skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you're making the normative and tautological argument that values are what they are because that's what (you think) they should be, not that there is any intrinsic reason for value to be defined only by a market. markets are great theoretical constructs, but real-world markets don't behave the way we always envision they ought to. they're subject to all sorts of external forces.

It isn't about what I think. When people make purchases they will typically try to buy as cheaply as possible. If someone is looking to make a purchase they will typically go to whoever is offering it cheapest, if other people want to compete they will either have to offer it at the same price or cheaper.

Are you claiming this isn't true? Because I have witnessed it with my own eyes. I used to work in a Petrol Station we were ones of the cheapest places around and we had a lot of custom.

Other places that were more expensive were empty at the same time on the same days because they were more expensive. There is of course exceptions to this (Head and Shoulders Shampoo being the classic example) but they are outliers.

The same with a labour market. The market rate for a C# programmer is approximately £350-450 a day in the UK. More specialist development roles pay more e.g. Angular JS developers which are typically £500-750 a day (the last time I looked). There is less Angular JS developers that are available (low supply) so to attract talent companies that wish to hire need to raise the rate. However C# developers in the UK are much more common (higher supply) so companies won't pay those high prices.

Are you telling me this isn't happening? Because you can go to total jobs yourself and put C# developer Manchester and you will see difference in market rate yourself.

> beyond market settling times, what the delta between labor value and market value very likely indicates is some sort of mispricing in the market, often due to some external, malign manipulation (i.e., an application of force, or power). efficient markets should tend toward the labor value of production, that is, profits are minimized to that of idiosyncratic risk (like pandemics).

Not true. You are making several assumptions:

1) That there is abundance of said product (high supply).

2) People are wanting or needing to make a purchase.

3) That there isn't other competitors which have improved their processes or paying their employees less.

Number 2 being the most important IMO as everything else is normally equal. If nobody wants to buy it at the cost (or higher) you will be selling it at a loss.
Goldengate might have a higher billing rate.
Announcement CSSEGISandData / Covid-19
Ha. It isn't. User namespaces allow you to do this attack:
I have a reproduction here:
https://github.com/sargun/fuse-example

Basically, what’s happening is that the FUSE daemon which is the one
handling the FUSE requests has /dev/fuse open. There is a thread in
that FUSE daemon. let’s call the FUSE daemon P10, and the thread P11.

P10 wires up a FUSE filesystem on /tmp, it opens /dev/fuse with FD5
P11 enacts an uninterruptible (blocking operation) on /tmp/foo, called
OP1, and /tmp/foo is FD6.
P10 reads the operation (OP1) from /dev/fuse, so now OP1 is in userspace
----The Pid 1 of the namespace is killed--

P10 just terminated, and cannot make progress. It will never respond
to OP1. FD5 and FD6 remain open, because P11 is in uninterruptible
sleep.
P11 is in an uninterruptible disk sleep waiting for OP1 to respond,
and the fuse connection never aborts.

FUSE abortion doesn’t kick in because the FD of `/dev/fuse` that P10
originally opened as the FUSE daemon under FD5 will not be closed
until all threads as part of the process are terminated. The mount
namespace wont be torn down until P11 is torn down. P11 will never be
torn down because it’s waiting for someone to do something.
Unicorns Are Rare. They Should Be Even Rarer
Donald Trump as Winston Churchill?
There's absolutely zero evidence to support that China did well.

What are their real case and death numbers? We'll never know, because they've lied about everything from day one. They have been the exact opposite of transparent about anything.

China only had ~82,000 cases, but Italy, Germany and Spain are all going to surpass that? Yeah right. Inflate China's numbers by 10x and you might be close. In late January / early February they magically changed which cases they were counting toward their official figures, intentionally excluding mild cases that tested positive. That's what produced the instant tapering you see in their case numbers from that date in time forward. It's also why their case growth graph looks so unique - bizarre - compared to everyone else that has had a bad outbreak.
Is there any capture solution that will post directly to Slack? With transcriptions?
Is whereby any good for privacy? I found this in the privacy policy. I like the app for usability

> We will never collect or record the content in conversations.
This seems like a bit of an odd concession, considering the businesses that are being impacted the most by the coronavirus are smaller, local businesses which run on thin margins. These local businesses are also often the most competitive because of having to compete with both other local businesses and larger ones.

The competence of private companies only really applies to a very narrow subset of corporations.
Parent note that the ISP provide a router anyway. It's safe to assume that most people will simply use that, if not for the support just because it is already there.
I feel like if Terry Davis could have maintained a bit more of a grip on reality, he would have picked up the combined torch of Wozniak and Jobs.

Rest in peace.

