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I strongly disagree with the statement, that we have "too few sick" here in Germany. With the lockdown, we managed to just keep the health system from being completely overloaded in the most infected regions. But that already at the price of postponing non-urgent medical procedures. So yes, there are a few free beds in hospitals still, but we might still need them.

What is not accounted for is, that supplies (masks...) are still scarce and more importandly, most medical personal is working at an unsustainable intensity. There is plenty of reason of desiring even less sick people.

The reasons for reducing the lockdown are practical, social and economic. The lockdown is hard on many people, depending on their social and living situation. Especially in dense cities, most people don't have housing which was designed to be confined to it for many weeks. And apart from that, people want to go out, want to meet other people again. Need to do shopping for clothing, get a haircut. Also, we should try to keep the economy from collapsing.

The trick will be to reduce the lockdown while keeping the minimum safety in place and without too many people acting reckless and endangering the population again.
TFA appears to address this, the automated system is used to help identify comments for human moderators. The human is the one responsible. And according to stack overflow they plan to use this system only to help the human moderators.

If you don't believe them and suspect they will have a fully AI flagging system in the future (in direct contradiction of this post) thats fine but it might be better stated as such, since human judgement is currently still paramount.
Ahh that makes sense, thanks!!

I thought it was more like "verified" or something.
There's no pretending there is no other choice, this already is a proposal for that "other choice". Contact tracing certainly isn't new, it's a required step in tackling many infectious diseases and will happen whether or not it is assisted by digital means. The technical alternatives to the tiny part proposed here are coarse and many of them more invasive in terms of privacy. This proposal is specifically designed to prevent tracking populations, it also limits the number of necessary off switches to the two OS vendors. What exactly is the part of the "new normal" you are worried about here? I hope it's not people walking around with tracking beacons in their pocket, they already do that without giving it a single thought.
De-paywalled: https://archive.is/js5bL
No, they need senior programmers so 10+years experience.

In the same way they ask for 10+years programming experience in Swift or Rust
Touche.

Still, it's a fire hazard.
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This is the real difference between the bar exam and a Google interview, in my eyes. The bar exam is intended to pass everyone who meets the standard: your score on the bar is supposed to be an accurate measurement of you. And conversely, if you know the material, you should pass the bar. California's bar exam is considered infamously difficult because the passing rate is "only" 45%.

None of that is true of the interview. There is no notional standard. Assessments of the same person vary wildly from sample to sample. If you know the material, you are nevertheless expected to fail.
Perhaps a better approach would be a combination of consumer price transparency and banning exclusivity agreements. That way a combination of public shame and competition ought to make this problem go away.
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There are techs people would accept pay cuts to work with and there's cobol.
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Do you really want to end up in a situation where you're in a position of maintaining someone else's ancient codebase? I guarantee you this is not a path to anywhere but misery.
I feel they never truly recovered moderator goodwill after that fiasco months ago so they tried to promote more people into doing it, me included (1.3k to 2.1k reputation overnight)

Apparently it didn't work (I'll not edit people's questions!) so now they'll try automating it. Good luck to them but I'm not seeing them succeed in an area where nobody has.

And, as others said, SO isn't the same as before. It's mostly a homework finder and it doesn't encourage newer versions of code.
I believe that it's the impact of Covid 19 that has propelled this video onto the front page of Hacker News. Tons of people are doing DIY, gardening etc because of it and learning those skills on youtube.
There is one channel I've discovered and though its creator is ostensibly just a carpenter he's also a historian, philosopher , a jack of all building trades and a wonderful communicator.
I give you the Essential Craftsman
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzr30osBdTmuFUS8IfXtXmg
Port it from Torch to TensorFlow framework, export the graph to tflite, compile with xla&aot and you end up with a c++ library running on CP.
Now this makes me wonder what kind of wasp I’ve seen attacking bees in my garden in Sweden.

A very large wasp, I thought 2” in length, with the classic black and yellow stripes. I had assumed it was solitary. I’ve seen them hovering near the entrance of a wild hive and swooping on bees as they land and start to crawl in. The bee and wasp then tumble down to the ground, and there’s a struggle. Then the bee is released, and flies back to the hive. The wasp returns to hover by the entrance, awaiting its next victim.

These massive wasps will reappear this summer, as usual. I will have to try and identify them better. Anyone have any ideas?
My first serious computer job (early 1990's) was COBOL.

I last used it in 1997, then moved on to Oracle PL/SQL, Java, Oracle's Java software stacks and now iOS ObjC/Swift.

Now I'm 52 years old. I have my own apps now on the store, don't need the money but I am looking for a new challenge - something a bit more social than working for myself.

