skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no federal law on price gouging.

Despite the increase of government enforcement activity, not every price increase constitutes price gouging (no matter how abnormal the price seems).

State laws are toothless and many resign their regulation in the face of an event that lasts for 30+ days, as it accurately suggests the problem isn't going away if it hasn't by then and is probably bigger than the state.

The market has expanded and there is a war for resources.

The price is the market price and is a necessary market signal. Any 2-bit lawyer can defend this now, enjoy. Two the state's attorney general, don't waste public resources on this.

The governments fully capable of creating a price ceiling and subsidizing on top of that.

The market signals are abundantly clear and are a necessary motivating factor to solve the supply constraints.
re: Setting up internal go documentation server - the godoc package has great instructions for doing so!

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc
Yes completely forget how they shut shop in China. It's easy to write all this from a keyboard when the US govt is not after you.
YC Rejection Letters Are Out - Share your rejected project
Once again, I was on the receiving end. 10th time for me (but with multiple different projects/startups)!
Is that a record?

If anyone is keen on figuring out what is affecting their sleep, and improving it, check out https://withbliss.net
Yup. I like Python3, it's better than 2, and has lots of good new features, but so many of them could simply have been added onto 2 without requiring this huge painstaking migration that cost an unbelievable amount of effort worldwide.

Contrast with Java, which has made much more substantial changes to the language over all these years, but goes to great pains to support backwards compatibility. Upgrading major Java versions was never remotely as painful, and as a result, huge amounts of engineering time was saved.
Why do we discuss this clause as something unique? Not accepting delivery is a standard clause in transport, even small internet shops handle that.
> Problems

Such as? :)
Torino Scale for categorizing the impact hazard of NEOs
Hum... We can know this today with the power of Math!

But seriously, changing to -$10 to -$20 is a +100% change. It's multiplication, this is how it works. From -$10 to $10 would be a -200% change.

Obviously, only the mainstream news reports finance numbers as a percentage of change. Anybody else is only concerned about ROI.
Surprising the amount of downvotes I got from giving a simple compliment....
But what does strings have to do with it? Why can't those expressions be plain Perl, maybe with some overloaded operators?

For example,

import week, custom, si, type from stdlib.units
weight = 10 * si.kg
speed = 2.5 * (custom("furlong", type.LENGTH) / week)
Follow up answer, it's never zero dollars.
Most Small Firms Report Not yet Getting Money from Virus Funds
There's a pretty fascinating list of results in Google Books for "a Gresham's Law of" or "a sort of Gresham's Law", dating to the 19th century, suggesting at the very least an ideologically broad, if not agnostic, application of the concept:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&ei=RGSeXuWpJozdtAa876-...
Alex Rodriguez, Jennifer Lopez Retain JPMorgan to Raise Money for Mets Bid
My comment was more about the grandstanding and politicizing of the epidemic.

It doesn’t really matter what choices were made, if either political party can score points, they will do it.
I forget which of the pizza chains he owns (Papa Jong’s or Pizzeria Un).
All of the Bay Area counties have prohibited visiting friends. It is not listed as "essential travel" and the counties have threatened to fine or imprison violators.

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/order-health-offi...
> Shouldn't government officials randomly sample populations rather than testing whomever volunteers?

Governments are prioritizing tests for people with symptoms or close encounters with confirmed infected people if they're in a high-risk pool.

> How can we know how good or bad the situation is if we don't have decent statistics? We _do_ want to know how good or bad the situation is, don't we?

Tests on the ground don't give a fuck about the macro (and I'd argue they probably shouldn't). When you have a micro-crisis (such as a suspected case in a nursing home), it's very hard to argue for random sampling for the greater good of "better data".
A friend pointed out that specific genetic variants in the immune system are prevalent in northeastern Italy and are likely to substantially increase susceptibility to the virus. New York's large Italian population is part of the problem. Same thing in South Florida.
On Building
Trump says he'll suspend immigration to U.S.
it's like a JS port of Anki, nice!
It's the top end estimate from the study. Even if you take the low-end estimate (~30x), there would be 4.2M cases, which is still ~50% of the New York population.

