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> It's extremely saddening how prevalent this prejudice is.

Prejudice?

Look, companies wouldn't be advertising for roles if they didn't think qualified candidates (like you?) are out there. But its a numbers game; of course there are more unqualified people looking for work than qualified people at any given moment. Qualified people don't get snapped up immediately; but they aren't usually actively looking for work for long. And they often are picky about which places they apply to - for good reason. A highly qualified candidate might apply for 3 roles, get 2 offers and accept 1 of them. A weak candidate might apply for 50 roles. If those are the only two people sending out resumes - (or in general the pool has 50% strong candidates and 50% weak candidates), still only 6% of resumes will come from strong candidates.

Thats not none. And I really hear you about how frustrating it must be for companies to not even bother to reply - I mean, thats pretty rude. But ... what behaviour do you expect? What would you do with a pile of 100 resumes if you expected only 6 of them will be strong candidates? Should they bring all 100 people in for interviews, just in case there's a young John Carmack amongst them who has terrible resume writing skills? (I've interviewed 2 people who fit that description out of the 400 or so I interviewed in the last year. They definitely exist. But finding those people is prohibitively expensive for most companies.)

Flawed? Yes. Biased? A little. Prejudiced? That seems like a stretch. Can you think of a better system? That conversation seems more interesting than just complaining about it.
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>Censorship is not very unpopular there, but diet restrictions would be.

That may well be true.

But necessary is necessary.

I honestly don't care if they want to eat bat or anything else (no one should be eating anything endangered). That's fine. But it needs to be done in a hygienic, responsible way.
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Interesting project. Thank you for sharing. I noticed when using the try it out that the map on the right is not updated
when adding a new sub-level to one of the flowers. When downloading the html, the sublevel are correctly rendered. I have not tried the SVG download.

I'm running latest Firefox under Ubuntu 19.10
This

I did actually tinker with this and other approaches a little.

Also the things in the background get moved around pretty frequently, e.g. what is on the couch. I don't have a dedicated office room
WhatsApp’s spyware lawsuit against NSO Group could change espionage laws forever
While technically correct (i.e. Federal powers are limited), realistically they can, and do, use the power of the purse to get cooperation. 'Oh, you want Federal resources for this? We're going to need you to do your part by doing X, Y and Z first...' Also, many many years ago we had a Congress that would actually pass laws that States would have to follow... but that was so long ago it probably sounds like fiction to most reading this.

The larger issue (and we're seeing it with the current crisis) is that many things are broken at the Federal, State and local levels and each level is busy pointing fingers at another level(s) in an attempt to redirect blame.
We can help here. We'll do it free. Jitsi guys: Email me dave[at]todesktop.com.
The readme mentions this, and how to fix it: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron#using-it-with-y...
Hope the security around this is air tight. Otherwise this will definitely be a new attack vector hackers will be using to get malicious binaries running on your phone.
There are no stupid questions, just stupid politicians.

We are looking for an attenuated strain and that will be found in people with a mild case. We could sequence all cases, but we would exclude any strain that puts someone in hospital so it is a waste of resources to sequence viruses from people in hospital. From a practical perspective it is better to concentrate on people with only mild cases.
This is so short sighted. I'll be interested to see how it'll backfire.
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I would recommend
https://www.noorimages.com/
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> (It's "overkill," says the article, but that's harmless at worst.)

I don't disagree in this specific case, but that's not always true.

I remember on a contract years ago another team working on a project - that started before I joined and was still going when I left - to build a big data analytics pipeline (hadoop, kafka, etc.) that achieved nothing. The whole thing could much more easily have been implemented with SQL Server (which they already had), PostgreSQL, or whatever.

At the very least it cost them a lot of wasted effort plus maybe a dozen sets of salaries and contractor rates (there was a mix). But it also stymied solutions in other areas because the answer was, "oh, we don't need to do that because the big data project has it covered." The opportunity cost was significant: the company lacked the capabilities it needed for as long as this white elephant continued lumbering on its way.
Got passed back and forth to the founders in a series of acquisitions that failed to monetize traffic. An old story - (relatively) easy to gather a huge crowd, practically impossible to monetize it without destroying the product.
The demo at the end of the page is a video (webm), but there's not a ton of motion to reference besides the blinking.

IIRC it's something like 10FPS currently which is sufficient enough for meetings so far (about 1/3 what you might get with sufficient bandwidth in most video conference tools).

There's definitely room to improve it.
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Does this have any privacy implications? ISTR Google made it very hard to remove Google stuff even from Chromium.
Trevor Bedford (who seems to know his shit) opines that different genetic variants are unlikely to have measurably different phenotypes/outcomes.

