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March 2020 Keep Calm and Corona (the game engine, no relation) On
You know what he means, don't be pedantic.
Epic point being made here. TypeScript is Vanilla JS as well because it outputs JS.
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Zocdoc is hiring in NYC and PHX
80% like their healthcare. I think a significant part of that 55% doesn’t realize that Medicare for all takes away their health insurance. It seems when people get educated on Medicare for all, it declines in popularity.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/245195/americans-rate-healthcar...
> The magic that was going to protect Europe from the virus was the same magic that protected Europe from SARS: The good weather.

I guess, if you completely ignore MERS.
... why would people wonder that? You expect a community of hackers to not nitpick? A group largely populated by programming people who are entirely accustomed to a single character changing the entire function of a statement and who frequently expect natural language to work the same way?
They probably would not even bid. Working on an OS project is fundamentally providing labor hours. Not high margin, no lock in, no investment and high profit tail on the business. It would end up going to little companies providing bodies at a low labor rate.
Hey dammit, we’re autistic programmers, not pedantic dorks! ;) But seriously, I’m not sure that’s entirely fair. I do think Webpack feels not-vanilla, even if it doesn’t change how you manipulate the DOM.
> Not everybody wants to render everything on the client.

No, and then you should just render it on the server. Most "apps" should not be JavaScript apps at all. However, once you do need to enter that territory you should definitely use a front-end framework.
The vanilla API is still a problem. It feels pretty verbose and limited when you're used to jQuery.

You really don't need any more than jQuery if you're just doing a few small things per page as opposed to a single page app or something.
The Jistsi team says the server needs roughly 5.5Mbps per Chrome user. Firefox uses a lot more bandwidth, system resources, and degrades the room capacity.

Just something to keep in mind, and after some testing I saw the same results.

My AWS bill was projected to be over $1k/month, so I put it on Linode where it'll cost between $100-200/month. Just about any decent VPS provider would be good options compared to AWS due to bandwidth.
I had 4 people, so either the docs are wrong or they have forgone the video bridge on my server and are using their own.
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Unfortunately it sounds like it's not that simple. His card wasn't stolen, but rather his account was hacked. So technically, he did have an account with Google Cloud.
Most public/private use symmetric encryption for the data anyway but they use a key derivation scheme to share the key. You can't use public/private encryption for data size greater than the key size. Obviously you can sign/verify any data size.

Also, above you said "encrypt this symmetric key with your private key", did you mean sign this symmetric key?
hah, well then you can of course continue...

return (cellA === cellB) ? 0 : (cellA > cellB ? 1 : -1);
It absolutely did not.

The press did.

The mainstream US media has become a one-sided partisan cheerleading squad for the Democrats, and most Americans are sick of it. We'll see how that works out in November.
Huh? If they were doing poorly they wouldn't be able to afford to do this. It's exactly the companies that are doing well that we want to step up and do things like this.
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Thanks! That makes it clearer. So presumably the for loop it's nested in is also evaluated at compile time?
Why coronavirus scammers can send fake emails from the WHO
To be frank, I do not know. I am not a continuation specialist or even an adept, so I cannot say myself; all I can say for sure is that a condition system can be implemented (and is actually implemented in practice) without any continuations, and therefore doesn't require the underlying language to support continuations. (Common Lisp, for example, purposefully doesn't have them in standard - see http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PFAQ/unwind-protect-vs-continuat...)
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You’re right but I absolutely see why they are doing this. When I saw all my colleagues in the company list I immediately figured they only have the email domain and I found it extremely useful to see whom I can contact without explaining how zoom works. Privacy isn’t our most important concern right now, it’s keeping the world running, and this “feature” helped me/us (if only just a little bit) communicate more effectively.
Governments love having an excuse to increase their surveillance of citizens. First it was terrorism, now it is coronavirus.
Yes, it was created at Weaveworks, but it was later donated to CNCF and now the community is much bigger! Having said that Weaveworks is still a major contributor!
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If a team of career PR folks meticulously iterating on the precise wording of this message to frame the narrative in their favour doesn't count as "cunning" to you, I don't know what would.
I don't want to "take their livelihood from them with no replacement." That has already happened. File sharing is widespread and unstoppable. Legalizing it merely legitimizes the reality we're already living with.
If they do this regularly, they surely have a personal toolbox of js code they can draw from that handle most everything jQuery would provide.
> It's strange to me that technology workers are seemingly unwilling to unionise and hold general strikes to protest these kinds of policies

