skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like federal agencies are stepping in to investigate and prevent price gouging. Good. That is their job. If this wasn't happening, there would be even less PPE available for hospitals. Of course when you are talking about something at the scale of what is happening in the country right now, there are going to be imperfections in the system, and those imperfections will get reported on. That should not be taken as indicative of the state of things overall, but merely as exception reporting.

The news aspect of event has been incredibly depressing. There are commonly outright lies being presented as if they are valid representations of things that are happening in the world. Sometimes that is simply a part of life, and the consequences are relatively (to this) minimal, but in this situation, this type of reporting is getting people killed.
"I'm not leaving because of the virus, I'm leaving because because of the virus I can't go out"

Strange distinction to make, isn't it?
I don't think it's illegal for environmental reasons
"kleptocracy" is the word you are looking for
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No idea where you're from or what you did...

https://imgur.com/a/XBzfOsF

Might your search history be so that you're so contrarian that Google suggests contrarian results? :D
The largest and oldest bank here in Brazil migrated all of its ATMs and branch manager desktops from OS/2 to Linux a decade ago; the other large banks I know of in Brazil seem to use Windows for desktops (and probably also their ATMs). I don't know about other countries, but it wouldn't surprise me if their banks have also migrated to something other than OS/2.
Yes, these were paid in advance by MA. There have been dozens of similar reports. Nobody is currently shipping anything without up-front payment.

Here's a detailed account from a hospital administrator in the New England Journal of Medicine: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2010025 (Edit: did the linked article change? Anyway: the up-front payment is described in the article, that I somehow managed to link here again).

This one ends well. Others didn't.

Note that this isn't about the money. It's literally life-saving equipment.

The Federal Government has to either take responsibility, take over all purchasing, and distribute the material in a transparent, need-based process.

OR it can tell the states to each do their own thing. They'll outbid each other and end up paying far more than necessary, many will buy more than needed to be on the safe side because the political risk is highly asymmetrical. It's a stupid way to do this, and it will cost lives (and money). But, unlike testing, it's not totally impossible.

What the Federal Administration can't do is tell the states do buy their own supplies, then intercept any shipments and... well, nobody really seems to know what they're doing with it.

The best-case scenario for what's happening is probably just incompetence. If, in six months or so, a gigantic stash of PPE is found in some warehouse, people in the administration will point to that as vindication: see! we didn't intentionally kill anybody.

Second best scenario: Are they giving it back to commercial resellers that happen to be golf buddies with the son-in-law, who then get to sell the same shipment several times? Somehow, commercial distributors seem to be involved. We'll hopefully find out about the why and how in due course.

Nightmare scenario: if the narrative about conservative and swing states receiving far more, both in terms of population as well as disease burden, than blue states turns out to be true... I don't know what happens? That's so far beyond the pale it would never even be considered possible in normal times.
Taxation enough to matter would be tantamount to a ban, with exception of a few specialty uses.
From their Wikipedia pages, 40% of SA's GDP is oil[1] versus 16% of Russia's[2], also 90% of SA's exports versus 70% of Russia's. Certainly both countries are disastrously hurt by a collapse in oil prices, but SA seems to be worse off.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Saudi_Arabia
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia
Hey there, I'm a GitLab community advocate, just wanted to thank you for brining attention to this issue, our team commented to get the conversation moving today:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14259#note_327...
> He says what he wants, but then he expects someone else to build it. He's rich: if he wants these things, why doesn't he just pay to get them built? Sure, not all of them, but just pick one and pay to get it built.

There are a lot of things to criticize about Elon Musk, but he does understand this much.
It does include the power and the integrated graphics is better than some older GPUs.
Planet Money Buys Oil (2016)
Why not simply say "shirt -stripes" (negation in front of "stripes").
There is Tauthon[0] that (they said) also backported several features in non-backwards compatibility breaking ways, but the last commit to the repo was from December. Perhaps after running it for 3-4 years (and faced hostility from some Python devs - i remember at some point being downvoted just for mentioning it on Reddit), the maintainer got tired of it?

[0] https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
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It honestly seems like we should be able to say:

"Hey white-nationalist, I see that you really like white people and that's okay. You want white kids to be happy, go for it. If someone else wants green kids to be happy, they should do that too. Just don't be a dick to everyone else."

