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Kurzarbeit is described on Google as "Short-time working or short time is a situation or system in which civilian employees agree to or are forced to accept a reduction in working time and pay.".

That's different than a layoff. I'd happily accept a reduction in pay and work hours over a 100% pay cut and temporary layoff, if that's what it took to keep my company alive during
a temporary economic downturn.
Postgres is my go-to RDBMS, but I do have one serious complaint: Connections are too expensive.

This is a side-effect of the old-school one-process-per-connection architecture that Postgres uses. MySQL (ick) easily handles thousands of connections on small servers; with Postgres you will need a LOT of RAM to sustain the same, RAM that would be better served as cache.

I've found (at least, for my current app) that the number of connections defines my scaling limit. I can't add more appserver instances or their combined connection pools will overflow the limit. And that limit is disappointingly small. It's not so painful that I want to reach for another RDBMS, but I'm bumping into this problem way too early in my scale curve.
I would assume that "they" is referring to Americans, given that they are the subject of the article.
> but I can't imagine how it is for girls

Girls love their large phones, they are easy to type on, and visual content consumption is much more comfortable.
For the layman Nim dev, would you say "always use gc:arc" is a safe bet?
I wonder if the food will be delivered home, or you'll have to go to some store.

Going to some store and lining up is very demoralising thing.

If food comes to your home from normal delivery with no different labeling then for paying customers, we could achieve new moral highs.
None of those numbers are accurate. Latest research: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

.66% CFR, with 3.3% hospitalized (and fewer ICU) under age of 40. Even in the >80 age range, hospitalization is < 20%.

If you're going to make a point, make the point with accurate numbers -- those are off by an order of magnitude.
That's kind of my point. The public opinion may change, but until it mounts to a point that government policy changes, they'll probably keep enforcing the distancing measures with increasing heavy-handedness.

It may also become increasingly polarized with strong "I don't want to die!" and "I just want to talk to someone!" factions becoming increasingly set in their beliefs.

Civil unrest could occur at that point.
That's false. Death is the natural and inevitable outcome of life. The people who would die of COVID are nearly exclusively people who would die relatively soon anyway. For an average 85 years old person, the risk of dying due to COVID if no mitigation is attempted is 6.3% [1], less than the risk of dying of other causes during the next year (9.6%) [2].

A 20 years old is more likely to be struck by lightning than to be killed by COVID.

The life expectancy saved by the lockdown is just so small. I find it extremely hard to believe that the lockdown will cause less loss of life than the new virus would have.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1473-3099%2820...

[2] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html#fn1
> They could, for instance, limit the orders they accept to base necessities like food, cleaning supplies, etc.

They already did.
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-warehouse-essential-goods...
> It's unlikely most Americans will tolerate a 5-6 month lockdown.

It's not really a matter of tolerating, they'll literally start starving to death at a certain point. A couple months is enough time for credit cards to be cancelled for lack of payments or all limits to be hit, enough time for these various stimulus plans to run out, etc. Enough time for all but the most well capitalized businesses to just fail.

A massive percentage of the country just can't survive that long. There's more ways to die than just COVID.
We’ve definitely seen a lot of bad decision making and I’d agree a lot of that has been due to people being caught off foot and having to be reactive.
At this point if a non-essential persons of the society get Coronavirus, it is to blame them for not social distancing and being at large despite of well informed advice from now on. If we have a person of age 70 showing up today, they must have contracted the virus 7 days ago - What the fuck were they doing 7 days ago?

I feel bad for thinking this way but nature doesn't give a shit about human emotions and our compassion. Let's face a hard fact - if you are over 60, you should be staying at home. Period. If you need medications, groceries, etc. order them online and get them delivered. Ask family members. Don't stroll into Costco thinking you'll be fine.

Non-essential people who get coronavirus are doing a disservice to essential people of the society by not following social distancing guidelines. We have gotten to the point where every citizen of US know about this virus. There is no excuse. You're taking away hospital capacity from people who have no choice to social distancing - healthcare workers themselves, grocery and delivery people, police and many other jobs that are crucial to keep this society up and running.

Am I wrong to think like this? Why?
Both parties use rounding errors and sleight of hand to their favor, it just tends to work out better for Republicans on a national scale.
Right. Diane Feinstein and the others should be jailed.
We have a plastic container of bleach water & paper towels by the door side. Bags are set down outside the home and unloaded from there with a wipe down before going in the house. As always, wash hands afterwards.
I have a feeling rural folk will be a-ok with that.
Because it reads like English.
There's some blame to go around, but I put most of it on the CCP. Their early coverup and subsequent actions have contributed the most to making this situation as bad as it is. They arrested doctors[0] and continue to lie about their case totals[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-con...
> What I love about SpaceX is that they truly take on the start-up approach of fast iteration, in complete opposite to most of their competitors.

