skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Employers usually subscribe to services that tell them what other employers are paying in their area for a given job, which they use during salary negotiations to give themselves a stronger bargaining position.

That's not exactly a 'racket'. Glassdoor lists that kind of information for everyone, including job seekers. And workers' rights to share that kind of information is even enshrined in lots of countries laws as inalienable (ie they can't sign away such that right; any provisions to such effect are at best unenforceable and at worst make the employer liable to be sued).

> Any difference in information between two parties is exploitable to drive the price in the direction favored by the more-well-informed party.

Not in a liquid market with competition. Eg I have no clue what Google stock should be trading at, but if I send a market order to buy a few stocks, I'll get a pretty good price because there are several market makers competing.

There are sometimes attempts by employers at cartels. These days mostly informal or even only implicit, eg via the kind of third party information sharing you allude to you in comment.

But as with any cartel, each member has an incentive to free ride and non-members even more so. And while your local Burger King and McDonalds franchisees might be able to collude, they'll have a hard time keeping people from switching to driving to Uber or Lyft if fast food wages drop too low. There's also the safety valve of self-employment.

The best thing government can do for the workers is to lower barriers to entry for would-be entrepreneurs: make employers compete with each other, and also pre-emptively compete with potential new market entrants (imagined or real).

(Closing markets by eg taxi medallions is exactly the opposite of what's good for workers.)
> US is doing nothing whatsoever to ramp ...

Why do you think that? Couple minutes of googling:

https://news.3m.com/blog/3m-stories/3m-responds-2019-novel-c...

https://www.venteclife.com/page/covid19-coronavirus-ventec-l...
Canada, U.S. preparing to close border to non-essential travel
It will cost Tesla less money to fight the quarantine order than to shut down production.

Odds are Tesla wins in court and the authorities also know this, so won't actually do anything because they don't want the precedent.

I'm not clear on how the Sheriff can act without a warrant or something, but sure he can tweet.
I couldn't resist not getting more OTM SPY puts today, I totally think this will crater further short term once NFP get released
The problem isn’t the bug tracking system, it’s that Apple rarely responds on a timely manner and when it does, it’s often not that useful.

The frustration streams from the human side, not the bits
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I disagree. Policy should be pragmatic. As an extreme example, self driving cars shouldn't ignore the possibility of jaywalking.

I don't think there would be this sudden collusion at such a large scale though. Would be pretty obvious and begging for a crackdown IMO.
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So it turns out...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200317/04381644114/volun...

They sell them for $11,000 each, and threatened to sue the guy 3d printing them for a dollar a piece...

:sigh:
It's not charity. I'm dependent on takeout. I'm supporting businesses I've supported a long time.

I'm not going to eateries I wouldn't normally go to. I would be very negatively impacted if the eateries I frequent shut down.

I have a very deadly medical condition. I've had to somehow make my life work in the face of very hostile conditions, in a world that didn't want to accommodate my need for germ control.

I'm supposed to be on boatloads of drugs. I used to be on boatloads of drugs. I gradually got off all of them.

Prevention of exposure to germs to begin with played a role in that.

Like many people, I am worried about both germ control for everyone and economic survival. Unlike most other people, I've wrestled with such questions for me and my family for about two decades and developed some best practices.

Calling ahead or ordering online and getting takeout is one of those best practices.

It has worked for me for a long time under extremely difficult circumstances.
The comment I replied to is literally highlighting people nit-picking punctuation as if it’s a good thing.
Seriously, unless the inside of that value is really, really, really complex, I can't imagine it would take that much R&D, relative to the rest of the machine. I would think relative to that, this value was dead trivial.
3M makes these masks in the US and around the world:

https://news.3m.com/blog/3m-stories/3m-responds-2019-novel-c...
> the patent owner company wouldn't risk a huge PR loss by suing or even complaining,

Yeah. About that...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200317/04381644114/volun...
Probably a typo/fumble finger. Wading through all the dreck it seems that it causes viral pneumonia which is always bad news.

Read just today that an advantage of any mask is it keeps people from transferring the virus from their fingers to their mouth and nose. A paper on the effectiveness of home made masks, like from tee shirt material says they are in no way a replacement for N95 masks but are better than nothing.
"(N95) Masks won't protect you" was an expedient lie. How can it be that medical professionals are in dire need of N95 masks to protect them from the virus, yet they are powerless to do any good in the hands of the public?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...

