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I seriously wonder how that will work. At 10 million per month it would take almost two years. Can we do social distancing that long?
haha indeed! the iOS HN app
If it your first time WFH, the anxiety due to that will pass with time.

News out there exists to induce some heightened emotional response. Either a WOW factor or a FEAR factor. Apparently, news to induce the FEAR factor is usually available. You don't believe me - then count the negative news and positive news articles for a 15-20 days. This stands true even without the Covid-19 fear.

When working from home, limit your TV news time. I watch business news mostly and that too for a limited period. Do not let news chatter in the background.

Go for a 15-30 minute walk alone, it will help in reducing anxiety. And get some sun - it does wonders.

There is a saying: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present.” - Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda.
What's the reason this got flagged?
The prices of real things change in response to inflation. Inflation is only a tax on cash wealth.
Check out the Arduino Science Kit Physics Lab, (https://store.arduino.cc/physics-lab ) it was built with Google and works with the Science Journal. It's a nice way toteach physics to junior high school students
Please keep your unsolicited advice to yourself, because you literally have no clue what my journey is, or what health issues I have.

Here's my word of unsocilited advice. EVERY PERSON'S BODY IS DIFFERENT. When dealing with mental health medication, it's trial and error. What seems to work for one person doesn't work for another. I am under the care of a physician, and the cannabis I consume is prescribed by that doctor, grown in a fully licensed facility, lab tested, and used as part of an overall treatment regimen that got me off of addicted benzos and productive at levels I never saw before.

Keep your advice to yourself.
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The thing about rural areas, is that not many people live there.

We live just ouside a mid-sized UK town (and cities down to small/mid sized towns covers a really high % of the population). Between public transport and good cycle/pedestrian routes, a car is not a major living requirement for many.
Mandatory link to the relevant Spolsky article, The Law of Leaky Abstractions : https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...

> the fallacy in the argument is that implementation details are relevant to everyone.

> They aren't. They're relevant to system builders and people who like tinkering because that is a separate domain to the user domain.

> [...] breaks down when the user domain and the tinkerer domain overlap, as they do in professional software development

Agree. The degree to which the two domains cross over, depends on, well, the domain. A driver doesn't have to know much about the workings of a car to pass their test, but as I understand it, pilots do have to have a solid understanding of the workings of their aircraft.
OP you should mention perl one-liners in upcoming chapters
https://catonmat.net/introduction-to-perl-one-liners
Isolation is too slow the spread. Let the currently sick people get treated, then let the next wave of people catch the virus, once the hospitals have more capacity again. The virus is not that dangerous (under 1% fatality) as long as the healthcare system does not collapse.
They should just pay their fair share of taxes and be done with it.

This "philanthrocapitalism" just makes me sick; first they deprive society of the means to provide the basic necessities of life, then they let drop a few crumbs of their loot and expect to be hailed as saviors. This is disgusting.
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To dispute something usually just means to disagree with it.
Refutation generally implies positive evidence that a position is wrong.
I have to admit, I was underwhelmed using Sketch and Figma.

People were touting it like the new hot shit, when it came out, but from a developer point of view it still felt like building with legos.

But yeah, if you say "everything was Photoshop" than Sketch and Figma are orders of magnitude better, haha.
While true, my point is they were already returning cash to investors in the form of a dividend.

Why the need to do outrageously huge buybacks if they were already doing so?
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As long as people need to coordinate in a society, a government will form; it is exactly the institution that handles exactly the matters that need to be solved by societal coordination.
This article looks a lot like outrage porn. It suggests that there is something wrong with spending 96% of FCF on buybacks without stating it explicitly. I doubt most people without some decent corporate finance training can form an informed opinion about this.
Yet they do...

GIMP?
Inkscape?
Blender?
Libre Office?
Firefox??
Chrome??

I'm actually not sure what you're suggesting. There are no great open source projects outside those written for development? That's clearly false.
Can we just let the airlines go bankrupt? For environmental reasons, air travel should be much rarer and much more expensive than it has been.

Businesses are going to need to learn to deal with teleconferencing. Employees can be given more time off and travel more slowly by train or ferry. There has to be some happy medium between total lockdown frozen economy and maximum-velocity economy that is killing people and the planet.
‘The social and emotional aspect will likely be the greater Covid19 challenge’
Technically you can define which namespaces to inherit and which ones to create "from scratch" at process initialization time. (Actually there's an unshare() syscall that does it, but clone() is the standard way to create new namespaces and new processes in them, plus there's setns() to put a thread into some other namespace given a fd pointing to that NS.)

So, namespaces are task level things in the kernel. (Every thread is a task, and by default every process has one thread, so every process is also at least one task.)

