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I grew up in the US and we kept jars from Kraft cheese spread. We used this size glass for orange juice or soda.

They're about the same size as mole jars.

https://images.app.goo.gl/zNsjQ5MY5zSgafB9A
I am actually surprised at how well this quarantine is going on for us.

The children are teenagers and they have enough work from school to keep them busy. They also have me handy, so we talk about their work quite often.

They also help with the house more than usual.

If it was not for the food which is a pain in the bottom to get, and the fact that one cannot do sport outside (biking for instance) it would not be bad at all for us (I am talking about our specific case)

It is true that we do not discuss the pandemy itself too much (as there is not much to discuss)
That's definitely a step in the right direction.

But take a look at the Patriot Act. Much of it expired, but has been reauthorized time and time again -- with support from both parties, both Obama and Trump.
You also acknowledged a difference between the two types, implying that you know they are different and aren't completely sure how different, because you have experience with one of them.
Czech Republic has been doing something similar since about March 19. to get emergency medical supplies (mostly personal protective equipment for medical personel) quickly from China:

https://news.expats.cz/weekly-czech-news/ukrainian-plane-to-...

https://www.nspa.nato.int/en/news/news-20200319-7.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/20/world/europe/20re...

It's using the An-124 cargo planes (100+ ton capacity) via the NATO SALIS partnership (2 planes on long term lease from Ukraine stationed in Leipzig) as well as regular cargo flights, comandeared airliners with boxes on seats an even the few (2?) small airliners owned by the state/army, normally used for officially duties. Apparently even some of the repatriation flights have been used to bring back supplies when possible.

Also some of this material (I suspect where there is sufficient stock for local use available) is now being sent to Spain and Itally, where it is sorely needed:

https://www.radio.cz/en/section/news/coronavirus-czech-state...

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_174623.htm

In any case, USA using airlift to get critical supplies is certainly a good sign! But I'm confused why only now ? It has been clear for at least a month bad things might happen, so why not stock up at least a bit beforehand ?
Did someone lock your front door? Joking aside. Man, I go one like 3 walks a day with my wife during the day now. It's great.
> at this point half the news stations were saying it wouldn’t be a problem

Half were. Online here we had discussion about how travel bans wouldn't work. Some companies, like mine, were already approving work-at-home until further notice. I was at home already and haven't left (for anything but supplies).

> before numerous states had to start shutting down.

That was decided by governors, not Congresscritters.
I'm pretty sure meetup vacated the broadway location in December.
Wishful thinking in a world where human resources(!) are expendable and replaceable whereas wealth and power are not.

Also, throwing money at a problem doesn't automatically solve it. Progress often depends on few individuals with crucial ideas, but you'll have to get those interested in your problem first.
Link to the nature article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0608-8
I forked such a script [0] and use it for setup/admin of my WireGuard server/users for my PCs and phone.

[0] https://github.com/oedmarap/wg-install
That'd permanently increase the expenses and reduce the dividends and stock value?

(So maybe therefore the CEOs won't increase the wages unless people start resigning?)
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Everything I've read suggests that there are many, many people eagerly competing to get access to work for Instacart. I imagine the situation is, or will be very soon, much the same at Amazon.

What incentive do they have to meet these demands, versus just replacing the staff that doesn't like working under those conditions?
I agree with you. Plus, as a light mode user I always have hard time when someone is doing code-walkthrough in dark mode.
You can't consent to things that are not allowed by law. If the law states that you cannot murder people, and someone consents to being murdered, you're still not allowed to murder them and it's still murder.

Murder is an example here, but there are similar laws regarding spying on people, using private information in business and reading someone else's mail. Consent does not override the law.

But to get more specific to your point and the grey area: there is a case where the law permits video surveillance (i.e. in an office) and as a side-effect some footage of a display might be captured. If the display happens to show private content, that is not actionable/admissible anymore. Some countries and laws go as far as to make dashcam recordings inadmissible and even illegal. While impractical in some cases (i.e. if your car gets bumped in to by another car while parked) it's also to prevent a government to "get all recordings of all cars in a street to find a person that might have walked by".

