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> So you need more engineers because you hired more middle managers?

Companies often implement more process for good reason.

The antithesis of old Facebook's Move Fast And Break Things is to have policies that ensure good security, stability, accessibility, privacy, internationalization, meeting legal requirements, etc. and that usually means processes to ensure that eager engineers and product managers actually meet those policies, instead of rushing to launch.

It's easy to scoff at process when you're a small company or startup whose mistakes will go largely unnoticed unless you suddenly go viral. If you're a Big Tech Company, accidentally messing up security or privacy somewhat means getting a front page article on The Verge detailing your crimes.

Working at Google now, there's plenty of process involves in developing and launching a thing, but I can't really say any of the pieces are without merit.
In a crisis like this, their job is to do _everything_ in their power to support their people. This involves lots of domestic action, which I think we are seeing.

What this also entails is that if there's federal resources, they should be doing everything in their power to secure them too.
You're confusing two different Ebola outbreaks, I think.

The first outbreak to be contained using a vaccine was the one from April 2018. See https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/health/ebola-congo-who.ht.... Furthermore, the WHO did not create the vaccine. Merck did (https://www.mrknewsroom.com/news/company-statements/merck-ma...), building off prior work from Canada. WHO distributed this vaccine and they ended up qualifying it only in 2019.

The same NYT article and others (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/30/health/how-ebola-roared-b...) note that the 2013 Ebola outbreak was indeed handled poorly by the WHO, and that the WHO was roundly criticized for it.
I don't find this response convincing because:

(a) While I'm being honest that my observations are based on the fields I have experience, there is no such justification that "It is true broadly for computation in academia" in your comment.

(b) Interpreting "niche" as "small" (especially given your "true broadly" claim): Computational genetics is huge in terms of funding dollars and number of researchers.
This is very well done, intuitive to use, and fast - I'm impressed! Only tweak I would want is a way to move the ends of a selected timeline segment, at least for mobile.
I noticed you had a list of funding sources in your github. Maybe you could address part of chicken/egg problem by using those to seed your site. Maybe just submit on people's behalf, as long as it's clear what you're doing.
I mean, it is. In a sense, almost everything is political.
This is a fantastic list of old projects. Many of them might be re-envisioned in the VR era.
Your points are all great, and I agree with them completely.

I'd like to add that Ben Horowitz has given some great talks on the subject, and I found his book incredibly useful.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqI7fa04atc

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-...
My bad! I meant to say "lack of diversification", as in: too much revenue coming from a single product.

I did not mean to say there was a lack of differentiation - that is a much more subjective and controversial topic.

What I'm talking about is much more straightforward: most of the money comes from RHEL. RHEL is not growing as fast as it used to. And other sources of revenue, like Openshift and Ansible, are not growing fast enough to fill the gap.
This makes happy... because this is how things _are supposed to work_ in a Republic. Power was never supposed to be concentrated heavily at the Federal level. It's much easier to kick policies you don't like at state levels and not be ruled by people in physically/culturally distant areas.
>a lot has changed

And a lot can change again. Last time the lines shifted seriously was the great depression. Seems like crisis is a catalyst for shifts in power structures...

>Not since the civil war it isn't.

Unless trump is planning on arresting governors brown and Newsom, along with dozens of former and current California legislators, this is a toothless threat.

California is a nation state. Think that is treason? Run up.
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This is really cool! It’d be even better if you added “playsinline” attributes to your video elements so your videos didn’t play in fullscreen on iPhones.
The signal the Fed is sending to everyone in the market is: don't worry about risk or bad decisions! As long as you are in the same boat as other financial institutions, the Fed will rescue you. Even if we survive this new crash (I still remember 2008), the economy seems to be headed to destruction in not such a long term.
I have like 4 months of runway. Tough call.
"And don’t neglect a second pair of eyes: Ask relatives and friends to read over your work. They might catch some things you missed and can tell you when something is amiss."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers
This little server startup wants to take on a horde of tech giants
Original mirror? But the BQ has 2019_10 while the pushshift has only up 2019-09
Restricting voting isn't a moral evil lol. We can and should haggle about the voting age, but it's probably wise that we don't allow 2 year olds to vote.

Also the Bill of rights is basically just a list of shit that we're not allowed to vote on anymore (Yes, I know that amendments can be repealed, but it's quite cumbersome).

Idk, just this over-glorification of democracy is odd to me. Honest question, when did small r republicanism go so out of style?
I used to shy away from editing my own writing. I felt like I couldn’t possibly make any improvements since I was the person who wrote the writing that needed editing in the first place. But once you get used to it, the real fun of writing is in the chance to perfect what you’re trying to say through editing.
The best thing that could happen to the United States would be an amicable divorce.

