skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is needed is for there to be multiple competitive and diverse fungible product sources to get redundancy. It is sort of an extension of a competitive market. Production insufficient for complete demand to be supplies by one softens the blow as it becomes half needed capacity. So if say China produces half of our screws then cut off results in a shortfall by half instead of a complete cut off.

The thing is that these dependencies are a feature and not a bug on several levels, both in terms of trade promoting peace and the efficency involved. Put the should we philosophical questions aside and there are a few precedents to look at and hypothetical solutions.

One way is through subsidies for deliberate overproduction are the way done for food - but that is also a market where the fungibility and nutrition encourages varierty to some degree. Again it is inefficiency by definition - generally done for things where it is believed/claimed to be better to have the waste than running out.

Another is in "national security" pork where it is often more an accident of the pretext than neccessity. Needing American screws for DoD gear.

Some sort of international robustness treaty/trade deal could be devised per sector that say any country may subsidize or tarriff industries up to say N% of their basic demand but once it gets beyond that they need to stop or start tapering off, perhaps with varied threshholds. That would no doubt be a bed of weeds as everyone tries to privledge their own interests and plays games with classifications.
And the problem is that during an extended period of curve reduction there will still be people pushed out of medical care due to surging cases (but not spiking!). The total area between the number of patients and hospital capacity curves may be similar in both cases.
You might be deadly wrong.

About half of those infected in New York City are under 50

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/nyregion/coronavirus-new-...

...preliminary figures released on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that adults ages 20 to 44 represent nearly one-third of U.S. coronavirus patients whose ages are known.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/health/coronavirus-millen...
Will we be able to get toilet paper in this nuclear winter?
If you can print money, you can always service the debt. The only problem is will the demand for your money keep up? That depends on what alternatives people have.
>And those expensive prep courses had the potential to increase scores over 100 points.

I took one of those expensive scores and got the exact same score after the course as I did before the course.

It turned out the cheap study book was every bit as effective as the expensive course.
There's a bit of a gap between "shit" and literal apocalypse.
>> fully funded CDC

Is there evidence that more money would have solved the constant CDC problems and incompetencies that are coming up? It seems like a throwaway obvious statement, but plenty of government agencies - and private companies - don't operate a lot more effectively with more money.
To be fair, various media outlets are also calling it a "close pass".

You're right, of course, that it's much larger than the distance from the Earth to the Moon, but that doesn't stop mainstream media from calling it a close pass.
That's terrifyingly soon
Everyone here should be extremely nervous about the future of our country. Congress and the President are seriously considering helicopter money, which will ruin the dollar and send us into hyperinflation. It’s not rooted in reality. Who are we borrowing from? The surplus nations of the world will divert their surpluses domestically due to COVID-19, not by buying US treasuries and holding onto dollars. The only reason the dollar is going up is due to people trying to get out of dollar denominated assets.

If anyone here wants to get ahead of this, please at least consider buying silver. The dollar will become worthless.
The study wasn't randomized. It tells you basically nothing.

I really don't understand why anyone approves such studies. They could've done something useful and we'd know a little bit now.
Isn't it hilarious looking back, people were making the argument "In the next recesion co-working spaces are going to explode as a great way of managing costs". Turns out... maybe not this recession.
Let me know if you're thinking of some feature that you're missing. Feel free to open an issue, I'll gladly look over it.
> they had the mailroom put a sticker on every amazon box

you mean when eBay employees received a package from Amazon at the office?
That's fair enough, I was simply improving your comment.

I have a theory that cultures that value (and I mean truly value) clean, rational thinking, will be superior in not only reacting to these sorts of crises, but preventing them in the first place.

If one looks very carefully at the nature of most of the discussions taking place in the memeplex on covid-19 and a variety of other hot button topics, one thing you will notice is that there is a breathtaking amount of not just confusion, but delusion. People's internal mental models of the world do not match observable reality - it's been this way for a very long time (well, it's always been this way technically, and always will, to a degree), and it seems to me that it's getting worse at an increasing rate.

I think this is a material problem, I believe it can be observed (manually, and perhaps somehow algorithmically - we have petabytes of data to mine), and I believe something can be done about it. But first, people have to be willing to look.
Sounds like the Mayans may have been off by a few.
Do you have a source for it? I've had to buy through underground labs; could not find any Avaclor.
Are you sure about that? Publicly-available open source software can be exempt from ITAR according to this page: https://www.unr.edu/sponsored-projects/compliance/export-con...
Bandcamp unresponsive on touted “no fee day”
If you liked this...

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/...

"Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom

> There has been a remarkable revival of interest in classical mechanics in recent years. We now know that there is much more to classical mechanics than previously suspected. The behavior of classical systems is surprisingly rich; derivation of the equations of motion, the focus of traditional presentations of mechanics, is just the beginning. Classical systems display a complicated array of phenomena such as nonlinear resonances, chaotic behavior, and transitions to chaos.

> Traditional treatments of mechanics concentrate most of their effort on the extremely small class of symbolically tractable dynamical systems. We concentrate on developing general methods for studying the behavior of systems, whether or not they have a symbolic solution. Typical systems exhibit behavior that is qualitatively different from the solvable systems and surprisingly complicated. We focus on the phenomena of motion, and we make extensive use of computer simulation to explore this motion.

They are basically making the computer do the work, with emphasis on unambiguous, computable notation.

(It could be considered a companion to SICP.)
this reminds me of the quote "You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out." by Warren Buffet
‘Beat Saber’ Has Sold 2M Copies and 10M Songs for an Estimated $67M
I think the applicable concept concept is that cancle culture is ineffective at changing minds and a more compassionate approach is more appropriate in both the short and long run.

Hate and shame feeds reactionary behavior and is counter productive. If you disagree with someone, empathize with them as a human being and explain how their behavior is hurting others
Exactly. How many artists draw or paint on the side? How many musicians write music for themselves? How many writers write stories for fun?
12 Monkeys?
How to keep your sanity when you feel like the world is going crazy
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

Given there's no discernable HN requirement to remain on topic (ever) the origin of this quote makes interesting reading.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/
I don't mean making money during this very pandemic. Rather, making money overall.

What are they doing besides providing intermediary service
all around (most of) the world throughh their website.

I presumed they would be profitable by now, just as Facebook was profitable before IPO. Not saying they should be as profitable as Facebook but they should be profitable from taking a cut off every booking.
> Do rich kids have more scholastic potential because they have better access to resources?

Yes. They do. It's maybe not the answer you were looking for, but if you are better prepared, you'll do better at the task at hand. Seems fairly straightforward.

The next question would be how easy are those resources to access (in the case of the SAT)? And the answer is you can do pretty well with a $20 test prep book that you can order from Amazon. The rest is time, effort, awareness etc.

Then we start getting into factors that are much harder to control or evaluate - parental involvement, guidance, nutrition, emotional support, etc.
It’s entirely their fault; no-one asked them to make being a landlord their primary source of revenue.
They should not be tanking. Airbnb is in a highly profitable business with very high operating margin.

For reference, they take 20 to 30% commission on each booking, whereas the fixed costs to run a website are ridiculously low. Even with half the bookings, it's still a cash cow.
Yes, no one disputes that memorizing an answer key can give you a higher score. But by the same token, no one believes that the influence of cheating is of interest when studying potential gains from "test prep".
Europe is vague. In Norway it's definitely easier to buy one, than improvising this out of crap and sticks.
> "... for non-native English speakers, we strongly recommend taking the TOEFL if you have been using English for less than 5 years or do not speak English at home or in school..."

I hope that TOEFL is offered on a pass/fail criteria. For. e.g. if you score (say) 85% or more, it shouldn't matter if you score 100% for purposes or communication or comprehension.
Well, maybe.

But being the kind of articulate person college people appreciate is also a strong cultural marker that you come from the "college tribe".
Please don't say PC when you mean Windows. Playing games on a Linux PC is still PC gaming.

(I play games on a Linux PC myself.)
If enforcement action happens now, we'll still have a functional Supreme Court around in a year in order to debate it.
I just use a package.json in the repo root as it doesn't really bother me. It very rarely changes so I pretty much forget its there.
Season? We're looking at SERIES finale...
Cool idea, a game using ML object recognition. Haven't tried it but it looks more reliable than Plantsnap [1].

1. https://www.plantsnap.com/
Ask HN: Does too much coronavirus information interfere with your mental health?
I've observed that my mental health is not so great lately(it's amazing usually) and the only difference is the quantity of news/pandemic information/scientific papers i read on this topic. Am i alone with this outcome?
Don't forget that the San Andreas fault is supposed to be "overdue".
We recently bought a small condo in Portland for our weekend use and as we were shopping around it seemed like the whole Airbnb-triggered rental market was already hopelessly overheated. With the capacity that's there I can't imagine occupancy rates averaged over the year being worth it for the condo owners. I'm guessing there will be a glut of condos available after the virus, many of them in foreclosure.
Then we have a much bigger problem than getting hit by an asteroid.
At a space scale it's a close pass.
Travel certainly will be hurt. All said, my guess is the hardest hit travel industry will be cruises, followed by resorts, followed by business travel (we've all learned to work remotely better). Vacation rentals will take a hit but will also absorb some of the loss of demand to cruises/resorts.