Some laws have exemptions like high security areas where the law explicitly states that if you are not allowed to be there expect for specific purposes, and not allowed to conduct anything there except specific tasks, and you are allowed to record the area to be able to verify it (i.e. nuclear energy plant), then that specific area is off-limits to your private activities/data. But it's not broad enough to allow any company to spy on anyone doing work for them. I suppose that might be different in the US or some US-states.
I am sure it must be a great luxury to have the choice of being able to "completely self-isolate"...but that is not going to cover the majority of the population and even those who do are not going to be able to do that for a year. It just isn't rational.
In order to claim a capital loss on your taxes, you have to sell. No point in holding something that's going nowhere.
Everything in the universe is pinned at integer values. That's the reason quantum mechanics is called what it is.
WFH is a panacea for all my open office woes.
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I think you are referring to zooomr.com (with 3 os).
The chair lasts much more than a year. 12 year warranty.
Everything you said + content moderation, dealing with policy/harassment etc. Anytime you’re allowing end users to create content on your platform or use your service to interact with other people, you have to deal with all the policy and icky people stuff.
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I can't seem to find any reliable sources on this — is the U.S. selling more debt to other nations (who?)? Is the Fed effectively printing money to finance the stimulus?
The headline is inaccurate.

In a lot of businesses this really is not an issue. Many businesses don't want a lot of bob mockery in private chat. Webinars people want these questions to go over with a supervisor (common question analysis etc). Hosts can set appropriate controls (public chat only / host only etc).

I hope zoom continues to cater to people trying to get work done - which they seem to be, and not this hyper paranoid, totally misleading title crowd.

The solution on hacker news seems to always be to add lots of new steps, warnings, device authentications, encryption keys, block the host from doing this or that etc. I'm already tired to the endless cookie acceptance popups on the public web.
We have quite a few Pros and the keyboard is also pretty unreliable. For testing I used a Surface Book and every time I detach/attach the tablet part the screen resolution, monitor arrangement and USB devices get whacked up. Now I am very reluctant to undock it at all.
It's hard to accomplish something when half the team is paid to stop the project at any cost.
Depending on the org, that's definitely believable. Jobs' legacy has a dark side that people are unwilling to talk about, save for scant few "employees speak out" exposes that break out every few years. It's a massive company and experiences vary across the board, but Apple is definitely one of the more austere and abuse-prone members of FAANG. Amazon is reputedly toxic, as well.
Number I’ve seen is that twice as many people die without ventilators when needed.
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$225 is for hostile fire/imminent danger. Hazardous Duty is $150. I'm not sure which one is more appropriate.
Which is rather short sighted of them or at least whomever came up with their business continuity plans. Pandemic and other regional disasters should be at least covered.
I want to really like the iPad Pro + keyboard and touchpad as a replacement for a Macbook Air. Fanless, huge screen to device ratio, great battery life.

If it just only had developer tools in iOS Safari or better yet allowed alternate browser engines, I could do just about everything on one.
Look through this to see if you can find what your looking for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22535916
I've found it takes practice and encouragement (a few times). Basically they have to realize that they really won't be hurt by admitting they don't understand something. I think it's a learned skill. I also make an extra effort to ask questions both to them when I'm trying to understand something and in front of them to others when I don't understand something or want to learn more about it (which is often).

That said, most of the new hires I've worked with were college grads right out of school so this probably is partly influenced by that life stage in general.
Staffpad. https://www.staffpad.net/

But make it actually work.

Applications that require handwritten input is what the tablets should all be stretching towards.

I can fat finger things on my phone. I can type on my laptop.

But I can't write on anything.
It's not unusual at all for businesses in the same situation. (A good business at a small scale, not profitable to scale larger)

Delicious was bought back from Yahoo, in fact that happened a few times with companies that Yahoo bought and spun off again.
a few devices/companies have tried this (not Apple obviously):

Motorola Atrix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G#Accessories

Microsft Display Dock (Windows Continuum): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Display_Dock
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/continuum

NexDock: https://nexdock.com/

Samsung DeX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_DeX

Apparently Android 10 has a desktop mode as well
Ventilators are at the bottom of the COVID-19 infection funnel. The cost-benefit is not as good as mechanisms higher up the funnel.
I'd advocate narrowing the infection funnel at the top by adopting a universal mask protocol. https://www.maskssavelives.org/
> It's ironic to me after being universally panned for years with their own browsers, Microsoft is making such leaps and bounds of improvement to Google's browser, to the point that even Google wants to bring it back upstream.

