skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is, putting people to death for crimes against the state, i.e. death penalties, etc.

A lot of "states" murder "spies". [ * ]

The proposition was that only a select few states murder journalists for such crimes. Journalism is the opposite of spy craft, so combining them for political purposes is deadly, indeed.

It should be stated up front that I, personally, don't think the state should have the right to murder anyone, and I also mean by means of war, asymmetric or otherwise.

( * -The moment someone murders in the name of the state, the state is over and its time for a new one.)
Are the posters real people or bots, as far as you can tell?
No idea why nobody is acting on it - maybe nobody else has thought of it yet. While the idea of there being attenuated strains out there is nothing radical, the idea of using them is.

Please everyone if you know someone you think might be able to help make this happen then spread the word. You are even welcome to steal the idea and claim it is your own :)
This story is not about manufacturing, it is about incompetence and inaction at the very top of the US government. Bringing manufacturing into it at this point is just a distraction; yes it's an issue not it's not the main issue.

(Edit: very much a distraction. Completely sidesteps what the article is saying. Very dead cat on table. I should have been suspicious a bit earlier).
LinkedIN thinks of your career as a monolithic thing--that you have the same career path, growing ever upward, your experience a rationally clear whole.

In all the years I've been on LinkedIN they have not responded or innovated nor altered the basic template.
Computer science doesn’t teach you how to write code.
The new style of the address bar is extremely jarring, and (imo) ugly. It breaks all kinds of UI conventions, drawing itself over other UI elements like the tab bar and the toolbar to the left and right of it.

For this reason alone, at least I've found that setting `browser.urlbar.update1` to false in about:config reverts to the old code--mostly. Firefox 75 still seems to have changed the click behavior of the bar to be totally unlike any other program too; it highlights the entire text by default, without putting it in the selection buffer, and in general makes handling it with the mouse a lot more tedious than it used to be.

I'm ragging on this a lot, but seriously, it's a major regression in UX.
I read "young people" as "young in their career people". It's truly exasperating to see the wheel reinvented again, and again, and again, and again (I felt like typing that a lot more but I'll stop there :)). There are so many subtle lessions in this field, will there ever be any hope of recording and communicating them? Seems not likely.
I'm sure the NDA also says you're not supposed to talk about the NDA! We're all in trouble now.
My disappointment is the lack of discussion regarding privacy. It was posted on HN just a few weeks ago how a human can be identified by its gate with high density deployment of antennas.
Lower latency, lower protocol overheads, makes it much more likely to be able to start replacing wired infrastructure for home use.

I'm not that massively excited about it either, it's not like the jump from 2G->3G where phone handset use is concerned, but I think it will have a bigger impact on non- (or not-just-) phone use.
The term "extremist" is used for certain activists whose views skew too far outside of the usual range, although one man's "extremist" are another's "unorthodox" view. Depending on the era, a view may be perfectly reasonable or ridiculous, compare the idea of "protecting the environment" in the past.

Some countries do (or have) crack down on really outlandish views for a time. One country's views may also differ from another.

As a matter of principle, I don't much like terrorists as they operate under the goal of spreading terror. I have strong doubts cracking down on encryption would stop them, as they operate perfectly fine with fairly mundane tools and the "mass-surveillance" machine loses them in the noise.
Find a template or example. Customize it.
I've tended to side with the "5G must be safe" crew but to see the other side I checked pubmed and found a fair few reputable-looking studies such as this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31991167

So, yeah, how much do we know for a fact? I say that as a true sceptic (i.e. sceptical with my own views as well as anyone else's). Decades ago we knew for a fact that dumping a ton of plastic into the environment was totally fine. Also we "didn't know for a fact" that greenhouse gas emissions could play a part in affecting our climate for the worse.
There are no guarantees in life, but the reason we don't have global pandemics constantly is that mutations that make a virus as dangerous as SARS-Cov-2 are quite rare.
Why would Russia flip from trying to get people in the US afraid of 5G to trying to calm 5G fears? I have no idea.

Russia has no opinion either way and you're mis-interpreting everyday journalism as some kind of massive conspiracy, which is why it makes no sense.

I looked at the first video in the comment you link to. The story is actually "Group of scientists warn 5G network can pose health dangers", and provides a clip of Dr Sharon Goldberg talking in the Senate about 4G as evidence.

She says:

"Wireless radiation has biological effects, period. This is no longer a subject for debate when you look at PubMed and other peer reviewed literature."

and goes on to cite a bunch of papers that (she says) look at the effects.

As far as I can tell she's some sort of doctor who campaigns against mobile towers.

