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It’s a small startup and I’m the first remote. Closed some funding last Friday. No open reqs at this time but maybe in May/June.

In order to be vague I’ll use buzzwords: it’s a B2B PaaS in the security area. They have a MVP customer already though tech is still in development. Idea was to develop as fast as possible and secure some anchor customers. Turns out the current situation makes that plan even better because there’s less distraction. It helps that this product is an “aspirin” unlike (in my experience) most security products.

In my experience downturns kill medium sized companies most. Big companies will survive revenue downturns and tiny B2B companies like the one I’m joining can survive on one or two anchor customers because they are relatively merely sipping cash (even with SV salaries). Acquiring new enterprise customers is hard in a downturn though. Of course this downturn appears to be extreme so who knows. And if your product is B2C things may be disproportionally worse for you.

Also FB is still actively interviewing (at least they were last week!) to fill open reqs and likely other big companies are too. That may change as the economy declines but for now that appears to be the case. In fact “shelter at home” is great for companies like them. Of course I have no special visibility into their thoughts.
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Please note the framing of my remarks about Little Caesar's: that they are an example of something that works well for germ control. I was intentionally careful to not frame it as "Everyone should eat at Little Caesar's."

I was homeless for years. Dine in is problematic when you are homeless. You get profiled and thrown out of places when you show up with all your bags.

I also mostly didn't like eating in restaurants while homeless because of my health issues. People are awful about doing things like blowing their nose at the table without warning in a crowded restaurant (for which there would already be a de facto death sentence if looks could kill and you are doing it near me).

I generally tried to find open air picnic tables, got my food to go and ate it at some outdoor public seating area. I don't see any reason why we can't do more sidewalk care style seating generally.

I live in a really small town and have no car. The Denny's shuttered its doors a few days ago. The grocery store where I sometimes got self-serve soup has eliminated all self-serge food. The McDonald's inside the Walmart has been closed.

I'm seeing my options shrink dramatically. Little Caesar's and hot premade deli food from Walmart and a grocery store have been my takeout options of late. Fortunately, I recently reacquired a grill just as this was all beginning, so I have some limited cooking ability as well. For about a month, I was entirely dependent on takeout.

A week or so ago, the staff at the local Little Caesar's was clearly very stressed about the possibility of going out of business. Their business has picked up and, for the first time ever, I am seeing pizza boxes in their pizza portal warming ovens. Staff stress levels have come down.

Everyone there seems to know my first name and act like I'm their best friend. I've been a regular here lately, in part because other options aren't available to me.

I want to support them in part because they have the freshest dough of any large American chain. They make it in house daily.

Because they are takeout and delivery only, they have less overhead. The food is better quality and cheaper and the food is more hygienic.

Whatever takeaways one can come up from their business model may well separate the wheat from the chafe in coming months. No one has money. Everyone needs to be worried about germ control. Finding business models that combine cleanliness, high food quality and low cost instead of asking you to pick one or two of those would be extremely helpful in getting us to the other side in better shape and more able to face the future.
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Honestly? Bumble through as best you can. A week from now all of this will look very different. Expectations need to catch up with reality.
Here in the US, bread machines often end up on the shelves on second hand stores like Goodwill and Savers. Certainly, it involves going to a store to purchase one (and relies on said store being open), but it is an option.
Modern tonic water contains substantially less quinine than the tonic waters that were used to fight, say, cholera in the historical period.

So, yes, if we lived in India in the mid-to-late 1800s, drinking tonic water might help, at least for the things that quinine helps.

But modern tonic water isn't really anything like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic_water
We're already testing the waters on how much the public will tolerate. We have to keep the supply lines running or people will stop complying.
> comming

OT: I wonder if this should be spelled with a 'k'.
Yeah I vividly recall encountering the same front/back porch and horizontal and vertical synchronization pulses in an LVDS output to a touchscreen as would be seen in analog television. Simply because you would need that data to work with monitors that have backward compatibility. This was on the TI AM335X so a fairly recent microcontroller.
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You won't be able to. Get some perspective, this is likely the worst pandemic since 1918. Fuck the flat.
codenames (especially the pictures variant) is _always_ popular, with almost everyone. period. they're quick 10-15 minute games, and you can usually go about 3-4 games in a session before people's interest starts to wane. the rules can fit into about three sentences. lots of team collaboration.

