skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no "too late" (coming from someone who's in Madrid, Spain, which in terms of the pandemic might as well be the future).

The reality is that one or two weeks from now at most most idiots will have toilet paper for months and you'll be able to buy normally again.

Goods considered non essential, however, might be scarce since those shops will close as the workers are told to stay home. For example, I'm doing a lot of studying and I'm out of sheets of paper. Office supplies stores are closed, and buying that on Amazon feels like overkill and a little socially irresponsible, so I have to make do without them.

Check your house for random silly stuff you might miss if you're stuck at home.

When I go to the supermarkets the missing things are snack foods, beer, ice cream, etc. People have a lot of time to kill and those items arent replenished as much since they're considered non essential.
GP presumably meant at time of sale, rather than retroactively.
Fresh produce / veggies.
protip: there are many, many other ways to clean an ass. No need to panic. At worst you'll be inconvenienced.
> Sure they haven't cancelled anything yet

Counting app engine, it's been like 12 years. I think people can give it a rest. The concern was silly to begin with, and even as a joke it's been played out.

This entire zeitgeist was memed into existence by a couple of people on twitter, and then found fertile soil on HN where people will take any excuse to circlejerk. Continuing to participate at this point is embarrassing.
I like that despite all the comments, nobody called me on "by and large the tech industry has a complete failure rate at making anything computing related secure. "

Which I figured someone would raise a fuss about. It makes me sad that we can say that and just accept it. It shouldn't be this way.
I've only noticed it on produce. Fruit and vegetables can be a bit cheaper at the normal grocery store. I assume it's because Costco usually sells those items packaged while the grocery store typically does not.

Real example since I just did groceries so I still remember all the prices and still have my receipt from my last Costco run last week. Asparagus is $0.99/lb at the grocery store bundled with a rubber band; Costco had it for $3.68/lb but it came in a nicely sealed plastic bag with nutritional facts. $0.99 per bell pepper at the grocery store, pick from a pile; $9.59/6-pack (effectively $1.59/per) at Costco, also in a plastic bag with two of each color selected for you.
I was wondering what would be the requirement for self-hosting Jitsi - in terms of server resources - bandwidth, CPU etc? Is the Video/VOIP transmitted client to client or does it get routed via the server? Thanks.
What I'd like to know is, what percent of people with Covid 19 can smell and what percent can't? That would tell us if it is a good discriminator.

In an ideal world, everyone who had Covid would not be able to smell, and then we could justify doing a second, more reliable test on them. Anyone would could smell would be ok.
Glossary of censored words from a 1919 treatise on love
Yup, just a resource drain
My favorite part of this is that it implies grifters are failing to offload their stock. They bought it all hoping to profit off of shortages, and then not only did Amazon and Ebay clamp down on reselling, there isn't actually a shortage. Justice.
Because why would you use it over Google? That's a lot of effort to build and launch a likely poorly differentiated service that they'd need to spend a lot of money on to steal users from Google. Why would a user prefer Facebook to Google for search?
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Use cases: stocking a few pop/snack machines. Getting copy paper/pens. Food for the company BBQ.
so, you're saying not requiring mandatory location tracking of all citizens is 'incompetence'?

also: who is going to buy everyone smartphones and ensure they are properly registered/configured?

there are many potential ways to reduce the spread, even within an 'authoritarian mandated government' context, without this level of intrusiveness.
Or a shower wand and a clean dry towel?
If you stop eating junk food, you only need a make sure everything is clean and wipe a bit.
You misunderstood. It’s for small businesses to stock up on items they need for their place of business, not for resale. Countless small offices in the US may need a lot more TP than a 3 person family but doesn’t need enough to justify a direct wholesale account. Same goes for coffee, snacks, various office appliances.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
This is probably out of scope for this thread, but why does every corporation love to use RHEL? I tried spinning up a RHEL instance but to do some of the most basic actions (using yum) required me to register the instance with "subscription manager" (pay wall).
> 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.

As an outsider from New Zealand, I completely believe your insurance system is a huge problem, and that belief is founded on the problems I see (not what your politicians say, I don’t know anything about them).

One major issue is linking insurance to your job. Lose your job, lose your insurance.

Our socialised healthcare has it’s issues, but I have personally seen it work again and again for my friends, acquaintances, and family.

Disclaimer: I choose to also pay for private insurance, which costs me $40 per month for a middle aged guy, to get improved private health cover. I’m not against insurance, but the US system appears completely broken to me, and the insurance structure appears to be part of that.
if there is an NAT problem, why dont you add IPv6 support? It will solve that problem to at least some users.