Now look at it from the perspective of ordinary journalists. RT tries to find stories that are interesting yet 'under-reported'. Imagine in this case there are no Russian masterminds or calls from Putin; just everyday journos who have to fill airtime with something. The clip starts with the host of the show basically admitting he has no idea what 5G is, that he's not a technical kinda guy, he only heard about it that afternoon and his entire knowledge of it comes from reading the summary on Wikipedia. His angle is "it sounds too good to be true so where's the catch?". Some random correspondent then launches into the clip of the doctor.

You don't need any fancy conspiracy theories to understand what's going on here. All you need are people who know nothing about technology looking for something interesting to talk about. They see "experts" testify before Congress citing the peer reviewed, published papers of other "experts" (journos know that this is the gold standard), and that's their permission to talk about it.

All we're seeing here is the fact that you can find peer reviewed published academic papers for a huge array of bizarre ideas. It's just not a serious filter on the flow of research but journalists don't know that - academics themselves are forced to filter it using entirely subjective notions like perceived reputation, which can vary wildly depending on who is asked.

The only reason RT specifically seemed to focus on it is their pitch is that they are outside the CNBC/MSNBC/CNN/etc groupthink.
"A year ago over the holiday break, I created a large-scale digital “canvas”" posted December 27, 2015

https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels

He claims to have invented it prior to Apple, but he didn't publish before they got their patent in.
I think bubonic plague is bacterial, and was solved with antibiotics.
But the Fed never unwound after the great recession...
We are really more interested in mild cases, not asymptomatic cases. The evidence seems to be that most asymptomatic infections go on to show some symptoms at a later date.
> And really those issues should be solved at the browser level not the OS level level that affects every single application that runs on it.

They aren't -- this is exploitable in the browser if not patched at the OS level.

> For a drive-by exploit to work (assuming there is one, just because a site is "shady" it doesn't mean it will be 100% sure that it will try to infect your computer with something) it will need to make a TON of assumptions about your setup

If you run these on an ad network, you get access to millions of different setups - you don't need to make any assumptions, you're virtually guaranteed to find someone with a vulnerable setup.
How can they read your email if you have locked your computer?
If by "hoop" you mean "workaround," yes. But normies are used to starting applications by double-left-clicking them, and there's nothing in the error message that appears after that indicating it can be worked around. Unless the normie thinks to ask a friend or the internet how they can go ahead and open the app anyway, they'll never find out about it.

To come at it from another direction, why is it your users' responsibility to work around your own cheapness/laziness? Just front the $100 and sign your damn app, especially if you're making money with it.
> Those however are not popular even in "dirty" corners on the internet and if so mostly for fun

Yeah, totally just for fun.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/06/at-least-...
Ode to J
Ask HN: How do you annotate podcasts?
I listen to a lot of informative/educative podcasts, and despite the fact that I do take notes, it quickly gets lost in a sea of information.

I was wondering how everyone else does it! Or are there good apps for that? (couldn't find anything suitable for me so far)

Being a software developer, I dream of making/using an app that allows me to add notes at precise times in the podcast, search for the notes, add tags to specific episodes or parts, etc. Then later when I'm searching for a particular information/topic, I quickly go the right episode and time to listen to it again, and re-read my notes.

Does anything like this exists?
(same could be said for videos, not just audio)
I don't know if all [corona]viruses move this way but it seems covid illness evolution goes in waves. high symptoms, 2 days ok, high symptoms, 2 days ok, ... repeat a few cycles

It's pretty confusing when symptoms are below a critical threshold and you don't have a test yet.
Seems like two different discussions going on here, on the one hand you have core language design such as not having typeclasses, and it's fair to say it's the core team's prerogative to organise these decisions as they want. On the other hand there's no good argument for intentionally restricting language features from certain users, it's not in anyone's interest. I am a big fan of safe languages that use a formalism to stop you _accidentally_ modifying shared state or hitting a runtime error but why should the designers care about me making a bad architectural design, i.e. including some JavaScript modules in an elm package? If I misuse it and write a bad application that's my problem, you can't protect bad developers from themselves because they'll just use other tools. If I publish a library with JavaScript, okay show a warning to the user, have red scary text on the package description page if you want. But let the users decide how they want to build their applications. The argument that this would block a clear path to WASM is bogus, they've already shown that breaking tons of libraries doesn't bother them.
Because 5G is more efficient.

Here's a graph of predictions of data usage over the next few years:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/271405/global-mobile-dat...

People use their phones for data and the data consumption is increasing. You might not but people live stream sports, games, TV to their mobiles.

Frequency bands are like radio stations. Better algorithms/etc to transfer more data at an instant means that more people can have a better experience using the airwaves.