See links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22799096
Uses free Clojure library Neanderthal: https://github.com/uncomplicate

Also uses the book Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers:
https://aiprobook.com/numerical-linear-algebra-for-programme...
It's not manipulated, simply the anticipated inflation due to zero interest rates and QE has already happened. It has been confined to the top of the financial pyramid only in the form of the asset bubble however.

Eventually the inflation will leak to the Main Street, and that event will correct the asset prices by pricing them against the inflated goods in inflated dollars.
> . It's the re-projections from that ship onto the age range of the general population that yields low fatality rates comparable to flu.

Using old data that misses fully half of the deaths so far... (and there are still people in serious condition).

For SARS resolved CFR was a more accurate estimator at all points in time: https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/162/5/479/82647
Very crudely, a 20% drop in revenue for Alphabet would almost wipe out its profits.

Alphabet's revenue is a mix of hardware, online store, web services, and ad sales. With a global slowdown -20% is probably in the ballpark, although it may take a year for the effects to accumulate and ripple through.

Roughly half of GOOGL's opex is R&D, so I would expect some cuts in that over the next year or two. Maybe also in the more exposed parts of sales and marketing.
Are they tracking that statistic? How many people who test positive later develop the symptoms?

Apparently 80% of those tested later get symptoms: https://twitter.com/TonyBurnetti/status/1246258723774963713
Pretty insane to use Docker & web-requests for high frame rate video chat with something which runs just fine even on CPU.
How to get a data science job during lockdown?
You probably won't find that... You might find a strain where 99.9% of people get a mild case.

Who is going to be the person to recommend deliberately spreading that strain to the world population, knowing that 0.1% of the world, 7 million people, will end up in a hospital and die?

Sure, overall, fewer people might die, but the reality is whichever world leader makes that call has effectively just signed a death warrant for 7 million people. That isn't the way to get re-elected.
Yes. Less than a million dollars - I actually can afford to pay the whole thing myself. The only reason to get someone like Bill Gates involved it to get access to the samples and the required political capital to make it happen.
Currency is slightly more fungible than this. Not enough to invalidate your point, but worth noting that I've purchased food, transportation, lodging, and knickknacks in Saudi/Bahrain/UAE and Oman using USD. All of the above items, in each country. It's certainly not a universal currency though, I'd say the vast majority of vendors were not interested in taking USD. Even then though, generally you could find a private citizen/local expats from many other continents that would be willing to perform currency exchange to/from popular currencies at a rate profitable for them.

Vendors/citizens of some other countries - Jamaica, many parts of Mexico, many parts of Canada, also are happy to deal in USD as a customary business practice, at least in my experience.
Around 10 years ago, I found my cofounder partner in Facebook Marketplace, of all places. He posted that he was looking for a developer partner to build an event discovery website. That project never really went anywhere, but instead we started a web development agency and we are still in business. I still work pretty much daily with him.

A year ago I saw a post looking for technical cofounder in r/startups (reddit.com/r/startups). I contacted the poster, and we are now still working building our MVP.
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My understanding (not an expert) is that there is a difference depending how much of an initial dose of the virus you get. If it is very small then your immune system has more time to respond before the virus replicates to dangerously large numbers, whereas if your initial dose is large then you are starting with a large number of virus particles that replicate too fast for your immune system to respond.
The irony is that they are probably limiting their profit too. With lower prices the number of applications would skyrocket and they would get much bigger income.

The only reason I can think of is that scaling the production would be difficult for some reason?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/japan-to-...
I'd much rather live in a world where everyone is required to wear masks all the time than live in a world where we are all told to stay home all the time.

I believe it's also well established that any measures taken to slow the spread of a new virus will always result in fewer total deaths, in that sense quarantining is much more effective than just being a pause button.
Thanks for sharing -- With very similar settings too! (Not far from the defaults unsurprisingly).

Injecting this into a web client seems like the sweet spot effort wise.
Nice insight. Recently posted my take after jumping into the industry head first after going it independently for decades....

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/let-me-open-you-adam-m

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22820905
I think you also have to account for the cost of acquiring senior staff. If you train them and pay them, your pipeline becomes more predictable than plucking them ad-hoc from other companies. That makes planning (your roadmap) more predictable.
By doing an end run around the regulations. Actually even if you were to follow all the vaccine regulations by choice this would still be faster as it would have already been tested in human. Nature has run the trials for us.
> I wonder if people run toward PostGis just because they don’t know to google haversine or the spherical law of cosines.

Even if they do know how, it looks like running PostGis is an easier way to achieve the desired outcome.
I've been thinking about this a few days ago when I went into the wikipedia rabbit hole about vaccinations and inoculation.

A few questions:

- How about the dengue fever scenario? (Immunity to less pathogenic strain can cause more severe reaction with a different strain). Can we asses the risk somehow?

