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Hello Jitsi dev, well done on terrific product. Can I float a feature request by you? It would be great if the mobile app, and maybe the web app via a safe subdomain, could prevent the use of short 'test' room names so as to avoid children accidentally getting a chatroulette experience? I'm a little hesitant to recommend it to my fellow school-parents as it stands.
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I've been pitching Metabase to small businesses for a while and think it is a great entry to business intelligence tools, and has been growing nicely as an open source project []. Firefox exposes a sqlite db and so this project is a nice way to demo some of the ways of using it.

[] https://github.com/metabase/metabase
Seconding this. If you live well within your means you can get through almost any crisis.
This article encouraged me to finally buy the iMac G4 I've always dreamed about.
Your tweets don't really say anything about the general case.

The death counts record the number of people who died after testing positive for this coronavirus. This isn't how deaths related to any other respiratory infection are recorded. There is upward pressure on the number from people with comorbidity for whom Covid-19 wasn't the primary cause of death, and there is also downward pressure on the number from people who died due to Covid-19's effects but were never tested. The relative magnitude of those different pressures is not known at this point.
This has - as far as I'm concerned - no place on HN, it is a Dutch centric affair.
> That's exactly what the southern slave owners tried claiming as well... and some slaves chose to stay because they believed the alternative would be worse.

That's not my argument. Of course, if a slave owner has to give up on their "property", they're not gonna provide housing, food and equipment to their former slaves anymore. The price of labor kicks in.

Perhaps that price is lower than keeping a slave, perhaps it is higher. There's some arguments as to why free workers are actually cheaper. In any case, that price is always in flux.

You're not going to discover that price while maintaining slavery, because the slaves have no opportunity to name their price. That's why the slave owner's argument is invalid.

By contrast, the workers at these farms do have the choice. Nothing forces them, besides their own economic situation. They have no claim to welfare, no other skill that would pay better.

> It doesn't mean we should support inhumane treatment of other people so that a handful of "Farmers" can get rich.

By and large, farmers don't get rich. They're under price pressure from the store chains that buy their produce. Those store chains don't get rich either, they're under price pressure from consumers. Margins are razor-thin.

We can all stop buying strawberries and let those farms go bankrupt, everything will be strictly worse.
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I should have elaborated, sorry. I'm actually trying to make the exact same point you are. People die, and there are sometimes various causes. In your case it was cardiac arrest that "masked" cancer or at least is only half of the whole story.

Now with many sars-cov-2 stories when you dig into individual cases you often find things like in the article: Two people died from a fall. They also had a positive test but I would argue the fall was definitely the major cause of death. They still are in the "died from" number almost all news outlets spew out right now.
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I'm working on a SaaS that has a feature that allows users to create forms that their customers can fill in.

On the back of a form submission, customers can configure actions to happen within the SaaS (e.g. create an event, update an item, send an email, invoke a webhook, etc).

We're looking to take this further and allow customers to be able to invoke other tools such as posting a message to a Slack channel or creating a Google Calendar entry.

We don't want to be stuck building out and maintaining a bunch of these custom integrations, we'd rather simply integrate an existing tool within our codebase (is Apache Camel an option here) or potentially back onto another SaaS that manages that for us.

A lot of this will be API-driven to begin with. Practically what I'm hoping to achieve (for an initial version at least) is the following:

"actions": [
{
"type": "SEND_EMAIL",
"options": {
"recipients": "{{response.email}}",
"body": "Hello {{response.name}}"
}
},
{
"type": "SEND_SLACK_MESSAGE",
"options": {
"channel": "#channel_id",
"content": "Hello {{response.name}}",
"token": "slack_token"
}
},
{
"type": "CREATE_GOOGLE_CALENDAR_EVENT",
"options": {
"date": "{{response.date}}",
"title": "Client Meeting: {{response.name}}",
"guests": "{{response.email}}"
"token": "google_token"
}
}
]

I'm familiar with tools such as Zapier, IFTT, tray.io. I was wondering if any of these are suitable for this use case. Or would something like Apache Camel (or something for NodeJS) be more suitable?
I wonder if there would be a way to do something like this but using WiFi access points that are available. The phone could track access points as they come into range (don’t need to connect) and time stamps and cross correlate with others. Seems a bit less intrusive and wouldn’t require Bluetooth but obviously there wouldn’t be as much coverage.
I guess "why" is the interesting question. This article shows that they sleepwalked into it, describing some of the events or documents that accompanied that. But it doesn't actually say why.

