skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're comparing stagflation double digit interest rates from the 1970s to today? We'll be in a declining or low rate environment for the rest of our lifetime. We'll never see double digit interest rates again.

> Gold is useless.

I am making the comparison on the worst-case assumption that $1000 is sent to every American every month (extended lock-down of the economy will still require people to have some measure of income or they will riot in the streets), so that's $330 billion pumped into consumer goods sectors every month. Your position is that this will not cause CPI rate of increase to go up?

I just reread my post and I can't find the word "gold" anywhere in the post and I am assuming that your claim is to be amended to state "Gold is useless [as an asset]" since it is one of the most useful minerals known to mankind. Where do you get this from?

"Physical assets" can be anything physical: a building; a lot's worth of used cars; a warehouse full of Play-Doh, etc. When people don't want dollars or financial assets, they will replace them with whatever seems like a better deal.
Serious question about torrents: How is this not stealing?
I'm not trying to be judgemental. I certainly don't have any room to do so as I used Napster and the likes back in the day. Now with the advent of Amazon Prime, Hulu, Netflix, etc, I'm genuinely curious to know the moral argument for using services and platforms that utilize torrents to distribute media other creators are actually trying to sell?

Edit: Apparently this question has upset a good number of people. It was a genuine inquiry. It would have been nice to see your thoughts in written form instead of the downvotes.

To those that did answer--thanks! Really incredible how complicated the licensing arrangements are across the world.
Push your grandma under the bus in order to save profits of KLM and local coffee shop.
Agreed! I got a MacBook for work, and the Retina display is incredible. I want a Linux AMD laptop with a 2k/4k display. My E485 with 2700U and 1080p matte will have to do for personal work, for now.
More about how west coast liberals need a carefully crafted stream of information. People don't like it because it seems infantile.
The GP was talking about NSAIDS and you're posting about blood pressure medicine. There are similarities, but still.
Oh come on.

A) nobody is making that claim - you are.

So don't turn this into some weird non-fact-based appeal to emotions. The claim that they are useless is because the evidence does not support them. They ARE useful in clinical settings, and heavily required there.

B) there is no evidence for their success:

1) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51205344
"implementing simple hygiene measures" was vastly more effective."
"Although there is a perception that the wearing of facemasks may be beneficial, there is in fact very little evidence of widespread benefit from their use outside of these clinical setting."
"routine surgical masks for the public are not an effective protection against viruses or bacteria carried in the air"

2)research study, particularly on leakage: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306645/

3) efficiacy in Beijin: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5969371/ (again largely leakage)

4) efficacy in 22micron particulate: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3470452 (again leakage. but depends on particulate size)
I am not really sure if it is the ISPs' conspiracy or that there is simply a lot more demand than supply. E.g. limited seeding a lot of leeching. Last night I wasn't able to open any of the two bittorrent catalogs that I use (PBay and rarbg).
Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Verizon’s websites
As a society, the moment that you allow for private property, you take over responsibility for the livelihood of everyone.

Property is theft on the common good. If you steal from the common good, you have to deal with the consequences. If you deprive people from making their own living, you have to accept that these people will find ways and means.

You didn't build that.
That's not true. The definition of free cash flow includes cash the firm keeps on hand. Any positive change in Apple's "cash and cash equivalents" counts as free cash flow, for example.
...also, if China and Italy are any example, you might be taking care of mom/dad at home because the hospitals cannot accept any more patients.

...and at home, the FDA isn't there to tell you not to use your home-made respirator.
Agreed. This article is takes something complex and reduces it to total idiocy.
Slate isn’t exactly a bastion of journalistic integrity. It’s a left tabloid.
Say what you will about stealing, illegality, unsavouriness.

If the film industry would collectively take their head out of their arses and provide such a simple interface and wide catalogue to the masses, they would make hundreds of billions.

I would literally pay $50 a month for an official and legal version of this.

The end users don't really care that it is not possible because "legal reasons". This app proves otherwise and I wholeheartedly approve of their mission.

EDIT: if I would pay $50 a month, why am I not buying/renting movies on iTunes or Amazon for the same amount? For the same reason Spotify or Apple Music are making a killing. Give me a flat rate and let me watch _everything_, it's hard to decide if that new movie just out is worth spending $15 on. Might be crap.
In Australia we're already seeing malware installing SMS messages that claim to be virus information updates.I want to find whoever is sending them and let them know how terrible they are. With extreme prejudice.
Italy has a pretty decent healthcare system and still had to go full-lockdown.
If you find a single counterexample then "acknowledged by all" fails. "Universally acknowledged" is more vague, so you can claim you meant universally acknowledged only within a certain group of people. The source of the vagueness is the use of the passive form. The sentence is funny because the narrator is exploiting this vagueness in a self-serving way.
How can it be modified to provide lung drainage?
No deliveries in London with Tesco util like 6th of April and the stores quite empty too. I am running out of food :(
When I download it, it's blocked by Windows Defender. Does anyone know why?
Patronizing and counter productive is giving people money for nothing. It's telling people that they're useless.

