skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the core belief is that supply and demand is a force that can actually cause more supply to come into a market where there is imbalance. IOW: rather than curtail the expression of demand via rationing, actually increase the supply.

If the marginal profit on TP is $0.10/roll and the price is not allowed to increase in time of excess demand, you’re likely to see factories optimize to squeeze every efficiency out, trying to eek out another penny per pack of 6 rolls.

Imagine instead a world where prices rise in times of excess demand. Producers now have an incentive to maintain flexibility in monthly production, not squeezing the last fractional penny out and instead allowing flex to over-produce when demand is high (and prices/marginal profit is higher).

Likewise, warehouse and distribution adapts to capitalize on high prices, using those high prices as a signal to get more goods to flow to those demanding the goods. In other words, more toilet paper is available for people who want toilet paper.

Instead of today’s world where I have to shop twice a week instead of once, or can’t add a more vulnerable neighbor’s shopping to my own, because we are limited to how many eggs I can buy in a single trip. How does that help anyone’s health?
Pretty much a non-article. The only argument presented seems to be in favor of restoring the old gatekeepers:

because although many of us (early 2000s “us”) had imagined that digital technologies would empower citizens by facilitating collective action and eroding the control of elite gatekeepers, many of us have had to accept that, without those gatekeepers and with horizontal networks, users become readily exploitable by algorithms and bad actors.

...because the traditional media has always been trustworthy, right? Whatever solution there is to growing polarization, it isn't going to come from the establishment.
And yet this doesn't deter people from buying stocks.
The markets and the economy move so fast now I prefer content which updates very regularly. A lot of material is simply outdated.

Real vision[0] has some really good content. It's not super easily digestable for someone not in professional finance but I think finance is just too complicated to simplify and not lose a lot of nuance. I'm trying to learn and have to look up a lot of stuff but it has been fun.
I think they have 1 month trial for $1. I recommend Raoul Pal's recent video "The Unfolding" as a starting point.

I also think Macro Voices[1] podcasts are very solid. Again not very easy content but experts in various fields help to make sense of the bigger picture. You can choose a bit depending on what you're interested in (gold, bitcoin, bonds etc).

It's worth noting that NOBODY knows what is really going to happen, all you can do is try to get informed opinions and set probabilities.
If you're looking for investment advice trying to time the market or sectors, I would stop looking. The uncertainty does not favour amateurs in my opinion.

[0]https://www.realvision.com/tv/home

[1]https://www.macrovoices.com/
I believe anti-vaccine advocates are there for the sole reason of getting the votes of the anti-vaccine-minded people (and for pushing some into this category just to get their votes). It's improbable real politicians are suicidal enough to actually risk facing a pandemia once they get to power.
I agree 100% with Taek, and that's what I've been using - corona deaths instead of testing for months.

US testing is so porous as to be meaningless, even today.

Also, I care about bottlenecks like ventilators and ICU staff count, not the 98% of people who don't require hospitalization.

I find all US media and political coverage to completely miss the point, with anecdotes substituting for public health policy. It's like watching a train wreck that won't stop.
My thoughts exactly. For these particular reasons IMHO:

- the nested scrolling (it would be much cooler if you could come up with an algorithm that lays out the page like real print newspapers do. Or truncate and display a read more link/expander)

- too many separator "lines" (i would reduce the quantity of lines and reduce the "color weight" of the ones that remain)

- remove the YAAS.CAT link. ? =)
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It definitely is. The Austrians are very prepared for this crisis, and it seems like it was useful to some people shorting in 2006-2008.
It's all about the pentiums is one of those parodies where I have never heard the original. Still a good song.
The use of check marks and "no entry" symbols throughout the article is purposefully misleading. Chrome gets check marks even for bad features, like tracking; Firefox gets gray marks even for good features, like built-in anti-tracking. It's fine to take money from Google to sponsor their browser. But faking an ad as an objective comparison and using subtle tricks to deceive the reader is deplorable.
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Seems highly unlikely these crazy 'from outside the solar system' ideas are likely.

This meme spreads well, but that to me means there is far more chance it is not true. The fact no one questions it also seems suspicious.

This left about 24 km/s faster than anything can go and remain inside of the Solar System. Do you have any idea how much energy it takes to get something going that fast?

A baseball going that fast has about 42 megajoules of kinetic energy. A semi on the interstate has about half a megajoule of kinetic energy. This thing was at least 100 meters long and all of it was going that fast.

For the record we do not have the technology to fire a rocket that fast. We only managed to get rockets to leave the Solar System by loading them up with gravity assists from planets. And even so they didn't get to that speed. If two asteroids have a head on collision, the pieces won't move that fast. (And it would have to be a heck of a collision to make a piece that big.)