Edit: not that TempleOS isn't beautiful, and I'm glad it exists and believe he achieved what he set out to do. I was just selfishly musing that if he hadn't lost his mind the way he did, maybe he would his ideas would have been adopted more in the mainstream. I'm also glad TempleOS exists in its incarnation, so it's conflicting.
I think what happened is that the developers that figuratively jumped up and down screaming about compile times all shifted towards interpreted languages.

JS has been able to do roughly what C did in the 1990's, in terms of raw performance, for some time now. The folks that need typechecking can pick up Typescript or Haxe or whatever else is attractive.

It's the bottom of the stack that really suffers - all the folks that want to work on stuff touching I/O and low level resources directly - and that is hardest to justify investing in. Unix and its baggage remain "untouchable", as these things go, and there are only some hints of promising developments otherwise.
Juris-M, a friendly fork of Zotero supporting legal referencing (https://juris-m.github.io/).
Uninterruptible Sleep
Considering this is the default for the Facebook SDK, it’s not obvious to me at all that they’re doing it for a monetary incentive (not that that makes this acceptable).
If you feel like you need to de-Texas DP and Whataburger, you can replace one of them with Titos which is one of the most incredible growth stories of the last two decades.

Same with YETI and Epic meats. Texas has had incredible success in creating ascendant consumer goods businesses for some time.
I've just realized that the old BASIC system of numbering every line is probably an artifact of putting a sequence number on each punchcard.
Corporate Socialism: Government Bailing Out Investors and Managers Not You
He has actually made something rather rent seeking so there is no reason to think this is zero-sum-gain.

Beyond that, his lifetime income, even assuming zero business expenses and a hyper optimistic business lifetime, is not remotely enough to guide a government. It's no even enough to buy a decent apartment building.

This income level is closer to the $1000 a month person than the Koch brothers by several decimal places. And the difference between how he got what he has vs theirs is like the difference between a faucet and a drain.
Those comments are downvoted because there is no evidence that anyone is paying for data from Zoom. IMO, speculation without support should be downvoted.
From the section about how the qualitative difference between the two algorithms was found:

"In the second step, we conducted a manual comparison between two diff outputs produced by Myers and Histogram algorithms from all files in the sample. The first two authors of this paper were involved to independently annotate the diff outputs that makes the result is expected to be more reliable. ... The comparison results between two authors from 377 files were subsequently computed to find the kappa agreement.Footnote16 We obtained 70.82%, which is categorized into ‘substantial agreement’ (Viera and Garrett 2005). This means, the statistic result of our manual study is acceptable."

Even though I'm inclined to agree with the example given in the paper and a lot of work clearly went into the qualitative evaluation, this feels like a very weak way to perform a qualitative analysis. Specifically:

- this is a sample size of two academic authors who chose to write a paper together about the quality of different diffing algorithms, ie, a very skewed and small sample.

- there is no mention of any blinding in the labeling process, so any preconceptions about the quality of different diffing may have been present in qualitative grading -- or it may not have! We don't even know.

- there does not seem to be a clear mention of how the representative sample was chosen, or of what factors were taken into consideration for determining a representative sample of changes, so that reviewers/other researchers could potentially make different choices in the future and draw informed comparisons with this work.

To sum up: in my admittedly not at all authoritative opinion this portion of the paper cannot conclude more than something like, "further study is warranted on this topic, with a far better controlled and far larger sample size, and clearer explications of the methodological choices".

Regardless of that, it was an interesting read and not something previously on my radar as worth experimenting with at all! Kudos to the authors for drawing attention to it and for the other more quantitative aspects of the paper (which I examined less and charitably assume are top notch).
Ostrom's work is parochial. Her real-life examples center on small populations adjacent to large natural resources with access negotiated via long-standing community mores. That simply doesn't apply to the high-density populations urban environment where most of humanity lives, and where community ties have less sway. In these situations where most interactions are transactional a robust and fair regime of property rights is probably the ideal solution. With property rights the transaction costs are borne by the property owner up front, while in the community-based the transaction costs are encoded in tradition and personal relationships.
this deliberately ignores the new features we've gotten in the meantime.

gcc is slow when you turn on all the optimizations. when computers were run by SysOps and every program needed to be recompiled from scratch for each slightly-different machine, it wasn't worth making the compiler ten times slower to make the program five percent faster. today, when browsers are compiled once and then run by millions of users for billions of hours a day, the tradeoff is different.

sure, autoconf is bad, particularly today when it's used completely wrong, but is it really worse than when programs had to be completely manually ported between different Unix versions, in a day when "package manager" had yet to be a twinkle in anybody's eye?

is everything great now? no, of course not. but you're grasping at the completely wrong straws here.
One potential future use could be as a better llvm bitcode. Bitcode isn’t portable but wasm is, and wasm has plans to be a much better platform for a variety of languages (eg with gc support and delimited continuations) whereas making gc compatible llvm code is basically impossible because you need to write the gc yourself but can’t control what’s in the registers or on the stack. Perhaps an optimised wasm compiler/runtime could be used to get a good compiler for a new language without doing as much work.

