skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would this be known, without conducting double-blind studies?
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Insufficient irrationality?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22964468
Yep. I tried clearing cache on Redfin but it does open after clearing app data.
I am not going to defend the wealth of the ultra rich, however, I do think that it is important to call out that the headline is wrong. The increase in wealth of $280B is based on a time period of March 18 to April 10. On March 18th, the market was close to its lows. The SP500 recovered approximately 4.5% from it's lows, thus making the rich $280B richer. If you had stock at this time, as a percentage, you would have seen a similar recovery.

If we wanted to measure impacts on the wealthy, we should measured from February 1st, which was closer to the market high and the beginning of the crisis in terms of knowing the world had an issue. In this case, the billionaire class would have lost roughly $3T dollars from Feb 1 to April 10th, if my rough estimates are correct.

Of everybody, Bezos has been doing very well during this down turn because the bulk of his wealth, Amazon, is custom made for a SIP environment. From February 1st, his fortunes are only down 10%. However, as a class, the billionaires have seen a clear impact to their fortunes during this crisis well beyond Bezos smaller hit.

Actually, and I don't work for Amazon, I think Bezos has done a remarkable job in creating value. Yes he has a ton of money, but he took extreme measures of risk and made incredibly smart decisions. His balance sheet is very strong, and he doesn't need a bailout to emerge very strong.

However, there is a very large class of billionaires that have made bad decisions, ran up debt, and now get the federal government to bail them out. These are the people that I believe deserve to face the moral hazard of creating companies out of other peoples money. Bankruptcy sound horrible, but in reality, if done smartly, it means that the company's assets are sold to a bidder, and the slate is wiped clean. The people that suffer are those that created the massive debt in the first place, and those that financed this massive debt or bought into the system. I am not saying there won't be people that are hurt if we allow some bankruptcies. I do question the "no large corporation should go under." If we had a good computer sim on this, I believe allowing poorly run companies with over leveraged balance sheets to go under would ultimately result in a better business environment.
> I say there should be an explicit difference between "running a platform", and "selling on a platform", and never should the two meet.

Its a free market, you can do what you want as long as costumers like it. Valve makes its own games and the platform. There are other example where this is true.

Should SpaceX not be allowed to launch Starlink. Falcon 9 is a platform, and Starlink is selling the product that you get threw this platform. Maybe not a perfect example, but one could equally make a argument about that as well.

All of these things are pretty artificial opinion based market restrictions, and everybody want to create different rules based on different was to evaluate this question for every market business and so on.

So you would make totally different choices about what is a platform and what isn't. If my company has a product and then opens up the underlying API, is my product now illegal?

For me this is all nonsense, why not just have both the suppliers, consumers and everybody else involved make choices based on what they think is best. Why do you know better of how to define these terms and what evidence is there that when you force a separation it is better at 'raising all boats'. There is no evidence to prove that in the majority of cases.

In the example of Steam they lost many games because suppliers didn't want to deal with them. Microsoft SQL now runs on Linux because people didn't want to us Windows. In all of those cases, costumers and suppliers are perfectly capable at making those decisions for themselves and then the company has to make choice how adjust to this situation.

Why any of this is bad, is totally unclear to me.

Its easy to say 'see this one bad example' and the ignore a huge amount of efficiency gained by vertical integration. The idea that we have bureaucrats to have control over every single vertical integration decision by every company is pretty insane dream to me.

This reminds me of 'Indian Socialism' where you had to fill out a application for every market each company wanted to get into and the of course super smart regulator would then make sore that the 'correct' amount of companies were in each market. Of course as always there was tons of regulatory capture and corruption to say who got a permit and who didn't. Witch is basically the same pickle you want to get into, just with 100x more detailed determination about ever companies internal structure as well. A recipe for disaster if you ask me.

The idea of enlightned regulator who for each choice of each company on each level can figure if that decision is correct for 'the global population' is a total fantasy. Neither can they do it, nor would their intensives to do it actually be for the good of 'the global population'.
Visits often start with a basic vitals check, but as an adult they've been content to simply ask my height, while measuring my weight.
Yikes, please don't go on tilt like this on HN, regardless of how frustrating a conversation has become.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe there will be a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, but the one lesson to take away from all this is that if a truly terrible pandemic hits (eg more contagious than SARS-CoV-2 but with a 10%+ mortality rate) a vaccine won’t save us. I’m not sure what will. Relying on the source country to quickly identify an outbreak and raise the alarm obviously isn’t going to work...
I thought the extra $600 is only for 4 months.
On fertile days you use a condom. Simple as that.
One of my client sells medical devices on amazon.

They sold out their entire 2020 forecast by mid April.

Amazon warehouses also got a little humility and flexibility towards warehouse workers.