> Apart from the time it will take to develop, trial, and mass produce a vaccine (12-18 months), it is unlikely that any vaccine will be practicable. The reason why is immunity to respiratory viruses (like corona) doesn’t last long – 6 months to 2 years

Is there any proof that this is the case with this virus?

Is is possible to do the infection outside the human body?
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Unless you're doing it on a computer completely off any network and doesn't have any form of communication with the outside world, that's a very bad idea.

Edit: Ok, plenty of people already said things in that context already apparently...
>What we really want is a strain that has infected a whole lot of people and all of them have had a mild case

How about 10 to 50 million ?

I live in Nigeria. Between December and late February, many people in Nigeria and Ghana report experiencing symptoms similar to those that could be caused moderate COVID-19 infection. These included, fever, diarhoea, cough, sore throat, malaise.

Many physicians and scientists I know think it we may have had a mild outbreak of the disease. If so, was this reduced severity due to a mild strain of the virus or to other factors ? It warrants investigation.
Your proposal and the theory underlying it make a lot of sense.

I would really like to be able to dig deeper into this.
It isn’t great at the moment. Something broke in the recent update to break text selection, which is what I was trying to use a mouse for. But, the author is working on a fix. I don’t know how good the mouse works uses other than selection, but mouse support in general isn’t great at the moment.

But Blink is the app I use for SSH/mosh on the iPad too.
An act being allowed legally is distinct from an act being encouraged socially.
This is one reason that "herd immunity through everyone getting exposed and lots dying" is not the same thing as "herd immunity through vaccination".

If you vaccinate a big chunk of the population when only 1% are currently infected, you hit R(effective) = 1 much sooner. While becoming immune through infection essentially guaranties there are a tremendous number of infectious persons at the point R(eff) drops to 1.
But honestly, if you only look into people with mild cases, how do you know the virus causes these mildness?

If I pick 1k people with mild cases at random, I will find pretty much any strain that currently is in circulation. How do I know which strain is harmless?
> You sell them to the US, and they pay you with green pieces of paper.

That's not how any of this works. It is far more common to price things you buy from the US in USD. Which is also why monetary policy works.

Half of exports from the eurozone is in EUR. About a quarter is in USD.
This is tangential, but a lot of your description of "moral advancement" seems to fit the description of just a clueless stoner being high (i.e. you can achieve it a lot of it right now, just get high all the time).

I see moral advancement quite differently - to me, it is embodied in the Christian's credo of "love others as much as you love yourself" (also covered in your last sentence, which is unlike the others). It does not make life easy, "connected", enjoyable or worry-free - quite the contrary, it's often hard and unpleasant. The moral improvement of humanity (and the highest ideal of Christianity and probably some other religions as well) would mean that we're willing to do it for others in spite of it not being at all comfortable. So far, I don't think we've made any progress towards this ideal, which probably means that it's just not in our nature...
> For clarity, I'm not predicting.

Why are you stating this now, and not when you wrote the 100,000 number above? If that wasn't a prediction, what was it?
For .ipynb notebooks, I highly recommend using nbstripout [0] to strip the Jupiter output before committing the notebooks to the repository (thus making the diffs sane).

You can also set it up as a 'filter', so it automatically runs before any git operations, whether it's add, commit, diff or an interactive rebase.

[0] https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout
There is really no selection pressure on the current dangerous strain right now. If it was killing 50-60% of people infected then yes the selection pressure would be there, but at a death rate of 1.5%-2% there basically is very little selection pressure on the timescales we are interested in.

It doesn’t really matter to us today if this virus eventually becomes less dangerous in the next 500 years. We need to speed things up a little.
I would expect people who take advanced courses to rate systematically differently from people who take beginner courses. For comparisons between similar courses it's probably fine, but would be hard to use the scores to compare the value of beginner courses to advanced courses.

Of course, even the definition of better here is so ill-defined it probably is of no practical significance.
This is a question that really is unimportant at this point. What matters is what we can do today.
I am responding to a parent comment that suggested there was more demand but the company was holding it back. If that is true the only way one company could hold it back is patents.
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Can I ask why you did it?
Not sure I understand your offerings. You seem to suggest that you offer code signing without an Apple Developer subscription? So are you using your own certificates to sign your clients’ code? If that’s the case it sounds like you’re probably breaking TOS and opening up your clients to immense risk: one client’s abuse results in all clients’ apps revoked.
The Quest runs Android and is a stand-alone device, it's not just a display unit for your PC.
Yes it appears that most people infected eventually get some symptoms. What matters is if they end up in hospital in the ICU or not.

