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The economic restrictions can be lifted in a just couple of months since the curve is under control, but people will have to go to work wearing face masks while the pandemic runs its course through 2021.
willing to bet that the vast majority of NK agree with the Dear Leader if polled. Why is a different story
The post I was replying to said that was a large part of the reason to buy Mac Minis.

First, even though there were quite a few decent-sized Mac Mini deployments like you're describing, I'd be genuinely surprised if that accounted for a decent chunk of Mini sales overall. Some, sure! But most? I wouldn't expect it.

Second, does any of that require running Server? We have a database and application server in the office here, but it's not running Server: it's just plain macOS running daemon processes.
Oddly in the UK we are getting all our groceries delivered and left on the doorstep. In New Zealand they have been stopped from having groceries delivered in case people touch them and told to go get them from the store themselves. I wonder who is right.
>Also, I cannot think of any other multi-video-conferencing solution that "just works"

Another post about Zoom, another comment how it's the only video conferencing platform in the planet that "just works". You know I find that really hard to believe... not least of all because I personally use other solutions without never having major hiccups at all.
OODA is not executed sequentially like Measure, Analyze, Plan, and Execute and it can’t really be used without considering its interaction with an opposing process. It’s really something different. I do agree that misunderstandings of it are too popular.
Just been put on furlough with likely redundancy at the end of the national lockdown period. Absolutely devastated. My job was hard and the pace relentless but the work was extremely stimulating and my colleagues were absolutely fantastic people.

(It was also a Haskell gig, which is a real rarity.)

Right now I'm just licking my wounds and waiting for the lockdown to end. I'm not sure if it makes sense to start a new job right now - the UK furlough scheme is essentially guaranteed income until June. Starting a new job would waive that, so unless you're actually losing money on furlough I think it's a bit unwise to jump companies.
I didn't make a personal attack.

> my grandma is immune compromised from chemotherap

Anyone in that group should be fully isolated and the advice for dropping goods etc, receiving packages is to leave them for 24 hours before handling if possible.

The hystrionics about shutting down important logistics to appease certain individuals media induced madness is a serious issue in itself
I was just selected for the H1B lottery but am concerned about my job safety (layoffs) this year before I can get an H1B. If I lose my job prior to being issued the H1B what are my options? Are there precautions I could consider taking now?
I think that is very centered on your qualifications and what you're looking for. There's next to no discussion there. This kind of reads like an invitation to talk about the company you left and the difficulty of being laid off.
Many Americans are underestimating how disruptive a mass uncontrolled pandemic is going to be to their lives. If hospitals are completely overflowing and most people who get serious symptoms die for lack of available treatment capacity, and everyone knows friends and family members who've already died form it, do you think life isn't going to be massively disrupted anyway? People will hunker down and go nowhere out of a sheer sense of self-preservation, without the government needing to tell them to.

The pandemic itself is what's causing all the disruption and economic hardship. The social distancing measures are NOT the cause -- in the absence of them we'd be doing even worse off in the long run.
1. Common Lisp is a fairly big specification for a lisp

2. People doing webdev in lisp have solutions that work "well enough" for them.

3. It's not obvious how to compile a lot of commonly used CL constructs into efficient javascript. Discarded multiple values, for example, are extremely efficient on bare-metal implementations, but will have measurable overhead when not inlined in any javascript implementation.
We've only got a few months in the tank economically and flattening the curve alone will keep us on lock-down for years.

They aren't talking too much about it but the plan is almost certainly to buy time to transition to a new strategy. The keys to this IMO will be squashing new cases, those 15 minute tests(billions of them), a health enforcement agency of some sort to conduct tracing and targeted quarantines, and increasing the capacity of the health system.

The pieces could be in place July-ish.. Unfortunately it's going to take an impressive display of administrative competency at the federal level.
Where are you seeing that? Every projection of which I'm aware has been in the range of 12-18 months. It's reasonable to hope for faster, but not to plan on that basis.
Maybe this is the one.

IMO, Babeljs could be leveraged to create one much faster.
Hi Peter, thanks for your time.
I have applied for a GC through marriage. I am currently on a H1B via my employer. I have already received my EAD but waiting on the GC interview which might take a while given the current state of affairs.

1) Can I change employers using an EAD?
2) My EAD expires in a year. Are EAD renewals generally painless?
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.

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.

