skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The bill, known as the Emergency Money for the People Act, would issue monthly payments of $2,000 to individuals and families for six months, or until the U.S. economy recovers from the coronavirus outbreak.

and then:

> Every American adult age 16 and older making less than $130,000 annually would receive at least $2,000 per month.

So every single number in your back-of-the-envelope is wrong.

1. We're looking at some number between $12k and $24k / year.

2. The number of americans who qualify is going to be much lower than 330mil. Since many americans make more than $130k/year, and also many americans are CHILDREN which only qualify for a $500/month check for their parents.

~3. For MANY of the americans who qualify, a significant chunk of the of up-to-$24k would be eaten up by taxes.~ edit: apparently it is not going to be considered income, which suggests it's not taxable. That differs from the canadian strategy.

Canada is doing this now. It is absolutely the correct thing to do. You can't tell people not to work to help other people, and not support them in doing that.
As an update, it looks like the videos are back up and the copyright strikes are removed
Formatted:

I'd recommend trying these Google Alt's:

Protonmail or Fairmail for email.

DuckduckGo or Bromite for low-ad/tracker browsing, or button down your Chrome with Umatrix/UBO and a host of other extensions (Privacy Badger, Canvas Blocker, etc.)

Been using Protonmail beta's Calender feature with success, can't wait for their Android App.

Have begun pulling all my photos off Photos and moving to both local drives and PCloud, and considering encrypting them at rest there too.

DDG/SearX for Search.

NextDNS for secure and adfree DNS mimicing PiHole (which I have at home) when away.

If you want to keep your awesome Android hardware (OnePlus6T here), you can disable Google Services Framework and neuter everything at will using NetGuard, with the paid version allowing individual link granularity, so you can stop that Facebook link Spotify spawns upon launch, among all others.

This allows you to fine tune each app to comm with only links you allow. FB is particularly pesky..once it fails to connect to it's obvious servers, it spawns other numerical IP's that you have to do lookups on to see where/who they are...often returning to FB, so it's an ongoing task, recommended only for those most commited. I was on this path well before Shoshana's book, but her presentation was reaffirming.

EDIT: of course...Signal, how did I forget that..most used app of all.
Alphabet grew more than expected in Q1, but its ad business saw ‘significant
All I can say is there are several times in my life I’ve encountered a teen/adult that I instantly knew was homeschooled.

Personally, I don’t think the occasional shared class or meetup with their peers compares to 8 hours every day being around hundreds of different personalities. Sometimes it can be hell, but you learn a lot about social interaction.

All that said I live in an area where most people that homeschool do it for religious reasons, so that could definitely be skewing things.
Sales taxes are now collected.
It’s very hard to tell what this is about from just the landing page. Is that yet another app for something that’s normally a web app? As in when checking out on a shopifyied website it’ll do it through the app instead of on the website?
They are buying one. The market rate happens to be free; they don't charge money for people to post videos on YouTube. But now Google is saying they won't sell you a soapbox, the same way they do everyone else, based on what you have to say. Building your own YouTube is not within the capacity of ordinary people.

You can either have companies that make decisions for their platforms or you can have monopoly/oligopoly platforms, but not both.
The Geekbench5(multicore) scores for SD865 and A13 are 3463 and 3517 respectively. How did you get a 70%(!!!) percent difference? Can you give a source?

Of course the actual battery life would be much better then just the SOT. But still it gives an indication of how quickly you are going to drain it with your usage. For me it's unlikely to last more then 6 hours. Which is way worse then any phone I have used in the last 5 years.

And regarding iOS, that's exactly the point I was making in my first comment. Despite the ridiculous price in some countries people will still buy it because it is the cheapest iPhone.
I'm transferring out ~5TB/day and pay no charges for it. I'm using scaleway (https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/)
Potayto, potahto.
That’s not what dating or friendships are like though, which are pretty damned important for happiness.
I found this breakdown of the claims informative: https://twitter.com/ct_bergstrom/status/1254481543759683584?...
I started a similar journey a couple of years ago. Honestly the biggest challenge was getting people to use my new email address instead of my Gmail.