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/linux... (That's where the task_struct starts and it has an nsproxy member.)
Except drugs can be shipped around the world very cheaply, even in small doses, so demand alone can't explain price difference.
In some countries the tax regime has different levels of tax for dividends and capital gains, so in some countries buybacks are better for the shareholders than dividends.
So we decide that we are going to give them government money. Plan A is to filter the money through a corporation first. I prefer plan B, which is give the money straight to the people involved - like pensioners or endowments - and be honest about what is happening.

Lets not let charity get mixed up in running a business. We have a no-fault system in free market capitalism - if you go broke you don't run the business. Doesn't matter if it is your fault or not. And almost magically, that aligns incentives to get the best outcomes.
I'd support research in getting me off the plane without having to have someone's fat, stinky, fart-loaded ass in my face for 15 minutes, then waiting in line for another 15 minutes to get off the plane as I bash other people with my bag. Maybe they could throw a few billion at that.
It's funny that you say a class of beggars would be created, when most UBI scenarios I've read about show that people tend to try to improve their situations in whichever way makes the most sense...

some who can finally afford basic water food and housing start seeking medical/psych help they couldn't afford.

Some get more schooling to improve their employment prospects.

Some buy a car to start saving themselves hours a week on public transportation and therefore have more time to live.

And a small percentage don't get it and squander it.

You see the policy turning into a UK-style dole... I think you don't see the enormous benefits that reaching the point of 'having enough' can provide.

I've recently started making more than I have in the rest of my life... and besides finally paying down our household debt, and accomplishing the cash-starved household repairs, I'm starting to look at volunteering and truly giving to charities _because I can_.

Just providing basic services doesn't give people the same options, the mobility to do with their lives what makes sense in their circumstances.
"Barack Obama says banks paid back all the federal bailout money"

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/oct/25/barack-oba...
If anything, c should be /ʃ/ and tc should be /tʃ/. Looks funny but it's very phoenetic.

But people have tried this (spelling reforms/re-phoenetification of English). A lot.

Language drifts, that's just what it does.
> Giving money to people instantly creates a class of beggars. Beggars with voting rights will vote for people who give them more and more and more for no more work.

I don't know if you realize this, but beggars already exist. There are literally people standing by the road with signs asking for money. Presumably many of them can also vote.

UBI just eliminates the physical and emotional toll of standing outside all day holding a sign, asking for money. Does that make the road to ruin you envision more likely, or more dire?
That could be part of his investment strategy. In which case, I gotta give credit where it may be due.
No, there's no actuarial or accountancy reason they'd have to do that. It's no different from someone running a restaurant business saving some in the bank instead of taking it all out.

The cash flow is "free" in the sense that you don't owe it to someone else, eg salaries, suppliers, etc. You can save it in a pot if you feel like it.
Latte art and craft brewing.
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After I read this one (didn't find the original again but this one explains - https://mashable.com/2016/08/12/roomba-spreads-dog-poop/ ) I decided to not have one in my house.
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Thousands of millionaires fled France [0]. Also, according to CNN 30 years ago 12 European countries had a wealth tax, today only 3 [1].

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-tax/macron-fights-...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/17/opinions/wealth-tax-is-bad-id...
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Text processing is scraping. Modern shells have structured output from their stdlib, allow you to pipe to 'where' and 'select', and can read JSON, yaml, etc natively.
Rents should be limited by marginal utility of living in costly city. If you can have higher wage by living in costly city compared to small town, than it make sense to accept higher rent. But if you receive extra income regardless of where you live, then it is hard to say what effect it would have on prices. It may even cause people to prefer cheaper small towns as marginal utility from wage difference would be lower.
For real! What's up with the lack of 2-in-1 AMD x13? I have an artist friend who needs a new laptop and I'm telling him to wait for Ryzen 4000 laptops. Am I supposed to tell him to get a gaming laptop or something?

These recent Intel laptops often have really dicey real-time performance because of how aggressively their clock speeds are controlled.

For someone who does mixed multimedia work, a Ryzen 4000 2-in-1 would be amazing. All those cores are perfect for real-time audio work, rendering and 3d stuff.
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Regarding WFH I suggest you establish a routine and a calendar. Schedule your wake up time, breakfast time, tv time, working time, gaming time, goofing time etc.

It will help you focus and get you thinking in the task you have at hand.
There's a big difference between money and money that can only be spent on a certain set of services.

