skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please make sure to publicize and somehow show evidence that you're NOT that other site: Oscar Health's "free covid19 risk assessment" & testing locator.

Oscar was started by Jared K, (tRUMP's S-I-L). Visitors of their site (at hioscar-dot-com-slash-covid19) are given a "free" assessment and referral to a testing center. So far so good, right?

In the back end, a "service fee" is charged to the Fed Govt for each person that uses the system. Being that Jared's in the family, there's no doubt that Oscar will get paid everything it asks for.
Ask HN: Low-latency, ensemble-oriented video conferencing?
It seems all popular video conferencing software includes a really noticeable lag, sometimes multiple second round-trip.

I'm in a large community of choral singers, and many groups have been hoping to sing together remotely, live. Of course, using Zoom this is hopeless: Not only does the lag make it impossible to synchronize, but Zoom only sends you one or two channels of audio at a time, so four-part harmony is out of the question, especially with multiple singers on each part.

This has me thinking: Is there software that solves this problem? Specifically, optimizes for extremely low latency between my singing and your hearing me, _and_ multiplexes many separate audio feeds together on the fly?

I assume this might require a network protocol other than TCP?
Love what you guys are doing. How far away do you think the organization is from hiring product people?
That's mob mentality. We don't need anything like that.
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In charts I view I see many more deaths than recoveries especially in the US. Is it because we are more cautious about saying who is actually recovered?
The point is not that it must be, the point is that if you've burned your bridges once before, you're going to have a hard time selling again. If I've been screwed once by Google (and I have been, multiple times), selling me GCP has to overcome those trust issues.

Not to mention that I have had rocky issues with GCP as well. There was documentation that lied about its caching behavior, cost me over $1000 of my personal money, they took over a year to fix the bug and offered no reimbursement. Maybe I'm a small fry and don't deserve support, but this is the kind of customer management that Google is absolutely terrible at.
Neither do I on reflection. I guess I totally misread it somehow. Apologies.
so, did elon bought them with tsl money?
Brand recognition?
Do FAANG companies really ask "Why do you want to leave your current company?" question?
Netflow is easily supported. However, it requires another instance of Logstash. Although ntopng does a phenomenal job with this, it can be easily included. I'll add, for consideration, as a future roadmap plug-in.
I have a feeling some people bought HUGE quantities in hopes of selling on Amazon/ebay for inflated prices. When these plans fell through, they're trying to return it.
> I have not yet seen an adequate response to critics such as Nassim Taleb or Yaneer Bar-Yam.

Is that even necessary? Taleb's school argues that empiricism has fundamental shortcomings because it must be "incomplete" in a world of imperfect (read: statistical) evidence. I agree it's a big problem, one that we are not likely to solve. But they go on to say "therefore, we must apply the precautionary principle to XYZ" which is frankly nonsense. Instinct might be important in Taleb's world of non-ergodic black swans, but that absolutely does not prove that his instinct is better than mine or yours!
this is just cgi right. you don't need lua
Risk management is the correct way to go when uncertainty is high. Containment was the correct approach at the time.

When evidence starts coming in, then you can start applying evidence based approaches.

> Mortality rate: Mortality and morbidity rates are also downward biased, due to the lag between identified cases, deaths and reporting of those deaths [1]

> Among 3,711 Diamond Princess passengers and crew, 712 (19.2%) had positive test results for SARS-CoV-2 (Figure 1). Of these, 331 (46.5%) were asymptomatic at the time of testing. Among 381 symptomatic patients, 37 (9.7%) required intensive care, and nine (1.3%) died (8) . . . As of March 13, among 428 U.S. passengers and crew, 107 (25.0%) had positive test results for COVID-19; 11 U.S. passengers remain hospitalized in Japan (median age = 75 years), including seven in serious condition (median age = 76 years) [2].

Based on the second source, who can still seriously believe that the naive death rate is too conservative, because all the people in intensive care just have not died yet?

Look at the deaths/recoveries in Singapore and Hong Kong for more evidence [3][4].

Whereas, if you compare fatality rates reported by Germany, SK, HK, Singapore and other high testers vs China, Italy and Spain, it's pretty clear the latter are under-diagnosing mild/asymptomatic cases, which increase their fatality rate by a factor of 10 or more.

[1] https://necsi.edu/systemic-risk-of-pandemic-via-novel-pathog...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e3.htm?s_cid=mm...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_H...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_S...
I think a return policy like costco is a two way street. The fact it even is still like it is with the abuse potential is amazing.

If they make the effort to stock this in-demand stuff, and people want to abuse their return policy and make their hoarding/arbitrage costco's problem, I don't think costco should have to deal with that, before or after the fact.
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> At it's most basic, it's about clearing your mind and practicing keeping it clear over some interval.

