skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep.

The flaws of that system are becoming clearer and clearer, not that you'd see it from the responses you're getting.

"If people can't pay for housing, they deserve to be homeless! If people can't pay for healthcare, they deserve to be sick and die! Without a profit motive, we cannot do anything for our fellow man! It would be immoral to serve without profit, or to look for the greater profit to society!" Housing first strategies in homelessness have been shown to save money on emergency services and healthcare, but we believe, in the US, that it's immoral to help people who can't pay up. We know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
A chat would be nicer for all the other people watching, although a room setting would be a good compromise. People suggesting features left and right just shows how nice this is.
Great stuff, thanks.
Maybe in this case the men in the street will get their comeuppance when they find themselves left jobless by the indiscriminately economically destructive lockdown policies they cheered on.
Re #1: yes it does. For example, during Katrina, high prices encouraged people to drive long distances to bring supplies from other states.

Re #2: low prices, not high prices, encourage hoarding. Why not buy 20 multi-packs of toilet paper if it's cheap? If toilet paper is expensive, you buy what you need. The alternative to price gouging isn't everyone getting what he needs: that's a fantasy. The actual alternative is empty shelves and black markets.

Re #3: emotion is no basis for public policy. The state has a responsibility to maintain law and order during an emergency.

In some situations, intuition serves us well, but economics is not prone to these situations. It really is a good thing for prices to rise in times of scarcity. Thousands and thousands and thousands of years of history tell us that price controls only ever make things worse.
Have you ever considered what's making you not enjoy programming anymore? Journalling your day-to-day might help.

Here's one example that I found that really screws with people not enjoying programming. If you have a career, chances are you're going through rules/bullshit(ie. code standards, needlessly large codebases) made up by other programmers within your organization and that's making you not enjoy programming as much - in contrast to when you were younger and only needed to get things working.

On the bright side, there are ways to handle it. While I don't recommend going YOLO and willfully breaking all the rules or even quitting without a plan, I do recommend trying to find some other outlet/hobby that you enjoy after work hours.

You could also try to contribute to people also trying to make programming less friction-ish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0Am_QcZiQ&feature=emb_logo
If ramping up production were as simple as hiring 100 more people, it would have been done even if there weren't a crisis.

Capacity for manufacture is not infinite and it cannot be changed at a moments notice. It takes months or years to establish supply chains, facilities, machinery, and expertise needed to increase manufacture, and by that time the crisis is over and the extra demand is gone.
In the absence of a law structuring the sale, money is the best proxy we have for importance.

The law, in a system of democratic governance, is a big asterisk to that sentence! It's important too. But aside from that, price signaling is our most 'objective' way to determine importance.
This doesn't seem right.

>quality product, everyone has already heard of

They reached this status due to advertising, Its likely they could drop advertising for a while and coast along fine but eventually that brand recognition will start to drop.

There is also the fact that a lot of products are purchased not based on fixed needs but flexible wants. Maybe I haven't purchased a soft drink in a while and I don't think about it, an advert could make me think about it and make me want it again.
NVM Reliability Challenges and Tradeoffs
Sure, but git already had the ability to commit files to it and pip already had the ability to create packages.
I think there's an interesting conversation to be had about the psychological nature of this pandemic. The author of the article is 39 years old, I'm quite surprised by the severity of the experience that he reports.

There was a similar article in the NYT recently by a woman whose husband contracted COVID, had a relatively 'normal' pneumonia, but the article read like a war report out of an Ebola zone, allusions to Chernobyl the TV series, and COVID as a silent killer, and so on.

Now I don't want to diminish the personal experience of anyone, but I'm still surprised how many people in their 40s, 50s, 60s who ought to have had personal experience with tragedy and illness seem to have serious psychological trouble coping with the simple fact that we're for a while living in a pandemic and that life has become somewhat more dangerous.

It's not that I'm personally not worried at all, but there has to be some perspective. Life is more dangerous, but it's always somewhat dangerous. I wonder if it's, in particular, a phenomenon of affluent societies that haven't had to deal with serious stressors in a long time.

If you've ever been to Israel and lived there for a while and you go to a wedding and five minutes later there's a bomb alarm and there's pretty much rockets flying your way all the time, and you observe how resilient people are in coping with danger in their life, observing a lot of cultural response here worries me a lot.
Great book and a very relevant story. Read up about Feynman and his depression after being involved in the Manhattan project, and how he overcame that by 'playing' with the wobbling plate problem.
+1 for Clojure making me love programming! You likely are burned out from corporate code because of the huge compile times, complex processes, and generally a ton a of typing. This will mostly go away with Clojure. What you will be left with is significantly smaller code bases, fun with metaprogramming, and instant feedback with no waiting for compilation.
If they had allowed dynamic pricing then people who needed more would probably be willing to pay $10/roll of paper towels Vs the fixed $2/roll. They aren’t necessary for life, so setting fixed prices are why they need hard limits.

