skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies generate revenue to stay afloat by differential pricing- they price things so that some usually essential things are moderately priced and more expansive / powerful / nicer things cost more money. The people to whom the possession of the nicer things is "worth it" are willing to pay more.

Everyone wants the nicer things- the pro edition, the nice coffee table book, but it's not worth it to those same people.

This produces people who see things that are nice that they want, but they can't justify paying the extra money for.

Those people sometimes say things like "why is edition X so expensive? It's not worth it". In other words, it's economic nonsense to buy that thing.

But that's the point- it's not worth it- to you. But to some people, it IS worth it, and they're the target market.

The consumer self-identifies and self-selects which category they fall into. The fact that something isn't "worth it" or "too expensive" means that the consumer does not belong to that category of people for whom it makes economic sense to buy that product.

Affinity offers a huge amount of functionality at a price everyone can afford. Some people have more money which they would use to buy more Affinity stuff, if it was there. That's what those books are - more wonderful stuff for people to whom its worth it.

Differential pricing is how companies keep things affordable. In some sense the people to whom extras are worth it subsidize the low cost of the essential core for everyone else.

It's pretty nice.
The first piece of his I heard is still my favorite: "Stabat Mater" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f403XsOAFXE

It uses such a great palette of composition techniques — gregorian chant, unison passages, clusters (the bell-like effects he achieves with clusters are my favorite part of the piece), up to the surprise effect at the end.
People rented out holiday cottages long before Airbnb existed, even long before the internet. There were sections in classified listings in newspapers, and later specialised websites.
No.

What will happen is that much more people will understand that Internet != Netflix/Youtube.
Operations per second is a notoriously useless measure. Which is why we have higher-level benchmarks like GeekBench that are actually incredibly broad in what they test, performing a lot of real-world type activities in a larger macro-benchmark suite.

The Bionic chips aren't cheating to a win. They win GeekBench, and virtually any other cross-platform activity that you can throw at them. As I mentioned in another post, my iPhone 11 absolutely lays waste to my laptop with an i7-7700HQ processor at the JetStream 2 benchmark. Now this is a JavaScript benchmark that runs on completely different software stacks / OS / etc (my i7 running Windows 10, Chrome 80, etc), but it is layers and layers of dependencies on the performance of the platform. And my big beefy i7 is beaten by a tiny little mobile processor. It is quite remarkable.

It's a blazingly fast little processor. We would probably have seen them use them in other hardware sooner if Apple wasn't always suspicious that Intel was sandbagging in some way and was ready to wow the industry.
We got caught with our pants down so to speak. We can keep ventalators and masks stocked and no need to shutdown. They claim shutdown is to prevent overwhelming the medical system. Or its a lie to practice martial law. We will see soon.
Anandtech frequently includes SPEC results in their reviews.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...
The plot is function against derivative of function. This is also called a phase space plot which is quite often used in the dynamic systems theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_space
It is an unusual transaction, but we are living in unusual times. And the fraud detection process has not accounted for that yet.
The Financial System is so Corrupt
Yeah I heard this from more people! Thanks for the suggestion and alerting me to the issue. I think I'll add a snap to center button soon and some more functionality on this too :)
I’ve “heard” a lot of things. But, my first generation iPad from 2010 could render any page that I went to. Of course it crashed all of the time because that iPad only had 256Mb of RAM.

As far as being “unsafe”, Apple was publishing patches for iOS 9 and 10 as late as the middle of last year.

But do you really want to compare Apple supporting older hardware to Android?
author had a few other books on secure programming

maybe older books are cheaper
By "being overleveraged on [stocks]" do you specifically mean that people were borrowing to invest in stocks?
When could you believe numbers from authoritarian governments? We never left that station. Very few governments on global scale can be sort of trusted to not lie too much.

Could you, for example, trust Western journalists to provide accurate accounts from USSR? Or believe USSR official numbers?
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Right and that's essentially the point.

It's fantastic for "tourists" (even though you were there 6 months you were essentially a tourist) at the expense of residents.

Unfortunately see it every day as I'm based in New Orleans which is a tourism-dependent city and ABNB has just been devastating for locals who can't afford to buy property.
Health insurance in the US are expecting to have a bumper year this year because all of the elective operations have been cancelled.

They have raised their expectations for next year because the pandemic gives them an excuse to increase prices and as we know every medical procedure represents profit to them and the pandemic will lead to a glut of said procedures next year.
NextDNS is great. I have tried various DNS services -- OpenDNS, Cleanbrowsing, Cloudflare Gateway, Quad9, etc and I keep coming back to NextDNS. Would definitely recommend giving it a try if you're looking for a solid DNS-based security/privacy setup.
So, no dynamic changes of the UI? We are talking about “web apps”.
I was a happy Adguard user for several years but found that some ads have come through lately. I did some research and switched to Blokada, which works well--sometimes too well; I have to temporarily deactivate it to use certain apps when I'm not on WiFi.
...good teachers are rare and it’s good for everyone if they stay in education instead of being lured to Google or Goldman Sachs.

