skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There is definitely an unsound premise here - the market hasn't marked down public companies as if they are generally unsound...yet. All the "crash" so far has done is take us back to the levels of 3-4 years ago.

Yes, because maybe it hasn't accepted the gravity of what's going to happen to their ability to deliver value, or anticipates free money.

>Your point about buying bonds not changing "fundamental soundness" is like saying keeping someone from dying of an acute condition doesn't cure their illness. It still keeps them from dying right now! What is the advantage of causing a preventable catastrophe, just because everything eventually ends?

My point was that if they're not actually sound, then buying the bonds doesn't change that; it's just doing that weekend-at-bernie's thing. To the extent that the business can't deliver value, markets depend on such businesses shutting down, and subsidizing their bonds only delays.

Now, you'd be right that, if there's something fixable about them with collective action, then we should do that thing. But that would still obviate the need to subsidize their bonds, because it would revitalize market interest in them!
I looked at Jitsi recently as I was thinking about self-hosting it (I have the bandwidth).

My concerns:

It seems to be based on XMPP and require an XMPP server. They offer a quick-start guide on configuring it however I am not sure how secure the default configuration is - I'm worried the quick start guide is about "get it working", not "make it secure" and I don't have XMPP knowledge nor the desire to learn a complicated protocol just to be able to run this securely.

Why does it need an XMPP server? I do not want nor care about XMPP and everyone will be joining via browsers anyway. As far as I'm concerned it's just one (very big) moving part that I don't want to be responsible for.

Overall it left a sour & sad taste in my mouth. There's no way I'm putting this thing on the public Internet; the attack surface seems too large and too many opportunities to screw it up.
I think it's well established in the literature that the modern military doesn't use the old larger battle rifle cartridges anymore because the extra range it offered was almost never needed and the smaller assault rifle cartridge allows more ammunition to be carried by each soldier.
jitsi.org and meet.jit.si are the 2 URLs that come up in search. jitsi.net isn't one of them, fwiw.
If DU is a chemical weapon, then TNT is too because it's a chemical.
The US does the exact same thing. If you have a green card and you commit a felony, there is a very good chance you'll loss PR status and get deported.
Must be the “frog in boiling water” thing. It certainly wasn’t like this when you joined... right?
I mean .. the ensuing hilarity from uploading funny background images doesn't get old
This would seriously be a great opportunity to delivery a better educational experience to our first grader—except between both parents trying to remote work and two younger siblings, it’s simply not gonna happen. We just hope all this isn’t too big a setback. The schools are trying but there’s no way for it to work very well, with so little planning and no training for anything like this, and without at least one parent able to put in two or three focused hours teaching per day.
Thanks for your post! Whats the best way to apply? I know in some cases HR systems can be overwhelmed...is it possible to send a resume to you or hiring managers directly?
Try it and find out.

You can always "undo" that change, if so.
> those actions are at least illegal in California.

Time will tell if California had the right to treat the constitution just like toilet paper.

I know TP in short supply there at the moment, but the end doesn't justify the means. That's what constitutions are for.
jitsi has dedicated apps for mobile https://jitsi.org/downloads/
SoftBank could be backing out of their deal
Even if it worked out for the country in the end, it seems like those in power would hesitate to create such upheaval. Hard to hang on to the reins of power when the world turns upside down.
I’m curious why it works on iPad but not iPhone.

(Video doesn’t work on either, but that’s documented)
Hollow points are against the Geneva convention. The round you linked is only for use in special circumstances to prevent over penetration, Things like terrorist hostage rescue. They won’t and can’t be legally used in general warfare.

There was actually a big argument in the past over match grade rounds that have a dimpled front and a hollowed core, which keeps the weight toward the back of the round. They aren’t effective in hunting for the same reason they aren’t considered a hollow point by the military.
I just looked up virtual background and that is insanely cool and I totally get where your friends are coming from. I've got to give that a shot sometime - the kinds of features people can build are just so cool
It is based on WebRTC, so the actual video data doesn't pass through a central server. Google Duo uses this same technology. There _is_ a central server but that is just to glue all the handshakes together. The video/audio don't pass through it, it is all peer-to-peer, so scaling is more so on the client application and the available bandwidth. WebRTC dynamically changes the bitrate of the stream depending on connection though, so it should scale nicely.

I haven't tried a large conference on meet.jit.si yet though, only 1:1. But if there are performance issues it is likely the client application itself that needs performance tuning.
One of my most successful development experiences came from starting not with code, but with a keynote/powerpoint slide deck. It made me think through exactly what it was I was trying to achieve, what it would involve, and how it would work. When I realized something or other didn't work well, changing approaches only required editing a few high-level diagrams. Computer diagrams can be cumbersome compared to pen and paper, but have the great advantage of being easy to change once you've spent the time to draw them. Implementing the final solution was much easier when I could look back on how it was supposed to work. And at the end, I already had slides ready to explain everything...
Costco will not allow returns on high-demand items like toilet paper, water
Why should a kernel even have the slightest idea what a font is? this is absurd
Tuna and chicken are pretty common in cans. Spam is another example.

