skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Signal supports one to one calls. Basically it's a secure alternative to the way you'd normally use your phone. As you see in this thread, multi-party secure video conferencing is hard and Signal's preference is just not to do things until they can see how to do them securely and then implement that.

Hence not having "kick member from group" for ages after adding groups. Most alternatives just have the server know who is in the group and then the server can manage it, but now the server owners can know who is in which groups and secretly join and leave any group - so Signal had to invent a whole bunch of new techniques.
I've found myself the last couple of weeks having a lot of conversations with friends and family around the misinterpretation of some of the main numbers and stats that are being published in journals and shared on social media around the COVID-19 outbreak.
I wrote the following blog post, summarising 8 key points , jargon-free, that were recurrent in these conversations...
There is already enough panic out there, we need to promote a level headed discussion about numbers and stats in a scientifically sound way, far from any journalistic sensationalism and fear-inducing headlines. A big thank you to all the healthcare professionals on the frontlines.
Never heard of Neighbourly, judging by the spelling, perhaps it wasn't available in the US??? But I would suggest Nextdoor as an alternative if it's available in your region. A ton of people are active on it (at least here in Chicago and I assume most major metros), and it's been a great way to coordinate community efforts. I've seen it used to warn people of crime trends, and lately I've seen it used to coordinate efforts to help elderly people get groceries. Most of all, the discourse is incredibly positive and healthy compared to other social networks.
> What will the employees, in the US at least, do for health insurance? A pandemic is when you need it. These employees will be strained to pay for COBRA.

Strongly agree that health care coverage is a major concern. We have a long way to go toward an ideal situation.

Sadly, many of the people who are first to be laid off are least likely to have employer-sponsored insurance benefits in the first place (hourly jobs). If they already had ACA-subsidized healthcare plans, nothing really changes for them.

For everyone else, there are some mitigating factors:

COBRA coverage has a grace period following termination. If you opt in to COBRA coverage during this grace period, the coverage is retroactive up to your date of termination. Please check with your insurance, but I believe the minimum grace period is 30 days, although I've personally seen higher numbers listed in my plans.

Many insurers have indicated that they will waive costs for COVID19 testing, and some have even waived copays for COVID19 treatment. I expect we'll see more pressure on this as time goes on.

This is a good time to remind everyone that a job less event triggers a special enrollment period for the ACA. Visit healthcare.gov to evaluate your insurance options. COBRA isn't the only option.
It seems like the benefits are there for unemployment (except for the whole healthcare debate) but at the same time, our unemployment systems have never experienced such a stress test. My father and a few close friends have all applied but are still waiting to hear anything back from the offices. I hope the process goes quickly for them and anybody else who is going through this right now.
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This is a really great set of demos! The resizable table columns really irks me because I spent so long trying to make something similar and it ended up being hundreds of lines longer.
That. I am personally in that boat and I in my class I had no choice, but to use Zoom for it. The problem with "you don't want it, don't use it" mantra is, it is ignoring cases like mine. In law, those tend to be characterized as contracts of adhesion.

edit: clarity
Tnx, that's nice. I like your 1 condition!
Best practices for companies? What about best practices for the people who actually enforce the law? Why doesn't law enforcement do it's actual job instead of trying to bypass the Constitution? You know, go undercover and catch people like the good old days. I'm supposed to give up my privacy because they are lazy.
In Sweden we have temporarily removed this requirement during COVID-19, presumably to avoid swamping employers with pointless applications.
Calendar Alternatives for Linux Users
I use i3 (Distro = !important), but I'm struggling to find a good alternative for a calendar manager... I'm using radicale for personal stuff, but need to use outlook calendar for work, and would like to add also google calendars.

Now the important part here, is that I'm looking for something simple, that can minimize to tray. For long I was able to get away with thunderbird and lightning, but it lacks the "minimize to tray" part... I just want to click on the tray and see what's in for today for instance...

Anybody has ideas?
This is such a wonderful resource, I wish we had it when first building our app, which uses no frameworks or libs. We do use TypeScript to generate it, hard to pass up the benefits and syntax it provides.
All your examples have one thing in common, they are free to use.

Frankly I think it's absurd to expect privacy and security while not paying for anything.
The job that pays the bills is pushing code. On a personal level, I build airplanes. I've done a couple different techniques end to end - composite and classic cloth and tubing. If things don't totally fall apart, hope to start my first sheet metal construction this summer. Were one to compare what I spent to what I got back... well, some of these dot bombs don't seem so silly. :)
Let's hope so. Honestly, Zoom is the preferred video conferencing software out there when it comes to UI/UX and performance. Grid view just being one major plus, no disconnects or issues in 4 weeks of home office so far. Meetings with 10-20 people no problemo.

