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Show HN: Across – manage all your customer support in Slack
Hi HN!

We're Parthi and Kunal from Across (https://acrossapp.com). Across allows you to scale high touch experience you provide your customers when you create shared Slack channels with them. With Across, you can track customer requests, automate responses and message customers across Slack channels.

We love creating shared Slack channels with our customers, but this experience doesn't scale. When you have 20+ Slack channels with customers, it becomes impossible to remember who to follow up with, who on your team is responsible for which customer request, etc. And there aren't great integrations between Slack and existing task management and bug tracking tools today (most just allow you to create a ticket).

So we hacked together a solution for ourselves. Across has ticketing and task management on top of Slack, so you can keep your team organized and on top of all customer requests. You can reply directly from a ticket and we'll automatically post the response to the right channel, customer, and thread, so you never lose track of a conversation again.

This is just the start! We're looking into building a whole suite of tools and integrations on top of Slack to make customer engagement better. Looking forward to hearing what you'd want us to build next.
Why should I be forbidden from choosing to save some money by getting a smaller/non-reclining seat?
The source for Kroz was definitely available for a fee.
Thanks a lot. My point was that you're being hyperbolic and panicky, and that doesn't help at all. Being stuck at home sucks, but it isn't as bad as you're saying. Talking with friends and family helps a lot.
Instead of being able to order this from Amazon or Walmart online, you have to

1) go to a doctor, NP, or other medical practitioner with prescription power

2) convince them to write you the script (and pay them, directly or indirectly, for this service)

3) have it sent electronically (in NY) to the right pharmacy that can fill it

4) then go to the pharmacy and fill it

The rent-seeking in our medical system will be the death of us.
"The development won’t affect the $5 billion lifeline SoftBank agreed to give WeWork directly—cash the startup badly needed then as it ran out of runway, and which it is likely to continue to need as the worsening coronavirus outbreak empties out its desks."

Er, yes. WeWork is dead until there is a COVID-19 vaccine. Tightly packing random people is out for now.
How is it not? Seems like simple economics to me. Something like maintaining a custom kernel distribution takes ${x} amount of engineer time for ${y} amount of “savings” (better perf, custom patches, nonstandard features, whatever). Why bother until you have a fleet of machines large enough for y to be greater than x?
I am tremendously torn by this:

a. We have multiple indications that this is an adjunct therapy that can help

b. Humans are exceptionally easy to fool, and we know that placebos are incredibly effective because they trick our brain into creating chemicals.

The placebo is so strong that we design double blind studies because we can't even trust the person giving the experiment.

However, if it does help, it will be extremely encouraging. The critical thing is to get a double blind study with sufficient n to immediately make a choice. This is where having more resources do help because the safety of the drug, normally a massive bottleneck, is well understood.
> The money banks loan you is created from nothing as a fiction inside their computers and destroyed again when you pay it back. The only money that continues to exist is the interest you paid them, which they get to keep.

Care to cite a link for this? My understanding is that the money they loan you is physical and real, but the money “held” for savers is a fiction that could be lost if the bank went under, thus the reason that the federal government offers FDIC insurance for money deposited in banks, and why the feds are allowed to dictate interest rates and tell banks what overall percentage of their holdings they are allowed to loan out.
This comment will not age well. I'll remind you in 14 days.
I use both. Upvoting for "some day" and favorite for "really useful, check it this weekend."
Thanks, it’s the 2-3 weeks factor I was missing (and I don’t even know if that’s optimistic I suppose).
The two party system in the US behaves an awful lot like good-cop/bad-cop to me.
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Wow, say what you will about whatever economic theories you're attacking, "America Brain" (with the obvious implication that you're calling the person stupid because they're American and hold some view you view as stereotypically American) is super racist.

I'm ashamed on behalf of HN that your comment hasn't been flagged or downvoted into oblivion on that characteristic alone.
The domain appears to have been registered in 2004.

They state they've been around since 2002: https://www.connexionfrance.com/About-Us-Legal-Information
the better argument against nationalization is to reduce the consolidation of power (and money and corruption), not a government vs corporation pick-your-poison tradeoff.

the economy would be better off if nearly all capital/equities were tied up in small- to medium-sized businesses, not large corporations (or governments) and consolidated markets.
A few points to unpack here.

1. "private undemocratic unaccountable authoritarian institutions" are a lot of buzzwords, which don't accurately describe your local businesses. If every company was google, we could go there, but in the current reality, you're presenting a false dichotomy. The balance of power between people and their local institutions is wildly different than people and the federal government and megacorps.