not a lot of game theory or strategy or tactics involved, it's all wordplay. which is nice for multi-generational family game night. i've even played with people who don't speak a lot of english (with a bit of translating back and forth) and we all had a blast.

best with 5-7 people, though; 3 minimum but it's not very fun unless you have at least 5.
If you choose an arbitrary limit orders of magnitude above normal use, then you probably don't have any protection. Most systems are scaled to reasonable use, so an additional 1000x load in a dimension could bowl over the system.

Even defining "normal use" is intractable. For instance, most docker layers are a few MB, but some people are deploying 3P software packaged as a container with 10 GB in a single layer. You can't fix their container. They can't fix their container. Your definition of reasonable changes, and you bump your maximum to 1 TB. Then someone is trying to deploy docker containers that run VMs, which have 1.5 TB images. It's to interface with legacy systems that are infeasibly difficult to improve. But the vhd is a single sile, so now you have a single layer maximum size of 1.5 TB. But since the 10 GB body size is a possible attack vector in and of itself, what's the security benefit of having any maximum size limit at this point?

It's the wrong approach. Instead, your system should gracefully handle objects of arbitrary size. Security should be enforced by cryptographically enforced access controls and quotas.
> You may be a bit too pessimistic.

They already said they're Hungarian. :D
AWS rewards bug fixing. More specifically, they reward making customers happy with existing products, which often includes bug fixing.
Um, why haven't you killed it?
How does moving offices help when the virus spreads through people?
> Google is struggling with their cloud business. While what they offer is technically superior to all their competitors, they don’t have the sales team

You sure about that? GCP has hired (or acquihired - Diane Greene for example) sales/management execs from all of the big boys in the industry (VMWare, SAP, Oracle, etc).

1) I see no indication it's "failing", just lagging behind the others.

2) My theory as to why its been lagging behind AWS/Azure is because of trust. AWS was first and is now the "no one got fired for using AWS" of cloud computing. Microsoft is simply entrenched. Oh you want to migrate your on-premise Hyper-V Windows OS's to Azure, we'll gladly help you click this button. Google is notorious for lack of "can I call a person?" support and I think that's permeated itself into its enterprise sales.
"Be still and know that I am God" could be viewed as an instruction to meditate.
This capability is compelling from a public-health standpoint but has serious privacy implications. It looks like every phone shares a unique id, but encrypts it in a frequently rotating way, using a public key provided by a government authority.

This raises a few questions for me:
- Is an entirely decentralized solution to this problem possible?
- Aside from placing trust in the government, are the privacy protections adequate?
Nobody who is working in the ICUs in the outbreak areas shares that opinion. It's not a normal flu season for them. It's not business as usual.
> "almost nothing matches the convenience, speed and _resolution_ of writing and drawing with an actual pen"

Absolutely agree, which is why I think attempting to reproduce that convenience on a digital system would be the wrong assumption to begin with. Pen and paper are special.

I think the issues you described in combination to the original solution I mentioned could be mitigated by dynamically increasing the image size. So instead of viewing the screen as your entire whiteboard, it grows as you add more drawings/notes to it. So for example, you have the phone and the white drawing board screen, you scribble f(x) = on the entire horizontal surface (thus circumventing the inherently low resolution issue of most touch-screens) and then the image width doubles and shifts your view to the newly created whitespace, and so on.

It's not a perfect solution, but I think it could and believe it would lead to the same desired results. It's a compromise between human convenience and adaptation to (pre-existing) physical machine restrictions.

On the topic of financing... maybe crowdfunding, then?
This warning is from the Bible, written well over 2,000 years ago.

"Woe to him who accumulates what is not his—For how long?—And who makes even greater his own debt! Will not your creditors rise up suddenly? They will wake up and violently shake you, And you will become something for them to plunder" Habakuk 2:6,7

Every financial crisis in recent memory is caused by excessive debt by some party.

