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> One commenter here is asking for more, for punishment, another demands their security team be fired. And I mean, if someone wants to try to sue Zoom for misusing the term E2EE then go for it, but obviously Zoom can't "punish itself" in a blog post, and pinning it on a few bad engineers feels like a scapegoat.

A portion of the development community loves to talk about blameless post-mortems and a blame-free culture until a tech company like Zoom does something they don't like.
What? A social network that pays you crypto coin?
gawk is pretty much everywhere now that awk sees substantial use, and presents rather great enhancements over POSIX awk[1]. I usually don't think that GNU tools make much sense to focus on, but gawk is something that's, generally-speaking, worth doing so. Especially given that it runs on almost everywhere under the sun.

[1] http://www.skeeve.com/awk-sys-prog.html
*right (unless wordplay was intentional)
What is a Kubernetes ingress, actually?
Even when they return, they’ll be under more debt, and their disposable income will be lower.

Banks might benefit from that, but they’re simultaneously getting hammered by low interest stimulus loans.
They weren't looking at the effects on mortality. They looked at TTCR ("the return of body temperature and cough relief, maintained for more than 72 h") and radiological changes. They found a decently large effect in both of these.

The meaningful conclusion is "Considering that there is no better option at present, it is a promising practice to apply HCQ to COVID-19 under reasonable management."
We could put a requirement that your signal have a certain meaningful information density.
>With Zoom's LinkedIn Sales Navigator integration, you’ll build connections and instantly gain insights about your meeting participants.

Sounds pretty creepy. I assume participants have to opt into this?
It's not encrypted "end-to-end" if it can be decrypted between those two ends.
The long term scars of this upcoming Depression will be unlike anything anyone under 70 has experienced. And the scars will be long lasting.

My mother in law used to use Cool Whip containers for leftovers. When we'd visit, she'd send us home with food packed in them. Usually stuff like mashed potatoes, but often good stuff too. And when we'd visit her in a few weeks/month, she'd ask where her containers were. This was a generation that saved EVERYTHING. The idea of throwing something out was disrespectful. Waste was the worst of many mortal sins. All because of the Great Depression.
Sounds like most companies. Which is even more concerning
This news story raises several big red flags.

This story was reported by Laura Ingraham on Fox News. Her tweet promoting this as a "cure" was immediately withdrawn by Twitter as "misleading". The 40 minute video interview with Zelenko, again on Fox News, was conducted not by a medical reporter, but by Rudy Giuliani. Zelenko goes on to make numerous huge dire public health predictions -- none of which a family practitioner has any business suggesting, especially in public on a national news outlet.

As always, consider the source of the information.

It's also very important to note that Zelenko was treating 700 unhospitalized patients; these were not cases severe enough to admit to a hospital. He treated them from his home (since he lost a lung to cancer years ago). So he never actually physically met with any of those 700 patients to monitor their progress.

In fact it's likely that many of these patients never tested positive, but simply self-reported as positive, further diluting the 'trial'.

And because 80% of positive COVID-19 cases are minor or even asymptomatic, the number of his patients that really _needed_ treatment falls from 700 down to, at most, 140 (20% of 700). That's a much smaller treatment effect that a large number like 700 would suggest.

It's also important to note that, apparently, Dr Zelenko treated sick people with medications that were NOT approved for the target disease. And he did so apparently without approval from any higher public health authority. In short, it appears that he experimented on his patients without authorization to do so from a public health or research authority.

Zelenko is a family medicine doctor, not a specialist in infectious disease or research. Thus it's very unlikely he wrote up an experimental design with proper safeguards, much less got it approved. With such poor experimental controls, it's impossible to interpret his results. What's more, if any of his patients later incur harm (like heart attacks from the chloroquine), such a laissez-faire approach to medicine will invite lawsuits galore.

No. Anecdotal evidence alone is NEVER enough.
For food, fuel, and other essentials? If stuff like that starts getting disrupted to the point that people are actually dying, you can bet that we are going to lift our shelter-in-place. I have seen no evidence of that being borne out at all.

> I think this is closest to actual doomsday since the peak of Cold War

I agree, but I think that more speaks to the relative safety and stability of the post-Cold War era than any particularly huge danger from the pandemic. 2 million deaths is terrifying and we should do what we can to prevent it - I don't see any evidence that this is the lead up to general societal collapse or even substantial supply chain disruption for things you need to survive.
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Agreed - it seems that if this goes on for more than a few weeks then we'll start to see "cascading failures", first in the form of higher default rates, then the banks creaking under the strain of broken assumptions.
The problem with frameworks is that they tend to drive the functionality of the site itself. It's easy for developers to start thinking in terms of what fun new things the framework allows rather than what the site actually needs.

