skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not price gouging unless one seller got all the masks. It's called market forces. A lot of products were shipped from the middle of the country to the coasts where there was no stock, faster than any central distribution could achieve.

I'm sure people who needed masks were glad they got what they needed before this stupid ban.
Hmm, how is one actually supposed to use O_SPECIFICFD in real life though? I mean, picking some specific FD nr can work in trvial, single threaded programs maybe, but how is that supposed to work on typical generic userspace code that has many threads and many libraries/subsystems all running in the same address space (and fd space) that want to take possession of some fd? I mean are apps supposed to block fd ranges ahead of time, by dup()ing /dev/null a couple of times, or how is that supposed to work? not getting this...
Not even America has free speech by American standards. E.g. you can't say "fuck" on TV and you can only create and sell pornography under certain circumstances.
...and incentivising brick & mortar to raise prices? This is such a bad idea. The solution to price-gouging is a free market - not closing the market.
I haven't looked recently, but when the first wave of travel restrictions was being implemented, WHO, CDC and other public health authorities were saying that travel restrictions were unnecessary and ineffective.
US LE agencies started buying phone location data collected from cell towers
That's starting to look quite interesting, thanks! 5TB of rsyncable storage for 22€/month could definitely replace one of my NAS boxes. The 10 concurrent connections are the only big limitation really. Not being able to run my own stuff is also not ideal. But it's the kind of thing I've envisioned to stop using a NAS and just point syncer at:

https://github.com/pedrocr/syncer/
Fixing Scrum (2019)
Totally agree. Having read a lot of similar threads on HN, relentless positivity and humbleness (maybe with a sprinkling of humour) seems to be the solution.

Reminds me a little of being very young, at school, and learning to deal with other kids taking shots to look for a weakness - effectively early mild bullying. Then, again, the rule was stay positive and don’t show them you’re upset, or else they’ve found their weakness... and it will get worse.
The USA has indeed a systemic healthcare problem. Of their own making.

“I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/us-coronavirus...
The Temporal Evolution of a Far-Right Forum
> my point is that if the stores raised prices they wouldn't be cleared out for arbitrage or hoarding.

There’s another version of this that goes: stores raise prices and are cleared out for hoarding and arbitrage.

What is the price for masks that will alleviate panic and / or greed?
Somebody posted it there as a comment. That's why we have the article here now I presume.
I was always told it's perfectly legal, but writing anything negative opens the path for future legal headaches. It's less hassle to only confirm the dates worked.
How would you characterize the current public response to COVID-19? What aspects do you think indicate under-preparation? What aspects do you think are hysterical or overly cautious? To what extent do you believe it is prudent and reasonable to shut down businesses, schools, and other public places to prevent the spread of the disease? How do you weigh the cost of constricting economic and social activity compared to the cost of the disease itself?

Anybody who is willing to pass (IMHO) bad-faith judgments on well-intentioned users should be also willing to answer these sorts of questions.
I can recommend that you watch "BBS: The Documentary", they cover the arc wars as well, there's also this document: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/CONTROVERSY/LAWSUITS/S...
Shitcoiners can gtfo.
wow. I feels like I should also donate my body. I am really proud of those doctor and wishing alot of happiness to that family who donated there child body. As an indian and hindu, I can feel how big this means.
If you own a mass manufacturing facility you’d typically want to run it 24/7.

There may not be any spare capacity, and new facilities take time to build.
Do conditions of perfect competition obtain in this market? Is there perfect information for all market participants? Are all offerings in the market perfectly fungible? Are entry to and exit from the market frictionless? Are all other conditions held equal? If these are not true, then your model of supply and demand is uncoupled from reality and will give wrong results.

Supply and demand ais an elementary model to explore the basic principles of price theory. It is a starting point, not the last word. Listening to people talk about it like an iron law of nature is like doing a high school math problem about how fast a car can get from A to B and thinking you've got the hang of autonomous vehicles.
Looks awesome! I need to convince my team to use datasaur

Congratulations for the launch!
It absolutely is price gouging if masks suddenly cost 20x what they normally do (or perhaps 'profiteering' would be a better term?); moreover, in conditons of undersupply, competition doesn't lower prices, because every seller can be confident they'll clear out their stock (as long as the price doesn't overshoot demand completely).
a relatively flawed v1 device -- when a v2 device is available for £25

So... the v2 device isn't flawed and we're not about to see a v3 device before v2 is shelved in a few years?

Also, where's it £25? They seem to offer it for £49.
eBay comes out as communists!

Start messing with supply and demand and you will be in for an world of hurt.
Indian manufacturers actually make several complex cancer therapies under the new compulsory licensing law that are made to my knowledge nowhere else except the US. The original manufacturer refused to launch in India.

