skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mainstream economics understands the flaws in markets such as panics, run on banks, imperfect information, monopolies, cost to enter a market, lag in ramping up production, transportation time and bubbles. All of which are at play at the moment.

I can't know what was said in your classes. Assuming no control on prices in a crisis, did they say how holding a large stockpile of a rarely needed item for the long term with it's associated storage cost and risk is in some way more profitable than simply cornering the local market on the commodity at the time it is needed and indeed helping those prices rise rather than fall? In honesty, that may be a hidden assumption against price gouging more than an ideal market example used in a classroom.

At any rate, few if any mainstream economists suggests that sudden monopolization of emergency commodities that are needed immediately but briefly during a crisis would be remotely a good thing. It is more a Cato institute / libertarian position driven by ideology rather than real world data and history which consistently refute it. It is also why no sane society allows it in emergencies on crucial goods.

As if to prove the point, the theory has just been tested yet again: there are no world wide government price caps on toilet paper and yet there is an enduring shortage at the moment.

If interested in this, here is a Nobel prize winning economist writing right now on the issue:

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1246431163050266624
And on the FB note, let's clear that up -- FB ships a mandatory phone-home analytics feature on their mobile SDKs used to enable the "sign in with facebook button". This sends your users' data over to their servers _even when_ those users do not use a Facebook social sign-on. Zoom removed that SDK within a day of finding out this was happening, yet it continues to be plastered around the web as if its an ongoing data collection; meanwhile, crickets at the fact that half the apps on our phones have this Facebook spyware.
A gig economy doesn't need anything loosened. It's a natural part of a free society in which parties can engage in contracts.
Salmonella can be inside eggs.

"However, outbreaks of salmonellosis (an infection caused by Salmonella bacteria) still happen because Salmonella also silently infects the ovaries of healthy-looking hens, contaminating the eggs inside the chicken before the shells are even formed, according to FSIS. To curb this form of contamination, the egg industry regularly tests hens for the ovarian bacteria."

https://www.livescience.com/10016-salmonella-eggs.html
I think a lot of it has been driven indirectly by vehicle regulation. The past few years have seen several major countries establish end-dates for gasoline powered vehicles. This has spurred development of battery technology - very important for wind and solar - and also sent a market signal about the future role that fossil fuels play in global society. Even if a country hasn't explicitly banned fossil fuels yet for electricity generation, the writing is on the wall and it's only a matter of time. Investors and corporations are seeing that renewables are an inevitable future, and adjusting their strategies accordingly.
> Yes and as said below, that's by design.

I realize this, which is why I suggest strongly that Uber not be allowed at the table if/ when any legislation around this matter.
I'm from Denmark, and the fact that certain parts of our healthcare system are not part of the single-payer system, and the fact that you can buy insurance for these things, really really does not make it a healthcare system much like the US'.
Would you be interested in an accountability video call with someone in the same boat on a daily basis for 15 mins?

I am not sure if it will cure the problem, but there is no harm in trying it out for a week and see what happens.
Wet soil indicates there's a nearby source of (potentially potable) water.
> The entire viability of these businesses exists within the margin created by stripping away any vestige of traditional employment stability

That's a stretch. Even if Uber/Lyft were forced to employ their drivers, they would most likely just raise prices and cut marketing costs. Sure, they'd be much smaller businesses, but they'd very likely still live on.

Uber pays their drivers ~$7b a year. Employing them would cost an extra ~$2.1B/yr. Self driving cars are probably coming in 10 years, so even if they didn't increase prices or make any other changes in their operating model, they'd need to raise $21B to hold them over. That's not a small amount of money, but Uber's market cap is $54B.
Every Uber/Lyft driver earns well in excess of that.

No. For most, it's not even close. The only way to make that kind of money was to collect kickbacks from bringing tourists to strip clubs.

Plus, many states have a minimum wage much higher than $7.25/hour.

Source: Drove for Uber for eight months.
Is there any advantage to buildpacks if you're comfortable making custom Dockerfiles? Seems like Docker would give you a lot more flexibility and clarity over what's deployed.
They are talking about energy cost per watt hour, not the total expenditure for energy.
I actually have no idea what argument youre making.

OP: all Zoom keys are kept and maintained in China

me: got a source for that claim?

you: quote citizen lab, sometimes zoom keys are sent to china

me: i didn't ask if keys were sometimes sent to china and that's not what OP said

you: not what the original poster stated.

this is where you lost me

> But with true end-to-end encryption, it doesn't matter

i never said it mattered. i don't care if zoom is e2e encrypted or not, which is why i didn't bring it up.