If there is one thing I have seen meditation teachers agree on, it is that meditation is not about clearing your mind. Your description of a Zen sitting practice does accommodate passing thoughts, so perhaps you mean something other than a no-thought state by a 'clear mind'?

It is sometimes possible to reach a state in which no thoughts arise for a long time (e.g. second and subsequent Jhana states) but that is quite rare for most meditators.
*They return it if they didn't buy it
This. I talked with the manager from one of the CostCo's near us (happens to be a neighbor) and their reasoning was people were overbuying items in the expectation that if they didn't need them all after all they would just return them.

This policy pushes back on that mindset.
Not sure about other countries in Asia, but here in Thailand every toilet has a sprayer next to it. You get a lot cleaner and use a lot less toilet paper. So no TP panic here. If I ever move back to the US I will definitely install one.
Panic buying seems to transfer easily to many products-- now that a quinine-related drug had some good press as a potential treatment, I can't find tonic water anywhere (except some really weird brands at like $12 for 4 small cans or bottles... Apparantly a gin boom has given rise to some niche high end tonic water too)
Part of it was probably that older computers had a set form factor. You could recognize a C64 or an Amiga when you walked in the door. These days they all look the same.

On a different note I find myself pondering the similarities between the spread of malware now that everything is online 24/7, and the spread of illnesses in an era of cheap and fast air travel.
Yeah it's a fundamental failure of government. One key function of government is to hedge against and plan for unlikely but serious scenarios just like these, especially when there is no money to be made by doing what's in the public interest. Helping to deal with crises like this is a big part of why epidemiological research gets public funding. Despite this deep underlying infrastructure, the weakest link is usually whoever is in power at the moment doing things like disbanding pandemic response groups and censoring experts.
Costco allows purchases to members only. I do not understand why in the very beginning they did not enforce the purchase limit of each membership to something reasonable e.g. 2 big boxes (~70 rolls) per month.
Not too surprising - same cross-section, less turbulence.
Here is what I know. I know if I open a newspaper, I see ads for businesses, both local and national. If I go to the newspaper’s website, I see ads for one weird trick, the same ads on every site and in every city, and essentially no meaningful local content.

Yes, things on Facebook are different, but Facebook is not a publisher, it’s a parasite, so who cares?
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I've seen people return crazy things at Costco:

- Bag of potatoes almost completely empty. The guy had a few potatoes that were sprouting roots. Costco refunded the cost of the entire bag.

- Cart full of sushi platters. Obviously somebody bought it for a party and didn't finish it. Again Costco refunded.
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So the Jiujitsu academy is now practicing Jiujitsi!
Hypothetically yes and would only require adjustments. Although, I do not have any Unifi gear other than a couple of access points. I'll look into adding Unifi support in the near future.
No, but you still need to have a means to get there on test day. My school wouldn't proctor tests for classes I hadn't taken, and I only found one other school within an hour willing to do that for a student out of their boundaries. I jumped at the opportunity, but I could have just as easily not had it all if, for example, my family hadn't moved while I was in middle school.
If this is the case, you speak to the Costco management staff and explain the situation. Maybe they'll let you. Maybe they won't. But either way, not allowing returns is the correct move to keep people from hoarding.
Italy was one of the first countries to ban flights from China. Fat lot of good it did. But I agree that there should have been a stronger reaction, in terms of testing / tracing / isolating.
Lol. “Mob mentality” to punish jerks taking advantage of a pandemic. Go back to your cave, troll.
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If they are trying to do good they can donate it.
Theoretically they'll take it either way...
why is this on hn? this was like news on the mainstream sites weeks ago.
>shit their lines down

I'm not sure if that was meant to be a deliberate pun or just a fortuitous typo, but it fits here.
They can stand outside Costco and give it away and get some of that Karma back.
As far as I’ve heard, this is what the label recommends; however, in practice, they can be used for much longer.

(I cannot remember my sources, sorry.)
We trained a deep learning model to densify a sparse point cloud of a 3-D scene given an RGB image of the scene.
Compared to other learning methods, ours has 80% fewer parameters while outperforming others thanks to the mesh triangulation and linear interpolation used as pre-processing steps.
The paper describing our method has been accepted by the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020.
As if any toilet paper hoarders cares one bit about their community
The Singapore model encrypts it until someone is diagnosed. So the leak is of the thing you would tell a contact tracer anyway..
This post could do with more specific references, and fewer generalizations and hand waving.

Hephaestus was the god of the forge, smithing, and techne - yet he used magic to make many of his elaborate contraptions. Steampunk is a popular subgenre of sci-fi that blends the relationship between technology and magic. Tolkien opposes the technology of Isengard to the inherent magic of nature, but so does Miyazaki.
Wore mine for 2 weeks during the fires when they were in short supply. It was definitely worse for wear at the end. And mine didn't have a valve on it. If it did, it might have lasted longer.
Under normal circumstances, there's simply no reason to do this. Some people really do prefer to buy six months' of toilet paper twice a year. Why not let them?
That was really good (tnx!)... until the Q&A. Oh well - maybe he could demonstrate the concept of an errata follow-up in a next video.