Your site is currently down, but it does does not show a AAAA record for video.etherpad.org
This thread is filled with comments about how people don't trust Google enough to use GCP. It's hurting them too, and given how far behind AWS and all they are, it's a serious hurdle to overcome
I'd be interested in seeing a P2P serverless option
Anywhere from 14 to 37 days, based on this article https://www.mcknights.com/news/coronavirus-may-live-in-patie... which references this study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... (scroll to heading "Findings").
A small business isn't going to go to a wholesaler for small items that they use. If you are a small shop, with a handful of employees youll probably just go to Costco to get the small number of items you need. That is how Costco got started
This isn't the case 100% but I'll buy some sort of snack at Costco that sounds good (because I went to the store hungry). I'll come home and try it and either I don't like it at all or I like it enough to finish most of it but not all because I get sick of it after awhile. I technically saved money buying it in bulk but I probably wasted more on what I didn't eat. I try not to buy things at Costco that I haven't already tried before in significant quantities. I've been burned too many times by the free samples that taste great but then I get sick of eating it over the course of the month or more. I try to limit Costco trips to only staples and essentials, things I use all the time and enjoy and only buy new things or things I don't want to eat for months on end at the normal grocery store. I also stay away from things at Costco that are hard to preserve, things like giant bags of chips where once you open it, it's going to go stale just as fast as a small bag of chips.
thats dope man
It's live here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22663029

Sometimes people see the older article second and flag it as the dupe.
> .. software issues were always letting it down, and I was wasting lots of time trying to patch/fix linux configuration issues & bugs ..

Ten year old FUD!
don't apply here they waste your time despite doing all the interviews well.
South Korea has. It's still going up but it's flatter than it was: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Most rice farmers don't order their rice delivered from a different continent.
I especially liked the CNN headline last week: "People are panic-buying TP and stores are running out."

Gee, I wonder what effect that will have?
They already do give Google a major run for their money in probably the most important search category - product search, where they have a 54 percent market share. That's the most ad friendly category - people looking to buy stuff! When you want to buy something - how often do you type it into Google, versus go to Amazon and type it into their search bar? I really doubt there's a gentlemans agreement - bezos does not seem like that kind of guy, and they are really causing a lot of pain for Google eating into what should be one of their most profitable advertising streams.

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Oh how I wish I could just focus on something and get good at it. I feel like it's impossible to study something and become expert in a corporate environment.
It doesn't explain the vast amount of masks and gloves. They were stashing. I want to see a document showing exactly when they've purchased them. I won't be surprised if it was in 2020. These masks have expiry, so, why would one company stash so many - their staff is nowhere close!
There are only so many seats though, so some kids will get cheated out of going to their school of choice (or going at all) because of some cheaters.
>Now it's true that the cruise ship passengers skewed significantly older, but on the other hand, they were all ambulatory and healthy enough to be taking a cruise.

While yes this is true technically, I'm not sure the bar for "healthy enough" is as high as you're making out it is. In my experience (apologies for the anecdote), significantly obese people are quite capable of going on a cruise almost always.
I don't think there can be any volume discount for cigarettes by law. I'm pretty sure tobacconists always make the same amount per pack regardless of how many they manage to move.
It will be written in 5 different languages including Oracle stored procedures, J2EE, and ASP.NET, the web site will only work on Chrome (with popups enabled), and the mobile app will take ten seconds to start and then crash. The cloud backend will crash on the first day. Total cost will be at least a billion dollars. A lot of rank and file coders will be paid to do nothing and a lot of enterprise software companies will get fat contracts to deliver software that is never really used.

Yup, I've seen these before. This is what big corporate and government consultant-driven IT projects are like.
> will only work if people actually comply.

this is pretty easy to enforce:

see N>2 people, fine/ticket/arrest/whatever.
Just watch their update from today. Their said: "If you have a stash of masks, we'll be knocking on your door."
Many things we’ve dispensed with long ago seem to be forgotten and the younger coders are learning for themselves the hard way. Aka the same way we did.
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http://archive.vn/49LZD if you can’t smell the garlic/onion you may be infected with Coronavirus
The advertised battery life appeals to me, if it does indeed work as advertised. I have a 3-year-old Oryx Pro, which I probably over-indexed on performance on. Everything about it is great with the exception of the battery life which is usually < 1 hour (surfing the net or programming, nothing crazy). I would have gone with a different offering if I had known this.
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Why are you running away from it? I have occasionally toyed with using it in a couple situations, just wondering what the dealbreakers are.
This behavior just drives up the price for everyone. There should really be a limit on what can be returned.
We're not talking 70K masks, we're talking 720K! These masks have an expiration date. I want them to publish their purchase documents! I won't be surprised if they bought them back in February like possibly many other corporations and that's why we ended up with no masks.
Here are two looks inside the Strategic National Stockpile from NPR, the first from 2016.

The first story reports the loss of 50,000 state and local health officials.

