skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there was a market clearing amount of PPE, the situation you describe wouldn't exist. In order to be in a situation in which there is that amount of PPE requires allowing the price to rise when it is needed most. This will incentivize building extra manufacturing capacity and/or storing the goods for those times. Controlling prices leads to shortages/rationing.

Regarding the onion futures: I don't know the story behind that, but there are plenty of commodity futures traded for commodities which you'd expect to have less physical product than onions. Like mustard seed, guar gum, coriander, etc.
They obviously haven't considered that maybe they'll be punished in the afterlife for knowingly endangering others for the sake of their own perceived salvation.
For cases where you're confident a Result won't be an error, it has a .unwrap() method that allows you to skip handling the error case and escalates it to a panic instead. You can even pass a custom error-message string.
Could also be ISPF dialogs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISPF, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ib...).
"social distancing" is 1984 language - orwell couldn't dream this shit up - open the fucking country! fire fucking fauci!, cuomo and && gavin and those others should go rot in jail
Tracking isn't just by connection. Their point is that bluetooth tracking (by beacon or otherwise) is already a thing - many major retailers and franchises already do it.
The South Korean outbreak was literally driven by church services from an infected religious sect?
you are a crackpot if you believe any of this 'pandemic' bullshit
It can’t be that unlikely considering it’s already happen. Several times.
Mozilla, the only reason I'm using Firefox is because it is highly cutomizable... Not as YOU want, but as I want.
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Caribu is an app in this space as well. Essentially video calls with sync’ed storybooks.
That's because there's a million places you can be wrong.

Her position seems to be that medium term, the dollar is the major currency with the most room to fall. And so over the next few years, it probably will fall the most.

The argument is based on the US having the largest twin deficit -- a huge trade deficit and a huge fiscal deficit.

Medium term, different countries are going to see their trade & fiscal deficits change dramatically.

If your economy runs on oil exports, good luck maintaining a huge trade surplus. Ditto that for almost any commodity for the next couple years. If your economy runs on auto manufacturing, good luck with that -- similarly anything with complex supply chains. This is most emerging countries.

Japan, for example, might not need much stimulus. And the EU might need much more than the US. Who knows right now?

So, yes, her argument is sound if everything stays as it is, and the only thing that changes is how much federal governments print and spend.

But everything is likely to change. A lot. So unless you can predict how these deficits will change, it's not that helpful.
I asked a few friends about the New Jersey call. They (2 of them, both retired and over 70) claimed there's no work to be done and it's actually an incompetently administered administration with human problems who are scapegoating the technology. Also supposedly the New Jersey govt sacked their team and then was trying to contract out the work at $50/hr. Now they are offering $0/hr. And the solution isn't in software, or so they claimed.

This assessment was after both signed up to volunteer to do the work and saw it was a human process failing and not a software issue. People tend to point to the parts most mysterious to them when things start to fail - a zSeries frame is in actual reality, a very important big black mystery box that officials with access to microphones are not allowed to touch - perfect.

Don't let this discourage you though, their problems are still very real.
Marketplace for Inventions
Hey everyone!
I'm wondering if the good folks of this community can help with some feedback? I'm working on building an online marketplace where people can collaborate to build and sell their homemade inventions.
Here is a little taste of how it will look like.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3zgio8pm5jhzhjw/index.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/590nffidzfecgmp/dashboard.png?dl=0

Does our message resonate with you? Is this something you would use?
I've had the same issue. I've thought that maybe my ears are just too greasy. I'm constantly fidgeting with them. With the original AirPods I would forget I had them on.

They also seem to take longer to disconnect/switch to different devices.
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That's my theory! I bought the airpods pro before nov, and around nov 2019 I developed tinnitus that I couldn't pinpoint the cause of, even after going to an ENT & Audiologists. After going to the Audiologist. I also found out tinitus is a big mystery in the medical field outside of a small band of causes that I didn't have.

The only difference in my day to day was the Airpods Pro and biking to work with them.
Patching actually works for every architecture, since it's backed by sleigh (and disassembly wouldn't even work without that). AFAIK, The problem (and the reason behind the popup) is that on some architecture, the sleigh might give ambiguous assembly instructions, so the assembler might not select the right instruction if there are multiple possibilities.