Seems crazy to me we aren’t seeing a “free market” at play, where both inherently the stores “win” and the people receive the goods they need / can justify.
> Which would in fact be good news in a certain way

This holds for the calculus of personal risk ("I'm sick, will I die?"), but not public risk nor policymaking.

Whatever the "true" severity of this disease is, it's known, experimentally, to be high enough to overwhelm regional hospital capacity. That means that it has to be controlled, because if it isn't then a lot of people will be sick without care, and thus a lot more people will die.

It's true that we don't know the "pessimal peak" of case load. Maybe we'd be looking at a doomsday scenario of only 4M people dead globally, and not the 40M the measured fatality rate would indicate. But... who cares? We won't get that high, because we had to lock down even for the "good news" 4M number.
Twitter has suspended my account two+ weeks ago without a reason and didn't even notify me about that by e-mail. They don't respond to my appeals either.

Decentralize all the things.
> I also recall Conway spending several weeks trying to construct a strange periscope-type device to try to help him visualize four-dimensional objects by giving his eyes vertical parallax in addition to the usual horizontal parallax, although he later told me that the only thing the device made him experience was a headache.

I'm quite curious what exactly Conway was trying to do here. The parallax we use for depth sensing is indeed horizontal in terms of the axes of the image we see, because our two eyes are separated horizontally. With a periscope you might be able to simulate two eyes separated diagonally or vertically. But how does that help you visualize four-dimensional objects?
lol @ the Trump supporters downvoting this. Y'all tired of all the winning?
> I understand that not everyone has the same ability to pay, but we can't crucify the market on the cross of equity

It's mildly astonishing to me that someone would attempt to make an argument in favor of not regulating absurd prices by comparing the alternative to gruesome public execution. Even ignoring the hyperbole, it isn't a very compelling argument; yes, we all agree that destroying the economy is bad, but the whole discussion is about whether enacting these regulations would _actually_ harm the economy more than it helps, so just asserting that it would with an exaggerated metaphor doesn't really add anything useful.
If the hardware is advanced enough to do that, the AI software is similarly advanced, and a basic 6502 can produce a Bender like AI without breaking a sweat!
How did you know what your blood oxygen level was? What did you use for that and where did you get it and why did you have it earlier?

Is this something that people with rescue inhalers also typically have?
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Suppose a farmer or a developer relinquishes his handsome profits by switching to less efficient techniques. Or the price of one of his inputs sharply rises, and he doesn't have the market power to pass it on. Now he only makes a narrow living. Has the world become a better place?
That kind of assumes the only way to increase production is to add more machines but there is an alternative, higher utilization of existing lines. In normal times it might not be economically feasible to run 24/7 and weekends because of over time laws. During a crises if you can increase production by 180% but you have to increase prices by 100% to cover extra costs of operating nights weekends and over time is that not a good thing?
> expensive equipment

What equipment aside from a computer (which you can take home) are you referencing, here?

> sound-proof rooms

So open office layout is the opposite of this?
It’s too bad that the game industry has this all or nothing attitude. If you can’t make a video game without installing kernel drivers and spying on everything my computer is doing, then I guess I’m free to just not buy your games anymore. To me, thwarting CheatMan69 is less important than access to everything on my PC. I don’t think the majority of customers are informed about the risks of these anti-cheat systems, and suspect more would opt-out if they were.

I honestly wish OS companies would grow a pair and start classifying these systems as malware and removing them.
If half of what people say about the benefits of meditation are true then paying for a good curated set of guided meditations would probably be a pretty easy decision for some people.
Unfortunately I don't think this is true at all: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-fdny/a...
Hoarding isn't the (entire) problem, a bigger issue is the sudden shift in consumption from commercial to consumer. Nobody is pooping in office buildings, schools, or shopping centers anymore, everyone is doing it at home. Producers that uses to sell 50/50 consumer to commercial are now selling 90/10 in favor of consumer and they can't reconfigure their production lines fast enough.

https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about...
And put parts on Ebay. People will prefer mail-order rather than a retail store.

