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As mentioned in another comment: https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_make_Linux_run_blazing_fast_(...
hm, I'm not a native english speaker - was my tone incorrect ? was just trying to add more context
we should leave the task of left-padding a string to a popular, no doubt well-tested library
Wow, I envy you! I wish I could express my disappointment by filling a conference room with noxious gas whenever an interviewer puts me in front of a whiteboard. That is seriously like some kind of superpower.
well, you're already trusting random magic incantations found on internet so...
No. A major part of the value would be the host to host transmission as it would get herd immunity into those people not directly given the virus. Only a transmissible virus strain can drive the pathogenic strains to extinction too.

Large deletion mutations don’t back mutate in practice.
As is a car and yet no one proposes banning or wiretapping cars to make sure they're not planning to run people over.
Most of the Spectre variants do affect AMD as well, however.
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> The old school answer was apprenticeship - a company trains you up, and in exchange you work for them for a time. But most companies are loathe to do that because you're likely to quit and go somewhere else for a pay bump as soon as you have enough skills and experience that you're worth hiring.

One problem is that companies with the means to fund this- FAANG and the like- are also the ones are incentivized to gatekeep the most to maintain their elite status and engineering superiority that leads to business edge. Startups, being naturally less risk adverse, are less likely to engage in formalized apprenticeship programs for juniors.

What happens instead is that you get the half-hearted approach of hiring college students to be interns or co-ops. Not all students are able to intern. The ones who do have a leg up once they graduate. Hence the stellar reputation of U of Waterloo grads.
Indeed, it is very often the case. Furthermore, it is not like PostGIS is adding costly overhead. Zero impact where you don't use it. And potentially a lot of trouble saved where you do.
4 The USA was the biggest economy, with something like 40% of total global GDP. That drove everything else.

Now it is down to 20ish % if I recall correctly and hence the motivation to diversify reserves is a lot bigger.
> - hitting X actually exited the program

How is that good UX for a chat app?
I am more than happy to be exposed to an attenuated SARS-CoV-2 strain, but first we have to find one. My idea is how we can find one.
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I don't think there's an easy answer. It will very much depend on your hardware and what kind of software you run. I'd say the best way to tell is just to try it, measure performance, and compare results.
I hire people from direct conversation that jumps around many subjects. My goal is to see the wheels turning, find what excites them, get the lights in their eyes shining. If I can’t do that in even 15 minutes, then I lose interest fast. If I can, an hour goes by in a flash and I really get to determine if they align with the role they’ve applied to.

I could care less about data structures and graphs. Do they care about code and can they learn and can they communicate. That’s what matters.
This is exactly what I was thinking.
If you could just chat with an appealing UI over email, you have all your massages on one place.
Considering it takes all of 15 seconds to setup (5 minutes including reading), it's really not a matter of if it's worth your time, but if it's worth the risk, since it disables mitigations for hardware vulnerabilities.
I see two problems with this approach, both political / social:

- No one will want to be the one "deploying" the attenuated strain in a human and then be responsible for some unforeseen death (even if it's just 1 in a billion). Utilitarianism is not widespread nor socially accepted. Even less so in politicians, who are quite risk averse.

- There is no lobby supporting it. There's no $$ to be made and the "vaccine" is basically free.
first, do you use js?
A fair number of the just have a bazillion frameworks, even if they’re fully native. Large tech companies are notorious for this.
This seems risky but worth consideration.

Can you provide peer / concept review from virologists?

A few items of feedback:

- You could use a title that includes a distinct word to identify your proposed solution: "Using accentuated COVID-19 strains as a (possible) solution". This helps people to communicate and refer to the idea concisely.

- The top three paragraphs may be known to your target audience; consider allowing the reader to get straight to your point.

- It took me a while (certainly to the Q&A section) to grasp that attenuated virus strains are different from dangerous ones. Explaining this (perhaps in a brief sentence, then repeated and elaborated in a more detailed paragraph) near the top may also help.

- Further references (especially peer review from respected authors) may help gain traction. Decision makers can be -- sensibly -- risk averse in global crises like these.

Good luck!
What makes you think it’s to do with patents? Maybe there’s just insufficient demand.
That's because dictators who are well on their way to end up in a ditch usually start embracing "anti-imperialist" rhetoric to paint their opposition as being western traitors and legitimize their struggle for power. They dont just wake up and decide to ditch the dollar, it's just a convenient talking point that really seems to attract a huge portion of western sympathy. It switches the narrative from a revolution caused by brutal oppression to a "revolution" caused by US economic interest trying to topple a resistance leader or whatever.