If the same software could be used without the security concerns then I don't see how competitors at their current level would remain anything but a side note.

I have brought up Jitsi, no one cares, perceived as worthless fringe. Enterprise client already has MS Teams licenses, again no one cares, only used when Zoom is no option. Internally we got Slack, cannot even do 1:1 calls without issues. We also have Pexip, it has crappy UI/UX and several disconnects if sessions > 30mins. Hangouts is Google so enterprise clients are often not getting into that.
It's a pandemic, of course that's gonna happen.
Can't wait for the news when it's over and we're all back to work. Or is the China Fake News gonna ignore that?
Hi! Tom, one of the Cortex authors here. Super proud of the team and this release - let me know if you have any questions!
In Italy you see 10% mortality because Italy tests only (really) sick people. It's really likely that millions of italians have covid. This is not really demonstrable at the moment, but still https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/coronavirus-report-six-mil...

Italy is treating every single patient with high standard healthcare. They did not reach the "0 free ICUs" moment yet.

What we can say as of today is that the high number of deaths do not depend on overwhelmed hospitals, but likely just because there are A LOT of covid patients. Also a greater average age and the fact that older people are much more integrated in the society played a role affecting mortality, but still those are only theories and we can't say how much they affected the total.
I also encourage to look at all the business rushing to have online presence/sales. When online suddenly becomes the only way to sell your stuff… When online suddenly become the only way for you to teach new skills...
Here is what you need to do to prevent such events in the future:

- Use password manager with the master password at least 16 characters long (it makes brute forcing activity economically unreasonable)

- Change passwords on all your accounts and setup 2FA

- If you use cloud providers for enterprises, always setup limits and notifications, also you have to purchase paid support (it costs around 100 to 500 per month) to talk with human when something happens

- Can't afford the paid support? Probably you should reconsider the need for enterprise cloud provider and something like linode/DO will be good enough for your goals

- Consider paying for your email and setting up a custom domain to control your identity

Good luck with your case.
Does unemployment benefits still demand you apply for X number of jobs?

Could be a cause.
I'm torn on this matter. A part of me wants to believe that a fully acknowledged state of emergency privacy exception, organizationally siloed and bounded by well defined purpose and expiry, could be less erosive in the end than than something that tries hard to dance along the borders of regular privacy expectations and sets the new "acceptable" by precedent.
This sounds like an unfortunate domino effect, where our legislation forces the unemployed to jump through ridiculous hoops, and in desperation to get $$ they start passing out resumes like hotcakes. To me they are a symptom of a broken system, and I want to direct my ire at the government rather than them.
It really isn't. Teaching newbies to venerate JSX and React is far more harmful in my opinion: it does a really good job of hiding what's actually going on.

These days vanilla JS DOM APIs are pretty straightforward. It's well worth learning them and using them on small projects where a library like React is absurd overkill.
There are far more deaths in Italy and France then statistics show...

> On Tuesday night, the health authority in the Grand Est region said two-thirds of its 620 old people’s homes had been affected by the coronavirus pandemic and 570 residents had died.

> Those 570 people are not recorded in France’s official coronavirus death toll, which reached 4,032 on April 1, but so far counts only those who have died in hospital.

> In an Italian retirement home in Mediglia, outside Milan, 52 of the 152 elderly staying there had died from Covid-19 infection by last week.

> In the province of Bergamo, 2,060 deaths were attributed to the virus in March. However L’Eco di Bergamo, a local newspaper, found that a total of 5,400 deaths occurred in the province in March, up from just 900 in the same month in 2019.

https://www.ft.com/content/58ece0fb-d297-495e-8889-da216410f...
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Remote: Only considering fully REMOTE roles at this time.

Willing to relocate: no

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Email: Justin.Crandell.Developer@gmail.com

Again, I am ONLY considering fully REMOTE roles at this time.
This totally contradicts another study [1]. They found that the virus is "viable and infectious in aerosols for hours and on surfaces up to days (depending on the inoculum shed)."

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973
For those living in cities that are locked down, what do yall do about daycare? In NYC, my daycare isn't reimbursing fees, so we're continuing to be charged with a promise of "if insurance pays out, we'll pass it down." With 2 kids, that’s $5,000. Assuming they’re closed for 3 months total, that’s $15,000 down the drain. Now, I get that they're a small business, but their problem is that they can't exactly layoff their daycare workers because the governing body for daycares are pretty strict and getting new employees take a lot of time. On top of that, they have rents due. So, I get it.

