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Anxiety has a couple of different meanings. There's the everyday use of the word, and I guess calming music would help with that. I like Phillip Glass (which a lot of people find surprising for calming music) or Max Richter's Sleep.

But if anxiety interferes with your day to day life and causes significant distress it might be an anxiety disorder. There are a few different things under the class of anxiety disorder so I'm not going to list symptoms. Luckily, often they've very treatable. Current advice is to start with psycho-education, then step up to a talking therapy (and cognitive behaviour therapy has a good evidence base, it's short and should be affordable), and if that's not working to step up to a combination of meds and a more intensive talking therapy.

Anxiety disorders cause many years of life lost to disability, and they can be really distressing for people.
I can tell you from the point of view of a very large corporation who uses Gitlab internally. I think it's a good model.

Free Gitlab got our bosses attention. Once they saw the value it added to the org. our managers started bringing up the Enterprise license. Not us techs, we were fine with the free version.
I've always been terrible at looking busy. At my very first job, I'd written a bunch of macros and scripts to generate my code directly from the functional design, so half the time I would be leaning back watching all my scripts do their thing. My boss hated it.

Over time, I think I've gotten better at looking busy while reading HN. I don't think there's a very strong correlation between looking busy and being productive.
Wouldn't that be because you are used to the style of checkboxes? I mean usually a checkbox would be accompanied by a label as well, which adds to the 'this is a checkbox' vibe.
I find it very interesting how either more people are anxious and scared this go disaster, or we're just talking about it more.

I don't remember there being this much discussion about reducing anxiety in past crises.

I'm also not one to get anxious by this kind of stuff, much more hyped to take on the increased stakes. So it's been a lot of DOOM OST for me.

Rip and Tear baby.
Git branches as labels into a DAG of edits maps exactly to what I think branches are. The difference between two branches is their respective edits from a common base. If you muck up a commit, you reset the pointer to the previous commit. If you muck that up, and accidentally reset too much, you can use your reflog to find out where you used to be on the DAG and reset the branch to that.

The transparency of the mechanism enables the user to be more powerful while knowing fewer concepts in total. The power of the system comes from the composition of simple parts.
> Cars move in a 2-dimensional space (surface), aircraft move in a 3-dimesional space (without costly highways), so you can utilize space way more efficiently and move more people per square mile.

You still need to land planes 1 at a time, and that involves a clearing period between landings.
That idea isn't radical, it's laughably naive.
if you've got suggestions, they're much welcome !
If you reached out to "licensing lawyers", this is wholly unsurprising. Their entire job is to be overprotective, both during normal times and during exceptional times.

The client's job is to recognize that and sidestep them once in a while, of course. Especially during exceptional times.
So... what exactly is the crisis scenario this is modeled for?

I can't come up with a reasonable situation where mobile networks are completely f*cked, yet my smartphone is still running medium- to long-term. Maybe I'm not creative enough.

(The only thing that comes close is a large-scale power outage, but then after a day or two my smartphone battery is dead too. Also, the same measures to revive the smartphone [solar backup, generators, etc.] can also be used to revive the mobile network...)

[Add.: what definitely makes sense is a _dedicated_ LoRa-based emergency network, which uses dedicated user agents with low power draw and long-term batteries. Just ditch the smartphone?]
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Due to the spreading of Covid-19, many events/tech conferences are switching to online this year. Could you share with me some links so I can view right now.
He does have the advantage of being right though; I certainly didn't say anything like that untrained staff could administer a ventilator from a 30 day bootcamp. That is obviously stupid. Nobody in the thread did say that. The closest anyone came was pointing out it doesn't take 8 years to learn to administer a ventilator; which is uncontroversial. And that it takes less than 2 weeks to learn to press the buttons, which is also obviously true. Everybody knows they'd be killing people left and right proceeding like that left to their own devices.

Particularly my comment which seemed to spark something; it's a pretty basic fact that Ops Research people walk into situations where they aren't necessarily experts and optimise. That is a core part of the job. Every field is stuffed with experts who don't see how anyone could help them in their domain and they are generally wrong about the administrative trivia of organising a workplace. It doesn't even have anything to do with software. Ops Research is from mechanical engineering and factory optimisation.

I know bunch of doctors. I don't believe they work in an environment where the process has been mathematically optimised. They aren't mathematicians. That observation lines up very well with the "leave it to the experts" vibe of the responses here. They won't understand queuing theory for example.
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Check your numbers first, "talking about" is not the same as actually being more used. The big enterprise I work for, and a couple I know of, use Skype/Teams and discourage the use of Zoom and other free alternatives.
Nothing can move more people than a subway, certainly not single person planes that need to land and still consume space when not in use, just like cars.
That's a fair technical tradeoff, but you can't have it both ways.
Now would be a great time to engender some global good will by putting some of that $250b in cash to work.