As far as I know welfare is still food stamps etc i.e. not cash.
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Ask HN: Is Google hiding images of people infected with the Coronavirus?
I have tried to find pictures of people with coronavirus, but all the images shown are of people wearing masks on their faces.
I might sound paranoid, but shouldn't be there some of people in hospitals ?
Nice! I got TaskGraph running locally, but couldn't figure out how to create a node. Seems like it's built on the same basic idea as Intention though - tasks structured into a graph. I'd be very interested to hear how you get on with TaskGraph.
> because they took every penny and reinvested it and lost money for a long time because of such heavy investment.

No, my understanding from press reporting is that the heavy reinvestment was to avoid taxes in the first place
The government picking well-connected winners for private profit is just "American capitalism".

As for socialism, I'll quote Harry Truman's 1952 speech,

"Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called farm price supports.

Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and
independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps
all the people."
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There's a huge gap for a good UX design app in the Linux world. I hope Akira[0] can fill it, but I find for web stuff, with the right prototyping setup and frameworks, I can build stuff very rapidly to test out.

[0] https://github.com/akiraux/Akira
Yeah, disputed is much better.
Maybe. But they would have to sue you; a PR suicide.
Firefox is definitely an exception.

Libre Office is simply copying features from MS Office, and is rarely used in commercial settings anyway.

Chrome is open source (well, Chromium, Chrome is not), but it is basically 100% developed by a commercial company which does not generally accept community contributions.

I don't know enough about GIMP, Inkscape and Blender to give an opinion on how well they can be held up as examples of Open Source community tools that can replace commercial tools.

Edit: actually, thinking more about this, Firefox and other browsers are much more a tool for web development than a tool for users directly - the functionality that users use is much smaller in terms of implementation than the functionality that web developers use (the layout and JS engines, and the debuggers, profilers & other development .
Because buying back shares is typically better for non US investors.

I don't live in the US and I am not a US citizen, but if I owned those American Airlines shares, I'd need to pay 30% withholding tax to the US government on that dividend (strictly speaking it's withheld vs. actively paid).

That's in addition to taxes that need to paid in one's own country (assuming no dual taxation treaty).

With a share buyback, the share price rises (ideally) instead and when it is sold, there's no US tax on the capital gain for non resident non citizens.
Changing your employment is as simple as irritating your manager or missing some KPI, and getting fired in all these 'right to work' states. UBI would keep people who would otherwise live on the brink of utter chaos enough to sever their dependence on minimum wage slavery.

Your picture of people picking and choosing from enticing opportunities isn't remotely true for people at the bottom where this would help.
If a medicine isn’t used very often usually only one manufacturer will continue making it. They then can set monopoly pricing. I also have a belief that there is some actual or implicit collusion where they are dividing the market for generic drugs into monopolies by strategically dropping out.

FDA rules make it expensive to start new production or enter from abroad, so a new manufacturer is in for as price war they will probably lose.

There are lots of super cheap prescription meds. Many for a penny a dose wholesale. They have robust competition but still make money at that price point, although some makers may be selling fraudulent drugs.

In theory, when the patent on a popular medication is over, new players should pull the price down to marginal cost. These days that is not happening for many products and I’d like to know why. Any economists know?
Is there only web design and web development in this world? :)
When I was in Edmonton and Calgary it always seemed like Alberta was hellbent on moving the exact opposite direction of the other provinces.
25mbs is bad?! Lol I would KILL for that -- here in small-town Canada I'm still on DSL that tops out at 12mbs. My dad who's on a farm gets six through a point to point connection that he pays an arm and a leg for -- although he's shortly getting an LTE connection at 25.

Last week they started laying cable down my street, so it seems pretty soon I'll be able to join the modern world.
>It's not just guessing

You're right, there's a lot of research that goes into the forecasts. What I meant was the results are no better than guessing.

>They would have likely been right

I would have likely been right about every forecast I've ever made if it wasn't for unexpected things happening.

Covid19 had started in China in November, when the forecast was made. How did they account for it in their models? "It won't matter" was a huge miss.

How about this one?:

"According to Goldman Sachs, Brent and WTI crude oil spot prices could average $63 per barrel and $58.5 per barrel, respectively, in 2020."

We're at <$30. I mean, they correctly anticipated the breakup of "OPEC+", but blew the forecast tremendously.

https://marketrealist.com/2019/12/oil-prices-outlook-goldman...

You can endlessly Google examples. My point isn't that I'm better, but that Goldman Sachs' predictions are nigh worthless. And that's before taking into account any conflict of interest.
Given the article is about text processing and nothing like "big data", I don't think using multiple computers is really an important feature.
That problem can probably be solved with a small dose of common sense.
The numbers so far suggest you need tropical heat and humidity to slow down transmission speed. That would need to be 35C+ weather, and no air conditioning.
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There was a thread on Reddit earlier explaining why there's still so much Dasani water on the shelves: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/fji87t/what_i...