(Source: a colleague from another country where the manufacturer also made the drug unavailable asked to have the drugs procured from India)

Edit: the drug was Nexavar by Bayer. The CEO was quoted as saying "No, because we did not develop this product for the Indian market, let’s be honest. We developed this product for Western patients who can afford this product, quite honestly". Recently it seems the Indian courts also allowed export licenses for the drug to other markets where Bayer similarly refused to launch - sadly after the relative of my colleague passed away - at least partially from the delay in procuring the drug.
You are right saying geeks are emotional like everybody else.

The answers you receive to your comment are a proof of this, and I, for one, felt a strong emotional urge to respond :)

Yet I don't know anybody personnally who has been killed by a crane or a forklift and still want those to only be in the hands of trained professionals.

Some tools demultiply the potential for a single human to do damage so much that I don't want any individual to casually be able to yield them.

You cannot have an encryption accident in the same way you can have a car accident. It's ok to use signal drunk, it's not more dangerous than drunk irc. It's ok tu use https if you are uneducated or in rage, it's not more dangerous than http. You have a can fully encrypted veracrypt file in the hand of children. Nobody is going to kill you with a pgp key. Your encrypted hard drive has no more storage risk than the regular one, even in a plane or in a facility with fire hazard.

All in all, encryption works by making it hard to do damages to you. It's passive. Weapons work by promising than attempting to do damages to you will result in damages to them as well. It's an important nuance.

That being said, I go to the shooting range myself. I like it. It's fun, and it's a knowledge I don't want an elite to be the only owner of. But I want my ability to do so to be heavily supervised.

Not so with encryption.
My Experience with Learning Golang
They're not really constant though, if you wanna be really pedantic. You can modify a const object for example.
> Either positive or negative + a comment, sounds like it would work way better.

Exactly. This is how CouchSurfing works. It's just another way of asking "Would you recommend this place / this person to your friend?". And that's what people really want to know, after all.
Twistronics
Retail establishments don't usually gouge nearly as deep as eBay sellers.

Also, the free market is why price gouging exists. It's a natural consequence of supply and demand coupled with speculation. The only solution the free market offers is that people don't support price gouging via resellers... Which is what eBay is avoiding doing.
I'm simply channeling Linus Torvalds. Here's a sample of a rant/boast from 2000 where Linus defends the "heavy-weight" threading approach against claims that a proper user-space threading architecture could provide better performance by requiring fewer syscalls and less memory:

> Yes, you could do it differently. In fact, other OS's _do_ do it differently. But take a look at our process timings (ignoring wild claims by disgruntled SCO employees that can probably be filed under "L" for "Lies, Outright"). Think about WHY our system call latency beats everybody else on the planet. Think about WHY Linux is fast. It's because it's designed right.

Source: https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/80

The same architectural approach was taken with fork: Linux optimized the heck out of fork to the point where fork on Linux was faster than thread creation on Windows. On multiple occasions Linus has argued (and proven), that optimizing the simple but "heavy-weight" approach can reap dividends at least as great as more complex, more flexible architectures.

Of course, that was then and this is now. And many things have changed, including the success of Linux. I'm just suggesting, or perhaps implying, that there's more eagerness to entertain the replacement of traditional syscall semantics and other subsystems with more complex frameworks than there once used to be. In the context of Spectre, arguably it would have been easier for a younger Linus (and younger Linux) to refuse to rearchitect syscalls (with the concomitant additional kernel and semantic complexity), to tell everyone to sit tight and wait for AMD and Intel to come up with mitigating hardware fixes, and in the intervening years just take the performance hit.
Slavery is economically irrational. The risk of losing a William Deming or a Tim Cook because they were enslaved is far more damaging than the benefits of guaranteed cheap manual labour. We have an economy where a 1 in 100 worker is much more productive than the other 99 if they are allowed to make their own decisions about where they contribute. Funnily enough; the people with moral objections to slavery gained ascendancy at roughly the same time it became economically irrational. And started winning wars against slavery-tolerant societies because slave-based economies couldn't possibly compete with technology and industrial processes in the hands of free people.
As all of these closures happen we're going to see a massive stress test of the modern economy. HN has already seen a lot of comments about the remote work experiment that's currently in-progress, but the other experiment is this: what are we going to do with kids when their schools are closed and both parents work?

A lot of moms work these days, and that's going to make things a lot harder for keeping kids at home. Not trying to pass any judgement on women in the workforce, just pointing out that in black swan events like this it makes reacting to it a lot harder from a social perspective. Consider for a moment if most women stayed at home: school being cancelled would be annoying, but manageable. I've already heard from friends (on the west coast) that they have no idea how to handle this (kids are grade school age, 2nd and 3rd grade) given that they're both expected to still do their jobs remotely.
I don't, it was imposed on me as part of my daily job tooling.
Server-X(svrx): More than a dev server,built for efficient front end development
S3 Standard and S3 IA store multiple copies spread across 3 zones. S3 One-Zone IA is stored as multiple copies but all within a single zone. They give you the same technical durability but less availability if that zone goes down, and if it's destroyed then you lose all your data.
Batched virtual memory updates (mmap/munmap/madvise) could be a boon for allocators and garbage collectors since the cost of TLB shootdowns could be amortized.

