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You mentioned the rub yourself, the new employer will have to file a new application. HR will use the fact to their advantage.
In the US, authorities recommend that everyone older than 6 months get the flu shot, and you can get it nearly anywhere with a pharmacy. I got mine at the grocery store.
I would think because IPNS is IPFS.. and you asked how IPNS compares to BitTorrent. Maybe I misunderstand your question, but the reply seems totally on topic and a valid answer to your question.
Yea, I'm surprised I didn't see anything from the outage yesterday.
I don't think that calling the numbers unreliable implies incompetence or even worse, malice, on the part of the reporting country. It's simply difficult as shit to come up with reliable stats on something very new in the middle of an outbreak. Think of how many people aren't even noticing that they have the virus, and thus will never be counted as infected. This is just as true in Milan or California as it is in Wuhan. All numbers are noisy and subject to substantial revision. It is, however, quite clear that this virus is not as serious as SARS or especially MERS. It can still kill millions if it infects hundreds of millions though, so that's just a comment on whether you, individually, should worry about getting it.
"Inter-Planetary Name System (IPNS) is a system for creating and updating mutable links to IPFS content. Since objects in IPFS are content-addressed, their address changes every time their content does. That's useful for a variety of things, but it makes it hard to get the latest version of something."

https://docs.ipfs.io/guides/concepts/ipns/

TLDR IPNS are pointers to IPFS content (ie "latest"). If you're tracking your containers and pinning to their versions elsewhere, might not need IPNS.
And H1B/Visa Transfer getting approved.
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>Nonetheless, people are concerned that depending on something a non-OSI-approved license would turn people off to the project.

That's an accurate concern. The whole purpose of the SSPL is to turn certain people off the project. A fair open source community accepts contributions from everyone, including Amazon employees. If it's working correctly, you get to share in their code as much as they can share in yours. I do hear your concern and I think it's valid but banning them completely from participating is not a solution. You aren't an open source business anymore if you're singling out certain companies and giving them unfair terms.

>You are stuck on the process they currently have decided is theirs, and ignoring the fact that that process is not working, and open source projects and companies are hurting because of their inaction. [...] I'm hoping I can convince you to rethink your position, or at least recognize that the OSI has some room for improvement in this area.

You are trying to put political pressure on me to criticize the OSI for your own gain and I will not do this. Don't bother. It's not because I don't like you. (I actually really like Sandstorm!) The OSI is an extremely small non-profit with 1 employee and everything else being volunteer-driven. They don't really have the resources to care if you snub them. Participate in open source? You are part of that community, and the discussion is open to you. There is no gatekeeping here. If your needs are not being met, you need to speak up in the relevant places. No amount of of trying to "convince" me is going to make it so I can help you with this. I can't speak for you and it's pointless for us to complain about decisions that were already made and definitely won't change as a result of some HN comments. Find a more constructive way to approach this.
Wow. The apparent level of conceit with which you ended your message is astounding. Do you think they intend to break production? You don’t mind? There are real people behind this who are hard at work delivering us a great product, we should cut them some slack.

I apologize if you meant it differently but it came off a little off-putting.
Does your friend already have a master's degree? I understand the visa situation is somewhat better (though still not great) if you have an advanced degree. If he could pick up his master's degree on a part-time basis, that might help some, both with the current employer and with potentially getting work with a different one.
Curious which software platform your school system uses, if you can share.
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Presumably that's because it's not common to tip the delivery driver in the UK -- and if there is a tip, it's a token £1 or so.
Curiously Iran's smoking rate is low - 1/3 of America's. I had thought that lung-compromised smokers were responsible for high mortality in some countries. Hm.
There are a few reasons why this may not be a strong overreaction. The first is that since flu is always with us, we normalize the risk. This doesn't mean that our chosen countermeasures and decisions for flu is actually correct or optimal, just that we're for the moment comfortable with them. Just like how lots of young people don't get the flu vaccine until after they actually get the flu.

So just because their current flu countermeasures don't include the measures proposed doesn't mean that it's not rational to consider them. Their prior actions could actually be irrational, and the context shift is just allowing them to adjust their perception and actions.

The second is that since WFH is an preventative measure designed to minimize the probability of COVID-19 reaching flu transmission rates, you can't simply say that "the current risk is low", you have to try to consider the likelyhood of risk significantly increasing without action.

Let's be real here, even if COVID-19 was literally exactly a different flu, it would be still be a problem and we should be planning for it carefully. North American hospitals are cost conscious and therefore typically only have enough resources to just about cover a normal flu season spike. Doubling (say nothing about 10x) the amount the hospitalizations required would be an incredible stress to the system.
If my original post gave off the impression of being conspiracy-theory-driven, I want to apologize, because that wasn't the intent.