- Consumers
- Homeowners
- Financial institutions
- Corporate institutions
- Governments

It's stunning how poorly this problem of excessive reliance & use of debt has been tackled by governments and regulators.

That, despite debt being well known as a source of financial meltdown for centuries!

Even with all the research, regulations, and rules on the book, this well-known problem of recurring debt crises has remained unsolvable by world leaders.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101989322#h=8
I think it's useful to reach conclusions like "most beginners flounder with Zen but make fast progress with Mahasi noting". But there are always exceptions and some individuals seem to benefit from less common approaches.
Gene-environment interaction already falls into the 'heritability' variance component, so appealing to GxE can't explain what the nonshared-environment/error variance component is.

Is it mostly something trivially boring & unimportant like measurement error (which does account for a lot of it, especially behavioral stuff), or is it large meso-scale environmental factors which happen to not be exactly identical within a household such as which college one goes to (which are the bread and butter of sociology, fit nicely into theories, and can potentially be measured, controlled, and equalized), or is it low-level biological details like random cells mutating or random cells going haywire (possible but extremely difficult to measure, control, or derive any understanding from, which is depressing from both the scientific & social points of view)?

This might seem to be impossible to solve: behavioral geneticists have already used extensive checklists and inventories to measure all sorts of aspects of families to try to reduce the nonshared-environment down to clear constructs, and failed to explain more than trivial amounts of variance (indeed, it worked out a lot better at showing how the 'environment' is genetically-caused); but you could always argue that they were measuring the relevant environment badly or measuring the wrong things entirely (maybe it's not how the mother interacts with the child in a nurturing or authoritarian fashion, but the father, etc).

OP is about the clever research approaches which allow digging into it and distinguishing between high-level environmental variables, and just damn random noise and low-level problems, and quantifying how much of each.
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The content is interesting, but the bias is unremittingly rabid-leftist as expected for the Grauniad. Unreadable
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> Do the ends justify the means though? I'm not sure.

> My wife has a single functional lung and very bad asthma. We are terrified. I have spent more than a little bit of time helping her down from panic attacks.

Have you thought that it may be better for both of you that you _only_ have to calm her down? She is in a very high risk group.

> …And yet, I'm not sure this is the right way to go about it.

> How many people are killed by automobiles each year? 1.25 million. That's more than Corona is estimated to kill, right?

Sure, but it’s not 1.25 million within 10 days having to be in ICU. Those 1.25m would effectively take away medical care from another, minimum, 1.25m. That’s what these measures are trying to prevent. Overcrowding the hospitals and limiting the critical cases. This is what happened in Italy. We can, of course, go about if anybody 60+ should effectively receive a death sentence when things go as bad as in Italy. But do you want to go that way?

You can still go out and do stuff that is necessary to survive for 2 weeks or so. It’s not that bad.
It's about the quality of life on a society that prioritizes gadgets and BS consumption, not about what one can do as individual.

Even if one doesn't "buy a new phone" it's still affected by a society hell bent on such trivia.
Man dies after self-medicating with chloroquine
“For systems running supported versions of Windows 10 a successful attack could only result in code execution within an AppContainer sandbox context with limited privileges and capabilities.”
Ask HN: Why are more of you doing this to your visitors?
Chloroquine is safe when administered by a doctor. It's also easy to overdose if you don't know what you're doing.

I'd hate to see people spread information about how dangerous Chloroquine is when it may be very useful treatment during this pandemic.
I personally am in the set of people that prefer proactive measures like that rather than waiting. I think confinement anxiety would become zero in your context.
H_d you can make the same valuable point without the cheesy name-calling.
If anything it should be a wake up for the people (including on this very forum) who keep saying "why not just pop some pills and see what works, what could possibly go wrong?". Well, that's what.
Three lane strategy card games in that genre existed for quite awhile. There was a somewhat popular series called Dixie from the 90s which did civil war battles using three lanes (and I assume other Tom Dalgliesh games did similar).

I always assumed DotA/etc got that idea from elsewhere, but of course I have no idea.
I like how benign you think this is. This is roomy cheating. Advanced cheating is paying your AP tutor to be in the room with you.
Ubuntu has been fairly solid for me, over several laptops and almost a decade of releases.

