skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compare, as another example, the price curve for LASIK laser eye surgery which is purchased out of pocket, to the price curve for every surgical procedure reimbursed by insurance.
Can you cite an example of a popular right wing idea that promotes either a regulatory vacuum or regulatory capture?
I think the protestors are being stupid, but if they get arrested I would like to see the ACLU help defend them. Even though I think established law would put them in the "shouting fire in a crowded theater" camp, unless the courts are willing to reverse that precedent.
They should just sell PMR drives, with an option to enable SMR mode for extra capacity.
The CNN article has a picture of what a Boston homeless shelter looks like:

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200417103746-01-pine-...

So yeah, it's a bunch of tightly packed beds. One or two asymptomatic carriers can probably infect hundreds in just a night.
Do you think his position was tenable 30 years later?
I wonder what the age breakdown was of those tested. It seems like there have been a couple of (very preliminary) indications that prevalence may be higher (and thus case severity lower) than we thought. It's probably too early to be optimistic, but I'm looking forward to getting more and more cases with better population samples than "people who think they have it", to get a better sense of what the rate of symptoms is.
Creating a new account from scratch also means rotating your keys, which is a good practice. As the last few discussions on PGP have shown, the model of having a long-term identity key is more dangerous than it seems, because a single mistake (by you or by the application developer) means so much content can now be leaked. It's probably easier to let the natural connection between people be the vector of long-term trust, which ironically SSB emphasizes on
The most stunning testing result is the recent Stanford blood study in Santa Clara showing that potentially 50 times as many people have been infected with Covid as previously thought.

We might already have 50 million Americans that have had Covid before another couple weeks is up.

Of course the media won't cover this story widely, as it won't sell properly, there isn't enough sensationalism. It lowers panic (it would mean the Covid mortality rate is radically lower than previously feared, even versus common low estimates), rather than raising panic.

It's crazy that the US isn't putting a lot of manufacturing and money behind doing widespread blood testing to see how common Covid actually is. This should have been done a month plus ago. Based on deaths, 10-15% of NYC probably has already had it at this point and if so, we need to know that asap. I've been talking about this for months now, it's not a premise requiring any kind of specialized knowledge to grasp (obvious question: how widespread is the virus), and I've yet to see any media interest in it despite how blatantly obvious it is.

It's almost like there is some interest in ensuring we don't find out how far Covid has already spread. The first thing they should have figured out, is the last thing they're apparently going to figure out.
Ask HN: Why does coronavirus not kill bats and can we use their antibodies?
"When we were trying to think about what the future could look like, we scouted and examined a bunch of areas, and that's how we came to Singapore. There's nowhere that looks like Singapore; it's absolutely beautiful on a purely aesthetic level. And it's incredibly different from modernism in other cities, even the lines of it; when you look out of the window (of The Esplanade Theatre), you have these, linear lines, but it's cross cut by these curving rows, which on film always looks so beautiful. There's a different texture to everything and the bounce from the water off of the glass there. The other thing that’s really interesting is the incorporation of nature.

Singapore has done this incredible job of integrating nature into the city. We're staying in the Parkroyal on Pickering and there's greenery everywhere, just crawling up there. There’s a kind of beauty to a skyscraper."

https://sg.style.yahoo.com/interview-westworld-creator-lisa-...
I’m not saying that it is necessarily a bad thing, just that blaming a few months of decreased donations for laying off 37% of your employees doesn’t pass my sniff test.

Why not state the real reason?
I think there's a common misunderstanding here. The value of testing is that it enables effective contact tracing. (Ideally, you want quick and regular tests for every identified contact, so that if they do have it they can be isolated before they start coughing.) There's no data-driven strategy to compute how safe it is to open up - that's determined subjectively based on general trends.
This is exactly why we need innovation in politics. Imagine for a second, that you declare a region, say 1 square mile, somewhere as almost completely free of all regulations. Then, let all the companies that want to build there, go nuts and build whatever they want. This then serves as an innovation incubator, and an example for the rest of the nation as to what can be built, when we allow it to be built.

Imagine the speed of innovation when it's not regulated. Remember, in the early days of the internet, we had companies and application popping up all over the place. FB, had 100,000 apps in less than 1 year. What allowed such quick pace of innovation is the concept of permissionless innovation. We desperately need this to happen in the real world: maybe not the whole world, but at least some small region, perhaps a new city, or a square mile block.
This is usually true but I couldn't find any record of an actual published version in proceedings anywhere.