Similarly if all the syscalls done between fork and exec could be squeezed into a single uring chain without any intervening userspace code then the kernel could skip some costly virtual memory operations, bringing us closer to posix_spawn behavior.
She is not really independent right now. There is no way a grandma can live comfortably in one of the biggest cities in the world without massive subsidies in the form of rent control, for example.
Every domain had the same content, was styled in the same format (something like a28d92.com, then b28d92.com...) and all were acting as redirection platforms for phishing sites and all were registered on the same day.

It wasn't hard to verify or easy to fake, or loose. Namecheap's legal/abuse department are just completely incompetent/don't care about their own TOS.
“...its built-in advertising network and Ethereum-based crypto token exchange system.

I really don’t think that that’s its selling point. I really think most would think this is not a browser’s job. Also, not our job to help Eich displace Google. As users, this is not our concern at all.
Cotton surgical masks are generally intended to protect other people from your germs... Not the other way around.
They don’t recommend it, but you can front a Netlify site with Cloudflare—including putting the cf origin cert into Netlify. I do this for my website.

You just add the domain to the site in Netlify, but then set up the hosts as CNAME in cf pointing at the codenamed Netlify hostname for the site.

I’m on the cf free plan, and the whole setup works great.

Cloudflare could probably take the whole stack though if they gave me a simple tool to upload a directory of files to them.

(I stopped using Netlify for builds when I started moving my repos off of GitHub due to GitHub’s collaboration with ICE, and Netlify only supports the major git services for autobuilds. I self-host my repos with Gitea now, so I have to build on my Drone server and just use the Netlify CLI in the last CI step to upload the built site.)
Google Cloud bandwidth is stupidly overpriced.

I run a SaaS on Google Cloud functions and the bandwidth cost from somebody linking our homepage in a HN comment is often 2x the cost to run the actual service.
An understanding of the difference between simplistic textbook examples with a lot of constraints, and the real world. Please, read some scholarly economics papers, not just textbooks or ideological treatises. Actual economists are acutely aware of the messiness of the real world, the imperfection of their models, and the complexity of feedback loops and multi-agent interactions.
Azriel Clary Says R.Kelly Forced Her to Eat Feces Out of Cup – [Watch]
The energy not lost to friction is being loaded into the system as the gears and axles start to strain from the stresses applied. Some energy is potential energy like a compressed spring. The balance is spent making the material yield; this will be lost as heat.
Europe sees warmest winter since records began
The spring break is still happening. In two to three weeks we will find if it was stupid idea. Or nothing happens.
Slack doesn't bring me anything new that the other enterprise communication tools did not provide all the way back to Netmeeting, other that wasting my CPU resources.
No way my dude, you just spin up a new Docker instance on AWS and do another funding round in the afternoon.

[Giant sarcasm alert]
The price they were selling for on eBay? Because you could get them.
I feel like there is a difference between having a thought, and expressing that thought in (entirely tangible, in terms of electromagnetic signals) data over a wire that someone else owns. If you want your thoughts to stay yours, you’re free to keep them to yourself; just don’t transmit them through electromagnetic media that other people currently control by force.
Isn’t the fact that some people will be unable to afford them (or some other potentially lifesaving product) when they need them a problem that needs to be addressed either way? I feel like we’ll be talking around the problem forever if we ignore the fact that “willingness to pay” is a useful concept economically but probably doesn’t match most people’s moral intuition about who ought to get lifesaving resources.
That begs the question: what is Mongo's usecase?
I think the semi-automated annotation tool is quite the same with prodigy
Alum here. Any special precautions taken at dining halls? At least the great majority of undergrads have to eat at large dining halls like Arrillaga and Lakeside, that seems to be an even greater problem than in-person classes, especially when people reuse dishes. I recall Ricker Dining’s manager occasionally patrolling the dining hall telling people not to reuse dishes back when I was a student living in GovCo. Apparently a lot of people do that.
it's like a key-value store, (or a dictionary). However, the values are objects (big blobs of data). This means you can't update parts of objects without rewriting the blob. However, most of the object stores offer metadata operations (move, tag, ...), concat of n objects into 1 and partial reads.
I disable Slack notifications, and approach the replies just like I do with email.

