skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a few questions I have for any lurking network engineers "in the know", since there doesn't seem to be an official paper for BBRv2 yet (or at least I couldn't find it on https://research.google/pubs/):

- Is BBRv2 still modeled close to the PID equation, in a way that expanding the equation as shown by BBRv1x [0] is still possible, and we can tune for different target parameters?

- How tunable is BBRv2? For example, say I'm doing some voice chat app, and in my use case an increased sensitivity to ECN is presumably better (I read somewhere that Facetime does this, but regardless of that, let's just assume it's true for a moment). Can I tune that? Or disable ECN-awareness entirely? Is there any good reference material on the parameters BBRv2 exposes?

- I never saw any version of BBR be compared to TIMELY [1] which is also from Google. Even though I assume TIMELY would be worse given that it only takes RTT into consideration, it'd still be cool to see

- BBR is great for clients, but ultimately dependent on trusting other clients in the network to be well behaved, else the game-theoretical fairness doesn't work out. What is the SOTA algorithm for AQM on middle-boxes nowadays, and preventing bad clients from hogging link capacity?

Questions aside though, it's great to see more algorithms leveraging ECN as a signal. Good stuff, kudos to the researchers!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeYPqnLhUuc

[1] https://research.google/pubs/pub43840/
It's a straw man in that no one in this thread is arguing that a free market is eminently desirable or otherwise making ideological arguments (contrary to the implication in your post). There's the chance that you weren't talking about "arguments made in this thread" and were simply digressing to "arguments made by other people elsewhere in the world" which is differently bad (off topic).

To be clear, I wasn't remarking about any comments you made about my orthogonality claim.
You don't need all that equipment to work the same muscle groups. Honestly, a $45 set of resistance bands is a great buy and these haven't experienced the same supply runs that heavy, more obvious equipment has experienced.

Some great reading:

https://yoga-horizons.com/pdfs/Fatmans-Guide-to-Cable-Traini...
The Nazis had numerous attempted sabotage operations in the continental US. They also sunk many ships off the eastern coast.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Theater_(World_War_...

Their lack of ‘total war’ on the US is mostly the consequence of a lack of resources / more pressing concerns.
Looks like this Twitter account just tweets out new FOIA request results. The document has some letters at the end from random people to J. Edgar Hoover, "concerned citizens" sending him this conspiracy theory. So presumably someone opened a FOIA request to get all letters to/from J. Edgar Hoover regarding this conspiracy theory document, and let me tell you the results are boring.

(The FBI Vault is in general interesting though: https://vault.fbi.gov/ )
This story falls apart a bit with Filecoin because you need to attach them to 128 GB of RAM and a high end graphics card to do their storage proofs.

Secondary markets for drives may appear to close the gap a bit though.
I'm not sure the salary thing is generally true - but lets say it is - the reason is mostly supply/demand, there are less people with the wider base of knowledge it takes of systems and software or just general desire to do devops/cloud work than there are those that can do general software development.
Donald Trump lost the popular vote, so as a candidate was “weaker” than Hillary Clinton.
Another big factor in Airbnb, like other "platforms" like this vs their traditional counterparts, they have no assets that incurr costs no matter how down the market it

Hilton, Marriott, etc all still have MASSIVE amounts of physical property that they have to maintain year around no matter if they are full or empty. Airbnb has none of those costs.

This makes them more flexible and are able to quickly respond to changes in the travel market, more so than their traditional competitors
Somehow that link redirects me to

https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_...
> there is this pervasive assumption in economic theory that if two things have the same price they have the same value in some global sense.

Um... quite exactly the opposite? Very nearly the most basic assumption of all economic theory is that wealth is created through trade (which includes trading labor for a salary) because each party values the thing they are receiving more than the thing they are giving away.
Airbnb has filed to go public
That's exactly what I was suggesting. The throwaway was correct.
There aren't further layoffs, this information is inaccurate.
>The chances of dying in a car crash are 1%, but that doesn't prevent us from driving.

I don't think that statistic is even close to right. I know exactly zero people who have died in a car crash. Many of them are quite old.

The Australian statistics suggest that the odds of anyone in Australia dying of a car crash are 0.0000478 per person per year. This is considerably smaller than your statistic and so I am going to dispute it, at the risk of you thinking I am stupid.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19294564
>Lower insurance premiums (if they were higher, nobody would buy the freakin cars and I am pretty sure using this data for insurance quotes must be an opt-in anyway)

They can just make the insurance premiums the same and just jack up the non-data backed premiums.
I use Rust. Unsafe is okay as long as there is a comment detailing why it is okay. Just like .unwrap() is okay for stuff that never fails.