I think I'll do this COBOL refresher. Only issue is I'm in Australia but I see there may be some demand here too. Nothing to lose - plenty of time at the moment to do the courses. Good for a laugh anyway.
I'm not sure why age isn't mentioned here. I think the average age in Italy was something around 80. Men usually have shorter expected life spans, so this might confound the issue.
Just finished a contract with a hospital that built a lot of stuff in house in the 80ies based on a C (still pre C89 in many places) and Delphi/Pascal. The problem is indeed volume (over 10MLoC), two or three wizards supporting it all, but firmly coding like it's '83. No training of newcomers whatsoever, and thus really no way to contribute. If you manage to get some support, it will be once a year and in the form of code they wrote for you without much feedback possible.

Management prefers not to think about long term, because management obviously does not think long term.
The main issue that I see with this work is that they require RGBD data, meaning you have to do a lidar scan or something similar to measure the depth map. Alternatively, you could pay someone to draw it by hand, but that takes a long time.

So basically, if you have impossible to get input data, this network can do its magic.

What it then does is hallucinary inpainting, so something like the Photoshop content aware fill. If there's a tree in your photo, this one will make up a fake background behind it, so that you could move or remove the tree without things looking weird.
The Great Depression and the fact that vast quantities of capital were annihilated in two world wars which seriously reduced the power of those who own society.

There is another point you hint at that I want to underline: nations freely use ideological rhetoric to hide the same thousand year old wealth patterns. China is not communist, N Korea is a kingdom, the NSDP outlawed and jailed socialists and, as the article points out, social mobility in the US is fought by the ruling class at every opportunity.
True, that’s old school style! Come to think of it, I think they used to put up the all the pages of the latest editions of newspapers on public billboards not too long ago, and they were still doing that when I lived in St Petersburg (Russia, not Florida) 20 years ago. People would stay and read on the way to the metro, pretty nice!
You don't need full SGX if you trust the provider.

People already trust providers with their medical data. Why not trust some computation service to do the matching? This is a moment for trustworthy institutions to create data centers and get customers by their reputation.

Combine a big market of trustworthy providers and SGX, and abuse becomes much more difficult.
I learned today that this is true of most viruses. The flu appears 50-50 but women tend to look after infected men, and so are exposed disproportionately.
Thanks for that.

I have really serious lung problems and spent years homeless. While homeless, I used to just stand outside my tent and cough up massive amounts of fluid and gunk so I could breathe when I laid down to sleep.

Based on my experiences with my incurable lung disorder, I'm fairly confident we could be doing more with non-invasive techniques even at fairly advanced stages.
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Although I think tge aproach is correct. I think the DTK period is far too long. 1 day may reveal to much information regarding movement patterns if someone has enough distributed trackers at critical spots. Also if everyone uses it I see a slight chance of bruteforcing in often visited spaces (didn't do the math). Adding more hierarchicies would allow people to share information more finegranuarly. Putting RPIs into a bloom filter and releasing them might be another idea. Critical contact would mean multiple bloom filter matches anyways .
The answer will likely include some sort of Economy, but it has to have much improved scope beyond Capitalism and needs to solve global problems.
In these threads people often ask if we're over-counting deaths to covid-19.

It appears we're probably undercounting them. https://twitter.com/b_judah/status/1245852365464449025?s=20
But it does not seem possible to have your webcam as your avatar (you can only put it out there as an object in space, which is not as useful).
Yep, in Russia too, at least 20 years ago.
Makes sense to me, biology doesn’t follow social mores.
But if you have a personal mask, aren't this then mostly your own microorganism, your body knows how to deal with?

The fire hazard is a real threat, yes, but I imagine, if I ever would have serious trouble breathing, the first thing I would get is a bottle of oxygen to ease it.
There are VR conference/talks platforms like AltSpaceVR, not sure why none of the big conference are using them.
They can borrow money using the portfolio as collateral, interest free or pegged to inflation, to be repaid either when the stock is released or over time. Although, it'd be a bit more complex than standard collateral since there'd have to be a "margin call" mechanism, where assets in the portfolio have to be sold to cover the debt if they drop too far.
Open-source satellite groundstations network reach 2M satellite pass milestone
You have people constantly changing their minds.

Before you can make a roadmap, you need a sense of direction.

Maybe you need to zoom out a bit. What do you offer? To whom? Why? Why them? What do you not offer? Why not?

Can you get those answers without asking your engineers to constantly build shit that they'll need to throw away?

Can you collect information cheaply? Can you ask your bizdev people to get answers to questions that will help you? What is the cheapest way to learn?

