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Dotenv libraries are just for dev and other similar environments. In production you should still use normal environment variables (or whatever system you use to load your configuration), as dotenv files stay on the filesystem and sometimes even committed to your SCM.
3 Idiots is a remarkably inspirational Bollywood movie depicting the problem; one of my all-time favorites.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/3_idiots
Why, did The Gulag Archipelago grow a chapter about Microsoft Azure since the last time I read it? Or is it easier to take someone you disagree with down a peg by drawing attention to and making light of perceived sensitivity issues?
Show HN: Could you build the next ZenDesk for $10k in funding?
nope, it just says "no suitable licenses found" even though i got the email that i updated.
Government has to subsidise them to be ready in the event there is a surge in cases. If people are being laid off there was no point to cancelling elective surgeries.
I’m in the Bay Area too, and most everyone I know has been complying, more or less.
> Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, warned Congress that states that push too quickly to ease orders could undo progress that would trigger an outbreak.

Its not about strictly avoiding triggering an outbreak, its about the hospitals having capacity to deal with the inevitable outbreaks, plural!

We aren't going to tolerate Mayors, Governors and Public Health agencies picking business types one by one forever. This was always about slowing exposure, not preventing it. In Norcal we have been very tolerant and cooperative, but I'm watching Socal as a precursor.
Available evidence (which is scant) seems to indicate that Sweden is enjoying no better economic circumstances but much worse health outcomes compared to its neighbors.
> 1. To flatten the infection curve, in order to keep healthcare systems from becoming overwhelmed like those in northern Italy.

I could buy this line of reasoning if there was any indication that hospitals outside of NYC were at any point “whelmed”, nevermind “overwhelmed.” All across the country you’ve got doctors and nurses getting their hours cut, furloughed, and laid off. And the ones who actually are in the hospitals have enough time to coordinate elaborate dance videos on TikTok.
I think the great group of work friends is largely an illusion, revealed by what happens when you leave the company. Very rarely do those relationships remain intact beyond basic career building/reference things. Some do, for sure, but the vast majority don't. This is a strong indicator to me that these are just "friends" of convenience, and are really just acquaintances and not the kind of meaningful relationships in our life where someone will have your back through tough times.
>The bigger the [Integrated information] number for a system, the larger its integrated information, and the more conscious the system is.

What's the number for humans?
I was 100% behind the initial lockdowns. We had next to no testing and we were seeing disturbing surges. We needed to lockdown to get a handle on what was going on.

But now we know what's going on and we don't seem to have a goal to deal with it. Some are going after 0 deaths. Some are going after don't overwhelm hospitals. And some don't destroy the economy.

I think we are at a point that every government restriction needs to have a very clear goal attached to it.
==Florida, like apparently everywhere else in the US, has been perpetually “two weeks away” for the past six weeks from becoming New York City.==

Almost the exact time most states started stay-at-home orders.
I think we are all going to get to the same fatality rate but at different speeds. The lockdown is only going to delay the inevitable unless we get a treatment or vaccine.
> This is getting dumb and to mixed in with politics

In what world could a government shelter orders ever not be involved with politics? I see this comment day-in and day-out on HN and I just can't even begin to conceptualize a world wherein there's some sterile, politics-free zone.
Screencasting works great in wayland. You'll need different applications though because the protocol is fundamentally different.
I'm in my 9th week here.
If I'm out doing two errands - e.g. I went to Home Depot for a light bulb and air filters and then to a grocery store - I will keep my mask on in the car. Unless I've brought a change of gloves - I will not touch my facemask until I've returned home - discarded my gloves and then removed my mask.

So - you may have seen someone like me (who doesn't want to touch his face or mask) driving with a mask.
> I've been doing WFH for years. Some of my collegues I've never met in person. I still consider many of them "work-friends" and I feel satisfied with my work/social factor. We are still in repeated regular meetings, even if they are tele/video conference.

IMHO, the difference between a "work friend" and a "friendly relationship with a colleague" is "do you frequently disengage from work to socialize together." For instance: taking breaks together to chit-chat. I can't see how someone you're in "repeated regular meetings" with could quality as a work friend, unless those meetings are not work related.
> The TV in your living room, the couch, the desk, the food in your fridge, the soap in your bathroom, the sheets on your bed — are they provided by "exploitation"?

Of course. Some examples from like a minute of searching:

• Electronics https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-forced-uighur-labor-ip...

• Food https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/06/19/193548623/wh...

