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I can't recommend Octodroid enough. Been using it for years, and it already does all this stuff. It's easily the most well designed and engineered app on my phone.

I'm not even going to bother checking out this official app because Octodroid is perfect.
Viewing large files such as this one https://github.com/replit/play/blob/master/play/play.py crash my feeble galaxy note8. Viewing the same file on this app does not cause issues so that is one use case I guess?
Sorry for the late response here. I appreciate the points you raised, but could do without the snarky comments. They distract from the argument, IMO. Particularly when you utilize strawmans like so:

> flippantly shrugging off the death of a million (or THREE million) of your countrymen as an argument against closing restaurants

The above is a blatant mischaracterization of my position. You really did show that straw effigy who was boss though :P
Without knowing how common reinfection is, it means little. For all we know at this point, the vast majority of people might resist reinfection and this guy is a fluke.

That wouldn't be unheard of either. Chicken pox is almost always something people get only once. In rare cases, some people get it more than once.
The past few weeks is not a typical WFH experience.

1. A lot of folks are being forced into it, rather than it being an option chosen voluntarily.

2. School is cancelled, so kids are home, which can be very distracting for parents (which, for some industries, is a significant portion of employees).

At the intersection of the two observations, I'd caution against extrapolating too much from the recent pain points.

In my experience (I've worked remote for the past 6 years), I'm far more productive working from home than I am in an office.
Just a nitpick but a regular ventilator doctor that isn’t necessarily qualified to administer anesthesia is a Pulmonary specialist. They are generally the doctors prescribing the ventilation therapy. Below them are Respiratory Therapists who have a core of general knowledge and training for ventilation therapy. The RT is the person who administers the therapy and manages the equipment in the day to day. You don’t need to have run anesthesia ventilators to run regular ventilators. Anesthesia delivery is generally considered a different animal.
Your point about why the GitHub is about the social features on mobile is spot on to me.

But the point about the desktop client I don't really follow, and that's my issue with GitHub's app product strategy: I think both apps should be about the social features.

I don't understand why a beginner's git client is important (is that really what GitHub Desktop is supposed to be?). And I'm not sure what this means: "it would be a waste of your employees to constantly replicate work to the desktop client"?

I want a social GitHub Desktop client because I want the better integration with my desktop, e.g., I want notifications for PR reviews and comments on issues, and I want to be able to jump immediately to the actual source code file being commented on in my local copy of the source. It seems like these are similar benefits to why Slack has a desktop app for example. And these are the types of integrations that would further differentiate GitHub from other git hosts.
I'd just written Remarkable voicing my concerns with the gen 1 tablet.

One concern, the ability to access material off the Web, has been addressed.

Another has not: the Gen 2 tablet still has only 8 GB storage.

On my current, much-despised, Android tablet, I have a 128GB microSD card with over 32 GB of documents, in a range of formats -- the overwhelming majority are PDF and ePub, but also djvu, docx, txt, htmk, chm, ppt, pptx, and other formats.

With the paltry cost of storage, cripling the Remarkable with anything less than 128-256 GB staggers the mind.

I'd also very much like to have an eccessible, full-featured Linux userland, even if only console mode, as this is invaluable to me (the file extension-based counts and storage utilisation come via Termux utilities on the Android tablet). A keyboard (external, Bluetooth), and terminal driver, would be sufficient for this.
Yeah, the stock is down about 25% last time I checked.

I'm a current shareholder, and will be a larger one if the price keeps going down :)
Pinnacle BioLabs started shipping a COVID-19 IgM/IgG rapid immunoassay kit yesterday. EU and UK customers can get it now, USA has to wait on the FDA emergency clearance.
> Taking on debt to finance buybacks, however, is bad management, given that no revenue-generating investments are made that can allow the company to pay off the debt.

This seems to be the crux of the article, and it appears to be completely unsubstantiated.

First of all, this article isn't about just stock buybacks -- the argument of the article applies broadly to dividends just as much, save for minor details.

The point the article is making is that profits ought to be reinvested rather than paid out. But obviously mature firms often can't find ways to reliably re-invest. They don't need to grow any further, nor should they. So investors want them not to re-invest, and throw off dividends or buybacks instead. This way investors can fund the next generation of companies.

And taking on debt to do it isn't inherently irresponsible. In fact, it's just a wise financial decision when interest rates are low. New revenue streams aren't required to be generated -- it's just shifting a subset of future revenue to the present.

So I really don't get this article at all.
Once you’re at any scale, you’re already de facto locked in. “Infrastructure has weight”. It’s a major undertaking to migrate infrastructure once you e spent time creating data, setting up a hybrid network infrastructure, training, going through compliance, DNS entries, configuration, load balancers, validation and regression testing, etc.