If everybody in the US could wear one of these when out in public, we would be in a much better place. The sad truth is we don't have enough to do that, not that this would not help.
That doesn’t take into account cosmic inflation in the very early universe. This is believed to have smeared out the universe into a mind bogglingly huge expanse, such that our observable universe is a mere speck in the grand scheme of things.
Super late update: I found at least a pilot study that shows that the technique is promising. There's also some evidence that this is being used in the current crisis but I don't know how reliable these sources are: https://twitter.com/alandrummond2/status/1240008793167192066 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uClq978oohY
Doubtful, given poster said masks and not N95 masks. Like the 199 million masks being produced in China daily that are not N95 per the article. Cheap, easy to make, comfortable enough to use for extended periods of time, and reduce chances of catching and spreading respiratory disease (but not considered good enough for hospital use, at least until the good ones run out).
Please donate your discretionary income to food banks and other charities, not business owners.
Your comment doesn’t seem to be related to the text you’ve quoted. “It’s difficult to implement” is not related to “it is owned by Google”.
That's a reasonable point!

Though I don't think it's strong enough in the long run.

See eg https://www.economist.com/business/2010/10/21/profiting-from... (going via Google Search or so might be required to get around the paywall). But the subtitle already gives the gist: "If South Korean firms won’t make use of female talent, foreigners will" South Korean companies are pretty sexist and pay women less and given them fewer opportunities. But foreign multinationals don't share that sentiment, and are happy to hire talented women.

(The article is a few years old. These days the foreign multinational companies might even be extra happy, because it helps them boost their global diversity stats.)
Optimism is a skill, and takes a lot of practice. The less you have to be happy about, the harder you have to look for a small thing that gives you happiness. Comics and clowns rarely come from happy environments. Suppressing/blinding yourself to unhappy things is unhealthy and dangerous. It's better to find the beauty or humor in darkness.

Everyone dies. Some of us will die in the next month or lose loved ones, and worse. When things are out of control, that's when it's most important to have control over your emptions.
This sounds like it could make an interesting thesis. It also sounds like a nightmare for abuse. Maybe it could work if implemented by a big social network?
> > The “readability” label comes from other “brilliant” Google engineers.

> This doesn't mean it leads to complex code.

It does mean that it’s a completely subjective thing coming from other people in the very same culture of which I’m being critical. It’s like someone claiming the Chinese government isn’t authoritarian because Chinese citizens have slapped on the “non-authoritarian” label.
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I never understand these capitalism criticisms. It’s like criticizing modern medicine because Coronavirus exists. Yeah, it’s not a perfect system but I’m not going to switch to homeopathy just yet.
Indeed, they are sold as a fashion accessory in regions where mask usage is common. It helps social acceptance.
Haven't heard that definition of canard in a while...

As with most things, I'm fairly sure the truth lies somewhere in the middle and it varies industry to industry. Yea, a lot of stuff went to china, but a lot of workers were also replaced by automated systems. In a lot of cases, I'd even venture to say maybe a majority, it was both. It's not even close to factually true to say it's JUST china or JUST robots.

Also, do you mind elaborating on how that's specifically anti-worker? Either case can be construed as such depending on your position.
Fossil (https://www.fossil-scm.org ) has an interesting approach to this problem - integrate bug and work item tracking, project wikis, and source control, but make them all distributed, so that there is not a single master copy of the bug database or the docs wiki.

It attempts to solve both the cultural challenge (bugbase written by a different company/team from the source control, imposing 2 different styles on you) and the technical one (bugbase and source control don't talk to each other, and so bugs and checkins are not linked).
Because of interaction with other undefined behaviour (in the body of your loop), you might think you are in a different case than what the compiler thinks.

Also the definition of 'side effect' here is a weird one: reading and writing to variables is not considered a side effect, even though a different thread could change them while your loop is running.
any simpler process to make nanofiltering ? not necessarily tissue but maybe ceramic, or other solids (like activated charcoal)
Having seen the prices charged for drugs and how they then calculate future prices (after the R&D costs have been recovered), I have a very sceptical view of any comments that say we need to consider R&D and regulatory cost recovery before complaining about the prices being charged for anything in the medical technology field. Having also discussed what was seen by someone I know who left the corrupt world of advertising to go to the medical technology world, I also consider anybody saying the same about recovery of R&D and regulatory costs to either being a liar or deluded. The gentleman in question went back to the advertising world because they were innocent children compared to the corruption and price gouging that went on inside the medical technology industries.

There is a captive market here and the seller can sell at any price they want and make any markup they want because they can. There are some very honourable people and companies who do not price gouge in the field. But it seems that these are a very small minority.

Now mind you, this kind of price gouging occurs anywhere there is a captive market. But some industries are more susceptible to it than others.
> Devs wanted Flash and real-player plugins pack in the day too. They wanted ActiveX plugins too. No-one else wanted them

The idea that users didn’t want Flash is laughable. It was enormously popular and enabled all kinds of multimedia presentation that the web couldn’t come close to rivalling.