• Clothing https://www.fastcompany.com/90279693/did-a-slave-make-your-s...
This is totally fair, however the reason everyone in the US were told to stay home was to flatten the curve to not overwhelm hospitals, and to buy time. That has been done. Hospitals are no where near capacity and new case counts are falling week over week. We have a lot of testing now, a lot of ventilators, a lot more PPE. We are better prepared now. Now the new thing seems to be for stay at home orders to exist so that we have no cases at all. That's not realistic. Politicians need to wake up to the reality that this can't go on. Even if our best case scenario is to avoid all the death we can...it's just not feasible. Not economically, morally, etc. The only real choice is a mixed policy that just have strict guidelines for businesses serving customers. It's the only way.
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But if the deaths from suicide, drug overdose, delayed medical care, ulcers and other stress related sicknesses, and abuse are enough, they will offset those numbers.

If the drop into poverty as people lose jobs create slums, gangs, and muggings, there will be a lot more deaths, and those will also offset the numbers.

So, even quality of life aside, I am not sure we come out ahead even on saving lives.

I would like data though, since anyone can speculate. Can someone point to real data?
Not to sound like a party pooper but is it staring to seem like Ubers recent strategy is akin to chasing cars?

- in 2019 Uber threw itself into bike share after cities had success with it.

- Uber scooters followed immediately after Bird scooters

- Uber self driving showed up almost instantly after Waymo.

- Uber eats showed up almost immediately after GrubHub.

Is there anything meaningfully unique this company does anymore?? I mean the self driving truck company they bought basically imploded. its got 22 individual criticisms on Wikipedia everything from murder and sexual assault to tax dodging.
This question arises regularly in everyday conversation about the future. I was asked this by a friend within the last week. Here is the correct answer: "Well, I don't know what consciousness is. As for [specific behavior X], my guess is that..."

The conversation can then proceed fruitfully, without the pretense of special knowledge about 'consciousness', which no one has. There are plenty of people who are experts in both philosophy of mind and brain science. I know one, with a PhD in each discipline. Consensus is not forthcoming in this area. Stick to the concrete.
This was once the case, but PowerShell has been a solid administration tool for quite some time now. OpenSSH Server also ships as part of Windows, which was the missing link (since WinRM is, charitably, awful). The remote administration experience of Windows is now certainly comparable to Linux, in my opinion.
There's still some liability on the state in leaving it interpretable. They will also be called out for lack of leadership if they don't provide guidance.

The best political safe alternative for all players involved is to do what's happening now; the government provides a hard line on guidance and then is lax on enforcement and lets the plant re-open and begin production. If it goes well (and hopefully it goes well), it goes well.

If it doesn't go well, then people who were advocating taking the risk and with the most to gain if had it gone well, are ultimately responsible for the downside liability. Which seems fair?
But how is that different than any other Initial Coin Offering?
What's the rationale behind the criteria of LA ? "No death in the past 14 days" ? That's nuts. the rest of the criteria might be workable.

European countries have opened up with less than that, and it hasn't been a disaster so far.

This is also just dumb: Face coverings will be required when not in the water, and sunbathing won’t be allowed.
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> RegEdit, is there a text version for that?

Uhm, in Powershell:

PS C:\Users\zb3> cd hklm:
PS HKLM:\>

(you are now in the registry local machine hive)
Completely unrelated, but Comcast and other cable internet CEOs are probably LMAO-big they way to classify their company as “too big to fail” :)
Compliance is about to take a nosedive
I think we don't disagree that soft anonymity is an important social concept.

We disagree that radio broadcast fits the soft-anonymity space. It never has in the past and we probably do more harm than good adding it (for starters, we kill the hobby radio industry. We give massive power to the largest owners of radios---broadcast conglomerates---that could start claiming their broadcasts were intended for only their audience and hit people with a cudgel for tuning in. And there's a lot of ugly corner cases where the radio specturm is shared; if my neighbor's broken wifi is stomping all over my signal quality and I record packets to prove it, should I be held liable that I grabbed that data when their radio activity was harming my ability to use my radios?).

We'd be better served by teaching people "What you broadcast with a radio is broadcast. Make decisions about what you broadcast accordingly."

> google exploited and is clearly on the wrong side of morality regarding storing also the unencrypted payloads

It doesn't sound like Google intended to do that, but I think the fact they didn't highlights why it's important people understand the need to not broadcast that which you don't want public; accidental data collection is too easy.

If I flip my router into debug mode because it stops talking to my laptop, I'm going to see the packets of my neighbors. I don't want to see them, and if they don't want me to either, they really ought to stop sending them unencrypted like that.
That said, Florida had beaches open in many areas that people predicted would cause huge surges and they did not from any of the data I've seen.
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Perhaps not "mind bending" but I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi definitely opened my eyes to a world I didn't realize existed.

There's an interview with the author on NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/04/6444982...
I would be wary of all this freedom. Once you are WFH, the variable of expendability will increase. Those companies who have been doing it for decades know how hard it is, I doubt twitter does.

