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> I get the impression they feel the economy is just some superfluous activity to keep the masses engaged.

I understand your frustration, but, remember how news talk about computers and how much simplification is needed to get the overall public to understand the concepts.

Do not judge experts from the two liners that you read in the news. Stimulus packages, social distancing, new ways of producing needed equipment... everything is part of solving the problem.
May certainly add Pitts of McCulloch&Pitts to this sad sequence, cirrhosis.

"Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics." -Stanislaw Ulam
Congrats on the launch. Your API looks very clean.

Do you support NuBank in addition to the big banks? I have heard NuBank has pretty aggressive anti-scraping approaches. Not sure if you support them or plan to in the near future.
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lol this is the dumbest comment ever
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Hi Peter. I'm in the US on an E3. I arrived after the social security administration closed for covid19.

How on earth do I get an SSN? I'm supposed to start work next week and I'd love to get paid eventually.
Awesome - we've slowly moved so many of the mailgun events into our own system over the years, that it probably made sense to just start with an "everything' approach to begin with!

I have asked mailgun a number of times if they'd simply charge for longer storage limits, and they said no.

Thanks for setting this up!
It's not about bailing out the investments, but about preserving jobs. Fine, attach restrictions for taking bailout capital, but that should be the purpose.
The fact is that almost none of the communications we use on a daily basis are end-to-end encrypted. What response would you get if you told staff, partners, executives, support personnel, etc that the new standard was based on GPG web-of-trust or hierarchical S/MIME emails and that all plain text emails (or any not digitally signed) were going to be binned at the mail servers?

For that, I don't blame organizations for doing what they had to do - it's perfectly reasonable. But the discussion that results from this is mostly healthy. Zoom will suffer from the PR but I think that will give us better options as a result going forward.
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Just curious, how does a bartender ends up staying reading HN?
> Logical changeset extraction itself does not in itself provide a replication feature

It is however a building block for logical replication, and used by
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/logical-replication....

> from what I can see of the wiki [1

I really wish we'd just shut off the wiki. There's random pages starting to be maintained by someone that then stops at some point. Leads to completely outdated content, as in this case.
On the other hand, we have to teach people about aliasing vs cloning in imperative languages.

a = [1, 2, 3]
b = a
b.append(4)
assert a == [1,2,3]

No matter which paradigm we use, there are going to be hidden traps new programmers need to learn. I think there might be fewer roadblocks in an immutable language because you can examine each function in isolation. There's a smaller chance a beginner will screw something up on line 10 which causes a problem on line 150. More moving parts makes it easier to get stuck on a buggy program.

On the other-other hand, it is a slower ramp up to doing useful things. It's much easier to read/write to files and draw graphics in an imperative language.
Unfortunately, I'm probably the last person to ask because I'm not very technical and (so I'm told) I'm a "non-adapter." There are lots of case management and processing software options out there and they're all pretty good and about the same.
[UK] Not me but my partner—classical music. Almost everyone is freelance, and everyone has had all their gigs cancelled for the next few months, leaving a lot of people for whom strings were tight to begin with in complete limbo. Performers obviously but also all the events, management, publicity, everything. The scale of it is almost incomprehensible, unless massive investment is made in the sector to keep it alive, it will just... die.
I have tried to give pgAdmin4 a chance three times, and every time it was an exercise in frustration. It is unstable and awful from the UX perspective.

Since then I'm sticking with psql for administration and with DataGrip for more involved DB development, and that works very well.
It is Apple's rebranding of StoreNext's SAN product. I used to run a setup, and other then a ton of knobs to turn for tuning with little explanation, it was a pretty good product. I wish Apple had really run the ball there (e.g.: ad-hock clients), but for a server setup my memories of it are nice.
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I find it odd that people are comparing "worst" by number of cases and not accounting population. The US has 320mn people while Italy has 60.5, Spain has 46.8, and Germany has 83.8. These are the countries with the most cases and by population the US is doing the best out of all of them and Spain the worst. If we look at deaths, Germany is only slightly better than the US but Spain and Italy are each much higher.