But the biggest problem is, exporting a runable binary is not currently supported by Ghidra. Ghidra has a Binary Export function, but it's used as a sort of memory dump. It won't try to make a runnable program. This is by design, see issue #19[0]. It will probably work for RAW images, but that's it.

Exporting a runnable binary is a highly desirable feature, though I can't find any issue tracking it. There's an open PR, #1505[1], that might provide people what they need.

[0]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/19#i...

[1]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/pull/1505
Architecture Patterns with Python
I’ve been to enough church services to know they’re a place germs can spread.
Texas still allows churches to meet in size of 50, declaring it an essential service, while abortion clinics have been closed.
Heh, the delta is likely because: (1) Iceland has had 6 deaths so it's way, way too early to draw any conclusions from Iceland and (2) everyone onboard the Diamond Princess was onboard a cruise ship, and cruises tend to skew old. The median age of passengers was 69. That age group is affected ~100X harder than young folks (9% CFR vs 0.1% CFR) [1]. If you've got more data to back 0.7% please do share but I've found none compelling so far.

Although for what it's worth Iceland is showing 6 deaths and 1600 confirmed cases for a fatality rate of --- wait for it --- 0.35%.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e3.htm#T1_down
You know what was meant by "we".
Wouldn't that also apply to earplugs?
Yes/No. Here, probably. Elsewhere, no. In China, their facial recognition has got so good that they can track people even with face masks on: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/how-china-built-...
... and we're at about 170,000 tests today!
It IS illegal as defined by the STOCK Act of 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
We should have a celebratory COBOL-thon this weekend. Everyone write a minimal COBOL app. Just for fun.

Not sure if the COBOL bridge for Node is allowed. :-)

Resources:

https://opensource.com/life/15/10/open-source-cobol-developm...

https://archive.org/search.php?query=COBOL%20programming
Oh geez, sorry about that! I can't edit my post to tag it NSFW, but thankfully that product is at the very bottom of the page.
I think it was Steven Landburg that had the idea that politicians and administrators should hold a broad-based index of their country's real estate, on the theory that better policies lead to land within the country being more valuable, and so it aligns incentives.
You seem to know more about transmission that the scientific community who are still trying to figure it out.

Have you considered publishing a paper?
It's important to know the limits of your knowledge and reasoning capabilities and defer to relevant experts, which is known as epistemic learned helplessness[1]. This is also much faster, as a lot of bullshit sounds like truth if you're unfamiliar with the field.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180416171148/http://squid314.l...
How would you deal with their family, friends, etc.?
There is absolutely zero long term risk of any such thing. Especially not for Christians in the United States.
Well I just noted your reply, 2 days later, but I'll still reply just because I feel annoyed.

Oh please, you are fighting windmills here. How I was phrasing myself in my opinion was vague enough to let the reader know, that I was not really sharing scientifically exact information. I expected somebody to write a short reply to correct me had I been wrong, not get so worked up on this.

Eg "If somebody of your friends told you that, please keep loving them as friends but accept anything they say with a grain of salt as they may be more gullible than you thought." What? I think you have overdosed on political zealousness as that's not something I would really care about. But perhaps as a European it's impossible for me to understand. And if I did care enough to correct them, I could just tell them and they wouldn't get upset. Unless you do it a like a nit-picking asshole that is.

It's nice you are trying the right the wrong, but seriously a less passive-aggressive reply would have been enough. Bless your heart.
Affordable housing can cost $1M per apartment in California
Two thirds of Covid-19 patients improve after Gilead drug
>Plenty of people are overly polite because it inflates their ego to be perceived as polite.

Can you point me to some article or rigorous paper that would help me take this claim seriously?
Code Review Guidelines for Humans
It doesn't matter that it's bacterial to have recurrences.

Also, we never "solved" the plauge, but it died down a lot before antibiotics were even a thing.
Adding SIMD takes less space than adding cores and the use case where you need double the cores on a many core chip but aren't doing the same thing many times is pretty rare.

