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It doesn't have to be free for it to be worth it. Let's take that 80,000 number. After Steam takes its cut that's $42 going to Bethesda's pockets per unit sold (worst case, ignoring the lowered fees as units sold increases). There's no further distribution costs, so that's a straight 80,000 * $42 = $3.3M of revenue. If Denuvo costs even $100k then it's already paid for itself 30 times over.

As for the 80,000 number, Doom 2016 sold 500,000 copies on PC in its first 2 weeks. You only need mid to high single digit percentage increase from DRM to turn into substantial amounts of money. Heck, if Denuvo costs $100k then even a 1% sales increase during that first 2 weeks would have been a net gain of $110k.
> an apple is a pome, not all pome are apples.

coming from a language where "pomme" is the translation of "apple"... wat ?
He's probably referring to the fact that they were losing tons of money before coronavirus. They recently reported that they lost $276 million in Q4-2019, which was almost double Q4-2018. Which does lead to the question, how is this company losing so much money when they are, essentially, a broker with very few fixed assets and no COGS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22561933
appropriate? In what way. You clearly understood the message, as did everyone else.

The only weird thing is your need to rephrase it out of some "offense on behalf of another" reflex.
Young people die as well you know...
> Is there not an argument that given chloroquine's apparent efficacy, albeit statistically weakly or improperly demonstrated (so far), along with its long history of relative safety in anti-malarial prophylaxis (with known caveats), set against an exponential growth in dangerous pneumonia - it is therefore rational to want to at least offer it to all suspected cases and healthworkers in balance of the serious risks they face?

The term is "compassionate use". It's drug approval for patients where the drug is not fully tested.

It almost certainly wouldn't be approved for healthcare workers, but it might be approved for people who need ventilators.

The basic idea is that the situation is so dire - all of the normal medical options have been exhausted - that patients are legally allowed to essentially experiment on themselves.
And people keep saying that basic income is impossible.

This is an astonishing U-turn, and a very welcome one. I just hope the social distancing isn't too late.
Airbnb has over 5 million listings and 150 million customers around 190 countries and they don't make enough in commissions to pay rent, salaries and server costs?
So, with all these people not working... when do our supplies start to run out?
I mean, the stores are getting replenished now; but what happens when the supply chain dries up for a period of time?

Will we be able to boot-strap the supply chain to keep the economies of the world rolling?
>there is enough resources for everybody.

Not if the factories and stores are all closed for extended periods of time.

It won't be long until we have shortages.
> The math states something much more general, and often much deeper, than some mundane for-loop

Eh? Code can be just as generalized and "deep". The code may (probably) not be usefully executable, but it could describe any concept. At that point it's just "math" again, albeit with different format and symbols.

So I guess your point stands, but its a very thin distinction of common usage.
Why not move to a system where those most likely to live with minimal resource consumption move up? You’d probably need a multiplier for those that are useful to society but need more resources
I will happily pay 45% tax on my salary knowing the Gov has my back in difficult times like these. I'm fortunate enough to still have a job, but I'm happy I live in Europe.
It's not wrong, necessarily, the issue is that ICU admission rates even in young people are high enough that you need to flatten the curve an incredible amount in order not to overwhelm ICU capacity. (They're not high in absolute terms, but an arithmetically small change in a small number can have massive effects)
How is this comment upvoted? MIT has not removed the requirement to take SAT tests.

> We will continue to require the SAT or the ACT, because our research has shown these tests, in combination with a student’s high school grades and coursework, are predictive of success in our challenging curriculum.

This is typical of a knee-jerk reaction without even understanding their policy. Let alone reading the actual post. It's the answer to the very first question at the top of the post. I thought HN would do better than this.
At least with eBay you know the product you’re getting is actually from the seller you bought it from.

Wait, how is this different with eBay compared to Amazon?
Most people who can download a 50GB game tend to at least be able to have a connection that allows the game to phone home once a minute or so.
Always a bit frustrating to hit a pricing page and not see pricing. Please take time to provide at least some info https://rudderstack.com/pricing/
> But people say

Does everyone say that? Then you have a problem.

Do just a few people say that? Then ignore them, or figure out a way for them to save their data off your site.
I can't see how it touches low wage earners. In reality most of chippies & corner shops pay most with cash + minimal wage. For them - nothing changes.

It does work pretty good though for city workers - managers, devs, etc
A lot of DRM isn't like locks because a crack can be applied by casual enthusiasts, not just experts. Keygens are not hard to use, whereas lockpicks require a bit of skill, time, and equipment that you can't just download.

