skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of voluntarily infecting the entirety of the population with a virus to prevent economic downturn seems a very dangerous idea to me. The purpose of society is to ensure the well-being of the people. It is not economic growth.

Furthermore, I see a few problems with that idea :

- it seems very hard to create a truly harmless virus. Viruses still destroy cells to replicate, they cause immune system response, inflammation, what would happen to weak or immunocompromised people ?

- if immunity through vaccines lasts 6 to 24 months, why wouldn't this be the case here too ? You'd still need to develop a vaccine or keep infecting people with new strains of this virus

- why would the deadlier strain disappear ? Unless you also engineer the mild strain to be much more infectious, both strains would still spread equally in the population. Presumably the milder strain would be less symptomatic so it would in fact spread less

- it's not demonstrated in what way economic downturn would be more harmful in the end. Economy is a means not an end.
> It will contribute to the planned obsolescence.

In what way? 2G and 3G phones still work.

The only way that I see this as a valid point is that software will become more wasteful with higher bandwidth. But if we thought like that, things would never progress.
Lack of context ^^

She is accountant turned web designer.
After 0 programing experience she learned a bit of JS for about 3 months, started learning Elm - now she works with it day to day for a living (with different clients).

My point is, language is simple enough to grasp it really quickly and start using it productively.
The author wrote it in the active but Alan the editor had a strange sense of humor and turned it into passive voice. So even with the luxury of working for the NYT and having access to an editor you'd be better off to edit your own writing;-)
Please, if you find a link to constuctive Luke's criticism, please post it, I am willing to change my mind.
This looks like a very interesting piece and project. I'd love to read it. But, it's on medium and without an paid account i cannot access it. And at this point, shelling 50 bucks for medium doesn't seem the smart thing to do... This applies to any article on medium posted on HN.
Keep yourself at home, use gloves and adequate masks. There's your protection

Or if you prefer to believe politicians, just hey, go outside and take all the chloroquine you want.
Thanks for the share @knotty66. Curious if you can discuss the technicals of this a bit? In the case of Jitsi-meet mobile apps, it seems advantageous that BodyPix models are mobile-first, but did that make sense for the desktop version as well?

I've always been disappointed that BodyPix and some similar models are mobile-first and mobile-only on TensorFlow (https://blog.tensorflow.org/2019/11/updated-bodypix-2.html) -- are these models just not used much on server-side settings? There seems to be very little documentation on doing this server side.
"disguised IQ test"

If only. It's more like a Wonderlic Test.
My colleagues call me Luddite and laugh at me when I don’t show enthusiasm about 5G. Apparently, there are somewhere some very smart people, that see great benefit of 5G. Maybe it’s just another important reason to force people buy more phones. Maybe a am not right buyer persona using same phone for as long as it works (5+ years).

Germany cannot get good 4G coverage, why think about 5G!? It was a nightmare to drive and to talk to clients on the phone while driving in a field role. 30 miles outside of any city I had connection problems.
Fair enough. Looking into it, swift's "associated values" sound super weird; it seems like it means you can have multiple distinct instances for the same enum case, which breaks what I'd expect an enum to be. In fact an enum with associated values sounds more like a sealed class - both those concepts exist in Kotlin, but they're different and the difference is useful.
https://www.businessinsider.com/kious-kelly-hospital-nurse-d...

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-uk-nurses-forced...

so, doesn't really work no, but is a desperate measure which is at best better than nothing.
What a great idea, it's too bad the display costs $1,500 but I suppose that is partially because it includes a Linux controller.

One thing I also learned is that you can download a PDF of the New York Times front page every day!
A link to wiki wouldn't hurt here
now you're using too much is.

To exist or not, I ask myself.
I don't think reality is quite like your little image here. There is no absolute security, ever, but we can create layers of difficulty for attackers as appropriate for our threat models. Someone with a reasonable amount of expertise and caution can use Linux on a personal computer in ways that make it very nearly impossible for a typical "criminal level" hacker (as opposed to nation-state level hacker) to steal information from them. Yes, that means not downloading arbitrary executables from the net, among other things, and certainly not running arbitrary code from the net like Javascript. When you do need to run something untrusted, run it isolated in a VM, etc. If you do these kinds of things, then it makes sense to also use stuff like Spectre mitigations.
There are dozens of ways the attenuated strain could be spread. You could do anything from going door to door sticking an infected swab up people’s noses to one of your contagion parties (they would be fun).