> Not to mention that for a sufficiently interested actor, they don't need to access zoom's network

people get away with this internet boogeyman argument because its technically true, but what percentage of internet traffic inside the continental US is actually being monitored and exfiltrated to APTs? compromises happen internally. i cant remember any stories of a data breach occurring with data in transit, as opposed to data at rest.
Whoever is running the proxy can also get a subpeona. If you run it yourself the ISP will know who you are. Someone is paying to access the internet, so they probably have records.
I have to agree with this- I found it challenging to tune EFS to get the claimed performance. The most important details of any system like this are: provision a very large filesystem, use large files, use lots of concurrent access (threads or machines).

There is a whole market of small companies that make high performance filers that do what many people want but they also have limits (high cost/byte).
Universal healthcare doesn't necessarily have to be single-payer, lots of countries have multi-payer healthcare systems, like Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Singapore.

In the Netherlands and Switzerland, all health insurance is provided by regulated private payers.
Filter the submitted content, not the sender. What Akismet does seems to work really well and not push back on the users too much.
Source? I've heard the opposite from some drivers.
I've found this channel a few months ago and my wife thinks I'm crazy when I'm watching it. "This looks like work, but harder!!". Awesome content! Thanks for posting it :)
Kara Swisher: Should Tech Startups Take Government Loans?
Knee-jerk decision IMO. Advertising will always be at the core of businesses, and they all compete with each other on lowering the costs of advertising. Why would they agree on non-targeted ads if at least one of them has incentive to target their own ads? People began using ad blockers exactly because ads were not targeted.
Covid-19 twice as contagious as previously thought – CDC study
That's still so much better than tech companies, even tech companies 6 months ago /s

Never forget how absolutely huge coal is. Those Joules are not going to be replaced with renewables any time soon. It's literally impossible because renewables need Joules themselves to be built, not just money. Money does not synthesize power generating objects; materials and energy and machinery and the approval to do so (capital) all together do:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption
They have not so far since day one. It is irrational and highly suspect to pick today to start claiming there is any doubt to grant any benefit of.
Mac App Store version when?
What would the text of the law say? All in-person sales activities are personalized. Would it simply forbid the use of automation for this in a list of specific ways? What would it say about YouTube video recommendations?
I see a decent number, though I'm not sure I would call them millennials as they seem to be a bit younger. Many I've spoken with seem happy to compromise, and if you asked them further details they all seem to have quite a different view of what they want. It's kind of like a bunch of people who all believe in God but once you start pushing for details you find that every one of them has a difference concept and many haven't spent much time even thinking beyond the common schema.

For example, does their view of communism allow for some private property or not (and often with some special subset that I've commonly see named personal property instead of private property).

It is also a bit like those who advocate for the free market. Many advocate for a free market. Very few advocate for a market so free that humans can be traded. And there are many products that you will find some think should be regulated within their free market while others do not.
They have 103,000 employees. It adds up.
It usually only makes sense if your car is a sunk cost — I.e. you own it for personal use, you would have owned the car anyway (Uber or not), and you decide to monetize it on the side.
Also portability. It's amazing how universal running Docker containers currently is.
What if you don’t have a working printer at home? Do they just let you starve?
Drunk man parks his BMW on roadside to urinate, thieves flee with car
Who agrees that an inbuilt face recognition and drowsiness detection system built with OpenCV can prevent more men from loosing their BMWs?

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Face recognition system is very underrated today and is so much powerful than what we think.

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Dotmole face recognition has an inbuilt real time new face learning capability and hence is a complete face recognition software.

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To know more about Dotmole, visit https://dotmole.co
From what I understand there is an ongoing battle in the Chinese government between those who understand the country desperately needs to get off of fossil fuels as soon as possible, and those who want to stay on coal forever. So at the same time that China has been building an enormous number of coal plants, it is also building renewable power plants and pushing hard on ev's.
Use TeamTalk[1]. If you need high audio quality, TT beats everything else you can find, maybe except very expensive software for radio stations. I've successfully used it to stream music and it works.

It's Teamspeak and Discord like, so you need to connect to a server, either public or self-hosted, join or create a channel, and then you will be able to talk to everyone on that channel. This is perfect for permanent communities where people just hang out, but works for one-offs too. It works on Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS and Android, no web access. The server is also available for Raspberry Pi. Half of it is open-source, but the core SDK needs a license if you're developing with it. The program itself is free, even for commercial use.

It uses Opus and lets you adjust the quality and processing, so you can get a lot out of it. We've been using it in our community for about 10 years now, including for radio broadcasting, and we haven't managed to find anything better since. I know of one local radio station and recording studio who successfully use it for remote work now.

To get the best experience, disable all audio processing in the preferences, on the sound system pane, so duplex mode, automatic gain control and noise reduction should be off. If you're on Windows, use Windows Audio Session as the backend for lowest latency.