But this begs a more fundamental question: When are we going to start pressuring insurance companies and rent-seekers to provide relief? Time and time again, all the bailouts of the past seem to benefit them, but during a time when we need insurance companies to pay out for business interruption instead of claiming "act of God, we exclude pandemics...etc.," we fail to bring them into the conversation.
They are sketchy:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=palantir+cambridge+analytica
While many people will likely get very sick, they only stay that way for ~2-6 weeks. Further, around half of people below 50 will show minimal if any symptoms. So, while most non essential jobs are shut down we are likely to see a surplus of labor in terms of trucking etc.

My guess is plenty of essential jobs will have heavy overtime while many people are unemployed. Simply because the disruptions are going to cascade through individual factories very quickly. The economic impact is largely going to be a question of how much do we shut down to save lives?
The absolute population should only start to play a role once a significant part of the population is or has been infected. In all other cases the population density should be the only invariant factor that matters for the different infection rates.
OH GUUURL THEY DIDN'T

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The Testing Illusion
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A lot of military software is built with tax money.
> Treating any modeling we have of the impact of Covid 19 as reliable is an exercise in insanity.

In detail, yes. In general, you can still make some good back-of-an-envelope calculations.

Conservative estimates are that the coronavirus has a CFR of about 1% given adequate medical care (South Korea's statistics, where testing has been comprehensive enough that we should have identified any wide pool of asymptomatic cases), and another low estimate of its R0 factor is 2. Left unsuppressed, this implies that the disease would spread to infect about half of the population, and it would kill 1% of those infected.

For the United States, that implies that a "flattened curve" -- where mitigation prevents medical resources from being overwhelmed but does not fully suppress the disease's spread -- will kill about 1.6 million people.

Beyond that, we know that the disease requires intensive care at some multiple of the death rate (say 2x) and hospitalization at another multiple (say a further 3x). These estimates are reasonably consistent with New York's numbers (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/new-york-coronavirus...). Testing shortfalls could make these multiples worse, if there are hospitalized or ICU patients positive for the virus but not included in these totals.

Given overwhelmed medical services, we can presume that a large fraction (say half?) of ICU patients would die for want of care, and a smaller but still significant fraction of hospitalized patients would do the same (1/8?).

This implies that an un-flattened curve would have roughly triple the death rate, with the excess caused by inadequate care. With a 3% inadequate-care CFR, if left to run its course the disease would then kill about 4.8 million Americans.

> It's just to say that they are conservative and acting on knowingly incorrect information.

If policymakers are acting on "knowingly incorrect information," it's because their assumptions are too benign rather than too severe. I believe that my estimates above should be uncontroversial, and to the extent they err I've tried to err on the less-deadly, less-contagious side.
Yes, indeed and twrp, on my OnePlus3. New installs require complete wiping afaik.
Understanding fundamental browser behavior serves the purpose of optimizing CPU and bandwidth. Think of it as the bare metal of the browser
It also depends on people in Arizona laboring away to produce lettuce. What's your point? Nobody ever said that every job could be done from home.
Sad to see a former tea-vendor could not Recognize/Comprehend on sufferings of Common man in India http://archive.vn/KqDZA http://archive.vn/zXvad

Or is it Sadism (pleasure in suffering of others) manifested from Bigotry http://archive.vn/DnUav
> The hidden (not deleted) comments are hidden not because they contain criticism, but because of an unnecessarily harsh tone, which is unhelpful to anyone wanting to read up on the discussion at hand, and definitely not helpful for the motivation of anybody currently doing the unthankful work of maintaining pip.

I reread the thread last night and asked, Was I too harsh? Am I discouraging the thankless pip team? Obviously, I am biased towards myself, but no, I don't think I am the one doing the discouraging. They are the ones doing the discouraging.

Go back through the comments and look at who is PyPA official and who's not: the non-members have ideas and members shoot them down. It's not that complicated technically--there should be a switch called "require hashes" instead of an implicit requirement for hashes once you use one. But the PyPA devs just showed zero interest in understanding the problem or helping. Their first comment was that error message was fine, nothing to fix!!!

I ask myself, would I want to contribute a patch to pip? I contribute patches occasionally to OSS. Not every day, but every couple of months when something comes up that affects me. I would never bother. Why? It's obvious from their tone that the patch would be stuck in a queue and never reviewed. (This happened to a coworker at a former job. We maintained a patched version of pip for years because they wouldn't take our change.)