Actually once a safe strain was identified it would be impossible to stop people spreading it on their own. People would test to make sure they had the safe strain and then invite everyone they knew around for tea and scones.
Even for signage it has some spectacular failure modes. Where LCD would just not show anything, the e-ink will keep the last (and invalid) information confusing everyone in the process.
Interesting. It would be good to have a more complex example as a guide for how the markdown should be structured.
I think rewarding preparedness or other supporting functionalities is somehow a categorically unsolved problem. It's like being a defense player in team sports. You don't score any goals and if the others score, it's your fault.

It's only through some super fuzzy altruistic mechanisms that such work is supported.
The WebRTC stack depends on:

- the network code

- the video and audio playing code

- the video and audio capture code

- the crypto code

Making that generic is a huge task nobody will every do. So since you embed them, why no elso embed the UI code ? I mean, at this point...
I’m not a technical interviewer specialist, I’m a developer who has in the past given interviews.

Other than filtering out chancers with a lack of required basic skills, one thing that’s always bothered me is how my own personal Dunning-Kruger effect alters the interview process.

I obviously only ask questions I think I know the answers to otherwise how would I know if they were correctly answered?. So that may mean I miss out on candidates with a range of skills I lack and can’t detect in interviews.

Interviewing successfully, I suspect, is a ”difficult” problem if you take it really seriously.

Like those pointless “skills matrixes” that inexperienced managers like to set up for their teams. I mean you can ask me my skill level for a particular subject matter but how can I answer you with any accuracy if I don’t know what I don’t know?
Happened in Australia, too

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/chinese-company-shi...
The university obsession is not unique to US. It's true in India as well. If you are not from the elite institutions, you won't get past any hiring scanners of top tech companies. You'll still get a job, not the best paying one though.
> SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) appears to be killing between 1% to 3.5% of the people it infects

The article that this text links to discusses case fatality rate, which is not the percentage of people the virus infects that die. This is a fundamental and very important difference, especially given that you later note the percentage of asymptomatic people.
The only place that sticks pages from today's newspaper on the wall is your local bookmaker, showing the Racing Post data for the 2:10 race at Newmarket.

...but now you too can recreate the charm of your local bookie at home :-)
I think the increased energy usage mostly comes from the increased number of base stations required to service a population.
Yup!

Every time I see something like this, my thought process is:

“Cool, that could be useful for X”

“Hmm X is proprietary. I’m not typing into some random website.”

“Can I run this locally?”

“Nope, not natively. Is it worth my time to hack it?”
Why take the discussion in this direction?
I'm still using a 3G phone and I've noticed that over time coverage has become worse due to the old base stations being phased out.
I agree with the head bashing, sadly that probably won't happen. The incompetent will slap each others' backs saying "heckuva job!" and go home to their gold toilets..
It will also serve significantly more people per cell, so a trade off has been made?
If the energy isn't enough to ionize, then what is there to study?

(Extreme) heating effects can cause cancer, but the source of heat is irrelevant. The power levels 5G uses make even this point completely moot.

If you really have to search for something that could cause you cancer, perhaps those rather carcinogenic compounds your phone is made out of could be studied instead? Although I prefer just not to pulverize my phone and breath in the resulting dust. :-)
I‘d love to see such a device based on Android with 5 years update guarantee. Users could easily use it for any of your envisioned use cases and you could focus on your hardware competency
It is deemed to have an RNA repair mechanism. This is suggested by analogy with other coronaviruses [1,2] and the length of its RNA of ~30k nucleotides while the upper limit for RNA without repair mechanism seems to be 10k [3]. The german wikipedia cites [4] which I found nicer to read.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Replication
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4984655/
[3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronaviridae#Genom
[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3127101/
I did my own testing a while back, because I wanted to measure if these actually make a performance impact for my use case.

Net result: they do not. For my use case (Clojure/JVM and ClojureScript compilation), compile times did not get shorter. There seemed to be a slight improvement, but it was below the level of measuring noise (which was around 8%).

My conclusion was that while the system might indeed be faster by several percent, it is not measurable in my case, so I should not even bother, given the possible risks.
> The purpose of society is to ensure the well-being of the people. It is not economic growth.

"Growth" is not the issue, but economic prosperity and stability is immensely important with respect to the well-being of the people. Economic downturns also reliably cost lives in a huge amount of different ways.

I'll consider this idea to be pretty whack until people smarter than me think it's a good idea. But I hope we can come to terms that it's worth discussing taking some health risks to limit economic downturns. "People's lives" vs "the economy" is a false dichotomy.
My first two predictions for 2020 – IBM and Trump
I think it's insecure business leaders.

They are worried a competitor might pop up and outcompete them, and they hope that lumbering their employees, their suppliers, and their customers with NDA's will prevent anyone from becoming that competitor.

