skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So valuable.

Currently working on bringing product management as a concept into public services (non-US), and using 18F's ideas as a model.

The key aspect is product ownership, as not only is there a notion of product, but also introducing the notion of an individual with ownership, as management and ownership are orthogonal concepts.

The idea of metrics as we understand them in the tech/startup world is also different, as in tech we orient toward revenue and user growth, where public sector projects are largely funded in phases with a fixed budget. The whole economics of public sector projects is you have expensive development up front, and then you amortize that cost over a decade or more by transitioning it to cheaper/sunk-cost operations staff to manage it over its lifecycle.
The other piece is that if you launch a public service that meets the needs on an 80:20 basis, you are a government who has left out %20 of people, which becomes untenable quickly.

Adding product management (e.g. something like aha.io, let alone Jira or Azure Devops) is a cultural change. Government has only just adapted to the notion of "client/server," which was a fundamental culture change driven by technology. Agile, devops, microservices, and the fact that most people under 25 today code, is going to be another revolution in public sector culture, and one not without bumps.

Agile presumes growth, it was designed to create products that grow revenue, whereas backfitting it to a fixed cost model takes some gymnastics on multiple levels.

The technology changes of the last decade were almost as large as introduction of the internet, and they are going to drive cultural change, but it is worth recognizing that this itself is the key challange. 18F's approach is the future, and I would love to replicate aspects of it, as how to effect change in the culture of public services is the greatest challenge of all.
Busybox has these in binary form, in either HTTP/FTP/Gopher servers or who knows which other protos. Pick your poison. Once you set a barebones connection to a gopher server from stdin using a little of C socket establishing code, you can just send the commands to fetch the binary, redirect it to a file and chmod(2) +x it with ease.
I they spend it irresponsibly then that's up to them. The aim should be that no-one has to live without food or shelter,etc from something other than their own choice. If everyone is getting the same money then there's less need to police people on spending it irresponsibly, because it's not taking money from tax payers and giving it to non tax payers to waste. The tax payers are also getting it.
it is always curious to me that the west, and particularly the united states, refuse to believe their own actions and behavior don't affect the behavior of other countries. the united states has been ignoring this effect for years in practically every conflict for the past 70 years.

people should start taking a stronger look at their own countries. the united states' leadership doesn't even have clear propaganda or a goal. they're just making it all up as they go, which is worse in my opinion.

this toddler-level blame game is a major threat to the national security and economy in the united states.
Google is monitoring our social distancing failures
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Your comment and some of the others above brought something to mind: with the F-35 you'll miss some capabilities you had with the Hornet just because of its limited range, just like you lost some of the capabilities you had with the F-111 when you moved to the Hornet. Being able to fly an extra 50% (or whatever) further before firing a missile might have a tremendous amount of value if you have to do something like that, mid-air refueling tricks notwithstanding.

If it were me, I'd want half F-35s and half of the most advanced variant of the F-15 Strike Eagle I could afford, keeping in mind the F-15s would cost as much as the F-35. But you know, even keeping those two squadrons of Super Hornets they've got up to date would count for a lot.
This and similar monologues do get one important things wrong. The big one on the list - Spanish Flu - likely didn't come from Spain [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic#Hypotheses_a...
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Wont't work since the user is identified by his public key on the ssh level.
Are you sure that's accurate? I think carrying an average weight purse would cause some amount of droop on that side.
Now come on, 1971 wasn't all that long ago. I got married for the first time that year. My car at the time had a rotary engine and it cruised at 85mph on the road every weekend. Did I mention that fuel was 31 cents a gallon? (And that was classed as expensive.)

It really wasn't back in 'horse and buggy' days.
If a business is facing 60000 arbitration claims from customers they are not a small business anymore and presumably should be able to handle the burden of arbitration customer disputes.
It probably walked out of a Wuhan lab, with a lab tech or equivalent as the unaware infected carrier; which doesn't make it a bioweapon at all. It may have been sampled by China's large effort to search their territory for viruses, and then it was studied in Wuhan. It's most likely a mistake of incompetence. There is precedence in that it has happened multiple times in China with SARS since the original outbreak in 2003. Incompetence of this sort would also perfectly explain the regime's response to destroy evidence and try to cover it up.
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Haven't tried but https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy#calling-python-from-nim
Sure if you just pretend, anything's possible!

Your article begins with: "Wealth and health are correlated because greater wealth can buy better health care."

Wealth is not the only way to obtain good health outcomes, Cuba has a ton of doctors and they don't get paid massive, overwhelming salaries. Just because they don't get paid outsized amounts doesn't mean they're bad at their jobs.