Spoiler: it's because Coca-Cola (which owns the Dasani brand) restocks the shelves themselves.
Changing your government (at least in a democracy) is way easier than changing your employer, which are generally run with no input from employees (although some employee-run businesses do get to vote for their management).
Ah yes, not in American "Capitalism".
We Mexicans are kind of like that (shit.. we make a party of/for the dead). People here are joking so much about Coronavirus that sometimes it feels like they don't care.

I've most likely got corona myself (waiting for the pcr test results) and am isolating. I setup my man cave as a "camping experience " since I'll be staying here for some time.
What is more important is that WFH traffic is far more balanced in it's up/down ratio and hence is likely to have neutral pearing costs if it leaves the ISP's network at all.

Not to mention that most of the people now moving to home office will be spending their time working in relatively low bandwidth applications not sitting video conferences.
I don't get it. Asset prices track inflation like clockwork. What's even funnier to me is that taxes on wealth rarely raise as fast as asset prices!

If anything it's a tax on income.
The correct bug fix for this is to move random items in the house periodically. If it can't be random, then you can.
That is certainly true, but the economy is connected to human life, in obvious (food to eat, medical insurance) and non-obvious ways (e.g. job loss linked to suicide https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/11/unemployment... )

So just stopping economic activity also has health downsides.
I second that! Also, a dedicated space for working is ideal to keep the office dynamics. Most importantly, make sure to stay in touch with your team - it will help everyone to be aligned and on track.
exactly. My point was this is prob a demand issue, not a government intervention. I wonder how fast they can make it...shipping can be done via charter planes this time.
On the anxiety front I've found some mindfulness meditation helpful. Even if it's only giving myself some time to get really relaxed.

I start using Calm about a month ago after having a odd (in that I can't see a directly attributable cause) acute spike in anxiety. Obviously right now its fairly normal to feel anxiety but its good to try to minimize it's affects on you.
The Lancet article was not a study, it was a "correspondence," an educated guess from a researcher.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
Shift-Click to create a node.

Then click on the node to modify it's attributes.

Shift click and drag to other nodes to create dependencies. The dependencies should auto-snap into place. The algorithm used for this works most of the time. Our current taskgraph at openquery has ~50 nodes and it works quite well.

I don't have cycle-checking so be careful or your browser tab will blow up.
they are airlines, not banks. They are important but we need not fear collapse if they disappear. No doubt some will survive, somehow. Saving them would not be a waste of money, but the money can be better spent. For example on disease control and medical care.
The problem with the House bill is that it puts employers on the hook for making the payments.

You’re just ushering small businesses faster off the cliff of insolvency if you legally require them to pay workers while they are also legally required to be shut down.

If the government is forcing a company to shut its doors, the government should be prepared to pay the employees “quarantine leave”.
No magic bullet but I changed what I do on the net.

Block/reduce usage of sites that are abt mindless consumption (hacker news encourages mindless consumption too - I don't really need to see most of the stuff that shows up here surrounding the tech stuff I care about)

Stopped using YouTube/Reddit/FB which I think has helped.

Twitter I still find useful but I Enable it only on the weekends for few hrs to catch up with messages and ppls feeds.

Also blocked most news sites (nytimes/CNN/fox/wapo/bbc...basically any news site where they threw opinion/infotainment at me on the side panels or prominently on main page). It was too addictive for me.

So I just blocked them in my Host file. I use Steve blacks big list on github. I scatter multiple entries for the same site throughout the file so its a pain to unblock even if I feel an urge.

The consequence is I end up getting most of my news on sites (from Canada, Ireland, Japan etc) where the opinions are about things I have no great interest in and find it easier to skip over.

Basically control your daily info flow. Just like food don't over consume. The sites are designed to capture your attention and keep you feeling helpless to sell ads.
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I'm not sure if my next laptop purchase is going to be an AMD one because I haven't got enough data yet, specs, benchmarks, etc. But I know one thing for sure, I will exclude from my shortlist any OEM that does not have a serious AMD based lineup. If they only have 1-2 models, or only in the low cost segment just to tick a box, I will be looking at other brands.

I can't help but remember Intel's practices in the past. So I'll vote with my wallet and go with OEMs that give both Intel and AMD an equal chance. Hopefully if enough people do that OEMs will find any backroom dealings less attractive.
Pensioners and wage earners are not capitalists. They depend on wages to live. Calling yourself a capitalist doesn't make you have capital.

True capitalists are those who do not need wages (e.g. CEOs of airliners, billionaires, etc.).