(Some DRM does actually act more like a lock, such as console DRM that require hardware mods and would void the warranty)
I think about it as business to consumer versus business to business. B2C is about status. B2B is about lasting relationships. By default, anyone searching for services on freelance aggregators is using a B2C model. Status can be about spending lots of money, but it defaults to being a saavy shopper or hard negotiator and such. Basically people with a B2B view of web design and lots of projects already have a relationship with a design provider.
Someone is reposting this every day from multiple URLs
This is 80% of pre-existing wages!

And, even though it's an employer subsidy, this is more beneficial in the long run if the economy recovers, because employers don't have to go through the fire/hire destruction and deadweight loss.
That isn’t just it though: they have access to old tests, they have access to test takers who memorize questions, given the importance and popularity of any test, these options will arise and people with means will have access to them.

There is no avoiding Goodhart’s law.
First remote work, now UBI: Covid-19 is planting the seeds that both are possible and can be beneficial to society in the future.
Not GP, but also a test prep teacher in a previous life. I always scored well on the SAT and test well in general, so I can't speak to personal improvement there, but a few points:

First, the test prep companies heavily encourage (and may even require?) students to take the test multiple times. That change alone will boost most people's top score by a solid margin, because it's a noisy test. The first response they always gave to people complaining about lack of improvement was "take the test again, and if you still haven't improved, take the course again for free, and then take the test again".

Second, psychometric expertise is great, but the goal of the SAT is not to be impossible to train for except as a secondary thing. It's really hard to do, especially when you are such a high value optimization target and have to build a test that doesn't rely on much specific knowledge and can be quickly scored. A lot of what the SAT courses do is just teach students to make slightly more accurate guesses on multiple-choice questions where someone unfamiliar with test strategy would leave things blank. That alone tends to boost scores, and some of the other strategies are fairly clever to help avoid common mistakes.

Last, though I didn't have room to improve on the SAT, I also taught GRE classes and can speak to my improvement there. The math section is trivial to get an 800 on (it's easier than the SAT math, or at least it was when I taught 15+ years ago), but the verbal section is quite tough if you haven't studied, and in a lot of ways is a glorified vocabulary test, and the reading comprehension sections can be pretty tough as well. Before I trained to teach the courses, my verbal score was a 490 (on the real test, not practice), so I was considering not even trying to teach (there's some threshold you have to hit, maybe 700 at the time?), but the trainer encouraged all of us to try anyways because he said the content made such a difference. After just two weekends of intensive teacher training, I tested again and ended up with a 740. After teaching the course around a dozen times, I'm pretty confident I could have hit 800 without any difficulty, you basically just have to get used to the types of questions that they ask and get in the headspace of the question authors. Just one data point, but I definitely believe that this stuff is effective.
I wouldn't assume it, but it's one of the plausible explanations for the test appearing to meet its design goals.
Not just anybody is hired to be a CEO. A candidate has to have a track record of success. That's how.
I wonder how much of the US's energy needs could be extracted from geothermal sources around the caldera.
Has anyone calculated the value of life that we are saving here?

The Imperial College report had 510,000 dying in the UK under a no-action scenario. Average age lets say 79 as the virus progresses.

510,000 * (82.5-79) * GBP 30,000 (QALY for the NHS) = 53.5 billion pounds based on the funding methodology used for the NHS.

Instead the Uk seems to be willing to throw its entire GDP at this problem, 3 trillion pounds. This seems... completely unjustified.

How can we justify this sort of effort for Coronavirus, but not Climate Change, Obesity, Air Pollution, which will kill many more than COVID-19? Is it just because Coronavirus does it spectacularly in 3 months and all of those other things take decades?
You understand this only helps in the short term right? Yeah we'll live, we'll also be poorer than ever at the end of this, and someone's gonna have to pay back this debt.
Stanford CS248: Implement an SVG Rasterizer
This is not going to last forever.
The amount of labor necessary to keep people alive and infrastructure from crumbling is a small portion of all the work that is done.
I don't see why knowing the math notation is important at all. The computer doesn't understand the math notation, it only understands code. The math notation is esoteric and overrated, if you understand what the code does then there is no need to understand a notation that is entirely useless inside of the code.
And It usually correlates with pause cloppe (cigarette smoking) time. But yeah , it happens pretty organicaly.
Exactly, agreed :)
One really useful call out is that it supports expressions, not just columns. You can create derived entities via case statements (think binning, entity normalization, etc) and leverage the super handy functionality against those derived entities.

It also allows you to use multiple entities/expressions in the distinct on, so you can pivot the logic between granularity levels. Which comes in handy when needing to pull rollups latest/first/biggest/smallest style rollups from varying perspectives.
A company growing as aggressively as AirBnB wasn't taking a 20-30% profit and paying out shareholders.

They were taking that 20-30% and reinvesting back into growth. That means people, offices, tech, marketing, audits of homes, process, insurance, etc.

When things look good you can run lean and focus on growth. If things start to turn you can ratchet back those costs.

