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Is it taking it out of context when you only provide the context after the fact?

That being said Oracle and IBM still compete in many markets such as cloud computing and software platforms. Since Red Hat became part of IBM the areas where they compete has increased lately.
Blaming? This is a rallying cry. The problems you list are important. Nonetheless, social distancing is perhaps the strongest weapon against this pandemic. Point fingers if you like, but also take responsibility.
Indeed, hand rolled fixed point network marshaling, preferably with delta encoding for time series alike data (or data that oscillates) is couple of orders of magnitude faster and but also significantly "smaller" than a double-string-double, counterpart. Getting ~1 byte per data point of time series is quite achievable.
It was the same thing with the previous bonus in Germany that was limited to cars costing 60.000€ or less, blocking out the Tesla Model S.

There also was a delay in the increase of the "Umweltbonus". Some people said it was on purpose to get closer to the release date of the Volkswagen ID.3 electric vehicle which will be slightly cheaper than Teslas Model 3.

The increased Umweltbonus of 8000€ (4000€ of which are paid by the car companies) will be interesting to see in the context of the upcoming Dacia K-ZE low cost electric car.
If they offer it for, say, 13000€ the price after Umweltbonus will be 5000€.
Which isn't an accident, to be fair. AWS pricing is deceptive on purpose, with many cross-dependencies that each have their own price points, exclusions, and caveats.

Only this many cents to use this thing, which, heh, I guess it requires this thing too, and this thing, and this thing ... man, some of these cents are adding up. Oh, a "NAT Gateway" is $30/mo? Well, OK. Keep going for a few weeks and you're staring down a bill for a rather scary number of cents while the CFO's angry rants can be heard half-way across the office.

There are entire consultancies that specialize in decoding AWS bills. Let's not pull leg here.
Yes but there is no point for an adult to self isolate avoiding a concert while creating an "underground network" where kids contaminate one another, they stay unaffected, and bring the CV home and to the grandparents. This is the main reason schools are closing down, to disrupt "that" network.
Kids also have poor hygiene, try to convic a toddler to NOT pick their noses and eat it (amiright??), try convince a toddler to NOT stick theylir fingers in their mouths.

I read many governments are already planning for "sick leave" just to make sure that kids will be protected and prevented from doing the above.

And in an unrelated note, I remembered the movie "28 days later" and its fantastic soundtrack!
Chrome and Firefox have both continually developed a secure JS engine for over 10 years, and there's still vulnerabilities found in them all the time...

Now imagine a company's internal JS implementation without all that engineering effort... vulnerabilities will become apparent immediately
Oh? That might explain the girl in Iran. Athlete in her 20s, died of covid-19.
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I believe what he meant to say was that if you have a 2-year old at home, it will be difficult to work at home.
C'mon spaces vs tab is a serious one and it makes sense... unlike xml, json shizz.
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Probably the biggest thing is to separate edge servers from backend servers, running DNS and reverse http(s) proxies (aka load balancers) on the edge servers. This would allow you to achieve high availability on the internet facing layer and below. Use DNS routing and DNS failover to steer clients to specific edge servers and to avoid unavailable ones. The more edge servers you have from more independent hosting providers, the higher availability you can get. They can be cheap VPS servers. Failover between backends then can be handled on the edge servers on the reverse proxy layer. Backend servers won't even need physical IP addresses, they could tunnel to edge servers and be located anywhere. You would need to handle connectivity problems though, you can start by using fail fast approach with very low connect timeout and low timeouts and such to quickly and seemlessly switch between backends. I don't know of any off-the-shelf solution that can handle connectivity problems well, so at some point you will have to write your own tunneling proxy, but before that you can survive on nginx, it can mark backends as failed and avoid sending requests there for configurable amount of time. Start with at least 3 edge nodes from different hosting providers and 2 locations for backends, could be a single location if you can get 2 independent ISPs there.
CGS is still commonly used in astrophysics, for some reason.
Recessions kill people, too. Suicide rates go up, healthcare suffers, poverty worsens.
People who are more at risk can't necessarily self-quarantine as effectively, because the same factors that put them at risk tend to also mean they require more care from (and therefore contact with) others.

It's like the flu shot. One big reason to get the flu shot every year, even if you never get the flu, is because controlling it needs to be a community effort. A big vector for seasonal flu is young, healthy people with subclinical infections. They never develop any symptoms, or maybe think it's just a cold, so they keep circulating in public and blithely spreading it to others.
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> Is the SMS backbone in the US reliable during peak traffic (such as at a large sporting event or in an emergency situation)?

