skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, the moment when property was supposedly deemed sacred was the end of the 18th century ("Life, liberty, estate", derived from Locke but was codified in society with the US Constitution and French Revolution). This idea is deeply ingrained in our values, but let's investigate what those founders actually believed.

At the time of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were in agreement about playing down the protection of property. Franklin saw property as a "creature of society"[1]. This is why they changed the language of the Declaration of Independency to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". The last is not meant to be a stand-in for "property" or "estate," it actually derives from a separate clause in the Virginia Declaration of Rights[2]: "life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Jefferson intentionally dropped the property clause in the Declaration of independence, reflecting how he saw property: not an inalienable right.

Entering into the early US, the majority of fiscal revenue was based off of taxing property (there was no income tax). This aligns with Franklin and Jefferson in basically saying that the state has a claim to the property that is possessed by citizens.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_...
[2] The Virginia Declaration of Rights was an influence on Jefferson's Declaration of Independence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_I...
It is interesting though. Why would a plant evolve to kill animals when the purpose of a berry is to spread seed through consumption?
I think that's a valid criticism, you won't hear me complain.
https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
Not much different to Microsoft. Buy Windows, still get tracking and ads. I use it because it’s convenient.

Hard to justify moving from zoom to ms teams when Microsoft have shown they don’t care about privacy either.
Most of the projects uses docker, which i use to develop my own projects anyway, so, i dont need to install different dependencies or make my own pc as anything else. I just use it as regular.
Viruses can't reproduce on their own; they need to invade host cells and reprogram them to generate more virus. As potential hosts, we would consider a "bad" virus to be one that does this too aggressively, sickening or even killing the host.
True, it was under the header “news from Spain” , I added a translation.
I'm not a systems person and pretty new using Linux, so have a lot to learn. I have Ubuntu installed on a computer here at home and recently enabled Canonical Livepatch. I also update whatever needs updating when I SSH in based on the "x packages can be updated. x updates are security updates." messages I get. Some of these require a restart. This isn't a problem for me since I'm just messing around. I'm wondering how this is done in a production environment?

I assume that a lot of the packages I update either don't need to be updated or aren't getting updated on a production server, and therefore less restarts are needed?
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> It's a very difficult topic to grasp and is subject to various changes, from vested interest of groups (said group which itself could be composed of competing entities) to ideological decisions.

This is so disingenuous and reeks of a superiority complex. "This system is too complex for poors to understand, that's why we, the educated and wealthy, are printing more money for ourselves. It will trickle down, we promise! We're really smart and know what we're doing!"

> Which don't get me wrong, is definitely flawed and biased toward wealth concentration

Exactly right. It's not complicated because it needs to be, it's complicated to hide layers and layers of corruption where we have codified methods for handing more money to people who already have enough of it.

> you start to have more constructive criticisms of today situation

I disagree with this. The average American has no avenue for "constructive criticism" of this system, because the average American has no access to the political system. The only way to combat this problem is to raise hell, and possible even to spill blood -- considering how soon our corporate overlords are willing to sacrifice us to preserve their quarterly earning reports.
Our case is to rotate it in our open-space TV
What if you take "energy" to mean more than just electricity? The money to pay for the electricity to mine could be spent on something else. Or going even further back the work that was done to make the money to mine could be allocated differently. What could you build instead of the video cards and warehouses and A/C's used in mining?
I've never been able to use it. I get sent to a "do you want to use legacy twitter?" thing, I click Yes and it just gives me the same screen again, every time.

Happens I proxy through squid - it might have something to do with that. If I go direct (no proxy) it works. Interesting.

At least I can get to it, and will read your link this evening. Thank you.
> With our own product ZeroTier we get maybe 1-2 questions a year about privacy and so far only a few enterprise customers have even asked about the security of encryption and authentication.

Why would people ask you that? You already put the answers in the public documentation.
Self promotion is a skill. If it makes you cringe you need to get better at it.
I'd guess this

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/27/why-we-sle...
Isolate if you can. If you receive packages let them sit somewhere for 2 days before opening and handling them, or open and clean the box inside and clean your hands right away.

If you do go out wear rubber gloves and a mask. Never touch your face when out. Thankfully you got a job that allows WFH and you should be able to ride this out.
> No, it really doesn't, which is why I prefaced it with talking about being flip.

Preface or not, it still reads like that. You're extolling one principle. I entirely agree that privacy is important but should be upheld. But there are other conflicting principles at work here - the list here is in no way complete.