I made mostly the same choices, but swapped in:

* Email/Calendar/Contacts: Fastmail
* Docs: I don't use a hosted solution for this
* Messaging: iMessage/Signal/Discord
* Music: local music library

While I lived in Seattle I was using Apple Maps, but since moving to Sydney I have switched back to Google Maps.

Oh, actually I am a Google Fi customer as well -- it's the cheapest way I've found to keep my US number active.
How is estimating a death rate of 0.01% sane and what sources do you see matching it?
That's exactly my thought. Hard drives and ram (and frankly batteries where applicable) should be externally accessible for service and replacement. Apple's eco-talk is bullshit until their repairability scores are on average a bit better than 1 or 2 out of 10.

Examples: https://www.ifixit.com/laptop-repairability
I thought Jay-Z had trademarked his image, if so couldn't he keep a deepfake off with an argument that it is a computer generated version of his likeness?
For photos storage and sharing you may want to check pCloud. They offer lifetime plan at $350 for 2TB. I'm in no way related; just a happy customer.

https://www.pcloud.com/cloud-storage-pricing-plans.html
For many, they're trying to work, act as teacher, and dealing with disruptive younger children. One of our friends is insanely effective and focused at her job, handles every family stress thrown at her, but neared her wits' end recently trying to handle it all. Capable older child and needy middle child was one thing, but the very distracting youngest tipped it over the edge.
Thanks.

I think running lean was considered a great idea, but it leaves companies very vulnerable to any interruption in supply or demand or cash flow. Glad to hear you are in a better position!
I switched to Bing first for all queries that can result in non-PC content, and then discovered that technical search is better on Bing also. I first switched to Firefox because I wanted to read newspapers. I find it hard without Bypass Paywalls Firefox add-on, that is banned by Google Chrome. As a result, Firefox with Bing default search is my browser. Things like deletions of alternative viewpoints (e.g. Dr. Erikson Covid19 briefing yesterday) and unbearable ad load are making me switch from Youtube. Unfortunately there is no good alternative to Youtube yet.
These are probably somewhere holed up with the mysterious black David Duke supporters in polls.
I guess it is 1. If your competetive edge is running a slick taxi operation, having that many employees seems ... counterinuitive. That is probably why Uber gets a "what are they all doing" alot.
Does Google have free conference calling?
I'm a little bummed out that I just switched back to Chromium after several months on Firefox, but Firefox has some very annoying bugs that were driving me crazy.

On the plus side, it's the only Google software I use on a regular basis.
> Iphone: But I think this really helped cut my reliance on Google and I feel a lot less reliant on any particular phone OS.

You just became reliant on the iOS system instead of the Google on. Hardly an improvement.
> There are innumerable hosting services.

Is this an honest comment or one you hope won't be challenged? There are NO video hosting services with the popularity or reach of YouTube, by a very long shot. Customers of ours have lost their entire livelihood because content that was present on YouTube for a decade was suddenly politically incorrect and their accounts got banned.

That wouldn't be the case if they had more than one reasonable option.
Don't you guys use an ad blocker? I barely see any ads since I started using uBlock. Occasionally I browse without an ad blocker and the experience is horrible and intimidating. Actually ads and propaganda were the reasons I quit TV around 10 years ago and I have never regretted it. So much time and mental energy is freed up to do constructive and fulfilling things (e.g. reading books, sports, socializing, musing etc).
> freedom to choose, even your own death by Darwin, is a pillar of a free society

People who don't want to stay home anymore are not a danger to themselves only, I could not care less if they die, I actually prefer if they do. But by not following distancing orders they are a danger to others.