(anecdata) i was at the first women's march in Washington DC the day after our current president's inauguration. in the midst of it, there was zero connectivity -- nothing could get through to the network. as you made your way towards the edges (several miles), SMS became usable far before voice calls.

the day before, for the inauguration, the government had arranged for cell phone providers to install portable signal-boosting appliances to handle the increased number of people. (these were switched off before the women's march, but the hardware was still physically present.) i imagine places like large sports stadiums do something similar.
> And yes, I do expect security companies to have well-written and well-tested code.

Your expectation makes no sense, given the vulnerabilities we've seen in AV software in the past decade.

If they insist that executing suspect JS is a good idea, they a) probably should use an established interpreter unless there's good reasons not to and b) not run it privileged.

EDIT: Avast appears to have deactivated this now: https://twitter.com/avast_antivirus/status/12376853435807539...
a better resource: https://www.flattenthecurve.com/
Because propaganda works. Corona virus is the flu. Marshall law is the real goal and look how well it works.
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Agree with you. I feel whoever put page up, who is brave enough to curse, but not enough to indicate his name, should leave his little social bubble and look at the reality of lower income folks. For a lot of people, telecommuting is not a reality. I foresee a lot of people being highly impacted financially, if a quarantine is declared in the USA, which lacks a lot of social assistance regulations from other countries.
What is the path for rebooting society after all this? In the absence of a vaccine, what would be the “all clear” signal?
The problem with kids isn't that they are at risk of a serious infection, the problem is that someone needs to watch them. I worked from home yesterday while my daughter was off for the election, and while my work from home days are usually more productive, yesterday my output was clearly lower. Even a good 5-year-old needs a fair amount of attention. Younger kids need even more.

Kids are also great at spreading viruses even if they don't get very sick from them. In some ways that makes it worse because if they don't have obvious symptoms then they could be more likely to transmit it as no one is monitoring them closely.
Spaces versus tabs is a stupid debate because "tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment" is clearly the correct answer.
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This is more like a lazy or deeply ignorant use of running a process as root and reflects on the recklessness of the system designer, and not on whatever that process happens to be.
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Look awesome - I've been looking for some hackable code like this to present my photos from google drive. Cheap photo hosting from google + minimal load on my server...
Yeah, it’s not often you can use profanity and still get taken seriously at the scale they want this at.
I hope it's not just new emojis... ️
For many years now, I have - 5 times a week - left a building with a computer and Internet access to travel for an hour or more to a building with a computer and Internet access to talk to my colleagues - almost exclusively over Slack and GitHub - for many hours, before traveling back to the same building I left earlier that day. Often, I carry the computer I used throughout the day with me.

Apparently working from home isn't going to be allowed...

Oh well.
They won't do it for no reason at all, though. They will do it in response to public pressure.

Which means that change inevitably has to start with individuals. Trying to insist that it's corporations' and governments' job to make the first move is only useful in situations where assigning blame is more important than dealing with the problem.

Perhaps related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
Probably 100K people max will see this website and the audience is probably skewed toward people who are already well educated on covid-19 precautions
One of the Feb 29 bugs I saw this year was that when I logged on to Skype for Business Monday March 2nd, everyone in my company that had logged off their computers on Friday Feb 28th, had a message about being offline for anywhere between 20-40 days. It just didn't know how to handle that day.
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> ...get yourself to the doctor...

Every single bit of advice we have been handed out the last few weeks is trying to get the message out - Do not physically go to your doctor if you suspect you have this illness. Do not turn up at hospital. Stay at home and telephone the doctors to inform them of what you think you have, and to get advice on what to do next. If you are feeling OK, telephone the non-emergency numbers. If you are feeling like you're about to die, telephone the emergency numbers.
GP lists overall hospital beds per people, which includes ICU beds but also encompasses the "normal" beds, e.g. for people recovering from routine procedures, kids with broken legs etc.

So the US has 277 hospital beds per 100k inhabitants, of which 20-31.7 are intensive care beds.

China has 434 hospital beds per 100k inhabitants, of which 2.8-4.6 are intensive care beds.