Then, connect to a server, I use the German one for public stuff, as I'm close to it geographically and you don't need to register for it, but use whichever you want. After connecting, create a channel with application set to music, bitrate set to 150000 and channels set to stereo. Those are, at least, the parameters I use, and they work great. You can adjust the rest as you see fit.

There are some video and screensharing capabilities as far as I know, but I haven't used them. Audio is definitely the primary focus. If you need any assistance, my username here at gmail dot com is the way to go.

[1] bearware.dk for desktop, App Store and Google Play for iOS and Android.

ps. I'm not affiliated with the company in any way, it's just a tool I use daily and would recommend to anyone who knows his way around the computer. It definitely doesn't pass the grandma test, though.
Create your own Apple Watch complications
The World Resources Institute publish a fascinating dataset of global power plants here: https://www.wri.org/publication/global-power-plant-database

I run a Datasette instance using this data with a map visualization here: https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plan...

Here's a map of all 2,390 coal plants (click "Load all" to see all of them on the same map) https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plan...
On a 1:1 video call. There a dozens of good tools for that - show me a good webrtc app that can handle a 50 user video call well. Or even 10-15 users.
Architectural Design Renders That Give US a Glimpse into the Future of Humanity
Oh wow, that's a change. But FWIW, I don't think it's very helpful to look at an aggregate like that, which doesn't distinguish between (at least pre-crisis) ratings. For some other datapoints, I would recommend:

1) S&P BB-rated bond index (just below investment grade), which shows a 6.3% yield for that grade.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BAMLH0A1HYBBEY

2) I do see a 10% yield at the B rating:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BAMLH0A2HYBEY

So that must be what the market is effectively classing Airbnb as.

3) The Vanguard high-yield corporate fund, which shows an 8.1% yield:

https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/overview/...

(Also an aggregate like the high yield index you listed and noisy for that reason.)
That's not true; you can use "sudo" to get root access on gLinux desktops and servers.
It’s an exception, it’s not about ability to afford.
Is it ironic that a terminal emulator requires QT5?
EC2 SSDs have Burst Balances as well, and have since 2016: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-burst-balance-metric-fo...
Yes. This would be good but it is impossible. Washington is moved by profits, not people.

Could there be a better example of this than what's happening right now?
Source: https://www.ridester.com/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make/

> Full-time UberX drivers can expect to earn nearly $590 per week after tips when working 40 hours in a week. Beyond the aforementioned factors — location, surge, and tips — weekly earnings can also be heavily impacted by the amount of trip requests you receive throughout a seven-day period.

> Uber drivers are known to make slightly less than Lyft drivers. We’ve found that a standard Lyft driver makes about $17.50 per hour, which is nearly $3 more than what Uber drivers make. Of course, your average Lyft wage (just like your average Uber wage) will vary based on location, how much you take advantage of promotions on Lyft, and how much you earn in tips.

> It’s a general rule of thumb for the rideshare industry to budget roughly 20 percent of the total ride fare amount for ride-related expenses. At that rate – hypothetically speaking, after factoring in pick-up, drop-off, and dead time – the UberX driver could estimate to make somewhere in the neighborhood of $15–$20 an hour if they were to get two similar rides each hour they drove.

[1] https://www.ridester.com/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make/
Krista and Tatiana Hogan: twins with conjoined brains
Maybe, but does the creation of such a category actually benefit workers if it means that there end up being fewer full-time workers and large numbers of people end up losing their benefits? If this is the case, and it's likely to be, then it's rational that anyone who is an employee would fight such a change. That's why I oppose it.
Wow. Thanks. Hard to believe my memory is that far off. I wonder which events I'm mixing up around the Buzz launch.
That's only $24 million per year /s
> Is it not possible to purchase your own healthcare independently of an employer?

Have you priced outside insurance?

If you are making the wages Uber is paying drivers, it is not possible to purchase healthcare independent of your employer and pay rent.
Sure, in some states like CA and NY, Uber drivers earn closer to $15/hour.

Anecdotal Source: I've driven Uber too.

Actual Source: https://www.ridester.com/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make/
I really, really wish there could be a clear answer on at least this one basic thing that one would think (as a layman) to be fairly understood about viruses and immune response: Having had a SARS COVID 2 infection and assuming the virus hasn't mutated in the way that influenza does periodically to keep needing new vaccines, does or does not your body gain bloody immunity for some time after recovery? From everything I've know to date, the absolute normal, standard thing is that yes, being sick with something viral that doesn't cause your death gives you at least a certain period of months or usually years of immunity to it unless it mutates enough to re-attack without being recognized immediately. Is this not correct? For smallpox it applied, for chicken pox it does, for measles it mostly does for many years, likewise for many viruses for which there are vaccines. We even get immunity from the flu once we've had it for at least some months to a year or two. So why would Covid 2 be different?
$20/user/month is tens of millions of dollars every year for Google. Sure, they can afford it, but I'm quite sure they have better things to spend money on.
Unless this happened to a high percentage of perceived strong candidates, the likely internal note from Amazon would probably be, "we dodged a bullet on this one".
"Despite the concerns in recent years about cholesterol and other issues"