I'm not saying the US doesn't usually have a lot to do with their demise, but simply that their fall isn't caused by moving from the petrodollars. Because it literally does not make any economic difference for the US , at all.
When I was contracting I would nearly always get a job offer at the end of the contract. I always turned them down because I wanted to be a contractor, not an employee.

I expect the converse applies as well, someone who likes being an employee is unlikely to take up your offer.
Agreed that the risk:reward ratio here would be worth it. This sounds super promising. That being said, how is it known that having had the mutated strain provides immunity to the dangerous strain?
How is exponential growth in a population of 300 million nonsense?

If you take the requisite counter-measures to stop the exponential growth, why are you upset when it does actually work?

Odd
Nice REPL based dev demo.
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Do you have any embedded experience, i.e. nVidia Jetson Nano?
On modern versions of iOS, the runtime ships with the system so even your Swift app can be hundreds of kilobytes to a few megabytes.
Ran through this series a number of years ago while I was trying my best to self-study my way to a CS bachelor's equivalent; highly recommended. I'd taken calculus in various forms before and always loved it but this one made me think about the material in a completely different light.
The S2 lacks Bluetooth though, doesn't it?

The second core is meant to handle the network stack, leaving the first core to focus on program logic. With ESP8266s, it can be hard to write complex applications while keeping heavy WiFi usage stable.

Although, I'll bet the 8266 firmwares and libraries have improved a lot since I was using them.
At Amazon a long time ago, people used to joke that for everyone working there, you could pick a group of interviewers that would have rejected that person.
I thought your tone was fine, but the phrase "Yes, that's the point..." can sometimes (not always) be associated with a condescending, sometimes even impatient, tone. It's not intrinsic to the phrase, it depends on what the reader may associate with the phrase. (I'm also not saying this actually happened in this case, I'm just speaking generally.)
there is nospectre_v1 and nospectre_v2 written in there, unless you've been living under a rock you should get a pretty good idea that this is not a very safe thing to do.
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Kind of telling the article makes no mention of what degree this shifts "greenhouse gas" generation from cows to people. Quite ironc considering they are suggesting beans to be used.
> .bss

Sadly already taken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.bss
I'm glad people are realizing that all this social distancing is merely a pause button on the virus. Once we press play on society, exponential growth will happen again and we will have effectively rolled back the clock until we reach herd immunity through things like the OP's suggestion.

At least this next time we'll hopefully have more PPE.
Out of curiosity, do you actually verify your Signal contacts' safety numbers? I think most Signal users do not.
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"Some random idea floated around the internet ... doesn't sound implausible" ... lol
He's talking about Saudi Arabia, not random people in Saudi Arabia...
> When the crisis and unemployment hits - just put people there to work.

How do you imagine this to be implemented in reality? Does the Federal government send a random selection of people a letter that they are to be relocated to Wyoming for the next 3 months? The US is not a command economy.
No one will want to be the one "deploying" the attenuated strain in a human and then be responsible for some unforeseen death (even if it's just 1 in a billion). Utilitarianism is not widespread nor socially accepted. Even less so in politicians, who are quite risk averse.

I would give them more credit, especially in a situation where the status quo includes so many deaths. I was impressed with how readily most states licensed self-driving vehicles, knowing that there would certainly be deaths. Their rationality here likely came from seeing tens of thousands of people dying on the roads each year.
I think if you pay not much money for this, you'll get bad results. It's very easy to make memorisation materials, but it's hard to make good memorisation materials! Your best bet might be to convince a few Cambridge students that their path to victory lies in making these resources for themselves, and then pay them to give the resources to you afterwards.
Web apps are nicer than Electron, since they don’t bundle Chromium.
Interesting, I wonder if this could explain to some extend different death ratios that are currently blamed on hospital capacity, age etc. - in other words, what if Italy has spread of more danerous mutation kind and Japan has spread of less dangerous one.
As an employee of Google who is involved in hiring let me tell you the process is extremely rigorous and we work very hard to make it bias free. I am not an unbiased individual myself but when it comes to hiring, I work extra hard to ensure fairness regardless of other person's characteristics.
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If it looks stupid but it works, it ain't stupid.
> Also, what makes you think I would put my credit card info on a random website?

Do you not buy things online?
As an interviewee, I have a particular distaste for take home questions, at least if given before doing a couple phone screens- I want to see a company invest time in me a bit before spending half a day coding.