Based on all the OECD charts, there's very much a point of diminishing returns re: spending on healthcare and outcomes -- and very much so re: life expectancy. [1] It's pretty clear that spending 8X as much money didn't make people live 8X longer.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/the-link-between-life-expectancy-...
Certainly China would not be the only place misreporting results. For example note the strange Japanese effect where confirmed cases suddenly started increasing after the olympics were cancelled (another reason could be that everyone who tested positive had to go to hospital and so there were incentives not to test people to save hospital space).

Alternatively they could be accurately reporting results but just systematically not testing infected people for one reason or another.

It’s not clear to me that they are totally wrong though they seem quite unbelievable. I think I don’t want to think about that question as I’m not sure the answer would be much use to me.

One thing that is certain is that we can expect to see a lot of different people trying to set/change the narrative of how this outbreak happened. Any state that instituted a large lockdown will want people to believe that it was worth it and that it was necessary. One might ask why there isn’t much talk of Taiwan and Hong Kong where the outbreak was controlled without oppressive lockdowns (before cases from external arrivals became a big problem). One reason could be Chinese politics about those places.

In the US it seems plausible that being able to rewrite the history of the outbreak in the first few months of the year will be very important to Trump’s re-election. It also seems plausible that it won’t matter that much; his approval ratings are basically their highest ever.

I think some leaders will also want to move the blame away from themselves. A lab-escape story would be very useful to those people as it gives some people to directly blame (whoever let it out of the lab), rather than blaming the failures of leadership during a natural disaster.
We absolutely do know where it started. Prehaps not precisely in physical space but that 13 of the first 41 cases had no connection to the seafood market is very strong evidence that whatever the source may be, it was socially and physically proximate to the market just like the lab but not likely the market itself.

To compare this to Iraq is absolutely preposterous and fallacious. The two have absolutely nothing in common and nobody here is suggesting we invade China over it but sure as hell they ought to be held accountable.
That's an interesting bit of history, but bread for the poor is welfare, not UBI.

It's not universal, and it's not really income in the sense of something that the holder can easily exchange as they see fit. That limits how much we can learn from societies having traditional welfare when it comes to UBI.
That's the part of the joke you want to nit pick?
I don't have any problems with that at all. I confess that I have a kind of a disconnect with people like you who seem to be easily distracted by this. I don't understand it. I am not thinking that you are wrong or anything like that - it's on me. This is mostly my confusion talking right now.

Sometimes I wonder whether this is somehow related to a quest for clean/simplified (or, as some might say, dumbed down) user experiences in other situations. Also, is this in general more of a thing in America compared to the rest of the world?
Wow. It's incredible that it doesn't even take supporting the outgroup to be accused of shilling -- these days even failing to laser focus on condemning the outgroup is enough.

Reddit is having a lot more posts about America just because there's a lot going on in the country right now. In late February there were tons of posts about Italy. In early February there were tons of posts about China. The posts about China that got to the top then were all negative, and they're still all negative today, they just make up a smaller fraction because there's more going on elsewhere.
maybe someone can correct me, but AFAIK, BSL4 is required for handling SARS-related coronavirus samples, at least in the US. this would make the distinction between BSL3 and BSL4 pretty significant. while there probably are BSL3 labs in most major cities in the world, there are only two BSL4 facilities in china and WIV is one of them.
I really don't understand.

Are other people in the elevator operated by other actual users online, or are they randomly generated? Honestly, it's indistinguishable from random.

Are you supposed to be "conversing" with the other thought bubbles that appear? Using the 10 phrases you're allowed to use, which because they're meaningless you cannot tell whether someone is actually responding to your input or just a bot putting up phrases?

The sentiment is nice, but I have to say, 4 weeks to build this seems... unfortunate.
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To play devil's advocate here: something doesn't need to kill to be an effective Bioweapon.

"The line between disorder and order lies in logistics." -Sun Tzu

COVID has been a logistical nightmare. For everyone.

For the record, no--I don't believe anybody 'engineered' it [or has used it]* as a bioweapon.

*Edit for clarity
Right I own that car and you are right its claimed emissions were a lie.

I now have the fix and it complies with emissions regulations, and gets the same mileage as before. It was stupid of management and engineers to try to defeat emissions tests because clearly they were capable of delivering the car they promised using the engineering skills they had. Being dumb cost them billions of dollars and has nearly destroyed the company, a fine company. Someone just didn't want to do things right at the time and maybe got off on scamming. Current status is that this car has unbelievably low emissions and gets astonishing mileage and also has high performance.