I'm not sure they realise how much the NDA's scare off good employees, suppliers, and customers, leaving them unable to make quick progress, and in turn making them ripe for someone to outcompete.
The only 5G campaign I can see are the flood of articles over alleged 5G-Corona conspiracies. Those however are not popular even in "dirty" corners on the internet and if so mostly for fun. It's like flat earth.. it's fun to see people embarrass themselves on Twitter when they tout their superior intelligence because they don't fall for that.

There are however concerns about 5G itself, without corona. I haven't really dived into the matter but it passes at least a cursory smell test, see for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22317998
Looks great! Is this the rationality often mentioned (and propagated) on LessWrong, Slate Star Codex and similar?
Nobody knows the true asymptomatic rate, but even if it is 5o% the number of people that will be killed is massive.

Let’s not get caught up on the final death rate and let’s look at what we can do right now.
You're wrong. We could and can trust epidemiologists. It's the administrative/political layer that fucked up.
no but we also need evidence that it's useful
What experiments when the majority of 5G deployments will be using the same bands as 4G?

What are the specific health concerns from what 5G is doing differently to 4G?

Because I remember a couple of petitions from scientists none of whom in the radio field with no specific scientific information or concerns.
Yes, although reality seems to be disagreeing with the models more and more. You have countries in southeast Asia with community transmission but no lockdown, and countries in Europe with the military enforcing a strict lockdown, and the latter are far worse off in terms of hospital admissions and deaths per capita than the former.
The results of a study in austria with 1500 randomly selected citizens have just been published, just 5 have been found to be currently infected with SARS-CoV2.

The conclusion is that the prevalence of asymptomatic cases is about 0,32%, CL95 is 0,12-0,76%.

Link (in german): https://www.sora.at/nc/news-presse/news/news-einzelansicht/n...
Data and statistics about third-party apps security on Websites
I hate this Congo argument. Sure, the conditions are probably bad there, but that has nothing to do with the material / physics / tech. The stuff could be mined meeting high safety and environmental standards if it were not for their social / political situation. That should be a completely different discussion
If the virus managed to stay alive on a subway pole for very long, it's probably not very attenuated, no?
I've been using this since I asked HN why BugsEverywhere failed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20963039) about six months ago and have to say it's far superior to BE. So far, I haven't found a case where the synchronization to Github didn't work as expected. I also have sensitive repositories that are hosted on Keybase and, since it doesn't include integrated bug tracking, we use Git-bug as a distributed team.
The OP specifically said he's not advocating for stopping all measures, but for easing them up a bit.
So I have gathered but I don't have sources saying the same. Animal models (read: tests on other mammals) for studying our immune system are rather inaccurate, and auto-immune diseases are very dangerous to humans.

Perhaps other social predators actually are on the same level as us.
This should have been Ask HN, I suppose. The answer is it depends.

If you're outside of the field, looking to break into an entry-level position, and would like to have your hand held the whole time, it possibly does (provided you live in a high-earning country such as USA, Australia, Switzerland, etc.--if you're from rural Africa and you'd take year(s) for you to pay it off, the answer is always no)

If all you're looking for is knowledge, possibly widening your horizons or gaining some interesting useful knowledge, the answer is no.

My 2c of course.
You've obviously never dealt with the federal procurement process!

The US is a federal republic. That structure is one of its great strengths. Wishing it was a unitary state at this time does not get us anywhere.

Consider the CDC bungling of getting out the initial test kits and the regulations that kicked in that prevented states from developing tests for a few weeks. That was some critical time wasted in the name of "efficient centralization".
Well, im probably living in really "dirty" corners of internet, as i see constant stream of "Burn all 5G towers because they cause corona" in all "Eco" "spiritual" "nature" facebook groups. Im not saying anything about 5G safety here, just saying that this "5G + corona" conspiracy is really getting traction.
2G is already shut down in many places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G#Past_2G_networks
Web App Generator – The technology-agnostic way
There are many other reasons, I can think of:

- Privacy concerns: the much higher density of antennas it requires will make geolocation really accurate.

- Weather radars interference: no need to explain why this is bad.

- Risk of proliferation of internet-connected IoT devices that are hard or impossible to secure with a firewall. We are already quite there.

- Higher energy consumption and shorter battery lifes.
Yes, the most plausible scenario to me seems that these crazy "5G conspiracies" are peddled in the mainstream in order to discredit legitimate and well-founded concerns over 5G.
The OP literally opens with a misinterpreted statistic. It links to an article about CFR and claims that the values are IFR instead of CFR. This is not "getting caught up on something", I'm pointing out a fundamental error.