The more you build, the more you'll have to support.
It’s not about “people assembling” at all. It’s about individual prolonged contacts, possibly accidental (mass transit), with an infected person, allowing much more targeted (as opposed to current blunt tools like shelter at home orders) suppression of the disease.
This is a great feature. Having been to a 100-person conference on Zoom which tried to emulate social activities by splitting large groups in Zoom breakout rooms, there is clearly a need for a service like this. Congrats on shipping!
Yeah but it doesn’t take 30 minutes, more like 5 minutes if a lot of people were using this service. Or 2 minutes if you simply paid the paper boy to do it!
> keeping the old UI and UX (which often is incredibly ergonomic)

I have the feeling that with the success of the iPhone many people forgot that a thing like a UI can have a target audience as well. If you make a tool that is beeing used twice a week for a minute at a time it has to look fundamentally different from a tool that is used 50 times every day.

With the former beeing intuitive is more valuable, while with the latter reducing friction is more valuable. This is a choice which has to be made – and sadly I often don't see it beeing made. People just make a UI that is akin to the ones Google or Apple make and call it a day.
Much worse than what? The Chinese regime clearly falsified information on the outbreak since last october, including underreporting death rates by a couple of orders of magnitude.
Other threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22837373 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22839902
Neither extreme addressed global issues.
Other threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22838951 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22839902
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Other threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22838951 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22837373
Right, I'm just saying it's not clear to me where the 10 million figure came from? And it seems very high for a government salary. Obviously if it's justified to work then I'm for it.
Fortran (standardized without caps for at least the last couple decades) is current to the 2018 release. I haven't come across anybody who cares or is using it. You do eventually see a lot of older code in it in symbolic and algebraic maths in the deeper code bases still because the algorithms are complex and nobody really wants to touch someone else work if it can still be wrapped in something like R or Python and is nearly as performant as C/++.
His ripper chain and the file angles he uses are critical as well. I too have been frustrated with the slowness of the Alaskan mill.
Coronavirus: I'm using my pizza oven to toss masks for nurses
I would like to point out that second order cybernetics is alive and well in System Thinking, which you will find in Safety-II, Safety-differently, Resilience Engineering, etc etc
My main point is that the protocol as published is completely unrelated to the prank scenario, that's simply out of scope. The protocol does not prescribe who is able to report certain Diagnostic Keys that have tested positive. In a centralised deployment, that is likely under the current German reporting chain for infectious diseases, mrPrankster has no capability to falsely report a positive test result. You have a trustworthy central stakeholder that can provide a ground truth. At the very least it could be designed to be revocable (a step that would be necessary for false positive test results anyway).
I'm a little uncomfortable with the line of questioning here because it is starting to veer into sounding like asking me for medical advice.

I've left comments previously about airway clearance techniques and home remedies I've used. They probably aren't hard to find if you care to read them.

I have an incurable condition and impaired immune system. I personally don't like dealing with anything like masks. I've done it in the past. I know how hard it is to keep them adequately sterile.

I am not a doctor. I am not here to give medical advice in comments.
If I have to clarify down to the last word, I'm talking about the total implosion of US economy, which is what a lot of people are currently hyping up and clickbaiting on. You don't hear about a great 1919 economic disaster in the USA despite a much more vicious illness and no modern tech (no antibiotics, no concept of a ventilator, etc etc etc). I can't answer for Austria, Hungary, Germany or any other collapsed empires past or present, I don't have any data on that.
Here in Austria, I've seen similar wasps, and as my house is surrounded by flowering fruit trees, I've had to deal with trapped-at-the-window individuals a number of times (bees and butterflies too, which is a wonderful brief visit until I free them to open air). I'm not entirely sure they are Asian Giant wasps, but they sure are big and nasty and angry .. I'm fairly sure they are European hornets, though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_hornet
He really does. Impressed to see this on Hacker News.
Survey of sentiment in the space industry due to Covid-19
Dataclass is not immutable, for some cases typing.namedtuple should be preferred over dataclass if typing is needed. Deep dive here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51671699/data-classes-vs...
When I'm giving candidate a take-home assignment - I'm always asking for time and effort estimation, both "net" and "gross", like in "how many hours will it take" and "when it will be ready". Actually, ability to give viable estimation and stick to it is more important than coding itself.

As for other matters in article, my current company just paying candidate for finished assignment, plain and simple.
What's going on? I can't find anything concrete

edit: Seems to have something to do with the CoC?
Including Word nowadays!
Who here is actually using reactos?
I try it once in a while but am never able to run my old legacy apps on it. Eg. games, accounting or other old windows apps.
Thank you. This is so great. I am curious how one can implement these multi-channels and always-on communication. Are they via WebRTC? Don't they get prohibitively expensive?
It is impossible. It depends the scope of the project and the company mentality. In my 12 years as PM, I understood that no roadmap is useful unless it is a short-term roadmap with achievable objectives. It is much easier to plan and scope.

