skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. I wrote a paper in college that argued a very similar line of reasoning. I based this largely around the conversation that was had about aerial bombing during the inter-war period.

During WWI a biplane or two was able to fly over Paris and drop a grenade. It caused quite a scandal with some Navy high ups condemning the concept of aerial bombardment altogether. By the end of the inter-war period there was a strong stigma against it. The concept of using bombs on civilian centers was pretty much unthinkable. Until of course the war began and it wasn't. Throughout the war taboos were approach and broken one after another.

When the U.S. joined the war, there was a major row between U.S. and British airforce commanders about using bombers at night. The U.S. thought it unethical, especially since they had invested in a supposedly superior bomb sight which was rendered essentially useless at night. The British, facing an existential threat were not so scrupulous. Of course the night raids soon began.

So by war's end there was virtually no size of bomb nor target that was much unacceptable even though the idea of aerial bombing of even soldiers had been distasteful at its start.

Give this, the only reason I could think that chemical weapons had not followed the same slippery slope was that they were far less useful.

I got an A- on the paper, my teacher said it was good but too fringey. I couldn't dig up the paper but I found the bibliography. If you're interested in the subject give some of these sources a try. I especially enjoyed the biography of Doolittle, "I Could Never Be So Lucky Again".

"The Bombing of Berlin in World War II." Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, 7 April 2012. Web. 10 April. 2012.

"The Bombing of Germany." American Experience. Writ. Zvi Dor-ner. Dir. Zvi Dor-ner. PBS, 2010. Streaming.

"Bombing of Tokyo." Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, 3 April 2012. Web. 6 April. 2012.

Carlin, Dan. ”Logical Insanity.” Harcore History. dancarlin.com, 31 March 2012. Podcast. 6 April 2012.

Cheek, Dennis W. "Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Ed. Carl Mitcham. Vol. 2. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. 921-924. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 16 Apr. 2012.

Doolittle. Gen. James H. and Carroll V. Glines. I Could Never Be So Lucky Again. 1991. New York: Bantam Books, 2009. e-book.

"Firestorm." Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, 13 April 2012. Web. 14 April. 2012.

Hansen, Randall. Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany 1942-1945. New York: New American Library, 2009. e-book.

Truman, Harry S. "Harry S. Truman, Diary, July 25, 1945." Atomic Bomb: Decision. n.d. Web. 10 Apr. 2012.
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Care to be specific? Here’s all of them: https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/
I believe they meant the "40-70%" figure.
Yes, the liposomal form facilitates better absorption. They are structurally identical to vesicles used in cells for transporting materials. They can merge with your intestinal cells and release their contents, bypassing the usual limited transport mechanism that ascorbic acid uses.
> firebase at google is doing extremely well

Source?

It's certainly popular but everyone I know (me included) is running away from it asap.
The meeting technically exists as long as there are participants. Anyone can join the url so if you pick something unique and hard to guess you'll probably be the only one to ever use it.
That number requires you to know the total recovered. With asymptomatic becoming popular from this, hard to believe we know that number. And many reasons to believe total cases is undercounted everywhere. To the point that we are seeing negative effects from skyrocketing numbers due largely to testing increases.
Um. He doesn't advocate do nothing. He specifically says the opposite. Read the paper. WTF?
Thank you for mentioning it. Found the source (no dependencies!) at https://github.com/ether/ep_webrtc
Just because asymptomatic folks are testing positive doesn't mean they stay asymptomatic.

My understanding is this is just a temporary phase of the infection where most people are asymptomatic while spreading the virus. Eventually, without treatment, it usually escalates to a symptomatic phase.
Amazon starting a cloud offering is quite different from anyone coming later. Even though lot of open source infra exists, expectations from dev/companies in 2015+ are sky high. If FB really wanted to have an offering, it needs to be specialized in something specific. May be Oculus game server hosting or something tied to FB/WhatsApp/Insta features
There are countries that do report:

"17 March: the total number of cases was 1705, of which 314 patients had been admitted to the hospital"

That was week ago, now it's 1230 people in the hospital, or 4 times more. So I expect 5000 at the end of the next week in the Netherlands. The growth of the infection by the novel virus is exponential, until strong enough measures start to work, and the Netherlands wasn't (due to the politicians) ready to seriously enforce them.

