skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key section:

> Over the next 90 days, we are committed to... Enacting a feature freeze, effectively immediately, and shifting all our engineering resources to focus on our biggest trust, safety, and privacy issues.

I see a lot of comments here claiming that this blog post is bland corporate apologia, doesn't take responsibility, doesn't change anything.

But this seems like a pretty legit turnaround. Overall, they seem to be addressing pretty much everything that's been brought up. They removed the Facebook SDK, they removed attention tracking, they've clarified their encryption policies in detail.

One commenter here is asking for more, for punishment, another demands their security team be fired. And I mean, if someone wants to try to sue Zoom for misusing the term E2EE then go for it, but obviously Zoom can't "punish itself" in a blog post, and pinning it on a few bad engineers feels like a scapegoat.

This seems to be positive steps, folks. Genuinely not sure what more you could be asking for from a regular for-profit business.
We can check efficacy claim of HCQ by doing Randomised trail in US under FDA supervision instead of just relying on Chinese studies, But main benefit of HCQ if it found to be effective would be that it is already a widely used approved drug. We know it's side effects, Getting a new drug approved and check for its side effects itself is very time consuming and expensive exercise. Here only randomised large scale trail is needed.
What is preventive USA Pharma companies and FDA to do randomised trails here ?
A non-Euclidean story or: how to persist when your geometry doesn’t
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For those of us changing careers... many of us are (well this was a few years ago so not me at the moment) too ;)

For most industries just getting any 'experience' is half the battle.
I sure would have loved this as a kid! It's even more fun and colorful than Creative Computing (although it's not a monthly publication). I really used to look forward to every issue of CC each month.
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Couldn't a web business also be offering a free sample with upmarket tiers available or alternative funding? How am I supposed to tell? Why does this make it okay for the business to ignore data safety? It would be cheaper for the supermarket to ignore food safety on their free tier, but we don't let them do that.
Nope. You can easily refresh/retake the interview.
These are all good questions. However distant it will be, and no matter the suffering the world will face, the Corona epidemic will pass at some point that those that survive will experience. I wonder what kind if celebrations we will see. Like when WW2 ended? Will it be a distinct event, or gradual? Will other side effects have become so grave so the actual epidemic has moved to the background? I hate this situation but it will surely be something to remember...
Singapore: Fines employers who don't let employees work from home where possible
Diffing isn't really needed - usually you either replace a subtree completely or change a few attributes, which isn't hard to write code for.

Diffing will always be expensive memory wise.
Building a neural network from scratch with Python
Underscores really leave spaces as the main delimeter; i.e. when you see e.g. winsock_ctx, your brain is really keying on the space rather than the line. Compare that to winsock-ctx, where I notice the line more. We're good at reading spaces, both because we've been trained to, and because they'll always stand out more than using one squiggle among a bunch of other squiggles. Just my guess.
I've heard this too. Here's an explanation that sounds plausible:

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1244717172871409666

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1245066858597761024

If true, this argues for giving HCQ immediately upon admission.
M2 is a measure of money supply. To get velocity you also need nominal GDP. M2 says nothing about velocity without taking into account the inevitable GDP changes. If you're looking for a googlable metric to look for, M2V is the Fed's calculated velocity of M2.
I wonder who responds positively to Palantir recruiters?

Is the money so good that it is easy to suspend your morals?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Controve...
Based on the title alone I would say "find the most important aspect of each side's view and come up with a compromise that satisfies both parties"

I've done this several times now and it hasn't failed me yet. The hard part is discovering "the most important aspect of each side's view" because sometimes they themselves don't know it without some probing.
Also almost all immigration restrictions like work and residency visas are unconstitutional, as the constitution only grants the Federal government power to determine rules for naturalization.

To quote Justice William Rehnquist: “one of the greatest 'fictions' of our federal system is that the Congress exercises only those powers delegated to it, while the remainder are reserved to the States or to the people. The manner in which this Court has construed the Commerce Clause amply illustrates the extent of this fiction. Although it is clear that the people, through the States, delegated authority to Congress to 'regulate Commerce ... among the several States' (Commerce Clause), one could easily get the sense from this Court's opinions that the federal system exists only at the sufferance of Congress."
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You're really missing my point. CFR is not the percentage of "people who get it" that don't survive. It's the percentage of "people who get it, get tested, test positive and are thus confirmed as a case" that don't survive. The actual mortality rate, whether ICUs are working or not (they mostly are), isn't known.
You’re conflating “the BBC” with “BBC News”. Given the sheer size and scope of the BBC that’s a mistake. The BBC as a broad organisation is trusted by the public. It's the same mistake you see often when people complain about the license fee then exclusively talk about news coverage. It's really not the same.