If this came from inside of the Solar System, WTF accelerated it, how did it do so without breaking the object into smithereens, and why didn't we see evidence of the event that caused it?

By contrast this was going just about the average speed of interstellar objects in our neighborhood. (The Sun happens to be just passing through the ecliptic, and spends most of its time well above or below the Milky Way. Therefore to us, everything in our neighborhood is moving fast.) Any junk hanging around would have a trajectory that looks like this one. Now obviously space is pretty empty. Which is why it is so impressive that we actually spotted something from space.

Yes. It is highly unlikely that anything we see in the Solar System didn't come from here. But it is effectively impossible for anything starting in the outer reaches of the Solar System to get to this speed. And extremely likely that an interstellar object would go about this fast. Therefore it probably is an interstellar object.
> they successfully predict every crisis to the tee (except for timing

What does this mean?
> the actual accumulated dose from nuclear power (including accidents) for the average individual over time is very low.

This is only because nobody's living in nuclear disaster zones. If people were carrying on their daily lives in the Chernobyl or Fukushima then their accumulated dose would be much much higher.

As you say, the levels from coal are small enough that other naturally occurring sources are more significant, and thus it has little practical effect on people's lives. On the other hand, nuclear accidents take large areas of land out of use for time scales long enough that they effect several generations.
For one, it's not produced locally. I live in London. There are no olive trees here.

I'm buying a lot of Spanish, Italian and Greek olive oil because I like it and I trust their standards. But I see no reason why I should reject Moroccan or Turkish olive oil as a matter of principle.

I think that barring any special circumstances, it's best for the progress of humanity if consumers buy the best value for money. It creates upward pressure on productivity, which is ultimately the _only_ thing that increases potential living standards for everyone.

I know this is very complex, and there are many ways in which prices can be distorted so that "value for money" isn't what it appears to be on the surface.

However, there are equally many ways in which alleged "distortions" are exploited as an excuse for damaging protectionism. For instance, the "cheap labour" argument is often used in an extremely biased way.

One person's "cheap labour" is another person's improvement in living standards and yet another person's access to healthy food that was previously only available to the wealthy.

Perhaps a more succinct answer to your question is this: To force local producers to move up the value chain or become more productive.
Thomas Sowell - he has many great books about economical principles - "Basic Economics" itself is extremely educational, and is regularly updated with examples of recent History.
That is a great point. I actually had in my head more like a union job like in the factories (which can also be back breaking and result in health problems). Of course such a union would almost certainly have to be enforced by law :-) And before people say that I've truly gone socialist, I don't really know if I'm actually in favour of my idea. I'm kind of thinking out loud. I really do think that something is fundamentally broken here and it needs some pretty serious surgury to fix it, though.

Edit: I should note that while I haven't picked fruit, I have cut rice by hand. Would not want to do it for a full time job, but it was considerably easier than I expected.
the UK and USA said "CCP lying about the death toll", because death num in their countries is bigger. dude, Just give it a thought, is there any possibility that the UK and US governments are doing shitty jobs, no prepare during the whole February, no lockdown or quarantine action until March? On Feb 19, there are 50091 confirmed cases and 2029 deaths in one city Wuhan. if u think the number is "faking" small, u should think about that the government has locked down the city, asked for self-quarantine and focues on the medical sources since Jan. What most of the western medias u know were reporting then? Did they warning u how serious the virus is and ur gov should be prepared? did ur government do any action during the whole Feb after the virus is reported? watch this from BBC: https://youtu.be/mc6OVmNnPJo
The Austrian school predicted a disease-related economic crisis?
I said this specific video is peddling conspiracy theory, otherwise they're nothing more than ex-travel bloggers who has recently pivoted to click-bait China bashing after they were pressured out of the country. Yes I was an expat in China in the mid 90s to mid 00s and still have ongoing dealings there.

The point is they are not only not experts in infectious disease, they're not experts in any particular Chinese subjects at all. Living in China is not itself a remarkable qualification. If I were to ask people to find me two youtubers from China who moved to US to do travel blogs that I should base most of my opinions about China on, it would be an impossibly asinine exercise because US is a large, complex country. So is China. That's why you have thousands of institutions and entire industries of specific experts trying to grasp the larger realities. This industry exists for Chinese affairs, yet a surprising amount of people insist on posting generalized, personal reflections of a couple youtubers instead of relevant subject matters for each respective topics which, again exists.
Yeah I keep hearing great things about vscode. Need to give it a shot one of these days.
You should give the online version at https://outlook.com a try. I've been using it since the corona outbreak and it's actually better than the desktop version imo.
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It does serve as a limiting function for buying shares during hyperbolic up moves. Tesla had one earlier this year. It was the most comfortable short I’ve ever put on. My only concern was trading small enough to ensure I could fade the rest of the upward movement.
But people there are already familiarized with left-to-right system they currently use with cyrillic symbols. And I meant not just for tourists, but in more general sense of being part of global world, especially for smaller nation.
This crisis was not caused by the Corona virus. It is only the pin that burst a bubble that was already there, and if no virus would have happened, something else would have burst it. Austrians see the depression as a necessary correction, and the bubble as a problem.