How would that impact hobbyist software? Am I going to be run out of my job for being a "scab" if I keep developing my hobbyist projects during a strike? (Historically, "scabs" got killed, of course.) How about if it's a strike I don't agree with? Even if there's some kind of voting process on whether to strike or not, which is itself fraught and open to abuses, nothing guarantees that majority rule will be just, and nothing guarantees that anything else will result in enough legitimacy to lead to collective action. (As in: "I didn't vote to strike, so I'm not going to.")
Any Corona tracking app must be used voluntarily and be Free Software
learn to buy hardware with decent drivers.

hint: it's not nvidia.
Has anyone seen unpaid internships in tech recently? I didn't think it was common practice anymore outside of very new companies.
> - Consider paying for your email and setting up a custom domain to control your identity

Worth noting that this can be more dangerous if you do not do it properly. If the hacker can compromise your account at the domain registrar, they can route the mail to their own server. This has happened in the past.
If you can afford it, loss of employment should be a qualifying event for buying insurance on the health exchanges as well.
In combination with antibiotics and (it seems) zinc it looks quite effective.

A doctor in NY has treated with that combination and is up to almost 700 COVID-19 patients without one dying _or needing a ventilator_.

Some relevant quotes:

>Dr. Zelenko said the whole treatment costs only $20 over a period of 5 days with 100% success. He defines success as “Not to die.” Dr. Zelenko first posted his Facebook video message last week calling on President Trump to “advise the country that they should be taking this medication.”

>There are many other success stories about hydroxychloroquine across the country. Last week, Dr. William Grace, an oncologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, said they’ve not had a single death in their hospital because of hydroxychloroquine. “Thanks to hydroxychloroquine, we have not had a death in our hospital,’ Dr. Grace said.

From:

https://techstartups.com/2020/03/28/dr-vladimir-zelenko-now-...

When people are dying in large numbers, sometimes "anecdotal evidence" (especially with large samples) is plenty.
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I have over 13 years of experience as a software engineer, and have worked at both startups and large organizations. My expertise is in building scalable backend services using AWS (API services, integration services and stream processing). The majority of my experience is with Java, however I have built services using NodeJS, Python and C# previously.

I have also spent time with mentoring developers to ensure I can help the business build the best team possible.
Another 6.6M joined the U.S. unemployment rolls last week
I think this is overly simplistic. There are a lot of gradations in between.

For example, many people would like to have more control but would also like the government to let them know what is safe, based on careful studies and analysis, rather than having to adopt medicine as a hobby.
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The effect of Covid-19 on Consumer Spending
In the 2018 poll the majority of Republicans (52%) actually supported it. There's just been a lot of effort pushing against it by most of the leadership in America (the media, the Republican party, most of the Democratic party leadership). The media plays a big role in this - they often only focus on the cost of one particular implementation of single-payer, and not on the 10's of thousands who die each year due to lack of insurance. There's no mention that the U.S. government is currently spending more on health insurance than the U.K. government spends on its single-payer system (and the total government and private spending in the U.S. is much, much higher).

And even though Democrat voters support this the most, the majority of Democratic Presidential candidates this year were opposed to single-payer and pushed some attacks on it that were mostly false (arguing that it removes choice). And a lot of polls on it will mention things many Americans view as negative (a single government run system) and not mention ones that they would view as positive (no out of network doctors, never being uninsured, never switching insurance, no medical billing issues, no healthcare bankruptcies, lower healthcare expenditures, etc.).
Right now? No. But this is going to cascade.
The U.S.-China propaganda war is on hold, but not for long
I know someone with Lupus, as I'm sure many people do. This is really good news for most everyone right now. But for people who need these types of drugs to fight Lupus (and I'd assume many other diseases) this is really bittersweet because they can either not get it at all now, or only get a very small amount. It's good to see this is going to help people with Covid-19, I really hope the drug makers can get this production ramped up fast so others that need these drugs can get what they need again.
Pretty cool!

One thing that would massively improve this is if they were written as singular standalone blocks instead of sparse collections of snippets; I'd like to be able to grab, say, "make an element draggable" and toss it on my codebase as an isolated behavior.
Shouldn't this fact be celebrated rather than shamed? PCSX-Rearmed gets immense validation, and Sony doesn't waste years of engineering time reinventing the wheel.
For what it’s worth, there are practically 0 clients capable of handling WiFi 6 in those bands as well. Further, as a person in the industry, I think it’s completely irrelevant to need anyway.

At this juncture, interference and noise are more of the problem with WiFi today. It’s not larger bands capable of faster speeds. We need more spectrum to mitigate interference and provide more landscape for multiple AP’s in tight geographical spaces to CO-exist without competing too much for airspace.

Bonding 80Mhz channels for 500+ Mbps is overkill and hogs airspace. 40Mhz channels are more than adequate for 90% of devices out there if that channel is stable and free from congestion.