The typical large corporation depends on so much third party software and so many services, it’s a pain and costly to migrate from any of them.

You can’t imagine how much coupling companies can do to something as simple as WorkDay.

I wish all of the idealists who want to maintain “cloud independence” would do a thought experiment and set up a realistic project plan and budget to migrate their infrastructure to another platform even if they didn’t use any proprietary offerings.

And then take that plan to their CTO and see where he wouid place it on the list of priorities for their company and do a realistic cost/benefit and risk analysis.
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Or maybe, just maybe, people face different struggles and adversity that prevent/delay them from "rising above" the level of working service jobs (which someone still needs to do btw, and those people deserve to live. I see this perspective way too often on here, usually from people with tech jobs/salaries. It's super, super fucked up.

It's not actually exceptionally easy to make the jump from service worker to professional for most people. It can be done, but it's not exceptionally easy to study and advance through a professional career path while working multiple minimum wage jobs and supporting a family, struggling with mental illness/addiction/health/etc.

Sure it's exceptionally easy if you have a comfortable home life and no responsibilities and are given the opportunities and guidance and support to develop professional skills. And sure there are tons of people who take those opportunities for granted. Fuck those people though we're not talking about them they're a small minority and they fucking suck. The VAST majority of people who get stuck in this wage slavery system don't have any of that. It's not easy at all.

Honestly really sad how many people on here don't get this. This shouldn't be controversial in any way. Humans are selfish, lazy creatures in general, including the "successful" ones. We should always have compassion for those less fortunate. I'm on my way to getting a good salary and I recognize how incredibly fortunate I will be to have that. I wont think someone else still working a service job is just lazy or whatever because I understand how hard it is out there. I could care less about downvotes but it's sad to see people "disagree" with empathy.
I'm an optimist on this in principle.

From my experience, both filing and researching, there are good patents out there that do disclose useful things that did require some real investment to come up with them. The disclosure and the potential to licence things for mutual benefit with the inventors are beneficial in these cases. And as mentioned before, the patent lawyer I worked with seemed to be appreciate being able to use the system as intended and was keen to make sure we did get things right.

I think it's just that, like almost any government-run system almost anywhere, the relevant authorities are often under-resourced and under-qualified. There aren't enough patent examiners to keep things running at a reasonable speed, and the ones there are can't all be experts on everything or even most areas where they examine. That means the system as a whole primarily benefits large organisations that can churn out applications and get lots of them granted almost like throwing darts at a wall. Then you get the cross-licensing cabals that are weaponising their patents to prevent small-scale competition from gaining a foothold, which is the opposite of the intended effect, and the patent trolls, and other negative actors in the system.

I do have very mixed feelings on what should or should not be patentable and whether different types of invention should all be treated the same way, and indeed this very discussion is a good demonstration of why that is. But the basic principle, applied in fields where it really does promote research and disclosure, has its merits.
Ask HN: How has Covid-19 affected your sales?
I spoke to a few folks in India, and seems like the majority are on some form of maintenance dose of chroloquine from a getting malaria in the last 6-8 months. I hear this is pretty common practice there.

And not just OTC, but handed out for free and in large quantities at govt hospitals.

I am eager to see this data as well.
I was suggesting that regulations have to exist in general. Over the entire market. But what you said just flat out confuses me. That we shouldn't implement something because we currently don't have regulations for it? Why would we? We haven't implemented it. I mean with that kind of attitude we can't get anything done.

Do I expect hiccups and bumps in the road? Yeah, why wouldn't I? Humans aren't perfect. Never have been, never will be. But just because there are speedbumps in my neighborhood doesn't mean I should never go to the store. I still need to eat at the end of the day.
Isn't it possible his negative was a false negative? Or even his initial positive was false while having other flu-like symptoms? Then his negative was accurate. And finally he became infected properly.
Regarding point 1.

It's not fair to compare a hasty transition to remote work, and during a period of time with so much uncertainty that surely has a negative impact on concentration and productivity, with a properly rolled-out remote work policy.
Why did you pick Rocket? For example, Actix-Web is a viable alternative that works on a stable compiler.
> the actual action in and of itself makes no sense from a business perspective.

It’s not a business decision, it’s a financial decision. Why do companies go into debt at all instead of financing their operations with equity only?
We’re feeling it baaaad here in New Orleans. Roughly 8% of our workforce is in the service sector and our film/television industry has ground to a halt. I work in video production. My friends/colleagues and I are basically just sitting around now hoping productions can get back up again in a safe but still somewhat timely manner. It’s going to be rough for a while.
Would you buy a car from this man? Not me. I was first in line with a deposit on the day after Musk announced the Model 3. After I came to my senses, I asked for my deposit back and sold my Tesla stock.
> Actix-web is in 2.0.

