skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have never thought it was possible to like HEB more. I think I was at a 10, and now I'm at an 11.

They seem to be working lock-step with public health officials. Went there today and they had a LOT of people on hand to manage the entry and checkout lines, and to enforce social distancing.
Likely much safer than taking aquarium cleaner, presuming correct dosage. These things tend to be chemically pure.
I have the same problem on a 2017 XPS 13 running Windows 10. When I unplug from the Dell D6000 docking station it's a crapshoot whether or not the apps I had running on the external monitors will scale correctly when they get moved to the internal screen. I also run into problems if I plug into the docking station after booting, it frequently doesn't recognize the external monitors (also Dell branded). In order to get everything to work correctly every time I need to shutdown before connecting to or disconnecting from the docking station, and also make sure the monitors are turned on before booting while connected to the docking station.
here in china i get home internet with sim cards for the whole family and a mobile data quota thrown in for free
That's nothing. I once returned produce to a grocery store!
Especially that they would "hoard" it at the last minute when a disaster was already in progress.

People who stock up on necessities as a normal part of their lives would have been stocked up already and typically only buy these things to backfill from their current consumption. I don't know if this applies to toilet paper, but it's common in the LDS community to have at least 6 months' supply of nonperishable food at all times. Mormons don't typically buy 6 months of food at a time though, they just buy groceries at a normal rate to backfill their pantries via a FIFO rotation.

Of course, the rare occasions where someone would buy 6 months of something at a time--e.g. if they recently adopted a lifestyle and/or religion that encouraged this behavior--are easily absorbable by the supply chain assuming not everyone does it at once.
That's incorrect. Cartons are sold at a discounted pack price, large tins of lose tobacco are sold at a discounted per weight price.
You are exactly right. I was remembering wrong.
Getting more clicks, which is what profit seeking corporations optimize for, regardless of the externalities.
von Neumann saw that code is data. Now what? We like the power of computation too much to give it up, and yet cannot avoid the pitfalls of complex interpreters. Compartmentalize though we may, control is not easy to tame.
It depends on your app, see https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/payments/
> Has option to tile to equally size screens. Hangouts: Same.
Are you describing Google Hangouts or Hangouts Meet by G Suite?

There is no gallery view available for Google Hangouts (I've searched heavily for it in the past week, if it exists please enlighten me).
Once you get past the initial learning curve and setup (not that hard, honestly), this tool (63k stars, GitHub) is amazing.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Depending on your state, liquor stores may or may not be classified as essential businesses exempt from the mandatory lockdown.
> grifters are failing to offload their stock

The word you're looking for is arbitrageur. Or scalper. Grifter implies some thing dishonest. Arbitrageurs are very up-front with what they're doing, and you get exactly why you're paying for.
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Consider this, if the news reported "Old people with pre-existing conditions should quarantine themselves because a deadly virus may kill them", that would be rational advice based on data.

Instead, the entire economy has been shut down, and the solution? Test everyone regardless of risk or value of testing. This is not rational, and many scientists and doctors are saying this.

Doctors and nurses should be tested regularly as they are more susceptible to contraction do to proximity, and the elderly or those in contact with areas of high infection or high risk of fatality.

Poorly reported sensationalism in the news needs a proper counter balance. And society needs something to overcome their power to induce irrational panic so easily.
Parent was talking about default data-structure, and for Clojure Vectors are the default "list" data-structure, even though it has other type of lists.

Not trying to throw any of the other languages mentioned under the bus, I do not know them well enough to know what list structure they default too or more idiomatically rely on.
> Elsewhere the advisory said: “For systems running supported versions of Windows 10 a successful attack could only result in code execution within an AppContainer sandbox context with limited privileges and capabilities.”

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/ad... :

Windows 10 1709+ All fonts are processed in fontdrvhost.exe in user mode appcontainer. ATMFD.DLL status: Not present
Nordstrom was famous for refunding customers' money. One person brought in a used tire (Nordy's sells clothes) and was refunded his money. A Nordy's salesman I know told me that people would return obviously well worn shoes and would get a refund, no questions asked.

Nordstrom doesn't do that anymore. Too many abusers.
Nice! All for the gram... all for the gram
> “If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (about 3.3 million people), this would translate to about 10,000 deaths.”

Why would we use the Diamond Princess CFR instead of China's, or Italy's, or South Korea's? Where does the idea of 1% come from? Both of those numbers sound ridiculously optimistic to me. Furthermore, death isn't the only negative outcome - what do we know about permanent organ damage (lungs, heart, liver, kidneys) in survivors?
Then the immediate question is, the next time we react early and it turns out we overreacted, is that something you're going to register as well? In particular in authoritarian countries like China which actually have a history of vast overreaction based on a 'security-first' mindset.