Is this a common Goldman pipeline? Do they have recruiters hanging around teachers' lounges? The teachers I know who have gotten fed up with all of it have become insurance agents, agricultural extension people, etc. b^)
You are absolutely correct. There are not enough delivery capability for those who really need it. If you are young and healthy you should be ashamed to be getting your food delivered. It is cowardly.

My esteem goes to those working in the stores, at the tills etc.
It has to be said besides this non-restrictive answer from the government most Swedish companies are making responsible changes to keep the spread from running totally unchecked.
All companies I know from friends working there has implemented WFH policies for everything that such a policy is possible for.
In such an environment I think the government's response is a quite good one. Individual responsibility. Try to mimimize exposure, use social distancing, wash you hands and try to move things online if you can so that people that can't do that can do that more safely.

The only part that seems harder struck by this than most other of the country (according to the health departments numbers) is the capital. I wouldn't be surprised if harder restrictions would be implemented there if the spread continues to grow.
You're saying you have this issue with NextDNS? I've been using it since it was mentioned here, as well, and have had zero issues that were not self-created. FWIW.
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This kind of analysis is also called a phase space plot: the function is plotted against its derivative. And when the function is an exponential growth then the derivative is the same which gives a similar plot for all the different countries. When the function deviates from the exponential like in China you can spot the difference very early in these kind of plots.

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

or for an example:

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

or in math notation: the governing equation for exponential growth is :

y' = ay

which is a linear function where the slope is the growth rate. The plot shows y' vs y. This is the straight line in the plot. Any deviations from exponential growth can be easily spotted now.
Bet you $100 it's mostly women flushing feminine hygiene products down the loo . . . . it's the military, they can video anywhere/anytime they want. Install video cams in the toliets to capture the user and what is being flushed and I guarantee they will catch the offenders and punish them severely.
Reread what you replied to,the same still applies.

It isn't like Khan is some religious cult and those unemployed people think they're now going to "hell" if they don't donate. Unemployed individuals will make a decision to donate or not.

There are also millions who are not unemployed and are WFH making good money, FAANG.
I worked for a government contractor for a little over two weeks once. (I gave my 2 weeks notice almost right away.) It’s hard to express how wasteful and broken this process is. When I realized that I wouldn’t actually be doing anything useful for the first two months of my job, I just quit. No way could I do that kind of “work” day in and day out.
yet i have seen that detail go unstated in countless iterations of the problem. leading me to believe that most people who claim to understand the problem don't.
I have ~100% of my net worth invested in ETFs around the world. You can always sell your stocks if you find yourself needing liquidity, as I've done multiple times.

Yes, it sucks to sell at a loss. But it's still a smaller loss than the opportunity cost of not investing that money.
> when that happens the player instantly loses

I don't think I've ever seen this rule in any variants.

Since we're making up rules: Could the player not still have the option to switch, and thus win the game?

I'm not convinced that I am wrong after your explanation.

Either way, my point is that focusing on the problem statement as the "main thing that seems to cause the paradox" allows the reader to stop there and disregard a far more interesting discussion about biases.
Counterpoint: This increased short-term rental market in a lot of cities displaces long-term renters who were priced out...and this disproportionately affects the poor who can't afford to buy property.
The US gov - despite all the terrible deeds in its short history - builds upon a very strong civil liberties foundation, whereas China is a one-party totalitarian dictatorship.

Sure, there's no "clear" ethical split, but just putting both of them into the naughty bin won't do anyone much good. Most of the people on HN don't want anyone spying on them, but that doesn't mean there is no point in clearly stating that Huawei products somehow represent a greater risk than Cisco's overpriced every-year-re-branded legacy junk.
Oh my god this attitude absolutely infuriates me. I just assisted my kids’ piano teacher in organizing an online virtual piano festival. The technical piece was easy- set up a google form where students could submit their information and a video of their performance.

The hard part? In an in person festival, the student hands their sheet music to the judge sitting in the room before performing, so the judge can track and note any deviation between the music and the performance.

We wanted a similar experience online, so our local festival organizers reached out to the wonderful music publishers licensing lawyers. Their response was wholly unhelpful. They wanted to make SO certain that in this pandemic their precious sheet music for elementary school age kids was NOT stolen. They wanted measures such as pasting a “used with permission” watermark on any picture of the music, purchasing a separate copy for the judges, and ensuring secure erase of any files after the festival!