2. A person can freely look for work at any time. They can upskill and seek more gainful employment, transfer into a better paying position in another company, or find employment that is more suitable to their immediate needs (part-time work for those studying as example.) You can't do that with government - unless you compete directly against the megacorps who use their power and influencer to affect elections and legislation.

Example: We got rid of net neutrality despite it being enormously popular. That's massively undemocratic and demonstrates that large institutions, government or not, don't always act in the best interests of the people.

3. Social Security is its own creature and requires a more thorough discussion. What I can say is based on my own experience - my family didn't benefit from Social Security. By the time my father was eligible for benefits, he was already on his death bed. Spousal benefits are "up to" half, meaning my father worked his entire life and my mother only got to benefit from half the 'savings.' If he had just put that money away like he did all his regular earnings my mother would be much better off.

I can't imagine my family was the only one in such a situation.
> This doesn't seem to have any effects for anyone other than investors; so, this is probably not really relevant for HN as there's hardly anything in the story for us to discuss.

Uhh, yeah, because we always only discuss stories that are personally relevant to us...
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Great time to own Netflix stock. I would be interested in hearing the new sign-up numbers for any of the streaming platforms.
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> government-funded company

Has Tesla received taxpayer subsidies for anything in the last year or two other than customer incentives to buy zero emission vehicles?
1. The video is linked in the article.

2. The linked PDF is just a generic presentation about COVID-19 testing.
Eternal September will happen sooner or later. The current pandemic is probably speeding the process up given how many generic news article about the coronavirus are making it up the frontpage at the moment.

I feel like the admins and moderators do a decent job generally but they're not proactive enough IMO. I remember how we had a temporary moratorium on political stories around the time Trump was elected for instance (or was it just before? I don't remember exactly). The karma threshold for enabling downvotes should probably be increased given the "karma inflation" over the past few years. Users caught disagree-downvoting should lose their downvote privileges, at least temporarily.

Of course the natural process of any such forum is to eventually turn into Reddit but we don't have to sit idly by and watch it happen.
No one has "won", certainly not at this point. SK especially has been impressive in how efficient they've been but we don't actually know how effective each strategy is yet and we likely won't for a year still unless there's a vaccine or miracle drug before then.
It’s hard to say really, each person does things differently. Some people consider their pinkies too weak and only use the stronger three fingers.

I saw one video of a guy with a bone problem who was actually able use his thumbs to hit speeds in excess of 190.

Sometimes people will type properly but shift the home position depending on the word. I’ve even seen some people use 5 fingers on their left hand and one finger on their right hand.... quite astounding really.

One thing all of them have in common, which is excellent accuracy.
Yes, alongside Aletra.

Source: https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/comment/parallel-e...
Oof sorry you had to go through it! What did you end up building?
As a business owner I hope you are right, that this clears up in weeks not months; However it would be pretty irresponsible of me to take that line of thinking, no?

The facts appear to be supporting the 3 month shutdown, they include:

- The US Government has said, including the President, that this could last until August. Some expert think that's conservative.

- A vaccine isn't likely for 12+ months.

- Testing facilities are limited and will likely take 3-4 weeks for widespread roll-out.

- We don't fully understand the dynamics of how the virus is spread.

- Congress/Senate are readying a staggeringly large help package (800 BILLION); that relief is at least 2-3 weeks away and I would argue suggests the lock down is going to last well past 3-4 weeks (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/17/white-house-senate-...).
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This is not mentioned enough. I see people often state that the government made money on the TARP bailout, without taking into account inflation. As this Wikipedia article points out, with multiple citations, the government made a 0.6% annualized return on TARP, at a time when inflation was ~1.5%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program#...
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Appeals to reading comprehension are pointless on HN, why are you wasting your time? Nobody expects an intelligent dialogue about journalism from a site that historically leans towards the tech crowd. What's your next trick, pointing out that every professional journalist knows >90% of readers stop after the headline and strategically leverage that to lie?
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AWS Amplify makes it incredibly simple to do deploy a static website to s3 with cloud front in front of it.

Includes CD and Amplify itself (like Cloudformation) is free, you only pay for the resources you make.

AWS Amplify has been out for a couple years now, and it is also able to automate much more than just static websites.

So taking a look at the 2 options you mention, I am not seeing anything that those do that Amplify does not (but the opposite is not true, Amplify does a lot of things for you out of the box)
Do you still need to pass it to `jq` for it to be pretty printed or no, I couldn't tell from reading the article?
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Well, you can go blind by overdosing it for a while ...

