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Ask HN: What have you learned as your startup adjusted to Covid?
What has gone right or wrong as your startup has adjusted to the COVID pandemic?

Here's an example from my company.

We're a 100% remote company selling services for an open source product. Working from home is status quo for us, hence no transition from COVID. On the other hand, cancellation of in-person conference for open source projects was a big hit. Conferences like Kubecon enable regular physical meetings to connect project stakeholders and keep work aligned. I've learned that these conferences play a fundamental role in maintaining the web of relationships, especially for large ecosystems like Kubernetes and the remote teams that work on them. As Joni Mitchell said, "you don't know what you've got till it's gone."

What have you learned?
Conspiracy is the agreement to commit a crime.

Assange and Manning agreed to try to gain unauthorized access to some U.S. government computer system.

Unauthorized computer access is a federal crime, see 18 U.S.C. section 1030.

The federal conspiracy charged (18 U.S.C section 371 in this case) also requires that one of the conspirators take an 'overt act' to further conspiracy. This is to stop idle talk about crimes being prosecuted as conspiracies.

In this case, Manning actually provided Assange with the hashed password. That's the overt act.

But, fundamentally, the conspiracy is the agreement to commit a crime.
I believe real intelligence, having independent agency is linked to an organism complex enough to be aware of what it is vs everything else.

The self.

A computer in a box lacks this. Everything we make lacks this so far.

Biotech is going to change that, IMHO.

Not sure electro mechanical can get there. At least not yet, though we are getting really good at it.
I thought to myself, “Did I leave the oven on?” I checked my phone, I had, and I turned it off without needing to go back home.

The fact that most IoT is shit doesn’t make IoT a stupid concept.
Reddit too, it's like they don't expect users to come back. Perhaps another example of managers chasing the wrong metrics
Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work
I love black licorice, and would like to try some of this. Is there a brand or variety you’d recommend?
I'm still gobsmacked I can make coffee the night before and set a timer on my machine to make it in the morning. That's future magic.

The rest of the day, I want that routine. It's an excuse to go downstairs and play with my kid for five minutes.
At first glance, the plan9 code looks broken to me: EOF is commonly defined as -1, which gets converted to unsigned char (ie 0xFF) before lookup. If your encoding uses the full 8-bit codespace, that's the wrong thing to do...
I did with my family using blindfolds and we all failed. Either seems to demonstrate that perception of wine has a strong visual component.
As I was reading this I was reminded of the aphorism,

You should never meet your heroes.

Perhaps we should meet all of our heroes. To see that we should not hold them up as goals to be achieved, but bars to be surpassed.
That was my immediate first thought - maybe by 2020 the founding Boomers who rose to editorial positions have retired.
Americans do have kettles, they just suck at 110V.
That's neat to know. Thanks for the link.

I'll add the book listed there to my reading list.
What are the two closest flavors that you can differentiate? Because those are some massive gaps in flavor to not taste any differently. Can you tell different brands of soda apart? Styles of beer? Does all liquor taste the same?
Make me realize we do not yet have AI.

We do have interesting sub systems and they do have great utility. Not to crap on what is done.

But my cat can do things nothing we make can.
> I'm still curious why IBM hasn't gotten Amazon to host some System Z DB2 mainframes to compete.

Why would they use AWS? They have their own cloud: https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog#services
Everyone should expect flexibility when the law is applied to a case where it doesn't make sense. If someone makes the wrong assumption and is surprised, that is a risk they took and I am ok with that. This doesn’t mean the law needs to be applied unwavering when it doesn’t make sense.
It's still funny though. It's got more horsepower than an SMP RISC box from the early 90s that would have powered a top 100 website. And probably could have controlled a room full of coffee makers.
Perhaps the moon itself?
> I do wonder how many people are becoming unreasonable in situations like this.

Would be an interesting stat. I would hope not that many but expect a large population given they'd be people who have elected to take short-term vacations in foreign country during a pandemic, they'd either be very self-centered or not very bright.
> Their application was declined because the Director-General of Health was not reasonably satisfied that the ship had a compelling need to arrive in New Zealand that reached the high threshold required for either of these exemptions.

Nice. Just to be clear, there isn't a process. There is the ability to get an exemption. It's a default no.
By any reasonable interpretation, it is entrapment, and a fair number of lawyers out there were pretty unhappy, some vocally so, with the outcome of that whole shitshow.
Really? By inventing Java?
Off-topic, but it strikes me as interesting how everyone always considers themselves "the masses", calling themselves "us plebes" on a forum where a six-figure salary is the norm.
> The former Cellino & Barnes attorneys I spoke with generally loved the firm and are proud of their time with it. Many lawyers stayed there for years. The chief motivation was clear: You could make a lot of money. “When I first went in, they didn’t have to sell me. I knew I wanted to work there,” one former staff attorney says. “But they bring out the book showing what everybody made the year before, and you’re like, Holy fuck. These guys are making 300, 400, 700 [thousand dollars]. It’s a pretty unique possibility in the context of a personal-injury law firm.”