If we can find a strain that just makes you feel like you have a cold that you get over in a week or so then that is what we want.
Just because it's possible to use something as a source of information, it doesn't mean it is used as part of a massive dragnet. Yes, it's possible to track phones, but most countries don't have a dragnet implemented based on this information, as far as I'm aware. It's not a lost battle and we still need to push back to ensure it is not.
This is just one of my guess here. If you look at the commit history the project doesn't look like being the main focus. Code signing is not as streamlined as Let's encrypt, the money part makes it bumpy, so I'm not surprised.
I'm sure you get good outcomes from this, but I'd be willing to bet you are completely weeding out whole classes of people. For example, most parents or caregivers (single or otherwise) don't necessarily have the time for this. Senior engineers are less likely to want to go through this.

I would guess that most of your hires are single young people. And you are already kind of teaching them to work nights and weekends, which sounds like you are, again, choosing people who would not have a problem with a bad work life balance.

I also wouldn't be surprised if your process isn't teetering on the illegal side. Not on purpose, but it might be accidentally favoring or disfavoring a race/gender. Probably not enough to get you in trouble though, because those things are hard to spot. And unless your company is really big, probably nobody cares.
> Dollars are similarly useless in Saudi Arabia.

This is simply outright wrong.

According to Wikipedia, the last arms deal that Saudi Arabia struck with the US was, that alone, around $350 billion.

That's more than most of the nation's GDPs.

Trying to put a Ponzi scheme such as Bitcoin on par with the US dollar is either an entirely clueless assertion or a disingenuous claim made in line with all the other pump-and-dump schemes that plague the so called crypto currencies.
The trouble is, whilst that 3M surge capacity might be enough to handle something like a slighly worse SARS or MERS, it doesn't seem to be adequate to deal with a once-in-100-years pandemic like this one - and it'd take a hell of a lot more surge capacity with much worse utilization to make that possible.
The JavaScript of shady adverts that sometimes pop through can also occur on no. Shady websites. So you are not entirely safe by only browsing safe sites.
One of our APIs is powered by a cloud function that we monitor (and keep it warm to avoid cold start time) using https://www.statuscake.com
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When the right side stopped updating the buttons at the top (usage, about etc.) also stopped responding. Both issues are gone after refreshing the page.
Why do people hate Zoom so much? I just received an email today from Zoom outlying all the fixes they just released.

They went from 10m users/week to 200m/week in less than one month.

So what they struggled? Most products would struggle with that kind of ramp up. They owned up to it and fixed pretty much all the complaints. And they're providing a valuable service to the world, most of it for free.

Stop hating Zoom.
Think of this as a sport like marksmanship or hot air ballooning. There exist much easier ways to make a hole in the middle of a piece of paper, or to get from a fixed location in one corn field to a random one in another, but sometimes the challenge of a more elaborate process can be more fun. Particularly if no one has done it before, or done it as far with as elaborate or as simple a machine as yours.
For my own understanding: where can I read about how coronaviruses mutate slowly?
I think we can do better than 0.1% death rate. In principle there is no reason we can’t find a strain that is no more dangerous than the coronaviruses that cause the common cold.

One thing is certain and that is unless we go out and look we won’t find anything.
Same problem (TypeError: t.children is undefined). And none of the navigation links work then any more. I'm using Firefox on Windows 10.
Docker made it easier to package up the dependencies (especially aligning cuda etc.), and containers are my dayjob :-)

The web requests are just an easy mode of IPC to pass around some bags of bytes, "high frame rate" is at most 30 qps ... that part isn't really interesting performance wise and this isn't a production tool :-)

I'm not sure I'd be so confident about tensorflow.js being so fast on the CPU ... you can see a marked difference in the backends httpss://www.tensorflow.org/js/guide/platform_environment
Cool!

Slightly related, I also like: https://www.diagram.codes/
looks like they are reinventing the web?
Parts of Firefox are already written in Rust:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation

they are continuing the work to replace the least performant/secure components in Rust when it's easily possible to switch them out
I suggest adding a quick paragraph explanation, at first I thought that the server had been hugged to death

Thanks for this
All fine and dandy until they accidentally eject the DMG and can't figure out where their browser went.
> If it was killing 50-60% of people infected then yes the selection pressure would be there

it isnt killing, but it's isolating them, preventing its spread
(I am not a professional, so what I write below might be wrong)

Having more time to develop a vaccine or effective treatments is essential, it doesn't have to be herd immunity. Plus in countries where covid19 rate is low enough, social distancing can be helpful for finding and isolating clusters to suppress the epidemic.
edit: nvm
Does anyone know a benchmarking utility that can quantify the impact of these mitigations? I mean I don't do much CPU bound work like heavy compiling on my machine, but I would nevertheless be interested in seeing what the effect is.