It is ridiculous to have national elections matter so much at the local level and come down to a few counties in a few contested states, remote from the vast majority of citizens.

Edit: It's heartening to see all the principled federalism and subsidiarity here in the HN comments. I'm sure it would be the same if a Democrat were in office and a Republican governer were talking this way, no?
I wish there was a better method for deducting state taxes from federal, especially with Trumps repeated "States should handle this problem on their own" stance when 85% of my taxes are going to federal govt.
> I feel you man. I live in Spain and we have been in this since the 12th of March. I live alone and it's horrible.

You have my honest sympathy. Having family (and a couple of pets) for me helps, but the constant shut-in can also cause some minor annoyances to become "major" and a source of attrition. That's why the rule is never to talk about SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19.

To be honest, neither the government or the press helps at least here. For the former I could say many things, but it would be OT, and I don't want to rant, at least not on HN. ;) For the latter, it's usually "you must endure suffering" or "we're all gonna die". This makes enduring this even harder.
Out of curiosity, what keeps you from pinning elm version in your projects unless you are a library developer?
When it comes to disasters, the Federal government's job is to write checks- they're the gov't equivalent of homeowner's insurance.

You may wish it were otherwise, but that is not how it is currently set up.
> The economy pre-pandemic no longer exists. It will not magically exist again in the future.

That's ridiculous nothing structural has changed about the economy. When the doors fly open people will be back to work and life will resume as normal, as it always has.
Snowden: Governments Using Coronavirus to Build 'Architecture of Oppression'
Individual American states are still, by law, sovereign. They're subject to but independent of the federal government. That's why stay at home orders have been going state-by-state, for example; the President has no general authority to tell the citizens of California what to do.
Effects of 5G wireless communication on human health [pdf]
Several states have had a single governor later become President. New York is in the lead with 4 governors becoming President (FDR being the most recent).
Brand new account, named “modsRapple”, with only this comment. Safe to ignore.
You're not likely to get any more information on Aurora than what's on the wikipedia page. It includes some breakdown of the attacks (among other things, zero days in internet explorer).

> At thousands per week, that is 12k, 24k, 40k, 24k, 12k new compromises per chain at a minimum, probably closer to 5x those numbers.

That assumes every visitor uses iOS 10-12. Which is...not likely. My understanding is that these sites were likely Chinese dissident forums, and I don't think that iOS 10-12 makes up even half of browsers in china. Nor does it make sense that every user is unique. This isn't to downplay the danger of these attacks, but no you're likely looking at compromising 1-2K devices total when it comes down to it.

But again, you're looking at state actors (not even nation state actors at this point, but like the Chinese version of the NSA/CIA) with hundred million or billion dollar budgets. If those are the only people capable of exploiting your software, you're doing an objectively good job.
And those messages are the ones that reveal your intention to hide messages. That metadata is some of the most valuable.

Also, people don't really want to use secret chats because they aren't cross platform. Sure, some people only own phones, but those that switch to laptop/desktop computer don't want to whip out phone hundreds of times a day, but opt-in for the insecure cloud chats that are accessible with simple alt+tab.

So yeah. Sure, secret chats can be mostly secure, the problem is the E2EE isn't practical to any reasonable extent and again, using it leaks metadata.
This should be the top comment.

I think you are a little too aggressive about inflation in terms of consumer prices and underselling the impact to wealth inequality. Hopefully we will be able to have interest rates rise.
Also had a search by interest feature if I remember right.

There were no programming classes back then at my school and I found someone, half way across the world, who patiently taught me programming everyday.
That’s a good point. I would like to plug taler here. There is no technical reason why the federal government needs to have access to all our financial information as far as I know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Taler
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22814198

Security and privacy issues are clearly very real.
Clinics?
In Toronto, Ontario, we've been in a state of emergency since the 16th, so far we're only being requested to go out only when needed, and to not interact in close quarters unless you live with the person. People still go for walks, and such, but the penetration of infected people was still fairly low ( we're at under 600 people hospitalized). It's a softer approach, but it's still challenging even for introverted folk. The spread has stabilized, so maybe a lighter approach is okay once the urgency has set in.
>Cancel credit cards and issue new ones so you can zero out expenses quickly. This will end all recurring charges — and force the company to explicitly re-subscribe to all essential services.

