to buy for the supposed "price."

As an ex fund manager, what would you say to the theory that large financial institutions have sold a great deal of precious metal-backed securities ("paper" PMs) over the past couple of weeks to cover stock market margin calls, flooding the paper market, while the physical market is seeing shortages, indicating a price disconnect between the security and the good itself?

What happens next?
>I really wonder what would happen if we didn't save the airlines.

I don't think the argument is about whether we should bail the airlines out; it's about how we should bail them out.

Handing them $60B and saying, "Go about your business!" is not going to fly (pun). If the taxpayers are going to provide the capital, they should get equity. It's that easy.

Would the government be able to run an airline? I don't know. Could they be any worse than current management?
The multi-tasking UX is atrocious. Daring Fireball has been posting critical essays and alternate designs for months. I hold out hope for a redesign: They redesigned WatchOS's UX, I don't think the multi-tasking in "untouchable" (heh).
This seems like one of the core problems to me.

I don't necessarily think that companies should be banned from ever doing stack buybacks when they have sufficient cash (for some definition of sufficient), but allowing companies to take on debt to do stock buybacks seems asinine, both on the part of the company doing the buyback, and the creditor lending them the money to do it.

Any company doing so should be the last one to receive a public bailout; so maybe regulations should be targeted to industries deemed too critical to fail, such as airlines.
Is Apple at present time announcing new products?

Been waiting to hear about an iPhone SE 2.
Additionally, what is Apple’s vision for MacOS going forward? Presumably MacOS isn’t coming to the iPad, so is iPadOS coming to the Mac? I’m sad that MacOS may soon be meeting it’s end, and how in some weird ways, Microsoft is starting to be more Linuxy than Apple.
Reach is less.
The US is the 3rd largest manufacturer in the world, behind China and Germany. Wayyyyy behind China but, like, everyone is, at least when it comes to manufacturing.

We're also the number one exporter of food, and hold a few other top production laurels. Not the top producer, not the top consumer -- that's China -- but the top over-all exporter.[1]

As the above comment mentioned: most of that work is highly industrialized and automated. Less than 1% of the US is farmers but they produce enough to make US food exports #1. Much of the same is true for US manufacturing.

[1] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-american-food-giant-...
Calls on Spirit, Puts on American ftw
What's the Apple pencil to use with this? Still Pencil 2?
"Google's hard work" is a dangerous lie. First Webkit is forked from KDE's KHTML, the bulk of the work has been done by them. And then as a free software project it's far from being worked on only by Google wage slaves.
https://covid19info.live/ will show per-country graphs. It appears to use the same data as the JHU dashboard.
In mathematics in binary operations this element is called neutral element or idendity element.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_element?wprov=sfla1
Yes, but it is making them "free to access online during the coronavirus outbreak". Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Co-founder therapy teaches tech bros how to be in their feelings
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I don't believe any of those companies have factories that are in areas that are under shut down orders though. And I don't think any of those companies CEOs have been publicly going on Twitter to dismiss people's fears over COVID.
Please. Citizen's United was not a reversal of the understanding of speech. Efforts to convince you of that were propaganda. The Courts detailed the corporate personhood doctrine in Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward in 1819, discussing how corporations have rights because their owners have rights and the corporation is a way for these owners to get together and exercise these rights as a group. These rights include freedom of speech and of the press.

Moreover, allow me to remind you that Citizens United is actually a nonprofit group+ and the thing this case was actually about was making an anti-Hilary movie, and being barred from distributing it. Anyone who has glanced at the Bill of Rights, and the history of this nation and its jurisprudence in the area of free speech, could have seen this result coming. (Somehow there are many people not aware of this fact.)

(+ not a charity, contributions aren't tax deductible; just a standard 504 not-for-profit.)

This may or may not be good policy. It's eminently open to debate. But hewing to precedent like this is supposed to be your evidence of the Court acting on a whim?!?
> I don't think it makes sense to talk about the minimum person of the group; minimum/maximum imply that it's the thing itself which is ordered.

Uh, it totally makes sense, I just gave you a string example too. The comparator doesn't have to distinguish unequal elements, and a min (and argmin and sort et al.) is perfectly fine and sensible with such a comparator.