SIMD units don't need to consume power or limit the frequency of the rest of the chip while not being used Same as when JavaScript is running on one boosted core and the other 63 powersave. While being used SIMD units are more efficient than running 2x or 4x entire cores just to get the additional operation per clock.
Introduction to Cybernetics (1957)
I still legitimately don't see what people are describing about the address bar. I haven't noticed a change the entire time I've used Firefox (about year). Could someone post a before-and-after screenshot or something? (I've been using Firefox Developer Edition too if that makes a difference?)
The income stream is unlikely to be steady; the real value of the fixed stream of dollars is (probably) going to drop.

It isn't really conceivable at this point that the US reduces their debt:GDP load without a currency crisis. Their period of service as the reserve currency is probably also drawing to a close; based on the poor fundamentals that the article mentions.
Unlike Slack though, one can close it once the video call is over, and one shouldn't be multitasking that much while in a video chat anyway.
I think it is this case of Skagit Valley chorale.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-29/corona...

The chorus group was unfortunately in the much older category

> The youngest of those sickened was 31, but they averaged 67, according to the health department.

that is most susceptible to covid-19.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

AGE

DEATH RATE

80+ years old

14.8%

70-79 years old

8.0%

60-69 years old

3.6%

50-59 years old

1.3%

40-49 years old

0.4%

30-39 years old

0.2%

20-29 years old

0.2%

10-19 years old

0.2%

0-9 years old

no fatalities
For certain jobs it's better to fire the workers so they can get unemployment benefits, rather than keep them without pay.
Just have everyone wear QR code name tags
I don't really trust my Android phone but at least I have some escape hatches.
“...a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;”

Ecclesiastes 3:5

The whole of Ecclesiastes is especially good in tough times. The book itself has many stoic qualities. But this part, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, rings so true right now:

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Now is the time to refrain from embracing.
The protocol is explicitly designed to not share information - the data does not contain location information, and the only thing that someone can do with that data is verify if they have seen some of the identifiers that were published by someone else.
For those interested, you can already do this in Windows 10 Update 1903 (as long as you have WSL installed of course).

1. Open Linux Terminal

2. Type explorer.exe .

3. Your home directory will open in Windows Explorer.

You can then pin it to your quick items or wherever is most convenient. $WSL is treated as a network drive.
You don't need to "buy into" an idea to realize that there are advantages and disadvantages to a given approach.

Take one example: The single server idea is going to suffer outages. You could at the very least have two monoliths either load balanced or in some kind of failover setup.

But, what distributing some of the components into so-called microservices would give you is a graceful failure scenario where even if all the instances of a specific component fail, the rest of the application still works. Maybe only one function stops working temporarily but most work continues on.

This doesn't mean everything must be microservice koolaid all the time all the way, but I'm sure you can conceive of that being an advantage under certain use cases that would be worth other possible trade-offs.
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No we absolutely cannot. I prefer the American Convention on Human Rights, which states:

The right of peaceful assembly, without arms, is recognized. No restrictions may be placed not the exercise of this right other than those imposed in comformity with the law and necessary in a democratic society in the interest of national security, public safety or public order, or to protect public health or morals or the rights or freedoms of others.
+1 for X2go. The only solution I've found that didn't mess up scaling on 3,4k screens.
The right to not be treated worse than others does not give you the right to be treated better than them. If schools, conventions, concerts, etc. are prohibited, so should church gatherings. Freedom of religion (which is what the 14th amendment is basically about) is meant to prevent treating religious groups unfairly. Treating them the same as basically everyone else sounds pretty fair to me...
Weaponisation of Wokeness
Verifying the equivalence of two large programs can be very difficult. Developers often underestimate the effort needed to achieve a correct rewrite.
Are you sure you're not just less aware of the state of your body as its impacted by your subconscious?

This doesn't make you a bad person, btw, just evolutionarily different.
Your citation says nothing about mutations, yet it’s placement seems to indicate that is included.
I see that more and more recently, English spelled phonetically. Like "their" instead of "they're" and the example above. Very curious whether it's an American thing or foreigners writing a non-native language.
World Views: From fragmentation to integration [pdf]
I am starting to wonder why Open Source became the standard as apposed to alternatives. Clearly a love/passion/aptitude/... puts people in a position where they contribute time and expertise for some/no reward that matches a cost/benefit. The article list the truth behind volunteering and the consequent constraints.

Why is it that way though?

The planet has public money advancing major scientific interests in an organised though potentially politically aggravated mechanism. Would a lack of action on a subject of possible national security be tolerated due to the rights of volunteers? How about international security?