You should read up on the beggar networks in India and the exploitation that occurs when you handout money for no work.
China had no choice left because they suppressed and censored the epidemy. But after that strong measures were necessary. Other countries could have opted for the Korean or Taiwanese strategy: test early, often and broadly + quarantine suspected cases.

But it's too late for that in most countries now. Confinement it is!
For example, here (in Hungary) we are paying some extra 'contribution' whenever we buy storage (HDDs, SSDs, SD cards, USB sticks) that is intended to compensate artists and distributors for lost revenue because the assumption is that we'll likely store pirated stuff on them.

Therefore downloading is not illegal here (sharing is, which kind of puts torrents into a strange place).

The world is a bit crazy, isn't it.
Whats the difference with banks? If a bank goes bankrupt won't someone come in and buy at a low price? The deposits in the bank wont disappear..
firefox is (also) a developer tool. Blender is also used by a lot of game developers and thats why it gets a lot of attention. Gimp, inkscape and libreoffice not so much, and it shows.
I’m really upset they stopped working gitbook as an open source project in favor of locking in folks to using their service which runs hidden, proprietary software.

The open source repo still exists but it’s abandoned.

I wish they could have found a path to money without destroying their open source offering.
> Why would a manufacturer consider damaging what is a potential mega cash cow?

Why would we give them a choice?
I'm enjoying it. As I see it society goes two ways during hard times: people either become selfish survivalists, or they become more compassionate.

Lockdowns are great - they keep the assholes away from you and lock you in with the people who will live and die with you (or they can be hell). If you're not with someone, maybe you should find someone? Move in with a friend because loneliness will make you very depressed.

Use it to lock away the rest of the world. Instead of swiping on Facebook or thinking of what clubs to go to, you can cuddle with a significant other, or make pancakes with a friend. Watch TV together. Build little LEGO structures. Find the best way to make tea or fried eggs.

I like to focus on the little things and this is the time when all of them will be magnified. So what if you lose your job, your career, your life's savings? There will be a different world next month. Just enjoy the sunset.
Please don't be facetious. The OP was clearly implying that the ones who make it ahead in such situations is that very "sophisticated" class of inveators. They surely did not mean that a literal specific investor will somehow get gains from not owning a stock he has sold. Talk about a ridiculous strawman.
Ask HN: Open-source tool for communities/groups to connect, share info, support
Looking for an opensource tool that could quickly be setup and configured to support individuals/groups/communities to share information and communicate with each other. E.g. a local area/neighborhood where someone who is isolated due to Corona virus and can sign-up and request supplies/assistance. And where interested people can post offers/information and support moderator and administrator roles.

Self hosted so that privacy is maintained (i.e. not Facebook). Preferably on a low-cost or zero-cost service like DO or Heroku.

I envision someone using this tool to organize a neighborhood or apartment complex by distributing sign-up flyers door-to-door. The sign-up URL could even be customized (generated) to pre-fill the address to make signing up very straight forward.

n.b. I've read the T&C for the 'nextdoor' site and their profit model appears to be selling whatever information they have, to whomever will buy it.
HN has attracted a younger crowd over the last couple years.

They have a tendency of expressing and voting with their emotions.
You make many good points, especially NLEs and DAWs.

For me, the last "killer" Photoshop feature was layers. That was in 1994. I still use it every day, but only because I have almost 30 years of muscle memory. It's getting slower and slower for every release.

Granted, it inherited a bunch of nifty web-savvy features from Adobe ImageReady in the first half of the 2000s, but the whole sh*tshow that went down when ImageReady was killed was internal politics and a sign of crappy things to come.

It's interesting that the same navel-gazing, customer-ignoring attitude that killed QuarkXPress in favour of Adobe InDesign struck Adobe.

(By "killer", I mean a feature that completely changed the way I could work with graphics. Sure, I've saved a bunch of time with Actions, but the feature was not transformative.)
The problem is that shows/movies are spread all over these platforms, or are not even available on them. I'm happy to pay my Netflix subscription each months, but if a show I want to watch is not on it, I will pirate it. I'm not going to pay for multiple video streaming services each months.
The other half is now in the updated article. It was nothing to do with Crimea, it transpires.
Julian Assange Hearing – Help Wanted
What "1000 person test case"? Every thing about what is actually happening in many places is the reverse if what you're saying.
> Npm wanted to control nodejs and make money out it.

What does this even mean?
Apple has gigantic amounts of free cash flow, which is why they have $100 billion of cash on their balance sheet, despite their buybacks.
"I'm genuinely curious to know the moral argument..."
Nobody cares.
I also don't think there's a justification for using it, however it's not stealing, it's copyright infringement.