I think frameworks are great, but you have to develop a self restraint from using every bell and whistle that's in it.
I mean for any big tech company, its not that cheap. I made $42.50 an hour plus a housing stipend when I was an intern, and I don't think that I did very much. A lot of the reason that companies do that is that paying an intern about $20k for the summer and converting them to a full time employee after graduation is cheaper than what they would spend to hire someone through the interview process and stuff like that.
Also, you don't need to decrease mortality to have a huge benefit from a treatment. If you just get people recovering faster, you've probably indirectly saved many lives!
Svelte is a compiler for vanilla JS with no runtime like react has, so I guess in a way you are writing vanilla JS?
> It doesn't mean it isn't E2E though.

E2E encryption simply means that messages are only decrypted at the endpoints. That certainly isn't true of iMessage in China, and it might not even be true for some users in the US — we have no way of knowing because the protocol makes no guarantee against it.
document.querySelectorAll?
Is it really? I only have two direct data points, but I (government contractor) and my brother (large company) are both still fully employed with no immediate risk of unemployment, reduction in salary, etc.

Just look at the numbers. 20% unemployment, while horrific in both human and economic terms, also implies 80% employment. When nearly everyone in the hospitality industry is out of a job, I have to think that some other industry is doing relatively better or the numbers would be even worse.
How would you keep the baseline protections reasonable enough so every startup and tech department would be proud to support it?

I see a lot of ‘Made in NY’ startups, even open source stuff use that brand, it feels like developer community is ripe for something like this.
Ahh gotcha, I see now. I definitely think something is better than nothing in this context and would help slow and/or reduce transmission in general! Just wasn't sure if I had missed something or what have you.
Believe it. My deductible is 2500 of which Microsoft pays 1k. Lots of more senior folks bemoan the lack fo the Cadillac plan they used to get.
How is this just starting? Here in Singapore, employers have been required to do twice-daily temperature checks for months.

This is the lowest of low-hanging fruit.
I can see a parallel universe where the military shows up and "fortifies" critical supply chain locations like this, and they're the ones with the temperature checks and gate security.

Not sure we're there yet. But I keep thinking about how, "given the lag time in this disease, appropriate response should look like an overreaction."
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wow!! zoom you were better off not having written that blog. you guys are some shady assholes.

Everything from the text to the graphics are intended to mislead and obscure. I don’t think i’ve seen a company act in such bad faith since theranos was a thing.
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> SNES graphics has aged really well!

Exactly! and even more so with the filters in modern emulators. Along with the funky cool music, many SNES games are easily on par in the looks department with most mobile games, so kids won't be turned off by the first impression or anything.

If you have kids sitting bored at home, consider repurpos an extra/older PC or Mac [0] as a pseudo-console + emulator for the SNES (and other platforms).

[0] http://openemu.org
It frees up all the homes they live in, cars they drive, etc. We won't have to provide them health care, food, clothing, and luxury items. Once you retire you're a drain on the economy because you are consuming stuff but not producing anything.
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This is also how the PSP runs PS1 games - by essentially being a PS1 and loading the game data from UMD or Memorystick.
The worst part is talking to people who think he supports it. The Dem primary about a year ago looked like the CPUSA primary; M4A was table stakes for every candidate. But nah, everyone had asterisks on what they actually meant by that.
Context and audience matter. If you're getting up in front of a bunch of people and advising them that it's "just like the Flu" you're doing damage.

If you're invoking the flu as a parallel for illustrative purposes with an informed audience then it's pedantic to call it out.
I am hoping more grocery stores near me are taking similar steps. This was the first time I've gone to the store in 2 weeks, so it's possible others are doing the same as well by now. The last time I went to a bigger store near me (Marianno's) was 3 weeks ago and they weren't doing any steps like this or limiting items per purchase yet.
How do you propose the People should resist a despotic government. Supposing, as we must, the government literally becomes tyrannical, how do propose people resist it at that point?

That is the whole reason we have a 2nd Amendment. That's what it's about.

We went in with everything to Iraq and Afghanistan and did we subdue them? No. Why not? Because they had guns, and with guns, they acquired further weaponery to fight us; No other reason.

So you remove all the guns from "people who shouldn't have them" and how do you propose people should resist a tyrannical government?

Serious question, I am not mocking you.
How can this Social Network for entrepreneurs pay you 500 coins just for signing up and then give you faucet payments every time you post, comment, blog, or do any other activity on the network?
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BA isn't asking anybody for a bailout. They have been lobbying against bailouts for the industry.
Maybe you can look at Sign In with Apple, it works native and for websites too.
https://developer.apple.com/sign-in-with-apple/
Since it's mostly tech-savvy people here that want something else and I'm assuming it's an oauth process, perhaps github and/or gitlab?
...because their workers are striking across the country:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/amazon...

