skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A radio host is just a person, not the government.

There are limits being placed to combat hoarding and strict penalties against reselling on major marketplaces. Attempts are being made. But I don't think it's as simple as you suggest, at least in the U.S. (Which government? How do you identify the hoarders? Where is the line which continues hoarding vs. having sufficient stock?)

There was a case of someone hoarding massive amount of sanitizer with intent to resell, who then couldn't resell any of it. I hear the government compelled them to donate it (don't have a source, that part is just hearsay). But that's an individual case. At scale I think the problem quickly changes.
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> it's not fair for people to have to lose money on property they bought to help the poorest of poor americans.

In a "fair" world, property would appreciate at the inflation rate. No more, no less. It's also not fair to help people make money on property at the expense of the poor and the younger generations. So where does that leave us?
Not sure either but will fix, thanks!
Could you please share your reasons for looking at alternatives to Drools? I am in the process of evaluating Drools and it will be great to understand why people move away from it.
Japan has recovered. The Nikkei is just a piss poor index.

https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp
My favorite thing about using Apple pay is I don't have to touch anything (most of the time, anyway). I just double tap my watch and hold it near the card reader and that's it.

Having that convenience is super nice right now!
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I've got a few things going:

1. A company playbook writing tool that helps you document team and company processes. It gives you a nice online browseable playbook, along with .epub and .mobi download.

2. Adding more advanced features to my https://yuml.me UML tool, including text formatting, UML packages, and a more succinct DSL.

3. A contract e-signing tool that doesn't suck on mobile. For some reason, every digital signature tool I use feels yucky.

4. A tool that lets you write out user stories and converts them into example mobile wireframes by parsing the text. You can also do point estimations for relative sizing.
I'm finally adding JSON and XML projection support in jOOQ. Hoping to tackle MULTISET projection support, too, and emulating it with JSON or XML.
I’ve always stayed at Airbnb’s for my short term stays, simply because they were cheaper than hotels.

Hotels cost so much for a place that doesn’t even have a hot plate.
> buttons still look like buttons

Ahh I miss those days. Why were raised buttons considered so offensive? Now we have to tap/click everywhere in the hope that something might happen.
For me it’s easier to think of sensitivity as being “sensitive to the true positive” without saying much about false positive or negative.

A sensitive test will catch many positive cases. It may or may not have false positives though, eg a test that’s always gives the right answer vs a test that always returns positive no matter what.

A specific test will give you few positive results when the true answer is negative. You could use it to rule something out. One test might say “patient has A or B condition”, and a second test with high specificity may then rule out A or B, leaving B or A, respectively, as the probable condition.
One new stupid startup idea every day.
How about collecting the price of the test, the expected waiting time and the type of the test?

When I need to be tested, I don't want to phone several providers but I want to find the closest free slot for a test that suits my needs. E.g. if I don't have symptoms, I cannot use an antibody test.
Thanks so much for putting this together!

It is insane that this is not being done by the government, and that it's left to random coders to throw this together in their free time.
Certainly Japanese people look out for their own self interest. And there are non altruistic reasons for wearing masks - including, if you are female, skipping makeup.
I don't buy into the stereotypes that you mention, but I do believe that Japanese manners, in general, make it easier for people to coexist in crowded places. That includes wearing masks. And maybe I'm completely wrong about that. I still think that if more asymptomatic people in the US wore masks in public (and I don't think complete distancing is sustainable long term), the spread of this could be slowed. So I do intend to wear the masks I purchased when they arrive. I do hope I keep up with that resolve. On my last trip to Japan I had a cold and wore masks to try to be polite and avoid spreading my germs. They really aren't that comfortable.
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Investigation of 3 Singspore Covid-19 clusters: implications and response
I'd say watch for shaky justifications to refuse refugees.
And hopefully we can improve our practices based on their experience. Thanks for bringing it up, I may need to know this as the virus spreads.
Read the book - "Win Without Pitching Manifesto" by Blair Enns
It’s the other way around isn’t it? Iphones and ipads cracked the mobile application problem by making it effortless to install apps.
Germany has sent a few hundred thousand masks and other equipment. But it’s obviously easier for China since they are past their peak.

There are also some French patients being treated across the border, in both Switzerland and Germany.
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To be fair, only Airbnb and Airbnb landlords were thinking that Airbnb didn’t hurt the local rental market. The rest of us knew.
okay so how long does it take to certify that and how different is it going to be compared to just have General Motors produce under license on existing designs
That's not the answer
In what terms VS Code is behind?
In the first few days of voluntary quarantine, I built a Firefox extension called Exploding Tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/exploding-tab...