Ioannidis actually points to one other example in the article. There are several corona strains already in circulation with fatality rates as high as 8% among the elderly. If this reaction is rational, are we irrational not locking down everything every winter?
This concern is generally less related to disabilities and more related to poverty. The constitution requires that all students have equal access to education - Brown v. Board of Education is an important decision in this vein, for example. Moving the school district to a system which some students are not able to access due to inability to afford the means of access would almost certainly be found in violation.
Mind you the important part is where it's enhanced, and by how much.

And we're taking purified alicin at nearly toxic doses. In vitro.
Yes, garlic can kill. And it was described to be active in vascular tissue not lungs.

Now Viagra is an interesting bet, but it also does not reach lungs or non-vascular cells.
Zoom also recommends Chrome [1]. As other users said, the issue is probably with Firefox’s simulcast, not Jitsi.

[1] https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629443-Zoom-Web...
I think this is the right way - store data but publish it publically when you are confirmed with coronavirus. Then apps installed on others phones would automatically see your data and would do an intersect to see if they were in proximity, and notify you accordingly. This way only the data of those impacted by coronavirus becomes public. And although it’s public technically, as the app has access to it behind the scenes, but legally you won’t be allowed to reverse engineer the response data and publish it online on a map,etc. so that adds some privacy from the general public’s eyes.
> Anyway, most e-readers are in the ballpark of 800x600

A Kindle Paperwhite is 1072x1448, 300 PPI, 16 levels of grayscale.

I personally couldn't tolerate reading on a kindle until they reached 212 PPI. 800x600 may be acceptable for a simple sign, but it's not gonna wow anyone.
"In vitro"

It seems like a promising treatment, but in vitro effectiveness often doesn't translate to actual effectiveness.

I'm not saying they shouldn't use it, in an emergency sometimes experimental therapies make sense.

In these times, though, I think rational science is also important. We do not yet have studies of it's effectiveness in treating COVID-19.

Also from your link:

>CONCLUSIONS:
There is rationale, pre-clinical evidence of effectiveness and evidence of safety from long-time clinical use for other indications to justify clinical research on chloroquine in patients with COVID-19. However, clinical use should either adhere to the Monitored Emergency Use of Unregistered Interventions (MEURI) framework or be ethically approved as a trial as stated by the World Health Organization. Safety data and data from high-quality clinical trials are urgently needed.

I genuinely think it's valuable (in our post fact world) to be able to tell the difference between the concepts of "evidence to support further study" and evidence of effectiveness in a particular application.

Edit: New thread here at HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22671404
Rationing comes with a list of unfortunate consequences. Its only value is it is politically popular.
All the training I learned in boy scouts, heard from survivalist, people who have survived outrageous circumstances by their own choosing and actions did not attribute their success to panic, but the opposite, keeping a clear head.

It's likely we can find stories of people panicing and surviving, sure. But can a paniced person (one overwhelmed with intoxicating fear) help others? No.

A drowning person will also drown their own lifeguard to attempt to save themselves. This is a well established fact that all trained lifeguards know.

Panic causes irrational and often self destructive choices. And often hurt others.
I think there are a lot of things between "jogging with your partner" and "100+ gatherings." Like... a lot...
GoFundMe campaign to buy N95 masks from China and donate to hospitals
If the hoarders are running out of space and need to get rid of toilet paper, they can always donate it to seniors.
This is something I've started trying to implement w marching cubes, but looking at what you're doing, tetras makes a lot more sense!
Curious why there are tetrahedral artifacts? I'd have thought marching tetras should yield roughly the same tessellation as mcubes? Also, I couldn't find the Geom->.OBJ button!

Super cool stuff!!
I don’t think there is anything special about Italy, they just started earlier than other countries (1st cases were 3 weeks before other Euro countries) and in some provinces didn’t take it seriously.
Use chrome.
My take is that it's an S-curve, which we're approaching the end of. Rust had a lot of ground to cover to include all the features people expect in a modern language. I think it very nearly has all the important ones at this point.
Hey, fellow (ex)-fluid dynamicist.

My experience in research comes from starting in very fundamental fluid mechanics (vortex dynamics and instabilities), moving into biomedical (fundamental and applied) and turbulence (fundamental) and now working in applied stuff.

I think part of the problem is that the field is stagnating partly because of the amazing work done in the last century ticked soooo many of the boxes. It was really the golden period ending with Prandtl and Karman - like the end of the ultimate share house. A lot of the tree has been stripped bare by the 70s and most of the advancements have been refinements and application specific. Obviously computational techniques have exploded and experimental methods have improved and there are still new discoveries, but in terms of impact, outside of microfluids and the never-ending grant gift of the turbulence closure model we are entering a dry season where grants are very much application specific and the fundamental physics is simply not rewarded. We used to have a bet what year the fluid mechanics chair will no longer be a thing at universities. It doesn't help that the fluids community is not super tight knit (lots of beef!)