It was absolutely insane. This sort of inflexible attitude in a time of crisis makes me irrationally angry. If we had any way to avoid purchasing music from these .... people ... I would do it in a heartbeat.
Trump Stops Short of Quarantine Threat Against NY, NJ and CT
I have found it doesn't taste as good that way.
Brilliant numberphile video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-TBlh44gY
If you believed your family was currently virus free but at increased risk of death because of high virus infection rates in your surroundings, would you do anything different than what these people are “selfishly” doing?
This is so sweet and long awaited, happening for a reason so unexpected and unstoppable.
De-paywalled: https://archive.is/n54xO
> but there wasn't a pandemic at the same time.

There certainly was a pandemic, the 2009 H1N1 one. [1] In the last few months I've started to suspect that that was what killed my grandma in July 2010, she died very suddenly because of some respiratory issues (I live in Eastern Europe).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic
So from reading the article, it seems that most hosts don't actually own the apartments, but rent them from landlords and then AirBnb them? That seems more different from North America where most of the hosts own (at least for whole apartment rentals) although for condos at least in Toronto it often is against the condo bylaws.
Why is grocery delivery considered a ‘safer’ option than going to the store yourself. I actually prefer to do it myself. I’d rather be the one to lay hands on all my own products.

Why would you trust an unknown group of people to take all the proper precautions? Who picked the item by hand? Who is this bringing it to your door? Are you sure they washed hands? Did they accidentally sneeze on anything? Is the vehicle sanitary? Also, I would imagine people doing these jobs are probably at higher risk of being exposed, just by nature of traveling & being in public all the time.

I would rather trust my own skills to be responsible and protect myself, rather than other unknown entities to touch all my stuff. All the supermarkets I’ve been to have someone at the door sanitizing carts as the hand them too you. I am hyper aware of avoiding touch anything unnecessary. I can keep as much distance from people as I want. I know my hands are clean when I start, and then avoid touching my face until I sanitize after.
Design and Prototyping of a Low-Cost Portable Mechanical Ventilator (2010) [pdf]
Okay since you opened the door to playing "call the bottom" where do you think it will be? I'll swag first. The end will be in sight when the US new case rate hits its inflection point and begins decreasing. From that you can sorta tell when things will settle down biology-wise.
Out of curiosity which ones and is there a common pattern in their blockage philosophy?
I mean, ok. But you're allowing a chat client to run code on your PC... in the case I saw it was sudo. You can do a shitload more with sudo than you can with a browser extension.

I still don't get it.
> I don't think that's deliberate on the media's behalf

And I'm sure it is deliberate. Like I've said, not only the editors deliberately select the news, what will be covered and how it will be covered, there are agencies producing the news that the media "just covers" but having established preferences of how the coverage is supposed to be.

I was also ignorant about the phenomenon until I was directly in the location being covered. Then I've discovered that it is known that "the news are correct, except about the stuff I'm being directly involved with."

I'm just reading the front page of one local newspaper of one European country which spends almost no ink on coronavirus topic (and I know more than one president or prime minister was also doing the same until only a few days ago). Even avoiding to mention some facts is an editorial policy. In the cases of misinformation about China, repeating unproven information or even giving it any attention at all, and especially using that for titles is as a deliberate act as any other is.

There's nothing "accidental" there.
Colleges grapple with grading fairness during coronavirus
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Meat takes a huge hit in economic downturns. Meat is what eats the grains sold in futures markets.
Alot of super markets in Singapore are 24/7, a lot of the elderly wear masks, and for the most part people adhere to social distancing. The spread is minimal in Singapore.
Could you provide some more detail/links about AOT-compiled Java?
Same. Been using NextDNS regularly since it was first announced on HN and have not seen any performance issues since the first few days. Highly recommend!
Yes, the UK supermarkets are asking you to do this. Tesco's CEO "We are at full capacity for the next few weeks and we ask those who are able to safely come to stores to do so, instead of shopping online, so that we can start to free up more slots for the more vulnerable".
And the sense not to.
Salman Khan takes $800k/yr from Khan Academy donations for himself, maybe he should donate.
I just started to write this in Rust a few months back. Thanks for this project it is fixing most of my problems with Pi-hole.
Why do you say it's "above market" when there's a market for it?
And his relevant corollary to be "Fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”
Bernie Sanders Leads Probe into How Amazon Treats Workers During Pandemic
Economic impact at this early stage of the pandemic is pretty non-existent though? Italy is just having a very few people not paying for basic food at supermarkets in the Southern part of the country right now... that is where jobs are underpaid, hidden in the black market or just semi- daily- tricks to survive more or less legally, and the first to evaporate when there are no people in the street to fool. So the second stage of a pandemic is social discontent and revolts if people can’t eat... but we are not there yet? That’s why I really think all statistically surplus deaths right now all over the globe are just Covid deaths, but you will not have the exact number... only undertaker businesses may have a proper idea, maybe, if not just the Army in non-democratic countries.
According to [1] the numbers for Switzerland are about 13k tests and 1.7k cases per million, which would be somewhere below the Faeroe Island.