> Have a nice time rewriting all your webcomponents in javascript in 5 years.

Web components are JavaScript. And it’s a standard agreed upon by all the major browser manufacturers. They aren’t going away, no matter what happens to Google.
You can predict trends, not laws, using large groups observation. Austrians would not deny that. Trends are not a useful tool for economic policy, are only good tools for entrepreneurship.
Calm down, Gene Fama. Nothing wrong with supporting local businesses that you enjoy and would have eaten at anyway were we not sheltering in place.
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That would be me, let me explain.

I made this project because I wanted to revitalize SuperTux, there's tons of things in the game that I notice and wanted to improve upon so basically I tried to re-create the game and its engine, and improve and revamp things as I added them to my version (e.g. Trampolines not killing Tux when they fall on him and being able to align to walls, Wind having better particles, better enemy animations and sprites).

Currently I haven't touched the project in a while because I've been uncertain if it's worth moving SuperTux to a new engine when it'd negate everyone else's progress on the game, and Godot is seemingly less flexible with something like C++ and getting level files and custom things to work is tricky to work around.

I learnt Godot while making the project, and I wouldn't have gotten nearly as far as I did without people helping me do specific things, there were a number of times I got stuck on various small things like placing tiles in the level editor and there's still things I'm stuck on (e.g. giving Tux a state machine, slope sliding physics, what I should make powerups look/act like).

The state of the project is pretty much playable aside from a few bugs, but there's obviously things missing like level subsets/worlds as well as enemies and features, and things like Story Mode and Add-on support (I have ideas for those but they seem hard to execute). I'm glad the project has gotten some attention, maybe I'll work on it again some time.
Printcrime[1,2] by Doctorov becoming reality in one of the most nasty ways imaginable.

[1] https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocke...

[2] E-book download: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19000
N95 is not a surgical mask. That one is a professional respirator. Yet infection can enter via eyes, so one has to wear airtight glasses as well to be sure.

Surgical mask looks like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgical_mask

There is no respirator embedded as you can see, it's just a simple piece of fabric.

The point of my original reply was that we could reduce R0/transmission rate only if everybody had to wear surgical mask in public. If you are the only one wearing it, it doesn't really help. Some EU countries now require everybody to wear a mask while shopping or using public transport.
Very, very bad PR.
There's a map in the article which kinda makes this clear.
If you don't make any income, you aren't paying for it. You can have your issues with UBI, but "the government could force you to work to pay taxes" isn't any scarier than the current situation, where not working can just kill you.

Your opt in situation couldn't be considered UBI.
It doesn't forbid it. It enfringes on the patent and the holder can sue for damages.
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You'd think an easy enough change to the laws around IP for medical equipment would be that if they can't supply critical parts, particularly under extreme circumstances, they most hold harmless any supplier that is able to supply said parts.
Yes, I understand that if you're mostly doing (at work) these things this way, you may be inclined to do the same way your own project.

That doesn't mean you can't do better - and for some people "better" can be without JS, for many reasons, including convenience of end users. By now it's probably also an interesting challenge - create a good, but straightforward (i.e., "simple") no-JS page.
I don't see what is the point of your criticism. Either the epistemological grounds of Austrian economics is correct or it is not.

It should not matter what austrians feel about central banking.
More beautiful people on IG are more likely to have more followers, and therefore more likely to be recommended by Explore.

Half of my explore is memes and infographics because that’s what I interact with a lot.
That's how you win elections. You tell (convince) people what to be afraid of, and who's to blame for it.
That's because it's deeply immoral!
https://typing.io was made specifically for programmers. It has helped me increase my accuracy and speed.
> "alarming...no good excuse...idiotic"

You don't have to use it, but your criticism is excessive. As a casual bystander providing nothing but commentary, you really don't get to choose the priorities and schedule of an open source project.

They provide software that runs on currently supported platforms, and they are working on 18.04 support - sounds like it is the focus current development effort for the next release: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bigbluebutton-dev/qWjV2zoc4h...
I'll ignore the suggested ad hominem (which was pretty off the mark.)

1. You've got it flipped. I'm totally for everyone slowing down, some more than others, in exchange for saving lives. Most of the jobs going away will be back soon after - people will eat out again etc - so that is not much in the longview compared to family members needlessly dying. There are fragile companies going bust -- for example, in the bay area, restaurants need to perform well to survive, so this accelerated the death of a few already. For most small businesses, a slow downs for a few weeks isn't that bad or uncoverable by emergency loans... unless you were already doomed. There'll be all sorts of other effects, like many VC-fueled co's not being able to use the sales/marketing $ injection to artificially increase q2 growth as much, but no tears here.