In contrast, I just submitted a broken patch to Go (I broke tests and said so in my patch) and the Go team took it and fixed the tests. Why did I bother to submit a broken patch to Go? Because it was pretty clear from the tone of the discussion that if I got the ball rolling, they would push it the rest of the way over the hill and I want the issue fixed in the next version of Go, so I submitted what I had even without going through and fixing all the tests (which I didn't have the expertise to do).

Now, this is not the same. Go is supported by Google and has money and developers, yada yada. But the Python Foundation is an organization. It has a payroll. It has official members. They could ask the EU for €5m grant to work with N devs for Y years fixing Python packaging… Whatever. I'm not in charge of PyPA, so it's not my problem.

But I do object to the gaslighting in implying that we, the users, are discouraging the poor, unthanked PyPA devs. No, they don't want to be helped, so they put out the vibe to make it clear we should leave them alone.
If you’re super early stage and all development is outsourced, you may want to hire someone on a contract basis to evaluate the state of the software and make recommendations.

This is typically a 1-2 week contract. Find someone trusted by friends who are technical.

There are also hired-gun contract CTOs whom you can bring on for 2-12 weeks to accomplish this and other things to set you up for technical success or begin bringing development in house. Among those is advice on whether in house vs outsourced development is best for your case; whether to throw away the first version of the codebase; and more.)
That's a reasonable concern, IMO.
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And can that be opensource as well. What's your point?
As someone who has been involved in technical hiring for over 18 years, I'm very excited to start using this platform. What I love most about this platform is the ability of candidates to get a glimpse of what it will be like working for company before they ever talk to a person. Allowing candidates to peer into your company will make sure you're connecting with the right candidates.
OpenVPN and Keycloak: Link Your VPN Infrastructure with Your SSO
> the main question of philosophy

Well, philosophy is known to ask questions for which there are no answers. As to (theoretical) physics, I think we should look at it first and foremost as a computational tool (similar to applied mathematics) which is the way it has been since Newton, then it becomes clear that physics does indeed help understand "how everything is" - in the sense that it helps us predict the results of experiments, and I am not sure if it even makes sense to talk about a "higher level of understanding" than that. A map is definitely not a territory, but it can indeed be (and will always remain to be) both "true" and "false" to a certain degree; similarly, no one in their right mind would say that physics is, should, or can be equivalent to the reality (aspects of) which it merely reflects.
Austria 8.1% Feb 2020 -> 12.2% Mar 2020

Philippines 4.5% -> 5.3%

Belarus 0.3% -> 0.2% (???)

per https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/unemployment-rate

Israel 18.6% 3/24 to 24.4% today - https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-unemployment-in-israel-up... and https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/The-number-of-unemployed...

I'm not sure why Israel has their numbers available so quickly.
This is an interesting coincidence, because I just started drafting a 'defer' paper. In general, this is not an abuse of my position. I would be happy to collaborate with you (or anyone else in the community) to develop papers and champion them to the committee. They would have to be sensible ideas, which both of yours are too.
At my company the kids have become an addition to our meetings. Babies on laps and toddlers drawing on the whiteboard in the background.

It's definitely making changes to productivity and I feel for the new parents.
For language dependent solution, https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-ipfilter looks alright.

You could try .htacesss or nginx proxy to block certain ip ranges for language agnostic solution.

https://www.maxmind.com/en/home provides ips mapped to location but I don't think you will find anything accurate for states.

Another would be to get location data from the client and send it to backend to decode and see if the user is in correct state. (Of course, someone could sniff that but people can already change their ips).
NYC residents don’t need help, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, and if you can’t make it, leave and free up some real estate for those who can.
> "Governments are very weary to permit any union to become politically important for historic reasons. And any wise union thinks twice before getting involved in politics."

An interesting notion, but not at all reflective of the way unions relate to politics in the US or Europe at least.
How you deal with route leaks
Just yesterday Ben Thompson suggested that Zoom:

> “ Freeze feature development and spend the next 30 days on a top-to-bottom review of Zoom’s approach to security and privacy, followed by an update of how the company is re-allocating resources based on that review.
No, but I’m adding less ambitious roles to the search that also incidentally pay less. So far, market rates seem to be holding steady.
> Editors believed their magazines could change lives

Like TV they have, and also been a force of good.
Great job Cortex team!
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This is the careers page. If you want to talk about a potential positions with an SE, you can email me mathew.leland@clearme.com
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> technical lead on a project is also determined sometimes by other factors - for example:

You're arguing 2 very different concepts with the GP, he made the case (quite elegantly) that a leader is a set of behaviors and you're ignoring all of that and stating "nope, it's a job title".

I'd recommend you re-read their comment.