Is it politics/government/non scientific interests that make open source the most successful answer to by the people for the people?
Any entity still using COBOL should shut down immediately. Use of this language implies a shocking lack of concern for software from leaders.
My numbers generally comes from https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3....

That paper would give about 3% for a 70 year old. But remember that cruise passengers are healthy enough to be on cruises. 1.5% death rate seems about reasonable when you correct for that (again, this is where you might see that 2x difference).

Iceland has a considerable number of unresovled cases. Whether you use 7 deaths out of 751 recovered, or 20% hospitalization death rate, you get somewhere on the order of 0.9% CFR.
Can any of you seasoned COBOL programmers in here please point to the best learning resources for this? I would love to learn it but I don’t have any old IBM mainframes lying around.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by COBOL copybooks...
X network protocol isn't really sending draw commands unless you're using Motif or Xaw or something equally outdated.
The Surveillance State Thrives During the Pandemic
What is unbearable is purely subjective.

If you're used to 2 seconds start to finish, then 2 minutes is horribly unbearable.

On the other hand, if you're used to 30-40 minutes (as was 'normal' for compiling a linux kernel on older machines back in the 90s or thereabouts) then 2 minutes is miraculously fast!
If you’re in the religious media silos, you’ve seen a steady stream of police chasing people out of church parking lots, trying to “gather” safely — listening to the preacher on low power FM, in separate cars with the windows up.

Which is no more dangerous than the crowded lots at grocery stores or food banks, or factories, or other “essential” operations.

If it makes no health difference the government can’t privilege food-motivated parking over worship-motivated parking. It’s just penny-ante authoritarianism.
Idk, I set up one last week and no matter the tunning I did it didn't work at all, like screen tearing and extermly low frame rates.
Someone who uses ctrl+shift+i to change the webpage they're viewing, either to fix a problem or change an annoyance.
Cryptocurrency Scams: Giveaways Impersonate Followers of Notable Figures
@deanBlunt my bad, updated.
Thank you for eloquently articulating my feelings on the subject. Yes, technical interviews can be infuriating. But in many ways they are more egalitarian than the hiring processes in other professions. Anyone with an internet connection can start practicing leetcode problems today and give themselves a shot at landing a job.
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it doesn't track which phones are next to each other, just identifiers it has seen. Those identifiers roll frequently, and the material to find contact only occurs if a person chooses to publish that information, and all that information does is say what their keys were.

Determining if you were in the vicinity is also done on device - you get a list of all the day keys from a person who has chosen to share that information, then from that you can create all the keys they would have used in that period, and see if your device has ever seen one of those keys. Presumably if it finds a match the device/app would post a "you should get tested" message.
Wouldn’t wearing something like this just make you much more of a target? Maybe I don’t understand these things well, but it seems if I were trying to track people I’d make the very small minority wearing something like this a target group.

Another way of thinking about it, if I’m the only person in my community wearing these weird patterns, aren’t I even more identifiable than I would be otherwise?
The UK's plan was specifically and explicitly to isolate vulnerable populations.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11191245/who-self-isolate-coro...

> Government guidance is that people who are over 70, have an underlying health condition or are pregnant, are strongly advised to limit social interaction
> most commonly guessed incorrect solution
Ask HN: How well do you think your team handled the start of lockdown?
Did your team take it easy in the face of all the uncertainty? Or did they pivot to covid-19 related work and double down on productivity? Now that you have hindsight do you wish they had done anything differently?
I wonder if I'm personally addicted to easiness. I stand on the shoulders of giants and I forget just how nice it is to dig my toes into the soil.

I have a full set of Donald Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" sitting on my shelf, unopened after two years. Maybe it is time to rifle through it and learn how to program like the pioneers did in the old days.
Indeed, the all-in bet on the F-35 seems irresponsible, unless things have vastly improved somehow?

As an Australian, this is a concern.
Interesting how people forget about treatments that have worked in the past. As a kid, I remember watching at least 1 old movie where the plot developed around the idea that they had to find the 1 person whose blood plasma held the cure to a disease that the person had overcome. I wish I could remember the name. But this is an old idea. The big problem is that it's hard to scale and it's not 100% curative. But it's definitely better than nothing.