skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some good economic mods like FIRS3. Really adds challenge to the economic model.
> But the second you allow phone dial-in (virtually always a hard requirement), the second you allow cloud recording (which the article acknowledges), E2EE becomes meaningless, because the server itself necessarily becomes another endpoint.

This isn't true if one of the involved parties hosts their own video server. With jitsi I found it tremendously easy to set up a server.
My son is taking a programming class in high school - they use repl.it for all their assignments. That makes installation a non-issue; eventually I assume they'll "graduate" to a local install, but it helps them focus on learning the language and not worrying about the environment (yet).
Toys R Us. $1.8B in debts prior to PE involvement. Immediately following the deal signing that ballooned to $5B+.

Interest fees now encompassed 97% of operating profits.

PE firm only paid about 1.3% of the equity for the leveraged buyout, Toys contributed the rest (hence the increased debt load).

KKR and Bain stated that management fees, transaction fees and interest entirely covered, and more, the losses from the deal. $128M in transaction fees, $800M in management fees, and so on.
If the government pays w/o raising taxes then then taxpayer doesn't suffer, the 'wealth holders' suffer (via inflation), which is exactly the correct thing to have happen. Their wealth 'value' was predicated on a smooth 5% annual growth rate. That isn't going to happen so it should just be worth less. No one really suffers in that case, the system is just corrected to match reality.

Of course this isn't what will happen, the value of the wealthy will be protected at the cost of others sufferring.

("But what about my grandma who's CDs aren't going to be able to cover her retirement expenses, aren't they suffering?" Societal safety nets should cover her living expenses. The rest she's saved should go to luxuries, and yes those luxuries will go down, like everyone else's with excess wealth.)
Totally agree, I thought we were arguing to bail out employees here. That's what I'm aware of based on what I've seen going on in the industry
Zoom does screen sharing, right? Surely it's not transmitted uncompressed, but it is stationary for a long time and perhaps only small parts changing when they do (eg, switching slides). Is there an ECB-based weakness here?
If you want to be a sociopath or a robot free of emotions, be my guest. The rest of us live with having emotions. Sorry to tell you that, it's part of what makes people human.
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> but I'm going to guess that you own shares in hundreds of companies

If you count index funds sure

> I'm also guessing that you have never voted at the shareholder meeting of most or all of those companies.

I generally don't vote, but that isn't because I don't believe in the efficacy of shareholder voting. Just because MY (insignificant) vote wouldn't matter doesn't mean shareholder votes in general don't matter, or that shareholders as a whole don't have control over the company.
The main concern with spacex was that it probably was not it administrated and employees were using it adhoc with no security audit oversight. With the other vector of attacks(zero days, email leak) that is why they stopped it.
You can also rent/stream videos from the library!
step 1: get sufficient voters invested in equities via index funds and ETFs, meaning pension fund investments, 401k, personal investments, etc.

Step 2: bail out market each time as it’s politically untenable to let the broader market prices decline

Socialism, but the higher % of total equity you own, the better the socialism works for you. Bonus if you have connections to people who can help you finance purchases, especially when the market is down.
That article is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22768494.

It's not clear to me whether the threads should be merged, or—if we're to have only one on the front page—which thread should be the one.
U.S. SEC delays ruling on controversial NYSE high-speed data plan
Jitsi Meet itself is really easy to setup. My "game" is just a static HTML file that uses the Jitsi Meet web API, except for the volume control. Because Jitsi Meet's Web API installs through an iframe, I had to modify the web files for my install slightly.

It's one additional line in `/use/share/jitsi-meet/index.html` to include a very small JS file that sets up a RPC pipe between my window and the Jitsi Meet window.

Other than that, I wore everything in vanilla JS and HTML5, so there aren't any other dependencies to manage, no build systems to run. Just dump the files somewhere (I'm running the front end in Azure CDN right now) and go.
It’s a physical magnetic switch. The article does explain this.
Ah yes! Optimize early, that's what my teachers always told me to do. /s
Why am I haunted by the need to go to Latte Larry's?
You should contribute to free software packages instead of complaining and continuing to willingly sell out your agency by using proprietary software.
Wow... didn't know there were more but sadly not surprised. I was referring to TripActions https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/25/tripactions-reportedly-lay...
I overcame anxiety and built an app to help others
The loans are first come first serve.

I belive a lot of folks are simply asking in case they need them.

That doesn't make the need any less massive, I'm just not sure what it is.
pluto.tv and coursera are great free alternatives that can entertain and educate :)
Put another way, it's where it was in August 2017. Do you think that's a bit optimistic, to say that the economic prospects for the S&P 500 are about as good as they were in 2017?
> I can’t take my 50 lb bag of rice and divide it up into 5 lb bags because of food safety issues and regulations.