In any case I bought a couple weeks worth over a month ago when I saw what was coming.
A small movement at the handle of a bullwhip produces an enormous (and oscillating) movement further down the the whip, it's an analogy for movements in customer demand having large effects further down the supply chain.
Linux scales leaps and bounds better than mac and windows these days..
Extra High Tension

From about ~10 kV in a B&W TV, up to 30 kV in a color TV.

Non-neglectable amperage, therefore this is really dangerous stuff. Never tweak it when it is plugged in.
This is just speculation, but I think people are continuing to overbuy toilet paper in fear of a further shortage. So it's a kind of vicious circle. Consumers are afraid toilet paper will be unavailable, because consumers keep buying up all the available toilet paper as soon as it hits the shelves.
Just want to take this opportunity to remind everyone that a portion of the noise power in "black and white snow" is the Cosmic Microwave Background from the Big Bang.

http://www.astro.yale.edu/vdbosch/cmb_Osher.pdf
Common sense needs to prevail over mania, numbers over hyperbole and science over conjecture. But even then, this is hard if our data is collected poorly and then poorly disseminated.

So what is the answer then? Maybe a strengthening of resolve against all forms of panic?

Is there a single event in history has been solved by panic?
I imagine it's less about the athletes than the spectators. Or at least I hope so, since the Olympics is best watched in groups.
Bugs happen. Programmers are not perfect.

They published an advisory with workarounds and, I'm certain, are working diligently on a patch.

If that's unacceptable to you, I suggest you switch to another operating system -- one that doesn't have any bugs.
They do in fact "give it to those willing to try" in Italy, France, and China at a minimum. Probably elsewhere as well. Here in the US we're instead engaging in purely partisan bickering as to whether or not it should be available (which is not the same thing as pervasive use).
After fumbling for 10 minutes, I still can't find how to share my screen.
Cool! My wife and I have System76 laptops, and they work quite well.

Congratulations to the System76 team, I look forward to seeing your success as you go forward.
> Yeah, but the office was buying it at Costco too, and now they aren't.

office depot delivers TP with the copier paper and kleenex. IME that's been more common than costco for any business large enough to have an office manager.
Or “google”
I’m a member of a forum that’s been talking about chloroquine phosphate as an alternative treatment for at least a couple of weeks now. The general consensus is that the side effects make it absolutely a “last resort” sort of thing.

If chloroquine phosphate were the only thing available and my elderly relatives were in respiratory distress as a result of COVID-19, I might consider recommending it. On the low range of the therapeutic dose, under medical supervision, because even in a healthy person you’re going to see rapid dehydration as a result of the vomiting and diarrhea that will absolutely follow taking it.

Another thing I’d point out - it seems very unlikely to me that someone sought out and obtained chloroquine phosphate in the short time since Trump started tweeting about it. It’s been sold out even online for at least a week. I know a couple of places to buy it, but have no desire to make that bet.
They are restocking quite frequently but most stores sell out almost immediately after opening in the morning.
He never called virus itself a hoax. He called the accusations that the administration's response was ineffective a "hoax". There's a difference. Didn't read the rest of your partisan drivel, sorry.
It might be possible to get a majority to vote away their right to unreasonable search, but the courts shouldn't allow it. If there is a rule to not congregate, then send the police out to these public places and write up tickets. Pay whistleblowers to report workplace violations (reasonable cause) and so on.

The German approach mentioned above is better in my view. I believe we can find ways to be effective and protect people's civil rights.
You are going to need some more meat on the bone for the “Why” section. Because “it’s a growing trend.”...? Seriously? So were Beanie Babies. At the very least you need a link to a separate, full write-up about why any business owner should care, much less make that plunge.

Don’t get me wrong, I am intrigued and clearly you believe in something, but you need to do a better job framing this.
You're forgetting CONFIG_USER_NS, like it or not, it's ubiquitous now.
Saw this tweet. Another interesting metric: Hospitalizations

https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1242208166202478593...
My firm (options market making, not exactly HFT, but close) has most people working from home successfully, but some are having problems with flaky internet. If I was the owner of a big shop I would probably want at least a skeleton crew in the office. A regional Comcast outage could easily take 90% of the remote employees offline.
> 1. This is a pervasive myth. There is absolutely no evidence of this from primary sources. The goal of shooting people is and has always been to kill them.