I’m not sure why a tweet by a reporter would be particularly noteworthy here. By their nature tweets are off the cuff, and I’m not even sure that one is all that inaccurate. “Run by” does not start and stop with the Prime Minister of a country, it’s a reflection of who is responding to a medical crisis from top to bottom.
> Because privacy and security are less important than food safety?

Yes how is that even a question?

> How about this one: I go to the library and borrow some books. This costs me nothing. The library publishes my name, birthdate, and reading list on their website. Is that okay?

Your library is funded through your tax dollars. You are paying for it.
Tesla Model Y Heat Pump – The Start of Something Bigger?
Not to be a downer, but what would beating this thing by x look like? Perhaps a drug combination that prevents COVID turning into ARDS, so it becomes a confluence of nasty flu symptoms rather than a silent killer?

Otherwise it seems the only way we beat this thing is with a vaccine, and that means a series of consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth... like 4 ~ 8 of them, at best.
It may be embarrassing from a PR / image standpoint, as seen by the mainstream who doesn't know better and will read some headline followed by sensational lines like «Sony sued emulator projects to death (and lost) and now uses them for profit in products!»

The truth is that the amount of work and dedication that goes into a great emulator, with all the quirks and ad hoc settings for the whole library... no corporation on Earth can get that within months, it's actually a textbook example of the Mythical Man-Month (you need a few "hotshots" that will give their life for years to reach that level of refinement, you just can't hack it with a team of 10x averages without the heart that goes into it).

And even if you could, it's ridiculous cost versus 'free'.

Sony did the right thing by crediting them explicitely in-GUI. It's a classy move. There's a certain school within Sony that's extremely friendly to open-source, I surmise it's the historical engineering ethos of that company that hasn't entirely left their premises— in some buildings, some labs, the Sony-spirit of old is alive and kicking, e.g. their Sailfish-OS friendly phones (i.e. open-sourced drivers for these models, fully rootable etc).
> Various models and data sets put asymptomatic cases at between 20% and 50%. Those are fully asymptomatic - i.e. total end-to-end progression with either very mild symptoms indistinguishable from a minor cold, or no symptoms at all.

That's why I use South Korea as a model. They've tested enough that they should have found the majority of asymptomatic cases, and they still have CFR above 1% (1.7% as of this writing).

That also puts a bound on reasonable levels of occult spread. We can support maybe 50% of cases being totally asymptomatic and undetected, but if that is significantly greater then we'd see contact-tracing (again, SK-style) entirely fail as a control measure.

So it seems like an absolute best-case CFR is 0.5%, if it would be 1% among symptomatic cases and there again that many that never notice / are diagnosed with the disease. For the UK, that would give an optimistic projection of (66e6 * 50% * 0.5% =) 165k deaths in a "herd immunity" outcome with a "flat curve", so this is consistent with the range of your "hand-wavy estimate."
Define accessible?

If polling stations are closed, strategically, and people cannot afford the time/money to vote, or wait to vote, are they truly accessible?

Mail-in is a different situation, so I am not considering this.

Otherwise, I agree with much of your thought.
> JS frameworks do just not support rendering as a simple page.

What is this supposed to mean?
People with significant job experience might be okay overall, but if this is anything like 2008-2011 we're going to see a lot of people piling up at the career on-ramp. They call it the '08 global financial crisis, but unemployment did not peak until 2010 and for that entire period you had excess young jobseekers competing against laid off workers with more experience for the same positions. Unemployment was concentrated in the very young and very old, so the reported unemployment rate doesn't really tell the whole story. I recall most "entry level" openings wanting 3+ years experience.

Many people gave up, moved back home with Mom and Dad, and went off into very unexpected and disappointing career directions. Many hit the career snooze button by going to graduate school. I myself, a freshly minted MIT grad whose summer 2010 internship fell through at the last minute, found myself applying and being rejected from such emergency jobs as barista, pizza delivery person, target cashier, aquarium ticket salesperson, and SAT tutor. There was a period in the fall of 2010 where I became semi-homeless (sleeping in common areas at MIT and Harvard) and was stealing the bulk of my food from Harvard dining halls. I ended up going to graduate school and was extremely grateful to have a $25k/yr graduate stipend as income.