While the food bank can’t, you and your friends can split things up.

Even if you can’t, if you’re getting 500calories a day from rice for 1 person, 50lbs will run out in 6 months.
Ahh gotcha.
This should still be straight forward. Just don’t know of a generic format to export overlays/cordinates.

Everyone has a opinion on how this should be done and measured and there are different standards for pdf libraries and print etc. not complicated though.
Absolutely. Check out my essays on Wiener and Oppenheimer. Many of the same tendencies, though with better outcomes
I don't know, there's a lot of people who are actively defending Amazon's position and I don't think it's really just casual contemplation in a lot of instances.

It's just not hard to see that these companies are not doing very much to take care of the people who are making these warehouses run, because they are considered to be expendable or replaceable. That's pretty shitty!
AMD's RDNA 2 is expected to have hardware ray tracing acceleration. Do you think that Vulkan will adopt support for it and everything in this guide will be identical (ie, relatively hardware independent)?
All your cell phone calls can be heard at the providers servers too
There are no international sanctions against Syria, simply EU sanctions and US sanctions. Countries that aren't the US and in the EU don't have to abide by that any more than the US or EU has to abide by dictats Iran or Russia or China dream up. The British action, made at the behest of the US, was at least as illegal as the response it provoked.
I've been in this situation. First it was 1/2 paychecks. Then, a few months into the recession it was 1/4 paychecks. Finally, it was 1/4 paychecks and no health insurance. That was when I buggered out. It might have been more humane to just lay off people.
It seems like the root node of this article graph is https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto..., which is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22768494

The Intercept article on it has a discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767807
All costing I've seen for elevated tracks is actually significantly cheaper than at grade or underground options. I used to be on my local government and worked with the state government on a number of transport projects so I can't cite sources directly. This website has some comparisons, but obviously is biased towards monorails.
https://www.monorailsaustralia.com.au/

If you look at countries such as Japan that asides from population density have a very relaxed attitude to multifloor buildings having entrances at different levels you can see successful elevated railway implementations because the stations are integrated to existing large buildings such as malls, hotels & commercial offices.

One thing I've noticed in Sydney was people don't tend to look up if their not expecting something, so in Chinatown and Koreatown (We don't really have a Japantown yet but Sydney Central Park is getting there) buildings have advertisements on the other floors to let people know they are upstairs. In the rest of the city you can walk past a building and have no idea who the tenants are on the other floors. This also stopped Sydney from noticing the (in hindsight) blatantly obvious, almost Jetsonesque monorail stations right above their heads.
Original tweets (from a different Twitter account, belonging to Len Kiefer, an economist Freddie Mac):

https://twitter.com/lenkiefer/status/1245702858449784832
You might want to make your comment again without using the phrase "planned economy". It doesn't matter that you're probably using it to mean "an economy under the active influence of a government through large work orders in response to a crisis"; many economically versed individuals will take a gigantic dump on you regardless because they figure you're dog-whistling communism, intentionally or not.

Just figured you may want to know, because you have a decent point.
Talking to some friends in the mid-west and some less populated flyover states, there is still a very prevalent sentiment that this is all a coastal big city problem.
You don't get consumer demand back to its old levels by flipping a magic shutdown switch while the virus is still growing.

Competition under our current rules has eliminated the ability of most businesses to save cash or have any real buffer, since they'd lose to the ones that ran month to month right on the edge. Pushing to "end the shutdown" to return things to normal there is a false hope.
Your local diner probably doesn't have months worth of cash sitting around. They make food, sell it, pay employees and open the doors the next day. That falls apart pretty quickly if people stop buying their food.
It seems like the root node of this article graph is https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto..., which is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22768494

Matthew Green's article is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22771193
Downvoted by a logic-bot. Beep boop, please elaborate on being hu-man. Beeeeep bzzzzz does not computer.
I don't think GP said anything to contradict that. The point is simply that a lot of businesses are screwed.
>I don't think people appreciate how many businesses literally go into a death cycle the minute that cash flow is cut by any significant percentage.

Americans have never seen a debt they didn't think they can borrow their way out of, this is true of individuals, banks and politicians.

American capitalism has been replaced by debt, there are no more owners, just holders of debt, this is why your statement rings true. Maybe a witty HNer can coin the term of this failed system of economics.
They can fix the code, but would people trust them when they say that the code is fixed? Trust needs to be earned.
The insanity is that people pushing to reopen the economy are being called shills for wall street.

Elite wall street doesn't care when the economy reopens. They are gonna get bailed out by the Fed no matter what, and the worse it is on main street, the more assets they can buy up at distressed prices.