> The lawyers on staff split up the calendar. On their assigned intake day, they answered all the calls — a lawyer would actually pick up the phone after a quick screen — and basically kept all the cases that happened to come in. They could be valuable; they could be dog shit.

This is the correct way to scale a firm. Be very organized and document everyone’s jobs to a T. Then allow as many people as possible to be incentivized with profit-sharing when putting in effort that benefits the firm. So many businesses treat their employees like cogs when they should be seen as partners in revenue generation and growing the business.
Well then why should the US have yet another social media app coming into the country and causing harm?
Not in my book.

I am running a prototype immediate mode gui that I built for my yet unreleased engine and the frame time is staying below 500ns for a fullscreen app with many widgets and layers.

The whole thing is built on C + Vulkan but is not entirely optimized yet.

And this is running on a decent but not extremely fast computer. (An Intel NUC from 2018)
>best linux distro around. If I could easily run IntellJ on it I would switch.

It's not a Distro.
I don’t think that you’d be able to communicate the observation of units in a way that’s consistent as a written form of symbology in the rule space of mathematics and the language space used to communicate the mathematics and observation of reality around oneself which leads to relativity.

All definitions are nuanced and subjective based on path of least resistance heuristics.

It’s often miscommunication is happening because expected results are misaligned despite using same rules/language.

It’s quite complex. It’s really interesting but also leads to poor communication. Do we try to embed in our cultures to align on expectation and values to improve this or always doomed to potentially fatal inconsistencies? I guess the dynamics of any rules naturally incentivize behavior whether it’s negative or positive.
>> I wouldn't consider this a lot of overhead.

Depends on how many subscriptions you want. If you have 100s of subscriptions, it can add up.

>> You can send a token as query parameter.

If using JWT or some other kind of stateless signed (or encrypted) token, that would take up a large part of the URL. Also URL length is limited to around 2000 characters in some browsers. So it encourages short session IDs instead of signed tokens (session IDs are not stateless; so it's going to force an additional database call to be made on the server-side).

>> The EventSource API allows you to close the connection at any time. It will automatically reconnect which I consider a feature.

Yes there is some control. But if it auto-reconnects too fast, then your servers could end up DDoSed if you had a lot of concurrent clients. If it auto-reconnects too slow, then your users could miss more messages than would be desirable depending on the use case.

With WebSockets, you can control the backoff to your needs and you can randomize, so you can ensure that not all clients try to reconnect at the exact same time; you can tailor it to your architecture.

>> However, we don't need this flexibility for GraphQL Subscriptions.

It seems like it simplifies things but also potentially reduces flexibility and performance. But I'm not familiar with the typical use case for GraphQL so maybe it's worth it.
In a perfect world, where IoT stands for Intranet of Things, IoT companies do actual engineering, and turning products into services is illegal?

In that world, the use case isn't cooking food from across town. It's cooking food from another room.

I'm sitting in my home office right now. I'm working (well, on a HN break :)). My wife is playing with our child. I'm thirsty and I want a cup of tea now. My choices are either to distract myself for a couple minutes, which is annoying if the thirst hits in when I'm "in the zone". Or I could ask my wife, but she has better things to do and I don't like interrupting people unless it's necessary. In this perfect world I described at the beginning, I could just press a button on my keyboard to start the kettle, and would get a pop-up notification once the water is ready. I'd just get up and get my tea without losing focus, and without distracting anyone else.

Similar reasoning for other appliances.

Unfortunately, the way IoT is developing, I don't expect that future any time soon, because some of the features are in opposition to the business model under which IoT companies operate. A better bet for me would be to get an EE degree and mod the appliances myself (I'm not doing it now, because I'm afraid of letting my contraptions control anything that's connected to mains, or could otherwise start a fire).

EDIT:

Another way of putting the value proposition of IoT in a sane world: rich people hire assistants to handle trivial and distracting errands. IoT is supposed to be an equivalent of that, but available to everyone.
In the future, being multilingual will be useful not so much for communicating with other humans, but for getting different answers from voice assistants.

Hey Google, who owns Hans Island?
Hej Google, hvem ejer Hans Ø?
I've found that people tend to attribute human emotions and self-awareness to their pets, far beyond what science (or skilled pet trainers) would hold. And then there are other people that attribute these qualities and even the presence of a "soul" to plants, rocks, etc.. As far as the human "psyche" is concerned, I think it's inclined to animism.
You can't run it in crostini?
Unless you put in ice water some days, and hot water others, physics is physics, and I guarantee it takes roughly the same amount of time, every time, and I doubt you have taken the time to time it - too busy saving time to save time, I imagine.

