skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get it is cool and all but, I still think that a couple of depron sheets and a can of green spaypaint gives better results.
Just look at how successful Objective-C has been outside NeXT and Apple during the last 30 years.
Adding to this:

While you do not recommend ZJ01 due to the potential for it to mutate back into the original strain, isn't it also quite dangerous?

That would likely remain a primary concern for many - we musn't cause large scale harm intentionally. And if we don't know what effects a strain has, it makes it ethically difficult to distribute.

From the ZJ01 Medrxiv[1] page you link to:

"We found, in our 788 confirmed COVID-19 patients, the decreased rate of severe/critical type, increased liver/kidney damage and prolonged period of nuclear acid positivity during virus dissemination, when compared with Wuhan."

[1] - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.10.20033944v...
I think the point is that it is a desperate measure that kinda-sorta works, but needn't have been necessary in the first place
If I disable these fixes, how likely (how much effort?) it is that somebody would make use of these vulnerabilities?

AFAIK, I (my personal workstation) would only be exposed via browser JS so if I do not spend too much time on shady sites, I should be good?
Oh can NT just die already pls
Isn't this just one of many ways to produce a vaccine, so won't it need the same long term trials for safety and effectiveness that any type of vaccine needs? Reducing this this time somehow is what I think is needed.
Ultimately, unless they are holding physical currency (undoubtedly, they have some), the dollars are held in an account at a correspondent bank in the US and ultimately at a federal reserve bank. If China tries to spend money they don't have, someone in the chain is going to reject the transaction.
I strongly recommend Robert Ghrist's other courses as well, they're fantastic.

* Multivariable calculus (a linear algebra based approach, and a very nice intro to differential forms)

* Applied dynamical systems (ongoing, started recently)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5N5pRddyicAX1QJyJjIIdg
The question is could they have achieved the same with two people.

When I was contracting I was always surprised how outwardly similar businesses could have vastly different IT functions. Sometimes an order of magnitude larger for no apparent gain.
This reads like flamebait to me. I don't see that it adds anything to the discussion.
There is insufficient demand for high priced e-ink screens. Which probably comes down to supply, which probably comes down to patents
What pain, no exploits have ever been documented. These mitigations are makeshift insurance for datacentres.
Thank you. I certainly get the sense from the article and your comments that you are well-informed.

My suggestion is really one around building trust - it'd help to have others in the same scientific field confirm and/or question the approach.
It's not on Coursera, but Caltech's Yaser Abu-Mostafa offers "Learning from Data" on his own website https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html and it's intermittently on EdX https://www.edx.org/course/learning-from-data-introductory-m...

This is far and away the best MOOC I've ever taken. The class is genuinely challenging. It's a real Caltech undergraduate course, and you can't get away with copy-pasting code or just keep resubmitting until you pass the grader. The course is focused on real understanding of what's going on mathematically, not just learning to use some library API.
>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?

No. They offer a solid wage to anyone who wants a job and is willing to be trained. Like we did by the millions to build our national parks, dams, roads, and other infrastructure in the 30s and 40s.
Does this work with Samsung Gear VR[0]? I got one for free but never really used it much.

[0]: https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/virtual-reality/gear-vr/ge...
Interactive blog about UK's entry to the AI Song Contest
We we have found less deadly strains (I link to one paper in the post that found one - still too deadly) and we have found strains with large (and small) deletions. What we haven’t done is go specifically looking for strains with exactly the properties we want (yet at least).

There is no need to create any viral mutants in the lab (and all the difficulties this will involve), just use what is already out there in the community. We just need to go and look for them.
I cannot understand how one could call something "so perfect" if it cannot be feasibly considered for use in production. How can something perfect come with so many drawbacks and warnings?
AMD only just now released laptop CPUs that can compete with intel.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00798-8

> If humans do develop immunity, how long does it last?

> That’s another big unknown. Immunity is short-lived for the coronaviruses that cause common colds; even people who have high levels of antibodies against these viruses can still become infected, says Stanley Perlman, a coronavirologist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

> The evidence is more equivocal for the two other coronaviruses that have triggered epidemics: those that cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). Perlman says his team has found that after people recover from MERS, their antibodies against the virus drop precipitously. He also says that his team has gathered data — not yet published — showing that SARS antibodies are still present in the body 15 years after infection. But it’s not clear whether this immune response is enough to prevent reinfection. “We don’t have good evidence of long-lasting immunity, but we also don’t have really good data from both SARS and MERS,” Perlman adds.
A large fall in oil prices (like the one we just saw) would wipe out the currency before Saudi Arabia would even be able to print anything to respond to the crisis. The USD is stable because of the full faith and credit of the United States government, not because oil is traded in USD.
That article was from March 24th, more recently (and as things got even more serious) bigger EU countries like Germany have started going solo, like documented in this recent article [1]. The article is in German (which I don't know) but I'm going to post a translation provided by some other guy from whom I've taken the link:

> During the Corona crisis, Chancellor Angela Merkel, in talks with China's President Xi, created the conditions for Germany to gain direct access to a state-owned Chinese manufacturer of protective clothing. This is stated in a paper with which the Federal Ministry of Health informed the Bundestag about the procurement of protective clothing.