If this is required, you're absolutely mismanaging you spending already. It's a nuclear option. If your accounting is so sloppy that you cannot, in the course of a day, pull a list of recurring subscription-like expenses and instead have to take such drastic measures, then you really, really, really need to take that as a sign that your entire accounting needs are not being adequately addressed. Maybe you don't have the right people handling that end of your business. Or maybe you aren't listening to them on best practices because you want to move fast. But if you're burning runway through such awful spending habits, you are literally giving away equity in your business because you can't be bothered to be a good fiscal manager, not to mention a responsible shepherd of your investors' funds.
Productivity Is a Fuck
California has proportional representation in the House of Representatives.

California used to have proportional and geographic representation internally in a bicameral state legislature. Then came the Supreme Court's one man one vote ruling. Now southern California has pure proportional representation and gets all the fresh water it demands from northern California, environmental concerns be damned.

Be careful what you wish for.
Consciousness is basically the only thing we can conclusively say is NOT an illusion, right?
To be fair, Democrats gerrymander just as much. I’m not saying it’s okay. But I don’t think spouting partisan talking points makes for interesting or constructive conversation on HN.
Its funny and sad that telegram developers at the same time dismiss their own past history of security vulnerabilities with "all programs have bugs", but then they attack an app with superior encryption protocol by complaining about those same bugs that get patched when they are found. Pathetic.

And like heinrich5991 said, there's no need for backdoor or vulnerability when the data leaks by design to the server.

And no secret chats aren't an option. E2EE needs to be cross-platform and enabled by default. Signal can do it, Wire can do it. Telegram can't, because the developers are completely incompetent.
Yes, agree 100%. Urgently necessary.

I imagine there's a lot of 'invisible supply destruction' as well, as all those businesses that have let go around 17 million people over the past three weeks[a] are shutting down entire groups and divisions, canceling investment plans, walking away from leases, etc. Not pretty.

[a] https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-surge-in-unemployment-claim...
I feel like Python bindings came along kicking and screaming by the Qt owners. PyQt was originally developed and licensed independently. Nokia was negotiating a relicensing with Riverbank Software. When that broke down and they wrote PySide--basically a reimplementation. That was kind of abandoned with Python 3 and Qt5 until the VFX industry made a big push for PySide2 (rebranded Qt for Python).

Even with all of that, you generally end up reading the C++ docs, it isn't particularly Pythonic, and there are weird gotchas. I can't really fault them for it because you're bound to get that with bindings to another language and it is much better than other UI toolkits.
It has been awhile since I did SF integration work but they do have table like triggers for updates/upserts etc (or at least have in the past) so you could setup triggers and sync the data that way.

Another (dirty) option is query the updated records on a schedule and update your local database. If you see on average 20 records change a day, then just do syncs every 30 minutes so at worse you are out a short bit. Triggers are obviously superior however. This all depends no what you are using the data for and what is the impact of a stale record. Cause you could also do this once a day but then anytime an action/decision is to be taken on a specific record you hit SF database and confirm you have the latest. But for general reporting it is rare that the count can't be slightly delayed, and where it can't there are options.

Add a hook to the form itself to push the update to your system as well, again it has been awhile, but I worked on a project where this was done by another team, not for the same reason you are interested but it was possible. Basically it was similar to using a trigger but was done at the form level with a web hook, but sorry I don't know much about this methodology.

You might want to pay for an hour or two from a SF integration consultant to help give you some ideas, there are lots of options usually for this and SF is a huge product so might save you tons of time to get an expert recommendations.

I am a huge fan of not leaving your data in SF only, there are so many reasons it is better to have your data locally.
> no one has the balls to stand up and admit that a certain amount

Yeah no, that's not how this works. The reason they can't do this with guns is because that would pull out the rug under them, as most republican voters will stop voting for people who want to curtail their gun rights.
Now try to find people who give a dusty fuck about online privacy, I am not even sure a noteworthy portion of HN gives a F*, let alone my parents or granparents... Most people simply don't understand what WhatsApp even is. They use it and send stuff but that is where their knowledge ends. That's also why Zoom can get away with their end-to-end encryption. People don't care. Period.
Right in Jitsi, you share your screen and Chrome's dialog opens, you go "application window" and select your game, and check the little box "share audio". Here's a GIF from their newest blog post showing it: https://335wvf48o1332cksy23mw1pj-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
psychedelic plant medicine is highly effective
Russian Far East is also similar, except with tigers.
I suggest you regularly going for a walk (at least 30 minutes), in an area with plenty of greenery. Perhaps a park. The change of scene (from being inside) plus the exercise, sunshine and face to face contact with others should help.

When you're at home, play music regularly and often.
https://www.gethealthystayhealthy.com/en-au/articles/10-heal...

