skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But did that have more to do with the Beatles agreeing to it rather than anything else? I was under the impression that Apple had wanted to make the switch much earlier.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/business/06apple.html
How would the dynamism and expressivity of something like Django port to Nim? I love the whole declarative paradigm of the Django forms and models API. Is Nim good at this kind of DSL-ish plasticity?
The addition of features like HTTP-based adaptive bitrate video, zero-trust networking, the cloud, and content delivery networks have prepared the internet to handle the unprecedented usage we're seeing.
This is not a specific project per se, but more so a suggestion on how to layout a simple C++ based project and an associated Makefile:

https://www.partow.net/programming/makefile/index.html
> The social distancing measures are NOT the cause -- in the absence of them we'd be doing even worse off in the long run.

I don't share your high level of certainty about that.

I don't believe an uncontrolled pandemic would have caused the amount of business closures and layoffs and mass unemployment the lockdowns have already caused. It would certainly be bad for business, and there would be some layoffs, and we would almost definitely have a recession, but many businesses that are now closed would have remained open, motivated purely by self-preservation.

Even now we see people out and about, even though the government tells them to stay home, and I don't believe that would change very much if the disease was uncontrolled. The rich can afford to stay at home, but the poor need to go to work. Self-preservation includes the desire to earn an income.

Hopefully we don't find out later on that the total amount of human suffering caused by the lockdowns outweighs the suffering caused by the disease. I think it probably won't, but we need to consider the possibility.
Kurzarbeit is described 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." on Wikipedia.

That article also states that you can participate in training, which will actually give you the chance to maintain your income. Pretty cool, I think.
I'm sorry to hear that dude.

Haskell is a demanding language, so you're almost certainly a pretty senior dev. If so, consider volunteering to help organizations during the downtime. Worst case, if you can't get that dream gig back it will certainly make your resume stand out when you're looking for your next thing. Best of luck.
I have seen a few seriously sourced articles discussing the possibility of various forms of airborne transmission during certain stages of certain strains. If stuff like this is the reality then the truth is that social distancing can't be as effective as we'd like, even on top of whatever inherent flaws it has, but it's probably still the best/only advice that can actually be given, taking our woeful preparedness into account. Masks probably should have been the recommendation from day 1 but clearly economic priorities and lack of skilled preparation and leadership overruled longer term judgment.

It seems to me some are expecting business as usual to resume quickly because under normal circumstances, where the heads of each department hadn't been chosen for their desire to shut it down ASAP, that is probably more what would happen, but the reality of today's government is vastly different. I completely agree they're trying to slow roll the actual truth here.
If it was a valid marriage when entered into and when the green card was issued and the couple is still married at the time of filing the I-751 petition, then there's really nothing at all to worry about or prepare for now, until it's time to file the petition.
Maybe, but IMO it would be easier to enforce social distancing using processes for employees than what I'm seeing at grocery stores amongst a disperate group of self-centered jerks.
It's really just an extension of the widely-used free lunch program in schools, which was already provided year-round. The only difference now is that adults can partake too; I wonder how many will. I'm not exactly raring to eat public school cafeteria quality food if I can afford alternatives.
Headline: Italy’s Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported

https://www.wsj.com/articles/italys-coronavirus-death-toll-i...
Is there somewhere I can read more about that?
This is being downvoted by autistic Silicon Valley. Death is awaiting your doors, regardless of your race, sex, condition, or money. Be more human, or humanity will not forget your behavior in the future.
This may be Apple's first real response to the checkm8 vulnerability. It had already been fixed on the current iOS devices as of its disclosure, but the T2 chip is still shipping (and is currently on computers that will last for a decade versus phones that last two years) with no fix AFAIK.

Apple could fix T2s going forward, but it would require a BootROM change not just a software update.
This is actually the case for new york kids in school allways.
Popular treatment: Engines of Creation, Drexler 1986.

There are newer options, but this is basically the beginning of post-Feynman Nanotechnology.

Version 2.0 (2007) of the book is a free PDF: https://web.archive.org/web/20140810022659/http://www1.appst...
That isn't the point the OP is trying to make; they're saying, correctly, that Netflix limits the resolution to 720p/1080p in browsers like Firefox.
what is there to even say at this point. everyones mad at zoom; we hit critical volume for mob mentality and now no amount of discussion or reason matters.

should they have marketed it is e2e when sometimes its not? of course not, theyre wrong.

do you fucking care? do you need more than one hand to count the number of products that are e2e encrypted? if you use the definition of e2e in the article, nothing apple does is e2e either. does anyone else that's not in tech even understand what encryption is at all, much less e2e?

they use a shitty encryption scheme when they do e2e? theyre wrong and should do better.

do you care? your threat model is that someone knows your meeting, is in place beforehand, intercepts the encryption, decodes it, and then spys on your conference?

this couldn't be more of a penny-wise, pound-foolish scenario. why are we still talking about this. please stop
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No, the worst case scenario is much worse than that. Hospitals won't have room to take care of most people with the virus or other illnesses for that matter, and many will die as a result of just that. The hospitalization rate is quite a bit more than 1%, and that becomes the death rate when no hospital can take care of you. These have all been repeated in the media many, many times by now. I'm in fascination of how people are receiving the memo so slowly in 2020.