2. Fed gov can & should be doing more than giving money to oil companies to temper indiv + SMB effects of the freeze. The continued shitty federal gov response here has meant random rushed local county decisions. In contrast, other nations have mandated things like rent pauses as part of their enforcement. I've worked where a lot of business is effectively barter - there's surprising slack in the US business world with landlords and other obligations in practice. That's not guaranteed, and megacorps, banks, and some individuals (I'm guessing like those on this thread advocating breaking the community isolation) can be inhumane, so important for strong govs to address. Not too late, and you'd be surprised.
Would be too bad if that valve's 3D file happened to leak online...
That depends. For accessibility reasons I find browser style overrides and find-in-page better than apps with little or no customization.
I bought N95 masks a few times. It was pricey - about as much as a latte. I can't afford that every day, so I recycled the mask a few times. (This was not for COVID-19, but some other issues when my wife was in ICU and air pollution issues)

China can export those masks if they're not using them. Right now it's printing money. But even when this pandemic blows over, they'll still sell for a good price in countries without that manufacturing capacity.
The difference clearly in the mostly and never!
Related to the restaurant industry, Yelp is laying people off due to the corona virus. My contract with the Yelp has been withdrawn.

This "corona panic" will kill more people than the virus itself.
Is there any benefit to tracing back to patient 0? I though that was just a movie thing.
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Nope. If I use Youtube as a smoke signal for what an authoritative web components-based implementation should look/feel like, then it's definitely not in my 'ready-to-adopt' category. Youtube has significantly regressed as of late, with strange bugs/quirks throughout.

I'll stick to frameworks that emit standard HTML thanks.
I believe Eileithyia was the Greek goddess of pregnancy. She is of childbirth at least.
Xiaomi gives up processor development
A Civic starts at under $21k per https://automobiles.honda.com/civic-sedan. It's Motor Trend's fault, not yours, but that must be the most decked out Civic possible at that price point. I actually went through the "Build" option for the 2020 Civic Sedan Touring CVT and could not get it above $32k, so I can't explain the $36k figure.
This crisis will force us to rethink patent laws and healthcare regulations. under the current circumstances, patent laws and other laws designed to give the medical industry Monopoly over their creations are preventing life saving actions. We will eventually reach a point where a vaccine / cure is found, and instead of allowing all possible companies to manufacture it, patent laws will delay things and actively cause thousands of deaths from those delays.
“Disposable is best and you should discard your mask after each use,” says Dr. Besser. “If a mask gets wet—and it will by simply breathing into it—the effectiveness of its protective effect is reduced.”

Are you really going to change your surgical mask every 3 minutes to make it effective against getting infected?
Mobile apps are the mammals, i.e. the future?
Maybe not this month, but things will go back to normal and people will want their $50000 cars
I tried that, but unlike keybr, it doesn't focus enough on my weaknesses. The programmer context also makes me uneasy because it messes with my autocomplete muscle memory.
Seems like a variation of the price gouging people have been inflamed about recently.
The US government can already legally ignore patents. Or simply keep them sealed them for national security reasons: https://www.bitlaw.com/source/35usc/181.html

Finally, forced licensing is another option.
My understanding is that it starts as an upper respiratory virus (mainly concentrated in the throat), leading to flu/cold-like symptoms and only those unlucky ones that get it deep in their lungs attached to ACE2 receptors end up with a life-threatening lower respiratory illness requiring ICU and ventilator/ECMO due to immunity going berserk and killing off lung tissue with virus embedded in it, a cytokine storm.
Do surgeons change their surgical masks every 3 minutes while performing surgery? And the operative word the doctor used is "reduced" effectiveness, not "eliminated" effectiveness.
OBS is "Open Broadcaster Software"
https://obsproject.com/
which is also why Fracassi doesn't dare share his 3D file with other hospitals, despite their desperate need for these valves.

Now suppose someone publishes, anonymously, the design file online...
Printcrime[1,2] by Doctorov becoming reality in one of the most nasty ways imaginable.

[1] https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocke....

[2] E-book download: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19000
Another game to check out in this vein is hypernom, developed by henry segerman, vi hart, and some other people that I don't remember: http://hypernom.com/
This is entirely true. Even my parents generation had to face much larger odds of getting killed in the Vietnam conflict or coming back with severe substance/mental health issues. Or they could go to Canada for 15 years, put the career on hold until Carter pardoned everyone.

So while the millennial and gen x have a 0.2% chance of death from coronavirus which of course all precautions should be taken, this is nowhere near the hazards our parents and grandparents faced in ww2/Korea/Vietnam.
It does seem that we have blindly followed the Chinese's government's response to the outbreak without any real data. I'm guessing there may be large numbers of people who are affected who aren't really showing any symptoms other than typical cold/flu symptoms.