While listening to your music a little DARK chocolate may
also help.
https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/dark-chocolate-serotonin-le...
Not really. Grooming is a term that can refer to many things. One of those is a bad thing. Doesn't mean we have to throw the word away.
Lead leeching into the soil and water supply is a very, very bad thing. Eventually, even long-lasting electronics must be disposed of, and if it contains significant quantities of lead, it poses a risk of poisoning the environment.

Yeah, right. Where are the numbers? If lead "leeches" out of solder and into the water table, it happens in microscopic quantities on geologic timescales.

Getting lead out of gasoline made sense. Solder and plating, no. At less than 0.66 grams of solder based on tin content alone [1], one iPhone built with 63/37 eutectic lead solder would contain less lead than about 20,000 car batteries. Last I checked, we're still poisoning your children with those.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/433wyq/everything-thats-i...
Of course I don’t think it’s treason, but it is likely a deliberate non-standard use the term. “Nation-state” is widely used to refer to nations which act as sovereign states on the international stage. US states are not widely viewed as sovereign states, largely because their ability to enter into direct relationships with other countries is largely limited.
>No one wants to admit that they're mere cogs, compensated for not gumming up the money machine.

Reality is unpleasant so people are in denial. Some peasants here down voted you. I just up voted you.

- another peasant
Sure, and you can look at a list of recurring meetings and people can cancel them. Or you cancel all of them and see which ones get recreated. One way is probably more effective.
We don’t know when the doors will open. It’s reasonably certain they won’t “fly” open.

If the coronavirus continues to be a major threat for the next year or two, which is well within the realm of possibility, we don’t know what society or the economy will look like after.

Worse, we don’t know that there is an after. It’s possible there is no effective and safe vaccine, and that social distancing becomes a permanent feature of life.
Best method for a website with payment processing and server hosting for users?
I dont know much about current web or server development so I'm just looking for some pointers in the right direction. I want to set up a website that can take payments, and transfer assets on metamask to the customer. Then I want to set up a server for hosting these assets. What is the best current standard for these items? Thanks.
Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat
Here is the patch for the faulty epub.css:
https://gist.github.com/luckylittle/9a6d99def44a48796fbcb147...
I worked for Cisco who were big RH users (RHEL, OpenStack, OpenShift, Quay, etc). We were audited and it basically comes up when contracts are renewed. It's not a bad thing, you just need to be honest about what you're using and how much and then just pay the man. Or don't and switch to other offerings. One thing I liked about RH is that they worked with you vs Oracle which was pure evil when it came being audited.
Yeah for me the worst is not knowing how long this is for. And the complete refusal to relax even a little bit. If I could just go out for a walk on my own... This would give me so much stability and would compromise nobody.

There's mountains nearby where I can walk for hours without meeting anyone. But I need to walk a couple km through the city to get there and the chance of getting caught is too high.

I don't really have any annoyances to be honest. Just complete anxiety :'( I'm not worried about the virus at all. The solitude is literally much more life-threatening for me. The lockdown is hitting where it really hurts because I have a strong tendency for depression.
Yeah. I can't imagine KDE using Qt if there's a 12 month turnaround (and they don't have final word of what goes into a release). I would think they'd have to fork and hopefully merge on release.
on the other hand the late Senator Strom Thormond didn't leave office until he retired at age 100.
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What about US based 3m workers going on strike at unfortunate moment?
Absolutely, feel free to add it!

Overall ffmpegjs/ffmpeg.js has been really nice. I would honestly prefer less API: they wrapped everything into a worker and made their own API calls, but I'd prefer the raw Emscripten filesystem and no worker/proxying. Then maybe a second library that wraps it up would be nice for ease of use.

I ran into one issue where the memory being used by ffmpeg was too great for running on an Android Pixel 3a (malloc failed). I split up the video encoding into 30 frame chunks. I don't think this was related to ffmpegjs/ffmpeg.js however.
> Luke is off and rude in this post at least. He is considered about the posture of OSS not the real benefits of it. Why Luke didn't came up with big blog post about the features he would like to see in Elm? Much more constructive than bitching about it.

Sounds like he has done a lot of talking about features he would like to see (as well as work to realise them), and gotten nothing but dismissal and inaction for it. I think this blog post is probably the most constructive thing left he could do.
What? There’s been one US president who was previously governor of California (Reagan) and one who unsuccessfully ran for governor (Nixon).

No other political candidate from California has even been nominated. We’ve had seven presidents from Ohio.
Washington State currently has surplus medical capacity and has been packaging it up and shipping it to states who need it.

If the governor of your state is doing nothing while blaming the federal, that's a problem with your governor. As I said, they have the power to do these things, and the responsibility to.
Oh, thanks so much for that! This link showed me I have interest for things I did not even know existed on the platform.
I mean, Mountains 101, Poetry? Awesome!