I won't call their approach a "start-up" or even unique one, especially considering they made a huge component of this (Raptor) in a pretty standard way. Building in a "tent" just means they don't need anything more than it being a tent right now, not that they won't ever need more.

For some reason, rocket engineering has that reputation of being a complete waterfall process. It isn't deserved and doesn't make sense. Rapid iterative development and quick discarding of failing prototypes in the early phase is as common in space industry as it is everywhere. It just doesn't usually make headlines and isn't that visible.
You might want to compare the strictness of the Chinese lockdown to what western countries are doing.

The goal of the lockdown must be getting the case numbers low enough that contact tracing works again. To do that you need to get the replication number well below 1 and hold it there for two months or so. The measures we're currently taking are totally insufficient for that. R is still closer to 3 than to 0.5.
I mean, personal attacks aren't cool, but I feel like these are extenuating circumstances. If you really want to know, my grandma is immune compromised from chemotherapy and I worry about people being so relaxed about these attack vectors. If she gets to survive because they shut down this warehouse, I would take that deal in a heartbeat.
I really doubt anyone has the data to make such a claim.
Anyone looking at this as just a New York or LA or Miami problem will learn soon enough. The cities were hit first for obvious reasons but it viruses don't self-isolate to population centers.
Recruiting and retaining employees is quite expensive. Creating a reputation as a place that doesn't treat it's workers well only increases that cost. Not to mention the reputation risk with your customer base.
Noth Korea begs to differ.
Why not just wash your hands very well after touching the packaging? I have some disposable gloves but I'd rather save them for situations where I can't wash my hands or where I absolutely don't want to touch whatever it is I'm handling.
Definitely not. --gc:arc is still experimental.
Exactly. We all make these tradeoffs all the time and sacrifice lives for convenience and financial reasons. For example, close to 40K die in the us in traffic accidents every year. That number could be reduced to almost nothing with a 5 mph speed limit. of course, we've decided to take that calculated risk - the benefits of driving at speeds up to 65 or 70 outweigh the low number of annual deaths.
The disease, obviously. When the disease was running rampant through Hubei, there were innumerable reports of it on social media.

The WHO has had a large team of disease experts, public health experts and others in China since late January, and they say China has been totally transparent.

The unfortunate truth is that authoritarian regimes are better suited to dealing with a pandemic, particularly competent, technocratic regimes like China's.
I totally hear you, but elections aren't just about selecting leaders with competence and honesty. They're also about expressing preferences on moral issues, too. A lot of voters are willing to set aside the former and vote on the latter, because in their minds, they aren't given the choice to do both. I also think that lack of choice has a really corrosive effect on voters who find themselves in that situation.
My take is that if my government managed to successfully lie about the number of deaths (assigning COVID-19 as the reason only in cases where the patient had no chronic illnesses) then China is more than capable of doing the same and has a major incentive to do so.
Would you mind providing proof ?
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Then they speak with that level of confidence. "This is what we believe, but it's not confirmed", "There's a high level of variability and unknowns here".

Instead Trump and cohorts are speaking in horribly over-optimistic platitudes that are based on his _hopes_, not his knowledge - and he doesn't have the oratory nuance to make one sound different to the other.
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Why not Python? It has a fairly sensible syntax, a broad standard library, a massive library of powerful and useful third-party packages, and a great ecosystem for online/interactive learning (JupyterLab/CoLab/etc).

Assuming that many of its audience are self-learning/non-CS-careerists, Python's popularity and adoption rate is also going to be a major draw. Learning Python as an attractive job skill is as much an incentive as the intellectual accomplishment.
Recently they forbidden workers in Amazon warehouse in Poland to wear their own masks.

Amazon isn't that big in Poland (most people buy on home-grown allegro or chinese alliexpress) so nobody will cry if they go under. It seems every month there's a story about these warehouses. It quickly becomes the stereotypical worst place to work.
HAHAHA! Good one. Thank you.
I’m interested as to what is offensive about this reply.
Which is why we won't ever fix climate change.
> Unfortunately we found out that almost the whole world, with some possible exceptions, has leadership that is either incompetent or has other incentives, so we will probably have to wait for a vaccine for a full return to normal life.

'Normal life' includes hundreds of thousands people dying of infectious disease each year that nobody notices. I give it about 4 more weeks before we return to the normal way of acting and about 4 months until this is no longer a major news story so we can all forget about those who have died.