The shipping demands are real.
500*365 = $182,500

that's amazing
Yeah so if he thinks Taiwan is part of china why doesn’t he blame china? They are being pretty racist towards Africans right now.

The head of WHO is corrupt.
On landlines on some networks, it used to be that one person on the call hung up but the other didn't, the call would remain connected for a while. So if the person who had hung up, picked up the phone again, they'd still be connected to the same person, and wouldn't hear a dial tone. This was useful: if you wanted to move to a different phone connected to the same line, say, for more privacy, you just tell the other person what you're doing, hang up, and then pick up in the other room. But some scammers found a way to use this.

Basically, the scammer would instruct a suspicious mark to hang up, look up their bank's phone number, and call back, just as Krebs is instructing. As soon as the mark hung up, the scammer would begin playing a dial tone instead of hanging up. When the mark picked up the phone, they would hear the dial tone, so they would begin dialing at which point the scammer would end the dial tone, wait for the dialing to stop, and then play a few ring tones and then pretend to pick up the phone. This was in the 90s so the technology was there to automate it, but it's simple enough it could have been done completely manually by stopping and starting recordings. From the user's perspective, it seemed they had hung up and made a call to the bank, so it seemed impossible that they were connected to someone else.

Cell phones, which don't stay connected when only one party hangs up, are totally immune to this hack. And this hack has probably fallen out of use since the ubiquity of cell phones has deprived scammers of a viable pool of marks.
Can I sign up for this service and use it instead of privacy.com?
Vendor lock-in is just another form of technical debt and should be treated as such.

Sure right now it's your easiest option, but in the future the vendor might be the only one offering a compatible version of CoolNewFeatureXY at prices that make your business uncompetitive to the other businesses that have the freedom to choose between vendors.
What do you think their real motivation is? Take advantage of this event to take their place as the Ministry of Truth and censor their way into being at the top of the New World Order? Or maybe they really just weren't happy with airing content at their scale that's practically guaranteed to help cause a lot of people to hurt themselves. (Or they think their advertisers aren't happy with doing that... which I think is pretty equivalent, because it involves people feeling the same thing leading to the same result.)
Beware that there is also no-hang up scam. Below details are from wiki -

Another simple trick used by the fraudsters is to ask the called parties to hang up and dial their bank, but after the victim hangs up, the fraudster does not, keeping the line open and remaining connected when the victim picks up the phone to dial.[4] When in doubt, calling a company's telephone number listed on billing statements or other official sources is recommended, as opposed to calling numbers received from messages or callers of dubious authenticity. However, sometimes hanging up and redialing is insufficient: if the caller has not hung up, the victim might still be connected, and the fraudster spoofs a dial tone down the phone line to entice the victim to dial. Then the fraudster's accomplice answers and impersonates whomever the victim is trying to call.[5] This is known as a 'no hang-up' scam.[6] Hence consumers are advised to use a different phone when dialing a company's number to confirm.

When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back "from a different number".
It's out and the darling of most tech news.

There is some confusion in their naming. Zen is the architecture name, and so far we've had Zen, Zen+, and Zen 2. The consumer processor line is branded Ryzen (and Ryzen Mobile for laptop parts). The HEDT processor line is branded Threadripper, and the server line is branded Epyc.

Ryzen and Threadripper 1000-series are Zen.

Ryzen Mobile 2000-series is Zen.

Epyc 7001-series is Zen.

Ryzen and Threadripper 2000-series are Zen+

Ryzen Mobile 3000-series is Zen+.

Ryzen and Threadripper 3000-series are Zen 2.

Ryzen Mobile 4000-series is Zen 2.

Epyc 7002-series is Zen 2 (Epyc skipped Zen+).

Zen 3 is expected in 2020, based on AMD guidance. Asssuming they follow their part numbering scheme, we should expect this to appear in Ryzen and Threadripper 4000-series, Ryzen Mobile 5000-series, and Epyc 7003-series.
It's not an example of Simpson's Paradox. It's an example of the base rate fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
My biggest issue with powershell is how undiscoverable it is. Good luck doing anything without searching for commands in a web browser.

But maybe that's just a result if it being so new. 'ls' has been around for almost 50 years...

What it really feels like is a complete programming language inside of notepad.exe because of the historically terrible windows command prompt.
YouTube is 15 years old today, and creators talk about its evolution
Poor Mitch. The core of this sounds like another variant of the Mig-in-the-middle attack.

Page 126 (page 10 of the PDF) from RJA’s Security Engineering being my reference...

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SEv3-ch4-dec18.pdf
Can you link to the sources you read?