On the other hand, a related paper on the same system by a subset of authors is available: http://dl.acm.org.sci-hub.tw/doi/book/10.5555/866299
Or maybe adding the 500 option is the way to communicate your features most effectively. i.e. it presents the top-end of what's possible and accurately showcases where your more expensive option is.
They are profitable to VCs exactly because system for long-term thinking works, it just consists of different levels of investors, with different risk/reward goals, handing over the same company, still long-term, still unprofitable, one to another. VCs are just one of the first levels of this system.
Problem is, the faster courts are, the more likely people are to actually wait for them, which ends up a net slowdown. Really the only path to success is, take a risk to try to beat the competition and hope the courts side with you in the end. And if you're successful, they probably will.
Thanks for sharing that! I had forgotten that Radiohead help a competition to remix Nude. Interesting tidbit from the YouTube summary:

Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album - "In Rainbows" This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing...

...I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit. Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there. It doesn't sound great, as it's not supposed to.

I personally disagree and think it sounds awesome but I get what he means.
Some possibilities: the number of asymptomatic carriers is higher than expected, these people were mostly infected at the same time and just haven't shown symptoms yet, these people were infected by a less severe variant of SARS-CoV2, the tests are simply incorrect, or the inhabitants of that homeless shelter are in some way non-representative of the population in general (e.g. they're all in their mid-20's).

They imply that those asymptomatic cases didn't all stay asymptomatic and that one was hospitalized, so I'm guessing the most likely explanation is just that most of them were infected around the same time, and the test just caught them before they started to show symptoms.
Does wikipedia explicitly block editing on VPNs entirely? Or is it that you're not using an account and the IP is blocked from editing?
Can you elaborate on what that is? I haven’t ran I to that before.
An organizational problem seems to be that UX decisions are owned by the UX team, who tend to be extremely tribal in their opinions.

As in, if you are not a UX professional, your opinion is inconsequential.

See: replies on most Chrome UX feature requests over the last decade
Fortunately, VCs have no regulatory protection whatsoever. Build a better way to finance innovation!
Yeah, it seems like it spreads to everyone in every nursing home it hits, so it'd be shocking to see it fail to spread in a homeless shelter.
I am with you. Haskell is an brick wall of monads and other really hard words... I often wonder if Haskell is useful for anything and then I see articles like this... someone must be using it.
I'm not saying everything ends up being like the Patriot Act, but sometimes they do and once they get enacted they like hanging on way past their due date --sometimes they don't even sunset at all.
You've failed to define national security, other than to describe the Ukraine as having a bad one.
" I guess all Wikipedians are equal, except some are more equal than others."

Where did they say all are equal?
> Normal private institutions in America have none of those.

This is not true. Any non-profit classified corporation would be tax-exempt. This is not particularly difficult to set up. All you need to do is file with the IRS and not have shareholders.
There's an awesome book about getting better at predictions called "Superforecasting"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995360-superforecastin...

The idea is to make lots of time-limited, falsifiable predictions with percentage estimates attached and check your track record.
I follow on Twitter and have seen a lot about prisoner/immigrant advocacy (probably because of my Twitter bubble/liking habbits). But re-looking seems like a good mix of voting rights and medical access mixed in https://twitter.com/ACLU/
Cool. I'll keep my donations flowing.
Controversially, the Ajit Pai at the FCC would like to shut down VW's 802.11p/DSRC (as well as General Motor's efforts) in favor of Cellular V2X: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/rift-over-5-9-ghz-gr...
For a project that is about freedom of information they sure kept this vague. Why not share more details of why you had to fire people, what funding sources dried up, etc?
What is K?
Bored sailors?

Posting from inside does not mean, they do so on assignment.
Realtime rendering 1M^3 voxels stored at 0.017 bit/voxel with SSVDAGs
Read the book Mom Test. It is the standard reference for user or prospective surveys.
There is no irony. They are free to be as illogical as they like. I can't impose reason upon them as they clearly reject it.

Empathy is entirely extraneous to the discussion. If someone responds emotionally to an otherwise dispassionate discourse, that is their own concern.
> Did we all just magically lose willpower over the last 70 years?

Um no. The people in the 40s didn't have the choice to eat as much as we do today calorie wise. That is really all there is to eat. Food today is cheaper than ever. While that means fewer people go hungry, it means more people overeat. It has nothing to do with city design because cities that existed in the 40s largely in the same form still have greater rates of obesity.
The paper: http://www.crs4.it/vic/data/papers/i3d2016-symmetry-dags.pdf
Equipment ID and subscriber information used to be the same thing in the far past: http://web.textfiles.com/phreak/cell.txt

People cloned phones to make free calls, not receive them — like a '90s/2000s version of blueboxing: https://www.pressherald.com/2010/04/19/woman-finds-cell-phon...
No. San Francisco was the first to act, and put pressure on the rest of the Bay Area to follow, and subsequently California. If SF didn't act first, who knows how long it would have taken for other politicians to have the "courage" to put in such draconian, but effective, measures. As far as I'm concerned, London Breed saved tens of thousands of lives in the Bay Area alone, and I hate her politics.
This is the comment I’ve been looking for.

