skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that this is a systemic issue and as long as the system is the same, the outcome is unlikely to change, hence why I wrote "It's a local
minimum that our society in it's current form cannot seem to avoid".

So a change in the system is required to fix the root cause, but I think some amount of pitchfork waving and torch igniting is not out of the order.
The excuse of "everyone would do it with these incentives" is not an excuse for this behavior. And I say that fully admitting that I'm part of the
system (although a different industry), and yes of course I'd do (and am doing) the same given the choice.

Perhaps the pitchforks show the individual the error of their way, and the society will change once enough individuals decide to make the change?
On the flip side, hiring is much easier since the employer doesn't have to go through so much red tape for hires that don't work out. There's tradeoffs to each method.
If you don't want people to downvote you, provide the evidence and explanations for your claims. Not doing so simply comes off boy-crying-wolf-spiracy.
The telephone dial-in option should've been separate - if the user chooses to enable it then they can fall back to shorter IDs, while meetings that don't need it (or where it doesn't make sense anyway - screen shares, presentations, etc) would use longer, more secure IDs.
I think its safe to say that more consumer services are using AWS than Azure, things like Spotify, Netflix, Snapchat, etc. But when it comes to large enterprises, I'd bet that Azure is first place by a significant margin.

Given that these enterprises power a significant chunk of the worlds supply chains, manufacturing processes and so on, I'd say that the piece of the digital world that Azure offers is way more critical.
I don't know if it's actually simpler than Scratch.

On the other hand if you want something like this for kids now there's Pico-8.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

Even has a discount for teachers. Only one copy needed for the entire class in school

https://www.lexaloffle.com/info.php?page=schools
My morning ritual is a 20oz cup with an AeroPress.

Takes me 7 minutes total including grinding the beans.
You won't find specific laws.

The laws (in the US, at least) are typically written such that some part of the administration is deputized to promulgate technical standards and rules, most of which delegate to the NIST, but sometimes to industry bodies. Laws like this include HIPAA, FERPA, FISMA, and GLB.

There are lots of industry standards you can reference (such as the Cloud Security Alliance Common Controls Matrix), but the government will generally look at things from the perspective of NIST publications, such as NIST 800-171, "Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations". So, basically, what the government thinks private enterprise should be doing to comply with legal requirements to protect sensitive information.

In that document, there are a number of "controls" an organization should have in place, in particular, it should audit any and all data transfers, and ensure such transfers can be traced back to a unique user.

Even within that framework, you aren't going to necessarily find a blanket "read everyone's mail!" edict. Instead, what you are going to do, is make an assessment, as an organization, about what you think you need to do in order to withstand any potential lawsuits that may arise from any kind of disclosure.

If we made software engineers individually liable for these things the way civil and mechanical engineers are, things would look very different.

[Ed: misspelled FERPA]
> It's not really about entitlement.

The tone of your opening sentence fooled me then.

> why not make it more accessible?

Maybe because he doesn't give a shit about mobile users.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid don't seem to be on the same page.

"Insurers said they had expected Trump to announce a special enrollment period last Friday based on conversations they had with officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs HealthCare.gov enrollment. It wasn’t immediately clear why the Trump administration decided against the special enrollment period. CMS deferred comment to the White House."

==Making ACA open enrollment for an extended period of time would create a perverse incentive for people to avoid enrolling until they feel like they need it. Counterintuitively, this could decrease ACA enrollment rather than increase it. ==

Giving free money to people could create a perverse incentive for people to avoid working, but we just did that. Giving businesses grants for payroll might incentive them not to maintain cash reserves in the future, but we jut did that. I don't see why this would be any different. It's a national emergency, every potential solution should be on the table.
The article explains the details; basically, B3-34 family - like B3-34, MK-54, MK-56, MK-61, MK-52 will all work.

There are some emulators. A good hardware one is here: https://github.com/sergev/mk-61 .
> Majority rules does NOT work for the USA.