What's the situation with use of unsafe now?

Although toxicity that was shown by the community was obviously uncalled for, I was very put off by the original author's stance on the issue and am wary of using it in production.
Well, Java 8 was released 6 years ago and is basically EOL now.
We migrated to Java 11 during the fall and finally most third party libraries we use seems to work fully in Java 11.
Ask HN: Thoughts about company I work for in times of Covid-19
TLDR:
I work at a dev shop as a PM and found out a family member of mine (I live with him) has turned positive for Covid-19..

We have few amount of helping hands and although I'm working remotely and they are aware of the situation I'm getting the same amount of assignments (or even more..)

Is it just my paranoia or is the company a little bit toxic in these type of situations?

Been thinking about leaving the company for a few months
> On the other hand, customization at the expense of competent security development, which is what you get with Pale Moon, is not.

Fake news. Firefox had sandboxing (that was the excuse for deprecating XUL/XPCOM) before Chrom* and Electrolysis:

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Sec...

2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Dis...

3. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Int...
This is a single case in an elderly person. He may have poor immune system function - that doesn't mean a vaccine wouldn't be effective in the rest of the population.
This of course assumes zero waste. And also availability of water
> We'll probably see a Democratic wave in November.

Not if Republicans seize the opportunity to go populist and outflank the Democrats. Right now 2 major US Senators are calling for more populist relief than proposed by Democrats.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/16/politics/coronavirus-romney-p...

[2] https://www.foxnews.com/media/tom-cotton-coronavirus-house-b...
Morale is something I find fascinating, because half the normal boosters don’t work on me even though I expect them to while the other half do work even though expect them to fail [0].

Gifts like this are a good example: $1k is objectively small compared to annual salary, but it feels like a lot, so it is great to get given it.

[0] I don’t work for FB, but I had a similar effect with the ~£60 “birthday” gifts at my first post-uni employer: small number, big morale impact. Conversely, the carnival and fireworks they arranged to celebrate a certain threshold made me feel less connected to everyone else at that place.

The more I think about it, I’m wondering if I’m normal and it was all just anchoring bias because of details I don’t want to repeat in public…
Yeah, EE/CS in aerospace is non-technical in this context. The key is physical understanding of mechanics, which programmers seem to lack. Understanding concepts of spatial vectors, summing up forces, adding/removing energy and the effects on temperature, you need to have a tangble feel of these concepts, as well as be able to calculate them rigorously, to design rockets. A physics student would have this, while someone whose primary coursework was on OS design, data structures, optimizing memory usage etc. would not. It's a very different world.

I don't think it's fair, but in aerospace companies, the programmers, even doing important avionics work, are considered closer to IT than they are to core vehicle design. If you got rid of all of them you could still design a vehicle, as we did before.
> Another way to think about it is that the OODA loop is just the de facto framework of action.

Yes. The gains come from being able to go through the parts of the loop faster. Two classic Boyd examples from air combat in the Korean war were that US jets had fewer blind spots (Observe) and quicker controls (Act) [1].

[1] https://newbo.co/2017/10/25/scrum-fighter-planes/
Wouldn't that just leave steroids, which is generally never good idea to give when you have an infection as far as I know.
You can have a look at https://github.com/tobilg/serverless-aws-static-websites if you want to set this up with one command
It's not a boolean whether people become immune or not--maybe some small portion of the population have issues developing immunity and the rest are fine?
Exceeds bonus: great!

Not having to write perf reviews: priceless!
The first link [1] promotes its own product Pigeon CRM for Gmail.
PyData Covid-19 Response
I don't understand how a program like that, paying just the workers, is going to help when the business they work for still goes out of business. It needs to be suspended payments for everybody: the renters, the landlords and homeowners paying their mortgages, the businesses paying their rent, and so on. You can't just target one group and forget the rest or everything collapses.
> new version of Wireguard that doesn't work with the old version.

Right, and maybe this is actually in improvement in security overall but it just externalizes the downgrade attack since once there are multiple versions of WG floating around with different vendors/clients only supporting a specific version you end up similarly vulnerable since you need to run multiple WG endpoints of different versions.

And since it’s a kernel module you’ve made the hassle of doing so very annoying compared to one line in a config file.

IPSec feels messy and complex specifically because the world is messy and complex. WG is fantastic and I love it dearly for “the 90% case” where I have total control over all peers.
I’m unaware of _any_ illness where some measure of immunity is not developed. I find it incredibly hard to believe that recovering from covid infection does not afford some level of immunity.