Not to mention 1/100 is enough for a lot of people to result in at least one person they know dying.
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> It is somewhat amazing to me that politicians don't seem to understand this.

Since we are now awaiting implementation, politicians are no longer in the picture. They understood what needed to be done, and did their jobs. It is now up to the bureaucrats.
This is a bit of shameless plug, but seems relevant as its about providing end to end encryption for Jitsi. My company provides a VPN product (really a full-fledged API driven SDN) that you can plug containers into. So a network edge that supports plugins. We just spun up a Jitsi plugin. All packets run over the encrypted overlay network for VPN clients. We'll post a little blog post on it soon. PM me if it sounds interesting.

vpn: https://www.cohesive.net/workforce-service-edge
network edge plugins: https://docs.cohesive.net/docs/network-edge-plugins

edit: And we're offering expanded free licenses during the pandemic, https://www.cohesive.net/blog/helping-business-teams-stay-co...
Or maybe an icon in the status bar indicating the camera being in use.
I understand that you're ready to shell out other peoples' resources/money.

The question is: Are you ready to shell out your own to achieve your vision? Otherwise, you're probably not very committed to it, yet expect others to be.

Also, how well did this vision work for Mao, Stalin, and Chavez?

Providing people the opportunity to eat, without working, and to multiply in free government housing?

That sounds like a recipe for a dire population explosion which is unable to support itself, and lives off of an artificial, subsidized welfare system ripe for collapse as soon as people aren't forced to pay into it (those people who work).
Sorry to hear that. And I agree with your conclusion. However, it could be a good time to work on a side project (for no money) if you have any ideas, especially something that might help get another gig after the furlough. Best of luck and stay safe.
Oracle now has spatial that is included on the basic license and graph that is paid. Spatial solves a lot of GIS needs, but lacks some features, in special 3D objects.

MSSQL has a GIS package included in the basic database. I'm not sure how featurefull it is now, but last time I looked (years ago) it was missing a lot.

MySQL also has a GIS package included at the database. It's missing a lot of things.

The top of the line is, as usual, Postgres. But honestly, you probably won't need the difference.
I'm able to feed a family of 4 for <$500/mo. We eat lots of rice, pasta, etc. which you can get large quantities of, for cheap. Add in some proteins and veggies for variety and nutrition and we are well under $500/mo.
20% paycut here. This comes after being laid off a few months ago when Docker sold their enterprise version (sort of, the new company made us all offers but they have terrible benefits among other problems so most people didn't take the offer or only stayed long enough to find something else), so we're all a bit sad. There was then an immediate around of layoffs right after that (though thankfully my department wasn't affected).

At least we still have a job, and I'll take the pay cut if it means we don't have to make anyone else redundant, but I wish the employees had a seat at the negotiating table for any of this.
> In short: It's flattening the curve, not shrinking the area under the curve. The better we do it, the longer it will take.

That's too narrow of a view -- it assumes that we can't raise hospital capacity, that supplies shortages are permanent, that treatments won't be developed, that vaccines are vapourware. The point of flattening the curve is to give enough time for those things to be developed such that we can get hospitalization/death rates down and manage a higher rate of infections.
But what I see is a gargantuan drop-off. A much wider range of variation than you'd normally expect, and mostly partitioned to different segments of the business.

Painting with broad strokes, Microsoft's products are fairly consistently "fine". Lately perhaps they've skewed towards "pretty good". But generally you know what you're going to get. Whereas Apple's products can be anywhere from unparalleled to embarrassing.
Now, I don't think Zoom should have been advertising E2EE when it isn't.

But I think some people are still missing the general point that E2EE is fundamentally incompatible with general-purpose business/educational videoconferencing.

It works for Facetime which is designed for small groups exclusively using a Facetime app.

But the second you allow phone dial-in (virtually always a hard requirement), the second you allow cloud recording (which the article acknowledges), E2EE becomes meaningless, because the server itself necessarily becomes another endpoint.

For >99.9% of people this is fine.