That's certainly what the people who put the 3/5ths rule thought.
I'm not sure the economy is getting a hit as big as it looks, but it's rather on "pause".

I think many of these workers are laid off so they can get unemployment benefits, and they'll be hired again by the same companies as soon as the quarantine ends - which should take a couple month if we look at what happened in China.

Sure, some companies will die from losing all of their business during the quarantine, but the number of jobless claims is not representative of the workers who will still be out of a job after the quarantine.
Or my personal favorite for anything you show to a user:

https://www.crockford.com/base32.html
The stock market isn't holding up, it's down 26% since this started. The thing to remember is that the stock market is predictive; it fell when investors foresaw the job losses, before they actually happened.
That is, they use other engines besides Bing. They are not simply repackaging Bing.
They did.

But which has had more outages in the last 5 years?
Pipewire [0] (the successor to PulseAudio) attempts to streamline this process for
Linux. I've been messing with wf-recorder [1] for my screen+audio recordings, and
might try to get it to spoof a camera input so I can get any program attempting to
connect to the webcam to instead turn into a screen-casting tool.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PipeWire

[1]: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder
>Basically I think our society before coronavirus was broken and coronavirus lockdowns are simply forcing us to deal with the ways in which it was broken. The old society isn't going to last much longer, and it's better to deal with that and build a more resilient, more honest one than to try to preserve the [old] rituals

I think this point is much broader and meatier than the rest of the discussion, and will be the defining cultural consensus coming out of this whole mess. The virus seems to have a peculiar way of highlighting our sins in a grimly ironic, almost poetic way.
Germany lifts coronavirus ban on seasonal workers
> Should that not materialize

And soon. A great many people have a low tolerance for indefinite lockdowns. The longer we go without any kind of plan, the more likely it becomes that people will begin disregarding it. I already see that the amount of traffic on the roads is increasing over time.

What we need are leaders, and it's glaringly obvious that in most states we don't have that. During peacetime nobody notices, but when the SHTF the leadership vacuum is palpable.
Looking at either number of patients or patients per capita both result in nonfractional masks given to individual patients.

It's just a matter of whether someone morally thinks more patients equals more urgent (60k FR vs 235K US), or a higher percentage of the population as patients (0.08% FR vs 0.07% US) equals more urgent, no?
All of the authors I currently follow did exactly this. Word of mouth, some basic marketing, utilizing their contacts and their followers. The internet doesn't only support zeitgeists, they also support niche communities which spring up out of nowhere.
Thousands of US banks may sit out small-business rescue on liability worries
Not till they roll out longer upload options. Nobody is getting paid for 60 second clips.
I know in an ideal world developers would make their software free as in speech, but most of the time that translates to free as in beer, which means getting paid nothing. Paid proprietary services don’t meet ideals but they tend to provide good support for business customers who choose to use them.
That's not helpful when you have to punch it into a conference room speakerphone.

I did once put together a hack that would scrape the meeting ID from the Zoom UI and emit the touchtones from my laptop to dial in.
I agree that workers need protection. For most people, there is a large power imbalance that can allow companies to take advantage of their workers.

However, things can go too far in the other direction. Imagine a small business having to spend months and months trying to fire someone who isn't doing their job and hasn't been receptive towards coaching or critiques. This could seriously harm the team they work on, not to mention the overall health of the company.

I don't know what the best solution is. But there are some complexities here.
I would also enjoy being able to punch in '12345' as my password everywhere instead of launching LastPass all the time, but I accept that some conveniences aren't worth security consequences.
The camping/road trip scenario is what lead me to AeroPress many years ago. The fact that it was able to replace all the other methods and home and work was a total bonus!