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.
I find it somewhat arbitrary that you accept scheme but not clojure as a lisp.
This is a complicated issue and more nuanced than this but providing a service to a company in exchange for a benefit constitutes work requiring work authorization. If you'd like to discuss the particulars, please email me separately.
Exactly. Why should I have to rewrite a whole ACL infrastructure when I can store it all in one place, and it doesn't matter how you access the database, it's all enforced.
From the employer standpoint, if the wage is slightly lower (within $1,000) of the standard wage for the SOC code, what would be our options? We still want to sponsor, but don't want to get in trouble if we give a raise. Thank you, this is so helpful to read the other questions and answers!
While OODA is an interesting and increasingly popular concept, it is really only useful when applied to very short intervals of time. You can and should expect that an opponent with "a reasonable amount" of time will make the correct response. In business that timeframe is much longer than the few minutes or seconds a modern aerial duel might be concluded in.

The general idea of OODA is that if you can "play fast" you can beat someone who can otherwise "play better". Think about how blitz chess differs from traditional multi-hour games, even though the rules of play are the same: for example it is often possible to exert time pressure by playing "confusing moves". This concept of "fast play" translates into the business timeframe more as the concept of "agility" (to be contrasted with large-company "inertia"), whereas businesses only try to confuse one another on television or by accident :-)

Concepts similar to OODA but more applicable to a business context and timeframe would include PDCA [1] and DMAIC [2].

PDCA a.k.a. the "Deming cycle" stands for "Plan, Do, Check, Adjust" and is closely related to the concept of "kaizen" [3] (or "continuous improvement"). PDCA happens in timeframes that can best be described as a "short project" (or a "kaizen event").

DMAIC ("Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control") on the other hand is a framework commonly used for larger business interventions where the stakes are higher, more project members are needed, more structure is required and so on. It is a key feature of the Six Sigma [4] approach as well as Lean Six Sigma [5].

Note: I'm sure there are other valid approaches too. I'm just mentioning the ones I am familiar with in case anyone else is interested in methods to help businesses improve and respond to change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMAIC

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Sigma

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Six_Sigma
Maybe Brazil?

> "We're all going to die one day"[0]

> “I’m sorry, some people will die, they will die, that’s life,” Bolsonaro said in a television interview on Friday night. “You can’t stop a car factory because of traffic deaths.”[1]

> Bolsonaro has compared the new coronavirus to a "little flu," condemned the reaction to it as "hysteria," and said Brazilians' immune systems are so strong they can swim in raw sewage and "don't catch a thing."[2]

> He has called the virus a “measly cold.” “Some will die” from it, he said, because “such is life.” [3]

> ..more than 20 members of Bolsonaro’s U.S. delegation have tested positive for the coronavirus. Bolsonaro ignored his own health ministry’s advice to self-isolate for a couple of weeks and to discourage large gatherings. He made a defiant show of shaking hands and taking selfies at a rally that attracted hundreds of his supporters. [4]

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/brazils-bolsonaro-downplay...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/27/world/americas/27...

[2] https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/bolsonaro-takes-down-virus-sh...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/world/americas/brazil-bol...

[4] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/bolsona...
I have a Mini running stuff like that but it's not running the Server package. I don't think Server was ever very popular, even on Macs that were being used as servers.
25% here, plus taken on 2-3x workload (not related to the furlough situation).

Edit... btw, 2-3x workload doesn't mean that i can actually complete 2-3x workload.
And yet there have been very dense, urbanized countries that have gotten a handle on it well (such as Singapore and Hong Kong). We could do it here, but we don't have enough testing or enough masks. The density of the country is not the main driving factor behind which countries are getting hardest hit and which are not.
Can a century-old TB vaccine steel the immune system against the new coronavirus
The NYTimes article seems to disagree with you [1]

> Across the city, hospitals are overrun. Patients have died in hallways before they could even be hooked up to one of the few available ventilators in New York. Doctors and nurses, who have had to use the same protective gear again and again, are getting sick. So many people are dying that the city is running low on body bags.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-u...
Anonymous non specific leaks from the most reputable, apolitical of sources, that has no vested interest in this - the White House.
His current net worth: $118 billion, up $3.3 billion for 2020 so far.

Put another zero on the end of that $100m, Jeff.
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There's no reason to expect "Once the epidemic curve is going down and its well under control"

before there's a vaccine deployed or everyone has been infected and paid the personal cost of their viral lottery ticket.

Best bet might be a modifier herd immunity plan, of infecting healthy people with a miniscule viral load and hoping the immune system can handle it better than a heavy load from getting sneezed on or spending all day at a hospital.
> Trump lost the popular vote, but got over 80 more electoral college votes.