First, you intentionally add a website (e.g. https://facebook.com) to the list. Once you open that site in a new tab, a countdown begins. Unless you stop the countdown, the tab is closed once the countdown reaches 0.

I've been using this extension myself for a few days now. Up until now it seems ok.
I agree but I wanted it as a precaution. In Northern Ireland the hospital system has a vanishingly low capacity and we only test for COVID if someone is dying and we don’t know why (I think 200 tests total), so it was precautionary.

There’s a non-zero chance this virus gets into my home and a high-90’s chance the health care system will just turn us away if we got in trouble.
Did he invent that Voltaire quote? I can't find a source for it anywhere.
FL Studio's piano roll feels like Photoshop: draw some notes, select a couple with shift+click, make them shorter by dragging the first one's right edge, actually they're too quantized so do it again while pressing alt to not be limited to quantization, duplicate them a bunch of times with ctrl+drag (I think? It'sbeen years), then select the entire thing and duplicate it above twice to turn it into a series of major chords, select a few of the middle notes and drag them one row down to make the notes minor, then select all and right-click-drag the velocities to create a rise towards a crescendo (try that on a drum roll, sounds great). Or, my favorite flow: record some things, then select all with Ctrl+A and shrink it to 1/2 the length so it's in the speed I planned it to be in but can't play well enough to record in.

Tracktion's feels like a grid editor: you can edit specific notes but there's not really any useful keyboard shortcuts or mouse behaviors to help you draw music with it.
It’s going to be the only slope available soon when they shut down stock markets.
Great read! Intriguing to find out that earlier computers were using rotating drum memory systems in space flight and then delicate wiring in cores, I really hadn't considered that. I wonder about the reliability of those systems and whether there was software compensation for that issue.
> This crisis is the first event in my lifetime that's given me any optimism about our ability, as a global civilization, to solve problems and get things done.

would you mind elaborating? because i find it extremely difficult how one could hold such an optimistic and apparent naive opinion.

from where i sit, this crisis is showing the exact opposite. there is very little international communication and cooperation, and even internal to countries, like in the u.s., there is very little communication and cooperation. aside from a few outliers, the while thing has just been wave after wave of delayed and reactive actions that were underprepared to begin with.

people keep thinking we'll solve this with technology (the typical human way), but what would have been better is if everyone simply communicated, listened, and cooperated.

the human race could not face a dumber enemy. think about it. if everyone on earth just sat still for a couple of weeks, this thing would just vanish. can you imagine a more simple foe? and yet, this thing is crippling econmies, healthcare, and more.
I'm working on a browser based, client side, GIF screen capture tool. Give it a try: https://gifcap.dev/
Perfect, I just signed up.

Suggestions (if that's possible):
- Buttons to quickly change the replay speed to 0.75 and 0.5
- Loop functionality

I'd also love if there was a timestamp-based "editing", where I could send someone a video with just the good parts, skipping over intros, ads and fluff.
Right, but the bottleneck is generally not "how long it takes to parse the payload". For anything other than MB of data, I doubt you'll notice much of a difference between parsing JSON and flatbuffers. The bottleneck is how large and how long it takes when sending it over the wire.
The purpose of a dictionary is to define words. A word with a thousand definitions is not defined. It is the opposite of defined. If a word has several diverging meanings, perhaps it's time to create more words.
There are enough people with fatty liver, etc that chloroquine can’t be a magic bullet
Sure, but I am sure the government can compensate them if the government want.
I've been using something similar, it's a chrome extension made to stop you from getting distracted called Motion (https://inmotion.app). You list websites you find distracting, whenever you open one motion asks you how much time you need and closes the tab after the time's up.
Coronavirus (Covid-19) Resource Exhaustion Simulator
Oh, please ~ Intel fucked up their 10nm process pretty hard, and they kept trying to fix it for years. They also had to keep pushing their roadmap back again and again for 10nm.

This is entirely due to Intel's awful management getting in the way. Intel's engineers might be clever, but with shitty management, that can all go to waste.

Intel's management have been sitting on their arses, more or less, when you consider the fact that they've really been dragging their feet in terms of progress.

AMD has made more progress in 3 years than Intel has made in 10...

Intel simply got too comfortable with their monopoly.
For the first one: Have you heard of the Piraha Tribe and their counting system?

http://web.archive.org/web/20040825185826/http://paulgraham....
Check current Italy numbers and projections and then keep telling yourself about overdramatizing. Then add the effects of ongoing lockdowns and travel bans on economy. Them add the effects (short and long term) of redirecting a lot of health care system's resources to deal with the pandemic. We are only at the beginning of pandemic and it already looks like a complete clusterfk.
This is not a static situation - it is very fluid and dynamic.