Yes, what a crazy world we live in that Microsoft didn't start collaborating on Chromium by implementing stuff no one wanted to land.

I'm not sure what this comment is getting at. Why would it be surprising that Edge engineering would make real contributions?
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Depends on the field, I suppose. Product companies usually do this to protect plans for the new products.
A thread from 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=188385.
I am one of these people who went remote after a few years in the office. This seems to be the most common path. I have never heard of anybody being hired as remote first.
As bad as the 'Blocks' are they are to this date housing many millions of people and despite 30 years of capitalism there has been no equivalent to date. The money is there but it is far more concentrated now. The communist system was terrible in many ways, and economically a complete disaster. But: you had a (very small and cramped) place to live, petty crime was next to non existent (corruption though, was rampant) and your pension was guaranteed.

When the wall fell it became a free-for-all overnight, all that security went out the window and not much was done to replace it. A couple of people got obscenely rich and plenty of people dropped well below the poverty line. It is that which powers the rise of assholes like Orban: the people that yearn for the bad situation they were in before because at least they knew just how bad it was.
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Trusting these types of extensions are a gamble nowadays imho. Every month Chrome or infosec researchers are constantly unearthing bad actors that have built but more likely acquired large user base extensions to either inject ads, false ad attribution, or recording user behavioral data for bot fraud heuristics.

I don't disagree thought ... as most aren't privacy conscious
according to both the police and the museum, the security was as per usual. yes, the museum is closed now, but the burglary was at night.
Perhaps GraphQL could be used instead for some use cases. It's already got a specification that's been in use for several years, and has an execution model that goes beyond the basic request/response model. https://graphql.org/learn/execution/
Impossible Project has brought back peel-apart 8x10 polaroid film. Currently $18 a shot, so not for the faint of wallet, but perhaps they will bring back 4x5 someday as well.
Just like with the masks and once again it's going to get people killed because when/if they do finally reverse their position/messaging people will not hear the correction or just harbor so much distrust they shut down all together. We are /still/ dealing with "It's just the Flu" people even with the president no longer saying that.
Coopertively scheduling across your other isolation boundaries is a pain point, but it's a great architecture for within a single context (ie. within the kernel, or within a single process).

Linux has a lot of cruft and isn't as async as some would like, but NT is pretty async underneath it all (although they still allow you to do syncronous work as well).
I will post this at the risk of being downvoted because I am all but a pacifist and it is not a popular position. This is not surprising at all for two reasons.

Despite what films will depict, people fighting on the front lines in a war do not generally begrudgingly respect each other. They hate eachother in a way most people probably cannot understand. Many would not pass up the opportunity to rid the world of what they see as the most evil upon its face unto the very last minute. The grudging respect you see discussed in documentaries comes decades later. After the continual trauma and memories of dead friends have time to fade.

War beaurocracies transform people into rational psychopaths. They create an order in which a letter of the law is utmost and that letter is laid by your betters. If your betters find some purpose in ordering you to kill pointlessly, you will. We all like to think we could find the courage or clarity to disobey an unethical order. But history is much more full of compliant atrocities than righteous mutinies. Soldiers kept firing because that is the perogative that came out of the leadership black box.
My experience with middle management is the one of incompetence and personality that enjoyes little power trips.

I had also good managers, but imo, the way companies are organized currently attracts and promotes leaders that are bad at leading part.
> the subs don't need to be ready to retaliate immediately to be an effective deterrent

They do in the US system! If you don't retaliate immediately then you're dead, and so you can't send the order to fire, so you can't retaliate at all.

In the UK system you don't need to retaliate immediately as authority to fire is delegated to the commander - no magic codes like in the US.
Q: So where does the Fed get its money from?

A. The Fed doesn't print money. It instead creates digital dollar credits that are as good as cash. Many of those digital dollars will not actually get spent and will be deposited back inside accounts at the Fed or at other banks. But if enough of that money does eventually get withdrawn in order to be spent, then that can conceivably increase the demand for actual dollars. If so, the Treasury may have to increase the supply of dollars.