My original post aimed at clarifying that death rates in exponentially spreading diseases that have a lag between infection and possible recovery and death is a tricky topic, and that the numbers generally reported seem to not take this nuance into account.

I think collecting accurate data in the middle of a crisis is incredibly difficult for a host of reasons, none of which need to originate from ill intent. Test kits may be missing, data may be collected differently, methodologies for evaluating "who is infected" and "who has recovered" may differ between countries, patients' records might just not be a top priority for hospital staff, ...
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He can quit his job if he wanted to

He can also switch to another company that will transfer the h1b visa
They also changed the "Group Membership" dialog to be paginated when you add a new person to an organization. We have over 200 groups so now I have to page through for ever new hire we add. There's not even a search option.

I'm sure the pagination might better for performance, but it's terrible UI.
Once you take the m4 exit off the m25 you have warning signs for ULEZ already even though ULEZ is actually only the congestion charge zone and they don't hit it until they reach Hyde Park roundabout so it's not a stretch to have a lnother ULEZ out in Great West London since people are already fully aware of it.

In a perfect world there would be a staged rollout of ULEZ the epicenter being the A312 parkway/GWR roundabout then expanding down Great West Road until you hit the GSK building. As the ULEZ is rolled out, there would be heavy subsidies offered for EVs for residents in that increasing zone. Before all of that though, all local bus operates would have a 5 year age limit on all busses and strict emissions standards enforced. Residents would have the ability to report back and host subsidized air quality sensors+data, there would be a portal to report offending bus routes (just like there are noise abatement reporting procedures set up for airfields). There would be a mass overhaul of the cycle lane network from Southall down to feltham through Hounslow towards Heathrow airport.

I would also heavily subsidize Piccadilly line travel for LHR employees and extend the LHR free travel zone for busses up to Hounslow West station & Hayes and Harlington station (right now it's only up to hatton cross and Holiday Inn - people still have to pay to get there and instead just opt to drive).

Enforcement of an LHR ULEZ would be at the end of a whole list of measures. Unfortunately due to budget cuts and privatization, a lot of these are not even considered feasible.
I read their argument as against over-regulation, regulatory capture, and regulation moats like the ones Facebook is advocating for. An easier thing to imagine is if you got the regulations you wanted in place but at the end of the day they’re just preventing a thing you don’t like because it’s “new to you” and your business. Now if a startup wanted to come along and use what Etsy is doing _up front_ as part of its business mode it can’t, even if people don’t mind because they knew what they were getting.
Looks like someone posted it on Product Hunt for you, too! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/the-simpsons-in-css-2
I think being skeptical of numbers from China is reasonable.

Historically speaking even inside China it is a pretty well known quantity (even openly spoken of in China) that local governments are hesitant to give bad news to the central government until it is too late and so on. The result usually is the central government is behind the ball dealing in broad (sometimes less than useful) strokes until things are resolved.

As far as any conclusions you can draw such as "well it must be much worse". I think that is pure speculation.

Specific speculation that isn't founded in much and IMO not helpful. The scale and wonkyness of China's efforts could be because this is a very dangerous / misunderstood disease ... or the massive efforts simply a byproduct if poor internal information / a product of the political nature of China.. panic by their leadership (historically they're very wary of any unrest of their own population), or both.

Skepticism of some information from countries with proven track records of not being forthcoming / have had issues with accurate information is reasonable. Conclusions based in nothing, not so much.
I completely agree and I also said this in my original comment you replied to.

This is why I got confused when you said "but we should acknowledge..." (ie thinking you were raising a point other than what myself and others had already acknowledged).
Intentions are meaningless. If you're providing a service, (especially charging money for said service), you can't break it because "you're hard at work".
You can't move olympics. They can only be cancelled or they can do something without spectators/locals only maybe not to loose trucks of money on broadcasting agreements etc. Travel to Japan is pretty much banned on all orgs/companies so good luck with organising anything in this conditions.
Well, I saw a lady who bought out a full cart of flour packages yesterday. There was last 1kg package of salt, and around 6 packages of flour left on the shelf. (normally there's ~200) Yes, it's not a generalized panic, but individual people like that can really screw up the shopping experience for others.

Is it panicking? Dunno, maybe she's just setting up a flour shop, or has 50 hungry necks to feed. But it was certainly unusual.
The author has commented that this isn't yet ready for public consumption, but is instead just a call for other possible contributors to the project. So:

1. Everything you seem to be asking for seems like it is not relevant at this point in the project's lifecycle.
2. IMO people who are capable of providing good contributions don't actually need what you are asking for. They can review the README as is, review the source code, etc.