Consequently, my guess is AirBnB owners aren't hit too long in the medium term (1 year out). Not too much demand hit in rural areas -- and in urban areas they can switch to long-term rentals.
I have a lot of cash sitting on the sidelines, waiting for opportunities like these in the next few monts.
These were called "Achievement Tests" in the early 90s, and man, they were
much harder than the SAT. If the current "Subject Tests" approximate their
level of difficulty, then it's a clear mistake for MIT to disregard these
datapoints. When I was applying to college, yes, people paid for SAT prep but
very few paid for Achievement Test prep, and so Achievement Tests were a superior
indicator.
Valuable point, I don't see this framing enough.
America has one of the world's worst coronavirus responses
2 months seems optimistic ... SARS died out all by itself but I don't think this one will so a vaccine which is a few months off will be critical for folks to go back to "normal".
AI gift personalization and gift automation startup
Perhaps, but at least Germany is tackling this on the data front. They are performing over 160,000 tests a week [1]. That's more than most countries have tested in total.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/c0755b30-69bb-11ea-800d-da70cff6e...
thank you. I'll check this out on the WAP and choose a 2FA service
Those that did not take aspirin during the Spanish flu had far lower morbidity rates. Fever is not something I rush to suppress with drugs until I exceed 104.0 - same for my family and even when our daughter was a little tiny thing.

Preliminary unpublished information shows concerns on accelerating progression of SARS-CoV-2 virus to COVID-19 illness for ALL NSAIDs (not just aspirin). However, even with non-NSAIDs I exercise extreme caution when using (e.g. acetaminophen - Tylenol - 4000mg is considered VERY TOXIC for liver).
The OP was talking about non-political opinion of said "Expert". But everything said "Expert" did in the past was politically motivated, including voting against a Child Predator law to generate attention for himself and to promote his other weird thesis, like the "Fake pandemic" stuff.

In no way, form or shape did I say he voted against it because he's a child predator. It was to show that he is a politician that is frequently trying to generate controversy to push his personal "Fake Pandemic" agenda.

So of course it has to do something with the topic.
If everyone expects the game to get cracked the same day, they might be less likely to pre-order in the first place.
Traffic Maps Show How the Pandemic Has Emptied Streets Across the Globe
When Artists, Engineers, PepsiCo Collaborated, Clashed at the 1970 World’s Fair
He /is/ legend.
If this blows, a billion people could die. And I suspect it’s more likely than an asteroid hit.
> GraphQL proponents seem to forget query parameters exist. It has never been the case that REST has to return more than you need. Never. Not now, not ten years ago. Why people keep repeating this obviously false claim is bizarre.

You need to use something that does the same thing as GraphQL, e.g. allows you to define a graph of relationships and then query them, and can have many of the same tradeoffs, e.g. not being cacheable or not allowing you to stream the result. If you like the other thing better than GraphQL (I've used https://jsonapi.org/ and https://loopback.io/, among others), by all means use it.

This is what I mean when I say comparing GraphQL to REST is apples to oranges. REST is general and broad and GraphQL is narrow and specific, so the comparison isn't meaningful unless we start talking about specific libraries, frameworks, specs, or patterns that use REST to do the same thing GraphQL does.
Cool, thank you! I walk by it all the time, never occurred to me that it might actually be really good.
The Great Depression (1929)
I wonder how much of the work those 70.000 cancer researchers do is theoretically unnecessary busywork like applying for research grants or dealing with office politics. Further I wonder how much of their research is optimized for looking reputable to the people writing the checks vs. what they think would really move the needle. Sure cancer is a complex problem but 70 thousand is already a massive amount of people so I can't shake the suspicion that instead of throwing even more people at the problem changing the environment in which they work would be much more effective.
Till shade is gone,
Till water is gone,
Into the shadow with teeth bared,
Screaming defiance with the last breath,
To spit in Sightblinder's eye on the last day.

I suppose the Mark Watney "Keep solving problems" is more in keeping with the HN zeitgeist. Ah well.
Anecdotally, I've found that vodkas made by smaller, local distilleries tend to be really good for the price. I'm assuming this is because vodka is generally not their core product, but they're making a pure, neutral spirit as a base for other things (e.g. gin) anyways, so they might as well bottle it and try to sell it. Since they're not spending excessive amounts of money trying to market their vodkas, they tend to be pretty cheap.
Anyone can get infected of course. Does that surprise you? The study was regarding fatalities.

In any case, it's not me who you're calling "deadly" wrong, it's the Italian Ministry of Health.
Sorry - https://jumbleberry.com/ is the company
You can email me at ian@jumbleberry.com
While I'm generally pretty receptive to the idea of a UBI, it is wholly incomprehensible implementing one would be "easier" or "cheaper" than directly addressing COVID-related wage loss.