That's where printing dollars comes in. But in this case, it would likely only amount to a small fraction — if any — of the $2 trillion stimulus.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-stimulus-package-pa...
The salaries will end up back in the economy, low paid workers are unlikely to hoard their bailouts because they need food/shelter/etc. It’s also likely that airlines in chapter 11 would be acquired/restructured as a unit, not necessarily sold for parts.
It's better than printing money...it's digital money...don't worry I'm sure the middle class will pay it's share.
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I similarly agree 5 is an absurdly low figure. Forget everything else and just consider securing the site, collecting payments globally, tax, and you've got 15 FTEs right there.

BUT - i'm at a VC funded startup and can see how bloated these companies become whilst achieving not much. Our company got VC cash, then the VCs installed a CFO. First thing the CFO did was demote most of the engineering staff down to entry-ish level titles.

Then came product managers, program managers, directors of product management, senior directors of program management, VPs of product, and C-suite.

The Product:SWE ratio is 1:2 to 1:5 depending on the team. That is right, since we're falling behind on coding and quality, the obvious solution to hire senior people to go talk at conferences.

Meanwhile engineering headcount and QA headcount barely moved. When product timelines and quality suffered, instead of considering why SWEs were demotivated, they hired more Directors and more Product Managers to micromanage and oversee the efforts. Except the Product Managers are remote and we barely ever hear from them. We think they are product managing their own careers mostly, we see more activity on their Twitter and LinkedIn accounts than we see on Slack.

So what have people done? SWEs jet out of the office at 5, many are running startups on the side, some are consulting on the side.

Next thing you have a several-hundred-person-startup producing about what you produced with 50 people

Fuck me.
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It isn't just you. I've talked to Apple on a few occassions and the recruiter has always been firm on the no-remote-work -for-this-team. Maybe there are some teams who allow remote, but their inflexibility on the topic has always made me look elsewhere. The same is true for Google and Facebook who are also hardliners on no remote work ( from my experiences).
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The trouble with this is that it fails above first order thinking. For example, I remember asking a photographer, "what's the value of 20 megapixel cameras"? His answer was something like, "the more the the MP, the better the detail."

I knew that already, but he didn't know I knew that. I was wondering because most mediums with which I view these photos don't support that high a resolution.

As a result, I've tried to do what the above author prescribed, but add an "I understand how x..." to avoid wasting time with the obvious answer.

There's even an issue when doing that, though. The question becomes too complex (as the author was getting at). I see this mostly when I'm troubleshooting something on the phone, and the tech is used to giving the "on script" answer.
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You're assuming it's only used for interpersonal things. If Manager A requests a password regarding some system they are discussing from Manager B in a private chat which other Employees in the channel should not have access to, but inadvertently exposes it after downloading and sharing the channel chat, that is definitely a security problem. Any private channel of communication that is easily combined with a public channel of communication without warning is a security problem.

It's not about hurting people's feelings, it's about information leakage. And to cut off anyone that says passwords shouldn't be shared in a private chat, that's irrelevant. Good infosec security practices in one place do not preclude criticism of bad practices elsewhere. Security is about layers or protection, so any layer with problems should be noted. If that layer happens to be a third party application that mixes private and public channels in some instances and if there isn't warning as to this happening, it deserves to be called out.

Another way to look at it is that any minor information leakage can have a major impact if the information leaked is very important.
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I fully approve of art theft. There should be honor among thieves of course. You shouldn't damage art. But if a painting isn't stolen now and then, well it wasn't worth painting in the first place. Really, what is art for but to enliven the doldrums of the rich?

A moment or three of aesthetic pleasure, bragging at parties, but really most days it's just so much wallpaper. No, the true purpose of art is to be stolen. Then the chase begins, the drama, the mystery, the appreciation of the craft of skullduggery.

Eventually you track down the blighter who nabbed the splotchy-whatsit, buy him a beer and throw him back in the clink. That's where he'll meet his next crew, plan the next heist, and start the whole glorious affair over again.

So cheers to the cheeky beggars who grabbed the Gogh, let the fun begin!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708233

Before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22693792
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