I also 100% agree with you in terms of papers vs good job - but that is science in general nowadays - it will always be a tiny percentage that actually progress the field, a bunch that try and fail as research is want to do and a majority just try and stay relevant by pumping out rubbish.
FWIW Jitsi Meet just added "Blur my background" as a Beta feature. It works decently.
That only proves that at one point they were the best team. It proves nothing about how good they are today.
I was in the Redwood City Costco today, just as they were running out of TP. It was 11:30 AM, and an employee said to the fellow taking the last pack: "I unload 16 pallets of the stuff every day, and it always runs out!"

Conveniently, they had a sign out front showing things they did or did not have in stock, to save you time in case you just came for one thing. The sign included things like TP and bottled water.
There's no need for most of those changes. Pandemics are historically rare and the risk is low for the majority of people. Most of us will be back to patronizing dine-in restaurants within a year.
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Will Amazon be refunding Prime fees?
> It was not hard to do, it's as trivial as drawing 2 buttons and some text.

And making your window override-redirect, and implementing window motion, resizing, and so on by yourself, since the window manager doesn't do it for you, and dealing with all of the ICCCM and EWMH conventions, and...
The cafe near my office resells Costco baked goods like muffins and cookies. They primarily do hot breakfast/lunch/sandwiches, but hey, sometimes people just want a cookie.
south korea seems to ramping up again (slowed a bit past two days), singapore and hong kong both seem to be on exponential trend in spite of similar measures
> The biggest long-term issue in my mind is unsafe

I'd say that, but for different reasons. It's depressing how often you have to use unsafe. I would not mind if it was hidden in libraries tested within an inch of their life 99.9% of the time, but it didn't work out that way for me. Recursively defined data structures like trees were just a nightmare to do without unsafe's.

I thought that was perhaps because I just sucked at Rust, but then I listened to a talk from one of the Mozilla core devs working on Servo. Their code had more unsafe's than mine. The amount of parallelism they were trying to get was extreme of course, so it wasn't really much of a comparison. It made me feel much better all the same.
Sure but most of those are new cases. Do you have any idea what happened with those cases two weeks later or even if it's been two or three weeks for the cases? You'd only expect that 16-32 would require hospitalization in any case. But on the other hand, you can expect 326 visible or invisible cases the next week and gradually things get difficult, if the trend that's been documented continues.
That's not the point being made. Panic was not what was done or suggested, it was the dismissive tone that such concerns were met with by Critics. GP's point was that the claims it was panic were wrong and harmful, not the quote unquote "panic".
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In most if the world there had been a reduction in grain storage capacity, and may stores were knocked down and repurposed. We optimised into 'Just-in-time' supply chain so hard, there is no slack in the system to handle a crysis, it's too fragile.
There is dishonesty in this situation. If you ask Costco if it's ok to buy lots of toilet paper to resell, they'll say no.

By buying in bulk to arbitrage you're acting against the interests of Costco and their customers, and hoping you fly under the radar.
There's another side to this. I've seen footage of this on the news. People will buy their per customer limits, throw it into their cars and queue up again. Rinse and repeat. The footage I saw of this was toilet paper. Some people.
> Put another way: If you believe that X is a "serious enough" risk and I do not, but I believe that Y is a "serious enough" risk and you do not, how do we resolve that disagreement? Who gets the money?

Worst possible outcome for overreacting could be severe economic hardship and domestic unrest.

Worst possible outcome for under-reacting could be millions dead, leading to severe economic hardship and domestic unrest.

If the evidence isn't beyond all doubt I would hope the choice is clear which worst outcome is worth paying to avoid.

EDIT: "paying to avoid" not "paying for"
I had to do quarantine since I briefly left the country. When I came back, there was a quarantine line for everyone, where we gave them our contact info. After that, they sprayed us down and we got into a special quarantine taxi. The taxi ensures we only go home. We're not allowed to go anywhere else except to make a bathroom stop. If that happens, they call a number and a special janitor comes over to disinfect the bathroom.
Discussed a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22477785
My Jewel in Chicago does now as well, saw the sign this afternoon (pretty sure it wasn't there last week), from 7am to 9am.
The lethal dose is about 3-5g in an adult. The amount used for treatment varies. The highest was the Chinese taking 2x500mg per day for coronavirus. They reported no adverse effects but it seems a little close.

Others I think have used 500mg once per day.