I've sold a few things that I've been trying to sell for over a year. E.g. inkjet printer cartridges. I guess a lot of people suddenly can't print at work anymore!
They aren't life-saving. None of them treat pneumonia, which is what actually requires hospital care. It's possible they might keep a few marginal cases out of the hospital system, and it's not unlikely they'll make managing the disease more tolerable. They... probably wouldn't hurt.
Vanilla install (ton of errors in Docker logs)
What can data on testing tell us about the Covid-19 pandemic?
The opinion that charging people out the nose for basic necessities is a bad way to allocate resources isn't the same as being "opposed to money"
does anybody else feel like they skip straight to acceptance in circumstances over people have to ride the 5 stages of grief rollercoaster?

I can accept the randomness of not being rewarded for doing the "right thing"
Well, it _is_ true, they did and it was official:

"Dutch embrace 'herd immunity' as dire death warning prompts UK to change course"

https://pjmedia.com/trending/dutch-pm-announces-he-opts-for-...
I was in a Zoom call today where someone joined half way through and immediately was very loud and vulgar for about 5-10s before he was kicked.

So n = 1 it's for lulz.
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Landlords remove supply the add it back in for a premium.

They are the hand sanitizer guy.
or g = ./gradlew
> most of which were already barely operable.

It really depends on the vehicle. A lot of older used cars are worth more as parts than as barely operable.

Cash for clunkers helped take off the market the older used cars that weren't worth anything as parts either. They would've kept driving (barely), but the scrap value wasn't worth deregistering them.
I totally agree. I gave my car to my granddaughter 10 months ago, and I never replaced it. This decision is not financially motivated, I just don’t want a car. I borrow my wife’s Car a couple times a week, or just let my friends drive. I live 2+ hours from an airport, and I would rather use a shuttle service so I can read or work instead of driving myself.

I also challenge the idea of owning large homes. My wife and I have not had a mortgage for over 25 years but we “just” have a small beautiful house while many friends with less assets have mega-homes.

I might be very wrong about this, but think more people will embrace a new style of frugality and re-evaluate what they are willing to sell their time to get.
It's weird how in that scenario software engineers and lawyers always seem to "need" paper towels a lot more than laid off waiters do.

It's as if there's something going on there that this reductionist model didn't account for.
I think the risks shouldn't be downplayed, but the news media, aka advertising industry, frenzy over this pandemic is disgusting. Nobody that contracts this virus should fear death, yet that is what the mainstream media is selling and people are consuming: fear, death, uncertainty.
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I'm loving all the personal space. Eye contact and shaking hands squicks me out. I'm even loving wearing a mask so I don't have to smile at random strangers. I've been cooking my own food, and not feeling guilty for sitting at home on a Saturday night. I'm gonna miss this.
There’s a difference between making a profit where market forces and utility drive pricing and profiteering where some temporary situation disrupts the market.

The exception is healthcare, which I believe the current for profit model is unethical and immoral.
> some folks (delivery drivers, nurses) are driving more. Those cars will wear out.

Iunno, the delivery drivers using cars are using Corollas or Civics. They don't really die. And when they do, they become parts cars to keep the rest of the fleet up.
And a lot of people would just have to go without, As opposed to everyone getting a little with price controlled rationing.
PiHole at it's core is easy access to a bunch of blocklists. Why not just run a local resolver and import the blocklists if your usecase is mobile and you don't want to vpn your traffic?
Speaking as an economist, I tend to get nervous when other economists talk about circumstances where "morality trumps economics." As a profession, we have a miserable track record on morality. Economists widely endorsed eugenics in the first half of the 20th century, for example. And many modern economists endorse a minimum wage, as eugenicists did then, but with even less regard for the harm it causes. Personally, I find it hard to entertain an economist's morality argument unless it goes something like, "We shouldn't do that because it could harm people."

In this article, The Economist is telling governments to force companies to produce "large supplies at fixed prices". Even if governments had that kind of authority in free countries, and they probably don't, that sounds like a policy that could easily cause harm. Companies can't just push one lever to maximum and expect nothing else to change. But most importantly, we don't need it. Yes, we've seen some small-time punks buy up too much hand sanitizer, but the big manufacturers are being decent. As The Economist pointed out, "3M, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of high-end masks ... has stuck to its list prices and doubled its production." So there's not very good empirical or theoretical support for this idea. But there's hope for economists - "more than half" of economists surveyed about this idea criticized it.
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After all, 'Oumuamua is not an alien spaceship
This is a useful idea. I’m a junior studying CS and I can’t seem to find anyone in my cs department to collaborate on projects with.
You aren't seeing a "free market" because all of these big corps are scared to death of being accused of "profiteering" on supplies (with potential liability from anti-"gouging" laws), so they can't raise prices. Their only other option is to restrict the buyer's quantities.
People can't dump vehicles when they're underwater on a loan. Those get repossessed, not sold on Craigslist.
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> I asked him about his experience, which was very much like mine. This was a different kind of encouragement than my friends and family could provide who did not share my experience.