Additionally, something as pivotal as a UBI is exactly the kind of thing that you _wouldn't_ want to implement as a reaction to a temporary crisis. You're likely to create the wrong abstraction based on contingencies of the situation.
I heard buying silver is _not_ a good investment and all of the current bailouts being distributed are not just cash handouts (unless we’re talking about the personal stimulus part), but loans to companies which will be paid back.

In 2008, all of the “bailouts” by the governments were loans that were paid back in full and the American people actually made a 50B profit, lowering inflation.
There's a bit more to it than that. The article touches on the fact that whats on npm doesn't have to match with what's on github (which is true for any package system that isn't 100% backed by source control).
I'm a little baffled, how is this possible? Surely their core business is profitable and the losses are because of investments in new growth areas?
> Airbnb was never profitable (I think)

Do you have any sources for this?
A big leadership quality is the ability to identify expertise and listen to it.
Governments would love that. Also, don't think things regarding their newfound powers would go "back to normal" either after.
Yes I made a mistake during editing the comment, I had processor threads in there before and somehow got mixed up with cores, my apologies.

As with the other points though, a low-mid tier gaming PC is something like 4 core/8 thread, 16GB ram, a HDD for bulk storage and an SSD for system & some select game(s). Someone that is buying a Macbook Air or an Ultrabook or something with only 2 cores is selecting it for something else rather than gaming. So irrelevant to the discussion.

The reason no big publisher targets 16GB for a game is because of these old consoles. The games can and do use more memory if available but they are limited by having to target these low spec consoles. They're also required to support the slow HDD speed of the current generation of consoles, so no exploiting SSDs either. This takes significant time and resources to optimise for!
Why Open Source Software Was Almost a Casualty of the EU’s Copyright Directive
You can get like 80% of the value of an expensive sat prep course from a cheap sat book.

But money also buys you grades, gpa, extracurriculars, and recommendations.
Depends on your definition of "deadly".

The MERS virus was much more deadly than this thing, and that wasn't very long ago. The problem with it was that it was too deadly: it killed people off pretty quickly. Pathogens that are highly deadly usually aren't very good at starting plagues, because they kill off their hosts too quickly and for that reason don't spread that much. This one is worse because it has a really long incubation period with few or no symptoms and then does its thing, but still with a relatively low mortality rate.

I guess what would really cause civilization to collapse would be a virus that has a very long incubation time with no symptoms, and then sudden very high mortality.
Hi jermaustin1!
Not exactly, we don't use users' data to extend dataset. Photos made by users are labeled (classified) by existing nn, and you don't want to use results produces by nn to retrain same nn.

Currently we have points, achievements for unique cars, some useful info, like prices of the cars. But we are constantly thinking what to add more.
Who the hell was saying that? It was pretty universally acknowledged that if there was a recession WeWork would be the first one to go bust. Of course, they did it before the recession actually happened.
The IRA deadlines are automatically moved as well:

IRC 219(f)(3): Time when contributions deemed made.

For purposes of this section, a taxpayer shall be deemed to have made a contribution to an individual retirement plan on the last day of the preceding taxable year if the contribution is made on account of such taxable year and is made not later than the time prescribed by law for filing the return for such taxable year (not including extensions thereof).
Stimulants, including caffeine, cause irritability among other bad side-effects.

The only reason it's not characterized by these "modern addiction specialists", whatever that is, is because of both $$$ and how socially acceptable it is.

Since you can get your caffeine fix in anyway for really cheap (or not so cheap if you want) and you can drink it at work without any weird looks it doesn't destroy your social life.

Just because it doesn't destroy your social life doesn't mean it's not addictive, but I guess that's just the layman in me.
2020 no joke yo
I think the OP's point is they don't have to pay for the real estate regardless of occupancy unlike traditional hotels. This is more lost opportunity cost than revenue being taken away.
Airbnb isn't rent seeking. They're providing a valuable service to tourists. I find it very hard to see how short term rentals should be illegal.
People have different incomes right now so that wouldn't work for anyone making more than the minimum
‘Run toward the crisis’: Some employers balk at letting employees work remotely
But that's entirely the point. The people bitching about how the SAT isn't fair aren't smart poor people who are being beaten out by upper middle class losers, but rather upper middle class losers being beaten out by smart poor people. They tell themselves that the test isn't fair, but a part of them knows that they could never get into the 1500's even with all the prep in the world, so they try to get the admissions changed to a more bullshit-centric approach that they know favors them. And they say they are doing it to help the poor and disadvantaged to give themselves moral cover.
> And then it ACTUALLY WORKED.

Well, until it didn't.