I’ve been writing exclusively React for 3 years and the majority of react community are ill informed as to the origins of React.

Originally an OCAML implementation, there are clear benefits from pure functions, immutable data structures, and representing views declaratively in a DAG. I am simply restating the motivations and characteristics of React.

Then Redux comes long, inspired by Elm and it’s immutable update cycle, and the React community proceeds to spend the next two years utterly confused as to why anyone would want to use Redux. Followed by an onslaught of “You might not need redux” and “How I built my react app without redux” articles by shortsighted developers who merely reimplement Redux. :facepalm:

Redux-saga is the desired solution to handling async rendering while also staying true to the core properties of React. I’m glad you mentioned it in your comment.

I find the React community to be largely defined by its misunderstanding the core design and goals of React.

I find Crank an interesting and clever application of async generators.

However claiming that the core properties principles of React - functional properties, DAGs, and priority scheduling - are “dogma” is a shameful misunderstanding.

The correct criticism is of the behavior of the React team in their community response and the Suspense API alone - rather than the intrinsic properties of functional user interfaces.

Nonetheless, I am impressed by the technical effort in creating a new async generator API for rendering JSX. This project is no easy undertaking. Sincerely hoping for its future success (and self reflection).
I am emphatically not doing that. Efficiency gains and “services” simply cannot fuel unlimited exponential economic growth, end of story. You can chop your tree for half the energy use tomorrow, but not the next day and the next and the next and the next. And unfortunately, we’re way closer to optimal efficiency for the tasks that we want to accomplish than you may want to believe. There simply aren’t many more 100% efficiency gains to be had anywhere economically meaningful.

At the end of the day, our access to energy is finite. And not simply from a perspective of resources. We are literally a few hundred years shy[1] of heating the Earth to uninhabitable levels from a pure thermodynamics perspective (e.g., entirely ignoring global warming from greenhouse gases, and considering Earth as a simple blackbody radiator).

If you somehow believe that we can have unlimited economic output from finite energy and finite resources on this planet I’m not sure there’s any point in me continuing to debate an argument rooted in magical thinking.

[1] https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
What’s nice about iterm2’s approach is it shows it for every line of output not just commands, but even before I started using that I had a timestamp on the right hand side of my fish prompt so I can track the progress of my work. Don’t use any thing like this in bash, but there are definitely times when I remote into a system where having them would be handy.
When I'm older or sicker, I'll use a thing that works for me when I'm older or sicker. Otherwise it's like turning on the screen reader for everyone because blind people can't operate computers otherwise.
The Elements of Networking Style, by Michael Padlipsky - an (extremely!) opinionated critique of the OSI model vs the Arpanet (TCP/IP) model.
High resolution sparse voxel DAGs (SIGGRAPH 2013)
Before venturing into this space I suggest reading Joshua Tauberer (founder of GovTrack): https://medium.com/civic-tech-thoughts-from-joshdata/so-you-...
My understanding is the cost of construction has risen dramatically in recent decades, in proportion to an explosion of construction regulation.
The New Deal did not end the Great Depression though. World War II did.
> The commenter unironically using Orwellian phrasing like "be sure of the integrity of the device" shows how far we've come.

You don't want to know that your phone hasn't had a rootkit installed on it by someone who borrowed it off your desk while you were in the office kitchen?
It's been well known for over a century that smoking is a slow poison. The well off smoked as much or more than the not so well off.

My dad, who went to high school in the 1930's, said they were known as "coffin nails" then. Any doctor who cut open a smoker knew what smoking did to the lungs.
So you want to reform democracy? Civic tech thoughts by founder of GovTrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvbyRdRRb7o
1. The symmetrical curve in some of the influential models is so wildly unhelpful from a policy+PR perspective. It's so far from what is likely to happen.

2. There's some thought that one of China's most impactful moves was moving confirmed cases to dedicated quarantine centers, so they don't infect household members. Household transmission is huge - so reducing that number will reduce the scope and length of the epidemic.
Regulatory capture is indeed a major underlying cause of a lot of the issues, but who will actually do the political work to fight against it? Someone spent money to capture the regulations in the first place, through lobbying and campaign donations. Who will spend the money to lobby and donate for the cause of undoing that?

The "builders"? No, their focus and limited capital is spent on whatever it is they are working on.

The most logical choice would be the investor class who supports such work. After all, these regulations create legal risk (from lawsuits/fines/regulators) for the ventures they fund. It also makes employees more expensive (through higher housing/education/medical costs), thus requiring more investment just to get a venture going. Yet, why is there no real, funded, concerted effort against regulatory capture? Just essays and talk?