Basically, you're just saying that you don't want to believe what they're saying, therefore it's hard to believe. But there's nothing illogical or impossible about it in the slightest.
(for the sake of argument, let's assume that except for work hours, i am the perfect candidate and you are my favourite choice as employer)

choosing not to work together is ok if the constraints are a lifestyle choice. you may like to have your work done at that time, and i may prefer to work certain hours. if that's more important to either of us than other factors, then fine.

what bothers me is when there is no choice. i can't choose my work hours, they are dictated to me and outside of my control.

yet you insist on workhours that are incompatible. now your hours may not be by choice either, but something or someone has to give here, because it's not good for society if we exclude a whole category of people from working just because of constraints they have.

you have to realize that most business will act like you and are not flexible on their hours. but at the same time, i can't change school hours either. so i can't find a job.

there are discussions about how early school hours are bad for children but starting late will cost many parents their jobs.

if your work hours are a preference, then i'd ask you to reconsider that. if they are not by choice either then i'd like to explore what the problem is and see if we can work around those constraints.

we won't be able to solve every problem. maybe you actually are accomodating other parents already, and now you need someone to fill in for the remaining time. that would be unfortunate for this particular situation, but if more companies work like that then there would be enough other opportunities.

the problem i see is that right now most companies seem to have the attitude that they get to decide and employees need to adjust and fit in. and that i think, needs to change.
Sounds great. We just broke out our kitchen aid which had sat dormant next to the bread machine for years. I didn’t know it had a mill attachment but I guess I’m not surprised.
'Stealth'? Seemed pretty overt to me. Making the character everything you describe and also a spoiled brat of a teenager with an overinflated sense of his own importance doesn't seem like something that happens in that show by accident, you know?
The Stanford study in Santa Clara that used Premier Biotech appears to be very misleading. Given the confidence intervals on the specificity all 50 positive cases out of the 3330 tested could just be false positives.

See Gelman's article on the topic.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...

I am similarly skeptical of the findings here.
If you’re a North Korean barely not starving to death, it’ll likely be an improvement.

Hell, enough turmoil that you don’t get shot when fleeing across the border would be an improvement.
I think mandatory attendance in grade school is a regulation that is interesting to consider in the context of Gresham's law.

Is attendance mandatory so that the disruptive (bad) students don't drive out the good ones from attending, or does mandatory attendance create a situation that favors the bad student (by forcing them to attend) at an expense to the good student, who would have attended otherwise?
I am wondering how your startup can earn by doing this platform? I can't see any price plan or whatever...
You might appreciater "Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations', by Bernhard J. Stern (1937), which asseses just this dynamic in depth:

https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...

Markdown: https://pastebin.com/raw/Bapu75is
Original news story that triggered this - https://www.dailynk.com/김정은-최근-심혈관-시술-받았다여전히-특각서-치/
i'm sighted and super adhd. i run my kindle at 4x. its super annoying because they speed the words but not the spaces. half a god damn sentence could go by during their spaces
Will this break a lot of systems?
> "Well, we used to do two, three to four a week,"

Uh, shit. I expected the rate before COVID to be way less. No wonder COVID is causing so much havoc. COVID has simply been the pin that popped the bubble.

4 startups a week that just this one firm are shutting down due to no revenue or investment? And not just 4 companies closing a week, but 4 that have enough assets that need a law firm to clean up the mess. What a disaster the start-up economy has turned out to be.
Totally agree and just to add to the list: complete inability to communicate or work with others.
Neither has a moment like the present one, at any time in living memory. Jokes about accurately predicting 200 of the last 2 recessions aside, it seems like it might legitimately be that dude's time to shine.
The contract[1] assumes that Cushing has storage capacity. IANAL so I don't know how material that will be, but I continue to expect that lawyers will get involved and this will be a mess.

[1] https://www.cmegroup.com/content/dam/cmegroup/rulebook/NYMEX...
Maybe other people have had a different Android development experience from you.
I wanted to reply earlier, but my eyes rolled out of my sockets due to your 'both sides' argument. It took me some time to get them from under my couch.
Specifically, the Imperial College model with the "two million deaths" conclusion assumed an IFR of 0.9% (adjusted for age distribution) in every scenario. Maybe not quite a delusion, but the only IFR number they modeled is starting to look pretty close to one.
OT: perhaps that guideline should be updated to say that when asking a question that appears to be entirely covered by the article under discussion, commenters should clarify that they have read and it, and explain why the article does not sufficiently answer the question. As it is, it's just a suggestion to be more passive aggressive - those two examples convey exactly the same thing except in the second one, you pretend that you are not accusing the commenter of not reading it. For example here, my response could have been "The very first paragraph says that." Would you have interpreted that differently in any way?
You're endangering peoples' lives by driving yes, but it's more like a few persons at most and huge inconvenience for a whole lot of people.

COVID-19 could end up sickening tons of individuals at once and contributing much more death.
I get that idea because all of the sources you're citing are extremely far-right biased publications [1] or like one-off tweets that you've cherry picked from a background of more grounded discussion.

None of this compares to the clear message that has been coming from the highest offices of our government for the past three months.

What's ironic is that I think you're using the "both sides" argument right here for all of the wrong reasons I complained about in my original post. Even if the democratic party organized an effort to discredit health experts and denounce the virus (which they didn't), why does that matter? They would also deserve to be shamed just as the current administration does.