In short, patience.
When was the last time BitBucket had an outage? Personally I don't see a lot of difference between the two platforms; or GitLab (my primary now). Github probably has the best UI, but Gitlab's has gotten a lot better; and there are always self hosted solutions like Gogs.
There's this weird social media thirst for this to become the next spanish flu. My family (midwest conservatives) fall into one of two camps:

1. This was sent by Jesus and is a prelude to the rapture, literally.

2. The spanish flu happened 100 years ago, and 100 is a big round number, so this is going to do the same things.

It's very strange and surreal around the home town right now. Many elderly are openly embracing what they see as their future deaths because it's God's will.

I'm very, very confused by all of this.
Asking for a raise in a tactful way is something only your friend can do, best you could do is coach him.

That said, if you think that's never happening at your employer, then they have some options IF they're here on an H-1B. IANAL & I don't know anything about other visas either.

If your friend has a degree from a reputable US school and your employer is also reputable, they should have no trouble finding a new job and transferring their visa. GC applications may be redone as well, with the caveat that you don't hit H1 renewal after your previous employer revokes their application and the new one is approved. You could help coach them for interviews and with referrals, but that's about it.

There are risks involved in all these steps of course, so weigh the current salary with potential rise.
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Yes. Their videos are still down. It works.
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This can be done confidentially. The old employer won't ever know you are trying to transfer jobs. Source: I was H1b in semicon.
Active discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22432233
Ah, got it. It's still incorrect though. With the incident a couple days ago, I couldn't `git push` for a couple hours.
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Can you explain to me why reddit feels like it is held together with duct tape? IMHO, it has the most problems with site uptime and basic functionality of any major site on the net. I am always getting search problems, site unavailable, or some other such glitch with it. I can't believe you guys just don't know what you're doing, so what does the present setup offer that is worth this shitty performance?
I am using Haxe, which is a complete different ecosystem, which compiles to JS. It has a fast optimizing compiler, a strict-typed language. Has features like meta programming /syntax-transformation (macros), conditional compilation, inlined calls etc. These are great tools to create high performance apps. You can find all the features on its website. It has a formatting tools and a linter, but has build-in deadcode elemination and a static analyzer so it only includes everything you use (so no need to strip it off afterwards as seen in some JS tools). Also could be a good candidate for WASM, since it compiles to C++.
One thing that is great about Haxe is that is also compiles to other languages; you can reuse same code for different compiler targets. I mean, why does Rome only target JavaScript? For Haxe that's just one option.

[disclaimer, I am a big Haxe fanboy]
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No one cares about intent. The outcome is the same for both types of visa: a warm body working a job for the company and wage depression because the employee cannot switch. Where is the revolution?
Hm. And where?

Because the known side effects can be: dizziness, fever, headache, fainting. I associate those with general low energy, meaning lower immune system. Now the last conclusion might be incorrect, true, I don't know if I drew this conclusion by myself or have this from a medical person.
In either case, medical doctors here definitely advised against taking the vaccine now.
I rolled my eyes twice, then merged a few PRs manually and moved on with my day. (i.e. the git server itself and all the API required to interact with the CI automation _appears_ to work just fine)
You create components and reuse them.
I’m not. I just do it for the (Relatively) easy income.
The Spanish Flu was a hundred years ago, I highly doubt that what happened then in Iran has much relations to what's happening now.

What's happening now has more to do with their theocratic regime that didn't take the threat seriously and doesn't care much about their people.
The argument is it’s a closer approximation. Abstractly if the average death took place X days after infection and recovery took more than 2X days after infection then deaths:infection is a better metric. On the other hand if the average recovery takes less than 2X then deaths:recoveries is a better metric. And if it’s close to 2X then averaging them is a better idea.

Of course detection also lags infection so that’s another consideration. I suspect that’s the real difference as outside of China a lot of cases where discovered before symptoms developed due to blood tests.

PS: South Korea has 1,766 confirmed cases, 13 dead, and 26 recovered. Iran has 245 confirmed cases, 26 dead, and 21 recovered. Those numbers are far enough apart to suggest underlying differences in reporting, which is I a larger issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_coronavirus_outbreak
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These numbers have been revised substantially upwards in the last few decades. I think the estimates were closer to 10-15 million in early 2000s.
Totally agree. I recently greenfielded a new project and hasura, postgraphile and Postgrest were all tools I trialed. Hasura has the best “get up and go” but ultimately postgrest was simpler and more intuitive—graphql is cool, but for one person/small team projects it feels like complexity overkill. The added abstraction over rest is just unnecessary with postgrest’s resource embedding. I liked having an admin interface that hasura provided, but really, dbeaver is often just as usable.
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Could you elaborate please and what approach do you recommend?
You might want to uninstall your extensions and try again — it works in a clean install.
Increasingly conferences are sensitive to this and provide some mechanism to signal that photographs are unwelcome.