This looks to be worse. I am very very worried for today's college-age population, as well as any career changers who have invested in that but not completed the transition. My wife just went through a year of self-studied bootcamp type work and now I'm not sure when, if ever, she'll be able to get a job.
Tailscale has reached general availability
When Sars ended Toronto had a concert, they called it "sarsstock". Maybe we can call this one Coronachella?
Unpaid internships are illegal in most states and the last time I checked it was the most commonly violated labor law.

However, there are exceptions for government and nonprofit internships.
Agreed. But by trying to hitch their wagon to one particular treatment, and trying take ownership of that issue, they are making it about them and about politics rather than about the efficacy of the treatment.

In this kind of crisis, the last thing we need is to be injecting politics into the decision about which treatments are most effective.
How do you count the impact of economic disruption on people? Even on the lower end, you should count fractional loss of life for people forced into survival mode, the stress, etc. You also have to count knock-on effects on people who become homeless, have a bad childhood affecting their entire life, etc.

If you are so inclined, how do you count the dip in births during the bad economy? That is 80+ years of life expectancy each, whereas the GP is over-estimating the life expectancy loss from COVID, I think the average age of the dead in Italy, after overwhelming healthcare, is over 80.

Then, on the higher end, economic collapse of the Soviet Union reduced life expectancies so much that that probably destroyed more life years than hypothetical COVID epidemic ever could, all by itself; before you count the above.

The year of life estimate of $10M is also preposterous. If I gave you a choice of living to 85 with average wage lifetime earnings, or 84 with the same +$10M, which would you take?
Yet the Jitsi developer seems to credit OSGi as an essential basis of the project. They suggest that such a modular and dynamic architecture was necessary to support so all these protocols, platforms, etc. What would you suggest as an alternative (including things that are available now, but not then)?
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I was wondering if there might be a baby boom. There are a lot of couples, inside the house together for a long time, wanting productive ways to pass the time... ;)
You can provide feedback on the answer card. I've had a few answer cards fixed after providing feedback. Notably "https port" used to yield the http port.

Edit: I think you've actually managed to find a really terrific example of a case where modern ML systems are going to have trouble, because of how that Wikipedia page is worded in relation to the query.

* There isn't a single phrase that answers the query directly, so the ML model would need to make very good use of context (attention), both within multiclause sentences and between paragraphs.

* There are many different numbers on the page, so the model has to determine the right one. It can't just get lucky by guessing here.

* A wrong number (1.7MB) has close proximity to literal keywords in the query (floppy, disk). (The right number [880KB] does too.)

* The model has to understand and properly make use of "most" vs "unusual" in its decision.
In the acknowledgements the author explains: "The main impetus behind this text lies both in my advisor’s
comments on me 'writing too much prose' when I was being overly verbose in my research articles".

Dwarf Fortress also gets a shoutout, as you might have guessed!
If you're going to comment on an article about a performance focused SIMD JSON parser and say a chip without AVX512 is faster than one with it, you're going to need to provide some proof.
> No. The idea of A/B testing does not require DOM manipulation or code "injection".

We were using Adobe's Test and Target (Omniture) application for launching and measuring our tests. It works via code injection.
Seems likely it will be far worse and more widespread than 2008, but perhaps will come back faster. Why faster? Because govt may have a policy to fund reconstruction. There are many policies that could make this better but to get into them invites flame wars. Certainly the US is much more poorly positioned for sustainable recovery so its relative importance to the world economy will decline (will probably remain the largest economy). China's relative strength may increase but it also has serious structural weaknesses so I don't think it will be by that much if any.

When you think of the tech sector, remember that big companies tend to weather downturns like this better than medium sized companies. Big companies they may lay off people, have reduced earnings, but they can survive. There's hysteresis in the system: perhaps fewer aircraft are bought, but engines are still needed for the ones in the pipeline. Only if that pipeline dries up and related lines of business can't carry it will such a company fail. Sure there are exceptions (Lehman, Enron, etc) but this isn't a bad rule of thumb. One relative advantage the US will have is that the average age of its population will drop over the next 3-8 years, which is a major driver of economic growth.