Unfortunately, things turned on them very fast and they aren't that nimble. When you've got 15k employees with salary, bonuses, benefits, offices that aren't being used and overnight you reduce your top line revenue by 50%+ you're likely in the red and from what I hear, they were in the red prior to this.

AirBnB will likely be a casualty of this downturn. They're highly focused on the part of the economy hardest hit by COVID-19 and are unable to diversify in time.

Lots of folks will lose their jobs, a lot of others may lose second or third homes that were used solely for part-time rentals. It's going to be hard on a lot of people and had AirBnB not gotten so far out over their skis they'd likely be OK, but would not be the market leader they were a few weeks back.
Regardless of the merits or demerits of UBI, this is not really a time to study it. The economy has been stopped by the government with the expectation that the government will lift sanctions in the future. That is not an everyday condition at all.
Open Source Ventilator
I like https://twitter.com/lowflyingrocks which gets its data from https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/ the NASA JPL center for near Earth object studies. There aren't many that come closer than the moon...
Italy is an outlier though, don't they have a huge aging population ?
After reading the title and watching first 2 seconds I thought it will fire a rocket launcher and the car would go up in flames thanks to AR.
Totally agree, and in one of my other responses I recognize the shortcomings of how I put it. Thanks for the good faith response.
> And people keep saying that basic income is impossible.

It's not impossible, but Americans voted against it overwhelmingly less than two months ago, well after this epidemic had already started.
It seems like there's two things where money is never an issue; war and the preservation of the status quo. This should be remembered when progressive reforms are rejected.
Show HN: An experimental, keyboard-first user interface
We desperately need some tear downs of the Ventilators. The iFixit[1] page only has manuals and very few pictures. If people can get their hands on medical grade ones even if they are broken would be useful. I have found some good ones locally, but they are way too expensive just to tear down(>$1400). There lots of people working on ventilators, and will require a many people evaluating designs since this is a life critical system.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Ventilator
I'm interested in what downvoters to your are thinking. Is it a kneejerk "guns are bad"? Do they think guns have no use for a regular person in a pandemic situation? Are they against the idea of 3d printing guns? Please elaborate!
Is it feasible to go to war with a country to collect on debts, though? If they're already having trouble paying, and the creditor is successful in its war, the debtor's economy will be so deep in shambles that repayment will be next to impossible.
I was replying to "sacrificing profit for a shared goal", which means the government runs it directly.

Writing a check to the company is very different.
> And people keep saying that basic income is impossible.

This has nothing to do with UBI. It's a temporary measure designed to be counter-cyclical against the current catastrophe.

The defining feature of UBI is that it never ends. That's the opposite of temporary measures like this.

The two can't be compared as equivalent.
Thank you for this. The headline of the article certainly seems to be taking advantage of the recent hysteria around everything else happening in our lives right now (covid-19)
NYC, same story.

But, as others in the thread have suggested, what will rush in when these leveraged AirBnB hosts lose properties will not be a bunch of normals with jobs and families, it will be a bunch of new investors who can buy cheap with cash.
Debt is just consuming now what we will produce later. That means that later we will have less. Luckily, the number which tells us how much it costs to shift production temporally: the real interest rate, is low. As a result, we can deal with the impact over the course of decades.

As long as there is no crisis of confidence in the ability to repay that debt, it will not be an issue.
If you didn't know this already. "Poor" AirBnb here is simply letting customers cancel their stays without even letting hosts know and is then not paying hosts [1].

Note that a lot of these "hosts" are often small guesthouses that barely make rent and now have basically nothing for the next months. Of course you have your fair share of "rent hackers" on AirBnb but beyond that a lot of people run genuine small businesses around the platform and care a lot about their guests.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/03/15/airbnb-...
A lot of the herd will be thinned out for sure. Customers of ours are starting to lay folks off.

Ultimately, it's a question of how long and deep the downturn is. A couple of months and VC-backed companies already losing money may be ok. A couple of quarters and you'll see a lot go belly-up depending on who they sell to.
Hotels are a regulated industry for a reason and Airbnb is completely flouting the rules. No one wants to be a next-door neighbor to an Airbnb'ed apartment, and hotels are a more efficient use of real estate for housing a given number of tourists.

So yeah, they're helping out tourists, but they're harming all the people in the city who live there and need a place to live. If you're primarily a tourist then Airbnb is good for you; if you live in a high cost city then it's most definitely not. And more of us are in the latter situation, me included.
The first question I'd ask is: what if cancer is maybe too hard?

I doubt a whole bunch could be done on this covid thing, I suspect collaboration is probably going about as good as can be expected at this point.

I would propose the first project would be optimizing as much of the biological portions of the connection away, ie: design a platform that can be used for high bandwidth communication and management of projects at which this biological supercomputer can then be pointed.