A little more useful than "it'll be fine"? eh?

I honestly hate the empty empathy from people with no say in the matter. Its cultural and I think it develops into a mental issue of denial. Saying "you'll die if you don't breathe, I don't want that" is good enough, for me. People of some cultures would say that. Are we really worried about the patient losing the will to live without other people's hopium? Is that really a co-morbidity?

Sorry if I sound salty, I just finished doing a bunch of interviews where other people told me it'll be fine and it wasn't and I already knew how random it is. These are binary events.
> For one, if you accept that advertising can sell "cheap junk" or "snake oil" then you've accepted that advertising can sell something. That could just as easily be a useful product no one has heard of so the issue isn't the advertising, it's what's being sold and advertising is effective (which invalidates (2)).

It can sell something unknown, because then the advertising makes it sound good, they don't know anything else about it, and they wouldn't have heard of it otherwise.

Which is the opposite of what's happening in case 2 when the product being advertised is well known. It's not causing you to hear about it for the first time and if the product is low quality then the advertising is less able to overcome your existing negative impression of it than for something you've never heard of.

> There are variations companies make to keep their product "fresh". Think Vanilla Coke, Cherry Coke, Coke Zero (or whatever the current form is) and so on. By virtue of them being new, potential customers won't have heard of them and advertising solves that problem

This doesn't really explain all the ads for Coke Classic, or for that matter why so much advertising even for new products emphasizes characteristics that are either meaningless or unrelated to the product. There isn't really any information content in telling the customer that a new cola is "refreshing" or showing random people dancing.

> A lot of advertising isn't about direct customer conversion but "brand lift". Now companies have dreamed of the ability to accurately measure the brand lift of advertising spend but it hasn't materialized yet.

"Brand lift" is the prisoner's dilemma thing. When everybody does it they just cancel each other out.
Pilots to some extent (the senior airline pilots who can afford to fly privately), but that is often to get back to the joy and freedom of roaming the skies at will in light aircraft vs the demanding and rigid world of commercial flying, so arguably not the same thing.
I took "truck times" as being some sort of comment on vague preparation for societal collapse.
I’m decidedly not in the camp who believe that the free market will magically solve everything. However, there is a big difference between needing disaster supplies immediately and the long-term stable markets for food and housing. The difference is time, how fast the demand changes. The arguments in favor of no regulation are that supply and demand will eventually balance at the place that is “optimal”, or least bad for everyone. Healthcare is and always will be especially problematic for dogmatic proponents of free market policy, but food in general seems to work reasonably well because the overall demand doesn’t change suddenly or dramatically. With today’s need for disaster supplies, demand is many orders of magnitude higher than normal, and by the time supply can meet the demand, the demand is going to disappear. Price gouging of emergency supplies in this case is taking advantage of a huge discrepancy between demand and supply, and this discrepancy doesn’t exist globally for food & housing - it might vary locally, but there’s almost unlimited amounts of competition, unlike N95 mask production. So that’s why it might not be so inconsistent to be okay with making food profits but not with disaster supply price gouging.
I think the distinction here is a person with a "battlestation" (good monitor, good internet, area with relatively few distractions, etc) versus a person that has no area dedicated to using a computer: possibly a shared apartment (noise and space), wifi that drops out, no good computer desk, and a million other "paper cuts" that make it difficult.
Yes indeed, that’s how I have it setup. I have one WireGuard configuration on iOS, for both cellular and WiFi (except my home SSID). And it works like a charm.
Amex has by far the best record for customers wrt chargebacks. Most companies I start do not even accept Amex for this reason. I had contracts with them in the past where we were not even allowed to fight chargebacks in the first year of the account.
If I had a blood oxygen of 89% I would have gone to the emergency room immediately. That's 80 year old smoker with emphysema levels. If you were previously healthy that is far more serious than the "light" covid-19 that many people get, assuming the reading was accurate.
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If you are elderly than you should definitely fear death. But yes if you are under 50 it's more likely you will be killed driving to the hospital than by the virus.
also a fan of NextDNS. i have been using the service for a few weeks, since i saw them mentioned on twitter. looks like the aggregate number of queries from the many devices on my home network will exceed 300,000 per month, so i am happy to start paying as soon as they start charging.