The IETF began using coloured lanyards, if you picked the special colour this was a signal to not record your presence at the in-person event where practical. When they first began doing this somebody key (maybe a Working Group chair or Area Director? Anyway someone who'd obviously be on camera all the time so that not recording them is hopeless) picked that colour because they liked it, and then only realised later why everybody was freaking out. Amusing.
Pneumonia isn't a disease in the same sense as any specific virus or bacteria. It's a condition brought forth by various things. Covid-19 sometimes causes pneumonia.
I agree. The Chinese went hysterical when the outbreak was first noticed, and I heard a lot about it spontaneously when wishing people happy new year. Hysteria continued right up to the point where... everyone went back to work.

I think the government got unlucky that the outbreak coincided with a major holiday. And while shutting things down was a good idea in many ways, it also meant that people were stuck at home with nothing to do but freak out. So that's what everybody did.
Causes like not eating and drinking enough and not sleeping enough while already pretty sick?
When Microsoft buys companies, they tend to progressively decay as the original architects leave, the morale of remaining employees grinds down from the stress and they bring in cheaper contractors to duct tape the bits together and plug the holes in levee with their fingers. I've BTDTBTTS. cough LinkExchange, WebTV, Hotmail, Skype, Softricity, Nokia, LinkedIn, Danger/Sidekick cough GH maybe next. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
depends on your employer. If they don't process it you can leave after some time. It's their loss. Obv depends on current market.
Let me preface this in saying I'm no way a racist, race realist, or any such thing.

I'm currently living and working in China and I've be inundated with many rumours and hearsay from Chinese people to ex-pats living here about the virus.

I've heard a rumour where the virus has had a greater impact on people of Asian descent rather than Caucasians and Africans due to genetic differences. Has there been any proof or confirmation of this? I've seen obnoxious ex-pats walking around Shanghai without masks claiming that they'll be fine because it's Asians that need to be worried about the virus.
Does the situation in Japan even really matter when you're making that call? If the virus is still rampant in the rest of the world, surely they're still going to cancel.
I'm on a H-1B visa, which sounds like the same visa your co-worker is on.

H-1Bs are permitted to change jobs, and if they are laid off from their current job they have 60 days to find new employment before having to leave the United States. Even if they have to leave, they can continue to job hunt remotely (really hard, I know) and if they get an offer they can return to the US on the same H-1B (no lottery). In NYC at least, medium to large employers are very happy to process the H-1B transfer paperwork because good engineers are in such high demand.

If your co-worker is as good as you claim he is, he should start looking for a new position. It's not as hard as many people think it is on this status. The main thing is to get beyond the mentality that you're beholden to your original sponsor - you aren't.
% uptime is a terrible metric. Begin down for an hour in the middle of the day is only .14% downtime for the month but is typically regarded as a big deal. If it happened every single workday you're still looking at 97% uptime! Sounds wonderful, right? Just work around it for an hour per day!

Number of outages and duration total are much better metrics.
k8s is a huge hunk of shit and everyone who uses it shouldn't be coding - they will all be reaped in the next culling

containers and k8s are security dumpster fires as another poster stated, they are entirely too complex for the task at hand, and their performance is absolutely horrible

on a different note - I think one of the problems with the virus that is k8s is the resurgence of developer relations && develeoper evangelists in the recent years - those with 10s to 100ks of twitter followers, yet, they literally don't write code - we as an industry need to fix this - if you can't code you shouldn't be posing as one on twitter
I'm not seeing a ton a tests in this repo, did I miss them? Seems like it will be very hard project to maintain and gather community support without better test coverage.
Does anyone else hate that term "technical debt"? It reminds me of "codependent" and "codependency" -- which, every time I hear them, I have to think through what it is exactly that they mean. I've decided that in the case of "codependency" a much more intuitive term would be "enabling behavior".

What is an intuitive replacement for "technical debt"? I think "slapdash code" would convey the notion more effectively.
Ancient (~2000) Orinoco USB dongles https://wiki.debian.org/orinoco_usb , Proxim/Lucent/Agere Prism chipset = original Apple pcmcia AirPort Card = first wifi 802.11b cards ever, shipped in USB-2-PCMCIA cradle build using Cypress EZ-USB bridge chip https://www.cypress.com/products/ez-usb-fx1 . PCMCIA is ~16bit ISA
It is not clear to me that the post I originally replied to did acknowledge this point.