> The paper for the Bundestag states that after a discussion between Merkel and Xi and subsequent talks between the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the Federal Ministry of Health, "direct access to a state producer (Moheco) could be established" at the beginning of April. Moheco promised a "higher level of quality and delivery reliability". In addition, an "air bridge" between China and Germany will be established with unused Lufthansa passenger planes to transport the masks.

As a non-German EU citizen I find this type of tactics very, very wrong and fundamentally detrimental to the future of the Union.

[1] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/schutzausruestung-merkel...
It doesn't need any of that. Automation will take care of most of manufacturing. The issue is, and always has been, redistribution of economic gains. China is a convenient red herring.
Yes. Some years ago I went to a talk on SETI at Stanford, where they talked about detecting "carriers". Anything they could detect is obsolete technology now. Analog TV was 80% carrier (video was AM, the audio part was FM) with a huge sine wave component. Digital TV looks like narrowband noise.

Analog TV was probably Earth's biggest detectable RF export. Lots of transmitters in the megawatt range transmitting 24/7.
I did some experiment with the bare version of this display, both with the b/w and the b/w/r displays. The black and white one can be partially updated (window mode) and is a bit faster. The four sections mentioned above don't have exactly the same size: two sections have slightly fewer pixels in width.
I used a STM32 controller which came with the display; it had just enough memory to fit a whole image. It was interesting to write some 'generative' code for it...

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6-h1TSBG6x/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3o6RirB5iU/
Here, run as admin and click disable, restart.
https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
Nice. How could I get this to run on Windows?
One of my favorite podcasts just gone like that. Anyone knows the backstory with acloudguru?
There’s no need to be confrontational or try to “gotcha” people here; Hacker News is for thoughtful discussion. As for your scenario: yes, Apple could do this. But I’m not sure what your solution to this would be? Some UI to show the addition of a new key? Hashes that you could match? There’s no reason they couldn’t backdoor the UI as well as the key distribution for a casual user; and a sophisticated one who’s looking for this kind of attack can just check the keys Apple sends them manually…
Google is also known for having brain dead guidelines for C++, that speak against community best practices.

Just like with Go, their monorepo and internal tooling deturps the understanding how everyone else actually uses C++.
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Yes this is basically the reason. Those countries need USD to buy american products.

If they exchange the dollars with the euro then someone in the EU will end up with those dollars and that person can't do anything but buy US products.
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> your entire 45 minute interview

There's your problem. Right there.

I don't think we can evaluate whether someone can do a decent job in 45 minutes. Or an hour. Sure, we can spot and confirm a hopeless case in 20. But beyond that, an hour is simply not enough.

I've been involved in hiring and interviewing for close to 15 years. The best results have been with candidates with whom I've arranged to have at least 90 minutes, and where that time ended up being well spent. It takes a while to get comfortable, to warm up, to establish a common ground. And it sure as hell takes time to actually discuss a technical problem, whether it's design or a programming problem, as the solution unfolds.

The desire to shoehorn an interview into at most 1-hour slots is not designed to find the best candidates. From where I look at things, it's designed around the idea that most business meetings are booked for one hour each, and the cadence in the day must fit the business of, well, doing business. And it kind of works, because everyone (or near it) has the context and shape of the problem fairly clear in their heads.

But for an interview? A process, where by definition you are dealing with people who are not well versed in your business? Companies book 1-hour interview slots because it's convenient - for their employees, including those who have no part in the interview process, but who are expected to attend other 1-hour meetings with the people who are involved.

The gauntlet of 1-hour interviews feels like a very much intended consequence of the organisation thinking in terms of 1-hour slots for everything. The result is a grueling exercise very few like, and almost everyone with experience despises. It's bad for the candidates, it's bad for interviewers, and I'm pretty sure it's bad for the companies.

But it keeps getting done that way because the cargo-cult of 1-hour slots for everything can not be reasoned with, or deviated from, results be damned.