What is indeed bad is code that sprinkles unsafe all over the place without explanation and if you check a random segment fails to handle common error cases that pure Rust would force you to handle.
Firefox Monitor: Check for Breaches
Just curious, which state is this? (you don't have to respond if you don't want to -- I don't want to violate your privacy, I just want to know)

It just seems to me shutting down takeout makes it harder to enforce a lockdown. It assumes everyone is able to cook, which doesn't seem like a reasonable assumption.
Can you say more about the format of remote learning in Australia? Age ranges? How much video per day? In my school district, they are looking at 4 hours (2, 2-hour blocks) of "live learning" in-person per day, for 5-6 year olds. I can't imagine they're doing that in Oz?
This assumes you don't discover alternatives to fossil fuels before running out of them. Historically this is a bad bet. As the price increases people search harder and harder for alternatives. It seems impossible now because cheap oil means there's no demand for alternatives, but people are clever and if there's demand they'll usually find a solution.
Why do you think the sacrifice is "short term"? If covid mutates and there is no vaccine, this may be your new world.
Are you claiming that if someone else exists, it is now your burden to ensure their living at your own expense until they die?
FYI, Toyota's cover-up on a major defect caused multiple deaths and hundreds of accidents in 2009 [0]. That's criminal.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/toyota-pay-12b-hiding-deadly-...
Airbnb Files Confidentially for IPO with SEC
> Fairness is not about everyone getting the same amount just for existing, for that in itself is not fair.

> because the stuff they get for existing has to come from someone else.

Your statement doesn't hold unless we assume "it is unfair for one person to provide for the needs of another (unless it is reciprocated)", and it isn't at all clear that we can take that axiomatically.

Even setting to one side the more obvious cases of parents providing for children etc., if we were to assume that one person could, through their labour, provide for the needs of everyone else, why does it obviously follow that it is "unfair" for everyone to survive solely that person's labour?

More generally, it really isn't clear to me that these questions have such simplistic answers.
You’ll be happy to know that soybean and swine prices are at 10 year lows and wheat is up slightly but lower than a year ago. [1,2,3]

I think your concern is real and well placed. When the economy is frozen for a pandemic, you have a demand shock and a supply shock, what happens to prices? I think this was genuinely unclear early in the pandemic. Interesting additional details here [4,5]

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSOYBUSDQ

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPORKUSDM

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PWHEAMTUSDQ

[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2020-05-27/pa...

[5] https://mobile.twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/12416894220909...
I agree with him. I grew up in a developing country but I cannot stand California. It does not matter if it is the richest state, what matters is how much a p50 person has on his bank account at the end of the month. Most of the wealth of California is in the hand of the top 1%. It is also one of the most expensive states of the US.
> how do you expect an almost toddler to react when forced to sit in front of a screen?

And on top of this, we should not be asking “can they” but instead “should they” have this kind of life.
I think each couple has a slightly different balance on what level of collaborative decision making they can expect, and this is actually a big factor in compatibility.

For instance, I take your approach for most purchases under two thousand dollars or so. If I want to buy myself a new computer or whatever, I'd mention it to her, but ultimately I'm probably going to get it even if she thinks I shouldn't. I know some couples where this isn't the case, even if they have the means. Their price threshold for making the decision together is much lower.

But on career changes we make decisions together. For instance, she recently made a change that will result in her making less money, especially in terms of long-term career trajectory. But her stress level and overall happiness is much better. And she knows that my income was a good amount higher anyway and it ultimately won't affect things like when we retire or our quality of life that much.

But then it would be pretty shitty of me to change to a lower-paying profession down the road without her OK. She has sacrificed her earning potential with this kind of commitment in mind and maybe wouldn't have if she didn't know she could count on me to make future decisions with her collaboration.

I'm not saying either end of the spectrum is necessarily better. Just that there are pros and cons and it's more important to be in agreement.
Where do you stand on the BLM protests/riots? I assume that is haram too?
I can't see Wuhan from here.

What directions did they follow that allows Wuhan to have pool parties? I don't understand how having pool parties can be ok. Does the virus not exist there? How can that be possible?
Worth noting that Wikipedia uses Canada as its first example of "disadvantages" of the system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Dis...

But yes, Canada has soldiered on remarkably well in spite of it. USA used to be multi-party as well, the transition to 2-party takes time and there's nothing that truly guarantees it, just innately encourages. There are ways to slow it down / isolate sections... but the dominant parties can also whittle away at those over time.
You must have lived a horribly isolated life if those are the only groups you've ever seen this behavior from. Take a look at the EU and austerity measures if you want to see this kind of behavior on a large scale.
> Here's the trick. If choice has been eliminated, i.e. walmart has replaced your local shop, you can no longer vote with your dollar - pressuring the companies (via "calling-out") to give you options becomes the only choice available.

