skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the price is the problem. I couldn't get toilet paper for a week, not because some enterprising con-man had purchased it all and was selling it for 10x as much outside my door, but because ordinary folk at the tail of the distribution bought it all at its normal (low) price and we temporarily ran out of supply.

What we needed was immediate rationing policies, the price was never the problem. Stores eventually ended up self-initiating individual buying limits but this was well after all the initial supply dried up.

In fact, if all prices were immediately responsive to local supply/demand, this likely would have effectively resulted in a rationing policy. If the unit price of toilet paper at my local CVS was in part a function of the remaining supply at the local store, as one person attempted to buy all of it, the unit price would soar, effectively preventing them from doing so unless they're a millionaire and prepared to spend thousands of dollars on toilet paper.

Indeed, one can easily make an argument for stronger market forces to solve this problem. That existing markets for common goods are too poorly responsive to supply and demand and that the local supply/demand signals are ignored and only national signals are accounted for.

But also, simple rationing would have worked too.
> the alternative is starvation

Is there not a middle ground of food delivery? Nonperishable foods can sit out for several days before use, significantly reducing the risk.

Likewise with wiping everything down when you get home. Supposedly soap is effective - it's not difficult to soak everything in soapy water. You can't completely eliminate all risk but you can certainly mitigate it.
Be careful what you wish for. Once an employer discovers your job can be done remotely, it's only a small step to discover it can be done cheaper by someone living somewhere else...

Of course some jobs are a hybrid, where you only come to the office a couple times a week (which then limits the savings to the business anyway) but for the genuine 100‰ work from home expect serious job insecurity.

Live in LA? Wfh to beat the traffic? Well someone living in Ohio,or elsewhere can do the same work for less money. Live in Ohio? There's someone in Canada that can do it for less...
What is a smartphone if not a utility? A portable, reusable, device used to communicate, navigate, organize, create, and educate oneself?
> I was able to get kleenex and paper towels saturday because the grocery store is now limiting people to one purchase per day.

The grocery stores don't want to keep stocking-out and restocking kleenex and paper towels either.

People opportunistically filling up their carts won't have space to buy other higher-margin products.

And kleenex and paper towels take up a lot of space on the trucks, taking up space from higher-margin deliveries.
The point isn't for "first responders" to be paying for masks out of their own pockets, it's for the healthcare system (i.e. ultimately insurance companies) to pay higher prices so that more masks are made available to first responders, either by stimulating new production or reallocating existing masks.

If you just start confiscating them then anyone who did something we very much would like them to have done right now -- stockpiled a lot of such equipment to profit in just such an emergency, thereby causing such a stockpile to actually exist -- would see what you've done and choose not to do it anymore. And then next time the shortage is worse.
I had an impression that they might be talking what a digital I/O pin looks on oscilloscope.

Scopes lock at first rising edge after last horizontal scan, so display starts at H, then drops to L after how long CPU held that pin high. That creates ￣￣l＿ lines on the screen superimposed to one another, X position “wiggling” ￣lll＿ depending on how many consecutive H bits just happened to be sent.

When the CPU halts, the pin would flatline at H or L and you’ll know.
Now ask yourself - do you believe that Louisiana has a more stringent, more accepted and more enforced lockdown than say Massachusetts or Pennsylvania? Yet the epidemic seems to slow more drastically in Lousiana than most other states.

Why is that? Investigating that seems to be more fruitful avenue.

Perhaps there is more validity to the initial theory that the virus is a lot less virulent in high humidity and heat. Many more observations seem to back that. Low number of cases in India or Brazil etc.
Monopoly pricing causes a lower supply quantity than competitive pricing. The issue is the monopoly, not the price. The government should address the underlying issue: Why does someone have a de-facto monopoly in some markets?

When competition exists, the prices will fall to appropriate levels to correctly distribute the emergency goods.
1) people were also shipping water and other supplies to Katrina for free. I literally spent hours during the aftermath of Katrina filling aid packages for people affected by the storm. These aid packages were not sold, they were given away to people who had lost everything.

These supplies are already being produced as fast as possible. Even people with 3d printers are making these masks to give away

#2) bubbles form with a group of people purchase goods at already inflated prices, with the explicit attempt to drive up prices further and sell them for a profit. "If people are willing to pay $50 for a roll of toilet paper, maybe if I buy up all the toilet paper, I can sell it for $500!" -People causing bubbles.