Only problem is service costs a lot and requires specialized technicians. I hear Teslas and Apple products have a similar issue.

> I can smell it

Mine has no smell before or after the fix. I can smell petrol exhaust.
You would need to show intent either way. If the intent is proven to discriminate based one of several owners I think the protection would still apply.
It's like someone installing Windows 95 just bought from a store and you say you got married when WWII was just ending :-)
that's a tinfoil hat indeed. you have no evidence of anything, so you're spreading baseless rumors just like others. i find it unacceptable on a site that supposedly has rules against these things. nothing you've said can be verified or unverified, and your link is to wikipedia, edited by who knows who.

take a step back and notice the level of anti-chinese posts and comments on hacker news and wonder if you yourself are being fed propaganda.
Agreed, but when the talent isn't there, its easy for "helped supervise a contract to deliver X" to get equated with "expertise in X." Expertise is also needed to know what are big problems in a RFQ response, vs small problems. There's a tendency sometimes without that expertise to make a list and whichever team has the most +'s and least -'s to win out.
Those international flights were allowed to let countries evacuate their own citizens out. If they were banned, you would be making the exact same complaint but reversed: "China held other countries' citizens hostage in Wuhan." Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
my understanding is that "indistinguishable from random" and "meaningless ... bot putting up phrases" is the critique of small talk that this art piece is trying to get at?
Yes but 99 percents are.
I imagine they're hard to find because they annihilate each other. But they probably have a nonlinear surface area function which is dependent at the very least on interacting particle energies, so there's Hope for controlling them if that's the case.
> But the median price increases seem to take into account all home sales. If most homes sold are not "new", then the comparison is invalid. For example, if 80% of homes sold in this period were not new, then "total square feet sold" only increased by 20% of 50%, i.e., 5%.

Yep, good point.

> And this showed that at least 20% of a home's sale price is not determined by its value as measured in units of surface area. Rather, it's a vulture economics seller's market in which prices are determined by what people are able to pay for a necessary good, not by what is a fair price for that good.

IMO what it showed was that house prices are dependent on people's ability to obtain financing, and when the financing market ground to a halt, people weren't able to obtain the leverage necessary to sustain the price point. That doesn't mean anything about the intrinsic value of the home, IMO.

2008 is not a good example because there was fundamental, structural problems in the market facilitating such transactions. I think the dot-com pop was a much better comparison because there were no structural issues fundamental to the market but rather a drop in desirability.
thanks a lot for putting this together, great stuff!
> By all accounts the jump to humans appears to have been natrual.

Is it natural if you put a bat coronavirus and a pangolin coronavirus in a petri dish? Because the receptor proteins are similar to a pangolin coronavirus based on the above study.
Not really. You can apologize when something happens by accident too. Does not mean there was intent to it.
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The problem is that the most in need are often the leas concientious and responsible with money.

Only an anecdote but where I live in Quebec welfare is almost $1K a month, there are flats for $400, electricity is subsidized.

There are dudes who live on the street and use the money for crack. Many.

Now, I have no idea if this is any kind of plurality, probably not, but it's common enough.

Yes 'money' is always part of the problem, but at the lower levels, it's a huge mess of social deviance, real mental issues, medical-grade psychological problems, anti-social behavior. And if you dig up just a little bit of 'the past' it's full of abuse, neglect. Now throw in the availability of drugs and alcohol and then you have some serious malaise.

So for the 'working poor', it's a different story, it's hard to tell what UBI would mean.

BUT - there's another way. Land reform.

The avg. home price in Canada last year, increased in value literally more than the average wage. That is unsustainable and crazy. Basically it's a 'class war' between the middle class making their money from leverage, while the working poor make jack.

'Rent' and 'Mortgage' is our most gigantic expense and yet it's a 'nonproductive asset! Yes, it costs money to 'build homes' but the other bit, real-estate is a mess.

Net-net-net - there should be no material gains from this.

It's economically feasible to create a situation wherein 'rent is free' for everyone, and to still have the same amount of economic productivity and growth.

Low-interest rates have exacerbated this problem.

FYI this 'land reform' is one of the massive differences between North America and Europe: North Americans were given 'free land' to tend and owned their farms, in contrast to the serfdom they had in Europe.

Another reform in the 20th century was the push to get the plebes to own their homes through mortgages.

But now the weirdness of the economy has made real problems in the cost of education and homes.