As of touting this as some kind of Freedom Fight is mostly a load of bullcrap. What you are missing in your perfect world is that we should not tolerate the intolerant.[0]

You want to risk your life, go at it, but you should not be allowed to risk the lives of others.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The project has basically jumped from v0.0.1 to v1.0.0 within 4-5 months ... but how does it fare with reliability, throughput, ordering and deliveries?

Is it PROD ready? are there any use-cases or project sizes this utility is NOT recommended for? i.e. sensitive events such as payment or ecomm related vs. web traffic noise logs
Signal does not play nice with other protocols and centralizes everything. Hardly an improvement. Better go for real alternatives that will likely survive way longer like Riot/Matrix.
> and also many americans are CHILDREN

only approx 18.7% [1]

.

> Since many americans make more than $130k/year

Actually, approx 90% of americans make under 130k/yr [2]

.

> a significant chunk of the of up-to-$24k would be eaten up by taxes.

"Under the proposal, the payments would not be considered income"

.

So we can calculate approximately:

(1 - .1) * (1 - .187) * 330M = 241M people

241M x $2000 x 12 = $5.8T/year = A LOT

.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/270000/age-distribution-...

[2]http://theglitteringeye.com/u-s-income-distributiona-chart-t...
I don't even know what "equating opinions" is supposed to mean in that context? We're talking about removing videos.

It's not about equating anything, but allowing people to express themselves.

> Ignorant people's opinion is not worth the opinion of an expert.

That's a very reasonable opinion to have but it's not what we're talking about.

We're talking about whether we should let Google make the decision on an opinions worth by removing videos.

Real discourse does not come with a bouncer, and even if we would try to dream up one that wouldn't outright delegitimize the discourse it certainly wouldn't be a US American for-profit without recourse or checks and balances.

I think it's popular to argue that it's the free press that serves the role of an evaluating institution. ..but here again: not a singular tech monopoly and not by removing those opinions, which just makes every evaluation questionable by default.
It’s probably a slight improvement in terms of privacy and security. It’s true though that it’s sad there is so little choice on mobile.
This is exactly it. Elections have the same tone of reporting as the NBA draft. Look at how they butchered the debates. The first televised debate with Nixon was a deep dive into the inner workings of public policy, you practically had to have a polysci degree to keep up. Now it's just whoever is the loudest. They actually used to cut mics if it wasn't your turn to speak. Now they keep them open because a mean-spirited debate where everyone is cutting each other off to get their soundbite, and tearing each other apart on anything but policy is better for ratings.

It was a complete joke to have that many Dems on the stage, only joe and bernie turned out to be the only viable candidates out of that crowd once primaries started happening, and it became clear who actually had voters and who just had smoke and money for airtime on major networks. It's all for the ratings now, not to educate the public on policy. So shameful, but at least I can still just read the policy positions myself instead of watching a debate produced by Jerry Springer.
Could you please read and follow the site guidelines when posting here? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your comment contains some good points, but badness destroys more than goodness builds up in internet comments.
A "ramen profitable" haircut if you will.
Yeah, that's what's happening and kids are dead because of it and more will do.

Total free speech is cancer.
While not quite the same, they're releasing an Excel feature/template called "Money in Excel" soon[1], that uses a Plaid integration to pull live financial data into Excel to work with.

[1] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-is-money-in-ex...
The literal answer to your question is deficit spending, financed through borrowing.

War is the proper mindset. If your country goes to war, what matters is the number of factories you have that can produce tanks and airplanes and guns. You worry about your soldiers running out of ammo or your cities being bombed, not higher prices next year due to borrowing-driven inflation.

What matters is real resources. We are all going to pay for this horrible luck one way or another: through direct payments, or unemployment benefits, or worst case - pounds and pounds of flesh.
10% of americans is 33 million people. That is many.

You're still using 12 months in your calculation. The act says at least six months, or until it is not needed. So some number equal or greater than 2.9T

Thinking about it as an annual expense seems very wrong. Even if it takes 18 months to recover, I wouldn't say it cost x/year + 1/2 * x/year I would say it cost the total cost over the 18 months.