The US sure has a lot of problems, but that doesn't mean everything we do is the worst.
So I was in this situation while being hired by Microsoft. Have nearly a decade of working experience. Ended up in Vancouver (grew up in Ontario)

I think things can be easier once you've worked for the company for over a year
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Having it in the status bar would defeat the purpose as ill behaving actors could possibly circumvent this, having it in the hardware as a led would make this if not impossible most likely infeasible. I’ve only heard one instance where someone were able to go around the led and if I recall correctly that was on the old PowerBook and required physical access to flash the firmware on the camera hardware module with custom malicious firmware.
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> PPE is very hard to get right now and obviously it is not possible to protect everyone perfectly. Demanding change without a solution is not reasonable. Nor is it reasonable to expect things to be perfect in a difficult/fast-moving situation, with various constraints like limited supply chains and inability to alter physical spaces significantly in warehouses.

"PPE is very hard to get right now" is one thing but the workers are complaining about stuff like not even having access to hand sanitizer. That's basic shit. If you can't get your employees a way to properly wash their hands you shouldn't be operating a business during a pandemic. I don't care whether it's because costs have climbed or you made an oopsie, if your facilities don't have essentials like:

running water + soap so people can wash their hands

usable toilets

central heat/air so that employees don't overheat or freeze

Then you're not prepared to operate them. Amazon is not some small business. They have billions of dollars at their disposal that they could have been using to prepare for an epidemic - basically an absolute certainty that one would eventually impact local amazon fulfillment centers, sooner or later - by stocking basic stuff like soap, gloves, etc. Arguably they should have been keeping those stocked and available for day-to-day business, but whatever. Incidentally I mentioned heat/air there because people getting sick from overheating inside Amazon warehouses is a common occurrence. These facilities are not well-run.

There are many other complaints in the article that are not addressed by your defense here. How is "you're making sick people work overtime during a pandemic" a manufactured crisis? Do you really think that's a good business strategy and something workers should be okay with?

Sure maybe they can't get their employees n95 masks or even surgical masks. Aside from that they had plenty of opportunities to build a stockpile of that stuff in advance - if they didn't then yes, they can't exactly just bring in a truck full of them tomorrow. Sure. But does that mean it's okay that it took them weeks to quarantine a couple of union organizers after exposure to an infected employee? If Amazon is doing such a good job why weren't the infected employee's interactions tracked immediately and responded to by quarantining all employees who made contact with them right away?
Thanks, I hadn't realised that. Looking into it, it seems PGP creates a shared symmetric key and then shares that key using public-key, which does seem like the most obvious way to do it.

[0] https://superuser.com/questions/554513/pgp-encrypt-single-me...
No. When Apple Computer first started, the Beatles "business" was called Apple Corp. This has resulted in several lawsuits between the Beatles and Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
> Because certain groups of users need the same sets of permissions on hundreds of databases and servers. And the members of those groups are constantly changing. In addition this ties an identity across system and facilitates SSO on the one hand and auditing on the other. There's more to it but these are the most obvious.

That is precisely what I meant with messed up requirements. Why would any of your SSO be relevant on the database level? A database user should be coupled to an application, not to a single user in AD. If you are letting constantly changing users do their own SQL requests on DB level, there is something rotten in the first place.

> This is a common, standard requirement in enterprise systems, and it seem quite sensible. If you have a better, more robust solution, there are billions in this market, in the most literal way.

I have never come across this kind of setup in a normal enterprise environment. There, you have everything behind some kind of enterprise software. Data entry, auditing, etc.

However, you could have need for this if we are talking developers sharing a single database and you don't want to manage accounts and passwords separately.

You said the solutions you found for Postgres were too "hacky". I think if you have a setup where enterprise users who are not developers or DBAs need personal access on DB level, your setup is quite "hacky" to begin with.

> One more thing, although Active Directory is a standard in the enterprise, LDAP is an open protocol that existed before Microsoft were dreaming on being a player in the enterprise field and have at least half a dozen open source implementations.

Microsoft has bent LDAP and Kerberos in its own way. Trying to use AD like an LDAP server is full of unpleasant surprises dealt to you by badly documented or outright undocumented "features", and useless error messages and logging. Believe me, it's a major nightmare to get anything integrated with AD.
That statement isn't intended to be mean or hateful. It's a statement of fact. Our current foodbank system is reliant on people wanting to help. There is no obligation. Many do it because it makes them feel good inside, and that's fine.

The rest of my argument is still valid. Relying on charity for human survival is not a good system.
I agree that effective medicines and/or vaccines would shrink the area aka total percentage of the population that eventually become infected. Although both remain unknowns, let's assume one or two years.