Tim Apple is starting to look a bit like Smaug atop his literal pile of money.
>NOBODY does it!

Irrelevant.
That as nothing to due with the fact that they say they are. Zoom is being completely dishonest, and as some other commented here, some orgs like in health care area, have E2E encryption as requirement, Zoom says they have, but don't. It's literally fraud.
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Yes. This is a really important point. People have a natural desire to provide help, and often they think that means fixing problems. But that can be harmful.

Here's a short guide to suicide prevention that's aimed at members of the public: https://www.zerosuicidealliance.com/training/
Well, phrases like this are just empty, negative hyperbole:

> Creative people make for lousy project planners and directors.

That warranted the downvotes I think.
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Mercurial also means quick witted.
Taxpayers lost $11 billion bailing out GM around 2009.

Trump showed up to collect what the people were owed.
I don't live with my girlfriend (she lives 30 miles away, I have my own house with my elderly mum who I look after and she didn't want to be on her own for weeks, and my girlfriend's house is overcrowded as the two older kids are back from Uni, and it's a small 3-bed house so space is at a premium, and there were doubts over if some of the kids had been exposed to Coronavirus), and the last time I saw her was a few weeks ago, after picking up my step-daughter from University and getting her back home.

When I left (we'd still been social distancing even on that day), I did this Vulcan Salute as it reminded me of the end of Wrath of Khan - I was feeling pretty sad as I know I can't be with her for at least a month here in the UK. I'd hoped she would do the same, as it just felt like that moment.

She had NO IDEA what I was referring to, so needless to say it was a bit of a downer at an emotional time!

(Don't get me wrong, I'm not an emotional imbecile, I just picked a bad way to express my feelings at that moment!)
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I think some people just need to step up instead of only evangelizing, and actually build something that is useful and "secure"

Oh wait... There are actually tons of such projects. Why did they not take off? (I'm trying hard not to sound cynical because I don't really know that there is absolutely no way that they could, but also I do feel cynical)
Hopefully we've reconsidered the laws of mathematics in the last few years ...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2140747-laws-of-mathema...

"“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia,” said Turnbull.

Turnbull’s comments came as he proposed a new law to force tech companies to give security services access to encrypted messages."

"The UK home secretary Amber Rudd has previously called encryption “completely unacceptable” and the UK prime minister Theresa May has said that the big internet companies give terrorists “safe spaces” to communicate."

Going to have to get over this first :/
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If I can do 80% of this with the "whiteboard" in my chat program (Slack, Teams, Zoom) why on earth would I use a third-party?

More tools == more problems.
Sounds a bit like entrepreneur-in-residence.
The intuitive concept of a branch is a limb on a tree.
99.99999% of projects are not the Linux kernel, so how could Git have succeeded because of Linus, other than Linus originating the genius design of it? The Ruby community jumped onto Git even though there was no Github, and Ruby itself didn't use Git. In my opinion it was because Git was the first tool that was superior to SVN in every way.

The first time I used Git I swore I would never use SVN again. It was even popular back then to set up git+svn systems so you could work on your git repo, and push a branch to svn to satisfy your employer.

People associate git with Github (and Gitlab), but it used to be very common to just set up a ssh server that people could push projects on to, my server still has a dozen or so projects on it that I haven't touched in a decade. Github spawned from the popularity of Git in the Ruby community, and the desire to make it a little more accessible to people that didn't want to have their own git servers.
Take curiosity. If everyone in the village is highly curious and off exploring the jungle with tigers, everyone in the village, sooner or later, dies.

On the other hand if everyone in the village sees tigers behind every bush and stays put within the safe confines of village walls, no one in the village learns how to tame or hunt the tiger.

A Tiger here being a placeholder for any threat/unknown the group faces, requiring talents as yet not known to the group.

If you do find a village that has managed to Not fall victim to both those scenarios think about what it tells you about the distribution of curious/non-curious within the village.
It can be anxiety reducing if you’re actively listening to it and enjoying it. If it’s in the background and your trying to do something else it will probably cause anxiety.
Like the other comment said, it is a difference in cultural perspective.

I personally think it comes from the massive population. As an individual, you MUST present yourself as being the absolute best. If you're "just okay" you blend into the crowd and will never advance beyond your station.

So every minor achievement is talked up as something grander than it is.