Very small companies can survive these events both due to some support from the the new bailout bill and because if you have one or two key customers (or a toehold in a viable sector, say games) it can be enough. tighten the belt a bit, focus on profitability, and you can survive and be positioned for growth when the time comes. A mouse needs much less to survive than a hippo.

Medium sized companies are the most at risk as they need that revenue and typically have a smaller margin for error.

As for the tech implications, it's hard to say. Today VCs are really happy with certain consumer companies (delivery, games, video) in their portfolio and feeling pain for their enterprise-focused portfolio companies. That can change as the market dynamic shifts: if we do see growth and you have an enterprise product that can drive top line growth you'll be in a pretty good position; once people are no longer locked up they'll be eager to spend their money on things they couldn't while locked up.

Looking for "where the puck will be": since there will be a log of "reboots" (people looking for new jobs, many empty storefronts and closed businesses): look for structural and secular shifts in how both the macroeconomy and macroeconomy shifts: the same businesses won't be back in all those empty storefronts. Many will remain empty for a long time, but not all. The things to look for are: when someone new starts a new business what will they need? Can you help them out? At the macro scale this has modulated (not completely changed) the attitude to remote work (for jobs where that is possible): what can you provide to take advantage of that? There will be a flood of office space on the market; will companies consider going away from "open plan" bullpens? They were common until the 60s and then came roaring back in the 00s. So times can change.

etc
HCQ+AZ vs. Covid-19: Grift, conspiracy theories, and another bad study by Raoult
IAG/BA have a 7.35bn euros of cash in the bank so I think you can probably separate them from most of the others looking for government payouts. It wouldn't surprise me if they buy up some of the competition when they're cheap in the coming months.

The real question is shouldn't they be using some of that 7.5bn to pay their fucking staff. Priorities are all wrong.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-16/us-economi...

> Forget predictions that the U.S. economy will enter a recession this year due to the coronavirus pandemic — the UCLA Anderson Forecast says it has happened already.

> On Monday, the school revised a forecast it issued just last week that stopped short of predicting a recession. The revised version says the economy has already stopped growing and will remain in recession through the end of September.
As I said right above, (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22759876)

I think it's not that easy. Not that corporations like Sony are necessarily lacking, but the greatest emulators are works of art, some masterpieces of reverse-engineering.
Yeah, the parent conversation was about whether iMessage is end-to-end encrypted. GP claimed that it cannot be due to it supporting multi-device sync, which is not true.
Your ATS does not allow adding resumes, is that intentional?
Would you mind adding this yourself: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QdMr6TYlPLgc8nip165C...

That way all required fields can be filled in.
It modulates immune response.So needs to be give in the condition of a cytokine storm by the immune system which is the cause of complications and death
Other than consistency with coding style, I've never got the appeal of camel or pascal case. Is it a file size concern, maybe? I guess an underscore could take up additional space when used across a codebase, and maybe this has been held over?
> Does your video call have end-to-end encryption? Probably not.

This headline is inaccurate.

FaceTime has end-to-end encryption and is one of the most popular video call apps used for personal calls.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/features/
JavaScript Logical Operators
Covid-19: Wisconsin farmers forced to dump milk
You sound like a true idiot.
I wish we had something like this in the US.

I am in the house building industry which Texas has deemed essential/critical and can continue to function as normal during shelter-in-place orders.

As a software engineer, my job can be done entirely from home. However, the CEO has a deep distrust of employees and will not allow us to work remotely during this time since he can get away with doing so.

Technically we have 10 work remote days per year, but to work remotely at this time we must use those. It's not being given to us, and this situation will last more than 10 business days.
The prevalence of stock buybacks is a problem but ...

I'm not sure that in the absence of buybacks that they would have just sat on a pile of cash (I bet some of them have some cash on hand) and paid everyone during the COVID crisis until that cash was gone. That just wouldn't make sense business wise either.

A lack of buybacks wouldn't change anything here. If you're not working these employees, you aren't going to keep paying them for long generally. Buybacks or no buybacks.

If you don't like the incentive to layoff people who aren't working for you, that's a whole other topic IMO.
Ray Dalio – The Changing World Order: Where we are and where we are going
The proximity tracing does not have to be perfect, just like social distancing or face masks do not have to be perfect. They just need to be effective enough to reduce R < 1.