* The right to privacy.
* The right of pupils to receive an education
* The right of teachers to limit the amount of work and energy they need to put into their work.
* The right of teachers and pupils (and the general public) to stay at home and evade infection.

So glorifying one principle at the expense of others is at best problematic. What's the point of upholding one principle and ignore that at the moment, it conflicts with others?

And that's why your absolutism on one principle to me still reads flip - or at least ill considered - even if you preface it with "I don't want to be flip."
This seems like a good idea, and I'm sure a lot of use cases for people that have multiple dashboard that they don't want to keep loading and checking or setting up multiple computers to do that.

However, when I need to do something like this I simply use this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/url-slideshow/pdbl...
Fair enough. If you stick to open source, then you can always know how programmers got it wrong in the past and present.
Oh that makes sense. The source of the data aside, the fact that it's not aggregated by the Feds means they did do a shit ton of work here...
> urgent care clinics should be allowed to bill Medicaid or a similar program

I believe they can already, at least if it's patients who qualify for Medicaid (if you're proposing expanding Medicaid to temporarily cover all uninsured, then it's true that isn't the case). But it's up to the urgent-care clinics whether they want to take Medicaid patients or not. Around me, some do and some don't. The ones that don't, refuse it because they aren't willing to perform services at the Medicaid rates (Medicaid has fixed reimbursement schedules, set by each state).
Can someone suggest something similar for linux ? I have a raspberry pi and I would like to pull images from Reddit Eli5, reddit no stupid questions and reddit cool guides for display on home computer. Kids will love it.
Hence not answering the original question:

> which other companies are offering free moocs and/or video tutorials because of the COVID-19?
> Also, you might discover that there are some existentially wrong assumptions regarding crypto that make it all moot: there is no such thing as a 'trustless decentralized currency' or store of value because currencies are inherently a form of the social contract.

That's a good observation, thank you.
It was a genuine question, not an attack, though I can see how my wording didn't make that obvious.

Maybe a quick providing-useful-context-in-your-original-post before attacking responses next time? :-)

Edit: Sorry, I've checked and the original post replied to wasn't from you. The point of this response still stands though, but directed elsewhere.
You are right, this is exactly we were thought about.
Sadly this won't happen in the US. Even if it's really private, people won't install it unless it's pushed down to them as an update from above, and no company will want to be the first to push it.

I suspect the bigger issue is people don't want to be told by an app that they need to go get tested.

Come to think of it, cities like New York could push it as part of a bigger, more comprehensive covid app...
(U.S. here and didn't recognize the term, link for others' convenience)

Safeguarding is a term used in the United Kingdom and Ireland to denote measures to protect the health, well-being and human rights of individuals, which allow people — especially children, young people and vulnerable adults — to live free from abuse, harm and neglect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguarding
I am an angel investor in 36 technology startups and not all Founders file patents or diligently work through the prosecution phase. Also - this article is partly promoting my GROTU app and helping me connect with potential customers and investors.
Doesn't look like the trend there is really changing since it peaked around March 8th. Seems pretty consistently in the low hundreds of new confirmed a day.

If you scroll down the page there's a graph that helps to visualize it: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...
Thats absolutely not what Im saying, Im saying that these company execs that want the government to help their contractors are being so selfishly hypocritical. If they want to help their contractors, these billion dollar companies can offer things like health insurance, PTO/sick leave, etc... It's insane they are asking the government to help these contractors so they can continue to make money as a business as cheap as possible when things are back in order.

Of course we should help these people. Everyone should help and paying taxes and providing benefits is the social agreement we've made in this country so we can help when issues like this arise.
Go after the endpoints: the exchanges. The outlaws won't care, but cryptocurrencies can't go to the moon on the backs of outlaws alone.
> being a mountain climber it had to do with not playing team sports.

Mountaineering is most certainly a team sport. It would probably be fair to say that it requires a greater degree of trust and communication than almost any other sport, given the high stakes and the complexity of the skills involved.
"Money laundering and buying drugs"
"No intrinsic value"
"Energy waste"
These arguments have been in the wild for over 10 years and discussed by both sides in much detail. The article brings just personal opinion of author and probably the most dumb down version of these arguments I have seen. Not sure if satire or not.
Dashboards should not "loop" — that totally defeats the purpose of communal screens as information radiators! Screens should always display the same dashboard continuously, so that viewers can passively detect and identify changes.
If your principles are in conflict, I suggest recognizing that not all of them are actually principles, which is what I poorly communicated.
So the actual value is zero.
Great little tool. I love the retro design too.
> Right. No one has ever studied contagions among the community at large and the effect of masks. When you hear people say there is no evidence, this is what they are referring.