The 2% rate is only for those with access to sufficient medical attention. People in localities where that is no longer possible are having a much worse outcome.

And keep in mind that death is only one possible negative outcome. This disease attacks the cells in the lungs and can permanently damage them. It also attacks the intestines.

It will be a while before we will know what the damage is.
How the Virus Got Out
In Norway Stormberg has a deposit scheme (panteordning). If you have one of their jackets you can return it to them and get NOK 50 in return just like returning a bottle or can to the supermarket.

See https://www.stormberg.com/no/om-stormberg/baerekraft/panteor...

or via Google Translate for those who can't read Norwegian https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https%3...
Everything else, yes, but climate change? I can't imagine how climate change can significantly affect probability of next pandemic.
Even in previous generation models (2014-2018 I think) the touchscreen is only enabled when the car isn't moving. For me using the rotary knob became muscle memory so I don't ever use the touchscreen anyway.
I’ve been writing my entire life.

I’ve found writing in the vernacular is usually the most effective approach (speaking only for myself -YMMV).

In my opinion, I think that there are a number of “base class” rules for tech writing, but each subject domain really requires a distinct approach, as well as a clear understanding of the audience (and subject matter -but in my experience, being a good writer/teacher is more important than being a subject matter expert. The worst teachers I ever had were subject matter masters).

But this is a cool resource.

The one critical thing I find for my writing, is that the information I give be 100% correct, and the accompanying materials be absolutely polished and tested out the wazoo.

If I’m speculating or unsure, I’m careful to note that.

Mild humor helps, but I need to be extremely careful, and it’s usually self-deprecating.
Tracking Corona on Your Smartphone Using Python
No, it seems not.
> One consequence of Uber is more cars on the road.

How does this work out? I know so many people who just take cabs now and haven't purchased a car in a long time because of how easy Uber has made cabs and ride-sharing. Surely this means a lesser number of cars on the road?
A bit of signalling in a crisis might pressure other wealthy people to do the same. So it might have value.
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Why have so many coronavirus patients died in Italy?
When I was even more homeless, I stayed in cheap Airbnbs.
It's possible and it's happening. The bottleneck for face masks is largely getting the right supply chains in place; for ventilators, I'd guess (but don't know for sure) that setting up the actual manufacturing takes more time.

Note that another bottleneck for facemasks is shipping volume from China, which is largely drowning in facemasks at this point. There are a lot just waiting in line to be shipped.
Original author here, it is absolutely my goal that the library should be usable without needing to understand the ins and outs of GA. To this end, I've started adding a bunch of "helper" functions that do tasks like projecting a point onto a plane, or identifying the line through a pointer parallel to another line, etc.

I've been (slowly) working on additional documentation in the meantime and didn't expect to see the animation article hit the frontpage :). That said, in the meantime, there is a GREAT cheatsheet for all the relevant formulae here: https://bivector.net/tools.html (scroll down to the bottom). You can get the PDF version here: https://bivector.net/3DPGA.pdf
I don't agree here. There's the economy as we know it, which might crash/malfunction but then there is the Real Life™. It might seem that the two are very interconnected and society cannot function without a healthy banking system. Reality however proves different.

Let's take a look at Iran, a country under heavy financial and commercial sanctions (for quite a few years), partially at war, with widespread riots brewing up until just one month ago and with little control over the virus's spread. Life goes on, people still eat, speak to each other and most continue their day to day activities. Same goes for Venezuela or Lebanon.

Sure, some people will need to adjust from selling derivatives to more 'core' activities, but the world will not end. The social system is more resilient than it looks.

EDIT

From a longer-term/big picture point of view, I think it would be healthy to debunk this 'myth' that somehow the world cannot survive a big bank going bust. Let's not mistake preserving status quo for a functioning society as a way going forward.
I'm also fighting the GC all the time, although I love Julia.

I wish I could tell the compiler to compile a function only if it can do it without using memory allocations. Often I would rather see a compilation error than the GC making performance of a function unpredictable.
Presentation Patterns, which a couple of people have mentioned, is probably more practical than most in terms of giving bite-sized advice though a lot of it is overkill (and not really even appropriate) for giving a manager a couple of slides about something.

The thing with most of the presentation books out there like Presentation Zen is that they're really oriented towards a good presenter up on a keynote stage at an event using slides as a supporting element of a well-rehearsed presentation.

That's not your typical presentation--and certainly not your typical internal monthly status meeting or project update.