I’m super against the FCC granting more spectrum only for routers/APs manufacturers to default to hogging more chunks of the airspace. It’s a race to the same shitty experience we see today. We should parcel out chunks that are allowed for high channel bonding, leaving the rest of the space to max out at single 40 MHz bands.
Ask HN: Do you contribute to any FOSS projects?
How did you find this exact project? And how long did it take to understand the codebase to the extent that you could do some major commits?
Also can we create a hiring thread for is project volunteers?
I'm a technologically-inclined 25-year-old, and I've been using voice commands since 2010, but I still think the criticism fully applies.
Face it, HCQ is an old and cheap drug that doesn't fit Big Pharma profit visions.

Its much more enticing for Big Pharma to sell new patented solutions, so they will pay their PR mouthpieces (MSM) to "be cautious" of anything that doesn't achieve that end goal.
Banks warn of chaotic launch of small business lending program
In that case you're not really hacking it.

If you think about what a switch does and how it works, it makes perfect sense. It's just a bit unusual to do it that way.
A person with no dependents and no health issues can easily live on that pretty much anywhere in the US. However, if you have to support children, or need health insurance, or health care, then it could be difficult.
Yeah I understand the distinction but the weekly numbers capture much of the same information and are more accurate. The monthly survey is just something we do because we’ve done it for a long time.
In pneumonia, areas of the lungs fill with fluid. This prevents the area from filling with air, which therefore prevents the exchange of CO2 and O2 between the blood and air.

I will assume that 'absorption' in this sense refers to the fluid. It's a good thing when this happens, because that that area of the lung can be accessed by air again.
Why shouldn't they?

What gives someone a moral right to produce a derivative work of something I create and make money doing it? (I think people seem to forget that legalizing noncommercial infringement also legalizes noncommercial derivative works.)
This is one of the things I have trouble understanding too. It’s a complex issue, but it seems like it would be best opened to the public where next generation radio technologies can evolve. I don’t think 5G/LTE will go away but there may be new technologies which are more open and integrate within the existing frameworks. I imagine some kind of public mesh net/CDN that goes out to LTE/5G only when necessary to access information not in the local context.

I wrote more here: https://wiki.cjpais.com/brain-dump/march-15th-22nd-2020/radi...

Edit: I’m very glad the FCC is doing this. This is a great step forward. Looking forward to experimenting with this spectrum
I have a feeling that this is a mistranslation, not jargon. Other similar usage of "absorption" that I can find was also written by Chinese researchers.

edit: got downvoted, so adding link to only other "absorption of pneumonia" use that I could find: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5344839/

edit2: I could also find some usage of "absorption of inflammation", again also all Chinese researchers.
This is great. Studying the work of masters is the best way to learn a trade.
As long as Tesla sees their cars like a piece of software I won't be buying one. The norm for cars is to get updates tested and approved by national testing centers and then get it applied and re-tested at dealers before letting someone drive the car. Tesla updates over the air as if is not a self driving car that could kill people but an IoT toaster. In my opinion -especially with how unsafe the so-called auto-pilot is- they shouldn't be allowed on the road with uncertified software.
The weekly numbers are number of newly unemployed.

The unemployment survey is measuring how many people are currently unemployed.

The former is correlated with the rate of change in the latter, but is not the same thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893

^ for anyone who doesn't know, 1893 seemed to be the first of many Argentine financial crises, caused by a wheat crop failure, which caused a negative feedback loop as (mostly) European investors pulled out of South Africa and Australia. The effects spilled over into the US and UK financial systems, led to runs on the banks, and caused a severe recession for 2 years.
I wonder if those chaotic corporate experiences would've been far worse if not for the frameworks. They're just so useful for significantly constraining the solution space that you can't get too far into the weeds even when lacking discipline/organization.
Very possible the docs are wrong - im not a jitsi dev, so I wouldnt be able to confirm or deny without poking around. BUt they do specifically state that (as linked).

That said, it is worth pointing out that this thread is specifically about videobridge (i.e. scaling beyond a full mesh).
Took a few un-paid as a middle- and early high-schooler, mostly to prove I was worth money and not a total fruit loop, which was probably reasonable at that age. Got paid after that.
Their website. Maybe they do not yet agree what they want to do then?
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>> 5% of people that get it

The number of people that have it is under reported, so the death rate and hospitalization rates are exaggerated.
"If I'm laid off, I'll first look at my savings and hit the job market before I consider driving right into unemployment."

Seek and you shall find.
But AuthorizedKeysCommand and certs are at least equally powerful because they're both ways of specifying the content of the same authorized_keys file.
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At no points have the courts ever taken anywhere near as broad an interpretation of the welfare clause as you're suggesting it to be. And such a broad interpretation would be incongruous with the views of its primary authors (Jefferson and Hamilton).