Yes, and I'm as vehemently anti-Trump as they come, especially lately, but let's be real - that's the system by which the people vote these morons into office, and always has been. The popular vote has never mattered, except rhetorically.

Is this going to be the season when Americans actually care enough to change it? Probably not.
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Ask HN: What video platforms support interoperability?
Zoom has been experiencing a lot of use as well as a lot of scrutiny lately. One major draw, in my opinion, is that it supports interoperability with standards-based (SIP/H.323) software and equipment. Other platforms, such as the recently oft-mentioned Jitsi, are WebRTC only; interop means using their libraries in the browser. MS Teams, Facetime, Skype, FB Messenger video, Google's products--all are walled. What video platforms are interoperable?
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US is in a clear-cut info war with US citizens in order to attempt to coerce them into a war; we need to fully neuter its ability to do this to its own citizens and hold those doing it to account. This is US propaganda; end of story. Full stop. This is an attempt to facilitate a major act of violence against innocent people under the guise of a benevolent conquest in order to secure oil.
You don't have to strongly approve of a candidate to vote for them to be president. And if you don't, then you can't be too surprised with the racist, bigoted, incompetent holder of the office.

We can demurr about the complexities of the Republican primaries in 2016 but the depressing take here is simply that people preferred racist and bigoted over competent.
They were well suited AFTER the two months of trying to bury it. Once the cat got out of the bag, when keeping it in the bag was the whole point.
Those without broadband struggle in a stuck-at-home nation
The point is being simplified. Simply washing a knife will not make it suitable for preparation of kosher food; but there are methods that will.

Searching for "libun gamur" and "hagalah" will provide a starting point for the genuinely interested.
Oooo, wow collect looks so much cleaner. I can't wait to get home and play with it!
You can safely rule out a one year lockdown because people will not tolerate it. They will violate the lockdown and the virus will spread.
Serious question: how long does it take for humans to permanently adjust their sense of normalcy? There is a concept of `creeping normality`[0] that gets at this, but there isn't a lot of discussion about how to speed it up and make it permanent.

We know from South Korea that public mask-wearing is probably the most effective form of dropping the R0 quickly. If somehow 100% of Americans could get access to face shields (via 3d printing, for example), then the engineering and logistic problem is solved.

But the bigger problem is the social one. How do you socialize the acceptable use of masks or face shields in everyday public life? If enough people feel enough distress, I could see every person wearing masks, forever. If that happened, the talking points about this dragging on or immediately rebounding start to change.

Given enough technical choices in lifestyle design, there has to be some optimal solution that minimizes droplet emission while maximizing freedom of movement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normality
This may be true for now when most peoples' lives are as yet still unaffected by it, but it's very much not going to be true after a month of uncontrolled pandemic when everyone will know many people who've died from it.
This is such an important point. However, sticking to the "panic only as much as needed" idea is difficult because, sometimes, incentives are skewed to reward panic. Think about all the laws that are passed without regard to the side-effects because "someone ought to do something about this". In peacetime, prepare for war. Before the crisis hits, you should take the time to think through how you and the people around you need to behave and what is likely to trip you up. Don't assume you will do the right thing. Plan to do the right thing.
Virus disrupts pregnancy plans, raises anxiety and questions
Note that I was asking specifically about deterministic modes. Those include SIV mode [1] but not the more common CBC, CTR, etc.

Any deterministic encryption relies on entropy of the plaintext for security [2]. This is not unique to ECB.

My objection was to the hyperbolic phrase "trivially broken." SIV mode is deterministic, but nobody who understands what it does would call it "trivially broken."

And I'm definitely not saying that anyone should use ECB. Just that in this case, the vulnerability may not live up to the hype.

By all means, go ahead bashing on Zoom. It's the cool thing to do these days, and clearly they've done enough to deserve most of it.

[1] https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/siv.pdf

[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/186
Wife has a Phd in BioTech from Europe. Is she eligible to self petition for a EB1 Green Card? Thanks for doing this.

Also she is currently working for a contract research organization doing some COVID-19 related research. Will that help her case in anyway? We are from India, so there is a huge wait time.
What should one do ahead of time to prepare for the filing to remove conditions on a 2-year green card that was acquired via an I-130 spousal petition? What are typical ways to prove one's lives are intertwined, is it enough just to have a joint bank account or do you have to add them to everything?

Is it a worry if one spouse doesn't have a job, due to Trump's push against those who "might become" a burden to the state?