Most serious estimates of IFR are between 0.1 and 0.6%. The OP should be edited to either correctly state that COVID-19 kills between 1 and 3.5% of identified cases, or be updated to use numbers that are not misleading.
The author is thinking that reversing a deleted zone mutation is hard, but it could be that a simple mutation of the weak strain make it deadly, so my question is: can you guarantee that a new mutation is not going to make this strain deadly?, also the more people with the new strain of the virus, the more the bad mutation could happen.

So I suggest looking for a strain for which we have a mean of killing the virus, that is a weak virus for which we have a general vaccine for expected mutations, if that is possible.
To add to the things that make this possible. Take a look at DSSS or signal spreading.

This is a method of spreading the power of your transmission over a much wider part of the spectrum. Hence, this doesn't help much if your transmit power is limited. However, it does help if your transmit power per slice of bandwidth is limited.

This is used for a few methods. The first is spectrum-sharing (which requires orthogonal codes). The second is detection avoidance (lower power per bandwidth makes it much harder to recognize the signal unless you already know how to de-spread). The third method is to avoid 'point noise sources' from blocking your signal. E.g. a wifi burst of 1MHz might drown out your signal if you use 1Mhz of bandwidth. But if you use 10 MHz, it only blocks one tenth of your signal.
The reason why you need economic growth is to ensure the well being of your people, you talk about them as they are not interlinked when they very much are.

Other countries (some that may not care about the well being of their citizens) will be quite happy to take your place hierarchy and exert their influence over the world as they see fit, which may well be to the detriment to your nation (and nation is comprised of its people).
Selective Service is still a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_System
Of finite geometric sums and fp32 bit magic
There aren’t even POCs that work on modern browsers. These things are real on the cloud server level but it’s exploitability on the desktop/laptop level is over stated. Much easier vectors.
The true infection rate is irrelevant. Nobody knows what it is right now and by the time we do it will be too late.
does that mean that cured people will start re-infecting people?
Take in less information. Prioritize based on what you truly need to know. Augment with things that make you curious rather than stressed.
My strategy is even simpler: if I see a long Facebook post, especially "shared" from a source other than my Facebook friend, I quickly scroll to the bottom and check if it says something like "copy and paste this post". If so I simply ignore it.
They had to disable shared memory APIs for threading in JavaScript, because those could be used to implement accurate enough "clocks". That was a temporary measure and last I checked some browsers enabled them again once the memory access itself was patched. So by removing the memory access patch you are once again fully vulnerable.
Nice advertisment. As long as there is no single negative thing about LinkedIn mentioned (and we all know there are plenty), this article can't be taken as anything else. Flagged.
So one app less to worry about unless it is required by a customer.
I've not seen anything hoax-y that even mentions weather radar. It all seems to be centred around misunderstandings of field strengths, inverse square laws etc and the usual overreaction to anything poorly understood and new.

If they mix up weather radar in there I can only imagine the theories about government mind control that will come next.
Only if you are using multiple accounts and you are concerned about privilege escalation. But let's be honest, most people use only one user account, with sudo rights, and probably without sudo password because inserting them 1000 times a day is a pain.

Thus every program without doing anything can access everything, it just needs to spawn a process to read stuff arount the FS, or in the assumption that yu have sudo without password, just gain root access and read /dev/mem. That is more simple than doing a SPECTRE attack.

So who needs these mitigations? Who runs containers or sandbox where you want untrusted code to be isolated. Browsers are an example, but they have specific mitigations anyway, and doing an attack from JS is not that simple really. So really I'm not so worried about SPECTRE for a typical desktop usage.

Of course if we talk about servers they are very important.
Congo argument?
What don't you like about the ubitx?
Fair enough, I don't know what's on FB etc. I meant more like conspiracy subreddits, 4chan and so on.
> Are they a great candidate that cut corners, or a less experienced candidate that used stackoverflow + 10 extra hours to get to a final result.

One of the ideas that is always brought out about the awful interviewing process is that there are just a bunch of totally incompetent programmers out there that need to be kept out of because of fear of bringing quality precipitously down. I'm not sure how many this is and not just bad interviewees based on experiences, but I do also accept that they exist (My guess it's 10-20% of programmers).

At one project I was on we had a guy who was pretty bad (he was then hired away by a competitor to their super programmers team so whatever) but I know he spent days on something that should maybe have taken 1 day, and it looked pretty bad (I mean just looking at it)

I can say that no amount of time would have allowed him to write something that did not look messed up (based on his habit of using map to update multiple arrays at once and not using the returned array from map anywhere)

Maybe they've used extra hours to get a good result, but if they are able to recognize a good result they are not in that small group of programmers that must be kept out at all costs.
The title is somewhat editorialized with the "or what to do when GitHub is down".

A previous discussion of git-bug https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782121
But there might be different busses which share the same route for a while: so you'd rather find find the first one.