Or perhaps a general vm will never work as well as a custom one and the trade off won’t be worth it.
A N.Y. Nurse Dies. Angry Co-Workers Blame a Lack of Protective Gear
Actually microscope (like most similar words eg telescope, periscope, endoscope etc) is borrowed from greek: μικροσκόπιο, which is generated from μικρό + σκοπέω meaning small + look at.
1. Unless I'm mistaken, this (extreme scenario in the) Oxford model does not say that 50% of the population is infected all at the same time. Until there are serological surveys that indicate who was infected in the past, the current tests can't prove what you think. And any false negatives from the PCR test would add to this problem.

2. The progress of the disease takes time too, from infection to symptoms to detection/hospitalization/secondary infection. And efforts to "flatten the curve" will "slow the spread" too.

3. I'm not sure about this one, but shouldn't the infectiousness also vary quite a lot with different contributing factors (population density, air quality, etc)? The number used in the model is always just an "average" in a sense.

4. The cruise ship evidence is pretty significant, but it still has problems. Any passengers who had already recovered or did not show symptoms could have been missed. Plus I can name several factors in that situation that might increase mortality off the top of my head. It's not the best sample for drawing conclusions about people who are on average less old, not traveling, and so forth.

Admittedly, the extreme "50% infected" scenario has a risk factor (same as IFR?) of 0.001%, which my gut feeling says is too optimistic. But as far as I know none of the scenarios can be conclusively disproven (until they can do proper serological surveys).
While Zotero is great, I'm a bit confused as to why this is #1 on hackernews right now? Is this a new version of Zotero?
Canada has 1/2 the cases and 1/4 the deaths per capita. What is the difference?
I agree with all the arguments in this thread about Stairway to Heaven but also feel like for similar reasons the Blurred Lines case should have been dismissed.
Another Nail in the Coffin for SAFT
Not at all. The cost of producing something is different from its market value.

Recently because of panic buying of loo roll, there wasn't any loo roll available in the UK. On Amazon for a 12 pack of decent quality loo roll was selling at 4 times the price of what it would be normally and they became sold out.

You can lament about the ridiculous panic buying. However demand outstripped supply and the price reflected this. In normal circumstances they wouldn't have sold for these prices and people would have had to sell at the regular price.
The regulations that you likely hit when investigating tele-medicine previously are likely more closely related to why nearly no site will let anyone create an account unless they check a box confirming that they're over 13 and COPPA[1] is a pretty intense set of rules that, IMO, are way waaay overkill.

That said, regulations might make it difficult for companies, but they're there because companies have abused data in the past at the expense of customers. So, I guess, it's too bad - regulations benefit me, they don't strangle businesses, they impede it - and it's an impediment that can be overcome if the business is useful enough to people.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
As did Tulsi and as will Bernie :(
Secure + HttpOnly do not expire at 7 days. These are invisible client-side.
> H-E-B does a lot of things that are more benevolent than the kind of behavior that we're used to seeing from publicly-traded organizations and I can't help but wonder if the private ownership (truly private, as opposed to publicly-traded) has something to do with that.

I think I tentatively agree with you. I work for a company that was once privately held by a small number of owners who were primarily invested in that company. The impression I got from the old-timers was that management was a lot more generous back then. However, once they sold to a publicly traded firm, the squeeze started and it's never really stopped.

Sometimes an individual person can be satisfied with their wealth and position and focus on other things, and individuals can be influenced by moral and ethical ideas. The market, on the other hand, is like an amoral monster that's always eating but never satisfied.
Personally, I am more likely to trust sources that appear to think critically. A lot of reports are heavily one sided, and will provide a lot of evidence backing up a point, while appearing to hide the evidence of the opposition.

I find that a much stronger piece comes when a report questions its own assumptions and explains why we are making a judgement given the shortcomings of the initial argument.

When you consume mainstream media you get a lot of one-sided reporting, which inspires me to try to find the holes in their arguments. This puts in the position of question Coronavirus measures etc.

The reality is, the people making the measures are probably aware of the assumptions they are making, and are trying to recommend the best approach given what we don't know. Given the limited information, it is nice to have as much transparency as possible though.
“Discarded paper table “linen” and rayon underwear are bought by chemical factories to be converted into candy.“

Well we do have edible undies, please don’t give them to your kids as snacks though..
Exactly, I immediately thought of all the bog standard country, rock and blues songs.
Thanks for the kind words, I'll pass on your message :)
This man was a very fit 48 year old, who had trained as a dancer before he became a nurse. Unusual and it shows that Coronavirus is different from other virus-related respiratory infections.

https://data.ibtimes.sg/en/full/35116/kious-kelly.jpg
Sometimes it's good to learn the hard way.
Still enough normal 30-49 olds are dying as well
> The Philippines, The United States, The Great Lakes

I see nothing wrong? The Philippine (Islands). The United (States). The Great (Lakes).