Presentation Patterns also seems to do a better job than most at acknowledging the realities of material that's both presented and needs a leave behind. The "standard" advice is that you should have two separate documents but that's really not practical in a lot of circumstances.
Can someone outline the gross steps for recovering from this?
The thing that really jumped out at me was making the channel partially out of germanium. Velocity saturation has been a limiting factor in our tiny modern transistors for a while, playing its own minor part in the breakdown of Dennard scaling. The article didn't say if the increase applied equally to both electron mobility and hole mobility. Germanium tends to be better for both but I my materials science background isn't good enough for me to guess what it'll be in a Silicon/Germanium lattice. Temperature dependence is also an equally interesting question since Germanium tends to deal with high temperatures a bit better.

This won't help with leakage issues or the increasing importance of wire as opposed to transistor capacitance. But it does look like a nice little win.

Speaking of wires, is TSMC still using straight copper or are they thinking of incorporating cobalt? Or did Intel's experience with that scare them off?

EDIT: And speaking of cobalt again, I really hope they aren't being too ambitious with this and that being too innovative doesn't bit them the way it did with Intel at 10nm. Though the rumor mill isn't sure if it was the cobalt wires or the Contact Over Active Gate (COAG) that was their main problem.
> The overall design was great but one of the key element is the shoulder straps that were tied at the front of the bag, not back-side. This was what made it theft-proof and extremely comfortable as it would push it towards your back, and more so with added weight, because physics.

Could you elaborate on this? I don't see anything special from photos.

And also why don't you buy a second hand one?
When people say everything is on Spotify, they really mean that everything they know which is Spotify, is on Spotify.

Half the stuff I recommend to people is not on Spotify or Youtube. Thank goodness I had the "entitlement" to build a giant mp3 collection because I have no idea where I'd find it otherwise.
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The viscosity of information is much more favorable now than then.

Even if peak unemployment is similar, the recover is likely to be snappier.

The heat of the forest fore opens the pine cones, and there is new growth.
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So here's the thing: the internet is full of tutorials about specific implementations, but what you really want is the core concepts.

You want to master (or at least understand at a basic level) the core concept so that you can then adopt any technologies.

In that regard, my best find was "LDAP for rocket scientists" -- https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ .

It's long and boring, but immensely worth it. I didn't really understand the why of LDAP until I read that guide.
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It is very hard not to think that also the number of deaths (not only that of cases) is under-reported. For instance, the Major of Bergamo, one of the few not entirely rotten politicians, claims that actual deaths in the Province in the last days have been 4 times the reported deaths. He verified the figures with the other majors. Who died at home, and there have been many, has not been tested.

Here the interview:

https://www.huffingtonpost.it/entry/giorgio-gori-chiudete-tu...

And it is very hard not to think that the most plausible explanation for the anomaly is shortage in ICUs.
Yes, brother works as corporate lawyer. Their office is overflowing with bankruptcy cases...including the very law firm he works for.

Something thats flown under the radar of this is the new “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” which provides 12 weeks of “paid leave for those affected by Covid 19”.

Most (90%) companies will be bankrupt by week 3 or 4, therefore most are now contemplating just declaring bankruptcy now to avoid any further bleed.

It’s easy to write laws such as this, but where does the money for this 12-weeks come from?
Well the stock market is now down below what it was when Trump took office, so we've already lost 3 years worth of gains in one month, which is pretty poor.

Goldman put out a note saying the GDP would dip about 9-10.5% over the first quarter of the year, which is almost the worst we've ever seen. And that's a single quarter, a single quarter. US GDP maybe down 20% by the time this is over.

And keep in mind no doctor that I've talked to thinks this will be over any time before mid 2021.

And probably the worst news is that this is the type of drop that won't be V shaped, for all the talk of 2008, atleast it went down and then went right back up.

Most recession affect a specific geographical area or market sector, This pandemic affects the entire world at the same time, which hasn't really happened since the 1970's gas shortages.

The recovery here will not be V shaped, it will take years and years to recover. People have spent their savings just to survive, governments are delaying tax payments and throwing money at the problem.

This recession/depression will be with us for years to to come and will be the worst thing that anyone alive can remember.

Can anyone make the case that the recovery will be quick? Because I haven't seen anyone make that case yet in a believable way.
These courses are typical tech-writer overkill, missing the forest for the trees, then getting lost in the weeds (if I may mix a few metaphors). There is too much introduction and setup, then it jumps into the nitty-gritty, but never gives the big picture.

The real challenge is that no one agrees what great writing really is or how to teach it. The problems are conceptual and related to the nature of writing, thinking, and communicating—all fields that are unsolved. I've taught writing in universities and written about the challenges of writing (and related grading challenges) before. https://jakeseliger.com/2014/12/20/subjectivity-in-writing-a...

"The big picture" is often the world itself.
Maybe it's not a big demographic on Hacker news (or non-US western countries either), but there's a lot of hand-shaking that goes in in churches. That was true in my church up until a few weeks ago.