Just think how well you would do the engineering and programming part of your profession if you had to carve everything into 1-hour slots. After all, PG wrote about it back in 2009: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
It’s even weirder because 80% of the screenshots are of the mobile app.
Yes, a lot of these mitigations have demoscene on github so you can run an exploit locally.
This is exactly what I want to do. I want to collaborate with those in the position to go looking for one of these attenuated viruses.
Using spaced repetition to supercharge your programming skills
Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0
What's the issue? You already listed Spike and Hop, which I believe are the best examples. Delta Chat also merits mention. They're all great UIs that can do IM and use email as the backend.

I think the main downside to the approach is that there are so many messaging apps out there, there isn't a clear use case for an email based one, besides a technical one. It is nice to be able to send one liners to team members and clients, but it's something that Slack and all other collaboration apps accomplish. What do you think is missing?
The CCP are an ideological cult who will stop at nothing until everyone conforms to their ideology. Yes they have created a system, a cold techno-dystopian system that is my worst nightmare. Just because Hitler also built autobahns doesn't mean he was a good guy or his systems were OK.
I'm still trying to figure it out as well. I think for flour, experimenting with any artisan bread type flours would be good. The wheat flour at your supermarket may work though, you'll likely need to try it out and compare. The differences can start to become subtle. Vegetable shortening is also a decent replacement for lard, the ones like Crisco that come in a can and look like lard/non liquid oil. Some of my favorite taco places like https://www.instagram.com/elrusola/ use exclusively that.

I would also avoid things like Maseca if you have the time to try to figure things out, since they are a pre mix just add water type thing for corn tortillas specifically.
some mitigations are also applied to AMD Zen2. A benchmark on Phoronix showed a cost between 15% and 5% of performances.
I use them all the time. Never had any issue.
This just rules our using ZJ01. There are other attenuated strains out there that will have deletion mutations that can’t mutate back. We need to go find them.
The reason for (2) may be the following: can the company verify that the candidate did in fact work at Google for 10 years and reached L6?
I don't know about Google, but if someone claims they worked at Microsoft as an L65, and they call Microsoft to fact-check, Microsoft will only tell them when that person started and ended their employment there. They will not disclose any other information.
Ask HN: Why Did StumbleUpon Fail?
The service showed you a random new site relevant to your interests each time you clicked "Stumble". I used the service religiously back when it was up. It was my primary source to find cool stuff, which is a void that has only been partially filled by Reddit. Why did the company die?
From the comments on your site:

> One thing is certain with the current situation is we need to take some risks if we are going to solve it quickly.

Looking for quick answers in a crisis is really risky. There is a natural push to try to get things back to normal as soon as possible, but developing an attenuated vaccine (even with a potential strain already in existence), takes a lot of time and testing.

I certainly agree that we should be trying to sequence every variation we can find in the wild, but even if everything works just right, it will take a lot of time. I haven’t followed enough of the reports, but how many strains have been identified thus far?

Another issue is that even just getting the reagents to collect and passage the virus is difficult as they are all needed for clinical testing. So working with live (even attenuated) virus is very difficult at the moment. But this highlights a reason why it is so critical to study these topics when we aren’t in crisis mode. Much of the current vaccine work has been adapted from earlier SARS-CoV research.

But this approach of finding a weakened strain (or generating one), is a good idea to be attempted in parallel. (I’m sure that someone is trying to passage the virus though a different host to attenuate it as we speak). The first step is to try and sequence as much as we can from the wild, but this has its own logistical difficulties. Hopefully there is a research study going on that is trying to collect as many samples as possible now, so that we can sequence later when things have calmed a bit (because there is likely going to be a second round).

I don’t intend to sound so negative on this. I largely agree that this is one avenue that needs to be studied. And from your background, I know you understand these risks/concerns. I worry about the larger public though. My main concern is that this concept can be very risky, especially with an already scared public looking for quick answers. Seriously, the last thing we need is people intentionally trying to get infected in the hope of getting a less lethal strain. This isn’t a cowpox scenario. I guess my hesitation comes down to me not liking the idea of taking too many risks for the sake of doing it quick. That’s been known to come back and bite people.
That should not affect the rating by much with an appropriate sorting. See: https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...
It could certainly be adapted to work on live streams, but I'm not sure what kind of setup they have to track the ball in that example. Seems decently complicated!
Rural Towns Insulated from Coronavirus Now May Take a Harder Hit Later
There are ready-made Spectre exploits that will attack your browser if it hasn’t been hardened yet; these kinds of exploits are fairly straightforward. Spectre v2 is harder to pull off, but can reach across processes and so you’re presumably vulnerable to that.
Maybe it's a really thick and really long power cord?
Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’
A country without other options might be more interested in the idea? I imagine that many first world countries would be too worried about the potential liabilities.
Update on the GitHub Actions Evaluation
You can download PoCs from GitHub right now.
It depends on your threat model.
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I haven't tested in Safari since I don't own any Apple devices :(

However, I'll happily take fixes for it!
A better idea is to subsidize flexible-enough factories. Fir example, the Feds pay your local cardboard box company a yearly stipend to run 1-week emergency drill where there swap production to n95s. They could maintain a database of "wants" that any manufacturing company could elect to maintain the capability for.