Like in busy train stations people will often have full signal but unusable internet connectivity.

Faster speeds means that people are not using the airwaves for as long.

Also mmWave is a way to get an extra density of data pushed as higher frequency means more throughput look at 2.4Ghz WiFi Vs 5Ghz WiFi. Of course the issue is that it gets blocked very easily.

It's a progression. 3G masts have been switched to 4G and it'll start in a few years for 5G.

But honestly it's a long multi year process. And it's not like 4G is going anywhere.

Other things that 5G does is latency is lower so it could open up use cases such as data for autonomous cars, AR and VR (I'm a bit dubious on that tbh). Reason being that the break out to the internet can be at multiple points rather than a single point as it often is with LTE.

But yeah, honestly from a user perspective there's not really going to be much of a difference. I don't think many operators are going to try selling 5G plans like they did for 4G
I think you’re reading too much into my post, I was just wondering how to safely carry out this idea.

One reason I was wondering is that manually administering the virus to people seems more akin to a vaccine in nature.
> Firefox 75 still seems to have changed the click behavior of the bar to be totally unlike any other program too

It never acted like any other program. Double-click selected everything while normally it would select a word.

They changed it to behave like one other program: Chrome.
The main issue I see with 5G is the frequency grab by private operators, this happens without any data about actual bottlenecks being shown and discussed. Private operators already have a huge share of public spectrum and I suspect it's nowhere near saturated except may be in very small and dense areas.
Maybe Linked In was bad for me, or maybe I was using it incorrectly but...

I deleted my account. I don't know if I'd ever make another one or not. I'm a self-taught developer with three years of experience, two in a single company that I still work for.

To be clear, I actually do want to find a part-time contract on the side, but I'm loathe to create yet another profile on yet another page. I already have GIthub/gitlab ( which actually doesn't showcase the work I've been doing for the past two years since I can't put any of that code on there ).

I deleted Linked In partially because I kept getting recruiter spam for my previous career (teacher), and also because I was tired of all the spam posts from different companies bragging how nice their gym is or what it's like to work for them.

Quite frankly, I think my CV gets passed over a lot due to my age, and my experience. So yeah. I don't think Linkedin would even help me.

Oh, and Linkedin looooovves data mining. They ask so many invasive questions that it gives employers a free pass on judging you without even interviewing you.
The GP’s “think of the children” appeal regarding the Congo cobalt mines.
Just like RPython.
These IFR numbers you quote are also incorrect as there are many people infected who have not yet had time to die. The best estimate probably comes from South Korea (they seem to be picking up nearly all cases with their massive contact tracking and testing) where the death rate is at 1.8% and trending higher.
Let's burn down the government so this never happens again!
new commnet
They didn't really say asymptomatic or mild case, but presumably people with (strong) symptoms would have gotten a test and already be in the official statistics.

The next study that is currently being prepared will include antibody-tests, but it seems logistics and which test to use is not a trivial matter.
There has been a fabled danger of low levels of non-ionizing radiation without an explained mechanism for decades. There is no data to support it, but there will never be enough “studies” to disprove it.
< Does it use a new instance for every app >

Unfortunately, yes.
I think the point is that you have to sequence people in the hospital as well, otherwise you won't know if that particular strain is safe or not.

If it is a rare strain, how will you know if it's safe? Seems like it would have to be a rare strain with thousands of cases and hospitalizations in that population are extremely rare.

Sampling bias and other confounding factors would be a real problem in this search, at least from a statistical point of view, imo.

I also think finding everyone who has been infected with a strain isn't feasible, at best you are sampling from the population.
No mention of the surveillance potentials of 5G?

Or it's ignored as it's true?
I am surprised about the notion given that "speed doesn't matter". I think it does, even if you have access to powerful workstations to develop on, and server to run it.

I think that this one of the biggest downsides to Python for medium scale projects: You necessarily need to think a lot about performance and infrastructure to get your stuff up and running. Do it wrong, and the speed is infeasible from the start - and it doesn't scale and gets you into trouble later on.

For data analysis, for example, you can't really just start coding arbitrary Python. You need to know how you will eventually speed things up - using C, or libraries based on C. And I maintain that parallelizing code in Python is not at all straightforward nor performant.
That is, performance optimization is coupled to development and deployment. I can't just "use" the base language to develop a prototype and worry about performance later. If I don't know what I will eventually do, if I just code pure Python, then the program usually turns out unworkably slow when faced with data.
And even if you have "huge servers", then you need your code to actually scale. And in my experience, efficient small scale python code and efficient large scale python code are not the same thing!