The second from Mar 2020, reported that the SNS 'currently holds about 30 million simple surgical masks and 12 million of the more protective N95 masks....' Compare those numbers to what's needed.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/27/4830698...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/14/8141218...
We all pay the price for these customers misusing the return policy. Companies got to have a decent enforcement of these policies.
Ironic isn't it, that in the information age we all live in, there is precious little reliable and precise information.

Fake news, Hoax cures, Shame healers and a world leader whose willing to contribute to the mess.
I would think demand could go down by half with concious wiping.
It probably has more to do with something like gas being easier to produce so western countries can paint poorer countries as villains more easily by showing how they violate human rights. U.S. weapons such as napalm, white phosphorous, cluster munitions, and land mines disfigure entire countries, people, and children but the media and military have such a lock on the public discourse that these images and stories are very sparsely shared.

Images of the bombing and napalm in Vietnam generated an incredible backlash so the pentagon and their friends in the media conglomerates have been very circumspect.

This is not in any way to condone the use of gas, far from it. It is to condemn the actions of the US military and the strategic planners for using human rights as a cudgel when our own crimes are so stark.

Note that the US provided Saddam with chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq trench warfare of the 1980s. We later invaded Iraq to retrieve weapons we gave him.
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Well, consider if we reacted late January when he wrote that article it would have been very cheap to contain...
But on the other other hand, they were all traveling, eating cruise ship food, and probably drinking, all of which could weaken their immune systems. We can add speculative adjustments all day long, but there's no way we're going to get a randomized double-blind study out of it.

Also you can't conclude much of anything based on a linear extrapolation, even if you have good data.
Secure OS is an oxymoron.
Spot on...I have to assume btkramer9 is just a obsessed Zubrin fanboi or so scifi obsessed there's no objectivity. I get that Kerbal Space Program let's a new generation of armchair celestial mechanics say "Delta V!" as though that's all that matters, but handwaving the basic logistics (simple things, like fuel and water) between a Moon and a Mars mission and trying to make them equivalent undertakings...that's some seriously delusional thinking.
When you buy RHEL you're not buying the software, you're buying a support contract and indemnifcation. RHEL also provides a long-term stable platform.

There's no-cost developer licenses as well that you can use with subscription manager. And, of course, there's also CentOS for free-as-in-beer.
I’ve read your replies and I’m glad your lawyers are feeling solid about how you’re doing what you’re doing. That said, I hope you’ve dedicated at least two or three times your hardware/R&D budget towards lawyers because broadcasters and operators are notoriously litigious. Especially for anything that actively positions itself around ad circumvention.

But my concern wouldn’t just be for your startup. If I’m a bar or restaurant owner, I don’t want to pay for anything that could put me in violation of my carriage contract with my TV operator and unless you can assure your customers they won’t run afoul of a contract (and your lawyer will tell you you can’t. Even if you could, the answer is you cannot), that would be a tough sell.

The dynamic ad-insertion stuff is interesting — particularly if you are doing it in real time (most of the stuff that already out there like what Dish did with Hopper (and was sued over) and what Plex does for its OTA service happen post-recording), but that almost strikes me as a software offering not a hardware component. I suppose best-case scenario, you could partner/license this tech to the cable operators to sell to their business clients in exchange for an additional fee.

Best of luck — it’s an interesting idea. I just can’t get past the myriad of legal red flags.
Bah, proper statistics on Chinese data showed this was going to be really bad in January. Nobody lifted a finger then other than quarantine, which already was known to be insufficient based on initial Chinese epidemiology.

(When the curve was way past SARS-CoV-1 outbreak.)

Correct data-driven measures have been taken somewhat too late.
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don't apply here. Waste of time and effort. They will ask you to do presentation of the your work etc. They can't pay. Despite knowing that they still interview you and waste your time.
Yes, but Costco is known for their excellent return policy. They're an ideal target for this sort of scheme.
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Thanks. That explains why their mitigation script (the rename one) doesn't work.

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(I do not agree, but let's rather take a sharper example) Consider atomic(T) and T =.. [_] or functor(T,_,0) which describe exactly the same except that atomic(T) similar to integer(T) silently fails and T =.. [_] and functor(T,_,0) produce an instantiation error.
Yet this still has over 150 upvotes.

Is the community that split in identifying whether there’s merit to such trendy studies?
BATS also happens to be the name of an Apple internal testing platform, interestingly.
You still need to wait 2-3 hours to get just a pack of toilet paper. In addition, you need to enter a closed space and potentially get infected. High-demand items should be sold outside on the parking lot with either their key fobs or credit cards. This way, the store won't be crazy and infected with so many people wasting hours just to get toilet paper and water. Stop praising Costco too much!
> Anyone know how common this is in viruses?

It is the norm. It's not just a matter of being common; diseases face strong selective pressure against virulence by the exact mechanism you describe -- virulent diseases inhibit their own spread by disabling their hosts.
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