Main street is getting absolutely wrecked right now: barbers, restaurants, mom & pops, etc. Gates can sit in his multi-million dollar compound and talk about how we are gonna have to shut the entire country down for the summer. He is going to be fine, sure. But until he starts talking about how he is helping the average family feed itself he's just an impossibly out of touch elite, and, what is worse, potentially talking his own book.
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These are active connections running transactions - unfortunately there's no substitute for just having another connection.
Seriously, all people who are surprised about this type of news should really understand that most "successful" (as in, popular) tech/.com/SV "startups" these days are like this.

If you "waste" time on the real important stuff such as a good design, user security, or the like, you will lose over to a competitor who didn't and therefore was able to spend more time on marketing.

If you waste your time on user privacy you will be totally crushed by that competitor whose definition of "privacy" was "how much can I pester this user until he gives me access to his address book so I can spam his friends?".

I don't think this is good. I think this is very sad. But it is what it is.

I still remember the Whatsapp founders coming into the jabber mailing lists with "please let me configure my server"-type questions, for god's sake.
That looks nice but I think I prefer the "rigidity" (and nostalgia) of isometric (?) games.
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Dumping SSD Firmware via JTAG
+use jobs as leverage
Exactly, especially the cruise industry. It may not even exist anymore after this.

Until there is a vaccine that has proven effective ... wherever there was business where people gather is either cut 50 to possibly 100%.

Personally, I've stopped getting any carry out (food not prepared by me in which I wash hands many times throughout) and do not go into the grocery store rather pick it up, put it away and wash my hands afterwards. Hopefully I'm going overboard but at this point who knows.
Please defend your sympathy with facts and logic. I cannot compute this concept.
It's not just about skills. The point, again, is that there is simply not enough game (or edible plants, for that matter) to sustain out present population levels. It's a difference of several orders of magnitude.

Look at some of the most successful historical hunter-gatherer societies, the ones that lived in areas that are naturally abundant with food - e.g. temperate rainforests with bountiful rivers, like Japan or American PNW. But even then, we're talking about the largest communities consisting of several hundred people, maybe a thousand - nowhere near our present population density.
If you get the injection amount right there won’t be inflation because the amount injected will match the amount usually spent. Under the regime of falling demand, we would expect prices to fall (deflation, ie why the stock market has taken a hit) but if you can inject money now and take it out later, there won’t be a rise in total volume of money shuffling around, so no inflationary pressure
You mean call/cc type of manipulations?
> I panic paid off my car insurance just in case things get worse.

Still shop as you will get a refund from your current insurer when you cancel. Just because you paid doesn't mean that money is gone!
That's interesting, but how do you plan to sample microlitres of volume from thousands of gallons? At which physical location would would you take the sample?
NY Court of Appeals finds retroactive liability unconstitutional
Economists have sort of walked back from that as a prevailing belief.
Ok, we'll unbury it. Thanks!
Or do what we’ve done for millennia: make cheese.

Hard to DIY (I think? Or I overestimate), but at an industrial scale, already a thing.

Takes up a lot less space too.

Finally, milk can be UHT’d and is then shelf stable for ~40 weeks. Then is starts to form sediments... dunno if that’s actually bad.
>yet people still act surprised when 6M apply for unemployment.

we're just at the first stage of grief - denial. 4 more to go.
Yes, `let` is fine. I use `let` 99% of the time in my personal projects, it's more convenient, but I often must use `const` when working on an existing codebase. :(

Most of JavaScript devs do like you, they default to `const` and if they need to reassign the variable, they switch to `let`.

To me it feels more like a ceremony for declaring a variable than a rational and a useful practice. :)
Does this mean that if we use SameSite=Lax for our session cookies, we don't need to worry about CSRF attacks?
I’m not allowed to go into the delivery room with wife because of the new rules
I am a New York food courier. It's worse than you think.
No they are just debtors...once they can't service their debt they are simply insolvent debtors whose assets will be foreclosed on.
A short-lived consumable that can't be field-replaced is always an engineering fiasco. I used to keep a spare battery in my backpack; an external USB battery is not a reliable substitute when (not if) the internal battery gets bad enough.
Windows 10 Hosted App Model
A lot of people don’t realize that one person’s debt is another person’s income.
The fed gonna keep pumping cash, they didn’t run out of ammo yet. In Smb case they may forgive portion of it just again flatten the curve
It costs money to set up a business, plus it's risky. Doesn't make sense to encourage that now. The whole point of giving people money is so that they don't have to recreate existing businesses when things are more normal.
I always found it interesting how many people have taught themselves programming.

I was at a customer site a few months ago installing some test hardware and the guy I was working with was their welder, having been an auto mechanic before and we got into a discussion about programming in Python!