Do you code in Python at all? Do you find the fact that 1.0 and 1 are both simultaneously equal in some sense and unequal in another sense to be just complete nonsense? Do you expect min(1.0, 1) to error...? Or for sorted([1.0, 1]) to return [1, 1] just because the elements are "equal" so obviously what right do you have to care which one is returned?
To my understanding Docker doesn't do hardware virtualisation and doesn't run indiviual VMs per container instance, though, or does it?
It could be a matter of having the whole process happen in the US. In the sense that those 2 companies are the only one that have sufficient domestic supply chain for production, while all other companies need to rely on import.
It's called Stockholm Syndrome.
The two things need not be exclusive: you can have a company that is egalitarian and candid in matters related to the actual creative work and definitely superior to other companies at the time, and still have issues at the interpersonal level. I can think a person is unlikeable and stay as away as possible from them, and then have a productive conversation with them in an open meeting that advances the company output. Even the Beatles didn't like each other that much, and I'm sure the production of Casablanca was plagued by "couches", but they still made masterpieces that were superior to anything seen before.
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Sick companies have to die in order for capitalism to survive. In the long term people will lose trust in this system because every new bailout puts pressure on everybody in the system for generations. No bailouts of companies over 250 people ever again.
Is it fair to say that gold is just as speculative and prone to panic as ... most things?
> In Italy some places don't treat people without families for instance

This is false and not aligned to the current guidelines[^1] put out for triage of cases.

> So try to be forward thinking. Don't just think in the now.

People need groceries today. Projects are attempting to fill those gaps we need, not the theoretical ones we might have tomorrow. Sure, you should keep an eye on the future, but you need to address the present.

[^1] - PDF WARNING http://www.siaarti.it/SiteAssets/News/COVID19%20-%20document...
You could put esc on control and control on caps?
While I agree that a lot of the W3C standards are silly and not worth implementing, I'm still determined to build a new browser from scratch.[1][2]

I don't believe that it's impossible. It will take a lot of time and effort, sure. But not impossible. :)

1. https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Libraries...

2. https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Libraries...
Wasm comes to mind for a new browser arch because in theory it could be a userland replacement for traditional platform features like the UI. You could have a wasm module for HTML, for instance, which could be chosen for legacy sites, but replaced for a different approach (VR UI, cloud service which doesnt need one, etc). This would help minimize the browser core and make the execution environments swappable and reusable across browser cores.

That said, I agree that performance may be a dealbreaker on that idea. HTML/DOM is also tightly integrated into a lot of browser behaviors, so I have no idea whether it's feasible to extract it into a swappable module. EDIT: It's still an idea that gets me pretty excited to try.
great overview, thanks!
Is there a way to get Google Play Books on this thing? Kindle?
> In Italy some places don't treat people without families for instance

This is like those books of morality questions but in real life.

No one feels good about the outcome but when there are scarce resources decisions need to be made.

That's why we want to "flatten the curve" so we don't have to make as many of these no-win decisions.
I just found this[0] article on setting up WireGuard on Windows, I haven't followed or even studies it too closely, but hope it helps with the Win specific things.

[0]: https://www.henrychang.ca/how-to-setup-wireguard-vpn-server-...
Right now they're terrified of deflation. A lockdown is going to cause a massive drop in consumption and a massive drop in wages, making a vicious circle of falling prices that could continue well past the end of quarantine. They'll be happy just to keep prices stable.
One can learn a modicum about the differences among lbin, mbin, rbin, bin, 5bin, sbin, amdahl/bin, ucb, sun/bin, ccs/bin, local/bin, xpg4/bin, xpg6/bin, and some others at https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/448799/5132 .
I very much doubt that he wrote most of that book.
Criminals are taking advantage of coronavirus anxiety
Is that a new product ?
Did you have the silver shipped to you so you are now holding that silver in your hands?
Please consider reaching out to your elderly neighbors and offering your time to gather groceries/supplies for them. Or posting a note near the entrance of your apartment complex with your number. This alone will have a huge impact. They have a very real chance of dying if they contract covid-19. Take a moment to imagine how you would feel if you could not safely leave your home.

<rant>
A lot of us have the amazing comfort of working from our own homes, isolated from the rest of the world. In roughly 2-3 weeks, the epicenter locations of this disease in the US are going to run out of hospital beds. If you are younger and healthy, please consider asking your boss if you need to be working full time right now. Watch your state governor's and mayor's press conferences. They will communicate to you where you can go to help volunteer.