I think re-thinking the economics of property without going Marxist would go further than UBI which is a kind of indirect thing.
The Burroughs OS (“Master Control Program”) in the 70s had a routine from which all other processes were started. Its name was MotherForker(). It was eventually renamed when HR found out.
This looks quite clean and intuitive, but all projects like this need an extensive to showcase capabilities and get people enthused!
There are no sources. I've personally looked into tens of claims about people being "disappeared" in China over the past few years, and literally every time the only evidence has been "they haven't tweeted for 12 hours". The person reappears soon after, but by that point the lie's damage is done, and nobody ever hears the correction.
Yes that's true -- but if the authors of this spent 4 weeks coding up something to allow people to input phrases and have them appear to others dynamically and have them "respond" (all of the complexity of a chat interface and backend), only to not be able to tell the difference between that and random non-interactive output... what was the point of all that work?

Maybe I'm not getting something about the UI that is obvious.
> I don't buy the escaped/released from a lab theories espoused here and on Facebook and the like. Apparently the mutations within the SARS-COV-2 found in humans compared to the bat virus are purely random and hence the thing is not or very unlikely genetically engineered.

Only the conspiracy theorists claim it was an "engineered bio-weapon". The most likely explanation is that it just escaped involuntarily from the lab. Why from the lab, and not the wet market?

- that lab was specifically researching coronavirii in bats

- there are reports researchers there got splashed with blood and fecies of bats [0]

- the researcher in question (Huang Yan Lin), the likely patient zero, disappeared without a trace, both physically and online [0]

- the horseshoe bats that most likely hosted the virus weren't even sold on the wuhan wet market, according to several eye witnesses

- there are no known horseshoe bat colonies in a 900km diameter around wuhan

- the lab is just 280 meters away from the wet market, so the market was a very convenient scape goat

And why was COVID-19 not engineered? Simple, it is not necessary to explain the pandemic potential. All of this is not new and there were warnings about exactly this happening:

- it was long known that horseshoe bats were a dangerous reservoir of SARS-CoV like virii [1]

- there were US simulations held on how to respond to a respiratory virus with chinese origin in 2019 [2]

- there were WHO warnings on how respiratory RNA virii are prime candidates for the next pandemic [3]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU (starts at ~3:00)
[1] https://twitter.com/_benoux_/status/1245381552672059392?s=20
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Contagion
[3] https://twitter.com/bmiloy/status/1238541860542377984/photo/...
The soundness of the argument isn't the issue. The problem is the world model where P(Virus starts in Wuhan) = 1.

That probability is only 1 in hindsight, where the probability of everything is 1 because it has already happened. In foresight the probability was not 1. And whatever city the virus started in was going to have a BSL-2+ facility studying infectious diseases. I'm probably sitting within 2-4km of a BSL-3 facility studying infectious diseases as I type this, because I am in a city.

The fast that WIV is BSL-4 is significant, but it isn't going to get you to 97%. Even 75% is high. Particularly if WIV is located where it is because there are good local sources of coronaviruses to study.
Let me extrapolate you logic: major UK facility for chemical and biological weapons research in Porton Down was close to a place where novichok poisoning happened. Your conclusion ... ?
There’s a lot of value in paying/blackmailing the moderators. You can clearly certain subreddits, such as r/worldnews, becoming increasingly pro-China. The mod team played a huge role in this, as they have been perma banning people who post a lot of anti-China comments. I’ve for instance had several accounts banned (one simply for sarcastically saying “Thanks China”) - there were also a thread on r/China where plenty of people mentioned they had been banned for similar reasons.

If you follow r/WatchRedditDie then you can see this anti-China censorship on a daily basis.. for instance, this is on the frontpage right now: https://i.imgur.com/RuHpkC5_d.jpg
Obligatory reference: https://xkcd.com/945/
why in the world would someone release a bioweapon that would have major and potentially permanent repercussions for their own people and economy?
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Suppose I make it a known policy to reject as client all companies with at least one Asian owner, Asian major shareholder or Asian board member. If my company is a major market player (or if this policy were widespread) then this creates an incentive for companies to avoid having Asians in those positions, and puts all Asians at a disadvatage. That seems like a civil rights issue to me.
I'd hope vanity projects like recycling and global warming are forgotten and we work together like in the post WWII era and dream of building a futuristic society again.

But, short term we will realise RL is better than digital life. There will be a backlash to digital while at the same time having integrated it into our lives even more. So a mixed model will come out.

Medium term: Nationalism has been accelerated and developing countries are 5 years poorer.

IE: China hate has now been legitimized, they are the new Russia along with Russia is the new Russia as we realise they also hurt us in this crisis. Elections might be funny to mess with, pandemics is more war like.

C19 doesn't allow us to see the future anymore than before. So long term is unknown as always.
Routine reminder: please link to arXiv abstract pages, rather than directly to PDFs. https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07813