Additionally, the loss is not one to one. Each pirated video does not equate to a lost sale. The fact that people imply that is ludicrous.

Man, I haven't said that stuff in like 20 years. Takes me back to naptser day. Now someone ask me if I would download a car!
Oh I don't think it's a conspiracy; I think it's just network congestion. Torrent traffic has been QoSed to hell for a long time (as it should be tbh), so when there's congestion it's the first thing to get dropped.

FWIW I'm getting a lot of frameskips from my video chats, so I think it's legitimately congested.
Wow. That is an interesting model! Do you know how they determine how the funds are distributed?
Agreed 100%.

Also, here's an interesting story: https://www.ft.com/content/6a09e4a6-655a-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea6...

> French industrials group Air Liquide is selling its Schülke unit, whose products range from the alcohol-based hand rubs that have become a hot commodity since the outbreak started, to hospital disinfectants and industrial cleaning products.
>
> It is asking would-be buyers to offer a higher sum than it first envisaged when the sale process began last year, according to people familiar with the situation, reflecting what one person called the “coronavirus effect”.

Of course, the reason the business might be worth more is because it's going to make higher profits. In theory Air Liquide could cut prices to ensure its profits stayed the same. In fact, not doing so means they're profiting off Covid-19, right?

Which I guess suggests the real problem with what this guy did is scale; he only had a few thousand bottles. If he'd only realised he should have been buying a factory!
You mean they couldn’t be doing R&D into better flight paths for fuel economy or risk? What about finding ways to better transact with the end client? Or a better way to deal with cargo? How’s about research into a machine to better load cargo into the plane?

What type of question is this?
My data does not agree with your data: http://www.assis.it/dati-istat-sui-decessi-da-influenza/
Yup. I don't agree on the perspective but you're totally right. My wife works in a state with issues like this, and her very modest city (capitol, but not as big as SF or Seattle) has enough homeless people that all sorts of crime is on the rise. Restaurants were closing (before COVID..) because people wouldn't go to the restaurant anymore. There were literal camps in parking lots and the police did nothing.

I personally think it's a sad state of our society that we let this happen. These people are either in need of help, or mental help. This is not an acceptable way of living.

1. Give help to all those who simply need some help.
2. Give mental help to those who cannot see living in filth is not a healthy state of being.
3. Let the people who just want to live "free" go live in the woods and form a co-op or something.

I unfortunately see no reason why camping on the streets or next to interstates should not be strictly enforced. But to manage this, we need social programs for #1 and #2. These people aren't all criminals, we can't simply lock them up in jail/prisons. It would also exploit them to do so. We need human programs focused on helping people, and fast.
> Be careful not to conflate immutability with predictability.

I don't trust predictability. Drift is always a nightmare. Nothing is ever as predictable as you would like it to be.

>You can't just cold-restart a whole service that's running on thousands of hosts and being used continuously by even more thousands without a lot of screaming.

If it's architected well you can :)
Some would argue quantitative easing is wealth redistribution (or directly leads too it). And many more believe we’ve reached the point where it’s useless, if not counterproductive.
We do know why, now. The article has been updated. It was nothing to do with government sanctions, it turns out.
Good question!

I think you're right & the open-source issue could be because closer coordination is needed between product & engineering.

And while I'm biased [1] (as the founder of MintData), I think the future is instead:

- The line between Engineer & Designer gets BLURRED -> 0

- The line between Prototype & Software gets BLURRED -> 0

In the end, I think powerful tools that redefine how software is created will win out, but this will take some time*

Hat tip to LightTable, Subform, Figma/Sketch, Framer/X, Visual Basic 6, and all the other tools that have provided us with the right inspiration.

[1] https://mintdata.com
There is nothing "crazy" abut "Browsers gobble it up." Along with annotation, this was supposed to be a standard feature of the web, in fact it was built into early versions of Netscape[1]. It just takes the world a long, long, long time to catch up with the bigger background ideas, because there are so many details and so many ways to make money with the immediate.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Composer
Its allowed to continue because some are mentally Ill and refuse to get treated (and we can't force them into treatment) and some make poor life decisions like having multiple children with no means to support them (you have the freedom to do this).

You can't just give money to someone mentally Ill or will just squander the money and continue to make bad decisions. We will still have just as much poverty and homelessness.
Those are pretty normal restrictions. Why on Earth are you withdrawing that much cash?