Besides, having been an interviewer more than an interviewee at this point I find being able to competently discuss previous projects with a degree of excitement more predictive of success anyway. I still ask to see interview coding, but it's more a check box for basic skills than a major focus
Definately not all package managers or package management on a whole but how they are used in modern programming to create "churn as default" situation.
But shit like not allowing seeking from the lock screen for Spotify but allowing it for Apple Music is not “curation,” it’s anticompetitive behavior which should be illegal.
You say

> The reason why is immunity to respiratory viruses (like corona) doesn’t last long – 6 months to 2 years.

I haven’t read anything like this before. It seems like you’re extrapolating from the flu vaccine, which doesn’t last because the flu mutates too quickly. Coronavirus mutate much slower and the thought is that we’ll likely only need one vaccine. Have we actually found any less deadly strains? My understanding is that there have been mutations, but all are small and as far as we can tell superficial. You would likely need to create such a mutation and then you’re back in vaccine trial territories, except dozens of labs that are experts on this have a head start.
You make it sound as if JS was the only attack surface, whereas it's just the most common one.
It probably won't be known at first, but we're talking a timescale of months to work out things like that. Things could be back to normal by the end of the year if we start now-ish. That is not blind hope either, it's just simple math.
This article poses some interesting thoughts. It is quite long, but I think worth a read if you are interested in this [0].

I think a way to frame the question is: "Will the coming decline in ad-spend result in proportional decrease in sales (while factoring in crisis driven declines)"

I suspect that this forced experiment will result in identifying that 20% of ad-spenders were getting 80% of the value, while the rest were either not technically capable or just trying to keep up with trends, thus bidding up the ad prices. The result being huge profit for Google/Facebook as the market maker.

[0] https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h...
This is a repost since last time you asked how to reach Bill Gates.
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> If people swap out QR codes with malicious ones in real life, that could have all sorts of implications.

This can already happen with a QR code and a website? I doubt these aren't going to be heavily sandboxed.
“Native” in this context almost always means “using the platform UI toolkit”.
> it would be much better to just post a sample of the virus to everyone for example

If COVID-19 is human malware, then this is a human software update.
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I am a virologist - well I have published many papers in this area. I have a PhD in molecular microbiology and have been a tenured professor (I now work in the biotech sector). This is not intended to be a scientific paper, but a layman’s summary of the idea so non-technical people can understand the idea.

It is not risky to go looking for a naturally attenuated virus. This is the first step that needs to happen.
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Or, you can use AMD.
You're getting over-excited. The US has a vested economic interest in China that despite rhetoric, it cannot extract itself from immediately, maybe not even in ten years. It doesn't have that entanglement in Iran. Trying to crash China's economy is in shooting-own-foot territory, and trying to do it by reneging on Treasury securities that are a part of complex financial transactions (they might be lent out, have you thought of that?) must be the dumbest way of all.
The thing is, it starts with find me the closest point. And then, in the next meeting, management wants to know which are in a specific area. And this case is about points contains by a polygon.

I'll gleefully counter-argue some run toward PostGis just because they don't like NIH syndrome ^^
> most tech companies heavily favor "top school" candidates and actively recruit for them

Good job prospects upon graduation is one of the things that makes a school a "top school" and attracts smart students. If you wanted to hire people with no work experience, and money was no object, a "top school" would be the logical place to go to first. And I say this as someone who didn't go to a top school. So tech companies actively recruit from top schools only insofar as every other company in every other industry does. But that doesn't mean they recruit exclusively from top schools either. Stanford, MIT, and the Ivy League literally don't graduate enough students for that to be a feasible new grad hiring strategy.

You'd have to provide evidence for the first half of that statement though. My personal experience is after you've worked a few years, no one in software engineering cares where (or even if) you went to school. And any software engineer with a pulse located in the SF Bay Area can get at least a phone interview with any of the top tech companies.
I invited danieltillett to repost https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22798626. My reason is to build up a body of community reactions to the idea, that can serve as a basis for deciding whether to promote it further. I don't know Bill Gates, but I do know some people inside YC who are hard at work on this problem, and maybe they know someone who knows someone, etc.

If it's just a repetition of the previous thread, I'm sorry. Repetition isn't good and that wasn't my intention.
Pretty good description of all the gripes people have.

Hiring software devs is a damned if you do, damned if you don’t proposition—somebody is always gonna bitch.
It is actually a repost of my original submission which sank without a trace. Dang asked me to repost it.
If one uses these flags without understanding exactly what they mean, then one deserves whatever painful experience they may encounter.
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I know about this from suicide prevention, but not for infectious disease, but I think it's the same for both.