After there were more than a dozen cases discovered at one workplace in Bavaria, a consequence of one apparently healthy woman travelling from China to a training session, it is incredible that they didn't say "this is a highly contagious disease and given its consequences in China, we must be prepared" instead they said "we're prepared".

But why? What motivated the collective dropping of the ball? A commenter says of Denmark above, that they did well. But again, Denmark responded late - they locked down after Italy when coronavirus was spreading like hotcakes in Europe. It's just that they seem to have been lucky that it wasn't spreading in Denmark before they acted. In February it seems like all governments were saying "We'll be fine, nothing to worry about".

Why did Europe drop the ball? Are there lockdowns in China regularly that I'm not aware of, so this was a case of the boy crying wolf? Did the WHO need to say "this is a pandemic" before anyone was prepared to take it seriously?
This is because an increasingly large percentage of the people here have to deal with the dissonance of having to make their living in an industry and business culture that depends on those kind of practices and consequently rewards and promotes them.
You can take that one step further: all stats about the Coronavirus case counts are worthless. There is no country that has done a large enough random antibody test to be able to make a definitive statement about how far the virus has gone in infecting the population and the speed with which the situation develops is so high that any published numbers are outdated by the time they are committed to print or bits.
If those people would have survived without COVID-19, does the distinction really matter ?

In any case I am convinced that the number of victims is probably much higher.

There was an article where number of deaths was compared with previous years in towns around Bergamo. I cannot find the link now, so the numbers my be a bit wrong, but for example I remember that in a town of ~11k inhabitants, they had 150 deaths this March compared to the usual 20-30 of the previous years. This means that COVID-19 could have caused about 100 deaths while the official numbers say little more than 20.

EDIT: Found the article [1]:

"We checked the average of the previous years, in the January-March timeframe. In Nembro it should have been - in normal conditions - about 35 deaths. This years the municipality registered 158 deaths. 123 more than the average. Not 31 more, as it should have been according to the official numbers."

[1] https://www.tpi.it/cronaca/studio-nembro-numero-morti-superi...
I think specifically in Spain, there were a particularly high infection rate of frontline hospital staff.

Spain like the majority of European countries does not have issues like lack of staff training or not following state-of-the-art protocols. So it begs the question, are the infection control protocols that we currently have, safe enough to deal with this virus?

An interesting case-study is Cotugno Hospital, an infectious disease hospital in Naples, Italy. It has so far reported zero staff infections. Perhaps their 'over-the-top' protocol is what is required for all Hospitals when dealing with SARS-COV2?
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How is this explanation not adequate though? https://medium.com/@wireapp/we-do-use-variable-bit-rate-vbr-...

There's also the possible chance that AES is cracked without us knowing.
Is that true? I'm more worried about false negatives on connections. Two concerns (as a layperson):

1) Transmission via surfaces is thought to be important (afaik). You don't have to be in the same place at the same time to transmit.

2) My bluetooth seems pretty slow and unreliable when connecting to my headphones. Is it reliable for logging ~50 proximities during my trip to the supermarket?
Germany also does better than Italy and Spain and it has a bigger population.
The security solution was probably that the user had to type the account's PIN, and that it uses the phone line instead of the Internet. It's from 1995 (check the date of the Folha de São Paulo article above), not using encryption at all was very common back then; and even today, phone lines are still considered reliable enough that one can type the account PIN on it without any encryption (for instance: if I want to solve any issue with my credit card through the phone, I must type the full number on the card and the credit card PIN before the URA will connect me to an operator).
No Special or General Relativity - WTF?

OK found them hidden away under "models" - WTF again?
So, the short story here would be: EU proposed to help & coordinate action but individual governments failed to acknowledge/assess how unprepared they were (going to be), as they did not assess the threat properly. And their joint reports provided a false sense of security to the whole.

That there's a deep coordination/collaboration failure here is clear.

But how could several many governments/states all assess that much wrongly on their own capacity to face the epidemics?
Denmark has 18 deads per 1M people, on the european situation I would it's on the average. Infections started much earlier in Italy and Spain, most of the other countries had the advantage of learning from these 2 and having the time to prepare.
> I don't think privilege escalation is really related because that needs to modify state you should not have access to.

But in a capability-based OS, privilege is all about the keys you hold, no? So assuming a malicious process can copy keys from other processes, can the OS detect and prevent the malicious process from using the key?