Your account is FDIC insured up to $250,000.
I have to thank you for this link - one of the greatest channels I've ever stumbled upon on YouTube!
What exactly do you expect those 10M people to do during the day?
Delta just paid every employee 14% of their pay earlier this year after a blockbuster 2019. I bet they are rethinking that decision.
I don't know if it's more responsible for the researchernto ouvlish their educated guess immediately - it's perhaps more likely than not to be right based on their expertise and they truley believe it's a really issue and might feel obligated to talk about it. Or, if it's more responsible to do the work first and get some preliminary evidence. Those few days during the pandemic could be crucial for rapid response, and if there's a strong rationale for it maybe it's worth communicating, but this isn't like "it can spread in xyz manner" that really changes behavior - you still be have to do social distancing whether or not Advil makes you more susceptible -is the panic that your painkiller will give you the coronavirus worth it?
> Buy low, Sell high.

Come up with a good definition of "low" and "high" when you don't know the short/medium term future, and you'll have figured out this whole "investing" thing better than anyone else!
They’ve just reverted.
> Except that state and its manipulation is usually the primary value in technology.

Exactly and thats why you put state in data stores and keep your servers immutable.
We were fine for a while. Netflix killed film/series piracy for me - for a while it literally made no sense.

Then, every copyright owner realized they want a slice of the streaming cake - (HBO, Disney+, all the cable networks...) and started making their content exclusive on their platforms. Now, instead of a single Netflix (or anyone else, really) subscription I would have to pay for a dozen, that I would rarely use for more than one series/film. Or I can't even get it at all, because it's not available in my country. Or only available with subtitles in a language I don't understand. Or I can't watch it on the hardware I want to.

The music industry got their shit together and even the most copyright-paranoid artists are on Spotify, or on Bandcamp (which is subscription-free). When the film industry does the same I'll gladly start paying them money again.
This looks a lot to me like learned image descriptors from the computer vision community. Some examples are
Discriminative learning of local image descriptors (http://matthewalunbrown.com/papers/pami2010.pdf)
DeepDesc (https://icwww.epfl.ch/~trulls/pdf/iccv-2015-deepdesc.pdf)
L2-net (http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/fanbin/pub/L2-Net_CVPR17.pdf)
You can't find everything on streaming services, actually. Sometimes your only hope is to find a torrent and make a "back-up".
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>Taking money from one person and giving to another is immoral

Basically every society in the world does this, how is it immoral? I think it is immoral not to do that, considering that there is no way that any society can guarantee absolute equality of opportunity for all citizens.
Honestly I don't have moral problem with downloading movies that are forgotten/not available by any other means.
How so? How are these two concepts related?
They're obviously not useless. They do keep spittle down. But every person in public would have to wear them in the off chance they're asymptomatic carriers.

And a virus will still penetrate most masks through the sides where air is mainly being pulled in from. So there is more nuance than just "masks are useless"

I guess you can wear them. But given the choice I'd rather have immunity. And I think we should focus more on that.
What’s the suspected threat name? It should say when a file gets quarantined.
AI Tool to detect your facial expressions while you watch a video
What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? That's just a fine where they assume you'd pirate stuff in the future!
Before I've read you message I was sure that dry air slows down transmission speed. But indeed, it's humidity https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551767
The XPS line is great for this if you have the $$$ and are OK with an Intel chip. I wish they shipped AMD.
Ah if only that was the case. Turns out, when the government is involved then the taxpayer is buying but the government is deciding what to buy.

There is no hedge fund buying airlines right now. There will be a shitload of them lining up once the government commits to buying the debt because then they know there's only upside from there.
Coronavirus Disrupts U.S. Court System
The concept of viewing activities as DAG is going to be huge and ubiquitous, I think.

This applies to any activities of humans, organizations and computer systems, and hybrids of those three. One of the most fascinating epiphanies I've had recently is exactly that the purposeful behavior of these three kinds of actors can be decomposed as DAG with a relationship meaning "contributes to fulfillment of a need".

So congrats on the launch to the author, and expect a lot of competition, including me :)

I am working on a FOSS tool storing TODO actions and activities in an SQL table, and enabling DAG relations between entries. https://github.com/andrey-utkin/taskdb/wiki

I have actually built my DAG (or, as I like to call it, a semilattice) going all the way up to fundamental categories of needs as described by Maslow.

Sorry that I have no live demo container or juicy screenshots yet, that will be in place in a week or two, please email me at (my HN username) at fastmail.com if you want an update when I publish the containerized demo system.
I don't pirate, nowadays mostly because I already have a couple of subscriptions and not enough time to consume all the content I already can.

But for me the answer is fairly obvious: availability. If video content was as convenient to consume as music, then pirating wouldn't be making a comeback. You can subscribe to all major streaming services and it's likely you won't find a given niche tv series or cult movie, unlike with music that with a single spotify sub you can listen to basically any formally published album (Ok, I know it's not strictly true, but it's closer to this state than with video)
> Npm could easily be an open source client

The NPM client is and has always been open source: https://github.com/npm/cli.

> Npm wanted to control nodejs and make money out it. And they have.

In what way, other than offering private package hosting for enterprises?
any source for this? especially how the success rate is in Italy? How many people received it etc.?