In a military context that is actually required by law, which I think is the fourth Geneva Convention. Combat forces are required to eliminate the enemy with minimal unnecessary suffering, which means the intention is always to kill and not injure.
For example here, a large rice "manufacturer" (distributor?) at normal times has pre-orders from asia for deliveries 3 months in advance for typical amounts that are sold. If people start buying at 5-10x the normal rate, it will deplete the current stock quickly and it will take time to ramp up the deliveries and packaging. Also intermediate storage facilities and silos/packaging lines are not inflatable. So it's not all that easy to ramp up distribution 3x.
Your response reads as though you're disagree with an assertion I didn't make. I almost feel like you read my post as saying that The Fifth Discipline is the -best- book on the topic. That I'm not saying, if for no other reason than because I haven't read every book on the topic.

However, I stand by the assertion that it is a worthy read. I gained a lot from reading it, and if it falls short of being totally comprehensive and standing entirely on its own... well, that's a criticism that would apply to many books.

All of that said, thanks for mentioning the Sterman book. I wasn't familiar with it, and I'm about to order a copy.
12 including 5 of the top 10, plus some municipalities like Dallas and Austin's counties in Texas.

https://www.axios.com/states-shelter-in-place-coronavirus-66...
I've been sick the last couple days, perhaps with Covid19, and my new baby girl has a doctor's appointment this week, so I'm not sure what to do about that. I really enjoy being at home with my kids though.
Covid-19 Data Dashboard Update
If you're only source is "https://www.nationalheraldindia.com", then it isn't credible and you might as well be posting links from Alex Jones. If it's really effective, quote something from, say the Indian National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Quit promulgating fake hope.
Give the man his due. That's Führer Donitz to you. Even if it was for a shorter period of time than William Henry Harrison fighting a cold after a a chilly wind.
It started around the time that iTunes/Safari/etc moved into their modern icon designs. It's "easier" to design for as you can get by with a generic glyph and no character.

It's worth noting that Microsoft has Mac products that actually have genuinely nice icons, though - Remote Desktop is probably just... odd.

I personally hate it as well - to the point where when I wrote a web wrapper for an email service, I went out of my way to make the icon feel more at home on a Mac. Granted, it's a shameless ripoff of the stock Mail.app icon, but I don't care.

https://dribbble.com/shots/9977474-Protonmail-MacOS-Desktop-...

Edit: a word.
What we need is more data. What is the % of Covid-19 cases that require hospitalization (and are people actually going to hospitals when they don't need to?) ? Is it 20x that of flu or 2x? We need random testing throughout the population to know true mortality rate and herd immunity.
The reason is that Firefox's simulcast support is iffy. It works fine, though (better than Hangouts did on Firefox, last I checked!)
What frustrates me the most is that, even under emergency conditions, their public justification consists solely of raising the hypothetical that some patients might draw the wrong conclusions from these tests without even acknowledging the possibility that some could be harmed by being denied access to the tests. There is zero indication that the risks have been weighed against the benefits.

At least in non-emergency situations you could argue that the regulation forces the company to study and document the difference between how home and out-patient tests impact the patients. Then you can decide whether to allow the test using that information. But that information will clearly take weeks or months to obtain, and in an emergency we have to make our best assessment on what to do in the meantime. It's possible to harm a patient by giving them information that is subtle and difficult to interpret, but our prior has to be that, all else equal, the patient will usually benefit with more information than less!
If a million, a billion, and a trillion are all equal, or equal to whatever big number you want them to be at any given moment, then what's the point of discussing anything?
How does this work for normal video calling e.g. calling your parents? Every time I want to talk with them, sharing a video link with them first seems to create a friction. I badly want an alternative to the awful Skype.
There's an NBC News interview. Apparently they literally took aquarium cleaner that they happened to have in the house from keeping koi fish. Didn't bother calculating dosage or anything.
What do they look like! How do they function? How did they retool to make them so quickly? How do they compare to normal ventilators? What’s the UI on their control panels?

This sounds like a fairy tale to me, with the governor covering for Elon. But maybe they did, in fact, retool in 48 hours and deliver a working product.
Really?

I've never used Windows 10 and it's been years since I had a Windows machine on my desk but is it really that difficult to imagine and/or understand why ~90% of the world's PCs run Windows?
What is panic and why do you think this is a panic? If anything, the lack of concern by policy makers and the public has turned this into a catastrophe. If they had “panicked” three months ago, we wouldn’t be in this situation now.
Eh, disapproving conspiracy theories is also fun since you never know what you're going to be up against next. They're surprisingly complex and a great exercise for finding logical flaws in an argument.