Neither adequate supplies nor hospital capacity would shrink the area. But they would increase the maximum tolerable infection rate. That is, the infection rate that wouldn't overwhelm resources, and increase the death rate.

Given all that, it seems pretty clear that disruptions will last at least a year or two. Perhaps we could move everyone at risk into isolation camps, and let everyone else get infected and recover, hopefully with some lasting immunity. And then perhaps use antiserum from them to help protect the isolated at-risk populations.

However, said isolated at-risk populations would likely be at huge risk of mass die-offs, unless there was substantial compartmentalization. Maybe tent cities?
I'm completely new to this acronym but I'm grokking orient as "account for your bayesian priors."
Social distancing will save at most 1million lives (mostly 60-is 70 year olds, who had 10 years left anyways) in America.

6 months of quarantine in the US would cost 2 millions lifetimes of going outside. Full lifetimes, that is, not 10-year-lifetimes.

This is aside from all the economic damage. The cure is worse than the disease.
Was going to ask this too lol
Speculation:

- Could be they have a hobby of computers

- Could be they are still in school

Not everyone who cares about tech news is working in the tech field.
They didn't limit orders from customers, they limited what their suppliers can send them.
You can get SMD 0603 LEDs that use ~1mA of power for a few pennies in bulk. Peanuts compared to the power usage and price of the rest of the phone.
Supposedly, Apple didn't "implement" battery throttling on the iPhone 5S - Apple's discount battery replacement program only applied to the iPhone 6 and up. This suggests that Apple switched to a flawed battery technology in hardware starting in the iPhone 6 that wasn't realized until years later. And, instead of issuing a recall or repair program, they pushed a silent cover up in the software. Whatever the motive, they should have been more open about it.

I had an iPhone 5S that ran ok until I upgraded to iOS 13, IIRC. After that, the frames started skipping and it became frustrating to use.
But the better we do, the sooner the crisis will be over. Sure, there will be a drawn-out painful phase of figuring out how to reboot the economy while maintaining social distancing, but it will be much less painful for most people if they don't personally know someone who died.

(I said "for most people" because apparently some commenters here think it's fine for people to die as long as they are old.)

In South Korea, people have already shifted to complaining that the government didn't prepare well for online school curricula, because that's what people are worried about now. Their children's education.
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> This same government with a 13% approval rating and that is universally despised in most everything they try and do.

Because there are many in and out of government that don't want the government to do its job, so that they can point at ineffective government and say "look, a private company [like mine wink wink nudge nudge] could do so much better than that."

Have you noticed that it is only American government (outside of dictatorships) that is highly despised by most of its citizens? Where is this anger from European, Canadian, Asian, South American citizens towards their governments? Could it be that those countries have a functional government that, despite failing in some areas, overall exceeds in providing basic necessities (i.e. healthcare) to its populace?

The idea that government will always fail is itself an unspoken assumption you are making. It doesn't have to be that way. We could have an efficient government if we wanted - the first step is to believe it's possible, like it has been possible in 100+ other countries.
> But the second you allow phone dial-in (virtually always a hard requirement)

I'm really curious about this one — I've noticed that indeed in the US people tend to expect to be able to dial-in using the PSTN. Why would people do that? I haven't seen this happening much in Europe, and the Whereby (https://whereby.com/) conferencing tool doesn't even offer dial-in, which isn't a problem.

Why is dialing in using the PSTN a thing?
I think young people should be fine to take occassional essential risks such as going to the pharmacy and grocery shopping.

If we look at hospitalizations and ICU beds, they are largely taken up by older people. I am willing to be that there are a large number of people that could have avoided exposure to Coronavirus by following guidelines - with a long tail of exceptions (uninformed, accidental exposure, exposure due to no fault of their own, essential workers above 60, etc).
That really depends on your particular situation - for example, how strong your petitions are now and whether they need to be filed by a certain date so that you all can remain in the U.S. - but we continue to file O-1 petitions for clients.
I found this list on Reddit if you're looking for a full list of companies that are laying employees off, pausing hiring, or still hiring:

https://airtable.com/shrpj2r4Kjc4YoMu4/tbl8m95GiuWehnIiT?blo...
Worse case, I'm wondering if the government could go nuclear and use the Defense Production Act. Last recession they got a massive bailout and really owe the country one IMHO. Given how many special deals these corporations have carved out it is time for them to step up an be good citizens.
The SBA definitely did not provide enough guidelines to banks.