FWIW, here are my favorite heavy gas videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckaJs_u2U_A , https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=drBjDy96iNI , and an image to help with "but how can things float on something you can't see" https://www.flickr.com/photos/10192726@N00/1367178603 . One can also play with layered drinks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVsMmCb3Cdw . Self-layering latte is nifty, but harder to explain and make: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/science/lattes-layers-cof... , https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01852-2 FWIW.
> a large rice "manufacturer" (distributor?)

Both concepts would seem to apply, and to be different people, but a rice manufacturer would usually be called a farmer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generally_recognized_as_safe

...I mean it is a big loophole. Something I've wondered about for years is V-8 juice. Seems healthy, but what about the psoralens in celery?

I'm not saying that everything does need to be tested, but if you don't, you don't really know and no mental gymnastics can change that.
Possibly because they're reasonable, and were dumbfounded, like me, that folks would hoard...toilet paper.
This reminds me of the current situation we are in because of coronavirus.
Because it wasn't clear in the very beginning this was going to be a long-term persistent problem.
I am reading Bob Martins Clean Architecture right now. The introduction takes the opposite stance: that there is no such thing as moving fast in a sloppy way, because even in the short term quality code yields faster development times.

This is meant to include changeability: quality code should theoretically yield faster iterations too. This “break things” aspect is something I believe he opposes.

Is he right? Wrong?
When I think about the reasons the cost of US healthcare is so high, over-legislation is definitely up there, but so is the arms race between insurance and healthcare providers. It seems to me that the hight cost just is a symptom, and that we should focus our efforts on deregulation so that we drive prices down to competitive levels.
Would NixOps fall into the same category?
Probably because they know their supply chain better than the average panic buyer, and figured they could sell as much as was in demand and still restock the next few days. Most TP is made domestically.
It seems many companies, prudently, had stocks of masks for their employees. Mastercard donated 25k masks and Goldman Sachs 20k[1].

My question is why the US government didn't have a bigger stockpile of them? We treat national security products with such deference, but yet defense against pandemics has been an afterthought.

[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/financial-institutions-share-st...
Actually the high voltage anode lead is very well insulated; if it isn't any more, you'll be sure to notice it quickly (smell, arcing noises and lights, TV stops working eventually). However, in a typical CRT drive circuit you still may find somewhat high-power 100-200 V DC supplies (for deflection drivers and also what powers the LOPT) and low power ~1-3 kV supplies for focus control and such.
How much toilet paper would you have bought for a business that you need to return it?

I don't think of small businesses really stocking up on / have a serious about of storage for toilet paper.
Let’s say I come up with a completely straw straw man and then knock it down!
Same reason as always: someone posted it, and others found it interesting enough to upvote.
Hoarders would never return them. That goes against everything.

Only failed resellers would.
Taleb's point is that high uncertainties which can result in catastrophic loss are worth of spending money to protect against.

In our present case, the real nonsense is US allocating funds for a 1.5 trillion dollar plane, but totally avoiding investing in the response of pandemics... before it can be too late.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-long-will-it-ta...

"science can meet the challenges, but there is lots of attrition” before any vaccine gets to the point of licensure. The problem is twofold. First, there may never be a market for a vaccine at the end of the development process, because the epidemic is contained, or never comes to pass. Then, traditionally, if there is an epidemic, it may take hold in a developing country where the costs of research and development cannot be recouped. “The resources and expertise sit in biotech and pharma, and they’ve got their business model,” Grant said. “They’re not charities. They can’t do this stuff for free."

Were there early enough proper funding (surely insignificant compared to 1.5 trillion dollar) this pandemic could have been avoided and, additionally, in the case it couldn't have, the vaccine produced faster. (Bill and Melinda Gates tried to motivate others to do something about that, for years).

Once the virus spreads, it is totally irrelevant where it started.

Edit: and to answer to the message below: I don't have to prove anything. The exponential spread will do its work, independently of all of us. That exponential spread is not something that happens just with coronavirus, it was for decades a known fact. That's the nature of pandemics. The humans in charge ignored the fact at the humanity's peril. There's nothing that can disappear because your political beliefs are different. Even more directly, we're where we are exactly because the political beliefs resulted in the ignorance of the facts.
Zoom's blow up and their financials
See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22670577
Minefields are also very hard to deploy they take about as much to setup as to clear.
You can also stream with Steam Link or Steam. Virtually the same though you do need your own hardware, you are entirely free to decide what run on it (in contrast to Nvidia's platform where several large companies have removed their games).
That tracks every purchase? In the hands of the government?
It works on Firefox but does not have simulcast support so whenever someone on Firefox joins, other devices have to use vastly more CPU and bandwidth. My phone dropped 50% battery in 10 minutes with a Firefox user on.