I’ll predict this announcement is step 1 in realignment of staff sizing. Perhaps Disney can buy the FB building and turn it into something productive.
That's the nature of exponential growth. Becoming overwhelmed happens very quickly. Successful mitigation almost always looks like an overreaction.
Broke: Describing capitalism as it historically developed through a materialist theory that seeks to uncover the mechanisms of its reproduction, like a fucking moron.

Woke: Describing capitalism as an ideal concept that does not refer to its material basis so any time anyone wants to describe how it works in reality they have to resort to qualifying it with adjectives like so many Ptolemaic epicycles.
Looking at the disparity of incomes of tech workers across regions, makes it abundantly clear that wages would be 50% lower if they could hire anywhere in the country, and probably 80% lower if they could hire anywhere in the world.

We've all worked with highly qualified offshore resources (as well as many bad ones). Do they really deserve that 20k salary when we're making high six figures?

I've started hiring abroad. It's a different form of management, sure, but you absolutely beat the return on investment.

My advice is to try to stick with the same timezone, and the same language (or roughly anyway).
The entire hospital staff doesn't just sit around waiting for a pandemic. Most elective procedures have been postponed during this. Large portions of the healthcare system are idle _because_ everyone is at home. The parts of the hospital that can handle the symptoms of the virus are what we're trying to reduce the burden on.
If you look at our counties by population, LA and OC are doing pretty stellar relatively speaking. Add up all the counties in "SoCal" and you're looking at roughly 20 million people. The Bay area is what... ~4 million for SF/Alameda/Santa Clara? Not trying to start a pissing contest here but the fact that we're going to have more cases and deaths is just a numbers game.
What do you mean by "building new pathways into technology work?"
Fuck man, are we gonna go through the panic buying again?
This is expected. Their curve will peak much earlier, but there is no reason to expect the area under the curve(deaths) for LA will be much different than Sweden.
Philosophers have been struggling with this for millennia without making much progress. This suggests it's not a useful question to propose.

More useful questions revolve around "common sense". View common sense as the ability to predict the future with enough success to survive. With that capability, "common sense" can be run as a predictor when evaluating proposed actions.
You're witnessing a real-time process of adaptation. What you need to understand is even if officials and leaders agree that generic lockdowns are "dumb", it takes days or weeks to enact those changes at the macro level. You also need to add on the 14 day incubation period of the virus. If you make sweeping adjustments to lockdown or distancing rules, you will not know the true effects for 10-14 days. This makes progress seem very slow whereas the reality of it is that progress is actually moving quite fast in the macro (global) sense.
Careers never fully recover from extended unemployment. There is plenty of research on this from previous downturns.
100% not that. It's more of a suggestion to stay at home. Restaurants and bars are closed to dine-in. Movie theaters and other fun things are closed.

We 100% do not have military threatening arrest for going out. At this point, many (rural) police districts and politicians are even saying they won't enforce the stay-home orders anymore.

So. Yeah. Not quite the same.
For operating systems development, inline assembly is convenient, which is not yet stable. See the conversation below.

The vast majority of Rust users use stable. You just happen to see a lot of folks who are interested in the cutting edge blog about things. (You may also run into older things where that thing is stable now, too, to be clear.)
Well, not to mention that you're allowed to add features to it without waiting for Microsoft to do it. Linux might not be the best codebase in the world, but it's probably easier to add a feature to Linux than it is to get MS to add a new feature.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Linux quicker to support multithreading than Windows, largely because big megacorps needed that for their servers?
I’d recommend checking out .NET Core and F# or C# 8. Honestly .NET is becoming my go-to for anything beyond what a bash script can offer because it’s typed, functional or OO, has great frameworks for basic MVC sites or desktop apps, and the IDE on Windows is amazing while being able to compile cross-platform.

It’s not just for enterprises!
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Looks like a lot of conspiracy theories though?
> More regions have had to lay off hospital staff than have been overwhelmed.

That's a bit of a red herring. Hospitals aren't laying off ER and ICU staff. They're furloughing in areas like dermatology, plastic surgery, and the like - parts of the hospital that see largely elective procedures.
Forgive me if I get the citation wrong, but I believe I remember listening to Ezra Klein talking how for much of the 40s/50s/60s, communities were organized by churches and community institutions. I would easily add military service to this as well.