Not saying it's right, just my observations on how people behave.
Instead of speaking in generalities, can you point out what is wrong in the posted article?
I hope that's true because the country needs food. I don't think rural communities without any protections will be any better off though. Rural communities still gather in stores, bars, restaurants so I don't see why the spread would be any less impactful.
Yeah, the court basically wants to have one of the biggest companies on the planet divulge a large part of their core IP (money maker) to a person who's interest align to game that IP.

I wouldn't be surprised if Google were to just flat out deny this and tell the country to pound sand at that point.
Honestly, my life in the suburbs hasn't been much different since this all started. It's basically been business as usual, except for things like stores not having as much food variety, fast food places being drive through only, and big box stores being less crowded. I think people in the cities will be most effected because of the large number of small shops and independent restaurants that had to close, but out in the suburbs the impact hasn't been any worse than when we get a big snow fall.
Americans are not taking this shutdown at the moment, anyway. I live in Boston, other than that people who can work from home, work from home and restaurants/bars are close, absolutely nothing seems to have changed.

My roommate works in a random thrift shop, they're classified as "essential business" so he still shows up to work every day to read book.
$5/person/day is more than this should require.

Feeding America claims to deliver meals at $0.10 each by rescuing food that would've been wasted, and they claim even buying at wholesale would run about $2/meal ($1.67/lb * 1.2lb/meal).

https://www.feedingamerica.org/ways-to-give/faq/about-our-cl...
There's the pain I was talking about. Ow ow ow.
How much of that is due to hospitals clearing out and refitting themselves to support what they knew was coming? Do you expect that trend to continue?
3.3% is still insanely high. If 50% of US population is under the age of 40, that's 5 million people in hospitals.

This changes nothing.
This is very typical in an enterprise shop where you have end users connecting directly to the database for reporting purposes. Being able to take advantage of your existing directory structure and security groups is huge.
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In the US, if someone fraudulently uses your debit card they can clean out your bank account, possibly with no recourse. With a credit card you're only liable for $50.
Maybe more aggressively than

> If you want to purchase, say, a hula hoop, you'll still get it as long as Amazon has them in stock.
My sense is that people are getting paranoid about packages in an attempt to do everything they can to not get sick. The biggest wins are stopping gatherings of people, stopping non-essential work, and social distancing. The rest is going to be way more marginal.
Wait, that's really the definition? There's no way that isn't a politically motivated definition.
China's can more effectively control people's movements than the US, which helps with containment.

But at the same time, as in the US, reported infection rates are probably much lower than the actual rates, since both countries' administrations have an interest in minimizing the reported rates, or when that fails, minimizing the timeline for normalization of life.

Public health authorities are the only people who have no incentive to exaggerate or suppress information.
It's probably not a good idea to hold such events before a vaccine or an effective treatment are available. Neither is likely in the next 12 months.
Never seen a cross platform gui that I'd rather use than a website.
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Blue collar Americans in the cities are within a couple of weeks to telling everyone to shove it. These are people who had less than a $1000 dollars extra in their bank accounts. They have been out of a job for one paycheck already.

Credit card companies are slashing credit lines. Postal service is failing to deliver mail in some locations. Unemployment numbers/systems work as well as Healthcare.gov did upon launch.

We are one to two weeks away from massive civil unrest when thousands of people have no money to pay for food.
I was laid off from Akamai about 17 years ago. It was traumatic, but it was handled reasonably well and in a manner which made it clear that it was not what the company wanted to do, but what it had to do to survive.

The company did survive.

Four or five times since then, a friend or acquaintance has asked me if Akamai would be a good place for them to work. In all cases, I have told them to go ahead.

Can you see anyone from Bird having that opinion about the company in the future?
I agree - up here folks are being quite cooperative, someone even recently painted a mural of Bonnie Henry & Dr. Tam[1]. That all said, some parts of America are quite different from Canada with some churches openly protesting the orders[2] (and putting the most vulnerable at risk).

My big concern down there in America is, if folks get crazy and LEOs need to step in and enforce quarantine it will make that quarantine ineffective and LEOs will become the new disease vector. Additionally if any significant portion of the population decides to violate the order than the LEOs, National Guard and even standing army won't be sufficient to enforce the peace - because the peace can't be enforced, peaceable society can only be accomplished through voluntary social contracts.

1. https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/03/31/fans-paint-murals-dr...

2. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/coronavirus/art...
Hi Peter, I'm a Canadian on an H-1B through my small startup. Would taking a loan from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) hurt our ability to file for a green card on my behalf?
I'm planning on stay at home lasting (here in the U.S.) until sometime between early June and late-July. I think once it is lifted (probably in stages) we'll have all sorts of restrictions on larger gatherings throughout at least the end of the year. That's not to say that it will be over by then, just that the rate of cases will be manageable and hospitals will have the resources they need to handle them.