Also, that 16-20% mortality rate is surely quoted per year, meaning that the expected life expectancy would be 5+ years, not a few months!
i mean for many classic ML models you have this — literally big O notation for the number of samples required to learn, number of iterations to convergence, cost per iteration, etc. You even get the cases where the algorithm with the best big-O bound is totally impractical due to constant factors.

The problem is just that all this goes out the window for deep learning, because nobody really knows how to prove much of anything about neural networks.
What? SpaceX has increased its manifest dramatically over the years, Starlink missions put it way over its previous highs, and 2020 is their record breaking year:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/12/spacex-record-breaki...

You cannot know if SpaceX operates at a profit or not, its a private company and funding is most certainly not an issue, so of course Cap-Ex isn't reigned in when you now have definitive domestic market share for resupply missions to ISS and US Military contracts, as well as a long wait-list for international customers as well fleshing out your future forms of revenue with Starlink and Starship (already in its 5th iteration in just 7 months!) missions and several Factories churning rockets and engines 24/7.

I've seen it with my own eyes, and stood inches away from several prototype raptor engines all over the place. As awesome as Starship SN2 was, I really got my highest fanboy feeling looking at it.
This is the type of thing that makes people upset, then everyone forgets about it and continues using the service. Are there any specific individual actions that can be taken to push back on this? Besides "don't use youtube", because let's be honest that isn't realistic.
And this is why I canceled my amazon prime membership
This is where a person less concerned with the correct use of the terms designating logical fallacies might accuse you of a "false equivalence". Regardless, trying to reason by analogy on topics like this invites errors of oversimplification and generalization.

Staying on topic, you grossly misrepresented the situation by characterizing WHO's implicit endorsement of Taiwan's non-existance as a state as a matter of mere "argument over borders".
How is it you assume you have the agency to make objective assessments, but that others don't?
They tested this at one point. I thought about it before launching weebly’s eCommerce. Sellers number one concern is sales.
I suspect water resistance played a part in moving in this direction.
Yes, that's definitely not ok. I replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22964687
I worked at a company with that strategy. It worked reasonable well until they realized that 80% of the team will retire in the next few years.
The data that NYC publishes daily is super interesting since it breaks down cases/deaths by race, gender, age (group), and presence of underlying health conditions [1].

The gist of it is that the majority of deaths from COVID-19 were suffered by people who had some kind of other health issue. As of the most recent data (April 22 at 6pm), 61 deaths were from people with no underlying health issues, 7,474 from people known to have underlying health issues, and 2,755 from people with unknown status [0]. The elderly in poor health are much more likely to die than the young in poor health. But when healthy, the elderly have pretty close to the same fatality rate as the young [2].

[0]: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d...

[1]: Bottom of this page: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page

[2]: Cross reference this with [0]: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d...
That’s the reason Walmart use Azure Cloud and Not AWS.
I'm not saying your example is wrong, but the fact that it's from nearly 20 years ago is very telling. Even the most credible of sources will get something very wrong on occasion.
Not official Ubuntu, but there is Regolith-linux[0], which is a i3 based system built on Ubuntu. I use it regularly. It is good, but I'm not a power user.

[0] https://regolith-linux.org/
The problem is it varies so much. I've been trying to find a replacement pedal for a sewing machine. As far as I can tell there's no model number for the part. I just have the sewing machine model. Everything is sold out online.

I found a local place. Normally I would just go in and talk to them, but because of the circumstances I called. I called Saturday at 1pm and left a message and got a call back mid-day Monday. Their website still shows hours 7-days a week, but maybe they've reduced hours or staff and haven't updated. They confirm the style and model I'm looking for and say they'll call me back if it's in stock or if they'll have to order it. I called them today (Thursday) late-afternoon and they said they had been meaning to call me back. They have the part, I pay for it, and they say they'll call when it's available. When I ask when that might be they said, "If it makes it on the truck, then tomorrow. If not, probably in a week."

None of this is bad customer service, but it's really nice to click "buy" with a good faith estimation for delivery and expect it to show up on my doorstep in a day or two.

I noticed professional businesses are really into their thing, but aren't always on top of the customer service/running a business part of things. It's most obvious to me with tradesmen who make house calls. It's hard to schedule something, it's hard to get an invoice and even sometimes pay them.
The difference is right now healthcare facilities and providers are overloaded, so if there are adverse effects of a trial that require treatment, people could end up dead. Normally you would have hospitals ready to handle such cases, but there's zero guarantee of that today.
Hi Erik. I don't have the "it works on my machine" problem often, because I mostly work on my own or with very few other people, so I may not be your target audience.

I do have the "my laptop's hardware is not enough" problem, and my current approach is simply spinning up an EC2 instance with the desired resources and ssh into it and then cloning the git repo I'm working on.

Normally, I set up the instance once (I have to add the ssh keys to my github account), and (if it's an expensive instance) start/stop it so I don't leave it running over night. Not a big pain point as of how I currently work.