I suspect two potential reasons:

(1) Opening regulations would help all current and future ventures, not just an investor's own portfolio, so no single investor has an incentive to do it by them self.

(2) Such investors are typically wealthy, and spending money to tear down regulatory capture that other wealthy people already paid for would be... uncomfortable. Such spending could be seen as indirectly attacking friends, relatives, college classmates, etc... No one wants to be labeled a class traitor.
My take... we need to greatly increase access to capital by dropping the accredited investor requirements. It is ridiculous that people in less economically advantaged areas are forced to grovel to those deemed rich for capital rather than ask their neighbors and friends for investments. Instead of allowing these people to make investments, the government throws them a bone by allowing them to 'crowdfund', which is another name for making an investment without being entitled to any of the return (dividends and shares). Instead, we incentivize capital sharing only for the rich and are surprised when the rich get richer.

This is the greatest form of regulatory capture in existence today because it cuts across all industries and fields. It is a regulatory capture of the free market itself by the rich.
They defended Milo Yiannopoulos in 2017, so I'm willing to let them ride on that for a few more years.
Yeah, but the order of events in my brain is:
1. I want to go somewhere new. Opens new tab.
2. I have a bookmark for where I'm going!
voters say they want that, but do they ever monitor the complexity of any particular bill and vote differently next time strictly because of it?
Because class is neither simple nor mandatory.

And people have to do massive meaningless things like swapping between class and function components every day, because of the introduction and elimination of states.
The negative extremes are, well, extreme. I am not a parent myself, yet, but I think you'd be surprised how great the incentive truly is. If we had a tidy causal analysis of what drives people the world over, I suspect parental instincts would make up a visible chunk of motivations.
> Why is ('over innovation') done on such a huge scale and with such utter predictability?

Promotion & NIH management sydrome.

New shiny gets a promotion. Fixing a niche bug in a decades-old stable system does not.

And by the time all the new bugs you've introduced are found, you'll have a new job somewhere else.

So essentially, project managers' bosses not pushing back with a hard "Why should we change this?"
Agreed. There's a difference between "stop buying masks because we need to save them for nurses" and "stop buying masks because they don't help at all*".

Lying erodes public trust.
Retinal damage is not an issue unless you take it for years. Heart failure is not an issue in a hospital because it's not sudden, so all treatment protocols specify that patients are monitored for QT prolongation. Moreover if you don't get it right away, you're unlikely to get it at all. "Other issues" in this case are mostly nausea and diarrhea. I don't know about you, but I'd rather shit myself than die.
It's a shame that for every heart-warming story of people being selfless there are ten of people being selfish.

In times like theses, fraternity and some humility are probably some of the most valuable traits that can help communities get through.

Contrast that with the baffling displays of people defying and protesting lockdowns en masse because they think it's a bit too much...
The Santa Clara study has gotten a fair bit of press and attention but it's not clear whether the results will hold up. The antibody test is new and they're assuming very few false positives, and it's a non-random study (recruitment via Facebook).

Here's some more criticism: https://medium.com/@balajis/peer-review-of-covid-19-antibody...
We might soon have another federal regulatory agency disbanded but considering which one it is I’m not sure if that will be a good thing for anyone but banks.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/10/justices-to-review-consti...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/us/supreme-court-consumer...
For any new law submitted, two others have to be removed
All good points, I’ve wondered about the differences between different groups as well as far as herd immunity. Haven’t heard it discussed much, maybe because it’s super problematic to explicitly call that a plan - let’s let the working class all get it, and then everyone else can go back to normal.

How was the reproductive rate 1.5 before the lockdown though? The latest estimates I’ve seen put R0 at 5.7.
What? The point of a degree is to verify that you have a set of skills.
Exactly (see my comment as well).
Northern chips are fine. I was strongly disagreeing with the notion that Scottish chips are the worst.
It’s crazy that things aren’t getting more out of control in Sweden. I guess we’ll see if it’s just early or if they continue to be fine over the next month and beyond.
First off, yes of course that isn’t the only the factor.

Second off, your point doesn’t seem to be particularly relevant. The politics of NYC and SF are not at all the same. NYC is liberal by east coast standards but not much by west coast standards. NYC is much, much more captive to the political party there that wants to drown government in a bathtub and folks there regularly elect them to run parts of their government.

SF does not.

Straight up. We don’t do that here. The fight is between establishment liberals and radicals. The Overton window here spans from establishment liberal to radical. Our big frightening special interests out here are tech companies. In NYC the special interests are financial services vampires.

Learn the lesson maybe. Yeah?