I work in-house now and we've been working with a bank to get an SBA loan for our company. We're in the fortunate position of being a good risk so we passed that part of the process, but are currently stuck in limbo, because the SBA failed to provide enough information to banks about how to actually enter a loan into the program once the applicant has passed the standard KYC/risk-assessment process.
Revoking permissions is a normal part of the SysAdmin routine. People come and go all the time. In fact, it would be incredibly stupid not to have a script like this.
Damn socialists trying to feed the hungry. Next they'll be trying to shelter the poor, or heal the sick. In the richest country on earth, how can the government possibly afford to take care of its own citizens?

/s
My wife, who is currently on DACA, is waiting for a hardship waiver so that she may fly down to Mexico and get a green card in the US embassy.

Due to this COVID pandemic, we expect there to be some delays, but we're unsure how long it will be. This is amplified by the fact that we're unsure what the status of DACA is going to be later this year after the supreme court deals with it.

Obviously I realize that this is a non-committal answer and I should consult an attorney directly, but assuming my wife's DACA expires, this COVID thing causes major delays, and the supreme court decides to get rid of DACA, what would be the best path forward?
Somehow something somewhere inside me doesn't trust Google is doing it right here and I'm afraid of the actors who have access to that despite the whole differential privacy gibberish.
> But I am still interested in schemes for deriving a key amongst multiple parties using a middleman without the middleman knowing the key. It seems like a rather hard problem.

This is exactly what happens when your browser establishes an HTTPS connection. There are many middlemen between you and the web server, but it still manages to negotiate a shared symmetric key (the session key) that can be used for the bulk of the encryption.

The difference is that there is no certificate authority vouching for each participant in a video call's identity, so you would need to do independent identity verification if you want to ensure that the call is secure, which some people would do by reading the public keys of each participant aloud, and people verifying that everything matches what they see.
That’s a very disheartening attitude to have. These are still people with lives and feelings. We should expect humans to use the compassion and empathy that so very few other animals are capable of.
Nope; just assuming that the number of people taking advantage of this would be a power-law distribution rather than a gaussian, and so the economics would still work out in favor, even with people "abusing the system."

That, and perhaps the dollar-cost of your "free" food purchases would be taken into account in calculating your tax bracket.
I feel like dark mode is a sign that people care. I think it's a user feature that is easy to do, but not done often. Mostly done by people who care. It brings so much polish to the experience.
I wish somebody verified the encryption claims of other companies (like Whereby or GoToMeeting). Zoom is getting scrutiny because it became The Popular Thing, but it's not the only tool.
If you're going to make a rebuttal, then make a rebuttal. So far you haven't really said anything to refute his statement that society would be better off if everyone was guaranteed 3 meals per day.
> Do they just put whatever sells best in the documents and implement something else?

I've worked 10+ years in Silicon Valley and the motto "it is better to beg forgiveness than ask for permission" really does ring true. This manifests at all levels from ICs and up the chain of leadership. People do what gets them their bonus/promotion and everything else be damned. "Acquire the customer and fix the security problem later" was the mindset here.
Yeah, you're right. The USA right now is in a good state on the matter of social policy, and I don't see any way it could be improved.

Especially if it takes taxing the "rich" more. Imagine the chaos that would ensue...

In fact, I'd go as far as to say that the current problem in the USA is that market is not free enough. Trump should definitely lower taxes on higher incomes and cut services. This can only push innovation! Think about how quick this whole "crisis" would be solved if it weren't for government intervention!

That would certainly make for a better society!
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Not in tech either, but I like reading and casually following the scene. Kinda funny watching the language flame-wars every so often
I don't understand why Sweden is being held up as a paragon. Their death rate is currently 9th worst worldwide and over 2x that of the United States':

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105914/coronavirus-deat...

Edit: Both are good replies. Thank you.
My workplace had furloughs, but all of the developers were excluded from it. Guessing the management had enough trouble hiring developers as it was.
> Once the case count is sufficiently low, we just need R0 to be less than 1. 0.9 is sufficient

Consider that it takes days-to-weeks for patient-zero to show symptoms, another couple weeks for symptoms to appear in spreadees, and still more days for the government to responds with strict enforcement. This kind of feedback loop will make this kind of control impossible.
Your CFR is with respect to diagnosed cases. Many cases are mild and have no symptoms. The real CFR is likely an order of magnitude lower.