Disclaimer: total AeroPress nerd and fanboy
Bugs may be inevitable but reasons and outcomes matter. If the entertainment system goes down then no big deal. If the pilot is misinformed and the plane crashes then how is it possible for the company to get such slop certified?
It would be nice if y axis in the graph of cases starts at 0K instead of 10K. For other graph where the y range is smaller than the offset, it is better to cut the unused part, but in this case sadly the range is much bigger than 10K. (Also, cutting the axes makes the graph difficult to read by non technical people.)
Unlike IPv6, QUIC requires (almost?) no buy-in from network operators/ISPs.
Supposed you have some 10k dollars you won't need at the next 2 years. What would you do with them right now? How do you expect the stock market to look like in 2 or 3 years? Do you expect any of the causes of the currently overvaluation you are seeing to be gone?
Real engineering is about compromises.

In this case, relatively short numeric meeting ids allow users to dial in via plain old phone lines. If my meeting guests had to enter a UUID via their phone keypad, they would probably skip the meeting instead.
There's no way pour over is less fiddly than an AeroPress. Timing blooms, gooseneck kettle only so you can gently apply water evenly, and having to sit the whole thing on a scale so you can measure how much water you've really added.
Germany did the same thing to Switzerland (seized rather then outbid)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-09/germany-f...

Countries that have the power are doing everything to ensure they have masks first. I'm not surprised France and US are doing it.
Just the title itself shows author has no idea what the hell he is talking about TCP/IP != TCP

TCP/IP refers to the entire stack that Internet is build on, the UDP is actually part of TCP/IP (it was added later for use cases where low latency was important, like telephony). He probably meant just TCP, but that's still "no".
There is always a trade off between security and usability. I like your hack though, any chance you'd put it on Github?
If anyone wants to make money from Social Video, they're on YouTube. You have the MEGA Influencers who have been making insane amounts of money on Facebook (mostly from Instagram). But even big Influencers with 1M+ followings are having trouble monetizing their following to make $100k+ per year.

Vloggers on YouTube can do this pretty easily with 1/10th-1/20th the following.

Marketing spend for Influencers is gonna dry up faster than anything else. If Shorts can provide a real revenue stream (YouTube has everything in place for this), it will be extremely well positioned during this time.
If Zoom literally doesn't decrypt the packets in flight to re-encrypt them, it means they don't have peerwise keys for each client. So (as a non-expert) they're either now lying about something else (and in fact, the data is decrypted on the server temporarily in memory, and re-encrypted for each peer using a distinct key, akin to a WebRTC SFU) or there's a shared secret key between all clients, which is a major security deficiency.
Thanks for the comment. I will look into Pluralsight as a learning resource. Was recently thrown into a C#/.NET project.
sure. what i mean is by opting in to `use Phoenix.Controller` you are also opting into `MyApp.PageController`, `MyApp.Endpoint`, `MyApp.PageView`, `MyApp.ErrorView`, `MyApp.LayoutView`... which are all modules you include via macros in your actual implementation (or which are included by other includes)

all of these modules assume a traditional server rendered html environment with appropriate CORS, session handling, form security, etc none of which are particularly relevant to returning json from an api request

it is possible to opt out and directly manipulate the Plug conn (and set the response) but at that point Phoenix is bringing almost nothing to the table
Agreed. How is it okay to brush off serious issues like this.

Power cycling as a maintenance requirement is absurd. You don't sell someone a garage door opener for example and say "oh yeah, by the way, part of the ownership maintenance is that you need to unplug it at least every month, otherwise it might just start opening and closing randomly. No biggie".

This is an indication of a serious problem with the engineering, and after everything that has been failing with Boeings products lately, makes me want to avoid getting on a Boeing aircraft.

This has to be a joke. I can't fathom that this sort of issue is in production. It means that there is some sort of unaccounted saturation of buffers, or worse, memory leaks. In a deterministic system, these are the obvious things you need to get right.
How many OS X users do you think are actively using awk in any of its variants? What percentage of total awk usage is on OS X, do you think? OS X may not be rare, but it seems highly unlikely that many OS X systems see frequent usage of awk.
I'd put my bets on a few ideas.