So it's around 20%, once one has more than a few cases. And that's far from being a small percentage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t...
First answer is right. I have some cave man era video experience. Color is a clever add on hack to the black and white transmission standard that allowed forwards and backwards compatibility with all sets.
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If lockdown is only answer for covid-19, then why Italy is getting large number of affected persons daily even after full lock down?
They’re canceling standardized testing here. There’s not much point if you know it’s gonna be bad compared to other years, and there’s little you can learn from the details of the failure to apply to the next years. They already know “have a better quarantine plan” is he answer for this time (though arguably uncommon enough that the right amount of time and money to spend fixing it is zero). No need to test, and anyway they may not be back in classrooms to do it.

[edit] though yeah, future years’ testing may tell us something. However, since it’s happening to all grades, and given how often other factors change that make results incommensurate, it’ll be tough to pull anything useful out of the numbers.
Yes, only thousands. The point of the quarantine was to avoid deaths of millions. China has flattened thoer curve, no one else has.
It's easy to point at others for imperfect data and imperfect science when the situation is evolving so fast and data is so hard to come by. It seems to me that papers being retracted due to inaccurate evidence is not a sign of sensationalism but of sound science. Once can argue that more diligence should be practiced in the review process, but I assume everyone is trying their best to get the information out there ASAP.

In any case, policies need to be enacted now (or rather two weeks ago) in any but the best case scenarios. There is no time to wait for more accurate information. If one argues that exaggeration is rampant and we should learn more before making hasty decisions, then that's essentially arguing for inaction. Even if that was the right action I suspect the induced panic in the society will be even greater.

The author also seems to be implicitly weighing the dire consequences of a pandemic (maybe millions more people dying) against the supposed reputation damage to science, which is bizarre to say the least.
By capacity I mean during flu season we don't run out of hospital beds when people with serious flu complications need them.

By that definition then "not having capacity" means that people who go to the ER have to get turned away based on medical triaging.
Hmm. What if some of these people realize they are hurting their community and trying to return what they don't need so others can have it?
A note for those critical about donations not coming sooner:

It is important to understand hospitals and doctors could not legally use industrial N95 masks. No hospital could accept them without exposing themselves to massive litigation. I know this sounds stupid from outside the US. Sadly, this is part of our reality.

The key that unlocked donations was President Trump. Upon learning of this restriction he quickly put into place a release of liability for medical use of industrial N95 masks. This will be in force until at least 2024.

Because of this companies, contractors, suppliers and individuals came forward to donate masks. Apple donated a couple million units. I believe this might easily unlock tens of millions of masks as companies evaluate their inventories and continue to donate.

Commentary:

It is important to realize that the US healthcare system does not have an insurance problem. Politicians would have you think this is the case. It is not. The root cause of our high cost of healthcare, among other things, has to do with the underlying and hidden costs of doing business. This issue of masks is a simple example.

Hospitals, medical professionals and medical suppliers live in fear of greedy attorneys going after them for anything from masks to more complex equipment. This leads to major losses and costs and even legislation. And all of it increases the costs of doing business.

After this virus runs its course we would be well served to review a number of things, tort reform being a good idea. The other would be term limits for the House and Senate, I think it is beyond obvious these institutions have gone putrid to the very core.

It might also be rather strange to those outside the US to learn that in this wonderful country doctors and nurses cannot legally provide their services outside of the State where they are licensed. A doctor or nurse licensed in California cannot see patients in, say, Maine. In other words, we are not a country, we are a group of fenced-off kingdoms with some of the most ridiculous rules one could possibly imagine.

Our doctors can travel to Africa and practice medicine, yet they can't go to another State and do the same. How ridiculous is this?

That's just another element of our system that has to change. There's more, a lot more. The onerous and massively expensive drug or medical device approval process is another example.

Insurance is the last item in a very long list of issues we must address in order to bring sanity to our healthcare system.
Updated: comment was only for US since John is based at Stanford.
”digital dollar wallet is identified as ‘a digital wallet or account, maintained by a Federal reserve bank on behalf of any person”

so, a plain old debit card directly from the fed?
Perhaps there are health reasons for it. Maybe they can't resell used toilet paper.
They should accept the returns so they can restock the shelves again.
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I think the Ansible modules can be executable binaries as well. I have heard of modules written in go.
Hoarders should just hold on to the toilet paper. It's not perishable, so at least they will have a stash for the next time there is a similar scare, and fewer regular customers will be affected.
Because most of the time, a Facebook user or a Google user doesn't pay at all. Only advertisers do. And that's why these two companies generally don't have a customer-obsession culture.
So lets say I own a business - and buy for the business, now al the sudden everyone is working from home. As a business owner I can either, return it so others can get it or I can save it for later.