Edit: but yes, this process will have to be simplified in every country if it turns out to be the primary recourse.
Natural monopolies can be efficient.

Regional companies encouraged to lay duplicate fibre cables, duplicate power delivery or duplicate water or sewer systems, are not efficient.

By your reasoning the government is always becoming more inefficient by nature. Odd because the standard of life keeps going up and the % GDP taken in taxes remains steady(ish).
Urban land could grow fruit and veg for 15% of the population
Maybe this data? https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
I guess it makes sense that a book would be the logical conclusion of Hyrum's Law (https://www.hyrumslaw.com/).
You seem like you're panicking. If you need evidence for the necessity, go read literally anything about what Italy is facing. China locked down cities with 0 infections pretty completely for ~4 weeks, and they still have isolation measures going. I believe the heavily hit cities are still totally locked down. This is what it took to get numbers under control once it had spread, and because of the US' late reaction, it's what's necessary now.
i tried getting a pair patched once and the patch tore open after a few weeks =(

that's why i thought i might try to learn a better technique myself, but maybe i should look for a different repair shop.
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While I'd love full linux, personally I'd happily settle for just a bluetooth (or even usb) keyboard and a decent "write plain text" app.

My handwriting is terrible, and while I'd love to unplug for reading/writing, I haven't found an acceptable solution for doing so beyond a Chromebook with wifi turned off and/or a "self control" web extension.

EDIT: from elsewhere in this thread, I see https://github.com/dps/remarkable-keywriter which looks interesting. Curious to hear how it plays with the remarkable 2, esp around lag
No. Also, they paid back their government loan 10 years early, with interest.

Compare this to GM (TARP bailout and BK proceedings) and Ford, who we lost $10 billion on as taxpayers.

Tesla has a lot to complain about, but they’re not the failure the rest of the US auto industry is. Ford may not make it through this.
Plenty of WeWork employees are on HN (or former employees, or those that exercised stock options or through WeWork's many acquisitions), plus there are a lot of folks that use WeWork's spaces here.
I sort of agree, there's already a semi-hidden "flag" feature for guideline-breaking content.

Still, the mindset of "I downvote good comments I disagree with" also generally leads to "I upvote bad comments I agree with" and that's not much better.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/15/books-to-read-...

I'm enjoying Station Eleven: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Station-Eleven-Emily-John-Mandel/dp...
The fact that schools are currently closed in a growing number of districts for 4 weeks at minimum. That alone is going to cause wild downstream effects. There are a few reports of supply chains starting to slow down because of workers being sent home and people taking off to be with their kids.
> You in fact have no inherent right to control other people's computers.

The legal system in your jurisdiction may disagree with you on that one.

> It's hard to justify why you think that creators have a right to the contents of your hard drive and wallet

I never tried to "justify" creators doing anything to your computer or anyone else's? Show me where I said that? That's a preexisting grindy-axe you brought along with you, friend..

I simply said that P2P file sharing denies content creators (big and small) control over the use of the works they own.

Which is strikingly similar to your position that other people shouldn't control your belongings, don't you think?
regarding all the other suggestions to learn, it might also be a really good time to start saving some money.
While I almost certainly agree with the OP on surveillance overall, it seems like this bill doesn't actually change the status quo in any negative direction? It seems to mostly preserve a status quo that already contains all of this.
> This way investors can fund the next generation of companies.

This is where I get confused. Say APPL was $100 share, and so many people buy it that it goes up to $200/share. How does this really benefit APPL? They don't ever issue more shares from what I can tell (they don't need to raise capital).

Why does the share price of APPL/AMZN/TSLA matter to them? To attract investors/keep a board of directors happy, sure

But what do they financially gain by their market cap going up?
NYT opinion piece talks in terms of 3 or 4 "waves" of social distancing spread over 1-2 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-socia...
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Not offtopic, but not quite the meat of your post: I would love to see a good solution for a drop-in JSON-API server library. Dunno how close what you're building is to that, but it would be very very very cool!
I mean I'm seeing stuff about the velocity of the dollar being affected and causing inflation but I don't even really see it increasing that much when people are so strapped for cash already. The idea that businesses will raise prices to match is ridiculous, we hear that about minimum wage as well; are these businesses not charging the most they can already? 1k/month isn't going to make anyone flush, it'll just be helping them make ends meet.

I shouldn't have spoken so absolutely there, I'm totally open to hearing any and all real concerns about this. We should really be pursuing it seriously though and trying to find solutions to these concerns instead of just identifying and using them to write it off. It really can't be overstated how amazing this would be for working class people, and it really can't be overstated how much they deserve it.