I grew up in the era where the egg lobby had billboards up saying it was OK to eat eggs once a week. This was after cholesterol and saturated fat was demonized after some docs found peoples arteries stuffed with it. It turned out to be fake science. My parents fed me poisonous partially hydrogenated margarine instead of butter because of that crap. They've recently discovered eating cholesterol is of no concern. You don't have to worry about it at all. Inflammation is the real concern. Saturated fats are the safest fats.
Ro is the spread without mitigating factors, so Ro is more or less assumed constant.

That said, there's no reason to think the particular places you're naming are either doing effective testing or mitigating factors. People tossing around the statistics of a given country without looking deeply at the testing process have been confusing the situation for a while here.

Moreover, a lot of these quotes wind-up wrong as they're stated. "Look at Eastern Europe". I can see fast exponential in Romania, maybe other parts of the area are still in "don't ask, don't tell" but doesn't prove anything.
Very cool project! Thanks for sharing!
Maxwell's equations only apply to static states, including steadily circulating currents. It's not generally applicable without extensions to more complex scenarios such as handling time delays and arbitrary movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A9nard%E2%80%93Wiechert_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefimenko%27s_equations

The apparent "paradoxes" are literally the reason Einstein started on his journey to develop Special Relativity.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_electromagnetism
You know I think you're right.

They've got two massive companies that I know of using their service: Pivotal and Coursera. They've already got a pricing model in place so it's already monetised.

This is an add. People up voting this and acting like it's a sincere request for help have had the wool pulled over their eyes.
> Funny, I usually see type haters claiming that they don't actually make the kinds of mistakes that are fixed by strong typing.

As your typical type hater, my preferred argument is: yes, static typing prevents a certain class of bugs from happening; no, this class of bugs is not nearly as relevant as type lovers seem to be claiming. By an order of magnitude if not more.

Source: 6 years of being a core developer of a front end framework consisting of 1,500,000 lines of ES5 JavaScript and SASS.
Would this be something I could use to facilitate integration between my SaaS and 3rd party tools used by our end-users? I.e., they provide the key through an admin panel and then we can 2-way sync with SalesForce? Or does that require additional auth steps that require native integration?
> They can, and have been fixed elsewhere.

Yep. And I should have mentioned that.
TeamTalk5, a free, self-hosted conferencing system with high-quality audio
You want to pull out one of the few safety nets left for American citizens (employment benefits) without providing for healthcare needs.

Sometimes compromise isn’t possible. Whomever comes with the most leverage wins. I acknowledge my side needs additional leverage. Maybe that’s COVID, maybe that’s the ensuing global recession.
The Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy explores some changes to human moral and ethics. Whether they are "advancements" might be a different question.

There's a heavy Christian theme to them, but if you're okay with that, C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy really dives into ethics and morals. The aliens we meet in the first book have no conflict, an interesting view of death and art and literature, and live in harmony with their planet. They are quite interesting books and give some of the most vivid, most alien characters and settings that I've ever experienced.

I'll second Star Trek The Next Generation as well.
You're assuming that network latency is the only latency that's involved here, but a huge latency source is the audio codec. Opus adds ~20ms latency, and that's the most low latency codec that's widely supported at the moment. You can see a comparison here: https://www.opus-codec.org/comparison/

There are all sorts of other latency that need to be taken into consideration too, and unfortunately in practice those do add up to live music being unplayable on pretty much any network.

There's a really interesting project called NINJAM https://www.cockos.com/ninjam/ which is designed for live music jam sessions. It flips this fundamental constraint on its head - instead of being real-time, it streams everyone else's output delayed by one bar (theoretically any interval >RTT I guess?). I haven't tried it, but it's a really cool idea.
What this ignores is that non targeted advertising means less money for publishers. As advertisers are willing to spend more when they have more info about a user. According to a Google study [1] the impact can be as high as 50%.

I prefer targeted advertising that's relevant to me. Especially because the advertiser doesn't actually know anything about me as an individual, I'm just an id, one of billions.

[1] https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/disabling_third-pa...
"Google is the fourth biggest public company" -- That's exactly why they wouldn't want 365 company wide
fyi google services does the same, google just dont openly sell to others, rather using it themselves.
Yes, we can afford it, and that's why if you want MS Office you click a button on a web page and get it immediately. But why would we throw away money by having it installed by default?