If it stresses you out, ignore flat Earthers. I did the opposite and got a flat Earth poster to troll my coworkers, but that may not be appropriate where you work.
Until it runs it's course or we have a vaccine. But we do have some measure of control on the timing of this.
Most *nix server and cloud nodes use bash for the shell. You're right about embedded systems but they're not usually the target platform for a config management system like this one or Ansible.
So.... was this sponsored by the airlines or by the hotels chains?

EDIT: After what happened in Spain and Italy, countries where the initial reaction was "let's not overreact", I don't believe any scientist can speak on those terms without a hidden agenda.
Location: Madison, WI

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Not right now.

Technologies: Python, C, Tera Term, Linux OS, UBoot (exposure) SeaBIOS (exposure), bash/sh (POSIX compliant sh), Lisp/Scheme

Resume: albertlatham.com/resume.pdf

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I'm just a middle-of-the-road engineer who really, really appreciates code with documentation, well designed user interfaces, well selected data structures (ones that map to a specific problem), a desire to learn more about DSLs and DSL implementations (I'm currently playing with Maru and the Ir systems programming language by Ian Piumarta).

I will graduate from UW Madison in May of this year. I have offers on the table but I want to see what else is out there.
The Good Times for Airlines Are Over
Jitsi uses XMPP(prosody) for MUC- basically coordination and control of sessions. XMPP is not exposed directly to the user, they use a BOSH client abstraction to convert that to http. It is actually good design and scales well. we have scaled the bridge to 500 plus concurrent sessions without lot of production tuning in non P2P mode (generally harder more resource intensive).
Hardship beats the hell out of death.

Money is imaginary. It's easy to defer rent payments and mail checks so people can focus on food, medicine, and heat for a while.
It's California. We get wildfires. I had medical N95 masks at home as well. Gave them to the hospital when they appealed for them.

It makes sense. If it weren't for Facebook not having this reserve we would just be 720k short. It's not like the companies selling these would just hold inventory, especially since if you store them too long the elastic and the seal becomes weak across a large enough sample.
Folks using Brave (or who otherwise have video autoplay turned off) will need to allow autoplay for it to work correctly.
"be put in use IMMEDIATELY"
I believe the format/DSL of Homebrew would be excellent for this purpose. In a certain sense, you could actually use it as is: take the formulas you want, add specific configuration, and deployment is just cloning your repository and running install for all your formulas.

Each installation runs in a couple of steps, each of which has a default but can also be configured individually. It has lots of helpers for adding/replacing in configuration files, for testing, for temporary files and cleanup, for patching, and for specifying options. It’s got dependency management built in, etc.

And if (when!) you need more flexibility, you don’t have to learn about the insanity that is a for-loop in YAML, but can use a language that you either already know or should have no trouble understanding, ruby.
It's circular reasoning. Why aren't you buying stocks or bonds? Presumably because nobody is offering you a large amount of extra money to do so, like with a 0% loan. Everybody who can get cash or has cash wants to prepare for zombies.
The best quote from the article:

When humanity comes to the end, as the asteroid hurtles toward the earth, someone will be like “we can put the asteroid on the blockchain with a smart contract, thanks to the power of immutable code.” “The last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die,” says Chesterton, but that sounds pretty aspirational these days; odds are that the last man left alive will be talking about storing hashed data on the blockchain.
1) https://meet.jit.si

2) Start a channel

3) Bottom left there's a monitor icon to share your screen
Without ICU capacity they die.
Nuclear weapons provide a deterrent. They can be useful if they are actually used (ex., Hiroshima) but since 1945 the primary benefit has been deterrence.
Hierarchically Flexible Access Control Scheme
I am dealing with the exact same situation handling a 7 year and a 2 year old. Its actually worse in my case since my wife is a healthcare professional and has to be at her job - so its effectively just me looking after the 2 kids during the day.

I tried working 1 week from 6-12 in the night, but was exhausted since I still had to wake up when kids woke up. This week, I am trying to do 3 hours before they wake up, another hour when the younger one naps and then finally 2 more hours once my wife is back home. Several folks in my reporting chain have similar aged kids or a tad bit older, so they are empathetic to the situation.

My productivity is definitely impacted, but then these are unchartered waters. I am just trying to stay sane through the process :-)
> He was talking about what the FDA and what hospitals could do

And even that information was wrong. That's the point I'm trying to make.
Time Symmetry and the Laws of Physics
The docker setup instructions at least seems safe in that regard:

https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet#design-considerat...
Is this paper basically saying China and Italy's troubles with COVID-19 "ain't no big deal", and that New York and Washington are not struggling?

>"Leaving the well-known and highly lethal SARS and MERS coronaviruses aside, other coronaviruses probably have infected millions of people and have killed thousands"

This is not cited, and seems like potentially exaggerated non-evidence based information.
This is circular reasoning, but it's also counter to the facts, which are that markets aren't yet pricing securities for an apocalypse.