This link has some info http://www.maripoisoncenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/C... Says 20mg/kg toxic, 40mg/kg usually fatal without invervention.
The shortages in NY could be solved if shops just placed a limit on how much you could buy. It’s all these wannabe preppers buying more than they need who make it difficult for everyone else.
Dzerzhinsk in Russian is a great example of this.
That blur looks great. Too bad I have literally never been able to successfully join a Teams call. Every single time we have to fall back to telephone.
Out of curiosity, I just checked and amusingly, depending on your local store, you can get it through their grocery pick-up service too. Probably also delivery, but I don't live in an area where they do that.
It also has years of crucial hindsight in language-theory. OOP and FP are both fairly mature at this point, and Rust started out of the gate by elegantly weaving them into a single coherent model, compared with C++ which started with neither (C) and had to monkey-patch both of them on, over the very decades when the ideas behind them were most actively evolving.
But Google doesn't use big endian CPUs in prod, so you've proven the point yourself. I agree that lexicographically arranging things can have an awesome impact on performance though. Still think that has zero to do with endianness.

> But with VPCMPEQB, you need to have 8 times as many conditional branches as CPCMPEQQ in order to turn your vectorized comparison into a memcmp result

Not at all. It doesn't require any branches, other than the loop itself. Here's the trick everyone uses, for the simple case of finding one character, e.g. NUL:

0: add $vectorlen,i
pmovdqa mem,vector
pcmpeqb query,vector
pmovmskb vector,bitmask
bsf bitmask,offset
jz 0b
add offset,i
ret

BSF gives you the byte offset of the match, and bam you're done.
An arbitrage is a risk-free profit. I think these amateur toilet paper merchants are discovering their hoped-for profits are not so risk-free.
Firefox preview is only on android.

iOS doesn’t support videoconferencing in the browser - you have to download the app.
What do you need a randomized double blind study for? You're not sure the people on the ship died of COVID?

As for adjustment factors, if you just adjusted for age, you'd get about 50% less mortality if the ship had the same age distribution as the country. So that's 5 million dead. However there are over a million people in the U.S. that are medically compromised and would have a very high fatality rate with COVID.

I also don't see what the problem with a linear extrapolation is.

Finally, I only accounted for deaths due to lack of ventilators. There also wouldn't be enough hospital beds, and that would lead to millions more deaths.

There is simply no reasonable alternative to suppressing the disease. We're talking more deaths than the Holocaust here.
I deployed it using the docker compose Config for my university group in our rancher cluster:
https://github.com/jitsi-mee/docker-jitsi-meet

We now use it for most meetings, works very well so far, several sessions in parallel with several dozen people at the same time (but mostly only using audio).

Screen sharing works fine as well.

We made the experience that they are unfortunately right about requiring chrome (chromium works fine as well).

Would be great if firefox support could come back.
Michael Hendricks has a few neat talks on YouTube and InfoQ on how they use Prolog in production.
What a coincidence! Thank you, glad you like it :)
> a lot of developers hate it

Any particular complaints?

(I work on Compute Engine)
"Panic buying" makes good local news. Empty shelves get attention. On social media, everywhere.

Stop the attention economy and you stop this nonsense.

But also, put these pressures on stores and supply chains and they'll learn to be more elastic which is _necessary_. If demand for a good skyrockets and everybody wants a good inventory at home, it shouldn't be a social evil to go stock up on a month or two of TP, on surgical masks for personal safety, on whatever.

We should have all been able to buy as many surgical masks as we wanted whenever we wanted, we would all be safer if that had been possible.

Shorten lead times and have faster ability to adjust capacity and _you make more money_.

The only peak I hope we're hitting is peak idiocy, where a large portion of people (actually the vast majority of people) choose to elect leaders based on emotional appeal to a chosen sect instead of using reason and valuing real competence.

The peaks I fear we're hitting are peak personal freedom, peak democracy, and peak privacy.

There is a cost, in lives, in not being able to do what China has done to limit and nearly stop the outbreak (once they decided it couldn't be blustered away). I hope we're able, willing, and eager to pay that cost and figure out when it is worth it and when it is not.
> That was a first run trial without the Zpak. The following trial with both showed 100% efficacy after 5-6 days.

Is that twitter reply accurate?
The testing rate is low almost everywhere. The mass testing done in the Italian town Vò suggests that 50-75% of infections are asymptomatic (but still contagious). This matches the findings from the cruise ship "Diamond Princess".

Also note that the populations of both the cruise ship and Vò skew quite a bit older than the world average, and younger people are more likely to be asymptomatic (AFAIK we still don't know how more likely)
Trump may be growing weary of Dr. Fauci
Oh, Hemingway. He seems to attract obsessives.

Key Hemingway fact: his contribution to the French Resistance was to "liberate" the bar of the Ritz Hotel.[1] Just hours ahead of Allied tanks entering Paris, and after the Germans had bailed. He was a pretend hero, not a real one.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Liberating-France-Hemi...
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