Labor organizing - it works!
Ahh thanks. A lot of times you use these fancy frameworks and don't know what's going on at a lower level. Understanding this makes you understand the fancy frameworks faster.
anti-temperature perfectionism is what got us into this mess. having quick, imperfect tests and good follow up brought South Korea under control.

anti-test perfectionism means the entire west is shut down. we only had so many perfect tests, so we tested almost no one.
If you go entirely without coverage you'll likely still have to pay a fine on your taxes, though it's probably less than COBRA.
No one knows. This is an entirely unprecedented event.
If you assume a 1.55% tax rate for UI, you will contribute about a week of unemployment per year of work (at least in S.C.) at 70k taxable income after a modest administrative overhead of 60%.

If you manage to work from 25 to 65 at an average of $70k per year, that’s almost a year worth of unemployment.
Another killer is that kids expect much more from a computer nowadays. Being able to move around a block on the screen was something that you could impress your nerd friends with, but today, what can you possibly program in a few lines of code to impress kids?
What's the setting for hardware video encoding in Firefox? media.webrtc.hw.h264.enabled or media.webrtc.platformencoder?
I thought here in the west that it was well-established that temperature checks and mask do not work against the corona?!
Those of us who manage to keep our income will have a lot of disposable income, since we're basically removed transit, eating out, entertainment or vacations from our budgets.

But there will definitely be fewer places to spend it.
I'm not anti-copyright. I'm very much in favor of commercial infringement remaining illegal.

The argument that piracy doesn't hurt sales is reductive and unhelpful.

Of course it hurts sales in the sense that if you could somehow invent a perfect DRM that is unbreakable, more people would buy things. But it's also true that not all pirates are lost sales. Some people if stopped by DRM just won't consume the content at all.

But more importantly, since piracy can't be stopped, the debate is moot. We have to accept it as widespread and inevitable rather than debate what would happen if we could stop it.
How many lines is react?
In Poland only 3 customers per checkout are allowed in the store(so if the store has 5 manned tills, only 15 customers can be in the store). Also all customers and employees have to be wearing gloves while.inside the store.
You _should_ think about heat pumps for HVAC in your home, especially if it's well-insulated (if not, think about insulation and heat pumps). But you should buy one made by Mitsubishi or Fujitsu, which are already amazing.
Remember, it's a ratio. What matters isn't the raw number of missed cases, it's the ratio of missed-to-detected cases versus uncounted-to-counted deaths.

If Italy has missed half of its deaths but also half of its total cases, the fatality ratio would remain the same. To bring its CFR down to the level of South Korea, you'd have to make the implausible assumption that Italy has caught nearly all of its deaths but missed more than 85% of its total cases.
Flagged because all this article is, is some shallow quotes from Elon's Twitter and statements like "people are speculating how it works!" There is no new information nor interesting analysis.
You could buy a mini split heat pump from mitsubishi today. Five units of heat for every one of electricity. Rock solid reliability. I'm not sure it needs reinventing. What it needs is a better service industry so you can get them installed and maintained cheaply. Cheap installation, maintenance and repairs of the heat pumps we already have, that would change the world.
I really don’t understand quite what’s going on here - most home heating and cooling in my country has used heat pumps for years, isn’t that the case in the US?
The entire 10 paragraph article is based around a single tweet from Musk and doesn't explain a single thing about how the heat pump in the headline works.
Isn't the point to be able to sustain someone until they can get another job? What's the point of giving someone enough money to pay their mortgage but not enough to eat, or enough to feed kids?

There's more expenses to living than mortgage and utilities. Food, health care, home repairs, funerals, car repairs, etc.
The side effects were a headache and a rash, neither one serious. The worrisome side effects of HCQ are also given in the paper: "Retinopathy is one of the major adverse reactions of long-term therapy with HCQ. Besides, patients with rheumatoid diseases treated with HCQ occasionally experience arrhythmias."

Luckily, long-term use of the drug isn't necessary here because the immune system successfully responds with antibodies to fight of the virus, so retinopathy isn't an issue. Also, as the paper states, "Fortunately, deciding on individual treatment plans scientifically, monitoring adverse reactions timely, to avoid overdose, short-term application of HCQ is relatively safe."
> But the app hasn't grown like we had hoped.

It really looked like they made the app and just sat tight and kept their fingers crossed. There were no promotions, no cross app integrations, no call for partnerships (for example with gated community), etc.

Google Product Management is something I always wonder about - I have experience working with the ones in Microsoft and Amazon, and I suspect PM culture in these places are vastly different than in Google.
Not so secret Startups that get funded and fail to pay their contractors
Lets just get this out there, judgements are basically worthless. They're nearly impossible to enforce, they're easy to get around and they are primarily a cost for the person who is already out a paycheck.