The same process is used for other infection. The certifier has to say, to the best of their knowledge or experience, whether this thing was involved in the death.

https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/ucd.html

> The underlying cause-of-death is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "the disease or injury which initiated the train of events leading directly to death, or the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury." Underlying cause-of-death is selected from the conditions entered by the physician on the cause of death section of the death certificate. When more than one cause or condition is entered by the physician, the underlying cause is determined by the sequence of conditions on the certificate, provisions of the ICD, and associated selection rules and modifications.

This does have inaccuracies, but these are all listed as part of the method. These deaths are unlikely to be people who had covid-19 but died of other causes. These deaths are likely to be people who had covid-19, where covid-19 was a significant factor in their death. It's likely to under-count, not over-count, these deaths.
Might he have been a fan of general semantics?
When I interviewed at Google last year, they said they offered every candidate a Chromebook on which to type code instead of using a whiteboard, but the office I visited had no working interviewee Chromebooks. Maybe most people who go to on-sites can type code on a real computer.
Wait, explain me to this: Why isn't Saudi Arabia pricing oil in Saudi Riyal? This is their gateway to dominate large portions of global economy. Who ever holds this golden key can print whatever sums they need at whims and offload it to rest of the world (just like US doing massive QEs at whims and never have to experience bad side of it). KSA infact is not just pricing oil in dollars but also mandating riyal to exactly follow the dollar! Most other countries do sell their produces in their own currencies such as China.
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It's cool, the read taught me a lot. Good luck.
I'm currently taking the course "Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications", a joint course from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and Stanford, taught mainly by one of the leading figures in music technology, Xavier Serra.

I think the pacing is great even for people who are not yet into DSP; every lecture teaches fundamental concepts that build on top of each other, and many insightful examples are given (listening to waveforms, looking at spectrograms).
I'm now in week 5 (I just watch the lectures at my own pace, e.g. so far I don't need the programming part of the course), and I've already learned a lot.
That reminds me of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
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If he really believed that which grew closest to the sun must be the most perfect, he should have eaten plants growing on some mountain top, not low-altitude coconuts.
Exactly. There is also everyone in poor countries that is beyond the reach of expensive vaccines.
> There is almost no problem that requires searching through some complex enough space for a specialized language be worthy its use

Whether or not this is true, Prolog is so much more than just "searching". Unification gives you all the powers of pattern matching in functional languages, but adds a lot of extra power on top of that. For anything working with tree-shaped or even DAG-shaped data, Prolog is an excellent choice.
Many companies get by with mediocre developers, mine is one of them. You're not demonstrating that your interviewing style generates superior results.
Robert X Cringely saw this sort of movement 1 1/2 years ago:

https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/29/red-hat-takes-over-ibm/
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Well, you've said better than I. IMHO, PostGIS is geared toward building classical GIS databases, while OSM is more a Topological Catalog. If I'm not mistaken, they say so themselves and visual map are just a by-product of geo-referencing "everything". Way more complex and way more harder to work with.

Edit: maybe I should have said "higher level geometries" than "more complex". In the sense that OSM "knows" about point and edges and nothing else.
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Because UBI is a permanent cash handout while this is a temporary measure that only consists of bond purchasing? Unless you think UBI should be high interest monthly loans, I don't see why you are coming up with your conclusion.
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I just posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22830791 in a cousin thread addressing this criticism. Prolog is about more than search, unification is a very very powerful tool for matching and transforming data.
The reason why it would provide immunity is all the structural proteins would be the same. To our immune system it would look like the same virus as the pathogenic strains.

This is not really anything unusual and is exactly how viral live vaccines work. The vaccine for live polio and measles work exactly this way.
To be clear, SPECTRE leaks privileged memory at an OS-level -- up to in some cases allowing arbitrary virtual memory reads.

While Javascript is the most likely attack vector for most people, you should not use this command on a system that's running untrusted code from anywhere in any context, and you should consider moving sensitive information like passwords off of the computer.

I use uMatrix to disable Javascript by default on every site I visit, and I still would not feel safe running this command on anything other than a single-purpose device.

That's not to say that there would never be a good reason to run it. A very imprecise, easy test I would propose is, "is your Linux system vetted enough or just unimportant enough that you would feel comfortable getting rid of users and running all of your software as root?" In which case, SPECTRE & friends is probably not a credible threat to you on that machine.
I can easily see this in a Day Trader application Forex/Bloomberg/Etc you can run a live feed 4x2 type dashboard matrix with a "click"-through drill down experience or similar. So many possibilities. Nice work with big upside potential.
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