I care about having a competent federal response to this ongoing crisis, not for example holding up federal stimulus checks to make sure your signature gets printed on them for your reelection campaign [2]. Also, please note that I've sourced that fact from the BBC, a reputable news source.

[1] https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52293910
Working for a company that is tangentially related to consumer essentials--we make a self-checkout of sort--our customers have been hounding us to move faster. The crisis has been the catalyst for our slow moving customers to push their legal teams faster than normal.
I was the president of 4027 at the time.
> so do you support 100% of every measure, every state government has taken, or is that just a board support over closing the entire economy and putting millions out of work?

Who knows? That's a pretty overbroad corpus of material you're citing. That said, I'm pretty comfortable with the state-level responses so far, given the federal government response has been so inept that it required such drastic corrective measures from the states. It would be insane to knowingly choose to sacrifice the lives of hundreds of thousands on the altar of the economy.

> Do [you] believe there are any limits on government in a time or crisis, or more to the topic at hand do you believe in any limits on democracy or just pure 50.1% can tell the 49.9% what to do?

There are, but those limits also cannot be understood to require a dysfunctional response to a crisis. Ultimately, the government has to be able to do the reasonable thing. And yes, "reasonable" is something that requires judgement and often cannot be mechanically predefined.

> I will admit I am not a strong supporter of pure democracy, I do prefer Constitutional Republics with strong protections for the minority from the excesses of the majority, the minority being the individual.

It's pretty clear that we haven't been talking about some fantasy unchecked majoritarian direct democracy, so it's a bit of a straw man to start injecting that in.

> In a free society you can as that "dumb thing" is not directly, and provably a danger to others, and there is some libertarian arguments for for some of the stay at home orders. However many of them have gone well beyond public protection and are a clear power grab and should be unconstitutional and are a clear violation of natural human rights

Eh, I disagree. Also those arguments that the government should only be able to order confirmed cases to stay home are pretty unreasonable, given the fact of asymptomatic carriers and woefully inadequate testing capability.

> But the prevailing opinion by the "majority" in this democracy is that your rights end when the crisis begins, meaning you have no rights at all, because in times of crisis is when you need your rights more than ever, right scan not and should not be "suspended" because of crisis, if they can they are not rights at all but privileges

See that's where you're misunderstanding things. Those rights are meaningless if the system that secures them is so rigid that it invites total rejection. You're right that a crisis can be a risky time, but fundamentalism is not necessarily the safest response.
Peregrine makes several digitally tunable capacitors (switched capacitor banks) that work to S-band and can handle moderate power. I have used them for antenna tuning.

https://www.psemi.com/products/digitally-tunable-capacitors-...
Based on their Wikipedia page, DailyNK appear to have good sourcing within the NK regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_NK
Osang Healthcare Receives FDA Approval for Covid-19 Detection Kit
Do you have any links on what you mentioned about the "rule of simple explanations"? It seems like a useful mental model.
I've been looking for a good netbook that isn't a chromebook. Which one did you pick up?
>We shouldn't treat those born in poverty differently than those born into wealth - and it seems like a tiny step to require cruise ships to treat their workers well.

And neither do they. Their offer of employment is valid for rich people too.
CNN reports that Kim is in serious condition citing 2 individual US officials.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/20/politics/kim-jong-un-nort...

According to a reporter for NBC citing 2 individual US officials, US officials believe Kim to be brain dead after undergoing surgery for a cardiac event. The reporter has since deleted the tweet to wait upon further confirmation.
https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/1252419884023087106

According to a reporter for Bloomberg citing White House officials, US officials believe Kim is in poor condition if alive, or dead. The White House is looking into who would succeed Kim if he dies.
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/12524264588630261...
Not looking to put a bunch of negative energy out about it, but I know what you mean and you're right.
That and you’re constantly struggling to decipher audio and make yourself understood. Much like talking in a bar that’s too loud is exhausting. A lot of the exhaustion seems like it’s the difficulty of compensating for a high latency, low-bandwidth, low quality experience. We’re just not evolved for it—reality is the opposite of all of those things.
Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly Part 0 – Setup and First Steps
Why Should You Have More Than One Email Account?
possible dupe of:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22931179 (earlier, twitter)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22931230 (earlier, nbcnews)
This is also true of the very wealthy.
Capacity of 717 million barrels. [1]

Inventory of 635 million barrels. [2]

635/717 = 88.5%

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(U...

[2] https://www.spr.doe.gov/dir/dir.html
Another fun sentence is "I never said she stole my money". It has 7 different meanings depending on which word is stressed/emphasized. Was about to type it all but DDG'd this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/64ae8h/i...
They were reporting what they were told, and didn't that turn out to be true that no "ventilators" were delivered? I believe I read a follow-up article on that.
What does "laidback" mean?
That could be a record :) Do you feel like your startups got better with each application, or they were just different ideas?
Here's a great overview of their process!

https://www.shrwood.com/Assignments-Liquidations/Assignment-...
The Stanford study didn't properly include the specificity in their predictions. See here, https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...
Open the Country Right Now!