I tried reading up on KeyKOS[1] and there was very little info on what exactly a key is and how it is verified by the OS, at least that I could see.

[1]: http://cap-lore.com/CapTheory/KK/Arch/
Well said. (Despite the final sentence's understandable but unnecessary parting shot.)
A little snarky, but I get your point. WASM does look more like a virtual machine than ASM to me.
Finger pointing won't solve the Covid-10 crisis, only collaboration will
love this!!! keep it up
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These are a blanket permissions for third party ad and affiliate (user tracking) scripts, so much for "targeted at organizations with IT departments" and "we do not sell you data"
sharing a timeline of access points and timestamps is somewhat similar to a timeline of gps coordinates and timestamps. there is a lot to infer from such data and can potentially reveal the identity of the person who got sick and shared their data
Yes. Remote in Eastern Canada includes Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec.

I'm in Toronto, for example.
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The elegance of the Apple Watch Series 5 crown with haptic feedback for scroll function.
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For more info check the Github issue with links to relevant issues in firefox bugtracker: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758
The same isn't actually true of, say, the widely-quoted flu stats that everyone has been comparing the coronavirus to. Flu deaths are generally measured in terms of excess mortality, that is the number of deaths that occur above the normal baseline level due to the flu.
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I don't agree with that. There's a spectrum between information being entirely uninformative and perfectly informative. Daily case headlines are pretty close to uninformative on their own, but the underlying case figures, in bulk, plugged into a model? It's certainly better than sticking your finger in the air.

Predictions don't have to be perfect to be useful, and while there is a debate to be had where the threshold is between a prediction that's confident to be useful and one that isn't, writing _all_ predictions and _all_ stats off because they're not perfect is a bit extreme.
> relatively rare in web development

not at all. from my previous experience with ruby i was using gems with compiled bindings to libraries for: mysql, memcached, json, xml, regexp and http. and probably some more i don't recall right now.
If you have cancer and you die from pneumonia then you died from COVID-19 and with cancer. Not the other way around.
Possibly. Also looks like (almost) all the critical comments towards this article get magically downvoted - seriously check it out. Legit question - what happens when your karma gets to zero? Do you get banned?
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> What does any part of this product have to do with discriminating against gay people?

It might not discriminate against gay people but it discriminates against child people (including people who have not moved out of their homes yet due to various reasons and are stuck in an ultra-conservative household)

> I find it absurd that some of the comments on this thread are implying that the act of blocking say a 2 year old from stumbling upon pornographic content is abuse.

I am pretty sure that they do not care about 2 year olds. More like they care about 13 or 16 year olds having censored internet access.
This is an awesome summary that should be placed on the python.org front page instead of all the fuzzy stuff that's there right now.
China did its best to keep the epidemic secret for at least several weeks, while buying medical supplies from Europe and other areas, draining them of their own reserves.
> But, initially, we created two default settings that were the most requested types of content people wanted to block: Malware (which you can block by setting 1.1.1.2 and 1.0.0.2 as your DNS resolvers) and Malware + Adult Content (which you can block by setting 1.1.1.3 and 1.0.0.3 as your DNS resolvers).

Not sure more people request to block malware or adult than request to block ads?

Where’s the Malware + Ads block like Zscalar, Adblock, and new crowd fave NextDNS.io?
I think all the X Lake names are taken form real lakes in the state of Oregon.
You can do local encrypted backups to a Mac, either via to iTunes (<10.15) or Finder (10.15).
That way we agree. However if you have cancer or break your neck and have a positive test, you should not be counted as "died from covid" - yet you are.
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You can't describe all this tight-coupling, and at the same time still claim it's fully separate.
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Well it seems that the same guy has actually also upstreamed it https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/11583
It’s akin to VW putting claims to be emissions compliant in their ads.
Most cases here in India are from Europe, the Middle East, and the US. These self-conceited nations really screwed us over in India (and now the idiots here are spreading it via Mosques).

Gee! Thanks guys! Great work!

Amusingly reddit is full of whining pricks from these very countries who were salivating at the possibility of millions dying here. Now, whatsmore, dim-witted Indians, being the loyal slaves of the Anglo-Saxons that they are, are now jumping on the "ChinaVirus" bandwagon of the American wingnuts...

The world really is an Orwellian cesspit.
The root cause failure was not complacency about medical supplies.

The root cause failure was complacency about the contagiousness and mortality rate and the failure to contain Covid-19 to China by stopping all international travel.
Source code is shared with partners of them program.