If it takes 3 minutes, press start, look at the clock, come back in 3 (or ~1 song later, if that's easier).

I don't mean to be rude, but if a task this simple is difficult for you to manage on your own, you might benefit from a little more organizing and self-discipline in your life.

To each their own (I don't know your life), but in my world, attempting to be "fully focused" every second of the day is a perfect recipe for burnout. Coffee, for me, is about not being fully focused. Like an intentional break from it (i.e, a "coffee break"). Taking the time to prep it, brew it, and drink it, is all a part of the process.

It's a fun experiment to try and optimize every minute of the day around productivity, but its untenable, long-term.
DDoS botnets are a lot easier than ransomware. They don't have to communicate with the user and don't need a credible threat. Many devices that simply don't have a realistic ransom threat are usable for those, and the same code can potentially be reused across completely different classes of devices as long as they run the same underlying OS.

They also often don't cause problems for the user, so the user - and as a result, the vendor - doesn't have a strong incentive to avoid them.
Why would that be stupid? I actually think it's kind of stupid for only one country to have the bridges shown on EU currency.

I was just thinking it would be cool if a bunch of the EU countries each started building these bridges. You could see it as a symbol of unity. Maybe they could do something interesting with it like each country adding their own personal touches to the design. Or using the bridges to bring attention to lesser-known, interesting cities in the country.
They don't track your reading metrics when you're a subscriber?
I still don't understand how the Eastern District of Virginia can claim that "Nathaniel Frank" was in fact Julian Assange. The reasoning presented in their affidavit looks clearly fallacious to me (starting at p13):

https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2019/04/2017-12-21_Vir...

There are two assumptions they use to infer the identity of NF:

1- The belief of two persons that the person who they were talking with was probably Assange.

2- That only one single person was using that jabber account.

The only thing I can personally infer from the information they presented is that NF was (very likely) a member of Wikileaks at that time.

What am I missing?
> Population x Fatality Rate will tell you how much it "costs" to achieve herd immunity.

...what? My comment was about risk-stratification. "Population x Fatality Rate" is the formula we are resigned to use because we're not doing risk-stratification.

This is what Katz, Ioannidis, Gupta, Osterholm, etc. (it, many of the most trusted experts on this topic) have been saying all along, and being ignored not only in the hugely ignorant US response, but also in the more sophisticated ones.

> That also doesn't take into account long term impacts that are not fatal.

Yes, there are rare complications from all viruses that can cause long-term disease. But we're fighting a pandemic right now, so it's probably not time to focus on phenomena of rounding-error incidence and which are not unique to this virus.
It’s an illegal derivative. Sun never granted a license. And of course the interface declaring code will be the same, otherwise the types would be incompatible and the documentation would be confusing: http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/04/oracle-asks-court-to-clea...
I don’t know Luk Thung, but when was in Laos they play these really fun guitar + synths bands that are pretty great. On the buses, in the bars and cafes, everywhere.

Very difficult to find any of the music on YouTube though, because Lao script alphabet is so different, same as for Thai, I don’t even know how to type any of the letters.
Unfortunately this might be true for the foreseeable future because of increasing technology and independent of politics. Nick Bostrom writes about this in "The Vulnerable World Hypothesis" (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1758-5899.1...)
I have read that people who wear masks are still getting small amounts of virus particles when they are out in public, and as a result they are developing at least a weak response. This results in less severe illness when/if the person receives enough of the virus for it to become infectious.

I don't remember where I read this, or I'd post a link. Either way, it is an interesting theory which has not (yet) been proven.
>How do you plan to address accessibility using imgui?

I am not sure I understand this question.
I work in this field. Quantum computers currently have no practical applications that outperform classical computers. Finding applications is currently an open research question whose answer mostly depends on how good the hardware gets over the next couple of years.
That's up to Nvidia to tell you not Debian. Debian supports running on any of the above platforms assuming the hardware OEM supports running generic Linux installs.

For that board in particular only Ubuntu 18.04 with proprietary kernel modules is officially supported, you can generally upgrade without too much issue though. It also uses Nvidia specific apt repositories.
That makes sense, thanks. What is Assange's alleged overt act? Or is it just required of one of the conspirators?
What hyperbolic nonsense!

There's way too many differences between the US & Sri Lanka; never mind that there's a global pandemic, election season, transition of communication medium/technological shift.
Things in space that have sufficient velocity don't just "fall" to earth. If it's in a high elliptical or kinda-circular orbit of earth, something would need to act on it with a lot of delta-v change to bring the periapsis into the atmosphere in order for it to re-enter.