3) If the state has a responsibility to maintain order, then they have a responsibility to combat price gouging, because failing to do so is a failure to maintain order. It's not an emotion issue, it's a rational one.

I feel like you're the one whose intuition is off. What I'm talking about are real, proven issues with price gouging and these are literally the reason that it is outlawed in nearly all of the USA. It's a slam-dunk case for prosecutors too. There's a reason why people caught price gouging are in the news the next week for "donating" their stash.
Is there another kind of argument from morality EXCEPT those that go, "We shouldn't do that because it could harm people?"

Hard to take someone seriously who blithely compares genocide to a minimum wage....
Ya but I wouldn't be surprised if the Ticketmaster TOS that you sign (click) makes you give up your suing rights in favor of arbitration or worse.
The YouTube treadmill has creators pushing out 1-4 videos per day now. There is now a near-infinite supply of YouTube content. OF COURSE the advertising rates are approaching zero. With TV there's only a fixed number of channels & timeslots.

Content creators are complaining about YouTube being strict but YouTube is strongly incentivized here to cut the supply of content. They want to raise advertising rates and charge advertisers more money! That means raising the bar of production value, etc, because YouTube wants to keep the same kind of viewership numbers. YouTube is now mainstream television.

The channels that will survive here are going to play ball and raise the quality of their content and production values. They're going to be family safe. They're going to provide lots of content and it's going to be shot multi-camera by a staff of people. Smaller creators days on the platform are numbered.

Thing is, the channels that do this best can do this for themselves. They don't need YouTube if they build a dedicated-enough audience.

I've been looking at how to make this process easier for people, using things like Cloudflare Stream, and think there may be some business opportunity here.
This is cool but you may need better discoverability.

The original million dollar webpage had the entire block of 1million pixels fit within a standard resolution browser window. Users could mouse over every pixel on it to see what each was without scrolling around on the page.

That site inspired someone to create the Million Dollar Wall, which scrolled sideways for like a mile, and was trying to sell ads on it. But it didn't work b/c scrolling is not fun or interesting.

You might have a similar challenge with this site.
Full agreement from me. My ergonomics and efficiency both improved immensely when I switched from my native layout to US International.

With US International, unless I want to hit the key combo to change layouts, I can still write a single or just a few umlauts (say, for a person's name).

I find it easier to keep my focus when I don't have to make the right wrist twister that is otherwise required for { if using a Swedish layout.
Those issues you described can be resolved with $300 in retail purchases: noise canceling headphones, a wifi router, and an Ikea style desk. Add $100 for a decent office chair. It is not an unreasonable amount of money in most of the USA.
hp EliteBook 2560p. 12gb ram, 120 gb ssd.
If many people can't afford TP, they will start flushing other things, which will block everyone else's toilets.
I like what you've written here. If you write stuff elsewhere, please put a pointer in your HN profile.

Judging by your influences as an architect, I think you would enjoy these books:

- Ronald Ross, Principles of the Business Rule Approach.

- David B. Black, Wartime Software. If you like this, you'd probably like his other books as well. They each cover a different facet of software development, including QA and "project management" (which Black refers to as a disease).

You might also enjoy the essay by David Black in which he proposes "Occamlity" as the metric of software "goodness" (https://www.blackliszt.com/2020/03/william-occam-inventor-me...):

> I propose that a piece of software can be measured by its “Occamality.” The more “Occamal” it is, the better it is. And I propose that Occamality is strictly correlated with the extent to which there is no redundancy of any kind in a program...
Yeah I saw the instructions, it's not rotating for me.
Let’s disrupt the logic that’s driving Americans apart
not who you are asking but search for a “fingertip oximeter” to measure your blood oxygen level.
'The Roosevelts,' Ken Burns' Latest PBS Documentary said that Teddy Roosevelt ate a dozen eggs for breakfast every morning.