The only exception are meetings and escalations when something is on fire.
Just the conductivity.
Worth nothing that at the very least find's `-print0` and xargs's `-0` are not POSIX compliant and may not be available unless you're using GNU. Presuming the rest are the same though I'm not sure.
They market their bulbs as having a 15 year lifespan. It's not unreasonable for consumers to expect the hub to have at least the same lifespan. There's arguments both for longer and shorter lifespan expectations on the hub depending on perspective (it's not a regular-replacement component / it has outside dependencies that can't be maintained without cost), but a reasonable middle ground of the life of the bulb is hard to argue against. Especially as the 'starter kit' is three bulbs and a bridge.

I remain extremely glad that my IoS components at home are all based around my own central service offering. This is a massive amount of work despite me knowing what I'm doing, requires regular upkeep, and is absolutely not what is being sold to consumers when they pay a premium for products like Hue.
It's normal here that kids aged 7-8 and up usually go to school on their own and come home on their own. Then they stay at home on (or go out to play) until their parents come home from work. So, can't you just leave the kid at home? I've heard anecdotes from the US and western Europe that this isn't done, but surely you can do that in cases like this?

Edit: I don't see how this doesn't cause a massive hit to the economy though. Some workplaces will be shut down and if stuff isn't produced then the economy isn't moving.
It reduces demand to those who actually need it.

And have money to afford it, something which is not accounted for in the simplistic models of supply and demand that people are promoting with religious levels of certitude up and down this thread.
> Hi! I spent a day making Jetty, Jersey, and MongoDB work together in Kotlin, that's why you won't have to!

And this is why platform languages win, there is nothing to spend time "making it work".
> they manage cross-device notification state better than... well Apple for one. That truly 'instant' messaging experience across devices is why they are superior to IRC and decentralized alternatives

I recently deployed workplace chat for ~100 people using XMPP. People use whatever clients they want (but we have a list of recommended clients, and in practice everyone is using one of those). With the modern extensions (SMACKS, carbons, MAM, push service integration) cross-device notifications are totally seamless. A bunch of the users are non-technical and they have had no trouble.

Slack has a lot of advantages over the likes of XMPP but I don't think technical superiority is one of them.
Tangent: note that masks are useless if you're buying just a few. They're disposable. No point in buying less than a box. And at current prices, few people could afford that.
In a client server application I designed as part of a previous job we did exactly this.

An RPC call was a list of functions and arguments, and there was a special tag that could refer back to a previous return value in the same set of calls.

All calls in the same request was executed in the same transaction. Them main goal was to avoid usingddistributed transactions, but also helped reducing latency over slow connections.
It's really not that common for a child's primary caregiver to be 60+.
Trump Administration Orders Shiji to Sell Hotel Tech Firm StayNTouch
Under many circumstances, that would be a likely explanation, but who outside government is lobbying for this kind of invasion of privacy and what do they hope to gain from it? It's certainly not the tech firms, nor other established big businesses like retail and finance that rely on encryption to operate with reasonable security. It's obviously not the human rights and civil liberties crowd. Is it clueless "think of the children" types, and the manipulative media that serve them?
Autodidactic strategery is a bit of an independent question from that of how important math is. As a prerequisite for CS or programming, you only need middle school algebra. It's obviously necessary to learn new things for core CS classes like data structures & algorithms. And then beyond that, there are specific applications of mathematics to specific domains.

But as a question of fact, particular math knowledge is not useful in a lot of software development.
Wasnt someone from who or was it a German scientist? I forgot, but he basically excepts that 60 to 70 percent will be infected before it slows down.
Can anyone who's used both Netlify and Zeit comment on how the two compare? I personally use Zeit and I really like their interface. The work they've been doing with nextjs has also been very interesting.
Is the demo day website going to be available for investors/ media alone? I wish YC made the presentations of all the startups available online for everyone. I’m sure it would be super-useful for connecting jobseekers with interesting startups, decision makers at enterprises interested in connecting with founders, developers to discover interesting tools, etc. I understand that certain startups upload their pitches online. I just wish there was a better way for interested parties (other than investors and the media) to look at all the pitches in one place.
Anecdote/Sample of 1: lawyer friend skipped paying the fine for picking up his kid from the kindergarten 30mins after the closing time. His excuse was "come on what is 30mins?". Kindergarten warned "strike 1" and promised that he either paid the $10 'penalty' (textbook Freakonomics case) or be so much closer to expulsion (Edit: added the Or to conclude the Either).

He didn't pay and promised to sue. His wife was then told that if he sues the kid is out the door. She paid. She never told him. He still thinks "he won". I know many people of all professions can be dicks, but it feels like Lawyers have a greater concentration.
Yup. Compare with other assets: people don't sell when prices go up. Last thing we need now is turning PPE into an investment vehicle.
I will always look for a written alternative if there is one, but if forced to watch a video I'll speed it up at least 2.5x, sometimes more depending on the video, and use captioning. For me it's the worst possible medium in general though.
The Untold Story of the Man That Made Mainstream Encryption Possible