Are these usually granted without issue, e.g. can one file on their own without too much worry, or is it best in this climate to get a lawyer to prepare the application rather than only engaging them if there are issues with the application.

Finally, what happens if an application to remove conditions is rejected. Does that involve having to travel back to the home country, engaging in appeals or what? I really wonder how that would even work with the Covid lockdowns.

Thanks in advance.
Use a stable coin... USDC if you are worried about regulations and risk.
This would be a great moment for food delivery robots
I am still not understanding what Brave offers users that Firefox does not. Would someone care to fill me in? Discarding for the moment the notion of paying people to look at advertising - which strikes me as a step backwards for society, what privacy-related reasons are there to use Brave over Firefox?
Federal reserve including all assets and subtracting all debts.

If you owe 300k on your house that's worth 400k, you might have a liquidity problem but you aren't poor.
They refer to one’s internal predispositions and biases as well as those of an organization attempting to respond to a situation. Depending on the situation, genetics could be in reference to height, G-tolerance, etc.
BGP over some new fancy transport protocol will cause way more problems.
Every week I am surprised at seeing the support Trump STILL has. FFS, his approval rating is going up! Who in their right mind still approves of this moron and his handling of this crisis. Oh yeah, the old boomers STILL running around in MAGA hats. Some American people obviously voted for these morons in office and I still can't believe it. Lying , cheating, scamming, and quid pro quo wasn't enough to impeach a sitting president, and shows there is no justice left for the rich and powerful.
End of year iPAD is rumored to be miniLED, not microLED. Vastly different tech. miniLED is just FALD/adding a few LED grids behind your LCD. microLED (uLED) is where every pixel is an LED... so it's like a non-organic version of OLED.
More like he gives some of what he stole by not paying taxes back
So, unfortunately, I think as soon as actual force is necessary we lose - but while increasing heavy-handedness involves fines and parking a patrol car outside someone's house to make them adhere to self-isolation I think we'll be alright.
But sometimes we get cheap flat screen TVs, so it's impossible to say whether capitalism is bad or not.

(with thanks to dril: https://twitter.com/dril/status/464802196060917762)
I did a bit, but there are tables that simply don't have any lines. Given that human beings are just so much better at detecting tables than AI, I figured maybe the solution is to help people quickly draw the table they see, rather than tweaking algorithm -- hence this new product.
The title is fraud. It fraudulently report 85% accuracy gain.But the inside it is something else. "FixMatch is a recent semi-supervised approach by Sohn et al. from Google Brain that improved the state of the art in semi-supervised learning(SSL). It is a simpler combination of previous methods such as UDA and ReMixMatch. In this post, we will understand the concept of FixMatch and also see it got 78% median accuracy and 84% maximum accuracy on CIFAR-10 with just 10 labeled images."
Is Covid-19 more likely to suddenly mutate and become more lethal to young adults than, say, some strain of influenza doing that (again)?
Hey Peter, thank you for doing this!

My question: Soon I will receive an employment-based green card (EB-3). How soon after can I leave my job without fearing any adverse consequences?

Background: Some friends have told me that if I leave too soon, then later if I apply for citizenship, I may be denied. The reason would be that I hadn't made my green card application in earnest, since leaving so soon shows I didn't intend to stay at my current employer. Is that true? How soon is too soon?
It doesn't matter how long the period of isolation lasts, we're emerging from it to face a economic crisis that will far exceed the great depression. That crisis hasn't even started to materialize yet.

There's no normal to return to, and the immediate future after this will be bleaker than the time we're all in isolation. While isolation continues people won't be kicked out of their apartments, communities will help those in need with food, and nobody will have to worry about those bills that are pilling up. The second everything starts again, all of those debts will be unpaused, all of that community support will dry up, and people will be back to fending for themselves rather than in this together.

There will someday be a normal again but it won't resemble the normal we had in February in US any more than the world returned to "normal" after 9-11, of WWII for that matter.

The second isolation ends then reality will really set in.

edit: Can someone explain the downvotes? Is there anyone that thinks the claim that the economic consequences of this will be horrific is downvote worthy?
US has some incentive to undercount, but US has lots of semi independent state/local governments and non government epidemiologists.

In China, province/local government leaders would be jailed for speaking against the party line.
I wonder if the "quoting" problem could be fixed by making m4 recognize Lua-style longstrings, which never need escape characters. Some examples:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringsTutorial

I considered using longstrings to make a "better CSV" once but then I realized that quoting is only one of the many problems with CSV.
I agree, though it'll be a little late at that point.