Seems like there could be good reason to allow returns.
Particle physics. I'm rereading a 30 year old textbook with 10,000 citations right now.
Costco has done a really good job of handling this tough situation. Beyond this, I've noticed a few other things:

* Stock most items overnight so that if you absolutely need something you can prioritize getting there before they open and likely getting it rather than having to come back over and over (or go to multiple other stores), which limits exposure.

* Set aside additional hours before the general opening for seniors.

* Limit high-demand items. This does have some perverse ramifications for a few items. For instance, we wanted about 4 dozen eggs to get us through a few weeks. Unfortunately the smaller packs were limited to 1 so we ended up having to buy 5 dozen.

* Flood the market with in-demand items to create confidence. I think this is a Seattle thing, but last week I started seeing social mediate posts showing literal aisles composed of nothing but toilet paper. Many people (myself included to some extent) are just just buying because they don't want to get caught without TP when they run out, but if they feel that it's likely it will be in stock they won't rush out to buy some immediately.
A function of increased testing in direct response to the long incubation period. Symptoms don’t show up until much later, I think 10 days (you can look it up) at which point people are allowed to get tested. Add a couple of days to get results and it follows China’s trend of ~12 to 14 days after lockdown until peak cases (and deaths?)
The 93% I last saw is in flux and will continue to go down as flu and colds abate in the northern hemisphere and real coronavirus cases increase. This also doesn't include people who could not get tested because their symptoms were mild, even though they thought they had it.
That's good to know, thanks! Appreciate your input.
Deleting this as the hivemind seems to be opposed to actual justice today.
The response will have it consequences too, lost lives, destroyed businesses, ruined families, lost requirement savings.
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Wow, it is amazing to know that as years passby people tend to discover interesting stuff from the past.
Like most things Costco...'as it should be'...
You need to know if you’re walking through a two way door or a one way door. A two way door you can course correct. A one way door you can not which requires a different risk strategy. Evidence suggests a one way door.
God, give them a break. People who work there are risking so much to keep a job and in turn provide us a safe shopping experience. I wouldn’t want to burden them more by returning something you can very well store and use. If the person was hoarding to make a profit elsewhere, well they deserve it.
They did alter their return policy. That's what the article is about.
It's weird because I'm just as afraid of a black swan of unforeseen, runaway financial collapse due to pandemic countermeasures. People seem awfully glib about how many will die from the pursuant depression.
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Nope - MERS and SARS were the only large Coronavirus outbreaks. H1N1 is an Influenza A strain (similar to the so-called Spanish Flu).
You’re not linking properly.
In isolation of actions, sure. But in the scope of Facebook's normal actions...?

Are we so easily distracted by the sparkly costless action that they now take that we forget the several known (and who knows how many unknown) deceptive and harmful actions they have intentionally taken against us in pursuit of money?

I'm not trashing them for doing something good. But just as I don't bow to the guy on the street that puts his candy wrapper in the rubbish bin instead of throwing it on the ground, I don't admire FB for giving out something they already possessed and were not having a planned use of.
Great point — also this season is the nadir of retailing. Everyone is broke from Christmas until March/April and companies shit their lines down to start making new product.
>Are you really pretending the US, Britain, Soviet Union, etc didn't freely violate the "rules of war" also

No but The US and UK are far less notorious and so are not as good examples.

> Also, the nazis aren't a nation

Given the foulness of the topic but limited space, I wanted to emphasize the enormous difference between the Germans and Japanese of today vs 80 years ago. In retrospect, I should have written Tojo instead of Japan even though he is not a country either.
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The title is confusing, we all know how people for hygiene stuff including toilet papers.
It won't rot, so just keep it for when your business reopens. It's not like you bought a five year supply, right?
Other countries managed to abolish feudalism without quite so many mass executions or consequent authoritarian strongmen plunging their continents into devastating series of wars.
From the source I linked to:

"The population was tested again after a two-week lockdown and isolation. Researchers found that transmission was reduced by 90% and all those still positive were without symptoms and could remain quarantined."
I was being sarcastic.... it never translates well over text.
Or you could let your staff take some home. They were going to use it anyway.
The last numbers for tests in NY is 28% positive, and apparently suggesting and infection rate of 1 in 700.
Why (from his point of view) would it be either/or? The latter claim could overlap with or imply the former. In principle, it doesn't have to, but saying the response was adequate certainly doesn't imply that liberals were correct about the magnitude of the threat.
I fail to see how that’s a response to my comment.
> Well, we're currently all remote...