1) A large portion of equity is held by large funds, which may be contractually unable to pull out of the equity market at all.

2) Lots of people are in it for a short term bump based on stimulus expectations

3) Most investments are made with a longer time horizon than the immediate pain of the short term, and thus, have no reason to sell now.

I think this could be an excellent rare economic data point to suggest the efficient market hypothesis does not work anymore (trumped by behavioral economics issues).
Interesting train of thought. Could this possibly indicate that investors see light at the end of the tunnel? Dow & S&P are up 1% right now.
vacasa laid off a ton of people as well... trying to think of others.
There are an infinite number of tests that could be performed.

That this test could have been performed does not mean that all possible tests could have been performed.

Which is really what we're talking about here.

Is "able to run 51 days without reboot" a requirement, or not? If not, and it's not a use case, then it shouldn't have been tested for.

Instead, the limited time and resources available should have been spent on more important things.
But as an employee, you can also quit without notice. It's fair and balanced. </sarcasm>

There is the federal WARN Act (1) but it has holes big enough to drive a train through (natural disaster and unforeseeable circumstance exclusions mean it doesn't apply right now).

As the sibling noted, potentially the most devastating impact of the jobless claims is loss of medical insurance. We'll likely see tens of thousands of personal bankruptcy filings as a result of this pandemic, many of which will be due to ER/ICU bills.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
If it goes from 58 days to N minutes, it'll be caught real quick by QA testing for the patch, won't it?
It's actually a bit over the max value[1] - I agree though that I'd strongly suspect this issue is related to overflowing a millisecond counter stored in a 32-bit int. The numbers are way too close.

Hey, maybe <51 was just a off-by-one error... or maybe the actual advisory is to be <50 and some PM decided that number was too round or violated an SLA.

1. 4,294,967,296 or 4.29e9
I heard 401k target date funds are rebalancing to maintain the desired ratios. The algos are buying stocks. Not sure if that is actually happening but sound plausible with auto rebalancing.
The UN is partnering with China’s biggest surveillance software company
One could reply by requesting that we not reduce this to whataboutisms, which seems to happen without fail when someone invokes China.
The article specifically states that they coordinate the key through their servers.
In some places like Spain, "walking the dog" is the only valid excuse to go for a walk at all. (Strange how it's acceptable to deprive humans of exercise, but inhumane to deprive dogs!)
I can see how touching the mask can lower the protection.

To categorically say it always makes more harm that good seems entirely wrong!
The visa issue cripples non-citizens' ability to negotiate better salaries. The salary issue affects everyone, citizen and stranger.
Yeah, I love Aeropress coffee but after burning myself while using the inverted method I've resolved to using Kalita Wave at work and Chemex at home.

I do sometimes miss the flexibility of the Aeropress, especially doing 15 minute brews with really coarse grounds to bring out some unique flavour, but I make up for it with better beans nowadays.
so is that Dr Fauci's fault or the administration's?
Far greater than you would expect, I think. This is anecdotal, but we're an admittedly small company (~20-25 employees) and all of our interactions with other companies (clients) are either direct line-to-line or if we do a conference call, we all call in over the phone. Many of the companies who send us WebEx or join.me or Hangouts Meet or whatever invites only send the phone number even, not even bothering to give us a link (and if you go to the room manually in your browser, you're the only one actually connected via computer)
You speak as if the toilet paper factories have shut down and the delivery trucks are all sitting idle. Everyone decided to rush the stores and buy up all of the toilet paper, and unsurprisingly the stores don't stock enough for every household to buy 200 rolls in the same week.

All you need to do is wait for the next delivery to show up (which it will). The problem is, people like you will continue to buy up everything as quickly as possible, so after the first couple hundred customers the shelves will be empty again. Until the next delivery. That is the problem, not supply shortages.