If they're directing their energy towards anything good at all, it's probably best to recognize the validity there, while doing your best to devalidate things they shouldn't be doing. It's not like "fuck everything about you white nationalist" is paying off... it's kind of how we got Trump IMO.
> Non-New Yorkers love to speculate about the end of New York with a passion which fascinates me

What makes you say this? Looks like it's pretty much only "New-Yorkers" commenting on this submission...
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I haven't tried but you most certainly can use

kdeconnect-cli --share <path>

Upvoting you to increase the chance you notice my comment.
That is mentioned in the article -- BML500P is the part number for the unreleased thing.
I am Danish so I think I manage to not get confused :)
Last commit from 5 months ago. Maybe not a great choice.
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That first paragraph reads like a parody of silicon valley...
Depends on what experience you have in the field you target, and more importantly how large (in physical dimensions and technical complexity) the hardware product you want to develop is?
Ask HN: Y Combinator 2020 summer – who else has applied?
Go ahead and introduce your company and any other details you feel comfortable with such as how many times applied before, stage of company ...
Currently over 20% of Houston office space sits empty (compare to Denver/Chicago ~13%). That’s because we haven’t even absorbed the empty office space left from the 2015 oil downturn. Office owners are now doing very favorable deals for new tenants as they brace for the coming bankruptcies, rent relief letters, and space reductions.
This is likely to be painful for many more months in Houston, even if there is a quick recovery from COV-19.
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> Why would safely and efficiently performing your job be dehumanizing?

Robots can safely and efficiently perform their job. And do it way better than humans in some areas. Being a cog in a well-oiled machine that works efficiently sounds almost like a perfect example of dehumanization.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I interpret your general stance as: "Doing your job well has merit and value, so it shouldn't be viewed as dehumanizing." As a counterpoint, I bring up robots again: they do their job well, and that has merit and value. However, they have no humanity whatsoever. So what justifies your stance?
Well, the team that maintains the fork wont need to do both 2 and 3 at the same time either, just 2 :-P.
I understand that, but for too long the narrative has been exclusively controlled by people like you, even though your views are in the minority, apparently. Remote should be the default, with occasional office presence so people can get to know each other. Please stop trying to enforce your views on people. Of course there will always be some amount of person to person contact, but that should not be the mandated "normal". In fact, if everyone who couldn't stomach working remotely were fired, the increase in productivity and the unmatched health benefits to everyone else would probably more than make up for it. I do not wish to live my life as a serf, I want to be a free man. If that sounds so horrible to you, maybe you're the problem.
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Came here just to say that PyPy is amazing, from my somewhat limited exposure, it fulfilled my use case very well with a speed gain.
I'm not at all familiar with the industry.

Is the deal here that someone said to someone with an oil well "brah, I'll pay you X to pick up N barrels of oil on the day that is Y", but the buyer doesn't actually have any place to store it, instead planned to sell the oil to others later? And Y-day is approaching fast and nobody wants the oil, so the middleman has to take a loss by trying to pay someone to pick up the oil, to avoid penalty fees from the oil well company I presume (as they'd have to shut down if they run out of storage I imagine).
Arguably it's off-topic.

Beyond that, almost anything contentious (in the view of the HN crowd) has a non-zero chance of getting flagged away. Try posting an argument for dumping Python 3 in favor of Python 2... :-)
Stanford has enough of a reputation that many in the general public will accept the results as proof.
> I suspect nobody really sees something visually when thinking/imagining something,

I suspect that you may have some degree of aphantasia.

Visualizing something encumbers the same visual processing as sight does. Personally I have a hard time visualizing something and looking at something at the same time. I can only pay close attention to inside or outside, not both simultaneously. (Casual attention, like half-listening, is possible otherwise I'd be a terrible driver.)

To think of it another way: when you say "I've yet to meet someone who actually sees the tree with the same visual clarity as if looking at an actual tree," maybe you should ask some more. I can look at things, close my eyes, and continue studying them up to the limits of my memory and original attention.

Aphantasia seems to come in degrees, not a binary "have it"/"don't have it."
Dunno, but it's hardly news or anything new to the subject, just another wiki article and the subject, I dare say ticks too many political landmines in debate and we don't do politics here.
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Apart from their Law School, Harvard is not an incredible school. Good, yes, but not stellar.

The product Harvard offers is being able to rub noses with rich and influencial people and their kids. Access is no small thing.
Not for holding companies. It's a well known secret and is a way for the Danish government to lure in large international holdning companies.

No sure why people are downvoting me. I'm Danish and I do know the tax system pretty well.
Wave Gliders [1] have been doing that for years.

The tiny Wave Gliders are quite useful. They're small, smaller than a surfboard. They're considered "marine debris" for vessel safety purposes. Electronics is so small today that they carry compute power, GPS, cameras, and Iridium for communications, plus other small oceanographic instruments as desired. They're tough enough to survive hurricanes. The control center has AIS info and steers them away from vessel traffic. Propulsion is mostly passive, using wave action to propel the glider forward. They're slow, but make steady progress.