[1] https://www.bag.admin.ch/dam/bag/de/dokumente/mt/k-und-i/akt...
Well, like I said - I recalculated for the flux of the 15 W lamp. An hour of zapping gets you to 1.72 J/cm^2 which is very close to your 1.8 J/cm^2 figure.
EdX is also a non-profit.
Monty Hall himself wrote to the Harvard C.S. Professor Lawrence Denenberg questioning the counter-intuitive logic:

> https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/373/the-monty-hall...

____

The topic of the counter-intuitive nature of probability reminds of Newton's letter to Pepys - "In 1693, Isaac Newton answered a query from Samuel Pepys about a problem involving dice. Newton’s analysis is discussed and attention is drawn to an error he made."

Here is the classic Newton-Pepys Problem http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/february12014/

Here is the Newton-Pepys problem explained by Professor Joe Blitzstein in the Harvard class Stats110: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7NE4WF8j-Q&feature=youtu.be....

Here is further discussion about the logical error Newton made in his solution: http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0701089.pdf
I don't see how that can be the case.

Here's the data from DC on the Flu https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html

Over the past decade a low season of 140,000 hospitalizations to a high of 810,000. For this to be 20x worse you'd need each stay from the flu to be 1 day and each for COVID-19 to be 20, and then we'd need to reach somewhere between 700,000 - 4,000,000 positive COVID-19 cases in the U.S. under the current testing methods which leads to approximately a 20% hospitalization rate.

On the death calculation COVID-19 would need to kill 240,000 to 1.2M for a 20x outcome. This is more possible if you go to the low end and we limited mitigation efforts (which we aren't).

Flu, like automobile accidents, are a massive impact on society though because they are now a normal occurrence do not get the media coverage.
Yes, I am travelling a lot, I do not want to VPN in to my home from everywhere.
Airbnb doesn't have massive uninternalized externalities. The preconditions of the Coase theorem are pretty close to being met when it comes to house rental.
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Great! Needed such a tiny markdown editor and shareable also UX wise looks great.
There's a smart thermometer company who publishes data about the percentage of people with fevers in given geographic areas.

It's interesting that there is a seemingly similar downward trend in the percentage of people in NYC with fevers ~5 days after subway ridership drops.

Covid takes ~5 days from exposure to symptoms and ~12 days from exposure to hospitalization. Of course, these broad population measures almost certainly impact other diseases as well (no kids at school to spread flu).

My (almost surely too) optimistic hope is that the huge increases in numbers the past week are mainly due to massive testing ramp ups and that the absolute number of cases has already peaked (for now).

Screenshot of NYC graph: https://imgur.com/a/WeaWKj9

Smart thermometer data map: https://healthweather.us/
Python does not seem to be even trying to be competitive in performance though so it's less of an issue for them.
I was a resident, I payed taxes and everything. This local versus tourists stuff is just xenopfobia.

Why you don't blame city hall that refuses to build new housing, and d milks tourism for everything at expenses of locals?
How much of your annual $100-$500 membership dues are you waiving in the light of the difficulties you explain your membership as facing in these dire times?

Screw copyright and screw this rent-seeking noise. Self-publishing is rapidly becoming the norm, and who knew - authors are seeing way higher returns on it. Copying e-books incurs no material cost and therefore charging for it is not justifiable.
> It's hard to tell whether you are talking about the US, UK or China

It isn't, if you have read the paragraphs immediately preceding the one you cited. To be specific, I'm talking about the one government that:

- had the initial outbreak

- arrested the people who were first warning the public about the outbreak for "spreading rumors"

- banned researchers from genetic sequencing of the virus and have them destroy the samples

- banned people from discussing the disease in public

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%932...
The Blessing of Interconnectedness
In the US, the borked healthcare system is a root cause of poverty. That's where universal health care would help with this. There would be fewer people living hand to mouth.
Source?

Just looking at the annual letter, they're out there doing good things in third world health impact.
Such an abomination!
Yes it seems as if the Airbnb hosts are arbitraging cheaper long-term rentals into short-term, higher rate, Airbnb stays. Rather like WeWork, which is also in big trouble: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-18/wework...

In London it's now apparently common for whole blocks of flats to be arbitraged this way. There was an investigation in Wired recently: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-scam-london There are bylaws about this in the UK too, but enforcement is very weak to non-existant. In fact the government recently refused to renew powers that some local councils were using to enforce registration and minimum standards on landlords (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-51076128).