I do wonder if recovery due to anti-virals prevents or weakens immunity, however.
R0 cannot be less than zero, unless a patient can actually cure other patients.
The Three Worlds of Healthcare
I agree, it's probable that there's been a decision to de-prioritize Atom in favor of VSCode. And sure, I get being upset about that, and about GitHub not confirming that this is what's happening if it really is what's happening.

But the words of the linked Reddit comment from Nat Friedman were "we will continue to develop and support both Atom and VS Code going forward"; that's a true statement today. Atom is currently being developed and supported. That's a case of adhering to the letter of the statement rather than the spirit, I know. But that circles around to the problem of VSCode's rapid ascent in mindshare -- if your company ends up owning two very similar editors and they both have roughly equal downloads and community interest, you might try to support both equally. But if one of them has orders of magnitude more downloads and community interest than the other, you're going to focus your efforts on the popular one.
Video production is a huge pain. Takes even longer than writing something like this.

Thanks for the vote of confidence!

Let me know if you ever get around to YouTubing. I'll check it out.
Oh yeah any interruption in Tesla's notoriously smooth repair process would totally cripple the state for sure. What with all the critical services reliant on ... checks notes ... luxury electric sports cars.
The Gift of Powerlessness
Obviously WFH doesn't work for everyone, but there seems to be evidence that it isn't true. E.g. A Stanford study found that it increased productivity for call center workers by 13% https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj4746/...
I have used SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 for this purpose at work.
> "Normal wages" for many restaurant workers in the U.S. exclude tips. Without tips, "normal wages" is below the minimum wage.

Restaurants are required to bump tipped employees up to the non-tipped minimum wage if the tips don't put them over it. Thus, "normal wages" in this case would be the non-tipped minimum wage.
> 1) using the vector units from inside the kernel will involve a lot more overhead if anything else (say, in user land) is using the vector unit(s). Welcome to vector context switch overhead. Tons of huge registers to save and restore.

FWIW, x86 AESNI instructions also operate on the XMM vector units. Doing AESNI in the kernel involves much of the same overhead as accelerated Chacha.

(No comment on AVX512 and future directions — I'll take your word for that part.)
List of 200 remote jobs hand-picked from “Hacker News: Who is hiring? March”
Is it a fact that corona in general takes long to get better from? Thats not what Ive heard/read. Unless you are unlucky and get pneumonia.
Do you have an example of an account type that still has a non-zero reserve requirement? Because that list sounds quite a bit like the list of accounts where reserve requirements (used to) apply. IIRC there were no minimum reserves for time accounts like savings accounts or CDs.
This read was amazing, and I would fully recommend it for someone self-isolating with a hot cup of coffee who wants a jolly read about how not to communicate with others.
https://github.com/settings/admin

"Mobile settings"
[ ] Opt out of mobile pages
This will cause all your sessions and devices to only experience the desktop site for all pages. Pages designed to be responsive will still scale down properly.
Ask HN: Need advice after job loss
I work at a hyperconvergence startup in California. I was recently served a notice by my manager that I would be laid off. Most of my team including some senior members are losing jobs due to a restructuring. This is my first job out of college and I have only 1 year experience. I had foreseen this and started interviewing a month ago but the job search has been really slow in the current situation. I am also desperate because I am on an H1B visa. I am completely freaking out now with no solution in sight. I would love any suggestions, help or ideas.
Khronos Group Releases Official Vulkan Ray Tracing Extensions
May be a function of the way the story is structured, but it sounds like Tom Rutledge started out claiming the kinds of thing you'd expect (but not like):

'people are more effective from the office'

and then later morphed this claim into something with a bit more of a solidarity feel:

'we believe our approach to supporting front-line employees is the right way ...'

Still a crazy position to adopt - unless you think 80,000 of your employees will be sufficiently pissed off that 15,000 of your employees are reducing the spread of COVID-19 to impact your revenue stream.
Ask HN: Why does my computer make a faint high-pitched whistling with pandas?
My computer is a Microsoft Surface Book 2. When I run mean() on a dataframe with 25k rows and 2 columns I can hear a two successive faint high-pitched whistling that start audible and become inaudible after a second. If I comment out the mean() call I do not hear anything.
Looking briefly at the study (I only skimmed the beginning), it seems they attempted the reinfenction quite soon after the recovery from the initial infection.

This doesn't tell us anything about how long one may be immune for afterwards.

Does anyone have knowledge about the length of periods of immunity (or lack thereof) in various infectious diseases?
My reasoning is the same, but rather than it being binary, it’s a gradient.

So after recovery I might be able to ward off 80% of exposure events that would infect a non-immune person. But given enough exposures or just really bad luck, I could still get infected again.

That being said generally in these cases the infection resolves way sooner due to the same mechanism that leads to immunity: immune “memory cells” which wait dormant, ready to start production of immune cels when exposed to the characteristic antigens