I actually sat down for a few hours to calculate what would have happened if this pandemic happened in the 50s, and no one could work (especially true since there was no internet). Seems like people saved enough for a year at home, on average. Today people are so levered up not only do they not have savings, they have to pay back debt.
Why does everyone speaking one language somehow result in a united humanity? Plenty of countries speak English and yet there is zero desire or movement to unite them. Language is but one aspect of culture and unfortunately one result of widespread English usage is the destruction of local cultures by Western, specifically American consumeristic, culture.

I also don't particularly see the usefulness or relevance of everyone speaking one language for the overwhelming majority of people. Do a Chilean farmer, a Mongolian oil worker, and an American programmer need to communicate with each other on a regular basis? And if they did, would this be worth replacing thousands of years of local culture and language?
https://www.epsilontheory.com/things-fall-apart-part-3-marke...

This blog, and this post in particular.
I don't think the Austrian School explains what's happened so far, but may help explain some of what is to come. Everything we've seen so far is simply the result of people not being able to operate their businesses. What we will soon see is businesses closing down and probably mass default on debt.

I do believe that the Keynesian economics that has been practiced for the last few decades has left the global economy woefully unprepared and venerable. Low interest rates have fuelled massive asset price inflation and encouraged governments, businesses, and individuals to take on far more debt than is prudent.
The Corona virus is just a pin to a bubble that's there for years. See my other comment explaining this.
I'm a mining engineer. I assure you that there is no comparison between modern and 1970s capabilities. The discipline lives right next to civil engineering. Nothing to do with semiconductors.
Let us build something together
I was wondering if members of this forum will be interested in collaborating and building projects together. Pitch your project or idea and let other community members who are interested join in. I have created a matrix community at https://riot.im/app/#/group/+lubst:matrix.org for us to work together.

There are three rooms for now, General, Announcements and Nuggets. General room is for general discussion and pitching your project to prospective collaborators, and Announcements is for announcements about your project. Nuggets are any learnings from your project that you want to share with others. Once you finalise on what project you will work on then please request a new room for your project to be added to the community.

What do you all think about this idea to work together?
You can not make that conclusion from your method. While B has to explain in details every step and fact, A does not. It is assumed that if no error was found in B, A must be true. Therefore, B must be flawless to pass, but A can have pretty much any amount of logical or factual errors in it - as long as they are not directly visible.

> There seems to be a needed charisma to keeping someone engaged

Of course people stop to be engaged the moment they realize what is going on, whether they are able to argue back and move the needle or not. And even when they are able to clearly explain what is going on, they may decide that the most rational move in that moment is for them to disengage without accusing you or furthering conflict.
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I think the point is not that European production could not be seriously hampered, but that these threats happen more often than we tend to realise.

As a side comment: Xylella fastidiosa is worse than Tuta absoluta in terms of the time frame, but olive oil trees (as another comment has mentioned) are much quicker to re-establish with modern farming techniques. Avocado trees were once considered to be productive if they are really big, but the current knowledge is the smaller they are the better—with heights of as small as 2m and spacing of 2.5m x 6m.

Edit: "Much quicker" can still be a long time. With date palms, you are looking at a 15 year investment before you get high enough yields for positive cashflow.
In a fit of nationalism, a former colonial power takes a step to sever ties with its continental neighbor. Does it still sound good when you look at it that way?
They describe the source of the problem, the way it will affect the market, and the extent of the effect, usually.
Never noticed it? This was a big topic around the turn of the millennium. Was the turn of the millennium the same as the turn of the odometer (2000) or was it the actual start of the third millennium AD (2001)?
Epic, John!
Isn't that the whole essence's of Nassim's Taleb work? He actually makes the opposite claim, that a model that doesn't takes extreme events into the equation is not worth anything at all.
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In what ways are they more prepared for this crisis than anyone else?
There definitely should be a rule limiting the number of people allowed in stores.

I've quit going to our before pandemic store. It is impossible to social distance.
So fricking cool. I’m surprised that after all these years, no one told him before this.
A good compromise to me seems to be using `imv` from the renameutils package which is pretty much exactly the same as the OP. That way you don't get confused by different `mv` behaviour on different systems.