We are going to transition to "war time leadership". A time that will test everyone's true character.
</rant>
That is known as railroad diagrams and provided by sites such as regulex[0] (which I used for js cover) and debuggex [1]. I've also mentioned it in acknowledgements within the book.

[0] https://jex.im/regulex

[1] https://www.debuggex.com/
I get what you are saying but I disagree with 100% of what you wrote.
Apple has come around to basically just outright copy the Microsoft Surface. It does look very nice though.
Maybe Elon Musk would just create a branch off Space X and manufacture airplanes...
No there isn't. There's a project to write software to build a platform to do this. Just knock on doors.
It should at least mean additional regulations.

If you're getting a public bailout then the public has a greater interest in regulating how you conduct your business.
An unfortunate side effect of a purely capital based pension system - additionally, with more and more investment capital coming from pension funds, it's going to be an interesting question how the funds managers govern the companies they've invested in - will they be "silent" participants that do not vote, or will they behave as activists? And what will happen in the latter case if the interests between the funds managers (demanding profits above e.g. environment protection or social/wage responsibility) run against the interest of the future pensioners investing in the funds?
Borrowing for tax purposes is sort of a perpetuated myth. Firms in zero tax nations have debt, and firms in the US prior to corporate taxes had debt. Debt is first a foremost a way of financing corporate activities.
Are you seriously expecting them to say "our previous product was bad, this one is good"?

When has any tech company ever done that?
18.04 here, /bin and /usr/bin are still different.
What would the case look like? CA has laws on the books that gives county health officers the authority to do basically anything in a state of emergency. What would the argument be to overturn those laws?
This is honestly the thing I miss most while using macOS. The windows key search always seemed to work better than Spotlight.
I read about this option. The potential problem that I see is that coating the mask with salt or another substance, especially if part of a DIY project, is likely to leave you with a mask that is unusable since you have no way to control salt crystal size, nucleation points, etc.

The crystals will inevitably grow on the treated surface and block the filter media so that you start with an N95 rated mask and end up with an N99 or higher rated mask that can only be used for a few minutes before it leaves the user gasping for breath. Preserving the filter ability should be the goal in the sterilization process. I don't see a way to accomplish that without specialized equipment that allows the user to limit crystal size and nucleation sites.

That is why microwaving or UV sterilization seem the most viable to me. UV sterilizers require the user to follow specific guidelines to avoid health negative consequences and it seems unlikely that everyone could or would take steps to protect themselves from the UV damage.

Microwaves are nearly ubiquitous, though I personally don't own one and haven't since I had my wife get rid of ours once our son was done with bottle feeding. People know how to follow directions for using microwaves. It just seems easier to me to accomplish the objective with something that is a common or easily obtained household item that people are already familiar with.
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Depends on what you mean by practical. The software and hardware works (for now, until T2s become required). It allows you to build configurations that Apple does not (and probably will not) ever sell. They are not cost effective if you have a way to turn time into money though. I would not recommend it unless you have lax security & availability requirements and genuinely enjoy low level tinkering with the basic functions of your computer.
It seems like even a minor upgrade for the front camera would be fairly low cost to do. I wonder if it wasn't just effectively forgotten about.
You might be able to bribe the ticket taker or border guard with gold, which you can't do with items like food and meds that have lower value-density and less liquidity. IOW it's more useful when human systems and group behavior are the source of the trouble...which is usually.
Do you have any example of what your Excel users couldn't do on an iPad?
It should be enough to be suitable for your needs. If it were for being a gaming machine with macOS then a 16-inch MacBook Pro + AMD GPU would be also fine.

For a CI or compiling machine, neither are good enough.
+1 to this. I think it was 4 years back, the oil prices dropped hard and the airlines bought futures quantities in large supply to hedge for future needs. It was a smart strategy
ROS is a publish/subscribe framework for distributed computing. It can’t really solve this problem. Heck, it barely solves the robotics problem.
Avoiding Cache Line Overlap
Yes, but demand is also down due to isolation/quarantine
I remember when I bought my last Air I skipped Apple Care b/c I knew Apple made quality products. Things have certainly changed. Might as well add another $200 to that price, b/c you know something is going to go wrong.