If you were a doctor, you would still know your community fairly well; whether they be a farmer or another blue collar worker. As we've replaced the prominence of community based institutions such as churches with elite institutions (primarily colleges and workplaces), we've isolated lots of people who aren't able to participate in these communities (due to many inequalities). Obviously these previous community institutions had major flaws (racism/sexism), but they still provided a shared experience that makes a diverse and broad social group easier.
25% of California's population is from LA county. Just to put that in context.
How do you guys cope with non distracted part of being in a office space and compartmentalize the work thoughts and personal one. Curious to know.
I miss a precise goal what this extended lockdown should achieve. Is it adequate medical support or stopping the virus and the deaths? The latter seems highly unlikely given the metric of 14 days without deaths.
What if there are still a lot of cases in July, lockdown indefinitely?
Yes I mean that. I mixed the titles in my head and didn't catch it.
The goal is drastically cut down both deaths and hospitalizations. There are various estimates for how to get to herd immunity, 50% of population has to have it, up to 75%. The current estimates for how many people die ranges from 0.3% (3/1000) to 0.5%. A lot more end up in the hospital, perhaps 5-10x more than those who die, I don't have as good a number for this. [1] has good info.

330 million * 50% * 0.005 = 825k die. 5-10x in the hospital is 4 million to 8 million. Those are big impacts.

Some people want to argue the next thing "those are mostly old people or sick people", so too bad for them?

1. IHME, https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america
This post will probably get downvoted but, why are we not using people who view the kind of stuff Facebook moderators have to go through, who do and would gladly view such materials for free? If they can make a living while enjoying themselves, and we can keep them away from normal society, that would be a win-win, no?
Sure, now, but when I was starting out a decade ago, everything seemed to be quite big money.

Even reading the docs seemed to need a login and paid subscription.
I think its just general frustration with California's handling of the lockdown and testing of covid-19, as well as the opaque release of information regarding where cases are located at and lack of wide-scale antibody testing. I'm fine as I can wfh for long time, I feel for others who do not have the opportunity to and cannot come up with rent and food for their families as the Govt. is providing little to no assistance during this time.
> all kinds

I recognize that you're making a joke here, but that's categorically not true. Mental-health related deaths have gone up, and will continue to go up. A lot.
I should have added: "But Sigma-Delta is as easy (in fact, probably easier) to implement that I really don't understand why people ever use PWM anywhere. It's so inferior IMO."
Why are we doing it? The same reason we don’t try to eat a year’s worth of meals in one day: we simply couldn’t handle it. The modelling and current experience indicate that hospitals would be overwhelmed relatively quickly. The only real argument against that is if natural herd immunity has already been achieved; seems unlikely at this stage, but we’ll know either way once credible seroprevalence studies are completed.

A “lockdown” is a Fabian (or “rope-a-dope”) strategy: we avoid getting our assess kicked until the balance of power shifts in our favor, at which point we stage a massively devastating counterattack. In the context of COVID-19, that means safe and effective treatments, and/or universal vaccination.

“Getting our wallops” upfront would likely involve a severe economic contraction, as millions of people are removed from economic activity by illness, death, and ultimately fear of the two. Even Sweden is projected to suffer a severe economic contraction, partly due to the global trading conditions and the openness of their economy, but also partly because fear of COVID-19 is sapping domestic demand.
I'm not convinced the age of the team is relevant.
you're describing how consciousness can come from a mindless evolutionary process.

but artificial consciousness is not the same at all. we aren't trying to make artificial consciousness evolve- we're racing to be the first to create it ex nihilo. so the analogy is flawed.
Getting A list as part of a prime membership could be an awesome perk.
Not the parent but I am not paying $98 to read the story.... So no I did not, maybe people should post links only to non-pay walled sources
It is generally an oversight to assume that people have ideal work conditions at home and could be more productive. Going to a reliable and steady office is absolutely salutary for many people. There are trade-offs, yes, but no one-size-fits-all. Physical work location and conditions is one potential issue, and emotional/relational conditions are another. Would we want to overlook these issues while still searching for the best talent for our companies?
At least for Illinois, models predicted that a May 1 reopening would lead to a very large second peak in June with high probability. See e.g. https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/look-insi.... It's more than 2-week lag time due to the time required for R_0 to increase (due to people's habits), a number of generations required to noticed, and the general lag time of the issues.
This is insanity. California is weeks away from bankruptcy. Newsom is banking on a federal bailout that isn't coming.

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/05/10/california-ju...
Not every doctor exists to respond to an acute respiratory viral infection.

Also, I don't think you can accurately determine the workload of a nurse based on a 30 second tiktok video. You know, I saw some truckers sleeping for a few hours at a truck stop on the highway. Why aren't they driving to deliver their packages? Clearly they have plenty of time.

An overloaded _system_ does not necessarily result in overloaded _workers_. In fact, it should minimize the number of overloaded workers as much as possible to avoid preventable mistakes. Taking some time to film a fun video with your coworkers should be viewed as workers taking necessary time to unwind, not as workers taking unnecessary time to goof off.