Freezes due to graphics drivers (on Intel) is something from ~3-5 years ago, I'd say.

And let's be realistic, when people are just trying GNU/Linux (for the first time), they will go for the most popular and user-friendly distro available. Or, at least, they should.
We all made fun of South Africa's Thabo Mbeki when he recommended beetroot, garlic and other herbs to combat HIV. Turns out, we have no reason. It did happen here, on primetime TV.
One does not need to make any effort to construct any absurd statement to assign to Trump. He gleefully posts an unending stream of them to choose from on Twitter. And if that fails, there are frequent recent campaign rally videos to use.
Opentracks is an Android app that you could do this with.
"we are not talking about some marginal level of efficacy here:"

Your above-statement, and then the quote suggests you have no idea how this actually works in the real world. The reality is that NO-ONE KNOWS whether there is great efficacy, no efficacy, or marginal efficacy. No one. And we will not until we have a properly designed trial. That link direct us to is horrifyingly badly designed (well, not designed at all). There are all sorts of confounding issues in their results.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. And that's where the FDA has been so great. They've gone through the approval process - it's been approved."
The FDA has not approved it as a prescription drug for Covid-19. It's approved for malaria.
He said that it has had very encouraging early results, and we know it won't kill anyone because it has already been in use, and that they will work with the FDA to make it available. All of this is accurate. It doesn't mean people should be self-medicating, anymore than they should be self-medicating for malaria treatment.

Look, I've been highly critical of Trump's handling of the crisis but you can't really pin this particular incident on him.
> Is there no way to simply remove this DLL

There is:

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad...

Microsoft documents, as a possibility, how to "Rename ATMFD.DLL" and describes the impact.
As someone who has never heard of system76: what is this / why should I care?

I'm curious, but the "about us" doesn't describe what the business is trying to do, just who's doing it. I assume it's on here for a HN-relevant reason, but I'm not really seeing what it is...
UTA makes ‘immediate and painful’ pay cuts as coronavirus hobbles Hollywood
Simple. You make a clear connection between Trump saying hydroxychloroquine has promise and they're fast-tracking FDA approval to...man consumes fish tank additive. Trump was not even the only high profile person touting it. Elon Musk, too, touts the drug. It's not even clear this man had COVID-19. How much of his actions were driven by the escalating irrational fear on news reports? How much was driven by some random internet forum somewhere making such a suggestion? What was the mental state of the man in question? Why didn't this man seek medical advice before consuming fish tank chemicals? There's a ton about just this one story to unpack, but of course it's been sensationalized as a political hit job.
> When asked by Reuters about the incident, the WHO’s Aggio confirmed that the site spotted by Urbelis had been used in an attempt to steal passwords from multiple agency staffers.

Feels like the 2016 elections all over again...
Can you help me install FaceTime on my PC?

How do I find the dial-in phone number for a FaceTime call?
Yes panic and react. Yes, you are in the correct state of mind for crisis response. Yes.

/sarcasm
>Note that there doesn't appear to be any evidence yet that chloroquine is effective in COVID-19 treatment. So far it has been studied only for other types of coronavirus.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32173110

That's incorrect.

I don't know how these people died from taking chloroquine phosphate, it is quite safe when taken in normal dosages. What they had may have been contaminated (since it seems to be for aquariums!) or they took wildly more than needed. People with rheumatoid arthritis take chloroquine phosphate for years at a time.
The paper, mentioned a few days ago on HN, from a hospital in China which successfully treats coronavirus patients on an assembly-line basis, mentioned their use of chloroquine. They use it cautiously on patients under constant care and monitoring. In a clinical setting like that, it's apparently useful.

It is not a "pop a few pills and get better" drug.
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I don't know about where you are, but here in Canadastan we get loads of PSAs besides the ads. I like PSAs, they're pro-social. Ads can all die. Except for the brilliant ones like that 8 minute Prada ad from Wes Anderson.
This is pretty much par for what course?

I understand doing it for covid-19, but is it par for the course for "flu season"? otherwise, how have you established these practices? You can't be doing it all the time if you're having employees quarantine when they're not working, as you mentioned.