The best interaction, however, would be the homeless guy I met who used to be a programmer.
Every Zoom Security and Privacy Flaw So Far, and What You Can Do for Protection
Santa Clara County Covid testing dashboard
It's only "socialism" in the bizarre American definition where "socialism" = "anything government."

Socialism is social ownership of the economy, what you're describing the opposite. There's another word for what you're describing, which is the extreme capture of the state by corporate entities: corporatism. The extreme form of which is fascism.
Yes, but unlike the peacock's feathers, technology makes our survival easier not harder. This is what makes us weaker over time. Because of technology, natural selection doesn't select for fitness as strongly as it would otherwise - Technology lowers the bar in terms of what genes are required for survival, so natural selection becomes centered around abstract cultural aspects related to mating such as (for example) wealth which doesn't correlate very strongly with fitness (likely inversely correlated in fact).

Anything which allows for weak genes to pass down to the next generations is bad for evolution. That's what happened to many species of birds in New Zealand; there were so few natural predators for such long periods of time that many lost their ability to fly. Then when predators were introduced, a lot of these species went extinct very quickly.
I think that is because Ford was paying for product placement. I don't think the first amendment applies when you sign a contract with someone promising to advertise their product in exchange for money.

I would go as far as to argue that advertisements in general aren't considered protected speech on either end. Otherwise cigarette companies could still market to children.
https://archive.is/xnqEF
No - grocery workers are not wearing masks at scale. That there might be a few here and is irrelevant - they are broadly NOT wearing masks, which is the national policy.

The current national strategy is to get the masks (particularly N95s) to the frontline workers, some of whom are running out of PPE while having to enter and work in hospitals full of COVID patients.

This 'blame the rich' populism is irresponsible.

Amazon workers are currently following the same recommended national strategy - which is the responsible action.

If they were all wearing N95s, the 'blame the rich' crowd would be screaming that 'Amazon is taking away needed resources form medical staff'.

>>>>> "People are calling out the government too..."

No. They are calling out 'no cloth masks' policy, they are not calling out the 'get medical workers the N95s' policy.

>>>>> "because Jeff Bezos is greedy and has no regard for human life."

Rubbish sensationalism.

>>>>> "fact Amazon was contemplating donating their stockpiles to police forces for good PR."

1st - They didn't. So this point is not relevant.
2cnd - Donating materials to responders is a 'good thing'. It's ridiculous to split hairs and say 'it's immoral to give to police but not hospitals'
3rd - You have no evidence that their only motivation for making said donation was 'PR' and not 'Goodwill'. You're making up facts.
Covid-19 Wash your hands with happy birthday song without touching (Arduino)
It's quite rare to see postings for CL jobs, yet plenty of companies are actively using and hiring for Clojure. It's certainly a far more popular choice for green field development nowadays. Sounds like you're the one who needs to provide citations here and not the other way around.
This reminds me of the government run Amma Canteens in parts of India. Interestingly, they are not free but very low cost: 5 rupees or $0.07 for a plate of curry. Apparently this is 20-25% of the cost of equivalent food from a private vendor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Unavagam

https://www.thebetterindia.com/79947/low-cost-canteens-amma-...
No one said it’s going to be a flip of a switch. It will definitely be a prolonged process, but we already saw what 1 month of a shutdown can do. So we have to realize that being 1 month ahead in restarting everything is precious.

Society has to get used to the paradigm that 50% are asymptomatic and can return to the economy, while at the same time compromising for the other 50% that need to stay home and quarantine. This is the new reality to pragmatically restart things.

Your company should still be remote until end of summer. Businesses should re-open with generous time off for anyone that needs it without laying people off.
Taxpayers don't suffer. The gov can simply print the money and hand it out.

Government money does not come from taxes. It's distressing how few people understand that governments with sovereign currencies literally have a license to print the money they need. There is absolutely no need to borrow money, or even to collect it in taxes before spending it.

The ritual of borrowing is a political choice - which, incidentally, undermines democracy by giving a casting vote on policy to lenders, not voters.

It is not an economic necessity.

The proof is the way that bailouts tends to happen whenever the banking system or a critical strategic industry is on the line. For some reason this only applies to selected industries, and not others.

But inflation! No. The government can set up price controls on profiteering. But besides that, this fresh money is there to keep the economy at a steady state - specifically to avoid a black-hole depression.

Sitting by idly while most of your business base is lost on the far side of that event horizon is far more dangerous than any other risk. Especially in this case, when the lockdown is likely to be fairly short - more than three months, but certainly less than a year.

And it's not as if there are no unexplored options for other productive activity, especially in healthcare.

The real danger is the moral hazard - the political realisation that financial scarcity has always been a deliberate systemic political choice, not an inherent property of an objective financial system.
It's a known vaccine adjuvant.