It'll have untold positive ripple effects in our society, and as I understand it all we really have to overcome is maybe some inflation. We should experiment and run simulations and research the hell out of this because we owe it to the people who make our food, deliver our packages, etc
That researcher is likely, at best, controversial:

- he starts by arguing against quarantine; his point is that it didn’t work for Cholera in 1832;

- he dismisses two thirds of the efforts against HIV/AIDS: understanding transmission effort and promoting condoms, focusing on treatment lowering viral load;

- he then moves on to framing response to the pandemic in a conspiracy-sounding “shift of power towards the Far East”;

- he then says “most countries” have chosen to test extensively early — I don’t think that’s really true: South Korea, has but I don’t think many other did;

- he’s surprisingly unmoved by mortality on the cruise boat ashore Japan; I know epidemiologists can seem comfortable with terrifying stats, but he’s more than that.

He’s not terrible over all and fairly eloquent to make his case but I’d take his presentation with a grain of salt.

Key points:

- children don’t seem to be contagious (they are asymptomatic but vectors for the flu);

- viral loads are more predictive than anything;

- people appear contagious for 20 days; key point isn’t a fix duration but measuring viral load and isolating anyone with a high level;

- the hospital has 143 samples, they are looking forward to comparing genes with symptoms.

He’s happy that people are attacking him for advertising chloroquinine because the controversy drives traffic… Not sure most doctors would be confortable with that media strategy. He’s unhappy that television features people without qualification, though.

He compares his findings with similar findings in China and Korea with slightly different treatment (600 mg vs 2x500 hydroxi-chloroquinine, which he claims to have been the first to propose for other infections).

He uses patients from nearby town who didn’t receive the treatment in a quasi-experiment on the impact on viral-load duration. He’s also recommending a combination with an anti-biotic because complications are often microbial.

His final point is to not recommend to go home but be tested and treated.

I think that he’s onto something scientifically and he could be talking about it on TV but before that, he _needs_ to get some media training to focus on the positive.
As I understand it, yes. The probability of that, I'm not sure. This is where I found information about the nuanced properties of the test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGiOi7eV05g It's from there that I realized the test doesn't seem to be intended to be used in the way most people think -- it's supposed to be a "if a patient arrives in hospital with pneumonia, do this to tell if they have covid" tool, not a "if some random person wonders if they have it or not, run this test" tool.
It won't
It is still special treatment.

If the largest business in the area was producing nail varnish, you might find that "beauticians are staying open too based upon the same exemption" - it would still be special treament because neither of them should be open.
I consider this article "something that gratifies my intellectual curiosity."
> There is no need to centralise control in a crisis, centralising information is what matters.

unrelated nitpick about word choice, since your point seems correct: this is well known in military circles as centralized control with decentralized execution.
You're probably right with all the one-off and fairly small dependencies in the npm ecosystem. Seeing those numbers would be pretty neat to compare side-by-side.
I help.

I run a website that helps people figure out life in Berlin in Germany. It covers important topics in plain language.

These days I maintain an overview of the Coronavirus situation in Berlin, and spread correct information in various communities. The government is doing a poor job at propagating information, and most sources are only in German.

Save a few surprisingly hostile people, the response has been very positive. It feels good to be helpful, even if it's only for a few hundred people.
Certain people can try to turn this into a controversy in our modern hypersensitive hysteria, but this is perfectly sensible and reasonable behavior.

Users want to see attractive, popular, charismatic, entertaining people. They want to be like them. They want to see more of them. TikTok isn't interested in turning off its userbase, no matter how much your sociopolitical agenda might prefer that.
> Rocket has support for unit testing built in

Do I really want my HTTP service framework to be my unit testing framework too? Could these not be separated?
> It indicates a severe lack of integrity when one sponsors a bill meant to give rather extreme authoritarian powers to someone you have decided is a criminal.

Not especially. Their primary goal is government power, only then followed by fighting over who gets to wield it.
I used to share that sentiment but now having worked on the other side and been involved in too many pricing discussion, segmenting is _hard_. Generous free and credit card plans are often subsidized by enterprise contracts and you gotta have some features to make people want to pay for those enterprise plans. SSO/SCIM/Audit logs are great for that because big companies _really_ care while most SMBs don‘t have an IdP and SME are usually fine forgoing it if they can save a buck or two.
Side note: from reading the comments on that Reddit, it sounds like there's some weird affiliation with the 8chan alt-right crowd in the Pale Moon community?
That is just one person, who can leave.