The framers would more likely to suggest that we NEED a revolution over the expansion of the federal government beyond their limited enumerated powers. They'd also certainly disagree with income taxes as well.
Yes, I was trying to explain PKI and signing in as simple of terms as I could.
Yeah, they should really apologize for not harming themselves before trying to help others. Helping out interns when your business isn't tanking is such a selfish and unforgivable PR stunt.
“We’re technical” is no excuse for a pitchfork mob. I’m technical and HN’s reply feels more like echo-chamber than a reasoned consideration of what they said. Almost every comment as of now is people reacting to the tone and dialect. It’s like there’s nothing to object to technically and so the mob has turned their rage onto speech patterns.
I haven't published these books on amazon. The github repo has the links for leanpub/gumroad, they allow PDF which amazon doesn't as far as I know.
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>If the economy bounced back to what it was on Feb 28th, what is your acceptable number of dead? Would you trade 9 million unemployed for 9 million dead? Do you think that wouldn't have an effect on the market as well?

The vast majority of those dead are going to be 65+. Maybe I'm just feeling salty this morning, but considering how much that generation has stuck it to my generation I'm not even a little bit interested in trading economic collapse for their lives.
I'm sorry for what you're going through. Maybe reading a thread on the economic implications of this disaster -- which will inevitably discuss both the terrible parts and the silver linings -- isn't the healthiest thing for you right now?
Based on this and all the other anecdotal studies plus all the people treated with it for other ailments, it seems fairly certain that at a minimum this treatment is not causing more harm. Given that plus all the indications that it seems to help to some degree, we should be pursuing production scale of these drugs aggressively.

It is very unfortunate that the media politicized this treatment in such a way that now everyone who dislikes Trump carries an initial bias against it.
Is anyone here a DeLillo fan? Seems like a natural place for me to ask for recommendations.

If I loved White Noise but didn't get much from Underworld, which DeLillo book would be best to read next?
I don't think you need to be enterprise scale to justify using a front-end framework. Anything above trivial complexity is enough and it will give you headroom to scale as a bonus. I think a more common mistake is to use a framework when you could just as well render it on the server with the same result and being simpler at the same time.

But when you do need to create a dynamic web app, you should definitely use a framework. Using vanilla will just result in you creating your own half-baked framework anyway.
How was the book faulty? That’s not an adjective I’ve ever heard ascribed to a book before.
"2. You already “pay” for your unemployment several times over during your career through unemployment insurance. Your employer pays this, but they could have paid you more if they didn’t have to."

Do you have any data on this assertion?
How does the 2 cases of collateral effects compare to the normal consequences of the drug? It is very likely that we can draw conclusions about those.
also props to https://weave.works for creating cortex, open-sourcing it and moving it under cncf, something this blog post leaves out.
I’m curious, if the city is locked down why are the kids in daycare and not at home? Are you working as a healthcare provider?
Jami uses standard protocols like TLS, x509, SIP, SRTP..

It's actually much more standard-compliant than most alternatives.
> copy and paste

Bravo for admitting it. I have to say I've usually run into trouble working with copy and paste coders though.

How do you make sure what you're doing this with is something you understand? I never understood this one.
I don't want to wait. Nor does anyone else. That's just a recipe for perpetuating widespread, inevitable illicit file sharing. We need to legitimize this activity and bring it into the fold.

Also keep in mind that legalizing noncommercial infringement also legalizes noncommercial derivative works. Remix all you want. Just don't make money on it.
The job position was for people to write A/B tests. A/B tests are a form of white hat hacking where code is injected into a page to manipulate or deface the page to test a business idea as an experiment.

It would not make sense to inject something like Angular or React as part of test code and would be detrimentally regressive to inject Angular or React targeted logic over an existing framework application without a more thorough consideration for second and third order consequences. An experiment is meant to be something that is created with the least possible labor since its not production code and short lived.

That said the most desirable approach was to manipulate the DOM directly since this achieved the fastest execution, provided the smallest risk/footprint, and was fastest to QA for regression.

---

In hindsight we learned a couple of things from A/B testing.

* In a page with a lot of asynchronously loading content everything can be precisely altered before the user can notice it. The more precise form of delay were recursive setTimeouts where the interval delay could be manually adjusted to the millisecond and there was never interval overlap. This took practice to know when and where to increase the interval rate without impacting the performance of other logic already in the page.

* The tests did not often reflect the actual business results compared to the production code written later. We found the test logic, even though it was just hacky throwaway code, was generally less defective and faster executing than the more thoroughly tested production code and so performed better than the actual results from the formally released code.