It is being worked on [1].

Firefox was a supported browser but they took it off the list in January until this issue is fixed. [2]

[1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758#issuecomment...

[2] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/pull/5017
... often just because rulers were so scared by the French experience, that they caved at the first demand for better forms of government.

In a similar way, a lot of worker rights gained in the XX century were introduced only because elites were utterly scared by the Soviet experience.

Sometimes it helps to have a reference, so to speak.
Sure he recommends researching vaccines faster, giving people flu vaccines since the flu is more serious than Covid, admitting fewer Covid patients into hospital care, and doing more research so that we're better prepared next time when something actually serious happens. Or if this is serious, doing more research so that the data is the most accurate possible.

I think calling that doing nothing is pretty generous. Since you disagree, what measure that he's proposing did you have in mind?
In Iowa the Department of Health is reporting over 2100 negative tests (we are currently only testing patients who come into the hospital or already admitted) and 105 confirmed cases. Obviously a much smaller population size than other areas.
I find Taleb's argument specious. The risk inherent in a reaction can be pretty catastrophic as well; for example we are now seeing some project 20%+ unemployment in the next quarter.

In addition, we do have data on the possible harms from Coronovirus, since we have more CFR data at this point. This puts bounds on possible harms. For more detail see John's other article in statnews. The results of the Diamond Princess cruise ship also are telling [1].

It looks like Iceland has about 1% of its people infected [2]. This didn't happen overnight, and Iceland is doing OK.

[1] https://twitter.com/maximlott/status/1241718453700038658?s=2...

[2] https://www.government.is/news/article/2020/03/15/Large-scal...
I used to mow 1/2 acre of Bermuda grass at least once a week from May - October on a riding mower. Would take 2 1/2 hours. I used the n95's you get at Home Depot and would reuse them for many weeks and probably could have continued to reuse them until I couldn't breath through them or the straps broke. They're for stopping particulates so as long as they're not clogged they still work. If the particulates are infectious virus particles then reuse becomes more problematic but they still filter particles.
Looks very professionally executed, well done! My only feedback, the name doesn't do it justice, "dumber". If you have plans to take it further, I would suggest coming up with a better branding that suits. I can easily see it sitting along CodePen or Glitch, especially if you can offer a more permanent hosting/deployment on those gists, it would be a very valuable tool for spinning up PoCs and various utilities for a team. Again, congrats on launching. It looks awesome.
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We do, though.

Literally every other card in the deck is in the hands of the kind of people who will hoard toilet paper to sell it for 10 times its value then publicly complain when outrage mounts.
Do you have a link to that by chance?
Nice app, got a conversation going on right away!
This doesn't stop hoarding. Hoarders keep things well past their usefulness. These are failed amazon/ebay resellers who tried to make a profit but no market existed.
A lot of their members are various types of small businesses. Remember when Costco was becoming popular like 20-30 years ago they mostly marketed themselves as a place for small businesses to stock up. It is hard to say what would be reasonable for a small business.
1) Banner ads on websites are often targeted via networks, often Google.

2) Those 'stupid ads' are often targeted, and they make money, sadly.

3) You're probably not accounting for the majority of ads you see. If you literally tracked/recorded every ad, you might see a different picture.

4) Many ads are not very well targeted, yes, and that's why you see irrelevance. Well-targeted ads are generally more relevant (sometimes not obvious) and this is 100% validated by returns to advertisers. This is not a joke.

5) Facebook and Google represent most of the ad market, so, the people that 'care' are basically everyone who wants to place an ad online.
They might be over-thinking it. Toilet paper is incredibly cheap to produce, but most people put a very high price on their last roll, when they know there might not be more. That makes for some interesting economics.

The "answer", at least for those with space, is to keep and rotate three or six months of it, even though that sounds ridiculous. Or, alternatively, do the bidet thing or even have a standby outhouse in back.
I live in a heavily impacted area for the virus, and am myself high risk, so we're doing all shopping online. All local supermarkets are still booked for deliveries a week in advance, and no store with local delivery has had any tp in the last two weeks, so we may still have a while more to wait as confirmed cases increase ~45% each day, further panicking people, along with those that hadn't panicked yet.
Ansible roles solve that. It's a way of organizing tasks in a way where you can use them from other playbooks and supply the configuration parameters for it.

And yes, there are public roles for bringing up MySQL, here's one of the more popular:

https://galaxy.ansible.com/geerlingguy/mysql
It's ATMLIB.DLL on Win10
They also limit the number of people in aisles, sanitize carts, and are generally trying to do things right.
A physical toggle for 1660ti & this would be the best laptop