It's a quiet, useful and profitable technology.

[1] https://www.liquid-robotics.com/wave-glider/overview/
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It's okay for you to not understand and to inadequately comprehend the English language.
Choosing not to work at Amazon because of whatever reason (moral or otherwise) can also be considered a rational choice.
Ctrl + G is select multiple occurrences on Mac.

It's one of my favorites as well. It is really good when you need to quickly rename, reformat or tweak a handful of lines that isn't a viable refactor action.
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How about 3 or 4 days onsite work per week?
Actually, I think the real players have already been doing this for a few weeks. If there's a buck to be made, you can bet someone is on it.

I was wondering whether they couldn't rapidly build some new storage (cost-effectively), but probably the answer is no.
Unlike restaurants, which the original quote referred to, people sometimes live in places they don't like because of extenuating circumstances. Just because a whole bunch of people are living in densely-packed neighborhoods doesn't mean they all want to live in them.
I fully expect some environmental accident b/c that's cheaper than paying people to take it. Also considering at least in the US, the EPA was told not to investigate things during the shut down.
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HN has trolls now? HN isn't one person.
For those who aren’t avid boaters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Regulations_fo...

Looking at that tiny wing sail, it’s gonna be sloowwww. Maybe that’ll help?
I am Danish, I think I'll manage to know the difference between the country I was born and raised in and the country were a lot of my friends are from.

Denmark is a tax haven for holding companies.
> Universities would seem uniquely capable of just going into hibernation for a while. They do it every summer, after all. That tradition is even because of infectious disease risk!

Most don't go into hibernation at all I grew up in Ithaca NY and both Cornell and Ithaca College ran summer camp programs through the summer. I later went to school in VA and saw the same thing -- tons of folks using the Uni even during the "off" season.

Summer school classes went all summer and there were always non-trivial amounts of students on campus, including living in dorms.

Research didn't just stop because the students went away -- in many cases the research kicked into high gear since the profs didn't have to teach.

Colleges with agriculture programs don't just let their fields die during the summer; same for schools that have restaurant or hospitality management programs.
Good advice, thanks.

> If you're super early stage, I'd recommend trying to find out if there are any accelerators sponsored by your local government, they tend to have way less applications since they're only pulling from a local pool.

Not sure how to self-characterize. We've probably invested somewhere in the order of $300K of our own funds in this to get where we are. Keep in mind this is hardware (+software), which means the monetary scale is very different.

We are at the stage where we are going to start showing our pre-production prototype to potential customers sometime next month. Frankly, the closer we get to a sale the less interesting VC money or an incubator becomes. In other words, if I close a $5MM sale next month (which is in the realm of possibilities) there is no way anyone is getting 7% of the business for $150K.

> There is probably a value-add to YC besides just money

Definitely. Not interested in money for the sake of money. Money by itself is useless and easy to waste.

> Someone outside of the startup world asked me "what is YC" and my reply was "the accelerator that rejects you."

I don't take that as a negative but rather more as a reality. They get so many applications it is inevitable that the vast majority of applicants will not be accepted. That's just reality.
To address this deficit, the latest release (v0.4.0, released over the weekend) includes a "Question Box" feature that lets people submit follow-up questions, in the same spirit as curiouscat.me.

To prevent spam and abuse, it's limited to authenticated users. I noodled over ways to make it work with anonymous users, but that's ultimately a losing battle. (See also: TrollForge.)

The admins can decide their access policy (invite-only or open registration, Twitter auth or username+password, etc.).

The platform is open source software, and I'm trying to make it as easy and accessible for folks to set it up as I can.
I was little curious why Newsom wasn't wanting to release details of California's billion dollar contract for N95 masks. His office even said disclosing details could threaten the supply. It makes a lot more sense if they're afraid the government will seize them.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-s-...
Why tho
Prioritization. Just because it is a hospital that wants to get them does not mean that it was that specific hospital had a higher priority on PPE at that specific time.

Today an unfilled request for PPE from Mount Sinai has a higher priority than an unfilled request for PPE in Boston. Mount Sinai therefore would win against Boston. Boston would win against a small hospital in Erie, PA.
Are you trying to imply that all risk is equivalent?

I'm not saying we should "forgo life," I'm just wondering why so many people are rushing to get back to driving Ubers, flipping burgers, etc. in the midst of this pandemic. It's not worth the risk of COVID, which is much, much higher than the baseline risk of everyday life.
You've been regularly replying with unhelpful at best commentary. The parent included a link to an article on ProPublica.
Exactly, so to summarize: he doesn't want to put his money where his mouth is.
Why do you believe you would be blamed when the company finally goes bust?