You asshole liberals have really fucked up now.
I agree, the fatality rates reported in the media smells of overhype. A lot. Over here in WA, the testing policy is along the lines of "Test patients hospitalized with severe lower respiratory illness or people working in critical sectors, and then maybe consider people with 100.4+ fevers and/or shortness of breath" [0]. That population selection has an elevated death risk, and also muddles the positive/negative ratio: symptomatic people test positive, whereas health workers test negative. We get high negative test ratios, falsely indicating we're early in the outbreak, and also high mortality ratios among positives, falsely indicating a high fatality rate. Extrapolating to the entire population is wrong and irresponsible.

The flu and vaccine point is also well taken. For the entirety of human history the flu was a health risk for the elderly and life expectancy [excluding under 5s] was 60-70 [1]. The contemporary expectation that everyone should make it into their 80s and 90s is a strong outlier.

OTOH, people counter by pointing out that NYC is already at 0.16 [14000 / 8400000] fatality rate [2], and it's unclear how many more until this wave recedes. Then anecdotes about dead healthcare workers, reinfections, mutation rates, etc.

[0] https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/...

[1] https://www.quora.com/Excluding-child-mortality-what-is-the-...

[2] https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Track...
possible dupe of:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22931179 (earlier, twitter)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22931290 (later, twitter)
Open the country!
Open the Country!
No, typically there is nothing to sell. The "assets" are worthless (code, website, customer lists). Maybe furniture they sell to liquidators at 5% of price. The liquidators will then put that in storage and will sell the assets at 40-50% of price.
Unwinding a company is quite complex and he works with a skeleton accounting staff to close the corporation, pay state, federal, sales taxes (you can never escape that), closing the DE corp and all foreign companies as well.
Lot of admin work.
For individuals only $89:

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Recall Gavin Newsom!
I'd buy into the argument that people should be free to make their own risk choices, if most people were in the position to make their own choice at all. Unfortunately for many, needing to go to work to pay rent is not a choice. Closing non-essential businesses is one of the few avenues of collective action available. It's horribly unequal to essential employees, but it's better than everyone simply being forced to carry on as normal, especially without PPE or new procedures.

What is shutdown and what is open certainly needs to be refined. (Simple example: there is a private park near me that is closed, in spite of it being a good place to get out of the house while distancing) But it's awfully hard to have nuanced discussion when it's drown out by obtuse ignorant nonsense.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1250698888731701248

Yeah, probably he delivered Resmed CPAP machines with firmware, I suppose.
We need an internet bill of rights. Something. Corporations with 100M, 200M, 1B, 2B+ reach need to be governed
You clearly don't live in the real world. Every company is to comply with these
Re: point 3 the "go" tag on Stack Overflow is the worst one I know. Some very nice and helpful people, and some ... people who just love to nitpick Every. Single. Mistake. Loads of questions in the go tag getting downvoted and closed just because of that :-/

Even as someone who mostly answers questions it's frustrating.
You could apply for a free license for open source.

https://www.jetbrains.com/go/buy/#discounts?billing=yearly
I agree with your sentiment but one side is trying to dictate what is acceptable- the other is not.
Cars seems like a good example because the quality manifests itself physically and is independent of how well an individual buyer perceives quality. Also, the buyer is directly responsible for long-term costs associated with their decision which isn't the case in currency exchange.
That's absolutely true, but it is consistent with my background knowledge of China .
The python is the least of issues, you can just keep 2.7.18 and 10 years from now it will still work. The problem is dependencies. Developers of packages couldn't wait until they can drop all the cruft that python 2.7 was required.

https://python3statement.org/

Just do yourself a favor and migrate your codebase, Py3 is much more enjoyable to program in. I feel like all those vocal Python 2 supporters never had a chance to write a new code in Python 3. If you only did 2->3 migration you might hate Python 3, because it doesn't let you run a broken code that Python 2 happily executed, but if you can write Python 3 app from scratch you don't even notice the unicode, text is just text.
All you people that believe in "social distancing" and shaming your neighbors on nextdoor are fucking fascists.

Rot in Hell!
Death is also a human rights violation. If you party it up and sneeze at me at s grocery store then you're infringing mine.
He delivered cpaps that were modified. Not real ventilators.
oh apologies!
Even South Koreans don't trust their government in terms of NK news.
The CNBC article is quite good, but I like to read SCOTUSblog for their analysis. They add a little more detail:

https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/04/opinion-analysis-with-deb...
That’s New York State. My numbers are for the city proper.