I'd say overall this may be one factor for assessing quality of healthcare, but also explains the respective system's focus on ambulant vs. stationary care.
The default hash map probably doesn't need the iterator invalidation constraints, but they are quite useful in certain cases.
But what is the difference between your company and Upwork? We need React/Node developers from time to time (depending on new feature requests), and we are using Upwork or other freelance websites usually as we can't have full time remote team, and as for me it was quite fast to find developers there.
Id say it makes a lot of sense. You're comparing a memory unsafe language with a safe one.
There are no technical issues with us having an extension that allows SPIR-V binaries to come in. It's a political issue, however, since it weakens WGSL positions. We'll be talking about this more with Google.
It’s easy to stay home, just difficult to work.
> If you have symptoms that feel like death I am telling you to discount this persons' advice, get yourself to the doctor because you may very well be dying.

No, as the advice you cite subsequently says, you should NOT get yourself to a doctor, you should call them. Which is consistent with staying the fuck home.
That's different though. that's verification _after_ the fact, whilst dm-verity does it any time during block-level access.

Also an attacker could modify the nix-store sqlite database and spoof the hashes, rendering this check moot
That's kinda the issue - the author has (surely inadvertently) diluted the focus of their point with the language choice.

I say this as a person who prefers to speak as frankly and casually as the author does, but when going into broadcast mode it's worthwhile to ask yourself if your language supports your mission or not (for instance, by pre-empting the majority of the comments in post that are curious about the language choice).
If there is no vulnerability in the javascript engine or any of the API they exposed to it in order to mockup a web browser then it can't do anything. The problem here is that that's not exactly a tiny attack surface, and modern web browsers implement defense in depth and sandboxing untrusted code for very good reasons. If there was some RCE for a part of this javascript engine, you're not just executing inside of some locked down environment, you're not just executing code as an untrusted user, you're executing code in a process with SYSTEM level permissions.

This is like putting a 2 meter wide thermal exhaust port on your death star. On the off chance someone manages to hit it, game over. This process runs untrusted code so if you can get a file opened on the target computer, or even just get the user to go to a malicious website, you can try to attack this. Once you get some payload running yeah you could use bog standard crimeware to sniff out any credit card details entered, export your saved passwords from your web browser, look for any wallet.dat equivalents and run a keylogger waiting for you to decrypt it, drop some ransomware on the system, etc. This gives full control over the system if you find an exploit to it.

But yeah, this isn't immediately a vulnerability, just a poor design decision and a very juicy target.
so you mentioned the security revolves around "trusted devices". what would the cotter login experience be like for someone who locks down their browser? i.e., blocks cookies, resists fingerprinting, etc.?
I know of at least one US college that has completely closed for the rest of the Spring semester: https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article2410586...

There are several other colleges switching to remote learning and limiting on campus activity:
https://www.ohio.edu/news/2020/03/president-nellis-provides-...
The advice on the site is "stay at home if you're not sick (or not dangerously sick)".

Of course it's not "stay home even if you're dying".
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I was always wondering about this. If you look at the film and music industry, the "artists" are treated like their work is something special. Not only they get money from licensing their works over and over again, but also they are getting residuals - indefinitely! Even their heirs can continue to receive them.

Whereas programmers, whose work literally makes the entire world go round these days, get one tiny insignificant payment, usually just on hourly basis, and that's it. A function you came up with might be the core engine that makes the entire [INSERT COMPANY NAME] work and make billions of dollars, yet you get nothing.

So why is that programmers just accepted this?
I hope that Bryan isn't going to make that mistake. Love it or hate it (personally I definitely lean toward "hate it"), BigCloud is here to stay.
Bots warp a Twitter user's ability to estimate how many human actors are involved in a given interaction. Twitter would like to cut down on astroturfing. One way to do that is to make it significantly harder to automate that process.

These rules make it easier for bot authors who aren't interested in astroturfing to declare themselves as such.
People now take offense at the word ‘fuck’? They must have a really hard life.
When you have they whole email, there isn't any ambiguity. :-)

This is the whole email:

"Hi Guys,

Who signs these “standard contracts”?

4.2. In the event the Provider is in breach of any of the representations or warranties set forth in Section 4.1 above, in addition to any other remedies IPG may have under this Agreement, IPG, at its sole option and without incurring any liability, may:
(d) Recover any and all actual, incidental and consequential damages to IPG, including but not limited to actual or estimated loss of profits and sales and costs to cover, attorney’s fees and costs;

Nice try but yeah, no. ;-)

If I can strike out the unreasonable parts we can probably come to some agreement.