And every major shortcoming is either ignored, or mitigated as a minor flaw.

But the Chinese culture is used to this and knows how much is legitimate and how much is BS. Us Westerns don't get it because we generally tell a less exaggerated version of the truth (not the whole truth, just less hyperbolic).

So when we realize a statement out of China is fanciful BS, we assume they're maliciously lying, when they're probably not, they just have a different cultural take on the bullshit multiplier.
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Point-to-point encryption
Not everything is a product. This is a piece of work, do of it what you wish.
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Judging a regulatory environment for a market that doesn’t exist yet from research craft seems pre-emptive.

We’ve had multi engine turbo props forever, I don’t understand why the osprey is more comparable than a traditional propeller aircraft.
Charts with linear scale are nearly useless for gaining meaningful insight about the progress of exponential growth.
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400 Million?! Maybe I'm missing something, but last time I checked, CoinMarketCap was just a stock ticker website for cryptocurrencies. Where is the value...?
There's also cognitive bias bias - prematurely jumping to the conclusion that some opinion is simply based on cognitive bias, and should therefore be dismissed or contradicted. Basically, it's good to use awareness of cognitive bias to moderate your own thinking, but if you signal to others that you think they are labouring under some bias don't be surprised if they shut down the discussion ASAP.
Hi all,
Hope you are safe and well.

I would like to know your feedback and first impressions on https://www.probstack.io a community to find problems that are worth solving!

A place to raise, discuss and get problems solved that are worth it organically.

A little background on how it all started in 2019.

I have seen successful failures with most of my projects since last few years except 'How's It Like' - www.howsitlike.com which is doing great! ;) This took me back to the first step of understanding if I'm looking at the right problem at all that needs a solution. Often times, I found majority of the products are solving something that is not actually broken and not worth fixing it.

I started curiously searching for some real problems from users so that I can pick the most pressing problem in that list and work on that. I ended up finding thousands of articles and content on how to find problems that are worth solving but there is no actual platform where this can be initiated. I've seen loads of time, effort and money going into products that ended up failing and most of the times, the reason being the product is not of interest to the users!

This is where our initial MVP started off in 2019 Feb..

Kicked off in February 2019 with a small community of people raising, discussing and sharing problems in an excel sheet.

In April 2019, we have launched 'ProShareUs' - 'Share your problems with us' through a minimal product and that helped us reach more people.

And in 2020, we are redesigning and rebranding our product as 'Probstack' - 'Find problems that are worth solving' to better reflect our mission and stand out.

I'm happy to be re-launching very soon and would love to speak to people who have frustrating problems and also to curious makers who are looking for valuable problems.

Here is our landing page meanwhile we launch - https://www.probstack.io

Many thanks!!
It's not just the US, the WHO is trying to tell people not to use masks unless they are sick or caring for someone that is.

It's irresponsibility on a massive scale.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-mas...

Obviously frontline workers need priority for PPE, but there is zero reason this should stop anyone from making something homemade.
> The UK home secretary Amber Rudd has previously called encryption "completely unacceptable" ... Theresa May has said that the big internet companies give terrorists "safe spaces" to communicate.

Ironically, the UK government in fact uses Zoom for all its meetings depsite privacy and security implications. Saudi Arabia, take note.

Ref: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-boris-johnson-zo...
Counting the deaths involving the coronavirus in the UK
I am willing to chalk this up to an honest mistake considering "end-to-end" encryption as being from the client's end to the server, although that's not the accepted use of the term. This appears to be their explanation. I hope their marketing team fixes this now that it's been pointed out to them though.
Does anyone know of a video conferencing system (3++++ participants) that actually does do end-to-end encryption?
Now I know why it was the only video conferencing service that worked in Dubai. Others, like meet, WhatsApp - video are not working for censorship reasons.
// TODO it works, but it's ugly, rewrite
function init() {
// some code
}

What is ugly, what would rewrite accomplish? Excellent example of bad commenting. Comments are ideally unnecessary, so bad comments just litter code and stink it up even more. No code will live forever anyways, and it says something about someone when they falsely believe in perfection.
You might want to check the guidelines for Show HN and, if appropriate, change this to "Show HN."
Trolling by claiming to agree with people, and saying some things that happen to be right (while throwing much much more bullshit against the wall to see what sticks), and being insincerely and cloyingly polite, is still trolling, and classic sealioning behavior.

Take a look at his history. The first most obvious thing you will notice is how well the moderation system is working: so many of his postings are deeply downvoted (light gray text), flagged, and dead. But unfortunately he's still succeeding in wasting a whole lot of the moderator's and readers' time.