Hitting `<Ctrl-a>i` seems to me a small price to pay :)
Because there were PPE manufacturers giving interviews in the press in which they pointed out that the last time they did expand their production during the crisis, the crisis ended and the demand evaporated before they've managed to recoup their investment - so they're reluctant to do the same now, unless governments sign on with long-term repeat purchase contracts.
This pandemic is more like a cruise missile than a pin.

I've been saying for a few years that a recession is coming but I'm not going to pretend I thought it would be started by an event like this. Recessions are simply a natural part of the business cycle and after such a long 'boom' period there was certain to be one eventually.
The only reason we can even have this important debate is because the whole thread can communicate in english.
Interactive editing is generally something to avoid. It can't be part of a bash script, or a puppet manifest, or checked into version control.

In the cases where you need to do interactive edits of file names, something like emacs or mc is probably less error prone than bash.
In your same reference:

> Olive varieties. Speed things along by choosing the right cultivar. Olea europaea "Rubra" not only can begin producing fruit in its second year, but it also bears prolifically and is a relatively early ripener. "Koroneiki" and "Arbequina" begin fruiting early, at about three years old, compared with other varieties that take five to 12 years to reach bearing. "Koroneiki" is the primary variety grown in Greece for oil production. "Arbequina" is commonly used with newer agricultural methods for high-density planting for olive orchards. All three cultivars are hardy in USDA zones 8 through 10.
I have burnt myself once with perl: numbers that are printed the same are not necessarily equal.

DB<1> say((0.1+0.2) != 0.3)
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here's an idea. watch people stream how they code/work. on twitch, or screencasts on youtube.

also try teaching children.
What do you think we speak when interracting with the germans ?

English.
I'd argue the Keynesian response to the last crisis is what has left us so overleveraged and poorly prepared for this one.
If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all :)

That said; I've been on HN long enough where news sites (some of which I worked at) took this approach on some products where they directly took print-styles and applied them digitally. They were vocally criticized (rightly so) for completely mis-understanding the new digital medium.

This is a fun and interesting project - buts its entirely unusable and provides a very poor reading experience.

Among many other points, it misses the point that the full-page physical newspaper was entirely scannable in large areas. This is the opposite of that.

Kudos to the developer trying something for fun but I hope this isn't a serious approach to reading news.
Depends.

If active cases can be pushed down to a mange-able level (i.e. a level where contact tracing is a realistic option and outbreaks can be, by and large, contained) a return to relative normalcy could still be possible.

So that’s another one, two months of tight lockdown to push down active cases (to, say, 500 in the NY area). Then it becomes feasible to throw massive amounts of people at those 500 cases and to do aggressive contact tracing and quarantining of all contacts.

Maybe just by people interviewing the infected, calling around, playing detective (a bit slow), maybe also with the help of contact tracing through mobile phones. Also, you obviously would need to be able to test for the virus (ideally) whenever someone shows the slightest hint of related symptoms (and since those are so unspecific and not exactly rare you would have to expand testing capability).

Some measures will obviously stay in place, but many of the most drastic and impactful ones could be reduced since there wouldn’t really be uncontrollable community spread.

That, to me, sounds like a realistic plan (unlike a complete lockdown until then or trying to let the wave wash over us) for the time until we have a vaccine and until that vaccine is availible in sufficient quantities.

Of course, this depends a lot on whether we can push down active cases so low.

South Korea seems to be nearly or already there. Of course we do not know whether China tells the complete truth, but even if they lie quite a bit they are also probably nearly or already there. Outbreaks with exponential growth haven’t happened there at least, of that we can be relatively certain (because that would be hard to hide).

So, yeah, it’s probably possible if we can push effective R a bit below zero for a couple of weeks to get into a position where we can regain control. Maybe. Hopefully.
It sorta can't... note the use of eval.
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We are de facto not in a bubble. Market growth over the last decade has been steady and healthy. A long term bull market does not define a bubble.
Interesting use case to develop something for. Really like the idea, I'll be trying it out for sure!
These are the written vowels:

Aa Ăă Ââ Ee Êê Ii Oo Ôô Ơơ Uu Ưư Yy

On each of which you can add 5 different tone marks: https://vietnamesetypography.com/alphabet/

Plus there are diphthongs and triphthongs (look at the zero coda and off glide coda columns): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_phonology#ref_Notes

Disclaimer: I know stuff all about Tiếng Việt, but it seemed really hard to learn how to hear and say the sounds when I tried for a few days with private lessons. Using so many diacritics modifies the Latin alphabet so much that it becomes something else...
I predict it will rain after a sunny day.

Some day.