E.g. I had deploy something on Windows and without having fork and with GIL, what ran well during testing became inefficiently slow. Just a choice of where to use multi-processing, for example, ended up making it slower than just running pure python without parallel code! And that speed meant that - contrary to what the article said - even on a large server, tasks simply would not finish. Meanwhile, the ingestion pipelines would clog up when data sizes became significant. Furthermore, one package I used to represent datastructures (networkx) just simply could not scale at all and crashed machines with even hundreds over hundreds of GBs of RAM during certain operations. And that really just happened without warning at certain sizes - unforeseen. I had to rewrite huge parts of the program to make it work, including all the database back end.

Of course all that is down to me not being a Python expert, just a normal scientist. Of course next time I will be smarter, but only becauce I will and will have to plan and test performance during conceptual coding and know which tools will eventually scale.

And that is not the "promise" Python seemingly makes to us applied programmers.

I am itching to move to Julia as soon as I can. Not only is the Matlab style syntax arguably superior for numerical / data science stuff, you can also get things up and running at reasonable speed and then use the same tooling and structure to make it scale.
For me possibly the most interesting feature of this release is the possibility Of good GPU support on Gnu/Linux/Wayland.

https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/03/03/webgl-and-fgx-ac...
Forever? Or is it because it's a new technology?

The PS4 slim consumes less power than an original PS4
I'm not sure that's the trade-off. My experience is that it's hard to predict where new technologies will be used (see history of radio and telephone).

With something like eInk, getting it into the hands of engineers building wonky prototypes would allow rapid exploration of a lot of new markets.

But yeah, many business leaders are insecure and don't understand IP.
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WFH: New Office Chair
The epidemiologists seem to have earned our trust so far. The countries that have made competent attempts to follow their advice (S. Korea, NZ, Australia) are doing way better than those that haven't (the UK, US, Sweden).

(Unless you were thinking that they should be able to "protect us" without cooperation from their governments, but I'm having trouble seeing how that works)
I think competent leadership is one of those unsolved problems, that has the added malus of being, insofar as we have some ideas, a tough pill to swallow for any given current leadership.

Granted, most problems are manageable with excellent leadership, but the whole point about a good system is it works fine with mediocre leaders - and there's a corollary - if your organization requires talented leadership to function, it's a bad organization.
> What are regulatory agencies going to to do?

If you were to start doing this without regulatory approval, the most likely outcomes seems that you’d be arrested [1]. Do you have anything that suggests otherwise?

> 1. We would know it is safe in humans before we began.

The regulatory requirements for “knowing it is safe in humans” are currently quite high. As things stand, I would expect trials to be required. Can you provide any evidence to suggest trials wouldn’t be required?

You want to know how the vaccine effects individuals with pre-existing conditions etc. etc. And, as there’s always some risk, you want to be sure that the vaccine is effective.

> 2. We would know what mutations make the virus less pathogenic.

Large scale sequencing of the virus, in individuals and populations will be interesting. Being able to link this patient outcomes is also interesting. And might help in vaccine development. It would be interesting to have a large dataset of viral sequences from asymptomatic individuals. Can we see clear differences between asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals? This would be an interesting dataset, but I’m not sure that the results would be as clear as “look this deletion exists in a sub-population of asymptomatic individuals”. Would be a cool dataset and an interesting project though. There seems to be a lot of NGS data [2] available. This might be a suitable starting point for such a project.

> 4. It will be work in poor countries that can’t afford or distribute a conventional vaccine.

If a vaccine is available, then I suspect there will be sufficient international support to make it widely available. Having an active outbreak anywhere in the world would likely be deemed an unacceptable risk, given the potential for further mutation.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/26/21195236/fbi-doj-arrest-f...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/sars-cov-2-seqs/
Everyone they knew would need screening for the asymptomatic deadly strain first, or there would be a risk of everyone at the party catching the wrong strain.
At least anecdotally, it doesn’t seem that we’re hitting our full testing potential. I think adding in a new technique would only exacerbate the mismatch between test supply and test utilization.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01068-3
Only if you consider hanging out with someone a vaccine.

As I mentioned in my reply to you it will be impossible to stop this strain from being deliberately spread by people on their own.
> 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?

Only somewhat devil's advocate: Software running as root can accidentally delete important files. I run software as non-root to prevent myself from my silly mistakes. You don't accidentally leak information through SPECTRE.
Submitted 14 hours ago here where it is still on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22814342 .
Probably we'll go backwards -- the end death count will be compared with normal death counts and be likened to a bad flu season. People are less likely to panic next time, but also less likely to pay attention to things like lockdowns.

I suspect one outcome will be a long term reduction in civil liberties