If you can stand to wade through his light gray walls of rambling incoherent text, you will see there is a consistency to how he writes, digresses, derails, pretends concern, contradicts himself, and regularly trolls and sealions.

As Jacques put it, "It's the online version of passive aggressive belligerence with a veneer of sincerity on top".

And when you try to pin him down on anything he actually believes, he retreats into his intellectual alt-right safe space, where it's impossible to truly know anything, and facts are a matter of opinion, since we live in a post truth society, and people all have their beliefs that they are entitled to, and everybody believes lies except for him, while nobody knows what he truly believes, but if you sincerely ask him, he derails and refuses to answer, and says you can't force him to answer your questions, because you're not the boss of him, and he's the victim.

Does that sound to you like the sincere conversation he claims he wants to have?
> There are actually tons of such projects. Why did they not take off?

Secure computing requires a relatively low time preference to be economical. Or, more precisely, marginal demand for secure computing increases with a marginal decrease in time preference. Most companies have (artificially inflated) high time preferences, so it's not economical for them to adopt what we consider secure computing.

This is, I believe, to the net detriment of human society as a whole (at least, at my personal time preference).

I'm not going to get too much into why time preferences are so (artificially) high on here, but I encourage people to look into it themselves. A lot of it has to do with government economic intervention, especially around monetary policy.
I'd already be happy if the ISM bands were internationally harmonized, but as if that's ever going to happen...
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Zoom has always been shady as hell. Between the ridiculous web server on MacOS, web client anti-patterns and other endless nonsense the only explanation for their popularity is good marketing.
We also started "Git for data" several years ago but since then pivoted to data science/ML tooling (https://dotscience.com/) by building features that people actually want on the original product. Since then the "git for data" accounts only probably for 5% of the total functionality :)

I guess "Git for data" is not very useful if you don't have the whole platform built around it to actually use the features. We mainly use it for data synchronization between the nodes and provenance tracking so people can see what data was used to build specific models and to track how the project evolves itself without forcing people to "commit" their changes manually (as we have seen that often data scientists don't even use git, just files on their Jupyter notebooks).
Early to mid 2000s, Athlon 64 and the Digital tech (as in DEC Alpha's EV6 bus) was where it was at, until Intel got back in front with Core 2. AMD got to define the 64-bit instruction set for x86 with Athlon 64. 2007 or so (13 years ago) was after the decisive swing back to Intel. I got a Q6600 in 2007 that I was using (in its final form in a NAS in the attic) until late last year.
how can you have end-to-end encryption with server side processing in conference calls with 50 participants?
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> Untold amounts of human effort are exhausted globally every day on rebuilding identical components for web apps. This should not be the case. The UI community should standardize namings and structures for common components.

Yeah, they're called 'HTML forms'.

If you want a standards-compliant, accessible UI that works everywhere then just use them.

If you want some godawful 'SPA' with UI elements that 'communicate your corporate style', then no amount of standardization will help here.
I understand that it makes sense intuitively, but how do you justify it to yourself mathematically? As far as I can tell there is nothing in the original formulation that explains why it would scale that way.
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Hey, hey

I have made a browser extension so that when you shop online you can donate portion of the money you pay to charities. There are no extra costs for you, the donation is fully covered by the shop.

There are over 1000 partner shops including etsy, aliexpress, ebay, microsoft.

The charities we support are research-backed and vetted by GiveWell and Animal Charity Evaluators: Against Malaria Foundation, SCI Foundation, Give Directly, Anima International.

It is written in Typescript/React and PHP/Symfony4. The source code is on github: https://github.com/altruisto/altruisto
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You pay your employees thousands per month and rent an office for several hundreds per month. Most people here seem to buy absolutely overpriced Mac Book Pros for $3000. When you cannot pay $4 or $19 per month extra for each employee to be more productive, you have problems beyond that.

This "everything must be free" mentality is driving me crazy. And yes, $2/month/user is still ranging in the "free" region, even $4 is ludicrously cheap when you are even a minute more productive each day. Somebody has to pay Gitlab's employees and VC money wont do this indefinitely.
This is totally rad. Nice work!
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Cough VPN. Blocked again? New VPN location, and so forth.
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So with the right URL, you can tell them yourself!
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It looks like WebRTC doesn't support it, so basically no-one can because all these browser-based technologies end up just being WebRTC in the end.

From the Jitsi Meet README:

> WebRTC does not (yet) provide a way of conducting multi-party conversations with end-to-end encryption. Unless you consistently compare DTLS fingerprints with your peers vocally, the same goes for one-to-one calls.