Actually, they have[1,2]. According to one study, surgical masks helped cut down the community spread of SARS in Beijing by 70%[3]:

> Always wearing a mask when going out was associated with a 70% reduction in risk compared with never wearing a mask.

But if you're specifically referring to randomised trials on mask efficacy during an on-going pandemic, you're right that there are no such studies -- because it would be unethical. So effectively all of the relevant studies are retrospective (which does introduce recall bias), but these are basically the best studies we can do ethically.

[1]: https://medium.com/better-humans/whats-the-evidence-on-face-...
[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6993921/
[3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322931/
It could also be that cytokine storms were not known in 1979. The source I see on wikipedia is for 1991, but you can read the article if you like. [1]

This is what essentially causes the "W" curve as opposed to Covid-19's "J" curve.

Edit: Also as opposed to normal flu's "V" curve.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome
It does break legacy code so you need to opt-in per file or per project. It also doesn't fix legacy code automatically. Any of your dependencies that haven't yet opted in (and thus added the right annotations to their assemblies) to strict null checking are assumed `Foo?` (as they've always been) and may still give NullReferenceExceptions.

Almost all of the BCL (base class library; the system libraries) has been annotated at this point, but there will be plenty of libraries that are not yet on NuGet still.

If you miss the question mark and you've opted in to strict null checks you won't get a null pointer exception, you'll get a compiler error when trying to assign null. (That's why you have to opt-in: it makes `Foo` without the question mark non-nullable.)
What about Florida (and Arizona) in the US? Those states are overrun with old people and they are actively avoiding testing and mandatory isolation. Florida has 29 deaths right now attributed to Covid-19 and their governor is being criticized daily for his poor response.
Would be very cool of them to at least alias the mycroft.xxx domain
Okay, remove the investment part. I agree.

That makes me want to own a home less, doesn’t it? Even if homes are affordable in this hypothetical scenario, why would I want to personally own and maintain one?

The risks are in owning the home in the first place. The landlord actually takes that on, and they take the reward of that risk as their investment gains.

A roof costs $10,000 no matter how cheap housing gets in this landlord-less utopia. I still have to call a foundation expert when my basement walls start cracking unexpectedly. I don’t want that risk or responsibility. I want to pay someone a monthly rate and have them responsible for all issues related to the property. I want to be able to move at any time with no financial risk.
Probably, graduation and post-grad students.

In undergrad 1 to 1 also happens, but they are less frequent.
Can someone explain what "D, L-lysine acetylsalicylate and glycine" are in laymen's terms?

I saw some comments mentioned about Aspirin/NSAID. But what's the practicality of this research? Btw, this was dated 2016.
You have hold a principle because the benefit is greater than the cost, otherwise whats good is a principle ?

Or maybe people has different principle.
Can you answer the question of the article?

> Can you please show me the benefit to society of cryptocurrencies?
Just curious, why is this named “Introvert”? Is it that this app is thought to be more appealing to introverts?
Krugman also claimed in the same article that Capital in the 20th century was not fully read by most "Like A Brief History of Time".

He is right that Piketty's first book is probably just worth it for the introduction and most non-economists never read the rest, but if he cant get through A Brief History of Time then he's got other problems. Hawking made that book very readable and accessible!
Ok, but then you cannot have any principles, because even the principles laid out in the declaration of human rights are in conflict to each other.
Here is the original report by ProtonVPN.

https://protonvpn.com/blog/apple-ios-vulnerability-disclosur...
Remote working with kids during an epidemics
Hey, If you are the author, the design details are not visible in the video (I am on my mac), I mean the details aren't visible. Maybe edit the video to zoom on the design when it starts generating for a few seconds?
So many replies here have identified the value of Zoom: it is easy to use and has reasonably good quality. So the questions I have: can we add to this? Are there ways to use Zoom more privately?

Personally I haven't seen many people offer up alternatives that are clear winners. They all have tradeoffs. Since there's tradeoffs I have a hard time moving people to some other direction. If I could says, "Oh Zoom is nice, but Schmooz is the best!" I know people who'd make the move. Even if it's paid.
Why do you feel entitled to tell people what they should do? How do you know what value - or lack thereof - people get from using Bitcoin&co., have you checked with them, or is it just theory? Why do you assume your sense of value has to be universal?

The 'drugs' traded on the 'deeply depraved' marketplaces save lives and make other lives kind of comfortable even amid a chronic disease. Yes, I mean drugs which should, but for various reasons are not, available in the pharmacy. That's a real use case, do you think it's 'detrimental to society'? Because ill people get a chance to live again? Great thinking.