For the <0.1% who might be the hand-selected targets of government spying, industrial espionage, or crime enforcement, then no, you shouldn't be using Zoom. But if that's a top priority for you, you weren't already using Zoom anyways -- I assume you'd be using auditable open-source encryption. You wouldn't have trusted Zoom marketing terms in the first place.
In a couple days, New York will probably release the number of meals served. Divide that by the population of New York and then multiply that by your $596 billion. Even if it's 10% (no way it will be this high), that's $60 billion, or around 9% of the budget, otherwise known as a "dent".
This person should be driven to somewhere that's not a craphole like LA.
Which is silly, considering that you can't purchase steaks or liquor using SNAP or Welfare. (Grocery stores denote items that can be purchased on governmental assistance programs, for example, look for WIC on the shelf price tag the next time you shop.)
I’m a bartender. At least 75% of my friends have been laid off. Not just bartenders, but servers, bussers, most cooks, managers, and everyone I know who works in hotels as well.
That’s different. When they started out the only thing coming to mind when someone said Apple was fruit. That changed, so they dropped the now redundant “computer”.
"Not to spread panic"

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

> One of the messages from Amazon employees concerned wearing masks in warehouses. According to the man who wrote to us, employees are prohibited from using them. Why? - Not to spread panic - he explains in an interview with Onet. - These are the top-down guidelines. The exception is a lady from a medical point, she alone can have a mask.

> Onet's interlocutor also said that until two weeks ago Amazon workers were also forbidden to wear gloves. - It has now been lifted. People can work in gloves, but only material ones, not rubber one. Why is it like that? I have no idea - says an Amazon employee.
Beeware makes native guis on all platforms, android will be ready soon.
Because the reason that you are unable to return is outside your control, in the end you should be fine but if at all possible, you should return to the U.S. within 12 months of departing.
It's not clear to me what you mean by "longstrings" from that page. Are you referring to the double-bracket quoted style?
The POTUS is the executive in control of making federal government GO. That's the structure of the government as per the constitution: congress passes laws, runs oversight, controls the pursestrings, and the POTUS implements the laws.

So having the House speaker talk about oversight and corruption: totally appropriate. This is her job.

Implementing the law and getting money out there: POTUS. Every single daily briefing that doesn't talk about how he is pushing to get money to people is a failure.

You're hedging your criticism under "politicians be like" but the real issue is "Republican politicians be like" -> An entire political party pushes incompetence in government, and now it's killing people.

Also, finally, anyone who is reading this and thinks of themselves as apolitical because it's messy: this is your fault. By abdicating your responsibility to building the political solution space, the void has been filled in by right-fundamentalist crazy people.
Apple has already changed their name twice. From Apple Computer Company to Apple Computer, Inc to Apple Inc.

The biggest part of their business has shifted from computers to phones but I doubt they expect the iPhone to be their biggest product in the future forever, so I don’t think they would pigeonhole themselves when their name and logo is so ubiquitous.
I don't know why a thrift shop would be classified as "essential". Here in Minnesota they are not.
> pound sand

High Court Judge : comply/co-operate or I will make an order to Nominet to suspend your domain at the DNS level until such time that you do.

I would be surprised if Google’s (presumably not cheap) UK legal reps would let them be so rash.
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You aren't accounting for the massive economic costs of all these extra unnecessary deaths.
If you are able to deal with existential threats without "feeling the slightest bit anxious or paranoid," you are very fortunate and not the intended audience :)

I agree, however, that planning is often helpful for reducing anxiety, insofar as it reduces uncertainty.
> 'Normal life' includes hundreds of thousands people dying of infectious disease each year that nobody notices.

I really think that people notices when a loved one dies, whatever the cause.

What makes you think that normal people just shrugs off the death of a loved one?

I am old enough to remember how many people used to die in traffic accidents and how much money, effort, and regulations where put in place to lower that numbers.

I am happily impressed by how much people, from doctors to retail clerks, are doing their part and how governments have moved the economy to support that in need.

Your divisive message is out of place and does not help.
Apple didn't inform users that battery replacements would make their sluggish phones fast again.
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You're implicitly arguing that SNAP should have fiscal cliffs. Fiscal cliffs are a symptom of a poorly designed welfare program.
It might make sense to look now - at the end of the scheme, there will be a huge flood of people all looking for jobs at the same time.
I'm not really sure what the distinction between "tools" and "applications" is. But yes, they're mostly mirrors of their internal tooling (or applications, if you prefer?) that they developed. I love the fact that political campaigns are developing software and are willing to give it away!
The placebo effect is already exploited day by day in every hospital, clinic and small primary care physician office.

The problem is the whole marketing narrative of Big Pharma is bad makes people less susceptible to that placebo effect, because they want more. But instead of paying for simply more time with a real doctor they want something special.