As for what to do to plan for it, I'm mainly just keeping a good supply of easy to prepare food on hand with a long shelf life. Other than that, I'm not sure what can be done that doesn't start to venture into tinfoil hat territory.
> but for me it also raises the question of whether this may also be required in the US

The difference is the US is a democracy and Chinese Communist Party is an oppressive authoritarian regime.

I do not do business or install apps based or ran out of China or any other bad state actor because I do not trust or support their government.

The CPC is truly evil and any information they can harvest is a weapon in their hand. These people run concentration camps, harvest organs, and silence the people who talk ill of them.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/10/asia/xinjiang-china-reeducati...

https://nypost.com/2019/06/01/chinese-dissidents-are-being-e...
The five items under orient are a strange choice.
Huge indictment of capitalism that we have an unbelievably high level of productive capacity and can't do any of these things: make hospital equipment including ventilators; produce enough masks; keep hospitals open (there has been a steady trend of closures brought on by financialization (profiteering) and mergers); train adequate numbers of hospital staff; and the most ridiculous so far is every business is desperately trying to stay open even for non-essential things, like Amazon.

Profiteering is undercutting every possible thing. The profit motive over a democratically planned economy is horrible most of the time but really becomes a mess in a crisis.
I use Postgres for everything. The one thing I wish they would do, though, is improve the error messages when a query fails. At the very least, if I know which position in the text is the beginning of an error, I can fix it.
I love my YubiKey but it is severely underused but that's me not them. I've had 3 over the past 4 years with 1 older basic model in my desk as a backup then 1 NFC enabled key on my keyring or person. The original NFC key died and has been replaced with a more recent model but I couldn't tell you what components it supports.

I should look into setting it up with more things at home.
Sounds like he is also saying there is more social distance involved in buying groceries than ordering Amazon and the latter is more risky to human lives.
Which is just as pejorative. Please don't say that we're at the point where microwave meals and canned soda are too much a luxury for people who come home exhausted from work.

Are we really gonna ask someone who's already poor and tired to spend even more energy they don't have to make something from a few kinds of cheap dried grains.

Either give out enough money to buy food that actual humans want to eat or just cook and deliver it. A commercial kitchen and a few trucks would probably do wonders for an area that's underfed because individuals don't have enough time and money to make food cheap.
every SaSS user management platform / service is just implementing what are essentially "noLDAP" directories

We need a buzzword for these. "lolDAP?"

https://xkcd.com/927/
I'm currently in the US using a TN visa. I know many people with that visa, 0 rejection rate if you present the proper documentation.

Pm me if have more questions.
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Of course it's misguided. Which country handled this crisis worse than US? Misguided is an understatement.
I think the parent was implying people are more willing to risk coronavirus death than to be stuck at home for as long as they're expected to.
Does Zoom use end-to-end encryption?
>no evidence that there has even been one community transmission by mail items.

How would this even be tested or proven to any reasonable assurance? The PCR test is questionable enough as it is. "Hold on sir while we build this biolab on your front lawn and isolate all objects that could've come from outside of the house then test them"
The operative words are "right now", with the current evolution of the virus and the population not taking the measures seriously, how long do you think that is going to last?
The current nearly total shutdown of retail businesses cannot and will not last for a year. If it needs to last for a year in order to contain the virus, it still can't and won't, and people will die from the virus.
The collect macro is awesome, and way more idiomatic Nim than list comprehensions. Nim continues to hit the sweet spot between performance and developer ergonomics.
I think we'll have to find ways to loosen things, though. Maybe everyone, or almost everyone, just wears a mask in public and we use the defense production act to keep the supply up. Maybe sick leave becomes mandatory and businesses restructure to stay open while keeping people physically apart.

Maybe we phase in and out restrictions and get rid of the ones that have the most harm and least impact. Maybe that drug Trump was pushing really does enough to keep people from dying from this. I dunno, but we probably can't just hide for two years and let half of the country be out of work.

Hopefully we do a lot more vaccine work, too. Ideally we'd wipe out some other scary threats like Ebola while we're at it.
> They have a clear bias but some of the stories they break are huge and are exactly the kind of thing the NYT in its heyday would've sat on.

I definitely agree that having a much larger ecosystem of news outlets is a big plus of the current era. One can almost watch the flow as things get leaked/scooped on obscure sites, and then often end up after a period of days/weeks/months on one of the "real" sites. (The Damore story and internal Google message traffic is an example.)

The downside is that it's a real grab bag of good stuff, junk, agitprop, and so on. In effect, we've all become journalists, in charge of sifting and verifying information to assemble a NPV story.
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