Fair point about it not being considered income, I missed that detail in my haste to make sure the only comment wasn't such a blatant misrepresentation of the cost of a program like this.

edit: now I'm just nitpicking your math, but 10% of americans make over $130k and 18.7% of americans are children. I have to think a VANISHINGLY small number of those two percentages overlap (children making over 130k) so your calculation:

(1 - .1) * (1 - .187) * 330M = 241M people

should probably be:

(1 - (0.1 + 0.187)) * 330M = 235M people

Which is not materially far off your number, but it is 6M * 2k * 6 = 72B saved for the american taxpayer ;)
I’ll let Margaret Thatcher sum this ideology up:

“Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.”
Note that Apple respecting your privacy only applies in countries where they can continue to do business after refusing government requests.
You're wasting gas, though, and hurting the environment.
That is actually the intent of filecoin. In perfect competition, which is the ideal state for a commodity, there is no economic profit. The reason Amazon and other companies are able to make a profit selling cloud storage is because there is not yet perfect competition.

Right now if I wanted to compete with Amazon, I could buy 2 or 3 petabytes of storage space and some bandwidth. But nobody would trust me not to lose their data. This is the differentiation that makes cloud storage less of a commodity than it could be. The goal with filecoin is to make it so you don't have to trust me, just some general guarantees about the filecoin network. If amazon for some reason was selling storage on this network, I could compete with them on equal footing (and whoever sold it more cheaply would win).

Many commodities are in close-to-perfect competition. For instance, I don't care if grain comes from England or France, just that it's cheap. While it is very hard to make an economic profit selling grain, many people do farm grain and make enough money to support themselves (The money you pay your workers to survive is one of the costs of producing grain. That's true even if the only worker is you)

If you could make a profit by running a filecoin node on a VPS, everyone would do that. By competing with each other you'd all bring the price down and down until it was no longer more profitable than selling any other commodity (and maybe even lower). So you're right to not expect to be able to do that.
> From there, they scale up to the state level and claim 12% incidence statewide. The news story says it is using the same calculation, but it can't be—how did they get from 6.6% to 12%?

You have more data from LA: https://reason.com/2020/04/20/l-a-county-antibody-tests-sugg... 12% and more I believe is from NYC: https://www.livescience.com/covid-antibody-test-results-new-...
DDG’s definition of “global” is essentially “American” though. Presenting results exclusively for Worcester, MA, when I search for “Worcester” from a UK IP address (near Worcester, Worcestershire) isn’t being global, it’s being dumb.

It comes up every time DDG is discussed on HN and I don’t understand why they don’t fix it. It’s the main thing that keeps me using Bing on my phone.
The state of Deep learning in Golang
If there were some sort of non-harmful disinfectant that could be aerosolized and didn't permanently damage lung tissue it probably would actually be quite useful (not a doctor, don't spray aerosolized lysol into your lungs).
What to do when you hit the system limit for number of file watchers
It's MIT licensed, you can port it instead of complaining.
Nope because I don't answer calls from outside of my contacts. So much spam these days. If it's important they will leave a voicemail, and I can just skim the transcript rather than listening.
Same in Sweden. What’s missing is the rock bottom pricing, simple listing and cheap delivery for more everyday items such as cables, toilet paper, ...
The price comparison sites tend to be good for books, electronics etc but not food etc.

I don’t need Amazon for books or computers but I envy those who can get a cable for $5 with shipping in a few hours when in a pickle. In that situation I have to go to the physical store.
Threw away TV 15 years ago, zero regret.
What bugs specifically have you encountered?
Just add region:se (replace as appropriate) to your search.
Microsoft's XML office formats were in the 2003 release of Office, which predates ODF's submission to a standards body by a couple of years. A few months later Microsoft's formats were also submitted for standardization.