What are some of your horror stories about companies that have failed to pay?

I'll go first:
I've had a engineering group stiff me $750 and my code is still in production now.

I've had a consultant pay half invoices on time, then stiff me and the client $20,000+ and disappear. Shady dude.

I've had a customer pay all invoices, the final $600 is still unpaid since August 2019.
They were funded 3 days after the final invoice was sent. They are currently in talks for a 1 million seed round.

3 projects, 3 products i've written and participated in that failed to pay their bills.

Who's next?
A 70 year old today was born in 1950. What have they experienced that's worse than this? I think this is going to be unlike anything in living memory.
No chance we go back to ReCAPTCHA. We’d been concerned with the privacy implications of using a Google service for years. Then Google changed their policy to switch ReCAPTCHA from being free to a paid service. They have every right to do that, but it would have imposed >$10M in costs just to support our free customer base, which was untenable. That was the kick in the butt we needed to finally get off Google’s service. We moved to hCAPTCHA as at least a stopgap. Ultimately, our goal is to eliminate any overt CAPTCHA entirely. However, I will say I’ve been very impressed with hCAPTCHA’s responsiveness and willingness to rapidly innovate based on feedback from users — something that, even at our scale, we had a hard time getting from Google.
> They should shut down until they can get face masks for all employees and make them mandatory. The article says they won't arrive until next week. And they should really be using some alternative fabric mask, rather than surgical masks which should go to healthcare workers.

And all the people ordering from Amazon? I would assume that on the whole, Amazon is better than every member of the public physically going out and shopping at a store.
That argument is just turtles all the way down. How did those people get educated? How was correct dosage and drug interactions determined in the first place? How was purity enforced? At some point, you're either trusting unverified word of mouth, or you're verifying with the same type of data that the FDA is responsible for collecting and verifying.

There's groups that advocate feeding bleach solutions to cure autism. [0] Should I ask those people? How about the ones that believe vaccines cause autism? We already know we get an opioid crises and overdoses when people self-administer those...

[0] Seriously, I wish I was joking. Search for "autism mms".
> It's a perverse incentive to getting people back to work

Unemployment isn't forever and the additional $600/week is only for the current pandemic situation and expires as of July 31. This is not a windfall for those who are now suddenly without a job.

But more importantly, someone who has just been laid off has close to zero employment options right now. They might be able to find a short-term job at a grocery store or Amazon but if they're over 50 or have any sort of health issues that's probably unwise. And even if someone is willing to risk it they're unlikely to get the position anyway, no matter how qualified, because those few positions are absolutely flooded with applicants[1].

There cannot be a "perverse incentive" (or any incentive at all) to stay home and collect unemployment when that is a person's one and only option.

[1] https://abc13.com/heb-who's-hiring-houston-jobs-covid-19/606...
HDHP and HSA are the same playbook as moving from defined benefit pensions to defined contribution 401k accounts.

It’s a lot easier to reason about on the company balance sheet with the later at the cost of increased complexity and less safety for the employees. But they do love to spin the “triple tax benefits!!!!” (In the case of HSA) to try and convince people this is a great change.

The old Microsoft Premera plan was stupendous as in you never thought about it, (nearly) everything was covered.
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How to Deploy More Complex Microservice Apps with Managed Kubernetes
Too bad, like most other solutions, Jitsi, by default, shares screen at 5 FPS.
"descend into a tangle of tracking dependencies by hand."
What is your definition of "by hand"? What constitutes by hand and what does not constitute by hand?
>How is this just starting?

I wonder if this is because of shortages of masks.
My parents had Kaiser growing up, I took my current job in part because they offered it. Kaiser is awesome.
I can't believe I have to say this, but the POTUS is not some hacker news comment. What they say has large and far reaching consequences and they shouldn't be spouting off about anecdotal evidence. Their comments had already caused a shortage of HCQ, and led to at least one death.
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where's the hassle? or the lack of shine? it works better than any other proprietary service
> How is this just starting?

This question bears repeating. A lot. I'm baffled.
Do you have some kind of source for that? I'd love to read more about it!
So re-brand it. How about ‘collective’? Bernie Sanders literally lost the election because he couldn’t rebrand socialism and instead called it socialism.

I also don’t thing developers need a traditional labor union. We probably need baseline guidelines where non-compliant companies would be seen as ‘very lame, avoid’. Similar to a coding standard.
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Unfortunately, it’s becoming more clear that the government-science bodies like the CDC and the WHO have been spreading inaccurate information.
I’ve been using this tool with a 10 person team and it’s -awesome-

I love the focus and clarity it brings to our work. And I am so glad to have a much better sense of peace while working at my computer than when I’ve used other tools for collaboration.