And to top it all off, your post is worded in a purposely confrontational and inflammatory way. It's a flame-bait, and it got flagged and removed from the site because of this. What do you gain by presenting a biased, unoriginal post to the crowd here? If you think you just made a "net benefit for society" - think again. In solitude, please.
Yes, now it is clear, we definitely should. Thank you!
Probably to help against claustrophobia. I wouldn't want to be in a closed metal object thousands of meters in the water. I know it's only psychological, but it's probably enough.
> This is the same reason Slack's popularity has skyrocketed. Because of the lack of history <snip>

Slack's business model [1] is storing all history and charging for access for it. Nothing transient about that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software)#Business_mode...
> purpose of a berry is to spread seed through consumption

That's not the purpose of the berry. The purpose is just to ensure the survival of the seed. In drought-stricken environments, the seed is probably better off keeping its shell of water and fructose until it can form a root system.
Happy everything worked well for you.

Actually, building this app was a lot of fun :)
It was called the Spanish flu because they were a neutral country and hence the reporters were allowed to report on the flu. It doesn't have much more than that in common with Spain.
It bought it for its people. Apple paid a quarter of a billion dollars for P.A. Semi, two years after moving off of PowerPC. Apple has designed a long line of processors, which really took off two years after they bought P.A. Semi.
Yes, the actual value of everything is zero if you disregard its value.
You are right that many pieces of software infringe on privacy. However, Zoom only recently has become one of the most widespread of these and because of that has only recently begun to affect a significant portion of the population, hence why it is newsworthy.

I think this also has to do with the fact that Zoom is being used for work and school and therefore people have less choice over their use of it. It's not a social network that many people have chosen to start using, it's a piece of software that millions of students and other people are being required to use without consideration of privacy.
It goes both way, if you force privacy, you too are excluding people for whom the cost vs benefit is the other way
“Math is boring. When am I ever going to use it?”

The data can be used by a lot of people for a lot of learning.

My project: I’d like to watch the growth state by state on a daily basis.
They mean exactly what you can read in the dictionary.
Their About Us page makes no mention whatsoever of technology. There is no CTO, no VP Engineering, etc. Quite odd. If they were relabeling something else, that could explain it.
Well you haven't really state any benefit of traditional currency either....it can be given, taken, lost, stolen...and given the current world situation it is certainly not stable.
Cryptocurrency has every benefit of normal currency for the user, less beneficial for law enforcement and governmental control, but control is not always a good thing either. Your talking about a currency....why does it have to perform something magical for it to be "good"
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> 99.95% likely to contain the whole game

That doesn't sound like a wise assumption. It is common to have the actual engine of the game, and even the game itself separate from other architectural components.
Swift has a long road ahead for the very "low" end, i.e. replacing C or even C++. It's missing, or has extremely awkward versions (`UnsafeOMGPointer`) of various pieces right now, [and some may never even be added][0].

[0]:https://forums.swift.org/t/bit-fields-like-in-c/34651/7
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The only thing you do is to move attention away from cryptocurrencies to (other) fiat currencies. They may have problems too.

But we are now talking about the merits of cryptocurrencies. I see zero argument for them.
It is pretty interesting. I think if you remember that it's just random the way things get selected for, it's a little easier to understand. It's not like the plants decided over a generation or two to start killing things. In a lot of cases, birds could eat the berries and be fine and continue to spread the plant all over.
This comment is a little confusing, because it's the same as Rust: you have to respect rules around access and freeing, but when you do, multiple owners are fine.

Are there specifics you're thinking of here?
Yeah it's high bandwidth out (egress costs) and video processing is expensive, whether CPU (more cores * more time) or GPU (expensive instances). You basically have to process every input camera stream in real time to generate miniatures and do change detection (although at a lower frame rate, which you can signal to the client, so rate/resolution scaling is done client-side). VAD (voice activity detection) is client side, one mixer per output stream on the server -- not too bad. Video decode, mixing and H.265 encoding is expensive, but saves on transmission bandwidth.

Then consider that contention is terrible for real time and you would want dedicated instances.

I don't know the zoom architecture, but I doubt they could scale so fast without lots of cloud. I think they have an enormous bill, which they are using capital to pay for because they are becoming a household name.
But what value does it provide?
By contrast, in Chinese a self-going-vehicle 自行车 is a bicycle. A car is just 车 (vehicle) or 汽车 (gas vehicle).
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