At "U.S. Presidents Eating Breakfast"

https://www.mrbreakfast.com/breakfast/presidents-eating-brea...

it says:

"Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

President Teddy Roosevelt was pretty set in his ways when it came to breakfast. He’d have hard-boiled eggs and homemade rolls. He insisted that the eggs be cooked until solid throughout. Medium or soft-boiled eggs wouldn’t cut it. As for the rolls, they had to be fresh and there had to be a lot of them. In the rare times that he’d deviate from his routine, it was usually in favor of hominy with butter and salt."
There's the simple expedient of 1) touching potentially contaminated stuff only with your left hand, 2) only touching clean stuff with your right hand, and 3) never cross contaminating your left and right hands. And whenever you can, wash or use 70% alcohol. When I'm out, I always carry a paper towel soaked in 70% isopropanol in my right hand, and periodically wipe my left hand.
Worldwide stereotype for off-beaten-track hikers. I remember Israelis felt over-represented on trails in South America too.
The full title is "Can we ever go back [to the office, instead of working from home]?"
Amex? I thought the only benefit for using them is that they were always siding with the customer.
"Not an unreasonable amount" various heavily, not just from location to location, but from person to person and circumstance to circumstance. With all the other barriers to employment in skilled disciplines, should it now be a requirement for employment that you have enough liquid cash to pay for setting up your own office?
When faced with oblivion, the Beaker people went into a frenzied overdrive, doing only what they knew what to do, stack stones.

Invading barbarians took a look or two, then just walked around it and killed them all. If anything, stacking stones impeded their escape and walled them in.

On 60 Minutes, they talked to an unemployed worker who was going to be broke in a month. On PBS they talked to the first responder without health insurance.

A sad fact of the world is a job and health insurance is just a really complex hug. You are one wrong move from being broke forever job or jobless, or being dead insured or uncovered.

What are the real needs? Not getting sick. Stay at home. Reject the world for quiet study. It's really not that difficult once you learn the language.

What I want to see? Cosmos Live. Open up the research and let people just watch. Management class needs more knowledge workers.
Depends on what networking layer they're proxying. Layer 4 with something like PROXY protocol and it's not as easy to tell.
I think you've intentionally been hyperbolic to make two nuanced positions sound like complete opposites.

Here's my take on the two sides here:

1) It makes me uncomfortable that companies can track me online and use info that to target ads (or whatever their business model thinks it needs my info for). There are things about me like my location, identity and politics that are personal and I want to be in control of, not tokens to be sold.

2) Online advertising returns much less than $1 in profit for every $1 spent, so whats the point? Only big tech companies are benefiting from it. The fact that advertisers are pulling back during this economic contraction only proves this - if $1 in ad spending bought you >$1, they'd keep up their spending.

Not everyone will agree with me, but for me, both of those are true.
I Spent Seven Weeks in a Wuhan ICU
For me it is the joy of creation that always rekindles the fires of programming passion. I build an application even if it is to learn a new concept.
You gave me an idea. I can use this to send prints to anyone who would enjoy physical prints. My friend's mom whom I dearly adore loves pictures of flowering plants :) Thank you!
I would think you alarm when login failure rate spikes. Realize what is going on, list the probably affected accounts, and lock those accounts until they change their passwords. Doesn't seem like an impossible to mitigate problem.
You're doing the same thing as GP by being unnecessarily condescending.
I personally haven't much work on embedding Servo, however I do think there has been some progress the last few years, Servo is being embedded in a Hololens applications(see https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/support/hololens), as well as a Magicleap application(see https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/support/magicleap).

The embedding API used can be found at https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/ports/libsimplese...

I think it's a pretty low-level embedding API, so perhaps not comparable with embedding Webkit(I have no experience with that either), it does seem to do the trick.
As an Asian male, dating prospects in the US for us weren't ever good anyway, but this pandemic may be the death sentence/nail in the coffin for us.
You can. I haven't checked their products in a long time. Look out for:

[1] Old file versions and deleted file retention - default was 30 days I think. You pay extra to make it a 1 year, and more to make it forever forever.

[2] Keep connecting the external drives or lose that data. Because the last time I checked if you don't connect your drive (or maybe the computer/laptop too, not sure) regularly the files are marked as "deleted" and [1] will kick in even though you'll keep paying (unless you are paying extra).

[3] They didn't have restore option from the app - either use their website (I am not sure how the partial/interrupted restores were handled from a browser) or they will send a restore drive to your home (it was free iirc).

If it works for you you can give the service a shot. Their Mac app, at least, is really really good (way better than competition including the relic called Time Machine).
Last update, 2018. Cool.
It really isn't hard to provide "fast DNS". Most of the speed-ups come thanks to caching anyway.
> Touch a door handle?

Like... with your hand? Not in a glove that you throw out immediately? I just can't fathom touching a door handle.

I saw someone just open a door at a public place the other day and it was utterly baffling to see.
You _can't_ replace gas with intermittent. All sources aren't freely interchangeable. Intermittent doesn't work when the sun doesn't shine or when the wind doesn't blow, so you _need_ something to compensate it, and that's always gas.