"Spin up production for X units of Y product for Z weeks per year and we'll give you $N. In the event that we need you to swap over for a national emergency, we'll pay you $M per week of production."
Dart's relevancy is heavily dependent on Flutter's success.

Seeing how Chrome team pushes for PWAs, Android team woke up and is now delivering JetPack Composer, and we still don't know what is going to happen with Fuchsia, the question remains.
I did not get that impression at all from that comment, FWIW.
I agree that the lede was false, and it's good that it was changed. Not that the "corrected" version of "defend[ing] a university official who anonymously accepted donations from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein" makes Lessig look much better.

As for the headline: "If You Take Epstein’s Money, Do It in Secret" -- Lessig literally says (https://web.archive.org/web/20190914091011/https://www.nytim...) the following: "if the institution says it’s going to take this money, then at the very least it should not be offering the gift of reputation laundering for those who give it" (emphasis in the original). I don't think it's a very big stretch to summarize that as "If You Take Epstein’s Money, Do It in Secret".

There is some context: The quote above is preceded by "No. My preference is that none of this money should be in institutions, but". But still... he said it. He could have left it at "Do you think it’s O.K. if this is kept secret?" -- "No.", and he didn't. He could have argued that the money should be passed along to a charity or whatever, and he didn't. He chose to say what he said.

I hate clickbait and I respect Lessig in general, but in this instance he did indeed say what the NYT alleges that he said. And it was a dumb thing to say.
> More than 50% of the people infected with SARS-CoV-19 are asymptomatic (i.e. they have no illness).

Note: asymptomatic at the time of testing. They may still develop symptoms over time.

https://www.icelandreview.com/sci-tech/is-icelands-coronavir...

https://twitter.com/cmyeaton/status/1246196001775460358
Though Jitsi is also usable via "zero-install browser only", the electron package allows additional features like e.g., desktop sharing with remote control.
And due to bundled Chrome, some Firefox RTP problems are also circumvented with the Electron desktop version.
In Shanghai they are used as timetables at bus stops.
Almost A2 size in some stops and smaller ones, about A4 (vertical) at others... The small ones had a clock which updated every minute (windowed mode) while the passenger data updated in longer intervals, probably hourly.
It would probably be helpful to mention that at the start or end of the post. Clear, non-inflated credentials/background with links.
(I sometimes see this in italics at the top)
Basically: If you're fine with every program running on the system (including web browser in your case) having full, unfettered access to everything else on the system, then it's fine to disable the fixes.

In other words: Only do this on systems where you actually trust each running program not to be compromised in its day-to-day operations and turn against you. Anything that runs arbitrary code from an outside source (for example JS) is not safe.
The problem with Linkedin is that after certain amount of connections, it loses exclusivity and just turns into any other social media out there....
> "China doesn't like Muslims so they kill them all".

You should know that it's the han way or death for the CCP. I don't understand the point of to your posts. Whataboutism is a poor excuse.
AMD has speculative side channels as well…
I would buy the reMarkable in a heartbeat if it was indeed a 12" display. Alas, the screen is only 10.3".
Google talks a lot of shit about rather missing out on a good candidate than hiring a bad one.

What removing a metric tells you is that people that they regretted hiring people who looked fine on those metrics. They have no way to determine if people who failed on other metrics were better than the people they hired.

The problem is that if you measure someone by a metric you can’t actually disregard it in your decision process. Even a double blind affects the subject’s behavior.
Trying to become one doesn't make you one. China is a long long long way to go.

OP was claiming "The US doesn't look like the most powerful country in the world, nor as a leader.". If US doesn't count for him.. I'd say China is 3rd world country compared to US.
> It's a disguised IQ test.

No. It also tests knowledge and familiarity with whatever technology is required. But yes, of course it tests IQ. What else is important? The way you look? The way you speak? Your background? I don't care about any of that. If you can express yourself in a technical context then you automatically satisfy all other requirements.

I like technical interviews. They remove bias. It means someone isn't going to get the job just because I "like" them or, worse, I want to fornicate with them. I've hired people of all ages, races, and other "identities" thanks to the technical interview.
Ask HN: Did you find a co-founder online?
As Paul Graham already posted. One of the most important aspects to make your start-up succeed is to have a co-founder.

Now, with the corona situation I’m struggling to find one.

If you found your co-founder online, where did you find it and what shall I look at?

I live in Germany if this is relevant