I really don't appreciate when other PMs come to me with a 1 year roadmap. Who knows how many thing we will not do, or change or pivot based always on the data we're getting? That's why I preffer better planned things (docs, teamwork) than a document with a nice unrealistic roadmap.
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From the article: * State unemployment agencies are notoriously underfunded*

And there’s the problem summarized in less than a single sentence. Yes, they need help, but it’s the same kind of “help” as in “I want a BMW but I only have a dollar, please help”

There would be a ton more COBOL coders if companies paid the equivalent of FANG companies - I say this as a former COBOL coder myself
I strongly suggest that people using chainsaws wear some protective gear. Minimum - steel capped boots, safety glasses and mask and proper gloves. Best idea - proper chainsaw trousers.

What you need to realize are four things.

1) Working with a chainsaw is tiring, it is really easy to get careless not because you aren't smart or savvy, but because you are knackered. This is the moment when you do something like put the saw on your toe or leg.

2) Things fly around around chainsaws, splinters stones, bits of chainsaw even. If they fly into your eye or into your hand you may well flinch or jump and slice yourself, even if you have the self control of a ninja.

3) Chainsaw injuries are really nasty, they are hard to fix and go septic even when fixed well, a small looking cut could mean you get to have your leg sawn off.

4) You need to have a plan and training - don't just pick up a chainsaw and start carving things up - make sure that you know how to use it.

Also it's good to know that they thing is safe and in order - which means that the safety cut out should work (the reason my last one got scrapped) - and the thing is oiling the chain properly and the chain is good.
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> Of course this is completely false safety given that many programs can edit PDFs.

But can you edit a properly signed[1] PDF without breaking it? From an integrity perspective, that's what matters; otherwise, it's just inherently more portable until non-repudiation becomes relevant.

[1] As in not SHA-1: https://shattered.io/
Syrian air force used deadly chemical weapons in 2017 attacks- global watchdog
It relies on torch and openCV:
- I have never tried running openCV explicitely on CPU but I believe it is doable.
- It is trivial to run torch on CPU instead of GPU (just comment the line that sends the code to the GPU).
I've spent the last 2-3 hours in here and have talked to maybe half a dozen people about all kinds of things. This is just such a fun way to get together and have a conversation, and there are so many possibilities.

Thanks a TON to Cyrus for being such an engaging host and sharing his thoughts about what's going on and how people are thinking about the service!
Sweden has 480 days of paid parental leave.
Not at the moment. They even compare with facebook's algorithm (the proposed new algorithm seem to do much better thanks to inpainting).
long term storage overcomes the deficiencies in todays software

As soon as they update the software, they run it over the stored video and investigate the differences. When they identify particular evasion techniques, they can flag up all instances and see what was done under their cover.
On a scale of zero to really big deal. How much of a big deal is this?
In my experience the UK is slightly less focused on credentials than the backwards boneheads in the US.

That's the good news.

The bad news is that tech interviews in the UK tend toward the same faux-IQ test mentality.

When are recruiters going to realise that just because you can reduce a person to a HackerRank score, that doesn't inform a good hiring decision?

I've often said the only way to see how someone is going to work out in an office is to hire them and let them work for a month on probation. After a month, if they've demonstrated an ability to talk, to collaborate, and to learn, then keep 'em. If not, cut 'em loose.

everything else in tech hiring is B.S. I have yet to see an alternative that can't be gamed, that takes in the holistic person.

And none of my jobs have really brought out the best in me. In jobs I've done well, I drove that myself. In jobs I didn't, it usually came down to bad communication (in both directions). Nothing to do with the recruitment at all.
> Public safety is not a human right, while privacy is.

Seriously? “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person” is literally Article 3 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - and 1&2 are “this applies to everyone; yes, we mean it”. Privacy is all the way down in Article 12.

I’ll take my life, health and freedom, for which targeted suppression of this disease is essential, over my privacy any time, thank you very much.
Flashback! 7 year old me named my rabbit after the inkey variable.
It's actually still better on my eyes than JavaScript.
Problem is, this paper won't be able to produce those results from historical photos. I find them quite misleading, to be honest.

You'll need to either use a separate 3D depth estimation AI, or (more likely) have someone do a manual stereoscopic 3D conversion of your historical image. Only then (when you have depth data) can the algorithm presented in this paper start its work.