Something like reddit would be an obvious component, it would require some new features here and there obviously, it works pretty well. The primary problem I see on reddit is rogue (delusional) nodes - these are not only not helpful, but incredibly harmful in my mind. A way would have to be found to see that these kinds of nodes are minimized, but my intuition tells me it would be much easier than we expect.
(UK) Shelves are already very empty. Oddly this time the fresh stuff is still there and the non-perishable has gone. "Luxuries" are widely available, necessities aren't.

There's a lot of seasonal stuff in cold storage - the apples you buy are from last year.
I knew someone that worked on AAA games (for console). Even with day-1 updates they made single-player a priority during the final push because certain groups (they specifically called out those deployed overseas) can't get updates. Obviously, multi-player must update before playing.
There was a really well done podcast on this topic a couple years ago, The End of the World with Josh Clark. Only 10 episodes https://open.spotify.com/show/7sh9DwBEdUngxq1BefmnZ0?si=WqWF...
I believe wiby.me aims to be such a search engine.
Yeah, but people aren't machines. We will absolutely get upset when our loved ones die because a minority of fools decided their party was more important than our familys' continued survival. Analogy to some stupid servers is the worst way to analyze this situation.

Mandatory breakup of large groups is actually the lighter of the tools the government could use here. Intentionally endangering other people's lives is usually punished by jail, and even unintentional but reckless endangerment can be fine- or jail-worthy.

Wash your hands and stay away from each other, people.
An open-source collaborative ventilator project to tackle challenges faced by #covid19.

3D printed open-source ventilator designed by a team of 500 experts in a week and undergoing testing in Ireland now. If you've got your own 3D printer, consider starting these prints. Hospitals in the U.S. are expected to run out around the first or second week of April. Print some extras- you may need one for your family or friends too.
That is an interesting idea :)
There's no reason the factories providing short-term necessities can't be kept open.
I think there's a big difference between scammy paywall sites and the likes of the New York Times. Banning all paywall sites would be excessive.
> 40% of people in ICU in italy are 19-40, basically, those who make up the majority of the workforce.

Correction: 11.9% of people in ICU in Italy are 19-50; 51.2% are 51-70; and 36.9% are > 70 [1].

[1] https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Bolletti...
The cap is £2500 per month before or after taxes?
Or payroll tax reduction. While it might help some deserving people, it's also going to benefit people who don't need any help.
AirBnB first announced profitability in 2018, followed by 2019.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/airbnb-sa...

That said, I'm not sure how many asterisks are attached to the definition of profitable. Likewise, the fact that a company that holds no substantial assets while operating in the face of most regulations only became profitable in 2018, while clearly being the market leader, makes me wonder what is going on with their financials. It should not take 10 years for a company like AirBnB to become profitable, it should take closer to 5.

I know they had a disagreement with their CFO in 2018, and it took them the better part of a year to find a replacement. Admittedly, the replacement seems incredibly qualified.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/26/airbnb-hires-cfo-dave-stephe...
Because it should penalize anyone who kept working or who was in an essential occupation?
I'm happy Jeff is capable of filling his dad's comedic shoes.
There do exist things that make it sense for even small shops putting their stuff into containers and then small-ish local/bare metal or even cloud k8s environments:

1) automatic restarts of services when they fail: yes, this is possible with systemd but it's a nightmare to set up compared to a simple HEALTHCHECK command in Docker or an appropriate config section in k8s/rancher.

2) dependency chains (e.g. a java app that depends on mysql database and an external elasticsearch): again, this is possible with systemd, but way easier in k8s.

3) hardware/OS maintenance: in ye olde days, the admin would have to manually shut down services, copy data to new servers, start services there and then pray everything would work to prepare for a large-ish OS update or a longer hardware maintenance without having too much downtime (or buy more expensive software versions such as JIRA/Confluence DC). With k8s/rancher, assuming shared NFS storage, it's as easy as draining and cordoning the node, minimal downtime (essentially the time the software needs to stop/start) and no network/firewall/LB surprises along the way.

4) related to 3), in the cloud, assuming that services have horizontal scalability in mind (which most popular PHP environments have), it's relatively easy and straightforward to use autoscaling to save costs on one side but also prevent your site from going belly-up in case of HN/Reddit mentions. With manual deployments? Ouch.

5) Software upgrades or the creation of stage environments are so much easier, assuming well-written Docker images and software. Again let's take JIRA and Confluence - manually installed it's a lot of fumbling around to upgrade an instance, but with Docker? As easy as incrementing the version tag in the k8s config and 5min later it's updated.
Here is a great collection of smallest X: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/small
SAT prep is bullshit that lets rich kids test prep their way up.
>> The damage to the economy is already here

You think it can't get worse?