People want magic so bad. They already want just one more test to make sure, just a pill to fix it, make it better, to make it go away, to manage it.

And sure, who could blame people we know all of this about DNA and virus spike proteins and MRSA and so on, but our treatment options are not fundamentally available at that level. We are still far from being able to whip up a vaccine just from a drop of covalescent blood. Or from just the RNA of a virus.

And people are very easy to fool into the narrative that there is something fundamentally different that actually works. Ancient Tibetian knowledge. Energy, chakra healing, whatever.

And nobody stops anyone from going to the FDA and showing how better their treatment is than a pill. Or how their treatment plus a pill works wonders.

Yet "alternative medicine" doesn't do this. Why? Because they don't want to spend money on that. They like it in the shadows.
Folks in the developing countries don't have any safety net(no $1200 IRS check; no unemployment tax; etc). Most of them are day laborers or small scale business people selling food on the street side. If this will continue, many in the developed world, esp in cities, will struggle for food.
1) Would you be returning to the US to work for your H-1B employer. If so, without knowing all the facts, you should be fine. 2) I'm not sure what you are asking here.
...I just saw a comment somewhere on here, possibly in another post, of someone wondering why took so long to spread given asymptomatic + pre-symptom spreading.
they simply output HTML without consideration for the life cycle of a site, if any.

If you don't mind, as someone who is not familiar with react can you elaborate on the difference? What do you mean by life cycle of a site? In the template I use, I can organize all parts of a site as functions and compose/reuse them freely.
Zoom 'unsuitable' for government secrets, researchers say
"better document binary and add an intent to remove text data types"

For all-binary, the client would have to know about all data types and how to represent them in the host language. But that seems clunky. Consider NUMERIC vs. float vs. int4 vs int8: should the client really know how to parse all of those from binary? It makes more sense to optimize a few common data types to be transferred as binary, and the rest would go through text. That also works better with the extensible type system, where the client driver will never know about all data types the user might want to use. And it works better for things like psql, which need a textual representation.

The main problem with binary is that the "optimize a few columns as binary" can't be done entirely in the driver. The driver knows which types it can parse, but it doesn't know what types a given query will return. The application programmer may know what types the query will return, in which case they can specify to return them in binary if they know which ones are supported by the client driver, but that's ugly (and in libpq, it only supports all-binary or all-text). Postgres could know the data types, but that means that the driver would need to first prepare the query (which is sometimes a good idea anyway, but other times the round trip isn't worth it).

"Not having an inline cancellation (in same TCP/IP connection)"

This is related to another problem, which is that while a query is executing it does not bother to touch the socket at all. That means that the client can disconnect and the query can keep running for a while, which is obviously useless. I tried fixing this at one point but there were a couple problems and I didn't follow through. Detecting client disconnect probably should be done though.

Supporting cancellation would be trickier than just looking for a client disconnect, because there's potentially a lot of data on the socket (pipelined queries), so it would need to read all the messages coming in looking for a cancellation, and would need to save it all somewhere in case there is no cancellation. I think this would screw up query pipelining, because new queries could be coming in faster than they are being executed, and that would lead to continuous memory growth (from all the saved socket data).

So it looks like out-of-band is the only way cancellation will really work, unless I'm missing something.

"Multiple Result Sets... you just call the database alot"

Do pipelined queries help at all here?

"Named parameters are extremely useful for building up query parameters"

+1. No argument there.

"Protocol level language selection"

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this idea. I think I understand what you are saying and it sounds cool. There are some weird implications I'm sure, but it sounds like it's worth exploring.
I wonder where in the Bay Area this is (downtown SF?). I never see scooters in Mountain View and I don't really recall seeing them all over the place in Downtown San Jose either. The only place I've ever encountered them en masse was on a weekend trip to San Diego last year.
This isn't an accurate picture of the US Federal government.

Now that congress has passed the law, it's up to the EXECUTIVE BRANCH of the government to make it happen. There's a politician at the head of that - POTUS.

People wanted an outsider in the White House, someone who would "shake things up", and this is the consequence. This is what it means.

The POTUS can and should be making this implement faster.
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Hang in there!

What are y'all doing w/ Haskell? Is it regular ol' programming and someone just picked Haskell, or is it a use case where Haskell shines exceptionally well?
I'm not totally clear why this article enrages me more than anything else I've read this week. Maybe the short-sightedness on top of the injustice.
I remember when it was first launched - at the same time as the Mini and it was absolutely awesome. Then it rotted.
Hi Peter. I'm from Brazil and I've recently finished my Master's in the US and have been working in CS under opt for the last 6 months.
My company missed the H1-b deadline. Do I have any other options / anything else they could still do this year besides applying for the stem extension?