The page lists 130 members although it is unclear if that is the same as a partner.

Partial quote from halfway down the page:

"As a partner, you will:

… have access to our services and mechanisms.

… have access to our documentation and the source code of a reference implementation."
Well, seems like this confusion is inevitable, when two completely different (and incompatible?) projects use almost the same name, just because they are developed by the same group or for stronger brand recognition.
"Removed the attendee attention tracker feature."

Oh, I missed that one. https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115000538083-Atten...
Yeah using his own money to buy medical equipment.

"Fuck you asshole that is not the perfect equipment"

There are tons of tweets from doctors who are happy to get that stuff, but clearly fuck those asshole doctors. They should spit in his face and demand higher quality products.
Did you publish it to any Dutch news outlets or opinion platforms?
>This has - as far as I'm concerned - no place on HN, it is a Dutch centric affair.

Mah.

It seems to me like you can replace Netherlands with any other country and the government and/or scientific advisors to the government and/or the whatever structure that should have been prepared for these emergencies have shown the same or very similar behaviour:

1) minimize the danger (either in seriousness or sheer quantity of expected cases or both)

2) assure that everything is ready (when it isn't)

3) delay too much the whatever measures that have been taken
FWIW I enjoyed it at least.

(And for those that wasn't aware, parent is the author.)
Ad. 2 - it is not that bad: duration of proximity is correlated with both infection probability and connection probability.
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Wikis are intrinsicly hard to organize in a hierarchy. There is a search though.
I'll make the suggestion to repost it in Dutch and not English.
At the risk of being downvoted into oblivion, why?

You'd be jumping through so many hoops to set up a build pipeline for transpiling Typescript into C++, let alone writing a BSP library in Typescript to interact with the Arduino SoC. ( Which is vaguely interesting, I'd still call it a fool's errand though. )
You'd surely be much better off investing the same amount of time and effort becoming proficient in writing C for the target platform.
This exactly. No one cares. That is the end of the discussion for most people.

Techies might want to talk further to hear themselves blather on.

Everyone else moved on.
It's a good overview of the Dutch response. I found it interesting. Most such articles aren't written in English so this is far more accessible. If you didn't want us reading it you should have used Dutch :-)
That would require uniform reporting requirements between different countries, would require the healthcare system not to be so overloaded that they are not going to be able to comply with their reporting duties and so on. Sticking your finger in the air may actually be the preferred method.

A model's outputs can only ever be as good as its inputs. If you want to base your policy on what is effectively random noise then you are going to be wrong no matter what.
I switched from Mac to Linux a while ago. I compare the experience to living at home vs living in a hotel [1]: In a hotel (on Mac), everything is designed and cared for. But there's always an external agenda so you can't bring your own furniture. When you live at home (on Linux), it's less seamless and you need to do the dishes. But it's truly yours.

1: https://fman.io/blog/home-and-hotel/
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What I actually mean is if the standard protocol currently used in hospitals sees the health care workers as potential source of infections or only as potential infection targets.
It's complete and utter rubbish. The random and not-so-random slowdowns along with a general sluggishness of your inputs make for a really bad overall experience.

Given the speed of Nvidia Tegra which underlies the Switch and the amount of polish which their first-party titles receive, there's little to no excuse for releasing such a shoddy emulator.
NPM has excellent support for compiled extensions, despite being mostly used for web development.
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it does on the hangouts for business (ie google meet) but then only for up to 4 other users
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E2E encryption can be really resource consuming, especially with the amount of traffic used for video chat. You might not want this just because of a worse user experience.
The tone of your post doesn't come across as very professional. "when we got this rejection, we immediately posted it publicly" - were you one of the authors, contributors or involved in writing it?

I have read the paper, and the rejection notes you linked to, and I can't evaluate them (lack of time + lack of experience in this field) but they don't come across as snooty dismissals. Feels more like guys on all sides trying their best.
Change some names and this could be the UK.

In fact, it really seems like every country is following the same playbook. Ignore the problem, don't prepare, and then suddenly panic when things grow exponentially.

It's a story playing out in every country's media. Ventilator shortages, PPE shortages, half assed lockdown measures followed a few days later by more draconian lockdowns. The remarkable thing is just how predictable it is.
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That is how I found them, estranged from the other "theories" for some reason.
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The savegame support of ZSNES and the easy way to hex edit memory are still fond memories of mine.