Satellites above about 5000 km will remain up there on a geological time scale, though their orbits will become eccentric and weird over time as various other bodies perturb them.
also check out ora_migrator https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/ora_migrator (another extension from Cybertec) which uses oracle_fdw under the hood.

intro blog post:
https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/ora_migrator-moving-f...
I actually really like Noam, I could have been a bit more general in that we very well might not advance scientifically.
I have always used ThinkPads, which are among the best supported notebooks for Linux afaik.

I totally agree that Windows has an "unfair" advantage here as manufacturers make sure that their hardware works in Windows while for Linux most of the time they don't even provide drivers.

I have helped friends and family configure their MACs and honestly I never felt wow this does not gets in the way. Not all apps in MAC are installed the same way IIRC. For example Adobe apps. Never had issues with installers that take forever in Windows. Same with Transparency.

About the availability of the software, 99% of it is on Windows, so that is a big plus. But I am not talking so much about that, I am talking about the complexity to do things in Linux.

Most of the time, at least for a user like me that tries it/uses it sporadically, I need to search for a way to install or do something. It is good that most of the time there is a response, but I find it weird that all is so complicated.

For example, this is how I installed virtualbox some years ago (it might be better now)

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/..._vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0

In windows it was download, double click, next, next, next. Done.

Here is how to install MKTOOLNIX (again, a couple of years ago)

wget -q -O - https://www.bunkus.org/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.txt | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://www.bunkus.org/ubuntu/xenial/ ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui

In windows, download, double click, next, next, next.

Again, if you use it all the time, maybe it becomes natural to you.
How do they net out the idea that people with healthy lifestyles would be less likely to have a vitamin D deficiency? (Better diet, more exposure to sunlight)
Hmm, I recognize your personal journey with tech as very similar to my own. You're at that phase where you got sick of the churn and so just want to settle on something that's not going to change out from under you. You went through the "try everything" phase years ago. I understand the reluctance to go back to that life, I really do.

But it's better now, and Arch Linux is that better. I'm using the Openbox version of Arco Linux, because it gives me a usable desktop right out of the box. Another significant source of instability is desktop environments, the number of times I pulled my hair out over Gnome is many. It's hard to go against the grain when running Ubuntu, but it's really easy with Arch.

Eventually you'll hit that sweet spot of stable usability. But you have to build on a real foundation. Ubuntu can't be that anymore. Package management with Arco is stupidly easy, just 'yay anything' and it'll give you a list of stuff to install. You have to learn how to script it if that's what you want to do but it's worth it in the end.
> Since 1980, real estate prices have risen far faster than inflation, incomes and prices of consumer goods like food or clothing. As a result, housing costs now make up a larger proportion of residents’ expenses.

So... wouldn't that make Black and Latino neighborhoods better off, since their prices have risen less, and are therefore more affordable? Sorry, undervalued.

I don't understand how both rising real estate prices, and undervalued housing, can be a problem. Can home prices be too high and too low at the same time?
Anti-virus signatures are more complex. YARA just matches strings and bytes - but is still a very effective tool.
My dishwasher is noisy and I live in a studio apartment, so prior to COVID[1], my policy was to start the cycle right before leaving for work in the morning. When this worked, I would come home to clean dishes and never have to hear any noise. On days when I forgot to start the dishwasher before leaving, I would come home to dirty dishes and have to wait before making dinner.

If I could schedule the dishwasher to start automatically at 10 am every weekday, that would be fantastic! If it could remind me to load detergent the night before, that would be even better. And if the dishwasher had a reservoir of detergent that I only had to refill once a month... I’m not saying these little enhancements would be life-changing or anything, and if they cost hundreds of dollars extra, I would certainly pass. But it would be nice.

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1: (Now I work from home, so there’s no way to avoid hearing the dishwasher.)
Why is Miles even in this list, though? What universe of music is under consideration? I see Coltrane but not Parker or Brubeck? It does not seem like Kate Bush and Miles Davis can be meaningfully ranked.
I'm buying a new computer. Currently I have only ubuntu linux machines and was just saying to someone that I would actually consider trying windows and WSL because it would let me use the linux tools I want alongside MS office, and it might be interesting to play with windows versions of things. The reason I wont actually do it though is because I'm sure that windows will be filled with commercially oriented intrusions and annoyances that I don't see in linux. I admit I am hypersensitive to that kind of thing, but getting reminders and popups from the task bar etc destroys my concentration. Maybe there is a way to shut all that down but I always felt like windows was bothering me about stuff a lot more than linux ever does.

Solve that and I may be a convert.
Why do you think there is a magical virus barrier at the border?

It does not matter if you travel to the next city or to the country nearby. Yes, there are clusters but at least in Europe we do not have vast empty areas between populated places. It is pretty much a continuum.
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