> the poor

This is a challenge for NLP but only due to the ellipsis. "the poor (people)", where "people" is elided. I don't think most native speakers realize "poor" is an adjective here.

> a means of production

> a number of hamsters, the number of hamsters

> a shirt, but a piece of garment, and a pair of pants

Sorry, non-native speaker here. What do you mean?
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
Checks out. The correct amount of snark not-so-subtly implying that consumers are stupid/irrational as well.
Didn't zoom get their start claiming to be a privacy conscious company?
They are comparing different cities that both went through WWI ending, so I think it would require a reason to believe WWI would affect different cities differently to be a threat to validity. Certainly one could imagine there might be such reasons and it is worth discussing them, but presumably that would require looking at the specific cities in the paper which I presume no one here (including me) has done.
You're right, I don't know what I was thinking with that comment.
This has some truth, but steel weapons were better than both.

High quality pattern welded[1] steel swords were available in Roman times from at least 150 BC[2], and by 600 AD were ubiquitous. They were later mostly replaced by easier steel production techniques.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_welding#Pattern_weldin...

[2] See the table of finds in https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/kap_b/backbone/rb...
I agree, and I'd argue the potential confirmation bias presented by one side easily inspires skepticism from the other side
Made me thinking - Is this the reason behind today's market's rally close to the end of the day?
Where do children get the money to buy this stuff?
1. Like everyone else i am watching the COVID-19 dashboard. To put things into perspective it would be helpful to have a comparative chart of cases/death due to influenza over the same timespan. What would that look like?

2. I assume China lying about their numbers. It is hard to beliefe they managed to block the virus inside their borders when it already made it already spread around the globe. What are their true numbers?

3. How good is the PCB test? Are there false positives and how many.

4. Why is China not telling the truth? Are they embarrased of something?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. With an Arduino and the ability to program, we get ventilator designs. Elsewhere there are masks and gowns being hand sewn, hand fabricated, or 3d printed.
Hey thanks for the feedback, we'll address it for the release!
I suspect that there are organisations that deliberately design their reporting systems to prevent reporting.

This article covers some big name companies, there are others that are critical too:
1. National tax collection organisations.
2. Banks.
That, in my experience, prevent the fixing of problems, with anti-useful reporting channels.

I've not yet found any third party it's sensible use for the reporting.
They won't continue to thrive if no one is buying anything. Where I'm at is already projecting a $25 million loss due to lost revenue, and that's just based on projections through June.
Then don't use the startup? Not everyone has the same calculus as you. You don't need regulation in order for you to not use a product.
Curly Neal, Globetrotters’ Dazzling Dribbler, Dies at 77
A more pragmatic book is The Linux Programming Interface, by Michael Kerrisk. It is Linux-specific though, but that's probably fine.

Uninterruptible process sleep is covered in section 22.3. Threads, in chapters 29–33. Signals, chapters 20–22. The proc file system in section 12.1. Memory mappings, chapters 49–50.
You can disable global shortcuts from the Settings menu (when you're not in a call). But yes, we'll be improving this!
>I’ve met several founders who wanted to enable tele-medicine years ago but decided against it because “the lawyers cost more than the engineers”, and walking-on-eggshells destroys morale & iteration speed.

Thankfully so - I wouldn't want my telemedicine to rely on eg. some random unsecured Mongodb instance.
Well my nephew stole my sisters debit card and charged $1600 to it. She called and got the charged reversed but HE GOT TO KEEP THE ITEMS. Until he traded his Fortnite account to someone at least.
Quality of care after the fact is the obvious one. The patients of the cruise ship weren’t being treated by a flooded hospital system. Quarantine on the ship is less than perfect, but it’s still better than the efforts made by many governments which was to do nothing until things got out of hand.
These constraints aren't, I don't think, evidence of an impoverished world, but of wealth disparity. After all, there are many people who have better wooden furniture, but market forces squeeze all innovation into cost-cutting measures.
What kind of amazes me about this is it was obvious this would happen if the US didn't test as many people as possible early on to catch the virus. Yet the CDC banned most labs from testing and when a researcher in Seattle tested against permission and found the virus spreading tried to cover it up. Why? Wasn't it obvious that that would result in the present mess? Why couldn't they have just said yeah, test whatever?
L&L assumes a particular set of steps and shared reading culture. I had the good fortune to have a professor take me through volume 1 in a classical mechanics class. Thereafter other volumes became very straightforward to read and taught me a lot of physics.
The washing of American eggs does not affect shelf life. The difference between the European and American approach is just a choice with little to no effect on food safety or shelf life.