I could see myself using Booste if it allowed me to, with a single command, spin up and sync bigger instances that would run for a short period of time (eg, for ML model training) and then intelligently stopping/terminating it. Also, if you integrate more than one cloud provider, I could switch to the cloud provider best fit for my needs (cost, spin up time, latency, cpu/gpu, etc).

A couple thoughts on the current implementation (you might be already addressing):
- I generally have more than one ongoing project at a time. Having everything in ~/Booste sync'ed with every box doesn't work for me (aside from the fact I'd use a different location)
- I sometimes do need to work with big data files, and even if I don't want them syncing all the time, I do want a way to retrieve them easily.
- I also often work with jupyter notebooks, so I'd need a way to tunnel (like I do with ssh)

Hope this helps and good luck!
Of their products, Jira does surprisingly well for us. I dislike quite a few of their products but Jira just works for us, though some things seem to be more work than necessary to do. Some of that can be blamed on company processes though.
Are the latter fakes or clones? or is it just rebadging of the same product by the same factory?
> it’s not invaluable

invaluable (adjective): extremely useful
I read the article.

1) Indonesia wasn't mentioned, but urban citizens are struggling to eat there also (millions.)

2) We need to get over our corona pity-party before famine and war result.
This comment egregiously breaks the site guidelines. Personal attack is not allowed, and neither are accusations of shillage, which are overwhelmingly figments of internet imagination (I've spent hundreds of hours investigating this kind of thing). Please stick to the rules when posting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you want more explanation about the astroturfing rule, there's years' worth at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
Several dozen companies doing bad things, compared with the hundreds of thousands of companies operating in the United States.

I stand by my statement -- it is rare.
A very good pattern book that I've found to be incredibly well written is Robert Nystrom's Game Programming Patterns. I'm a huge pattern advocate, and have consulted the Gang of four pattern book many times, as well as Christopher Alexanders' A Pattern Language. Still, Nystrom presents some new patterns with very concrete examples. Even though they are presented within the domain of game development, with a little creativity their utility can be imagined elsewhere.
The problem is that you can’t make eye contact.

The one exception is FaceTime in an iPhone, FaceTime subtly edits your eyes to make it look like you’re looking at the camera and not down at the screen. But it doesn’t work with separate webcams, and no company uses FaceTime.
I saw Sidell before this on his YT channel and on Medscape/WebMD.

There's two things to consider:

1. It is likely that 100% of patients withheld ventilation would die when they were crashing, hence why they were started on them; so to suggest that ventilators are "killing patients" is an ignorant stretch when 10-30% are saved, which is better than 0%.

2. Given that he mentioned patients were exuding pink, frothy sputum, it's worth looking into, as he mentioned, that the COVID critical syndrome isn't ARDS but something uniquely novel. It maybe similar to high-altitude pulmonary edema, secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, anemia and/or hemorrhagic shock + pulmonary edema.

It could also be that alveoli are so entirely damaged by the virus due to surface expression of ACE2 and grossly, temporarily repaired that they become incompatible with life. In this avenue, it's worth looking at prophylaxis against major organ damage such as down-regulators of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 pathways such as protease inhibitors like camostat mesylate and E-64d.
The WHO still right now does not support wearing masks if you’re not sick. The fact that we know that people can be sick and spread the virus and still not show any symptoms suggests that every country in Asia supporting wearing the masks early on is right and the WHO is wrong.
Go PWA, fuck them both, they're anticompetitive.
A simple "No Soliciting" sign can help ward off many such ruses given the further illegality of proceeding with soliciting when such a sign is visible. (This also may signal you are not as easy a mark and therefore not worth their time.) Doorbell cams + Nextdoor/Citizen make this even harder since one skeptic can poison a neighborhood.
I specifically meant nuance relating to the product as well as actual lakes. If there's none, the word choice (and maybe the whole metaphor) is a distraction.

Also, as I mentioned in another comment, this phrase doesn't work for the metaphor. Dehydrating and rehydrating a lake isn't a good idea; it'd kill the ecosystem, and it'd be tremendously expensive. I'd rather stick to dehydrating and rehydrating something else, like fruit. Here, this looks similar to the fruit soup my in-laws make: https://www.cheaprecipeblog.com/2015/11/norwegian-sweet-soup...
You misrepresent economic rationality, which is not defined based on some particular accounting standards. You also sound like you've read enough to know better.

It sounds to me like your problem is other people don't share your values, and you are calling this "rationality", whereas other people have the same issue, but often call it "irrationality". Yet you are saying at the same time that rationality is orthogonal to values. If so, then it doesn't oppose them. It all seems incoherent yet cliched to me.
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