Don't look at the system as "this source emits X kW when it's running". Look at the system as "the total demand _right now_ is Y xW, how can it be met ?". Because that's what drives the viability of sources of electricity, and whether they can be replaced with another one. Intermittent, by its very nature, isn't enough for producing electricity, it always needs an additional source.
Agreed. There are cases of people getting this that are not recorded because there are people who get sick and stay at home and go through it as best as they can. I myself never go to a hospital when sick I just stay home to recover.
I have mild breathing issues during winters, which affects my sleep and I used to wake up with a headache. The fingertip SpO2 meter helps quantify the problem, so it was a good buy. According to my readings, headaches were bad when my readings were 92 or lower. Also helped when my son was having bouts of bronchiolitis when he was younger.

It's only about $50 and batteries last long, so I'd totally recommend it if you have breathing ailments. Maybe even otherwise.
I believe there have been several random studies and very educated estimates that came from these that show that the mortality rate is about 0.5% or even lower, which might put it close to the same order of magnitude as the flu. However, crucially, it is much much more contagious than the flu. With an R0 of 2 or more (some estimate up to 6) the difference after a few days, because of exponential growth, is as much as a thousandfold more infections.

My thought is that the mortality rate is rather low, especially for those that are healthy, but there's a ton of people that have it. More than 1% of New York State is now infected with Coronavirus. That's crazy.
Not to be offensive - but why would an employer pay for top German salaries for you to work from home - when there are many people in the world who will do the same work for much, much less thanks to a lower cost of living?

Construtivly, what do you offer that a person in say Latvia (or Namibia) doesn't offer for a fraction of the cost?

I say this not to be offensive - but you need to be able to answer this in very concrete terms in order to answer your own question.
People will close the article as soon as they read “50 years”. Sometimes science needs to lie a little bit for a cause
Gasoline Dion and Frank Sriracha Quarantine Rap Music Video. I'm Dying
Why Margin Matters Now in Startupland
The story is that "they made a mistake in a lab"...

1. while doing research that has been banned in other nations due to the extreme hazard

2. despite having a history of lab virus escapes that killed people

3. and then they covered it up

BTW, the virus is at least sort of man made. The lab was breeding viruses. There is no evidence that gene editing technology was used, but we do know that the lab has published multiple research papers about making coronaviruses more infectious in humans.

I think there needs to be a damn good justification for purposely making viruses more able to infect and harm humans. Why would you do that????? Mere scientific curiosity is not a proper justification for putting all of humanity at risk.
Note: ^T is also a very useful command bound by default to "swap the character under the cursor and the previous one". That is, `sl` followed by left arrow, ^T, produces "ls".
Mail in voting is equivalent to electronic voting. The USPS is worthless in comparison to what we would lose.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query=jakeogh%20mail&t...
Must see evolution of GOL: "SmoothLife is a family of rules created by Stephan Rafler. It was designed as a continuous version of Conway's Game of Life - using floating point values instead of integers."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaB-uHfScjU
This is great! I just would like to know if there's a way to click the suggested video and watch it on the screen - now it opens YT in a new tab.
Zoom Video: Stock Speeds Ahead
The U.S. has about 600k cases. One order of magnitude more is 6M cases. That's still very far from broadly spreading. It's worrying about the viability of the herd immunity theory (too few people had it), and opening the country soon (a few weeks of exponential case increases would overload hospital capacity, even after stemming the case growth through sheltering-- putting us back to square one). It feels, 1-2 months into this, we have no good options.
We will all suffer if masks and basic hygiene products aren't allocated well.

There is not enough time to solve the coordination problem (or, more accurately, we solved it in advance).

The government elected by most market participants steps in (or threatens to step in) to help maintain order. This seems like a less crazy idea than seeing how many nurses will pay $500 for a mask.
> should it now be a requirement for employment that you have enough liquid cash to pay for setting up your own office?

Any firm worth working for will have this as either a stipend, or otherwise handled as part of hiring remote workers. Any one that doesn't make it easy and cheap to be comfortable and productive remotely will miss out on talent because of that.
Definitely sbt, the absolutely terrible scala build tool (and it used to be called the simple build tool, ha!)
It's always gas right now, because gas is the cheapest.

But if CO2 is taxed, hydrogen (from water electrolysis with surplus renewable electricity) becomes cheaper. And with cheap renewables, renewables + batteries + hydrogen would be cheaper than a system including nuclear.