Would this blame matter because of your friendship with your cofounders? Or does their blame affect you in some other way?
Tit for tat has always been the solution to prisoner's dilemma. The people who think "prisoner's dilemma" means "I should be wholly and utterly selfish, because it's the logical thing to do" are just idiots who don't understand how cooperation can work over time and repeated trials to build trust.
Click into his bio and see how wrong you are.
That's not what I am talking about though. I am talking about the zero tax rate for holdning companies. it's an active strategy by the Danish government.
What are the odds of this being reversed mid-batch if covid isn't as big of a deal in say July?
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In a similar vein, when an F18 is launched from a carrier deck the pilot holds a handle rather than the joystick. This is because the flight computer manages the flight controls immediately after the catapult launch, and if the pilot was hands-on they would consciously or unconsciously provide conflicting inputs.

Stack overflow link with more info: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/44714/what-happ...
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Let go of your desire to have something built within the past five years and your horizons broaden considerably. There are plenty of beautiful buildings just a few blocks off the Pike/Pine corridor that are perfectly comfortable & livable. A quick look at craigslist confirms this, although prices are higher now that weather is nice - you can usually save $200/month by renewing your lease in January or February.
Some of the older hosting services still support only Python 2, or some early crappy version of Python 3.
Eh, not really.

A lot of the discussion revolves around mortality rates, and in particular about NYC as the US epicenter.

Most people I talk to who are thinking about leaving the city aren't concerned about their own risk as a result of being in a dense urban center, rather the lifestyle adjustments are the most difficult thing for them.

Granted that's almost entirely because most people I talk to are relatively healthy young adults who are being responsible and avoiding contact as much as possible, so they're not concerned as much about their own mortality or being a possible vector for others.
> likely has significant technical debt issues

You're not wrong, but as a practical matter, that pretty much describes our entire industry.
> Paper bags have a worse impact in a very few, small, narrow metrics such as "ocean de-nutrification".

Paper bags require more reuse, that's the core finding of the study:

https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...

> Everyone blurts this out because of a study done in Europe that looked only at a very limited range of environmental factors specifically suited to the country that commissioned the study.

I wasn't aware that Denmark is a huge player in the international plastic bag trade, but perhaps I'm just uninformed.

> But most plastic bags don't end up mindfully collected, sorted, and incinerated.

Actually, they do - at least in the EU.

> The plastic bag I (HYPOTHETICALLY) threw out my car window is now several billion flakes of microplastics and the world is struggling with the health ramifications of a century of build-up in the environment.

The world doesn't even know yet if microplastics are a serious health problem, but if they are, then we've already reached the point of no return.

> For that matter, the glass bottle is now harmless beach glass or sand (or a valuable collectible on ebay-next), and the aluminum beer can is now its 10,000th reincarnation-- having been picked up by a bum and traded in for cash.

What about the added weight of the glass bottle requiring more fossil fuel to transport? What about all the energy required to reuse that aluminum? There's good arguments for either of these materials - I don't want to drink my beer out of a plastic bottle - but helping the environment isn't one of them.

> My favorite "HOT TAKE" from that study is that "yOu HaVe To ReUsE a ClOtH bAg 500 tImEs" for it to be more efficient (in a very narrow spectrum of categories, remember) like that's an insurmountable hurdle.

It's not insurmountable, but people just don't do it. These bags get disgusting after a while. People are throwing them away. Same with "reusable" PET bags.

> My made-in-USA cotton totes I got on Amazon for $13.99 in 2010 have been used once a week since I got them.

You deserve a burial at Arlington for that.
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Minecraft Creative. Lots of people play that without even sharing their works.
I'm really hoping that gopls gets to 1.0 soon. I feel like gopls is the elephant in the room that's taking a lot of air from some of the smaller tools, and I'm glad it's being called out as a priority in this report.
> Mumble mumble something about conflating languages with implementations.

So your claim is that "Python 2" is a language spec, not an implementation? And that there will be future releases of this language spec in the future? I doubt it.

I agree it's likely that there will be people wasting their time maintaining an interpreter fork, but that will not be Python-the-language (a trademarked term BTW), it will be a fork of the implementation.
There's a larger, nuanced point here: statistical ML based "AI" is simply an API over aggregated samples of human intelligence. The sampling suffers from bias (the "white men" example in this thread), gaps (the OP's example, which relies on "shirts without stripes" being an uncommon, though perfectly acceptable phrase), and many more such shortcomings of what is essentially "rote learning".
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