:) touché

Thanks for your response!
Why is it ok for people in North Dakota to have a say over me in Washington? Or for that matter why is it ok for people in Shoreline 5 km away to have a say over me in Seattle?

Because that's how we've agreed to organize. Economies of scale. The difference between Spaniards and Germans is smaller than you might expect.
They need a week long grace period to get as much back as possible , this is more helpful than pure punishment.
The secondary hoarders-- those who hoard because others have hoarded-- are in some ways behaving rationally too: Try to buy your normal rate of toilet paper and find it gone; then you search and search; when you finally find some you don't know when you might do so again, so you need to buy extra.

It doesn't seem like a problem that will be solved until, gradually, everyone has plenty and most stores are stocked. That seems to be how things abated in 1973, over a few months.
I try to avoid Apple products. They're not worth the high price.
I mean, they're good for 8-10 hours, but they don't last indefinitely.
They have enough supply available from their normal suppliers to restock the shelves.
The government also said that “everyone who wants to get tested can get tested”. And with all the specificity we have come to expect and love, he-who-shall-not-be-named also said “lots and lots, very much many” masks had been acquired.

Yet according to https://www.vox.com/2020/3/23/21191003/coronavirus-trump-def..., the federal government has not made a single order for masks, ventilators, or any other material. So I’d be surprised if they directly went for requisitions, especially from non-producers such as Facebook. I’d actually be surprised if they even knew Facebook had masks.

So: have a link for “the government said”?
They return it before it's used...
Here in Canada, lots of out-of-stock items are returning to shelves. Not all of them, but my grocery store has had toilet paper all week and they got flour/pasta recently too
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Several reasons. One, a lockdown ia neccesary though possibly not sufficient for containg Covid-19. Two countries seem to have succesfully contained the virus after a large outbreak. These are China and South Korea. Both of these countries combined some form of a lockdown with extremely agressive testing. SK has done more testing while China has been way more agressive with a lockdown. Italy's lockdown is not as strict as China's. Further, when Italy first tried to lock down the north, many fled south carrying the virus with them. Second, we may be seeing benefit from Italy's lockdown now. The daily increase in infections in Italy just fell twice in a row for the first time ever. If you look at their infections on a logarithmic scale you can clearly see that exponential growth is ending. This is a very good sign that the lockdown is working.
Evolution is a really good game that stays true to its name and creates really fun situations at the table

It’s also reasonably confrontational but not curt-throat, so you won’t be ruining relationships over it, but won’t be playing multiplayer solitaire either
And almost the entire business world.
> Why are stats like that not shared? That seems like very valuable information.

Because it's only 163, and data of an unknown quality.
According to their site they ran ~1.6 million flights in 2019 so they saved $0.18/flight which across their operating revenue of $43.259 billion is a rounding error even when it adds up to 300k.
Oh, sorry. I was distracted and misread your comment. I was trying to answer the question of "why an atomic clock rather than a GPS receiver" (and Google's "Armageddon masters" have their own atomic clocks), but I see now you were asking "why not use Cockroach's technique rather than any specialized hardware".

I think one answer is in this blog post:

> A simple statement of the contrast between Spanner and CockroachDB would be: Spanner always waits on writes for a short interval, whereas CockroachDB sometimes waits on reads for a longer interval. How long is that interval? Well it depends on how clocks on CockroachDB nodes are being synchronized. Using NTP, it’s likely to be up to 250ms. Not great, but the kind of transaction that would restart for the full interval would have to read constantly updated values across many nodes. In practice, these kinds of use cases exist but are the exception.
Recently I learned you can be a doctor without getting a baccalaureate.

It may not still be a thing, but I happened to run across the factoid while reading the wikipedia page of a middle-aged and famous doctor that just got the coronavirus.