Aside from actual monopolies (utilities, etc) what is one example of having no choice? Whenever I hear this argument, it’s not that there’s no choice, it’s that there’s no cheap, convenient alternative...hence Walmart’s domination. It’s like people never stop to ask why Walmart is so successful: people would rather have abundant selection at low prices rather than support their local mom and pop shop.
Because RMS rested his edifice on the foundation of ownership in the classical sense, something that works and is widespread in the real world.
> You must be a private investigator, lawyer, debt collector or other limited party.

Having spent most of my professional career providing software support to Debt Collectors--I think you're greatly overestimating the level of professionalism by your average debt collection agency.
> Show me the calculation of where the government will get the money for paying their entire adult population this amount.

The plan is obviously not that everyone gets UBI-amount more money per month than they do now.
Car crashes don’t spread car crashes to others, silently and multiplicatively. Exponential risks are not the same as individual ones.
And here's the thing. These types of driving habit trackers (not necessarily new in the auto-insurance industry) are touted as a means to reduce the cost of insurance for good drivers. But what qualifies as a "good driver" is likely to be more like 10% of drivers. For everyone else, this won't reduce the insurance costs at all.

It's frankly just a way for insurance companies to extort more profit from drivers. I don't want a black box in my car of any type, even if I already qualify for the best possible insurance rates. Your driving habits are a huge privacy concern and we should all guard them very carefully.
I guess I'm thinking more about restaurants, I never purchased alcohol from a store while underage.
> The Accord is also $10k cheaper, presumably that is because the Model 3 requires more materials and more embodied energy.

Do economies of scale and manufacturing expertise factor in to "embodied energy"?
passing a heap allocated thing from one c++ dll to another doesn't work. it's far better to define a C interface between binaries of any language and reintroduce language specific semantics in a light client library
I think this is comparing the lifetime chance of various causes of death against the chance of death by COVID-19 complications after getting infected. In fact, the original report says it's too soon to know what the actual risk of COVID-19 related death is.
Group theory and why I love [the monster] [video]
> But we also don't know what antibody/T-cell levels... would = herd immunity.

OK, but wouldn't a random sampling at least provide an answer to what pct of the population was infected at some point? That seems like a great starting point.
I know I am an outlier in terms of a high savings ratio due to a lack of things to want that would be worth it in my situation but I still find it funny how it 401ks are the big ones when the contributions are so limited.
> congratulations for not caring about a 1 in 200 chance of death (pretty high by the way) because you're healthy and passing on the risk to some vulnerable person (probably your parents or a school teacher) with a 1 in 10 chance of death.

This is wrong and misleading. You're quoting the average fatality rate for "healthy" people, but the distribution doesn't look like that at all. Then, you cherrypick 10% out of nowhere for "parents and school teachers". 10% is the rate for people in their 80s.

Real data: "[t]he estimated IFR is close to zero for younger adults but rises exponentially with age, reaching about 0.3% for ages 50-59, 1.3% for ages 60-69, 4% for ages 70-79, 10% for ages 80-89."[1]

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v...
And how would you measure it?
I wouldn't be so quick to proclaim Europe's victory over this virus. With what's happening in Spain, and now France and Germany, this may be a European "Mission Accomplished" moment in another month.
I'm sorry, but I'm not willing to sacrifice a lot of my freedom to prevent unhealthy or old people to die. You could tell me that I'm wrong, but as far as I know, I'm the only one able to know how I want to live my life
You can use cheap resistance bands instead of pricey and heavy barbells and still get great results. You can hit all the same muscle groups just as hard. Honestly you probably hit more groups than what you hit in olympic lifts. These bands are also very available online compared to other equipment.

Some light reading on the subject:

https://yoga-horizons.com/pdfs/Fatmans-Guide-to-Cable-Traini...
Wow, I didn't hear about this. How sad that IBM is now a patent troll.
> Why would you go through the pain of all this

So that it's extremely difficult to detect that it's not a regular ipod, even if disassembled.
it's not either or. give everyone money AND pay for useful programs
How short term is short term? It's been six months with no end in sight. If you're a fitness enthusiast living in an apartment, you're screwed. All well and good if you've never had any interest in a gym, but if it's one of your primary hobbies to maintain mental health, then it's not a 'those people' thing. And again I speak as someone trying to replicate a gym in his apartment and getting exasperated.

People with houses and garages shouldn't be as critical, given their comparative privilege here.
Does this have the same limitations as Airflow? How does it compare to something like Prefect?[0]

[0] https://medium.com/the-prefect-blog/why-not-airflow-4cfa4232...
> I think for the most part health professionals answered specific questions about specific types of situations or types of transmission, and the media runs with overly broad statements when are then pushed/rejected by different parties.

The US Surgeon General https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...

> Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!
They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!
http://bit.ly/37Ay6Cm

Highlighting

> They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus,
Yes, Hollywood’s vaccination rates are worse than South Sudan’s for example. No developing country would allow kids going unvaccinated. So in a sense California is worse than an average developing nation.
> Because no one owes you nothing by their unalienable right to be in charge of their own life

The question isn't whether people are obliged to provide for others, but whether or not it is necessarily unfair for them to do so. Your statement only addresses the former case, not the latter (irrespective of whether it is labelled "the fundamental moral principle of fairness").
I think you're overall on the money here, but I would probably be a bit more cautious on #3 (at least private units). Some of the managed rental providers that focus on urban markets seem to be doing OK. Sonder raised a new round in June[1], albeit after laying off part of their workforce.

1: https://shorttermrentalz.com/news/sonder-series-e-round-june...
Risk is a strong word, often there's little risk involved, it's often more about who you know, which entitlements your birth gave you and what parachute mummy and daddy can give you (especially if you're white, male and privately educated).

There's no inherent entitlement or human right to give your children your money, or to not be simply turfed off what ever land you are using when society decided there's a better use for it, for a competitor simply stealing your inventory, expecting protection from thugs taking your business etc., etc.

Because wealth begats wealth, there needs to be certain checks and balances, minimum wages are one of them, inheritance taxes and capital gains taxes are others.

For that, you get the protection of strong laws, an infrastructure you paid almost nothing towards, legal protections for your property, protection from foreign governments, access to skilled trained workers you didn't pay to educate, etc.

Your argument is circular, Fred is wealthy and can afford to speculate, therefore Fred deserves more wealth.

But Fred is only wealthy when everyone else buys into the system, otherwise Fred would soon be Dead Fred.
I guess the over 1000 health professionals who said BLM protests are OK but everyone else "stay the fuck home" did not help make the case.
>Which of course leaves me wondering how long it is before reddit pulls the plug on their API and forces people to use the busted mobile site or their app.

Of course. How will they do it? That's yet to be seen. Instead of pulling the API entirely, I'd bet they simply wont introduce API for new features. This will leave 3rd party apps as inferior while Reddit doesn't have to deal with the backlash of pulling the API entirely. I'd argue this is already occurring.
Who is the manufacturer? I don't think I've ever seen a non-grid jigsaw puzzle before.
I travelled all over Europe past two months and I must say Europe is quite laxed. And there cases haven’t really gone up. Pretty much every outdoor cafes in Europe were open with a few exceptions and I didn’t see much difference other than people wearing masks and social distancing between tables.

I think in US everything is polarized and politicized. To the point that wearing masks is somehow considered against freedom.
I believe health officials have some blames to share. They still have not come clean for their initial mask guidelines that was blatantly wrong. I think health authorities will have long time to regain trusts in US.

I also feel we don’t quite understand the transmission mechanism fully yet. It’s airborne, at least we know that part but the clusters in nursing homes and indoor parties also indicate there is some mechanisms in play when indoor.
Absolutely. I am very interested to see how everything plays out in the future.
Retaining users means:

- You can sell ads to them

- You can continue to sell ads to them

A proxy, if you will. For a for profit business, what other reason is there if not to drive some monetary value.
Yes, and for some reason, NYC and the CDC are not releasing results later than mid April. It is very suspicious imo. They were releasing antibody results and then abruptly stopped without explanation.
Couldn't agree more. This article fails the "so what" test. What are they recommending be done instead?
Part of the slippery slope that insurance companies have been trying to get customers to willingly adopt...

Just install this safe driver app to receive up-to 15% off your rate!

Soon: our company's insurer now requires all employees to install this exercise monitoring app on their phone!

And finally: to be eligible for insurance you must submit a saliva sample.
How many of those governments are just, however? Can you reasonably claim that all citizens consent to the policies of their government? If everyone agreed to murder you, would that make it ok? What about if everyone agreed to rob you of all of your property, your livelihood? What about only half of that? Quarter? A tenth? What's the right number? Non-consent to any degree is not morally right. In the same way, it would morally wrong for me to coerce you to pay me some arbitrary amount I come up with.
Yes, that's right. I switched from an advantage to an advantage2 (which has the non-rubber keys) a few years ago as my new gig purchased the advantage2 for me. Honestly, I didn't even notice a difference. The new f keys are slightly larger (but not full size) and plastic, but I would personally say that I wouldn't drop $350 for the plastic ones. I used the advantage for 15 years, so I was well used to the rubber ones. A few months after the switch, I realized they weren't rubber - that's how insignificant the change was for me.
Or swap it with one an unwitting asset carries around at work.
Because war didn’t exist before capitalism /s

Per-capita violence has been in steady decline for this time period.
Slide is also on iOS.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slide-for-reddit/id1260626828