Don't feel bad for people who didn't horde resources at everyone else's expense. Help those people by buying what you need plus only a little extra.
Most of my zoom meetings have at least 20% dial-ins.
You actually can piss them off with acting safe and engaged while not addressing the actual problem. I see that quite a bit.
Buy into a vanguard fund like VTSAX and then put in a little bit every month, so you just average it out over time, rather than obsessing about trying to pick when it hits bottom.
Phew, I was getting worried there for a second for the US. If any Gilets Jaunes would form in the US, they wouldn't turn on the administration. And they'd be more of "Gilets Brune" anyway.

They'd be on the side of the administration ready to torch whatever group must bear the blame. Some Palantir-like intelligence can be very useful when you want to direct your s̵h̵o̵c̵k̵ ̵t̵r̵o̵o̵p̵s̵ supporters to peacefully protest.
Matrix/Riot, Jitsi, and Signal seem to have handled E2EE voice/video pretty well while being FOSS (the first of which is a free/open protocol as well as a client).
Huh. I use an AeroPress because it is much less fiddly than a pour-over, and makes much better coffee and easier to clean than a french press. Also I find the smaller-batches to be a plus because I don't want to be finishing a room-temperature pot in two hours.
The stock market is just a collection of people betting on where they think things are going. The market declined 25-30% because people were predicting a downturn. Now we’re in that downturn.

The reason the market didn’t tank today is because this jobs report was already priced in.
Working in global research, 40% of our ROW (rest of world) sites and vendors use landline or cell pones to join our meetings, depends on their institutional security and IT settings.
I would have to make compromises to move my work over to Todoist from OmniFocus. It sounds like you were a bit of a light user whose situation got changed on him (Windows.) That’s fine but it doesn’t mean OmniFocus is behind its competitors.
The one I pay attention to is daily growth rate of confirmed cases. It can't cover people who aren't tested. But, it approximates the velocity of the problem's magnitude. And, over time it shows the acceleration --which reflects on how we are improving the situation, or not...

https://paroj.github.io/arewedeadyet/#rate

The good news is that the US has gone from a 30+% daily growth rate 10 days ago down to a 15% growth rate and falling. We need to keep falling into the negative rates to solve this problem.
AWS is bigger but I doubt they have seen the same type of change in traffic as I don't think they have the same traffic patterns that would be affected by something like this.

Teams was used before but suddenly in my company you had 100k office workers working from home and all meetings converted to Teams meetings, a lot with video streaming. People also seem to react by booking even more meetings now when the casual talk was gone (instead of chatting casually).
> Browser APIs have changed quite a bit in the last 10 years.

They really haven't.

> Yes, the same approaches are still supported, but there have been many additions and modifications to core APIs.

Once again, there really haven't been.

Yes, there are many more APIs in general (audio, touch etc.), but on the whole it's the same old cumbersome poorly designed 90s-Java-style DOM API.
In the US, there's the risk of lawsuits after you fire someone, which I guess creates the same resistance and hurdles to hiring as the added protection in the EU.

Plus, my personal experience is that we easily found many OK candidates in the US but had trouble finding one in the EU. That either suggests that the EU has less skilled coders overall, or that the US has a higher rate of people who are unemployed or very unhappy with their current job.
Yeah, I'm not personally aware of many layoffs, they are all furloughs.
BigBlueButton or BBB is pretty good. We use it for our clients (edtech). If you need any advice on hosting, happy to give some guidance. They have a install script that does everything in one go for you. You just need a decent server with Ubuntu 16.04 (specifically that version) installed on it. Min. requirements for server are 2 core CPU and 8 GB RAM. We use at least 4 cores though and 16 GB per server and that can handle 50-100 users concurrently give or take depending on what you are doing. Completely HTML5 and webrtc based so nothing to install. Runs like a charm.
The standout U.S. cities showing promise as robotic hubs
Lots of other states have "Safer at Home" orders right now too.

They're effectively the same thing.