-Chris"
My wife and I are perfectly situated to simply stay at home. We live in a small town in the mountains (which unfortunately gets 1.5 million tourist visitors a year, many international visitors).

We always talked about staying at home and just talking with friends and family via FaceTime or phone during a pandemic. The problem is that I volunteer at the local food bank and my wife teaches in a reading program, so for us, STFH means that we are walking away from obligations.
There's a lot of research to suggest that this is why kids from lower social-economic backgrounds have lower levels of self-control. They're so used to negative outcomes that they've been neurally trained to immediately take a positive outcome even if a more positive outcome would present itself if they waited.

The classic experiment is the cookie experiment, where the outcome is by resisting a plate of cookies they can have as many as they like but if they take one straight away they only get one. But it generalizes to many other outcomes too (not sure if outcome is the right word but you get what I mean?)
The AGPL is about the operator of software not being legally allowed to hide nefarious code on their servers that harms users.

The problem is that if you're a big enough monopolist prooviding some online service that people have to use, you can do that in the open. You just comply with the AGPL and reveal all the code that tracks users or discriminates or whatever Bad Stuff. At the end of the day, the code is still running, and vast numbers of users are still logging in.

Basically, the AGPL has no real teeth; it gives the users no real control over the program they are using, only some visibility into it.

Nefarious behavior can be hidden in configurations, not just code. And in other services. Like suppose a server program, at some point in its execution, makes a HTTPS request to another server. The URL, including parameters and an POST data, are driven by data from a configuration database. Oops! Who knows what the heck that is doing? But, hey, if you want to run such a thing on your own machine, here is the source code.
I think you just killed half of their idea.
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Slow news definitely has value for people who prefers them. The best thing I did last year was to delete all my social accounts (except HN) and subscribe to hard copy of The Economist. It comes weekly, covers all important events around the world and gives good level of depth on the subjects. I would not consider switching to a digital source though. Paper is better, goes better with dumbphones :)
The best way forward is to flatten the curve as much as possible while other means are worked on.
My work (client rather than employer) has divided all teams in two, where team A is allowed to come to the office this week, but has to work from home next week, while team B telecommutes this week and can come to the office next week.

Despite being in team A, I'm not allowed to come to the office because my son has a cold that's already cured. But without a negative test, I still have to telecommute for two weeks.

They seem to be a bit more paranoid than your average health expert, but I guess it's better to be safe than sorry. I will definitely miss seeing the other half of my team, though.
They don't try to transmit video so stop your patent trolling.
Exactly. At least in Germany sick days (for the first weeks) are paid for by the health insurance companies, which need a means to know this is a particular case for a payout, hence the need for the note.
This sounds stilted to me, and not nearly as impactful.
If he ran two marathons in one week then he was weakened/unrecovered IMO.
Ok, that's been posted since I posted this question.
If the interpreter was running code written by Avast then it wouldn't be a security issue. Having an interpreter running code you have written vs writing the code in C++ is not necessarily better or worse from a security point of view.
I remember this thread, so maybe you can.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18512197
I am in the lucky position to develop the firmware for the device / not being the electronics guy

The reason is a mismanaged project. Power budget on a CR2032 is tight and initially a supercap with much bigger capacity was planned. The company producing those went out of business and people were forced to somehow get it to market, working. We did, but now those new tantal cap problems arrived.
HOCON is meant to be a friendlier JSON, looks like? At first glance, it has some nice ideas but takes it way too far -- just the table of contents on that repo looks longer than a summary of JSON in its entirety.

Skimming through it, concatenation of unquoted values is where it goes off the rails for me. This is quite the gotcha: https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/master/HOCON.md#not...

My wishlist for a friendlier JSON would be, in priority order:

- Allow trailing commas

- Comments

- Allow newlines instead of commas

- Allow unquoted dictionary keys

And I think that’s it. I’m not even sure the last one is worth the extra complexity.
Just launched this, thanks for checking out and comment! We are also launching on Product Hunt today where we have some additional info, check it out also!

We decided to build Wanted after being overwhelmed by InMails from recruiters on LinkedIn... It's impossible to cut through the noise.

On the other hand, we had a real hard time finding the best talent whenever launching a startup and working with those headhunters is crazy expensive.

So we created Wanted to solve both sides of this issue.

(1) Talents have to specify what salary they want, drop their resume / linkedin and that's it (equity, other package elements are coming).

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