There were a few reasons the OOXML spec was quite a bit longer than the ODF spec. The main were:

1. ODF has a cleaner and less verbose markup.

2. ODF was very underspecified. For example, the spreadsheet spec didn't say much about formulas beyond that they should exist. The OOXML spec, on the other hand, had hundreds of pages defining spreadsheet formulas and the functions available.

One problem with ODF was that Sun wanted ODF to have just what it needed to support StarOffice and nothing more. There were proposals to make ODF better able to represent documents from other systems such as existing Office, Word Perfect, and Lotus, but Sun had sufficient influence to stop that.
I ripped 12,564 songs to FLAC using 9 CD drives simultaneously (240GB)
Good choice for Email :)

Of course the best choice for maximum flexibility is to have your own domain, then you can always move if you want. We want to keep you by being the best, not due to lock-in!
For some phones, proper hardware support is iffy at best, and things constantly crash at worst. The stability of LineageOS seems to correlate roughly with how popular that phone is with LineageOS devs, so if you have a phone with only one maintainer, chances are that some things might not work super well. (It also depends on how committed to open source the manufacturer is, but these days, the answer is "not at all" for the vast majority, so it doesn't really matter.)

Source: I've been using Cyanogen/LineageOS for years on various phones, and even tried getting it working on an officially unsupported phone (without luck).
Maybe so. But I never claimed that it was mainstream in Pakistan. Just that it might account for this in ramraj07's comment:[0]

> Further, there's a great amount of scrutiny into whether anyone's sick (see the reports of doctors getting beaten up even by the cops).

Perhaps they could share a link about that.

0) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005076
I've tried to do that 7 times since last July, but every time I've got "Creating your Google data archive failed" after a few days of processing :/
After seeing similar threads on HN, I’ve also started a similar journey. I managed to migrate to Firefox with DuckDuckGo as the default search engine. But I’ve also added a shortcut for Google search: if I feel like I am missing something I open a new tab and type “go [keywords]”.
Law of unintended consequences. Some people are making more from expanded unemployment benefits than they did at their job previously. There are stories of employees refusing to go back to work, that's not productive.
No, using a free service is not the same as purchasing something that happens to be zero dollars. If there is a contractual relationship you can be sure that the terms are that Google can remove your video for any reason of their choosing and by using their service you are agreeing to that. And you do agree with that because it's free.

Nobody says you have to build your own YouTube as that is certainly not the only way you can get your message out. You're just being cheap. You want free stuff without consequences and that's not how the world works or how it should work.
Dr Daniel Erickson and Dr Artin Massihi have since been condemned by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP):

https://www.aaem.org/resources/statements/joint-endorsed/phy...
Some other sources: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-prison...

This will give you a 0.01-0.03% death rate for covid-19 (Assuming 2-4% of people who goes to hospital and tested positive die.)
>I think there is actually a form of manipulation / abuse that makes a leader objectively GOOD at their job

You don't even have to get into cutting-edge management theory, the entire USA was built for the first half of its life by slaves of one kind or another.
I really tried giving DDG a chance but I always found myself having to go back to Google to find the right information. This would especially pertain to technical matters. The 'average-joe-browsing' (e.g. amazon, movies, songs etc.) worked fine, but when it came down to research papers or solving software problems, I was too often left disappointed.

A couple of weeks back I switched to Qwant[1]. Privacy focused, technical-matters-friendly, and most importantly, haven't had to look at Google once. Really enjoying it so far.

[1] https://about.qwant.com/
I think you're off by a factor of 10 in your numbers
You know you can prefix your ddg search with !g to use Google?

Useful for technical searches, where ddg is sadly, not good enough.
Inaudible just means that a person can't perceive it, not necessarily because it's outside the frequency range a human ear can sense.

A common technique is to add pseudo noise to encode data over the whole audio spectrum. It's related to the spread spectrum techniques used for radio communications resistant to signal degradation (natural or jamming), common in many radio protocols, like your GPS receiver in your phone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_watermark