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jdcon Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned

Boeing's decay previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353342

jdcon Online Jamming and Concert Technology

For people that are interested in putting something like this together, Bela might be a good starting point.

https://bela.io

jdcon The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common Lisp

However unlike most prototypes, this one wasn't thrown away, but rather transpired into production code.

jdcon Vintage Telephones Hacked with Raspberry Pis to Create Intercom [video]

Latency OTOH would have probably been very low.

jdcon Good coders borrow, great coders steal

TLDR; it's probably T.S. Elliot and Stravinsky that deserve the credit.

jdcon Ask HN: OCR framework for extracting formatted text?

If you're interested in grepping PDFs (among other formats) another option is ripgrep-all.

https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

jdcon Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income

I'm not in the US, so I know little about its social security programs. But isn't Social Security is one of many?

Also this paragraph from the linked article suggests that the 0.7% figure does not include means testing:

Indeed, universal participation and the absence of means-testing make Social Security very efficient to administer. Administrative costs amount to only 0.7 percent of annual benefits, far below the percentages for private retirement annuities. Means-testing Social Security would impose significant reporting and processing burdens on both recipients and administrators, undercutting many of those advantages while yielding little savings.

jdcon Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income

Yep and as a replacement, it was supposed to drastically cut administrative costs.

jdcon The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor

It seems to me employers would have to pay higher wages without migrant labour.

jdcon An Airbnb for farmland hits a snag, as farmers raise data privacy concerns

> Re the 'long game' discussion for finance and machinisation. The firm has literally been doing this for a few centuries so this hasn't been the original goal. I don't think it's come up yet as a current goal, although in all honesty I can see the appeal from a finance perspective. The farmer is the middleman we can cut out and replace by machines. First thought then is - what does it matter what the background of the owner doing the machinisation is?

Sounds an awful lot like deskilling, so hopefully the labour concerned has an exit strategy.

jdcon Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails

Smart terrorists don't use cellphones because stupid terrorists do.

jdcon Having a Garden Linked to Better Health and Well-Being

People who are healthier and wealthier find it easier to have a garden.

You wouldn't happen to have a source supporting that would you?

jdcon We Are Trying Out PeerTube

Yeah, those work too.

https://peertube.ch/videos/watch/dcad56d9-9fe6-45bc-96aa-3d7... (1 min. long demonstration)

jdcon We Are Trying Out PeerTube

I think if you had a torrent with an HTTP seed, you could import it into PeerTube.

jdcon We Chat, They Watch

They probably use something like NarusInsight, which according to Wikipedia, can do real-time semantic analysis.

jdcon Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal

Can you link to the tutorial you followed?

jdcon Walmart is piloting a pricier 2-hour ‘express’ grocery delivery service

It seems to me that they will use some of the extra money to pay more drivers.

jdcon Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?

I expect that would actually be too fine-grained for most users [...]

Even with that level of detail on the backend, there's no need to expose it all the user by default. That is, you could tell the user about group various related events together (eg. mouse, page load, etc) and power users could also drill-down if they like.

jdcon Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?

That kind of visibility could be really helpful. Doesn't have to be shameful, but it does have to get you off your ass!

jdcon Bye, Amazon

The Streisand Effect helps to some degree there.

jdcon Show HN: Full Text Search on Podcasts

I get a 500 error when I put my query in quotations marks.

jdcon Stocks Are Recovering While the Economy Collapses

does that mean that the M2 grows to $24T and therefore the purchasing power of U.S. dollars will be 2/3 of what it used to be?

Not necessarily - especially if people are hoarding cash!

See Sal Khan's video, Deflation despite increases in money supply.

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroec...

jdcon Pelosi: It's time to consider universal basic income pushed by Andrew Yang

Secondary market reselling as an "absolutely massive [problem]" with universal healthcare?

Do you have any credible sources on that?

jdcon Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’s did not

Seems reminiscent of astronomy with less accurate measurements.

jdcon Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’s did not

> The current state of both cities has nothing to do with what they did or didn't.

What's your source on that though?

jdcon The architecture and software behind Pipes

I wish the JACK audio node graph editors were this polished!

jdcon What end-to-end encryption should look like

In short:

* currently the Jitsi Meet videobridge sees unencrypted conversations

* they're changing that using a new WebRTC API called "Insertable Streams"

* it's currently in alpha with an open RFC

* they plan to use the double ratchet algorithm for key exchange in the future

jdcon LabCorp’s at-home Covid-19 test kit is the first to be authorized by the FDA

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

jdcon Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?

You can email dang (hn@ycombinator.com) if you're worried about it.

jdcon Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ Slams Virus Lockdown

Part of me says well if we could just put rents on hold, that would take care of the obvious problem. But [K]N95/FFP2 masks for all, and high-scale testing and tracing makes going back to work a lot more appealing.